Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
John Hasler wrote: > > Mario O.de Menezes writes: > > That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from > > year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or > > 2 days till it changes. > > I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with > daylight savings time in a tropical country? > -- > John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. > Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. > Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address. Why should anyone bother with daylight savings time in ANY country? - Kris
cyclades install / kernel config
Hi i am about to install the cyclades cyclom-y driver but after reading the README file it refers to the install program pointing to the /usr/src/linux directory. I have installed slink with kernel 2.0.36 from the cheapbytes CD and I appear to have no /usr/src/linux directory. After running the install script I have to configure the kernel with the make config command executed from the /usr/src/linux... My concern is that i do not think the install script will work because i do not have the kernel files in the /usr/src/linux directory. What shall I do? Thanx
Re: make-kpkg questions
You should be able to achieve what you want by editing /usr/share/kernel-package/rules and the various preinst, postinst, prerm and postrm scripts. Also see 'man kernel-pkg.conf' for a way to put vmlinuz in /boot instead of /. It sounds like it may be easier to let it install per the defaults and then run a script which renames the files (and edits lilo.conf). On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:24:10PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > Just learned to use make-kpkg, *but*, I want to do some things differently: > > 1. How do I tell it not to create a /vmlinuz symlink in the root directory? >I want my root directory clean (i.e no files at all) >(Also, it complained when there wasn't a /vmlinuz already, thought I >was doing a new install) > > 2. How do I tell it to use another name for my kernels image file (I've >never really liked "vmlinuz" anyway)? > > -- > \\// > peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ > - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log & > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: Install with floppies and NFS
Seth> Are you using rawrite or dd, or just a straight copy? A straight copy Seth> will never work, but a rawrite (from dos) or dd (under a unix) will do Seth> the job nicely. :) Sorry! Read the #$%! manual, right? :) -- Jordan Howarth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences Ph: (07) 3214 2465 Fax: (07) 3214 2480
netscape error
I've just installed a brand new system with the stable dist, and when I install Netscape I get a weird error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~> netscape ERROR: /usr/lib/netscape/45/navigator/plugins/libnullplugin.so: undefined symbol: FE_GetToplevelWidget Cant load plugin /usr/lib/netscape/45/navigator/plugins/libnullplugin.so. Ignored. Warning: Name: bookmarkQuickfile Class: XfeCascade Creating an active drop site with no drop proc. Error: Cannot perform malloc I tried installing 4.07 instead and get the same error, with just the directory name changed to the 407 directory. I've tried deleting my ~/.netscape/ directory in case my config was broken but that didn't help. Any ideas? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and : nobody wants to read. -- Mark Twain
Re: Linux databases: which are best?
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm interested in peoples' experiences with the different databases > available for Linux. Probably the most important factors for me are > stability, followed by ease of use and power. You can't go wrong with MySQL. It's a little quirky in places, but it's very solid and *fast* and very popular. The API (which is almost exactly the same as mSQL's) is straightforward and easy to write code for, there's integrated PHP support, and the commandline client works well. However, it handles data in strange and exciting ways. If you have a lot of people that expect it to act like Oracle you need a different product.
Linux databases: which are best?
I'm interested in peoples' experiences with the different databases available for Linux. Probably the most important factors for me are stability, followed by ease of use and power. Thanks, Gerry
Problems with lilo?
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jason Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason:: I think this problem is with lilo. I am riding the Jason:: bleeding edge upgrading roughly every night. Well Jason:: yesterday when I upgraded there was an update for Jason:: lilo. Now I can't boot from the HD. It tells me this: Jason:: LILO boot: Jason:: Lodaing Linux Jason:: Uncompressing Linux... Jason:: crc error Jason:: -- system halted I had the same error, but solved it compiling a new kernel using `make bzlilo'. -- RESET
Re: make-kpkg questions
*- On 30 Sep, peter karlsson wrote about "make-kpkg questions" > Hi! > > Just learned to use make-kpkg, *but*, I want to do some things differently: > > 1. How do I tell it not to create a /vmlinuz symlink in the root directory? >I want my root directory clean (i.e no files at all) >(Also, it complained when there wasn't a /vmlinuz already, thought I >was doing a new install) See the man page for kernel-pkg.conf. You need to edit/create /etc/kernel-pkg.conf and add a line of image_in_boot := True > > 2. How do I tell it to use another name for my kernels image file (I've >never really liked "vmlinuz" anyway)? > I don't think is possible unless you patch the rules and image.postinst scripts in /usr/lib/kernel-package to be a little more robust about how they create the final kernel image in /boot. You could file a wishlist bug against kernel-package asking for this option. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: pine wont compile
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi > > pine doesntcompile on my machine... i dont know whats wrong, anyway, here's > the > output (the last 10 lines or so) I'm sorry, but I don't seem to see the problem. What makes you think that pine wasn't built? -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad
I fixed this problem by doing the apt-get update as normal, editing the offending file to fix the optionnal lines, and then running dpkg --merge-avail package file> just don't redo apt-get update until the archive is fixed or you will have to perform the above steps again. Todd At 12:47 PM 9/30/1999 +0200, Marcus Johansson wrote: > ( two occurrences of optionnal changed to optional) and rerunning > apt-get update, the file is downloaded again and I am where I started. Try: # apt-get check That might fix the problem, not sure. /Marcus -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Device busy
> "Sami" == Sami Dalouche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sami> Trying a fuser /dev/cdrom usually reports nothing. Perhaps try "fuser -m /dev/cdrom"? -- I get my monkeys for nothing and my chimps for free. http://www.clark.net/pub/hermit/
wingz ate my file!
Fortunately, I'd already printed it out (midterm grades). Wingz whirled, clicked, and rattled the hard drive half to death (but so does anything on this machine), then segfaulted. It now has an error reading the file. Does anyone know how to recover these? I'd hate to have to type it all in again . . . rick --
Re: pptp for linux - where can it be
With a newer version of ppp (>=2.3.6, such as the one in potato) you can specify a pty connection. Using this with ssh will allow you to do this. Look through the readme and the man page for this newer version to see how to do this. "Alex V. Toropov" wrote: > Hi, all > > I remember that some where I read about organizing > pptp link between to linux-box over Internet. > Can some one figure me where can iI obtain this info ? -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mathematica
ELF is the binary format, not a library: % file /bin/bash /bin/bash: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped rgds-- TA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I don't speak for the Federal Reserve Board, it doesn't speak for me.
make-kpkg questions
Hi! Just learned to use make-kpkg, *but*, I want to do some things differently: 1. How do I tell it not to create a /vmlinuz symlink in the root directory? I want my root directory clean (i.e no files at all) (Also, it complained when there wasn't a /vmlinuz already, thought I was doing a new install) 2. How do I tell it to use another name for my kernels image file (I've never really liked "vmlinuz" anyway)? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: vi problems
Thursday, September 30, 1999, 2:02:55 PM, Dean wrote: > Anybody know how to get around this problem? If it is the problem I think it is... dpkg -r nvi apt-get install vim vim-rt *or* apt-get install elvis Some editors (joe is one) have a problem when they exit on mucking up the terminal and other assorted things of that nature. It has been debated whether or not it was the editor or the libraries that caused the problem. Personally, I rarely saw the joe bug but since switching to vim I've not seen it at all. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-
Re: Mathematica
> And just to bolster your confidence, I ran Mathematica just > fine on my Debian slink system for quite some time. It works with potato, too. It is not a libc.so.6 or libc.so.5 problem, because everything is statically linked. -- "I'm working on it." "There should be more math. This could be mathier."
