Re: Xwindows packages which one??
Hi, there is a million and one ways to do computing. People do things differently. No one way is right or wrong just different. there is a file in /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config. You can run that and it will step you through the configuration of the xserver. Make sure you have the monitor vertical resolution and horizontal resolution settings. If you dpkg -i the xserver-svga.deb file it will do the same thing. Using dpkg -i command is the manual way of installing .deb files. I find that it works wonderfully, I have not used dselect. I don't plan to either. This mail group has nothing good to say about it. But if it works good for you then you keep using it. I hope this helps you. If something goes wrong write the errors down and email them to me and the group and we will see what we can do. bye for now. I hope this works out for you. Remember email me if you have problems. Paul On Wed, 14 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Rick, I was able to install xserver-svga successfully. What am I suposse to do next? You mentioned that all I have to do is run XF86Config to configure my xserver. But I do not see the XF86Config command any where. I don't think that xserver-svga includes the xf86config command. Something is missing. It is confusing to decide what to do, because some people say in this mailing list to don't use dselect, others say that I need to have xbase installed before I try to install any of the xservers. Who is right? At least your way worked so far, but I cannot configure the xserver. I used dselect to install it. I installed the package: xserver-svga_3.2-1.deb (I assume is the latest debian stable package). I purged xbase, xfnt, and etc. Any help will be greatly appreciated and thanks again for all you help Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: Xwindows packages which one??
Hello. xf86config is in xbase. bash dpkg --search /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config xbase: /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config for me you should install xbase, probably xfnt* (at least xfntbase), and everything dselect requires or suggests you should install. I would be surprised if old configs are a problem. debian is very robust. but its way of installing X is confusing. then you run xf86config. If you manage to respond to its questions, it will even tell you which server you must use (apparently xserver_svga). Good luck, Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problem with wu-ftpd....
At work I sit behind a firewall. The firewall lets me out for whatever I want, but for some reason, there is a conflict with the wu-ftpd distributed with Debian and my firewall. Wu-ftpd sits there for several minutes before it times out and actually connects...it seems like I can't connect at all to master.debian.org from behind the firewall, although maybe it just takes a few minutes more. It occurs to me that maybe wu-ftpd is waiting for my name to be sent, because it knows my name when I go there and am not behind a firewallwho feeds this info to it if I don't have identd running? Is that my client? Is this not the problem? How can I get wu-ftpd to give me a quicker response? I'm convinced that this is a Debian/wu-ftpd problem... I can get into ftp.debian.org fine from my firewall, as well as ftp.redhat.com, and all other ftp sites I've ever tried...but the two Debian machines at home take several minutes to let me in, and master.debian.org won't let me in at all, or maybe I just haven't waited long enough for it to timeout. Thanks, Sam -- VA Research Linux Workstations Engineered like no other http://www.varesearch.com Sam Ockman - (415)934-3666, ext. 133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xwindows packages which one??
If you install xbase at this point, with the xserver in place, it should tell you, via dependancies all that you need for a base install. Just hit enter and let it do it's thing. Then run xf86config, and it should work. Then you can start wondering about contrib and window managers. Get the base working. On Wed, 14 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Rick, I was able to install xserver-svga successfully. What am I suposse to do next? You mentioned that all I have to do is run XF86Config to configure my xserver. But I do not see the XF86Config command any where. I don't think that xserver-svga includes the xf86config command. Something is missing. It is confusing to decide what to do, because some people say in this mailing list to don't use dselect, others say that I need to have xbase installed before I try to install any of the xservers. Who is right? At least your way worked so far, but I cannot configure the xserver. I used dselect to install it. I installed the package: xserver-svga_3.2-1.deb (I assume is the latest debian stable package). I purged xbase, xfnt, and etc. Any help will be greatly appreciated and thanks again for all you help Alberto Ruiz [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: fixes for delgroup
On Wed, 14 May 1997, George Bonser wrote: I fixed a couple of things in /usr/sbin/delgroup (but did not save the file first so I could make a diff). The changes are minor and at the top of the file. was: if [ -f /etc/gtmp]; changed to: if [-f /etc/gtmp]; then You're right here, the original has a syntax error. Was: $GID='id -g mail' changed to GID=$(id -d mail) (which really makes no sense unless the author wants to pick a safe GID. but I did not look into it any deeper ... the script appears to run now). This indeed doesn't make any sense. I think it must be GID=$(id -g $1) This way $GID becomes the GID of the group youare deleting. It is only used for checking if there are any references to this GID in /etc/passwd. This might occur if you are deleting a group and the user with the same name hasn't been deleted. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fixes for delgroup
Was: $GID='id -g mail' changed to GID=$(id -d mail) (which really makes no sense unless the author wants to pick a safe GID. but I did not look into it any deeper ... the script appears to run now). ment -g typed -d ... it was a long night. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BIND 8.1??
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Wed, 14 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: I was wondering about the jump from 4.9.5 to 8.1? A few versions missing in there. No those versions were never released. I also cannot find a reason for this major step at their homepage (http://www.isc.org/isc/bind.html). From the README on ISC's FTP site: There are two production level BIND's at the moment: Version 4 and Version 8. Version 4 is the last traditional BIND -- the one everybody on the Internet runs, except a few hundred sites running... Version 8, which has been called BIND-ng (Next Generation). We use BIND-8.1 on our root name server and all of our production (primary, secondary, and recursive) servers. -- Mark EvansLinux v2 Information Headquarters [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxhq.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
New Install
Frozen Install: Well, I just installed Frozen on the system I am sending this note from. Everything went great. I had no problems with the install! I'm happy :) Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
LINUX SUPPORT FOR CABLE-MODEMS?
Hi all. A cable modem has just been installed on my computer, and I would like to use it under Linux: 1) The card that was installed on my computer is a 10base-T (twisted pair) ethernet card -- Intel 82557-based PCI Ethernet card. Does the Linux kernel currently have a driver for this card? On a fresh install of Debian, I did not see a driver for this card listed in the driver configuration portion of the install ... 2) The cable-modem hookup supports dynamic IP-address assignment (though I'm supposed to get the same IP address each time the modem powers on). Is there a way to get the Linux ethernet support to read its IP address, say, at boot time? Thanks (very much) in advance for any info. :-) -- Harmon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Who's using Debian?
Hi, I thought it might be a neat idea to make a webpage listing some of the people that use Debian and what they use it for. So, if you are using Debian, reply to this e-mail (privately to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to the whole list). Let me know what you are using it for, and if you have a web address, give me that too. I'll add you to my page and add a link to your site as well. I know there are people out there using Debian for some impressive things Help us spread the word about what Debian can do! BTW, the page is at http://happy.cs.twsu.edu/~jgoerzen/Debian/users.html I'll probably also make a mirror of it somewhere... -- John Goerzen | Running Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xwindows packages which one???
Paul McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't use dselect, it is a waste of time. Not that it's a big deal, but I used to avoid dselect like the plague. One day, I sat down and forced myself to carefully understand what it's doing and *never* press a key without knowing what it means. After that I found that I actually like dselect. It's a little rough around the edges but now it almost always does what I want with little intervention. I think the biggest problem is that the interface is pretty non-intuitive at first, but it's quite powerful once you get used to it. In any case, this issue's already been beaten to death, and it's probably listed a million times in the bug archive, or Ian's dselect wish list; I just wanted try to make up for some of the dselect grumbling I've done in the past... -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Lyx: Where is Xforms? --- SOLUTION (I hope)
Hi all you Lyx/xisp/... users and maintainers,
I'm the current maintainer of xforms.
The previous xforms version was 0.81, the
current version is 0.86.
Since the version numbering doesn't fit into the major/minor scheme
as used for most of the shared libs, I've had serious problems. Now I
hope, I've found a good solution, although depend on other maintainers
as well on the patience of you users
I'll try to make my explanations short and understandable ;-)
Q: The package I'd like to install (lyx) depends on `xforms (= 0.81),
but xforms doesn't seem to be available, the only package I found
is xforms0_0.81-*.
A: You should install your package manually, using the following line:
# dpkg --install --force-depends lyx_10-7.deb
... or whatever your package is
Q: I'm a package maintainer, my package depends on xforms, what should I
do?
A: Install xforms0.86 and xforms-dev_0.86 and try to make your package
with this library version. If this fails (since 0.81 and 0.86 aren't
API compatible) install xforms0.81 and xforms-dev_0.81 and make your
package with this library.
The ``Depends:'' field in your control file should reflect the
library you used and if you have the right syntax in there
(Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}), this should be done automagically by
dpkg-shlibdeps.
Hope this helps us out of our misery ;-)
Heiko
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Re: /home, /usr/local, / and /whatelse?
Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brent Hutto wrote, Is there a HOWTO or something that outlines the current conventional wisdom about partitions? If not, can somebody clue me in as to what /usr/local and so forth are used for and why they might be A good guide is the Linux Filesystem Structure (FSSTND) by Daniel Quinlan. There should be a link to this from the debian webpage. Debian's placement of files follow this standard rather strictly. There is also the Multiple-Disks-Layout mini-HOWTO, which is still appropriate for a single disk despite its name. -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Encryption renamed to Encode to avoid US regulation problems - include/linux/wireless.h in Linux 2.0.30 kernel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Programming languages: where to start?
