Cagada root arreglada, GRACIAS.
Os debo una, muchas gracias. -- Javier Viñuales [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ¡SOCORRO!: la he cagado como root.
Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: Puedes acceder en modo texto pulsando Control+Alt+Fx donde x puede ser de 1 a 6. Gracias Maqui pero, no me responde el teclado si arranco Debian de forma normal, entendiendo por normal que el gestor de arranque lance el kernel y este inicilice los servicios y configuraciones existentes en el disco duro donde está Linux. Me salta xdm al estar activado start-xdm y ya no me responde el teclado para nada,... salvo para hacer un reboot com Ctrl+Alt-Supr. Si intento Ctrl+Alt+Fx, sencillamente pasa de mi. Igual te ayuda en algo, a ti o a los demas: con 'Ctrl+R' desactivas el xdm. -- Salu2 del Correcaminos = == LUIS CABRERA SAUCO, miembro del Grupo GULIC == http://gulic.ml.org/ == http://gulic.eu.org/ Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, España =
Re: iconos desaparecidos en menus de KDE 1.0
Ramiro Alba Queipo ha escrit: miquel wrote: ¿alguien ha instalado la versión de KDE 1.0 que distribuye este mes Linux Actual (en el CD de debian contrib)? Resulta que en algunos menús falta el archivo con el icono, y en su lugar sale un cuadro negro. En concreto en las ventanas de las aplicaciones propias de KDE. Da un mensaje de que faltan archivos de KToolsBarBottons o algo así. ¿alguien saba cómo reponer esos ficheros que faltan? ¿O es un problema mío porque lo he instalado mal? (lo he hecho en dos máquinas y me ha pasado lo mismo). Si, a mi también me ha pasado y después de consultarlo en las listas de distrubucion de KDE lo que hay que hacer es instalar kdelibs0g-dev ademas de kdelibs0g y kdebase. Los iconos que faltan deberian de estar en los dos últimos, pero por un problema de la distrubución se encuentran en el kdelibs0g-dev, el cual debería de venir también con la distribucion. Un saludo -- Ramiro Alba muchas gracias, en efecto era lo que tú decías -un error de la distribución- instalé esa librería y han aparecido los iconos que faltaban. un saludo miquel
Distribucion mixta
Distribuci'on mixta Debido a ciertos problemas con el Xserve de debian ( solo me trabaja a 8 bpp ) Me gustaria usar el Xserve de Openlinux copiar los achivos bases de debian ( dselect , deb, etc ) e instalar las apps de debian Alguien sabe como yo puedo crear esa distribucion mixta ??? Hasta luego Lord of Linux _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: iconos desaparecidos en menus de KDE 1.0
El Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 05:20:21PM +0100, Juanmi Mora dijo: Que puedes contar de gnome. Yo lo he intentado instalar, pero desgraciadamente pago teléfono y estaba harto de bajar tantas librerías que necesitaba. Yo he probado GNOME y me pareció muy bueno, el único problema que tuve era con los juegos de cartas que cada vez que arrastraba uno se caía (el juego) Probé también gnumeric (la hoja de calculo o spreadsheet de GNOME) y me pareció muy buena, lo que no pude saber dónde carajos estaba era el gwp (Gnome Word Processor). Según una entrevista a los de GNOME, las librerías core deben entrar en proceso de congelamiento para este fin de año, y me imagino que la versión 1.0 de GNOME estará lista para eso de Marzo o Abril del próximo año. -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa| POWERED BY | www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 2.0 | www.gnu.org - Always Free, Always Cool, Always Linux
Re: Parche WindowMaker 0.20.2 - 0.20.3
On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/wmaker_0.20.3-0.0.1_i386.deb http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/libwraster1_0.20.3-0.0.1_i386.deb Gracias Marcelo, al final me he bajado el paquete completo y lo estoy compilando. Bueno, corriendo, es que han pasado unos minutos, je, je, :-) Saludos Juanmi Mora Barcelona - España [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Powered by Linux - Debian 2.0
Nvidia tnt
Buenas. Resulta que estoy evangelizando a tó taco con Debian, y hoy se la he instalado (bueno, he ayudado/contribuido) a un colega que tenía Red Hat. Resulta que tiene una tarjeta como la del Subject (aka nvidia) con 18 Mb RAM, pero sólo le reconoce 8. ¿Se le tiene que forzar en el XF86Config la cantidad de Mb o qué hay que hacer para que lo reconozca? Gracias. -- Have a nice day ;-) Grupo AGUILA TooManySecretsHay gente que vive y merece morir, y gente que muere y merece vivir. ¿Puedes devolver la vida? Pues no te apresures a dispensarla, ya que ni el más sabio conoce el fin de todos los caminos Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings)
Re: Distribucion mixta
Lord Of Linux el día Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 06:12:52AM -0800 expuso lo siguiente: Debido a ciertos problemas con el Xserve de debian ( solo me trabaja a 8 bpp ) Me gustaria usar el Xserve de Openlinux copiar los achivos bases de debian ( dselect , deb, etc ) e instalar las apps de debian Alguien sabe como yo puedo crear esa distribucion mixta ??? Bueno, algunas cosas de una distribución las puedes meter en la otra, pero una distribución mixta... creo que es como intentar sacar algo de un cruce entre un caballo y un pez... ¿un caballito de mar? -- Have a nice day ;-) Grupo AGUILA TooManySecretsHay gente que vive y merece morir, y gente que muere y merece vivir. ¿Puedes devolver la vida? Pues no te apresures a dispensarla, ya que ni el más sabio conoce el fin de todos los caminos Gandalf (The Lord of the Rings)
Re: Nvidia tnt
Hola! ¿Se le tiene que forzar en el XF86Config la cantidad de Mb o qué hay que hacer para que lo reconozca? Has probado: VideoRam 18432 En la sección de devices del XF86Config? -- p.
Re: questions
At 05:42 AM 12/8/1998 -0500, Josh Beavers wrote: I am planning to install Debian 2.0 and I had a couple of euqquestions. 1. I installed a small preview off floppies and it had a SCSI driver still in the kernel when I booted pup that I did not want there. This caused it to give a boot up error. Is there an easy eway to ocorrect this in the setup-installation without doing something like recompiling the kernel? I'm no expert, but I believe the only way to remove the default drivers is to recompile the kernel. The installation will let you add a few things (like ethernet driver, etc), but I don't think you can take stuff out. 2. Is it too hard to configure Xfree86? Some hvave hard to configure things if you do not know specific things. Yes, it is too hard. But it's not too hard to accomplish. Worry about getting a basic system working first, then try getting X working. Basically three things I would suggest: 1) Install the X-base and dependent packages. 2) Check your /etc/Xserver file to make sure the first line points to the server (sortta video mode/resolution/driver) you want to run. 3) Run XF86Setup; if that doesn't work, try xf86config; if that doesn't work, holler for help on this list. 3. That's all. thsnkanks, and bye. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE:KDE and kppp
I am not 100% sure this is the reason, can you just run pon as a normal user ? If not, add yourself to the group dip (add you username to the line dip:x:30:yourusernamehere ) When you can run pon and poff as a nirmal user, then see if kppp works as well. That worked in my case. Sergey. On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, John Greer wrote: I have kde installed on my machine and seem to have everything installed and working OK. The only thing that is a hang-up right now is that I am unable to run the kppp program as a normal user. It gives an error message that the setuid script is unable to run and this I can not start pppd. Does anyone have any clues on this??? John John Greer Information Systems Specialist Mansfield Library The University of Montana (406)243-6063 Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty. Completion of Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843. P. 93. -Daniel Webster
Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite
I've installed hamm on Toshiba Tecra 700. tecra disk did not help - it seems to still use bzImage while zImage is needed. What I did (after seeing advice on this list) was to put kernel on a dos partition and use loadlin.exe (and the debian install.bat). And after I install everything, I still had to compile my own kernel (to make zImage). I don't know what the status of boot disks for slink, I never managed to boot them (it was a week ago). For the explanations of why zImage is needed see Manoj's message several days ago (about ThinkPad). Sergey. On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Joey Hess wrote: Use the tecra boot disks. I have debian installed happily on my toshiba sattellite 445cdx, btw. There are even some debian packages (toshiba-hotkey, toshiba-fan) specifically for these laptops. Vazquez Jr, E A wrote: Don't expect much help here, I've been trying for DAYS to get a response to my questions but apparently no-one likes laptop installs. - Ed I'm trying to install debian on a Toshiba Satellite. I get as far as booting linux.. but then the Toshiba logo comes up and the cycle restarts. I'm sure I read a post recently about this but I can't remember what it was. There must be a simple way of getting round this -- any ideas? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- see shy jo
Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite
Vazquez Jr, E A writes: Actually, I did. Did what? The problem was and is that everything I can find presumes that I already have a mounted source device or network connection to complete the install and build the network connection. Er, if you have installed base, you *have* installed everything you need for a network connection. This reply was a general statement on the level of help I have gotten from this list, which is none unless you count the flame storm I just unleashed. I generally ignore laptop questions because, not having a laptop, I know just enough about the subjet to know that laptop installs can be idiosyncratic and tricky. I also generally ignore questions that express anger or hostility. I suspect that I am not alone in that. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Installation problem from floppies, RAMDISK error, please help me!!!
I am trying to install debian from a 386SX 16mhz with 5 megs of ram from a floppy disk drive. It has a 106 meg hard drive. 15 megs of the hard drive are used as an MSDOS partition. The installation goes through detecting items on the system and then says the following and freezes: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Re: Installation problem from floppies, RAMDISK error, please help me!!!
