Re: dircolors
Try to make sure that eval `dircolors` is seeing your customized config file. It no longer looks for the old defaults so you should specify the path aka: eval `dircolors $(HOME)/.dir_colors` Luck. Syrus. -- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept. On Mon, 28 Oct 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does dircolors or the new ls --color=auto not support the 'ORPHAN' or 'MISSING' tags, relative to symlinks? A fellow linuxer pointed out that I was still using the old color-ls in my /usr/local/bin and when I switched over, all my symlinks were the wrong color. They actually ended up as 'ORPHAN'ed. What the heck is an orphaned symlink anyway? BTW, I'm using bash. (if that makes a diff) Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: useradd?
Daniel Stringfield wrote: I believe the 'useradd' program was a strictly Slackware program. BUT... It no longer exists in Slackware even.. [...] It should not be a problem unless you are running shadow passwords, in which you definetely don't want to run it. I'd been running on several different releases, AFTER the Slackware.. (Linux FT, and Redhat) As I recall, the shadow package included a useradd utility (among others). -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PPP with dialup scripts.
I am having problems getting ppp to work with a script. It works *fine* manually, using minicom to dial, and executing 'pppd /dev/ttyS2 38400' I've tried this as root. Thanks for any suggestions you might have! Chris. # tail /var/log/daemon.log Oct 28 22:25:56 wraith pppd[316]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Oct 28 22:25:57 wraith pppd[316]: Serial connection established. Oct 28 22:25:58 wraith pppd[316]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 28 22:25:58 wraith pppd[316]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS2 Oct 28 22:25:59 wraith pppd[316]: Serial line is looped back. Oct 28 22:25:59 wraith pppd[316]: Connection terminated. Oct 28 22:25:59 wraith pppd[316]: Exit. /etc/ppp/options: # prevent forking -detach # dynamic IPs 0.0.0.0: # use modem modem # use uucp locking lock # hardware flow crtscts # default routing defaultroute # NO escaped control sequences asyncmap 0 # maximum transmission size mtu 552 # maximum recieve size mru 552 # PAP computer name name artmartin # end options /etc/ppp/ppp-on: #!/bin/sh # # Script to initiate a ppp connection. This is the first part of the # pair of scripts. This is not a secure pair of scripts as the codes # are visible with the 'ps' command. However, it is simple. # # These are the parameters. Change as needed. TELEPHONE=70#,2147446147 # The telephone number for the connection # # Export them so that they will be available at 'ppp-on-dialer' time. export TELEPHONE # # This is the location of the script which dials the phone and logs # in. Please use the absolute file name as the $PATH variable is not # used on the connect option. (To do so on a 'root' account would be # a security hole so don't ask.) # DIALER_SCRIPT=/etc/ppp/ppp-on-pap # # Initiate the connection # # exec /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS2 38400 connect $DIALER_SCRIPT # end ppp-on /etc/ppp/ppp-on-pap #!/bin/sh # exec chat -v TIMEOUT 3 \ ABORT'\nBUSY\n' \ ABORT'\nNO ANSWER\n'\ '' \rAT \ 'OK-+++\c-OK'ATH0 \ TIMEOUT 30 \ OK ATDT$TELEPHONE \ CONNECT '' \ # end ppp-on-pap -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PCMCIA problems ...
