Re: Problemas con DebConf
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, AVILA BERMEJO, FRANCISCO JOSE wrote: Si hay alguien que tenga instalado el DebConf y le funcione correctamente, a ver si me puede decir n qué paquete se encuentra el fichero overload.pm porque a mi no me lo 15:07:phucksys:root# dpkg -S overload.pm perl-5.004: /usr/lib/perl5/5.004/i386-linux/overload.pm 15:07:phucksys:root# Si quieres saber cómo pertenecer a Paco Brufal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet, la red de correo con más Fidonet 2:346/3.68 CALIDAD del Mundo y SIN SPAM, preguntame como. ...Hardcore. Bald Terror. 1993 --- Pine 4.20 + Sendmail 8.9.3 * Origin: FAQ de R34.LINUX: http://www.linuxfreak.com/~r34_linux (2:346/3.68)
error modprobe nls accediendo al CD de debian 2.1
Hola Cada vez que accedo al cd 1 de Debian 2.1 (para instalar paquetes con dselect) me aparece en syslog un mensaje de modprobe: Jan 13 00:52:21 servidor modprobe: can't locate module nls_iso8859_1 Jan 13 00:52:21 servidor kernel: Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1(nls_iso8859_1) El kernel que uso lo he compilado yo, y me temo que me he dejado algo sin meter, pero no se el qué, ya que desde make menuconfig no veo nada que se me parezca al módulo indicado. De todos modos, me instala los paquetes que le pido y todo parece que vaya bien. ¿qué hago? Saludos. -- --- Andres Seco Hernandez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctv.es/USERS/andressh --- Microsoft Certified Product Specialist MCP ID 445900 Debian GNU Linux 2.1 (slink) - Linux Registered User no. 113867 --- 01/14 The first Be-In is held in Golden Gate Park, 1967 pgpPjJGpIXt5Q.pgp Description: PGP signature
fotos del hispalinux (otia, un poco tarde X'D)
Hola! Weno, que por fin he puesto las fotos que hice en el II Congreso Hispalinux en mi web, el que quiera que se pase y se ria un rato con los caretos X'DD http://r34linux.virtualave.net Si quieres saber cómo pertenecer a Paco Brufal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet, la red de correo con más Fidonet 2:346/3.68 CALIDAD del Mundo y SIN SPAM, preguntame como. ...Dance 2 Dis (Speed Version). Caramba. 1993 --- Pine 4.20 + Sendmail 8.9.3 * Origin: FAQ de R34.LINUX: http://www.linuxfreak.com/~r34_linux (2:346/3.68)
Re: Imágen tapiz.
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:01:58PM +0100, Hue-Bond wrote: Seguro que es una tontería pero ¿cómo se hace para colocar una imagen de tapiz en linux? xloadimage -onroot imagen Creo que xv y gimp también pueden hacer. Con el xv se puede hacer con % xv -quit -root imagen Tomás. _ | | Tomas Bautista. Phone: +34 928 451275 -- Fax: +34 928 451243 | | E-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |#| Home page URL: http://www.cma.ulpgc.es/users/bautista - Applied Microelectronics Research Institute, EPIC Division. # University of Las Palmas de G.C. I.U.M.A. Campus de Tafira, pab. A. E-35017 Las Palmas, Canary Is. Message of the day: NFS localhost not responding still trying...
Re: Sonido2.
Emilio Hernández Martín wrote: Si has compilado el sonido como módulo deberás decirle los parámetros en un archivo para la tarjeta en el directorio /etc/modutils. Por ejemplo, yo tengo un archivo soundblaster con el siguiente contenido # Configuración para el sonido con una soundblaster 16 pnp # - alias char-major-14 sb post-install sb /sbin/modprobe -k adlib_card pre-remove sb /sbin/modprobe -r adlib_card options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 options adlib_card io=0x388 # FM synthesizer # --- Fin configuración soundblaster 16 -- Hola. Perdonad mi ignorancia pero ¿esto vale para cualquier Soundblaster 16 pnp? Quiero decir, ¿hay algún parámetro específico que pueda cambiar en mi ordenador? Si es así, ¿cómo puedo crear este mismo archivo adecuado a mi sistema? Y, por otra parte, ¿vale con esto para que ya funcione la tarjeta la próxima vez que arranque? Creo que todas las soundblaster 16 pnp son iguales (y de hecho me parece que tienen el chip vibra 16) Los valores que hay puestos son los valores por omisión que vienen de fábrica, y que a mí me funcionan. Si funcionan, no es necesario andar con las isapnp ni con nada por el estilo. Si tienes que cambiarlos, sí que es necesario andar con las isapnptools. Para utilizarlo, si has compilado el sonido para soundblaster como módulo, copia esas líneas en por ejemplo /etc/modutils/soundblaster (créalo) y lanza (como root) update-modules. A partir de ese momento si está todo correcto ya debe funcionarte. Saludos, -- = Agustín Martín Domingo, Dpto. de Física, ETS Arquitectura Madrid, (U. Politécnica de Madrid) tel: +34 91-336-6536, Fax: +34 91-336-6554, email:[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://corbu.aq.upm.es/~agmartin/welcome.html
crear imagen disco duro pasar a cdrom
queridos amigos: Os escribo para preguntaros sobre una cuestión: Tengo un disco duro de 560 mb con un sistema operativo funcionando. Le hago un dd (maravillosa herramienta) y creo un archivo con la extensión iso De ahí pretendo crear un cdrom a partir de la imagen iso. Per como el cdr es más grande que la imagen tengo que darle unos datos de cuándo empieza y cuándo termina aparte de indicarle el tamaño de los bloques (creo que por defecto son de 2048). ¿cómo puedo saber estos datos de inicio y terminación? Recibid un saludo y las gracias anticipadas. Juanma
Sonido, otra vez.
Hola, he hecho todo lo que me has dicho. Te cuento: primero de todo, hay una opcion en la bios (pero no recuerdo en que subapartado) que es algo asi como PnP OS Installed, pos la pones a NO (aunque uses win9x, que tampoco esta muy demostrado que sea PnP XD) Hecho. ¿Se supone que el Plug and Play así ya no funciona para Windows? Es decir, si alguna vez necesitase conectar nuevo hardware, ¿tendría que volver a habilitar esta opción? Luego arrancas el linux y te preparas para recompilar el kernel... si usas make config quizas si te haya preguntado por la SB pero no te hayas dado cuenta... te recomiendo usar make menuconfig (o make xconfig) Utilizo 'make xconfig' y tampoco me ha hecho ninguna pregunta sobre la tarjeta. y si vas a usar un kernel 2.2 mejor usa minimo la 2.2.10 o 2.2.12... Aquí es donde creo que puede estar el problema. Yo tengo el 2.2.4 Te vas a la sección de sonido le dices que yes a los OSS Sound Modules y activas el so`porte SB... entonces justo debajo estan las opciones.. Lo dejas todo como esta pero pones la IRQ como 5 en lugar de 7... esta es la configuracion por defecto de una SB que es laa que toma cuando la inicializa la bios... OK, hecho. Recompilas, ejecutas lilo o copias el kernel a un diskette o lo que sea y reinicias... y ya esta ;) tendria que funcionar. Ejecuté lilo y reinicié, y me salieron los mensajes: ... sound initialization started sound initialization complete ... Después, para probar, ejecuté 'xplaycd' del menú 'apps - sound' (creo) y apareció el ¿interfaz? que era capaz de leer las pistas del CD, incluso al darle al PLAY empezó a avanzar el indicador de tiempo de la primera canción... pero allí no sonaba nada. ¿Puede ser problema de los altavoces?, ¿del kernel?, ... Gracias y un saludo Emilio.
Imagen tapiz 2.
Hola. Antes de nada, muchas gracias a todos los de la lista Debian por vuestra ayuda tanto en éste como en otros asuntos. Vamos con lo de la imagen tapiz. Por una parte, me dijeron: Yo tengo en mi .xsession antes del exec fvwm2 lo siguiente: xpmroot $HOME/graficos/texturas/fondo_madera.xpm lo que pasa es que yo no tengo ningún .xsession. Lo más parecido que tengo es .xsession-errors en /root/, pero no creo que tenga nada que ver. ¿Puedo crear yo un .xsession?, ¿cómo?, ¿dónde?,... Después, también probé: xloadimage -onroot imagen y sí que funcionaba aunque al volver a reiniciar linux, ya no aparecía la imagen. ¿Cómo puedo hacer que se quede instalada? Además, aparecía repetida varias veces para rellenar todo el escritorio. ¿Se puede poner centrada o estirada o de alguna otra forma? También me dijeron que probara con: xv -quit -root imagen pero yo el 'xv' no lo tengo instalado. Tengo, en cambio, el 'gimp' pero no sé cómo hacer que la imagen abierta se coloque en el escritorio. ¿Alguien sabe cómo poner una imagen cómo tapiz de fondo con el gimp? Es que la ayuda no me funciona, no sale nada en pantalla. Muchas gracias y un saludo. Emilio.
