Canon LBP 8
Buenas lista: Despues de varios intentos, la susodicha impresora me imprime pero despues de la configuracion automatica del magicfilter cuando quiero imprimir Postscript ya sea a mano con gs o desde alguna aplicacion (StarOffice 4) me sale siempre basura. Alguien sabe como solucionarlo. Gracias
Re: Tamano de las letras de XTerm
Gracias a todos los que me habeis respondido. Un resumen rapido de lo ocurrido: - uso wmaker 0.20 sobre hamm. varios han escrito: * Lo de usar las fuentes de 100dpi (aunque te fijaras que esto significa que todos tus programas en X tendrán las letras más grandes, no sólo las xterm). No noto que cambie nada cuando pongo delante las 75 o las 100. * El menú de XTerm (hay más menús, pulsa los otros botones del ratón) es cómodo. Aparte, puedes cambiar las fuentes del menú, para que muestren otros tamaños (la `unreadable' no merece la pena estar en el menú). No me salen menus haciendo click y ctrl en ningun sitio de xterm, ni en el icono, ni en la mini ventana. Lo unico que consigo de menus de xterm esta en attributes del menu de la ventana de xterm, pero no veo nada de fuentes ahí. * El usar el recurso `font' que es lo mismo que hacer un xterm -font Juraria haber mirado el man xterm, y no recuerdo haber visto esa opción, pero es la única que me funciona. Gracias. -- 04/04 Gandalf visits Bilbo (LOTR) 04/04 Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, 1968 04/04 NATO Established, 1949 04/03 IBM 701 introduced, 1953 04/04 Tandy Corp. acquires Radio Shack, 1963 (9 stores) -- Andres Seco Hernandez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctv.es/USERS/andressh urgente: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clave publica PGP en http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver -- Microsoft Certified Product Specialist MCP ID 445900 Debian GNU Linux 2.0 (hamm) - Linux Registered User no. 113867 -- pgpjCuihr6OJw.pgp Description: PGP signature
smail 3.2
Hola a todos/as: Veamos si llega mi primer correo a la lista con mutt. Bueno lo que quiero comentaros es que smail se empeña en mandar el correo cada 20 minutos, pero lo que yo quiero es que lo encole hasta que hasta que haga runq, para lo cual he cambiado el valor de la variable FLAGS del /etc/init.d/smail, que estaba como -bd -q10m por -bd -q1w, pero no he conseguido nada, sigue haciéndolo cada 20 minutos, lo cual no me cuadraba antes ni ahora tampoco. ¿Cómo puedo solucionar esto? Gracias por todo. Prueba: áéíóú, ñ, àèìòù, Ñ, ç, Ç -- Salut!! # Juanjo Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/8904 [Por favor quita 'NOSPAM' para responder] [Please remove 'NOSPAM'to reply] # Debian GNU Linux 2.0 [2.0.34]Linux Registered User #68887 #
[Fwd: [Fwd: X com Cyrix XpressGraphics]]
Joao Pissarro wrote: Somente uma dica, tente sempre discutir na lista e não privadamente. Esse tipo de coisas contribui pro conhecimento de todos os assinantes. Sim de acordo... eu aqui ha' uns tempos instalei isso sobre a Matrox Millenium, mas agora mesmo que escolha o server VGA16, continuo com omesmo problema Experimente reinstalá-lo, isso deve gerar de novo o vínculo simbólico do X com o servidor X correto. Vou ver se descubro o server adequado... Sempre a primeira coisa a se fazer! Parece que o Xfree 3.3.3 ja' o tem, mas nao vem de base com o debian 2.0... O 2.1 já inclui o 3.3.3, acho... -- Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra Brasil http://www.terravista.pt./Enseada/1989/
Re: Problem: NFSROOT with netboot and 2.2.x
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: whenever i try to boot a 2.2.x kernel with netboot everything goes all-right until it starts to mount nfs. 2.2.1 and 2.2.3 both work OK for me... At this point I get on my client: Looking up port of RPC 13/2 on 192.168.1.1 portmap: server 192.168.1.1 not responding timed out Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server, using default Looking up port of RPC 15/1 on 192.168.1.1 portmap: server 192.168.1.1 not responding timed out Root-NFS: Unable to get mountd port number from server, using default mount: server 192.168.1.1 not responding, timed out ROOT-NFS: Server returned error -5 while mounting x VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS I have never seen any errors prefixed with Root-NFS, so I don't know for certain what the problem is. I presume BOOTP and TFTP were previously used to get this far, meaning it is not a general network failure. I also assume that all IP addresses that the kernel gets and displays are correct and hasn't been currupted. Suggestions: 1. Try mounting the NFS partition on the server (ie localhost). Does that work? 2. Can you manually mount a NFS partition on another computer? 3. Is anything logged at the server? BUT, from time to time it works (maybe once in 10 times) Very strange No problems at all with 2.0.x kernels. Do you mean the client or the server needs 2.0.x in order to run? (I think you mean the client, just checking though). I haven't tried 2.2.5, but I would hope that the problem is elsewhere ;-) I would be interested to know if you have tried 2.2.1 or 2.2.3. On my Debian system I use: Client: - Debian slink with Kernel 2.2.5 - netboot 0.8.1 Server: - Debian slink with Kernel 2.2.5 - nfsd (2.2beta37) or knfsd (1.2) , which makes no difference I sounds like the server is probably OK, in which case, none of this will help. In this case, the best I can suggest is to trace the packets with tcpdump, and see if you notice anything unusual (eg packets only being sent in one direction). In particular check that the client is sending the request to the server, the server is replying back to the client, and everything else looks OK (eg IP address of source and destination).
Re: System time is broken
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: Ever since we went over to summer time here in the UK my system has been broken. It started with the extra hour not being added after the change. I then tried to correct it using the date command, and have then tried the hwclock command (which worked). My problem is that whenever I use standby on my machine the kernel time isn't updated, which it used to (it was a standard hamm setup). I would really appreciate it if someone could help me get out of this mess. Any help much appreciated. Btw, I read the clock mini-HOWTO, but it only works as long as I don't standby the system. Also, I seem to recall there was a thread here about how to set clocks, but I couldn't find anything in the mailing list archives, so any pointers would be useful. This has never failed me when my clock gets messed up (has the added effect of making your clock super accurate). rdate time.nist.gov hwclock --systohc HTH -Dano
Re: [Q] Midnight Commander
AC == Attila Csosz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AC How could I say to the MC to get into that directory where I AC stand, after I leave the MC ? This is a standard Question. See /usr/doc/mc/FAQ.gz It is point 6.1 Ciao, Martin
octave segfaults?
Hi, I'm trying to run octave on my potato machine and it segs faults right away. What am I doing wrong? graziano -- Cu do sceccu ni fa mulu i primu cauci e' u so
Re: shell scripting
Hello al I was wondering if someone can tell me of some website taht talk aboput shell scripting in great detail thanks Yeah, try www.perl.com Oh, I just crack myself up... I learned to do shell scripting using a copy of Unix in a Nutshell, but I think there's a thin O'Reilly book on bash as well. Shell scripting can mean many things, of course, but I assume you mean bourne shell scripting, which the O'Reilly book will most certainly cover.
ip-up scripts [was: Re: /etc/lynx.cfg ...]
