shell cmd: group name from gid?
Using bash, how can I get the group name of a gid? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
CD-RW
Hi, Anyone using CD-Rewritables with Linux? Maybe Ill buy a HP CD-RW 7110e (external, plugs on the parallel port). Also, I would like to dump the Windows stuff from my PC in favor of a 100% pure Linux way. But if CD-RWs doesnt work with Linux... :-( []s, Henrique Visite: http://www0.vcnet.com/bms// - Curioso sobre o que é? Aperte e veja! http://www.netaction.org/articles/freesoft.html http://www.babylon5.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: New Linux Install
The trick here is that when you get to the boot: prompt on the rescue disk you enter floppy0 thus boot: floppy0 From here you just follow the bouncing ball, but note that you will be asked for the lmemroot.bin disk during the installation. Get back to me if you want any more info. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Collin Rose wrote: I am trying to install Debian 1.31 r.6 on 386 w/ 5 MB RAM and a 80 MB Harddrive and a 3 1/2 floppy. I made a 20 MB swap partition and 2 MB minux and then 59.xx MB Linux partition using the rescue disk from an old distibution. (kernel 2.0.27?) When I try to use my 1.31 rescue disk I get the low memory remark and am instructed to follow the instuctions in the install.html file. It was unclear in the install.html document how to go about using the low mem disk. Can anyone help me? Thank you for any help you can provide. Collin Rose Web Site design only $250 for 10 pages. 1 Form mail page 1 Order Form 1 INDEX Page 7 Misc Pages http://www.10mb.com/coware [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mounting Mac files...
Greetings all, thanx for all your help thus far (i have my debian box up and running :)) OK i have recently gotten a zip disk formated for a Mac. i was simply wondering if and how i could mount it so that i can view the graphics files on the disk.. Thanx in advance. jd? -jesus duran -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice3.1
On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Bruno Otavio de Moraes Simoes wrote: Hi I want to install StarOffice, but it require libc.5.4.4 or newer, while the last stable version is 5.4.33-6 or something. Where do I get it? Is there another way to install StarOffice, like some experimental debian package? 5.4.33 is newer than 5.4.4 (this is not a decimal number). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
tripwire segfaults
I am trying to use tripwire, but when running walterp# tripwire -init ### Phase 1: Reading configuration file ### Phase 2: Generating file list Segmentation fault (core dumped) walterp# tripwire -version Tripwire version 1.2 (patchlevel 2) Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994 Purdue Research Foundation By Gene Kim, Eugene Spafford The config file is the default one installed with the package. My system is current from stable, 2 days ago. Help, -- Walter L. Preuninger IIwaldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rapidramp.com/~walterp L I N U X Where You Really Should Be! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PCI 100Mbs Ethernet drivers? eepro100 or 3c905?
Is any work being done on drivers for novell eepro100 or the 3COM 3c905? I've seen an eepro100 driver in the redhat distribution (initial install), but it's not in the kernel package (at least not when I last checked). Granted that such drivers exist, will debian be incorporating them into the kernel-source.deb package soon? If not, where can I obtain the drivers? TIA :-) -- Harmon (I use the special account debian to receive mail from this list). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PCI 100Mbs Ethernet drivers? eepro100 or 3c905?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian mail-lists receiver) writes: Is any work being done on drivers for novell eepro100 or the 3COM 3c905? I've seen an eepro100 driver in the redhat distribution (initial install), but it's not in the kernel package (at least not when I last checked). You can find these drivers at http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers. -- Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail will receive free 32MB core files! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
basic install problems
I installed Linux 1.3.1 thru floppies, but run into rough water. I have a plain 486 DX2 66 Mhz, with 16 MB, 2.1 Gb IDE HDD and a Creative CDrom (Matsushita - CR 581-M) on a Soundblaster 16 card. 1. During the installation Linux asks for the device drivers to be installed: - Block device drivers: cannot figure out what to install? - CDROM drive: sbpcd is offered, but Linux cannot find any on my system. Thus I installed plain cdrom. - Further I installed the serial and parallel port device drivers, plus a NE 2000 driver, though the card is not yet connected to a net work. Other intall sequence went alright. Then I made a boot-floppy and installed LILO as I was adviced. Only Lilo does not give a boot prompt when pressing Shift on booting only something like A2E. But no choice available, neither thru Tab not ? and Linux starts. Then I appended to lilo.conf: other=/dev/hda1 table=/dev/hda label=win95 But to no avail. Then I tried to use dselect to install the packages but my cdrom is not being recognized. Dselect asks for the Block Device name; I cannot find any references to that. So I abandoned that part of the install. I figured out how to get to the LILO docs and de-installed LILO in order to get the old boot records in place but now nothing is booting anymore: no Linux, no Win95; W95 start-up disk searches the floppy-drive for system, not the HDD. Questions: - How to get LILO boot both linux and Win95 (again)? - How to get Linux recognize the Creative CDROM? - How to get Linux recognize the SB 16? - Suppose I do a new install, what drivers are necessary to install during the installation process? Thanks, Kind regards, Dirk Kievith Consultant for CADD Web Design -- PO Box 24| Tel./Fax: +91-413-20620 -- -- Pondicherry 605001 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- India| http://webstudio6.com-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Just starting - looking for references
Thanks all for the tips. I couldn't wait for my distribution to arrive so I've borrowed a copy of Debian ver 1.3 It is a slightly limited copy from a trilinux CD with all 3 major disributions on 1 disk but should keep me happy untill my ver 1.3.1 arrives. I believe that the difference from ver 1.3 to 1.3.1 is basically the inclusion of Xfree86 3.3 The install went smoothly and I only had to bite my lip a few times when I got to the dselect part of the install, but the great thing is, I can run it many times and I dont' have to be in X to browse my available packages. Not sure how I should have gone about setting up LILO because the install process wouldn't let me put lilo on the MBR of my first IDE. (I installed debian on /dev/hdb2 and /dev/hdb3) I modified a lilo.conf that I had saved on a DOS partition and it worked out OK What I did like is the /etc/X11/window-managers file which rather easily lets me specify the default window manager. So, which of the versions of Unix comes closest to resembling Linux from Debian? I've been using Redhat for a while but I expect the layout of files will be different. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PCI 100Mbs Ethernet drivers? eepro100 or 3c905?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian mail-lists receiver) writes: Is any work being done on drivers for novell eepro100 or the 3COM 3c905? I've seen an eepro100 driver in the redhat distribution (initial install), but it's not in the kernel package (at least not when I last checked). You can find these drivers at http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers. -- Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail will receive free 32MB core files! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ^^ No Man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Best version of tetris?
On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 05:29:47PM +0100, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: A year ago, when I still used Slackware, I had a 'tetris for terminals', which was really a program that could be used on any keyboard-and-screen terminal. Only 'letter' keys (and maybe Space and Enter, I'm not sure) were used and the output was all ASCII. This program was part of the Slackware distribution. I believe is was in a 'bsdgames' package, or whatever they call it. Does anybody know what happened to it or where I might get this program? A while ago I couldn't find it in the latest Slackware distribution and I don't have a CD of the older one, since my network connection is fast enough to download a complete distribution. I know the one. I compiled it ok on libc5 and it runs alright here, but I can't get it to compile on libc6, which would be required for a package to be created. It uses varargs and I don't know how to port that to something modern (I think it is approaching 10 years old from memory). IIRC, I grabbed the source out of the Slackware disks. (There is a use for them after all ...) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 58% Your train has been cancelled due to defective government at Spring Street.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SB16 Pnp - help...