Hello, I recently got a Megahertz CC/XJEM3288 combo card for my Toshiba Tecra 500CDT. This is supposed to be supported according to all docs I've found (which wasn't too much, really). The problem is that it wan'ts to configure the card wrong. I don't even care about the serial side yet, which also apears wrong, but I need to get the eth0 working so I can finish the install. I grabbed the card services stuff from unstable and it dropped right in with no problem. I also have all of the needed network packages. However, the smc91c92_cs module gets loaded by the cardmgr process using insmod. I can't set options in /etc/conf.modules because cardmgr ignores them. I tried setting options in the config.opts file, but they seem to be ignored as well. The cardmgr is trying to use irq=4 and iobase=0x300. I ran the diagnose program under dos (this is a utility that comes with the card) and it says I'm at IRQ 11 and BASE 140h. does anybody know how I can get the cardmgr to use these values? I can provide my .opts files as well as the output from diagnose if needed. Thanks in advance. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:Annoying package dependence concept
JP == Johannes Plass [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're right. What I do is to build an empty package that provide all the (virtual) packages that I have something equivalent under /usr/local. I just call this package asgard-local (asgard is my box name), install it and dselect stop barking. There's a lot of times an user don't want the Debian packages. e.g: Xserver : too much garbage built-in fvwm* : I want my own hacked version gcc : I want -frepo *** : debian packaged an obsolete (read old) version. Just grab the hello.*-*.tgz source package, and create your empty package. It's very easy. --- L.D. JP Debian's realization of package dependencies is, in my opinion, JP too tight. JP Two (out of many possible) examples may illustrate my point: JP- A user doesn't want to install Debian's ghostscript since JP he is a ghostscript beta tester and has a newer version JP than Debian provides. JP However, since he wants to use previewers like gv, ghostview JP and xdvi (which depend on ghostscript) he MUST install the JP Debian ghostscript. JP- A user wants to install ghostscript. JP Due to a dependence on libpaper which doesn't seem to JP be available this fails. Since previewers like ghostview JP and xdvi (why actually does xdvi depend on ghostscript ?) JP depend on this package the user is left with a system JP on which he cannot view .ps and .dvi files. JP The basic problem is that deselect doesn't allow to override JP any dependencies specified by package maintainers. This, however, JP is necessary since package dependencies JP- may point to non-existing packages. JP- may not be reasonable (xdvi depends on ghostscript ?). JP- may already be satisfied by local software deselect doesn't JP know about. JP It would already help a lot if deselect allowed the administrator JP to install a package as a ghost in the sense that: JP- the package counts as being installed as far as deselect JP is concerned. JP- deselect does not attempt to unpack/install the package. JP But as it is currently, maintaining a Debian system by using JP deselect is a real pain ... JP Regards, JP Johannes Plass -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Callback Internet Link
mike == mike horansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mike Stephen Pitts wrote: I created a setuid script that attempted to mount my cdrom. Running it as a user, the only error I got was that it couldn't modify mtab. So, I guess you were right and a script only runs semi-setuid. mike You might want to use the super utility to run scripts that mike set uid for you. You edit the /etc/super.tab file to tell it mike how much authority a script can have and who is allowed to run mike it. For example, I have mike cdmount /usr/local/bin/cdmount uid=root [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike cdumount/usr/local/bin/cdumount uid=root [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know why ppl need to use suid stuff to mount the cdrom! All one has to do is to put `ro,user,nonauto' in as option for the cdrom drive in fstab and any user can mount/unmount the thing. `user,nonauto' will also work with other drive, or course. I use it for floppy and some dos partitions, (sometimes my bro wanna copy stuffs from linux to dos and he has no root acces). -- L.D. mike in mine. the cdmount/cdumount scripts can just have the full mike mount and umount commands that I would run as root. Normally mike you would use them by doing super cdmount at the prompt, but mike if you look in the examples in /usr/doc/super after installing mike it you'll see how to make the super-invoking built-in. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Bill Bumgarner wrote: I have had no problems with Donald Beckers [sp.] eepro100.c driver built against the 2.0.18 sources. As well, I have also used a couple of different Tulip based cards; the Cogent EM960 (which, btw, causes the system to lock up under heavy load) and the SMC 21041 based card. Thanks to everyone for the help. I got it working by moving the card, with the slot that resulted in IRQ 11 is wouldn't work. I could see the hub light flicker, but no results to a ping. I moved it to IRQ 10, and it worked. Now, it is down. I presume it dropped the module. I'm running 2.0.23 kernel. I'll look at the modules options. What are people using in conf.modules? I aliased eth0 to eepro100. Thanks, Neal -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multicast support; 2.0.23 vs. EtherExpress Pro/100
