Re: dosemu and OpenDOS
John == jghasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John I just downloaded OpenDOS. Ironically, it comes in a John self-extracting archive which requires MSDOS. No problem, Alternately, (if you haven't done so already) you may try unzipping the archive, since you can unzip self extracting zip archives without running them. If the archive is not zip base, of course this will not work. Gleb -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Customizing environment
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 18 May 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote: What is the preferred method of customizing the boot-up login environment? I guess I could do it by adding lines to /etc/init.d/boot, but wondered if there is an official file to add site-customized parameters, things like 'setterm -powersave on' for example. The best way with Debian, since we use the SysV init scheme, is to create an additional file in /etc/init.d, and then create symlinks in the various /etc/rc?.d directorys (/usr/sbin/update-rc.d is useful in this regard). Check out /etc/init.d/README for information on how the system works. ++ | Scott K. Ellis | Argue for your limitations and | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | sure enough, they're yours. | ||-- Illusions | ++ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM3+yztH31Ek1qsc9AQGQAgP+IYhepMaXkgkHqVm4xi17Mr0zoakcpXzd yuOAEOW81xL+Fe75I3SBSId15d0l4ix2CHtCl2JCbCg9CEIUktGd5t2C/CaQiQq9 uikftrJ6dmJY8OF89FuEYS6v3dZtXfTCMX17SvWj7a6TOoKWPQSmIHHCiZQXVbEd Z74jx2DW1uc= =f6VO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
net-acct and a ppp dial-in server
Hi, I've been trying to get nacctd to work with a dial-in server. To get traffic figures per user I need to create lookup files in /var/run, each one is named with the remote IP and contains the username of whoever is using that address. pppd will delete the files after the user has logged off, that's easy, as ppp has a setting for a command to run on disconnection. It's creating the files that's driving me crazy. I tried this script from mgetty instaed of just the call to pppd: #!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login defaultroute proxyarp whereisuser=`w | grep $1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 2 ` addressuser=`grep $whereisuser /etc/hosts | expand | tr -s ' ' | \ cut -d ' ' -f 1` echo $1 /var/run/$addressuser and the clients can dial-in OK, but the latter part (from wherisuser on) doesn't get run until the client logs out (ie after pppd dies), so the greps fail and no file is written. Before the pppd there is no way of telling who the user is ( Just AutoPPP!). I need to know how much traffic each user is generating, as I suspect that some are setting up servers at home that are just a bit illegal here in sunny Queensland (come to Queensland and turn the clock back 25 years!). Surely someone somewhere has got nacctd working with mgetty and ppp for dynamic IP. Any suggestions at all are welcome, as I'm starting to really hate this machine! John Foster -- 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
At 06:47 -0500 on 5/15/97, Eugene Sevinian wrote: After this point I get the message ...S1, too fast respawning mgetty. Suspended for 5 min or something like that. And that is all )-; I had this problem but it went away and the modem operations went much smoother when I took the modem out of auto-answer mode. Seems that mgetty wants to answer the call instead of letting the modem do it. Butch Butch Kemper | Free sound advice available Brazos Internet Consulting Group | 95% sound and 5% advice 409-361-2324 | Refunds cheerfully provided -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
May 13 instalation disk's problem (vfat)
It was impossible to install debian on my PC due to the fact I put distibution on w95 partition while vfat fs support was not done successfully. I got 2 string warning that it will tak up 1 minite in case that this device is not installed and stoped forever. Everything was fine in that sense with old Slak instalation from the same w95 partition. Is there any idea? Eugene Sevinian P.S. Just for curiosity ... HOw many people are participating in this mailing list? 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: Primary vs. Extended partitions
The additional calculations would only be during mount of the filesystem on the partition. I prefer to only use primary partitions because I am always messing with them and they are easier to keep track of when they are all defined in one place, sector 0,0,0. I usually use Norton diskedit to create or change my partitions. I do not trust M$ fdisk it can be brutal. In spite of the fact that the M$ fdisk prohibits you from creating more than one primary fat partition, and NT warns you about it when you do it,I have never had a problem with accessing multiple fat primary partitions on the same drive using dos 3.3 and up, OS/2, Win95, NT or Linux. --Brian N. Borg Eloy A. Paris wrote: Hi, the docs. in /usr/doc/lilo are very good to understand the concept of primary and extended partitions (and the logical partitions contained in these extended partitions). However, I would like to know if there is any perfomance hit if extended partitions are used instead of primary partitions. I guess more calculations are needed to access a specific sector in the hard disk in the case of extended partitions. Any suggestions on which kind of partitions is better? Thanks in advance. 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: net-acct and a ppp dial-in server
I've been trying to get nacctd to work with a dial-in server. To get traffic figures per user I need to create lookup files in /var/run, each one is named with the remote IP and contains the username of whoever is using that address. Unless the code has been patched I wouldn't bother with this. We went and set all this up quite a while ago (as far as I know nothing has been added to this program for *well* over a year though I haven't looked recently) and found that the code in nacctd was buggy. I didn't seem to update the mapping between users and the dynamic IP number so it became all but useless. If you give out static IP#'s it *should* work okay but I'm not positive. You should be able to do everything you want (ie. monitor per user volume) with ipfwadm installed in the kernel though I'm not sure exactly how. Adam. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I have a problem...
