iniciar Xterm con otra fuente, :-?
Hola caracola, ahora trabajo a una resolución de 1024x768 y las fuentes del Xterm son pequeñas. Tengo esta línea en el `~/.Xresources' Xterm*Font: -dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1 Pero es que, no solo no me carga esta fuente, sino que pongo cualquier cosa en `~/.Xresources' y al hacer $ xrdb -merge .Xresources no cambia nada y no da ningún mensaje de error (nada en `~/.xsession-errors') En cambio puedo lanzar xfontsel(1x), definir una fuente, clickar en Select y hacer que aparezca en una Xterm sin problemas. Estoy en Slink con Xwindow 3.3.3.1-0. :-? Saludos. -- Cosmehttp://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lounge/8698/ == -=-=- A través de Debian GNU/Linux -=-=- -=-=- Software Libre -=-=- http://www.linux.org/ S.O. Multi-[plataforma, tarea, usuario] http://www.gnu.org/ Free Software Foundation http://lucas.hispalinux.es/Documentación en Castellano http://www.openresources.com/es/Revista Open Resources LuCAS/LinuxFocus/pub/mirror/LinuxFocus/Castellano/ LinuxFocus == pgpVKmm4N8G8W.pgp Description: PGP signature
xset s: a veces no funciona, :-?
Hola, pues que en el `~/.xsession' tengo la línea xset s 75 y resulta que no, que no se activa el salvapantallas ni a la de tres. Lo vuelvo a lanzar desde una Xterm, $ xset -s 5 pero nada. Tampoco con `on' o `activate'. Pero en ocasiones, no sé porqué, vuelve a funcionar, aunque ahora no pasa a pantalla en negro, como siempre, sino que salen figuras geométricas en movimiento... Utilizo WM 0.60.0 compilado para Slink, con xbase-clients 3.3.3.1-0. Saludos. -- Cosmehttp://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lounge/8698/ == -=-=- A través de Debian GNU/Linux -=-=- -=-=- Software Libre -=-=- http://www.linux.org/ S.O. Multi-[plataforma, tarea, usuario] http://www.gnu.org/ Free Software Foundation http://lucas.hispalinux.es/Documentación en Castellano http://www.openresources.com/es/Revista Open Resources LuCAS/LinuxFocus/pub/mirror/LinuxFocus/Castellano/ LinuxFocus == pgpC1FTuib32Y.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [off-topic] graciosillo casos veridico
El Wed, Sep 29, 1999, Han Solo... Hola a todos, os mando una cosilla que seguro que os gusta. Más de uno se habrá visto en una de estas. Muy bueno. Ya puestos os voy a contar una cosa que me ocurrió no hace mucho. Tengo el teléfono de casa en la misma mesa que el ordenador, así que cada vez que suena lo cojo ipsofacto. Lo que pasa es que estaba yo ensimismado en mis tareas informáticas (aquello de que te pasan la mano por delante y se creen que eres ciego), y sonó el teléfono. Lo cojo... [cosme]: ¿INSERT? -- grado de naturalidad en una escala del 1 al 10, 10 -- [persona]: eh!?, perdone, me he equivocado -- tono de voz como el del quiien se da cuenta que está hablando con un loco y no sabe como escaquearse -- [cosme] -- reacciono -- espere! ¿quén es? ¿oiga? -- se oye el tono de línea -- Al cabo de pocos segundos volvió a sonar, pero pasé de cogerlo, por la vergüenza, :-P Venga, y cuidado con dislocarse la mandíbula o asfixiarse, ;-) Saludos. -- Cosmehttp://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lounge/8698/ == -=-=- A través de Debian GNU/Linux -=-=- -=-=- Software Libre -=-=- http://www.linux.org/ S.O. Multi-[plataforma, tarea, usuario] http://www.gnu.org/ Free Software Foundation http://lucas.hispalinux.es/Documentación en Castellano http://www.openresources.com/es/Revista Open Resources LuCAS/LinuxFocus/pub/mirror/LinuxFocus/Castellano/ LinuxFocus == pgphfKBTlMN7Y.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Framebuffer: no paso de 8 bpp en X, :-(
El Tue, Sep 28, 1999, Roberto Suarez Soto... # fbset mode name # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz geometry 1024 768 1024 768 8 timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4 endmode O sea, 75.694 Hz, ¿no? No :-) Por lo menos, cuando miro el programita éste del monitor para ajustar el color, brillo, contraste, etc etc, me sigue poniendo 60Hz (y fbset me da una cosa parecida a la tuya, también 75 Hz y pico). Y supongo que el monitor sabrá mejor que el fbset lo que está poniendo :-m :-) Aún así, no entiendo muy bien a qué viene lo de los 75 Hz que dice el fbset :-? Tienes razón, a mi también me canta los 60Hz, :-? Por otro lado, ya consigo 16 bpp a 1024x768, :-) El problema es que había probado el modo '32k' del VESA, que en realidad da un deph de 15, y X no lo digería. Ahora tengo en el `lilo.conf' el valor `vga=0x317' (64k), con lo que, # fbset mode name # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz geometry 1024 768 1024 768 16 ~~ timings 12714 128 32 16 4 128 4 endmode # fbset -x Mode name # D: 78.653 MHz, H: 59.949 kHz, V: 75.694 Hz DotClock 78.654 HTimings 1024 1056 1184 1312 VTimings 768 772 776 792 Flags-HSync -VSync EndMode que pongo en el XF86Config y ya está. Saludos. -- Cosmehttp://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lounge/8698/ == -=-=- A través de Debian GNU/Linux -=-=- -=-=- Software Libre -=-=- http://www.linux.org/ S.O. Multi-[plataforma, tarea, usuario] http://www.gnu.org/ Free Software Foundation http://lucas.hispalinux.es/Documentación en Castellano http://www.openresources.com/es/Revista Open Resources LuCAS/LinuxFocus/pub/mirror/LinuxFocus/Castellano/ LinuxFocus == pgpNHlc18xBKW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Alguien tiene el CD de Citius?
Hola! Escribia para ver si alguien de Barcelona (o alrededores) que sea de esta lista tiene el primer CD de la distribución Linux-Debian que vende IDAgora (el de la Linux Actual no). Resulta que me lo he comprado y el primer CD tiene defectos de estampación que hace que muchos paquetes no funcionen (los otros dos CD's van perfectos). Lo malo del asunto, es que me he quedao tiradisimo ya que sin ese CD no puedo hacer na de na :-(( Al tratarser de paquetes de la sección main, supongo que no habrá ningún problema en hacer una copia, aunque de todas maneras, si lo hay, que me avise alguien :) Venga, un saludín. Si alguien me escribe que por favor lo haga a mi dirección personal, no a la lista. Un saludo! -- M. Angel Esteban 486DX2-66 Running Linux Debian Slink 2.1 (2.0.36) http://jarre.timofonica.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iniciar Xterm con otra fuente, :-?
El domingo 03 octubre de 1999 a las 00:04:26, Cosme Perea Cuevas escribió: ahora trabajo a una resolución de 1024x768 y las fuentes del Xterm son pequeñas. Yo llamo a xterm con los siguientes parámetros prog xterm xterm xterm -bg black -cr green -fg white -C -fn 9x15 -sl 500 (uso icewm como window manager) Estoy en Slink con Xwindow 3.3.3.1-0. Slink pero con 3.3.2.3a-11 Saludos de Javier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux para todos y todos para Linux
X and /etc/profile (joint)
Hi, people. When I log in my system using a console terminal my aliases, locales sets and variables (stored in /etc/profile) work fine. I start X and they're still valid till I log out. When I boot my system with runlevel 2 (starts xdm) and use xdm to log in, these prefferences doesn't work anymore. How could I log in using xdm and use my /etc/profile definitions correctly in a clean way? Taupter
Re: vi: line wrap?