I'm having absolutely no luck building a working multicast routing capable kernel with the eepro100.c driver. The driver works beautifully in a 'normal' kernel (in both cases, I'm actually dynamically loading the eepro100 module at boot). The machine boots fine; no error messages when the eepro100 module loads, but-- once up-- the machine passes NO traffic across the network interface [with or without the 'standard' multicast route active within the routing table]. Looking through the various system logs and through /proc, I have found nothing to indicate why the traffic is not passing through the interface. The loopback address works fine. Looking at the back of the machine, none of the lights on the pro/100 card are lit-- normally, it appears that at least one should be lit to indicate a viable connection to the hub? I am working with version 2.0.23 of the linux kernel under a debian-based system. It is a Dell Dimension XPS 200. No SCSI controller. Eventually the machine produces the following error on console: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 command 0020. eth0: Tx timout fill index 22 scavenge index 0 Tx queue 000c 000c 000c 000c 000c 400c a000 Rx ring 0001 ... repeats ... This message shows up about once every minute after the first one; which often takes about 10-15 minutes to show. I would be happy to pursue debugging further, but don't know where to start. Any pointers would be appreciated. b.bum -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
elm problem
I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then quit. Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #1 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #2 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #3 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #4 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #5 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #6 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #7 Giving up after 7 iterations. Please try to read your mail again in a few minutes. However, I can use mailx to read my mail. I have rebooted the computer and the elm do the same thing, anyone knows how to fix it? lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble with JED+X
On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Boris D. Beletsky wrote: make jed and/or slsc under X? /usr/bin/xjed jed for x it's included And where is xslrn? I need to have jed for xterms. I could use it once ... By Toens -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: elm problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 08:19 PM 10/29/96 +1100, Lawrence Chim wrote: I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then quit. Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0 That used to occur from a bug in an old Slackware release. This had to do with permissions/ownership settings of the inbox files in /var/spool/mail. Check to see if they are: -rw-rw username mail Hope this helps. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.7.1 Comment: Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] iQCVAwUBMnZbGgSsHV9rOgLdAQGohgQAgikTc9WmKytyT+dfoRMKHsXlUF0XZU5r lRZBQyFaDPddJ/M3K/vcCvHbqmIKSN890c9SbkQbuaG7k7IVyIOQvpWkr+feN6Yw +mCR92vLg/mK0CyDh1MR00wumLML4kgn/jwFCIcBzr5AJco2ysVsbwwnKcybd5rQ +/+5W+u8XJs= =8WjU -END PGP SIGNATURE- Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Fingerprint = 6C 2A A6 83 4A 57 B7 95 B7 79 A6 D7 F7 16 04 5C PGP KeyID = 0x6B3A02DD -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: does libc5.4.7 compatible with netscape 3.0
Daniel Stringfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 28 October 1996 20:45: On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: So, I think libc 5.4.7 should be removed from rex and downgrade to 5.2.x. Thats the point of REX isn't it? to be the latest of the stuff... if you upgrade, and RECOMPILE against that libc5, your problems will go away. I have had NO PROBLEMS with that version! None! You must be running programs that were compiled against it This means upgraded a lot of things, and recompiling pieces here and there.. I agree it should be on rex, but just recompiling doesn't work. As I already said here, I compiled wdiff with gcc 2.7.2.1 and it still segfaults. Carlos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: elm problem
Erik van der Meulen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 08:19 PM 10/29/96 +1100, Lawrence Chim wrote: I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then quit. Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0 That used to occur from a bug in an old Slackware release. This had to do with permissions/ownership settings of the inbox files in /var/spool/mail. Check to see if they are: -rw-rw username mail Hope this helps. the permission is ok. it is strange because other user have no problem to use elm, but only of the users. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: elm problem
Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0 Giving up after 7 iterations. Please try to read your mail again in a few minutes. However, I can use mailx to read my mail. Please check the file ownership of your mail-folder in /var/spool/mail/whatever_user_name_you_use and also of the file /tmp/mbox.whatever.user... These are often screwed up (don't ask me why)...I already had this kind of problem. Jeneral hint with the diagnostic of such faults is to run the program inside 'strace' just run strace elm and watch the output...Somewhere you will notice kernel file-operations failing with an error-code. Strace gives you a short verbose reason, and further you can figure out which file is causing the misbehaviour. hope this helps regards, Stoyan -- Stoyan Kenderov/ phone: +49 721 9652 220 NTG Netzwerk und Telematic GmbH \/ fax: +49 721 9652 210 Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 3/\ LINK email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] D-76131 Karlsruhe, Germany /___ http://www.xlink.net/~kenderov/ [Opinions stated herein are my own, not necessarily my employer's] PGP: http://www.xlink.net/~kenderov/public.key.asc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compatibility problem with bash?
