Re: Virtual Terminals Greater Than tty8.
I just did mknod to create tty9 through tty12. Everything seems to be working fine, but I thought I would just check to make sure those vt's weren't disabled for a reason. Thanks Paul You can even go to tty24! To switch, hit LEFT ALT-(F1 - F12) for the first 12, RIGHT ALT-(F1-F12) for the upper 12. I have two dos sessions started automatically on tty23 and tty24 for a DOS based BBS telnet. Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/Siliconvalley/Park/6562/ -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.
Re: DEFRAG for ext2fs
It is out-of-date and perhaps somewhat dangerous to your filesystem. You also don't need it. ext2fs tends to keep your disk blocks in order. It's not nearly as bad as the FAT filesystem in this respect. The best way to defragement any filesystem is to back it up, make a fresh filesystem, and restore it. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DOS -- Linux
But will Lantastic use the TCP/IP transport, or only NETBEUI? Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(dpkg-ftp) Re: dftp and some problems
Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to connect and then choose ftp from the dselect access menu but I couldn't get the pppd to connect right. as far as I can see everything is exactly the same (Except lots of stuff that should be in /usr/bin and /usr/sbin is in /bin and /sbin instead.. pppd and chat are in /usr/sbin though) If you are using dselect, then you mean dpkg-ftp as opposed to dftp which is a self-contained program. pppd and chat should be in /usr/sbin. They are on my system. It is very unlikely a downloaded package that has been corrupted will not then be rejected by dpkg-ftp. And for the corruption to just move a few files around - even more improbable. Andy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg problems
off and on i get this error with dpkg Selecting previously deselected package mailagent. (Reading database ... 9676 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking mailagent (from mailagent-3.44-6.deb) ... Setting up mailagent ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such file or d irectory dpkg: error processing mailagent (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: mailagent any comments, ideas? Sahua, - mIcHaEl ///\ The Australian Internet Company c-00 ISP par Excellence \http://www.electric-rain.net/ (mine) |\_- http://www.aic.net.au/ (not mine) \ / . On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to wait and waiting died. -G.W Cecil/Adlai Stevenson. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
im looking for the debian equivalent of the solaris command line mail command. Does debian have a package for this? Sahua, - mIcHaEl ///\ The Australian Internet Company c-00 ISP par Excellence \http://www.electric-rain.net/ (mine) |\_- http://www.aic.net.au/ (not mine) \ / . On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to wait and waiting died. -G.W Cecil/Adlai Stevenson. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: qmail compatible MUA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am looking at using qmail as a replacement for smail/sendmail. I am using now on a sun workstation for testing, and it seems to work fine. My question is does anyone know of a reader that can access the maildir files (that is the qmail-preferred way of storing mail)? Right now I must use mailfile format for the MUA's that I have. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Charlie I believe this topic is covered in the file named INSTALL.mbox in the qmail source. Setting MAIL=$HOME/Mailbox; export MAIL does the trick for me (I'm using elm, BTW). Ron -- Ron Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caldera, Inc. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DOS -- Linux
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Matthew Hewitt wrote: I am running Debian 1.1. I want to use it as a file server for MSDOS 6.22. I was wondering what can I use to facilitate this. I know that I can use WFWG to connect to the samba server but is there such a thing for MSDOS? I want to be able to boot off a floppy and have the Linux exported directory structure come up as c: . Basically make a Diskless(will sort of) dos station. Anyone hear of anything like this? Or is there a PC-NFS or equievelent in the shareware/freeware domain. Microsoft at one time made a program that essentialy gave you WfWg networking to a dos only machine. However, I haven't seen it anywhere for a least a year. Happy hunting, Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual Terminals Greater Than tty8.
