Support, cu and lp0
Salutations, I purchased the official debian package and thought that by registering I'd get the E-Mail address for my free support. Didn't happen. How does this work? Meanwhile I have two problems: 1. When I use cu I get a pppd permission denied message. wvdial works fine to my ISP but to login to Sun I need access to the remote console before I start ppp. (BTW: This worked flawlessly on Slackware and Caldera) 2. When I run checkpc I get a message indicating that /dev/lp0 is not configured. /dev/lp0 is present with the correct major and minor numbers. What kind of configure does it mean and how do I do it? Why didn't the package configure this when I installed it? thanks, Julian
backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system
Hi! Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system (operating system, applications, and data). I asked recently at a fairly large Linux group meeting, and everyone seemed suprised by the question and there were no good answers, which completely floored me... how could anyone smart enough to use Linux not back up their entire system RELIGIOUSLY? I have thought about trying to use a CD-RW device, such as the HP 8100i or 8200i, but HP's web site seems to hint that you can't back up to multiple CDs in sequence, so that limits a backup to 650 Mb. I've also considered using an internal Jaz drive (expensive, especially the cartridges!), an internal Zip drive (110 or 250Mb - anybody use those with Linux?), or even an internal QIC tape drive. Would that work? How? Using TAR or CPIO? And does Debian really not recognize parallel port backup devices? Bummer... that's really limiting. Especially if you've been using a parallel port tape backup unit since DOS 3.2! Other considerations: ATX main system board, AMD k6-2 processor, WD 8.4Gb hard drive, and my need to have things work right - first time, every time, without exception. PS, I want to avoid using a proprietary Linux distribution (ie, Caldera), just to get some stripped down commercial backup application. Thanks for the help! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, x x wrote: Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system (operating system, applications, and data). I asked recently at a fairly large Over the long haul a tape drive is probably the cheapest. Yeah, you don't get the other cool benefits, like making your own audio CDs, but the tapes are cheaper than the CD-Rs and you can reuse them. And if somebody sneezes in the next room, it doesn't ruin your entire backup. As for software, I would just as soon use tar. You can use it to easily back up any and all files. If you only want to make a full backup, you don't really need anything else. Linux group meeting, and everyone seemed suprised by the question and there were no good answers, which completely floored me... how could anyone smart enough to use Linux not back up their entire system RELIGIOUSLY? Maybe because it's so easy to reproduce the data if something blows up? Not a lot of people really have anything irreplaceable on their Linux system. Would that work? How? Using TAR or CPIO? And does Debian really not recognize parallel port backup devices? Bummer... that's really limiting. Especially if you've been using a parallel port tape backup unit since DOS 3.2! Parallel port devices are... difficult with Linux. Some will work and some won't.
Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 06:25:28PM -0500, x x wrote: Hi! Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system (operating system, applications, and data). I asked recently at a fairly large Linux group meeting, and everyone seemed suprised by the question and there were no good answers, which completely floored me... how could anyone smart enough to use Linux not back up their entire system RELIGIOUSLY? I have thought about trying to use a CD-RW device, such as the HP 8100i or 8200i, but HP's web site seems to hint that you can't back up to multiple CDs in sequence, so that limits a backup to 650 Mb. I've also considered using an internal Jaz drive (expensive, especially the cartridges!), an internal Zip drive (110 or 250Mb - anybody use those with Linux?), or even an internal QIC tape drive. Would that work? How? Using TAR or CPIO? And does Debian really not recognize parallel port backup devices? Bummer... that's really limiting. Especially if you've been using a parallel port tape backup unit since DOS 3.2! Other considerations: ATX main system board, AMD k6-2 processor, WD 8.4Gb hard drive, and my need to have things work right - first time, every time, without exception. PS, I want to avoid using a proprietary Linux distribution (ie, Caldera), just to get some stripped down commercial backup application. Thanks for the help! [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only backup media I've used with UNIX/Linux, and LIKED, was a 4mm DAT drive. Very nice, but expensive. The last drive I priced was in the $600 range, but that's been a while (surely they've come down since then?) As far as the backup sofware goes, I can't help you there... I always used cpio ;/ Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 08:22:23 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, David Warnock wrote: relay_domains_include_local_mx = true You can turn this off because a spammer can simply put you host in his DNS makeing you an MX host and you will relay for him. Nope. If a spammer puts the host in his DNS, you are going to relay _TO_ him. So he can happily spam himself. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: Trying Java
On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 12:53:57PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: I am trying to learn Java and the linux system seemed a good environment. So I got hold of a tutorial that showed how to test javac and java programs. I installed, via apt, jdk1.1 and jdk1.1-dev. You are on the right track. Everytime I run javac I get no error messages and nothing works. I trioed When you say nothing works, what do you mean by that?? Post us your java program... To compile the java program: use javac HelloWorld.java, this will generate a HelloWorld.class most likely. Then to run the compiled program: java HelloWorld to see what javac was and was suprised to see a lot of meaningless links They are not meaningless. This is a Debian policy that every package should be followed. /usr/bin/javac - /etc/alternatives/javac /etc/alternatives/javac - /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/javac /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/javac - .java_wrapper Anyone with some better insight? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel Rondebosch, 7700, S. Africa (w) 27+21+650 2816 (h) 27+21+705 8469 /--/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: Powered by Debian logo
You should be able to find a logo at www.linux.com. On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 04:29:07PM +0400, ??? ??? wrote: Hello. Where I can get a Powered by Debian logo for my WWW server ? All servers that powered by FreeBSD or RedHat have Powered by... logos but I can't find Powered by Debian. The world must know it's heroes ! Sorry for my bad english. Bye. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, x x wrote: Hi! Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system (operating system, applications, and data). I asked recently at a fairly large Linux group meeting, and everyone seemed suprised by the question and there were no good answers, which completely floored me... how could anyone smart enough to use Linux not back up their entire system RELIGIOUSLY? You do not backup the application binaries because you already have a backup ... either the CDROM you installed from OR the debian archive. I would never trust a backup of my binaries ... what if one of them has been replaced with a trojaned version? I guess I don't see the logic here. If one of the binaries on your backup has a Trojan that, presumably, means that before you did the backup you were running a system that had a Trojan. I would assume at that point the damage has already been done. Besides, assuming someone slipped a Trojan onto your system in the first place, restoring all your config files as they existed prior to the backup would allow them to just log in and introduce it again. The only chance I see of defeating a Trojan is detecting it and defeating the method used to introduce it in the first place. Also, the fact that such Trojans are so rare on Unix and Unix-like systems would make it a minor concern for me. Anyway, it's standard practice in large installations to back up practically everything for a level 0 backup, excluding things like /tmp, /dev (sometimes) and /proc. The only reason I wouldn't back up binaries was if I had a limited medium, in terms of space or time, for the backups. If things are so bad that you must completely restore, you are probably better off reinstalling. I suppose this might be true in some cases. I'd certainly prefer restoring a backup to a complete reinstall. There are several good backup methods ... taper, amanda, etc. and several commercial backup utils for Lnux too. Anyone else tried afbackup? I think it's great. Just about everything I've ever looked for in a backup utility. It's a bit of a steep learning curve but once you have it configured and running it requires minimal hand holding. Just slap the incremental command in a cron entry and you're off. As for backup devices, if you are talking about more than a few gig, best to go to DLT tape. A CDROM only holds a bit more than half a gig. You are going to spend all night swapping CDROMs. Has the price equalized on DLT drives and tapes? The old wisdom said that it's better to get a DAT or 8mm drive if you were going to need a relatively large set of tapes because the DLT tapes were (are?) so expensive. Anyway, it's easy to figure out just: Tape Drive price + Number of tapes * Price of single tape = total and see which total comes out lower. I don't think you'd be sorry choosing either DLT or DAT/8mm, barring price concerns, assuming you already have SCSI. Anyway, my trusty 4 year old, refurbished, 4mm DAT drive has been going strong for a long time and it's served me perfectly as a backup device. Of course being that old it's slow as dirt, but I'm usually not in a rush for backups. Gary
Re: fvwm2 debs
I think slink has only got fvwm 2.0. If you have apt, apt-get fvwm2 will install fvwm2.0.46 for you. On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 08:20:04AM -0700, Robert Jones wrote: Does anyone know of a location for getting slink debs of fvwm2 version 2.2? I managed to find 'em for potato, but they require a long chain of dependencies which I don't feel the need to do at this time. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Wacom Tablet
Hey there, Anyone had any luck getting the XInput / Wacom ArtzII Pad to work under slink with XFree86 3.3.2.3a-11? I've grabbed the xf86Wacom.so file and modified my XF86Config according to the HowTOs I've seen, but all I get is a frozen XFree86 -- just an 'x' cursor where my login dialog usually appears. Can't even Alt-Fx to get to the command line. I'm using the alpha8 xf86Wacom.so and the following XF86Config stuff (I also tried the simpler, single-device method): Section Module Load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/xf86Wacom.so EndSection Section XInput SubSection WacomStylus Port/dev/ttyS0 DeviceName Pen1 # DebugLevel 6 ModeAbsolute HistorySize 200 AlwaysCore BaudRate19200 EndSubsection SubSection WacomEraser Port/dev/ttyS0 DeviceName Eraser1 AlwaysCore ModeAbsolute EndSubsection SubSection WacomStylus Port/dev/ttyS0 DeviceName Pen2 ModeRelative HistorySize 200 AlwaysCore EndSubsection SubSection WacomEraser Port/dev/ttyS0 DeviceName Eraser2 AlwaysCore ModeRelative EndSubsection SubSection WacomCursor Port/dev/ttyS0 ModeAbsolute AlwaysCore EndSubsection EndSection Any thoughts most greatly appreciated. cheers! -- Ron [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.giantcity.com/rr/
idiot's question on Xlib programming
I write a simple program but can't compile it. Below is the program:
#include Xlib.h
main()
{Display *d=XOpenDisplay(NULL);
if(d==NULL)
{printf(can't open display\n);exit(0);} XCloseDisplay(d);
}
I use gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 xhi.c to complie it and get the following
message:
/tmp/cca002281.o: In function `main':
/tmp/cca002281.o(.text+0x9): undefined reference to `XOpenDisplay'
/tmp/cca002281.o(.text+0x45): undefined reference to `XCloseDisplay'
What's the problem? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I will leave the
list in a minute.
