Consulta off-topic
Hola... Por motivos de trabajo, estamos suscritos a una lista sobre AS/400. Hace poco llego esta consulta a traves de esta lista. Os la envio por lo que tiene de colaboracion de Linux con AS/400. ... Hola, me explico mejor, nuestra red interna es 10.xxx.xxx.xxx en todos las PC's (incluso el AS400 y el Linux). Pero ademas el Linux tiene otra tarjeta de red con una direccion 200.xxx.xxx.xxx, es con esta dirección que estamos con linea dedicada a Internet utilizando un modem externo y un router. Entonses lo que deseo es que desde una Pc's remota con una dirección aleatoria pueda ingresar al AS400 via Internet. ... Nosotros tambien accedemos a nuestro AS/400, usando un Linux-box con mgetty, pero lo hacemos con direccion IP fija, y ademas dentro del rango de direcciones de redes no conectadas (192.168.xx.xx), pero el caso este, es que ni me imagino como puede ser, teniendo en cuenta implicaciones de seguridad y todo. Saludos y perdon por el off-topic.
Problema rarísimo!!!
Hola a [EMAIL PROTECTED], acabo de instalar la Debian 2.1 slink en un Pentium III 550 con 128 Mb de RAM. Mi tarjeta de video es una ATI 3D Rage con 8 Mb. Lo curioso que me está ocurriendo es que al configurar las X me bajé el último servidor SVGA de las XFree86. Y me arranca las X pero con 8 bpp, o sea con 256 colores unicamente. Pero a parte de esto cuando quiero salir de las X, que lo normal es que vuelva a la consola si no tengo puesto el xdm, la pantalla se me queda en negro. Lo único que puedo hacer es resetear el ordenador con CTRL+ALT+SUPR. ¿Alguién sabe porque sucedeésto? ¿Puede tener algo que ver con la memoria RAM? Gracias. Manuel Jerez CárdenesUniversidad de Las Palmas de Gran CanariaDepartamento de Ingeniería Electrónica y AutomáticaCampus Universitario de Tafira35017 - Las Palmas de Gran CanariaE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Tlf: +34 928451244/45Fax: +34 928451243Islas Canarias
Sobre la estabilización
Hola: Alguien puede informarme cuales son los pasos exactos para la estabilización de debian? Yo lo instalé por primera vez cuando ya había salido la versión 2.1, así que no conozco el procedimiento. Gracias, Camilo Alejandro. -- * De simio la conoci y he visto hombres que la añoran. * En lo que a mi se refiere, ni entonces ni ahora * perdi mi libertad. Informe para una academia. Franz Kafka
Re: Dudas sobre fetchmail
Hola Jose Carols: 1.- Para leer el correo pensaba utilizar fetchmail, ya que sólo me conecto de vez en cuando.¿Sirve fetchmail para enviar correo (protocolo SMTP)?.¿Necesito algún otro MTA (exim,sendmail,etc) para ello? Fetchmail solo recoge el correo, necesitarás el MTA. Si tu proveedor requiere además autenticación, necesitaras sendmail 8.10, o utilizar el correo de Netscape. 2.- Finalmente, tengo un problema al configurar fetchmail, porque a mi servidor de correo le ha dado por separar el nombre de usuario del servidor POP mediante el caracter '#' en lugar de '@'. ¿Como puedo configurar fetchmail para que los separe mediante '#'? Eso no es ningun problema, el nombre de usuario no es la dirección de correo. Solo escribe el nombre de usuario que te da el proveedor (con el '#' y todo) en el campo correspondiente. -- * De simio la conoci y he visto hombres que la añoran. * En lo que a mi se refiere, ni entonces ni ahora * perdi mi libertad. Informe para una academia. Franz Kafka
Re: RDSI
Nestor A. Diaz L. wrote: On Sun, 28 May 2000, Francisco Jose Toledano Alcala wrote: Nestor A. Diaz L. wrote: Al comprar la linea RDSI, te pusieron un terminador mixto de red (TR1 a+B), si no es así, didle a telefónica que te lo ponga, ya que de está forma, tendrás conexiones analógicas y digitales. Pero además, necesitarás un modem normal y corriente conectado al terminador mixto para que conteste las conexiones analógicas. El terminador mixto a que haces referencia es lo que llaman el terminal Adaptor? mejor dicho en definitiva si quiero que entren llamadas de modems que trabajan sobre lineas analogas necesito por obligacion modems normales en mi servidor?, y la RDSI solo me va a funcionar para conectar a RDSI, es asi no? Gracias. El terminador mixto de red, es una caja en la que aparacen 4 conectores de línea. 2 de formato RDSI ( que son un poco más grandes que los convencionales ) y otros 2 del tipo normal telefónico. Y si a que vas a necesitar los modems para dar acceso a clientes que tenga línea analógicas.
Montar particiones al arrancar Reiser FS
Hola a todos. Acabo de instalar un servidor Debian 2.2 con ReiserFS 2.2.15. Todo funciona bien, excepto un mensaje que aparece al final del arranque que viene a decir: EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended Alquien sabe que fichero intenta montar las particiones no comprovadas? Gracias
mgetty+sendfax
he intentado configurar el mgetty+sendfax, con mi RDSI, pero me da el error NO DIALTONE, alguien sabe como solucionar esto, lo demas por la rdsi me funciona bien gracias y perdon por las molestias
Re: Sobre la estabilización
klllon, May 29, 2000 at 08:14:10AM -0500, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote: Hola: Alguien puede informarme cuales son los pasos exactos para la estabilización de debian? Yo lo instalé por primera vez cuando ya había salido la versión 2.1, así que no conozco el procedimiento. Siempre existe una versión inestable, hasta ahora era potato, pero esta se congeló, primer paso para hacerla estable. Inmediatamente se creó otra inestable: Woody Congelar quiere decir dejar en un estado en que no se introducen componentes nuevos, por ejemplo el kernel 2.4 que está al caer no va a ir en potato, ni las Xfree4 que ya salieron, ni muchas cosas más que sin envargo te podrás encontrar en woody. En estado de congelación lo único que se hace es asegurarse que la distribución es completamente estable, lo que lleva bastante tiempo, cuando se consigue surge una nueva versión estable u oficial. Luego van saliendo versiones mejoradas ( siempre queda algún retoque por hacer o algo que se añade ... algo pequeño, pero importante ), así, slink llegó por lo menos que yo sepa a la versión 3 Por lo menos estos son los pasos que yo sepa. -- Saludos a tos tos Javier Fafián Alvarez | Te pasas la vida haciendo planes, en un AMD-K6II a 350| pero la vida ya tiene sus RAM 64 Mb kernel 2.2.15 | propios planes ... Con Linux Debian Potato (frozen)| -- JFA --
vim y sustituciones
De nuevo con problemas de sustitución. No termino de entender como entiende vim el retorno de carro. Esto es lo que tengo entendido. Linux \n ascii 10avance de línea CR dos \r\nascii 10 ascii 13 avance de línea, retorno de carro CR CF mac \r ascii 1 retorno de carroCF el carácter 10 aparece en el vi como y también al pulsar control V y enter Quiero sustituir un salto de línea seguido de dos espacios y 1. y otro espacio por :. Si, otra vez con el mismo problema. he probado en el vim con :%s/\n 1. /:/ :%s/\n\s*$/:/ estos dos me dan el error patern not found :%s/\n/:/ esto me sustituye todas las n por : y no es lo que busco la verdad. :%s/^M 1. /:/ esto lo aplico al texto original de dos pero da patern not found. :%s/^M/:/:/ sigue dando patern not found. He probado con unos cuantos más, he intentado con la ayuda, con otros programas, y después de tres horas no lo he sacado. Duro de mollera, ya lo se. La pregunta es ¿Cómo le indico a vim el retorno de carro? Y ya de paso, cuando busco una cadena con /, ¿Qué tecla continua mostrando los resultados? en dselect es \ pero no rula en vim. Gracias de antemano. Isaac Puch Rojo.
Instalacion de g++
Hola. Tengo un problema al tratar de instalar el g++. Cuando hago dpkg -i g++_2xxx me dice que se necesita la librería libstdc++2.10-dev, y al tratar de instalar ésta me dice que hay que tener instalado el g++. ¿Alguna sugerencia al respecto? De antemano gracias. Saludos. -- Miguel Ángel Rodríguez | Hay quien arroja un vidrio roto mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | sobre la playa, pero hay quien mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | se agacha a recogerlo. %% | J. Narosky
Re: Consulta off-topic
Angel Vicente Perez wrote: Hola... ... Hola, me explico mejor, nuestra red interna es 10.xxx.xxx.xxx en todos las PC's (incluso el AS400 y el Linux). Pero ademas el Linux tiene otra tarjeta de red con una direccion 200.xxx.xxx.xxx, es con esta dirección que estamos con linea dedicada a Internet utilizando un modem externo y un router. Entonses lo que deseo es que desde una Pc's remota con una dirección aleatoria pueda ingresar al AS400 via Internet. ... Supongo que te refieres a poder conectarte desde internet a algo de la intranet que no es visible desde el exterior. Yo lo haria con la herramienta redir, como su nombre indica redirije conexiones de un puerto local a otro puerto de otra maquina. por ejemplo redir --lport=4000 --caddress=10.direccion.as.400 --cport=23 --bind_addr=10.direccion.linux que lo que hace es cuando un paquete llege al puerto 4000 del linux lo reenvia al puerto 23 (telnet ¿Tiene telnet un AS400?) a traves de la direccion IP interna. En cuanto a seguridad, no tengo ni idea de como securizarlo -- \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Jordi Román Mejias e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux User # 98296-70876 Autònoma Oberta Servei de Informàtica Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
Re: Instalacion de g++
El lunes 29 de mayo de 2000 a la(s) 13:13:22 -0400, Miguel Angel Rodríguez contaba: Tengo un problema al tratar de instalar el g++. Cuando hago dpkg -i g++_2xxx me dice que se necesita la librería libstdc++2.10-dev, y al tratar de instalar ésta me dice que hay que tener instalado el g++. Instala los dos a la vez: # dpkg -i g++_2xxx.deb libstdc++2.10-dev.deb [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED]Linux 2.2.14 - Reg. User #87069 Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! pgp20ighU0gsc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Montar particiones al arrancar Reiser FS
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Toni S wrote: Acabo de instalar un servidor Debian 2.2 con ReiserFS 2.2.15. EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended Alquien sabe que fichero intenta montar las particiones no comprovadas? En el arranque se ejecutan los scripts que están en /etc/rcS.d; uno de ellos (uno de los enlaces, digo) es mountall.sh, que entre otras cosas hace mount -a. Eso lo que hace es mirar /etc/fstab, y montar todas las particiones que no tengan noauto. Total, que o le pones noauto a la partición que se está montando sin chequearse, o le pones un 2 en el último campo, que por lo que dices seguramente sea un 0 (si pone 0 0, ponle 1 2, que es lo típico para un filesystem normal -no /, ni /proc, etcetc-) Por cierto, será seguramente ReiserFS 3.5.21, no 2.2.15, ¿no? :-)) (¿qué tal va, a todo esto? ¿journaling de verdad?) Saludos!
