Re: Los tcp wrappers [Solución]
Hola, [ Me acabo de convencer... ¡KMail es basura! ¡¿text/x-java?! ] Para Xs cual me recomiendas? Estruch:/home/josep# tcpdchk Ya no me da errores :-) no hay nada en /etc/inetd.conf que señale que hay un servicio que sea leafnode, solo hay uno que dice nntp. Cambia leafnode por nntp en hosts.allow y hosts.deny Lo he dejado tal y como sigue: [~/doc]$ grep nntp /etc/inetd.conf nntpstream tcp nowait news/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/leafnode [~/doc]$ [~/doc]$ cat /etc/hosts.allow leafnode: estruch [~/doc]$ [~/doc]$ cat /etc/hosts.deny ALL: PARANOID leafnode: ALL [~/doc]$ Como ves no he cambiado leafnode por nntp, pués sin hacerlo funciona. Tengo que hacerlo igualmente? Lo único que he hecho es poner /usr/sbin/tcpd en el /etc/inetd.conf y leafnode: estruch en el /etc/hosts.allow. Por cierto, en que afecta poner estruch o localhost en el /etc/hosts.allow? No es lo mismo? Supongo también que tu /etc/hosts dice Estruch localhost y no a la inversa. Correcto, en que afecta el orden? Ahora creo que ya tengo bien configurado los tcp wrappers para el leafnode, el problema es que el leafnode continua sin funcionarme :-( Ya me he suscrito a los grupos que me interesan pero ahora al volver a ejecutar fetch -v me sale lo que sigue: Estruch:/home/josep# fetch -vv 1.4: verbosity level is 2 Connecting to news.teleline.es ... LIST ACTIVE done only 94 seconds ago, skipping Estruch:/home/josep# Si vuelvo a ejecutar el fetch -v al cabo de 7 dias me vuelve a bajar la lista de grupos pero no me baja los mensajes. Que me falta configurar? Un saludo, Josep Parera
Re: xscreesaver
On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: Hace poco le esta pasando algo raro a mi computador. Cuando ejecuto el programa ´backgroud propeties´ de gnome, y elijo un scrennsaver, al esperar los x min para que aparezca este, la pantalla se vuelve negra. Es mas, en un costado de mi pantalla hay una luz verde que indoca que la pantalla esta prendida. Bueno cuando pasa que se pone negra, la luz cambia de verde a amarilla. Que puede ser ?? Sin utilizar el Gnome, diría que tienes configurado en algún sitio lo de la gestión de ahorro de energía, o bien en el /etc/X11/XF86Config, o bien en el Setup del ordenador (y según dice el ficherillo de instalación de Debian esto segundo deberías tenerlo desactivado). Supongo. Tomás. _ Tomas Bautista. Phone: +34 928 451275 -- Fax: +34 928 451243 / ___)_ E-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (___ \ Home page URL: http://www.cma.ulpgc.es/users/bautista \_) |Centre for Applied Microelectronics, CAD Division. (_/ University of Las Palmas de G.C. Campus de Tafira, pab. A. E-35017 Las Palmas, Canary Is.
Re: No-te-escapes Como-un-niñato con la Morcilla
Yo creía que ya el NCM se podía distribuir más o menos libremente, pero he
aquí que en la Debian 2.0 (hamm) me vuelvo a encontrar el paquete
netscape4.deb que sólo es un instalador, y hay que poner el archivo en
${TMPDIR:/tmp}, etc. Eso es una lata. ¿Es correcto, o es que sigue sin
poderse distribuir como paquete completo, o es que simplemente el
mantenedor no ha tenido tiempo/ganas de empaquetarlo completo?
El problema es que Netscape exige tener una cifra de usuarios de los
distribuidores. En el momento de salida de Debian 2.0 no había ningún
mecanismo para llevar esta cuenta. Creo que ahora hay un contador por correo
electrónico. En todo caso sigue siendo el mismo mazacote que te bajas de otro
modo y no hay fuentes. Para eso necesitas el mozilla 5 que aún funciona
bastante regular...
Luis.
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Menús del KDE
Hola, tengo un par de entradas del menú del KDE mal y me gustaría retocarlas. El problema es que no conozco el sistema de menús. Como funciona? Utilizo el paquete update-menus (o algo asi, ese que te añade las aplicaciones al menú automáticamente. El menú que he de tocares local o para todo el sistema? Cuando reinicie las Xs el menú continuará saliendo tal y como lo he modificado? Gracias y un saludo, Josep Parera
Re: How to installation linux on win 98
Having had Win98 and Linux installed on the same disk drive and Win95 and Linux before that, I feel pretty confident that it works the same in either case. Once you have isolated Win9x on its own partition, Linux can pretty much ignore it - except to filch its files if needed. Ken On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Amy wrote: Dear Sirs, How can install a linux system with window 98. It is a just same as that with window 95 or it is different. Thank you for your helps Yanbo Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
backing up with tar
I would like to know if I am backing up my system correctly. I am using the following command to backup with tar. tar -creat -file /dev/st0 / Then a compare with tar -compare -v -f /dev/st0 Is this the best way to use tar for backing up to a tape drive. Thanks, Keith
Re: scanners
Yes scanners do work on Linux. I am using a Mustek scanner with a Adansys scsi card and it works great and it is easy to setup using SANE to control the scanner. Mustek is not what I consider a great scanner but it is the only one I have set up under Linux. Here is the url for SANE http://www.mostang.com/sane/. Keith -- From: Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: scanners Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 10:11 AM Can anyone tell me if scanners work with linux and if so make a reccomendation. Thanks Alot Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rknebel.csrlink.net -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: backing up with tar
You are correct about specifying / that doesn't work because it errors on the /dev files. I will check in to CPIO. Thank You, Keith -- From: Wayne Cuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: backing up with tar Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 7:22 PM Have you looked into cpio? CPIO is much more reliable especially if there are back areas on the tape. You may want to use this if are going to be doing regular backups. Also I do not think tar will backup special device files such as the ones in /dev. If you use tar you do not want to just specify /. You most likely want to exclude /dev, /proc and maybe /tmp. If you have any nfs mounted drives you may want to exclude them also. On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Keith wrote: Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 19:14:20 -0400 From: Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DEBIAN-USER@lists.debian.org Subject: backing up with tar Resent-Date: 12 Sep 1998 23:19:54 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; I would like to know if I am backing up my system correctly. I am using the following command to backup with tar. tar -creat -file /dev/st0 / Then a compare with tar -compare -v -f /dev/st0 Is this the best way to use tar for backing up to a tape drive. Thanks, Keith -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Wayne Cuddy CRB-WEB (C H Consulting) http://www.crb-web.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quake2
Hi, I have troubles with quake2. I donwload the file: quake2-3.19a-glibc-i386-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz After copy the fils quake2.conf to /etc and all the rest to /usr/games/quake2 as root i execute quake2 and it said: Added packfile ./baseq2/pak2.pak (42 files) couldn't exec default.cfg couldn't exec config.cfg Console initialized. --- sound initialization --- sound sampling rate: 11025 --- Loading ref_softx.so --- LoadLibrary(ref_softx.so) failed: ELF```/ref_softx.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Refresh failed recursive shutdown Error: Couldn't fall back to software refresh! [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/games/quake2 -- What shoud i do to play this game ?? I have try makeing this outside X. quake said it cannot load ref_soft.so . thanks, - __ / / / Phillip Neumann / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /_/
Re: HELP: modem and server install
On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 08:19:20PM -0700, BOB'S MAIL wrote: [...] 1. How do I get a server for fetchmail? Check http://www.rdrop.com/users/pann/index.html;. See therein Set Up Internet Mail and Usenet News for a quick set-up for fetchmail. For more details see /usr/doc/fetchmail and do a man fetchmail. 2. How do I get the modem installed in the system? To get pon working run pppconfig as root. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux
Re: Failure to recompile a system library (pthreads) under Debian 2.0
