ANSI e BACKSPACE
ola pessoal :)) alguem poderia me ajudar? rodo debian 2.1, e estou com dois problemas; 1 - uso o bashprompt para colorir o prompt da minha shell bash no debian. so que, o ansi nao funciona direito, ele mostra ÄÄÄ. entao, eu tenho que entrar no bitchx e sair para o ansi funcionar. teria um jeito de consert ar isso? agradeco! 2 - o backspace nao funciona no x. eu sei que esta e' uma questao manjada, mas eu rodo o xmodmap e ele continua nao funcionando. se alguem puder me ajudar...agradeco :) ciao [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ANSI e BACKSPACE
Oi, a primeira pergunta eu sei. A segunda é melhor pergunta na debian-user (em ingles). Quoting pedro bastos - strm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): ola pessoal :)) alguem poderia me ajudar? rodo debian 2.1, e estou com dois problemas; 1 - uso o bashprompt para colorir o prompt da minha shell bash no debian. so que, o ansi nao funciona direito, ele mostra ÄÄÄ. entao, eu tenho que entrar no bitchx e sair para o ansi funcionar. teria um jeito de consert ar isso? agradeco! acho que se voce colocar a seguinte linha no .bashrc ou .bash_profile funciona: export TERM=ansi 2 - o backspace nao funciona no x. eu sei que esta e' uma questao manjada, mas eu rodo o xmodmap e ele continua nao funcionando. se alguem puder me ajudar...agradeco :) ciao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abraços,PH Visite a página do LinuxClub: http://linux.cos.ufrj.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Estou preparando uma revista
Oi, sou Paulo Henrique ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) do Linux Club (http://linux.cos.ufrj.br). Nos so usamos a Debian e adoramos ela. Traduzimos a sua instalacao e mandamos para o Zanardi da Debian. Estavamos super a fim de fazer uma distribuicao em portugues da Debian (comercial sim, mas ganhando dinheiro (justo) em manuais impressos, CDs e traducao). Quem esta a fim de ajudar? A Debian e' muito superior a RH. Nao podemos continuar assistindo essa palhacada da Conectiva. Muito obrigado e aguardo respostas (ate dos manda-chuvas da lista como o Macan, Pedro Guerrero e Lalo ;) ). PH Estou preparamdo uma revista e as bases para uma distribuicao do Linux. Gostaria de saber o que temos em portugues? Acredito que o que temos atualmente e' o que foi feito pela Conectiva. :-) Manpages, internacionalizacao de programas, localizacao para o Portugues, tradução de HOWTOs, etc. Voce pode aproveitar tudo o que a Conectiva fez em sua propria distribuicao se quiser, pois tudo foi feito sob a GPL. As alteracoes feitas nos programas provavelmente chegarao logo ao Debian, pois foram adotadas pelos autores desses programas (meu minicom aqui no Debian esta' em Portugues, por exemplo). O que precisariamos e' da documentacao e das configuracoes (acentos no X e no console, fontes, etc). Seria interessante se tudo isso fosse integrado ao Debian (exemplo: um pacote chamado 'manpages-pt')... E' isso que voce pretende fazer em sua distribuicao?
Re: diskless box: fanless too ?
I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything spinning in his office. He currently uses a diskless sparc station, which is apparently also fanless since it is very very quiet. Does anyone know if the same is possible in the ix86 architechture ? I know I could set him up with a diskless box booting off a server in another room, but could that diskless box also have a fanless powersupply ? I figure the cpu would still need its fan. Anyone think that the absence of a fan in a diskless box would cause heating problems ?? Would caution against it in anything more than a 486.
xhosts question..
Ok, I'm using xdm and everything, when I su to root from my normal account and try to use x programs -- the program yells at me and tells me to use xhost to add whatever host to the list of approved addresses... Anyway -- so I get out of the shell and type xhost localhost or something like that -- then I su back and everything works fine. I've read man xhost or xhosts, can't remember which -- but anyway, I can't decipher if there is some file that controls access that I could just add localhost or whatever to and avoid this whole mess in the first place? Can someone help? -abr
help me!!
Hello, I have Debian 2.1 installed, now i'm trying to mount my cd-players (hdc and hdd), and my zip-drive (hdb). but what i try, i cant mount them. I get the message that i cant find hdd, hdc, hdb in /dev/mnt, or another file (sorry, don't know the name any more. Does anybody know how i can mount them?? I also have trouble whit Dosemu. everytime i start it, it says i don't have any dos partitions. i have a 8.4 GB harddisk from WD, devided in three sepperate disks. On the first (2.1 Gb) i run win95, and on the second (3 Gb) i have Debian installed. The third i use for saving downloaded files. The first drive has a FAT-16 partitiontabel and the third a FAT-32. How can i get on both disks!! (i have files on it that i want to use with Debian) Please help me. Greetings Arjen
Re: diskless box: fanless too ?
I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which have a peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of course but I do know such heat sinks exist (I saw and felt one a Comdex last year and boy was it cold!) G. Crimp wrote: I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything spinning in his office. He currently uses a diskless sparc station, which is apparently also fanless since it is very very quiet. Does anyone know if the same is possible in the ix86 architechture ? I know I could set him up with a diskless box booting off a server in another room, but could that diskless box also have a fanless powersupply ? I figure the cpu would still need its fan. Anyone think that the absence of a fan in a diskless box would cause heating problems ?? Thanks, Gerald -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: diskless box: fanless too ?
On Mon, 3 May 1999, G. Crimp wrote: I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything spinning in his office. He currently uses a diskless sparc station, which is apparently also fanless since it is very very quiet. Does anyone know if the same is possible in the ix86 architechture ? I know I could set him up with a diskless box booting off a server in another room, but could that diskless box also have a fanless powersupply ? I figure the cpu would still need its fan. Anyone think that the absence of a fan in a diskless box would cause heating problems ?? Thinking about what the power supply would need to power, if there were no moving parts at all, it would just have to feed the mb, chip and cards. That's not tiny, but better than 2 HDs, a CDROM, and a Floppy (you could still probably use the cdrom and floppy since they are typically used occasionally) Were you looking to find a special power supply that didn't have a fan? or were you planning on breaking a standard power supply? I disagree that the cpu would need a fan - I used to run a very old P60 (a REALLY hot chip) without a fan (fan kept breaking...) and it was toasty but caused no problems. If you choose a cpu that runs cool, you should be OK. You can also look into thermoelectric (or Peltier) coolers -- no moving parts. I think with an hour or so of reasearch you should have no trouble with a reasonable setup. -Michael P.S. I have a Dual PII 400 with something like 4 fans (not counting CPU fans) next to my desk. Sounds like a jet engine... I'm sympathetic Then again, how much can you complain about a Dual PII 400? Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
Re: help me!!
Arjen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have Debian 2.1 installed, now i'm trying to mount my cd-players (hdc and hdd), and my zip-drive (hdb). but what i try, i cant mount them. I get the message that i cant find hdd, hdc, hdb in /dev/mnt, or another file (sorry, don't know the name any more. Does anybody know how i can mount them?? First, make subdirectories in /mnt to mount the drives in. For example : # mkdir /mnt/fat32 # mkdir /mnt/cdrom etc. then run # mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt/fat32 # mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom I don't know about zip-drive, but it shouldn't be awfully different. To automate the mounting at the boottime, add the following in your /etc/fstab /dev/hda3 /mnt/fat32 vfat defaults 0 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide This would mount your fat32 partition every time you boot into linux, and also allow you to mount your cdrom with a simple command # mount /mnt/cdrom and also you won't have to become root to mount your cdrom. I also have trouble whit Dosemu. everytime i start it, it says i don't have any dos partitions. i have a 8.4 GB harddisk from WD, devided in three sepperate disks. On the first (2.1 Gb) i run win95, and on the second (3 Gb) i have Debian installed. The third i use for saving downloaded files. The first drive has a FAT-16 partitiontabel and the third a FAT-32. How can i get on both disks!! (i have files on it that i want to use with Debian) -- Arcady Genkin I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood... - GsYBE
Re: PGP with netscape
Hi! Philip Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past I have always used netscape for email, pgp for encyrption. And I have manually encrypted the email, and attached it to a message in netscape. I'm getting tried of this a bit, and I would like to know if there a plugin or program that would better intergrate the two under linux? BTW: I'm using PGP 2.6.3a Try premail. Its home page (http://www.c2.net/~raph/premail/) was down the last time I tried it, but the Debian package is available at every Debian FTP site. -- Daniel González Gasull (`-/)_.-'``-._ The hottest places in mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . . `; -._)-;-,_`) Hell are reserved for PGP RSA key 1024/EEA93A69 (v_,)' _ )`-.\ ``-' those who, in times of _.- _..-_/ / ((.'fL moral crisis, preserved ((,.-' ((,/ their neutrality. -- Dante __ | Fight Spam! Join EuroCAUCE: http://www.euro.cauce.org/ | ~~
Re: xhosts question..