Re: RDSI
Creo poder aportar algo, si empleas modems RDSI como los Courrier-I de 3Com puedes con un solo equipo atender llamadas desde lineas analógicas o digitales. El modem Courrier se conecta a la RDSI, y admite cualquier tipo de conexión externa, internamente realiza la discriminación si el cliente es analogo o digital. Tienes la ventaja adicional que tus clientes analógicos podrán conectarse a 56 Kbps. Suerte El lun, 29 may 2000, Francisco Jose Toledano Alcala escribió: Nestor A. Diaz L. wrote: On Sun, 28 May 2000, Francisco Jose Toledano Alcala wrote: Nestor A. Diaz L. wrote: Al comprar la linea RDSI, te pusieron un terminador mixto de red (TR1 a+B), si no es así, didle a telefónica que te lo ponga, ya que de está forma, tendrás conexiones analógicas y digitales. Pero además, necesitarás un modem normal y corriente conectado al terminador mixto para que conteste las conexiones analógicas. El terminador mixto a que haces referencia es lo que llaman el terminal Adaptor? mejor dicho en definitiva si quiero que entren llamadas de modems que trabajan sobre lineas analogas necesito por obligacion modems normales en mi servidor?, y la RDSI solo me va a funcionar para conectar a RDSI, es asi no? Gracias. El terminador mixto de red, es una caja en la que aparacen 4 conectores de línea. 2 de formato RDSI ( que son un poco más grandes que los convencionales ) y otros 2 del tipo normal telefónico. Y si a que vas a necesitar los modems para dar acceso a clientes que tenga línea analógicas. -- Hernan Lucar Cuculiza Conectiva Peru Comunidad Sin Fronteras
Re: [Problema rarísimo!!!]
Manuel Jerez Cárdenes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - Hola a [EMAIL PROTECTED], acabo de instalar la Debian 2.1 slink en un Pentium III 550 con 128 Mb de RAM. Mi tarjeta de video es una ATI 3D Rage con 8 Mb. Lo curioso que me está ocurriendo es que al configurar las X me bajé el último servidor SVGA de las XFree86. Y me arranca las X pero con 8 bpp, o sea con 256 colores unicamente. Pero a parte de esto cuando quiero salir de las X, que lo normal es que vuelva a la consola si no tengo puesto el xdm, la pantalla se me queda en negro. Lo único que puedo hacer es resetear el ordenador con CTRL+ALT+SUPR. ¿Alguién sabe porque sucede ésto? ¿Puede tener algo que ver con la memoria RAM? Gracias. Manuel Jerez Cárdenes Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica y Automática Campus Universitario de Tafira 35017 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tlf: +34 928451244/45 Fax: +34 928451243 Islas Canarias Para poder tener un bpp más alto por lo general debes sacar el signo # que aparece delante de la memoria que asignaste a tu tarjeta en la configuración.También puedes probar cambiando de 8 megas a 4 megas en el archivo de configuración. Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
[SOLUCION] RDSI
Buenas, les cuento que en la siguiente direccion: En http://web.jet.es/inaki.arenaza/linux/linux-rdsi.html que me envio Ugo El Grande hay una guia de instalacion de RDSI en debian muy buena por cierto, la tarjeta quedo configurada al pelo, todo empezo cuando me toco instalar una RDSI AVM B1 PCI y decidi aprovechar de paso para configurar la mia una miserable Winbond. La diferencia entre estas dos U$ 1200 contra U$ 70 (en Colombia) esta en que la una es activa y viene con procesador incorporado, lo cual implica un leve detalle y es que hay que bajarse un firmware para hacerla funcionar (me pregunto si la filosofia de este firmware es la misma que utiliza el procesador Crusoe?) Bueno el caso es que establece conexiones con ppp sincronico y asincronico (Salientes), pero hay un leve detalle, el mgetty no me acepta llamadas, me dice algo del incoming call pero no la acepta, tampoco el ppp, me imagino que tiene algo que ver con el callerid.conf no? alguien sabe como configurar este archivo para que me acepte todas las llamadas entrantes? Mejor dicho alguien ha configurado un servidor para aceptar llamadas por RDSI? gracias. Nestor A. Diaz L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key `wget http://www.tiendalinux.com/pgp/nestor.pgp` Visita http://www.tiendalinux.com la tienda virtual de Productos y Servicios para los usuarios de Linux en Colombia
help!!!!!!
To Whom It May Concern, I recently purchased your version of linux, but am having trouble installing it. I was hoping you had tech support that could walk me through it. I would appreciate it if you could send me this phone number. Thanks! Sincerely, John A. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: wvdial dials; kppp doesn't. Why???
I made a little headway here, I got kppp to go through (as root) but it died quickly. I'll look for some info on CHAP, I guess, eh? (I'm embarrassed to say that I had misidentified the serial port, I had it as /dev/ttys0 . . . oops! But there must be at least another problem!) May 29 00:41:06 probe pppd[373]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 May 29 00:41:06 probe pppd[373]: Using interface ppp0 May 29 00:41:06 probe pppd[373]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 May 29 00:41:10 probe pppd[373]: No CHAP secret found for authenticating HiPer May 29 00:41:11 probe pppd[373]: Hangup (SIGHUP) May 29 00:41:11 probe pppd[373]: Modem hangup May 29 00:41:11 probe pppd[373]: Connection terminated. May 29 00:41:12 probe pppd[373]: Exit. --Chris Chris Joyner wrote: Dear friends, I have tinkered and tinkered but still can't make kppp work from KDE to dial my modem. I can use wvdial from a console (but only as root! BTW, how do I get to use wvdial as another user?) and it connects immediately. Any suggestionsas to getting kppp to do its thing? I'm using slink. Thanks, Chris Joyner -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: help!!!!!!
hehe, spot the Microsoft user ... sorry, must be constructive ... what is the exact problem you're having? Andrew -Original Message- From: John Archuleta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 1:13 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: help!! To Whom It May Concern, I recently purchased your version of linux, but am having trouble installing it. I was hoping you had tech support that could walk me through it. I would appreciate it if you could send me this phone number. Thanks! Sincerely, John A. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: help!!!!!!
John Archuleta wrote: To Whom It May Concern, I recently purchased your version of linux, but am having trouble installing it. I was hoping you had tech support that could walk me through it. I would appreciate it if you could send me this phone number. Thanks! Sincerely, John A. Ahm .. Ahh... John? You do understand that you're asking for a tech support phone number from the best *volunteer* mailing list in the universedon't you? Debian is FREE! So is the excellent help you may (or may not) get from this list. Read all the documentation you can and when you get stuck (you will ;-)) ask specific questions on this list, someone is sure to help. Then when you become proficient, you can help someone else. Welcome to the world of Debian John -- Powered by the Penguin
has anyone tried Mirapoint's Internet Message Server ?
hi gang ! ive veeb reading a lot fo good stuff about the Internet Message Server from Mirapoint (www.mirapoint.com) and i would just like to ask whether there's anyone here who has tried it. how is it w/ really large email services ? thanks in advance. Chad
Using APM
Hello, I'd like to be able to put my computer to sleep as it does under windows. So far, I've gotten my screen to suspend, but that's all... and the APM doc is useless. My SCSI host adapter is a 2940 Ultra, and the drive is a Quantum Fireball. The CPU is a PII. I have a SCSI drive, my / partition is on it. Is it possible to suspend the drive ? hdparm is only for IDE drives, and I found nothing in hwtools... By the way, is it possible to control the CPU fan too ? My computer is a desktop one, not a laptop, but it can do it, I believe ? -- Thibaut Cousin email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using special keys on a keyboard
Hello, I recently got a new keyboard with several special keys to power off the computer, launch the mailer, etc. I'd like to make them work under Linux (I'm using Potato). When I press them at boot time, I get on screen a message unknown scancode with a code e0 xx. But I fear these codes are only for the console, not for X. So : - how do I get the codes of these keys for X ? xkeycaps doesn't work, as it only knows standard keyboards. - where can I configure their action ? Is there a tool to do it ? -- Thibaut Cousin email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to start Gnome
Hi Eric!
\begin{pedantic}
Just a question about .xsession: Isn't it a rc-file like .xinitrc,
and therefore there is no need for a shell-script, neither for an
executable-bit?