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996 18:01:15 EST Adam Heath ([EMAIL PROTECTED] g) wrote: I just did mknod to create tty9 through tty12. Everything seems to be working fine, but I thought I would just check to make sure those vt's weren't disabled for a reason. You can even go to tty24! To switch, hit LEFT ALT-(F1 - F12) for the first 12, RIGHT ALT-(F1-F12) for the upper 12. I have two dos sessions started automatically on tty23 and tty24 for a DOS based BBS telnet. I've even go further: you can go up to 64 !!! To switch, use ALT-right arrow and ALT-left-arrow. No more direct access for ttys 24. :-) Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg problems
On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Fundamental wrote: off and on i get this error with dpkg Selecting previously deselected package mailagent. (Reading database ... 9676 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking mailagent (from mailagent-3.44-6.deb) ... Setting up mailagent ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: No such file or d irectory dpkg: error processing mailagent (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: mailagent I just installed Debian on my laptop at work and found this problem. I've never seen it on the other machines here, but it appears that some package-install sripts look for perl to be in /bin/perl which it isn't. Link /usr/bin/perl to /bin/perl, and re-configure those packages or re-install them. mike... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (dpkg-ftp) Re: dftp and some problems
On 27 Nov 1996, Andy Guy wrote: pppd and chat should be in /usr/sbin. They are on my system. It is very unlikely a downloaded package that has been corrupted will not then be rejected by dpkg-ftp. And for the corruption to just move a few files around - even more improbable. Andy. pppd and chat are in /usr/sbin on my system as well. A downloaded package didn't move anything and the only corruption was from my filesystem overflowing. I moved /usr over to another disk and now I only have to use dselect with the ftp access mode to snag the files I want to install. It's sadly slow though on this 28.8 link, wish I had a CD-Rom :( Mike - Muralynd Rev. Mike Martin Hrothgar the Smith, SCA Blacksmith par excellance -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
date and time
my debian time is wrong:) The time in my cmos is correct, but the time that debian displays is incorrect, like really wrong. Whenever i manually set the date on it works fine untill the next time the machine is rebooted, then it goes all screwy again. is there anyway to set the debian time and date to teh CMOS ? thanks Sahua, - mIcHaEl ///\ The Australian Internet Company c-00 ISP par Excellence \http://www.electric-rain.net/ (mine) |\_- http://www.aic.net.au/ (not mine) \ / . On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to wait and waiting died. -G.W Cecil/Adlai Stevenson. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: date and time
michael == Fundamental [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: michael my debian time is wrong:) The time in my cmos is correct, michael but the time that debian displays is incorrect After doing a `date -s Now' to get the system time right, use `clock -w' or `clock -wu' to set the CMOS clock. (The `u' option applies if you run a Universal Time clock.) Cheers, Graeme -- | Graeme A Stewart, pgp public key finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Key fingerprint = AF C7 BF A4 52 D5 3C 3B 17 A5 62 43 DA 15 E8 97 | | Please support free GNU: http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/ | | software.Debian/GNU Linux: http://www.debian.org/ | | Keep a good head, and always carry a lightbulb. Dylan | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question on updating X
Hi all, Can I use same XFConfig script in x-3.2 that I used in x-3.1?? If any, what do I need to change/add? If you want to see my script, just ask. The reason I ask this is I have none standard system and it took me a while to make everything work.:) So I would rather just use same script if I could. BTW. What happen to ../unstable and ../bo where x-3.2 used to be??? Thanks, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
adduser shadowed
Is there available, or likely to be availiable, an adduser package that can handle shadow on debian? thanks. Sahua, - mIcHaEl ///\ The Australian Internet Company c-00 ISP par Excellence \http://www.electric-rain.net/ (mine) |\_- http://www.aic.net.au/ (not mine) \ / . On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to wait and waiting died. -G.W Cecil/Adlai Stevenson. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: please use V
