Re: latex y lyx
Pablo Faúndez Hoffmann escribió: He instalado la version de lyx 0.12.0 que viene en non-free de debian (slink), he instalado el tetex-base, tetex-bin y tetex-nonfree pero no puedo visualizar mis archivos *.lyx ni en view dvi ni en view ps. He hecho todas las combinaciones posibles de instalación pero no puedo solucionar el problema. El mensaje que me entrega es: Latex did not work: Missing log file Nombre_del_archivo.lyx tambien me entrega el mismo mensaje cuando quiero imprimir. ¿Qué versión tienes de tetex-bin? En proposed-updates tienes una nueva versión del paquete tetex-bin (la 0.9.981113-4). Tengo entendido que las versiones anteriores de este paquete tenían algún problema relacionado con el año 2000. Asegúrate de tener instalada esta última no vaya a ser este el problema. Si no es esto, prueba a exportar el archivo, desde Lyx, como Latex y ejecuta el comando 'latex' a mano, a ver qué errores salen. Espero que esto te ayude. Un saludo.
Re: OT: Kde
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, IJAS wrote: Siento el off topic pero soy mi única lista de linux O:-) 1) Como hago para que el wm de Kde sea el que sale por defecto (ahora sale el fwm95). 2) ¿Se puede usar kde sin usar kdm? ¿Como hago para quitar kdm? ¿y luego para arrancar kde? 3) Si entro en kde como root puedo oir sonidos, es decir la tarjeta de sonido funciona, pero si entro como usuario ijalonso no funciona ¿? ¿alguna idea? -- ===NaClU2=== _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ Desde: 40º25'N 3º39'O _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ http://web.jet.es/ijalonso -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Edita el archivo /etc/X11/window-managers y pon el kde en primer lugar de la lista. Yo uso kde sin tener instaldo el kdm, solo saca el paquete de kdm. Respecto al sonido revisa los permisos de los dispositivos de audio en /dev. Xavier
pregunta
como puedo instalar cdwrite en mi hp8100? donde puedo bajarlo gratuitamente?
kernel 2.2.xx
Cuando compilo los kernels de la serie 2.2.xx o 2.3.xx despues de compilarlo instalarlo y configurar el lilo al reiniciar con ese kernel carga todos los drivers hasta que en un momento da el mensage de kernel panic y no sale de ahi, tengo que reiniciar la maquina y usar el kernel 2.0.38 que es el que compila sin problemas. Uso la debian 2.1 slink, tal vez tenga que instalar algun paquete adicional para usar las series nuevas de kernels, la verdad no se. Alguien sabe donde puedo encontrar algun manual de debian en castellano si se puede bajar de la red o comprar un libro de texto (en la Argentina). Gracias por la atencion. Saludos.
Re: kernel 2.2.xx
El Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 06:45:55AM -0300, Alvarez Ricardo Marcelo escribió: Cuando compilo los kernels de la serie 2.2.xx o 2.3.xx despues de compilarlo instalarlo y configurar el lilo al reiniciar con ese kernel carga todos los drivers hasta que en un momento da el mensage de kernel panic y no sale de ahi, tengo que reiniciar la maquina y usar el kernel 2.0.38 que es el que compila sin problemas. Cerciorate de que no has incluido como modulo cosas esenciales para que linux arranque como el soporte para discos ide o particiones ext2. Uso la debian 2.1 slink, tal vez tenga que instalar algun paquete adicional para usar las series nuevas de kernels, la verdad no se. Alguien sabe donde puedo encontrar algun manual de debian en castellano si se puede bajar de la red o comprar un libro de texto (en la Argentina). Mira en: lucas.hispalinux.es Saludos. -- Su ratón se ha movido. Debe reiniciar Windows NT para que el cambio surta efecto. ¿Reiniciar ahora? ACEPTAR __ Raúl González [EMAIL PROTECTED]Powered by Debian GNU/LiNuX Slink Linux User #99718pronto Potato. je, je.
Diamond MX-300
Alguien sabe de algun parche para el kernel para que me soporte la placa de sonido diamond MX-300 con chipset Aureal Vortex 2. O donde se puede buscar. Gracias. P.D.: Si es para el kernel 2.0.38 mejor pues por ahora la serie 2.2.xx o 2.3.xx no me funcionan
Re: Estar al día: APT por RTB?
Hell-o Alexandre Maneu i Victòria! El día Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 08:51:24PM +0100 decías: Soy usuario de hamm y conecto por la RTB de forma bastante penosa. Veo como gente con conexiones buenas (es decir, cable y demás) puede tranquilamente hacerse apt-get para estar siempre al día de los contenidos. Sin embargo yo veo cada vez más lejana esa opción... si yo hago ahora un apt-get, me va a tener que bajar 100 mb de actualizaciones e historias Mi pregunta es... existe alguna forma de estar mínimamente actualizado por la RTB que no sea por APT? (o, por ejemplo, dicho de otra forma, se puede hacer apt a trozos, en plan getright?) apt es capaz de bajarse los paquetes por partes en distintas sesiones y hasta que no estan todos en tu máquina no comenzara con la instalación de estos para mantener la estabilidad del sistema asi que puedes usarlo para lo que necesitas sin problemas Nos leemos... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
prueba (no leer)
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Re: pregunta
Antonio Lopez Rodriguez wrote: como puedo instalar cdwrite en mi hp8100?donde puedo bajarlo gratuitamente? MM. mejor utiliza el cdrecord, yo tengo una grabadora HP8100, con el kernel 2.2.13 lo unico que tiene que hacer es cambiar una linea al codigo del kernel y recompilar root:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.13/drivers/block# rcsdiff -r1.3 ide-cd.c === RCS file: RCS/ide-cd.c,v retrieving revision 1.3 diff -r1.3 ide-cd.c 1089c1089 #define IDECD_SEEK_TIMEOUT WAIT_CMD /* 10 sec */ --- > #define IDECD_SEEK_TIMEOUT (100 * WAIT_CMD) /* 1000 sec */ ya con eso queda listo, y para grabar usa el cdrecord: cdrecord -eject -v -multi speed=4 dev=1,0 imagen.iso donde imagen.iso es la imagen ya creada y con la opcion multi puedes crear el cd como multisesion y poder seguir grabando despues. puedes crear una imagen iso utilizando el comando mkisofs mkisofs -f -a -r -T -o imagen.iso /directorio Esto crea una imagen iso del directorio, la cual puedes probar despues para saber como quedo utilizando el comando mount, de la siguiente manera: mount -r -t iso9660 -o loop imagen.iso /mnt Eso es todo, primero crea una imagen con mkisofs, montala con mount y mira si todo quedo OK, eso si comprate una caja de cd's bien baratos porque vas a danar bastantes aprendiendo, una vez le cojas el tiro vas a ver que es mas seguro que en Windows, y mucho mas rapido !!! Lo unico que no he visto todavia es un sistema parecido al de adaptec para montar el cdr y empezar a grabar en el como si fuera un dispositovo comun y silvestre, bueno si alguien sabe de algo asi, me gustaria que me comentaran. Saludos -- Nestor A. Diaz L. Ingeniero de Sistemas y Computacion mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: Disponible bajo demanda. Vendo CD's GNU/Linux "Vale la pena buscar oportunidades para aprovechar el trabajo ajeno en vez de hacerlo uno mismo... es un medio mas barato de ser mas productivo" ( El Entorno de programacion UNIX ) B.K. R.P. begin:vcard n:Diaz;Nestor A. tel;cell:033-2940044 tel;fax:+57-1-*3450605 tel;home:+57-1-*3450605 tel;work:+57-1-*3450605 x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Ingeniero de Sistemas y Computacion adr;quoted-printable:;;Calle 53 #4A-93=0D=0AOficina 410;Santa Fe de Bogota;;;Colombia x-mozilla-cpt:;-9056 fn:Nestor A. Diaz end:vcard
Problemas con Smail
Buenas; Tengo la Slink y he instalado el smail que venia como servidor de correo. El caso es que con root parece no haber ningun problema, pero al ejecutar el 'mailq' o 'smail -v -q' con otro usuario me sale esto: mailq: setgroups() failed: Operación no permitida smail: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permiso denegado smail: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permiso denegado ademas de que se generan un monton de mensajes de error por culpa del cron, que son como este: From root Sun Jan 9 17:43:00 2000 Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 17:43:00 +0100 (CET) From: root (Cron Daemon) To: mail Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] runq X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh X-Cron-Env: HOME=/var/spool/mail X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=mail runq: setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied runq: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied que creo son generados por el archivo /etc/smail/crontab, que no se que hace (tampoco se para que sirve /etc/cron.daily/smail) ¿donde esta el problema? he probado a reinstalar smail, purgando la version anterior y poniendo sendmail para volver a instalar smail, pero igual. ¿es un problema de permisos? ¿Alguien sabe de algun manual para principiantes sobre smail :? PD: Podria alguien indicarme la direccion de algun HOWTO o manual para configurar la conexion con ppp, es que hasta ahora utilizaba kpp, pero me baje la version 1.1.2 de las kde y cuelga al acabar de marcar Muuuchas gracias, y felices 0s :) __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Modem ¡estoy desesperado!
