Re: Lista parada ?
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Jose Carlos Benfati wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Vinicius De Mario wrote: manual de instalação (install.sgml) disquetes de instalação Eu ja tenho estes parcialmente traduzidos, uma falha de hardware me impediu de enviara as traducos pafra o pessoal que mantem os boot disks. Assim que eu comprar um computador novo as coisas vao voltar ao normal. configuração de teclado para us-international e abnt2 (como o Guarani) scripts de instalação (preinst, postinst, etc) dos pacotes base dpkg / dselect Estes sao um problema a parte, nao existe suporte a internacionalizacao no dpkg. Debian esta discutindo modificacoes no dpkg e dselect (e na politica de empacotamento) que permita descricoes multilinguais de pacotes, talvez saia algo pro potato. apt (e apt-gnome) inclusão dos patches do Quinot na libX11 (libc5-compat e libc6) para as dead keys funcionarem com todos os programas (isto deve ser opcional) Essa estava na minha lista, eu perdi minha mensagem para o debian-devel, vou encontra-la e posta-la aqui onde eu falava nisso. Com relação a alterar a libX11, mandei um mail pro responsável pelo pacote mas não obtive resposta. Talvez seja difícil conseguir que isso entre no pacote X11 padrão, mesmo que seja como uma opção. Eu tambem nao na ocasiao, essa era a parte mais simples, eu iria pegar o pacote dele (sources) aplicar o path e gerar o libx11i, e manter como um pacote separado, sempre seguindo o pacote dele. Deve existir uma coordenação e uma avaliação dos trabalhos. Outra coisa, estamos falando de Portugues Brasileiro. Em Portugal os termos tecnicos diferem. Deve ficar claro que estaremos desenvolvendo uma versão de Português Brasileiro. Como identificar oficialmente esta versão ? (a Debian tem alguma regra para isto ? Como ficam os pacotes, teriam uma nova versão ou um sufixo identificador ?) Até agora imaginei que os textos em portugues seriam simplesmente incluídos nos mesmos arquivos .deb já existentes. Mais ou menos como se faz com os programas GNU e outros, com gettext, no Debian e em outras distribuições. No, imagine 100 idiomas em um .deb ... na verdade existem pacotes de localizacao, entao haveria um locales-pt-br.deb como bem mencionou o Lalo (a outra metade dos debian developers brazucas ;) Ja a descricao dos pacotes sim, estaria toda nos .debs , atraves de multiplos arquivos de descricao, ou um arquivo (minha sugestao) com as multiplas traducoes. Mas isto depende de muita discussao e alteracoes mais profundas, nao sendo pratico. -- Eduardo Marcel MacanCore Technologies Informatica LTDA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Suporte e Desenvolvimento Unix/Linux. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer Visite-nos em http://thecore.com.br
Re: Informacion: Acentos en emacs
Jaime E. Villate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cuando uno trabaja en emacs, si la fecha del ratón se sale de la ventana del texto, los acentos dejan de funcionar. Si por ejemplo intento escribir á y el cursor está por fuera, oigo un pito al oprimir ' y la a queda sin tilde. Lo mismo me ha pasado en hamm y slink, usando emacs20 (20.2-4). Será un bug de emacs? y será que lo mismo pasa con otras versiones? Coño! Pues es cierto... Me pasa con el GNU Emacs 19.34.1 de bo. -- Jesús Rodrigo e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: iNet: conecto, obtengo una IP y ahora?
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Jon Noble wrote: Si, en mi fichero de options tengo incluido el defaultroute. Cuando estando conectado hago route obtengo: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 212.55.4.191* 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 ppp0 localnet* 255.0.0.0 U 0 04 lo default 212.55.4.1910.0.0.0 UG0 03 ppp0 ¿Alguna idea? 'traceroute 212.55.4.191' (o la que sea) tiene que funcionar. Luego prueba otros traceroutes a ver qué tal. ¿Tienes alguna especie de firewall configurado? -- Yes. It really happened. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://come.to/Hue-Bond.world --==[ Linux 2.2.1 ]==--Linux Registered User no. 87069 PGP Public key at http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano/pgp_pubkey.asc
Re: Qué tal slink?
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Tomás Bautista wrote: Hola! Hola!!! Pues esa es la pregunta. ¿Ya se puede uno cambiar a ella sin riesgos? Yo estoy usando algunos paquetes, sobre todo para actualizar al kernel 2.2.0. De momento no tengo ningún problema, pero sí tengo una duda. Cuando Slink sea la versión estable, y la compre en CD, los paquetes que ahora tengo de Slink serán actualizados también? Supongo que los paquetes que ya he instalado irán cambiado hasta el día del lanzamiento de la versión final? Saludos Juanmi Mora Barcelona - España [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Powered by Linux - Debian 2.0 Hamm
Instalacion imposible
Hola a todos/as: A ver si me podeis hechar una mano ya que quiero instalar Debian 2 en un segundo equipo y no me es posible. Debo advertir que mis conocimientos sobre Debian y Linux en general son muy pa'lla. El ordenador es un P100, 32Mb, Quantum 2Gb IDE, S3Trio64 2Mb, Pioneer DR-A24X (24x, en hdb). Debian debe compartir el dd con el innombrable (fat16), para lo que lo he hecho 3 particiones primarias con fips. Inicio la instalacion, y la primera vez que empieza a determinar el estado actual del sistema se tira unos 10 minutos... ¿es normal? Bueno, sigo con el teclado, particiones swap y linux, me pide el cd y al cabo de unos minutos me dice que no puede montar el cd. Sale un mensage en pantalla, pero la ventana del 'mount fail' tapa parte del mismo y solo logro leer esto: '... or too many mounted file systems' :-??? Una vez tb pude leer esto a continuacion de lo anterior: '(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, instead of some logical partition inside?)' He re-hecho varias veces los discos rescue y drivers por si acaso, pero nada. Los cd's de Debian son los de Linux Actual y funcionan bien porque ya los he instalado en otro equipo sin problemas, y, ademas, usando el mismo procedimiento que el que describo aqui para el segundo ordenador. Hasta hace unos meses tenia una Slack 3.0, y lei en la lista de UdG que el lector Pioneer DR-A24X le dio problemas a algunos listeros, pero yo los tuve en absoluto y usaba este lector perfectamente. ¿Sabe alguien algo sobre esto? Gracias por todo y espero no haberme extendido demasiado. Salut!! Juanjo Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/8904 [Por favor quita NOSPAM para responder] [Please remove NOSPAM to reply]
Re: Soundcard under LInux ?
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, ente wrote: mail to germany from angus claydon I'm replying to this as I am online now too, and have spent many hours trying to configure my soundcard , awe soundblaster 16. There is a soundblaster HOWTO in /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini which you should probably read as wellas info on isapnp package. this doesn't answer your question specifically. good luck Hello, after installing all the packages and the Window-Managers I want to install my Soundcard now. It is a PnP (but this doesn't make anything under Linux I think) Soundblaster- Compatiable-Card and it runs very well under DOS and Windows. Their it uses the default values (IRQ:5 or 7; Port 220 etc.). How can I configure it under Linux ? Must I make a device with MAKEDEV? How can I use it under KDE 1.0 or FVWM95 ? What is the BPLAY - Program ? Is there any other program which I can use for sound under Linux ? Thank you for your answer Alexander mail from Germany -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: KDE cannot execute the games and the screensaver...