\end{pedantic}
bye,
MH
Procedure:
1. Open a text editor (ae, joe, jed, pico, vi, vim, emacs, others..)
2. Type in these items (not the hyphens..)
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#! /bin/sh
exec gnome-session
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3. Save the file as /home/your username/.xsession
4. Quit the text editor.
5. type 'chmod +x ~/.xsession' at the prompt (make executable)
6. run startx
Assumes you already have a working X system...
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Re: Everybuddy
Thanks for that. I was trying to compile it from source. Mike Werner wrote: Daniel Burrows wrote: I'm trying to install everybuddy. http://www.everybuddy.com - I can't seem to get anywhere with it. Anyone use this app and got it to work? I need a step-by-step guide please!! 1) apt-get install everybuddy 2) Find the everybuddy entry in your window manager's menu - should be in the network group 3) Click on the afore-mentioned entry 4) When everybuddy comes up - that can take a while - enter your account setting (in the Tools menu) 5) After editing your account information for the first time, restart everybuddy
Date of new release
Hi! I've been lurking on this list for a few days, as a preliminary to making the leap from Mandrake to Debian - getting the feel of the community. It feels good! The imminent arrival of a new stable release seems like a good time to jump. Does anyone know roughly when the new release might happen - are we talking weeks, months...? TIA for any wisdom on this Glyn M. -- ** * The soul is greater than the hum of it's parts. * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: Using APM
Le Mon, 29 May 2000, vous avez écrit : Thibaut Cousin wrote: Hello, I'd like to be able to put my computer to sleep as it does under windows. So far, I've gotten my screen to suspend, but that's all... and the APM doc is useless. My SCSI host adapter is a 2940 Ultra, and the drive is a Quantum Fireball. The CPU is a PII. I have a SCSI drive, my / partition is on it. Is it possible to suspend the drive ? hdparm is only for IDE drives, and I found nothing in hwtools... By the way, is it possible to control the CPU fan too ? My computer is a desktop one, not a laptop, but it can do it, I believe ? -- Thibaut Cousin email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I don't think it is possible to contol the cpu fan. To do that, it needs to implemented in your motherboard's bios, or you would have get/make it yourself (a device that measures cpu-temperature and can control the voltage to the fan accordingly). Well, it has probably been done, because windows is able to do it (on the same computer) ! As for Linux, apm's doc talks about it, but it is not clear at all. On my Compaq PII350, they've put a huge aluminium heatsink on the processor and left out the fan. This is a wonderfully silent solution to that! Is it a desktop ? That seems very nice indeed... Have you compiled apm into your kernel? also, there's a apm-tools package (I forget the exact name, but a search for apm in dselect should find it). Yes. I compiled APM with Enabled at boot time and Power off on shutdown. The package you're talking about must be apmd. It seems to be what I need, but I don't understand anything to the doc, and the /etc/apm directory is almost empty :-( Maybe apmd is limited to laptops... I really don't know. -- Thibaut Cousin email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.kde.org/fr Linux : Ne jetez plus votre argent par les Fenêtre$ !! Windows n'est pas la réponse. C'est la question, et la réponse est non.
Re: How to start Gnome
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 10:48:49AM +0200, MH wrote:
Hi Eric!
\begin{pedantic}
Just a question about .xsession: Isn't it a rc-file like .xinitrc,
and therefore there is no need for a shell-script, neither for an
executable-bit?
\end{pedantic}
Not my understanding... It's an executable script like
/etc/X11/Xsession. Try chmod -x .xsession for yourself.
Then see if what you put in .xsession gets used.
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Re: window-managers
It's not registered, so any ideas how to do this? I can't get anywhere with it. Eric G . Miller wrote: On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 08:35:24PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: I have just upgraded to potato. Previously, in slink, I had setup my window-managers file to start kde by default but now I get fvwm2 when I type startx. Why is this? The file still points to kde as the first option - is there a different config file for this in potato? Potato now uses the alternatives system to configure the default window manager. Basically it's bunch of symlinks. First, you have /usr/bin/x-window-manager which points to /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager which points to the real window manager. The easy way to update this system is to run update-alternatives --config x-window-manager as root. It should list all of the available (or registered) window managers from which you can select. If you have compiled a window manager in /usr/local then the system won't know about it and you'll need to register this window manager. Confused? You can try to decipher the man pages for update-alternatives... (Despite the somewhat confusing system, it now brings X in line with many other programs that provide a generic something, like editor, emacs, web server, etc...)
Re: X on a 486
Windowmaker runs fine on my 486DX2-66 with 12Mb RAM. :) Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Atila Nemet wrote: Hi! Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there window manager which is low on system resources so I could set up X on this 486? Attila -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Guidance
Hi, I have just finished installing the debian base system on my 386sx, which has a 170 meg hd and 8 meg of memory. I am brand new to linux/unix. I need some help. I have been on your site for about an hour and have not found any help yet. My 386 is not on the net. How do i download packages fromthe net on this computer and transfer them to my 386? I tried one callednethack_3.2.3-3.deb. I have no idea of how the command system works on linux? I copied this file to a floppy disk (dos format). I tried dselect and the floppies selection, but it would not work. I tried using dpkg, but what command do i put in for the floopy drive: i.e. a:/nethack_3.2.3-3.deb Could you plese give me some help, or tell me where i could find some. I have read the debian users guide ed2 chapter on dpkg, and i understand how it works, but i still dont' know how to access the A: HELP! Thanks in advance Scott. ___ GO Network Mail Get Your Free, Private E-mail at http://mail.go.com
Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond the partition barriers!
I am guessing but I hope it will worth something: 1) I do believe that having Win think it got the whole disk for itself might be a problem if it will try to use the part that is not belong to it. Although in this case it might fail and return an error without damaging anything. 2) Does the 2 fdisk (the dos one and the Debian one) notices the 2 partitions? 3) I suspect that OnTrack is the problem. Why do you need it anyway? Having a 100M + 900M does put the beginning of both partitions and the whole Win partition under the BIOS 528M limit, doesn't it? Dear Debian users, I've installed Debian recently. My GNU/Linux knowledge at the time is quite basic, but I hope I can learn enough in the forthcoming times, so I can help you more than I am able right now. Let me start with the following situation that I have in my second machine: I installed Debian Hamm kernel 2.0.etc, living with Windows 3.11. The installation went perfect and both OSes have been running smoothly during three weeks. I gave to Debian 900 MB and to Windows 3.11 100 MB. But if I run Windows its file manager tells me that the HDD is 1 Gb. I think this is not normal, because it just had to notice only 100 MB of its FAT partition. Then I read in an article that if you had a kernel below 2.2 and fdisk below 2.9, you should have to synch the partitions, to avoid having partitions overlapped. (I'm very sorry, but I don't remember if I used the fdisk from the Debian CD, or a fdisk taken from Slackware 7.0). The questions are: -Does it have any relation the article I read with my problem? -Is this situation dangerous for my ext2 or fat16 partitions? -What non-destructive solutions could I try? Some aspects that perhaps are informative to you: -I had some problems with BIOS due to its lack of LBA. I solved it w/ Ontrack Support for large drives like mine. Linux boots from LILO. Thank you very much for your attention and help, Ignasi P.S. Please don't throw rocks at me for writing this from NT. Before installing Linux on this one I need to backup! ___ Do You Yahoo!? Achetez, vendez! À votre prix! Sur http://encheres.yahoo.fr -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Date of new release
Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been lurking on this list for a few days, as a preliminary to making the leap from Mandrake to Debian - getting the feel of the community. It feels good! Welcome! The imminent arrival of a new stable release seems like a good time to jump. Does anyone know roughly when the new release might happen - are we talking weeks, months...? Try having a look at the archives of the debian-release mailing list on Debian's website. It'll take at least another test cycle, so potentially just a few weeks - it really depends if anything goes wrong there and we have to lather, rinse, repeat. HTH, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using APM
Thibaut Cousin wrote: Le Mon, 29 May 2000, vous avez écrit : Thibaut Cousin wrote: Hello, I'd like to be able to put my computer to sleep as it does under windows. So far, I've gotten my screen to suspend, but that's all... and the APM doc is useless. My SCSI host adapter is a 2940 Ultra, and the drive is a Quantum Fireball. The CPU is a PII. I have a SCSI drive, my / partition is on it. Is it possible to suspend the drive ? hdparm is only for IDE drives, and I found nothing in hwtools... By the way, is it possible to control the CPU fan too ? My computer is a desktop one, not a laptop, but it can do it, I believe ? -- Thibaut Cousin email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I don't think it is possible to contol the cpu fan. To do that, it needs to implemented in your motherboard's bios, or you would have get/make it yourself (a device that measures cpu-temperature and can control the voltage to the fan accordingly). Well, it has probably been done, because windows is able to do it (on the same computer) ! As for Linux, apm's doc talks about it, but it is not clear at all. Allright, great for you! someone must have done it in Linux, seems noise is a common problem! On my Compaq PII350, they've put a huge aluminium heatsink on the processor and left out the fan. This is a wonderfully silent solution to that! Is it a desktop ? That seems very nice indeed... Yep, desktop it is. Rather large box, and it's got no other fans than the one in the powersupply. FYI, it's a Deskpro EP6350. I'm in the process of fabricating a similar heatsink for a friend of mine, who's got a sound-studio, so he needs a very silent puter. All the data for the heatsink are available at Intel's developer site, look for Thermal Guidelines. Have you compiled apm into your kernel? also, there's a apm-tools package (I forget the exact name, but a search for apm in dselect should find it). Yes. I compiled APM with Enabled at boot time and Power off on shutdown. The package you're talking about must be apmd. It seems to be what I need, but I don't understand anything to the doc, and the /etc/apm directory is almost empty :-( Maybe apmd is limited to laptops... I really don't know. Don't think so. I have the same Kernel-options as you do, and the box shuts itself off fine. It also seems to spin down and go into sleep-mode fine, but this could be a hardware-thing (read: Compaq-bios-thing). I know people have made suspend and sleep and hd spindown work with debian apm -have you tried the list-archives? This comes up quite often... Good Luck Vitux -- Thibaut Cousin email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web : http://www.kde.org/fr Linux : Ne jetez plus votre argent par les Fenêtre$ !! Windows n'est pas la réponse. C'est la question, et la réponse est non. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone
Re: X on a 486
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 05:24:50 Atila Nemet wrote: Hi! Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there window manager which is low on system resources so I could set up X on this 486? I used to run KDE on a 486 Dx4/100 with 12 meg of ram ! But that was a bit extreme, there are plenty of good small window managers around, fvwm, xfce, amiwm, olwm, or the old faithful twm if things get really tight.
