Re: gross stupidity
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:20:19 EST Ralph Winslow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I find my self guilty of the charge above, in that I've blown away /usr/lib and have therby left myself with a nearly unusable system. I'd thought that I was in usr/lib/sound when I did a rm *, but I was in /usr/lib. (I was trying to get my expired sound driver to re-compile; I wish I'd just spent the $20). Might there be a way that I could trick dselect into thinking that I have a nearly bare system so that I might just download the works? Would I be better served to load bo (by that I mean, would I be likely to get a working system by just leaving only bo as the stuff to get and and then just say YES?). I've messed with trying to say n to each lib and then y to each lib, but this just breaks stuff left and right. Perhaps I should format hda* and start from the top. I guess it's time to invest in a tape device (or perhaps a little late for that). Don't panic: get the list of packages that installed stuff in /usr/lib, and reinstall these packages. Here's a script to give you this list: egrep '^/usr/lib/[^/]*$' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | \ (IFS=:; while read pack file; \ do \ if [ ! -d $file ]; \ then \ echo $pack:$file; \ fi; \ done ) | \ sed -e 's/^.*\/\(.*\)\.list:.*/\1/' | \ sort | \ uniq It will only list the packages which install *files* in /usr/lib, not packages which install in subdirectories of /usr/lib. Good luck ! Phil.
Re: RPM
Debian 1.3 has shadow support built in, last I heard. It's just gone into testing. I agree you have to install a few packages to make it work in 1.2, but this is not a big deal. One thing you should consider is how much systems work you do on Linux. For example, if you are building a lot of free software packages you might consider packaging them for Debian and leveraging your own work into a contribution that benefits lots of people. Thanks Bruce From: Leslie Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd say the more immediate problem has to do with ease of initial installation and security issues. I'm still undecided as to which of RedHat or Debian to use on several machines currently running a hand-updated Slackware and I'm holding off because the filesystem layout, ndbm differences, etc. will make it difficult to switch later. There are several things I don't like about RedHat, but the install is a breeze and shadow password support happens with a single command (and most sites running INN had their non-shadowed password files mailed off to an attacker not long ago). So far I haven't gotten dselect to complete an install command over NFS without giving up with too many errors (but perhaps something is wrong with my mirrored copy) and I can't tell what you have to do to get shadow support built into everything that needs it. If I get past these problems and it isn't harder than maintaining Slackware by hand I can probably deal with anything else. -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 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
cdrom problem...
I have a base Debian system installed from floppies on my 586 133mhz. My hd is partitioned for Windoze95 and for Debian. I ran fips, am using a boot mgr, everything going fairly well until I get to the point of trying to get my cdrom running under linux. Please help, 'cause I'm rippin' my hair out here! I've got a quad speed creative labs cdrom with a soundblaster 16 sound card. It works fine with winblows... I bought my Debian CD from CheapBytes with all the goodies on it, and there it sits, patiently waiting... I've read the howto's that I think apply, I couldn't find anything in the dejanews archives, and I even bought my Linux in a Nutshell book. I've tried the ATAPI/IDE driver, nothing. I have no SCSI devices in my system. I bought this system in 1995..were creative labs cdroms still proprietary, or interfaced thru the sound card? I know this is probably just a really dumb user error, and there's probably a simple fix, but it eludes me :-( Any suggestions, please? TIA!
Re: cdrom problem...
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, smorrill wrote: I have a base Debian system installed from floppies on my 586 133mhz. My hd is partitioned for Windoze95 and for Debian. I ran fips, am using a boot mgr, everything going fairly well until I get to the point of trying to get my cdrom running under linux. Please help, 'cause I'm rippin' my hair out here! I've got a quad speed creative labs cdrom with a soundblaster 16 sound card. It works fine with winblows... I bought my Debian CD from CheapBytes with all the goodies on it, and there it sits, patiently waiting... I've read the howto's that I think apply, I couldn't find anything in the dejanews archives, and I even bought my Linux in a Nutshell book. I've tried the ATAPI/IDE driver, nothing. I have no SCSI devices in my system. I bought this system in 1995..were creative labs cdroms still proprietary, or interfaced thru the sound card? If the cdrom does not have a proprietary interface, then it should be an IDE device. You may need to specify the line hdc=cdrom on the boot line to get it recognized, e.g. 'boot: linux hdc=cdrom'. If it is proprietary, the only driver that might work, AFAIK, is the spbcd driver which you can probably choose to load as a module when you configure the kernel modules from the drivers disk. Good Luck. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept.
Linux for the power PC
Has Linux been ported to the Apple Power PC (i.e. not the 68000 but the 601?). If so, is it in the Debian distribution? Thanks in advance for the info :). -- Harmon
keyboard settings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello all. I am stuggleing to get my keyboard set up to work in X and on the console consistantly. Basically, I would like the Backspace key (above enter) to cause the previous character to be erased and the delete key (to the right of enter) to erase the character under the cursor. I have read *all* the HOWTOs and FAQs and am having trouble making things work the way they said that they would. Specifically I am having trouble with GNU emacs in X. I have trouble getting emacs in X to see the difference between BackSpace and Delete. I have tried using xmodmap to set keycode 22 = BackSpace and keycode 107 = Delete, but emacs still says they are the same key. Basically, all I want is to have the two keys work independantly. Whatever solution is found, I wouldn't want it to screw up Motif apps completely. I guess that means the solution (If there is one, I hope) is going to be complex. I just want consistancy between the console and X. I want to be able to use emacs at the console and in X and have BS and DEL work the same way in both. At the same time, I would like other apps to work naturally. Please help if you can. Thanks, Erv Walter - -- PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: A5 AB 25 7D 7A FD 4D FE BE 21 47 60 0C DC 67 9E ==-- _ / / \ ---==---(_)__ __ __/ / /\ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / / /_/\ \ \- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ /__\ \ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] \_\/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM0BlxLkbWT/F2aV1AQHKBAP7B8MaWIyS3I+nkqaLm+yn2fMrMJgQLMeZ Yw7V5zgoLbpS7K+CkfhV4S6DBsCUKIukgk62auDH/xg7FDM/JLnuEfRZ7mzvXW5Q m8zIUXMdwzUHJ/YEp5omYggaeFwokaNA5xm9May3AOGUIfXE+IQ0OufqAxUQKFWU Budmc1oo9x8= =EBQm -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: keyboard settings
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello all. I am stuggleing to get my keyboard set up to work in X and on the console consistantly. Basically, I would like the Backspace key (above enter) to cause the previous character to be erased and the delete key (to the right of enter) to erase the character under the cursor. I have read *all* the HOWTOs and FAQs and am having trouble making things work the way they said that they would. Specifically I am having trouble with GNU emacs in X. I have trouble getting emacs in X to see the difference between BackSpace and Delete. I have tried using xmodmap to set keycode 22 = BackSpace and keycode 107 = Delete, but emacs still says they are the same key. Have you read the Key-Setup mini howto? It explains how to do just this, and it works with X and Motif programs. -- See shy Jo.
