Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?
On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 12:25:56PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Rick Hawkins wrote: After playing for an extended period with the default settings, I finally figured out why my sound card wouldn't work: the defaults in the kernel package use Irq 7 rather than 5. Isn't 5 the standard on this? standard? Surely you jest. Yeah, it's also the standard for a lot of other ISA cards whose manufacturer decided that 5 should be the standard IRQ for their board. I believe this myth has originated because the Creative Labs Soundblaster board factory-defaults to an Why shouldn't our kernel factory-default to 5 too? Also I heard that Redhat have a nice sound configuration utility using the nice new modularized sound driver. Still I haven't worked out how to modularize my sound driver in 2.1.65. Something like this would be nice. Perhaps I'll look into it. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?
Hamish Moffatt wrote: Why shouldn't our kernel factory-default to 5 too? I thought irq 5 was also for lpt1. surely it's better to document what we have now? Otherwise we may trade one set of questions for another (Why can't I use my ... printer? :)) 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: kernel sound defaults wrong?
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: I thought irq 5 was also for lpt1. surely it's better to document what we have now? Otherwise we may trade one set of questions for another (Why can't I use my ... printer? :)) In linux the lp module doesn't use an IRQ, it polls instead, doesn't it? I mean, look at this: [7 mmagallo scratchy:~] cat /proc/interrupts 0: 924972 timer 1: 24832 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 3: 148937 NE2000 4: 14280 + serial 10:1311714 + fdomain 13: 1 math error 14: 191086 + ide0 and the printer does its job nicely... -- MM -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?
On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 04:39:42PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: Why shouldn't our kernel factory-default to 5 too? I thought irq 5 was also for lpt1. surely it's better to document what we have now? Otherwise we may trade one set of questions for another (Why can't I use my ... printer? :)) Well, IRQ 7 is usually for LPT1, and printing doesn't require an IRQ by default (you have to enable it with tunelp). I actually have a serial port on IRQ 7, as well as the printer, and it works fine. Things like Zip drives might be another question though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone have any good help files for the learning Linux fan?
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:28:12 +0300, cs51wcs wrote: I'm looking for a good file for that will be able to answer some of my = questions about Linux. I've read all the included how-to's, but still = have many questions. I currently only have e-mail access and am not = able to browse or ftp. Hi Scott, You pose a common, yet unsuspectingly complex, question. Being fairly new to Linux myself, I may, or may not, have a decent take on your perspective. I'm going to take a stab at your request, in a roundabout way (this is long, sorry). While I've been somewhat new to linux for the past six months, I was only freshly new to Linux for a relatively short time, perhaps a couple months. The initial adjustment is the most difficult transition. Slowly, piece by piece, you'll probably get to know Linux better, and soon you'll feel like part of the Linux crowd, and have gaudy .signature file exalting Linux. :-) Well, maybe not that last part, but you see where I'm going with this. Now to the brunt of the matter. It's difficult to answer your question straight out, even with ftp and web access. Incidentally, there is a way of getting ftp access via e-mail (sorry, I forget what that package is called), assuming the file you want is within your quota, but I gather that you're looking for a sort of quick-start guide, or a tonic for early Linux woes. The HOWTO's are an excellent resource, however Linux is very dynamic, and some of the HOWTO's I've found tend to be a little bit general or technical in nature, and often slightly out of date, and most of the information you're going to desire to configure your system may be somewhat more personalized and current, and may need to be translated to a different level of understanding. By the way, make sure you have an easy way to read those tarball howto's, either with a shell script such as that found in the Tips-HOWTO, or else using FileRunner or MidnightCommander. Your understanding of Linux will continually improve everytime you apply your knowledge, so it would be difficult to write a beginner's quick start guide, because by the time you were half way through, you'd be at a higher skill level(assuming you practiced along the way). Also, Linux is a sufficiently vast and unlimited domain such that you can use Linux for a long time and still have many deep and wide chasms, even if all Linux development were to completely cease, and surely that will not happen anytime soon. Clearly, a fresh beginner's needs differ markedly from those of a year-old beginner. So, where to start a beginner's guide? One of the best ways to become acquanted with Linux is to pick up a good book. I know they don't give them away, but there are a number of excellent Linux books out right now, one of the more popular ones of which is Running Linux. (My copy is currently 7 inches from my keyboard, as are a couple other O'Reilly books.) The reason I recommend a book is because it takes the information you and I require and packages it in an informal, almost conversational, style, which you and I can usually come to terms with. It's also indexed, can be read at lunch or on the bus (or before muster on the ship, as the case may be :-). You might look for unix books at your library, I found a good number, even at local libraries. While I sub-consciously curse the volume of the mailing lists, which is ever-increasing, I find the ideas and examples and conversational, practical, up-to-date questions and answers very relevant, so I save favorites in a folder, which I can call upon when needed by using my e-mail client to search for a keyword. Over time what I save has changed remarkably. You might already have a Linux folder setup and be doing this, it's a common practice. By reading the mailing list, I not only solve problems and manage day to day issues, but I also learn the language of Linux that books rarely yield. This might not seem very important at first glance, but it is actually invaluable to me because it is a sort of catalyst or bonding agent that melds all the information into my ideas which are then able to be recalled when needed, and which will form the basis of how I personalize your Linux box, as well as other future departure points. Lots of little bits and pieces. With windoze, one often does not have so many choices, but with Linux there are many choices to be made with regard to window managers, editors, e-mail clients,.. and with Linux one is presented with the task of administering services to users, and one's configuration files become increasingly valuable, so backups become more of a requirement; in essence, Linux requires more on the sys admin side. It takes time and effort, but the reward is knowledge and skills which afford more agility and might for computing tasks, all at a price which cannot be beat (unless you buy microsoft's claims). So, where to start a beginner's guide? I wish I knew.
Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO - purging -dev packages
Section 3. of the Mini-HOWTO says: If you wish to do libc6 development, you should first purge all the '-dev' packages on your system Please confirm that this does not include dpkg-dev_1.4.0.19.deb, which was installed under Section 2.3. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO - purging -dev packages
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: Section 3. of the Mini-HOWTO says: If you wish to do libc6 development, you should first purge all the '-dev' packages on your system Please confirm that this does not include dpkg-dev_1.4.0.19.deb, which was installed under Section 2.3. Correct, you don't need to purge dpkg-dev -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Need help in X Windows installation
At 09:15 AM 12/10/97 -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: These messages do not indicate a fatal error, only that you haven't installed these X extensions. If you're using your own .xinitrc, are you sure that the last command uses 'exec' rather than just running a program? This would cause the X server to immediately exit. Yes, my last command was an 'exec' which I used to load olvwm. Regarding the extensions, are these options I can choose from dselect? Bryan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Need help in X Windows installation
At 04:32 PM 12/10/97 +0100, Sten Anderson wrote: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These messages do not indicate a fatal error, only that you haven't installed these X extensions. If you're using your own .xinitrc, are you sure that the last command uses 'exec' rather than just running a program? This would cause the X server to immediately exit. It is NOT necessary for the last command to be started with exec. In fact, exec should only be used on the window manager, and only if that is the last command in .xinitrc. The problem is more likely the use of 's. Every program started in .xinitrc should have appended EXCEPT the window manager. Well, that's right. All the commands in my .xinitrc script end in except for the one loading the window manager. Thanks. Bryan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Need help in X Windows installation
On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 05:51:40AM +0800, Bryan Barcelo wrote: At 04:32 PM 12/10/97 +0100, Sten Anderson wrote: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These messages do not indicate a fatal error, only that you haven't installed these X extensions. If you're using your own .xinitrc, are you sure that the last command uses 'exec' rather than just running a program? This would cause the X server to immediately exit. It is NOT necessary for the last command to be started with exec. In fact, exec should only be used on the window manager, and only if that is the last command in .xinitrc. The problem is more likely the use of 's. Every program started in .xinitrc should have appended EXCEPT the window manager. Well, that's right. All the commands in my .xinitrc script end in except for the one loading the window manager. Thanks. The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last command should not end in , but it's most useful if that's the window manager. You could make it xclock or something, but then you'd have to kill the clock somehow to logout. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail to exim
On Dec 10, Kevin Traas wrote I'm looking to convert from smail to exim for various reasons Anyway, I've no experience with exim. Can anyone give me any pointers on how to proceed with this particular roll-over or let me know of any docs I can RTFM, etc. Any caveats, things to watch for, etc. would be helpful. Exim is straight forward for basic installation, just like smail. Are you using the smail lists (mailing list fuctions)? I converted a machine at BNL from smail to exim in about 20 mins. The hardest thing for me was getting smail marked to be removed, and exim to be installed, and the whole thing to get forced through dpkg! I, and a lot of others have virtual domains, smartlist, etc running with exim very happily, so just get the basic install done, then fire away with any questions. Tim -- Tim Sailer (at home) Coastal Internet, Inc. Network and Systems Operations PO Box 671 http://www.buoy.comRidge, NY 11961 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED](516) 476-3031 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help with using a remote xserver
Hello all, I'm posting here because this used to work when I was using Slackware. I have a mac (my wife won't migrate to Linux ... yet!) and a linux box connect by ethernet. I run X11 on the linux machine, and because the monitor on the mac is so much nicer, I like to use a X server on it. There is a free xserver for the mac called MI/X. Worked fairly well before I migrated to debian, but now when I try to start a client on that display I get the following errors: whitehouse$ xterm -display powermac:0.0 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Error: Can't open display: powermac:0.0 whitehouse$ It also doen't work when invoked with whitehouse$ xterm -display 192.168.1.2:0.0 This gives the same error. So what gives. I seem to have everything set up on my mac the same as before. I've gone through the docs about X11 in /usr/doc and yes I have Anybody as my secondline in /etc/X11/Xserver. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ben Benjamin T. White, M.D. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Neurosurgery| http://members.aol.com/benmd/home.html Bowman Gray SOM | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Neilen Marais wrote: I am having a bit of a problem with Perl. I am running a mostly hamm system, but whenever I use the newest perl things start core-dumping (adduser, dpkg-ftp)... The only solution I have found is to downgrade to the old perl that came with hamm, though this of course breaks dependancies etc... Am at my wits end as to how to hanlde this Could someone PLEASE help? BTW, the version of PERL I'm trying to install is 5.004.04-2. Thanks in advance Neilen Hmm same thing here aswell. I'm running stable but have a few hamm packages installed. This i get running everyperl script and some (including adduser) just core dump.. *ANY* help in this would be appreciated. Adrenolin [~]$perl -v perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = en_US are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). This is perl, version 5.004_02 Thanx --Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: smail to exim
The largest hurdle that you are going to face is getting smail off of your system so you can install exim. You are going to need to force dpkg to remove this essential package. I would wait a little while, the package in unstable is much better than the one in stable and a new upstream source release was just announced this week. On 10-Dec-97 Kevin Traas wrote: I'm looking to convert from smail to exim for various reasons Anyway, I've no experience with exim. Can anyone give me any pointers on how to proceed with this particular roll-over or let me know of any docs I can RTFM, etc. Any caveats, things to watch for, etc. would be helpful. TIA, Kevin Traas -- 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: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: Neilen Marais wrote: Am at my wits end as to how to hanlde this Could someone PLEASE help? Sure, if I knew where when perl was core dumping what exactly is going wrong? Stephen Hi Stephen, Don't know how this can help but this is an example of adduser: Root [~]#adduser pringles #ok ok i'm eating Pringles now :) Segmentation fault (core dumped)#it cores out Root [~]#rm -n core#I remove the core --Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
upgraded to hamm! perl prob...
