svgatextmode problem: VT_RESIZEX
Hi, I have just installed svgatextmode, but have not got very far in running it. I have checked that the sync settings are within range. I started stm with the desired mode. stm tries a few times to allocate memory. The error occurs either during this or immediately afterwards. The error message says that VT_RESIZEX: No such file or directory. I am running 2.0.30 kernel. But I have also checked with 2.0.29 kernel distributed with debian 1.3. I have also checked that the details concerning my video card and ti3025 chip are correct. I understand that the 108x60 mode I am using is correct as well, as it works on another linux system with the same monitor. I suspect there is something in my xserver setup that disabled the resizing operation. I cannot recall precisely whether I have done so in one of the many configuration programs I have run Any one has any idea? --Derek Lee TextConfig == # # # # Configuration file for the SVGATextMode program # # # # # ChipSet S3 #Clocks 25.175 28.322 40.00 0.00 50.00 77.00 36.00 44.90 #Clocks 130.00 120.00 80.00 31.50 110.00 65.00 75.00 94.50 ClockChip ti3025 Option MED_DRAM Option S3_HSText #RefClk 14.31818 # common values are: 14.31818, 16.0 , 24.0 and 50.0 MHz Option SyncDisks #ResetProg /etc/STM_reset Option LoadFont FontProg /usr/bin/setfont FontPath /usr/share/consolefonts FontSelect Cyr_a8x16 8x16 9x16 8x15 9x15 FontSelect Cyr_a8x14 8x14 9x14 8x13 9x13 FontSelect 8x12alt.psf 8x12 9x12 8x11 9x11 FontSelect Cyr_a8x88x8 9x8 8x7 9x7 FontSelect Cyr_a8x32 8x32 9x32 8x31 9x31 HorizSync 31-65 VertRefresh 50-90 DacSpeed 135 80x25 28.3640 680 776 800400 412 414 449 font 9x16 108x60 70 829 839 959 1092 960 986 989 1024 -hsync -vsync font 8x16 Error Message from stm -d 108x60 == DEBUG: stm version: 1.4 DEBUG: Debug level: 1 DEBUG: Opening config file '/etc/TextConfig' DEBUG: Parsing Config file... DEBUG: parsed data from config file: DEBUG: Chipset = 1 (S3) DEBUG: monitor H limits: 31000 - 65000 DEBUG: monitor V limits: 5 - 9 DEBUG: Clocks: DEBUG: DacSpeed = 135000kHz DEBUG: MClk not defined DEBUG: RefClk not defined DEBUG: ClockChip = 6 (ti3025) DEBUG: Optmask = 0x3240 DEBUG: ResetProg = `(Not Defined)' DEBUG: DefaultMode = `108x60' DEBUG: Underline_pos = -1 (disabled) DEBUG: ClockProg = `(Not Defined)' DEBUG: Terminals: (Not Defined) DEBUG: cursor_start = 29 ; cursor_end = 31 DEBUG: bordercolor = 0 DEBUG: FontProg = `/usr/bin/setfont' DEBUG: FontPath = `/usr/share/consolefonts' DEBUG: Found requested text mode in config file: DEBUG: `108x60' [102x60] 7kHz 829 839 959 1092 960 986 989 1024 font 8x16 flags=0x0 H/V=64.3/62.8 DEBUG: Cursor start-end = 14-15 DEBUG: Underline pos. will be: -1 DEBUG: Check max clock speed: OK DEBUG: Checking if 7 kHz can be achieved DEBUG: Check_range(64338): range from 31000 to 65000 OK DEBUG: Check_range(62830): range from 5 to 9 OK DEBUG: Checking if new mode requires screen resizing (from /dev/console) DEBUG: Getting VGA IO permissions for chipset #1 DEBUG: Getting VGA IO permissions for addr. range 0x3b4-0x3df DEBUG: Getting VGA IO permissions for addr. range 0x200-0x201 DEBUG: Checking if kernel supports Virtual Terminal resizing (required: 1.1.54 ; this: 2.0.30) DEBUG: VT_RESIZE DEBUG: Checking if kernel supports VT_RESIZEX (required: 1.3.3 ; this: 2.0.30) DEBUG: VT_RESIZEX(cols=102,rows=60,vlin=960,clin=16,vcol=824,ccol=8) DEBUG: VT_RESIZEX DEBUG: VT_RESIZE: Could not get memory. Trying to free some (771120), and attempting again... DEBUG: Freeing 771120 bytes of RAM for VT_RESIZE (using malloc()) SVGATextMode NOTE: You may remove the `SyncDisks' option from the TextConfig file once SVGATextMode proves to work reliably on your machine. This will make SVGATextMode run much faster. Chipset = `S3', Textmode clock = 70.00 MHz, 102x60 chars, CharCell = 8x16. Refresh = 64.34kHz/62.8Hz. stm: Syncing disks... DEBUG: VT_RESIZE: Could not get memory. Trying to free some (1542240), and attempting again... DEBUG: Freeing 1542240 bytes of RAM for VT_RESIZE (using malloc()) SVGATextMode NOTE: You may remove the `SyncDisks' option from the TextConfig file once SVGATextMode proves to work reliably on your machine. This will make SVGATextMode run much faster. Chipset = `S3', Textmode clock = 70.00 MHz, 102x60 chars, CharCell = 8x16. Refresh = 64.34kHz/62.8Hz. stm: Syncing disks... DEBUG: VT_RESIZE: Could not get memory. Trying to free some (2313360), and attempting again... DEBUG: Freeing 2313360 bytes of RAM for VT_RESIZE (using malloc()) SVGATextMode NOTE: You may remove the `SyncDisks' option from the TextConfig file once SVGATextMode
ppp.chatscript for compuserve
I going on a business trip in a couple of weeks and I want to take my Debian machine with me rather than a Win95 box. The problem is that my employer has a department account on CompuServe and getting Linux PPP hooked up has eluded me so far. I've tried the minicom and manual ppp setup, but Compuserve hooks up as 7e1 rather than 8n1 that PPP requires. Does anyone know the proper ppp.chatscript for Compuserve? I've searched the web and can't seem to find anything. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks all Later Rob MacWilliams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Motif and libc6
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 27, Lawrence wrote I heard from the lists there is a problem compiling a Motif program with libc6. I have contacted RedHat and they said that they may release their Motif development kit compatible with libc6 very later this year. Meanwhile, is it possible to install libc6 and still able to compile Motif program? On Sep 26, Scott K. Ellis answered Yes, but not by linking them to libc6. You will need to install the altgcc and libc5-altdev packages, as well as the various other '-altdev' packages for the libraries you need (xlib6-altdev, etc.). If you're planning on upgrading (or partially upgrading) to libc6, check out my Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO which I post here about weekly and which can be found at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/ Another possibility is not to use true Motif, but LessTif. I've did non-maintainer releases of updated LessTif packages, both for libc6 and (in the alternative locations) libc5. These appear to work quite well (or nobody is using them): I've not seen or received bug reports about them. No, because lesstif is Motif 1.2 and not 2.0 compliance. Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
fax mini-howto?