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Johann Spies write s: I have been experimenting with debian now for about 8 months and have some experience in programming in a Dos-environment using languages like Turbopascal, PDC-prolog, DBASE III and Basic earlier on. I seems to me that to be able to enjoy the power of Linux, I should be able to do some Linux programming. Where should I start? C, C++, Perl, Python, Tk, Bash script language, AWK, SQL, itcl? When programming in the past I wrote menu-based small databases most of the time and I would like to be able to write programs that are useful to me and that can be ported to a Dos/Windows environment because none of my colleagues are Linux-users. I have tentatively started working on a book 'Learn C++ Today' together with some documentation on gcc. Which is the best way from here? If portabel GUI-databases is what you want i think SQL and Tcl/Tk is best. I prefere Python before Perl but i think Python is UNIX only (corect my if I'm wrong) so You probably want Perl to compliment Tcl... C and C++ is never bad to lern and can do what you want if You chose (or write :-) the right librarys. However, I think You both lern and use Perl/Tcl/Tk faster so if Your apps don't NEED the power of C/C++ it might be a overkill. Then ther is Java, but i dont know if it has god interfaces to local databases. I have herd of DB2 clones for UNIX so You migt find a solution ther (but not the most fun). Take this as advice and pointers, not the absolute truth... HTH /Lars 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] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Programming languages: where to start?
If portabel GUI-databases is what you want i think SQL and Tcl/Tk is best. I prefere Python before Perl but i think Python is UNIX only (corect my if I'm wrong) so You probably want Perl to compliment Tcl... C and C++ is never You are wrong :) I'm not sure all of the platforms python is available for but it is certainly available for windows, and I am fairly certain for the mac as well. 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://larry.earthlight.co.nz/ -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Programming languages: where to start?
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Johann Spies wrote: I have been experimenting with debian now for about 8 months and have some experience in programming in a Dos-environment using languages like Turbopascal, PDC-prolog, DBASE III and Basic earlier on. I seems to me that to be able to enjoy the power of Linux, I should be able to do some Linux programming. Where should I start? C, C++, Perl, Python, Tk, Bash script language, AWK, SQL, itcl? When programming in the past I wrote menu-based small databases most of the time and I would like to be able to write programs that are useful to me and that can be ported to a Dos/Windows environment because none of my colleagues are Linux-users. I have tentatively started working on a book 'Learn C++ Today' together with some documentation on gcc. Which is the best way from here? My preference would be to go for python and C with the addition of awk for short peices of one of code. Python is a nice langauge for rapid development of code. The code that it produces is generally inclined to be well structured and can be read 6 months after it has been written. The language has been ported to a huge number of platforms including unix, dos, nt/win95, amiga os and others. Where speed is critcal the modular structure of python code means that you can use C replace speed dependant portions of your code in a seamless fashion. C is good language to learn simply because in learning it you get a head start on learning most of the other languages which have grown up in the unix environment. Joe ps. I also use python to access SQL databases :-) === 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Cannot set up a NIS slave server
Hello, I just tried to set up a NIS slave server (Version 2.20-1) in a domain that is mastered by an AIX workstation. The command ypinit -s master results in the error message can't yp_bind: Reason: RPC failure Can't enumerate maps from . Please check that it is run. The maps are not transferred. When I set up the Linux machine as a client ( with ypbind -ypsetme and ypset master ) then I can get the passwd maps, but ypwhich -m still fails: $ ypwhich -m YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad Is this a compatibility problem between the AIX and the Debian NIS implementation? Thanks, Thomas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mgetty for PPP; Need help
I have installed mgetty ( 1.0.0-1 ) and it works fine when I am dial-in from outside w95 machine. Now I tring to add PPP and here are the basic steps which were done: 1. Installing new kernel (2.0.27) with CONFIG_PPP=m 2. Then I edited Makefile in this way CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall -pipe -DAUTO_PPP and slightly modified the policy.h 3. Make; cp mgetty /sbin; rebot After this point I get the message ...S1, too fast respawning mgetty. Suspended for 5 min or something like that. And that is all )-; Hope that someone can help me to overcome this. Thanks in advane, Eugene Sevinian Cosmic Ray Division Yerevan Phisics Institute Alikhanian's Brothers str.2 375036 Yerevan 36 Armenia URL: http://www.yerphi.am/crd/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-352041 (YerPhI), 374-2-344873 (aprt.) Fax: 374-2-350030 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Cannot set up a NIS slave server
Hello Andrea, You have to set the nis domainname first. Do you mean that I had to set up /etc/defaultdomain and run /etc/init.d/nis stop and /etc/init.d/nis start? I had done this (as described in /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto). This does not seem to the problem. Cheers, Thomas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Cannot set up a NIS slave server
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Thomas Gebhardt wrote: Hello Andrea, You have to set the nis domainname first. Do you mean that I had to set up /etc/defaultdomain and run /etc/init.d/nis stop and /etc/init.d/nis start? I had done this (as described in /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto). This does not seem to the problem. It's strange, because the ypinit output says that the domain is not set. What's the output of the command domainname Cheers, Thomas Cheers, andrea -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Cannot set up a NIS slave server
Hello, It's strange, because the ypinit output says that the domain is not set. Do you think the message can't yp_bind: Reason: RPC failure Can't enumerate maps from master. Please check that it is run. means that the domain is not set? At least the second line indicates that the Linux host could not figure out the name of the maps (this may be an additional problem, however). The same problem seems to arise when I set up the host as a NIS client: In this case everything is ok but the command ypwhich -m gives the error YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad This error might not be critical when the Linux machine is a client but it is crucial when it should be a slave server. (Since the Linux machine is the only host in its local network, it must be configured as a slave server.) What's the output of the command domainname It gives the correct domainname Cheers, Thomas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DNS question
Rick Jones wrote: I should have been more specific, sorry. I wanted to know if this secondary that is behind the firewall, IP masq'd, can be used as far as internic is concerned, or if they will reject it because of the IP masqing? No, Internic will not allow two name servers with the same IP address. They have good reasons for that, because if one machine goes down both name servers disappears and nobody can look up MX records for your domain, meaning that your inbound mail will bounce. Name servers should be placed so that they have no common point of failure. Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: New to Debian
W.D.McKinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone here just moved from Red Hat to Debian ? Me. I came from RH 3.0.3 and I am satisfyed. I also used RH 4.0 but I prefer Debian for my taste. You can configure and upgrade better. You also have much more official packages. -- Alair Pereira do Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ime.usp.br/~alair Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libc5-dev and kernel-source
Hello, How do the include files in /usr/include/linux relate to the files in /usr/src/kernel-source-/include/linux ? Most of the include files are identical, others are different. Isn't this a possible source of confusion? Cheers, Thomas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mgetty for PPP; Need help
Eugene Sevinian wrote: I have installed mgetty ( 1.0.0-1 ) and it works fine when I am dial-in from outside w95 machine. Now I tring to add PPP and here are the basic steps which were done: 1. Installing new kernel (2.0.27) with CONFIG_PPP=m You didn't use 'make config' or 'make xconfig'? When you recompiled the kernel did you make modules and modules-install? You know, the PPP module depends on others (can't think of them offhand). 2. Then I edited Makefile in this way CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall -pipe -DAUTO_PPP and slightly modified the policy.h Did you need to compile from source? The stock binary includes AUTO_PPP support. 3. Make; cp mgetty /sbin; rebot After this point I get the message ...S1, too fast respawning mgetty. Suspended for 5 min or something like that. And that is all )-; If mgetty is respawning, something larger than ppp is probably wrong-- it would never have a chance to take a login? Perhaps something you did to the config is causing this. Did you change the config file? Did you look in /var/log/mgetty/* for error messages? Hope that someone can help me to overcome this. I'll try. I use mgetty/ppp all the time. Never compiled mgetty myself. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem with wu-ftpd....
Sam Ockman wrote: At work I sit behind a firewall. The firewall lets me out for whatever I want, but for some reason, there is a conflict with the wu-ftpd distributed with Debian and my firewall. Wu-ftpd sits there for several minutes before it times out and actually connects...it seems like I can't connect at all to master.debian.org from behind the firewall, although maybe it just takes a few minutes more. It occurs to me that maybe wu-ftpd is waiting for my name to be sent, because it knows my name when I go there and am not behind a firewallwho feeds this info to it if I don't have identd running? Is that my client? Is this not the problem? How can I get wu-ftpd to give me a quicker response? I'm convinced that this is a Debian/wu-ftpd problem... I can get into ftp.debian.org fine from my firewall, as well as ftp.redhat.com, and all other ftp sites I've ever tried...but the two Debian machines at home take several minutes to let me in, and master.debian.org won't let me in at all, or maybe I just haven't waited long enough for it to timeout. Thanks, Sam Perhaps you can turn off ident checking in wu-ftpd. ident can't really go through the firewall back to you. If your firewall is SOCKS, SOCKS can supply ident service. Unfortunately you have to stop regular ident service for this to work--I wish there was a better way. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dpkg install problem
Hello, OK you dpkg experts, what is the best way out of this one: gecko# dpkg -i gzip_1.2.4-15.deb (Reading database ... 2582 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gzip 1.2.4-15 (using gzip_1.2.4-15.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gzip ... install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: error processing gzip_1.2.4-15.deb (--install): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2 install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: gzip_1.2.4-15.deb gecko# This occurs while attempting to re-install the broken package gzip. I believe the package became broken because I ran out of space on my root partition while installing several packages, gzip among them. Since this is a secondary system with a small drive, I decided to jetison all the man, info (GNU info, not dpkg), and doc files to free up space. Maybe this is what dpkg is complaining about now. Or maybe some dpkg info files were not able to be updated when the partition was full. The system runs fine now . In fact, it seems that the updated gzip package that dpkg thinks is broken is actually installed and executable. Two other packages in this same state are ldso and tar. I'm not too worried about gzip and tar--I can just ftp those executables from my other system and forget about dpkg--but everything depends on ldso, and I can't get dpkg to install most other packages. Thanks in advance for any ideas. --ken -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem with wu-ftpd....
