Re: Bought a printer !
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: i just got EPSON LQ-800 ($2 on garage sale ;)). What are right steps to get it working under Debian ? Yes, i read HOWTO, i have gs installed. Is this ready-to-run package? Any specific info i have to know about printer (i don't have manual)? Install the magicfilter program. Mark W. Blunier -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HELP! what debian package provides 'elf-x11r6lib'??
Help! what debian package provides 'elf-x11r6lib'?? For some reason ftp.debian.org doesn't have the unstable directory.. and dselect decided to uninstall tons of my programs.. :( .. I changed the unstable directory in ftp to hamm/hamm .. I still need that package though. -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Emacs dumps core after some major upgrades on system
Emacs dumps core, repeatedly. I just replaced the xlib6, installing both xlib6 and xlib6g in hamm. Is this possibly the problem? I have just installed new slang0.99 libraries from hamm, and the newest svgalib1 in hamm. Also, a number of applicatoins that were, mainly dependent upon earlier slang0 libs. I also had to reinstall dosemu today, and I installed, then removed wine. Out of these, can someone see something that might have interacted w/ emacs? Since I lean heavily on emacs, I'll have to back out of a lot of these upgrades, hope-fully. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a question about the unstable distribution - so it really belongs on debian-devel. But I'll give a quick summary here. Followups to debian-devel, please. There was a huge thread in debian-devel Re: xlib6g and emacs (and others) about this. This is happening because emacs is accidentally being dynamically linked against the new libc6 libraries that came in xlib6g (the old libc5 libraries are shuffled off to /usr/lib/libc5-compat) as well as libc5. You can verify this by doing: fleming:/mirror/debian/hamm$ ldd /usr/bin/emacs libXaw.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000c000) libXmu.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40044000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40056000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4009e000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400a7000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400bc000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400c8000) libncurses.so.3.0 = /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x4016c000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x401a8000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x401b1000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4026d000) ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4030b000) (my emacs is broken right now too) Because there were so many libraries to move from libc5 to libc6, we don't want to have to rename them all to have different names and versions (which would have been simpler), because then we'd need to make major changes to the source code for almost every package to link with the new libs. For some libraries, we do have different .so names (ie. libc.so.5, libc.so.6) - but for most of the additional libraries, we are just going to keep the same old .so names, and place the libc6 version of the libs in the standard locations (/lib, /usr/lib, /usr/X11R6/lib), and place the libc5 versions of the libs in an alternate location (/usr/lib/libc5-compat). The new ld.so (the dynamic linker) has been hacked to try to determine whether or not a program wants to link with the libc5 or libc6 version - and sets up the links appropriately. You can see where it thinks the libraries are by typing the following: (I've trimmed the results a bit) # ldconfig -p 258 libs found in cache `/etc/ld.so.cache' (version 1.7.0) libpng.so.1 (ELF) = /usr/lib/libpng.so.1 libpng.so.0 (ELF) = /usr/lib/libpng.so.0 libpng.so (ELF) = /usr/lib/libpng.so libndbm.so (ELF-libc5) = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libndbm.so libndbm.so (ELF-libc6) = /usr/lib/libndbm.so libdl.so.2 (ELF-libc6) = /lib/libdl.so.2 libdl.so.1 (ELF-libc5) = /lib/libdl.so.1 libdl.so (ELF-libc6) = /usr/lib/libdl.so libdbm.so (ELF-libc5) = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libdbm.so libdbm.so (ELF-libc6) = /usr/lib/libdbm.so libc.so.6 (ELF-libc6) = /lib/libc.so.6 libc.so.5 (ELF-libc5) = /lib/libc.so.5 libX11.so.6 (ELF-libc6) = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 libX11.so.6 (ELF-libc6) = /usr/openwin/lib/libX11.so.6 libX11.so.6 (ELF) = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 libX11.so (ELF-libc6) = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so libX11.so (ELF-libc6) = /usr/openwin/lib/libX11.so So, the ld.so linker uses this info to try to determine what libraries to link with. Note that in some cases, it has identified libraries as either libc5 or libc6. And in some cases, it doesn't know (because they are staticly linked? or haven't bee updated yet?). For newly compiled binaries that use dynamically linked libs, they provide enough info for ld.so to make the proper decision. For older binaries, ld.so has to guess, and sometimes it makes a mistake. I think that's what is happening to emacs (and many other apps). The simple fix is to re-compile emacs for libc6, and ld.so will know what to do. Of course, we are in a transition state right now, where it was impossible to compile emacs (and other packages) until the proper libs were available. The current libc5 emacs was built with '-rpath /usr/X11R6/lib' in it's Imakefile causing it to use the libc6-based X libs instead of the libc5-based. (don't ask me, I don't understand) I think fvwm2 had the same problem, which is why I had to recompile it for it to work after I upgraded to xlib6g. Here's some snippets from the thread on debian-devel: David Engel wrote: The quickest way to work around
Re: Debian + PC with multi RS... port - n x (text dumb t
Why did you move to networked 386's? What's running on them? The system that we use is provided to us by True Value. The backroom system is a SCO 3.2V4.2 box. The registers are simple 386's, 4M ram, 10Mb hard drives, simple ethernet cards. They run some old version of DOS, and a custom written program for the interface. There where a couple of reasons for getting rid of the WYSE terminals. There were emulation problems with the terminals, SCO uses an odd ball emulation. The system now uses the backroom for transaction processing, credit card approval, house charge accounts, etc. while the 386's actually run the data entry software. One of the big advantages to this is if the backroom system should go down for any reasons, each register contains its own mini database, enough to still ring transactions. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian + PC with multi RS... port - n x (text dumb t
Why did you move to networked 386's? What's running on them? The system that we use is provided to us by True Value. The backroom system is a SCO 3.2V4.2 box. There where a couple of reasons for getting rid of the WYSE terminals. There were emulation problems with the terminals, SCO uses an odd ball emulation. The system now uses the backroom for transaction processing, credit card approval, house charge accounts, etc. While the 386's actually run the data entry software. One of the big advantages to this is if the backroom system should go down for any reasons, each register contains its own mini database, enough to still ring transactions. This seems to be getting a little Debian un-specific, so if no one else is interested in this why don't we use e-mail, instead of cluttering the list? A. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dpkg
Hi: I try to install X11 from cdrom that is download and recorded from ftp. When I use dselect to install some packages, some .deb packages are refused by dpkg. Even I use dpkg -i xlib* to install X11, error message like: dpkg-deb: /...directory/xlib6*.. not dbian format Does anybody have same problem before? Why the .deb that is download can not be accepted? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian ppp server how-to?
dada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any how-to to setup an ppp server under Debian? I need detailled information becouse I'm newie :-) and I want set up one ppp server at my home. Do you have the doc-linux package installed? Look at file:/usr/doc/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.gz in this case (using zless or by clicking the URL). If you want to use ISDN you should also consult file:/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/PPP-over-ISDN.gz You can find the doc-linux package in the doc section of your Debian distribution. Torsten -- What a depressingly stupid machine The Restaurant at the End of the Universe PGP Public Key is available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: floppy
Tao Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi: What's the command to mount floppy driver and how to access the floppy? First create a directory /floppy Then execute mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy # msdos formatted or mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy # win95 formatted Use fd1 for your second floppy disk. If you get error messages about vfat or msdos unknown you need to check your kernel configuration. If you add a line similiar like /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat noauto,user,gid=25,umask=0020 0 to your /etc/fstab you can mount floppies using mount /floppy The group 25 is floppy and is used to let normal users (members of floppy) access the floppy read/write. Torsten -- What a depressingly stupid machine The Restaurant at the End of the Universe PGP Public Key is available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
unclobbered X
I think it's a hardware problem. attempting xfishtank repeatably causes the problem again. SHutting off power and restarting solves it. Rebooting alone does not. I'm just hoping this system stays in one piece long enough for the shuttle 603 to actually be availalbe for purchase . . . on a warm boot there is now always an hdd controller error, which requires a second warm boot; the video card comes up in mono half the time (though X sends it to color); we've had a warning about the battery from the bios--but it's a nicad soldered to the mother board; there's the ongoing trouble attempting to tget it to use a scsi controller . . . :( -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Cursor problem
Hi there, is there a chance to force the cursor ? I installed debian 1.2 on an older portable computer with LC EGA display (which is maybe a little bit incompatible). During booting the cursor is there but is away as soon as the computers bios messages are shown. Then everythings is fine except the cursor which is NOT THERE. I tried to play a little with setfont, which gave me a very small cursor but cuts a part of the screen. Any hint how I can force the cursor ? A big block cursor like on SUN machines would be great. thx bye berni -- Please respond to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and to nothing else ! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: comment about Linux
dada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Is true that I never lose control on my linux box, but some times I lose control in my X-Windows and I must restart the X. Is that usual? I supose that's due to use some aplications. But if this is true, why I lose control on all aplications that I'm using? Some application (especially Motif-ones) sometimes grab all mouse and keyboard event (e.g. when you select a submenu). If the application (or the widget library) forgets to correctly release the grab you will be unable to do anything with X-Window System, including switching to other terminals using ctrl-alt-fx and zapping X11 using ctrl-alt-bs. The only solution is a terminal attached to your computer, some people use their calculators (the better TI and HP ones) for this purpose. You can also use another computer in a local network to remote login into your machine. Torsten -- What a depressingly stupid machine The Restaurant at the End of the Universe PGP Public Key is available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where do I get libmpeg?
