Webmin es impresionante!
Recomiendo a todo el mundo que le echeis un ojo al administrador de sistema Webmin, es literalmente: ¡la leche!. Gracias a Alexis por la información de su existencia. Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Windowmaker y los JPGs
Hola a todos. Tengo un pequeño lio montado con las librerias para JPG. Resulta que el WMPlayCD (o algo asi) me pedia la libjpeg62. Me la baje y la instale. Resulta que luego de eso, cada vez que intento utilizar una imagen de fondo de escritorio (en jpg), para una barra de titulo o para lo que sea del gestor de ventanas WindowMaker me da el siguiente error: Wrong JPEG library version: library is 61, caller expects 62 could not load image /usr/share/WindowMaker/Backgrounds/Ibbod1.jpg:no error Seguido instale (que ya lo tenia instalado) libjpegg6a, pero nada, sigue igual. Asi que no se que hacer. ¿Desinstalo libjpeg62? Pero entonces obtengo el siguiente error: dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libjpeg62: libwraster1 depends on libjpeg62. wsoundprefs depends on libjpeg62. libwmaker0 depends on libjpeg62. dpkg: error processing libjpeg62 (--remove): dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: libjpeg62 Si intento desinstalar libjpegg6a aun hay mas paquetes que dependen de ella. ¿No os ha pasado a nadie?¿Alguna idea? Otra cosa: ¿por que no se hace una sola libjpeg? ¿No seria mas sencillo? Un saludo: Juan Carlos
lilo
Hola a todos... He instalado el lilo-21, y al ejecutar liloconfig, dice que se ha encontrado un error en /etc/lilo.conf, pero no dice cual. El resultado es que cuando selecciono Linux para cargar, aparece Loading Linux, y ahi se queda. Tengo que arrancar con el rescue. He estado leyendo la documentacion en /usr/doc/lilo, pero no he encontrado ninguna pista. El windows 95 si carga, y el fichero /etc/lilo.conf, es el mismo desde hace ya tiempo. La cosa es que parece que si escribe el sector de arranque. ¿Sabe alguien que puede ser? Saludos.
dselect con varios CDs
Hola a todos: He vuelto a subscribirme a la lista después de un periodo de ausencia, y el primer mensaje que me llega me ha dado un susto de muerte sobre el tema de los CDs de Linux Actual. ¿Pero que es lo que ha pasado? ¿De veras que hay gente que se le ha estropeado el CD? --- Y ya que hablamos del tema, en la LA5 viene el contrib de la 2.0 (supongo que en la distribución oficial vendrá también repartido en varios CD). ¿Como puedo usar dselect con dos CD's distintos? Yo lo he intentado poniendo 'none' cuando me pide el directorio del 'main' y los correspondientes directorios para 'contrib' , 'non-free', etc. Funciona, pero da problemas de dependencias y no se instalan bien los paquetes. He oido por ahí que hay una nueva versión de dselect que soporta MultiCD, ¿es cierto? o se pueder hacer con el dselect de la Debian 2.0? Grácias Saludos, // Oscar Ferrero // // email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]// // Web : http://web.jet.es/oscarf// ///
¿Cómo enviar un bug a debian?
Pues eso, ¿Cómo se envia? ¿Qué pasa si te equivocas y realmente no es un bug? Hasta otra... :-) -- Miguel Gil ** Dirección correo electrónico: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** WEB: Humor Informático Hispano ** * URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2062/index.html * ### Powered by Linux (debian 2.0) ###
Prueba
Prueba -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect con varios CDs
El 13 de Diciembre de 1998 Oscar Ferrero Guerra escribió: Y ya que hablamos del tema, en la LA5 viene el contrib de la 2.0 (supongo que en la distribución oficial vendrá también repartido en varios CD). ¿Como puedo usar dselect con dos CD's distintos? Yo lo he intentado poniendo 'none' cuando me pide el directorio del 'main' y los correspondientes directorios para 'contrib' , 'non-free', etc. Funciona, pero da problemas de dependencias y no se instalan bien los paquetes. He oido por ahí que hay una nueva versión de dselect que soporta MultiCD, ¿es cierto? o se pueder hacer con el dselect de la Debian 2.0? Datom (http://www.datom.de/) distribuye un juego de CDs de Debian 2.0 que incluye un paquete que permite usar deselect con multiples CDs. El paquete se llama dpkg-multicd y la última versión se puede encontrar en http://debian.schlitterman.de/. Supongo que funcionará con otras distribuciones distintas de la de Datom. Un saludo, Salvador Bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problemas (cuelgue de X) instalando StarOffice 5
Saludos. Despues de bajar (sufridamente) los 60 y pico Mb del Staroffice 5, al arrancar el ./setup me sale la ventana de instalación y seguidamente se me quedan totalmente colgadas las X. Pensé que estaría corrupto algún binario, pero me lo volví a bajar de otro sitio y sigue igual. Supongo que será un problema con alguna librería, pero ni idea de cual puede ser... Si alguien conoce el caso, me haría un gran favor... Gracias. :) --- Alejandro José Jerez. Estudiante de Ing. Informática en la E.P.S.A de Alicante.
Re: Linux actual y la madre que la...
Virgilio Gómez Rubio dixit: Yo no he tenido problemas con los CDs, pero s´i quiero comentar una cosa que me toca mucho las narices, y es el uso un tanto peculiar que hacen del idioma. Primero, usan el verbo rebotar como mala, p´esima, traducci´on de la palabra reboot (tanto costaba poner reiniciar o rearrancar?), luego usan la palabra haya (en vez de halla, el verbo hallar)... Creo recordar alg´un gazapo m'as bastante gordo. Puede que algunos me consideren un purista, pero creo que esa gente no es consciente de la influencia (negativa) que puede tener una revista de amplia difusi´on como es Linux Actual en el lenguaje. Entiendo que hay palabras que se deben incluir en el lenguaje cient´ifico y tecnol´ogico, pero me niego a aceptar traducciones torpes.Adem´as, hay faltas de ortograf´ia que no se pueden perdonar... Virgilio, me adhiero a tu queja. Bravo. Y por cierto, ¿qué es eso de LA5? ¿ha salido ya? ¿cuándo? -- Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp y pppconfig [SOLUCION]
El problema es que el nuevo nodo tiene unas especificaciones más exigentes en cuanto a mòdems. De momento funciono con un SupraExpress 56 prestado, y tendré que comprarme uno nuevo, lo que me lleva a la siguiente pregunta: ¿Cuál? Que sea totalmente compatible con Linux, y que no quede desfasado o en desuso a medio plazo. Gracias. PD. Gracias a Ugo Albarello por su respuesta. Horacio M.G. dixit: Hola, hace unos días que vengo intentando cambiar a retenet (iddeo), ya que mi proveedor dejó de funcionar con infovía. Lo que hice fue borrar los ficheros (scripts) que creé anteriormente con pppconfig y ejecutar pppconfig de nuevo. Al ejecutar pon retenet, el ppp.log me aparece siempre así: -- Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect con varios CDs
Hola: On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 06:53:18PM +0100, Oscar Ferrero Guerra wrote: Hola a todos: He vuelto a subscribirme a la lista después de un periodo de ausencia, y el primer mensaje que me llega me ha dado un susto de muerte sobre el tema de los CDs de Linux Actual. ¿Pero que es lo que ha pasado? ¿De veras que hay gente que se le ha estropeado el CD? --- Por si no estás convencido... Dec 6 08:07:03 beta kernel: hdc: FX001DE, ATAPI CDROM drive --El Mitsumi viejo... comparar más abajo... Un día se me ocurre montar el cd4: Dec 7 18:13:34 beta kernel: hdc: media changed Dec 7 18:13:36 beta kernel: ISO9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 Dec 7 18:14:24 beta kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 Dec 7 18:14:24 beta kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete Dec 7 18:14:34 beta kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 Dec 7 18:14:34 beta kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete Dec 7 18:14:34 beta kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 468708 Dec 7 18:14:44 beta kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 Dec 7 18:14:44 beta kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30 Dec 7 18:14:54 beta kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 Dec 7 18:14:54 beta kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete Dec 7 18:15:04 beta kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 Unas decenas de líneas más adelante... Dec 7 18:20:49 beta kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 Dec 7 18:20:49 beta kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30 Dec 7 18:20:49 beta kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 Dec 7 18:20:49 beta kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30 Dec 7 18:20:49 beta kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 Dec 7 18:20:49 beta kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30 Dec 7 18:20:49 beta kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete Dec 7 18:20:49 beta kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 Dec 7 18:20:49 beta kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30 Dec 7 18:20:49 beta kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 Dec 7 18:20:49 beta kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30 Dec 7 18:20:49 beta kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 Dec 7 18:20:49 beta kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30 ... Dec 7 18:20:50 beta kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 1041146 Dec 7 18:20:50 beta kernel: hdc: code: 0x70 key: 0x05 asc: 0x21 ascq: 0x00 Dec 7 18:21:39 beta kernel: hdc : tray open or drive not ready Dec 7 18:21:39 beta last message repeated 3 times Dec 7 18:21:39 beta kernel: hdc : tray open Dec 7 18:21:39 beta kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 64 Dec 7 18:21:39 beta kernel: isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 16:00 iso_blknu m 16 block 32 Dec 7 18:21:39 beta kernel: hdc : tray open or drive not ready Dec 7 18:21:43 beta last message repeated 5 times Tras esto la unidad no volvió a funcionar ni con Linux, ni Windows, ni nada. Mira cómo lo he arreglado (once billetes): Dec 12 09:57:28 beta kernel: hdc: ASUS CD-S400, ATAPI CDROM drive Por cierto, el cd5 ya no va tan fino como decía. Lo cierto es que recién comprados, los cds a mí me han ido bastante suaves. No sé si es real la impresión que tengo de que la calidad del cd se va degradando de alguna forma. En todo caso mi cd #4 tiene ahora bastantes señales de rozaduras. -- Saludos. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This message was sent by Mutt under Linux ---
XF86Config
Hola, voy directo al asunto: Lo primero que tengo en la sección Screen del XF86Config es: # ** # Screen sections # ** # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64) Section Screen Driver accel Device ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] AGP Monitor PanTX-T1565 Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 32 Modes 800x600 1024x768 640x480 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Por defecto me aparece un escritorio virtual de 1024x768. Si no le quisiera ¿debería especificar en todas las subsecciones Display, Virtual 800 600? ¿Que tendría que hacer para que el tamaño del escritorio virtual coincidiese siempre con la resolución de la pantalla (incluso al cambiar esta con ctr-alt-+)? Gracias por vuestro tiempo :-) -- ===NaClU2\==Ignacio= _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ ( @ @ ) _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ +-ºoO(_)Ooº-+ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/| | _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ +---+
Re: ¿Cómo enviar un bug a debian?
