Re: crt1.c
This is just a bit of guessing here. It sounds like your messages have to do with trying to compile crt1.o. However, there are lots of other possibilties. It could be that the makefile uses command/syntax not recognized by GNUmake Do you know what the function of crt1.o is? It is possible that this file will not compile under Linux if it is specific to Irix (at least not without some 'porting' effort). Bruce Dobrin wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to compile a tool from Irix, What I'm currently getting is a syntax type error in something called crt1.o checked the source and the original stable release and it is distributed as crt1.o. Does anyone know what this is and where I can get the uncompiled code? Thanks Bruce Dobrin Multi Media Dept. Sony Pictures Imageworks 310-840-8412 -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft! See! They do get some things right! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Moved harddisk
Yes, the first part of what you have done should be correct for a floppy boot system. The entries in /etc/fstab do HAVE to reference the correct device/partitions. If you are using lilo on the boot floppy then that has to be corrected for the new location also. Hunter H Marshall wrote: I have a 1.2.8 system that I boot from floppy. I moved the harddrive from (effectively) /dev/hda to /dev/hdb. I then used rdev to change the boot device and the swap device to their hdb counterparts. Should that have been sufficient? Is there a primary/secondary IDE issue (if I'm saying that right)? What about the /etc/fstab which reference /dev/hda? Thanks hunter -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft! See! They do get some things right! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Can't get KDE Beta 3 to run on Debian.
Hi there! First i want to say that i'm a newbie in linux, and a newbie in this mailing list. :) My problem is that i can't get KDE (beta 3) to run on my Debian 1.3, when i execute ./startkde it says cannot connect to the X Server, can anyone help me with this? I have all the environmental variables set right, i also have tried AfterStep and it says can't get display :-/ Best Regards, Sérgio Lopes MCSD (don't flame me for this. :)) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Out of PTTY's
Thanks, I'll look into that Best regards Jonathan On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: ... Its one problem after another ... When I try to run the script program I get a message saying out of PTTY's and the program aborts. Does anyone have a clue as to what on earth brings this about .. You may be using all your available pseudo-tty devices. Check to see how many /dev/ptyp[??] you have. You can create additional devices using the MAKEDEV script in that same directory. -- Jean Pierre -- 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: afterstep
On Tue, 03 Mar 1998 14:16:41 PST, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: I upgraded afterstep to 1.4, but I had to downgrade it back to 1.0, cuz the new one did not get any of my old confs, and looked horrible! Did I do anything wrong? You need to follow the instructions in: /usr/doc/afterstep/README.gz I didn't try it, but there's a -f param if you want to use your crufty old .steprc , not that you would -- the new file layout is exceptional. You can skip that part about the security hole if you give each user their own copy of the GNUstep/library/afterstep (don't cp startmenu to /usr/lib/afterstep). If sloppy focus is new and that bothers you, you can change that in: ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/desktop/feels/feel.Debian (by uncommenting # ClickToFocus, commenting SloppyFocus) You may also want to modify: (assuming 16bpp, adjust accordingly) ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/base.16bpp (for icon locations), ~GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/autoexec.16bpp (for startup apps), and ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/wharf (for .. you guessed it) Well, back to smail fun.. -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: making room
Is there a way to check how much space a package is using? I looked for an option for the dpkg -l, so that the size of each package would be shown, but found nothing. I would _love_ an option like this!! In fact, dselect and/or deity should give me a breakdown of the space that would be used by partition, of each individual package and by any given group of packages. -Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Have a question about Debian..
I just downloaded all of the chunks that make up the Debian Binary CD. I also downloaded the MD5SUM.EXE and MD5SUMS files. However, when I use MD5SUM to test the chunks, EVERY single one fails! What are the chances that every chunk is bad?? Is it possible I have downloaded an old version of the MD5SUMS file? Did you download the chunks via ftp in ascii mode? That would certainly screw up every chunk. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Slackware-----Debian
So, when removing Slackware it is not necessary to format the drive? What will happen to slackware? Will it just be replaced by Debian? Or will it just install side-by-side to Slackware. What you can do is this: 1) Move every binary you think you should need from /usr/bin,/bin to /usr/local/bin (and libs, etc.). Then remove everything in usr (outside of /usr/local, of course). 2) Start the install process. When you have the target partition mounted, ask for a shell and remove /etc, /lib, /bin, /sbin, /var and /boot. 3) Install Debian. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Non Debian Specific Network Security question
Sorry that this is not debian specific, but on the off chance that someone does read this, thanx! I am about to put work onto the internet to run a web server, and for users to browse the web and exchange email. I have registered a domain, for example xyz.com The link will be a dedicated dialup, until I can justify isdn. My isp will provide me with a static ip. The box on my end of this link will be a Debian machine. The web server will run on this box. I will use ip firewalling and masquerading on this machine also. My internal network is a class A, per rfc1918. I will call this machine www.xyz.com This machine is dual homed with the ip from my isp, and 10.0.3.254 I dont want users to see a machine one the internal network, such as applications.xyz.com(10.0.4.1) thru nslookup et al. My question is: should I run an internal domain server for a made up domain, such as xyznet, ie the applications machine will really be applications.xyznet(10.0.4.1) I understand that 10.0.4.1 will not be reachable from the internet, but I do not want anyone knowing about it's existance. If i run a made up domain internally, www.xyz.com will have to relay mail to services.xyznet. Also, I assume that ms outlook(i know, i know) will have to be configured to use xyz.com as the senders address. Does this make sense? Thanks in advance! -- Walter L. Preuninger IIwaldo @ irc.wasteland.org:#unix [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] L I N U X Where You Really Should Be! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Zero Length Files on the CD...
I have another problem.. I have downloaded and tested all of the chunks that make up the Debian Binary CD. Also have put them together as stated in the instructions (yes I connected them in order). Lastly, I burned the CD. However, I'm not sure if this problem is normal for these CDs, but there are quite a few ZERO LENGTH FILES on the CD. Is this normal or did I do something wrong?? I used EZCD Pro for Windows 3.1, and a 650Mb CD. (My CD Burner is a Creative Labs 4210). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: LI instead of LILO:
I just installed a new Debian system. I had to copy the base1 disk X times on Y disks to get Debian to install. But now I get a LI instead of the expected LILO: What can I do without having to do a complete reinstall? for me the only thing that has ever caused this (there are almost certainly other reasons though) is when i've been playing with bios and what type of hard drive it thinks it is. you'll have to excuse me i'm having a momentary brain fart and can't think of the words i want but the bit i mean is at the far right of the bios display and the options are normal, large and LBA (i think thats correct anyway). your harddrive was possibly formatted with one option and bios is trying another. just reboot and change it until it works (remember what it was originally set to in case it is something else!!!) adam. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Have a question about Debian..
One possibililty is that the files were downloaded as ASCII files, not binary. Most ftp servers display a message similar to Opening BINARY mode data connection for file_name when they start downloading a file. Ftp servers on UNIX machines usually default to binary, but some ftp servers or clients will default to ASCII. At the ftp prompt enter binary to make sure you get a binary download. Did you download using DOS or Linux? -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 P. D. Tisdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just downloaded all of the chunks that make up the Debian Binary CD. I also downloaded the MD5SUM.EXE and MD5SUMS files. However, when I use MD5SUM to test the chunks, EVERY single one fails! What are the chances that every chunk is bad?? Is it possible I have downloaded an old version of the MD5SUMS file? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Ensoniq sound problems
Hi, Has anyone ever been able to configure their Ensoniq Soundscape (yes, it is fairly old) card to work on Linux? I can't seem to get anything out of my sound card. Basically I've been trying to use isapnp to initialize my card, otherwise I would have to initialize it from DOS (ugh). Here is my /etc/isapnp.conf file: (ISOLATE) (IDENTIFY *) (CONFIGURE ENS3081/ (LD 0 (IO 0 (BASE 0x330)) (INT 0 (IRQ 9 (MODE +E))) (ACT Y))) I removed my cards serial number from the above for this e-mail. In addition, I compiled the Ensoniq Soundscape module with the same settings. Normally I get some sort of clicking from my spreakers when my sound card is initialized from DOS but I get no such response when initializing in Linux. Do I need MPU401, too? Could someone please explain to me what I may be doing wrong? I'm totally new at isapnp, Linux sound and initrd stuff. - Other Problems I noticed - I installed the Debian xmcd and xmix packages but I initially couldn't run them because the CD and mixer devices had 660 permissions. After I changed the permissions to 666, I could run them. Is this a bug in hamm? -Ossama __ Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- PGP Keys --- Public: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_PUBLIC.asc REVOKED: http://astrosun.tn.cornell.edu/staff/othman/OO_REVOKED.asc -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: making room
On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 05:15:18PM -0800, Jim wrote: Is there a way to check how much space a package is using? I looked for an option for the dpkg -l, so that the size of each package would be shown, but found nothing. I would _love_ an option like this!! In fact, dselect and/or deity should give me a breakdown of the space that would be used by partition, of each individual package and by any given group of packages. Please bring this up on debian-policy; it was only just decided to remove the very information from packages that can get you this information easily. 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: Debian install source (Was Re: Yikes, sorry.)
