/sbin/dump unable to resolve 'ext2_llseek'
Douglas Bates writes: On Tuesday I installed several updated packages from bo. I noticed this morning that file system dumps have been failing since then. Here is a dummy run of /sbin/dump to show the symptoms. franz# /sbin/dump 0f /dev/null /spare1 DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu May 1 17:13:35 1997 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda1 (/spare1) to /dev/null DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 41266 tape blocks on 1.06 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' DUMP: Interrupt received. DUMP: Do you want to abort dump?: (yes or no) yes DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. Any suggestions on what has gotten out of sync? Even better, any suggestions on how to repair the problem? Downgrading e2fsprogs to 1.06-3 (in stable) fixed dump for me. --Norris -- Norris Preyer (541) 962-3310 (office) Physics Program (541) 962-3873 (fax) Eastern Oregon University [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Grande, OR 97850http://140.211.64.20/npreyer.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: elm.rc Where is it?
Jason Costomiris writes: On Thu, 1 May 1997, Bjoern Starke wrote: i want to set up elm, but nowhere i can find the configuraton file elm.rc. I am using a Debian 1.2.6 and elm is at Version 2.4. I have searched after it, but i can't find it...Has the name been changed? According to the output of dpkg --listfiles elm, you shouldn't have one. I'm sure you can make one, but it's an optional file. Check /usr/doc/elm for further info... Of course, you could make one When you first run elm(you have never ever run it before) it creates a .elm directory and put its files in there the rc file is elmrc(i.e. ~/.elm/elmrc). At first it is just a copy of the system default with lots of comments. Hope this helps. Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /sbin/dump unable to resolve 'ext2_llseek'
Norris Preyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Douglas Bates writes: Here is a dummy run of /sbin/dump to show the symptoms. ... /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' /sbin/dump: can't resolve symbol 'ext2_llseek' DUMP: Interrupt received. DUMP: Do you want to abort dump?: (yes or no) yes DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. Any suggestions on what has gotten out of sync? Even better, any suggestions on how to repair the problem? Downgrading e2fsprogs to 1.06-3 (in stable) fixed dump for me. It looks like the problem is a name mismatch. The symbol that /sbin/dump wants to find is ext2_llseek but the symbol in /lib/libext2fs.so.2.3 is ext2fs_llseek. I tried to recompile /sbin/dump from the source package but was unsuccessful. It appears that one of the main include files, /usr/include/ctype.h, is broken. I'll have to fix that first. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pg command for linux?
Actually, that's what I've done (i.e. creating a link from pg to less). But the students, being used to pg, have some difficulties adjusting. Since it's a certificate course and we go at it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, when they're already in the pg-rut, making the adjustment to less can be a source of mild frustrations. If at all possible, I'd like to make the transition to Linux as transparent as can be. Something of note -- it's odd that less doesn't allow you to use control-C to abort it, nor does it allow you to use ENTER or SPACE to get out of it when you're at the end of the file. This was driving my students crazy since they are in the pg-rut -- I had to keep reminding them to use q. -- Harmon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pg command for linux?
Harmon == Harmon Sequoya Nine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harmon Something of note -- it's odd that less doesn't allow Harmon you to use control-C to abort it, nor does it allow you to Harmon use ENTER or SPACE to get out of it when you're at the end Harmon of the file. This was driving my students crazy since Harmon they are in the pg-rut -- I had to keep reminding them to Harmon use q. Using command-line switch -e or -E or appropriate environment variable should do what you want. Check out the manpage for less. Gleb -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Postscript to ?