Re: Sonido, otra vez.
Hola, he hecho todo lo que me has dicho. Te cuento: primero de todo, hay una opcion en la bios (pero no recuerdo en que subapartado) que es algo asi como PnP OS Installed, pos la pones a NO (aunque uses win9x, que tampoco esta muy demostrado que sea PnP XD) Hecho. ¿Se supone que el Plug and Play así ya no funciona para Windows? Es decir, si alguna vez necesitase conectar nuevo hardware, ¿tendría que volver a habilitar esta opción? Esto no evita que windows detecte hardware, lo que hace es inicializar los dispositivos PnP en lugar del sistema operativo... nada mas... asi te aseguras que antes de arrancar linux ya esta inicializada la tarjeta... Luego arrancas el linux y te preparas para recompilar el kernel... si usas make config quizas si te haya preguntado por la SB pero no te hayas dado cuenta... te recomiendo usar make menuconfig (o make xconfig) Utilizo 'make xconfig' y tampoco me ha hecho ninguna pregunta sobre la tarjeta. Si has hecho lo de mas abajo (lo del OSS - lo de cambiar la IRQ y eso) entonces es que si que te la ha hecho Asegurate de que has activado el sound support y el OSS no esta como modulo... (supongo que si, si no no te deberia salir lo de abajo) y si vas a usar un kernel 2.2 mejor usa minimo la 2.2.10 o 2.2.12... Aquí es donde creo que puede estar el problema. Yo tengo el 2.2.4 Hombre no se Una cosa mas en la seccion de PnP activa el PnP Support ;) Te vas a la sección de sonido le dices que yes a los OSS Sound Modules y activas el so`porte SB... entonces justo debajo estan las opciones.. Lo dejas todo como esta pero pones la IRQ como 5 en lugar de 7... esta es la configuracion por defecto de una SB que es laa que toma cuando la inicializa la bios... OK, hecho. Recompilas, ejecutas lilo o copias el kernel a un diskette o lo que sea y reinicias... y ya esta ;) tendria que funcionar. Ejecuté lilo y reinicié, y me salieron los mensajes: ... sound initialization started sound initialization complete ... Después, para probar, ejecuté 'xplaycd' del menú 'apps - sound' (creo) y apareció el ¿interfaz? que era capaz de leer las pistas del CD, incluso al darle al PLAY empezó a avanzar el indicador de tiempo de la primera canción... pero allí no sonaba nada. ¿Puede ser problema de los altavoces?, ¿del kernel?, ... Si no te pone que la ha detectado entre las lineas de arriba no es el kernel ni los altavoces... repasa la configuracion (que todo este dentro del kernel y no como modulo y eso... y que tienes activado el PnP Support) Por otro lado.. la tarjeta que usas es ISA o PCI? Gracias y un saludo dnd
RE: Sonido, otra vez.
Hola, Emilio. Teclea la orden de aquí abajo y cuéntanos qué te pone: cat /dev/sndstat Javi -Mensaje original- De: Emilio Hernández Martín [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: jueves 13 de enero de 2000 13:36 Para: Pookie Asunto: Sonido, otra vez.
Re: Problemas con DebConf
(No recuerdo quien escribío esto:) Si hay alguien que tenga instalado el DebConf y le funcione correctamente, a ver si me puede decir n qué paquete se encuentra el fichero overload.pm porque a mi no me lo Acabo de ver este mensaje, que creo que es posible sea de ayuda: - From: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ivan Andres Hernandez Puga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Debconf Perl Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:02:26 -0800 Ivan Andres Hernandez Puga wrote: Hello: When installing debconf package it complains about the missing file overload.pm That file is included on a perl package... but without that package debconf doesnt installs. Why then not to set a dependence between debconf and the perl package? Perl is broken. I hope a fixed perl was uploaded today. - -- Jesus M. Gonzalez Barahona | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ESCET [EMAIL PROTECTED] | c/ Tulipan s/n Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones | 28933 Mostoles, Spain
Re: crear imagen disco duro pasar a cdrom
At 01:27 PM 2000-01-13 +0100, Juanma wrote: queridos amigos: Os escribo para preguntaros sobre una cuestión: Tengo un disco duro de 560 mb con un sistema operativo funcionando. Le hago un dd (maravillosa herramienta) y creo un archivo con la extensión iso De ahí pretendo crear un cdrom a partir de la imagen iso. Estás mal... estás haciendo una imagen del sistema de archivos del disco duro, el cual _dudo bastante_ que sea ISO9660 (de hecho, no conozco ningún OS que trabaje sobre iso9660). Per como el cdr es más grande que la imagen tengo que darle unos datos de cuándo empieza y cuándo termina aparte de indicarle el tamaño de los bloques (creo que por defecto son de 2048). ¿cómo puedo saber estos datos de inicio y terminación? Yo nunca he necesitado esos datos al quemar un CD desde linux... Necesitas la imagen tal cual del sistema, o solo una copia? Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] A proud Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 User.
Re: crear imagen disco duro pasar a cdrom
El jueves 13 de enero de 2000 a la(s) 13:27:31 +0100, Juanma contaba: De ahí pretendo crear un cdrom a partir de la imagen iso. Entonces mírate el comando mkisofs. Per como el cdr es más grande que la imagen tengo que darle unos datos de cuándo empieza y cuándo termina aparte de indicarle el tamaño de los bloques (creo que por defecto son de 2048). ¿cómo puedo saber estos datos de inicio y terminación? No hace falta. Lo grabas con cdrecord y listos. -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano In love with TuX - Linux 2.2.14Linux Registered User #87069
Re: Linux Expo en Madrid
On jue, ene 13, 2000 at 02:48:57 +0100, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: (España) en abril. Por un lado, puede que os interese enviar algo. Pero por otro lado, es posible que den metros cuadrados gratis para poner un stand de Debian. La pregunta es, ¿interesa esto? (en ¿Cómo?, pues claro ¿no?, muy interesante. otras palabras, ¿habría gente, desarrolladores incluidos si es posible, que quieran/puedan estar en el stand, algún trasto para hacer demos, y cosas por el estilo?). ¿Qué os parece? Me parece que echaría una mano si pudiera o pudiese dentro de mis posibilidades que son pocas dado que vivo en Sevilla y empiezo a currar creo dentro de poco. Me parece importante que se haga lo posible para que Debian tenga un stand, que la gente lo vea y pueda preguntar y ver qué hay... vamos lo que yo hice hace años con gente como vosotros pero en vivo y en directo ;-) Si puedo hacer algo lo haré. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webs: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/viguPersonal http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/linux/ ViguLinux PGP public key: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/vigu.pubkey
apt-get
Hola: ¿Puede alguien decirme que direcciones utiliza para actualizarse a traves de apt-get? ¿EXiste alguna dirección oficual de Debian? Gracias
Re: Sonido.
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, [iso-8859-1] Emilio Hernández Martín wrote: Hola, tengo una tarjeta de sonido Soundblaster 16 PnP OEM (no sé lo que quiere decir OEM) y creo que sí está soportada por 'slink' con kernel 2.2.4 (al menos eso me ha parecido leer en algún sitio en la red) pero después de compilar el núcleo habilitando el soporte para tarjeta de sonido no me ha hecho ninguna pregunta (que se supone debe hacer para configurar el sonido, según un HOWTO) y al arrancar posteriormente, no aparece ningún mensaje sobre mi tarjeta (que en Windows funciona perfectamente). ¿Qué puedo hacer para configurar correctamente mi tarjeta? Muchas gracias y un saludo. Emilio. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Yo tengo una sb16 PnP andando, para instalarla mira el archivo /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/Introduccion (o donde tengas las fuentes del kernel). Mira en windows que valores usar para los parametros. Xavier
Re: apt-get
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, luis wrote: Hola: ¿Puede alguien decirme que direcciones utiliza para actualizarse a traves de apt-get? deb http://ftp.tsc.uvigo.es/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US deb http://ceu.fi.udc.es/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ y2k-update main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates ~~~ .~.Iñaki Fernández Villanueva DEBIAN/GNU /V\[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] // \\ Linux registered user #93164 SLINK 2.1/( )\ Student in Computer Engineering ^^-^^ University of San Sebastian (Spain) www.debian.org ~~~
Re: apt-get
luis escribió: Hola: ¿Puede alguien decirme que direcciones utiliza para actualizarse a traves de apt-get? ¿EXiste alguna dirección oficual de Debian? Yo utilizo ftp://ftp.es.debian.org y ftp://ceu.fi.udc.es Ambos están en España y a mí me van bastante rápidos Gracias De nada...
