Re: Una de unix
El Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 12:20:22PM +0100, Xose Manoel Ramos contaba: tail -f /dev/xconsole Me corrijo a mi mismo. Esto no funciona. No entiendo el porqué, pues he trabajado con FIFOs usando el 'dd' y el 'cat' y creía que el funcionamiento era igual al de un fichero normal sólo que con tamaño variable. El comando que sí funciona es el siguiente: # less -f /dev/xconsole Pruebalo y dime si te ha servido de solución. -- \/ _ _ _ (Vigo/Galicia/España) /\(_)_\(/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://i.am/xmanoel/
Re: Una de unix
El Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 08:49:01AM +0100, Fernando contaba: Pero yo busco algo al estilo xconsole pero sin x, quiero decir que sin interferir con el funcionamiento normal me permita capturar los mensajes dirigidos a la consola. ( Si xconsole puede hacerlo, es que se puede hacer :-) Pues nada más sencillo: tail -f /dev/xconsole Te digo que utilices 'xconsole' porque este dispositivo está tratado especialmente por el syslogd. Es un FIFO y por tanto mucho más adecuado para que apliques un TAIL. Vas a tener que modificar los permisos de 'xconsole' para que tu usuario pueda acceder a el. -- Saudos: ose[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vigo/Galicia/España) http://pagina.de/xmanoel/ http://w3.to/mikkeli/
Re: Linux por satelit
Nestor A. Diaz wrote: Yo estoy en Colombia, me consigo los equipos para conectarme a un satelite, no cierto? y me [...] Pero me surge la idea : yo podria entonces afiliarme a un servicio de estos por decir algo en Estados Unidos, pagar mi afiliacion y la mensualidad con tarjeta de credito y gozar de este servicio en mi pais? Hola Nestor, Yo, que vivo en Chile, estaba pensando exactamente lo mismo, y creo que tecnicamente es posible. Solo necesitamos que determinado satelite sea visible desde nuestras coordenadas. Para ti sera mas factible que para mi que estoy mucho mas al sur. Lo otro es saber la ubicacion exacta del satelite y si transmite la su se~al codificada (en cuyo caso seria necesario un decodificador, supongo que proporcionado por la misma compa~ia que prestaria el servicio), y alguien que tenga idea de como orientar la antena y los demas detalles tecnicos. En fin, me voy a poner a investigar a ver si encuentro algo. Blu.
Re: Hay en linux un programa parecido al autocad?
Existe una versión para estudiantes del MicroStation 95, que tiene una calidad como mínimo similar a la del AutoCad. Pasate por ¿Similar? Es mucho mejor que el AutoCad. http://www.bentley.com/ema/academic/ para más info ... En Madrid (y creo que para toda España), el distribuidor es Aula Técnica Ingenieros Av. Reina Victoria 15 Tel. 91 456 20 70 A mí me costó 13000 pesetas. Venían dos CDs, uno con el programa y varios módulos y otro con toda la documentación en PDF, la misma que los manuales en papel. Aparte de esto, hay unos cuantos proyectos libres, aunque no han alcanzado todavía su madurez... Sip. Yo creo que el Qcad tiene bastante futuro, aunque estma muy muy verde. Por otro lado, el Grass parece la leche (no lo he probado). -- Un Saludo Han Solo The Rebel Alliance Conecto, luego existo. Desconecto, luego insisto. Soy usuario de infobirria+ P.D. La firma no es mía, sino de uno que trabajaba, precisamente, en M$. Vivir para ver. pgpf9vbMbjRqF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Dudas sobre Potato
Hola
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tengo instalada la slink.
[...]
Como la conexión a internet que tengo en casa no es muy catolica, tambien
había pensado en bajarme la Potato desde el trabajo y meterla a un CD y
actualizar mi slink con los paquetes del CD. ¿Me iria bien?
Te cuento como lo hago yo...
Desde casa hago un apt-get update para actualizar las listas de paquetes
de potato, luego ejecuto el siguiente shell script segun dice la
documentacion del apt-get que se encuentra en:
/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.htm/
el script me saca una lista de paquetes para actualizar y me la envia por
e-mail al trabajo comprimida con gzip
#!/bin/sh
EMAIL=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get -f -qq --print-uris dist-upgrade |\
awk '{print wget -O $2 $1}' |\
gzip -c9 | uuenpipe | sed -e 's/UUPIPEOUT/wget-script.gz/' |\
mail -s Wget Script de `date +%x` $EMAIL
-
Esta lista que me envia es un shell script que se baja los paquetes con el
programa wget
Como en el trabajo no tengo maquina unix para jugar, utilizo el cygwin y
el wget para cygwin para bajarme los paquetes, luego me los grabo en un CD
regrabable y los copio al directorio /var/cache/apt/archive y luego
simplemente con un apt-get -m -u dist-upgrade se van actualizando...
Si tienes alguna duda o problema, dilo a ver si encontramos solución
Saludos
China prefiere LINUX
Holas, China prefiere LINUX http://www.netline.cl/Home/informacion/not4.htm Blu.
StarOffice
Alguien sabe donde se consiguen los drivers para impresoras HP del Staroffice (deskjet 660C y deskjet 810C) Y si alguien sabe como se usa el pconfig por que me cuelga la maquina tal ves me falte una libreria o no se que puede ser. Gracias.
Herramienta de configuración de sawmill
Hola a todos! Tengo un sistema Debian slink, con XFree 3.3.3, October Gnome y Sawmill 0.24. Pues bien, cuando intento arrancar la herramienta de configuración de sawmill, el sawmill-capplet se come toda la CPU disponible en lo que aparentemente es un bucle sin fin (mirado con el strace). Además se queja de que no encuentra el fichero o directorio gtk :?¿?¿?¿ La misma queja la muestra el sawmill-ui. Alguien sabe qué es lo que ocurre? He usado los paquetes de sawmill para slink a los que se apunta desde la homepage de sawmill. Agradeceré cualquier ayuda. 'tapronto Iñaki Llona e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://glub.ehu.es/ 'Grupo de LinUxuarios de Bizkaia' Clave pública PGP: mandame un mensaje con Subject: Clave publica.
Re: 2 particiones Swap?
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Ugo Enrico Albarello wrote: At 08:40 PM 2000-02-24 +0100, Emilio Hernández Martín wrote: [...] Mi pregunta es: si al instalar Linux sólo te pide (creo) una partición para el Swap, ¿cómo se hace para poder tener el Swap en dos particiones y encima en distintos discos duros? Una vez que termines de instalar el sistema, creas la nueva partición swap, la creas (con mkswap) y la activas (a mano es swapon, si mal no recuerdo, pero si la metes en /etc/fstab, debería cargarla al inicio) Que sea más rápido... lo dudo mucho, al menos con un solo swap en otro disco que esté en otra controladora (es decir, que no compartan el cable) debe andar algo mejor. Lo de los dos swap... no sé, supongo que primero usa uno hasta que se acabe, y después usa el otro, así que la ventaja no sería mucha. Supones mal los accesos terminan por realizarse de forma bastante equilibrada. Cuando un sistema está muy cargado la swap se convierte en un cuello de botella y limita la eficiencia de todo el sistema. Si Linux no optimizara el uso de la swap los de Windows tendrían poderosas razones para reirse de nosotros. Un saludo Antonio +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ /\ /\ Ciberdroide Informatica (tienda linux) \\W// http://www.ciberdroide.com _|0 0|_ +-oOOO--(___o___)--OOOo--+ | . . . . U U . . . . Antonio Castro Snurmacher | | http://slug.ctv.es/~acastro.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | +()()()--()()()--+ +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ (((Donde Linux)))http://www.ciberdroide.com/misc/donde/dondelinux.html +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
Re: Sugerencias a la traduccion de Powered by
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, SKaVeN wrote: Hell-o Roberto Meyer! El día Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 04:17:41PM CET Me da la impresion que hasta el infinito y mas alla viene de alguna serie de ciencia-ficcion o algo asi, que yo desconozco, perdon por la ignorancia. esa frase viene de la película Toy Story de donde tambien salen los nombres de las distintas distribuciones de Debian (Hamm, Slink, Potato, ). Ademas, creo que es un buen eslogan que resume la fuerza de Linux Yo también aunque es muy largo. En versión internacional reducida podría quedar así: Debian - oo + ^ -Hasta ooel infinito y + más ^ allá Creo que esta propuesta puede despertar posturas encontradas pero en un eslogan eso suele ser una buena señal porque luego a fuerza de verlo no choca tanto y queda original. Si se le pregunta a alguien que diga el nombre de una mascota de campeonato de futbol o de unas olimipiadas probablemente dirá Cobi que no gustó a casi nadie al principio. Bueno es una idea más y reconozco que queda raro pero podría funcionar. Saludos Antonio +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ /\ /\ Ciberdroide Informatica (tienda linux) \\W// http://www.ciberdroide.com _|0 0|_ +-oOOO--(___o___)--OOOo--+ | . . . . U U . . . . Antonio Castro Snurmacher | | http://slug.ctv.es/~acastro.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | +()()()--()()()--+ +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ (((Donde Linux)))http://www.ciberdroide.com/misc/donde/dondelinux.html +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
Para cuando la Potato
Hay gente que me pregunta que cuando puede estar la Debian Potato. Si no he entendido mal parece que hay problemas. Se comenta de eliminar 100 paquetes que presentan problemas y entre ellos tenemos nada menos que: http://bugs.debian.org/apache http://bugs.debian.org/fetchmail http://bugs.debian.org/gpm http://bugs.debian.org/samba Lo más sensato sería volver a retrasar la Potato no ? Se que pido algo muy dificil pero si alguien puede orientarme sobre fechas lo agradecería. Saludos Antonio +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ /\ /\ Ciberdroide Informatica (tienda linux) \\W// http://www.ciberdroide.com _|0 0|_ +-oOOO--(___o___)--OOOo--+ | . . . . U U . . . . Antonio Castro Snurmacher | | http://slug.ctv.es/~acastro.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | +()()()--()()()--+ +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ (((Donde Linux)))http://www.ciberdroide.com/misc/donde/dondelinux.html +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
Re: Para cuando la Potato
Antonio Castro wrote: Hay gente que me pregunta que cuando puede estar la Debian Potato. ... ... Se que pido algo muy dificil pero si alguien puede orientarme sobre fechas lo agradecería. ... Según las últimas Debian weekly news (http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2000/7/) se ha intimado a todos los desarrolladores para que respondan sobre los Release critical bugs(RCB) antes del 28 de febrero, so pena de eliminar el paquete con el bug de potato. Parece ser que ha dado algún resultado, el número de RCB ha bajado de ~300 a ~200 en la última semana. (Ver: http://master.debian.org/~wakkerma/bugs/) O también: http://master.debian.org/~wakkerma/bugs/debian/all.html -- Saludos, O__ Enzo.,/ ()=\() Enzo A. Dari | Instituto Balseiro / Centro Atomico Bariloche 8400-San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 54-2944-445208, 54-2944-445100 Fax: 54-2944-445299 Web page: http://cabmec1.cnea.gov.ar/darie/darie.htm
