Re: [linux-apoio] ATENCAO: StarOffice 5.1 esta liberado!!!
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Clovis Sena wrote: Vi no http://www.linuxtoday.com que esta liberada a nova versao do startoffice. O StartOffice 5.1 esta disponivel em http://www.startdivision.com. O endereço é http://www.stardivision.com wringles
efax
Hello, i've installed efax and try to run it with KsendFax. I've put the following line into the preferences of KsendFax: fax send '@@Phone' '@@FName' I get the following error Can't open pre-lock file /var/lock/LCK../TMP..04391 How can i solve this problem Cuno
intent to orphan: spamdb
i'm finding that the spamdb is of little use these days, as most MTAs today have built-in support for RBL, the DUL RBLs, rejecting mail from unknown domains, and postfix even has regexp header checking now. i had intended to rewrite the package properly in perl - i've always considered the current sh script versions to be just a proof of concept...but it hardly seems worth the effort now, most spam can be filtered out long before spamdb gets involved. i really don't have time to do much work on a package which isn't very useful any more. (another issue is that all the cron-job downloads of SpamDomains and Spammers and SpamNets from my home web server makes my internet connection very slow for most of every Sunday) comments?? craig -- craig sanders
Wierd error w/make-kpkg
I just got the newest potato debs (which included a new kernel-package, v 6.13). Astra:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.2 kernel_image Error: The revision string may only contain alphanumerics and the characters + . The current value is: custom.1.2 Aborting. I've compiled at least a dozen kernel variations using make-kpkg, and I might be losing my mind, but I swear this is the syntax I've been using all along. Also, this is the syntax suggested in the docs, the man page, and even in the stupid error message! Dazed and Confused, Steve
Re: zxip??
Person, Roderick wrote: was I in some haze or fog or was it just to late at night, but wasn't there a package called xzip or some type of .zip .tar frontend for x. Does anyone know? I can't seem to find anything in slink. Rod After selecting select hit space bar and then type / you can then enter xzip for example and you get (at least on my slink system): * Xzip interprets story-files (which are usually text adventure games) in the format used by Infocom. This includes the games published by Infocom, as well as any games produced by compilers to this format, such as Inform. This is an interpreter for X. For text mode, try frotz. * You could also follow the steps as described above but enter zip then press the \ key to cycle through all entries in dselect with the word zip. I'm not exactly sure what you are looking for but possibly this might help you find it:) hth, kent
LILO is yet available for linux/m68k...?
yeah, i am still staying this step. i can't make bootable directory on the harddisk, also floppy. it shows me like subject message. what's problem?
pppconfig/pon/poff problem
My provider has decided to change their login prompts, and as such this has caused me a little confusion. My problem seems to be related to the pppconfig/pon/poff commands. Here goes :- I have two pppconfig setups for my current provider, because sometimes when logging in I get a username/password combination, and other times a login/password combination. As I could'nt seem to find a way to tell pppconfig that my provider sometimes uses one, and other times the other I have both available. However the second script (the one for the login/password combination) does not run correctly, what happens is that I get the exact same script running as if I run the first (and primary) script, eg the provider script. Has anyone else had the same problem with the pppconfig scripts? Any information at all about this would be very handy as I don't like the extra phone bill expense of having to ring in four or five times just to get a usable prompt sequence. I can handle ringing twice (if the first time does not work), but I do not wish to ring in anymore than that. Regards, Peter Ludwig
DOS Partition and FSTAB
I've just installed Debian LINUX, and am teaching myself with the user tutorial. I put it on a second hard drive I have. I alloted 300 meg for Debian LINUX, 15 meg for a swap partition, and left 100 meg formatted for DOS as a scratch area. The installation program only set up FSTAB for my two LINUX partitions, but didn't have a line for my DOS partition. I want to add a line in for it, so I can download NETSCAPE, then depack and install it on my LINUX partition. Unfortunately, I don't know what name I should be using for the mount point for this partition. Appreciate any hints. I'm not a subscriber to this list, so appreciate any answers directed directly to my mail box. Frank Starr
latex and memory related
Hi,
I drew a simple box in xfig and used it to generated a latex file.
The file looks like this:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\unitlength}{4144sp}%
%
\begingroup\makeatletter\ifx\SetFigFont\undefined%
\gdef\SetFigFont#1#2#3#4#5{%
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\fontfamily{#3}\fontseries{#4}\fontshape{#5}%
\selectfont}%
\fi\endgroup%
\begin{picture}(3804,2679)(2104,-5338)
\thinlines
\special{ps: gsave 0 0 0
setrgbcolor}\put(2116,-5326){\framebox(3780,2655){}}
\special{ps: gsave 0 0 0
setrgbcolor}\put(3331,-4786){\framebox(1395,1620){}}
\end{picture}
\end{document}
But, the latex command used about 70MB ram when it process the file,
and the dvips used just about the same ram. See below:
3916 shao 10 0 85788 83M 580 R 0 93.3 66.7 3:13 dvips
Is this normal?? What is the recommanded way to export the stuff from
xfig to latex??
Thanks.
Shao.
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Re: Wierd error w/make-kpkg
SG == Steve Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SG Astra:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.2 kernel_image SG Error: The revision string may only contain SG alphanumerics and the characters + . SG The current value is: custom.1.2 SG Aborting. SG I've compiled at least a dozen kernel variations using SG make-kpkg, and I might be losing my mind, but I swear this is SG the syntax I've been using allSG along. Obviously, this is a bug in the package. Did you file a bugreport? Ciao, Martin
Re: Red Hat brouhaha??
I noticed to that Slashdot is kinda folded and the article swap. Shall we tell cloak and dagger stories about RH backdoors into servers to disable anti-RH propaganda? Wait, they're monitoring the list..they've got me!!! ah!!! Debian user to the very end...Viva le GNU/Linux go to www.linux.com and look in the upper right hand corner RH..take that *runs away* :) Jayson At 07:37 PM 5/20/99 -0700, you wrote: Ok, what the heck is up? I hear runblings of Red Hat threatening Linuxcare with a lawsuit, then an article appears on slashdot, it is taken down, another article appears and slashdot is off the air? Anybody see the articles before the site was nuked or have any idea what this is all about? It shure LOOKS like RH is playing Evil Empire here. George Bonser Welcome to Wit's End -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cyillic only) http://www.concentric.net/~jsbaird ICQ UIN: 19560609
Re: Basic SCSI question
On %M 0, Randy Edwards wrote I don't have any experience with Linux and SCSI drives and was wondering if someone could give me some basic-level/newbie pointers on SCSI setup. The computer has an AdvanSys card in it and I've recompiled the kernel with advansys, generic SCSI, and SCSI CD-ROM support. This seems okay as dmesg reports: scsi0 : AdvanSys SCSI 3.1E: PCI Ultra-Wide: BIOS C8000/7FFF, IO E800/3F, IRQ 10 scsi : 1 host. Vendor: YAMAHAModel: CRW4416S Rev: 1.0f Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total. sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54 SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1785 [8715 MB] [8.7 GB] Similarly, a cat of /proc/scsi/scsi reports: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416S Rev: 1.0f Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 An output of cat /proc/devices reveals: Block devices: 2 fd 3 ide0 8 sd 11 sr 22 ide1 That all looks okay (I guess) but I cannot access the devices. I did a /dev/MAKEDEV update and I have these devices in /dev: brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 May 18 22:59 sda brw-rw 1 root disk 11, 0 May 18 22:59 scd0 If I try to do an fdisk /dev/sda I get a message of Unable to read /dev/sda along with: May 19 06:13:21 spartacus kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 return code = 2504 May 19 06:13:21 spartacus kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Similarly, a command of mount /dev/scd0 /mnt gives this info in /var/log/messages: May 19 06:13:21 spartacus kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 return code = 2504 May 19 06:13:21 spartacus kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 May 19 06:15:35 spartacus kernel: sr00:00: old sense key None May 19 06:15:49 spartacus kernel: Non-extended sense class 0 code 0x0 3sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Start/Stop Unit 00 00 00 03 00 May 19 06:15:49 spartacus kernel: sr00:00: old sense key None May 19 06:15:49 spartacus kernel: Non-extended sense class 0 code 0x0 6cdrom: open failed. May 19 06:15:59 spartacus kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 55, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Prevent/Allow Medium Removal 00 00 00 00 00 May 19 06:15:59 spartacus kernel: SCSI error: host 0 id 2 lun 0 return code = 2504 May 19 06:15:59 spartacus kernel: ^ISense class 0, sense error 0, extended sense 0 May 19 06:16:09 spartacus kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 56, scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00 May 19 06:16:09 spartacus kernel: SCSI error: host 0 id 2 lun 0 return code = 2504 May 19 06:16:09 spartacus kernel: ^ISense class 0, sense error 0, extended sense 0 Any advice, RTFM pointers, or tips would be appreciated. I'm guessing I don't have the devices set up properly, but perusing docs and howtos didn't turn up anything. Thanks in advance. -- Regards, | A contribution by Microsoft Corporation to South Carolina's .| Republican Party during the 1998 campaign preceded a decision Randy| by the state's GOP attorney general to withdraw from an | antitrust suit against the computer software giant. | Source: API, 24 December 1998 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null It looks like the problem is with the SCSI chain itself, from the error messages (not that I am an expert, but I've used an Advansys card successfully). There are a few things you can check/try: - SCSI disk support SCSI CDROM support are separate options to SCSI support in recent kernels; double-check that you have them selected in your kernel config. - Make sure that termination is enabled on the devices at the two ends of the cable (e.g., the card the CDROM), but not on other devices; set the termination manually, rather than using 'auto' termination, if possible; - Make sure that the last device on each end of the SCSI cable is at the end of the cable (i.e., no empty sockets at either 'end'); - Use the Advansys BIOS to set the SCSI buss speed low, in case one of both devices can't keep up; - Try replacing the SCSI cable; - Make sure you are using a proper SCSI cable: SCSI has rules about how far apart devices should be (there is a minimum required cable length between devices,