Zoltan Hidvegi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 29 October 1996 02:29: I linked /bin/sh to /bin/zsh 3.0.1. However, when installing certain specific debian packages in linux I get the following error: Setting up gzip (1.2.4-11) ... install-info: read gzip -d /usr/info/gzip.info.gz |: 13 The problem doesn't happen if sh is a link to bash. I can get more details if necessary. I would really appreciate if you can send me more details. From that I cannot tell anything. Note that zsh is not fully compatible with bash but it tries to be compatible with POSIX. Please send this install-info script and tell me as much as possuble about it knowing that I've never used debian of dpkg. Well, here's the installation script: #! /bin/sh set -e install-info --quiet --section General Commands General Commands \ /usr/info/gzip.info.gz I put a -x in the set command, and it does work well. However, install-info is a perl script! I could post it, but it has 352 lines... I can send it personally if necessary. Carlos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: packages install
If the packages that should be installed first are the ones that have their 'Priority' control field set to 'required' then you can find them all with my package finder tool. I guess dselect also selects them all. The finders current location (subject to change) is http://house.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/debian/ . Search for string 'required' and select only the 'Priority' pushbutton. When you submit the query you will get a listing of all the required packages. The 'Priority' button is also a link to a small extract from the Debian Policy Manual that explains what are the values that 'Priority' can have. Is there any document on which package should be installed first? I just got a development CD from I-connect and I seemed to have a hard time to install the packages from the CDROM. There seemed to be packages to have conflict with each other. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Implementing limitations on dial-in PPP
Now that I've got dial-in PPP working, I was wondering if anyone has implemented any ways of limiting how clients can connect with it. In particular, I'd like to: - Limit how many simultaneous PPP sessions a user is running (to keep them from buying one account and letting 12 friends browse the web with one id/password pair). - Put time limits on PPP sessions. For example, 4 hours and then you get booted off. I figure both of these are fairly easy to do with a wrapper that would be executed at login and would decide whether or not to run pppd or to boot the user off. I just wanted to know if anyone's already done it. Something else I was interested in was being able to limit particular users to only the site they dialed into (ie, no proxyarp). However, the method for doing this suggested in most of the HOWTO's and examples I've seen suggest putting this in a .ppp file in the user's directory. This seems terribly insecure to me, since the user could either edit the file or (if it's read-only) delete it (since they have write access to their own directory) and write a new one. I seem to recall that pppd accepts putting the name of the options file on the command line, so, I could apparently just have two options files, one called limited-access and one called full-access and have the wrapper figure out which one to access. - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Example dial script for diald to call ppp PLEASE
Him I am trying to get diald working. I have managed to get a working script to call and link ppp up to my ISP. Unfortunately I did this by pretty much copying the cookbok approach in the ISP hookup HowTo. I hav alaso got diald configure to the point that when I route traffic to the IPS it will call a dialer script. Unfortunately the one that I have working form th command line won't work. I realive that I have to take some things out of it, since it manuallly specefies some things that diald takes care of for me. But since I don't understand the script I have, I don't know wherre to start hacking. Could some kind souls please send me an example dialing script that could be called from diald ? Thanks very much. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead...Henry Spencer (c) 1996 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Amber/Green monitors
Is there support under X11 for amber and green monitors? -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror, Santa Monica, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 396-5798 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel compilation problems
In preparation for linux 2.1, I recently upgraded binutils to 2.7-3, and libc5 ( -dev) to 5.4.7. While compiling 2.1.5, it bombed out saying entry.o not found (in arch/i386/kernel); entry.S was there, but for some reason wasn't compiled (assembled). I gave up at the time. Tonight I'm trying to recompile 2.0.21 and it's dying with the same error. The Makefile in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel doesn't specifically mention how to compile entry.S, but it doesn't for all the .c files either. But it doesn't get compiled, so that part won't link, and it dies. If I assemble by hand, it works okay. 2.0.21 was fine before, and I've since patched up to 2.0.23 which didn't change that Makefile, and am trying it now. I've downgraded binutils and libc5 already, not yet libc5-dev but make shouldn't be troubled by that. Any ideas? :-( thanks, Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PCMCIA problems ...
