Re: afterstep icons
lc29b50 == lc29b50 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lc29b50 On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, David wrote: I have had the same problem...but I have installed both Xload, and Xproc. I still am mising the top icon also. Maybe we both have something messed up?...or maybe it is a bug? I don't know. If anyone knows how to solve this problem, please help me out. lc29b50 ITS NOT A BUG. You are missing xbiff. xload is a file in lc29b50 the package xproc. You need to install xcontrib (i think) lc29b50 which contains xbiff. If you are missing either xbiff or lc29b50 xload, 3 icons will be missing: afterstep, mailbox, and lc29b50 load graph From my experiences, there are 2 conditions that can cause the AfterStep icons to go poof; a missing package as has been covered or running the X server in 8 bpp. This at least holds true on an S3 with 2MB. YMMV. Glenn -- Glenn Amerine Inet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems AnalystVoice: (614)224-1336 Metropolitan Human Services Commission Fax: (614)224-6472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Smail multihomed systems
Forget this question, I answered my own questions... :) If anyone needs help with multiple domains using the same Smail, let me know, I got it working. Matthew On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: I have a few www virtual hosts on my system, and I'm using Smail. I would like Smail to handle the mail for the domains I setup that point to the system. The way I understand it, is that you should not input the domain info in /etc/smail/config under 'hostname' as that is used only for the main host name/names for the system. I tried it anyway and it seems to work just find. The correct way to do this is to create a seperate config file for each domain, and have smail startup a new smail/config for each...? (I read this from the doc/multihome file) Has anyone done this ? If so, maybe you could post the smail configuration files that allow this to work... In /etc/smail/routers are the directives done in order ? Here is mine: #- inet_addrs: driver=gethostbyaddr, transport=smtp; check_for_local, fail_if_error inet_hosts: driver=bind, transport=smtp; defer_no_connect, -local_mx_okay, defnames, ignore_domains=uucp:bitnet smart_host: driver=smarthost, transport=smtp; path=pop.idsi.net #--- So if inet_addrs fails Smail tries inet_hosts then smart_host ? I would assume that I have to put an entry for my other domains first here, so smail would check that first. Something like: multihome: driver-pathalias, transport=multihome; file=homes, proto=lsearch, optional This is all way to confusing.can't someone make a nice easy to use X-windows based config screen for an easy to setup MTA ??? :) Matthew -- 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: Redhat and Debian: Switching
Glenn R. Williams wrote: Hi Folks, Does anyone have experience switching from Redhat Linux to Debian? Is it best to do a full re-install, or can I do it less drastically? I am currently running Redhat 4.1 (Vanderbilt) on an Ascentia A laptop with no network. I like the ideas and energy of Debian and am contemplating a shift. I did exactly this a week ago. I pulled a document off the net explaining how to upgrade in place. Unfortunately it didn't work well. I ended up formating my / and /usr partions. A doing a clean install. Then I just compared my old config files to the new debian ones. Things I noticed. BindDebian arranged the /var/named files in a flat structure rather than using directories. Squid The cache is owned by a different user. Passwd file Debian has quite a few entries in the /etc/passwd by default. Also it starts adding users at UID1000 whereas RedHat starts at 500. Printer Config Redhat has the nice printer config tool. On debian I just needed to get lprng, magicfilter and alladin-gs, type magicfilterconfig. That easy but it seemed harder at first. NIS Redhat uses NYS, Debian uses NIS, so on debian you need to run ypbind. This caused me some grief too, but it seems better now it's working. Bottom line. Converting seems like a lot of stuffing around. As a result of this conversion afterstep and xload are still not functioning correctly, but I'd say they will eventually. I still have redhat systems on my network, and eventually I will convert them to debian. If you go with the if it ain't broke, don't fix it rule, then don't convert. But it sounds like you know that and you going to anyway. Good Luck David.. -- Binary Bar - Australia's first free access internet bar/cafe/gallery. 243 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. 12:00pm - 11:00pm http://www.binary.net.au -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xrsh?