I loaded up the new ImageMagick and it requires libmpeg.so.1 which I don't have and which the packages in stable don't seem to have either. Anyone know where I can get this beast? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Smail /etc/aliases
Anyone know if I can have ALL mail forwarded somewhere else, like this ?: Matthew --- # This is the aliases file - it says who gets mail for whom. # It was originally generated by `smailconfig', part of the Smail package # distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail systemadministrator. # It was originally generated by smailconfig at Wed May 14 12:28:43 EDT1997 # Please modify the above line, if you change this file by hand. # See smailconf(5) for details of the things that can be configured here. # postmaster: root # root: matthew *: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian and win95
Hello Sorry for the waste of BW... but I need some advice. I need to install winblows95 (cringe) again.. I would like to install it on my second HD... hdc1 While keeping Debian on my main HD...hda2 swap is hda1 and to use lilo to switch between the two... with Debian being the main OS I thought I was finished with 95, but my wife needs to use win95... The question when I get around to installing win95... what will happen to the mbr on the hda should I disconnect the drive and then install win95 ? I guess the question is how do I go about this process without trashing Debian which is my main OS.. Any and All Help is very Welcome! If you keep a resque floppy handy, you should have to worry about much. You can keep both harddrives in and install win95. Yes, this will wipe the mbr to only boot win95, but with a resque disk you can restore lilo (at the prompt type resque root=/dev/hda1 I believe) to boot both OS's. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Enginnering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian and win95
Hello Sorry for the waste of BW... but I need some advice. I need to install winblows95 (cringe) again.. I would like to install it on my second HD... hdc1 While keeping Debian on my main HD...hda2 swap is hda1 and to use lilo to switch between the two... with Debian being the main OS I thought I was finished with 95, but my wife needs to use win95... The question when I get around to installing win95... what will happen to the mbr on the hda should I disconnect the drive and then install win95 ? I guess the question is how do I go about this process without trashing Debian which is my main OS.. Any and All Help is very Welcome!! Peter.. Debian.. Nothing else need be said ! -- E-Mail: Peter Yarych [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using the X with ATI Pro Turbo
i think i am using exactly the same configuration as you, i.e. an ATI Graphics Pro Turbo with a 21 ViewSonic P810 monitor. right now i am running 1600x1200 at 16bpp with no problems. i am using the mach64 driver. this is my XF86Config file: # XF86Config auto-generated by XF86Setup # # Copyright (c) 1996 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a # copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), # to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation # the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, # and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the # Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in # all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL # THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE # SOFTWARE. # # Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall # not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other # dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the # XFree86 Project. # # See 'man XF86Config' for info on the format of this file Section Files RgbPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Section Keyboard ProtocolStandard XkbRulesxfree86 XkbModelpc101 XkbLayout us EndSection Section Pointer ProtocolPS/2 Device /dev/psaux EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Primary Monitor VendorName Unknown ModelName Unknown HorizSync 30-95 VertRefresh 50-160 Modeline 1600x1200 202.00 1600 1644 1708 2140 1200 1206 1209 1244 Modeline 1280x1024 135.00 1280 1300 1404 1664 1024 1027 1030 1064 Modeline 1152x864 135.00 1152 1172 1300 1488 864 864 876 892 Modeline 1024x768 85.00 1024 1032 1152 1360 768 784 787 823 Modeline 800x60050.00 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync +vsync Modeline 640x48031.50 640 680 720 864 480 488 491 521 Modeline 640x40025.18 640 664 760 800 400 409 411 450 EndSection Section Device Identifier Primary Card VendorName Unknown BoardName ATI Graphics Pro Turbo 1600 #Ramdac ibm_rgb514 EndSection Section Screen Driver Accel Device Primary Card Monitor Primary Monitor SubSection Display Depth8 Modes1600x1200 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 640x400 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth15 Modes1600x1200 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 640x400 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth16 Modes1600x1200 1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 640x400 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth24 Modes1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 640x400 # Modes1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 640x400 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth32 # Modes1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 640x400 Modes1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 640x400 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Driver Mono Device Primary Card Monitor Primary Monitor SubSection Display Depth1 Modes1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 640x400 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Driver VGA2 Device Primary Card Monitor Primary Monitor SubSection Display Depth1 Modes1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 640x400 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Driver VGA16 Device Primary Card Monitor Primary Monitor SubSection Display Depth4 Modes1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 640x400 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Driver SVGA Device Primary Card Monitor Primary Monitor SubSection Display
Re: xman problems
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Hello debians, I posted this question to the german user list too, no answers. I'll try it again here. The problem is, that xman doesn't find the X11 and related man pages. All the other manpages are displayed correctly. The X11R6 man directory is in the MANPATh: ~$ manpath /usr/local/qt/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man Three questions: - are the manual pages there, i.e., do they actually reside in /usr/X11R6/man? - are the permissions of the files/directory OK? - what does `man -d some X man page that isn't there' say? Maybe I'm too quick. I should ask first - does man find the pages xman doesn't find? If so, I wouldn't have a clue %) Eric I have the same problem...mybe an debian bug? (I think RedHat hasn't this problem). Please, could someone explain to fix this problem? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Transfering system directories to new HD
C.L. Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] VFS: Cannot open root device 00:00 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 I ran rdev on the kernel for the new root device and updated and double-checked the info in the fstab and mtab files and the loadlin boot file. All of that seems exactly correct. Something is definitely configured wrong. The root device should usually be either 03:?? or 08:??. Either of rdev or loadlin should set it, although I think loadlin will have the final say. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dpkg
Hi: I try to install X11 from cdrom that is download and recorded from ftp. When I use dselect to install some packages, some .deb packages are refused by dpkg. Even I use dpkg -i xlib* to install X11, error message like: dpkg-deb: /...directory/xlib6*.. not dbian format Does anybody have same problem before? Why the .deb that is download can not be accepted? !@ !@ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdm, xinit and startx problem
Rob, Tried your suggestion to Exec top without success. There is already a line to Exec top with several other parameters. However, when using xdm, this menu choice (to exec top) doesn't work but when using startx or xinit to start X, this line works perfectly and top runs in the xterm window. thanks, tjm [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help with Bibtex
I am for the first time trying out bibtex.
When I am trying to run bibtex on the following file (I deleted
nonrelevant lines)
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Moenie dieselfde gebed oor en oor bid nie. \cite[]{Mostert:1992}
\bibliographystyle{harvard}
\bibliography{spies}
---
The following .bbl-file was produced
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\begin{thebibliography}{1}
\input{babelbst.tex}
\newcommand{\Capitalize}[1]{\uppercase{#1}}
\newcommand{\capitalize}[1]{\expandafter\Capitalize#1}
\harvarditem{Mostert}{1992}{Mostert:1992}
Mostert, B., \harvardyearleft 1992\harvardyearright{}.
\newblock \emph{Geestelike Oorlogvoering}.
\newblock Christelike Uitgewersmaatskappy, Vereeniging.
\end{thebibliography}
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resulting in the error message:
--
ERROR: LaTeX Error: File `babelbst.tex' not found.
--- TeX said ---
---
There is no `babelbst.tex' file on my system.
How can I solve this problem?
Johann.
Johann Spies
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Re: floppy
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Hi: What's the command to mount floppy driver and how to access the floppy? There are 3 ways to deal with a floppy: 1. As a mounted file system: mount [-t type] /dev/fd0 /mnt If the floppy has not got a ext2fs file system on it, you need to tell it the right type (for example: minix or umsdos) If you have a floppy without a filesystem on it, you must use mkfs first. 2. As a raw device: for example for saving a set of files under directory tar cf /dev/fd0 directory or find directory -print | cpio -oc /dev/fd0 3. If it is a DOS-formatted floppy, use mtools to handle it as you would in DOS, or mount it (see above) as type msdos. Floppy drives are addressed as /dev/fd0 or /dev/fd1 (corresponding to A; and B:). The driver works out what the floppy characteristics are. If you want to force a particular set, there are device names corresponding to each set. Use `ls /dev/fd*' to list them. Man pages to check: mount(8), mkfs(8), mtools(1), fd(4). -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
floppy
Hi: What's the command to mount floppy driver and how to access the floppy? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: jdk 1.1.2?