Re: weird problem after using xf86config
On %M 0, Christensen wrote I'm very new to Linux--in fact just got the Linux/Windoze (I've learned to spell it that way!) dual boot to work with LILO. First I tried XF86Setup, but could not get past the mouse config. I have a Microsoft PS2 mouse with wheel, so checked off PS2 and /dev/psaux (as suggested in the Control-Escape website). This didn't work, and I couldn't get past this point in XF86Setup, so I tried xf86config. It seemed to go well, and I believe that I entered all the parameters correctly. I used SuperProbe to learn that I have an ATI 3D Rage II+ with 2048K of memory and the ATI Mach64 chipset. Now when I start Linux I get a colorful screen with the sign-on prompt. After signing on I get a solid blue screen, and any key that I hit just beeps. The key sequence Ctl-Alt-Bksp just re-displays the sign-on screen. All I can do at this point is turn the power off; even Ctl-Alt-Del won't do anything! While running X and using the VT that X is running on, the XServer intercepts your keystrokes and the keystrokes you use at the console (Alt-Fn, Ctl-Alt-Del, etc.) don't work; to swap back to a regular console prompt without killing XDM, go Ctrl-Alt-Fn instead. When you log in, the XServer should start a window manager; some of these (e.g. TWM, the default XFree window manager) may not produce any visible sign that they are running. Try right-clicking on the desktop (if that doesn't work, try left-clicking or centre-clicking). Is there any way to get back to where I was before this mess? If all else fails, Ctrl-Alt-F1 then login as root, and run dpkg --purge xdm to stop it automatically starting the X login screen when you boot, or /etc/init.d/xdm stop to stop it until the next reboot (or next '/etc/init.d/xdm start'). You can still run X by logging on to the console, and then typing startx If it turns out you really are running twm and everything is more-or-less OK, I suggest that you install icewm or windowmaker and use that instead; edit /etc/X11/window-managers to move your choice of window managers to the top of the list, which makes it the system default. Good luck, John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: network configuration
On %M 0, Peter Iannarelli wrote Hello Matthew: To change the IP address, network, etc of you NIC to into /etc/init.d/network. You will see everything you need there. Peter It may also be necessary to edit /etc/networks, and perhaps /etc/hosts. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: DOS Partition and FSTAB
Edit /etc/fstab to add a line like: /dev/hdb2 /dos msdos defaults,user,umask=000,noexec,auto 0 0 To find the mount point, run /fdisk /dev/hdb' and give the p command. Bob On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 10:02:32PM -0400, ... wrote: I've just installed Debian LINUX, and am teaching myself with the user tutorial. I put it on a second hard drive I have. I alloted 300 meg for Debian LINUX, 15 meg for a swap partition, and left 100 meg formatted for DOS as a scratch area. The installation program only set up FSTAB for my two LINUX partitions, but didn't have a line for my DOS partition. I want to add a line in for it, so I can download NETSCAPE, then depack and install it on my LINUX partition. Unfortunately, I don't know what name I should be using for the mount point for this partition. Appreciate any hints. I'm not a subscriber to this list, so appreciate any answers directed directly to my mail box. Frank Starr -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: apt-get and two cds
You need to use dselect and set the installation method to dpkg-multicd (need to get this package) or use the astill-in-beta apt-cdrom package. -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
partition resizing application
hello all ... anyone here know of an application w/c can allow me to resize my ext2 partition to make room for a BSD partition ? TIA, Chad
Re: Wierd error w/make-kpkg
SG == Steve Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SG Astra:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.2 kernel_image SG Error: The revision string may only contain SG alphanumerics and the characters + . SG The current value is: custom.1.2 SG Aborting. SG I've compiled at least a dozen kernel variations using SG make-kpkg, and I might be losing my mind, but I swear this is SG the syntax I've been using all SG along. Obviously, this is a bug in the package. Did you file a bugreport? Not yet, I'd really rather have someone duplicate the behavior before I start annoying one of our (fine, underpaid, and under-appreciated) package maintainers with a spurious bug report. How about it? Has anyone tried make-kpkg --revision=custom.x.x with latest kernel-package? (btw: I tried make-kpkg without the --revision parameter and it worked fine.) Thanks, Steve
Re: pppconfig/pon/poff problem
Peter Ludwig writes:
I have two pppconfig setups for my current provider, because sometimes
when logging in I get a username/password combination, and other times a
login/password combination. As I could'nt seem to find a way to tell
pppconfig that my provider sometimes uses one, and other times the other
I have both available.
I assume that the ISP sometimes sends 'username:' and sometimes 'login:'?
Try a script that expects just ':' instead of 'name:' or 'ogin:'.
However the second script (the one for the login/password combination)
does not run correctly, what happens is that I get the exact same script
running as if I run the first (and primary) script, eg the provider
script.
The problem is probably with pppd, as pon is just
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/pppd call ${1:-provider}
To test this try typing
/usr/sbin/pppd call provider_name
where 'provider_name' is the name you've given the connection that is
giving you trouble.
Has anyone else had the same problem with the pppconfig scripts?
I've never heard of it before (and as pppconfig author and maintainer I
would). Please send me copies of the offending provider files.
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Re: Red Hat brouhaha??
Ok, what the heck is up? I hear runblings of Red Hat threatening Linuxcare with a lawsuit, then an article appears on slashdot, it is taken down, another article appears and slashdot is off the air? It seemed to me that slashdot was off the air two days ago. At least I could not get on for the whole morning and afternoon, and judging from the amount of comments on most articles, so couldnt most of users. NOthing was said about it, however. What are those rumblings about RH? Any online source? Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
A Linux CIA(Red Hat Bruhaha)?
I say we form a watchdog committee called the Linux CIA :) it seems like slashdot's crash came from the grassy knoll and NOT the book depository...h...All I know is..I glanced something on Redhat and Linux care, and Rob is out at LinuxExpo I believe...I don't know if I can go without slashdot for this long :) Jayson It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cyillic only) http://www.concentric.net/~jsbaird ICQ UIN: 19560609
Re: Wierd error w/make-kpkg
Hi, This is what comes of coding when you have a fever. I thik I made a mistake in the regexp. I'll have a new version out toonight. manoj Steve == Steve Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve I just got the newest potato debs (which included a new Steve kernel-package, v 6.13). Steve Astra:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.2 kernel_image Steve Error: The revision string may only contain Steve alphanumerics and the characters + . Steve The current value is: custom.1.2 Steve Aborting. Steve I've compiled at least a dozen kernel variations using Steve make-kpkg, and I might be losing my mind, but I swear this Steve is the syntax I've been using all along. Also, this is the Steve syntax suggested in the docs, the man page, and even in the Steve stupid error message! Steve Dazed and Confused, Steve Steve -- I never loved another person the way I loved myself. Mae West Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
Re: gdm/xdm/login.app weirdnesses
On 20 May, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: [ cross-posting is not welcomed, btw ] sorry, i'll keep that in mind next time. fairly new to mailing lists, i'm afraid =) On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 04:05:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running potato and till recently was running XDM with login.app to give the login screen a nice clean look. Then GDM (Gnome Display Manager) showed up in unstable so i grabbed it. Next time i rebooted, it gave me the gnome login screen and my mouse works, but for some odd reason it disables my keyboard. The kb works through bootup but once it goes to the gdm login screen my led lights won't even come on off. gdm is fighting with getty over the keyboard. I'd guess there's a file called /etc/X11/gdm/Xservers. You'll need to modify the entry for the local server and add vt7 to it, like this: :0 local /usr/bin/X11/X vt7 thanks for the tip! i'll be sure to do this if i ever get up the nerve to try gdm again. i don't get all the hoopla over gnome, anyway...just a bunch of programs that look alittle like windows apps, seems to me. (of course, replace vt7 with whatever it's ok for your system) i will need to know what this vt7 thing means before i can know what's okay for my system... Is it simply a bug in GDM? I suppose i'll see... it's a bug in ... in ... no, wait, it's not really a bug. It's a deficency in the start up process. Basically, *dm should be run after everything else, namely, after the getty's are spawned. This is not the case. *dm is launched _almost_ after everything. But as you and several other people have found out, almost doesn't do it. -- -Jared Johnson
Re: A Linux CIA(Red Hat Bruhaha)?