On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 07:05:34PM +0100, Lorens Kockum wrote: As a corollary, where do you find the source of the programs executed during the install of debian? I ask because I wanted to check if the install points out the NIS problem when it asks whether to use shadow passwords. IIRC, they're in the boot-floppies package. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian-|-Zip
Does debian/LINUX support zip drives? If so is it possible to install LINUX from a zip drive to a laptop? Holden C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian-|-Zip
Does debian/LINUX support zip drives? Yes, all varieties. If so is it possible to install LINUX from a zip drive to a laptop? Yes. Make at least a boot floppy (you can put the base disks on the ZIP disk, I think) and plug in and turn on the ZIP drive before booting. If all goes well it should take no special precautions. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ensoniq sound problems
I installed the Debian xmcd and xmix packages but I initially couldn't run them because the CD and mixer devices had 660 permissions. After I changed the permissions to 666, I could run them. Is this a bug in hamm? Probably not. You might not want everyone who has access to your computer to be using these devices. A better solution than chmoding to 666 is adding the appropriate users to the group that owns the devices. For IDE CD devices, this might include changing the group that owns the device. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Kernel Install
Ok, this is a BIG nasty weird problem. I'm runnig Debian With default Kernel 2.0.29 I grabbed Kernel 2.0.33 from ftp.kernel.org and did the following steps: tar zpfxv linux_2.0.33.tar.gz cd linux make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make clean make zlilo make modules make modules_install reboot Now, on ANY other machine.. doing a uname -a or checking /proc/version I'd have Linux 2.0.33 blah lah lah... But not on this box... it's still saying 2.0.29. Now I left the machine running for an hour.. and still.. 2.0.29.. so I rebooted.. still 2.0.29.. I copied the kernel I compiled to a disk and boot the disk in another machine.. kernel 2.0.33. Now I check the 'screwed' machine by attacking it with land/teardrop to see if it was just a version screw up and it was really running 2.0.33 just not reporting it.. and it bombed. so it's still running 2.0.29. does anyone hve ANY ideas about this? I have recompiled, reinstalled, reunpacked and redownloaded the kernel multiple times and it still will nt update. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Kernel Install
Install make-kpkg. After make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision version name kernel_image Install the new kernel with dpkg. Chuck On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Scott Walker wrote: Ok, this is a BIG nasty weird problem. I'm runnig Debian With default Kernel 2.0.29 I grabbed Kernel 2.0.33 from ftp.kernel.org and did the following steps: tar zpfxv linux_2.0.33.tar.gz cd linux make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make clean make zlilo make modules make modules_install reboot Now, on ANY other machine.. doing a uname -a or checking /proc/version I'd have Linux 2.0.33 blah lah lah... But not on this box... it's still saying 2.0.29. Now I left the machine running for an hour.. and still.. 2.0.29.. so I rebooted.. still 2.0.29.. I copied the kernel I compiled to a disk and boot the disk in another machine.. kernel 2.0.33. Now I check the 'screwed' machine by attacking it with land/teardrop to see if it was just a version screw up and it was really running 2.0.33 just not reporting it.. and it bombed. so it's still running 2.0.29. does anyone hve ANY ideas about this? I have recompiled, reinstalled, reunpacked and redownloaded the kernel multiple times and it still will nt update. -- 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: Debian-|-Zip
Does debian/LINUX support zip drives? Yes, all varieties. Well, Zip Plus plugged into parallel port was not supported last time I checked... 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: SGML-Tools
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I don't have latex (nor latex2e). I have tetex instead. I thought tetex is a latex substition, at least when looking at basics functionality. Indeed the sgml-tools package did not comment on this, even though latex is one of its sugestions. And in any case, snip I had other difficulties with sgml2latex, for example with the -p (postscript) option. Eventualy, I succeded made sgml2latext convert the sgml file into dvi. Which I used with dvips to create the desired postscript file. If memory serves, there are about 7 or 8 packages that comprise the TeTeX distrib. You might confirm that all of these installed correctly. As someone else mentioned, TeTeX is simply a LaTeX distribution. You might look into AuCTeX, another distribution; it looks to be quite full-featured from my short time using it. I'm thinking your problem stems from some dependency on a resource that either was not installed or did not install correctly and needs to be reinstalled. -- David S. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dsj.net Linux: Choice of a GNU Generation! -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GTW/GL d- s+:+ a42 C+++ USL P L+++ E++ W++ N++@ o-- K- w--- O++@ M V PS+ PE++ Y+++ PGP++(+++) t+ 5 X+ R-@ tv b++ DI+++ D++ G++ e++ h-- r+++ y --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xircom CE10-BC PCMCIA Ethernetadapter
Thank you verry mutch for this Information, i replace my Xircom Card with a 3c589D Card from 3COM. Now i have the Cardservice running, but i dont know how to setup the Carddriver for the 3com card. The Cardsevice say unknown Card in Slot 0 or 1. Where can i find Information how to setup the next step to use my 3com Card? Best Reguards, Rene -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Rene Bagia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Datum: Sonntag, 1. März 1998 18:55 Betreff: Re: Xircom CE10-BC PCMCIA Ethernetadapter In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Rene Bagia wrote: Hallo, i am a new Debian Linux user, so i have a little problem to install my pcmcia card service correctly, so i can use my XIRCOM CE10 Pcmcia Ethernet Adapter. I try to install with dselect the pcmcia card service and the pcmcia modules for the 2.0.29 Kernel but i cant use it. I am verry happy for every help. Your best bet is to send the XIRCOM card back to the manufacturer, with a polite notice that, due to the non-discolsure-agrement they force everyone who obtains technical information on their ethernet cards to sign, there is no Linux driver available for XIRCOM cards, and you are thus unable to use it. Or, in other words: XIRCOM forces people to sign NDA's. Thus a driver will never be released in source code form, as that whould be disclosing the information. As linux is GPL, any part of linux essentially also must have source code available. This is why you cannot use XIRCOM cards. I believe there are binary-only modules available, but I advice you not to use those -- you will probably not be able to use them with newer versions of the linux kernel, and nobody can fix bugs in them. So, really the best thing to do is to replace the XIRCOM card. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Description of Perl Data Language
I just uploaded a debian package of this to master. The next revision will have a free license. (Soon) The docs and online help , etc . are much improved. A beta version 1.9900 of PDL is now available on CPAN (+). PDL is a freely-available number-crunching extension for perl, which allows fast and memory-efficient manipulation of large numerical datasets. You can write normal perl syntax ($c = $a + $b) to manipulate vectors or matrices or N-dimensional data. Sample applications (in which PDL has already been used) include image processing, two and three dimensional plotting, pipeline data reduction, quick-look data visualisation, neural networks, machine learning, medical visualization and quantum-mechanical simulations. While these have historically been the domain of special purpose matrix-oriented languages such as IDL(R/Tm)* and MatLab(R/Tm)*, PDL allows Perl to be used in just such a manner. PDL has a very open-architecture and is easy to interface to new subroutine and graphics libraries. One of the main advantages of PDL over similar packages is the availability of the enormous, and heavily used, perl software base. Available to PDL users are powerful string and file handling, well developed interfaces to C, Fortran, and Java, to GUI toolkits such as tk and gtk, to databases, ftp, the web, etc. The user will find that these features offer indispensable support to the number crunching routines. See http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/kgb/perldl/ for more info and links. New features after 1.11 are countless but here is an overview: - a simple but powerful interface to 3-dimensional OpenGL visualization routines with animation (PDL::Graphics::TriD), also supports VRML to some degree. - assigning to slices of piddles / indexed piddles (e.g. after $a = zeroes 100,100; $b = $a-diagonal(0,1); # diagonal between dims 0 and 1 $b .= 1; # PDL special assignment operator $a contains a unit matrix). Also to piddles indexed by other piddles. - efficient manipulation of multidimensional data. - preprocessor for interfacing external C routines with little work for multiple datatypes and writing new fast routines while avoiding loop index bugs. - new IO formats - many new routines for data processing - online help in the perldl shell - interactive matrix browser for curses (PDL::IO::Browser) - quick random access to data by mmapping it from the disk (PDL::IO::FastRaw::mapfraw) - interface to Karma applications toolkit for alternative 3d visualisation (PDL::Graphics::Karma) People interested in doing numeric processing are encouraged to pick this software up and give it a test run. Because this is beta-stage software, the documentation, although quite extensive, may not always be the most informative possible to help beginners get going in PDL. We will be glad to answer your questions (and add the instructions to the FAQ and to the documentation for other users) at our mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] KNOWN PROBLEMS WITH 1.9900: - picrgb tests fail on some platforms due to unavailable converters === From introduction to PDL: Perl is an extremely good and versatile scripting language, well suited to beginners and allows rapid prototyping. However until recently it did not support data structures which allowed it to do fast number crunching. However with the development of Perl v5, Perl acquired 'Objects'. To put it simply users can define their own special data types, and write custom routines to manipulate them either in low level languages (C and Fortran) or in Perl itself. This has been fully exploited by the PerlDL developers. The 'PDL' module is a complete Object-Oriented extension to Perl (although you don't have to know what an object is to use it) which allows large N-dimensional data sets, such as large images, spectra, time series, etc to be stored Befficiently and manipulated Ben masse. For example with the PDL module we can write the perl code C$a=$b+$c, where $b and $c are large datasets (e.g. 2048x2048 images), and get the result in only a fraction of a second. PDL variables (or 'piddles' as they have come to be known) support a wide range of fundamental data types - arrays can be bytes, short integers (signed or unsigned), long integers, floats or double precision floats. And because of the Object-Oriented nature of PDL new customised datatypes can be derived from them. As well as the PDL modules, that can be used by normal perl programs, PerlDL comes with a command line perl shell, called 'perldl', which supports command line editing. In combination with the various PDL graphics modules this allows data to be easily played with and visualised. * all trademarks are owned by their owners. + THERE IS ABSOLUTELY
Re: Kernel Customization.