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Removed debian-devel from the Cc: list as this is beyond Debian policy.] Followed Bruce's distribution list, but thank you for the info. Have you looked at the Aladdin Ghostscript Free Public License? Peter Deutsch has thought a lot about these issues. Why did the Qt people not use his approach? Yes indeed. Unfortunately, it doesn't really help steer folks from propietary environments to open-standards-based ones either. Additionally, gs is already ported to the M$ environment, and the previous version usually gets released under the GPL a year later. Mark Eichin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's difficult enough to promote freeware in industry with the common lack of support misperception. Combine this I'd suggest that rather than fixing that with wierd licenses, you just do better marketing. Works for us :-) Very good point, and Cygnus certainly has done a good job of it. The problem is that it becomes increasingly tough to market the excellent freeware tools and open standards of Unix when clients have more and more of these same tools available to them under NT. Price and performance figures carry far less weight without the leverage of tools/apps. As a result, it's difficult for me to understand why we continue to donate s/w to environments like M$. In a sense, we perpetuate the beast, and don't offer the enticing migration path to Unix that we could be. Just my 0.05 yen worth. Have a nice holiday. Tom Julien [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailing lists back up
Bruce Wrote: The $1000 charge for advertising (it's not really a fine) is a donation to Debian's still-in-formation corporation, Software in the Public Interest. I doubt I'll be collecting it any time soon, it's mostly a strategy to put off spammers. I love and support this scheme :) It will do well in keeping the list clean of spammers. Maybe it should be extended to things like those get-rich-fast pyramid schemes. One thing though, this list is relatively free of spammers. *maybe I've not been around long enough or is it the people who subscribe to the list* Just me, Wire ... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailing lists back up
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tan Wee Yeh) [the $1000 charge for advertising] I love and support this scheme :) Maybe it should be extended to things like those get-rich-fast pyramid schemes. What? They're not spammers? I do consider it spam, and advertising, and chargable. One thing though, this list is relatively free of spammers. Because I go after every one. I've also called up the spamware suppliers and have asked them to filter out the debian.org domain. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailing lists back up
Bruce Wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tan Wee Yeh) [the $1000 charge for advertising] I love and support this scheme :) Maybe it should be extended to things like those get-rich-fast pyramid schemes. What? They're not spammers? I do consider it spam, and advertising, and chargable. Oops.. guess I missed that they are adverts too.. good fine them!! :) One thing though, this list is relatively free of spammers. Because I go after every one. I've also called up the spamware suppliers and have asked them to filter out the debian.org domain. Good work... If only all newsgroups/mailing-list are managed by people like you... Just me, Wire ... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
date and time
The workaround I have been using is to start up windows95 and set the clock and date there. Then it remembers. I guess that DOS and windows 3 has equivalent options. But I would also like to know how to do it from within linux. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Computer Science Department, University of Aarhus Office: R0.32 | Ny Munkegade, Building 540, DK-8000 Aarhus C Phone: +45 8942 3218 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.daimi.aau.dk/~lynbech ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question on updating X
David Puryear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can I use same XFConfig script in x-3.2 that I used in x-3.1?? Yes. BTW. What happen to ../unstable and ../bo where x-3.2 used to be??? They're still there. unstable is a symlink to bo, btw. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: adduser shadowed
i don't understand y ppl need the adduser script to add user... the procedure is so simple. :) /ayn On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Fundamental wrote: Is there available, or likely to be availiable, an adduser package that can handle shadow on debian? thanks. Sahua, - mIcHaEl ///\ The Australian Internet Company c-00 ISP par Excellence \http://www.electric-rain.net/ (mine) |\_- http://www.aic.net.au/(not mine) \ / . On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of victory, sat down to wait and waiting died. -G.W Cecil/Adlai Stevenson. -- 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: package sizes
Thanks to those who have taken the time to reply to my earlier query (included below). My situation is that I am downloading onto a non-linux (and so (?) no dpkg) system, and from there (with some effort) on to my linux box. I would like to be able to browse the ftp site and find out how big a package is going to be once it is installed *before* having to download it. I definitely know how to find out how big the .deb file is, as is stated in the Packages files. But I'd like the same sort of information as is available in the contrib.Packages file. I appreciate that those with massive hard drives may not be so interested, so if there is no easier way than using the ftp option then so be it... Cheers, Tony Ware. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package sizes