:set textwidth=80 Works with vim, imagine it works with other vi's. You can put that in the rc file for your particular flavor. -- +---++-+---++-+---++-+ | YOUR AD HERE1.900.FOO.BARZ | +-+---++-+---++-+---++
Re: vi: line wrap?
bwarsing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BW can anybody tell me to set the line wrap to 80 in vi? Try ':set wm=76' to set it to 76 chars. BW i can't find this type of info anywhere. I generally use vim, which has a ':help' command which is quite useful. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal. -- Abra Mitchell
Apt keeps giving me 400 Bad Request
I'm upgrading slink-potato. Each time I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' (after having initialy run 'apt-get update') it tries and fails to grab a number of packages before giving up; each one looks like this: - Need to get 109MB/140MB of archives. After unpacking 51.9MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org potato/main libtiff3g 3.4beta037-8 [77.2kB] Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main freetype2 1.2-6.1 400 Bad request Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org potato/main eterm 0.8.9-9 [467kB] Err http://http.us.debian.org potato/main imlib-progs 1.9.7-2 400 Bad request - My sources.list looks like deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US Each run of apt-get does make about 5mb of progress. Intel, 28.8 modem link, plenty of disk space/ram, etc. What dumb thing am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Diamond Viper V770 Ultra
I am trying to help someone setup their Diamond Viper V770 Ultra under Linux (not sure exactly which distro they use, but I'm a debian person myself). They are having problems with X-windows (what else?) description of problem :- 1) Window appears to be four times it's correct size. 2) Unable to move the viewport to see the whole X-Windows Screen. If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated (I have got them to try all the normal possibilities, but they haven't worked for them, I am thinking that they need a X-server upgrade...) I just set up a non-Ultra TNT2 for someone using Slink and an upgrade to XFree86 3.3.4 did the trick. If they're using Debian Slink, add this to your sources.list: deb http://samosa.debian.org/~branden xfree86-334-slink/ Good luck, --Pete
latest version of gnome-apt
The latest version of gnome-apt is not compatible with the rest of the potato libraries. Is there a newer ? 0.3.4 thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126
Re: anacron read out
I re-installed fileutils and shellutils since I was getting error messages about not finding du and id as well. Seems to be working just fine. Thanks for the suggestions. Eric On 01-Oct-99 eric k. wolven wrote: Ray: You suggested I didn't have textutils installed: both apt-get dselect say the newest version is installed. (textutils-2.01). Generally system is ok but the most recent update of gpm, message error says id not found. Whatever is missing/not linked is elusive. Perhaps the PATH value is unhappy?
Re: cu or tip for /dev/ttySx access?
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 04:36:07PM -0700, Clint Dimick wrote: Is there a package which contains either of these utilities? I wish to connect to a device which is attached via a null-modem cable to my ttyS0 port. Thanks, Not those programs specifically, but I think you will find minicom a very suitable replacement (I like it even more so than those programs). I use it to connect to my sparc attached to a serial connection. Ben
Basic and not so basic web membership and voting
I and some others are working on a site which which can assist the Pacifica Supporters Association in its launch. The immediate need is to record basic contact info + some other information. Shortly thereafter, we will want to manage electronic discussions and votes--ideally, teh whle process of motions, amendements, etc. We are starting with mySQL and Perl, but are not wedded to those tools. If anyone can point us to some software, that would be great. If anyone has any experience with such kind of organizations, that would be great too. A particular problem is that we are under severe initial time constraints; we need to be able to reach a decision about what to do in a couple of weeks. The PSA is for people who support the goals of the Pacifica Radio network, but wish to democratize it. In particular, it is for people who don't like the current boards complete betrayal of its charter. See www.deja.com/~pacifica for more about the organzation, and the links there for more info. I should be clear I think this list is an inappropriate place to debate events at Pacifica. But I think it is an appropriate place to discuss electronic democracy and the software to carry it out.
Re: Slink to Potato
Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better though, it leaves room for replies. Ooops, sorry, I don't know how that happened; my vimrc files specs 76 columns, maybe I need separate command in muttrc? I'm not sure what you mean here... There is a pretty good bit on the website, if you look in the right places. And if you're referring to the Perl changes, that was discussed and announced on -devel, which all developers are supposed to read. IIRC there's also some in the developer's section of the website. Yes, I stand corrected. There is a bit of info if you look under release info. My fault... I'd think they shouldn't put stuff on the webpage until they've made the decision, on debian-devel or debian-policy. Considering the changes are so big (with egcs and libc2.1 and 2.2 kernel) that it justifies the more flexible approach (not waiting until _all_ the details are settled). And if upstream guys do their thing, we may be looking into 2.4 kernel pretty soon- does that mean another Debian stable release will be one step back ( when potato become stable it'll rely on 2.2 kernel). Even though the debian releases and kernel are not directly linked (I'm running 2.2.10 on slink), it will give a wrong perception to the average user (like me). Still, there's the risk of major breakage. What do you count as a non-essential package? Gnome, which has 10,000 libraries and such that need to be properly managed? Remember that stable isn't just a collection of packages that work, everything works together as a unified system. If you start upgrading parts of that, you may end up breaking another part. Maybe we should have another directory then for up-to-date-stable, which all could download from at their own risk (which we do anyway, not like anyone is guaranteeing anything in the first place). People who really want rock solid system ( I like mine medium solid :-)) wouldn't upgrade anyways. I upgrade something (say Enlightenment or wmaker), and if I don't like it, I pull out old packages and reinstall old stuff. Thanks to Debian way of installing, I have never ever damaged my system by doing this (until I did something terribly stupid and deserved it). At worst, I have lost a bit of my time ( and if I don't have the time in the first place, I don't play with upgrades). And people can use real stable for fresh install or reinstall. Besides having to deal with possible breakage, what is it that makes stable better for you than unstable? Or is the possible breakage reason enough (it is a good enough reason)? I am no computer wizard. And when I read about all the development currently going on in Linux world, people are forgetting that semi-commercial applications ( like StarOffice and netscape) still rely on libc6 and not new libc. I happen to need those apps. But, spoiled and shallow as I am, I like my wmaker to be at par with upstream, or my gimp or my tetex. None of those are close to it in stable. Marcelo (wmaker maintaner) has been kind enough to post his slink-based binaries for wmaker 0.60.0, but that is not the case with 0.61.0 any longer ( since he needs his time to be devoted to unstable branch, along his regular life, I presume). My point is, I don't care if I d/l new, say, gimp, and it craps out on me, and I have to go back to stable. I do care if I attempt to upgrade to new libc6 and it fails, I get useless box that I have to reinstall from scratch. Or if my system can't run netscape or StarOffice. Absolutely! All apt does is download the packages and call dpkg to install them. For the next generation of Debian package managment, dpkg will be just another front-end to the underlying library, but rest assured it will still exist. It's way too useful to lose! glad to hear that. Thank you. Personally, i've never used the --compile flag, since whenever i download the source i have need to modify something ;) That is what I meant. Glad I'm not the only one. No problem. Again, thanks for a good discussion points. damir
runq messages
I am sure that my system is in a bad state. I installed from an old hamm CD, then upgraded by apt-get to slink, thence to potato. For weeks now I have been living with dozens of messages per day in my mail box, from Cron Daemon, as follows: runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied I tried changing the permissions on paniclog and its directory, with no avail. I found nothing on the recent mailing list archives about paniclog. I was running runq as root. I have just now installed exim instead of smail. Does this look familiar? Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A non-viscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh
Re: runq messages
I'm not using smail so I can't check this myself, but you might take a look at /etc/suid.conf. If there's an entry for the file, or the directory containing it, then suidmanager will reset the ownership and permissions during the cron.daily run. On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 12:10:06PM +1000, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: I am sure that my system is in a bad state. I installed from an old hamm CD, then upgraded by apt-get to slink, thence to potato. For weeks now I have been living with dozens of messages per day in my mail box, from Cron Daemon, as follows: runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied I tried changing the permissions on paniclog and its directory, with no avail. I found nothing on the recent mailing list archives about paniclog. I was running runq as root. I have just now installed exim instead of smail. Does this look familiar?
recommended partitioning
Hi. If there is anyone out there, I am trying to install debian and wondered what would be a good partition scheme for a 408MB drive. It will be running solo debian. Thanks so much Jeff
Re: pgcc compiler for slink?