MARS_NWE and dos clients
Anyone running MARS_NWE? I'm having trouble connecting to the server from dos. The client says that it can not find any servers... but, windows can see and connect to the server. What's wrong? I have the actual novell files from the SYS volume .. and the version is set to 3.11. Thanks -Paul
Re: idiot's question on Xlib programming
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 xhi.c to complie it and get the following message: /tmp/cca002281.o: In function `main': /tmp/cca002281.o(.text+0x9): undefined reference to `XOpenDisplay' /tmp/cca002281.o(.text+0x45): undefined reference to `XCloseDisplay' What's the problem? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I will leave the list in a minute. You have to link with Xlib, try adding the '-lX11' flag to your compile line. You may find Gtk or some other high-level toolkit less frustrating; Xlib is hard even if you have a lot of Unix programming experience. Havoc
Re: apt-get error
That file was pulled off the mirrors due to a bug in it. Just run apt-get update and get a new Packages.gz file... On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: I am getting the following error when I do 'apt-get upgrade': Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main makedev 2.3.1-27 404 Not Found Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/makede v_2.3.1-27.deb 404 Not Found E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing? I cannot install any packages because of this one missing package on the Debian archives. Any way around installing each package I downloaded manually? thanks -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer
See: http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2 ... for a list of known issues when running the newer kernels on Slink machines. On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, virtanen wrote: On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: A: One way is to use modules, which I think most people do. Is there any doc available how to compile the kernel using just those modules (printer and zip-drive) so that it works effectively? (In the installation manual there is a long talk about that matter *why* compiling the kernel is done how it is done in Debian, but very little about that matter *how to do* it... :-)) B: However, I don't use them myself; if you have the latest kernel (2.2.x series) you can have both your zip drive and your printer working simultaneously, without modules and without any problems. 1) Did you install the latest kernel with slink? Any problems with it? 2) Does the Zip drive work then that way that the printer is attached to the zip-drive? 3) What about then if I take the zip-drive off sometimes and attach printer directly to the parallel port? (In my case the zip drive isn't there always. I'm using it in two machines.) - hv -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: SSH 2
It's available in potato/non-US I believe. I just tried searching for it with the bot on the #debian irc channel and it couldn't find it. Since it can only search the US mirrors, and since I have seen it before, it must be a non-US package. On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Rune Linding Raun wrote: i need SSH2 daemon on my system does it excist as a .deb? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: support
I've successfully used a laptop on pppconfig to set up a modem that uses standard AT commands but had a special cable to my cellular phone (Nokia). If you have some kind of special hardware that's not supported, I can't speak to that... but any supported PCMCIA modem that uses standard AT commands that also has a cable connector to go to a cell phone should work. FWIW, cellular phone dialup over the AMPS cellular network (analog) will typically connect at 4800-9600 bps maximum... not fast, but it works for a quick pine session to check mail or a quick backdoor behind a firewall to check the health of a system. Good luck! On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, M Thurston wrote: some stuff that i want to know about please: where can i get Debian banners from to put on my web pages? does debain support Mobile Phone data connections? M Thurston --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
[julian@mail.webaccess.net: 30 days of free E-Mail support]
Could anyone please help this guy? Ciao, Hanno -- | Hanno Wagner | Member of the HTML Writers Guild | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Eine gewerbliche Nutzung meiner Email-Adressen ist nicht gestattet! | | 74 a3 53 cc 0b 19 - we did it! |Generation @ | #Copy me, I want to travel! # -- 1103 ---BeginMessage--- Salutations, I purchased the official debian package and thought that by registering I'd get the E-Mail address for my free support. Didn't happen. How does this work? Meanwhile I have two problems: 1. When I use cu I get a pppd permission denied message. wvdial works fine to my ISP but to login to Sun I need access to the remote console before I start ppp. (BTW: This worked flawlessly on Slackware and Caldera) 2. When I run checkpc I get a message indicating that /dev/lp0 is not configured. /dev/lp0 is present with the correct major and minor numbers. What kind of configure does it mean and how do I do it? Why didn't the package configure this when I installed it? thanks, Julian ---End Message---
Re: Linux freezing up
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 09:22:40AM -, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: Has anyone else had problems with AMD being less stable than Intel? My AMD K6-2 350MHz system is 100% stable, so Intel must be impressive :-) Cyrix M2 333MHz is another matter. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
sending mails from a C program
Hi, What is the best way to send an email from a C program? Are there any API for it?? Or do I have to use system()?? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: Configuring a monitor?
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Keith G. Murphy wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: The actual power goes off while booting? To your whole machine? Linux cannot do this, AFAIK. (Unless with power-saving features compiled in?) You have a severe hardware problem. Exactly. The power goes off while booting. It has something to do with BIOS settings, I think, (not linux) (PnP BIOS) All the 'Advanced power management...' and so on are 'disabled'. No 'power-saving features are compiled in'. It seems to be the case that if I shut down the machine completely before booting linux it normally works. I think that I just forgot again to stop the machine completely (just rebooted win and hit F8 while rebooting to get into DOS. There is win95 installed on the same hd and I'm using 'loadlin'. (It was impossible to get lilo working with this machine.) With win95 the power goes off automaticly, when I stop the os.) Power supply? There is nothing wrong with that. Cf above. - hv
Re: (Parallel) Iomega Zip and a Printer
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Gerhard Häring wrote: Hi! My solution for switching from parallel zip drive to printer under SUSE (no reason why it shouldn't work with Debian) was to unload the zip driver and load the drivers necessary for printing: rmmod ppa (need unmount zip drive first) insmod parport insmod parport_pc insmod lp There should be more elegant ways, though ... Gerhard virtanen wrote: I wanted to be able sometimes use the zip drive and sometimes to use the printer. Thanks for good advice. It seems to be working in my case just by doing rmmod ppa lpd is being started during booting and for some reason the system didn't like 'insmod' commands at all. (I've installed lprng.) This is quite easy solution. I'll maybe try later to install newer kernel. - hv
Re: Configuring a monitor?
while rebooting to get into DOS. There is win95 installed on the same hd and I'm using 'loadlin'. (It was impossible to get lilo working with this machine.) With win95 the power goes off automaticly, when I stop the os.) Why not LILO? Whats wrong with the system? 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. ---
SSH2 on slink?
Hi, our web server is running Debian slink, but we have several workstations running Debian Potato and Windows 95/98 that would need to connect SSH to the web server. Especially for Windows everything is easier using SSH2 so we would like to offer this option. I see that there is a SSH2 package for Potato available and wondered if anyone has installed this successfully on slink. I also need to know if installing this package disables SSH1 that we currently have running on the web server TIA .. -- o - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Magicfilter and printing (Epson stylus 400)
1) Earlier while still using 'hamm' I wrote my ps.filter by using the documentation provided by Lyx customization doc. I used an old matrix printer to print ps- and text-files. It worked quite well. 2) When switching to slink I purchased a cheap Epson Stylus color 400 and installed 'magicfilter'. As being new to 'magicfilter' it took some time to find out that I have to run 'magicfilterconfig' to get it working at all. Now I managed to get the printer printing text-files perfectly just by selecting the right device while configuring. What about printing ps-files and other kind of files? Should I write myself ps-filter or how is done with 'magicfilter'? (The man page isn't very clear and in the docs there is almost nothing about it.) -hv
Re: Configuring a monitor?