Re: Linux por satelit
Hola! Si contratais un servicio de Internet a través de satelite, teneis que tener en cuenta que la comunicación entre vosotros y el ISP se hace a traves de linea telefonica como siempre, el retorno no es a traves del satelite, por lo que habriais de contactar con un numero de telefono en USA ni hay nodo de acceso local, y no creo que salga muy economico... Saludos On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Blu wrote: Nestor A. Diaz wrote: Yo estoy en Colombia, me consigo los equipos para conectarme a un satelite, no cierto? y me [...] Pero me surge la idea : yo podria entonces afiliarme a un servicio de estos por decir algo en Estados Unidos, pagar mi afiliacion y la mensualidad con tarjeta de credito y gozar de este servicio en mi pais? Hola Nestor, Yo, que vivo en Chile, estaba pensando exactamente lo mismo, y creo que tecnicamente es posible. Solo necesitamos que determinado satelite sea visible desde nuestras coordenadas. Para ti sera mas factible que para mi que estoy mucho mas al sur. Lo otro es saber la ubicacion exacta del satelite y si transmite la su se~al codificada (en cuyo caso seria necesario un decodificador, supongo que proporcionado por la misma compa~ia que prestaria el servicio), y alguien que tenga idea de como orientar la antena y los demas detalles tecnicos. En fin, me voy a poner a investigar a ver si encuentro algo. Blu. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Para cuando la Potato
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 10:37:07AM +0100, Antonio Castro wrote: Hay gente que me pregunta que cuando puede estar la Debian Potato. Si no he entendido mal parece que hay problemas. Se comenta de eliminar 100 paquetes que presentan problemas y entre ellos tenemos nada menos que: http://bugs.debian.org/apache http://bugs.debian.org/fetchmail http://bugs.debian.org/gpm http://bugs.debian.org/samba Lo m?s sensato ser?a volver a retrasar la Potato no ? Bueno, que estos paquetes tengan bugs no quiere decir que no los vayan a arreglar. El tema de los bug horizons lo puso en marcha Richard Braakman para deshacerse automáticamente de los paquetes mal mantenidos (si un desarrollador no responde a un bug critico en un tiempo prudente, está mal mantenido, *creo*). Si se cae de potato tu paquete favorito... hey, mantenlo tu, y estará al día :) Se que pido algo muy dificil pero si alguien puede orientarme sobre fechas lo agradecer?a. Si todo va como esta previsto (sólo 2 test cycles, la primera quincena de marzo en la calle). Personalmente yo haría un tercer test cycle para tener claras bastantes cosas raras que le pasa a algunas personas. Si hubiese un 3ro, serían 2 semanas más de freeze. Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Rediscovering Freedom, ka Oskuro in RL-MUD || [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Using Debian GNU/Linux http://sindominio.net GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/917A225E telnet pusa.uv.es 23 73ED 4244 FD43 5886 20AC 2644 2584 94BA 917A 225E pgpIXicCL02vQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Error de compilacion kernel 2.0.36
Hell-o Roberto Meyer! El día Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 06:26:45PM CET Es cierto que este compilador no lo tengo, slink instala 'nas', pregunta: es el problema la falta de 'as86'? Si asi fuera... creE un link 'as86' a 'nas' y no reconocio la primera opcion... = conseguir as86? xq no viene con slink si el mismisimo kernel lo necesita? si no me equivoco ese programa debe estar dentro del paquete bin86 ;) -- Nos leemos... .--. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- |o_o | SKaVeN - [EMAIL PROTECTED] |:_/ | Linux Pauered (Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Slink) // \ \ Linux Registered User #158497 (http://counter.li.org) (| | ) -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-/'\_ _/`\ \___)=3D(___/
Reset al instalar en portátil ¿?¿?
Hola a todos. Al intentar instalar desde CD (Citius Debian 2.1), desde disquete con resc1440.bin, resc1440-safe.bin, resc1440tecra.bin o resc1440tecra-safe.bin ocurre siempre lo mismo: la máquina no termina de cargar el núcleo y se resetea, ¿alguien me puede decir qué es lo que pasa?. Yo creía que era cosa de bzImage versus zImage y el famoso a20 pero ya que me ocurre con los 'boot-floppies' tecra la cosa no debe ir por ahí. Muchas gracias y saludos. -- 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
Re: Hay en linux un programa parecido al autocad?
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 04:00:19PM +, David Charro Ripa wrote: Hola Han Solo: Sip. Yo creo que el Qcad tiene bastante futuro, aunque estma muy muy verde. Por otro lado, el Grass parece la leche (no lo he probado). No veo paquete del Grass en potato, ni en woody. Creia haberlo visto. ¿Lo han quitado? ¿Nunca estuvo y tengo alucinaciones? Que yo sepa no ha estado.. estoy en tramites de hacer el paquete yo mismo aunque aún no lo tengo preparado. Me parece un programa muy intersante... el problema.. son 20Mbs de programa :) De todos modos, el Grass es un GIS (Sistema de Informacion Geografica) Se suelen apoyar en algun programa de CAD para la parte de visualizacion pero no es propiamente un programa de CAD. Es decir, esta orientado a la gestion y el manejo de informacion geografica. Utilizarlo para diseñar en general... no se ... igual se podria aprovechar. Pues yo creo que no, un GIS es distinto a un programa CAD... que yo sepa al menos Javi
Re: Reset al instalar en portátil ¿?¿?
On sáb, feb 26, 2000 at 07:13:08 +0100, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: Hola a todos. Hola compañero %-PP ¿he sido rápido eh? X'D Bueno, pues ya lo he resuelto. Era un error en los boot-floppies de la Citius. Me he bajado el resc1440.bin de Slink2.1r4 y se acabó el problema. Gracias de todos modos. -- 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
ppp0 y eth0 se dan de leches?
Hola Acabo de adquirir una tarjeta ethernet y ya la tengo configurada y chutando para la red local que tengo en casa, el problema es que en uno de los equipos tengo un modem, el caso es que desde que la he puesto cuando intento conectar me desconecta en cuanto me va a asignar la ip el ISP, si la quito, ya no me pasa. Supongo que es porque no tengo bien configurado todo para que cuando haga llamada interprete correctamente que debe usar ppp0 para ciertas direcciones y eth0 para las locales. la pregunta es, ¿cómo lo hago? o, ¿dónde encuentro la info que necesito? Un saludo Daniel
Re: Hay en linux un programa parecido al autocad?
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 04:00:19PM +, David Charro Ripa wrote: Hola Han Solo: No veo paquete del Grass en potato, ni en woody. Creia haberlo visto. ¿Lo han quitado? ¿Nunca estuvo y tengo alucinaciones? A mi no me suena haberlo visto nunca en ninguna distribución, y seguro que es GPL. -- Un Saludo Han Solo The Rebel Alliance Conecto, luego existo. Desconecto, luego insisto. Soy usuario de infobirria+ P.D. La firma no es mía, sino de uno que trabajaba, precisamente, en M$. Vivir para ver. pgp678HOwaKMT.pgp Description: PGP signature
sobre la conesion( modem okupao )
pos intento conestar con el linux y me dice ke el modem ta okupao. He provado de todo entre pppd, ppp0, kppp... fajo mierdas y creo ke el puerto com1 el ttyS0 deve estar lockado i en /var/lock no ta el file lck..ttyS0 alguien sabe ke koo pasa o me pueden decir como deslockeo el puerto o komo koo puedo hacer pa conestar?? x-zombie
Re: WindowMaker menus are all gone!
Le 2000-02-25 12:54:25 -0500, Jonathan Markevich écrivait : I installed potato's windowmaker last night, and it worked fine until I stepped through the configuration boxes. When it got to the menu one, it complained that all of the applications were wrong, or something like that... so it promptly deleted the menus. I have purged and reinstalled it a few times and can't get the menus back! How do I do so??? Thanks. If I remember well, replace the content of your ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu file by : menu.hook Hope it helps. -- Jean-Philippe Guérard
Re: Support to UNIX Termcap system.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like know if the version Debian 2.1 include support for the common UNIX Termcap system. Debian uses the even more common Unix terminfo system. The terminfo libraries (included in the ncurses library) have a termcap compatibility mode built in for programs that want to use the termcap interface. How can I provide this support? You don't have to provide it. Debian provides it. Mike. -- dhbgr zr ba guvf bar - biretnna bc Rkpunatr vf rra jvwf orfyhvg -- ZnepbU. -- The From: and Reply-To: addresses are internal news2mail gateway addresses. Reply to the list or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
Re: fstab vs. mtab
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 03:19:47PM -0800, Alex McCool wrote Could someone explain the diff between fstab and mtab? In a nutshell: fstab is created and maintained by the superuser, and describes/provides defaults for filesystems to be mounted. mtab is created and maintained by the system, and describes filesystems which are currently mounted. Fstab usually includes all your regular partitions that are mounted automatically, plus (on Linux) entries for /proc, swap and /dev/ptys. It can also contain any other mounts that may be useful (/cdrom, /fd0) with the noauto option (so that they won'tbe mounted automatically), so that you can say, e.g., # mount /cdrom to pick up the mount options from /etc/fstab, instead of # mount -t iso9660 -o ro,nodev,nosuid /dev/hdb /cdrom You should never edit /etc/mtab yourself. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: fstab vs. mtab
Thanks for the quick info on fstab and mtab
Eterm -C
Hi all, Does anyone know how to use Eterm as a console window for grabbing messages from /dev/console. I know I am suppose to use the -C option when starting Eterm... but it never works! BTW, I am using enlightenment w/ gnome-session (if this helps?) --- Parrish = --- Academia is a little like child | Parrish M. Myers rearing, it provides a chance at | The Wacked Jester immortality without the stretch | [EMAIL PROTECTED] marks -- (unknown source)| --- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: ssh keys keep changing.