On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 01:49:32PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Bruno Simoes wrote: Do you have a pnp bios? Yes, I do Well, then, all you really need to do is compile the kernel with sound support. It might be a little tough to figure out what parameters to compile in (DMA channels, I/O regions, etc.) because generally one does this by booting to Win95 and stealing the parameters from there. There's no need to use isapnptools, because your bios will handle setting everything up ok. That's not my experience. I have a PnP BIOS, but how do you know what settings it has allocated the sound card to tell the sound driver? Especially when all the other OSs will do their own resource management on the card, eg Win95 and even Creative's DOS software includes the Intel plug and play manager. If you knew what IO and IRQ it had been allocated then it might work, but if you add any more cards it may well change. I use isapnptools here and it works just fine. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 58% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SB16 Pnp - help...
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: That's not my experience. I have a PnP BIOS, but how do you know what settings it has allocated the sound card to tell the sound driver? Especially when all the other OSs will do their own resource management on the card, eg Win95 and even Creative's DOS software includes the Intel plug and play manager. If you knew what IO and IRQ it had been allocated then it might work, but if you add any more cards it may well change. Oops, sorry: I meant to imply that one doesn't need isapnptools to set up the card, if one knows what the settings will be. As I pointed out in an earlier mail, the simplest way to do this is to boot to windows or dos and steal the settings from there. If you already know the settings, you don't need isapnptools, you can just compile them into the kernel. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- | You say Love is a temple. Love the higher law.| | You ask me to enter, but then you make me crawl.| | And I can't be holding on to what you got | | When all you got is hurt. | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: basic install problems
Dirk, A few questions: 1. After you modified your lilo.conf, did you re-run /sbin/lilo? 2. How is your drive partitioned? 3. What drive letter is your CD-ROM under Windows 95? Under the Debian install, the ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM drivers are installed by default (at least on my disk from Linux System Labs). My concern is that your drive is hooked up to your SB 16 card. I do not know what kind of interface is used for this card (ATAPI/IDE) or proprietary SB, but even if it is ATAPI/IDE, the interface is probably not recognized out of the box by GNU/Linux. I would suggest printing a system summary from Windows 95 (right-click on My Computer, select Properites, then something about devices.) It will show you a graphical list of devices in your computer. There will be a Print button. Press it and select summary. This will at least tell you how things are configured under Windows 95, which will then give you a hint on how to get them working under GNU/Linux. I have had *no* problems making GNU/Linux and Windows 95 co-exist on my machine, however, I realize I am very lucky: Many people have terrible times getting this to work. Let me know what you find out, and I will make any suggestions I can. LGW4 Dirk Kievith wrote: I installed Linux 1.3.1 thru floppies, but run into rough water. I have a plain 486 DX2 66 Mhz, with 16 MB, 2.1 Gb IDE HDD and a Creative CDrom (Matsushita - CR 581-M) on a Soundblaster 16 card. 1. During the installation Linux asks for the device drivers to be installed: - Block device drivers: cannot figure out what to install? - CDROM drive: sbpcd is offered, but Linux cannot find any on my system. Thus I installed plain cdrom. - Further I installed the serial and parallel port device drivers, plus a NE 2000 driver, though the card is not yet connected to a net work. Other intall sequence went alright. Then I made a boot-floppy and installed LILO as I was adviced. Only Lilo does not give a boot prompt when pressing Shift on booting only something like A2E. But no choice available, neither thru Tab not ? and Linux starts. Then I appended to lilo.conf: other=/dev/hda1 table=/dev/hda label=win95 But to no avail. Then I tried to use dselect to install the packages but my cdrom is not being recognized. Dselect asks for the Block Device name; I cannot find any references to that. So I abandoned that part of the install. I figured out how to get to the LILO docs and de-installed LILO in order to get the old boot records in place but now nothing is booting anymore: no Linux, no Win95; W95 start-up disk searches the floppy-drive for system, not the HDD. Questions: - How to get LILO boot both linux and Win95 (again)? - How to get Linux recognize the Creative CDROM? - How to get Linux recognize the SB 16? - Suppose I do a new install, what drivers are necessary to install during the installation process? Thanks, Kind regards, Dirk Kievith Consultant for CADD Web Design -- PO Box 24| Tel./Fax: +91-413-20620 -- -- Pondicherry 605001 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- India| http://webstudio6.com-- -- 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: shell cmd: group name from gid?
On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 07:28:02PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: Using bash, how can I get the group name of a gid? $ grep :gid: /etc/group | cut -d: -f1 Where you replace gid with the number you need. grep will find the line in /etc/group containing the string :gid: (have a look at /etc/group and you'll understand) ; the result is then piped into cut which retrieves only the first field (-f1) if you separate the line based on the colon (-d:) olive -- Olivier Tharan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Le dernier a se delogger eteint le systeme en partant, merci ! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble with resc1440.bin on new Ultra DMA IDE motherboard
Hello, I've been using debian for about two years now, for work and home, and this is my first post ever... A friend of mine enrolled in some programming classes and just bought himself a new computer. We were putting the system together last night and I ran into a serious problem while trying to install linux. The debian boot disk (resc1440.bin from 1997-10-13 and 1997-08-01) died just after the kernel was loaded and booting, after about 10 kernel boot messages the system rebooted itself (too quick to read just what the last messages were, maybe PCI stuff). The system is an AMD K6 200Mhz, Iwill P55XB2 motherboard, 64Mb, 4.3Gb IBM Ultra DMA IDE drive. I thought that the new IDE might have trouble with linux while we were buying the hardware, but I never would have guessed that linux would blow up like that. Has anybody seen this behavior with the debian disks, or linux before? Has anyone tried the new Ultra DMA with linux? Also the BIOS PCI device listing has something called Serial Bus Controller, I have never seen this before, strangly it shares the same interupt with the video card (Matrox Millenium II), I assume this is part of the Intel 430TX chipset, but have used the TX before, any idea? Gerald Turner -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: unable to start PCMCIA service
Brian Mays wrote: There is an easy way to get a working kernel and PCMCIA combo. Do the following as root: 1) cd /usr/src/linux 2) make-kpkg clean 3) make config 4) Configure your kernel. 5) make-kpkg --revision custom.1.0 kernel_image 6) make-kpkg --revision custom.1.0 modules_image 7) Install the two .deb files (for the kernel-image-2.0.30 and pcmcia-modules-2.0.30 packages) i've tried it - but the the only change i've seen is the addition of a cryptical alphanumeric part to the error-messages: so i've got: pcmcia_core.o unresolved symbol apm_register_callback_R4e72ac41 pcmcia_core.o unresolved symbol apm_unregister_callback_Rb7166c6e i82365.o unresolved symbol pcibios_present_Ra67d0654 ^ - and so on maybe anyone had this before - or even can tell me which kernel-configuration-option or whatever is missing in my system Thanks, have a nice day! bye - hb! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Linux as a Firewall
Wow!!! I'm on the firewall mailing list (http://www.greatcircle.com) where they've been having a bit of a discussion about the pros/cons of using Linux as a firewall. If you're interested, read on (I think Debian developers will get a bit of a kick regarding what is said about Slackware/RedHat/Debian developers in general - or, at least, what is implied) Anyone here care to comment? Also, I'm not just posting this to start some type of flame war, etc. I've been considering building a commercial product based on Debian Linux - it's features to include basic firewalling capabilities. So, I'd like to begin some discussion in this list on the merits of using Debian as a firewall - something beyond just IP Masquerading, etc. Later, Kevin Traas -Original Message- From: john [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg Whalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Firewall list firewalls@GreatCircle.COM Date: Friday, October 31, 1997 10:08 AM Subject: Re: Linux et al PFs I've been hit by about everything, from one time to another. Be it simple buffer overflows - SYN or Smurf attacks. And i've seen linux puke under conditions that BSD sailed right through. I think that speaks for itself. Linux isn't anything new to me. Aside from the old SysV/Xenix machines I used, it was my first personal unix. I have had alot of experience with it in both firewalled and non-firewalled enviroments. It's a great personal work enviroment. It can't take high stress. I dare you to take a Linux 2.X kernel machine- and hit it hard, with a syn attack. It will puke, unless you have some serious CPU/Memory. I've seen attacks hit a FreeBSD 2.2.X machine running on a *486/33* that were correctly filtered and everything went on like normal. Similar attacks on a Pentium 133 we were useing for testing (which now serves as a quake server) made it Kernel Panic - AHHHEEE in a matter of about 10 minutes. Again, i'm only pointing out, it is just not a very suitable OS for large networks, or anything where you're really worried about security. I could name off about 10 different bugs - external, and internal, that is default with most Slackware/Redhat/Debian installations. The fact is: Linux is not designed by a group of people intent on makeing a secure OS. It's hacked together, and there is always some new problem with it. Be that security holes, kernel bugs, etc. I'd rather place my bets with something time-tested, and worked on by a set group of experienced individuals. On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Greg Whalin wrote: OK, fine, I can accept that this is your opinion. Unfortunately, platforms adequate for firewall use should not be based upon opinion, but on fact and/or example. What situations were you in when your system cracked. If you have a linux system that is cracking when put to the test, then I question your ability to set up a well configured, stable machine. As I have stated, I use several linux servers running on (actual) well configured platforms as corporate firewall systems with heavy network bandwidth demand. They perform brilliantly every time. I have zero OS related crashes in over two years of uptime. In fact, the only crashes I have handled are hardware related. I would venture a guess as to say that your statements are biased, or uninformed, or quite simply that you are not setting these systems up correctly. I am not here to say that linux is better than any BSD variant. In fact, I am not even discussing any BSD OS. I am simply stating that your claims as to the stability, reliability, and performance of linux as a viable firewall platform are wrong and without any basis of fact or example. Greg Whalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, john wrote: Actually, i'm on a Linux 2.0.30 machine right now. I've run linux since near it's inception and I can say it's a nice OS, for a devolper. I've seen it put to the test - and granted - it sometimes runs ok, but far more times i've seen it croak and die, on well configured, stable machines.. I've been running FreeBSD for all of my commercial applications, be they serveing webpages, or firewalling, and i've been much more impressed with it's stability, sense of security, and in some respects, it's preformance. If I was to ever consider useing either of them for something that needed to be protected, I would choose FreeBSD - no questions asked. But I will always love Linux for my home masqueradeing setup :) Not saying one is nessescarly better than the other, they both have their applications. But for firewalling, and packet filtering, BSD definatly has the edge. In my opinion. On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Joe Klemmer wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, john wrote: In my experience... with the free OS's, this is what I have to say: Linux is good for low bandwidth situations where setup time is a concern, and reliability isn't an absolute nesscity. FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD etc
Re: End of device [was Re: kernel messages]
Corey A [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a Similar thin happened to a good friend of mine, the problem was resolved by dd'in /dev/null to the partition dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hdax where x is the partition # /dev/null will not work, use /dev/zero instead. Torsten -- !07/11 PDP a ni deppart m'I !pleH Fortune Cookie PGP Public key available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: perl and ISO-8859-1
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Whenever I start perl, I get the following warning: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = ISO_8859_1, LANG = es_ES are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the C locale. Try setting LC_CTYPE to es_ES too. It worked for me with de_DE. Torsten -- !07/11 PDP a ni deppart m'I !pleH Fortune Cookie PGP Public key available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
can't get remote xdm login screen...help!
Hi, After getting my Linux pc on the network here at work using DHCP (thanks for the help), I've tried getting in via xdm using xwin32, but without success. Here's the score - if I use xwin32 and try to query the linux machine directly, after a very long pause (say a minute?) I get a message saying something along the lines of 'Display some obscure network name which isn't the network name of the linux machine could not be opened'. If i bring up a choser using the 'broadcast' option, I get our SG machines on the list with 'willing to manage'. Selecting one of those brings up the xdm login screen. Fine. But my linux machine, although on the list, has the message 'available' (not 'willing to manage' as with the SG machines). Selecting it just gives the same problem as mentioned above. I don't know the difference between 'willing to manage' and 'available' but guess that if i could get my linux machine on the list as 'willing to manage', then i could login via xdm. Can anybody help me? This is Linux advocacy stuff... Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: shell cmd: group name from gid?
Paul Miller wrote:
Using bash, how can I get the group name of a gid?
Like this:
$ grep :27: /etc/group
sudo:x:27:
and to refine it:
$ grep :27: /etc/group | awk -F: '{print $1}'
sudo
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Re: basic install problems
At 23:57 30.10.1997 -0600, you wrote: Dirk, A few questions: 1. After you modified your lilo.conf, did you re-run /sbin/lilo? No, but I should have. Will try this. 2. How is your drive partitioned? 1 Primary MSDOS Win 95 app. 900MB 2 Primary Linux rootapp. 30MB 3 Primary Linux swapapp. 50MB 4 Logical Linux usr app. 450MB 5 Logical Linux homeapp. 520MB 6 Logical Linux var app. 50MB MSDOS was partitioned earlier. Linux was partitioned on the remaining free space. 3. What drive letter is your CD-ROM under Windows 95? J: Under the Debian install, the ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM drivers are installed by default (at least on my disk from Linux System Labs). Same 'official Debian 1.3.1' I installed from. My concern is that your drive is hooked up to your SB 16 card. I do not know what kind of interface is used for this card (ATAPI/IDE) or proprietary SB, but even if it is ATAPI/IDE, the interface is probably not recognized out of the box by GNU/Linux. I would suggest printing a system summary from Windows 95 (right-click on My Computer, select Properites, then something about devices.) It will show you a graphical list of devices in your computer. There will be a Print button. Press it and select summary. This will at least tell you how things are configured under Windows 95, which will then give you a hint on how to get them working under GNU/Linux. The IRQ summary shows standard config of the system: SB16 at 05, IDE controller at 10 (must be CDROM), IDE at 14. At IRQ 09 is a CDROM controller, but it is disabled by the system. Main problem remains how to get Linux recognize or configure it to these settings. I have had *no* problems making GNU/Linux and Windows 95 co-exist on my machine, however, I realize I am very lucky: Many people have terrible times getting this to work. Let me know what you find out, and I will make any suggestions I can. You are indeed lucky. Moreover I need my system for my general and other work and had hoped Linux would enhance and improve the performance of my machine. Now I get kind of stuck up and may have to stick to Win co. :-( Now during installation, is it necessary to specifically install the 'Block' and other devices, like serial and parallel ports, or does the system recognize these standard devices by itself?? Dirk. LGW4 Dirk Kievith wrote: I installed Linux 1.3.1 thru floppies, but run into rough water. I have a plain 486 DX2 66 Mhz, with 16 MB, 2.1 Gb IDE HDD and a Creative CDrom (Matsushita - CR 581-M) on a Soundblaster 16 card. 1. During the installation Linux asks for the device drivers to be installed: - Block device drivers: cannot figure out what to install? - CDROM drive: sbpcd is offered, but Linux cannot find any on my system. Thus I installed plain cdrom. - Further I installed the serial and parallel port device drivers, plus a NE 2000 driver, though the card is not yet connected to a net work. Other intall sequence went alright. Then I made a boot-floppy and installed LILO as I was adviced. Only Lilo does not give a boot prompt when pressing Shift on booting only something like A2E. But no choice available, neither thru Tab not ? and Linux starts. Then I appended to lilo.conf: other=/dev/hda1 table=/dev/hda label=win95 But to no avail. Then I tried to use dselect to install the packages but my cdrom is not being recognized. Dselect asks for the Block Device name; I cannot find any references to that. So I abandoned that part of the install. I figured out how to get to the LILO docs and de-installed LILO in order to get the old boot records in place but now nothing is booting anymore: no Linux, no Win95; W95 start-up disk searches the floppy-drive for system, not the HDD. Questions: - How to get LILO boot both linux and Win95 (again)? - How to get Linux recognize the Creative CDROM? - How to get Linux recognize the SB 16? - Suppose I do a new install, what drivers are necessary to install during the installation process? Thanks, Kind regards, Dirk Kievith Consultant for CADD Web Design -- PO Box 24| Tel./Fax: +91-413-20620 -- -- Pondicherry 605001 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- India| http://webstudio6.com-- -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: basic install problems
At 00:00 31.10.1997 -0500, you wrote: Any time you make changes to lilo.conf, you need to run the executable lilo as root to make the changes take effect. Hope this helps. Dave I had figured that one out, but could not get the machine boot again. Will try it tough and let you know. Thanks. Kind regards, Dirk Kievith Consultant for CADD Web Design -- PO Box 24| Tel./Fax: +91-413-20620 -- -- Pondicherry 605001 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- India| http://webstudio6.com-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SB16 Pnp - help...
