Empaquetado de los fuentes del kernel.
Hola a la lista. He estado visitando la lista de bugs, y se menciona alli que en lo sucesivo, que el kernel-source se entregara en tar ball, esto parece ser que es politica de Debian, vienen referencias a documentos, pero todavia no los he leido. Segun esto, despues de instalar kernel-source, habria que desempaquetar a mano, y crear tambien el link de /usr/src/linux a mano. Sin embargo, yo creo que la forma de instalar anterior era correcta, puesto que hay algunos paquetes que en su compilacion, dependen de algunos ficheros del arbol de kernel-source (linux/version.h...), creo que alguno de estos paquetes son el procps y el modutils y alguno mas. Saludos. Angel Vicente Perez Dpto. Informatica KNIPPING ESPAÑA S.A. Tfno. +34-1-6070-311 Fax +34-1-6070-331 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Empaquetado de los fuentes del kernel.
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: He estado visitando la lista de bugs, y se menciona alli que en lo sucesivo, que el kernel-source se entregara en tar ball, esto parece ser que es politica de Debian, vienen referencias a documentos, pero todavia no los he leido. Segun esto, despues de instalar kernel-source, habria que desempaquetar a mano, y crear tambien el link de /usr/src/linux a mano. Sin embargo, yo creo que la forma de instalar anterior era correcta, puesto que hay algunos paquetes que en su compilacion, dependen de algunos ficheros del arbol de kernel-source (linux/version.h...), creo que alguno de estos paquetes son el procps y el modutils y alguno mas. * Si al desempaquetar el .deb obtienes las fuentes desempaquetadas, cuando quieres borrar el paquete es un lío, pues en cada directorio habrá ficheros objeto (*.o). Ahora que el .deb contiene el código fuente empaquetado, desinstalar el paquete es mucho más fácil. * Antes había razones para tener el código fuente del núcleo desempaquetado, y es que (en los viejos tiempos), podían ser objetivo de enlaces simbólicos desde /usr/include/asm o /usr/include/linux. Como ahora lo que se lleva es que el paquete libc6-dev contenga directorios de verdad y no enlaces, eso ya no hace falta. * La mayoría de los paquetes que necesitan acceder a una versión en concreto del código fuente son módulos del núcleo de algún tipo, y ahora hay un mecanismo para que los módulos del núcleo se puedan compilar cada vez que se compila un nuevo núcleo, utilizando kernel-package y make-kpkg. Bueno, que conste que esto no me lo he inventado yo, he estado traduciendo casi literalmente un mensaje de Manoj de ayer en debian-devel :-). Si de verdad te interesan estas cosas, harías bien en suscribirte a debian-devel (diversión garantizada). -- 2aa6a5ea997f324724e53d1bc2673f31 (a truly random sig)
Diccionario de Ingles
Hola a todos: Hace bastante tiempo que busco un diccionario de inglés para Linux (en windows hace tiempo que lo tengo pero no lo utilizo porque mi plataforma de trabajo es casi siempre Linux) Freeware y no visto nada (hay uno pero comercial, aunque por problemas con librerias aun no he podido ejecutar la demo). ¿Alguien ha visto o sabe de alguno? Saludos -- Ramiro Alba Laboratori de Termotecnia i Energetica Departament de Maquines i Motors Termics ETS d'Enginyers Industrials de Terrassa C/Colom 11 Tf: 34 - 93 739 82 43 Fax: 34 - 93 739 81 01 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - 2.0 con SLINK?
Hola a todos: ¿Alguien me puede confirmar/desmentir si en la version 2.1 de debian (slink) está implementado FHS - 2.0 ? Saludos -- Ramiro Alba Laboratori de Termotecnia i Energetica Departament de Maquines i Motors Termics ETS d'Enginyers Industrials de Terrassa C/Colom 11 Tf: 34 - 93 739 82 43 Fax: 34 - 93 739 81 01 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Diccionario de Ingles
El Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 02:27:34PM +0100, Ramiro Alba Queipo escribió: Hola a todos: Hace bastante tiempo que busco un diccionario de inglés para Linux (en windows hace tiempo que lo tengo pero no lo utilizo porque mi plataforma de trabajo es casi siempre Linux) Freeware y no visto nada (hay uno pero comercial, aunque por problemas con librerias aun no he podido ejecutar la demo). ¿Alguien ha visto o sabe de alguno? En slink tienes el dict y el wordnet. El dict es un programa para buscar en diccionarios, tienes un cliente y un servidor. Si quieres el servidor en tu máquina y un diccionario completo de inglés tendrás que bajarte el webster de 1913 directamente, ya que de momento no está como paquete debian por problemas de copiright. El wordnet es un diccionario de sinónimos bastante potente. Yo tengo los dos instalados en casa y van de cine, incluso me he hecho un pequeño script en php3 y los consulto a través del servidor Web. Saludos, -- = | Sergio Talens-Oliag, Systems Network Administrator.| | | | Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA) | | Carretera Moncada - Naquera, Km. 4,5 Telf: +34 6 139 10 00 | | Apartado Oficial, 46113 Moncada (Valencia) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | SPAINhttp://www.ivia.es/~sto | =
RE: Empaquetado de los fuentes del kernel.
* Si al desempaquetar el .deb obtienes las fuentes desempaquetadas, cuando quieres borrar el paquete es un lío, pues en cada directorio habrá ficheros objeto (*.o). Ahora que el .deb contiene el código fuente empaquetado, desinstalar el paquete es mucho más fácil. Pero si antes se hace make mrproper ¿no quedaria limpio? * La mayoría de los paquetes que necesitan acceder a una versión en concreto del código fuente son módulos del núcleo de algún tipo, y ahora hay un mecanismo para que los módulos del núcleo se puedan compilar cada vez que se compila un nuevo núcleo, utilizando kernel-package y make-kpkg. Esto no lo entiendo, y es que no he usado nunca el make-kpkg: si quiero hacer una compilacion del nucleo, ¿no es necesario desempaquetar el tar ball?, ¿se encargaria el make-kpkg? Saludos Angel Vicente Perez Dpto. Informatica KNIPPING ESPAÑA S.A. Tfno. +34-1-6070-311 Fax +34-1-6070-331 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scripts...
Bueno, de nada, pero ahora te cuento...
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 12:09:24AM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote:
Primero que nada gracias por la ayuda
La verdad es que no entiendo nada de perl, asique no se que hace el
script que me diste:
#!/usr/bin/perl
(1) while () {
(2)chomp;
(3)if (/Hoy\, \d* me he conectado/) { $conectado=$1 }
(4)if (/Hoy\, \d* me he desconectado) { $desconectado=$1 ;
$x=$desconectado-$conectado if $
desconectado $conectado;
}
}
print \n Tiempo total=$tiempo;
(1) while () significa que haga los pasos 2,3,4 hasta que pase que?
El es equivalente a STDIN y la construcción es una
simplificación de
while ([EMAIL PROTECTED]STDIN)
que quiere decir mientras haya algo que leer de la entrada
estándar
(2) chomp: supongo que esto hace que lea algo...
No, recorta la línea para que no tenga Ctrl-N al final. Sin
parámetros actua por la variable por defecto ($@ si no recuerdo mal)
(3) if (/Hoy\, \d* me he conectado/) { $conectado=$1 }
Esta parte me interesa...
si se cumple la condicion entre () se le asigna que valor a
$conectado? (que es $1??)
Si te fijas se trata de una expresión regular, por eso ciertos
caracteres (la coma, por ejemplo) va con una barra para quitarle el sentido
que tiene en estas. El \d* significa cualquier número decimal.
De hecho me he equivocado, debería ser (\d*) para que luego
$1 tome el valor de la primera coincidencia de este valor, es decir, $1
valdrá lo que todos los números que haya dentro de la frase...
mi archivo /var/log/internet.log se ve asi:
Hoy, 21 de Oct a las 08:09:19 PM, = connecion
Hoy, 21 de Oct a las 08:09:30 PM, = desconeccion
Entoces como quedaria el script?? if (Hoy\, \d* =
connecion) {$conectado=$1} ???
Umm... primero pon (\d*) en lugar de eso. Segundo, los - creo que
tienes que ponerlos con \-, aunque mira mejor la página de manula 'perlre'.
Tercero, yo he supuesto que ponías la fecha en formato númerico (contando
los segundos desde el 1 de enero de 1970) que se obtiene al hacer
'date +%s'. Si pones la fecha de 'date' entonces tienes luego que utilizar
las funciones que te da PERL para fechas (man perlfunc) para convertirla a
números y así poder restar diréctamente, que es lo que hago yo en el script.
Si te fijas lo que hago es muy simple, es sólo coger los pares
conexión/desconexión y acumular su diferencia en una variable que
será la que, al final, dirá cuanto tiempo has estado conectado.
Estoy ancioso por acer funcional todo esto... todavia no puedo...
^^^
hacer ¿no?
Gracias...
PS: ahh y lo mas importante.. como hago funcional el script ? perl
scritp ??
Dos opciones, lo haces ejecutable y pones directamente
'nombre_de_script' (la
primera línea que deberá ser #!/usr/bin/perl indica el interprete), o
lo haces con 'perl nombre_de_script'
Saludete y suerte
Javi
Re: Grabador HP 7200 puerto paralelo
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Ramiro Alba Queipo wrote: Estoy intentado instalar los drivers de paride para tener acceso a un grabador de puerto paralelo HP 7200 compilando el kernel 2.0.35 [...] [...] Si por el contrario lo incluyo en el kernel, al mirar la salida de dmesg veo las linas: pcd: pcd version 1.03s, major 46, nice 0 pcd0: Autoprobe failed pcd: No CDrom drive found pg: pg version 1.01s, major 97 pg0: Autoprobe failed pg: No ATAPI device detected Prueba a quitar el CONFIG_PARIDE_PCD y deja solamente el CONFIG_PARIDE_PG=y en el .config. [ Al menos eso es lo que tuve que hacer yo, pero no sé si será la única solución, lo que yo quería era que me funcionara como fuera... ] -- 26ddd1e218b567f9f42a97e764c31270 (a truly random sig)
Re: Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - 2.0 con SLINK?