Hi Richard, I struggling trying to get pcmcia-cs to work as well but I may be able to help here. My understanding is that the PC-Card controller does not require a fixed IRQ and port. The numbers you received from the dos utility are simply those used at that moment. You can define which resources to use and exclude in the config.opts (which is read by my installation) but I doubt that is the problem. What exactly are the symptoms? --- Jean Pierre On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Richard G. Roberto wrote: Hello, I recently got a Megahertz CC/XJEM3288 combo card for my Toshiba Tecra 500CDT. This is supposed to be supported according to all docs I've found (which wasn't too much, really). The problem is that it wan'ts to configure the card wrong. I don't even care about the serial side yet, which also apears wrong, but I need to get the eth0 working so I can finish the install. I grabbed the card services stuff from unstable and it dropped right in with no problem. I also have all of the needed network packages. However, the smc91c92_cs module gets loaded by the cardmgr process using insmod. I can't set options in /etc/conf.modules because cardmgr ignores them. I tried setting options in the config.opts file, but they seem to be ignored as well. The cardmgr is trying to use irq=4 and iobase=0x300. I ran the diagnose program under dos (this is a utility that comes with the card) and it says I'm at IRQ 11 and BASE 140h. does anybody know how I can get the cardmgr to use these values? I can provide my .opts files as well as the output from diagnose if needed. Thanks in advance. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: packages install
I had a similar problem that included module installation
problems along with the can not configure /dev/cua0 message.
I solved it by running a depmod -a per helpful instructions
from this group.
Jim.
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Hi Debian Users:
Is there any document on which package should be installed first?
I just got a development CD from I-connect and I seemed to have
a hard time to install the packages from the CDROM. There seemed to
be packages to have conflict with each other.
Also, when the Linux boots up, there was this message:
can not configure /dev/cua0
I did a ls /dev/cua0 after boot, and it was there. Any idea?
Many thanks in advance!
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Keyboard with X
Hi. I tried LyX and sometimes run Netscape, and they show the same problem : when trying to erase a character with backspace, the current character is erased instead of the preceding. ( just as DEL does in a Microsoft environment). It's very disturbing, and other apps don't have this problem (they treat both DEL and Backspace as 'backspace' ). Is there a cure ? I also would like to be able to type deadcircum within xemacs, but that is another problem. BTW, is there a debian package for xemacs ? Thanks. Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Keyboard with X
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Alexandre Lebrun wrote: Hi. I tried LyX and sometimes run Netscape, and they show the same problem : when trying to erase a character with backspace, the current character is erased instead of the preceding. ( just as DEL does in a Microsoft environment). It's very disturbing, and other apps don't have this problem (they treat both DEL and Backspace as 'backspace' ). Take a look at /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Backspace.gz This aims at solving this problem. I haven't tried it yet. See ya, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Keyboard with X
I have the following /etc/X11/Xresources ! /etc/X11/Xresources ! ! This is the global Xresources file. It is used by both xdm and xinit. ! ! Fix Motif client handling of backspace/delete ! *XmText.translations: #override\n\ KeyosfDelete: delete-previous-character() *XmTextField.translations: #override\n\ KeyosfDelete: delete-previous-character() XTerm*utmpInhibit: false -- Dick Arnold Springfield, IL Debian Linux 1.1 On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Alexandre Lebrun wrote: Hi. I tried LyX and sometimes run Netscape, and they show the same problem : when trying to erase a character with backspace, the current character is erased instead of the preceding. ( just as DEL does in a Microsoft environment). It's very disturbing, and other apps don't have this problem (they treat both DEL and Backspace as 'backspace' ). Is there a cure ? I also would like to be able to type deadcircum within xemacs, but that is another problem. BTW, is there a debian package for xemacs ? Thanks. Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: elm problem
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then quit. Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #1 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #2 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #3 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #4 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #5 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #6 Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #7 Giving up after 7 iterations. Please try to read your mail again in a few minutes. However, I can use mailx to read my mail. I have rebooted the computer and the elm do the same thing, anyone knows how to fix it? Upgrade to the -4 version. This has been fixed there. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Keyboard with X
