Re: ¡Algo le pasa al pgp!
El Thu, Jun 08, 2000, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez... Algo estraño le está pasando a mi pgp apartir de hoy PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 411 vigu 16 0 980 980 676 R 0 93.8 1.5 4:19 pgpv [...] Cuando le hago el 'kill -9' el disco duro se pone a rascar frenéticamente y al cabo de un poco obsérvense los mensajes que me repite mutt: In batchmode, use +force to allow overwriting of output files Unable to overwrite file /tmp/mutt-akela-450-38 [...] Ya mosqueado me voy a '/tmp' porque sospecho que algo pasa y me encuentro con un sorprendente archivo temporal de 300 Mb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l /tmp ... -rw--- 1 vigu vigu 302854171 jun 8 00:23 mutt-akela-404-3 ... ¿Y no podría ser de la interacción pgp/mutt? Puedes descartar que Mutt no tiene nada que ver copiando el mensaje a disco y pasándole directamente el PGP. Si el mensaje no es muy largo, me gustaría pasárselo a gpg desde mi Mutt 1.2, a ver qué pasa. Un saludo. -- ~~~ Cosme P. Cuevas.oOo.GnuPG KeyID: 0A4305FB http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lounge/8698/ ~~~
OT: Impresion desde Netscape
Hola a todos... Estoy imprimiendo desde Netscape usando a2ps con buenos resultados excepto para la longitud de pagina: segun la documentacion de a2ps, la definicion de pagina para impresoras Deskjet es A4dj debido a la superficie imprimible en estas impresoras, sin embargo Netscape define A4 estandar con lo que al final de la hoja corta como uno o dos renglones. No se donde tocar en Netscape y/o en a2ps para que la impresion desde este programa sea correcta. ¿Sabe alguien como hacer esto? Saludos.
[SOLUCION] El MD5 esta loco
Buenas, Se acuerdan de un correo en el que les comentaba que el md5sum estaba loco? bueno pues resulta uqe el problema era de la memoria, yo tambien lo pensaba asi pero por una razon lo habia descartado: * El kernel de linux compilaba al pelo. Y cuando la memoria presenta errores pues generalmente aparece un pintoresco error de signal 11. Asi que empeze a desarrollar una labor detectivesca: empeze a utilizar el memtest y todo daba ok, sin embargo decidi aumentarle el numero de datos a testear y voila, habia problemas. Asi que decidi quitar uno de los sims y dejar solo uno de 32 y todo ok, los md5 coincidian, probaba con el memtest y perfecto todo ok. Probe entonces con el de 64 solamente y tambien todo ok, luego el problema era que estas dos muchachitas no se la llevaban bien juntas. Asi que cambie la de 64 por otra de la misma especie de la de 32 (marca y velocidad) y tambien fallaba, luego el problema no era de la memoria, es de una board que tengo que es completamente asquerosa, que supuestamente soporta buses de 100 y me toca ponerle la velocidad a 83 porque si no se muere y pues obviamente que no digeria bien los dos simms. Luego la moraleja de la historia es la siguiente: Si quiere saber si su Linux esta bien haga lo siguiente: 1. Cojase un CD de Debian Linux (aprox 600 megas) 2. pasele el md5sum al cd (md5sum /dev/cdrom) 3. vuelvaselo a pasar 4. verifique que los dos checksums estan ok. Esto muy probablemnte le dira si su Linux esta funcionando ok (memoria y procesador) Saludos, 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
Errores en la instalación de paquetes
Hola, cuando intento instalar algo; ya sea desde dpkg o apt-get, me el error: install-info: failed to lock dir for editing! No such file or directory. Luego que había encontrado warnings en los scripts preborrado y postinstalación. No tenia el directorio /usr/share/info , lo cree y tampoco funciona. En cambio si tenia el /usr/info . ¿ A alguién se le ocurre una solución ? ( porque es que no puedo hacer ninguna actualización, instalación, ... Eso si el sistema parece estable. Un saludo, David -- * * * Quitar sobra de la dirección para responderme * * *
Re: eco..
¿Verdad? Yo no me canso de dar la vara en ecol.* acerca del apt. ¿ Qué es ecol.*?, si no es mucho preguntar ... -- 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 --
Re: eco..