On May 1, Nikolaj Richers wrote Can anyone think of a utility or word processor that can read Postscript files and save them in a common WP or even TeX format? I'm afraid such a utility does not (and up to a certain degree, can not) exist. PostScript is a full general programming language, and thus such a utility would in principle have to understand any program in the PostScript language. ps2ascii and pstotext seem to work for most PostScript, but only produce flat text output. The reason being, I need to move a few years' worth of word processing files off my A3000-040 and the only useful/portable format I can come up with is to print everything to Postscript. This includes stuff like my thesis and dissertation fragments, articles, etc., which I don't really want as ASCII files, if I can avoid it. For a specific word-processor's PostScript output, it might be possible to reconstruct some kind of low-level text with layout information (ASCII + font/style info), but even this would be far from structured text. Your best bet would be - to find another output format which can be converted to one you can use on your current system or - to analyze the word processor's native format and write a converter yourself. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: rsh with .rhosts problems (SOLVED)
: Hi, : : I don't have access to a Linux machine from where I work so I can't : check on this advice, but see if there is a man page for : hosts.equiv. On Solaris machines, /etc/hosts.equiv is the other ^^^ : piece that controls remote access via rsh, rlogin, etc. : : Good luck, : Randy Stocking Thank you and the other responsers very much! At one host the /etc/hosts.equiv file was missing, where I was sure it would have been there. Now, after editing this file everything is ok. A. Wehler -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #174
Hi I´ve just discovered LINUX and i´m very excited. I´m a Win95 user from Guatemala, Central America, and around here nobody knows about the LINUX PROJECT, but i have some doubts. 1) Could i get a LINUX CD versión at home. Do you know a distributor for Latin America ? 2) What kind of source code compounds LINUX ? C++, Assembler, Basic or something like that ? 3) If i get the source code, the interesting thing is contribute so... do i need a compiler to make it work ? is the compiler included with LINUX ? 4) I´m not very sure, but does LINUX have a GUI (Graphical User Interface) ? 5) Does anybody know about a spanish version of LINUX ? 6) Could you give me some servers names for newsgroups about LINUX (I´m using Microsoft News and i need to know the server name to login ). Thank you in advice ! LONG LIFE TO LINUX !1 -- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado:Viernes 2 de Mayo de 1997 03:41 AM Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #174 HTML BODY CENTER A HREF=http://www.geocities.com;Postage paid by: IMG SRC=http://www.geocities.com/pictures/newgeobt.gif;/A/CENTER /BODY /HTML Mensaje: Mensaje: FAST ACM! But broken timer? Gu...Mensaje: Re: emacs giving fatal error on new ...Mensaje: Re: emacs giving fatal error on new ...Mensaje: pg command for linux?Mensaje: Postscript to ?Mensaje: /sbin/dump unable to resolve 'ext2_l...Mensaje: /sbin/dump unable to resolve 'ext2_l...Mensaje: Re: elm.rc Where is it?Mensaje: Re: /sbin/dump unable to resolve 'ex...Mensaje: Re: pg command for linux?Mensaje: Re: pg command for linux?Mensaje: Re: Postscript to ? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Postscript to ?
( Re Message From: Nikolaj Richers ) Can anyone think of a utility or word processor that can read Postscript files and save them in a common WP or even TeX format? The reason being, I need to move a few years' worth of word processing files off my A3000-040 and the only useful/portable format I can come up with is to print everything to Postscript. This includes stuff like my thesis and dissertation fragments, articles, etc., which I don't really want as ASCII files, if I can avoid it. Don't even try to convert PostScript to anything else. By the time it's been done into PS the text is heavily wrapped up, partly fragmented, and may be masked by PS definitions; and the only thing that can make proper sense of it is a full PostScript interpreter. The closest you'll find to what you're looking for is in the pstools package, which at best will extract the text characters in the order of printing, but totally unformatted. It may, however, do a lot worse than that. I'd suggest -- provided your material is mainly text -- that you output it as ASCII files, despite what you say. If you have equations (e.g. from troff) these will come out as source in the ASCII file and the rest is up to you; for drawing commands you take pot luck, and for imported graphics, EPS files etc, you have to make your own arrangemnets after the event. Best of luck, Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Postscript to ?
On May 2, Ted Harding wrote The closest you'll find to what you're looking for is in the pstools package, which at best will extract the text characters in the order of printing, but totally unformatted. It may, however, do a lot worse than that. Which program are you referring to, Ted? I'm aware of ps2ascii (comes with ghostscript) and pstotext (in non-free, uses gs-aladin). Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
fvwm-audio
Hi. I was wondering what the fvwm-audio module does... I have searched my hard drive for documentation on this but I don't seem to have any... I would like to set up my machine to bind sounds with events like window minimise and maximise thanks --kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fvwm-audio
Fvwm-Audio associates sounds to a certain number of events: you can make your Linux Box play a sound when the fvwm starts, when a window opens, and so on .. bye Paolo Nenzi - Roma - Italia - *- GPS = Guesses Position Somehow -* On Fri, 2 May 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: Hi. I was wondering what the fvwm-audio module does... I have searched my hard drive for documentation on this but I don't seem to have any... I would like to set up my machine to bind sounds with events like window minimise and maximise thanks --kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
kfm