Ok. I just completely reinstalled Debian. Pretty smooth. I let dselect install all the basic pre-selected packages. All good. Then I followed the libc5 to libc6 howto to the letter. I installed the necessary libraries by hand for perl. Then I ran dselect and pointed the ftp to the hamm dist like it says in the howto. I let dselect just run and upgrade the necessary packages. Well, for some reason perl didn't get installed because it depended on something else...and then dselect broke. Well, since dselect's ftp method already got perl_5.004.04-3.deb for me, I just went and found it and did a dpkg -i perl_5.004.04-3.deb by hand. That fixed things. I think maybe that perl file and whatever else it needs should be added to the libc5 to libc6 upgrade, to be installed by hand before using dselect. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Need help in X Windows installation
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last command should not end in , but it's most useful if that's the window manager. You could make it xclock or something, but then you'd have to kill the clock somehow to logout. Depends - most window managers will send a message to all active X clients when they exit that causes them to shut down. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Replacing smail w/exim
I'm presently running my system with smail. What I'd like to do is to convert to an easier to configure and more capable MTA, which I believe is exim (correct me if I'm wrong:-). However, I'm in a catch-22. dselect/dpkg won't allow me to remove smail because so many packages depend on it. And, dselect/dpkg won't allow me to install exim because smail already exists. Could someone give me some tips on the proper way to accomplish such a switch? Is there a way to override dselect/dpkg's dependencies for such circumstances? Thanks in advance. -- 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] .
Re: Need help in X Windows installation
Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ): |Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last | command should not end in , but it's most useful if that's the window | manager. You could make it xclock or something, but then you'd | have to kill the clock somehow to logout. | |Depends - most window managers will send a message to all active X |clients when they exit that causes them to shut down. | I don't think this is right...I've fiddled a lot with window managers, and I switch them ``mid-flight'' quite a bit. (Since I have an xterm as the final exec'd command, killing my window manager doesn't end my x session.) If what you're saying is true, every time I switch window managers, all my windows would die, effectively ending the session. Needless to say, this doesn't happen. -alan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Replacing smail w/exim
try dpkg -r --force remove-essential smail or dpkg -r --force depends smail but I think it is the first one. On 11-Dec-97 Randy Edwards wrote: I'm presently running my system with smail. What I'd like to do is to convert to an easier to configure and more capable MTA, which I believe is exim (correct me if I'm wrong:-). However, I'm in a catch-22. dselect/dpkg won't allow me to remove smail because so many packages depend on it. And, dselect/dpkg won't allow me to install exim because smail already exists. Could someone give me some tips on the proper way to accomplish such a switch? Is there a way to override dselect/dpkg's dependencies for such circumstances? Thanks in advance. -- 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] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Need help in X Windows installation
Alan Su [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ): |Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last | command should not end in , but it's most useful if that's the window | manager. You could make it xclock or something, but then you'd | have to kill the clock somehow to logout. | |Depends - most window managers will send a message to all active X |clients when they exit that causes them to shut down. | I don't think this is right...I've fiddled a lot with window managers, and I switch them ``mid-flight'' quite a bit. (Since I have an xterm as the final exec'd command, killing my window manager doesn't end my x session.) If what you're saying is true, every time I switch window managers, all my windows would die, effectively ending the session. Needless to say, this doesn't happen. It depends entirely of the window manager. WindowMaker, for example, has two exit options: exit... and exit session This way it is optional whether all X clients should be killed or not. It is correct that if you kill a window manager manually (kill pid), it should not kill other X clients (except perhaps it children). - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Need help in X Windows installation
Alan Su [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ): | |Depends - most window managers will send a message to all active X |clients when they exit that causes them to shut down. | I don't think this is right...I've fiddled a lot with window managers, and I switch them ``mid-flight'' quite a bit. (Since I have an xterm as the final exec'd command, killing my window manager doesn't end my x session.) If what you're saying is true, every time I switch window managers, all my windows would die, effectively ending the session. Needless to say, this doesn't happen. Ok - I was too wuick with my use of most. I got used to this way of doing things from olvwm, which does behave this way. (But I've just checked and, indeed, fvwm2 does not) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
some dselect questions
Hey all-- Got several dselect questions that have been bugging me lately. One thing I don't like about dselect is with the searching -- is there a way to search through the text descriptions as well as the package names? Also, I'm not crazy about \ as the repeat search key -- is there a reason why an empty / search couldn't repeat the last search? Is it possible to view unstable packages with dselect? The Packages file never seems to be available. This leads to a question I have about libraries. My intent was to install Wine, and after not finding it in dselect's selection menu after updating my package lists, I thought there didn't exist a Debian package for it. I thought this was kinda odd, so after searching debian.org found it in unstable. Among the dependencies listed was xlib6g and a few other unstable packages that didn't appear in dselect. The idea of replacing the libraries on my main box with unstable libc6, xlib6g and xpm4g scared me, and so I decided not to install it. Would this have broken my system? Furthermore, are these libs at all close to being moved over to stable? Finally, what's the status of diety? thanks m Michael Stutz . http://dsl.org/m/ . copyright disclaimer etc stutz@dsl.org : finger for pgp : http://dsl.org/copyleft/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help with using a remote xserver
I use a different server, but try DISPLAY=powermac:0; export DISPLAY from a telnet prompt in yur linux box. Then xterm or what ever, speaking of MI/X i just d/led the free version, (win95) and the file0001.bin is password protected, i cant get it to install, emailed microimage about it, but no answer. I also d/l it twice incase of bad file but still same problem. the setup program after u run getme1st sees it and starts to install but never uncompressed the file? Anyhelp? tired of this win95 Xserver that only gives u 30 minute connections. RZ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, December 10, 1997 7:11 PM Subject: Help with using a remote xserver Hello all, I'm posting here because this used to work when I was using Slackware. I have a mac (my wife won't migrate to Linux ... yet!) and a linux box connect by ethernet. I run X11 on the linux machine, and because the monitor on the mac is so much nicer, I like to use a X server on it. There is a free xserver for the mac called MI/X. Worked fairly well before I migrated to debian, but now when I try to start a client on that display I get the following errors: whitehouse$ xterm -display powermac:0.0 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Error: Can't open display: powermac:0.0 whitehouse$ It also doen't work when invoked with whitehouse$ xterm -display 192.168.1.2:0.0 This gives the same error. So what gives. I seem to have everything set up on my mac the same as before. I've gone through the docs about X11 in /usr/doc and yes I have Anybody as my secondline in /etc/X11/Xserver. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ben Benjamin T. White, M.D. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Neurosurgery | http://members.aol.com/benmd/home.html Bowman Gray SOM | -- 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: is there a Debian specific published manual
See the docs at www.debian.org . There are quite a few. Also there is a book on debian (OReilly ?) , its also on the net, but I can't remember where. On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Fuzzy wrote: / /usr /usr/srcinstalled system software sources /usr/local /etc /bin /lib whatever /usr/local/src installed locally patched sources of course if things are stable there probably wont be much in /usr/local Debian currently follows the FSSTND . There is nothing in /usr/local . Thats all for your site. /var /var/spool for UUCP spool, inn control files users mail (if its possible the users mail spool should go in the users /home our users use mainly pine and elm (MUAs) and we use sendmail (MTA)) SMTPD staging I believe all the debian defaults put mail in /var/spool (I'm not sure if there is a script to let you choose.) With sendmail I think you just edit the directory in /etc/passwd to change this. /tmp /news spool space for articles /home[1-n]user home directories agrees /majordomoall things relating debian puts bins in /usr/lib/majordomo (all files that are static) puts variable files in /var/lib/majordomo puts docs in /usr/doc/majordomo This goes for all packages G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
zgv (libc6)
Just tried zgv thats in hamm. I get this: red# zgv svgalib: FATAL internal error: Set MAX_REGS at least to 405 in src/driver.h and recompile everything. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re 12 virtual consoles
[original message got lost when my debian-user folder got automagically cleaned out at midnight. mea culpa... ] at a guess, I think what you want is more along the lines of 'screen' (available as a .deb in the 'misc' directory). it's a nice terminal multiplexer that permits up to 9 login or non-login shells to run on a single terminal (or VC), and provides some very nice capabilities such as detach/reattach ability, cut'n'paste, and typescripts besides. (having your programs' controlling process independent of the physical terminal is a wonderful thing, btw, if you have to telnet over a flaky connection or hop between X and textmode.) 9 screens per console * 12 virtual consoles = 108 possible screens. that should be sufficient. : cheers, --- matthew powers --- `` and what is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good -- need we ask anyone to tell us these things? '' -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
correction.