Hi Gabriele, although I don't own a cdrom drive with a proprietary interface I think that the key might be to give the coordinates of the drive (i.e. io port and interrupt) at boot time. Unfortunately I lack the knowledge to be more precisely. Perhaps someone else can shed more light on this!?! Using a valid Reply-To address also helps: here's a message that's been sitting in my mail queue for couple of days (apologies for sending a long blurb to the list.) begin bounced message -- Hi, did you try sbpcd driver? -- It should work with your cd-rom I think. When installation script asks you which kernel modules to load, select sbpcd module. You may need to do a few extra things to make it work: a) your AWE is a P'n'P card and may need to be configured first, b) you need to pass some parameters to sbpcd driver, eg. i/o port and irq. I'm attaching the readme for sbpcd module. Also, quick web search came up with this: news://it.comp.linux news://it.comp.linux.setup http://www.nllgg.nl/lugww/IT.html -- list of Italian Linux User's Groups Hope this helps -- Dimitri --- This README belongs to release 4.2 or newer of the SoundBlaster Pro (Matsushita, Kotobuki, Panasonic, CreativeLabs, Longshine and Teac) CD-ROM driver for Linux. sbpcd really, really is NOT for ANY IDE/ATAPI drive! Not even if you have an original SoundBlaster card with an IDE interface! So, you better have a look into README.ide if your port address is 0x1F0, 0x170, 0x1E8, 0x168 or similar. I get tons of mails from IDE/ATAPI drive users - I really can't continue any more to answer them all. So, if your drive/interface information sheets mention IDE (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary) and the DOS driver invoking line within your CONFIG.SYS is using an address below 0x230: DON'T ROB MY LAST NERVE - jumper your interface to address 0x170 and IRQ 15 (that is the secondary IDE configuration), set your drive to master and use ide-cd as your driver. If you do not have a second IDE hard disk, use the LILO commands hdb=noprobe hdc=cdrom and get lucky. To make it fully clear to you: if you mail me about IDE/ATAPI drive problems, my answer is above, and I simply will discard your mail, hoping to stop the flood and to find time to lead my 12-years old son towards happy computing. The driver is able to drive the whole family of traditional AT-style (that is NOT the new Enhanced IDE or ATAPI drive standard) Matsushita, Kotobuki, Panasonic drives, sometimes labelled as CreativeLabs. The well-known drives are CR-521, CR-522, CR-523, CR-562, CR-563. CR-574 is an IDE/ATAPI drive. The Longshine LCS-7260 is a double-speed drive which uses the old Matsushita command set. It is supported - with help by Serge Robyns. Vertos (Elitegroup Computer Systems, ECS) has a similar drive - support has started; come in contact if you have such a Vertos 100 or ECS-AT drive. There exists an IBM External ISA CD-ROM Drive which in fact is a CR-563 with a special controller board. This drive is supported (the interface is of the LaserMate type), and it is possibly the best buy today (cheaper than an internal drive, and you can use it as an internal, too - f.e. plug it into a soundcard). CreativeLabs has a new drive CD200 and a similar drive CD200F. The latter is made by Funai and sometimes named E2550UA, newer models may be named MK4015. The CD200F drives should fully work. CD200 drives without F are still giving problems: drive detection and playing audio should work, data access will result in errors. I need qualified feedback about the bugs within the data functions or a drive (I never saw a CD200). The quad-speed Teac CD-55A drive is supported, but still does not reach full speed. The data rate already reaches 500 kB/sec if you set SBP_BUFFER_FRAMES to 64 (it is not recommended to do that for normal file access usage, but it can speed up things a lot if you use something like dd to read from the drive; I use it for verifying self-written CDs this way). The drive itself is able to deliver 600 kB/sec, so this has to get a point of work; with the normal setup, the performance currently is not even as good as double-speed. This driver is NOT for Mitsumi or Sony or Aztech or Philips or XXX drives, and again: this driver is in no way usable for any IDE/ATAPI drive. If you think your drive should work and it doesn't: send me the DOS driver for your beast (gzipped + uuencoded) and your CONFIG.SYS if you want to ask me for help, and include an original log message excerpt, and try to give all information a complete idiot needs to understand your hassle already with your first mail. And if you want to say as I have mailed you before, be sure that I don't remember your case by such remarks; at the moment, I have some hundreds open correspondences about Linux CDROM questions (hope to reduce if the IDE/ATAPI user questions disappear). This driver will work with the soundcard interfaces (SB Pro, SB 16, Galaxy,
Debian 1.3 Download
Yesterday, I tried to download bo from ftp.funet.fi's debian-mirror. As it turned out, the symlinks were no longer symlinks when I got it down, and I believe it turned out to be around 800MB. How can I avoid this, when my ftp-client does not create symlinks when it should ?? What directories should I fetch, so that I do not download more than one copy of each .deb-package ? Any help is appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: May 13 instalation disk's problem (vfat)
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote: It was impossible to install debian on my PC due to the fact I put distibution on w95 partition while vfat fs support was not done successfully. I got 2 string warning that it will tak up 1 minite in case that this device is not installed and stoped forever. Everything was fine in that sense with old Slak instalation from the same w95 partition. When you install include vfat. Is there any idea? Eugene Sevinian P.S. Just for curiosity ... HOw many people are participating in this mailing list? Many. L8R, --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: May 13 instalation disk's problem (vfat)
It was impossible to install debian on my PC due to the fact I put distibution on w95 partition while vfat fs support was not done successfully. I got 2 string warning that it will tak up 1 minite in case that this device is not installed and stoped forever. Everything was fine in that sense with old Slak instalation from the same w95 partition. When you install include vfat. It hangs when I am trying to do it. Exactly at this point! Excuse me that it was not clear from my letter ;-( 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] .
modprobe warning
Hi, Today I upgraded the menu package to 1.3-2 . Since then I get every half minute a syslogd warning saying that modprobe can't locate the char-major-6 module. I have a custom kernel ( 2.0.29 ) and no such module. Anybody can tell me what is going on ?? Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installing TKnet - where to unpack it?