Re: Linux for the power PC
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xdm and multiple displays
(this bounced the first time) I am having a hard time getting xdm to work the way I want. I want to start one 8bpp and one 16bpp display. My Xservers file has lines like this: :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt08 -verbose -bpp 8 :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt07 -verbose -bpp 16 (I have tried many different incantations here) When xdm starts the display on :0 comes up with a login widget. I can log in and things work normally. But, several minutes later another login widget comes up (from :1) and I see this in the xdm log: xdm error (pid 2646): Hung in XOpenDisplay(:1), aborting xdm error (pid 2646): server open failed for :1, giving up xdm error (pid 2641): Display :1 cannot be opened xf86OpenConsole: VT_WAITACTIVE failed Thanks for any help! -- Joe Reinhardt[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Radiology Univ. of Iowa College of Medicine
Re: xdm and multiple displays
Joe == Joe Reinhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joe I am having a hard time getting xdm to work the way I want. Joe I want to start one 8bpp and one 16bpp display. My Xservers Joe file has lines like this: Mine looks like this: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 -deferglyphs all tty5 :0 :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 8 -deferglyphs all tty6 :1 ^ | ... I think what you did wrong was this part -+ Try using 'ttyN' rather than 'vt0N' and see if that works. I'm using the S3 server. Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.29t You tell me and we'll both know.
Re: keyboard settings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Joey Hess wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have you read the Key-Setup mini howto? It explains how to do just this, and it works with X and Motif programs. Thanks! I guess I missed that one. One thing though for everyone in general (devels in particular). Once I followed these instructions and got emacs working, I noticed that Motif apps were not working right. The symptom was that [Delete] did a backspace istead. After a Long Time tweaking various options to find out what was causeing the problem (since it had been working a few days ago), I found 2 lines in /etc/X11/Xresources that refered to *XmText.translations and XmTextField.translations. These were the cause. I'm not sure why these were put in here (by the developers), but the Keyboard-HOWTO and Key-Setup-HOWTO and Netscape readme all strong suggest that they *not* be used because they screw things up (as they did in my case). I just wanted to let people know of the cause if they experience the problem... Thanks for the help, Erv - -- PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: A5 AB 25 7D 7A FD 4D FE BE 21 47 60 0C DC 67 9E ==-- _ / / \ ---==---(_)__ __ __/ / /\ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / / /_/\ \ \- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ /__\ \ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] \_\/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM0CN6rkbWT/F2aV1AQFXpQP/ayKxbzIFo6uYmu1UrxZ2CImWbburpO6m /ZDP2nmBQwVp/c8XuZ8iGn5o8Uzi1CZtVHrVylJ5wymMMUj3HcqMPDvGa6GCG3L8 lN9TUF2oHsSSKwC+4Dn3sVtoZMYKGGS1zUHR6eM0RGCwkubjRBsJ4U+47eLii4sV yNsDdnTsm64= =+kxs -END PGP SIGNATURE-
KDE/KDM
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Are there any plans to package KDE (www.kde.org) or any of it's components? I am particularly impressed with kdm -- a _dropin_ replacement for xdm that looks *very* nice and includes support for nice logos (like the debian logos) and for a optional shutdown button. I am using the binary from a redhat full distribution package that I had to edit with a binary editor to change the string that says KDE Desktop Environment to Debian/GNU Linux (just a personal preference). I had to do this cause I had trouble compiling kdm (without compiling the entire KDE environment (huge)). There are several other good programs/applets/windowmanager that other people might like... Just wondering, Erv - -- PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: A5 AB 25 7D 7A FD 4D FE BE 21 47 60 0C DC 67 9E ==-- _ / / \ ---==---(_)__ __ __/ / /\ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / / /_/\ \ \- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ /__\ \ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] \_\/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM0CQfrkbWT/F2aV1AQGK7AQAqvZddfFOLiMuxPsqp4U1+WjTP6n2z7mq cEeMvZ2VTBhevSZUogxVYJ1RFIJrNWq2j6xmIac6EImZ4QlPGdghc0gl+fqmYSAH a/03eeNCmaeo0HyeFPji5guJOazPJxFmqYKBA+TagaWGyDcjUXak9Xr0im9fUcBI Axx4I7mOylc= =Moxx -END PGP SIGNATURE-
HELP!
hi all. I'm a newbie in Linux. Now I bought the infomagic company's 6 CD set. But I found there are too less help about how to install the Linux in CDs. I have some question. I found the diskimg of base system, but I don't know how to install other's packages( I can not found the disk img file of those packages). How can help me? Thank you! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems working with bash.