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Ramiro Alba Queipo wrote: ¿Alguien me puede confirmar/desmentir si en la version 2.1 de debian (slink) está implementado FHS - 2.0 ? Te puedo confirmar que no, todavía seguimos con el FSSTND, pero vamos siendo cada vez más permisivos. Hay muchas cosas ya en /usr/share, que según el antiguo estándar FSSTND no deberían estar ahí, pero puesto que tarde o temprano pasaremos al FHS no es cuestión de cambiarlas a estas alturas. Algunos cambios se están haciendo ya, pero todavía no nos hemos puesto de acuerdo en la forma de cambiar lo gordo (páginas man, info, /usr/doc, etc.). La solución que tiene ahora mismo más aceptación es modificar algunos programas como man e info para que miren simultáneamente en directorios FSSTND y FHS (por ejemplo, en /usr/man y en /usr/share/man), para poder luego cambiar cada paquete individualmente cada uno a su aire, ya sin prisa. -- a6962c2e2b4a0af764f8b8a5e832f358 (a truly random sig)
Re: Diccionario de Ingles
En el número 33 de Linux Gazette salió recientemente un artículo sobre dict y word inspector. Puedes consultarlo por ejemplo en: http://quark.fe.up.pt/doc/lg/issue33/ayers1.html Jaime Villate http://quark.fe.up.pt
Re: Diccionario de Ingles
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 05:38:40PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: En el número 33 de Linux Gazette salió recientemente un artículo sobre dict y word inspector. Puedes consultarlo por ejemplo en: http://quark.fe.up.pt/doc/lg/issue33/ayers1.html Y naturalmente puedes bajar ambos de Slink. Marcelo
Perl en linux
Hola!: Tengo un interprete de Perl y puedo ejecutarlo sin problemas dentro de /usr/bin, pero si lo hago desde otro directorio, incluso añadiendo #! /usr/bin/perl, no me funciona. ¿Que pasa?. Como podeis ver no tengo mucha idea. Gracias. Un saludo. ..Luque..
wishlist Item ( autodial / bandwidth on demand)
Here is the thought. A linux box can be set to autodial a ppp connection. How about a linux box being able to dialup a primary ppp connection ( analog modem) and if another connection is initiated and the utilization of the primary ppp link is greater than some throughput it fires up a secondary ppp connection ( ISDN in my case) I am not sure if this can be accomplished with existing linux tools/utilities... and I am not sure if ISP cooperation is needed for something like this to work. It probably sounds like another flavor of multilink PPP which DOES need ISP cooperation , so it probably won't happen :) Any ideas/thoughts on the subject are welcome :) Dimitri P.
Re: installation problem
I have seen circumstances where cfdisk (used by the install program) would fail, but fdisk would succeed. Try going to the console and typing 'fdisk'. Mike On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 12:19:52PM -0800, Artin Nebel Rebekale wrote: while installing hamm to my thinkpad laptop i had this odd problem. I've already checked the linux/laptop resource pages and they had no solution for this. Basically i get to the screen to partition the drive, /dev/hda is the only drive i have (and therefore the only one available) but when i choose ok, it just takes me back to the menu. i've tried all the different rescue disks and this same thing happens. i switched to console 2 and was able to successfully mount the drive and look through it, so the drive does work. anyone have any ideas?
Re: SATAN
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Mike Holliday wrote: I'm having a slight problem installing Satan..when I go to the reconfig script..I'm not sure of the command I've used sh /my/satan/directory/reconfig.sh But it's not moving or showing that it is working. Forget satan. I managed to compile it... but a PITA. Use nessus (www.nessus.org) instead, much better. regards, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 == = == ==== == E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] == WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com
Re: lynx colours
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 05:06:03PM +, Dave Swegen wrote: Is there anyone out there who could enlighten me on the topic of colours in lynx? IMHO the default colours are dreadful (dark-blue on black, anyone?). I have rtfm, but to little avail. This is something that has been bugging me for ages, and I would like to sort it out once and for all. In lynx.cfg I changed blue to brightblue and red to brightred. That made it readable for me anyway. -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.bend-or.com/~mschmitz Don't blame me - I voted libertarian!http://www.lp.org/ Use Debian Linux - the free Gnu/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ --- If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption
Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?
On 27 Oct 1998, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Yikes! Yup :) I missed your original post. That's what I get for replying to you via someone else's reply and not reading the subject closely enough. Duh? Where on earth did you store this file? I could've sworn the ext2fs had a 2GB/file limit on it? Certainly all the file utilities do. It fat32 filesystem. has to do with the file pointers being 32-bit signed integers. Nothing that uses a libc call is going to be able to read beyond 2^31 bits (which is exactly 2GB) on a 80x86 based system, e.g. Pentium/PentiumII/386/486 based systems. I figured it would be something very much like that. Any chance of, say, changing a variable definition from 32 bit signed to 64 bit signed, and recompiling libc ? | You might think that it would sit there chewing on the file for a bit | before it got to some point beyond what it could deal with. Nope. Didn't | even start -- failed to even open the file up. No, compressed files have to be read entirely before being uncompressed. Or at least that's a requirement of most compression schemes. Don't recall the exact reason though. Something about storing the keys at the end of the file? Well, I think more than that, the assignment of the pointer to the file probably failed, before it even got to *try* to find the end of the file. | Any more ideas ? :) Only thing I can think of is getting access to a 64-bit machine, decompressing the file there, tarring the contents off to tape and then restoring them on your machine. Or at least putting them into sub-2GB chunks before taking them back. Hmm, not very likely, unfortunately. And even if I could get access to one, it would be quite a bear to transfer the files back forth You might have some luck under Windows, though I have a deep suspicion that you'll get the same results? That's what I'm guessing, but I still haven't gotten to try it. Made a brief attempt, but my hardware was not as cooperative as I'd hoped, so I'll be trying again later. Any chance I can split this thing into like, 2 pieces, and be able to access half of it ? ***PGP fingerprint = D5 EB F8 E7 64 55 CF 91 C2 4F E0 4D 18 B6 7C 27*** [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Chaos reigns.
Re: xf86setup_3.3.2.3a-6
Jeff Noxon wrote: I managed to get things running, but not with x86setup. I had to tweak a lot of stuff by hand and I had to keep going back to find yet another X package... Where can I find this warning message ? Also related: how do I know if a ftp site is good for upgrading from ? It happened for many times that the site I was trying to upgrade from to have a broken distribution (differences between the real files and the contents from Packages files). TIA, Ionutz
Re: /etc/host.deny and co
Linh Dang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you very much! Another question if you don't mind? Someone mentionned ipfwadm. What do you think about it, how does it compare to tcpwrapper? Does one has to recompile the kernel to use ipfwadm ? Yes, your kernel has to be compiled to support ipfwadm; no, I don't know whether or not the default Debian kernel is. The basic difference is where they operate. tcpwrappers operates at the socket level; it gets invoked after a network connection has been made but before that connection is passed off to the actual program that does telnet logins, or accepts mail, or ... ipfwadm puts its blocks in at the kernel level, so that packets trying to establish network connections you don't want never make it through to the kernel logic that would establish a connection. ipfwadm is most useful when your box is acting as a router, and you wish to protect machines on one side of the network from machines on the other side. But it can also be useful in your case. As for which is more secure - ipfwadm is certainly the one to use for the ultra-paranoid. It is possible that a SYN-flood type DOS attack (an attack where some malicious person tries to initiate as many connections as possible in rapid succession - the idea isn't to break in, but just to bog down your machine and so make your life miserable) could get through on a tcpwrapper-protected machine and be blocked on an ipfwadm-secured machine. However, since you are leaving port 80 (http connections) open anyway, the attacker would just have to target that port in their SYN flood. Also, in my case my machine is just connected through a phone line, and so packets of any kind can only reach my machine comparatively slowly. tcpwrappers provides for more extensive logging of what's going on in my experience; I have this silly idea that some day I'm going to get to file a CERT report because some hacker who'd hacked their way across many systems wound up in my logs. Hasn't happened yet, but you never know... By the way, that hosts.deny line I use is now: ALL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : rfc931 : spawn ((echo %c %a contacting %d; /bin/netstat --inet -n; traceroute -p 31434 %a) 21 | mail root) The echo and dumping to a file in /tmp were earlier debugging features I meant to change but had never gotten around to.
timezones
Since I dual boot with Win95, I have my hardware clock set to local time. I don't use Win95 much any more (read: my wife now uses Linux :), so I figure I might as well change over to UTC, so Linux will handle daylight/standard time correctly (I hope). How do I make that change? I can't find any documentation on this. -- David Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Australia: Debian CD Retail Re-sellers wanted.
Hi, I'm looking for Debian-friendly people in Australia who would be interested in re-selling Debian CDs in a retail outlet. I usually do mail/internet-order Debian CDs (at http://tyse.net), but people often find it easier to pick them up from a store (they are often in a rush). I'm looking for people in cities or large regional centres other than Melbourne (I already have an outlet in Melbourne). You need to have a retail front and useful opening hours, and be in a reasonably central location. Internet Cafes or software stores would be excellent choices, but almost any kind of retail store should be able to do the trick. Debian CDs will be provided on consignment, you will be listed as an outlet on the web page. People who are in a rush to pick up a CD will be referred to your location. I'm not asking for any money up front -- and you will be able to make a percentage on the CDs, and pay me for those you sell -- if they don't sell you just have to send them back. This is nothing fancy -- the CDs are simply burned Debian CDs with the latest stable distribution on them, or occasionally snapshots or beta-releases. If interest continues to rise, I may do some pressed CDs and printed materials at some point as well. You aren't expected to provide installation or technical support (though you can if you like). I'm doing this because it seems to sell more Debian CDs, which is good for me, you, and Debian. If you are interested, let me know where you are and what kind of store you are running. -- Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin Tyson Dowd [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tyse.net
[Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]]
The following is liable to be relevant to newer motherboards newer
powersave BIOSs---BeginMessage---
Thanks Marvin,
I went into the Power Management settings and disabled them all and
sure enough problems have disappeared. Now if I could just get it to make
coffee in the morning...
Thanks again!
Ben
Good Morning,
Has anyone ever encountered an error like this?
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide0: reset: success
On a Compaq 486 laptop, that type of message appeared under Linux
until I went into the Setup (at power on) and disabled the Option like:
the drive go to sleep after n minutes without use
Perhaps there is an energy spacer option enabled in your setup BIOS?
There are kernel build options affecting this, but I have no experience
with them yet. Let us know when you work this out.
MarvS
---End Message---
Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?