Freshmeat is fine here. Sean George Bonser wrote: On Fri, 21 May 1999, Jayson Baird wrote: I say we form a watchdog committee called the Linux CIA :) it seems like slashdot's crash came from the grassy knoll and NOT the book depository...h...All I know is..I glanced something on Redhat and Linux care, and Rob is out at LinuxExpo I believe...I don't know if I can go without slashdot for this long :) Looks like freshmeat is down too. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Netelligent problem solved
Hello to all, sometimes is worthwhile to take a closer look at the network card. Reading related postings in related news groups I found that there are different Netelligent cards, which use different chip sets. The newer cards, like the one we have here uses an Intel chip and not this tlan set. Therefore the tlan module did not work. Choosing the eepro (Intel EtherExpress) driver from the installation menu solved the problem. Everything works fine now. Thank to all who relpied to my questions. Have fun, Markus -- Dr. Markus WOLLGARTEN http://www.iap.ethz.ch/users/wollgarten/index.html
Re: wmware on Debian
On %M 0, Martin Bialasinski wrote SL == Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SL Yup. Personally, I think for developers VMWare is something of a SL godsend. Imagine this simple situation, run VMWare on your SL machine, give it ~16Mb or so, and then run Debian inside Debian. SL The outer Debian is stable, the inner is unstable. Currently I do something I do it the other way around. I run Debian 2.0 on my 2.1 box. And it is fast enough. I compiled ~50% of the In case it hasn't occured to you, this really isn't a good idea. If they both work anyway, then it doesn't matter; but if unstable is less reliable or changing faster than stable (as seems reasonable) it makes more sense to make your unstable, high-risk environment dependent on your stable, low-risk environment than the other way around. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Environment variables and X
Hi all: Where is the proper place to set environment variables, so that they would propagate to X apps? I need to set HTTP_PROXY variable (for Xemacs/W3). I found out that neither ~/.bashrc nor ~/.profile are parsed during login into GUI (I'm using wdm FWIW). I start Xemacs with a shortcut (not from an xterm). Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin = ... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world... (S. Kierkegaard)
Re: partition problem
On %M 0, Ookhoi wrote Hi Hammy, I'm having a problem partitioning my hard drive with the install program. Once I run install.bat, I can setup the colour monitor and the keyboard. The next step is to partition the hard drive and this is where I am having problems. I keep getting the following error: 'Fatal error: Bad primary partition. Press any key to exit.' I have a 1.2 GB hard drive that is formatted with fat16. I also tried the install from floppy but I get the same error. I hope someone can help me. I'm really interested in getting this working. Maybe you have more luck with the Linux fdisk? I had problems too with the partitionprogram that is used with the installation. Hammy may have a bad partition table, or a boot sector virus, or he may be using some proprietary partitioner (maybe, to let an ancient BIOS access 1.2G). If he's happy to blow away the old partition table, he can zero it and the boot sector before the partitioning stage, using the utilities on the install disk. Here's how, assuming we're talking about hda: - Boot the install disk, to the 'Select color/monochrome' screen or so; - Alt-F2, and press return to activate the console, like it says: you now have a root prompt; - Insert a formatted floppy disk into your floppy drive and type cat /dev/hda | dd bs=512 count=1 /dev/fd0 to backup your current boot sector and partition table; - Type the command cat /dev/zero | dd bs=512 count=1 /dev/hda to zero out your hard disk's boot sector; - Alt-F1, and continue. Should it prove necessary, and if you don't get to formatting partitions or installing the kernel, you can restore your original boot sector by typing cat /dev/fd0 | dd bs=512 count=1 /dev/hda The caveats about backups in the installation instructions apply doubly if you do this kind of thing, of course. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
playmidi and sb16pnp synth (works!!)
I really gave up months ago getting the fm synth on my Creative Labs ViBRA16X PnP sound card working. A while ago I got the debian source package for playmidi_2.3-22 to find the *.o3 and *.sb patches, but never could figure anything out. I just happened to tinker around a bit with the source package yesterday and found that it made a /etc/playmidi directory which I did not have before. So I made a package of it and installed it. And the result ? Still no fm synth sound. So I checked it out. In /etc/playmidi: Only one empty playmidi.conf file. ??? Fortunately I had the copies of *.o3 and *.sb in /etc from my earlier tries and moved them to /etc/playmidi - and voila: playmidi *.mid now worked! I still cannot figure out what happened to the *.o3 and *.sb patches in /etc/playmidi. I've tried to dpkg -r playmidi and making sure there is no /etc/playmidi or *.o3 and *.sb patches, then reinstalling playmidi, but *.o3 and *.sb still does not get installed. I've checked the *.deb and they are there. Only preinst seems to have some reference to the files, but seemingly none that would do anything to prevent them from being installed. Any ideas ?? Also, does anyone have any ideas on using the *.o3 patches by using playmidi -4 or *.sb with playmidi -f is better with the soundcard I'm using ? Are there any tools to modify the patches or creating new ones ? Thanks in advance Roy Unsolicited commercial email with be billed at $350/message Roy Larsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To send me an email remove the `nospam.' part from the address.
diald-0.99
I'm running Debian 2.1 (slink) with some occasional packages from potato (recompiled from the sources). Is there any reason why the diald package has not been updated since 0.16.5 ? I don't know if it works better or anything, but I debianized the diald-0.99 tarball and installed it and now I'm using the ethertap stuff, and if I remember correctly, the routing table is updated correctly when diald connects and disconnects. Just curious. Roy Unsolicited commercial email with be billed at $350/message Roy Larsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To send me an email remove the `nospam.' part from the address.
Re: problem with my system includes
P == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P I cd /usr/include P there I do this: P ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm P ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux P ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi P ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/net net No. Debian stopped doing this for long. And with the 2.2 kernels, Linus officially blessed this practise. We have headers of a well known kernel in /usr/include, not the one you currently build your kernel with. You will note that the README in the kernel source doesn't tell you any more to do these links. See /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.Debian.gz There you will also find a fixe for your problem with compiling the vmware drivers. Note that you can also extract and build the drivers seperatly from the installation by extracting driver-only.tar and vmnet-only.tar P Then I recompile my kernel. Will that take care of it? It would, even without recompiling the kernel (it is not related to the problem). If you really want, you could set the links for linux and net during the compilation of the vmware drivers, but reestablish the correct state afetrwards. P I know I have an old kernel image installed when I installed P Debian. Will I also have to find and remove it? There is nothing to fix, as nothing is broken. Ciao, Martin
Re: A Linux CIA(Red Hat Bruhaha)?
HA HA HA AHA HA HAHAH HHHA AH AHAHAHAH A!!! Grasssy Knoll my drunk ass ha ha hah is JFK from propaganda.themes.org involved? Ha ha ha hah aha LOL LOL
Re: A Linux CIA(Red Hat Bruhaha)?
George Bonser wrote: On Fri, 21 May 1999, Jayson Baird wrote: I say we form a watchdog committee called the Linux CIA :) it seems like slashdot's crash came from the grassy knoll and NOT the book depository...h...All I know is..I glanced something on Redhat and Linux care, and Rob is out at LinuxExpo I believe...I don't know if I can go without slashdot for this long :) Looks like freshmeat is down too. Looks up to me. /. is still down, tho. Isn't Rob still working stuff out with the new server? -- . . [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /-\ (-) /-\ Debian GNU/Linux
UltraDMA disks and debian
Hi,
I just bought a IDE UDMA Harddrive (/dev/hda). I installed Slink on a
second non-UDMA drive (/dev/hdb).
When I boot on this drive (/dev/hdb1) with my kernel, I get fsck messages
and this kind of error messages:
ide0 irq timeout: status=0xd2 { Busy }
hda: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide0: reset: success
... and sometimes VFS kernel panic ... etc
So, I wonder if there are any problem with UltraDMA drive and linux
kernels.
Does anyone have an answer to this ?
Thanx.
Jerome.
PLIP
hi... I bought myself a spanking new sencondhand laptop, and has eversince tried to get PLIP up and running on it. I get everything right, and pinging works fine. But the moment I try something with more content like ftp or telnet, all I get is Connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... and then it just looks at me and does nothing. The laptop (Beeblebrox) is running a base slink system, and my box is running slink with kernel 2.2.1. I've compiled plip.o, (and figured out the generic parport stuff), and got everything working. The boxes are connected with a Laplink parallel cable. The confusing thing is that I can ping across, but nothing else. I've already checked my hosts.allow and hosts.deny files, but since the connection is already made, I don't think it's that. I can also do 'ftp localhost' on my box, so ftpd is working please help... :) Jack _ Jack Versfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +27 21 883 9303 Minicall: 08800 62616 _
mutt samba Lock count exceeded, remove lock?: [y]
Hello, recently, my father began reporting an error when trying to save from mutt to a samba-mounted (W95) drive. Saving locally works fine. The message is: Lock count exceeded, remove lock?: [y] Responding one way simply pops up the message again, the other way the save is aborted. Any suggestions, please? I've a mixed hamm/slink system: hi base-files 2.0Debian Base System Miscellaneous Files hi kernel-source-2 2.0.36-2 Linux kernel source. ii libc5 5.4.46-3 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries hi mutt-i 0.93i-1.1 Text-based mailreader supporting MIME, PGP a hi netstd 3.07-2 Networking binaries and daemons for Linux hi samba 1.9.18p8-2 A LanManager like fileserver and simple clie hi smbfs 2.0.2-5Mount and umount commands for the smbfs. (libc6 is version 2.0.7.19981211-6) TIA Jiri -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with From , but no-one remembers why.
Macintosh IIvx (Performa 600)
I downloaded debian m68k last week from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-m68k/ and get one strange problem. After a short while the Keyboard is dead - except the Reset - and sometimes the screen becomes completely white. The system is still running ! If I press the NMI-Button the screen awakes and I see the prompt, but the keyboard still dont react. Is there a kind of screen-saver in the standard-kernel ? How can I manage, the keyboard not to die. This problem happened even while the Installation-Process. I could install the system only in small parts with a reboot every time the keyboard died. There is no additional hardware installed in the Macintosh, but cd-rom and harddisk are not apple-original but works fine under MacOS. The Harddisk is a quantum fireball 2110 (very slow). Regards Guido Dampf
Logitech cordless mouse user?
Hi, I was trying to use a Logitech TrackMan Live! on X windows, but cannot seem to get it work so far. If there were success on this mouse, please tell me what setting I should choose it get it work. If this mouse is not yet supported, I'd like to know if other Logitech cordless mice had any success at all (such as cordless MouseMan Pro). Thanks! Best wishes, Chip
Re: wmware on Debian
JP == John Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JP On %M 0, Martin Bialasinski wrote Currently I do something I do it the other way around. I run Debian 2.0 on my 2.1 box. And it is fast enough. I compiled ~50% of the JP In case it hasn't occured to you, this really isn't a good idea. Well, I am a developer. I want to run all the fine new and unstable packages in full speed, so I use unstable. But I needed a stable environment to compile and test the packages for the slink update, so I use vmware for this. And for testing upgrade, installation etc.you also need a stable box you can really hit with the ability to restore things by simply rejecting the changes on shutdown. Of cause there are cases where a unstable vmware box for this purpose is best. Like testing the upgrade to the upcoming prel 5.005 packages or such. So to summarize it, yes, I know what I am doing :-) Ciao, Martin
Re: Q: cc1plus
First, thanks to J.H.M.Dassen (Ray) for the reply concerning the error message. However, things still don't work, so I have to update the question... Originally, I got the error message gcc: install problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or directory when compiling a program (actually wp2latex v.2.64, see http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~fojtik/wp2latex.htm) by calling a makefile. After not getting any effect when trying to env CXX=g++ ./configure or make CXX=g++ as was advised, I looked again for cc1plus and found it in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.90.29, together with some other stuff. I then tried to tell gcc to look there by the -B option but then got an error from cpp telling me that I didn't give I/O files; OTOH, cpp is not explicitly invoked in the makefile, so I don't see any possibility to set them. As there is another cpp file in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3 (but no cc1plus), I finally cancelled the -B option with the other path and made a soft link from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/egcs-2.90.29/cc1plus to /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3/cc1plus. The makefile began to work then (emitting tons of warnings) and finally died with messages concerning unreferenced '_' or so (didn't notice that when compiling the same source on the AIX here). I have already spent quite a few hours with this and really am getting annoyed. So any further hints on what I am maybe missing are welcome. -- Thomas Ruedas Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, J.W. Goethe University Frankfurt/Main Feldbergstrasse 47 D-60323 Frankfurt/Main, Germany Phone:+49-(0)69-798-24949 Fax:+49-(0)69-798-23280 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geophysik.uni-frankfurt.de/~ruedas/
xf86config
I'm completely new to Linux, so apologies if this is excessively thick ... I've been trying to get xwindows working. I've gone through xf86config, and then when I try 'startx' it goes into what I assume is the xwindow environment (blue screen, mouse cursor), beeps at me and appears to hang. Control-Alt-Backspace gets me out o.k. I'm wondering if this is because I am unsure of the path for my mouse driver, which I am prompted to supply during the xf86config session. Is there any way I can find out where/what this is? Steve
Re: Q: cc1plus
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 11:36:44 +0200, Thomas Ruedas wrote: Originally, I got the error message gcc: install problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or directory when compiling a program (actually wp2latex v.2.64, see http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~fojtik/wp2latex.htm) by calling a makefile. After not getting any effect when trying to env CXX=g++ ./configure or make CXX=g++ as was advised, The intent of that is to invoke the C++ compiler as g++ rather than gcc. You've now told us what program you're trying to compile; that helps. wp2latex doesn't seem to follow many of the informal standards (i.e. using the make variable names that are used in GNU make's built-in rules). Change the GCC definition in sources.cc/makefile from gcc to g++. The makefile began to work then (emitting tons of warnings) and finally died with messages concerning unreferenced '_' or so (didn't notice that when compiling the same source on the AIX here). This seems to be internationalisation-related. I don't know much about i18n issues, but setting GETTEXT to empty in sources.cc/makefile makes it compile on the system I'm testing on. HTH, Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before.
Re: xf86config
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 10:48:57AM +0100, Stephen Minton wrote: I'm completely new to Linux, so apologies if this is excessively thick ... I've been trying to get xwindows working. I've gone through xf86config, and then when I try 'startx' it goes into what I assume is the xwindow environment (blue screen, mouse cursor), beeps at me and appears to hang. Control-Alt-Backspace gets me out o.k. I'm wondering if this is because I am unsure of the path for my mouse driver, which I am prompted to supply during the xf86config session. Is there any way I can find out where/what this is? Steve Steve, If your mouse is one of the generic serial ones, your device will be one of the serial ports... /dev/ttyS0 (COM1) or /dev/ttyS1 (COM2) etc. If it's a ps2 port type mouse, try /dev/psaux for the device. HTH, Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** NRA Life Member ***
https browser
Hello, is there a simple way of browsing https pages? For normal web browsing, I use wwwoffle (version 2.1c-1) and Netscape on the W95 machine but it doesn't seem to handle https; lynx (version 2.8-2) says outright it can't handle it. Any suggestions, or do I just have to install Netscape on the Debian box? Jiri -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll know the future has arrived when every mailer transparently quotes lines that begin with From , but no-one remembers why.
Re: Separate list for newbies
I would advocate against it. My reasons are: 1. It would be a bad policy to isolate newcommers. How could we persuade others to join the Linux (Debian..) community if we immadieatly throw them into a secondary position. 2. One CAN learn much just scanning the mails. Newcommers too. 3. This 'joined' list makes us feel one gang, and is is definitly very good. 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: https browser
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:27:05PM +1000, Jiri Baum wrote: Hello, is there a simple way of browsing https pages? For normal web browsing, I use wwwoffle (version 2.1c-1) and Netscape on the W95 machine but it doesn't seem to handle https; lynx (version 2.8-2) says outright it can't handle it. Any suggestions, or do I just have to install Netscape on the Debian box? You can download the netscape in potato, or you can get the lynx-ssl from non-US. Both work fine for me. -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation -- -- - - - --- --- -- - - --- - --
Re: latex and memory related
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, Shao Zhang wrote:
Hi,
I drew a simple box in xfig and used it to generated a latex file.
The file looks like this:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\unitlength}{4144sp}%
%
\begingroup\makeatletter\ifx\SetFigFont\undefined%
\gdef\SetFigFont#1#2#3#4#5{%
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\fontfamily{#3}\fontseries{#4}\fontshape{#5}%
\selectfont}%
\fi\endgroup%
\begin{picture}(3804,2679)(2104,-5338)
\thinlines
\special{ps: gsave 0 0 0
setrgbcolor}\put(2116,-5326){\framebox(3780,2655){}}
\special{ps: gsave 0 0 0
setrgbcolor}\put(3331,-4786){\framebox(1395,1620){}}
\end{picture}
\end{document}
But, the latex command used about 70MB ram when it process the file,
and the dvips used just about the same ram. See below:
3916 shao 10 0 85788 83M 580 R 0 93.3 66.7 3:13 dvips
Is this normal?? What is the recommanded way to export the stuff from
xfig to latex??
Save your graphics as Encapsulated PostScript (eps).
Add
\usepackage{epsfig}
to the document's head.
Put your graphic with
\epsfig{file=filename}
I've heared of a latex package which can load a lot of common picture
formats. But I don't know its name. Sorry.
There is a disavantage in doing so. Text in your graphic is displayed not
in the latex font and/or in another size.
Armin
About backup's
Hi I'm setting things up arround here so that we can do a backup during this weekend. The boss want's me to put the machine where all the user accounts are in single mode before startting the backup to avoid corruptions !? Is this really necessary ? thanks -- Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.sc.uevora.pt/~mjnf
DOSEMU.help!!! Again... other problem :)
Hi ! I already use Cyrillic in console :))) Linux do this for me realy good !!! :))) But I think that dosemu works just like native DOS ... And my colleague who works with dos want to fill like in native DOS environment, with usual cyrillic TSR, and usual printer TSR :(( For me and for you (may be ) it doesn't matter ... but for her ... to work with new environment is like a disaster ;-) I take and install dosemu-0.98.6 from sources and there is no problem I mentioned in previous e-mail my text editor works fine and cyrillic TSR works good ... just like in nativ DOS :))) BUT printer TSR answers printer not ready With no printer TSR - no problem ... but only when I print latin (in english :)) dosemu use lpd ... how I can print without print TSR . Prit TSR in native DOS do nothing but translates characters from one code table to code table in my printer HOW I CAN DO THIS WITH LPD ?! ANY IDEAS !!! Gancho. Thanks in advance! #:o) begin:vcard n:Tenev;Gancho tel;fax:+359 42 600250 tel;work:+359 42 600350 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Vereya Cable;VEREYAnet adr:;;30 Ruski Str.;Stara Zagora;Stara Zagora;;Bulgaria version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:System administrator x-mozilla-cpt:;-1216 fn:Gancho Tenev end:vcard
Re: Basic SCSI question
John Pearson wrote: . Similarly, a cat of /proc/scsi/scsi reports: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416S Rev: 1.0f Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 I join you an answer of the SCSI maintainer in addition to the excellents advices John P. gave. Hope it will help. JY -- Jean-Yves BARBIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Les choses ne sont pas toujours ce que l'on voudrait qu'elles soient qu'elles fussent... P. DAC Boycott Intel, watch: http://www.bigbrotherinside.com If you need N components to build your board, you'll ALWAYS have N-1 in stock Murphy's law - FORWARDED MAIL == I've got a TEKRAM DC390 scsi card (simple fast-scsi), and here is my problem: Debian distribution, ABIT BH6 w/PII400, SCSI chain: CTRLR=Id7, CD-ROM PIONEER DR-U16S=Id4, CD-R YAMAHA CDR-4416S=Id5 ^ This device is very well known to me. It caused trouble to more people than to you. That's a Yamaha bug: It needs too much time to recover from a SCSI bus reset. 1- Weird thing: If I let the speed setting of the DC390 @ 10.0 MHz transfer speed, at boot the YAMAHA says its working @ 8.0 MHz; If I put 8.0 MHz in the DC390, at next boot, it says its working @ .. 6.6 MHz (don't know why?) Me neither. Almost certainly some Yamaha firmware misfunction. * Started (a month ago) w/kernel 2.0.36 from debian's CD: YAMAHA causes troubles, zapped from system (I was obliged to cut-off the main power supply to recover it in the system!): The DC390 was recognized as AM53C974, Then you used the AM53C974 driver. Well it's buggy, if you allow disconnection, so I'd prefer not to use it. Unfortunately, it's also unmaintained. * Recompiled the kernel w/only the DC390: DC390 was recognized as DC390, YAMAHA CR was not recognized, * Upgrade to 2.2.1: always no recognition of the CDR (not seen by the driver) * Upgrade to 2.2.7: still the same! It's the same driver in those kernel, so the behaviour must be the same. Here's the band aid: Become root and type echo scsi add-single-device 0 0 5 0 /proc/scsi/scsi cat /proc/scsi/scsi Your CD-R will be detected. Please read the web page http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc390/problems.html for more information. Hope this helps. -- Kurt Garloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE GmbH, Nürnberg, FRG Linux kernel development;SCSI driver: DC390 (tmscsim/AM53C974)
Re: *.debs for GNOME, apps, Mozilla, KDE...
Patrick Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Just started a new job in a telecomms company today and to my surprise found a CD recorder in my desktop workstation. It seems there's no problem with my doing serious downloads so let the search for toys begin! You are lucky! I installed slink, my first working Linux installation, last Wednesday. Congratulations. Comments please; is Enlightenment stable and working? It looks great but nothing seems to work on it for me. A url of a good version in *.deb format would be appreciated. I installed GNOME using apt-get install and a subdirectory called ~jim on the debian site. Is there a similiar one for Enlightenment? Is ~jim still the best place to get GNOME and the gtk apps for Debian? gnome debs have now been migrated to potato (the unstable branch). KDE have a *.deb release in a folder called hamm on their uk mirror. It seems hamm is the release before slink. Is this set of *.debs likely to work with slink? The hamm packets do work with slink (as hamm was the first release with glibc support). I do not have all packets of kde installed but the basic set works (kde 1.1). I abandoned kde because I had problems with another piece of software which didn't like that kde tried to change something in with the menues. Should I remove all references to GNOME and Enlightenment from my system before upgrading? There was a problem when installing kde and gnome at the same time. I don not know if it still persists. Both packages used a directory under /usr/share, but with different file formats. Last (I hope question) lets imagine I put all the GNOME stuff on one CD and all the KDE stuff on another; is there an apt-get install EVERYTHING on the CD command? dpkg -i `find -name *.deb` should do the trick (but without apt's increased checking for dependencies and conflicts). Apologies for the barrage of questions. Thanks in advance, Never mind. HTH, Jens P.S.: Please vote against Spam! At http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ (Sorry Europeans only) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37
Antwort: Re: Macintosh IIvx (Performa 600)
I did nothing - and that's the main-problem, because the time until the system is completely up is to long - keyboard and screen die but the screen can be awaked again by NMI ! Guido Simon Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] am 21.05.99 10:36:29 An:Guido Dampf/KI/SYSECA/DE Kopie: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-68k@lists.debian.org Thema: Re: Macintosh IIvx (Performa 600) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 21 May 1999, Guido Dampf wrote: After a short while the Keyboard is dead - except the Reset - and sometimes the screen becomes completely white. What have you been doing before? I have a similar problem on my Amiga that is related to pipe handling (gzip -d x.tar.gz; tar -xf x.tar works, but tar -xzf x.tar.gz crashes), I believe. Also, have you tried switching consoles (works) and pinging the machine (doesn't work)? Simon PGP public key available from ftp://phobos.fs.tum.de/pub/pgp/geier.asc Fingerprint: 10 62 F6 F5 C0 5D 9E D8 47 05 1B 8A 22 E5 4E C1 GEEK code block available from ftp://phobos.fs.tum.de/pub/gcb/geier.asc Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBN0UbGvFUmCYJPaUlAQGIoAgA3QpQ5pl07vQlj4oZA/7waOIg6G5ilYKj LtN5Amr8ALCDk7cF1bu5GnZuLUx9FWrl+Qz7wQikjLpCMeqqz+I37ml9CBg5PJhA CSo+9n/Rxh/leVkQ7dBpbUh2FrRkD+72LQwqBoQPza2OeBuQED6AjLTlc7SRXf9e sR0u2TqNz7X3/Gfi4LvHjLWt/fTSzs/mPo8pWayQ79M2uj/a+2CjOEEb1x2MjVSJ Q5/cdbK54hrO4jlVBC8Sg3UUTPWKvnEoT01M1/KKtNYxoinm/bpWSNwdnr3nePoU Ev/Jpo2gWFGq/vyMPPT5OSJvHo6DCTqv6MwzOHYXB62IC6N48Dzwww== =1iHM -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: gtk-themes problems
On Thursday 20 May, Martin Bialasinski wrote: GA but GIMP still refuses to respond to the GTK themes - do I need to GA recompile GIMP to make it work? Check dpkg -s gimp. Themes don't work for programms compiled for libgtk1.0 or libgtk1.1 earlier than 1.1.16 or such. okay, I did, and it appears to be compiled against gtk 1.0.6; shandy% dpkg -s gimp [snip] Depends: aalib1 (= 1.2-7), libc6 (= 2.0.7u), libgimp1 (= 1.0.2-2), libgpmg1 (= 1.14-3), libgtk1 (= 1:1.0.6-2), libjpeg62, libmpeg1, libncurses4, libpng2, slang1 ( 1.3), slang1 ( 1.2.2-0), xlib6g (= 3.3-5), xpm4g (= 3.4j-0), zlib1g (= 1:1.1.3) I've installed the version of gimp that I found in potato, and now gtk themes work perfectly in gimp. Thanks for the tip. shandy% dpkg -s gimp [snip] Depends: aalib1 (= 1.2-7), libc6, libgimp1, libglib1.2 (= 1.2.0), libgpmg1 (= 1.14-3), libgtk1.2 (= 1.2.0), libjpeg62, libmpeg1, libncurses4, libpng2, slang1 ( 1.3), slang1 ( 1.2.2-0), xlib6g (= 3.3-5), xpm4g (= 3.4j-0), zlib1g (= 1:1.1.3) -- Graham
XML HowTo
Ok, I'd like to use XML to: 1. Define a structured document. 2. Create documents that are valid according to 1. 3. Create an application to process the documents into a database. I would like to use Xemacs as my DTD and document editor. I can use any or all of C, awk, bison. flex, etc. to drive the database loading process. Although there are some XML fragments in Debian potato, I couldn't find any thread that pulls them together like a HowTo. Can anybody give me some pointers? Michael Laing
Re: Shortcuts
Sofar I'm pretty happy with Linux, except for X Window. I haven't found one window manager which makes it easy for a user to put a shortcut on the desktop or in the application menu. I talk mainly about shortcuts for Netscape and WP. Sofar I've used fvwm95, icewm, qvwm and windowmaker, with the latter having the nicest look, alas being also the least straight forward. If I use my standard rule for Win95 software (if I can't understand the basics of a program within 15 minutes I'll throw it off my computer) then I would have thrown off X Window already a long time ago. I suspect I am making a fundamental mistake about the usage of X and window managers, so could some of you shed a light on this for me? Hans hmm... normally I have a keyboard shortcut to xexec or something, and just type 'netscape' :) alot faster than grabbin' for the mouse... but i saw a package named gicon in the slink distro, haven't tried it yet, but it claims it can place funny little shortcut-iconey-thingies in the root windows (or desktop if you prefer). Try it... Jack :)
libssl09 conflicts with ssleay wich depends on you guess
Right which came first the chicken or the egg. Potato: Non-US libssl09-dev conflicts with ssleay openssl conflicts with ssleay libssl09 conflicts with ssleay ssleay depends on libssl09 how the heck do i get ssleay installed with this kind of dependency ;0) cheers
Debian 1.3 and Y2K compliance
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to post this in. If not I apologise,and would ask for a pointer to the right place. Thanks :) My company has just discovered that one of our branches is running Debian version 1.3. The company is quite happy for them to do so, but needs to know if vanilla Debian 1.3 is year 2000 compliant. If not, which version should we upgrade to? Any advice will be much appreciated. Many thanks in advance Richard
repairing the harddisk
Hi, I would like to know: if a hard disk died with a couple of bad sectors, what is the best way to repair it?? I use badblocks, mkfs and fsck. Are there any other methods?? Also, when I mount this dead harddisk, the kernel sometimes will pop up some messages like: hda: irq request timeout. Error code 0x5f hda: ide reset ok. There are heaps of them. I cannot remember them all. Is this hard disk still usable?? Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: Debian 1.3 and Y2K compliance
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 13:28:47 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My company has just discovered that one of our branches is running Debian version 1.3. The company is quite happy for them to do so, but needs to know if vanilla Debian 1.3 is year 2000 compliant. For general information regarding Debian 1.3 and Y2K issues, see http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980104 . More detailed information (mostly pertaining to the current release) is available at http://www.debian.org/y2k/ For info on Y2K issues in Open Source software in general, see http://www.gnu.org/software/year2000.html , http://www-th.phys.rug.nl/~schut/gnulist.html , http://www.linux.org.uk/mbug.html , http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/linuxy2k.html , http://language.perl.com/news/y2k.html and http://www.linux.org/help/beginner/year2000.html . Hope this helped, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. | - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: An 'ae' testimony
Craig Sanders writes (Re: An 'ae' testimony):
i think that the solution is for ae to print the following in inverse
text on the top line of the screen:
THIS IS NOT VI. IT ONLY LOOKS SLIGHTLY LIKE IT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
imo, ae's vi emulation is better than nothing...but can be quite dangerous
if you're not aware of the fact that it isn't vi.
It's a grotesque parody, that's what it is. Basically none of the vi
commands I use work.
Examples
1. cw doesn't work.
2. :wq writes a file called q
3. :ZZ doesn't either.
On top of that, when I run it on a console mode ('cause I am doing
something in single suer mode like changing the IP address), it has a
tendency to hang my tty.
On top of *that*, I've had it mangle files pretty badly w.r.t line
wraps and end-of-line characters.
So it's gone. I make sure that removing it is one of the first things
I do after a new install.
It's lie if someone took an old Slackware CD, scratched out the label
and wrote Debian on it, and said it was the same. It wasn't what I
asked for and doesn't fill the bill, and we'd be better off not pretending.
--
Richard W Kaszeta PhD. Candidate and Sysadmin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
Re: *.debs for GNOME, apps, Mozilla, KDE...
Thanks. Apart form E, if there are other interesting desktops out there, please do let me know. Patrick - Original Message - From: Jens Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 12:09 PM Subject: Re: *.debs for GNOME, apps, Mozilla, KDE... Patrick Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Just started a new job in a telecomms company today and to my surprise found a CD recorder in my desktop workstation. It seems there's no problem with my doing serious downloads so let the search for toys begin! You are lucky! I installed slink, my first working Linux installation, last Wednesday. Congratulations. Comments please; is Enlightenment stable and working? It looks great but nothing seems to work on it for me. A url of a good version in *.deb format would be appreciated. I installed GNOME using apt-get install and a subdirectory called ~jim on the debian site. Is there a similiar one for Enlightenment? Is ~jim still the best place to get GNOME and the gtk apps for Debian? gnome debs have now been migrated to potato (the unstable branch). KDE have a *.deb release in a folder called hamm on their uk mirror. It seems hamm is the release before slink. Is this set of *.debs likely to work with slink? The hamm packets do work with slink (as hamm was the first release with glibc support). I do not have all packets of kde installed but the basic set works (kde 1.1). I abandoned kde because I had problems with another piece of software which didn't like that kde tried to change something in with the menues. Should I remove all references to GNOME and Enlightenment from my system before upgrading? There was a problem when installing kde and gnome at the same time. I don not know if it still persists. Both packages used a directory under /usr/share, but with different file formats. Last (I hope question) lets imagine I put all the GNOME stuff on one CD and all the KDE stuff on another; is there an apt-get install EVERYTHING on the CD command? dpkg -i `find -name *.deb` should do the trick (but without apt's increased checking for dependencies and conflicts). Apologies for the barrage of questions. Thanks in advance, Never mind. HTH, Jens P.S.: Please vote against Spam! At http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ (Sorry Europeans only) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: latex and memory related
Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I drew a simple box in xfig and used it to generated a latex file.
Is this normal?? What is the recommanded way to export the stuff from
xfig to latex??
Thanks.
Shao.
I export files from xfig in encapsulated postscript (eps) format, then
use the graphicx and psfrag packages to load and play with the fonts:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{psfrag,graphicx}
\begin{document}
\psfrag{A}{$A^2$}
\psfrag{B}{$B_1$}
\includegraphics[scale=1.50]{quiz1.eps}
\end{document}
This replaces the letters A and B in the eps file with $A^2$ and
$B_1$, scales the graphic by 150%, and puts it in the document. Full
docs in
/usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/graphics/epslatex.ps.gz
/usr/lib/texmf/doc/latex/psfrag/pfgguide.ps.gz
HTH,
Norris
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Re: Environment variables and X
Look in the wdm man pages for a profile that wdm executes on startup (I would be very surprised if there wasn't one), in that file, source your .profile or .bashrc or both: . $HOME/.profile Put the definition of HTTP_PROXY in .profile or .bashrc. Make sure you export it: export HTTP_PROXY=your.proxy Sorry, I don't have wdm installed and I couldn't find an on-line man page for it, so I can't give you the name of the wdm profile. Marc -- Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- It's such a fine line between clever and stupid. -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/21 1:30 AM Hi all: Where is the proper place to set environment variables, so that they would propagate to X apps? I need to set HTTP_PROXY variable (for Xemacs/W3). I found out that neither ~/.bashrc nor ~/.profile are parsed during login into GUI (I'm using wdm FWIW). I start Xemacs with a shortcut (not from an xterm). Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin = ... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world... (S. Kierkegaard) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
GNOME vs. KDE
This is not meant to start a debate on which is better but I just want to find some facts about each one. 1. Is Debian more leaning towards KDE or is this just 'news' from the Corel folks? Is there a reason why they chose KDE and not GNOME? 2. Which is faster? 3. Which uses less memory and is more stable? 4. I heard GNOME uses CORBA. What advantage does this give from a system perspective where multiple applications are running? Thanks is advance. Dinesh
Re: repairing the harddisk
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: I would like to know: if a hard disk died with a couple of bad sectors, what is the best way to repair it?? I use badblocks, mkfs and fsck. Are there any other methods?? Also, when I mount this dead harddisk, the kernel sometimes will pop up some messages like: hda: irq request timeout. Error code 0x5f hda: ide reset ok. There are heaps of them. I cannot remember them all. Is this hard disk still usable?? Shao There is lowlevel IDE drive formatting software available from the drive manufacturers. This may offer some hope. That said, my experience with fixing ide drives has not been good. As I understand it, the on-drive controller spares out some tracks and automatically uses them when it finds a (potentially) bad block. By the time you have visible bad blocks, your drive is in a bad way. You should (quickly) retrieve any data you need, and throw the drive away. With fairly fast 10Gig drives available for a cost less than $200, I don't think it is economical to spend much time with that drive. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies.)
help /var is filling up!!!
hello, on a machine i administer i have a 100M partition for var, and since some time now it fills up blocking the mail transfer done wtih qmail if i look into this partiton i see that the logs take 60M of place, which seems excessive... now where do i configure logrotate to specify less backups, and where do i reduce the verboseness level of qmail?? further qmail produces 2 files which are identical eating up valuable ressources for nothing: logs appear in log.info and mail.log. how do i stop that? ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://erm6.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett === the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant. human population is growing
Re: GNOME vs. KDE
In a message dated 5/21/99 8:57:15 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1.Is Debian more leaning towards KDE or is this just 'news' from the Corel folks? Is there a reason why they chose KDE and not GNOME? Debian doesn't lean toward either of them - in fact, it is staying neutral. That's one of the great concepts behind Debian - let the user choose what he needs/wants. As for Corel, they chose KDE for one main reason - KDE is more mature than GNOME is, simply by the fact that it has been around longer. 2. Which is faster? Too many factors to determine, but I'd guess they are both similar. It all depends on desktops, window managers, installed extras, PCs used, servers video cards used... GNOME appeared to run slower on my machine than KDE, but I'd attribute that to all the crap that Enlightenment loads by default - 90% of which is not only grotesque, but useless - IMHO of course. :) (Enlightenment is currenlty the only window-manager that fully supports GNOME). 3. Which uses less memory and is more stable? I don't know about memory requirements, but KDE appears to be more stable, at least in my experience. I haven't used GNOME in a couple of months, so that may be changing. I know one thing - I haven't had a lockup or crash with KDE Yet - and I've been using it since pre-1.0 versions. 4. I heard GNOME uses CORBA. What advantage does this give from a system perspective where multiple applications are running? That one I can't answer.
Re: GNOME vs. KDE
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 08:54:51 -0500, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: 1.Is Debian more leaning towards KDE or is this just 'news' from the Corel folks? There is still a license problem with KDE (due to interaction between KDE's license and Qt's) that prevents Debian from distributing KDE binaries. There are some positive signs though. Qt 2 will be released under a free license (the QPL 1.0). This license still suffers from the conflict, but if the conflict is resolved, KDE qualifies for main rather than contrib. There have been indications the KDE developers are now willing to change KDE's licensing terms to eliminate the conflict. Debian has always been about choice. Once the KDE licensing conflict is resolved and Qt 2 is available, KDE can go in main and users will have the choice between GNOME, KDE or both. Is there a reason why they chose KDE and not GNOME? Corel seems to regard KDE as more mature. 4.I heard GNOME uses CORBA. So do parts of KDE. What advantage does this give from a system perspective where multiple applications are running? CORBA, when properly used, allows for tighter integration between applications. E.g. a wordprocessor's document can incorporate a spreadsheet, and have that spreadsheet be edittable via the spreadsheet application directly. HTH, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. | - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: gdm/xdm/login.app weirdnesses
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:56:45AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (of course, replace vt7 with whatever it's ok for your system) i will need to know what this vt7 thing means before i can know what's okay for my system... vt7 is the 7th virtual console (what you get when you press Alt-F7). If you haven't touched your inittab (to add or remove virtual consoles), vt7 is ok for your system. Marcelo
Re: GNOME vs. KDE
1.Is Debian more leaning towards KDE or is this just 'news' from the Corel folks? Is there a reason why they chose KDE and not GNOME? We don't lean either way. Corel is creating their own distribution based on Debian -- they'll take stock Debian and stuff to it. They picked KDE (you'd have to ask them why) as one of the things to add. 2. Which is faster? It seems to me (I haven't taken any measurements) that Gnome runs marginally faster on my box, but I don't use either KDE or Gnome much. It's probably also worth mentioning that my machine is a P166. With a faster one, you'll probably never notice the difference. 3. Which uses less memory and is more stable? KDE is probably more stable. Which one uses less memory depends on which features you turn on in each one. 4.I heard GNOME uses CORBA. What advantage does this give from a KDE uses CORBA too. It's just a different implementation of CORBA. 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 | --
New install question
I have downloaded and installed slink on an old pentium 60 with and isa ethernet card to use as a proxy. The problem I have is I cannot get the driver loaded for my ethernet card (SMC Elite) The installation goes well and I can run linux, but cannot get my ethernet card configured. Could someone please help me. TIA John Hagemann JFM Management Inc. 312-644-0870
Re: xf86config
I'm completely new to Linux, so apologies if this is excessively thick ... I've been trying to get xwindows working. I've gone through xf86config, and then when I try 'startx' it goes into what I assume is the xwindow environment (blue screen, mouse cursor), beeps at me and appears to hang. Control-Alt-Backspace gets me out o.k. I'm wondering if this is because I am unsure of the path for my mouse driver, which I am prompted to supply during the xf86config session. Is there any way I can find out where/what this is? Steve When you shut the server down, do you get any error messages in the console? If so, post them here. The mouse plugs into a serial port. /dev/ttyS?, where 0 is COM1, 1 is COM2 and so on. This is the only path you need to supply. It differs depending upon the type of your mouse (PS2 vs. Serial), but that is all. The effect of it hanging is , I think, from the IRQ conflict or a wrong COM port supplied. The only thing that happens when you open X is you can't move your mouse, right? That doesnt mean whole X hanged. So..check whether you are supplying the right COM port to the X, and whether you have any IRQ conflicts. The right COM port for mouse is usually 1 or 2, which is /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyS1. As for IRQs, 'cat /proc/interrupts' and see if anything comes up. The most common IRQ conflict would be between a NIC/Modem/SOundcard and the mouse. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux. http://www.missouri.edu/~c680789 --Computer languages of the world My work in progress. ---
Re: Hdd install
Koyote wrote: [cut] Next step- I have a need to install from ground zero. For the 486 boxes, I was consideing downloading the intallation to a hard drive in this machine, then moving the hard drive to another machine and running the install there. (Boot flom floppies, install from hdd) This should work, right? I don't see why not. Second part- I want to set up one of the 486's floppy free (tape drive, cdrom, hdd only.) If I can do this, exactly how should I pre-load the hard drive to use. (No, I don't have a cd distro.) Maybe I'm missing something, but why don't you just swap in this hard drive as drive 0 on one of your machines that has a floppy drive, do your install off the floppies, and... well I don't know where your distro is, but if it's on another hard drive, you could install off that... Then take the new system drive to the floppy-less machine. [cut]