Hi, shaul == shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: shaul You are right. /usr/dockernel-package/Flavours.gz does not shaul exists in a Bo version of kernel-package. I think it should shaul be. Unfortunately, I thought of the Flavours stuff after Bo was released. And since kernel-package has moved on to depend on a version of dpkg not available in Bo, you can't just put it there (the Bo dpkg has bugs that make it hard some times to package kernels). shaul And another thing: I think that the kernel-package and the shaul kernel-source documantaion had to tell me what you have told shaul me. They are quite ambigious, if not unaccurate. Pardone me. I gladly accept patches. If you point out the ambiguities, I shall see what I can do. Also, the new versions of kernel-package should be better, and I apologize for not doing all this work 6 months earlier. manoj -- Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. John G. Pollard Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Kernel Install
Hi, There is not enough information to make a judgement. Please provide the following: % ls -asCF /lib/modules % ls -als / % ls -asCF /boot BTW, on Debian, kernel-package offers a simple, convenient way of upgrading and maintianing severl different versions of the kernel on your machine concurrently. (/usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz should be helpful). manoj -- What man has done, man can aspire to do. Jerry Pournelle, about space flight Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp
I'm running hamm and have just installed the wu-ftpd server for the purpose of an anonymous ftp account. I thought I had everything working, or so it appeared to work from any command line ftp client (linux/win95), but when a friend tried to get to it using wsftp, no directory listing was given to him. Whats the cause of this and how do I fix it please. (I did read all the docs). Thanks jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp
Jason Ish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running hamm and have just installed the wu-ftpd server for the purpose of an anonymous ftp account. I thought I had everything working, or so it appeared to work from any command line ftp client (linux/win95), but when a friend tried to get to it using wsftp, no directory listing was given to him. There are some problems with the current wu-ftpd package. I'd try the proftpd package instead, which is much easier to set up and probably more secure. -- Brought to you by the letters W and T and the number 4. Killer refresh rate! It's even got a PCI bus! -- Hackers Ben Gertzfield http://www.imsa.edu/~wilwonka/ Finger me for my public PGP key. I'm on FurryMUCK as Che, and EFNet and YiffNet IRC as Che_Fox. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to remove Boot block
Pascal MIQUET [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've install Linux with LiLO as super boot block. I'd like to change it and make only LiLO for my LiNUX partition. How can I remove this kind of information on ms SCSI PS/2 boot disk ! Look in /boot. There should be a file like boot.0800 - the number depends on the device. Type lilo -u /dev/sda to copy the saved boot sector back. Edit lilo.conf appropriately and rerun lilo with the new setup. You might need to do something like activate /dev/sda 1 to make the right partition boot. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: crt1.c
If I remember clearly, the file you allude to crt1.o must necessarily
exist for gcc to function properly. I once did a find .. '*.o' -exec rm
\{} \; ... to clean my system and found myself in hot water when I tried
to exec gcc. I was pretty new to Linux then and had to go a-begging the
chap upstairs, who I wasn't too keen on and gave me loads of lip before he
let me find and copy the files off his system. By some stroke of luck it
worked ... Tell me, have you been cleaning your system out??
Regards
Jonathan
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Bill Leach wrote:
This is just a bit of guessing here. It sounds like your messages have
to do with trying to compile crt1.o. However, there are lots of other
possibilties. It could be that the makefile uses command/syntax not
recognized by GNUmake
Do you know what the function of crt1.o is? It is possible that this
file will not compile under Linux if it is specific to Irix (at least
not without some 'porting' effort).
Bruce Dobrin wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to compile a tool from Irix, What I'm currently getting is a
syntax type error in something called crt1.o checked the source and the
original stable release and it is distributed as crt1.o. Does anyone know
what this is and where I can get the uncompiled code?
Thanks
Bruce Dobrin
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310-840-8412
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Re: LI instead of LILO:
I have had this problem before and I almost died of fustration before I fixed ... as with most things the solution was pretty simple. For a start try using a minimal lilo and requesting the bios to auto detect the hdd at boot up. If this fails then do the same thing (auto detect) but specify large, LBA and then normal, in turn ... Large did the trick for me if I can remember correctly Let us know how you got on Regards Jonathan On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Adam Shand wrote: I just installed a new Debian system. I had to copy the base1 disk X times on Y disks to get Debian to install. But now I get a LI instead of the expected LILO: What can I do without having to do a complete reinstall? for me the only thing that has ever caused this (there are almost certainly other reasons though) is when i've been playing with bios and what type of hard drive it thinks it is. you'll have to excuse me i'm having a momentary brain fart and can't think of the words i want but the bit i mean is at the far right of the bios display and the options are normal, large and LBA (i think thats correct anyway). your harddrive was possibly formatted with one option and bios is trying another. just reboot and change it until it works (remember what it was originally set to in case it is something else!!!) adam. -- 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: smail (again..... sheesh..)
On 3 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Beattie writes: What I would like to know is what are peoples opinion's on their own configurations, and what the pro's and con's are. One I can think of; Daniel's rewriting of /etc/smail/config every login,... I may try that. ... versus having visible_name set to your ISP's domain,... That is what I am doing now, but I don't like it. It would be fine if I could get smail to use my complete popmail name, though. Can sendmail do that? ...to have a valid hostname. I have one. It just makes things worse, since it isn't in my isp's domain. I gather you mean a valid domain as in being in the DNS?? What would people suggest in my situation, where my ISP's SMTP server does not mind invalid hostnames? That may change. hehe not my ISP, they are so slack that billing sometimes get completly screwed up... should I just use it as a smarthost, and forget about visible_name? Those are unrelated. True, but I meant in the situation that with visible_name set to my ISP, I would not have to use a smarthost for spam-rejecting sites, as it would appear you are masquerading as your ISP, which has a valid hostname on the DNS... And using a smarthost, visible_name could be set to your machine's name. I have not understood how to set up a smarthost, how is this done? In /etc/routers I have: smart_host: driver=smarthost, transport=smtp; path=bucky.win.bright.net Thanks I'll give that a go... Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- DOS never says EXCELLENT command or filename... --- Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Is there HA (High Availability) like solution ?
Hi ! I'd like to bind two debian stations by using HA like solution. I belive that it could be the tolerant system. Where can I find it? Thanks for any small help whkye begin: vcard fn;quoted-printable:=B0=E8 =BF=F8=C8=A3 (Won-Ho Kye) n;quoted-printable:;=B0=E8 =BF=F8=C8=A3 (Won-Ho Kye) org;quoted-printable:=BC=D2=C7=C1=C6=AE=C6=F7=B7=B3(softforum) adr;quoted-printable;quoted-printable;quoted-printable;quoted-printable:=B0=E6=B1=E2=B5=B5 =BC=BA=B3=B2=BD=C3 =BA=D0=B4=E7=B1=B8 ;;=BC=AD=C7=F6=B5=BF 271-1 =B5=BF=BC=AD=C1=F5=B1=C7 =BA=F4=B5=F9 6=C3=FE;=BC=BA=B3=B2=BD=C3;;463-505;=B4=EB=C7=D1=B9=CE=B1=B9 email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] title;quoted-printable:=B0=E8=BF=F8=C8=A3=C0=C7 =C0=CE=C5=CD=B3=DD =B8=ED=C7=D4 tel;work: 0342-780-6802 tel;fax:0342-780-6820 note;quoted-printable:=BE=C8=B3=E7=C7=CF=BC=BC=BF=E4.. x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
XNTPD problem
Hi, I have folowing problem I'm using Debian 2.0 with 2.0.33 kernel and now I'm trying to set up xntpd. my /etc/ntp looks like this : logfile /var/log/xntpd driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/ statistics loopstats peerstats clockstats filegen loopstats file loopstats type day enable filegen peerstats file peerstats type day enable filegen clockstats file clockstats type day enable server rac.cesnet.cz server rab.cesnet.cz server tae.anet.cz And now if a write : xntpd -d server answer : tick = 1, tickadj = 5, hz = 100 kernel vars: tickadj = 5, tick = 1 adj_precision = 1, tvu_maxslew = 495, tsf_maxslew = 0.002070b9 create_sockets(123) bind() fd 4, family 2, port 123, addr , flags=1 bind() fd 5, family 2, port 123, addr 7f01, flags=1 bind() fd 6, family 2, port 123, addr c0a80b01, flags=1 bind() fd 7, family 2, port 123, addr c0a80c01, flags=1 bind() fd 8, family 2, port 123, addr c34b421a, flags=0 init_io: maxactivefd 8 resolving rac.cesnet.cz resolving rab.cesnet.cz resolving tae.anet.cz report_event: system event 'event_restart' (0x01) status 'sync_alarm, sync_unspec, 1 event, event_unspec' (0xc010) And hangs in memory. Don't you know how resolve this bad problem ? Thanx Marty -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
broken manpages-dev
I just installed manpages-dev_1.18-2.deb, and I had to uninstall it, because it breaks my man. It stalls updating the cache, untill I have to CTRL-C it... Anyone else? Look: nr# dpkg -i manpages-dev_1.18-2.deb Selecting previously deselected package manpages-dev. (Reading database ... 28709 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking manpages-dev (from manpages-dev_1.18-2.deb) ... Setting up manpages-dev (1.18-2) ... nr# man bogus Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait... Here I CTRL-C man: can't remove /tmp/zman21458aaa: Bad file descriptor nr# dpkg --purge manpages-dev (Reading database ... 29349 files and directories currently installed.) Removing manpages-dev ... nr# man bogus Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...done. No manual entry for bogus -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: forwarded message from Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Hi,
Luiz == Luiz Otavio L Zorzella [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Luiz I posted this question in debian-user list, and was advised to
Luiz post in this list, because you have supposedelly just decided to
Luiz remove from the .deb packages a feature that would allow this to
Luiz be accomplished.