Message from Brent Hutto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm setting up my Debian GNU/Linux system the hard way. By that I mean that I'm adding just the packages that I need, one at a time using the dpkg tool. It's worked OK for basic stuff like man and the Xwindows packages. So far, I like the control this give me over what goes on my system. It's a bit time consuming but that's OK. Now I'm ready to install my first non-package piece of software, TKnet. I've downloaded the tknet1_1.tgz file from the TKnet site onto a floppy and now I'm ready to install. Where is the preferred place to install TKnet? There's a directory called /usr/local/bin on my system. I believe I read somewhere that putting non-Debian-supplied software there helps in maintenance down the road one day. OTOH, I also vaguely remember reading that /usr/local is for software on my particular machine that isn't in a shared-mount directory such as /usr is in some workgroup environments. Bottom line. Where would be the most standard place to put that .tgz file and unpack it? And what reasons, if any, are there to even worry about where it goes? Maybe I'm just being paranoid (my understanding of Unix in general and Linux is particular is very lacking). The standard way to do it, I believe is... make a directory for it (say tknet1_1) under /usr/local/src and unpack it in that directory... Then move or softlink the binary and man pages to /usr/local/bin - /usr/local/man/man? (replace the ? mark with the proper man section). /usr/local/bin should only have binaries or links to binaries. Using /usr/local makes it easier to keep track of the stuff you did vs. the stuff the package manager (Debian) did Under the Linux File Standard, distributions can't use local directories...they are there only for your use. For example, you should never delete a binary from /usr/bin, but instead use dpkg/dselect. On the other hand it would be fine to do so from /usr/local/bin, because you know your the person who put it there in the first place. Good luck -Sam -- VA Research Linux Workstations| The World's Best Linux Workstations | Featuring RedHat http://www.varesearch.com | Now offering VarStation II Systems Sam Ockman - (415)934-3666, ext. 133 | Based on the Intel Pentium II -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
where is xload?
Hi, after upgrading to 1.3 I lost xload somewhere. Where is it? Ciao, - Krid - -- ungeduscht, geduzt und ausgebuht -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
LaTeX to SGML?
I am working on a project for which final output is expected in PageMaker format. I don't have PageMaker, but I am familiar with LaTeX. I saw a reference to an SGML to Lyx package---is there a LaTeX to SGML utility, or, alternately, a way to do this. RTF may be an option, I think. I have not had good results converting between LaTeX to RTF. Is there a recommended method to do this? Many thanks, to many people who for a couple of years have kept on answering my questions. Alan -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---===+++#+++===--- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG
I'm waiting for parts to arrive for a new system. I can probably get a copy of MSDOG, but I'd like to avoid this. Eventually it will perhaps be necessary to install Windows 95 or Windows NT and MSDOG, but to begin with, I will install Linux. I expect to be able to create the installation disks for Debian on my long faithful machine electra. Can I reasonably expect to pull this off without installing DOS at all? Can I format the disks from the install disks? Can I partition them, all that? Another question, out of curiosity: will it be feasible to install Windows95 later on? Will it stomp on the linux system? What about DOG---can I reasonably expect to install that AFTER linux, without a problem? Better still, can I run DOSEMU without having MSDOG installed ever at all? I have a few programs like skyglobe and another astronomy sky disply program, HYPERSKY, that I would like to run, as well as several other programs. I guess I would really need Windows 3.1 to run that on DOSEMU? Thanks in advance, Alan -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Voice: (670) 235-6580 Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---===+++#+++===--- if a close inspection should show that the supposed hand-wrought spoon were in reality only a clever imitation of hand-wrought goods, but an imitation so cleverly wrought as to give the same impression of line and surface to any but a minute examination by a trained eye, the utility of the article, including gratification which the user derives from its contemplation as an object of beauty, would immediately decline by some eighty or ninety percent, or even more --Thorsten Veblen, _The Theory of the Leisure Class_ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: May 13 instalation disk's problem (vfat)
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote: On Mon, 19 May 1997, Eugene Sevinian wrote: P.S. Just for curiosity ... HOw many people are participating in this mailing list? The current debian-user distribution list contains 874 email addresses. 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: May 13 instalation disk's problem (vfat)
Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : The current debian-user distribution list contains 874 email addresses. How do you know? 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: net-acct and a ppp dial-in server
On Mon, 19 May 1997, John Foster wrote: I tried this script from mgetty instaed of just the call to pppd: #!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login defaultroute proxyarp whereisuser=`w | grep $1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 2 ` addressuser=`grep $whereisuser /etc/hosts | expand | tr -s ' ' | \ cut -d ' ' -f 1` echo $1 /var/run/$addressuser and the clients can dial-in OK, but the latter part (from wherisuser on) doesn't get run until the client logs out (ie after pppd dies), so the greps fail and no file is written. Before the pppd there is no way of telling who the user is ( Just AutoPPP!). yes, that is normal behaviour - pppd is being run in the foreground (with control of the tty) in this situation, so the remainder of the script doesn't execute until pppd exits. That's how it's supposed to be, so don't waste any time trying to get pppd to run in the background. One of pppd's features is the ability to run a script when a link is established and another when it is terminated. These are the 'ip-up' and 'ip-down' scripts, and they reside in the /etc/ppp directory. you need to edit your /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down scripts. the documentation for net-acct tells how to do it for slip logins...it's not very difficult to apply the same principles for ppp. try adding something like: /usr/bin/whoami /var/run/$5 to /etc/ppp/ip-up, and add: rm /var/run/$5 to /etc/ppp/ip-down this is the bare minimum you need to get it working. NOTE: these changes are untestedhowever, from my understanding of the docs, they should work. craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG
I'd recommend creating a partition for MS-DOS right away. No need to actually install it till required. -- Jean Pierre On Mon, 19 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm waiting for parts to arrive for a new system. I can probably get a copy of MSDOG, but I'd like to avoid this. Eventually it will perhaps be necessary to install Windows 95 or Windows NT and MSDOG, but to begin with, I will install Linux. I expect to be able to create the installation disks for Debian on my long faithful machine electra. Can I reasonably expect to pull this off without installing DOS at all? Can I format the disks from the install disks? Can I partition them, all that? Another question, out of curiosity: will it be feasible to install Windows95 later on? Will it stomp on the linux system? What about DOG---can I reasonably expect to install that AFTER linux, without a problem? Better still, can I run DOSEMU without having MSDOG installed ever at all? I have a few programs like skyglobe and another astronomy sky disply program, HYPERSKY, that I would like to run, as well as several other programs. I guess I would really need Windows 3.1 to run that on DOSEMU? Thanks in advance, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Metrolink Motif
I already bought a motif-version from Metrolink. How can I tell Debian that I have Motif installed (to install the motif-apps)? Thanx, Gernot -- -- Gernot Bauer University of Linz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DOSEMU drive access problem
On May 18, 6:54pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Subject: Re: DOSEMU drive access problem On Sun, 18 May 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: DOS-C version 0.92 [FreeDOS Release] (Build 37). Is freedos compatible with MS-DOS? Try using msdos boot disk first. Aw, do I have to? I was just getting ready to purge the last of the M$ software from my system! Actually, good suggestion. I'll try it tonight. But does this really have anything to do with the problem? I was thinking that the emufs driver allows dosemu to access the drives via the linux device drivers, and hiding the hardware details while avoiding access conflicts with linux. If that is the case, then from a disk access point of view why should it matter which version of DOS is riding on dosemu? --ken -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: I'd recommend creating a partition for MS-DOS right away. No need to actually install it till required. Agreed. Dos/Win/NT want the first partition of the first drive to be their boot file system. So decide what you want for DOS and build the partition (from a DOS rescue disk that has fdisk) with fdisk (msdos version) before you do any linux work. -- Jean Pierre On Mon, 19 May 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm waiting for parts to arrive for a new system. I can probably get a copy of MSDOG, but I'd like to avoid this. Eventually it will perhaps be necessary to install Windows 95 or Windows NT and MSDOG, but to begin with, I will install Linux. Ok, with the above proviso. I expect to be able to create the installation disks for Debian on my long faithful machine electra. Can I reasonably expect to pull this off without installing DOS at all? Can I format the disks from the install disks? Can I partition them, all that? The installation/rescue disk has all the tools for partitioning drives and creating file systems and are intended to work without any pre-existing os. Another question, out of curiosity: will it be feasible to install Windows95 later on? Will it stomp on the linux system? What about DOG---can I reasonably expect to install that AFTER linux, without a problem? No problem with dos, however win95 doesn't play well with others and will probably break any mbr/lilo configuration you have for linux. Be sure to have a boot disk handy for getting back into your linux system. Neither msdos, windows3.1, or windows95 knows anything about a linux partition. They usually just ignor the unknown partitions. Just make sure all the dos partitions are first and the remaining partitions will not cause problems. Better still, can I run DOSEMU without having MSDOG installed ever at all? This is still developement software and applicability to your needs may vary from case to case. I have a few programs like skyglobe and another astronomy sky disply program, HYPERSKY, that I would like to run, as well as several other programs. I guess I would really need Windows 3.1 to run that on DOSEMU? You might also look at wine. This is still very early stuff, but does run some win progs. 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: May 13 instalation disk's problem (vfat)
On 19 May 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : The current debian-user distribution list contains 874 email addresses. How do you know? I let vi count the lines in the distribution list. This isn't something anyone can get to. I maintain the debian-testing mailing list and thus have the access to the lists. 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: Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG
What about a bootable CD and install it directly from the CD? Redhat allows installation without using floppies. Lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Class of machine needed for DNS router.
I have to set up a primary DNS that will also route between two 10base2 ethernets with packet filtering. The line to the Internet will be a 128 K ISDN line so that bandwidth will be limited there. What class of machine is necessary for such a task? I have 3 machines laying around, a 386-DX 40, 486-DX 33 and a 486-DX2 66. At this point it doesn't make sense to commit too heavy a machine for this purpose and I'll put 16 Megs RAM and a 540 Meg had drive in it regardless of the processor. Since it is going to have the DNS 128 Megs of swap is probably necessary with the cached requests setting in the machine. Any comments would be appreciated. -- 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
After few attempts to compile the new binary of mgetty with ppp support I was adviced to go back to the initial point and try again with old binary. It became clear ( to Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to me :-) that there were a propblem with IP address. When the last item if IP was set to two digit instead of default 3 digit form than things had changed. Presen state is following: Dailing from the w95 box side I see Connected at 14400 bps Duration: 000:06:15 Details: Server type: PPP: Windows95, Windows NT 3.5, Internet Protocols: 1) TCP/IP However, when I try to run netscape ( the same with other staff) netscape stops with following message on status line: Connect: Looking up host: home.netscape.com... And after a bit thinking it returns: Netscape is unable to locate the server: home.netscape.com The server does not have a DNS entry. Ckeck the sever name in the Location(URL) and try again. --- Hope someone can help me to find the way out. Thanks, 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] .