Are you *sure* it's freezing and not just taking a long time to decompress that compressed image? I intalled debian on a 386sx 16mhz (actually an 8mhz running at 16 in turbo mode, if that matters), with 8 meg RAM, and it was extremely slow. It did work, though. Sorry, I don't use that machine any more (it has become a doorstop), so I can't offer any advice other than be patient. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install debian from a 386SX 16mhz with 5 megs of ram from a floppy disk drive. It has a 106 meg hard drive. 15 megs of the hard drive are used as an MSDOS partition. The installation goes through detecting items on the system and then says the following and freezes: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R D and Support +1-410-489-9521 Overlord, Inc. http://www.overlord.com
Clock Skew?
Hi... while compiling the kernel, I got a Clock Skew detected, your compile may not be complete (or something to that effect...) What is clock skew?? This started after I changed my motherboard to an Aopen AX6B (used to be asus KN97) I'm also running a Celeron now, though I don't think this is the problem (?) Once, when I got back into win98, I noticed that my computer clock was off by a day Does anyone have an inkling of idea as to what is happening? thank you!!
Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite
On Mon, 07 Dec 1998 22:44:20 GMT, wrote: Hi, I'm new to this list (1/2 hour). I subscribed because I intend (intended?) to install some Linux distribution on my Tosh Satellite 200CDS. Welcome! Don't go just yet. This info is just so motivating. I've never heard that called information before. I tried Suse 4.4.1 two years ago and it was only frustrating. I trashed it. Now Windows annoys me more than ever. Guys, tell me, is there a realistic chance to get Debian working on a Tosh 200CDS? I'm not a an adminstration masochist. ;-) Go to the debian mailing list archives search engine at: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ then type in Toshiba Satellite, select user (for debian-user), Oct-Dec 98, and click search. That's what I call information. Another valuable resource might be found at: Linux on Laptops http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ There is a listing for a Toshiba 220CDS, so if a 200CDS is anything like a 220CDS, then you have an excellent chance. There are 43 Toshibas listed there. As was mentioned, you may need a zimage kernel disk image but if you make a debian-user list request I'm sure someone will respond. PS: And, 2.0 or wait a little for 2.1? Once slink is released, updating from hamm to slink should be very straightforward (not now though), so if your only concern is update difficulties, then get hamm now and update to slink after it releases. Besides, you can run most slink packages on hamm, anyway. There may be a number of dependencies to fulfill, but the Debian package finder tells you everything you need and presents it to you in an easy to use interface. http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages I've got a hamm system with some slink packages and it runs great. HTH, -- David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
latex.....
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Can someone please tell me how to write a tab in latex.
Thanks for your help
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install star-office5.0 on debian (slink)?
Hi, everybody -- I just tried to install newly downloaded so5.0 following their instruction (run ./setup form installation directory), but my installation stopped with the msg that the disk was full. df showed that my / partition was indeed 100% full, adn I discovered it is due to so5 using /tmp directory (and my root partition, which the /tmp is part of, is only 32 Mb). My question is: a) I would not want to repartition the drive to install this single program. Can I get around the /tmp being the directory for the install process? b)alternatively, can I, temporary, make a link for /tmp to point to /usr/local/tmp and so trick the system long enough to install the so5 in my /home partition? Are there any side effects I should be aware of ( I am planning on getting back to regular /tmp right after)? Can the above be accomplished by setting some command line path (I'm afraid I'm not the programmer) like SET TMP=/usr/local/tmp in my bash shell (slink version)? I would hate to realize I have downloaded something for 7 hours for nothing... TIA, damir
Re: Help - X meets my OLD monitor
Subject: Help - X meets my OLD monitor Date: Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 02:58:16PM -0500 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hey guys... I'm outta ideas on this one, so I'm posting here with the hopes someone can help me out. I'm trying to configure X on my system - it has an old Mitsuba monitor that I can't seem to get specs on. Here's what I DO know: * Model Mitsuba 710VH * Under Win95, I can run 800x600 with no problem. * Mitsuba doesn't have any clue how to get specs for the monitor - it's a third party monitor to them, and the company that made them is out of business. * There are no specs on the monitor itself (other than power comsumption) * I bought it used - no books. *XF86Config works just fine (with VGA16 server), but I'd prefer to run the SVGA server so I can use 800x600 mode. Any ideas on how I can get SVGA server to run on this monitor? TIA - Jay Jay, Have you done a search on the net for Monitor specs? I have an old monitor that I had no specs for and did a search. There is a site ( the address of which I can't find :-( ) that has specs for just about every monitor made. It took me a while to find it but I now can do up to 1280x1024, whereas before I was stuck at 800x600. Hope you find that site! Wish I could find the URL, sorry. -- It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: latex.....
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: Can someone please tell me how to write a tab in latex. Tabbing in LaTeX is almost always the wrong thing to do. LaTeX handles all whitespace for you if you use the correct semantic commands, and the results are very nice. Tabs are for typewriters. :-) But if you insist, type 'info latex2e' and read the section on the 'tabbing' environment. It can be handy for tables and stuff. (If you just want space, \hspace may be more appropriate. I recommend writing a custom semantic command with \newcommand instead of hardcoding a spacing, if you anticipate using the space more than once.) Havoc
Re: SQUAKE SVGALIB problems
hi Ship's Log, Lt. Michael Beattie, Stardate 071298.1206: A `chmod +s /usr/games/squake.real` will fix it. you should also consider running suidregister from the package suidmanager as squacke is worth being updated frequently and you want to keep the +s Greetings -- Alexander N. Benner - The Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper: -4- A Promise Keeper is committed to building strong marriages and families through love, protection, and biblical values.
Re: resolve.conf specification
I avoid the problem of a separate /etc/resolv.conf for each of my ISP's by never using my ISP's DNS servers. I found that DNS lookups to my local ISP took as long as lookups to the the main internet DNS servers A through M, about 4 seconds. So, I run a local DNS server, and I have but one entry in my /etc/resolv.conf, nameserver 192.168.1.1 If you have but one local computer, you could use the default nameserver 127.0.0.1 Again, in this file, I have no ISP nameservers. This neatly solves the problem with ISP nameservers, but you need local DNS with more than just caching. For DNS, the debian package bind installed /var/named/named.root, which includes the internet's main DNS servers A through M. While the documentation on using the bind package was not clear, intuition takes you a long way [I spent about 10 hours mulling over what to do with DNS; I would like to see more suggestions in README.debian files with each package, perhaps what the package maintainer does with it]. I use the debian ppp package version 2.3.6-2, so rather than make my own ip-up file, I put files (without a decimal, eg, ignored are the files up-mail.old) in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d. Actually, I have but one file there, the further below file /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/dns-mail-news-time_jameson . For me, depending on my ISP, this file mostly handles differences for mail-user-agents and mail-transfer-agents. From this dns-mail-news-time_jameson file, you can infer how you could alter /etc/resolv.conf according to your current ISP. Following somebody else's lead, since I run a local DNS server, I have two separate files /var/named/named.root.real /var/named/named.root.fake according as I have a ppp connection or as I do not have a ppp connection. #!/bin/bash # BEGINNING OF /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/dns-mail-news-time_jameson . # Some first line like the above is obligatory for run-parts. # This files controlling program, /etc/ip-up, sets the following # alpha-numberic variables, # PPP_IFACE # PPP_TTY # PPP_SPEED # PPP_LOCAL #LOCAL IP ADDRESS, NEEDED FOR DYNAMIC PPP # PPP_REMOTE # PPP_IPPARAM # # Here, I copy needed configuration files depending on my ISP mnsinc.com # or pressroom.com. # # You probably also want to # cp /etc/resolv.conf.connected /etc/resolv.conf here; # I think not anymore, though maybe copy some named configuration files\ # when go down. # knews will not over-ride the environment variable NNTP, # but has news.mnsinc.com in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Knews. # # For testing, echo $PPP_IFACE $PPP_TTY $PPP_SPEED $PPP_LOCAL $PPP_REMOTE \ /tmp/ip-up.d.dns-mail.out case $PPP_REMOTE in 206.239*|206.55*) ###This is my ISP mnsinc.com. ##/bin/cp /etc/named.conf.mnsinc-version \ # /etc/named.conf #used by named DNS; \ # I no longer use forwarders though ##/bin/cp /var/named/boot.options.mnsinc-version \ #/var/named/boot.options#used by named DNS; \ # I no longer use forwarders though # /bin/ln -fs /etc/mailname.mnsinc-version \ /etc/mailname #used by pine for outgoing addresses. /bin/ln -fs /etc/smail/config.mnsinc-version \ /etc/smail/config#for outgoing mail /bin/ln -fs /etc/nmh/mts.conf.mnsinc-version \ /etc/nmh/mts.conf #for mh MUAs to give correct \ #SENDER:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and possibly From:. /bin/ln -fs /etc/news/server.mnsinc-version \ /etc/news/server#News server, probably only \ #referenced via my bash, though post-installed by knews. # logger working with mnsinc.com\ #used for debugging this script. ;; 198.69.131*) ###This is my ISP pressroom.com. ##/bin/cp /etc/named.conf.pressroom-version \ ##/etc/named.conf #used by named DNS; \ ## I no longer use forwarders though. ##/bin/cp /var/named/boot.options.pressroom-version \ ##/var/named/boot.options #used by named DNS;\ ##I no longer use forwarders though. # /bin/ln -fs /etc/mailname.pressroom-version\ /etc/mailname #used by pine for outgoing addresses. /bin/ln -fs /etc/smail/config.pressroom-version \ /etc/smail/config #for outgoing mail /bin/ln -fs /etc/nmh/mts.conf.pressroom-version \ /etc/nmh/mts.conf #for mh MUAs giving correct \ #SENDER:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and possibly From:.