Thanks for the responses! The hint that the glibc2 distribution contained linuxthreads was what I was missing. What I did is change SIGUSR1 to SIGUNUSED and SIGUSR2 to SIGSTKFLT in internals.h in the linuxthreads directory and recompile (this was based on a suggestion from [EMAIL PROTECTED] who pointed out that LAM/MPI used SIGUSR1). I recompiled the library from source and successfully compile and ran the checks. I then replaced the libpthread.* libraries in the hamm distribution. After recompiling LAM with D_REENTRANT, all seems well and MPI now works together with POSIX threads. I need this so that I can take advantage of SMP on dual boxes in our network (Beowulf) cluster. --Martin Regarding your message dated: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 21:06:24 +0300 Besides pthread library is included with glibc2.0. It is a part of it. You need to get a glibc2.0.x latest stable version and make required modifications and compile. But it might broke some other programs ... My guess. ( i.e. you want redefine signals ??? ) Oops. I was in hurry .. half read letter. Sorry for wasted bandwidth. On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, swoop wrote: The 1.3.1 is based on libc 5 whereas debian 2.0 is glibc 2.0 (a.k.a libc 6.0 ) . You need to remove all #includelinux/xxx.h because they now belong to the kernels and therefore should not be included by developers to maintain portability issues . On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Martin Weinberg wrote: Folks, I recently migrated from 1.3.1 to 2.0. I need to recompile the pthreads library with different signals for compatibility with the LAM MPI implementation. This worked fine under 1.3.1. However, now I get large numbers of redefines from *.h inclusions ending in failure to compile even the first object. I'm using the original source from the source directory. I'm sure I'm making some sort of newbie mistake. Can anyone give me a clue? Thanks! --Martin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Help: ttyS1 dead after ppp line drops
If my ppp connection drops (due to phone line disconnect) I cannot anymore use /dev/ttyS1 (e.g. for reconnecting ppp). Any attempt to touch the device will hand, like stty -a /dev/ttsY1 never starts (ps shows bash still owns the process). If I shut down ppp properly then I have no problem reusing the device. -- Eyal Lebedinsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Quake 2
Phillip Neumann wrote: I have troubles with quake2. I donwload the file: quake2-3.19a-glibc-i386-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz After copy the fils quake2.conf to /etc and all the rest to /usr/games/quake2 as root i execute quake2 and it said: I'm not sure about the download file you used ... I used these: quake2-dm-3.13-2.deb quake2-3.14a-3.deb Then I put the distribution pak in: usr/local/lib/games/quake2/baseq/pak0.pak Also, create the directory $HOME/.quake2. This is where the ref_soft.so ends up, and it looks like your system can't find it ... that may be your problem right there. -Joe. Joe Marchak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quake 2
On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Joe Marchak wrote: Phillip Neumann wrote: I have troubles with quake2. I donwload the file: quake2-3.19a-glibc-i386-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz After copy the fils quake2.conf to /etc and all the rest to /usr/games/quake2 as root i execute quake2 and it said: I'm not sure about the download file you used ... I used these: quake2-dm-3.13-2.deb quake2-3.14a-3.deb The download he used is the most up to date release of quake2. There are a few changes necessary to get it working via the debianised version, including overwriting the old ref_*.so libraries (rendering engines), and renaming the quake2 binary to quake2.real. I will gladly help further if you want. Then I put the distribution pak in: usr/local/lib/games/quake2/baseq/pak0.pak ^ I hope thats supposed to be baseq2 Also, create the directory $HOME/.quake2. This is where the ref_soft.so ends up, and it looks like your system can't find it ... that may be your problem right there. No need, the wrapper script creates all that stuff for you. It makes symbolic links to all the necessary files. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - The man who invented the eraser pretty well sized up the human race. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: ippp, ppa, ramdisk (i.e., parameters for kernel compilation)
On Sat, Sep 12, 1998 at 11:14:33AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: v) Several other kernel module packages are hooked into kernel-package, so one can seamlessly compile, say, pcmcia modules at the same time as one compiles a kernel, and be assured that the modules so compiled are compatible. This is a most brilliant feature; makes keeping the pcmcia modules for the notebook up to date a snap. It would be great if more modules offered a -src package compatible with this eg ftape. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [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
Re: Copying files over samba
Jieyao writes: Hi, I am thinking of doing something as follows... I have a debian and a win95 connected over a network and samba is running. I am thinking of setting up something like a 'mutual backup'. That is, I want some data files on the win95 to be backup to the debian and vice versa. I was thinking of writing a perl script to do that but have no idea how to access samba. A check at CPAN did not find any modules to access samba. Is there any way to do this? You will need two things set up: samba (to allow win95 to store files on debian hard drives) and smbmount (to allow debian to store files on the win95 hard drives). -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Lava link-650 high speed serial port?
Does anybody know if he Lava link-650 serial port will work with linux? I have tried looking around on the net, but found no (usefull) mentioning of it (together with linux), nor positive or negative. I do not know much about its internals other than it is supposed to better than the usual 16550A based cards. It may use a 16750 UART, would that be bad? ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Telebit Communications A/S Fax: +45 8628 8186 | Fabrik 11, DK-8260 Viby J Phone: +45 8628 8177 + 28 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- URL: http://www.telebit.dk ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Getting startx to run
I have a new installation of Debian 2.0. I am trying to configure x to work properly. First I tried xf86config and tried to create an extremely simple config file to get it work. It does not. Then I tried XF86Setup and it worked so long as I bring X up from this program but when I try to run startx to begin x I get the following error line as far as I can see. (I haven't figured out how to capture the output of the startx command in full so here is the best I have.) === (**) XKB: symbols: us(pc101) (**) XKB: geometry: pc (**) XKB: keymap: xfree86(us) (overrides other XKB settings) (**) XKB: rules: xfree86 (**) Mouse: type: BusMouse, device: /dev/logibm, buttons: 3 (**) I128: Graphics device ID: Diamond Viper 330 (**) I128: Monitor ID: My Monitor (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ *** None of the configured devices were detected.*** Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. As I said I can get XF86Setup to bring up a X screen and it says congratulations on getting x to work but then when I save XF86Config file and then try to run startx I get I get the above error messages. I have a Diamond Viper V330 card which is supported in the SVGA server and 4megs of vram and all of my other hardware works. Any help would be great, Thanks in advance, Matthew A. Reklau Computer Engineering, Penn State University
Re: kpilot errors out with lib error
*-Edward J Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I've been trying to run kpilot but when I try to invoke it I get the | error: | | kpilot: error in loading shared libraries | libkfile.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory | | It seems that my libraries are installed correctly: | | Alaska:~# dpkg -S libkfile | kdelibs0g-dev: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so | kdelibs0g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.1 | kdelibs0g-dev: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.la | kdelibs0g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libkfile.so.1.0.0 | | What could the matter be??? kpilot is linked against libkfile.so.0 but you have libkfile.so.1. Since your version is the newest, you should file a bug against kpilot asking the maintainer to link against the newest libkfile. -- .elOle.
x for chip nviadia riva 128
Hello here is Uwe I have any problems by the installation for xfree. My graphicadapter is an Elsa Victory Erazor with an Chip named Nvidia Riva 128. I could not found an xserver. I have the debian distribution from CHIP 1/98. Hwo can help me by this problem?