On Fri, Oct 31, 1997 at 12:57:05AM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: That's not my experience. I have a PnP BIOS, but how do you know what settings it has allocated the sound card to tell the sound driver? Especially when all the other OSs will do their own resource management on the card, eg Win95 and even Creative's DOS software includes the Intel plug and play manager. If you knew what IO and IRQ it had been allocated then it might work, but if you add any more cards it may well change. Oops, sorry: I meant to imply that one doesn't need isapnptools to set up the card, if one knows what the settings will be. As I pointed out in an earlier mail, the simplest way to do this is to boot to windows or dos and steal the settings from there. If you already know the settings, you don't need isapnptools, you can just compile them into the kernel. Hmmm. My understanding was that 95 would set things up however it saw fit, rather than whatever the BIOS has given the card. This is possibly better because generally speaking 95 knows what hardware you have better than the BIOS (ie due to legacy ISA cards); although you can allocate IRQs for PNP devices in the BIOS. thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 58% Your train has been cancelled due to defective government at Spring Street.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: can't get remote xdm login screen...help!
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Waller Martin MEJ wrote: Here's the score - if I use xwin32 and try to query the linux machine directly, after a very long pause (say a minute?) I get a message saying something along the lines of 'Display some obscure network name which isn't the network name of the linux machine could not be opened'. If i bring up a choser using the 'broadcast' option, I get our SG machines on the list with 'willing to manage'. Selecting one of those brings up the xdm login screen. Fine. But my linux machine, although on the list, has the message 'available' (not 'willing to manage' as with the SG machines). Selecting it just gives the same problem as mentioned above. I don't know the difference between 'willing to manage' and 'available' but guess that if i could get my linux machine on the list as 'willing to manage', then i could login via xdm. Can you get xdm to work on your local console? Did you check /etc/X11/config /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config ? Sorry, can't help you any better than that. I used to have machine on a network with a lot of hp and sun servers and people using exceed in broadcast mode. After I installed linux on my machine, people thought that it broke the other machines - because my machine would show up immediately on their chooser, whereas the other machines would need half a minute or more to respond :-) Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: tripwire segfaults
Walter L. Preuninger II writes: I am trying to use tripwire, but when running walterp# tripwire -init ### Phase 1: Reading configuration file ### Phase 2: Generating file list Segmentation fault (core dumped) You may want to install the tripwire package from hamm, which seems to be ok. To do that, you first have to install libc6 (there's a nice debian howto about it which is posted regularly). IMHO it's something worth doing (lots of nice and up to date packs in hamm...) -- Adriano -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: perl and ISO-8859-1
Þann 30-Oct-97 skrifar Torsten Hilbrich: Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Whenever I start perl, I get the following warning: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = ISO_8859_1, LANG = es_ES are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the C locale. Try setting LC_CTYPE to es_ES too. It worked for me with de_DE. Locale es_ES has Latin-1 character set as default? If so, just do a 'unsetenv LC_CTYPE', the LANG variable will see to that the LC_CTYPE is set properly. But I think changing ISO_8859_1 to iso_8859_1 would do the trick. Orn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice+fax; +46 035 217194 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.
-Original Message- From: Dale Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, October 29, 1997 9:26 PM Subject: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR. Hello. I had a weird problem last night, installing Debian 1.3* on a friends PC. For what it's worth, it's a PentiumII/266, some hideous amount of memory, some hideous amount of HD space. Aside from the SuperMicro motherboard bug [Which has been reported, I'm fairly sure..], you know, the one where the bootable cd sits there at the LDLINUX.SYS line.., everything went fairly smoothly. Until it came to LILO. Installed LILO, booted Linux fine. Added the lines to boot Win95, it took 2 goes for it to install the new record [it never complained the first time about failing]. Problem is, it simply doesn't boot Win95. It says booting Win95, then returns to the LILO prompt. Ok, a bit of a hassle. He needs his Win95 stuff more than Linux, so I'll just remove LILO and figure out something else later. lilo -u, lilo -U both complain that theres no LILO boot signature on /dev/hda. Hence nothing is removed. Hmmm. Boot via Win95 rescue disk and fdisk /mbr. Reboot and LILO's STILL there. Tried this more times than I can recall.. LILO won't die. System Commander reported some wacky things about the MBR, saying things were pretty well screwed with it. The problem remains, I can't seem to overwrite the MBR, not with LILO, not with fdisk. I found out that the Windows partition was FAT32, but surely LILO can handle this? [does it make much of a difference with the MBR?] So, I guess I'm throwing this out to you guys, is this a Windows problem? A Debian problem? A LILO problem? A FAT32 problem? Any suggestions for fixing? Thanks, D. Using this setup /dev/hda1 Win95 /dev/hda2 Linux /dev/hda3 Linux Swap /dev/hda Generic MBR, not Lilo /dev/hda1 Win95 Boot sector /dev/hda2 LILO /dev/hda2 is set as active with FDISK. Bios reads generic MBR off of /dev/hda. MBR reads the first sector off the active partition, ie /dev/hda2. LILO is now active. From here, it either reads the linux kernel, or some other, ie chained, partition. Solution: Use FDISK to change active flag. I don't know why you can't boot win95 from lilo's prompt. Could we see your /etc/lilo.conf file? And a copy of fdisk's output? (echo /etc/lilo.conf;cat /etc/lilo.conf;echo -n;echo -e p\nq\n|fdisk)|email.txt Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3375265 -- Page me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Linux as a Firewall
The issue of pros/cons of an operating systems are very biased, based on the person who is talking. So, I wouldn't expect anything else but a biased discussion on the matter. :-) Everyone's favorite horse is the best there is ;-) Just for a point of argument, on another list there were guys talking about the pros/cons of Hardware... here Linux and Pentium environment was so good that a SPARC was compared to a 286 in speed (reality turned around for favouring ones favorite platform :-) (I think Debian developers will get a bit of a kick regarding what is said about Slackware/RedHat/Debian developers in general - or, at least, what is implied) Anyone here care to comment? Nope. Orn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice+fax; +46 035 217194 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: perl and ISO-8859-1
On 30 Oct 1997, Torsten Hilbrich wrote: Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Whenever I start perl, I get the following warning: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = ISO_8859_1, LANG = es_ES are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the C locale. Try setting LC_CTYPE to es_ES too. It worked for me with de_DE. Torsten Or just LC_ALL=es_ES (as I do it with de_DE). This sets all the LC_* variables. Marcus -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Trouble with resc1440.bin on new Ultra DMA IDE motherboard
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Gerald Turner wrote: Hi Gerald, A friend of mine enrolled in some programming classes and just bought himself a new computer. We were putting the system together last night and I ran into a serious problem while trying to install linux. The debian boot disk (resc1440.bin from 1997-10-13 and 1997-08-01) died just after the kernel was loaded and booting, after about 10 kernel boot messages the system rebooted itself (too quick to read just what the last messages were, maybe PCI stuff). The system is an AMD K6 200Mhz, Iwill P55XB2 motherboard, 64Mb, 4.3Gb IBM Ultra DMA IDE drive. I thought that the new IDE might have trouble with linux while we were buying the hardware, but I never would have guessed that linux would blow up like that. Has anybody seen this behavior with the debian disks, or linux before? Has anyone tried the new Ultra DMA with linux? I have an Ultra DMA drive (quantum fireball ST 6.4Gb), with a Asus PL297 Motherboard (PII 266, oc'd to 300) LX Chipset. I havent seen this problem at all. Although I don't use U-DMA drive for linux (if the U-DMA was the your friend is having, I would have thought it would caused me a problem as well when the drive is probed), it hasnt caused me any problems at all (I booted from the LSL CD-Rom when I first installed - and now use a custom kernel). Sorry I can't be of more help. Dave +-+ | Dave Cook Perth, Western Australia | | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | on IRC as Cevad | +-+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: unable to start PCMCIA service
Steve Kostecke wrote: pcmcia_core.o unresolved symbol apm_register_callback_R4e72ac41 pcmcia_core.o unresolved symbol apm_unregister_callback_Rb7166c6e i82365.o unresolved symbol pcibios_present_Ra67d0654 ^ - and so on Did you select APM and PCI support for your kernel? yes i did! Thanks! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Apache mod_actions enabled by default?
