Re: Impresora conectada a través de unidad zip
El Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 10:38:01PM +, Miquel Escarrà dijo: ¿Alguien sabe si me va a dar problemas una impresora que esta conectada al puerto a través de la unidad zip? Creo que tendrás problemas si tienes el kernel 2.0.x. No puedes tener cargados ambos módulos al mismo tiempo (lp y el del zip que no recuerdo como se llama). Tranquilo, no te tires de los cabellos. En la 2.1.x (próxima 2.2) funciona a las mil maravillas (o por lo menos como funciona en Windows). -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa| POWERED BY | www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 2.0 | www.gnu.org - Always Free, Always Cool, Always Linux
.xsession
Hola:
Sabe alguien como hacer que un programa arrancado en .xsession utilice
la
opcion Stick que aparece en el menu del boton izquierdo de la ventana
para que se quede clavado en el escritorio.
Saludos y felices fiestas.
--
Fernando.
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Hackers do it with fewer instructions.
Re: Consulta sobre una tarjeta grafica
Pues mira, de momento te puedo decir que NO UTILICES la Intel AGP 740 porque no hay manera de hacer que funcione a más resolución que a 800x600 con 16 colores. Daniel At 14.12 22/12/98 , you wrote: Hola a todos, quiero comprarme una buena tarjeta grafica pero no se cual. Las mejores ahora mismo son las AGP, segun me han dicho, pero me han comentado que Debian 2.0 o mejor dicho las XFree86 no las soportan muy bien por ahora. Un companero me ha dicho que tiene una Matrox Millenium y le va bien. Alguien podria confirmarme esto y decirme otras marcas de tarjetas AGP que pueda soportar Debian 2.0. Un saludo y gracias. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Consulta sobre una tarjeta grafica
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 01:12:06PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola a todos, quiero comprarme una buena tarjeta grafica pero no se cual. Las mejores ahora mismo son las AGP, segun me han dicho, pero me han comentado que Debian 2.0 o mejor dicho las XFree86 no las soportan muy bien por ahora. Un companero me ha dicho que tiene una Matrox Millenium y le va bien. Alguien podria confirmarme esto y decirme otras marcas de tarjetas AGP que pueda soportar Debian 2.0. Respecto a las AGP i740 y Linux--- Para que no quepa duda de que las AGP i740 funcionan de maravilla (no todas ¿eh?) envío el fichero README que viene con el servidor XBF_i740 que tengo yo en uso (no es GNU y es beta 3 pero a mi me funciona). Dos cosas: a) Se ha dicho en esta lista que las AGP no soportan mas que 800x600 8bpp, pues bien yo trabajo a 1152x864 24bpp con una Asus AGP V2740TV y va de perlas. b) Para el que pidió consejo sobre una AGP a comprar, pues la verdad que yo con la mia estoy muy contento, hace virgerías y no es cara. Además puedo asegurar que funcionan las XWindows a la perfección. Envío adjunto el fichero /usr/lib/X11/Cards para que le eches un ojo a las AGP que vienen listadas y soportadas por el XBF. SUSE ha desarrollado también servidores para otras tarjetas AGP a las que XBF no da soporte y no tengan i740, respecto a esto no se demasiado. El servidor para tarjetas con i740 único que hay hasta la fecha es el XBF_i740. Para cualquier consulta: [EMAIL PROTECTED] escríbeme! Fichero README de XBF_i740--- Information for i740 Users i740 Driver Version 0.9.10 1. Supported Hardware * Intel 740 based cards (Beta 3 release) 2. Features * Full support for 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32 bit per pixel depths. * Hardware cursor support to reduce sprite flicker. * Hardware accelerated 2D drawing engine support for 8, 15, 16 and 24 bit per pixel depths. * Support for high resolution video modes up to 1600x1200. * Support for doublescan video modes (e.g., 320x200 and 320x240). * Fully programmable clock supported. * Robust text mode restore for VT switching. 3. Technical Notes * Hardware acceleration is not possible in 32 bit per pixel depth. * Interlace modes cannot be supported. 4. Reported Working Video Cards * Real3D Starfighter AGP * Diamond Stealth II/G460 AGP * ASUS AGP-V2740 * Chaintech AGP-740D * EONtronics Van Gogh * Intel Express 3D * Jaton Video-740 AGP 3D * Joymedia Apollo 7400 * Leadtek Winfast S900 * QDI Amazing I 5. Configuration The driver auto-detects all device information necessary to initialize the card. The only lines you need in the Device section of your XF86Config file are: Section Device Identifier i740 EndSection or let xf86config or XF86Setup do this for you. However, if you have problems with auto-detection, you can specify: VideoRam - in kilobytes DacSpeed - in MHz MemBase - physical address of the linear framebuffer IOBase - physical address of the memory mapped IO registers 6. Driver Options hw_cursor - request hardware cursor (default) sw_cursor - software cursor only no_accel - software rendering only sgram - force the use of SGRAM timing info sdram - force the use of SDRAM timing info Note: the i740 X server should automatically detect whether your card has SGRAM or SDRAM. Use the sgram and sdram options if it is incorrectly detected. 7. Known Limitations * Some people have reported that the 2.3X BIOS does not work properly with this server. The solution is to use an earlier BIOS (e.g., 2.20 or earlier). We are looking into a resolution to this problem. 8. Author Kevin E. Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Precision Insight, Inc. Cedar Park, TX USA http://www.precisioninsight.com -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] lista_tarjetas.gz Description: Lista de tarjetas
Version de java en debian
Hola Disculpen si en parte este mensaje esta fuera de lugar. Estoy comenzando a estudiar un poco de Java, para tener una version en Win me estoy bajando el JDK 1.2 de Sun, en el sitio se dice que tienen version para Solaris. La version de java que tengo en Debian 2.0 equivalente a que Kit de Sun es? Leyendo un poco de Java me encontre con los API de JDBC y Servlet y estos me han llamado mucho la atencion, las class correspondiente a ellos se encuentran en Debian. Disculpen mi desconocimiento En caso que mi java debian no contenga lo que el free de Sun me puede dar para Win se puede de alguna forma adaptar la version de Solaris para Debian ? O que otra forma tendria de mantener actualizadas las dos plataformas. Otra preguntica conocen alguna direccion en espanol de listas sobre Java. Saludos - Feliz 1999 Humberto Morell
/etc/env????
Alguien ha menionado la posibilidad de crear un fichero /etc/enviroment (o algo por el estilo) en el que definir variables comunes para cualquier shell. Lo que pasa es que por gilipollas me he cargado el mensaje y no soy capaz de hacerlo funcionar. Un ejemplo vendría muy bien. Gracias anticipadamente. -- Saudos: ose[EMAIL PROTECTED](Vigo/Galicia/España) http://pagina.de/xmanoel/ http://w3.to/mikkeli/ 12/23 First GS collaboration, Thespis, 1871 12/23 (12/23/1617) 1st penal colony in US established (VA). 12/23 (12/23/1947) Bill Rogers, marathon runner.
LILO y fat32 ¿suele dar problemas?
Hola a todos. Primero FELIZ NAVIDAD para todos los de la lista. Bueno, ahora una pregunta que tengo por ahi. Resulta que el otro dia me fui a instalar Debian a un amigo y tuve un problema serio al instalar LILO. Parece ser que este muchacho tenia FAT32 en la primera particion. Al instalar LILO, e intentar rearrancar el ordenador, no hubo manera de entrar en la particion de windows. Linux arrancaba perfecto (para mi habria valido con eso, pero mi amigo no sabe todavia prescindir de windows). La pregunta es ¿sera que LILO no funciona todavia con FAT32? O puede ser que el kernel generico que viene con la Debian nada mas instalarla no tiene incluido todavia la vfat y por eso me da problemas? El fichero /etc/lilo.conf, yo creo que estara bien, porque es practicamente igual al de mi ordenador. Las particiones estan asi: hda1 --- fat32 hda4 --- fat32 hda5 --- ext2 hda6 --- swap Eso vistas con fdisk de Linux. Parece ser que si bajo fdisk de DOS haces hda1 como particion primaria, y quieres mas particiones, necesitas crear una particion extendida (lo que seria hda2) y dentro de ella poner las particiones logicas hda4, 5, 6 ... (¿o es al reves?) ¿Puede ser eso lo que de problemas? Bueno, a ver si alguien me puede orientar un poco con esto. La cosa es que tengo que instalar Debian a otro amigo estas navidades y me da miedo porque si no le puedo poner el LILO (la solucion de disco de rescate no mola mucho, si siempre tienes que arrancar Linux con disquete) entonces estoy perdido. Lo digo porque con el otro amigo tuve muchos problemas para recuperarle los datos de hda1, ya que al instalarse el LILO, no solo no arrancaba esa particion sino que al quitar LILO habia acceso a esa particion ni desde disquete. Menudas cosas. Nota fuera de asunto, pero que no me puedo contener de comentar: desde que arrranque la instalacion base, no tuve que reiniciar el ordenador ni una sola vez. Resulta increible, ya que le isntale unas X windows, se las configure, le puse programas para trabajar con Linux, configure la shell, cree cuentas, el LILO, ... en fin. Lo que es dejar un sistema a punto. Hombre, me falto recompilar el kernel (que creo que es de las pocas veces en las que si hace falta rearrancar Linux, y ni siquiera, porque puedes seguir trabajando). Esto cada dia me enamora mas. Un saludo a todos y gracias: Juan Carlos
CVS tras firewall
Hola! Me gustaría saber si es posible utilizar el CVS tras un cortafuegos (firewall) con un servidor que está en internet (como el cvs.debian.org) que sólo admite conexiones con el exterior mediante HTTP:80 y FTP:21 (y creo que Telnet, pero algo más enrevesado). He estado buscando y no he visto nada... Alguna idea? Saludos, Boriel
Re: RV: Traspasar el sistema a lo bestia
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, 32 Toni Castillo Girona wrote: En un principio, deberías hacer esto: conectas los dos discos duros. Particionas el /dev/hd2 con fdisk o cfdisk (o cualquier otra utilidad) creando las particiones -linux native, y swap- En http://www.ctv.es/USERS/pbrufal está el FAQ de R34.LINUX de Fidonet. Precisamente sale una pregunta de cómo cambiar Linux de partición/disco. Viene todo muy detallado y funciona de perlas. --- Paco Brufal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet 2:346/3.68 --- ...Cold Turkey. The Vegetarians. 1994
Advansys SCSI Iomega Jaz drives
I am trying to install Debian on a 2 GB Jaz disk but when the rescue disk looks for my SCSI devices it does not find my Jaz drive. It has no problem identifying both of my SCSI CD-ROM's (a player and a re-writable) and my IBM SCSI hard drive. My Jaz drive is an external drive connected to the external SCSI port on ID 4. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get this to work? Tom Persons
Re: killing off the *)@ NT bootloader
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: yikes, that thing is stubborn. I've supposedly installed lilo half a dozen times, and the thing still comes up asking which NT configuration to use . . . It needs to be able to boot NT at least for a little while . . . Okay, i'm flyin by the seat of my pants here, but you should be able to add an entry to the NT C:\BOOT.INI file that will point to your linux in some way (isn't there a howto on this somewhere??) try the linux howto's maybe there is a Linux+NT HOWTO. Jeff
Re: Has dpkg been ported
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 05:07:19PM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote: Has anyone ported dpkg to different architectures? If so what is involved in doing so? If not... why? Yeah, I did the hurd port. It is not finished actually. It is not much involved, depending on the progress of the linux port in general. However, one should add the architecture to it. Marcus
Re: can't run editor when su... why?