vi problems
Hello: I use 'vi' exclusively, and until upgrading to Debian 2.1, never experienced any problems with 'vi' exits. It always exited on the same line at which it was started. I believe at the time, I was using 'elvis' as 'vi'. For the record, I use 'xterm's under OpenLook, and that is were I observe the problem. Now 'vi' (or rather 'nvi', as that is what is in /etc/alternatives) exits at seemingly arbitrary locations on the screen. Consequently, I have to 'clear' the screen to find the prompt before carrying on with other work. Anybody know how to get around this problem? Regards, Dean
Weird network (TCP i think) Error
Hi, i'm getting trouble with my e-mail when it got an M$ document attached to it, the transfer just hung. The extrange thing is that if a try to ftp my mailbox it happen exactly as before. I' dont know what the M$ stuff has to do with it, it's very puzzling. I'm running ipmasquerade an yes, i configured "Always defragmemnt" in the kernel. Please help!! Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Potenciado por Ql/Linux http://www.qlsoft.cl __
Re: where is /proc/asound?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just installed slink on my laptop and I'm trying to use the > ALSA. Do you need to do any special configureation for ALSA? I've just > got a vanilla system and a custom kernel ( still 2.0.36 though) and > ALSA just doesn't work. I don't appear to have a /proc/asound > directory and I can't find out how to get one. Did you install the alsa-source, libalsa0, and alsautils packages? Do you realize that the latest version of alsa (0.4.1) only supports kernel 2.2 and up (possibly some 2.1, but why use them?)? You didn't mention which version of alsa you're trying to use. Does the version you have include /proc/asound support, or is that only a feature of later versions? Did you properly build and install the alsa modules as detailed in the alsa documentation? - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCUAwUBN/PO+r7M/9WKZLW5AQEHOgP2Ozs+KnLoT8iSL/7Pw8rX76NzzRrKcTOC u1ER0ieiTc/JNT2MyIke+/ryiq+peHwf/tObWGZvKyqevlLjqQ08Shop+qJ7Tv+z N88R7/ualNLqQ0LsRdewqLNhvLV3DSh9wNuTEwwQeIzDIKv985k3XNY2gbTE9bZn jwNtjVnlSQ== =5D9d -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: trivial egcc question...
> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Lupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jonathan> This is more of a egcc question than a Debian question, but Jonathan> after looking through the man page, I didn't find an answer Jonathan> so here we go... When dealing with GNU software, info is usually a better source than man. Jonathan> Is there a way to set an environment variable with the args Jonathan> I want for the egcc line? For example, I like STL, and am Jonathan> always typing `egcc -Wall -lstdc++ foo.cpp`. It seems to me Jonathan> (from my DOS experience ) that I should be able to do Jonathan> something like: bash:~>$ export cl=-Wall -lstdc++ bash:~>$ egcc foo.cpp If you really want to compile from the interactive command line (and not through a script or makefile, as almost everybody does), you can make an alias: alias egcc='/usr/bin/egcc -Wall -lstdc++' and stick in into .bashrc. -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107
Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:18:26PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: >> I have the +:: line at the bottom of my passwd file, and all the yp >> tools work fine (e.g. 'ypmatch pauls passwd' brings up the right response.) > >Have you tried adding nis to the /etc/nsswitch.conf fields? If you have +:: at the end of /etc/passwd, you must use "compat" in nsswitch.conf. If you don't have that plus stuff in /etc/passwd, use "nis files" in nsswitch.conf. "compat" knows about plussed users. The other nsswitch methods might not. Imagine someone trying to login as "+" ... Mike. -- First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
pine wont compile
Hi pine doesntcompile on my machine... i dont know whats wrong, anyway, here's the output (the last 10 lines or so) touch build-all test -f pine/pine.c -a -f debian/rules rm -rf debian/tmp install -d debian/tmp/DEBIAN cd debian/tmp && install -d usr/doc/pine/tech-notes cp -p doc/tech-notes/*.html debian/tmp/usr/doc/pine/tech-notes ln -s pine debian/tmp/usr/doc/pine-tech-notes dpkg-gencontrol -ppine-tech-notes cd debian/tmp && md5sum `find * -type f ! -regex "DEBIAN/.*"` >DEBIAN/md5sums chown -R root.root debian/tmp chmod -R go=rX debian/tmp dpkg --build debian/tmp .. dpkg-deb: building package `pine-tech-notes' in `../pine-tech-notes_3.96M-2_all.deb'. test -f pine/pine.c -a -f debian/rules debian/rules binaryPine make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/pine/pine-3.96M' test -f pine/pine.c -a -f debian/rules test root = "`whoami`" rm -rf debian/tmp install -d debian/tmp/DEBIAN debian/tmp/usr/lib/menu cd debian/tmp && install -d usr/bin usr/man/man1 usr/doc/pine cd debian && install -m 755 postinst postrm tmp/DEBIAN cd debian && install -m 644 menu.pine tmp/usr/lib/menu/pine install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin strip debian/tmp/usr/bin/pine ln -s pine debian/tmp/usr/bin/pinef cp -p doc/pine.1 debian/tmp/usr/man/man1 cp -p doc/mailcap.unx doc/brochure.txt debian/disclaimer \ debian/BUGS.Debian debian/tmp/usr/doc/pine cp -p debian/changelog debian/tmp/usr/doc/pine/changelog.Debian gzip -9 debian/tmp/usr/doc/pine/changelog.Debian cat -s debian/copyright CPYRIGHT > debian/tmp/usr/doc/pine/copyright gzip -r9 debian/tmp/usr/man dpkg-shlibdeps bin/pine make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/pine/pine-3.96M' Bruno Van de Casteele N.P. Puam[ICQ # CA957F] Tune in at http://puam.cjb.net/
HPT366 Drivers / ATA66 Hard Drives
Hello, I am a very new investigator of Linux. Meaning that I have never used it before and I am just now looking into loading the Linux operating system onto my new computer system. I am not a programmer, nor a developer ( yet! )but I am interested in loading the Debian GNU/Linux OS because I think that it would be nice to be a part of this group of people working together for a common good. I am trying to stay away from the more commercialized Lixus releases that I see at the computer stores. My main concern is that my computer system has an ATA66 Hard Drive that uses the HPT366 Device Drivers, and from what I have read so far this might cause me some problems unless I can get a patch for Linux Kernel 2.2.10. I have thought about using the hard drive with an ATA33 device driver and trying to load Debian's GNU/Linux with my hardware in this configuration and then trying to get a newer Kernel. Does anyone have any thoughts on my prospects for getting GNU/Linux on my machine? I realize that there may be many more hardware issues that will concern me, but for starters I would like to hear what people think about this ATA66 issue. Thank you for your help! Sincerely, Robert Oneto
pptp for linux - where can it be
Hi, all I remember that some where I read about organizing pptp link between to linux-box over Internet. Can some one figure me where can iI obtain this info ?
trivial egcc question...
This is more of a egcc question than a Debian question, but after looking through the man page, I didn't find an answer so here we go... Is there a way to set an environment variable with the args I want for the egcc line? For example, I like STL, and am always typing `egcc -Wall -lstdc++ foo.cpp`. It seems to me (from my DOS experience ) that I should be able to do something like: bash:~>$ export cl=-Wall -lstdc++ bash:~>$ egcc foo.cpp Thanks all! -Jonathan (who won't be seeing the answer to this until he gets home tonight because he can't route out of Alter.net in Chicago.) =( ~ Jonathan Lupa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mathematica
William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Nathan Smith wrote: > > > lab. We're going to need to have Mathematica on the computers in the lab, > > and according to the Wolfram web page Mathematica will run on any ELF > > Linux system, but it's my understanding that Debian is not ELF but glibc6. > > This is not a problem. ELF is a format for executables. It does not have > anything to do with the C library version. It's sort of like Texaco > selling fuel. You need to use it in a gasoline engine (as opposed to > Diesel for example), but it doesn't matter if you have a '99 Corvette or a > '78 Pinto. :} And just to bolster your confidence, I ran Mathematica just fine on my Debian slink system for quite some time. Gary
Re: unstable && stable
andreas palsson wrote:
> Is it possible to have 4 partitions where one of them is Slink, the
> second Potato, the third Swap and last one /home?