On Mon, 3 May 1999, Allen B. Riddell wrote: Ok, I'm using xdm and everything, when I su to root from my normal account and try to use x programs -- the program yells at me and tells me to use xhost to add whatever host to the list of approved addresses... Anyway -- so I get out of the shell and type xhost localhost or something like that -- then I su back and everything works fine. I've read man xhost or xhosts, can't remember which -- but anyway, I can't decipher if there is some file that controls access that I could just add localhost or whatever to and avoid this whole mess in the first place? my understanding is that xhost is NOT the preferred way of handling this, although if you are not worried about nasty people getting onto you machine, it is certainly the simplest. If you are not real security worried, just put xhost +yourhostname (basically, the command you are already using) in your .xsession (I think that's the right file) or something. If you ARE careful about security issues, or you just want to establish good habits, use the xauth command instead. It's a little more work, but it's much more secure. I use the following command from a script as root: su mstenner -c 'xauth nextract - :0' | xauth nmerge - OK... I THINK that's the command I use. I'm at work at the moment. In any event, this command and the xauth manpage should tell you what you need to get started. You may need to explicitly tell xauth which files to use (see the -f option) The major reason that the latter method is more secure than the former: it allows only root to access your X session. xhost +localhost allows anyone on your machine to run x applications in your session, and to do some really nasty things (capture keystrokes) and some entertaining things (move your mouse pointer, change your background...) You decide :) -Michael
Re: Debian and Novell Netware
In my (admittedly limited) experience Debian does just fine with Netware, provided that you stick with a 2.0.x series kernel. The 2.2.x series seems to have some very nasty problems with the IPX protocol (brings down just about everything on our network within moments, with a massive flood of broadcast packets). Mind you, I've only found two other individuals who have experienced this problem, so it's quite likely that our network has some sort of odd situation that brings out this problem. At any rate, I've forwarded all the information I have to the linux-kernel mailing list... hopefully someone will isolate the problem soon. If you'd like to try a 2.2.x kernel anyway, just pick a time of low activity. If you have this problem, you'll be able to tell almost immediately. On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 09:06:31AM -0700, Paul Schwebel wrote: I am learning Debian/GNU Linux. I have a 2.0 install with ncpfs. I haven't actually used it, yet, because the disclaimers in the readme's refer to such things as potentially bringing the server down. I can't afford to do that in our live environment, and we don't yet have a good test environment. I wanted to find out what experiences anyone's had with using a Linux box as a network client in a Novell environment, especially 4.11 or better. How well do the ncpfs utilities work? or do you use something else? Thanks,
Re: .forward file -- How do you retain a copy when forwaeding
I would thought fetchmail is what you are after. Have a look at the fetchmail package and the keep option to see if it is what you want. Dan Nguyen wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Basically I want to send a copy mail received by my work account : to my home account and not erase it on my work account. The simple solution is to use procmail. Though I don't know the exact things to put in your ~/.procmailrc file. I have used it to mail messages of certain critera to another account, as well as saving it in another mailbox on the host system. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -La Rochefocauld, Maxims 25 2F 99 19 6C C9 19 D6 1B 9F F1 E0 E9 10 4C 16 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: Advanced Printer Control?
Just some add on to it: You can use mpage to to decide how many logical pages to print on one physical page. I believe it also has a duplex option. Or you may have a look at aps, which does something similar, and it allows you to print with user id, current time, header and a lot of other good stuff. Hope it helps. E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: I'm configuring a print server for remote clients. I've set up a Debian machine with an HP LaserJet 4000 hooked to it via parallel cable. I've installed lprng and samba, and can print to it from two types of client: 1) From Linux using BSD-style lpr. Text (notwithstanding line feed issues) and postscript print fine. I am looking at installing magicfilter. 2) From NT using local drivers, via Samba. Works fantastic. The issue, is that the NT drivers are able to take full advantage of the printer's capabilities. It can do duplex, 2- 4- 8-up printing, etc. How can I achieve such control from the Linux clients? I need to be able to specify at least duplex, and hopefully a greater subset of the printer's capabilities. Linux is working great as a print server to NT clients, but not so great to Linux clients. You can do two things about this: 1) Find out what control codes to send to your printer that will enable/disable duplex 2-, 4- or 8- up printing, and write a filter that sends those codes. 2) Use software. duplex: lpr has an option for muliple copies $ lpr -#3 bla.ps will get you three copies of bla.ps. Note that this is often disabled by default in /etc/printcap, and you will have to enable it there. n-up printing: Plain text files are best printed with enscript $ enscript bla.txt Enscript is able to print to rotated pages on one sheet of paper: $ enscript -2r bla.txt For postscript files, you can use psnup: $ psnup -12 bla.ps | lpr will print 12 pages per sheet on the default postscript printer. More than 2-up with plain text: $ enscript -p- bla.txt | psnup -4 | lpr Of course you can hide all the nice unix geekery to users in scripts. Single problem: psnup only works with `well-behaved' postscript files, that follow Adobe's document structure definitions (or what'sit-called). Any advice would be appreciated. I'm not even sure at which level (client? server?) this would occur. Pointers to HOWTOs that deal with this, and other resources, would be appreciated. PS: I can't help but imagine C++ iostream manipulators: cout unix_line_feeds file.txt duplex 4up file.ps; The last example is quite like that, except that it is written in the other direction. HTH, 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 -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Loadlin and new kernels
When using loadlin to boot from dos into Linux, it requires the command line loadlin linux /hda2 whereas linux is the kernel I keep in a local directory. If I compile a new kernel, is there anyway to get that new kernel on disk to copy over to the dos local directory to use loadlin? Any help you can give, I would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :) Jayson Baird [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DNS time to live lookup delays...
Hello, I recently set it up so that my linux box runs the klaradio.com domain. I am running my own DNS server off the machine, and I have a few questions: one of the addresses that I'd like to put under a subdomain of the site (stream.klaradio.com) has it's IP changed somewhat frequently (once a month), a guru here at work mention the TTL option in the DNS settings for the site as being updated more frequently than normal for this so that the cache files of other servers aren't outdated...since then the guru has left (*snifff*), and I'm really curiou how to do thismore specifically, would this change the TTL times of the whole site? I assume that it would, as I 've only seen one entry for TTL for a whole zone. Also, I'm running this over an ADSL line 384/384kbps that usually sees around 20Kb/s during peak hours...is it normal for there to be a delay of around 10 seconds for a lookup to be performed by a non-local machine (heh, go ahead, give it a try :). thanks !!! -lev
Re: help me!!
I also have trouble whit Dosemu. everytime i start it, it says i don't have any dos partitions. i have a 8.4 GB harddisk from WD, devided in three sepperate disks. On the first (2.1 Gb) i run win95, and on the second (3 Gb) i have Debian installed. The third i use for saving downloaded files. The first drive has a FAT-16 partitiontabel and the third a FAT-32. How can i get on both disks!! (i have files on it that i want to use with Debian) if your kernel is set up to recognise vfat partitions, all you need to do then is mount your other partitions.Dosemu is dos emulator, it has nothing to do with accessing other partitions in Linux. Chances are, if it is not starting, then you did not make the hdimage. But just mount your partitions, nad that is all. --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
backspace not working and ansi
hello people :) i recently got into debian linux, and i have two question. if you, people, could answer them, i would be pleased :) 1 - ansi does not work in console. do you guys know a program called bashprompt? if so, you can help me. the ansi that this program uses to put in bash prompt (bash#) appears like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (got it?) and then i have to run BitchX to get ansi working... :/ is there a way to make the ansi work without running bitchx? sorry for my very poor english ;/ 2 - backspace in X this is a very well-known question, but i run xmodmap with the right sintaxe, and it still doesn't work. ah! i run debian 2.1 thanks for helping me, rm-r [([EMAIL PROTECTED])] -dsgx.org-
Re: .forward file -- How do you retain a copy when forwaeding
I believe that this is the first example in the procmailex manpage... Carl
secure Xterminal scheme?