Re: questions
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 05:42:22AM -0500, Josh Beavers wrote: I am planning to install Debian 2.0 and I had a couple of euqquestions. 1. I installed a small preview off floppies and it had a SCSI driver still in the kernel when I booted pup that I did not want there. This caused it to give a boot up error. Is there an easy eway to ocorrect this in the setup-installation without doing something like recompiling the kernel? if You have some drivers You really dont need You can comment this in the file `/etc/modules' with a '#' like # st You don't need to recompile the kernel for that also You should comment dependencies in the file '/etc/conf.modules' 2. Is it too hard to configure Xfree86? Some hvave hard to configure things I think this depends on Your hardware, if you do not know specific things. 3. That's all. thsnkanks, and bye. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Peter
Re: Installation problem from floppies, RAMDISK error, please help me!!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install debian from a 386SX 16mhz with 5 megs of ram from a floppy disk drive. It has a 106 meg hard drive. 15 megs of the hard drive are used as an MSDOS partition. The installation goes through detecting items on the system and then says the following and freezes: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Perhaps you have a bad floppy? FWIW, my firewall system is a 386DX33 with 8megs, so it should work. Cheers, - Jim
PPP and kernel 2.0.36
I have just installed the lastest stable kernel 2.0.36 and PPP does not work for me. I have compiled it into the kernel. The version is the 2.2.0 version of PPP. I have tried patching the kernel to PPP v2.3.3 to no avail. I am using the Debian PPP package 2.3.5-2. I am running the Hamm version of Debian. Upon attempting to run pppd I get the following: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because the PPP kernel module is not loaded, or because the kernel is not configured for PPP. See the README.linux file in the ppp-2.3.5 distribution. I do see PPP in the boot up text, so the kernel does appear to be loading PPP PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. PPP line discipline registered. Any thoughts on this one? Thanx in advance. -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: latex.....
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: Can someone please tell me how to write a tab in latex. For what purpose? Just the tab in the first line of a paragraph? The \ident. If you'd like to make a table, try using the tabbular enviroment. Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/pgp_key.phtml -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNmyiQOEzIlbKpewXEQKD0QCfQBMAKUFjM+wO6zpoYNOogTyWGugAoIWF zjE5QqFosqeCMGmKOqmmE2hg =xS8x -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: install star-office5.0 on debian (slink)?
Damir J. Naden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: b)alternatively, can I, temporary, make a link for /tmp to point to /usr/local/tmp and so trick the system long enough to install the so5 in my /home partition? Are there any side effects I should be aware of ( I am planning on getting back to regular /tmp right after)? Yep, you can put your /tmp on another partition and symlink it without side-effects. Make sure you use the same permissions. Cheers, - Jim
RE: Just My 2 Cents
Hey All, Just venting. Recently I check out the Linux apps wish list web page! I though that it was mighty funny that the software that most people want to see ported to Linux is made by the big nasty Microsoft clan. Personally, I hate M$ and was glade to find Linux. If it wasn't for Linux I probably would have only used my PC for games, which is about the only thing I WindBlows is go for (IMHO)! Two things: First, I must agree, I've seen that bsod once too much in my life Second, let's not get to M$ sucks because M$ sucks kind of arguments, please. It seems to me that most Linux user feel the same way. I always read threads on the evil M$ or how bad Windblows is etc! So can someone tell me why the Hell everyone wants M$ apps ported to Linux - Doesn't that defeat the purpose!!! Well to me it does. Actually, I think more and more people are wanting Microsof-like applications, because the Microsoft philosophy has some good ideas, especially when you are a end-user. Let's assume hardware requirments are not an issue and that there are NO SINGLE BUG in any of those so-called apps. the philosophy behind Microsoft thingies is pretty appealing to users. A single interface, compared to Linux' buttload of window managers and widget sets. I agree it's a Linux advantage on Microsoft on many points, but not to the newbie, or seldom user. Let's take the Windows' IE and Office integration as an example. In the basic, it's a great idea. You get to do everyday tasks more easily, the appropriate tools are more handy and more and more softwares can use those apps as subsets of themselves. You get a serie of to-be-powerful tools that are imposed as standards, guaranteeing that your knowledge is to be preserved from task to task. Now my point is: Microsoft has some great ideas, and it would be a shame to spit on those ideas simply because they are Microsoft's. I'm the first to acknowledge the fact that a monopoly will eventually kill the software market, and having the choice of a single suite of apps is not the philosophy we want behind Linux. (That philosophy being the freedom of choice) I think the way to go as a community would to form a regroupment which would define standards on how such suite of apps should behave and output, and let the programmers do their job. Let's have a central brain which coordinates everyone's effort in a single place, to get the most out of our anarchy-based development model. The greatest example of such an app is Gecko (the latest Mozilla 'semi-official' build). It's simply is an internet-document renderer, yet it'll aimed to be used in things other than a browser, like HTML E-mail readers, help systems and other things that way Doesn't that sounds familiar? Yes, it does. Microsoft did the same with IE, Office and Visual Studio. At the center of Microsoft philosophy is to convince users to use their software. At the basis of ours, it's to allow users to choose, and modularize the OS and suite of apps environment. Microsoft actually did good things. It simply never did them for the correct purpose. Just ranting. Thanks Linus. Rod. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: latex.....
While it isn't exactly a tab, you could use
\qquad #big space
\quad#no so big space
\; #thickspace
\: #mediumspace
\, #thinspace
\! #negative thinspace
\hspace{2.3cm} #you probably want to avoid ruler measurements
\hspace{4.7ex} #varies by size of your font
If this doesn't put space in; eg, at the beginning of a line,
you might try \null\qquad\null .
Remember, in LaTeX, if you find yourself working too hard at something,
you are probably working against LaTeX and creating what has improper
form [I have done this too many times myself].
If you have many things to be tabbed, use the tabular environment.
You can turn many LaTeX problems into tabular solutions.
For example,
\begin{tabular}{ll}
first second \\
third fourth \\
\end{tabular}
Hey,
Can someone please tell me how to write a tab in latex.
Thanks for your help
Shao
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to buy even a pair of breeches. --Chinese Proverb
ipchains/ip_masq problems
I can't seem to get my ip_masq working. I'm running 2.1.131, so I'm using ipchains. I've set it up the best I can tell from the instructions, but can't hit anything outside my lan from my win95 box. Any ideas on what I have not done properly? Here is what I'm sending ipchains from my /etc/init.d/network file: ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 192.168.1.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 I have a ppp account that I use to connect to the internet from. Tia, Chris
Latex - let me make clear
Hi all,
Thanks for all the kind answers about tabbing in Latex.
Let me make myself clear, I am trying to do something like this(my
resume):
Name: Shao Zhang
Address:Debian, org
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Health: Excellent
and so on
Ok, so how do I write this in Latex?
Thanks in advance!
Shao.
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PENSHURST 2035 //\
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Re: ipchains/ip_masq problems
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 11:10:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas on what I have not done properly? Trying to do it yourself... ;) ipmasq - Initializes IP Masquerade firewalling/forwarding This package contains scripts to initialize IP Masquerade, a feature of Linux that allows an entire network of computers to be connected to another network (usually the Internet) with only one network address on the other network. IP Masquerade is often referred to as NAT (Network Address Translation) on other platforms. The package by default configures the system for a basic forwarding firewall, with IP spoofing and stuffed routing protection. However, ipmasq now features a very flexible framework whereby you can override any of the predefined rules if you so choose. It also allows you to control if the rules are reinterpreted when pppd brings a link up or down. IP Masquerade requires the kernel to be compiled with CONFIG_FIREWALL, CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL, CONFIG_IP_FORWARD, and CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opinions! ---+- pgpUM1FZi25hS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Just My 2 Cents
I think the way to go as a community would to form a regroupment which would define standards on how such suite of apps should behave and output, and let the programmers do their job. Let's have a central brain which coordinates everyone's effort in a single place, to get the most out of our anarchy-based development model. The greatest example of such an app is Gecko (the latest Mozilla 'semi-official' build). It's simply is an internet-document renderer, yet it'll aimed to be used in things other than a browser, like HTML E-mail readers, help systems and other things that way Doesn't that sounds familiar? Yes, it does. Microsoft did the same with IE, Office and Visual Studio. At the center of Microsoft philosophy is to convince users to use their software. At the basis of ours, it's to allow users to choose, and modularize the OS and suite of apps environment. Microsoft actually did good things. It simply never did them for the correct purpose. I would often like to at least narrow the software selection from a long list. I should never have dabbled with the flexible but arcane mh mailer or several other mailers. I would like to see the choices that the experts, the Debian developers, make. Do they mostly use exim or smail or ...? What ppp and networking packages do they use? Do they compose html through LaTeX then latex2html, with raw vim, ...? Do they get news with knews or netscape? Do they most often use xfig, xpaint, xv, gimp? Would the Debian developers be amenable to a survey of their expert opinion? -- Jim Burt, NJ9L, Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mnsinc.com/jameson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (703) 235-5213 ext. 132 (work) A poor man associating with a rich man will soon be too poor to buy even a pair of breeches. --Chinese Proverb
Re: Installation problem from floppies, RAMDISK error, please help me!!!