Quoting Darxus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Any chance I can split this thing into like, 2 pieces, and be able to access half of it ? First half--no problem; second half--no go. Did you try filname tar zxf - Mike Stone
Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets
I am having this problem on a IDE MODE4 1gb disk running on a 486 PCI motherboard.. WIll investigate tonight.. if changing some settings to OFF will fix it.. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.. Been bugging me.. -Original Message- From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: marvin stodolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian_user debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, 28 October 1998 14:42 Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]] On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, marvin stodolsky wrote: The following is liable to be relevant to newer motherboards newer powersave BIOSs Note: These errors are common on UDMA disks even without any powersaver features enabled. George Bonser The Linux We're never going out of business sale at an FTP site near you! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Fw: [Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]]
Thanks to all.. this may fix what I have problems with.. -Original Message- From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: marvin stodolsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian_user debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, 28 October 1998 14:42 Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]] On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, marvin stodolsky wrote: The following is liable to be relevant to newer motherboards newer powersave BIOSs Note: These errors are common on UDMA disks even without any powersaver features enabled. George Bonser The Linux We're never going out of business sale at an FTP site near you! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Voodoo 2
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Alvaro Reguly wrote: Hello .. I've set up q2 and installed libglide2_2.4-3.deb but i can't get my monster II to work .. q2 works only in 320xsomething in +vid_ref soft not vid_ref gl. I've read somewhere that i need to run q2 with a script called quake2.3dfxgl or something like that, but i can't find this script. any hint ? If I have a good memory, glide does not yet support voodoo2. Although I may not.. You'd have to check the glide homepage. I dont know the URL offhand. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Windows: the world's first commercially successful virus! - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
hosting
i want bulte some independent www and email server on one windowsNT4.0 machine. anyone can tell me how? thank you fanzhongming
Re: lynx colours
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Dave Swegen wrote: Is there anyone out there who could enlighten me on the topic of colours in lynx? IMHO the default colours are dreadful (dark-blue on black, anyone?). I have rtfm, but to little avail. This is something that has been bugging me for ages, and I would like to sort it out once and for all. Here's how I've changed my /etc/lynx.conf to contain. I haven't figured out what color 3 does. COLOR:0:black:white COLOR:1:blue:white COLOR:2:yellow:blue COLOR:3:green:white COLOR:4:brightmagenta:white COLOR:5:brightblue:white COLOR:6:brightred:white COLOR:7:magenta:cyan # #0 - Normal text #1 - Link #2 - The Info bar at bottom of page #4 - Bold text #5 - Bold link #6 - Current Link #7 - Searched item # white seems to be a bit gray # Mark
Alt keycodes..
Is there an equivalent way to use the alt keycodes to enter highascii?? I remember in windows, Alt- would display lovely characters... It's more a matter of intertest than anything else. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Does The Little Mermaid wear an algebra? - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: Linux on 4Mb
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 11:49:08AM +0100, Bostjan JERKO wrote: Is it possible to install Linux on machine with 4 Mb and of course it should work. Bostjan Don't know about Debian 2.0, but I installed Debian 1.3 on a 486sx 25MHz with 5 MB of RAM and a ~110MB harddrive. I had about 16MB of memory after using about 12MB of the harddrive for a swap partition. And swap it did, especially when running X. With a fairly minimal install that included X-Window I used about 60MB of the harddrive. When I added the kernel sources and a graphical card game, about another 15 MB of disk space were eaten up. It worked, but couldn't do much with it except play cards :) Ta, Gerald
Getting cmucl hemlock to work.
I grabbed all of the cmucl packages, and the Lisp is working okay but I can't invoke the hemlock editor no matter how many times I do (ed) or run cmuclconfig to set up the loading. After running a generic Debian installation of the packages, what am I supposed to do to get hemlock or any of the X stuff working? Also, is this hemlock really the best way, or is XEmacs better? Christopher
Re: My mail doesn't work at all :((((((((((((((( (fwd)
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: I just installed Exim on a new system. The fix is this: sender_host_accept_relay=127.0.0.1 This still doesn't work :(( Ok, then you are getting a new error in the rejectlog, what is this one? err, no actually. /var/log/exim contains only one rejectlog - and that is .9.gz and contains three lines: 1998-10-20 02:55:17 refuesed relay (host reject) to [EMAIL PROTECTED]from [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=localhost cus.cam.ac.uk [127.0.0.1] mcv21} Yrs, 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: My mail doesn't work at all :((((((((((((((( (fwd)
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 00:08:18 -0800 (PST), George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: sender_host_accept_relay=127.0.0.1 Ok then use this: sender_host_accept_relay=127.0.0.1:cus.cam.ac.uk If one is using IPs don't you want to use: sender_net_accept_relay=127.0.0.1/32 -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-
Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?
Hi, They are both lovely suggestions, unfortunately the problem is a bit more substantial. The 1st thing I tried was tar -zxvf home.tgz, and a couple of the things I tried soon after that were cat and less. Neither of which read any of it -- less is the only thing that did anything useful, which was saying Cannot seek to that file position which made me think hmm, did I hear something about stuff not being able to seek past 2gb?? You might think that it would sit there chewing on the file for a bit before it got to some point beyond what it could deal with. Nope. Didn't even start -- failed to even open the file up. Any more ideas ? :) Try to patch your gzip/cat/less (for whatever you have the source). The kernel definitly can handle files up to 4gig. i think some old tools use long int for the filepos ... which gets you into trouble when trying to use the high/sign-bit (2 gig = 2^31, 4 gig = 2^32). i would be more specific ... but i'm at work and only got this f...ing N(o)T(hanx) Machine :( i think you should watch out for seek and lseek (or something similar). btw: please don't mind my bad english ... ;) ciao Anti
Re: quake 2 on debian
Vincent Murphy hat gesagt: // Vincent Murphy wrote: exactly what packages will i need? i got all the quake2 packages from slink/non-free/binary-i386/quake* and hamm/non-free/binary-i386/libglide*. what else will i need which is not on the hamm cd? i'm getting all the extra stuff i need in college and bringing it home on sneakernet :) quake2_3.19a-1.deb depends on: ldso, libc6, svgalibg1 | xlib6g, perl BTW: You could get this info yourself with $ dpkg --info quake2_3.19a-1.deb Other than that you will only need the game Quake2 from id software wich is not available as a debian package ;) You only need libglide if you have a Voodoo card. If you get no mouse support in quake, stop gpm before playing: $ gpm -k -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Voodoo 2
Alvaro Reguly hat gesagt: // Alvaro Reguly wrote: I've set up q2 and installed libglide2_2.4-3.deb but i can't get my monster II to work .. q2 works only in 320xsomething in +vid_ref soft not vid_ref gl. I've read somewhere that i need to run q2 with a script called quake2.3dfxgl or something like that, but i can't find this script. Maybe someone in 3dfx's linux newsgroup could help you. It's at news://news.3dfx.com/3dfx.glide.linux -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?
Darxus wrote: Where on earth did you store this file? I could've sworn the ext2fs had a 2GB/file limit on it? Certainly all the file utilities do. It fat32 filesystem. [snip] Well, I think more than that, the assignment of the pointer to the file probably failed, before it even got to *try* to find the end of the file. Hang on a second here, if the file exceeds the size limit of the file system, how did it get there in the first place? If nothing in libc can grok it, what created it? Something is amiss here. What I understand you to be saying is something like this: I built a desk in my garage that I want to give it to a friend but I can't get it out of my garage because it is bigger than my garage! Are you sure the size is truly over 2 Gigs? How about od or writing your own C or perl cat program to see where they fail? Keith
md driver problem
Hi all! I've been trying to install Linux (Suse, Debian, RedHat...) in a Pentium MMX 200 with 3 hard disks and a cdrom, but with either distribution, the boot-up process hangs up in the same place (never mind whether started from DOS boot disk, Linux boot disk, cdrom...). This is the output I get: hda: Maxtor 90432D3, 4121MB w/256 cache, CHS=8374/16/63 hdb: SAMSUNG WINNER-3 WN32543A(2.5GB), 2423MB w/109kB cache, CHS=4924/16/63 hdc: ST3290A, 249MB w/64kB cache, CHS=1001/15/34 hdd: MATSHITA CR-585, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1ft,0x3f6 on irq14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 no cont in shutdown floppy0: FDC access conflict Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M trying to lock fdc while usage count = 0 floppy0: no floppy controllers found md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Of course I've got a floppy disk controller. I've tried disabling it but the results are the same. I would appreciate any help because now I've been trying to install linux in this computer for almost six months and in the meanwhile I have to use linux on a 386. Please help me Regards
Re: md driver problem
hello Rodrigo: I've never seen problems with a floppy before. Thats a good one. Try booting a DOS floppy if you can to see what happens. Try resetting the CMOS to the manufacturers defaults. You may also try removing the two hard drives on your second IDE chain for the install. You can reconnect and initialize them once your up and running. First - check your physical connections. You never know, something may have shaken loose. Assuming the FD controller is on the motherboard, you may want to go to the manufacturer web site as see if there is a firmware update Peter. Rodrigo Moya wrote: Hi all! I've been trying to install Linux (Suse, Debian, RedHat...) in a Pentium MMX 200 with 3 hard disks and a cdrom, but with either distribution, the boot-up process hangs up in the same place (never mind whether started from DOS boot disk, Linux boot disk, cdrom...). This is the output I get: hda: Maxtor 90432D3, 4121MB w/256 cache, CHS=8374/16/63 hdb: SAMSUNG WINNER-3 WN32543A(2.5GB), 2423MB w/109kB cache, CHS=4924/16/63 hdc: ST3290A, 249MB w/64kB cache, CHS=1001/15/34 hdd: MATSHITA CR-585, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1ft,0x3f6 on irq14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 no cont in shutdown floppy0: FDC access conflict Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M trying to lock fdc while usage count = 0 floppy0: no floppy controllers found md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Of course I've got a floppy disk controller. I've tried disabling it but the results are the same. I would appreciate any help because now I've been trying to install linux in this computer for almost six months and in the meanwhile I have to use linux on a 386. Please help me Regards -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin:vcard n:Iannarelli;Peter tel;fax:1+416-929-1056 tel;work:1+416-929-1885 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.genxl.com org:GenX Internte Labs;Operations adr:;;20 Madison Ave.;Toronto;ON;M5R 2S1;CA version:2.1 email;internet:Peter.Iannarelli title:Engineer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Peter Iannarelli end:vcard