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 03:05:34PM +0100, Miguel Gil wrote: Pues eso, ¿Cómo se envia? ¿Qué pasa si te equivocas y realmente no es un bug? $ [EMAIL PROTECTED] bug -s 'Una descripción del bug' paquete y allí te pone en tu editor, explicas un poco mejor que es el problema, grabas el mensaje, te pregunta que si lo quieres mandar, le dices que sí... Si te equivocas, el encargado del paquete lo cerrará... ahora, si te equivocas, sería un detalle muy agradable si le comunicas al encargado la situación (para que no se mate buscando algo que no existe) Marcelo
Problema de Memoria
Hola para todos, soy nuevo usuario linux y tengo el debian 2.0. Luego de compilar el nucleo, me reconose solo 16 Mb. de memoria, cuando tengo 64. Agradeceria sy alguien sabe de este problema. Marcelo Lepra Montevideo - Uruguay
Re: [fsck]: file system errors ...
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, wb2oyc wrote: Is anything going wrong !? It happens, sometimes, even when not having failure power or mounted disks. Nino, Nuno, you meant. :-) Are you actually shutting down with shutdown -h now and waiting for the System Halted message, or are you just killing power? Yes I'm doing shutdown -h now and waiting until System Halted. I still have no idea about what reason ... could it be a problem from fsck!? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ?? Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra PGP key available at finger ??
Re: automatic login?
On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 11:06:33PM +, Gossamer wrote: I'm SURE this is a faq, but I can't find the answer ... can I set up things so all the virtual consoles I have set up are automatically logged into a certain username? I'm aware of the security risks but live by myself so physical access to the console isn't as issue (anyway, I have a dvorak keyboard layout, security through obscurity ;)). Replace you getty entries in /etc/inittab with something like this for each one: 1:23:respawn:/bin/su - root /dev/tty1 /dev/tty1 I never tried it till now, seemed to work fine. good luck, Ben -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation
nmh binaries not in path???
I have installed nmh and have noticed that the binaries for this are in /usr/bin/mh rather than just in /usr/bin, which means with the standard path setup you can't easily execute them. Now I know I can just add this directory to my path, but it seems a bit strange that I should need to do this. Is there any reason why it is setup this way? Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them! _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!
Piped unpipable output [Xserver troubles]
I'm trying to get a xserver (either svga or agx) on a XGA-2 chipset. The server specifies it's for the ISA bus, but I'm stuck with a PS/2 with a MCA bus. After everything is configured (correctly, AFAICT) the 'startx' show me the following output, anyone knows what's wrong (or for that matter, what is the server saying?): XFree86 Version 3.3.2.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: July 15 1998 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.0.35 i686 [ELF] Configured drivers: AGX: Accelerated server for AGX graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) (using VT number 7) XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: keymap: xfree86(en_US) (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/psaux, buttons: 3 (**) Mouse: 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms) (**) AGX: Graphics device ID: IBM Stupid Video Card (**) AGX: Monitor ID: IBM PS/2 Stupid Monitor (--) AGX: Mode 1024x768 needs vert refresh rate of 86.96 Hz. Deleted. (--) AGX: Mode 640x400 needs vert refresh rate of 85.08 Hz. Deleted. [...] [ I SHORTED THIS, Christian ] [...] (--) AGX: Mode 480x300 needs vert refresh rate of 72.07 Hz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/us r/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/ X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
apt-get
Hi there, I just mail to share my expirience during updating. usualy using lynx and than download install from ftp.de.debian.org and always forgotten something on whats depend the package i tried to install i just tried apt-get wow :) for example: apt-get update g++ ; apt--get install g++ will install g++ and all other packages g++ depends on. really great, checking system-integrity also . I often seen dependency problems on this list maybe, if apt-get is more accepted upgrading installing will not must be a nightmare ;) Wish You all the best -- Peter
Re: [fsck]: file system errors ...
Hello. ,- Nuno Carvalho wrote. On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, wb2oyc wrote: Is anything going wrong !? It happens, sometimes, even when not having failure power or mounted disks. Nino, Nuno, you meant. :-) Are you actually shutting down with shutdown -h now and waiting for the System Halted message, or are you just killing power? Yes I'm doing shutdown -h now and waiting until System Halted. I still have no idea about what reason ... could it be a problem from fsck!? I have had such a problem. My problem has been caused by glibc2 bug. This bug is fixed glibc-2.0.7u, and glibc-2.0.7t have such bug. Hamm is using glibc-2.0.7t, so Hamm causes such a problem. Your problem may be caused by this bug. Please excute below command to check the existence of this bug. $ fuser /etc/ld.so.cache If no output is given, the glibc do not have such a bug. If output is given, your glibc *have* such a bug and fsck detect errors. # In Japan, this problem was found in 20/Sep/1998. And we found a bug # report http://www-gnats.gnu.org:8080/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl/full/759. # Then, it was fixed. Thank you. . . . _ _ . . . . . / - E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - \ . . . . . / |\ Minoru Chikamune/| \ . . ＼ . . \_\/*** Debian GNU/Linux *** \/_/ . . . (snow) ~~~ ~~~
Re: ICMP attack
Well, as for blocking it, there are new features in upcoming kernel releases... (2.2) and I think there are some in the current version..(don't remember) that will help with alot of these types of attacks. as for finding out where it's coming from...that depends on what type of attack it isalot of attacks lie about their source information...but there are some debian packages that allow for loging all traffic that touches your machine. courtney : checks for satan probes...(seems to do more than that though). iplogger : logs everything. Any tcp/udp/icmp that is directed to your machine is logged... If you really want to know...install those...Other than that...don't piss anyone off... :) Ivan Quoting AJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i got attacked by an ICMP type nuke i believe (all my ppp junk went crazy).. but i had no clue how to find out where it was coming from or how to block it.. any help for the future? (no clue if it was an ICMP but im pretty sure); AJ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ivan E. Moore IIRev. Krusty http://www.tdyc.com[EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: ftp (client?) problem
How are you connecting? Not all hardware implements Stac compression the same. For example, various Zyxel and Netgear ISDN routers would cause problems such as yours when making a PPP connection to an Ascend Max, unless compression was disabled. Try diabling compression in your PPP settings and see if that helps. Also, there's a chance that some router in the middle has disabled MTU discovery and fragment reassembly causing large packets to get dropped. Frank --On Saturday, December 12, 1998, 3:53 PM -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I'm starting to suspect that the problem may *also* be with the link (i.e., ISP or upstream?). I can upload fine from a Linux box to a Unix box running Digital Unix connected to the same LAN, but not when there's my ISP in between..
Re: X is giving me a headache.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, 13 December 1998 7:22 Subject: Re: X is giving me a headache. I found that page, it's www.x11.org. Thanks for this. I am getting a bit tired of twm.