On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: How about using ssh? Since I switched to ssh I have not had any need to do those 'xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge -' tricks anymore. Ssh crypts the connection and as an extra bonus automagically sets DISPLAY and xauth authorization records during the login process. Well, the problem is that I don't have root access on the machines I'm trying to rlogin to, so I have no way of configuring them to accept my ssh connections. Any suggestions about getting around this? Will --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ For PGP Public Key, visit my website. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: afterstep icons
Thanks to all those who tried to help me. Afterstep was running in 16bpp, not 8. If I modified the .steprc file I could make the AFstep.xpm icon appear elsewhere on the wharf bar. The fix was to install xproc_1.12.2_i386.deb from the /debian/updates directory. This made xload work again and fixed the icon not displaying thing. Hopefully this post will make someone searching dejanews late one night happy, because it'll be one more thing that someone on the net has solved for another netizen. david.. Binary Bar - Australia's first free access internet bar/cafe/gallery. 243 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia. 12:00pm - 11:00pm http://www.binary.net.au -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape and /bin/sh
I have set up netscape to play audio files by setting the helper app for .wav files to be bplay %s. Whenever netscape tries to play a file, though, I get sh: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so.5: undefined symbol:_default_morecore_init I'm using the latest version of bash from unstable (it is fixed in regard to the infamous bash bug) ... anyone have any clues? Bplay works fine from the command line. Will --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ For PGP Public Key, visit my website. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sendmail and domain name
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, David Morris wrote: : I would take a look at the follwing lines in sendmail.cf: : : # my official domain name : # ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your : domain : #Dj$w.Foo.COM : : Ah, so that is the $j variable it told me about. No wonder a 'grep $j *' : showed nothing. OK, so I tried to change it (and reboot) but when I : changed it to: : : Dj$gently : : or to : : Dj$gently.myispdomain.net : : Neither one solved the problem. According to the (big) sendmail book from O'Reilly, you would change this to Dj$w.myispdomain.net It would seem that you could also put Djgently.myispdomain.net Haven't tried these myself, just read it out of the book, so can't guarantee it :/ However, from your description, 'hostname' returns gently, and that confuses sendmail. If this is the case, use the first example I gave. Another option, depending on what IP address(es) you're using, is to set up a DNS server (bind) on your host (or somewhere on your network, if you're so lucky) which can provide the FQDN of your host. I did that with a diald'ed box (it was already supposed to be a primary nameserver for the domain, but I made it a secondary for the reverse domain of both the network card and the modem's IP addresses) and solved the boottime delay and error messages. Holler if you'd like help with this fix. It would probably make other things faster/easier for you, also. 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] .
magicfilter and Stylus 600
If anyone has the Epson Stylus Color 600 working with magicfilter, I would love to hear what you did. I did plain vanilla installation of gs, magicfilter, and magicfilterconfig, but I can't ever print plain text. It just scoots the paper back and forth for a while, sticks it in the middle, and then the power light keeps blinking forever (supposedly indicating data is being sent to the printer, even though lpq shows 'no entries'. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
uuencode/uudecode?
I am disappointed at the state of uuencode in recent Debian distributions. The man page for uuencode was extremely helpful in former packages---showing an explicit command line for mailing any file in uuencoded format. Where can I find that package? Or how would I do it now? The command I am trying to use is: cat FILE | tar -c - | gzip -c | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: uuencode/uudecode?
Alan Eugene Davis writes: I am disappointed at the state of uuencode in recent Debian distributions. The man page for uuencode was extremely helpful in former packages---showing an explicit command line for mailing any file in uuencoded format. It's still there. Are you sure you saw the uuencode(1) page instead of uuencode(5)? Where can I find that package? Or how would I do it now? The command I am trying to use is: cat FILE | tar -c - | gzip -c | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try tar cf - FILE | gzip -9 | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] or even tar cfz - FILE | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mh: Help for creating Debian bug reports
Package: mh
Version: 6.8.4-13
Severity: normal
How many of you Debian users also use emacs? If so, here's a
function which you may find useful to create an accurate, standard,
and complete template for your bug report that includes the
necessary pseudo-headers, system information, and inserts the package
name at the beginning of the subject.
It gives you a choice of mail address (submit or maintonly) as well
as severity (wishlist, normal, grave, or critical). In fact, I ran
it on this mail message, although I removed the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] from To field. Note the Subject, the
pseudo-header and the trailer at the bottom.