IJAS decia: Pues nada que como os he contado en mensajes anteriores mi modem ni se entera Es un modem externo conectado a Stty1 (Com2) existe /dev/modem como enlace a /dev/stty1 es más hasta hace poco (creo que hasta que hice una actualización de la bios) funcionaba perfectamente (en windows lo sigue haciendo). (...) En efecto el problema parece ser que ha sido la actualización de la bios, en la versión anterior con los puertos serie puestos en 'auto' linux reconocia los dos puertos pero en esta nueva versión de la bios con 'auto' no lo reconocia, forzando la habilitación del puerto en la bios todo solucionado :-) Vuelvo a utilizar mutt :-DDD -- ===NaClU2===IJAS _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ Desde: 40º25'N 3º39'O _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/http://web.jet.es/ijalonso
Re: [saK] y Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas
Hola a todos, he estado haciendo más pruebas y ya me imagino lo que está pasando... He recompilado el kernel SIN soporte de frame buffer, y he hecho MAGIC SYSRQ + saK, resultado: 1) Las X se reinician y funcionan... 2) Las consolas virtuales se quedan con exactamente el mismo dibujo (fondo y login) solo que aparecen una rayas blancas verticales de unos 4 o 5 mm a todo lo largo de la parte superior de la pantalla 3) El teclado va bien, y a ciegas se puede hacer cualquier cosa Lo he probado en otro PC, con otra targeta grafica (S3) y el 2.2.13 y lo mismo. ¿Me lo podeis confirmar? DEDUCCIONES DE MOMENTO: a) Parece que el kernel por si mismo y sin el soporte de framebuffer no sabe nada de modos gráficos de la SVGA, ni hace ningún intento. b) Las X deben restablecer el modo grafico de la SVGA al salir normalmente y no lo hacen al asesinarlas con [saK] c) El kernel con framebuffer SI sabe de modos graficos, pero con mi targeta debe de haber algun bug que hace que los caracteres queden desparramados por la pantalla. Con otros servidores X todo va bien. CONCLUSIONES DE MOMENTO: A) De momento si se me cuelgan las X haré MAGIC + unRaw y luego ALT + F1, y asesinare las X desde la consola. B) Las pruebas con kernel 2.2.13 sin soporte de framebuffer me han dejado mal sabor de boca, si las X se cuelgan te puedes quedar sin consolas virtuales... (Nadie ha sabido decirme que comando usar para reiniciar el modo grafico VGA) C) Estaria bien tener un MAGIC SYSRQ + Vga que reiniciase el modo gráfico de la VGA D) AUN MEJOR: MAGIC SYSRQ es para usuarios avanzados, no le explicaré a mi hijo ni a mi mujer como funciona... ¿Que os pareceria que DEL + F1 conmutara a VC1, hiciera un saK, y reiniciara el modo grafico de la VGA? Esto se lo podriamos explicar a cualquier usuario... ¡¡¡TENDRIAMOS UN LINUX SOLIDO COMO UNA PIEDRA!!! ¿Que os parece? ¿A quien tengo que comentarle esto? ¿A Linus? Agradeceré todo comentario/orientación por pequeño que sea... ;-) On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 12:31:22AM +0100, Manel Marin wrote: [...] EL PROBLEMA: Las consolas quedan inutiles, se las puede acceder pero no muestran caracteres ASCII, si no puntos blancos distribuidos irregularmente. Bueno no quedan bloquedas, se puede hacer login a ciegas y ejecutar comandos (reboot ;-) He probado a lanzar el comando reset y no lo soluciona... Y tambien a killear los getty y nada Uso framebuffer, y arrancando en modo texto normal es incluso peor... X-C Mi servidor X es el XF86_Mach64 ¿No le gusta que le killeen a saKo y se toma la venganza? Saludos, -- Manel Marin e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Powered (Debian 2.1 slink)
Re: [YA SE LO QUE PASA...] Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas
Hola a todos, me confirmo a mi mismo y os envio dos chuletas ;-) On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 12:26:06AM +0100, Manel Marin wrote: ¡¡¡AL FIN HE DESCUBIERTO LO QUE PASA!!! (Me estaba volviendo loco) La combinación ALT + SysRq + Tecla NO FUNCIONA en algunos teclados, Lo he verificado con cinco teclados, en uno de los cinco no va bien, (y no es la tecla que le he apretado fuerte y todas las demás teclas van bien) Os adjunto dos archivos: teoria-teclado trucos-cuelgueX Espero que os aprovechen... ;-) Enviamos un reporte de bug de kernel pidiendo que la tecla MAGIC no pierda su uso normal en las consolas (de hecho no lo pierde en las X en modo RAW y no pasa nada...) De esta forma se podria utilizar cualquier tecla normal para hacer de MAGIC, por ejemplo el DEL (DEL + Tecla) ... - ¿Que os parece? Me lo he estado pensando y con opciones tan peligrosas como Umount, Boot, Reboot no me parece apropiado que todo principante utilice la tecla MAGIC... aunque a mi me parece GENIAL!!! - ¿Como se hace el reporte de bug del kernel? (nunca he hecho ninguno...) !!!A ver si me contestais leches!!! :-( Saludos -- Manel Marin e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Powered (Debian 2.1 slink) teoria-teclado: (0.01) Breve descripción de como funciona el teclado SCAN CODES: Estos son los códigos que envia el teclado al PC. Muchas teclas del teclado generan un byte de datos cuando se pulsan y otro cuando se sueltan. Tambien generan repetición si se mantienen pulsadas. Ejemplo tecla ESC Al pulsar un codigo: 0x01 Al soltar un codigo: 0x81 ( es decir 0x01 + 0x80 ) Genera repetición al mantenerla pulsada Esto es cierto para muchas teclas excepto para: a) Teclas de cursor, Insert, Supr y grupito, teclas windows y otras... Al pulsar dos codigos: 0xe0 XXX, Al soltar dos codigos: 0xe0 XXX+0x80, Generan repetición al mantenerlas pulsadas b) Tecla Pause/Break Al pulsar seis codigos: 0xe1 0x1d 0x45 0xe1 0x9d 9xc5 Al soltar NADA NO GENERA repetición al mantenerla pulsada c) Tecla PrintScreen/SysRq ** (De esta tecla hablo más abajo) ¡¡¡DEPENDE DEL TECLADO!!! ó Al pulsar cuatro codigos: Oxe0 0x2a 0xe0 0x37 Al soltar cuatro codigos: 0xe0 0xb7 0xe0 0xaa Genera repetición al mantenerla pulsada ó Al pulsar ocho codigos: 0xe0 0x2a 0xe0 0x37 0xe0 0xb7 0xe0 0xaa Al soltar NADA: NO GENERA repetición al mantenerla pulsada - Ahora que ya sabes lo que esperas ver, puedes ver estos códigos usando: showkey -s (diez segundos sin pulsar nada para salir ;-) KEYCODES: Estos son los códigos que asigna el kernel a las teclas. El kernel asigna un solo código para cualquier tecla cuando se pulsa y uno solo cuando se suelta. Muchos coinciden con el código SCAN CODE, pero los de dos/más bytes NO. Ejemplos: SCAN CODE KEYCODE* ESC 0x01 1 A 0x1e 30 ( es 0x1e en hexadecimal ) Menu_Win0x7F127 Insert 0xe0 0x52 110 SysRq Oxe0 0x2a 0xe0 0x37 99 * Los KEYCODE los pongo en decimal porque el showkey los muestra asi. Ahora que ya sabes lo que esperas ver, puedes ver estos códigos usando: showkey ó showkey -k (diez segundos sin pulsar nada para salir ;-) SYSRQ: De cinco teclados que he probado uno solo generaba los ocho bytes al pulsar y ninguno al soltar. Obviamente este teclado no puede generar secuencias SysRq + Tecla, o ALT + SysRq + Tecla porque la secuencia que genera al pulsar SYSRQ es la de pulsar + soltar por lo que no funciona para hacer de MAGIC SYSRQ Este teclado era: Made in Malaysia Part No K5400408512 Model No LT-5000A SPN102 Serial No 90104AM03617 ( lo siento no se el fabricante...) Los otros teclados empleados en las pruebas eran: Cherry, IBM, un Windows made in China, y otro clónico. trucos-cuelgueX: (0.04) Como descolgar las X sin apagar la maquina ;-) Para poder salir del modo RAW en que deja las X el teclado cuando se cuelgan hay que recompilar el kernel (solo 2.2.X) activando la Magic SysRq key ATENCION: La tecla MAGIC tiene opciones potencialmente peligrosas si no se sabe lo que se esta haciendo, aunque es tremendamente util cuando se sabe ;-) Ejemplo: Umount, Boot, Off, hacen lo que parece e inmediatamente y sin pedir confirmación... --- 1) Modificar en /usr/src/linux/include/asm/keyboard.h la linea #define SYSRQ_KEY 0x54 /* Para usar ALT + SysRq + R */ por:
Re: [YA SE LO QUE PASA...] Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 09:09:32PM +0100, Manel Marin wrote: - ¿Como se hace el reporte de bug del kernel? (nunca he hecho ninguno...) !!!A ver si me contestais leches!!! :-( /usr/src/linux/REPORTING-BUGS :) Luego miraré los attachments, tienen buena pinta ;) Jordi pgp02CPKsW9tT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [saK] y Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 10:13:33PM +0100, Manel Marin wrote: ¿Que os pareceria que DEL + F1 conmutara a VC1, hiciera un saK, y reiniciara el modo grafico de la VGA? Esto se lo podriamos explicar a cualquier usuario... ¡¡¡TENDRIAMOS UN LINUX SOLIDO COMO UNA PIEDRA!!! ¿Que os parece? ¿A quien tengo que comentarle esto? ¿A Linus? Según la documentación de MagicSysRq, * I have more questions, who can I ask? You may feel free to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I will respond as soon as possible. If that email address does not work, use [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Myrdraal Será o no será el maintainer todavía? Imagino que sí, de otro modo hubiesen cambiado el readme :) /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt Jordi pgp0dRYiZf84b.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Netscape 4.7 and Fortify
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:54:04AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: Has anyone got Fortify work with Netscape 4.7? Yes, but i had to change the md5 sum in the index file. Check the archives, i've posted about this before. The package in question is the navigator only package, not the full-communicator version. Well, the size is right for the binary... How do I manually check the md5 checksum? use the md5sum command, which is in the dpkg package. -- finger for GPG public key. 8 Jan 2000 - Old email addresses removed from key, new added pgpp2rXigyfAS.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Inspiron 7500 network setup
I have a Latitude CPx (which I'm sure uses a different dock), but I believe when I first installed windows it said it was a 82559-based adapter.. but with the drivers installed it says its a 3com 3c920 adapter .. anyway, I use the 3c59x/905 driver and it works fine try that .. though the inspiron dock may be totally different... -Terry -Original Message- From: Harley Pebley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 6:55 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-laptop@lists.debian.org Subject: Inspiron 7500 network setup I've got a Dell Inspiron 7500 with a NIC built into the docking station (not a PCMCIA card). I've got a base Debian partition running that was built from floppies. Anyone have any idea how to get the NIC in the docking station recognized so I can finish configuring Linux and really use it? If it helps any, Windows says it's an Actiontec 82559-based miniPCI adapter. Thanks for any help, Harley Pebley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to set 'e2fsck' to run at boot?