Re: Hardware support
On Sat, 12 Sep 1998 14:51:24 -0400, you wrote: Can someone tell me what version of the aic7xxx (Adaptec SCSI) driver that current Debian distributions are shipping with? I'm considering trying Debian on my box, but I need this information to determine if it will support my SCSI controller. Thanks... I'll be interested in any replies to this. None of my Adaptec cards (2940s, both ultra and wide-ultra) will work with either hamm or slackware 3.5. There's limited available on this, but as far as I can tell it's a bug in the .34 kernel which wasn't there in the previous kernel and as been fixed in the latest (.35?) which isn't in any of the distros yet. Bummer. The only solutions that I can see are: a) Wait for the next set of distributions b) Buy BusLogic (Mylex) c) Download the .35 kernel and build it into your hamm or whatever (probably the best solution, but sadly a bit out of my depth at this early stage) If I'm wrong about any of the above, someone please put me right. If I'm right then I'm suprised more of a stink hasn't been made about it since there must be staggering numbers of aic7xxx controllers out there. Harry
RE: Hardware support
-Original Message- From: Harry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 13, 1998 5:26 AM To: Debian User Mailing List Subject: Re: Hardware support On Sat, 12 Sep 1998 14:51:24 -0400, you wrote: Can someone tell me what version of the aic7xxx (Adaptec SCSI) driver that current Debian distributions are shipping with? I'm considering trying Debian on my box, but I need this information to determine if it will support my SCSI controller. Thanks... I'll be interested in any replies to this. None of my Adaptec cards (2940s, both ultra and wide-ultra) will work with either hamm or slackware 3.5. There's limited available on this, but as far as I can tell it's a bug in the .34 kernel which wasn't there in the previous kernel and as been fixed in the latest (.35?) which isn't in any of the distros yet. Bummer. The only solutions that I can see are: a) Wait for the next set of distributions sigh b) Buy BusLogic (Mylex) sigh c) Download the .35 kernel and build it into your hamm or whatever (probably the best solution, but sadly a bit out of my depth at this early stage) Could do this; problem is the initial installation. Is it possible to get a boot disk with 2.0.35? If I'm wrong about any of the above, someone please put me right. If I'm right then I'm suprised more of a stink hasn't been made about it since there must be staggering numbers of aic7xxx controllers out there. I can't install Red Hat 5.1 on this box (5.0 won't work either... seems there is a similar problem). I've got SUSE 5.2 here, which will work... But I'd really prefer a libc6 distro. Braden
printing when network is disconnected
Hi, I ahve an ethernet connection which I will loose shortly.. When I remove all network relatwed init files from /etc/rc4d (my runlevel for no network ) the system boots up ok but when the printing init file runs it hangs the system. Any help ? George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
Re: scanners
On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Keith wrote: Yes scanners do work on Linux. Unfortunately not all of them. I have a cheap ColorHand scanner from Primax, ant is not supported by Linux. I have written to Primax to ask them for specification necessary for writing a driver. A was very surprised, that I'vo got on answer. However after I wrote them that the driver for Linux should be the Open Source software, so there is no way to sign any NDA, they didn't answer any more... Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] scsi card and it works great and it is easy to setup using SANE to control the scanner. Mustek is not what I consider a great scanner but it is the only one I have set up under Linux. Here is the url for SANE http://www.mostang.com/sane/. Keith -- From: Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: scanners Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 10:11 AM Can anyone tell me if scanners work with linux and if so make a reccomendation.
smail: 'No route to host' problem
After upgrading my system to Debian 2.0, my smail can't find its smart_host through which all non-local email is supposed to be routed. A typical error message in the log file looks like: 09/12/1998 11:04:01: [m0zHSBI-000BVtC] Deferred TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ROUTER:smart_host TRANSPORT:smtp ERROR:(ERR148) transport smtp: connect: No route to host I can ping the smart_host, but if I try to telnet to the smart_host on the smtp port I get the same 'No route to host' error message. No such problem arises on port 23. Local mail is delivered just fine and external mail is received just fine. So, why can't I route to the smart host. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Mike.
Re: Broken emacs
Mark == Mark W Eichin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.56/Emacs 19.34 This was precisely the problem. The EMACSLOADPATH was set in my user account, and I was trying to install in a window with su root, Mark Ahhh. I think it would be reasonable to explicitly unset this (and Mark probably other variables) in the emacsen-common handler Mark scripts... just as they should avoid running the user (or root's) Mark .emacs file... Agree. Who's going to contact the maintainer(s)? -- Nicolai P Guba BT Laboratories GNU Project http://www.labs.bt.com http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OFF TOPIC: where did MICROPOLIS go?
At 04:59 PM 9/11/98 -0700, you wrote: sorry to be a pain, but does anyone know what ever happened to Micropolis Corp.? I found an old 3243 4.3gig SCSI drive that I need info on. I've searched for Micropolis, but the phone numbers and web sites I found are all dead. Did someone take them over? Loss-making Micropolis was taken over by a Singapore group, which closed Micropolis after failing to get it out of the red.
/tmp permissions
Hi, I'de some questions about /tmp directory: My /tmp directory permissions are: rwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Sep 13 14:17 tmp ... meanwhile chmod manual says that t permission is to: save program text on swap device ! What this means !? /tmp directory isn't on any swap device ! It's a good policy for /tmp directory to have 777 permissions !? With such permissions any user could write on that directory until even there's no more space on device, rigth !? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho
Re: x for chip nviadia riva 128
Uwe Janik hat gesagt: // Uwe Janik wrote: Hello here is Uwe I have any problems by the installation for xfree. My graphicadapter is an Elsa Victory Erazor with an Chip named Nvidia Riva 128. I could not found an xserver. I have the debian distribution from CHIP 1/98. Hwo can help me by this problem? This chip runs with the SVGA server in XFree 3.3.2. I am not sure if there is a package of this X version for Debian 1.3, which is on your CD, I think. If not, maybe you want to upgrade with some of the new Debian 2.0 CDs, that are now available. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Smail and local machines
Hello, I am having trouble getting smail to deliver mail between my local machines. I have a private network setup with a debian box running as the news and mail server. What I am unable to do is get the debian box (daffy) to send mail to another box (tweety). The /etc/hosts file has the correct ip# and names for all my local machines, but smail tries to do a dns lookup on tweety and when it cannot find one it sends the mail to the smart host, my ISP. How can I get smail to use the /etc/hosts file before trying to do a dns lookup? I know that sendmail will do this, but smail is already up and running and up until know I have had no trouble with it. Thanks A. Paul
Re: /tmp permissions
On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: It's a good policy for /tmp directory to have 777 permissions !? With such permissions any user could write on that directory until even there's no more space on device, rigth !? That's exactly what it is for (not writing till the disk is full though) - it is a place where any user can write files - most commonly used by programs for temporary space or some sort of lock file. It it generally up to the administrator to clean up /tmp (Debian empties it on reboot, but if you're into uptime you'll have to come up with something else). Steve Tremblett QNX Technical Support
Problem compiling kdebase1.0
I have qtlib1.40, and I've compiled kdesuport1.0 and kdelibs1.0, but whem compiling kdebase1.0 I get this error /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link g++ -O2 -Wall -s -o kdehelp main.o helpwin.o info.o error.o misc.o options.o man.o bookmark.o cgi.o mainwidget.o history.o booktoken.o -L/usr/local/kde/lib -L/usr/local/lib/qt/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lkfile -lkfm -lkhtmlw -ljscript -lkdeui -lkdecore -lqt -lXext -lX11 -ljpeg -rpath /usr/local/kde/lib -rpath /usr/local/lib/qt/lib -rpath /usr/X11R6/lib g++ -O2 -Wall -s -o kdehelp main.o helpwin.o info.o error.o misc.o options.o man.o bookmark.o cgi.o mainwidget.o history.o booktoken.o -L/usr/local/kde/lib -L/usr/local/lib/qt/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lkfile -lkfm -lkhtmlw -ljscript -lkdeui -lkdecore -lqt -lXext -lX11 -ljpeg -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/kde/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/local/lib/qt/lib -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/usr/X11R6/lib info.o: In function `cIndirectList::Read(char const *)': info.o(.text+0xb3): undefined reference to `ios virtual table' info.o(.text+0x11a): undefined reference to `istream::ios virtual table' info.o(.text+0x131): undefined reference to `ifstream::ios virtual table' info.o: In function `cTagTable::Read(char const *)': info.o(.text+0x510): undefined reference to `ios virtual table' info.o(.text+0x574): undefined reference to `istream::ios virtual table' info.o(.text+0x58b): undefined reference to `ifstream::ios virtual table' info.o: In function `cTagTable::CreateTable(char const *)': info.o(.text+0x8a4): undefined reference to `ios virtual table' info.o(.text+0x8ea): undefined reference to `istream::ios virtual table' info.o(.text+0x8fb): undefined reference to `ifstream::ios virtual table' info.o: In function `cNode::Read(char const *, int)': info.o(.text+0x1f25): undefined reference to `ios virtual table' info.o(.text+0x1f89): undefined reference to `istream::ios virtual table' info.o(.text+0x1fa0): undefined reference to `ifstream::ios virtual table' man.o: In function `cMan::ReadLocation(char const *)': man.o(.text+0x2151): undefined reference to `ios virtual table' man.o(.text+0x21bb): undefined reference to `istream::ios virtual table' man.o(.text+0x21d2): undefined reference to `ifstream::ios virtual table' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [kdehelp] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/taiguer/install/kdebase-1.0/kdehelp' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/taiguer/install/kdebase-1.0' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 And the compile process ends Can anyoe help? - God put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die! -
hands-free phone with debian?