I use it from mh-e (and inserted the hooks below) but it can
probably be used from other mailers as well.
Comments welcome.
;;;
;;; insert-debian-bug-template: prepares a bug report for Debian given
;;; a mail buffer with To and Subject fields in the header.
;;;
(defun insert-debian-bug-template (recipient package severity)
Create a Debian bug report template.
(interactive
(list
(let ((rcpt (completing-read To [submit]:
'((submit 1) (maintonly 2)) nil t)))
(if (equal rcpt )
submit
rcpt))
(read-from-minibuffer Package: )
(let ((severity (completing-read Severity [normal]:
'((wishlist 1) (normal 2)
(grave 3) (critical 4)) nil t)))
(if (equal severity )
normal
severity
(message Gathering system info...)
(insert Package: package \n)
(call-process sh nil t nil -c
(format dpkg --status %s | grep Version package))
(insert Severity: severity \n)
(insert \n\n\nDebian GNU/Linux: )
(call-process sh nil t nil -c cat /etc/debian_version)
(insert Linux kernel: )
(call-process sh nil t nil -c uname -r)
(insert Gcc: )
(call-process sh nil t nil -c ls -l /lib/libc.so.5 | awk '{print $NF}')
(insert Perl: )
(call-process sh nil t nil -c
dpkg --status perl | grep Version | awk '{print $NF}')
(goto-char (point-min))
(search-forward-regexp ^To:)
(insert recipient @bugs.debian.org)
(goto-char (point-min))
(search-forward-regexp ^Subject:)
(insert package :)
(message *** Ensure Version exists.))
;;; mh-e hooks
(defun my-mh-folder-mode-hook ()
Hook to set key bindings in MH-Folder mode.
...
(local-set-key D 'report-debian-bug)
...)
(defun report-debian-bug ()
Send a Debian bug report.
(interactive)
(compose-mail-with-template (concat mh-user-path comps/debian-bug)))
(add-hook 'mh-letter-mode-hook 'my-mh-letter-mode-hook)
(defun my-mh-letter-mode-hook ()
Hook to prepare letter for editing.
...
;; Insert Debian bug information, and ready point after pseudo-header.
(if (equal mh-comp-formfile (concat mh-user-path comps/debian-bug))
(progn
(call-interactively 'insert-debian-bug-template)
(goto-char (point-min))
(search-forward-regexp ^$)
(forward-char 1)))
...)
Debian GNU/Linux: 1.3
Linux kernel: 2.0.30
Gcc: libc.so.5.4.33
Perl: 5.003.07-10
Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs.
If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.
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Re: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Adam Shand wrote: (http://www.direcpc.com I think). Remember though (just to be pedantic) that in this case there would be zero point in buying a 56k modem since the data transfer rates are asymetric. In other words with a 56k modem you get 56k downloads (which you don't care about because you have satellite speed :) but only 288/336 speeds to upload with. No, it's just vice versa. Upload speed with 56k Modem (from you to your provider) is 56k. - From your provider to you it's still 33.6 maximum, but this is what you don't care about if you have a cable modem. Nils - -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNBUTGlptA0IhBm0NAQEgRQL/b30BHzPrxen31oyfLLYhRwtsgic1NKaC duYy0M5VQoH8FdBkgzli+F8oo0pHPk7U7jUlZHABi6XtE/dILcjeguNxCnGlOr7e w8JDtRYGAQhZn/SGi4zJaGYH+BbhNAyb =al2H -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape and /bin/sh
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Will Lowe wrote: : I have set up netscape to play audio files by setting the helper app for : .wav files to be bplay %s. Whenever netscape tries to play a file, : though, I get : : sh: error in loading shared libraries : /usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so.5: undefined symbol:_default_morecore_init : : I'm using the latest version of bash from unstable (it is fixed in : regard to the infamous bash bug) ... anyone have any clues? : Bplay works fine from the command line. I'm not sure if this is related to the famous bus errors, but they were about malloc() to. Try a search on AltaVista at bus error netscape fix or something like that, and you should find links to the desired information, to install another library. Remco -- // 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] .