Hi, folks Thanks for the info... so far, the method (for root) described below from TA seems to be the simplest. Now, is there a way to automate this? I tried adding the follwing lines to root's .bashrc: XAUTHORITY=./.Xauthority DISPLAY=:0.0 export XAUTHORITY DISPLAY but this only works if I su from the original user's home directory. (Otherwise, './' does not point to the right place.) What I need to know is how to determine the home directory of the user who ran startx so that information can be built into the 'XAUTHORITY=' statement. Also, I just want to say that over the past couple of months I've been getting some great answers from this list to my questions. Thanks to all of you have have been of help so far! And, TIA for this one. 'til next we type HAVE FUN!! -=- Jesse The problem is that you own the X session, root doesn't. The easiest way to get this to work is to type xhost + localhost before you do your su. This means that you'll let anyone from the host localhost (ie, your computer) connect to your X. However, I recall there were some security risks associated with using xhost like this... maybe someone else will point them out. Ok, I will. If you do that, ANYONE on the hosts added can capture keys, dump your window, and virtually hijack your computer completely. If you aren't connected to a network (or just dial up occasionally using, eg, ppp) then you should have no problems. (Using xhost + localhost helps, lots of people just use xhost +, which allows *anyone* from *anywhere* access -- bad idea.) I really think there is no reason to *ever* do xhost + anything. First, Tcl's send command will not operate if xhost security is allowed at all. That would break things like exmh which use send to talk to a background process. Tcl disables send when xhost + is used because it would otherwise allow simple control of *everything* (send combined with exec). While send is not a security issue when xhost + is used, you lose functionality, even if you never ever connect to any other computer. The other reason not to ever run xhost + is because there are better ways to share your X session. For root, it is extremely easy. For other users, it's a little more tricky: For root: root# XAUTHORITY=/home/your_id/.Xauthority root# DISPLAY=:0.0 root# export XAUTHORITY DISPLAY your_id is the id of whoever ran startx. For NON-root users: You can use xauth to extract the key from one user and to add the key to the other. The tricky part is in keeping it secure in the meantime. Encrypting with pgp is one possibility. To extract a key: user1% xauth extract my_key $DISPLAY The file my_key has your key in it (xauth SHOULD create it with user rw permissions only). Do whatever you need to to securely transfer it to the other user, and then have that user run: user2% xauth merge my_key user2% DISPLAY=:0.0 user2% export DISPLAY Note that user2 now has complete control to your X session until you end it and start a new one (at which time a new key will be generated). If user1 is running any Tcl application which has send enabled (default), user2 can tell that Tcl application to exec arbitrary commands and return the results to user2. There is also nothing prohibiting user2 from giving the key to user3! You wouldn't want to do this to someone you didn't trust. As far as I know, you can't change the xauth key during a session. Still, this is far better than giving unlimited users access to your X session. Finally, your keys are stored in ~/.Xauthority, so make sure you don't give global access to it. rgds-- TA ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I don't speak for the Federal Reserve Board, it doesn't speak for me. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
Analog Modem Channel Bonding
Is there anyone here who is using and/or has experience with bonding analog modem channels for increased bandwidth? I have someone who's out in the sticks with no (inexpensive) options beyond analog. I understand EQL is one option; however, is not well supported (for connecting to ISPs, etc.) It looks like the prevalent standard is MPP; which is used to bond ISDN channels. Is there any way to use MPP on analog modems? I'm also interested in implementing bandwidth-on-demand using 1-4 modems. Are there any manufacturers out there providing more than one modem per ISA/PCI card? i.e. multi-port modems? Thanks for any help you can provide. Regards, Kevin Traas
Re: installing libpcap
Rich cc and gcc are the c c++ compiliers which are needed to compile most of the software on Linux. I _thought_ that they were part of the base install of deselect altho you may have de-selected them. Go back into dselect and look for the compiliers and select them. The install config steps should take care of setting up the paths so that your ./configure problem. HTH Subject: installing libpcap Date: Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 05:32:59PM -0500 In reply to:Rich McHie Quoting Rich McHie([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm new to Linux. I installed a Debian base system (2.0.34). I installed MAKE, LIBG++272, and other deb packages with dpkg. I haven't yet used MAKE. I'm trying to install libpcap.tar.z as a prerequisite to ipgrab. When I run the libpcap CONFIGURE script it says: Checking host system type... i486-pc-linux-gnuoldld checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH Any ideas? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: suspend mode
Joel N. Weber II wrote: The FSF has a Toshiba Satellite 310 CDT, and we need to be able to turn suspend mode on and off. If you know of a program that can do this, please send mail to both myself and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well I can only give you a partial solution. There's a program named hotkey (http://www2.prestel.co.uk/hex/toshiba.html) that is GPL'd and will work with the toshiba 310. It doesn't actually turn resume mode on and off, instead, it catches the fn-f5 key sequence that toggles resume mode (at least that's the key sequence on my toshiba 445cdx), and looks at the appropriate place in memory to tell if resume mode is on or off, and pops up a window with that information. However, it has a file (hotkey.tech) that describes all about where the toshiba's store this in memory. Unfortunatly, according to that file, changing the info in memory doesn't actually change the laptop's settings until you reboot. I think you should get in touch with the author, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I think he's working on a more ambitious toshiba control center for linux, as yet unreleased, and he may have figured out how to actually change the settings since when hotkey was written. -- see shy jo
Re: can't run editor when su... why?
Hi, Jesse! Unless you really want to use xauth, you may want to use slogin instead, which is more secure and will do the job. Example: slogin [EMAIL PROTECTED] mycomputer# xemacs Will work just fine. Sasha. Hi, folks Thanks for the info... so far, the method (for root) described below from TA seems to be the simplest. Now, is there a way to automate this? I tried adding the follwing lines to root's .bashrc: XAUTHORITY=./.Xauthority DISPLAY=:0.0 export XAUTHORITY DISPLAY
Re: can't run editor when su... why?
JE == Jesse Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JE Now, is there a way to automate this? I tried adding the JE follwing lines to root's .bashrc: JE XAUTHORITY=./.Xauthority JE DISPLAY=:0.0 JE export XAUTHORITY DISPLAY JE but this only works if I su from the original user's home JE directory. (Otherwise, './' does not point to the right place.) My proposal is: install ssh from non-us. ssh is the secure shell. It will connect to a box using encription and compression and will also do the Right Thing(tm) wrt to X. You just do ssh -l root localhost Ciao, Martin
Re: Compiling apt 0.1.9 in Hamm
IIRC the version of apt for hamm is 0.1.7. 0.1.9 is for slink. Check the archives as I seem to remember that being posted her a while ago. HTH Subject: Compiling apt 0.1.9 in Hamm Date: Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 10:07:33PM -0600 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, I am trying to compile apt 0.1.9 in Hamm. The corresponding debian package depends on libstdc++2.9, while on my system, libstdc++2.8 is present (which is why I want to compile). I understand that libstdc++2.9 is the std library on Slink. Anyway, while compiling, I get the following error: Making all in contrib make[2]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/apt-0.1.9/contrib' c++ -bi486-linux -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include -I.. -I.. \ -I. -I. -I../include -I../include -I../intl -I../intl -g -O2 -c pointer.cc ../include/pkglib/dpointer.h: In method `void DPointer::malloc(unsigned int)': In file included from pointer.cc:24: ../include/pkglib/dpointer.h:52: Internal compiler error. ../include/pkglib/dpointer.h:52: Please submit a full bug report to \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. make[2]: *** [pointer.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/apt-0.1.9/contrib' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/apt-0.1.9' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 cyano# I am using gcc 2.7.2.3 and g++ 2.90.29-0.6. The latter is from the egcs suite. Should I: 1. Change to libstdc++2.9 (Do not know what packages if any will break)? Although the error is in program compilation and not linking. 2. Install egcc and g++ from slink and then try compiling apt? As far as I can tell, all dependencies are satisfied in my current Hamm setup. I will of course file a bug report, if this is a valid bug. Could somebody tell me if this is one? Any RTFM pointers are also appreciated. One last question. It appears that egcc and gcc do not conflict. How does one decide which one to use for compiling programs? Any pros/cons of using one over the other? Thanks, Ashok [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- C, n.: A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't. -- Ray Simard ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GNUcash
Does anyone know how far we are from a debianized package of GNUcash? (I couldn't find it on the package search on www.debian.org). Or even any other debianized alternative? Thanks! Tim -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Dec-98 Time: 19:22:38 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. --
Re: can't run editor when su... why?