> I see no technical difficulties for both slink and potato using the same
> swap-partition and the same /home-partition, or am I wrong?
No problem. Used to do that to upgrade from one slackware
version to the next (reinstalling from scratch on another
partition). Haven't done that to upgrade Debian!
> Besides that, can anyone give me an example of a lilo.conf of the above
> configuration?
Something like (Note I use SCSI, so `sd' instead of `hd', and remove
my `append' line):
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/sda
#compact# faster, but won't work on all systems.
delay = 50
vga = normal# force sane state
ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
append="hdc=634,64,32 mem=128M aic7xxx=tag_info:{{24,24}}"
# End LILO global section
#--
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /zImage-2.0.37-PD2.0.32-idle
root = /dev/sdb1
label = 2.0.37-full
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
#--
image = /zImage-2.0.37
root = /dev/sda1
label = newdisk
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
#--
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/sda2
label = win95
table = /dev/sda
# DOS bootable partition config ends
Note: The kernel name could probably be the same, and to simplify
running lilo, the name(s) you use should exist on both
partitions you want to boot from (as lilo checks that the
kernel exists even it you specified another patition).
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Re: Mathematica
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Nathan Smith wrote: > lab. We're going to need to have Mathematica on the computers in the lab, > and according to the Wolfram web page Mathematica will run on any ELF > Linux system, but it's my understanding that Debian is not ELF but glibc6. This is not a problem. ELF is a format for executables. It does not have anything to do with the C library version. It's sort of like Texaco selling fuel. You need to use it in a gasoline engine (as opposed to Diesel for example), but it doesn't matter if you have a '99 Corvette or a '78 Pinto. :}
Re: How to filter this list?
*- On 30 Sep, Stefan Blum wrote about "How to filter this list?" > Hi, > > how can I filter the incoming stuff from this list by using ''elm''? > My $HOME/.elm/filter-rules contains the following entries: > > ... > > if (from = "debian-user@lists.debian.org") then save > "/home/meru/blum/Mail/linux" > if (sender = "debian-user@lists.debian.org") then save > "/home/meru/blum/Mail/linux" > > ... > > Because some of the mails to the lists are sent by using ``CC'', the > mechanism does not work correctly. > > Is there a way out? I _have_to_ use elm and filter ;-( > When I was using elm's filter I used if (to contains "debian") then save ... The 'to' should catch the To and Cc lines. Just curious, why do you _have_to_ to use filter? -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
unstable && stable
Hi. Is it possible to have 4 partitions where one of them is Slink, the second Potato, the third Swap and last one /home? I see no technical difficulties for both slink and potato using the same swap-partition and the same /home-partition, or am I wrong? Besides that, can anyone give me an example of a lilo.conf of the above configuration? Regards... -- andreas
Mathematica
Hello all, We're (I'm) setting up a computer lab here at Univ. Texas at Tyler (nevermind the address above), and I'd like to run Debian as the OS in the lab. We're going to need to have Mathematica on the computers in the lab, and according to the Wolfram web page Mathematica will run on any ELF Linux system, but it's my understanding that Debian is not ELF but glibc6. Is there a way to make this work? Does anybody have Mathematica running on a Debian system? I have Debian on my machine here at work and would like to not have to switch to Red Hat or something else since I'm already somewhat familiar with what I have, but if it's not possible to run Mathematica I'll have to - or if it's too much work I'll have to as well since I have other duties. Anyone able to answer my questions? Thanks for your time, Nate
Re: dselect unstable problem SOLVED
Editing the file to correct the spelling of optional for aleph-dev and aleph-doc and then touching the file to match the others does not work if you want to use dselect (for me at least). I was able to successfully upgrade my system after editing and touching the file to correct the errors and then running apt-get upgrade. dselect still barfs on me though, even after a successful upgrade with apt-get. Jason >On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 05:55:00PM +, Adam Olejniczak wrote: >> Oleg Krivosheev wrote: >> >> > > Reading Package Lists... Error! >> > > E: Malformed Priority line >> > > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) >> >> here is a problem >> >> > >> > > E: Problem with MergeList >> > > /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.pl.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i3 >> > > >> > > 86_Packages >> > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. >> > > >> > > when i'm doing Update >> > > >> > > when I'm using stable version everything is working just fine >> > > >> > > any ideas ? >> > > >> > > thanks for help >> > > >> > > Regards >> > > Adam Olejniczak >> > > >> > >> > exactly the same problem today morning only the server is >> > http://ftp1.us.debian.org >> > >> > any help is greatly appreciated >> > >> > Oleg >> >> so solution is to edit file >> ftp.pl.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages >> or what ever ftp server you use >> >> and remove all the information about aleph >> save the file go to dselect sjip update and go to select, install and so on >> and it works (for me at least :-) > >Or correct the spelling of "optionnal" to "optional" for aleph and >aleph-doc. > >-- >Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: dselect unstable problem SOLUTION v2
> > Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/non-free Release > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > E: Malformed Priority line > > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) so as i wrote before here is a problem it's this that in aleph priotity is typed optionnal and should be optional so to deal with it star dselect starrd update and press ctrl-d before end of download run text editor end edit file /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.pl.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages and replace optionnal with optional then do fg with dselect it will finish it job, process packages lists and you in home :-) bye adam
Re: [OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
On 30 Sep 1999, John Hasler wrote: > Mario O.de Menezes writes: > > That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from > > year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or > > 2 days till it changes. > > I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with > daylight savings time in a tropical country? our government! and they haven't any plans for the future, that is, if I would like to know the begin and end of the daylight saving in year 2005 I'll have to wait till approximately August/2005 when government will make the law :-( []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 http://www.revistalinux.com.br
Kernel question: From bootdisk to hard drive
I've got a custom bootdisk that works fine. I moved the kernel to my home directory using dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/home/david/vmlinuz. (I also used cat /dev/fd0 > /home/david/vmlinuz and it did the same thing.) Everything is OK, except the file size of this new kernel looks like its the size of an unformatted disk, i.e. 1.47 Mb. The past kernel was about 350Kb, but had extraneous stuff. I reran lilo and booted off the hard drive, and the new kernel works fine. Should the fact that this custom/slimmer kernel is larger in size than the stock Debian kernel (by about 4X) worry me? Dave
Re: dselect unstable problem SOLVED
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 05:55:00PM +, Adam Olejniczak wrote: > Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > > E: Malformed Priority line > > > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) > > here is a problem > > > > > > E: Problem with MergeList > > > /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.pl.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i3 > > > > > > 86_Packages > > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > > > > > when i'm doing Update > > > > > > when I'm using stable version everything is working just fine > > > > > > any ideas ? > > > > > > thanks for help > > > > > > Regards > > > Adam Olejniczak > > > > > > > exactly the same problem today morning only the server is > > http://ftp1.us.debian.org > > > > any help is greatly appreciated > > > > Oleg > > so solution is to edit file > ftp.pl.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages > or what ever ftp server you use > > and remove all the information about aleph > save the file go to dselect sjip update and go to select, install and so on > and it works (for me at least :-) Or correct the spelling of "optionnal" to "optional" for aleph and aleph-doc. -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
How to filter this list?
Hi, how can I filter the incoming stuff from this list by using ''elm''? My $HOME/.elm/filter-rules contains the following entries: ... if (from = "debian-user@lists.debian.org") then save "/home/meru/blum/Mail/linux" if (sender = "debian-user@lists.debian.org") then save "/home/meru/blum/Mail/linux" ... Because some of the mails to the lists are sent by using ``CC'', the mechanism does not work correctly. Is there a way out? I _have_to_ use elm and filter ;-( TIA, Stefan
nobody's shell
I was just reading about the Securelinux Crack and saw that part of the crack involved getting a shell as "nobody". See http://forums.hackpcweek.com/read.php3?num=1&id=479&thread=473 I checked my slink machine and, sure enough, "nobody" had /bin/sh as his shell. Is there ANY need for this at all? Shouldn't nobody have /bin/false as his shell? rgds-- TA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I don't speak for the Federal Reserve Board, it doesn't speak for me.