Firstly, it was decided that to implement the feature, we
would need data in a different format than was previously included in
the packages. We just have not yet put the solution into the policy
document yet (we do have an implementation).
In the meanwhile, instead of dpkg -l; try this; used with no
arguments, it gives the size of all installed packages,
__ ./pkg-size.pl
gnushogi: 560
libhdf4g-dev: 906
wdiff: 58
[snipped]
With a space separated list pf package names; it gives:
__ ./pkg-size.pl make gcc lynx
lynx: 1269
make: 305
gcc: 4968
I hope this is satisfactory in the interim.
manoj
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#! /usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use vars qw(%Need);
my $select = 0;
for (@ARGV) {
$select = 1;
$Need{$_} = 1;
}
$/=;
open (PKGS, /var/lib/dpkg/status) || die Could not read status: $!;
my $size = 0;
while (PKGS) {
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Re: forwarded message from Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Manoj Srivastava writes: Hi, Luiz == Luiz Otavio L Zorzella [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Luiz I posted this question in debian-user list, and was advised to Luiz post in this list, because you have supposedelly just decided to Luiz remove from the .deb packages a feature that would allow this to Luiz be accomplished. Firstly, it was decided that to implement the feature, we would need data in a different format than was previously included in the packages. We just have not yet put the solution into the policy document yet (we do have an implementation). In the meanwhile, instead of dpkg -l; try this; used with no arguments, it gives the size of all installed packages, __ ./pkg-size.pl Your script is just what I needed! I'd suggest (since it looks to be pretty simple) to incorporate this functionality in dpkg. People will like it! THANKS! -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Last login info
Hi, I noticed that redhat 5.0 'remembers' the full host name of my last login, while my debian 1.3.1 system gives me only the first 16 characters of it. As I didn't yet have the courage to install hamm, my question is, will hamm also remember the full hostname of the host I last logged in from? (or at least more than 16 characters) Greetings, Maarten Bezemer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I need help
First, thanks to all the people that has posted to this thread. Second, I want to explain some point here. I have Debian 1.3.1 with ppp installed from the 1.3.1 cd ( ppp_2_2... don't remember ) and I found the pon and poff files. I checked my ppp.chatscript and ppp.options_out scripts according to the sugestions here, but when I type pon I got nothing, and off course poff returns no pppd running. I also tryed dialing directly to my ISP using minicom and I got this: ii Entering PPP Mode IP Address is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx MTU is That's it! I was told by my ISP tech. support that they use PAP. I think I modified the options file according to the Robert Hart's howto http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.html ) but I may be wrong or I just did it wrong! ( that's for sure! ;-) Any ideas? Am I in the right path? Thanks again to all of you. Ivan -Original Message- From: Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ivan Ines Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, March 03, 1998 12:42 PM Subject: Re: I need help I presume that you installed the 'bo' or stable release (ver 1.3.1) and that you installed close to the latest packages... ppp-on and ppp-off were replaced with /usr/bin/pon and /usr/bin/poff. Have you determined if your ISP uses PAP or CHAP? Do you have to login with a 'username' or 'account' and 'password'? Have you tried loggin in with a term program such as miniterm yet? Unfortunately, the HOWTOs were originally write almost exclusively from the standpoint of a Slackware distribution. People using debian, redhat, caldera, unifix, (as far as I know even slackware now), and other distributions are sometime mislead in various ways by the HOWTOs. Debian, in particular differs from the the specifics of the HOWTO. This deviation is not done 'just to be different' and indeed the entire Linux community often eventually adopts the 'debian way'. The debian effort is intended to produce a system that is upgradeable with minimum impact on your configuration (and thus on you!). However, to do that usually requires that the debian distribution does things a little bit differently than some of the other distributions have done things in the past. Unlike DOS and a number of other operating systems, Unix/Linux is pretty famous for allowing users (and system administrators where applicable) to choose many different ways to accomplish a given task. As a practical matter, some restraint must be imposed upon system administration if it is to be possible to produce a package mainenance system that can upgrade packages while retaining the specific configuration that you choose to run. Thus, debian differs a bit from other distributions because alteration that you make to your system should comply with the 'debian way' or future upgrades could fail to properly install (in most of those cases you would have to do your configuration over again). ... -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft! See! They do get some things right! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Zero Length Files on the CD...
P. D. Tisdale writes: I have another problem.. I have downloaded and tested all of the chunks that make up the Debian Binary CD. Also have put them together as stated in the instructions (yes I connected them in order). Lastly, I burned the CD. However, I'm not sure if this problem is normal for these CDs, but there are quite a few ZERO LENGTH FILES on the CD. Is this normal or did I do something wrong?? I used EZCD Pro for Windows 3.1, and a 650Mb CD. (My CD Burner is a Creative Labs 4210). This is normal. Windows(3.x) doesn't have a clue as to how to handle a symlink. Most likely, the zero-length files are symlinks to other parts of the CDrom file structure. Have you tried mounting the CD under Linux and checking it there? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: making room
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there a way to check how much space a package is using? I looked
for an option for the dpkg -l, so that the size of each package
would be shown, but found nothing.
There's no built in way. However, I'd suggest something like:
% dpkg -L octave | xargs ls -lsd | awk '{sum+=$1} END{print sum}'
6114
So octave is using just less than 6 M of disk space, not counting any
extra files it created after being installed.
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Re: Zero Length Files on the CD...
P. D. Tisdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure if this problem is normal for these CDs, but there are quite a few ZERO LENGTH FILES on the CD. Is this normal or did I do something wrong?? I used EZCD Pro for Windows 3.1, and a 650Mb CD. (My CD Burner is a Creative Labs 4210). Are these files like FROZEN amd STABLE? These will turn into symlinks (like Win95 shortcuts) when you look at them in Linux. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Have a question about Debian..
P. D. Tisdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just downloaded all of the chunks that make up the Debian Binary CD. I also downloaded the MD5SUM.EXE and MD5SUMS files. However, when I use MD5SUM to test the chunks, EVERY single one fails! A better possibility than that you downloaded in text mode, is that you need to run MD5SUM.EXE in binary mode, e.g. (I think) CMD5SUM -b -c MD5SUMS But I've never used it under DOS or Windows. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mtools: mmove usage
Hi, how am I supposed to use mmove? I think it should be called just like mcopy. However, while 'mcopy a: /dos/e' works, 'mmove a: /dos/e' doesn't. The man page and the info file didn't help. Any hints? Or is it a bug? Thank you, Ulf -- #include signature -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: php3 + apache = undefined `table_elts'
greg == Gergely Madarasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: greg The current php3 package was compiled with apache greg 1.3b3. Since then apache 1.3b5 is available as a debian greg package, i just didnt have time to upload the new php3.deb greg compiled against it... hmm, perhaps you could specify an explicit dependence of the php3 package on a certain apache package version? or at least you can echo a warning about this issue during postinst, so that the users know... greg I'll upload them this week. thanks! :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mtools: mmove usage
Hello, == how am I supposed to use mmove? As I do not use mtools very often, I am not sure if this helps but it does not harm to try out: mmove a:*.* /dos/whatever I have not tried it though. All the best, Peter * * Peter Paluch * * Kukucinova 939/35 * * 024 01 Kysucke Nove Mesto * * Slovakia, Europe * * - * * tel: +421 826 421 2542* * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: making room
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 05:15:18PM -0800, Jim wrote:
Is there a way to check how much space a package is using? I looked
for an option for the dpkg -l, so that the size of each package
would be shown, but found nothing.
I would _love_ an option like this!! In fact, dselect and/or deity should
give me a breakdown of the space that would be used by partition, of each
individual package and by any given group of packages.
Please bring this up on debian-policy; it was only just decided
to remove the very information from packages that can get you this
information easily.
I think you are mistaken. Those du files were silly at
best. Once we have the .list files containing md5sums and
file sizes this will be even easier, but for now, this
example script should work reasonably well:
#!/usr/bin/perl
my @list, $file, $file_size = 0, $dir_size = 0, $other_size = 0;
chomp(@list = `dpkg -L $ARGV[0]`);
while ($file = shift(@list))
{
if (-f $file) {
$file_size += (stat($file))[7];
}
elsif (-d $file) {
$dir_size += (stat($file))[7];
} else {
$other_size += (stat($file))[7];
}
}
print bytes used by package $ARGV[0]:\n\t\tfiles $file_size bytes\n;
print \t\tdirectories $dir_size bytes\n\t\tother $other_size bytes\n;
or anything similar.