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: while rebooting to get into DOS. There is win95 installed on the same hd and I'm using 'loadlin'. (It was impossible to get lilo working with this machine.) With win95 the power goes off automaticly, when I stop the os.) Why not LILO? Whats wrong with the system? Andrew For some reason it didn't work. I don't remember exactly any more what went wrong, but for some time I couldn't run even win any more after trying to install lilo. I might try again after solving some other problems of this machine. There is something I should do for BIOS, but I've tried already to adjust it so many times without success that I became a little frustrated with that. Decided to try solving that video card problem for a while and to come back to this BIOS problem later. -hv
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
If you have the relay-domains-include-local-MX = true in your /etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I think this was the original question. The other gentleman is right about if this setting is NOT on, and you add the MX record, the spammer can spam themselves... so to speak. On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote: Nope. If a spammer puts the host in his DNS, you are going to relay _TO_ him. So he can happily spam himself. Ok, maybe this has changed but I thought at one point Exim would take mail in either direction from a host listing it as an MX. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: Support, cu and lp0
Taylor, Julian wrote: Salutations, I purchased the official debian package and thought that by registering I'd get the E-Mail address for my free support. Didn't happen. How does this work? Meanwhile I have two problems: 1. When I use cu I get a pppd permission denied message. wvdial works fine to my ISP but to login to Sun I need access to the remote console before I start ppp. (BTW: This worked flawlessly on Slackware and Caldera) 2. When I run checkpc I get a message indicating that /dev/lp0 is not configured. /dev/lp0 is present with the correct major and minor numbers. What kind of configure does it mean and how do I do it? Why didn't the package configure this when I installed it? The error message is somewhat misleading. Not configured means that the lp driver could not find the hardware for lp0 or that the driver has not even been loaded. Does your kernel contain support for the parallel interface (compiled in or as module)? Also, you might want to try /dev/lp1, depending on the I/O address for your parallel interface. HTH Heinrich -- Heinrich Rebehn University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Telecommunications - E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : +49/421/218-4664 Fax :-3341
How to escape this for the bash shell...
I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to do with it either! Any shell-heads out there want to take a stab at it? It's not really bothering me, but it's just sitting there at the top of every 'ls'... (: -- +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | http://www.natetech.com | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. have you tried 'rm ./FILE'? There are several ways to delete files with weird filenames. There was a thread on it last month. Take a look at: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9907/msg00289.html and follow that thread. BTW, it's entitled Remove funny files hth -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ http://www.debian.org
Re: idiot's question on Xlib programming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I write a simple program but can't compile it. Below
is the program:
#include Xlib.h>
main()
{Display *d=XOpenDisplay(NULL);
if(d==NULL)
{printf("can't open display\n");exit(0);} XCloseDisplay(d);
}
I use "gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 xhi.c" to complie it and get the
following message:
/tmp/cca002281.o: In function `main':
/tmp/cca002281.o(.text+0x9): undefined reference to `XOpenDisplay'
/tmp/cca002281.o(.text+0x45): undefined reference to `XCloseDisplay'
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You can try to compile with "gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib/
-lX11 xhi.c"
The source code is:
#include X11/Xlib.h>
main()
{Display *d=XOpenDisplay(NULL);
if(d==NULL)
{printf("can't open display\n");exit(0);} XCloseDisplay(d);
}
It works on my computer
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Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. For this one, I'd just enclose the filename in single quotes like rm 'file' which should prevent shell interpretation of the ~,? and [ characters. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten --- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- NRA Life Member -- http://www.nra.org --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- I just thought of something funny...your mother. --Cheech Marin
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to do with it either! Any shell-heads out there want to take a stab at it? It's not really bothering me, but it's just sitting there at the top of every 'ls'... (: -- +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | http://www.natetech.com | "May the Source be with you." | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | | http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo | ++ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null have you tried "rm \?\?\?\?\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~\?\[4~" -- \\\// / _ _ \ ( O O ) ===oOOO=(_)=OOOo=== PAQUET Ludovic e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] telephone : 05-46-88-41-80 ===Oooo.=== .oooO ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_)
Re: idiot's question on Xlib programming
You need to link in the Xlib library with the switch -lX11.
Martin
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: idiot's question on Xlib programming
I write a simple program but can't compile it. Below is the program:
#include Xlib.h
main()
{Display *d=XOpenDisplay(NULL);
if(d==NULL)
{printf(can't open display\n);exit(0);} XCloseDisplay(d);
}
I use gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include/X11 xhi.c to complie it and get the
following message:
/tmp/cca002281.o: In function `main':
/tmp/cca002281.o(.text+0x9): undefined reference to `XOpenDisplay'
/tmp/cca002281.o(.text+0x45): undefined reference to `XCloseDisplay'
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Why does xscreensaver always ask a password?
I have disabled the password requirement in the setup. This is wat ~/.gnome/Screensaver looks like: [Decayscreen] Delay=2 Monochrome=false ARGS=decayscreen -delay 2 [Default] nice=10 waitmins=2 dpmsmins=20 dpms=false password=false mode=RANDOM SCREENSAVER command=xscreensaver -no-splash -timeout 2 -nice 10 And still it requires a password. Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope. Romans 5:3,4
Re: SSH2 on slink?
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: I see that there is a SSH2 package for Potato available and wondered if anyone has installed this successfully on slink. I run slink on a 486dx/2 home box with 12 megs of RAM (yep, there are some archaic computers :) I tried to run SSH2, but generating host key was the main problem - the process of generating freezed each time I had run it. But that was probably a hardware problem (anyone got any ideas about it? lack of RAM? lack of processor speed?) I also need to know if installing this package disables SSH1 that we currently have running on the web server SSH2 has been rewritten from scratch, according to its authors. Of course, it disables SSH1, but it is 100% compatible with SSH1, so that SSH1 users should be able to log into machine running SSHD2, and vice versa - SSH2 users into SSHD1. I haven't tested it (due to the problem I wrote about) but information I gave you comes from SSH2 package. Pawel Melyan Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #8096952
How do I connect to BTInternet in the UK? They use MS-CHAP
I want to connect to BTInternet here in the UK. Apparently they use ms-chap. I have been looking at the ppp docs and the advice there is to compile ppp with ma-chap support. I have never compiled an essential app like ppp before - I am concerned about dependencies etc. - if I downloaded the tar.gz source, compiled and installed it surely all sorts of dependencies on my system would be broken? Any advice would be gratefully received. RTFMs also gratefully received if they also point to the correct FM! -- Phillip Deackes Debian Linux (Potato)
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
have you tried rm ./?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to do with it either! Any shell-heads out there want to take a stab at it? It's not really bothering me, but it's just sitting there at the top of every 'ls'... (: -- +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | http://www.natetech.com | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 19:15:59 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote: Nope. If a spammer puts the host in his DNS, you are going to relay _TO_ him. So he can happily spam himself. Ok, maybe this has changed but I thought at one point Exim would take mail in either direction from a host listing it as an MX. Philip would never incorporate an option that dangerous into his program. He knows what he is doing and he also knows what an open relay is. I don't have older versions of exim here so I can't look in older manuals though. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: networking
hello all I have a question I have 3 machines one is runing windows 98 and the other 2 our running debian. My question is I want to setup a home network I want the windows 98 machine to be the duilouit server and the the linux boxes connected to it I am a littel confused on how to set this up if anyone can be of assistance I would greatly appriciate it. The only way to get this done is to make the windowas machine a gateway. You can either use a proxy for that or find some gateway software that will do it for you. The best options is to make the linux machine dialout and just let the windowas machines connect to it. -- Geordy Korte --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ 14458242 http://www.nai.nu | Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key |--
[potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager
Howdy, I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post this but anyway... I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen pops back. When I start X by typing startx from a text console everything works fine. I noticed this problem on a few PC's that have been upgraded to potato so I think it's a bug and not a misconfiguration. I now potato is called unstable for something but I hope somebody has a workaround or fix for this. Thanks in advance, Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system
x == x x [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: x [1 text/plain; iso-8859-1 (quoted-printable)] Hi! Could x anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to x use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system x (operating system, applications, and data). I asked x recently at a fairly large Linux group meeting, and everyone x seemed suprised by the question and there were no good x answers, which completely floored me... how could anyone x smart enough to use Linux not back up their entire system x RELIGIOUSLY? See http://visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/bazaar_dateoffers.html and look for offer 990307A. I invite you to increase my offer if you are interested. -- Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SSH2 on slink?