Can't start xsession, help
Hi I have the following problem - after successful login in the xdm login window xdm starts xsession but it immediately terminates and I see xdm welcome again. I'm running Debian linux, installed less than month ago from one of mirror-debian ftp sites. I was trying to set up PPP with dynamic IP address, and for some stupid reason commented out line in /etc/hosts with name of my PC and it's IP address and then rebooted it. After doing it I can't start xsession. Actually X starts executing /etc/X11/Xsession file - I can see root window color, which is set up from there, for a second, but it won't open xterminals and quits. I guess X now considers computer as a foreign host, and it's host-control terminates the session. But then I logged in from alt console and edited /etc/hosts file back as it was, but X behaves the same way, terminates 1 second after starting. Could anybody help with this? Thanks Sergei -- 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
After few attempts to compile the new binary of mgetty with ppp support I was adviced to go back to the initial point and try again with old binary. It became clear ( to Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED], not to me :-) that there were a propblem with IP address. When the last item if IP was set to two digit instead of default 3 digit form than things had changed. Presen state is following: Dailing from the w95 box side I see Connected at 14400 bps Duration: 000:06:15 Details: Server type: PPP: Windows95, Windows NT 3.5, Internet Protocols: 1) TCP/IP However, when I try to run netscape ( the same with other staff) netscape stops with following message on status line: Connect: Looking up host: home.netscape.com... And after a bit thinking it returns: Netscape is unable to locate the server: home.netscape.com The server does not have a DNS entry. You might need also to specify the address of nameserver(s) from win95 box side and make sure you give proxyarp option to pppd. Alex Y. Ckeck the sever name in the Location(URL) and try again. --- Hope someone can help me to find the way out. Thanks, 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] . -- 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
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Presen state is following: Dailing from the w95 box side I see Connected at 14400 bps Duration: 000:06:15 Details: Server type: PPP: Windows95, Windows NT 3.5, Internet Protocols: 1) TCP/IP However, when I try to run netscape ( the same with other staff) netscape stops with following message on status line: Connect: Looking up host: home.netscape.com... And after a bit thinking it returns: Netscape is unable to locate the server: home.netscape.com The server does not have a DNS entry. You might need also to specify the address of nameserver(s) from win95 box side and make sure you give proxyarp option to pppd. I tried to add proxyarp to the coomand strings but things didn't changed. Now it looks this way in /etc/mgetty/login.config: /AutoPPP/ - - /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap -pap login :194.67.208.10 debug dns-addr 194.67.64.1 proxyarp Ckeck the sever name in the Location(URL) and try again. --- Hope someone can help me to find the way out. Thanks, 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: Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm waiting for parts to arrive for a new system. I can probably get a copy of MSDOG, but I'd like to avoid this. Eventually it will perhaps be necessary to install Windows 95 or Windows NT and MSDOG, but to begin with, I will install Linux. I expect to be able to create the installation disks for Debian on my long faithful machine electra. Can I reasonably expect to pull this off without installing DOS at all? Can I format the disks from the install disks? Can I partition them, all that? Yes. The install disks don't need to be formatted. You will write a raw disk image onto them. Another question, out of curiosity: will it be feasible to install Windows95 later on? Will it stomp on the linux system? What about DOG---can I reasonably expect to install that AFTER linux, without a problem? Better still, can I run DOSEMU without having MSDOG installed ever at all? I have a few programs like skyglobe and another astronomy sky disply program, HYPERSKY, that I would like to run, as well as several other programs. I guess I would really need Windows 3.1 to run that on DOSEMU? You should be able to install dos at any time. Note, however, that you cannot change the size of Linux partitions are you've put a filesystem on them. You will be able to install DOSEMU without having had dos installed. If you think you might install it later, you may want to create a partition for it. -- 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: Picky format of /etc/fstab according to mount command
Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: Didn't know where to report this. I looked at the source code, and it's full of different names and email addresses -- so the Debian users list seemed like a safe bet ... The mount command seems to be rather picky about the format of the /etc/fstab file. In particular, the options column. The comma-separated list of options can't just a separated by commas -- each option must be separated by a comma and a space. Example: (tao)hnine:/etc[503]$ cat fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # #filesys mnt pnt type options dump pass /dev/hdb3 / ext2defaults0 1 /dev/hdb1 noneswapsw 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hdb2 /home ext2defaults0 2 /dev/sda1 /jazext2defaults0 0 /dev/hda1 /dosc vfatdefaults0 2 /dev/hdd/cdrom iso9660 auto, async, dev, exec, ro, suid, user 0 0 /dev/fd0/dosa msdos defaults, user 0 0 (tao)hnine:/etc[504]$ mount /cdrom mount: block device /dev/hdd is write-protected, mounting read-only (tao)hnine:/etc[505]$ (tao)hnine:/etc[505]$ mount # EVERTHING IS FINE HERE /dev/hdb3 on / type ext2 (rw) /proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hdb2 on /home type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda1 on /dosc type vfat (rw) /dev/hdd on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro) (tao)hnine:/etc[506]$ (tao)hnine:/etc[506]$ (tao)hnine:/etc[506]$ umount /cdrom (tao)hnine:/etc[507]$ (tao)hnine:/etc[507]$ cat fstab # IT'S CHANGED! -- SPACES AFTER COMMAS TAKEN OUT # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # #filesys