Hi, I am hoping to set up some low end pc's running debian where we use them as xterminals. That is, we do: X -query some xdm host It works well and allows running an 8-bit color display off of a sun host while keeping a 16-bit color display on the local linux host. In this case we want to replace some old ncd xterms and sun ipcs with faster video but still make it look like we are running solaris for a while. But the X stuff going over the network is not encrypted. (Nor was it on the old machines, it is just desirable.) Does anyone know a way to achieve the same result but with some form of encryption. The ssh docs talk about assigning arbitrary port connections etc., but I can't think of a way to run an entire xdm session though such a channel. I have searched around in all the usual places (howto's, faq's, X web sites) but can't find any mention of such a scheme. thanks, Stuart
Re: Loadlin and new kernels
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 08:17:43PM -0400, Jayson Baird wrote: When using loadlin to boot from dos into Linux, it requires the command line loadlin linux /hda2 whereas linux is the kernel I keep in a local directory. If I compile a new kernel, is there anyway to get that new kernel on disk to copy over to the dos local directory to use loadlin? Any help you can give, I would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :) Assuming you use make-kpkg to compile your new kernel (the Debian way), it will be in /boot/vmlinuz-version. Just mount the dos partition and cp that file from /boot to your dos partition as linux. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: Loadlin and new kernels
opps! -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * * pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? */
Re: Loadlin and new kernels
Re: .forward file -- How do you retain a copy when forwaeding
Just include yourself in the .forward file -- /yourself, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * * pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? */
setting up pop3, smtp
Hi, Finally, I have got my dns name set up. Am I right that now I can set up a pop3 and smtp for my mail system? And I can create as many mail account as I want to?? If I can, could someone please point out to me where I should start? Also, which mail server will you recommand? smail, exim, qmail?? Thanks in advance. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 05:41:52PM -0500, Douglas Bates wrote: Thanks for the reply. Where would we find an xserver-neomagic package? I don't see it in either the stable or the unstable distributions? NeoMagic support was integrated into the SVGA server for XFree86 3.3.3.1. This server is available in the unstable distribution. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's magic is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. Supernatural is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | null word. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein pgpT1rmbG5d5g.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: setting up pop3, smtp
I use qpopper for pop3 and also qmail for smtp -Original Message- From: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, 4 May 1999 11:35 Subject: setting up pop3, smtp Hi, Finally, I have got my dns name set up. Am I right that now I can set up a pop3 and smtp for my mail system? And I can create as many mail account as I want to?? If I can, could someone please point out to me where I should start? Also, which mail server will you recommand? smail, exim, qmail?? Thanks in advance. Shao. -- ___ _ 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
Re: Kernel Source Installation Probs...
Brant Wells wrote: Howdy All: How are ya? Last night, I was working on installing the Kernel 2.2.3 Sources. I unpack them and then run 'make menuconfig' and this is what I get... rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=curses.h -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:22: sys/types.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:23: fcntl.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:24: unistd.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:25: ctype.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:26: stdlib.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:27: string.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory lxdialog.c:53: locale.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 Helllp! TIA, Brant -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null looks to me like there's something wrong with your ncurses lib? (libncurses4??)... maybe? --add
Re: diskless box: fanless too ?
*- On 3 May, G. Crimp wrote about diskless box: fanless too ? I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything spinning in his office. He currently uses a diskless sparc station, which is apparently also fanless since it is very very quiet. Does anyone know if the same is possible in the ix86 architechture ? I know I could set him up with a diskless box booting off a server in another room, but could that diskless box also have a fanless powersupply ? I figure the cpu would still need its fan. Anyone think that the absence of a fan in a diskless box would cause heating problems ?? How about a laptop with a docking station or port replicator? Those thing tend to be pretty silent. Also there is a thread on this topic in the comp.os.linux.hardware news group over the last couple of days on this very subject titled removing cooling fans--how dangerous?. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: diskless box: fanless too ?
*- On 3 May, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote about Re: diskless box: fanless too ? I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which have a peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of course but I do know such heat sinks exist (I saw and felt one a Comdex last year and boy was it cold!) It is my understanding that you need a fan on a peltier junction otherwise it makes a better heater than a cooler. Especially in a closed environment like a computer case. G. Crimp wrote: I have been asked to help someone learn about Linux. So far, I have installed Linux on an existing box. I must also give advice on new hardware. One of the concerns this person has, is not having anything spinning in his office. He currently uses a diskless sparc station, which is apparently also fanless since it is very very quiet. Does anyone know if the same is possible in the ix86 architechture ? I know I could set him up with a diskless box booting off a server in another room, but could that diskless box also have a fanless powersupply ? I figure the cpu would still need its fan. Anyone think that the absence of a fan in a diskless box would cause heating problems ?? Thanks, Gerald -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Config multiple ips on one linux box
Hi, I am trying to set up seval ip addess on my linux machine. But when I run something like ifconfig eth0:1 203.63.219.30 up arp broadcast 203.63.219.255 I got the following messages: SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device Am I missing something from my kernel(2.2.6)?? If I am, what is it?? Thanks in advance. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
anacron job for a user?
Hi all: I want to set up a job to daily compress my nnml directories in ~/Mail/; for that I need to run a command: find ~/Mail -type f -name *[0-9] -print | xargs gzip --best I can't use crontab, because the computer is not on constantly and I want to make sure the job is executed. As far as I understood from anacron and anacrontab man-pages, it is not ment to be run on a user-level, right? Is the only way to set up an anacron job is through editing /etc/anacrontab or adding script to /etc/cron.daily? TIA -- Arcady Genkin I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood... - GsYBE
RE: Config multiple ips on one linux box
Don't the kernel version 2.2.0 require that a netmask be added with the ifconfig command? Just add the netmask. --Dano -Original Message- From: Shao Zhang [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 9:10 AM To: Debian Subject: Config multiple ips on one linux box Hi, I am trying to set up seval ip addess on my linux machine. But when I run something like ifconfig eth0:1 203.63.219.30 up arp broadcast 203.63.219.255 I got the following messages: SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device Am I missing something from my kernel(2.2.6)?? If I am, what is it?? Thanks in advance. Shao. -- __ __ 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
Re: Config multiple ips on one linux box
Thanks for the reply. Just tried: ifconfig eth0:1 203.63.219.30 netmask up arp broadcast 203.63.219.255 and still getting: SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device up: No address associated with name SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device I think I am missing something in my kernel. Dan Willard wrote: Don't the kernel version 2.2.0 require that a netmask be added with the ifconfig command? Just add the netmask. --Dano -Original Message- From: Shao Zhang [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 9:10 AM To: Debian Subject: Config multiple ips on one linux box Hi, I am trying to set up seval ip addess on my linux machine. But when I run something like ifconfig eth0:1 203.63.219.30 up arp broadcast 203.63.219.255 I got the following messages: SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device Am I missing something from my kernel(2.2.6)?? If I am, what is it?? Thanks in advance. Shao. -- __ __ 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 -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: Config multiple ips on one linux box
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 04 May 1999 13:18:45 +, Shao Zhang wrote: I think I am missing something in my kernel. Single NIC? You you have multicasting turned on? Multiple NICs? Do you have the NIC portion loaded as a module and aliases properly. Some cards require multiple instances of the module to load properly. - -- 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/AwUBNy5mlHpf7K2LbpnFEQKGlgCfZMxd0JZo9x2b6xs5cswr9gloX3AAoNtd v0s3YCR6YiigTkoVGQ+xhbWh =VMYt -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: LDAP
On 1999-05-03 12:10, Nathan E Norman wrote: Where can I get more information about LDAP? I keep hearing that it's the way to go for a corporate email directory ... I see that Debian has an LDAP server packaged. What should I do to learn the ins and outs of LDAP? OpenLDAP (www.openldap.org) is the only free, actively maintained LDAP server that I am aware of. Check out the mailing list archive, src (which include the relevant RFCs last time that I checked) and of course the links on the web site. Some urls: http://developer.netscape.com/ http://www.umich.edu/~dirsvcs/ldap/doc/guides/slapd/ http://www.hk.super.net/~alan_k/ldap/top.html A (supposely) good hard reference: 'Understanding and deploying LDAP Directory Services' by Tim Howes, Mark Smith and Gordon Good Personally, I found the subject (a little) hard to aproach because of the X.500 legacy and general lack of comprehensive information. It's getting better, but there is still some way to go (IMHO). /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Phone: 781.938.5272 (home) 687 Main Street, 2nd Floor Fax:781.938.6641 (fax/modem) Woburn, MA 01801Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)
Re: Switching windows managers
Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is any software available that makes it easy to switch window managers without having to edit too many ini files. TIA Go to freshmeat.net and look for guichooser. It is a gtk app that works great for switching between window managers, and it is easy to set up. When you startx you get a panel with a list of window managers. You click on the one you want to start and away you go. When you quit that window manager the panel pops up again and you can select a different wm or choose to quit x. -- --- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only dead fish go with the flow. Use Debian/GNU Linux. ---
Help on configuring the mailserver.
Hi, I am trying to configure my system to have smtp pop3. But when I try to send the mail to the machine, I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 203.63.219.177 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 551 '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] not matched: (ERR_104) security violation: remote address not permitted. Giving up on 203.63.219.177. where shao is the user in that machine, and the machine's dns is shao.penuinpowered.com. Where has it gone wrong?? Thanks in advance. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: Config multiple ips on one linux box
Thank you. ip muiticasting fixed the problem. Steve Lamb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 04 May 1999 13:18:45 +, Shao Zhang wrote: I think I am missing something in my kernel. Single NIC? You you have multicasting turned on? Multiple NICs? Do you have the NIC portion loaded as a module and aliases properly. Some cards require multiple instances of the module to load properly. - -- 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/AwUBNy5mlHpf7K2LbpnFEQKGlgCfZMxd0JZo9x2b6xs5cswr9gloX3AAoNtd v0s3YCR6YiigTkoVGQ+xhbWh =VMYt -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: diskless box: fanless too ?