Is there a way that I can set up a voice modem to allow me to place and receive phone calls using the microphone connected to my voice modem and some sort of software to answer and dial? Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.telmer.com
Re: /tmp permissions
On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote: : Hi, : : I'de some questions about /tmp directory: : : My /tmp directory permissions are: : : rwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Sep 13 14:17 tmp : : ... meanwhile chmod manual says that t permission is to: save program : text on swap device ! There are many meanings for the t permission (usually referred to as the sticky bit). Originally the sticky bit was applied to frequently run programs so theyt would always be hanging around in memory (or at least in swap). However, setting the sticky bit on a directory means that only the owner of a file within that directory may delete it. This solves a thorny issue with /tmp: the directory must be world writable in order for all users to write files in it, but write permissions on a directory allow any user to delete any file, regardless of the file's permissions. Therefore the sticky bit, when applied to a directory, was interpreted as a special case. Now any user may create a file im /tmp and have reasonable assurance that another user will not be able to delete it. (There are still some exploit problems with /tmp, however). Any decent UNIX book will have a better explanation of this. : What this means !? /tmp directory isn't on any swap device ! : : It's a good policy for /tmp directory to have 777 permissions !? : With such permissions any user could write on that directory until even : there's no more space on device, rigth !? Well, if you're worried about that, put /tmp on its own filesystem and implement quotas. Most of my multiuser systems have many filesystems, with different quotas in place: brahe:~ $ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/sda1 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sdb7 none swap sw,pri=1 /dev/sdb8 none swap sw,pri=1 proc/proc procdefaults /dev/sda4 /usr ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/sdb2 /home ext2 defaults,nodev,noexec,nosuid,usrquota 0 2 /dev/sda3 /var ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/sdb3 /tmp ext2 defaults,usrquota=/var/state/quotas/tmp.quota 0 2 /dev/sda5 /var/log ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/sdb5 /var/tmp ext2 defaults,usrquota=/var/state/quotas/vtmp.quota 0 2 /dev/sda6 /var/spool/mail ext2 defaults,usrquota=/var/state/quotas/mail.quota 0 2 /dev/sdb6 /var/spool/mqueue ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/sda7 /var/spool/pop ext2 defaults,usrquota=/var/state/quotas/pop.quota 0 2 Some lines are broken, but you get the idea. A typical user's quota looks like this: brahe:~ $ sudo edquota webgod Quotas for user webgod: /dev/sdb2: blocks in use: 3529, limits (soft = 5120, hard = 7680) inodes in use: 206, limits (soft = 1280, hard = 1920) /dev/sdb3: blocks in use: 0, limits (soft = 49152, hard = 49152) inodes in use: 0, limits (soft = 12288, hard = 12288) /dev/sdb5: blocks in use: 0, limits (soft = 49152, hard = 49152) inodes in use: 0, limits (soft = 12288, hard = 12288) /dev/sda6: blocks in use: 0, limits (soft = 10240, hard = 15360) inodes in use: 1, limits (soft = 5, hard = 5) /dev/sda7: blocks in use: 0, limits (soft = 25600, hard = 25600) inodes in use: 0, limits (soft = 5, hard = 5) Our users get 5 MB home dirs, 10 MB mail spools, and at least three of them have to collaborate to fill /tmp or /var/tmp (each filesystem is 128 MB). This makes it easier to kick idiots off the system. Aileen Frisch's excellent O'Reilly book does a good job explaining all this stuff, and many other aspects of UNIX administration. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: mwm segfaults.
Sergey Imennov wrote: Hi, Upon upgrading from Debian 1.3 to Debian 2.0, Motif window manager gives me a 'segmentation fault' every time I attempt to start it. I suspect it has something to do with glibc ( I have libc5-compat installed ), however, that's all I know. Check out the version of mwm, is it the hamm version? Also check out the version of all libraries it is linked against. There must not be a mixture of libc5 and libc6 within the linking. If it still does not work please file an appropriate bug report. See instructions at http://www.infodrom.north.de/Debian/Bugs/Reporting.html Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.
Re: OFF TOPIC: where did MICROPOLIS go?
I believe that group is ST - Singapore Technologies. The former factory is now in the process of finding someone to takeover. And no one is taking it up due to the bad sate of economy here. sorry to be a pain, but does anyone know what ever happened to Micropolis Corp.? I found an old 3243 4.3gig SCSI drive that I need info on. I've searched for Micropolis, but the phone numbers and web sites I found are all dead. Did someone take them over? Loss-making Micropolis was taken over by a Singapore group, which closed Micropolis after failing to get it out of the red. -- Jieyao [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 836655 Why waste your CPU time? Join the Singapore RC5 Team now! http://www.raffles.nus.edu.sg/~rekcah/rc5/
Re: How can I change the Auc Tex defaults on emacs20?
Johann Spies wrote: The Auc Tex defaults changed between Debian 1.3.1 and 2.0 (the documentation does not reflect the changes, however). Examples: C-c C-c to run Latex on the buffer changed to C-c C-p. When running Latex, emacs This can be done quite easy. Check with C-h C-m which key bindings are used, which keymap is used and how the emacs functions are called that do the work. After that put something like the following in your .emacs file: (define-key tex-mode-map \M-s 'save-buffer) (define-key tex-mode-map \C-cs 'center-line) (define-key tex-mode-map \C-cS 'center-paragraph) This is only an example not related to your problem. \C- is Control, \M- is meta (Alt- or ESC+) for include-files. It uses lpr -d to try an print a dvi-file (which does not work) where previously dvips -f was used. Check with the auctex.el file and make additions. Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.
Re: Vim leaves ~ files
Torsten Hilbrich wrote: [1] Even though I use Emacsen regulary, I just didn't expect for a vi to be so colourful ;-) echo syntax off ~/.vimrc Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.
Re: Compatibility Libs
Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: I have a question relating to the compatibility libs, and ld configuration. I have been VERY pleased with the libc5 compatibility in Hamm! Unfortunately, I have custody of two RedHat 5.x boxes, which cannot be migrated in the forseable future. Since I converted an oldish Slackware 2.x box (installed some five years ago or so, still libc4 before) do Debian 2.1 I have to remark that it is possible. I would like to copy the directories /lib/libc5-compat /usr/lib/libc5-compat To the RedHat boxes, add the appropriate entries to /etc/ld.so.conf, and re-run ldconfig. Will this work? Well, it should work. But you'll probably know Murphy. Try it and add these directories at the end of the ld.so.conf file. Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.