mnt pnt type options dump pass /dev/hdb3 / ext2defaults0 1 /dev/hdb1 noneswapsw 0 0 proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hdb2 /home ext2defaults0 2 /dev/sda1 /jazext2defaults0 0 /dev/hda1 /dosc vfatdefaults0 2 /dev/hdd/cdrom iso9660 auto,async,dev,exec,ro,suid,user0 0 /dev/fd0/dosa msdos defaults, user 0 0 (tao)hnine:/etc[508]$ (tao)hnine:/etc[508]$ mount /cdrom (tao)hnine:/etc[509]$ (tao)hnine:/etc[509]$ mount # OH, NO! /dev/hdb3 on / type ext2 (rw) /proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hdb2 on /home type ext2 (rw) /dev/hda1 on /dosc type vfat (rw) /dev/hdd on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev) (tao)hnine:/etc[510]$ (tao)hnine:/etc[510]$ umount /cdrom (tao)hnine:/etc[511]$ There is nothing I can see in the documentation about this... Can mount be easily changed so that it's not so picky? -- Harmon Spaces and commas should *not* work. How else do you suppose mount can read the file and know which fields are which? Each 'field' is separated by whitespace and that's how the file is parsed. -- 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: Can't start xsession, help
Sergey Avvakumov wrote: Hi I have the following problem - after successful login in the xdm login window xdm starts xsession but it immediately terminates and I see xdm welcome again. I'm running Debian linux, installed less than month ago from one of mirror-debian ftp sites. I was trying to set up PPP with dynamic IP address, and for some stupid reason commented out line in /etc/hosts with name of my PC and it's IP address and then rebooted it. After doing it I can't start xsession. Actually X starts executing /etc/X11/Xsession file - I can see root window color, which is set up from there, for a second, but it won't open xterminals and quits. I guess X now considers computer as a foreign host, and it's host-control terminates the session. But then I logged in from alt console and edited /etc/hosts file back as it was, but X behaves the same way, terminates 1 second after starting. Could anybody help with this? Check for a file called .xsession-errors in your home directory. Error messages generated when you run X should go here. -- 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: Real Audio
I dont know, but it shouldn't be to hard to figure out, just go to the real audio page, or email the support guys! __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Real Audio Author: Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Internet-SMTP Date:5/18/97 10:36 AM Hey Does anyone know if there is a Real Audio player for Linux, without the X-Windows/System (so: just text-only) ? thanks.. -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl //Never make any mistaeks. -- 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[2]: Can't start xsession, help
Good question, ask your dog!, I always ask my dog my computer questions! He always answers I know it sound silly but it really works!!! __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: Can't start xsession, help Author: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Internet-SMTP Date:5/19/97 10:42 AM Sergey Avvakumov wrote: Hi I have the following problem - after successful login in the xdm login window xdm starts xsession but it immediately terminates and I see xdm welcome again. I'm running Debian linux, installed less than month ago from one of mirror-debian ftp sites. I was trying to set up PPP with dynamic IP address, and for some stupid reason commented out line in /etc/hosts with name of my PC and it's IP address and then rebooted it. After doing it I can't start xsession. Actually X starts executing /etc/X11/Xsession file - I can see root window color, which is set up from there, for a second, but it won't open xterminals and quits. I guess X now considers computer as a foreign host, and it's host-control terminates the session. But then I logged in from alt console and edited /etc/hosts file back as it was, but X behaves the same way, terminates 1 second after starting. Could anybody help with this? Check for a file called .xsession-errors in your home directory. Error messages generated when you run X should go here. -- 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] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installing Debian Linux on a new system w/out MSDOG
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: What about a bootable CD and install it directly from the CD? Redhat allows installation without using floppies. A bootable CD is fine for those system that have that support (with a proper cd of course). If your CD drive is on a scsi device you can get by with a single rescue disk. If not then an additional floppy (drivers disk) is needed to install the module necessary to mount the CD drive. From this point the base installation and the rest can all be installed from the CD. With a small DOS partition you can put resc1440.bin, drv1440.bin, root.bin, base1_3.tgz, and the kernel image file, linux, on the C drive along with loadlin.exe which can be used to install the sytem with NO floppies. 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] .
lynx 2.7.1-1 update
I checked for package updates and it showed lynx 2.7.1-1. The dependencies show that slang = 0.99.38 is required, but 0.99.34 is the one available. Will 0.99.38 be added to rex? Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
deselect warnings
Recently I have started getting the following message when running dselect: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = (unset), LC_COLLATE = (unset), LANG = us are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the C locale. Not being very perl-literate, can someone please tell me what I should do, if anything, about this. I'm not aware of anything I have done which would cause this message to suddenly start appearing. TIA, Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: deselect warnings
On May 19, Bob Nielsen wrote Recently I have started getting the following message when running dselect: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = (unset), LC_COLLATE = (unset), LANG = us are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the C locale. As far as I know, us-ish isn't yet considered a separate language from English. :-) Set LANG either to en or en_US and perl will be happy again. Christian pgpL0kfjRZA8T.pgp Description: PGP signature
apache no longer starting at boot.