On one machine, I get this message everytime I connect to it. I have tried to reinstall ssh via apt-get remove/install ssh, and I still get the error message everytime. Reinstalling ssh won't solve the problem as some simple reading would make clear. See below. actually if you are using potato then apt-get'ing ssh will get you openssh not the older version which is now ssh-nonfree. Try following the directions given here. Take a look at your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file and make sure the key for mrfan listed in the file matches the key on mrfan. i had this exact same problem when i tried upgrading to openssh a week ago. i thought at first that it was just that openssh must store the keys in a different format then the old ssh program so i blew away my known_hosts file... but no. after i'd deleted the known_hosts file i could connect to any given host once, but after that i would get the above error ... no matter what i tried. since i use ssh a lot for work i quickly reverted back to ssh-nonfree. adam.
Re: Eterm -C
Does anyone know how to use Eterm as a console window for grabbing messages from /dev/console. I know I am suppose to use the -C option when starting Eterm... but it never works! BTW, I am using enlightenment w/ gnome-session (if this helps?) this is the command i used to run from my ~/.xinitrc for windowmaker (i don't use eterm anymore, now i use wterm though cause i can get rid of the scroll bars). (sleep 10; Eterm -O -W -F-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal-*-*-80-*-*-c-*-iso646.1991-irv -M /dev/null -S black -f yellow --unfocused-scrollbar-color black -L 512 -C -x -g 187x6+0+0) the sleep was there because i use transparent terms and if the eterm started up before the background image was set it wouldn't work right. the font stuff can all be removed if you just want the standard font but that was the nicest looking small font i could find. adam.
installation prob
I've been trying to install Debian on a 486 laptop with floppies copied from the Debian site onto my desktop computer(I have no cdrom drive on the laptop). Installing the base system went really well, but when I try to use dselect to add more packages, I run into trouble. Dselect prompts for the packages file from the main folder at the Debian site, but that file is too big to fit on a floppy (I think it's 1.6 megs). I've tried the packages.gz file and that doesn't work. I've also tried decompressing the packages.gz file on the laptop hard drive and getting dselect to read it from there, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. I know I must be missing a really obvious solution, but I'm stumped. I've read every applicable FAQ and saw no reference to this problem, so maybe you guys can help. My question is: how can I install more packages from the floppy drive? Thanks, Sheri __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Rethinking system set-up, would like some feedback
Hello Olaf, On 25-Feb-00, you wrote: OM Dear all, OM OM Now that I've got two brand new external SCSI drives to play with I OM am rethinking my system set-up. If you have got some advice, I'd OM love to hear it. Here is the scoop. OM OM The system in question is an IBM PC 300PL with an internal 8.3GB IDE OM drive and 2 external SCSI drives (20GB and 27GB). It also has an MO OM drive and CDRW connected to it. General rules: Put the swap, s/w and data on different spindles. Put database journals/logs on different spindles to the databases. Consider mirroring on different spindles for s/w and 'flat' data partitions. Splitting swap, s/w and data across different spindles will give a performance benefit. Splitting databases and journals across different spindles gives recovery. Mirroring across different spindles gives resilience, but if done in s/w results in a performance loss. Think about what data you are dealing with and try to balance/reconcile the above, then leave yourself enough scratch space so that you can reorganise it all again in the light of experience. Set up at least two installations of each version of Linux that you run i.e. stable unstable (three is better - total six - your system should never be down and you can be right up to date ;-/ ;-)) - you can update one and test it, and if there are problems, you can boot a back-up/fall-back system. If you have frequently used CDs, put them on HD, in 'scratch' space. Depending on your data, and MO capacity, archive to these devices. The RW capability of CDRW can be a 'double edged blade' - I wouldn't want to RW it too many times, but it's ok for getting it wrong a few times. Consider putting the SCSI HDs on separate controllers - performance+, Resilience+- not h/w mirroring though :-(. If I were running journalised databases, I would put duplicate Linux s/w partitions on each of the SCSI HDs with corresponding swap partitions on the 'other/opposite' HD. I would put db journals/logs/db backups on the internal HD. I wouldn't mirror the system, s/w db partitions but would update the second db from the journal/log from the first (dirty fingers bit). If I were setting up a workstation I would put the swap and backups on the internal HD and mirror everything else - it would be worth getting a second controller - still not h/w mirroring though :-(. And then, in the light of experience, I'd probably 'revise' it ;-) Summary: multi-spindle disk systems can give benefits in: 1. Performance. 2. Recovery (in the event of h/w, s/w user errors) 3. Resilience (in the event of h/w failure) Unless you have 50GB+ of data, you should be able to archive at least two out of three of these. Bye, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk ...or something.
Video support for Tecra 8100 (S3 Savage MX)??
I know these laptops are new but has anyone had any luck installing Debian on it? As the subject suggests, I suspect problems with the video already. TIA. -Ian p.s. Please include me on the reply as this account isn't on the mailing list.
Upgrading my kernel
Hey everyone, I found out that if I upgrade my kernel to 2.1 (right now I'm using Debian Slink with the 2.0.36 kernel) I can use my HP 3100c scanner. Is it safe/possible to upgrade my kernel, and if I can, would I get the kernel source off the debian website or what? Thanks, Cameron Matheson
Re: Problelm with mounting of partitions
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 08:44:14PM +0100, Thomas Delaet wrote: Therefore I had to add the line /dev/hdc2 /var ext2 rw 0 0 in my /etc/mtab file again. Otherwise this operation won't have any effect on the /var filesystem Don't edit /etc/mtab. Your edits for mount points should only be in /etc/fstab. It should probably look like: /dev/hdc2 /varext2defaults0 2 You may want to change the options from defaults... $ mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc2 /var # mount /dev/hdc2 on /var This worked ;-) $ ls /var # list the contents of var I can list the contents of my filesytem. $ mount # another way to get a list of what's mounted The /var partition isn't in the list of mounted partitions Well, that is a problem. If mount doesn't know it's mounted, how can it umount -a at system shutdown? (Rhetorical question) So, you do have an empty directory on the root partition called 'var'? And, you have an entry to mount it in /etc/fstab? If both of those are the case, then I'm at a loss why when you mount it, it doesn't show up in /etc/mtab. Anyone? -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Unable to load lp module
I just wiped out my system and reloaded with Potato and a 2.2.14 kernel. When I tried configuring modules, I got this error on the lp module: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: invalid parameter parm_io /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod lp failed Installation failed. When I try insmod lp.o, I get this: lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_enumerate_Rd3cb4efd lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_claim_or_block_R21556569 lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_release_R139844a3 lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_unregister_device_R60d23b61 lp.o: unresolved symbol parport_register_device_Rb152ec85 I have none of the parport modules loaded. lp was working fine before I did the switch. What is causing this error? Steve Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ppp: error in VJ decompression
I have a potato system, with a 2.2.14 kernel. I keep getting a message in syslog saying ppp: error in VJ decompression. As far as I can tell, VJ decompression is handled by a utility in the PPP package. Is there any way I can debug this? Are there any bugs in PPP that might cause this? Something is slowing my ppp sessions down to a crawl, I'm wondering if this might be the cause? When I log on with my Windows 95 laptop, I have no problems downloading from the same sites. So I believe it is something in the Potato setup of PPP, but I haven't been able to determine what. Steve Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mutt, mailing lists, and senders
Hi folks, I've got a nagging little problem with Mutt, and I was wondering if anyone had a way around it. The `lists' option in the .muttrc file is very handy with mailing lists, mainly because it lets you use `L' to reply to the list. It also makes the `from' field in the message list show the name of the mailing list. What I want is to be able to use the L key to reply, but not have the name of the mailing list (leaving the name of the actually sender) in the message list. I hope that makes sense. Anyone have any clue as to how to do this? cheers, damon -- Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) / It's not a sense of humor. * Criminologist / It's a sense of irony * Webmeister / disguised as one. * Linux Geek / - Bruce Sterling - Running Debian GNU/Linux: Doing my bit for World Domination (tm) - pgpSy10UcK71j.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ppp: error in VJ decompression
Steve Martin writes: I keep getting a message in syslog saying ppp: error in VJ decompression. Try adding the pppd option 'novj' to turn off VJ compression. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: Can't click links in Netscape??
Thanks to all who replied. I always used to start X using wdm, but the last time I started X I used 'startx'. I just quit X now, and restarted wdm, and netscape behaved properly... I think it may have been some bad /etc/X11/Xsession settings. I had changed /etc/X11/wdm/Xsession to allow netscape to make use of the wheel button on my mouse (for line scrolling, Alt+wheel allows me to scroll pages now, all very cool). It would be nice to get netscape to behave when using startx, but it isn't a high priority Thanks, Wim. On 24-Feb-2000 Wim Kerkhoff wrote: Netscape seems to exit and start cleanly... Could it be that the mapping for the mouse buttons are messed up? Do you know where those settings are stored? On 24-Feb-2000 aphro wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: wim Nope, restarting Netscape doesn't resolve the issue, and this happens on every wim link on every site I go to... when you exit netscape make sure there is no netscape process still sitting there, many times netscape may exit(or the user quits it) and the netscape process is still running. if it is, kill it (try -1 then -12 then -9 or just do -9 if you like) nate Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. -- motto of the Christopher Society
Re: installation prob
try decompressing the file on to your hard disk and then using the command dpkg --merge-avail wherever you uncompressed the file/Packages I couldn't get dselect to work either, but this is a work around. Apperently dpkg can't read compressed files. Marshal sheri == sheri cregger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been trying to install Debian on a 486 laptop with floppies copied from the Debian site onto my desktop computer(I have no cdrom drive on the laptop). Installing the base system went really well, but when I try to use dselect to add more packages, I run into trouble. Dselect prompts for the packages file from the main folder at the Debian site, but that file is too big to fit on a floppy (I think it's 1.6 megs). I've tried the packages.gz file and that doesn't work. I've also tried decompressing the packages.gz file on the laptop hard drive and getting dselect to read it from there, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. I know I must be missing a really obvious solution, but I'm stumped. I've read every applicable FAQ and saw no reference to this problem, so maybe you guys can help. My question is: how can I install more packages from the floppy drive? Thanks, Sheri __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Problems getting 100bTx with 3c59x drivers and 3c905B-Tx card
i strongly suggest upgrading the driver, i run 1.0.0e on all my systems. the older one has some problems on the newer cards. nate On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Patrick Hamel wrote: phamel Hi, phamel phamel I recently bought a new 10/100Mb hub and I have problem running my phamel 3c905B-Tx to 100bTx. phamel phamel What happens is this: phamel phamel [WinNT, Win98] phamel - All fine, link comes up at 100/full as per EEPROM autoselection. phamel phamel [Linux (Debian potato (Dec 99) with 2.2.13 kernel)] phamel During boot and before modules are loaded, link shows up at 100/full phamel Module 3c59x is loaded, link goes down (fraction of second) phamel Media type is overided (i have options 3c59x options=12 in my phamel /etc/modules.conf) phamel Link comes back up at 10btx/half phamel phamel when trying this with debug=6 in the options, it says something about phamel not finding a link beat at 100b-Tx / full, then 100b-Tx / half phamel phamel as per my recollection of IEEE auto neg it is normal to go down to 10bTx phamel /Half as it is the next step in auto neg. phamel phamel 3c59x is version 0.99H phamel phamel Both machines use 3c905B-Tx card, one is from Q2 1998 the other is on an phamel SMP machine and was bought in Q4 1999. phamel phamel Same problem on both PC. phamel phamel phamel I also tried the 3com 3c90x.c driver (1.0.0) the result is even worse phamel (link goes down and never comes back up). phamel phamel I will be playing with the 3c59x Version 0.99L sometime tonight. phamel phamel Anyone got this solve before??? phamel phamel Thanks phamel phamel Patrick H. phamel phamel phamel -- phamel Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null phamel [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] ]-- 9:59pm up 190 days, 10:21, 1 user, load average: 1.08, 1.04, 1.00
Re: Upgrading my kernel
You can download the 2.2 kernel-image, or you can download the kernel-source. I suggest using kernel-package to make kernel packages if you want to roll your own. Nice and simple, and you can uninstall, etc... Good Luck. Marshal Cameron == Cameron Matheson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey everyone, I found out that if I upgrade my kernel to 2.1 (right now I'm using Debian Slink with the 2.0.36 kernel) I can use my HP 3100c scanner. Is it safe/possible to upgrade my kernel, and if I can, would I get the kernel source off the debian website or what? Thanks, Cameron Matheson -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
My Server Time gains too fast.