Hamish Moffatt dixit: I think you should put alias lynx=lynx -cfg=$HOME/.lynxrc, rather than using ~. That's what I finally did, thanks a lot. Another issue ... I'm trying to add some actions to the ip-up script, ie. just trying to get the queued mail sent and then have the mail in the ISP fetched automatically right after connection. Also, I want the system clock to update from a server and then the CMOS clock to update from the system's. I'm in the belief that /etc/ppp/ip-up line # Main Script starts here run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-up.d # last line means that it will read any script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d ... but I put these two scripts in there (and set permissions to 755): - /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/hora - #!/bin/sh # /etc/init.d/cron stop /usr/sbin/rdate -s slug.ctv.es /sbin/hwclock --systohc # /etc/init.d/cron start - /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/hora - - /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/queue - #!/bin/sh runq -v fetchmail -v -a -u a4608456 - /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/queue - and runq seems to work (though not verbosely), but fetchmail doesn't work at all. I don't really know whether the clock script works, since I recently updated the time from the command line. May be the fact that permissions to /etc/ppp/ are set drwx-- has got to do with it? TIA Horacio -- Claves - GnuPG/PGP - Keys : http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver o/or Envía un mensaje vacío a [EMAIL PROTECTED] con la línea de asunto: Send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject line: Tipo de Clave/Key Type Asunto:/Subject: DSA/ElGamal fetch dsa/elgamal DSS/Diffie-Hellman fetch dh/dss RSA fetch rsa
Re: Creation of Device for CD-ROM
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Russell Rademacher wrote: Hello. Figures... Unfortunably... I do not have those devs on my dev directory. So.. it seems that I need to make those devices. Can you help on that so I can get my CD-ROM working? Either a copy of those files or other methods will help so I can get it moving. Thanks for the clue. On 01-Apr-99 Nathan E Norman wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Russell Rademacher wrote: : Hello guys. [ snip ] : by hdax, hdbx, hdcx and hddx. I have a old model LaserMate CD Drive hooked up : though the antique Packard Bell Sound Galaxy Sound Card which it is detected : and found the CD-ROM. : : But problem is... I do not have the hde set so I need it created and : set so that it can be accessed. What is that command and steps to create a new : device for so that I can mount it and set the symbolic link to cdrom. I thought LaserMate driven CD-ROMS were driven by the sbpcd module, and therefore the devices are /dev/sbpcd0, /dev/sbpcd1, etc. That's how it is here with a Reveal sound card, a LaserMate clone in the controller department. cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV sbpcd Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
halflife
Someone wants to know if it's posible to run Halflife on Linux w/ WINE
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
I have spent about a week trying to figure out why neither my Creative Labs SB16 or AWE64 work under Debian (2.2.4 2.1) I think it has to do with the way my motherboard handles the irq's and pnp etc. Today I finally got it stop telling me there is a conflict on IRQ 5 when in fact, nothing is using IRQ 5. Now all audio such as `saytime` `bplay file.wav` work so do my mixers `aumix` etc. But! When I enter x11amp and open a mp3 file and click play it just pauses there with the play button. I tried using mpg123 in console and it gave me: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? contineusly as it tried to play it. Has anyone had this same problem before? My motherboard uses AMI BIOS and is ATX and I have no clue what the brandname is... it's model is PT-2011 and it's a socket 7 board (I can find out the actualy manufacturer if I looked up the FCC code-- I allready know this)
Re: Enlightenment .15 required debs
Hi Sean M Maguire; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: I am trying to install the enlightenment 0.15 package, obtained from www.debian.org via a link from the Enlightenment download page. The package for Enlightenment requires that I have imlib1 = 1.9.4 installed, but I am unable to find this package anywhere. Unstable only offers 1.9.3-4. I tried to make a package from Enlightenment's rpm at their site using alien, but I got an imlib package, which I am sure would be rejected by dpkg for not being imlib1. I have not tried forcing the install, as that seems potentially problematic. Is there a package for this, or do I need to make one via a more particular method of making my own package? Sean M I have downloaded the E 0.15.4 debs and all required libs (to run under slink and without gnome) from the following address: http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ Note, though, that the maintainers are asking not to report bugs for theses packages using usual bug tracking for debian, so please read the folowing as well: http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/ I'm using it without problems for a couple of weeks, but can't figure out how to use wmmail-like applet under E. HTH damir
Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates
Linus Torvalds is standing at the Pearly Gates as people are coming in. He asks the first person, What's your IQ? 150. I'd like your opinion on some things I've been thinking about in termsof tools to partially automate the process of porting a kernel to a new architecture. The two of them have a wonderful chat for a couple of hours, and then the man goes in. Linus asks the next person, What's your IQ? 110. So, how're the Mets doing? They chat for half an hour before the man goes in. There is nobody for a while, and Linus begins to get bored. Then, finally, another person comes. What's your IQ? 65. Aah, wonderful! Would you mind explaining to me a couple of things about Debian's apt-get hamm to slink upgrade? - I upgraded my laptop from 2.0.34 to 2.1 in order to have better chances with Blackdown's Java 2, and I am far from pleased with the results so far. I have discovered by now at least two major things that were working quite well and are now quite broken: 1: XFree86 was downgraded from 3.3.3 to 3.3.2.1. 3.3.3 supports my video card; 3.3.2.1 does not. This means that my X display is now (mal)functioning at 320x200 -- I can see the lower right quadrant of an xterm. The machine was also set to start xdm on boot; coming in with a rescue floppy was the only way I could figure out to get it to boot and give a text terminal (I did not have the boot scripts start xdm before). 2: /dev/eth0 no longer exists, and I cannot locate anything in the documentation telling how to regenerate that or some equivalent device. MAKEDEV, for instance, did not recognize eth0 as a parameter. Therefore, I have no network functionality, and am forced to do all my transfers by floppy. There are several dozen megabytes of software I want to download (Blackdown JDK and XFree86). This is really frustrating... I can see a plausible reason for the first to have happened (specifically, since I did not install 3.3.3 through dpkg, it thought that the files were its own), but that blindness can and should be avoidable. One mechanism I can think of OTOH would be for the database to keep checksums of the files for earlier versions, so that it can at least ask before clobbering something which does work and replacing it with something which doesn't work. If this behavior isn't changed, there should at least be an emphatically worded warning so that people don't lose their files. Can anybody help me? In particular, can anybody tell me what the major and minor numbers should be for /dev/eth0 (or, if that file has been replaced, what has replaced it)? I'd really like to have ethernet working, so that I can get XFree86 and (God willing) JDK loaded and working, and get back to my programming. -Jonathan
Re: RedHat = MS-Linux
Bruce Sass wrote: [snip] So the scenario is that some proprietary, closed source, program is what you want, and that it has been built with RH in mind. To be forced into dual booting RH to run it would mean that the software relies on a specific kernel version (poorly programmed or incompatibilities between kernel versions, neither of which is related to the commercial-proprietary / free-OSS issue), one that your Debian system isn't running; anything else could be handled by having the correct libraries on the system. The only stumbling block I can see is if RH starts using proprietary libs, and the software you want depends on them. Ok, there would be a delay until the OSS community comes up with replacements. The only reason I can think of that would result in software that we can't get from the OSS community, would be patents associated with libs only distributed with (lets keep picking on) RH. So... First, this isn't meant to be a pick-on-RH rant. RH just happens to be the overwhelmingly dominant distro out there. I don't want to see RH disappear any more than I want to see Debian disappear. I want to see enough cooperation between distros that allows app makers to write software that will work on most distros without major effort on the app maker's part. I'd like to see healthy competition between the distros, but not at the expense of application compatibility. Linux has a relatively small user base. Linux can't expand much beyond the OSS community if the kind of fragmentation that occurred between commercial Unices over the last 1.5 decades or so, is allowed to happen in the Linux market. There are differences between RH and Deb, primarily in the directory tree layout, and especially in places like /etc./ and /var/ (I think). Its not clear to me what the percentage of RH packages that can't be easily converted would be. Anybody with better knowledge like to speak up here? I don't think we need to invent a 'patent' issue to effect that kind of fragmentation. As the 'Heinz ketchup' manifesto talked about, its brand name recognition and user perception that matters in a commercial market. All it takes is a user perception that RH is the only distro that matters, and we'll end up seeing companies releasing software meant for RH, and not bothering to support any distro that isn't RH compatible. Now granted, some software *can* be gotten to by Debian users with alien, but not everything. Also, if RH tries using proprietary libs on their system, its entirely possible for a group of Debian hackers to bang heads and come up with GPL clone of those libs, but this, to me, would be a bad signal anyway, as it would in essence suggest that Debian is becoming a clone of RH out of necessity. Its the *perception* of Linux by folks *outside* the OSS community that matters, for my concerns. I'm not saying that Debian would die because of this, because it won't. Nor will Debian suffer from a RH monopoly on the commercial side of the Linux market, it will simply be made *irrevelent* *outside* the OSS village. The OSS community will continue on, with its members avoiding the use of non-opensource software, regardless of what happens on the commercial side of the Linux market. Unfortunately, I do care about the commercial side too. OSS can work, I see that in things like the kernel, GIMP, and even Debian itself. OSS doesn't work everywhere though, because the successful examples of opensource have to appeal to significant number of developers for the critical threshold of user/developer support to be reached. What would the kernel look like today if Linus was still working on it alone? For me, I want access to the commercial side, even if I end up using an OSS equivalent (like AbiWord over Wordperfect). The single most obvious shortcoming of OSS is the absence of sophisticated gaming software, something that OSS may never be able to overcome due to an overall lack of developer interest. [snip] ...you don't trust RH and assume that what you want would be patented. I don't trust anyone with unchecked power, and as far as the commercial side of the Linux market is concerned, RH already has it. [snip] Some folks have chosen to use the commercial OSS sound drivers instead of the ones that come with the kernel source, although in general I'll agree with you that a majority of Linux users have a strong preference for opensource stuff. But, what do we do for software that has no opensource equivalent (yet)? wait awhile Ok, :-) how long should I wait for a good equivalent of Wordperfect 8? How about a Railroad Tycoon II clone? How many questions do you remember from debian-user and elsewhere that want to know if there is an opensource word processor that can read and write MS Word files? There are several commercial versions. The questions indicate that there is
Re: ip-up scripts [was: Re: /etc/lynx.cfg ...]
*- On 2 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about ip-up scripts [was: Re: /etc/lynx.cfg ...] Another issue ... I'm trying to add some actions to the ip-up script, ie. just trying to get the queued mail sent and then have the mail in the ISP fetched automatically right after connection. Also, I want the system clock to update from a server and then the CMOS clock to update from the system's. I'm in the belief that /etc/ppp/ip-up line # Main Script starts here run-parts /etc/ppp/ip-up.d # last line means that it will read any script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d ... but I put these two scripts in there (and set permissions to 755): - /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/hora - #!/bin/sh # /etc/init.d/cron stop /usr/sbin/rdate -s slug.ctv.es /sbin/hwclock --systohc # /etc/init.d/cron start - /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/hora - - /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/queue - #!/bin/sh runq -v fetchmail -v -a -u a4608456 - /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/queue - and runq seems to work (though not verbosely), but fetchmail doesn't work at all. I don't really know whether the clock script works, since I recently updated the time from the command line. May be the fact that permissions to /etc/ppp/ are set drwx-- has got to do with it? From the pppd man page under the SCRIPTS section, The scripts are executed as root (with the real and effective user-id set to 0), so that they can do things such as update routing tables or run privileged daemons. Be careful that the contents of these scripts do not compromise your system's security. Pppd runs the scripts with standard input, output and error redirected to /dev/null, -- Brian - Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes. - unknown Mechanical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
kernel compile
I am having a problem compiling the kernel I can make dep make clean but when I try to make the bzImage I get the following errors. Now I have tried reinstalling all the devel stuff with no change gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 make[2]: *** [buffer.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2 cpp: output pipe has been closed Thanks in advance Rick
Re: RedHat = MS-Linux
After writing the previous post I found this: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,1014092,00.html Notice the reservations from Red Hat. -- Ed C.