Re: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading
Nils Rennebarth wrote: No, it's just vice versa. Upload speed with 56k Modem (from you to your provider) is 56k. From your provider to you it's still 33.6 maximum, Bullsh*t. Go read something on the subject. Upload is 33, download is 56. Otherwise it would be impossible to sell 56k modems, because no one does more uploading than downloading. Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
why insmod so active?
I noticed that insmod spends a lot of CPU time. There were no such things before . I'm using 2.0.30 kernel with 1.3.0 Debian. Here is the 1st string of top's output: root 190 89.0 1.4 0 848 324 236 ? R 5:15 /sbin/insmod -k -s /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/lp.o lp Is there any idea? Thanks in advance. 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: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading
No, it's just vice versa. Upload speed with 56k Modem (from you to your provider) is 56k. I'm pretty sure that is incorrect (but not positive), if it is true then it's a seriously stupid piece of engineering since 90% of most peoples traffic is *to* them. Can anyone confirm this for us? 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: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading
On 9 Sep, Adam Shand wrote: Re: No, it's just vice versa. Upload speed with 56k Modem (from you to your Re: provider) is 56k. Re: Re: I'm pretty sure that is incorrect (but not positive), if it is true then Re: it's a seriously stupid piece of engineering since 90% of most peoples Re: traffic is *to* them. Re: Re: Can anyone confirm this for us? Certainly, the whole selling point of the 56k/X2 modems is that you can surf the web faster - meaning that traffic _to_ the enduser (pulled down webpages, music data etc.) has to be greater than with the older 28.8/33.6 modems. The traffic _out_ from the enduser to the 'net is not a problem when surfing :-) /Michael -- |Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | |Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, POG#130 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Cell.Phone:+46 705487554 URL:http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/%7Ed1temp | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XFree86 and Threads...
I was just curious - since libc6 is thread safe, and GUIs seem to be something that can be naturally multithreaded, is XFree86 multithreaded under Linux? (or any other system, for that matter?) I'm about to get a second PPro for my box at home, and I already have SMP at work, so the prospect of a multithreaded X is quite interesting to me. Thanks, Dale -- + finger for pgp public key -+ | Dale E. Martin | University of Cincinnati Savant Research Laboratory | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~dmartin | +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: uuencode/uudecode?
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: I am disappointed at the state of uuencode in recent Debian distributions. The man page for uuencode was extremely helpful in former packages---showing an explicit command line for mailing any file in uuencoded format. Where can I find that package? Or how would I do it now? The command I am trying to use is: cat FILE | tar -c - | gzip -c | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] A look at the Contents file tells me that uuencode is in the package sharutils (found in the utils section of the distribution). Your command line above looks somewhatlike the example in the man page, so it should work once you install the sharutils package. 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: Sound Blaster AWE32 and Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold
If you need midi and other stuff (like soundfontbanks), you also need to install the diverse awe-* packages. They provide kernel modules for awe sound support. They work just fine, but I've had problems applying the patch. If you experience any problems, just mail me, I've gone through this. Good luck, Marcus. PS: You need to compile the kernel after installing awe-* packages (and running the script as documented). But I would suggest the kernel-package for this, not the way described below. The you only need to follow the instructions in /usr/doc/kernel-package. On Mon, Sep 08, 1997 at 06:37:16PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, David R. Hageman wrote: I need to know how to install Sound Blaster support into Debian. Does anyone know the correct procedure for doing this process? Simple. Figure out your card's config (IRQ, DMA, etc.) - this is usually done by checking the config in Win95 or DOS, etc. Then cd /usr/src/linux and do make menuconfig ... there should be an option for sound. Select Soundblaster and enter the values. While you're there, check out the other kernel config options. Then after you've left menuconfig (make sure you save your config) do make clean make depend make zImage make modules make modules_install All this should be covered in the kernel howto. Will --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ For PGP Public Key, visit my website. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: uuencode/uudecode?