FW: md driver problem
Hi, Peter, It doesn't seen to be a floppy problem but the md-driver seems to hang. Ciao Andreas Loosen -Original Message- From: Peter Iannarelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 11:28 AM To: Rodrigo Moya Cc: Debian User List Subject: Re: md driver problem hello Rodrigo: I've never seen problems with a floppy before. Thats a good one. Try booting a DOS floppy if you can to see what happens. Try resetting the CMOS to the manufacturers defaults. You may also try removing the two hard drives on your second IDE chain for the install. You can reconnect and initialize them once your up and running. First - check your physical connections. You never know, something may have shaken loose. Assuming the FD controller is on the motherboard, you may want to go to the manufacturer web site as see if there is a firmware update Peter. Rodrigo Moya wrote: Hi all! I've been trying to install Linux (Suse, Debian, RedHat...) in a Pentium MMX 200 with 3 hard disks and a cdrom, but with either distribution, the boot-up process hangs up in the same place (never mind whether started from DOS boot disk, Linux boot disk, cdrom...). This is the output I get: hda: Maxtor 90432D3, 4121MB w/256 cache, CHS=8374/16/63 hdb: SAMSUNG WINNER-3 WN32543A(2.5GB), 2423MB w/109kB cache, CHS=4924/16/63 hdc: ST3290A, 249MB w/64kB cache, CHS=1001/15/34 hdd: MATSHITA CR-585, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1ft,0x3f6 on irq14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 no cont in shutdown floppy0: FDC access conflict Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M trying to lock fdc while usage count = 0 floppy0: no floppy controllers found md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Of course I've got a floppy disk controller. I've tried disabling it but the results are the same. I would appreciate any help because now I've been trying to install linux in this computer for almost six months and in the meanwhile I have to use linux on a 386. Please help me Regards -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin:vcard n:Iannarelli;Peter tel;fax:1+416-929-1056 tel;work:1+416-929-1885 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.genxl.com org:GenX Internte Labs;Operations adr:;;20 Madison Ave.;Toronto;ON;M5R 2S1;CA version:2.1 email;internet:Peter.Iannarelli title:Engineer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Peter Iannarelli end:vcard
Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: irq timeouts and ide resets]]
According to George Bonser: On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, marvin stodolsky wrote: The following is liable to be relevant to newer motherboards newer powersave BIOSs Note: These errors are common on UDMA disks even without any powersaver features enabled. I had these errors with two Seagate disks (850 MB, 2.3 GB) when they shared the _same_ IDE channel (/dev/hda, /dev/hdb). When the 2.3 GB disk was moved to the other channel (/dev/hdc) as _master_, the problem disappeared completely. The second disk tolerates an IDE CD-ROM as slave. (Kernel 2.0.36pre15, AMD K6-233, Soyo 5TF (?) Triton board). kws -- Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte Bergische Universitaet-GH/HRZ (Computing Center) Gaussstr. 20 D-42097 Wuppertal (Germany) Tel. +49-202-4392807, Fax +49-202-4392910 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW: md driver problem
Hay all: I think md is for the ramdisk. how much memory is available ? Peter Andreas Loosen wrote: Hi, Peter, It doesn't seen to be a floppy problem but the md-driver seems to hang. Ciao Andreas Loosen -Original Message- From: Peter Iannarelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 11:28 AM To: Rodrigo Moya Cc: Debian User List Subject: Re: md driver problem hello Rodrigo: I've never seen problems with a floppy before. Thats a good one. Try booting a DOS floppy if you can to see what happens. Try resetting the CMOS to the manufacturers defaults. You may also try removing the two hard drives on your second IDE chain for the install. You can reconnect and initialize them once your up and running. First - check your physical connections. You never know, something may have shaken loose. Assuming the FD controller is on the motherboard, you may want to go to the manufacturer web site as see if there is a firmware update Peter. Rodrigo Moya wrote: Hi all! I've been trying to install Linux (Suse, Debian, RedHat...) in a Pentium MMX 200 with 3 hard disks and a cdrom, but with either distribution, the boot-up process hangs up in the same place (never mind whether started from DOS boot disk, Linux boot disk, cdrom...). This is the output I get: hda: Maxtor 90432D3, 4121MB w/256 cache, CHS=8374/16/63 hdb: SAMSUNG WINNER-3 WN32543A(2.5GB), 2423MB w/109kB cache, CHS=4924/16/63 hdc: ST3290A, 249MB w/64kB cache, CHS=1001/15/34 hdd: MATSHITA CR-585, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1ft,0x3f6 on irq14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15 no cont in shutdown floppy0: FDC access conflict Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M trying to lock fdc while usage count = 0 floppy0: no floppy controllers found md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Of course I've got a floppy disk controller. I've tried disabling it but the results are the same. I would appreciate any help because now I've been trying to install linux in this computer for almost six months and in the meanwhile I have to use linux on a 386. Please help me Regards -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin:vcard n:Iannarelli;Peter tel;fax:1+416-929-1056 tel;work:1+416-929-1885 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.genxl.com org:GenX Internte Labs;Operations adr:;;20 Madison Ave.;Toronto;ON;M5R 2S1;CA version:2.1 email;internet:Peter.Iannarelli title:Engineer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Peter Iannarelli end:vcard
Re: md driver problem
Try booting a DOS floppy if you can to see what happens. I've been using all this time Windows on this computer, and the floppy works perfectly well. Usually, I start the installation process by booting with a DOS disk, and then executing boot.bat from the cd. Try resetting the CMOS to the manufacturers defaults. You may also try removing the two hard drives on your second IDE chain for the install. You can reconnect and initialize them once your up and running. Well, now I've got four disks, but before I had only one and the CD and the results were worst, since the installation process used to stop after detecting the disks. Assuming the FD controller is on the motherboard, you may want to go to the manufacturer web site as see if there is a firmware update What do you mean by firmware update? Thanks very much
Re: md driver problem
It doesn't seen to be a floppy problem but the md-driver seems to hang. Sorry for me being stupid, but what exactly is the MD-driver? Thanks very much
Re: FW: md driver problem
I think md is for the ramdisk. how much memory is available ? I've got 64MB of memory Thanks
mutt won't send mail?
Hello, I recently installed mutt_0.94.14-2.deb. Everything works OK except sending Mail. I get the following error message when I send mail: Error sending message, child exited 127 (). All help appreciated. Best regards, Victor
Re: FW: md driver problem
Rodrigo You certainly have lots of RAM. Disconnect the two HDs on the 2nd IDE chain and try again. Check the manufacturers WEB site for firmware updates. Peter Rodrigo Moya wrote: I think md is for the ramdisk. how much memory is available ? I've got 64MB of memory Thanks begin:vcard n:Iannarelli;Peter tel;fax:1+416-929-1056 tel;work:1+416-929-1885 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.genxl.com org:GenX Internte Labs;Operations adr:;;20 Madison Ave.;Toronto;ON;M5R 2S1;CA version:2.1 email;internet:Peter.Iannarelli title:Engineer x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Peter Iannarelli end:vcard
Re: md driver problem
The Multiple-Device-Driver for HD-Mirroring and Striping So, what does this mean? What should I change in the BIOS or wherever?
Re: mutt won't send mail?
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 05:57:53AM -0500, Victor Torrico wrote: Hello, I recently installed mutt_0.94.14-2.deb. Everything works OK except sending Mail. I get the following error message when I send mail: Error sending message, child exited 127 (). All help appreciated. Best regards, Victor -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I really don't like adding a me too, but it does this for me, as well. I might add that sending mail with the 'mail' command (at the command line) works just fine, so it's not a problem with the MTA. TIA James
RE: [SuSE Linux] bitmap to outline postscript
On 19-Oct-98 I wrote: Does anyone know of a package that can take a bitmapped black-and-white image and produce PostScript outline code which would draw the equivalent? I am most obliged to everyone who responded to the above request. Several people suggested Corel Draw or other commercial software (which does not as yet, it seems, run under LInux). However, I donot propose to go down such roads as yet. Special thanks to Karl Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED], joint creator of GNU fontutils, for drawing my attention to this (which seems made for the job). In its original (1992) form, however, this does not compile easily (i.e. for me not at all) under Linux. I am therefore also grateful to Oliver Corff, [EMAIL PROTECTED], for his work in changing it so that it does compile more easily. However, this is for RedHat-5.1, and it still did not compile on my SuSE-5.1. This may have been a glibc problem. Anyway, with a few changes I was able to get Oliver's version to compile. Details are as follows: Get Oliver's version (gnu fontutils-0.6 for Linux) from http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/fontutils/* Untar. If necessary, change GNUmakefile.in to reflect your basic X directories (you will probably find that the default /usr/X11R6/lib/X11, /usr/X11R6/include and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults need no change). Also (and you probably will need to make this change) in two places in GNUmakefile.in replace /usr/local/tex.local by wherever your TeX texmf tree is. Namely, at line 30 I changed texmf_prefix = /usr/local/tex.local to texmf_prefix = /usr/lib/teTeX/texmf and at line 59 I changed default_tfm_path = /usr/local/tex.local/fonts//:. to default_tfm_path = /usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/fonts//:. Finally (and this is where the possible glibc issue arises), in the file lib/fmod.c at and around line 53, I removed everything to do with the line extern int isnan(),finite(); The reason is that math.h, already included, defines these as macros and the compiler treats the above occurrences as cpp macro calls, with unwanted results. After these changes were made, I got a clean compilation. Now I only need to find out how to really use the fontutils! Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 28-Oct-98 Time: 12:37:22
PostScript - Acrobat
Hi, Is there any package which convert postscript format for acrobat !? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ? Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra PGP key available at finger ?