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Re: mtools: mmove usage
Thank you for your reply. On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: As I do not use mtools very often, I am not sure if this helps but it does not harm to try out: mmove a:*.* /dos/whatever Well, I tried that before and it didn't work either. Best regards, Ulf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mtools: mmove usage
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: Thank you for your reply. On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: As I do not use mtools very often, I am not sure if this helps but it does not harm to try out: mmove a:*.* /dos/whatever Well, I tried that before and it didn't work either. You might try to use \* instead of * to disable the shell's filename expansion. (I have to do that when I'm in tcsh). Good luck! Maarten Bezemer -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
www.ml.org and dynamic dns
I have agreed to package one of the client programs that www.ml.org has for Debian, but I think that this would best be done by someone who is actually using the service. Is there anyone here who is and wants to become a maintainer? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mtools: mmove usage
Hello, == You might try to use \* instead of * to disable the shell's filename expansion. (I have to do that when I'm in tcsh). I don't know about you, but have a look what it complains about: frcatel:~$ mmove a: /archive/users/peterp/pokus Path component archive is not a directory Bad target This is crazy. I've tried to experiment with the target directory but it didn't help. I treat this as a bug. All the best, Peter * * Peter Paluch * * Kukucinova 939/35 * * 024 01 Kysucke Nove Mesto * * Slovakia, Europe * * - * * tel: +421 826 421 2542* * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mtools: mmove usage
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 12:55:24PM +0100, Peter Paluch wrote: You might try to use \* instead of * to disable the shell's filename expansion. (I have to do that when I'm in tcsh). I don't know about you, but have a look what it complains about: frcatel:~$ mmove a: /archive/users/peterp/pokus Path component archive is not a directory Bad target This is crazy. I've tried to experiment with the target directory but it didn't help. I treat this as a bug. The error message is a bug, but DOS-wise a: is a non-sensical source; DOS wouldn't accept it for either copy or move. a:*.* is the answer but you'd have to quote it. That may or may not be the problem 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: mtools: mmove usage
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: The error message is a bug, but DOS-wise a: is a non-sensical source; DOS wouldn't accept it for either copy or move. a:*.* is the answer but you'd have to quote it. That may or may not be the problem though. I've tried some things on the Debian 1.1 system at the university, but it seems, that mmove and mren have the same result: renaming files on the disk, not moving it from floppy to a linux directory. I guess it may be a bug in the routine that finds out with which name mtools is started. Maybe this is solved in more recent versions of mtools. This system - not mine - seems not to have been updated for quite a while. /home/softweng/i2437307mmove a:/* /tmp/ Path component tmp is not a directory Bad target /home/softweng/i2437307mmove a:/* /tmp Long file name tmp already exists. a)utorename A)utorename-all r)ename R)ename-all o)verwrite O)verwrite-all s)kip S)kip-all q)uit (aArRoOsSq): q Of the two files on the floppy, the first one has been renamed to tmp, and therefore the other one cannot be renamed to tmp as well. Another option might be making an entry in /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0 with the noauto and user options. Having mounted the floppy, you should be able to move files in the std linux way. Greetings, Maarten Bezemer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
installing packages
For a linux newbie... How do you go about installing packages that are gzipped, and don't have .deb extensions? TIA, Andy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SCSI controller
Hello, == I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western Digital? Thanks a lot. Peter * * Peter Paluch * * Kukucinova 939/35 * * 024 01 Kysucke Nove Mesto * * Slovakia, Europe * * - * * tel: +421 826 421 2542* * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Virtual Consoles
Hi, Can anyone tell me why debian 1.3.1 uses agetty, instead of something like mingetty? I wish to screen to clear after booting my system but using agetty this is not possible, I have tried using mingetty and this does what I require, but I am wondering if there is anyreason agetty was chosen (i.e Does it support some features mingetty does not, when used for virtual consoles)? Regards Graham -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Kernel Install
Sounds like maybe you didn't redo your links for vmlinuz in / and didn't edit lilo.conf (if you want to still have your old kernel available in emergencys). Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Printer sharing
Hi, I'd like to know how to share my printer that is connected to my linux box to other PCs that run Windows/NT on the network. Currently, I'm able to ftp from the Windows/NT PC to my linux box. So I think my network is working. Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mtools: mmove usage
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, M.C. Bezemer wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: The error message is a bug, but DOS-wise a: is a non-sensical source; DOS wouldn't accept it for either copy or move. a:*.* is the answer but you'd have to quote it. That may or may not be the problem though. Anyway, it works for mcopy! Using *.* (and quoting it with '') didn't help. I haven't tried quoting it with '\', though. bug in the routine that finds out with which name mtools is started. Maybe this is solved in more recent versions of mtools. This system - not mine - seems not to have been updated for quite a while. I'm using the current mtools package from hamm (3.8-1). /home/softweng/i2437307mmove a:/* /tmp/ Path component tmp is not a directory Bad target It's the same error I get. Obviously, it doesn't depend on the file system which is mounted on that directory. BTW, the path component mentioned in the error message is always the first path component (ie, /dos/e - dos). /home/softweng/i2437307mmove a:/* /tmp Long file name tmp already exists. a)utorename A)utorename-all r)ename R)ename-all o)verwrite O)verwrite-all s)kip S)kip-all q)uit (aArRoOsSq): q Of the two files on the floppy, the first one has been renamed to tmp, and therefore the other one cannot be renamed to tmp as well. I don't think so. This is because you have a /tmp by default. But if I remember correctly, this overwrite warning is always shown, if you omit the trailing slash, even if no file or directory of this name exists. (I can't test it at the moment) Another option might be making an entry in /etc/fstab for /dev/fd0 with the noauto and user options. Having mounted the floppy, you should be able to move files in the std linux way. Well, this works. But it's too uncomfortable if you want to copy several floppies one after the other, because you always need to umount one disk and mount the next. Greetings, Maarten Bezemer. I guess, this is worth a bug report... Best regards, Ulf -- #include signature -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compute Farm, Part II (nobody mentioned nfsroot!)
I'm suprised no-one has mentioned nfsroot to-date. Based on its docs, it could do this quite well. But tryin to understand the docs is hell, and getting it to work even worse, especially when I got no response to my probs f/the maintainer. -- Terrence Brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://lnc.usc.edu/~brannon USC, HNB, 3614 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 * (213) 740-3397 Great Milk Debate... http://www.milk.com vs. http://www.notmilk.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Kernel Install
Carroll Kong tar zpfxv linux_2.0.33.tar.gz technically you forgot.. cd /usr/include rm -rf asm linux scsi ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-386 asm ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi cd linux make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make clean make zlilo you also did not seem to check /etc/lilo.conf make modules make modules_install reboot Now, on ANY other machine.. doing a uname -a or checking /proc/version I'd have Linux 2.0.33 blah lah lah... But not on this box... it's still saying 2.0.29. Now I left the machine running for an hour.. and still.. 2.0.29.. so I rebooted.. still 2.0.29.. I copied the kernel I compiled to a disk and boot the disk in another machine.. kernel 2.0.33. Now I check the 'screwed' machine by attacking it with land/teardrop to see if it was just a version screw up and it was really running 2.0.33 just not reporting it.. and it bombed. you mean you thought it was running 2.0.33 because uname -a isn't going to lie on you. If uname -a says 2.0.29... you can immediately start thinking something about this box is different, the computer isnt' going to change kernels on you. Try different methods of approach to solve the problem then, your solutions of leaving it on for an hour did not help, but your land / teardrop was a good way to confirm the kernel. so it's still running 2.0.29. does anyone hve ANY ideas about this? I have recompiled, reinstalled, reunpacked and redownloaded the kernel multiple times and it still will nt update. This is how I would do it.. make zImage instead of make zlilo. *backup /vmlinuz, most likely a link to /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.29, to something like /boot/vmlinuz.old* cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage /vmlinuz *consider copying to /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.33 then recreating the /vmlinuz symlink* *check /etc/lilo.conf, make sure it is pointing to the right hd and /vmlinuz* lilo *check date of /vmlinuz or wherever dest file is. Since the dest file is /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.29, you might want to change it when you confirm it's file size and date is different and than vmlinuz.old* then reboot. on the other hand, you can check /etc/lilo.conf first... then run make zlilo. (considering the other steps as well) Hope this helps. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Zero Length Files on the CD...
Hopefully it'll turn to symlinks... he needed to burn with ISO9660 with Rockridge extensions. Didn't he say he burned with EZCD Pro? Mine for Win 95 / NT had no such option. They have joliet.. maybe even romeo so he can try to patch his kernel for fat32 support / joliet (combo patch), and mount the cd-rom. Semi-primitive, but at least he'll get a lot of the default packages on a fast medium. Carroll Kong On 4 Mar 1998, Carey Evans wrote: P. D. Tisdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure if this problem is normal for these CDs, but there are quite a few ZERO LENGTH FILES on the CD. Is this normal or did I do something wrong?? I used EZCD Pro for Windows 3.1, and a 650Mb CD. (My CD Burner is a Creative Labs 4210). Are these files like FROZEN amd STABLE? These will turn into symlinks (like Win95 shortcuts) when you look at them in Linux. Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
-I- Re: mtools: mmove usage sorry, could not help...