Re: Melhor forma de desligar
Hi Adriano! On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Adriano Freitas wrote: navegação e utilização de e-mail. Só que eu estou com um problema: eles em geral não gostam da idéia de digitar um comando para ter que desligar o sistema. A princípio, eu utilizei o sudo para permitir que eles usem o Usuário de Windows está acostumado com Ctrl+alt+del. Reprogramar /etc/inittab para rodar shutdown -h no lugar de shutdown -r quando Ctrl+Alt+Del é detectado (um segundo ctrl+alt+del com o kernel em halt causa reboot) funcionou aqui em casa. Claro, isso só ajuda quem está no console, mas desconfio que isso é o suficiente no seu caso. Hmm... nunca tentei fazer isso do X, mas por aqui o pessoal nunca reclamou de ter que sair do X antes do ctrl-alt-del... -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
Re: Melhor forma de desligar
hehehe, eu ficaria muito feliz se alguem conseguisse invadir o meu computador e a única coisa que ele pudesse fazer fosse desligar o meu micro! :) Acho que para quem usa um startx no .bash_profile tá bom de mais permitir que qualquer usuário possa desligar o micro com o comando halt :) Parece que não fui muito claro. Na verdade, se torna inconveniente usuários logados na máquina através de rede ou mesmo no micro principal que o sistema se ja desligado por qualquer um. Suponha-se que alguem deixou uma tarefa em background. Um usuário qualquer por que decidiu, desligará o micro encerrando antes do seu fim a tarefa que um outro usuário espera estar concluída quando ele retornar. Isso vale principalmente para sistemas com dezenas ou centenas de usuários. Eu nao estava falando de invasão, portanto.
Re: Melhor forma de desligar
Homens de pouca feh!!! o prob inicial era usar o micro pelos 2/3 irmaos do nosso amigo! sendo assim, qq solucao serve! a mais simples eh: se o usuario eh realmente anormal p nao saber desligar o sistema corretamente, mete o dedo no botao e pronto... nao eh isto q os usuarios sao craques em fazer??? t+ -- Clovis Sena Itautec Servicos/Filial Recife Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fone: 081 - 421 1126.
netscape error :undefined symbol: _ _bzero
I have installed netscape communicator v2.2 and when I installed it it told me that it had error in loading shared libraries, it needed libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2, so I installed that now, when I try to still try to run netscape , it gives me a different error that I have no idea about. ./netscape:error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: _ _bzero __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Accessing /dev/mem
On 12/1/2000 David Wright wrote: Are you talking potato here? All my stable/slink systems show precisely: crw-r- 1 root kmem 1, 2 Mar 3 1999 kmem crw-rw 1 root kmem 1, 1 Mar 3 1999 mem and that includes the dates. (I included kmem in case you'd misread the line.) I was talking potato, yes, i rechecked i have both files same major minor numbers but both are mode 640, in any event they should be owned by root and not some uid 8000+ something ;-) (I have no idea what these devices do.) I believe they give access to system memory, which is why its important that they be protected, i could be mistaken, and thinking of /proc/kcore but i don't think so. (kcore represents all system memory too but is not accessable by anyone but root) group kmem is used by lsof which is setgid kmem presumably to access these devices. I don't know whether its normal for write permission on the group under slink or not... Ethan
Re: How to install new Window manager
On 12/1/2000 Guyren G Howe wrote: But I can't work out how to get Afterstep to come up instead of KDE. Can someone tell me how to do this? All the explanations I've found go into gorey detail about compiling it, then say something like and then you install it. add a .xsession to your home directory wtih contents as follows: #! /bin/sh ## name of your preferred windowmanager (afterstep may not be right name) afterstep then chmod 700 .xsession Ethan
Swapping dependencies
On one of my machines, I initially installed ssmtp and I now want to replace it with exim. However... dpkg -i exim...deb fails because exim conflicts with ssmtp and dpkg --purge ssmtp fails because various other packages depend on mail-transport-agent... I know I can use dpkg's 'force' options to override these complaints, but is there a better way to perform this sort of replacement? -- 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+
Re: Swapping dependencies
Dave Sherohman wrote: I know I can use dpkg's 'force' options to override these complaints, but is there a better way to perform this sort of replacement? apt-get install exim -- see shy jo
Re: dwww
dwww seems to need a _lot_ of work. dhelp, on the other hand, will do most of what you need. -brad On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Evan Moore wrote: is any1 else having a very hard time trying to get dwww to work on potato. Everything but the info pages will not work. After hacking the the scripts i was able to get the man pages to convert to html, but I am sure that it was a waste of time. any ideas where i have gone wrong? thanks evan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: QuickTime player for Debian?
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Joachim Trinkwitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Did you try xanim-modules in potato (it's an online-installer for non-free modules which are not part of the core xanim)? Yes I tried xanim and xanim-modules, but it says: $ xanim sample.mov XAnim Rev 2.80.0 by Mark Podlipec Copyright (C) 1991-1999. All Rights Reserved Video Codec: Sorenson Video not yet supported.(E18) Audio Codec: QDesign Music Codec (QDMC) not yet supported. Notice: Video and Audio are present, but not yet supported. Usage: XAnim [options] anim [ [options] anim ... ] -h lists some common options, but may be out of date. See xanim.readme or the man page for detailed help. That means you're not going to view this movie without Windows or a Mac anytime soon. It uses the Sorenson video codec; it's authors have been uncooperative wrt support outside of helping Apple with it. Anything else is 200% out of the question (iirc). -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
setting up w/o interaction
hi! i am not on this list, so please cc replies to me as well! we do set up quite a few debian boxes at once, so i was asking if there is some non-interactive way to set up debian. how do i do this? can i create response-files or definition files and still use the setup program, or should i setup without configuration after booting from my own diskettes? i could apply a generated set of /etc/* files later -- but is there no right way to do this? kind regards, +43-676-5411293 Peter-Paul Witta +43-1-7189880-0 CUBiT system engineering www.CUBiT.at
Re: my font suddently become very ugly
Put these entries: FontPath unix/:7101 FontPath unix/:7100 after these entries: FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese/ -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Re: mutt ignoring [tags]
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:32:51PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: If you're using exim, you might try using the .forward file filtering built into exim instead of trying to do it in mutt, if you're having trouble. My two-cents worth: the default exim config is set up so you don't need to use a .forward file if you use procmail. Here's how I have it: ~/.procmailrc: PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail # you'd better make sure it exists PMDIR=$HOME/procmail # procmail recipies are here LOGFILE=$PMDIR/procmail.log# recommended VERBOSE=yes# for debugging LOGABSTRACT=all INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/lists.rc # plug-in recipies start here! ~/procmail/lists.rc: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/ -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Music has been too much a part of my life to try to listen to it with one ear while digging out a liver tumor with both eyes and the other ear. -- Dr. Francis D. Moore Sr., Moseley professor emeritus of surgery, Harvard Medical School.
Re: How to install new Window manager
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:58:25PM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote: I'm a newbie at this. I figured I'd get started learning to customise all this stuff by installing a new Window Manager. I like the look of AfterStep (one of its skins in particular), so I've downloaded all the relevant bits. But I can't work out how to get Afterstep to come up instead of KDE. I would just have my ~/.xsession contain the line: exec afterstep I'm also interested in the meta-question: where would I look, on the net or in /usr/doc or whatever, to work out the answer to this question for myself? /usr/doc is a good start. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Music has been too much a part of my life to try to listen to it with one ear while digging out a liver tumor with both eyes and the other ear. -- Dr. Francis D. Moore Sr., Moseley professor emeritus of surgery, Harvard Medical School.
Re: QuickTime player for Debian?