Re: PostScript - Acrobat
Quoting Nuno Carvalho ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is there any package which convert postscript format for acrobat !? gs-alladin will do it, and contains a ps2pdf script to automate the process. Mike Stone
Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions
Hello, Antti-Juhani wrote on debian-user: On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: ... I would agree however, that a good description of each package would help you decide what to install. Please tell me, what you would consider a good description! Feel free to pick some packages and rewrite their descriptions; you can post the results here (or to debian-devel, if you prefer) for public scrutiny. I can't speak for Kenneth, but one thing I find is that there are very little comparative descriptions (or else I haven't found them). This makes it a bit hard to decide, say, which news transport I want. Each of them says basically this is a better news transport program, replaces c-news. But which one should I get for my system? (Home computer, regularly dials into two ISPs, doesn't feed anyone.) Is that roughly what you were complaining about? === Exactly. The descriptions are not really that bad, but not good enough for a new user to pick what he needs. I thought that the debian website had a better package list with a searchable database, which is the tool that the new user could really use. Also when I try to install some package obtained by ftp (using dpkg -i) and it complains of a missing lib or other file I need to know what package provides the missing file(s). _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Printing to a Novell network printer
Hi all, so is that possible? How can I print to Novell network printer, where i put the queues? NOTE: I work in a environment that includes Win95+dos6.22 as clients, Win NT and Novell 3.12 as servers ( running a mix of database+ intranet nad internet access + mail(most uses outlooks/messenger) ) ; so I would like to introduce Linux as a option as server ( files + web services) as workstation ( that needs access all of these resources. Its driving me crasy! So I need helP :).begin: vcard fn: Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife Recife - Pernambuco - Brasil n: Recife - Pernambuco - Brasil;Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife org:Grupo Itautec Philco email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] title: Assistencia Tecnica/Technical Support note: We use and see Linux as a new begining!!! =0A= Com a graca de Deus chegaremos la =0A= Thank you for making a bether world!!! x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE end:vcard
Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 12:53:53AM -0800, Keith Beattie wrote: Darxus wrote: Where on earth did you store this file? I could've sworn the ext2fs had a 2GB/file limit on it? Certainly all the file utilities do. It fat32 filesystem. Hang on a second here, if the file exceeds the size limit of the file system, how did it get there in the first place? If nothing in libc can grok it, what created it? Perhaps it's still ON the fat32 file system. Mind you, it's a bit of a worry we are being outdone by Windows. A 2Gb limit is almost unreasonable these days; I have some 400-500Mb MPEG video files here, so a 2Gb one isn't out of the question, especially with DVD. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
Re: FW: md driver problem
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Peter Iannarelli wrote: : Hay all: : : I think md is for the ramdisk. No, md is Multiple Device Driver. Usually it's the NEXT driver that's hanging, and that's almost always a SCSI driver. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Using debian as a file server
Hi all, what do I need to make a win95 to see and uses my Debian as a file server A print server is also available?? how can I configure all of it?? Any help is wellcome!!!Thanks.Clovis Sena. NOTE: I work in a environment that includes Win95+dos6.22 as clients, Win NT and Novell 3.12 as servers ( running a mix of database+ intranet and internet access + mail(most uses outlooks/messenger) ) ; so I would like to introduce Linux as a option as server ( files + web services) as workstation ( that needs access to all of these resources.) Its driving me crasy! So that's why I need helP :).begin: vcard fn: Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife Recife - Pernambuco - Brasil n: Recife - Pernambuco - Brasil;Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife org:Grupo Itautec Philco email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] title: Assistencia Tecnica/Technical Support note: We use and see Linux as a new begining!!! =0A= Com a graca de Deus chegaremos la =0A= Thank you for making a bether world!!! x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE end:vcard
mutt won't send mail
Sirs, I had the same problem with mutt (child exiting, error 127()) and found that it was trying to call /usr/bin/sendmail instead of /usr/sbin/sendmail. I believe this has now been patched, but a logical link from /usr/bin/sendmail to the one in /usr/sbin works for me for the present version. -- Tad R. Thurston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim filters and/or procmail
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:33:19PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: BTW your mail is probably in smail's input queue. Try running smail -v -q Thanks, that worked. I switched to smail temporarily and then back to exim. I use fetchmail to get some of my mail. exim got the first few messages, but now it refuses the next message in the queue. Is there a way to get exim to accept this message? I didn't see this mentioned in the fetchmail section of the FAQ. I'll switch back to smail again so I can get clean out my POP queue. Message with strange address that exim is rejecting: fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 2249 octets reading message 1 of 72 (2249 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP 220 freefall ESMTP Exim 1.92 #1 Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:19:38 -0500 fetchmail: SMTP EHLO freefall fetchmail: SMTP 250-freefall Hello freefall [192.168.1.7] fetchmail: SMTP 250-SIZE fetchmail: SMTP 250-PIPELINING fetchmail: SMTP 250 HELP fetchmail: forwarding to freefall fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:@pop.mindspring.com SIZE=2249 fetchmail: SMTP 501 @pop.mindspring.com : colon expected after route fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 @pop.mindspring.com : colon expected after route fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:lee SIZE=2249 fetchmail: SMTP 501 lee : sender address must contain a domain fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 lee : sender address must contain a domain fetchmail: POP3 QUIT fetchmail: POP3 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.mindspring.com fetchmail: SMTP QUIT fetchmail: SMTP 221 freefall closing connection fetchmail: normal termination, status 10 After switching to smail and retreiving the message, I noticed that was generated by exim at work. (I fixed the .forward file that was causing this message.) Here is the message in the smail input queue after retreiving it with smail: !mail !8 8 !-oem !-f [EMAIL PROTECTED] !-oMs !freefall !-oMa !192.168.1.7 !-oMr !esmtp !-oMP !smail ![EMAIL PROTECTED] Status: R Received: from pop.mindspring.com by freefall (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for lee/freefall (single-drop); Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:51:46 EST Received: from tetsuo.mspring.net (tetsuo.mspring.net [207.69.231.11]) by camel9.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA11636 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:16:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from marine.sonic.net (marine.sonic.net [208.201.224.37]) by tetsuo.mspring.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id VAA01545 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:16:20 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 11289 invoked from network); 28 Oct 1998 02:16:21 - Received: from unknown (HELO sub.sonic.net) (208.201.224.8) by marine.sonic.net with SMTP; 28 Oct 1998 02:16:21 - Received: from gemini ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [208.201.237.194]) by sub.sonic.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA30871 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:16:21 -0800 X-envelope-info: Received: from mail by gemini with local (Exim 1.92 #1 (Debian)) id 0zYL9o-0005ou-00; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:16:20 -0800 X-Failed-Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:16:20 -0800 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - bad mode (100666) for /users/heegard/.forward (userforward director): retry timeout exceeded -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from camel7.mindspring.com [207.69.200.57] by gemini with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1 (Debian)) id 0zYL9n-0005os-00; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:16:19 -0800 Received: from freefall (user-38lcpvd.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.103.237]) by camel7.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA05137 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:16:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from lee by freefall with local (Exim 1.92 #1 (Debian)) id 0zYLAc-kq-00; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:17:10 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 07:53:08AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # Exim filter if error_message then finish endif if $h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-user or $h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-changes then save /home/servis/Mail/debian endif if $h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-devel then save /home/servis/Mail/debian-devel endif Thanks, that's a good starting point. I'll try it when I get exim working again. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wmaker icons
I somehow/somewhere/sometime lost my wmaker-* xpm, png and tif files... I guess across an upgrade somehow. Can someone tarball them up from their system and send them to me? I'll put them in a private dir. I really liked some of then... besides, now my wmaker has blank tiles instead of nice color pics :) Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Great successes are built on taking your negatives and turning them around. -- Sumner Redstone ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.**
Unidentified subject!
From: Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting Darxus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Any chance I can split this thing into like, 2 pieces, and be able to access half of it ? First half--no problem; second half--no go. Did you try filname tar zxf - Just tried it, and it didn't work. BTW: I found the command split, and tried breaking a .tar.gz in half to see if I could still extract some of it, and, as you said, with the test file, I was able to extract the first half. Unfortunately, split isn't able to deal with a 2.6gb file either. -- From: Andreas Neukoetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try to patch your gzip/cat/less (for whatever you have the source). hey, I'm running Debian, I can get all source :) But would I need to patch gzip/tar/cat/less, or would it be libc I'd be patching ? I'm guessing libc... and how much of a bear is that to recompile ? The kernel definitly can handle files up to 4gig. i think some old tools use long int for the filepos ... which gets you into trouble when trying to use the high/sign-bit (2 gig = 2^31, 4 gig = 2^32). Is it safe to just use an unsigned long (is the +/- bit being used ?) ? Wait... is there a signed integer type larger than a signed long ? -- From: Keith Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hang on a second here, if the file exceeds the size limit of the file system, how did it get there in the first place? If nothing in libc can grok it, what created it? I created it on a fat32 filesystem with a command similar to: tar -zcvf /mnt/c/home.tgz /home with a fat32 filesystem mounted at /mnt/c Something is amiss here. What I understand you to be saying is something like this: I built a desk in my garage that I want to give it to a friend but I can't get it out of my garage because it is bigger than my garage! Yeah, something like that. Aparently tar/gz don't have a problem continuing to append to files as they go over 2gb, as long as they were less when the file was originally opened (in this case, 0). Are you sure the size is truly over 2 Gigs? ls -l total 2699568 -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 735435 Oct 10 19:14 etc.tgz -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 293212 Oct 10 21:10 home.tgz -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 96898501 Oct 10 19:43 old.tgz -rwxrwxr-x 1 root root20829 Oct 10 19:14 root.tgz How about od or writing your own C or perl cat program to see where they fail? od home.tgz 000 I'm not familiar w/ od, but I'm guessing that output means it wasn't all that successful... I'm pretty confident I know where it's failing -- I have recollections of code segments, it's just been a while since I've seen them. I'm guessing it's where it originally tries to open the file. -- From: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps it's still ON the fat32 file system. Yup, I had tried copying it back to my ext2 filesystem, and it ended up iwth a file size of 0. ***PGP fingerprint = D5 EB F8 E7 64 55 CF 91 C2 4F E0 4D 18 B6 7C 27*** [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Chaos reigns.