On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 10:26:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I was wanting to compile the gcc source package from potato under slink. My suggestion is that unless you really *need* the packaged version you shouldn't bother - it's not even the standard version of any Debian package to start with, and you're going to have to hack it further for Slink. Just install in /usr/local. Even if you do need packaging, I'd consider either something that manages /usr/local (like opt_depot or GNU stow) or your own hand-rolled package that has nothing to do with the Debian EGCS packages. Oh yeah, I'm not terribly impressed with MMX either. : Give me a CPU with multiple FP and vector units. ; Can we say specialised hack? -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpZtOXlKhWVn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: cpu option of gcc g++
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 08:29:50PM +0200, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: I have to compile and cross-compile several sources on a PII machine, for both its own and a 486. I'd like to know how to specify that to 'make'. I had a look at both 'man gcc' 'man g++', but these are huge, and I'm not a though programmer :) The general approach is to build it twice, normally reconfiguring in between. You could also simply run the 486 code on both 486 and Pentium II - unless you're noticing enough a speed increase from optimization to care about on the PII it's probably just as easy. Also, I remarked that some software, compile with g++ (such as voxilla) leave without any PB on the 486, but stay in the PII memory without any possibility to kill them (even with a '-9' signal). That's why I need to tell these compilers for which machine to work. This sounds like a bug. Are you using any particularly funky options to build? -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpJWaVWJ4Vbh.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: recommended partitioning
Hi Jeff, I would try a simple approach. You only need two partitions, root and swap. If I remember correctly, swap should be equal to installed memory. 32MB RAM means 32MB swap. Use the rest for the root partition. I assigned root first, then swap as the last partition. You could partition using a more complicated scheme, I.e. partitions for /var or /usr or /home. I just don't see the need. Make life easy. With 408MB to work with, you might end up wishing you had more room on another partition if you allocate too much to one partition. Allocating it all to root lets the directories that need it, use it. PS. If you have any computer shows around you, you can often pick up 1-2GB drives for $30-$50 bucks. This probably won't matter unless you want to install everything. paul -Original Message- From: jh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 11:47 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: recommended partitioning Hi. If there is anyone out there, I am trying to install debian and wondered what would be a good partition scheme for a 408MB drive. It will be running solo debian. Thanks so much Jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: recommended partitioning
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hi Jeff, I would try a simple approach. You only need two partitions, root and swap. If I remember correctly, swap should be equal to installed memory. 32MB RAM means 32MB swap. Use the rest for the root partition. I assigned root first, then swap as the last partition. I think I should add that it might be better if swap is at the beginning of the drive - date tends to get read from the beginning of the drive that from the end. That would be a definite plus if you have a limited amount of memory. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
RE: make-kpkg and apt-get updates
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, peter karlsson wrote: you can use dselect and use H on the package. This will hold the package and prevent accidental upgrading. Yeah, but that's not a very good solution, especially since I need to remember to do that manually each time I compile a new kernel. Plus that I have to go into dselect, which I don't like (the feeling seems mutual, as it does not like my selections either). I removed the kernel package long ago, and have been compiling custom kernels w/ no interference from apt/dselect since. __ PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Join the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
help! netstd screwed up on updating potato
I am in the process of updating my potato system, and got the following error wit the netstd package (this printout comes from attempting to reinstall the package after the original at-get dist-update errors). Can anyone tell me what to do? I had re-DL'ed the file just in case it was corrupted. If an earlier thread has addressed this, I'm afraid I don't have knowledge of it. I'm a bit afraid to try using X right now as I don't know what's been changed, etc. - kaynjay:~# apt-get install netstd Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 242 not upgraded. 16 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 212kB of archives. After unpacking 96.3kB will be freed. Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main netstd 3.07-10 [212kB] Fetched 212kB in 45s (4676B/s) (Reading database ... 53129 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace netstd 3.07-8 (using .../netstd_3.07-10_i386.deb) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/netstd.prerm: /usr/sbin/update-inetd: Permission denied dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: /usr/sbin/update-inetd: Permission denied dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/netstd_3.07-10_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Permission denieddpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/netstd_3.07-10_i386.deb E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) Thanks! Kenward
Re: help! netstd screwed up on updating potato
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 09:51:44PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of updating my potato system, and got the following error wit the netstd package (this printout comes from attempting to reinstall the package after the original at-get dist-update errors). Hmmm... never mind (I guess). Ran dpkg --configure --pending, got the others done (with warnings about LILO and netstd), then reran apt-get install netstd, and saw it finish both netstd and LILO's configuring without a whimper... Will continue the update and see what happens. Sorry to bother y'all. Kenward
What's the best way to mirror a partition table?
I've got a system running on a 13GB drive on /dev/hda. I've got an idential model of drive on /dev/hdb. The plan is to use something like dump/restore to keep /dev/hdb as a pretty good mirror of /dev/hda. (By pretty good, I mean... it's okay if I lose some log entries, etc I just want to be able to get the system back up and running, in the event of a crash, by swapping drives). However, I'd like to avoid having to alter the partition table on /dev/hdb every time I change /dev/hda. Does anyone know of any utilities that allow me to take a snapshot of the partition table and write it to another drive? Alternatively, does anyone have any suggestions on other ways to do this same kind of mirroring (except for using md.o, unless you can assure me that it won't cause more problems that it solves...)? - Joe
Re: cu or tip for /dev/ttySx access?
cu is in the uucp package. On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 04:36:07PM -0700, Clint Dimick wrote: Is there a package which contains either of these utilities? I wish to connect to a device which is attached via a null-modem cable to my ttyS0 port. Thanks, - Clint -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ACORN techie http://www.acorn.net AOL/IM Jim Foltz
KDE 1.1.2 : kdesupport - debian packages missing giflib?
I've been trying to get KDevelop installed for a few days now. The kdevelop.org homepage seems to be offline, and previously when I was able to connect the .deb file I found did not download correctly. Installing from tarball, ./configure complains about not finding giflib30 which should be part of the kdesupport package. Neither kdesupport0g or kdesupport0g-dev seem to contain the library, although -dev does have documents regarding it. Is this a bug in the kdesupport0g-dev package in that it does not contain all the right files, or am I simply not looking in the right places??? Please copy me directly on any replies since I have been known in the past to miss replies due to the volume on this list. Thanks, -Dave -- | oOOooO / --|oOobodoO/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --| ooOoOo / | II / The wise man tells you where you have fallen | II / and where you may fall - Invaluable secrets.
Re:daylight savings in Brazil?
Unbelievable... Why r u guys discussing about brazilian daylight savings? I do think that here is a place for debian related material discussion... You're supposed to discuss this in private... Also, they have this in US too... so, why cant we get this roun' here??:) Regards Eber Diniz
Re: Apt keeps giving me 400 Bad Request
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Pete Harlan wrote: I'm upgrading slink-potato. Each time I run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' (after having initialy run 'apt-get update') it tries and fails to grab a number of packages before giving up; each one looks like this: 99.9% chance that you are behind a satanic 'transparent' HTTP proxy that doesn't understand HTTP/1.1. Do two things 1) Confirm this, using a web site that shows your request IP address and verify that it is a cache 2) Phone your ISP and yell at them in loud angry tones until they upgrade the software and bitch at the vendor. 3) Make sure you are using a 0.3.x version of APT 4) Use APT's ftp method, you'll get better results if your cache is already this bad. or 4) Try setting acquire::http::pipeline-depth=0 Basically every 'transparent' web cache I've seen is pathetically bad, to the point that the people who make them need to be seriously wounded somehow :P Jason
initial console
Whenever I run install.bat to load linux, I eventually run into a message unable to open an initial console this message occurs immediately after the messages unable to load NLS charset . . . VFS: Mounted root (msdos filesystem) readonly I am installing from a dos partition. If anyone knows what this means, can you mail me direct? thanks aa
RE: recommended partitioning