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish Wrong solution. Users should not have to adapt to technology Hamish (within reason); the technology should allow users to send Hamish huge email attachments if they need to. Otherwise it should be Hamish fixed. One last point: If i drive a car, i have to stop at a red traffic light. Is a car bad technology? No piece of technology is able to get you rid of thinking. And your personal freedom ends exactly at the point where the freedom of others is cut down. The problem of (huge) attachments or huge mails in general is, that the recipient often never asked to get it, but the sender sended it without being asked to do. If i ask you to send me some big file than there is no technical problem to do so. But if you find a great picture, about 2MB and you think everyone has to see it and so you send it to one mailinglist or another, than there are no technical problems -- than your are the problem. -- Until the next mail..., Stefan.
big problem at login
I reinstalled the Debian packages and then recompiled my kernel, but I have a problem. When I start the machine, I don't get the usual command line and instead the machine goes right into X (I believe this is called xdm) My .xinitrc is unchanged, so I don't know why this is happening. How can I fix it so that startx gets me into KDE and not this thing? thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: big problem at login
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- uOn Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Pollywog wrote: I reinstalled the Debian packages and then recompiled my kernel, but I have a problem. When I start the machine, I don't get the usual command line and instead the machine goes right into X (I believe this is called xdm) My .xinitrc is unchanged, so I don't know why this is happening. How can I fix it so that startx gets me into KDE and not this thing? You're running slink, right? Uninstall the xdm package. noah PGP public key available at http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/home/httpd/n/nmeyerha/mail.html or by 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' This message was composed in a 100% Microsoft free environment. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNwQv84dCcpBjGWoFAQHyswQAp/du0ISS3+wGzdkGnJWHu/AlrqL3uzS+ gTrpWLhUOOm7ZILCaD+FNch8fvo06mfsUg7bsVC8QpK3oekUUmdSH+ivCOjv3oMY NgfWqJdE9HwJtzO/bcV07luEMxm/XuwKAZz+2MbLt5KqeDzfST6be0SvM4qchy2t 40sGL+HdGDc= =8nIh -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates
Jonathan Hayward writes: The machine was also set to start xdm on boot; coming in with a rescue floppy was the only way I could figure out to get it to boot and give a text terminal (I did not have the boot scripts start xdm before). I agree that this a serious bug. The authorities don't agree, however. One mechanism I can think of OTOH would be for the database to keep checksums of the files for earlier versions, so that it can at least ask before clobbering something which does work and replacing it with something which doesn't work. Another is to do what everyone else does and install stuff that is outside the packaging system under /usr/local. /dev/eth0 no longer exists, and I cannot locate anything in the documentation telling how to regenerate that or some equivalent device. If you had a /dev/eth0, I don't know where you got it. Linux (and Unix in general) has no such thing. MAKEDEV, for instance, did not recognize eth0 as a parameter. Not surprising. Therefore, I have no network functionality, and am forced to do all my transfers by floppy. Did you select the appropriate driver when you compiled your kernel? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Dselect (apt-get update) segfaults...
I've been trying to install Sparc Debian on an IPC, and it is driving me nuts. dselect (specifically, the apt-get update part) segfaults at the point it says Checking system integrity...ok. Any help would be appreciated. -Chris
RE: Communicator-4.51 weirdness
On 02-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote: Just loaded the 4.51 stuff and I noticed that I can not cut/paste from a web page anymore! I am running Communicator on a headless Linux server with the display exported to a Solaris box running CDE. If I try to left-click and highlight text, nothing happens! I am glad I did not find a glibc version, in that case. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 KeyID 0x5EE61C37] [ICQ#175285]
Re: big problem at login
On 02-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote: uninstall the xdm package. I uninstalled twm and then xdm and was locked out, but when I rebooted, I was able to get into KDE. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 KeyID 0x5EE61C37] [ICQ#175285]
Re: 386/4MB RAM?
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 10:13:41AM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: i want to install linux (debian if possible) on a 386SX with 4MB RAM and a 51MB HD. it will have an ISDN terminal adapter and a 3c509 network transciever. can i use debian? if i can't, how do i go about it? i'm open to suggestions about other (*BSD?) kernels. What are you going to use this for? From the hardware that you listed above, it seems like it will just be a router for your home network. If that is the case, I would recommend not using any distro. Instead read the Boot Disk HOW TO and rolling your own. Just do like the how-to says, but don't load the file systems into ram, put them on your 51 Meg HD. You will save yourself a lot of head-aches this way, cause you will have a very functional system using only about 4Meg of space. HTH, Bill
dselect error: unmet dependencies: perl needs perl-base
Trying to add perl, dselect reports: Sorry, but the following packages are broken -- this means they have unmet dependencies: perl: Depends: perl-base press enter to continue Problem is, perl-base is installed (and deselect shows it installed). Thought I'd try uninstalling, then re-installing, but dselect will have none of it: says perl-base is a required package and aborts. I assume some of my install problems resulted because, after doing the initial slink, I rebooted to Windoze rather than download the entire install immediately. When I went back, I had to add groups of packages based on dependencies. However, all of the others installed okay. Any suggestions? Jeff Hill -- * HR On-Line: The Network for Workplace Issues ** Ph:416-604-7251 -- Fax:416-604-4708 ** http://www.hronline.com **
kget won't work after reinstall of KDE
I get this error when I try to start kget. I reinstalled KDE from debs and this is a new problem. How can I fix it? KCharset: Wrong charset! kget: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: getAutoResume__15ProtocolManager thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
weird logs
I really made some problems for myself when I reinstalled KDE. Now I am unknown and have no idea why. -- Andrew Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Apr 2 03:27:20 lilypad tcplogd: tproxy connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1] Apr 2 03:27:26 lilypad tcplogd: pop-3 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1] Apr 2 03:28:15 lilypad tcplogd: tproxy connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [127.0.0.1] [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
ctrl-H - backspace FAQ
Greets, So this has to be a FAQ., and I know I've solved this before, but can't remember how. My new laptop, a Solo 2500, under X (using the neomagic server) has the backspace and del keys doing odd things (forward deletion or ~'s depending on the program) and ctrl-H doing the proper backspace thing. How does one fix that? -Seth -- It is by will alone I set my mind in motion
Re: April Fools?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it just me, the current date, or am I seeing a bunch of messages come throught that I could have sworn I'd seen previously? Gee I was just about to ask the same thing... -- Bud Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html
Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Jonathan Hayward wrote: 1: XFree86 was downgraded from 3.3.3 to 3.3.2.1. 3.3.3 supports my video Apt will not downgrade any package, I don't believe. You mean that the X package overwrote your manually installed copy. (Not to nitpick, just trying to clarify so we are all on the same page.) 2: /dev/eth0 no longer exists, and I cannot locate anything in the documentation telling how to regenerate that or some equivalent device. MAKEDEV, for instance, did not recognize eth0 as a parameter. eth0 is not a /dev/ file, it's a network interface. It is brought up by scripts in /etc/init.d, specifically /etc/init.d/network. However, you must have support for your ethernet card in the kernel... Have a look at the ethernet HOWTO. This is really frustrating... I can see a plausible reason for the first to have happened (specifically, since I did not install 3.3.3 through dpkg, it thought that the files were its own), but that blindness can and should be avoidable. This is considered user error. If you want to install unpackaged software, you have to use /opt or /usr/local or the like. There is no way for Apt or dpkg to handle any random thing you install, so they don't try. Instead you are guaranteed that Debian packages will not alter /opt or /usr/local. Apt's internals require strict control over all dependencies; that's why it refuses to run if you have broken dependencies. One mechanism I can think of OTOH would be for the database to keep checksums of the files for earlier versions, so that it can at least ask before clobbering something which does work and replacing it with something which doesn't work. 90% of the time this would just be annoying (not to mention it would slow things down and fill disk space), and Debian has other means of handling it, see below... If this behavior isn't changed, there should at least be an emphatically worded warning so that people don't lose their files. Can't argue with that, documentation could be enhanced. However, you can get what you want without losing the power of Apt and dpkg. Checksums are kept for config files, which roughly means files you are allowed to change. So you can always change these safely. If you want to change any other file, you have to run dpkg-divert to redirect the packaged copy. You can find documentation on config files in the developer's corner on the web site, and dpkg-divert --help is helpful. In this particular case: you can get the latest video card support by simply replacing XF86_SVGA (or your server) with a newer binary available from www.xfree86.org. You can then dpkg-divert the package's version of the server binary, or simply remember not to upgrade X. I think the dpkg-divert command would be: dpkg-divert --add /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA Later, when you upgrade your X package to one that supports your card, you will want to dpkg-divert --remove the same file. There are also newer unofficial X packages floating around somewhere, but I don't remember the URL. HTH, Havoc
ldconfig errors
When I do 'ldconfig' I get these errors. The files named are files and not links. Should I remove them? lilypad:/home/pollywog# ldconfig ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomnithread.so.2 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomniORB2.so.6 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomniLC.so.2 is not a symlink thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
graphic df type of util for Linux?
Until I can afford a new hard drive, I find myself typing df often to see how much free space I have on each partition. I think it would be nice to have a little utility that displays graphs of free space per partition, and updates regularly (a graphic output of df, if you will). I'm visualizing bar graphs, here, but I suppose any type of graph would work. Something that could be swallowed in some sort of desktop module would be especially nice (FvwmButtons, Wharf, ...). So maybe I could have three little bar graphs showing the free space for three partitions I specify. Does anyone know if anything of this sort exists? Thanks, MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They're always havin' a good time down on the bayou, Lord, them delta women think the world of me. -- Dickey Betts, Ramblin' Man
Re: Help with printers
I couldn't initially share my printer when I upgraded from hamm to slink; in fact, I couldn't even print from my local printer. To solve my problem, I decided it was a good time to switch from the lpr package to the more complex/complete/modern lprng package. I could then print from my local computer, but not from remote computers. So I commented the following two lines in /etc/lpd.perms ##REJECT SERVICE=XRPQ NOT SERVER ##REJECT SERVICE=CSU though I probably needed only comment the first one. Then my remote computers could print through my local computer. Perhaps naively, I see little security problem with printing. At worst, I would run out of paper. With printing security problems, I shouldn't get a new sneeky root user and corrupted files. When giving printer access to other computers, I usually simultaneously want to give user access. So, I leave /etc/hosts.lpd with no entries, then make my entries in /etc/hosts.equiv. For example, here are some of my entries, cramer #a computer at work better specified in /etc/hosts tomato #an NT computer at home from which I print through my Linux computer I can't help you with magicfilter, though you could recreate /etc/printcap magicfilterconfig --force Magicfilter worked well on an HP III for me. I currently use magicfilter with a postscript printer, so I can't help much. But I suspect magicfilter would just replace ps600-filter with ljet4l-filter (magicfilter includes this file) in my /etc/printcap code, lp|lex|Lexmark Optra Rt+:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lex:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ps600-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: While you should probably approach this problem through magicfilter, I remember seeing Sun code to accomodate the form feed. There was a file that looked something like cat #this kept the input file going through the pipe. echo -e '\f' I have 2 problems here. 1.On my network I cannot get Debian to share the printer. I have set up a hosts.lpd file and made sure there is no deny in the hosts.deny file. What else do I need to do? I had that working in RedHat. 2.I have a second machine that has a HP4L hooked directly to it. I am using Magicfilter. For some reason it prints to about the last 1 of text and then stops. It also does not send a form feed to eject the page. How can I fix this? Please reply to my address below since I do not allways get the full debian digest list. -- Jim Burt, NJ9L, Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mnsinc.com/jameson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (703) 235-5213 ext. 132 (work) A poor man associating with a rich man will soon be too poor to buy even a pair of breeches. --Chinese Proverb
Re: graphic df type of util for Linux?