9 screens * 12 virtual consoles = 108 argh!! yes, this is indeed very wrong. realized just as the message zipped out - that'll teach me to run my mouth at 2am. sorry. :) --- matthew powers --- `` and what is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good -- need we ask anyone to tell us these things? '' -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: is there a Debian specific published manual
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, G John Lapeyre wrote: See the docs at www.debian.org . There are quite a few. Also there is a book on debian (OReilly ?) , its also on the net, but I can't remember where. There is the Debian Linux User's Guide, published by Linux Press. It's available from their web site (http://www.linuxpress.com). I took a look at it. It seems fairly complete, but you can get the same information from the HOWTO documents and the Debian FAQ. Corey -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: is there a Debian specific published manual
On 11-Dec-97 Random wrote: I took a look at it. It seems fairly complete, but you can get the same information from the HOWTO documents and the Debian FAQ. Corey The book is pretty handy if your internet connection is not set up yet ;) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Need help in X Windows installation
On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 08:00:30PM -0800, Alan Su wrote: Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ): |Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last | command should not end in , but it's most useful if that's the window | manager. You could make it xclock or something, but then you'd | have to kill the clock somehow to logout. | |Depends - most window managers will send a message to all active X |clients when they exit that causes them to shut down. I don't think this is right...I've fiddled a lot with window managers, and I switch them ``mid-flight'' quite a bit. (Since I have an xterm as the final exec'd command, killing my window manager doesn't end my x session.) If what you're saying is true, every time I switch window managers, all my windows would die, effectively ending the session. Needless to say, this doesn't happen. The window manager will replace itself with the new one, (using an exec() call, presumably). So the same command in your .xsession/.xinitrc is still running. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Need help in X Windows installation
Hamish Moffatt wrote (Thu, 11 Dec 1997 18:36:55 +1100 ): |On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 08:00:30PM -0800, Alan Su wrote: | Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ): | |Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | | The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last | | command should not end in , but it's most useful if that's the window | | manager. You could make it xclock or something, but then you'd | | have to kill the clock somehow to logout. | | | |Depends - most window managers will send a message to all active X | |clients when they exit that causes them to shut down. | | I don't think this is right...I've fiddled a lot with window managers, | and I switch them ``mid-flight'' quite a bit. (Since I have an xterm | as the final exec'd command, killing my window manager doesn't end my | x session.) If what you're saying is true, every time I switch window | managers, all my windows would die, effectively ending the session. | Needless to say, this doesn't happen. | |The window manager will replace itself with the new one, |(using an exec() call, presumably). So the same command in |your .xsession/.xinitrc is still running. | This is only true if you use the window manager facility to restart. I usually kill the window manager with (kill pid), temporarily leaving me window manager-less. Then, I start another window manager from a shell I have open. I suppose I could configure my window manager to exec a different window manager, but that's too much effort. or i'm too lazy. (probably the latter.) -alan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...
BTW, the version of PERL I'm trying to install is 5.004.04-2. There is a perl 5.004.04-3 at ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming/DONE/ Maybe it will solve your problems. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SVGA (X) server stopped working properly.
Hello! I accidently ran (the command) X (not startx) and the server showed up with no window-manager or anything else (just the dotted gray/white/black background and the x shaped cursor) I didn't know how to shut it down so I rebooted (since CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't do the job I pressed reset), everything works fine BUT X windows. The resolution is now 640x400, even though I ran XF86Setup and changed the screen to 1024x768 non-interlaced, then edited /etc/X11/XF86Config manually and added (even though I used XF86Setup it wasn't there) support for 1024x768 and 800x600. When I shut it down, I was that the server marked (with (**) instead of (--)) resolutions up to 640X400, and wrote that it didn't use 800x600 since it is 50 MHz and my clock limit is 40 MHz, it also wrote that it dropped 1024x768 from the list (didn't say why - I configured it to 80 MHz) My monitor AND graphic card can do much better then 40 MHz. Should I reinsatall xbase and SVGA-Server? Can I do something else about it? I'm using Trident 8900CL and no-name (non-interlace) monitor that can do 30-50 and 30-90 for 1024x768 and 800x600. Please help! Thanks in advance!!! Liran Zvibel. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to get slrn colored in xterm ?
