Re: PGP
Pete Harlan wrote: I notice that MIT now has a Linux build for PGP5.0 US version. I know that there is a PGP Debian package Does anyone know what's up with Phil, anyway? How can he, of all people, expect anyone to trust cryptography without source? Sorry for the off-topic. I hope nobody bothers to package this up for Debian unless source is released. There, now it's on-topic. And please correct me if source for 5.0 is available... -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] The MIT page has a copy of the signatures for the Windows and Mac binaries, nothing for the Linux binary. I'm sure a quick note to the maintainer will aleviate that lack. Unfortunately, Phil is not really involved with the MIT distribution, nor the International version which the German (at least) Debian site has a package for. Now that PGP.com has been purchased by another company in which RSA Inc is a major player, there is no telling how long it will be before there is no way to trust the commercial versions at all. Hey, isn't this exactly why we're running Linux? I think some cooperation 'twixt Debian and MIT is in order. If I knew anything about compiling packages, I'd do it. Curt- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Encrypting ISO9660 images?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know there has been a bit of discussion about encrypting filesystems under Debian. From what I've seen, the ext2 filesystem can be encrypted with CFS. But, my question is.. is there any good way of doing filesystem encryption for an ISO9660 image that is later burned to a CD-ROM? Or if not ISO9660 some other filesystem that would be good for burning to a CD-ROM? Well, cfs isn't really filesystem-dependant. You can create an encrypted directory with cfs (cmkdir), put the data in it, make a cd image of the encrypted directory (the raw encrypted directory, not the mounted unencrypted version) using mkisofs (make sure to support long file names with Rockridge extensions) and then burn the cd. The main problem with this is that cfs appears to want all of the files in the encrypted directory to be owned by the user that is accessing them and it appears that cfs wants them to be r/w as well. Regardless of the cause of the problem, the result is that the only way I have found to make and read a cfs directory on a cd is to make all of the files owned by root (I used the -r option of mkisofs) and then access the cd only as root. There may be other work-arounds, but that's the first thing that worked for me. If you try to look at the encrypted directory on the cd as any user other than root (even when the files are owned by that user), you get some kind of permission denied message. I think that this problem is mentioned somewhere in the docs for cfs, but I haven't heard about any fixes for the problem. -- Kevin Cheek [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Michigan, Department of Internal Medicine Divisions of Rheumatology and Molecular Medicine Genetics -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PGP
Addendum: They DO have the PGP signature for the Linux binary. I agree that the source should be made available too Curt- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where is font -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*?
When I try to run either fr (filerunner) or tkman, it comes up with similar messages, both complaining about the lack of the font: -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* It works fine on my machine at home, and as far as I can tell, they both have the same fonts installed. So, what fonts need to be installed, or what isn't configured properly? Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Removing libc4
% dpkg --no-act -r libc4 Will not remove anything, but will warn you if other packages depend on it. On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 11:32:03PM -0500, James Dietrich wrote: I have libc4 installed on my Debian system (running the latest from unstable). How can I find out if any programs depend on libc4, so that I can remove it if it isn't needed? Or is there a good reason to keep it? Thanks. James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mail problem - smail
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: Well, my conclusion is that you've done something to the basic smail satellite option - specifically, your /etc/smail/directors file has something in it besides the smartuser director. What you appended of your configuration isn't enough to tell. (It's the /etc/smail/directors file that controls local mail delivery) By default, when using the satellite option, /etc/smail/directors is set up so that smail will not deliver any local mail. (and this precludes using fetchmail to store mail locally) You are right. I rerun smailconfig and option 3 (Satellite) was unfamiliar to me, option 1 (Internet site) looked like the questions I have answered during smail setup. So:USE OPTION 1, DON'T USE OPTION 3 I am sorry for causing that much confusion. I guess in the year which passed between now and my smailconfig, I have lost too much brain due to the good beer you get here in germany :-) So I hope atleast somebody found my fetchmailrc usefull. Don't forget to check for localhost in the hostnames line in /etc/smail/config if you want to take it as a template for your own setup. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mail problem - smail
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: As long as the MX wasn't set up, I got a reply from the mailsystem (DNS lookup failed for internet-treff.uni-koeln.de) if I tried to send mail from the system. The same for mails to the system using the MX address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). This just flashed into my mind after sending this mail: I have chosen the option forward all outbound mail to the smarthost, so the message was from sendmail on the smarthost. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HTTP background tool
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the information they provide... while it would be nice to be able to download some links with a command line tool. Any links or hints are appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems compiling perl 5.004.04 - ld: cannot open -lnsl
Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: I am trying to compile perl 5.004.04 and am having problems. My compiler is unable to locate -lnsl (for some reason). But I'm sure that the reqd library is in /lib The linker is looking for /usr/lib/libnsl.so. This is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1. It's created when you install libc5-dev. Have you done so? Stephen --- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HTTP background tool
Orn E. Hansen wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the information they provide... while it would be nice to be able to download some links with a command line tool. Any links or hints are appreciated. Use wget and background it. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Philosophical question
Larry G. Gariepy Jr. wrote: Hi all, I guess this doesn't pertain specifically to Debian, but I have a philosophical question about software upgrades, and I just thought I would take a poll to see what Joe Debian User (or Jane Debian-User) thinks... So I bought a new machine in October, and from the outset I wanted to run Linux on it. After asking a friend what brand to use, he suggested Debian. In fact, we basically downloaded his setup onto my machine. So now that I basically have the system up and running the way I want it (modulo getting the printer pass-through feature working on the ZIP drive), I thought I would ask how often I should look to upgrade things like the kernel and libc libraries and such. I am not shy about trying new things, but once I have put a lot of effort into something and have it running nicely, I tend to be sluggish about rocking the boat, and upgrading to keep up with the times...(when I was a kid, we didn't even HAVE xemacs, we used all those CNTRL commands... :) ) I hope I don't sound heretical: I imagine that a lot of people like Linux for the fact that there is something new to try every week or two. :) (or more often?) But practically, how often do people think it is worth the trouble to upgrade major software components? Every six months? Every year? Thanks in advance for your (humble) opinions :) Larry Gariepy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Disclaimer: The views expressed in my opinions are not necessarily my own. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . There is no correct answer to this question. There are wrong ones however. Installing packages (updates) simply because they're newer is not the right strategy, nor is installing simply on the basis of new features. The steps I normally take go something like : 1. Will it be as secure or more secure than what I am using now? 2. Will it increase performance? 3. Does it expand the feature list of the current software? 4. Is this a major version number update? Using these 4 rules I can usually decide whether or not to upgrade. Normally if question one proves to be false I stop right there. In some cases there really is no question one, and so it becomes a performance and feature issue. Number four is tricky, I've found that the best strategy is to stay away from major version changes. They tend to mark the period for bug testing, and usually most problems and glitches arise here. Going with the previous version in this case tends to be a good thing. Hope that helps somewhat... sorry that I couldn't give you a time frame, but these rules generally help me to do the right thing. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: What I do now?
