Re: Cerrar puertos
Cesar Talon escribió: Hola, ¿Cuál es la manera más adecuada para cerrar los puertos no deseados? Pues yo edito el /etc/inetd.conf y pongo un '#' delante de cada servicio que quiero cerrar. Luego ejecutas kill -HUP pid_de_inetd y ya está cerrado lo que hayas cerrado. Un saludo: Juan Carlos
Re: Como instalo el kernel a partir de las fuentes?
El lunes 26 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 13:28:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: Alguien podria decirme como hacer cuando me traigan las fuentes asi? Mírate el Kernel-COMO que lo pone por ahí. Básicamente la cosa se reduce a cd /usr/src/linux, make menuconfig, make dep, make clean, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install y luego incluir el nuevo kernel (que se encuentra en arch/i386/boot/) en la configuración de lilo. P.D.: Hay veces que al cargar el Linux me dice algo como que numero de veces de montar la unidad excedido, chequeo forzado, algo asi cuando esta montando el sistema de archivos, al cargar el kernel. Esto es normal? Ademas creo que vi algo como 1.1% nosequé... Completamente normal, y además configurable. El 1.1 es la cantidad de fragmentación que tiene la partición. -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Registered User no. 87069 http://come.to/Hue-Bond.world In love with TuX. Linux 2.2.7 PGP Public key at http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano/pgp_pubkey.asc
Re: Como instalo el kernel a partir de las fuentes?
On 01-May-99 Hue-Bond wrote: [...] P.D.: Hay veces que al cargar el Linux me dice algo como que numero de veces de montar la unidad excedido, chequeo forzado, algo asi cuando esta montando el sistema de archivos, al cargar el kernel. Esto es normal? Ademas creo que vi algo como 1.1% nosequé... Completamente normal, y además configurable. El 1.1 es la cantidad de fragmentación que tiene la partición. Me gustaria saber como o donde se configura, pues alguna vez he investigado algo de esto, pero sin llegar a ninguna conclusion clara :-) - E-Mail: Luis M. Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01-May-99 Time: 02:13:03 This message was sent by XFMail -
Re: Sobre un driver para impresoras PS
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 11:17:02AM +, Manuel Jerez Cßrdenes wrote: Hola lista, tengo una impresora Postscript HP y me han dicho que hay un driver llamado a2ps que te permite imprimir varias páginas en un mismo folio. ¿Podría alguién decirme alguna localización de donde pueda bajármelo, y si hay versiones para Windows, Linux o Unix? Hola Manolo. Realmente, a2ps no es un driver (si es que existe semejante cosa en linux), sino una aplicación que convierte fiecheros ascii en ficheros postscript (a2ps = ascii to postscript). Mete dos páginas en una, y según el tipo de fichero, se resalta la sintáxis, o te numera las líneas. También tienes las psutils, que sirven para trabajar con ficheros postscript; permiten meter varias páginas en una, reordenarlas, hacer cuadernillos, unir ficheros Otro programa parecido, pero menos completo, es el mpage. Todos ellos vienen con debian -- Un Saludo Han Solo The Rebel Alliance Conecto, luego existo. Desconecto, luego insisto. Soy usuario de infobirria+ P.D. La firma no es mía, sino de uno que trabajaba, precisamente, en M$. Vivir para ver.
Re: DEBIAN 2.1 + KERNEL 2.2.6!!!
Correcaminos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marcelo, quien esta estupefacto despues de leer la cantidad de espacio que se necesita para compilar los paquetes de X. Pues los dias 8 y 9 de Mayo, tendremos fiesta de instalación. Una de las cosas que queremos hacer es montar un cluster de unas 30 maquinas y dejarlas currandose las X's para Pentium. Vamos a ver si somos capaces de hacerlo... :-) ¿Y cómo piensan hacer eso? Pregunto pues localmente se ha propuesto que para nuestro festival de instalación generemos una película animada de unos minutos. Todo partiendo de la descripción original de las escenas, haciendo la generación de cuadros y la compresión final en MPEG. Marcelo
Re: Como instalo el kernel a partir de las fuentes?
Luis M. Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me gustaria saber como o donde se configura, pues alguna vez he investigado algo de esto, pero sin llegar a ninguna conclusion clara :-) mira tune2fs(8) Marcelo
Re: Como instalo el kernel a partir de las fuentes?
On 01-May-99 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Luis M. Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Me gustaria saber como o donde se configura, pues alguna vez he investigado algo de esto, pero sin llegar a ninguna conclusion clara :-) mira tune2fs(8) Esto era lo que buscaba. Gracias... Marcelo -- E-Mail: Luis M. Garcia Ruiperez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01-May-99 Time: 03:11:29 This message was sent by XFMail --
Re: Montar un directorio FAT
El Wed, Apr 28, 1999, Cosme Perea Cuevas... El Tue, Apr 27, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Se puede montar un directorio solamente, de una partición FAT, sin tener que montar toda la partición entera? No sé si existe esa posibilidad, pero otra opción es montar la partición FAT y después crear un enlace dinámico: Cuando haces /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.36# make menuconfig en la sección `Floppy, IDE, and other block devices', hay la opción `[ ] Multiple devices driver support', que trae esta pantalla de ayuda: This driver lets you combine several hard disk partitions into one logical block device. Information about how and why to use it and the necessary tools are available over FTP (user: anonymous) from sweet-smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr/pub/public/Linux in the mdpackage and themd-FAQ. Please read drivers/block/README.md. If unsure, say N. Quizás te sirva. Saludos. -- Cosme = -=-=- A través de Debian GNU/Linux -=-=- -=-=- Software Libre -=-=- http://www.linux.org/ S.O. Multi-[plataforma, tarea, usuario] http://www.gnu.org/Free Software Foundation http://lucas.hispalinux.es/ Documentación en Castellano = pgpGzcBzeyNpf.pgp Description: PGP signature
[LuCAS] DOCUMENTACION: Novedades en LuCAS
[Este es un mensaje generado automáticamente] LuCAS es la mayor biblioteca en español de todo el mundo dedicada a GNU/Linux. Es un proyecto libre construido por la comunidad internacional hispanoparlante. El proyecto LuCAS forma parte del LDP en español. http://lucas.hispalinux.es Estas son las últimas novedades en LuCAS: 30-04-1999 LuCAS ha superado por fin sus problemas. Slug, el servidor que lo acoje ha estado caído o con problemas durante casi un mes. Pero la pericia de nuestro super-mega-administrador (el ínclito hacker Luis Colorado) y sobre todo su tesón no solo han resuelto los problemas de calentamiento sino que también le ha dado nueva vida. Ahora Slug es un fabuloso Pentium II a 350mhz, con 128mb de RAM y, agarraos, más de 23 gigabytes en disco. Desde aquí nuestro agradecimiento a CTV, Antonio Castro y Eugenio Garrido por todo el material que han donado para hacer de Slug lo que es ahora. También celebramos la presentación de nuestro nuevo servicio Avisador. A partir de ahora automáticamente publicaremos las novedades de LuCAS más recientes en los foros de correo y noticias más conocidos. Esperamos que sea de vuestra satisfacción. 08-04-1999 Se han puesto en marcha tres nuevas réplicas de LuCAS en Chile, Cuba y España. Revisa la página de réplicas para más información. 29-03-1999 Comienza a publicarse el Linux Tutorial, del grupo GNU/Linux Hispano, en LuCAS. Además ahora también está disponible la versión pdf de la Guía de Usuario de Red Hat 5.2, por gentileza de Mariano Galdames Beckdorf. 26-03-1999 El Club de Informática Diskóbolo publica su Curso de Linux en LuCAS. 25-03-1999 Publicada la primera versión de la FAQ de LuCAS en http://lucas.hispalinux.es/FAQ/FAQ-LuCAS/FAQ-LuCAS.html. -- (C) 1999 HispaLiNUX, Asociación de Usuarios Españoles de Linux. Vea http://www.hispalinux.es/ para más información.