Whoops, I didn't include my earlier message. But the gist of it was in my new one, and so it probably wouldn't have been good netiquette anyway... Tony Ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape - bus error
Brian = Thank you for your suggestion, it seems a very good one. I will try it in the evening (at home). Netscape is unable to allocate colors for its display. Try doing netscape -ncols 64 and see if the unable to obtain erros go away. If not, try numbers smaller than 64 or close some applications that are using lots of colors. If the bus error goes away, you should report this as a bug to Netscape (see how to give feedback under the help menu). P.S. how can I acess the help menu if I can not acess Netscape? 8-). -- At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package sizes
Antony F Ware [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: box. I would like to be able to browse the ftp site and find out how big a package is going to be once it is installed *before* having to download it. Just download the Packages file for each distribution. The installed size is the 'Size' field. The size of the .deb you can get from the ls-lR.gz in the root directory. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
system accounting
Sorry if this is a re-post, but I don't think my orig. message got through. I am interested in learning how ISP's log user time on the system. Is it simply a matter of cron scripts utilizing wtmp and ac? Or is there a nice package which does that and more? TIA Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package sizes
Guy (and similarly Stephen Pitts) writes Just download the Packages file for each distribution. The installed size is the 'Size' field. The size of the .deb you can get from the ls-lR.gz in the root directory. Thanks for replying. But if that is so, why does the contrib/ version of the Packages file contain both a 'Size' field and an 'installed-size' field for most of the packages? Cheers, Tony. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian for AXP?
How complete is the Dec Alpha dist? Last i took a peek it looked quite uncomplete but i may have been looking in the wrong place... Regards Martin -- Mvh Martin Martin Budsjö RSV Dataservice Väst|Linux/m68k Atari. X X X Tel:+46 (0)31-606497 Fax: ...605561| Linux/Alpha. X X X Email (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Digital AXP true XX X XX __(home)[EMAIL PROTECTED]| 64Bit-CPU/OS pleasure XX X XX The mind is like a parachute - it only works when it's open.. XXX X XXX Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! Public key fingerprint = 07 27 F9 58 05 8F E5 73 69 6C 0B F3 E1 1A EC 27 Disclaimer: I speak for myself, not my employer CIA domestic disruption Panama arrangements Honduras Mossad South Africa Marxist -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual Terminals Greater Than tty8.
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Adam Heath wrote: I just did mknod to create tty9 through tty12. Everything seems to be working fine, but I thought I would just check to make sure those vt's weren't disabled for a reason. You can even go to tty24! To switch, hit LEFT ALT-(F1 - F12) for the first 12, RIGHT ALT-(F1-F12) for the upper 12. I have two dos sessions started automatically on tty23 and tty24 for a DOS based BBS telnet. I've always wondered what the right alt was for. Thanks Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package sizes
Actually I was totally wrong before. The Size field gives the size of the actual .deb file (in bytes). The Installed-Size field gives the amount of disk space required to install the package (in kbytes). See the dpkg Programmer's Manual 4.2.11 and 4.2.20 for more details. Because the Installed-Size field was introduced with the new source packaging scheme, only packages released in the last 3-4 months have it. Only a few of the packages in stable are newer than that. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian for AXP?
Martin Budsj| [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How complete is the Dec Alpha dist? Last i took a peek it looked quite uncomplete but i may have been looking in the wrong place... It's totally incomplete. A few developers just bought Alphas, so it'll get rolling pretty soon. The Sparc distribution is also just getting started right now. It'll probably be another 3 to 6 months before distributions for all four architectures (alpha, i386, m68k, sparc) are complete and can bootstrap themselves. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Laptop mouse support
Since recompiling my kernel (2.0.23) I have been unable to get my mouse to work with Linux. I have a Winbook XP5 laptop and previously I had it working using the psaux device but not I keep getting /dev/mouse: Device or resource busy. Does anyone have any clues that might help me out? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree86 3.2??