I've ran a few of these. 1) AFAIK you require a fan in a closed case 2) Watch out for condensation a) Can short the junction b) Has dissolved the adhesive on me more than once. I ran a K6/225 for a month with the fan fallen off, before it started sig11-ing and I checked inside. I'm still running that CPU too. It's my one Windows /Linux/USB machine. I was running a junction on a 486SX/16 clocked up to 40 for about a year, until I got my hands on a Cyrix DX2/80, which is running my firewall for now. On Mon, 3 May 1999, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 3 May, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote about Re: diskless box: fanless too ? I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which have a peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of course but I do know such heat sinks exist (I saw and felt one a Comdex last year and boy was it cold!) It is my understanding that you need a fan on a peltier junction otherwise it makes a better heater than a cooler. Especially in a closed environment like a computer case. [snip]
Debian 2.1 install help!
Hi all, I just installed Debian 2.1 on a DX2 100 MHz labtop. I am encountering two problems after the installation, and would appreciate your help. The first one, I first used a 3Com ethernet/modem combo card to do ftp install, but since I do not have a permanant IP, I am actually using the modem. However, I was unable to make the switch, or don't know how. In any case, now if I use pon, it will dial the #, and after it connects, the ethernet card will intervene to look for IP address. Is there a way to terminate ethernet card? Secondly, my X server crashes when I startx. I used xf86config, and thought everything should be fine, but just can't seem to get X to work. Is there a way to troubleshoot this problem? The error message is several pages, and basically it says it cannot find a mode. Is it possible to log the error message? Thanks! Best wishes, Chip
Need Project development Software
I need project development software for linux. It needs to be of the type that is teamwork oriented and allows offsite participation by team members. It must be web or server based so that it runs in a web environment. This is to be used for developing several items of software and other projects. Any suggestions are appreciated especially for GPL software.begin:vcard n:Foster;John x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.advance-computing.com org:AdVance-Computing Systems;WHQ version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Owner note:We Build Multi-Processor Computers adr;quoted-printable:;;Stonetrail Drive=0D=0ASuite A;Plano;Texas;75023-7223;USA x-mozilla-cpt:;22240 fn:John Foster end:vcard
Re: Debian 2.1 install help!
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: I just installed Debian 2.1 on a DX2 100 MHz labtop. I am encountering two problems after the installation, and would appreciate your help. The first one, I first used a 3Com ethernet/modem combo card to do ftp install, but since I do not have a permanant IP, I am actually using the modem. However, I was unable to make the switch, or don't know how. In any case, now if I use pon, it will dial the #, and after it connects, the ethernet card will intervene to look for IP address. Is there a way to terminate ethernet card? Secondly, my X server crashes when I startx. I used xf86config, and thought everything should be fine, but just can't seem to get X to work. Is there a way to troubleshoot this problem? The error message is several pages, and basically it says it cannot find a mode. Is it possible to log the error message? Thanks! You can log the error messages with: [prompt]$ startx myfile.txt 21 Then attach myfile.txt to the problem report. Sorry, I don't know much about PCMCIA. -Mitch
Re: Need Project development Software
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 01:08:09 -0500, John Foster wrote: I need project development software for linux. It needs to be of the type that is teamwork oriented and allows offsite participation by team members. It must be web or server based so that it runs in a web environment. I find this description is quite vague. It's unclear to me whether you are looking for a distributed (client/server) configuration management system, a bug tracking system or something else. In any case, you may want to take a look at http://linas.org/linux/pm.html and http://linas.org/linux/cmvc.html . Several pieces of software described there (like CVS, RCS and Aegis) are packaged for Debian. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: system shutdown from xdm
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 07:32:38PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: If you want anybody to shutdown without password, make /sbin/shutdown a suid executable. Make shutdown a menu choice in your window manager for user friendliness. Don't do the suid thing unless *anybody* logging into your machine should be able to stop it! This includes logging in via network or possibly the internet. It is ok for an unconnected home machine though. You might create a group of trusted people (local perhaps?), change the group of /sbin/shutdown to this group and remove the x bit for 'other': chgrp local /sbin/shutdown chmod o-x /sbin/shutdown Now only user in group local may shutdown the machine. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpYnzGdJiUHO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dosfsck - Root directory has zero size.
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 06:26:21PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My first guess is that dosfsck cannot check fat32 partitions. Hmm. The man page says nothing about Fat16/Fat32 issues. You will need dosfstools-2.0 (potato) for making and checking Fat32 filesystems. If you don't want to switch to libc-2.1, get the source and compile it yourself. It's really easy. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpnkXxEcnxxw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Downgrading potato - slink
Greetings! This question might be stupid, but... Is there a sensible way for downgrading from unstable distribution back to the stable one. This is because web browsing is very important part of my work and Netscape keeps on crashing on potato (propably due to the new glibc?) Also any other solutions to this problem are welcomed... potato is working excellently on my system, if not counting this 'slight' inconvenience. (please reply to me directly as I currently cannot access this list) /Henri Bergius, Webmaster Stonesoft Corp.
W3C needs help to defeat a patent!
See the www.w3.org, and check out it's problem with P3P technology. W3C is working to keep this important security technology in the public domain. They need everyone with the time to research the prior art for this technology in order to get the patent claim rejected. It is currently owned by Seattle software company www.intermind.com. See the W3C site for details on this software and its applications. I will devote space on my website http://www.ompages.com/ to the findings. I will update the responders on the specifics after we discuss matters further. I hope to hear from you. Thank you. -- NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpc62o6zH1UV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Config multiple ips on one linux box
Shao Zhang wrote: ifconfig eth0:1 203.63.219.30 up arp broadcast 203.63.219.255 I got the following messages: SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device Am I missing something from my kernel(2.2.6)?? If I am, what is it?? Did you enable CONFIG_IP_ALIAS in your kernel configuration? -Remco
Re: Printer stopped working with Kernel 2.2 [SOLVED]
Printing now works again, after I disconnected the cheap parallel port scanner attached to the same port as the printer. Seems the parport module handles this in another way than the old 2.0 kernels because they did not have problems to shuffle the print data through the scanner first as the 2.2 has. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: Gnuserv and emacs20
On Sat, 1 May 1999 14:22:24 +0100, Ian Winter [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Ian 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] Ian I'm not sure this is much help but it works fine for me. However I am Ian running emacs20.2-7 (same version of gnuserv though). All I had to do Ian was put this in my ~/.emacs: Ian(gnuserv-start) Hello Ian, now it works again. It looks like the reason was a damaged gnuserv package after a fsck, (although correctly installed). Reinstalling the gnuserv package and doing a M-x gnuserv-start made it work. Thanks anyway -- Peter -- -- Peter Weiss, Riemenschneiderstraße 4, 82008 Unterhaching -- ---The foolish ones taught more to me than the wise ones ever could--- --
Routing problems
I'm having some problems getting my local network up and running again ever since I've upgraded my system from RH5.1 to Debian 2.1. Even ping cannot get throught to my local network... here's my routing table and eth0 configuration Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface localdomain * 255.255.255.0 U 0 02 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 07 lo default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 03 ippp0 (where localdomain is my localnetwork = 192.168.1.0 ) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:B4:5C:70:B9 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:13 TX packets:67 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:9 Base address:0xe000 Besides the IP spoofing protection there are no rules defined with ipfwadm... The message I'm getting from ping (and other apps) is that there's no route to, let's say, host 192.168.1.2. Anyone any suggestions where to look or how to fix the problem??? Thanx, Loek PS. Please reply to my personal email address as well, since I'm not on the debian-user list... -- Loek Engels (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235
Thanks for the reply. Where would we find an xserver-neomagic package? I don't see it in either the stable or the unstable distributions? Hmm, neither could I! But I'm not making this up, seriously! :-) The package itself is xserver-neomagic, a non-free/x11 extra package maintained by Ian Lynagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and it's version 1.1.0-1-1. My guess -- and it's only a guess -- is that with the recent new unstable X that it was deleted so that it could be recompiled. I'd recommend e-mailing Ian to ask what the status is. -- Regards,| Debian GNU/ __ o http://www.debian.org . |/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ http://www.golgotha.net | because lockups should only be for convicts.
Corrupted mouse pointer
Hi, I'm new to Linux and Debian. I've just recently installed Debian 2.1 and XFree86 3.3.3.1. I had everything running great until I did something. Of course I don't know what! My mouse pointer is now a strange square box with vertical lines in it. It moves and works okay around XWindows apps. Does anyone have any idea how I can get my normal mouse pointer back. I've already tried re-installing XFree86 as well as starting with new XF86Setup but still no help. Thanks, Alex.