Re: 4 button Logitech MouseMan and XFree86
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 22:43:45 -0500 Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Accept-Language: en X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/28886 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 1078 I have a 4 button Logitech MouseMan (has a thumb button) and my buttons don't work correctly in X. The thumb button seems to ack as the middle button and the middle button doesn't work at all. Here's what my current XF86Config file looks like (just the pointer section): Section Pointer Protocol MouseMan Device /dev/mouse BaudRate 9600 Resolution 200 Buttons 4 EndSection Then I tried using xmodmap to swap the buttons: xmodmap -e pointer = 1 4 3 2 Now only the left and right mouse buttons work. Anyone have one of these mice? What can I do to fix my configuration? Thanks -Paul -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ OK
Re: ICMP attack
hehe, i was pissing anyone of it was ppl trying to take an IRC channel im an op in.. :-( thanx for the help, AJ Ivan E. Moore II wrote: Well, as for blocking it, there are new features in upcoming kernel releases... (2.2) and I think there are some in the current version..(don't remember) that will help with alot of these types of attacks. as for finding out where it's coming from...that depends on what type of attack it isalot of attacks lie about their source information...but there are some debian packages that allow for loging all traffic that touches your machine. courtney : checks for satan probes...(seems to do more than that though). iplogger : logs everything. Any tcp/udp/icmp that is directed to your machine is logged... If you really want to know...install those...Other than that...don't piss anyone off... :) Ivan Quoting AJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i got attacked by an ICMP type nuke i believe (all my ppp junk went crazy).. but i had no clue how to find out where it was coming from or how to block it.. any help for the future? (no clue if it was an ICMP but im pretty sure); AJ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ivan E. Moore IIRev. Krusty http://www.tdyc.com[EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstien =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Colours of tk applications under slink
The colours of all tk based applications seems to have been inverted under slink. That is, the background is now black rather than off-white, which makes many things difficult to read. I presume it is a matter of using X resources, but which ones? Out of curiosity, why was this changed? Please CC replies to me as I am not currently on this list. TIA, Mark --- Mark Mickan [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = A2 B7 E3 18 B7 F5 56 53 A4 5B 53 97 DD F5 C0 31 pgpcAOSqPf7g5.pgp Description: PGP signature
gnome problems
I'm trying to get gnome running. However, I'm running into problems with libraries. I've ran dselect, and it states that I have everything installed and configured, so I'm kind of at a loss. Does anyone have any ideas on what I need to do? Thanks, Chris The attached file is my .xsession-error file with the gnome errs in it. keyboard-properties: error in loading shared libraries libglib-1.1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory mouse-properties: error in loading shared libraries libglib-1.1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory panel: error in loading shared libraries libglib-1.1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory localhost being added to access control list background-properties: error in loading shared libraries libgtk-1.1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker warning: could not create font set -sharefont-romeo-normal-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1. Trying fixed /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker warning: Wrong option format for key HighlightColor. Should be Color. /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker warning: /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.hook:unknown command /usr/X11R6/bin/wmsound in menu config. This is xawtv-2.32, running on Linux/i586 (2.1.131) Warning: Cannot convert string false to type ResizeMode x11: 1024x768, 32 bit/pixel, 4096 byte/scanline, DGA, VidMode v4l: device is BT848(Hauppauge old) v4l: 1024x768, 32 bit/pixel, 4096 byte/scanline ioctl VIDIOCSAUDIO: Invalid argument /usr/bin/poff: kill: (605) - Not owner Failed to exec player :: No such file or directory /usr/bin/poff: kill: (775) - Not owner /usr/share/icons/wingz.tif: Warning, unknown field with tag 34377 (0x8649) ignored. X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
Star Office 3
Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run setup program in /usr/lib/StarOffice3 it says Segmentation Error. Also, do you need to have a windows partition to run wine? Thanks a lot. Jeff __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Debian installation hangs
The only lead I had to a location for slink 1440 floppy images gives an error now. Maybe someone else will come up with a URL. I'm afraid you will probably need someone with more in-depth knowledge than me to solve the problem. John Mark Weston wrote: On 10 Dec 98, at 11:17, John C. Ellingboe wrote: Look at the message just before the md driver message for the problem. It will probably turn out to be the disk controler doesn't like being probed at boot time and is locking up. Some systems will require an entry on the boot line or use the tecra rescue disk like the lap top systems need. Search the archives at www.debian.org for the source of a new rescue disk if you have a aha27xx disk controler. You will also find sources of 1440 SLINK disks but I would not recomend them at this time. The line before the md driver line was the floppy controller detect, which worked. And before that, was a perfectly correct detection of both IDE controllers and all four devices on them. What I'll try is booting up with a few more combinations of hardware device disabled, to see if this works. I've also tried the tecra disk, which does the same thing as the normal one. Thanks for the warning about Slink, but I would like to at least try it (just to see a Debian distribution boot at least once). If you've seen any *compiled* Slink 1440k disks, perhaps you could point me in their direction. Don't try to install from SLINK at this time. Use HAMM which has 1440 floppy images. SLINK has turned up with a few problems and you don't need that while setting up a new system. John Thanks for the help Mark
Re: WINE
I have wine in my system, but it still does not work well yet. My guess is that your need change the setting in file wine.ini or ~/.winerc . Probably you forget to create a windows directory in your c:\ drive or point it to the wrong direction. Hope this works. -cheng On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 10:44:57PM +0300, Jeff Browning wrote: Hey all, When I try to run whine, it says: Could not stat /dos, ignoring drive C: Invalid path 'c:\windows' for windows directory Uh, help.
Re: Star Office 3
Jeff Browning wrote: Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run setup program in /usr/lib/StarOffice3 it says Segmentation Error. Also, do you need to have a windows partition to run wine? Thanks a lot. Jeff One thing I know will do this is running SO on a libc6(glibc2) based system, because SO needs libc5. If you are running a libc6 system (hamm or slink) then get the libc5 libraries out of the 'oldlibs' section in dselect. Don't know the answer to the wine question, sorry. -- Ed C.
moving the root partition (esp. /dev)
I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can't seem to copy the devices in /dev. I get messages like cp: /dev/sdh3: Operation not supported by device. MAKEDEV doesn't seem to create all the devices, or set the proper file ownerships. Is there anyway to do this other than re-creating the hundreds of them by hand? Thanks, John Paul
system instablity
Hi all, I'm asking here because I'm hoping someone might have a nicer diagnosis for what I'm seeing. I had been running a debian hamm installation that I had upgraded with no trouble until I had a disk failure. I verified it was the hard drive that was hosed. Anyhow, I recent bought hamm on CD and installed again on a different drive. I've had a few odd problems here and there but nothing unusual until the past couple of days. I have been seeing dpkg die with odd perl syntax errors, seg-faults, etc. Other programs such as netscape 4.05, emacs, smailconfig, and kfm (and many other I can't remember) have been dieing with illegal operations, segs, and bus errors. The problems will be repeatable for a short time, and then the program will behave, or exhibit a new and interesting problem. I know linux and the software I'm using is more stable than this. I guess I'm wondering if anyone know if there may have been problems with the official cd image? I would image that the problems I'm see would have been fixed if it were the software. I guess another question would be, does anyone have any idea which hardware is most likely to cause this without crashing the whole OS? Judging by the randomness of the error, I'm guessing not the CPU. Maybe a bad spot in memory? I'm running hamm pretty much out of the box still. I have not compiled my own kernel yet. I'm not using any new hardware. This has all work within the last month. If anyone has any idea's, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Dan Hursh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Star Office 3
I alrady have libc5 installed. Any other suggestions? Jeff Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 00:27:42 -0500 From: Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Star Office 3 Jeff Browning wrote: Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run setup program in /usr/lib/StarOffice3 it says Segmentation Error. Also, do you need to have a windows partition to run wine? Thanks a lot. Jeff One thing I know will do this is running SO on a libc6(glibc2) based system, because SO needs libc5. If you are running a libc6 system (hamm or slink) then get the libc5 libraries out of the 'oldlibs' section in dselect. Don't know the answer to the wine question, sorry. -- Ed C. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)
I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can't seem to copy the devices Don't give it the -r option; -a alone will suffice. In particuar, -a includes the -R option, which is what you wanted instead of -r (which make all non-directory files into regular files: man cp). -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation Problem
I am trying to install debian linux on an IBM personal system 2 model 70, 386 and have a major problem! The installation program trys three times to detect my controller card and says unrecognized chip and says there are no hard disks on my system. The installation continues till it wants me to partition my hard disk for linux. I have a Future Domain Corporation MCS-600 SCSI Host adapter running a Maxtor LXT340SY hard disk. Please tell me how to proceed. Do I need a new Controller/hard disk? if so what kind? another computer is out of the question, I can not afford it. And the computer I am writing this E-mail on does not belong to me.Thanks Alex _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Joystick
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- Michael Beattie wrote about Joystick [snip] Linux quake does not have native support for the joystick. The only way to get the joystick to work in quake is to use the joy2key program at http://www.freenet.tlh.fl.us/~amstpi/joy2key.html. This program translates joystick movement and buttons to keyboard activity. Joy2key supports X, tty's and rawconsole(svgalib). It supports a config file with different sections for different games. Someone has started a page with different config's(only about 3 or 4 right now) at http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~tetron/joy2keyconfig.html. Yeah, I've read about joy2key, but I did not know where to get it. I was asking about quake2, not quake.. but thats not a problem, playing quake2 multiplayer with a joystick is instant death. I just wanted to try out the drivers. Quake2 does have negligible joystick support, but I think it's only cosmetic. Such as an initialisation command, an option Use Joystick but there is no input from it at all. I even linked /dev/js0 to as many different joy* devices that I could think of. Anyway, I have been pointed to sabre, a flight sim. With the new joystick driver in the kernel I would expect more games to natively support the js? devices. Especially once the 2.2 series of kernels hit the wire. Yeah... and the support for new Joysticks is increasing. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a NZ$ 40 administration charge. (Hmmm another Stolen Sig) - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: system instablity
Dan hursh wrote: Hi all, I'm asking here because I'm hoping someone might have a nicer diagnosis for what I'm seeing. I had been running a debian hamm installation that I had upgraded with no trouble until I had a disk failure. I verified it was the hard drive that was hosed. Anyhow, I recent bought hamm on CD and installed again on a different drive. I've had a few odd problems here and there but nothing unusual until the past couple of days. I have been seeing dpkg die with odd perl syntax errors, seg-faults, etc. Other programs such as netscape 4.05, emacs, smailconfig, and kfm (and many other I can't remember) have been dieing with illegal operations, segs, and bus errors. The problems will be repeatable for a short time, and then the program will behave, or exhibit a new and interesting problem. I know linux and the software I'm using is more stable than this. I guess I'm wondering if anyone know if there may have been problems with the official cd image? I would image that the problems I'm see would have been fixed if it were the software. I guess another question would be, does anyone have any idea which hardware is most likely to cause this without crashing the whole OS? Judging by the randomness of the error, I'm guessing not the CPU. Maybe a bad spot in memory? I'm running hamm pretty much out of the box still. I have not compiled my own kernel yet. I'm not using any new hardware. This has all work within the last month. If anyone has any idea's, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Dan Hursh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Dan, I thought it was just me. I reported transient errors with apt/dpkg. Do the errors start with 'General Protection: 00' or 'General failure: ' or something like that? The only person who responded to that part of my message, insisted the problem was elsewhere and not Debian, but I can't figure out any other explanation other than corrupted data files used by apt/dpkg or some similar problem. In my original post, I believed dselect/apt/dpkg were being pushed beyond their capabilities. Dpkg is being swamped by packages, now more than 2700. However, the errors, from my point of view, are far more common when running dselect with apt as the access method. This Friday I tried an upgrade using dselect/apt. I had a lot of stuff on hold, so decided to let dselect upgrade all of them (~30 packages). The download was a long one, but uneventfull. When installing though it started installing the latest netbase package of slink and crashed...hard. I first got the same kind of 'General failure: 0' message from apt/dpkg then I got the kernel message that began with 'Aiyee' or something like that. It was the first time I've seen a hard kernel crash outside of the X win system. The wierd thing, and this is why this problem is so frustrating, is that I rebooted, let fsck fix the inevitable filesystem errors then installed the same packages manually with 'dpkg -i' and everything installed sucessfully. Like you this is something I've only seen recently, I don't remember having these kinds of problems back with Deb 1.3.1. -- Ed C.