[OT] daylight savings in Brazil?
Mario O.de Menezes writes: > That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from > year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or > 2 days till it changes. I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with daylight savings time in a tropical country? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: Exim re-writing help
*- On 30 Sep, David Kanter wrote about "Re: Exim re-writing help"
Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 9/30/99 11:10:57 AM >>>
> I also set the primary_hostname to my dynamic dns name so that the
> Message-Id gets set properly(look in the header of this mail).
>
> Thanks. You explanation makes perfect sense and makes rewriting in exim much
> easier than rewriting with smail.
>
> But with you above statement, did you set primary_hostname = uname()? Or is
> there some other way of setting the dynamic hostname?
>
I have a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d that modifies/replaces my exim.conf
when I connect. There are probably other/better ways to do it but it
works for me so I am sticking with it for now.
#!/bin/sh
# get the dns name of the dynamic ip
set name=`nslookup $PPP_LOCAL | grep Name | cut -c 10-`
# update exim config file
sed -e s/--Name--/${name}/g /etc/exim.conf-up >! /etc/exim.conf
Then at the top of exim.conf-up I have the following,
primary_hostname = --Name--
I got this idea from the Dynamic-IP-Hacks mini-HOWTO. I also do the
same type of thing with /etc/hosts and my cfingerd setup.
--
Brian
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Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis
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Ther is a bug in packages list !
hello all there is a bug in unstable version of debian package list its in apeth-dev and aleph-doc package state is called optionnal should be optional bye adam
Re: dselect unstable problem SOLVED
Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > > E: Malformed Priority line > > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) here is a problem > > > E: Problem with MergeList > > /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.pl.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i3 > > > > 86_Packages > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > > > when i'm doing Update > > > > when I'm using stable version everything is working just fine > > > > any ideas ? > > > > thanks for help > > > > Regards > > Adam Olejniczak > > > > exactly the same problem today morning only the server is > http://ftp1.us.debian.org > > any help is greatly appreciated > > Oleg so solution is to edit file ftp.pl.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages or what ever ftp server you use and remove all the information about aleph save the file go to dselect sjip update and go to select, install and so on and it works (for me at least :-) good luck adam
Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Johann Spies wrote: > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > > > On a somewhat related note : is it possible to view compressed (.gz) files > > with pagers like more/less ? I think I remember a thread about this either > > on this list or on some linux NG a while back except that I was paying > > attention at that time! > > zless, zmore > Also "most" automatically handles both compressed and uncompressed files. Gerry
Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:44:03PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:27:38PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Ok, I misunderstood what you were trying to explain. The no password login > > is an issue with the pam_unix.so (I though you were saying you couldn't > > login at all with NIS). I already knew about this, and it will be fixed in > > my next upload. > > Ah, OK. Is there a way of reconfiguring to get around this, or is this a > recompile issue? Sorry, it's a recompile thing. Should be up in a day or two. Ben
Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:27:38PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > Ok, I misunderstood what you were trying to explain. The no password login > is an issue with the pam_unix.so (I though you were saying you couldn't > login at all with NIS). I already knew about this, and it will be fixed in > my next upload. Ah, OK. Is there a way of reconfiguring to get around this, or is this a recompile issue? Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 04:07:01PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > > That's incorrect, you can login with a password locally because it then > > acts like a normal UNIX login. You HAVE to add nis to the nsswitch.conf > > fields in order to use _any_ programs with NIS. This is not a PAM issue. > > OK, now you're confusing me. > > * I have no local users on this machine apart from root. > * I can login with users specified in the NIS database if that user has a > password. > * I can not login with a NIS user if that user has a blank password. > * If I give a user which is not in the NIS database I get a different > authentication error message. (Cannot retrieve authentation info.) > * finger retrieves the correct information from the NIS database. > > How can NIS not be working? Ok, I misunderstood what you were trying to explain. The no password login is an issue with the pam_unix.so (I though you were saying you couldn't login at all with NIS). I already knew about this, and it will be fixed in my next upload. Ben
Re: PPP Host Configuration
Ramana: Read the PPP HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.html (or some other LDP mirror). Chapter 26 has specific information on setting up a PPP server. Apache is the most common (only?) http server for Linux. Install that and start reading the manuals in /usr/doc/apache. Good luck. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>> Ramana Tadepalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/30/99 10:29AM >>> I cant get my Linux installation to behave like a server (http for a start). Where should I begin?. How can I get it to run a dial-in server to receive connects on the modem. Please help Ramana -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Exim re-writing help
*- On 30 Sep, David Kanter wrote about "Exim re-writing help" > I would like to rewrite my address with exim. (I only send outgoing mail to > the Internet; no local mail.) I've read the documentation, but am still a bit > confused on exactly how to set up the re-write. I would like [EMAIL > PROTECTED] (i.e., [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to be re-written to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (either that or [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is easier to read). > >>From what I've read, I should do something like: > > *@@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] then all the flags This would just give the same address as you started. > > But where should I put the $0, $1, and $2 re-write definitions? I'm assuming: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > $1=pcr387 > $2=hecky.acns.nwu.edu > No you can't define these. They coorespond the the components of the address coming in. > But the documentation (Exim manual) implies that: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > $1=david > $2=milwaukee > > ...so I'm confused as to which is right. This one is right. >How close am I to doing this correctly? > I would just do this. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffsr I put this rule in my exim.conf to test and this is the result. # exim -brw [EMAIL PROTECTED] sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] env-from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] env-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So outbound addresses are rewritten and inbound ones are left alone. I also set the primary_hostname to my dynamic dns name so that the Message-Id gets set properly(look in the header of this mail). HTH, -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: Difference between dpkg and other installs
On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 03:25:28PM -0500, Steve Doerr wrote: > Could anyone help me with the difference between dpkg and other > installs. I have installed netscape and wp8 w/o using dselect. > Should everything be installed through dpkg to get the cleanest > Debian system or does it matter? I also need JDK 1.1 and > PostGresql 6.5 or greater and I don't want to create conflicts > with libraries (i.e. libpgsql) that won't be identified outside > of dselect. I don't think either of the above has the package > info needed to APT them, so they'll have to go on manually > (unless somebody can point me to some documentation on how to > run anything through dselect). Any insight would be greatly > appreciated. > Thank you > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null dselect and apt are "frontends" to dpkg --- they look different and have different options, but when you actually start installing the programs with them (beginning with the "Reading database..." part of the output), that's where they've called dpkg to do that work for them. In addition, all of these guys are aware of Debian's dependencies. Isn't that nifty? Rob -- E Pluribus Unix
Re: PPP Host Configuration
I think you need to go into /etc/gettytab and establish a login prompt on a serial port for one thing. Install apache for another. --- Ramana Tadepalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cant get my Linux installation to behave like a > server (http for a > start). Where should I begin?. How can I get it to > run a dial-in server > to receive connects on the modem. > Please help > Ramana > > = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: fvwm with WM dockable apps
*- On 30 Sep, Shao Zhang wrote about "fvwm with WM dockable apps" > Hi, > Ok, call me old fashioned. But I still like fvwm these days > among so many windows managers. > Same here. > fvwm does not seem to be able to remeber the window's geometry, > and WM dockable apss does not seem to have a -geometry option. > > Is there any way to tell fvwm to place those apps in a > particular position? > I just swallow my 14 wm dock apps in an FvwmButtons bar. If you want to have the apps clustered in different areas you can set up multiple FvwmButtons by giving them each a unique name, the details are in the FvwmButtons man page under the Initialization section. An example is: *FvwmButtons(Swallow(UseOld,NoKill) "wmtime" "Exec wmtime &", Size 64 64, 1x1+1+ 1) This also starts wmtime when the window manager starts up since I do not start the doc apps anywhere else in the .xsession or fvwm InitFunction. HTH, -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Exim re-writing help
I would like to rewrite my address with exim. (I only send outgoing mail to the Internet; no local mail.) I've read the documentation, but am still a bit confused on exactly how to set up the re-write. I would like [EMAIL PROTECTED] (i.e., [EMAIL PROTECTED]) to be re-written to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (either that or [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is easier to read). >From what I've read, I should do something like: *@@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] then all the flags But where should I put the $0, $1, and $2 re-write definitions? I'm assuming: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $1=pcr387 $2=hecky.acns.nwu.edu But the documentation (Exim manual) implies that: [EMAIL PROTECTED] $1=david $2=milwaukee ...so I'm confused as to which is right. How close am I to doing this correctly? Thanks, Dave
PPP Host Configuration
I cant get my Linux installation to behave like a server (http for a start). Where should I begin?. How can I get it to run a dial-in server to receive connects on the modem. Please help Ramana
Re: dselect unstable problem