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Pawel Mazur wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Christian Dysthe wrote: I see that there is a SSH2 package for Potato available and wondered if anyone has installed this successfully on slink. I run slink on a 486dx/2 home box with 12 megs of RAM (yep, there are some archaic computers :) I tried to run SSH2, but generating host key was the main problem - the process of generating freezed each time I had run it. But that was probably a hardware problem (anyone got any ideas about it? lack of RAM? lack of processor speed?) Probably processor speed. I also need to know if installing this package disables SSH1 that we currently have running on the web server SSH2 has been rewritten from scratch, according to its authors. Of course, it disables SSH1, but it is 100% compatible with SSH1, so that SSH1 users should be able to log into machine running SSHD2, and vice versa - SSH2 users into SSHD1. It does not disable ssh1. ssh1 is used for a connection if either the clients calls an ssh1 element, or if the server is using only ssh1. This is carried out by passing the call to the ssh1 counterpart programs. Therefore ssh1 must also be installed, and moreover, ssh1 package should be installed before installing ssh2 package, if you want to maintain compatibility with ssh1. No problem used to come forth when installing it. Robert Varga
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to do with it either! Hi, rm 'your_file_name' mc doesn't list this file because it last char is ~ and mc interprets this files as backup. You can set in mc Options-Configuration...-show Backup files to see files *~ and Options-Configuration...-show Hidden files to see files .* Mirek
Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
Hi! After my system (kernel 2.2.5) is running for more than a few days, I can't play sounds anymore and get these syslog messages: Aug 4 12:37:40 eule kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer Unloading the sound kernel modules doesn't help either. I have no idea what is causing this. Anyone seen this before? Some more infos on my system: cat /proc/dma 1: SoundBlaster8 2: floppy 4: cascade 5: SoundBlaster16 cat /dev/sndstat OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 Load type: Driver loaded as a module Kernel: Linux eule 2.2.5 #11 Don Jul 1 15:21:11 CEST 1999 i686 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Card config: Audio devices: 0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16) (DUPLEX) Synth devices: 0: Yamaha OPL3 1: AWE32-0.4.3 (RAM512k) Midi devices: 0: Sound Blaster 16 1: AWE Midi Emu Timers: 0: System clock Mixers: 0: Sound Blaster Thanks a lot for any hint! Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Bad or missing mouse driver. Spank the cat? (Y/N)
Apachectl can't find pid
Hi, I have a small problem with restarting apache after it's initial start at boot time. It send me something like: /init.d/apache restart apachetcl can't find pid 12345 apache failed In the error.log there is also a warning [warn] pid file /var/run/apache.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run? If I try to kill manually the pid and restart apache, it fail again. I have to reboot the computer... Any idea? Thanks --- Mario Bertrandcourriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: How do I connect to BTInternet in the UK? They use MS-CHAP
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: I want to connect to BTInternet here in the UK. Apparently they use ms-chap. I have been looking at the ppp docs and the advice there is to compile ppp with ma-chap support. I have never compiled an essential app like ppp before - I am concerned about dependencies etc. - if I downloaded the tar.gz source, compiled and installed it surely all sorts of dependencies on my system would be broken? Debian 2.1r2 (slink) (info taken from /var/lib/dpkg/available) Package: ppp Version: 2.3.5-2 Depends: libc6, netbase Suggests: ppp-pam Package:depends on: xispppp (=2.2.0f) wvdial ppp (=2.3.0) pppconfig ppp (=2.3) pptp-linux ppp ppp-pam ppp (=2.3.5-2) pppupd ppp masqdialer ppp (=2.3) diald ppp ( 2.2) These are for Debian 2.1. So, if you recompile ppp 2.3.5-2 on slink, it won't break any dependencies, I guess - I haven't recompiled it. I have no idea what ppp version and what packages that depends on it are in Debian 2.2 (potato) - you have to ask potato users :) Pawel Melyan Mazur [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #8096952
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Most people told you to rm ./file or rm 'file' but that won't work of course since you can't input the filename from the keyboard at all. (The name as you typed it looks like it consists of escape sequences, not something you can easily type on the keyboard.) So it's a better idea to use the shell's wildcard expansion to do the work for you. You can type rm -i * and then answer n for every file except for this one. -- Alex Shnitman| http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--- http://alexsh.hectic.netUIN 188956PGP key on web page E1 F2 7B 6C A0 31 80 28 63 B8 02 BA 65 C7 8B BA /real/ kernel hackers dd if=/dev/urandom of=/vmlinuz and influence the Universal Randomosity Field. -- Gaal Yahas pgpEiZGQ47WHo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
Quoting Alex Shnitman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Most people told you to rm ./file or rm 'file' but that won't work of course since you can't input the filename from the keyboard at all. (The name as you typed it looks like it consists of escape sequences, not something you can easily type on the keyboard.) So it's a better idea to use the shell's wildcard expansion to do the work for you. You can type rm -i * and then answer n for every file except for this one. In the general case, I think you still need the ./* in case you have files called -d etc. which would generate undesirable option switches. I would also assume that rm -i ./*4~ could speed things up. Where the file name at least starts with printable characters, recognition (tab) can also help as it automatically inserts the necessary backslashes. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. bash will properly escape it if you use file-name completion. Thus if you type ? and then tab after the command you'd like to operate on that file, bash will complete the name (unless you have other files beginning with ? too). Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to do with it either! Are you sure it's a file at all? It looks more like a misconfigured ls. Does the file show up in your $HOME only or in every directory? Regards, -- Eberhard Burrcheck http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~Eberhard.Burr/publickey.asc for PGP Key -- #include stddisc.h -- electric cookie follows BARRY ... That was the most HEART-WARMING rendition of I DID IT MY WAY I've ever heard!!
Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
Quoting Andy Spiegl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi! After my system (kernel 2.2.5) is running for more than a few days, I can't play sounds anymore and get these syslog messages: Aug 4 12:37:40 eule kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer Unloading the sound kernel modules doesn't help either. No, that should make things worse. I have no idea what is causing this. Anyone seen this before? Look at the May 1999 archives for this list, with the subject Can't allocate DMA buffer (as opposed to Couldn't!) for a clearer explanation than I could give. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: Magicfilter and printing (Epson stylus 400)
Quoting virtanen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): When switching to slink I purchased a cheap Epson Stylus color 400 and installed 'magicfilter'. As being new to 'magicfilter' it took some time to find out that I have to run 'magicfilterconfig' to get it working at all. Now I managed to get the printer printing text-files perfectly just by selecting the right device while configuring. What about printing ps-files and other kind of files? Should I write myself ps-filter or how is done with 'magicfilter'? (The man page isn't very clear and in the docs there is almost nothing about it.) Usually the postscript filter is the first or second item in /etc/magicfilter/foobar. Just make sure you've got, say, gs-aladdin installed and then try lpr some-ps-file.ps assuming it's on lp in /etc/printcap. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:53:15 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: If you have the relay-domains-include-local-MX = true in your /etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I think this was the original question. This is either a bug in the program or in the documentation: |If the domain in a recipient address matches local_domains or | |relay_domains, or if relay_domains_include_local_mx is set and the domain | |has an MX record pointing to the local host, the address is always | |accepted (at least as far as this check is concerned - a subsequent | |verification check might fail it). This is the case of an incoming message | |to a local domain or an incoming relay to a permitted domain. |relay_domains_include_local_mx | |Type:boolean |Default: false | |This option permits any host to relay to any domain that has an MX record |pointing at the local host. It causes any domain with an MX record |pointing at the local host to be treated as if it were in relay_domains. |See host_accept_relay above. Warning: Turning on this option opens your | |server to the possibility of abuse in that anyone with access to a DNS | |zone can list your server in a secondary MX record as a backup for their | |domain without your permission. This is not a huge exposure because | |firstly, it requires the cooperation of a hostmaster to set up, and | |secondly, since their mail is passing through your server, they run the | |risk of your noticing and (for example) throwing all their mail away. |The relaying check happens whenever a message's recipient is received, that |is, immediately after a RCPT command. The first check is whether the address |would cause relaying at all: if its domain matches something in local_domains |then it is destined to be handled on the local host as a local address, and |relaying is not involved, unless the 'percent hack' is in use. In this case, |the local part is converted into a new address and that is then checked. | |When the relevant domain is not in local_domains, there is first a check for |legitimate incoming relaying, by seeing if it matches relay_domains, or, when |relay_domains_include_local_mx is set, if it is a domain with an MX record |pointing to the local host. If it does match, this is an acceptable incoming |relay, and it is permitted to proceed. The specification says at three different places that relay_domains_include_local_mx checks are only done on _recipient_ address. Thus, a message is only relayed if the local host has an MX record for the _recipient's_ domain and the spammer can only use the exim host as a relay to spam users in domains the spammer controls the DNS of. It will not relay _FOR_ anyone who lists the exim host as an MX for their domain; it will relay _TO_ anyone who lists the exim host as an MX for their domain. This is a siginificant difference. I am not in a position to test this at the moment, but _if_ exim doesn't behave as the docs say and as I interpreted, this is a severe bug and I've got to ask you why you didn't report it to Philip yet. This is crossposted to the exim-users mailing list for verification. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Installation ~ configuring apt-get sources.list for cdrom
I am in the process of installing Debian 2.1 for the first time. I have gone through the process where my machine now boots into Linux from the floppy and I can flounder around enough to see that I have heaps of directories and files and am playing around with commands, learning as i go. I wonder if I have actually got the right files there to continue on? I want to get the man-db, I presume that is on the cdrom somewhere. I can get to the cdrom directory but it wont ls anything. Using apt-get install man-db, I get the following: E:Can't open /var/cashe/apt/scrpkgcace.bin -open (no such file or directory). I'm not surprised as i know i need to edit the sources.list ... but i have no idea what to add to it to tell it to go to the cdrom? Help on this and any general tips appreciated, especially the documentation on the web that might help, I have heaps but remain stuck on this step, as I don't seem to have the exact doc I need. Walter __ Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.psybernet.co.nz
Insmod ppa errors
When I use Insmod ppa (to connect my zip 100 iomega drive via parrallel port), I get the following error: ver 1.42 probing port 03bc probing port 0278 0 hosts /lib/modules/2.0.36./scsi/ppa.0 device or resource busy Does any one have any ideas about this one? By the way, I tested the zip drive and dos mode on the p.c. in question and it worked as expected. Again any help or ideas are greatly appreciated. -Wxb1
Re: CD Image...
there should be 4 discs.. 1. Debian Slink Disc 1 [base system + softwares] 2. Debian Slink Disc 2 [contrib] 3. Non-free [qt etc] 4. Non-US [ssh, etc] ¦b Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:12:42 +0800 (SST), »Õ¤U¼g¹D... Hi... there are 2 CD images in the cdimage directory... does disk 2 contains contrib or the source code??? Thank you TimeZlicer
slink not updating ?