On Mar 31, Gertjan Klein wrote If you type, say, g then M-p repeatedly you get all command lines that begin with g. I use this *all* the time, as an alternative to !g because it lets me see if I got the right command line before I hit Enter. Still, none of this even begins to compare with the ease of use of (horror! shock!) the DOS command interpreter 4DOS! Why use separate keys like M-p for this, when you've got the arrow keys? The principle is this: if you have an empty commandline and you type the up arrow, you get the previous command. If you've already typed something, you get whatever previous command starts with that. This combines the two functions that bash uses (and needs two keys for) into one. I wish I could convince bash to work like this! Do you have bash 2.0? it supports this kind of searches... Use bash --version or dpkg -s bash to find out. bash 2.0 is still in the frozen directory. And if you dont want to read the long readline manual, put this to your .inputrc and relogin. --cutme-- #only useful when editing .inputrc \C-x\C-r: re-read-init-file #these two make 4dos-line history-searches possible. \e[A: history-search-backward \e[B: history-search-forward #no more beebs on the console set bell-style visible #make del work \e[3~:delete-char # home, end \e[1~:beginning-of-line \e[4~:end-of-line --endcutme-- -- __ Riku Voipio e-mail:///\\\ pohjolankatu 20 A 12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 50120 Mikkelifinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp /\ ==
Re: RPM and dpkg merger
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: The big problem for me is that if the packaging systems converge then so will the filesystem layout and the way many services are implemented. This reduces the freedom of two distributions. I don't see this as strengthening anyone. It depends... there are some things that doesn't change the quality/personality of a distribution... And having different standards for those things perhaps isn't a good idea... e.g.: the location of rc.d per level scripts... -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- | Try visiting #debian in Undernet (us.undernet.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The channel of the debian developers =)
Re: RPM
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Unless GCC is some all powerfull god like compiler this exact problem exists in Linux too. Any shard code system basically breaks badly when you try and use C++. The problem is quite simply that C++ has no standards for binary class layout and no standard way to specify an order in the class as well as having no way to upgrade base classes without breaking the derived classes. I have read that Opendoc/SOM/Bento, etc would probavly be distributed under GPL. And SOM is the solution to sharing classes... We'll what happens... -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- | Try visiting #debian in Undernet (us.undernet.org) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The channel of the debian developers =)
Re: Solved - Cannot get full speed download on ppp
This is a follow up to my previous problem since i have not given up. I tried to download file to /dosa mounted on /dev/fd0. The result was as good as downloading to /dev/hdc1 ( so floppy can do better than my /dev/hda ?? of course i do not believe it). After a few days, I started to think about kernel config. When i checked, i realised that the kernel i only enabled 'enhanced ide driver'. I thought this should look after /dev/hda without problems. Anyway, this time i reenable the old hard disk driver to look after /dev/hda (the help said that the first drive will be managed by this driver and the rest will be managed by the enhanced ide driver). Then i did a recompilation of the kernel and run lilo. After reboot, I tried downloading file again onto /dev/hda and this time transfer rate back to normal of 3.1k bytes per second. ifconfig showed that ppp0 did not have any errors. I guest it may be my mother board's ide controller not working well with the enhanced ide driver for the first hard disk. For those who are interested, the controller is ALi14xx series. Now I am very happy with my linux box. Paul Chau wrote: Thank you John, Just more info about it. Last night i did not give up and tried any BIOS settings i could think of but still the problem existed except when i tried: chdir to /extra ( this is on /dev/hdc1 ) tried a ftp session to retrieve a zipped file - lo and behold, i can download it ( 300K size ) at 3.1K bytes per second. quit to session and cd to my home directory ( /dev/hda ) started a ftp session and download the same file to that directory BAD now, the transfer rate was 2.6 K bytes per second. This could mean that there are some problems with my /dev/hda which is a quantum fireball 1G disk. So far i did not get bad sectors in dos, linux always started and said disks clean. PS: the drive on /dev/hdc is an old Maxtor 345 M harddisk (ATA mode 2 ). I may try your suggestions later and hope that will solve download problem. Regards. Paul John T. Larkin wrote: I don't what i have done to my system. Recently i found that my download speed from our server at most can give me 2.6k byte/s ftp. You should try two things: 1) Use hdparm to optimize the performance of your disks. I recomend the '-u' option to unmask the IRQ for data transfers. Be careful with this, as it (supposedly) has been known not to work on some systems and causes severe data corruption. 2) Use irqtune to give the serial port the highest priority. I used to be able to get 3.1K bytes/s downloading compressed file. I really don't know why you used to be able to get this performance, but no longer (unless you just happened to hit a really busy time of day, and your ISP couldn't get data fast enough). My 386-40, with an old 8250 uart and external 28.8 modem, can get thru-put of 2.8ish for transfers. This generates about 6000 interupts per second, and pretty much pushes the limits of the old hardware (a newer 16550 uart would help by greatly reducing the number of interupts). I'm slightly confused by your situation, because you really should have no problems with a p-133 and internal modem or 16550 uart on the serial port. Anyway, try it, and if it helps Good luck, -- - John Larkin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://aij.st.hmc.edu/~jlarkin
Re: Missing packages
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: On Apr 1, Joseph Skinner wrote Hi I just had a look through the list of updated packages and have found after looking at ftp.debian.org that the new packages are not there. The missing packages include libc6* gcc_2.7.2.2-2 These packages are in the experimental section. (i.e. Not under unstable.) That's where I looked and their not there and neither are the earlier releases of these packages. I found this strange because libc6 used to be there along with a number of packages that aren't there now such as ppp_2.3 so does anyone know why things like libc6 are being anounced when they are not avaliable. Joe. === in real life: Joseph Skinner |There's no such thing as a wizard email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |who minds his own business [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - Berengis the Black http: www.earthlight.co.nz/users/joe| Court Mage to the Earls Caeline
problem with ac
Hi I wrote a while ago about having a problem with debian ac missing days. There were two suggestions. One that our Cyclades ports with six character names (ie. ttyC21) where munging things or two that the method that we were using to rotate our log files was messing up the wtmp. I have just installed debian on my home computer. The exact same thing is happening. This machine is stable (it barely does anything) and has not showed any problems. When I run ac -d I get the below ouput (what happened to the missing days?): Mar 14 total 39.50 Mar 17 total 84.41 Mar 18 total 56.29 Mar 19 total 43.57 Mar 20 total 26.24 Mar 21 total0.00 Mar 26 total 40.01 Mar 27 total 38.16 Mar 29 total0.11 Mar 30 total0.03 Today total0.14 When I run ac -d --complain I get heaps of errors. Can anybody the debian ac command with -d and not get lots of errors? Can anyone run ac -d without getting missing days? This is a serious concern for me as an ISP that charges by the hour!! Help Please! Adam. Output of ac -d --complain /var/log/wtmp:1: problem: time warp (Thu Jan 1 12:00:00 1970 - Fri Mar 14 00:59:45 1997) /var/log/wtmp:2: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:38: problem: missing login record for `tty3' /var/log/wtmp:39: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:40: problem: missing login record for `tty5' /var/log/wtmp:41: problem: missing login record for `tty6' /var/log/wtmp:66: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:108: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:109: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:127: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:128: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:129: problem: missing login record for `ttyp1' /var/log/wtmp:130: problem: missing login record for `ttyp1' Mar 