Alexandre Lebrun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried LyX and sometimes run Netscape, and they show the same problem : when trying to erase a character with backspace, the current character is erased instead of the preceding. ( just as DEL does in a Microsoft environment). It's very disturbing, and other apps don't have this problem (they treat both DEL and Backspace as 'backspace' ). Is there a cure ? I cured this for all my apps by running the following in .xinitrc xmodmap -e Keysym Delete = Backspace This is off the top of my head (if only we had a real OS in the office :-( ), so you may have to check out the man page for xmodmap. If it doesn't work first time, trying swapping the words 'Delete' and 'Backspace'. Casper Boden-Cummins, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GhostScript and Magicfilter
Since the last version of GhostScript was included in the distribution, I can't use magicfilter to automagically print my PostScript files. The reason seems to be : ghostscript now uses SVGAlib. To get I/O permissions for a 'base' user, it should then be set to +s I believe. Is that safe to do ? Will it solve my magicfilter problem ? Mat -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: does libc5.4.7 compatible with netscape 3.0
Yet another problem with libc5.4.7-- but only if we back out to the previous stable version. Specifically; the latest cpp and gcc packages [the ones on which I based my objc-compatible gcc/cpp packages] REQUIRE libc5.4.7. So, backing out on 5.4.7 will likely require backing out to gcc 2.7.2.1-1 (instead of 2.7.2.1-2). I am in the process of taking over the gcc [and gdb] package[s] from the current maintainer, so will need to make a decision based on community desires. How to procede? [Karl Sackett has been putting together a complete set of gnustep debian packages for community consumption. Unfortunately, as it stands, the compiler consistently crashes when attempting to optimize certain pieces of code. Looks like I picked the *wrong* time to start maintaining gcc... oh well, off to an intense session with gdb, I suppose]. b.bum Begin forwarded message: From agent Tue Oct 29 04: 57:14 1996 Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 04:57:09 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 29 Oct 96 08:52 EDT From: Carlos Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: does libc5.4.7 compatible with netscape 3.0 In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Reply-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/1187 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Priority: non-urgent Importance: low Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel Stringfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 28 October 1996 20:45: On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: So, I think libc 5.4.7 should be removed from rex and downgrade to 5.2.x. Thats the point of REX isn't it? to be the latest of the stuff... if you upgrade, and RECOMPILE against that libc5, your problems will go away. I have had NO PROBLEMS with that version! None! You must be running programs that were compiled against it This means upgraded a lot of things, and recompiling pieces here and there.. I agree it should be on rex, but just recompiling doesn't work. As I already said here, I compiled wdiff with gcc 2.7.2.1 and it still segfaults. Carlos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: does libc5.4.7 belong in Rex
So, I think libc 5.4.7 should be removed from rex and downgrade to 5.2.x. Thats the point of REX isn't it? to be the latest of the stuff... if you upgrade, and RECOMPILE against that libc5, your problems will go away. I have had NO PROBLEMS with that version! None! You must be running programs that were compiled against it This means upgraded a lot of things, and recompiling pieces here and there.. No it isn't. Rex is intended to be release 1.2 of Debian. Unstable is the latest stuff and will be pointing to bo in the near future. Because of the problems that have been claimed against the new libc5, I don't see any reason to include it in Debian 1.2. There isn't time to force everyone to recompile for that release. That can take place in bo. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- measure with micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with axe, hope like hell -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New samba problems
Hallo! I've one problem: I used to work with samba 1.9.16alpha10 . Everything was fine except one thing - after some time started new samba daemons (I was running it as a daemon, not from inetd) and they ate my CPU - idle was 1% and load average after 1-2 hours was about 3.00-4.00. So it was nice but not so much :-) . So when new samba (1.9.16.p9) became available I've decided to make upgrade to this version. But now I can't run it as a daemon!! From inetd it runs quite smoothly but response is much slower. I've no problems with new multiplicating daemons (naturally) but I've no browsing - when I try to search whole network from Win'95 workstation there is no serwer available, but when I try to mount directory from server (naturally writing exactly the name of the serwer) it works. When I try to use smbclient, it prints four or five times strange message - get_hostbyname() - host not found serwer1 (serwer1 is the name of my linux box) and refuses to work. This name is in /etc/hosts and I run also bind withiut any problems! So I've one question - WHAT'S UP?? Leszek Gerwatowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Keyboard with X