Cuando: dom, 11 de jun de 2000, a las 06:10:38 +0200 Quien: JFA Que: Re: eco.. ¿Verdad? Yo no me canso de dar la vara en ecol.* acerca del apt. ¿ Qué es ecol.*?, si no es mucho preguntar ... es.comp.os.linux.* (donde * es misc,instalacion,programacion,redes) Y ya que estamos con esto de las news. Unos cuantos nos hemos apropiado de linux.debian.spanish, y lo tenemos como coto privado, de buen rollo, cualquiera puede ir y poner mensajes, por supuesto, pero como sólo estamos nosotros, pues eso, que parece que nos lo hemos quedado. :-) El caso es que suponemos que debía ser una pasarela de correo de esta lista a las news, pero que no funciona. ¿Alguien sabe algo de esto? ¿Hay alguna pega por que sigamos así? -- Benjamín Albiñana Pérez Linux User Nº78177 Clave pública: wget http://personal1.iddeo.es/benalb/benjamin-gpg.asc Si no funciona a la primera, coge un martillo más grande. pgpgu6isOM8Ur.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: Impresion desde Netscape
Angel Vicente Perez writes: Hola a todos... Estoy imprimiendo desde Netscape usando a2ps con buenos resultados excepto para la longitud de pagina: segun la documentacion de a2ps, la definicion de pagina para impresoras Deskjet es A4dj debido a la superficie imprimible en estas impresoras, sin embargo Netscape define A4 estandar con lo que al final de la hoja corta como uno o dos renglones. No se donde tocar en Netscape y/o en a2ps para que la impresion desde este programa sea correcta. ¿Sabe alguien como hacer esto? Hola. Creo que cambiándolo así te servirá ... hank:[josepl(~)]$ less /etc/a2ps-site.cfg [...] # # 1)System dependent parameters # # # Default encoding Options: --encoding=latin1 # Default medium Options: --medium=A4dj [...] -- jose. [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Re: OT: Impresion desde Netscape
Angel Vicente Perez writes: Hola a todos... Estoy imprimiendo desde Netscape usando a2ps con buenos resultados excepto para la longitud de pagina: segun la documentacion de a2ps, la definicion de pagina para impresoras Deskjet es A4dj debido a la superficie imprimible en estas impresoras, sin embargo Netscape define A4 estandar con lo que al final de la hoja corta como uno o dos renglones. No se donde tocar en Netscape y/o en a2ps para que la impresion desde este programa sea correcta. ¿Sabe alguien como hacer esto? Hola. Creo que cambiándolo así te servirá ... hank:[josepl(~)]$ less /etc/a2ps-site.cfg [...] # # 1)System dependent parameters # # # Default encoding Options: --encoding=latin1 # Default medium Options: --medium=A4dj [...] -- jose. [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Sons com GTK
Como posso relacionar eventos do GTK com sons especificos (como o click de um botao, por exemplo)? Tenho uma Sound Blaster (configurada e funcionando) e os arquivos de sons de acordo com o arquivo /etc/sound/events/gtk-events.soundlist, mas nada se som... -- O) Jaime Pontes da S. Filho mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /\\ http://www.vol.com.br UIN:11905009 \_V
Acentos no Netscape.
Olah, alguem sabe como fazer acentuacao no Netscape. Jah dei uma, duas, tres, olhadas e nada o X estah acentuando mas o Netscape nao tinha deixado de lado ... mas jah tah hora colocar isso pra funcionar .. alguem sabe qual eh o problema ?? Um abraco, Nivaldo
Mail Error Warning
Hello all, Im using sendmail on potato with kernel 2.2.15 amd I was checking my mail logs (mail.warn) and found a error: Jun 10 14:34:41 mojo sendmail[2131]: gethostbyaddr(192.168.1.1) failed: 1 What is this error from and should I be worried? Thanks -- If Windows is the answer, then I want the problems back! Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org http://www.debiandomain.com
Re: Licq from KDE2?