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Until I can afford a new hard drive, I find myself typing df often to see how much free space I have on each partition. I think it would be nice to have a little utility that displays graphs of free space per partition, and updates regularly (a graphic output of df, if you will). I'm visualizing bar graphs, here, but I suppose any type of graph would work. Something that could be swallowed in some sort of desktop module would be especially nice (FvwmButtons, Wharf, ...). So maybe I could have three little bar graphs showing the free space for three partitions I specify. Does anyone know if anything of this sort exists? I don't think it is packaged for Debian yet, but you can use http://nui.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at/gfdisk/
Re: Communicator-4.51 weirdness
George Bonser wrote: I take it all back ... for some reason it all works now :-/ I've noticed this type of thing from time to time with netscape. Sometimes it will refuse to let me paste from it into one xterm, and will paste fine into another. It's quite goofed up somehow.. Nothing specific to the new version, I think. -- see shy jo
Re: graphic df type of util for Linux?
Paul Lowe wrote: I don't think it is packaged for Debian yet, but you can use http://nui.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at/gfdisk/ GNOME has a little applet for the panel that does EXACTLY what you want. But...you'll have to install gnome Yes, ignore the crap I said... I meant gdiskfree, located in the gnome-utils package, which can be found the gnome staging area. But you must... (dramatic pause) install gnome. -Mitch
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
See bug #274960375892 filed against 'car'. Stefan Nobis wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish Wrong solution. Users should not have to adapt to technology Hamish (within reason); the technology should allow users to send Hamish huge email attachments if they need to. Otherwise it should be Hamish fixed. One last point: If i drive a car, i have to stop at a red traffic light. Is a car bad technology? No piece of technology is able to get you rid of thinking. And your personal freedom ends exactly at the point where the freedom of others is cut down. The problem of (huge) attachments or huge mails in general is, that the recipient often never asked to get it, but the sender sended it without being asked to do. If i ask you to send me some big file than there is no technical problem to do so. But if you find a great picture, about 2MB and you think everyone has to see it and so you send it to one mailinglist or another, than there are no technical problems -- than your are the problem. -- Until the next mail..., Stefan. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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Epson Stylus Color 640/slink+potato
I'm using the following: lprng 3.5.3-0.1 magicfilter 1.2-28 cdlabelgen 1.1.3-1 gv 3.5.8-11 Running cdlabelgen with the proper arguments gets me a PS file which shows up quite nicely in gv. No problem there. The problem appears when I print the label out -- the very last couple of lines of the printout aren't there. Not continued on another sheet, just... not there. Similar problems occurred while printing in XV, but with different files. Anyone have any ideas at all what I could do to fix the problem? Thanks, Jim
Re: where is ldd ?
:- Bob == Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the same version of ldso on a slink machine and it IS there. I don't think there is any reason to file a bug report. I don't know what happened on your system, but you might try reinstalling from the cd. You could try unpacking the package with ar and look to see what it contains. Ok, I tried opening the .deb file in emacs and it reports the archive as corrupt, so that's the problem. The strange thing is that I seem to have a corrupt file on the mirror too (no the cd was not created on my mirror). Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.5 #1 Tue Mar 30 09:02:24 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV graphic card + ATI-TV tuner card setup
Hullo there! I have an ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV with 8 Mb RAM and an ATI-TV tuner card. I just installed slink and X with the ATI Mach64 server for the 3rd time (don't ask why 3 times). Second time around, X came up with a virtual desktop of 1600 x 1200 and a screen resolution of 800 by 600. Perfect! However, this time around it will only come up with an 800 by 600 desktop... no more virtual desktop. On exiting X I see the server started up with Mode 800 by 600 and Virtual Resolution 800 by 600. 1) Could somebody please advise me how to get the virtual desktop back? 2) Does anybody know if I can use my ATI-TV tuner card under X (ATI itself does not directly support Linux)? With hopeful thanks in advance, David Nelson
Newbie setting up StarOffice...
Hi there! I just installed slink and installed StarOffice (i.e. installed the installer, fetched the necessary files from the StarOffice ftp site, installed them with the installer). On attempting to run swriter, I get the message Could not open XPrinter Please make sure your XPPATH is set correctly I had a look in dselect and made sure a package called prt (described as an X printer server, if I remember right) was installed. In dselect, its an optional package. I marked it for installation, but it doesn't actually want to install. After selecting it, I went on to install it, but looking back in the selection list again, its status hadn't changed. Would anybody happen to have any helpful advice? Thanks, and all the best, David
Help with Netscape
Hi, I am having some strange problems with Netscape. In altavista or yahoo, if I search using 2 words, and click submit, the fist page retrieves ok, and when I click for next 20 entries, it truncates the second word and returns no matches found. This happens with or without I enable the java script support in 4.5 I also get some java errors(Location Details not found). An example is www.cia.com.au. Since my linux partition is nearly full, I installed netscape on /usr/local which is mounted on a different harddrive. I use the standard tar.gz netscape installation from the home site. I have several other systems running hamm without of this problem?? Could someone please give me some hints? Thx Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
RE: ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV graphic card + ATI-TV tuner card setup
Hi Dave, So far, it seems to come up with the right server each time... As a matter of interest, exactly what did you tweak in Xservers? David -Message d'origine- De: Dave Blears [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: vendredi 2 avril 1999 11:26 À: David Nelson Objet: Re: ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV graphic card + ATI-TV tuner card setup Hi I have an ATI proturbo and tv card myself. The only problem i had with the x install was i couldnt get the mach64 server to stick as the default server. i manually edited the xserver file and then reran XF86Setup and all was well. i havent tried the tvcard support tho and would be very interested in getting it going. There are two versions i believe, using different chipsets. best of luck with it! -- Best Regards Dave =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Dave Blears Computing... Suite 1, Upper Level, 44 King St Caboolture, Qld, Australia, 4510 PH 07 5499 3000 Fax 07 5499 1822 Mob 0416 173 522 [EMAIL PROTECTED] =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
Re: Help with Netscape
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 07:38:03PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: In altavista or yahoo, if I search using 2 words, and click submit, the fist page retrieves ok, and when I click for next 20 entries, it truncates the second word and returns no matches found. This happens with or without I enable the java script support in 4.5 Do you have the motifnls package installed? If not, you probably want it (even if you don't use a non-ascii charset, oddly enough). Netscape, BTW, has such problems fairly widely. -=- James Mastros
RE: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian
Do you reckon it would work with my ATI-TV card? And will xawtv support PAL/SECAM, etc? All the best, David Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: I've got a Hauppauge WinTV card now working under Debian with kernel 2.2.1. I can't give details now because I'm at work (different machine). The trick was to get the correct hardware addressing so both sound and video would work. I got the correct settings from an old archived email on this list. I compiled the kernel with the appropriate video4linux support for my card, and then I custom compiled a recent version of xawtv. The Debian package appears to be broken. Anyway, using xawtv, I can watch TV in a window. It works. It's cool. No more need to reboot to Windows since I've decided to stop using Quicken. Thanks. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Lib/prog problem?
On a whim I decided to upgrade everything on my system to what was in the unstable directories of dselect instead of the stable ones. Unfortunately this lead to a few problems with my programs, as several significant libraries changed. Qps is really the only thing that concerns me; every time I open it I get the message segmentation fault and nothing more. I've tried getting the new libraries and the most recent version of qps and it doesnt seem to work. Any suggestions?
RedHat - Debian
Hi, Has anybody successful experience in moving from RedHat dist. (with only base packages installed) to debian without full reinstalling ? May be you can give just some basic tips (steps) to perfome this. Thaks in advance, alex ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
Re: RedHat - Debian
Check out the instructions found here: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/3328/rh5todeb-howto.txt I don't know how well it would work, but it seems to be pretty straight forward. I just wonder if it wouldn't be easier in may respects to simply do a complete install of Debian after backing up things like user profiles, etc. Sean Alex toropov wrote: Hi, Has anybody successful experience in moving from RedHat dist. (with only base packages installed) to debian without full reinstalling ? May be you can give just some basic tips (steps) to perfome this. Thaks in advance, alex ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Your own mileage may vary.
Re: Anyone help set up Iomega ZIP drive please?
Anthony Campbell wrote: I've compiled in SCSI support, SCSI Disk support, and IOMEGA parallel support (which I think is unnecessary). None of these are modules and I don't want to use modules if I can avoid it. I compiled for 2.2.1 with these options concerning modules, ZIP, printer, and paralel port: CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m CONFIG_PNP=y CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m CONFIG_SCSI=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_EPP16=y CONFIG_PRINTER=m CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y If you can do it without modules go on, but I suggest to use modules. It works for me. Also, in /etc/fstab I added this entry: $ grep zip /etc/fstab /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip msdos rw,user,noauto,umask=007,gid=25 0 2 created a directory in /mnt: $ ls -l /mnt drwxrwx--- 16 root disk16384 Jan 1 1970 c drwxrwx--- 9 root disk16384 Jan 1 1970 d drwxrwsr-x 2 root floppy 1024 Mar 9 19:16 zip included myself in group floppy: $ grep floppy /etc/group floppy:x:25:conrado After rebooting with the new kernel and configured files, everything went fine when I $ mount /mnt/zip Now it doesn't work because the ZIP drive isn't here, but it worked. Although the ZIP drive isn't here, kernel loads modules that drive needs: $ grep sd_mod /proc/modules sd_mod 15508 0 (autoclean) (unused) scsi_mod 35832 1 (autoclean) [sd_mod] If you don't like modules because now kmod doesn't deinstall unused modules, you can do it with the next line in /etc/crontab: $ grep rmmod /etc/crontab 0-59 ** * * root/sbin/rmmod -as -- 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
modem setserial (auto dialup out there?)