Hi,All My server time seems to gain about 9 hours per a week. Time Locale (JST) is correct,I confirmed. Date command execution is below. # date Sun Feb 27 00:25:36 JST 2000 Are there persons who had a same experience? -- Katsumi
tif/jpg conversion to postscript
I have a whole lot of old magazine articles in a mix of TIF and JPG format -- one file per page. The provided viewer software for this is an awful Windows program, so I want to convert them to PDF. I'm using imagemagick; given the whole set of TIF and JPG files in order on the command line, it converts the whole lot to one postscript file just fine.. [*] The only problem is that it reads the entire set of tif/jpg files into memory and it's using roughly 248Mb of RAM for 30 pages. Unfortunately I only have 128Mb of RAM, so it spends the whole time swapping! It's taking roughly 13 minutes per set as a result; the generated postscript files are about 191Mb. [*] I convert the PS files to PDF with ghostscript's ps2pdf; imagemagick can convert direct to PDF but the resulting files are larger. Anyone know a better way? I've tried converting page by page and then merging them using either psmerge (which generates no output except postscript headers), and another run of convert (which works but ruins the quality in the process -- don't know why). tiff2ps does a quicker job of converting the TIFF files, but only does one at a time and doesn't do JPG. Does anyone know a quicker way of doing this conversion? How about how to make 'convert' merge postscript files without ruining the quality? Unfortunately it's still likely to read the whole lot into RAM (ie swap). Perhaps I should use the crap Windows software along with Acrobat PDF Writer on Windows to do it.. thanks Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.
mutt's index and From: =?iso-... headers (was: My Server Time gains too fast.)
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, ^°cZü wrote: .. hehe ^^^ mutt's index gets totally screwed up when scrolling over this message with a From: like this: From: =?iso-8859-1?B?XrAiY41aIvw=?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did this happen to others too or did I screw up while configuring mutt? TIA Peter Palfrader -- Weaselhttp://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ PGP/GPG encrypted messages prefered. See my site or finger -l ppalfrad -- Yes means No and No means Yes. Delete all files [Y]? pgplgKWZinOh0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: umask for root
Hi Mark!
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote:
Hi all,
I changed my umask for root to 077. I'm not certain if that was
wise.
I can have advantages. If you know what you're doing I see no problem.
I'm also not certain if it's the cause of my headache with my
attempt to install StarOffice.
I do a net installation and am able to install as root, but I can't
install as a normal user. It turns out that the permissions on the
SO directories are whacked. I can't get into most of them as a
normal user.
Perhaps you don't know about chmod. it allows you to change file
permissions. have a look at the manpage and/or the info pages.
You might want to try to fix the permissions of you SOffice install:
in /usr/local as root assuming the StarOffice net stuff is located there:
chmod -R go+r SOffice
find SOffice -perm -100 -exec chmod go+x {} \;
regards
Peter Palfrader
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Re: umask for root
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:01:53AM -0800, Mark Wagnon wrote: Hi all, I changed my umask for root to 077. I'm not certain if that was wise. I'm also not certain if it's the cause of my headache with my attempt to install StarOffice. I once changed root's umask to 077 (or maybe it was 027) and found it to be far more trouble then it was worth. this was before i had much experience with linux and as I became more experienced this umask became more annoying... when you look at a standard unix[y] system over 95% of all files/directories is world readable/executable. there really is not all that much that needs to be read protected so setting root's umask to 077 or similar will result in alot more use of chmod then a 022 umask will. also many people who suggest a 077 umask for root also suggest silly things like changing permissions on programs like lilo or adduser to 700, even though they have no setuid bits set. (any user can easily download binaries or source of these programs to regain access but it does them no more good then running the copies in /usr/sbin would as they don't have the underlying permissions those programs need to function) I am sure there are some cases where different umask's for root may be useful but i have found that 022 is most convenient. I just make sure i chmod files before adding sensitive information to them. for example lilo.conf chmod 600 before adding a password= line to it. I do a net installation and am able to install as root, but I can't install as a normal user. It turns out that the permissions on the SO directories are whacked. I can't get into most of them as a normal user. im not much familier with SO... one thing to consider if it was distributed as a tarball you should use the -p switch to tar at all times, this ensures that the embedded permissions are used instead of just masking against your current umask. (in some cases of bogus tar archives this is actually worse but not usually...) Now I'm not sure if the problem is with the umask for root, or if it's because I've left the /usr/local partition alone during my flings with of flavors of Linux. The /usr/local and all subdirs seemed to be owned by root.staff. I chown -R'd them to root.root, and attempted to reinstall SO, but no luck. nah i always get rid that that root.staff thing too along with the group writability. it should not cause any problems. (that's a debianism there never seen that one other linux dists) Anyway, all this ranting brings me to the point of this post: what's the default umask for the root account? default on most systems ive seen is 022, IMO as long as it does not have any more then 1 zero its safe. but 022 is most convenient for everyone all around generally. -- Ethan Benson
Re: umask for root
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:20:32PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
Perhaps you don't know about chmod. it allows you to change file
permissions. have a look at the manpage and/or the info pages.
You might want to try to fix the permissions of you SOffice install:
in /usr/local as root assuming the StarOffice net stuff is located there:
chmod -R go+r SOffice
find SOffice -perm -100 -exec chmod go+x {} \;
or you could use chmod -R go+rX SOffice and dispense with the annoying
find command ;-)
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Re: umask for root
Hi Ethan!
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
chmod -R go+r SOffice
find SOffice -perm -100 -exec chmod go+x {} \;
or you could use chmod -R go+rX SOffice and dispense with the annoying
find command ;-)
And I was so proud of my find ;)
Tnx, I did not know this one.
Peter Palfrader
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Re: My Server Time gains too fast.
If you can rule out software causing the time change, you could have a bad crystal oscillator, which keeps track of time. This is a chip on your motherboard and comes in various shapes and sizes. More than likely a motherboard replacement would be called for unless you can get the manufacturer to change the chip, but that's doubtful. Otherwise Nate's suggestion should keep you pretty close to being on time. --- aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if its a server, its probably best to keep it synched with NTP. my servers are never off by more then 0.05 seconds or so .. see the xntp3 package. galactica:/users/admin/aphro# /etc/init.d/xntp3 stop ; ntpdate ns.scruz.net ; /etc/init.d/xntp3 start 26 Feb 01:55:48 ntpdate[19453]: adjust time server 165.227.1.1 offset 0.003506 sec Starting /usr/sbin/xntpd... off my 0.003 seconds.. nate On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, [iso-8859-1] ^°cZü wrote: ashida Hi,All ashida ashida My server time seems to gain about 9 hours per a week. ashida Time Locale (JST) is correct,I confirmed. ashida Date command execution is below. ashida # date ashida Sun Feb 27 00:25:36 JST 2000 ashida ashida Are there persons who had a same experience? ashida ashida -- Katsumi ashida __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]
One important point about cgiwrap - the current debian package puts the user cgis in ~user/public_html/cgi-bin instead of ~user/cgi-bin. I've filed a bug about it. It's bad security for cgis and their associated datafiles to be web-readable. Yes, I know security through obscurity isn't really security, but we should at least make the black hats work a little to get at the cgi source. And how can you set up /home/user/cgi-bin to be web-executable if you cannot describe it with a web url? And another thing I have been running circles around is: - how can I protect data files from being read from the filesystem, which should be readable from the web, but only after authentication? Since they should be http-served, they should be world-readable... Then how can I prevent anyone from reading them on the webserver system itself? Robert Varga
putting ipchains rules in /etc/diald/ip-up ?
The latest netbase messed up my system so that I cannot do anything on the net until I do a '/etc/ipchains.rules stop' followed by '/etc/ipchains.rules start' I removed just the IP Masq rules and put them in /etc/diald/ip-up in order to fix this but that did not work, so what I did then was not start the rules when the machine reboots. I put '/etc/init.d/ipchains.rules start' in my /etc/diald/ip-up and things seem to work now. Was that a good fix or a bad one? I can post my ipchains rules but I did not want to make for a very long post to the entire list. thanks -- Andrew
broken libraries?