Re: email from cracklib cron
On 29 Apr 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: My question is why hasn't this been fixed? Or perhaps it has and somehow my system just isn't up-to-date? Or was it deemed too simple a fix to warrant a new version of cracklib-runtime? It has been fixed and uploaded to potato. There has since been another bug found which I've tracked down to a bug in the find package. A new upload should be coming shortly. I'm not clear on when its ok to upload a fix to a stable distribution. This is clearly not a security issue or even a serious problem. Would it still be appropriate to upload to slink? -- Jean Pierre
Re: email from cracklib cron
I'm not clear on when its ok to upload a fix to a stable distribution. This is clearly not a security issue or even a serious problem. Would it still be appropriate to upload to slink? It's the eternal debate about what the word 'stable' means in a software distribution. One definition is, non-experimental, but up to date. Another is, Changes only for security reasons. Debian seems to use the latter definition. Perhaps the package developer has some say; I'm not sure how that works. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.artselect.com/ http://www.mealsforyou.com/
Re: Broken libtiff3g-dev
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 05:29:51PM -0400, Ian Peters wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 10:28:21PM -0400, James Mastros wrote: Looking at libtiff3g-dev's postinst, it's trivial -- and it appears that it will die with error if /usr/sbin/dhelp_parse dosn't exist or $1 != configure. I've filed a bug against libtiff3g-dev; it will probably be fixed shortly. Hmm. Ok, a new version has come out, and things are still looking ugly. When I tried to just let dselect/apt work it out, it still didn't install. I've given a try with dpkg again (this is with the Same here. I've attempted to remove it, but it won't go. BTW I have tried to use the man pages and internet references. I would have thought that --force-remove-reinstreq would help, but it hasn't. Me too. I can't get that option to work for some reason. It keeps complaining about needing an action option. I don't really need it now as I won't be compiling gnome (thought I'd need it for that). -- /-\ | Jason Murray - jmurray (at) computer (dot) org | | Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain| \-/
Apache and SSI
Ok, I have installed the apache package from slink, run apacheconfig, used default answer for all questions. Now, I need to use server side includes. I looked in config files, everything looks Ok, and yet SSI does not seem to work. Is there anything else I have to do to the default slink apache setup to make SSI work ? Note that I already have this: # To use server-parsed HTML files AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml in srm.conf and this: LoadModule includes_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_include.so in httpd.conf. Please help .. Akop Pogosian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cable modem, Debian firewall/proxy and home PC's - advice!
Well, I've finally graduated to cable-modem, and picked up a PC to hopefully use as firewall/proxy/whatever (our cable modems are notoriously insecure). Someone have advice on how to do this - tips/tricks/pitfalls? Maybe a good idea of which readme's and howto's to use? I'm not bad at config, but this part's pretty new to me... The PC is blank right now, and I'm thinking about just setting it up as a basic home PC using eth0 (the cable modem) as the FTP for pulling Debian to it, then adding whatever I need - I'm thinking ipfwadmin might be enough, put 2 NIC's in it and connect the second one to my hub and the other PC's. Sound practical? Anyone wanting to give advice feel free - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cable modem, Debian firewall/proxy and home PC's - advice!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:50:28 -0800, Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: ipfwadmin might be enough, put 2 NIC's in it and connect the second one to my hub and the other PC's. Sound practical? Completely. The only pitfall I can see on people helping you is one detail you left out. Will you be using a single IP or a subnet? If you're using a single IP then you'll need to have the Linux box do IPMasqing for the rest of your private network. If you're using a subnet, then just a standard firewall will do. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNypCi3pf7K2LbpnFEQKXyACg4i2OY8sM/uf2tluahdQnaCLubV8AoIm5 HQbCAlSqSuJdbuJrXGv2/phU =kQbd -END PGP SIGNATURE-
X server on a Compaq Presario 1235
We have been trying to configure an X server from Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1235 laptop. SuperProbe reports First video: Super-VGA Chipset: Yamaha 6388 VPDC (Port Probed) RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC (with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode)) but the xserver-svga does not seem to recognize the chipset. Part of the output from X -probeonly is (--) SVGA: PCI: Unknown vendor (0x10c8) Unknown chipset (0x0004) rev 1, Memory @ 0xfd00, 0xfea0 (--) SVGA: chipset: generic (--) SVGA: videoram: 64k (--) SVGA: clocks: 25.18 (**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666 (--) SVGA: Using builtin driver modes (--) SVGA: Builtin Mode: 320x200 (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 320x204 (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024 Any suggestions of how to get it configured? Should we be using another xserver? Please cc us on any replies as we do not usually follow this list.
windowmaker
What exactly is the difference between the three types of windowmakers in the unstable tree? (i.e., WM, WM-Debian, WM-Gnome?) I have switched between the three of them without noticing any susbstantial differences, and am curious. I'm not running Gnome, so that may contribute, but I did try it briefly once and noticed no particular differences. Anyone know? Thanks- Luis P.S. I'm only subscribed to the digest version, so if you could cc: me that'd be great... ### They call the faithful to their knees to hear the softly spoken magic spell: There's no place like home... There's no place like home... There's no place like home. -Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon -Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz ###
Motorola ModemSurfr 28.8 + Linux 2.2.x?
Hi, someone here asked me this the other day, I couldn't find an answer and I was left pondering. He's using Debian 2.1, and he tells me his modem (motorola modemsurfr 28.8) works ok with kernel 2.0.36, but it doesn't work with 2.2.x. With 2.2.x the modem responds to ATZ but after that it hangs and stops responding to commands. Any ideas what could cause this or how could this be fixed? TIA, Marcelo
Talk
OK I want to use talk on the slink distribution. I have ytalk installed along with talkd damon. But for some reason it always comes back saying that the person is refusing connection. I thought that the talk system worked with all users right away. The man pages and config files are no help. Everything that I have read says it should be working. Any ideas? Thanks -- Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motorola ModemSurfr 28.8 + Linux 2.2.x?