Britton hat gesagt: // Britton wrote: What you need to do (if you are running bash at least) is type export TERM=xterm-color in the terminal before you start slrn. But this does not work anymore if you are living unstable with libc6. Somehow the terminfo entry for xterm-color is gone and I too faced the situation that slrn, mc and the like were black'n'white. export COLORTERM=y did the trick for me! On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Peter Prohaska wrote: hi all, I´m using slrn for reading news and do NOT want to change the app ;) Now, when starting slrn from within the standard linux terminal, I get that nifty color-spreading frontend. But when started in an xterm, it looks sad monochrome. Does anyone know if can get colors in xterms, too -- and how? thanx, peter. -- Yours a href=http://www.koeln-online.de/einblick/; Frank Barknecht Das Koelner Stadt- und Unimagazin - /a -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ird registration
Hi folks, I`m in the middle of writing an IRC client but have been halted in development by odd behaviour of the Debian ircd package. Ircd is installed as per default. This should be no ident and anyone can connect. According to the rfc the login process is like this. PASS anything NICk nick USER user hostname servername :whois Now, if I telnet to scorch 667 (my hostname) it connects and dumps me at the login bit so... PASS oz NICK oz USER oz scorch scorch :blah blah JOIN #blah I then get an error saying JOIN : Register first Now, according to the rfc, if I register with USER twice, I`ll should get ERROR : already registered. This isn`t happening. Typing in USER on it`s own gives; ERROR: not enough parameters ... as per rfc this is correct. But , USER registering properly seems to have no effect. Is there something different about this ircd in someway? I`ve written bots before in C and these worked correct to the rfc. Something is amiss. 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: Partitioning
Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote: Obviously these are judgement calls and opinions but when the original hard disk code was written decisions were made concerning such things as sizes for device storage parameters. While what you have said about the cost of 10Meg HDs and the like is true, that fact did not seem to influence others in such a limiting way about how to deal with the matter. More importantly, I think, is that it has taken many years to finally to address this issue. The original harddisk code was written for (relatively) cheap hardware. SCSI harddisks, using block addressing, were of course around, but much more expensive. Nevertheless, even though the partition table entries specify the location of partitions in cylinder, head, and sector parameters, they _also_ specify them in logical block numbers. Using these numbers a harddisk of 2 TB (2048 GB) can be described. Note, again, that the partition table layout has nothing to do with the BIOS. The BIOS provided an interface for cheap hardware; if demand would have been higher for better quality hardware, like built-in support for SCSI drives, it would have been there. Nothing in the PC design prevents this - in fact, my BIOS directly supports (NCR) SCSI controllers. On top of that, the PC design allows for _really_ non standard (for PC's, anyway) hardware to have it's own BIOS to take over the standard BIOS calls. I'm not exactly sure what you think is the nightmare part of the original design (and frankly, I don't care). There are a ... And if you don't care then we are probably both wasting our time. No - because I am not trying to change your _opinion_ on PC hardware, I am just trying to stop you from spreading misinformation about it. I realize very well that a lot of compromises have been made with PC design over the years, there is enough to complain about - so if you want to do that, go ahead, but get your facts straight. * There is a limited number of primary partitions available in the MBR. This limitation is no serious problem, as many modern OSes don't object to being installed in an extended partition (of which there can be as many as required). Yes, many often incompatible workarounds exist. What do you mean with incompatible workarounds? What's incompatible about booting from an extended partition? No there is nothing brain dead about partitioning a drive and I see no way that anyone could conclude from anything that I have said that I think otherwise. It is the arbitrary decision to create the tiered partition types (primary, extended, and logical) abstraction that I object to. Since the partition table resides in the MBR, with limited space, _some_ limit had to be set to the number of entries in the table. Four, at the time, was a reasonable limit. When the limit became - well, limiting, MS introduced extended partitions - which is nothing other than a way to arbitrarily expand the partition table. It seems like a reasonable solution to me. These modern BIOSes have finally caught up with BIOSes of more than twenty years ago. Are you suggesting that had different decisions concerning how to deal compatibly with the various limitation that were arbitrarily built into the original design had been handled differently that the PC would not be as popular or have such a favorable performance/price ratio as it currently has? Yes. (I don't want to get into this, though, because there is no way to prove one way or the other). I have lost it. In as much as I really do not wish to mislead anyone then by misinformation are you talking about my assertions with respect to the BIOS design (and indeed design evolution) upon the overall filesystem design, or rather my (admitted) failure to even mention that there are new BIOS designs that do not themselves impose this scheme, or both? Your misinformation was that: - BIOS imposes the current partitioning scheme opon us, and limits the number of primary partitions to four (not true - BIOS knows nothing about partitions and doesn't care either). - DOS, Windows and OS/2 don't see other primary partitions than the one they booted from (not true - DOS and Windows see other primary DOS partitions just fine, and OS/2 won't even boot when they are present and not hidden). - fdisk /mbr will wipe out everything on the drive (wrong - it just replaces (or installs) the MBR software without touching the partition table). - (A point I hadn't addressed yet:) loadlin uses BIOS calls for drive access (wrong - it uses DOS calls, which can, but don't have to, translate into BIOS calls). You _still_ don't seem to get that partitioning and BIOS have nothing to do with each other, and that the BIOS is simply just a piece of software - if the current interface is not longer sufficient, it is very easy to change the BIOS to provide a new interface, or
Re: Debian/WindowsNT partitioning
Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because of what you say, I feel as though it borders on FM but possibly it has something to do with the BIOS of the particular machines where this has workded? FM? Fdisk uses standard BIOS calls to access the harddisk, so it's unlikely this has something to do with the BIOS. I don't know what could be the cause, though. Gertjan. -- Gertjan Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Boot Control home page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gklein/bcpage.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
crypt problem
I'm trying to use st. from hamm distribution. libc6 and so on I have installed properly but now I have following problem : I'm compilling RADIUS 2.0 daemon and here is error message : /tmp/cca305401.o: In function `unix_pass': /tmp/cca305401.o(.text+0x2159): undefined reference to `crypt' make: *** [radiusd] Error 1 It means that I have not crypt function in some lib. Do you know what should I do to get right it ? marty [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: some dselect questions
Michael Stutz stutz@dsl.org writes: MS Is it possible to view unstable packages with dselect? The Packages file MS never seems to be available. If you're using dftp, tell it to look at hamm/non-free, hamm/contrib, and hamm/hamm. (I've found that the order matters a lot, and putting hamm/hamm first makes other things slower.) But, before you do that... MS This leads to a question I have about libraries. MS Among the dependencies listed was xlib6g and a few other MS unstable packages that didn't appear in dselect. The idea of MS replacing the libraries on my main box with unstable libc6, xlib6g MS and xpm4g scared me, and so I decided not to install it. Would MS this have broken my system? hamm is largely built on version 2 of the GNU C library (or version 6 of the Linux C library, your choice). The upgrade from libc5 to libc6 is a major one; you should read the mini-HOWTO on the subject before you do this. If you are going to be moving over to libc6, follow the instructions in the HOWTO before putting hamm/* into dselect. perl breaking kind of tends to screw up most of the other stuff dpkg does, which is just not fun for trying to fix things up. MS Furthermore, are these libs at all close to being moved over to MS stable? At some point they will _become_ stable as the Debian 2.0 release. This is really the only fair way to ask bo users to upgrade to libc6. -- _ / \ The cat's been in the box for over | David Maze | 20 years. Nobody's feeding it. The | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |cat is dead. | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Grant, on Schroedinger's Cat \_/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: is there a Debian specific published manual
http://www.linuxpress.com/001001.htm Haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I think it's what you are looking for. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SVGA (X) server stopped working properly.
Liran Zvibel writes: Hello! I accidently ran (the command) X (not startx) and the server showed up with no window-manager or anything else (just the dotted gray/white/black background and the x shaped cursor) I didn't know how to shut it down so I rebooted (since CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't do the job I pressed reset), everything works fine BUT X windows. To KILL X Windows, press CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE. The resolution is now 640x400, even though I ran XF86Setup and changed the screen to 1024x768 non-interlaced, then edited /etc/X11/XF86Config manually and added (even though I used XF86Setup it wasn't there) support for 1024x768 and 800x600. When I shut it down, I was that the server marked (with (**) instead of (--)) resolutions up to 640X400, and wrote that it didn't use 800x600 since it is 50 MHz and my clock limit is 40 MHz, it also wrote that it dropped 1024x768 from the list (didn't say why - I configured it to 80 MHz) My monitor AND graphic card can do much better then 40 MHz. Should I reinsatall xbase and SVGA-Server? Can I do something else about it? I'm using Trident 8900CL and no-name (non-interlace) monitor that can do 30-50 and 30-90 for 1024x768 and 800x600. Even if you re-install xbase, you'll probably end up hand-editing the config file anyway (I know, I usually have to :-) Just edit the monitor section in the XF86Config file, and tell it that your monitor can use 30-50 Hz horizontal, and 30-90 Hz vertical. (i.e. HorizontalSync = 30-50, and VertRefresh = 30-90). Then look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc, for the Devices and Monitors file. There you will find Modelines for you monitor and card, and tune your Device section to your hearts desire. Then, ensure that the chipset is correct for your Generic SVGA device, and that SVGA is the X server used in /etc/X11/Xserver (i.e. the first line reads /usr/bin/X11/XF86_SVGA). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
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Can anyone please post the Debian specific published manual.