Re: aspfilter
Rick Knebel wrote: Hi, I have used apsfilter for my printer setup previously. I cannot find this in the 2.0 disto. Is it there? If not what else to use. It's not in hamm because its new maintainer was too lame to fix all the bugs within one or two days so he missed the deadline. Please grab the new package from the slink tree: ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/text/apsfilter_4.9.7-1.deb ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-m68k/text/apsfilter_4.9.7-1.deb Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.
Re: update security packages
HenSiong Tan wrote: Hi! I was wondering if someone could provide any information (safe etc) regarding using dselect or apt to update security patches/packages. For example in a recent announcement, there is a patch netstd_3.07-2hamm.1_i386.deb under the directory /debian/dists/proposed-updates. Now since I have often used dselect to update my slink box (and very occassionally apt---I have not learn to make it show me what are needed to update my machine ... if that is possible), the above nomenclature is new to me ... I am a normal user. Would this be a problem with dselect? Would you recommend pointing dselect to dists/proposed-updates? I'd prefer to fetch the file via ftp or wget and install it manually using dpkg -i. However, since a Packages file is created in that very directory you can point dselect to it. Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.
Re: deb for StarOffice 4
David Warnock wrote: I have downloaded StarOffice 4. I have not seen a package to install this (there is one for StarOffice 3.1). a) Is there a package somewhere that will install so40sp3_lnx_01.tar.gz Several people have given up on it. If you can help writing an installer for version 4.0 please contact me in private mail. b) If there is not how easy is it to create on like the one for StarOffice 3.1 (or Netscape 4)? I am interested not just for StarOffice but for apps we write and need to install/uninstll on our own LAN. The way SO3.1 is packaged is completely different to version 4.0. Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it. pgp6JKqSCbdHp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Debian DSELECT
Lo, Though the DSELECT program is easier than most linux installation programs i wonder if it just aint possible to write something decent on this matter. All of the linux distributions fail on two points and so does DEBIAN. 1. Easy of use and installation (though now i mind less after 2 weeks of getting grips labour) 2. D O C U M E N T A T I O N ( why all these cryptic files and no real database ??? HTML yes?) Installing and removing LOOKS easy but there's very little REAL version/dependency checking done. Geez, sometimes i start thinking of winDOWs as a better platform just because one can up a system doing simple installation procedures. HELP i'm no hacker/coder/programmer/techie just an experienced user of operating systems doswinlix and NOT even considering to become one. REALLY leave the coding to the guys/girls who know what they're doing i think to myself. But all i see is NEW kernel releases and NOT new USER friendly add-ons such as installation, configuration, manual database, manuals with more indepth information on exactly what files to alter etc . . . To set the record straight, I REALLY LIKE DEBIAN LINUX and the other LINUX Distributions, i just think it's disturbing to 'allready' see flaws in development. My thoughts on this are 'of course' not complete or even accurate but should indicate, again the need for a Standard User Friendly environment to people leaving the winDOWs platform or choosing to widen their horizon. Finally, why not deliver a good WORDprocessor on the distribution / contribution CDR ? It's considered a Major lack in any distribution. Thank You for you patience while reading this.
Re: can smail change the Envelope?
Thomas Adams wrote: I usually write email on the Debian box here, for which I installed UUCP and SMail, which works fine. I can change the From: line to whatever I like and my provider still accepts and delivers the emails. So far, so good. But there is a Mac here which communicates with my Linux box via Ethernet and which I would also like to send mail from. I installed Internet Config and MacSOUP and started reading mail. Worked fine. Then I send some email which returned with an error message from my provider's MTA. It told me the return-path of my message was wrong. I assume what it means is the first line in an email's header which looks like: From cat.ping.de!tom Doh, I've never heard of any such difficulties. Btw. I don't know what should be wrong with it. Did you already contact your provider? I guess it's PING? In that case it should not be a problem discussing with the admin people there. You should at least contact them to confirm that the return-path in your mail is confusing their mailer. Anyway you can fake this field if you put something like the following in your /etc/smail/config file (man smailconf): return_path_field=Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caution: This is not tested. Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.
Re: Searching for software
Phillip Neumann wrote: Hi, Im searching for a software that can do telephone stuff. I want to be able to make a telephone call, speak into the computer-micofon and listen to the speakers... Someone knows where can i find somthing like that? Or a name of such software ?? Adding the possibility to re-route an incoming phone call to any computer terminal this would be exactly the thing my boss would like to have. I don't know such a thing exists. However I know that some attemts to this were made with ISDN4Linux. Thus you may want to contact the authors or that mailing-list. In windows95 i use winfax 8. I found that an excelent program, you can sand/recive fax, make `phone'-boxes so when your not at home/work, This can be done with mgetty/sendfax (mgetty and mgetty-fax packages). Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.
Re: qmail
Wayne Cuddy wrote: Does anyone know where I might find debian qmail and qmail/imapd packages? Due to copyright problems there's only a qmail-src package. You have to install it and compile the package yourself. This will produce a qmail.deb that you can install. Wrt Imap4 please check out these packages: ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/mail/imap_4.2-1.deb ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-m68k/mail/imap_4.2-1.deb ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/mail/imap_4.2-2.deb ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-m68k/mail/imap_4.2-2.deb Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.
Re: smail question
Marlon Urias wrote: Recently we had the problem that the smail server did not properly mount /var/spool/mail/ from the spool server. This caused all incoming mail to either be lost or put into the errors directory. My question is: How did smail know not to use the local /var/spol/mail and what did Check the permissions of /var/spool/mail. smail do with the email that came in during the trouble zone? Doh! What do the logfiles say? In either case I'd say, re-produce it and look what happens. Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.
xringd problem
Hi Everyone, I just installed xringd. It must be a cool thing, but it can not find the modem #xringd -m /dev/ttyS1 xringd: error opening modem device No such file or directory How can I fix it? Thank you ZORO
Re: xringd problem
I just installed xringd. It must be a cool thing, but it can not find the modem #xringd -m /dev/ttyS1 xringd: error opening modem device No such file or directory Are you doing it as a normal user or a root. If not root, is this user a member of dialout group? Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Debian DSELECT
I have big difficulties understanding what you're trying to express in your mail. I apologize if I got you wrong. Joris Lambrecht wrote: Lo, Though the DSELECT program is easier than most linux installation programs i wonder if it just aint possible to write something decent on this matter. If you want to see an improved version please check out http://www.debian.org/~jgg/deity/ . If you have good programming skills consider to work on it. 1. Easy of use and installation (though now i mind less after 2 weeks of getting grips labour) The installation of Debian is already easier than with some other installations. To satisfy yourself please send a detailed list of what you want to have changed, improved etc. to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . 2. D O C U M E N T A T I O N ( why all these cryptic files and no real database ??? HTML yes?) There is a real database. It's called PostgreSQL and comes as a set of *ponder* five packages, or so. Wrt documentation, please install the dwww package and you should be able to browse through all installled documentation, including manpages, html files, info files, special files etc. Installing and removing LOOKS easy but there's very little REAL version/dependency checking done. Are you joking? very little dependency checking? You should install Debian and not another distribution... Debian is famous for it's very good dependency checking. If you occur problems with packages whose dependencies are not fulfilled even with Debian please report it as bug against this very package. Please see the instruction for reporting bugs at: http://www.infodrom.north.de/Debian/Bugs/Reporting.html Geez, sometimes i start thinking of winDOWs as a better platform just because one can up a system ??? REALLY leave the coding to the guys/girls who know what they're doing i think to myself. But all i see is NEW kernel releases and NOT new USER friendly add-ons such as installation, configuration, manual database, manuals with more indepth information on exactly what files to alter etc . . . Reality check! Please put on your glasses and look again. Debian 2.0 comes with a completely rewritten and improved installation procedure. It's now a lot more user friendly than before. All Debian packages are pre-configured after installation. Only 30% of all packages do need manual attention during installation. The packages only bother the user if it is really needed and install themself without user interaction if they can. Wrt user friendly add-ons that you don't see, what's about the consistant kbd configuration? All keys have the same meaning, on the console, via rlogin/ssh/rsh/etc, within X11. What's about the consistant menu structure? All installed X11-capable packages are present in the menu of *every* window manager. What about the large amount of window managers that are avaailable for Debian? You'll find both fvwm2, fvwm95, window-maker, *twm, openlook, if you include not free stuff you'll even get KDE and if you're including the upcoming 2.1 release you'll even get Gnome. What about automatically done dependence checking during installation? You cannot install packages that don't work because it depends on some other packges which are not installed. Is this all not user-friendly? In that case I don't know what you want. To set the record straight, I REALLY LIKE DEBIAN LINUX and the other LINUX Distributions, i just think it's disturbing to 'allready' see flaws in development. My thoughts on Interpreting flaws as different development, this is how free software works. Somebody is not satisfied by a piece of software or documentation and starts a new project. This is how Linux works. Finally, why not deliver a good WORDprocessor on the distribution / There is LaTeX. This is the only free one. However it is not a wordprocessor but a type setting system. If you want to have a wordprocessor you shall start a new project or help other projects that are working on this issue. I'm sorry but I forgot the names but I believe there is a free wordprocessing program in development. There are also some not free packages that could fit your needs: LyX, kLyX, StarOffice 3.1, 4.0 and 5.0, WordPerfect, some more, I'm sure. contribution CDR ? ??? It's considered a Major lack in any distribution. Maybe it's a major lack in the whole community that there are only not free wordprocessors? I have to admit that I don't need such programs since I'm able to use the power of LaTeX. Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.