On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Adam Olejniczak wrote: > Hello all > > I'm a fresh user of debian i was using redhat so far. > so i was using dselect with unstable option > and everything was working just fine till yesterday when i got following > errors > > > Hitt ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Packages > Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Release > Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages > Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/contrib Release > Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages > Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/non-free Release > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Malformed Priority line > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.pl.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i3 > > 86_Packages > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > when i'm doing Update > > when I'm using stable version everything is working just fine > > any ideas ? > > thanks for help > > Regards > Adam Olejniczak > exactly the same problem today morning only the server is http://ftp1.us.debian.org any help is greatly appreciated Oleg
Re: dselect unstable problem
Adam Olejniczak wrote: > > Hello all > > I'm a fresh user of debian i was using redhat so far. > so i was using dselect with unstable option > and everything was working just fine till yesterday when i got following > errors > > Hitt ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Packages > Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Release > Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages > Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/contrib Release > Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages > Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/non-free Release > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Malformed Priority line > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.pl.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. See "Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org" thread. Short answer: edit the above mentioned file. search for 'optionnal'; its there in 2 places. Remove extra 'n' from both. save file. touch file so its date/time is the same as the other two similar files in that dir (one for contrib, one for non-free). Fini. Note: running update will overwrite the above file. -- Ed C.
RE: dselect unstable problem
I got this error last night myself and I "fixed" it by commenting out the offending site in the /etc/apt/sources.list, but I'm not sure if that's the best/permanent fix. But it did work for the time being -Original Message- From: Adam Olejniczak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 11:03 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:dselect unstable problem Hello all I'm a fresh user of debian i was using redhat so far. so i was using dselect with unstable option and everything was working just fine till yesterday when i got following errors Hitt ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Packages Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Release Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/contrib Release Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Malformed Priority line E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.pl.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary -i3 86_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. when i'm doing Update when I'm using stable version everything is working just fine any ideas ? thanks for help Regards Adam Olejniczak -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
dselect unstable problem
Hello all I'm a fresh user of debian i was using redhat so far. so i was using dselect with unstable option and everything was working just fine till yesterday when i got following errors Hitt ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Packages Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/main Release Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/contrib Packages Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/contrib Release Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages Hit ftp://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/non-free Release Reading Package Lists... Error! E: Malformed Priority line E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.pl.debian.org_pub_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i3 86_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. when i'm doing Update when I'm using stable version everything is working just fine any ideas ? thanks for help Regards Adam Olejniczak
Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:43:40AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:23:04AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Have you tried adding nis to the /etc/nsswitch.conf fields? Note, than the > > > pam_unix.so modules (being that they use standard libc calls for use > > > lookups) recognizes NIS with any problems, so long as the NS Switch is > > > setup properly. > > > > I'll give it a go[] Right I put 'nis' on the start of the passwd line in /etc/nsswitch.conf. No change. :-( I even restarted all services just to be sure (runlevel 2->1->2) > > The other thing I should have mentioned is in /var/log/auth.log I'm getting > > > > PAM_unix [1234]: authentation failure; LOGIN(uid=0) -> for login > > service > > That's incorrect, you can login with a password locally because it then > acts like a normal UNIX login. You HAVE to add nis to the nsswitch.conf > fields in order to use _any_ programs with NIS. This is not a PAM issue. OK, now you're confusing me. * I have no local users on this machine apart from root. * I can login with users specified in the NIS database if that user has a password. * I can not login with a NIS user if that user has a blank password. * If I give a user which is not in the NIS database I get a different authentication error message. (Cannot retrieve authentation info.) * finger retrieves the correct information from the NIS database. How can NIS not be working? Paul P.S. I'm not trying to wind you up, I'm just confused. -- Paul Sargent Tel: +44 (1784) 476669 Fax: +44 (1784) 470699 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-ing "unstable" files for a "stable" box
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, David Kanter wrote: : Is this bad: having a stable box (i.e., Slink) but using apt to : update some files from the "unstable" tree? Depends on what "bad" means to you: o It should be alright in the sense that apt will take care of dependencies for you, so there should be no problem. o It may break severely since you're using "unstable" (has the name for a reason :) In truth, Debian "unstable" is quite stable. That doesn't mean things won't (or don't) break. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
mail not deleted from spool on inc with exmh
I've seen this problem a couple of times before, and it's happening again. My mail is not being deleted from the spool when exmh incorporates it. As a result, the same messages are incorporated again and again. Using inc from the command line seems to solve the problem. Sometimes (not always), I end up with an extraneous lock file that survives the inc orporation, but just deleting this doesn't solve the problem. I have installed: ii biff0.10-1 a mail notification tool ii elm-me+ 2.4pl25ME+48-2 MIME & PGP-aware interactive mail reader [en ii exmh2.0.2-4slink2 An X user interface for MH mail. ii grepmail3.4.1-4search mailboxes for mail matching an expres ii mailx 8.1.1-10 A simple mail user agent. ii metamail2.7-31 An implementation of MIME. ii mime-support3.5-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap', and sup ii nmh 0.27-0.28-pre8 A set of electronic mail handling programs. rc procmail3.13.1-1 Versatile e-mail processor. ii smail 3.2.0.102-1Electronic mail transport system. ii xmh 3.3.2.3a-11X interface to MH mail system any hints? --
startx libraries errors
--- Begin Message --- When booting I receive the following errors: Starting X display manager: xdm/usr/bin/X11/xdm: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: _ _ mb _ cur _ max already running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 debian tty1 After I log in I try the following: debian:/# startx xauth: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: _ _ mb _ cur _ max It repeats again... xauth: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: _ _ mb _ cur _ max xinit: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6: undefined symbol: _ _ mb _ cur _ max I also can not run XF86Setup, the following occurs debian:/#XF86Setup XF86Setup: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.s0.6: undefined symbol: _ _ mb_cur _ max I was able to run xf86config successfully. I did check to see if the libraries existed and they do. Any suggestions would be great Thanks John Considine --- End Message ---
dpkg problem
Dear all, Recently, i download the libc6_2.1.2-5.deb and install it with dpkg. However, there are some error messages : ... gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg-deb: error processing lib6_2.1.2-5.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 ... I have download the package again from other ftp site,but there is still error.What is the problem ?? Pls help Wilson
Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs
Kristopher Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The XEmacs documentation seems to imply that it can open > compressed files--that is, it will automatically uncompress them, > let you edit, and then recompress if you made changes. > > But this doesn't work for me. Opening a *.gz file just shows me > the compressed form. Is there something special I need to do to > enable the automatic decompression? I've found that although XEmacs seems to think auto-compression is on it doesn't work unless I toggle it off and then on again, eg.: M-x auto-compression-mode M-x auto-compression-mode The first turns it off, the second back on again. After that I'm golden and can read *.gz files just fine. Gary
netscape killing my machine
As of very recently, netscape has been acting up. A few times in the past few days it has just about halted my machine, on one occasion I needed to hard reboot. I just arrived back from class a few minutes ago and I thought my comptuer was dead, turns out it was just going REALLY slow. According to the cpu meter there was not much activity, but when I checked the memory I saw that I had only like 12mb free of physical (of 128) and like 40 of swap (of 300). No wonder things were crawling. I could hear all the swapping as my drive churned. Anyways ps aux showed that netscape was using 79%!! of my memory. I had to kill -9 it, kill wouldn't work, but after that things have returned to normal. What could be causing this? I use netscape for mail as well, and I think that there is something messed up with one of my mailboxes, but how does that cause this? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:23:04AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > Have you tried adding nis to the /etc/nsswitch.conf fields? Note, than the > > pam_unix.so modules (being that they use standard libc calls for use > > lookups) recognizes NIS with any problems, so long as the NS Switch is > > setup properly. > > I'll give it a go, but I'm managing to login if the user has a password set, > so I don't think the actual NIS fetch is a problem. I think that the fault > lies in the PAM authentiation. > > The other thing I should have mentioned is in /var/log/auth.log I'm getting > > PAM_unix [1234]: authentation failure; LOGIN(uid=0) -> for login > service That's incorrect, you can login with a password locally because it then acts like a normal UNIX login. You HAVE to add nis to the nsswitch.conf fields in order to use _any_ programs with NIS. This is not a PAM issue. Ben
RE: pcmcia net card does not show up in "ifconfig" listing.