How to see hidden files/dirs
How do i get gnome/gtk apps to show me hidden files and dirs ?? ( i dont mean gmc ) In most other apps its no problem but gtk/gnome no success thusfar :(. Is there some system config for this. ( havent found it yet ). cheers
[Fwd: Guidance]
Vitux wrote: T wrote: Hi, I have just finished installing the debian base system on my 386sx, which has a 170 meg hd and 8 meg of memory. I am brand new to linux/unix. I need some help. I have been on your site for about an hour and have not found any help yet. My 386 is not on the net. How do i download packages fromthe net on this computer and transfer them to my 386? I tried one callednethack_3.2.3-3.deb. I have no idea of how the command system works on linux? I copied this file to a floppy disk (dos format). I tried dselect and the floppies selection, but it would not work. I tried using dpkg, but what command do i put in for the floopy drive: i.e. a:/nethack_3.2.3-3.deb Could you plese give me some help, or tell me where i could find some. I have read the debian users guide ed2 chapter on dpkg, and i understand how it works, but i still dont' know how to access the A: HELP! Thanks in advance Scott. ___ Welcome to Debian! I think you're in for a rough time. *nix is soo much different from dos. (recently a newbie myself). You're in for a bit of reading, I suppose. What I did was get a quite general book on unix, just to get the general feel of it, and learn some basic commands. The first floppy-drive in linux is called /dev/fd0, but due to the nature of the filesystem, you need to mount it somewhere before you can access it. Try mount -msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/ (while logged in as root). As for installing the system; IMHO by far the easiest way to get you a functioning system is to connect your puter to a modem and download the lot using apt/dselect. If want to install the packages one by one using floppies, you're in for about a week's work and loads of trouble tackling dependencies. (tried it myself without success!) The base system from the diskettes is able to get on the net to ftp the lot. hth Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone sorry, forgot to include the list... Vitux
Antivirus AVP para linux
Hola: Me he bajado de http://www.avp-es.com una versión beta del antivirus AVP para Linux (escanea virus de Win'9x). He pensado ponerlo para escanear por la noche en el servidor todos los directorios compartidos tipo Samba con máquinas de Windows. ¿Alguien lo ha probado?, ¿merece la pena?. Saludos y gracias. -- Mecanizados, S. A. Informática. Ximo Nadal. Avda. Ausias March, 122. E-46026 VALENCIA (SPAIN). Tel.: +34 96 373 63 62. Fax: +34 96 373 66 03. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Server powered by Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org
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Hello everbody, I have a problem concerning the time indication. Every time I log in to Debian Linux the clock indicates the wrong time. For example, the clock indicates 14.00 while it is actually 12.00. I remember that during the installation I have chosen GMT and this is probably causing the problem. I live in the time zone Europe/Brussels so, Is there a way to fix this permanently? changing the time with date doesn't solve the problem when a reboot. Greetings, Stefan Goeman
Re: your mail
tzconfig is the application you are looking for. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 29 May 2000, Goeman Stefan wrote: Hello everbody, I have a problem concerning the time indication. Every time I log in to Debian Linux the clock indicates the wrong time. For example, the clock indicates 14.00 while it is actually 12.00. I remember that during the installation I have chosen GMT and this is probably causing the problem. I live in the time zone Europe/Brussels so, Is there a way to fix this permanently? changing the time with date doesn't solve the problem when a reboot. Greetings, Stefan Goeman -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Guidance
Hello Scott, before playing nethack : log as root, mcopy a:nethack_3.2.3-3.deb . dpkg -i nethack_3.2.3-3.deb mcopy is an util from the mtools package which allow you to use dos floppies. for help on mtools : man mtools dpkg is the debian package manager. installer there is an HOWTO use linux for dos user : from the command prompt type : zless /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.txt.gz it will get you started. welcome to GNU/Linux !
Re: Guidance
T wrote: Hi, I have just finished installing the debian base system on my 386sx, which has a 170 meg hd and 8 meg of memory. I am brand new to linux/unix. I need some help. --- You'll find some documentation from http://www.linux.org/help/ You're propably using bash-shell, so there you'll find bash-howto. Like Vitux wrote, get a book. Surf to http://www.ora.com. In my opinion O'Reilly's books are very good. It will take time before you learn to use linux well, but it's worth it. Luckily you already have chosen the right distribution:) Esko Lehtonen WYSINWYG - [EMAIL PROTECTED] What You See Is Never What You Get ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: wvdial dials; kppp doesn't. Why???
try in kppp the CHAP or an script-based authentication method. ---Reply to mail from Chris Joyner about wvdial dials; kppp doesn't. Why??? Dear friends, I have tinkered and tinkered but still can't make kppp work from KDE to dial my modem. I can use wvdial from a console (but only as root! BTW, how do I get to use wvdial as another user?) and it connects immediately. Any suggestionsas to getting kppp to do its thing? I'm using slink. Thanks, Chris Joyner -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ---End reply with friendly regards Jens Luedicke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello Stefan, I remember that during the installation I have chosen GMT and this is probably causing the problem. I live in the time zone Europe/Brussels so, Is there a way to fix this permanently? changing the time with date doesn't solve the problem when a reboot. I would try tzconfig good luck !
Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond the partition barriers!
At 13.28 29/5/00 +0300, Shaul Karl ha escrit: I am guessing but I hope it will worth something: 1) I do believe that having Win think it got the whole disk for itself might be a problem if it will try to use the part that is not belong to it. Although in this case it might fail and return an error without damaging anything. Mmm... It is logical. 2) Does the 2 fdisk (the dos one and the Debian one) notices the 2 partitions? Yes. I copy here my answer to an answer I got from Vitux: dev/hda1: DOS-16 bit =32M of 100 Mb dev/hda2: Extended (marked as bootable) dev/hda5: a 950 Mb partition for Linux native. dev/hda6: a 50 Mb partition for swap. From the DOS fdisk I see now: Primary partition: 100 Mb Extended partition: 1Gb with logical partitions. Would you like to see the info on logical partitions? (Y) No logical partitions defined. Total size of extended DOS partition: 1051 Mb 3) I suspect that OnTrack is the problem. Why do you need it anyway? Having a 100M + 900M does put the beginning of both partitions and the whole Win partition under the BIOS 528M limit, doesn't it? Well... You are right. But BIOS does not give the correct CHS values of the HDD, and as far as I know DOS is BIOS-dependant... Another thing that defends Ontrack is the following strange situation that I also replied to Vitux: | Norton DD told me the HDD was full of damaged clusters, but I stopped it and I applied Ontrack support for large drives to the DOS boot |diskette. Then there were no errors. Before applying Ontrack support, I tried Scandisk and it told me there was something wrong w/ configuration, that if I'd continue M$ would not be responsible for nothing. I obeyed it. On the other hand (and this are speculations), I applied an extensive test to the disk w/ Ontrack Data Advisor (it seems that I work for Ontrack). The good thing about Disk Manager (the first one) is that is not BIOS-dependant at all, so I thought Data Advisor was too. Data Advisor told me the disk was in a good condition. If you have not got bored with this situation, I suggest you to read the letter I sent ot Vitux. You'll find more info there. Thank you, Shaul. Ignasi ___ Do You Yahoo!? Achetez, vendez! À votre prix! Sur http://encheres.yahoo.fr
Re: X on a 486
At 18.07 29/5/00 +0800, Corey Popelier ha escrit: Windowmaker runs fine on my 486DX2-66 with 12Mb RAM. :) WindowMaker runs quite decently with the same machine as you, Corey, but w/ 20 MB of short (in cm) RAM slots and w/ an ISA video card. Atila, try to find somewhere in the /usr/X11, usr/doc or I don't remember files like README.Brand_of_your_video_card. I improved the speed of X_SVGA_dont'_remember_the_rest_of_the_name_of_the_server between 15 and 20%. Then try to disable animations, and use 'traditional style' Don't ask me how to disable animations, don't know at the time! Best, Ignasi ___ Do You Yahoo!? Achetez, vendez! À votre prix! Sur http://encheres.yahoo.fr
Re: Guidance
There is not a:\ in GNU/Linux. It's /dev/fd0 and you'll have to mount the unit. Put the diskette. type: mount /dev/fd0 /floppy (make sure you have a directory called /floppy in the base directory). Then go to /floppy If you can see there the file you've downloaded, go to /floppy and type dpkg -i nethack_3.2.3-3.deb -i is for install. If you change the diskette, umount it first (umount /dev/fd0). If there are extra issues, I don't know. I'm pretty new at GNU/Linux, man. It's the stuff I do when I install packages from the CD-ROM. Good luck! Ignasi ___ Do You Yahoo!? Achetez, vendez! À votre prix! Sur http://encheres.yahoo.fr
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Hello everbody, I have another question. I also have an iomega ZIP drive (250 Mb) connected on the parallel port of my PC but I am not able to access this device. When I use insmod or probemod to to load the imm driver, nothing happens. Well, this is not completely correct. The parallel port is probed and the ZIP drive makes some noise but I don't receive any info concerning the the ZIP disk in the drive. Does anybody have some suggestions?? Greetings, Stefan Goeman
Re: Antivirus AVP para linux
Ho sento, però aquí és més recomanable escriure en anglès. No he provat l'antivirus aquest. Que vagi bé, I. ___ Do You Yahoo!? Achetez, vendez! À votre prix! Sur http://encheres.yahoo.fr
Re: Antivirus AVP para linux
At 12.19 29/5/00 +0200, Ximo Nadal ha escrit: Hola: Me he bajado de http://www.avp-es.com una versión beta del antivirus AVP para Linux (escanea virus de Win'9x). He pensado ponerlo para escanear por la noche en el servidor todos los directorios compartidos tipo Samba con máquinas de Windows. ¿Alguien lo ha probado?, ¿merece la pena?. Saludos y gracias. -- Mecanizados, S. A. Informática. Ximo Nadal. Avda. Ausias March, 122. E-46026 VALENCIA (SPAIN). Tel.: +34 96 373 63 62. Fax: +34 96 373 66 03. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Server powered by Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ___ Do You Yahoo!? Achetez, vendez! À votre prix! Sur http://encheres.yahoo.fr
Re: zip drive (was mail without subject...)