Is there a mini-howto about how to sending fax under linux? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
My CD-ROM ain't workin'
Hi there, I'm real new to Debian (Linux also), and I can't get Linux to reconize my CD-ROM as a block device. I try mounting it on the command line by typing in mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cd driver /cdrom.I have a Panasonic type CD-ROM (2x). I've tried using all the drivers that are listed as a cdrom device driver in the /dev but none of them work. The farthest I've gotten was an error message of mount: The kernel dose not recognize /dev/cd driver as a valid block device. Every cd driver I've tried had a b in front of the file permissions on the ls -l (LS -L, only in lowercase) listing. I have successfully mounted a DOS floppy with no problems, but this is stumping me. If I can't get this to work, then I can't install anything of the Debian package besides the basic package (I ordered only two CD-ROMs). I don't even have the man command on my system yet. What i'm thinking is that somehow the Kernel isn't set for CD-ROM's. I, however, don't know how to check this or even change it. Your help will be greatly appreaciated, Ken Fuller
tcl3 andk tk3
I have a binary file linked with tcl3 and tk3 a.out libs. Anyone still have the tcl3 and tk3 libs in a.out format? Or, who still remember how to compile a.out library in a ELF system? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: My CD-ROM ain't workin'
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Al Matthews wrote: Hi there, I'm real new to Debian (Linux also), and I can't get Linux to reconize my CD-ROM as a block device. I try mounting it on the command line by typing in mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cd driver /cdrom. This isn't gonna work. You need to figure out how your CDROM is attached to the system: is it on a SoundBlaster card, an IDE card, or a SCSI card? In the latter two cases, its correct entry would be /dev/hda (or hdb) for an IDE drive where the letter (a,b,c) is determined like this: If it's the master drive on the first channel, it's hda. If it's the slave on the first channel, it's hdb. If it's the master on the second, it's hdc, etc /dev/scd0 (or scd1, scd2, etc.) where the number is (I beleive) the number of the drive on the scsi chain. Usually the /dev/cdrom entry is a symlink (made via ln -s) to the correct ide/scsi drive. So then once you've figured out all that info, you mount it (assuming the directory /cdrom exists) with: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /cdrom where you can replace /dev/hda with the appropriate /dev entry. If this is confusing, please email for clarification. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Pine and Netscape mail
Lately I've been getting some mail from this list which is (I assume) sent via netscape mail. I read mail in pine, and it comes in as two seperate attachments: one is text (but pine insists on spawning a more command in another shell to view it) and another is text/html, which pine can't view at all. Is there any way to get pine to handle these better? Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
tcpd weirdness
Got a stumper here. I have a friend that installed with the Debian 1.3.0 disk from Cheapbytes and I installed using 1.3.1 via FTP from debian.org His tcpd seems to require access rules as found in the hosts_options(5) man page while mine seems to require them as shown in hosts_access(5). Were there two different versions of tcpd released? The two versions do not seems compatable at all. If he uses my access rules, he gets errors and it does not work. TIA. --- George Bonser Debian/GNU Linux See http://www.debian.org Linux ... It isn't just for breakfast anymore! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
qt1.2 development package
is there a qt1.2 development package out there which doesn't require libc5-dev? .. something like libc5-altdev or libc6-dev instead -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
reloading samba configuration
I'm using the default samba package installation which runs via inetd.. how can I reload samba's configuration file? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: reloading samba configuration
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 22:23:06 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm using the default samba package installation which runs via inetd.. how can I reload samba's configuration file? I'm afraid you have to: # killall smbd nmbd which means that all connections are broken. And as SMB isn't a stateless protocol, the clients will feel it :-) Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Menu errors
Whenever I install a new .deb and it goes to update my menus, I get a billion errors like this: Unpacking blast (from blast_1.1-3.deb) ... Setting up blast (1.1-3) ... Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) (later:) /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: wm: command not found /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found This last repeats about 50 times. Any clues? Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Menu errors
Will Lowe wrote: /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: wm: command not found /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found /usr/lib/menu/fvwm95: fvwm95module: command not found This last repeats about 50 times. Any clues? You seem to have a number of executable menu files. Look in /usr/lib/menu and /etc/menu - remove the executable permissions of any files there that are executable (and file bugs on the packages that placed them there.) -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: General mail setup
Hi, I think we need more data. Could you try running fetchmail like so: % fetchmail -v -c % fetchmail -k -v -a The -v options make it verbose. The first command will only check the number of email messages you have. -k will keep a copy on the server so thet you do not loose important mail. Please post your answer back (at least on debian-user) so we have more data and could help you further. manoj -- Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront all the rest. -- Jonathon Swift 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: tcpd weirdness
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, George Bonser wrote: : : Got a stumper here. I have a friend that installed with the Debian 1.3.0 disk : from Cheapbytes and I installed using 1.3.1 via FTP from debian.org : : His tcpd seems to require access rules as found in the hosts_options(5) man : page while mine seems to require them as shown in hosts_access(5). : : Were there two different versions of tcpd released? : : The two versions do not seems compatable at all. If he uses my access rules, : he gets errors and it does not work. : : TIA. I can't speak for the Debian packages, but I have built tcpd for BSDI. There is a Makefile option that chooses which rules behaviour to use by default. So, it would seem that someone changed that option between 1.3.0 and 1.3.1. However, I think you can make either set of rules work by supplying some config options - not 100% sure on this since I don't have the man page in front of me. : --- : George Bonser : Debian/GNU Linux See http://www.debian.org : Linux ... It isn't just for breakfast anymore! : -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Voice: (605) 334-4454 Fax: (605) 335-1173 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Possible flex-2.5.4 bug
Hi, Each argument is scanned separately, with yy_scan_string. An end of file is generated, then, at the end of each string (each argument). There is no yywrap function defined. So, you call yylex thrice, on three separate, non-wrapped files. The second file (string, argument, whatever) does end inside a comment, and since there is no wrapping, the eof is final. The error is as you asked it to be reported. This does not seem to be a bug in flex. manoj ./a.out fooblehbar foobleh fooblehbell foobleh file ends inside a comment. Excerpts from the documentation == File: flex.info, Node: Multiple buffers, Next: End-of-file rules, Prev: Star\ t conditions, Up: Top Multiple input buffers == [...] Three routines are available for setting up input buffers for scanning in-memory strings instead of files. All of them create a new input buffer for scanning the string, and return a corresponding `YY_BUFFER_STATE' handle (which you should delete with `yy_delete_buffer()' when done with it). They also switch to the new buffer using `yy_switch_to_buffer()', so the next call to `yylex()' will start scanning the string. `yy_scan_string(const char *str)' scans a NUL-terminated string. `yy_scan_bytes(const char *bytes, int len)' scans `len' bytes (including possibly NUL's) starting at location BYTES. Note that both of these functions create and scan a *copy* of the string or bytes. (This may be desirable, since `yylex()' modifies the contents of the buffer it is scanning.) -- File: flex.info, Node: Generated scanner, Next: Start conditions, Prev: Acti\ ons, Up: Top [...] When the scanner receives an end-of-file indication from YY_INPUT, it then checks the `yywrap()' function. If `yywrap()' returns false (zero), then it is assumed that the function has gone ahead and set up `yyin' to point to another input file, and scanning continues. If it returns true (non-zero), then the scanner terminates, returning 0 to its caller. Note that in either case, the start condition remains unchanged; it does *not* revert to `INITIAL'. If you do not supply your own version of `yywrap()', then you must either use `%option noyywrap' (in which case the scanner behaves as though `yywrap()' returned 1), or you must link with `-lfl' to obtain the default version of the routine, which always returns 1. -- Ripping Yarns Mind you, not as bad as the night Archie Pettigrew ate some sheep's testicles for a bet...God, that bloody sheep kicked him... 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: Menu errors [fixed]
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Joey Hess wrote: You seem to have a number of executable menu files. Look in /usr/lib/menu and /etc/menu - remove the executable permissions of any files there that are executable (and file bugs on the packages that placed them there.) Ah, yes. It was /var/lib/menu/fvwm95 ... a simple sudo chmod -x fvwm95 seems to have been the fix, and I've filed a bug against fvwm95. Thanks. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tcpd weirdness
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, George Bonser wrote: : : Got a stumper here. I have a friend that installed with the Debian 1.3.0 disk : from Cheapbytes and I installed using 1.3.1 via FTP from debian.org : : His tcpd seems to require access rules as found in the hosts_options(5) man : page while mine seems to require them as shown in hosts_access(5). : : Were there two different versions of tcpd released? : : The two versions do not seems compatable at all. If he uses my access rules, : he gets errors and it does not work. : : TIA. From man hosts_access(5): ... An extended version of the access control language is described in the hosts_options(5) document. The extensions are turned on at program build time by building with -DPROCESS_OPTIONS. ... Mirek -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installation with BT-930
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Egon Schmid wrote: Can you boot from CD-ROM? A WD-7000 isn't on your hardware list. Which debian-version is it? Yes, as I said I insert the CD-ROM and the installation programm comes up without any problem -- so the controller works! No a WD-7000 isn't on my list because I havn't such a thing inside my box. What kind of controller is it? Thought it should be any emulation of the internel ZIP-drive??? It is Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 from the German manufacturer J.F. Lehmann. I installed two other boxes (non SCSI) without trouble from this CD. Greetings Andreas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tcpd weirdness
On 29-Sep-97 Mirek Kwasniak wrote: From man hosts_access(5): ... An extended version of the access control language is described in the hosts_options(5) document. The extensions are turned on at program build time by building with -DPROCESS_OPTIONS. ... Mirek Yes, I read that. I suppose that is my question. Was one version compiled with that option and another not? Actually, it is more than that, according to him, hosts_access rules would fail, they HAD to be in hosts_options format. I do not think that is possible. I think the option is to recognize options rules or not and that it will ALWAYS see the regular rules. The key is the order in which they appear in the file. If you have a daemon: ALL EXCEPT exceptions rule and then put: daemon: exception: DENY rule in place, it will never be matched because the first rule matches the world. In other words, anything not in the exceptions is allowed and the search progresses no furhter and never even looks at a hosts.deny file. My suspicion is that he constructed his file improperly. Order is VERY important in these rules and I did not have root access on his system to test it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
No Debian updates?