Apologies if this has already been answered. I just subscribed so I may have missed it if so. Anyways, you can create a file in / named forcefsck if you really want to do this: touch /forcefsck See /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh to see why. :)
poff doesn't work... ???
Hello, I could find nothing in the latest archives, so am throwing this out... I just upgraded to the latest potato, and all seems to be doing well so far except that poff doesn't kill the connection. This is true whether I'm a normal user or as root. The messages I get reflect kill not finding a file (a lock file identifying the process number?) and having nothing to kill. Plog shows a still active connection. What has changed? File locations with no update of that in a config file? Thanks, Kenward -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: apt-get upgrade
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nathan York [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i just did an apt-get upgrade today and got this The following packages have been kept back bash cdrecord dpkg less libncurses4 libreadlineg2 ncurses-bin procps psmisc sniffit tkdesk xpdf why are these packages being kept back, i didn't place any of them on hold except for the cdrecord.is anyone else experiencing this problem.. You'll probably find that the new versions depend on a new version of a library that you have something depending on a old version, or depend on a new library that's not get in the distribution. You should find apt-get will give you a clue as to why they're been held back if you do apt-get install bash (for example). bfn, Joseph -- Joseph Heenan, Coventry, UK http://www.ping.demon.co.uk/
Re: ^c broken in latest potato
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 01:55:21PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem last night but do not know when the problem crept in. I can suspend the process with ^Z and then kill it manually with kill but ^C does not seem to work anymore. It is su, and it will be fixed in tomorrow's dinstall run. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: ^c broken in latest potato
Yep, ctrl-c wasn't killing dselect for me this afternoon, I upgraded last night. I was su'ed in, btw. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] George Bonser wrote: Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem last night but do not know when the problem crept in. I can suspend the process with ^Z and then kill it manually with kill but ^C does not seem to work anymore. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: apt-get upgrade
i just did an apt-get upgrade today and got this The following packages have been kept back bash cdrecord dpkg less libncurses4 libreadlineg2 ncurses-bin procps psmisc sniffit tkdesk xpdf why are these packages being kept back, i didn't place any of them on hold except for the cdrecord.is anyone else experiencing this problem.. Have you tried installing the packages individually? I.e. apt-get install bash; apt-get install dpkg, etc. That's what I've always done when this has happened to me. I'm assuming it's because some of those packages can't be installed at the same time that the others get installed. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com Join AllAdvantage.com and get paid to surf the Web! http://www.alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=ARD582
Re: apt-get upgrade
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 06:32:01PM -0600, Nathan York wrote: i just did an apt-get upgrade today and got this The following packages have been kept back bash cdrecord dpkg less libncurses4 libreadlineg2 ncurses-bin procps psmisc sniffit tkdesk xpdf why are these packages being kept back, i didn't place any of them on hold except for the cdrecord.is anyone else experiencing this problem.. I just upgraded from Slink to Potato over the past few days, and had a similar problem. What I wound up doing was running apt-get dist-upgrade a couple of times to let all the dependancies settle themselves out. I'm not sure if that was the correct way to do it, but it seems to have worked. The only (semi) major problems were the ncurses link problem that has been discussed before on this list and the debconf problem that has also been mentioned. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | Where do you want to go today? ICQ# 12934898 | As far from Redmond as possible! '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
Re: CORRECTION: ^c broken in latest potato
I also read (on Dalnet #debian) this morning that debconf is broken so it should not be upgraded. -- Andrew
Re: apt-get upgrade
On 09-Jan-2000 Mike Werner wrote: On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 06:32:01PM -0600, Nathan York wrote: i just did an apt-get upgrade today and got this The following packages have been kept back bash cdrecord dpkg less libncurses4 libreadlineg2 ncurses-bin procps psmisc sniffit tkdesk xpdf I also have some of the same packages kept back and I did not put them on hold. -- Andrew
RE: LI for LILO or loading from a second harddrive
Lilo must be installed in the MBR of /dev/hda. That is where your BIOS looks to boot your system. change your boot line to look like: boot=/dev/hda This will install LILO in the MBR of /dev/hda. LILO can *boot* things pretty much anywhere in your system (like /dev/hdc1) but it must be located where the BIOS looks (generally the boot sector of your first floopy drive, or the MBR of your first Hard disk. Bryan On 08-Jan-2000 Arcady Genkin wrote: I've installed potato on the second harddrive. Lilo won't boot from the HD (hangs at LI prompt). I can boot from the boot floppy just fine. My lilo.conf and the disk layout are quoted below. I tried adding linear and compact (interchangeably) to lilo.conf, as well as changing line boot=/dev/hdc for boot=/dev/hdc1, but the problem is still the same. FWIW, I'm using a third-party multybooter (BootMagic), but it picks out Linux installation on the second drive just fine. Also, since LILO does get started, I assume that the problem is with my LILO configuration, rather than with the mutlibooter's. I belive that during installation I chose to install lilo into MBR on /dev/hdc. The drive is an IBM's 13G, connected as an only drive on secondary IDE controller. Root is a primary partition in the very beginning of the drive, and is only 100M big. I'm stuck not being able to use custom kernel. :^( Any input greately appreciated! ,[ mount output ] | /dev/hdc1 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro,errors=remount-ro) | /dev/hdc5 on /tmp type ext2 (rw) | /dev/hdc6 on /var type ext2 (rw) | /dev/hdc4 on /usr type ext2 (rw) | /dev/hda5 on /mnt/slink_local type ext2 (rw) | /dev/hda4 on /mnt/slink_root type ext2 (rw) | proc on /proc type proc (rw) ` ,[ lilo.conf ] | boot=/dev/hdc | root=/dev/hdc1 | install=/boot/boot.b | map=/boot/map | delay=200 | vga=normal | | image=/vmlinuz |label=default |read-only | | image = /zImage | label = linux | read-only ` -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Interesting situation.
Hans said: Questions: 1) How do you know what device a program pipes it's output to? lsof | grep programname 2) How can you change that? Depends on the program. 3) Can you make global settings, so that e.g. all wav file are send to /dev/audio regardless of what program you use to play it with? GNOME or KDE's integration features _might_ allow this to be done with compliant applications, but in general, I doubt it. 4) How can you see what the hardware device is behind each device? dmesg will give you some devices, but not all of them. You can probably get more information by poking around in /proc. On this system, for instance, dmesg includes information about my sound card's IRQ/DMA/etc. allocations, but no device identifiers. cat /dev/sndstat (as root) or cat /proc/sound (as anyone), however, gives me a list of audio devices, although it only lists the device numbers, so you have to know whether device 0 of a certain type is /dev/audio0, /dev/dsp0, /dev/mixer0, etc. -- Geek Code 3.1: GCS d- s+: a- C++ UL++$ P L++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv- b++ DI D G e* h+ r++ y+
Possible workaround for bad timestamp on modules.dep
I got a good timestamp on modules.dep by renaming /etc/rcS.d/S50hwclock.sh to /etc/rcS.d/S20hwclock.sh. Is this safe? I rebooted and nothing appears broken yet. (I have my Hardware Clock on local time (EST) to satisfy another OS.) John
Re: SCSI CD, reported by kernel, isn't there.
finn : in kernel config did u enable support for scsi cdrom *and* vendor specific finn : extensions for scsi cdrom (99% of the scsi cdroms need this for whatever finn : reason) its in the scsi menu in kernel config. I have compiled 2.2.14 with vendor specific extensions, and all is working well. I cannot verify that this was the problem for the other two kernels. Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.
Some news
Has anyone seen this story posted on www.linuxtoday.com about pine and debian? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/deb/pine_pico.html Also I just got a catalog from tigerdirect in the mail and they are now selling computer systems with linux pre-loaded. Nowwhere do they say what distro is being preloaded (probably redhat) but they are also selling most of the popular distros as well. They have Redhat, slackware, corel, turbolinux, caldera, and even freebsd (which they say is a version of linux!). = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: poff doesn't work... ???