Can i use Lib5 and lib6 together?
Hi, i-m using Debian 1.3.1 and Libc 5. This is ok because StarOffice 4.0 SP3 i want to use need this version. Now i get KDE 1.0 from Hamm i want to install. This needs QT 1.33 but QT 1.33 needs Lib6. Is it possible to install both (Lib5 / Lib6) so that they can work together? Thanks
Re: Smail and local machines
apaulh wrote: Hello, I am having trouble getting smail to deliver mail between my local machines. I have a private network setup with a debian box running as the news and mail server. What I am unable to do is get the debian box (daffy) to send mail to another box (tweety). The /etc/hosts file has the correct ip# and names for all my local machines, but smail tries to do a dns lookup on tweety and when it cannot find one it sends the mail to the smart host, my ISP. How can I get smail to use the /etc/hosts file before trying to do a dns lookup? I'm sure the is another way but you can install a special pathalias router for your local machines. To do this put the following router *before* any internet router in /etc/smail/routers # paths - route using a paths file, like that produced by the pathalias program # # SMTP mail routing - local machines that can receive Mail # paths.smtp: driver=pathalias, # general-use paths router always, transport=smtp; # for matches, deliver over SMTP file=maps/smtp, # sorted file containing path info proto=lsearch, # use a linear search optional, # ignore if the file does not exist -required, # no required domains After that put the following into your /etc/smail/maps/smtp file: tweety tweety.domain!%s tweety.domain tweety.domain!%s daffy daffy.domain!%s daffy.domaindaffy.domain!%s To test if this setup works try the following command /usr/sbin/smail -d10 -bv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.
Re: Debian DSELECT
You going to hear that most of the things you've suggested are being address or 'in the works.' The reason for this is that Debian Linux are from the Unix background. 1) Supported by volunteers. The volunteers are usually building stuff they find useful and donate it back to the public. 2) These volunteers have been in a highly technical environment. You'll see solutions there first. Unix was used for 'big' machines. Now that it is being used more on a desktop level, you'll see more 'hold your hand' or 'management' type software come available. First priority is a solid secure machine. Many Linux boxes are servers or otherwise publicly available machines. Joris Lambrecht wrote: 1. Easy of use and installation (though now i mind less after 2 weeks of getting grips labour) We're addressing this. Look at www.debian.org and search on 'apt' 2. D O C U M E N T A T I O N ( why all these cryptic files and no real database ??? HTML yes?) When the documentation is lacking, you can get help from the userbase and/or developers. This isn't the case w/ M$. Yes, coders probably don't make the best tech writers. You might consider helping out in this area. Installing and removing LOOKS easy but there's very little REAL version/dependency checking done. In my experiance Debian is far superior to anything Micro$oft has put out. We had version checking long before they did. On any Win32 platform, try installing ODBC 16-bit and 32-bit then install Access 2.0 and 7.0(97) now add drivers for Oracle Sybase (Why? try supporting several platforms as a dev in M$-land.) Try installing two different versions of VB on that system. Geez, sometimes i start thinking of winDOWs as a better platform just because one can up a system doing simple installation procedures. HELP i'm no Sure, I've seen many people loose stuff installing on a M$ machine too. If you really want help, ask the question. If all you want to do is rant, you'll probably get very few responses. We didn't force you to use this OS. (We're not getting compensated for helping either). BTW, don't even think about mentioning upgrades from Win95 to Win98. I've known more people who 'Get to start with a clean system' when the tried to 'upgrade' than have success. hacker/coder/programmer/techie just an experienced user of operating systems doswinlix and NOT even considering to become one. REALLY leave the coding to the guys/girls who know what they're doing i think to myself. But all i see is NEW kernel releases and NOT new USER friendly add-ons such as installation, configuration, manual database, manuals with more indepth information on exactly what files to alter etc . . . If you've spent more than a month reading the debian-devel or debian-user, I think you'd see more anticipation regarding apt and other such projects than kernal releases. To set the record straight, I REALLY LIKE DEBIAN LINUX and the other LINUX Distributions, i just think it's disturbing to 'allready' see flaws in development. My thoughts on this are 'of course' not complete or even accurate but should indicate, again the need for a Standard User Friendly environment to people leaving the winDOWs platform or choosing to widen their horizon. It is also in the works. Actually, it is compatibility amongst the Linux community. This will probably drag the Commercial UNIX implementations along with it. (The bin compatible libc6 did.) Debian is already able to install RedHat packages(RPMs) and vice versa. Finally, why not deliver a good WORDprocessor on the distribution / contribution CDR ? It's considered a Major lack in any distribution. Interesting, M$, MacOS, OS/2(is it really major) don't seem to have one included in the OS. If you want one, you've got to pay for it. Now if you want a text editor, Debian comes with several. Infact, we have spelling checkers for several languages. Do they? If you want suite software, you have a choice of at least three for Linux. Agian, if you have a _real_ question, do a little searching, ask the list (providing information of where you're at in the process). -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux (Free for an UNLIMITED time) http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html Greg VenceKH2EA/4
Re: Getting startx to run
Thus spake Matthew A. Reklau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): *** None of the configured devices were detected.*** Fatal server error: no screens found When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. I seem to be having the same problem as you are with my new 2.0 distrib. I know it's not too fruitful to receive another I have that problem too response, but perhaps we could colaborate until someone with a definite fix answers on the list. I have a Diamond Viper V330 card which is supported in the SVGA server and 4megs of vram and all of my other hardware works. My situation is similar, but on much more modest hardware. I'm installing to an old ThinkPad 701CS with 1024K video. I've noticed that I had to create my own symlinks from /usr/X11R6/bin/X - /etc/X11/X and from /etc/X11/X - /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA. That was a little unusual I thought (having to create them, I mean). I also thought it was weird that the error would say no screens found when the XF86config clearly has them. I did try other XF86config files just for fun, and I wonder if the syntax hasn't changed from XFree 3.3.2 to 3.3.3. The error with the 3.3.2 config says it can't find an accel display configured, even though there is an Accel configured beautifully. I'm wondering if one of the following scenarios explains our problems: a) There's a new XF86Config syntax that XF86Setup doesn't fully know about. b) Something has changed from 3.3.2 to 3.3.3 such that symlinks don't get created properly or aren't used similarly, and such that configuration of the new version is different (trickier) than configuration of the old version. c) There's something really basic one or both of us overlooked because of a 2:00am brainfart that clouded our vision. Hopefully someone smart will chime in and elucidate the error of our way? Luck and fortune to us both! :-) -- David S. Jackson http://www.dsj.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Our goal must be--not peace in our time, but peace for all time. --Harry S. Truman
Re: Can i use Lib5 and lib6 together?