cat FILE | tar -c - | gzip -c | uuencode file.tar.gz | mail sharutils (found in the utils section of the distribution). Your command line above looks somewhatlike the example in the man page, so it should work once you install the sharutils package. Actually I don't' think this will work. tar cannot be used as a pure filter. Try this tar -cf - FILE | gzip -c | uudencode file.tgz | mail . or even tar -czf - FILE | uudencode file.tgz | mail . (I don't have a Linux box handy to test this, but it looks about right :-). ) Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews, [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP keyid:48FA EB81 TCA Synergo Ltd Tel. 44-(0)171-415-8159 Fax:44-(0)171-556-0022 New CIty Court, 20 St Thomas Street, London, Britain, SE1 9SD == Usual Disclaimers Apply = Personal and PGP key http://www.earth.demon.co.uk/alec -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian for PowerPC (PowerMacintosh)
Hello, i've read an interview with Bruce Perens in witch he says that the debian distibution running at the PowerPC platform. Please let me know how to get a running Linuxsystem on my PowerPC. Ruediger Gubler -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Error message from modprobe during boot with Debian 1.3.1
Hello, Since I upgraded my Debian 1.2 system to Debian 1.3.1 I get the following message during the boot: modprobe: /proc/modules: No such file or directory Apart from that, everything seems just fine, and /proc/modules exists (I can use cat to read its contents after the boot has completed). Does anyone have an explanation for this? Sorry if the question sounds too trivial, but I found no answer in the man pages... Thanks! Cleto Pescia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, Mike wrote: Nils Rennebarth wrote: No, it's just vice versa. Upload speed with 56k Modem (from you to your provider) is 56k. From your provider to you it's still 33.6 maximum, Bullsh*t. Go read something on the subject. Upload is 33, download is 56. Otherwise it would be impossible to sell 56k modems, because no one does more uploading than downloading. Easy now. Not everyone can be as informed as you. I work with a local computer store, which currently has its Internet presence through a dedicated modem. Your download is their upload, so there's a concrete example of more upload than download. On a different angle, what about the FCC rules which essentially limit 56k modems to 51 or 53k? I know practically nothing about it, except that I read it somewhere in Network World, I believe. Back when I was a student and took a class on Communication and Information Systems, we derived that the theoretical maximum bandwidth of a phone line was really about 34kbps, so it doesn't surprise me that there are all of these restrictions on 56k modems. 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] .
Re: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading
On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 10:08:38AM -0400, Pete Templin wrote: On a different angle, what about the FCC rules which essentially limit 56k modems to 51 or 53k? I know practically nothing about it, except that I read it somewhere in Network World, I believe. Back when I was a student and took a class on Communication and Information Systems, we derived that the theoretical maximum bandwidth of a phone line was really about 34kbps, so it doesn't surprise me that there are all of these restrictions on 56k modems. And the comms classes I take now still say the same. However, as I understand it, the x2/K56Flex crowd view the line as essentially digital with an analog impairment on the end (the end user's local loop); that's why the source must be digital. It depends on knowledge of the quantisation process, etc. If my understanding is correct, this should mean that x2 and K56Flex would need special adaptation to the quantisation scheme; the US uses ulaw (mu-law), while Australia and others use Alaw. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 53% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Starting X in 16 bpp ?
What is the debian whay of starting X in 16 bpp? I can do this: startx -- -bpp 16 but I would like to be able to do just startx. Any information as to what file(s) I need to modify would be greatly appreciated. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: WantWEB/Linux/IP Masquerading - 56k speed?
A bit off-topic, but a few additional thoughts: 1) Achievable speed is totally dependent upon your telco's outside plant characteristics. For example, I'm 2 1/2 miles from my local telco's switch. My ISP is about 6 miles from the same switch. I cannot get a *reliable* connection over 28.8. Connects at 31200 and up drop after 10 to 45 minutes; *reliably*. 2) Here in Illinois (US), our local telco, Ameritech, only *guarantees* data up to 9600 baud (which covers fax). If you try for any faster you're on your own. 3) As I understand the current situation, not even the manufacturers have gotten full 56k speeds consistently, only low 50's. And this is on the test bench. Regards, JohnT Improvement succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superceded their utility. Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures', 1832 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sound Blaster AWE32 and Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold
One last quick question about adding sound support to Debian. How does one handle the Plug and Play issue regarding the Sound Blaster AWE 32 and Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold? Last time I check...plug and play was not really supported natively by the linux kernel... ~ David Hageman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Starting X in 16 bpp ?