OK, As a simple test, I took the current RESC1440.BIN from the hamm distribution, used RAWRITE2.EXE to copy it to a floppy, dusted off the old 386 and booted it. It took about a minute and a half to get to the RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 message (which is NOT an error), then about 15 seconds more before it continued (saying VFS file system detected, or something to that effect). That machine has 12 meg (sorry I thought it was only 8), and is a 386SX running at 16mhz. I don't think the difference in memory size is causing extremely long delay in your case, because at that time there isn't anything else running. Have you tried recreating the floppy? Maybe you got a bad image. If that doesn't help, I'm afraid your problem is beyond my knowledge; but let us know what happens, hopefully someone here will have a good idea. David Coe wrote: Are you *sure* it's freezing and not just taking a long time to decompress that compressed image? I intalled debian on a 386sx 16mhz (actually an 8mhz running at 16 in turbo mode, if that matters), with 8 meg RAM, and it was extremely slow. It did work, though. Sorry, I don't use that machine any more (it has become a doorstop), so I can't offer any advice other than be patient. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install debian from a 386SX 16mhz with 5 megs of ram from a floppy disk drive. It has a 106 meg hard drive. 15 megs of the hard drive are used as an MSDOS partition. The installation goes through detecting items on the system and then says the following and freezes: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R D and Support +1-410-489-9521 Overlord, Inc. http://www.overlord.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- David Coe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] R D and Support +1-410-489-9521 Overlord, Inc. http://www.overlord.com
Re: XFree86 Problem
Hi Jeff; Last night I've done a few things -- install the XFree86 X windows system; run the make xconfig; and finally compiled the kernel. Get the basics of XFree86 from Debian 1. xbase 2. xfntbase 3. xlib6g 4. xserver-vga16 or xserver-svga or xserver-s3 which ever suits your video card Install the xlib6g and any dependencies that is necessary, then the xfntbase, xbase, xserver-( ). When you come to the xserver install get ready with your monitor data and run the SuperProbe to check for video card chipset and memory. When you come to the run the preinstalled script for XFree86, I just answer no and I do the XFree86setup myself. Finally it turns up with Selected card definition Identifier : Winfast 3D S600 Chipset : S3 ViRGE Sever : XF86-svga Do NOT probe clocks or use any Clocks line. And then what follows is I don't select any RAMDAC (actually, I don't know what it is) or set any Clock chip; and lastly I end up with the program saying your XF86Config is in /etc/X11/XF86Config and that is it, all done. But when you go through the steps go slowly one after one read the questions carefully and then answer them. You may need xfnt75 and xfnt100 package as well. The main difference between you and me is that I haven't run the preinstalled script provided by XFree86. Try this out yourself and it's full of challenge. I feel satisfaction when I run the startx command and compiled the kernel. Alan Tam Jeff Browning wrote: When I try to run the preinstall script for xfree86, it says: It appears that you have an a.out system. a.out binaries are not available for this release. Is this correct? If not, how am I supposed to install xfree86? Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: PPP and kernel 2.0.36
Paul Miller writes: Upon attempting to run pppd I get the following: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This is one of pppd's favorite error messages, and it is almost always wrong. There are several possible problems that can mislead pppd into saying this. Any thoughts on this one? How did you set up ppp? Did you run pppconfig? If not, do so. If so, send me copies of your /etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppp/peers/provider files (with passwords removed) and the output of 'plog' and I will try to help you. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: Just My 2 Cents
Jameson Burt wrote: I would often like to at least narrow the software selection from a long list. I should never have dabbled with the flexible but arcane mh mailer or several other mailers. I would like to see the choices that the experts, the Debian developers, make. Do they mostly use exim or smail or ...? What ppp and networking packages do they use? Do they compose html through LaTeX then latex2html, with raw vim, ...? Do they get news with knews or netscape? Do they most often use xfig, xpaint, xv, gimp? Would the Debian developers be amenable to a survey of their expert opinion? Funny you should mention a survey. Avery Pennarun has put together a package called 'popularity-contest' that measures which packages are used most. The results were posted to http://www.worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/popcon/ -Mitch
eth0: unknown interface
Hi! I just got my trusty Debian Linux installed and here's my hardware setup: 486/66 with 8 MB RAM, 630 MB hard disk, 3C509B-combo NIC My problem is during initial installation I wasn't able to setup the NIC so now here I am in the # prompt not knowing how to add/configure it. I read thru all the HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs (relevant ones of course), recompiled the kernel with 3C509 support but still it would give me: eth0: unknown interface as the error message. In SCO UNIX there's this netconfig command to add a NIC and assign protocols and ip address before recompiling the kernel. What's the equivalent command/steps in Linux? TIA.
latex2html and navigation buttons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 When running latex2html on documents, it complains about not finding many images (this is a very plain text document fwiw, no math; I'm trying to keep it simple), and a look at the output reveal that the links to the nav buttons are in reference to my filesystem (ie /usr/.). Take a look at http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/school/nationalism/ for a quick look if you'd like. On a simular note, I can't generate images for things such as complex forumulas and the like; any ideas? Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/pgp_key.phtml -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNmyya+EzIlbKpewXEQJfxwCg535S+Ht3yH/nymB+LWOlAAnAb54An1uR K9TvniIJjcG46s7pr4wGeMLv =tZvi -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Clock Skew?
Tun, Hi... while compiling the kernel, I got a Clock Skew detected, your compile may not be complete (or something to that effect...) What is clock skew? It's probably due to the fact that you have modification time of files in the future! That is only possible if you had a bad time on your clock. This started after I changed my motherboard to an Aopen AX6B (used to be asus KN97) Maybe the Aopen has a very large clock drift when the computer it's off. Do a simple test: take note of what time did the computer had when you turn it off and the next time check what time does it have... If you have a permanent connection to the internet use rdate to set your date from a time server. If not, use hwclock to set your machine's clock. -- p.
Re: refused connect from 'unknown'
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Can somebody explain me what this is? Dec 7 13:52:11 casal in.telnetd[27798]: warning: can't get client address: No route to host Dec 7 13:52:12 casal in.telnetd[27798]: refused connect from unknown If my machine has a telnet request, then my machine knows the IP (at least) of the machine which requests it, no? No - not if the person connecting disconnects almost instantly; what can happen is that if the person in question opens and then closes a connection almost instantly, the connection goes to inetd, which accepts it, but before tcpd (which is what inetd hands telnet connections off to, and which is the program generating these log messages) gets the connection and finds out who's on the other end, the connection is closed, and tcpd is left without a clue, hence the confusing error messages. This is usually done as part of a port scan - testing to see which ports are accessible on your machine. There ought to be an option to inetd to log all tcp connections before passing them off to something else to handle, but I can see how that could get to be a hassle on a busy machine. On the other hand, services which are not run from inetd - for example, apache on most machines - will know where this connection was coming from, and many port scans hit port 80 as well as port 23. I seem to remember some program that monitored every individual incoming network packet and logged warning messages about suspicious packets - I suppose someone will know how to do this with ipchains or ip firewalling stuff.
Re: Latex - let me make clear
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote:
Name: Shao Zhang
Address:Debian, org
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Health: Excellent
and so on
Ok, so how do I write this in Latex?
You're fighting LaTeX by deciding on a layout in advance. This will be
painful. :-) (though you can do this in any of the environments discussed
so far, tabbing or tabular.) If you really want a particular layout,
StarOffice will prove easier; LaTeX is not made for this.
Using latex, it is probably easier to either use some of the resume.sty
files floating around the net - don't ask me where to get them, but I have
seen them.
For my resume, I made up some m4 macros, then implemented html and LaTeX
versions of them, and wrote the resume with the macros. This allowed me to
generate both print and HTML output.
I'll attach my (hacky and kind of lame) latex macros, perhaps they will
give you some ideas (ignore the m4 stuff, just extract the latex):
Havoc
m4_define(R_HEADER, `
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
%\title{TITLEHERE}
%\date{DATEHERE}
\author{Havoc Pennington}
\setlength{\textwidth}{6.3in}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0in}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0in}
\setlength{\textheight}{9in}
%\setlength{\parindent}{.3in}
\setlength{\topmargin}{0in}
% So anti-LaTeX in spirit
\newcommand{\letterhead}[0]{\noindent \begin{minipage}{6.5in} \noindent
{\bf Havoc Pennington }\smallskip
\hrule
\begin{flushright}
\addvspace{-.9em}
{\small 5548 South Blackstone Avenue,\ Chicago, IL 60637 \\
\addvspace{-.05em}
[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ \ (773) 324--3896\ \ \
http://pobox.com/\~{}hp \\ }
\end{flushright}
\end{minipage}
\medskip}
% should be an environment, really.