Hi I Have downloaded the latest version of kde and Love it. however I have 3 questions. 1: when I run kfm the root windows color changes. This also hapens when i open folders ... etc . I have changed my root windows color with kdisplay -setup so this may have something to do with it but I have know Idea why this happen... Any ideas? 2: When I run kfm all of the shortcut Icons show up on top of each other in the right top of the screen is there any way to fix this so that they show up in a nice neat line? 3: is there a way to start programs (kvt, acli) so that they start in a pre designated place? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #174
Hi I´ve just discovered LINUX and i´m very excited. I´m a Win95 user from Guatemala, Central America, and around here nobody knows about the LINUX PROJECT, but i have some doubts. 1) Could i get a LINUX CD versión at home. Do you know a distributor for Latin America ? There isn't one true Linux CD. Various people put together collections of software along with the Linux kernel. These are called distributions. The Debian Project have put together one such distribution called Debian GNU/Linux which is definetely available in CD form. The best thing to do would be to go to the Linux journal home page (http://www.ssc.com/lj) and check their reviews of distributions to see which one seems right for you and then visit the home page of the that distribution (http://www.debian.org/ in Debians case) for additional info as things move fast in the Linux world and reviews can get out of date. In my opinion Debian is the best. (But thats the general opinion on the Debian list. :-) 2) What kind of source code compounds LINUX ? C++, Assembler, Basic or something like that ? The Linux kernel is wriin in C and so are most of the utilities just like any other Unix variant but you can use all the languages you mentioned and more if you like. 3) If i get the source code, the interesting thing is contribute so... do i need a compiler to make it work ? is the compiler included with LINUX ? gcc is a freely available C compiler. Like I said there are various distributions of Linux which may not neccessarily include gcc if they don't want to but in reality I can't imangine anyone who wouldn't. Debian of course does. 4) I´m not very sure, but does LINUX have a GUI (Graphical User Interface) ? Yes. It is called X windows and it is used in many kinds of Unix not just Linux. Here again you have a wide choice in styles. X windows can even mimic much of the look of Windows 95. Of course you don't have to use a GUI at all if you don't want to. 5) Does anybody know about a spanish version of LINUX ? Perhaps a spansish speaker can answer this? 6) Could you give me some servers names for newsgroups about LINUX (I´m using Microsoft News and i need to know the server name to login ). Use http://www.dejanews.com instead. They have all the newsgroups. The main Linux groups are in the comp.os.linux.* hierarchy. -- Jaldhar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is there an opposite to adduser?
Miquel van Smoorenburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 1 May 1997 11:38: deluser and adduser try to do everything themselves, but we now have useradd and userdel which are standard (well, on sysv systems anyway) and documented. The scripts and all your homemade scripts should call those programs to do the real work. I understand these programs can do the basic stuff, but I don't believe a program can do it generally. What must be done to add/remove a user changes from site to site. Just as an example, here we have to: a) include the line in /etc/passwd, create the homedir and copy initial stuff. This is standard, EXCEPT that /etc/skel must be copied with cp -a, so that symlinks are kept. b) include some users, but not all, in /etc/aliases so that they receive general mail. c) create a file in a certain dir for samba configuration. And the passwd file is not in the same machine where all the rest must be done... In summary, I believe adding/removing users is really a job for the administrator. Carlos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lprng how?
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: To whom you will file the bug report? :) Lawrence, Of course the minute I said I'd do something immediately a crisis arose to delay me. Now I'm ready and I find the bug package is not on my system. Worse it doesn't seem to be on the ftp site either. It's supposed to be in the util section. Anyone know where it went? -- Jaldhar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pg command for linux?
On Fri, 2 May 1997, Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: [...] nor does it allow you to use ENTER or SPACE to get out of it when you're at the end of the file. Try less -e or less -E. Vadik. -- begin 644 .signature [EMAIL PROTECTED]@*B!I;G%V$!P9BYU:'=V+FYP+G9Y(H@:6YQ=GA` 87)O=FYA+F)E=`J($AA=FL@;G%Z=F$* ` end -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Postscript to ?
( Re Message From: J.H.M.Dassen ) On May 2, Ted Harding wrote The closest you'll find to what you're looking for is in the pstools package, which at best will extract the text characters in the order of printing, but totally unformatted. It may, however, do a lot worse than that. Which program are you referring to, Ted? I'm aware of ps2ascii (comes with ghostscript) and pstotext (in non-free, uses gs-aladin). Oops, you're right! The text-extractor is ps2ascii from ghostscript. The package I intended to refer to is psutils, not pstools, but this doesn't do text extraction (plus I got its name wrong), thiugh it does try to do a lot of other useful things to PS files. However, what I said before still holds. I've used ps2ascii many times, as a last resort, but it usually only does a rough job. If you can get at the file before it becomes PostScript you're better off outputting as ASCII in the first place. I've not used pstotext and can't compare it with ps2ascii. Sorry for the mistakes -- it's been a distracting night in this country! Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dosemu and win95
It would be nice to be able to run a few things under dosemu however the other partitions on the hard drive are win95. Does anyone have any suggestions on doing this and insuring that my win95 doesn't die. I'd really hate to have to deal with the wife it I ended up killing it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
man2html and info2www give permission not allowed.