On Sep 9, Ricardo Muggli wrote What is the debian whay of starting X in 16 bpp? I can do this: startx -- -bpp 16 but I would like to be able to do just startx. Any information as to what file(s) I need to modify would be greatly appreciated. Put DefaultColorDepth 16 in Section Screen of /etc/X11/XF86Config . HTH, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XFree86 and Threads...
Dale Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was just curious - since libc6 is thread safe, and GUIs seem to be something that can be naturally multithreaded, is XFree86 multithreaded under Linux? (or any other system, for that matter?) I'm about to get a second PPro for my box at home, and I already have SMP at work, so the prospect of a multithreaded X is quite interesting to me. Now that xlib6g and xlib6g-dev have been released (thanks Mark), the answer should be yes, but I haven't tried it yet. Note that you need to be running unstable, and you have to complile all your code with -D_REENTRANT. There's information about X and threads in the book Programmers Supplement for Release 6, another one of those X books. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
MajorDomo Config
I'm trying to configure MajorDomo on my Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.x system. I'd post to the MajorDomo mailing list; however, I've installed the Debian package, so thought I'd check here first I'm running Deb Pkg version 1.94.1-7. I've configured MajorDomo as per all the docs, etc. as far as I can tell. I've gone over everything carefully. However, when I try to send an e-mail to majordomo requesting lists, I get the following reply. snip MAJORDOMO ABORT (mj_majordomo)!! While running with an effective uid of 65534 and an effective gid of 65534, Majordomo ran into the following problems: Unable to write to log file, check permissions on /var/log/majordomo/log Unable to write to list directory $listdir, check permissions on /var/lib/majordomo/lists snip These are the pertinent permissions for /var/log/majordomo/log drwxrwxr-x 2 majordom majordom 1024 Sep 7 06:47 . drwxrwsr-x 9 root adm 3072 Sep 8 07:10 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 majordom adm 0 Sep 7 06:47 log These are the pertinent permissions for /var/lib/majordomo/lists drwxrwsr-x 2 majordom majordom 1024 Aug 29 15:35 . drwxrwsr-x 5 majordom majordom 1024 Jul 10 17:05 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 majordom majordom 15 Aug 29 15:34 baantools -rw-r--r-- 1 majordom majordom 72 Aug 29 15:35 baantools.intro From the docs, etc., these permissions look like they shouldn't be causing any problems. The only thing that I find strange above is the line about While running with an effective uid of 65534 and an effective gid of 65534. Is MajorDomo supposed to run as nobody? Shouldn't it be running as majordom? How do I fix this if it's the problem? Also, the following is the output of MajorDomo's config-test. Does this provide any clues? I noticed that the effective and real user's listed below are identified as majordom as expected. Finally, as this output noted, I ran this as root. However, running it as a regular user (as the docs suggest), give exactly the same results. inetgw# wrapper config-test Config-test for Majordomo - Obvious things: - -- environment variables -- HOME=/usr/lib/majordomo LOGNAME=root MAJORDOMO_CF=/etc/majordomo.cf PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin SHELL=/bin/sh USER=root - euid/egid checks - effective user = majordom (uid 30) effective group = majordom majordom (gid 31 31 ) -- uid/gid checks -- real user = majordom (uid 30) real group = majordom majordom (gid 31 31 ) Non obvious things that cause headaches: Good: 'require'd /etc/majordomo.cf okay. Good: found ctime.pl okay. Good: found majordomo_version.pl okay. Good: found majordomo.pl okay. Good: found shlock.pl okay. Good: found config_parse.pl okay. You're running Majordomo Version 1.94.1. --== Majordomo home directory is /usr/lib/majordomo. --- Include directories --- /usr/lib/majordomo /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00307 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl . --- Home --- Good: changedir to /usr/lib/majordomo succeeded. Good: Created a mock lock file. -- temp directory -- Good: Created a temp file in $TMPDIR (/usr/tmp). -- list directory -- Good: list directory /var/lib/majordomo/lists has good permissions. --- log --- Good: logfile /var/log/majordomo/log exists and is writeable. - Mailers - You have defined a mailer for delivery. Attempting to verify that this is a valid mailer...looks okay. You have defined a mailer for delivering administrative messages. Attempting to verify that this is a valid mailer...looks okay. -- Checking majordomo.cf -- Checking to see if there are new variables that should be in your majordomo.cf file...BAD: Couldn't open sample.cf for reading, No such file or directory What is this sample.cf and where should it be located? Is this a bug in the MajorDomo Debian Package that it wasn't installed? Unknown configuration variables in existing majordomo.cf: $MAX_HEADER_LINE_LENGTH $MAX_TOTAL_HEADER_LENGTH $TMPDIR $admin_body $admin_headers $bounce_mailer $config $config_umask $digest_work_dir $filedir $filedir_suffix
Re: Mutliboot with NT 4.0