\newcommand{\rsectionStart}[1]{\subsection*{#1}}
\newcommand{\rsectionEnd}[0]{}
% arguments are title, dates, location
\newcommand{\experience}[3]{\item {\bf #1}: {#2} \newline #3
\smallskip \newline}
\newcommand{\ritem}[1]{\item #1}
% From the C++ FAQ
\def\CC{{C\nolinebreak[4]\hspace{-.05em}\raisebox{.5ex}{\tiny\bf ++}}}
% \def\CC{C\raise.22ex\hbox{{\footnotesize +}}\raise.22ex\hbox{\footnotesize +}}
% \def\CC{{C\hspace{-.05em}\raisebox{.4ex}{\tiny\bf ++}}}
\begin{document}
\letterhead
' )
m4_define(R_BEGIN_SECTION, `\rsectionStart{$1} \begin{itemize}')
m4_define(R_END_SECTION, `\end{itemize} \rsectionEnd')
m4_define(R_ITEM, `\ritem{$1}')
m4_define(R_BOLD, `{\bf $1}')
m4_define(R_FOOTER, `\end{document}')
m4_dnl arguments are title, date, location, text
m4_define(R_EXPERIENCE, `\experience{$1}{$2}{$3} $4')
m4_define(R_LATEX, `\LaTeX')
m4_define(R_CC, `\CC\ ')
Ports
Hi, I don't know a whole lot about computers but I'm going to attempt to install Debian tomorrow and am going through the checklist. One of the questions asked is, To which port is your mouse connected. I have an Aptiva 2137-E24, I looked in the manual and visited the IBM site but can't seem to find the information I am looking for. To be honest I don't know if I am looking for a number or what? The ports on the back of my computer just have pictures and colors corresponding to what is to be plugged in. I did find the IRQ number was listed in the manual. Can anyone help? Thanks, Kent
Re: Ports
Almost all new PCs nowadays come with a PS/2 connector for the mouse. For your attempt, use the device/port /dev/psaux. This is the PS/2 equivalent in Linux. HTH. -Original Message- From: KTB [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 9:53 AM Subject: Ports Hi, I don't know a whole lot about computers but I'm going to attempt to install Debian tomorrow and am going through the checklist. One of the questions asked is, To which port is your mouse connected. I have an Aptiva 2137-E24, I looked in the manual and visited the IBM site but can't seem to find the information I am looking for. To be honest I don't know if I am looking for a number or what? The ports on the back of my computer just have pictures and colors corresponding to what is to be plugged in. I did find the IRQ number was listed in the manual. Can anyone help? Thanks, Kent -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Mardo;Rino FN:Rino Mardo ORG:Obaid Humaid Al-Tayer;IT Department TITLE:Network and Systems Administrator NOTE:Certified Lotus Professional, R4 Administrator TEL;WORK;VOICE:+971 4 825000 TEL;WORK;FAX:+971 4 824901 ADR;WORK:;;P.O. Box 2623;Dubai;;;United Arab Emirates LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:P.O. Box 2623=0D=0ADubai=0D=0AUnited Arab Emirates URL:http://members.tripod.com/~rinom/ EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] EMAIL;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] EMAIL;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] EMAIL;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:19981208T061228Z END:VCARD
Re: Ports
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Rino Mardo wrote: Almost all new PCs nowadays come with a PS/2 connector for the mouse. For your attempt, use the device/port /dev/psaux. This is the PS/2 equivalent in Linux. This is if your mouse plugs into the little round socket. If it goes in the trapezoid socket, try /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 and one of them will probably work. Havoc
man problem
My problem with man is as follows: say I type man something, I get the following error: man: can't set effective uid: Operation not permitted Surely this isn't too bad, eh? Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
Re: -- MARK --
It's generated by syslogd, and is intended to show that logging is still active. You can use the -m option to change it's frequency. On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 08:29:52PM +0100, Armin Wegner wrote: Every twenty minutes my xconsole writes a string consisting of date and time, my hostname and the string -- MARK --. What does this mean? This is new and I can't remember when it first happened and what it caused to do so.
Hacked System
Hi, we had a hacker in one of ouer Debian boxes last night. Now is it possible to check my system integrity by comparing it's contents with the centrall debian archive? And how would that de done? Thanx! --- Name:Hakan Ardo E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.ub2.lu.se/~hakan/sig.html Public Key: Try finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint: E9 81 FD 90 53 5C E9 3E 3D ED 57 15 1B 7E 29 F3 Interests: WWW, Programming, 3D graphics Thought for the day: As long as one understands, the spelling does not matter :-) --- pgp7oJeUd2hvF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hacked System
Hold on. Your email says you're coming from debian.org and that your Debian boxes have been hacked. Does that mean our Debians too? -Original Message- From: Hakan Ardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 12:40 PM Subject: Hacked System Hi, we had a hacker in one of ouer Debian boxes last night. Now is it possible to check my system integrity by comparing it's contents with the centrall debian archive? And how would that de done? Thanx! --- Name:Hakan Ardo E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.ub2.lu.se/~hakan/sig.html Public Key: Try finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint: E9 81 FD 90 53 5C E9 3E 3D ED 57 15 1B 7E 29 F3 Interests: WWW, Programming, 3D graphics Thought for the day: As long as one understands, the spelling does not matter :-) --- BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Mardo;Rino FN:Rino Mardo ORG:Obaid Humaid Al-Tayer;IT Department TITLE:Network and Systems Administrator NOTE:Certified Lotus Professional, R4 Administrator TEL;WORK;VOICE:+971 4 825000 TEL;WORK;FAX:+971 4 824901 ADR;WORK:;;P.O. Box 2623;Dubai;;;United Arab Emirates LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:P.O. Box 2623=0D=0ADubai=0D=0AUnited Arab Emirates URL:http://members.tripod.com/~rinom/ EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] EMAIL;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] EMAIL;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] EMAIL;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:19981208T085928Z END:VCARD
Re: Hacked System
Hakan Ardo napisal(a): [...] : we had a hacker in one of ouer Debian boxes last night. Now is it : possible to check my system integrity by comparing it's contents with the : centrall debian archive? And how would that de done? debsums -- Daniel Podlejski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://underley.zakopane.top.pl/ ... I don't need your civil war It feeds the rich while it buries the poor ...
Re: suid script
[...] the executable (bash, whatever) opens the file it closes it it changes uid/gid to reflect suid status - so it becames root or whatever it reopens it and executes it problem: you can change the content of the file between the two !! so you can have your script, running as root, executing whatever you want !! So that's the problem with SUID scripts. Seems to me it could be solved by *not* closing the script file, just keep it open. Why can't that be done? It can't be possible, or someone would surely have fixed it a long time ago? Helge Hafting
Emacs20
Hi all, When I run dpkg --configure emacs20, I got the following: While compiling hyperlatex-format-htmltitle: ** reference to free variable hyperlatex-meta-| Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/hyperlatex/hyperlatex.elc Done install/tm: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20 install/tm: byte-compiling for emacs20 emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/tm emacs20 xemacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 26. dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 Errors were encountered while processing: emacs20 Could anyone please help?? Thanks shao.
Compressing hard disk
Hi, Did someone managed to install e2compr-1.06.orig ? My hard disk is too small to fit everything, and I heard e2compr was acting as stacker. But I was unable to install it on my linux, the compilation and the kernel patch both failed. I have a 2.0.34 kernel. Has someone tried and managed to do it ? With what kernel version ? Is someone planning to do a deb file ? ( does one exist already ) ? TIA -- \\|// VDB g (O O) OOO~(_)~oOOO~~~ :o) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :-xxx ooO~Ooo ~~:-)
Re: g++2.8, egcs, gcc 2.7.2, etc. - *very confused*
Hello, Over the weekend, I downlaoded V 1.20 onto /usr/local/. Did the same last night. I tried compiling it and after finding out that I needed all the OpenGl stuff and isntalling that to (V. annoying by the way - had even to edit some of the source code to get rid of those probelms) I left the source as it was, but added some softlinks, like /usr/include/X11/GL - /usr/include/GL But then I got the make error message: In vbglcnv.h:51:Invalid storage class specifiers decalared in friend functions Get rid of the word static on that line. I didn't have a clue what this meant even after viewing the two friend functions alluded to. storage class means auto, static, register or extern; there are two modifiers, const and volatile. In this case, there's only one storage specifier on the whole line (unless there's something in macros), so that had to be what it was complaining about :-) Getting rid of it fixed the problem. I hope it didn't break anything (but FREEdraft compiled and ran okay, so I guess not). Being naive enough to try anything, and having heard of all sorts of problems with egcs and g++, I decided to scrap g++2.8 and put g++2.7.2 on. (I had egcs 2.90.29, dated 19980515). I didn't want to do that, because FREEdraft claimed to use fancy exception-handling that 2.7.x doesn't grok - and that's why I was getting V. (I'm on a HAMM systen still - it took me 4 goes to get a successful upgrade from bo to that, so I'm not ready to slink it yet). slink isn't released yet, anyway. Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect wants to remove crucial packages
Hello, How can I prevent dselect from wanting to remove crucial packges on my potato system? The problem seems to be related to the libc6/dpkg issue. I assume the problem is that when you try to exit out of the Select screen, it insists on doing whatever it thinks is a good idea? When you are in that last conflict-resolution screen, set it to be the way you want (probably '=' for hold), or just shift-R to get it the way you had it last time, and then press Q. I have to do the same thing, since I installed ICQ from slink but didn't upgrade libc6 (I didn't want to deal with __register_frame_info). Alternatively, wait until the dust settles... Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fetchmail problem
Hi all, I ran the command fetchmail, but nothing happened. I have a simple .fetchmailrc in home directory and it worked before... I also tried fetchmail -L logfile... and the only line in logfile is: fetchmail: starting fetchmail 4.3.9 daemon It seemed to me that fetchmail is noting doing anything... any ideasss?? Thx Shao.
Re: Emacs20
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: When I run dpkg --configure emacs20, I got the following: AFAIK, emacs20 on the hamm cd is broken. You'll need to download an updated package if you were using the one off the cd (I think). -vinny -- Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
Re: fetchmail problem
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: It seemed to me that fetchmail is noting doing anything... What do you get when running fetchmail on verbose mode(fetchmail -v)!? Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ?? Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra PGP key available at finger ??