Hi. If there is anyone out there, I am trying to install debian and wondered what would be a good partition scheme for a 408MB drive. It will be running solo debian. Thanks so much Jeff Jeff, I know you've received at least one reply, but let me put in my 1.575128 Euro's worth. With 408M, you'll find it a little tight, depending on what you install. The general rule for swap used to be twice your RAM, but that was when RAM was expensive and swap schemes worked differently. It is hard to get a good answer for swap space now, but I have 64M RAM and 64M swap. For the other partitions, / ROOT doesn't need a lot of space. If you read the FHS, File System Hierarchy System, it will give lots of info for which partitions should be mounted Read-only and which should be Read/Write. I wish I had read this before I'd partitioned, but we all learn as we go. The most important reason for separate partitions is to protect the different directories. I made / small, /usr rather big and /home even bigger. This saved me when a StarOffice installation went horribly wrong. I had to re-install from the boot disk and re-initialise my / and /usr partitions. The stuff in /home was still there. I'm still new, and learning all the time. As I read more about the FHS, I'm looking into re-partitioning my system for even more protection. Again, with only 408M to work with, you want to be very frugal. So, here's the suggestions, open to comments; Swap: The more you run, the more virtual memory your system will need. If you want to run X and Netscape or compile lots of stuff, don't compromise. Otherwise, don't waste the space. / ROOT: this take very little room, so make it small. BUT, make sure you have other partitions for the rest of your system. /home: This is where you will probably keep personal files. This is also where most computer get hung from full file systems. As long as / is on a separate partition, you can still log in as root and remove some stuff to get back in. /usr: This is where most of the app's end up, somewhere. So you want to be sure you have enough for what you want and what you may look for in the future. /var: This is where the system keeps changing info, I.E. variable. Mostly logs and spools for mail or printing. This is another culprit for wasted space. Keeping it on a separate partition will keep a full /var from locking up the system completely. There are lots of other ways to 'Cut the cake'. Have a read through the FHS for a good idea of where different things are kept, and have a look at just how much you want to put on the system to get a good partitioning scheme. Re-partitioning is a pain, so it's better to get it right than to decide you want to change it later. Also, having several partitions will make it easier to move thing around when you add hard drives to your system. This is just some of the info I've picked up since I started learning Linux just over a year ago. I'm sure there is lots of room for comments and corrections. Cheers, John Gay
Re: Slink to Potato
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better though, it leaves room for replies. Ooops, sorry, I don't know how that happened; my vimrc files specs 76 columns, maybe I need separate command in muttrc? i was partially wrong too. You have 78 column lines, not 80 ;) As you can see the line above, with the two characters inserted for quoting the ',' hits the very right margin of an 80-column-width display. I'd think they shouldn't put stuff on the webpage until they've made the decision, on debian-devel or debian-policy. Considering the changes are so big (with egcs and libc2.1 and 2.2 kernel) that it justifies the more flexible approach (not waiting until _all_ the details are settled). There is something on the webpage saying Potato will contain all those. http://www.debian.org/releases/unstable/ Of course, this is subject to change if there's an upgrade in one of those packages. And if upstream guys do their thing, we may be looking into 2.4 kernel pretty soon- does that mean another Debian stable release will be one step back ( when potato become stable it'll rely on 2.2 kernel). Depends if potato is frozen before they get 2.4 out. Vague rumors tell of a November target for a potato freeze, and a January release for 2.4... Of course, being rumors, these could easily be wrong. Even though the debian releases and kernel are not directly linked (I'm running 2.2.10 on slink), it will give a wrong perception to the average user (like me). How so? Besides that some people think RedHat uses kernel version 6.1, i don't follow... Or are you referring to the kernel being out of date, makeing users think Debian is always far behind? Remember that stable isn't just a collection of packages that work, everything works together as a unified system. If you start upgrading parts of that, you may end up breaking another part. Maybe we should have another directory then for up-to-date-stable, which all could download from at their own risk (which we do anyway, not like anyone is guaranteeing anything in the first place). This has been proposed, according to other posts in this thread. IIRC, the plan was to allow an unstable package into semi-stable only after X length of time without bug reports, etc. Netgod also supposedly keeps some unstable packages compiled for slink, and i hear the Gnome people make debs for stable of their latest releases. So this may not be too difficult to impliment (not that i'm volunteering ;) All in all, this seems like a pretty good idea. People who really want rock solid system ( I like mine medium solid :-)) wouldn't upgrade anyways. I upgrade something (say Enlightenment or wmaker), and if I don't like it, I pull out old packages and reinstall old stuff. Thanks to Debian way of installing, I have never ever damaged my system by doing this (until I did something terribly stupid and deserved it). Now that makes me curious what you did to break it! Once i broke libc6-dev by deleting some important header, had to uninstall and reinstall the package. And once i replaced a file needed by the dynamic library linker, killing all dynamically linked progs--bash, cp, ls, nothing IMPORTANT. Almost though i had to reinstall, but i managed to salvage the system (i forget if with a boot disk or just running ldconfig). Besides having to deal with possible breakage, what is it that makes stable better for you than unstable? Or is the possible breakage reason enough (it is a good enough reason)? I am no computer wizard. And when I read about all the development currently going on in Linux world, people are forgetting that semi-commercial applications ( like StarOffice and netscape) still rely on libc6 and not new libc. libc6 is the same as glibc 2. StarOffice used to depend on glibc 2.0 (as opposed to the 2.1 in slink), but they fixed that AFAIK. Netscape has as much trouble with 2.1 as with 2.0 AFAIK. The Netscape in potato is linked against the libc5 compatability libraries now. I happen to need those apps. But, spoiled and shallow as I am, I like my wmaker to be at par with upstream, or my gimp or my tetex. None of those are close to it in stable. Agreed. Personally, i'm willing to risk the breakage i get following unstable. You're not, and many others aren't, which is why semi-stable [not-quite-so-unstable i'd call it, but that's a bit long] might be a good idea. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN/b93b7M/9WKZLW5AQEb7QP9FpZmkzz1UQDFyIHOSfYcfmGqEA3icNO2 gg/sPAcikiFdznXHMqnFYBFaGaFE5qe7+t64XzI/J8o0kWrE6W3rbEUv2EJNIBDh bmZDl1LBDJZXf7AIwi8eo8FgfYafZDTvHD6V+5hQEYcSQ+FUF7BlZnMcxAwndvkH /1NODE68d2s= =rvo7 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
on selective multi file delete
hello everyone ... i just finished downloading 2500++ files spread across lots of subdirectories using wget ... is there i can SAFELY delete all the .listing files created by wget scatered all throughout ??? TIA, Chad
Re: help! netstd screwed up on updating potato
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 2 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 09:51:44PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of updating my potato system, and got the following error wit the netstd package (this printout comes from attempting to reinstall the package after the original at-get dist-update errors). Hmmm... never mind (I guess). Ran dpkg --configure --pending, got the others done (with warnings about LILO and netstd), then reran apt-get install netstd, and saw it finish both netstd and LILO's configuring without a whimper... Will continue the update and see what happens. For the curious, the problem was probably like this: 1) apt-get dist-upgrade runs through, upgrading tons of stuff. * perl tries to be upgraded, but libc6 2.1 isn't configured yet so it fails. This is mildly odd, since apt is supposed to know enough to do libc6 before perl thanks to the Pre-Depends line. * libc6 2.1 gets configured. 2) apt-get install netstd is attempted. * The update-inetd script can't run, because perl isn't yet configured. Therefore, the install fails. 3) dpkg --configure --pending is run. * libc6 2.1 is now configured, so perl happily configures too. 4) apt-get install netstd is attempted again. * perl is properly installed, so update-inetd happile updates inetd.conf. The install succeeds. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN/cAg77M/9WKZLW5AQFFgwP9GdVWXAcDtJsH3VUJiyGtSYiS6gaNWeB9 /uapasCzvs7t0zNxt0E0CgRZUulMtztLwUDRmL2Z5r2run85z7L7C4PV9gyEb8rI ffOpHyqUf/rJQzmTW6nTKMi4MBT2y8EIS5fLi2dS9rdreyNh+8ADSkJZauDAfNL8 AbKXZg1+Cdc= =f6j4 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
apt-move retrieving Packages file
Hi, I'm using apt-move to feed my local potato mirror with the deb-Files from /var/cache/apt/archives downloaded by apt-get. After an 'apt-get update' apt-move refuses to copy the newest files, because the Packages files are out of sync. I could of course use 'apt-move get' to retrieve the latest Packages file from the net, but I would rather have apt-move use the local Packages file built by apt-get. Is there a way to manage this? -- Andreas KurthMannheim, Germany
trying to install
Hi. I have a few problems. I am trying to install debian on a 408mb hard drive. I also have a 345mb drive. I have tried every combination of jumper settings to get one to act as a master and one a slave. For some reason the computer (still in dos) does not recognize both drives. Does anyone have any suggestions? I decided to try installing debian just on the 408mb drive as the sole operating system. I managed to paw my way through cfdisk and everything was going ok till I got to the point where the kernel was to be copied to the hard drive. I was asked choose the type of cd interface or something similar. I was confronted with choices like /dev/scd0 and /dev/hda I tried every interface but the cdrom would not mount. The cdrom on my computer is connected to an interface card with 2 rca jacks out the back. This is my first install. Does anybody have any ideas for making the cdrom work. Or is there another way to install. I only have debian on cd. I am just a home user. Thanks for your time. Jeff
Re: netscape killing my machine
shaul wrote: Although I have no figures from ps, I also got the impression that netscape is consuming too much memory. Netscape (Navigator and Communicator) are statically linked to the Motif library, which explains a good deal of its bloat. If you're comparing Communicator to Mozilla, remember that Communicator does browsing/mail/news. Does Mozilla have working mail/news yet? That one reason why I am considering to try the Mozilla deb (http://pandora.debian.org/~bfulgham) Hmmm, I don't see a Mozilla deb here. -- Ed C.
Re: on selective multi file delete
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:46:04PM +0800, Chadi wrote:
hello everyone ...
i just finished downloading 2500++ files spread across lots of
subdirectories using wget ...
is there i can SAFELY delete all the .listing files created by wget
scatered all throughout ???
I'm not sure but would
find dir -name .listing -exec rm {} \;
work?
dir should be the base dir of the downloaded directory structure.