I have installed apache web server with cgi and the caned cgi scripts to try it out. It seamed obvious to also try man2html and info2www. The scripts that are in the cgi-bin directory off of the document root run fine. When simlinks to man2html and info2www are made an error is returned stating that permission is denied. The permissions are set to 755 on /usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin /usr/lib/cgi-bin /usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin/info2www /usr/lib/cgi-bin/man2html If man2html is moved into cgi-bin off the document root it runs but can't create the html that it needs to. I am a little confused about what permissions need to be set. Can someone help? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.39 1997/05/02 14:16:29 sr1 Exp sr1 $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ ( http://www.debian.org/FAQ/ ). 1.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 1.3. Getting newer versions of this document Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: o http://www.debian.org/Documentation/Debian/packages.html o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt 1.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. 2. Packages needing a new maintainer Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you need to discontinue maintaining a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of the packages listed here. orphaned : o libc4 (a.out compatibility) David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o libc5, libc6 (potentially a lot of work) Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o tgif o xarchie Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o html2latex o icmake o lshell o ntfs o umsdos o xftp o xautolock Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o pmake Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mh-papers o term o witalian o pari, paridoc o wnorwegian Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o seyon o lpr Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xarclock o xdaliclock o lha o dosfstools o sendfile o uudeview o ssh (ITAR restricted, linked against rsaref, needs US maintainer) Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp o lyx Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o apsfilter Yves Arrouye : o compress-package o mush o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o e2fsprogs o ipx o nas o ncpfs Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lxtools Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o glibcdoc o id-utils o mathpad o idutch o wdutch o wenglish Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o adbbs (needs a better setup of pre-customized files) o berolist o bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X) o defrag o freefont o genromfs o ircd o isite o loadlin o ncsa (new Webstandards need to be implemented) o netdiag o newsx o pash o poppassd o sharefont o syslinux o transproxy o upsd llucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dialog Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sysutils Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dvi2tty o hyperlatex o info2www o latex2rtf Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o opie Erik Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o elvis Vincent Renardias [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ftplib o lde o libdnd1 o libdnd1-dev o macutils o mcvert o offix-clipboard o offix-editor o offix-execute o offix-files o offix-trash o xabacus o xfishtank o xgalaga o xmcpustate o xodo Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o rlpr 3. Packages that someone is working on Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian packages, but someone is working on providing a package. If you would like to work on one of these packages please contact the responsible person listed below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl R. Sackett) : o swarm - Objective-C based artificial life research tool o GNU Smalltalk o utf-mailx: scripts to add UTF support to mailx. o SATAN - net security scanner o courtney - detects SATAN scans o gabriel - detects SATAN scans o drone - automatically runs batch jobs of simulation programs. o empire - Wolfpack Empire war simulation o togl - a Tk widget for OpenGL rendering o nanocad - a freeware CAD system for nanotechnology o WISE - WWW-based project management and metrics system Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o giftool David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dbackup - A Debian-specific backup program. o lockstep - A program to keep various directory trees in sync. o uucpconfig - A configuration program which will become part of my uucp package. Brian Sulcer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vile (vi-like editor) o rogue o umoria Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vtwm: Virtual Window Manager for X11 o yodl o w3-msql (W3 frontend for mSQL) Michael Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o nntplink Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ilisp (emacs interface to a number of lisp systems) o hyperbole (emacs hypertext/info management system) o oobr (emacs package for browsing OO programs) o STk (Scheme Tk, a scheme interpreter with Tk support) Dermot Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Umich LDAP o Nocol (network admin/monitoring) o MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) o Minivend (WWW-based catalogues) o PMConsole (Livingston's Portmaster
Re: pg command for linux?
Something of note -- it's odd that less doesn't allow you to use control-C to abort it, nor does it allow you to use ENTER or SPACE to get out of it when you're at the end of the file. This was driving my students crazy since they are in the pg-rut -- I had to keep reminding them to use q. shudder I am _so_ thankful that less doesn't do thatby default! Too many times I'd be paging through a file, hit space one too many times and be dropped out of the file. This is _real_ annoying if you're looking at the long output of a program! Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.02. 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: pg command for linux?