Does anyone know where I can get the latest XFree86 3.2 package for Debian?? I saw someone mentioned here a short time ago. I couldn't find it in Debian's ftp site (www.debian.org/FTP). I need it to get my ATI card to work. Thanks a lot H.C. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libbsd.so.1.0.0
postgres95 needs libbsd.so.1.0.0 to run. This has already been reported as a bug. Where can one get a copy of libbsd.so.1.0.0? It doesn't seem to be a part of rex or bo according to their Contents files. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop mouse support
Some ideas: Did you recompile the kernel with support for the psaux device? If you compiled it as a module is the module loaded? (`lsmod' to find out - you should see psaux, and probably misc too.) If you're using the kerneld module loader have you done a `depmod -a' to sort out the module dependencies? Is /dev/mouse pointing to /dev/psaux? Hope that helps, Graeme -- | Graeme A Stewart, pgp public key finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Key fingerprint = AF C7 BF A4 52 D5 3C 3B 17 A5 62 43 DA 15 E8 97 | | Please support free GNU: http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/ | | software.Debian/GNU Linux: http://www.debian.org/ | | Keep a good head, and always carry a lightbulb. Dylan | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 3.2??
XFree 3.2 is in the new unstable tree: /pub/debian/bo/binary-i386/x11 I recently upgraded to 3.2 and it hasn't crashed on me yet :) Graeme -- | Graeme A Stewart, pgp public key finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Key fingerprint = AF C7 BF A4 52 D5 3C 3B 17 A5 62 43 DA 15 E8 97 | | Please support free GNU: http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/ | | software.Debian/GNU Linux: http://www.debian.org/ | | Keep a good head, and always carry a lightbulb. Dylan | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: innd mmap
In your email to me, Craig Sanders, you wrote: Is this still true for linux? is it a kernel or a libc problem? Has inn for debian been compiled with MMAP turned off? If not, should this be reported as a bug against inn? Hmm.. I run a non-debian version of inn, aqnd it works fine with mmap. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Camp food always tastes better in the dark! ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DOS -- Linux
According to Shaya Potter: On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Matthew Hewitt wrote: I am running Debian 1.1. I want to use it as a file server for MSDOS 6.22. I was wondering what can I use to facilitate this. I know that I can use WFWG to connect to the samba server but is there such a thing for MSDOS? I want to be able to boot off a floppy and have the Linux exported directory structure come up as c: . Basically make a Diskless(will sort of) dos station. Anyone hear of anything like this? Or is there a PC-NFS or equievelent in the shareware/freeware domain. Microsoft at one time made a program that essentialy gave you WfWg networking to a dos only machine. However, I haven't seen it anywhere for a least a year. [Apology to the list! I do not have Matthew's original message else I would have sent this rather long response to him directly.] Matthew - The program you need is MSCLIENT. I have attached a description of how to use it which was posted to the Samba List. I have not tried the MSCLIENT but use WfWg clients with a SMB server on a HP 9000 system for print and file sharing - works great. I consider GNU, Linux and Samba the absolutely best software available. Matt Behrens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Samba List): What you want to do involves using the NET command, however under WFW for some strange