First: I could swear there was a script floating around to have your machine dial up your ISP email the IP address to you. I thought it was in an early issue of Linux Gazette. Does anyone know if where I might find such a creature? I'd write it myself, except I'm frustrated with my ppp dial up script as it is. It worked fine under some old slackware distribution, but when I upgraded completely to Debian hamm (I now run slink) I began having one minor problem: after dialing up turning off the connection the modem would be 'hung' and I have to run the hylafax probemodem script. Last night I read some man pages (very large thankyou to those involved with setting up the HTML documentation structure) and thought I discovered the problem in the closing_waits of setserial. closing_wait2seems 'stuck' at infinte. Anyhow, I'm attaching the setserial output and my ppp scripts. TIA!!! Cheers, judith Immediately after turning on my machine: 103 5:50am grey-cat:~ setserial /dev/ttyS2 -a /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte Flags: spd_normal skip_test grey-cat:~# setserial /dev/ttyS2 closing_wait none closing_wait2 3000 grey-cat:~# setserial -a /dev/ttyS2 /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 closing_wait: none, closing_wait2: infinte Flags: spd_normal skip_test # #! /bin/tcsh # set PPPDIR=/etc/ppp # # Customizing Section # set ID = MN1 set IDst = MN1 set PHONE=12159651902 set [EMAIL PROTECTED] set DEBUG=15 # set name = ppp-on-$ID set EXEC=/usr/sbin set DEVICE=ttyS2 set IRQ=5 set CONNECT=1 set chat=-did not execute-. set flag = set pppdflag = if ($DEBUG == 5) set flag = -V if ($DEBUG == 15) set pppdflag = debug if ($DEBUG == 15) set flag = -V # if ($1 == -h) then echo $IRQ closing_wait none closing_wait2 3000 chown root /dev/$DEVICE chmod 666 /dev/$DEVICE stty -F /dev/$DEVICE sane stty -F /dev/$DEVICE 38400 -tostop crtscts -ixon echo $name: PPP call, connecting to $IDst ($EXEC/chat $flag SAY CHATTING\n \ REPORT CONNECT\ ABORTNO CARRIER \ ABORTBUSY \ AT\F\C1\D2 \ OK ATDT$PHONE \ CONNECT ) /dev/$DEVICE /dev/$DEVICE set chat = $status if ($DEBUG = 5) echo \n if ($DEBUG = 2) echo $name: chat returns $chat if ( $chat == 0 ) then if ( $DEBUG = 2 ) echo $name: Chat successful $EXEC/pppd /dev/$DEVICE 115200 $pppdflag modem crtscts noipdefault user $USER /dev/$DEVICE /dev/$DEVICE elseif ( $chat == 4 ) then echo $name: Chat failed because there was no dial tone. echo \t\t(Check for messages) elseif ( $chat == 5 ) then echo $name: Chat failed on because the line was busy. else echo $name: Chat failed on with value $chat. endif echo $name: End of $name script. # # #! /bin/tcsh # set name = ppp-off set vs = vs1.1 linux set date = 970601 JEB set PPPDIR=/etc/ppp set debug = 0 # # Customizing Section # # set P_LOCKDIR=/var/run set P_DEVICE=ppp # If the ppp0 pid file is present then the program is running. Stop it. if ( -r $P_LOCKDIR/${P_DEVICE}*.pid ) then if ($debug = 10) then cat $P_LOCKDIR/${P_DEVICE}*.pid ls -l $P_LOCKDIR/ endif kill -INT `cat $P_LOCKDIR/${P_DEVICE}*.pid` set dead = $status # If unsuccessful, ensure that the pid file is removed. if ($dead != 0) then echo $name: removing stale ${P_DEVICE} pid file. rm -f $P_LOCKDIR/${P_DEVICE}*.pid exit 1 endif # Success. Terminate with proper status. echo $name: $P_DEVICE link terminated exit 0 endif # The link is not active echo $name: $P_DEVICE link is not active exit 1 -- Judith E. Bush[EMAIL PROTECTED] P O Box 7559 AOL IM judielaine Philadelphia PA 19101
Re: modem setserial (auto dialup out there?)
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 06:05:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First: I could swear there was a script floating around to have your machine dial up your ISP email the IP address to you. I thought it was in an early issue of Linux Gazette. Does anyone know if where I might find such a creature? Nope. However, there is a very nice package called dhis that will automaticly give you a domainname under dhis.org (like mine G). If you wish to use it, add the line deb http://pages.infinit.net/linux debian/ to /etc/apt/sources.list, and do an apt-get install dhis. (You could do it manually, but I don't feel like checking how.) Last night I read some man pages (very large thankyou to those involved with setting up the HTML documentation structure) and thought I discovered the problem in the closing_waits of setserial. closing_wait2seems 'stuck' at infinte. Interesting, as I seem to have a similar problem somtimes (but rarely). The next time it happens, I'll try to remember to do some debuging. -=- James Mastros
Distribution
Dear Gentlemen! I heard about your quite amazing OS and had the following questions about it: -I'd like to get it; can I get it from you? -What are the conditions if I buy it? -May you send me some information to my e-mail address at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Distribution
khaled samy wrote: Dear Gentlemen! I heard about your quite amazing OS and had the following questions about it: -I'd like to get it; can I get it from you? -What are the conditions if I buy it? -May you send me some information to my e-mail address at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I think the best place for you to start is here: http://www.debian.org -- dyer
RE: Distribution
Try http://www.debian.org. It's there for downloading if you want (50 to 250 Meg, depending on what you want... or more!) or there are links to where you can order it. Price: a few dollars to receive it on CD, but the OS is free. HTH, David -Message d'origine- De: khaled samy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: vendredi 2 avril 1999 13:58 À: debian-user@lists.debian.org Objet: Distribution Dear Gentlemen! I heard about your quite amazing OS and had the following questions about it: -I'd like to get it; can I get it from you? -What are the conditions if I buy it? -May you send me some information to my e-mail address at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
So Hewson makes some good points. Linus still isn't ready for the desktop, at least for the masses. But it will be Tomorrow. So stay tuned I agree -- a lot of his points, particularly about the lack of mainstream apps, are valid. I'd also like to see more hardware support for odd-ball and brand-new devices, and I'd certainly like to see a wider variety of apps. This can be solved. Even though we're flooded with generally positive, mainstream press coverage, the tactics that got us here still work. Nag hardware and software manufacturers for drivers and support from their products and politely remind them of their lost sales if they decline their support. That has worked and it'll still work. But I think the situation is changing, especially when it comes to software. The fact that Civilization III will be released for Windows and Linux at the same time is a milestone. The Civ series is hugely popular and states in a definite way that we're not on the back burner any more. Again, I agree -- tomorrow is going to be a really neat time; let's work to see that it gets here soon... :-) -- . | Celebrate the Linux WE'RE NEVER GOING OUT Randy | OF BUSINESS SALE by downloading an entire ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | operating system, apps, games, utilities, http://www.golgotha.net | and source code at http://www.debian.org
Re: modem setserial (auto dialup out there?)
I have written script like that, and it's on my homepage (URL below). Basicly keeps pppd alive and emails you IPs. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 10:47:30PM +0200, Stefan Nobis wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish Wrong solution. Users should not have to adapt to technology Hamish (within reason); the technology should allow users to send Hamish huge email attachments if they need to. Otherwise it should be Hamish fixed. One last point: If i drive a car, i have to stop at a red traffic light. Is a car bad technology? No piece of technology is able to get you rid of thinking. And your personal freedom ends exactly at the point where the freedom of others is cut down. Sure, but I have absolutely no idea what this has to do with large emails. I thought the original comment was that in general people should not send large emails, but rather send URLs. This is in person to person email, not mailing lists. The problem of (huge) attachments or huge mails in general is, that the recipient often never asked to get it, but the sender sended it without being asked to do. In the case of mailing lists, I agree. In the case of other mail, this is not my experience at all. think everyone has to see it and so you send it to one mailinglist or another, than there are no technical problems -- than your are the problem. Who said anything about mailing lists? I didn't. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD. CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
Help on dselect
Good day sir I have a problem, I installed Linux on my personal computer but, when I load dselect to install the software I got with the Linux cd's I don't have the option multi_cd in Access to load this software. When I use the cd-rom choise it ask me for the device block name that I don't know. Sir can you give me any advice how to load my software or at least how to get the multi_cd choice in dselect. Thank you. Hannes Nortjé _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: Epson Stylus Color 640/slink+potato
On 02-Apr-99 Jim Gould wrote: I'm using the following: lprng 3.5.3-0.1 magicfilter 1.2-28 cdlabelgen 1.1.3-1 gv 3.5.8-11 Running cdlabelgen with the proper arguments gets me a PS file which shows up quite nicely in gv. No problem there. The problem appears when I print the label out -- the very last couple of lines of the printout aren't there. Not continued on another sheet, just... not there. Similar problems occurred while printing in XV, but with different files. Anyone have any ideas at all what I could do to fix the problem? This could be a paper-size problem: If the software thinks it's formatting for A4 size but you're printing to US Letter size paper, than exactly that will happen. Check the settings! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-Apr-99 Time: 13:42:44 -- XFMail --
Re: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 05:17:04PM -0800, Ramiel Givergis wrote: I have spent about a week trying to figure out why neither my Creative Labs SB16 or AWE64 work under Debian (2.2.4 2.1) I think it has to do with the way my motherboard handles the irq's and pnp etc. i have EXACTLY the same problem. Today I finally got it stop telling me there is a conflict on IRQ 5 when in fact, nothing is using IRQ 5. how did you do that? do tell. anybody who replies cc me as well. -vinny -- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405 With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. --P J Schoenster
netscape library problem (! libc5)
i'm running slink with 2.2.5, and using enlightenment 0.15.4 as a window manager. last night i did apt-get install navigator-smotif-407 and it went without a hitch. but when i try to run netscape i get this: $ netscape /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 64: 684 Illegal Instruction LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libBrokenLocale.so.1 $netscape $@ then i tried to install libc5 in case navigator-smotif-407 uses netscape's libc5 tarball.. consigliori:/lib# apt-get install libc5 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, libc5 is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. anybody else have this problem? i'd appreciate any help you can offer. if you want further diagnostic information just say so. TIA.. vinny -- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405 With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. --P J Schoenster
Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???