Re: fetchmail problem
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Nuno Carvalho wrote:
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote:
It seemed to me that fetchmail is noting doing anything...
What do you get when running fetchmail on verbose mode(fetchmail -v)!?
I have tried that as well, no output...
Best regards,
Nuno Carvalho
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Dep. Informatics Engineering
University of Coimbra
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mailers machine name
Hi, sometimes I get serious problem when posting to some systems. I installed smail on my local machine (connected to my ISP via ppp) and forwad all mail which smail cannot send by itself to my ISP's mailhost (smarthost !?). But some servers refuse my mail. I think this depends on my unregistered (artificial) domain-name (please look at this header). What do I have to do ? Marcus
Re: fetchmail problem
Hello, I ran the command fetchmail, but nothing happened. I have a simple .fetchmailrc in home directory and it worked before... Just a thought - are you running it from the same account? I also tried fetchmail -L logfile... and the only line in logfile is: fetchmail: starting fetchmail 4.3.9 daemon That sounds like you are running it in daemon mode, in which case nothing visible is supposed to happen. In that case, it would just be quietly checking for mail in the background. Check out DAEMON MODE in the man page. This could be provoked by a -d or --daemon command-line switch (check also the aliases in your shell), or by an option set daemon interval in your .fetchmailrc While it should still write messages to the logfile, it may be easier to debug the thing in the foreground where you can see it... Any of this any help? Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Canon BJC 4100 printer without color :(
Hi Debian users, I have a problem. I installed lpr and magicfilter from hamm and can't print in colors with my printer: Canon BJC-4100. I tried the bjc-600 filter. Is there anyone with this printer? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique
help please! still unknown interface and SIOCSIFADDR!!!!!
So I checked everywhere (HOWTOs, #Linux, FAQs) and couldn't find out why I can't use my 3C509B NIC even after recompiling the kernel. So I thought I'd use the NE2000 nic since it is loaded with the kernel by default. Guess what? Though it says 8390 loaded during the boot process (but it doesn't appear in dmesg) I still get: SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device eth0: unknown interface I have setup my NE2000 to be IRQ=5 and IO=0x300. Please help!! TIA. BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Mardo;Rino FN:Rino Mardo ORG:Obaid Humaid Al-Tayer;IT Department TITLE:Network and Systems Administrator NOTE:Certified Lotus Professional, R4 Administrator TEL;WORK;VOICE:+971 4 825000 TEL;WORK;FAX:+971 4 824901 ADR;WORK:;;P.O. Box 2623;Dubai;;;United Arab Emirates LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:P.O. Box 2623=0D=0ADubai=0D=0AUnited Arab Emirates URL:http://members.tripod.com/~rinom/ EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] EMAIL;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] EMAIL;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] EMAIL;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:19981208T121432Z END:VCARD
Re: Latex - let me make clear
Hello,
Name: Shao Zhang
Address:Debian, org
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Health: Excellent
The simplest way is:
\begin{tabular}{ll}
Name:Shao Zhang\\
Address:Debian, org\\
Email:{\tt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Health:Excellent
\end{tabular}
If the columns are too close together for you, you can replace the default
space with any amount of space you like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Name:Shao Zhang\\
Address:Debian, org\\
Email:{\tt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Health:Excellent
\end{tabular}
This puts 1.2 cm of space between the right edge of the left column and the
left edge of the right column. Or you could make the left column a ``p{3cm}''
instead of ``l'' --- that is, the first line would be
\begin{tabular}{p{3cm}l}
Alternatively, you could do it as a description list:
\begin{description}
\item[Name]Shao Zhang
\item[Address]Debian, org
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\item[Health]Excellent
\end{description}
Or any of a number of different ways\ldots
Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hacked System
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rino Mardo) writes: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=3D_NextPart_000_0016_01BE22AA.97038E90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Diso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hold on. Your email says you're coming from debian.org and that your Debian boxes have been hacked. Does that mean our Debians too? Nope, it's a private box of mine, which has nothing to do with the centrall debian boxes at all. The bug used (bufferoverflow in mountd) was fixed in the debian packages back in September, but this system wasn't updated since then. Sorry for the confusion. -Original Message- From: Hakan Ardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 12:40 PM Subject: Hacked System Hi, we had a hacker in one of ouer Debian boxes last night. Now is it possible to check my system integrity by comparing it's contents with the centrall debian archive? And how would that de done? Thanx! --- Name:Hakan Ardo E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.ub2.lu.se/~hakan/sig.html Public Key: Try finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint: E9 81 FD 90 53 5C E9 3E 3D ED 57 15 1B 7E 29 F3 Interests: WWW, Programming, 3D graphics Thought for the day: As long as one understands, the spelling does not matter :-) --- --- Name:Hakan Ardo E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.ub2.lu.se/~hakan/sig.html Public Key: Try finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fingerprint: E9 81 FD 90 53 5C E9 3E 3D ED 57 15 1B 7E 29 F3 Interests: WWW, Programming, 3D graphics Thought for the day: As long as one understands, the spelling does not matter :-) --- pgpcysRJ3VoyZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help - X meets my OLD monitor
Hope you find that site! Wish I could find the URL, sorry. There may be others, but I suspect this is the one he couldn't find. Try: www.nashville.net/~griffin/monitors/ paul
Re: fetchmail problem
On 8 Dec, Jiri Baum wrote: That sounds like you are running it in daemon mode, I'd forgotten about daemon mode. I used to use it, but then it crashed for some reason, so I decided to just run it from crontab instead. Is daemon mode much better? Should I switch back to daemon mode, do you think? -- Graham Ashton
Re: help please! still unknown interface and SIOCSIFADDR!!!!!
eth0: unknown interface I have setup my NE2000 to be IRQ=5 and IO=0x300. Please help!! Rino, The eth0 message means the kernel did not find the ethernet card during its last boot. You could try the module and see if it will initialize the card. Ie: insmod ne2 300,5 should insert the module in the running kernel. If that doesn't work, I would suspect that some kernel option has not been selected (when you rebuilt it). If you still have the original kernel around, boot it and see what gives. All kernels since 2.0.0 will find an NE2000 clone; at least those of the well-behaved category. Note that there are many that do not have the proper signature byte, but I've been using LinkSys cards for years, and they've always worked. Besides that, the Linux driver even deals with many of those of the poor clone class as well; usually. Paul
Re: (off-topic)
Hello all, I am having a discussion with my colleagues here about the use of RE: in mail reply messages. Since the Dutch versions of certain Microsoft Mail programmes use AW: for replies (Antwoord, Reply), people here are convinced that Re: stands for Reply. I always thought it was the Latin re as in about, or subject. Anyone who can shed some light on this matter? Thanks Felix ___ Felix Chang Hoogovens Research Development P.O. Box 10.000 1970 CA IJmuiden tel (+31) 251 492927 fax (+31) 251 470114 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: suid script
Hello, So that's the problem with SUID scripts. Seems to me it could be solved by *not* closing the script file, just keep it open. Why can't that be done? Because the first open is done by the kernel but the second by the shell. It can't be possible, or someone would surely have fixed it a long time ago? Well, you'd have to change the semantics of #! Currently, if the file xyzzy starts with the line #!plugh, this executes plugh with the argument xyzzy. It's up to plugh to decide whether xyzzy is a file to open, or something else, like a command-line switch[1]. The new semantics would probably invoke plugh with the argument /dev/fd/3, and have xyzzy open on filehandle 3. Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] yes, you can have a file called -l containing #!/bin/ls and, if your PATH contains ., it'll do exactly you'd expect...
Re: Where do I start fetchmail?
Hello, What is the right place to start fetchmail?? I would think to put them ip-up. But it didn't work. I psed the process, it was there, then disappeared after a while. Is it because it has some problems to read the ~/.fetchmailrc?? Don't forget that ip-up.d scripts get run as root, so you'll need your .fetchmailrc in ~root If you want to see what's going on, you can use /bin/open -s -w /usr/bin/fetchmail in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail instead of whatever the default is (you'll need the open package to do that). HTH Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: resolve.conf specification
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ben Collins writes: What does this [resolv.conf] have to do with policy? Packages are not to mess with other packages' conffiles. We had a long and inclusive discussion of this on debian-devel earlier this year. There are also technical issues having to do with the fact that a package that does this must account for all possible configurations. None of this affects an admin who chooses to do this, however. I'm not sure which package owns resolv.conf, but it does appear that pcmcia-cs is quite happy to mangle it (with /etc/pcmcia/network). Could ppp not do the same sort of thing? (and apologies if more knowledgable people have their thinking caps on about this). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
re Just My 2 Cents
From: Person, Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey All, Just venting. Recently I check out the Linux apps wish list web page! I though that it was mighty funny that the software that most people want to see ported to Linux is made by the big nasty Microsoft clan. Personally, I hate M$ and was glade to find Linux. If it wasn't for Linux I probably would have only used my PC for games, which is about the only thing I WindBlows is go for (IMHO)! It seems to me that most Linux user feel the same way. I always read threads on the evil M$ or how bad Windblows is etc! So can someone tell me why the Hell everyone wants M$ apps ported to Linux - Doesn't that defeat the purpose!!! Well to me it does. Just ranting. Thanks Linus. Rod. -- my two cents: Sometimes you have to give the devil his due. While the operating system arm of Microsoft is under attack (and rightly so) the company does seem to have some good consumer products. Especially the stuff for kids, like Encarta, Magic School Bus, etc... If Microsoft's consumer (application) efforts competed on an equal footing with everyone else (instead of having the unfair advantage of inside knowledge and control of the platform) there would be a lot less bad blood about Microsoft. If Microsoft ever did release Linux versions of some of its comsumer Windows applications (they would then HAVE to compete on an equal footing with everyone else because the platform is PUBLIC DOMAIN) the question would be free (open source) vs non-free software based on quality of the product and your own morals. I personally would buy commerical software that I found to meet my needs, at a price that was fair knowing that it was being sold into a market place open to all vendors without unfair practices. I would prefer to use open source software when I would need the ability to modify it for my own needs, or to obtain support beyond the ability of the vender to supply (without holding me for ransom). Now as for my wish list of aps to be ported to linux, If only Quicken and TurboTax (or clones) were available my wife wouldn't need to use windows. (she's also addicted to freecell but that runs fine under wine). (GnuCash is not yet ready for prime time, and I know of no open source tax preparation programs available for any current tax year that I would trust) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Why is lpd making this dns query?