You could check the messages in syslog, or use dmesg to see what happens... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 29 May 2000, Goeman Stefan wrote: Hello everbody, I have another question. I also have an iomega ZIP drive (250 Mb) connected on the parallel port of my PC but I am not able to access this device. When I use insmod or probemod to to load the imm driver, nothing happens. Well, this is not completely correct. The parallel port is probed and the ZIP drive makes some noise but I don't receive any info concerning the the ZIP disk in the drive. Does anybody have some suggestions?? Greetings, Stefan Goeman -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: your mail
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 01:51:04PM +0200, Goeman Stefan wrote: Hello everbody, I have another question. I also have an iomega ZIP drive (250 Mb) connected on the parallel port of my PC but I am not able to access this device. When I use insmod or probemod to to load the imm driver, nothing happens. Well, this is not completely correct. The parallel port is probed and the ZIP drive makes some noise but I don't receive any info concerning the the ZIP disk in the drive. Does anybody have some suggestions?? If /sbin/lsmod returns that imm is loaded, then mount -t vfat /mnt /dev/sda4 (i think) -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.
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exim - listar problem
Hi, after installing listar (mailinglist software) and setting the correct aliases in /etc/aliases, i get the following error when mailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2000-05-29 14:08:02 12vj9N-0001GS-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |/usr/lib/listar/listar (my mta is exim) What could be the problem? -- Bruno Van de Casteele [EMAIL PROTECTED] N.P. Puam [ ICQ#: CA957F ] http://www.puam.dhs.org/ It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, however suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. Gore Vidal
Re: wvdial dials; kppp doesn't. Why???
Thanks, Jens, I have tried that, but I'm pretty sure my ISP uses PAP. Here is the ouptput to xconsole from KDE. (I finally figured out how to get it.) Any clues here? May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 auth chap 05 magic 0xbf09398b pcomp accomp] May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 auth chap 05 magic 0xbf09398b pcomp accomp] May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 mru 1514 asyncmap 0x0 auth pap magic 0x3ad32ce3 pcomp accomp 11 04 05 ea 13 03 00] May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 11 04 05 ea 13 03 00] May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 mru 1514 asyncmap 0x0 auth pap magic 0x3ad32ce3 pcomp accomp] May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x3 mru 1514 asyncmap 0x0 auth pap magic 0x3ad32ce3 pcomp accomp] May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0xbf09398b] May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: sent [CHAP Challenge id=0x1 8cb2c35edaf96a8d387acdf21d83b356e528da429e081e6e3cd18fa5cd7f8e19a95a6780, name = probe] May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user=jhzb password=**] May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x3ad32ce3] May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: rcvd [CHAP Response id=0x1 d2b0109626c64619d32d61a12f5e9c3f, name = HiPer] May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: No CHAP secret found for authenticating HiPer May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: sent [CHAP Failure id=0x1 I don't like you. Go 'way.] May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 Authentication failed] May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: rcvd [PAP AuthAck id=0x1 ] May 29 08:28:40 probe pppd[270]: Hangup (SIGHUP) May 29 08:28:40 probe pppd[270]: Modem hangup May 29 08:28:40 probe pppd[270]: Connection terminated. May 29 08:28:41 probe pppd[270]: Exit. Jens Luedicke wrote: try in kppp the CHAP or an script-based authentication method. ---Reply to mail from Chris Joyner about wvdial dials; kppp doesn't. Why??? Dear friends, I have tinkered and tinkered but still can't make kppp work from KDE to dial my modem. I can use wvdial from a console (but only as root! BTW, how do I get to use wvdial as another user?) and it connects immediately. Any suggestionsas to getting kppp to do its thing? I'm using slink. Thanks, Chris Joyner -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ---End reply with friendly regards Jens Luedicke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wvdial dials; kppp doesn't. Why???
May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: No CHAP secret found for authenticating HiPer May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: sent [CHAP Failure id=0x1 I don't like you. Go 'way.] May 29 08:28:39 probe pppd[270]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 Authentication failed] CHAP doesn't work. Hmm Do you have tried PAP and a script-based login ? When I used once a little SuSE Linux (vomit...) Eval-CD, I couldn't login to my provider with kppp at all. wvdial worked fine, but I'm using ISDN. A script-based login worked for me with kppp. This connection was unstable, but. I'm using ISDN and so I don't know all those details. with friendly regards Jens Luedicke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Beware the potatoe mouse
This is an early warning concerning mouse function, whose relevance to you will depend upon your particular hardware and XF86Config file. Currently all is fine on my desktop which is mostly a Slink/Stable installation. The gpm console mouse daemon is running with affecting my good functionality under Xwindows. In my XF86Config, the default selection for mouse, /dev/mouse, is fine, where in my file system /dev/mouse is a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS0. It's releavant that ls -l /dev/g* reports no devices. The same was true for my Compaq Armada laptop until yesterday, except /dev/mouse - /dev/psaux supporting a touchpad mouse. When I upgraded gpm from Frozen with dpkg -i gpm_1.17.8-16 Xwindows mouse function was lost. Degrading back to Stable with dpkg -i gpm_1.14-3 DID NOT cure the problem. After much hunting around the problem was unraveled. Under gpm_1.17.8-16, /dev/gpmdata and /dev/gpmctrl were created and the mouse symbolic link switched WITHOUT warning: /dev/mouse - /dev/gpmdata which didn't serve my Xwindows at all well. Within XF86Config changing /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux did fix the Xwindows problem, though I also had to /etc/init.d/gpm stop before startx. Also for my hardware at least the Stable gpm_1.17.8-1 is better. A regular Bug report has been filed, but this may save some of you problems. MarvS /dev/mousr -
Re:
Goeman Stefan wrote: Hello everbody, I have another question. I also have an iomega ZIP drive (250 Mb) connected on the parallel port of my PC but I am not able to access this device. When I use insmod or probemod to to load the imm driver, nothing happens. Well, this is not completely correct. The parallel port is probed and the ZIP drive makes some noise but I don't receive any info concerning the the ZIP disk in the drive. Does anybody have some suggestions?? Greetings, Stefan Goeman -- Please be so kind as to type a subject for your mails. Not all of us read all the mails on debian-user: the subjects are very convenient for telling if you're able to help... Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone
BIND configuration files
Hi guys! Is there an easy way for converting old-style BIND (V 4.x.x) configuration files to the new version style (V 8.x.x)? I couldn't find anything matching my needs. TIA Sven
Re: How to start Gnome
I believe .xsession must be executable, though .xinitrc does not need to be
executable.
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Andrew
On Mon, 29 May 2000, MH wrote:
Hi Eric!
\begin{pedantic}
Just a question about .xsession: Isn't it a rc-file like .xinitrc,
and therefore there is no need for a shell-script, neither for an
executable-bit?
\end{pedantic}
Re: Using special keys on a keyboard
Thibaut Cousin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently got a new keyboard with several special keys to power off the computer, launch the mailer, etc. I'd like to make them work under Linux (I'm using Potato). When I press them at boot time, I get on screen a message unknown scancode with a code e0 xx. But I fear these codes are only for the console, not for X. So : - how do I get the codes of these keys for X ? xkeycaps doesn't work, as it only knows standard keyboards. - where can I configure their action ? Is there a tool to do it ? I can't help you for X, I'm afraid; I did get a few extra keys on my keyboard working at the console, though. Have a look at setkeycodes(8); with the aid of showkey(1) you'll be able to assign arbitrary scancodes to arbitrary keycodes. You'll need to find a keycode that's currently unassigned. You'll need to fiddle with your init.d scripts in order to get this working, though - I think /etc/init.d/keymaps-lct.sh is a reasonable place to put this sort of thing, or you could write your own and link it into /etc/rcS.d. (Hmm, maybe Debian needs its own tool for this kind of thing ...) At the console, you can configure the action of extra keys using dumpkeys(1) and loadkeys(1), and perhaps it would be worth looking at the READLINE section in the bash(1) man page to see if that's any use to you. X is substantially more fiddly - I'd be interested to hear from any X experts who actually understand XKB ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DVD-ROM
Hello everybody, I have a DVD-ROM in PC. The problem with this DVR-ROM is that it is possible to mount software cdrom's using the usual mount command. But I don't know how to play a music CDROM. Clicking the CDROM icon in GNOME gives an error message. Greetings Stefan Goeman
Xconsole craps out after Potato-upgrade
Hi Debs Previously (in slink, 4 days ago), Xconsole was run when launching fvwm. Now, it doesn't start automagically, and gives an error: Couldn't open console when I start it manually. I find it quite annoying; I've gotten used to keeping an eye on the modem when dialing and my ailing /dev/hdc (old WD drive). Any ideas? Best Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone
wheel mouse
Hello, Another problem. I also have a logictech wheel mouse. I would like to use that wheel for scrolling. I have installed the package imwheel but I don't know what I should do next to get the mouse working correctly. Any ideas? Greetings, Stefan Goeman.