XAUTHORITY=./.Xauthority DISPLAY=:0.0 export XAUTHORITY DISPLAY but this only works if I su from the original user's home directory. (Otherwise, './' does not point to the right place.) I have export XAUTHORITY=/home/hawk/.Xauthority in my .xsession, which seems to do the trick. That could probably be ~/ .Xauthority, I suppose . . . On the other hand, I have export TERM=xterm and still end up with xterm-debian when i telnet ssh to digital unix. rick --
Re: Analog Modem Channel Bonding
Kevin Traas wrote: Is there anyone here who is using and/or has experience with bonding analog modem channels for increased bandwidth? I have someone who's out in the sticks with no (inexpensive) options beyond analog. I understand EQL is one option; however, is not well supported (for connecting to ISPs, etc.) It looks like the prevalent standard is MPP; which is used to bond ISDN channels. Is there any way to use MPP on analog modems? There is an [old] patch to the kernel and to pppd to support Multilink-PPP at http://mp.ins-coin.de/ I'm also interested in implementing bandwidth-on-demand using 1-4 modems. Are there any manufacturers out there providing more than one modem per ISA/PCI card? i.e. multi-port modems? The stuff at http://www.diamondmm.com/shotgun/ looks promising, and from what I've read, 'Shotgun' is just two modems on one card using MPP. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP and GPG public keys at http://meta-x.net/keys/
Re: Is frozen currently broken?
Subject: Re: Is frozen currently broken? Date: Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 02:44:43AM -0500 In reply to:Ed Cogburn Quoting Ed Cogburn([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ian Setford wrote: Yo- I would like to run several packages that require library versions on ly available in frozen. Are there any known problems with that tree right now? TIA. -Ian Talking about slink? No, I'm not aware of any problems with it now, but it was a mess about 1.5 weeks ago. -- Ed C. Oh? Well I have one problem, gnome apps are looking for a gtk library that isn't on slink. I have libgtk 1.1 and 1.3 and gnome wants 1.2. It has been that way for at least a month IIRC. -- ... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Harddiskrecorder for Debian 2.1 libc6
Hi, Im looking for a harddiskrecorder e.g. :Broadcoast, Multitrack or slab does one of the above do exist as debian-package and, if so, can You tell me where i can get it. I preffer a harddiskrecorder which is compatibel with libc6 2.0.7v-1 I not will install the older libc5, Thanx for help merry Xmas, good luck in 1999 cYa -- Peter
Re: killing off the *)@ NT bootloader
An easier solution is to open Disk Administrator {Start-Programs-Administrative
Tools-Disk Administrator} and mark the Linux partition as active.
Sean
Jeff Katcher wrote:
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
yikes, that thing is stubborn. I've supposedly installed lilo half a
dozen times, and the thing still comes up asking which NT configuration
to use . . .
It needs to be able to boot NT at least for a little while . . .
Okay, i'm flyin by the seat of my pants here, but you should be able to
add an entry to the NT C:\BOOT.INI file that will point to your linux in
some way (isn't there a howto on this somewhere??) try the linux
howto's maybe there is a Linux+NT HOWTO.
Jeff
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Re: xterm-debian
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 06:45:42PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: On the other hand, I have export TERM=xterm and still end up with xterm-debian when i telnet ssh to digital unix. rick See http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html for workarounds/solutions/rationale etc. -- Rafael Kitover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: killing off the *)@ NT bootloader
I use the NT bootloader to boot between NT/dos|95/linux, the
Linux+NT+Win95 or whatever it was called HOWTO in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini was
very helpful, basically I have an entry for c:\bootsect.lnx in my
c:\boot.ini. And updated it with a new kernel or whatever. So basically
after a new kernel I do:
dd if=/dev/sda5 of=/win95/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
where /dev/sda5 is my linux partition and /win95 is my win95 (primary dos
or whatever the hell) partition.
Also, the howto says you have to copy the bootsect file to a floppy and
reboot or whatever, but using something like the above this step is not
necessary.
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 08:13:01PM -0500, Sean Johnson wrote:
An easier solution is to open Disk Administrator
{Start-Programs-Administrative
Tools-Disk Administrator} and mark the Linux partition as active.
Sean
Jeff Katcher wrote:
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
yikes, that thing is stubborn. I've supposedly installed lilo half a
dozen times, and the thing still comes up asking which NT configuration
to use . . .
It needs to be able to boot NT at least for a little while . . .
Okay, i'm flyin by the seat of my pants here, but you should be able to
add an entry to the NT C:\BOOT.INI file that will point to your linux in
some way (isn't there a howto on this somewhere??) try the linux
howto's maybe there is a Linux+NT HOWTO.
Jeff
--
Rafael Kitover
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
quantex laptops, any good/debian compatible?
i've been looking at the quantex laptops (www.quantex.com) and they look too good to be true. very reasonable prices, decent looking hardware and a pretty cool web site (though slow ...). has anyone had any experiences with them? i'd love to hear anything about them, especially if debian works well with them (graphics card, sound card etc). thanks, adam.
mail filtering
Hi, I have now got my debian slick distro working pretty well. This was my first exposure to debain. I have done previous installs of caldera, redhat, and suse. I am very impressed. Everything is put together very nicely and I could find few things that did not work as advertized. One question I have though. This is my first exposure to smail which seems to be the default in Debian. I had no trouble setting it up. Alot of the filtering programs mention only using sendmail. What is everyone using for mail filtering that is using smail. Thanks Alot Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Communicator installation again
OK, I think I came fairly close this time:) I copied the file to /tmp ran dselect (the netscape set up program) here is where it ended: Setting up netscape 4 (4.0-12) -Found ' /tmp/communicatortar.gz'...(valid) -Extracting from /tmp/communicatortar.gz gzip:stdin:unexpected end of file tar: unexpected EOF on archive file tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors ERROR: cannot extract netscape archivee--No such file or directory dpkg:error processing netscape4 (--configure): subprocess posted-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: netscape 4 dpkg--configure returned error exit status 1. Press return to continue What now? Thanks, Kent
upgrade broke DNS
35 darxus:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ nslookup www.debian.org Server: d-phletc1-16.ppp.op.net Address: 0.0.0.0 Non-authoritative answer: Name:www.debian.org Address: 209.81.8.242 35 darxus:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ping www.debian.org ping: unknown host www.debian.org I recall seeing this problem long ago on a friend's Sun box, but have no idea how to fix it. My resolv.conf looks like: domain localdomain search localdomain, op.net nameserver 206.84.208.3, 206.84.208.4 __ PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus You do not exist.
How to use scp through a crontab
Hi, one of my crontabs contains a job: scp foo:/where/is/bar /my/own/ but with hamm/slink ssh/scp this only results in the following error: You have no controlling tty and no DISPLAY. Cannot read passphrase. This was fine with Debian bo which came with a different version of ssh. What do I need to change in order to make this job work again. Tia, Joey -- *** Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows], repartitioning Disk for Linux ... Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
Re: ftpd
Rick Knebel wrote: I then upgraded to slink and everytime I try to ftp into my home machine from work i get connection refused. Rafael Kitover writes: Hrm, try apt-get install ftp;apt-get install ftpd. And file a bug against netstd. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: Communicator installation again
Kent, Here's what worked for me (I recently upgraded to slink; this may not all be available otherwise... AFAIK): I used apt-get to install the following: netscape-base-45 netscape-java-45 communicator-base-45 communicator-smotif-45 navigator-base-45 navigator-smotif-45 navigator-nethelp-45 There were some dependencies, which apt-get took care of, and I was off and running! :-) On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 07:50:05PM -0600, KTB wrote: OK, I think I came fairly close this time:) I copied the file to /tmp ran dselect (the netscape set up program) here is where it ended: Setting up netscape 4 (4.0-12) -Found ' /tmp/communicatortar.gz'...(valid) -Extracting from /tmp/communicatortar.gz gzip:stdin:unexpected end of file tar: unexpected EOF on archive file tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors ERROR: cannot extract netscape archivee--No such file or directory dpkg:error processing netscape4 (--configure): subprocess posted-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: netscape 4 dpkg--configure returned error exit status 1. Press return to continue What now? Thanks, Kent -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
From: name in email
Hi, I thought I had smail configured the right way to put From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the from line of the emails I send. All I get now is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I changed my hostname in /etc to rknebel.uplink.net but it still does not work. Any suggestions. Thanks Alot Rick p.s. watch out because my from a\adress is not correct -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install Debian 2 on My ThinkPad
I had a similar problem putting the hamm (2.0) beta on a Thinkpad 600. I remember 2 boot-related problems: 1) I started the install from a floppy, and I remember that I had to go and find a floppy image that would boot-- I think I found it in Japan. The tecra image did not work, but this was during the hamm freeze, and things may work now. 2) The stock kernel would not boot on the thinkpad. From what I've read, some thinkpads can't handle the bzimage type of compressed kernel, and you have to roll your own zimage. (Install kernel-source package, install debian kernel tools (kernel-package), zless the README.gz in /usr/doc/kernel-package, build your kernel, make changes to /etc/kernel-pkg.conf to taste). Don't forget to, er, install your nice new kernel...( I forgot that part once). But you still need to figure out how to get from where you are into your current installation, right? I don't know what boot method you used for the install, but you should be able to boot the same way, mount your partitions, and then cancel out or switch virtual consoles to get a command line, from whence you should be able to do your kernel construction and installation. There's a lot of info to be had at the linux laptop page, and DejaNews has been very good to me in all things linux and thinkpad. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ --Ed PS I'm still waiting for the day that IBM releases drivers or programming info for that DSP-based modem+sound card thingy that lives in the 600 series... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 10:06 AM Subject: Install Debian 2 on My ThinkPad To anyone who can help me, I am new to Linux and Debian, now I try to install Debian linux on my IBM ThinkPad 560E, and config is : Pentium MMX 233, 40M memory, Floppy Driver, and IBM Token Ring Auto 16/4 PCMCIA Net Card.(Windows 95 already installed) I installed Debian from My Harddisk, and there are four partition in my HD, for : Windows95, Boot manager, Linux, Linux Swap. During the installation , I did not find any error message or recommondation, it seemed that the system was installing smoothly. But when I reboot the ThinkPad, and select to boot from Linux, there is message on the screen LILO and Loading Linux..., then the computer reboot itself. I tried three times to install it, no error message . So I am very confuse what happend, if you have such experience or know the reason, I appreciate for your kindly help in advanced. Thx and hv a nice day. Y.P. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Matrox Xserver on Debian
I am (hopefully) putting a Matrox Millennium G200 AGP in my linux box next month. I know that S.u.S.E has an Xserver for this card, but I can only find tarballs and RPMs for it. I now have two questions: 1) Is there a deb of the Matrox Xserver? 2) In the event I can't find a deb, would installing the xserver from a tarball or an RPM cause any problems with compatibility? Say with updates, other libs, etc...