Hi, Im using Debian Linux for about a year now. Is it true that there were no updates in the stable non-free contrib files for 3 (in words: three) months now? (I am using ftp.debian.org as ftp-server). dselect does not find any new file for Debian 1.3 Or is there something wrong with my linux... Thanx, Gernot -- -- Gernot Bauer University of Linz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X Server Client Refusal?
Hello All, Where in the docs is the information regarding X client setup? When running as root or su applications are refused permission to run. The following error message appears: vct# nedit Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server NEdit: Can't open display vct# The applications run fine when logged in as a regular user, however, critical files which need to be modified cannot be since they are opened as readonly files. Of course I can fall back to the console and modify files to my hearts content but this seems rather inane to me. There's a ton of stuff in X and knowing where to look in the docs is probably the answer but this takes a while to get used to. Any good overview of the X process in the docs? Regards, Victor -- -- Wildflower Hill, Head Waters, Virginia -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: No Debian updates?
Hi,
Im using Debian Linux for about a year now. Is it true that there were
no updates in the stable non-free contrib files for 3 (in words: three)
months now? (I am using ftp.debian.org as ftp-server).
Well, stable is called stable for one reason!
But I think there have been updates, only as little as possible.
We don't go about adding packages/updates to stable just becase
a new version was released, we only do it to fix serious bugs.
(Recently the samba bug for example, so the new samba package apparently
already is in updates (or whatever the direectory is called)).
dselect does not find any new file for Debian 1.3 Or is there
something wrong with my linux...
Maybe you didn't have any of packages installed that were
updated (look at the changelog to see what changed).
If you want new packages, go to unstable (and check out the libc6
update FAQ frequently posted to debian-user). Note that problems
with unstable should ideally be posted to debian-devel (an open list).
--
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#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
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Re: reloading samba configuration
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997 22:23:06 EDT Paul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
I'm using the default samba package installation which runs via inetd..
how can I reload samba's configuration file?
I'm afraid you have to:
# killall smbd nmbd
which means that all connections are broken.
Usually, though smbd only runs very shortly (look at top, it's PID
changes frequently). So, usually just changing the the smb.conf
file is enough. (I have often just added a new service to smb.conf,
and new service will be available to other computers without me
killing smbd/nmbd).
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#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
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Q: Programming for console and X11?
Hello, I wanted to write an aplication which is capable of running in a graphics mode but also on a text console. I though of having the same look feel in both modes. Since is only uses buttons, checkboxes, selection lists and tabulars it should be possible to provide a console equivalent. In case of the console, window/buttons/... are drawn with characters and colors. I wanted to use different software layers to hide the UI Interface routines from the application code in the following way. application | wrapper classes - layout description file ^ DISPLAY not set / \ DISPLAY set / \ console some gui toolkit ^ | / \ X11 keyboard mouse My questions are: 1.) Is there a console library available, that is capable of printing frames, windows, buttons, ... A X11 replacement for the console? 2.) Has anybody tried to build such an aplication yet? 3.) I have seen from qt the signel/slot handling. In a german newsgroup someone posted a long exepert about using Objective C - C++ - qt's meta object compiler. Since I wanted to layout the program in a form that a tabular windows are shown and loadable modules can fill these windows with live, I was wondering wich language will be the best ( except lisp, sheme ) for this aproach. Again, has somebody expiriences with this? 4.) Again qt: Does the moc compiler fall also under the terms special Troll license, or is this free to use? Anybody some suggestions? Thank you in advance Dirk -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where is libjpegg6a?
Where is libjpegg6a to be found? Several other packages depend upon it but I can't find it. Thanks, Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape Default window size+Debian Linux Book?
Hi, I just installed netscape for debian and i have one problem that is really annoying me when i start netscape,netscape mail,netscape news,etc,there window size is so big that i have to udjust it every time is there a way or a file that i could adjust so this wont happen and another question are there any Debian Linux user books out there if not what linux book would be a good companion for debian Linux? Thanks in advance [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 libjpegg6a?
Where is libjpegg6a to be found? Several other packages depend upon it but
I can't find it.
It's on master's incoming.
If you don't have an account on master, try one of these:
ftp://cfni.com/pub/linux/debian/Incoming
ftp://llug.sep.bnl.giv/pub/debian/Incoming/
ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-Incoming/
Note that libjpegg6a is part of unstable, and every package depending on
it is unstable to. The best plase to ask quesions about unstable is
debian-devel, not debian-user. (not blaiming you, just informing:)
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Re: Q: Programming for console and X11?
Dirk Luetjens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4.) Again qt: Does the moc compiler fall also under the terms special Troll license, or is this free to use? The Qt licence is in a directory above the moc source and, among other things, refers to `the whole of this archive'. I conclude, therefore, that the licence applies to the moc as well as to all the rest of the Qt distribution. -- 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] .
Re: Where is libjpegg6a?
[Posted and mailed] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Torrico) writes: Where is libjpegg6a to be found? Several other packages depend upon it but I can't find it. Thanks, Victor Several packages in _unstable_ depend on this. The libjpeg packages are in Incoming. Get them there or wait a few days for them to get appear in the unstable tree. Good Luck, Erv -- Graduate Student[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Chemistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ of Wisconsin-Madison [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X Server Client Refusal?
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Victor Torrico wrote: When running as root or su applications are refused permission to run. The following error message appears: vct# nedit Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server NEdit: Can't open display vct# The applications run fine when logged in as a regular user, however, That's because if you startx as a normal user, only that normal user is authorized to connect to that xsession, unless you do something like xhost + (which disables ALL access control, not a good idea). It seems that in this one regard the superuser is treated like a normal user by X and required to have xauth permission to connect. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape Default window size+Debian Linux Book?