Hello, I currently only have e-mail access and am unavailable to download it. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
compiling autofs under bo
Hi! I'm trying to recompile the autofs package, from the hamm distribution, so I can run it on my bo system. I patched the sources and ran the 'rules' script and this is what I get instead of a nice debian package: Leeloo:~/leeloo/tmp/autofs-0.3.14$ debian/rules test -f debian/rules make make[1]: Entering directory `/amd/Leeloo/home/students/feri/tmp/autofs-0.3.14' for i in daemon modules man; do make -C $i all; done make[2]: Entering directory `/amd/Leeloo/home/students/feri/tmp/autofs-0.3.14/daemon' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/amd/Leeloo/home/students/feri/tmp/autofs-0.3.14/daemon' make[2]: Entering directory `/amd/Leeloo/home/students/feri/tmp/autofs-0.3.14/modules' gcc -shared -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -I../include -fpic -DAUTOFS_LIB_DIR=\/usr/lib/autofs\ -o lookup_yp.so lookup_yp.c -lnsl ld: cannot open -lnsl: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [lookup_yp.so] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/amd/Leeloo/home/students/feri/tmp/autofs-0.3.14/modules' make[2]: Entering directory `/amd/Leeloo/home/students/feri/tmp/autofs-0.3.14/man' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/amd/Leeloo/home/students/feri/tmp/autofs-0.3.14/man' make[1]: Leaving directory `/amd/Leeloo/home/students/feri/tmp/autofs-0.3.14' touch build What is the 'nsl' library and where can I get it?? feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
looking for a script to display current location in filesystem
Hi, I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance is appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /dev on a ram disk
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you're still getting disk accesses because of the update daemon? You could try killing it to check. (of course, then you have to sync your disk by hand). As far as I can tell, the update daemon in the more recent kernels (all of the 2.0 series, I think) is clever enough to not write out the super block if there's nothing else to be written to disk. So update won't touch the disk unless something's been written (or an atime updated)... My box has successfully been left idle for hours with the disk spun down. update was still running, as well as syslogd/klogd, kerneld, inetd, gpm, apache and probably others. IIRC atd was running, too. smail starts the disk up every 20 minutes to check the local mail queues. cron starts the disk up every hour to rescan the crontabs (why that should be, I don't know). I rebuilt cron with a max sleep time of a day instead of an hour, which worked well... With virtual-dev installed, I can even leave an idle X session up without keeping the disk spinning. virtual-dev is still experimental, because, on my machine at least, it interacts badly with sysvinit, making shutdown hang. Has anyone else had this problem? When virtual-dev goes into unstable, it'll be called devices-in-ram instead, BTW. virtual-dev was a supremely bad choice of name on my part. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: crypt problem
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:54:50PM +0100, Martin Madlik wrote: I'm trying to use st. from hamm distribution. libc6 and so on I have installed properly but now I have following problem : I'm compilling RADIUS 2.0 daemon and here is error message : /tmp/cca305401.o: In function `unix_pass': /tmp/cca305401.o(.text+0x2159): undefined reference to `crypt' make: *** [radiusd] Error 1 It means that I have not crypt function in some lib. Do you know what should I do to get right it ? Yes, link with the crypt library, ie -lcrypt. crypt has moved from libc to it's own library in the libc5 to libc6 upgrade. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: crypt problem
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Martin Madlik wrote: I'm trying to use st. from hamm distribution. libc6 and so on I have installed properly but now I have following problem : I'm compilling RADIUS 2.0 daemon and here is error message : /tmp/cca305401.o: In function `unix_pass': /tmp/cca305401.o(.text+0x2159): undefined reference to `crypt' make: *** [radiusd] Error 1 It means that I have not crypt function in some lib. Do you know what should I do to get right it ? -lcrypt -- 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: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem
Try the command 'pwd'. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, cs51wcs wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance is appreciated. -- 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: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem
err, just pwd should do it rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: crypt problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding crypt problem of 04:54 AM -0800 1997-12-11, Martin Madlik wrote: I'm trying to use st. from hamm distribution. libc6 and so on I have installed properly but now I have following problem : I'm compilling RADIUS 2.0 daemon and here is error message : /tmp/cca305401.o: In function `unix_pass': /tmp/cca305401.o(.text+0x2159): undefined reference to `crypt' make: *** [radiusd] Error 1 You need to link against libcrypt, add -lcrypt to the LIBS or CFLAGS of the Makefile. - -- Joel Espy Klecker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.espy.org/ Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://www.debian.org/ Apple Flavored Unixhttp://www.espy.org/apple-flavored-unix/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5 iQCVAwUBNJADYAoYIlYX1XaBAQEb1QQAlTL4fy0B1JDgSPLCzvsvDRSS4TRqA7nb uWFixWkcOEovwqFFIcOFl0NLzwpiIaD1sN0Oj5mWk/H6rYtHxVWv0z+wLD75FULS /j2NUr0f1+IUOu9WncZKb7cWtXc6aVmpx8iVP+PPVMSNjUcVH3HJYCgevSQBwGhs MU4bCLFpOcE= =buH+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /dev on a ram disk
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you're still getting disk accesses because of the update daemon? You could try killing it to check. (of course, then you have to sync your disk by hand). As far as I can tell, the update daemon in the more recent kernels (all of the 2.0 series, I think) is clever enough to not write out the super block if there's nothing else to be written to disk. So update won't touch the disk unless something's been written (or an atime updated)... My box has successfully been left idle for hours with the disk spun down. update was still running, as well as syslogd/klogd, kerneld, inetd, gpm, apache and probably others. IIRC atd was running, too. smail starts the disk up every 20 minutes to check the local mail queues. cron starts the disk up every hour to rescan the crontabs (why that should be, I don't know). I rebuilt cron with a max sleep time of a day instead of an hour, which worked well... With virtual-dev installed, I can even leave an idle X session up without keeping the disk spinning. virtual-dev is still experimental, because, on my machine at least, it interacts badly with sysvinit, making shutdown hang. Has anyone else had this problem? When virtual-dev goes into unstable, it'll be called devices-in-ram instead, BTW. virtual-dev was a supremely bad choice of name on my part. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- 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: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem
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From: cs51wcs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 9:53 AM
Subject: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem
Hi,
I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the
filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance is
appreciated.
I am not 100% certain what you what but
To determine your current or present working directory enter -- pwd CR
To include your current working directory as part of your command line
prompt, I place the following in by .bash_profile,
BOLD() { tput smso ; }
BLINK() { tput blink ; }
OFF() { tput sgr0 ; }
NODENAME=`tput smso``tput blink`[`hostname`]`tput sgr0`
PS1='${NODENAME}${PWD}'
PS2='${PWD}'
Therefore everytime I change directories by prompt changes accordingly.
Peter
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Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, cs51wcs wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance is appreciated. Do you mean the prompt? Try something like this for the bash shell: export PS1='\h:\w$ ' ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help with using a remote xserver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:...I run X11 on the linux machine, and because the monitor on the mac is so much nicer, I like to use a X server on it. There is a free xserver for the mac called MI/X. Worked fairly well before I migrated to debian, but now when I try to start a client on that display I get the following errors: whitehouse$ xterm -display powermac:0.0 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Error: Can't open display: powermac:0.0 Error 111 is `Connection refused'. You have to tell your X server to allow your Debian machine to connect to it. If you have no concerns about security (with respect to other people getting access to your X server) you can run `xhost +' on it, which will allow any client to have access to it. If you have security concerns, transport the .Xauthority file from the Mac to the Debian machine and run `xauth merge Mac_Xauthority'. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem
Rick Macdonald writes: On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, cs51wcs wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance is appreciated. Do you mean the prompt? Try something like this for the bash shell: export PS1='\h:\w$ ' Or for tcsh: set prompt='%/: ' Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
changing gids
Hi! I am considering exchanging GIDs for groups mail and disk on some Debian systems. I would need this to be able to mount a remote /var/mail directory from a HP-UX system and use the same mailboxes on the Debian system. Would there be any unwanted side effects? Is there another way of doing this? Thanks. feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Cyrix MediaGX system + Debian ???
Hi, All there are new wave of cheap i86 systems based on Cyrix MediaGX chip with integrated video and sound (and Ethernet in the future). The price makes it quite attractive as X terminal and such. Is such system Debian Compatible? What about video? It's UMA system - it takes 2M out of system memory but still 14M left and it's quite enough for kernel and X server. Any ideas/thoughts are greatly appreciated regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, cs51wcs wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance is appreciated. To display the current directory with a command: $ pwd To have the current directory in the prompt (I think this is what you mean) (this only applies if bash is your shell): $ PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\w]\$ ' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ See the `PROMPTING' section of the `bash' manual page for other things you can include in the prompt. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Partitioning
get me off this list Gertjan Klein wrote: Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote: Obviously these are judgement calls and opinions but when the original hard disk code was written decisions were made concerning such things as sizes for device storage parameters. While what you have said about the cost of 10Meg HDs and the like is true, that fact did not seem to influence others in such a limiting way about how to deal with the matter. More importantly, I think, is that it has taken many years to finally to address this issue. The original harddisk code was written for (relatively) cheap hardware. SCSI harddisks, using block addressing, were of course around, but much more expensive. Nevertheless, even though the partition table entries specify the location of partitions in cylinder, head, and sector parameters, they _also_ specify them in logical block numbers. Using these numbers a harddisk of 2 TB (2048 GB) can be described. Note, again, that the partition table layout has nothing to do with the BIOS. The BIOS provided an interface for cheap hardware; if demand would have been higher for better quality hardware, like built-in support for SCSI drives, it would have been there. Nothing in the PC design prevents this - in fact, my BIOS directly supports (NCR) SCSI controllers. On top of that, the PC design allows for _really_ non standard (for PC's, anyway) hardware to have it's own BIOS to take over the standard BIOS calls. I'm not exactly sure what you think is the nightmare part of the original design (and frankly, I don't care). There are a ... And if you don't care then we are probably both wasting our time. No - because I am not trying to change your _opinion_ on PC hardware, I am just trying to stop you from spreading misinformation about it. I realize very well that a lot of compromises have been made with PC design over the years, there is enough to complain about - so if you want to do that, go ahead, but get your facts straight. * There is a limited number of primary partitions available in the MBR. This limitation is no serious problem, as many modern OSes don't object to being installed in an extended partition (of which there can be as many as required). Yes, many often incompatible workarounds exist. What do you mean with incompatible workarounds? What's incompatible about booting from an extended partition? No there is nothing brain dead about partitioning a drive and I see no way that anyone could conclude from anything that I have said that I think otherwise. It is the arbitrary decision to create the tiered partition types (primary, extended, and logical) abstraction that I object to. Since the partition table resides in the MBR, with limited space, _some_ limit had to be set to the number of entries in the table. Four, at the time, was a reasonable limit. When the limit became - well, limiting, MS introduced extended partitions - which is nothing other than a way to arbitrarily expand the partition table. It seems like a reasonable solution to me. These modern BIOSes have finally caught up with BIOSes of more than twenty years ago. Are you suggesting that had different decisions concerning how to deal compatibly with the various limitation that were arbitrarily built into the original design had been handled differently that the PC would not be as popular or have such a favorable performance/price ratio as it currently has? Yes. (I don't want to get into this, though, because there is no way to prove one way or the other). I have lost it. In as much as I really do not wish to mislead anyone then by misinformation are you talking about my assertions with respect to the BIOS design (and indeed design evolution) upon the overall filesystem design, or rather my (admitted) failure to even mention that there are new BIOS designs that do not themselves impose this scheme, or both? Your misinformation was that: - BIOS imposes the current partitioning scheme opon us, and limits the number of primary partitions to four (not true - BIOS knows nothing about partitions and doesn't care either). - DOS, Windows and OS/2 don't see other primary partitions than the one they booted from (not true - DOS and Windows see other primary DOS partitions just fine, and OS/2 won't even boot when they are present and not hidden). - fdisk /mbr will wipe out everything on the drive (wrong - it just replaces (or installs) the MBR software without touching the partition table). - (A point I hadn't addressed yet:) loadlin uses BIOS calls for drive access (wrong - it uses DOS calls, which can, but don't have to, translate into BIOS calls). You _still_ don't seem to get that partitioning and BIOS have nothing to do with each other, and that the BIOS is simply just a piece of software -