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Yeah I also saw that, but it failes to compile with: $ make gcc -c `./c_flags` atom.c In file included from codecs.h:10, from private.h:9, from quicktime.h:11, from atom.c:2: jpeg.h:8: jpeglib.h: No such file or directory jpeg.h:9: png.h: No such file or directory make: *** [atom.o] Error 1 I haven't figured out what package these might be in if any. You're missing the libpng2-dev and libjpeg62-dev libraries, according to my slink system. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
LILO fails to load
Hi: When I boot my machine, I get LI at the lilo prompt. The lilo docs say this can be caused by a geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map installer Neither of these are things that I'm quite sure of. I just built a custom kernel with make zlilo, which is meant to do all the lilo dependencies for you. I'm running on a Penguin Computing 2U rackmount server with a SCSI bus (the kernel is compiled for the AIX 7XXX card). Debian potato. Please respond via private email as well as to the list (I only get the digest) Regards! Glen S Mehn
limits in /etc/passwd, and maybe a bug in processing /etc/limits? :)
OK. As a continuation of my previous ramblings on resource limits, I'm running into two more similar issues on my slink machine. According to /etc/login.defs, I should be able to employ resource limits by editing users' passwd entries. I have QUOTAS_ENAB in login.defs: # Enable setting of ulimit, umask, and niceness from passwd gecos field. # QUOTAS_ENAB yes If I look at man 5 passwd, I see the following: The comment field is used by various system utilities, such as finger(1). Three additional values may be present in the comment field. They are pri= - set initial value of nice umask= - set initial value of umask ulimit= - set initial value of ulimit These fields are separated from each other and from any other comment field by a comma. I tried to set the umask to 022 this way with a test account, and I can't get it to do anything at all. I have tried adding extra comment entries by adding commas in /etc/passwd, and I've also tried using the pre-existing comment entries. None of it works. I end up with the default umask of 002 no matter what... and yes I have commented-out the umask field in /etc/profile, and there is none in the test user's .bash_profile, .profile, and .bashrc. :) Anyone know the right way to do it? My second problem... well, it looks like it may be a bug. Note the following text in /etc/limits: # Valid flags are: # A: max address space (KB) # C: max core file size (KB) # D: max data size (KB) ... and so on. But any time I use the A limit, the whole line becomes useless. See the following in man 5 limits: A invalid limits string will be rejected (not considered) by the login program. If I take out the A limit, the rest of the line functions again. So there seems to be some kind of problem reading or enforcing this limit. So a line like this: * L2 D12288 M32768 R2048 S2048 U64 N256 F16384 T60 C0 works fine. But one like this: * A32768 L2 D12288 M32768 R2048 S2048 U64 N256 F16384 T60 C0 breaks the whole line and NO limits are enforced. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong (again)? :)
Packet libz1 missing
Hallo, i need xserver-vga 3.3.5-2 for Nvidia Riva TNT2 graphic i386 -unstable, but dpkg needs libz1-Packet to be installed before. This Packet is not listet at all. How to solve this ? Best Regards Gerhard
Re: mod_ssl
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:31:21PM -0200, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Do you know how can I generate a certificate for a client? Is this possible with the mod-ssldebian package? Is there a way to generate such certificate without recurring to VerignSign or other CA? /usr/sbin/mod-ssl-makecert, it will also allow you to create your own CA certificate if you choose the proper option. -- finger for GPG public key. 8 Jan 2000 - Old email addresses removed from key, new added pgpGl1DNnjcVg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mod_ssl
You need to use the openssl tools. You don't need to user Verisign or other CA but without doing that people will get pop-up boxes the first time they visit your site about the certificate being signed by an unknown party. If they choose to keep the certificate they won't be bothered again. I think the mod_ssl docs have an example on how to generate the certificate. Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, Do you know how can I generate a certificate for a client? Is this possible with the mod-ssldebian package? Is there a way to generate such certificate without recurring to VerignSign or other CA? This is intended for a private system (Intranet via Internet). I'm using potato. 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
samba copy permissions
hiya when using samba to copy one directory to another server it loses it origional permission and owner settings. i guess it's like when copying a users file to another directory whilst under root... it allocates root as the owner of that file. is there any setting in samba to tell it to keep it's origional permission/ownership rights?? else i will have to use tar in order to recreate this new server. thanx
dpkg: extract specific file?
Can dpkg be used to extract a specific file from a .deb? None of the switches listed in the man or --help leaps out as a candidate for this function. [I've installed bash 2.03, 'info bash' now brings up the man page. I'd like to reinstall the info file from the bash 2.02 .deb] -- Patrick Walsh Edmonton AB CA
Re: Packet libz1 missing
Hi Gerhard Heid; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Hallo, i need xserver-vga 3.3.5-2 for Nvidia Riva TNT2 graphic i386 -unstable, but dpkg needs libz1-Packet to be installed before. This Packet is not listet at all. How to solve this ? Best Regards Gerhard The potato distribution has package zlib1g_*, which provides the libz1 dependancy. So, by installing the latest zlib1g your problem should be solved. HTH, damir
Re: dpkg: extract specific file?
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 07:24:50PM -0700, Patrick Walsh wrote: Can dpkg be used to extract a specific file from a .deb? None of the switches listed in the man or --help leaps out as a candidate for this function. Dunno about dpkg, but Midnight Commander can do it. Just fire up mc, find the deb in question, highlight it, and hit enter. Give it a second or two and mc will open the deb like it was a directory, allowing you to copy out individual files. Note: mc can do that with deb's, rpm's, tar's, gz's, tgz's, etc. -- 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: dpkg: extract specific file?
Patrick Walsh wrote: Can dpkg be used to extract a specific file from a .deb? None of the switches listed in the man or --help leaps out as a candidate for this function. dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile file.deb | tar xvf - file Note that file may need to be ./path/to/file -- note the leading dot -- depending on what version of tar was used to generate the .deb file. -- see shy jo
Re: Setting up 20 equal linux boxes -- More questions
hi ya On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 10:34:02PM +0100, Konrad Mierendorff wrote: Thanks for replies, I haven't been able to do a real-life test as the computers didn't arrive yet. In the meantime I got some remarks here which result in more questions. I got a reply the is not on the list from Steve Stancliff [EMAIL PROTECTED], he says: As others mentioned, NFS is the way to mount the homes from the fileserver. I advise not using autofs for mounting the homes, just mount them in fstab. Autofs is very flaky. Could anyone comment on this and mention the pros and cons of both solutions? Why is autofs flaky? autofs has minimal functionality to do simple/straight forwward automounting... amd on the other hand has tons of features and options good thing about autofs is it's part of the kernel... and is simple to setup http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs-HOWTO.html for 20 machinesautofs might be a good/simple/small/fast/reliable solution... a few years ago...i swapped out amd and used autofs...been using it ever since.. If you there are HOWTOs, FAQs, manuals or other resources on the web that answer all these question, please tell me! have fun linuxing alvin
keymaps directory
In what directory is the keymap file that is loaded at boot? Something odd has happened to my computer a couple of times where some different keymap than US becomes my keyboard at boot and my 'a' key is 'q' and a lot of other keys change as well. I can type 'loadkeys -d' and load the defualt but last time I found the file and replaced it with the default keymap.gz and that fixed the problem. I have forgotten where I found that file. Lance
rsh access
hi i asked this question before but no one answered... not too sure why as it is not a cryptic question. So, i will ask again. To rsh a Unix host from Debian i have to put the Debain server address in the .Rhosts file on the Unix Server and that works great. I now want to rsh a redhat linux server from my debian server...and i have no idea how to get it to work. I have added the debian server address in the hosts.allow/deny files... but that does not seem to work. Is there a step that i am missing???
wireless suggestions
A friend and I want to connect our lan's via wireless ethernet and then split a DSL. Our houses are less than 300 ft apart, probably around 280ft, with line of sight. We are looking to do this as cheaply as possible. Anyone with any suggestions for methods and/or products I would greatly appreciate any help you could offer. I know this isn't really a debian question, but I figure we'll use debian routers on each end, to make this post more relavent :) -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ppp connections between sco linux
Hi guys, just a quick one here, I'm trying to establish a connection between a SCO box, and a linux machine. However after the chat-script connects, I get the following messages from the SCO machine :- --- Log file Snip - 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Chat script succeeded 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Sending LCP Configure-Request, ID 110, state Starting (1) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 ^M 1/13-18:15:38-1308 ~ 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Received LCP Configure-Request, ID 110, state Req-Sent (6) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 LCP: Replying with Configure-Ack 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Sending LCP Configure-Ack, ID 110, state Req-Sent (6) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Received LCP Configure-Ack, ID 110, state Ack-Sent (8) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Sending IPCP Configure-Request, ID 102, state Starting (1) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Received IPCP Configure-Request, ID 102, state Req-Sent (6) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 IPCP: Replying with Configure-Ack 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Sending IPCP Configure-Ack, ID 102, state Req-Sent (6) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Received IPCP Configure-Ack, ID 102, state Ack-Sent (8) 1/13-18:15:38-1308 PPP connected to 192.168.1.204 on du2 1/13-18:15:38-1308 Missed ALLSTATIONS, flushing frame 1/13-18:16:38-1308 LQM: Too many Echo packets lost 1/13-18:16:38-1308 Disconnected from 192.168.1.204 (LQM failure) 1/13-18:16:38-1308 Sending LCP Terminate-Request, ID 117, state Opened (9) 1/13-18:16:38-1308 Hangup --- Log file Snip - This is the response of the logfile from the SCO box, on the linux box, the messages are very similar. I have tried almost everything, but I can't seem to get the systems to connect to each other using ppp. I can get a normal call from the SCO machine to the linux machine, and I see no errors in the line (no line noise). I'm wondering if there is a setting that could be causing this on Linux? I can't remember the PPP version(s) at present. Regards Peter Ludwig BTW - Can you CC me directly, at this email address as I am not on the list from this email account.
Re: rxvt/vim/term?