Where can I find the jdk 1.1.2 packages? --Zachary hamm/non-free/binary-i386/devel/jdk1.1-runtime_1.1.3.v1-1.deb hamm/non-free/binary-i386/devel/jdk1.1-dev_1.1.3.v1-1.deb hamm/non-free/binary-all/devel/jdk1.1-docdemo_1.1.3.v1-1.deb (on your local debian mirror) They're not in stable yet because they haven't been tested much. There is a slightly newer version bug-fix version of the Linux JDK out, but I haven't had a chance to upload it yet. My excuse is that I unexpectedly had to move my server/net-connection last week, and I'm still straightening out the reverse-domain name mapping/internic stuff. (I can't ftp to/from master.debian.org, for example) Cheers, - Jim pgpRoUInShfZX.pgp Description: PGP signature
xdm, xinit and startx problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have my fvwm95..43a running with very few problems. One of these snip Try something like this: Exec Top exec xterm -e top It tells X to fire up an xterm and run top in it. Later Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: printing in netscape
hello, all, when i try to print from netscape, i get this message in my xconsole: Sep 12 09:53:40 mattyt lpd[1143]: lp: Daemon filter 'f' terminated (13) What do you have as print command in the window which pops up in Netscape when you try to print? Just a simple lpr works fine for me. I had lpr and it still wasn't working. Turns out I didn't have 'gs' installed. *sigh* All is well now...:) Thanks for the reply, matty Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
DONE: Re.: Re: Emacs dumps core after some major upgrades on system
Once more. I actually did the change you indicated (to /usr/bin/emacs), in the midst of debugging this situation. It turned out, I think, that the weird messages were from an editing error I made in editing the config file, tex-site.el, for auctex, which I had been running for only one day. Now maybe it'll be ok... I'll go ahead and upgrade those libs. However, I suspect that with the new ldso, it's ok anyway. Alan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Transfering system directories to new HD
Try booting off a floppy, mounting the two drives/partions as /mnt/target and /mnt/source Then use the command (cd /mnt/source tar c .)|(cd /mnt/target tar xvp) That's how I recently moved my home directories to a bigger disk. The p on the second tar statement is important because it preserves the partitions. I think this came from the HOWTO-TIPS document originally. 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 On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, C.L. Daugaard wrote: I've seen (and kept) posts on how to transfer a system to a new HD. what I'm stumped on is how this is done when /, /usr, and /home are on *separate partitions* and I want to keep it that way. Can anyone tell me how this is done? At this state the find . -mount -depth -print|cpio -pdmv /newtempmount method sounds like the most promising, but how this is done per partition is a mystery. My thanks to anyone who can help. -- C.L. Daugaard [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: Where is Project.tmpl
I have checked with XFree86 ftp site. ALL XFree86 releases after 3.2 (3.2A to 3.3.1) no longer contains Project.tmpl. So I don't suppose the one included in Debian's latest distribution should. I'm now trying to reuse the one found in 3.2. Lets hope it works. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dpkg
Hi: I try to install X11 from cdrom that is download and recorded from ftp. When I use dselect to install some packages, some .deb packages are refused by dpkg. Even I use dpkg -i xlib* to install X11, error message like: dpkg-deb: /...directory/xlib6*.. not dbian format Does anybody have same problem before? Why the .deb that is download can not be accepted? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can't boot 1.2 or 1.3 rescue floppy.
Tell us what kind of machine it is, and what peripherals it has. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xdm, xinit and startx problem
I have my fvwm95..43a running with very few problems. One of these
problems is indicated by not being able to run programs in the menus.
For instance, under the utilities menu (left click on the desktop) there is
a menu item called 'Running Processes' which is supposed to display
a list of running processes, by way of the program 'top'. When this item
is selected, the xterm window comes up but the message that appears is :
xterm: Can't execvp top
bash#
'top' will not start from this menu item. However, if I start an xterm
window and start 'top' from the prompt, it runs just fine with no problems
at all. Also, if I kill the xdm process and restart Xwindows with
'startx' or 'xinit', then the 'Running Processes' (top) item works
normally. If Xwindows is started with the 'xdm' command, the 'Running
Processes' item does not work and I still get the 'Can't execvp top'
message. There is also a problem running Xman from any of the Help or
Manual Pages menu items with a message such as 'Xman warning:
Something went wrong trying to run the command: cd /usr/man :
gunzip... {and so on}.
I'm at a loss to find the problem and the scripts make very little sense to
me. Any suggestions? My installation is all debian with the exception of
the
fvwm95..43a. X 3.3-3 is installed and all the default scripts are in place,
svga server
and the 2.0.27 kernel.
thanks,
tjm
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Bought a printer !
Hi, All i just got EPSON LQ-800 ($2 on garage sale ;)). What are right steps to get it working under Debian ? Yes, i read HOWTO, i have gs installed. Is this ready-to-run package? Any specific info i have to know about printer (i don't have manual)? regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kernel 2.0.30 (boot problem)
I'd say you have bad sectors on your harddisk, and it just so happens that
one of those badsectors has wiped out something important. This happened to
me recently. The disk had a three year waranty (seagate) so I returned it
and got a new drive.
It seemed to me that IDE drives are able to recognise their bad sectors and
then avoid writing to them. You can read the man pages for fsck, there is a
process for identifying bad sectors, writing them to a file, and then
feeding the file into mkfs as blocks to avoid. As I said, this didn't seem
necessary with an ide drive. I suppose the really bad thing would be if this
happens to your swap partion.
Solutions? We check your waranty. I have a machine that is running on a disk
with bad sectors. I guess I just know that oneday I may be reinstalling it
at a time not of my choosing.. oh and of course I don't put important data
on it. So if you do keep your drive you may have to repartion and format it,
and start from scratch. Maybe someone else will give you a better solution.
david..
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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please, help me with clarifying a boot problem.
I have upgraded from Debian 1.2.17 to Debian 1.3.1, and the machine
will not boot. I have recompiled the kernel 2.0.30 and rebooted the machine
again. Now it hangs, but then finally boots.
This is dmesg with a troubled hda disk access:
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fb660
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfbb40
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbb70
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 66.36 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14908k/16384k available (600k kernel code, 384k reserved, 492k
data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.0.30 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #1 Fri Sep 12
11:19:28 MDT 1997
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
hda: Maxtor 71626 AP, 1554MB w/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=789/64/63
hdb: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5602B, ATAPI CDROM driveide0 at
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2977219,
sector=2771587end_request: I/O
error, dev 03:02, sector 2771587
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2977219,
sector=2771587end_request: I/O
error, dev 03:02, sector 2771587
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2977219,
sector=2771587end_request: I/O
error, dev 03:02, sector 2771587
P.S. I tried to boot an old kernel 2.0.27 it was giving me error
messages during a boot : Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
address c181e595..
What is wrong?
Any ideas will be appreciated.
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smail to qmail
Hi all, I seem to recall someone posting a way to switch from smail to qmail. I've searched deja news without success, and was wondering if anyone could pass me a clue. I currently use procmail as my local delivery tool and would like to remain doing so. I'm planning to open things up a bit with an ml.org address so am concerned about relaying and my ability to stop it with smail. TIA Rich M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Transfering system directories to new HD
C.L. Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've seen (and kept) posts on how to transfer a system to a new HD. what I'm stumped on is how this is done when /, /usr, and /home are on *separate partitions* and I want to keep it that way. Can anyone tell me how this is done? At this state the find . -mount -depth -print|cpio -pdmv /newtempmount method sounds like the most promising, but how this is done per partition is a mystery. My thanks to anyone who can help. As root make a dummy directory in /, and mount all your new partitions under /dummy, so you have /dev/hdb1 23423 1104811166 50% /dummy /dev/hdb2 956015 749859 156765 83% /dummy/usr /dev/hdb3 956015 749859 156765 83% /dummy/home then do (as root) cd / cp -a `ls | grep -v proc` dummy You'll still have to make the proc directory on your new root partition by hand, but the rest should be exactly the way you want. Then you just need to modify /dummy/etc/lilo.conf and /dummy/etc/fstab to reflect the new partition layout, use cfdisk to set the bootable flag as appropriate, and run lilo -r /dummy. I think that's it, but this is off the top of my head, so be careful. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian + PC with multi RS... port - n x (text dumb t
On 12 Sep 1997, TENCC01.LEWIS01 wrote: It probably doesn't work the way you want. Usually the terminal keyboard is locked until the print is finished. Making the terminal useful for input at the same time is generally not possible. It would require a very clever terminal and an extremely clever driver. jim ... Or just a larger RAM buffer in the printer and hopefully a fast line, after all I don't think that in a POS system anyone would need to print large reports at one of the terminals, most likely just a few lines on a page for each sell or incoming materials. I would choose to connect a printer to the port _on_the_main_computer for large reports. But it would be interesting just to know more about that keybord lock during prints. Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know how big a problem having the keyboard locked during printing would actually be. My part-time job is in a hardware store that uses a POS system similar to the one you are describing. All of our registers are 386's networked to a backroom server. Each register has its own dot matrix printer, but while it is actualy printing the keyboard is locked. This has never been any problem. While the keyboard is locked we are waiting for the invoice to print and/or the cash draw is open and we are making change. I should note that the invoice only prints after the sale is finalized. Actually the very first version of this POS system used WYSE terminal and there pass through printing feature. A. Paul -- 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: Re[2]: Debian + PC with multi RS... port - n x (text dumb t