Marcelo writes: He's using Debian 2.1, and he tells me his modem (motorola modemsurfr 28.8) works ok with kernel 2.0.36, but it doesn't work with 2.2.x. Same pppd and libc in both cases? With 2.2.x the modem responds to ATZ but after that it hangs and stops responding to commands. Does this happen with minicom as well as with pppd? Any ideas what could cause this or how could this be fixed? Try upgrading pppd to 2.3.7 (that's what is in unstable). -- 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: Talk
Brian Schramm wrote: OK I want to use talk on the slink distribution. I have ytalk installed along with talkd damon. But for some reason it always comes back saying that the person is refusing connection. I thought that the talk system worked with all users right away. The man pages and config files are no help. Everything that I have read says it should be working. Any ideas? Yup. Any user who wants to recieve word from the talk daemon that somebody's trying to chat with them needs to have: mesg y in their .bash_profile (or if you want to make talk accessability mandatory for some reason, you can put the line in /etc/profile). It's not enabled by default (some folks don't want to be bugged by every soul who telnets into their box). :-) Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
ipchains help
I'm trying to setup some firewalling rules, now that my Linux box has a full-time ADSL connection to the Internet. I'm currently running kernel 2.2.7 (under potato), so I'm using ipchains in my (apparently feeble g) attempts to do this. Ever since the ADSL connection was configured, I've noticed the following in my logs every 10 minutes or so... Apr 30 21:25:23 glitch nmbd[10603]: connect from 10.0.0.153 Apr 30 21:25:23 glitch inetd[166]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit status 0x1 [above lines repeated 2-3 dozen times, IP's and PID's vary] Apr 30 21:25:23 glitch inetd[166]: netbios-ns/udp server failing (looping), service terminated After seeing this I thought that blocking netbios broadcasts would be a good, or at least easily verified, place to start. After consulting with the ipchains HOWTO, I entered the following: ipchains -A input -p udp -s 0.0.0.0/24 netbios-ns -l -j DENY ipchains -A input -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/24 netbios-ns -l -j DENY After doing this, however, my logfiles are showing the exact same behaviour. Presumably I'm missing something... any pointers as to what? Thanx!
cut paste using mouse
hi all ! i would like to know what special tricks i need to do so that i can convince my mouse device to do copy, cut, paste for me while in X. also, i remember in my slackware days that by highlighting some text (click drag) is already like copying, and right clicking will act as pasting. any help (or pointers to the right HOWTO's to read) will be very much appreciated. thanks, mao
search facility for apt?
Hello everyone... Just got a simple question here. Is there a facility to do a text search on the list of packages apt has in /var/state/apt/lists? It doesn't seem to be a part of apt-get and I haven't seen too many other utilities. Basicaly, something like show me all the packages that have the word quake in their description (or name, or maintainer, or whatever.) Does this exist? Today I put together a little Python script that does exactly this, but I'm wondering if anyone else is working on something similar to avoid duplication of effort. If no one else is, I'll polish it up a little and release it. my thanks to you Preston
Re: Apache and SSI (Problem solved)
Problems solved, thanks for your responses. Akop Pogosian [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Akop Pogosian wrote: Ok, I have installed the apache package from slink, run apacheconfig, used default answer for all questions. Now, I need to use server side includes. I looked in config files, everything looks Ok, and yet SSI does not seem to work. Is there anything else I have to do to the default slink apache setup to make SSI work ? Note that I already have this: # To use server-parsed HTML files AddType text/html .shtml AddHandler server-parsed .shtml in srm.conf and this: LoadModule includes_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_include.so in httpd.conf. Please help .. Akop Pogosian [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
help with internet connection needed
how do I set up my PPP internet account to use it with linux? Is there something special I have to do to be adle to use it with Netscape inside of kde? Jason E Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eznet.com/~jasonw
help with internet connection needed
how do I set up my PPP internet account to use it with linux? Is there something special I have to do to be adle to use it with Netscape inside of kde? Jason E Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eznet.com/~jasonw
Re: system shutdown from xdm
Dave Whiteley wrote:
Now I am playing with my own linux systems, and I want to create a
similar user to give my Wife an easy way to shut down the PC.
I use the following solution to let my mom shut down the PC from xdm:
** Step 1: a short Xaw program.
#include stdlib.h
#include X11/StringDefs.h
#include X11/Intrinsic.h
#include X11/Xaw/Command.h
void run(Widget w, XtPointer data, XtPointer call)
{
system(shutdown -h now);
exit(0);
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
Widget toplevel, button;
toplevel = XtInitialize(argv[0], simple, NULL, 0, argc, argv);
button = XtCreateManagedWidget(Shutdown,
commandWidgetClass, toplevel, NULL, 0);
XtAddCallback(button, XtNcallback, run, NULL);
XtRealizeWidget(toplevel);
XtMainLoop();
exit(0);
}
to compile, 'apt-get install xlib6g-dev' and run:
gcc -O2 -Wall -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXaw -lX11 xshutdown.c -o xshutdown
Note that this program is mostly cribbed from a 'Hello, world' sample
somewhere and segfaults if you try to send it a WM_DELETE; I'm working
on that. (I could do it in GTK[1], but the Xaw course notes I was using
have gone offline.) In other words don't trust this code to be the
definitive implementation.
** Step 2: start this up when the login widget is presented.
in xdm's Xsetup file (which should be in /etc/X11/xdm):
/root/xshutdown -bg gray -fn lucidasans-12 -geom -126+380
echo $! /var/run/xshutdown.pid
** Step 3: kill it when a user sucessfully logs in.
in xdm's Xstartup file:
pid=$(cat /var/run/xshutdown.pid 2/dev/null)
test $pid kill $pid 2/dev/null
(once again, syntax here is cribbed from how Debian's default
scripts[2] deal with xconsole (which I have disabled anyway). In this
case that should make it pretty solid though.)
Since the little Xaw proggie runs as root, it is allowed to shut down
the computer. There could be a security hole somewhere, but I'm not
going to get too concerned there.
[1] the problem with GTK is that it doesn't implement -geom, which I
use to but the shutdown button in the lower left corner of the login
widget (kludge! kludge!). You can also use +0-0 or -5-5 for the lower
left corner or 5 pixels from the lower right... read 'man X' and
experiment. plus GTK looks kinda silly without a window manager frame.
[2] except for the way I prefer to use to use 'test'. Syntactic sugar
rots your teeth! :-)
--
Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to
add, but rather when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Setting Up Netscape Mail
I guess I'm going to have to use the mail program in Netscape, since I can't find any other descent X mail programs. However, I'm not sure how to set it up. I have exim filters running that are sorting all of my mail into the appropriate folders. I've set it up so that no mail should be left in the /var/spool/mail folders. So, do I need to still tell Netscape to use the movemail program? If so, what is the best way to set it up. If not, what should I tell the system to use for the incoming mail? Thanks, Chris
Re: help with internet connection needed
Run pppconfig as root. After running this program use pon connection name to connect and poff to disconnect. See the man page for pppconfig. hth, kent Jason Winters wrote: how do I set up my PPP internet account to use it with linux? Is there something special I have to do to be adle to use it with Netscape inside of kde? Jason E Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eznet.com/~jasonw -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
FW: using a remote drive with taper
System 1: 486 with scsi and a DAT System 2: K6 with no scsi :) Both are running latest potato and 2.2.x kernels. What I want to do is backup to the DAT from the K6, and I'd like to use taper. I can tar to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/st0 or /dev/nst0 just fine, and from within taper I can do the various tape testing things, so I think that all the permissions and config stuff is fine. However, when I try to back up, it rewinds the [EMAIL PROTECTED] drive, then errors out saying that the device is busy. What I *think* is going on is that the DAT is ACK'ing to the rewind right away, and the K6 tries to start accessing it again before that rmt is actually done, so it thinks the drive is busy. Anyone have any ideas about how to fix this, or any guesses about something else that might be causing it? Thanks, Moses -- Moses Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk geommetry, was Re: Kernel Upgrade: Why?