14 total 39.50 Mar 17 total 84.41 Mar 18 total 56.29 Mar 19 total 43.57 /var/log/wtmp:196: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:197: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:198: problem: missing login record for `ttyp3' /var/log/wtmp:199: problem: missing login record for `ttyp3' Mar 20 total 26.24 /var/log/wtmp:221: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:222: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:223: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:224: problem: missing login record for `tty2' Mar 21 total0.00 /var/log/wtmp:262: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:263: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:264: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:265: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:305: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:311: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:312: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:313: problem: missing login record for `tty3' /var/log/wtmp:314: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:336: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:337: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:338: problem: missing login record for `tty3' /var/log/wtmp:339: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:340: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:341: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:342: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:343: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:374: problem: missing login record for `tty2' /var/log/wtmp:375: problem: missing login record for `tty3' /var/log/wtmp:376: problem: missing login record for `tty4' /var/log/wtmp:384: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:406: problem: missing login record for `ttyp0' /var/log/wtmp:416: problem: missing login record for `ttyp1' Mar 26 total 40.01 Mar 27 total 38.16 Mar 29 total0.11 /var/log/wtmp:439: problem: missing login record for `ttyp1' /var/log/wtmp:441: problem: missing login record for `tty1' /var/log/wtmp:442: problem: missing login record for `ttyp1' /var/log/wtmp:444: problem: missing login record for `ttyp0' Mar 30 total0.03 Today total0.03
shadow question
Hi. Just recently I upgraded my home machine to shadow (with the debian packages in experimental) to see what would be involved in swapping over our servers, it went remarkably painlessly. :) I have two main questions: 1. I was under the impression that daemons needed to be recompiled in order to work with the shadow suite. Yet after I installed shadow qpopper and wuftpd (which aren't included in the shadow packages) still work fine. I assume this is normal but why does it work? I thought that daemons had to either work with shadow or with normal /etc/passwd but couldn't work with both... 2. I am running X on my machine. After some initial confusing in not being able to find the xdm-shadow package on ftp.debian.org I realised that it had been included in the new version of xbase it all works fine. The one thing I can't figure out is that when I log into X (via xdm) as root it works fine. Yet if I try and log in as any other user it doesn't work. I assume that this is a permission problem somewhere? Thanks for any help, Adam. - Earthlight Communications Limited P.O. Box 5301 Adam Shand (fax) +64 3 477 5463 Dunedin, New Zealand Systems Manager(voice) +64 3 479 0303 http://www.earthlight.co.nz/larry/
Re: Secret debian lists? (was: Debian Book list)
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: Still, while the list does exist, it doesn't appear on the list of lists that comes with the subscription failure notification. Which raises the question: what happened to debian-admintool (for rantings and whinings about dselect)? It was mentioned some time ago, but it doesn't appear on the list of debian-lists either? That problem is now fixed. Funny thing is: the only action necessary to fix it was chmod o+r /var/list/listname Go figure. :) Pete -- Pete Templin, Debian List Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RPM
Debian 1.3 has shadow support built in, last I heard. It's just gone into testing. I agree you have to install a few packages to make it work in 1.2, but this is not a big deal. Is there some philosophical problem with incorporating PAM as-is? It's already pretty well tested... I don't see why anyone would want to use non-shadowed passwords at all these days, at least with a machine connected to the internet. In addition to the INN trick, I see people trying the published web server and sendmail games too. One thing you should consider is how much systems work you do on Linux. For example, if you are building a lot of free software packages you might consider packaging them for Debian and leveraging your own work into a contribution that benefits lots of people. It has totaled a lot, updating about 8 machines piecmeal. However by now I think everything involved has been packaged already except the shadow-in-a-box combo which would be better done with PAM. Some things just need to be custom-compiled regardless, like apache with the modules you need locally (php/mod_perl, etc.) I'd have a problem doing packaging that moved locations from the place that 'make install' wants them to live anyway. Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RPM
I'd say the more immediate problem has to do with ease of initial installation and security issues. I'm still undecided as to which snipped to conserve resources. ease of use is probably what debian has to strive. If not for my patience, i would have given up a very good distribution of linux. Debian is good at security, but... (I might get flamed for this...) are the binaries checked for malicious codes or viruses or whatever, before putting it in the ftp sites? I've heard that slakware 3.2 has shadow support. When will it happen in debian? regards, Andre
improving pine speed when using remote smtp server
I have a pretty unreliable internet connection to the SMTP server I have pine configured to use (and to anywhere else on the internet, because I use uu.net). Anyway, ISP ranting aside, I get really frustrated when I'm zooming through my mail and I send a quick reply but I have to wait 5 minutes while pine connects to the remote SMTP server and sends the message. What I'd _like_ to do is to set up smail on my laptop where it'll forward the mail to the mailhost. This isn't really a problem, and there seems to be an option to do this when the smail package isn't configured. Where things get tricky is I'd like the ability to send the mail while I'm not dialed up, and have smail deliver to the forwarding host whenever it notices I'm connected. I'd like it to be able to do this without sending me bounced mail or warnings if I don't send it within a certain time frame (say 24 hours). Does anyone have an idea if this will work, or what I need to configure as far as smail to get it to work? I guess as a workaround I can have smail configured to forward mail to my SMTP server, and only send mail when I'm dialed up, and just postpone it within pine the rest of the time till I'm dialed up. -douglas
Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)
On Mar 28, Kai Grossjohann wrote : Eloy A Paris writes: : : Eloy I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path : Eloy name) per line. My task consists of searching the entire : Eloy filesystem and generate a list of the files that are NOT : Eloy present. : : updatedb generates a database of all file names on the system. (It : only runs for a few minutes for my system.) Not of all files. Of files searchable by `nobody.nogroup'. Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgptCowrkesLU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Netscape problem with gs-aladdin
[..] Is new to me. I assume you are makeing netscape print postscript, and then have gs-aladdin turn that into hp500c language for your hp550c? Yes, netscape print postscript troght lpr with magic-filter for my HPIII If that is so, (or otherwise), maybe the postscript file itself (you can probably get that by asking netscape to print to a file) gives a clue as to who is wrong (netscape or gs). I have more checks. I install gs 3.33-5, too. Lpr, magic-filter and gs/gs-aladdin work with /usr/doc/gs/example/alphabet.ps. I see that problem is with netscape.3.01-4 and acroread.3.0-1 (too!). With acroread.3.0-1 I have never success to print postscript, but older netscape.??? run for me ok. Mirek Kwasniak
Re: shadow question
when you say doesn't work, do you mean it appears a normal login is about to occur, the server flashes, and then the console login reloads? i've seen that and yes its a permission issue. Yep that's what happens... if I put in the wrong password it comes up with Login incorrect as it should but if I put in the right passwd it all but logs in and then goes back to the xdm login window... I can login via telnet or virtual console so I doubt it's shadow... (though installing shadow does appear to be what broke it...). I'm using afterstep pre4 if it matters. Any ideas please I'm an X newbie :) Adam.