Re: Star Office 3
Jeff Browning wrote: I alrady have libc5 installed. Any other suggestions? Jeff Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 00:27:42 -0500 From: Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Star Office 3 Jeff Browning wrote: Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run setup program in /usr/lib/StarOffice3 it says Segmentation Error. Also, do you need to have a windows partition to run wine? Thanks a lot. Jeff One thing I know will do this is running SO on a libc6(glibc2) based system, because SO needs libc5. If you are running a libc6 system (hamm or slink) then get the libc5 libraries out of the 'oldlibs' section in dselect. Don't know the answer to the wine question, sorry. No more suggestions, sorry. I've never used SO, but I've seen messages about libc5/libc6 issues with SO. If you don't get a better answer, repost your question to the list. -- Ed C.
Re: Configuring scsi controller on ISA bus
Damir's line: boot:aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 What you said the error message was: inside install program it return the error couldn't find kernel image:aha152x=.0x3 I'm not familiar with the way this error message is generated, but I assumed (oops, maybe that's where I went wrong) that the error said .0x3 instead of 0x340 because that's what was given to the boot prompt. However, if this is not a typo on your part, either in the boot parameters or in your report of the error, then in the immortal words of (I believe) Rosanna Rosanna Danna, Never mind :) On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, David Herbert wrote: No typo I can see..?..? David Kent West wrote: It looks like either a typo in this posting, or you made a typo at the boot prompt. See Damir's last few lines below. On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, David Herbert wrote: I tried your suggestion, it did not return an error but also did not work I continued on and also tried your suggestion using a shell from inside install program it return the error couldn't find kernel image:aha152x=.0x3 Damir J. Naden wrote: Hi David Herbert; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I am installing the debian version of linux from cd rom. I have an adaptec scsi controller as my 2nd controller, it is an AHA-1510. In windows(shhh) I found this info on it,AIC 6x60isa single chip scsi controller, using irq 11 and IO range 0340-035F. I tried to load the kernal from the cd and got an error message that it was not configured the install program said to reload the modules. I found at boot: it had some configuring data at F4 and F5, I tried to put in the line about my controller but failed. Would someone know what I have to do to complete this? I did not under stand the info that was needed to put this on the command line. F5 said Adaptec 151x, 152xaha152x=iobase[,irq[,scsi-id[,reconnect]]] also when I tried to access the cd from install program it errored and showed (maybe 'insmod driver'?) Thanks for any help you may provide David I am no expert, but I have just installed the zip zoom card shipped with iomega's internal scsi zip drive. This (mine) one is an adaptec based ISA card with no on-board bios. It is a second scsi card and it is used _only_ for the zip drive, so I use insmod technique. If your disks are on that card's chain, you have to have it compiled in the kernel. that eliminates the insmod strategy. You could try to pass arguments to kernel at boot time by typing (at the boot: prompt) aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 so your whole line would look like: boot:aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 the above would correspond to your windows-reported config (0340-035F io range and irq 11). HTH damir -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC! Life is an ongoing classroom. - Capt. James T. Kirk, Dreadnought -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC! Life is an ongoing classroom. - Capt. James T. Kirk, Dreadnought
Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)
-r was a typo. I meant -R for recursive. It still won't copy the devices in /dev. Pete Harlan wrote: I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can't seem to copy the devices Don't give it the -r option; -a alone will suffice. In particuar, -a includes the -R option, which is what you wanted instead of -r (which make all non-directory files into regular files: man cp). -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: xserver-svga 3.3.2.3 messes virtual terminals
Jean Orloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) what more can I try (outside reboot) to clear the terminals? setfont -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ Microsoft is the answer! The question is, Why did my PC crash?
Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:39:36AM -0500, John Paul Lorenti wrote: I'm trying to move all the files in my root partition to a different disk parition. I had no problems using cp -ar to do this with the /usr tree, but /dev is giving me problems. I can't seem to copy the devices in /dev. I get messages like cp: /dev/sdh3: Operation not supported by device. MAKEDEV doesn't seem to create all the devices, or set the proper file ownerships. Is there anyway to do this other than re-creating the hundreds of them by hand? When I make boot/root disks I use: cp -dpR /dev /mnt -- Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Configuring scsi controller on ISA bus
Hi David Herbert; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I tried your suggestion, it did not return an error but also did not work I continued on and also tried your suggestion using a shell from inside install program it return the error couldn't find kernel image:aha152x=.0x3 I don't know enough about the kernel, but are you sure you typed =0x340? the line above suggests you typed =.0x3 if that is not the problem, try typing: linux aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 ^ note the linux part! Also, this will either work or it won't when you give that parameter at the boot prompt, I don't think you can enter that from the shell; not unles you are insmod it, but for that your kernel will need to be recompiled. HTH, damir
Dead middle button in Agiler 3 button mouse
Just got a basic Agiler serial mouse (AGM1904). It works fine but the middle button does not respond. I used the spec: Section Pointer ProtocolMicrosoft Device /dev/mouse BaudRate1200 Resolution 400 Buttons 3 If I add ChordMiddle or Emulate3Buttons then I can get equivalent action from the other two, but that's not what I want. The mouse box says: resolution 400DPI, Mode: Microsoft / Mouse system. You need to hold down a button at power-up to go into Mouse System (I guess they mean Mouse Systems?) which I did not want (do i?). Help appreciated. -- Eyal Lebedinsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Piped unpipable output [Xserver troubles]
Christian Lavoie writes: [troubles] Christian, looks like you lack a valid modeline. Check your monitor spec's vs the available modelines. Most video cards are capable of displaying far more video formats than the monitor is capable of displaying (without messing up or worse - burning out). -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: gnome problems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I'm trying to get gnome running. However, I'm running into problems | with libraries. I've ran dselect, and it states that I have everything | installed and configured, so I'm kind of at a loss. | | Does anyone have any ideas on what I need to do? This is potato, right? For the time being, you should use gnome and gtk from slink. -- ...Unix, MS-DOS, and MS Windows (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). (Matt Welsh) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WindowMaker 0.20.3 on hamm
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| thanks for the input... I checked and I had those packages installed
| already... and I couldn't find any packages with the same name but without
| the 'g' at the end...It still gives the same error...
| ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory
If I remember your problem correctly...
The X11 libs are in /usr/X11R6/lib and you have to tell ld to
look there. If you post the top of your Makefile we should be
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Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)
Ok, thanks to you guys I got it working. If you're interested, here's what happened (I think). The first time I tried to copy all of the root partition using -axR. This was working until it got to one of the bttv (brooktree tv card) dev files. I think that because the card was in use (but it could be my own incompetence), it started copying data from the card. After I noticed this file at hundreds of megabytes, I cntrl-c'd the copy. I guess in subsequent tries, I left out the -a. So Pete, you were right and cp is smart about device files. Thanks again, John Paul Pete Harlan wrote: -r was a typo. I meant -R for recursive. It still won't copy the devices in /dev. Well then I'm not much help, am I? :) I use cp -a all the time to copy /dev directories. Do you do anything 'funny' (e.g., use devfs for your device files)? I've never had a problem with 'cp -a' since I stoped using '-r' myself... Are you sure you didn't make the same typo when you ran the command? Are you sure you're not running out of disk space? (I'm not trying to insult you, I just have this deep-rooted conviction that cp is smart about device files.) If you're in a time crunch and don't feel like figuring this out so much as you do copying a directory, you ought to be able to use tar to do it ( cd /dev; tar cpf - ) | ( cd /mnt/dev; tar xpf - ) ought to work, though it's clumsier than using cp. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PalmPilot going OpenSource?: off topic?
I know this is slightly off-topic, but, I just found an article and had a look around Palms site and found this page: http://www.palmpilot.com/devzone/rom3/srcavail.html I followed some of the links and, basically, You can register on-line as a developer, then fill out the Source code license and physically mail it to Palm Computing. The License agreement is rather restrictive, 3COM only agrees to release selected code, and the licensee is required to respect 3COM's ownership and copyrights etc, but this might be the start of more open access to the Palm's OS. Have a look and see what you think. Cheers, John Gay
xdm screen shot
Hi all, Could anyone tell me how I can capture the screen shot of my xdm?? Thx. shao.
mailtools filter
does anyone here have a working mailtools filter for debian-user? I gave up on smail/procmail. TIA
Re: two smarthosts in exim?