I have been trying to figure out weather mod_actions it enabled on my apache server. According to the apache web page it is compiled in by default but does it have to be activated in the http.conf or is it already active? Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Intranet Web Site
This is a little off-topic;however I've just been tasked with setting up an Intranet Web Server for our company and I need some help with sizing - I haven't been able to find any info on this posted on the web anywhere. Anyway, I want leverage my existing experience with Apache and Debian Linux, so I'm thinking of putting the two together and coming up with a solution that will cover what we need. I need to setup a server that will handle approximately 100-200 concurrent users accessing fairly typical web site information (mix of text and graphics). Any ideas on what I can expect for typical data throughput per user? 100KB per minute? If so, then I need a system that will support 200 x 100KB == 20,000KB/minute == ~350KB/s throughput. With these numbers, I don't see network capacity as being a problem. However, I have no idea what type of hardware I'm going to need to support this. i.e. what might I require in the way of CPU, RAM, and Disk I/O? I assume order of importance will be RAM, CPU, and finally Disk I/O, but what quantity/quality of each will I require? One other thing. I'm probably going to need Apache-SSL Any help you can provide would be much appreciated. (BTW, I went to various Apache web sites and haven't been able to find any of this information or mailing lists pertaining to the Apache Web Server. Do you know of any?) Later, Kevin TraasBaan Business Systems Systems AnalystLangley, BC, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] (604) 882-8169 http://www.baan-bbs.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Apache mod_actions enabled by default?
Run `/usr/sbin/apache -l | more` to find out which modules are loaded and active. Later, Kevin Traas -Original Message- From: R Chris Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, October 31, 1997 2:51 PM Subject: Apache mod_actions enabled by default? I have been trying to figure out weather mod_actions it enabled on my apache server. According to the apache web page it is compiled in by default but does it have to be activated in the http.conf or is it already active? Chris -- 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: 3C509 acting strangely on Win95/Debian dual boot system
Bruce Perens wrote: No, you need to type linux reboot=h, so that when you halt Linux it will reset the computer. 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] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 I am so stoopid! I'd like to think I would have eventually figured that out Okay so I'm an optimist :) Like I said before. By cycling through the hardware setup wizard, I think I fixed the problem. Everything's nominal now. If it comes up again, I'll try it. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
slang0.99.34-dev install problem
Hi all... while trying to install most.deb it occurs that slang0.99.34 needs to be installed. Here are the results of my installation. I could use some help here - I hope i'm not missing something obvious... Preparing to replace slang0.99.34-dev 0.99.38-2 (using /home/doswald/tmp/sln099dv.deb) ... Unpacking replacement slang0.99.34-dev ... Skipping deselected package xserver-svga. Version 5.4.33-6 of libc5-dev already installed, skipping. dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of most: most depends on slang0.99.34 (= 0.99.37); however: Package slang0.99.34 is not installed. dpkg: error processing most (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of slang0.99.34-dev: slang0.99.34-dev depends on slang0.99.34 (= 0.99.34); however: Package slang0.99.34 is not installed. dpkg: error processing slang0.99.34-dev (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: most slang0.99.34-dev -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slang0.99.34-dev install problem
David Oswald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all... while trying to install most.deb it occurs that slang0.99.34 needs to be installed. Here are the results of my installation. I could use some help here - I hope i'm not missing something obvious... The messages indicate that you tried to install slang0.99.34-dev. This is different from slang0.99.34 (without -dev). The latter (without -dev) is what you need. -- Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail will receive free 32MB core files! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slang0.99.34-dev install problem
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, David Oswald wrote: Hi all... while trying to install most.deb it occurs that slang0.99.34 needs to be installed. Here are the results of my installation. I could use some help here - I hope i'm not missing something obvious... Preparing to replace slang0.99.34-dev 0.99.38-2 (using /home/doswald/tmp/sln099dv.deb) ... Unpacking replacement slang0.99.34-dev ... Skipping deselected package xserver-svga. Version 5.4.33-6 of libc5-dev already installed, skipping. dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of most: most depends on slang0.99.34 (= 0.99.37); however: Package slang0.99.34 is not installed. dpkg: error processing most (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of slang0.99.34-dev: slang0.99.34-dev depends on slang0.99.34 (= 0.99.34); however: Package slang0.99.34 is not installed. dpkg: error processing slang0.99.34-dev (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: most slang0.99.34-dev get the slang0.99.34 .deb from the archive and install that one first. then slang0.99.34-dev will work, then most will too. If you use dselect then all these dependency problems get resolved by dselect before they get a chance to bite you. It is not entirely trivial to get it to work on packages that you've already downloaded though. But if you can ftp to the net, then using dselect's ftp method is a breeze. Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SB16 Pnp - help...
On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 01:49:32PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Bruno Simoes wrote: Do you have a pnp bios? Yes, I do Well, then, all you really need to do is compile the kernel with sound support. It might be a little tough to figure out what parameters to compile in (DMA channels, I/O regions, etc.) because generally one does this by booting to Win95 and stealing the parameters from there. There's no need to use isapnptools, because your bios will handle setting everything up ok. Will Maybe this is true, maybe not. Sometimes the PnP Bios is sufficient, sometimes it only initializes a part of the adresses. In this case you have to use ISAPnPtools anyway. The best way to check is to try it. For the SB 16, there is a good chance that PnP Bios is enough, but for every soundcard that has more devices you have to use ISAPnPtools, otherwise you would be missing e.g. midi sound. Thank you, Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: perl and ISO-8859-1
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whenever I start perl, I get the following warning: perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LC_CTYPE = ISO_8859_1, LANG = es_ES are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the C locale. The warning message means what it says. The message is telling you that setting the locale for LC_CTYPE failed. You currently have LC_CTYPE=ISO_8859_1. Check if that locale is supported and installed on your system. I'm pretty sure you can find locales in /usr/lib/locale. Check carefully, and note that the setting is case sensitive. That is, you might have iso_8859_1, but not ISO_8859_1. Hoe this helps, Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: perl and ISO-8859-1
Þann 31-Oct-97 skrifar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try setting LC_CTYPE to es_ES too. It worked for me with de_DE. Torsten Or just LC_ALL=es_ES (as I do it with de_DE). This sets all the LC_* variables. What LC_ALL variable will do, is *force* all variables to that setting, this however is *not* always the desired result. Let me give you an example... if you're on a modern advanced workstation (Not Linux, but one that has locales fully functional), then... LC_ALL = is_IS Will cause the result of 'date' command to be... Lau, 1 Nóv 1997. 17:24:00 GMT Which *legedly* causes some scripts to malfunction, because they expect a C style date. The date is controlled by the LC_TIME variable, but changing this one, won't matter, as the LC_ALL variable has precedence. So, you either have to have ALL variables the locale, or ALL to the C style. But, by undefining the LC_ALL variable and using the LANG variable instead. You can then select which category is what. You can thus set your LANG to... LANG = is_IS LC_TIME = C And then the fields LC_NUMERIC, LC_MESSAGES, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE and LC_MONETARY will function as the locale specifies. But the result of the 'date' command... Sat Nov 1 1997. 17:24:00 GMT ...the C locale as specified by the LC_TIME variable. Thus, you have a better control over you locale's settings. Orn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice+fax; +46 035 217194 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: On entering a secure directory, would like warning.