Re: X server on a Compaq Presario 1235
for the neomagic cards on compaq presarios(i have the 1680) you can now use the svga serverget it from the unstable tree or get it from xfree86.org..there will be no new neomagic-xserver i think because the hardware specs were released to the xfree86 people so they incorporated it into the svga server. here is my xf86config file for reference. regards, jd? ps sorry if it gets mangled . ;) == Section FilesRgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaledFontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaledFontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/#ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modulesEndSection#Section Module#Load xf86Jstk.so#EndSectionSection ServerFlags#NoTrapSignals# DontZap#DontZoom#DisableVidModeExtension# AllowNonLocalXvidtune#DisableModInDev# AllowNonLocalModInDevEndSectionSection KeyboardProtocol Standard AutoRepeat 500 5XkbDisableXkbKeymap xfree86(us)EndSectionSection Pointer#ProtocolMicrosoft# Device /dev/ttyS0ProtocolPS/2Device /dev/psaux Emulate3ButtonsEmulate3Timeout50EndSectionSection Monitor Identifier Generic MultisyncVendorName UnknownModelName UnknownHorizSync 30-64VertRefresh 50-100# 640x480 @ 60 Hz, 31.5 kHz hsyncModeline 640x480 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525# 800x600 @ 60 Hz, 37.8 kHz hsyncModeline 800x600 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync# 1024x768 @ 60 Hz, 48.4 kHz hsyncModeline 1024x768651024 1032 1176 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsyncEndSectionSection DeviceIdentifier NeoMagic#Chipset NM2160#IOBase 0xfea0#MemBase 0xfd00VideoRam 2048#DacSpeed 90#Option linear# Option nolinear#Option sw_cursor#Option hw_cursor# Option no_accel#Option intern_disp#Option extern_disp#Optionmmio#Option no_mmio# Option lcd_center#Option no_stretchEndSectionSection Screen Driver svgaDevice NeoMagicMonitor Generic MultisyncSubsection DisplayDepth 24Modes 800x600 640x480virtual 1024 768 EndSubsectionSubsection DisplayDepth 16Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480virtual 1024 768EndSubsectionSubsection Display Depth 8Modes 1024x768 800x600 640x480 virtual 1024 768EndSubsectionEndSection
finding and using applications
Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get by. Is there a simple way for that user to find every available application on the system, what the application does, and how to use it? I really don't think so. Remember apropos only scans man pages. Looking in /usr/bin isn't much help for finding a tool to do a specific job unless you already know about it. I really believe that any user should be able to step up to the machine and quickly and easily find if an application to do what they want is available. Yes this is available for many applications, but not for all. I believe that this serious problem, which is an impediment to Linuxes mass acceptance could easily be fixed. Debian should not include application that are not fully documented ie have manpages, info pages etc Also some frontend appliction for finding applicatons would be helpful Somethnig based on he code for dselect would probably work fine. Please don't suggest that I write it. I can't. I am only commenting on a feature I would like to see. Please don't ask what type of applicaton I am looking for so you can help me find it. I am not looking for an application. But I would like to be able, and have any users be able, to know what applications are available on my system and how to use them. I would like to be able to get that informantion exclusivly from my computer and not depend on this list, irc, usenet, my big pile of tech books, or any external source. I am root for heavens sake. Strictly from a System administration perspective, There should be a simple way for users to know what apps are available to them. If you know one please let me know it
Re: finding and using applications
A 07:14 04/05/99 -0400, vous avez écrit : Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get by. Is there a simple way for that user to find every available application on the system, what the application does, and how to use it? I really don't think so. Remember apropos only scans man pages. Looking in /usr/bin isn't much help for finding a tool to do a specific job unless you already know about it. I really believe that any user should be able to step up to the machine and quickly and easily find if an application to do what they want is available. Yes this is available for many applications, but not for all. I believe that this serious problem, which is an impediment to Linuxes mass acceptance could easily be fixed. Debian should not include application that are not fully documented ie have manpages, info pages etc Also some frontend appliction for finding applicatons would be helpful Somethnig based on he code for dselect would probably work fine. Please don't suggest that I write it. I can't. I am only commenting on a feature I would like to see. Please don't ask what type of applicaton I am looking for so you can help me find it. I am not looking for an application. But I would like to be able, and have any users be able, to know what applications are available on my system and how to use them. I would like to be able to get that informantion exclusivly from my computer and not depend on this list, irc, usenet, my big pile of tech books, or any external source. I am root for heavens sake. Strictly from a System administration perspective, There should be a simple way for users to know what apps are available to them. If you know one please let me know it -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Why does menu and menu-methods designed for ? but a lot lot of packages are just ignoring adding a menu entry. I agree with Tommy, i actually use the WM's menus to see what's available, but some WM's simply don't bother with menu-method and there is no description. That's a pity, menu system is one of the strength of Debian.
Unstable help.
As with another user I've had problems with unstable. I killed X windows with 3.3.3-1, and can't seem to get it back with 3.3.2. XF86Setup just blanks the screen; returning to the tty1 I just find a segfault message. How much do I need to downgrade? Advice? Secondly, on my laptop, I lost login access (users are 'UNKNOWN') and haven't been able to boot with the root disk. (Terminates Unable to open console.) Even Ctrl-alt-del just reports You don't exist, Go away.. (See my previous message.) Help please... --David
Re: Kernel Source Installation Probs...
Do you have ncurses-dev installed? That output looks like what happened to me when I forgot to install ncurses-dev before building my kernel with menuconfig :( On Mon, 3 May 1999, Brant Wells wrote: Howdy All: How are ya? Last night, I was working on installing the Kernel 2.2.3 Sources. I unpack them and then run 'make menuconfig' and this is what I get... rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC=curses.h -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o In file included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:22: sys/types.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:23: fcntl.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:24: unistd.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:25: ctype.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:26: stdlib.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:27: string.h: No such file or directory dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory lxdialog.c:53: locale.h: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog' make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 Helllp! TIA, Brant -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
Archives
HI, I would like to know if this mailing list is archived somewhere or can we browse it somehow. At the present there are some postings that are uninteresting for me, but it can be important in the future. Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1-431-2977 I am not a cat to play with the mouse.
Re: finding and using applications
dpkg -l | less Fernando T. C. Brandt Instituto de Física | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. de São Paulo | www: http://satie.if.usp.br CP 66318, 05315-970 | tel.: (55) 11 8186718, 99356907 São Paulo - SP - BRAZIL | fax: (55) 11 8186715
Re: finding and using applications
Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get by. Is there a simple way for that user to find every available application on the system, what the application does, and how to use it? To get an idea of what could be available, the debian web pages provide nice descriptions of the packages. To see what is installed on your system, just type $ dpkg -l | less Now if some short description seems interesting, try $ dpkg --print-avail package name Next action would be to see what is in /usr/doc/package name, and to try man and info pages. None of this seems very hard to me. I agree it should be advertised better. [...] A very concise way of finding out what commands are available to you in bash, is typing TAB twice, and then `y'. :) HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
Re: Archives
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 14:28:21 +0200, Urban Gabor wrote: I would like to know if this mailing list is archived somewhere or can we browse it somehow. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
tcplogd causing firewall/proxy to crash
Hi, I'm running a small local net, masqueraded behind one linuxbox, extra. Earlier today, it seems I got portscanned (judging from the logs). Tcplogd (afaik part of Wietse Venema's tcp_wrapper), that is installed with Debian by default logged the attempts nicely, but the logs also show this: [--- a lot of scans deleted ---] May 4 10:19:02 extra tcplogd: port 12 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] May 4 10:19:02 extra tcplogd: netstat connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] May 4 10:20:53 extra kernel: May 4 10:21:41 extra kernel: Out of memory for tcplogd. May 4 10:22:42 extra sshd[187]: log: Generating new 768 bit RSA key. May 4 10:24:30 extra /USR/SBIN/CRON[8088]: (root) CMD (test -f /proc/modules /sbin/rmmod -a) May 4 10:21:21 extra tcplogd: ssh connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] May 4 10:27:35 extra kernel: May 4 10:33:53 extra kernel: Out of memory for tcplogd. After this, my dhcpcd client my sshd client crashed (doesn't show up in the logs, but I noticed when I came home). Strangefully, the telnetd was still running (luckily). The system is a 486dx50 with 8 megs ram. I know this is not too heavy a system, but with no users only having to pass on packets, this shouldn't be happening or am I wrong? Maybe anyone has some pointers on how to tune my system? --nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: finding and using applications