dbview
Hi, has anybody used dbview ? There is no manual entry, no info entry and the dpkg --status output give no real information to use the command. JP L Jean-Paul LACHARME. GREQAM UMR 9990 au CNRS, Centre de la Vieille Charite, 2,rue de la Charite,F13002 MARSEILLE FRANCE. Tel:0491140731/Fax:0491900227.
Re: /etc/hosts?
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Bjoern Starke wrote: 2.) And there is a second question. I have a 'ppp-on' file in /bin (it's my ppp-chatscript). Owner is root, group is ppp. Permissions are -rwxr-x---. When trying to start it as root i get the following: bash: /bin/ppp-on: No such file or directory. The first line of /bin/ppp-on says to run it using the /bin/sh shell. Does /bin/sh exist? This error usually means the program you are trying to have run the shell doesn't exist. Frank
Re: improving pine speed when using remote smtp server
On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote: What I'd _like_ to do is to set up smail on my laptop where it'll forward the mail to the mailhost. This isn't really a problem, and there seems to be an option to do this when the smail package isn't configured. I don't know if you can do it with SMAIL, but there is a mini-howto on how to do this with SENDMAIL -- The title is something about sendmail and queueing. I set it up once long ago and haven't touched it since (so I've long since forgotten the name of the howto I used), but it walks you through customizing the sendmail.cf file so the mail is queued and then only delivered when sendmail runs the queue. I set up my system so that sendmail does not run the queue when I'm not connected to the Internet. When I connect to the Internet, sendmail is stopped and then started with the necessary parameters to run the queue (-q10) every 10 minutes. Frank
Re: 3 Questions...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bjoern Starke) writes: 1.) i can`t find a file called 'man.config' on my debian 1.2.6. So what should i do? (i need it for configuration stuff) There doesn't seem to be one. But dpkg -L man suggests /etc/manpath.config. 2.) Normal users (members of the group 'ppp') should be able to start a dialup internet connection via pppd. What groups must they be in? [snip] To run /usr/sbin/pppd, they just need dip. dialout might not be necessary, and lets them use any /dev/ttyS*, which you might not want. Experiment. (I don't use pon, so I don't know about it.) 3.) My users aren't able to start internet services like ftp, www or telnet. The programm starts, but services can't be used. (root of course _can_ use them). [snip] Host name lookup failture ^ This suggests something I've seen on this list before; check the permissions on /etc/resolv.conf, they should be -rw-r--r--. Can normal users use IP addresses? -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Double, double, toil and trouble, / Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Re: troubles with module symbols, PCMCIA (and tar)
Mike Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] The kernel image package won't fit on a single floppy, so I used the 'M' option for tar. When trying to read the floppy, tar dumps core. I haven't been able to get tar working with multiple disks. Try using cpio instead. -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Double, double, toil and trouble, / Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #56
On 30 Mar 1997, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Content-Type: text/plain debian-user-digest Digest Volume 97 : Issue 56 Today's Topics: tset? Re: PGP signing in Exmh locks X Modem not detected Re: tset? Lilo and CDROM Re: Modem not detected Re: Modem not detected Re: tset? Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3) Re: TeX fonts Re: Lilo and CDROM Re: can't umount /usr(/dev/hdb3) Debian Package Finder Qpopper: what happened to /etc/popper.deny Re: bug package RE modem not detected RPM Debian Book list XFree86 3.2, XDM and Chooser Re: Postgres95 - missing library Re: Debian Book list Firewall logging... where? Re: RPM ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v10) Debian on Sparc... Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 15:36:22 +0800 (WST) From: Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: tset? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII When telnetting into a remote Debian box I want to have the screen size set automatically to 100x40 to suit my home Debian box. At the moment I am using: export LINES=40 COLUMNS=100 after I log in. As I sometimes use the first box in local mode I want the screen size to depend on how I access it and I want it to stick when I su to root. Pointers, anyone? Lindsay Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 20:22:04 -0500 From: Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: PGP signing in Exmh locks X Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii That was one of the first things I tried. Got me, then. Sorry. Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 19:19:33 -0600 From: Peter Yarych [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Modem not detected Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello all I just installed Debian 1.1 today and it refuses to see my modem during the boot-up process /dev/cuaX = no such device I'm new to linux, but not that new... I have been running RH for a few months. I ran setserial /dev/cua1 and it returned the correct values BTW, usr 33.6 pnp ( but jumpers r set to com2 or cua1) under redhat I had no problems using it, for my ppp connection I tried minicom out to see if I could get the modem to dial with no luck I've spent about 3-4 hours looking in the doc's that I can find on the web and as of yet had no luck. I hope this isn't on the FAQ list.. or if it is plz send it to me :) TIA any and all help is welcome flames pleasently ignored :) Peter __ / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / . . . t h e c h o i c e o f a //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ G N U g e n e r a t i o n . . . *** There are 2 major products to come out of Berkley: LSD and UNIX. I do not believe this to be a coincidence. *** Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 20:26:02 -0500 From: Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: tset? Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii As I sometimes use the first box in local mode I want the screen size to depend on how I access it and I want it to stick when I su to root. I generally put something like this in login files (as well as aliasing it to 'rs'): eval `resize` stty cols $COLUMNS rows $LINES You may find it useful to do conditional checking on the terminal type before doing this or your fixed configuration. Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 20:39:49 -0500 From: Chris Trantau [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Lilo and CDROM Message-ID: Y6L5q.0.y16.7OSFp@debian Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just installed Debian Linux v1.2.0 for the first time and im having some problems. I have a 486dx2/66 16 MB RAM, 540 HD. Linux partition about 200 MB and Linux Swap partition 16 MB. I have to boot off of my rescue disk because my lilo wont work. When i try to go to the Boot of the Hard Disk option it gives me this error: sbin/dinstall: cannot creat /target/etc/lilo.cong: directory nonexistent How do i fix this? I dont know many commands. Also when i boot off of my rescue disk (its the only way i can get in unless i set my Linux partition as bootable but i need access to my win95) it loads up hundreds of drivers that dont work. Several for each thing...like 5 for the CD ROM but none of them work, is this normal? Even when my linux was booting off of the hard drive it did this. It took over 3 minutes to load. Another problem: I can't install any packages because I cant mount my CD-ROM. I tried:
How to upgrade?
