Re: ¿Software_para_mis_estudios?
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 04:35:56PM +, Juan Carlos Muro wrote: pero para hacer el ajuste por minimos cuadrados no se que existe. Lo que quiero es: yo doy 4 o 5 puntos y el programa me saca la recta de regresion con la expresion de la funcion. ¿Existe algo asi en Debian? gnuplot: Hola de nuevo. Me gusta ;-) Sobre el tema de circuitos, para dibujo de esquemas, ¿que hay por ahi que me pueda exportar a PostScript? Veo el xfig, pero como tenga que dibujar cada resistencia a base de lineas quebradas, me puede dar algo. si puedes correr a 1024x768, hay un par de programas en 'electronics' que te pueden venir bastante bien. Me ha gustado 'xcircuit'. Me permite dibujar los circuitos y esportarlos a EPS, y ademas trae librerias. Ya me vale con eso (creo, ya veremos cuando me meta con circuitos mas complicados) O si no usa TeX para hacer los circuitos, quedan increibles! (Te garantizo que el profesor te va a preguntar como los hiciste, porque ni con Electronic Workbench quedan asi)... para eso seria bueno que preguntaras por tu escuela si alguien tiene una copia de The LaTeX Graphics Companion, pues ocupas como 10 paginas del mismo para poder entender como hacer circuitos... miran en CTAN (ftp.dante.de) y busca los paquetes de LaTeX para electronica. ¿Esto se puede hacer desde Lyx? Bueno, supongo que tendre que leerme bien la ayuda que trae Lyx antes de nada. Supongo que con lo que ahi venga sera suficiente para hacer cosas majillas con LaTeX. ¿Lo sera? He visto el Spice para Linux, que supongo que sera un port del Pspice para windows. Ya me gustaria tener ese programa en version libre. La que yo he visto (vamos, he visto el archivo, porque no me compilan bien los SRCs), existe como paquete en RH. ¿No se ha planteado en Debian el crear el paquete para esta distribucion? La verdad que seria una buena idea hacerlo, y un favor ;-) Que es Spice y bajo que licencia se distribuye? Es un programa de simulacion electronica muy pero que muy bueno. Es como el MathLab de la electronica. Bueno, yo he probado en plan piratilla 'Pspice' o tambien conocido como Msim v6.0(micro-sim o algo asi) Es para mi sin duda el mejor. Luego esta por ahi (a lo mejor este te suena mas) Micro Cap. A mi el que me gusta es Pspice. Te describo de que va: En realidad es un paquete. Uno de los paquetes del programa (pspice schematics) te permite dibujar esquemas, y colocar 'test points' donde quieras. Tu colocas los componentes de librerias a lo 'OrCAD' y para cada uno defines los parametros asociados (por ejemplo para una fuente de tension la tension de pico, fase, pulsacion, ...) Al final, del fichero .sch (esquma) se genera el .cir, que es el que contiene el 'lenguaje' de Pspice (antiguamente en la version de MS-DOS tenias que generar tu a mano el .cir). Cuando tienes todo dibujado, usas la herramienta 'sweep AC analysis' o 'transient analysis' (uff, no recuerdo bien los items de menu), para ejecutar los analisis en regimen permanente o estado transitorio respectivamente. Como salida de uno de los analisis, se ejecuta el programa 'probe' (parte del paquete) en el que te salen en una grafica las señales que tienes donde has colocado los 'test points'.(o las que tu eligas por medio de los menus). Realmente es una grandiosa herramienta para el estudio de circuitos. La pega, pues lo de siempre: es comercial y creo (como es de suponer) que vale un ojo de la cara, por no hacer referencia a otras partes de la anatomia maculina (perdon para con las posibles damas de la lista ¿hay alguna? ;-) Bueno, en cuanto a Spice (y no Pspice), es un port de Pspice a Linux apadrinado segun mi entender por la universidad de Berkley. Lo puedes encontrar en: ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/Linux/sunsite/apps/circuits/ No he podido compilarlo aun. De todas maneras, creo que su interface grafica para el diseño de los esquemas (el analogo a 'schematics') es el que en dicho directorio se puede encontrar como Spicecad Por otro lado, existen ahora proyectos dentro del mundo GNU para programas de electronica, pero creo que ninguno del calibre de Pspice. Hay uno llamado gEDA, que tendra la guisa del Electronics Work Bench (eso se pretende al menos). Ahora una pregunta. No se si fuisteis alguien de vosotros o fue en irc.linpeople.org que me comentasteis sobre Octave como de un programa de calculo matricial casi igual a MathLab. La cosa es que he hecho un programa sencillo (yo es que todavia no tengo ni idea ni siquiera de MathLab) y me da error en sentencias que en MathLab son basicas. Un compañero de clase me ha comentado hoy que en MathLab tenemos que cargar unas librerias como 'extension' al paquete base de MathLab o algo asi. Me pregunto si es que estas funciones basicas de las que hablo no me funcionan porque tengo que instalar algo en concreto o que ¿Me podeis ayudar con esto? Bueno, esto es una especie de muestra de lo que quiero hacer y como lo haria en MathLab: n = [0.025] d =[ 1 0.06 0] [nc,dc] =
Re: DEBIAN 2.1 QUE PASO ??????
On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 10:28:45PM +0200, TooManySecrets wrote: A todo esto... ¿alguien me puede proporcionar alguna dirección (preferentemente de algún mirror aquí en Spain) para ir dando un vistazo a slink? Así, de memoria: ftp://ftp.cs.us.es/pub/debian(el mejor de RedIRIS) ;-) ftp://slug.ctv.es/debian(ésta para los de Ibernet). Si alguien ofrece un disco de 6GB, podemos montar ftp.es.debian.org, que ya está haciendo falta. :-) -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]
GRUPO USUARIOS TERRASSA
Buenas. La cosa marcha a muy buen ritmo. Os querría pedir que, por favor, deis la máxima difusión al mensje, ya sea en otras listas sobre Linux, o comunicándolo a todos vuestros amigos/as que puedan estar interesados. Para la siguiente semana (última de Octubre) y la primera de Noviembre, se inaugurará el Grupo. Momentáneamente, y dado que varios de los asistentes no son de Terrassa, es probable que el primer encuentro sea un fin de semana por la mañana. Pero es algo que más adelante podríamos ir concretando. Desde aquí, quiero dar las gracias a Antonio (Pep Indio), por su interés y haber podido conseguir el local, sin el cual no podría pasar la cosa de ser una mera reunión. Os seguiré informando. -- Have a nice day ;-) TooManySecrets
Re: ¿Software_para_mis_estudios?
Hola! No es que mee guste ir corrigiendo, pero... On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Juan Carlos Muro wrote: Bueno, en cuanto a Spice (y no Pspice), es un port de Pspice a Linux apadrinado segun mi entender por la universidad de Berkley. Spice está funcionando desde muchísimo antes, porque Spice es el programa original, de dominio público (creo que andan por la v. 3.4, si no estoy equivocado). Pspice fue posterior, para PCs, y comercial. 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: ¿Software para mis estudios?
El Tue,20/Oct/1998 a las 23:13:14+, Juan Carlos Muro escribió: Ahora una pregunta. No se si fuisteis alguien de vosotros o fue en irc.linpeople.org que me comentasteis sobre Octave como de un programa de calculo matricial casi igual a MathLab. En primer lugar que el programa al que te refieres creo que es el MATLAB de la compañia MathWorks. Es MATLAB por que viene de LABoratorio de MATrices y no de LABoratorio de MATHematicas :-). Decirte que el Octave es, efectivamente, casi igual. Para mi gusto es mejor aunque falla en el tema de los gráficos del nuevo Matlab (versiones 4 en adelante) que permiten bastantes virgerías ya que está orientado a objetos, mientras que el Octave utiliza el gnuplot :-(. De todas maneras si sólo quieres gráficos bidimensionales y no hacer un GUI (Interface Gráfico para Usuarios), tienes de sobra. En lo que supera claramente el Octave es en que es libre frente a Matlab que sale una pasta (Toolboxs aparte). La cosa es que he hecho un programa sencillo (yo es que todavia no tengo ni idea ni siquiera de MathLab) y me da error en sentencias que en MathLab son basicas. Un compañero de clase me ha comentado hoy que en MathLab tenemos que cargar unas librerias como 'extension' al paquete base de MathLab o algo asi. Me pregunto si es que estas funciones basicas de las que hablo no me funcionan porque tengo que instalar algo en concreto o que ¿Me podeis ayudar con esto? Bueno, esto es una especie de muestra de lo que quiero hacer y como lo haria en MathLab: n = [0.025] d =[ 1 0.06 0] [nc,dc] = cloop (n,d); = error: `cloop' undefined near line 3 column 11 nc = nc * 100; t = linspace (0,10,11); y = step (nc,dc,t); = error: `step' undefined near line 10 column 5 Lo que te ocurre es que no tienes instalda la toolbox (conjunto de funciones) de Control de sistemas (que se vende por separado). Tanto 'cloop' como 'step' vienen es ese paquete. Para octave existe una toolbox de control aunque es distinta a la de Matlab. Referencias: Octave: http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/ Toolbox Control:ftp://ftp.eng.auburn.edu/pub/hodel/ Bueno, no me alargo mas, que ya es demasiado este mensaje. Un saludo para todos y gracias por vuestras ayudas y sugerencias: Juan Carlos Hasta pronto -- --- Alberto F. Hamilton Castro|Tlf: + 34 922318286 Grupo de Computadoras y Control (CyC) |Fax: + 34 922318288 Dep. Fisica Fund. y Exp. | Univ. La Laguna |email: c. Delgado Barreto s/n | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 38071 La LagunaSPAIN| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
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Saludos. Me he empezado a pelear con pppd, y ya lo tengo funcionando sin problemas. Antes de usarlo necesito ejecutar dos comandos porque mi modem es pnp, y se supone que los puedo meter en algún fichero rc.d, pero claro, Debian tiene varios directorios con muuuchos ficheros, y además no sé en qué runlevel habría que poner el comando. ¿Podría alguien decirme qué es cada runlevel y cuándo se ejecuta? Y ¿en qué fichero tendría que poner los comandos de inicialización del modem? Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://web.jet.es/gregorio/ Gogosoftware - http://welcome.to/gogosoftware/
Re: ¿Software para mis estudios?