Just FYI this same problem began for me under wterm after a recent upgrade of vim. The solution mentioned (don't set term type to linux) worked for me too. -Steve Stancliff
Re: APT with partial set of files
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:42:46PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote I have downloaded a bunch of the .deb's for potato, preserving the directory structure. I also got the Packages files I assumed when I did this that apt would not care if some .deb files were missing, and would simply look at other sources for them. Is that correct? Unless it wants to install them, it shouldn't matter if they are in the Packages file but not in the archive. I also assumed that with CD's it would prompt for inserting additional CD's. Is that correct? Or do I need packages files which indicate which CD has which files? Is there a good way to generate those? If you have a CD containing (some portion of) the Debian archive, then # apt-cdrom add will look for and use the Packages files on a CD to determine what packages are available on it. Run it once for each CD. There's nothing magical about CD packages files, but using apt-cdrom alerts apt to do things like check that the correct CD is mounted and prompt for the required CD if not. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: sawmill
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:43:02PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote | I would like to give sawmill a try. So I tried apt-get --compile | source to grab the potato sources and build in my machine. The | process failed (it seems that I have old dpkg-utils?). Any hints on | how can I compile sawmill in my machine? You can get the tar-ball and compile it yourself. The instructions for doing this at the main sawmill site are fairly detailed. http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~john/sw/sawmill/ There's also an unofficial deb for slink available at: http://www.devin.com/sawmill/ I've not tried this (and the person who created the package has a disclaimer on the site about how inexperienced he is in creating debian packages), but there it is, Jim I don't recall whether it is sawmill itself or the rep-* packages it requires (or both), but somewhere along the way you need to have $DISPLAY pointing to an accessible X server to build these packages. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
setserial, stty not working
I'm trying to setup a connection of an multimeter to ttyS0. It gives a steady stream of lines to the port. (CONRAD VC96 for whom who knows) When I use minicom for this, it works fine. The input is written on the sceen, can be saved and so on. I can leave minicom with ^A^Q and then cat /dev/ttyS0 writes the lines to the screen. But I have planned to program some functions to this stream at least maximum, minimum, average and others. So I tried to do the following in order to get rid of minicom: stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -parenb cs8 cstopb cread ixon isig ispeed 1200 to set the required 1200,8,N,2. I couldn't change the setting of the port at all. stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -a shows the change, but cat /dev/ttyS0 shows nothing. The permissions are: crw-rw 1 root dialout4, 64 Dec 28 21:00 /dev/ttyS0; I'm in the group dialout, but only minicom changes actualy the settings - nothing else I found - stty and setserial. Any ideas? Matth
Re: rsh access
rsh a redhat linux server from my debian server...and i have no idea how to get it to work. To do this you need four things on your Red Hat system (or any UNIX for that matter): * The user's home directory on the remote machine must have a ~/.rhosts file with the address of the local machine. * The remote machine must have the shell line in /etc/inetd.conf uncommented: shell stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.rshd * The /etc/hosts.allow file must allow in.rshd from your local machine: in.rshd: local_machine * You may also need to make sure the portmapper is running on the remote machine, and that your local machine has access to it. In Debian, this is also done with /etc/hosts.allow, but remember that the portmapper only understands IP addresses: portmap: 192.1.4. will allow 192.1.4.0 thru 192.1.4.255 Of course the server machine also has to have in.rshd installed and all of that. Also don't forget to restart the inetd daemon on the remote server if you change your /etc/inetd.conf file. Hope this works! Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle PGP key: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~cswingle/pubkey.asc
RE: wireless suggestions
I've installed Breezecom for the San Francisco Zoo in several locations and it has performed very well. Unfortunately, the Access Point is around $1250 wholesale and the Station adapter is around $650. Your 300 ft line of sight is well within specs, and you would probably see around 3Mbs between your computers. But for $2000 I would think it would make more sense to get your own DSL. I am not familiar with any wireless systems that are substantially cheaper, but that certainly doesn't mean they don't exist. Kind regards, Hagen Finley Longs Drugs Walnut Creek, CA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aaron Solochek Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 7:45 PM To: debian- user Subject: wireless suggestions A friend and I want to connect our lan's via wireless ethernet and then split a DSL. Our houses are less than 300 ft apart, probably around 280ft, with line of sight. We are looking to do this as cheaply as possible. Anyone with any suggestions for methods and/or products I would greatly appreciate any help you could offer. I know this isn't really a debian question, but I figure we'll use debian routers on each end, to make this post more relavent :) -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: dpkg: [disregard] how to extract specific file
Disregard, I've stumbled back on to the bash-doc .deb, and now understand that dpkg-dev is needed to extract files :) -- Patrick Walsh Edmonton AB CA
RE: Handheld computers - what is available?
I have a customer who runs a van distribution system. He wants his drivers to use handheld computers or barcode readers when they visit shops, to pick up the list of items needing to be replenished. He then wants to print a delivery note on the spot for the customer and transmit the details by modem, for the main office to print and despatch the invoice and update the central database. What Linux-capable handhelds are available that would be suitable for this job? The Palm family of hand-held devices has quite a few tools available for Linux, I've just installed jpilot the I use with xcopilot and it seems to do quite a lot. For Barcode capacity, I believe Symbol has packaged the Palm with a barcode reader built-in. I remember an article about Safeway in the UK was going to give some of these away to it's customers, but I never heard how that went. There are also quite a few programming tools for Palms available in Linux as well. Don't mind my E-Mail address, I am a test support tech, not a sales droid. I, Personally find the Palm family to be very nice, and it seems that a majority of hand-held users feel the same way. As I said, Symbol is selling them, IBM is selling them and more people are signing on to licience the OS for there own uses. The Visor from Handspring looks even better that Palm, but USB for Linux won't work with it right now. Seems the USB driver won't reconise the Visor until you activate the HotSync, but all the Palm tool expect to connect to the device BEFORE you HotSync. Other hand-held options are; WinCE . . . I know nothing about Linux support for these. Does it exist? Psion . . . I believe there is some support for Linux, I remember seeing a package for it once. Apple Newton . . . Has been completely dropped. Could others please add to this list? I don't want to sound TOO biased. This is what I know. I hope some other people out there can add their knowledge. Cheers, John Gay
Re: TeX and PDF
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jim McCloskey wrote: | i want to turn this into a pdf so i can get hard copy and stick it | on my wall. i can get hard copy (and stick it on a wall :) myself, | the problem is turning it into a pdf. The standard tetex distribution includes pdftex. Simply running: pdftex foo on the file `foo.tex' should produce foo.pdf. Jim And if that does not produce the desired result, do a latex foo dvips foo ps2pdf foo.ps Johann. -- Johann Spies,Windsorlaan 19, Pietermaritzburg, 3201, South Africa Tel/Faks 033-346-1310 Sel/Cell 082-255-2388 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.I Corinthians 10:12
Re: keymaps directory
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: In what directory is the keymap file that is loaded at boot? Something odd has happened to my computer a couple of times where some different keymap than US becomes my keyboard at boot and my 'a' key is 'q' and a lot of other keys change as well. I can type 'loadkeys -d' and load the defualt but last time I found the file and replaced it with the default keymap.gz and that fixed the problem. I have forgotten where I found that file. Lance On Slink: /etc/kbd/default.map.gz Johann -- Johann Spies,Windsorlaan 19, Pietermaritzburg, 3201, South Africa Tel/Faks 033-346-1310 Sel/Cell 082-255-2388 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.I Corinthians 10:12
RTL8139
Hey there all, I have just been trying to compile a new kernel (2.2.14) but i can not find the option to add support for the rtl8139 chipset 10/100 cards. They are reltivly common and there is documentation for them with the source but not the option to select in either 'make menuconfig' or 'make config'. I am farly sure that i could use this card type in 2.2.12 and _know_ that it can be used with slinks default kernel (2.0.38?) so i should be able to use it with this. any help would be most apreciated... ps. what happened to the packages 'squake' and 'xquake'?? Thanks. Tim -- Tim Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let the frantic Goddess and delerious drunk cry together in shadow for the puppy's sad stare, the forest and the death of the moon.
X doesn't start any more
Hi all, After choosing afterstep and some other stuff in dselect, when I reboot my machine, it says it's starting kdm, but nothing happens. And when I do exec xdm, it just logs me out. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks!