Kenward writes: The messages I get reflect kill not finding a file (a lock file identifying the process number?) and having nothing to kill. Please post the *exact* messages. I cannot reproduce this. What has changed? File locations with no update of that in a config file? No. poff uses ps and pidof. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: Soft ejects
Fish == Fish Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fish Unlike many others, I don't share the view that linux needs Fish to be made more newbie friendly. Doing that will kill Fish everything that made it great, and turn it into another Fish Windoze. I don't care if the entire world doesn't all use Fish GNU systems, as long as I have them to get my work done. If Fish somebody doesn't understand, I will be helpful and try to Fish explain, but if they don't want to tolerate a system with a Fish learning curve then they don't have to use it, and probably Fish don't deserve to. Leave this domain to those of us who do Fish care to learn. It is not only newbies that can make stupid mistakes, and remove a floppy disk that is currently mounted... Perhaps the real problem with soft ejects is that current implementations make it to easy to override, eg when the power is off. Personally, I think I would much prefer the risk of not being able to eject a disk, rather then the risk that someday I will accidently currupt an important disk by ejecting it when it is still mounted. These protection devices not need to turn you into a windows[1] user, I think it is just plain common sense. Other protection mechanims already exist in Linux, eg you can't eject a CDROM that is mounted (I guess this protects programs from crashing that are currently using it), you can't e2fsck a mounted filesystem, etc. Note: [1] Dos/windows copes with this problem in a different (IMHO broken) way - it keeps track of which disk is inserted, and if it needs to read/write to another disk, it complains to the user to reinsert the original disk. Why is this mechanism broken? For starters: some games will automatically eject a CD-ROM and ask you to insert the next CD-ROM. For some reason, windows will often decide that it still needed the original CD-ROM, and ask you to reinsert it!!! It even goes as far as to suggest that the CD-ROM might be dirty. Now thats what I call machine is smarter!!! -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NIS and shadow all over the place
Joseph == Joseph Heenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed NIS, but I can't prevent the shadow file of being public now:( Anybody on my machine can do ypcat shadow.byname and start cracking those passwords. I thought the hole point of shadow was to let nobody but root see it. It's not a problem yet, I trust my wife and kids, but I would be happier if it were hidden. Or maybe I should consider switching to something else like Kerberos or PAM? I'm still running mainly Ham (eagerly waiting for potato to become stable:) but have upgraded things, e.g libc Joseph I'm running the latest potato, and it behaves correctly Joseph for me. ypcat shadow.byname shows the file when run as Joseph root, but not when run as a normal user. For lack of a Joseph better suggestion, perhaps try upgrading to the potato nis Joseph package? I think it is configured in /etc/ypserv.conf (at least on slink). I have: *: shadow.byname: port *: passwd.adjunct.byname : port *: *: none Note: this only offers extra security when you trust the security of the network and every computer that is connected to the network that has NIS access. As the maintainer of Heimdal ;-), I think that Kerberos is the best way to authenticate users, but even then you will have problems with the authorization data (eg user IDs). I think LDAP is a secure way of distributing authorization information (instead of NIS), but haven't yet tried it (but plan to ASAP). At the moment, I have modified openldap so that it will link against heimdal, but need to fix a minor packaging bug (the ud binary wasn't created, whatever that does). -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mke2fs -c /dev/hda8 fails!
I'm trying to move around partitions on my system. I have four primary partitions -- one is extended. Here's the fdisk output: calico:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1247 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 500 4016249+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 501 516128520 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 * 517 523 56227+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 524 1247 58155305 Extended /dev/hda5 524 778 2048256 83 Linux /dev/hda6 779 804208813+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 805 932 1028128+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 933 1024738958+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 1025 1247 1791216 83 Linux When I get to mke2fs -c /dev/hda8, I get the following error. mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/hda8: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock So how do I get filesystems on /dev/hda8 and /dev/hda9? -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Re: CORRECTION: ^c broken in latest potato
Today's potato upgrade has debconf 0.2.67 which fixes the problem. On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 02:02:40AM -, Pollywog wrote: I also read (on Dalnet #debian) this morning that debconf is broken so it should not be upgraded. -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY (ex-W6SWE) (RN2)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ DM42nh QRP-L #1985 http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: UMAX Scanner
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: So do the SCSI UMAX Scanners use a 50-pin connection? Yes. (Wow, wasn't that a waste of bandwidth) My UMAX Astra 1200S uses a DB25. But the DB25 is functionally the same as 50-pin SCSI, and conversion between the two is straightforward, unlike with the more-pin SCSI versions.
Re: java doesn't work for 2.2.13
its a bug in the java package, upgrade the package or downgrade the kernel (see the debian-user archives i have a few urls from past mails there) nate On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Michael Laing wrote: mpl I am running a straight slink system using a custom 2.2.12 kernel. My mpl java development and execution using jdk-1.1 and jdk-1.1-native has been mpl going fine. mpl mpl After I compiled a 2.2.13 kernel using my same config and installed it, mpl I could no longer run any java apps. I always get the following error: mpl mpl Can't create /proc/xxx for GC mpl mpl where xxx looks like a process id. mpl mpl It looks like the JVM cannot create a thread for the garbage mpl collector? I do have the proc filesystem configured and other mpl processes look normal in thee. mpl mpl Does anyone have the answer? I can continue my work using my 2.2.12 mpl kernel but I would like to upgrade. mpl mpl Thanks, mpl Michael Laing mpl mpl mpl -- mpl Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null mpl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:51pm up 142 days, 10:50, 2 users, load average: 1.31, 1.42, 1.46
Re: Poor networking performance
sounds like a driver problem.. i have rt8139 card in a caldera box and a eepro100 in a debian box on a 10/100 switch, and i get about 3.4MB/s, i am quite confident the bottleneck is the IDE drive on the caldera box in my case. upgrade *both* drivers, grab the latest from nasa's site(forgot the url off hand search for nasa at http://yahoo.aphroland.org) nate On 8 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: a.genk My li'l home LAN consists of two boxes, connected via a 100base a.genk network. I have a D-link DFE-530TX (via-rhine driver) in my a.genk workstation, and an Rtl-8139-based card in my server/nat box. a.genk My server box runs FreeBSD, and my workstation runs Debian Linux. a.genk a.genk I have never been satisfied with my networking performance... The a.genk fastest I could ftp large files from the server into workstation is a.genk 1.5MBps, and a little faster in the other direction. a.genk a.genk Recenlty I've bought a new harddrive for the workstation, a fast one a.genk (7200rpm, with 2MB cache), and decided to first install FreeBSD onto a.genk it (to give it a try on a workstation). Believe it or not, I started a.genk getting 5.5Mbytes transfers both ways right out of the box. I don't a.genk mean to start BSD vs. Linux discussions, but just want to find out a.genk *why* my box performs worse under Linux than under FreeBSD... a.genk a.genk Then I installed potato instead of that FreeBSD installation (i.e., a.genk the same harddrive, same hardware all the way). The transfer rates are a.genk pretty dull again. :^( a.genk a.genk Any thoughts? a.genk a.genk Some specs of my hardware: a.genk a.genk ,[ Workstation ] a.genk | Celeron 300A a.genk | D-Link DFE-530TX nic a.genk | Running Potato a.genk ` a.genk ,[ Server ] a.genk | Pentium 166 a.genk | RTL-8139 nic a.genk | Running FreeBSD a.genk ` a.genk -- a.genk Arcady Genkin a.genk a.genk a.genk -- a.genk Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null a.genk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:51pm up 142 days, 10:50, 2 users, load average: 1.31, 1.42, 1.46
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where is the command line options for the X server located?
Hello!, I would like to know where the Xservers file for xdm is located so that I may change the display resolution in dots per inch. Thank you. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Netscape 4.7 and Fortify
Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone got Fortify work with Netscape 4.7? Yes, but i had to change the md5 sum in the index file. Check the archives, i've posted about this before. Thanks a lot, Brad! Problem solved by modifying the Index file. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com 'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..' (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche)
Re: restricting logins on tty1
On 8/1/2000 Jim B wrote: One other quickie: what's the functional difference between /etc/login.access and /etc/security/access.conf? When I place restrictions in the latter, nothing seems to happen, though the files are in exactly the same format. What then is the purpose of the one in /etc/security? /etc/security/access.conf is used by pam_access.so which you need to add to the appropriate PAM service files in /etc/pam.d/ (such as login) /etc/login.access I am not sure about, I thought it was obsolete but i could be wrong. as for what your are trying to do not working, I am not sure, I have had problems trying to get access.conf and such to work right as well, either the docs are not quite good enough yet or something is still a bit buggy... one thing that could be causing the wheel group troubles is the ambiguity caused by gid 0 being called `root' just like uid 0, I personally just made a new group called wheel and use that to enforce the BSD style wheel group (only wheel members may su to root) but I did this more because i got tired of fixing packages which install all there files gid 0 writable. (i don't want halfway root permissions to the filesystem unless i actually switched to root) just out of curiosity why did GNU/Linux not follow the BSD semantics on the wheel group? and instead name gid 0 root and have it function as root's private (primary) group? -- Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
Re: mysql_pconnect() function
--- Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: having this problem while connecting (trying:-( ) my IMP/HORDE webmail server: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_pconnect() in db_mysql.inc on line 73 Is there dl(mysql.so) in db_mysql.inc? Looks like PHP was unable to locate mysql support module. Regards, Andrei __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Soft ejects
On 9/1/2000 Brian May wrote: [1] Dos/windows copes with this problem in a different (IMHO broken) way - it keeps track of which disk is inserted, and if it needs to read/write to another disk, it complains to the user to reinsert the original disk. Why is this mechanism broken? For starters: some games will automatically eject a CD-ROM and ask you to insert the next CD-ROM. For some reason, windows will often decide that it still needed the original CD-ROM, and ask you to reinsert it!!! It even goes as far as to suggest that the CD-ROM might be dirty. Now thats what I call machine is smarter!!! I never noticed that back when i briefly tinkered with win95, one thing I find interesting is windoze does NOT lock the cd drawer closed when a CD is in use like GNU/Linux and MacOS do, for example i insert a CD and run some program on it under win95 then press the eject button and it spits out the CD and windoze blue screened shortly thereafter. I have never seen windoze ask for a device back again, i didn't know it had such a function win* does not appear to really have a concept of `mounted' filesystems as far as i could tell. MacOS on the other hand has what you describe, extremely annoying at that. (it halts the entire OS when it decides it must have a disk back) Ethan
Re: where is the command line options for the X server located?