On 12 Sep 1997, TENCC01.LEWIS01 wrote: It probably doesn't work the way you want. Usually the terminal keyboard is locked until the print is finished. Making the terminal useful for input at the same time is generally not possible. It would require a very clever terminal and an extremely clever driver. jim ... Or just a larger RAM buffer in the printer and hopefully a fast line, after all I don't think that in a POS system anyone would need to print large reports at one of the terminals, most likely just a few lines on a page for each sell or incoming materials. I would choose to connect a printer to the port _on_the_main_computer for large reports. But it would be interesting just to know more about that keybord lock during prints. Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address no autoresponse messages will return even when I'm not at home. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sound Blaster AWE32 and Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 01:10:03PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: If you have a pnp bios, it's handled before linux even boots. Otherwise, you'll need to use the isapnptools package. Hmm, nearly correct. I experienced with pnp bios and SB32pnp, that only some sound works. Midi etc. needs isapnptools anyway. :-( Hmm ... I have a SB16 and midi works fine without isapnptools, maybe that's the difference. You probably have a waveblaster extension mounted to i/o 330 using the MPU 401 interface. The SB 32 has a build-in (non MPU 401 compatible) Emu8000 waveblaster that need to be initialized to work correctly. I tried pnp extension for the kernel too and the whole sound card stoped working. Now I have the normal kernel with the awe patches installed and use isapnp to initialize all devices on the sound card. BTW: The normal SB 16 compatible sound works without any special initilization, only the midi part needs extra handling to work correctly. Torsten -- What a depressingly stupid machine The Restaurant at the End of the Universe PGP Public Key is available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
x clobbered and won't reinstall
My X has died and won't come back. I had several windows open, making lyx, running dselect, and a few windows on an alpha. Then I attempted to try xfishtank, and the display froze. No mouse, no keyboard, no nothing. I telnetted to the alpha from another machine, and all of the jobs were gone, though they still appeared on the linux display. I telnetted to the linux box, and rebooted. The display hung when trying to start xdm, but it could still be reached by telnet. I've removed reinstalled xbase, xserver-s3, xlib, and xvga16. I then ran XF86Setup (from xvga16), and reconfigured. It hung starting the xserver. The only way I've found to get the console back is to reboot; simply killing X, which takes all available cycles (runs at just shy of 100% endlessly). Does anyone have any idea how to solve this, short of a complete reinstall? rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian + PC with multi RS... port - n x (text dumb t
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, RHS Linux User wrote: I don't know how big a problem having the keyboard locked during printing would actually be. My part-time job is in a hardware store that uses a POS system similar to the one you are describing. All of our registers are 386's networked to a backroom server. Each register has its own dot matrix printer, but while it is actualy printing the keyboard is locked. This has never been any problem. While the keyboard is locked we are waiting for the invoice to print and/or the cash draw is open and we are making change. I should note that the invoice only prints after the sale is finalized. Yes I agree, I think that serialized input+print that would require use of the keyboard while the previous print is still being done is rather unlike to be the job of a POS terminal... such heavy data entry could require less frequent print operation, or could probably be designed for not printing after each keyboard entry, or, last, could send the prints to a printer connected directly to one of the LPTs on the Linux box. Actually the very first version of this POS system used WYSE terminal and there pass through printing feature. Why did you move to networked 386's? What's running on them? Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address no autoresponse messages will return even when I'm not at home. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is Project.tmpl
On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Jason Tseng wrote: I have checked with XFree86 ftp site. I checked the source from the Official CD. ALL XFree86 releases after 3.2 (3.2A to 3.3.1) no longer contains Project.tmpl. So I don't suppose the one included in Debian's latest distribution should. My results were the same. This doesn't answer the question of why the Contents file still thinks this file is in the distribution. I'm now trying to reuse the one found in 3.2. Lets hope it works. 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] .
Xemac Mail (VM)
Hi all, I'm trying to convert from TkMail to Xemacs (VM) for my e-mail. Emacs has a couple of features that TkMail doesn't. Currently I'm running fetchmail - smail - tkmail for the incoming side and tkmail - smail for the outgoing side. All of these programs are up to date from stable and working fine. I haven't defined any special variables in either ~/.emacs or ~/.vm. The problem relates to the headers of outgoing mail, the From: line doesn't seem to be rewritten as it should be by smail. I have the line from_field=From: Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] in my /etc/smail/config file, but emacs seems to ignore it. If there is anybody who could point me to the proper docs or a fix, I would appreciate it. Thanks Later Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
CorelDraw on Linux
Hi! Has anyone got CorelDraw running on a Debian system? feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian and win95
On Sat, 13 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Sorry for the waste of BW... but I need some advice. I need to install winblows95 (cringe) again.. I would like to install it on my second HD... hdc1 While keeping Debian on my main HD...hda2 swap is hda1 and to use lilo to switch between the two... with Debian being the main OS I thought I was finished with 95, but my wife needs to use win95... The question when I get around to installing win95... what will happen to the mbr on the hda should I disconnect the drive and then install win95 ? I guess the question is how do I go about this process without trashing Debian which is my main OS.. Any and All Help is very Welcome!! You could install lilo in the boot sector of hda2 instead of the mbr. Then, if Win95 puts its own mbr on the HD, all you need to do is change the active partition back to hda2. You can do this with Win95's fdisk. I doubt, however, that Win95 will let itself be installed on a second hard drive. You can try it, but I think it needs at least some of the boot files to be on a FAT partition on the first hard drive. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
To_Yorych
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Sep 13 09:10:33 1997 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from lilac.sirti.org by blinn.sirti.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA01441; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 09:10:31 -0700 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from blinn.sirti.org by lilac.sirti.org with SMTP (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA29566; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 09:28:51 -0700 Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 09:10:23 -0700 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Returned mail: User unknown To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Length: 1180 Status: R - Transcript of session follows - While connected to mxpool01.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.170] (tcp): RCPT To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 551 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User not known 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown - Unsent message follows - Received: from blinn.sirti.org by lilac.sirti.org with SMTP (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA29565; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 09:28:51 -0700 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from boole.sirti.org by blinn.sirti.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA01438; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 09:10:23 -0700 Received: by boole.sirti.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA00737; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 09:10:23 -0700 Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 09:10:23 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Sevenich) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian and win95 I think this works: Have a debian boot floppy - the ususal backup. Install W95, destroying what lilo has written in the mbr. Boot with the floppy to start linux; then run lilo. This assumes that /etc/lilo.conf is proper and that your boot disk is ok, of course. Check them first. Regards, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: comment about Linux
Jim Pick wrote: Hi Is true that I never lose control on my linux box, but some times I lose control in my X-Windows and I must restart the X. Is that usual? I supose that's due to use some aplications. But if this is true, why I lose control on all aplications that I'm using? How do you lose control? I've had X crash on me quite a few times -- but not regularily. It's a yes, it's not regularilybut sometimes when I am using Communicator (an others application that I don't remember now) I lose control about all my X-windows applications...estrange, but true. pretty big system that is still changing, and there are lots of places for bugs to hide. It's still pretty stable compared to Windows 95 though. :-) that's true. When w95 craks I must reset the system. In Linux I only must restart X-window (I never lose control about consoles). Cheers, Regards -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xman problems
Manuel Sickert wrote: I posted this question to the german user list too, no answers. I'll try it again here. The problem is, that xman doesn't find the X11 and related man pages. All the other manpages are displayed correctly. The X11R6 man directory is in the MANPATh: ~$ manpath /usr/local/qt/man:/usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man This doesn't mean the man directories are in $MANPATH. The manpath manual page states that manpath command will print out a warning if the user has MANPATH defined. However, xman command looks for the MANPATH environment variable to find out where to look for manual pages. If no MANPATH is set it will default to /usr/man and the X etc. man pages are not shown. After you do something like export MANPATH=`manpath` xman will find all the manual pages the usual man command finds. A better way would probably be to make an alias or shell wrapper for xman I just tried this alias and it seems to work. It will set MANPATH for xman but leave it unset for man and other commands. alias xman='(export MANPATH=`manpath`; xman)' How I understand this mess is that man(1) is smart and does not need MANPATH (it will use it if the user sets it). xman(1x) is not so smart and needs MANPATH set or else only /usr/man is seen. See the relevant man pages man(1), manpath(1) and xman(1) for more details. I hope this helps. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Transfering system directories to new HD
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, C.L. Daugaard wrote: I've seen (and kept) posts on how to transfer a system to a new HD. what I'm stumped on is how this is done when /, /usr, and /home are on *separate partitions* and I want to keep it that way. Can anyone tell me how this is done? At this state the find . -mount -depth -print|cpio -pdmv /newtempmount method sounds like the most promising, but how this is done per partition is a mystery. My thanks to anyone who can help. Following up on my own post: It's almost there. My thanks to the two who passed on good advice on transferring the system directories to new partitions. Everything looks very good. Unfortunately I get a kernel panic on boot, viz. VFS: Cannot open root device 00:00 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 I ran rdev on the kernel for the new root device and updated and double-checked the info in the fstab and mtab files and the loadlin boot file. All of that seems exactly correct. My guess is that 00:00 is a key to It's almost there. My thanks to the two who passed on good advice on transferring the system directories to new partitions. Everything looks very good. Unfortunately I get a kernel panic on boot, viz. VFS: Cannot open root device 00:00 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 I ran rdev on the kernel for the new root device and updated and double-checked the info in the fstab and mtab files and the loadlin boot file. All of that seems exactly correct. My guess is that 00:00 is a key to the problem, but I can't decipher it. Can anyone interpret this? Thanks. -- C.L. Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Setting serial ports
I have some strange IRQ settings for my serial ports. Linux doesn't autoprobe properly. I've read in the manual that this can be corrected by via setserial. This seems a rather inelegant solution. Is there a way similar to the pas16=0x388,20 I use for my CD-ROM controller to override the autoprobe in the first place? I've looked at the serial-HOWTO and the various documents on the LDP but could find no such solution. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
jdk 1.1.2?