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Re: Serial connection to windoze box
Hello! Sorry for not replying for a so long time. I'll to get a network adapter soon, so that the problem will be solved. Thanks very much for your suggestion, I'll try it as it sounds quite easy and I'm no linux (network) expert. I'm also talking about the net emulation with Phil, but I think, it won't be very easy... Regards from Munich, Germany, Stephan Hachinger If it's only to transfer files, I do the same thing with minicom on linux side and TeraTerm Pro on windows side using the Z-MODEM serial protocol. TeraTerm Pro is freeware. I use NT, but I'm sure I remember seeing that it works with Win95. If the connection is to log in to your slink box and run commands, you'll need to get someone else's help ... Regards from (rainy) Scotland, Paul
Re: Serial connection to windoze box
Hello! Here I am again after a long, long time in a galaxy far, far away... Sorry for not replying so long, but I was terribly busy all the time. And thanks for all your work on this issue!! After reading the .inf (it's in plain text, and commented :)), you don't use a PPP connection - you use SLIP. It's and older and less flexible than PPP, but it works rather well. I think I can switch the connection type in the DFUE configuration between PPP, SLIP and others. I think it can handle PPP, as also explained on the homepage of the author. I'll see if I can get a hold of a Win95 system and play around with this some later in the week, if you can wait that long. Yeah, that would be very great, but really don't spend hours trying this configuration. I will get a network card from a friend for free in a time, he said to me yesterday. And so the problem will probably be solved. BTW, I think this kermit also needs a PPP or similar connection running (-help files...)?? I don't know how to configure it to work on a serial line without any protocols. What do you think of Paul's suggestion to use minicom and on the win side teraterm PRO to transfer files? I'll try it out because he says it works at his PCs. Now, the net-emulation issue. The problem I seem to have is that I really don't know how to make the linux box react on the signals (which I don't know, too) the W95 dial-up sends over the serial line. Apart from this issue, which seems to be critical for such connections, I will read some magazines about linux networking, I think, because this try and succeed way won't work under linux, although I already have some idea about how it works. And, I don't know how to use ifconfig which wants me to specify a network adapter (and I don't know how to handle this serial-emulation device and which name it has). Perhaps it'll become clear but, as I said, don't work too much on this issue, only if it you're interested in it, 'cause I'll get a network card sooner or later. Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger
Re: runq messages
Perhaps wrong permissions on smail (runq is a link on it). Under slink, smail had the following permissions (is suid root): -rwsr-xr-x root/root301144 1998-10-13 19:01 usr/sbin/smail Just a guess, Martin On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: I am sure that my system is in a bad state. I installed from an old hamm CD, then upgraded by apt-get to slink, thence to potato. For weeks now I have been living with dozens of messages per day in my mail box, from Cron Daemon, as follows: runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied I tried changing the permissions on paniclog and its directory, with no avail. I found nothing on the recent mailing list archives about paniclog. I was running runq as root. I have just now installed exim instead of smail. Does this look familiar? -- If the box says 'Windows 95 or better', it should run on Linux, right? - anonymous For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot/Installation problem i386 slink
Hello! Don't know exactly, but I think the kernel fails to detect the fat32 partition correctly and then stops. Sorry for not investigating into it further, but I'm very busy at the moment. Maybe someone can confirm this suggestion and/or give furher/other ones?? Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger (...) I can partially boot off the Debian slink disk 1, but it hangs after a little more of screen info about drivers and hardware etc. immediately after the following two lines: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 No other messages, it just stops. (...)
Re: runq messages
I do not think your problem is permissions. See note below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Eugene Davis) writes: I am sure that my system is in a bad state. I installed from an old hamm CD, then upgraded by apt-get to slink, thence to potato. For weeks now I have been living with dozens of messages per day in my mail box, from Cron Daemon, as follows: runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied ^ Why is something trying to access /var/log/smail/ if you are using exim? I do not use either smail or exim. On my system runq is a shell scrip which calls sendmail -q. Perhaps smail did not clean up after itself when you removed it? I tried changing the permissions on paniclog and its directory, with no avail. I found nothing on the recent mailing list archives about paniclog. I was running runq as root. I have just now installed exim instead of smail. Does this look familiar? -- *** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * * pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? */ --
Re: cpu option of gcc g++
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 04:49:28AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: ... The general approach is to build it twice, normally reconfiguring in between. You could also simply run the 486 code on both 486 and Pentium II - unless you're noticing enough a speed increase from optimization to care about on the PII it's probably just as easy. Also, I remarked that some software, compile with g++ (such as voxilla) leave without any PB on the 486, but stay in the PII memory without any possibility to kill them (even with a '-9' signal). That's why I need to tell these compilers for which machine to work. This sounds like a bug. Are you using any particularly funky options to build? I really don't know, since I did not read the sources. But it also happened with the 'speak-freely' sources, which was *also* compile with g++. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the future, you're going to get computers as prizes in breakfast cereals. You'll throw them out because your house will be littered with them.
PCI Soundcard
Hi All, I'm looking for a good PCI soundcard for my new computer. Preferably non-PnP, although I can work with it if necessary. I would like it to work under OS/2, Linux, and Win95 (for games). Are there any suggestions? Thanks -- -bob You know you've landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi. ** * Robert Kerr, The morphing guy. *368 Clyde Building, BYU * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Provo, Utah 84602* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone: (801) 378-2029 * * http://www.et.byu.edu/~kerrr* Fax: (801) 378-4449 * **
Re: help! netstd screwed up... Other Problems!
Thought I'd mention the primary big problems I had with the update. These are ones for which I found no answer (I'm hardly a guru, though. I expect the workaround is out there somewhere.) I thought it might be nice for whoever's writing the install scripts... Both gnome and kde were problems. I don't know about the kde issues other than I Think they are similar to the gnome ones. (Both desktops are options for me. I actually play mostly with fvwm2/ctwm/other managers.) I need sleep occasionally. Gnome packages hung on an issue of a gnome library package apparently trying to overwrite a file also included in gnome-bin. Renaming the file and rerunning the install still failed despite gnome-bin not being on that section of the install list, so I figure it's in the script somewhere? I solved this (after a number of unsuccessful attempts to force an install or remove one package or another to remove the conflict) by using dselect to remove all of gnome. The apt-get dist-upgrade apparently continued to install a few gnome packages. Too late at that point to check. Imlib also was problematic. This stemmed from /etc/im being linked to /etc/imlib (probably from an earlier potato update?), causing the install to attempt copying an rc file onto itself. I delinked the two, and copied imlib to im. Things proceded smoothly from there. I don't watch every thread here, so these may have surfaced before. Sorry if so. But thought it would be best to throw 'em out to the pack. Kenward In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/03/99 at 02:06 AM, Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: a whimper... Will continue the update and see what happens. For the curious, the problem was probably like this: 1) apt-get dist-upgrade runs through, upgrading tons of stuff. [...] -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
install problems
Hi. I have been trying to install my linux distribution and am having problems with my cdrom drive. The cd is connected to an interface card with 2 rca jacks sticking out the back. The install will not mount the cdrom. My computer is a 486 /sx33. The hard drive is connected to an input card with only one ide input. My main question is can I buy a new cdrom drive and expect it to work on this archaic system? If it is an ide cdrom interface, does that mean that it will connect to the same pin cable that the hard drive uses? Thanks for any help you can offer. Jeff
Query:Adding to Debian DOCS w/Alien
I have several excellent references that are in .html format, rather large ones. I want to add them to my regular Debian installation using apt via alien. This is so that I can use DWWW and other existing search systems and online docs. Any suggestions about how to do this? Thanks! -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173
Re: on selective multi file delete
*- On 3 Oct, Chadi wrote about on selective multi file delete
hello everyone ...
i just finished downloading 2500++ files spread across lots of
subdirectories using wget ...
is there i can SAFELY delete all the .listing files created by wget
scatered all throughout ???
TIA,
Chad
find dir -name .listing -print | xargs -i rm {}
Test it first with
find dir -name .listing -print | xargs -i ls {}
where dir is the parent directory of all the downloaded files.
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Re: missing LDD in Linux
Gregory T. Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/ldd is one of the dynamic-linker utilities, and is provided by the ldso package. It definately ought to be present... I'd suggesr reinstalling ldso. hmm... ok i am a newbie, how do i do that? or can i just copy ldd from someone else his system (debian off course)? thx B
Re: PCI Soundcard
I would suggest one based on the Trident 4DWave chipset. These things can be found for as low as $15, and they are excellent sound cards. Not to mention the Linux support is great due to Trident releasing all the necessary specs to the ALSA people. Sean Robert Kerr wrote: Hi All, I'm looking for a good PCI soundcard for my new computer. Preferably non-PnP, although I can work with it if necessary. I would like it to work under OS/2, Linux, and Win95 (for games). Are there any suggestions? Thanks -- -bob You know you've landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi. ** * Robert Kerr, The morphing guy. *368 Clyde Building, BYU * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Provo, Utah 84602* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Phone: (801) 378-2029 * * http://www.et.byu.edu/~kerrr* Fax: (801) 378-4449 * ** -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Man is by nature a political animal. -- Aristotle
Re: PCI Soundcard
Hi All, I'm looking for a good PCI soundcard for my new computer. Preferably non-PnP, although I can work with it if necessary. I would like it to work under OS/2, Linux, and Win95 (for games). Are there any suggestions? Thanks The best bargain in the business has got to be the Creative Ensoniq PCI128. I bought a card at CompUSA for under $30.00. It's based on the ENS1371 chipset and works well with standard kernel (2.2) and ALSA drivers. I have used both drivers and have settled on ALSA. The one I purchased had a box that read Creative Ensoniq PC128 but I believe the Sound Blaster PC128 is the same card. Maybe somebody can confirm this. My experiences with this card are that it is fairly quiet, especially for its price. Its no Turtle Beach, but at 1/10 the price, I can't complain. I'm fairly picky about this kind of thing. I know this card to be much quieter than the Sound Blaster 16. And, as a PCI card, it configures itself without any wimpering. You will have sound up and running in minutes with this guy. It has my highest recommendations. Regards, Arne P.S. Avoid the Creative Sound Blaster Live. There are no Open Source drivers for this card.