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:42:15PM -0400, Bart Szyszka wrote: Has anyone had luck getting the latest Licq to work with the latest KDE2 version from kde.tdyc.com ? When I try installing licq-plugin-qt2 it wants to remove all the KDE2 packages, including libqt2.1 (and do libqt2 instead). That's odd, since just about all recent versions of licq practically require Qt 2.1. Note that the Debian package is rather out of date, latest prerelease is 0.85 beta 2, latest stable is 0.81. IIRC, 0.81 was the first to depend on features/bugfixes in the Qt libs, which may explain why the deb remains at 0.80 (until an official qt 2.1 deb appears). Probably the best thing to do in this situation is to compile licq from source. Either apt-get source, make an entry in the changelog, 'debian/rules binary' and dpkg -i the results; or just install the latest into /usr/local. Either way, that should fix the dependancy problems. (If you want to try the SSL features of 0.85, you'll need an updated libssl09 -- licq needs functions introduced in 0.9.5. More info available on request) Technically, it's not even necessary to edit the changelog, but i've run into problems with the system wanting to replace my version with the identically-numbered version (yes, i checked epochs) from the Debian mirror, unless i properly set up a local mirror and put that first into sources.list. So, i tend to add an entry explaining what i've done (good practice anyway) and give it a version number .0001 greater (e.g. 0.80-3 to 0.80-3.0001). That licq-plugin-qt2 isn't actually a dependency, from the looks of things, of Licq, but when I run Licq without it, I get: 23:41:39: [ERR] Unable to load plugin (qt-gui): /usr/lib/licq/licq_qt-gui.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. You _could_ use one of the other UI plugins; there's a few GTK-based and one that runs in a console. i've never tried any of them, so i can't speak for how well they work. I don't know if they've been Debianized yet. -- finger for GPG public key. pgp8laHcVsMcq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux
Colin Watson wrote:
John McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As soon as I got a base system working, I updated my sources.list and
used apt-get update. It failed after retreiving the pkg files with an
E: message that some package names were too long. Presumably, my 2.1
slink CD has a version of dpkg or something that has some kind of path
length limitation.
I don't see anything obvious in the changelog, but I might be missing
something; it's worth asking debian-testing about this (in case it's a
bug in potato too).
I think it's fixed cuz it goes away after updating the various package
utilities. At any rate, I am so impressed by the various responses I've
received on the group I decided to reinstall again and document
everything that happens--here goes:
1) CD labeled Linux Central Debian GNU/Linux Release 2.1
2) Boot/Rescue disk comes up and says Debian Rescue Floppy 2.1.8
1999-02-03
3) All goes well; reboot, bail out after creating a root and new account
(don't install a profile)
3) edit sources.list, untar my own packages archive (saved from the
previous install).
4) apt-get-update to get the package lists.
Here's the output for the problems I mentioned:
...
Updating package file cache...
E: Line 72651 in package file
/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages
is too long.(2)
E: Line 72651 in package file
/var/state/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_woody_main_binary-i386_Packages
is too long.(2)
...at this point I upgrade apt...
dpkg -i ldso...
dpkg -i libc6...
dpkg -i libstdc++...
dpkg -i apt...
...now apt-get is working again, so I do a apt-get dist-upgrade and
all is well. Now I try to install helix-gnome with:
lynx -source http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/go-gnome | sh
...but lynx is not installed. apt-get install lynx yields:
E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential
package perl-base due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often
bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak
option.
E: Internal Error, Could not early remove perl-base
...so, I add the following to /etc/apt/apt.conf:
APT
{
Force-LoopBreak true;
}
...then lynx installs ok. Attempting to install helix-gnome now fails
with :
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
task-helix-gnome: Depends: task-helix-core but it is not going to be
installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
Install finished!
...okay, try to install task-helix-core alone, which works and installs
masses of packages. Now try the lynx command again. This time it bails
out with the following:
Errors were encountered while processing:
xserver-svga
task-x-window-system-core
task-helix-core
task-helix-gnome
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Install finished!
...okay, install gpm, xserver-vga16 and xf86setup.
...edit the /etc/gpm.conf by hand, because the configurator doesn't
write the append line properly.
...Don't run gpmtest cuz it will lock the machine, requiring remote
access or reset!