On 30-Sep-99 Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I realise something is probably not configured correctly. I installed > pcmcia-source, and compiled it with dpkg-kpkg, then installed the > resulting .deb file. Everything seems to be working fine, except that I > expected the network card in the slot to show up when I run ifconfig. It > does not. > What happens when you do (as root): /etc/init.d/network start ? -- Andrew
Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:23:04AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > Have you tried adding nis to the /etc/nsswitch.conf fields? Note, than the > pam_unix.so modules (being that they use standard libc calls for use > lookups) recognizes NIS with any problems, so long as the NS Switch is > setup properly. I'll give it a go, but I'm managing to login if the user has a password set, so I don't think the actual NIS fetch is a problem. I think that the fault lies in the PAM authentiation. The other thing I should have mentioned is in /var/log/auth.log I'm getting PAM_unix [1234]: authentation failure; LOGIN(uid=0) -> for login service Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pcmcia net card does not show up in "ifconfig" listing.
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I realise something is probably not configured correctly. I installed > pcmcia-source, and compiled it with dpkg-kpkg, then installed the > resulting .deb file. Everything seems to be working fine, except that I > expected the network card in the slot to show up when I run ifconfig. It > does not. Did you do a make-kpkg modules_images. There should show up a second deb-package called pcmcia-... (I don't remember exactly). Martin -- If the box says 'Windows 95 or better', it should run on Linux, right? - anonymous For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Potato NIS Vs PAM problems
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 03:18:26PM +0100, Paul M Sargent wrote: > I have, what I expect is, a simple problem. > > I'm trying to set my Potato box to use NIS to do the lookup for /etc/passwd. > I have the +:: line at the bottom of my passwd file, and all the yp > tools work fine (e.g. 'ypmatch pauls passwd' brings up the right response.) > I've even got autofs automouting home directories with info gleened from the > NIS database. > > Everything is greatexcept... > > If the user has no password then he can't logon to the system. What is > blocking this? I believe this is PAM rather than NIS causing the problem, > but PAM is a mystery to me. > > Does anybody have any ideas? or any good sources of info for PAM? Have you tried adding nis to the /etc/nsswitch.conf fields? Note, than the pam_unix.so modules (being that they use standard libc calls for use lookups) recognizes NIS with any problems, so long as the NS Switch is setup properly. Ben
Potato NIS Vs PAM problems
I have, what I expect is, a simple problem. I'm trying to set my Potato box to use NIS to do the lookup for /etc/passwd. I have the +:: line at the bottom of my passwd file, and all the yp tools work fine (e.g. 'ypmatch pauls passwd' brings up the right response.) I've even got autofs automouting home directories with info gleened from the NIS database. Everything is greatexcept... If the user has no password then he can't logon to the system. What is blocking this? I believe this is PAM rather than NIS causing the problem, but PAM is a mystery to me. Does anybody have any ideas? or any good sources of info for PAM? Thanks Paul -- Paul Sargent mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-ing "unstable" files for a "stable" box
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 09:06:34AM -0500, David Kanter wrote: > Is this bad: having a stable box (i.e., Slink) but using apt to update some > files from the "unstable" tree? Nope. *some* instability might occur, but that doesn't mean it is bad. Just be sensable on what you're doing and it should be fine. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-
apt-ing "unstable" files for a "stable" box
Is this bad: having a stable box (i.e., Slink) but using apt to update some files from the "unstable" tree? Here's why: I have Slink and downloaded Netscape 4.61 from the unstable tree. Why? Getting a stable Netscape never seemed to work; not all the necessary files would download, so I opted to go for the unstable mirror, which has a nice meta package for Netscape. Thanks, Dave
Keyboard Question (IBM Type)
My girlfriend is going to be purchasing a new keyboard to work with her Linux box when we set it up. However, we've had problems with the Keyboard/track pointer thing in the past. Does anyone know if the 104 Key Trackpoint Keyboard from IBM has had any problems with Debian? Thanks http://www.direct.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/SalesNav?partnum=01K1260&cntry=8 40&lang=en_US "God, Root. What is the difference?" Pitr, User Friendly
Re: daylight savings
Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes ("daylight savings"):
>
>Hi,
>
> Where can I see the settings for daylight savings?
> That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes
>from year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1
>or 2 days till it changes.
> We'll have a change in Oct, 3. Where can I see if this is the
>correct setting?
In Brazil, is there a pattern to the dates of the switchover (i.e., if
I wanted to know when DST changeover would happen in 2015, could I
figure it out, or is it selected by the govt. each year)? If so, I'd
submit this as a bug so it can get forwarded to the upstream maintainer.
--
Richard W Kaszeta PhD. Candidate and Sysadmin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
pcmcia net card does not show up in "ifconfig" listing.
I realise something is probably not configured correctly. I installed pcmcia-source, and compiled it with dpkg-kpkg, then installed the resulting .deb file. Everything seems to be working fine, except that I expected the network card in the slot to show up when I run ifconfig. It does not. How can I determine whether everything is working correctly? What must I do to make the card (an Accton network card) show up when "ifconfig" is run? I recompiled the kernel using the same options (under Network Device Support) as on the laptop on which the card works. BTW, I'm running Debian 2.1 (slink), kernel 2.0.36. I am not very experienced (Although I have got this card working on another laptop, as well as a well working desktop computer), so even tips that seem "obvious" can be useful. (Yes, the card does seem to be inserted completely, and I hear two beeps when inserting it (one lowish, and one an octave higher). ) Thanks in advance, Hugo van der Merwe ps. Please CC: replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it is the only way to be 100% certain that replies will reach me.
What's this in my daemon.log
This has been popping up for a couple of days now. Anyone know what it means? Sep 27 15:58:10 pedgr634 identd[26739]: started Sep 27 15:58:10 pedgr634 identd[26746]: request_thread: read(10, ..., 1023) failed: Connection reset by peer Sep 27 17:49:04 pedgr634 identd[27296]: started Sep 27 20:50:00 pedgr634 identd[27721]: started Sep 27 20:50:00 pedgr634 identd[27728]: request_thread: read(10, ..., 1023) failed: Connection reset by peer Sep 28 08:29:46 pedgr634 identd[29850]: started Sep 28 08:29:46 pedgr634 identd[29857]: request_thread: read(10, ..., 1023) failed: Connection reset by peer /Patrik.