Re: samba copy permissions
If you are copying between two unix machines it might be easier to just use NFS to mount the drives and copy the files over via cpio or something similar. I think that since samba is based in windos without much in the way of permissions, all the permissions get lost. I personally run into problems with samaba when a user will create a dir and I want to put/remove files into it and have problems. I then have to telnet into my linux box and fix the permissions. Kindof a bummer, but at least the unix box is visible from windows. Hope this helps you out. - Paul On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:20:18PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hiya when using samba to copy one directory to another server it loses it origional permission and owner settings. i guess it's like when copying a users file to another directory whilst under root... it allocates root as the owner of that file. is there any setting in samba to tell it to keep it's origional permission/ownership rights?? else i will have to use tar in order to recreate this new server. thanx -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: rsh access
Don't know too much about rsh, but you would probably be better off with SSH as it is (more) secure and offers the same functionality. - Paul On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 04:07:10PM +1300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i asked this question before but no one answered... not too sure why as it is not a cryptic question. So, i will ask again. To rsh a Unix host from Debian i have to put the Debain server address in the .Rhosts file on the Unix Server and that works great. I now want to rsh a redhat linux server from my debian server...and i have no idea how to get it to work. I have added the debian server address in the hosts.allow/deny files... but that does not seem to work. Is there a step that i am missing??? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: setserial, stty not working
On 13.01.2000 08:38:00 AM matthschulz wrote: The permissions are: crw-rw 1 root dialout4, 64 Dec 28 21:00 /dev/ttyS0; I'm in the group dialout, but only minicom changes actualy the settings - nothing else I found - stty and setserial. So you tried with setserial, too ? B.
portmap question
I can't seem to figure out how to keep portmap from starting when I reboot. I've changed all references to portmap in the rc*.d directories from the S##portmap form to a K##portmap form. That doesn't seem to keep the portmapper from starting. I have to kill it each time I reboot. Just in case I forget though, I've added the following to my /etc/hosts/deny file: portmap: ALL: (/usr/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h | mail root) and I've removed the various NFS-related packages. I read a few solutions to this problem in the archives, and they range from renaming the portmap binary to editing the script in /etc/init.d. I didn't want to resort to these little hacks. Is there a way to keep it from starting in the first place? Also, why is portmap included in the netbase package anyway? tia... -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (
Re: setserial, stty not working
Using 'cat' probably opens the port in buffered mode.. where the contents of the buffer are not outputted until a \n is seen. I may not be correct about this, but I have played around with writing some serial apps and doing the same thing you are doing.. hooking up my multimeter to the serial port. If you are interested in some test programs, let me know and I will send them to you.. it may help resolve your problem. - Paul On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:50:57PM -0600, matthschulz wrote: I'm trying to setup a connection of an multimeter to ttyS0. It gives a steady stream of lines to the port. (CONRAD VC96 for whom who knows) When I use minicom for this, it works fine. The input is written on the sceen, can be saved and so on. I can leave minicom with ^A^Q and then cat /dev/ttyS0 writes the lines to the screen. But I have planned to program some functions to this stream at least maximum, minimum, average and others. So I tried to do the following in order to get rid of minicom: stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -parenb cs8 cstopb cread ixon isig ispeed 1200 to set the required 1200,8,N,2. I couldn't change the setting of the port at all. stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -a shows the change, but cat /dev/ttyS0 shows nothing. The permissions are: crw-rw 1 root dialout4, 64 Dec 28 21:00 /dev/ttyS0; I'm in the group dialout, but only minicom changes actualy the settings - nothing else I found - stty and setserial. Any ideas? Matth -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: keymaps directory
The keymaps for loadkeys on my system (debian) are in /usr/share/keymays/i386/ You can also just do a 'loadkeys us' to reload the map if you are using the us map.. or 'loadkeys dvorak' if you prefer a dvorak keyboard. The path to the loaded keymap will be displayed. - Paul On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 09:00:27PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: In what directory is the keymap file that is loaded at boot? Something odd has happened to my computer a couple of times where some different keymap than US becomes my keyboard at boot and my 'a' key is 'q' and a lot of other keys change as well. I can type 'loadkeys -d' and load the defualt but last time I found the file and replaced it with the default keymap.gz and that fixed the problem. I have forgotten where I found that file. Lance -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Packet libz1 missing
--- Gerhard Heid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need xserver-vga 3.3.5-2 for Nvidia Riva TNT2 graphic i386 -unstable, but dpkg needs libz1-Packet to be installed before. This Packet is not listet at all. As someone else has already said, it's provided by zlib1g. APT would have sorted this out automatically. Michel = Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable. -- Windows 95 BSOD __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: USR modem ZIP drive questions
--- Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried running irqtune from the hwtools package? Nope, I just stumbled upon irqtune when reading the IPmasq (or was it diald? ;) HOWTO yesterday. I'll try it next weekend. 1. I have a USR V90 56k modem. If I let it connect at anything above 33600, the RX rate drops drastically - to around 1kB/s. Any suggestions? But, do you think it will also help with this problem? It also shows up with virtually no load... Thanks, Michel = Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable. -- Windows 95 BSOD __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Hint: Finding packages with needed files
Let me comment on two different posts in one: --- Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where I can get libXpm.so.4? --- Ron Farrer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jpeg.h:8: jpeglib.h: No such file or directory jpeg.h:9: png.h: No such file or directory make: *** [atom.o] Error 1 I haven't figured out what package these might be in if any. There's a simple solution to that kind of problems. There's a file called Contents-i386.gz in the dists/your dist directory. It lists every single file with the package that contains it. So a 'zgrep file I need Contents-i386.gz' gives you the package(s) you have to install. Michel = Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable. -- Windows 95 BSOD __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: RTL8139
Tim Nicholas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just been trying to compile a new kernel (2.2.14) but i can not find the option to add support for the rtl8139 chipset 10/100 cards. They are reltivly common and there is documentation for them with the source but not the option to select in either 'make menuconfig' or 'make config'. If you do make menuconfig, go to the very first option, Code maturity level options, and say Y to Prompt for development drivers. Then the driver will appear under Network device support - Ethernet 10 or 100 Mbit. -- 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: USR modem ZIP drive questions
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Michel Dänzer wrote: --- Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried running irqtune from the hwtools package? Nope, I just stumbled upon irqtune when reading the IPmasq (or was it diald? ;) HOWTO yesterday. I'll try it next weekend. 1. I have a USR V90 56k modem. If I let it connect at anything above 33600, the RX rate drops drastically - to around 1kB/s. Any suggestions? But, do you think it will also help with this problem? It also shows up with virtually no load... Try doing a large zmodem download with minicom, if you get CRC errors when the HD is active then irqtune should fix it up. I had an 8MHz box with 4M RAM (the HD was always active ;) and couldn't transfer files at anything over 2400 bps, it died and I picked up a 25MHz box which showed the same problem at 9600 bps... running irqtune fixed it so that I could connect at 14.4 kbps without any errors. When I plugged in a 28.8 kbps modem the problem returned until I told irqtune to optimize for the IRQ used by the new modem. At no time did I have any IRQ conflicts, so it must be that the priority (what irqtune fiddles with) mattered. It's worth a try and is very simple to do. Install hwtools, edit /etc/rc.boot/hwtools so that it optimizes for the IRQ your serial port uses, then execute the script (no need to reboot). See if it worked by going online and checking the transfer rate. - Bruce
Re: portmap question
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote: I read a few solutions to this problem in the archives, and they range from renaming the portmap binary to editing the script in /etc/init.d. I didn't want to resort to these little hacks. Is there a way to keep it from starting in the first place? slink right? I commented out the lines that start it in /etc/init.d/netbase. I think that's as close as you're going to get as a best way to do it, because it unfortunately is crammed in there with the rest of the stuff. Also, why is portmap included in the netbase package anyway? I'm not sure. There was probably a reason for it I guess. It's been split up in potato, it now has its own script which makes it cleaner to deal with.
Worked it out
I worked out why X wouldn't start (had my XFree86 config wrong). Thanks anyway.
Completion/M-tab
What does that mean? B.