Re: dselect can't download Packages.gz
Thanks for the offer Peter, but this isn't a newbie issue for me. I've been using debian for 2 years and never encountered this problem before. For a temporary workaround I downloaded the entire stable debian distro and am using dselect via the 'mounted' method. But this is impracticle and static, which is why I need to get dselect going via 'ftp'. Is there any settings or script I can edit for dselect? Any way to force it to download the Packages which dselect itself knows is there? Any fix for dselect (or is it dpkg-ftp's fault)? Paul Quinn Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/27 3:22 PM Hi Paul: Try ftp.debian.org. Assuming your the Corel in Ottawa. I'm going to be in Ottawa on Sunday. If all else fails I can burn a CD for you. Let me know. Peter Paul Quinn wrote: Here's what I get from dselect using the ftp method: Enter ftp site [ftp.us.debian.org]: Use passive mode [y]: Enter username [anonymous]: If you are using anonymous ftp to retrieve files, enter your email address for use as a password. Otherwise enter your password, or ? if you want dpkg-ftp to prompt you each time. Enter password [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Enter debian directory [/debian]: Go through an authenticated FTP proxy [n]: Note: order here is important. Package files are scanned in order so later distributions will override earlier ones. So put stable before unstable. Enter space seperated list of distributions to get [dists/stable/main dists/stable/non-free dists/stable/contrib]: Enter directory to download binary package files to (relative to /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/) [debian]: Using FTP to check directories...(stop with ^C) Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org... Login as anonymous... Setting transfer mode to binary... Cd to `/debian'... Checking dists/stable/main/binary-i386... Checking dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386... Checking dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386... Closing ftp connection... Now when I Update...: Getting Packages files...(stop with ^C) Connecting to ftp.us.debian.org... Login as anonymous... Setting transfer mode to binary... Cd to `/debian'... Checking for Packages file... Couldn't find Packages.gz in dists/stable/main/binary-i386 or dists/stable/main; ignoring. Checking for Packages file... Couldn't find Packages.gz in dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386 or dists/stable/non-free; ignoring. Checking for Packages file... Couldn't find Packages.gz in dists/stable/contrib/binary-i386 or dists/stable/contrib; ignoring. Any Ideas? Paul Hay Paul: We maintain a debian mirror over here. I just checked everything and all looks fine. When your specifying your distribution root, you should use /pub/debian. Everything is relative from that point forward. ie dists/stable/main ... Peter Paul Quinn wrote: Hello Peter, I've tried several debian sites: ftp.debian.org ftp.us.debian.org debian.crosslink.net They all produce the same results... This has to be a dselect or dpkg-ftp problem, but I don't know where to go from there. Paul Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/27 11:07 AM Hi Paul: That not very good. From what are you installing ? Peter Paul Quinn wrote: I'm trying to use dselect with the ftp method for accessing debian packages. I use a correct site and dist names (the Access step complete successfully), but the Update step fails to retrieve the Packages.gz files. It complains that it can't find Packages or Packages.gz in any of the main/non-free/contrib trees, which I and the Access step both verified are there. Any help to this? Paul Quinn -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Subject: Re: dselect can't download Packages.gz Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:14:49 -0500 From: Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: GenX Internet Laboratories Inc. To: Paul Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hay Paul: We maintain a debian mirror over here. I just checked everything and all looks fine. When your specifying your distribution root, you should use /pub/debian. Everything is relative from that point forward. ie dists/stable/main ... Peter Paul Quinn wrote: Hello Peter, I've tried several debian sites: ftp.debian.org ftp.us.debian.org debian.crosslink.net They all produce the same results... This has to be a dselect or dpkg-ftp problem, but I don't know where to go from there. Paul Peter Iannarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/27 11:07 AM Hi Paul: That not very good. From what are you installing ? Peter Paul Quinn wrote: I'm trying to use dselect with the ftp method for accessing debian packages. I use a correct site and dist names (the Access step complete successfully), but the Update step fails to retrieve the Packages.gz files. It complains that it can't
Re: Using debian as a file server
Clovis Sena wrote: Hi all, what do I need to make a win95 to see and uses my Debian as a file server A print server is also available?? how can I configure all of it?? Any help is wellcome!!!Thanks.Clovis Sena. NOTE: I work in a environment that includes Win95+dos6.22 as clients, Win NT and Novell 3.12 as servers ( running a mix of database+ intranet and internet access + mail(most uses outlooks/messenger) ) ; so I would like to introduce Linux as a option as server ( files + web services) as workstation ( that needs access to all of these resources.) Its driving me crasy! So that's why I need helP :). I'm sure others will give you better answers. Basically you need Samba running on your Linux box. This will allow it to look like an NT server to Win95/98/NT boxes. I'm too new at Linux to be of much help, but here's what I know. Install Samba (run dselect and search [the / key] for Samba). After it's installed, the configuration is done in /etc/smb.conf. Here's an excellent snippit from a posting by Fredrik Ax a month or two ago: If you use security = share no user/password information at all is needed to access the public shares on the machine. But if you like to restrict the access you will have to do it for each and every share in /etc/smb.conf shares example: [publicro] comment = Public read only browseable = yes read only = yes public = yes path = /public_readable_path [publicrw] comment = Read/write for all browseable = yes writable = yes public = yes path = /public_writable_path [studentfolder] comment = Read/write for user student browseable = yes writable = yes public = no path = /student_path valid users = student In addition to these configurations, there's something about creating a password file for Samba. Some of the documentation is wrong in Samba's docs. AFAIK, the only way to generate the password file is to use the smbpasswd command. It works something like smbpasswd john_doe_user; this asks you for a password for John Doe User. Note this password is a different password than his login password, although you can set it to the same thing. In other words, you can specify the same password for both login and samba, but when he changes one, he doesn't change the other automatically. Assuming your Linux box is named dangermouse, and using the snippet above, you can then go to a Win95 box and map a drive to \\dangermouse\publicro. Hope this at least gets you going in the right direction.
Re: clearing screen after logout login screen
jim r said How do I clear the screen after logout? so...instead of walking up on the remnants of the X server terminating and a login prompt, all that shows on the screen is the login prompt... what script is it? Personally, I don't like the shell-specific solutions. As system administer I like having this sort of configuration as simple as possible. I equate this as meaning one or fewer places - if you implement the bash_logout solutions then you'll have to implement the equivalent solution for [t]csh, and what about zsh and rsh and ... For that matter, how can I change the login prompt itself?both lines (Debian GNU/Linux (name) ttyX and login: )? Do it all in /etc/issue*. (There are version's of getty that automatically clear teh screen, but that doesn't address the changing the text, so you still end-up editing/maintaining these files.) I setup /etc/issue* like such: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root9 Oct 27 22:45 issue - issue.pnd -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 25 Apr 26 1998 issue.dpkg-orig -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1403 Sep 15 00:02 issue.linux lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Sep 28 23:19 issue.net - issue.linux -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 2290 Oct 28 01:14 issue.pnd Any editing can be done off-line and to change the file all I have to do remove and recreate the appropriate sym-link. I've played around a bit with various files, here's one that uses several ANSI features including Characterset change, color, bold and blink attributes, and most of the variables supported by getty: System Name(\s), OS Release Number(\r), Machine Architecture(\m), OS vesion and Build Date(\v), Nodename(\n), TTY Line Name(\l), Domainname(\o), Line's Baud Rate(\b), Date(\d), Time(\t), Number of Users(\u). (I ommitted \U...) The ESCapes have been changed to '^['... Copyright 1998 Charles A. Stickelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] This file is covered by version 2 (or any later version) of the GPL. ^[[H ^[[J ^[(U ^[[31;40;1m ^[[1;1H ^[[2;1H? ^[[2;80H? ^[[3;1H ^[[4;1H? ^[[4;80H? ^[[5;1H ^[[6;1H? ^[[6;40H? ^[[6;80H? ^[[7;1H? ^[[7;40H? ^[[7;80H? ^[[8;1H? ^[[8;40H? ^[[8;80H? ^[[9;1H? ^[[9;40H? ^[[9;80H? ^[[10;1H ^[[11;1H? ^[[11;40H? ^[[11;80H? ^[[12;1H? ^[[12;40H? ^[[12;80H? ^[[13;1H? ^[[13;40H? ^[[13;80H? ^[[14;1H? ^[[14;40H? ^[[14;80H? ^[[15;1H ^[[16;1H? ^[[16;80H? ^[[17;1H? ^[[17;80H? ^[[18;1H? ^[[18;80H? ^[[19;1H ^[[20;1H? ^[[20;40H? ^[[20;80H? ^[[21;1H? ^[[21;40H? ^[[21;80H? ^[[22;1H ^[[23;1H? ^[[23;40H? ^[[23;80H? ^[[24;1H ^[[2;22H^[[32;1;5mWELCOME^[[0;1;37m ^[[2;30Hto ^[[36mDebian GNU/\s Release^[[37m: ^[[33m2.0^[[37m ^[[4;3HBrought to you by: ^[[6;3H^[[36mSoftware In The Public Interest^[[37m ^[[7;3HP.O. Box 70152 ^[[8;3HPt. Richmond, CA 94807-0152 USA ^[[9;3H ^[[6;42H^[[36mFree Software Foundation^[[37m ^[[7;42H59 Temple Place - Suite 330 ^[[8;42HBoston, MA 02111-1307 USA ^[[9;42H+1-617-542-5942 ^[[11;3H^[[36mOpen Software Developers Worldwide^[[37m ^[[12;3HThe world owes a giant Thank You! ^[[13;3Hto Linus Torvalds et. al. for their ^[[14;3HHUGE investment of time and energy! ^[[11;42H^[[36mPractical Network Design^[[37m ^[[12;42H9 Chambers Road ^[[13;42HMansfield, OH 44906-1301 USA ^[[14;42H+1-419-529-3841 ^[[16;3HSystem Information: ^[[17;3H^[[36m\s Kernel Version^[[37m:^[[33m \r^[[37m-^[[33m\m ^[[18;3H^[[36mBuild Info^[[37m:^[[33m \v ^[[20;3H^[[36mSystem Name^[[37m:^[[33m \n ^[[20;42H^[[36mTerminal^[[37m:^[[33m \l ^[[21;3H^[[36mDomain Name^[[37m:^[[33m \o ^[[21;42H^[[36mLine Speed^[[37m:^[[33m \b ^[[23;3H^[[36mDate/Time^[[37m:^[[33m \d \t ^[[23;42H^[[37m^[[36mCurrent Users^[[37m:^[[33m \u ^[[24;80H^[[0m It's been said that this is a bit over the top...too much late-night time on my hands...maybe I should try sleep...na... Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Practical Network DesignVoice: +1-419-529-3841 9 Chambers Road FAX:+1-419-529-3625 Mansfield, OH 44906-1301 USA
How do you make the X Icons, Fonts, Everything bigger
Whenever I run Windows in 1024x768 mode, I get decent quality fonts and icons in terms of size. how can i run x in the same mode with much larger fonts and icons? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
How to check for new packages at debian.org ??