Hello, does anyone update packages in slink for security and other reasons ? I haven't seen any update for long time even if there were some bug reports, security warnings etc... -- Matus fantomas Uhlar, sysadmin at Telenor Internet Kosice, Slovakia BIC coord for *.sk; admin of netlab.irc.sk; co-admin of irc.felk.cvut.cz Where do you want to go to die? [Microsoft]
Re: Installation ~ configuring apt-get sources.list for cdrom
Jocke, Thanks for the reply... in /etc/apt/sources.list add the following lines deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US I forgot to mention that I am not yet connected with ppp, so i presume this won't work yet. Does that leave me then with dselect as the only option to procede? dselect works but I have not managed to find the way to tell it how to get the man-db or emacs etc. Can that be done from there? Walter This will enable you to use apt-get But you can use dselect to install things from your 2.1 cd Just choose multi_cd under [A]ccess and you are on your way. you can also get the .deb apt-cdrom from the unstable version and add the cd to sources.list by running apt-cdrom for each cd in your cd-set. To get it you will have to add deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free to your sources.list file Hope this will help you get going. /Joakim __ Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.psybernet.co.nz
Re: slink not updating ?
Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does anyone update packages in slink for security and other reasons ? I haven't seen any update for long time even if there were some bug reports, security warnings etc... Look at security.debian.org for security updates. -- I congratulate you. Happy goldfish bowl to you, to me, to everyone, and may each of you fry in hell forever. -- Isaac Asimov, The Dead Past
Re: Video Card
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:26 -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Raymond A. Ingles wrote: ...from what I've gathered 2D support is a little immature, and it's really hard to render into a window... Actually, the Voodoo3 drivers have been incorporated into Xfree86 3.3.4... atleast, that's what the Xfree86 FAQ says. Okay, cool. I'll remember that. Still, I remember reading that rendering 3D into a window isn't the Voodoo's stong suit. But for full-speed hardware rendering in Linux, they're (for now) the only game in town. If you have an AMD CPU or a not particularly high spec CPU Voodoo3 is by all accounts the best choice, since it isn't as dependent on the host CPU. According to Darryll Strauss (the developer of the linux version of Glide and the X sever) voodoo3 has probably the best 2d performance on the market (well, he would say that, wouldn't he ;) Hopefully the V3 2k card I ordered yesterday should arrive any day now, and with a bit of luck it should be overclockable so that it runs at the same speed as the 3k model. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Soundcard volume problems
I've had an annoying problem with the volume on my soundcard for some time now, and it is really annoying me now. Since I use headphones I don't want the volume to be set very high, so I use aumix to set the volume when I log in. However, a number of programs insist on setting it to a much higher level when they start, which tends to be very painful if I forget to take the headphones off before I start the program. Is there any cure for this problem? Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Re: Freeserve CD workaround?
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 18:38 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 05:38:40PM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote: DoeS aNyBody have the method for installing freeserve without using the CD handy, please? or a URL? Go to the website using some existing network connection and fill in the form there (it was quite promenantly listed last time I checked). It will spit out sufficient technical details to set up. I believe it's http://signup.freeserve.net You probably need to use Netscape. Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
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Re: [Exim] Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:53:15 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: If you have the relay-domains-include-local-MX = true in your /etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I think this was the original question. That is incorrect. It will not relay _FOR_ anyone who lists the exim host as an MX for their domain; it will relay _TO_ anyone who lists the exim host as an MX for their domain. This is a siginificant difference. That is correct. Relaying _FOR_ is controlled by hosts, not domains. Typically: relay for any host on my local network. There are some controls by sender (though they are weak, since senders are easily forged) but they do not involve looking up MX records for the sender. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
Re: slink not updating ?
On Wednesday 4 August 1999, at 14 h 53, the keyboard of Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone update packages in slink for security and other reasons ? I haven't seen any update for long time even if there were some bug reports, security warnings etc... http://security.debian.org/ See also http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/ where there are several sources for slink.
Re: Insmod ppa errors
Quoting Wendell Buckner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): When I use Insmod ppa (to connect my zip 100 iomega drive via parrallel port), I get the following error: ver 1.42 probing port 03bc probing port 0278 0 hosts /lib/modules/2.0.36./scsi/ppa.0 device or resource busy Does any one have any ideas about this one? As it's not probing 378, you've probably already got something registered there, e.g. lp. Are you running a kernel old enough that it only supports *either* lp *or* ppa, but not both? Try lsmod to see what's there and rmmod lp insmod ppa to see if that works. More recent kernels with parport can handle a printer connected through the zip drive like dos can. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
printer help
Hi all, I can't get lpr to work properly. I guess I am just unexperienced so some hints and advice would be appreciated. I have a pretty slim potato setup. gs-aladdin lprng magicfilter - printcap file: lp|epson|EPSON STYLUS color 740:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_720dpi-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: printer EPSON STYLUS color 740 when trying to print a .ps file with lpr some_file.ps I just get lots of form feeds and strange output after a while when trying a ordinary text file nothing happens. The job is in the que for a while but nothing prints. As root I can print with cat some_file /dev/lp0 - If I do lpc start I get Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: started -- What extra info can I give ? Would appreciate som input on this. Best Regards Joakim Svensson
Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system
Quoting Gary L. Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, x x wrote: Hi! Could anyone tell me what's a good hardware/software combination to use to make frequent FULL backups of a Debian system (operating system, applications, and data). I asked recently at a fairly large Linux group meeting, and everyone seemed suprised by the question and there were no good answers, which completely floored me... how could anyone smart enough to use Linux not back up their entire system RELIGIOUSLY? You do not backup the application binaries because you already have a backup ... either the CDROM you installed from OR the debian archive. I would never trust a backup of my binaries ... what if one of them has been replaced with a trojaned version? I guess I don't see the logic here. If one of the binaries on your backup has a Trojan that, presumably, means that before you did the backup you were running a system that had a Trojan. I would assume at that point the damage has already been done. Logically, that doesn't follow. The trojan may not yet have been run. Besides, assuming someone slipped a Trojan onto your system in the first place, restoring all your config files as they existed prior to the backup would allow them to just log in and introduce it again. Again, logically, that doesn't follow. The trojan may have been installed before the config files were altered. For example, one might have decided to tighten up security in the wake of a break-in (detected or undetected) or simply changed the passwords. The only chance I see of defeating a Trojan is detecting it and defeating the method used to introduce it in the first place. Also, the fact that such Trojans are so rare on Unix and Unix-like systems would make it a minor concern for me. Anyway, it's standard practice in large installations to back up practically everything for a level 0 backup, excluding things like /tmp, /dev (sometimes) and /proc. There may be a historical reason for this. A large unix installation is likely to have gathered its software from all sorts of sources on all sorts of disparate media, and have put a lot of administrative sweat into compiling and installing it all. So it makes sense to backup the *result* of all that work. OTOH every file on this system I'm typing on is sitting on one jaz drive. The binaries and kernel-images are all in their .deb files; the rescue/drivers disks are as disk images together with base*.tgz; then there are all the configured /etc and /var files in zipfiles for possible restoration, and copies of /etc and /var plus a non-root recursive snapshot of /proc/[a-z]* for perusal. /home is split by user as there are so few. The very idea of all one's system software in a set of homogeneous .deb files is probably foreign to most unix administrators. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Formating a HD into VFAT
Hi, I need a tool to format my hard drive into vfat under linux. Superformat (and old fdformat) only deal with floppies. Do you know if what I am looking for exists ? Please, include me in the reply since I am not on this mailing list. Thanks for any help, and have a nice day :o)
Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager
I had the same problem, and I found that there were a couple of things that could be behind it first it could be a bad xsession file, or it could be an issue with the window manager, either it's not correctly installed, or the /etc/X11/window-managers file is trying to start a windowmanager that doesn't exist (probably twm) R. Nico De Ranter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/04/99 03:14AM Howdy, I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post this but anyway... I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen pops back. When I start X by typing startx from a text console everything works fine. I noticed this problem on a few PC's that have been upgraded to potato so I think it's a bug and not a misconfiguration. I now potato is called unstable for something but I hope somebody has a workaround or fix for this. Thanks in advance, Nico -- How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SUPC-E/NSSE) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Mutt