Hi! Running a (almost) potato system, I just noticed that there is a problem with qpopper /usr/sbin/in.qpopper: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/sbin/in.qpopper: undefined symbol: allow_severity Also some other packages show this error. Anyone on the list who could point me in the right direction to fix this error? TIA, rw -- / Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax x533 \ \KPNQwest/AT tech staff| Diefenbachg. 35 A-1150 Wien /
Reconfiguring dpkg's options
Hi. When I installed Debian/Potato I was asked how critical configuration options had to be before thay were presented to me (low/medium/high). Now I would like to change my choice. How can I do this? Also, how can I change the look of package configuration? I would like to use the menu interface enstead of the text interface. /Christian
can't activate swap
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 on an old Compaq-computer, but I can't even activate the swap partition. I always get the error message can't activate swap - device or ressource busy. What am I doing wrong or is it probably a problem with the chipset? (I'm using a Compaq ProLinea 3/25zs with a WDC-chipset, i386/25 Processor and 4MB RAM - I tried various harddisks) Marco Goebel o Goebel
Re: Mutt, mailing lists, and senders
Do you just want the sender to get the message? If so, then just hit r. Otherwise I guess you could re-bind L to something else. On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:40:48PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: What I want is to be able to use the L key to reply, but not have the name of the mailing list (leaving the name of the actually sender) in the message list. ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reconfiguring dpkg's options
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 07:02:45PM +0100, Christian Rishøj wrote: Hi. When I installed Debian/Potato I was asked how critical configuration options had to be before thay were presented to me (low/medium/high). Now I would like to change my choice. How can I do this? Also, how can I change the look of package configuration? I would like to use the menu interface enstead of the text interface. $ dpkg-reconfigure debconf -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Running serial prog under DOSEMU as normal user
How can I access serial ports under DOSEMU? Even with c_all permissions in /etc/dosemu/users I still can't dial out. Running as root, all is fine. I've read the docs, Debian and upstream, and it seems like I should be able to run. Can anyone clue me in? Thanks.
Re: Reconfiguring dpkg's options
Hi Christian! On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Christian Rishøj wrote: Hi. When I installed Debian/Potato I was asked how critical configuration options had to be before thay were presented to me (low/medium/high). Now I would like to change my choice. How can I do this? Also, how can I change the look of package configuration? I would like to use the menu interface enstead of the text interface. try dpkg-reconfigure debconf it will ask you all the questions you want :) HTH Peter Palfrader -- Weaselhttp://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~ppalfrad/ PGP/GPG encrypted messages prefered. See my site or finger -l ppalfrad -- Yes means No and No means Yes. Delete all files [Y]? pgp78Vp1H48Pk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: umask for root
Thanks guys! I figured it was umask that was giving me the problems. I'm taking a UNIX course (but it's being taught on a Linux system) and the book discussed umask. I never knew what umask was so I thought that it would make my system more secure. It did :) Thanks for the more valuable tip about chmod. I was wondering how I might recursively change the permissions a certain way and you guys had the answer. Can you believe that I'm going through all this trouble cuz I need to view a Powerpoint slide? Thanks again. I promiss to read the man page on chmod thouroughly (printing it out as I write this). -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (
Kitchen sink and Linux?
Dear debian users I would like to draw your attention to certain ugly an unlinuxy comment on the web site of a Linux distribution about other distribution(s). Quoting from http://www.calderasystems.com/support/docs/2.3/gsg/introduce.html Improved best-of-class package selection, with each Linux application carefully chosen to be more useful and refined than the everything but the kitchen sink products from some Linux packagers Unquote. This is an obvious reference to debian if not for others, which is the largest distribution and include most freely available packages. I strongly feel that this kind of comments is very bad for Linux and should be ripped in the bud itself and what is justfication for this when the company seems to benefitting from the works of millions of developers who test and 'robust'fy applications that may have been called toilet bowl applications in the near past. Those Linux distributions should find a dramatic change of policy in marketing rather than continuing the Microsoft tradition, like what Linus D. Torvalds has done to the Open Source movement. Here customer is not King but an intimate friend. You would not try to impress a friend by accomplishments that are actually someone else's! By the way, I would like you persuade fellow debian users/develepors who has some connection with India to actively promote the distribution in this country. Thanking you previ A red hat user
Re: Reconfiguring dpkg´s options
Hi, dpkg-reconfigure debconf it will ask you all the questions you want :) I tried that, and it just returns my prompt. If this is because the configuration options for debconf is not critical enough for me to see them - this is quite a funny situation. There must be some way to override this. Can anyone clue me in? /Christian
Re: Reconfiguring dpkg´s options
Sorry folks! I tried man dpkg-reconfigure and found that dpkg-reconfigure --priority=medium debconf does the trick. /Christian Christian Rishøj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, dpkg-reconfigure debconf it will ask you all the questions you want :) I tried that, and it just returns my prompt. If this is because the configuration options for debconf is not critical enough for me to see them - this is quite a funny situation. There must be some way to override this. Can anyone clue me in? /Christian -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Reconfiguring dpkg´s options
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 07:57:54PM +0100, Christian Rishøj wrote: Hi, dpkg-reconfigure debconf it will ask you all the questions you want :) I tried that, and it just returns my prompt. If this is because the configuration options for debconf is not critical enough for me to see them - this is quite a funny situation. There must be some way to override this. Can anyone clue me in? `man dpkg-reconfigure' shows: -pvalue, --priority=value Set the lowest priority of questions you are inter- ested in. Valid priorities are currently low, medium, high, and critical. The default priority can be permanently changed by: dpkg-reconfigure --priority=medium debconf Any questions with a priority below the selected priority will be ignored and their default answers will be used. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: Kitchen sink and Linux?
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Chirag wrote: Dear debian users I would like to draw your attention to certain ugly an unlinuxy comment on the web site of a Linux distribution about other distribution(s). Quoting from http://www.calderasystems.com/support/docs/2.3/gsg/introduce.html Improved best-of-class package selection, with each Linux application carefully chosen to be more useful and refined than the everything but the kitchen sink products from some Linux packagers Unquote. This is an obvious reference to debian if not for others, which is the largest distribution and include most freely available packages. I strongly feel that this kind of comments is very bad for Linux and should be ripped in the bud itself and what is justfication for this when the company seems to benefitting from the works of millions of developers who test and 'robust'fy applications that may have been called toilet bowl applications in the near past. I may be unaware of some implications that you know of, but I don't feel that it would refer on debian. I think rather it refers on the individuals doing the packaging. And I don't think that debian has so bad reputation concerning the quality of packaging the softwares... Redhat is a totally different quality however (kitchen sink quality does apply for redhat). Robert Varga
RE: Potato and /etc/apt/sources.list
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Ross Boylan wrote: Replace unstable with potato. If you prefer, I think frozen will work, but using potato is likely to produce fewer unpleasant surprises as things evolve. For one such surprise, I think you should remember that frozen will go away after the release... There will be only stable and unstable for a while... Robert Varga
Re: Kitchen sink and Linux?
Redhat is a totally different quality however (kitchen sink quality does apply for redhat). The phrase kitchen sink does not apply to quality. It applies to the amount of software. Debian does include everything _and_ then kitchen sink :) Some people can argue this is bad, others (mostly Debian folks :) can argue it is a good thing. I really don't think we should bother with things like this. They are concerned about marketing, we aren't. Our users are our best marketers, not quotes and phrases we put on a website. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Boot up graphics screen corruption
I am trying out Storm Linux, which is basically Debian Slink. I have upgraded to Potato and all is running well, apart from a screen corruption problem. Storm has a graphical boot up which uses the frame-buffer options compiled into the kernel to display a nice graphic around a central text area which shows the boot-up messages - a nice compromise I think between no messages and a full-blown text-mode boot-up. The relevant part of my kernel config file is: # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y # CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y # CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set # CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set CONFIG_FB_VGA16=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y # CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set # CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y # CONFIG_FBCON_MFB is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2 is not set CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4=y # CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8 is not set CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y # CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24 is not set CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y # CONFIG_FBCON_AFB is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_ILBM is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P2 is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P4 is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P8 is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_MAC is not set CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES=y # CONFIG_FBCON_VGA is not set # CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS=y CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y # CONFIG_FONT_8x16 is not set # CONFIG_FONT_SUN8x16 is not set # CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22 is not set # CONFIG_FONT_6x11 is not set CONFIG_FONT_PEARL_8x8=y # CONFIG_FONT_ACORN_8x8 is not set I have an ATI Xpert98 graphics card which uses the Mach 64 driver in X. My problem is that when I go to shutdown my system from KDM as soon as I get to the text screen there is screen corruption wherever the boot-up graphic was on boot up. It is a mess of colours. If I do ctrl-alt F2 then ctrl-alt F1 the corruption disappears. Is there a way to ensure I get a clean text screen after exiting X? I have a feeling this is not specifically a Storm Linux issue. Cheers. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux
VMware problems
I am running an up-to-date potato system with 2.2.14 and find that when I try to install vmware, I am able to create and install the vmmon.o module, but not the vmnet.o module. This previously worked fine. I suspect it is because something (library or ??) has changed since the previous installation I did. This has happened both on version 1.1 and 2.0beta. Has anyone else seen this problem? -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY (RN2)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ DM42nh QRP-L #1985 SOC #77http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: Kitchen sink and Linux?