Jameson Burt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been told to display a warning message whenever a person enters a particular, secure, directory. Of course, on first thought this is a lame idea since people can access a directory without using cd. A fairly clean solution that might do what you want is to restrict access to the directory to a particular group. Then, force people to run a simple setgid program that prints the warning message on stderr and starts a shell (or, perhaps, a program specified on the command line). Having the shell prompt change to reflect the secure status might be a nice touch here. This has the advantages that (1) no one can access the directory without seeing the message; and (2) you can log accesses to the directory, if desired. An obvious disadvantage is that it complicates casual access to the directory; for example, if I'm running an editor and want to get a file from the secure directory, it could be pretty awkward. Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Non-Fatal Crash any ideas?
Hi
My system crashes with the following output. It basically responds
slower and programs such at 'top' do not work. Any ideas? I am using and
AMD K6 233 with 128M
Any ideas?
kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 05b78808, next= , order=4
kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 00091aec, next= , order=3
general protection:
CPU:0
EIP:0010:[0010c8bb]
EFLAGS: 00010006
eax: 656d6974 ebx: 001998b1 ecx: 0023af6f edx: 270f
esi: 75410072 edi: ebp: 00e54fbc esp: 00e54f94
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process kmeans (pid: 6859, process nr: 27, stackpage=00e54000)
Stack: 7500444d 00e54fbc 00e54fbc 0032 0002 b95c
0010b5c8
00e54fbc 9ea5 bfec47e6 0001 0032 0002
b95c
ffbb 002b 002b 002b 002b fffe 0804980b
0023
Call Trace: [0010b5c8]
Code: ff d0 8b 5b 14 83 c4 0c 85 db 75 e9 f7 c6 00 00 00 10 74 09
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Any pointers appreciated
- Daniel
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Afterstep
Hi- I am running afterstep and I would like to take advantage of some of what it has to offer by modifying the .steprc. Where is the global/default .steprc file located? I would like to copy this file into my home directory and customize it. If this is not possible, where could I download a default .steprc file with no modifications? Thanks in advance! Ian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[OFF-TOPIC] C++ template question
This is mostly off topic but How do you compile a template class into an object file WITHOUT instantiating it??? g++ happily compiles the .o file but bombs out when it tries to link later. Any suggestions happily accepted. Either to the list or me personally. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [OFF-TOPIC] C++ template question
For template classes, the class has to be in the header file only, it
can't have separate files for header and class file.
When you want to use the template class, only include the header file,
and compile only the test file, not the template class file.
Ex.
template class file : bar.h
test file: foo.c
#include bar.h
void main(void) {
...
}
and compile using g++ -o foo foo.c
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Re: Afterstep
/etc/X11/afterstep/system.steprc -Paul On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Hi- I am running afterstep and I would like to take advantage of some of what it has to offer by modifying the .steprc. Where is the global/default .steprc file located? I would like to copy this file into my home directory and customize it. If this is not possible, where could I download a default .steprc file with no modifications? Thanks in advance! Ian -- 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: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *
'dc wrote:' Enough is enough. Where is your announcement of candidacy for project leader? Elections will be held soon ... I want to see your reasoned proposals for a better direction for the project. Too much of what you write is anti-Bruce and it's hard for me to tell exactly what solution you feel will set things straight. -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.netaxs.com/~cjf | Explorer in Universe ftp://ftp.netaxs.com/people/cjf | Dare to be Naive -- Bucky Fuller -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: chimera compile: package dependencies
Hi, In a previous post I asked for help compiling the chimera-1.65 web browse. When I ran xmkmf -a, I got the following message: bash# xmkmf -a imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config Imakefile.c:3: Imake.tmpl: No such file or directory imake: Exit code 33. Stop. bash# Someone (I think it was Joost. Sorry if I got your name wrong. I don't have the message anymore.) was kind enough to tell me that I needed xlib6-dev to get the missing files. I've got them from the Debian site but as a result have been sent on a depedency chase. I have lost my way and would be greatful for some more help. I will include the messages I received while unpacking and installing the various packages downloaded, but first, here is a summary of the trail I have taken: - downloaded xlib6-dev_3.3-4.deb required xlib6 - I acquired xlib6_3.3-4.deb which needs libc5 (= 5.4.0-0 The installed version was 5.2.18-9. - The site says that libc5 depends on ldso = 1.7.14-2 and libc6 = 2.0.4-1. - I downloaded ldso_1.8.12-1.deb. I was confused about which libc6 to get so thought I would try to unpack install libc5 and read the error messages. Here things start to get confusing for someone just reading about what I've done. - unpacking installing ldso failed because of files it couldn't find. I don't know what they are or where to get them. - unpacking/installing libc5 also failed due to unfound files. - I thought unpacking/installing libc6 might provide the files, but that failed because of a confilict with libc5. I thought libc5 depended on libc6. - the files that ldso can't find are /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 and /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6. - the files libc5 can't find are /usr/lib/libpthreads.so, /usr/lib/libc.so and /usr/lib/libm.so. I should mention that I am using Debian 1.1. The following is the output from the various unpack/installs that failed: # dpkg -i ldso_1.8.12-1.deb (Reading database ... 11683 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace ldso (using ldso_1.8.12-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement ldso ... Setting up ldso (1.8.12-1) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (No such file or directory), skipping # dpkg --unpack libc5_5.4.33-6.deb (Reading database ... 11683 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc5 (using libc5_5.4.33-6.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc5 ... # dpkg -i libc5_5.4.33-6.deb (Reading database ... 11687 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc5 (using libc5_5.4.33-6.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc5 ... Setting up libc5 (5.4.33-6) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libpthreads.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or directory), skipping # dpkg --unpack libc6_2.0.5c-0.1.deb Selecting previously deselected package libc6. dpkg: regarding libc6_2.0.5c-0.1.deb containing libc6: libc5 conflicts with libc6 libc6 (version 2.0.5c-0.1) is to be installed. dpkg: error processing libc6_2.0.5c-0.1.deb (--unpack): conflicting packages - not installing libc6 Errors were encountered while processing: libc6_2.0.5c-0.1.deb Can anyone tell me how to get back on track so Ican compile chimera ? Thanks IA, Gerald -- 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: [OFF-TOPIC] C++ template question
How is the STL shipped then. We do not have access to its code do we?? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Non-Fatal Crash any ideas?
It seems that your AMD K6 have the reported 32M hardware bug. When did you buy your CPU? Make sure your K6 is made after week 30 or contact AMD and they will give you a new one. By the way, try to compile the linux kernel. If your CPU have the bug, then you should not be able to compile the linux kernel. Daniel J. Mashao wrote: Hi My system crashes with the following output. It basically responds slower and programs such at 'top' do not work. Any ideas? I am using and AMD K6 233 with 128M Any ideas? kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 05b78808, next= , order=4 kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 00091aec, next= , order=3 general protection: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[0010c8bb] EFLAGS: 00010006 eax: 656d6974 ebx: 001998b1 ecx: 0023af6f edx: 270f esi: 75410072 edi: ebp: 00e54fbc esp: 00e54f94 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process kmeans (pid: 6859, process nr: 27, stackpage=00e54000) Stack: 7500444d 00e54fbc 00e54fbc 0032 0002 b95c 0010b5c8 00e54fbc 9ea5 bfec47e6 0001 0032 0002 b95c ffbb 002b 002b 002b 002b fffe 0804980b 0023 Call Trace: [0010b5c8] Code: ff d0 8b 5b 14 83 c4 0c 85 db 75 e9 f7 c6 00 00 00 10 74 09 Aiee, killing interrupt handler Any pointers appreciated - Daniel // Daniel J. Mashao -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel // -- 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] .