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, InvisibLe wrote: I just installed netscape for debian and i have one problem that is really annoying me when i start netscape,netscape mail,netscape news,etc,there window size is so big that i have to udjust it every time is there a way or a file that i could adjust so this wont happen yes, there are several ways of doing it. the way i do it involves changing the window manager config file. i use fvwm95, so that's /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm2rc95-menu. this file is a template which contains the basic fvwm95 config (including the button bar with netscape icon) and hooks for update-menus to create all the debian menus. edit this file and change the line that looks like: Action 'Exec Netscape netscape -geometry 920x622+90+5 ') to: Action 'Exec Netscape netscape ') (or whatever -geometry setting you prefer). then run update-menus to recreate the fvwm95 menu. remember to restart fvwm95. the only drawback with this method is that you'll probably have to do it again the next time you upgrade the fvwm95 package. on my system, i run /usr/local/bin/netscape rather than just netscape. this is a shell script which looks like: #!/bin/ash MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape export MOZILLA_HOME XKEYSYMDB=/usr/local/netscape/XKeysymDB export XKEYSYMDB exec /usr/local/netscape/netscape $@ this works for me with netscape 4.03. your mileage may vary. season according to taste. and another question are there any Debian Linux user books out there if not what linux book would be a good companion for debian Linux? i don't think there are any debian specific books at the moment. there's been some talk of writing one by a few people but i don't know what's happened to that project. here's a few titles worth having: _The Linux Bible_ is useful. all the HOWTOs and LDP docs in one H U G E printed book. O'Reilly Associates' _Essential System Administration_ is a great book on unix admin. I believe that ORA now have a similar title which is focused on linux. The _Unix System Administration Handbook_ by Nemeth, Snyder, and Seebass. I only have the first edition which is a bit dated by now (and oriented more towards BSD than SysV), but it's a good comprehensive introduction to unix. Easy to read for a novice without being insultingly patronising. craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
MC and .deb files (was Re: extract only PART of an archive)
On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
I use Midnight Commander for this. It has a feature that lets you dive
into a .deb file (it may require a patch to mc.ext, see below) and view
the contents. You can also copy any file you see out to another
directory using Midnight Commander.
As I said, some of the latest version of mc don't have the following patch
applied. It is simply a matter of checking /etc/mc/mc.ext to see if it
contains the following:
[...]
+# deb
+regex/\.deb$
+ Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/
+ View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c %f
+
I think the problem was that the patch was applied (it's right at the
start of the file), but the output was left as /etc/mc.ext and not
/etc/mc/mc.ext (this is version 3.5.17-1). So it's enough to copy the
former to the latter.
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Re: Possible flex-2.5.4 bug
Hi,
[In response to my post regarding a possible flex-2.5.4 bug]
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Each argument is scanned separately, with yy_scan_string. An
end of file is generated, then, at the end of each string (each
argument). There is no yywrap function defined.
Right. My intention was not to wrap but to call yylex() thrice, thus
my use of %option noyywrap. I fear that the multiple calls in my
example may have obscured the problem.
So, you call yylex thrice, on three separate, non-wrapped files. The
second file (string, argument, whatever) does end inside a comment,
and since there is no wrapping, the eof is final. The error is as
you asked it to be reported.
Right, but the program (when build with flex-2.5.4) then dies inside
the yylex() call and the third argument is never processed. To
clarify this, I have modified the example to print a message when
yylex() returns. For variety, I have also added an explicit yywrap()
function (which always returns 1). This time I provide single
arguments to the program to avoid the red herring of the multiple
yylex() calls.
In the example below, the program is run twice when built with
flex-2.5.2 and twice when built with flex-2.5.4, first with a
terminated comment and then with an unterminated comment. Notice that
when built with flex-2.5.4, it dies immediately following the input
in flex scanner failed message (generated internally by the flex
skeleton) when given the unterminated comment.
Manoj, thanks for the quick response. I receive a little grief at
work for my support of free software, especially from people who think
that an 800 phone number is necessary for support, but I feel that
commonly used free software typically has better support than most
commercial software. This is not an emergency since I was able to
install flex-2.5.2 on our RS/6000 from the sources on my rex disk. My
goal now is simply to report this bug. I am still a little skeptical
of my own code since it is not doing anything obscure and flex-2.5.4
has been out for over a year now. One thing which is clear is that my
program does what I expect it to with flex-2.5.2 but not with
flex-2.5.4.
Kirk Hilliard
--
~/flexbug $ flex --version
flex version 2.5.2
~/flexbug $ ./flex-2.5.4 --version
./flex-2.5.4 version 2.5.4
~/flexbug $ cat foo2.l
%array
%%
{ int c;
while ( (c = input()) != '' c != EOF )
;/* eat up text of comment */
if ( c == EOF ) printf( \n error: EOF in comment\n );
}
foo printf(bar);
%%
void main(int argc, char **argv) {
YY_BUFFER_STATE ybsInputBuffer;
while(--argc) {
ybsInputBuffer = yy_scan_string(*++argv);
yylex();
printf( \n yylex() done\n );
yy_delete_buffer(ybsInputBuffer);
}
} /* main */
int yywrap(void) {
return 1;
} /* yywrap */
~/flexbug $ flex foo2.l
~/flexbug $ gcc lex.yy.c
~/flexbug $ ./a.out fooblehbell
barbell
yylex() done
~/flexbug $ ./a.out foobleh
bar
error: EOF in comment
yylex() done
~/flexbug $ ./flex-2.5.4 foo2.l
~/flexbug $ gcc lex.yy.c
~/flexbug $ ./a.out fooblehbell
barbell
yylex() done
~/flexbug $ echo *** Here comes the bug. *** /dev/null
~/flexbug $ ./a.out foobleh
bar
error: EOF in comment
input in flex scanner failed
~/flexbug $ echo Notice that it died inside the yylex() call. /dev/null
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Re: Possible flex-2.5.4 bug
~/flexbug $ cat foo2.l
%array
%%
{ int c;
while ( (c = input()) != '' c != EOF )
;/* eat up text of comment */
if ( c == EOF ) printf( \n error: EOF in comment\n );
}
foo printf(bar);
%%
~/flexbug $ echo *** Here comes the bug. *** /dev/null
~/flexbug $ ./a.out foobleh
bar
error: EOF in comment
input in flex scanner failed
~/flexbug $ echo Notice that it died inside the yylex() call. /dev/null
--
But, since you have already read EOF in the scanner, and you have not
returned from it, yylex will try to get a new character to continue
parsing. But EOF has already appaered, so there's nothing in the buffer
anymore. I think it's normal that you get an error on this. You either
have to unput(EOF), or to 'return' from the scanner after the
'printf(error\n);
Maarten
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Setting the time and xntp
I am currently using a machine that has Win95 on the first harddisk and debian unstable on a second harddisk and I am having trouble getting the time to change from GMT. The cmos clock is set to the Eastern time zone and as this is not my machine I don't feel right asking to have the cmos clock set to GMT. The problem is that I have always run xntp on my own debian machine and have been doing that here as well. Until recently this worked fine, but after the last upgrade, the system clock under debian always displays GMT. I have not changed /etc/timezone (US/Eastern) and within /etc/init.d/boot, GMT=. It seems to me that /etc/init.d/boot sets the clock correctly, but when xntp's netdate is run, it sets it to GMT. I dug through the html docs for xntp3 but couldn't find anything. Any suggestions? -- Colin Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Room 309, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: No Debian updates?
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, joost witteveen wrote: Im using Debian Linux for about a year now. Is it true that there were no updates in the stable non-free contrib files for 3 (in words: three) months now? (I am using ftp.debian.org as ftp-server). Well, stable is called stable for one reason! But I think there have been updates, only as little as possible. We don't go about adding packages/updates to stable just becase a new version was released, we only do it to fix serious bugs. Who says that? Do people who don't want to fiddle around with libc6-stuff wait half a year for an upgrade? I am afraid of installing unstable, I don't want to spend too much time to find bugs. But If I have to wait until Debian 2.0 is released I don't see the point in these quick and beautiful ftp upgrades. If I always have to use software which is four months behind, I can buy a cd, that's faster. The ftp/dselect method was, why I changed to debian. Why don't you try to have something stable and actual? Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installation with BT-930
You have an interesting problem. The BIOS on the BT-930 is responsible for booting the kernel. It is doing that just fine. However, the kernel doesn't know about the BT-930, and it can't do anything once booted. ** The BT-930 is not supported by the bootable CD-ROM. On Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 06:40:14PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote [edited for space]: K6-200, BT-930, ASUS TX97-XE, Matrox-Millenium, IBM SCSI-DCAS 34330, Plextor SCSI-CDROM, IOMEGA-ZIP SCSI intern, 64MB SDRAM Looks fine. Well I tried the 2.0.30 special installation diskettes which should work with Buslogic Flashpoint controllers but should crash often. Yes I veryfied that they crash ... :-((( The last words were: Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 FDC 0 is a post-1991 md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 It seems that after this the SCSI controller is to be initialized. I don't follow you here. The kernel actually stopped after initalizing the md driver? Which image was this, exactly? Using the standard diskettes the next lines are: Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2 scsi : 0 hosts scsi : detected total. but I think the error message is connected with failing to initialize the parallel port zipdrive which I havn't because using an internal SCSI Zipdrive. Or is this the point??? You're getting error messages because you don't have that hardware installed. It is normal behavior. You _should_ be able to use the 2.0.30 special images. If those don't work (please confirm), let me know and I will compile a custom kernel for you to put on the rescue disk. Good luck, Jeff -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: No Debian updates?