the file you probably want is /etc/X11/XF86Config nate On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote: jh0u Hello!, jh0u jh0u I would like to know where the Xservers file for xdm is located so that I jh0u may change the display resolution in dots per inch. jh0u jh0u Thank you. jh0u __ jh0u Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com jh0u jh0u jh0u -- jh0u Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null jh0u [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 12:15am up 142 days, 12:13, 2 users, load average: 1.85, 1.77, 1.64
Access diretories in proftpd
Hi Debian users, I installed proftpd and want to deny access to anyone logging in the server at the /var and /etc and dont find anything in the configuration file about it. Thanks for any help,Paulo Henrique -- Abraços,PH Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Consultant
Re: Poor networking performance
On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 23:19:15 PST, George Bonser writes: From Solaris box to Linux box on 10MB ethernet with other people also using the net: ftp output 14850578 bytes received in 17.35 secs (835.9 kB/s) From Linux box to Solaris ftp get linux-2.2.12.tar.gz ftp output 14850578 bytes received in 15 seconds (937.01 Kbytes/s) I had a similar problem some time ago, my linux box acts as a router between a 100baseTX and a 10baseT network, transfers from one network into the other peaked at about 400kB/s, the solution was turning on optimize as router not as host, which gave me approx doubled throughput, tuning firewall rules (ipfwadm, 2.0.38), eg moving allow established to the top of the list boosted rates to about 1mB/s. From the linux box to a w95 on the 100baseTX-network I can now get about 4,5mB/s which means I´m using ~40% of the available bandwidth. In general: - tune your kernel - tune your firewall- and forwarding-settings, eg move the most-often-matching rules to the top of the list - turn off accounting, this costs some time, too - try other protocols for sending/receiving, eg samba, nfs, scp - maybe play with the routing table - it may also be worth peeking around with irqtune, although I haven´t tried that hth rw -- -- +++ EUnet/[EMAIL PROTECTED], 15.-17.2.'2k, Ebene02/Stand08 +++ - ___ - Robert WaldnerEUnet/AT tech staff // / ___ _/_ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] RW960-RIPE --- /--- / / / / /___/ / --- ---EUnet EDV-DienstleistungsgesmbH--- -- /___ /___/ / / /___ /_ Diefenbachgasse 35A-1150 Wien - - Tel: +43 1 89933 Fax: +43 1 89933 533
OT: Re: Soft ejects
On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 23:09:43 -0900, Ethan Benson writes: On 9/1/2000 Brian May wrote: as far as to suggest that the CD-ROM might be dirty. Now thats what I call machine is smarter!!! which reminds me of a user crying: you dumb computer, do what I want, not what I say! *g* rw -- -- +++ EUnet/[EMAIL PROTECTED], 15.-17.2.'2k, Ebene02/Stand08 +++ - ___ - Robert WaldnerEUnet/AT tech staff // / ___ _/_ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] RW960-RIPE --- /--- / / / / /___/ / --- ---EUnet EDV-DienstleistungsgesmbH--- -- /___ /___/ / / /___ /_ Diefenbachgasse 35A-1150 Wien - - Tel: +43 1 89933 Fax: +43 1 89933 533
problem(s) w/ sound card
Good morning Dave, or anyone, really, that might like an easy problem to resolve. I'm having a couple problems I'd like to sort out. I've got a 400mhx celery chip, w/64 meg ram, a Sound Blaster Live! card, a modem, hard drive, and other assorted paraphanalia (even a generic Jensen microphone!), running the 2.0.36 kernel. My problem lies with enabling the Sound Blaster [SBLive] card. From what I understand, the Creative has made SBLive opensource, and has even done work on ensuring it works under RedHat and Mandrake (http://www.opensource.com), but has not worked on Debian specifically yet. I've tried to compile the proper modules/drivers that they recommend and failed miserably because I lack a sound.h header in u/s/k/i/l. Through my puttering around though, I've gotten quite lost as to what steps I may or may not have taken. At this point, I am fairly certain I do not have the module installed, and with the three days away from this, I don't remember where I wanted to try puttering next. Any assistance would be appreciated, and I'd be glad to answer any secondary questions you'd like to email me. I'm not beyond going with unstable, but I haven't been willing yet because I don't want to play with the Viper v770 card again, should that go haywire again. Any suggestions that I should use easier to install hardware will be disregarded due to lack of currency. ---Jstlook @ firstbankconnect.com Patience is not my virtue. -- Warriors of Virtue
Re: poff doesn't work... ???
The exact lines are as follows: kaynjay:~# poff /usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill: No such file or directory /usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill failed. None stopped. kaynjay:~# plog Jan 9 00:24:47 kaynjay pppd[279]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4 magic=0x7cdd927f] Jan 9 00:24:47 kaynjay pppd[279]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x4 magic=0x5941b437] (list truncated) kaynjay:~# Kenward
Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Steve George wrote: Basically I need fetchmail to look at the username in front of the @ symbol and then deliver the mail tothe correct user, for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is john here [EMAIL PROTECTED] is bert here ~/.fetchmailrc: poll pop3.domain.com using protocol pop3 user a there is john here password secret; poll pop3.domain.com using protocol pop3 user b there is bert here password blah; ? -- hypnos mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: poff not working... ???
Well, I figured it out after much puttering about... There is no function kill on my system AFAICT. I presume it's a builtin for the shell?? I replaced the line in poff KILL=/bin/kill with KILL=kill and it works fine. Am I shooting myself security-wise with this? If kill IS somewhere, I can't find it.. yet. Kenward
More on my problems with debconf and perl
I mentioned in a previous mail about the slight problem I had with debconf when I tried to install timidity. I've been following the thread about debconf, but my problem is much different. When I first updated timidity from unstable, it installed perl 5.004 and 5.005. This completed properly, but there was something about changing some scripts? I don't use perl, and know nothing about it, so I just left it be. debconf then failed for some strange perl error? it said something about looking for a file in perl. I don't have the details with me, the Linux box is a home. I tried it again last night, with the new, fixed debconf package but I still get the error about the missing perl file. timidity does work with the timidity and timidity-patches installed and not configured due to the debconf problems, but I would like to figure out what is wrong with perl and why it is stopping debconf from configuring? I don't actually use perl, or debconf, and I'm not sure why timidity should depend on it, but I am new to Linux. Please bear with me. Other than that, I really like the apt-get package. Most of this is small AND self-inflicted by using unstable, but I wanted xmms, sane 1.0.1 and timidity. I can see why Corel chose Debian. and that decision make me feel real good about my decision to use Debian when I first started playing with Linux about a year ago. Keep up the good work. Cheers, John Gay
Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box
Steve George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I currently have mail for a domain which is sent to my ISP's POP3 server. I'd like to have multiple users on the domain be delivered to different users on my system but the documentation on fetchmail seems to be saying that this is a bad idea. Is anyone doing this? Basically I need fetchmail to look at the username in front of the @ symbol and then deliver the mail tothe correct user, for example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is john here [EMAIL PROTECTED] is bert here Hi, Steve. I do just that on my system. I have two users, gsmh and scott (Scott's email name is sah1). I use fetchmail, which hands the mail onto exim for delivery, so exim gets the mail to the right account. My email address with my IP is [EMAIL PROTECTED], so my IP username is effectively scgf: My .fetchmailrc looks like this: poll pop.clara.net protocol pop3 username scgf is gsmh an this system password xxx Then I have a .forward file which begins: # Exim filter == do not edit or remove this line! if error_message then finish endif logfile $home/eximfilter.log if $header_to: contains sah1 then deliver scott elif $h_x-mailing-list matches ^debian-(.*)@lists\\.debian\\.org then seen save $home/Mail/Debian I (gsmh) am the only user who collects mail so the system works very smoothly. -- Phillip Deackes Debian Linux
bash does not export variables (was Re: CORRECTION: ^c broken in latest potato)
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 05:34:52PM -0800, Alex Romosan wrote: ... when i am logged in as root using bash as my shell things start to break. also, bash doesn't seem to export environment variables. this breaks a lot of scripts. we better get this fixed soon. I suppose you did a `set -a', didn't you? Last time I read bash(1) (and that was in the ole days of 1.14.7) it did not export variable by default. Cheers, adc
How to recover from crash (urgent for me)
After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following appears on boot: --- /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s). UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root filesystem is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: mount -n -o remount,rw / --- I have never used fsck before. When giving the command 'fsck' or 'fsck --help', the following is the only response: --- Parallelizing fsck version 1.12 (9-jul-98) --- and 'man fsck' failes because the fs is read-only. Only, when I remount it read-write, this apprears: --- EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended --- **what should I do? ** I managed to mount one of my windows disks and copy my home directories. They seem to copy all-right, but I am worried about the error messages: a lot of 'permission denied' (butI am root??), and 'attempts to read beyond end of system (or similar)' fail. Please Help! This is urgent, for me! Arnout Engelen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cron not running?
Today, man informed me that its database was over 8 days old. Investigating, I find that after the Y2K rollover, syslog is full of messages like this: Jan 2 07:30:01 localhost anacron[12334]: Anacron 2.1 started on 2000-01-02 Jan 2 07:30:01 localhost anacron[12334]: Job `cron.daily' locked by another anacron - skipping Jan 2 07:30:01 localhost anacron[12334]: Job `cron.weekly' locked by another anacron - skipping This did *not* happen in December. Before I report this as a bug, I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing this. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Guest of Honor in 2000 will be Geoffrey A. Landis. See http://www.iconsf.org for I-Con information.
Re: poff not working... ???