On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 07:14:53AM -0400, Tommy Malloy wrote: Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get by. Good start :) Is there a simple way for that user to find every available application on the system, what the application does, and how to use it? No :) dselect will tell you what packages it knows about and whether they have been installed through dselect. You (or the SysAdmin) are the only one who knows _everything_ that has been installed unless you _never_ install anything except using dselect. dselect will also (usually) give you a fair idea of the purpose of the programme. man foo or info foo will give details (normally) of how to use the particular programme. I really don't think so. Remember apropos only scans man pages. Well, I think you'd have to be looking to do something esoteric indeed if apropros couldn't come up with _something_ to do the job :) Looking in /usr/bin isn't much help for finding a tool to do a specific job unless you already know about it. I really believe that any user BUT : if /usr/bin has files foo,bar,baz then man foo, man bar, man baz will normally quickly give you the missing information. Do this for every file there ... do it NOW :) (I have and I learned a lot of interesting things in the process !) When you have finished there, check out /etc and subdirectories and /usr/sbin. This will take, on a basic system, less than a day. At the end of it you will have a _very_ good idea of what is possible even if you don't memorise every command as you go. should be able to step up to the machine and quickly and easily find if an application to do what they want is available. Yes this is available for many applications, but not for all. Actually, you confused me for a while there with that statement but what I think you are saying is that: if an application is installed and doesn't have man pages then apropos can't tell the user about that application. And furthermore, if no other package that is documented can do the same job then the user forever remains unaware of this application. Well that's true but my experience has been that the undocumented applications are _normally_ lesser used duplications of other documented applications or perform some specialised function. IMHO, in the first case, apropos would point your hypothetical user towards a documented application to achieve the same effect and in the second case, your hypothetical user wouldn't even need to know about that application. I believe that this serious problem, which is an impediment to Linuxes mass acceptance could easily be fixed. Debian should not include application that are not fully documented ie have manpages, info pages etc It is true that _some_ applications are not fully documented. Remember that most of the software is written by volunteers simply because it solved a problem that they (the author) had and therefore there was no need for that author to document the application. These applications have subsequently been released to the public under a variety of licenses. Sometimes the author and sometimes a user of an application later on decides to add documentation so that the rest of us don't have go poking around in the source code to discover every little intricacy. When that happens it's great ... when it doesn't you, the user, are left with two choices : don't use the application until someone else has put in the hard work or put in the hard work and write your own documentation and give back to the community that supplied the programme in the first place. Sometimes if you make the first choice you could be depriving yourself and many others _just_like_you_ of a fine application for a _very_long_time_ Also some frontend appliction for finding applicatons would be helpful Somethnig based on he code for dselect would probably work fine. Please don't suggest that I write it. I can't. I am only commenting You _can_ write it but, for a variety of reasons you _won't_ :) The reasons may include that you hadn't seen a computer until 2 days ago or your wife only allows you 10 minutes/day on the computer etc... but there is no such thing as _can't_ :) on a feature I would like to see. Please don't ask what type of applicaton I am looking for so you can help me find it. I am not looking for an application. But I would like to be able, and have any users be able, to know what applications are available on my system and how to use them. I would like to be able to get that informantion exclusivly from my computer and not depend on this list, irc, usenet, my big pile of tech books, or any external source. I am root for heavens sake. root, God or plain jane doesn't make any difference whatsoever. Nobody who uses any computer or OS
Re: xhosts question..
Howdy Allen: In your $HOME direcotry, edit the file .xinitrc In this file somewhere should be a line that says something like: xhost + blablabla. If you have no need for security (in a small home network like mine...) you can just add in: xhost + and and that should solve the problem. I think you may have to be root to run xhost. I'm not sure. HTH, Brant W. Allen B. Riddell wrote: Ok, I'm using xdm and everything, when I su to root from my normal account and try to use x programs -- the program yells at me and tells me to use xhost to add whatever host to the list of approved addresses... Anyway -- so I get out of the shell and type xhost localhost or something like that -- then I su back and everything works fine. I've read man xhost or xhosts, can't remember which -- but anyway, I can't decipher if there is some file that controls access that I could just add localhost or whatever to and avoid this whole mess in the first place? Can someone help? -abr -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
[SOLVED!!]:Kernel Source Installation Probs
Hey Y'all :) Thanks for the help. It worked!! I don't know what happened--I had the source code installed perfectly before, and then it just went crazy on me... Oh, well--I'm back in business. Thanks! TAL [Thanks A Lot!], Brant
Re: xhosts question..
*- On 3 May, Allen B. Riddell wrote about xhosts question.. Ok, I'm using xdm and everything, when I su to root from my normal account and try to use x programs -- the program yells at me and tells me to use xhost to add whatever host to the list of approved addresses... Anyway -- so I get out of the shell and type xhost localhost or something like that -- then I su back and everything works fine. I've read man xhost or xhosts, can't remember which -- but anyway, I can't decipher if there is some file that controls access that I could just add localhost or whatever to and avoid this whole mess in the first place? Can someone help? I use the following method on my single user home machine. In my root's .login(I run tcsh as roots shell) if ($TERM == xterm-debian) then setenv XAUTHORITY /home/servis/.Xauthority endif Where /home/servis is my normal users home directory. Then all I have do is set the $DISPLAY variable or supply the -display command line option for root programs to use X. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: diskless box: fanless too ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've ran a few of these. 1) AFAIK you require a fan in a closed case 2) Watch out for condensation a) Can short the junction b) Has dissolved the adhesive on me more than once. I ran a K6/225 for a month with the fan fallen off, before it started sig11-ing and I checked inside. I'm still running that CPU too. It's my one Windows /Linux/USB machine. Condensation is one thing I noticed immediately when I saw the one at comdex. It was dripping with it. I figured though that if you had a temperature sensor which would control it, turning it on and off, then this wouldn't be a problem since you don't need to get the processor cold, just keep it not too hot. (Ok, keeping it cold *would* be best but the thought of dripping water inside my case makes me very nervous.) I was running a junction on a 486SX/16 clocked up to 40 for about a year, until I got my hands on a Cyrix DX2/80, which is running my firewall for now. On Mon, 3 May 1999, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 3 May, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote about Re: diskless box: fanless too ? I would think you could do it if you used once of those heat sinks which have a peltier junction on the bottom. I don't know if anyone's tried this of course but I do know such heat sinks exist (I saw and felt one a Comdex last year and boy was it cold!) It is my understanding that you need a fan on a peltier junction otherwise it makes a better heater than a cooler. Especially in a closed environment like a computer case. [snip] -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xwrapper
No, I did not get any help. I will copy the list in on this in hopes of
getting some.
Wayne
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Andreas Kahari wrote:
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 11:07:28 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Andreas Kahari [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [ISO-8859-1] Andreas Kähäri [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Xwrapper
Hello
I saw that you had written the following email to debain-user:
-- your text:
I upgraded to slink now when I run X I get some error about
Xwrapper and not to set the X server to SUID, the error
conveniently does not tell me what package contains Xwrapper.
Where is this file.
Thanks,
wayne
-- end of your text
I have the same problem. Did you get any help?
/A
++
Andreas Kähäri ) There's nothin' wrong with bein' a son of
Info. Tech. ( a bitch.
Dept. of Sci. Comp. ) -- Gaspode the wonder dog
Uppsala University ((T. Pratchett, Moving Pictures)
Sweden )
+{ http://www.tdb.uu.se/ }---+
ldap
Hello all I am starting a ldap server on my machine and I am curious the machine that is ruunning the server is it neccesary to run a databse for that machine I ma configuring the server and adding the entries all by hand and I want to know what ourthe advantages of having a database for ldap well ion actual atabse then by entering or configuring the the ldap databse by hand
Re: DNS time to live lookup delays...