Setup a network without network
HI, I would like to practice the Apache Setup both at work and at home. At work I have a network but at home I have a standalone PC. How can I setup my linux box to install and execute APache without a network. I've tried it using the dummy adapter and localhost name but I heven't been able. I'm a newbie and I've studied all the how-to I've found for these themes but it still doesn't work Help please and thanks in advance
Re: An 'ae' testimony
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Richard Kaszeta wrote: THIS IS NOT VI. IT ONLY LOOKS SLIGHTLY LIKE IT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! For a user, who doesn't know much about computers, it would be nice to have ee (easy editor) instead of ae included? For a user, who knows about unix and/or linux any of well-known unix editor will do, but for a new user, who knows only about dos/windows7related products vi, emacs, joe, ae... are all the same 'Chinese'? hv
pseudo tty ssh
I have Debian installed on a Sparc but I can't ssh in. Telnet'ing in works fine, as do most other services. I receive the following error: Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. (and then the login hangs) I have UNIX98 ptys support in the kernel but I'm not totally sure if I want/have to use them. Can anyone point me in the right direction? TIA. -Ian __ Ian K. Setford PGP 2.6.3 1024/79D33BED 1999/05/10 Ian K. Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 52 D2 8D ED B7 78 4F D8 A0 1F 8C 36 58 7C D4 AA
Re: problem with my system includes
On 21-May-99 Martin Bialasinski wrote: P ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm P ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux P ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi P ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/net net No. Debian stopped doing this for long. And with the 2.2 kernels, Linus officially blessed this practise. We have headers of a well known kernel in /usr/include, not the one you currently build your kernel with. You will note that the README in the kernel source doesn't tell you any more to do these links. I noticed that as soon as I installed my first 2.2.x kernel, but I thought it might be an error and was afraid to ask. See /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.Debian.gz There you will also find a fixe for your problem with compiling the vmware drivers. I only have 64MB RAM, and it seems that was my problem. VMware was installing Win95 , but very slowly. Am I correct in assuming that I no longer even need /usr/include/linux /usr/include/net /usr/include/scsi and /usr/include/asm ? After I did those links, the VMware compaints about my includes were gone. -- Andrew
Re: New install question
John Hagemann wrote: I have downloaded and installed slink on an old pentium 60 with and isa ethernet card to use as a proxy. The problem I have is I cannot get the driver loaded for my ethernet card (SMC Elite) The installation goes well and I can run linux, but cannot get my ethernet card configured. Could someone please help me. TIA John Hagemann JFM Management Inc. 312-644-0870 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Please post some more Information what you have done and The Kernel configure output /var/log/messages output Dennis -- ## #Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is# #that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they# #look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that # #you will never forgive me for. # # +++ The Mentor +++ # ##
*.deb vs. non package installs
What's the best way to manage installed software on a Debian system? Say, for example, I install a *.deb package for software that I use. I then find a newer version of the software that I can download from the writer in *.tar.gz form. But since this isn't a *.deb package, deselct/dpkg isn't aware of it. Now, I have to start keeping track of applications installed via dpkg and those that are not. Would I be better off taking my *.tar.gz file and making a *.deb out of it? Do I have to wait until I find an updated *.deb on the web? Or is there some way to update/install software with *.tar.gz installs and make dselect/dpkg aware of it? === Paul Schwebel Tech Support San Dieguito Union High School District --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 24633108 AIM: paulhenrys _ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com
Re: Setup a network without network
José L. Redrejo - ITAIS wrote: HI, I would like to practice the Apache Setup both at work and at home. At work I have a network but at home I have a standalone PC. How can I setup my linux box to install and execute APache without a network. I've tried it using the dummy adapter and localhost name but I heven't been able. I'm a newbie and I've studied all the how-to I've found for these themes but it still doesn't work Help please and thanks in advance Please post more Information about error-messages and what you have tried. I'm using the slink apache Packages with and without network and it works fine. and please post not in html Dennis -- # Contrary to popular belief, unix is a user-friendly Operating System.# # It's just choosey about who its friends are. #
Re: help /var is filling up!!!
Bruno Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on a machine i administer i have a 100M partition for var, and since some time now it fills up blocking the mail transfer done wtih qmail if i look into this partiton i see that the logs take 60M of place, which seems excessive... It definitely is. now where do i configure logrotate to specify less backups, and where do i reduce the verboseness level of qmail?? further qmail produces 2 files which are identical eating up valuable ressources for nothing: This is normal for exim as well; one file contains headers and the other the text. logs appear in log.info and mail.log. how do i stop that? You really should find the real problem before you try changing logging. Try something like the command 'find /var -xdev -size +5000k -print'. This will print out the names of all files more than 5MB (there probably shouldn't be any). Then look into the file and see if there is some statement that is repeated excessively. You probably have something mis-configured so that an error message is constantly being logged, possibly multiple times per second. If you can't figure out the message, then come back and somebody will probably be able to help you. -- Carl Johnson[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cannot launch WordPerfect.
Hi, I am having a problem running WordPerfect for Linux. Specifically, it says can't load library libXmp.so.4, which seems to be a symlink to libXmp.so.10. Would appreciate any help. Thanks! Best wishes, Chip
Where is netscape?
Hi, I installed netscape 4.5 base, communicator 4.5 base communicator spellchecker (which requires the previous two installed). But now I cannot find netscape. It seems that everything else is there but netscape. Did I miss anything? I actually remove them and reinstall them again; same thing. Best wishes, Chip
Re: help /var is filling up!!!
You really should find the real problem before you try changing logging. Try something like the command 'find /var -xdev -size +5000k -print'. This will print out the names of all files more than 5MB (there probably shouldn't be any). Then look into the file and see if right found another big file.. daemon and lots of May 21 19:02:17 erm1 nmbd[8560]: refused connect from 130.79.74.176 May 21 19:02:22 erm1 nmbd[8569]: refused connect from 130.79.74.176 May 21 19:02:27 erm1 nmbd[8575]: refused connect from 130.79.74.176 May 21 19:02:32 erm1 nmbd[8584]: refused connect from 130.79.74.176 there is some statement that is repeated excessively. You probably have something mis-configured so that an error message is constantly being logged, possibly multiple times per second. If you can't figure out the message, then come back and somebody will probably be able to help you. i already looked at the mail-logs, and they seem reasonable no errors, only correct infos... ciao bboett == [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://erm6.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett === the total amount of intelligence on earth is constant. human population is growing
RE: Setup a network without network
I have configurated my hosts file with this line:127.0.0.1 localhost Trying to set up my DNS I've got the following messages First I add ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 and there is no error. Then If I type : route add loopback the answer is loopback:host name lookup failure and if i type route add 127.0.0.1 the answer is SIOCADDRT Operation not supported by device I don't know what else to do - Mensaje original - De: Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado: viernes 21 de mayo de 1999 17:34 Asunto: Re: Setup a network without network Apache should be content to run on a stand-alone machine with a hostname of localhost and an IP address of 127.0.0.1. Can you be specific about the installation problems you're having? Marc -- Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- It's such a fine line between clever and stupid. -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap José_L._Redrejo_-_ITAIS [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/21 10:09 AM HI, I would like to practice the Apache Setup both at work and at home. At work I have a network but at home I have a standalone PC. How can I setup my linux box to install and execute APache without a network. I've tried it using the dummy adapter and localhost name but I heven't been able. I'm a newbie and I've studied all the how-to I've found for these themes but it still doesn't work Help please and thanks in advance
Re: Cannot launch WordPerfect.
In a message dated 5/21/99 12:04:17 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having a problem running WordPerfect for Linux. Specifically, it says can't load library libXmp.so.4, which seems to be a symlink to libXmp.so.10. Would appreciate any help. Thanks! You need the libc5 version of these libraries... -Jay
RE: Setup a network without network
-- Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- It's such a fine line between clever and stupid. -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap José_L._Redrejo_-_ITAIS [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/21 12:09 PM If I type : route add loopback the answer is loopback:host name lookup failure and if i type route add 127.0.0.1 the answer is SIOCADDRT Operation not supported by device Try route add -net 127.0.0.1 or route add 127.0.0.0 You should get a routing table with an entry like this (type route with no arguments): Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo
Re: diald problem
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: I had to reinstall Linux, and I did not have everything I needed on my backup floppies. I thought I had backed up all my config files, so I believe I accidentally deleted stuff. Anyhow, when my ISP drops me during long downloads, I am allowed to come right back, and diald took care of this for me until now, because I lost the diald.options file I was using. There is an option (I have checked the man pages but cannot find it) that I had set to four seconds so that if I get disconnected, I come back in 4 seconds, not 30. Anyone know what that option is? I have redial-timeout, but that does not seem to be it. I am doing lots of this stuff by trial and error. Pollywog Did you get an answer to this? I do not use diald, but there are option under ppp that may help you, so on the off chance that this will do you some good, I'm sending it on. My system reconnects if the line is dropped for a couple of minutes. I looked in my /etc/ppp/peers/provider and found the last command is persist. Here are items from the pppd man page, and from /etc/ppp/options. Can these be used to detect disconnect and after 4 seconds effect reconnect? From the man 8 pppd page: lcp-echo-failure n If this option is given, pppd will presume the peer to be dead if n LCP echo-requests are sent without receiving a valid LCP echo-reply. If this happens, pppd will terminate the connection. Use of this option requires a non-zero value for the lcp-echo- interval parameter. This option can be used to enable pppd to terminate after the physical connec- tion has been broken (e.g., the modem has hung up) in situations where no hardware modem control lines are available. lcp-echo-interval n If this option is given, pppd will send an LCP echo-request frame to the peer every n seconds. Normally the peer should respond to the echo- request by sending an echo-reply. This option can be used with the lcp-echo-failure option to detect that the peer is no longer connected. I find these settings in the /etc/ppp/options file: # If this option is given, pppd will send an LCP echo-request frame to # the peer every n seconds. Under Linux, the echo-request is sent when # no packets have been received from the peer for n seconds. # Normally the peer should respond to the echo-request by sending an # echo-reply. This option can be used with the lcp-echo-failure # option to detect that the peer is no longer connected. lcp-echo-interval 30 # If this option is given, pppd will presume the peer to be dead if n # LCP echo-requests are sent without receiving a valid LCP echo-reply. # If this happens, pppd will terminate the connection. Use of this # option requires a non-zero value for the lcp-echo-interval parameter. # This option can be used to enable pppd to terminate after the physical # connection has been broken (e.g., the modem has hung up) in # situations where no hardware modem control lines are available. lcp-echo-failure 4 --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hoping this is useful!)