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 02:06:55PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: Redhat is a totally different quality however (kitchen sink quality does apply for redhat). The phrase kitchen sink does not apply to quality. It applies to the amount of software. Debian does include everything _and_ then kitchen sink :) This is *not* true! Debian includes everything, the kitchen sink, the factory it was made in, the ore pit providing the porcelain, and raw ingredients for constructing the sun the planet on which the sink is orbiting around, though the Sun-Assembly-Mini-HOWTO is three revs out of date. -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of Gestalt don't you understand? SAS for Linux: http://www.netcom.com/~kmself/SAS/SAS4Linux.html Mailing list: subscribe sas-linux to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VMware problems
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 12:53:13PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: I am running an up-to-date potato system with 2.2.14 and find that when I try to install vmware, I am able to create and install the vmmon.o module, but not the vmnet.o module. This previously worked fine. I suspect it is because something (library or ??) has changed since the previous installation I did. This has happened both on version 1.1 and 2.0beta. Has anyone else seen this problem? More than likely you need to have vmware recompile the kernel modules. -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
ATI Video Card Support
Hi Everyone, What ATI Video cards are best supported by Linux and X Windows? I was thinking of: ATI Xpert 98 ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] XTI Xpert 99 ATI Xpert 128 ATI Rage Fury ATI All-in-Wonder 128 What experiences does anyone else have with these cards? I am getting a new system (Intel Celeron 466), and want a card that will work well with that and a 17 monitor. It should be good for normal X usage at resolutions at and over 1280x1024x32, games, etc. Thanks, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
Imagemagick: Can't read jpeg's here
Hi: When I try to look at a jpeg using display I get the following (note: gif's working fine): bash-2.03$ display test.jpg display: no delegate for this image format (test.jpg). I see in bug report #43424 that someone had a similar problem and the issue was versioning. Here are my current versions: Debian: potato kernel: 2.2.14 ...and from dpkg: ii dpsclient 0.5.9.1+000216-3 ii freetype21.3.1-1 ii gs 5.10-9 ii imagemagick 4.2.8-7 ii libbz2 0.9.5d-2 ii libc62.1.3-4 ii libhdf4g 4.1r3-4 ii libjpeg62 6b-1.2 ii libmagick4-lzw-dev 4.2.8-2 ii libmagick4g-lzw 4.2.8-2 ii libpng21.0.5-0.1 ii libtiff3g 3.5.4-4 ii xlib6g 3.3.6-3 ii zlib1g 1.1.3-5 I also get the same error if I use the non-lzw packages. What's wrong? Thanks, Paul
Re: cdrecord
Worked good for me, thanks a lot! Just burned my first one. Antonio. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try ftp.greenbush.com for a kernel-image. These may not support your net card but can be used. The ones with scsiemul in the name are what you want. The 2.2.13 was built only for recovering an NTFS partition to CD. The 2.0.36 is used on some CD replication machines here. It works well with hp 4x and 8x IDE recorders. These run slink. When you install the kernel-image create a boot floppy and don't make it bootable from the hard disk. Boot it and try the cdrecord scanbus option. Hope it sees your drive. If the kernel meets all your needs you can make it bootable from the hard disk. Otherwise tell me what I should consider putting into the next build. The updated tulip driver is already on the todo list because it supports $20 linksys cards with the PNIC chip. On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:58:08 -0500 From: Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: cdrecord Resent-Date: 23 Feb 2000 22:58:38 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Please don't flame me! Does anybody know if the binaries for cdrecord for windows work fine? What happens is that a long time ago I gave up trying to upgrade my slink to potato (before the freeze) because of lib conflicts and so on, with kernel problems etc. So I am eagerly waiting for the new release (when is it supposed to be out?), with the slink that I have -half upgraded and a little broken- my kernel does not have what it needs for xcdroast. And I want to roast some cds! Any way, I thought I could use the one out for win in the mean time... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +--+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +--+
Re: VMware problems
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 02:47:08PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 12:53:13PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: I am running an up-to-date potato system with 2.2.14 and find that when I try to install vmware, I am able to create and install the vmmon.o module, but not the vmnet.o module. This previously worked fine. I suspect it is because something (library or ??) has changed since the previous installation I did. This has happened both on version 1.1 and 2.0beta. Has anyone else seen this problem? More than likely you need to have vmware recompile the kernel modules. That would work. For some reason the only 2.2.14 modules they included in 2.0beta are for a patched Mandrake kernel. In the past, the program would create and install the modules without problems (actually for the earliest versions, I had to edit the Makefile a bit). The module was created, but the installation process aborts with a message that possibly the headers in /usr/src/linux/include are different than those with which the kernel was compiled, which is not the case. I've posted the problem to their newsgroup, but have not had any response. I'm still able to run vmware, but without any networking support. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY (RN2)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ DM42nh QRP-L #1985 SOC #77http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: WindowMaker menus are all gone!
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 04:29:27PM -0500, Mike Werner wrote: I had the same problem a couple of times. What I found to work was: 1) Drop to a shell, exiting X completely 2) Run update-menus as root 3) Run update-menus as your regular user Note that this step will mean that you have to run update-menus as your user every time new packages are installed, the automatic mechanism won't work for that user anymore. The normal configuration refers to global files that are updated when the package postinst runs update-menus (as root). Running update-menus as the user creates these files in the user's directory, so the global ones aren't used anymore. 4) Restart X and your menus should be back -- finger for GPG public key. pgppAfypdxYrT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Kitchen sink and Linux?
On 02/26/00 11:48AM, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Debian includes everything, the kitchen sink, the factory it was made in, the ore pit providing the porcelain, and raw ingredients for constructing the sun the planet on which the sink is orbiting around, though the Sun-Assembly-Mini-HOWTO is three revs out of date. LOL! -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (
Re: Boot up graphics screen corruption
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Storm has a graphical boot up which uses the frame-buffer options compiled into the kernel to display a nice graphic around a central text area which shows the boot-up messages - a nice compromise I think between no messages and a full-blown text-mode boot-up. I am afraid I can´t help you with this, I was just courious if anybody knows an easy way to set up console graphics as mentioned in this message in Debian/Potato - perhaps there´s a .deb that does the job? /Christian
Re: Kitchen sink and Linux?
while the comment may look like it rips debian, I believe that caldera is not trying to compare itself against other distributions but other operating systems. being a linux user for about 4 years(and being very strongly opiniated(sp?) about it and open source) i dont take offense to the comment. while debian clearly includes the largest selection of free and open source software(nobody disputes that) caldera includes a wide variety of non free/commercial software. although i think that SuSe and Mandrake with their 4-5-6 CD distributions do a much better job at including Everything but the kitchen sink then caldera does :) nate On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Chirag wrote: mannan Dear debian users mannan mannan I would like to draw your attention to certain ugly an unlinuxy comment mannan on the web site of a mannan Linux distribution about other distribution(s). mannan mannan Quoting from mannan http://www.calderasystems.com/support/docs/2.3/gsg/introduce.html mannan mannan Improved best-of-class package selection, with each Linux application mannan carefully chosen to be more useful and refined than the everything but the mannan kitchen sink products from some Linux packagers mannan mannan Unquote. mannan mannan This is an obvious reference to debian if not for others, which is the mannan largest distribution and include mannan most freely available packages. I strongly feel that this kind of comments mannan is very bad for Linux and mannan should be ripped in the bud itself and what is justfication for this when mannan the company seems to benefitting mannan from the works of millions of developers who test and 'robust'fy mannan applications that may have been called mannan toilet bowl applications in the near past. mannan mannan Those Linux distributions should find a dramatic change of policy in mannan marketing rather than continuing mannan the Microsoft tradition, like what Linus D. Torvalds has done to the Open mannan Source movement. mannan mannan Here customer is not King but an intimate friend. You would not try to mannan impress a friend by mannan accomplishments that are actually someone else's! mannan mannan By the way, I would like you persuade fellow debian users/develepors who has mannan some connection with mannan India to actively promote the distribution in this country. mannan mannan Thanking you mannan mannan previ mannan A red hat user mannan mannan mannan mannan -- mannan Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null mannan [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] ]-- 12:55pm up 191 days, 1:16, 1 user, load average: 1.16, 1.05, 1.01
Re: can't activate swap
On 27 Feb 2000, FreeMan wrote: c-3 Hi, c-3 c-3 I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 on an old Compaq-computer, but I c-3 can't even activate the swap partition. I always get the error c-3 message can't activate swap - device or ressource busy. c-3 What am I doing wrong or is it probably a problem with the chipset? c-3 (I'm using a Compaq ProLinea 3/25zs with a WDC-chipset, i386/25 c-3 Processor and 4MB RAM - I tried various harddisks) login as root, run fdisk, find the swap partition then quit fdisk type mkswap /dev/ where is the device name for the swap partition then swapon /dev/ to turn it on, see what happens. some systems you have to reboot after you change the partition table (before you even format the partition), if it still doesn't work include a listing of fdisk -l device where device is the name of your hdd (/dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc) 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] ]-- 12:55pm up 191 days, 1:16, 1 user, load average: 1.16, 1.05, 1.01
Re: VMware problems
what is the error(s) you get? and do you have the complete kernel source installed? i never really understood how 'pacakged'(deb/rpm/whatever) kernel source trees were laid out, if you can't get it working i suggest grabbing the 2.2.14 source(tgz format) extracting it into /usr/src then run a 'make depend' on it before trying to compile anything. i've been running VMWare for some time with the only problem being when i went from single CPU to dual CPU i had to recompile the modules. I'm running slink btw. you also may want to make sure vmware is using gcc 2.7.2.3 to compile the modules rather then 2.95 (edit makefiles or something)that may improve your chances of a successful compilation. nate On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: nielse I am running an up-to-date potato system with 2.2.14 and find that when nielse I try to install vmware, I am able to create and install the vmmon.o nielse module, but not the vmnet.o module. This previously worked fine. I nielse suspect it is because something (library or ??) has changed since the nielse previous installation I did. This has happened both on version 1.1 and nielse 2.0beta. Has anyone else seen this problem? nielse nielse -- nielse Bob Nielsen, N7XY (RN2)[EMAIL PROTECTED] nielse Tucson, AZ DM42nh QRP-L #1985 SOC #77 http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen nielse nielse nielse nielse -- nielse Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null nielse [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] ]-- 12:55pm up 191 days, 1:16, 1 user, load average: 1.16, 1.05, 1.01
Re: ATI Video Card Support
i believe all of those cards are fully supported in the latest X release (3.3.6) and ATI recently released a new SDK for linux so ATI will probably be the first to have hardware accelerated/assistend video playback! its gonna be a tough choice, voodoo5 or whatever ATI has to offer when vd5 comes out..ack. things were easier when i had less choices :) nate On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: wim Hi Everyone, wim wim What ATI Video cards are best supported by Linux and X Windows? I was thinking wim of: wim ATI Xpert 98 wim ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wim XTI Xpert 99 wim ATI Xpert 128 wim ATI Rage Fury wim ATI All-in-Wonder 128 wim wim What experiences does anyone else have with these cards? wim wim I am getting a new system (Intel Celeron 466), and want a card that will work wim well with that and a 17 monitor. It should be good for normal X usage at wim resolutions at and over 1280x1024x32, games, etc. wim wim Thanks, wim wim Wim Kerkhoff wim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wim www.canadianhomes.net/wim wim wim wim -- wim Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null wim [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] ]-- 12:55pm up 191 days, 1:16, 1 user, load average: 1.16, 1.05, 1.01
Re: WindowMaker menus are all gone!
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 02:56:08PM -0600, Brad wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 04:29:27PM -0500, Mike Werner wrote: I had the same problem a couple of times. What I found to work was: 1) Drop to a shell, exiting X completely 2) Run update-menus as root 3) Run update-menus as your regular user Note that this step will mean that you have to run update-menus as your user every time new packages are installed, the automatic mechanism won't work for that user anymore. Urk. So *that's* what happened. I was wondering about that. The normal configuration refers to global files that are updated when the package postinst runs update-menus (as root). Running update-menus as the user creates these files in the user's directory, so the global ones aren't used anymore. How can I fix that now that I've screwed it up? I've looked around in my home directory and the only menu file I can find is a file for a menu entry that is specific to this specific username. And it was because of that particular entry that I started doing the update-menus as a user. But I use that package so rarely that I can do without the menu entry. (It was a /net install of Star Office) -- 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.
xstart or startx?
Hello everyone, I'm new to LINUX. So for I have one question. How do I install X?
Names?