Hello!
I have set up a print server and a print client with magicfilter and everything
would be fine, were it not for lpd on the server side making a dns query (and
waiting a long timeout) for every remote connection.
My system is not always connecting to the internet, and a query for a host not
in local network results in a timeout looking for forwarders, so I looked if in
/etc/hosts.lpd there were host names that required forwarding to resolve. No,
they are all local, and the client box is both local and in /etc/hosts.lpd.
So I configured the DNS to log incoming queries, and I fond this:
Dec 8 14:08:37 eddie named[549]: XX /127.0.0.1/./A
Dec 8 14:08:55 eddie last message repeated 5 times
So why is lpd so insistently looking for a '.' dot?
As a temporary solution I've set the dns to avoid recursion when not on line
through a couple /etc/ppp/ip-{up|down}.d scripts that change a symbolic link to
two different /etc/named.conf.
The question is: what is lpd looking for?
Ciao! Enrico
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PPP and kernel 2.0.36
I remember getting that error message. The problem was not related to the kernel. 1: make sure that you are a member of the group owning rights to execute ppp. (I think it was dial) 2: make sure you are using the right serial device. such as /dev/ttyS1 (the S is in CAPS!!!) I got that exact error when I was using the wrong serial device to dial out on. (cryptic stupid error message...some program must be trapping all errors at one point). 3: script starting pppd must be suid (I think) -- From: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have just installed the lastest stable kernel 2.0.36 and PPP does not work for me. I have compiled it into the kernel. The version is the 2.2.0 version of PPP. I have tried patching the kernel to PPP v2.3.3 to no avail. I am using the Debian PPP package 2.3.5-2. I am running the Hamm version of Debian. Upon attempting to run pppd I get the following: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because the PPP kernel module is not loaded, or because the kernel is not configured for PPP. See the README.linux file in the ppp-2.3.5 distribution. I do see PPP in the boot up text, so the kernel does appear to be loading PPP PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. PPP line discipline registered. Any thoughts on this one? Thanx in advance. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Re: resolve.conf specification
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 01:21:25PM +, David Wright wrote: I'm not sure which package owns resolv.conf, but it does appear that pcmcia-cs is quite happy to mangle it (with /etc/pcmcia/network). Could ppp not do the same sort of thing? (and apologies if more knowledgable people have their thinking caps on about this). dpkg -S /etc/resolv.conf shows no ownership. I think this would be best handled with a sample script that could be included with the pppd package. This script could be dropped into ip-up.d by the user at their discretion. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation
Re: PPP and kernel 2.0.36
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Miller writes: Upon attempting to run pppd I get the following: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This is one of pppd's favorite error messages, and it is almost always wrong. There are several possible problems that can mislead pppd into saying this. Any thoughts on this one? How did you set up ppp? Did you run pppconfig? If not, do so. If so, send me copies of your /etc/chatscripts/provider and /etc/ppp/peers/provider files (with passwords removed) and the output of 'plog' and I will try to help you. Don't I feel like a dunce. Upon inspecting the output of 'plog' like John asked for, I noticed the error message that pppd could not open /dev/modem. Now because this machine I am making the kernel image for has no user interaction (keyboard controller chip busted), I left out serial device support. So after kicking myself all morning, I compiled in serial support for the modem, and all is fine. *sigh* Thanx for the help John. -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Broken package: dselect can't istall or deinstall a package
Hi, For about a 2 weeks I'm unable to install the wmaker package. Dselect tell me that the package is to much broken and that I should deinstall and when I try to deinstall I have the message to reinstall the package. Any idea? Thanks Message envoyé le 08-Dec-98 à 08:47:48 Par Mario Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 512MB RAM, 860MB swap and out of memory ?
On Mon, 07 Dec, 1998 à 12:56:06PM +0100, Jan Krupa wrote: On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Krupa! On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: My Debian Linux 2.0 cannot use more than 460MB sawp :( that's very extrange :-( You're right. Linux can use my 860MB of swap ( I gave some applications very big task so they used all of my swap). It seems that mathematica3.02 under Linux cannot use more than 460MB of swap :. I'd got a similar problem with pari on a symbolic computation : when the program ran out of memory, it tries to double the size of its allocated memory (in my case it couldn't make better than 48MB RAM + about 30MB swap out of 96). For me, adding a swapfile made the trick but in your case the swap file would be over 500MB. -- Laurent Picouleau | Linux : Mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal.
Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite
On 07 Dec 1998q, Ed Slocomb wrote: I'm sorry to ask this if you've already done it, but... Have you tried the tecra diskette images? Many thanks to the numerous people who replied. Yes, the tecra image did the business. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald
???current directory in prompt in bash???
Is there a way to have bash include the current directory in the prompt of bash? Actually, let me re-phrase that my root account DOES include the current directory in the the prompt, but I have no idea why or how... I've tried to copy my root's .bash_profile to my regular-user's .bash_profile, but it still doesn't work any ideas? Thanks in advance Rich
??? Problem with KDE's KFM...
Hello everybody I'm using hamm with KDE, and occasionally, when using the KFM as a web-browser, it just suddenly disappears when this happens, the system will not let me start up another KFM (nothing happens when I try to start a new one..) until I log out and log back in Is this just a bug that I will have to live with for a while, or is it something I can fix? Thanks! Rich
Re: PPP and kernel 2.0.36
Kenneth Scharf napisal(a): [...] : 3: script starting pppd must be suid (I think) Script ? Suid shouldn't work with shell scripts :) For example: # cat test #!/bin/sh id ^D # chmod a+x test # chmod u+s test And run test as any user ... pppd must be suid. -- Daniel Podlejski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://underley.zakopane.top.pl/ ... One dream, one soul, one prize, One goal, one golden glance of what should be ...
dselect-help!!!!!!!
I have installed Linux on my laptop and i have now to use 'dselect' to install X and others packages. Problem : i can't find my way and i'm stuck with dselect from the beginning. I've downloaded the file 'Dselect documentation for beginners' from debian.org but it's not very helpful. (e.g. : when I go to select i can't understand anything from the different menus and the differents options. For instance, what's the difference between 'Install from a hard disk partition partion (NOT YET MOUNTED)' and 'Install from a filesystem which is already mounted'. Which one should I pick up since i've just installed Debian from floppies?) Basically, I'm looking for : - a manual which explains carefully and with examples what to do when using dselect. - if this is not available, is it possible to have a few directions about how to install X Windows with dselect, notably the very first steps -something in plain english for idiots or retardos. (What i have now on my lap-top computer is plain Linux. I can't use a CD ROM and can't yet get access to the Internet since I don't know how to setup my PCMCIA card. For now my priority is to install X Windows, the Mouse and have some graphical interface to navigate through Linux). Thanks for your help!
Re: PPP and kernel 2.0.36
Daniel == Daniel Podlejski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Kenneth Scharf napisal(a): [...] : 3: script starting Daniel pppd must be suid (I think) Daniel Script ? Suid shouldn't work with shell scripts :) Daniel # chmod a+x test Daniel # chmod u+s test Daniel And run test as any user ... If you call the script test, you would need to do ./test to run it. It is best to stay away from the command test when writing test software. :-) Glenn -- Glenn Amerine Inet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems AnalystVoice: (614)224-1336 Metropolitan Human Services Commission Fax: (614)224-6472
ack! I've hosed init
seems like I'm in big trouble here. I've experimented update-rc.d and now init doesn't know it's runlevel. Well, I can boot but when I issue reboot it coughs up something like: couldn't determine runlevel... doing soft reboot instead. then it reboots. Everything looks fine 'cept that the init process is doing itself twice everytime I boot. How do I fix this? Can somebody tell me where are the logfiles for init? Maybe I can include it in the next mail. I'm also tempted to reinstall Debian on my baby. TIA. Admiral Charah Technical Support Group Cyberspace Laoag, ISP
Re: PPP and kernel 2.0.36
Glenn Amerine napisal(a): [...] : If you call the script test, you would need to do ./test to run : it. Yes, I know :] : It is best to stay away from the command test when writing test : software. :-) But try do this. Any other name ... maybe abcd ... And look at result ... -- Daniel Podlejski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://underley.zakopane.top.pl/ ... Well, show me the way To the next whiskey bar ...