Re: How to start Gnome
Hi Eric! Not my understanding... It's an executable script like /etc/X11/Xsession. Try chmod -x .xsession for yourself. Then see if what you put in .xsession gets used. It's getting used anyway... But that's not the interesting point (it seems /etc/X11/Xsession deals with both possibilities), so in Debian xinit - e.g. through startx - looks for ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession and the display-managers (xdm and ?) only for .xsession, is this right? Thanks in advance, MH -- Michael Hummel Wollzeile 23/10 A-1010 WIEN mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fprint= 93E1 AB93 C1EB BD1B D96F 96CE 302A D438 F678 3958 key: http://212.17.72.17/key pgpyYpAyyIKel.pgp Description: PGP signature
Rage IIc AGP X = no vt's!
Well, the subject kind of nutcases the situation. Since I changed to a nice 17 siemens monitor and a Rage IIc AGP card, there's only vt7(X) available. When I try any other vt, the screen blanks as if there's no input. I tried running the mach64-xserver, but that only gave me a bunch of screens on top of eachother, so I'm still using the svga-server (1280x1024, 16bpp). Maybe the card can't figure out (or something doesn't tell it) how to get back to a standard text-screen? I'm quite sure it's related to the x-server, as I get normal text-screen when booting. btw: this happened before upgrading to potato -maybe the potato mach-server is better? Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone
Re: Guidance
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:11:11AM -0700, T wrote: I have just finished installing the debian base system on my 386sx, which has a 170 meg hd and 8 meg of memory. I am brand new to linux/unix. I need some help. I have been on your site for about an hour and have not found any help yet. My 386 is not on the net. . . . I'm assuming you have another computer that you used to send that email, and to download the nethack .deb file? What I did in that situation was to connect the two computers with a null modem cable and network them together, then use IP Masquerading and a proxy server to put the second PC on the Internet. See the Serial and IP-Masq HOWTOs for starting instructions. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con's Science and Technology Programming http://www.iconsf.org/
Re: Beware the potatoe mouse
Something that'll probably work: Stop gpm when using X, that'll probably allow you to use your mouse in X Ron Rademaker On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: This is an early warning concerning mouse function, whose relevance to you will depend upon your particular hardware and XF86Config file. Currently all is fine on my desktop which is mostly a Slink/Stable installation. The gpm console mouse daemon is running with affecting my good functionality under Xwindows. In my XF86Config, the default selection for mouse, /dev/mouse, is fine, where in my file system /dev/mouse is a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS0. It's releavant that ls -l /dev/g* reports no devices. The same was true for my Compaq Armada laptop until yesterday, except /dev/mouse - /dev/psaux supporting a touchpad mouse. When I upgraded gpm from Frozen with dpkg -i gpm_1.17.8-16 Xwindows mouse function was lost. Degrading back to Stable with dpkg -i gpm_1.14-3 DID NOT cure the problem. After much hunting around the problem was unraveled. Under gpm_1.17.8-16, /dev/gpmdata and /dev/gpmctrl were created and the mouse symbolic link switched WITHOUT warning: /dev/mouse - /dev/gpmdata which didn't serve my Xwindows at all well. Within XF86Config changing /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux did fix the Xwindows problem, though I also had to /etc/init.d/gpm stop before startx. Also for my hardware at least the Stable gpm_1.17.8-1 is better. A regular Bug report has been filed, but this may save some of you problems. MarvS /dev/mousr - -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: DVD-ROM
Goeman Stefan wrote: I have a DVD-ROM in PC. The problem with this DVR-ROM is that it is possible to mount software cdrom's using the usual mount command. But I don't know how to play a music CDROM. Clicking the CDROM icon in GNOME gives an error message. What is the error message? Probably, the cd player app is looking for the cdrom in /dev/cdrom. You should point it to your actual device, or make a symlink from your cdrom device to /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/hdx /dev/cdrom# where x is your actual device. hth dyer
Floppy
Dear, Sir How are you I install GNU/Debian (Linux 2.1r2). But I didn't able to deal with floppy..I use (mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /floppy)...when I do that with an empty floppy it run without error message. but when I try to copy a file from /root or any to floppy , I use (cp filename /dev/fd0).. after that , if I (umount /floppy) and try to mount it agaian ..I got an error message...(( VFS : Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 02:00 --- mount : You must specify the filesystem type ...I try to use other filesystem type but also, I fail. I cann't able to mount again until I use (superformat /dev/fd0) and I got ... verify cylider 79, head 1 mformat -s18 -t80 -h2 -s2 -M512 a: What can I do, after I create afile to copy it to a floppy and then to use it in another PC? Thanks lot to all group members. Elsadig Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: help!!!!!!
Hello John, Debian is not a company, it's a non-profit organisation. But HP is a company and gives even less suport than Debian, so please continue detailing your problems. Ignasi I recently purchased your version of linux, but am having trouble installing it. I was hoping you had tech support that could walk me through it. I would appreciate it if you could send me this phone number. Thanks! Sincerely, John A. ___ Do You Yahoo!? Achetez, vendez! À votre prix! Sur http://encheres.yahoo.fr
Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond the partitionbarriers!
Hi Vitux, Perhaps I didn't sent that letter. Debian enormous amount of messages dizzies me! Sorry and thank you, man. Ignasi Transciption follows: Sounds very strange to me, I would suppose Win3.1 (which is actually DOS) to see only the size of the partition it lives in. Me, too. How did you partition your drive? Before going to sleep I remembered I used the fdisk from Hamm: I ran fdisk and I did the following: At first there was a large FAT16 partition. I applied the following changes: delete the FAT16 partition. Then add the following partitions: dev/hda1: DOS-16 bit =32M of 100 Mb dev/hda2: Extended (marked as bootable) dev/hda5: a 950 Mb partition for Linux native. () dev/hda6: a 50 Mb partition for swap. Then I wrote the changes. From the DOS fdisk I see now: Primary partition: 100 Mb Extended partition: 1Gb with logical partitions. Would you like to see the info on logical partitions? (Y) No logical partitions defined. Total size of extended DOS partition: 1051 Mb Another curious experience w/ DOS I forgot to mention. As I had built the computer from scratch (a 486 that nobody wanted -it seems that here people here are very rich-) I added a 1Gb HDD. But when I added the HDD, when running the DOS boot diskette it started to appear some odd characters in the screen (this did not happen when I booted the Linux kernel). An I/O conflict? I tried to solve it changing jumpers from the Oak 087 video card using all combinations (no manual for it, Oak does not give it) but no change. Changing cards from its slots, but no solution. As last I apply a plugplay DOS device from Intel and it detects my sound card. The errors disappear. Explanation? No idea. No virus sure (cold boot, very new boot diskettes from two brands). Norton DD told me the HDD was full of damaged clusters, but I stopped it and I applied Ontrack support for large drives to the DOS boot diskette. Then there were no errors. What version of DOS are you running? DOS 6.22 (btw, win3.1 seems to me to be the most stable windows version at this point, but then again, it's based on DOS ;-) Oh yeah man. If they have been so decent like in that times, I'm sure they would not get so much problems as they have now. It seems, writing this, that it's something I did uncorrectly, but I don't know what it should be. Also: beats me why you would want to run hamm -its old, not being developed, and there are really great advantages in running the newer kernels (fs-corruption-bugs are fixed, much better hardware-support, etc). Recently upgraded slink-potato myself, things are running smooth here. Mmmm... I was too impatient. In the Pentium III I'll install Potato when I have a copy. Perhaps there is another reason: that in Windows world I have the tendency of being technological reactionary: prefer NT 4.0 than W2000, prefer W95C than 98 SameExcrement, prefer WP7 (actually the best is WP 5.1 for DOS) than WP8... I forgot that it's also useful to get the latest versions of DOS/W nice programs, such as ARJ, IrfanView... Thanks for your interest, Vitux. Ignasi ___ Do You Yahoo!? Achetez, vendez! À votre prix! Sur http://encheres.yahoo.fr
Re: Floppy
Dear, Sir ... and madam. :) How are you do we really need smalltalk? ;-) any to floppy , I use (cp filename /dev/fd0).. after that , if I (umount ahh ... i have the impression, that you missed the idea of mouting ... use cp filename /floppy -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!
Re: Floppy
any to floppy , I use (cp filename /dev/fd0).. after that , if I (umount ahh ... i have the impression, that you missed the idea of mouting ... use cp filename /floppy btw: from the fact, that you are able to write to /dev/fd0 i conclude, that you are probably working as root ... DON'T DO THAT! create a normal user account and use it instead! the same, what you have done with your floppies, could easily happen to your harddrive, if you are not aware of the mechanisms. put a line like: /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat umask=0,noexec,quiet,noauto,user 0 0 in your /etc/fstab. this way every normal user will be able to mount and unmount dos-formatted floppies with mount /floppy and umount /floppy. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!
Re: help!!!!!!