Where can I find the jdk 1.1.2 packages? --Zachary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail to qmail
There is a debian package in the experimental section, but it depends on libc6, and I'm not game to upgrade til I stop seeing posts saying they had to reinstall an old package to make things work again. I installed qmail happily. Compiled easily into /var/qmail I decided to install sendmail and then follow the instructions that came with the source for replacing sendmail. This works because you avoid the dselect dependency issues. It thinks sendmail is installed. I don't know how this will help with procmail. Sendmail is going to ask for deliver. You could force it, but I feel this kind of messes up your packaging system, which is one of the reasons I switched to debian in the first place. I also d/l the qmail package and looked through it for useful things. It puts the binaries in different places and uses an init.d script that I don't understand. Despite this when I have libc6, I'll replace my install with the package. 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 On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Richard Morin wrote: I seem to recall someone posting a way to switch from smail to qmail. I've searched deja news without success, and was wondering if anyone could pass me a clue. I currently use procmail as my local delivery tool and would like to remain doing so. I'm planning to open things up a bit with an ml.org address so am concerned about relaying and my ability to stop it with smail. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is Project.tmpl
You will find the Contents file in the stable directory on your CD. A search of this file is the best way to find out which package contains a particular file. Searching for Project.tmpl shows that it is found in the x11 section in the package xlib6-dev. Project.tmpl is indeed listed in the Contents file But it is not found in any of the xlib6-dev packages (xlib6-dev_3.3-3.deb,xlib6_3.3-3.deb,xslib.deb in the Official CD as well as xlib6-dev_3.3-4_i386.deb in BO-Updates). I have also tried the source xfree86_3.3xxx.dsc. All the other .tmpl, Xt headers etc are found in the xlib6-dev and xfree86xxx.dsc except for Project.tmpl, which leads me to think that, perhaps it has been left out, unknowingly. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Can't boot 1.2 or 1.3 rescue floppy.
I am trying to do a install fresh install of Debian 1.3 but my machine is locking up with the last message on the screen: eata_pio: No BIOS32 extensions present. This driver still depends on it. Skipping scan for PCI HBAs. Then it's dead. I'm wondering if I need to build a new kernel for it. Would building it a custom kernel mean having to build a rescue disk too. This is kind of a new one on me. Haven't really had these problems for quite a while. Any help would be appreciated. Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Transfering system directories to new HD
Try cp -ax /source /destination The a option copies symbolic links as links, preserves permissions, and copies directories recursively. The x option tells cp to not copy anything on a different file system. I have always used this method and the only thing I have to do is create the directories that act as mount points, they do not get copied because of -x. Hope it helps A. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Transfering system directories to new HD
Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cp -a `ls | grep -v proc` dummy Oops, this needs to be cp -a `ls | fgrep -v proc | fgrep -v 'lost+found'` dummy or something similar. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Transfering system directories to new HD
I've seen (and kept) posts on how to transfer a system to a new HD. what I'm stumped on is how this is done when /, /usr, and /home are on *separate partitions* and I want to keep it that way. Can anyone tell me how this is done? At this state the find . -mount -depth -print|cpio -pdmv /newtempmount method sounds like the most promising, but how this is done per partition is a mystery. My thanks to anyone who can help. -- C.L. Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Security issues for nfs mount
:-) In this case you may as well post your root passwd in Yahoo. On Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 09:02:59PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: Hi, Although I am not familiar at all with the inner workings of nfs the description below indicates a risk that an unauthorised client may read files on the specific directory which is being exported by nfs read only. However my worry is not whether somebody else will read the files which in my cased is only a piece of software. My worry is whether anybody can write to the directory being exported or any other directory of my computer , given that the stuff on the exported directory are mathematical software unrelated with the workings of the operating system .. I would be grateful if someone could clarify this point Thanks George -- Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
kernel 2.0.30 (boot problem)
Please, help me with clarifying a boot problem.
I have upgraded from Debian 1.2.17 to Debian 1.3.1, and the machine
will not boot. I have recompiled the kernel 2.0.30 and rebooted the machine
again. Now it hangs, but then finally boots.
This is dmesg with a troubled hda disk access:
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fb660
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfbb40
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbb70
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 66.36 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14908k/16384k available (600k kernel code, 384k reserved, 492k
data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.0.30 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #1 Fri Sep 12
11:19:28 MDT 1997
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
hda: Maxtor 71626 AP, 1554MB w/128kB Cache, LBA, CHS=789/64/63
hdb: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5602B, ATAPI CDROM driveide0 at
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2977219,
sector=2771587end_request: I/O
error, dev 03:02, sector 2771587
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2977219,
sector=2771587end_request: I/O
error, dev 03:02, sector 2771587
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2977219,
sector=2771587end_request: I/O
error, dev 03:02, sector 2771587
P.S. I tried to boot an old kernel 2.0.27 it was giving me error
messages during a boot : Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
address c181e595..
What is wrong?
Any ideas will be appreciated.
___
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Eastern Washington University
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Re: Where is Project.tmpl
You will find the Contents file in the stable directory on your CD. A search of this file is the best way to find out which package contains a particular file. Searching for Project.tmpl shows that it is found in the x11 section in the package xlib6-dev. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem compiling kernel with sound
#error You will need to configure the sound driver with CONFIG_AUDIO option. I had to manually edit the option file in the kernel directory (Forgot its real name and am at work right now). Everytime I tried to specifiy an IRQ it told me I typed an invalid number -- even the default 7. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem compiling kernel with sound
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Has anyone had any luck with compiling a kernel on Debian? I can compile fine just as long as I don't try to compile with sound. NOTE: I did use the make-kpkg -revision custom.1.0 kernel_image option. This is the error I get (The same thing happens with 2.0.30 also): gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.29/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m386 -DCPU=386 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.29/include/linux/modversions.h -c -o sb_common.o sb_common.c sb_common.c:21: #error You will need to configure the sound driver with CONFIG_AUDIO option. I suggest that you use `make xconfig' or `make menuconfig' to set up your kernel configuration. That should leave the configuration in a consistent state. After `make xconfig' do `make depend' and `make clean' before doing the `make' to compile the source. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Make it idiot-proof, and someone will breed a better idiot. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Getting rid of -r /usr/X11R6/lib
[Followups redirected to debian-devel] Some packages in hamm have been linked with the -r /usr/X11R6/lib option and break on a libc6 system with the new libc6 X libraries (coredump). This perl script will patch these programs and make them work: === BEGIN SCRIPT #!/usr/bin/perl -w # Open file open IN, $ARGV[0] or die can't find $ARGV[0]: $!; # Read it in one slurp select IN; undef $/; select STDOUT; $file=IN; close IN; # Remove this string $count=$file=~s!/usr/X11R6/lib\0!\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0!g; print Replaced: $count occurences in $ARGV[0]\n; # Write the file open OUT, $ARGV[0].out or die can't write $ARGV[0].out: $!; print OUT $file; close OUT; === END SCRIPT It's been working with emacs, xpmroot (package fvwm-common), fvwm2. All these programs now work like a charm (and got bugs assigned :-). Note: You should get one and only one replacement, otherwise it indicates something's gone wrong. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian + PC with multi RS... port - n x (text dumb t
:-) I put my hands on some SCO systems at some customers' and I think Linux is quite _another_planet_ (and among every distribution Debian, also used Yggdrasil, Slackware and RedHat). Could not agree more. I don't think SCO, even Open Server, is in the same solar system :). Yes but a terminal does NOT go down unless broken, while some of those 386 could go down... ok you may say we have not only one while the main box is only one... why should it crash (provided you put a power supply backup of course), I mean why more likely than those 386's? Because it does that lot of things? Then I would have it just handle the sessions on the terminals and the dbase and would connect _another_ box via ethernet for the other tasks. What do you think? The backroom system has never gone down from a hardware failure. It has crashed/locked up for who knows what reason. I know that it should not happen but it can. The registers also have been known to lock up, more so than the backroom. If a register locks up there are other registers that can be used while the other is being re-booted. If the backroom system goes down and you are using just terminals then the whole operation is at a stand still until the system comes back up. You may say, but it only takes 5 minutes to do a complete shutdown and reboot, but this is 5 minutes that our customers have been standing around waiting for us. To them it seems like forever, and does not promote a very professional image. I think the 386's offer more capabilities than a terminal alone. Our machines use a bar code reader, a credit card scanner, control when the cash drawer opens, print to a receipt only printer, and print to the invoice printer. I don't see how you would get this much functionality out of just a terminal. My main thought in favor of the 386's is that even if the backroom goes down, however remote, the operation that the customer sees is still functioning. Yes, not wrong (though I see you resent the posting without this note :-)), but I collected help from very high quality people here (some big one via private e-mail), and there could be some Debian package I'm not aware of, and some of the original questions involved Debian-tested hardware. Actually I thought I had caught the first one before it went out :) Agreed then it stays on the list. And thanks a lot to you too! Your Welcome. If you are interseted in any of my thoughts on POS systems, features, capabilites, etc. send me e-mail. A. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
problem compiling kernel with sound
Has anyone had any luck with compiling a kernel on Debian? I can compile fine just as long as I don't try to compile with sound. NOTE: I did use the make-kpkg -revision custom.1.0 kernel_image option. This is the error I get (The same thing happens with 2.0.30 also): gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.29/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m386 -DCPU=386 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.29/include/linux/modversions.h -c -o sb_common.o sb_common.c sb_common.c:21: #error You will need to configure the sound driver with CONFIG_AUDIO option. sb_common.c:266: warning: `sb16_set_mpu_port' defined but not used make[4]: *** [sb_common.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.29/drivers/sound' make[3]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.29/drivers' make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.29' make[1]: *** [build] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.29' make: *** [stamp-image] Error 2 Thanks for any help. I've had great responses from this list before and have learned a LOT from reading all of the other posts. thanks - ricardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Off Topic: BIOS-like sources?