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: creo que hay una interfaz con Tk para gnuplot... no estoy seguro... mira en SAL, http://sal.kachinatech.com/ La hay, xgpl (o Xgnuplot), pero necesita un pequeño parche, que pego más abajo. Sin embargo, te puede interesar más utilizar xgfe, que es una interfaz para gnuplot que utiliza qt. La dirección que yo tengo apuntada es: http://www2.msstate.edu/~dmi1/xgfe/xgfe.html Estoy intentando conectarme ahora para verificarla pero no me da resultado. Revisando la documentación también aparece: Xgfe homepage: http://von-mises.home.ml.org/xgfe/xgfe.html Saludos, -- = Agustín Martín Domingo, Dpto. de Física, ETS Arquitectura Madrid, (U. Politécnica de Madrid) tel: +34 91-336-6536, Fax: +34 91-336-6554, email:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://corbu.aq.upm.es/~agmartin/welcome.htmldiff -urw xgpl/xgpl_main.tcl xgpl.new/xgpl_main.tcl --- xgpl/xgpl_main.tcl Sun Jun 12 19:49:21 1994 +++ xgpl.new/xgpl_main.tcl Mon Dec 22 16:21:50 1997 @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ pack [scrollbar $w.ll.scrollx -orient horizontal -relief sunken -width 3m \ -command $w.ll.c xview] -side bottom -fill x pack [canvas $w.ll.c -relief sunken -relief sunken -borderwidth 2 \ - -yscroll $w.ll.scrolly set -xscroll $w.ll.scrollx set\ + -yscrollcommand $w.ll.scrolly set -xscrollcommand $w.ll.scrollx set\ -height $xh -width $xw -scrollregion 0 0 $xw $xl ] \ -side top -expand 1 -fill both frame $w.ll.c.f -relief flat @@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ pack [scrollbar $w.t.scroll -width 3m -command $w.t.text yview \ -relief sunken -borderwidth 2] -side right -fill y pack [text $w.t.text -relief flat -width 70\ --setgrid 1 -yscroll $w.t.scroll set] \ +-setgrid 1 -yscrollcommand $w.t.scroll set] \ -side top -fill both -expand 1 -padx 5 -pady 5 pack $w.t -side top -padx 10 -pady 10 -expand 1 -fill both frame $w.c -relief groove -borderwidth 2 Only in xgpl.new: xgpl_main.tcl.orig
Re: Tarjeta de 100MB
Marcelo E. Magallon writes: On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 11:49:50AM +0100, jrivas wrote: Alguien conoce alguna tarjeta de 100MB que tenga drivers para linux (no importa precio). Intel Etherexpress * Nosotros hemos tenido problemas con el soporte multicast para estas tarjetas. Ningñun problema para aplciaciones normales, pero un problema muy grave para jugar con IP multicast o IPv6... Jesus. -- Jesus M. Gonzalez Barahona | Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones tel +3491 624 9458, fax +3491 624 9430 | Departamento de Informatica [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid http://www.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es/~jgb | c/ Butarque, 15, 28911 Leganes, Spain
Re: ¿Software para mis estudios?
Marcelo E. Magallon writes: On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 09:37:48PM +0200, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: El Spice es un programa se simulacion de circuitos escrito hace muuuchos años, por un profesor de una universidad estadounidense cuando no existia nada ni parecido entonces. (creo que hay un articulo en la Spectrum de OCtubre sobre el). Me suena conocido... creo haber leído algo hace varios años en una Dr Dobbs'. Voy a pedir prestada una Spectrum para ver que es el cuento... El Spectrum es el de junio, julio o agosto (no lo tengo a mano pero lo puedo buscar) El original es libre (en el sentido original) ya que su autor ha sido un defensor del codigo libre (no lo patento y lo podía haber hecho y ganar una pasta... menos mal para nosotros) El único problema es que es demasiado libre[*], y por lo visto Berkeley tiene el copyright, y es tal que solo se puede distribuir para usos no comerciales... non-free. He intentado trazar la licencia del Spice original, y nolo he conseguido. Por la época y la Universidad (UCB) podría tener la misma licencia clásica de UCB para Unix, lo que lo convertiría en libre del todo. Pero no he conseguido verificar esto. No se donde se pueden encontrar las fuentes del spice original Busqué en SAL y me encontré que hay un rpm, y que se distribuye en forma binaria también. También existe una cosa que se llama SpiceCAD, para X11. Vi los readme's y no se ve muy prometedor... Yo también estoy muy interesado en encontrar los fuentes del Spice original. Y en ver su licencia, también original. Spice es posiblemente el primer caso de programa libre (o quizás semilibre) desarrollado fuera del ámbito puramente informático (la gente que lo desarrolló y usó fueron fundamentalmente ingenieros de microelectrónica). Es de la misma época aproximada a los primeros desarrollos serios del CSRG y contemporáneo del primer GNU. Y al parecer, su modelo de desarrollo fue muy parecido al del kernel Linux... pero unos 15 años antes!!! Su desarrollo, por otra parte, ha sido muy similar al de BSD Unix, con montones de spinoffs propietarios, y con desarrollo paralelo libre o semilibre. Y durante mucho tiempo ha sido el líder en su sector (desconozco la situación actual). Por si no ha quedado claro, apreciaría cualquier información sobre él... ;-) He itnentado contactar con su autor, pero al menos la dirección que he conseguido de él no me la contesta nadie... :-( Jesus. -- Jesus M. Gonzalez Barahona | Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones tel +3491 624 9458, fax +3491 624 9430 | Departamento de Informatica [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid http://www.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es/~jgb | c/ Butarque, 15, 28911 Leganes, Spain
Re: Scripts................
On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 07:43:07PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote:
Hola, que tal...
Necesito un poco de ayuda con un script...
Nada, nada, se te echa una mano si hace falta :)
Necesito saber cuanto tiempo estoy conectado a la red.
Hasta ahora llevo hecho un script que sabe contar...:
HORA=`date +%r`;
MES=`date +%B`;
NUMERO=`date +%d`;
TIME1=`date +%s`;
echo Enter para stop;
read;
TIME2=`date +%s`
echo Hoy, $NUMERO de $MES a las $HORA -\ $(((TIME2 -
TIME1)/60)) [s]
~/prueba.log
Pero me falta lo mas importante: que empieze cuando pon se ejecuta y
pare cuando me desconecto... Creo que para eso existe etc/ppp/ip-up.d y
/etc/ppp/ip-down.d cierto??
Tal y como lo tienes ahora parece que se ejecuta una sola vez no? No
como un demonio, que está continuamente diciéndolo (sino tendrías un log de
varios Ms de grande después de algunos meses...)
Bueno entonces bastaria poner este script en etc/ppp/ip-up.d para que
empieze al conectarme... ahora viene la pregunta... como lo hago para
que pare cuando me desconecto
Bien, creo que lo más sencillo es que pongas ese cuando te conectes
y que escriba eso en el log que indicas, yo lo cambiaría por algo así como:
echo Hoy, `date` me he conectado /var/log/prueba.log
y el de ip.down similar pero diciendo me he desconectado
Luego hacer un programa aparte que coga el fichero de logs y calcule el
tiempo en base a la pareja de conectados/desconectados (esto es muy sencillo
si utilizas date +%s, porque solo es ir restando.
El programita seguro que es un par de líneas en perl, a ver
#!/usr/bin/perl
while () {
chomp;
if (/Hoy\, \d* me he conectado/) { $conectado=$1}
if (/Hoy\, \d* me he desconectado/) { $desconectado=$1;
$tiempo=$desconectado-$conectado if $desconectado $conectado;
}
}
print \n Te has pasado $tiempo conectado;
Por supuesto se pueden hacer más cosas interesantes, estadísticas,
etc.. Para hacerlo te recomiendo que mires el paquete 'sac' que hace algo
similar pero con el wtmp (donde se guardan los accesos de los usuarios de
forma similar y al que se accede con el comando 'last').
Bueno, eso es todo.
Saludete
Javi
Re: ¿¿¿¿¿ IP MASQUERADING ó DNS ?????
On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 12:43:14AM +0200, Antonio Jesús Oliva González wrote: Hola a todos! El Subject tiene relación con la causa de mi problema: He probado el ip-masquerading en mi red local siguiendo las instruciones del HOWTO, y me he encontrado un problemilla (Uso Debian 2.0): Todo funciona perfectamente, el Núcleo está compilado con todo lo necesario, mi red funciona OK, el DNS funciona bien, etc., todo esto en la máquina que hace de gateway. Máquinas de la red con Win95 y linux, todas con el mismo problema, osea, que el problema está en el Gateway pero no se cual es: ~$ ftp ftp.rediris.es Connected to dopey.rediris.es. 220-Bienvenido al FTP ansnimo de RedIRIS Y se para aquí... Usando http pasa lo mismo que con ftp, resuelve la IP para el DNS pedido, conecta con la máquina remota y luego se queda esperando. Bien, quizás te sirva recordar, Antonio, que el FTP utiliza dos puertos, uno para datos y otro para comandos. Quizás pase que la conexión no se establezca bien por eso. Lo del http es más difícil de entender, porque se usa un sólo puerto. De todas formas quizás te sean más conveniente utilizar un proxy para estos servicios en el gateway, que hacer IP masquerading. De todas formas una pregunta: funciona el telnet desde los terminales hacia fuera? Saludete Javi
Re: ¿Software para mis estudios?
Hola! On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Jesus M. Gonzalez wrote: Por si no ha quedado claro, apreciaría cualquier información sobre él... ;-) He itnentado contactar con su autor, pero al menos la dirección que he conseguido de él no me la contesta nadie... :-( Debería aparecer en algún sitio de http://infopad.eecs.berkeley.edu, pero no he conseguido dar con ella. 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: Problemas con las X
Hola! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola a todos, como es logico os escribo porque tengo un problemilla y espero que alguno me eche una mano. El problemilla es que al crear nuevos usuarios en la Debian 2.0, al entrar como un usuario de estos(no como root), no me deja ejecutar las X, sin embargo como root si, y estan bien configuradas. Un saludo. Yo tuve ese mismo problema, y lo solucioné un poco a lo bestia con los permisos. Como root tienes que hacer suid al servidor X. El servidor X esta en /usr/X11R6/bin, y en mi caso se llama XServer_SVGA. El tuyo dependera de tu tarjeta. Una vez tengas localizado el servidor X, como root haces: chmod +s XServer_SVGA Donde XServer es el nombre de tu servidor X. Saludos, Jose
Smarlist
Buenas. Me gustaría poder montar un list-mail con Smartlist, pero ocurre que sería bastante peculiar y necesitaría me dijerais si se puede o no. Yo tengo una conexión a Inet como la de la mayoría de los mortales; con IP dinámica y pagando pastón ganso a Timofónica. Pero, a pesar de todo, ¿puedo montar el Smartlist en mi ordenador de manera que, cuando recoja el correo, discrimine de alguna manera el From de quien provenga, y lo reenvíe a todos los demás subscritos? Claro que esto sería siempre que no hubiera mucha gente. Gracias por todo. -- Have a nice day ;-) TooManySecrets
Re: DEBIAN 2.1 QUE PASO ??????