The responses you have received are correct, though a little unforgivving. I started with other distributions that had nominaly easier installations but switched to Debian because of its continued flexibility. Take very seriously the use of this and other lists (including the bug-list). They are typically much more responsive than telephone numbers. I have posted questions and have had answers within 15 minutes (best case) and within, say, one day (worst case). You will need to be very specific. Arthur H. Edwards 712 Valencia Dr. NE Abq. NM 87108 (505) 256-0834 On Mon, 29 May 2000, John Archuleta wrote: To Whom It May Concern, I recently purchased your version of linux, but am having trouble installing it. I was hoping you had tech support that could walk me through it. I would appreciate it if you could send me this phone number. Thanks! Sincerely, John A. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: wheel mouse
Goeman Stefan wrote: Hello, Another problem. I also have a logictech wheel mouse. I would like to use that wheel for scrolling. I have installed the package imwheel but I don't know what I should do next to get the mouse working correctly. Any ideas? You will have to modify /etc/X11/XF86Config, especially the section Pointer: Add the following line to the Section Pointer: ZAxisMapping4 5 My Section looks like this: Section Pointer ProtocolIMPS/2 Device /dev/psaux BaudRate1200 Emulate3Timeout 50 Resolution 100 ZAxisMapping4 5 EndSection Note, that this is for a PS/2 mouse. Afterwards, start imwheel with imwheel -k and test your the wheel. To start imwheel each time you start X put the same line into /etc/X11/Xsession imwheel -k To alter the behaviour of imwheel, modify one of these files /etc/imwheelrc, which is used for everbody $HOME/.imwheelrc Hope this helps, Marc
Re: Xconsole craps out after Potato-upgrade
if you didn't specify the file option, try: xconsole -file /dev/xconsole On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:47:53PM +0200, Vitux wrote: Hi Debs Previously (in slink, 4 days ago), Xconsole was run when launching fvwm. Now, it doesn't start automagically, and gives an error: Couldn't open console when I start it manually. I find it quite annoying; I've gotten used to keeping an eye on the modem when dialing and my ailing /dev/hdc (old WD drive). Any ideas? Best Regards Vitux -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond thepartitionbarriers!
I. Tura wrote: Hi Vitux, Perhaps I didn't sent that letter. Debian enormous amount of messages dizzies me! Sorry and thank you, man. Ignasi Transciption follows: Sounds very strange to me, I would suppose Win3.1 (which is actually DOS) to see only the size of the partition it lives in. Me, too. How did you partition your drive? Before going to sleep I remembered I used the fdisk from Hamm: I ran fdisk and I did the following: At first there was a large FAT16 partition. I applied the following changes: delete the FAT16 partition. Then add the following partitions: dev/hda1: DOS-16 bit =32M of 100 Mb dev/hda2: Extended (marked as bootable) dev/hda5: a 950 Mb partition for Linux native. ( This is a logical partition ^^ dev/hda6: a 50 Mb partition for swap. This one as well ^^ Then I wrote the changes. From the DOS fdisk I see now: Primary partition: 100 Mb Extended partition: 1Gb with logical partitions. Would you like to see the info on logical partitions? (Y) No logical partitions defined. Total size of extended DOS partition: 1051 Mb Just a thought: It seems you have made logical partitions for your Linux install, and IIRC, linux fdisk and dos fdisk do not agree how to handle logical partitions. This could account for the fact that dos thinks there's no logical partitions defined (dos can't see linux-partitions, but linux can see dos part's...) I think you might need to make both your linux and your dos part's as real (primary extended) partitions to get this working?! (I'm not even sure if this is possible; running pure Linux on my boxes ;-) Another curious experience w/ DOS I forgot to mention. As I had built the computer from scratch (a 486 that nobody wanted -it seems that here people here are very rich-) I added a 1Gb HDD. But when I added the HDD, when running the DOS boot diskette it started to appear some odd characters in the screen (this did not happen when I booted the Linux kernel). Need more info on that one. Sounds like one of those strange things that can happen when combining new and old hardware :-| (hehehehe, Linux rocks!) An I/O conflict? I tried to solve it changing jumpers from the Oak 087 video card using all combinations (no manual for it, Oak does not give it) but no change. Changing cards from its slots, but no solution. As last I apply a plugplay DOS device from Intel and it detects my sound card. The errors disappear. Explanation? No idea. No virus sure (cold boot, very new boot diskettes from two brands). Norton DD told me the HDD was full of damaged clusters, but I stopped it and I applied Ontrack support for large drives to the DOS boot diskette. Then there were no errors. Be very careful with Norton. Has been known to do nasty things to ext2-fs' and fat's. (oh sweet reminiscence of the DOS-days ;-P) What version of DOS are you running? DOS 6.22 (btw, win3.1 seems to me to be the most stable windows version at this point, but then again, it's based on DOS ;-) Oh yeah man. If they have been so decent like in that times, I'm sure they would not get so much problems as they have now. It seems, writing this, that it's something I did uncorrectly, but I don't know what it should be. Also: beats me why you would want to run hamm -its old, not being developed, and there are really great advantages in running the newer kernels (fs-corruption-bugs are fixed, much better hardware-support, etc). Recently upgraded slink-potato myself, things are running smooth here. Mmmm... I was too impatient. In the Pentium III I'll install Potato when I have a copy. Perhaps there is another reason: that in Windows world I have the tendency of being technological reactionary: prefer NT 4.0 than W2000, prefer W95C than 98 SameExcrement, prefer WP7 (actually the best is WP 5.1 for DOS) than WP8... I forgot that it's also useful to get the latest versions of DOS/W nice programs, such as ARJ, IrfanView... You're right on that one. I strongly suggest running Slink or Potato -things have improved vastly even this past year. Good thing w/ Linux: strong development! One last thing: Try getting a bios-update for your old computer; I've had much succes on my own old 486/100 (now being reconf'ed for server use). When I updated my old Award bios, it enabled LBA and other nice stuff (apm was much improved). These old machines were made when a 540Mb hd was HUGE, so no wonder if it craps out on large 1.1G drive. Thanks for your interest, Vitux. No problem. Once a newbie, I'm glad if can give something back to the
Re: Intro and it seems that W3.1 can see beyond thepartitionbarriers!
On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 04:49:26PM +0200, Vitux wrote: One last thing: Try getting a bios-update for your old computer; I've had much succes on my own old 486/100 (now being reconf'ed for server use). When I updated my old Award bios, it enabled LBA and other nice stuff (apm was much improved). These old machines were made when a 540Mb hd was HUGE, so no wonder if it craps out on large 1.1G drive. I run pure Linux on old 386DX/40MHz (AMI BIOS 1990) with 1.2G HDD. There are no problems with such configuration at all. (The only thing to be remebered is that there should be a small start partition located under the 1024th cylinder I use the 10MB part. on the very begining of the HD mounted as /boot directory). -- Wojciech M. Zabolotny http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl/~wzab -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org Linux - free OS for free people!
Re: BIND configuration files
Sven Burgener wrote: Is there an easy way for converting old-style BIND (V 4.x.x) configuration files to the new version style (V 8.x.x)? Slink has a tool for this purpose ... named-bootconf, it comes as part of the bind package. Fraser
Re: is there a gui frontend in X for dialing ppp?
Hello John, On Sun, 28 May 2000, john smith wrote: I have a few questions abt using ppp 1.what is a good gui program for dialing ppp instead of using pon blah in the console or term. There is a nice wmaker-applet called wmppp.app. You push a little button to start the connection, you push another to terminate it. While the connection is up, it displays data transmit rates and uptime. Regards, Daniel
Re: scsi support for ide to enable cdrecord-ing
1) Having 2 cdroms on the same IDE may generate problems (http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html). 2) Remember to put append=hdx=ide-scsi in your lilo.conf 3) Change #define WAIT_CMD (10*HZ) to #define WAIT_CMD (1000*HZ) in the file /usr/src/linux/include/ide.h. Otherwise you will get timeout errors while fixating. 4) Disable scan all luns on the kernel. I get the same message from xcdroast so I do not use it. Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I have a frozen system working, with kernel 2.2.15 and lsmode shows: serial, sg, ide_scsi, ppp, slhc I have ATAPI CDROM DRIVE 36-X and HP CD-Writer +7200 both in the secondary IDE controller. When I try to run cdrecord, or xcdroast I get the message that I have to implement generic scsi support. Don't I have it already? What exactly do I have to configure in my module to have these two fellow CDROMS visible to the system? Thanks, Antonio. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- .'/,-Y ~-. Vicente Torres Carot l.Y ^. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia /\ __ Doh! Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica i___/ \ Ctra. Nazaret-Oliva, s/n | / \ o ! 46730 Grau de Gandia (Valencia) l ] o !__./ SPAIN \ _ _\.___./~\ X \/ \___./ Tel.: (96)2849300 ( \ ___. _..--~~ ~`-. FAX: (96)2849309 ` Z,-- /\ __. ( / __) I don't apologize. I'm sorry, but that's \ l /-~~ / just the way I am. -- Homer Simpson -- Y \ / ## | x__.^ -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! --
Re: potato on 386
Hello Thomas, On Sun, 28 May 2000, Thomas Niesel wrote: Now I want to know how to get deb-files to the disk. Still got an corel-image which I know its debian-based, mounted as an loop-device. I can browse the CD but I don't know how to install the files. I know it's maybe old stuff but to play around it is ok. The man-program is missing so I can't look at the man-pages on the disk :( mandb is not included in the base system, and debian provides three different tools to install packages. 1.) dpkg: low-level package-handler. type something like dpkg --install /unix/path/to/packagename.deb to install a package. If there are dependency problems, the program will exit with an error message and tell you which packages are missing, so you can install them first. 2.) dselect: nice front-end to dpkg, allows you to specify a install method, browse a list of available packages and mark them for installation. Just type 'dselect' to start it. It will tell you if there are dependency problems and mark the required packages for installation. When you quit the list, you can specify (via a menu) install, and it will install. 3.) apt: nice command line frontend to dpkg, but I would not recommend using it for a first install of Debian (although, when you get used to it, it is really a powerful and easy to use package-management system, especially for upgrades. It will fetch the packages automagically and take care of dependencies and version numbers (you just specify the package names, not the full file name with version number and deb-extension). So install man-db via dpkg (or dselect), then read the man-page of apt-get (not apt, the actual program is called apt-get), and see what you can get out of it (as you worked with other distros and managed to mount a CD-ROM, I suppose, a lot). Regards, Daniel P.S.: don't know, if the corel image will work well, I have absolutely no experience in mixing debian and corel and what's the difference between the two. If you have fast internet-connectivity, you could give frozen a try, I am using it since about February and have not had severe problems (although there are still some bugs).(And it's no problem to upgrade the packages later, apt-get will do that for you. Automagically!)