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 16:57:35 -0500 (CDT), sombody wrote: And the data on the outer side passes the heads much faster than the data on the inner side. But then, there is much more data on the outer side, and a piece of data on the outer side will go round in the same amount of time as a piece of data on the inner side.. I am not aware of any disks that use a higher density recording format for the outer tracks than they do for the inner tracks. ever heard of ZBR(zone bit recording)? I think most modern HDD packs more bits on the outer tracks. The density increases in steps, hence 'zone', not contineously like CDs. I have seen number of HDD service manuals and most of them seem to use 5 zones.
Re: cut paste using mouse
mao jud wrote: hi all ! i would like to know what special tricks i need to do so that i can convince my mouse device to do copy, cut, paste for me while in X. also, i remember in my slackware days that by highlighting some text (click drag) is already like copying, and right clicking will act as pasting. left-button and drag to highlight, middle-button to copy highlighted text It's in a manpage somewhere, but I cannot remember which one. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matthew 6:14,15
Re: cut paste using mouse
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 08:29:28PM -0800, mao jud wrote: hi all ! i would like to know what special tricks i need to do so that i can convince my mouse device to do copy, cut, paste for me while in X. also, i remember in my slackware days that by highlighting some text (click drag) is already like copying, and right clicking will act as pasting. any help (or pointers to the right HOWTO's to read) will be very much appreciated. thanks, mao click and drag left button - cut highlighted text double click left button- cut word triple click left button- cut line middle button - paste click left and click right - cut region Just curious, since I'm thinking about moving from my current Slackware 3.3 to Debian 2.1. Why did you switch to Debian? William Park
Re: Broken libtiff3g-dev
Append exit 0 to /var/lib/dpkg/info/libtiff3g-dev.postinst and run dpkg --configure --pending. -- I'm working on it. There should be more math. This could be mathier.
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
Dale Scheetz wrote: copies of my latest efforts. The book is called Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics acat? What happened to ? :-) -- see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week.
X 3.3.3.1-1 Crash
Could someone tell me what can I do (sending this in an other place) ? I have this output from XF86Setup, after manuelly changing the amount of my memory in XF86Config , and running it under X : :/root # XF86Setup X Error of failed request: BadGC (invalid GC parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 70 (X_PolyFillRectangle) Resource id in failed request: 0x0 Serial number of failed request: 155 Current serial number in output stream: 158 X is always running in 256colors. befor changing manualy XF86Config, running XF86Setup says something like : it seems that X is running in other consol, ... wheras I directly boot in a simple text console. perhaps a bug : after installing the last X 3.3.3.1-1 package from debian with dselect+apt, I can't run XF86Setup : sometime I get a segmentation fault some time it works for 1 minute, and it scratch when I click in the card button. I can solve it a little by using : xf86config I have : potato+ kernel 2.2.5 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] AGP 8Mo for this time I can't read my mail, because of Netscape who can't allocate its color. I be back later. bye -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Creating FatXX partition with fdisk
I was putting a new computer together today for a friend. I needed to partition a brand-new HD, and because I hate MSDOS's fdisk, I figured I'd use Linux's rescue disk with fdisk. Anyhow, I created the partitions alright, but can I create the file system on them? Can I format a fat32 partition from linux? I was stuck, and had to use DOS's format. :( Thanks for any recommendation! -- Arcady Genkin I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood... - GsYDE
How harsh is switching Slink-Potato?
Hi all! I'm thinking of upgrading to Potato, because I want to use some of the newer stuff, (wine, for instance) that's compiled against glibc2.1. Should I expect some of my self-compiled programs not function correctly with glibc2.1? Just how exactly painful is it? TIA -- Arcady Genkin I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood... - GsYDE
mgetty conflicts with pppd
I'm having some weird interaction between mgetty and pppd/chat. I have mgetty running on a couple of modems. When I dialout (pon), I start getting error messages from mgetty in the log, like 05/01 20:47:09 yS1 mdm_read_byte: read returned 0: Success 05/01 20:47:09 yS1 wfr: error in read(): Success 05/01 20:47:09 yS1 huh? Junk on the line? However, mgetty manages to send a few CRs through or something which causes my chat script to fail (it aborts the connection). When I disable mgetty on that port in inittab, it works just fine. The other modem port has this problem on occasion too, although it runs a 24x7 connection so I don't notice it much. Is there a workaround? It's most annoying and has been bugging me for a while. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD. CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
Re: mgetty conflicts with pppd
On Sat, 1 May 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I'm having some weird interaction between mgetty and pppd/chat. I have mgetty running on a couple of modems. When I dialout (pon), I start getting error messages from mgetty in the log, like 05/01 20:47:09 yS1 mdm_read_byte: read returned 0: Success 05/01 20:47:09 yS1 wfr: error in read(): Success 05/01 20:47:09 yS1 huh? Junk on the line? However, mgetty manages to send a few CRs through or something which causes my chat script to fail (it aborts the connection). When I disable mgetty on that port in inittab, it works just fine. The other modem port has this problem on occasion too, although it runs a 24x7 connection so I don't notice it much. Is there a workaround? It's most annoying and has been bugging me for a while. Are you sure you use the same device file name for both mgetty and pppd ? I mean /dev/ttyS1 for both... then they should do the locking correctly... -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/
Re: ~/.xawtv file anyone?... Help...
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:43:14PM -0700, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: Can anyone attach a working ~/.xawtv file? I'm having a hell of a time figuring out which options I need to make it work correctly... I live in the US (CA) and can't figure out what TV type I use, etc. Help... Thanks... NTSC for the US, I'd assume. Hamish (PAL for Australia here) -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD. CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
Re: mgetty conflicts with pppd
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 01:07:53PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Sat, 1 May 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Is there a workaround? It's most annoying and has been bugging me for a while. Are you sure you use the same device file name for both mgetty and pppd ? I mean /dev/ttyS1 for both... then they should do the locking correctly... Well, mgetty shouldn't lock the port while waiting for a connection, but should give up the port when a dialout connection is made. inittab says s1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1 /etc/mgetty/mgetty.config has a port ttyS1 section. /etc/ppp/peers/isp says /dev/ttyS1 too (configured with pppconfig). thanks, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD. CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
Re: mgetty conflicts with pppd
On Sat, 1 May 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 01:07:53PM +0200, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Sat, 1 May 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Is there a workaround? It's most annoying and has been bugging me for a while. Are you sure you use the same device file name for both mgetty and pppd ? I mean /dev/ttyS1 for both... then they should do the locking correctly... Well, mgetty shouldn't lock the port while waiting for a connection, but should give up the port when a dialout connection is made. More precisely mgetty should lock the file while initializing the modem, then release the lock and when it sees that something is happening on he port, it should check if someone has locked it... inittab says s1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1 /etc/mgetty/mgetty.config has a port ttyS1 section. /etc/ppp/peers/isp says /dev/ttyS1 too (configured with pppconfig). Hmm... do you have an option lock to pppd ? it should be in peers/isp or in the options file. You should also check what mgetty says about locking in its own logfile. -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/
Re: keyboard configuration (XKB)
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 14:31:04 -0700, Micha Feigin wrote: What program can create the configuration file, `xkeycaps' is the easiest. and how do i load it? With xmodmap(1x). HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
Help with TKDESK...