Thanks for the information on more and less. I use them so often that I assumed I knew everything about them (through osmosis, maybe?). Didn't even think of reading the man page (duh). Thanks again. -- Harmon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
lsof question
Hi, I just tried using the lsof command with the i option to see the network connections. When I used to do that I would get a big list of coennections. Today I got nothing I only got a message about there being no .lsof_garfield cache file. The program created it. I have upgraded a number of packages lately. I have also upgraded to 2.0.30 kernel. When i do a simple lsof I get a big list I don't know if this may help but many entries in the output say say that there is no socket in the inode. Could anybody help me get lsof -i back in working order or give me a clue as to what may be wrong ?? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How I installed frozen using dselect.
Hiya,
Dselect only gives one the choice between mounting stable or unstable.
I wanted to beta test frozen before the release date and so needed to
somehow convince dselect to allow this - but found no option to.
(I hear that using ftp install this isn't the case, but I installed from
a mounted drive)
Here's the solution:
I keep the debian distribution on /mnt/debian.
First make an alternative top structure.
mkdir /mnt/debian2; cd /mnt/debian2
Now recreate the directory structure that is contained in /mnt/debian
#This wee line creates a secont root tree
ls -1 --directory ../debian/* | sed 's$\.\.\/debian\/$$' | \
xargs -n 1 -i ln -s ../debian/{} ./{}
Now we must trick dselect into believing its installing unstable
rm unstable; ln -s ../debian/frozen ./unstable
Thats it! Now just tell dselect where the alternative tree is rooted and
say yes when dselect prompts whether you want to install the unstable
distribution!
Regards,
jay
ps: am not on the mailing lists so please CC any comments
pps: if anyone wants a point and click GUI interface to the above, then
just mail me and I'll put something together for you using
widtools. We could call it Xdefrost ;) hehe!!
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RE: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #174
Hi I´ve just discovered LINUX and i´m very excited. I´m a Win95 user from Guatemala, Central America, and around here nobody knows about the LINUX PROJECT, but i have some doubts. [snip] 5) Does anybody know about a spanish version of LINUX ? Perhaps a spansish speaker can answer this? Perhaps the howto could do the best job (I don't speak spanish either): http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Spanish-HOWTO.html HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where/what is -lgpc?
I have written several programs in TurboPascal and I am interested in using gpc in a Linux-environment so I installed gpc. I cannot even compile one of the example-programs that come with gpc. gpc hello.pas results in ld: cannot open -lgpc: No such file or directory I could not locate a library with the name gpc. I symlinked /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.1/gpc1 to gpc without it having any effect on the problem. I would appreciate some help. Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel. Nr. 0331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
lsof question
Hi, I have investigate my lsof problem a bit further. Just to remind the problem. When I run lsof -i nothing comes up . When I run lsof the network connections come up but instead of getting the normal output with address and the rest I only get sock in the fifith column and nothing from there on. the manual says that the type is sock when it refers to a socket with unknown domain. What program and why can't figure out the domain ? My syslog gives me infomration on net connections so the computer obviously knows. By the way I checked my System.map file it is where all the other system.maps are . I run kernel 2.0.30. I would appreciate any help. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: one thing latex is better than tetex
Lawrence Chim wrote: previously, dvips gave me ps file with page numbering and I can go to a particular page using ghostview or gv. after I installed tetex and found that the ps file no more numbered At least I can state that this is no general problem. I use the tetex-04.pl6-4 packages and in my configuration it definitely works without changes. My be there are different versions - look in the CHANGES file. Best wishes -- Volker - Volker OssenkopfKOSMA (Kvlner Observatorium f|r submm-Astronomie) Tel.: 0221 47034851. Physikalisches Institut der Fax.: 0221 4705162 Universitdt zu Kvln E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NIS problem, please Help
Richard Zoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : Hello, : : we have a debian linux NIS server running on a 166Mhz Pentium with 64Mb, : it serves a cluster of 20 debian linux boxes. : We have very big maps (600 lines in passwd and 2 hundreds more in group) : : Our ypserv is consuming up to 90% CPU time, : is it normal? I have experienced the same. Remove the + entry from the /etc/group files and everything will be back to normal. The /etc/group entries are not cached and each machine has to search through all of them via the NIS server to figure out to which groups a user belongs. The debian scheme adds a group for each users making the problem much more acute with debian. We have solved it by copying the /etc/group to all the machines with a cron job at night. -- --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- Please always CC me when replying to posts on mailing lists. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where/what is -lgpc?