Re: X on a 486
Atila Nemet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there window manager which is low on system resources so I could set up X on this 486? other than those already mentioned, there is icewm. its advantage is IMHO that it is fast but still includes a windows-style panel (unlike windowmaker, which takes a little getting used to). -- Felix Natter
Re: wvdial dials; kppp doesn't. Why???
Hello Chris, On Sun, 28 May 2000, Chris Joyner wrote: I can use wvdial from a console (but only as root! BTW, how do I get to use wvdial as another user?) You have to add the users which shall be allowed to connect via ppp to the dip group (e.g. with: adduser username dip). Regards, Daniel
Re: Problems with TeTex
This should be a FAQ by now. Make sure your slink TeTeX packages are up to date (check your local mirror). If you use older packages (off a CD for example) you'll run into this problem. Something 'expired' after a year. You can search this list for gory details, but the fix is: install the latest available slink TeTeX packages. On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 23:13, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hi folks, I've installed TeTeX on my machine (from slink), but I can't get it running. I ran texhash texconfig all as root, but when I try to translate a file with latex file of tex file I get the following error message This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! The FAQ says to do a texconfig init, but that won't help either. A locate .fmt shows nothing. Something, that might be related is that kpsexpand -p fmt shows a path with !! at the beginning of some entries, as in .:/home/viktor/texmf/web2c:!!/usr/lib/texmf/local/web2c:!!/usr/lib/texmf/web2c Any ideas? MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/ Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: X on a 486
AN Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there AN window manager which is low on system resources so I AN could set up X on this 486? From, the help I've got, it seems that the problem is not with the window manager itself (since there are people who are using X with various window managers on weaker machines), but with the programs I use. I have set up fvwm and it ran quite ok. as long as I was using some little applications, but when I started Netscape. It lookd like the time had sopped. Would a memory upgrade help in this case? Atila
lost /vmlinuz
I'm running potato on a pent 533EB and have been using 2.2.15-idepci , apt-get upgrade tried to upgrade my kernel image. I moved 2.2.15-idepci to .old and apt installed a new image but now when lilo tries to boot off the hard drive it complains that /vmlinuz is missing. In /lib/modules i've got 2.2.12, 2.2.15-idepci, 2.2.15-idepci.old do I need to create /vmlinuz and link to the kernel image (ln -s 2.2.15-idepci /vmlinuz)? I'm still able to get the system up by booting off the floppy, but, I'm lost beyond that. Thanks, Dave -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 100% M$ free
Re: How do I allow empty passwords?
Riku == Riku Saikkonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Riku passwd -d guest seems to remove the password for the user guest on Riku my potato system One can also do usermod -p guest Beware, however, that PAM may not be configured to allow empty passwords. ---+-- Christian Lynbech | Ericsson Telebit, Fabrikvej 11, DK-8260 Viby J Fax: +45 8675 6881 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +45 8675 6828 | web: www.ericssontelebit.com ---+-- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael A. Petonic)
Secure Shell Login
I need help with using and setting up ssh. I downloaded a secure shell client(ttssh. and now I am working on setting up the server side. I ran ssh-keygen and created a RSA key. Where will I place the key. I have made a directory called .ssh in my home, it has permissions 711 (chmod 711 .ssh) inside that is a file called authorized_keys that should store the public keys (1 key per line!) and the file has permissions 600 (chmod 600 authorized_keys). But I dont know how to place the key in that file(authorize_keys). Any idea's guys
Re: ssh stopped working
Sorry for my quite unprofessional posting. The problem has been solved now; my ISP's dialin-server had a wrong configuration. Andre Berger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you take a look at the syslog of the other host??? Maybe that gives you some more information. Ron Rademaker On Sat, 27 May 2000, Andre Berger wrote: I had a functional ssh (potato/ppc), but now it has stopped working. The error message I get is ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host when I try to connect to the same hosts as before. I have no idea why. (ssh is already purged and reinstalled.)
Re: Secure Shell Login
directory called .ssh in my home, it has permissions 711 700 should be enough, i think. (chmod 600 authorized_keys). But I dont know how to place the key in that file(authorize_keys). simply paste the contents of the public key file. it should be a single line, which is in the same format, as expected in authorized_keys. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!
Re: lost /vmlinuz
do I need to create /vmlinuz and link to the kernel image (ln -s 2.2.15-idepci /vmlinuz)? you may do this, but this is not the way it should be done. you should reconfigure your /etc/lilo.conf (and run lilo afterwards). -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- If Windows is the answer, I want the problems back!
Problem with latest Realplayer
After upgrading to the latest Realplayer (via realplayer_7.0.2.1_i386.deb), I am now told Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it. on startup. The audio device is _not_ busy, and other programs can make use of the soundcard. Realplayer fine before the upgrade. I haven't seen anyone else mentioning this as a problem, so I am at a bit of a loss as to its cause. Any ideas? I'm using a GUS Extreme and the (commercial) OSS drivers. -- Stig Are M. Botterli | Some men see things as they are and ask why. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Others dream things that never were and ask why not. -- George Bernard Shaw
Re: lost /vmlinuz
apt-get upgrade tried to upgrade my kernel image. I moved 2.2.15-idepci to .old and apt installed a new image but now when lilo tries to boot off the hard drive it complains that /vmlinuz is missing. Yes, you've got exactly the idea -- recreate the vmlinuz symbolic link. As you've probably deduced, /vmlinuz is just a symbolic link pointing to the real kernel file which is located in /boot. As root, do the following: cd / (make sure we're in the root directory. rm vmlinuz (delete the old symbolic link because it's probably broken; we're going to recreate the symbolic link below anyway) ln -s boot/2.2.15-idepci vmlinuz (recreate the symbolic link; this of course will differ depending on what your kernel in /boot is named) liloconfig (run liloconfig so that lilo knows about the new kernel and can boot it) -- Regards, | The ultimate result is that some innovations that would .| truly benefit consumers never occur for the sole reason Randy| that they do not coincide with Microsoft's self-interest. | -- Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, U.S. District Judge
SOLVED: Rage IIc AGP X = no vt's!
Bruce Sass wrote: On Mon, 29 May 2000, Vitux wrote: Well, the subject kind of nutcases the situation. You mean nutshell, a nutcase is the guy who goes mountain climbing in a string bikini or runs around wearing an aluminum foil hat (even when not using a cell phone :). Sorry, I couldn't resist the urge to comment. later, Bruce You're obviously right. But then I'm excused 'cause I'm not a native english speaker ;-P. BTW, I solved my problem. The Mach64-server did the trick after tweaking a while to get any modes out of the damn thing. Now I'm running a beautiful X in 1280x1024,24bpp, and all the vt's output nicely to the screen. Thanks anyway for your patience. Still learning here... Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone
Re: X on a 486
Atila Nemet wrote: AN Unfortunately I have only an old 486 PC on 120MHz. Is there AN window manager which is low on system resources so I AN could set up X on this 486? From, the help I've got, it seems that the problem is not with the window manager itself (since there are people who are using X with various window managers on weaker machines), but with the programs I use. I have set up fvwm and it ran quite ok. as long as I was using some little applications, but when I started Netscape. It lookd like the time had sopped. Would a memory upgrade help in this case? Atila -- Definitely would. Netscape is a memory hog. I've been running quite smooth untill recently using X/fvwm/Netscape4.72 on a [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 50Mb ram installed. It would use about 43Mb running the lot... Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone
Re: Problem with latest Realplayer
Stig Are M. Botterli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading to the latest Realplayer (via realplayer_7.0.2.1_i386.deb), I am now told Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it. on startup. The audio device is _not_ busy, and other programs can make use of the soundcard. Realplayer fine before the upgrade. I haven't seen anyone else mentioning this as a problem, so I am at a bit of a loss as to its cause. Any ideas? I'm using a GUS Extreme and the (commercial) OSS drivers. Interesting. I tried using xmms (to play an mp3) and got the same message. I had only the other day downloaded the new RealPlayer which worked immediately. I had to go into xmms preferences and change *from* the OSS to the eSound Plugin before it would work. I have just tried RealPlayer and needed to enable 'Native Sound Drivers' to get this to work. Now both xmms and RealPlayer work fine. Hope this helps. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000
Microtek Scanmaker IV Scanner compatible?
Hello, The linux HOW-TO compatibility list does not include this model, though it does include the Scanmaker III. Is anyone successfully using the Scanmaker IV and do you have any tips to get me started? Thanks. Erik Ryberg -- Running Debian GNU/Linux www.gnu.org www.debian.org www.cheapbytes.com
Dselect suddenly vanished from potato?
Hi Debs. 4 days since upgrade. Still trying to get used to all the new stuff. Looks really cool, though, this far. The strangest thing: Dselect has vanished! (or maybe just crapped out?) Normally, I would log in as root, type dselect, and off we go installing stuff. Now, I get bash: dselect: command not found. Ok, maybe there's some path been lost: ~#whereis dselect Dselect: /usr/bin/dselect Let's try it, then: ~#/usr/bin/dselect bash: usr/bin/dselect: Input/output error The really weird part is, I've used it just today to install the mach64-xserver from which I'm typing this?! Along with mach64 (which I chose to install) potato wanted to install lots of stuff I'm not using, including emacs, xemacs, and a german dictionary (I don't even speak german). I chose not to install most of this, except for some gnomelibs and a few other libs, which I figured might be important. Sorry I can't tell you the exact names, I didn't write them down :-| btw, this was my first run of dselect since upgrading. Anyone? I was just getting to like dselect, weird as it is. (kind of the way you like an ugly dog ;-P) Best Regards Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone