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, ente wrote: KDE ? why? don't you think the games in the games section are pretty nifty? xasteroids? pacman? pente? enjoy ac Hello, yes I wanna play with Linux. After installing the KDE I tried the games which are especially in the KDE packages. But when I start some games I get the message Cannot execute programname. What is it ? Must I install one more package ? Where can I see what I must install too? Apropos no executing ... my sreensaver doesn't seem to work. I elected (Yes, I must write the past-tense of choose but it doesn't comes into my mind now) the screensaver Laser (wooahh) after 1 minute but when I came into my room after the dinner their wasn't any sreensaver? Thank you for help Alexander mail from germany -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Modem freezeup again
Branden Robinson wrote: I used to have exactly that problem. When the modem got hung up it wedged and I couldn't get back to it. It's probably been a year since I had to deal with it, though. IIRC it was a U.S. Robotics internal giving me this problem, and it has to do with one of the RS-232 lines being held high when it should go low. This kind of thing is apparently remembered in the modem's hardware, and you have to power cycle it to make it let go. This is one reason I wound up going with an external modem -- at least you can cycle that SOB without taking your whole damn machine down. Yeah, I've got this problem too. Highly annoying. Here the kernel also outputs an error message when the modem locks - sent that to Alan Cox ages ago and he acknowledged the problem but I haven't seen a fix yet. I'm not sure if this is a hardware or a software problem. As far as pppd itself goes, try fooling with the local option. Hm, interesting, will do. -- see shy jo
Re: SYM 53C416 SCSI and HP PhotoSmart
Ciao Jiri Baum, I have another question: I have a SCSI card that came with HP PhotoSmart scanner. It's a PnP card, and pnpdump identifies it as SYS 53C416 (this is also the number on a likely-looking chip on the card). Which kernel module(s) do I need to install / compile for this to work? (I've tried a few, but they either didn't do anything, or did do something and then complained of a timeout and crashed.) go to http://linux-sym53c416-driver.netpedia.net SYM53c416 patch x SCANNER It works! ---8-- Linux SCSI driver for sym53c416 (p1 of 6) Linux SCSI driver for sym53c416 (c) 1998, 1999 Lieven Willems Introduction On this page you'll find a linux driver for SCSI boards based on the Symbios Logic sym53c416 chip. This is the card included with some of HP's ScanJet flatbed scanners (e.g. ScanJet 5P and ScanJet 6100C). The driver is written for the 2.0.xx and 2.1.xx series of linux kernels and currently tested on the 2.0.30, 2.0.35, 2.0.36 and 2.1.131 kernels only. - -- Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
general protection !!! (kernel 2.0.36, updatedb)
Hello, this is what happen when I run updatedb (always! after some time) (kernel 2.0.36) general protection: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[001262fb] EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: ebx: 0004000d ecx: 0001 edx: 0308 esi: 00200305 edi: 0400 ebp: 0004000d esp: 00f70e80 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process find (pid: 239, process nr: 40, stackpage=00f7) Stack: 0305 0004000d 0400 0004000d 0020da34 00e71a00 0c00 0001 001269dc 0305 0004000d 0400 0001 00160271 0305 0004000d 0400 00e71a00 001fa0d0 00e71a00 0020da34 01e55998 001fa0d0 Call Trace: [001269dc] [00160271] [00124cae] [00160e07] [0012bdd6] [0012bfea] [0012c0a4] [0012a231] [0010a8c9] Code: 28 8b 04 85 30 49 1e 00 8b 40 3c 89 48 18 8b 41 28 8b 04 85 Anyone with the same problem? Should I worry? ;-) -- Paolo Pedaletti, Como, ITALYa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tracking installs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not realistic. Of course, we'd all prefer to use .deb packages, but I don't have the time, nore the inclination to change all of the packages I'd like to try out to debian format first. Yes you do. alien -i file.tgz It's that simple. -- see shy jo
Re: Soundcard under LInux ?
How can I configure it under Linux ? Must I make a device with MAKEDEV? How can You have to compile your own kernel. Check the Sound-HOWTO Stef
apt for hamm
Can someone tell me where I can find the version of apt that works for hamm? TIA
Re: perl script
On Thu, Jul 17, 1997 at 11:43:58AM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote: mike:~$ invoice -n Illegal character \015 (carriage return) at /home/mschmitz/bin/invoice line 3. (Maybe you didn't strip carriage returns after a network transfer?) -- Snip -- The only transfers this script has gotten have been accomplished by cp. If I put a # at the end of line 3, the error just moves up one. Has anyone seen/solved this error? You can strip them out with: dos2unix filename or mv filename filename.orig; tr -d '\015' filename.orig filename or a bunch of other methods. vim has always hidden these characters, AFAIK. nvi doesn't. 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: Anarchy! Yes, Anarchy!
On Aug 21, Paul Wade wrote Does Microsoft contribute to my personal autonomy? If so, I prefer anarchy. Linux is revolutionary in nature. What if Linus had decided instead to develop something that required Windows or SCO Unix? I notice that the people behind Debian like to avoid dependencies on commercial products. It is a reality that many users could not create their first rescue floppy without MS-DOS, but we have to live with it because we don't want to be such 'purists' that we have to ship floppies to get people started. There's not really a solution to that, ever, for an OS distributed on the Internet. MS distributes boot floppies with their non-upgrade OS products for the same reason. Well, there is one solution.. just convince the BIOS manufacturers to include PPP code in the BIOS which can dialup and download the boot code. :-) 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: LILO Problems, Groan
On Thu, Aug 21, 1997 at 10:44:08PM -0700, Mike Schmitz wrote: make the boot line in /etc/lilo.conf read boot=/dev/hda - or sda for SCSI and run lilo Urgh. That's the wrong solution. It is unnecessary in 95% of cases to put LILO in the MBR, and it just makes things more confusing later if you want to remove it. alternatively, toggle the bootable flag on the partition that the boot line points at. That's the correct one. 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: off topic - Assembler using GCC
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 11:52:01PM +1100, Jiri Baum wrote: I'm thinking, if you need to do non-standard things with the control lines (say for a dongle). No problem getting IO port access (eg for the parallel port). See outb(2), and the IO port programming mini-HOWTO. 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
X11 upgrade---error using xdm, Xsession?
After upgrading to potato X11, as root I can startx. But when I run xdm, and log in as a user, I get this: electra:/etc/X11# less /home/lex/.xsession-errors :16: invalid preprocessing directive name :33: invalid preprocessing directive name /etc/X11/Xsession: [: sh: binary operator expected And when I try startx as a user, also I get the same message: :16: invalid preprocessing directive name :33: invalid preprocessing directive name /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: [: sh: binary operator expected I already fixed an error in the Xsession file, having to add ;; on a line. Now what is this? Windowmaker is broken. Afterstep has been broken for a couple of weeks: a difference in config files? (I'd done some tweaks). Alan Davis -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
Re: mgetty: AutoPPP Failure
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 10:38:35AM -0600, Keith G. Murphy wrote: Frank Barknecht wrote: In /etc/mgetty/login.config of the PPP-Server maschine I have tested the following lines by uncommenting each in turn: #/AutoPPP/ - a_ppp /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login #/AutoPPP/ - @ /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap -pap login /AutoPPP/ - @ /usr/sbin/pppd auth login +pap -chap modem crtscts proxya rp lock I have /AutoPPP/ - - etc. I don't remember what the '@' does for you. Shouldn't you have '-detach' in there? I have just the first line above. /etc/ppp/pap-secrets is set up to include: # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd # Tested both: #* fliwatut * 192.168.0.1 * Try: * * 198.162.0.50 Or just * * * which is all I use here (hamm). 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
stuff someone should package (Re: Audio CD MP3)
Eric wrote: BladeEnc (http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625) is a wonderful encoder if you're interested in producing high-quality MP3's. Heikki Vatiainen wrote: My current favourite is L.A.M.E., which stands for L.A.M.E Ain't an Mp3 Encoder. It is fast and the quality is good enough, at least for me. LAME needs the ISO example source code to work so you have to do some patching and compiling to get it working. All you need is at http://student.uq.edu.au/~s302585/ I think bladenc is binary-only, but LAME is free though it has some assembly required. What's the copright/patent status of mp3 encoders? Could this be packaged up for non-us? -- see shy jo
Re: Dual Boot Woes