You will need to install libgpc2. There doesn't appear to be a development version, but this package has the .so libs you will need. I don't know about headers though. In looking for the maintainer I noticed that the gpc package (2.0-3) depends on libgpc2, so I don't see how you installed it without getting the libs. When trying to find such missing parts, the Contents file (found in the outer directory of the particular archive) and the Packages files are invaluable. You can search Contents for a particular program or library and it will tell you which package contains that file. You can then look into the Packages file to see where the package is and who maintains it. Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the maintainer of these packages. If you are still having problems try contacting him directly for more assistance. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How is apache setup for multiple domains?
I have been looking at using apache as our web server and it will be necessary to set up the server to appear as 3 different domains. After looking at some of the documentation it appears that a machine could be set up so that the server machine will respond to 3 different IP addresses each for a different domains then have apache determine which domain it should appear to be. It would be great if there were some sort of HOWTO type of document or some example configuration files for this but I haven't seen them. Can someone point me at something like this? One of the things that I'm not sure of is how to have different document roots for each domain and weather there is one or more than one httpd.conf. It looks like multiple VirtualHost entries are made in the same http.conf but how do the VirtualHosts get refered back to the IP address? Is it via reverse DNS? I have heard that reverse DNS lookups are extremely important on apache. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How is apache setup for multiple domains?
You need to use the IP Aliasing option in the kernel. The Howto is /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias.gz. This what I did: 1) rebuild the kernel. This is inthe Howto. 2) add the other interfaces with ifconfig. 3) add routes to them. What isn't in the Howto is be sure to specify the dev option on each route or else you'll find your box telling others that it's a different IP to what you think it is! 4) Filled in the /Virtual Domain entry for Apache. I don't know of the top of my head, but it's in one of the 3 config files. 5) Add a primary line for the new domain to /var/named/named.boot 6) Adding the IP of the new domain to the reverse lookup file. 7) Writing the root file for the new domain. The root file for the new domain just needs the SOA and the address of www.domin.com for apache. 8) Restart the name server and reload apache. I not managed to get the mail to work as a multihomed server to deal with the virtual domains. I've read the file on Multihomed servers in /usr/doc/smail but I'm none the wiser. John Foster. On 2 May 1997, Chris Brown wrote: I have been looking at using apache as our web server and it will be necessary to set up the server to appear as 3 different domains. After looking at some of the documentation it appears that a machine could be set up so that the server machine will respond to 3 different IP addresses each for a different domains then have apache determine which domain it should appear to be. It would be great if there were some sort of HOWTO type of document or some example configuration files for this but I haven't seen them. Can someone point me at something like this? One of the things that I'm not sure of is how to have different document roots for each domain and weather there is one or more than one httpd.conf. It looks like multiple VirtualHost entries are made in the same http.conf but how do the VirtualHosts get refered back to the IP address? Is it via reverse DNS? I have heard that reverse DNS lookups are extremely important on apache. -- 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: Where/what is -lgpc?
On Fri, 2 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: You will need to install libgpc2. I did that before installing gpc. Thanks for the suggestion to write to the maintainer. I will do that. Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel. Nr. 0331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man2html and info2www give permission not allowed.
You have to modify the access.conf file in respect to the cgi-bin directory and uncomment/add follow symlinks option for the directory. Hope this helps. On 1 May 1997, R. Chris Ross wrote: I have installed apache web server with cgi and the caned cgi scripts to try it out. It seamed obvious to also try man2html and info2www. The scripts that are in the cgi-bin directory off of the document root run fine. When simlinks to man2html and info2www are made an error is returned stating that permission is denied. The permissions are set to 755 on /usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin /usr/lib/cgi-bin /usr/lib/httpd/cgi-bin/info2www /usr/lib/cgi-bin/man2html If man2html is moved into cgi-bin off the document root it runs but can't create the html that it needs to. I am a little confused about what permissions need to be set. Can someone help? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PACKAGE CHANGE proposal, who should I submit?