reason you can't use the TCP/IP protocol in DOS. You should instead get MSClient 3.0 from ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/Clients (I believe) and use it. This will allow you a connection under DOS... - MSCLIENT Message from Samba List -- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 19:05:11 -0300 (GMT-0300) From: C. Javier Castro Pena [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to make boot disks with MS CLIENT Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This small help file is to make a booteable floppy that has MS CLIENT to access a Samba Server. I received help in this mailing list to make it work, and here is what I have done. I hope it helps somebody else. 1)- Install MSCLIENT 3.0 in a DOS hard drive. 2)- Copy the next files into a DOS formated 3 1/2 floppy: Volume in drive A is JCASPEN Directory for A:/ IO SYS 407559-30-93 6:20a MSDOSSYS 381589-30-93 6:20a NET DIR 10-24-96 8:38a COMMAND COM 565399-30-93 6:20a AUTOEXEC BAT1054 10-24-96 1:06p CHAU BAT 236 10-24-96 9:05a CONFIG SYS 443 10-24-96 8:56a RED BAT 483 10-24-96 9:05a HIMEMSYS 292809-30-93 6:20a EMM386 EXE 1214389-30-93 6:20a SHAREEXE 110409-30-93 6:20a VIRSTOP EXE 487548-22-96 2:24a DOSKEY COM60229-30-93 6:20a LEAMETXT 537 10-24-96 1:03p SMARTDRV EXE 456579-30-93 6:20a 15 File(s) 11264 bytes free Volume in drive A is JCASPEN Directory for A:/NET DIR 10-24-96 8:38a . DIR 10-24-96 8:38a DHCP PRM 1028-09-96 8:18p ADDNAME EXE 195698-09-96 8:13p CONFIG SYS 578-09-96 8:15p CONNECT DAT 0 10-24-96 1:46p DNR EXE 313128-09-96 8:13p EMSBFR EXE42948-09-96 8:13p HOSTS8158-09-96 8:17p IFSHLP SYS46448-31-94 12:00a IPCONFIG EXE 112056-12-96 11:41a LMHOSTS 8176-12-96 11:41a NCDINFO INI 1828-09-96 8:02p NDISHLP SYS44688-31-94 12:00a NE2000 DOS 138388-31-94 12:00a NEMM DOS26196-12-96 11:41a NET EXE 4503262-07-95 12:40p NET MSG 762343-03-95 7:11p NETBIND COM85136-12-96 11:41a NETH MSG 1230663-03-95 7:12p NETWORK INF 372318-31-94 12:00a NETWORKS 4388-09-96 8:17p NMTSREXE 228266-12-96 11:41a SYSTEM INI 515 10-24-96 1:47p OEMDLC INF 6888-31-94 12:00a OEMODI INF 4318-31-94 12:00a OEMRAS INF 9198-31-94 12:00a OEMTCPIP INF16738-31-94 12:00a SHARES PWL 6228-09-96 8:15p PROTMAN DOS 219408-31-94 12:00a PROTMAN EXE 137828-31-94 12:00a PROTOCOL 7956-12-96 11:41a PROTOCOL INI 639 10-24-96 12:56p SERVICES59736-12-96 11:41a SETUPINF14778-31-94 12:00a SOCKETS EXE 500966-12-96 11:41a TCPDRV DOS41746-12-96 11:41a TCPTSR EXE 710406-12-96 11:41a TCPUTILS INI 2336-12-96 11:41a TINYRFC EXE 370246-12-96 11:41a UMB COM33256-12-96 11:41a WCSETUP INF14778-31-94 12:00a WFWSYS CFG 8408-09-96 8 :15p 43 File(s) 11264 bytes free 3)- Edit the *.INI files in the floppy, and
the ls-lR file in ftp.debian.org is not up to date.
The files ls-lR and ls-lR.gz are not up to date. How often they are updated? I need these files to be up to date for mirroring the debian distribution. -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]
Re: system accounting
On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Richard Morin wrote: Sorry if this is a re-post, but I don't think my orig. message got through. I am interested in learning how ISP's log user time on the system. Is it simply a matter of cron scripts utilizing wtmp and ac? Or is there a nice package which does that and more? Well, here we use RADIUS and Livingston Portmasters. It's a nice setup hardware wise, but we're finding a little lacking on cheap accounting software. I've started to write my own system using the RADIUS 'detail' files and perl, it's pretty rough right now but it does the job. If your interested in helping and or just getting what I have, gimme a shout back. mike... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Who is guilty, the kernel or Debian?