Re: XDM seem to hang until I reboot. (followup)
Hello all, I wanted to post a followup: The day I posted this information, I had already ran dselect and removed the version of 'xbase' and all its dependencies (xserver, xfnts, fvwm-common, etc) that I had installed via ftp.debian.org. After that, I went back and installed the versions I had on my Debian 1.3.1 MasterCD. Since then, I have remained logged in for the past 2 days without a lockup. I keep trying to kill the server or lockup XDM, by runing all the programs that I did before. The only thing that I have not done, is log-out and log-in several times. I have kept the same window manager, Afterstep. Hopefully these old packages solved my porblem, but I hate to think it might be a bug in the new Debian X packages. ...I will let you know if I find out differently! --Jay Barbee ---Original Message--- Hello all, I am running a Debian 1.3.1 install with the basics for X. I use xdm to login via WinNT/Exceed v5. I have used dftp up update all the X based stuff from ftp.debian.org and I use afterstep as my window manager. What I am having problems with is a lockup or hangup from XDM. If I am running a X session, it is possible to hangup, and I cannot seem to run anything. I cannot click on an XTERM button, or even run xterm if I have a free window up. When I do run a new 'xterm ' from an available window, after a certain time it tells me it cannot write to the display. If I hit the Restart Window Manager, nothing gets returned, but I can still type in the xterm that are already open; xload, xmem seem to update and working okay even in this state. But nothing new can be opened. After all this, if I kill the Exceed session, and reopen. I see my Linux box in the chooser (with correct load), I select the server, but then it sits there. No login screen will ever be returned. I have killed XDM and restarted it. I killed inetd and restarted it. but I cannot get any response out of XDM until I totally reboot the server. Once it has rebooted, all is working again. I do not run X on the console (Diamond Speedstar grin) so I am not sure if this is a problem with an Xserver (I use the default server (VGA or SVGA whatever it is)). Any ideas? Any thoughts? I have since gone back and reinstalled some of the old DEB packages (xbase, fvwm-common, xserver, xfont) from the Master CD v1.3.1, but have not had much time to test it. It happends randomly. It also happends to a friend of mine with a similar config. Thanks for your help, --Jay Barbee -- 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: NFS Permissions
Matthew Tebbens wrote: I would like to mount one of my servers and have that server allow access from the requesting uid/gid just as if it were local possible ? If so, how would I specify that in /etc/exports ? (As root on the remote system, I would like access to root files on the server via NFS, same with other user ids) This is just how NFS works. The exception is the root user. NFS exports don't allow root access unless you add a the option no_root_squash. All this information is found in the exports man page. Need I say it? -- 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: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem
cs51wcs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the c filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance c is appreciated. Like 'pwd'? If not, why not? -- _ / \ The cat's been in the box for over | David Maze | 20 years. Nobody's feeding it. The | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |cat is dead. | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Grant, on Schroedinger's Cat \_/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem
Or do you mean you want a prompt that displays where you ar elike dos's prompt does. Each shell can do this. Read the man page for the escape sequence. In bash use '\w' in your prompt. cs51wcs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance is appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
/proc directory
Can anyone point me to docs/info on the /proc directory. Specifically, I'm looking at content format, field descriptions, etc. Thanks, Kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Cyrix MediaGX system + Debian ???
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: Hi, All there are new wave of cheap i86 systems based on Cyrix MediaGX chip with integrated video and sound (and Ethernet in the future). The price makes it quite attractive as X terminal and such. I had this same thought, so at work we picked up 2 of 'em. The VGA server worked fine, but other than that we didn't have much luck. Our main interest was the built-in TV/RF out on the back, but unfortuanatly it's crap with X. So I gave up and turned them into ip_masq/diald boxes for some of our customers. For this they work geat! Is such system Debian Compatible? 100% haven't had a problem yet. What about video? It's UMA system - it takes 2M out of system memory but still 14M left and it's quite enough for kernel and X server. If you get 'em to run X decently, please tell me : I just didn't have time or desire to put the effort in. good luck, mike Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /proc directory
Hi, man 5 proc lists most of the entries, though it's a little out of date. Surely there's a more thorough description somewhere, perhaps in the kernel source? HTH, Havoc Pennington On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: Can anyone point me to docs/info on the /proc directory. Specifically, I'm looking at content format, field descriptions, etc. Thanks, Kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NFS Permissions
I was using root at first. After checking with other users I did notice that only root was not allowed. Now by adding no_root_squash everything works fine ! Thanks. On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Matthew Tebbens wrote: I would like to mount one of my servers and have that server allow access from the requesting uid/gid just as if it were local possible ? If so, how would I specify that in /etc/exports ? (As root on the remote system, I would like access to root files on the server via NFS, same with other user ids) This is just how NFS works. The exception is the root user. NFS exports don't allow root access unless you add a the option no_root_squash. All this information is found in the exports man page. Need I say it? -- 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: Can anyone please post the Debian specific published manual.
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996 17:35:10 +0300, cs51wcs wrote: Hello, I currently only have e-mail access and am unavailable to download it. Any as sistance would be appreciated. Thanks It's too big to post to the list (365KB), and it's written in html, and redistribution requires permission by the publisher, Linux Press--it's available in a printed form (256 pages) with the Debian cdrom set, a custom debian cdrom, and 30 days email tech support for $37.95. I'd call it an installation and configuration guide. Can you have someone mail it to you as an attachment, then save it? I tried saving it as text to see if that would reduce the size much, but it's still 305KB. If you'd like, I'll send it to you, let me know if you want html or text. I got a non-delivery to all recipients reply on my last Cc: to you, so if you didn't get a Cc: from me on this, you'll have to tell me how to get through. Some good news for you: I found that program that allows you to receive ftp service via e-mail, it's called ftpmail. The way you use it is described by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word help in the body of the message. ftpmail will allow you to receive all file types, even binary files (uuencoded), and you can find the files you want to retrieve by requesting the output of ls in an ftpsite. Presumably there are examples in the help file, I haven't received a reply yet. I used to know someone who said this was a pretty good program, for those without an isp. -- David Stern StarOffice 4.0 for Linux Beta Install Guide http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Q] libICE
Hi When I use dpkg I am getting the message /sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so what is the package that provides libICE.so? thank you. -- At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
off-topic
Anyone know where to get a VGA HD15/4-BNC cable? I want to connect my monitor's 4-BNC connectors to my PC video card. Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: COMMERCIAL: Arkeia v4.0r6 - network backup software (fwd)
I tried the demo and liked it. It worked well, but installation on Win95 could be better. I could not get the GUI to install at all on 95. But it was awesome running a Win95 backup from the Linux machine. Totally transparent to the Windoze user. Restores too. I used an Exabyte 8200 8mm drive. Since I have two machines and one tape drive, I am thinking about purchasing a copy for home use. On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 11:58:02AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw this in c.o.l.a. and didn't see this mentioned on debian-user or the webpage. Did I miss this or is this news to everyone else? Either way if it's not bulls*$t then it's pretty cool. Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 09:16:38 GMT From: Knox Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: COMMERCIAL: Arkeia v4.0r6 - network backup software Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 11:30:46 -0800 (PST) Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Knox Software announces the release of Arkeia v4.0r6 for Linux. Arkeia network backup software, by Knox Software, is now available as shareware for Linux home users. A fully functional copy of Arkeia is available for download at http://www.knox-software.com or ftp://ftp.knox-software.com. Suggested contribution is $25.00 US dollars. 25% of each contribution over $20.00 will be donated to Software in the public interest. This is the parent organization of the Debian Linux distribution. Knox Software is also making Arkeia available at an entry-level price of $199.00 for small work group settings. This package lets you interactively backup any mix of 5 Linux and Windows 95 client machines to a Linux based backup server. See www.knox-software.com for download instructions. BURLINGAME, Calif. (November 24, 1997) - Knox Software today announced Arkeia for Linux, v4.0r6, network backup software. This software enables system administrators to implement a fast, easy, reliable and economical backup solution for Linux powered networks. By leveraging 10 years of large scale UNIX backup expertise, Knox Software is making it possible for Linux system administrators to provide the type robust network backup solution previously available only in large UNIX shops, said Sam Siegel, general manager of Knox Software USA. With Arkeia v4.0r6, we are providing a high-performance network backup solution for both large and small Linux environments such as ISPs, Web development, workgroups, and home users. The system, originally developed for the Sun, HP, and AIX environments, and now ported to Linux, is designed for centralized operations with remote control. Each backup server can be accessed from any client that has the user interface loaded. This password-controlled access lets the system administrator manage the backup server from any machine on the network. The administrator can even dial-in from a remote location, to perform backup, and restore operations. Only control information is communicated to the client machine. There is no X traffic over the network when the remote machine is an X server. A Java based user interface is provided for Windows NT and Windows 95 clients. Arkeia v4.0 for Linux features: Backup server: O Backup as many as 200 clients at a time. O Manage multiple tape drives simultaneously. O Perform backup and restore operations simultaneously. O Maintain an online catalog of backups. Catalog size is typically less than 1% of the amount of data backed up. O Provide policy based security mechanism. O Drive autostackers, libraries and robotics. O Maintain an online catalog of tape pools. O Does not require root login when doing backup or restore operations. O Monitor tape drive, library and TCP/IP for errors and initiate recovery. O Monitor client connections; retry backup from point of failure if client goes offline and comes back online. O Maintains log files. O License management. Graphical interface: O X11 interface for Linux systems. O Java interfaces for Windows 95 and Windows NT clients. O Configure Tape drive, Drive pool and library definitions. O Configure Tape, and Tape pool definitions. O Configure Savepacks (a savepack defines machines and directories to backup) O Configure periodic backup schedule. O Initiate interactive backup. O ID and password management. O Initiate interactive restores. O Browse catalog of backups. O Browse log files. O Login to local or remote backup server. O Interactively monitors backup and restore operations. O User customizable color and background settings. Client: O Compress files during backup. (At user
xdm....HELP!!!!!!???????