Ok, I have it fast, but I would like other Debian users (including Linux newbies) to have it too. Who could I send my immediately following posting? I fear there's NOT a maintainer for that package at the moment. Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address no autoresponse messages will return even when I'm not at home. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
pointer: guard your /etc/modules
At some point I absent-mindledly upgraded some package (modutils?) and ended up losing the io=0x300 option from the line in my /etc/modules that loaded the ne2000 driver. It took me about an hour to figure out because when my machine tried to boot and xdm started, my X server would fail to start, but xdm would keep restarting it (that's what it does), so my screen would be switching between text and graphics modes fairly quickly and scaring me. When I booted from a rescue disk, it still didn't know what IO port my ethernet card wanted and I got the same problem. I had to boot single user and poke around my system until I figured out what the problem was. I can't really report this as a bug because it was probably my fault for absent-mindedly upgrading. Consider yourselves warned. Robert -- Who ordered the London Philharmonic Orchestra? Possibly while high? Cypress hill? I'm looking at you?... - an extra on The Simpsons -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: FAST ACM! But broken timer? Gurus needed. Was: ACM 4.7-3 with Debian Linux 1.2.4
SUMMARY: - I dare advance the proposal to slightly change the Debian acm-4.7 package (but Ian Murdock is not the maintainer of the package any more, so who should I say?). - I wonder (though I suppose not) whether gettimeofday() gives different values than in Linux in some non-Linux Unix boxes (say Sun, Sparc and the like). - I suppose there's something to see also with 'xlock -mode rotor', it is VERY slow here (Debian 1.2.4). 1) ACM 4.7 slow. -- There is a chance that THE ACM DEBIAN PACKAGE IS WORTH BEING RE-PREAPARED INCLUDING BINARIES BUILT WITH THE REAL_DELTA_T=no SETTING, that is the binaries given by the self-applying workaround I posted yesterday under the same subject (besides, they are compiled with more optimization than the original Makefile's do) and, say, almost the first and tiniest patch, labeled A, the one to be able to successfully run the 'configure' script and rebuild the binaries (actually the only one I prepared that is not so dirty to act on Makefile's produced by the 'configure' script itself, as the other patches do instead on going back to Imakefile's). Maybe in the past rebuilding of the binaries done in order to just switch to elf has not considered that the original a.out binaries distributed with Slackware may have been compiled with the REAL_DELTA_T=no setting. ( Actually, a more complete work could be done (*) to understand whether a (Pentium 90) PC is just slow enough to justify the REAL_DELTA_T=no setting. Well, a good job would also be that of getting able to rebuild ACM 4.8 under Linux and then prepare a Debian package! Not to start a competition [also because I think there is _already_ a winner :-)], but I see that RedHat (4.1) still has acm-4.7-5... while the 4.8 package brings a great IEEE standard for distributed computing, a spheroidal world... ftp.netcom.com/pub/ra/rainey/acm/ ) -- Why I say this? I looked at acm-4.7/src/manifest.h and acm-4.7/src/update.c and then prepared a small test to see if that gettimeofday(...) is working differently when compiled and used under that old Slackware August '95 and under Debian 1.2(.4)... it isn't, it's quite the same. I rebuilt acm-4.7 under that old Slackware both with and without the REAL_DELTA_T=no environment variable. AND THE FORMER IS FAST, THE LATTER IS SLOW, BOTH THERE UNDER SLACKWARE AUGUST '95 AND HERE UNDER DEBIAN 1.2.4, so: THE BINARIES GIVEN WITH SLACKWARE *MUST* HAVE BEEN BUILT WITH THE ENVIRONMENT REAL_DELTA_T=no, AND ACTUALLY THEY ARE FAST HERE UNDER DEBIAN TOO! THE BINARIES GIVEN WITH DEBIAN (and RedHat 3.0.3, didn't test 4.1 yet) MUST HAVE BEEN BUILT WITHOUT THAT SETTING and the result (almost here) is very slow motion... ... by the way, why? (*) Maybe that gettimeofday(...) function works differently on systems others than Linux? Nevertheless, acms says about 31 fps: the src/manifest.h header has a compile switch that allows watching frame rate, WATCH_FRAME_RATE actually. Then you also have to change the related printf(...) output in src/update.c to fprintf(stderr, ...) to really have it. Someone owning a non-Linux Unix box, say Sun or Sparc or AIX, should compile and run timetest.c, 1st attachment, and compare the kind of numbers given with the ones in sample-result.cat, 2nd attachment... but I suppose that's *NOT* the point, err. I can't understand how the return values of that daily function can be so great yet, but probably tons of software born on various non-Linux Unix boxes and relating on that function are working quite well once rebuilt and run under Linux, so the true point is that the src/update.c function should be well understood. -- -- -- 2) xlockmore-3.11 about 'xlock -mode rotor' being that slow: no news, still to do. Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address no autoresponse messages will return even when I'm not at home. --- On Thu, 1 May 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: Sad to say, I'm not replying to my own question about Air Combat Maneuvers under Debian 1.2.4... Not yet... ... And not yet, but I can rebuild
Anonymous ftp via apache?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am running frozen (ie new web standard) and would like to link my anonymous ftp site to my web page. I was just going to create a link from something in /var/www to something in /home/ftp but I thought I would ask if there is a standard way to do this. Is there? Any help is gratefully appreciated. 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 iQCVAwUBM2pBlxhhzOJJktw1AQHxGQQAhepF0v+hAphMCAdhsChPmogdsLabt6JE jXQdX/+nXT4QWBnbF/wmfL0dKcAQIhlnRxATm6Kl6Tbceb0i5jCO7LjRstihesmd jax62U/Hg5rdJz+Yt2TayL1Hg3F53ityFP76jPYHswmzxnaeLqRzPJblpc4j1yJv Bsg1VyVfF2g= =DGSQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fvwm-audio
Just type man FvwmAudio if you have Fvwm*. The audio module does just what you are looking for. On Fri, 2 May 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: Hi. I was wondering what the fvwm-audio module does... I have searched my hard drive for documentation on this but I don't seem to have any... I would like to set up my machine to bind sounds with events like window minimise and maximise thanks --kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I can't get XDM to work!