I must have messed up something using TKDESK, when I start it up a small screen apears showing the name TKDESK and at the bottom of the tkdesk screen you can see that it is loading all of the files needed...Then it puts the small ICONS in the lefthand side of the main screen in the vertical position, then the main program comes up with three columns and the menus at the top... But now for some reason it does everthing in the above except, that the main TKDEST screen showing the three columns doesn't come up in the main screen...Does anyone have an idea of what I need to do to bring the tkdesk back to the full screen...??? I'd appreicate any help, thanks in advance... Larry Shields WD9ESU AX25: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [IPGWWI] AMPRnet: wd9esu.ampr.org IPaddr: 44.92.0.60 BBS E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 6221703 JNOS 1.11C -- TCPIP/TELNET/FTP ==
Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235
We have been trying to configure an X server from Debian 2.1 on a Compaq Presario 1235 laptop. SuperProbe reports I've got a Presario 1236 laptop running Potato very nicely with the 2.2.5 kernel (well, all except the sound, I've only got it half-configured (sound config tips welcome!:-)). The 1236 uses the NeoMagic chipset for its SVGA and I believe the 1235 does also. For the X server I'm using the xserver-neomagic package and have it configured to run at 800x600 with 65K colors. -- Regards,| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: superior operating . | http://www.golgotha.net | system tools for those Randy | | who know how to use them.
Re: Internet connection
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:15:27PM -0500, Ian Keith Setford wrote: I assume you are using pppconfig to set up the dialing. When it asks for a name for the connection give it a name. After everything else is OK type this at a root prompt: pon (where XXX is the name you gave the connection) and your modem should start-up. When pppconfig asks for a name for the connection, I suggest giving it the name 'provider'. This is the default name. If you use this default name you do not have to type the providername everytime you want to connect. Just typing pon will do. To close the connection you need the command: poff. HTH. -Ian On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Alessandro Giacomin wrote: Hi everybody, I'm a brand new user of Linux and I have a very simple question (for you, but not for me...). I've installed Debian distribution and when required I've entered my ISP connection data. Now the question is (don't laugh please): how do I connect to the Internet? I've tried typing pppon but my modem doesn't seem to care and bash returns with no error messages. Do I need some specific drivers for my modem, or any particular module. Othe question: how can I set-up my sound card (SB16 non-PnP)? Thanks a lot, you'll be my saviour! - Alessandro Giacomin Computer Engineering, University of Padova mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ICQ:4655913 http://www.aleg.zzn.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92 50 E3 CD D7 A2 D9 C4 CE 08 A6 98 E0 0F 58 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Gnuserv and emacs20
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 10:21:53AM +0200, Peter Weiss wrote: I can't manage to make the gnuclient (gnuserv package version 2.1alpha-4) work with emacs20 (package version 20.3-7). Emacs message: error in process filter: Wrong number of arguments: #[(list) F @@[EMAIL PROTECTED]!Ä p É [other binary-stuff] I'm not sure this is much help but it works fine for me. However I am running emacs20.2-7 (same version of gnuserv though). All I had to do was put this in my ~/.emacs: (gnuserv-start) HTH, Ian.
Mounting my cdrom
Hello everybody, I have installed slink and am trying to mount my cdrom. To mount the cdrom, I use the following command: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt This returns then following message: mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist What is wrong here? Is /dev/cdrom not the correct device or is this an installation problem? TIA, Robert-Jan
Re: Broken libtiff3g-dev
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 09:25:27AM +0200, Joerg Plate wrote: Append exit 0 to /var/lib/dpkg/info/libtiff3g-dev.postinst and run dpkg --configure --pending. I wanted to remove it so I did the same to the .prerm script. Then ran dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq --remove libtiff3g-dev This got rid of the package. -- I'm working on it. There should be more math. This could be mathier. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- /-\ | Jason Murray - jmurray (at) computer (dot) org | | Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain| \-/
fvwm95 stuffed up - StartMenu gone
Since I upgraded to Debian 2.1, fvwm95 has been acting up. The FvwmButtons seem to be working okay, and the TaskBar shows up, but the StartMenu doesn't work. The button is there, and putting the mouse over it shows the Click here to start message, but clicking on it does nothing. When I exit the window manager, I get an error message saying that the StartMenu is undefined. I've tried to copy the vanilla system.fvwm95rc and example.fvwm95rc out of /usr/doc/fvwm95/ to the places they go, but still no dice. My wife is the one who uses Fvwm95, I tend to stick with Fvwm2, which is working okay. Using the Buttons panel, she's still able to fire up rxvt's and Netscape, and I've taught her to use ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X when she's done. Still, this is annoying, and I can't seem to fix it. Any FM I should R? Any suggestions, comments, sympathies? Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735[EMAIL PROTECTED] C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do you blow your whole leg off. - Bjarne Stroustrop
Re: Mounting my cdrom
Hello everybody, I have installed slink and am trying to mount my cdrom. To mount the cdrom, I use the following command: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt This returns then following message: mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist What is wrong here? Is /dev/cdrom not the correct device or is this an installation problem? It means exactly what it says: there is no file/link in /dev/ called cdrom. Where is your cdrom anyway? Is it a block device so that its' /dev/hda-d? If so, just mount it by using /dev/hd? instead of /dev/cdrom. ANdrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
Re: Mounting my cdrom
mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist Sounds like /dev/cdrom is symlinked to the wrong real device. What device is your CDROM? Probably hdc or hdd? hda = primary master hdb = primary slave hdc = secondary master hdd = secondary slave Try mount /dev/hd? /mnt Once you get it working, re-link your /dev/cdrom to the right device: ln -s /dev/hd? /dev/cdrom - Original Message - From: Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, May 01, 1999 10:02 AM Subject: Mounting my cdrom Hello everybody, I have installed slink and am trying to mount my cdrom. To mount the cdrom, I use the following command: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt This returns then following message: mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist What is wrong here? Is /dev/cdrom not the correct device or is this an installation problem? TIA, Robert-Jan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What happened to aaaa?
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 11:52:54AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Dale Scheetz wrote: copies of my latest efforts. The book is called Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics acat? What happened to ? :-) -- see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week. This piqued my curiosity so I had a look. It's a symlink to host. Anybody know what that's all about? Cheers, Pann -- What's All the Buzz About Linux? L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: mgetty conflicts with pppd
Madarasz Gergely writes: do you have an option lock to pppd ? it should be in peers/isp or in the options file. It is in the distributed options file. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
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who does something about the advertising ?
I think the subject line says it all - I've seen too much spam being forwarded through this list and I wonder whether anyone official representing Debian actually enforces the advertising policy and collects the money ? Ivan.