Re: dist-upgrade doesn't upgrade kernel?
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote: > I just upgraded to potato using "apt-get dist-upgrade". I expected > that this would upgrade my kernel (to 2.1) along with all the other > packages. Was I mistaken in this belief? I am proceeding by getting > the kernel source and building the kernel myself, but I wanted to be > sure that I hadn't done something wrong. There is a thread to the subject 'Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrade'. Have a look at the mailing list archive. Martin -- If the box says 'Windows 95 or better', it should run on Linux, right? - anonymous For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp broken, log says: "Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean"
It's more likely that some further authentication is necessary, i.e. PPP itself is not being started automatically upon connect but instead there's some other prompt which must be negotiated. The best way to diagnose this is to use seyon or minicom (or other terminal program) to manually dial the number and see what the remote side does. David Karlin wrote: > Hello, > Upon returning home from a trip, my slink box is no longer able to connect > to my > ISP. Up until the time I left, it had been working fine. I was even able > to > telnet (ssh) into the system for the first few days I was away. > > Fortunately/unfortunately, my win95 system is able to connect as before, > with no > problem. > > Here is a snippet from /var/log/ppp.log: > > Sep 29 19:11:56 champagne chat[27653]: expect (CONNECT) > Sep 29 19:11:56 champagne chat[27653]: ^M > Sep 29 19:12:16 champagne chat[27653]: ATDT9494614^M^M > Sep 29 19:12:16 champagne chat[27653]: CONNECT > Sep 29 19:12:16 champagne chat[27653]: -- got it > Sep 29 19:12:16 champagne chat[27653]: send (\d) > Sep 29 19:12:17 champagne pppd[27652]: Serial connection established. > Sep 29 19:12:18 champagne pppd[27652]: Using interface ppp0 > Sep 29 19:12:18 champagne pppd[27652]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1 > Sep 29 19:12:18 champagne pppd[27652]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 0x0> < > magic 0xb74c60e2> ] > Sep 29 19:12:45 champagne last message repeated 9 times > Sep 29 19:12:48 champagne pppd[27652]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests > Sep 29 19:12:48 champagne pppd[27652]: Connection terminated. > Sep 29 19:12:48 champagne pppd[27652]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit > clean: > Sep 29 19:12:48 champagne pppd[27652]: Problem: all had even parity > Sep 29 19:12:48 champagne pppd[27652]: Hangup (SIGHUP) > Sep 29 19:12:48 champagne pppd[27652]: Exit. > > My ISP has me connect through a Compuserve access number because they have > none > of their own in my local calling area. I suspect that something has changed > at > the Compuserve end of the line while I was away, and that this thing is > something > that MS DUN can deal with automatically, but which must be configured > manually in > linux. > > I further suspect that some change was made in the parity setting, as > indicated > by /var/log/ppp.log. > > Which file must I edit in order to get ppp to work with even parity? Is > this some > thing that can be fixed by editing my modems initialization string, or must > I edit > some other configuration file? Please enlighten me. > > Thanks. > > P.S. Please cc: me as I'm a digest subscriber. > -- > David Karlin > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reduced to using Windows 95 :-( > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnumeric complains about platform independent libraries
When trying to start gnumeric, I get the following complaints: Could not find platform independent libraries Could not find platform dependent libraries Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to [:] 'import exceptions' failed; use -v for traceback Warning! Falling back to string-based exceptions 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Gnumeric/Python module initialized Symbol [mid] redefined. Gnumeric appears to work, but these warnings bother me. Do I need to be concerned about them?
Re: Callback
callback is generally accomplished through an extension to ppp. I don't think that the linux pppd daemon has support for this (at least not version 2.3.5 that I'm using). A quick look at the README on the upstream maintainer's site doesn't seem to indicate support for this either: ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/README "A. Barry" wrote: > Hi, I am a new converter to linux os, ending the misery of windows os. > I managed will till now to install debian linux and managed to have ppp > to > work fine for some connections. My main isp requires a callback > authentication > to connect, and I could not fined any mention of callback in all the > docs I have, > including the HOW-TOs. > Any help. > > A. Barry > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Callback
Quoting A. Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, I am a new converter to linux os, ending the misery of windows os. > I managed will till now to install debian linux and managed to have ppp > to > work fine for some connections. My main isp requires a callback > authentication > to connect, and I could not fined any mention of callback in all the > docs I have, > including the HOW-TOs. You need to look at the mgetty documentation. Effectively, callback is something that is done by mgetty before ppp gets handed the connection. I've not managed to configure callback with pppconfig, but the easiest approach seems to be to use pppconfig, pretending that you're not using callback; then add the extra lines to /etc/chatscript/foo. For example: ABORT BUSY ABORT VOICE ABORT "NO DIALTONE" "" ATZ OK AT OK ATDT015 ogin:--ogin: \d\qsecret-word )<- after sending this, it hangs up. RING '' )these are inserted RING '' )after pppconfig. RING ata )<- my box answers the phone now. ogin:--ogin: '' Notes: Don't use ABORT "NO CARRIER" because that's a message you'll receive when it deliberately hangs up. secret-word is a userid that makes my remote mgetty call me back. Each secret chooses a different (selection of) number. Check your /etc/mgetty/login.config for the /AutoPPP/ line which determines how mgetty behaves when it receives a call that chucks PPP at it. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
dist-upgrade doesn't upgrade kernel?
I just upgraded to potato using "apt-get dist-upgrade". I expected that this would upgrade my kernel (to 2.1) along with all the other packages. Was I mistaken in this belief? I am proceeding by getting the kernel source and building the kernel myself, but I wanted to be sure that I hadn't done something wrong. Thank you, Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap"
Re: Strange apt-get behaviour...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Please respond to the above email as I only subscribe to the digest, and > not the actual mailing list. > > Guys, > > I tried running apt-get on a potato system running kernel 2.2.12 this > afternoon, and when it finished downloading the Packages.gz files, apt-get > exited with this error message: > > Reading Package Lists... Error! > E: Malformed Priority line > E: Error occured while processing aleph-dev (NewVersion1) > E: Problem with MergeList > /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potat > o_main_binary-i386_Packages > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > I'm assuming that this might have something to do with incorrect > permissions being set or something along those lines. > > The only problem that I can see that I could have induced was the > accidental destruction of my suid.conf file a couple of days ago... As > far as I know, that's the only thing that has changed on my system. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thanks in advance!!! This is not your fault--the downloaded file is bad. Short answer: edit the /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages file with a text editor. There are two places where "optional" is misspelled as "optionnal". Just remove the extra 'n's, and everything will work. Long answer: Check out the "Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad" thread in this list. - Kris
Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad
Marcus Johansson wrote: > Try: > > # apt-get check > > That might fix the problem, not sure. > > /Marcus No, apt-get check doesn't fix it. The file corruption prevents apt-get from doing anything. - Kris
Re: Modem speed
Christian: The Cisco AS5200 does contain a bank of modems-- if your Windows machine is getting 42000bps, then they're likely 56K modems. Are the Windows and Linux machines calling on the same phone line? They're calling the same phone number, right? To verify that Linux isn't mis-reporting the speed, use minicom to talk to the modem. Send it whatever init string is specified in /etc/chatscripts/, then dial the phone number: "atdt". When you connect, does your modem report "CONNECT 36"? If it does this repeatedly, then you can be fairly confident that this it really is always connecting at this speed. If you suspect that it should be able to connect at a higher speed, start looking through the AT command reference for the modem, to make sure that you haven't inadvertently told it not to try to connect at a higher speed. I believe that most modems accept "at&f" as a command to return everything to the factory default. Let us know what you find. Marc -- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>> Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/29/99 05:37PM I do not think ISP two has modems at all. You dial directly in to the Cisco unit or something. At least that is what they told me. ISP one has 56k modems. We have a Windows machine here dialing into the same ISP (the slow one), and that machine gets at least a 42000 connection. Below you can see ping stats from ISP two: --- ping statistics --- 26 packets transmitted, 26 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 89.4/107.6/174.8 ms -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux "Clones are people two"
info2www not finding icons
I have dwww and info2www installed, using apache. The pages returned by info2www don't have any pictures in them. The image files are in /usr/share/doc/info2www (next.gif, prev.gif, up.gif, etc.). The info2www-generated pages have IMG tags that look like . But apache doesn't seem to be able to find them. I've tried adding a symlink /var/www/doc -> /usr/share/doc, but that hasn't helped. Anyone know what might be up? (FWIW, I think this worked before I upgraded to potato.) Thanks, Kris
daylight savings
Hi, Where can I see the settings for daylight savings? That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or 2 days till it changes. We'll have a change in Oct, 3. Where can I see if this is the correct setting? Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 http://www.revistalinux.com.br
Re: Kernel upgrades = security upgrades - a possible solution?