Cron's timing - using GMT?
Hi. I was under the impression that cron used 'local' time for timing events, however, I was surprised, when, I started seeing the 'updatedb' at something like 6am. Is using GMT for cron normal for UNIX, or is this something new? Thanks, Nikita
Re: From: name in email
Rick Knebel wrote: Hi, I thought I had smail configured the right way to put From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the from line of the emails I send. All I get now is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why don't you post you /etc/smail/config?
From: amil adress
Hi, I just sent out an email to this list requesting help about getting the from line of my email right. I figured it out so please don't spend anytime replying to me. Thanks alot Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome Not working in Slink upgrade
Just tried a new slink upgrade, again. I must have something wrong because I can't get gnome to upgrade correctly. when I run panel or eeyes I get the message: libgtk-1.1.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory I do have libgtk-1.1.so.3 libgtk-1.1.so.1 but no libgtk-1.1.so.2. Everything _but_ gnome and its apps _seem_ to be running. Does 'anyone' have gnome running on slink? If so, I wonder what is wrong with the depends (and on What?). TIA Wayne -- Real computer scientists don't program in assembler. They don't write in anything less portable than a number two pencil. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade broke DNS
Darxus writes: My resolv.conf looks like: domain localdomain search localdomain, op.net nameserver 206.84.208.3, 206.84.208.4 Try domain localdomain search localdomain op.net nameserver 206.84.208.3 nameserver 206.84.208.4 I suggest you lose the 'domain' and 'search' lines. I doubt you need them. man resolv.conf . -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: upgrade broke DNS
Upgrade of what? Did you upgrade libc6? Which version of libc6 are you using? There was a problem earlier, solved in version 2.0.7u-7.1, and I hear it may be broken again in 2.0.7v-1 :-( To find out what version you're using: $ dpkg -s libc6 Darxus wrote: 35 darxus:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ping www.debian.org ping: unknown host www.debian.org (I may be away for a week by the time you respond to this...) -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/
Re: upgrade broke DNS
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: Upgrade of what? Did you upgrade libc6? Which version of libc6 are you using? There was a problem earlier, solved in version 2.0.7u-7.1, and I hear it may be broken again in 2.0.7v-1 :-( To find out what version you're using: $ dpkg -s libc6 up to date unstable, so, yeah -- Version: 2.0.7v-1 __ PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus You do not exist.
Re: upgrade broke DNS
On 22 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try nameserver 206.84.208.3 nameserver 206.84.208.4 that worked, thanks a lot... guess something I upgraded was just a bit more picky ? (doing regular apt upgrades to debian unstable) __ PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus You do not exist.
Re: Cron's timing - using GMT?
Sergey Imennov writes: I was under the impression that cron used 'local' time for timing events, however, I was surprised, when, I started seeing the 'updatedb' at something like 6am The tasks in /etc/cron.daily start running at 5AM local time. To change that edit /etc/crontab. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: ftpd
Rick Knebel wrote: I then upgraded to slink and everytime I try to ftp into my home machine from work i get connection refused. I wrote: Hrm, try apt-get install ftp;apt-get install ftpd. Sorry, I was writing that from work and didn't check. Both ftp and in.ftpd are still in netstd: % dpkg -S /usr/bin/ftp;dpkg -S /usr/sbin/in.ftpd netstd: /usr/bin/ftp netstd: /usr/sbin/in.ftpd % If you are getting a connection refused, maybe you don't have in.ftp enabled in /etc/inetd.conf or /etc/xinetd.conf (depending on if you use inetd or xinetd respectively). Search for the line with the word in.ftpd and make sure it doesn't have a # in front of it, if it does remove it and do /etc/init.d/netbase reload (as root) Hope that helps. references: man services, man inetd.conf -- Rafael Kitover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Matrox Xserver on Debian
On 23-Dec-98 Sean M Hollingsworth wrote: I am (hopefully) putting a Matrox Millennium G200 AGP in my linux box next month. I know that S.u.S.E has an Xserver for this card, but I can only find tarballs and RPMs for it. I now have two questions: 1) Is there a deb of the Matrox Xserver? 2) In the event I can't find a deb, would installing the xserver from a tarball or an RPM cause any problems with compatibility? Say with updates, other libs, etc... SuSE just gives you a server, nothing else, simply place their binary with the other xservers (like vga16) and add a line to your /etc/Xserver for it. No big deal. Once we have a 3.3.3 package you wont need the SuSE supplied server.
Re: Matrox Xserver on Debian
I know a couple people who have installed this card, including myself. Here is what I did. 1. From http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html, I got the following for my Matrox G200 video card, xmatrox-2.2-0.i386.rpm xsuseconfig-981102.tgz 2. I ran alien xmatrox-2.2-0.i386.rpm which created the debian file xmatrox_2.2-1_i386.deb I install this xmatrox_2.2-1_i386.deb file, dpkg -i xmatrox_2.2-1_i386.deb 3. I uncompressed and installed xsuseconfig-981102.tgz This has the program xf86config, which will recognize your matrox G200 card. Specifically this tar file has two files, /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards These two files replace those belonging to the xbase package. 4. Backup /etc/X11/XF86Config, then run xf86config 4. You probably don't even need to run xf86config. If you don't mind using your old resolutions (eg, 1024x768) and the old amounts for video memory, then you need only change the first line of Xserver to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_Matrox This surprised and delighted me that I didn't need to run xf86config or alter XF86Config when going from an NEC C500 monitor and a Number 9 S3V video card to a newer Nokia 445Xpro monitor and a Matrox G200 video card. I eventually did run xf86config, though, with no real problems. This xf86config seemed to know I had 8192 KB memory. The package xmatrox_2.2-0.i386.rpm has the files /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_Matrox /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.XFCom_Matrox /usr/doc/xmatrox/copyright /usr/doc/xmatrox/changelog.Debian /usr/doc/xmatrox/buildinfo.Debian All these are uniquely matrox so present no conflicts with other files. When you upgrade packages with dselect, dselect won't know the location of xmatrox (for all practical purposes, I removed my created matrox debian package), though it knows you installed it and what its files are. When you eventually do upgrade to a version of debian with the Matrox G200 driver (maybe in March, 1999?), then you can of course purge this xmatrox package. Any upgrade of xbase will replace your two new files from suse. In the past I could more easily get my video card's driver, but once I got the xmatrox package, I found installation much simpler. For example, I did not need to do an X --probeonly to get the clocks. I am (hopefully) putting a Matrox Millennium G200 AGP in my linux box next month. I know that S.u.S.E has an Xserver for this card, but I can only find tarballs and RPMs for it. I now have two questions: 1) Is there a deb of the Matrox Xserver? 2) In the event I can't find a deb, would installing the xserver from a tarball or an RPM cause any problems with compatibility? Say with updates, other libs, etc... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: FAQ (i guess): how to set up screen saver under X?
Consider the option power_saver. This largely turns your monitor off, so you save a few electrons a rest from their frantic day. Monitors and I believe video cards produced in the last three years mostly support the DPMS (Display Power Management System). Both my NEC C500 and my Nokia 445Xpro supported DPMS. Your operating system, Linux, can then work with DPMS, telling the video card to tell the monitor to turn itself off -- in about 15 minutes my monitor's light goes yellow and blank, in 30 minutes red and my monitor shuts off, getting physically cool. With DPMS, the search for a screen saver becomes mis-directed. I make use of DPMS through X in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config with the line Option power_saver Here is some context, Section Device Identifier Jims Matrox VendorName Matrox BoardName Millennium G200 8MB VideoRam 8192 #Option power_saver #Added by Jim Burt Option power_saver # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 12:58:39AM -0800, Martin Waller wrote: I guess this is a bit of a newbie question, but how do I get a screensaver to come up under X instaed of the screen just blanking? http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9812/msg01163
RE: Eterm 0.8.7 problems.
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Shaleh wrote: How did this happen? Debian provides several tools to do updates that insure you get everything you need to have a working system. Dselect, apt, or a combination thereof can prevent problems like this. The reason is I updated my Eterm manually. Download some .debs here and there... dependancies seems to accept it. Next time... I'll just use apt to update my Eterm. It does'nt really bother me... I'll just wait for 2.1 to be released and just update my Debian 2.0. regards, = = Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated = = == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 = == = = = = E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] = WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com
Re: X help
Ok I try all that I edit xf86config and all that but it still doesnt change my resolution you have any other suggestions on how to do this?
Re: Violence: Lethal StarOffice...
just as a follow up note here. don't even bother with the patch from stardivision, it's a waste of time (imho of course). star office still crashes and behaves erratically even with the patch, and if the problems are as bad as mine were (the install crashed on the welcome screen) you can't even apply the patch because the patch has to be applied *after* the installation. neat eh? just change to the svga server. as best as i can tell it makes no difference and seems more stable (thought that's gut rather then hard fact). i'm still not that happy with so5 and am going to install wp8 tomorrow and see which i like better. all i really want is the ability to read word and excell 97 files and i can do without excel if i have to. adam. On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, dyer wrote: Jeff, At stardivision.com they have a patch for the S3V server. (This _is_ the problem) Go to support, download. (at least it used to be there). Switch to SVGA server on your machine, install SO5, install the patch, switch back to S3V. You should be OK. dyer Peter, I have a Stealth 3D 2000 and I'm using the S3V server too. The question, then, is what to do? Regards, Jeff Miller -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: New IBM sendmail replacement will be free and open source
that is none other than Vmailer from Wietse Venema, which other than having a truely scary name fit for a vampire, has something personal against Dan Bernstein and Qmail. He's very active on BugTraq, and seems to know what he's doing most of the time, but his attitude and few errors I have seen him get caught in, pushed me away from trying Vmailer. for what it's worth i've been watching wietse and djb have it out on bugtraq (and other places) for quite a couple years. in general i think wietse has shown immense self control and reasonableness under fairly extreme attack. i've avoided using qmail because i think djb is *such* an unpleasant person to deal with (note: i've never dealt with him personally just watched him deal with other people on lists etc) and he is fairly widely recognised for being a little overly opinionated, though no one doubts he technical abilities. as best as i have been able to tell the story is this. djb and wietse both did a lot of the initial coding on qmail and then had a falling out due to differing opinions on how unix security should be implemented. djb has now taken it to be is life long mission to publicly fault wietse for any and everything that can be. i've seen him publicly slammed for being a jerk almost everytime by nearly everyone. i really like what i've seen of wietse and vmailer/postfix and am very hopefull that it will mature into my replacement for sendmail (i especially like the queuing philosopy, it's great and fills a gaping hole in what sendmail provides). adam. ps. i make no claim to know the full story but the above is how i've interpreted what i've seen.
Re: PCMCIA help!!!
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Patrice Bertrand wrote: Hi, I have installed Linux on a Winbook laptop. Everything works but my PCMCIA modem and I dont' understand why... My PCMCIA card is a made by Creative Labs and is fax-modem 28,800 bauds. I've tried to read the HOWTO-PCMCIA. It doesn't help and it is too complicated anyway... What I've done till now : I have installed the Linux base system from scratch with floppies I understand that the PCMCIA, if I follow the steps during installation, is normally done. I have set up a PPP connection But when i type pon, nothing happens and i go back to the prompt. Just one thing : my sound card is dead, i don't want to replace it so when i place the card in it's drive, i cannot hear the beep sound... But this shouldn't have any king influence. So what am I supposed to do? To i have to run something like : mount /dev/modem /moden or what? Thanks for your help... Two things: 1) /dev/modem is usually a symlink to the actual tty port being used. If your setup is looking to /dev/modem and /dev/modem isn't pointing to the correct tty, that's your problem. BTW, you might be better off using the actual port (ie /dev/ttyS1, etc), because if an app accesses (and therefore puts a lock on) /dev/modem and another app accesses the actual port, the second app won't see the lock and then you've got two apps trying to use the modem at the same time and one or both will start coughing up blood. 2) If you've got minicom installed, try using it to verify that your modem is working. If you don't have minicom, try echo ATDTsome_phone_num_you_can_hear_ring /dev/ttySwhatever_port_your_modem_is_on If you hear the phone ring, pick it up and see if it sounds like a modem. If it doesn't ring, you know you're still not dialing out. -- 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: Advansys SCSI Iomega Jaz drives
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install Debian on a 2 GB Jaz disk but when the rescue disk looks for my SCSI devices it does not find my Jaz drive. It has no problem identifying both of my SCSI CD-ROM's (a player and a re-writable) and my IBM SCSI hard drive. My Jaz drive is an external drive connected to the external SCSI port on ID 4. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get this to work? Tom Persons I've read other posts that said something to the effect of zips or jaz's showing up as the fourth partition even though it's on the first, or something (As you can tell, I'm really hazy on it.) You might check the list archives within the last three months. -- 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: Communicator installation again
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, KTB wrote: OK, I think I came fairly close this time:) I copied the file to /tmp ran dselect (the netscape set up program) here is where it ended: Setting up netscape 4 (4.0-12) -Found ' /tmp/communicatortar.gz'...(valid) -Extracting from /tmp/communicatortar.gz gzip:stdin:unexpected end of file tar: unexpected EOF on archive file tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors ERROR: cannot extract netscape archivee--No such file or directory dpkg:error processing netscape4 (--configure): subprocess posted-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: netscape 4 dpkg--configure returned error exit status 1. Press return to continue What now? Thanks, Kent I'm certainly no expert, but this sounds like a corrupt Communicator file. I know you've downloaded it at least twice, but you might do well to download it again. -- 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: Communicator installation again
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Jesse Evans wrote: Kent, Here's what worked for me (I recently upgraded to slink; this may not all be available otherwise... AFAIK): I used apt-get to install the following: netscape-base-45 netscape-java-45 communicator-base-45 communicator-smotif-45 navigator-base-45 navigator-smotif-45 navigator-nethelp-45 There were some dependencies, which apt-get took care of, and I was off and running! :-) IIRC, Kent is using hamm, and therefore probably doesn't have apt-get yet. And, last I heard, he doesn't have his dial-up working on the Linux side yet. Kent, once you get a bit more grounded in Linux, this apt-get method that Jesse suggests will become your friend. However, for now, I think I'd recommend sticking to the dselect method. No use in adding yet another learning task to your already quite-full plate :-) On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 07:50:05PM -0600, KTB wrote: OK, I think I came fairly close this time:) I copied the file to /tmp ran dselect (the netscape set up program) here is where it ended: Setting up netscape 4 (4.0-12) -Found ' /tmp/communicatortar.gz'...(valid) -Extracting from /tmp/communicatortar.gz gzip:stdin:unexpected end of file tar: unexpected EOF on archive file tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors ERROR: cannot extract netscape archivee--No such file or directory dpkg:error processing netscape4 (--configure): subprocess posted-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: netscape 4 dpkg--configure returned error exit status 1. Press return to continue What now? Thanks, Kent -- 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
Re: X help
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok I try all that I edit xf86config and all that but it still doesnt change my resolution you have any other suggestions on how to do this? I may be getting in late on this thread; at any rate, I don't recall what your specific problem is or what things you've tried. However, from your post I take it that you'd like to change your video resolution. You might try running XF86Setup and try to change your settings there. If that doesn't work, you might repost with a brief summary to remind us (or at least me) of your problem/attempted_solutions. -- 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: X help
ok I recently installed Debian on my computer and when I set up X I set the resolution and everything right in xf86config and I did the xf86setup also But then I do startx and my resolution is way to big for my screen I tried changing the resolution about 10 times then I finally gave up and asked you guys
canot startx as user/libpcap/libnet problems
Error msg when i startx as normal user, however startx as root has no problems. Fatal server error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions You should be using Xwrapper to start the server or xdm. We strongly advise against making the server SUID root! When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. libpcap erros: make , make install had no troubles but: debian:~/libpcap-0.4# make install-incl /usr/bin/install -c -m 444 -o bin -g bin ./pcap.h \ /usr/local/include/pcap.h /usr/bin/install -c -m 444 -o bin -g bin ./pcap-namedb.h \ /usr/local/include/pcap-namedb.h /usr/bin/install -c -m 444 -o bin -g bin ./net/bpf.h \ /usr/local/include/net/bpf.h /usr/bin/install: /usr/local/include/net/bpf.h: No such file or directory make: *** [install-incl] Error 1 libnet errors: debian:~/Libnet# make cc -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -Wall -DHAVE_STRERROR=1 -D_BSD_SOURCE=1 -D__BSD_SOURCE=1 -D__FAVOR_BSD=1 -DGLIBC=1 -c src/checksum.c -o src/checksum.o src/checksum.c: In function `do_checksum': src/checksum.c:109: structure has no member named `uh_sum' src/checksum.c:111: structure has no member named `uh_sum' make: *** [src/checksum.o] Error 1 can anyone pls help? Thnx
Re: Gnome Not working in Slink upgrade
I have Gnome from slink working. I did an upgrade to 2.2 last night, however, and that broke Gnome. Since, at this time, the newer versions of gtk are incompatible with many progs compiled with the older versions, letting apt/deselect update gtk to 1.1.5 is a very bad idea; I had the same error that you are getting. I had to uninstall all the Gnome debs and re-update (downdate ?) back to slink today to get it to work again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 6:55 PM Subject: Gnome Not working in Slink upgrade Just tried a new slink upgrade, again. I must have something wrong because I can't get gnome to upgrade correctly. when I run panel or eeyes I get the message: libgtk-1.1.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory I do have libgtk-1.1.so.3 libgtk-1.1.so.1 but no libgtk-1.1.so.2. Everything _but_ gnome and its apps _seem_ to be running. Does 'anyone' have gnome running on slink? If so, I wonder what is wrong with the depends (and on What?). TIA Wayne -- Real computer scientists don't program in assembler. They don't write in anything less portable than a number two pencil. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Why?! [way offtopic]
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 03:29:37PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Considering what I hear from this group and the 'debates' in c.o.l.a., and elsewhere on the Net, WinNT isn't that stable as it is now. If they really are going to break compatibility with their predecessor OSs then that will change things, but I'm astonished that they would actually do that. After all, the whole world didn't rush out and upgrade from Win95 to Win98, and this upgrade was supposed to be compatible. A lot of people have decided Win95 is enough. If they leave compatibility out, M$ runs a risk of having Win2k not being a big seller. Its the compatibility issue that has allowed them to drag everybody along the upgrade path, a real money maker, all this time. Windows NT 4 is reasonably stable in that the whole operating system rarely crashes; it's still more often than Linux, but a lot less often than 95. The GUI still crashes on occasion. To me, the main reason for not upgrading to 98 is that there aren't any new features which I want. You can get the new desktop by putting IE 4 on 95 (and I don't want it anyway). I don't use USB and you can get that on 95 anyway (my notebook has it). So there's no reason to upgrade, since I rarely use 95 anyway. NT could do with some upgrades, though -- it needs to become more mainstream to get better driver support. It needs DirectX 5 or better (then I'd never need to use 95 at all on my desktop). Finally, one the important things about Linux is its configurability, especially being able to trim the kernel to just what is needed. The idea that they can build an OS that is not only good at being a mainstream desktop OS while at the same time as being a strong enterprise server, all from the same shrink-wrapped box, smells real funny to me. Isn't that what we do too? And RedHat? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
Re: Matrox Xserver on Debian
Thanks ... I had forgotten all about alien; I usually do.