Hello, On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 06:33:16PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: Get rid of one ISP George... What if he is like me (you're going to love this)? I work at an ISP but try not to use the connection since I want my personal netlife seperate from my professional netlife. Thanks - my situation is that I'm a University student, with access to the modem pool, but we pay for an actual ISP to host the domain for our small business. However, I use it as a backup. Which was the context of my question: the modem pool disappeared on Friday and I had to change everything over to the ISP. Surprisingly enough, the modem pool was fixed on Saturday. But the login procedure changed. Thanks for the answers! There doesn't seem to be any include mechanism, so it's probably modify the config (by ln, cp or perl). The changing machine alias idea was crazy, anyway. Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unsure of how Debian is updated
Hello, I am converting from RedHat to Debian and in the main am pleased with Debian. One thing I can't quite work out though is how Debian handles updated packages. Normally, updated packages go into unstable, which is a sort of work-in-progress area. Every now and then, unstable gets cleaned up, and released as the new stable version, and the previous version becomes, well, the previous version. So the upshot is, if you want to keep up with the latest version, just check the stable directory on the ftp servers. Sometime in the next few weeks, you should get a pleasant surprise :-) OTOH, if you want to stay with 2.0 for some reason, you should use the hamm directory. For example XFree86 3.3.3 is out now, will this eventually be integrated into the 2.0 release or are the packages in this release frozen except for bug fixes ? As far as I understand it, only serious bug fixes are allowed into hamm. 3.3.3 actually just missed getting into slink (Debian 2.1 is called slink), so it'll go into Debian 2.2 (potato). However, if you need it, you can always ftp it from unstable and install it (dpkg -i *.deb). One of RedHats nice features is that there is the upgrade drectory on their ftp server and you can just see all the packages that have been upgraded since the release of that version of RedHat is there an equivalent for Debian ? If you are using dselect, it will check and list all the upgraded packages under the heading Updated packages (newer version is available). You can then pick which ones you want to upgrade. In some respects this is even better than a list of packages upgraded since a release, because it compares to what you have installed (so if you have a mixed system, you still get the correct list). To have dselect do that, you have to tell it to use the stable directory. HTH Jiri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X fonts problems. nothing available for helvetica
Hi there. Appologies for re-hashing this. Just upgraded my system for the first time in a couple of months with slink. Everything mostly went right, but I have had some problems with X. When starting it, my windowmanager (windowmaker) complains with a message like: Can't load font -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed. From the following thread (http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9811/threads.html#01674) it seems that the fault is of the new break up in the xfont/xbase packages. The resolution from the mailing list archives seems to be nuke all of X and re-install. I'd rather not do that though :) (though it is possible of course). I've tried purging all of the xfonts packages I have, and re-installing them but to no avail. If anyone can help me 'easily' fix this, I'd appreciate it a lot. Thanks a lot. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.northco.net/alan
Re: [fsck]: file system errors ...
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had such a problem. My problem has been caused by glibc2 bug. This bug is fixed glibc-2.0.7u, and glibc-2.0.7t have such bug. Hamm is using glibc-2.0.7t, so Hamm causes such a problem. I had as base installed hamm but with apt-get i've been updating packages and it's, at the moment, as slink. Your problem may be caused by this bug. Please excute below command to check the existence of this bug. $ fuser /etc/ld.so.cache If no output is given, the glibc do not have such a bug. If output is given, your glibc *have* such a bug and fsck detect errors. No output was given! :) Meanwhile, yesterday i'd installed a package(emusic) which had updated my glibc2(2.0.7u-7.1) and therefor I don't remember the older version I had. At the moment, I still didn't have fsck filesystem error message, maybe I already had resolved my problem. :) Thanks for the help. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ?? Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra PGP key available at finger ??
fetchmail procmail
Hi all,
My fetchmail is now working fine. Thne I want to use procmail as
well to divert all my debian mails to a different folder...
I changed the line in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/fetchmail
from fetchmail -v
to fetchmail -v --mda formail -s procmail
I also have a .procmailrc in the home directory.. But, when I dial
up, it seemed to me that fetchmail is not getting my emails anymore??
So what did I do wrong?? Do I have to put .procmailrc in the root
account??
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incorrect username on 'From:' line of outgoing messages
The subject pretty much says it all. My 'smarthost' is aurora.uaf.edu, and my username on this system is fsblk, but my username from my home maching (which is 'gandalf') gets put in the From: line. I have tried responding with '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' when asked by smailconfig for my systems visable address, but it doesn't allow this. Is there any way to change this behavior so my outgoin messages have '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the 'From:' field, or do I just need to use a 'Reply-to:' field. Any help or advice greatly appreciated. __ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. Britton Kerin
Toshiba Satellite crashes with fn key
Has anyone on this list tried pressing the fn key on a Toshiba Satellite while in Linux? In my case it locks up the machine irretrievably :)) . I wish there were some way of disabling it. 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
Re: Debian installation hangs
On 12 Dec 98, at 10:24, David Stern wrote: Yes, I was trying again last nigt, and waited for 20 minutes or so without result. And the Master/Slave jumpers are definitely configured correctly. I thought of something the other day.. umm.. I know it's generally considered somewhat of a nuisance, but if your mainboard is made by a reputable manufactuer like Asus, then you may have a flash programmable system bios. These are upgradable using special software, and a lot of times there are bugs that need to be ironed out, as well as many added features that can be obtained by upgrading the system bios. Now the down side: if you don't follow the instructions EXACTLY, then you can put your box in an unbootable state, necessitating taking your bios to Radio Shack or somewhere they can reset it for about as much as it costs to buy a new one ($30). I've upgraded my system bios about three times over the past two years since I built this box, and there have been numerous bug fixes for flaky ide drivers, added support for zip and LS120 disks, I can boot off my cdrom now (I found out by accident when I stuck my first debian cdrom in the drive and rebooted), I can boot from my scsi controller first, USB support, .. You may or may not want to do this, but it is something that at least has potential for correcting your problems, not to mention adding more features, although there are inherent risks. If you have an Asus (Dell used to use Asus, I don't know if they still do) see these links: snip Yeah, I had the same idea yesterday. Dell are pretty good about providing BIOS updates, and documenting how to use them. So I've now upgraded from version A04 to A06, and - unfortunately - it made no difference to Linux (although Windows went through a massive spate of re-detecting and installing various system devices) Well, at the moment I haven't managed to make a Slink disk anyway. And after a bit of searching through the list archive, this seems to be a common problem. It does seem that it will solve the problem when released, but I'm in Impatient Mode right now, and now sure I can manage to wait a few weeks... I understand. I'll start looking at boot disk kernel stuff. I'm not sure how soon I'll have a replacement image, but when I do I'll just send you to my webpage (a little in need of maintenance). http://weber.u.washington.edu/~dstern/ My estimate would be sometime after late Sunday, US Pacific time, which makes that early Monday for you. We'll see how it goes. Following another thread on this list, I got hold of a 1440k image for a Slink boot disk. This one behaved exactly like the Hamm disk, hanging on the md driver. However, the md driver version on the Slink disk is 0.36.3 which is the same version as on the working RedHat boot disk and CD. So this is obviously more complicated than just a single driver not dealing properly with my hardware. Not at all the result I was looking for. Tried the Tecra disk, same result. I looked into the Tecra disk and I saw it's primarily just a zimage vs. bzimage kernel deal. bzimage is a higher level of compression, so I kind of figured that might not do much for you, but it was still a good try, because sometimes there are unanticipated side effects. I don't remember seeing this as an option last time I was in the BIOS setup. But there might be a manual jumper setting. I'll have to look. I doubt plug n play is a jumper setting (although anything is possible). In my bios, there's an option named PnP OS. Sometimes that will improperly initialize PnP devices, and Linux will choke, so it's best to disable it. In my case I haven't figured out if that means it should be on or off. :) Just had anotherr look, and turning off PnP just isn't an option, either in the BIOS or on the motherboard. Er, well it was actually 70, but I'll try 65 and we'll see if that helps. By the way, despite the been there, done that tone of this e-mail, I'm grateful for the effort you've made. If you can think of any other suggestions, please keep them coming. I didn't count, but whatever you did worked great. I'll let you decide on the bios. The first time I did it, I was terrified, but now it's kind of like compiling a kernel, just another ten minute job. I do encourage you to be extremely careful if you flash your bios, though. I'm a little curious, although it may not matter, but is there anything untraditional about your mainboard. By taht, I mean, is the video or the scsi controller, or the sound, or anything like that integrated into the mainboard? If so, and you're not using that device, you might try disabling that (not your video, though :). Sometimes this can be done in the bios, sometimes with jumpers. -- David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nothing particulary
Re: (off topic) UPS recommendation
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am in the market for a UPS to use with my PC that will provide power just enough power to get a shutdown finished in case of total power lost. I know that Best Power and Fenton UPS explicity support Linux with their software, and I think both release their software as open source. A web search should turn them up. Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computers let you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila. Mitch Radcliffe
Re: recommendation on presentation software
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i need to make a presentation, and i'd like to do it with my laptop a la Powerpoint. (ie video output of laptop plugged on LCD retroprojector) [...] I need very basic capacities, as i won't have much time to create the contents of the presentation either. Consider writing them in HTML and using a web browser to display them. That's what I did when our Linux users group did a presentation on Linux for another group. Check out the results at: http://www.tir.com/~sorceror/ Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computers let you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila. Mitch Radcliffe
Re: Star Office 3
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 07:41:31AM -0400, Jeff Browning wrote: Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run setup program in /usr/lib/StarOffice3 it says Segmentation Error. Also, do you need to have a windows partition to run wine? Thanks a lot. eventually You should try the newer star-office-5.0 version. it runs with the newer lib, I have run it under GNU/Debian hamm system without problems but it's really slow and sucks a lot of memory, but work's fine. When I remember correctly You can download it from star division server -- Peter
Re: Star Office 3
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 12:27:42AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Jeff Browning wrote: Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four just suck star office 5.0 from stardivision and this works with libc6, StarOffice is eventually really slow :(, but works fine :) -- Peter
Epson Stylus Color IIs
Hi everybody out there! Is there any support under Linux for the Epson Stylus Color IIs? Thanx Jan alias hinkel_stein!