On Sun, Sep 13, 1998 at 05:22:33PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to install both (Lib5 / Lib6) so that they can work together? Yes. If you upgrade your system to 2.0 (follow the upgrade instructions provided on the website), you'll get a system that is libc6 based, but which can run libc5 binaries fine. HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: x for chip nviadia riva 128
the svga server from versions 3.3.2 on up support the riva 128 chipset -- it autodetects when you start an x11 session justin honold [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Uwe Janik wrote: Hello here is Uwe I have any problems by the installation for xfree. My graphicadapter is an Elsa Victory Erazor with an Chip named Nvidia Riva 128. I could not found an xserver. I have the debian distribution from CHIP 1/98. Hwo can help me by this problem? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Leased line connection
Hello, (sorry for an off-topic post) Could anybody recommend a low-cost way to connect a PC with hamm (and windoze - for games) to internet over a leased line? I have the line to radiolink enabled office already, so what modems, network cards, etc. should I buy? Andrius -- Andrius Sabanas - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.taide.com
Re: /tmp permissions (thanks! :) )
Hi, Thanks for all who reply to me explaining that question. At the moment, i'd a better idea. :) Best regards, Nuno Carvalho
Re: Smail and local machines
Thanks. That did the trick. A. Paul
Re: qmail
Can you tell me where the qmail-src package is localted? On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 19:01:03 +0200 From: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user list debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: qmail Wayne Cuddy wrote: Does anyone know where I might find debian qmail and qmail/imapd packages? Due to copyright problems there's only a qmail-src package. You have to install it and compile the package yourself. This will produce a qmail.deb that you can install. Wrt Imap4 please check out these packages: ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/mail/imap_4.2-1.deb ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-m68k/mail/imap_4.2-1.deb ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/mail/imap_4.2-2.deb ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-m68k/mail/imap_4.2-2.deb Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it. Wayne Cuddy CRB-WEB (C H Consulting) http://www.crb-web.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: qmail
Wayne Cuddy wrote: Can you tell me where the qmail-src package is localted? ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-all/mail/qmail-src_1.01-5.deb ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/slink/non-free/binary-all/mail/qmail-src_1.02-1.deb On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 19:01:03 +0200 From: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user list debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: qmail Wayne Cuddy wrote: Does anyone know where I might find debian qmail and qmail/imapd packages? Due to copyright problems there's only a qmail-src package. You have to install it and compile the package yourself. This will produce a qmail.deb that you can install. Wrt Imap4 please check out these packages: ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/mail/imap_4.2-1.deb ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-m68k/mail/imap_4.2-1.deb ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/mail/imap_4.2-2.deb ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/binary-m68k/mail/imap_4.2-2.deb Regards, Joey -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it. Wayne Cuddy CRB-WEB (C H Consulting) http://www.crb-web.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Experience is a useful thing. Unfortunately it is only acquired just after one could have used it.
Q: Why Midhight Commander stopped working on text console?
Hi! Who can tell my why my Midnight Commander stoped working on text console? When I type 'mc', screen goes blank and after couple of seconds only one character appears, in upper right corner of screen - usually it is '|', but sometimes it is '/'. When I'm starting Midnight Commander from under X11 (from various flavours of xterm), it works OK. I'm using Debian 2.0, but have upgraded a lot of packages from unstable distribution. Actually, I had upgraded Midnight Commander itself from unstable distribution, but that did not help. alex
Re: X problems
Hamish Moffatt wrote: I have two boxes here which I upgraded (buzz to rex to) bo to hamm. On both boxes, users without .xsession files just get an xterm window with no window manager. /etc/X11/window-managers lists a valid window manager (/usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2) first, and /etc/X11/Xsession exists and is the default. Any suggestions? thanks, Hamish This sounds vaguely familiar. Double-check that you have a symlink in /etc/X11/xinitrc/ called xinitrc and points to /etc/X11/Xsession. -- Ed C.
Smalltalk for Linux?
Hi! Does anybody knows about any free Smalltalk for Linux (preferrably as Debian package :-) )? Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Weird fonts problem in X
I just reinstalled my debian 2 system and now I'm finding that I get error messages whenever I start netscape or gimp or xview-textedit etc. Here's what Netscape says: Warning: Cannot convert string -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-medium-o-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct Gimp says: ** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 115 (gdk_font_ref): font != NULL ** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 177 (gdk_font_equal): fonta != NULL ** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 115 (gdk_font_ref): font != NULL gimp fatal error: sigsegv caught [n]othing, [e]xit, [s]tack trace, [a]ttach to process: Is there anything obvious that I've done wrong? Please cc: a copy to me at, [EMAIL PROTECTED], as had to temporarily unsub from the list. Thanks for your help!
Help AOL is silently rejecting my mail!
It seems that AOL is silently rejecting my emails that I send to users of the service. My setup is hamm with exim sending over a dial-up dynamic address to smarthost via smtp. I have header rewrite rules set to change the outgoing headers to correspond to that of the smarthost but I think I am missing something. I would guess AOL is rejecting it like spam that has bogus headers. My local machine name is brian.servis.snet which of course is a fake name. I have noticed in mails to this list that the Message-ID header is not being re-written(is it supposed to?), i.e. it still shows something like Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My rewrite section of exim.conf is [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffsr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffsr The above gives: % exim -brw [EMAIL PROTECTED] sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] env-from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] env-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I didn't select to rewrite all headers because I want the inbound headers to reflect the local machine name. I can send my exim.conf if that is needed. I set it up using eximconfig and selecting option 2. Thanks, -- Brian - Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes. - unknown Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
diald and kernel problems
Hi, I trying to set up diald. I had to recompile my kernel to enable slip support. I made it a module. I did make mrproper, make config, make dep, make clean, make zImage, make modules, make modules-install. It looked to me as though they all terminated normally. I can boot from the new kernel no problems. The boot up messages tell me that diald is being started. However, `ps -ax | grep diald' reveals nothing. /var/log/daemon.log tells me: Sep 13 02:55:46 modprobe: no dependency information for module: /lib/modules/2.0.30/net/slip.o In /var/log/messages: Sep 13 02:55:47 diald[112]: SLIP not supported by kernel, can't build proxy. diald[112]: Diald is dieing with code 1 I don't know if this is pertinent, but in /var/log/degub... Sep 13 02:42:10 kernel: Max size:324376 Log zone size:2048 kernel: First datazone:28 Root inode number 57344 /var/log/diald is empty. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong with SLIP ? Here's the configure details from /usr/src/linux/.config: # Network device support # CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m # CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set CONFIG_PLIP=m CONFIG_PPP=m # # CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules. # CONFIG_SLIP=m CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y # CONFIG_SLIP_SMART is not set # CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6 is not set Thanks, Gerald
Re: Backspace in xterm (again)
Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 10:06:49AM +0100, Gilbert Laycock wrote: Pete I wonder what the difference between your setup and mine could be... Odd isn't it. I finally compared my /etc/X11/Xresources with the one from the distribution. I had *VT100.Translations: #override KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\ KeyHome: string(\033OH)\n\ KeyEnd: string(\033OF) While the distribution has *VT100.Translations: #override KeyBackSpace: string(\177)\n\ KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\ KeyHome: string(\033OH)\n\ KeyEnd: string(\033OF) I added the override for BackSpace, and then I get the same misbehaviour as you describe. There is a comment saying: ! Include override for BackSpace because older xterms do not understand the ! backarrowKey resource. I think I just never use any older xterms; I've not noticed any problems with my setup. I think I will have to go and read the Debian keyboard policy again. After some experimentation, I found that the following works if you add it to /etc/X11/Xresources: *VT100.Translations: #override KeyBackSpace: string(\177)\n\ MetaKeyBackSpace: string(\033\177)\n\ KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\ KeyHome: string(\033OH)\n\ KeyEnd: string(\033OF) bash-2.01$ bind -p | grep back \C-b: backward-char \eOD: backward-char \e[D: backward-char \C-h: backward-delete-char \C-?: backward-delete-char \C-x\C-?: backward-kill-line \e\C-h: backward-kill-word \e\C-?: backward-kill-word And that's why. Bash is expecting a literal ESCAPE, and doesn't really care what key you use to get it. I don't know whose problem this is. It seems to me that one should be able to keep the ESC and META keys separate in X. Uhmm, ignore me if I'm being stupid, but isn't the *definition* of a 'META' keystroke a key sequence that begins with 'ESC'? Hasn't *nix always used the 'ESC' key value in this way? -- Ed C.