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
Im using Debian Linux for about a year now. Is it true that there were
no updates in the stable non-free contrib files for 3 (in words: three)
months now? (I am using ftp.debian.org as ftp-server).
Well, stable is called stable for one reason!
But I think there have been updates, only as little as possible.
We don't go about adding packages/updates to stable just becase
a new version was released, we only do it to fix serious bugs.
Who says that?
Debian.
Do people who don't want to fiddle around with libc6-stuff wait half a
year for an upgrade?
They have to wait indefinately, as hamm is going to be libc6. So they
will have to install libc6 anyway.
The ftp/dselect method was, why I changed to debian. Why don't you try to
have something stable and actual?
We do:).
We actually planned/hoped to make a stable release of debian every three
months. (Long time ago, that was before we released bo, that also was
some time late). And I don't think I'll be able to convince you we
are still on skedule with hamm eighter (more than 3 months have already
passed since bo's release, I think).
The excuse we have this time is the libc6 change. This means _every_
package has to be rebuild, and possible modified somewhat, and this takes
time.
I'd say things are going well, though.
Notice, BTW, that, although Linux has been going though several libc
soname changes (the a.out libc4 only 1.5/2 year ago, then libc5, and now
libc6), there are people in-the-know (upstream maintainer of glibc
for example) that believe there will not be any libc soname changes
in the forseeable future. So, that may mean our next stable releases
are more timely. (Or, more likely, that we will think of some other excuse).
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Re: Installation with BT-930
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Jeff Noxon wrote: The last words were: Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 FDC 0 is a post-1991 md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 It seems that after this the SCSI controller is to be initialized. I don't follow you here. The kernel actually stopped after initalizing the md driver? Which image was this, exactly? Hmm, I don't know anything about the md driver, but anyway I used the latest disk images from ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/bo/disks-i386/1997-08-01/special/v30 The README claims: Linux 2.0.30 added support for Buslogic's FlashPoint SCSI adapters, syn flooding protection and the new ISDN drivers. Unfortunately this kernel version tends to hang machines in some cases, especially when they are tight on RAM. So keep a 2.0.29 kernel somewhere! You _should_ be able to use the 2.0.30 special images. If those don't work (please confirm), let me know and I will compile a custom kernel for you to put on the rescue disk. OK, as I said, they stop after the md driver. May be I've found a solution: I booted DOS and tried loadlin using a kernel I compiled on another box. While writing this I compile a second try because I forgot to include RAM disk support ... all who tried that before know the result. But before this kernel got his panic it detected the available SCSI devices and the buslogic controller and so I'm very hopefully that this will work. If not I will give a further report. (But it will take me one hour because the box which compiles the image is s slow :-(((). Thanks for your help Andreas. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: General mail setup
Hi, Sometimes when I check my mail with fetchmail I see the messages fly by: reading... flushed and so on. But when I go to /var/spool/mail/$USER, it's not there -- I've lost many important messages this way. Can somebody advise me what to do? Also, how can I setup pppd so that some ( ip-up ) script is executed -- get mail, news, etc... I read the PPP-FAQ, but they didn't go into that. What MTA are you using? Is Procmail installed? What says .fetchmailrc? --- According to pppd man page the ip-up script is run when the link is up, and this seems to be the default setting with Debian. You'd propably have to recompile pppd in case you want to change this. I have the following: exim -qf- send outgoing messages fetch - fetch news (fetch is in Leafnode-package, which is similar to fetchmai, but for news.) I think the following will work with fetchmail to get the messages: su -c fetchmail USERNAME Just put your username in guess-where. As ip-up is runs as root, this will run fetchmail with your userid. Note that I'm using Exim and leafnode, with Smail I think there's runq to kick mail out. [I use Debian 1.3.1] Thank you very much for your help, Nikita Hope this helps! -j -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is libjpegg6a?
If you don't have an account on master, try one of these: ftp://cfni.com/pub/linux/debian/Incoming ftp://llug.sep.bnl.giv/pub/debian/Incoming/ gov ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-Incoming/ OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
IP MASQ: Errors
I have IP MASQUERADING on our network, and when a client connects to some sites we get this in the logs: MASQ: failed TCP/UDP checksum from 204.74.200.69! Otherwise, it seems fine. Is this a problem? Either way, what is it telling me? TIA Joe Joe Stewart CompuFriends [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installation with BT-930
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Egon Schmid wrote: Can you boot from CD-ROM? A WD-7000 isn't on your hardware list. Which debian-version is it? Yes, as I said I insert the CD-ROM and the installation programm comes up without any problem -- so the controller works! No a WD-7000 isn't on my list because I havn't such a thing inside my box. What kind of controller is it? Thought it should be any emulation of the internel ZIP-drive??? It is Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 from the German manufacturer J.F. Lehmann. I installed two other boxes (non SCSI) without trouble from this CD. The Debian installation kernel comes with almost all of the SCSI drivers built in so that a CD installation can be done by almost everyone. The WD-7000 driver is getting some response to its hardware probing from another device. This is most often caused by and ethernet card with control registers in the address space expected to be inhabited by the SCSI card. There are boot parameters that can reserve the address space (so it doesn't get probed by the WD-7000 driver) and assign it to a specific device. For information on this subject look at the BootPrompt-HOWTO. 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: MC and .deb files (was Re: extract only PART of an archive)
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, David Wright wrote: [about MC and .deb files] There is a .deb file of the latest Midnight Commander (4.1) at ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx. For convenience, I put it on ftp://oloon.student.utwente.nl/pub/linux/misc/ too. bye, Remco -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl //Never make any mistaeks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs and mail
Craig Sanders writes: i don't want gnus (or anything else apart from procmail) to store my mail...it's already stored where i want it. From the Gnus manual: Mail and Procmail - Many people use `procmail' (or some other mail filter program or external delivery agent---`slocal', `elm', etc) to split incoming mail into groups. If you do that, you should set `nnmail-spool-file' to `procmail' to ensure that the mail backends never ever try to fetch mail by themselves. And so on: make sure you read the entire section. -- Olaf Weber -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X Server Client Refusal?