On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 08:24:03PM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: boot=/dev/hda1== boot=/dev/hda That will install the lilo boot loader in the MBR of the master drive, and give you a choice of the two OS's. You are currently trying to install it in the boot record of the Windows partition, which is /dev/hda1. This isn't the best solution. You should set boot to your linux partition, then set your linux partition active in fdisk. This is much more flexible if you need to reinstall Windows later, because to get LILO back you just change your active partition (even Windows' fdisk will let you do that). Installing lilo in the boot record of your Windows partition is probably fatal. Windows uses that to store partition meta-information it can't do without. 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: Debian Meeting tomorrow: Ian Jackson, Dale Sheetz, LinuxWorld
Date sent: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:29:11 -0800 From: Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Debian Meeting tomorrow: Ian Jackson, Dale Sheetz, LinuxWorld Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Bay Area Debian, the only known Debian user's group, will hold its first meeting tomorrow at 9:30pm in the CoffeeNet internet cafe in San Fransisco. FYI, I'm the guy who lives upstairs, and as such can have you at The CoffeeNet as my guest for some time after its 11 PM Saturday closing time, if need be. (I am not part of CoffeeNet management, just a neighbour and co-tenant at the same building.) The meeting is now listed on Bay Area Linux Events aka BALE (http://linuxmafia.com/bale/), with a street map at http://linuxmafia.com/bale/map-coffeenet.jpeg. Parking at _9:30 PM_, Saturday night, probably won't be bad, but starts becoming scarce starting around 10-11 PM because of two nearby dance clubs. You are advised to not leave valuables visible in your car if you park near the dance clubs: Thieves often do smash-and-grab jobs on club nights, because they know that club-goers tend to leave purses et al. in their cars. Please also be aware that the CoffeeNet parking lot is reserved parking on club nights, costing $7. (It fills up after about 11 PM, when the nearby street parking starts becoming scarce.) Here are my own directions, taken from the BALE listing for CABAL: By Muni: Routes 15 Third Street, 30 Stockton, and 45 Union go past on 3rd Street, northbound. Routes 30 Stockton and 45 Union go past on 4th Street, southbound (but it's only a four-block stroll from 3rd and Market, or from the Transbay Terminal). By BART: Exit at Montgomery, walk four blocks south along 3rd Street to a right (west) turn onto Harrison. It's the purple building in mid-block. By CalTrain: The San Francisco terminus is at 4th Street and Townsend. Either take the 15 Third Street, 30 Stockton, or 45 Union Muni buses up 3rd to Harrison, or walk north along 4th, three blocks north to a right (east) turn on Harrison, and go 1/2 block. Return to CalTrain on routes 30 Stockton or 45 Union from 4th St. (or walk the three blocks). By car: From I-80 west, exit at 5th Street northbound bearing half-right onto 5th, go one block to a right (east) turn onto Folsom, three blocks to right (south) on 2nd Street, one block to right (west) on Harrison, proceed 1 1/2 blocks. From I-80 east, take 4th Street exit, bearing half-left (east) onto Bryant, one block to left (north) onto 3rd Street, one block to left (west) on Harrison, and proceed 1/2 block. On-street parking is 2-hour (1-hour in the alleys) during the day; there's a pay lot on the right (east) side of 3rd Street, just past Harrison. If Bay Area Debian needs Web space, I'll offer it on this (Debian-based) bitty box, hugin.imat.com aka linuxmafia.com. See you there. -- Cheers, Rick Moen This space for rant. rick (at) linuxmafia.com Can we pass the hat so I can afford to fly over and come to the meet? :-) cheers, Mike
Some progress! More help needed
Hello All: I have downloaded all the files and made a bootable (rescue) disk. The current snag in making a partition. I have 2 hard disk drives, the second one is the one that i want to partition (set a swap file). The information is as follows: cfdisk 0.8j disk drive:/dev/hda Heads 255 sector per track:63 cylinders:623 Name Flags Part typeFS type [Label] Size (MB) /dev/hda1 boot primary win95fat 4879.12 Pri/Log free space 7.85 I have lot of space on this hard drive, most of the space is back-up copies of my c drive What I don't want to do is to accidentally erase all the files i downloaded from the sites given and start the process all over again. Any suggestions?
I'm really impressed
Hello All: I am really impressed with Debian Linux. Even though at present I am afraid of partitioning my 2nd hard disk, the detection capabilities of this OS is super. I'd like to thank Pann McCuaig and Shaleh for helping me get this far! Dan
Re: Installing kde 1.1 pre2
Hi, all you have to do is 1. Update to slink (I have done so and it worked well - it may also work with some updated hamm-packages but I don't know) 2. get qt1.42 from slink/potato 3. get the *.deb files from ftp.[de.]kde.org/pub/.../dists/deb/potato/binary-i386/ 4. install them with dpkg -i [names].deb (include your downloaded qt1.42) On my system everything worked fine. Good luck, Andreas.
Re: how do I use UID setting?
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Chris Evans wrote: 1 -rwsr-xr-x 1 chris root 59 359 Feb 6 22:47 cp This line means any user can execute the program 'cp' The whoami reports nobody not chris (is that what you'd expect gurus?), the cp, which is what I want, reports insufficient permissions to create the files in the copy. OK. So the Apache process is running as user 'nobody' (mine runs as www-data as per the Debian distribution). You want 'nobody' to 'cp' a file to a directory. Does 'nobody' have permissions to write a file in the directory in question? The observations about 'chris' are not relevant. Set the permissions of the directory so 'nobody' can write to it. Do a 'su nobody -c cp SOURCE_FILE THE_DIR' as root to test. You may have to use the full PATH to the 'cp' command. If you check the documentation on Security, you will see that it is recommended that Apache process run as an abstract psudeo-user like 'www-data' (Debian install default). You spec the user in /etc/apache/httpd.conf and you only have to make sure that the user exists. It helps keep things straight. It also defines precisely how the files have been written to the directory. 'www-data' should be denied all logins. All files written with owner 'www-data' are therefore written by the Web Server (except for a security breach). You know where they came from. You can check your Web Stats to verify the URL was in fact hit. Besides, 'nobody' gets used for a bunch of other things. --- Gerard MacNeil, P. Eng [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Supercity Internet Services http://www.supercity.ns.ca
Re: Old afterstep
Robert Rati wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the old 1.0-1 .deb files for Afterstep? All the sites seem to have 1.4.5.* and I can't find a site with the bo dists, which is where it was located. Try the asclassic package. -- see shy jo
Re: apt for hamm
Hi Chris, you wrote on: 06 Feb 99 at 19:13 (received 07.02.99) about : _apt for hamm_ Can someone tell me where I can find the version of apt that works for hamm? On the first CD in directory /tools You'll need to install it with dpkg -i Afterwards dselect will have the additional option (Access method) of apt. Kind regards Frederick
Re: X11 upgrade---error using xdm, Xsession?
Hi, On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:40:58AM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: Now what is this? Windowmaker is broken. Afterstep has been broken for a couple of weeks: a difference in config files? (I'd done some tweaks). I'll be glad to help if you can tell me how's wmaker broken. Marcelo
svgalib
I have now decided to use svgalib but already have run into trouble !
/* programme svgatest.c */
#include stdio.h
#include vga.h
main()
{
/* code */
}
#: gcc svgatest.c -O2 -lvga
Programme won't compile because
a) Can't find vga.h
b) Can't find vga library
Yet dselect claims svgalib is installed. Do I need to install svgalib-bin ?
I have vga.h in the usr/src tree - is this where it should be ?
Where is the vga library that needs to be linked ?
Thanks for your help.
Ivan.
eterm and .bash_profile
Reply-To: Is there any way to tell eterm not to execute my ~/.bash_profile? I have several things ran by this script that only need to be ran when I login, not everytime I open up a term window. tia, -- Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/pgp_key.phtml pgp0NNP8dqw66.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?
I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should avoid eating your data. If you've installed Lilo, the system will not boot, I don't believe. Any change to the geometry will render it unable to access the disk. You probably will see the dreaded LI when you try. Paul
Re: svgalib
In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
I have now decided to use svgalib but already have run into trouble !
/* programme svgatest.c */
#include stdio.h
#include vga.h
main()
{
/* code */
}
#: gcc svgatest.c -O2 -lvga
Programme won't compile because
a) Can't find vga.h
b) Can't find vga library
Yet dselect claims svgalib is installed. Do I need to install svgalib-bin ?
I have vga.h in the usr/src tree - is this where it should be ?
Where is the vga library that needs to be linked ?
Thanks for your help.