Enrique Zanardi el día Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 08:53:34AM +0100 expuso lo siguiente: Si alguien ofrece un disco de 6GB, podemos montar ftp.es.debian.org, que ya está haciendo falta. :-) Hombre... ojalá pudiera. Pero si me juras y perjuras que lo recibirás tú personalmente, puedo enviarte un poco de dinero para contribuir a la causa (léase una cuenta tuya particular). -- Have a nice day ;-) TooManySecrets
Re: problemas con infovia en Debian2
Octavio Rodriguez Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo en una ocasión que: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: Por cierto, en el mensaje de Antonio Calvo donde ponia como ejemplo sus ficheros de configuracion del PPP, no incluye el /etc/ppp/options. Las opciones de este fichero no se modifican con el programa pppconfig. ¿Es que este fichero no se usa con el nuevo formato del PPP? Yo las he modificado a mano, al fin y al cabo no es mas que descomentar dos o tres lineas. Lo tengo exactamente como viene en la distribucion. Las opciones las cambio en /etc/ppp/peers/provider Pues cuando ejecuto el pppconfig, al final las opciones que he elegido no se escriben en /etc/ppp/options, es mas, las opciones de este fichero son distintas que las del /etc/ppp/peers/provider. ¿Que hace entonces ahi el fichero options? En Debian, el fichero /etc/ppp/options incluye la configuración de pppd pero para *conexiones entrantes*, es decir, para que, si lo deseas, tengas en tu máquina un servidor ppp. Al usuario común esto no le interesa lo más mínimo, pero para una empresa puede tener su gracia. Por eso se llevan la configuración de la conexión a proveedor fuera de /etc/options. En la Debian 1.3.1 la configuración estaba en /etc/ppp.options_out y el script de conexión en /etc/ppp.chatscript. En la Debian 2.0 utilizan /etc/chatscripts/provider y /etc/ppp/peers/provider. Todo esto contando con que utilizas 'pon' para la conexión. Despues de muchas pruebas, el ultimo error que tenia era el siguiente: ... send (ATDT055^M) Serial connection established Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS2 ... NO CARRIER Exit Es increible la de llamadas al 055 que apareceran en la proxima factura de Telefonica que le llegue a mi padre. Se va a trincar una mosca!! Y lo que mas me fastidia es que despues de tantos intentos todavia no haya podido configurar el PPP. Recuerda que Infovia tiene un bug, que hace que habitualmente no te asigne en la negociación una dirección IP remota al canal PPP. Añade a tu /etc/ppp/peers/provider las líneas: :192.168.0.1 ipcp-accept-remote Con la primera defines una dirección remota IP por defecto, por si durante la negociación no se te asigna. No te preocupes por esa dirección, es una dirección reservada para redes privadas y no te entrará en conflicto con ninguna otra. Con la segunda especificas que la que se te asigne en la negociación sustituirá a la primera. Antes de tener esas líneas, necesitaba de media tres o cuatro llamadas para conectarme. Desde entonces no he vuelto a tener cortes durante la conexión más que en un par de ocasiones, y posiblemente debido a otros factores. Mira lo que dice el /var/log/messages de mi última conexión. Oct 21 22:44:52 bosshog pppd[831]: Remote message: Oct 21 22:44:52 bosshog pppd[831]: local IP address 195.76.218.90 Oct 21 22:44:52 bosshog pppd[831]: remote IP address 172.16.1.8 Y mira lo que dice el de mi penúltima conexión. Oct 21 22:38:10 bosshog pppd[510]: Remote message: Oct 21 22:38:10 bosshog pppd[510]: local IP address 195.55.181.247 Oct 21 22:38:10 bosshog pppd[510]: remote IP address 192.168.0.1 ^^^ Esta se me habría cortado, si no hubiera especificado esta dirección, pues a pppd le faltaría una remote IP para rular. Aunque no nos guste, tengo que decirlo. En W95 el acceso a Infovia me funciono a la primera, y aunque es verdad que a veces no engancha la conexion y gasto una llamada, casi siempre que intento conectarme lo consigo. Mi modem es de la marca Zoltrix y dice alcanzar los 56000 bps (lo maximo que he conseguido es 4 bps). ME ESTABA PREGUNTANDO si no seria este uno de esos modems que solo funciona en Windows 95. No puedo asegurar que Microsoft tenga de Telefónica información de primera mano para soslayar el bug, pero lo cierto es que Dios las cría y ellas se juntan :-) Si tuvieras un Winmodem, no llegarías al Serial connection established ni de coña. Suerte y un saludo. -- Ismael Valladolid ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://personales.mundivia.es/iron/ 'I gotta tell you my tale, Of how I loved and how I failed I hope you understand, These feelings should not be in a man' R.Ashcroft
Re: Scripts................
Yep!
El Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 06:53:47PM +0200, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a escribió:
echo Hoy, `date` me he conectado /var/log/prueba.log
y el de ip.down similar pero diciendo me he desconectado
Si utilizas esta entrada en el /etc/syslog.conf:
local2.*-/var/log/ppp.log
se puede hacer como primer paso -- cat /var/log/ppp.log | grep Connect
para obtener la fecha de inicio y fin de la conexión.
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Problema con el Kernel 2.0.34
Buenas, tenia instalado la version 1.3 de Debian con el Kernel 2.0.29 que me soportaba mi controladora Scsi Tekram DC-390, cuando instale la Debian 2.0 , SORPRESA !! el nuevo Kernel 2.0.34 no soprta mi controladora, me da un error disconect queue ... y me da un Kernel Panic !!! , como es posible ??? hay algun patch ??? Mi solucio ha sido Reinstalar Debian 1.3 y hacer el Upgrade, pero no puedo usar el kernel 2.0.34 Joee !!!
Re: Scripts................
Yep!
El Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:10:11AM +0200, Luis Clausell escribió:
se puede hacer como primer paso -- cat /var/log/ppp.log | grep Connect
para obtener la fecha de inicio y fin de la conexión.
Ya puestos, que sea del día :-)
cat /var/log/ppp.log | grep Connect | grep `date +%d`
Seguramente quedará mejor en Perl o awk O:-)
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Re: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?
*- Alexander Kushnirenko wrote about 2 XServers on 1 terminal? | Hi, | | Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first | session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working on one | computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. | | Thanks, | Sasha. | | If you are using xdm edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers so you have one line for the first display and one line for the second display. :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt8 If you are using startx then you can do startx -- :0 for the first display, and startx -- :1 for the second. -- 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 -
Re: dvi viewer in 2.0
xdvi is in tetex-bin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just upgraded to 2.0. Previously I could view .dvi files with xdvi. It is no longer present. Is there a .dvi viewer (preferably for x) that does not require a tetex installation? Thanks Chuck Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
SOLVED: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?
Hi, Disregard my previous message. I already learned how to do it. Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working on one computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. Sasha.
Re: Step 1 for Seyon and ISDN
RB == Remo Badii [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RB I have read the ponderous documentation about ISDN, but did not RB configure any of the device.ippp0, ipppd.ippp0, etc. files in RB /etc/isdn. This is not neccessary for the thing you want to do. RB As a first step, I'd like to know how to deal with /dev/ttyI0, i.e., the RB argument to be passed to seyon. If I start seyon with -modems RB /dev/ttyI0, I get an error: is this because nothing concerning ISDN is RB configured or because I have to do something with /dev/ttyI0? Should work this way (though I never used seyon). What is the error you get? Ciao, Martin
Re: SOLVED: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?
On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 06:16:40PM -0500, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: Hi, Disregard my previous message. I already learned how to do it. Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working on one computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. Sasha. How? Thanks for the enlightenment, Jeff
Re: Intel740 graphic accelerator
Your timing couldn't be better! RedHat has been working in a couple of partnerships to turn out some binary-only servers for XFree (the XBF project.) They just yesterday announced a new beta release of their i740 driver (the first beta had been tested with only 1 mfrs card.) This is at: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF/XBF-i740-glibc-0.9.8-1.i386.rpm FYI: This is a beta, and I haven't tried this myself. It's packaged as .RPM, I guess you can use alien to repackage as a .deb, although making a .tgz and manually installing might be the proper route, if you are comfortable with this. For those with a tight, free-software-kink (and running Debian, who doesn't?): There is hope that source will ultimately be released to XFree86, as was the case with the RedHat/XBF NeoMagic drivers. Cheers, Jeremiah ---Kirston Akos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I bought a vga card with Intel740 garphic accelerator. What kind of xserver can take the full advantages of it? Thanks, krisah -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null == Jeremiah Cornelius It's not whether you win or lose, but the platitudes you use. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: ppp vs windows dialup networking
when I connect to my isp in windows I get a dialog box showing the progress of the connection. It finally reports the connection speed that the modem achieved. Is there any way to get this information when connecting via ppp? Try xisp (you'll need X for it).
Re: SOLVED: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?
Hi, Jeff! Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working on one computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. How? It's actually described in details in file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers . # Example: # :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt9 -bpp 16 # :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt10 -bpp 8 Just uncomment those 2 lines. I found it reading in /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian (They turn out to be quite useful for most of configuration problems). Sasha. Thanks for the enlightenment, Jeff
Re: dosemu probs
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, I got the dosemu .deb and installed it. When I run an lredir, it always returns an error (the command is an exact copy of that given in the lredir help): C:\ LREDIR X: LINUX\FS\tmp Error 5f00 redirecting drive X: to LINUX\FS\TMP what am I doing wrong? I see two things wrong here: 1. Change the second backslash to a forward slash: lredir x: linux\fs/tmp 2. Add lastdrive=x: to config.sys Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: Admin tool needed
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Ralph Winslow wrote: is there some admin tool for X ?? package: xadmin dselect didn't find this for me in stable - do I need to go to frozen? Xadmin was removed in the stable few weeks ago. I think the maintainer removed it. It was a promising software... regards, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 == = == ==== == E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] == WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com
Need help configuring network in Deb2.0
I finally got my initial installation to complete (no previous Linux experience), but the network config isn't quite right. The message during boot says the network is unreachable and that eth0 isn't found. All the other settings are okay. Can some kind soul tell me how to get Linux to recognize my 3-Com Enet card? Thanks, Jerry Certus Consulting Group | Specializing in Integrated Circuit Antioch, CA 94509 | Design and Verification, Logic (925)757-0685 | Synthesis, Fault Grading, and http://www.certus.com | Test Development
Wierd top (?) behaviour.