I never could get the mtools to have full functionality... especially on logical drives in extended partitions for dos. Is that how you do it? just do a mcopy a: /dos/e? and it'll hunt for logical partition named E:? I tried mcopy a: e: and no go (a while back in FreeBSD). I got around it by just mounting my drives and manually copying them mmove should ignore perms and multiple file systems, the mv command freaks out when i move from partition to partition because mved file retain old perms... so it makes sense that it'll 'fail' on a destination fat drive. Carroll Kong On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: Hi, how am I supposed to use mmove? I think it should be called just like mcopy. However, while 'mcopy a: /dos/e' works, 'mmove a: /dos/e' doesn't. The man page and the info file didn't help. Any hints? Or is it a bug? Thank you, Ulf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: disk partitions (part 3) ... :D
At 11:35 03.03.98 -0500, you wrote: Hi Helmut; I am not really much of an expert in this sort of problem but would like to see if I can help you to have a little better understanding of what is going on with your system (as best as I understand anyway)... The ROM portion of DOS loads and executes the mbr, including accessing the disk drive for the mbr code. Thus for your system to boot, it is necessary for the ROM code to be able to find the files needed by lilo (the files in /boot). The was 'created' as a 'normal' disk and not a 'lba' disk. The ROM code then has to use the 'normal' mode to find the files needed by lilo. If you change the mode to 'lba' then when the ROM code interprets the disk structure information to produce the block numbers that should be used by the drive to seek to the requested files, the resulting numbers are NOT the blocks where the files are actually located. As far as I know the DOS portition of this problem IS not solvable by any practical method other than reformating the disk under DOS with the mode set to LBA. It is actually possible to hand edit the disk structure information used by the DOS based ROM code and I am told that there are people that have done this but it is anything but a trivial task! IF you do not need to have DOS access to this drive (that would include Win95 and OS2) you MIGHT be able to do a 'work around'. First I don't KNOW that this will work and can't quite tell from your posting if you already have indication that it will not... IF the ROM code can load and execute the mbr with the CMOS mode set to LBA then I think that this will work otherwise it is just a waste of your time and effort. My suggestion is: Set the CMOS to LBA for the drive (this BTW is something that I CAN NOT do on my own system -- if a drive on my system was formatted in normal mode then a change to LBA in the CMOS is automatically changed back). Boot your system using a Linux boot floppy (rescue/installation) if you don't have something else. Run lilo (note that if you boot Linux such that your hard disk is NOT the root filesystem (such as is the case with using the rescue/installation disk) then it is necessary to tell lilo where the normal root partition is currently mounted (see the lilo HOWTO or man page) with something like lilo -r /target (assuming of course that you mounted your normal hard disk Linux root filesystem on the rescue disk's ram filesystem on the directory named 'target'). Now AGAIN, I have no idea whether this will work or not. For this to work it is necessary that 1) the ROM code actually will access the disk when there is a mode mismatch and 2) that lilo _uses_ that code to determine what the location of the files that are needed during boot WILL be. I was just going to send this to you privately but I believe that it is better to subject this to critical review of those that know the lilo code as well as the details of exactly how the disk information is used and interpreted by the ROM code. -- best, -bill THANKS, Bill ! My vendor just gave me an updated BIOS version for the motherboard I'm usig (PA2000). Is it a good idea to rewrite the Eprom and then try to boot with the new BIOS ? Or is this rather dangerous and my old BIOS should work anyway ? Helmut -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SCSI controller
I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western Digital? Only BusLogic (Mylex) is guranteed to work properly under Linux. 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: installing packages
Hello, == How do you go about installing packages that are gzipped, and don't have .deb extensions? If they are only gzipped, then there is only file inside the .gz file, and you unzip it using gunzip, like : gunzip name_of_the_file.gz However, if the files end with .tar.gz or with .tgz, then you have to use tar to extract files from this archive, and you do it this way: tar xpzvf name_of_the_file.tar.gz It is very often better to install a package than to install from these archives, as they can contain pure source files which you have to compile and arrange inside your system. In the .deb packages that is already done. All the best, Peter * * Peter Paluch * * Kukucinova 939/35 * * 024 01 Kysucke Nove Mesto * * Slovakia, Europe * * - * * tel: +421 826 421 2542* * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: installing packages
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, ANDREW INFANTE wrote: How do you go about installing packages that are gzipped, and don't have .deb extensions? Ouch! You can't just do that, you need to install Slackware first :-) But IIRC Slackware is not available as a .deb yet. Maybe someone is working on it. No, seriously: you don't need to install tarballs (the hip name for a .tar.gz archive) because.. you can't. They don't fit into the debian scheme. What you can do with them, is to unpack them with tar zxf filename and compile the source that comes out of the tarball on your system yourself. The binaries that are produced are best placed in /usr/local/bin so you keep apart what you put on the system and what dpkg puts on the system. Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Lilo v18==v20 : HULP!
HELP! Can't remember what I was doing at the time a month or so ago, but when I try to run LILO, for it to replace the boot record, it kind of goes like this. compaq_4# lilo First boot sector is version 18. Expecting version 20. compaq_4# Any help to get around this is appreciated, folks! rgds. -- Kevin Cave. A Scotsman living in London, but may move to Japan. Registered Linux User #64441 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) [EMAIL PROTECTED](home) -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian-|-Zip
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does debian/LINUX support zip drives? Yes, all varieties. Well, Zip Plus plugged into parallel port was not supported last time I checked... That's odd, it's worked for me for a while. You're looking for the ppa driver, you probably have to insmod it first, unless you've configured /etc/conf.modules correctly. -- 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: Virtual Consoles
Hello, == I wish to screen to clear after booting my system but using agetty this is not possible, I have tried using mingetty and this does what I require, but I am wondering if there is anyreason agetty was chosen (i.e Does it support some features mingetty does not, when used for virtual consoles)? I can't answer that question, unfortunately, but I am quite satisfied with agetty. If you wish to clear the screen after every logout, it is rather simple and it can be done by putting this line into /etc/profile: trap clear EXIT and it means that when bash catches the EXIT signal it executes clear before it exits. And so you'll have a perfectly clear screen after every logout. I do not think it is wise to have your first VC clean immediately after bootup as you can miss some error messages (and forget to look into /var/log/messages ;-) . Everything the best, Peter * * Peter Paluch * * Kukucinova 939/35 * * 024 01 Kysucke Nove Mesto * * Slovakia, Europe * * - * * tel: +421 826 421 2542* * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SCSI controller
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Peter Paluch wrote: Hello, == I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western Digital? Thanks a lot. You probably want to ask this question on linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, but just to give you a quick summary: Adaptec controllers are very common, and perform fairly well, but Adaptec does not cooperate with the Linux community, and does not release information about their cards. The drivers for Adaptec cards have been reverse-engineered. They do seem to work for most people, but other cards are better supported. I don't know much about Western Digital, but a friend of mine has one and has had a lot of trouble getting it to work under Linux. WD does not release their specs either. The drivers for WD cards do not seem to be as good as for Adaptec. Buslogic/Mylex cards *are* supported. Buslogic is very cooperative with the Linux community and I have seen many people say that the cards work very well. I personally have an NCR53c825 card. NCR/Symbios released their programming information, too, and the drivers are very good. All the NCR53c8xx cards are supported, and most of the NCR53c7xx cards, from what I gather. NCR cards are also very cheap - www.swt.com has an ad in the Linux Journal to sell an NCR53c810 (Fast SCSI) for $53 (US). I have heard that it's hard to get anything but Adaptec in Europe, so that may be your only choice. As I said, it does seem to be supported fairly well. Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Improvements succeeded each other so rapidly, that machines which had never been finished were abandoned in the hands of their makers, because new improvements had superceded their utility. Charles Babbage 'On the Economy of Manufactures' 1832 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SCSI controller
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 09:36:47AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western Digital? Only BusLogic (Mylex) is guranteed to work properly under Linux. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ NCR / Symbios 53c810 works for me, and at 80 bucks or so is probably less than a buslogic. There are other supported cards too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . My other computer runs Linux! Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it was a bet you wouldn't take it. -- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: -I- Re: mtools: mmove usage sorry, could not help...
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: I never could get the mtools to have full functionality... especially on logical drives in extended partitions for dos. Is that how you do it? just do a mcopy a: /dos/e? and it'll hunt for logical partition named E:? I tried mcopy a: e: and no go (a while back in FreeBSD). Yes, the DOS partition I access with E: under DOS is mounted on /dos/e. I didn't setup a logical drive 'e:' for mtools under Linux (I'll try later if that works). 'a:' is associated with /dev/fd0 in mtools.conf (as it is per default after installing mtools). I got around it by just mounting my drives and manually copying them mmove should ignore perms and multiple file systems, the mv command freaks out when i move from partition to partition because mved file retain old perms... so it makes sense that it'll 'fail' on a destination fat drive. You can work around that, if you mount the FAT drive with option 'quiet'. However, this isn't the reason for the error message. Ulf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: wu-ftpd and anonymous ftp
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Jason Ish wrote: I'm running hamm and have just installed the wu-ftpd server for the purpose of an anonymous ftp account. I thought I had everything working, or so it appeared to work from any command line ftp client (linux/win95), but when a friend tried to get to it using wsftp, no directory listing was given to him. Whats the cause of this and how do I fix it please. (I did read all the docs). Apparently the libc5 libs were included in this package (also wu-ftpd-academ) rather than libc6. There are bug reports on this, however, and it will hopefully be fixed soon. The solution (until wu-ftpd gets fixed by the maintainer) was given last week by Ossama Othman. It worked for me, but some others seem to be still having problems. Run ldd on ls. For example, ldd /bin/ls (you need the absolute path) You should get output like: libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4000f000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) Copy the the libraries from the ldd output to ~ftp/lib, or wherever the above libraries are relative to root (i.e. if in /usr/lib, copy to ~ftp/usr/lib). Make sure the libraries have a+rx permissions. HTH, 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: Printer sharing
Hi, I'd like to know how to share my printer that is connected to my linux box to other PCs that run Windows/NT on the network. I'm not sure if this will work with NT machines, but here goes anyway :). In order to allow a UN*X machine to accept print requests from a remote machine, you will have to edit your /etc/hosts.lpd file (create one if it doesn't exist), and add the names (full domain included!) of the hosts you want to have access to your Linux box's printer. After that, add the names of those remote machines to your /etc/hosts file. Make sure the local machine hostname is in the hosts.lpd file, too. Otherwise, you may not be able to print from your Linux box. Finally, restart your lpd daemon. I know that this works for UN*X to UN*X printing. I really have no idea if it will work with NT to UN*X printing. -Ossama -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SCSI controller
On Wed, Mar 04, 1998 at 09:36:47AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western Digital? Only BusLogic (Mylex) is guranteed to work properly under Linux. That's certainly untrue, although the BusLogic driver is exceptionally good -- thanks largely to support from the company. I've heard that the DPT driver is also excellent, and AdvanSys is vendor-supported and should be of high quality. Adaptec does not support free software, and the driver shows it. :-) Jeff -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Kernel Install
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: tar zpfxv linux_2.0.33.tar.gz technically you forgot.. cd /usr/include rm -rf asm linux scsi ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-386 asm ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi NO, DON'T DO THIS. Read /usr/doc/libc5/FAQ.gz or /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.Debian.gz for the reasons why not. -- 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: Have a question about Debian..