Re: who does something about the advertising ?
On Sat, 1 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would hope that : 1) the proper complaints are made - is someone reading the headers and complaining to the right people? 2) the advertising policy is enforced. It'd be difficult, but it might scare the bilker scum into leaving us alone. - Bill I think the subject line says it all - I've seen too much spam being forwarded through this list and I wonder whether anyone official representing Debian actually enforces the advertising policy and collects the money ? Ivan. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
symbol 'ospeed'
hi! i'm running a slink distribution with most packages from potato. since two weeks i'm getting an error with less pipes and manuals. it goes: symbol 'ospeed' has bad size in shared object, consider re-linking - but less starts anyway. yesterday i had a similiar problem with alien as i tried to convert an rpm. in this case alien just stopped. what might be wrong? are there any packages i'm missing or which need to be updated? -- ^c/^x + ^v ©|| oliver d tali, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||
Why sendmail rather than qmail
Guys, Why does slink ship with sendmail rather than qmail as default ? Further, why is only the src pkg of qmail supplied ? Even more puzzling, why does qmail go in as non-free ? I'd appreciate any insights. M.K.Pai
Re: Why sendmail rather than qmail
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 21:10:13 +0530, M.K.Pai wrote: Why does slink ship with sendmail rather than qmail as default ? IIRC, smail, or perhaps exim is the default MTA, not sendmail. Because qmail does not meet the DFSG, the criteria for inclusion in Debian proper. Further, why is only the src pkg of qmail supplied ? Because the Debian project does not believe in signing agreements or getting permission prior to being able to redistribute binaries. Even more puzzling, why does qmail go in as non-free ? qmail is not free software. The qmail license prohibits Debian from redistributing binaries, as the require prior approval by the qmail author. Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Slink Upgrage Via Telnet
hi i was reading through the Slink release notes, and saw that it was NOT recommended to upgrade over a remote telnet connection. unfortunately this is the only way i could get online. is there a work around problem? does it take a whole lot of time to upgrade online, i mean just downloading the packages? i already have bo and hamm in CDs and it's getting kind of ridiculous to get a CD just to upgrade.
Re: FW: using a remote drive with taper
Subject: FW: using a remote drive with taper Date: Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 09:48:36PM -0700 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): System 1: 486 with scsi and a DAT System 2: K6 with no scsi :) Both are running latest potato and 2.2.x kernels. What I want to do is backup to the DAT from the K6, and I'd like to use taper. I can tar to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/st0 or /dev/nst0 just fine, and from within taper I can do the various tape testing things, so I think that all the permissions and config stuff is fine. However, when I try to back up, it rewinds the [EMAIL PROTECTED] drive, then errors out saying that the device is busy. What I *think* is going on is that the DAT is ACK'ing to the rewind right away, and the K6 tries to start accessing it again before that rmt is actually done, so it thinks the drive is busy. Anyone have any ideas about how to fix this, or any guesses about something else that might be causing it? I have not had the problem you discribe but have tried taper on both a 486DX/50 and 686MX/166 box using an Adaptec 1520 and Symbios 53c810a interface. I was able to backup without a problem on both boxes but the restore never did work correctly. I have recently downloaded the shareware version of ARKEIA, from Knox software http://www.knox-software.com/downloadfree.html. It works like a champ and a real pleasure to use. Nice thing about it is that they suggest a $20 shareware fee and donate a portion of anything above that to the Debian project. There was an article about this software in the April issue of The Linux Journal. I think the commercial version goes for $200. HTH -- Nobody said computers were going to be polite. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fvwm95 stuffed up - StartMenu gone
You could try a ~/.fvwm95rc (which ?would? overide the /etc one). The relavent sections of mine are: AddToMenu /Debian + Debian Menu Title # note I only use my own menus, you might want: # Read /etc/whatever/menudefs.hook, for the autogenerated stuff Read .fvwm95/menudefs.hook Read .fvwm95/main-menu.hook AddToMenu /Debian + Nop + Exit Fvwm Popup Quit-Verify # quit verify is defined later # Then later: #-- FvwmTaskBar # some stuff *FvwmTaskBarStartMenu /Debian # This is probably where your problem is: you have /StartMenu where # I have /Debian directly above, and no 'AddToMenu /StartMenu's If you like, if this doesn't fix it, I can send you more details from my config files, but I don't just want to dump them on this list. HTH Rich Raymond A. Ingles wrote: Since I upgraded to Debian 2.1, fvwm95 has been acting up. The FvwmButtons seem to be working okay, and the TaskBar shows up, but the StartMenu doesn't work. The button is there, and putting the mouse over it shows the Click here to start message, but clicking on it does nothing. When I exit the window manager, I get an error message saying that the StartMenu is undefined. I've tried to copy the vanilla system.fvwm95rc and example.fvwm95rc out of /usr/doc/fvwm95/ to the places they go, but still no dice. My wife is the one who uses Fvwm95, I tend to stick with Fvwm2, which is working okay. Using the Buttons panel, she's still able to fire up rxvt's and Netscape, and I've taught her to use ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X when she's done. Still, this is annoying, and I can't seem to fix it. Any FM I should R? Any suggestions, comments, sympathies? Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735[EMAIL PROTECTED] C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do you blow your whole leg off. - Bjarne Stroustrop -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
How do I upgrade slink-potato using apt-get?
Hello, I am fairly new to Debian. Is there an easy way to upgrade from slink to potato using apt-get? Or, should I not even mess with potato, being fairly new to Debian? Thanks, -ESB
Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
I just had this happen to me the other day. It could be several things. I
haven't ruled them out completely though. First, it could be that you have a
bad drive or a bad controller. My computer was setup with two 6.2GB ide drives.
The first drive was on the first controller and the second drive was on the
second controller. When I got that message I replaced the drive and
reinstalled debian. I then recieved that message a few minutes later but this
time on the second drive I had installed. I powered my computer off and came
back days later. Before powering it up this time I re-checked all the internal
cables to make sure everything was secure and they were. But I haven't gotten
that message yet(3 weeks later).
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:10:30 -0400
From: Steve Rothanburg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
I just had a server lock up with the same messages on a slink (2.0.36 kernel)
machine.
Well, ok just the first 2 messages. I came in this morning and the last two
messages
on the console were:
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hda: DMA disabled
I could still ping it, but that's all I could do.
We have 5 machines using the same hardware. Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard
(http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/se2/index.html), 384 megs of ram, 3com
905b
network cards, IBM -DTTA-371010 harddrive.
John Leget wrote:
Hi,
Is anyone able to give me some pointers as to where im going wrong here
, i keep getting lots of the following
in the attempt of mp3'ing an audio cdrom to my hard drive
Apr 28 18:58:31 gabriel kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Apr 28 18:58:31 gabriel kernel: hda: DMA disabled
Apr 28 18:58:32 gabriel kernel: hda: ATAPI reset complete
Apr 28 18:59:49 gabriel kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Apr 28 18:59:49 gabriel kernel: hda: ATAPI reset complete
I have had little success solving the above, im currently running potato
2.2.6ac2
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Re: How do I upgrade slink-potato using apt-get?