Re: Cannot launch WordPerfect.
But I already installed it. To make sure I did not mess up anything, I remove xlib6 and libc5 and reinstall them again; same result. Chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/21/99 12:04:17 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having a problem running WordPerfect for Linux. Specifically, it says can't load library libXmp.so.4, which seems to be a symlink to libXmp.so.10. Would appreciate any help. Thanks! You need the libc5 version of these libraries... -Jay Best wishes, Chip
Re: UltraDMA disks and debian
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Marant Jerome wrote: So, I wonder if there are any problem with UltraDMA drive and linux kernels. Does anyone have an answer to this ? It depends on the chipset of your motherboard. I know that some ALi chipsets aren't supported by default. Take a look in the kernel documentation (/usr/src/linux/doc) and see what there is. Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anybody who has ever seen a photograph showing the kind of damage that a trout traveling that fast can inflict on the human skull knows that such photographs are very valuable. I paid $20 for mine. - Dave Barry
Re: Environment variables and X
hey.. i don't know much about this, but i do know if you open most kind of terminals in x with the argument -ls (or sometimes -ln, depending on what you use) it forces the reading of the current user's .bash_profile or .bashrc. not sure where you'd set it otherwise... might try /etc/profile, although outside of x a user's own .bash_profile will override these global settings. just some thoughts... add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null - Original Message - From: Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 9:56 AM Subject: Re: Environment variables and X Look in the wdm man pages for a profile that wdm executes on startup (I would be very surprised if there wasn't one), in that file, source your .profile or .bashrc or both: . $HOME/.profile Put the definition of HTTP_PROXY in .profile or .bashrc. Make sure you export it: export HTTP_PROXY=your.proxy Sorry, I don't have wdm installed and I couldn't find an on-line man page for it, so I can't give you the name of the wdm profile. Marc -- Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- It's such a fine line between clever and stupid. -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/21 1:30 AM Hi all: Where is the proper place to set environment variables, so that they would propagate to X apps? I need to set HTTP_PROXY variable (for Xemacs/W3). I found out that neither ~/.bashrc nor ~/.profile are parsed during login into GUI (I'm using wdm FWIW). I start Xemacs with a shortcut (not from an xterm). Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin = ... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate of eternal blessedness in the other world... (S. Kierkegaard) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: *.deb vs. non package installs
Hi, Paul == Paul Schwebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul Would I be better off taking my *.tar.gz file and making a *.deb out of Paul it? Do I have to wait until I find an updated *.deb on the web? Or is Paul there some way to update/install software with *.tar.gz installs and Paul make dselect/dpkg aware of it? I either gran the package.diff.gz file file from the packaged version, and use that as a basis to create a new .deb file (with version numbers set to remind me this is unofficial). Alternately, if the diff's do not apply cleanly, I just recompile for /usr/local (for me, /usr/local/bin comes earlier in my path). You may also want to look at a package called stow (I personally don't use it) which helps keeping software in /usr/local manoj -- I never loved another person the way I loved myself. Mae West Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
Re: libssl09 conflicts with ssleay wich depends on you guess
Supposedly openssl should be used in place of ssleay (i think the maintainer said so in reply to a bug report)... But unfortunately, certain packages still depend on ssleay! i even tried recompiling telnetd-ssl, but it gave several warnings during compilation, and wouldn't work when installed... Didn't feel like tracking them down, i use ssh for almost everything anyway. On Sat, 22 May 1999, John Leget wrote: Right which came first the chicken or the egg. Potato: Non-US libssl09-dev conflicts with ssleay openssl conflicts with ssleay libssl09 conflicts with ssleay ssleay depends on libssl09 how the heck do i get ssleay installed with this kind of dependency ;0) cheers
Re: pseudo tty ssh
On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 10:19:08 -0500, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty. (and then the login hangs) I have UNIX98 ptys support in the kernel but I'm not totally sure if I want/have to use them. Please check that you have devpts /dev/ptsdevpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 in /etc/fstab and that /dev/pts is mounted. 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
some questions...
hi all... ok this is probably not the place to ask these things, but i will anyway since i've seen the likes of them discussed here before... one, has anyone else had problems with kernel 2.3.3 not reporting the correct kernel version? i noticed in the makefile (after it reported 2.3.2 to me still) that it said 2.3.2 there as well... i tried removing all old kernels, anything you can think of, and of course did make clean, make mr proper, etc, before compiling. no matter what i do, this kernel still reports that it is 2.3.2! if anyone knows why this might be, or has had a similar problem with it, or even knows how to fix it please make mention since i'm stumped. also, i have a very strange email problem. my isp has 4 dialin numbers, and there was one in particular i favored for its speed. for months i could never get fetchmail to fetch my mail (it would get as far as retrieving and then just sit there on the first msg) until one day i happened to change which number i used to connect, then fetchmail fetched flawlessly. i did some experiments and discovered that this particular dialin number is the ONLY one out of the 4 that i can fetch mail with. does anyone, anywhere, have any idea why or how this might be?? i was thinking of asking my isp, but maybe it has something to do with my settings or the speed of the connection vs. my modem, or protocols or something i don't understand. all numbers are 56k compliant, although my modem is only a 28.8 i never had problems with them. however, the # that works with fetchmail is not X2 complaint (the only one that ISN'T) and i wonder if that could somehow effect my ability to fetch mail or not? (note also that on windows i have no problems getting mail with any of the #s, but the 3 that won't fetch on linux at all are slow logging into the email server on windows, too, and take a long time to fetch the first message. also the 3 other bad numbers hang up on me a lot if i'm idle more than 3 minutes (noticed this in my ppp logs) where the good one does not do this. any ideas, thoughts, etc would be greatly appreciated since i'm curious as to this weirdness. thanks! add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /dev/null
Re: help /var is filling up!!!
* Bruno Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: logs appear in log.info and mail.log. how do i stop that? /etc/syslog.conf ? -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: latex and memory related
* Armin Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I drew a simple box in xfig and used it to generated a latex file. The file looks like this: [hacky lowlevel code deleted] Add [*evil*] to the document's head. Put your graphic with [*evil*] No! Forget these commands immediately! ;-) Both your ways to include graphics are obsoleted long ago by the rise of the graphic[s|x] package. I've heared of a latex package which can load a lot of common picture formats. But I don't know its name. Sorry. graphicx.sty: but note that, dependend on the dvi previewer/processor you use, it will support the formats *this* backend understands, not more. LaTeX (or rather TeX) doesn´t know about graphics, Knuth only provided the hook for backends. There is a disavantage in doing so. Text in your graphic is displayed not in the latex font and/or in another size. Use psfrag.sty. Norris Preyer shows the perfect, correct example and points to the canonical epslatex document; I´m just writing this to make things clear for newbies. (From where do they know all this evil stuff...?) :-) Cheers, Colin PS: I seldom use latex, at least less often than *LaTeX*. :-) -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is netscape?
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: I installed netscape 4.5 base, communicator 4.5 base communicator spellchecker (which requires the previous two installed). But now I cannot find netscape. It seems that everything else is there but netscape. Did I miss anything? I actually remove them and reinstall them again; same thing. Did you install navigator-smotif-45 or communicator-smotif-45? (s/smotif/dmotif/ if you have Motif)
Installing Sound Module
I recently installed Slink have been quite happy with its performance except that I am unable to get the sound card working. I have tried a couple of other Linux distributions like Red Hat and Caldera's and have found loading the sound driver as a module was much easier. Is there a program that can do this under Debian also (I mean without recompiling the Kernel - I would like to be able to load it as a module). I have a SoundBlaster AWE32 card. Thanks for any help. -D
Re: some questions...
On Fri, 21 May 1999, add|ct|on wrote: one, has anyone else had problems with kernel 2.3.3 not reporting the correct kernel version? i noticed in the makefile (after it reported 2.3.2 to me still) that it said 2.3.2 there as well... i tried removing all old kernels, anything you can think of, and of course did make clean, make mr proper, etc, before compiling. no matter what i do, this kernel still reports that it is 2.3.2! if anyone knows why this might be, or has had a similar problem with it, or even knows how to fix it please make mention since i'm stumped. Probably because it's not right in the Makefile, as you noted. Remember, odd minor versions (2.1.x, 2.3.x, etc.) are development kernels and are almost guaranteed to have problems. Personally, i'm going to stay with 2.2.x until 2.4 or 3.0, whichever comes first. Feel free to use 2.3.x if you want, and if you do make sure to report all bugs and problems to the kernel developers so they can be fixed! And backup regularly in case something does break badly...