Message from Jens B. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Sam Ockman wrote: At work I sit behind a firewall. The firewall lets me out for whatever I want, but for some reason, there is a conflict with the wu-ftpd distributed with Debian and my firewall. Wu-ftpd sits there for several minutes before it times out and actually connects...it seems like I can't connect at all to master.debian.org from behind the firewall, although maybe it just takes a few minutes more. It occurs to me that maybe wu-ftpd is waiting for my name to be sent, because it knows my name when I go there and am not behind a firewallwho feeds this info to it if I don't have identd running? Is that my client? Is this not the problem? How can I get wu-ftpd to give me a quicker response? I'm convinced that this is a Debian/wu-ftpd problem... I can get into ftp.debian.org fine from my firewall, as well as ftp.redhat.com, and all other ftp sites I've ever tried...but the two Debian machines at home take several minutes to let me in, and master.debian.org won't let me in at all, or maybe I just haven't waited long enough for it to timeout. Thanks, Sam Perhaps you can turn off ident checking in wu-ftpd. ident can't really go through the firewall back to you. If your firewall is SOCKS, SOCKS can supply ident service. Unfortunately you have to stop regular ident service for this to work--I wish there was a better way. Okay, I'd love to do thisbut how? I read all the documentation and couldn't find anything -Sam -- VA Research Linux Workstations Engineered like no other http://www.varesearch.com Sam Ockman - (415)934-3666, ext. 133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
missed cron jobs
This morning I worked on my home debian system at a very early time (for me, that is), from 6:30 a.m on. All of a sudden my hard disk begins to crackle, opening a new window takes longer than normal (I have a lowly 486DX100), and after starting top I see that `nobody' is running `find' (it's amazing, isn't it ? :). I soon realized that this was cron running the cron.daily scripts. I never thought about this before, but it may very well have been the first time these scripts were run, my computer at home is usually switched off at this time. Now comes my question: Could this be harmful? I think a lot of people using linux at home don't leave their computer switched on continuously. Has anyone ever thought of a system that would spot missed cron events and run them at a later time? Would this be useful at all? Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xwindows running finally!! what's next?
Hi all!, I just want to thank all who helped me get Xwindows running. This is what I hadto do to install it successfully: I cleaned everything first, may be it had something to do with selecting - instead of _. I also had to install xserver-svga first and then xbase with the rest of its dependencies. Anyway, I'm now looking for a window manager and all the neat tools to run Xwindows smoothly. I heard of fvwm, gwm, afterstep, fvwm95 and others. Can I run all of them at the same time? Is it a sequence? Do I need to kill xwindows before I install them or dselect will take care of that? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg install problem
Why don't you try dpkg -r gzip. Then dpkg -i gzip_1.2.4-15.deb and see what happens. I hope this helps. Paul On Thu, 15 May 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: Hello, OK you dpkg experts, what is the best way out of this one: gecko# dpkg -i gzip_1.2.4-15.deb (Reading database ... 2582 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gzip 1.2.4-15 (using gzip_1.2.4-15.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gzip ... install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: error processing gzip_1.2.4-15.deb (--install): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2 install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: gzip_1.2.4-15.deb gecko# This occurs while attempting to re-install the broken package gzip. I believe the package became broken because I ran out of space on my root partition while installing several packages, gzip among them. Since this is a secondary system with a small drive, I decided to jetison all the man, info (GNU info, not dpkg), and doc files to free up space. Maybe this is what dpkg is complaining about now. Or maybe some dpkg info files were not able to be updated when the partition was full. The system runs fine now . In fact, it seems that the updated gzip package that dpkg thinks is broken is actually installed and executable. Two other packages in this same state are ldso and tar. I'm not too worried about gzip and tar--I can just ftp those executables from my other system and forget about dpkg--but everything depends on ldso, and I can't get dpkg to install most other packages. Thanks in advance for any ideas. --ken -- 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: mgetty for PPP; Need help
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Eugene Sevinian wrote: 3. Make; cp mgetty /sbin; rebot After this point I get the message ...S1, too fast respawning mgetty. Suspended for 5 min or something like that. And that is all )-; If mgetty is respawning, something larger than ppp is probably wrong-- it would never have a chance to take a login? Perhaps something you did to the config is causing this. Did you change the config file? Did you look in /var/log/mgetty/* for error messages? I've seen this with mgetty trying to initialize a modem that was not a fax. Add '-D' to the mgetty line in inittab, or (I think) 'data-only' in the mgetty.config file Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps We will either find a way, or make one. Hannibal ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How do I change my settings to use a different monitor?
Hi again, I installed Xwindows using an old monitor. I now have a new monitor which has more resolutions. How do I go in changing the settings to the new monitor? Would I loose my window if I'm making the changes on Xwindows? Is it better to do it through a telnet session? What about when I'm installing new Xwindows addons,is it a problem running dselect from within Xwindows? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: missed cron jobs
On May 15, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote [problems when cron jobs are never executed on systems that aren't switched on 24hrs/day ?] Could this be harmful? AFAIK: not really. It does mean that logs keep on growing, but that's easily cured. I think a lot of people using linux at home don't leave their computer switched on continuously. Has anyone ever thought of a system that would spot missed cron events and run them at a later time? Would this be useful at all? Something like that has already been implemented: Debian's anacron package (in unstable/admin). HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How do I kill jobs?
Hi, How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and it lists everything, but I don't think is the same in Linux. I'm just guessing i way to change the setting on Xwindows by killing Xwindows, modifying the XF86Config file andrestarting Xwindows. Am I going in the right way? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
figures to teach Debian novice
Hello! I'm searching figures to teach Debian novice. They don't know anything about PCs, so it's very difficult to show them how easy a Debian GNU/Linux System is. I want to teach them all the relevant aspects of a Debian System. So all pictures, graphs, charts etc. are very welcome. If possible give me the URL where I can find or search the figures. Many thanks in advance. I'll make a summary available on http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/debian/ Bye Christian -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ Debian/GNU Linux! Mehr unter http://www.debian.org/ pgpEuS4EKpms2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dpkg install problem
The problem is that the installation script for 'gzip' wants to update
the directory of info files ('/usr/info/dir') to contain a reference
to the gzip documentation. When it is unable to find the file
'/usr/info/dir', it exits with an error. dpkg takes this to mean that
there was something wrong with the installation of the package and
marks the package as 'broken'.
The temporary fix is to create the file /usr/info/dir, and then
running 'dpkg --configure --pending' to try to configure the packages
again. I'll look into changing install-info to be able to better cope
with /usr/info/dir being missing.
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Re: Xwindows running finally!! what's next?
I just want to thank all who helped me get Xwindows running. This is what I hadto do to install it successfully: I cleaned everything first, may be it had something to do with selecting - instead of _. I also had to install xserver-svga first and then xbase with the rest of its dependencies. Anyway, I'm now looking for a window manager and all the neat tools to run Xwindows smoothly. I heard of fvwm, gwm, afterstep, fvwm95 and others. Can I run all of them at the same time? Is it a sequence? Do I need to kill xwindows before I install them or dselect will take care of that? Sounds like you have a window manager up already - the default twm. I use this manager and it is fine for me. But if you want something more Windows95y, or just something with more frills, just load up all the other window manager packages, then change the manager you want in your home directory ~/.xsession Here is an example (From a Sun machine, but running X11R6.1); measun10% more ~/.xsession #! /bin/csh # no -f in the previous line so .cshrc gets run to set $PATH twm xearth -label -bigstars 50 -term 50 -gamma 1.4 -mono xmailbox -name mail -geometry 70x70-0+90 -file /usr/spool/mail/ed xclock -name clock -geometry 70x70-0+0 xconsole -name console -geometry 450x60+0+0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail xterm -title Measun10 -geometry 80x40+30+200 -ls measun10% What you want to do is change the 'twm ' line to 'gwm ' etc. The installation scripts for the window manager packages might ask you if you want to use the manager as default and change things automatically - I'm not sure, but this should work. Ed -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mgetty for PPP; Need help
Thanks Jens, here is some additional info. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Eugene Sevinian wrote: I have installed mgetty ( 1.0.0-1 ) and it works fine when I am dial-in from outside w95 machine. Now I tring to add PPP and here are the basic steps which were done: 1. Installing new kernel (2.0.27) with CONFIG_PPP=m You didn't use 'make config' or 'make xconfig'? When you recompiled the kernel did you make modules and modules-install? You know, the PPP module depends on others (can't think of them offhand). I did it. 2. Then I edited Makefile in this way CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall -pipe -DAUTO_PPP and slightly modified the policy.h Did you need to compile from source? The stock binary includes AUTO_PPP support. First I had problems with this binary. Trying to connect from w95 I got ... The computer you're dialing in to cannot establish a Dial_Up Networking connection. Check your password, and try again. ... so I decided to compile from source. 3. Make; cp mgetty /sbin; rebot After this point I get the message ...S1, too fast respawning mgetty. Suspended for 5 min or something like that. And that is all )-; If mgetty is respawning, something larger than ppp is probably wrong-- it would never have a chance to take a login? Perhaps something you did to the config is causing this. Did you change the config file? Did you look in /var/log/mgetty/* for error messages? Here is the messages coresponding to the new compiled binary lifetime from /var/log/mgetty/mg_ttyS1.log. -- 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 mgetty: official release 1.0.0 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 check for lockfiles 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 locking the line 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 lowering DTR to reset Modem 05/15 14:16:55 yS1 send: \dATQ0V1H0[0d] 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 send: AT[0d] 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 waiting... 05/15 14:45:01 # failed dev=ttyS1, pid=10653, got signal 15, exiting -- Hope that someone can help me to overcome this. I'll try. I use mgetty/ppp all the time. Never compiled mgetty myself. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene Sevinian Cosmic Ray Division Yerevan Phisics Institute Alikhanian's Brothers str.2 375036 Yerevan 36 Armenia URL: http://www.yerphi.am/crd/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-352041 (YerPhI), 374-2-344873 (aprt.) Fax: 374-2-350030 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I change my settings to use a different monitor?