Dana Epp wrote: Ya... its one of those days, and the subject pretty well sums it up. I forced xlib6g over xlib6, so I could install the Gimp package. I later rebooted, and now I get this everytime I do a startx.. xauth: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6' Now, this does exist. Its located in /usr/X11R6/lib so I can't figure why it can't load. Anyone know what I should do to fix this.. or atleast further debug it? I don't wanna go throw xlib6 back, cuz now xv, gimp etc work where they didn't want to before. Any help would be much appreciated. This can result from a few things. 1. The library is not in ld.so.conf or ld.so.cache and so the dynamic linker doesn't know it exists. 2. Most libraries have several sym-links pointing to them. In this case, this symlink no longer points at a valid library. To test solution one (as root) type 'ldconfig -v | grep libXmu'. If it comes up, then it IS listed in the ld.so.conf file. Step two. Change to the directory in which the libXmu library is supposed to reside. Now type 'ls -l libXmu*' and check to make sure that the sym-links that show up are indeed pointing to a valid (read 'existing') library (and not off into outer space). If you have verified both of these things, then it may be a problem with the versions of xinit and xauth. They may not be able to handle the new library version, and there may be updated versions of these programs for use with xlib6g. These two program would be found in the 'xbase' package, look for that first. Hope this helps. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Apache web editting
Randy Edwards wrote: What techniques do folks use for editting web pages? I use Netscape's Composer for editting and would like to let a couple of users edit the files under /var/www. I've thought about making /var/www group writeable (right now it's only group read and executable), but I was worried that may introduce a security breach. Right now I have users edit the files and then manually copy them myself, but that's a pain. Any suggestions on what option would be best for this? Sure. Just create a new group called (for-instance) 'webguys', and add those users to it. Then from inside the /var directory type 'chown -R root.webguys www'. If this is not your question then let me get fuzzy on ya. There is no better way to secure a web document heirarchy than to create special directories underneath the root directory owned by the user you wish to have permission to rwx there (make sure you chown the directory to that user or else even though anything that's in there will belong to them, they may not have the ability to add more). I think the basic issue comes down to one of trust. If you can trust a user enough to add him to a general group of Web Jockeys allowed to rwx in the /var/www directory, do so. If not, try the second option. If it is NOT essential for them to store their files there at all, just have them put everything in a 'public-html' directory off of their home directories, and access them in the url with 'http://(yourhost)/~(username)/'. Apache already has a provision for this. Hope this helps. d -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: emacs and .Xdefaults
Kirk Hilliard wrote: Last week I issued a plea for help: I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. And Wintermute [EMAIL PROTECTED] came to the rescue: Try this.. xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults That does the job! Since it only works for the current X session, I added it to my ~/.xsession file and all is fine. Still, I did not have to do this in rex. Is this change a bug or a feature? Actually this is a feature. You may find some helpful files in the /etc/X11 directory that hint at this. Particularly the one called /etc/X11/config. This file tells another configuration file (one that actually sets up the default environment) whether or not to allow things such as User Resources, User Xsession files, and the like to be included at start time, or be ignored. This seems to be a useless feature since even with XDM running, a user can execute the commands necessary to alter their environment after X has started through an XTERM. The only thing it might do is to enforce only a particular type of window manager. The config file should be changed to include the following lines: allow-user-resources allow-user-modmap allow-user-xsession If you are running XDM by default you will need to change to a free virtual terminal (CNTRL-ALT-F1), and stop the XDM process by running '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' as root, and then restart it with '/etc/init.d/xdm start'. Don't forget to change back to the virtual terminal again (CNTRL-ALT-F1) and log out. User resources will then be loaded from .Xdefaults in their home directory, also if one exists, it will attempt to execute a users .xsession and .xmodmap files. The .xsession determines which commands will set up the environment for the session, and what window manager it should start. The .xmodmap file will contain keymapping for that particular session. Hope this helps. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Apache web editting
On 04-Dec-97 Randy Edwards wrote: What techniques do folks use for editting web pages? I use Netscape's Composer for editting and would like to let a couple of users edit the files under /var/www. I like vi for editing my web pages. I'm sure there are lots of people who prefer emacs/xemacs, and there are editors in Netscape and that other popular browser. As long as www has appropriate permissions, you should be OK. You don't scan every web page that you install for security breachs, do you? So, you'll be no worse off anyway. I've thought about making /var/www group writeable (right now it's only group read and executable), but I was worried that may introduce a security breach. Right now I have users edit the files and then manually copy them myself, but that's a pain. Any suggestions on what option would be best for this? -- Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o .|/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ is lowest divided by the number of members. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: HTTP background tool
On 05-Dec-97 Orn E. Hansen wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? perl certainly provides all you need. You could easily specify a URL and have a perl program download its file and everything it links to and everything its links link to. If you start with yahoo, and have infinite disk resources... Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the information they provide... while it would be nice to be able to download some links with a command line tool. Any links or hints are appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ is lowest divided by the number of members. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mount trouble with MSDOS fs
A while back, I reported that # mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt was not working. Someone said that running Norton Disk Doctor on /dev/hda1 (C:) from within Win95 resolved a similar problem. So I ran Norton Disk Doctor on /dev/hda1. It corrected a minor problem, but the mount command *still* does not work within Linux. Why? Regards, -c __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PGP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding Re: PGP of 03:37 PM -0800 1997-12-04, Pete Harlan wrote: Sorry for the off-topic. I hope nobody bothers to package this up for Debian unless source is released. There, now it's on-topic. And please correct me if source for 5.0 is available... It is available, just only in book form. This is a cover your ass move by PGP as cryptographic code can be legally exported from the US if it is not machine readable. The source at http://www.pgpi.com/ is almost exactly the same as the source used to build the US version at the MIT site, the only difference is that the US version uses RSAREF, to avoid the patent issues. I have seen versions of PGP 2.6.3i that were legal in the US, because they were compiled with RSAREF instead of MPILIB. It must be possible to do this with the PGP 5 code base as well. - -- Joel Espy Klecker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.espy.org/ Apple Flavored Unix (http://www.espy.org/apple-flavored-unix/): A meta-index of unix-like OSes for macs and mac clones. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5 iQCVAwUBNId1vwoYIlYX1XaBAQHIhQP/WyWh0yzM2/jpST88Y01FTM++UIlfF/S6 F5RBlvsDBkL6cOnLbX58wdCdb/Y4Py+9jU97dPN6OXI5Hjw1fQ3xaTA4pOWa4hsH 5SvQ/74yWKB1V6ei7m6/okUBrA4JjcYKZ4Qz+dfYLQ21rzPITvcPuZIDlJkgj+cP Cn6aI/9q6NI= =3XdF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
BS in rxvt+ncurses
Hi, I've already asked this, and I'm sure someone must be having the same problem... No matter how I set the backspace in X11, it won't work under rxvt + some ncurses program, for example, pine. At some point the entry in /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt was changed, and the backspace stopped working. The change isn't documented in the Debian changelog, it just says Munged rxvt entry a bit more, and also makes reference to an update to the terminfo database... xterm does work, and infocmp says: comparing rxvt to xterm. comparing booleans. comparing numbers. colors: -1:8. pairs: -1:64. comparing strings. hpa: NULL, '\E[%i%p1%dG'. kend: '\E[4~', '\E[F'. khome: '\E[1~', '\E[H'. kmous: NULL, '\E[M'. vpa: NULL, '\E[%i%p1%dd'. I don't see anything relevant here. There are far more differences between the entry that worked and the one that doesn't. I have: ii ncurses-base1.9.9g-6 ii rxvt2.20-8 The only thing I see that may be relevant is that xterm does use libncurses and rxvt doesn't. I don't think rxvt is broken... it worked before... the problem is, I don't know before what. Also, I don't want to blindy move the old entry over the new one, because I see there are other differences between them and some of them are indeed good. Thank you very much in advance (I mean it, this is getting annoying) Marcelo Magallón -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
hostname
I am currently working just fine on my LAN, however, I need to change my host name only. What files would I modify to do so? I know I need to change the /etc/hosts, but I do knot know what others need to be changed. Any input would be helpful. Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lilo to prepare new hd on floppyless system
does this help? -sen http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/ldp/HOWTO/mini/LILO-4.html at some point around Thu, 04 Dec 1997 16:48:57 +0600 Rick Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: My new drive came, and i'm trying to do a fresh install, as some stuff got tossed in strange places a few months ago. I've already found that base-files.deb won't install onto a raw file system, so I have the .tgz untarring at the moment (gee, this maxtor is louder than i expected). ANd the only .tgz I could find wa sin bo, which I had to download 4 times--though i think it was two different files.. hmm, i still get the same message that no such file or directory. anyway, the problem is going to be lilo. I don't have a floppy (one arrives in a few days) from which to boot. I need to tell it to install lilo onto /dev/hdc, but write that this is /dev/hda, and that it should take the image at /dev/hda1/vmlinuz, with a root of /dev/hdc3. Ive found the man page, but it's not clear as to exactly what is affected by changing the root--it looks like if i try to put it onto /dev/hdc, it will then try to boot from there, even after i move it to the primary controller. ANd I only get one shot at this, or i have to wait until the new floppy arrives to use the system at all. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
life after fips?
Is there an free version of some successor to fips that can do a nondestructive repartition of hard drive that is currently devoted to FAT32? I don't think fips evolved to this point and I could use some input before I purchase something like PartitionMagic. Regards, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Not a dumb Question!] [Q] Standard way to force libc5-compat?