Quoting Marcin Owsiany ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 05:24:54PM +0300, Martin Fluch wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > > > > I guess this kind of kernel packages would be for people quite concerned > > > about security but also quite lazy :) > > > > I guess, this is mutual exclusive. People which are lazy will leave many > > (and I think also bigger) security holes some where else on the system, so > > that it won't matter, if you keep your kernel that much secure... > > well, yes you are right. > :) > I guess i didn't really think of it before writing :( > > > > Also if you administer a lot of boxes, and if they work ok with the > > > default > > > kernel you will find it _a lot_ more convenient to automatically upgrade > > > kernel than to compile it for each box... > > > > Ever considerd the package 'kernel-package'. This makes out of any kernel > > source debian packages, which then can be installed with dpkg, apt-get or > > what ever ... > > sure, since i had discovered it, i've never made a kernel without using it. > But still you have to make the kernel, and if you compile it, you can't > resist tweaking it to each particular system's needs, can you? :) But this is where modules can help you. I have several machines that need slightly different configurations because they have different built-in sound mobos. I compile the kernel on one of them but with all the modules I need. Then I fine tune /etc/modules for soundcard, ppa, joystick etc. But I think that the separation of kernel and distribution is a valuable property of linux and should be preserved at all costs. Otherwise there is the temptation to introduce subtle dependencies between them, which increases complexity and decreases robustness. On a slightly different but related tack, now that NT is an Intel-only OS, how long before Intel architecture specific code creeps into the kernel. How hard will it be to extract those dependencies when transferring it to a new platform. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: Environment Variable weirdness
The first two variables are set by the shell and are determined either at compile time or by the environment it starts up in. Read the man page for your shell. For bash it says the following: HOSTTYPE Automatically set to a string that uniquely describes the type of machine on which bash is exe cuting. The default is system-dependent. [...] MACHTYPE Automatically set to a string that fully describes the system type on which bash is executing, in the standard GNU cpu-company-system format. The default is system-dependent. Others have described how they are used and what they pertain to. *- On 29 Sep, Salman Ahmed wrote about "Environment Variable weirdness" > > (1) > Running Debian 2.1, I noticed sth odd about a couple of > environment variables (I am running XFree-3.3.3.1-2). > > First of all : > > HOSTTYPE=i386-linux > > I have a Celeron 300A processor and have installed a new > 2.2.12 kernel recently. Where is this variable getting > set from ? > > How do I change this env variable on a global basis ? > > Same thing for the MACHTYPE env variable : > > MACHTYPE=i386 > > Why do these variables refer to i386 when the arch > command displays the correct output : > > @phoenix:[/home/ssahmed] arch > i686 > > > (2) > The other thing is that the DISPLAY env variable is set > to "unix:0.0". My question is : shouldn't this variable > be of the form $HOSTNAME:0.0 ? So why is set to "unix:0.0" ? > > And how do I change this env variable on a global basis > (ie for all users) ? > > > (3) > The last thing is : I'd like to create an environment variable > that contains the following information : kernel version and > machine architechture. e.g. : linux-2.2.12-i686. Let's call > it OSVERSION. Where do I set this environment variable ? > > Thanks. > > -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs
*- On 30 Sep, Johann Spies wrote about "Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs" > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: > >> On a somewhat related note : is it possible to view compressed (.gz) files >> with pagers like more/less ? I think I remember a thread about this either >> on this list or on some linux NG a while back except that I was paying >> attention at that time! > > zless, zmore > Better yet, read /usr/doc/less/LESSOPEN.gz. With the very basic instructions in there you can less almost any file you want: gz, bz2, deb, tar, etc. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: su username w/o password in potato
> However, with the new PAMified packages, I cannot replicate this > functionality, and I can't find information about how to do it... anyone? /etc/pam.d/su: # This allows root to su without passwords (normal operation) auth sufficient pam_rootok.so -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: Sun classic
Ben Collins wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 12:35:40PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm interested in installing Debian Linux on a Sun Classic. > > Any pointers will be appreciated. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Oki > > There is an install text in /debian/dists/slink/main/disks-sparc. Most > likely you will want to download the rescue, driver and root images with > the 2.2.1 kernel image. After booting the rescue disk, the install is > pretty much the same as an i386 install. I tried both the 2.2.1 kernel rescue disc and the 2.0.36 on my sparcstation2; the newer one didn't seem to be able to eject the floppy when the next one was needed. Otherwise, its just like the i386 install, as Ben said. To find out how to get the sun to boot from floppy, the debain install pages guide you to sun's boot prompt web pages. Something like "setenv boot_device=floppy" is needed; but check this - I did it once, months ago... Andrew -- http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=45690
Re: Environment Variable weirdness
Salman Ahmed: > But where is this env. var being set from ? It's not even an environment variable, but rather an internal bash variable. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World >& World.log &
Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad
Johan Ur Riise wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 09:35:03PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote: > > David Natkins wrote: > > > > > > Seems to be a problem with the package list for unstable at > > > ftp.debian.org. > > > One of the packages (aleph-dev) is causing the problem. > > > > You can open the package list file with a text editor and fix the > > problems. The other aleph-* packages have the same problem: the > > priority line says "optionnal", rather than "optional". Just > > delete the extra 'n', and everything will be fine. > > I have the same problem. After editing > /var/state/apt/lists/www.uk.debian.org_debian_dists_potato_main_binary-i386_Packages > ( two occurrences of optionnal changed to optional) and rerunning > apt-get update, the file is downloaded again and I am where I started. > > Johan. The file you modify is now out of sync with the other ones. After making the changes in the file, use touch to set its time to the same as the others (the 2 other potato files for contrib and nonfree). This will prevent it from trying to reload the Packages file. -- Ed C.
fvwm with WM dockable apps
Hi, Ok, call me old fashioned. But I still like fvwm these days among so many windows managers. fvwm does not seem to be able to remeber the window's geometry, and WM dockable apss does not seem to have a -geometry option. Is there any way to tell fvwm to place those apps in a particular position? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: Unstable package list at ftp.debian.org is bad
> ( two occurrences of optionnal changed to optional) and rerunning > apt-get update, the file is downloaded again and I am where I started. Try: # apt-get check That might fix the problem, not sure. /Marcus
where is /proc/asound?
Hallo all, I've just installed slink on my laptop and I'm trying to use the ALSA. Do you need to do any special configureation for ALSA? I've just got a vanilla system and a custom kernel ( still 2.0.36 though) and ALSA just doesn't work. I don't appear to have a /proc/asound directory and I can't find out how to get one. The reason I want this is because I bought Civ:CTP and it doesn't play the music. So I figured that my sound wasn't correctly figured on hamm, one upgrade later and I'm still confused. Any suggestions on how best to get ALSA running would be appreciated. Could you cc. me as well 'cos I'm at work at the mo. :-) thanks