Where in the docs is the information regarding X client setup? man xauth man xhost When running as root or su applications are refused permission to run. The following error message appears: vct# nedit Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server NEdit: Can't open display vct# Simplest cure is xhost + which disables access control to your X terminal, though it is _very_ insecure solution. Read the above man pages to be able to do this the right way. If you are not connected to a network, the above command is OK though. The applications run fine when logged in as a regular user, however, critical files which need to be modified cannot be since they are opened as readonly files. Of course I can fall back to the console and modify files to my hearts content but this seems rather inane to me. It sure is, but I don't get what's happenning, franckly. Sorry to ask, but does your regular user have write permissions to the file you want to edit? Check that with ls -l. Oh, I get it, your user does not have permissions, but applications started as root can't open display, right? xhost +localhost (as the regular user) will allow your root access to your X display (And to all the users on your machine also). Try to use xauth technique. Hope this helps. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: reloading samba configuration
joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Usually, though smbd only runs very shortly (look at top, it's PID : changes frequently). So, usually just changing the the smb.conf : file is enough. (I have often just added a new service to smb.conf, : and new service will be available to other computers without me : killing smbd/nmbd). I agree. It has happened to me that when Windows 95 is showing the available shares in a Samba server I can edit /etc/smb.conf to add a new share and if I press F5 in the Windows Explorer the new share is shown (without killing anything). Regards, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dat drive recognized as removable hard drive
Hello, I have a SCSI tape autoloader that's capable of having 4 * 4Gig 4 mm dat on it. Problem is that when the kernel boots, it recognize it as a removable hard drive (/dev/sdb) instead of a tape drive. I use adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter. Pointer? Clue? --snippet from dmesg: md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 aic7xxx: BurstLen = 8 DWDs, Latency Timer = 32 PCLKS aic7xxx: AHA-2940A Ultra Rev C. aic7xxx: devconfig = 0x1100. aic7xxx: Reading SEEPROM...done. aic7xxx: Extended translation enabled. aic7xxx: Memory check yields 3 SCBs, paging not enabled. AHA-2940A Ultra (PCI-bus), I/O 0xd800, Mem 0xe700: irq 10 bus release time 40 bclks data fifo threshold 100% SCSI CHANNEL A: scsi id 7 scsi selection timeout 256 ms scsi bus reset at power-on enabled scsi bus parity enabled scsi bus termination (low byte) disabled aic7xxx: Downloading sequencer code...done. aic7xxx: Resetting the SCSI bus...done. scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 4.0/3.2/4.0 scsi : 1 host. scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices. Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 scsi0: Target 0, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 15. Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL_TM2110S Rev: 300X Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 scsi0: Target 4, channel A, now synchronous at 4.4MHz, offset 15. scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries. SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. aic7xxx: (reset) target/channel 4/0 aic7xxx: (reset_device) target/channel -1/A, active_scb 0 aic7xxx: (reset_channel) Resetting current channel A aic7xxx: (reset_channel) Channel reset, sequencer restarted scsi0: Target 4, channel A, now synchronous at 4.4MHz, offset 15. Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 02636-XXX Rev: 567D Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 scsi0: Target 6, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 15. Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330Rev: S61A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 scsi : detected 3 SCSI disks total. scsi0: Target 0, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 15. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4124736 [2014 MB] [2.0 GB] sdb : READ CAPACITY failed. sdb : status = 1, message = 00, host = 7, driver = 27 sdb : sense not available. sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8467200 [4134 MB] [4.1 GB] thank's, Louis. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Diald problem
At 11:07 28-09-97 -0500, Paul Serice wrote: Sep 28 11:19:57 badpixel connect: Connected Sep 28 11:19:57 badpixel connect: Loggin in Sep 28 11:19:57 badpixel diald[674]: Connect script failed. Sep 28 11:19:58 badpixel diald[674]: Delaying 30 seconds before clear to dial. Looks like your Connect script failed. :-) Yep! If you're using chat ... Well, I just use the things scripts in /etc/diald. Not long ago, it worket fine but it looks like my isp has changest something... Before, the first question was : Annex username:, then Annex password:, and then at last: annex. The last one is now removed, but have have removed the part in the script, with the annex stuff. Allso, my modem hangs up, just 1-2 secs. after carrier detect. -- Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq uin: 2565176 - pgpN4QZJsgjYz.pgp Description: PGP signature
bogus packet size
Hi all, today I found an old 386 locked up. After rebooting, I read this message in /var/log/messages: bogus packet size: 1 status=0x21 nxpg=0x40 This machine is on a local net, uses a ne2k clone (like many other machines on that LAN), and no other machine signaled such error. What does that message mean? LAN card going crazy? or what? Thanks for your help. PS: I don't know, nor mean, that there's a relation between lock up and net card message. Kernel is a standard debian 2.0.6 kernel (used by at least another machine on that net. No special hardware, just an old box doing printserving). -- |||| ||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer ||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, ItalyMicrosoft is the question ||| ||| |||''[EMAIL PROTECTED]No is the answer ||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mc colors
Hi! This may be a stupid question, but is it possible to convince colorize MC in a xterm? I don't use MC I'm just curious. feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: No Debian updates?
No flame intended gents. I use Debian for work and school, not a playground. I want to be able to use it without screwing around with updates/bugfixes/jadajada. Every four or five months is fine for an update unless critical. I think many others feel the same way. You can always get the actual source for the app and compile it yourself and put it in /usr/local if you have to upgrade (/usr/local is my play field). Or you could work with the package maintainer to speed up releases. Remember this is all volunteer effort. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
samba security -- more info?
Dear Folks, If you know about the samba security problem, could you please send me as soon as possible a pointer to more information, or to the (source) patch or fix? Thank you. John -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dosemu and vfat
Is dosemu vfat32 compatible? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X Server Client Refusal?
Here are my two solutions for the xauth problem. Both of these methods rely on xauth (user based authorization) as opposed to xhost (host based authorization). Let's say I'm running X as hessu and I need to su and run some X programs. hessu% echo $DISPLAY :0.0 hessu% su - type root's password # export DISPLAY=:0 # export XAUTHORITY=/home/hessu/.Xauthority # xterm Using ssh works also and is simpler too: hessu% ssh -l root localhost type root's password # xterm As shown above ssh sets DISPLAY and xauth cookies automagically. // 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: No Debian updates?
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, joost witteveen wrote: Hi, Im using Debian Linux for about a year now. Is it true that there were no updates in the stable non-free contrib files for 3 (in words: three) months now? (I am using ftp.debian.org as ftp-server). Well, stable is called stable for one reason! But I think there have been updates, only as little as possible. We don't go about adding packages/updates to stable just becase a new version was released, we only do it to fix serious bugs. (Recently the samba bug for example, so the new samba package apparently already is in updates (or whatever the direectory is called)). Yes, samba appeared Sep 28 on my mirror. But there are quite old things in bo-updates, too. Are these going to be finally included in bo? While they are only in bo-updates, they are inaccessible to dselect users. The directory ../bo-updates contains potential fixes to 1.3, files that may become part of the next version of 1.3. They are placed there so that they may be well tested before final inclusion. (from the READMEs in bo/bo-updates.) dselect does not find any new file for Debian 1.3 Or is there something wrong with my linux... Maybe you didn't have any of packages installed that were updated (look at the changelog to see what changed). Or, more likely, it's because all that's happened in the last three months is new boot disks and the removal of five packages. If you want new packages, go to unstable (and check out the libc6 update FAQ frequently posted to debian-user). Note that problems with unstable should ideally be posted to debian-devel (an open list). That's not really an option for those of us running production systems. (But I do take on board that the developers are busy with libc6.) -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is libjpegg6a?
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, joost witteveen wrote: : Where is libjpegg6a to be found? Several other packages depend upon it but : I can't find it. : : It's on master's incoming. : : If you don't have an account on master, try one of these: : : ftp://cfni.com/pub/linux/debian/Incoming Note that this site is no longer active. (I know cos I maintained it - the server no longer exists and yes, it is a long story :) : ftp://llug.sep.bnl.giv/pub/debian/Incoming/ : ftp://ftp.lh.umu.se/pub/linux/debian-Incoming/ -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD 57104 Voice: (605) 334-4454 Fax: (605) 335-1173 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: MC and .deb files (was Re: extract only PART of an archive)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remco van de Meent) writes: There is a .deb file of the latest Midnight Commander (4.1) at ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx. For convenience, I put it on ftp://oloon.student.utwente.nl/pub/linux/misc/ too. The mc_4.1-0.1_i386.deb on ftp://ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx/linux/local/; was humbly provided by me. Anybody interested can get the supposedly latest MC updated quite regularily by me as .deb file from our FTP site at ftp://ietpd1.sowi.uni-mainz.de/pub/debian/unofficial/;. This usually includes the latest devel versions as well and currently covers mc_4.1.3-0.1_i386.deb. The binaries are libc5 based and if you want them for libc6 you have to recompile for yourself. Cheers, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany My Homepage in the WWW at the URL http://www.uni-mainz.de/~pseelig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Tripwire: segentation fault
Hi! I am trying to run tripwire 1.2-4, but when I run 'tripwire -init' I always get a segmentation fault after the 2nd step. I am using kernel 2.0.31-pre9. Any ideas? -- Bye, : Thomas R. Varga [EMAIL PROTECTED] : PGP fingerprint = 2C 50 14 B7 E5 5C 05 27 88 4C DD E4 08 74 3B A6 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fax mini-howto?