Benjamin Redelings I wrote: Both of these are available as debian installer packages, you know. Actually, I knew there was one for netscape, but I couldn't find realplayer... It's still stuck in incoming. According to the documentation for the dynamic linker, this only works if (I think) the full version names of the libraries are built in, usually by explicitly specifying all the libraries on the command line at compile time with the -l switch. Well, I don't know of any other way to link in libraries except via the -l switch, like -lncurses, or whatever. However,many binaries, including ALL the non-debian ones don't do this. As a result I get the wrong results (see footnote [1]) 2) [Yay!] Is there some tool that will ALTER a binary and insert the necessary version info? How was the debain version of netscape generated? AFIAK, the debian version of netscape isn't modified at all. It's simply unpacked out of the tar file for netscape. I know that the rvplayer binary isn't modified at all by the debian rvplayer installer package (I maintain it), and look at it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rvplayer/rvplayer libXmu.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 (0x4000c000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4001e000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x4006) libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4006b000) libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40109000) libg++.so.27 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libg++.so.27 (0x4010c000) libstdc++.so.27 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libstdc++.so.27 (0x40144000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x40175000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4017e000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x4023a000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x40243000) I have to wonder if there is perhaps something misconfigured on your system.. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Ink Jet Printers
HP 694c DeskJet Epson Stylus Color 600 These printers aren't listed as either compatible or non-compatible in the hardware compatibility HOWTO.Is anyone using either of these printers or know if they work with Debian? The HP uses HP PCL level 3 language. The Epson uses ESC/P2 language. Thanks for your help! Jess -- Free Irrigation Tutorials on Design, Installation, and More! -- Visit them at: -- http://www.netyard.com/jsa/index.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mount trouble with MSDOS fs
On Thu, Dec 04, 1997 at 09:00:21PM -0600, Charles Read wrote: A while back, I reported that # mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt was not working. Someone said that running Norton Disk Doctor on /dev/hda1 (C:) from within Win95 resolved a similar problem. So I ran Norton Disk Doctor on /dev/hda1. It corrected a minor problem, but the mount command *still* does not work within Linux. No kernel support? You need to have the fat and msdos modules installed, or compiled in. (fat is a base for both msdos and vfat). What's the error message you're getting? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support
Allen Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wrote a e-mail to gateway2000's tech support team asking them if Linux was compatible with my Promise Ultra 33 here is an EXACT copy of what was returned: Hello Allen, Thanks for your message. Unfortunatly, Linus has not been tested on any system that Gateway sells and therefore we off no support for that operating system. If the system works in the original operating system that we shipped, then that is what we support. Sorry for the inconvience, Notice the 'Linus' ?? What the h*ll was he somking? Crack? Get real - frontline support will be trained to understand what the majority of their users need or want. Go off the beaten track - and Linux has a way to go yet before it is a threat to the Windows market share! - and you'll be on your own, at least with the majority of vendors. I'm sure there are exceptions, if anyone wanted to be constructive they could list them here. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Cron and find
As long as nfs is included in PRUNEFS in /etc/find.conf, the nfs mount points should be excluded. However, I have heard of a few instances of complaints. I tested it again last night, with findutils-4.1-25, and it worked for me. If you experience difficulty, please email me. Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I often have some nfs filesystems mounted on my machine and whenever cron runs updatedb I end up with a huge mail listing each file on the nfs filesystems saying permission denied. Is there a way to stop this message without unmounting the filesystems? Hi G'razel! Have you tried adding the NFS mount point to PRUNEPATHS in /etc/updatedb.conf? Check out updatedb(1). -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Dreamware: encrypted tcpip?
I was thinking that I want my wan links to be encrypted. Ssh would not be enough, as nfs or ftp/rcp also need to be encrypted. I was wondering if there was anything such as this in the ppp code or ip tunneling code? Thanks, P.S. I love my new 'unSTABLE' debian box. Sweet. Very Sweet. Now for the lappie :) -- 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] .
Re: Ink Jet Printers
Jess I have an HP OfficeJet Model 350. I claims compatibility with HP DeskJet models: 500, 510, 520 and uses PCL level 3 best, bill On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Jess Stryker wrote: HP 694c DeskJet Epson Stylus Color 600 These printers aren't listed as either compatible or non-compatible in the hardware compatibility HOWTO.Is anyone using either of these printers or know if they work with Debian? The HP uses HP PCL level 3 language. The Epson uses ESC/P2 language. Thanks for your help! Jess -- Free Irrigation Tutorials on Design, Installation, and More! -- Visit them at: -- http://www.netyard.com/jsa/index.html -- 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] .
ati tv tuner
hi all, i wanna know if there is a driver (beta, alpha...) for the tv tuner, or in developpement?? i have this card and want to throw away my win95... thanks in advances (and thanks for answers that i received for all my prob in linux installation, now it's working good) Benoit Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: MAJOR PROBLEM!
They stopped the poll when redhat 5 was released, when redhat had about 50 to 100 more votes in the poll (1 or 2% more of the vote, in other words). The problem with that poll was, they basically stopped it when they felt like it. If they had stopped it a day earlier, debian would have won.. If this poll represents the majority, it would seem that Debian has a large following that is not prone to advocacy as the Red Hat crowd while Slackware is a rather noisy minority. Yeah, that's sort of theimpression I got. You don't see a huge volume of debian postings on usenet, but we basically tied redhat in the poll. We have a very active mailing list and that somehow reduces Debian posts in the general linux groups. I think Debian is gatting bigger all the time This is indeed an unfortunate problem, both for Debian and for the Linux community at large. I have found debian-user to be one of the best places to get answers to all kinds of questions, debian-specific or otherwise (I have no problem with this: if someone with the good taste to run Debian runs it on a Debian system, I will try to answer questions about it). Is there any central repository for archieves of all the different mailing lists/newsgroups related to linux? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Another X problem
On Thu, 04 Dec 1997, Paul Rightly wrote: I successfully reinstalled Debian on my Thinkpad 365XD. [...] Once I got a PCMCIA modem and got this laptop connected, I upgraded it to the lastest in stable (this moved X from 3.2 to 3.3). I cannot get X to work correctly now. When I startx I see this screen but it is very garbled with a lot of horizontal lines and noise. I tried to correct it with a new XF86Config, but that did not help. The only thing that I tried that worked was downgrading X back to 3.2. Is there a way that I can successfully use X 3.3 on my laptop? I have the same system. Support for the ThinkPad 365XD by Xfree86 3.2 was never very good. The upgrade to 3.3 broke this and many other configurations as well I believe, since they quickly released the 3.3.1 fix. This is the version that I'm using right now. Only the unstable distribution has 3.3.1, however, so if you want to take advantage of it, you also need to make the dreaded libc5-libc6 transition. It's not all that painful, really; just follow Scott Ellis' *excellent* HOWTO, which is posted here regularly. If you're not quite ready to make the leap to libc6, you can grab the 3.3.1 SVGA server from ftp.xfree86.org and use that together with the rest of the 3.3 packages in bo. If you're reluctant to use a non-Debian package, you could keep the 3.2 server but upgrade everything else to 3.3. You'll have to gunzip the Xfonts if you do this, since the 3.2 Xserver only handles compress'd but not gzip'd fonts. Good luck! Noel [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses
I've been having all sorts of horrible troubles with rxvt. Every time I think I've got it working, something else goes wrong. At the moment, the problem seems to be that under rxvt, ncurses interprets backspace as KEY_DC, i.e. delete. This is because hitting backspace is sending ASCII 127, which is indeed delete. If you want to fix things quickly yourself, take the current rxvt entry, change kbs to \177, and change kdch1 to \E[3~. That should do it. I'll have this fixed in ncurses 1.9.9g-7...sigh... --Galen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ink Jet Printers
HP 694c DeskJet Epson Stylus Color 600 These printers aren't listed as either compatible or non-compatible in the hardware compatibility HOWTO.Is anyone using either of these printers or know if they work with Debian? The HP uses HP PCL level 3 language. The Epson uses ESC/P2 language. Heh, I'm about to buy a printer too. Those are the same two I'm considering. The Epson 800 isn't enough of an improvement to warrant an extra $190 Canadian. I'll probably go with the Epson as I want to be able to do at least 600x600 in color (HP 694C can only do 600x300 color). Basically, the way printing works on non-postscript printers is you use ghostscript to interpret the postscript and convert it into something your printer can understand. Ghostscript knows both PCL 3 and ESC/P2. I haven't figured out from the docs whether support for a language means that all printers that use that language are supported. I'm sure it means that you can get at least some functionality, but are there other issues involved that may affect quality or what features you can access? One thing I read is that HP has better blacks than other brands. These new Epsons are using new inks and I'm wondering whether there is any improvement. I'm going to do some output comparison tomorrow. As with computers, it's tempting to put off buying a new printer as tomorrow's technology is so promising. - Jay -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PGP
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Curt Howland wrote: I notice that MIT now has a Linux build for PGP5.0 US version. I know that there is a PGP Debian package available internationally, but not on the US site. Anyone know if a U.S. PGP package for Debian will be created? You can find both the us and the international versions of the PGP package on nonus.debian.org This is a pgp 2.6.3 package, and I'm not sure if pgp5 will ever be packaged, because of some serious thrust problems. (pgp got bought by some company which is pushing very hard towards key escrow schemes, I heard) Michel Walken LESPINASSE - Student at Ecole Centrale Paris (France) www email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o o)www : http://www.via.ecp.fr/~walken/ --oOO--(_)--OOo-- C0 9B E8 D8 44 43 D3 63 5A B4 BA 55 57 5B 19 6D Just say know finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for complete PGP key -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: MAJOR PROBLEM!