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I installed Xwindows using an old monitor. I now have a new monitor which has more resolutions. How do I go in changing the settings to the new monitor? Would I loose my window if I'm making the changes on Xwindows? Is it better to do it through a telnet session? What about when I'm installing new Xwindows addons,is it a problem running dselect from within Xwindows? Fix your line wrap. This is one sentance running off the page. No problem to all questions. Run xf86config, or edit it manually (/etc/X11/XF86Config) it won't take effect until you restart X, or recycle xdm. You will need the refresh rates for the new monitor to put in the config. Don't guess or your monitor could go into melt-down. Alberto Ruiz [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] .
Re: How do I change my settings to use a different monitor?
I hope you are using xdm. If not then this won't help you. You have to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. There is a section in it called Screen. There you should have the settings for your current monitor. You can edit that section with the new monitor settings. I hope this helps. Make sure to have all the monitor settings. Paul On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hi again, I installed Xwindows using an old monitor. I now have a new monitor which has more resolutions. How do I go in changing the settings to the new monitor? Would I loose my window if I'm making the changes on Xwindows? Is it better to do it through a telnet session? What about when I'm installing new Xwindows addons,is it a problem running dselect from within Xwindows? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: How do I kill jobs?
How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and it lists everything, but I don't think is the same in Linux. I'm just guessing i way to change the setting on Xwindows by killing Xwindows, modifying the XF86Config file andrestarting Xwindows. Am I going in the right way? I use 'ps -uax', but read 'man ps' and see what that says Ed -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mgetty for PPP; Need help
Mgetty string in inittab look like s1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D ttyS1 Is it enough or I should set this -D somewhere else ? I've seen this with mgetty trying to initialize a modem that was not a fax. Add '-D' to the mgetty line in inittab, or (I think) 'data-only' in the mgetty.config file Tim Eugene Sevinian Cosmic Ray Division Yerevan Phisics Institute Alikhanian's Brothers str.2 375036 Yerevan 36 Armenia URL: http://www.yerphi.am/crd/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-352041 (YerPhI), 374-2-344873 (aprt.) Fax: 374-2-350030 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mgetty for PPP; Need help
In your email to me, Eugene Sevinian, you wrote: Mgetty string in inittab look like s1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -D ttyS1 Is it enough or I should set this -D somewhere else ? Nope... thats right. Make sure your init string (in mgetty.config I think) is right for that port. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps We will either find a way, or make one. Hannibal ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I kill jobs?
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and it lists everything, but I don't think is the same in Linux. I'm just guessing i way to change the setting on Xwindows by killing Xwindows, modifying the XF86Config file andrestarting Xwindows. Am I going in the right way? Just exit. The window manager has a menu under the left mouse key that should have an exit selection. If that doesn't work use ctrl-alt-backspace. That will kill the x session. ps -aux for starters. Debian comes with a nice funtion called man. If you type man ps or whatever other program you want to know about it will tell you many of these things you are asking us about. Alberto Ruiz [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] .
Re: How do I kill jobs?
to kill a process you must be root if it is not run by you. the command is kill -9 (pid). To see the pid do a ps -aux. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hi, How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and it lists everything, but I don't think is the same in Linux. I'm just guessing i way to change the setting on Xwindows by killing Xwindows, modifying the XF86Config file andrestarting Xwindows. Am I going in the right way? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: How do I change my settings to use a different monitor?
Sorry about teh line wrap problem , I'm using elm. How do I restart X or recycle xdm? Can I run /usr/sbin/xbase-configure instead of xf86config? I don't think I have xf86config, I used xbase-configure to set XF86Config. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I installed Xwindows using an old monitor. I now have a new monitor which has more resolutions. How do I go in changing the settings to the new monitor? Would I loose my window if I'm making the changes on Xwindows? Is it better to do it through a telnet session? What about when I'm installing new Xwindows addons,is it a problem running dselect from within Xwindows? Fix your line wrap. This is one sentance running off the page. No problem to all questions. Run xf86config, or edit it manually (/etc/X11/XF86Config) it won't take effect until you restart X, or recycle xdm. You will need the refresh rates for the new monitor to put in the config. Don't guess or your monitor could go into melt-down. Alberto Ruiz [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] .
Re: How do I kill jobs?
Alberto Ruiz wrote: How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and it lists everything, but I don't think is the same in Linux. I'm just guessing i way to change the setting on Xwindows by killing Xwindows, modifying the XF86Config file andrestarting Xwindows. Am I going in the right way? I don't think so. In linux you get all the processes with ps -ax. There are, however, a lot more options. You might read the manual page with `man ps' :) If you are running xdm (get an X-Windows login screen to login right away after starting your PC) the way to stop it is - switch to a virtual console, e.g. by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 (*) - login as root - stop xdm by typing /etc/init.d/xdm stop - do your configuring - check your new configuration with startx (don't use xdm for testing, it is much harder to stop if things go really wrong) - if it works, exit the Xsession - restart xdm typing /etc/init.d/xdm start (*) This is not mandatory, but more convenient. Read every document you can find on configuring X beforehand. It is not bad idea to create a runlevel that does not start xdm, in case to have to reset when _really_ screwing up X. Anyone know why such a run-level isn't defined by default? Hope this helps, Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where is my .xsession file?
Hi again, I did a search for .xsession and it was not found anywhere on my system. Isn't xdm or any of the other Xwindow program suposse to create it or a least come with templeates or default files? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I change my settings to use a different monitor?
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Sorry about teh line wrap problem , I'm using elm. How do I restart X or recycle xdm? Can I run /usr/sbin/xbase-configure instead of xf86config? I don't think I have xf86config, I used xbase-configure to set XF86Config. Just use xf86config. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I installed Xwindows using an old monitor. I now have a new monitor which has more resolutions. How do I go in changing the settings to the new monitor? Would I loose my window if I'm making the changes on Xwindows? Is it better to do it through a telnet session? What about when I'm installing new Xwindows addons,is it a problem running dselect from within Xwindows? Fix your line wrap. This is one sentance running off the page. No problem to all questions. Run xf86config, or edit it manually (/etc/X11/XF86Config) it won't take effect until you restart X, or recycle xdm. You will need the refresh rates for the new monitor to put in the config. Don't guess or your monitor could go into melt-down. Alberto Ruiz [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] --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may impose a fine of NOT LESS than $500 per message. Read the full text of Title 47 Sec 227 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I change my settings to use a different monitor?
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Paul McDermott wrote: I hope you are using xdm. If not then this won't help you. You have to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. There is a section in it called Screen. There you should have the settings for your current monitor. You can edit that section with the new monitor settings. I hope this helps. Make sure to have all the monitor settings. Paul Why wouldn't this help unless he's using xdm? That file effects the Xserver it's self. It has nothing to do with xdm. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hi again, I installed Xwindows using an old monitor. I now have a new monitor which has more resolutions. How do I go in changing the settings to the new monitor? Would I loose my window if I'm making the changes on Xwindows? Is it better to do it through a telnet session? What about when I'm installing new Xwindows addons,is it a problem running dselect from within Xwindows? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] . --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may impose a fine of NOT LESS than $500 per message. Read the full text of Title 47 Sec 227 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xwindows running finally!! what's next?
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hi all!, I just want to thank all who helped me get Xwindows running. This is what I hadto do to install it successfully: I cleaned everything first, may be it had something to do with selecting - instead of _. I also had to install xserver-svga first and then xbase with the rest of its dependencies. Anyway, I'm now looking for a window manager and all the neat tools to run Xwindows smoothly. I heard of fvwm, gwm, afterstep, fvwm95 and others. Can I run all of them at the same time? Is it a sequence? Do I need to kill xwindows before I install them or dselect will take care of that? I've used all of those and some that aren't on your list and like Afterstep the most, by far. --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may impose a fine of NOT LESS than $500 per message. Read the full text of Title 47 Sec 227 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
shadow+npasswd_boulder
Hi, I was wondering, do the new passwd package and npasswd_boulder work together? I just turned shadow passwords on (shadowconfig on), and then installed npasswd_boulder, but I don't think they get along well, do they? Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: missed cron jobs
On Thu, 15 May 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: This morning I worked on my home debian system at a very early time (for me, that is), from 6:30 a.m on. All of a sudden my hard disk begins to crackle, opening a new window takes longer than normal (I have a lowly 486DX100), and after starting top I see that `nobody' is running `find' (it's amazing, isn't it ? :). I soon realized that this was cron running the cron.daily scripts. I never thought about this before, but it may very well have been the first time these scripts were run, my computer at home is usually switched off at this time. Now comes my question: Could this be harmful? I think a lot of people using linux at home don't leave their computer switched on continuously. Has anyone ever thought of a system that would spot missed cron events and run them at a later time? Would this be useful at all? Eric Meijer -- My computer is at home and I have noticed the noisy disk activity to. It seems to be associated with syslogd being restarted. May 15 06:43:35 macrae syslogd 1.3-0#13: restart. How can I schedule this job for a more appropriate time? * John Maheu Queen's University Dept. of Economics Kingston ON Canada K7L 3N6 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is my .xsession file?