Your TTL already seems to be zero (note the second field in the answer record): chilin$ dig stream.klaradio.com ; DiG 8.1 stream.klaradio.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; stream.klaradio.com, type = A, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: stream.klaradio.com.0S IN A 164.67.190.178 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: klaradio.com. 1d9h40m58s IN NS NS1.klaradio.com. klaradio.com. 1d9h40m58s IN NS NS2.klaradio.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: NS1.klaradio.com. 0S IN A 209.241.149.168 NS2.klaradio.com. 1d9h40m58s IN A 209.241.149.169 ;; Total query time: 3604 msec ;; FROM: chilin to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1 ;; WHEN: Tue May 4 09:46:03 1999 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 37 rcvd: 133 Lev Lvovsky wrote: Hello, I recently set it up so that my linux box runs the klaradio.com domain. I am running my own DNS server off the machine, and I have a few questions: one of the addresses that I'd like to put under a subdomain of the site (stream.klaradio.com) has it's IP changed somewhat frequently (once a month), a guru here at work mention the TTL option in the DNS settings for the site as being updated more frequently than normal for this so that the cache files of other servers aren't outdated...since then the guru has left (*snifff*), and I'm really curiou how to do thismore specifically, would this change the TTL times of the whole site? I assume that it would, as I 've only seen one entry for TTL for a whole zone. Also, I'm running this over an ADSL line 384/384kbps that usually sees around 20Kb/s during peak hours...is it normal for there to be a delay of around 10 seconds for a lookup to be performed by a non-local machine (heh, go ahead, give it a try :). thanks !!! -lev -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Routing problems
Loek Engels wrote: I'm having some problems getting my local network up and running again ever since I've upgraded my system from RH5.1 to Debian 2.1. Even ping cannot get throught to my local network... here's my routing table and eth0 configuration Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface localdomain * 255.255.255.0 U 0 02 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 07 lo default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 03 ippp0 (where localdomain is my localnetwork = 192.168.1.0 ) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:B4:5C:70:B9 inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:13 TX packets:67 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:9 Base address:0xe000 Besides the IP spoofing protection there are no rules defined with ipfwadm... The message I'm getting from ping (and other apps) is that there's no route to, let's say, host 192.168.1.2. Anyone any suggestions where to look or how to fix the problem??? Thanx, Loek PS. Please reply to my personal email address as well, since I'm not on the debian-user list... -- Loek Engels (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Where is your gateway in the routing table did you try adding a gateway route add default gw gateway address
HP 895 e 4 pages by papers
Hi all, Is there support for printing in HP 895 in Debian GNU/Linux? How I print 4 pages in a paper in postscript? Thank you, Paulo Henrique
Re: finding and using applications
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Tommy Malloy wrote: I agree with this one. Now and then I will install a package in which none of the binaries have the same name as the package, and there is no manpage available, so I have to hunt for the application's _name_. It makes one feel very silly, and can be quite frustrating. I think that dselect could use an additional tool to navigate through the contents of packages. I realize that there is a dpkg -l option, but there must be a better way. - Bill Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get by. Is there a simple way for that user to find every available application on the system, what the application does, and how to use it? I really don't think so. Remember apropos only scans man pages. Looking in /usr/bin isn't much help for finding a tool to do a specific job unless you already know about it. I really believe that any user should be able to step up to the machine and quickly and easily find if an application to do what they want is available. Yes this is available for many applications, but not for all. I believe that this serious problem, which is an impediment to Linuxes mass acceptance could easily be fixed. Debian should not include application that are not fully documented ie have manpages, info pages etc Also some frontend appliction for finding applicatons would be helpful Somethnig based on he code for dselect would probably work fine. Please don't suggest that I write it. I can't. I am only commenting on a feature I would like to see. Please don't ask what type of applicaton I am looking for so you can help me find it. I am not looking for an application. But I would like to be able, and have any users be able, to know what applications are available on my system and how to use them. I would like to be able to get that informantion exclusivly from my computer and not depend on this list, irc, usenet, my big pile of tech books, or any external source. I am root for heavens sake. Strictly from a System administration perspective, There should be a simple way for users to know what apps are available to them. If you know one please let me know it -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
FYI: ftp.us.debian.org downtime
For those of you who use ftp.us.debian.org (debian.egr.msu.edu), for ftp/http/rsync access, downtime has been scheduled: Wednesday, 5-5-1999 8-10am EST Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU
RE: ftp.us.debian.org downtime
Please revise your reply list as we received 1444 of your email yesterday and today. Thanks . Baraka ltd. -Original Message- From: Dpk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 10:19 AM To: Debian User List Subject:FYI: ftp.us.debian.org downtime For those of you who use ftp.us.debian.org (debian.egr.msu.edu), for ftp/http/rsync access, downtime has been scheduled: Wednesday, 5-5-1999 8-10am EST Fyi, Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Downgrading potato - slink
What version of netscape are you running? I am running the Debian packaged 4.08 (smotif) on a potato system and it has been extremely stable. I had problems with 4.51 and the downgrade of navigator to an earlier version made quite a difference. Gnome applications are a different story, however (library version incompatibilities). Hopefully this will stablize in the near future. Bob On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 10:43:32AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings! This question might be stupid, but... Is there a sensible way for downgrading from unstable distribution back to the stable one. This is because web browsing is very important part of my work and Netscape keeps on crashing on potato (propably due to the new glibc?) Also any other solutions to this problem are welcomed... potato is working excellently on my system, if not counting this 'slight' inconvenience. (please reply to me directly as I currently cannot access this list) /Henri Bergius, Webmaster Stonesoft Corp. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Lilo F4A
If I install a new system and don't run lilo I sometimes get F4A or something close. Is this prompt usable?
Re: finding and using applications
Would it be too hard to add a verbose type flag that tells exactly what dpkg is installing as it does it? gzip does this by default, so I'd think that since dpkg basically calls gzip, there could be a pass-through switch to turn on verbose reporting with not too much hassle. On Tue, 4 May 1999, William R Pentney wrote: On Tue, 4 May 1999, Tommy Malloy wrote: I agree with this one. Now and then I will install a package in which none of the binaries have the same name as the package, and there is no manpage available, so I have to hunt for the application's _name_. It makes one feel very silly, and can be quite frustrating. I think that dselect could use an additional tool to navigate through the contents of packages. I realize that there is a dpkg -l option, but there must be a better way. - Bill Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get by. Is there a simple way for that user to find every available application on the system, what the application does, and how to use it? I really don't think so. Remember apropos only scans man pages. Looking in /usr/bin isn't much help for finding a tool to do a specific job unless you already know about it. I really believe that any user should be able to step up to the machine and quickly and easily find if an application to do what they want is available. Yes this is available for many applications, but not for all. I believe that this serious problem, which is an impediment to Linuxes mass acceptance could easily be fixed. Debian should not include application that are not fully documented ie have manpages, info pages etc Also some frontend appliction for finding applicatons would be helpful Somethnig based on he code for dselect would probably work fine. Please don't suggest that I write it. I can't. I am only commenting on a feature I would like to see. Please don't ask what type of applicaton I am looking for so you can help me find it. I am not looking for an application. But I would like to be able, and have any users be able, to know what applications are available on my system and how to use them. I would like to be able to get that informantion exclusivly from my computer and not depend on this list, irc, usenet, my big pile of tech books, or any external source. I am root for heavens sake. Strictly from a System administration perspective, There should be a simple way for users to know what apps are available to them. If you know one please let me know it -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lilo F4A
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: : If I install a new system and don't run lilo I sometimes get : F4A or something close. Is this prompt usable? It's the prompt from mbr. Docs in /usr/doc/mbr . -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: Lilo F4A
Thanks, Nathan On Tue, 4 May 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Tue, 4 May 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: : If I install a new system and don't run lilo I sometimes get : F4A or something close. Is this prompt usable? It's the prompt from mbr. Docs in /usr/doc/mbr . -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
LinuxBerg??
Has anyone checkout linuxberg.com. I went there to check out some themes and such, but everything I follow is a windows theme. I even downloaded the LINUXBERG theme and it for win95. That cool since I'm at work and using NT, but what is the deal. I can't seem to find anything fro linux. I'm I just having a brain dead day? Rod
Re: LinuxBerg??
* Person, Roderick said: Has anyone checkout linuxberg.com. I went there to check out some themes and such, but everything I follow is a windows theme. I even downloaded the LINUXBERG theme and it for win95. That cool since I'm at work and using NT, but what is the deal. I can't seem to find anything fro linux. I'm I just having a brain dead day? Hmm :. It's there :)), just check out one of these (there are, of course, more): http://www.linuxberg.com - it will point you to the nearest repository http://icm.linuxberg.com - this is the one I use, it's in Poland, fast connection. cheers, marek pgpYsGdM2GK2R.pgp Description: PGP signature
Linux to VAX
hi there i'm not quite sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'll ask anyways. i would like to port some Linux/UNIX binary files to a VAX machine. i've read that the integers and floats are very different on these machines. does anybody how make these conversion and/or know where i can get more info. are there libraries that does this conversion that is packaged with the Debian dist? i'm just really at a loss as to where to begin. TYA pd
Re: finding and using applications
John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Would it be too hard to add a verbose type flag that tells exactly | what dpkg is installing as it does it? gzip does this by default, so I'd | think that since dpkg basically calls gzip, there could be a | pass-through switch to turn on verbose reporting with not too much | hassle. | | On Tue, 4 May 1999, William R Pentney wrote: | | On Tue, 4 May 1999, Tommy Malloy wrote: | | I agree with this one. Now and then I will install a package in which none | of the binaries have the same name as the package, and there is no manpage | available, so I have to hunt for the application's _name_. It makes one | feel very silly, and can be quite frustrating. | | I think that dselect could use an additional tool to navigate through the | contents of packages. I realize that there is a dpkg -l option, but | there must be a better way. | | - Bill [snip] I'm a little confused about what you're (Tommy) asking here. Documentation for the applications that are in a package is a somewhat different issue than finding out what files a package installed. You can find all the files associated with a particular package using dpkg -L package, e.g., % dpkg -L cvs /. /usr /usr/share /usr/share/doc-base /usr/share/doc-base/cvs /usr/share/doc-base/cvs-client /usr/sbin /usr/sbin/cvsconfig /usr/doc . . . Is this what you wanted? Gary
Using linux to protect a DSL connection.