Hello everyone, I am writing this message while I am frustrated after fighting over and over and over with a Debian 1.1 installation. This is my story: Problem --- - EVERYTHING WORKS FINE EXCEPT AFTER REBOOTING. If I start Linux after a cold start (reset switch or power cycle) Linux starts just fine; I can compile the kernel, I can do networking (IPX, TCP/IP, SLIP, PPP, DNS, etc.), I can do EVERYTHING... everything but rebooting: if I shutdown -r +1, Ctrl-Alt-Del or reboot one of two things will happen: 1) After Linux does all the shutdown stuff (killing processes and unmounting file systems) and just after the Rebooting... message is displayed on the screen I will get some beeps generated by the BIOS. The number of beeps is 1-3-3 and according to the user's manual this means 1st 64KB RAM chip or data failure 2) After the Rebooting... message is displayed, the computer seems to reboot but the BIOS checks RAM and finds something wrong: I get a message similar to Memory failure at : expected and found - Please run setup program. I have found that sometimes I also get the error CRC error after Lilo decompresses the kernel. Known Facts --- - Computer: Digital DECpc LPx 466d2 (genuine Intel 80486DX2 running at 66 MHz), 16 MBytes of RAM, and 128 KBytes of L2 cache. This computer has been running Slackware 1.3 with kernel 1.2.13 for about one and a half year. It's been a SMTP, WWW, POP3, and DNS server (dedicated) in a network of 50+ users with no problems at all. - Hard drive: first tried a 1.2 GBytes IDE hard drive, and after I started to have problems (see above for a description of the problem), I switched back to the original Digital hard drive (224 MBytes) - didn't help, I got the same problems. - Network card: BOCALANcard-VL (local bus a NE2100 compatible). I have used always the lance.c driver. - It seems the server is 100% stable (if I do not reboot) - Debian 1.1. I have applied all upgrades in buzz-updates (up to Debian 1.1.14) - Kernel: started with 2.0.6 and when I switched to 2.0.26 problems started. I tried kernel from 2.0.20 and up and always got same problems. What I have done 1) I have installed Debian 1.1 several times. First times using one of the standard boot disks and the last time I built one custom boot disk (using the boot-disks and kernel-package packages) - did not work. 2) I have installed Debian from two different sources: FTP (through dpkg-ftp) and from SCSI CD-ROM. Did not work. 3) Recompiled the kernel from 2.0.20 and up and nothing good happened: if there is a problem with the kernel, it is already present in 2.0.20. My next move would be to try with the older kernel I have (2.0.7) 4) The first time I thought the problem was due to the fact that there is no BIOS option to support LBA. Because of this I changed my 1.2 Gig. disk with the one that came originally with the computer (a 224 Meg disk) I reinstall Debian on it and the problem showed up again. 5) (I am not too sure I did this one) I disabled the secondary cache. Theories - I do not think the problem is hardware: again, this server ran Slackware 1.3 with kernel 1.2.13 for one and a half years. I DID NOT change anything for Debian 1.1 and kernel 2.0.x. - Something broken in the kernel. - There is something wrong with the reboot program. - I am using the new IDE driver. May be there is something wrong with it? Conclusion -- I am lost. I have installed Linux (Slackware and Debian) many times in computers ranging from desktops to notebooks. I have used many kinds of hardware (PCMCIA, SCSI, IDE, multiport serial boards) with Linux (Debian and Slackware) and never had a problem. I am posting this message here because I am a Debian user. However, I do not know if the problem is Debian or the kernel. This machine will be a very important part of our IT structure, it will get rid of a FreeBSD machine, it will be the gateway between two networks connected through a leased line and a dedicated PPP link. I can run the machine the way it is now but then I won't be able to reboot remotely. I can not go 4 blocks away every time I need to reboot the server. I NEED STABILITY!!! (even at reboot time) I want to know who is guilty: the kernel? Debian? Somebody else? I am looking for help, support, new ideas, new clues, anything... PLEASE HELP!!! Thank you very much Debian user. Regards, Eloy.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 3.2??