ppp[729] - peer refused to authenticate
I am trying to setup a new Debian box to dial the internet and I trying to copy the configuration from my old system. I use pap-secrets to authenticate. My modem dials but disconnects when authenticating. In the /var/log/ppp.log file the error is: ppp[729] peer refused to authenticate My pap-secrets, chatscript, and dial script are all the same as on the Debian 1.3 box. Is there more files that I have forgotten about. Keith
Re: pc keyboard oddity in xterm
Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 06:23:54AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote: You don't happen to be using xbase 3.3.2.2-1 somehow, do you? That version did exactly what you describe. However, it has since been fixed (in 3.3.2.2-2, released on 15 July). It's also possible you used xbase 3.3.2.2-1 at some point, modified /etc/X11/Xresources, and then said no to letting dpkg replace that file in later upgrades. You should have the following in your /etc/X11/Xresources file: *VT100.Translations: #override KeyBackSpace: string(\177)\n\ KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\ KeyHome: string(\033OH)\n\ KeyEnd: string(\033OF) I've got 3.3.2.2-4 and this in /etc/Xresources (no Xresources.dpkg* files there BTW): *VT100.Translations: #override KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\ KeyHome: string(\033OH)\n\ KeyEnd: string(\033OF) Adrian FWIW, I'm using 3.3.2.3a-1, here is my Xresources.dpkg-dist: === ! /etc/X11/Xresources ! ! global Xresources file -- used by both xdm and xinit (startx) ! Fix Motif client handling of backspace/delete; this is not supposed to be ! necessary anymore so it is commented out. ! *XmText.translations: #override\n\ ! KeyosfDelete: delete-previous-character() ! *XmTextField.translations: #override\n\ ! KeyosfDelete: delete-previous-character() ! Fix Xaw (Athena widget set) programs to understand the delete key *Text.translations: #override ~Shift ~Meta KeyDelete: delete-next-character() ! Uncomment the following lines to make xterm appear much like a virtual ! console, so that ANSI colors will make more sense. ! XTerm*background: black ! XTerm*foreground: gray90 ! Make XTerm use Debian's customized terminfo entry. XTerm*termName: xterm-debian ! Make the backspace key generate ^? instead of ^H, per Debian keyboard policy. *VT100*backarrowKey: false ! Make the delete key generate ^[[3~ instead of ^?, per Debian keyboard policy. ! Make the home and end keys appear to always be in keypad-application mode. ! Include override for BackSpace because older xterms do not understand the ! backarrowKey resource. *VT100.Translations: #override KeyBackSpace: string(\177)\n\ KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\ KeyHome: string(\033OH)\n\ KeyEnd: string(\033OF) === -- Ed C.
Re: Debian DSELECT
Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Joris 2. D O C U M E N T A T I O N ( why all these cryptic files and no real Joris database ??? HTML yes?) There are manpages, which are often quite good help if all you need is a summary and a reminder of what things do. From all the Linux distributions, Debian has the best man-db setup. There are the GNU Info files. There are numerous documents written in postscript, there are the books from O'Reilly and you have the Debian documentation project. One of the strong points of a Linux based system is that there is so much documentation about. Maybe you don't know yet what you are looking for... Martin There is a real database. It's called PostgreSQL and comes as a Martin set of *ponder* five packages, or so. Indeed. I am very happy with PostgreSQL. Can only recommend it Oracle and Sybase have announced support for Linux too... Joris Installing and removing LOOKS easy but there's very little REAL Joris version/dependency checking done. McEnroe You cannot be serious! /McEnroe Geez, sometimes i start thinking of winDOWs as a better platform just because one can up a system Martin ??? Huh? Martin Maybe it's a major lack in the whole community that there are only Martin not free wordprocessors? I have to admit that I don't need such Martin programs since I'm able to use the power of LaTeX. Not really. Why should one make such demands when there are very good alternatives around. I once showed a LaTeX'd document to a high court judge, and he was so impressed with it that he actually started to learn to write LaTeX although he never bothered writing a single line of code. He was the opinion that the documents just look so much better with LaTeX, and I agree. -- Nicolai P Guba BT Laboratories GNU Project http://www.labs.bt.com http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp[729] - peer refused to authenticate
Keith wrote: I am trying to setup a new Debian box to dial the internet and I trying to copy the configuration from my old system. I use pap-secrets to authenticate. My modem dials but disconnects when authenticating. In the /var/log/ppp.log file the error is: ppp[729] peer refused to authenticate My pap-secrets, chatscript, and dial script are all the same as on the Debian 1.3 box. Is there more files that I have forgotten about. Keith PPP (file locations) did change between 1.3 and 2.0. Do you have 'noauth' in your /etc/ppp/provider file? Adding 'noauth' is a common need when changing from 1.3 to 2.0. -- Ed C.
Re: Backspace in xterm (again)
After some experimentation, I found that the following works if you add it to /etc/X11/Xresources: *VT100.Translations: #override KeyBackSpace: string(\177)\n\ MetaKeyBackSpace: string(\033\177)\n\ ... Didn't produce any change for me. bash-2.01$ bind -p | grep back=20 ... \e\C-h: backward-kill-word \e\C-?: backward-kill-word And that's why. Bash is expecting a literal ESCAPE, and doesn't really care what key you use to get it. Emacs running inside an xterm doesn't see Metas either. Nothing in an xterm acts like it's seeing a Meta-backspace, even though it sees metas for every other key combo (afaik). /Somewhere/ something is special-casing Meta-backspace, and that ought to be fixed. I'd be willing to live with a workaround such as you proposed but it doesn't work for me. Does anyone have any idea which layer might be interfering with M-backspace? Another odd thing is that rxvt works (sort of---alt and meta are switched). Old binaries of xterm /don't/ work, though I don't have a statically-linked one to try out. Maybe it's a glibc bug somewhere? No, because remote Bo xterms, which work when sitting at that machine, don't work when displaying on my Slink machine. I'm stymied. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Smalltalk for Linux?
On Sun, 13 Sep 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: : Does anybody knows about any free Smalltalk for Linux (preferrably as : Debian package :-) )? I found one lately, called Squeak. Don't have an URL handy, sorry, but I guess you should be able to find it on the web. Good luck, -Remco
looking for 2 program
hi there, i'm looking for 2 program one for editing ps file in a wysiwyg way one for editing wave file (like soundstudio but more complex and with a lots of option too ) any suggestion? thanks samuele when a man lies he murders some part of the world these are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives all this i cannot bear to witness any longer cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? (cliff burton)
cron error e-mail
I am getting a message that man-db is exiting w/ an error code of 3 from cron.weekly. When I run the script by hand all looks well. Suggestions? -- Can't buy what I want because it's free. -- Pearl Jam