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I figured it out after much puttering about... There is no function kill on my system AFAICT. I presume it's a builtin for the shell?? I replaced the line in poff KILL=/bin/kill with KILL=kill and it works fine. Am I shooting myself security-wise with this? If kill IS somewhere, I can't find it.. yet. /bin/kill is part of the procps package. I guess that means the ppp package should really depend on the procps one... bfn, Joseph -- Joseph Heenan, Coventry, UK http://www.ping.demon.co.uk/
Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)
On 9/1/2000 Fam. Engelen wrote: ** what should I do? ** I managed to mount one of my windows disks and copy my home directories. They seem to copy all-right, but I am worried about the error messages: a lot of 'permission denied' (but I am root??), and 'attempts to read beyond end of system (or similar)' fail. first my condolences, you will have to run fsck on the root filesystem and see how much ruination remains after words, you should not have remounted it read-write when its damaged however, that will only make it worse, making backups of what you can is a good idea however before running fsck since its repairs are often as bad or worse then the disease (ie all your files end up in lost+found with names like #49589) when you have finished trying to get your data off of the READONLY filesystem then run fsck -n /dev/hda1 (or whatever device your root filesystem is) and see what it says, that will not actually run the repairs, but you see what its going to ask to do, then you can run it again as fsck or fsck -y which will repair every error it finds. after fsck repairs see whats left of the filesystem, look in /lost+found and see how much got dumped there, check various directorys to see if they appear intact, such as /etc /bin /sbin and so on. it sounds like you have encountered one of the filesystem corruption bugs in the 2.2 kernel series (from that end of device error you mentioned specifically) what kernel are you running? I experienced massive filesystem corruption under 2.2.13, all on the root filesystem and the ruination was so bad both times (yes twice, the second time was right after i finished reinstalling and reconfiguring) i had to just start over and reinstall, 90% of /etc/ was in lost+found along with /bin and lots of other stuff. if you have backups you can just restore, if not you will have to reinstall more then likely, trying to fix this is more difficult I'm afraid (at least nobody answered my question on if there is a better way to recover after this when it happend to me) just a note about kernel 2.2.13 which NOBODY should use anymore IMO, here is a tidbit from 2.2.14's changelog: http://www.linux.org.uk/VERSION/relnotes.2214.html Extfs Fix obscure bitmap and block corruption cases under very high load. and a excerpt out of a 64000+ byte fsck output log: Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Duplicate blocks found... invoking duplicate block passes. Pass 1B: Rescan for duplicate/bad blocks Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 65: 50375 Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 66: 50376 Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 67: 50377 Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 68: 50378 50379 50380 Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 69: 50381 50382 50383 50384 50385 Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 70: 50386 50387 50388 50389 50390 Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 71: 50391 50392 50393 50394 Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 72: 50395 50396 50397 50398 50399 50400 50401 50402 50403 50404 50405 50406 50407 50408 50409 50410 50411 Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 73: 50412 50413 50414 50415 50416 Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 74: 50417 50418 50419 50420 50421 Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 75: 50422 50423 50424 [... and MUCH more ...] all the inodes mentioned got a new home in /lost+found... this is why fsck is a 4 letter word. -- Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/
Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fam. Engelen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following appears on boot: --- /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s). UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options) fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root filesystem is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: mount -n -o remount,rw / --- At this point you should find you have a shell, or a request to enter the root password so you can get a shell. Type 'fsck -c /dev/hda5', and sit back and watch. Enter 'y' if fsck asks if you want to fix something. When it finished, run it again to check everything is still ok - it shouldn't fix anything this time - if it does, you probably have bigger problems (such as imminent hardware failure). Once you're happy, hit ctrl-D and the system should bootup normally. bfn, Joseph -- Joseph Heenan, Coventry, UK http://www.ping.demon.co.uk/
Two SCSI
I would like to set up a computer with two SCSI cards, probably an Advansys U2W and a NCR. i.e. two different makes. I know recent Red Hats can cope with this but am not sure Debian can. Are there any gotchas? -- Regards from Chris
Please Help me!!!
Hello! There's longtime I'm looking for a program on linux as net2phone or dialpad.com applet on windows, please could you tell me a pgrogram PC-to-Phone on linux, so I can make free call or cheap call via Internet.
Sound in Debian
Greetings, I have been using Debian on and off for some time. However, I have not yet seen how to add sound to a Debian system. Is there a package for Debian that supports sound? If it matters, I have an ESS 1371. Thanks Jeff Flowers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: poff doesn't work... ???
Kenward writes: /usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill: No such file or directory You are missing the kill binary, which is in the procps package. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: poff not working... ???
Kenward writes: I replaced the line in poff KILL=/bin/kill with KILL=kill and it works fine. Am I shooting myself security-wise with this? It should work fine, but your system is broken if you are missing /bin/kill. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: Sound in Debian
you'll need to recompile your kernel and enable sound support. Read the kernel HOWTO document and the Sound HOWTO (should be in /usr/doc/HOWTO by default i believe). then u'll want to go get some sound software. they'll be in the sound section of your debian installation disk (this will probably be /cdrom/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/sound depending on what directory u mount ur cdrom to.) Greetings, I have been using Debian on and off for some time. However, I have not yet seen how to add sound to a Debian system. Is there a package for Debian that supports sound? If it matters, I have an ESS 1371. Thanks Jeff Flowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: fetchmail and multiple users in one POP3 box
Can this command be run everytime that I connect to the internet? Jeff ~/.fetchmailrc: poll pop3.domain.com using protocol pop3 user a there is john here password secret; poll pop3.domain.com using protocol pop3 user b there is bert here password blah;
Re: mysql_pconnect() function
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Andrei Popov wrote: --- Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_pconnect() in db_mysql.inc on line 73 Is there dl(mysql.so) in db_mysql.inc? Looks like PHP was unable to locate mysql support module. no! Is this some bug? All this stuff was working before I did an update in the server. there are some mysql.so files in /usr/lib/php3/apache and /usr/lib/php3/cgi directories. They are from php3-mysql and php3-cgi-mysql packages, respectively. btw, where should I put the above line? Also, I couldn't find any line containing dl(otherdb.so) in all .inc files. Is this correct? thanks, []s Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 http://www.revistalinux.com.br
MP3 -- Audio tools
Can anyone give me a suggestion for utilities to convert audio CD songs to/from MP3s; I haven't really played with MP3s seriously and want to create a couple of greatest hits-type CDs. TIA. -- Regards, | Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org - More software than .| *any* distribution, rock solid reliability, quality control, Randy| seamless upgrades via ftp or CD-ROM, strict filesystem layout, | adherence to standards, and militantly 100% FREE GNU/Linux!
Re: poff not working... ???
Subject: Re: poff not working... ??? Date: Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 01:09:19AM -0800 In reply to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | Well, I figured it out after much puttering about... | | There is no function kill on my system AFAICT. I presume it's a builtin | for the shell?? | dpkg -S kill [snip] bsdutils: /bin/kill [snip] on a Slink box anyway. HTH -- Every program has two purposes -- one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. ___
Re: MP3 -- Audio tools
for ripping from audio-cds I can suggest cdparanoia http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/, to encode the wavs you may want to use something like gogo http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shigeo/gogo_e.html, if you also want to have a nice interface, cddb-integration et al you should have a look at grip http://www.nostatic.org/grip just a few pointers to get you started rw On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 16:50:11 GMT, Randy Edwards writes: Can anyone give me a suggestion for utilities to convert audio CD songs to/from MP3s; I haven't really played with MP3s seriously and want to create a couple of greatest hits-type CDs. TIA. -- Regards, | Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org - More software than .| *any* distribution, rock solid reliability, quality control, Randy| seamless upgrades via ftp or CD-ROM, strict filesystem layout, | adherence to standards, and militantly 100% FREE GNU/Linux! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/ null Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- -- +++ EUnet/[EMAIL PROTECTED], 15.-17.2.'2k, Ebene02/Stand08 +++ - ___ - Robert WaldnerEUnet/AT tech staff // / ___ _/_ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] RW960-RIPE --- /--- / / / / /___/ / --- ---EUnet EDV-DienstleistungsgesmbH--- -- /___ /___/ / / /___ /_ Diefenbachgasse 35A-1150 Wien - - Tel: +43 1 89933 Fax: +43 1 89933 533
rspfd behaves very badly
Hi all, I tried the latest rspfd in potato and crashed triggering a kernel panic too. I had also big troubles removing the package because for some reason it tried to start the daemon before removing it (very stupid thing, I think). Kernel version here is 2.3.35 (yes I know it's a developer's release) Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx - Firenze | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.3.35 #1 Wed Dec 29 16:09:39 CET 1999 i686 unknown
Re: NIS and shadow all over the place
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 02:46:34AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:00:09PM +, Joseph Heenan wrote: I'm running the latest potato, and it behaves correctly for me. ypcat shadow.byname shows the file when run as root, but not when run as a normal user. For lack of a better suggestion, perhaps try upgrading to the potato nis package? glad it works in potato, I try to resist the temptation, as the price of downloading all is a little high:( anyhow, first I have wel i couldn't resist:) grabbed the potato version and much to my embarrishment it was just a matter of configuration. fortunately hiding the shadow files is now default, so i just followed potato and put * : shadow : port into /etc/ypserv.conf and all is swell -- groetjes, carel
Re: NIS and shadow all over the place
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 10:00:09PM +, Joseph Heenan wrote: I'm running the latest potato, and it behaves correctly for me. ypcat shadow.byname shows the file when run as root, but not when run as a normal user. For lack of a better suggestion, perhaps try upgrading to the potato nis package? glad it works in potato, I try to resist the temptation, as the price of downloading all is a little high:( anyhow, first I have to get nfs working and turn this machine into a diskless X-term. -- groetjes, carel
Install help, ne module does not reload on reboot (potato)