I've seen this question before, but didn't memorize the answer, 'cause I though it would be obvious. Now that I want to go from 1.1 to 1.2, I looked at the faq and a number of other files and can't find anything. There appears to be quite a bit of info on upgrading from 0.93 to 1.1, b but I can't find a 1.1 to 1.2 upgrade document. Help? Thanks, Jim. Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269
Please HELP Newbie: system crash
Hi, I've got a BIG problem with my linux (DEBIAN 1.2 + Accelerated X). When I run the X system (with startx), my system stop to work a few minutes later, especially if I try to run emacs or xemacs. What I mean by stopped system is: - The mouse doesn't move anymore - I can't do anything with the keyboard (even Ctrl-alt-suppr doesn't work) The only thing I can do is to switch off my computer. So: Is there another way to get my system working back ? Does anyone have any idea about the problem ? Is there any file where errors are reported ? Thanks a lot. I discovered Linux few weeks ago and I would be deseperate if I would have to go back to M$ Windows. F. LE GALL PS: I have for a P166+ with a matrox mystique video card.
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Re: improving pine speed when using remote smtp server
On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Frank Swasey wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote: What I'd _like_ to do is to set up smail on my laptop where it'll forward the mail to the mailhost. This isn't really a problem, and there seems to be an option to do this when the smail package isn't configured. I don't know if you can do it with SMAIL, but there is a mini-howto on how to do this with SENDMAIL -- The title is something about sendmail and queueing. I set it up once long ago and haven't touched it since (so I've long since forgotten the name of the howto I used), but it walks you through customizing the sendmail.cf file so the mail is queued and then only delivered when sendmail runs the queue. I set up my system so that sendmail does not run the queue when I'm not connected to the Internet. When I connect to the Internet, sendmail is stopped and then started with the necessary parameters to run the queue (-q10) every 10 minutes. --for sendmail, not smail-- You can either edit your /etc/init.d/sendmail to read start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --exec /usr/sbin/sendmail --\ -bd -odq -q1m or change your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf entry for: # default delivery mode O DeliveryMode=background - change this to be queue and/or change your scripts to use sendmail -odq recipient. Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xplaycd cddb
Hi == I am using Xplaycd and Xmixer (from multimedia package) to listen to my CDs and all works fine. But when I try to use the cd database (right mouse button) the message. cddb resource is not set. Using current directory. appears. I have already put the line xplaycd*cddb: ~/cddb on my .Xresources file and I have put the line *cddb: ~/cddb on /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XPlaycd but I have always the same message, and if I ignore the message and save the file it appears in the correct directory (~/cddb) but the next time it is not accessed. Can you help me? -- 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/
Re: Linux for the power PC
Hi Harmon One of my students has a powerpc Apple that runs Linux. The port was done by Apple and is sold by Apple. He says it does very well indeed. I can't answer the question about Debian distribution availablity. --David - LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [345]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | User interface copyrights software patents make [EMAIL PROTECTED] | programing a dangerous business. Ask me or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mossad data encryption munitions Serbian hydrazine ammonium nitrate fuel oil On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: Has Linux been ported to the Apple Power PC (i.e. not the 68000 but the 601?). If so, is it in the Debian distribution? Thanks in advance for the info :).
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getting the screen to suspend/turn off: the sage continues
I wrote a week or so ago about getting the screen to suspend/turn off. Many replies (correctly) said to use 'Option power_saver' in XF86Config. Within 5 minutes, I had it working. The problem is, I haven't been able to get it to work since! The one thing different from many that posted is that with my system I have to use 'xset s noblank' to even get the screensaver to kick in (otherwise only the cursor disappears). Also, the screensaver won't work if 'xset s noexpose' is used. Using SuspendTime and OffTime don't make a difference. There aren't any other options to play with. Has anyone else had problems like this? The system uses an ATI Mach64 CT if that matters. - Sue P.S. Just to head this one off, there have been no other screensavers active since the last reboot.
Re: getting the screen to suspend/turn off: the sage continues
On Tue, 1 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote a week or so ago about getting the screen to suspend/turn off. Many replies (correctly) said to use 'Option power_saver' in XF86Config. Within 5 minutes, I had it working. The problem is, I haven't been able to get it to work since! The one thing different from many that posted is that with my system I have to use 'xset s noblank' to even get the screensaver to kick in (otherwise only the cursor disappears). Also, the screensaver won't work if 'xset s noexpose' is used. Using SuspendTime and OffTime don't make a difference. There aren't any other options to play with. Has anyone else had problems like this? The system uses an ATI Mach64 CT if that matters. I've found that I cannot use 'xset s noblank' or the power saver will not work. I use xlockmore, and it works with screen blanking set. What I've done is to set the blank time equal to the suspend time. Note that I manually start xlock from a menu under X. Note also that xlock must be started with the option -enablesaver to allow the powerdown of the monitor. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept.
Converting ascii to ebcdic, and vice versa
I am looking for a library function to convert ascii to ebcdic, and/or ebcdic to ascii. For example, '0' = 0x30 in ascii, 0xf0 in ebcdic. I see the character maps in /usr/share/i18n/charmap, but have not found any routines. Aix has a function called iconv. I could build my own conversion tables, but that is a last resort. Any ideas? TIA -- Walter L. Preuninger II waldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://walterp.rapidramp.com L I N U X Where You Will Want To Be!