Where do they comeup with the names for the versions of the debian distro? I mean, slink and potato I kinda never questioned, but /woody/? I guess they're pretty cool names, I just would like to have some idea where they come from. Does anybody know how long till the Caldera Systems IPO? Can C++ programs use header files with C code? That's probably a stupid question. = 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: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]
And how can you set up /home/user/cgi-bin to be web-executable if you cannot describe it with a web url? that's what aliases and scriptaliases are for. you would put in their virtualhost config (or just change the pathing cgiwrap's source) something like this: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/user/cgi-bin/ think about it, debian's default cgi-bin isn't describable with a url. the doc root is /var/www and the default cgi-bin is /usr/lib/cgi-bin. - how can I protect data files from being read from the filesystem, which should be readable from the web, but only after authentication? Since they should be http-served, they should be world-readable... Then how can I prevent anyone from reading them on the webserver system itself? what we do is have the doc root setup like this: ryumin(larry)$ ls -ld /var/www drwxr-s--- 22 root wwwroot 28672 Dec 27 11:25 /var/www and have the user the web server runs as setup like this: ryumin(larry)$ groups www-data www-data wwwroot that way the web server can read files from inside /var/www but no one else can unless they are in the wwwroot group. adam.
Re: xstart or startx?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I'm new to LINUX. So for I have one question. How do I install X? Assuming you are using Debian and have access to an archive with software (a set of CD's or an ftp connection to a server) it should be fairly easy to get X up and running. First of all you got to be root (su and enter password). Then you want to install the task-x-window-system pseudo package which installs a set of packages essential to X. So apt-get install task-x-window-system-core ...or use dselect (select, find the package with /, type + to mark it for install, enter to proceed). During the install you will probably be prompted to configure your X-server (which handles making X show on your screen). For an easier to use configuration tool you could try XF86Setup, which can be installed as mentioned above as well. Once X is up and running you would like a window manager. I suggest WindowMaker (issue this command to install it : apt-get install wmaker). Good luck! /Christian
Re: Names?
Where do they comeup with the names for the versions of the debian distro? I mean, slink and potato I kinda never questioned, but /woody/? I guess they're pretty cool names, I just would like to have some idea where they come from. The home page says the namen come from characters in the movie Toy Story. -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable. -- Windows 95 BSOD Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] See the mail headers for GPG/advertising/homepage information. pgpirxVmWDUFu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Network Security / SRP
hi all i'm trying to make my system as secure as possible, in light of recent news of networks getting broken. the first thing i did was to turn off services spawned by the inet daemon that i don't use. currently the following are the only ones running - i didn't turn them off since i don't know exactly what they do: discard daytime time saft?? What is this used for? is this like ftp? cvspserver ?? is this safe to turn off? i dont quite know what discard, daytime, and time do is it safe to turn these guys off? i run nntp - does nntp rely on daytime and time? in general is it better to use tcpserver than the inet daemon. i run qmail which uses tcpserver and i'm planning to have sshd be spawned by tcpserver. i've read the tcpserver is better than inet - does anyone have any opinion on this? are there any draw backs to removing the inet daemon completely? if i can turn off the services i've listed above i would not have any use for inet. has anyone have any experience with SRP - Secure Remote Password. is this similar to ssh. i've also looked at FreeS/WAN and it looks like a very good solution to network security. is anyone using this now and how is it working for you? while reading about FreeS/WAN i also came across DNSSEC - DNS Security - featured in Bind-8.2.2p5, which i am using. exactly what is this feature and how do i take advantage of it? thanks pd
Re: Names?
Check the archives. Woody is from ToyStory. I don't remember who's next, but they were going to run that theme for a bit. Robert Thus spake Fish Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Where do they comeup with the names for the versions of the debian distro? I mean, slink and potato I kinda never questioned, but /woody/? I guess they're pretty cool names, I just would like to have some idea where they come from. Does anybody know how long till the Caldera Systems IPO? Can C++ programs use header files with C code? That's probably a stupid question. = 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 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Low quality in a product happens. Senior System Engineer |That doesn't mean it's right and at RnD Consulting | definitely doesn't mean it should \_ be accepted. Require quality. DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Adam Shand wrote: And how can you set up /home/user/cgi-bin to be web-executable if you cannot describe it with a web url? that's what aliases and scriptaliases are for. you would put in their virtualhost config (or just change the pathing cgiwrap's source) something like this: ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/user/cgi-bin/ think about it, debian's default cgi-bin isn't describable with a url. the doc root is /var/www and the default cgi-bin is /usr/lib/cgi-bin. That involves creating a virtual host for every user. I was asking whether ~user/cgi-bin can be made to be not under /home/user/public_html/cgi-bin but /home/user/cgi-bin. - how can I protect data files from being read from the filesystem, which should be readable from the web, but only after authentication? Since they should be http-served, they should be world-readable... Then how can I prevent anyone from reading them on the webserver system itself? what we do is have the doc root setup like this: ryumin(larry)$ ls -ld /var/www drwxr-s--- 22 root wwwroot 28672 Dec 27 11:25 /var/www and have the user the web server runs as setup like this: ryumin(larry)$ groups www-data www-data wwwroot that way the web server can read files from inside /var/www but no one else can unless they are in the wwwroot group. adam. The problem with this is that this way the users can't do this themselves, but they need me to chown and chgrp their files needing protection. They can't create files with www-data.wwwroot, and apache won't serve files for which it has only group access rights. Or maybe I only need to restart apache after adding www-data to the user's group? (Adding www-data to the user's group pose no problems if every cgi is run under the owner's id). Robert Varga
Re: Network Security / SRP
i'm trying to make my system as secure as possible, in light of recent news of networks getting broken. the first thing i did was to turn off services spawned by the inet daemon that i don't use. currently the following are the only ones running - i didn't turn them off since i don't know exactly what they do: good. discard daytime turn both of these off, they are useless and potentially dangerous. time unless something is using rdate to set it's time off of your computer, turn this off. saft?? What is this used for? is this like ftp? i have no idea what this is, and it isn't even in my debian inetd.conf so i'm not sure where it came from. look for what the daemon is called (the last argument on the line from inetd.conf which starts with saft) and read the man page. if there is no man page for it do this: # dpkg -S daemonname that will tell you which package it came from, then go into /usr/share/doc/package name and decide if you need it or not. most likely you do not. cvspserver ?? is this safe to turn off? you don't need this unless you are doing source code work on your box and allowing other people to download that source via cvs (you would know if you were :-). i dont quite know what discard, daytime, and time do is it safe to turn these guys off? i run nntp - does nntp rely on daytime and time? you run a news server? are you sure you don't mean a news client? regardless it doesn't rely on either daytime, discard or time. in general is it better to use tcpserver than the inet daemon. i run i've stayed away from qmail in general so i'm not really sure. my inclination would be to say stick with inetd until there is a feature in tcpserver that you really need, since inetd is pretty simple and more people will be able to help you with it ... but there may be compelling reasons to use tcpserver that i'm not aware of. qmail which uses tcpserver and i'm planning to have sshd be spawned by tcpserver. i've read the tcpserver is better than inet - does anyone have any opinion on this? are there any draw backs to removing the inet daemon completely? if i can turn off the services i've listed above i would not have any use for inet. if nothing is running from inetd (common if you don't run telnet or ftp). has anyone have any experience with SRP - Secure Remote Password. is i assume you read the slashdot article to hear abou srp? if not go look it up there (it was a few days ago, it should still be in the older stuff section). i've never used srp so no comment. this similar to ssh. i've also looked at FreeS/WAN and it looks like a very good solution to network security. is anyone using this now and how is it working for you? while reading about FreeS/WAN i also came across DNSSEC - DNS Security - featured in Bind-8.2.2p5, which i am using. exactly what is this feature and how do i take advantage of it? frees/wan is a great solution if you need to have secure encrypted *IP* tunnles between computers (like what a vpn does). if all you want to do is ssh between boxes, you have no need of it. i talked to the frees/wan guys at the BOF at LISA this year and it seemed quite impressive and there were a lot of very positive and large scale testimonials from people. i'm quite excited about playing with it... but unless you have a need for it, don't bother. as far as dnssec goes, don't worry about it. so long as you are running the latest bind you should be safe from the vast majority of attacks. dnssec is at this point still mostly a theoritical solution to a problem which hasn't been implemented by many people. ... it sounds to me like you're doing an admirable thing, trying to secure your box and learn how it all works. but don't be mislead, just because something is a security product, doesn't mean installing it will make your system more secure. in fact a badly installed or maintained security product can actually seriously degrade your performance. what you need to do is learn about the system you have. that will probably mean breaking things every once in a while. look at the processes running on your box, make sure that you know what they all do. if you don't need them find out where they start and turn them off one by one (and be ready for things to break if you guess wrong about needing them with a tested boot floppy). go through your /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin and /usr/sbin directories look at all the programs there, find out what they do by reading the man pages. go through the /etc directory and figure out what all the files in there do. remember that dpkg -S filename will tell you which package a file came from so you can figure out where the docs for it are. the most secure system will be the simplest one. the more complexity you add the more room for holes and config mistakes there will be. read. read. read. adam.
Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]
That involves creating a virtual host for every user. I was asking whether ~user/cgi-bin can be made to be not under /home/user/public_html/cgi-bin but /home/user/cgi-bin. with ~username urls it's even easier. i'm not sure how you do it with suexec cause i've never tried but with cgiwrap it's trival. a user would run a cgi via cgiwrap like this: http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/username/script.cgi and the path to user cgi's is hard coded into the cgiwrap program. so when the above is called it knows to look in ~username/public_html/cgi-bin for the script. hence joe's complaint about the cgi-wrap program. it could just as easily look in ~username/cgi-bin and that would mean that there was no way for someone to poke around in the users cgi-bin directory by going to: http://www.domain.com/~username/cgi-bin and viewing the cgi's. The problem with this is that this way the users can't do this themselves, but they need me to chown and chgrp their files needing protection. They can't create files with www-data.wwwroot, and apache won't serve files for which it has only group access rights. if it's the users stuff you want to protect you should figure out how to run ~username accounts via suexec (i'm fairly sure it's possible). that way they can simply chown all their web pages to them, and chmod 600 all the web pages. the web server will be able to read them because it runs as the user, and no one else will be able to read them because they are only readable by the owner. Or maybe I only need to restart apache after adding www-data to the user's group? (Adding www-data to the user's group pose no problems if every cgi is run under the owner's id). i don't understand this. i wouldn't add your users to the www-data group. adam.
Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Adam Shand wrote: That involves creating a virtual host for every user. I was asking whether ~user/cgi-bin can be made to be not under /home/user/public_html/cgi-bin but /home/user/cgi-bin. with ~username urls it's even easier. i'm not sure how you do it with suexec It is automatic with suexec. Only you have to enable suexec by setting suexec setuid. cause i've never tried but with cgiwrap it's trival. a user would run a cgi via cgiwrap like this: http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/username/script.cgi and the path to user cgi's is hard coded into the cgiwrap program. so when the above is called it knows to look in ~username/public_html/cgi-bin for the script. hence joe's complaint about the cgi-wrap program. it could just as easily look in ~username/cgi-bin and that would mean that there was no way for someone to poke around in the users cgi-bin directory by going to: http://www.domain.com/~username/cgi-bin and viewing the cgi's. The problem with this is that this way the users can't do this themselves, but they need me to chown and chgrp their files needing protection. They can't create files with www-data.wwwroot, and apache won't serve files for which it has only group access rights. if it's the users stuff you want to protect you should figure out how to run ~username accounts via suexec (i'm fairly sure it's possible). that way they can simply chown all their web pages to them, and chmod 600 all the web pages. the web server will be able to read them because it runs as the user, and no one else will be able to read them because they are only readable by the owner. Unfortunately with apache, data is always served as www-data.www-data or whatever it is set to in httpd.conf. It does not change uids to serve normal files, since that would need running as root. It does that for cgi-s since that inherently needs a program execution itself... Or maybe I only need to restart apache after adding www-data to the user's group? (Adding www-data to the user's group pose no problems if every cgi is run under the owner's id). i don't understand this. i wouldn't add your users to the www-data group. No. I would add www-data to the user's group. That way it can see the user's file, and it need not be world-readable. However it did not work. But maybe only because I did not restart apache, and it did not have the user's group among its groups. Robert
xfs-xtt HELP!
Hi all, Has anyone got xfs-xtt to recognize and use TrueType fonts... As far as I can tell I have everything configured right, and it serves all fonts except for the ones in TrueType. (I'm checking what fonts are served by using the command fslsfonts -server unix/:7100) What's up with that? Here is my configs: /etc/X11/xfs/config: # /etc/X11/xfs/config # # X font server configuration file # allow a maximum of 10 clients to connect to this font server client-limit = 10 # when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one clone-self = on # log errors using syslog use-syslog = on # turn off TCP port listening (Unix domain connections are still permitted) no-listen = tcp # paths to search for fonts catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled # in decipoints default-point-size = 120 deferglyphs = all port = 7100 # font cache control, specified in KB cache-hi-mark = 2048 cache-low-mark = 1433 And my fonts.dir in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType -- # font cache control, specified in KB 76 ARIAL.TTF -Monotype-Arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 ARIALBD.TTF -Monotype-Arial-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 ARIALBI.TTF -Monotype-Arial-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 ARIALI.TTF -Monotype-Arial-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 Alger.ttf -URW-Algerian-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 Bragga.ttf -Monotype-Braggadocio-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 Britanic.ttf -URW-Britannic Bold-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 Brushsci.ttf -Monotype-Brush Script MT-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 COMIC.TTF -Microsoft-Comic Sans MS-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 COMICBD.TTF -Microsoft-Comic Sans MS-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 COUR.TTF -Monotype-Courier New-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 COURBD.TTF -Monotype-Courier New-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 COURBI.TTF -Monotype-Courier New-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 COURI.TTF -Monotype-Courier New-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 Colonna.ttf -Monotype-Colonna MT-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 DIABLO_H.TTF -misc-Diablo-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 DIABLO_L.TTF -misc-Diablo-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 Desdemon.ttf -The Font Bureau Inc.-Desdemona-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso88 59-1 Ftltlt.ttf -Monotype-Footlight MT Light-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 [etc... and it goes on for 76 entries] Can anyone help please? -- P = --- Academia is a little like child | Parrish M. Myers rearing, it provides a chance at | The Wacked Jester immortality without the stretch | [EMAIL PROTECTED] marks -- (unknown source)| --- __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: enabling suexec with debian apache [solved]
It is automatic with suexec. Only you have to enable suexec by setting suexec setuid. hrm, i thought i tried that and it didn't work. regardless, if you know how then that's the main thing :) Unfortunately with apache, data is always served as www-data.www-data or whatever it is set to in httpd.conf. It does not change uids to serve normal files, since that would need running as root. It does that for cgi-s since that inherently needs a program execution itself... hrm, that probably makes sense. No. I would add www-data to the user's group. That way it can see the user's file, and it need not be world-readable. However it did not work. But maybe only because I did not restart apache, and it did not have the user's group among its groups. yes, you would probably need to restart apache for the new group ownership to take effect. adam.
Re: xfs-xtt HELP!
On 02/26/00 02:34PM, Parrish M Myers wrote: Has anyone got xfs-xtt to recognize and use TrueType fonts... As far as I can tell I have everything configured right, and it serves all fonts except for the ones in TrueType. (I'm checking what fonts are served by using the command fslsfonts -server unix/:7100) What's up with that? Here is my configs: I did using the instructions in the Font Deuglification Mini HOWTO (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html). I had to download the ttmkfdir thing (I think I found it on Freshmeat) and then it worked okay. I still had problems with Netscape (which was the whole reason for my actions) so I ended up trying xfstt (also described in said HOWTO) which worked fine right off the bat. HTH -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (
Re: ATI Video Card Support
How are some of the other brands, like Matrox? I was reading through the documentation and mailing list archives at http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/, and noticed that it supports the MGA G200 and G400, as well as the NVIDIA Riva series. Has anybody set up Utah GLX with any of these cards? What is it like? What is the speed increase noticed with the most? Wim. On 26-Feb-2000 aphro wrote: i believe all of those cards are fully supported in the latest X release (3.3.6) and ATI recently released a new SDK for linux so ATI will probably be the first to have hardware accelerated/assistend video playback! its gonna be a tough choice, voodoo5 or whatever ATI has to offer when vd5 comes out..ack. things were easier when i had less choices :) nate On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: wim Hi Everyone, wim wim What ATI Video cards are best supported by Linux and X Windows? I was thinking wim of: wim ATI Xpert 98 wim ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wim XTI Xpert 99 wim ATI Xpert 128 wim ATI Rage Fury wim ATI All-in-Wonder 128 wim wim What experiences does anyone else have with these cards? wim wim I am getting a new system (Intel Celeron 466), and want a card that will work wim well with that and a 17 monitor. It should be good for normal X usage at wim resolutions at and over 1280x1024x32, games, etc. Regards, Wim Kerkhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.canadianhomes.net/wim
Re: VMware problems
I have the source from ftp.kernel.org installed and configured/compiled it (with make-kpkg) to create my kernel. I had an older version of vmware which was running fine. When I had the problem, I tried downgrading to build 364 and it wouldn't install the networking module either (the error message was different). I've tried both gcc 2.95.2 and 2.72 with the same results. Here's what I get with running vmware-config.pl on build 468 (2.0 beta): Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel. None of VMware's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this script to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] Extracting the sources of the vmmon module. Building the vmmon module. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only' make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only' make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/driver-2.2.14' make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/driver-2.2.14' make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/driver-2.2.14' make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only/driver-2.2.14' make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only' make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmmon-only' The module loads perfectly in the running kernel. Making sure that both the parport and parport_pc kernel services are available. Unable to load the parport_pc module that is required by the vmppuser module. You may want to load it manually before re-running this script. Without this support, VMware will run flawlessly, but will lack the ability to use parallel ports in a bidirectional way. This means that it is possible that some parallel port devices (scanners, dongles, ...) will not work inside a Virtual Machine. Hit enter to continue. Do you want this script to automatically configure your system to allow your Virtual Machines to access the host filesystem? (yes/no/help) [no] Do you want to be able to use the network in your Virtual Machines? [yes] Trying to find a suitable vmnet module for your running kernel. None of VMware's pre-built vmnet modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this script to try to build the vmnet module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] Extracting the sources of the vmnet module. Building the vmnet module. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only' make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet-only' Unable to make a vmnet module that can be loaded in the running kernel: /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol dev_queue_xmit_R1d2b7833 /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol skb_under_panic_Rf30b8107 /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol dev_get_Rd550890d /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol eth_type_trans_R2f92a656 /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol skb_over_panic_R83c017f3 /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol skb_clone_R06345f4e /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol dev_remove_pack_R57069407 /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol sk_free_R7a5e376d /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol __kfree_skb_Rd7ca36ac /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol alloc_skb_R762d4944 /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol sk_alloc_R0837fb50 /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol dev_add_pack_R3bb61145 /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol unregister_netdev_Rc758f216 /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_R0f9bc702 /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol register_netdev_R91db5789 /tmp/vmware-config6/vmnet.o: unresolved symbol ether_setup_R1f4671d9 There is probably a light difference of kernel configuration between the set of C header files you specified and your running kernel. You may want to rebuild a kernel based on that directory, or specify another directory. Execution aborted. As you can see, vmmon (which is the one I had trouble with in the early versions of vmware) compiles and installs fine. vmnet.o actually got compiled, but didn't get installed. I tried manually adding it to /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc, but it wouldn't run. Build 364 installed without problems a few months ago (potato with kernel 2.2.14 in both cases). vmware runs fine if I configure without networking. Bob On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:08:29PM -0800, aphro wrote: what is the error(s) you get? and do you have the complete kernel source installed? i never really understood how 'pacakged'(deb/rpm/whatever) kernel source trees were laid out, if you can't get it working i suggest grabbing the 2.2.14 source(tgz format) extracting it into /usr/src then run a 'make depend' on it before trying to compile anything. i've been running VMWare for some
netscape on potato
I have been upgrading to potato and patching daily. I'm current against potato right now. I installed communicator-smotif-47 and when I run netscape I get a memory fault. I tried netscape-smotif-47 as well as 461. All 3 do it. This is a laptop running 2.2.14. I haven't had any problems previously. Anyone seen this or know how to fix it? Robert :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Low quality in a product happens. Senior System Engineer |That doesn't mean it's right and at RnD Consulting | definitely doesn't mean it should \_ be accepted. Require quality. DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
Re: ATI Video Card Support
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 03:51:46PM -0800, Wim Kerkhoff wrote: How are some of the other brands, like Matrox? I was reading through the documentation and mailing list archives at http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/, and noticed that it supports the MGA G200 and G400, as well as the NVIDIA Riva series. Has anybody set up Utah GLX with any of these cards? What is it like? What is the speed increase noticed with the most? Wim. Don't get Riva cards, as sufficient specs have *NOT* been released (token effort only). The Matrox cards are currently best supported under Utah-GLX. I'd get a G400 if I could afford one. -- Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. If you continue running Windows, your system may become unstable. -- Windows 95 BSOD Dwayne C. Litzenberger - [EMAIL PROTECTED] See the mail headers for GPG/advertising/homepage information. pgpo48M0bWwrJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