I also ran across this problem when I tried a hand built MD5SUM from the source package on sunsite. Once I replaced it with the Debian copy, the problems went away. Check to see if you have more than one copy of MD5SUM in your path. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carey Evans wrote: P. D. Tisdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just downloaded all of the chunks that make up the Debian Binary CD. I also downloaded the MD5SUM.EXE and MD5SUMS files. However, when I use MD5SUM to test the chunks, EVERY single one fails! A better possibility than that you downloaded in text mode, is that you need to run MD5SUM.EXE in binary mode, e.g. (I think) CMD5SUM -b -c MD5SUMS But I've never used it under DOS or Windows. -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- 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: SCSI controller
hi, i have just purchased an inexpensive advansys fast scsi controller from a com,pany and it seems that they are very good at working with the linux community. the firm that i great a good buy from was centrix international. thanks, allan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Last login info
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, M.C. Bezemer wrote: I noticed that redhat 5.0 'remembers' the full host name of my last login, while my debian 1.3.1 system gives me only the first 16 characters of it. As I didn't yet have the courage to install hamm, my question is, will hamm also remember the full hostname of the host I last logged in from? (or at least more than 16 characters) Yes, hamm is capable of providing the longer hostnames. The format of the files that keep track of logins was extended by libc6, so a hamm system will take advantage of that fact. -- 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: SCSI controller
In an article Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In an article Peter Paluch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm thinking of buying a SCSI for my computer. However, I have no | experience in this field. I'd like to buy some that works well | with Linux. What do you think of Adaptec and Western Digital? | | Only BusLogic (Mylex) is guranteed to work properly under Linux. Huh? When did this happen? Certainly Adaptec was part of the first SCSI support under Linux. I remember using my 1542B (which I still have in my current Linux box) back in 0.9x Linux days. I also recall when the BusLogic drivers weren't part of the kernel distribution and you had to download them separately. I currently have both an Adaptec 2940UW and 1542B in my linux box and, other than doing kernel recompiles, I've never even had to think about the fact that they're in there. They've worked flawlessly. I do believe that BusLogic controllers, from what I've heard (so it's only hearsay) have better performance, but are slightly more expensive. If you're only running Linux and Win95 I don't think you can go wrong either way but I'd go with the best performer if I were buying today. Good Luck! Gary Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: LI instead of LILO:
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: I have had this problem before and I almost died of fustration before I fixed ... as with most things the solution was pretty simple. For a start try using a minimal lilo and requesting the bios to auto detect the hdd at boot up. If this fails then do the same thing (auto detect) but specify large, LBA and then normal, in turn ... Large did the trick for me if I can remember correctly I reinstalled about 4 times and then I saw your email and the user.tex for lilo and it suddenly clicked that you may be right and you were truly right. I set my drive from normal to AUTO and everything works. The system works beautifully now. This info needs to go on the FAQ of LILO. I wonder how many people gave up just because of this. /---/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa(w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 1233 /---/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)
I wrote: I have one [a valid hostname]. It just makes things worse, since it isn't in my isp's domain. Michael Beattie writes: I gather you mean a valid domain as in being in the DNS? Yes. hehe not my ISP, they are so slack that billing sometimes get completly screwed up... BrightNet is pretty slack too: they can't even get their clocks set right. Nonetheless, they upgraded sendmail. True, but I meant in the situation that with visible_name set to my ISP, I would not have to use a smarthost for spam-rejecting sites,... smart_host has to do with outgoing mail. So far as I know it has no relevance to spam. ...as it would appear you are masquerading as your ISP, smart_host just hands off delivery to the smarthost so that their well-connected machine can do the address lookup, delivery, retries, etc. The message still goes out with your address. ..And using a smarthost, visible_name could be set to your machine's name. The reverse. If you don't use smart_host you will be delivering every message directly to the addressed host. If your address resolves they will accept the message. Many will accept it even if the address doesn't resolve. When you use smart_host, though, you are asking your ISP to relay for you. This causes them to suspect that you might be a spammer, so they may refuse the message unless the MAIL FROM: address is within their domain. I can get mail delivered to addresses in win.bright.net with a MAIL FROM: of [EMAIL PROTECTED], but if the destination is outside their domain it has to say [EMAIL PROTECTED]. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Kernel Install
My bad. Sorry for the misinformation then. I am new to Debian... used to old school Slackware. Although it says it will break compilations... it seemed to work fine for the most part. But from now on, I will not do it. Carroll Kong On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Carroll Kong wrote: tar zpfxv linux_2.0.33.tar.gz technically you forgot.. cd /usr/include rm -rf asm linux scsi ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-386 asm ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi NO, DON'T DO THIS. Read /usr/doc/libc5/FAQ.gz or /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.Debian.gz for the reasons why not. -- 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: Printer sharing
Hi, iquest wrote: Hi, I'd like to know how to share my printer that is connected to my linux box to other PCs that run Windows/NT on the network. Currently, I'm able to ftp from the Windows/NT PC to my linux box. So I think my network is working. Thanks! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . try the samba-package u can export files and printers to win95/NT/3.1 with it the printer should work without any printer-specific configuration. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: New (hamm) afterstep info
On Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 11:28:13AM -, Kevin Traas wrote: I'm running the new 1.4 on a few machines here and it's great! Many changes from the previous version. ftp the tarball and untar it. The README/INSTALL provide info on changes from the original - however, these files are themselves a little dated Anyway, works great and no complaints from my end! Just like to let you know that there is already a Debian package for AfterStep 1.4. That is, if you are using a hamm (pre-2.0, i.e. unstable) distribution. :-) It works great here too. I love the speed! :-) Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
sharing a fax/modem with win95
Hi there, Can anyone out there tell me if there is some kind of solution out there that will let win95 to send a fax through a fax/modem on a linux server? thanks for any suggestions, rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
tape backup regiment
I would like to set up a fail-safe backup system for a linux box that i am putting together for a client of mine. Ideally the client will just have to make sure there is a new tape in there every other day and a cron will take care of backing up the entire 2G drive to tape sometime when everyone else is sleeping. In the event of a drive crash I would like to have some kind of a boot disk handy such that once the drive is replaced they can run a script to fdisk/format/restore from tape. Has anyone heard of or done something like this? how? any suggestions on tape hardware? thanks, rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian-|-Zip
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 04 10:07:30 1998 Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:07:30 -0500 Resent-date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 14:56:26 + Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 09:56:27 -0500 (EST) Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian-|-Zip In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-message-id: P6gRp.A.MnD.YuW_0@debian Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list Delivered-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/28606 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Authentication-warning: seminole.gate.net: storm owned process doing -bs X-UIDL: 8bd86776c09c3ec7270608c2c84d86eb Resent-Sender: Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 4 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does debian/LINUX support zip drives? Yes, all varieties. Well, Zip Plus plugged into parallel port was not supported last time I checked... That's odd, it's worked for me for a while. You're looking for the ppa driver, you probably have to insmod it first, unless you've configured /etc/conf.modules correctly. -- 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] . -- _ _( )_ ( (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] .