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I did a search for .xsession and it was not found anywhere on my system. Isn't xdm or any of the other Xwindow program suposse to create it or a least come with templeates or default files? You create one in your home directory. The bare minimum is: my ~/.xsession file #!/bin/sh exec afterstep --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may impose a fine of NOT LESS than $500 per message. Read the full text of Title 47 Sec 227 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I kill jobs?
I followed your steps and when I tried to run startx got the following: Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. Sure I remove the lock or check if xdm is still running? Alberto Ruiz wrote: How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and it lists everything, but I don't think is the same in Linux. I'm just guessing i way to change the setting on Xwindows by killing Xwindows, modifying the XF86Config file andrestarting Xwindows. Am I going in the right way? I don't think so. In linux you get all the processes with ps -ax. There are, however, a lot more options. You might read the manual page with `man ps' :) If you are running xdm (get an X-Windows login screen to login right away after starting your PC) the way to stop it is - switch to a virtual console, e.g. by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 (*) - login as root - stop xdm by typing /etc/init.d/xdm stop - do your configuring - check your new configuration with startx (don't use xdm for testing, it is much harder to stop if things go really wrong) - if it works, exit the Xsession - restart xdm typing /etc/init.d/xdm start (*) This is not mandatory, but more convenient. Read every document you can find on configuring X beforehand. It is not bad idea to create a runlevel that does not start xdm, in case to have to reset when _really_ screwing up X. Anyone know why such a run-level isn't defined by default? Hope this helps, Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- 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] .
problem getting started in nfs...
I've been trying to get nfs set up on my 3 machine lab, and have been getting all sorts of feedback from helpful people on setting it up. However, luck is not with me, and still no nfs... I have a few beginner's questions: 1) How can I tell if nfs is compiled into my kernel? 2) Based on that information, how do I a)compile it in if need be... and b)set nfs up if it is compiled already... any help will be greatly appreciated! thanks in advance... Mike Devine Eastern Washington University -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg install problem
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: Hello, OK you dpkg experts, what is the best way out of this one: gecko# dpkg -i gzip_1.2.4-15.deb (Reading database ... 2582 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gzip 1.2.4-15 (using gzip_1.2.4-15.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gzip ... install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 2 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: error processing gzip_1.2.4-15.deb (--install): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2 install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: gzip_1.2.4-15.deb gecko# This occurs while attempting to re-install the broken package gzip. I believe the package became broken because I ran out of space on my root partition while installing several packages, gzip among them. Since this is a secondary system with a small drive, I decided to jetison all the man, info (GNU info, not dpkg), and doc files to free up space. Maybe this is what dpkg is complaining about now. Or maybe some dpkg info files were not able to be updated when the partition was full. Removing the info package probably the culprit. You probably wish to keep the man package and the info package (you can ditch the manpages package if you really want to. It contains all the docs that fill up the disk), as other packages will attempt to install info and man pages and will have problems like you saw with gzip. 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] .
routing/arp
Hi. Having a smaler problem and are getting crazy of reading man and HOWTO text's.. Tha situration is that I have a computer that i ganna connect to a network, sftg ;P. Well my computter sitting on local net (192.168.17.*) and I ganna usege a a adder computer whid two ethernetcard to route it. I want my computer to have ip 194.103.205.254 and the routing computer have 194.103.205.120. Not sure how tto set it up and geting tyred of all text files and ansking if ne1 know howto and can send a mail to me T.i.a / Nemo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I change my settings to use a different monitor?
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hi again, I installed Xwindows using an old monitor. I now have a new monitor which has more resolutions. How do I go in changing the settings to the new monitor? Would I loose my window if I'm making the changes on Xwindows? Is it better to do it through a telnet session? What about when I'm installing new Xwindows addons,is it a problem running dselect from within Xwindows? You should have no trouble with dselect from X as long as you don't attempt to upgrade xbase (this trys to kill xdm during the upgrade with disasterous results) You should be able to run XFree86config (although I haven't done this yet) and re-configure the setting on-the-fly, as that is essentially what occurs during the installation. Otherwise simply edit the values in the config file. 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] .
Re: Problem with wu-ftpd....
Sam Ockman wrote: Message from Jens B. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Sam Ockman wrote: At work I sit behind a firewall. The firewall lets me out for whatever I want, but for some reason, there is a conflict with the wu-ftpd distributed with Debian and my firewall. Wu-ftpd sits there for several minutes before it times out and actually connects...it seems like I can't connect at all to master.debian.org from behind the firewall, although maybe it just takes a few minutes more. It occurs to me that maybe wu-ftpd is waiting for my name to be sent, because it knows my name when I go there and am not behind a firewallwho feeds this info to it if I don't have identd running? Is that my client? Is this not the problem? How can I get wu-ftpd to give me a quicker response? I'm convinced that this is a Debian/wu-ftpd problem... I can get into ftp.debian.org fine from my firewall, as well as ftp.redhat.com, and all other ftp sites I've ever tried...but the two Debian machines at home take several minutes to let me in, and master.debian.org won't let me in at all, or maybe I just haven't waited long enough for it to timeout. Thanks, Sam Perhaps you can turn off ident checking in wu-ftpd. ident can't really go through the firewall back to you. If your firewall is SOCKS, SOCKS can supply ident service. Unfortunately you have to stop regular ident service for this to work--I wish there was a better way. Okay, I'd love to do thisbut how? I read all the documentation and couldn't find anything I'm not sure which thing you meant. If you mean turn off ident in wu-ftpd, I don't know 'cause I don't use wu-ftpd. If you mean how to turn off ident responses in your firewall machine, it goes like this: There'll be a line in /etc/services like this: auth113/tcp authentication tap ident You need to comment it out like so: #auth113/tcp authentication tap ident And either 'kill -HUP' or restart inetd. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I kill jobs?
The errors you are getting are caused by xdm running. You have to kill the xdm process before you can start another one. do a ps -aux to make sure xdm is not there. Also you may want to make sure that you restart your xserver. Good luck. Paul On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I followed your steps and when I tried to run startx got the following: Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. Sure I remove the lock or check if xdm is still running? Alberto Ruiz wrote: How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and it lists everything, but I don't think is the same in Linux. I'm just guessing i way to change the setting on Xwindows by killing Xwindows, modifying the XF86Config file andrestarting Xwindows. Am I going in the right way? I don't think so. In linux you get all the processes with ps -ax. There are, however, a lot more options. You might read the manual page with `man ps' :) If you are running xdm (get an X-Windows login screen to login right away after starting your PC) the way to stop it is - switch to a virtual console, e.g. by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1 (*) - login as root - stop xdm by typing /etc/init.d/xdm stop - do your configuring - check your new configuration with startx (don't use xdm for testing, it is much harder to stop if things go really wrong) - if it works, exit the Xsession - restart xdm typing /etc/init.d/xdm start (*) This is not mandatory, but more convenient. Read every document you can find on configuring X beforehand. It is not bad idea to create a runlevel that does not start xdm, in case to have to reset when _really_ screwing up X. Anyone know why such a run-level isn't defined by default? Hope this helps, Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- 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] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: missed cron jobs
John Maheu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : My computer is at home and I have noticed the noisy disk activity to. It : seems to be associated with syslogd being restarted. : May 15 06:43:35 macrae syslogd 1.3-0#13: restart. : : How can I schedule this job for a more appropriate time? Sure. Just edit /etc/crontab and change the time for the dayly, weekly and monthly cron jobs. E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: missed cron jobs
On May 15, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote This morning I worked on my home debian system at a very early time (for me, that is), from 6:30 a.m on. All of a sudden my hard disk begins to crackle, opening a new window takes longer than normal (I have a lowly 486DX100), and after starting top I see that `nobody' is running `find' (it's amazing, isn't it ? :). I soon realized that this was cron running the cron.daily scripts. I never thought about this before, but it may very well have been the first time these scripts were run, my computer at home is usually switched off at this time. Now comes my question: Could this be harmful? Well, AFAIK it's not going to harm your system, but it does fairly useful things like rotating logfiles and removing old catpages. It also rebuilds the dwww cache if you have that installed, and checks some security things (most of which are more useful if you're on a network). I think a lot of people using linux at home don't leave their computer switched on continuously. Has anyone ever thought of a system that would spot missed cron events and run them at a later time? Would this be useful at all? See the `anacron' package, which does just this. It can be run at bootup and from cron, and if it hasn't been run yet that day, executes the scripts. So you can turn your machine on, and go and have breakfast, and come back when it's done! (I too have a lowly 486 :) E -- Andy Mortimer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netforward.com/poboxes/?andy.mortimer Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key -- She talked about the armies that marched inside her head, And how they made her dreams go bad. But oh how happy she was, How proud she was, to be fighting in the war. In the empty world. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How can I change the video settings?
Hi, How can I switch between the different resolution settings. I know I can switch the resolution by CRTL ALT + or - but I'm more interested on changing the number of colors. All I see is 256 colours, but I want to be able to switch to higher number to colors. Is it some kind of special key set to switch to those video modes?? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I kill jobs?