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: runs it on a Debian system, I will try to answer questions about it). Is there any central repository for archieves of all the different mailing lists/newsgroups related to linux? See: http://www.ssc.com/linux/resources/lists.html It is probably not complete, but is is a start. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ink Jet Printers
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, James A.Treacy wrote: HP 694c DeskJet Epson Stylus Color 600 Heh, I'm about to buy a printer too. Those are the same two I'm considering. The Epson 800 isn't enough of an improvement to warrant an extra $190 Canadian. I'll probably go with the Epson as I want to be able to do at least 600x600 in color (HP 694C can only do 600x300 color). I'm using the EPSON Stylus COLOR 500 here happily. :) Ghostscript 5.03 comes with uniprint (?), the unified printer driver. It supports EPSON Stylus COLOR 500, 600 and 800 very well. :) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ink Jet Printers
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Jess Stryker wrote: HP 694c DeskJet Hi, i am very happy with my HP 694c. I am using gs-aladdin 5.03 with the cdj550 driver to print ps and pdf files. Ciao, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V97 #1095
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preparing a minimal system
hi- i am attempting to install a system that has as small number of files as possible (note: i am not necessarily trying to make an installation that will fit on a floppy). in addition, i would like to be able to perform the preparation of hard drives for target machines on a machine other than the target machine (e.g. do the preparation for a 486 machine on a pentium 2 machine). the steps i've outlined are: 1. identifying the target hardware 2. identifying the necessary files and creating them if necessary (e.g. kernel compilation, device file creation, identifying necessary binaries, configuration files, shared libraries, etc.) 3. locating these on a target storage device 4. preparing the storage device so that it can boot - e.g. installing lilo on the storage device 5. attaching the newly configured storage device to the target machine studying the booting process has taught me a fair bit about what files may be necessary for a functional system. i've been successful in compiling a custom kernel (which i was able to use as part of a boot floppy on the target system), but for the life of me, i just can't seem to get my prepared media to boot on the target system :-( i am suspecting that my major difficulty is w/ getting lilo to install an appropriate mbr onto my target storage device -- most of the available lilo documentation seems to be tailored toward creating (configuring?) [m]brs for the system that lilo (and an installation of linux) is already on - probably the most common situation, but unfortunately, not mine. i've looked at the lilo and lilo.conf man pages, /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt, the linux system administrator's guide, the bootdisk howto, the lilo mini-howto, and some other resources, but so far, i haven't had much luck. i noticed that in the lilo mini-howto, the author describes a procedure which sounds like it should work: http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/ldp/HOWTO/mini/LILO-4.html unfortunately, this didn't seem to work for me. any help would be greatly appreciated. -sen p.s. i am running debian linux 1.3 and my secondary storage devices are scsi hard drives and a magneto optic disk drive. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: emacs and .Xdefaults
Kirk == Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kirk I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to Kirk read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. Shouldn't it be called ~/.Xresources ? Personally I have the two filenames symbolic linked together, because some X installations I use seem to like one and some like the other. Debian seems to only use .Xresources. I have seen some installations of X that distinguish between the two names, along the lines of ~/.Xdefaults will completely override the system wide xrdb settings whereas ~/.Xresources will be merged with the system ones. (Or was it the other way around?) -- Gilbert Laycock email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maths and Computer Science, http://www.mcs.le.ac.uk/~glaycock Leicester Universityphone: (+44) 116 252 3902 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Network Setting
Hello... I´ve been installing debian-linux in a machine. Everything went well, but i don´t access network! I think i need to create a device eth0 but i can´t! (Because when i run /etc/init.d/network it says no such device ) Can someone help me ? (This is realy bugging me... :((( ). Thanks... -- |\.../| .0.0. (= - =) Ana Graca Silva |X| [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://khromo.uevora.pt/~ags Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Unidentified subject!
Subject: Re: emacs and .Xdefaults References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Sten Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05 Dec 1997 12:17:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: Gilbert Laycock's message of 05 Dec 1997 10:43:07 + Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lines: 55 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.52/XEmacs 20.2 Gilbert Laycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kirk == Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kirk I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to Kirk read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. Shouldn't it be called ~/.Xresources ? Yes Personally I have the two filenames symbolic linked together, because some X installations I use seem to like one and some like the other. Debian seems to only use .Xresources. Debians preferences can be revealed by reading the file /etc/X11/Xsession Here are the relevant parts: ## sysresources=/etc/X11/Xresources usrresources=$HOME/.Xresources ## if [ -f $sysresources ] then xrdb -merge $sysresources fi ## if grep -q ^allow-user-resources /etc/X11/config then if [ -f $usrresources ] then xrdb -merge $usrresources fi fi ## I have seen some installations of X that distinguish between the two names, along the lines of ~/.Xdefaults will completely override the system wide xrdb settings whereas ~/.Xresources will be merged with the system ones. (Or was it the other way around?) This doesn't apply to Debian - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
pppd complains link isn't 8-bit clean!
Hi, A friend and I have been having problems getting ppp to work on his laptop. Everything works with the chat script until just after ppp is engaged. Then it complains as follows. pppd Serial connection established Using interface ppp0 Connect:ppp0 - /dev/ttyS1 LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Connection terminated. Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Problem: all has bit 7 set to 0 I've tried connecting with ppp from windows 95 on the same machine with the same modem etc, and it all works fine, so it would seem the problem is something to do with the debian setup. The only thing I can think of is interrupts, but I have looked at /proc/interrupts and it seems okay - but perhaps this doesn't tell the whole story??? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HTTP background tool
Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically : connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document : in the background? : perl certainly provides all you need. You could easily specify a URL : and have a perl program download its file and everything it links to and : everything its links link to. If you start with yahoo, and have infinite : disk resources... Do not reinvent the wheel. The Wget package will do what you want, and more. 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: Network Setting
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Ana Silva wrote: Hello... I´ve been installing debian-linux in a machine. Everything went well, but i don´t access network! I think i need to create a device eth0 but i can´t! (Because when i run /etc/init.d/network it says no such device ) Can someone help me ? (This is realy bugging me... :((( ). Thanks... -- |\.../| .0.0. (= - =) Ana Graca Silva |X| [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://khromo.uevora.pt/~ags Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Hi! You must first install the modules or recompile the kernel to support your ethernet (or whatever) card. You can install the module with modconfig, it will ask you to insert base address and irq setting for your ethernet card (only if it is an ISA card, PCI cards fully autoprobe...). Once you did dat, you can configure your network... Good Luck! -- Pancho Horrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Network Setting
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Ana Silva wrote: Hello... I´ve been installing debian-linux in a machine. Everything went well, but i don´t access network! I think i need to create a device eth0 but i can´t! (Because when i run /etc/init.d/network it says no such device ) Can someone help me ? (This is realy bugging me... :((( ). Thanks... -- |\.../| .0.0. (= - =) Ana Graca Silva |X| [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://khromo.uevora.pt/~ags Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Hi! You must first install the modules or recompile the kernel to support your ethernet (or whatever) card. You can install the module with modconfig, it will ask you to insert base address and irq setting for your ethernet card (only if it is an ISA card, PCI cards fully autoprobe...). Once you did dat, you can configure your network... Good Luck! -- Pancho Horrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?
Hi, I added the line: xterm.scrollBar:true In a .Xdefaults file to turn on scrollbars automatically on xterms, but X seemed to ignore this. How does Debian deal with Xdefaults? And where can I read about these things? Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Anyone packaging new smail (to stop spam relays)?
The current version of smail in the 'unstable' Debian release is a bit old and doesn't have support to stop spam relaying. I have heard that version 3.2.0.94 has a new config variable (smail_remote_allow) for this. Is anyone packaging the new smail? There's a very real need for an MTA that blocks spam relays right now, it's a steadily growing problem. //Petri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?
Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I added the line: xterm.scrollBar: true In a .Xdefaults file to turn on scrollbars automatically on xterms, but X seemed to ignore this. How does Debian deal with Xdefaults? In Debian, the file .Xdefaults should be renamed to .Xresources. This file is then evaluated every time you login (if you have the line allow-user-resources in /etc/X11/config). You can also run the command xrdb -merge .Xdefaults (or .Xresources) to update your resources manually without login out and in. And where can I read about these things? A good place to start reading is the manual page for xdm. This manual page tells you what happens in which order, and where the configuration files are located. Most of xdm's behaviour is determined by scripts, and these scripts are actually readable. And if you don't like man pages, I highly recommend installing tkman. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*?