Ok my mail headers doesn't look so good. Could anyone help me out? I am using Mutt and I run it from an account with user josv My internet provider email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] How should I set up Mutt to have all my outgoing mail show: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of From: Jocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] /Joakim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation ~ configuring apt-get sources.list for cdrom
Jocke Nice to get the encouragment... dselect works just fine if you just have 2.1 cds. I do and I must have installed the basics on the HDD, but still stuck there. enter the [A]ccess and choose multi_cd Done then run [U]pdate for each cd (actually the last one) if you get something like 2250 packages updated its OK the go into [S]elect I did that the first time (I think) now it comes up with a message: dpkg failed to find info /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mti/binary It does that with either of the cds press space use / to search or just use the arrow keys to look around find a package you want and press + If you get a new scrren with text just press space and then return the find command dioes not faid things ... All the items that I see visible are mentioned as installed. I am still missing something?? walter [I]nstall change cds [C]onfig -- Thats it When you get ppp working and have a working system just give up dselect and start using apt instead. S much nicer. /Joakim __ Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.psybernet.co.nz
Re: Mutt
my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] should work. On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 06:15:08PM +0200, Jocke wrote: Ok my mail headers doesn't look so good. Could anyone help me out? I am using Mutt and I run it from an account with user josv My internet provider email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] How should I set up Mutt to have all my outgoing mail show: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of From: Jocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] /Joakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
Hi David, thanks a lot for your fast reply! Unloading the sound kernel modules doesn't help either. No, that should make things worse. Really? Interesting. Look at the May 1999 archives for this list, with the subject Can't allocate DMA buffer (as opposed to Couldn't!) for a clearer explanation than I could give. Hm, now I check the whole archive of 1999 and can't find it. Could it have been on a different list maybe? Thanks, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
modem reporting a lot of errors
Hi, I am getting a lot of errors for my ppp0 interface. ifconfig shows: ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:129.94.16.27 P-t-P:129.94.15.6 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:42548 errors:2233 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2233 TX packets:35110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 I only left modem on for about 4 hours. And I got 2000 errors already. Is there any way to avoid this?? In addition, should I use xon/xoff or hardware for the flow control?? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Apache crash shot entire machine
Hi! I had a serious problem today with Apache, it took the whole machine to nirvana. Did anyone experience similar problems? Aug 4 10:44:58 debian kernel: Warning: possible SYN flood from 194.177.131.33 on 195.202.146.60:53. Sending cookies. Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address c008 Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: current-tss.cr3 = 00aa3000, %cr3 = 00aa3000 Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: *pde = 00102067 Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: *pte = Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: Oops: Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: CPU:0 Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: EIP:0010:[tcp_recvmsg+587/1120] Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: eax: ebx: 00f6eccc ecx: 00f6ec30 edx: Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: esi: 0246 edi: ebp: 00f6ec0c esp: 00889ee8 Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: Process apache (pid: 23973, process nr: 21, stackpage=00889000) Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: Stack: 00f6ec0c 00889f7c 00f6ec30 Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel:00692810 00821c48 4e6197b0 00156fe6 00f6ec0c 00889f78 1000 Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: 00889f7c 1000 00821c00 080a47ec 00821c90 0013a19b 00821c90 Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: Call Trace: [inet_recvmsg+118/144] [sock_read+171/208] [sys_read+204/256] [system_call+85/124] Aug 4 12:45:55 debian kernel: Code: 81 48 08 00 00 02 00 89 4c 24 14 e8 35 6f fc ff 8b 85 f4 01 Aug 4 12:45:58 debian kernel: wait_queue is bad (eip = 00156458) Aug 4 12:45:58 debian kernel: q = 00821c4c Aug 4 12:45:58 debian kernel:*q = 00889f08 Aug 4 12:45:58 debian kernel: wait_queue is bad (eip = 00156497) Aug 4 12:45:58 debian kernel: q = 00821c4c Aug 4 12:45:58 debian kernel:*q = 00889f08 Aug 4 12:46:29 debian kernel: general protection: Aug 4 12:46:29 debian kernel: CPU:0 Aug 4 12:46:29 debian kerneld: error: exit: Identifier removed Aug 4 12:46:29 debian kernel: EIP:0010:[wake_up_interruptible+53/240] Aug 4 12:46:29 debian kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 Aug 4 12:46:29 debian kernel: eax: 00821c4c ebx: f689f7fb ecx: 00821c4c edx: 70f2e805 Aug 4 12:46:29 debian kernel: esi: 0051e730 edi: 00821c48 ebp: 001964b4 esp: 001964a8 Aug 4 12:46:29 debian kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 0018 ss: 0018 Aug 4 12:46:29 debian kernel: Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=00194690) Aug 4 12:46:29 debian kernel: Stack: 00f6ec0c 0051e730 00f6ec0c 00f6eccc 00156437 00821c4c 0014e254 00f6ec0c Aug 4 12:46:29 debian kernel:00f6eccc 0051e7f8 0014e464 0051e7f8 00f6ec0c 0051e730 00f6ec0c 0051e730 Aug 4 12:46:29 debian kernel:0051e7f8 0051e730 00f6eccc 0014e7b9 0051e7f8 00f6ec0c 0051e730 00f6ec0c Aug 4 12:46:30 debian kernel: Call Trace: [def_callback1+23/32] [tcp_fin+36/432] [tcp_queue+132/432] [tcp_data+553/576] [tcp_rcv+2385/2576] [ip_rcv+1007/1328] [net_bh+252/304] Aug 4 12:46:30 debian kernel:[do_bottom_half+59/112] [handle_bottom_half+11/24] [sys_idle+108/128] [system_call+85/124] [init+0/624] [set_selection+1704/1728] [start_kernel+429/448] [it_real_fn+0/80] Aug 4 12:46:30 debian kernel: Code: 8b 02 83 f8 01 75 67 9c 5e fa c7 02 00 00 00 00 83 7a 4c 00 Aug 4 12:46:30 debian kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler Aug 4 12:46:30 debian kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001966d8, next= , order=0 Aug 4 12:46:30 debian kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001966c8, next= , order=0 Aug 4 12:46:30 debian kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 00196bdc, next= , order=0 Aug 4 12:46:30 debian kernel: idle task may not sleep Aug 4 12:46:33 debian kernel: general protection: Aug 4 12:46:33 debian kernel: CPU:0 Aug 4 12:46:33 debian kernel: EIP:0010:[wake_up_interruptible+53/240] Aug 4 12:46:33 debian kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 Aug 4 12:46:33 debian kernel: eax: 00821c4c ebx: f689f7fb ecx: 00821c4c edx: 70f2e805 Aug 4 12:46:33 debian kernel: esi: 0051ee14 edi: 00821c48 ebp: 0019629c esp: 00196290 Aug 4 12:46:33 debian kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: ss: 0018 Aug 4 12:46:33 debian kernel: Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=00194690) Aug 4 12:46:33 debian kernel: Stack: 00f6ec0c 0051ee14 00f6ec0c 00f6eccc 00156437 00821c4c 0014e254 00f6ec0c Aug 4 12:46:33 debian kernel:00f6eccc 0051eedc 0014e464 0051eedc 00f6ec0c 0051ee14 00f6ec0c 0051ee14 Aug 4 12:46:33 debian kernel:0051eedc 0051ee14 00f6eccc 0014e7b9 0051eedc 00f6ec0c 0051ee14 00f6ec0c Aug 4 12:46:33 debian kernel: Call Trace: [def_callback1+23/32] [tcp_fin+36/432] [tcp_queue+132/432] [tcp_data+553/576] [tcp_rcv+2385/2576]
dpkg problem (rather serious)
Hi there, Yesterday I was trying to run apt-get to update my gmc package when somethig weird happened and it had a major lock (I think it locked when running dpkg)... Now, dpkg refuses to run because, when reading the database, it finds a problem in the /var/lib/dpkg/info/at.list file... The initial problem was that there was a lot of (non-ascii) garbage at the end of the file... I backed it up and removed the binary garbage, and now I get the following message (this time I was trying to remove at in ordre to have the database OK and then reinstall it): BEGIN INCLUDED MSG- ROOT:/var/cache/apt/archives# dpkg -r --no-act at (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing at (--remove): files list file for package `at' is truncated Errors were encountered while processing: at Processing was halted because there were too many errors. -END INCLUDED MSG- Now, how can I arrange things in order to have dpkg running fine again? I looked in the dpkg help files and couldn't find any useful info about it (I hoped to find some ¨--force-install¨ or something)... Alternatively... could someone out there send me (in pvt, of course) a copy of the /var/lib/dpkg/info/at.list file? My version of at is 3.1.8-4 []'s Guilherme Zahn
Re: Video Card
Dave Swegen wrote: If you have an AMD CPU or a not particularly high spec CPU Voodoo3 is by all accounts the best choice, since it isn't as dependent on the host CPU. According to Darryll Strauss (the developer of the linux version of Glide and the X sever) voodoo3 has probably the best 2d performance on the market (well, he would say that, wouldn't he ;) Hopefully the V3 2k card I ordered yesterday should arrive any day now, and with a bit of luck it should be overclockable so that it runs at the same speed as the 3k model. By the way, does anyone know if the TV tuner in the Voodoo3-3500 is the same as STB's original TV tuner chipset? eg... will it work with the bt848 driver? And/or is it supported under some other driver? --Evan
Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
Look at the May 1999 archives for this list, with the subject Can't allocate DMA buffer (as opposed to Couldn't!) for a clearer explanation than I could give. Hm, now I check the whole archive of 1999 and can't find it. Could it have been on a different list maybe? No, it is there, I checked it. Note that the archives for each month are divide into pages, which you can browse from the top of each page. The URL of the page on which the discussion is, is http://www.nl.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9905/thrd2.html HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
Re: [potato] gdm doesn't start windowmanager