Re: GNUcash
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 07:23:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how far we are from a debianized package of GNUcash? (I couldn't find it on the package search on www.debian.org). Or even any other debianized alternative? Take a look at the 'xacc' package. Adam
Re: Violence: Lethal StarOffice...
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Adam Shand wrote: just as a follow up note here. don't even bother with the patch from stardivision, it's a waste of time (imho of course). star office still crashes and behaves erratically even with the patch, and if the problems are as bad as mine were (the install crashed on the welcome screen) you can't even apply the patch because the patch has to be applied *after* the installation. neat eh? just change to the svga server. as best as i can tell it makes no difference and seems more stable (thought that's gut rather then hard fact). Well, the patch seems to work for me. StarOffice 5.0 Has not crashed on me yet. i'm still not that happy with so5 and am going to install wp8 tomorrow and see which i like better. all i really want is the ability to read word and excell 97 files and i can do without excel if i have to. I have tried Wordperfect 8 for Linux and it can read/save word97 files but connot read/write excel97 formats. Fortunately, SO5 can read do the above. regards, = = Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated = = == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 = == = = = = E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] = WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com
Re: Gnome Not working in Slink upgrade
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 09:53:32PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just tried a new slink upgrade, again. I must have something wrong because I can't get gnome to upgrade correctly. when I run panel or eeyes I get the message: libgtk-1.1.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory I do have libgtk-1.1.so.3 libgtk-1.1.so.1 but no libgtk-1.1.so.2. Everything _but_ gnome and its apps _seem_ to be running. Does 'anyone' have gnome running on slink? If so, I wonder what is wrong with the depends (and on What?). yo, look below, I'm not sure if it's depend on this, I'm new gnome user, no expirience ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii libgtk-doc 1.0.6-2Documentation and example code for the GIMP ii libgtk-perl 0.3-3 Perl module for the gtk+ library ii libgtk1 1.0.6-2The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X ii libgtk1.1 1.1.2-2The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X, unsta ii libgtk1.1-dev 1.1.2-2Development files for the GIMP Toolkit, unst ii libgtk1.1.6 1.1.6-1The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X, unsta ii libgtkmm0.9.15-1 shared library of gtk--, a C++ wrapper for G ii libgtkxmhtml0 0.30.1-5 The Gnome gtkxmhtml (HTML) widget ii gnome-admin 0.30-3 Gnome Admin Utilities (gulp and logview) ii gnome-control-c 0.30-2 The Gnome Control Center ii gnome-core 0.30-2 Common files for Gnome core apps and help br ii gnome-gxsnmp0.30-3 A network management tool that uses SNMP ii gnome-hello 0.30.1-5 The Gnome Hello World examples ii gnome-media 0.30-2 Gnome Media Utilities (gmix, gtcd) ii gnome-panel 0.30-2 Launch and/or dock Gnome applications ii gnome-session 0.30-2 The Gnome Session Manager ii gnome-terminal 0.30-2 The Gnome terminal emulator application thats the packages I have installed, hope it gives You a idea, very X-mas good 1999 -- Peter
Re: Why?! [way offtopic]
Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 03:29:37PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: Considering what I hear from this group and the 'debates' in c.o.l.a., and elsewhere on the Net, WinNT isn't that stable as it is now. If they really are going to break compatibility with their predecessor OSs then that will change things, but I'm astonished that they would actually do that. After all, the whole world didn't rush out and upgrade from Win95 to Win98, and this upgrade was supposed to be compatible. A lot of people have decided Win95 is enough. If they leave compatibility out, M$ runs a risk of having Win2k not being a big seller. Its the compatibility issue that has allowed them to drag everybody along the upgrade path, a real money maker, all this time. Windows NT 4 is reasonably stable in that the whole operating system rarely crashes; it's still more often than Linux, but a lot less often than 95. The GUI still crashes on occasion. To me, the main reason for not upgrading to 98 is that there aren't any new features which I want. You can get the new desktop by putting IE 4 on 95 (and I don't want it anyway). I don't use USB and you can get that on 95 anyway (my notebook has it). So there's no reason to upgrade, since I rarely use 95 anyway. NT could do with some upgrades, though -- it needs to become more mainstream to get better driver support. It needs DirectX 5 or better (then I'd never need to use 95 at all on my desktop). Not having used NT, I don't have any first hand knowledge about the frequency of crashes. There seems to be a wide diversity of opinion about this. Its probably depends on a number of things, like hardware, and maybe more importantly, how many apps are installed and used (and perhaps whether the apps are MS or not?). With a small number of well behaved apps, with 'approved' hardware you could get NT to appear stable. Finally, one the important things about Linux is its configurability, especially being able to trim the kernel to just what is needed. The idea that they can build an OS that is not only good at being a mainstream desktop OS while at the same time as being a strong enterprise server, all from the same shrink-wrapped box, smells real funny to me. Isn't that what we do too? And RedHat? In a sense, you got me here; I didn't explain myself very well. Part of the problem is my personal tendency to think of Linux as a server-type OS, that just happens to have a significant number of people using it as a desktop OS. Sure, Redhat is trying to make Linux easier to install and use for the non-tech crowd. The difference is what we will and won't do to make Linux work for the masses. Nothing is wrong with GUI type programs that make installing and Linux easier for the uninitiated, and I won't argue against some additions into the kernel to provide support for graphics like the fb code in the development kernel, and kernel additions suggested by the GGI project. However, the developers of Linux are not going to try shoe-horning the Mozilla code into the linux kernel the way MS shoe-horned IE into Win98 just to destroy a competitor. Linux is also much more modular than W2K will ever be (IMHO, of course). With Linux, you can strip both the distribution and the kernel of unnecessary software leaving only the server software installed, for a server type job. Linux also doesn't force a particular interface on you. If you like the CLI, then you aren't forced to live with X. This won't happen with W2K, you'll have a GUI, and software like IE forced on you. Because these things are integrated into the OS, the OS will become even more complex and bloated than either NT or 98 is now. I think MS is about to hit the point of diminishing returns with W2K. There is only so much you can stuff into an OS before the OS loses the most important characteristic an OS should have: rock solid stability. The growing concern over W2K's delay seems to suggest that they now have an OS so complex that stability is almost impossible. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Ed C.
RE: killing off the *)@ NT bootloader
Once the c:\bootsect.lnx file exists, you can put in /etc/lilo.conf:
boot=/win95/bootsect.lnx
(assuming c:\ is mounted on /win95, which in my case always is)
and you won't have to do the dd thing ever again. Saves a lot of trouble
*especially* when you forget the dd thing!
HTH
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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Subject: Re: killing off the *)@ NT bootloader
I use the NT bootloader to boot between NT/dos|95/linux, the
Linux+NT+Win95 or whatever it was called HOWTO in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini was
very helpful, basically I have an entry for c:\bootsect.lnx in my
c:\boot.ini. And updated it with a new kernel or whatever. So basically
after a new kernel I do:
dd if=/dev/sda5 of=/win95/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
where /dev/sda5 is my linux partition and /win95 is my win95 (primary dos
or whatever the hell) partition.
Also, the howto says you have to copy the bootsect file to a floppy and
reboot or whatever, but using something like the above this step is not
necessary.
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 08:13:01PM -0500, Sean Johnson wrote:
An easier solution is to open Disk Administrator
{Start-Programs-Administrative
Tools-Disk Administrator} and mark the Linux partition as active.
Sean
Jeff Katcher wrote:
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
yikes, that thing is stubborn. I've supposedly installed lilo half
a
dozen times, and the thing still comes up asking which NT
configuration
to use . . .
It needs to be able to boot NT at least for a little while . . .
Okay, i'm flyin by the seat of my pants here, but you should be able
to
add an entry to the NT C:\BOOT.INI file that will point to your linux
in
some way (isn't there a howto on this somewhere??) try the linux
howto's maybe there is a Linux+NT HOWTO.
Jeff
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Re: mail filtering
RK == Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RK What is everyone using for mail filtering that is using smail. procmail. You can set it up either as the MDA (so it is caled automaticaly for every user), or you can call it in a user's .forward file. Ciao, Martin
Re: How to use scp through a crontab
MS == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS You have no controlling tty and no DISPLAY. Cannot read passphrase. MS This was fine with Debian bo which came with a different version of MS ssh. MS What do I need to change in order to make this job work again. This is a release critical bug reported by Manoj. Ciao, Martin
Re: xbase-3.3.2.2-4 installation problems
Gary Singleton wrote: I check dependencies myself and install necessary files and it works pretty good. I have only had one problem doing it this way and that is when I try to install xbase after installing xlib6g and all the other dependencies I get the error: ln: cannot symbolic link '../../../doc/X11' to '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc': no such file or directory Why don't you try with xbase-3.3.2.3-1? It was released with Debian 2.0 by july 1998. Current stable versions (3.3.2.3-1 and 3.3.2.3-2 --this last 21 oct 1998--) say that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc is a link to ../../../doc/X11 (i.e., to /usr/doc/X11) and they also provide /usr/doc/X11. I don't know how version 3.3.2.2-4 works. -- Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer) Department of Thermodynamics. University of Valencia c/. Doctor Moliner, 50 | e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 46100 Burjassot (Valencia) | Phn: +34-63864350 SPAIN| Fax: +34-63983385
Re: Postgres and php3 don't like each other
Shaleh hat gesagt: // Shaleh wrote: On 21-Dec-98 Frank Barknecht wrote: I am playing around with Postgresql and php3 and I cannot make a database connection this way. The most simple script fails: ?php $database = pg_Connect (, , , , template); ? Pass user and password in the pg_connect function. Look at www.php3.org's online docs for an example. The docs just say: [ http://www.php3.org/manual/html/function.pg-connect.html ] A connection can also established with the following command: $conn = pg_connect(dbname=marliese port=5432); Other parameters besides dbname and port are host, tty and options. But I found the (not so good documented) solution with trial and error: $database = pg_Connect (dbname=template user=username); Obviously user and password are also other parameters. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Why?!