I didn't receive any reply to the following. Does nobody know? On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: When I try to run either fr (filerunner) or tkman, it comes up with similar messages, both complaining about the lack of the font: -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* It works fine on my machine at home, and as far as I can tell, they both have the same fonts installed. So, what fonts need to be installed, or what isn't configured properly? Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Network Setting
What type of network card do you have ? Also post your /etc/init.d/network, maybe theres a problem in there. No matter what the problem is, you really should re-compile the kernel with support added for only those features you want. Matthew On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Pancho Horrillo wrote: On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Ana Silva wrote: Hello... I´ve been installing debian-linux in a machine. Everything went well, but i don´t access network! I think i need to create a device eth0 but i can´t! (Because when i run /etc/init.d/network it says no such device ) Can someone help me ? (This is realy bugging me... :((( ). Thanks... -- |\.../| .0.0. (= - =) Ana Graca Silva |X| [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://khromo.uevora.pt/~ags Nothing cures insomnia like the realization that it's time to get up. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Hi! You must first install the modules or recompile the kernel to support your ethernet (or whatever) card. You can install the module with modconfig, it will ask you to insert base address and irq setting for your ethernet card (only if it is an ISA card, PCI cards fully autoprobe...). Once you did dat, you can configure your network... Good Luck! -- Pancho Horrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HTTP background tool
Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically : connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document : in the background? : perl certainly provides all you need. You could easily specify a URL : and have a perl program download its file and everything it links to and : everything its links link to. If you start with yahoo, and have infinite : disk resources... Do not reinvent the wheel. The Wget package will do what you want, and more. 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] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dunc pppd configuration script
Just to clear up some confusion about dunc, I realize the script has shortcomings and John is looking into taking over the package so it can get properly attended to. However, its really quite useable in its current state -- even on a bo system. It's just an ash script that uses dialog, so it should depend on _any_ version of libc since the dependant packages already do. It was built with debmake which incorrectly added the libc dependency and I couldn't seem to get rid of it. Basically, since ash and dialog and ppp, etc all depend on some version of libc, dunc doesn't need to. It doesn't use the c library for anything, only the tools it uses do. As far as the core functionality goes, it should work out of the box for most situations, but it is still a bit broken when adding a deleting multpile connections. It also doesn't add defaultroute automatically, which it probably should. I'd be happy to work out any other problems in the short term while John gets up to speed on it if there is a significant demand. Else, John will surely tighten things up. PPP options ... I also want to address this issue about standard options file locations. It is impossible to manage multiple ppp options sets in the same file unless the option requirements are identicle. Since unix is a multiuser system, it only makes sense to use an organization where the system defaults are considered, and user specific options configurable. I personally have three different connection requirements and use dunc/dppp to manage them. I couldn't do that all in the same options file since the options conflict. I had thought of making a way to manage the system options file automatically, but decided that providing a hook to just edit it would be enough since the only people needing to manage this file would be sysadmins. Incidentally, win95 and NT both provide a way to manage multiple connections and the data is stored per user. If the goal is to make setting up ppp as simple as win95, then why all the hoopla about per user configuration capability? dppp ... What dppp does is parse the options file created by dunc and feed it (via xargs) to the pppd command, which automatically considers the /etc/ppp/options file when run in this manner. It does the same for the chat file, if there is one. If dunc actually worked better, had more options, and was easier to navigate, I think it would be pretty good. But I also think that managing multiple connections per user (not to mention per system!) is a big win, and forcing people into having root permissions to setup their ppp connection wouldn't sit well with many sysadmins. I don't think I'd want my users accidentally mucking around on their system as root -- especially if they're connecting from home! The last thing I need to do is start making house calls. Anyway, before I wrote dunc, I used my own options files and chat files and scripts to connect and I though dunc was a better way for me to manage my own stuff. While writing it I kept that in mind, and hoped that other people would feel the same way. I never got any real feedback on it directly, so it never went any further. John's new energy should help move it forward, but he's still going to need users to use the thing and provide feedback. The fact that it doesn't muck around in /etc/ppp at all (excpet if you run it as root and need to write to pap,chap-secrets, but then it just adds an entry to the end of the file), means that it won't break anything systemic. Because its basically safe to try out, you can add a lot of value to it by using it -- at pretty much no risk ot your system. I'm tempted to say at absolutely no risk, but I know better than that ;) Sorry for the long post. Cheers, -- Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?
Shouldn't it be: xterm*scrollBar:true (on) On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: I added the line: xterm.scrollBar: true In a .Xdefaults file to turn on scrollbars automatically on xterms, but X seemed to ignore this. How does Debian deal with Xdefaults? And where can I read about these things? Thanks, Mark. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Network Setting
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Pancho Horrillo wrote: I think i need to create a device eth0 but i can´t! (Because when i run /etc/init.d/network it says no such device ) You must first install the modules or recompile the kernel to support your ethernet (or whatever) card. You can install the module with modconfig, it will ask you to insert base address and irq setting for your ethernet card (only if it is an ISA card, PCI cards fully autoprobe...). Once you did dat, you can configure your network... Thanks, It solved the problem ! Ana Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, bleach wrote: Shouldn't it be: xterm*scrollBar:true (on) Maybe. I was copying another file. How did you find out about the correct format? On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: I added the line: xterm.scrollBar:true In a .Xdefaults file to turn on scrollbars automatically on xterms, but X seemed to ignore this. How does Debian deal with Xdefaults? And where can I read about these things? Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HTTP background tool
Orn E. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a tool, that will basically connect to a site through port 80, using HTTP and download a document in the background? Some sites are very slow, and they only provide HTTP access to the information they provide... while it would be nice to be able to download some links with a command line tool. Any links or hints are appreciated. I use snarf. It can do command line grabs from http, finger, ftp, and gopher. Seems to work reasonably well, and it's super simple to use. I'm not sure if it's still available or not - I don't see it in my mirror. Let me know if it's not - I'll package it. Later, Dale -- + finger for pgp public key -+ | Dale E. Martin | University of Cincinnati Savant Research Laboratory | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~dmartin | +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems with jdk1.1.3 and JNI
Hi, I am not sure this is the right list for this problem, but I thought someone might be able to direct me to the right place. I was hoping the maintainer for the java package might be able to help. I am trying out JNI programming using the linux port for jdk1.1.3 and the new libjava.so file. I am doing my development on a Debian System, 200 Mhz Pentium with 32 Megs of RAM. I have based my code completely after the example in the Java Tutorials at Javasoft. I am using the following line to compile the library (I have never made shared libraries before): gcc -shared -I/usr2/programs/jdk1.1.3/include -I/usr2/programs/jdk1.1.3/incl ude/genunix -o libGroup.so javaQ_groups_Group.c The file libGroup.so is generated without any warnings. When I go to run the java program, I get the following message: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: setegid at javaQ.groups.Test.main(Test.java: 7) The setegid is a function in the Group.java file that was declared native. The javaQ_groups_Group.c file contains the definition for setegid (which is only a print(Hello) currently for test purposes). The Group.java file (contains the class definition) has the static statement for the loading of the library. I have even tried the exact tutorial on JNI programming with the same results. I have added the directory with the libGroup.so into the /etc/ld.so.config file and ran ldconfig. The library is listed when I run ldconfig -p. I have also tried compiling with the -fpic flag for gcc with the same results. I even went to a Solaris system and tried the save thing. I get the same results. Therefore, I do not believe it has anything to do with my installation of Debian or the jdk1.1.3 files. I just do not know what the problem is or how to go about finding a solution. Therefore, I have called upon this group of knowledgeable people. Thank you for your time and attention. Richard A. Guay Network Administrator ASIC International Inc. http://www.asicint.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard A. Guay Network Administrator ASIC International Inc. http://www.asicint.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mount trouble with MSDOS fs
/proc/filesystems shows that msdos, vfat are present. I definitely compiled them into the kernel sometime back. The error msg is: # mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12, FAT 16, check=n,conv=b,uid=0, ...] [me=0xf8,cs=8,#f=2, ...] Translation block size = 512 VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1 or too many mounted filesystems Original Message Follows Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 16:30:29 +1100 From: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Charles Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: mount trouble with MSDOS fs On Thu, Dec 04, 1997 at 09:00:21PM -0600, Charles Read wrote: A while back, I reported that # mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt was not working. Someone said that running Norton Disk Doctor on /dev/hda1 (C:) from within Win95 resolved a similar problem. So I ran Norton Disk Doctor on /dev/hda1. It corrected a minor problem, but the mount command *still* does not work within Linux. No kernel support? You need to have the fat and msdos modules installed, or compiled in. (fat is a base for both msdos and vfat). What's the error message you're getting? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pppd complains link isn't 8-bit clean!