Hello, is there it tool which allows me to check for new packages at debian.org ?? i simply want to get a list of _all_ packages that are newer than the ones on the last (official) cd. i've got a very fast connection at work so it would be very easy to update my mirror (at home). (it's not a real mirror ... it's just an archive of _all_ packages ...) since i've got to use N(o)T(hanx) at work i can't use a simple script :8 any ideas ??? kind regards / mit freundlichen gruessen Andreas Neukoetter
Re: How to check for new packages at debian.org ??
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Andreas Neukoetter wrote: is there it tool which allows me to check for new packages at debian.org ?? i simply want to get a list of _all_ packages that are newer than the ones on the last (official) cd. i've got a very fast connection at work so it would be very easy to update my mirror (at home). (it's not a real mirror ... it's just an archive of _all_ packages ...) since i've got to use N(o)T(hanx) at work i can't use a simple script :8 any ideas ??? apt-get update :) if you point it at the right place apt will get the list of current packages for you, my /etc/apt/sources.list file looks like this: deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/ deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/ but it cam be just as easily pointed at any mirror you want :) Nikolai
lost mail
Hi ! due to a power failure i lost some email from this list. id very much like it if someone can send in all messages regarding that question on sample /etc/hosts.deny co. config ... denying all telnet ftp access. thanks, Chad
guilemots () from a US AT keyboard
Help! On the one hand, if anyone needs mail-merge, I now have a working patch to lyx that does it. On the other, I need to use european quotes (guillemots (sp)), those and , as delimiters. How in the world do i enter them from a US keyboard. To make it more fun, it's an AT keyboard--one alt on the left, control where it belongs, and capslock in the lower right. No extra compose key or windows key. Can I use xmodmap to make shift-alt- and do this? rick --
Re: lost mail
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! due to a power failure i lost some email from this list. id very much like it if someone can send in all messages regarding that question on sample /etc/hosts.deny co. config ... denying all telnet ftp access. thanks, Chad Are you aware that all messages from this list are archived at the Debian web sites, such as http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ ? Might I suggest that you go there and pickup any messages that you may have missed or that are of interest to you. There is a pretty good search facility at the bottom of the page. This list is busy enough without repeating mail.
RE: conflicts in Debian Distributions
This morning I was rebuilding my system and I selected perl and perl-base. And a got a strange conflict dependency error. It said: perl (version numbers from hamm stable) depends on perl-base. perl-base conflicts with perl I don't understand that one. But it would not install them. Rod Person Humanity is the biggest cancer ever to be seen! -Alx Hellid Contempt -- From: Jiri Baum[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 2:17 PM To: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions Hello, Antti-Juhani wrote on debian-user: On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: ... I would agree however, that a good description of each package would help you decide what to install. Please tell me, what you would consider a good description! Feel free to pick some packages and rewrite their descriptions; you can post the results here (or to debian-devel, if you prefer) for public scrutiny. I can't speak for Kenneth, but one thing I find is that there are very little comparative descriptions (or else I haven't found them). This makes it a bit hard to decide, say, which news transport I want. Each of them says basically this is a better news transport program, replaces c-news. But which one should I get for my system? (Home computer, regularly dials into two ISPs, doesn't feed anyone.) Is that roughly what you were complaining about? Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wmaker 0.20.2
Is this package broken? This morning I did a apt-get upgrade and now wdm and wmaker no longer work. Is anybody else seeing this problem? I can provide more info upon request. mike...
Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?
Hi! Darxus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | Any more ideas ? :) Only thing I can think of is getting access to a 64-bit machine, decompressing the file there, tarring the contents off to tape and then restoring them on your machine. Or at least putting them into sub-2GB chunks before taking them back. I don't know how to get it there, but you might be able to read it from a raw device (/dev/hdd /dev/nst0 ...) Maybe this works: Since you have it on fat32: defragment this file, find where it is located and use dd if=/dev/hd?? skip=XX count=YY | zcat | tar... Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB
Re: conflicts in Debian Distributions
Please, if you are cc:-ing me, only cc my reply-to address. On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 11:46:32AM -0500, Person, Rod wrote: This morning I was rebuilding my system and I selected perl and perl-base. And a got a strange conflict dependency error. It said: perl (version numbers from hamm stable) depends on perl-base. perl-base conflicts with perl I don't understand that one. But it would not install them. Perl-base has a versioned conflict to perl, ie it conflicts only with sufficiently old perl. So, your perl is too old for perl-base. Can you tell me which versions of perl and perl-base you have selected and which versions you have installed? How were you trying to install the new ones, with dselect or by hand, or with apt? Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** URL:http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.
Re: wmaker 0.20.2
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 08:50:02AM -0800, Mike Wood wrote: Is this package broken? This morning I did a apt-get upgrade and now wdm and wmaker no longer work. Is anybody else seeing this problem? I can provide more info upon request. Yes. I totally screwed up this time. I can reupload libwraster1 or recompile wdm. I have done the later. The new package is available from http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/pacakges/wdm/ That should solve the problem. Marcelo
Re: wmaker icons
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 11:02:33AM -0500, Tim the Unslept Sailer wrote: I somehow/somewhere/sometime lost my wmaker-* xpm, png and tif files... I guess across an upgrade somehow. Can someone tarball them up from their system and send them to me? I'll put them in a private dir. I really liked some of then... besides, now my wmaker has blank tiles instead of nice color pics :) Another one of my screw ups this week. wmaker-data moved the icons from /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/ to /usr/share/icons; I thought about that, but I did only half the thinking :-( Update your IconPath in ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker to include this path. Moral: don't package things half asleep. Do it either completely awake or completely asleep. :-) I'm really sorry, Marcelo
smail statistics
Hi! Anybody know of a log file parser for smail that shows some nice statistics that can be put on the web? Something like analog for apache, but for smail. Thanks! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_) http://casal.upc.es/~pere/
Re: how do I extract a 2.6 gigabyte .tar.gz file ?
Perhaps it's still ON the fat32 file system. Mind you, it's a bit of a worry we are being outdone by Windows. A 2Gb limit is almost unreasonable these days; I have some 400-500Mb MPEG video files here, so a 2Gb one isn't out of the question, especially with DVD. - Pehaps it's time for the ex3fs? Hmmm, might look at the source for ex2fs (and all utilities) for file pointers and change the type to long int (64 bit int anyway). Probably not as simple as that, but it sure needs to be done. I wonder what happens now if I try to create a tar image over 2gb (on my tape drive, that is). Probably will work since the image is never really a file as long as it stays on the tape. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
web mail
Hi! Does anybody know of a program I can install on my system that will give my users web mail capabilites? Something like hotmail but without slowness and ads. TIA! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available --- (_)/ (_) http://casal.upc.es/~pere/
Re: My mail doesn't work at all :((((((((((((((( (fwd)
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: host taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.48]: 550 rejected: cannot route to sender [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry to keep on, but this is begginning to really bug me :( Oh, it looks like you configured the system for local mail only. This means that it can not send mail to any sites except localhost. Rerun eximconfig with the --force option and tell it you are an internet site or a site with a smarthost and give it your ISP's or campus' mailhost as the smarthost. Nope - I've just run eximconf again, and said I'm an internet site. No joy (BTW - this was how it was set up originally) - exactly the same errors :( 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/
Corrupted links in rcXXX.d in Debian2.0
Hello to everyone, I have corrupted by mistake links in /etc/rcXXX.d. How can I reconstruct the right links to reflect my actual setup? Thank You in advance for your replies Mario Giammarco [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Via Calamandrei, 5 -48022 Lugo (RA) 0545/22965-ITALY
Re: colors in text-mode
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 12:30:56PM -0800, jim r wrote: Once more the newbie asks a question: I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? nothing fancy...just the text in a color other than white. Use something gross like this in /etc/issue (but leave issue.net without the hackery): [1mThis is [35m\n[37m running [31mDebian \s[37m. Linux kernel is [33m\r[37m. It is [32m\t[37m on [32m\d[37m and you are logging in on [36m\l[37m.[0m I think man 5 termcap lists those funky numbers. NB: The whole prompt is in bold (aka bright colours). Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Avoid tiresome goat sacrifices -=- use Debian Linux http://www.debian.org
Re: web mail
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 05:31:30PM +, Pere Camps wrote: .Hi! . . Does anybody know of a program I can install on my system that .will give my users web mail capabilites? . you hit the nail on the head when you said Webmail! see http://www.woanders.de/~wastl/webmail/ i haven't installed this yet but it looks nice, is written in perl, has MIME support, and has language options for English, German, Italian and Swedish. pretty cool. freshmeat.net probably has other solutions as well. thx, m* -- Horseman of the Digital Apocolypse
Mirrors
I'm mirroring the binary-i386 portion of the Debian distribution on a machine at work because my company (actually huge corporate entity) has a firewall, naturally. Moreover, this firewall has some very non-standard proxies that I have not been able to get to work with the apt method of dselect. My mirror machine has a modem and that gives me normal access to the Internet (though very slow), but at least I have a machine within the company intranet that has a Debian distribution that I can use to support my other machines. My question has to do with the naming of directories in the Debian distribution. I've been mirroring 'stable' now for a while -- main/binary-all, main/binary-i386, contrib/binary-all, contrib/binary-i386, and non-free/binary-all, non-free/binary-i386. Now I decided to start mirroring 'unstable', with the same portions of the distribution as above. But I'm running into problems because 'stable' and 'unstable' are soft links to 'hamm' and 'slink' I guess and in unstable/main/binary-all/something there are links to hamm/main/binary-all/something instead of to stable/main/binary-all/something. When mirror tries to link the files it fails on my system because I don't have a hamm directory, only stable. So this seems to mean that I must not use 'stable' and 'unstable', but 'hamm' and 'slink'. So I guess if I want to mirror only part of the distribution (binary-all and binary-i386) I need to manually add the soft links between the code name of the distribution (e.g. slink) and the canonical name of the distribution (e.g. unstable). I was trying to stay away from the code names and use only the canonical names. Is this right?