I am running NT 4.0 Workstation on a Pentium machine using the NT mutliboot (Dos is the other bootable system). [ This really belongs on debian-user, so I'll cc: it there. ] I used this tool to allow me to boot from the NT 3.51 multi boot menu to Linux, FreeBSD, Win95 and WinNT. http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm You need to install LILO into your Linux partition (instead of the MBR) before using this tool. Here's where I found out about this tool: http://www.windows-nt.com/multiboot/directboot.html Cheers, - Jim pgpYcp0pVBkUR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: www.linuxhq.com
On Sep 08, Nils Rennebarth wrote On Thu, 4 Sep 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: does anyone know what's happened to www.linuxhq.com? It appears to have moved to www.ecsnet.com, at least this is what altavista says. It's ping'able but http connections are refused for now. Don't know what's up there. It used to be at www.ecsnet.com before moving to www.linuxhq.com. Someone on the kernel mailing lists did a bit of investigation and it seems that ecsnet's nameservers are a bit messed up (the pages are still hosted there, they are just under a different name). My favourite WWW page, unaccessable :-( Adrian -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Artificial intelligence - the http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | art of making computers act PGP key available on public key servers | like those in the movies -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
A problem compiling Qpopper
Dear I can't compile qpopper because it asks a library called *lshadow*. With this, qpopper could recognize shadow passwords (and that's what I want). The debian compiled qpopper can do this, so they have this lib. Where do I find this lib? Is this lib in some package that I can install? Please, help me... Thank you so much Bruno -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
netbook and diskless workstations
Does anyone have any experience using netboot? My department has a number of Windows machines and a couple of fast Debian machines in one room all on a net. After plugging debian and X enough, the debian machine consoles are always busy but some students still are using windows, so I can't convert all machines to debian. Is it possible to use netboot to boot these machines from floppy to run off of one of the debian machines? The other solution would be to put second disks in these windows machines, but funds are scarce and that may not be a viable alternative. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sound Blaster AWE32 and Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold
On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, David R. Hageman wrote: One last quick question about adding sound support to Debian. How does one handle the Plug and Play issue regarding the Sound Blaster AWE 32 and Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold? Last time I check...plug and play was not really supported natively by the linux kernel... If you have a pnp bios, it's handled before linux even boots. Otherwise, you'll need to use the isapnptools package. Will --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ For PGP Public Key, visit my website. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftp upgrade problem
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Jimmy Lu wrote: I have a similar problem on one of mey machine. I have two Linux machines networked. The strange thing is that my gateway machine works fine but not for the other one. When I try to ftp from that machine, I can log to the ftp site but when I do ls, it just waits forever. ^^ Are you using ip-masquerading? If so are you loading the ip_masq_ftp module on your gateway machine? : http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ -: : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow?: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] :here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer: :-- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ -: -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. We would like a SCSI 4GB hard disk to connect to our PC running Debian Linux 1.3. We may occassionally want to connect it to our Alpha's running Redhat Alpha 4.0. We want reliability first. Then cost second. Thanks, -- Terrence Brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://quake.usc.edu/~brannon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Starting X in 16 bpp ?
Ricardo Muggli wrote: What is the debian whay of starting X in 16 bpp? I can do this: startx -- -bpp 16 but I would like to be able to do just startx. First, in your .profile or .login or whatever assure that your bin is first. For a .profile with sh or bash or ksh ... export PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH then, if you don't have one yet, mkdir $HOME/bin then do this: echo /usr/bin/X11/startx -- -bpp 16 $HOME/bin/startx chmod +x $HOME/bin/startx from now on you can simply: startx to start X. HTH Any information as to what file(s) I need to modify would be greatly appreciated. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ is lowest divided by the number of members. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