IDE CD-ROM IRQ
I'm performing an installation from CD-ROM on a Compaq Deskpro 4000 with a CreativeLabs 8x IDE CD-ROM. During dselect, the machine comes to a crawl (including the other virtual consoles), almost unusable, and the instalation of each packages takes minutes. The console is filled by many, many lines of these messages: hdb: ATAPI reset complete hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 hdb is probably /dev/hdb, which is my CD-ROM drive (the second device on the first IDE controller. I installed the CD modules in the kernel without specifying any parameters. Can someone give me a hint at what to do? I already looked at the archives but found nothing... Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] Assistente de Informática http://www.lge.com.br./ LG Electronics da Amazônia Ltda fone +55 11 820 25 99 r 151 R do Rocio, 430 - 1º andar - Vila Olímpia fax +55 11 829 54 57 04552-906 - São Paulo, SP Soli Deo Gloria! BRASIL BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Dutra;Leandro;GFC FN:Leandro GFC Dutra ORG:LG Electronics da Amazônia Ltda;Sistemas de Informação TITLE:Assistente de Informática NOTE:Soli Deo Gloria! TEL;WORK;VOICE:(011) 820 25 99 TEL;HOME;VOICE:(011) 247 42 85 TEL;WORK;FAX:(011) 829 54 57 ADR;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:;;R do Rocio, 430 - 1o. andar=0D=0AVila Ol=EDmpia;S=E3o Paulo;SP;04552-906;B= rasil LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:R do Rocio, 430 - 1o. andar=0D=0AVila Ol=EDmpia=0D=0AS=E3o Paulo, SP 04552-9= 06=0D=0ABrasil ADR;HOME;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:;;Av Sgto Geraldo Santana, 1.100 - bl. 6, ap. 71=0D=0ACampo Grande;S=E3o Pau= lo;SP;04552-906;Brasil LABEL;HOME;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Av Sgto Geraldo Santana, 1.100 - bl. 6, ap. 71=0D=0ACampo Grande=0D=0AS=E3o = Paulo, SP 04552-906=0D=0ABrasil URL:http://www.terravista.pt./Enseada/1989/ URL:http://www.lge.com.br./ EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:19980304T181310Z END:VCARD
My laptop keeps crashing
I have installed debian on an IBM Thinkpad (model 310ED--- this seems to be a little-used model, I'm beginning to understand why). I used the CD's that came with Dale Scheetz's DEBIAN LINUX USER'S GUIDE. Most of the system worked as I expected. However, I have recently been experiencing crashes, screens going black, and other strange behavior. The most recent crash came while I was using emacs (not from X). Suddenly the screen filled with a bunch of stuff I don't understand. I hope somebody can explain what the excerpts below might mean, and what I should do about it. (pid: 1 process nr: 1 stackpage = 002ad000 ) Unable to handle kernel paging request at (bunch of zeroes) current - tss.cr3 = 00c5000 %cr3 = 00cc5000 (then the word STACK followed by a bunch of 8-digit numbers) kpde = 0 Oops: 0003 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010 [ 0010a31b ] EEFLAGS: 00010246 (bunch more junk) Process init (pid: 178, process nr: 4, stackpage 00fab00) The machine was printing, every 30 seconds or so polling: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I turned it off. I think lp0 refers to the parallel port, but I don't have a printer or anything else attached there. I have been experiencing difficulty using kermit and trying to get X to work, but neither of these had been tried during the session involving the most recent crash, so I suspect the problem may be elsewhere. Thanks very much for any help. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dotfile locking, NFS and lockd
Hi, Quite some time ago (somewhere around debian 1.1 and 1.2), it was pointed out (by Miquel Smoorenburg, I think) that while all debian programs (or all mail related programs?) agree in using dotfile locking, many of them used the wrong function to implement that, since the commonly used function is not atomic over NFS (meaning locking could fail over NFS on a busy machine). So, I'd like to know the status of that; is this solved in 1.3.1? What about 1.2 (I haven't upgraded yet, I'm lazy ;-) . Or, putting it differently: can I export my mail spool thru NFS and sleep at night if all systems involved run debian? On the same line, I think the new (2.1.x) kernel-supported NFS server is supposed to have the hooks necessary to implement a really cool lockd for linux which would solve this kind of problem and allow for reliable NFS locking among linux and other Unixes etc. Quite misteriously, I don't see mentions to this when people talk about the improvements of the new kernels, why is that? And is the lockd really being developed? If so, should I expect it to be available when the newer kernel freezes? Thanks in Advance, Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's Internet! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
re: Printer sharing
Hi All, Thanks to all the users replied to my question on Printer sharing. Most of you suggested me to use Samba. I went ahead and install the Samba package. I read some of the document that came with the package and I still do not quite get to do what I want. If anyone of you do not mind, could you send me a step by step procedure :) or could someone point me to the doc that could lead me to do this? 1.) I've a HP 6MP laser printer connect to my Linux box. I'd like to allow other PC (running Windows/NT) to print thing to it. 2.) How about the reverse, If I have the printer connected to the Windows/NT server PC, how would my Linux box print thing to it? After installed the Samba, I ran this command: smbstatus and I got: Couldn't open status file /var/lock/samba/STATUS..LCK I'm wondering if I need to start some at boot time or something? Any help will be greately appreciated. Thank you very much in advance! -- Timothy C. Phan Intelligence Quest Research, INC. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mtools: mmove usage
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: how am I supposed to use mmove? I think it should be called just like mcopy. Though the syntax may look superficially similar, that's about the only connection between mmove and mcopy. However, while 'mcopy a: /dos/e' works, Here, /dos/e is on a unix filesystem. About a:, the documentation says fer. A missing drive designation implies a Unix file whose path starts in the current directory. If a source drive letter is specified with no attached file name (e.g. mcopy a: .), all files are copied from that drive. 'mmove a: /dos/e' doesn't. For a start, there's no source file specified. And if it were to take that to mean a:*.* (it doesn't), it would necessarily loop: \ goes to \dos\e, therefore \dos\e goes to \dos\e\dos\e ad infinitum. Remember, \dos\e is on a: and not on unix. The man page and the info file didn't help. Any hints? Or is it a bug? Perhaps you read the man page thinking that move a b means copy a b and then delete a. It doesn't. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: php3 + apache = undefined `table_elts'
On 4 Mar 1998, tibor simko wrote: greg == Gergely Madarasz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: greg The current php3 package was compiled with apache greg 1.3b3. Since then apache 1.3b5 is available as a debian greg package, i just didnt have time to upload the new php3.deb greg compiled against it... hmm, perhaps you could specify an explicit dependence of the php3 package on a certain apache package version? or at least you can echo a warning about this issue during postinst, so that the users know... When I uploaded php 3.0b4 I didnt know that apache 1.3b5 would break it. It could have worked :) Greg -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://www.cab.u-szeged.hu/local/linux/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: sharing a fax/modem with win95
Rob, Check out the Hylafax package. It has a Windows client. Steve Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Goodwin wrote: Hi there, Can anyone out there tell me if there is some kind of solution out there that will let win95 to send a fax through a fax/modem on a linux server? thanks for any suggestions, rob -- 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: LI instead of LILO:
I'm glad to be of help Jonathan On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: I have had this problem before and I almost died of fustration before I fixed ... as with most things the solution was pretty simple. For a start try using a minimal lilo and requesting the bios to auto detect the hdd at boot up. If this fails then do the same thing (auto detect) but specify large, LBA and then normal, in turn ... Large did the trick for me if I can remember correctly I reinstalled about 4 times and then I saw your email and the user.tex for lilo and it suddenly clicked that you may be right and you were truly right. I set my drive from normal to AUTO and everything works. The system works beautifully now. This info needs to go on the FAQ of LILO. I wonder how many people gave up just because of this. /---/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa(w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 1233 /---/ -- 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: Kernel Install
I found Dale Scheetz book helpful pg. 159-171 go over the traditional linux way of compiling a custom kernel vs. the Debian way. I got mine from www.linuxpress.com but you might find one in your local bookstore The Debian Linux User's Guide I'd have been pretty lost without it. Oh yeah, I don't have any stock in this company or book and wouldn't no Dale if I literally bumped into himjust found the book helpful for me. Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: afterstep
I upgraded afterstep to 1.4, but I had to downgrade it back to 1.0, cuz the new one did not get any of my old confs, and looked horrible! Did I do anything wrong? Yeah, you didn't configure it to your own tastes!Give it another try! The conf files and structure have totally changed between versions. To modify your new setup, just go to ~/GNUStep/Library/AfterStep/* and modify the stuff in there. It's all pretty self-explanatory. Later, Kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Kernel Install
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Scott Walker wrote: Ok, this is a BIG nasty weird problem. I'm runnig Debian With default Kernel 2.0.29 So we're in bo, I take it. I grabbed Kernel 2.0.33 from ftp.kernel.org and did the following steps: tar zpfxv linux_2.0.33.tar.gz cd linux make mrproper make menuconfig make dep make clean make zlilo make modules make modules_install reboot Now, on ANY other machine.. doing a uname -a or checking /proc/version I'd have Linux 2.0.33 blah lah lah... But not on this box... it's still saying 2.0.29. Now I left the machine running for an hour.. and still.. 2.0.29.. so I rebooted.. still 2.0.29.. I copied the kernel I compiled to a disk and boot the disk in another machine.. kernel 2.0.33. Now I check the 'screwed' machine by attacking it with land/teardrop to see if it was just a version screw up and it was really running 2.0.33 just not reporting it.. and it bombed. so it's still running 2.0.29. does anyone hve ANY ideas about this? I have recompiled, reinstalled, reunpacked and redownloaded the kernel multiple times and it still will nt update. Well it pretty obviously put the compiled kernel somewhere where something couldn't find it, so it just carried on using the old one. Presumably it consistently did the same thing multiple times, which is a relief. I notice you're using a linux tarball and not the Debian kernel-source package, so there may be some sort of tweak missing. For example, the linux/Makefile says: # INSTALL_PATH specifies where to place the updated kernel and system map # images. Uncomment if you want to place them anywhere other than root. #INSTALL_PATH=/boot Now I compile my own kernels from kernel-source packages and I don't touch that line. However, make install always puts the new kernel and map in /boot (and moves symlinks in root), so something must be Debianised. You could try changing make zlilo to make zImage and make install and see where the kernel image ends up (remember the System.map too). Alternatively, you could get 33 in a debian package from unstable - I've compiled it for the joystick on a bo system without any problems. Cheers, -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