Install svgalibg1-dev
please help! recovery from e2fsck
If computers get viruses, this seems to be leprosy. typing mc for midnight commander in x windows brought the system crashing down to an automatic reboot; Lilo did reboot this time but in the last 24hrs has given: error loading linux error 0x01 #and also later: crc error Is this a hard drive cable error? typing elm brought: State Panic in State.c:159: in_state_fsck Bad Magic Number segmentation fault now from tty1 I'm unable to M-f2 change to tty2: Unable to change tty /dev/tty2: Read-only file system I'm contemplating a complete reinstall. I'll be leaving the machine on and look forward to seeing what can be salvaged. how can I get a list of files damaged on bad blocks after they have been cleared with e2fsck? many thanks angus claydon
Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, wb2oyc wrote: I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should avoid eating your data. If you've installed Lilo, the system will not boot, I don't believe. Any change to the geometry will render it unable to access the disk. You probably will see the dreaded LI when you try. is this worse than the dreaded LIL ? angus claydon
Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, wb2oyc wrote: I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should avoid eating your data. If you've installed Lilo, the system will not boot, I don't believe. Any change to the geometry will render it unable to access the disk. You probably will see the dreaded LI when you try. In that case, re-running LILO should make it work with the new geometry. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
How to Add User to Group?
Would some of you please tell me how to add user oracle to group dba? ...don't know why I'm having so much trouble with this. I already tried addgroup to create dba, then creating oracle with adduser --ingroup dba oracle ...didn't work. I noticed that the oracle root directory has the same UID as oracle, but it has a GID that is different from dba and oracle. Art
where exactly is qt1.42. I cant seem to find it. NFM
Re: stuff someone should package (Re: Audio CD MP3)
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 04:45:12PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: BladeEnc (http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625) is a wonderful encoder if you're interested in producing high-quality MP3's. I think bladenc is binary-only, but LAME is free though it has some assembly required. I believe source was released due to popular demand. What's the copright/patent status of mp3 encoders? Could this be packaged up for non-us? Probably not. -- Anticipation is the sweetest form of torture...
Re: How to Add User to Group?
Ummm ... I've just been creating the users and then doing adduser user group. Occam's Razor may apply here. Rob On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 07:47:11PM +, Art Lemasters wrote: Would some of you please tell me how to add user oracle to group dba? ...don't know why I'm having so much trouble with this. I already tried addgroup to create dba, then creating oracle with adduser --ingroup dba oracle ...didn't work. I noticed that the oracle root directory has the same UID as oracle, but it has a GID that is different from dba and oracle. Art -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Love your neighbour, yet don't pull down your hedge. -- Benjamin Franklin
Re: How to Add User to Group?
No. It still didn't work for me. Oracle is still reporting that it hasn't been done. Thanks, anyway. Maybe it's something wrong with the Oracle oratab.sh script? Art On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 10:14:56PM -0500, Rob Mahurin wrote: Ummm ... I've just been creating the users and then doing adduser user group. Occam's Razor may apply here. Rob On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 07:47:11PM +, Art Lemasters wrote: Would some of you please tell me how to add user oracle to group dba? ...don't know why I'm having so much trouble with this. I already tried addgroup to create dba, then creating oracle with adduser --ingroup dba oracle ...didn't work. I noticed that the oracle root directory has the same UID as oracle, but it has a GID that is different from dba and oracle. Art -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Love your neighbour, yet don't pull down your hedge. -- Benjamin Franklin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Netscape woes...
Ok, I removed the .netscape directory and now the script in /usr/bin/X11/netscape works fine. (This seems to start v4.05) This is when I get the Aborted. error message. Now if I type /usr/local/netscape/netscape I still get the bus error. I wonder if anyone else is having problems with v4.5. Something is screwy here, because the script in the X11 directory (the debian thing) appears to call the exec in the /usr/local/netscape directory... I am confused... :O Thanks for you help! Doug Rob Mahurin wrote: I got the bus error message repeatedly some time ago for absolutely no apparent reason. I moved my ~/.netscape/ directory to .netscape.screwed/ and ran it again, and it gave the you haven't run netscape before dialog and set itself up again and worked fine. I never figured out what was changed, but you might try that. Hope it helps. Rob On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 10:14:17AM -0800, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Hello, I hope someone can help with this. I have been using netscape 4.05 for some time without a hitch. Recently, my disk ran out of space and sense then, my netscape will not run (I fixed the disk space problem BTW). I get the message Aborted. when I try to start it from a command line. Today, I figured my netscape files were probably screwed up so I downloaded the v4.5 files from netscape and installed them using the ns-install (like I did before). I still get the Aborted. if I type netscape in a $ prompt (This runs the script in /usr/bin/X11) and I get the error bus error if I type /usr/local/netscape. Any ideas on what is wrong with this? Thanks, Doug -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the men are strong, the women are pretty, and the children are above-average. -- Garrison Keillor
x11amp, lsof kernels
I recently made the upgrade (a few hours ago) to kernel 2.2.1 from 2.0.34 and really like it! I have only two questions that I would be grateful if someone more knowledgable could answer. 1. x11amp (v 0.9) used to take about 13% CPU according to top... now it's sitting steadfast at 35.3% Is it really taking more processor, or is this due to some kernel option I might have chosen? Should I recompile x11amp under kernel 2.2.1? 2. lsof won't do anything anymore (not that I expected it to). Are there any new binaries for kernel 2.2.1 in .deb form, or should I compile my own, if so, where can I get either .debs or source? Thanks in advance. -Dan ... Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this message.)
[marwin@localbar.com: Re: X woes (potato)]
This is the same message I got. I fixed this by using a former version of /etc/X11/Xsession - Forwarded message from Björn Elwhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - /etc/X11/Xsession: [: sh: binary operator expected What is wrong? That's what I want to know. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saipan.netpci.com/~adavis Saipan, MP 9695015.16oN 145.7oEGMT+10 Northern Mariana Islands
gtk problems
I downloaded 2 IRC Clients off the web to see if they were any better than the others i've tried. The first one required gtk 1.1.8 i believe, so I blindly downloaded it from gtk.org. This just caused more problems, so I uninstalled and reinstalled the GTK packages that came with hamm. This did not fix the problem, so I downloaded the frozen GTK packages, which installed just fine, however I still get the following error. This error is from the second IRC Client I downloaded, which requires only GTK 1.03. Anyone with any idea how to eliminate this error who could help me I would be very greatful to. checking for GTK - version = 1.03... no could not run GTK test program, checking why... The test program failed to compile or link. See the config.log for the exact error that occured. This usually means GTK was incorrectly installed or that you have moved GTK since it was installed. In the latter case, you may want to edit the gtk-config script: /usr/bin/gtk-config configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? gtk-config IS located in /usr/bin, and I'm not sure what it wants me to edit in the file. Thank you, Darknight
Re: Netscape woes...
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 07:16:24PM -0800, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: Ok, I removed the .netscape directory and now the script in /usr/bin/X11/netscape works fine. (This seems to start v4.05) This is when I get the Aborted. error message. Now if I type /usr/local/netscape/netscape I still get the bus error. I wonder if anyone else is having problems with v4.5. Something is screwy here, because the script in the X11 directory (the debian thing) appears to call the exec in the /usr/local/netscape directory... I am confused... :O Thanks for you help! Doug Glad it worked. Clarification: The error message I eliminated by moving my .netscape/ directory was also aborted, like yours; I remembered wrong. I had seen bus error because that's what it says if I start netscape from the console and then kill it from there instead of using an exit command (either with kill or with Ctrl-C). This sounds like it should be helpful information but I have no idea what you could do with it, unless you were accidentally typing netscape kill %netscape and not noticing. I think that's unlikely; but something like that could be happening down the line. Also, I appear to be running 4.07 instead of 4.05; that may also make a difference. Good luck, Rob -- What you don't know won't help you much either. -- D. Bennett
Re: Tracking changes made by installation of software
In a message dated 2/6/99 1:52:00 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What problem are you trying to solve here? You do realize that dpkg saves a md5sum of every conffile it installs, don't you? And that when you upgrade the package that dpkg will check the md5sum and, if it has changed, ask your permission before overwriting the file? We've already been over that a few days ago. :) dpkg works fine, except in two cases. 1) if you don't use dpkg (some things still come in gzipped packages) 2) If installation scripts run after dpkg completes do more changes. -Jay
Re: Tracking installs
In a message dated 2/6/99 7:41:50 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes you do. alien -i file.tgz Now THERE'S a new concept - using alien on a tar/gzipped file? Interesting... always thought alien just converted rpms to debs... -Jay
Re: Installing kde 1.1 pre2
In a message dated 2/6/99 8:15:28 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need some help. I have tried with absolutely no luck to install kde 1.1 with dpkg but I do not understand all the syntax.(do we still use that term?) I think I have all the files except for qt1.42 as I am unsure of exactly where to find it. Can someone please give me instructions for installing it under debian 2 . If I need to upgrade to slink, thats no problem. Some of the files end in .lsm and 3 are .deb. I have been able to extract the debs but don't have a clue what to do with the lsm's or the binaries. If someone has just installed kde 1.1 and all the commands are still fairly fresh in your mind would you please spell it out for me. * qt1.2 can be found in the Debian ftp site in the potato directories (it might also be in slink, I can't remember now. * To install the packages, just type dpkg -i full package name including the .deb extension * The .lsm files are basically descriptions of the packages, you don't need to (download or) install them * You can run under hamm, but you might need the latest version of libc6 - I'm still working that issue out myself. -Jay
Which text editor is compatible with crxvt?