gzipped logs loose format
Old log files get gzipped (/var/log/*.?.gz). When I view them with mc using F3 they appear to have lost their format. All end-of-lines are removed and the text is `justified' to approx. 80 columns. This makes the logs very difficult to read and practically useless. When I ungzip the files and view them in the same way (mc - F3) - the effect is the same. If I edit an uncompressed file with vim, or view it using `Shift-F3' it looks OK. Is there an easy way to see the gzipped file correctly and quickly? Blazej PS An example: kern.log.1.gz is attached here kern.log.1.gz Description: Binary data
Re: Soft ejects
Fish Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The bottom line is, it isn't appropriate for my machine to be making decisions as to whether it is appropriate to eject a dis(k/c) or not. I should be making those decisions because the machine is unreliable and if I make a bad decision then I, as the user, am the one who has to pay for my ignorance. (and not the poor machine, I suppose ;) ... ) Many windows users are uncomfortable with this idea, and that is perfectly sensical. (don't think that word exists, but hey, opposite of nonsensical, right?) They ought to just stick to windows, the inferior system that doesn't let you make mistakes (or intelligent decisions) and instead makes them for you. Whow, all those super intelligent admins here ... I for all have many times forgotten to unmount the floppy before taking it out, not to talk about the users in our computer pool. (If you as an admin had to come and help out the following user who can't use the drive then, like me, you would maybe think a little bit more differently about that.) Unlike many others, I don't share the view that linux needs to be made more newbie friendly. Doing that will kill everything that made it great, and turn it into another Windoze. I can't see how desktops like Gnome or others have taken away the console from you, so you CAN both put in user friendlyness in the system and have all Unix power remaining at the same time. I don't care if the entire world doesn't all use GNU systems, as long as I have them to get my work done. But maybe without all this growing newbie user base GNU and Linux wouldn't have developped as much as they do now. If somebody doesn't understand, I will be helpful and try to explain, but if they don't want to tolerate a system with a learning curve then they don't have to use it, and probably don't deserve to. Leave this domain to those of us who do care to learn. I wonder if 'learning' really involves to care about remembering whether a floppy is mounted or not -- shouldn't using a computer involve that it remembers just such stupid things for you? (Sure you are using some scripts and cron instead of remembering all those commands and tasks you seldomly has to do, aren't you?) There are times in Word when I need to use a lowercase letter /i/ as a word but it doesn't think I should. This is precisely the reason we go to alternatives to M$, because M$ software always thinks it's smarter than we are and never is. So don't go bringing M$isms to us and our alternatives, please. (Talking about learning curves --) this is a user preference and can be turned off (it's another question if it should be turned on by default) -- you can have the same behaviour in emacs too. I'm not pleading for 'more power to the machine, less for the user who is knowing what she/he does', but I think my intelligence should be allowed to concentrate on more meaningfull things as mounted or unmounted floppies; but then there are things like autofs or other 'intelligent' programs which can take away those stupid tasks from me -- let's work for making these tools (and their installation scripts) more perfect, so these things don't bother us any more further on. Greetings, joachim
Re: mod_ssl
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: You need to use the openssl tools. You don't need to user Verisign or other CA but without doing that people will get pop-up boxes the first time they visit your site about the certificate being signed by an unknown party. If they choose to keep the certificate they won't be bothered again. I think the mod_ssl docs have an example on how to generate the certificate. maybe I didn't make myself clear: what I'm looking for is a tool to make a certificate for browser client so that only certificated clients can access certain parts of my site. I know that this is possible as you can use some directives in httpd.conf to enforce this. And if you go to the security section of your browser (netscape) there is a section where you can acquire a personal certificate (this is what I want to provide) either from Verisign or importing a previous generated one. Do you know how to do this? 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
WinFast 3D L2300
I got a problem to setup x-window with video card "WinFast 3D L2300". Have anyone installed this card? Which clockchip should be choose for it? Phil
ncurses upgrade to 5.0 left a dangling package behind
Under potato, after dselect upgraded ncurses to 5.0-X, one of the older ncurses packages was left behind (ncurses-base 4.2). It now shows as obsolete, but I'm a bit uncertain as to whether I should just go ahead and remove it by brutal force. Can something break if I do so? ,[ Dselect buffer ] |-- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base -- | *** Req base ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 none ` If I try to purge it, I get a very scary warning: ,[ Scary warning ] | The following packages will be REMOVED: | ncurses-base* | WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed | This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! | ncurses-base | 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. | Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 76.8kB will be freed. | You are about to do something potentially harmful | To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, I understand this may be bad' | ?] ` Thanks for any input! -- 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)
Adress magnager
Hi list, I am looking for a good way to handle all my adresses, email, phone numbers etc. Something like Adress book in netscape. Any suggestions what to use ? Best regards Joakim Svensson
Re: X doesn't start any more
Try reconfiguring X... On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote: Hi all, After choosing afterstep and some other stuff in dselect, when I reboot my machine, it says it's starting kdm, but nothing happens. And when I do exec xdm, it just logs me out. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Adress magnager
Joakim Svensson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am looking for a good way to handle all my adresses, email, phone numbers etc. Something like Adress book in netscape. Any suggestions what to use ? I've been using bbdb (available with [x]emacs) for a year, and am very satisfied. The records have all necessary fields, custom fields are supported, etc., is very easily searcheable, and integrates with emacs-based emailers to automatically expand email addresses. You can also snarf email addys from incoming messages by pressing just one key. HTH, -- 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: Soft ejects
I agree completely. Sean Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Fish Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The bottom line is, it isn't appropriate for my machine to be making decisions as to whether it is appropriate to eject a dis(k/c) or not. I should be making those decisions because the machine is unreliable and if I make a bad decision then I, as the user, am the one who has to pay for my ignorance. (and not the poor machine, I suppose ;) ... ) Many windows users are uncomfortable with this idea, and that is perfectly sensical. (don't think that word exists, but hey, opposite of nonsensical, right?) They ought to just stick to windows, the inferior system that doesn't let you make mistakes (or intelligent decisions) and instead makes them for you. Whow, all those super intelligent admins here ... I for all have many times forgotten to unmount the floppy before taking it out, not to talk about the users in our computer pool. (If you as an admin had to come and help out the following user who can't use the drive then, like me, you would maybe think a little bit more differently about that.) Unlike many others, I don't share the view that linux needs to be made more newbie friendly. Doing that will kill everything that made it great, and turn it into another Windoze. I can't see how desktops like Gnome or others have taken away the console from you, so you CAN both put in user friendlyness in the system and have all Unix power remaining at the same time. I don't care if the entire world doesn't all use GNU systems, as long as I have them to get my work done. But maybe without all this growing newbie user base GNU and Linux wouldn't have developped as much as they do now. If somebody doesn't understand, I will be helpful and try to explain, but if they don't want to tolerate a system with a learning curve then they don't have to use it, and probably don't deserve to. Leave this domain to those of us who do care to learn. I wonder if 'learning' really involves to care about remembering whether a floppy is mounted or not -- shouldn't using a computer involve that it remembers just such stupid things for you? (Sure you are using some scripts and cron instead of remembering all those commands and tasks you seldomly has to do, aren't you?) There are times in Word when I need to use a lowercase letter /i/ as a word but it doesn't think I should. This is precisely the reason we go to alternatives to M$, because M$ software always thinks it's smarter than we are and never is. So don't go bringing M$isms to us and our alternatives, please. (Talking about learning curves --) this is a user preference and can be turned off (it's another question if it should be turned on by default) -- you can have the same behaviour in emacs too. I'm not pleading for 'more power to the machine, less for the user who is knowing what she/he does', but I think my intelligence should be allowed to concentrate on more meaningfull things as mounted or unmounted floppies; but then there are things like autofs or other 'intelligent' programs which can take away those stupid tasks from me -- let's work for making these tools (and their installation scripts) more perfect, so these things don't bother us any more further on. Greetings, joachim -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb broken
Darxus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DeltaForce2 and winmine work on my machine with wine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb libwine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb, but not with wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb libwine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb (the latest). CUT Do you know where I can get wine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb and libwine_0.0.991114-2_i386.deb? I've also upgraded to the latest wine and now it just crashed with the same error messages as you. I've searched on the debian sites for the older wine packages but there's only the newer ones. I've also tried lycos ftp search with no luck.
console characters display problem
Hi *, I have a problem with console fonts display. The scenario is as follows: I load a font from /usr/share/consolefonts (namely iso02grf.psf which comes with embedded SFM), load the appropriate keyboard map (pl02.map) and expect to see the Polish diacritics on the screen. However, this is not the case. Instead I see the old characters from the CP437. Now, using showcfont reveals that the characters are where they should be! A simple experiment: showkey --keymap I press some keys that should produce the Polish diacritics (e.g. RtAlt-l should give me E with a hatch) and I see the hex keycode (in the sample case it's 0xb3) and, instead of seeing the character I expected, the display shows me a character that in the table produced by showcfont corresponds to one at the position 0xc7. Funnily enough, the character on position 0xb3 in the same table is exactly the one I wanted to see! This happens not only when I type, but also when I try to read some text with Polish diacritics. The machine runs latest potato. The thing is that at home, with the same potato, everything works just fine! I tried all combinations of consolechars invocations - with and without ACMs and SFMs and it still doesn't display as it should even though the keyboard produces correct codes... Anyone has any idea what it might be? :) marek pgpRayydHieXI.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mouse refuses to configure!