At 02:10 PM 4/28/97 -0700, you wrote: Did you try switching to another console e.g. alt-F7 or alt-F8? Also, try just going to runlevel 5 (telinit 5); I tried telinit 5, with no obvious results. There were messages about sending signals to processes, then... no change. Any other ideas of something I might have goofed up? Thanks, Tim In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim O'Brien) writes: | I'm not sure what I did (or didn't) do, but xdm doesn't work on my system. | If you type xdm at the prompt, it will take up space, and show up if you | do ps -ax | grep xdm. | | Debian 1.2, kernel 2.0.6 on a 486/100 with 24M of ram, X11R6 3.12 | If this info isn't sufficient, please let me know. | | Thanks! | Tim Linux 2.0.6 i486 Because reboots are for upgrades! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XDM does not show login-screen
Im using the debian distribution for a while now but when I start xdm during startup the login-screen does not appear. Xdm is started but how do I get the graphical login? Btw. X does start when I load it by hand (xinit -- -bpp 16). Did I miss a package or some configurations? I have xbase 3.2-3, xcontrib 3.1.2-1, xserver-svga 3.2-3 installed. Thanx, Gernot -- -- Gernot Bauer University of Linz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where would I submit a new feature for the kernel?
I know this isn't a Debian question, but I have to start some place. What list/NG would be *best* to submit a new idea for the kernel? (actually maybe just lilo) Problem: partition and drive shift Solution: Name partitions like in the old Amiga days How: Read the 'labels' of all partitions at start up and dynamiclly creates entries in the /dev/ dir using that 'label' name with the correct major/minor. Example: If I have linux installed on Logical partition 7 and put that drive on another system, sda7 magically becomes sdb7 and linux will not boot with out reconfiguring. This sucks. Example with fix: we mount /dev/linpar as root. We 'label' the linux partiton linpar. The kernel starts up, and scans the labels of all the partitions. It finds a type 83 with a label of linpar, and it creates a /dev/linpar entry (or symlink) to the correct major and minor. If anything moves, linpar will always be linpar, no matter if it's physically sda1, sda5, hdb1, etc. Taken even futher, the same works with type 06 (FAT) and 07 (HPFS) (maybe others) partitions using the standard DOS label for the name of the partitions. Similarly if you have a FAT partition you mount as /usr1 you don't have to worry where it physically is, as long as it is named correctly. I'll offer to help code this, it really looks quite easy to do. -- Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
problems with xquake106-1
I tried the following: dpkg --install quake-lib-stub_1.3.deb dpkg --install xquake_1.06-1_i386.deb and then tried to run xquake. I got the following error messages: FindFile: can't find gfx/pop.lmp Playing shareware version. FindFile: can't find gfx.wad Error: W_LoadWadFile: couldn't load gfx.wad Couldn't write config.cfg. I have the registered version of Quake 1.06 under /mnt/flint/quake (and the quake.conf points to that location) Any ideas? Thanks, Chris. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Lilo
I would like to simply use lilo on a boot floppy, but when I ran the config it seemed limited to installation on the hard drive. Am I wrong about this, and how would I go about preparing a boot floppy with lilo. I use debian 1.2.4, and need to access old WfW 3.11 software, on the first hard drive, W95 and linux on the second. (I evaluate and propose various W95 software for others.) Gary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XDM does not show login-screen
Check /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers for an entry indicating your server such as this: :0 Main local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 On Fri, 2 May 1997, Gernot wrote: Im using the debian distribution for a while now but when I start xdm during startup the login-screen does not appear. Xdm is started but how do I get the graphical login? Btw. X does start when I load it by hand (xinit -- -bpp 16). Did I miss a package or some configurations? I have xbase 3.2-3, xcontrib 3.1.2-1, xserver-svga 3.2-3 installed. Thanx, Gernot -- -- Gernot Bauer University of Linz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