Re: Maus/ was: Debian Hamm used
Off topic, but educational. Thomas Adams writes: Hmm, does anybody out there in Germany know Art Spiegelman at all? :) A few might. A court in Sonneberg handed a public prosecutor, one Hoenninger from Meiningen, free license confiscate whatever the publishing company distributing Maus in Germany had in store that offended him, his 40 cops, or the dog (well, they were allegedly facing 8 employees). That was in July 1995. The Hoenninger decided in August 1995 that a Maus ad poster should be considered nazi propaganda (it showed a swastika). The same month the case collapsed, and most publications were handed back - but not Maus. The Hoenninger announced further investigation at his discretion. In April 1996, the Hoenninger asked in another shot at this publisher (seemingly following up on the case of Maus as nazi propaganda) 480 police departments all over germany to search bookstores (a total of 1200) and confiscate whatever publications they deemed offensive. Public support enabled the publisher to succeed in a higher court, which basically dismissed the case entirely in March 1998. The Hoenninger is currently appealing this decision. Remember the name. I believe in accountability. The Internet Age warrants dedicated pillory sites for people like this. b. [the summary above is based on an article in kunstkultur 5/98, pp. 35-36, by Christine Wagner. Consider all errors and inaccuracies translation blunders on my account.] [the phrase the Hoenninger is an appropriate approximation of german court language, used when referring to suspects, defendants, and witnesses alike. It is always the language that gives them away.]
Re: incorrect username on 'From:' line of outgoing messages
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 02:42:57AM -0900, Britton wrote: change this behavior so my outgoin messages have '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the 'From:' field, or do I just need to use a 'Reply-to:' field. Any help or advice greatly appreciated. Yes, have pine put in a domain for you. Look in the pine configs. -- 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! ---+- pgpndq5kCohVM.pgp Description: PGP signature
shell magic/info
Hello everyone ! I've been dirtying my hands on how interactive shell programs like smailconfig, bindconfig (those who ask the user for a choice and execute something for that choice). They always start with that usual executable magic #!/bin/sh . Does anyone know of any documentation w/s can guide us how to write custom programs ? My concern is actually to write a program that will prompt a user 4 or 5 inputs only, (pon, poff, elm, quit) then make it as her default login shell, that way, i dont give her a fully interactive shell (and a potential security hole for my feline friend). Thanks a lot in advance. Sib INXS: if not at all that busy, i really would like a template script, w/ only 2 choices, a pointer on where/how do i start. - A world of Information. The journey begins here. At Home. Internet Cebu's web based mail. http://www.i-mailbox.net
ftping StarOffice in small doses
Hi all, I want to download StarOffice but with it being 70Mb I don't fancy having an open line for seven hours plus. Does anyone know of an ftp program that can download in chunks at a time and doesn't mind frequent interruptions. I think in the past someone mentioned 'cftp' but I can't find any information on that. Does anyone know if StarOffice 5 is libc5 or libc6. Libc6 would be better from my point of view, if it's not can anyone recommend an alternative. Thanks
Re: Problem compiling the kernel
Peter Granroth wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 1998 at 08:06:56PM +, Allens wrote: Hi, I am at the moment trying to build the kernel (2.0.34) I have configured it (make xconfig, then ran make mrproper as advised by a post in the mail archives on this problem, and then done make zImage, and it comes up with this error after a long time: You should not do 'make mrproper' _after_ 'make xconfig' since it removes .config (among other stuff). do 'make mrproper' first, _then_ 'make xconfig', 'make dep', 'make clean', 'make zImage' (and 'make modules modules_install if you have any modules). -- Yes, sorry I did 'make xconfig', 'make dep', 'make clean', 'make zImage' in that even though I put them that way round in the original mail. My mistake. (Oh and it still doesn't work). Thanks for trying though: Peter Allen
Re: 4 button Logitech MouseMan and XFree86
On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 10:43:45PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: I have a 4 button Logitech MouseMan (has a thumb button) and my buttons don't work correctly in X. The thumb button seems to ack as the middle button and the middle button doesn't work at all. Here's what my current XF86Config file looks like (just the pointer section): [...] Anyone have one of these mice? What can I do to fix my configuration? This is exactly the model of mouse I have. When I had it hooked up to the serial port, I used an XF86Config Pointer section like this: Section Pointer ProtocolAuto Device /dev/mouse Buttons 4 EndSection If your /dev/mouse is not a symlink to the appropriate COM port, either make it or use the COM port instead (/dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1, usually). Now I use it on the PS/2 port. Section Pointer ProtocolIMPS/2 Device /dev/mouse Buttons 4 EndSection /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/psaux. I don't have to mess with xmodmap at all. If you have problems with above, ensure you have properly compiled your kernel for generic serial device support or PS/2 mouse support. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | If God had intended for man to go about [EMAIL PROTECTED] | naked, we would have been born that way. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpz2j01PCMJJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: shell magic/info
Sibuyas Bombay wrote: Hello everyone ! I've been dirtying my hands on how interactive shell programs like smailco nfig, bindconfig (those who ask the user for a choice and execute something for th at choice). They always start with that usual executable magic #!/bin/sh . Does anyon e know of any documentation w/s can guide us how to write custom programs ? M y concern is actually to write a program that will prompt a user 4 or 5 inputs only, (pon, poff, elm, quit) then make it as her default login shell, that w ay, i dont give her a fully interactive shell (and a potential security hole for my feline friend). Thanks a lot in advance. Sib INXS: if not at all that busy, i really would like a template script, w/ onl y 2 choices, a pointer on where/how do i start. Make this script executable and make it the login shell (7th field of the line in /etc/passwd); when it exits, the user will log out: = begin === #! /bin/sh # Sample menu script # while true do echo -n Here are your choices - 1. Change your password 2. See today's date 3. Log off Which do you want? x= while [ -z $x ] do read x done echo case $x in 1) passwd ;; 2) date ;; 3) exit 0 ;; *) echo -e $x is a bad choice!\a ;; esac done == end -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD; thou art my trust from my youth. Psalms 71:5
exim: my contrib :)
hi debianers,
after some struggling with exim (mostly due to myself, not to this nice
program) i've found a setup that could be interesting for other people
beside me. so i'd like to contribute it, with the hope it can help someone
and maybe help myself too in bettering my config.
BACKGROUND
i've a small net at home. i've some mboxes at my ISP. i've always had the
problem to separate outbound mail (goint to the Net) from locan (lan) mail.
exim seemed to offer a simpler way, compared to sendmail, and i never liked
smail that much. so i started playing with exim. i couldn't get anything
working with 1.62 (coming with debian 1.3), but i could get something
useful with 1.92 (coming with debian 2.0). here it is.
RELEVANT CONFIG LINES
i set up exim as a permanently connected machine (don't remember how it is
called during the setup, but i hope you can get it), and i added those
lines at the very beginning of exim.conf, my isp address as a macro, to be
used after:
ISPname = my.isp
then, in the router config, i create those two routers:
lan:
driver = lookuphost
transport = smtp
# my.home is my local domain
domains = *.my.home
internet:
driver = domainlist
transport = smtp
route_list = * mail.my.isp bydns-a
NOTE:mail.my.isp is my isp smarthost
to rewrite address on outgoing mail, i used this rewriting rule:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ${if !match{$header_to:} [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL
PROTECTED] fail
} Ffr
that should mean: if the mail is not going to anything inside my.home,
change domain to ISPname.
TEST
i haven't fully tested my config. i tried with different addresses and saw
that:
- local delivery is still working
- lan delivery is working
- internet messages get spooled, waiting for delivery with adresses
properly rewritten
in the next future, i'll try to test the whole process
STILL TO BE DONE
what i'd like to get is the ability to properly rewrite headers based on
sender identity and message destination. this set up would be more general
and usefull if i could do something like this:
msg frommsg to proper sender address
==
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i've tried with rewriting rules with linear lookup, but failed until now
i've also tried adding and removing headers, but nothing happens
DISCLAIMER
i'm not smart enough to promise anything, forget about any warranty. :)
CREDITS
much of what i obtained is derived (when correct) from messages by:
- exim docs
- george bonser
- mike orr
- paul sloothman
- martin madlik
thanks to all of them. i hope i didn't forget anyone
WISHES
i'd like to see exim as the debian default MTA
PS: if anyone wants my complete exim.conf, feel free to e-mail me.