-Original Message- From: Robert V. MacQuarrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User-Mailing-List debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: BENJAMIN FARRELL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 31 March 1999 08:00 Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ??? Heres a good point about linux, anyone found a good irc client for x (other than Bitchx in a E-Term :) that doesn't crash everytime you click (yagirc anyone). I still find for everyday use Win95/NT is better (quaking, ircing, browsing, ftping). OK well folks dont shoot me and no i dont use it often but.. mIRC runs just great from linux using the standard wine config. Yes this is the windowsXX irc client.. I simply type 'wine /dos/mirc/mirc32.exe' and it starts up. I run #Hottub on UnderNet and from time to time i help the other ops with their mIRC scripts. Wine also installed mirc for me on a very small windows/dos partition. This I found was great as I havent booted that windows partition in well over a year now :-) Heh, haven't tried mirc (don't really like) but almost managed to get xircon working using wine. I used tkirc alot last year and found it quite stable. I've been irc'ing since 91 or 92 and it's always been from the console or an xterm and it's how i continue to now :-) It's hard to get away from it after so long. Don't like havin' lots of windows all other the place (I like 1 window per channel), fiind bitchx very nice to use. As for browsing, downloading, uploading... I have always found that linux gave me a much better (more stable/reliable) connection via dialups. I've always noticed a difference in higher speeds and performance in linux. Don't know I got a cheapo modem, which has turned out to be a winmodem (YUCK), should be gettiing a decent modem soon thu. Quake.. Well it just rocks from linux. I've played from windows a few times and find it ran faster in linux. This is believe has to do with windows eating so much memory and not swapping as well as under linux. Software QuakeWorld does yes, glquakeworld nope, runs quite a bit slower (thats with the glibc version of everything). So I still use NT for quakin'(doesn't swap to much in NT if u kill of some services from control panel:). -Rob aka [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Ben Farrell
Re: alsa
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Craig Hancock wrote: Hello everyone I just recently downloaded alsa and I used the alsaconf program and it works beautifully now I am stuck I am not sure what to do next or what command I need to run if some can assit I would greatly appricate it Subscribe to the alsa mailinglist (for details see alsa homepage). there someone can help you. CU, Holger -- Holger Mense
Re: apac i740
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 10:15:13PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, My friends has got an APAC i740 3D AGP with 8MB. It seems to me that Xfree86 does not support this card. Has anyone been successful with this card? thx. Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I've been sucessful with a similar card, the Diamond Stealth G460. Both of them use Intel i740 chipsets. Because of the licensing issues around this chip, Precision Insight wrote an X server for the i740, but cannot release the source code (go bug Intel about that!). Get the server off of any redhat mirror in the XBF directory.(I used ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/XBF/) Install the glibc2 rpm with the alien backage. You will need to adjust the /etc/X11/X link by hand. Also, you will need to install the XF86_VGA16 package because some Debian packages need an X server. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 08:51:22PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the goals is being able to read and write MS Word files. -- Ed C. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null KOffice is shaping up, from the look of the screenshots at http://koffice.kde.org. Personally, I recently purchased a copy of Wordperfect 8. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: need to scan drive thoroughly
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 01:36:17AM -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote: Hello, well, if any of you are wondering, I was able to get debian installed on the system by low level formatting the IDE drive from BIOS (LILO kept giving crc errors upon uncompressing Linux). Now I have another problem...anything that I download to the IDE drive (where the /home and /boot partitioins are), I get crc errors upon uncompressing them. using 'fsck' on the various partitions returns no errors, but I think this might be where Im getting my crc errors when I'm decompressingthe linux image also... Sooo...is there any utility (or switch in fsck) that will do a thorough scan of the drive? Also, I have my swap partition on this drive (strangely enough I'm not getting any wierd errors while running linux)...do I have to unmount this to scan the drive? If so, how can I do this safely? thanks -lev -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null fsck -c partition device file will scan the drive throughly using the badblocks program. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: elm filter?
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 01:47:52PM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: Hi all, I am receiving mail on a SGI system, that has no procmail, but the elm filter program. I would like to use the same thing on debian, but I cannot seem to find it. Is it anywhere available in slink? Thanks, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null If you use EXIM (which most new slink installations do), an even easier way might be to use a .forward file in your home directory. Check /usr/doc/exim/filters.txt.gz -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Kensington Scroll Mouse
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 12:29:57AM -1000, Shawn Nguyen wrote: Hi, I've got a kensington scroll mouse and was wondering if there's anyway to get it to work at all in X? If not, is there a mouse out there that I could buy which would let me use that feature on it in X? I guess I am too used to using the scroll mouse and I find it a little more than irksome to keep having to manually scroll through web pages and such. I guess my laziness has got the better of me. Thanks for any advice at all. Shawn -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I was browsing Freshmeat one day and I came upon a program called imwheel that does just that. I downloaded the sources into /usr/local/src and installed it into /usr/local/bin. I then put imwheel -k in my .xsession file and I'm very pleased with the results. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
EGCS question
Reply-To: Hi! Yesterday I spent 3 1/2 hours debugging code like this: #include SDL/SDL.h SDL_Surface *screen; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { SDL_Surface *screen; screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(640,480,8,0); drawRedSquare(); } void drawRedSquare() { // do something with screen // SEGFAULT! } I kicked myself in the head when I found the problem: duplicate declaration of screen at different scopes. Is there any way to get EGCS to give me a warning about this? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: enlightenment/slink .xinitrc
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 01:19:35PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: could someone who is running gnome on top of enlightenment on top of X send me their .xinitrc or .xsession please? i'm having trouble starting gnome. here's what i'm using: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/X11/enlightenment exec /usr/bin/gnome-session i've tried putting '' on the end of the enlightenment line, but that brings the Xserver down just after it starts. TIA.. vinny -- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405 With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. --P J Schoenster -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I've had mixed results with gnome-session and have stopped using it. Is gnome-session really in /usr/bin? Type which gnome-session and note the path. Here is my .xsession: --- CUT HERE --- #!/bin/sh # set path so we don't have to use full pathnames # I compiled/installed GNOME in /usr/local/gnome, it won't # exist on your system PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/gnome/bin # for the wheel on my Intellimouse imwheel -k # the file manager gmc # the panel panel # finally, enlightenment enlightenment --- END .xsession --- -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: writing c/c++ programs under debian
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 04:54:30AM -0800, Micha Feigin wrote: I am looking to start writing c/c++ programs under debian. The question is what utilitys are availble to maintain and write projects. also are there any online ducumentation about the options. I also interested about how to write graphical programs (not neseserily complicated ones, just to display images) and i was wondering how to do it under linux/X11. Also is there some way to get help about functions (something like clicking on a function in borland c) through some external program. How do i get a list of available functions and library's, and what function is in each library? Thanx _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Pick up a copy of Practical C++ Programming by Steve Oualine and published by Oreily and Associates. It's a very good book on the mechanics of C++ programming and includes examples for Unix. BTW, there is no language called C/C++. You either code in C or C++. I discovered this when I thought I was writing C code, but it had to be compiled using g++ because I was using some c++ constructs. Check http://www.gtk.org and look into the tutorial. It makes creating X apps fairly easily. If you are more interested in making games, there is a cross-platform toolkit calld SDL available at http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/. It claims to be able to create cross-platform code that runs on Linux/Windows/BeOS and soon MacOS. I've gotten a simple program to compile on Windows/Linux (the wonders of cross-compilers), but the Windows version pagefaults all the time. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Upgrading slink - potato
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 09:34:07AM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I need some information about upgrading from slink to potato since I need to use some new (networking) features implemented in kernel 2.2.x. I have been using slink quite for a while (before its release) . The machine is now running kernel 2.2.3 and serves as web (apache-ssl), proxy/firewall, mail/pop (qmail), router/gateway as well as DNS servers. What is the best way of upgrading without breaking the current system (I plan to use dselect) and how big is the risk? What about the incompatibility of Glibc 2.1 and Glibc 2.0? Which programs have to be recompiled? I couldnt find information on the web, so please help me. Thanks, jusak -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Don't use dselect. Use apt-get dist-upgrade. If you are concerned about glibc, put your libc6 package on hold and APT won't touch it. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
inetd produces odd log entries
I made some changes in inetd.conf, commenting out things I did not need, and now I get these entries in my log. What do they mean? Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Apr 2 15:11:16 lilypad inetd[32743]: pop-3/tcp: bind: Address already in use Apr 2 15:11:16 lilypad inetd[32743]: ftp/tcp: bind: Address already in use Apr 2 15:11:16 lilypad inetd[32743]: time/tcp: bind: Address already in use thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 03:07:37PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 05:17:04PM -0800, Ramiel Givergis wrote: I have spent about a week trying to figure out why neither my Creative Labs SB16 or AWE64 work under Debian (2.2.4 2.1) I think it has to do with the way my motherboard handles the irq's and pnp etc. i have EXACTLY the same problem. Today I finally got it stop telling me there is a conflict on IRQ 5 when in fact, nothing is using IRQ 5. how did you do that? do tell. anybody who replies cc me as well. -vinny -- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405 With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available. On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge. --P J Schoenster -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I had a little bit of trouble, and here is what I did to solve it: 1. run pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf 2. Edit isapnp.conf and uncomment the configuration that I wanted 3. run isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf to configure the sound card 4. Load the sb module automagically with kmod (or manually with modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=3) I've attached my isapnp.conf without comments, so you can see what it is that needs to be uncommented. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org (READPORT 0x0203) (ISOLATE PRESERVE) (IDENTIFY *) (VERBOSITY 2) (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING (CONFIGURE CTL00f0/-1 (LD 0 (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E))) (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1)) (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 3)) (IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220)) (IO 1 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330)) (IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388)) (NAME CTL00f0/-1[0]{Audio }) (ACT Y) )) (CONFIGURE CTL00f0/-1 (LD 1 (IO 0 (SIZE 1) (BASE 0x0201)) (NAME CTL00f0/-1[1]{Game}) (ACT Y) )) (WAITFORKEY)
Unsuccesfully mounting cdrom.