Hello, Ok I checked the FAQ but there is no info on this potentially really dumb question. When I installed the server I chose to have xdm start at boot up. This works great noprob there. But I messed up. I started to set up the .xsession file and instead of doing this for my user account until I got it right for some reason I did it for my root account. So now I have an .xsession file in /root that is not written correctly it times out and just keeps returning me to the login screen. With my user account I do not have the correct permissions to change anything related to this so it does me no good. What I need to do is somehow stop xdm at boot up (I'm booting Linux from a floppy) so I can get access to the console as root and delete the .xsession file that resides in /root. Please HELP Thanks -Brian, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
staroffice libc5
When I try to run the setup for StarOffice, I get a eyryttyp4:hawk/usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1/setup StarOffice3.1 Installation Tool Segmentation fault Today I saw a posting in a nesgroup claiming that a minimum of libc5-5.4.38 is necessary. Debian seems to stop at .33. However, there's enough traffic here about it that it must somehow be possible. could someone give me a hint? rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Question on Sony CD-Player
Stange, Strange question that I'm curious if anyone out there knows the answer to... I have a Sony CDP-CX151 100 disc CD changer. Although a wonderful product, it lacks any really fine control over the selections. In the back of this device there are what looks like two 1/8 inch female ports labeled Controller A. I was wondering if anyone had any luck making a device that would plug into these ports and a PC and allow the PC to control the CD-Player. Any ideas, or am I even understanding the idea behind these ports? All help appreciated, Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: off-topic
Lawrence wrote: Anyone know where to get a VGA HD15/4-BNC cable? I want to connect my monitor's 4-BNC connectors to my PC video card. I'm guessing you're trying to use an old workstation monitor (Sun, HP, etc.). Beware that *some* of these monitors require special signaling or syncing. This doesn't mean you can't do it. There's lot of info on the web about doing this. Do a couple searches. You might start here: http://cvs.anu.edu.au/monitorconversion/ As to the cable, I'm not sure where, but I remember seeing somewhere a vendor which sells them. I guess I didn't save the link. However, as I mentioned above, due to different sync requirements of many workstation monitors, the cable is more than just a cable also take a look at this page: http://www.devo.com/video/misc.html -- 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: xdm....HELP!!!!!!???????
Brian V Bonini wrote (Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:28:59 -0500 ): |What I need to do is somehow stop xdm at boot up (I'm booting Linux from a |floppy) so I can get access to the console as root and delete the |.xsession file that resides in /root. Please HELP |Thanks |-Brian, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Why don't you just log in with your user account and su to or even login as root? You can also wait for the X server to start up and then hit Ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a console... If there's some reason why you don't want to do this, you can try to boot into single user mode. This would probably require you to have LILO installed on your floppy. If you do, at the LILO prompt, hit Shift, and a boot: prompt should appear. type the image name you want to boot (probably linux, hit tab to get a list), followed by -single. So, the whole boot line will look something like: LILO boot: linux -single Once in single user mode, just go to /root and make the fix. Alternatively, if you still have the Debian rescue/install disk, stick that in there, and boot. Once the install starts, you can use alt-f2 to switch to the virtual console which runs ash (a striped down shell). From there, mount the appropriate file system in /mnt or something and modify the file. Then remove the install/rescue disk, stick in your own, and you should be fine. -alan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [Q] libICE
hi, there are 2 package where this file is. The package is xlib6-dev the other file you may need is xlib6. Paul ps if you want to find what package a file belongs to get the Contents file from debian. On 11 Dec 1997, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Hi When I use dpkg I am getting the message /sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so what is the package that provides libICE.so? thank you. -- At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: off-topic BNC vga cable
I saw these cables at a computer show. The vendor and description of the part is: SVGA Monitor Cable 6' S-VGA to 5 BNC use between VGA and hogh grade monitor connects VGA output to a variety of high-resolution monitors fully braided and shielded 5 BNC's cover all color and sync transmissions male to male #CC-VGA5BNC $12.00 Roger's Systems Specialists 24895 Avenue Rockefeller Valencia, California 91355 http://www.RogersSystems.com 800-366-0579 I've bought stuff from this company and while their products are useable and I've never had a problem with any, they are not the top-of-the-line items. tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
raid0
I just compiled a 2.0.32 kernel with raid/linear support because I would like to strip 2 - 2 GB partitions. I downloaded md035.tar.gz from ftp://linux.nrao.edu/pub/linux/packages/MD-driver/, however I could not get it to compile. Here is the tail of my errors. In file included from /usr/include/linux/sem.h:3, from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:27, from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4, from /usr/include/linux/md.h:23, from mdadd.c:26: /usr/include/linux/ipc.h:5: warning: redefinition of `key_t' /usr/include/sys/types.h:63: warning: `key_t' previously declared here In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:75, from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4, from /usr/include/linux/md.h:23, from mdadd.c:26: /usr/include/linux/time.h:6: redefinition of `struct timespec' make: *** [mdadd.o] Error 1 /usr/include/linux points to /usr/src/linux/include/linux as I have always done when I compile a new kernel, and I haven't had problems before. Am I using the latest version of md? or do I even need it to do what I want? I did not find a debian package for it either. The documentation I have found so far is confusing, so please excuse me if I sound like a fruit cake. Any pointers to useful documentation would be helpful also. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
IP Aliasing
Hello, Our upstream provider is forcing us to change our Class C. Now, we need to run two blocks parallel for awhile. We're running Debian Linux (2.0.32) and I was wondering how to set up an IP address alias. i.e. we want our eth0 card to have two different addresses. Any pointers on how to do this? Thanks in advance, Steve AracNet -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: staroffice libc5
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: When I try to run the setup for StarOffice, I get a eyryttyp4:hawk/usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1/setup StarOffice3.1 Installation Tool Segmentation fault Today I saw a posting in a nesgroup claiming that a minimum of libc5-5.4.38 is necessary. Debian seems to stop at .33. I think the requirement is : 5.4.4. In anycase, it works fine for me with 5.4.33. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: staroffice libc5
take me off this list! Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: When I try to run the setup for StarOffice, I get a eyryttyp4:hawk/usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1/setup StarOffice3.1 Installation Tool Segmentation fault Today I saw a posting in a nesgroup claiming that a minimum of libc5-5.4.38 is necessary. Debian seems to stop at .33. I think the requirement is : 5.4.4. In anycase, it works fine for me with 5.4.33. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: staroffice libc5
take me off this list! Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: When I try to run the setup for StarOffice, I get a eyryttyp4:hawk/usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1/setup StarOffice3.1 Installation Tool Segmentation fault Today I saw a posting in a nesgroup claiming that a minimum of libc5-5.4.38 is necessary. Debian seems to stop at .33. I think the requirement is : 5.4.4. In anycase, it works fine for me with 5.4.33. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: staroffice libc5
Bob Nielsen wrote, I think the requirement is : 5.4.4. In anycase, it works fine for me with 5.4.33. The next magic question, is are you using hamm or bo, and should it make a difference? rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: raid0
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, dpk wrote: Try package mdutils, in section admin. Works for me on hamm, I've also used the bo version without trouble. HTH : I just compiled a 2.0.32 kernel with raid/linear support because I would : like to strip 2 - 2 GB partitions. I downloaded md035.tar.gz from : ftp://linux.nrao.edu/pub/linux/packages/MD-driver/, however I could : not get it to compile. Here is the tail of my errors. : : In file included from /usr/include/linux/sem.h:3, : from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:27, : from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4, : from /usr/include/linux/md.h:23, : from mdadd.c:26: : /usr/include/linux/ipc.h:5: warning: redefinition of `key_t' : /usr/include/sys/types.h:63: warning: `key_t' previously declared here : In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:75, : from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4, : from /usr/include/linux/md.h:23, : from mdadd.c:26: : /usr/include/linux/time.h:6: redefinition of `struct timespec' : make: *** [mdadd.o] Error 1 : : /usr/include/linux points to /usr/src/linux/include/linux as I have always : done when I compile a new kernel, and I haven't had problems before. : Am I using the latest version of md? or do I even need it to do what : I want? I did not find a debian package for it either. The documentation : I have found so far is confusing, so please excuse me if I sound like : a fruit cake. Any pointers to useful documentation would be helpful also. : : Thanks, : Dennis : -- : dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 : Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 : : : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : : -- 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: raid0