Re: shadow question
Hi, Adam == Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Yep that's what happens... if I put in the wrong password it Adam comes up with Login incorrect as it should but if I put in the Adam right passwd it all but logs in and then goes back to the xdm Adam login window... I can login via telnet or virtual console so I Adam doubt it's shadow... (though installing shadow does appear to be Adam what broke it...). I'm using afterstep pre4 if it matters. Pardon me for asking such a simple question, but did you remember to switch to xdm-shadow? This is what I did: __ cd /usr/X11R6/bin/ __ mv xdm xdm.old __ ln xdm-shadow xdm __ ll /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm* 82 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 82372 Jan 13 21:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm 82 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 82372 Jan 13 21:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm-shadow 82 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 82148 Jan 13 21:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm.old and xdm and shadow lived happily ever after ... manoj -- EARTH: Mostly harmless. Manoj Srivastava url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile, Alabama USAurl:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/
Promise 4020-1 upgrade
There's an upgrade for the BIOS of the Promise 4020-1 VESA controller that allows LBS devices. Has anyone gotten this upgrade, and can they confirm that it works in Linux? (The information on their web page hints that it would only be usable in an MS OS) --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Michael K Patterson, HP Software Engineer My opinions do not represent those of HP. If they do, it's coincidence. -
awe-drv istallation problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have just finished recompiling the kernel (2.0.29, Debian 1.3) to include the awe-drv. This worked quite well and the kernel booted properly. My AWE32 sound card works as it did before (ie. cat foo.au /dev/audio plays foo.au). However, the AWE synth device seems to be missing. Documentation suggests one of three ways to configure the PnP card: - Initialize the card via ISA PnP tools, and load the sound module. - Initialize the card on DOS, and load linux by loadlin.exe - Use PnP driver (for Linux-2.0.x) Do I need to install the PnP driver and recompile the kernel again? It seems to me that I should see some boot-time error messages if the awedrv can't detect my AWE32 card (I don't see any error messages so I am assuming, perhaps incorrectly, that the PnP driver is included in the kernel source). The reason I assume that the AWE synth device is missing is from the following output terrapin:~$ sfxload -i synthgm.sbk No AWE synth device is found terrapin:~$ terrapin:~$ sfxtest -I No AWE synth device is found terrapin:~$ Any ideas what I have done wrong? Any help is gratefully appreciated. kernel config script below Cheers, Colin. -- Colin R. Telmer, Department of Economics, Dunning Hall Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 Phone: (613)545-2273 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca PGP Fingerprint = 09 E9 DA 66 9C EE 33 DC B8 3B 97 0E 01 BC EC 0B PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit # # # Code maturity level options # # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is not set # # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KERNELD=y # # General setup # # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set CONFIG_NET=y # CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y CONFIG_M686=y # CONFIG_BIGPHYS_AREA is not set # # Floppy, IDE, and other block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PCMCIA is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON=y # CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set # # Networking options # # CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set # CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_FORWARD is not set # CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set # CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set # CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set CONFIG_INET_RARP=m # CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y # CONFIG_SKB_LARGE is not set # CONFIG_IPX is not set # CONFIG_ATALK is not set # CONFIG_AX25 is not set # CONFIG_NETLINK is not set # # SCSI support # # CONFIG_SCSI is not set # # Network device support # CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m # CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set # CONFIG_PLIP is not set # CONFIG_PPP is not set # CONFIG_SLIP is not set # CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y # CONFIG_EL1 is not set # CONFIG_EL2 is not set CONFIG_EL3=y # CONFIG_VORTEX is not set # CONFIG_LANCE is not set # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set # CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set # CONFIG_NET_EISA is not set # CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set # CONFIG_TR is not set # CONFIG_FDDI is not set # CONFIG_ARCNET is not set # # ISDN subsystem # # CONFIG_ISDN is not set # # CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives) # # CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set # # Filesystems # CONFIG_QUOTA=y # CONFIG_LOCK_MANDATORY is not set CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m # CONFIG_EXT_FS is not set CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y # CONFIG_XIA_FS is not set CONFIG_FAT_FS=m CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m # CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_NFS_FS=y # CONFIG_ROOT_NFS is not set # CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m # CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set # CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set # CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set # # Character devices # CONFIG_SERIAL=m # CONFIG_DIGI is not set # CONFIG_CYCLADES is not set # CONFIG_STALDRV is not set # CONFIG_RISCOM8 is not set # CONFIG_PRINTER is not set # CONFIG_MOUSE is not set # CONFIG_UMISC is not set # CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set CONFIG_FTAPE=m # CONFIG_APM is not set # CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_RTC is not set # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=m # CONFIG_PAS is not set CONFIG_SB=y CONFIG_ADLIB=y # CONFIG_GUS is not set # CONFIG_MPU401 is not set # CONFIG_UART6850 is not set # CONFIG_PSS is not set # CONFIG_GUS16 is not set # CONFIG_GUSMAX is not set # CONFIG_MSS is not set # CONFIG_SSCAPE is not set # CONFIG_TRIX is not set # CONFIG_MAD16 is not set # CONFIG_CS4232 is not set # CONFIG_MAUI is not set CONFIG_AUDIO=y CONFIG_MIDI=y CONFIG_YM3812=y
Re: RPM
Is there some philosophical problem with incorporating PAM as-is? I think the major problem was that it was not close to release when we made the decision for 1.3 - the shadow module was well-tested, but some of the other modules were not working. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 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
Re: Problems working with bash.
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Gertjan == Gertjan Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gertjan Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open up your info reader; Gertjan Don't get me started on info! Why not? Elucidate. I think info sucks. It is obsoleted by html. Clear enough? Just my 2 cents, Joost Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.29t You tell me and we'll both know.