Hi, A friend and I have been having problems getting ppp to work on his laptop. Everything works with the chat script until just after ppp is engaged. Then it complains as follows. pppd Serial connection established Using interface ppp0 Connect:ppp0 - /dev/ttyS1 LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Connection terminated. Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Problem: all has bit 7 set to 0 I've tried connecting with ppp from windows 95 on the same machine with the same modem etc, and it all works fine, so it would seem the problem is something to do with the debian setup. The only thing I can think of is interrupts, but I have looked at /proc/interrupts and it seems okay - but perhaps this doesn't tell the whole story??? Hi. This has nothing to do with interrrupts. The problem here is that ppp is not started on remote side and still trying to communicate with you via human-readable ascii (that's the origin of 8-bit unclean). Try to connect to the peer using minicom, login mannualy and start ppp by either typing ppp or something like that. When you see garbage on the screen - you are done! Just remember what you did and edit your /etc/ppp.chatscript accordingly. 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: Problems with jdk1.1.3 and JNI
gcc -shared -I/usr2/programs/jdk1.1.3/include -I/usr2/programs/jdk1.1.3/incl ude/genunix -o libGroup.so javaQ_groups_Group.c Hi. This is not the right way to generate shared library. What you got here is plain objet file (.o) named as shared lib. The correct way is: gcc -fPIC -c -I. javaQ_groups_Group.c gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libGroup.so.1 -o libGroup.so.1 javaQ_groups_Group.o ln -s libGroup.so.1 libGroup.so 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: hostname
THANKS!! Greg Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Greg == Greg Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg I am currently working just fine on my LAN, however, I need to Greg change my host name only. What files would I modify to do so? I Greg know I need to change the /etc/hosts, but I do knot know what Greg others need to be changed. Any input would be helpful. From a recent post by Nils Rennebarth: Nils == Nils Rennebarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nils What did the trick for me: Nils 1) change /etc/hostname then say Nils% hostname --file /etc/hostname Nils 2) change IP-address entry in /etc/hosts Nils 3) rerun sendmailconfig Nils 4) change /etc/resolv.conf if domain changed too Nils 5) change /etc/mailname Nils (Did I forget something?) Nils No reboot is necessary. Nils Nils manoj -- This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks -- to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls. Michael Swanwick, Vacuum Flowers Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- 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] .
MacIntosh diskettes
How can I configure a Debian 1.3.1 box to read and write on/to Mac diskettes and which programs can I use ? -- +++ | Guido Bozzetto | Office phone Fax: +39 432 548314 | Il sunadôr | \/ I | E-mail: :-) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | pajât prime | OO like | Web:http://www.nauta.it/~bozzetto/ | nol à mai fat | -- Linux | Talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | buine mùsiche! +++ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support
Allen Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wrote a e-mail to gateway2000's tech support team asking them if Linux was compatible with my Promise Ultra 33 here is an EXACT copy of what was returned: Hello Allen, Thanks for your message. Unfortunatly, Linus has not been tested on any system that Gateway sells and therefore we off no support for that operating system. If the system works in the original operating system that we shipped, then that is what we support. Sorry for the inconvience, I was delighted to hear this. When I bought my new machine last spring, it was a close call between Micron and Gateway, and I finally chose Micron. After similar experiences with Micron support (since my machine was shipped with W95, they weren't even willing to help with configuring the monitor for DOS/Windows, let alone Linux), I've been kicking myself for not going with Gateway. Now I feel better! Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian libc5 (bo/stable) to libc6 (hamm/unstable) upgrade Mini-HOWTO
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, this Mini-HOWTO was posted to the various lists. It appears to be identical to the version posted on Wed Nov 12. Is this an error, or is it an intentional repeat, not an update? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installation Problem
Hello, I come accross three problems while installing Debian 1.3.1 from CD 1. The system boots correctly from the boot floppy created during installation but by booting from harddisk (through LILO ) the kernel boots correctly but then it stopped displaying the following: VFS: Mounted root msdos file system readonly Unable to open an initial console How to correct it ?. Why msdos is shown as the filesystem instead of ext2 (floppy booting shows ext2) . Is this a problem due to LILO 2. The X configuration file can not be created during installation and hence Xserver cannot be started form xdm. How it can be created manually. Do I have to reinstall . 3. Thirdly I want to know how to use X without mouse . . What should be done to use mouse funcions through keyboard ?. Thanks Faiz ul Haque Zeya[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian libc5 (bo/stable) to libc6 (hamm/unstable) upgrade Mini-HOWTO
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, this Mini-HOWTO was posted to the various lists. It appears to be identical to the version posted on Wed Nov 12. Is this an error, or is it an intentional repeat, not an update? It was an intentional repeat. I haven't gotten around to updating it, but enough questions were being asked that it answers that I thought it was about time to repost it. -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
command logging
Is there a way to log all commands typed by someone ? ttysnoop does not work all that great, .bash_history only logs AFTER the person logs off, not sure if I can alter bash to log everything... I looked at telnetd, but I'm not sure if any of the debugging features do this. Something where I could just do a 'tail -f logfile' to keep tabs on what people are doing... Thanks, Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
multiple X sessions problem
(this is a repost) Hi all, my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0 The second X server attempts to start (the gray default background appears) and gets stuck at that point. Going back to the Ctrl-Alt-F2 screen the erron message is : AUDIT ...(time and date)... 2144 X:client 1 rejected from local host Xlib: connection to :1.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorised to connect to server Does anybody know what can be done? I am using kernel 2.0.31, with the following X configuration: XFree86 Version 3.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: Jun 2 1997 Operating System: Linux 2.0.21 i486 [ELF] Configured drivers: S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) newmmio, mmio_928, s3_generic Thanks in advance Manos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support
The one thing I like about Micron is that they have more options to pick from. I can almost pick all the hardware that will work with Linux. With Gateway I don't like the video cards, and sound cards they offer... I would probably buy from Micron in the future. On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: Allen Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wrote a e-mail to gateway2000's tech support team asking them if Linux was compatible with my Promise Ultra 33 here is an EXACT copy of what was returned: Hello Allen, Thanks for your message. Unfortunatly, Linus has not been tested on any system that Gateway sells and therefore we off no support for that operating system. If the system works in the original operating system that we shipped, then that is what we support. Sorry for the inconvience, I was delighted to hear this. When I bought my new machine last spring, it was a close call between Micron and Gateway, and I finally chose Micron. After similar experiences with Micron support (since my machine was shipped with W95, they weren't even willing to help with configuring the monitor for DOS/Windows, let alone Linux), I've been kicking myself for not going with Gateway. Now I feel better! Bob -- 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] .
How unstable is hamm?
I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to development. I'd really like to start playing around with version 6, but I'd hate to destroy my system to do it... :) I have an admin level knowledge of unix so feel free to be honest with me. Thanks in advance for any input. Brad Fitzgibbons UNT CAS Computing Services [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 font -Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*?
Mark Phillips wrote:
When I try to run either fr (filerunner) or tkman, it comes up with
similar messages, both complaining about the lack of the font:
-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*
It works fine on my machine at home, and as far as I can tell, they both
have the same fonts installed. So, what fonts need to be installed, or
what isn't configured properly?
Here's how you can find out. In /usr/lib/X11/fonts there are a number of
directories. Each of the directories will have a fonts.alias file or a
fonts.scale file in it. You can search these for the above font by using
find. Run this:
find /usr/lib/X11/fonts \( -name fonts.scale -o -name fonts.alias \) -exec grep
-i -e '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-.*-.*-120-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*' {} \; -ls
and if that doesn't get you the file try:
find /usr/lib/X11/fonts \( -name fonts.scale -o -name fonts.alias \) -exec grep
-i -e '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*' {} \; -ls
if that doesn't work then
find /usr/lib/X11/fonts \( -name fonts.scale -o -name fonts.alias \) -exec grep
-i -e '-Adobe-Helvetica-Bold-R-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*-.*' {} \; -ls
and so on until you find the best match (the one with the most elements
matching).
Then take the filename which it was grep'ed from and do
dpkg --search filename
to find the package. Simple huh? 8) X has a fancy way of specifying fonts
which is very flexible (more flexible than a simple find/grep command can locate
exactly the same).
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Re: emacs and .Xdefaults
Wintermute wrote: Kirk Hilliard wrote: Last week I issued a plea for help: I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex. And Wintermute [EMAIL PROTECTED] came to the rescue: Try this.. xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults That does the job! Since it only works for the current X session, I added it to my ~/.xsession file and all is fine. Still, I did not have to do this in rex. Is this change a bug or a feature? Actually this is a feature. You may find some helpful files in the /etc/X11 directory that hint at this. Particularly the one called /etc/X11/config. This file tells another configuration file (one that actually sets up the default environment) whether or not to allow things such as User Resources, User Xsession files, and the like to be included at start time, or be ignored. This seems to be a useless feature since even with XDM running, a user can execute the commands necessary to alter their environment after X has started through an XTERM. The only thing it might do is to enforce only a particular type of window manager. The config file should be changed to include the following lines: allow-user-resources allow-user-modmap allow-user-xsession If you are running XDM by default you will need to change to a free virtual terminal (CNTRL-ALT-F1), and stop the XDM process by running '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' as root, and then restart it with '/etc/init.d/xdm start'. Don't forget to change back to the virtual terminal again (CNTRL-ALT-F1) and log out. User resources will then be loaded from .Xdefaults in their home directory, also if one exists, it will attempt to execute a users ...xsession and .xmodmap files. The .xsession determines which commands will set up the environment for the session, and what window manager it should start. The .xmodmap file will contain keymapping for that particular session. Hope this helps. As Gilbert Laycock also noticed, debian's (XFree in general?) setup uses .Xresources instead of the old convention of .Xdefaults (ala SunOS, etc.). See /etc/X11/Xsession to see where this is done. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ink Jet Printers
The Ghostscript printer compatibility web page recommends the cdj550 driver for the 694c and has some suggestions and further links for Epson Stylus printers: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Jess Stryker wrote: HP 694c DeskJet Epson Stylus Color 600 These printers aren't listed as either compatible or non-compatible in the hardware compatibility HOWTO.Is anyone using either of these printers or know if they work with Debian? The HP uses HP PCL level 3 language. The Epson uses ESC/P2 language. 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] .
Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses
Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: Hi, I've already asked this, and I'm sure someone must be having the same problem... No matter how I set the backspace in X11, it won't work under rxvt + some ncurses program, for example, pine. At some point the entry in /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt was changed, and the backspace stopped working. The change isn't documented in the Debian changelog, it just says Munged rxvt entry a bit more, and also makes reference to an update to the terminfo database... xterm does work, and infocmp says: comparing rxvt to xterm. comparing booleans. comparing numbers. colors: -1:8. pairs: -1:64. comparing strings. hpa: NULL, '\E[%i%p1%dG'. kend: '\E[4~', '\E[F'. khome: '\E[1~', '\E[H'. kmous: NULL, '\E[M'. vpa: NULL, '\E[%i%p1%dd'. I don't see anything relevant here. There are far more differences between the entry that worked and the one that doesn't. I have: ii ncurses-base1.9.9g-6 ii rxvt2.20-8 The only thing I see that may be relevant is that xterm does use libncurses and rxvt doesn't. I don't think rxvt is broken... it worked before... the problem is, I don't know before what. Also, I don't want to blindy move the old entry over the new one, because I see there are other differences between them and some of them are indeed good. Thank you very much in advance (I mean it, this is getting annoying) Marcelo Magallón Man, this problem has come up on this list how many times now? Hoow! (I'm not frustrated at you Marcelo.) Isn't it time we had a decent search engine on the debian-user archives or some help database that people could look into? Anyway Marcelo, add this to your ~/.Xresources file (and make sure that you have 'allow-user-resources' in /etc/X11/config). Rxvt.keysym.0x: \b If that doesn't work let me know, but it solved the problem for me and many others. This is better than switch your whole X keymap. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How unstable is hamm?
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, John Bradley Fitzgibbons wrote: I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to I've been running a mostly-hamm system since July, and haven't had any problems other than: At one point about a month ago I synced up my machine with the unstable tree, because I was getting utmp errors. Libc6 has redefined a mess of those basic data types, so things like w and who weren't working. Haven't had any trouble since then. Otherwise, just make sure you follow the libc5-to-libc6 howto so you don't really screw up dpkg. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- |The problem with computers: | || | rivendell[501] [~] love me | | bash: love: command not found | | rivendell[502] [~] hug me| | bash: hug: command not found | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dreamware: encrypted tcpip?
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: I was thinking that I want my wan links to be encrypted. Ssh would not be enough, as nfs or ftp/rcp also need to be encrypted. I was wondering if there was anything such as this in the ppp code or ip tunneling code? http://skip.incog.com/ I just heard about this yesterday. I've never seen it in action. ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How unstable is hamm?
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, John Bradley Fitzgibbons wrote: I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to development. I'd really like to start playing around with version 6, but I'd hate to destroy my system to do it... :) I have an admin level knowledge of unix so feel free to be honest with me. Thanks in advance for any input. Speaking as the author of the libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO, I've experienced very few problems running my machine up-to-date with the latest packages from hamm. Once you're over the initial upgrade hurdle, everything pretty much works fine. -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dreamware: encrypted tcpip?
Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: I was thinking that I want my wan links to be encrypted. Ssh would not be enough, as nfs or ftp/rcp also need to be encrypted. I was wondering if there was anything such as this in the ppp code or ip tunneling code? I believe some IETF commitee is working on this for IPv6. I believe a standard is also being worked on for encrpyted IP tunneling, which I would imagine will be here sooner. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: MacIntosh diskettes
How can I configure a Debian 1.3.1 box to read and write on/to Mac diskettes and which programs can I use ? You can't. The pc type drive is physically incapable of handling the mac format. The solution is to use pc format disks, which both the mac linux can read write. rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: KDE mismatched packages...
Hey.. Is there anyreason that some of the packages in non-free are beta2-1 and some are beta2-2? Very frustrating when there isn't enough of either of them for a full install. This is because some of them are stuck in the Incoming AFAIK. Our archive maintainer, Guy Mayor, has just returned and everything should be fixed soon. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pppd complains link isn't 8-bit clean!
Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, A friend and I have been having problems getting ppp to work on his laptop. Everything works with the chat script until just after ppp is engaged. Then it complains as follows. pppd Serial connection established Using interface ppp0 Connect:ppp0 - /dev/ttyS1 LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Connection terminated. Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Problem: all has bit 7 set to 0 I've tried connecting with ppp from windows 95 on the same machine with the same modem etc, and it all works fine, so it would seem the problem is something to do with the debian setup. The only thing I can think of is interrupts, but I have looked at /proc/interrupts and it seems okay - but perhaps this doesn't tell the whole story??? Any help would be much appreciated. Look at your chat script. Test its workings by using minicom, cu, seyon, or some other terminal program to manually dial in. Just because you get 'Connect: ppp0 - /dev/ttyS1' doesn't mean that your connect script worked. It simply means that your connect script *thinks* that it worked. Think about what the error message is telling you: pppd never received an LCP packet which infers that ppp was never started and also that 'all has bit 7 set to 0'. Now, what sort of characters always have bit 7 set to 0. Answer: printable ASCII characters (as well as a few unprintable ones). This should generally suggest to you that the system on the other end is still sending you some kind of prompt. Check it out, this is most likely the solution. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ati tv tuner
Benoit Joly wrote: hi all, i wanna know if there is a driver (beta, alpha...) for the tv tuner, or in developpement?? i have this card and want to throw away my win95... thanks in advances (and thanks for answers that i received for all my prob in linux installation, now it's working good) I've been looking for this for my PB (Reveal) tv card for some time. A good place to start searching (I haven't for a while) would be: http://www.ruel.net/pctv.html This guys collects info about using TV cards in pcs and though there probably isn't much linux info there per se there should be some useful links and other information. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP modem connection.