...Set up X with XF86Setup. Traverse with the keyboard only until the
mouse tab is applied, cuz it assumes Microsoft, which in combination
with my MouseSystems mouse causes a tcl/tk stack trace, which in turn
requires a ctrl-alt-backspace to start over from the command prompt.
...Reboot. gdm comes up, and both accounts (root and personal) have
everything working! actually, everything went much smoother this time
around.
...tomorrow, I will try some of the ideas I saw regarding the disabling
of gdm, so I can start everything with the startx command. I really
prefer starting off with a standard tty login.
Thanks again,
John
A GNU Debian User
Re: Mail Error Warning
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:10:10PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org http://www.debiandomain.com wtf? # whois debiandomain.com Domain Name: DEBIANDOMAIN.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com Name Server: NS1.HOSTING.PACBELL.NET Name Server: NS2.HOSTING.PACBELL.NET Updated Date: 13-may-2000 Registrant: Jay Kelly (DEBIANDOMAIN-DOM) 5226 Magnolia Ave Riverside, CA 92506 US Domain Name: DEBIANDOMAIN.COM Administrative Contact, Billing Contact: Kelly, Jay (KJ1964-ORG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5226 Magnolia Ave Riverside , CA 92506 US 909-275-9717 Fax- 9097885831 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Hostmaster, Pacbell Internet Services (HO1937-ORG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pacific Bell Internet Services 303 Second Street, Suite 650n San Francisco, CA 94107 USA 800-463-8724 Fax- 415-442-4999 -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, R.I., USA
Re: Mail Error Warning
yes. I too am curious...so what is this debiandomain??? perhaps the place where the non-free packages can be stored should the developers agree to stop distributing the non-free packages? - Original Message - From: Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 10:51 PM Subject: Re: Mail Error Warning On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:10:10PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org http://www.debiandomain.com wtf? # whois debiandomain.com Domain Name: DEBIANDOMAIN.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com Name Server: NS1.HOSTING.PACBELL.NET Name Server: NS2.HOSTING.PACBELL.NET Updated Date: 13-may-2000 Registrant: Jay Kelly (DEBIANDOMAIN-DOM) 5226 Magnolia Ave Riverside, CA 92506 US Domain Name: DEBIANDOMAIN.COM Administrative Contact, Billing Contact: Kelly, Jay (KJ1964-ORG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5226 Magnolia Ave Riverside , CA 92506 US 909-275-9717 Fax- 9097885831 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Hostmaster, Pacbell Internet Services (HO1937-ORG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pacific Bell Internet Services 303 Second Street, Suite 650n San Francisco, CA 94107 USA 800-463-8724 Fax- 415-442-4999 -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, R.I., USA -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Netscape -- recent severe instability
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:16:19PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
Netscape is driving me nuts.
I'm running 2.2 unstable (woody), with
Package: navigator-smotif-461
Status: install ok installed
Source: netscape4.61
Version: 4.61-11
Recently (within the past week), Netscape has become even more unstable
than usual, crashing when cycling through windows, raising or lowering
windows, or other actions. I have both java and javascript disabled as
they typically lead to similar behavior.
Window manager is WindowMaker:
Package: wmaker
Version: 0.61.1-4
I am not using a desktop environment (KDE, Gnome).
Ok, I ran strace on an ns4.05 version. Session ends with the following:
gettimeofday({960706023, 902534}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({960706023, 902736}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({960706023, 903008}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({960706023, 903225}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({960706023, 903438}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({960706023, 903840}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({960706023, 904068}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({960706023, 904281}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(8, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0
write(8, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@\6\0\0\0\0P\3\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\30..., 56) = 56
gettimeofday({960706023, 905488}, NULL) = 0
ioctl(8, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
getpid()= 5717
kill(5717, SIGBUS) = 0
--- SIGBUS (Bus error) ---
+++ killed by SIGBUS +++
...does this provide any useful information?
--
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself
Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org
What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks!
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ATP -- Proxy HOWTO?
I have problems with APT, I can't download the files. I know that the problem is that I use a proxY SEVER for HTTP an FTP. HOW can I configure APT for the Proxy? Thanks
mozilla segfault...