Lawrence wrote: Is there a mini-howto about how to sending fax under linux? Lawrence i haven't seen a HOW-TO, but the mgetty-fax and efix packages have a resonable amount of doco with them. i would recommend installing them both and then seeing if you can use them then post back if you have specific questions. i use them together. i did end up modifying the scripts to suit my needs though. m* -- The Shining One -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mc colors
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ferenc Kiraly) writes: This may be a stupid question, but is it possible to convince colorize MC in a xterm? I don't use MC I'm just curious. Just start it with mc -c and it will be in color. Using rxvt this is default behaviour. It is well documented and if you type mc -h you will be shown all commandline parameters: Midnight Commander 4.1.3 The Midnight Commander 4.1.3 Usage is: mc [-abCcdfhklmPstuUVvx?] [other_panel_dir] [this-dir] -a Force use of +, -, | for line drawing -b Force black and white -C keyword=fore,back Color usage keywords: normal, selected, marked, markselect, errors, reverse dnormal, dfocus, dhotnormal, dhotfocus, menu, menuhot menusel, menuhotsel. colors: black, red, green, brightgreen, brown, yellow, blue, brightblue, magenta, brightmagenta, cyan, brightcyan, lightgray and white -c Force color, only available if terminfo allows it -e Run in Edit mode -d Disable mouse support -f Print configured paths -k Reset softkeys (HP terminals only) to their terminfo/termcap default -P At exit, print last working directory -s Disables verbose operation (for slow terminals) -t Activate support for the TERMCAP variable -l file Log ftpfs commands to the file -u Disable the concurrent subshell mode -U Force the concurrent subshell mode -v [file] start up into the viewer mode -x Force xterm mouse support and screen save/restore Cheers, P.*8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany My Homepage in the WWW at the URL http://www.uni-mainz.de/~pseelig -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
DISK DEFRAGMENTER - PARTITIONS :-((
| To install Linux Debian 1.3.1 on my system (now running windows 95) I have | to do 2 things: | 1) FORMAT my HDD and create 2 partitions, one for W95, one for Linux | 2) Split my actual partition, without erasing anything, with the | application FIPS.EXE | | I prefer the 2nd one because I CANNOT format my drive. | But to split my partition I need to do a DEFRAG of my HDD. There are | HIDDEN-SYSTEM*-READ_ONLY files at the end of the drive, so Windows' Defrag | can't move this files to the begining. | | --Do you have any DEFRAGMENTER or utility to know WHICH is the file that is | annoying me at the end of the HDD, or to move it? If not, any other | solution than formatting the drive? | | Thanx, | | | Zouave | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Possible flex-2.5.4 bug
Hi,
On a closer look, I don't like this change in behaviour
either. In fact, I get a worse behaviour:
--
__ flex foo.l
__ gcc lex.yy.c
__ ./a.out fooblehbell
barbell
yylex() done
*__ ./a.out foobleh
bar
error: EOF in comment
Segmentation fault
--
I _hate_ seg faults ;-). However, adding an explicit return
makes things happier:
--
__ cat foo.l
%array
%%
{ int c;
while ( (c = input()) != '' c != EOF )
;/* eat up text of comment */
if ( c == EOF ) {
printf( \n error: EOF in comment\n );
return;
}
}
foo printf(bar);
%%
void main(int argc, char **argv) {
YY_BUFFER_STATE ybsInputBuffer;
while(--argc) {
ybsInputBuffer = yy_scan_string(*++argv);
yylex();
printf( \n yylex() done\n );
yy_delete_buffer(ybsInputBuffer);
}
} /* main */
int yywrap(void) {
return 1;
} /* yywrap */
__ vi foo.l
__ flex foo.l; gcc lex.yy.c
__ ./a.out foobleh
bar
error: EOF in comment
yylex() done
__ ./a.out fooblehbellbell
barbellbell
yylex() done
__ ./a.out fooblehbellbell !$
./a.out fooblehbellbell foobleh
barbellbell
yylex() done
bar
error: EOF in comment
yylex() done
__ ./a.out fooblehbellbell foobleh fooblehbellbell
barbellbell
yylex() done
bar
error: EOF in comment
yylex() done
barbellbell
yylex() done
--
Maarten == Maarten Boekhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Maarten But, since you have already read EOF in the scanner, and you
Maarten have not returned from it, yylex will try to get a new
Maarten character to continue parsing. But EOF has already appaered,
Maarten so there's nothing in the buffer anymore. I think it's normal
Maarten that you get an error on this. You either have to unput(EOF),
Maarten or to 'return' from the scanner after the
Maarten 'printf(error\n);
Bingo.
manoj
ps: I think this is a faster turn around than most support calls.
--
FIELD TESTED: manufacturer lacks test equipment.
Manoj Srivastava url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mobile, Alabama USAurl:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/
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netatalk question...
I'm in the process of converting my boss to believing that Linux can act as a fast and stable file print server. Help! I've got a Compaq ProSignia something-or-other up and running just fine under 1.3.1. I've got an old LJ IIP hooked up to it, and am using lpr-ng and magicfilter to print to it... Samba (Lose95 and LoseNT) clients can file and print just fine. Macs (using netatalk, of course) can file just fine, but can't print. What am I missing? -- Jason Costomiris | VMS is about as secure as a poodle [EMAIL PROTECTED] | encased in a block of lucite http://www.jasons.org/~jcostom/ | about as useful, too. #include disclaimer.h | --some guy I read on Usenet -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: General mail setup
Thanks for advise, I got it all working now; fetchmail works like silk. I don't know what has caused the problem, but it's fixed now... Thanks, Nikita. On 28 Sep 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: :From: Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Subject: Re: General mail setup : :Hi, : : I think we need more data. Could you try running fetchmail : like so: : % fetchmail -v -c : % fetchmail -k -v -a : The -v options make it verbose. The first command will only check the : number of email messages you have. -k will keep a copy on the server : so thet you do not loose important mail. : : Please post your answer back (at least on debian-user) so we : have more data and could help you further. : : manoj : :-- : Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you : flatter all the company you please none; if you flatter only one or : two, you affront all the rest. -- Jonathon Swift :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] .