I tried LyX and sometimes run Netscape, and they show the same problem : when trying to erase a character with backspace, the current character is erased instead of the preceding. ( just as DEL does in a Microsoft environment). It's very disturbing, and other apps don't have this problem (they treat both DEL and Backspace as 'backspace' ). Did you install netscape using the Debian package or by hand? Using the Debian package I have no problems. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Give others some insight into YOUR pages! http://www.verisim.com/insite/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/etc/magic
A couple of the entries in /etc/magic for ELF core files seem to be wrong on my system. Running file core always says ELF 32-bit LSB core file of '#' (signal 4096)... After fooling around with od output for a while, I found that changing the lines 576 string \0 of '%s' 400 lelong 0 (signal %d), of /etc/magic to 640 string \0 of '%s' 464 lelong 0 (signal %d), seems to fix the problem. Can anyone confirm that this is correct? Thanks, Andrew Booker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Amber/Green monitors
I'm using the beta 3.1.2G S3 server which has added a powersaver option. This option powers down a green monitor instead of simply blanking the screen. I'll bet that all the servers will allow for this feature in the next release (3.2). To set the time before power-down, I use the xset command to make it wait 80 minutes before it powers down the monitor. I like this feature a lot. Syrus. -- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept. On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Oz Dror wrote: Is there support under X11 for amber and green monitors? -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror, Santa Monica, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 396-5798 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:Xirc compile prob.
Brian == Brian Skreeg Brian Skreeg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Hi dear deblistpeeps, My never ending search for a Brian usuable X irc client continues. Under the spotlight this Brian week is Xirc, but as usual, nothing works straight away. I'm Brian having problems compiling this proggie. The docs clearly state Brian that libc5.4.7 is used and Xforms.081 minimum as well. I Brian installed libc5.4.7 binaries from sunsite (why is the debian Brian one only at 5.2.18?) and installed xforms0.81-3 via the Brian excellent dpkg-ftp thingy. Brian Compile error follows; Brian make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/xirc/src/dcc' g++ -g Brian -DDEBUG -I.. -O2 -Wall -c get.C -o get.o In file included from Brian get.C:8: ../xirc.H:8: forms.h: No such file or directory In Brian file included from ../xirc.H:54, You need `-I /usr/X11R6/include'. XForms' forms.h is there ! (don't ask me why, it should be in /usr/X11R6/include/X11). L.D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libc 5.4.7 - libc 6.0?
Since libc 5.4.7 seems to be incompatible with so much current software, maybe it should be renamed libc 6.0. That would make it easier to keep around a copy of libc 5.2.18 for backwards compatibility, as is now being done for libc 4. Whether or not there it was intended that there be much new functionality in 5.4.7, it's clearly not acceptable as a drop-in replacement for 5.2.18. -Randy -- http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel/ NOTICE: I DO NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL EMAIL MESSAGES OF ANY KIND. I CONSIDER SUCH MESSAGES PERSONAL HARRASSMENT AND A GROSS INVASION OF MY PRIVACY. By sending unsolicited commercial advertising/solicitations (or otherwise on or as part of a mailing list) to me via e-mail you will be indicating your consent to paying John R. (Randy) Gobbel $1,000.00 U.S.D./hour for a minimum of 1 hour for my time spent dealing with it. Payment due in 30 days upon receipt of an invoice (e-mail or regular mail) from me or my authorized representative. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gsfonts
I did a no-no and acidently removed my printer routines (opps). So since I was in the ftp update I figured that I would re-install apsfilter. I cannot because the gsfonts file is to old! I know that I could go back to my old version but I would like to upgrade it since I need to install it again anyway. How do I get the upgraded files? Brian Schramm PS. I am ftped to the debian.org site. -- For more info please see http://www.csd.net/~bschramm/home Or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: elm problem
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then quit. Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0 [deleted] Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #7 Giving up after 7 iterations. Please try to read your mail again in a few minutes. However, I can use mailx to read my mail. I have rebooted the computer and the elm do the same thing, anyone knows how to fix it? Upgrade to the -4 version. This has been fixed there. Where does revision 4 reside? I've looked around in ftp.debian.org and master.debian.org and can't find anything newer than rev 3. -- -Mike Horansky, Leland Consultant (http://consult.stanford.edu/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY ME ARE NOT NECESSARILY SHARED BY MY EMPLOYERS. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
getting dselect to use experimental packages?