I thought I heard about something like this somewhere, but I'm not sure where: Say I want to bring up my own intel-based machine, or I want to do some embedded stuff, or I just want to learn about intel-based POST, or whatever, and I don't want to deal with Award or AMI or that bunch (and I want sources). Is there a GPL or otherwise-available system BIOS (POST code, extensions, etc) anywhere out there? I thought some serious Linux kernel hacker might know the answer to this, so I post here. Thanks for any info -dh -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: CorelDraw on Linux
Hi! Has anyone got CorelDraw running on a Debian system? No. But Caldera sells it (version 3.5) on CD. It should be possible to install it on Debian, I would think. Yes, I know that ... What I was really wondering is how did (would) someone go about it. Caldera requires, as far as I know, for you to have a licence for COL or CND to be able to purchase CorelDraw. Now, going from Debian to Caldera is out of the question in any case. feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian + PC with multi RS... port - n x (text dumb t
On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, A. Paul Heely Jr. wrote: Why did you move to networked 386's? What's running on them? The system that we use is provided to us by True Value. The backroom system is a SCO 3.2V4.2 box. There where a couple of reasons for getting rid of the WYSE terminals. There were emulation problems with the terminals, SCO uses an odd ball emulation. :-) I put my hands on some SCO systems at some customers' and I think Linux is quite _another_planet_ (and among every distribution Debian, also used Yggdrasil, Slackware and RedHat). The system now uses the backroom for transaction processing, credit card approval, house charge accounts, etc. While the 386's actually run the data entry software. One of the big advantages to this is if the backroom system should go down for any reasons, each register contains its own mini database, enough to still ring transactions. Yes but a terminal does NOT go down unless broken, while some of those 386 could go down... ok you may say we have not only one while the main box is only one... why should it crash (provided you put a power supply backup of course), I mean why more likely than those 386's? Because it does that lot of things? Then I would have it just handle the sessions on the terminals and the dbase and would connect _another_ box via ethernet for the other tasks. What do you think? This seems to be getting a little Debian un-specific, so if no one else is interested in this why don't we use e-mail, instead of cluttering the list? Yes, not wrong (though I see you resent the posting without this note :-)), but I collected help from very high quality people here (some big one via private e-mail), and there could be some Debian package I'm not aware of, and some of the original questions involved Debian-tested hardware. On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: 1) What serial devices allow longer cables than RS232 without use of modems (say 10-100-200 meters)? 2) Are there multi port cards of that kind which run well with Debian? Any brandname + model? 3) What if the text dumb terminals connected to a Linux Box also need a printer each (or almost any of them)? Is it possible that data is sent to the printer and terminal via the same line? Brandname + model? Thanks to anyone willing to give a clue. And thanks a lot to you too! Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address no autoresponse messages will return even when I'm not at home. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Emacs dumps core after some major upgrades on system
[ minor correction ] Here's what I did (the above script installed as libc5): ^ should be sedlibc5 I don't want to confuse anyone. :-) Cheers, - Jim pgp322gkd7f8n.pgp Description: PGP signature
Emacs core dump SOLVED by downgrading to xlib6-3.3-4 in BO.
Emacs booted up after I downgraded xlib6-3.3-5 (in hamm) to xlib6-3.3-3 (in bo). I didn't have to touch xlib6g. I am unfamiliar with the use of strace, but when I tried it, the core dump occured as a SIGSEGV, right after getting the PID. Apparently emacs_19 has to be recompiled for the new libs. Alan Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Progress On Debian2.0 ?
Hi, Can someone give us an update on the progress with Debian 2.0 and the stable libc6 release please. I'm always keen to keep an eye on how many people post stuff regarding problems with libc6. While I'd love to be adventurous, I lack technical skills to contribute, and better serve our linux community as an advocate, and example of a business running completely and happily under linux. We do use wine for some of the financial stuff, but have no dos or mac machines on site. P.S. Wine is working much better than it was 6 months ago, for anyone considering trying it again. thanks 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: Progress On Debian2.0 ?
Hi, Can someone give us an update on the progress with Debian 2.0 and the stable libc6 release please. It's looking very promising. Right now is the worst time to try it out though - since there are quite a few binaries which need to be recompiled/patched to work with libc6 and libc5-compat. In a few weeks, I think we'll be past the tough stuff. I'm not sure what the release schedule is going to be like. Cheers, - Jim pgpK7hhSHSVgV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xemac Mail (VM)
Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] The problem relates to the headers of outgoing mail, the From: line doesn't seem to be rewritten as it should be by smail. I have the line from_field=From: Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] in my /etc/smail/config file, but emacs seems to ignore it. Probably smail only inserts a From: when the MUA doesn't, and VM puts its own in. It's a while since I used VM (I prefer Gnus) but you could try something like the following in ~/.vm: (setq user-mail-address [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Emacs dumps core after some major upgrades on system
Emacs dumps core, repeatedly. I just replaced the xlib6, installing both xlib6 and xlib6g in hamm. Is this possibly the problem? I have just installed new slang0.99 libraries from hamm, and the newest svgalib1 in hamm. Also, a number of applicatoins that were, mainly dependent upon earlier slang0 libs. I also had to reinstall dosemu today, and I installed, then removed wine. Out of these, can someone see something that might have interacted w/ emacs? Since I lean heavily on emacs, I'll have to back out of a lot of these upgrades, hope-fully. 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: procmailrc help
On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote: Here's what I want to do: 1) mail addressed to me goes into the inbox (even from mailing lists) 2) mailing lists are separated (already working) 3) remaining messages go into a junk folder any ideas? Sure. This is what I do, except for the junk part, which I've been meaning to add for a while and just did. I notice most spam has bogus or useless To: lines, so that makes filtering that nasty stuff all the easier. Here's an abbreviated version of my .procmailrc: --- SNIP --- PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # you'd better make sure it exists # DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/default # completely optional LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/logfile # recommended # Use the Sender: (or Resent-Sender:) line if it exists, b/c that way we # don't have to worry about messages cc'ed to me personally when I also # belong to the list :0: * ^Sender: JS Bach and other Early and Baroque Music List [EMAIL PROTECTED].* bach-list :0: * ^Resent-Sender: debian-announce-request.* debian-announce :0: * ^Resent-Sender: debian-changes-request.* debian-changes :0: * ^Resent-Sender: debian-devel-request.* debian-devel :0: * ^Resent-Sender: debian-user-request.* debian-user # NASANews only comes from one address, so this is easy :0: * ^From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nasanews :0: * !^To: .*branden.* junk --- SNIP --- Explanation: since I use the recommended .forward: |IFS=' ' exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #branden Anything not processed by the .procmailrc stays in the inbox. This is what we want. All the mailing list stuff is sorted out -- if you want for some reason to collapse all your mailing lists into one box, I think you can just pile all those asterisk lines into one recipe and dump them to mailing-list or something. Note the last line. I'm liberal with the To: field because I get mail forwarded to the home box from all kinds of places. The ! in front of it just says not. There you go. -- G. Branden Robinson | I came, I saw, she conquered. The Purdue University | original Latin seems to have been [EMAIL PROTECTED] | garbled. http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg uninstalled package...