I'm installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (hamm). A problem occured running dselect and choosing access/cd-rom. Program is obviously unable to mount /dev/hdc (my IDE/ATAPI-cdrom drive is master in second IDE). Dselect says: Insert the CD-ROM and type block device name []: /dev/hdc, I write (or /dev/hdc1, it has no effect on result). mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'), it aswers. The same result using access/mountable. I've tried mounting cdrom: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom. I've have also tried combinations like /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdb and so on. No success. insmod cdrom, I suggest. ...\cdrom\cdrom.o: module named cdrom already exist, it tells me. During start up, I saw a line like: hdc: no response (status 0xd0) I've no idea what to do (and as I'm unexperienced with linux).
graphic df type of util for Linux?
Look at the MRTG package. It's mainly for looking at router throughputs, but it will work admirable for things like diskspace, cpuload etc. It's in http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/devel/mrtg.html Also, look at BigBrother and NoCol. They aren't Debian packages, but do similar things. There is a web page out there specifically on Network Monitoring with Linux, and most of the packages will do all sorts of monitoring. http://www.btc.gatech.edu/net/management/linux/monitoring.html http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue38/2140.html Dean.
GNOME 1.0 .deb package?
So, does anyone know if and where I could find GNOME 1.0 as a Debian package, by any chance? I could recompile the source, but I already have 0.30 installed and would rather upgrade it the correct way if indeed possible. - Bill
Re: modem setserial (auto dialup out there?)
Judith E. Bush writes: I'd write it myself, except I'm frustrated with my ppp dial up script as it is. Have you tried running pppconfig to set up ppp and then using pon and poff? You are obviously using vanilla PAP authentication. With Debian there is no need to write ornate ppp scripts. -- 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: GNOME 1.0 .deb package?
On 02-Apr-99 William R Pentney wrote: So, does anyone know if and where I could find GNOME 1.0 as a Debian package, by any chance? I could recompile the source, but I already have 0.30 installed and would rather upgrade it the correct way if indeed possible. - Bill check here: http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_debian.shtml -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
prog. end of the boot ? rc.local
I'd like to start a program at the end of the boot, where to should I put it? ( under redhat was rc.local ) Where could I study the debian boot sequence? ( doc, links? ) How could I eliminate squid and apache daemons? ( they are started at boot ) Thanks Attila Debian 2.1/2.0.36
Re: hamm to slink with upgrade
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:23:56 GMT, you wrote: I have my cdrom not on /cdrom, but on /mnt/cdrom. /etc/fstab shows this. However, apt-cdrom tries to mount /cdrom and fails. /etc/apt/apt.conf: Acquire::cdrom::Mount /mnt/cdrom; fixes this. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: graphic df type of util for Linux?
On Fri, 02 Apr 1999 00:20:41 CST, Matt Garman wrote: Until I can afford a new hard drive, I find myself typing df often to see how much free space I have on each partition. I think it would be nice to have a little utility that displays graphs of free space per partition, and updates regularly (a graphic output of df, if you will). I'm visualizing bar graphs, here, but I suppose any type of graph would work. Something that could be swallowed in some sort of desktop module would be especially nice (FvwmButtons, Wharf, ...). So maybe I could have three little bar graphs showing the free space for three partitions I specify. Does anyone know if anything of this sort exists? I use asfsm (afterstep filesystem manager) in wharf, which gives a bar graph of all mounted filesystems in a 64x64 pixel tile, and provides a utility to mount and unmount filesystems as well as showing a numerical readout of the percentage of disk space used. Unfortunately, if root is not also running asfsm it will not update the display for non root users (it shows whatever the levels were last time root ran asfsm), and it gives a constant stream of errors on the X-win initiating console for non root users of the type: sh: /usr/tmp/statfs: Permission denied I still like it better than anything else I've seen. asfsm was dropped from afterstep either at version 1.5 or the version before that (??). I salvaged mine. That's all the information I have. -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tunnelling ssh over https proxy
hi, before i try and do all the legwork on this one, i just wanted to check that no-one had a prerolled solution to this one: i'm trying to let myself connect to my linux box from work through our Apache proxy's https tunneling. i've set up a port redirector that points port 443 on the box to 22, so the acl on the proxy will think that it's going to a ssl site. ssh accepts a config file option ProxyCommand which it runs, and reads from and writes to via STDIN/OUT as if it were the remote socket -- this lets you do the CONNECT command. unfortunately, the obvious 'echo -e CONNECT 88.NET:443 HTTP/1.0\n\n | nc proxyserver 8080' doesn't work because the first line that comes back is the CONNECT string from the proxy, after which I see the SSH server announce itself. the ssh client doesn't like seeing anything but the sshd at the other end. so, I just need to soak up the string from the proxy and everything would be fine and dandy. i guess i would want perl for it probably -- i guess an ideal mini-server would: -listen on a local port -connect to the proxy -send the connect string -ignore the first line that comes back -connect the socket to STDIN/OUT and loop in a stupid fashion until a socket closes. hopefully someone has done this already. if not, i might even become a maintainer and package it when it works. cheers, -thomas .. please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy etc must sign off - EF D8 33 68 B3 E3 E9 D2 C1 3E 51 22 8A AA 7B 98 umbra (!)
tunnelling ssh over https proxy
hi, before i try and do all the legwork on this one, i just wanted to check that no-one had a prerolled solution to this one: i'm trying to let myself connect to my linux box from work through our Apache proxy's https tunneling. i've set up a port redirector that points port 443 on the box to 22, so the acl on the proxy will think that it's going to a ssl site. ssh accepts a config file option ProxyCommand which it runs, and reads from and writes to via STDIN/OUT as if it were the remote socket -- this lets you do the CONNECT command. unfortunately, the obvious 'echo -e CONNECT 88.NET:443 HTTP/1.0\n\n | nc proxyserver 8080' doesn't work because the first line that comes back is the CONNECT string from the proxy, after which I see the SSH server announce itself. the ssh client doesn't like seeing anything but the sshd at the other end. so, I just need to soak up the string from the proxy and everything would be fine and dandy. i guess i would want perl for it probably -- i guess an ideal mini-server would: -listen on a local port -connect to the proxy -send the connect string -ignore the first line that comes back -connect the socket to STDIN/OUT and loop in a stupid fashion until a socket closes. hopefully someone has done this already. if not, i might even become a maintainer and package it when it works. cheers, -thomas .. please forgive my abrupt ending hre - but my conection is xtrememleyyhiclmelyey BAD hiccuppy etc must sign off - EF D8 33 68 B3 E3 E9 D2 C1 3E 51 22 8A AA 7B 98 umbra (!)
Re: prog. end of the boot ? rc.local
Debian uses the /etc/rc0.d - /etc/rc6.d folders for links to actual scripts in /etc/init.d. When the boot process reaches a particular run level (say level 2), it processes all the links in the /etc/rc2.d directory, in order. If the link starts with a K then it executes the link with the stop parameter (meaning it runs the same scripts in ../init.d with stop). If the link starts with an S then it sends the option start. If you look at the actual scripts in /etc/init.d you can see that they use case logic based on the option passed to decide whether to start or stop daemons. In general, rc0.d, rc1.d and rc6.d contain largely K links because these are the run levels for shutting down the system or rebooting it. rc2 - rc5 are the run levels where stuff gets started. So, to answer your question, the way I stop the crap from running is to either uninstall the package, or simply change the name of each link so that it starts with DISABLE instead of K or S. When the system is booting, or shutting down, it ignores all links that don't start with K or S, so this effectively disables the daemon without removing the script or the binary in case you want to run it later. You'll have to either figure out what your run levels are, or just move all the links in the directories rc0 - rc6. To start a new service, or do something that you would have done in rc.local in RedHat, write a script that knows about start and stop, put it into /etc/init.d, and then link it with a K or and S in all the rc directories. You can decide where your script will run by choosing the number appropriately. (i.e. if you compiled Apache yourself and want it to run, you should probably make the script link such that it starts after your network initialization scripts or it might hang. If you look at the way the rc directories are ordered, you'll see what I mean. There is one last directory named /etc/rc.boot that has a couple scripts in it that run when the system first comes up. I've never messed with it, but it's there for the fooling with. Hope this helps. Chris -- ++--+ | Christopher S. Swingley| 108 O'Neill Building --x7092 | | Programmer / Analyst | 940 Sheep Creek Rd -- 479-9729 | | IARC - Frontier| [EMAIL PROTECTED] (email) | | University of Alaska Fairbanks | www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ | | Fairbanks, AK 99775 |~cswingle (web) | ++--+ Quoting Attila Csosz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd like to start a program at the end of the boot, where to should I put it? ( under redhat was rc.local ) Where could I study the debian boot sequence? ( doc, links? ) How could I eliminate squid and apache daemons? ( they are started at boot ) Thanks Attila Debian 2.1/2.0.36 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Help Installing Linux
I did succeed in changing the file name to Linux from Linux.htm Still I am back to the same position. When on dos C\Debian (This is where all the required files are kept) I type Install, as suggested to me last week,I get the same messages: Image file not found. Please enter name of kernel image file follwed by optional command line parameters for Linux. As I am new to Linux, do I understand correctly that the kernal file is Linux and it is looking for the path of that file? Should install from C:\Debian have taken the file to load automatically? Or do I have to do anything further? If so a detail instruction to me will be helpful. I am also not sure whether there had been any defect in downloading the file linux or any other file required to install from Dos on the same hard drive ? Thanks for any help. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: Anyone help set up Iomega ZIP drive please?