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: Christian Lavoie wrote: Guys, don't worry. In the next 5 years, will see the fall of Microsoft's empire. M. So you don't think that the total absence of Open Source Software products in the palmtop market (a la CE) -- not to mention the fact that not a single Smart Card as yet runs an OSS OS -- is significant in any way? What will you do the day that you can't unlock the front door to your own house without an M$-powered smartcard device; or for that matter, even activate your workstation's keyboard without swiping an M$-manufactured card through the security slot? Hein? Now -- if you were to tell me that a bunch of bright young things in the Linux world were only too eager to emulate Linus' achievements, and do an Open Source version of _everything_ The Evil Empire is attempting to gain control of, well then . . . . . . aw, hell, I'm dreamin' agin! msw -- Martin Wheeler -StarTEXT, Glastonbury, Somerset, England - BA6 9PH [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.startext.co.uk/
Re: Matrox Xserver on Debian
On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Sean M Hollingsworth wrote: I am (hopefully) putting a Matrox Millennium G200 AGP in my linux box next month. I know that S.u.S.E has an Xserver for this card, but I can only find tarballs and RPMs for it. I now have two questions: 1) Is there a deb of the Matrox Xserver? I think no 2) In the event I can't find a deb, would installing the xserver from a tarball or an RPM cause any problems with compatibility? Say with updates, other libs, etc... I have installed it from .rpm through alie, I neede to save the configutration file XF86Config in root's home and then move it to its default location. Also I made X to be a simbolic link to Matrx server. It is working fine for me (on 3 machines). If I don't fail there will be supported for Millennium G200 in svga server in Xfree86 3.3.3 It may be an option for you to wait until then.
Unidentified subject!
Does anyone know how I can load Linux onto a Toshiba Prestege 300CT?? I created a copy of the bost disks from the web site (along with the base files on disk) yet I cannot get Linux to start. Everytime I try to boot, the computer restarts. I tried the other Toshiba boot files and got the same problem. Cheers, Helen
Quick fix + reliable editor?
Can anyone help me with a quick fix? For various inane reasons, I'm demonstrating the possibility of using multiple, mutually-inclusive mail-readers under Linux -- mail, mailx, elm, pine, mutt, tkmail, exmh, etc. So far, so good; except that yesterday I demonstrated exmh without first making a copy of my mailbox file (/var/spool/mail/user). So exmh has now taken 2500+ mail messages and converted them into separate files, which I somehow very quickly have to get back into a monobloc form in mailbox readable format (i.e chained together with an extra cr added between each -- and I don't know of any way to do this using cat or more/less). Anyome got a handy sed/awk/perl script to do this; or any any other quick-fix suggestion? Second query (related; but not urgent): does anyone know of a _known_ reliable large-file text editor? One which will handle 10, 15, 25 Mb text files without hiccup, doing search--replace on the whole file without barfing, screwing up the file, etc.? (Something like Programmer's File Editor, but running under Linux). It must be known to be reliable -- i.e. tried and trusted in real-life experience, not just this should do the job. (I've been caught like that before! :( TIA msw -- Martin Wheeler -StarTEXT, Glastonbury, Somerset, England - BA6 9PH [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.startext.co.uk/
RE: Advansys SCSI Iomega Jaz drives
I have one of those advansys controllers sold by iomega. I only have an external zip on it so this may be off base. Try using ctrl-A during boot to go into the board bios setup. Then look at the termination. It should be under adaptor setup (I think). It's the first option. If you have both external and internal devices, the controller should not be terminated since it is in the middle. This may or may not be your problem. Let me know what you find... jim -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 2:12 PM To:debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc:The recipient's address is unknown. Subject: Advansys SCSI Iomega Jaz drives I am trying to install Debian on a 2 GB Jaz disk but when the rescue disk looks for my SCSI devices it does not find my Jaz drive. It has no problem identifying both of my SCSI CD-ROM's (a player and a re-writable) and my IBM SCSI hard drive. My Jaz drive is an external drive connected to the external SCSI port on ID 4. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get this to work? Tom Persons -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: truncated inode numbers in cpio
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: When creating a cpio archive, cpio sometimes gives the message inode nuber truncated. Do I need to be concerned about this? It means that the default output format (the old c format) can't handle those inode numbers. Cpio uses the inode number info to restore hard links when reading an archive back. or is there a way around the inode problem? Use -Hnewc when writing (or -Hcrc). See the man page for more info. Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl | Murphy Software, Enschede, the Netherlands
Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?
On 21 Dec 1998, Stefan Nobis wrote: Rick Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG files, viewed with xv. Hmmm. I seem to recall that xv defaults to some kind of color dithering and only displays 256 colors (8bit color). I generally use ImageMagick's 'display' or the GIMP, so I'm not exactly a power xv user. You could try displaying such images in the GIMP or with display and see if you notice a difference between 16bpp and 24bpp... Sincerely, Raymond Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] They said there'd be snow at Christmas; they said there'd be peace on Earth. Halelujah Noel, be it Heaven or Hell; the Christmas we get we deserve. -ELP, I Believe in Father Christmas
question about ip-up
I've got a quick question... Do the scripts in ip-up.d run whenever the network goes up (say on boot with ethernet, or when I dial in) or only when I dial in. I'm trying to make the transition from campus ethernet to dial in over break. Thanks, Peter -- Peter D. Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operator, perl programmer, computer guy. http://www.egr.uri.edu/~kovacsp/
Re: [offtopic] Dont't ECHO
Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm trying to, using socket programming, ask the remote user for login and password. I would like that password won't appears on remote machine when user is typing it. I already saw RFC's but it doesn't worked ! :((( Could someone send me such part of code !? Should IAC + DONT + TELOPT_ECHO sent to socket or client descriptor !? You're misunderstanding the RFCs. In terms of telnet options, the ECHO refers to whether the local or remote end of the connection should handle echoing the characters back to the user. The way telnet does what it does is by having the server send IAC WILL ECHO and then having the server only echo those characters that should be echoed. I have attached below a transcript of a simple telnet session to show you what's going on. You may also need to send the telnet option that means one character at a time transmission and not line-by-line mode. I'm not quite certain how to do this; I believe it has something to do with manipulating the go-ahead option, and supressing it. I'd try to do the following: Server IAC WILL SUPRESS-GO-AHEAD Client IAC DO SUPRESS-GO-AHEAD Server present login prompt Client send username Server IAC WILL ECHO Client IAC DO ECHO Server present password prompt Client send password Server IAC WONT ECHO I'm not certain what you should get if the client isn't willing to do the supress-go-ahead stuff; if the client responds with a don't echo, then there's really no way to prevent the password from being displayed. Looking at your mail again, it appears that you are writing both the client and the server part of this application - if so, then you shouldn't be touching telnet options at all - you should only deal with the telnet options if you expect people to be using telnet to connect to your server. If you are writing the client as well as the server, look at the getpass function that someone else mentioned, or look at the termios(3) manpage for how to turn terminal echoing off. Here's the transcript of a telnet session to my machine - the CLIENT or SERVER refers to the machine which sent each bunch of data. Note that this transcript is complicated by many other options, but I think that only the echo and supress-go-ahead options are relevant. (These begin around record number 5, below). Record number 1 (SERVER), length 12 FFFD18FF FD20FFFD 23FFFD27 .ý..ý .ý#.ý' 01 Record number 2 (CLIENT), length 12 FFFB18FF FB20FFFC 23FFFB27 .û..û .ü#.û' 01 Record number 3 (SERVER), length 18 FFFA2001 FFF0FFFA 2701FFF0 FFFA1801 .ú ..ð.ú'..ð.ú.. 01 FFF0 .ð 02 Record number 4 (CLIENT), length 38 FFFA2000 33383430 302C3338 343030FF .ú .38400,38400. 01 F0FFFA27 00FFF0FF FA180068 79706572 ð.ú'..ð.ú..hyper 02 7465726D FFF0 term.ð 03 Record number 5 (SERVER), length 15 FFFB03FF FD01FFFD 1B05 FFFD21xx .û..ý..ý..û..ý! 01 Record number 6 (CLIENT), length 24 FFFD03FF FC01FFFB 1A1F 00500018 .ý..ü..û..ú..P.. 01 FFF0FFFD 05FFFB21 .ð.ý..û! 02 Record number 7 (SERVER), length 43 FFFB0144 65626961 6E20474E 552F4C69 .û.Debian GNU/Li 01 6E757820 736C696E 6B206375 73682E64 nux slink cush.d 02 796E2E6D 6C2E6F72 670D0Axx yn.ml.org.. 03 Record number 8 (CLIENT), length 3 FFFD01xx .ý. 01 Record number 9 (SERVER), length 14 0D0A6375 7368206C 6F67696E 3A20 ..cush login:01 Record number 10 (CLIENT), length 1 75xx u01 Record number 11 (SERVER), length 1 75xx u01 Record number 12 (CLIENT), length 1 73xx s01 Record number 13 (SERVER), length 1 73xx s01 Record number 14 (CLIENT), length 1 65xx e01 Record number 15 (SERVER), length 1 65xx e01 Record number 16 (CLIENT), length 1 72xx r01 Record number 17 (SERVER), length 1 72xx r01 Record number 18 (CLIENT), length 1 6Exx n01 Record number 19 (SERVER), length 1 6Exx n01 Record number 20 (CLIENT), length 1 61xx a01 Record number 21 (SERVER), length 1 61xx a01 Record number 22 (CLIENT), length 1 6Dxx m01 Record number 23 (SERVER), length 1 6Dxx m01 Record
Re: Advansys SCSI Iomega Jaz drives
I believe the previous solution was something like: mkdir jaz; mount /dev/sd? jaz With ? being where linux finds your drive. See the output of dmesg for more help. Brandon On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Kent West wrote: On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install Debian on a 2 GB Jaz disk but when the rescue disk looks for my SCSI devices it does not find my Jaz drive. It has no problem identifying both of my SCSI CD-ROM's (a player and a re-writable) and my IBM SCSI hard drive. My Jaz drive is an external drive connected to the external SCSI port on ID 4. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get this to work? Tom Persons I've read other posts that said something to the effect of zips or jaz's showing up as the fourth partition even though it's on the first, or something (As you can tell, I'm really hazy on it.) You might check the list archives within the last three months. -- 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Web mirroring software
Hi all, Can anybody suggest me a tiny web mirroring software to run on debian, preferebly in *.deb format? I don't expect much, only the basic functionality. Thanks already, Cagdas Ogut
RE:Picture display in netscape
I have a Debian 2.0 system with KDE 1.0 installed my video card uses the clgd5428 chipset so I am stuck with running the system in 8-bit color mode for the time being. The question i have is that it seems that when I am using Netscape (4.5b2) for web browsing the images that it displays do not look correct. The images seem to be very pixilated yet if I look at the same site using kfm the images look fine. I have tried open just an image in Netscape and it also does not look right. I only have 16M of memory in this machine (486- 100) at the present but am increasing that this weekend. Does anyone have a clue as to a way to make Netscape work properly TIA John
Networking on/off-line.