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hi, How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and it lists everything, but I don't think is the same in Linux. I'm just guessing i way to change the setting on Xwindows by killing Xwindows, modifying the XF86Config file andrestarting Xwindows. Am I going in the right way? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps -aux ctrl-alt-backspace should take X down too Rich M -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mgetty for PPP; Need help
Eugene Sevinian wrote: Thanks Jens, here is some additional info. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Eugene Sevinian wrote: I have installed mgetty ( 1.0.0-1 ) and it works fine when I am dial-in from outside w95 machine. Now I tring to add PPP and here are the basic steps which were done: 1. Installing new kernel (2.0.27) with CONFIG_PPP=m You didn't use 'make config' or 'make xconfig'? When you recompiled the kernel did you make modules and modules-install? You know, the PPP module depends on others (can't think of them offhand). I did it. 2. Then I edited Makefile in this way CFLAGS=-O2 -Wall -pipe -DAUTO_PPP and slightly modified the policy.h Did you need to compile from source? The stock binary includes AUTO_PPP support. First I had problems with this binary. Trying to connect from w95 I got ... The computer you're dialing in to cannot establish a Dial_Up Networking connection. Check your password, and try again. ... so I decided to compile from source. 3. Make; cp mgetty /sbin; rebot After this point I get the message ...S1, too fast respawning mgetty. Suspended for 5 min or something like that. And that is all )-; If mgetty is respawning, something larger than ppp is probably wrong-- it would never have a chance to take a login? Perhaps something you did to the config is causing this. Did you change the config file? Did you look in /var/log/mgetty/* for error messages? Here is the messages coresponding to the new compiled binary lifetime from /var/log/mgetty/mg_ttyS1.log. -- 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 mgetty: official release 1.0.0 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 check for lockfiles 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 locking the line 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 lowering DTR to reset Modem 05/15 14:16:55 yS1 send: \dATQ0V1H0[0d] 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 send: AT[0d] 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 waiting... 05/15 14:45:01 # failed dev=ttyS1, pid=10653, got signal 15, exiting Signal 15 is SIGTERM--I wouldn't expect this signal to be issued unless you typed 'kill XXX' or some other process intentionally killed the mgetty. Could you perhaps try the stock mgetty? I don't know why SIGTERM would be sent to the mgetty process. Do you have a valid AUTO_PPP entry in /etc/mgetty/login.config? Did you edit this file? (Note that this won't solve your problem with your mgetty perishing all the time--just something you'll need to have to get going.) -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I kill jobs?
This answer invariably comes up on Unix-related lists. This answer suggests that you use a howitzer to blow away what might be only a field mouse. kill -9 is a *last resort*. Study up on signals. Start with no value at all; if that kill doesn't work you progress through stronger and stronger signals until finally, if all other signals have failed you reluctantly decide that the field mouse is in fact utterly resistant. Then you go for the howitzer. Lots of programs written for the Unix environment will trap various signals. An extremely common one is -3 (KILL, the same as ^C from the keyboard.) A program can trap the signal then ***do housekeeping*** and exit gracefully. -9 *cannot* be caught. You increase your chances of causing the interrupted program to have difficulty starting again if it stores state on disk--things like hidden files that it uses for its own purposes and normally deletes on exit--log file entries...whatever. Be civilized. Use -9 only in extremis. Note also that named values are considered by some to be superior to numbers. See /usr/include/signal.h. --emk Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:22:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How do I kill jobs? Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org to kill a process you must be root if it is not run by you. the command is kill -9 (pid). To see the pid do a ps -aux. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hi, How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and it lists everything, but I don't think is the same in Linux. I'm just guessing i way to change the setting on Xwindows by killing Xwindows, modifying the XF86Config file andrestarting Xwindows. Am I going in the right way? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How can I change the video settings?
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: How can I switch between the different resolution settings. I know I can switch the resolution by CRTL ALT + or - but I'm more interested on changing the number of colors. All I see is 256 colours, but I want to be able to switch to higher number to colors. Is it some kind of special key set to switch to those video modes?? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't use xdm, so I start x in 16, 24 (you may not have this one) or 32 bit color like so: startx -- -bpp 16 substitute the bit depth you desire in place of my 16 I find on my little 15 monitor with a Mach64 2meg vram, that at 32 bit I can only go to a resolution of 800x600. I prefer to work in 1024x768 so I normally use 16 or 24 bit. I think 24 bit is a special mode that is possible due to my video card, ymmv. No more dithered web browsing for you eh?? lol Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XFORMS0.8{1,6}
Hi out there, since it seems to be impossible to do a successfull upload to master (my ISDN connection was up from 6.00am until about 5.00pm, and almost nothing went through -- and here in Germany we have horribly fees, even for local area and city calls!) --- I finally use the queued uploader on chiark. So please be somewhat more patient, I don't know, how often the queue is checked and uploaded on chiark. 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] pgp2RhsH1VPvM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Where is my .xsession file?
OK, I created my own .xsession file just like yours. I exited Xwindows and i get the login Xwindow prompt. I login as root (the .xsession file is in /root) everything looks the same. What am I doing wrong? Do I have to kill xdm? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I did a search for .xsession and it was not found anywhere on my system. Isn't xdm or any of the other Xwindow program suposse to create it or a least come with templeates or default files? You create one in your home directory. The bare minimum is: my ~/.xsession file #!/bin/sh exec afterstep --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may impose a fine of NOT LESS than $500 per message. Read the full text of Title 47 Sec 227 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How can I change the video settings?
OK let's say that I decide to use startx instead of xdm. How can I switch between the different resolution like in xdm using CRTL ALT +? Do I have to exit everytime and restart xtart with new resolution settings? On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: How can I switch between the different resolution settings. I know I can switch the resolution by CRTL ALT + or - but I'm more interested on changing the number of colors. All I see is 256 colours, but I want to be able to switch to higher number to colors. Is it some kind of special key set to switch to those video modes?? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't use xdm, so I start x in 16, 24 (you may not have this one) or 32 bit color like so: startx -- -bpp 16 substitute the bit depth you desire in place of my 16 I find on my little 15 monitor with a Mach64 2meg vram, that at 32 bit I can only go to a resolution of 800x600. I prefer to work in 1024x768 so I normally use 16 or 24 bit. I think 24 bit is a special mode that is possible due to my video card, ymmv. No more dithered web browsing for you eh?? lol Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I kill jobs?
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 10:19:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Edward McKnight [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do I kill jobs? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org This answer invariably comes up on Unix-related lists. This answer suggests that you use a howitzer to blow away what might be only a field mouse. kill -9 is a *last resort*. Study up on signals. Start with no value at all; if that kill doesn't work you progress through stronger and stronger signals until finally, if all other signals have failed you reluctantly decide that the field mouse is in fact utterly resistant. Then you go for the howitzer. Lots of programs written for the Unix environment will trap various signals. An extremely common one is -3 (KILL, the same as ^C from the ^^^ Whoops! whoops! Caught by my own too-fastness! KILL *is* -9. Urk. Shoulda been QUIT. #define SIGHUP 1 /* hangup */ #define SIGINT 2 /* interrupt (rubout) */ #define SIGQUIT 3 /* quit (ASCII FS) */ #define SIGILL 4 /* illegal instruction (not reset when caught) */ #define SIGTRAP 5 /* trace trap (not reset when caught) */ #define SIGIOT 6 /* IOT instruction */ #define SIGABRT 6 /* used by abort, replace SIGIOT in the future */ #define SIGEMT 7 /* EMT instruction */ #define SIGFPE 8 /* floating point exception */ #define SIGKILL 9 /* kill (cannot be caught or ignored) */ #define SIGBUS 10 /* bus error */ #define SIGSEGV 11 /* segmentation violation */ #define SIGSYS 12 /* bad argument to system call */ #define SIGPIPE 13 /* write on a pipe with no one to read it */ #define SIGALRM 14 /* alarm clock */ #define SIGTERM 15 /* software termination signal from kill */ #define SIGUSR1 16 /* user defined signal 1 */ #define SIGUSR2 17 /* user defined signal 2 */ #define SIGCLD 18 /* child status change */ #define SIGCHLD 18 /* child status change alias (POSIX) */ #define SIGPWR 19 /* power-fail restart */ #define SIGWINCH 20 /* window size change */ #define SIGURG 21 /* urgent socket condition */ #define SIGPOLL 22 /* pollable event occured */ #define SIGIO SIGPOLL /* socket I/O possible (SIGPOLL alias) */ ... The above is from Solaris but *should* be the same as Linux. I think the preferred sequence is: no value, -15, -3, -9. Shoot me if I'm wrong, please ;) --emk keyboard.) A program can trap the signal then ***do housekeeping*** and exit gracefully. -9 *cannot* be caught. You increase your chances of causing the interrupted program to have difficulty starting again if it stores state on disk--things like hidden files that it uses for its own purposes and normally deletes on exit--log file entries...whatever. Be civilized. Use -9 only in extremis. Note also that named values are considered by some to be superior to numbers. See /usr/include/signal.h. --emk Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 11:22:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How do I kill jobs? Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org to kill a process you must be root if it is not run by you. the command is kill -9 (pid). To see the pid do a ps -aux. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: Hi, How do I list all the jobs, in HP-UX or Solaris, I do ps -eaf and it lists everything, but I don't think is the same in Linux. I'm just guessing i way to change the setting on Xwindows by killing Xwindows, modifying the XF86Config file andrestarting Xwindows. Am I going in the right way? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] . -- 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: problem getting started in nfs...
Michael J Devine wrote: I've been trying to get nfs set up on my 3 machine lab, and have been getting all sorts of feedback from helpful people on setting it up. However, luck is not with me, and still no nfs... I have a few beginner's questions: 1) How can I tell if nfs is compiled into my kernel? cat /proc/filesystems 2) Based on that information, how do I a)compile it in if need be... and b)set nfs up if it is compiled already... it has to be either compiled-in or a module. I could never get it to work unless it was compiled in. You may have to rebuild the kernel. any help will be greatly appreciated! cat /proc/filesystems -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: routing/arp
Nemo wrote: Hi. Having a smaler problem and are getting crazy of reading man and HOWTO text's.. Tha situration is that I have a computer that i ganna connect to a network, sftg ;P. Well my computter sitting on local net (192.168.17.*) and I ganna usege a a adder computer whid two ethernetcard to route it. I want my computer to have ip 194.103.205.254 and the routing computer have 194.103.205.120. Not sure how tto set it up and geting tyred of all text files and ansking if ne1 know howto and can send a mail to me Ok, so your setup is like this: A B C || |-| ethernet1 ethernet2 (A, B, C are the computers). Please run 'netstat -nr' on each of these three computers and post the results back to the list. Also include /etc/init.d/network from each of these machines. Then maybe I can help you. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xwindows running finally!! what's next?