Re: missing LDD in Linux
I'd probably just snarf the package off the Debian website. Go to http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/base/ldso.html, and you should be given the option of downloading the debfile. Once completed, do ``dpkg -i ldso*.deb'' (as root). Note: I'm assuming that you're running the stable branch (2.1, codenamed ``slink'') of Debian, and not the pre-release of unstable (``potato''). The URL listed above is slightly different in the latter case. On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 05:57:51PM +0200, Puam wrote: Gregory T. Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/ldd is one of the dynamic-linker utilities, and is provided by the ldso package. It definately ought to be present... I'd suggesr reinstalling ldso. hmm... ok i am a newbie, how do i do that? or can i just copy ldd from someone else his system (debian off course)?
equivs problem
I am trying to install some new deb packages and I am using a *fake* qt1g package which I made with the equivs utility. Geheimnis will not upgrade because the version of qt I have (the fake) is too new. I have never seen this problem before. Anyone know how I can fix it? dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of geheimnis: geheimnis depends on qt1g (= 1:1.44-6); however: Version of qt1g on system is 2.99. dpkg: error processing geheimnis (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: geheimnis BTW I do have QT 1.42 installed, from source. thanks -- Andrew
Re: Serial connection to windoze box
Hi, After many mistakes, defective cables, and a lot of help from these people, I have login to my Slink box from a Win95 box. I have: A null modem 9-pin mini cable about 10 meters long. HyperTerminal on Win95 (windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Hyper Terminal\hypertrm.exe) Direct to COM4 vt100 emulation 9600, 8, None, 1 stop, hardware | None flow ctrl At Slink end, /etc/securetty added lines: ttyS0, ttyS1, ttyS3 below tty12 /etc/inittab: removed comment # from T1:23:respawn/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100 A click on Send will download a file of your choice to the pwd directory on Linux. Hope this helps. -jw
Hard Drive testing.. (Was: Re: DriveReady SeekComplete Error and DriveStatusError)
The best thing really to do is go to the drive manufacturer's website, and find and download their diagnostic software for your hard drive. Unfortunately, you'll need some kind of DOS-bootable floppy or hard drive partition to RUN the software. I just had two hard drives go to a series of brownouts, and ran the (Western Digital's and Maxtor's) software to test the drives that hadn't yet gone bad. I found out that neither company's software will work correctly under FreeDOS (as of last week's beta release) due to something with the way the programs handle the console. So you might need to use a licensed version of some company's DOS to run the software. -- Ferret no baka
apt: how to avoid double downloads ?
Being a Debian-newbie I am fascinated of apt and want to use it on both Debian-boxes in my home-net. I access a german ftp-site and it works quite well. (Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list in addition to Todd Suess´ recently published one: deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists proposed-updates/ ) What is a useful configuration in apt.conf and/or anywhere else to avoid downloading packages twice if I run apt-get first on one and then on the other box ? I´ve tried the ftp::proxy section but did not succeed. Can squid act as ftp-proxy-cache at all? If yes: how do I have to write the ftp::proxy-section of apt.conf ? Or is there a more suitable configuration you recommend -- using apt-cache and nfs for example? Regards Peter
Re: LILO on second drive?
No idea about installing an MBR on a slave drive, but why not put the additional configuration in your lilo.conf and boot from your master drive? That way you can control the boot process from the lilo prompt with out having to go into the BIOS. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, EVCom Support wrote: Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 17:45:25 -0400 From: EVCom Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: LILO on second drive? Greetings all, Having read various docs, etc on Lilo, and having never used it before (Always had Linux on it's own primary drive, etc) I would like to use lilo to make a slave drive bootable (kinda tired of using boot floppies). Now, my BIOS supports booting from any drive letter, so even tho I have OS's installed on /dev/hda I can tell the bios to boot drive , /hdb1 and basically ignore the existance of /dev/hda alltogether. The problem is that lilo refuses to install a master boot record, etc, because it correctly detects that it is being asked to do so on a secondary drive. Basically I would like to be able to force lilo to do what I want, and make the secondary drive completely bootable so I can just switch my bios between booting drive 0 and drive 1 at will. When I boot drive D at this time, I get a lilo prompt that looks similar to this: F1: linux F2: F3: linux F3 default. The machine then locks up. Any suggestions? Todd Todd Suess Technical Support Night Manager Evolution Communications, Inc. 800.496.4736/561.624.7570 Email- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Support Hours- Monday through Friday 6am to Midnight Saturday and Sunday 8:30 to Midnight Be sure to visit EvCom.net at Booth 1388 for 'Everything Internet' at Internet World '99 in New York City, October 4-8, 1999.
How do I make a bootable debian rescue CD?
Hi! I'd like to have a bootable CD that contains a not-so-small Debian installation with most console utilities to repair a broken file system. It'd need to have raidtools, tar, cp, dd in full features versions. To make that disk, I'd probably generate a Debian installation on a spare disk that has everything I want and then convert the file system for CD generation. To run this, I would probably have to boot into a RAM disk and then mount the CD as /usr to have the programs available. Making things even more difficult: The CD recorder is not on a Linux system, but on a Windows box. Does Debian offer packages to generate a bootable ISO9660 Image that I then can write to a CD? Or do I have to do everything myself? 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: apt: how to avoid double downloads ?
If you've got some disk-space which can be shared between the two machines (NFS mount, Jaz/Zip drive, etc.) you could try using apt-move, which was recently installed into potato. It can migrate the downloaded debfiles into the proper hierarchy, and generate the required control files, to allow apt to process them as a local mirror during subsequent runs. On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:22:08PM +0200, Peter L. Schroeder wrote: What is a useful configuration in apt.conf and/or anywhere else to avoid downloading packages twice if I run apt-get first on one and then on the other box ? I´ve tried the ftp::proxy section but did not succeed. Can squid act as ftp-proxy-cache at all? If yes: how do I have to write the ftp::proxy-section of apt.conf ? Or is there a more suitable configuration you recommend -- using apt-cache and nfs for example?
Re: equivs problem
On 03-Oct-99 Mark Brown wrote: This package has no epoch number, so its version number less than that of the official package. If you add an epoch to your fake package everything should work as planned. Thanks, I am beginning to remember about the epoch now. I tried to add one but it did not work. I will read the docs and try it again. -- Andrew
Re: Slink to Potato
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 01:55:22AM -0500, Brad wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: Hi Brad; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hmmm... exactly 80-column lines, more or less. 72 or 76 is much better though, it leaves room for replies. Ooops, sorry, I don't know how that happened; my vimrc files specs 76 columns, maybe I need separate command in muttrc? i was partially wrong too. You have 78 column lines, not 80 ;) As you can see the line above, with the two characters inserted for quoting the ',' hits the very right margin of an 80-column-width display. Damir, are you sure mutt is using vim? If you have nvi installed and haven't adjusted the alternatives vi will default to that and if you normally use a shell alias to select your vi mutt won't pick that up. And if upstream guys do their thing, we may be looking into 2.4 kernel pretty soon- does that mean another Debian stable release will be one step back ( when potato become stable it'll rely on 2.2 kernel). Depends if potato is frozen before they get 2.4 out. Vague rumors tell of a November target for a potato freeze, and a January release for 2.4... Of course, being rumors, these could easily be wrong. I would hope that we would late at least a month before releasing with a new kernel - assuming it worked well to start off with. Waiting for 2.4 and testing it would probably delay the release of Potato even more than it is already. Maybe we should have another directory then for up-to-date-stable, which all could download from at their own risk (which we do anyway, not like anyone is guaranteeing anything in the first place). This has been proposed, according to other posts in this thread. IIRC, the plan was to allow an unstable package into semi-stable only after X length of time without bug reports, etc. That idea is intented to be closer to unstable than stable - at this point, there would probably be as much hassle updating to the in-between release as there is updating to Potato. Not that there's much hassle with Potato right now. Netgod also supposedly keeps some unstable packages compiled for slink, and i hear the Gnome people make debs for stable of their latest releases. The stable GNOME packages are actually produced by the Debian maintainers - they're just distributed from the GNOME site. I am no computer wizard. And when I read about all the development currently going on in Linux world, people are forgetting that semi-commercial applications ( like StarOffice and netscape) still rely on libc6 and not new libc. libc6 is the same as glibc 2. StarOffice used to depend on glibc 2.0 (as opposed to the 2.1 in slink), but they fixed that AFAIK. Netscape has as To explain it a bit more clearly: glibc 2.0 is binary compatible with glibc 2.1. If programs break when linked against 2.1 then that is a bug in the program (typically trying to use internal features). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgp1cRCUfIpxo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: equivs problem
On 03-Oct-99 Pollywog wrote: On 03-Oct-99 Mark Brown wrote: This package has no epoch number, so its version number less than that of the official package. If you add an epoch to your fake package everything should work as planned. Thanks, I am beginning to remember about the epoch now. I tried to add one but it did not work. I will read the docs and try it again. Here is my ns-control file. It is not producing a correct package. I want a package with version 1:3.99 but what is produced is just 1.0 Section: non-free Package: qt1g-dev Depends: Description: qt-dev dummy package Standards-Version: 1:3.99 thanks -- Andrew
Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)