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 03:33:20PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua N Pritikin wrote: + The mouse hardware and cables are okay because the mouse works fine in Windows 95. + I suspected gpm so I disabled it with gpm -k and removed the startup file from /etc/rc6.d. Does the mouse work in GPM? Did you try gpmconfig in a console? That might help identify the device and protocol + I tried /dev/ttyS0-ttyS4 and some other random devices. /dev/mouse is symlink'd to /dev/ttyS0. Did you try /dev/psaux with mouse type PS2? That was the problem. As soon as I tried /dev/psaux, the mouse started working. Thanks! -- Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. via, but not speaking for Deutsche Bank
2.0.36 SMP
I have an Abit BP6 board with two celron 400mhz and I want to do SMP and possible overclocking. I am planning to do a clean install of GNU Debian 2.1 (slink)Advice, links and comments, please : -)
Prospective Newbie
(My state: I've used computers for 30 years, but no Intel machines for 10 [so I don't know modern hardware interfaces], and Linux never.) I'd like to install Linux (dip toe in water!) on an ancient Zeos machine (AMD 386DX, 6Mb RAM, 120Mb disk). However, this machine has no CD drive, and no net connection yet. 1) Is it reasonable to try to install a beginner's system on this machine from floppies? 2) Is there a way to do so with only a Mac connection to the net for downloading the disk images? (The problem: when a Mac writes or even reads an IBM floppy, it puts on a couple of hidden files that, though just 1k, make a file like base14-1.bin not fit.) 3) If the floppy idea is crazy, should I pay MEI-Micro $25 for an EIDE controller and $40 for a CD drive? Sorry for numskull questions; I promise to get smarter if I can get Linux going. Charles Hartman Poet in Residence, Connecticut College [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reinstalling Packages
Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which Tasks or Profiles you want installed. Thanks. Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com
Re: Reinstalling Packages
* mike == mike ber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which mike Tasks or Profiles you want installed. Thanks. No, not in Debian 2.1 It will be possible in Debian 2.2 Ciao, Martin
Re: gzipped logs loose format
* Blazej == Blazej Sawionek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blazej When I view them with mc using F3 they appear to have lost Blazej their format. All end-of-lines are removed and the text is Blazej `justified' to approx. 80 columns. This makes the logs very Blazej difficult to read and practically useless. When I ungzip the Blazej files and view them in the same way (mc - F3) - the effect is Blazej the same. mc does syntax highlighting and preprocessing based on the filename/extention. kern.log.1 looks like a manpage for the parser. It pipes the file through nroff (I think), which formats the text. File a wishlist grade bug on mc if you like. Don't know if it is possible to put in an exception to the bahaviuor, but I can check when I have some time (in an month or so). Blazej Is there an easy way to see the gzipped file correctly and Blazej quickly? Put eval $(lesspipe) into /etc/profile or such some, then less will do on the fly decompression of files. Ciao, Martin
Re: Reinstalling Packages
--- Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * mike == mike ber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which mike Tasks or Profiles you want installed. Thanks. No, not in Debian 2.1 It will be possible in Debian 2.2 And how is it possible in potato? Michel = Software is like sex; it's better when it's free -- Linus Torvalds If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable. -- Windows 95 BSOD __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
ICE-WM middle mouse task list + gnome
Good day all I am running a fairly recent potato, with Gnome and IceWM. When I updated, the task list that the middle mouse button on the root window used to bring up stopped appearing. This seems to have something to do with the Ice Gnome integration, because if I turn this off, I get the middle menu back, but it interferes with too much of the rest of Gnome So what I want to know, is if possible, how can I get the middle mouse button menu back? Thanks Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen Marais [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 13-Jan-2000 Time: 15:54:24 This message was sent by XFMail --
Re: wireless suggestions
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 09:45:04PM -0600, Aaron Solochek wrote: A friend and I want to connect our lan's via wireless ethernet and then split a DSL. Our houses are less than 300 ft apart, probably around i've been using Lucent's WaveLAN products to setup a 'WISP' for a month now, and even with many oopses, we're doing fine. right now i'm using a wireless connection with Lucent stuff to get to a leased line 2 miles away, and we get around 1.5Mbps. Also, i have done some tests with a laptop, walking around the street near to the wireless POP, and works fine. The WaveLAN is supported under Linux, so you should be fine. 280ft, with line of sight. We are looking to do this as cheaply as possible. Anyone with any suggestions for methods and/or products i don't know how much is cheap, but i think these cards are around $150 each, and you need a PCMCIA adaptor (or a laptop), and that's another $100 or so. Also, there is a similar line from Cabletron, cheaper, but i don't think their products work under linux, i don't remember. hope that helps you, Alberto. ps. i don't have nothing to do with Lucent, just use their products.
Re: Reinstalling Packages
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 06:48:10AM -0800, Michel Dänzer wrote: --- Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * mike == mike ber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which mike Tasks or Profiles you want installed. Thanks. No, not in Debian 2.1 It will be possible in Debian 2.2 And how is it possible in potato? try recent base-config and tasksel packaae Chanop -- ,-. | Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Australian National University | | visit my web site | | http://hilbert.anu.edu.au/~chanop/ | | FreeBSD ICQ uin 11366301| `-'
Installing VMWare on Debian
I want to install the newest (1.1.2) VMWare under debian, but i see that they changed the program locations a while ago, so now everything goes on /usr, instead of /usr/local. I tried to run alien on the tgz, but it fails. Is there any way of installing VMWare without screwing dpkg by putting stuff under /usr? I'm using potato. thanks, alberto
Re: Reinstalling Packages
Task selection in Debian 2.2 will be done by $ apt-cache show tasksel Package: tasksel Version: 1.0-2 Priority: optional Section: base Maintainer: Randolph Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: libc6 (= 2.1), slang1 ( 1.3.0-0) Architecture: i386 Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/tasksel_1.0-2.deb Size: 13712 MD5sum: 67e68909e8770052c4e31622a232dade Description: New task packages selector Interface for selecting task packages; used for boot-floppies, but can also be called independently installed-size: 108 The task selection in Debian 2.1 uses dpkg --set-selection, therefore it is not save to use it after installation (it is deletes itself). The new system will use apt-get to install the task-* packages. Apt will resolve dependancies (easier to handle wrt to task creation and update), and unlike with dpkg --set-selection, one can not have a state that two conflicting packages are marked for installation. You can also install a task-* package with the usual means. It is just a regular package. Ciao, Martin
Re: RTL8139
it is in there, i use it currently...enable support for i PCI VLB and onboard adapters i think the option is and a new set of NICs will show including the rtl8139. nate On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Tim Nicholas wrote: tim Hey there all, tim tim I have just been trying to compile a new kernel (2.2.14) but i can not tim find the option to add support for the rtl8139 chipset 10/100 cards. tim They are reltivly common and there is documentation for them with the tim source but not the option to select in either 'make menuconfig' or 'make tim config'. tim I am farly sure that i could use this card type in 2.2.12 and _know_ tim that it can be used with slinks default kernel (2.0.38?) so i should be tim able to use it with this. tim tim any help would be most apreciated... tim tim ps. what happened to the packages 'squake' and 'xquake'?? tim tim tim Thanks. tim tim Tim tim tim -- tim tim Tim Nicholas tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] tim tim Let the frantic Goddess and delerious drunk cry tim together in shadow for the puppy's sad stare, tim the forest and the death of the moon. tim tim tim -- tim Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null tim [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] ]-- 7:15am up 146 days, 19:16, 1 user, load average: 0.49, 0.40, 0.39
Re: wine_0.0.991212-1_i386.deb broken
Off-topic, but does anybody know if Corel's wine dev efforts have been fed back to the wine project? ...RickM...
Re: 2.0.36 SMP
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Jack Morgan wrote: yojack I have an Abit BP6 board with two celron 400mhz and I want to do SMP and yojack possible overclocking. I am planning to do a clean install of GNU Debian 2.1 yojack (slink) Advice, links and comments, please : -) yojack I would STRONGLY suggest AGAINST the BP6 if you are making a machine to do work that requires uptime, if its just a home machine and you dont mind random lockups then BP6 is fine. Overclocking a dual processor machine is also dangerous, especially on the BP6 as it adds more stress to an already overstressed board. It can be done, i suggest if you go with the BP6 install it as quickly as possible and do VERY intense burnin tests (i suggest using the 2.2.10 kernel to start, move to 2.2.14 lateron if you like). If you.. have 64MB of ram = run 6 copies of [EMAIL PROTECTED] on different VTs (or in screens) have 128MB of ram = run 10 copies of [EMAIL PROTECTED] on different VTs use lm_sensors to monitor CPU temp, i also suggest against using the stock intel fans go with FDP32s (or is it FEP32 i forget which) also put heatsink grease and a fan on the i440BX chip on the board and deck the machine out with high speed fans. for the test i also suggest not using the DMA66 controller if you are IDE (my BP6 is full scsi) after the test go ahead and use it. The intel fans made my BP6 with 466Mhz cpus go to 50C, now my CPUs with FDP(or FEP?)32 fans are ~27-33C. Although i havent run [EMAIL PROTECTED] in a few months. Let the machine run for 3 days, if it is still going (and processing the seti data) then the machine can be declared a hell of a lot more stable then mine :) my machine would lockup in ~20 minutes. i discovered this well after my warranty expired, i spent over a month troubleshooting my machine, some people have good boards, i suppose i could go buy a new BP6 and run more tests on it and return if needed, but i have little hope that i would find a good one. bottom line though is, run very intensive I/O and CPU tests on it for an extended period before deciding that the board is good. nate [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] ]-- 7:15am up 146 days, 19:16, 1 user, load average: 0.49, 0.40, 0.39