/var/log/kern.log is almost empty
I've been trying to get pcmcia going in a Gateway solo 2500 laptop (and have now succeeded merely by compiling 3.0.5) so I wanted to read things out of /var/log/kern.log. I noticed, however, that it's almost empty, and has been since I compiled the laptop's kernel. I do get the PCMCIA Card Services information, but almost nothing else. Yet my desktop machines all give me a comprehensive log right from the moment they boot (i.e. starting with Loaded 3629 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.0.34 and containing most of the boot messages that people are always trying to scroll back on VC1). Any ideas what's causing this? The configurations are all so similar that I can't think where to start looking. For example, they all run kernel-source-2.0.34 2.0.34-4 sysklogd 1.3-26 /etc/sysklogd as per the deb file kernel-package 4.11 booting from a dos partition via loadlin using a copy of /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34 Differences include / is one partition on the laptop, /var is in another partition with /tmp and /home on my desktops. minor kernel config differences (-desktop, +laptop): +CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y -CONFIG_SCSI=y -CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y +CONFIG_SCSI=m +CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m -CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y +CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m -CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX=y -CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_NVRAM_DETECT=y -CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=4 -CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=5 -CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y -CONFIG_EL3=m +CONFIG_HPFS_FS=m +CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
has anyone installed gimp-manual?
I've tried about five times to download the gimp-manual package from ftp.cdrom.com, and each time it has been corrupt. At least two of those times, the corrupt files were identical. Before I try downloading it yet again, could someone please confirm that it is actually possible, or point me to a url that definitely has an uncorrupted version? Zack
Re: Latex - let me make clear
Try
\begin{tabbing}
Type\qquad\= Quality\quad\= Color\quad\=Price\\[0.8ex]
Paper \ med \ white \ low\\
Card \ bad \ gray \ med
\end{tabbing}
Check out the latex documentation for more details..
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From: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Tuesday, 8 December 1998 15:14
Subject: Latex - let me make clear
Hi all,
Thanks for all the kind answers about tabbing in Latex.
Let me make myself clear, I am trying to do something like this(my
resume):
Name: Shao Zhang
Address: Debian, org
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Health: Excellent
and so on
Ok, so how do I write this in Latex?
Thanks in advance!
Shao.
Shao Zhang \\/
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PENSHURST 2035 //\
Sydney, NSW ///\\
Australia\\\
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Re: Just My 2 Cents
I guess the 'real' truth is that most of the microsoft stuff is actually quite good. With the latest versions of service paks installed things are very slick on windows NT. I have debian and winnt-workstation running on two machines on my desk. Sure at first glance it appears that linux is faster, but look at all the services running on NT and what they do for me. If I install new hardware on my winnt box at least I don't have to compile and link a new kernel. Another interesting comparision is application installation. I wonder how many people really prefer to use dselect to the microsoft way of doing things. Both systems to be very stable and reliable. Perhaps a more interesting question is; how many unix applications would windows users like to run on their machines? Maybe the real benefit of linux is that it encourages people not to have one dimensional thinking and consider alternatives. What a big rant... -Original Message- From: Person, Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, 8 December 1998 10:03 Subject: Just My 2 Cents It seems to me that most Linux user feel the same way. I always read threads on the evil M$ or how bad Windblows is etc! So can someone tell me why the Hell everyone wants M$ apps ported to Linux - Doesn't that defeat the purpose!!! Well to me it does.
Re: Latex - let me make clear
See comments below: -Original Message- From: Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, 8 December 1998 16:46 Subject: Re: Latex - let me make clear On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: Name: Shao Zhang Address: Debian, org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Health: Excellent and so on Ok, so how do I write this in Latex? You're fighting LaTeX by deciding on a layout in advance. This will be painful. :-) (though you can do this in any of the environments discussed so far, tabbing or tabular.) If you really want a particular layout, StarOffice will prove easier; LaTeX is not made for this. Huh... Latex can do what Shao wants without too much fuss.
Re: eth0: unknown interface
One of the easiest ways to configure the network is to use the install program on the Rescue Disk / CDRom. You can mount an already initialised swap and linux partition and then move on to configure the network. This will create all the right files for you (/etc/networks /etc/resolv.conf). If you still have problems it may be due to the drivers, either compiled into the kernel or a module, be careful not to have the 3com driver compiled into the kernel and as a module, I did that once and had the problem as you describe. Rino Mardo wrote: 486/66 with 8 MB RAM, 630 MB hard disk, 3C509B-combo NIC My problem is during initial installation I wasn't able to setup the NIC so now here I am in the # prompt not knowing how to add/configure it. I read thru all the HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs (relevant ones of course), recompiled the kernel with 3C509 support but still it would give me: eth0: unknown interface as the error message. In SCO UNIX there's this netconfig command to add a NIC and assign protocols and ip address before recompiling the kernel. What's the equivalent command/steps in Linux? TIA.
Re: Emacs20
At 09:24 PM 12/8/1998 +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi all, When I run dpkg --configure emacs20, I got the following: While compiling hyperlatex-format-htmltitle: ** reference to free variable hyperlatex-meta-| Wrote /usr/share/emacs20/site-lisp/hyperlatex/hyperlatex.elc Done install/tm: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20 install/tm: byte-compiling for emacs20 emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/tm emacs20 xemacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 26. dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 Errors were encountered while processing: emacs20 Could anyone please help?? Thanks shao. I've installed several hamm systems, and have never gottten emacs20 to configure properly until I went into dselect and uninstalled tm. Then emacs configures. Go [con]figure.
Re: install star-office5.0 on debian (slink)?
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 09:39:42PM -0500, Damir J. Naden wrote: |Hi, everybody -- | |I just tried to install newly downloaded so5.0 following their instruction |(run ./setup form installation directory), but my installation stopped with |the msg that the disk was full. df showed that my / partition was indeed |100% full, adn I discovered it is due to so5 using /tmp directory (and my |root partition, which the /tmp is part of, is only 32 Mb). |My question is: |a) I would not want to repartition the drive to install this single program. |Can I get around the /tmp being the directory for the install process? |Can the above be accomplished by setting some command line path (I'm afraid |I'm not the programmer) like SET TMP=/usr/local/tmp in my bash shell (slink |version)? Yes, I did something similar to install SO 5.0. If you are using csh or tcsh try to set the environment variable TMP or TEMP (I can't remember which one) like this: setenv TMP /usr/local/tmp before installing SO. -- Anthony.[ E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / ICQ UIN: C30E6 ]
Re: help please! still unknown interface and SIOCSIFADDR!!!!!
Rino Mardo writes: So I checked everywhere (HOWTOs, #Linux, FAQs) and couldn't find out why I can't use my 3C509B NIC even after recompiling the kernel. So I thought I'd use the NE2000 nic since it is loaded with the kernel by default. Guess what? Though it says 8390 loaded during the boot process (but it doesn't appear in dmesg) I still get: SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device eth0: unknown interface I have setup my NE2000 to be IRQ=5 and IO=0x300. Please help!! Don't overlook an IRQ (or base address) conflict. My NIC was programmed on IRQ 3 when I changed motherboards. All of a sudden, it stopped working. After chasing this problem a while, I realized that the NIC and serial port ttyS1 were conflicting. I turned off the serial port and re-programmed the NIC to a different IRQ. And all is well in Linux land... -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: ???current directory in prompt in bash???
Rich Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rich Is there a way to have bash include the current directory in the Rich prompt of bash? Yes. See bash(1), under PROMPTING. -- _ / \ Dad was reading a book called | David Maze | _Schroedinger's Kittens_. Asexual | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | reproduction? Only one cat is in the box. | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Abra Mitchell \_/
Re: ???current directory in prompt in bash???
Hi Rich, On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 08:38:00AM +, Rich Hartman wrote: Is there a way to have bash include the current directory in the prompt of bash? Actually, let me re-phrase that my root account DOES include the current directory in the the prompt, but I have no idea why or how... I've tried to copy my root's .bash_profile to my regular-user's .bash_profile, but it still doesn't work any ideas? something along the lines of export PS1=\\w \$ is your friend. the excape-sequence \w produces the current working directory if I am not mistaken. Check man bash for more details (search for PS1). Also, check root's .bashrc, most likely the prompt variable is defined here. on my Hamm-Systems .bashrc sources .bash_profile. So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Coffee not found: Operator halted ***
Re: installing linux debian on Toshiba Satellite
I don't know what your issues are, but just taking a stab at it from the little information you just sent out... I don't have my hamm box hooked to the 'net either. My installs (using dselect) have been comprised of going thru the Packages file to find the package I want, list the depends information, and download all the software using my (Win95) browser. Then I copy this info to a zip drive (or do my hard drive) and access it using dselect from there. If you want details on this, holler... I'll do what I can, but I'm pretty new to this stuff as well. As for the recent flame war you've started... I'd be a little concerned about biting the hand that feeds you. You may not get all the answers you need immediately, but there ARE ways to get help. I've seen literally hundreds of documents - every problem I've run into has been answered in them (except my old monitor/X problems) - I can't say that for Winblows... not to mention the free tech support received here. Compare that to Winblows pay-for-service option. I've used that once, and payed a high-dollar amount to speak to a rep that new little about Windows other than how to spell it. My 2 cents. In a message dated 12/7/98 6:16:18 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, I did. I have successfully completed a floppy install for the basic hamm distribution. The problem was and is that everything I can find presumes that I already have a mounted source device or network connection to complete the install and build the network connection. This reply was a general statement on the level of help I have gotten from this list, which is none unless you count the flame storm I just unleashed.