I'd like to set up dselect to track the debian/project/experimental
directory on the ftp site, bacause I use several packages from that
directory and I'm getting a little tired of updating them by hand.
I tried to configure dpkg-ftp to use project/experimental as one of the
distributions to get, like so:
Enter space seperated list of distributions to get
[non-free contrib development experimental]: non-free contrib development
project/experimental
But it doesn't work becuase dselect looks for a binary-i386 directory
under project/experimental:
Checking project/experimental/binary-i386...
Warning: Couldn't find a Packages file in project/experimental/binary-i386
This may not be a problem if the directory is a symbolic link
Closing ftp connection...
And ideas?
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Re: does libc5.4.7 compatible with netscape 3.0
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote: I agree it should be on rex, but just recompiling doesn't work. As I already said here, I compiled wdiff with gcc 2.7.2.1 and it still segfaults. Carlos But, is all of your other programs (like binutils, fileutils) recompiled? I had a problem with 'ps' segfaulting when I went to 5.4.4, but it went away when I recompiled EVERY THING against the 5.4.4... and that is why I believe that my system runs as well as it does now, with these changes everyone is attempting. Its a PIA, and a waste of time .. :) But in the end.. everything works! -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/user/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Keyboard with X
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Alexandre Lebrun wrote: Hi. I tried LyX and sometimes run Netscape, and they show the same problem : when trying to erase a character with backspace, the current character is erased instead of the preceding. ( just as DEL does in a Microsoft environment). It's very disturbing, and other apps don't have this problem (they treat both DEL and Backspace as 'backspace' ). Is there a cure ? Netscape is compiled as a motif program... and I believe this is a motif behavior. The only cure I believe to work properly, is to rewrite netscape, not using motif. ; Could be worse, could have to run a M$ emulator. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: does libc5.4.7 belong in Rex
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Brian C. White wrote: No it isn't. Rex is intended to be release 1.2 of Debian. Unstable is the latest stuff and will be pointing to bo in the near future. Because of the problems that have been claimed against the new libc5, I don't see any reason to include it in Debian 1.2. There isn't time to force everyone to recompile for that release. That can take place in bo. I didn't mean REX is UNSTABLE, but rex is getting more stable What it means to me is that all the packages have to be recompiled! (And this is something each package maintainer must do...) But, rex is still marked as unstable, so for NOW... ? Everyone must upgrade to the latest and greatest, in order for 1 latest and greatest program to work I don't think the libc5.4.7 should have been released into a set of programs that couldn't handle it. Luckily, I was already running 5.4.4. And this is what has saved me. -- Daniel Stringfield mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jax-inter.net/user/servo Send email for more information on the Jacksonville Linux Users Group! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
file [ in /usr/bin???
Hi all, I was doing some house cleaning and found a file named [ in /usr/bin. Does any one have any idea what this is? Is there way to find out which package it came from? Here is ls -al: LeBox:/usr/bin :- ls -al [ -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root15633 Mar 9 1996 [ How do I force fsck next time I reboot? Last time it did, I got 'delete inode ?' or some such. Could some one explain to me what that means. Is there like defrag or like in linux? Thanks for any information, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