XFree 3.2 is in the new unstable tree: /pub/debian/bo/binary-i386/x11 I recently upgraded to 3.2 and it hasn't crashed on me yet :) Hello, I just want to make sure that I'm doing this right. I just downloaded from the above site what I believe to be everything I need to upgrade from XFree86 3.1.2 to 3.2. Now, do I just do, as root, type dpkg -i package_name and the Debian package utility will do everything for me? For example, to upgrade package xbase for v3.1.2 to xbase for v3.2 I just type dpkg -i xbase and dpkg will automatically remove everything related to v3.1.2 for xbase and put in the new ones in for me? Do I need to do any extra housekeeping? Thanks in advance for any help on this matter! == Arcadio Alivio Sincero, Jr. Undergraduate Computer Science Major/Linux Enthusiast/Competitive Bodybuilder email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW:Not available yet -- still looking for free webspace! Do something unusual today. Pay a bill. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package sizes
box. I would like to be able to browse the ftp site and find out how big a package is going to be once it is installed *before* having to download it. Just download the Packages file for each distribution. The installed size is the 'Size' field. The size of the .deb you can get from the ls-lR.gz in the root directory. Actually, as I understand it, Size is the size of the debian package and Installed-Size is (supposed to be) the size once installed. (I originally requested size and md5sum for sanity checking in dftp.) Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape - bus error
Thank you for your suggestion, it seems a very good one. I will try it in the evening (at home). Netscape is unable to allocate colors for its display. Try doing netscape -ncols 64 and see if the unable to obtain erros go away. If not, try numbers smaller than 64 or close some applications that are using lots of colors. If the bus error goes away, you should report this as a bug to Netscape (see how to give feedback under the help menu). P.S. how can I acess the help menu if I can not acess Netscape? 8-). chuckle Well, I did say If the bus error goes away But I must admit I didn't think of that when I wrote it. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.01. For this and more, visit http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian for AXP?
Mike Neuffer, Bdale Garbee, Miquel and Danny of Cistron, and I have all purchased DEC ALPHA Multias in the past two weeks. This bodes well for a 1.2 release on them. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Who is guilty, the kernel or Debian?
Hello Bruce, thanks for your response. At 02:05 PM 11/28/96 PST, you wrote: Does the system come up without complaint after a power-clear? When I turn on the computer Linux starts with no problems at all (no complaints) If I press the reset switch the same thing happens. Can you revert to the 2.0.6 kernel and tell us if that one causes a problem? Absolutely. I said in my message that was going to be my next move. I will do that right now. It sounds like a kernel interaction with BIOS, possibly related to memory management bits not cleared by reset on your system. I was thinking about something like this but it should have happened after some change in a 2.0.x kernel because with 1.2.13 I am pretty sure it never happened. If it is not the kernel, it could be the reboot() function (the one in unistd.h that is been called from the halt.c, part of the SysVInit package.) I forgot to mention in my message that after the 1-3-3 beeps, the system hangs (nothing is wrong with Linux afterwards because file systems were unmounted and the system was brought down orderly) I need to cycle power or press the reset button to restart. I have noticed in computers that work fine with 2.0.x that the reboot caused by a shutdown -r ... is warm, not cold as it seems to be in the case of the computer I am having problems with. The only other things I can think of are the hardware tweaks we do: the software watchdog timer, and the serial interrupt reprogramming. Those are unlikely. If you remove the watchdog and hwtools packages, that would eliminate those programs as candidates. My kernel is not compiled with watchdog timer support nor real time clock support nor something new or unconventional, just the basic stuff. I have not installed watchdog nor hwtools either. Well, let me go back to 2.0.7 and we'll talk later. Thanks, Eloy.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