On 02 Apr 1999q, Conrado Badenas wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I've compiled in SCSI support, SCSI Disk support, and IOMEGA parallel support (which I think is unnecessary). None of these are modules and I don't want to use modules if I can avoid it. [snip] If you don't like modules because now kmod doesn't deinstall unused modules, you can do it with the next line in /etc/crontab: $ grep rmmod /etc/crontab 0-59 ** * * root/sbin/rmmod -as -- 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 -- Thanks for the reply. Late last night I managed to get the thing running; the problems I had were (1) I was using imm instead of ppa, and (2) I hadn't included SCSI General. Now that it IS running, I find that the printer works fine without using modules and moreover it works from the port on the drive; very nice :-) This is probably because the latest kernel (2.2.5) provides an improved driver. -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
Slink upgrade problems
Got a mixed slink/potatoe system. Bought the CheapBytes 2.1 disks. apt-cdrom add outputs; Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/ Unmounting CD-ROM Please insert a Disc in the drive and press any key Mounting CD-ROM Identifying.. apt-cdrom: error in loading shared libraries /usr/local/lib/libpthread.so.0: undefined symbol: __libc_opendir (/usr/local/lib/libpthreads.so.0 is a link to /lib/libpthreads.so.0 to allow ./configure to run in /usr/local/src/gnome-xxx) apt-get update outputs; 0% [Working] Err file:/cdrom/debian/dists/slink/ main/contrib Packages File not found 0% [Working] Ign file:/cdrom/debian/dists/slink/ main/contrib Release 33% [Working]apt-get: error in loading shared libraries /usr/local/lib/libpthread.so.0: undefined symbol: __libc_opendir Upgrading misc. packages give install-info errors; (Reading database ... 40823 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace bison 1:1.25-11 (using bison_1.25-13.deb) ... Unpacking replacement bison ... install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. dpkg: error processing bison_1.25-13.deb (--install): subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 1 install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing 2 (--install): cannot access archive: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing: bison_1.25-13.deb 2 Can anybody tell me what I've missed in the setups??? Thanks! Mike +--+ | Mike Nachlinger (408) 446-9914 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Apres Ski Club 1-888-APRESGO www.apres.org | +--+
Re: prog. end of the boot ? rc.local
*- On 2 Apr, Christopher Swingley wrote about Re: prog. end of the boot ? rc.local [excellent narrative of startup scripts] There is one last directory named /etc/rc.boot that has a couple scripts in it that run when the system first comes up. I've never messed with it, but it's there for the fooling with. Actually /etc/rc.boot is now considered obsolete and is replaced by /etc/rcS.d, see the man page for rc.boot and the README in /etc/rcS.d/ -- Brian - Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes. - unknown Mechanical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
RE: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian
*- On 2 Apr, David Nelson wrote about RE: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian Do you reckon it would work with my ATI-TV card? Nope. See the bottom of http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/v4l.shtml -- Brian - Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes. - unknown Mechanical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 06:42:40PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: [major snip] a while. But from what Bud Rogers has said, it would seem the abort should happen straight away.) Yes, it should. I don't have problems with interfering with other modems here, but there are other people using the phone. If someone else is on the line, my modem will hang up immediately without making any noises aside from the the clicks of going off hook and then back on hook. Maybe your modem doesn't understand this. I can also confirm what others have already said, that not dialing is not gaurantee that you will not crash your fathers connection. If I am on line and someone picks up the phone, the noise is often, though not always, sufficient to cause my connection to drop. HTH, Gerald
Re: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Installation
I looked and looked and found no isofs module to install in the install routine. I even did a find on the cd and found nothing. Very confusing. The way I eventually solved this problem was by copying the isofs.o module from a RedHat installation I had on another drive. I added the path to modules.dep and then 'modprobe isofs'. That worked and I was able to go through the deselect routine. But I'm just stumped about why the install media is not eqipped with the means of installing from itsself. Any halfway reasonable explanation would make me feel better like, your media must have been flawed. So is it the case that all other debain intallers see the option to install isofs/iso9660 and then can mount the cd in deselect without a hitch? Thanks for your time. marlon On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Marlon Urias wrote: I have the exact same problem! Except that there is no iso9660 option in there! I dont get it. Why aren't more people having this same problem? Is it that most debian types know how to get around this, hence there is very little mention? Can I load the module somehow before starting dselect? If so some pointers would be appreciated. Thanks marlon Is there something like isofs?
mail oddity
Hi all, I'm having a strange problem with my mail from debian-user. I received 400+ mails this morning of which approx. 30% were duplicates. I also received 57 repeats, which were from Monday. Has anyone else seen this? JStarr
Re: Slink upgrade problems
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 09:53:24AM -0800, Mike Nachlinger wrote: Got a mixed slink/potatoe system. Bought the CheapBytes 2.1 disks. apt-cdrom add outputs; Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/ Unmounting CD-ROM Please insert a Disc in the drive and press any key Mounting CD-ROM Identifying.. apt-cdrom: error in loading shared libraries /usr/local/lib/libpthread.so.0: undefined symbol: __libc_opendir (/usr/local/lib/libpthreads.so.0 is a link to /lib/libpthreads.so.0 to allow ./configure to run in /usr/local/src/gnome-xxx) apt-get update outputs; 0% [Working] Err file:/cdrom/debian/dists/slink/ main/contrib Packages deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian Debian2.1r2 main contrib non-free I think You have to change Your `/etc/apt/sources.list` file and change the '/' between main and contrib to a ' ' (blank) similar to the above line. I think all other errors depend on that cu -- Peter Berlau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help Installing Linux
I did succeed in renaming the file from Linux.htm to Linux. I am back to from where I started. All the required files are at C:\Debian. When I type Install the same message comes back. Image file not found. Please enter name of kernet image file followed by optional command line parameters for Linux. Is my understading correct that the kernel image file is Linux? Should the install have taken care of everything automatically or am I suppose to do anything further and if so please give me the full detail as I am very new to Linux. If there is anything wrong in downloading the files please do let me know what and how to rectify. Thanks. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Microsoft Announces MS-Linux
Microsoft Announces MS-Linux REDMOND, Wash., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced the forthcoming release of MS-Linux(R), a new version of the well-known Linux(R) operating system designed for the enterprise. The flexible grassroots operating system, now with the quality and enterprise-level service and support customers expect from Microsoft Prior to the development of MS-Linux, enterprise customers wouldn't dream of deploying mission-critical applications on an unsupported operating system, said Jim Allchin, senior vice president of Microsoft's personal and business systems group. All that has now changed. Maximum compatibility and performance While other versions of Linux offer a variety of immature and largely incompatible windowing environments, MS-Linux includes an implementation of the familiar Microsoft(R) Windows(R) desktop, minimizing corporate training costs and allowing the hundreds of millions of Windows users worldwide to be productive right away. MS-Linux provides a complete implementation of the Win32(R) API, enabling many of the thousands of applications written for the Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT(R), and Windows 2000 operating systems to run unchanged on MS-Linux. Microsoft will offer support for future releases of the Microsoft Office suite of productivity applications and the BackOffice family of server products running on MS-Linux. In addition, many existing MS-DOS(R) and SCO Unix programs will run on MS-Linux without modification. Benchmark tests performed by independent laboratories have shown that MS-Linux is the world's fastest Windows file server. A groundswell of support from industry A number of leading development tool vendors will announce support for MS-Linux, including Bristol Technology Inc., Compuware Corp., Cygnus Solutions, Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc., Intel Corp., Metrowerks Inc., Rational Software Corp., Sybase Inc., and Tower Technology. The new Linux distribution from Microsoft gives the operating system the credibility it needs to gain a foothold in organizations where it has never gone before, said Jon Hall, Executive Director of Linux International, a non-profit Linux advocacy organization. Microsoft will become a corporate member of Linux International, and will make a substantial donation of funds and equipment to the organization. Linux International looks forward to working with Microsoft for the benefit of current and future Linux users, added Hall. According to VA Research President and CEO Larry Augustin, VA Research is delighted that Microsoft is entering the fast-growing market for computers powered by Linux. VA Research has announced plans to bundle MS-Linux and selected Microsoft Office and BackOffice products with its powerful server, workstation, and laptop computers. VA Research has also agreed to make Microsoft its exclusive supplier of Linux-based operating systems going forward. Having the Office and BackOffice suites running on computers from VA Research will give us a huge advantage in the marketplace, said Augustin. Microsoft has engaged well-known author and programmer Eric S. Raymond to advise the company on certain intellectual property issues related to Linux. Raymond's paper The Cathedral of the Bizarre was a key factor in Microsoft's decision to develop a Linux product. While Microsoft will not immediately release the source code for its version of Linux, the company has promised to do so eventually, said Raymond. That's good enough for me. The Linux community and Microsoft are a great fit, says Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux. After all, we both have the same goal, which is total world domination. Separately, Microsoft has announced the opening of a new recruiting center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Microsoft is always looking for talented individuals to join our team, said Mike Murray, Microsoft's vice president of human resources and administration. We often recruit in communities that are expected to have significant numbers of folks looking for work in the near future. Pricing and availability Microsoft expects to release English and international versions of MS-Linux Version 3.1 for Intel- and RISC-based computers on or before April 1, 2000. Pricing has not been announced. About Microsoft Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of products and services, each designed with the mission of making it easier and more enjoyable to take advantage of people using personal computers every day. Microsoft, Windows, Windows NT, Win32, BackOffice, MS-Linux, and Linux are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. Other product and company names herein. +--+ | Mike Nachlinger (408)