Hello, guys: I would like to know which text editor is compatible with big-5 Chinese text. I have xcin and crxvt installed in my linux box. Because my favorite editor is vi, I tried to open a Chinese document with that in crxvt terminal, but what I found is some thing like \056\378\053. It didn't turn these special characters into Chinese but just print their code. So if somebody can help me out on this, I will really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. Yi-ping Chang
Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, ivan wrote: INT 10h is the video BIOS - I want to set the video mode directly. By using INT 10h I don't have to learn and programme the card registers - the BIOS takes care of this. Why is the video bios not available from protected mode ? that's how the thigs are in the Intel world. All PM apps has troubles talking to the real mode code. Does this mean that making superfast graphics (as in DOS demo's) is out of the question ? BIOS and superfast ? Are you kidding? Ivan. OK
broken apt-get: can't open lockfile
I've done two things in the last few days, and one of them has broken apt-get. First, I've moved to kernel 2.2.0-pre8 (I know 2.2.0 is out, but I've not had time to download that huge bugger, and I already had a copy of -pre8). I've also moved /usr off of one of my machines, and it's being shared (nfs) from another. now running apt-get install gnome-terminal returns: E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/lock - open (37 No locks available) E: Couldn't lock the cache dir, /var/cache/apt/ another process is using it if I remove /var/cache/apt/lock and try again, I get the same message, with a new (empty) /var/cache/apt/lock file. 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 | --
Re: SB32 PnP Midi with Kernel 2.2.1
Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] *** my /etc/isapnp.conf : Don't use isapnp with the 2.2.x kernels. I read through all the kernel sound docs and thought I had configured everything perfectly for my system but souhd still refused to work correctly. It turned out that I had forgotten to remove isapnp from /etc so it was causing an IRQ conflict during boot time. Now all is well. Christopher
Re: broken apt-get: can't open lockfile
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Will Lowe wrote: I've done two things in the last few days, and one of them has broken apt-get. First, I've moved to kernel 2.2.0-pre8 (I know 2.2.0 is out, but I've not had time to download that huge bugger, and I already had a copy of -pre8). I've also moved /usr off of one of my machines, and it's being shared (nfs) from another. There is something you have to do to setup working NFS file locking under slink, or 2.2 or something but I don't know what it is : Jason
Re: x11amp, lsof kernels
Daniel J. Brosemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] 1. x11amp (v 0.9) used to take about 13% CPU according to top... now it's sitting steadfast at 35.3% Is it really taking more processor, or is this due to some kernel option I might have chosen? I'm also noticing that things seem slightly more sluggish when sound is playing than before. Some applications launch faster though and memory and swap are freed much better now. All in all I guess the 2.2.1 kernel is worth it Christopher
Re: Which text editor is compatible with crxvt?
Yi-ping Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, guys: I would like to know which text editor is compatible with big-5 Chinese text. I have xcin and crxvt installed in my linux box. Because my favorite editor is vi, I tried to open a Chinese document with that in crxvt terminal, but what I found is some thing like \056\378\053. It didn't turn these special characters into Chinese but just print their code. So if somebody can help me out on this, I will really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. Try XEmacs (or GNU Emacs). There is a vi emulation mode. Christopher
Re: Mozilla Help!!! Wrap up
Just to let you guys know. Never got Mozilla working, but qweb and gzilla did work, but both are slow on my machine. 486dx with 12 MB and 33.8 3com ext modem. So know I'm looking for something with some speed to it -- if possible. I know netscape 4.0 ran under win95 with go results and speed so I may try that, but I fear it's will bloat the system. I'm thinking of trying mosaic too. Hopefully all will go well in these trys. thanks to all that helped and especially Syrus and Dave peace. roddie rod Humanity is the biggest cancer ever to be seen! Entombed - 'Contempt' __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: New User - Debian?
Date sent: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 17:35:39 + From: Allens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User list Subject:Re: New User - Debian? Allens wrote: Ed Cogburn wrote: Leonardo Bermudez wrote: Hi I'm still not a full new user because i still havn't stall any Linux yet. I got a Debian CD version 1.3.1, i know that is old and current version is 2.0. Before I download the 2.0 version and install it on my P350 PC, I would like to know what other options with pros/cons do I have beside Debian and RedHat? I'm just installing to learn and for curiosity, i had some experience with sun workstations and solaris so i'm not afraid of the unix enviroment, just to wipe my HD (AGAIN ) :-) Regards Leo A significent number of people would say that RedHat is 'easier' to install then Debian, but after the install, Debian is better. Debian has what I believe to be a better package management system (dselect/apt/dpkg) than RedHat, but the bottom line is it comes down to your preference. Why not get RedHat and Debian 2.0 on CD and try *both* of them and use the one you like better. You can get very inexpensive CD's of both from places like http://www.cheapbytes.com. Whose real address is http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/cheap.html Peter Allen I am a newbie but chose debian as it looks like being better in the future. After installing debian I had a go at Redhat and came back to debian as each distribution is different ie., Redhat, slack, caldera, etcetra and I didn't want to learn another set of rules as I would have needed to do with Redhat.
NFS file locking (was: broken apt-get)
There is something you have to do to setup working NFS file locking under slink, or 2.2 or something but I don't know what it is : Any idea where I'd start to look? Debian doesn't seem to have a lockd... 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 | --
How to use 2.2.x kernel's nfsd ?
Is there a deb package which will replace the user-space rpc.nfsd and use a 2.2.x kernel's nfsd support instead?
Re: Quicktime player for Linux?
Did you find any info yet ? Ryan, -- From: Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Daniel Elenius [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Quicktime player for Linux? Date: Sun, Jan 31, 1999, 5:49 PM On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 06:36:01PM +0100, Daniel Elenius wrote: Does anyone know of a Quicktime .MOV player for Linux? xanim -- -~* Daniel Elenius *~- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ACORN techie http://www.acorn.net AOL/IM jim_foltz -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: where exactly is qt1.42. I cant seem to find it. NFM
Your email was formatted such that pine doesn't like it. However, I did read the subject. qt1.42 is in potato (a.k.a. unstable). Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!!!!
I can't find qt1.42 anywhere. What directory under potato is it in? Is that only a partial file name? Is it in an archive file? If I wasn't wearin' my good socks I'd smack my computer up side the head with my wiffle bat. I'm gettin kinda desperate. Please, help me out. Just give me the last known url for this file. In the meantime, I will continue my endless search.
Re: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!!!!
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, rod peters wrote: I can't find qt1.42 anywhere. What directory under potato is it in? Is that only a partial file name? Is it in an archive file? If I wasn't wearin' my good socks I'd smack my computer up side the head with my wiffle bat. I'm gettin kinda desperate. Please, help me out. Just give me the last known url for this file. In the meantime, I will continue my endless search. It's not in main due to the licence. It's in non-free. Try the libs directory. You may also be interested in the doc and dev packages which are both in non-free/devel for some reason. Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept.