Howdy all, I am running Windowmaker on a pure potato system. I just grabbed mozilla using apt, but this is what happens when I try to run it... monkeyhouse:~/$ mozilla Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : End ProfileManager : GetProfileDir ProfileManager : GetProfileDir Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : End Segmentation fault Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Rich
Re: rm -R /usr/
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 08:31:56PM -0400, Jacob I. Stowell wrote: hello i am a new debian user and i just learned a hard lesson. I guess it is a bad idea to issue the following command: rm -R /usr/ Reminds me of the time I did an rm -rf * / as root. Here's what happened: - I blew away my root partition. - I blew away the mounted disk I was trying to clear. I was doing some partition shuffling, so I'd mounted the rest of my partitions read-only. I was trying to restore a backup and had botched the process, so the partition I had mounted rw was the one I was trying to delete. Because I was running admin mode, I had booted off a boot image. The net result was that I didn't actually do any damage to my system -- the boot image was still safe on disk, nothing but the one partition I was trying to kill was writable. I *did* have to reboot to get a useful system (interesting moving around when all you've got is your current shell process running). The lesson: if you're going to do something potentially dangerous to your system, minimize the potential for danger first. I personally vote *against* aliasing 'rm' to 'rm -i' or similar. It's far too easy to fall into bad habits, like counting on the fact that 'rm' is in fact aliased, or typing '-f' as a matter of course, or running as root. None of which will do you any good, and all of which become difficult to unlearn. Rather, I do one of the following: - Sit on my hands for 10 seconds before issuing any 'rm' as root. Literally. - Do the following: $ su -c 'chown -R tree karsten.karsten' $ rm -rf tree ...with both commands being issued from my user account. The first changes ownership of the directory tree I want to nuke to some unprivileged user. The second nukes the tree. I get two chances to see if I'm doing something stupid. If I make a typo the first time, I've got a mild PITA to restore ownerships. If I make a typo the second time, chances are I can't do anything. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgp2dZpBnhp5N.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mozilla segfault...
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:53:37AM -0500, rich wrote: Howdy all, I am running Windowmaker on a pure potato system. I just grabbed mozilla using apt, but this is what happens when I try to run it... monkeyhouse:~/$ mozilla Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : End ProfileManager : GetProfileDir ProfileManager : GetProfileDir Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : End Segmentation fault Any ideas? I'm having problems with Netscape, may or may not be related. Try running strace on Mozilla and see what you get. I've just posted my Netscape results, you might want to compare. Does this happen on startup, or after Mozilla's been up and running for a while? -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpu749O9L8Vs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Shell script reading stdin?
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:54:32PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: I'm trying to write a shell script that will noninteractively accept a chunk of text on standard input, but haven't been able to figure out how to go about doing so. What I'm trying to do is write a script that will get called by an exim filter. Accroding to the exim docs, when a script is called by the filter, the script is run and the message is passed on the standard input. I tried having a look through the bash man page - I found references on redirecting stdin and stdout and stderr, all of which I already knew. What I couldn't find was *any* mention of was how to *use* stdin from within a shell script. Anyone here ever done anything like this? What about /dev/stdin? cat EOF foo.scr #!/bin/bash echo Hi, this is a shell script cat /dev/stdin EOF chmod +x foo.scr echo This is standard input | ./foo.scr ...is that what you want? -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpSWBKINVy4Q.pgp Description: PGP signature
dpkg reg
Hi, I installed qmail from the .tgz files after removing the sendmail package forcefully. So at present I have a my mail transport agent as qmail instead of sentmail, but this fact is not known to dpkg,apt-get tools as I have installed from .tgz Now when I try to use apt-get install to install something, it says broken dependencies as thereis no mail transport agent and fails to install. So now I cannot use apt-get . How to solve this problem? Suresh -- Suresh Kumar.R, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics Communication College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016, INDIA Phone: (O) 91 471 414634/418379, (R) 91 471 443496
Re: Where do I find administrators' documentation?