I´ve been trying to connect ppp using XISP and after giving the ppp garbage characters (and clicking on continue) it disconnects the line. I think I have PPP installed correctly, but how can I be sure? (I do connect with the same hardware under Windows 95 without a problem) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Philosophical question
Larry G. Gariepy Jr. writes: Hi all, I guess this doesn't pertain specifically to Debian, but I have a philosophical question about software upgrades, and I just thought I would take My two cents worth. Like yourself, I don't like rocking the boat either. My upgrade philosophy is - wait until the next level of stable has been 'gelled' and then wait 3 -4 months until all the little problems have been discovered along with the solutions/'work-arounds'. At that point, I then upgrade because I know that I have a 99.9% chance of success without rocking the boat. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK - member of ARRL @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
(Bruce's New Venture (Was Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses)
Jens, I know just the right guy to do this...our soon to be departed project leader. Didn't he mention doing something similar as part of his life-after-project-leader? Something about taking service calls and stripping out company details, then providing that back to the Debian community. Maybe he can start procticing on the Debian-user archives :-) kevin On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Man, this problem has come up on this list how many times now? Hoow! (I'm not frustrated at you Marcelo.) Isn't it time we had a decent search engine on the debian-user archives or some help database that people could look into? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: MacIntosh diskettes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: How can I configure a Debian 1.3.1 box to read and write on/to Mac diskettes and which programs can I use ? You can't. The pc type drive is physically incapable of handling the mac format. This is only true for the very old low density disks. Todays 1.44MB floppys are hardware compatible with the dos ones, only the data is organized differently. Install hfsutils. From the package info Description: Tools for reading and writing Macintosh volumes. HFS is the native Macintosh filesystem format. . This package contains several command-line utilities for reading and writing Macintosh HFS-formatted media such as floppy disks, CD-ROMs, and hard disks. . Also included is a scriptable Tcl shell and `xhfs', a comprehensive X interface. I once used this with success to read data from a Mac formatted floppy. The solution is to use pc format disks, which both the mac linux can read write. This needs special programs on the MAC that may not be there. And it's rather inconvenient. Nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNIg7CFptA0IhBm0NAQHwugMAmbo2jcvKrNU3F3NKSLBhzbJuAkkfzgXz cFIygh087rSolUjPvlHhd0kGq1/nDlwuD87LsYaxBeHu7uym6Gc+oyNAM6sauZsS fYzlSt9NbGc3fQcTeEXYRDrPWehzSFO8 =AVWx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Get this, Gateway2000's 'wonderful' tech support
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: : Allen Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : I wrote a e-mail to gateway2000's tech support team asking them if Linux : was compatible with my Promise Ultra 33 here is an EXACT copy of what was : returned: : : Hello Allen, : : Thanks for your message. Unfortunatly, Linus has not been tested on any : system that Gateway sells and therefore we off no support for that : operating system. If the system works in the original operating system : that we shipped, then that is what we support. : Sorry for the inconvience, : : I was delighted to hear this. When I bought my new machine last : spring, it was a close call between Micron and Gateway, and I finally : chose Micron. After similar experiences with Micron support (since my : machine was shipped with W95, they weren't even willing to help with : configuring the monitor for DOS/Windows, let alone Linux), I've been : kicking myself for not going with Gateway. Now I feel better! : : Bob That's too bad, as Gateway has several excellent technicians who run Debian themselves. I've also heard rumors that Gateway runs a few Linux boxes on campus (I don't think I'm supposed to know that, so you never heard it here) Gateway has made junk, like everybody else. I've spent more than enough time on the phone with Compaq and IBM. OTOH, when some friends purchased a Gateway PPro last spring, I set it up for them in one evening, and it ran like a dream. The one hardware problem we had was quickly dealt with over the phone. Every PC manufacturer hires drones to man the phones (either that, or they have stressed, overworked, qualified techs and lots of busy signals ...) so let's not freak out at Gateway cos somebody talked to an ignorant person. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: BS in rxvt+ncurses
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: [ problem snipped ] : : Man, this problem has come up on this list how many times now? : Hoow! (I'm not frustrated at you Marcelo.) Isn't it time we : had a decent search engine on the debian-user archives or some help : database that people could look into? : : Anyway Marcelo, add this to your ~/.Xresources file (and make sure : that you have 'allow-user-resources' in /etc/X11/config). : : Rxvt.keysym.0x: \b : : If that doesn't work let me know, but it solved the problem for me : and many others. This is better than switch your whole X keymap. : : -- : Jens B. Jorgensen : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hmm, I'll regret saying this forever I bet :) Many lists like this one have an FAQ that gets posted semi-frequently. Anyone ever attempted this? Are there good reasons for this NOT to happen? Otherwise, we should accumulate FAQ type questions (and yes, i would consider doing this. Only because I opened my mouth, not because I know all the answers) rxvt, shadow passwords vs. xdm, ppp configs, cd-rom device names ... a few others come to mind -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How unstable is hamm?
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Scott Ellis wrote: : On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, John Bradley Fitzgibbons wrote: : : I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now : I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to : development. I'd really like to start playing around with version 6, but : I'd hate to destroy my system to do it... :) I have an admin level : knowledge of unix so feel free to be honest with me. Thanks in advance : for any input. : : Speaking as the author of the libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO, I've experienced : very few problems running my machine up-to-date with the latest packages : from hamm. Once you're over the initial upgrade hurdle, everything pretty : much works fine. : : -- : Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ : Kudos, Mr. Ellis. I followed your HOWTO yesterday on a semi-production server and it was relatively painless. 'e2fsck' disappeared which made for an interesting reboot, but I accept the blame for that. Everything else went fine. No horror stories. And now there are a few zillion packages to choose from. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How are .Xdefaults files handled under Debian?
Hi Mark; Well, I think that I got it from a couple of places but I seem to remember the man rxvt was about the more informative about XTERM resources (for my purposes anyway) than man xterm was. On the system that I am using right now the form of the entry is: xterm*scrollBar:yes but I suspect that yes, on, and true may all be aliases for the same boolean flag (ie: true). I also use xterm*reverseVideo:yes but there is one thing that happens that really bugs me... If an error occurs in vi when on an xterm the reverse video gets screwed up. Background seems to switch to white while the forground remains white. Makes terminal use rather a bit difficult! To correct that it seems that I have to do hard resets in a row using the pulldown menu. best, -bill On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, Mark Phillips wrote: On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, bleach wrote: Shouldn't it be: xterm*scrollBar:true (on) Maybe. I was copying another file. How did you find out about the correct format? ... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How unstable is hamm?
On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, John Bradley Fitzgibbons wrote: I've been watching all of the messages concerning libc6 upgrades and now I've just got to ask. How unstable is hamm? My major interest is due to development. I'd really like to start playing around with version 6, but I'd hate to destroy my system to do it... :) I have an admin level knowledge of unix so feel free to be honest with me. Thanks in advance for any input. Can't be too bad if Redhat is basing 5.0 on it... And its considered released. (Although, I think 2.0.5c is still considered beta, wasn't 2.1 supposed to be the commercial grade release?) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Sound.o module / Dependancies
Hi there peoplewithsound, ok, here we go... Brand new fresh Debian 1.3.1 install from Infomagic 6 CD set. Apon installation I notice the sound module isn`t available in this release (something to do with non-free missing?) . OK.. so.. kernel source 2.0.30 installed. make dep make clean make xconfig, make dep (again to be sure) chose Sound as module, SB16 (Y) and AWE patch.. now, no matter how I make the kernel, either using make zImage or make-kpkg (then dpkg -i) the sound module dependancies aren`t set. I`ve managed to get the sound.o into /lib/modules/ but it won`t install. no dependancy information error. Help? TIA Ozzy, __ _ _ / \ \ \ / / / / / |-Brian SkreegIRC:_Ozzy-| \__/ \ \ |-Lead guitarist extraordinaire-| \__/_/ |-I don't look like two zombies-| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian libc5 (bo/stable) to libc6 (hamm/unstable) upgrade Mini-HOWTO
Hi Bob; In addition to what Scott said himself, I was told that he was sent a specific request to post it again (in multiple groups). However, like you (I suspect), I carefully read the whole thing (yet again to see if there was anything new. Thus, as a request to Scott: If it is not too much trouble, would you do something like put an all caps first line line that reads REPOST or PERIODIC POST. I admit that even that would not prevent me from checking the date anyway though! On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, this Mini-HOWTO was posted to the various lists. It appears to be identical to the version posted on Wed Nov 12. Is this an error, or is it an intentional repeat, not an update? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP and Linux
Hi there Linux users. I have installed Linux, and think that it is really great! There are a couple of things that I would like to do. Firstly, I would like to be able to get my Linux side to answer the phone, and if the user logs in OK, create a PPP connection so that they would be able to load a WWW browser and look at my HTML pages. Please could you give me more info about this. Secondly, I have Drivespaced my computer. I would like to be able to access the DriveSpaced side from my Linux side. Is this possible? Sorry for all of the questions! I hope that someone will be able to help... --- Yours Sincerely, Alistair Phillips Fax/Data/Voice - (2721) 785 5265 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
release 1.3.1r6
Help I can't get base 45 to download I've tried the mirror servers in japan and Germany in addition to the main site in the U.S. I am trying to get it down with Win95 all the other files i.e. base 1-3 and root all came through fine. Anybody else having a problem? thanks Tom Derby [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installation Problem
On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Faiz ul Haque Zeya wrote: Hello, I come accross three problems while installing Debian 1.3.1 from CD 1. The system boots correctly from the boot floppy created during installation but by booting from harddisk (through LILO ) the kernel boots correctly but then it stopped displaying the following: VFS: Mounted root msdos file system readonly Unable to open an initial console How to correct it ?. Why msdos is shown as the filesystem instead of ext2 (floppy booting shows ext2) . Is this a problem due to LILO What does /etc/lilo.conf look like? It sounds like you specified the wrong partition for root. 2. The X configuration file can not be created during installation and hence Xserver cannot be started form xdm. How it can be created manually. Do I have to reinstall . Which packages did you install? Once you have all of the needed packages installed you can run xbase-configure to create a configuration file. 3. Thirdly I want to know how to use X without mouse . . What should be done to use mouse funcions through keyboard ?. This one I have no idea about...sorry. 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: HTTP background tool
Dale Martin writes: I use snarf. It can do command line grabs from http, finger, ftp, and gopher. Seems to work reasonably well, and it's super simple to use. I'm not sure if it's still available or not - I don't see it in my mirror. Let me know if it's not - I'll package it. I looked and it isn't there... Such tools can come in handy, as an example I just downloaded some excel tables from a http site, where I took the actual index for some company shares. Then transfer it into the accounting server I am writing, and used the accounting client to display a line chart of the index of the company I was interested in. No need to keep your fingers on a Dynosaur like web browser to hop from one site to the next over slow links to get that info. Just have it automatically transferred to your machine, then have a script pin out the information you're interested in and put it into your books... That's Unix :-) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HTTP background tool
Eloy A. Paris writes: Do not reinvent the wheel. The Wget package will do what you want, and more. Tried it, it works great. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