RE: improving pine speed when using remote smtp server
From: Douglas L Stewart[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 01 April, 1997 2:27 AM [chop] What I'd _like_ to do is to set up smail on my laptop where it'll forward the mail to the mailhost. This isn't really a problem, and there seems to be an option to do this when the smail package isn't configured. No problem; just run smailconfig to set it up. Make your selection, such as send all external mail to smart host and put in the name of that host. You want smail to be running all the time. When you send the mail, smail gets it. It waits in the queue. Given sufficient time, the daemon will send you a message about not being able to deliver. That's ok; what you want to do is after you connect to your ISP, issue runq -v to send off all of your queued messages. Taking this a step further, you can use popclient of perhaps fetch mail to retrieve your messages. In this manner, you basicly work offline, and when you go online, you send (runq) and receive (popclent). Aahhh, almost forgot! You will also need to change pine to talk to your own box instead of to a remote one. HTH! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . kc5xh . . . . . My other computer runs Linux!
Re: Converting ascii to ebcdic, and vice versa
On Apr 1, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote I am looking for a library function to convert ascii to ebcdic, and/or ebcdic to ascii. For example, '0' = 0x30 in ascii, 0xf0 in ebcdic. I see the character maps in /usr/share/i18n/charmap, but have not found any routines. Aix has a function called iconv. I could build my own conversion tables, but that is a last resort. Any ideas? If you want routines, my guess it that you'll probably have to roll your own, or at least modify already existing routines. But if you're looking for a program, try recode (there's a Debian package available). It will convert from anything to anything. Christian pgpzA3XMacAhR.pgp Description: PGP signature
finger from remote site will not list .plan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At the moment remote users who finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] are told that I have no plan. However if I finger telmerco while logged onto terrapin, I get to see my .plan (pgp key). I recall fiddling with cfingerd and noticing that you could restrict remote users but cannot find any documentation on allowing remote users with netstd's fingerd. Any ideas? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin R. Telmer, Department of Economics, Dunning Hall Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 Phone: (613)545-2273 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca PGP Fingerprint = 09 E9 DA 66 9C EE 33 DC B8 3B 97 0E 01 BC EC 0B PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQCUAwUBM0Fz0RhhzOJJktw1AQHf/wP2J6hJU+mTJjYyhc+TvlXDB0syP6S/zZ6F 9ija7OExfYXm0Mh/J0vk7c8YX051BUMwL001NVxQaSdOGN/5yfjk9Ab8KJ1GX42q 8B4dnTMxVZ7hi8CiRHy7Ozsrt7pgVYjcRpBmQPw6C+aiD5OMHV+zr2Yl/yufYgL5 IsPg7YS9qA== =URxn -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Converting ascii to ebcdic, and vice versa
There's always dd. --emk From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 1 12:42:16 1997 Resent-Date: 1 Apr 1997 20:42:46 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown:;@lists.debian.org X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:54:03 -0500 To: Walter L. Preuninger II [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Converting ascii to ebcdic, and vice versa Mime-Version: 1.0 Resent-Message-ID: fpEy5.0.Z76.4DNGp@debian Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/1790 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Apr 1, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote I am looking for a library function to convert ascii to ebcdic, and/or ebcdic to ascii. For example, '0' = 0x30 in ascii, 0xf0 in ebcdic. I see the character maps in /usr/share/i18n/charmap, but have not found any routines. Aix has a function called iconv. I could build my own conversion tables, but that is a last resort. Any ideas? If you want routines, my guess it that you'll probably have to roll your own, or at least modify already existing routines. But if you're looking for a program, try recode (there's a Debian package available). It will convert from anything to anything. Christian
Netscape popup windows zero size problem
I installed Netscape 3.01 (not via dpkg) on a mostly Debian 1.1 system, with a few libraries and fonts from 1.2. When I bring up popups, like the open button, it appears as a thin line on the screen. I have to resize it to see what it says. Popup error messages appear as a very small box that I then have to resize also. What have I done wrong? I looked on my CD for a netscape...deb file, but didn't find one, so just downloaded a copy of netscape from netscape and loaded it. Thanks, Jim. Jim Lynch, System Engineer, SGI/Cray Research, Inc. / ARS: K4GVO Federal Business Systems, Phone: (770) 631-2254, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suite 270, 200 Westpark Drive, Peachtree City, GA 30269
Re: RPM
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Unless GCC is some all powerfull god like compiler this exact problem exists in Linux too. Any shard code system basically breaks badly when you try and use C++. The problem is quite simply that C++ has no standards for binary class layout and no standard way to specify an order in the class as well as having no way to upgrade base classes without breaking the derived classes. I have read that Opendoc/SOM/Bento, etc would probavly be distributed under GPL. And SOM is the solution to sharing classes... We'll what happens... I have used SOM before, unless it is integrated into the compiler (Direct to SOM is what IBM calls it) it is very irritating. Furthermore SOM has problems with some of C++'s features, mostly to do with multiple inheritance. Other than that, C++ encapsulated in SOM would be a wonderfull thing to have in Linux! Jason
Re: How to upgrade?
On Tue, 01 Apr 1997 08:11:49 EST James W. Lynch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've seen this question before, but didn't memorize the answer, 'cause I though it would be obvious. Now that I want to go from 1.1 to 1.2, I looked at the faq and a number of other files and can't find anything. There appears to be quite a bit of info on upgrading from 0.93 to 1.1, b but I can't find a 1.1 to 1.2 upgrade document. Just get a 1.2 CD, or fetch dpkg-ftp and/or dftp from a debian mirror. Fire up dselect, ick the right access method, choose to [U]pdate, then [S]elect and [I]nstall ! Phil.
Re: Converting ascii to ebcdic, and vice versa
Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: I am looking for a library function to convert ascii to ebcdic, and/or ebcdic to ascii. For example, '0' = 0x30 in ascii, 0xf0 in ebcdic. Check out the dd command. I see the character maps in /usr/share/i18n/charmap, but have not found any routines. Aix has a function called iconv. I could build my own conversion tables, but that is a last resort. Any ideas? TIA -- Walter L. Preuninger II waldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://walterp.rapidramp.com L I N U X Where You Will Want To Be!
Re: shadow question
Pardon me for asking such a simple question, but did you remember to switch to xdm-shadow? Yep... until I did that I couldn't even log in! 82 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 82372 Jan 13 21:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm 82 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 82372 Jan 13 21:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm-shadow 82 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 82148 Jan 13 21:11 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm.old and xdm and shadow lived happily ever after ... This is more or lexx exactly what I did. Adam.