Wooooooo Hooooooooooo!!!!!!!
Yes! Thank you. That's probably the last directory I would have looked in. Now I'm off to discover my next problem. rod.
Re: Which text editor is compatible with crxvt?
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Yi-ping Chang wrote: There is nothing wrong with vi for big-5 compatibility. I have found you have to be clever how you place your mouse to get the input ok. The other thing was to open crxvt first but not to open xcin with the crxvt window but to do a ctrl-z bg and then xcin in the original xterm window. Judging by the HOWTO there are many woes for input. I got it going with xcin -in1 phonetic.tab for chu yin and roman input crxvt works well with lynx , lynx will need no special configuration; point it straight at your favorite page with big-5 best regards from angus claydon Hello, guys: I would like to know which text editor is compatible with big-5 Chinese text. I have xcin and crxvt installed in my linux box. Because my favorite editor is vi, I tried to open a Chinese document with that in crxvt terminal, but what I found is some thing like \056\378\053. It didn't turn these special characters into Chinese but just print their code. So if somebody can help me out on this, I will really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. Yi-ping Chang -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: svgalib
ivan wrote:
I have now decided to use svgalib but already have run into trouble !
I think you may need the svgalibg1-dev package. The *-dev packages seem
to contain the header files and the static libraries required to
complile your own programs. Note this packages depends on libc6-dev,
which you probably also don't have. (also if your using Debian 1.3, Bo,
the package name is probably just svgalib-dev)
Hope that helps
Rich
/* programme svgatest.c */
#include stdio.h
#include vga.h
main()
{
/* code */
}
#: gcc svgatest.c -O2 -lvga
Programme won't compile because
a) Can't find vga.h
b) Can't find vga library
Yet dselect claims svgalib is installed. Do I need to install svgalib-bin ?
I have vga.h in the usr/src tree - is this where it should be ?
Where is the vga library that needs to be linked ?
Thanks for your help.
Ivan.
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Re: Wooooooo Hooooooooooo!!!!!!!
In debian-user, you wrote: [snip poorly formatted message] Please do not post messages in html format. And also please do not post lines over 76 columns wide. It makes it difficult for most folks on this list to read/respond to your messages. Hope your next problem/solution goes as well for you as the last. :) -Mitch
Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?
A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this behavior configured? Christopher
Re: Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this behavior configured? Christopher Mine is set in ~/.inputrc with a line like... set editing-mode vi
RE: apt-get update failing
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup. I've removed the Packages.gz files and had mirror reget them several times. I also tried right from the ftp site ... Are you -sure- you have the right version? Hehe. I logged in to irc, and noticed that talon was having this exact same prob. He said he got this error after upgrading to libc6 2.1-1. Downgrading to 2.0.7.19981211-2 fixed it. Adam
Re: gtk problems
*-Darknight [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I downloaded 2 IRC Clients off the web to see if they were any better | than the others i've tried. The first one required gtk 1.1.8 i believe, | so I blindly downloaded it from gtk.org. This just caused more | problems, so I uninstalled and reinstalled the GTK packages that came | with hamm. This did not fix the problem, so I downloaded the frozen GTK | packages, which installed just fine, however I still get the following | error. This error is from the second IRC Client I downloaded, which | requires only GTK 1.03. Anyone with any idea how to eliminate this | error who could help me I would be very greatful to. | | checking for GTK - version = 1.03... no | could not run GTK test program, checking why... | The test program failed to compile or link. See the config.log for | the exact error that occured. This usually means GTK was incorrectly | installed or that you have moved GTK since it was installed. In the | latter case, you may want to edit the gtk-config script: | /usr/bin/gtk-config | configure: error: Cannot find GTK: Is gtk-config in path? | | gtk-config IS located in /usr/bin, and I'm not sure what it wants me to | edit in the file. Thank you, You can only have one development version of libgtk installed. This means that you'll have to chose between the stable 1.0.x and the unstable 1.1.x. If you want to compile programs that require 1.0 and others that require 1.1 you'll have to switch by installing new -dev packages all the time. You should also try to remove everything that the previous installation may have put in /usr/local. It will be easier to help if you post the result of executing: dpkg -l 'libgtk*-dev' | grep ^.i and also the last part of config.log (in the source directory where you tried to compile). -- The only way tcsh rocks is when the rocks are attached to its feet in the deepest part of a very deep lake. (Linus Torvalds) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: windowmanager does not start
*-Stef Hoesli Wiederwald [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| Since I updated my system using dftp, no windowmanager ist started
| when I startx.
|
| Does anybody have an idea what the problem could be?
Some things to check:
Does /etc/X11/window-managers seem good? Incidentally, the first
line in mine is broken.
What happens if you try to run the first line in /etc/X11/window-managers
manually?
If you have a ~/.xinitrc; what happens if you try to run it manually?
--
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems
(Erd\H{o}s Paacute;l)
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Re: How to Add User to Group?
*-Art Lemasters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| No. It still didn't work for me. Oracle is still reporting that
| it hasn't been done. Thanks, anyway. Maybe it's something wrong with
| the Oracle oratab.sh script?
What does 'groups oracle' say?
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Re: Tracking installs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/6/99 7:41:50 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes you do. alien -i file.tgz Now THERE'S a new concept - using alien on a tar/gzipped file? Interesting... always thought alien just converted rpms to debs... No, it can convert deb, rpms, slps, and tgzs into any of the other formats. Just make sure the tgz has a directory structure in it. -- see shy jo
possible apt-get problem?
Having installed Debian successfully on a school computer, I decided to use apt-get to upgrade the system. Ran an update, then dist-upgrade (after initial use of -s). All went smoothly until the unpacking/setting up of package strace where an E: error returned by subprocess message appeared. Things stopped. I knew that not all packages had been installed. Ran apt-get check and was told to run dpkg --configure -a which I did. A number of packages were then set up. I retried apt-get dist-upgrade after first using -s (confirming that fewer packages would be installed). All pretty much proceded normally. Only issue noted was ldconfig warning me that certain libs (libomniORB, and others) were not symlinks. Does anyone know if I am reasonably safe? What can I do to check things? Kenward Vaughan ps. apt is wonderful! -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\GO C:\PC\CRAWL ---
Re: Networking Debian and Win 95
Peter Ludwig: I am trying to setup IPX networking on my main system at home, and I have run into a few major problems. I'm running a TCP/IP network over Ethernet between Debian and a Win95 box. 1) While my network card is detected and setup by ifconfig, it's address is not being used as the address for network traffic (i.e. squake seems to like 127.0.0.1 and I can't force it to use another IP address). 127.0.0.1 is a magic address which means `localhost'. This is used by programs which want to contact the machine they're running on. If you run ifconfig without parameters, you should find you have two network adapters: one `Local Loopback' with the address 127.0.0.1 and one `Ethernet' with whatever address you gave it. If I run route without parameters, it tells me that packets destined for 127.0.0.1 go to the `lo' interface, while packets for `localnet' go to the eth0 interface. I assume yours should be similar. 2) The secondary machine (a compaq running win95A) is unable to find my computer on the network even though SAMBA is setup (and apparantly running, i.e. it reports no error messages), I am also unable to even get a glimpse (over the network that is) of the Win 95 Machine. Can you ping it? I assume you are using TCP/IP on the network. Is it installed on the Win95 machine? Is it set up as one of the protocols for file sharing? I have recompiled the kernal so many times (enabling different options which appear to be the correct ones), that I'm worried about the Hard disk surface in for the usr/src/linux tree :) Fortunately, hard disk heads fly, so there shouldn't be any wear :-) I've set up everything without recompiling the kernel, but it seems I will have to do it after all to enable a Win95 bug workaround... Jiri -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with From , but no-one remembers why.
Re: Tracking changes made by installation of software
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allows admins to prevent users from making incorrect modifications
where they shouldn't be.
Jiri:
Why aren't you setting permissions appropriately?
...
This doesn't have anything to with my system, I'm just repoting on what
tripwire does. I don't have permission problems, but a sysadmin might -
considering he might have several users with root priveledges - or users
with enough access to change certain important files.
OK.