Hi, Something really wierd is going on. I'm on a single system, not connected to any kind of network, logged in to my user account, running X with fvwm2 and GNOME 0.28. When I check top's output it shows me for a fraction of an instant, olwm and wmaker running at the same time, with uid root and consuming huge amounts of CPU power and memory ! Nobody on this system uses these window-managers. So how is it that they appear in top's output ? They slow the system down to a crawl. TIA. - K. Arun -- intoxicated, adj.: When you feel sophisticated without being able to pronounce it. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- K. Arun | PGP key particulars [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Key Id: 5606B2B1 members.tripod.com/~k_aroon |Key: $WWWHOME/pgpkey.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Searching in dselect
Hi all, I was wondering if there is a way to search for a particular type of package in dselect (not based on it's name, but on what it does)? ie. Search the description fields. This would be really useful when I'm trying to see if there is a debian package of something (this time it was something to do haskell with - hugs as it turned out). Thanks, Chris -- -- REALITY.SYS corrupted: Reboot universe? (Y/N/Q) Debian GNU/Linux -- Reply with subject 'request key' for PGP public key. KeyID 0xA9E087D5
phantom in diald queue
Using diald, with a dynamic IP address, I sometimes get an annoying phantom in the packet queue. It's usually something like: some.remote.address/80 = stale.local.address/1234 evidently coming from an aborted http transfer. The stale local address is the IP address I had on some previous connection. The diald packet queue will show this for a minute, then disconnect when its time expires. The queue will remain empty for a minute or two, and then this same entry will reappear, and cause the link to come back up. It will sit idle for a minute, the link will go down, and the whole cycle keeps repeating. I've tried: * killing Netscape (which initiated the transfer originally) * killing and restarting diald Neither of these stop the phantom from continuing to reappear. I've tried running lsof to see what process is opening the connection -- but lsof doesn't show it. The only way I've been able to make it stop is by either waiting (it goes away after 10 or 15 minutes); or by rebooting. So, can anyone tell me what is causing this request to be continually regenerated, and/or how to stop it? Failing that, does anyone know a good exorcist :( -- David Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automate UPPER to lower case directory
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Anthony Landreneau wrote: Thanks guys, got the job done. I love ths little script, fits well in my /usr/bin too! Tell you, you don't get help like this from Microsoft! I put my script in /usr/local/bin keeps /usr/bin messy.. the way dpkg likes it :) (Also makes it easier to find.) Thanks again, Anthony Landrenea Infinity Data Systems I think this is from some HOWTO but I forget which one: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]$less up2lo #!/bin/sh # # up2lo - rename files from uppercase to lower case. # for i in $* do file=`echo $i | tr [A-Z] [a-z]` mv $i $file done Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - OFFLINE 1.50 Virus check complete. All viruses functioning normally - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
HELP, Shaw cable modem
Having just had a cable modem installed on my home machine I find I can't telnet/ftp to most machines. I can't ftp to ftp.debian.org. I know my domainname is not correct, and the dnslookup is causing the problem. How can I fix this? How do I change my domainname on a debian system? Running Deb2, with dhcpcd. BTW the machine appears to be identified with my dynamically allocated ip address plus the cable modem's domain. *.*.*.*.edbd1.ab.wave.home.com ^^ should this be my new domainname? Any help would be appreciated. John John Maheuphone (403) 492-2049 University of Alberta email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Economics Edmonton, Alberta Canada, T6G 2H4
Re: HELP, Shaw cable modem
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, John Maheu wrote: Having just had a cable modem installed on my home machine I find I can't telnet/ftp to most machines. I can't ftp to ftp.debian.org. I know my domainname is not correct, and the dnslookup is causing the problem. How can I fix this? How do I change my domainname on a debian system? To configure shaw properly and fully in debian you need to use the dhcpc-beta packages. Edit /etc/dhclient.conf and put something like: send host-name csxx-x; Where the CS bit is your 'CS' number, this will be the name the install tech gave to your windows setup. A bit ago shaw was having a trouble with their DNS, they had names that reverse resolved but did not forward resolve. If you got such an IP then I suggest you phone and complain! You can check this by doing something like: host x.x.x.x.x host the name the above returned They sould return each other. The dhcpcd package does not seem to send the right host name and I couldn't figure out how to fix it.. It does work but you get the wrong IP range.. You don't need to change your debian machines domain name.. Jason
Re: HELP, Shaw cable modem
On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, John Maheu wrote: [ snip ] : *.*.*.*.edbd1.ab.wave.home.com : ^^ : should this be my new domainname? I have a sneaky suspicion that Shaw's forward and reverse lookups don't jive. Do an nslookup on the IP address you are assigned. Now do a forward lookup on the name you retrieved in step one. If they don't match, call and complain :) Any ISP worth a darn should be able to get this straight. If that's not the problem, then I'm sorry for being unhelpful. -- 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: Searching in dselect
I was wondering if there is a way to search for a particular type of package in dselect (not based on it's name, but on what it does)? ie. Search the description fields. This would be really useful when I'm trying to see if there is a debian package of something (this time it was something to do haskell with - hugs as it turned out). Not that I have found. However there is one on the debian websites. Look in the package pages.
Removing ^M in files--in bulk?
I have a bunch of files (est. 200) which were brought over from OS/2 after being detached from emails (I've not got Debian networked yet here at work--subject of another post). All of them have this control character (^M) at the end of each line, as seen in vi (which I know v. little about except very basic I/O). These need to be removed before the files can be compiled. I am really hoping there is a way to do this in bulk ... using sed or something similar?? I am v. new to Linux, so have no grip yet on the more powerful utilities and/or syntax. (Nor am I a programmer.) Is there a way to do this?? Thanks! Kenward -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: Removing ^M in files--in bulk?
There's a dos2unix command, looks like it's in the 'sysutils' package; just 'dos2unix *' if they're all in the same directory; if they're in different places you can do an appropriate find, like: dos2unix `find -name *.cc` or something like that. You might want to read the dos2unix man page, I'm just assuming it works like this. On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of them have this control character (^M) at the end of each line, as seen in vi (which I know v. little about except very basic I/O). These need to be removed before the files can be compiled. I am really hoping there is a way to do this in bulk ... using sed or something similar?? I am v. new to Linux, so have no grip yet on the more powerful utilities and/or syntax. (Nor am I a programmer.) Is there a way to do this?? Thanks!
Re: Removing ^M in files--in bulk?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a bunch of files (est. 200) which were brought over from OS/2 after being detached from emails (I've not got Debian networked yet here at work--subject of another post). All of them have this control character (^M) at the end of each line, as seen in vi (which I know v. little about except very basic I/O). These need to be removed before the files can be compiled. I am really hoping there is a way to do this in bulk ... using sed or something similar?? I am v. new to Linux, so have no grip yet on the more powerful utilities and/or syntax. (Nor am I a programmer.) Is there a way to do this?? Thanks! Install the sysutils package and then you can use the dos2unix command (also known as fromdos) - it does bulk ^M stripping.
Re: Removing ^M in files--in bulk?
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): All of them have this control character (^M) at the end of each line, as seen in vi (which I know v. little about except very basic I/O). These need to be removed before the files can be compiled. perl -pi -e 's/\r//' *.txt (or *.whatever) Mike Stone
ttyS0 S1 problems
I have two standard ISA serial ports ttyS0/S1 and one internal modem ttyS2 irq5. The modem is working prefectly. But I cannot make ttyS0/S1 to work at all, even with minicom? Is it possible some processes lock out the access? If that the case, why ttyS2 can work freely? And how to resolve it? Does anyone encounter the same problem? HotBot - Search smarter. http://www.hotbot.com
Can't connect to Novell network
'Tis true. Do I need Caldera's client for this? I think the basic problem is below this, though. I've compiled Olicom's token-ring network card driver into the kernel with no problems. Bootup gives apparently normal messages in this regard except a test download failure. I also get an SIOADDR(something or another) not available message (I get this also under OS/2, but things still work OK ... ??). I do have Novell support compiled (ipx? IIRC), and net-base, etc, are installed. I tried to configure things when I first installed without recognizing that we have a DHCP server (which is new for our LAN). Later I tried to install dhcpd. This failed under dselect (as I've noticed other posts also mention). Is this failure due to no connection? Might I need to remove or change the order of various parts of this in the rc files? I cannot ping a thing. hosts and host.conf seem OK, as does resolv.conf. Should anything be changed here? Sorry I don't have a more complete description--I'm not sure what is needed to understand the problem. Is there some other info which would help me figure this out? Thanks very much! Kenward -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Thanks! Re: Removing ^M in files--in bulk?
Wow! Thanks for the quick replies, people. Now I get to play with several approaches. Are there any good books (starting at a basic level working up) for things like this? Perl seems to be a hot thing for Linux (as well as shell programming/scripting). While it will take me a while to get up the curve, it would be nice to have so good refernces around. Kenward -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: Searching in dselect
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Chris Leishman wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to search for a particular type of package in dselect (not based on it's name, but on what it does)? ie. Search the description fields. This would be really useful when I'm trying to see if there is a debian package of something (this time it was something to do haskell with - hugs as it turned out). That's exactly what I also wanted... the closest thing which can be == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 == = == ==== == E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] == WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com
Re: Searching in dselect
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, A. M. Varon wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Chris Leishman wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to search for a particular type of package in dselect (not based on it's name, but on what it does)? ie. Search the description fields. This would be really useful when I'm trying to see if there is a debian package of something (this time it was something to do haskell with - hugs as it turned out). [oops. sorry for last incomplete e-mail.] That's exactly what I also wanted... can it be included in dselect or in apt? Another side related question. Is there a deb package which is simillar to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages ? I like viewing by packages. regards, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 == = == ==== == E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] == WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com
kdm window manager selection...