making a menu with lilo
Can anyone give me some help with setting up lilo to give the user a menu at boot. I've never set up a machine to do more than boot linux and the man pages haven't helped much. -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Friends of Sinn Fein, 510 C Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Tel: +1-202-547-8883 * Fax +1-202-547-7889 Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
spreadsheet program
is there a text-based spreadsheet program available? Similar to Symphony? if so, where can I get it? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: spreadsheet program
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote: is there a text-based spreadsheet program available? Similar to Symphony? Don't know Symphony but there is oleo in the oleo package. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
duplicating installation
Is there a quick and easy (ha) way to duplicate a debian installation from one machine to another. I've got 5 machines and I would like for them all to have the same packages installed. -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Friends of Sinn Fein, 510 C Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Tel: +1-202-547-8883 * Fax +1-202-547-7889 Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: duplicating installation
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Jason Killen wrote: Is there a quick and easy (ha) way to duplicate a debian installation from one machine to another. I've got 5 machines and I would like for them all to have the same packages installed. dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: duplicating installation
I thought that might do what I wanted. Thanks for the help. In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote : On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Jason Killen wrote: Is there a quick and easy (ha) way to duplicate a debian installation from one machine to another. I've got 5 machines and I would like for them all t o have the same packages installed. dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Friends of Sinn Fein, 510 C Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Tel: +1-202-547-8883 * Fax +1-202-547-7889 Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: duplicating installation
Ok that almost works. My question now is once I have used --set-selections what do I do? Do I run dselect set the place to get the files and just hit install. (I don't have a machine that I can experiment with right now.) In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote : On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Jason Killen wrote: Is there a quick and easy (ha) way to duplicate a debian installation from one machine to another. I've got 5 machines and I would like for them all t o have the same packages installed. dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections -- Jason Killen Question Stupidity Friends of Sinn Fein, 510 C Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Tel: +1-202-547-8883 * Fax +1-202-547-7889 Monolith : That funny looking guy talking to himself in the back of class PGP fingerprint = 64 71 48 14 31 AE C6 70 E4 4F 64 EB 3B AA 00 6B [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wcu.edu/~jkillen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xbase 3.3-6 problem
anyone have this problem when installing X on a fresh installation? running dpkg --pending --configure ... Setting up xbase (3.3-6) ... cp: *: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing xbase (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: xbase dpkg --configure returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Loading multiple GNU/Linux machines
I am looking for methods to efficiently load many (up to 200) Debian GNU/Linux machines. The machines are to be configured identically. TCP/IP connectivity is available. Any help will be appreciated. Tnx, Nick Gilliam Lockheed Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libjpegg6a
I had noticed a posting about it and didn't need this package until I had removed the message, where can I get it since its not in the unstable branch yet and I tried finding it on chiark where it was originally uploaded but no luck 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: fax mini-howto?
m* wrote: i haven't seen a HOW-TO, but the mgetty-fax and efix packages have a resonable amount of doco with them. i would recommend installing them both and then seeing if you can use them then post back if you have specific questions. i use them together. i did end up modifying the scripts to suit my needs though. where is /dev/fax it seems that efax does not create it device. What is the major/minor number? Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xbase 3.3-6 problem
According to the postinst script, this will occur if you have any of the following directories: /usr/bin/X11 /usr/include/X11 /usr/lib/X11 I'm assuming these are safe to delete if there is nothing in them. If there is something in them, leave it and the config will take care of it (move to /usr/X11R6/*/X11). Then reconfigure. Brandon On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Paul Miller wrote: anyone have this problem when installing X on a fresh installation? running dpkg --pending --configure ... Setting up xbase (3.3-6) ... cp: *: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing xbase (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: xbase dpkg --configure returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. - Brandon Mitchell E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7877/home.html PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds. --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape Default window size+Debian Linux Book?
On Mon, Sep 29, 1997 at 08:15:45AM -0400, InvisibLe wrote: I just installed netscape for debian and i have one problem that is really annoying me when i start netscape,netscape mail,netscape news,etc,there window size is so big that i have to udjust it every time is there a way or a file that i could adjust so this wont happen Put into your ~/.Xresources something like that : Netscape.Navigator.geometry: =940x713+1+0 Netscape.Mail.geometry: =940x713+1+0 Netscape.News.geometry: =940x713+1+0 and do xrdb -merge .Xresources after. -- David Rocher, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANRTT - CULTe, http://www.anrtt.univ-inpt.fr/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dosemu and vfat
On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: Is dosemu vfat32 compatible? I assume it is, if you run a vfat32-compatible DOS in it. That would be MS-DOS 7.1, taken from Windows 95 OSR2 or any higher version. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Loading multiple GNU/Linux machines [not guarunteed]
A NOTE: I've never tried this. Just my thoughts, and I might not know enough of what I'm saying, so someone feel free to shoot me down if I'm wrong. On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Nick Gilliam d-3712 7-5554 ng96753 gillidn wrote: I am looking for methods to efficiently load many (up to 200) Debian GNU/Linux machines. The machines are to be configured identically. TCP/IP connectivity is available. I might be oversimplifying, but if they're truly going to be the same (I'm assuming that IP numbers, etc. will have to be different at least) you can try 1) Install/config ONE correctly. 2) Mount the other hard disks (1 at a time, yuck) in the config'd machine and just cp -A / /mountpoint. Then when you install the disks in the new machines, you can just boot from a floppy, run lilo to set up the mbr and fix the ip numbers/hostnames. There are probably a million better ways to do this. One might involve mounting the drives on the 199 unconfig'd ones via nfs and doing the cp that way, but then you'd have to set up the IP stuff _before_ you can install anything, again probably via the rescue disk. Of course, if you have a few assistants, once you get one up, you then get two, then four, geometrically Another option might be to simply configure one designate it as an nfs server, and export its /usr, /home, and other directories to the other machines via nfs. Then you could just copy verbatim the /etc directory to the other 199, again changing the hostname and ip stuff. Makes administration much simpler later --- all changes made on the server (in terms of installed software, etc.) are automagically exported to the others. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fax mini-howto?
Lawrence wrote: where is /dev/fax it seems that efax does not create it device. you are correct: efax does not create any devices nor does mgetty-fax. those devices are standard. but it does uses a serial device, say /dev/ttyS1 which Could be referred to via symbolic link from /dev/fax. as is, you can use one of your serial devices, ttyS0 - S3, i.e. : crw--- 1 root dialout4, 64 Sep 29 17:09 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw 1 root dialout4, 65 Sep 29 16:21 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw 1 root dialout4, 66 Apr 30 18:25 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw 1 root dialout4, 67 Apr 30 18:25 /dev/ttyS3 ttyS0 is the serial device i run mgetty-fax on to answer and process incoming faxes. so for ease of use, you might make a symbolic link from /dev/fax to /dev/ttySX since /dev/fax is the defualt device that efax looks for. m* -- The Shining One -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape 4.03 missing features?
I installed the most recent version of NS Communicator (4.03) using the debian installer from hamm, but it seems that the bloated pig is missing one of the simplest enhancements present in the win32 version: the mechanism for adding a new bookmark to an existing subfolder. Am I missing something here? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
losing keys in fvwm2
There was some discussion of this a month or two ago, and I don't recall it coming to a conclusion. At times, the keystrokes for fvwm2 simply stop working. Particularly, alt-arrow to shift virtual screens, alt-f9 (to icocnify) and the like, and teh alt-click combinations to move windows forward/back. It alwasy seems to happen when netscape is being used, and particularly with multiple windows. However, I had it with a single window the other day. The only way I've found to get the mappings back is to log out and relogin--simply restarting fvwm doesn't seem to do it. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: losing keys in fvwm2
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: At times, the keystrokes for fvwm2 simply stop working. Particularly, alt-arrow to shift virtual screens, alt-f9 (to icocnify) and the like, and teh alt-click combinations to move windows forward/back. Slap me if you've tried this, but turning numlock on in X does all sorts of funky things to alt and function keys. I often find (particularly using forms in netscape) that I turn on numlock, and then spend half an hour trying to figure out why my keyboard doesn't work anymore ... turn off numlock and it goes away. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Q: Programming for console and X11?
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Dirk Luetjens wrote: I wanted to write an aplication which is capable of running in a graphics mode but also on a text console. I though of having the same look feel in both modes. Since is only uses buttons, checkboxes, selection lists and tabulars it should be possible to provide a console equivalent. In case of the console, window/buttons/... are drawn with characters and colors. The Deity project is developing a set of widgets much like you describe, but they are not really done yet. I wanted to use different software layers to hide the UI Interface routines from the application code in the following way. application | wrapper classes - layout description file ^ DISPLAY not set / \ DISPLAY set / \ console some gui toolkit ^ | / \ X11 keyboard mouse It works out better if you do: Application | Widget Lib --- Input (X11, keyboard, mouse) | Drawing Primitives / \ console X11 Attempting to force an existing gui toolkit into that sort of model is pretty nasty. The shared code between the text/gui widgets is extremely high. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