*- On 1 May, Eric S. Blau wrote about How do I upgrade slink-potato using apt-get? Hello, I am fairly new to Debian. Is there an easy way to upgrade from slink to potato using apt-get? Or, should I not even mess with potato, being fairly new to Debian? Thanks, -ESB I personally am waiting since the glibc2.1 problems are not all sorted out yet. An alternative is to just download and install individual packages that you want to update, as long as they do not depend on lib6 = 2.1. But if you want to do the whole thing just change your sources.list file to point to potato instead of slink. In mine that would change deb http://debian.midco.net/debian slink main contrib non-free to deb http://debian.midco.net/debian potato main contrib non-free Then as root do the following after reading the apt-get man page. apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade Go watch a movie or something. Thats it. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
nis don´t work properly
I have been trying for a whole day to get nis to work, but it will not. I have a minimal LAN with two computers. They both are running slink; the server has been upgraded from hamm (2.0). I have managed to make ypcat work, it is also possible to finger. But when I try to login on the nis-client with my user pow the xconsole window tells me: May 1 17:06:21 lazy login[571]: no shadow password for `pow' on `ttyp2' May 1 17:06:23 lazy login[571]: invalid password for `pow' on `ttyp2' I have no idea why, I have tried many things. On the nis-server in /var/yp I have done 'make' 'make passwd' 'make group' 'make shadow' 'make', I still don´t get it to work. When I was ready to give up I changed the password for pow on the nis-client with yppasswd, then it worked, and I could change it on to server to with out any problems. But that isn´t necessary in a working system, is it? I have added +:: in passwd, + in shadow and +::: in group and in /var/yp/nicknames I´ve added 'shadow shadow.byname', just in case. I have done Somme on both the nis-client and the nis-server. If I restart the nis-server the console on the nis-client print out this message: May 1 18:42:27 lazy icmplogd: destination unreachable from supreme.pow.com [192.0.0.7] I don't know why, after all ypcat works, as well as finger. The nis-clients name is lazy and the server is supreme (but right now I don´t think that it is so very great). / Per-Olof Widström -- And I know that there are people in this world who do not love their fellow human beings and I hate people like that. Contact me? Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://www.big.du.se/~pow/contact_page.html
Re: Mounting my cdrom
mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
What is wrong here?
The device /dev/cdrom is typically just a symbolic link to whatever real
device your CD-ROM is on. You can straighten this out easily.
First, double-check to see if /dev/cdrom exists ('ls -l /dev/cdrom'). If
it doesn't exist, just add it in. For example, let's say your CD-ROM is
/dev/hdc (first device on the secondary IDE controller). Just become root, go
into /dev, and execute a 'ln -s /dev/hdc cdrom' and you'll have a new cdrom
device.
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Re: Slink Upgrage Via Telnet
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 12:01:55PM -0400, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: hi i was reading through the Slink release notes, and saw that it was NOT recommended to upgrade over a remote telnet connection. unfortunately this is the only way i could get online. is there a work around problem? It can certainly be done (I have done it myself), but it is a risky process. Be sure to carefully read the upgrade notes. Pay particular attention to what it says about telnet and telnetd. If you do not install the telnetd package, you will be unable to make a telnet connection to the remote box! (Fortunately your existing connection will not be affected, but once you disconnect, you will be out of luck if you have not installed telnetd). In addition to that, I found that I had to uncomment the ftp line in /etc/inetd.conf after upgrading. does it take a whole lot of time to upgrade online, i mean just downloading the packages? That depends on how many packages are installed. It can take many hours with a modem connection. i already have bo and hamm in CDs and it's getting kind of ridiculous to get a CD just to upgrade. It's not necessary to use a CD for either an upgrade or a new installation. For those without flat-rate telephone service or a fast internet connection it is probably a good choice, however. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: How do I upgrade slink-potato using apt-get?
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 12:47:48PM -0400, Eric S. Blau wrote: Hello, I am fairly new to Debian. Is there an easy way to upgrade from slink to potato using apt-get? Or, should I not even mess with potato, being fairly new to Debian? Keep in mind that at this point potato = unstable. I wouldn't recommend it for anything essential. If you are prepared to have programs become temporarily unusable, it's not too bad. I've only noticed minor inconveniences (fingers crossed as I type that). You can upgrade by pointing your /etc/apt/sources.list entry to unstable and using 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
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Re: Looking for a good book...
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Matthew Roberts wrote: I'm a Debian Newbie (just installed my first system yesterday). I'm looking for a good Linux book, preferably something specifically for Debian. I would like the purchase to benefit Debian. I saw the Debian User's Guide at debian.org. Is that basically all there is? If I buy it does any of the proceeds go to Debian? Matt, Debian specific books were recently discussed on this list. Please check the archives in the last two weeks for suggestions beyond those I offer here. Linux Press (www.linuxpress.com) has several books that are Debian specific: One I have first hand knowledge of is the Debian Linux User's Guide by Dale Scheetz. It comes with 4 Debian 2.1 CDs. It costs about $40. I have a copy of the 1.3 version that has proved useful with all versions of Debian since I bought it. It comes with 30 days of email support from the author. You will find that the many, many contributors to this list will help you as well. BTW: There is an html version that can be downloaded and used. Some one creating a .deb package of the book as well. There are some non-Debian specific books from O'Reilly: Mat Welch's Running Linux, Linux in a Nut Shell (brief command syntax) I seem to recall having heard about a Linux Administration, and there is Sobel's Hands On Linux, that deals with Caldera's version. I have several of these, use and like them. Dale has another book with Linux Press. Go to the web page and look at books. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Thanks guys!)
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Dale Scheetz wrote: copies of my latest efforts. The book is called Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics acat? What happened to ? :-) -- see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week. Tell me more! What does it do? Where do I find it? Are you going to package it? Waiting is, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of The Debian Linux User's Guide _-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_-
I need some software...
Howdy All :) I'm looking for some software that will turn Windows NT/9X into an X Server--where I can telnet in from a Linux station run Windows apps under X... WinNTTCP/IPLinux MIRC32 Some SoftwareXFree86... Anybody know of anything? Thanks, Brant Wells!
checking promiscuous mode
Hi, ppl, Does anybody know how to test whether the network card set to promiscuous mode. It is supposed to run it from cron. Thanks, Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/ Phone: 374-2-344873
Bootdisking
Ok... recently i felt the need to make my own boot disk. I've gotten past a huge number of problems myself, but now i'm stuck. When I boot, i get: Loading... Uncompressing Linux... Invalid Compression Type (err=2) System halted. I used "make zdisk" to put the kernel on the disk, other than that i've followed the bootdisk-howto to the letter. did i miss something? --jes
zgv
Hi I run a 486-DX2/66, 16 MB Ram, two 1Gig SCSI disks and a CD ROM on an Adaptec 2840 controller. I have a trident 9400 1MB video card, and a KFC 15 inch monitor. This system WAS BEFORE a CRASH, running 1.1, wonderfully. zgv worked, out of the box. NOW, running Debian 2.0, installed from Cheapbytes CD released in November. I installed zgv_2.8-4.deb. At least dpkg -i seems happy. She wanted svgalib, so I installed what it asked for. That dpkg set up to its apparent satisfaction as well. But zgv does not work. The problem is that the screen rolls with no display when I attempt to display a jpeg file. The following svga libraries appear when I issue the command locate libvga /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1 /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1.2.13 /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvgagl.so.1 /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvgagl.so.1.2.13 I put my monitor's timings from the XF86Config file (that did work under 1.1) and information about my video card in the libvga.config file. Would someone help me? --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because reboots are for hardware and kernel updates. Software should be expected to be stable.