I think that if you don't trust your fellow sysadmins you've got bigger
problems than config files, though. You shouldn't give ordinary users root
access (I can see how it might happen, but it shouldn't).
Actually, a simple version shouldn't be difficult at all - if you
start with the `find and diff' idea, but put a checksum next to each
of the files, then you'll have a list of files added, files removed
and files changed. For the changed files, you compare them with an
archive version using diff again.
You're right, this isn't a major undertaking - just trying to prevent
dupication of code that might already be in existence. The find and diff
idea is the exact approach I plan on using.
You can use md5 for checksums - I think I meant to say that, but obviously
didn't. While it's probably a bit of an overkill, it already exists.
Hmm, first pass at getting the list would be
find /etc -exec md5sum {} \;
because md5sum outputs the name of the file. You might want to make use of
xargs to avoid invoking md5sum all the time, but I've never tried that.
However, you *will* want to do something to keep track of softlinks. So I
guess write a perl script to take each argument, if it's an ordinary file
pass it to md5sum, if it's a softlink print it out.
Jiri
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Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC
ivan: INT 10h is the video BIOS - I want to set the video mode directly. By using INT 10h I don't have to learn and programme the card registers - the BIOS takes care of this. Why is the video bios not available from protected mode ? It's trying to protect one program from another; and if you mess with the BIOS, you'll completely bypass the protection. For example, how would the kernel know what to do with the screen when you want to switch to another VT? (Actually, I'm under the impression that the BIOS is not used at all after bootup if finished; at least the GNU projects file claims so.) Does this mean that making superfast graphics (as in DOS demo's) is out of the question ? Well, vgagl claims to be fast, but I've no idea how fast is fast. (package svgalibg1) If it isn't fast enough for you, you'll have to write a kernel device driver. (Actually, is BIOS accessible even from the kernel? I don't see why it would be... so you might need to write a routine to access it, too.) Jiri -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with From , but no-one remembers why.
using dpkg
When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb) I always get something like this: cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/status what am I doing wrong? I have read the --help and the man pages but it doesn't give me any clues. thanx == 8?) _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: using dpkg
When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb) I always get something like this: cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/status You need to run dpkg -i as root. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
source-debs of qmail 1.03?
hi folks! i was searching for source-debs (debian packages) of qmail 1.03 but i only found the 1.01 and 1.02 ones. is there a 1.03 package? thanx in advance!
Re: how do I use UID setting?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, when I execute this program after su nobody the copy reports it doesn't have the permissions to do the create side of the copy built in. Here's the listing: 1 -rwsr-xr-x 1 chris root 59 359 Feb 6 22:47 cp Here's the program: #!/bin/sh Simple - setuid shell scripts are not supported under Linux because we have learned from history that it is impossible to create a secure shell script. Rewrite your script in perl (and make sure you have suidperl on your system). Perl has a special safe mechanism for setuid scripts. Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
Re: Install to disk w/school's NT present??
I want to thank Kent and David for their help and suggestions about putting Debian on a lab computer at school. Ghost is used at the school. Wipes out everything, as noted in the above posts to me. However, I worked hard to establish a relationship with the tech doing the work, and he said he'd be glad to create an image of the hd after I got things set up. Pretty nice guy. Don't know if Ghost will handle Linux, of course, but hey ... he was willing. (I think I even piqued his interest in Linux, FWIW!) I still have a question about the setup. Odd thing in the setup. WinNT was placed in as hda1, with a small DOS logical following (hda4? IIRC). I partitioned the rest of the disk into 5 logicals inc. swap. (Where are hda2 and 3?) I wanted to control the boot with LILO instead of a boot floppy. On installation was told LILO won't work on a logical, and should it be placed on hda2? I said yes. Also yes to Linux being default. On reboot, set up LILO with WinNT as first in the lilo.conf list. Works perfectly. Where is hda2??? is this the MBR? Is this an iffy proposition w.r.t. stability? Kenward -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. ---
Re: using dpkg
I have been logged in as root. Now what? -Original Message- From: M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rod Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 2:24 AM Subject: Re: using dpkg When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb) I always get something like this: cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/status You need to run dpkg -i as root. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: perl script
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [about CRLF at the end of a line] vim has always hidden these characters, AFAIK. nvi doesn't. vim -b file :%!col -b Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
Re: possible apt-get problem?
Sorry, forgot to mention that the upgrade was from hamm to frozen. Kenward -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windows isn't crippleware: it's Fuctionally Challenged ---
Re: How to Add User to Group?
It says, oracle: oracle dba
We learn something every day. Thanks, Ole! It did not fix
my problem here, but it indicates that the problem might well be
revealed in the oracle script, oratab.sh I'll have a look at that
and find out. ...did also notice that the group column in the first
oracle directory (mounted on another drive) is 500 all the way down.
I'll check that out, too.
And by the way, I'm addressing this to the list, because I'm sure
the Oracle install is focused toward the Red Hat distro., and Debian
might be just a bit different in some part of the install. We'll know
soon enough whether or not Oracle leans too much toward Red Hat ease.
Art
On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 10:28:39AM +0100, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
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| No. It still didn't work for me. Oracle is still reporting that
| it hasn't been done. Thanks, anyway. Maybe it's something wrong with
| the Oracle oratab.sh script?
What does 'groups oracle' say?
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Re: NFS file locking (was: broken apt-get)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is something you have to do to setup working NFS file locking under slink, or 2.2 or something but I don't know what it is : Any idea where I'd start to look? Debian doesn't seem to have a lockd... You don't need a seperate lockd, It's part of the 2.2.x kernels. You do need special kernel nfs and mount daemons, and for those there is no debian package yet (though there might be one in the experimental directory). You can get those at ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/private/hjl/ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/gcc/ This is all in the kernel Documentation/Changes file. Mike. -- Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
RE: apt-get update failing
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Adam Heath wrote: On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup. I've removed the Packages.gz files and had mirror reget them several times. I also tried right from the ftp site ... Are you -sure- you have the right version? Hehe. I logged in to irc, and noticed that talon was having this exact same prob. He said he got this error after upgrading to libc6 2.1-1. Downgrading to 2.0.7.19981211-2 fixed it. Oh really? That means the C++ iostreams don't work right with 2.1!!! Jason
Re: how do I use UID setting?
On 6 Feb 99, at 21:40, Gerard MacNeil wrote: On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Chris Evans wrote: 1 -rwsr-xr-x 1 chris root 59 359 Feb 6 22:47 cp This line means any user can execute the program 'cp' Yes, I didn't mean to leave it that way. The whoami reports nobody not chris (is that what you'd expect gurus?), the cp, which is what I want, reports insufficient permissions to create the files in the copy. OK. So the Apache process is running as user 'nobody' (mine runs as www-data as per the Debian distribution). You want 'nobody' to 'cp' a file to a directory. Does 'nobody' have permissions to write a file in the directory in question? The observations about 'chris' are not relevant. Set the permissions of the directory so 'nobody' can write to it. I _knew_ I shouldn't have called that program cp! Sorry, it made things very unclear. The crucial things I want are: 1) for the default user of apache-ssl, currently nobody to be able to execute this program, /var/www/secure-cgi-bin/cp, (I've achieved this much!) 2) for the execution of that program to use its owner's (chris's) UID and hence its owner's (chris's) permissions 3) which should give it write permission in the /var/www/root/ directory tree (something I don't want any old apache execution to have as a sort of basic protection of that tree in case I foul up and leave other holes) I have _NOT_ achieved 2) and/or 3) as far as I can see. Do a 'su nobody -c cp SOURCE_FILE THE_DIR' as root to test. You may have to use the full PATH to the 'cp' command. If you check the documentation on Security, you will see that it is recommended that Apache process run as an abstract psudeo-user like 'www-data' (Debian install default). You spec the user in /etc/apache/httpd.conf and you only have to make sure that the user exists. It helps keep things straight. It also defines precisely how the files have been written to the directory. 'www-data' should be denied all logins. All files written with owner 'www-data' are therefore written by the Web Server (except for a security breach). You know where they came from. You can check your Web Stats to verify the URL was in fact hit. Besides, 'nobody' gets used for a bunch of other things. I really don't think I have changed the default user for apache-ssl, maybe I have. I take the logic of this and approve and will make the change but I still wouldn't want to give www-data write permission in its own root (or cgi-bin) directory structures. That sounds to me like creating an unnecessary layer of openness. The situation is that I host some pages someone else designs. He has ftp and I've arranged that he can ftp his pages into a small partition. Since ftp is essentially insecure to snooping and replay I accept that partition is insecure and can live with that. What I want is to get him then to validate himself in with name password in an https (apache-ssl) session (i.e. essentially non-snoopable, non- replayable) so he can then initiate a copy into the httpd root structure (otherwise I'll keep having to do it for him which is going to frustrate both of us). I thought that the setuid byte was the way to do this, to get a program to use its owner's UID and permissions rather than those of the (lower permissions) apache user. Clearly I'm wrong or doing something wrong. Does that make things any clearer? Can anyone help? TIA Chris PSYCTC: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Counselling and Therapeutic Communities; practice, research, teaching and consultancy. Chris Evans Jo-anne Carlyle Tel/fax.:(+44|0)181-671 0868 http://psyctc.org/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Adding foreign keys
Dave Swegen wrote:
I will have to start writing the occasional document in swedish in the near
future (with a bit of luck), but since I have a UK keyboard I don't really
want to switch to a swedish layout. I would prefer to use Alt Gr or
somesuch to assign the extra 6 chars needed to the current layout. Does
anyone know how to do this for both X and VCs? Any info would be much
appreciated.