Does anyone know how I can get the window-manager selection combo box on the kdm screen functioning? It does allow me to choose window managers... only the selection has no effect on which one shows up. if I didn't have startkde in my .xsession, it'd default to fvwm2... Not fun. --Evan -- Evan Van Dyke E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Page: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ#: 15442232 DNRC's Minister of Lost Internet Packets. O- Amateur Radio Call Sign: KB8PVE Quoth the Raven... 'Nevermore!' --Edgar Allen Poe I'll bet that all you can do is watch the ball bounce around the screen. --Dilbert to Management
enscript problem
By mistake, I did a rm /etc/enscript.cfg, and so I decided to re-install enscript package. [/cdrom/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/text] # dpkg -i enscript_1.5.0-8.deb Selecting previously deselected package enscript. (Reading database ... 55275 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace enscript 1.5.0-8 (using enscript_1.5.0-8.deb) ... Unpacking replacement enscript ... Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) Setting up enscript (1.5.0-8) ... Even after re-installing enscript, I am not able to find /etc/enscript.cfg. Also, when I tried to execute enscript I get the following error message: enscript: couldn't open config file /usr/lib/enscript/enscript.cfg: No such file or directory Any ideas / suggestions on what I should do ? -Saisanthosh -- On the Internet, no one knows you're using Windows NT (Submitted by Ramiro Estrugo, [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problem with man
Man I try to update my man pages cache I get the following error message: [~] $ man -u bash Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...man: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory man: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnudoit.xemacs20.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request man: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory man: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuclient.xemacs20.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request man: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory man: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuattach.xemacs20.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request man: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory man: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuclient.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request man: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory man: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuattach.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request man: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory man: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnudoit.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request man: warning: /usr/man/man1/pstogif.xemacs20.1.gz is a dangling symlink man: can't open /usr/man/man1/pstogif.1: No such file or directory man: warning: /usr/man/man1/pstogif.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request The first line of the error message states that /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1 is not found. But AFAIK, I did not delete any manpage in /usr/man/* BTW, what package does gnuserv.1 (must be emacs) belong to and why are the man pages of gnuattach.xemacs.20.1.gz (and other such files) pointing to the man page of gnuserv (which does not exist) ?? -- If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system. (By Linus Torvalds)
Re: Step 1 for Seyon and ISDN
Ref.: Martin Bialasinski's answer to a Seyon-with-ISDN question. Dear Martin, When I start seyon as a user (I have not tried as root) with seyon -modems /dev/ttyI0 , the following message appears in the xterm window: Seyon Copyright (c) 1992-1993 Muhammad M. Saggaf. All rights reserved. Version 2.1 rev. 4c i486-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/28/98 20:09:08. Locating Modems... Error: Unable to Open Modem ``/dev/ttyI0'': Permission denied. Modem ``/dev/ttyI0'' is Unavailable. Error: No Modems Available. In the popupwindow (blue background with a red button with Exit on it), I see Modem initialization routine failed Possible causes: * no modem device is specified * modem device is locked * failure to open modem device (e.g. non-existent port, insufficient permission, ..etc) Suggested action: * check that you specified the correct port * check that no other process is using the modem and I can only click on Exit and the program stops. This is the output of ls -l /dev/ttyI0: crw-rw 1 root dialout 43, 0 Sep 10 15:21 /dev/ttyI0 Do I have to change the permission (how)? In case it is relevant, iprofd runs. I have not created a directory ~/.seyon, since the program should offer the possibility to do it and to create the startup files in it. Unfortunately, I am not even seeing the buttons/menus of the program yet. Thank you for any help. Remo ___ | Dr. Remo |__ _ Debian User | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Badii | / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ | CH-5232 Villigen | | Nonlinear | / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | Switzerland | | Dynamics | / /__| | | | | |_| | | | | Stochastic | \/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ | badii at psi.ch | | Processes || www1.psi.ch/~badii | |||_|
Re: Searching in dselect
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, A. M. Varon wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Chris Leishman wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to search for a particular type of package in dselect (not based on it's name, but on what it does)? ie. Search the description fields. This would be really useful when I'm trying to see if there is a debian package of something (this time it was something to do haskell with - hugs as it turned out). That's exactly what I also wanted... the closest thing which can be mount sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk /mnt grep whatever /mnt/public/pub/unix/Linux/debian/dists/hamm/main/Packages | less This will pick up descriptions as well as package names. (you probably should check contrib and non-free as well) HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?
Hi, Could I run 2 X servers on one comupter? So that Alt-F7 correspond to first session, and Alt-F8 for the second session? There are 2 people working on one computer, and we don't want to mess each other X sessions. Yes. To add another session, you could go to a text console, and type startx -- :1 and you have a second session under F8. If you want xdm to run two sessions, I think you should add something to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, though I'm not certain what. You will only want to do this on a machine with plenty memory though! Also note that the DISPLAY variable for the second session should be my.machine.somewhere:1.0 if you have to set it manually. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054
Re: phantom in diald queue
David S. Zelinsky writes: Using diald, with a dynamic IP address, I sometimes get an annoying phantom in the packet queue. It's usually something like: some.remote.address/80 = stale.local.address/1234 evidently coming from an aborted http transfer. The stale local address is the IP address I had on some previous connection. The diald packet queue will show this for a minute, then disconnect when its time expires. The queue will remain empty for a minute or two, and then this same entry will reappear, and cause the link to come back up. It will sit idle for a minute, the link will go down, and the whole cycle keeps repeating. I've tried: * killing Netscape (which initiated the transfer originally) * killing and restarting diald Neither of these stop the phantom from continuing to reappear. I've tried running lsof to see what process is opening the connection -- but lsof doesn't show it. The only way I've been able to make it stop is by either waiting (it goes away after 10 or 15 minutes); or by rebooting. So, can anyone tell me what is causing this request to be continually regenerated, and/or how to stop it? A suggestion: Stop diald and check /var/log for diald.fifo. I found that if diald is not shutdown properly, a bogus file gets created (/var/log/diald.fifo). When you restart diald, I believe that it uses that bogus file instead of creating a new, clean fifo. If you have such a file, rm it. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: Step 1 for Seyon and ISDN
RB == Remo Badii [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Error: Unable to Open Modem ``/dev/ttyI0'': Permission denied. RB Modem ``/dev/ttyI0'' is Unavailable. RB This is the output of ls -l /dev/ttyI0: RB crw-rw 1 root dialout 43, 0 Sep 10 15:21 /dev/ttyI0 RB Do I have to change the permission (how)? Just add your user to the dialout group. adduser username dialout Ciao, Martin
Re: enscript problem
Saisanthosh B hat gesagt: // Saisanthosh B wrote: By mistake, I did a rm /etc/enscript.cfg, and so I decided to re-install enscript package. Even after re-installing enscript, I am not able to find /etc/enscript.cfg. Any ideas / suggestions on what I should do ? Try purging enscript with dpkg --purge enscript before you reinstall. This removes the config file (which isn't there) and marks it as purged. Maybe now the install installs /etc/enscript.cfg again. If not I could send you mine, it's not big. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: 2 XServers on 1 terminal?
E.L. Meijer Eric wrote:
Yes. To add another session, you could go to a text console, and type
startx -- :1
For what it's worth, I have a small program that allows you to type instead,
startx -- `getdisplay` -- that's useful for things like launching a new X
session from a menu, or when you're not sure what's a valid free display
number. I'm sure it has race conditions and things, but it works for me.
Attached.
--
see shy jo
/* by Wakko */
#include unistd.h
#include string.h
#include netinet/in.h
#include stdio.h
#include errno.h
#include sys/socket.h
/* well, not what you'd think, but it's a start! */
int get_first_x_display()
{
int sock, port;
struct sockaddr_in sin;
for (port = 6000;port 8000;port++)
{
/* Create a port to listen for the host. */
sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (sock 0)
{
perror(Can't connect socket);
exit(0);
}
/* Initialize socket address. */
memset(sin, 0, sizeof(sin));
sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
sin.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
sin.sin_port = htons(port);
/* Bind the socket to the address. */
if (bind(sock, (struct sockaddr *)sin, sizeof(sin)) = 0)
{
close(sock);
return port - 6000;
}
close(sock);
}
return -1;
}
void main()
{
printf(:%d\n, get_first_x_display());
}
No command line prompt for root
Hi, Something strange happened to my Debian system. I can login as an ordinary user and it works normally but when I login as root, it printed out the motd on the screen and said that root has been logged in. A 'who' from another user confirms it. It even told me no mail for root but I don't get the command line prompt # and so I can do nothing as root. Su'ing from an ordinary user meets with the same failure. A Ctrl-C will give back the login: prompt. I've used the rescue disk to boot up and checked the .bash_profile, .bashrc and /etc/passwd files and they are all OK. (I upgraded to slink, kernel 2.0.35 from hamm a few days ago.) Any ideas as to what happened and what is the remedy will be very much appreciated. ST
Re: Step 1 for Seyon and ISDN
Martin, Thank you for the adduser suggestion: indeed root can start seyon. I shall add myself to dialout. There is another problem, however. This is the message: Locating Modems... Error: Could not get linux serial info: Invalid argument. Warning: invalid default BPS value: 9600. Modem `/dev/ttyI0'' is Available. Error: /OFV/ Could not open the file Startup'. Notice: Tried the default directory ~/.seyon'. Notice: Tried the current directory. The message about the directory ~/.seyon and the startup files is obvious: I'll fix this when running seyon as a user. The warning about the BPS value could be a consequence of the error about linux serial info (whatever it is): when I try to select another BPS, in fact, the error about the serial info comes up again. Any idea? Thank you, Remo ___ | Dr. Remo |__ _ Debian User | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Badii | / /(_)_ __ _ ___ __ | CH-5232 Villigen| | Nonlinear | / / | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | Switzerland | | Dynamics | / /__| | | | | |_| | | | | Stochastic | \/_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ | badii at psi.ch | | Processes || www1.psi.ch/~badii | |||_|
Re: Mail (pop3) IP Masquerasing..
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Michael! On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: I have had IP Masquerading running perfectly for the last 8-9 Months, but My friend got to his inevitable reformat of his Windows 98 Hard Drive, and he carefully asked me if I could install Linux for him... Fine by me, I could then make use of his 56k modem via IP Masquerading. Everything is installed and working well, but there is one problem. When I try to download my mail from my pop account at our ISP (We have our own accounts at the same ISP), fetchmail -v gets to retrieving message 1, and then all hell slows to a halt. It takes forever for the mail message to be downloaded. are you using diald? (dial on demand) Ulisses - - Computers are useless. They can only give answers.Pablo Picasso -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key avaliable at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNi2khQ/N+5+NQ63pAQHcgQL/Yb5NwRGuOmgkAcWjsEtre2/q0PwzqINA p3n9G+Wvg+aTOvO+fya+XtWx3/io+S2b4NQ/xrgh5A96J0i08XKKwDWf5WhW54Uy tP/L5gzFL6wIS0+EfvVePGiw7g3kqlRR =NSdY -END PGP SIGNATURE-
floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory
Hi! While using mtools I get the following error: floppy0: Unable to allocate DMA memory Can't open /dev/fd0: Device not configured Cannot initialize 'A:' And whilst using mpg123 I get this one: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer Can't open /dev/dsp! And free tells me: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 95504 93484 2020 52712 26976 43312 -/+ buffers/cache: 23196 72308 Swap: 102276540 101736 I'm using Linux 2.0.35. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_) http://casal.upc.es/~pere/
Re: No command line prompt for root
Something strange happened to my Debian system. I can login as an ordinary user and it works normally but when I login as root, it printed out the motd on the screen and said that root has been logged in. A 'who' from another user confirms it. It even told me no mail for root but I don't get the command line prompt # and so I can do nothing as root. Su'ing from an ordinary user meets with the same failure. A Ctrl-C will give back the login: prompt. I've used the rescue disk to boot up and checked the .bash_profile, .bashrc and /etc/passwd files and they are all OK. (I upgraded to slink, kernel 2.0.35 from hamm a few days ago.) Your version of sysklogd is? if it is 1.3-29 then you have the bugged up version. download the latest sysklogd (it's been fixed to 1.3-30) from your local mirror then boot single and install it :) It does sound like this is the problem, and this error has been frequently raised in #debian and on the dbian-user mailing lists :) Nikolai
Re: Searching in dselect
On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 08:33:36AM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, A. M. Varon wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Chris Leishman wrote: I was wondering if there is a way to search for a particular type of package in dselect (not based on it's name, but on what it does)? ie. Search the description fields. This would be really useful when I'm trying to see if there is a debian package of something (this time it was something to do haskell with - hugs as it turned out). That's exactly what I also wanted... the closest thing which can be mount sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk /mnt grep whatever /mnt/public/pub/unix/Linux/debian/dists/hamm/main/Packages | less This will pick up descriptions as well as package names. (you probably should check contrib and non-free as well) You could just grep /var/lib/dpkg/wherever_the_package_is but this is not what I was looking for. Sure I know how to do this, but many users would find this confusing to say the least. Chris
Apache: TransferLog and VirtualHosts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all Apache complains me about including TransferLog options inside a VirtualHost directive with the following message Syntax error on line 17 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Invalid command 'TransferLog', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration Server wide _TransferLog works ok_, I also tried it by disabling server wide TransferLog... the same error message is shown... Virtual hosts works ok... one curious thing is that apache -h doesn't show the TransferLog directive ??? This very extrange, also mod_log_common (wich provide the TransferLog directive) is not compiled/loaded and even doesn't exist in the apache module directory why TransferLog works when is used server-wide? Compiled-in modules: http_core.c mod_so.c Is this a bug in the .deb package? Any comment/suggestion will be greatly appreciated, regards, Ulisses - - Computers are useless. They can only give answers.Pablo Picasso -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key avaliable at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNi2uLQ/N+5+NQ63pAQED7AL+KE19zCMRuJAWB0cJCLDCs9AvsuJa1Npk uqv17uFAd/XkXMvJ1o9ApLjHyNdkkItZ6AlFdWia3PHcMUr1ar+65SuYKOwjRk5L DuWYjK+kn1FsxIL9K0GzOPUvtMvV9eyv =R5MH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Mail (pop3) IP Masquerasing..