I have apache instilled on my home machine to do some testing. It was in anticipation of setting it up at work. Over the last few days, when I boot the machine apache doesn't load any longer. Trying to start it manually by doing /etc/init.d/apache start doesn't work either. None of the configuration files were changed from my recollection and I don't see anything in a log file complaining about it's untimely death. The current log files in /var/log/apache/ are zero length. I was thinking about uninstalling it and reinstalling it to see if that worked but I hate doing that without having an idea as to why this is happening. Any ideas or suggestions as to log files to check back on would be greatly appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: apache no longer starting at boot.
Chris Brown wrote: Any ideas or suggestions as to log files to check back on would be greatly appreciated. check to ensure you have a /home/www-data/webspace/logs directory and a access.log file in that directory. i've seen people break their config by unwittingly removing the access.log file. m* -- The Shining One -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: where is xload?
Hi Dirk, funny thing! The same happened to me when switching to frozen. It's in the xproc package. I do not understand what is happening there because xload definitely is in the package. It seems that it just isn't copied to it's place... Perhaps you could file a bug report on this?1? By the way, if you want to know to which package a certain file belongs you can use 'dpkg -S filename' Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-20146 Hamburgwww: www.app-geoph.dkrz.de -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lynx 2.7.1-1 update
Hi Bob, I just reported this as a bug. Probably you can just install the slang package from frozen which has a sufficient version. Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-20146 Hamburgwww: www.app-geoph.dkrz.de -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: deselect warnings
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: On May 19, Bob Nielsen wrote Recently I have started getting the following message when running dselect: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = (unset), LC_COLLATE = (unset), LANG = us are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the C locale. As far as I know, us-ish isn't yet considered a separate language from English. :-) Set LANG either to en or en_US and perl will be happy again. That made the warning go away. The us definition was inserted by a script which came with StarOffice-3.1, which I had recently installed. StarOffice doesn't seem to complain about en, as far as I can tell. (I didn't download the StarOffice documentation--which is in German--as is an extra 10 megs or so.) Anyway, since English has been legally defined as the official language of Arizona, I should be using that anyway :^) Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- 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 Fri, 16 May 1997, Tan Wee Yeh wrote: 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. I've gotten bitten enough times (having just set up a friend's machine and not fully tested it yet) with the window manager as the final process but didn't yet have my mouse working. I'd often have to forcibly kill X, which I tend not to like to do. If I'm using my normal fvwm, I can (once I remember the default keys)drive my cursor by keyboard and exit an xterm, but there isn't much option for killing the window manager by keyboard. For the curious, here's a (slightly trimmed) version of my .xinitrc: #! /bin/sh # # first things first. # # xhost - allows x clients onto this server. xhost coral reef templinux # Backgrounded jobs process in parallel. # # xclock - self explanatory xclock -bg black -fg red -hd white -update 1 -geometry 96x96+3+809 # xbiff - visual new mail. xbiff -update 3 -volume 0 -bg black -fg blue -geometry 96x96+110+809 # xsysinfo - kernel activity/usage indicator xsysinfo -geometry 206x100+0-0 # fvwm - window manager fvwm xearth -proj merc # xautolock...automatically xlocks when unused for ten minutes xautolock -locker xlock -mode maze # xcon - symlink to xterm (allows for different behavior in .fvwmrc xcon -geometry 80x6+216-0 -T daemon.log -n daemon.log -e tail -f /var/log/daemon.log # NON BACKGROUNDED: # this script (and therefore xinit) finishes when # this process ends. # xcon - symlink to xterm (allows for different behavior in .fvwmrc xcon -C -geometry 80x6+711-0 ---end of included script--- Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libc6 question
Hi, I have a quick question about libc6. I see from the email describing the new packages available that many are now built with libc6. Does this mean that I need to have libc6 installed to run these packages. I don't want to install libc6 yet because of possible glitches. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DOSEMU drive access problem
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: On May 18, 6:54pm, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Subject: Re: DOSEMU drive access problem On Sun, 18 May 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: DOS-C version 0.92 [FreeDOS Release] (Build 37). Is freedos compatible with MS-DOS? According to the doc's it is almost 100% compatable. Try using msdos boot disk first. Aw, do I have to? I was just getting ready to purge the last of the M$ software from my system! Actually, good suggestion. I'll try it tonight. But does this really have anything to do with the problem? I was thinking that the emufs driver allows dosemu to access the drives via the linux device drivers, and hiding the hardware details while avoiding access conflicts with linux. If that is the case, then from a disk access point of view why should it matter which version of DOS is riding on dosemu? --ken -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . L8R, --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] .
JPEG utilities
I see that there are many JPEG utilites/viewers for both SVGAlib and X. However, what I need is a command line program that will return the dimensions, # of colors, etc. for an image. Is there such a beast? I know it's readily available if you understand the file format but I don't yet and was hoping to avoid writing any C. TIA. -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
'w' works, 'who' does not...