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I am running a Pentium system with a PS/2 Mouse port. I am unfamiliar with Linux and cannot get my mouse to respond. I am just a newbie... Could someone please tell me a little about how linux locates and assigns resources for a mouse? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Unidentified subject!
I am running a Pentium system with a PS/2 Mouse port. I am unfamiliar with [snip] Your ps/2 mouse port is /dev/psaux. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Unidentified subject!
Ron Asimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running a Pentium system with a PS/2 Mouse port. I am unfamiliar with Linux and cannot get my mouse to respond. I am just a newbie... Could someone please tell me a little about how linux locates and assigns resources for a mouse? You need to have the kernel load the `psaux' module. Add a line with just `psaux' on it somewhere in /etc/modules. Then you need to run some program that actually uses a mouse; i.e., gpm or X Windows. These will need to be told to use a PS/2 mouse; run XF86Setup or gpmconfig if you've already installed them. All of this will need to be done as root. -- Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail will receive free 32MB core files! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [OFF-TOPIC] C++ template question
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: This is mostly off topic but How do you compile a template class into an object file WITHOUT instantiating it??? g++ happily compiles the .o file but bombs out when it tries to link later. Any suggestions happily accepted. Either to the list or me personally. There are only two possible things you could want, I'm not sure which: 1) Cause the compiler to include an instance of the template in a specific .o file: #include vector template class vectorint; gcc t.cc 2) Prevent the compiler from including an instance of any template in any .o file #include vector vectorint A; gcc -fno-implicit-templates t.cc You will want to use a combination of the two above schemes if your program has a number of tempaltes. Make one file that contains all of the template instances explicitly instanciated and compile it without -fno-implicit-templates. Use -fno-implicit-templates on the rest of your modules. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: * Formal call for the removal of Bruce Perens *
Leave Dave alone, he's already abandoned this argument. 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] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: perl and ISO-8859-1
Torsten, Try setting LC_CTYPE to es_ES too. It worked for me with de_DE. It worked for me too... but now I can't put accented characters in bash! Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)Lo importante es el concepto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: perl and ISO-8859-1
On Fri, Oct 31, 1997 at 05:31:46PM +0100, Orn E. Hansen wrote: Þann 31-Oct-97 skrifar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try setting LC_CTYPE to es_ES too. It worked for me with de_DE. Torsten Or just LC_ALL=es_ES (as I do it with de_DE). This sets all the LC_* variables. What LC_ALL variable will do, is *force* all variables to that setting, this however is *not* always the desired result. Let me give you an example... if you're on a modern advanced workstation (Not Linux, but one that has locales fully functional), then... LC_ALL = is_IS Will cause the result of 'date' command to be... Lau, 1 Nóv 1997. 17:24:00 GMT Which *legedly* causes some scripts to malfunction, because they expect a C style date. The date is controlled by the LC_TIME variable, but changing this one, won't matter, as the LC_ALL variable has precedence. So, you either have to have ALL variables the locale, or ALL to the C style. But, by undefining the LC_ALL variable and using the LANG variable instead. You can then select which category is what. You can thus set your LANG to... LANG = is_IS LC_TIME = C And then the fields LC_NUMERIC, LC_MESSAGES, LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE and LC_MONETARY will function as the locale specifies. But the result of the 'date' command... Sat Nov 1 1997. 17:24:00 GMT ...the C locale as specified by the LC_TIME variable. Thus, you have a better control over you locale's settings. Yes, but LC_ALL is for the lazy ones, like me :) You are right in all points, although I don't know the meaning of legedly (my dictionary does not know it, too). I would consider a script that depends on the setting of a locale as buggy, So I would encourage LC_ALL for people that want to do testing. If a script really does need C locale, it should be wise enough to set it temporarly. Thank you, Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: perl and ISO-8859-1
Orn, Locale es_ES has Latin-1 character set as default? If so, just do a 'unsetenv LC_CTYPE', the LANG variable will see to that the LC_CTYPE is set properly. Perl doesn't complain anymour if I unset LC_CTYPE, but bash does. It doesn't let me put latin-1 characters. But I think changing ISO_8859_1 to iso_8859_1 would do the trick. It doesn't. :( Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)Lo importante es el concepto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [OFF-TOPIC] C++ template question
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Shaleh wrote: How is the STL shipped then. We do not have access to its code do we?? First off, since it's an official part of Debian, yes, we must have access to the code somehow. But aside from that, yes, _any_ template library that someone provides for developers to use must be provided in source code form. The standard templates shipped with MSVC/C++ are all shipped in source code form. The best way I've found to think of templates is as compiler macros. (no, I didn't say pre-processor macros, I said compiler macros - this means that templates are more intelligent than preprocessor expansions). They don't actually generate any code until they are invoked; this is because the code they could generate can't really be determined ahead of time - how is the compiler going to know ahead of time whether 'a + b' occuring in a piece of template code will eventually refer to one of the builtin meanings of addition, or to a function of the form type type::operator+(type arg) or a function of the form type operator+(type a, type b) ? The short answer is that the compiler can't know - C++ allows so many results from similar-looking code that the compiler just can't compile templates by themselves. However, once a template is instantiated, then the compiler can go ahead and determine the basics of what the code means. This is why splitting templates into header and .c files doesn't make much sense, any more than it would make sense to try to pre-compile preprocessor macros. (This is just one of the reasons why I find templates nasty to work with, and really prefer to work in a language that is completely object-oriented - the use of templates always seems ridiculously arcane to me) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: perl and ISO-8859-1
Andy, setting the locale for LC_CTYPE failed. You currently have LC_CTYPE=ISO_8859_1. Check if that locale is supported and installed on your system. I'm pretty sure you can find locales in /usr/lib/locale. I only hace en_GB there, but in /usr/share/locale I have all the others. The thing is that -I think- I have installed all the needed packages for locale support, but perl is not getting it. Bash doesn't complain about LC_CTYPE. In fact, if I unset LC_CTYPE, I can't type latin-1 characters in it. Check carefully, and note that the setting is case sensitive. That is, you might have iso_8859_1, but not ISO_8859_1. I tried, but it didn't work. Thanks for the help. Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)Lo importante es el concepto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Thanks and a question
From: Howard S. Ostrowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] It turns out that my problem was due to the fact that I had LD_PRELOAD set to libgnumalloc.so.5, which is apparently no longer needed with libc6. But my question is this: I had added this environment variable long ago because it was needed by some program (I can't recall which one!). But I have no idea what LD_PRELOAD is really for. This was a hack to switch to using a different memory allocator because Netscape had some buffer overrun problems. LD_PRELOAD caused libgnumalloc.so.5 to be loaded before the C library. 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] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: chimera compile: package dependencies