Nico De Ranter wrote: Howdy, I don't know whether this is the correct mailinglist to post this but anyway... I upgraded my Debian box to unstable and installed gdm. Unfortunately when I try to login the screen flickers a few times and the gdm screen pops back. When I start X by typing startx from a text console everything works fine. I noticed this problem on a few PC's that have been upgraded to potato so I think it's a bug and not a misconfiguration. what does your ~/.xsession-errors file say after gdm does this? It should give us an idea of what's happening so we can help solve the problem... the symptom you list just means that, for some reason, X is unable to load its WM, or has some other error that ends the session. It could be a number of things. --Evan
Lockups
We recently upgraded to a mroe recent version of unstable, and we're getting errors on the console lost mailbox lock, going up the screen. After a day or two, we get those messages coming really quickly, and the system is locked. These messages only show up on console, and not in any of the logs. Is there anything we can do? This has been happening relatively recently, and it's on a production SMP server. We've got sendmail, imap, samba, dns, etc. running on this server, and we'd like to keep it from going down. Anyone have any pointers? Thanks, Ben
Re: Formating a HD into VFAT
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 07:01:52AM -0700, Gregory Vandenbrouck wrote: I need a tool to format my hard drive into vfat under linux. Superformat (and old fdformat) only deal with floppies. Do you know if what I am looking for exists ? Format for FAT or VFAT ist the same. It's mkdosfs and it's in the dosfstools package. apt-get install dosfstools If it's not VFAT what you are after, but FAT32 then read the manpage and use the -F 32 option. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpNEPm3aCMPj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: modem reporting a lot of errors
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 12:40:50AM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: I am getting a lot of errors for my ppp0 interface. ifconfig shows: ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:129.94.16.27 P-t-P:129.94.15.6 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:42548 errors:2233 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2233 TX packets:35110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 I only left modem on for about 4 hours. And I got 2000 errors already. Is there any way to avoid this?? In addition, should I use xon/xoff or hardware for the flow control?? hardware. What's your serial chip. If it's a 16450, you might tune the harddisk to reduce interrupt latency. 38400 baud is the absolute maximum then. Try to reduce it to 19200. Check if the modem is set up to use hardware flow control. Check your cable to see all pins are connected. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpQCzYM431GZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
SCSI cable question
I just bought a 2nd hand SCSI scanner (it should work with linux), but since I've never used SCSI devices in my life I'm not quite sure what I need. The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable that came with the scanner has a 25-pin d-plug at either end. One cause of confusion is that the manual doesn't actually say what the 25 pin port on the scanner is for, it only shows the cable being plugged into the 50 pin port. Is it safe to assume that the 25 pin port is also for SCSI? Would it be enough to buy a 50-pin centronics - 25-pin d-plug adapter? Or would I have to buy a 50 pin - 50 pin cable? Also, the the scanner came with a 50 pin terminator. Does this go into whatever device is at the end of the chain? Can I also attach internal devices at the same time? I'd be grateful if some kind soul could take pity on this SCSI-clueless user... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation ---
Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Gary L. Hennigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I guess I don't see the logic here. If one of the binaries on your backup has a Trojan that, presumably, means that before you did the backup you were running a system that had a Trojan. I would assume at that point the damage has already been done. Logically, that doesn't follow. The trojan may not yet have been run. You're going in circles here with maybe's and what ifs. I still believe that the chances are so minimal of any Unix system getting a Trojan that if you have the backup media it's easier to just restore from a backup than to reinstall from scratch. Besides, assuming someone slipped a Trojan onto your system in the first place, restoring all your config files as they existed prior to the backup would allow them to just log in and introduce it again. Again, logically, that doesn't follow. The trojan may have been installed before the config files were altered. For example, one might have decided to tighten up security in the wake of a break-in (detected or undetected) or simply changed the passwords. Or perhaps one decided to loosen security and it slipped in afterward? It's just not worth the hassle. I've done several restores from full backups and I've done reinstalls on a working system. Unless you're running a high risk system, which I'd classify as a loosely adminstered system sitting on the open network, it's MUCH more work to reinstall than it is to just restore from a full backup. The only chance I see of defeating a Trojan is detecting it and defeating the method used to introduce it in the first place. Also, the fact that such Trojans are so rare on Unix and Unix-like systems would make it a minor concern for me. Anyway, it's standard practice in large installations to back up practically everything for a level 0 backup, excluding things like /tmp, /dev (sometimes) and /proc. There may be a historical reason for this. A large unix installation is likely to have gathered its software from all sorts of sources on all sorts of disparate media, and have put a lot of administrative sweat into compiling and installing it all. So it makes sense to backup the *result* of all that work. You're talking to just about the definition of historical. I've been doing system admin for about 10 years now and I ALWAYS knew exactly what was on the systems I administered (at least on the non-user partitions). Oh, I couldn't say down to the file what was there, but I could, without any hesitation, tell you which partitions held only system files and which held files installed locally from a non-System vendor. And generally, for at least the last 5 years or so, every major Unix version has come with a package management system of some sort. Even so, I always did full system backups, including all the binaries that were probably on installation media somewhere. I've been lucky enough to be at organizations that didn't skimp on the backup media so it was never an issue, and we ALWAYS backed up everything. Doing restores of full backups doesn't involve checking lists to see what needs to be reinstalled, worrying about a configuration file that've changed, patches to the OS that have come along, etc. Believe me, in general, it's easier to do a restore. By the way, in all those 10 years I've seen exactly ONE system intrusion. And it was under the circumstances I described above, a loosely adminstered system sitting on the open network. OTOH every file on this system I'm typing on is sitting on one jaz drive. The binaries and kernel-images are all in their .deb files; the rescue/drivers disks are as disk images together with base*.tgz; then there are all the configured /etc and /var files in zipfiles for possible restoration, and copies of /etc and /var plus a non-root recursive snapshot of /proc/[a-z]* for perusal. /home is split by user as there are so few. I'm not saying it's a requirement to back up you're entire system. I'm happy that you have a scheme that you're comfortable with. I AM saying that backing up an entire system is far from a worthless pursuit. If you have the money for the backup device/media it's a time saver. The very idea of all one's system software in a set of homogeneous .deb files is probably foreign to most unix administrators. Only those with home brew systems. In institutional settings it's also a matter of wasted time. Why fight with a whole installation procedure when you can simply do: restore /dev/tape / Certainly Debian, and most modern Unix systems, would be easier to install from scratch, but not as easy as a one line command to restore from a backup. Gary
Re: SCSI cable question
The scanner has two ports: a 25 pin d-plug and a 50 pin centronics port. The SCSI card I'm getting has a 50 pin centronics port. The cable that came with the scanner has a 25-pin d-plug at either end. Most likely, the 25 pin plug is also SCSI. 25-pin and 50-pin Cent were both out about the same time I believe. Would it be enough to buy a 50-pin centronics - 25-pin d-plug adapter? Or would I have to buy a 50 pin - 50 pin cable? Most likely, that's all you'll need. The manual should specify what the 25-pin port is somewhere. Also, the the scanner came with a 50 pin terminator. Does this go into whatever device is at the end of the chain? Can I also attach internal devices at the same time? The terminator goes on the last device in the external chain. You can attach internal devices at the same time, just make sure each device (internal or external) has a different SCSI ID. The internal chain will have to be terminated also. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
Re: SCSI cable question
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: One cause of confusion is that the manual doesn't actually say what the 25 pin port on the scanner is for, it only shows the cable being plugged into the 50 pin port. Is it safe to assume that the 25 pin port is also for SCSI? Would it be enough to buy a 50-pin centronics - 25-pin d-plug adapter? Or would I have to buy a 50 pin - 50 pin cable? Was this scanner originally intended to be used with a Mac by any chance? Although I've never seen a SCSI device with different types of SCSI ports, it would make sense as the Mac had a 25-pin D-port for their SCSI (as to Zip 100 SCSI drives). I'd buy an adapter were I you. Presumably you've got a 50 or 68-pin high-density D connector for the SCSI out of your machine? If so, then buy the appropriate connected cable and a 50-to-25 pin converter. You could also get a 25-to-50 pin cable and put it in the logical other way. This is how I've got my Zip connected to my machine at work. Then, put the terminator on the 50-pin Centronics. Also, the the scanner came with a 50 pin terminator. Does this go into whatever device is at the end of the chain? Can I also attach internal devices at the same time? I'd be grateful if some kind soul could take pity on this SCSI-clueless user... See the quote at the bottom of my sig for some SCSI advice. :) Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null JDM Jason D. Michaelson | Debian GNU/ o http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |/ /_ _ _ _ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / | // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ http://www.tc.umn.edu/ | ~mich0101 | ...because lockups are for convicts... Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the other end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer
Re: printer help
Just had a quick look of the stylus_color_720dpi-filter.