Ed Down wrote, window manager packages, then change the manager you want in your home directory ~/.xsession Just to be complete, .xsession is for starting X with xdm and .xinitrc is for starting X with startx from shell. What I did was to create a link between the two. Important things to note is that .xsession must be executable before it can work else, xdm might bounce back. Also, note that .xsession does not inherit the user's login shell environment since it springs from xdm. Another thing to note is that the above are for local customisation (user level) for system level, take a look at /etc/X11/window-manager. For those who does a little shell scripts, a look at /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc should be good. twm [background processes snipped] xterm -title Measun10 -geometry 80x40+30+200 -ls Just a little comment (for discussion). Normally, I will prefer to put twm (or whatever windows manager) as the last process (let the others be background). This causes the window manager, rather than other processes, to be the anchor process, so that X kicks the user off when the windows manager quits. I wonder if this is a good practice. Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP public key : finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = 63 8A 9B 78 3B 1C C2 15 55 EA 2D 42 FF 68 B4 50 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Other remote passwd servers?
Hi... Other than NIS itself, are there any other NIS-like administrations out there? From and administrators point of view, NIS works great - but users can simply examine the passwd file by using ypcat (sure, all be-it a mangled passwd field) - is there any way to stop that? (Hence my question for other NIS-like things). Regards Karl -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is my .xsession file?
In /etc/X11/config file put run-xconsole obey-nologin allow-user-resources allow-user-modmap allow-user-xsession allow-failsafe start-xdm use-sessreg xdm-start-server This should cover it. On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: OK, I created my own .xsession file just like yours. I exited Xwindows and i get the login Xwindow prompt. I login as root (the .xsession file is in /root) everything looks the same. What am I doing wrong? Do I have to kill xdm? Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I did a search for .xsession and it was not found anywhere on my system. Isn't xdm or any of the other Xwindow program suposse to create it or a least come with templeates or default files? You create one in your home directory. The bare minimum is: my ~/.xsession file #!/bin/sh exec afterstep --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may impose a fine of NOT LESS than $500 per message. Read the full text of Title 47 Sec 227 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may impose a fine of NOT LESS than $500 per message. Read the full text of Title 47 Sec 227 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Cannot set up a NIS slave server
YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad I'm getting the same thing here, on my development machine (libc6 2.0.3-3, nis 2.20-1). The script /usr/lib/yp/ypinit calls ypwhich -m to get a list of maps from the master for the domain. $ ypwhich -m YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad YP: can't find the master of (null): Reason: Request arguments bad All the other nis stuff seems to work OK. (I'm running my development machine as a client, not as a slave server presently) This is evil. My current slave server is still running Debian 1.2 (libc 5.4.20-1, nis 2.00-1) and gets the results: $ ypwhich -m amd.n tia amd.master tia netgroup.byuser tia netgroup.byhost tia netgroup tia services.byname tia rpc.bynumber tia rpc.byname tia protocols.bynumber tia networks.byname tia networks.byaddr tia netid.byname tia group.bygid tia group.byname tia hosts.byaddr tia hosts.byname tia passwd.byname tia protocols.byname tia ypservers tia passwd.byuid tia So if I upgrade my slave server to unstable, it would probably kill my nis. I'm going to report this as a bug. I'm guessing that this may be a bug in the ypwhich or libc code. Cheers, - Jim pgp21EFPXs10I.pgp Description: PGP signature
DEC vt420
hello, I am wanting to use a DEC vt420 terminal with my linux box, what is the best way to connect the terminal to linux? thanks Syd http://www.uc.edu/~alsobrsp How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it. Douglas Adams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: failed installation of 1.2 on thinkpad. Tips?
On 10 May 1997, Jim Meyering wrote: Thanks again, Rick. I've just tried again: For each of three brand new diskettes, I put resc1440.bin on it from my Linux box using dd (first with dd-3.16, later using dd-3.12, and then cat) to write the disks, then tried to boot with it. Same result: hangs after the `loading linux...' message. Then, thinking maybe my fd is flaky, I resorted to using windows NT on the thinkpad to get rawrite.exe and resc1440.bin, and created the `rescue' floppy using the thinkpad's drive. Tried again... same result. I had the same problem on a thinkpad 365. Thinkpads do not boot from a bzImage, only from zImages. Less than 1 Percent of existing Machines show this behaviour. You must make a new Kernel like described on the readme of the rescue disk. (You must have a running linux machine with the kernel sources installed for this). Don't forget to configure the kernel with ramdisk, initrd support (explained in the readme). Then place it on the rescue disk, named linux. Some Kernel sources (I don't now why and which) have the ramdisk in /dev/ram, others in /dev/ram0. therefore you must boot somewhere with your custom kernel (maybe you can avoid this step, try it) and cd to the mounted rescue disk. There is a script which sets the root image up to boot from the ramdisk. If /dev/ram0 isn't found change the script, so that it looks for /dev/ram instead. I would prefer if debian would run from zImages, not from bzImages. They're not much bigger, and there are still a lot machines around denying to boot a bzImage. You should neither try to place a bzImage on the harddisk to boot (that is what the debian kernel package does), it freezes at the same point. This makes kernel upgrades a hairy process. A question at the end: Does somebody know how to install the pcmcia package on a freshly disk-installed debian package without having to compile it? (I needed that because I have no cdrom on my laptop). The pcmcia package requires too much to install it by disks. Some rescue disk makers should probably think about that. ftp install may be nice, but without pcmcia support there are many machines excluded from this very comfortable install method. -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect and updating the system
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Gernot wrote: On Sat, 10 May 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: Gernot wrote: When I start dselect (using the ftp-method) I get a list of available Updated Standard packages. This list tells me that there are new versions of my installed components available, they are marked with the asterix (*) but they are not installed when I try to install them (selection 3 in dselect). Is this the way the whole thing should work or am I missing something? I have the same problem. I saw that all the packages which won't be installed have their path in /unstable/... . The packages which are installed have their path all set to /stable/. I have probably updated my package list with unstable entries which I cannot get rid of now (yes, I used the clear available package list now option). Because I set the access method to stable non-free contrib the selected unstable packages do not get installed, even if there are stable versions somewhere with older version numbers. I would like to get rid of the old package entries, but I am afraid using rm -f for this... Any Ideas? -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mgetty for PPP; Need help
05/15 14:16:54 yS1 mgetty: official release 1.0.0 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 check for lockfiles 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 locking the line 05/15 14:16:54 yS1 lowering DTR to reset Modem 05/15 14:16:55 yS1 send: \dATQ0V1H0[0d] 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 send: AT[0d] 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 waiting for ``OK'' ** found ** 05/15 14:16:56 yS1 waiting... 05/15 14:45:01 # failed dev=ttyS1, pid=10653, got signal 15, exiting Signal 15 is SIGTERM--I wouldn't expect this signal to be issued unless you typed 'kill XXX' or some other process intentionally killed the mgetty. Could you perhaps try the stock mgetty? I don't know why SIGTERM would be sent to the mgetty process. You are right, of course, this string is just the evidense of the fact that I removed this bad mgetty replacing it by the old stock mgetty. Nothing more! (It was my guilty. I put too much obsolate info in my message. Sorry.) Do you have a valid AUTO_PPP entry in /etc/mgetty/login.config? Did you edit this file? Here it is... /AutoPPP/ - - /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login Though I'm not sure that it is correct. Recalling the w95 diagnostic ... The computer you're dialing in to cannot establish a Dial_Up Networking connection. Check your password, and try again. ... I suspect that something is wrong with authentification procedure but at this point I am not familiar with this subject. Eugene Sevinian Cosmic Ray Division Yerevan Phisics Institute Alikhanian's Brothers str.2 375036 Yerevan 36 Armenia URL: http://www.yerphi.am/crd/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-352041 (YerPhI), 374-2-344873 (aprt.) Fax: 374-2-350030 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I kill jobs?
Paul McDermott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: to kill a process you must be root if it is not run by you. the command is kill -9 (pid). To see the pid do a ps -aux. I'd recommend just trying kill (pid) first. This sends a less agressive signal to the program, which might allow it to do some important cleanup before it goes down. If that doesn't work, then try kill -9 (pid). -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help with diald/ppp!!!