I just compiled a 2.0.32 kernel with raid/linear support because I would like to strip 2 - 2 GB partitions. I downloaded md035.tar.gz from ftp://linux.nrao.edu/pub/linux/packages/MD-driver/, however I could not get it to compile. Here is the tail of my errors. Although you mention symlinking /usr/include/linux to /usr/src/linux/include/linux, you might have forgotten to symlink /usr/include/asm to /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386. Besides that, you might want to note that if you just want to do raid0, then you don't need this driver. I'm quite happily running raid0 across 3 4.3 GB UW SCSI drives with just the driver included in the stock 2.0.32 kernel, on my personal box. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian Linux and Cirrus
I would like to know if the Debian Linux Distribution support the Cirrus 5446 Chipset ? In short: YES. Thanks a lot for such a quick answer. I have another question... I have got a CDD2600 CD Recorder and a Pioneer 12x SCSI CDROM on an Adaptec 1505. Could I have any problem to use them on the Debian distribution ? I promise that it is my last question :-) Is CD-recorder also SCSI? If yes, then there is only a question whether SCSI host adapter is supported. Adaptec is generally not the best choice for Linux, but this particular card seems to be supprted for already some time and I would not expect a problem with it. Refer to SCSI-HOWTO for more information. 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: IP Aliasing
As a further note, we are using SCO and an older version of Slackware. On the Slackware machine, we compiled in a patch so that the command 'ifconfig net0 alias x.x.x.x' works. It works by default in SCO 5. I was hoping there's a way to do it on the linux box without patching anything. Thanks again, Steve AracNet On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Our upstream provider is forcing us to change our Class C. Now, we need to run two blocks parallel for awhile. We're running Debian Linux (2.0.32) and I was wondering how to set up an IP address alias. i.e. we want our eth0 card to have two different addresses. Any pointers on how to do this? Thanks in advance, Steve AracNet -- 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: How to get slrn colored in xterm ?
First of all, the COLORTERM entry did exactly what I was looking for. But why not adding something like that by default. Since it works for all slang programs I think it should get into a .deb-file. Its more easy to put a `#'-sign in front of some lines than searching for the correct variable settings in the manuals. Most users probably would like colors by default, or could that lead into trouble with monochrome displays? On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote: dpk wrote: Add the following line to your ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources, depending on which one you use: xterm*customization:-color You may also choose to add it to /etc/X11/Xresources, to make it a system-wide default. Actually, though that will enable color for everything else, it will not help slrn or other slang-based programs. For those, you have to either use the command line option they have that enables color (for slrn, -C), or you need to set the COLORTERM environment variable. Here is an example of how I set the latter in my /etc/zshrc: # Set COLORTERM for s-lang programs if this is a color terminal if [[ $TERM = xterm ]] || [[ $TERM = linux ]]; then export COLORTERM=y fi For bash, you'd want something like this: (untested) # Set COLORTERM for s-lang programs if this is a color terminal if [ $TERM = xterm -o $TERM = linux ]; then COLORTERM=y export COLORTERM fi -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Are 120 MB diskspace enough?
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Thomas Apel wrote: Hi all! I'm going to set up a server for some network-experiments. The machine shall run a mail and database-server and perhaps a web-server. For the possible hardware I'm offered a 486 DX2/66, 16 MB RAM, 120 MB HDD. Now the question is: Are 120 MB disk-space sufficient? I have my doubts about this. But as this will be my first linux-machine I'm not sure. Again, it will only be used for above mentioned purposes. No GUI or any other apps like StarOffice or Netscape are required. The served network are only two other machines. And I expect the stored data to be less than 20 MB. What size are the needed components? I hope someone can help me with his opinion! Thanks, Thomas hi, I will do exactly the same thing next week, but I got 4 MB additional RAM :) The only `problem` is, that the machine has neighter monitor nor keybord connected. There is only a LAN ( ne2000 ) connect. Is it possible to get it up without carrying things around? cu, peter. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
CAT 5
should CAT 5 cable testers be considered a necessity when installing fast ethernet cables? thx, m* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: staroffice libc5
This is odd...the level of civility on this list is astounding. On any other list I've been on, if someone were to write this, they would immediately be ``punished''. this is almost disconcerting...=) Mike wrote (Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:49:27 -0600 ): |take me off this list! | Mike, and anyone else who would want to unsubscribe from this cool list: |-- |TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to |[EMAIL PROTECTED] . |Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . | This message is included in every mail which comes to you from the list...including the ones to which you have replied. Just follow those directions, and if they don't work, send mail to the administrator email, which is also specified in the message. In the future, you would do well to keep mail that you get when you first sign on to any mailing list. it usually has information about how to unsubscribe. I think you'll find nearly every other mailing list in the known world to be less forgiving that this one... I hope I haven't violated some unspoken convention for this list... I'm not usually the one that ends up doing this... -alan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: CAT 5
should CAT 5 cable testers be considered a necessity when installing fast ethernet cables? ???!!! That's like asking should I make sure the guy who cuts my hair passed the course? i.e. does it really matter? Guess it depends on the haircut you want ;-) My opinion, though... Try the cable at 100Mbps - if it works... its certified Using a decent cable tester, you can get a few dozen pages of stats on various cable properties; however, I've never found it all too useful - if I'm installing the cable myself. If I'm paying someone to install the cable for me, I usually try to get the stats as part of a guarantee Later, Kevin Traas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: CAT 5
If the cable is CAT5 certified, you don't need a cable testers installing a fast ethernet cables, though it won't harm if you have a tester handy. m* wrote: should CAT 5 cable testers be considered a necessity when installing fast ethernet cables? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: CAT 5
The most common mistake is that pairs are reversed when punched down on the connector. If you can get past that, you can probably find bad cable using your computer Isn't it funny how so few of these cables are shielded? Shielded cables, grounded only at one end (to prevent ground loops), would be much better about static, atmospheric noise, radio pickup, and induced currents from near lightning strikes. I did up my home and office that way to keep the interference from the network out of my ham radio. It works the other way, too. Bruce -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help with using a remote xserver
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Ronald L. Zerbe Jr. wrote: uncompressed the file? Anyhelp? tired of this win95 Xserver that only gives u 30 minute connections. You should try the xserver from frontiertech called superx. The best thing I found from win32 machines. Usually also the first programm I install when I have to work at one :-) Do a ftpsearch on superx.exe Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IP Aliasing
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our upstream provider is forcing us to change our Class C. Now, we need to run two blocks parallel for awhile. We're running Debian Linux (2.0.32) and I was wondering how to set up an IP address alias. i.e. we want our eth0 card to have two different addresses. Any pointers on how to do this? There is a mini-HOWTO. /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias.gz I have never done this before, so this is the only thing I can tell you about it. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Are 120 MB diskspace enough?
Hi Thomas Hi all! I'm going to set up a server for some network-experiments. The machine shall run a mail and database-server and perhaps a web-server. For the possible hardware I'm offered a 486 DX2/66, 16 MB RAM, 120 MB HDD. Now the question is: Are 120 MB disk-space sufficient? I have my doubts about this. But as this will be my first linux-machine I'm not sure. Again, it will only be used for above mentioned purposes. No GUI or any other apps like StarOffice or Netscape are required. The served network are only two other machines. And I expect the stored data to be less than 20 MB. 120Mb should be enough, me and my friend did something similar the other day. Remember to make at least 10MB or more swap depending on your RAM size. The only problem is that debian does by default install lots of weird stuff (like emacs, which is BIG). After just deselecting some unneeded things in dselect we cut the default installation down from 90MB to about 50... Could do even more if we wanted What size are the needed components? I hope someone can help me with his opinion! Thanks, Thomas Xheers Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Dec-97 Time: 19:31:59 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