The first couple of lines look like:
# PostScript
0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -r720 -q -dSAFER
-dNOPAUSE -dSpotSize='{2.6 2.4 2.6 2}' -sOutputFile=- -
0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -r720 -q -dSAFER
-dNOPAUSE -dSpotSize='{2.6 2.4 2.6 2}' -sOutputFile=- -
# PDF
0 %PDFfpipe /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -r720 -q -dSAFER
-dNOPAUSE -dSpotSize='{2.6 2.4 2.6 2}' -sOutputFile=- $FILE
# TeX DVI
0 \367\002fpipe /usr/bin/dvips -D 720 -R -q -f
now, copy this file to stylus_color_740dpi-filter and change all the 720 values
to 740.
Then update your printcap to points to this modified filter.
Restart lpd by running /etc/init.d/lpd restart or /etc/init.d/lprng restart
depends which printing package
you got, then it should work..
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 05:44:40PM +0200, Jocke wrote:
Hi all,
I can't get lpr to work properly. I guess I am just
unexperienced so some hints and advice would be
appreciated.
I have a pretty slim potato setup.
gs-aladdin
lprng
magicfilter
-
printcap file:
lp|epson|EPSON STYLUS color 740:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_720dpi-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
printer EPSON STYLUS color 740
when trying to print a .ps file with
lpr some_file.ps I just get lots of form feeds and strange
output after a while
when trying a ordinary text file nothing happens.
The job is in the que for a while but nothing prints.
As root I can print with cat some_file /dev/lp0
-
If I do lpc start I get
Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: started
--
What extra info can I give ?
Would appreciate som input on this.
Best Regards
Joakim Svensson
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Re: Mutt
Mine looks like this: my_hdr From: \$realname\ \[EMAIL PROTECTED] There are some wonderfull .muttrc files at www.mutt.org On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 06:15:08PM +0200, Jocke wrote: Ok my mail headers doesn't look so good. Could anyone help me out? I am using Mutt and I run it from an account with user josv My internet provider email is [EMAIL PROTECTED] How should I set up Mutt to have all my outgoing mail show: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of From: Jocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] /Joakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Weird trouble
Hello All I have a Cable Modem and I allow certain people to Dial in to my box to get net access, since 5 days ago they have not been able to get in some windows message like the host has diconected you! Well I am happy to say I DID NOT TOUCH A THING in a long time its been running like a champ! I dont even use that machine its just a server! Any ideas All help appreciated Rick
Re: How to escape this for the bash shell...
This worked. I feel silly... that was TOO simple. Thanks Shao. p.s. Using single-quotes didn't work, unless I misread and it was supposed to be single-backquotes? On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: have you tried rm ./?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 01:22:17AM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: I have a file named : ?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~?[4~ ... in my home directory. I am wondering how to escape this properly for rm to work on it in bash. Someone suggested using Midnight Commander, but it doesn't even list it as showing up in the directory, so it obviously doesn't know what to do with it either! Any shell-heads out there want to take a stab at it? It's not really bothering me, but it's just sitting there at the top of every 'ls'... (: -- +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | http://www.natetech.com | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _ +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, George Bonser wrote: There is one MAJOR flaw with tar. If there is an error anywhere in the archive, ALL files after the error are lost. Better to use afio instead of tar. At most you will loose only the file where the error is. Use the option: --ignore-failed-read. (this is a GNU-tar option, but this is Linux after all)
Re: [Exim] Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
Ahh... I stand corrected. I really should avoid answering mail relaying questions in hte middle of the night! Just as a side-note, it is a silly option anyway, isn't it? I've not used it for anything useful... yet. On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Philip Hazel wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:53:15 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: If you have the relay-domains-include-local-MX = true in your /etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I think this was the original question. That is incorrect. It will not relay _FOR_ anyone who lists the exim host as an MX for their domain; it will relay _TO_ anyone who lists the exim host as an MX for their domain. This is a siginificant difference. That is correct. Relaying _FOR_ is controlled by hosts, not domains. Typically: relay for any host on my local network. There are some controls by sender (though they are weak, since senders are easily forged) but they do not involve looking up MX records for the sender. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
FileMaker Pro and Linux/UNIX/Whatever
does anyone know of a way to open FileMaker Pro files (.fp3) in any kind of UNIX derivative? Linux is preferable, but not necessary... -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- M. Jackson Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 215-491-0801 Voicemail: 877-832-9021
Re: ext2 spec
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 10:45:49AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find info on the ext2 file system? I'm writing an OS and will probably need ext2 support... You're writing an OS ???!! Very ambitious ! What kind of OS ? Why ? Linux isn't great ? Why not adding functions to Linux if you needs more things ? I think u can find the ext2 fs specs in the kernel.org ftp or in the kernel sources. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- |. ICQ : 25529539 || |\ | | | \ / AIM : linhax |___ | | \| |__| / \ IRC nick : linhax Sami Dalouche : [EMAIL PROTECTED]DHIS : pingoo.dhis.org
Re: Configuring a monitor?
Exactly. The power goes off while booting. It has something to do with BIOS settings, I think, (not linux) (PnP BIOS) All the 'Advanced power management...' and so on are 'disabled'. No 'power-saving features are compiled in'. It seems to be the case that if I shut down the machine completely before booting linux it normally works. I think that I just forgot again to stop the machine completely (just rebooted win and hit F8 while rebooting to get into DOS. There is win95 installed on the same hd and I'm using 'loadlin'. (It was impossible to get lilo working with this machine.) With win95 the power goes off automaticly, when I stop the os.) I wouldn't put it past Win95 to try and use APM even though you have it turned off in the BIOS. One thing that might be worth a try is going into Control Panel, double click on Power and un-check the box next to Allow Windows to manage power use on this computer. I'm not sure if that would help or not, but I don't know what it could hurt.
Re: backing up a complete Debian GNU/Linux system
Gary L. Hennigan wrote: David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The very idea of all one's system software in a set of homogeneous .deb files is probably foreign to most unix administrators. Only those with home brew systems. In institutional settings it's also a matter of wasted time. Why fight with a whole installation procedure when you can simply do: restore /dev/tape / Sure, but restoring from debs will be pretty easy. I don't backup system files. I backup kernels, /etc and /var/lib/dpkg/status* files. I also collect a list of installed debs I can reinstall from CD: # dpkg --get-selections /backup/debian.selections Peter
sudo
I need sudo to allow others to change passwords for users? How do i set this up? I added passwd to the admins profiles in my sudoers file yet whenever i try to run this as on of the admins it says that they aren't allowed to change passwd for this user?? any help would be appreciated .. thanks. -jason
RE: sudo
On 04-Aug-99 jason wrote: I need sudo to allow others to change passwords for users? How do i set this up? I added passwd to the admins profiles in my sudoers file yet whenever i try to run this as on of the admins it says that they aren't allowed to change passwd for this user?? any help would be appreciated .. thanks. -jason Did you try adding 'vipw' command ? I believe I can do any command as pollywog, because I added the group wheel to my sudoers file, and pollywog is a member of group wheel. -- Andrew
Re: Configuring a monitor?
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote: Exactly. The power goes off while booting. It has something to do with BIOS settings, I think, (not linux) (PnP BIOS) All the 'Advanced power management...' and so on are 'disabled'. No 'power-saving features are compiled in'. It seems to be the case that if I shut down the machine completely before booting linux it normally works. I think that I just forgot again to stop the machine completely (just rebooted win and hit F8 while rebooting to get into DOS. There is win95 installed on the same hd and I'm using 'loadlin'. (It was impossible to get lilo working with this machine.) With win95 the power goes off automaticly, when I stop the os.) I wouldn't put it past Win95 to try and use APM even though you have it turned off in the BIOS. One thing that might be worth a try is going into Control Panel, double click on Power and un-check the box next to Allow Windows to manage power use on this computer. I'm not sure if that would help or not, but I don't know what it could hurt. Hi! This was probably the trick! It was very good advice. Thanks! I didn't really know that there was that kind of box available... I used win95 quite short time at home, because I installed quite soon linux on it (after I bought that kind of machine, which could run win95). This machine (, which is at my working place) has been installed by our computer-wizard. And he is at holidays. Probably I'll manage to install the whole slink now a lot easier... - hv