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 01:26:52PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Dale Scheetz wrote: copies of my latest efforts. The book is called Linux Volume 1: ac to zcat, the basics acat? What happened to ? :-) -- see shy jo, who was amused to discover last week. Tell me more! What does it do? Where do I find it? Are you going to package it? $ dpkg -S dnsutils: /usr/man/man1/.1.gz dnsutils: /usr/bin/ ls -al /usr/bin/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root4 Feb 22 22:26 /usr/bin/ - host Possibly amusing, but why does it exist? Bob
xawtv help...
I used the above attached .xawtv file. xawtv starts up and displays a black screen with a thin line of static at the top of the screen area. Do I need to download some other version of xawtv, I'm running the potato version. Thanks. NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]mixer=cd norm=ntsc capture=overlay freqtab=ntsc-cable fullscreen=640x480 [KOVR] channel = 13 [KXTV] channel = 10 [KCRA] channel = 3 [KVIE] channel = 6 [KMAX] channel = 31 [KXTL] channel = 40
anyone get voodoo3 to work correctly on debian box?
Hello all, I really, really like the debian distro and am plannin to get a voodoo3 very soon. I've been looking around and have noticed a beta X server for the voodoo3 but it's in rpms :( I think i can use alien to convert to .deb but this isn't totally error free is it? If anyone has gotten this card to work successfully or have tried, I am looking forward to any response. thank you. ___ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com
swapfile and more ram
my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with partitions again? i'm a relative newbie to this so if you reply please speak in simple terms g. thanks!
newbie stuff
hey all I just installed Debian Slink Yesterday, and before I mangle things, I have some general questions. I would prefer to ask them off-list, though. Anyone willing? -tf
Re: Recommendation for best Linux book
Dale Scheetz wrote: Tell me more! What does it do? Where do I find it? Are you going to package it? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~debfind usr/bin/net/dnsutils Appears to look up records in the dns. -- see shy jo
Re: swapfile and more ram
my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with partitions again? i'm a relative newbie to this so if you reply please speak in simple terms g. thanks! Why resize? When you going to be moving to 32M ram, linux will still be making trips to swap. I'm running 32M physical, and have about 90M of swap. My base X system (just X, no other applications running in it), goes for 20M alone( 1280x1024 at 16bpp). When I use xemacs with it, I can still fit in 32M, but netscape+xemacs uses up about 15M of swap space on top of 32M physical ram. ANyway, bottom line is, you dont need to resize your swap. That memory will get used. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
Help with TKDESK FIXED!!!
Thanks for the replys back concerning the problem that I had with TKDESK not working correctly... What I did was point the mouse to the bookshelf and clicked on the RIGHT mouse button and it brought up some options, where I found File browser, then I clicked it, and brought up the full TKDESK top, with all of the menus showing TKDESK, DIRECTORY, COMMAND, BOOKMARK and OPTIONS, with three columns... Then I save it as it was, then exited the program and then tried it again, it came up just picture perfect... Thanks to those who had replied... Larry Shields WD9ESU AX25: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [IPGWWI] AMPRnet: wd9esu.ampr.org IPaddr: 44.92.0.60 BBS E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 6221703 JNOS 1.11C -- TCPIP/TELNET/FTP ==
Re: swapfile and more ram
add|ct|on wrote: my question is this: i'm soon to be getting more ram, and i was wondering if there's a way to resize my swap to make use of it. i have 16 ram now, and my swap partition is about 32 megs. is it possible to make it bigger after i move up to 32-48 ram without messing with partitions again? i'm a relative newbie to this so if you reply please speak in simple terms g. thanks! The short answer is, No. You cannot extend your swap partition if your disk is already fully partitioned. If you have any free space, you can create an additional swap partition. It seems unlikely, however, that you will need any additional swap space. The purpose of swap space is to extend your memory space. If you try to run a program that needs more RAM than there is available, older pages will get swapped out into your swap space. It isn't used at all until it is needed; if you run the same programs after your RAM upgrade, your swap requirement should decrease, not increase. At the momemt, you have an effective 48Mb available to running programs; if the demand exceeds that, you will get a program aborting for lack of memory. After your upgrade, you will have 64-80Mb available. If you are increasing your memory because you are going to have more programs running simultaneously, there may indeed be a case for increasing your swap space. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matthew 6:14,15
video for compaq prolinea 4/50
I need guidance in selecting a monitor (and video card?) for a compaq prolinea 4/50. I'm just beginning and would like to at least run fvwm or windowmaker. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Re: checking promiscuous mode
You would see the promiscuous flag in the device configuration when you run ifconfig. If it's not there, it's not running in promiscuous mode. ifconfig -a or ifconfig device - Original Message - From: Eugene Sevinian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, May 01, 1999 3:44 PM Subject: checking promiscuous mode Hi, ppl, Does anybody know how to test whether the network card set to promiscuous mode. It is supposed to run it from cron. Thanks, Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/ Phone: 374-2-344873 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Hard Lock-Up Problems
James M . Mastros wrote:
1) Are their any unusual noizes noticable either during or slightly before
this lockup?
Not unusual as such, like say the sound of a HD crashing (been through
that) but there is a reproducible pattern. There is usually a heavy
disk load (possibly this just makes it more likely to occur), then it
stops. A second later there's a split-second disk access, then another
second later it hangs.
2) Is your hard-drive under warranty?
No. That sounds ominous.
I've discovered that if I keep the disk space over 50Mb (100 to be
sure), files don't seem to be written where this stuffs up.
3) Do you get any log messages before lockup?
No.
4) Will pressing numlock toggle the LED?
No.
5) Does shift-scrolllock give you less then 128k of free swap?
When it's crashed shift, alt and ctrl scrolllock don't work. Before,
fsck uses up all memory but never starts using up swap. This is what I
would expect from something that reads the whole disk through, it's just
caching what it can, but not actually requiring the memory.
6) Have you run e2fsck -c -C0 -vv root device? Have you run it repetedly?
('man e2fsck' before running this command. Make shure you remount root
readonly. Having messed that up once, let me assure you it is not a good
thing.)
I just did that. It seems it found a bad block. The following was the
output;
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequestError }
hda: read_intr: status=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBArect=3646226
sector = 1327826
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04 (hda) sector 1327826
That's as good as I can transcribe it.
I ran it multiple times. The second time and later the error came out
twice but I think it only came out once the first time. Anyway, this
always crashes on checking directory structure in the usual way.
I ran badblocks -o and discovered the bad block was 663913. Running
multiple times seems to just come up with this one bad block. This is
not where I would have suspected to find it, more like 770xxx. Even
though e2fsck man says it marks the blocks it finds as bad, it still
seems to crash e2fsck.
Thanks for your help.
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