First off, my apologies if this email is considered off-topic. The reason I am posting to this list about this subject is because I have received excellent help and support in the past from other debian users. Just yesterday I noticed in one of my log files a number of connection attempts to my box (Debian 2.1 potato salad!) on different ports. I noticed this after they had all happened - I was offline when I noticed them. The reason I hadn't noticed them when they were happening because I was in another workspace and was struggling to get XEmacs to compile from source. Here is the section of my /var/log/daemon.log file (I have wrapped some of the long lines myself): (1) Sep 30 21:05:20 phoenix tcplogd: auth connection attempt from kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.158] Sep 30 21:07:04 phoenix tcplogd: auth connection attempt from kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.158] (2) Oct 1 19:27:04 phoenix tcplogd: port 1016 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [139.134.94.157] Oct 1 19:27:09 phoenix last message repeated 3 times (3) Oct 1 20:58:02 phoenix tcplogd: auth connection attempt from [24.220.0.13] (4) Oct 2 20:59:12 phoenix tcplogd: auth connection attempt from pavlov.midco.net [24.220.0.13] (5) Oct 2 21:01:19 phoenix portmap[6185]: connect from 209.20.7.247 to dump(): request from unauthorized host Oct 2 21:01:20 phoenix tcplogd: sunrpc connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [209.20.7.247] Oct 2 21:01:20 phoenix tcplogd: auth connection attempt from 209-20-7-247.dialin.interlog.com [209.20.7.247] Oct 2 21:13:15 phoenix tcplogd: auth connection attempt from pavlov.midco.net [24.220.0.13] (6) Oct 2 21:18:17 phoenix tcplogd: port 13223 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [209.30.227.164] Oct 2 21:18:17 phoenix tcplogd: port 13223 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [209.127.129.69] Oct 2 21:18:17 phoenix tcplogd: port 13223 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [209.127.129.69] Oct 2 21:18:17 phoenix tcplogd: port 13223 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [209.30.227.164] Oct 2 21:18:18 phoenix tcplogd: port 13223 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [209.30.227.164] Oct 2 21:18:19 phoenix tcplogd: port 13223 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [209.127.129.69] Oct 2 21:18:19 phoenix tcplogd: port 13223 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [209.30.227.164] Oct 2 21:18:20 phoenix tcplogd: port 13223 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [209.127.129.69] Oct 2 21:19:00 phoenix tcplogd: port 13223 connection attempt from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [209.94.148.97] Oct 2 21:19:02 phoenix last message repeated 3 times (This above block of messages starting from (6) gets repeated then). (1) seems to be legitimate since I think I was downloading sth from a website on that host. Don't know for sure but I maybe wrong about that. (2) is definitely someone probing my system. Not sure about (3) but that ip address looks kinda familiar Not sure about (4) but that hostname/domain sounds familiar, maybe a website that I was visiting at the time. (5) and (6) are again port scan/probe attempts on my system. Now, I have setup tcp_wrappers to be very restrictive: /etc/hosts.allow: ALL: LOCAL /etc/hosts.deny: ALL: ALL Also, I have disabled most services from /etc/inetd.conf: #:INTERNAL: Internal services #echo stream tcp nowait rootinternal #echo dgram udp waitrootinternal #chargenstream tcp nowait rootinternal #chargendgram udp waitrootinternal #off# discard stream tcp nowait rootinternal #off# discard dgram udp waitrootinternal #off# daytime stream tcp nowait rootinternal #off# daytime dgram udp waitrootinternal #off# timestream tcp nowait rootinternal #off# timedgram udp waitrootinternal #:STANDARD: These are standard services. #off# ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ftpd #off# telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd #:BSD: Shell, login, exec and talk are BSD protocols. #off# talk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.talkd #off# ntalk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd #off# shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.rshd #off# login stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.rlogind #off# exec stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.rexecd #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. #:INFO: Info services #off# finger stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/cfingerd ## finger stream tcp nowait nobody
RE: make-kpkg and apt-get updates
On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Darxus wrote: : On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, peter karlsson wrote: : : you can use dselect and use H on the package. This will hold the package : and prevent accidental upgrading. : : Yeah, but that's not a very good solution, especially since I need to : remember to do that manually each time I compile a new kernel. : : Plus that I have to go into dselect, which I don't like (the feeling seems : mutual, as it does not like my selections either). : : I removed the kernel package long ago, and have been compiling custom : kernels w/ no interference from apt/dselect since. kernel-package is the way to go. Name your revisions like hostname.kernel-version-pkg-version, and you'll not have problems (I haven't, anyway :) For my home machine, the revision is chaos.2.2.9-1. I installed it with `dpkg -i ...' - no need for dselect. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: equivs problem FIXED
On 03-Oct-99 Pollywog wrote: On 03-Oct-99 Pollywog wrote: On 03-Oct-99 Mark Brown wrote: This package has no epoch number, so its version number less than that of the official package. If you add an epoch to your fake package everything should work as planned. Thanks, I am beginning to remember about the epoch now. I tried to add one but it did not work. I will read the docs and try it again. Here is my ns-control file. It is not producing a correct package. I want a package with version 1:3.99 but what is produced is just 1.0 Section: non-free Package: qt1g-dev Depends: Description: qt-dev dummy package Standards-Version: 1:3.99 I found a way to do it. I get an error when building the package but the resulting package installed and fooled other packages into upgrading. BTW the error seems to be Standards-Version: should be just Version: thanks -- Andrew thanks -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681
apt-move
Hi, I've been trying to use apt-move to create a potato mirror and I can't seem to get it to work. When running apt-move update/get I get: /usr/bin/apt-move: contrib: command not found Updating Packages and override files... Getting: distribution names Creating Lists... Error: makelist: No master override files exist! My apt-move.conf file contains: ARCH=i386 LOCALDIR=/debian DIST=unstable PKGTYPE=binary SECTIONS=main contrib non-free non-US/main USSITE=debian.midco.net NONUSSITE=non-us.debian.org FILECACHE=/var/cache/apt/archives DELETE=no MAXDELETE=20 LOGFILE=/var/log/apt-move.log MONITOR=/dev/null I, most certainly, have something mis-configured, but I'm not sure what. Looking at the man page and the Readme's it seems correct. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Maryk
Re: apt-move
On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, M. K. Honeycutt wrote: SECTIONS=main contrib non-free non-US/main I believe this is your problem, it should be SECTIONS=main contrib non-free non-US/main At least, that works for me... -- Ashley Clark
Urgent help
Hi, Is there any tool/program to create/format a FAT16 or FAT32 partition ? Thanks. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho ¨¨ Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra PGP key available at finger ¨¨
compiling wine - xpm missing
After re-installing slink on a revamped upgraded computer (new cpu/mb, bigger hd, new graphics card, etc) I downloaded the latest wine sources (990923) and tried to build. Wine built ok, but won't run. I get the following message: OBM_CreateBitmaps Xpm support not in the binary, please install xpm and recompile. I have the following packages installed: xpm4.7, xpm4g, xpm4g-dev. The xpm.h file is found in the include path chain. (The configure scripts did NOT set the HAVE_LIBXXPM). I tried setting this variable in the configure generated header file and then wine did not link (having not found the required references). I was able to build wine on the previous install of slink, but I cannot figure out what library is missing!! Does anyone have an idea what package needs to be installed? = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Could you help me ?
Hello, I a french studient and I have also a TI 4000M notebook. But I have pb, I have broken the links between the central and the screen. I have several links with several colors and I must reconnect them to the screen. And I don't have the order to make it. Could you just open the protection two screw) and clips) of the screen in order to give me the list of the colors for the two groups of cables on the left of the screen(one 12 cables and 9 cables). I have tried to contact Texas Instrument and I must change the screen for 3000 $ !!). Coudl you help me. It could be very sympathic ! Thanks a lot. Pat.
Re: equivs problem FIXED
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:18:23PM -, Pollywog wrote: BTW the error seems to be Standards-Version: should be just Version: Standards-Version specifies which version of the policy document the package complies with. Version specifies the version of the package. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpMeUuIGp1AJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
wheel mice
Is there a way I can get the 'wheel' on a wheel mouse to work with netscape (4.6 or ) under linux? I just got a new wheel mouse (Kensington usb-ps2). I havn't gotten this to work under usb yet (will have to go to 2.2 to do that, and even windows 98e2 won't work with my mb's usb hw!), but as a ps2 mouse it's fine, I'd just like to get the wheel to work! = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: wheel mice
Kenneth == Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth Is there a way I can get the 'wheel' on a wheel mouse to work Kenneth with netscape (4.6 or ) under linux? I just got a new wheel Kenneth mouse (Kensington usb-ps2). I havn't gotten this to work Kenneth under usb yet (will have to go to 2.2 to do that, and even Kenneth windows 98e2 won't work with my mb's usb hw!), but as a ps2 Kenneth mouse it's fine, I'd just like to get the wheel to work! Check out the following site for more info on how to get wheel mice to work with X: http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
Re: wheel mice
*- On 3 Oct, Kenneth Scharf wrote about wheel mice Is there a way I can get the 'wheel' on a wheel mouse to work with netscape (4.6 or ) under linux? I just got a new wheel mouse (Kensington usb-ps2). I havn't gotten this to work under usb yet (will have to go to 2.2 to do that, and even windows 98e2 won't work with my mb's usb hw!), but as a ps2 mouse it's fine, I'd just like to get the wheel to work! Have a look at http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ or the imwheel package. I am not using imwheel so I can't speek for it. -- Brian Servis Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: LILO on second drive?