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: -BEGIN PGP DECRYPTED MESSAGE- Hi Michael! On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: I have had IP Masquerading running perfectly for the last 8-9 Months, but My friend got to his inevitable reformat of his Windows 98 Hard Drive, and he carefully asked me if I could install Linux for him... Fine by me, I could then make use of his 56k modem via IP Masquerading. Everything is installed and working well, but there is one problem. When I try to download my mail from my pop account at our ISP (We have our own accounts at the same ISP), fetchmail -v gets to retrieving message 1, and then all hell slows to a halt. It takes forever for the mail message to be downloaded. are you using diald? (dial on demand) Nope, But I found the problem, about 3 minutes ago.. The initialisation strings for his modem were all f*ed up, and 56k was not being used... subsequently, netscape is downloading faster now! Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - WinErr: 007 System price error - Inadequate money spent on hardware - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: kdm window manager selection...
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Does anyone know how I can get the window-manager selection combo box on the kdm screen functioning? It does allow me to choose window managers... only the selection has no effect on which one shows up. if I didn't have startkde in my .xsession, it'd default to fvwm2... Not fun. kdm passes the window manager selection to .xsession as a parameter. (I think) My $0.02 Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Bother! said Pooh, as the Klingons opened fire. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Debian Hamm Installation Questions
I'm a non-unix person installing Debian on a PC (there will only be one user) for the first time, and have a collection of installation related questions. Perhaps someone here can help. I've already run through the entire installation process once, but during the process I had to make arbitrary decisions based on total ignorance. I'm sure things didn't turn out the way I wanted them. My approach here is to re-install (many times if necessary) until I understand the whole process. The questions: 1. My bios (Award 4.51pg if I'm reading the version info right) supports LBA. The motherboard (Tyan Trinity AT) and hd (Quantum 3.2G) manuals seem to indicate that this will allow the system to access partitions larger than 1024 cylinders at boot time. Does this sound correct? If so, then shouldn't I be able to use a bootable partition of greater than 1024 cyls? I was thinking in terms of having one swap partition and one linux partition for everything else. Alternatively, if I should use a 1024 cylinder bootable partition in spite of this, then how big should I make it? Which elements of Debian, exactly, should I put in it? How do I tell the install program which partition to put each part of the package into? Remember that I'm a non-unix person. I cannot make sense of answers like put /dev/xxx/yyy/ in the boot partition without a lot of work. Not unless the install package is, at some point, going to ask me something like choose from the following partitions which one you want me to put /dev/xxx/yyy/ into so that I can follow such instructions blindly. Then it seems that the kernal will have to be told where each bit of the system is, although I assume that the install package does this bit of configuration automatically as stuff is installed in various partitions. 2. When it comes time to install device drivers I hit problems. First, the system tells me that if I highlight any driver and press return I will see a page telling me about the driver and giving me the option to install or ignore it. I do not get a page of information. I get one line that, for the generic cd-rom driver tells me something like this is the generic cd-rom driver. This doesn't help much. Is there more information about the drivers that I should be able to access at this point and I just don't know how? Second, when I try to load the following two drivers: PS/2 mouse (psaux.o) and XT hard drive (xd.o) I get the following error message: Device or resource busy. So I can't seem to load them. Presumably I will need a driver for my hard drive if the OS is to be able to access it. How do I load these drivers? Third, when I try to install the drivers I get a screen asking me to give it whatever command line parameters I think should be provided to the drivers when they are activated. In order to answer this I need a description of what parameters are allowed for each driver, what they mean, etc... Where do I find all this info? 3. Dselect. Powerful program. Steep learning curve. Problem. I would like to use dselect to custom install packages. I activate the select option and get a list of packages to select from. No problems so far. Part of the list was of packages that were listed as no longer available. I want back to the main menu and used the update option to get a list of all of the packages avilable on the main Debian cd-rom (figured I'd hit the contrib cd-rom after I finished with the main one). The new list really didn't seem to be related at all to the old one. Weird, but I started selecting packages from the new list anyway. Got stuck. Managed to find my way back to the main menu. Determined to go back to where I got stuck I choose the select option again. This time I get a new list of packages entirely different from either of the previous two lists I'd seen. Conclusion: I'm missing something fundamental about dselect. I can't seem to get a consistent list of all of the packages that I have to choose from on the main cd-rom. 4. I decided to install the packages selected anyway, just to see what that part of the process is like. This bit took a long time, with many interruptions to ask me questions that I couldn't comprehend. Like What priority should I give this package?. The help seemed to indicate that this means something like You click on a gif file, and the highest priority package associated with files of type gif is the one that this will activate. But I suspect that this is not what the help means. And if it is then how do I select a priority when, being ignorant of the relative merits of the packages being loaded, I have no way to know what priorities I want? With luck solutions to these issues should be enough for me to make a second shot at a much better installation. For the record I have looked at the faqs and installation guides (printed out at least 400 pages of various Debian and Linux install info off the net before hand, 'cause I didn't think I'd be able to access
a couple of mutt questions
Okay, a couple of mutt questions:
Q1
the command
set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4l) %s
works fine, but
folder-hook debian set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%4l) %s
gives a no variable Z error or somesuch. I think this is probably because
mutt is trying to expand the %Z during the folder-hook command rather than the
set command. I've tried using quotes and backslashes, to no avail.
Q2 It'd be really nice if I could specify a
save-messages-to-this-file-by-default kind of a string. I have a lot of mail
to sort through and it's a bit tiresome deleting the default filename (the
first few letters of the sender's name) and typing in where I want it to go
for each and every message.
Q3. If I delete a whole bunch of messages and then find that somewhere within
that block there is one I need, I don't seem to have any option except to
undelete from the top to the one I need, then go back up and delete the rest.
Can I change this?
Other than that, I really like this mail-reader.
--
Andrew Tarr
We were so close to heaven --- Peter came out and gave us badges,
proclaiming us `The Nicest of the Damned'
~~~|
Lockup problem with Winfast S230 vga and XF86_SVGA (FAQ didn't help)
Hi all, I have a very weird problem with X. Everytime xdm tries to start X with the SVGA server, my keyboard and mouse freeze at the moment the login screen is being displayed. The frame is drawn, but there is nothing in it. CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE or CTRL-ALT-F1 don't work. The only thing I can do is reset. If I try to start X manualy with startx, I get the same problem. Everything (mouse, numlock key, etc) works until the console window frame is painted, and than it hangs. When I'm quick enough, I'm able to stop the server with CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE before it displays the console window. If I wait too long, everything hangs. I've tried to wait for 5 minutes or so, but nothing happens. The S3 server doesn't work at all. It gives me a black screen, and (again) everything hangs. I tried the nolinear and nomemory options, but that didn't change anything. The strange thing is that when I use the VGA16 server, everything works fine, but than I can't use the higher resolutions. Can someone give me some advice? Some facts : xbase version 3.3.2.3-1 xserver version 3.3.2.3-1 My graphics card is a Winfast S230 (S3 Vision864) with a S3 86C716 SDAC and 1024Kb memory My motherboard is a Soyo 6KB with a Pentium II 233 and 96 Mb ram Thanx, Marc.
Re: just shoot me
On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 04:40:02PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Personally, on production machines that you don't have access to easily enough (for me that is walking into the next room) I'd not even think of upgrading from a stable to a frozen. I'd just ride the stables out. There is one thing which should be possible: keeping a debian box at least secure against attacks. When a security problem is published, there must be a quick fix somewhere, and easily to download. It seems to me that stable is taken a bit too much like 'not changing' than 'not crashing' or 'not vulnerable'... I may be wrong and even paranoid, but I would feel more secure when using unstable when it is at least frozen. I did not do it, however, and with your sysklogd-problems i seem to be right. But, what is the policy with security holes? are they fixed immediately in stable, or will they come in an upgrade dir, like I saw with 'bo-upgrades'? I heard rumors that cd vendors are against every change in stable, which is understandable. Maybe it will get better with apt? Or can I feel secure by using stable? Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a couple of mutt questions
Q1
the command
set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4l) %s
works fine, but
folder-hook debian set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%4l) %s
gives a no variable Z error or somesuch. I think this is probably because
mutt is trying to expand the %Z during the folder-hook command rather than the
set command. I've tried using quotes and backslashes, to no avail.
My ~/.muttrc has the following, which seems to work fine (mutt-i
0.94.12i-0):
-
folder-hook debian-user set index_format=\%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15a (%4l) %s\
-
'Fraid I don't know the answer to the other 2.
Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
Background: I have my PPP connection to my ISP set up, pretty much out of the box. In /etc/ppp/ip-up.d, I have some scripts, one to send queued mail, one to get a newsfeed via slrnpull. I will probably add extra scripts later (mirror my homepages, download new packages, cache web pages, whatever...) My ISP also sends my Email via SMTP while I'm online. I can tell when it's finished by fingering the post machine, and checking if it has any messages left for me. What I'd like to do is to write a script which starts the PPP connection, then waits for all the ip-up.d scripts to run, and for my mail to finish arriving, and then drops the connection with poff (actually, I'd like it to ask me whether it was OK to go offline, and allow me to override, but that's not too hard). So, my question - can I do this? My guess is that I somehow need to loop checking on the status of the various processes (probably by parsing ps aux output) until everything has completed. But that may be messy, and it almost certainly needs significant admin when I add new ip-up scripts. I thought about using pstree or something, to look for children of the pon script - does that work? Any pointers? Thanks, Paul Moore. PS Is it possible for a script to tell if it's running under X? Ideally, I'd like to query the user via a dialog box if in X, but use a normal stdin read otherwise...
RE: Unidentified subject!
Is your current directory on a NFS filesystem when you do su? Are you having NFS problems at the same time? I've seen this problem in these circumstances as the su tries to get the current directory but can't as the remote server is down/unreachable. Hope this helps. Rgds, Andy Chittenden Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax:+44 1753 661011 WAVE Development, Madge Networks Ltd Wexham Springs, Framewood Road, Wexham, Slough SL3 6PJ, England -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 October 1998 20:52 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: recipient.list.not.shown Subject: Unidentified subject! Hi everyone! All of a sudden my root account seems to be quite broken. When I su to root and type in the password and hit enter, it just stops and doesn't do anything. I have to press Ctrl+C. If I try to login as root in another VC, it gets -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-Oct-98 Time: 19:40:34 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: No command line prompt for root
Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote: Your version of sysklogd is? if it is 1.3-29 then you have the bugged up version. [snipped] That indeed is the case. Thanks. May be that's where the fun is -- you never know what interesting things will come up. And you always got somebody willing to help. ST
Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
Hello: Wouldn't it just be cleaner to use dial on demand (diald) which would automatically bring up and/or turn down the link based on idle time. Peter -Original Message- From: Moore, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Debian Users' debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, October 21, 1998 6:41 AM Subject: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d Background: I have my PPP connection to my ISP set up, pretty much out of the box. In /etc/ppp/ip-up.d, I have some scripts, one to send queued mail, one to get a newsfeed via slrnpull. I will probably add extra scripts later (mirror my homepages, download new packages, cache web pages, whatever...) My ISP also sends my Email via SMTP while I'm online. I can tell when it's finished by fingering the post machine, and checking if it has any messages left for me. What I'd like to do is to write a script which starts the PPP connection, then waits for all the ip-up.d scripts to run, and for my mail to finish arriving, and then drops the connection with poff (actually, I'd like it to ask me whether it was OK to go offline, and allow me to override, but that's not too hard). So, my question - can I do this? My guess is that I somehow need to loop checking on the status of the various processes (probably by parsing ps aux output) until everything has completed. But that may be messy, and it almost certainly needs significant admin when I add new ip-up scripts. I thought about using pstree or something, to look for children of the pon script - does that work? Any pointers? Thanks, Paul Moore. PS Is it possible for a script to tell if it's running under X? Ideally, I'd like to query the user via a dialog box if in X, but use a normal stdin read otherwise... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Iannarelli;Peter FN:Peter Iannarelli ORG:GenX Internet Laboratories TITLE:Engineer TEL;WORK;VOICE:1+ 416-929-1885 TEL;WORK;FAX:1+416-929-1056 ADR;WORK:;Madison;20 Madison Ave.;Toronto;Ontario;;Canada LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Madison=0D=0A20 Madison Ave.=0D=0AToronto, Ontario=0D=0ACanada URL: URL:http://www.genxl.com EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:19981021T105212Z END:VCARD
Installation stops during system check
Hello everybody, This is the first time installing Debian Linux. After booting the Kernel, the installation stops during the system check. Following messages appear: VFS: Diskqoutes version dqout_5.6.0 initialized Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Starting kswapd v1.4.2.2 Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 tpqic02 : Runtime config, $Revision : 0.4.1.5 $, $Date : 1994/10/29 02:46:13 $ tpqic02 : DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x277800 (0x2777d8) Ramdisk driver initialized: 16 ramdisks of 4096K size loop : registered device at major 7 ide : i82371 PII X (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0 : BM-DMA at 0xf000 - 0xf007 ide1 : BM-DMA at 0xf008 - 0xf00f hda : st31720A, 1626MB w/0Kb Cache, chs=826/64/63 hdc : CD-ROM CDU311, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0 - 0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170 - 0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 Floppy drive(s) : fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 360K PC md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 _ any idea? TIA Stefan Mller Kiel, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
From: Peter Iannarelli[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello: Wouldn't it just be cleaner to use dial on demand (diald) which would automatically bring up and/or turn down the link based on idle time. Sorry, I should have said this. Diald won't work for two main reasons. First, my ISP passes mail to me when I'm online (not via POP3 - I can use POP3, but it's not suitable for a number of complex reasons...). So I have to go online anyway to grab mail. Second, I want to work in a batch-online mode, where I get everything in one big slug (which I can run, for example, while I have my tea :-) and then scan it all offline. Hope this explains better, Paul.
Re: Installation stops during system check
Hi, looks like the kernel is trying to found SCSI devices. Try again. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 12:49:54PM +0200, Stefan Möller wrote: Hello everybody, This is the first time installing Debian Linux. After booting the Kernel, the installation stops during the system check. Following messages appear: VFS: Diskqoutes version dqout_5.6.0 initialized Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Starting kswapd v1.4.2.2 Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 tpqic02 : Runtime config, $Revision : 0.4.1.5 $, $Date : 1994/10/29 02:46:13 $ tpqic02 : DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x277800 (0x2777d8) Ramdisk driver initialized: 16 ramdisks of 4096K size loop : registered device at major 7 ide : i82371 PII X (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0 : BM-DMA at 0xf000 - 0xf007 ide1 : BM-DMA at 0xf008 - 0xf00f hda : st31720A, 1626MB w/0Kb Cache, chs=826/64/63 hdc : CD-ROM CDU311, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0 - 0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170 - 0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 Floppy drive(s) : fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 360K PC md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 _ any idea? TIA Stefan Möller Kiel, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Searching in dselect
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- use the package search page at www.debian.org /Frock On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Chris Leishman wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if there is a way to search for a particular type of package in dselect (not based on it's name, but on what it does)? ie. Search the description fields. This would be really useful when I'm trying to see if there is a debian package of something (this time it was something to do haskell with - hugs as it turned out). Thanks, Chris -- -- REALITY.SYS corrupted: Reboot universe? (Y/N/Q) Debian GNU/Linux -- Reply with subject 'request key' for PGP public key. KeyID 0xA9E087D5 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBNi1Eb3W12WXN0ic5AQF/bQP+Ox+zGeU0cpTT33/0XIPlGI3iIQCh0m7z J2Q6A7V4p+nHB4PJ+/RipNDgV8yXVHfLtXA+27tbfocY0PJ+BfpZoeQ25LR0gSmz +bfCDeWInmpJxUIINUJDx1tiWfitLsfy/LdvYAWNXkCa+AhSZ6YAQDTr1jRsd4m5 qhK4nOWy/SE= =csJA -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: a couple of mutt questions
On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 11:15:36PM +1300, Andrew wrote: Q3. If I delete a whole bunch of messages and then find that somewhere within that block there is one I need, I don't seem to have any option except to undelete from the top to the one I need, then go back up and delete the rest. Can I change this? just enter the message number and enter. this will take you to that message and you can then undelete it. -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://granroth.ml.org + The answer is NO+ --
RE: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
From: Mitchell, James T1[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I use demon, who also use SMTP to send email while online. My 'solution' is based on the fact that I use diald to manage connections. Actually, I use demon, too :-) [Are there any good web pahes about how to set up Linux with demon?] diald will bringup or drop a connection based on whether there is any traffic that is being sent/received. So all I do is send a SIGHUP signal to diald (which is the please go online signal) and if there is no email waiting, diald will drop the line in about 30 seconds. If there is email, demon sends it to me, causing traffic, causing diald to keep the link up until there is no traffic left. I didn't know about SIGHUP - that makes diald definitely more attractive. But I still want to do a big batch download while I'm having tea - if I add diald to my setup, and then change from doing pon to kill -HUP diald, will all the ip-up.d scripts run (I assume that once they start, they will generate traffic so that the line stays up until they finish). This looks like a good answer - thanks. Paul. PS Is there a way to make slrn *default* to --spool mode? I'm forever typing just slrn, which fails because news.demon.co.uk isn't available. With diald, I'd be dialing up every time ... :-) I guess an alias does it...
Re: emacs-20.3
Sorry to bother you with this ... Is there a way to stop emacs from wraping the text on the screen so that extra long lines do not wrap to the next line (leaving the bulk of the line unfilled ) Regards -- Jonathan Lawson Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'They came forth from unholy darknesses ... and were driven back by the rage of Angels'
Re: dselect taking a _looong_ time
Erik Forsberg wrote: When I use dselect, with the debian distribution mounted from a local nfs mirror, it really takes quite a horrible time telling me it's skipping deselected packages. I'm not so interested ! :) I think I've read somewhere there is a way to get dselect to just install the packages I've asked for, and quit. Without taking half a year listing all availiable packages. Am I wrong ? Where do I RTFM ? I don't know where you may have read it, but I got tired of watching the endless stream of messages too. So I now have all my computers use ftp. Here are my general notes on the subject; 1. mount the cd as /cdrom, i.e. mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom 2. set dslect to use ftp 3. use passive mode 4. username is some name other than root 5. password for that user 6. debian directory is /cdrom 7. ftp proxy is no 8. distributions is stable ( thats all thats on my cd ) I think thats all I did to get it to work. I also do that on other machines instead of NFS or switching cd's or anything. Try it, I'll bet you like it. I do :) Can't seem to get apt to work the same way though! Patrick
Wishlist for dselect (was Re: Searching in dselect)
On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 04:18:21AM +0200, Frock wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if there is a way to search for a particular type of package in dselect (not based on it's name, but on what it does)? ie. Search the description fields. This would be really useful when I'm trying to see if there is a debian package of something (this time it was something to do haskell with - hugs as it turned out). Hi all. In conclusion, there are a two ways of doing this, as follows: grep the package files (I knew this one, but it's not the most user friendly approach) or use the package finder on the debian web page. However both these approaches have disadvantages (I'll leave it to the reader to identify these). Perhaps a description search would be a nice feature to add to dselect/apt. Now if someone will tell me how to file a wish list bug... Chris pgpBIAmBiyUUr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: a couple of mutt questions
In answer to your questions:
I don't know the answer to (1) (but I believe that has been answered)
To solve (2) I define a macro, such as the following:
bind ,s save-message
macro index s ,s=
macro pager s ,s=
To solve (3) I define the following:
bind pager up previous-line
bind pager down next-line
If you like I can send you my .muttrc file (I have mine set up so that it
was easiest for me to change from pine - plus a few other enhancements).