--
|||| ||| Marco Frattola Microsoft is not the answer
||`..'|| |||... Piacenza, ItalyMicrosoft is the question
||| ||| |||''[EMAIL PROTECTED] No is the answer
||| ||| ||| www.enjoy.it/users/~mk/index.html Live Linux, live free!
calculating bandwidth requirements
Hello All, I am looking at setting up a dial-in machine to have a permanent connection to the net so that family and friends can have accounts with me rather than with seperate ISP's and therefore share the costs. It is intended that all normal services (e-mail, ftp, web browsing, newsgroups etc) will be available. Thanks to the help I received previously, I understand that the data is downloaded via my high speed link and then distributed to the dial in user who requested it meaning that the high speed link is idle for much of the time while the requesting user reads the information thusly provided. It also seems apparent that someone who never waits for a page to finish loading in their browser before clicking the next link will be more of a bandwidth hog than others. Having said that, is there some rough guide to calculating the mimimum bandwidth required to support a given number of users with 56K connections to my machine ? eg.0 - xx users :64K (xx + 1) - yy users : 128K (yy + 1) - zz users : 256K etc... Also I think it is correct that I can download the newsgroups to my own machine and therefore newsgroup reading, whilst requiring a dial in line and processing and disc access time, does not use the band width except for when I download the information for redistribution ??? I understand that it is no great drain to forward e-mail as it is received from the user and ftp to remote sites via my machine works similarly to web browsing in that the file is downloaded to my machine first and then distributed to the user. Is this also correct ? Is there anything I have forgotten to ask (or don't know to ask) ? Thank you all very much for your help. Ivan.
fetchmail + procmail setup
Well, since there seems to be a fair a number of people who can't figure this out, I thought it might be helpful if I mailed my own setup. First of all read the mail filtering FAQ (search yahoo for it). This describes more in detail the system that I use. Anyway, this is how I do it. In /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ a have a script called 'mail' which looks as follows: -- #!/bin/sh fetchmail -d 180 -- Then in /root I have the following .fetchmailrc (it's very simple, as this is a single user machine): -- poll pop.prestel.co.uk with proto pop3 user username there has password password is dave here postconnect /usr/bin/runq -- In my home dir I have the following .forward : -- |IFS=' ' exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #dave -- The /home/dave/.procmailrc looks like this: -- VERBOSE=off MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # Change to whichever dir mail is to be put in PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/rc.maillists # Add more recipe-files here if needed -- In /home/dave/.procmail/rc.maillists -- :0: * ^TOOPENGL-GAMEDEV-L IN.opengl :0: * ^TODebian-user debian-user :0: * ^TODebian-devel debian-devel :0: * ^TOdebian-private debian-private :0: * ^TOdebian-mentor debian-mentor :0: * ^TOdebian debian-misc -- These recipes are not very advanced, but they work for me. debian-misc is simply any debian stuff which doesn't go anywhere else. All that is needed after this is to point your mailreader to ~/mail/debian-user or whatever. Disclaimer: it is fully possible that the way I've done it is a horrendous security hole, and that the world will implode if somebody looks at the setup in the wrong way. I don't know, and it's not my fault :) Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.0 on Linux i386 2.1.125 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation
Gnome-(panel?)
Hi! I've installed the latest gnome-debs yesterday, and have one little problem: The panel doesn't save its state when exiting. It always starts with only the main menu and the clock applet and at the default place. I know gnome is alpha, but maybe someone got this to work? P.S.: I have exec gnome-session in my .xsession if that matters. Thanks, Ramin
Re: gnome problems
On 13 Dec, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I'm trying to get gnome running. However, I'm running into problems | with libraries. I've ran dselect, and it states that I have everything | installed and configured, so I'm kind of at a loss. | | Does anyone have any ideas on what I need to do? This is potato, right? For the time being, you should use gnome and gtk from slink. Yes, I have ham, slink, and potatoe mix. How do I go about getting rid of potatoe w/o having to reinstall the whole thing?
Re: less shows fortune
There probably a mismatched quote somewhere, or something similar. Post /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc here, the error should be obvious to spot I don't think so: # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1). PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games PS1=\\$ export PATH PS1 umask 002 /usr/bin/check-sendfile echo \n fortune -a echo # /etc/csh.cshrc: system-wide .cshrc file for csh(1)/tcsh(1). # $Id: csh.cshrc,v 1.4 1998/06/05 21:04:02 luisgh Exp $ # Getting a consistent keyboard mapping if ($?tcsh ) then bindkey \e[1~ beginning-of-line # Home bindkey \e[7~ beginning-of-line # Home rxvt bindkey \e[2~ overwrite-mode # Ins bindkey \e[3~ delete-char# Delete bindkey \e[4~ end-of-line# End bindkey \e[8~ end-of-line# End rxvt endif if ( $?prompt ) then if ( $TERM == linux ) then set prompt = %m:%B%~%b%# else set prompt = %U%m%u:%B%~%b%# endif endif # inserted 14.9.98 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] setenv PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games setenv EDITOR 'emacs -nw' #echo \n #fortune -a #echo
Cannot access Web Page from behind firewall
The Web Page I am trying access is www.columbiahouse.com. I try to access it from either Netscape or Lynx but both get hung up on waiting for the host to reply. This is on my machine inside my firewall. My set up is a two machine network. One is my gateway with a masquarading firewall with the following rules: ipfwadm -F -p deny ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0 -D 0.0.0.0/0 I can get to the web site from the gateway using Lynx (can't test Netscapr. No X.). This only happens for certain web sites. For the most part, I can access the web from the machine inside the firewall just fine. Now I have just tried upping my kernel to 2.0.36 to find out it still uses PPP v2.2.0. But the new kernel does not fix the problem. I have tried using an older kernel 2.0.32, but that did not work. I have also tried different kernel configs: with without 'optimize as router and not host', 'always defragment', and 'use large windows'. Any other suggestions? Thanx in advance. -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: calculating bandwidth requirements
On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 10:39:24PM +0800, ivan wrote: I am looking at setting up a dial-in machine to have a permanent connection to the net so that family and friends can have accounts with me rather than with seperate ISP's and therefore share the costs. Heh, I've been telling people at work for weeks that the next evolution of ISPs will be for the larger ones to grow while a group of friends and family will create ISP co-ops to get out from under the larger ISPs. :) Having said that, is there some rough guide to calculating the mimimum bandwidth required to support a given number of users with 56K connections to my machine ? No. But I do know you can fit a good 20-30 lines on 128k. It won't be pretty if everyone tries to FTP at once, but on the whole it is quite snappy Also I think it is correct that I can download the newsgroups to my own machine and therefore newsgroup reading, whilst requiring a dial in line and processing and disc access time, does not use the band width except for when I download the information for redistribution ??? Correct. Although what I would recommend is not trying for a full news feed. That is a T1 in and of itself. Just grab the groups that are requested and tell the people up front they have to request news groups. I understand that it is no great drain to forward e-mail as it is received from the user and ftp to remote sites via my machine works similarly to web browsing in that the file is downloaded to my machine first and then distributed to the user. Is this also correct ? Close. When FTPing the file is not, technically, downloaded to your machine first and then distributed to the user. It is diwnloaded to your machine *as* it is distributed to the user. Is there anything I have forgotten to ask (or don't know to ask) ? Well, if you do do it, something that you may think about is looking at at and cron extensively. Watch the utilization on your link to see when the users are hitting it and then schedule bandwidth intensive stuff for the off-hours. With at and a handmade perl script you could also have a scheduled FTP process that people can request files from with email. Just tell them the time the system will try to retrieve the file and approximately when it will be there. Hrm... Oh, and definately, definately setup a proxy and insist that your users use it whenever possible. I run a small lan here at home and my proxy does get hit often enough to help and that is only with me and my parents on the network. If you get ~20 people dialing in chances are a lot of sites will be hit repeatedly. Like the comic syndicates, pages they email to one another, etc. -- 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! ---+- pgpBRRacJ1C6q.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: fetchmail + procmail setup
I used to have a working sendmail/fetchmail/procmail setup until I reinstalled hamm on my machine(used to be 1.3) after I've messed up init. But when I choosed smail as my MTA, my used to be working ~/.procmailrc could not sort mail anymore. I forgot how I set things up before, maybe a little of your help could be useful. what should ~/.forward contain? the permissions on /var/spool/mail? and other stuff? Thanks. r i c h a r d l. a l h a m a technical support group cyberspace laoag, isp 2900 phils.
Re: Star Office 3
If I remember correct, SO3 needs Motif libs for the setup programm. Version 4 and 5 don't. HTH Ramin Jeff Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey all, I just got Star Office 3. My ISP automatically disconnects me after four hours even if I'm not idle. Anyway, when I try to run setup program in /usr/lib/StarOffice3 it says Segmentation Error. Also, do you need to have a windows partition to run wine? Thanks a lot. Jeff
Problems with Maelstrom
I used to play this game for hours and hours on my old Mac LC III. Anyway, I just discovered that it existed last night, and I'm having a few problems starting it. In X, I start it with the -nofade option, and the load status bar fills up and the game apparently crashes. The window is still there, but nothing else happens. Anybody know why this is happenning? Anybody figure out how to get Maelstrom working? Running Linux 2.0.36 and 2.1.131 (tried both different sound setups), and the latest slink packages. (Updated basically nightly). Thanks, Peter --- Peter D. Kovacs UIN: 241701 Operator, Perl Programmer, Computer Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.egr.uri.edu/~kovacsp/ http://kovax.ml.org/~kovacsp/pubkey.txt
Re: less shows fortune
Stef Hoesli Wiederwald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There probably a mismatched quote somewhere, or something similar. Post /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc here, the error should be obvious to spot I don't think so: # /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1). PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games PS1=\\$ export PATH PS1 umask 002 /usr/bin/check-sendfile echo \n fortune -a echo try changing the above to: case $- in *i*) # interactive shell only /usr/bin/check-sendfile echo \n fortune -a echo ;; esac I think the problem is that your shell script is sourcing /etc/profile when it starts up, so the above change will allow it to execute in an interactive shell only. You really shouldn't have anything executable that has an output in your profile. The above does work in bash, but I don't know how tcsh is different, so you should check out the details first. -- Carl Johnson[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: system instablity
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: Thanks Dan, I thought it was just me. I reported transient errors with apt/dpkg. Do the errors start with 'General Protection: 00' or 'General failure: ' or something like that? I don't know if I'm any help. I've never gotten any thing like that. In my original post, I believed dselect/apt/dpkg were being pushed beyond their capabilities. Dpkg is being swamped by packages, now more than 2700. However, the errors, from my point of view, are far more common when running dselect with apt as the access method. I haven't used apt. I'm too stuck in my ways. A couple of months ago (with slink/frozen) I could run dselect/dpkg into the ground, and the only problems I'd get were dependency related. Recently I've been getting segfaults, since I've install off a hamm CD. It was the first time I've seen a hard kernel crash outside of the X win system. Wow. That sucks, I've had the entire system go down on me as a part of this, but I can't say why it hasn't. As so added wierdness to my problem, when I wrote the list emacs was bombing out with a segfault when I'd quit. Now it works fine. I hope this doesn't turn into to hours reboot cycle that make windows work so well. :( Like you this is something I've only seen recently, I don't remember having these kinds of problems back with Deb 1.3.1. Well, actually I had a hamm/frozen that I upgraded through slink/frozen, and I had no problems. Now I have hamm/stable, and it blows. My problems are not specific to dselect. I just noticed it there first I think because I was doing a lot of installing. Question one question. Could you tell if the General Protection/failure messages were from dselect, or the kernel. I have never had the pleasure. Dan
Re: Network cards.