On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, G. Crimp wrote: Someone (I think it was Joost. Sorry if I got your name wrong. I don't have the message anymore.) was kind enough to tell me that I needed xlib6-dev to get the missing files. I've got them from the Debian site but as a result have been sent on a depedency chase. I have lost my way and would be greatful for some more help. I will include the messages I received while unpacking and installing the various packages downloaded, but first, here is a summary of the trail I have taken: [ description of Gerald downloading packages and installing with dpkg -i ] With dpkg -I package.deb you can always check the control info of a package to see if it depends on another package. With dpkg -l package you can check if you've already got the package and if it is a recent enough version. When you find a lot of dependencies, it makes sense to write the dependencies down in a sort of scheme and use that scheme to fetch and install packages in the right order. When you find a lot of dependencies and it looks like you'll need a lot of paper to write down the package names and their interdependency scheme, use dselect (in fact, always use dselect.) Dselect takes care of all the dependency bookkeeping for you. All you need is to have a working net connection. Choose ftp in the access menu in dselect and confirm all the defaults. It should work in 99% of all cases. I should mention that I am using Debian 1.1. Aargh! then you should definately use dselect! Better yet, unless you have a T1 connection, get a cd with debian 1.3.1r5 or something recent. Use dselect on that. Whatever you do, first upgrade libc5 and ldso and dpkg manually. Probably dpkg-ftp and an occasional dependency also. Then use dselect. The following is the output from the various unpack/installs that failed: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (No such file or directory), skipping Check the directory /usr/X11R6/lib for dangling symlinks. # dpkg --unpack libc5_5.4.33-6.deb (Reading database ... 11683 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc5 (using libc5_5.4.33-6.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc5 ... Huh? no need to unpack manually if you are using dpkg -i in the next step, dpkg -i already unpacks. # dpkg -i libc5_5.4.33-6.deb (Reading database ... 11687 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc5 (using libc5_5.4.33-6.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc5 ... Setting up libc5 (5.4.33-6) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libpthreads.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libc.so (No such file or directory), skipping ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libm.so (No such file or directory), skipping Again, check the directory contents. Don't be too hasty in attempting to repair though, this might be caused by half-finished installations. Lets hope for now that doing the installation right will fix it at some time. # dpkg --unpack libc6_2.0.5c-0.1.deb Selecting previously deselected package libc6. dpkg: regarding libc6_2.0.5c-0.1.deb containing libc6: libc5 conflicts with libc6 libc6 (version 2.0.5c-0.1) is to be installed. dpkg: error processing libc6_2.0.5c-0.1.deb (--unpack): conflicting packages - not installing libc6 Errors were encountered while processing: libc6_2.0.5c-0.1.deb GAACK!?! You are trying to install hamm (2.0) packages straight from a buzz (1.1) system? That is asking for trouble! Do a dpkg --purge libc6 and wait until you've got your system reasonably up to date. Then read the libc5-libc6 HOWTO http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ before installing _anything_ from unstable. Can anyone tell me how to get back on track so Ican compile chimera ? If all you want is to compile chimera, then all you need is stuff like xlib6-dev, or whatever it was called like in buzz (debian 1.1.x). If you still have a buzz cd, then install it from that cd. Unfortunately, yuo have a slightly messed up system now and you have to decide if you want to: - go all the way and install debian 1.3 (and maybe eventually debian 2.0). That will take several megabytes (probably over a hundred for a more or less complete update) to download or several days to wait for an ordered cd or several miles to a decent bookstore to get a cd. Bonus is that you get the newer packages, with lots of bugs fixed (nasty samba bugs for example). - reinstall the packages you have been installing, but do it from a 1.1 cd. dpkg -i is enough to unpack, install and configure. Bonus is that it is probably faster and easier (but you do need that 1.1 cd.) My advice is to order a 1.3.1r5 debian official cd. Good luck, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?
printing and samba
I have three questions: (1) How should I have security setup so only those users in a specific group can print? In addition, the /etc/lpd directory can not be accessable by any users because of the passwords for samba. Currently I have /usr/bin/(lp,lpc,lpq,lpr,lpraccnt,lprm,lpstat) set to -r-sr-xr-x lp lp (2) How do I print in color? Netscape has the option of color, but it won't print in color. I'm using a HP DJ660C shared on a win95 machine with magicfilter's dj550c-filter. Here is my printcap: --- lp|hp_dj660c|HP Deskjet 660C:\ :cm=HP Deskjet 660C:\ :lp=/dev/null:sd=/var/spool/lpd/smb/hp_dj660c:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/usr/local/sbin/hp_dj660c:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/smb/hp_dj660c/acct:lf=/var/spool/lpd/smb/hp_dj660c/errs: --- Here is my hp_dj660c: --- #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/dj550c-filter $* | ( logfile=/tmp/smb-print.log # logfile=/dev/null eval acct_file=\$$# spool_dir=`dirname $acct_file` config_file=$spool_dir/.config eval `cat $config_file` echo server $server, service $service $logfile ( # NOTE You may wish to add the line `echo translate' if you want automatic # CR/LF translation when printing. #echo translate echo print - cat ) | /usr/bin/smbclient $server\\$service $password -U $server -N -P $logfile ) --- (3) will the line: '/usr/bin/smbclient $server\\$service $password...' show up in programs like top? If so, how can I prevent users from seeing the password? Thanks in advance, -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
remote xdm login screen probs - more info
Hi, Using dhcp to get my linux box to sit on the (Win NT/95) network here at work. Fine - i can telnet in OK. Tryng to get a remote xsession going using xwin32 from a win 95 machine. It'll show up on a choser list if i do a xdmcp -broadcast thing with xwin32 (shows up as 'available' whilst there's some sgi's which come up as 'willing to manage'). Anyway, selecting my machine won't bring up the xdm login window (will with the sgi's...), i just get some error message from xwin32 whihc exactly is: XDMCP: Session failed: session 369920001 failed for display UKJHAG217600.ukjh.zeneca.com:0:cannot open display (UKJJHAG217600.ukjh.zeneca.com is the name of the machine from which I'm trying to connect). Meanwhile, on the linux box my /var/log/xdm-errors file is as follows: XF86Config file stuff . xdm error (pid 244): Cannot convert Internet address 156.71.78.38 to host name xdm error (pid 244): Cannot convert Internet address 156.71.78.38 to host name . . (lots of times) . . _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for UKJHAG217600.ukjh.zeneca.com _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for UKJHAG217600.ukjh.zeneca.com _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for UKJHAG217600.ukjh.zeneca.com _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for UKJHAG217600.ukjh.zeneca.com _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for UKJHAG217600.ukjh.zeneca.com xdm error (pid 601): server open failed for UKJHAG217600.ukjh.zeneca.com:0, giving up xdm error (pid 244): Display UKJHAG217600.ukjh.zeneca.com:0 cannot be opened xdm error (pid 244): Display UKJHAG217600.ukjh.zeneca.com:0 is being disabled where 156.71.78.38 is the numeric address of UKJHAG217600.ukjh.zeneca.com. The nameserver's set OK (from dhcp), so it's not that. Any body got a clue? Ta, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[OFF-TOPIC] linux-kernel list is down?
My apologies for the absolutely off-topic question here, but does any one know if the linux-kernel mailing list is down? I haven't received anything in the past days and that's quite strange given it is a high volume list, comparable to debian-user. Thanks, 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] .
Re: [OFF-TOPIC] linux-kernel list is down?
Eloy A. Paris wrote: My apologies for the absolutely off-topic question here, but does any one know if the linux-kernel mailing list is down? I haven't received anything in the past days and that's quite strange given it is a high volume list, comparable to debian-user. Everyone was unsubscribed (again). Resubscribe. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X, S3 server, and #9 Motion 771
There appears to be a problem in the X3.3 packages. I have a #9 Motion 771. I can run XF86Setup, and I can enter all of the setup info. But then when I click Done and it tries to start the server for my card, it dies. It says starting server, the screen blanks, it flickers a couple times, and then the hard drive stops running and it locks there with the blank screen. Any ideas? I had X running just fine with X3.2. Anyone know if the 3.2 packages are still around somewhere? Some more info about my system: kernel 2.0.27 #9 FX Motion 771, local bus, with 4 megs of vram Eh, thats all, let me know if you need more info. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