Mainly because my /dev/hda is a large drive (17 gigs) and I do not want to risk replacing my win98 MBR, etc, even though I have backups of everything, having to reload it all would be a royal pain, abd quite time consuming. Since BIOS supports booting from any drive, why should lilo not be able to do it also? Todd t 10:35 AM 10/3/1999 -0700, Ernest Johanson wrote: No idea about installing an MBR on a slave drive, but why not put the additional configuration in your lilo.conf and boot from your master drive? That way you can control the boot process from the lilo prompt with out having to go into the BIOS. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary
RE: make-kpkg and apt-get updates
kernel-package is the way to go. Name your revisions like hostname.kernel-version-pkg-version, and you'll not have problems (I haven't, anyway :) One problem is how do I have several compilations of the same kernel version installed? Right now, I have two 2.2.12 compilations installed, for instance. How do I do that with make-kpkg? -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World World.log
Re: Urgent help
Is there any tool/program to create/format a FAT16 or FAT32 partition ? To create FAT file systems, use mkdosfs from the dosfstools package. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World World.log
Re: Linux/NT dual booting
Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT always f*%@(^ up my boot sector.. could someone help me out with how to make this work? DOS boot partition on hda1 Linux on hda2 NT on hdb1 Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS - Western Washington University -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null dave - i have slink + NT workstation 4.0 on the same machine both booting from the hard drive. i followed the instructions + downloaded appropriate software (required only for NT part) from http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-LILO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html and everything worked smoothly peter
unix:0
What controls what appears when you 'w'? I just noticed that when I am in X and I 'w' all my X terms are from unix:0 instead of plain old :0 like they used to be. extace doesn't work with unix:0, it just likes :0. Is there a non destructive way I can change it back to :0? Thanks. --Ian Ehrenwald
Re: fatal error in SO 5.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Robert Rati wrote: I've read the mailing list archives about the various Star Office problems in potato, and something tells me that people are on the wrong track. I am currently getting a Fatal Error about 10 seconds after I load Star Office. Many of the posts that solve Star Office 5.1 problems (which is what I have) seem to revolve around doing some trickery to use glibc 2.0. Except for the problems with threaded system(3) calls in ove of the glibc 2.1.2 prereleases, all the solutions you mention solve problems for StarOffice 5.01 (which had problems with glibc 2.1), not StarOffice 5.1. Does anyone know how to solve the fatal error problem in Star Office 5.1 on potato? Any help would be appreciated as this has me rather perplexed. Can't help because i've never seen the error. Then again, i don't use SO for email or anything. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN/fN9r7M/9WKZLW5AQGB2gP+K3TpYOUHniIBDV2jPBnViPRc0T7oirgn CHmmKGMX+JvoEcCi6sIg2CKUR2y6GgL1NtoNZL5HALiTnwegoxhypGXVmGgUxYQO SoueM3ZSHqFTtWuXcdSaItjaiHB9kMsaKPJtFZoqoY62c2ZG5lks0J/hn3FF1emH oesoL9qipHU= =k7Zq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: upgrading pppd to 2.3.10 (kernel reports 2.3.7)
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 05:41:17PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Hi all: I've compiled and installed pppd-2.3.10. Before that I had 2.3.5, that came with Slink, but I uninstalled it. Why do I see the following in my logs: Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: PPP line discipline registered. Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Oct 3 17:34:32 main kernel: registered device ppp0 Oct 3 17:34:32 main pppd[554]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0 Oct 3 17:34:32 main pppd[554]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 3 17:34:32 main pppd[554]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp3 2.3.7 was never installed on my system. Notice those are kernel comments. You kernel has 2.3.7 internally. Ben
Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)
Jan == Jan Vroonhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan What struggle? XEmacs should compile on a typical Debian system, Jan just using What I meant by that was that I didn't have all the dev libraries installed so, after installing a couple and trying make it would later bomb on some dev library that I hadn't installed. This is the first time that I have installed Xemacs from sources on Debian, I had been using the official debs previously. Then there was the issue with ndbm.h not getting found. It was located in /usr/include/db1 but I had to explicitly specify that dir with --site-includes, which I thought was a bit strange. Anyways, everything worked out just fine in the end. (I am using 20.4 BTW). Jan Inspecting your logs seems like a good thing to do during the Jan boring waiting period :-) My logfiles are tailed in a bunch of eterms but I was working in a different workspace at the time so that was my fault. Jan This is the X server, i.e. one of two methods programs can use to Jan access the screen (the other is unix domain sockets). If you Jan never run programs remotely you could firewall it off (letting Jan localhost still have access). I think you are more or less safe as Jan long as you don't do stupid things with xhosts. I modified the WDM (XDM replacement) setup to: DisplayManager._0.authorize:false so that when I su to root I can launch X clients without having permission/authority problems. Here is what xhost tells me now: @phoenix:[/home/ssahmed] xhost access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect INET:phoenix LOCAL: Can I assume that the above xhost and WDM settings are safe ? -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)
Stephen == Stephen R Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen On my system wdm runs on port 1024. I don't know if you are Stephen running wdm, but I would suspect that xdm and gdm use the same Stephen port. YMMV. You are right. I am using WDM. BTW, where is this port 1024 specified for WDM ? Just curious. -- Salman Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com
Booting problem
I recently installed Debian from an official set, slowly the things get better. The last changes that I managed to do ( a whole adventure for a windows newcomer!) left me with even a connection to the internet through wvdial. My main problem is that I have very little memory (about 1.3 gig). Any way, after this last change, when I tried to boot again, I got a cycle of Lilo . and back to the reboot, never ending. So I put the floppy created during first installation, trying to fix the matter. But I don't think it is fixed. Now, I wanted to remove a bunch of things trying to clean a little and leave room for a more bare installation, but it does not remove much. Tells me that dpkg is not good. How do I re-install it? Even better, I would do a re-installation from scratch, getting a bare little one with may be some TeX, math utilities, gcc++, and web connection. But I have no idea how to do it. Please help, give detailed indications if possible, I am just now getting used to the UNIX environment, now learning to use emacs, but not sure yet. Thanks, Antonio.
Re: Linux/NT dual booting
For a dual boot - why not go to a computer store and buy one of those things where you can swap hard drives like disks? They are around 30$, then for linux get a cheap 3 gig. you could run the same, but I would reccomend more space for nt. martin Original Message Follows From: Peter Mickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Linux/NT dual booting Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 17:40:25 -0400 Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT always f*%@(^ up my boot sector.. could someone help me out with how to make this work? DOS boot partition on hda1 Linux on hda2 NT on hdb1 Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS - Western Washington University -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null dave - i have slink + NT workstation 4.0 on the same machine both booting from the hard drive. i followed the instructions + downloaded appropriate software (required only for NT part) from http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-LILO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html and everything worked smoothly peter -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Security Setup: how to respond to a portscan (This is long!)
Salman Ahmed wrote: Stephen == Stephen R Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen On my system wdm runs on port 1024. I don't know if you are Stephen running wdm, but I would suspect that xdm and gdm use the same Stephen port. YMMV. You are right. I am using WDM. BTW, where is this port 1024 specified for WDM ? Just curious. I don't even know if it IS specified. I got the info like this: stra:/home/sgore# fuser -v -n tcp 1024 USERPID ACCESS COMMAND 1024/tcp root209 f wdm root227 f wdm root249 f xconsole I notice now that xconsole also runs on 1024. -- Regards, Steve Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. Reboots are for kernel and hardware upgrades.
Fax format TIFF files (www.efax.com)
I'm using the free (advertising-supported) Internet fax service at www.efax.com. They assign you an arbitrary phone number, and faxes to that address are received by faxmodem and mailed to you. The file comes as a TIFF. I have several viewers that can read TIFFs (xv, xloadimage) and a fine bitmap editor (the GIMP), but apparently efax.com encapsulates multiple-page faxes into a single TIFF, and all of those programs display only the first page. Can anyone recommend a program (preferably, of course, Debianized) that will display all the pages of a fax-format TIFF? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum http://dm.net
simple question
does anybody know where can i find enlightenment 0.16 deb´s ? or cvs deb´s as it used to be in e.themes.org ? thank you ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