On 12 Dec 1998 13:38:56 -0800, you wrote: I believe Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said that he believes that every 10/100 Mbps ethernet card on the market is now supported for Linux. :-) He believes. Though he knows that later Adaptec ANA6911A cards don't work. You have to be pretty unlucky to find a card that doesn't work Just go for an Adaptec. You will have problems that you never dreamt of. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: ftping StarOffice in small doses
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 22:13:33 + (GMT), you wrote: I want to download StarOffice but with it being 70Mb I don't fancy having an open line for seven hours plus. Does anyone know of an ftp program that can download in chunks at a time and doesn't mind frequent interruptions. I think in the past someone mentioned 'cftp' but I can't find any information on that. Try wget. It does do ftp as well and can be interrupted whenever convenient. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: dwww: how to include /usr/local/doc
On 12 Dec 1998 21:56:43 +0100, you wrote: MH == Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MH I have compiled some programs myself, such as a testing release of MH exim. These programs went into /usr/local, so I have a MH /usr/local/doc with quite some documentation that I'd like to MH include into dwww. Could you clearify a bit? Do you want to be able to use the File listings thing or the Debian Documentation Menu one? I would be happy if I could search for exim and get a listing of the files in /usr/local/doc/exim. Anything more is nice to have, but not essential. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
how to set up delete and Num_Lock under X Window ?
I. Under X Window backspace works in the standard way but delete works exactly the same way as backspace. How can I achieve the two keys named delete working under X Window in all applications (e.g. xterm, emacs, mathematica, netscape, vim,..) in the standard way (erasing the sign after cursor not before, like backspace does) ? On the console (without X Window) delete works in the standard way (erases signs after cursor). II. In many applications (e.g.:netscape, mathematica) the keys from the numeric keyboard does not work (when push some key it is heard bip). Pushing Num Lock does not give anything ? To be more precisely I have quite big mess. In Mathematica3.0, netscape4.5 any of the keys from numeric keyboard does not work. Under Netscape the standard delete (not the one from the numeric keyboard) works in the standard way (erases signs after cursor) but in Mathematica front end delete works exactly the same way as backspace. I have read in keyboard-howto that it is rather needed to define for each applications separately the keymap to get delete and numeric keyboard working in the standard way under X Window. If anybody has the keyboard (delete and numeric keyboard) working in the standard way, please help me (e.g. some input code for .inputrc, .Xmodmap, .emacs,...). I use debian2.0, kernel-2.0.36, xserver-3.3.2.3-2. Thanks in advance Please send the answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because the mailing list is too busy for me so I could miss the answer. Jan Krupa
RE: Dead middle button in Agiler 3 button mouse
Just got a basic Agiler serial mouse (AGM1904). It works fine but the middle button does not respond. The mouse box says: resolution 400DPI, Mode: Microsoft / Mouse system. You need to hold down a button at power-up to go into Mouse System (I guess they mean Mouse Systems?) which I did not want (do i?). You do want MouseSystems mode. AFAIK, the Microsoft Protocol only supports 2 buttons. You can find all the information you'll *ever* want to know about your mouse (including how to get it to start up in MouseSystems mode without holding a button down) in the 3 Button Mouse mini-howto: http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/3-Button-Mouse -Jon Burchmore
Re: system instablity
Ed C. writes: I first got the same kind of 'General failure: 0' message from apt/dpkg then I got the kernel message that began with 'Aiyee' or something like that. It was the first time I've seen a hard kernel crash outside of the X win system. An X server can crash the kernel because it has privileged i/o and memory access. Programs such as apt and dpkg cannot. What you got can only be either a kernel bug or a hardware problem. Since apt and dpkg do nothing at all out of the ordinary from the point of view of the kernel, it is unlikely that they would tickle a kernel bug that would not also be tickled by many other programs. Thus we are left with hardware. How's your cooling? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: mailtools filter
Richard L. Alhama writes: does anyone here have a working mailtools filter for debian-user? I'm fairly happy with mailagent. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: fetchmail + procmail setup
On 14 Dec, Richard L. Alhama wrote: But when I choosed smail as my MTA, my used to be working ~/.procmailrc could not sort mail anymore. oh. well I have a very similar setup to dave. my .forward and .procmailrc files seem to be virtually identical (technically). my fetchmail is done slightly differently though (I'm running it from a cron job instead - I know, daft, but I can't be bothered to fix it). what should ~/.forward contain? here's my .forward; humbug% cat .forward |IFS=' ' exec /usr/bin/procmail -f || exit 75 #ashtong humbug% ll .forward -rw-rw-r-- 1 ashtong ashtong60 Dec 8 10:39 .forward the permissions on /var/spool/mail? humbug% ll /var/spool/mail -d drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 1024 Dec 13 13:37 /var/spool/mail/ humbug% ll /var/spool/mail total 24 -rw-rw 1 ashtong mail23017 Dec 13 17:28 ashtong they may not be right, but they work for me, and are debian's defaults. I'm also using smail, and I just copied the .forward from my old red hat system that was using sendmail. everything works as expected. I've got vanilla hamm. hope that helps you a bit. -- Graham
Re: apache: httpd: cannot determine local host name.
Graham == Graham Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Graham if you've got a dynamic ip address, or that still doesn't Graham work, look through your httpd.conf file until you find the Graham line that looks like; Graham #ServerName myhost.mydomain.com Graham replace myhost.mydomain.com with what it should be, and Graham remove the '#' from the start of the line. then try Graham restarting apache. So what if your hostname is dynamic, too? Obviously this won't be usable as an actual web server, but I want to use it for dwww, squid-cgi, and other utility CGIs. Can I just set ServerName to localhost or the (fake) hostname I've set for the machine? /etc/apache/http.conf says: You cannot just invent host names and hope they work. But does that only apply if clients on other machines are seeing it? As a side note, having a dynamic IP/hostname is a *real* pain on Linux! Perhaps an effort to develop a set of services which are optimized for a dialup connection would be good... Tim Moore
Re: Toshiba Satellite crashes with fn key
On 13 Dec 1998q, Anthony Campbell wrote: Has anyone on this list tried pressing the fn key on a Toshiba Satellite while in Linux? In my case it locks up the machine irretrievably :)) . I wish there were some way of disabling it. Anthony Very sorry to follow up to my own post but this may be helpful to anyone who has a similar problem. I found out what was wrong: I was following the advice available at www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop. This covers the 400CDT but not the 4000CDT. You are advised to compile the kernel with Advanced Power Management. If you do this the Fn key causes the lockup. 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
Re: system instablity
Dan writes: Could you tell if the General Protection/failure messages were from dselect, or the kernel. Such messages can come only from the kernel. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: vgetty info.
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for information about vgetty. Does anyone know if there is a homepage for it? Also what modems does it support? Anyone have real world experiance with it? Main Site http://alpha.greenie.net/vgetty/ vgetty mirror sites: http://www.coinet.com/~griz/vgetty http://www.yeolde.com/~surfgriz/vgetty http://www.okom.net/~vgetty http://www.ciredata.com/~vgetty -- Heute ist nicht alle Tage, ich komme wieder, keine Frage!!! Joerg
new LILO won't install a new boot sector ...
So I have a laptop that has been running slink since August. I just downloaded the new lilo and tried to install a new kernel via lilo. I get the error message : [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo lilo First boot sector has a pre-21 LILO signature lilo -q does not show the new kernel has been installed. In rebooting, the new kernel is in fact not installed. Any one know if there is a way to update a lilo 20 boot record so that lilo 21 will install? Or do I have to bite the bullet and do an fdisk /mbr and boot from a disk? -Seth -- It is by will alone I set my mind in motion
russian text; perl NEED HELP!!!
Hi,
as I run into this problem and do not how to cope with it,
I would like to ask somebody who is workig with russian
just to test whether perl supports sorting of russian texts.
Torsten sent me a simple script which was working for him.
Any help will be greatly appreciated,
TIA,
Eugene
On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Eugene Sevinian wrote:
Hi all,
about one month ago there were posting about locale's usage under
perl. I tried to use it for sorting russian, but it did not work for me.
Is there any additional tricks beside setting LANG=ru_RU; export LANG? I
used /usr/share/keytables/ru.map for inputing some russian text. Hope this
corresponds to koi8 coding.
Thanks forward,
Eugene.
On 20 Nov 1998, Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
I tried it with the following little sorting program:
use locale;
my @ARRAY;
my $i;
while() {
push @ARRAY, $_;
}
for $i (sort @ARRAY) {
print $i;
}
and it work perfectly (in my case treating ö like o). At least perl
is aware of locales.
Torsten
Re: resolve.conf specification
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: At present there is no simple way to use a different set of nameservers with each ISP. So, that means there is a non simple way of using 2+ different ISPs... if so, how? and, could you explain it to me step by step, please? BTW, not only it would have to be able to choose the right resolv.conf file, but also the right pap-secrets file, I believe... or I think there's a way of writing different userIDs and passwords in pap-secrets... ? -- Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