Greetings all, Here's the scenario five machines, 1 - dedicated debian box 2 - dual boot (one laptop w/debianwin95, 1 box w/debianwin98) 1 - win nt 4 workstation box 1 - win 98 box this is the desired mode of operation: i would like to setup an intranet of sorts. I've gone through most of the networking mini-HOWTOs...ip-masq, intranet, etc. but i'm a bit confused. i would like to connect all of the machines together (already done) with samba but i would also like to setup an internet connection via a modem on a debian box with ip masq but the ip that this box obtains is dynamic from my dialup. This is where my confusion ariseshow do i need to setup the other non-deb boxes so that they may surf the net also? DHCP? On the other hand , when off-line hand i would also like to be able to let users on the non-deb boxes to telnet to the deb boxes when off-line. (Can you tell i'm new to this networking thingy? ;)) Is this possible? if so just point me in the right direction!!! Regards, jd?
BitchX: Scripts
I try to load and use the autoop script in BitchX. Si within BitchX I say: /load autoop Then I say: /addchan #channel But BitchX tellx me: Unknown command. What do I do wrong? Stef
machine seems to pause for a few seconds
I have a dual PII 333 running debian 2.0 and it seems to just stop for about 2-3 seconds, randomly. Anyone have any idea what this is ? Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o .| R L / / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Jeff | E I / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / (FidoNet 1:3644/9) | D N// /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | H U...because lockups are for convicts... ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | A X ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) HOME| T
Re: machine seems to pause for a few seconds
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Geoffrey Deasey wrote: : I have a dual PII 333 running debian 2.0 and it seems to just stop : for about 2-3 seconds, randomly. Anyone have any idea what this is ? : : Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o : .| R L / / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ : Jeff | E I / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / : (FidoNet 1:3644/9) | D N// /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ : ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | H U...because lockups are for convicts... : ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | A X : ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) HOME| T What kernel are you running? If it's not a 2.1.x kernel you may be experiencing difficulty in the SMP code. I run 2.1.125 on my dual PII ... it runs great. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
How do I set up process on login?
I have a script file that I want to run whenever someone logs in. It reads an anniversaru file and lists any anniversarys for the month. If I put 'exec anniversary' in the .bashrc or .bash_profile file the script will run but then the login process stops and goes back to login: . How do I set this up so that this program runs everytime someone logs in. Also, how could I set this up in 'anacrontab' so that it prints the results of this script file to the screen of all users, including root, instead of mailing the results out? Thanks, Lance
Re: machine seems to pause for a few seconds
What else do I have to change to move to the 2.1.12x kernels ? Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o .| R L / / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Jeff | E I / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / (FidoNet 1:3644/9) | D N// /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | H U...because lockups are for convicts... ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | A X ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) HOME| T On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Geoffrey Deasey wrote: : I have a dual PII 333 running debian 2.0 and it seems to just stop : for about 2-3 seconds, randomly. Anyone have any idea what this is ? : : Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o : .| R L / / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ : Jeff | E I / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / : (FidoNet 1:3644/9) | D N// /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ : ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | H U...because lockups are for convicts... : ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | A X : ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) HOME| T What kernel are you running? If it's not a 2.1.x kernel you may be experiencing difficulty in the SMP code. I run 2.1.125 on my dual PII ... it runs great. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: How do I set up process on login?
On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 09:55:11AM +, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I have a script file that I want to run whenever someone logs in. It reads an anniversaru file and lists any anniversarys for the month. If I put 'exec anniversary' in the .bashrc or .bash_profile file the script will run but then the login process stops and goes back to login: . How do I set this up so that this program runs everytime someone logs in. Just omit the 'exec ' Also, how could I set this up in 'anacrontab' so that it prints the results of this script file to the screen of all users, including root, instead of mailing the results out? Print it to the screen when they are working there? It's a bit rude but try wall Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpUrLklR7Z7r.pgp Description: PGP signature
diald and pon
I'm trying to get diald running. The diald example configuration comes with a connect script. But isn't it a better idea to use pon as the program to establish a connection from within diald ? Does this work ? And when how ? Also can't the ip-up scripts shared between diald and pon.. ? This would save some redundancys. Marcus
Re: turning off X accelleration [wasRe: that hp kayak/CLG5465 again
On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 01:08:47PM -0600, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Simply add ´Option noaccel´ into Section Device in /etc/X11/XF86Config. yep, it's stable after this, at least at 8 bit. 32 crashed, though it took a while. But it's slow as molasses . . . Take a look at /usr/doc/xserver-svga/README.cirrus, there are very useful information for Cirrus User. Btw, try also the XF86_SVGA XServer from XFree86 3.3.3. This Xserver works quite well with my Cirrus Logic GD7548 card. I've been meaning to do this on my own machine, hoping to deal with apmsync() crashes from rvplayer. I've downloaded the binaries already. Is it really just a matter of unzipping the tarball, or do I need to put things in their debian places? No, just ftp the XSVGA.tgz and install the XF86_SVGA to /usr/X11R6/bin. Perhaps you should hold a copy of the old XF86_SVGA. I use this Xserver since 3 days and have no problems.
Re: How to boot single user with loadlin?
- Received message begins Here - Perhaps you used the wrong way to go to single user mode. The only correct way to switch to single user from multi user is: shutdown now I used init s. I thought that was the same. Thanks for the tip, I'll try that. Jim. To see my .signature file, go to http://reality.sgi.com/jwl/signature/
Re: GNUcash
Does anyone know how far we are from a debianized package of GNUcash? (I couldn't find it on the package search on www.debian.org). Or even any other debianized alternative? You can use xacc. I was going to debianize gnucash a few months back, but at the time it didn't build with our gtk packages. I'll try again after the break. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, Blame It On Me | --
sending mail : how does it work ???
Hi, I would like to know : How my mail are sent On my system, I have sendmail and fetchmail installed. procmail package is installed but I am not sure that it run (I can't see procmail when I do a ps -a). If I am offline and I send mail, they are save in /var/save/mqueue. What soft have to send them when I am on-line ? (procmail ?) How does it know if it can send the messages ? Can I lost the message if I disconnect while this mysterious software is sending the messages ? As you can see, I am far away from being a linux guru !!! So, any help would be appreciated. (You can point me to clear and simple documentation). Thanks Franck --- Franck Le Gall 147, rue basse - 14000 Caen tél. : 02-31-93-29-09 mobile : 06-62-34-03-52 e.mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
ASCP package
Hi, Is there any ASCP (AfterStep Control Panel) package for debian or plan to do one? I am unable to compile it from sources... Thanks Franck --- Franck Le Gall 147, rue basse - 14000 Caen tél. : 02-31-93-29-09 mobile : 06-62-34-03-52 e.mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: Moving partition
I already have different partitions for / , /var , /home , /usr. In fact, my problem is : How do I move files from an old parttion to a new one while ensure all links (and things like that) are kept ? What is the command to format (initialise ?) a partition ? Thanks Franck On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 09:16:37AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no more space left on my /dev/hda2 partition which is mounted on / I have a swap partition /dev/hda3 I can create a bigger partition (say /dev/hdb7) to temporary move my root directory. I also can create a new swap partition (/dev/hdb5) You could also make a new partition and mount it as /home, or /usr, or some such. -- Rafael Kitover [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
mount -r -t iso9660...-fs not supp by kernal
I recompiled my kernal to support two chips. When I went through the make config i did not see any thing that looked like it might belong to the iso9660 file system. I need this fs to mount my cdrom. I looked in /proc/filesystem and sure enough iso9660 was not there. Also looked at the modules file and found cdrom. given: the bios and the kernal see the cdrom and identifi it correctly.before I compiled I made a single change to the kernal, which was to uncoment the line SMP=1. I read(past tense) from the cdrom using mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom just fine before the compile hypothosis 1)I need to say yes to one of these in make config..and make zImage _SYSU_FS _UFS_FS _XIA_FS _NLS _NFS_FS _NCP_FS _SMB_FS _HPFS_FS I may have missed one but I know I did not see anything close to iso9660 2)this has somthing to do with modules I need to know how to load the correct module..point me to some docs or a book or give me the ans if you have time. while I was in make config and again in make zImage i selected these options pertaining to modules though I only think these are related to modules because thay say module in there disc some where ...there are probably more vars for modules, let me know if this is T. CONFIG_EXP NO CONFIG_MODULES YES CONFIG_MODVERSION NO PS should i CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION y/n PENTIUM 200 no mmx two chips on the board GA586 if you could give me a doc that talks about these options in more detail