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 03:55:46PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: Hi, I don't know for sure if this is the best place to ask (debian-doc looks more like it's for the people developing documentation, rather than for asking *about* it - tell me if I'm wrong and I'll ask there), but here goes... I've used Debian off and on for a while now, and the thing I find most difficult to get to grips with is the system administration in the debian-specific areas. Things I've come up against in the past include - package management (beyond the basic apt-get install) - the alternatives system - X windows and the menu system - window managers and configuration thereof - general user config (and more generally, applying system-wide defaults) - users and groups (specific question, why have a group for each user?) - what is the impact of (say) changing /etc/x directly, on the package management system - and how do I assess this impact before making changes? In general, I've hunted round and found answers to most of the questions I've had, but it has been a fairly ad-hoc and time-consuming process. There are now books appearing on the market purporting to be Debian Linux books, but they are generally fairly general, with minimal Debian-specific content. One of the better of these, though IMO it's still wanting, is _Learning Debian GNU/Linux_, by O'Reilly, and available online at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html However, it specifically lacks coverage of several of the topics you list above, in fact, I find it sorely lacking in several key admin areas. It does include fluff like a chapters on Linux apps and games. Far better to cover dpkg, apt-get, and the documentation system in depth. My suggestion: pass your list on to the author, Bill McCarty. He's a good guy, but guidance is required for the next edition of this book. My basic question is - is there any document available (preferably for download) which covers the specific issues relating to how Debian administration is done, where that is different from generic Linux admin? If not, can anyone give me some pointers on how to get to grips with this sort of thing? I'm only running a small single-user Debian workstation, and I don't want to get massively involved in systems admin, but at the moment I feel like I'm losing control of the system altogether :-( There are docs in the Debian website that cover this in bits and pieces. /usr/doc and /usr/share/doc are your friends, as is 'apropos' (or 'man -k'). Ditto mailing lists and web archives. Ditto glimpse. The good news, IMO, is that you end up with more control using Debian than you do with RedHat. I ran RH for 2.5 years and always felt as if I was fighting it for control over my box. After the first couple months of Debian (I'm coming up on about 9 months now), it was a complete dream. Thanks in advance, Paul. PS My specific benchmark for whether something is what I'm after tends to be whether the alternatives system is described, whether the reason for having a group for each user is explained, and some good overviews on how to do system config without upsetting apt when an upgrade occurs. Nothing I've seen yet covers all of this - although the FAQ is otherwise the best document I've seen... My own method of winnowing down docs: - If it's an O'Reilly, New Riders, Prentice-Hall, or Addison Wesley, or Morgan Kaufman imprint, it gets a +1 by default. Not all titles are good, but many are. - If it's a Que, Unleashed, For Dummies, For Idiots, In 24 Hours title, it gets a -2 by default. Not all are bad, but most are. - Gratuitious screenshots -- it goes back on the shelf. Exception for graphically oriented programs (eg: the Gimp), or layout guides (eg: some web design books, like _Web Pages that Suck_). - Pagecount exceeding 500, -1, exceeding 1000, -2. Exceptions for comprehensive references (the O'Reilly Sendmail book) or the rare well-written examples book (Unix Power Tools), though _X Windows User Tools_ is a waste of paper. - Easy reading fonts -- ditto. My own shelf space is something of a premium. I far prefer the classic Prentice-Hall Kernighan and Ritchie ATT nroff-formatted book style. - Check the index. If there isn't one, it goes back on the shelf. If there is, scan for key topics. - Bibliography -- not required, but +2 for a well written and researched one. Steve McConnell's _Code Complete_ is worth buying for its bibliography alone. The book itself is an added bonus. - ToC -- does the book show any semblance of organization? Is it just a manpage dump? First is good, second bad. Flow should be: intro, general, specific, advanced / special topics. Mish-mash jumping from topic to topic is way bad. If I have to read the chapters to understand the headings, it's likewise bad. This isn't a
Re: Shell script reading stdin?
I've seen scripts like this and I'm wondering exactly what this line does: cat EOF foo.scr I guess that up to the EOF it reads text and puts that into the named script..? EOF means EndOfFile, correct? Any refs for this? Thanks
Kernel 2.2.16
Will there be a kernel-image-2.2.16 available sometime soon for dselect or do I have to pull down the sources myself for this? Thanks
Re: Shell script reading stdin?