I am trying to install the latest potato I have an ISA NE2000 clone. it worked fine when i booted from the rescue disc. Ieben installed the base system over NFS. It's IO is at 0x280, and it's IRQ is 5. Howeer this module fails to install when booting from the hard disk :-( I even find the following in /etc/modutils/modconf: options ne io=0x0280 irq=5 Trying to do in insmod ne results in messages about unresolved symbols. They are: ei_open, ethdev_init, ei_interupt, NS8390_init, and ei_close. Can some kind soul please tell me how to fix this, so I can proced with the install? Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Westvaco Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 1999 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: Soft ejects
It is not only newbies that can make stupid mistakes, and remove a floppy disk that is currently mounted... I was taught in kindergarten /never/ to remove a disk when the light was on, and I never do it. Removing while it is mounted but not currently being read or written isn't very damaging--you just get an error message, have to unmount and remount. Perhaps the real problem with soft ejects is that current implementations make it to easy to override, eg when the power is off. Personally, I think I would much prefer the risk of not being able to eject a disk, rather then the risk that someday I will accidently currupt an important disk by ejecting it when it is still mounted. This is more or less the same as saying personally I would prefer not to be able to delete a file, rather than the risk that I someday will accidentally delete something important. Should your OS not allow you to delete files manually? It is generally good policy to ask are you sure you want to delete this file but there is always going to be a chance of deleting files you need, no matter how many precautions are added, short of simply not allowing user deletion of files. These protection devices not need to turn you into a windows[1] user, I think it is just plain common sense. Other protection mechanims already exist in Linux, eg you can't eject a CDROM that is mounted (I guess this protects programs from crashing that are currently using it), you can't e2fsck a mounted filesystem, etc. But if you had a hard eject button, you could eject the CDROM while mounted, (even if the OS didn't like it) something I have needed to do plenty of times but have been unable. Note: [1] Dos/windows copes with this problem in a different (IMHO broken) way - it keeps track of which disk is inserted, and if it needs to read/write to another disk, it complains to the user to reinsert the original disk. Why is this mechanism broken? For starters: some games will automatically eject a CD-ROM and ask you to insert the next CD-ROM. For some reason, windows will often decide that it still needed the original CD-ROM, and ask you to reinsert it!!! It even goes as far as to suggest that the CD-ROM might be dirty. Now thats what I call machine is smarter!!! Everything windows does is (IMHO) broken. That's my point. However, DOS doesn't have a problem with taking media out whenever, as long as it doesn't have the light on. I've never had DOS ask for a different disk (except for individual applications which ask for the disk they need, not the last one in.) The bottom line I'm getting at here is the idea that these machines are here for our effective use. They make plenty of mistakes, always have and always will. So do we, of course, but /we/ are the ones paying for our /own/ mistakes, whereas if we give the machine power over the decisions, presuming it is infallible, /we/ pay for /its/ mistakes. If I'm paying for a mistake, it damn well better be a mistake I made. One thing I've learned in life, don't put yourself in a position of depending on someone else unless you're sure they'll come through. By that token, I also hate others depending on me because if I don't come through, somebody else is paying. I should be the only one paying for my mistakes, and only for mine. = Fish of Borg Visit me on the web! http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Frontier/4874/stccg.html ///Archaeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what appears to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read To my Darling Candy. All Characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.///Red Dwarf __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Is unstable really _this_ unstable?????
First forgive my frustration, it's been a _long_ painful weekend trying to install unstable on a newly upgraded computer :-( In any case, I seem to be having serious problesm with the lates unstable disks. I could not get the base system installed using the menu, because it kep failing during the gunzip | tar -xf stage of the base2_t.tgz step. Finally tarced this down to gunzip failing. So i gunziped base2_2.tga to base2_2.tar on another machien. mounted it's disk, and did the following: cd /target tar -xf /installmount/base2_2.tar That got me installed. The after fighting with LILO for a whiel, and discovering a missing allias in /etc/modutils/alliases for my ne200 card, I though Whew, at least i can now turn dselect loose, and sit back for a while WRONG!! dselect is unable to gunzip the packages files! The gzip I have on my syste is brok! OK, I think I'll just garb the gzip package of the ftp site, and use dpks -i to install it. WRONG! dpkg core dumps, probably because it's trying to gunzip somethin, I geuss. Can some kind soul PLEASE give me some advice on where to go fro here? OH BTW I had to ftp to the debain box, because the ftp that's on there dies witha can't find libncurses.so.5 error! Iam _not_ having a good weekend! -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Westvaco Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 1999 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
UNIX variant for old PC
I know that the intel version of Linux is written for 80386 up. Is there any UNIX variant available for an 8088 or 8086? What processors does Minix run on? = Fish of Borg Visit me on the web! http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Frontier/4874/stccg.html ///Archaeologists near mount Sinai have discovered what appears to be a missing page from the Bible. The page is currently being carbon dated in Bonn. If genuine it belongs at the beginning of the Bible and is believed to read To my Darling Candy. All Characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.///Red Dwarf __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: mysql_pconnect() function
--- Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no! Is this some bug? All this stuff was working before I did an update in the server. I do not think this is a bug -- Debian PHP3 package has always been modular. All extra stuff on top of regular PHP is in separate packages like php3-mysql, php3-pgsql, php3-cgi-gd, etc. I had the similar problem sometime ago, and the reason was that I needed to declare in my PHP script that I want to use such and such module. there are some mysql.so files in /usr/lib/php3/apache and /usr/lib/php3/cgi directories. They are from php3-mysql and php3-cgi-mysql packages, respectively. Good, now the only thing remaining (provided this is the reason) is... btw, where should I put the above line? Also, I couldn't find any line containing dl(otherdb.so) in all .inc files. Is this correct? ...to have the dl(some_mod.so) in the beginning of a script that would be calling a function. This may also be a top-level php config script, or your index.php3 file. See also /usr/share/doc/php3/README.Debian. Regards, Andrei __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: ISDN SyncPPP Problem Part 2
Ron Rademaker wrote: I've found another error, that has to do with my previous question, perhaps this will help someone to supply me with an answer. When the script is finished another error occurs: Sorry- isdnPPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date. Maybe ippp0 has no 'syncppp' encapsulation. This 'll probably have to do with the earlier occured error: ippp0: SyncPPP support not configured ippp0: Invalid argument (For more info on that one read my previous mail: ISDN SyncPPP Problem). Hope anyone can help me, Ron -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I think that you do not have choosen the syncppp support when compiling the kernel. You find the syncppp support on the ISDN config page. Run make menuconfig or make xconfig and compile your kernel again. There's also an very nice FAQ. You'll find it under /usr/doc/isdnutils/FAQ/en-i4l-faq.html. Sven
ssh won't compile on fresh potato - what's missing?
Hello, I just made a fresh potato install a few days ago (thankfully, after that big security problem had been fixed) and because of a broken TP cable I ended up having to install packages manually (the last part of the installation procedure failed). As a result, there seems to be a few packages mission. One symptome is that ssh 1.2.26 won't compile, with the following message: login.c: In function record_login': login.c:437: structure has no member named ut_syslen' login.c:441: structure has no member named e_termination' login.c:442: structure has no member named e_exit' login.c:454: WTMPX_FILE' undeclared (first use in this function) login.c:454: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once login.c:454: for each function it appears in.) Which library defined WTMPX_FILE? Reading login.c, the memeber names are non-existent memebers of a utmpx structure. I have no idea which library these are supposed to come from. Anyone? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0x5584BD98 or 'Peter Schuller scode@scode.webprovider.com' Key retrival: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: scode@scode.webprovider.com Web: http://www.scode.webprovider.com
Re: ^c broken in latest potato
Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem last night but do not know when the problem crept in. I can suspend the process with ^Z and then kill it manually with kill but ^C does not seem to work anymore. It is su, and it will be fixed in tomorrow's dinstall run. Which package is su part of? That is, which package should one apt-get install to get rid of this problem once the fix is in? Thanks! -- / Peter Schuller PGP userID: 0x5584BD98 or 'Peter Schuller scode@scode.webprovider.com' Key retrival: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: scode@scode.webprovider.com Web: http://www.scode.webprovider.com
procps held back.. was Re: poff does not work
People have suggested the installation of procps to bring /bin/kill back into my system. Sounds good. I ran dpkg -l procps to see what its status was, and found hi returned, so it has been installed (2.0.3-3) but was apparently held back when I upgraded last week. ?? Why was it held back (something inadvertant I did?), and does this imply I should Not upgrade the package? As I recall, there were 6-8 packages held back during the upgrade. I assume this is a normal occurance, but when does one upgrade those? Or are these packages typically ones which never change and so aren't touched? Thanks, Kenward
Re: procps held back
regarding my query about packages held back in the upgrade, they were flwm kbd kdelibs2g moonlight procps Are there problems with these? Kenward
Re: java doesn't work for 2.2.13: workaround
Thanks - I took Robert Vargas' suggestion and installed the ibm version. Works OK, but had to fool with the CLASSPATH to get to the debian java repository and still had to keep jdk1.1 to satisfy the improper dependencies of cup and jflex... Anyway - I am running the 2.2.14 kernel and everything works! ml aphro wrote: its a bug in the java package, upgrade the package or downgrade the kernel (see the debian-user archives i have a few urls from past mails there) nate On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Michael Laing wrote: mpl I am running a straight slink system using a custom 2.2.12 kernel. My mpl java development and execution using jdk-1.1 and jdk-1.1-native has been mpl going fine. mpl mpl After I compiled a 2.2.13 kernel using my same config and installed it, mpl I could no longer run any java apps. I always get the following error: mpl mpl Can't create /proc/xxx for GC mpl mpl where xxx looks like a process id. mpl mpl It looks like the JVM cannot create a thread for the garbage mpl collector? I do have the proc filesystem configured and other mpl processes look normal in thee. mpl mpl Does anyone have the answer? I can continue my work using my 2.2.12 mpl kernel but I would like to upgrade. mpl mpl Thanks, mpl Michael Laing
Re: Problem with mutt sources - unknown C syntax?