Re: web mail
PC == Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PC Does anybody know of a program I can install on my system that PC will give my users web mail capabilites? www.atdot.org I wanted to try it myself, but didn't find the time to do it. Ciao, Martin
Problems with Networks
Ok, Ive tried and tried looking through all the support stuff on the Debian site, but I just can't figure out how to get my Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ Adapter to work. Intels site wasn't informative, either... Please help! Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mirrors
Stephen A. Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I'm mirroring the binary-i386 portion of the Debian distribution on a | machine at work because my company (actually huge corporate entity) has a | firewall, naturally. Moreover, this firewall has some very non-standard | proxies that I have not been able to get to work with the apt method of | dselect. My mirror machine has a modem and that gives me normal access to | the Internet (though very slow), but at least I have a machine within the | company intranet that has a Debian distribution that I can use to support | my other machines. | | My question has to do with the naming of directories in the Debian | distribution. I've been mirroring 'stable' now for a while -- | main/binary-all, main/binary-i386, contrib/binary-all, | contrib/binary-i386, and non-free/binary-all, non-free/binary-i386. Now I | decided to start mirroring 'unstable', with the same portions of the | distribution as above. But I'm running into problems because 'stable' and | 'unstable' are soft links to 'hamm' and 'slink' I guess and in | unstable/main/binary-all/something there are links to | hamm/main/binary-all/something instead of to | stable/main/binary-all/something. When mirror tries to link the files | it fails on my system because I don't have a hamm directory, only stable. | So this seems to mean that I must not use 'stable' and 'unstable', but | 'hamm' and 'slink'. | | So I guess if I want to mirror only part of the distribution (binary-all | and binary-i386) I need to manually add the soft links between the code | name of the distribution (e.g. slink) and the canonical name of the | distribution (e.g. unstable). I was trying to stay away from the code | names and use only the canonical names. Is this right? I'm only mirroring hamm, but I think the best way to do it is to copy the structure on the Debian ftp site. They have stable and unstable as soft links to hamm and slink, respectively. So what I do is: % ls -l local mirror directory/debian/dists drwxr-xr-x 6 glhenni user 512 Oct 22 01:52 hamm/ drwxr-xr-x 2 glhenni user 512 Oct 22 13:35 slink/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 glhenni user 4 Sep 24 13:31 stable - hamm/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 glhenni user 5 Sep 21 14:49 unstable - slink/ and I actually mirror the named directory, in this case hamm. I manually created the stable and unstable soft links so that dselect and apt would work properly. Note, again, that even though I have a slink/unstable pair I'm not really mirroring them, yet. So the relevant part of my mirror config file looks like: package=Debian-hamm passive_ftp=0 remote_dir=/debian/dists/hamm local_dir=local mirror directory/debian/dists/hamm exclude_patt=.*\/binary-alpha\/.*| .*\/binary-m68k\/.*| .*\/binary-powerpc\/.*| .*\/binary-sparc\/.*| .*\/disks-alpha\/.*| .*\/disks-m68k\/.*| .*\/disks-sparc\/.*| .*\/source\/.* Of course having to manually create the soft links isn't exactly elegant but that's the price I pay for not mirroring the entire Debian site. Gary
FW: mail failed, returning to sender
I debian users, Can anybody give me a explanation for that returned email? If you get my email, of course :-), I will try direct smtp instead of smail. Thanks -FW: [EMAIL PROTECTED]- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:07:58 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mbert Subject: mail failed, returning to sender |- Failed addresses follow: -| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... transport smtp: 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... we do not relay |- Message text follows: | Received: by localhost via smail from stdin id [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for unknown; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:07:51 -0500 (EST) Content-Length: 17 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 13:07:51 -0500 (EST) From: Mario Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [body not included] --End of forwarded message- -- Message de: Mario Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé par Xfmail, le 28-Oct-98 à 13:47:19 --
apropos in man corrupted ! - howto fix ?
At some point, my apropos has gotten corrupted so that it never returns anything. I've tried un-installing man-db, and re-installing it, but it apropos still does not work. Though I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it, when I issue 'catman' as super-user, I get the following error: catman: cannot read database /var/catman/index.bt: No such file or directory catman: unable to update /usr/man catman: cannot read database /var/catman/local/index.bt: No such file or directory catman: unable to update /usr/local/man catman: cannot read database /var/catman/X11R6/index.bt: No such file or directory catman: unable to update /usr/X11R6/man At one point I had suspected that maybe a slink upgrade which I did caused the corruption, so I have downgraded to installing the man-db that came with hamm.
Re: Problems with Networks
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 12:24:23PM -0600, Paul Baloo Johnson wrote: Ok, Ive tried and tried looking through all the support stuff on the Debian site, but I just can't figure out how to get my Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ Adapter to work. Intels site wasn't informative, either... Please help! Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you compile the driver as a module or into the kernel? You might need to turn on experimental support for this card. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 08:35:35AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: : Would it be possible for the sendmailconfig to update these databases? : It wouldn't be that hard, I think. Also, how about updating the defailts : so that they are stored in /etc/mail instead of /etc? They default to /etc/mail, except for aliases.db, which should be in /etc (Debian Policy, 4.5). I know what policy says, but this is not how it works. mailertable, etc. are in /etc and not /etc/mail. Because of the different db-structures you can use (hash, btree, etc.), I'd say don't let an automatic install program update those databases. It should even be able to process customized sendmail.cf's in order to work without failure. I personally wouldn't want any program changing those databases itself... It's a pain to manually have to run a long makemap command each time something is updated. There has GOT to be a better way... -- John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org | + Visit the Air Capital Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org
Re: lprng and disabling network printer
Pere Camps wrote: How do you disable the 'printer' port for remote connections if you're using lprng? Edit /etc/lpd.perms so it has a couple of lines saying sth. like this # reject all connections from remote machines ACCEPT SERVICE=X HOST=localhost REJECT SERVICE=X and make sure that you have no other `SERVICE=X' lines in that file. Also, these lines should appear before the `DEFAULT' line. Now you can do a `/etc/init.d/lprng reload', and remote connections will be blocked. -- /'`\ zzzZ | My PGP Public Key is available at: ( - - ) | http://home1.inet.tele.dk/renehl/ --oooO--(_)--Oooo-- Don't ya just hate it when there's not enough room to fin
Re: FW: mail failed, returning to sender
Mario == Mario Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mario I debian users, Can anybody give me a explanation for that Mario returned email? If you get my email, of course :-), I will try Mario direct smtp instead of smail. There's a good chance that the problem doesn't come from you, but from the targeted email address. Sam PS/ no need to copy debian-french when you write in english :) -- Samuel Tardieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netscape and gunzip
Hello, I'm missing in Netscape the feature to gunzip downloaded files on the fly. I'm sure to have seen this in non-Debian installations. How it could be setup. Armin Joellenbeck
HP_Deskjet890
Need help. I am not get my printer to print lpr.log says cannot execv /etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter if i remove from /etc/printcap the line if=/etc/magicfilter/ the printer works, but with a blank printout there is no communication problem !! so far i now the dj550c-filter is the right filter to use anyone who has an idea ? using kernel 2.1.125 -- Knutte BergstromLinux :-) http://www.algonet.se/~knuttebe
Re: Printing to a Novell network printer
One option is to install Novell-nfs on the Netware server. It includes lpd. At least that what we do at NYU to enable Windows, Mac and Unix to print. Sergey. On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Clovis Sena wrote: Hi all, so is that possible? How can I print to Novell network printer, where i put the queues? NOTE: I work in a environment that includes Win95+dos6.22 as clients, Win NT and Novell 3.12 as servers ( running a mix of database+ intranet nad internet access + mail(most uses outlooks/messenger) ) ; so I would like to introduce Linux as a option as server ( files + web services) as workstation ( that needs access all of these resources. Its driving me crasy! So I need helP :).
Re: mutt won't send mail?
I had the same problem as well. I thought I had done something wrong with my qmail setup ( I had. forgot to install maildirsmtp) but that didn't fix it. I them compiled up mutt-0.93.2.tar.gz and installed it. That fixed the problem for me. Might the -94xxx.deb possibly be bad? Subject: Re: mutt won't send mail? Date: Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 06:43:24AM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 05:57:53AM -0500, Victor Torrico wrote: Hello, I recently installed mutt_0.94.14-2.deb. Everything works OK except sending Mail. I get the following error message when I send mail: Error sending message, child exited 127 (). All help appreciated. Best regards, Victor -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I really don't like adding a me too, but it does this for me, as well. I might add that sending mail with the 'mail' command (at the command line) works just fine, so it's not a problem with the MTA. TIA James -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- It's not just a computer -- it's your ass. -- Cal Keegan ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2
Sendmail slowly is moving everything to /etc/mail - but they haven't hit
all the databases yet.
I can update the features for Debian, and move the default files from
/etc/ to /etc/mail/
Without parsing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, I can't tell what type of
encoding is used for the databases, so I don't think I can do the
makemaps automagically ;-{
--
Rick Nelson
On 28 Oct 1998, John Goerzen wrote:
Date: 28 Oct 1998 13:02:19 -0600
From: John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2
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Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 08:35:35AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
: Would it be possible for the sendmailconfig to update these databases?
: It wouldn't be that hard, I think. Also, how about updating the defailts
: so that they are stored in /etc/mail instead of /etc?
They default to /etc/mail, except for aliases.db, which should be in /etc
(Debian Policy, 4.5).
I know what policy says, but this is not how it works. mailertable,
etc. are in /etc and not /etc/mail.
Because of the different db-structures you can use (hash, btree, etc.), I'd
say don't let an automatic install program update those databases. It should
even be able to process customized sendmail.cf's in order to work without
failure. I personally wouldn't want any program changing those databases
itself...
It's a pain to manually have to run a long makemap command each time
something is updated. There has GOT to be a better way...
Re: Debian Questions
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:30:28PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because it needs an MTA and doesn't know about qmail. Use the qmail-src package available at a mirror of the non-free section near you. Antti-Juhani -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho A7 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** URL:http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ ** The FAQ is your friend. Trust the FAQ.
Re: **IMPORTANT** Slink sendmail and libdb2
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 03:39:51PM -0500, Richard A Nelson wrote:
: Without parsing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, I can't tell what type of encoding
: is used for the databases, so I don't think I can do the makemaps
: automagically ;-{
People can't be obligated not to edit sendmail.cf, instead of using
sendmail.m4 to generate sendmail.cf, imho. So you also need to do parsing in
sendmail.cf, I guess.
I don't think you want to do that. A possibility is maybe to include a
sample script that people can alter, which updates the databases in
/etc/mail ?
bye,
-Remco