Hello, I am about to get a DSL connection for my home. I have two systems at my house (debian linux system and a windoze 95). Both of these systems are currently connected to a pipeline 50 (ISDN) router and the pipeline will be replaced by a DSL gateway. My ISP will give me two fixed IP addresses so each system will have it's own unique one. I asked the ISP about firewall protection and if I needed to protect my systems. He had some pretty funny stories about customers who came home to an empty paper tray because someone decided to use their printer (network neighborhood) to print a book or two. His suggestion was to use the linux system to protect the win95 system -OR- make absolutely sure the win95 system didn't have any software that allowed outside access loaded onto it. Ok, my little home network uses samba to serve my linux drive to the old win95 system. I also plan to use it for printers as well. Now the question: How should I protect these systems from outside hack attacks? If I add a second network card to the linux system and set it up as a firewall, will I still use the ISP assigned IP address or will it be wasted? What is the best way to configure the Samba services so it isn't a security leak via the gateway? What else should I think / worry about? Thanks in advance for your time! Doug Thistlethwaite
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #801
- Subject: HP 895 e 4 pages by papers Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 12:58:45 -0300 From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, Is there support for printing in HP 895 in Debian GNU/Linux? How I print 4 pages in a paper in postscript? Thank you, Paulo Henrique Yes; see the following web page for ghostscript drivers http://www.proaxis.com/~mgelhaus/linux/software/hp880c/hp880c.html
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Re: Lilo F4A
Most certainly, the F is for floppy boot, the 4 is for booting from /dev/hda4, and the A is for showing all bootable partitions on /dev/hda. The only drawback to this prompt is that you are strictly limited to /dev/hda--no booting off /dev/hdb at all. It was in the docs the last time I checked (I was running bo at the time), AFAIK the F4A type lilo is a Debian-only degenerate, usually implying that you pressed shift too early in the process in 2.x distributions. On Tue, 4 May 1999, Clyde Wilson wrote: If I install a new system and don't run lilo I sometimes get F4A or something close. Is this prompt usable? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I can be immature if I want to, because I'm mature enough to make my own decisions. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using linux to protect a DSL connection.
How should I protect these systems from outside hack attacks? Use Bridging http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Bridge.html http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Bridge+Firewall.html and IPChains http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html If I add a second network card to the linux system and set it up as a firewall, will I still use the ISP assigned IP address or will it be wasted? This is possible. What is the best way to configure the Samba services so it isn't a security leak via the gateway? Don't allow SMB to get through your firewall. :) Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- | You think you're so smart, but I've seen you naked | | and I'll prob'ly see you naked again ... | | --The Barenaked Ladies, Blame It On Me | --
How to build socks5 for Debian?
Hi! Highly astonished I discovered today that there is no Debian package that provides socks5-compatible clients. So I went out and built socks5-v1.0r9 from the NEC web site. Configuring, building and installing went fine. However, runsocks does not seem to work though: |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/main6/home/mh runsocks telnet localhost 25 |Trying 127.0.0.1... |Segmentation fault |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/main6/home/mh Did anybody successfully build the socks5 package on a Debian system? Any hints will be appreciated. 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: Linux to VAX
On Tue, 4 May 1999, PATRICK DAHIROC wrote: hi there i'm not quite sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'll ask anyways. i would like to port some Linux/UNIX binary files to a VAX machine. i've read that the integers and floats are very different on these machines. does anybody how make these conversion and/or know where i can get more info. are there libraries that does this conversion that is packaged with the Debian dist? i'm just really at a loss as to where to begin. Well, I assume you have source code, because porting a binary file doesn't make a lot of sense to me. The main difference you run into along these lines is what's called endianness. I'd suggest taking a look at the following link for more information: http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/html/endian_faq.html Sincerely, Ray Ingles(248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technically, Windows is an operating system, which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating. - Dave Barry
Re: HP 895 e 4 pages by papers
On 1999-05-04 12:58, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Is there support for printing in HP 895 in Debian GNU/Linux? How I print 4 pages in a paper in postscript? Check out magicfilter and in particular hpdj (either unspec or 850c). For multi-page printing consider mpage, enscript (my favorite), atp?, psptools can do it too (as well as other ps tricks like page reorder). /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Phone: 781.938.5272 (home) 687 Main Street, 2nd Floor Fax:781.938.6641 (fax/modem) Woburn, MA 01801Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)
Re: network printer problems
Subject: network printer problems Date: Mon, May 03, 1999 at 02:17:41PM -0500 In reply to:Marc Mongeon I am not, by any means a printer guru, but. I installed magicfilter and the printcap I made using it, allows me to do: lpr hellow.ps No sweat, no strain. HTH Quoting Marc Mongeon([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am having a heck of a time setting up a virtual postscript printer. I am trying: $ cat hellow.ps | /etc/filter.ps | lpr -Praw where: - Begin hellow.ps - %! /Helvetica findfont 72 scalefont setfont 72 72 moveto (Hello, world!) show showpage - Begin filter.ps - #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=laserjet -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- - - Begin printcap - raw:\ :lp=:\ :rm=###.###.###.###:\ :rp=LPT1_PASSTHRU:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/service_ps:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: A blank sheet is spit out when the command is executed. The printer is an Okidata OL830 Plus, set to emulate the HP LaserJet Series II. The print server is an Intel NetportExpress 10/100. I can print plain text fine (echo hello | /etc/filter.pcl | lpr -Praw), where: - Begin filter.pcl - #!/bin/sh # This is a simple filter for PCL language printers, i.e., most # HP DeskJet printers (see /etc/printcap). # reset the printer to its defaults echo -ne \\033\E # to avoid stair-stepping, convert LF to CR+LF echo -ne \\033\k2G # print text cat # form feed echo -ne \\f # reset the printer on exit echo -ne \\033\E - End - I understand that my final printer setup will not use a raw printer, but will have the appropriate filter specified as if= in the printcap entry-- I am only using this setup for debugging. I've tried different Postscript input, several different HP *jet device types, etc. Do I need to pass gs some additional switches to get the PCL output right? Is the Postscript input somehow flawed? I have spent a couple of days on this now, and am at my wit's end. Your help is appreciated. Marc Mongeon P.S. Here's some pertinent package information: Package: gs Version: 5.10-1 Package: lpr Version: 1:0.33-3 Package: gsfonts Version: 5.10a-1 Package: gsfonts-other Version: 5.10-1 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Old programmers never die. They just branch to a new address. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apt and non-standard directory structure
Hi, Yet Another Newbie Seeking Help. I have a Debian mirror upstream from my ISP from which reasonable download speeds can be achieved and the following directory structure: ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub/Linux/distributions/debian/main/binary-i386/. Notice the missing dists/stable between debian and main? I've downloaded and installed the base system and everything worked as advertised. With a statement in the debian-tutorial and trial and error I managed to convince apt to update the package list with the following entry in etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub/Linux/distributions/debian main/binary-i386/. However, when I select install in dselect, apt parses? dists/stable between debian and main with predicted results. Is it possible to overide apt's default settings or should I try and get the mirror fixed. I've read the F(ine) manual, scanned the archives, searched DejaNews with no results. Any help would be appreciated. Christo Barnard.
Re: How to build socks5 for Debian?
wrt no extant packages:
Read the license - not very nice... you might
take a peek at DANTE (free socks4/5 client/server)
wrt it not working:
ah... you're on potato...
runsocks works fine on glibc-2.0(slink), but fails with
glibc-2.1(potato).
Note that you can use NEC socks to socksify, at compilation,
and it will run fine on potato, its just runsocks that fails.
I don't know of anyone who has managed to track this far enough
to point fingers at the culprit yet ;-{
--
Rick Nelson
C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\GO C:\PC\CRAWL
Re: Lilo F4A
On Tue, 4 May 1999, John Galt wrote: : : Most certainly, the F is for floppy boot, the 4 is for booting from : /dev/hda4, and the A is for showing all bootable partitions on /dev/hda. : The only drawback to this prompt is that you are strictly limited to : /dev/hda--no booting off /dev/hdb at all. It was in the docs the last : time I checked (I was running bo at the time), AFAIK the F4A type lilo : is a Debian-only degenerate, usually implying that you pressed shift too : early in the process in 2.x distributions. Nope - the prompt has nothing to do with LILO - it's generated by mbr, from the mbr package. Docs in /usr/doc/mbr . mbr is installed when you press Y in response to Install a boot block on the first disk? during the initial install. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
X sudo?
At times I find myself wishing for a root login in X without using a terminal, such as when run wine on my mounted DOS partition, or edit the KDE menus. Does anyone know of a good sudo/su type program with an X/KDE/GNOME interface? (I switch to GNOME now and then ...) - thanks, Bill
frame buffer ati rage fury
HI, I'm new with linux (3 weeks), and I wasn't able to set frame buffer with my ATI rage fury (rage 128 GL cpu) since 3 days. The text part is working very well (I respond 0x0317 to the vga=ask lilo line, and I get 1024x768x16 text mode Ok) The docs are not very helpfull, since, even together, I wasn't able to determine the use of Xvfb, toward XF86_FBDev... My XF86Config file is just like the framebuffer.txt says, but it still don't work! If anybody have an answer, he (she?) will be VERY WELCOME!! JY -- jybarbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] BOYCOTT INTEL, VISIT http://www.bigbrotherinside.com