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 02:50:14PM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:24:26PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi All, The problem is that I don't know what does mean the underscore preceeding the paranthesis around the string definition? Is it a GCC extension? -- Wojciech Zabolotny http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab I don't have the mutt sources, but I just did a test, and underscore is a perfectly valid (if somewhat terse!) function name. Look for a function definition returning a char * called _ in the source - it is probably used for preprocessing the string before printing it, perhaps to add mutt[PID]: to the beginning or something. Now I do have the sources for mutt to do something unrelated, so looked at this again. I tracked the definition to mutt.h : #ifdef ENABLE_NLS # include libintl.h # define _(a) (gettext (a)) So it's a macro which defines _ as an alias to calling gettext, presumably to keep the code less busy. The gettext function returns the translation of the text in the target language if you are using internationalisation. -- Regards, Paul
Re: ^c broken in latest potato
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 06:23:39PM +0100, Peter Schuller wrote: Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem last night but do not know when the problem crept in. I can suspend the process with ^Z and then kill it manually with kill but ^C does not seem to work anymore. It is su, and it will be fixed in tomorrow's dinstall run. Which package is su part of? That is, which package should one apt-get install to get rid of this problem once the fix is in? Login -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: SVGATextMode Chip ?
On 08 Jan 2000, matt garman wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 10:37:59AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I have a SR9 Number 9 video card. I am trying to setup SVGATextMode for this new card. Anyone have this card and know what Chipset I should uncomment in TextConfig to get the card working? When I use S3Virge I get You might want to look into the linux kernel's framebuffer options. The framebuffer makes SVGATextMode more or less obsolete. Try this on for size: http://www.tahallah.demon.co.uk/programming/Framebuffer-HOWTO-1.1.html It's pretty easy to setup and use, too. In fact, the author of SVGATextMode said a few months ago that he was ceasing to maintain this program because there was little need for it nowadays. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.pentelikon.freeserve.co.uk/bookreviews/ It's no go the Yogi Man, it's no go Blavatsky - Louis MacNeice
Re: Is unstable really _this_ unstable?????
= Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2109 1818]: Can some kind soul PLEASE give me some advice on where to go fro here? be advised that AFAIK there is a lot of development work being done on base-floppies to make them ready for potato's move to stable. they are changing frequently. the way i see it, you have a couple of alternative courses of action: - install a slink base system, install the apt .deb (and it's dependencies) from potato with dpkg, and upgrade to potato with `apt-get dist-upgrade'. - try the potato base-floppies again. they might work this time. :) the rest of potato is relatively stable; i've been using it in one form or another on my desktop since about a month after slink went stable (and started getting stale). base-floppies is what's giving you grief. HTH.. -vinny .
Re: ^c broken in latest potato
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Peter Schuller wrote: Which package is su part of? That is, which package should one apt-get install to get rid of this problem once the fix is in? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ dpkg -S /bin/su login: /bin/su ciao, der.hans Thanks! -- # +++=+++ # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # #http://home.pages.de/~lufthans/ # # I'm not anti-social, I'm pro-individual. - der.hans # # ===+=== #
Re: Inspiron 7500 network setup
Harley, I've got a Dell Inspiron 7500 with a NIC built into the docking station (not a PCMCIA card). I've got a base Debian partition running that was built from floppies. Anyone have any idea how to get the NIC in the docking station recognized so I can finish configuring Linux and really use it? If it helps any, Windows says it's an Actiontec 82559-based miniPCI adapter. The potato kernel (2.2.13) (with ethernet configured in) detects this card automatically. It uses the i82557/i82558 driver eepro100, the Intel EtherExpress Pro 100B driver; works perfectly for me. http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html This driver is also in the 2.0 slink kernel, so if it's not being detected automatically, maybe you need to build yourself a kernel with ethernet turned on? cheers, Calum.
Re: diald
Pedro Quaresma de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to configure diald but without success. I have my ppp link working (pon ... poff) but now I whant to try diald. I have installed the package with apt-get install diald, I looked at the manuals (man diald) and I have created the /etc/diald.optins file, but... How do I create the other files (connect and diald.configure)? For connect you can use the chatscript already created for pppd. To make this work use the following option in diald.options : connect /usr/sbin/chat -f /etc/chatscripts/provider With this options you don't need a /etc/diald/connect file. I don't know the usefulness of the diald.configure file. -- Francois Deppierraz student http://www.ctrlaltdel.ch ICQ: 176 770 09
Re: Poor networking performance
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: : i have rt8139 card in a caldera box and a eepro100 in a debian box on a : 10/100 switch, and i get about 3.4MB/s, i am quite confident the : bottleneck is the IDE drive on the caldera box in my case. While I'm sure that in your case the IDE subsystem is your bottleneck, it's generally acknowledged that the rtl8139 cards aren't a prime example of excellent NIC design (read the driver source once to get the author's opinions on the buffer design). Having said that I've built an IP masq box with two rtl8139 cards and performance is satisfactory. I prefer the tulip cards though; the Netgear cards are cheap and (so far) dependable). -- 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: ^c broken in latest potato
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 06:23:39PM +0100, Peter Schuller wrote: Cant seem to kill a running process with ^C anymore. Noticed the problem last night but do not know when the problem crept in. I can suspend the process with ^Z and then kill it manually with kill but ^C does not seem to work anymore. It is su, and it will be fixed in tomorrow's dinstall run. Which package is su part of? That is, which package should one apt-get install to get rid of this problem once the fix is in? login, see below: $ dpkg -S /bin/su login: /bin/su -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY (ex-W6SWE) (RN2)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ DM42nh QRP-L #1985 http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: More on my problems with debconf and perl
I had a similar problem (or as near as I can tell without the error message). For some reason, perl-5.005 was not installed completely, so I went into /etc/alternatives and changed the link `perl' to point to `perl-5.004' instead of `perl-5.005', everything worked fine after that. In other words (as root): # cd /etc/alternatives # rm perl # ln -s /usr/bin/perl-5.004 perl HTH, cbb Thanx for the info. I had another look through the Debian package site for unstable and had a good dig through the bug reports for some of the things that failed. I 'think' I may have found a bug report relating to this in perl. I think it might be a termcap problem, whatever that is. I'll have another look at it when I get home. I really appreciate Debians extensive system to ensure All dependencies are met before installation, but it can be frustrating when a package you want installs things like perl and debconf that you will probably never use. But , better safe than sorry. Cheers, John Gay
Re: UNIX variant for old PC
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:53:25PM +, Fish Smith wrote: I know that the intel version of Linux is written for 80386 up. Is there any UNIX variant available for an 8088 or 8086? What processors does Minix run on? I'd rather suggest to use such machines as terminals (running NCSA-telnet under FreeDos) and connect them to one 386 or better Linux server... -- Wojciech Zabolotny http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab http://www.freedos.org Free DOS for free people!
Re: Problem with mutt sources - unknown C syntax?
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:53:28PM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 02:50:14PM +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:24:26PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi All, The problem is that I don't know what does mean the underscore preceeding the paranthesis around the string definition? Is it a GCC extension? -- Wojciech Zabolotny http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab I don't have the mutt sources, but I just did a test, and underscore is a perfectly valid (if somewhat terse!) function name. Look for a function definition returning a char * called _ in the source - it is probably used for preprocessing the string before printing it, perhaps to add mutt[PID]: to the beginning or something. Now I do have the sources for mutt to do something unrelated, so looked at this again. I tracked the definition to mutt.h : #ifdef ENABLE_NLS # include libintl.h # define _(a) (gettext (a)) So it's a macro which defines _ as an alias to calling gettext, presumably to keep the code less busy. The gettext function returns the translation of the text in the target language if you are using internationalisation. Thank's a lot to all who responded. Anyway I don't know why mutt 1.0.1 works perfectly on one slink system (in my office) and segfaults on the other (at home). The libraries versions (displayed by ldd) are the same. Maybe the i18n settings are different? Probably I have to wait for potato... -- Wojciech Zabolotny http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab http://www.debian.org Use Linux - an OS without trojan horses inside
Re: Please Help me!!!
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:53:26PM +, VEVE ROUDY wrote: Hello! There's longtime I'm looking for a program on linux as net2phone or dialpad.com applet on windows, please could you tell me a pgrogram PC-to-Phone on linux, so I can make free call or cheap call via Internet. I know about two such programs: VAT and speak-freely. AFAIK both are available as debian packages. -- HTH Wojciech Zabolotny http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab http://www.debian.org Linux - free OS for free people!
BitchX irc server list
I'm struggling to get BitchX to recognise my server list. I've put an ircII.servers file in /etc/irc/, copied it to just /etc/irc/servers/, and even /usr/lib/bitchx/. I still can't get it to use my [shorter] list of servers. The only way so far I've managed to do it is by downloading the source package and compiling it straight in, but I don't want to do that. The source says: /* * Set your favorite default server list here. This list should be a * whitespace separated hostname:portnum:password list (with portnums and * passwords optional). This IS NOT an optional definition. Please set this * to your nearest servers. However if you use a seperate 'ircII.servers' * file and the ircII can find it, this setting is overridden. */ Where can I put the ircII.servers file so that `ircII can find it'? -- alisdair mcdiarmid[EMAIL PROTECTED] [the day is done but i'm having fun i think i'm dumb maybe just happy]