Anyway, hope that helps.
Chris
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From: Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: a couple of mutt questions
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Okay, a couple of mutt questions:
Q1
the command
set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4l) %s
works fine, but
folder-hook debian set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%4l) %s
gives a no variable Z error or somesuch. I think this is probably because
mutt is trying to expand the %Z during the folder-hook command rather than the
set command. I've tried using quotes and backslashes, to no avail.
Q2 It'd be really nice if I could specify a
save-messages-to-this-file-by-default kind of a string. I have a lot of mail
to sort through and it's a bit tiresome deleting the default filename (the
first few letters of the sender's name) and typing in where I want it to go
for each and every message.
Q3. If I delete a whole bunch of messages and then find that somewhere within
that block there is one I need, I don't seem to have any option except to
undelete from the top to the one I need, then go back up and delete the rest.
Can I change this?
Other than that, I really like this mail-reader.
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Re: exim (was smail) problem
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write:
Problem is that exim doesn't know that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is user here. Had to set that up for fetchmail, and it
works great. But when I send mail, my ISP thinks I'm unauthorized
(obviously, I am) and kicks my mail back. How do I get exim to rewrite my
header from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can I just get exim to read
Let me check I've understood the problem correctly; your ISP sends you
email at the address [EMAIL PROTECTED], and only accepts email from the
user [EMAIL PROTECTED], but you login as user ?
If so, try this at the bottom of your exim.conf:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ${if match {$header_from:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
PROTECTED] fail } EFf
This is off the top of my head, but should be in the right direction.
Be sure to check out www.exim.org .
Paul Slootman
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Netscape locales broken...
Has anybody found a workaround for those netscape bus errors yet ? After upgrading to slink netscape bails out like this (both the new modular netscape packages and netscape4): communicator-smotif.real: locale `C' not supported. Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set correctly? /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 64: 10529 Bus error LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 $netscape $@ Maybe it's due to the slink libc6 ? Downgrading locales back won't help either. Regards, /(__ __|\ Lars Steinke, Research Student @ (\/ __)_www.fmf.uni-freiburg.de, Germany ) (_ / for PGP PKey and WWW-Page finger /___/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Hamm Installation Questions
The questions: 1. My bios (Award 4.51pg if I'm reading the version info right) supports LBA. The motherboard (Tyan Trinity AT) and hd (Quantum 3.2G) manuals seem to indicate that this will allow the system to access partitions larger than 1024 cylinders at boot time. Does this sound correct? If so, then shouldn't I be able to use a bootable partition of greater than 1024 cyls? Older computers could not boot from partitions that were larger than 1024 cylinders. Atleast the boot loader and software being loaded had to reside within the first 1024 cylinders of a partition. LILO is loaded by the bios and resides in the MBR of the disk, or the boot sector of the bootable partition. Assuming that your linux partition STARTS within the first 1024 cylinders you can make the partition ANY size. Some people will make two partitions (p1 = swap, p2 = linux /), others might make a separate partition for /boot, keeping it small to overcome the 1024 limit. You bios allows LBA so you should have no problems at all with partition size. Make a swap partition as partition #1, size of 16-128MB depending on your ram size (say twice as much swap as ram). Make partition #2 the rest of the disk. This will work without head scratching (My computer has partition #1 for windows 95, #2 for linux swap, #3 for linux /, as I needed dual boot. Install windows first, but only partion the first partition using windows fdisk leaving the lions share of the disk for linux. My 5.4GB drive has a 1g windows partition, 128M swap, and the rest is linux /. YMMV) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: No command line prompt for root
Any ideas as to what happened and what is the remedy will be very much appreciated. This is a very common problem, and solution has been posted many times. Sysklogd -29 is broken. reboot in single user mode chmod -x /etc/init.d/sysklogd reboot install a new sysklogd (-30) or the hamm version make it executable start it voila HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Dell Optiplex GXa ethernet problem
Has anybody installed Debian on a Dell Optiplex Gxa? I seem to be having some problems finding the type of built in ethernet chip set it is using. Thanks Brian
truncating long lones in Emacs (was emacs-20.3)
Is there a way to stop emacs from wraping the text on the screen so that extra long lines do not wrap to the next line To set this generally for all future buffers, pu this in ~/.emacs (setq default-truncate-lines t) For this buffer only, set the variable truncate-lines: M-x set-variable [RET] truncate-lines [RET] t Or stick this defun in your ~/.emacs and perhaps bind it to a key: (defun toggle-truncate () set or unset line truncation (interactive) (if truncate-lines (setq truncate-lines nil) (setq truncate-lines t))) -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/
missing packages
Hi! I'm using apt to upgrade my debian slink systems. But all to often in hapens that files are missing on the mirrors ftp.??.debian.org. Is this something we just have to live with, or should this be reported to someone? This makes installing and upgrading debian not so much fun. I know slink is not perfect yet, but at least the packages listed in the 'Packages' files shoud be there (in my humble opinion). feri.
help
help
xbase upgrade
I have been happily using apt-get to maintain a laptop at the `unstable' distributon for a few weeks with no real problems. However I am having trouble with updates of xbase and xlib6. It looks as though `getreal' is really missing (I can find no mention of it anywhere), or maybe there is an error in a script. Any suggestions? Here is a typical transcript (mostly dpkg I guess). Richard Melrose *** The following extra packages will be installed: xlib6 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 2 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0b/907k of archives. After unpacking 5252k will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 44195 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xbase 3.3.2.3a-1 (using xbase_3.3.2.3a-3.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: getreal: command not found dpkg: error processing xbase_3.3.2.3a-3.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127 Preparing to replace xlib6 3.3.2.3a-1 (using xlib6_3.3.2.3a-3.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: getreal: command not found dpkg: error processing xlib6_3.3.2.3a-3.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: xbase_3.3.2.3a-3.deb xlib6_3.3.2.3a-3.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code
Re: Thanks! Re: Removing ^M in files--in bulk?
On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 09:52:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! Thanks for the quick replies, people. Now I get to play with several approaches. Are there any good books (starting at a basic level working up) for things like this? Perl seems to be a hot thing for Linux (as well as shell programming/scripting). While it will take me a while to get up the curve, it would be nice to have so good refernces around. Well... Any GOOD book on Unix in general will be a great help in running a linux system. Just remember that some of the commands may be slightly differnt (ie take what you read with a grain of salt and if it doesn't work as expected check man command_name against th ebook ;) ) There are a few Linux books out there now... Learn Linux in 24 Hours comes to mind (its broken up into 24 lessons...I got the UNIX version of the same book for my father a while back (before the Linux version existed). There is a book on debian..and i hear it is updated for 2.0 (dunno if its releaced yet and I havn't read either one). RedHat published a book with ALL of the man pages they could get in one big paperback volume. There are of course differences between Debian and RedHat too but...it can be helpfull at 3 am when you NEED paper docs cuz your eyes are about to burst. (or the system is royally AFU ;) ) In general the best documentation I have found is probably already on your system...check out /usr/doc/HOWTO - great stuff in there! Perl is great...but I wouldn't recommend it as a first language ;) It isgreat but...a bit twisted. It makes a nice tool to write fast an efficient programs...but hardly good for learning fundamentals ;) even a good perl program tends to look as much like line noise as anything else. of course the best way to learn is to have no fear of screwing it up :) remember that (aside from loosing data) the worst that can happen from screwing the entire system up is that you get REALLY good at re-installing it :) (well ok..it ruins your uptime too...but so do power outages) -Steve -- /* -- Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ E-mail Bumper Stickers: A FREE America or a Drug-Free America: You can't have both! honk if you Love Linux
Re: Thanks! Re: Removing ^M in files--in bulk?
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| Are there any good books (starting at a basic level working up) for things
| like this? Perl seems to be a hot thing for Linux (as well as shell
| programming/scripting). While it will take me a while to get up the curve,
| it would be nice to have so good refernces around.
For a gentle introduction to Perl, try the Llama-book:
Learning Perl published by O'Reilly.
For shell (bash) programming:
Learning the bash shell published by O'Reilly.
PS: This is not an advertising campaign for O'Reilly, but their books
with animals on the cover are generally excellent.
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Re: kdm window manager selection...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Does anyone know how I can get the window-manager selection combo box on the kdm screen functioning? It does allow me to choose window managers... only the selection has no effect on which one shows up. if I didn't have startkde in my .xsession, it'd default to fvwm2... Not fun. KDM will pass the selection to the Xsession script as a parameter. You need to modify the script to start a specific window manager based on what this parameter is. I can email you my global Xsession file, if you would like to see an example. noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNi3ufIdCcpBjGWoFAQGoegQApn9XXNE136WQA3B7WpATwVak4xq+RJrH HuLduvliUtmPdBaNT4qtZ/gnBTEqUh4L4/hO67HrDVGib4FCCNdabELX5+fYfkMj t8STHwEJuzrSOTZl7evyXz9cYf0jOhP9K27KxN2PehxisqGkDGrjGpY0+J9gNr3f 7aw9i7m0v6Q= =zcx2 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Debian Hamm Installation Questions
4. I decided to install the packages selected anyway, just to see what that part of the process is like. This bit took a long time, with many interruptions to ask me questions that I couldn't comprehend. Like What priority should I give this package?. The help seemed to indicate that this means something like You click on a gif file, and the highest priority package associated with files of type gif is the one that this will activate. But I suspect that this is not what the help means. And if it is then how do I select a priority when, being ignorant of the relative merits of the packages being loaded, I have no way to know what priorities I want? Generally, these 'priority' sections provide a default, which is probably OK to select, unless you have a good reason for ignoring the default. Select the default just by pressing return. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
**IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2
The last update of sendmail switched from libdb to libdb2, as recommended by the sendmail group (and requested by a sparc user). Unfortunately, this change means that sendmail databases (alias, users, etc.) *must* be rebuilt. I'll update the package to provide this warning - but those who have already synched to Slink should do this ASAP! Sorry for the confusion, -- Rick Nelson
Re: Wishlist for dselect (was Re: Searching in dselect)
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Chris Leishman wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 1998 at 04:18:21AM +0200, Frock wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if there is a way to search for a particular type of package in dselect (not based on it's name, but on what it does)? ie. Search the description fields. This would be really useful when I'm trying to see if there is a debian package of something (this time it was something to do haskell with - hugs as it turned out). Hi all. In conclusion, there are a two ways of doing this, as follows: grep the package files (I knew this one, but it's not the most user friendly approach) or use the package finder on the debian web page. However both these approaches have disadvantages (I'll leave it to the reader to identify these). Perhaps a description search would be a nice feature to add to dselect/apt. Now if someone will tell me how to file a wish list bug... download a the source package... insert code to search the description field. Post it to the maintainers ;) Alteratively, The first line of the body of the bug report should be Severity: Wishlist Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