I have changed my keyboard mapping a bit so maybe I can help.
What I did was I remapped keys asdferspace bar so that when
I press Atl-Gr with them I get {}[]()\ respectively. As a
result, when I write code I can keep my left hand at its normal
position and hit Alt-Gr with my righ thumb to get all the
different parentheses plus backslash.
This is what my .Xmodmap looks like:
keysym a = a A braceleft
keysym s = s S braceright
keysym d = d D bracketleft
keysym f = f F bracketright
keysym e = e E parenleft
keysym r = r R parenright
keysym aring = slash
keysym space = space space backslash
The Finnish/Swedish keyboard also has aring (å) which I mapped
to slash (/).
For VCs, here's a snippet from my /etc/kbd/default.map.gz
[cut]
keycode 30 = a
altgr keycode 30 = braceleft
[cut]
The names for characters with diacritics in X seem to correspond
to HTML entities, so you might want to check out
http://strindberg.ling.uu.se/call/chars.html to find out the
keysym names to put in .Xmodmap.
Another way to remap your keyboard is using the xkeycaps program
which is available as a Debian package.
I hope this helps.
Cheers
Dave
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Re: Help with smbfs?
Eliezer Figueroa hat gesagt: // Eliezer Figueroa wrote: I want to use a debian box to open a share in a win95 machine. Someone told me that in order to open shares I do not need samba, that I only need smbfs. Frank Barknecht: I think you need at least the SMB client software called smbclient. It is included in the debian package for samba. I don't think you *need* smbclient, smbmount ought to be sufficient (and comes in the smbfs package), but it's probably a good idea to install samba at least for testing. smb-nat may also be useful; while it claims to be a tool for checking out security, in fact what it does is find out all it can about things, some of which is very useful info that'll come in handy. You need to have the the smbfs filesystem in the kernel (module or compiled-in). You can check that by looking at /proc/filesystems When everything is ready, you issue the smbmount command. Remember that its options go at the *end*, not the beginning like in everything else. You may find that directory listings are incomplete. I haven't solved the problem yet, but I'm told that recompiling the linux kernel with the W95 bug workaround enabled will do the trick, or else I'll need to get service packs from MS. HTH Jiri -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with From , but no-one remembers why.
Re: Mailman not doing his work: smail won't deliver anything
On 06 Feb 1999q, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have smail set up on my laptop. Neither internal nor external mail is sent. In /var/log/smail/logfile I find the reason for Xdefer is: router inet_hosts: BIND server failure: Connection refused Also: Xfail: reaspm: transport local: failed to open output file: Permission denied The internal messages are sitting there in /var/spool/smail/input but runq, etc. doesn't make them go. I seem to remember something of the sort when I set up my desktop about a year ago but I can't remember the solution! I've checked hostname, hosts, resolv.conf, and the permissions and ownership on /var/spool/mail, /var/spool/smail, and everything else I can think of. As far as I can see they are identical on both machines. Can anyone suggest where the problem may lie? Anthony Well, as no one offered any solution to this, I thought I'd post it myself, having found where the problem lay: I had an incorrect hostname in /etc/smail/config. (Well, surely I can't be the only one???) Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
Re: X-windows not working anymore...
Question. I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.0.36(I think) to 2.2.1. I am running slink(frozen) and now, my x-windows doesn't work. If I This happened to me, and .xsession-errors now says /etc/X11/Xsession: line 47: syntax error near unexpected token `default)' The bit of /etc/X11/Xsessions that reads case $1 in failsafe) if grep -q ^allow-failsafe $optionfile; then if [ -x /usr/bin/X11/xterm ]; then exec xterm -geometry +1+1 else echo Xsession: unable to launch failsafe X session: xterm not found. exit fi fi default) ;; perhaps should have a ;; on the line before the default) line. (Haven't tried this myself yet.) Good luck, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do I use UID setting?
Chris Evans: 1 -rwsr-xr-x 1 chris root 59 359 Feb 6 22:47 cp Here's the program: #!/bin/sh ... Shell scripts can't be suid. Use sudo, or arrange it some other way. Jiri -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with From , but no-one remembers why.
Re: Which text editor is compatible with crxvt?
On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Yi-ping Chang wrote: There is nothing wrong with vi for big-5 compatibility. I have found you have to be clever how you place your mouse to get the input ok. The other thing was to open crxvt first but not to open xcin with the crxvt window but to do a ctrl-z bg and then xcin in the original xterm window. Sorry, I tried your method, but it doesn't work. It is still displaying the hexcal code. Probably, I misunderstood the line: ctrl-z bg. Do you mean to stop the job, and re-fork it to the background?? Anyway, I remembered that there is a setting we can set in vi to enable the 8-bit mode. But I cannot find the exact name after going thru the man page. Just like the difference between more less, with more we can view the chinese, and with less we cannot. I am now using xa+xcin with emacs-mule. It works very well. But I would like to get the most efficient vi working as well. Thx. shao. Judging by the HOWTO there are many woes for input. I got it going with xcin -in1 phonetic.tab for chu yin and roman input crxvt works well with lynx , lynx will need no special configuration; point it straight at your favorite page with big-5 best regards from angus claydon Hello, guys: I would like to know which text editor is compatible with big-5 Chinese text. I have xcin and crxvt installed in my linux box. Because my favorite editor is vi, I tried to open a Chinese document with that in crxvt terminal, but what I found is some thing like \056\378\053. It didn't turn these special characters into Chinese but just print their code. So if somebody can help me out on this, I will really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. Yi-ping Chang -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Newbie problem: can't reach an ftp site
I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP correctly. I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach any ftp site (e.g. ftp.us.debian.org). The error message I receive is 'Unable to locate host'. I know the site exists because I can reach it via ftp from another UNIX machine. Is there some setting I must tweak? Any help greatly appreciated.
Re: Dual Boot Woes
Hamish Moffatt wrote: This isn't the best solution. You should set boot to your linux partition, then set your linux partition active in fdisk. This is much more flexible if you need to reinstall Windows later, because to get LILO back you just change your active partition (even Windows' fdisk will let you do that). I agree in principle, but in this case he has Linux on his second disk (hdb1), and the Win9X MBR doesn't allow active partitions on a slave disk - he would have no way to get to Linux (other than a boot floppy or loadlin). If he wants to use Lilo, it has to be in the MBR to provide access to Linux on the 2nd disk. Tom
Newbie problem - can't reach an ftp site
I recently loaded Linux onto my PC (Pentium II) and configured PPP correctly. I am able to connect to my ISP successfully, but I cannot reach any ftp site (e.g. ftp.us.debian.org). The error message I receive is 'Unable to locate host'. I know the site exists because I can reach it via ftp from another UNIX machine. Is there some setting I must tweak? Any help greatly appreciated.