Hello, I have a set of servers running debian 1.2 as downloadable from a mirror site today. There are two servers, using NIS to distribute user information. From either system, if I type 'who', all I get back is a command prompt. If I use 'w', I get the correct data. I accedentally installed everything available from 'unstable' on both systems yesterday. TIA, Jon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: apache no longer starting at boot.
check to ensure you have a /home/www-data/webspace/logs directory and a access.log file in that directory. i've seen people break their config by unwittingly removing the access.log file. all, i didn't mean to imply that Chris might have 'unwittingly' broke his config or anything like that. sorry if it sounded that way. good luck, m* -- The Shining One -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
I'm also looking for a C function to convert EBCDIC to ASCII
I'm web surfing lookng for a C function to convert EBCIDIC to ASCII and I stumbled across the e-mail from Walter L Preuniger II, asking the same question.If anyone out there has found such a C function, please e-mail it to[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I'm also looking for a C function to convert EBCDIC to ASCII
I'm web surfing lookng for a C function to convert EBCIDIC to ASCII and I stumbled across the e-mail from Walter L Preuniger II, asking the same question. Have a look at GNU recode - it does conversions to/from most imaginable character sets (including EBCDIC). --=_NextPart_000_01BC6479.A83CAB60 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Please turn that off, this is email after all... /Anders -- -- Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. Anders Hammarquist | This space | [EMAIL PROTECTED] NetGuide Scandinavia | intentionally left blank | Fax: +46 31 50 79 39 http://www.netg.se | | Tel: +46 31 50 79 40 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: JPEG utilities
I see that there are many JPEG utilites/viewers for both SVGAlib and X.
However, what I need is a command line program that will return the
dimensions, # of colors, etc. for an image. Is there such a beast? I
know it's readily available if you understand the file format but I
don't yet and was hoping to avoid writing any C.
(cat filename.jpg|djpeg -v -targa/dev/null) 21|sed -n -e 's/Start Of
Frame.*://p'
works for me, though probably there are more straigt forward ways!
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Re: INN 1.5.1 problem
On Sun, 18 May 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Sun, 18 May 1997, Francois Gouget wrote: [...] 441 Can't set system NNTP-Posting-Host header [...] You're getting these errors because the NNTP-Posting-Host header isn't filtered out. Just write your own script to do that, instead of the post-news script, and it should work again. At least it did for me ;) Okay, I had a look along these lines and solved the problem. In fact the format of suck's get-news.conf changed between 3.3.2-1 and 3.4.1-2 but the installation script of suck did not issue any warning (just told me that I already had a customised get-news.conf file). It now stores the regular expression to be matched for removing the NNTP header. At least squid-1.1.1-1 issued a warning when upgrading my squid-1.0.20-1 because of the incompatible format and diald_0.16.1-4 even proposed to update my existing configuration file (from diald_0.14-9) which it did properly. Clearly the suck-3.4.1-2 installation script should be enhanced. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.mygale.org/05/fgouget/ Wonder what to do with all your spare CPU cycles ! Participate to the DES cracking challenge with the SolNet team http://www.des.sollentuna.se/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: libc6 question
Hi,
I have a quick question about libc6. I see from the email describing the
new packages available that many are now built with libc6. Does this mean
that I need to have libc6 installed to run these packages.
Well, uhm, let's say yes.
I don't want to
install libc6 yet because of possible glitches. Thanks
As far as I know, there are *no* glitches, at least not with
the old libc5 programmes still on your system. The only thing
that *might* go wrong, in case there are bugs in libc6, are
the new libc6 programmes.
And, as long as you don't install libc6-dev, and the latest libc6 gcc,
you will still compile your programmes as libc5.
So, the answer: go ehead, install libc6.
One drawback: for libc6, you'll need ldso-1.9 (unstable) That
one has no errors, (well, none that I know of), except that if
you ever decide to downgrade ldso, it'll itself from the system,
and your system will be unusable. But as long as you don't do
that, I don't think you'll find problemes.
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Re: Network mounting problems
Hello All:
I have been running into a vexing problem with a cluster of 8 Debian
machines I am using for a Course in Computational Physics.
All of the machines are running Debian 1.2 as installed in December 1996.
I have not wanted to do much upgrading during the course of the semester.
so students can log into any one of the machines and find their data
files.
The problem is that if the systems are left to run for an extended period
of time (over a week usually but as little as a few days even!) the /home
directory becomes inaccessible at login even though the df command shows
it to be mounted. This causes a great deal of problems and means that I
have to reboot the machines regularly. It also means that if I am not
around people start to complain. As a side note, the server is usually
quite stable and stays up for many weeks at a time. Just the other
machines need to be rebooted because of this problem. The kernel version
is 2.0.27.
So, I assume the clients mount their /home from a (the?) server via NFS?
If so, I used to have a lot of problems with the old nfsd, that used
to die on my every so often (escpecially if two clients mount and read
from the nfs disks at the same time). This was solved by upgrading to
a more recent nfsd. But alas, you don't indicate that any nfsd dies,
so you may be running into another problem. Still, upgrading the
server's nfsd (from the netstd package) may improve matters.
Currently installed on my system (without problems):
$ /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd -v
Universal NFS Server 2.2beta25
$ dpkg -l netstd
ii netstd 2.13-1 Networking binaries and daemons for Linux
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Re: libc6 question
On May 20, joost witteveen wrote I don't want to install libc6 yet because of possible glitches. Thanks As far as I know, there are *no* glitches, at least not with the old libc5 programmes still on your system. The only thing that *might* go wrong, in case there are bugs in libc6, are the new libc6 programmes. To echo what Joost said, there are no problems with installing libc6. It will coexist just fine with libc5 (just like libc5 coexists with libc4). If you want to *compile* programs with libc6, the procedure is still a bit messy right now. But if you stay away (for now) from the -dev stuff with libc6 in unstable, you should be just fine. So go ahead and install libc6. Christian pgpT4YbDUdE7l.pgp Description: PGP signature