I installed some custom packages in /usr/local. Now, when i install other packages which depends on that, dselect says that x depends on y; hower y is not installed (but y is in /usr/local, manually instaled. How can i tell to dpkg that i have the package `y' ? One way is with dselect, just select the stuff you want and if the dependency problems pop hit x to overide them. Note that .deb packages will probably not be configured to look for things in /usr/local, so you will probably have to edit config files before things work. Also, many programs will have compiled in places that they look, which will mean you will need simlinks. The best thing is probably just to install the package that provides what you now have in /usr/local. __ I like six eggs when starting on a journey. Fried - not poached. And mind you don't break 'em. I won't eat a broken egg. -- Thorin Oakenshield -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: procmailrc help
The Filtering Mail FAQ explains how to set up both procmail and mailagent. http://www.ii.com/internet/faqs/launchers/mail/filtering-faq/ Cheers, - Jim pgpzXLTTlL8Zs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CorelDraw on Linux
Hi! Has anyone got CorelDraw running on a Debian system? feri. No. But Caldera sells it (version 3.5) on CD. It should be possible to install it on Debian, I would think. Cheers, - Jim pgpRBmYbAxX5c.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: sendmail+IDA
I've just done a unpackaged install of qmail. It seems to work very well so far. One of the nice things is that because the configuration seems more straight forward I really feel I will be able to use the software. I've used sendmail and felt a little like a hang glider pilot in a jumbo jet. So many confusing options, not if I could just get the landing gear down. I hope whoever is doing the qmail deb package keeps going with it, because then more of us would use it! The only real problem I found was that I had to recompile qpopper to handle pop3 connections. Instructions for a 1 line patch were included. The whole process probably took about 6-12 hours over a couple of days. 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 On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Jimmy Lu wrote: Does anyone know where I can get this package? I have read Mail-HOWTO and it suggests me to get it from sunsite but it is not there. I also looked at vixen.cso.uiuc.edu and many web sites without luck. Can someone guide me? Thanks, Jimmy -- 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: minicom, modem questions
I read the Serial and PPP-HOWTO's as well as the PPP-over-minicom mini-HOWTO. I made sure my modem is configured as described in section 9.3 of the PPP-HOWTO (these were default anyway). The point where I get stuck each time is section 9.5, i.e. testing the modem for dial out. What happens is the following: I start minicom, the modem initializes, I dial my phone-number at work, and after some seconds, ... connection is established. You might need to wait a few seconds before typing anything else, and after that youwill almost certainly need to hit return a few times. But you probably know that already. As pointed out it is then question of finding out what the ppp-host requires as login procedure. The trouble is that I never receive any prompt, nor any other funny characters as suggested in these HOWTO's. Basically nothing happens. (Remark: I am almost sure that my corporate site uses PAP.) I don't know anything about PAP, but with my provider I have to explicitly enter a name and password, then I have to type 'c ppp' to actually start it sending ppp protocal funny characters. Mayby you have to do something like this also? I've already spend too much time on this, hope someone can put me one the right track again, otherwise I will have to abandon I hope so too. Good luck! __ I like six eggs when starting on a journey. Fried - not poached. And mind you don't break 'em. I won't eat a broken egg. -- Thorin Oakenshield -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xemac Mail (VM)
The problem relates to the headers of outgoing mail, the From: line doesn't seem to be rewritten as it should be by smail. I have the line from_field=From: Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] in my /etc/smail/config file, but emacs seems to ignore it. Try this - add the following to your .emacs file: (setq user-mail-address [EMAIL PROTECTED]) I think it will grab your full name from the /etc/passwd file. There's probably a way to set that using elisp too. Cheers, - Jim pgptL3mwm5wVO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Cursor problem
is there a chance to force the cursor ? I installed debian 1.2 on an older portable computer with LC EGA display (which is maybe a little bit incompatible). During booting the cursor is there but is away as soon as the computers bios messages are shown. Then everythings is fine except the cursor which is NOT THERE. I did a quick search, for EGA Linux cursor on the 'net, but I couldn't find a thing. Sounds like you might have to do some kernel hacking... :-) Sorry. Cheers, - Jim pgpGUddzYD7te.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Smail /etc/aliases
Anyone know if I can have ALL mail forwarded somewhere else, like this ?: Matthew --- # This is the aliases file - it says who gets mail for whom. # It was originally generated by `smailconfig', part of the Smail package # distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail systemadministrator. # It was originally generated by smailconfig at Wed May 14 12:28:43 EDT1997 # Please modify the above line, if you change this file by hand. # See smailconf(5) for details of the things that can be configured here. # postmaster: root # root: matthew *: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know if that would work. I doubt it. (I may be wrong) I do something similar with sendmail. I added the following to my /etc/mail/sendmail.mc which was generated with sendmailconfig - and then ran I sendmailconfig again to load it. ## Important - the following line has to be first FEATURE(local_procmail,`/usr/bin/procmail') ## At the end of the file define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS', `procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u') define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_ARGS', `procmail -t -m $h $f $u') define(`LUSER_RELAY', procmail:/etc/procmailrcs/lusers)dnl My /etc/procmailrcs/lusers looks like this: # forward mail for unknown users to postmaster :0 !postmaster This has always seemed to work for me, so I don't mess with it. The sendmail m4 macros are documented in /usr/doc/sendmail/cf.README.gz Cheers, - Jim pgpn779aKNqz9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: procmailrc help
Attached to this letter you will find a procmailrc file. Adjust the MAILDIR variable and are set. Here's what I want to do: 1) mail addressed to me goes into the inbox (even from mailing lists) 2) mailing lists are separated (already working) 3) remaining messages go into a junk folder -- Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. #VERBOSE=on HOME=/home/paul PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:. MAILDIR=/home/paul/mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/junk LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/log LOCKFILE=$HOME/Mail/.lockmail :0 *(^To:|^Cc:)[EMAIL PROTECTED] inbox :0 *(Cc:|From:|To:).*debian-bugs* bug :0 *(Cc:|From:|To:).*debian.*changes* changes :0 *(Cc:|From:|To:).*debian-user user :0 *(Cc:|From:|To:).*debian-announce announce :0 *(Cc:|From:|To:).*debian-changes changes
Re: dpkg
Hi: I try to install X11 from cdrom that is download and recorded from ftp. When I use dselect to install some packages, some .deb packages are refused by dpkg. Even I use dpkg -i xlib* to install X11, error message like: dpkg-deb: /...directory/xlib6*.. not dbian format Does anybody have same problem before? Why the .deb that is download can not be accepted? Ok, I'll bite (since you've asked three times). Normally, questions on debian-user get answered more quickly than - I thought somebody else would have taken this one by now. Most likely, you have a file named xlib.. in your directory that is not a .deb file. Perhaps you also downloaded a xlib*.tar.gz file (an upstream source package). Try running 'dpkg -i xlib*.deb' instead. Or even better, use the full explicit file name. (Of course, there is always the possibility that you have found a bug) Cheers, - Jim pgpK6WOAv2XJA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: libtermcap
Hello, On Debian there is no libtermcap.so, on Redhat-4.2 there is one. As far as I remember libtermcap is obsolete and should be replaced by libncurses. libncurses is really another way of doing buisness altogether. The replacement for libtermcap is libterminfo. Debian is the only distribution that has really done what it takes to make the switch, i.e. pitched termcap altogether. This is good in a way I guess, but it does mean that just about any non-X targsball will fail to compile in a way that can really confuse new users. Am I wrong? Has any body more Information? The problem occurred when installing some foreign binaries build on a Redhat based system. Many binaries like the one you have will not work as well. The best solution is to recompile with Makefile references to termcap replaced with references to terminfo. In some piece of documentation somewhere I read of another solution, I forget if they were creating a link or just plain installing the termcap library. Anyway, good luck. Thanks --- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Sonnenstra_e 17, D-26123 Oldenburg, Tel: 0441/ 81058 http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:/~weissp -- -- Slow has got 4 letters so has calm; speed has got 5 letters so has death -- -- -- 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: HELP! what debian package provides 'elf-x11r6lib'??
xlib6 used to provide it. It should have been fazed out a long time ago. I'd like to add, if you are installing packages out of unstable, which you must be, since you have this problem (due to the xlib6 in unstable) -- the debian-devel list is probably a better place to direct questions about dependencies, etc. Cheers, - Jim pgpGLTuGODUeL.pgp Description: PGP signature
procmailrc help
Here's what I want to do: 1) mail addressed to me goes into the inbox (even from mailing lists) 2) mailing lists are separated (already working) 3) remaining messages go into a junk folder any ideas? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Setting up x
Check your /etc/X11/Xserver file. the first line should have the path and filename of the server that you want to use. It seems that while other distributions link X to the server you want to run, Debian uses X as a small 'loader' program that reads the Xserver file and gets the server to run from here. With the server listed as XF86_NONE in the Xserver file (first line), I received the messages you have posted. I had to change the server name manually. For some reason, after fooling around with the configurations, XF86Setup wouldn't change the server name in Xserver. tjm [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Setting up x
I have setup x before with little trouble. Now I have tried both XF86Setup and XF86Config. Could anyone tell me what the following error message means and how I might correct it. _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 giving up. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. It seems odd to me since XF86Setup managed to run an, at least passable, server Thanks Tom -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HELP! what debian package provides 'elf-x11r6lib'??
On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote: Help! what debian package provides 'elf-x11r6lib'?? For some reason ftp.debian.org doesn't have the unstable directory.. and dselect decided to uninstall tons of my programs.. :( .. I changed the unstable directory in ftp to hamm/hamm .. I still need that package though. xlib6 used to provide it. It should have been fazed out a long time ago. The latest xlib6 removed the provides, any package that depends on it is broken. I filed a list of bugs when the latest xlib6 hit incoming, you might want to check and file bugs against the packages I missed (I only filed against packages on my system). You should be able to force dselect to leave them installed, a 'Q' when the conflict screen comes up (after making sure they're still selected as installed) should do it. -- Scott K. Ellis|The reason angels can fly is that [EMAIL PROTECTED]| they take themselves so lightly. |-- G.K. Chesterson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
sendmail+IDA
Does anyone know where I can get this package? I have read Mail-HOWTO and it suggests me to get it from sunsite but it is not there. I also looked at vixen.cso.uiuc.edu and many web sites without luck. Can someone guide me? Thanks, Jimmy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: sendmail+IDA
Hi, If I recall correctly, sendmail+IDA was a version of sendmail that was hacked to be user friendly back in the bad old days of version 5 and version 6 sendmail. However, the new version 8 sendmail beats it in all facets; the new m4 macros being far friendlier. Forget the defunct sendmail+IDA. Use the new version 8 of sendmail, available on all Debian mirrors. manoj -- Hackers of the world, unite! Manoj Srivastava url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile, Alabama USAurl:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian + PC with multi RS... port - n x (text dumb terminal + printer)
On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Joey Hess wrote: If you were willing to go with 386 class PC's, you could strip them down to a special ethernet card with the kernel in ROM (or, a normal ethernet card and a floppy disk drive), a video card, a printer port, and 2 to 4 MB of memory (plus keyboard, screen, and printer, of course). That can boot linux over the network, and then you could write the POS app in linux. What ethernet cards are suitable for a 8088 or 80286? Will the people for which I will be building the application find good-looking one-year-warranty such outdated machines? Well, it's possible thay you will be able to find all the parts you need new. I'm not sure if unused 286 or 386 chips are still being sold - everything else can be bought new, though. All this stuff just to have a console + printer? Maybe you have more energies than I do (as I noticed... it was SO KIND of you answering all my postings, thanks once again)... I mean, it must not run any piece of application, that's just the job that _terminals_ have to do, and I could more well concentrate on what's to be done on the main computer, a nice powerful Linux box, maybe a 2 CPU motherboard... with just a line to init for each terminal, as you first suggested; no machines booting via ethernet, no megs ram around, no video cards + displays (maybe not even all the couple the same models - different max hor/ver scan frequencies to deal with) to eventually configure SVGAText for... M... Joey, I'm hearing of $500 terminals (see the WYSE web page) with a centronics port and just control codes to send output to the display or the printer... It sounds more clean to me! In case one of them gets burned, you haven't but to get another and connect it (and chances are that the broken one can be repaired). I will keep looking for infos in that direction. Nicola Bernardelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address no autoresponse messages will return even when I'm not at home. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem compiling kernel with sound
On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Has anyone had any luck with compiling a kernel on Debian? I can compile [snip] I suggest that you use `make xconfig' or `make menuconfig' to set up your kernel configuration. That should leave the configuration in a consistent state. After `make xconfig' do `make depend' and `make clean' before doing the `make' to compile the source. A note about make menuconfig, if you have a SoundBlaster and don't use the defult settings you run into some problems unless you run the old configure script, the dialog boxes won't let you alter the defaults for some reason. G'razel the shifty kitty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.aye.net/~kestrel found on Tapestries FurryMUCK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xemac Mail (VM)
Rob MacWilliams writes: The problem relates to the headers of outgoing mail, the From: line doesn't seem to be rewritten as it should be by smail. I have the line from_field=From: Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] in my /etc/smail/config file, but emacs seems to ignore it. Of course emacs ignores it. Emacs doesn't even know about it: that file is for smail. That line should result in all your mail going out with From: Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] regardless of what your MUA put on the From: line. Sounds like you have a smail problem, not an emacs problem. Carey Evans writes: Probably smail only inserts a From: when the MUA doesn't, and VM puts its own in. That line should always change the From:. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: floppy
I would add just one thing to Torsten's very complete and informative response about mounting a floppy. The fdutils package contains a program called fdmount that can automate many of these steps. In particular, this program checks the type of filesystem on the floppy and inserts the appropriate -t option in the mount command. $ type fdmount fdmount is /usr/bin/fdmount $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/fdmount fdutils: /usr/bin/fdmount -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
debian with smail
Hi there, we have an internal (virtual) domain with 192.168.0.xxx IPs. Our debian box (1.3) is the gateway to the outside world. It has an ppp connection to a provider an several uucp connections for news and file transfer. This box is also the smarthost for our domain. So smail has to - route mail within our own domain with smtp - pass mail for the outside world to the provider with smtp - transfer mail to systems with direct uucp connections Basicly everything seemed to be OK. But sometimes there is mail to an address like [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only as an example) which is going wrong. This example mail has to go via the smarthost (provider) with smtp. But it did'nt! smail tries to force a direct smtp connection which doesn't exist. Please cracks, have a look to my routers file: # do I need this entry ? inet_addrs: driver=gethostbyaddr, transport=smtp; # for my neighbours, that works fine uucp_neighbors: driver=uuname, transport=uux # some special uucp adresses, works fine paths: driver=pathalias, transport=uux; file=paths # for the internal domain (maybe this causes the problem . inet_hosts: driver=gethostbyname, transport=smtp; # required=lahn.de domain=lahn.de # smart host, OK smart_host: driver=smarthost, transport=smtp; path=freeway # transport=uux; # path=dyob # When there is mail to such a critical address I comment out the inet_hosts entry. Then the mail goes correctly via the smart host. During this time ALL internal mail is routed via smart host and is lost there. Any hint for my problem ? thx bye berni -- Please respond to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and to nothing else ! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Strange update problem
I just updated a machine that was previously running unstable to the
most current version of unstable and a bunch of programs that seem to
depend on libc5 core dump (emacs, fvwm2, ?). I poked around but couldn't
solve the problem so I thought the easiest thing to do would be to
present the output of strace and see if anyone knows what I am missing.
Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers
--- strace emacs
execve(/usr/bin/emacs, [emacs], [/* 27 vars */]) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x40007000
mprotect(0x4000, 20961, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
mprotect(0x8048000, 668058, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
stat(/etc/ld.so.cache, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 3
mmap(0, 9600, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x40008000
close(3)= 0
stat(/etc/ld.so.preload, 0xbc0c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 229376, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4000b000
mmap(0x4000b000, 201946, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x4000b000
mmap(0x4003d000, 20172, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x31000) = 0x4003d000
mmap(0x40042000, 4, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x40042000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x4000b000, 201946, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 73728, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40043000
mmap(0x40043000, 63121, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x40043000
mmap(0x40053000, 3832, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xf000)
= 0x40053000
mmap(0x40054000, 456, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40054000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x40043000, 63121, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 294912, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40055000
mmap(0x40055000, 274695, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x40055000
mmap(0x40099000, 11912, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x43000) = 0x40099000
mmap(0x4009c000, 1148, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4009c000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x40055000, 274695, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 36864, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4009d000
mmap(0x4009d000, 27961, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x4009d000
mmap(0x400a4000, 4908, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x6000)
= 0x400a4000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x4009d000, 27961, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 86016, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x400a6000
mmap(0x400a6000, 71887, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x400a6000
mmap(0x400b8000, 3532, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x11000)
= 0x400b8000
mmap(0x400b9000, 6712, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x400b9000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x400a6000, 71887, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 49152, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x400bb000
mmap(0x400bb000, 40189, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x400bb000
mmap(0x400c5000, 4272, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x9000)
= 0x400c5000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x400bb000, 40189, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 671744, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x400c7000
mmap(0x400c7000, 646981, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0) =
0x400c7000
mmap(0x40165000, 19984, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x9d000) = 0x40165000
mmap(0x4016a000, 884, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4016a000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x400c7000, 646981, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libncurses.so.3.0, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open(/lib/libncurses.so.3.0, O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
mmap(0, 245760, PROT_NONE,
Re: comment about Linux
On 13 Sep 1997, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: dada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Is true that I never lose control on my linux box, but some times I lose control in my X-Windows and I must restart the X. Is that usual? I supose that's due to use some aplications. But if this is true, why I lose control on all aplications that I'm using? Some application (especially Motif-ones) sometimes grab all mouse and keyboard event (e.g. when you select a submenu). If the application (or the widget library) forgets to correctly release the grab you will be unable to do anything with X-Window System, including switching to other terminals using ctrl-alt-fx and zapping X11 using ctrl-alt-bs. The only solution is a terminal attached to your computer, some people use their calculators (the better TI and HP ones) for this purpose. You can also use another computer in a local network to remote login into your machine. I believe there is also a program out there that will allow you to kill the xserver or shut down cleanly with your joystick. Of course I suppose that could get grabbed as well by some apps. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