Hello all, I have recently begun to install Debian on an extra partition as I would like to stay away from the comercial distributions that I have been using and things have gone well up untill now. I have all the necessary parts of diald and pppd installed, and I started to try to get things configured. When I got all of my option files and connect script in place, I tried it. It has been failing miserably. Here is what seems to be happening: Diald is working properly, attempts to bring up the link at appropriate times The chat script invoked by diald seems to function. My modem comes up, dials and connects and starts ppp. I then get the message: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Good up to here!, but I never establish the ppp link. Here is the tail of my ppp.log file: (And yes I'm not using /dev/cua*, but /dev/ttyS1.) May 14 00:30:12 whitehouselocal chat[657]: send (ppp^M) May 14 00:30:12 whitehouselocal diald[387]: Running pppd (pid = 658). May 14 00:30:12 whitehouselocal pppd[658]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 May 14 00:31:12 whitehouselocal diald[387]: pppd startup timed out. Check your p ppd options. Killing pppd. May 14 00:31:12 whitehouselocal pppd[658]: Terminating on signal 2. May 14 00:31:12 whitehouselocal pppd[658]: Failed to open /dev/ttyS1: Interrupte d system call May 14 00:31:12 whitehouselocal pppd[658]: Exit. May 14 00:31:14 whitehouselocal diald[387]: Delaying 10 seconds before clear to dial. May 14 00:32:38 whitehouselocal diald[387]: SIGTERM. Termination request receive d. Of note diald doesn't barf and timeout the pppd startup for 60 seconds, far after the remote machine has given up setting up a ppp link and has hung up. I have read the faq and don't see anything there to help me. Anyone who has an idea or two please let me know!!! Thanks in advace Ben White [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Run 2 startx with different .xsessions?
I run 2 x servers, one at 8 bit and one at 24 (32). I can't find any way to have them read different ~/.xsession files, other than perhaps wrapping the startx's in scripts that overwrite .xsession before calling startx. Any other ideas? -- ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I kill jobs?
^^^ Whoops! whoops! Caught by my own too-fastness! KILL *is* -9. Urk. Shoulda been QUIT. It's hard to remember the numbers of all the signals. I know my poor brain cannot hold all that information. So let me pass on a tip which might be useful, especially for people used to other Unix systems which don't use the BSD version of kill. BSD kill which Linux uses lets you use the symbolic names of signals (minus the SIG) instead of the numbers. so instead of kill 3 you would do kill -QUIT, instead of kill -9 kill -KILL etc. -- Jaldhar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help with diald/ppp!!!
You wrote: ... When I got all of my option files and connect script in place, I tried it. It has been failing miserably. Q.1. Can you connect with 'pon'? If yes, the problem would be in diald/pppd interaction, else it's in the chatscript. I don't use diald, but I remember that with it you don't specify some of the ppp options -- you pass them to diald instead. I'm sure someone will give you more info on that. May 14 00:30:12 whitehouselocal chat[657]: send (ppp^M) May 14 00:30:12 whitehouselocal diald[387]: Running pppd (pid =3D 658). May 14 00:30:12 whitehouselocal pppd[658]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 May 14 00:31:12 whitehouselocal diald[387]: pppd startup timed out. Check your pppd options. Killing pppd. Well, here's something about options. Without diald this output would suggest that remote ppp is not starting. Usual fixes for that are passive or silent options to pppd (see manpage.) With diald -- I dunno. HTH -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
sendmail problem solved
By comparing my sendmail.cf with those of some other linux users, I was able to figure out my sendmail problem. Changing the Cw line from braincells.com to localhost was the thing that did the trick I think. -- Jaldhar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Run 2 startx with different .xsessions?
Rick Macdonald wrote, :I run 2 x servers, one at 8 bit and one at 24 (32). : :I can't find any way to have them read different ~/.xsession files, :other than perhaps wrapping the startx's in scripts that overwrite :.xsession before calling startx. : :Any other ideas? Just a sideliner, shouldn't startx be calling .xinitrc instead?? I have a suggestion that may be a little stupid... Instead of wrapping startx with some overwriting command, set it to export some variable (say $BPP) to the color-depth of the session. Then in .xinitrc, do the following. exec ~/.xinitrc.$BPP Then, just store the initrc file for the respective color depth in the respective .xinitrc files. Just me, Wire ... -- Tan Wee Yeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] For PGP public key : finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = 63 8A 9B 78 3B 1C C2 15 55 EA 2D 42 FF 68 B4 50 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Frozen not really frozen ?
I thought frozen was supposed to be, well, frozen. Why is it that every day there are a bunch of replacements going on in that tree ? Actually, there seem to have been more bo/frozen changes in the last few days than there have been in hamm/unstable :) Dean -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Null Modem
Does anyone know how to setup a null modem connect from linux to a livingston portmaster for a ppp connection? Thanks - This mail message is being generated by an evaluation copy of FreeMail. If this software is to be used beyond the 30 day evaluation period or for any commercial purpose a license must be obtained by calling (406) 542-0901. Download FreeMail software from http://www.FreeMail.com. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Frozen not really frozen ?
Carpenter, Dean \(MS Mail\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought frozen was supposed to be, well, frozen. Why is it that every day there are a bunch of replacements going on in that tree ? Actually, there seem to have been more bo/frozen changes in the last few days than there have been in hamm/unstable :) Because frozen realy means frozen in new features/packages, not in bug-fixes. -- Tomislav Vujec [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is my .xsession file?
In message Where is my .xsession file?, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I created my own .xsession file just like yours. I exited Xwindows and i get the login Xwindow prompt. I login as root (the .xsession file is in /root) everything looks the same. What am I doing wrong? Do I have to kill xdm? Make sure that your ~/.xsession is executable. user:~ chmod u+x .xsession Also make sure that in /etc/X11/config that there is a line that says something along the lines of 'allow-user-xsession' (I'm not on my linux box right now). Otherwise, users are stuck with the system Xsession. You shouldn't have to restart xdm. Alberto Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 15 May 1997, Alberto Ruiz wrote: I did a search for .xsession and it was not found anywhere on my system. Isn't xdm or any of the other Xwindow program suposse to create it or a least come with templeates or default files? You create one in your home directory. The bare minimum is: my ~/.xsession file #!/bin/sh exec afterstep --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may impose a fine of NOT LESS than $500 per message. Read the full text of Title 47 Sec 227 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Todd HarperDamn it Smithers, this isn't rocket science, [EMAIL PROTECTED] it's brain surgery! -- Mr. Burns -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Diamond 2500 video card and XFree 3.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I apologize if I cannot supply that much information, but my department is planning to install Xfree3.2 onto a second debian linux machine and is concerned about the video card. His first machine had a Diamond 2001 but the second machine came with the new Diamond 2500 card and I can't seem to find any info on it. Does anyone know if this card is supported in 3.2? 3.2A? Otherwise, does anyone have a suggestion on a similar video card that is supported under 3.2? Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin. PS. I took the cover off the machine and looked at the chip on the card, but all it stated was 2500 v1.03. - -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = 09 E9 DA 66 9C EE 33 DC B8 3B 97 0E 01 BC EC 0B PGP Public Key at URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM3t6BhhhzOJJktw1AQFJ2wP+PMhcpinYz3cjBL2ohNif+IEfKmioNpp0 GNvijUDg4CnxtDUWaFwfjtg/EIhXqkfcfdbm1B2dNOe8XkjHg+lieAw+GiJHVSPD makkrEhqPoNN7qvBsz2S8V2k1Yy0X2d3JBO9Wl+m/8MteEltMpUnqS7+Lo919JNq QgHFDTp3KEg= =qzFv -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SMC EtherPower PCI card supported?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I have just looked through the Ethernet HOWTO and the tulip driver page to see if the new SMC EtherPower PCI card (DEC 21041 chip) is supported and have become somewhat confused by the choice of drivers to use. Any suggestions? Is this driver included in the 2.0.27 or 2.0.29 source? If not, is the a good cheap stable card that anyone would recommend? I can replace the card with a GVC NIC 2005 or 2006 (I think one of them is a PCI card). My apologies if I do not seem to have full information, but the computer store that just shipped this box to my department changed the card in the machine from what was written on the invoice (should have been a SMC Ultra). Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin. - -- Colin R. Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = 09 E9 DA 66 9C EE 33 DC B8 3B 97 0E 01 BC EC 0B PGP Public Key at URL:http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM3t87hhhzOJJktw1AQHY6wP9EEFOLKO3O9NeA58UNG1HFBtsMX7mBw0K ZkMK+7WSZh6slkynu+I1yKNfgyUD3q79Gv1fufGKGE2cxz2u/6joBHFkoINR0V04 gDyBSMQt3qlDcZk6Tp5c0EsuKv6mKPMogoz7yX8ovuc7VkJD8KHmMP8+m6egVyip t74WGt7nYxY= =Li1m -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Other remote passwd servers?
Karl Ferguson wrote: Hi... Other than NIS itself, are there any other NIS-like administrations out there? From and administrators point of view, NIS works great - but users can simply examine the passwd file by using ypcat (sure, all be-it a mangled passwd field) - is there any way to stop that? (Hence my question for other NIS-like things). Regards Karl NIS+ resolves this security hole. Hopefully someone's working on a Linux version. Solaris has it by default. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
.wav recording software?
Hi! I've got a SoundBlaster 32 on my Debian system, and I'd like to be able to record sounds for it. In dselect, I didn't come across any packages that seem to do recording. Does anyone know of a package (or just software somewhere) that can record to a .wav? Thanks. I'm not currently on the mailing list; please respond to me directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks. :) ...Paul ...Paul, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://megadodo.com/~cleggp/ 37 Briarwood Lane, Apt 4, Marlboro, MA 01752 (508) 481-2167 Visit the Project Galactic Guide Homepage! http://megadodo.com/ Check out Megadodo MUSH! telnet://megadodo.com:4242 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DEC vt420
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: I am wanting to use a DEC vt420 terminal with my linux box, what is the best way to connect the terminal to linux? With a null-modem cable, and tie a getty to the serial port. Something like: S1:456:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 DT9600 vt420 in your /etc/inittab, and perhaps some gettydefs entries.. Then an init q to restart init. You hopefully will get a login banner and prompt on the vt420... See the Serial howto. Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] | There is a fine line between idiocy My employers like me, but not| and genius. We aim to erase that line enough to let me speak for them. | --Unknown http://www.jasons.org/~jcostom -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