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:20:07AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: I've seen scripts like this and I'm wondering exactly what this line does: cat EOF foo.scr I guess that up to the EOF it reads text and puts that into the named script..? EOF means EndOfFile, correct? Any refs for this? that is called a `here' document the indicates that input should be read until a certain keyword (in this case EOF) is found, then it stops reading. EOF is common but not special, it can just as easily be FOE, FOO, BAR etc, i don't think it even has to be all caps but that helps avoid accidently catching something legitimate in the here document itself. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp7hIhu1avZg.pgp Description: PGP signature
how do I find which deb pakage contains man command?
Hi all, How can I find which deb pakage contains man command? okebary:~/okebary-sys-conf# man securetty bash: man: command not found I'd like to know about login as root. So I ran man securetty. But command not found. So I'd like to install man. But I cannot find which deb pakage has the man command. Also I can, do the below. okebary:/mnt/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/misc# dpkg -c gpm_1.14-3.deb drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/doc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/doc/gpm/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 2494 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/doc/gpm/faq.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 3707 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/doc/gpm/copyright -rw-r--r-- root/root 8791 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/doc/gpm/changelog.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 4625 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/doc/gpm/README.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 2506 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/doc/gpm/README.twiddler.gz -rwxr-xr-x root/root 25436 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/bin/gpm-root drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/sbin/ -rwxr-xr-x root/root 39256 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/sbin/gpm -rwxr-xr-x root/root 30468 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/sbin/gpm-mouse-test -rwxr-xr-x root/root 5787 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/sbin/gpmconfig drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/info/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 22482 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/info/gpm.info.gz drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/man1/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 4837 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/man1/gpm.1.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 1602 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/man1/mev.1.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 2784 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/man1/gpm-root.1.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 593 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/man1/gpm-mouse-test.1.gz drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/man8/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 1184 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/man8/gpmconfig.8.gz drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:25 etc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 etc/init.d/ -rwxr-xr-x root/root 1164 1998-10-31 08:24 etc/init.d/gpm -rw-r--r-- root/root 1756 1998-10-31 08:25 etc/gpm-root.conf okebary:/mnt/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/misc# But I have to confirm each pakages, I cannot do dpkg -c *. Is there any good solution to solve that I check every pakages under mounted cd? Many thanks to responsers, Geengun
Re: Kernel 2.2.16
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:40:55AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: Will there be a kernel-image-2.2.16 available sometime soon for dselect or do I have to pull down the sources myself for this? there won't be one until the current test cycle ends i would presume. however according to Ben Collins (i hope i spelled your name right) the capabilities patch is already in the current 2.2.15 debian kernels. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpho1IHW0ADZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how do I find which deb pakage contains man command?
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 06:00:05PM +0900, Geengun Guim wrote:
Hi all,
How can I find which deb pakage contains man command?
okebary:~/okebary-sys-conf# man securetty
bash: man: command not found
dpkg -S /usr/bin/man
man-db: /usr/bin/man
You want to install man-db
You can usually search for packages at the Debian website.
I'd like to know about login as root. So I ran man securetty. But
command not found. So I'd like to install man. But I cannot find which
deb pakage has the man command. Also I can, do the below.
okebary:/mnt/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/misc# dpkg -c gpm_1.14-3.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/
[...]
okebary:/mnt/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/misc#
But I have to confirm each pakages, I cannot do dpkg -c *. Is there any
good solution to solve that I check every pakages under mounted cd?
$ find . -type f -name \*.deb -exec dpkg -c {} \;
Many thanks to responsers,
Geengun
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Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:23:41AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: John McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl Fink wrote: It should, I grant you, but have you tried dpkg -S? here's a nasty one: expectk bash: expectk: command not found root dpkg -S expectk dpkg: *expectk* not found. Ah, here you have a different search facility ;) dpkg -S searches the system for packages owning a particular file. If you want to search for package names, try 'dpkg -l *expectk*' or 'apt-cache search expectk' (the latter searches descriptions as well). ...and *I* just learned something. Thanks. If you want functionality like rpm's --whatprovides, the easiest way is probably to install the grep-dctrl package. Then you can do something like: grep-available -FProvides expectk ...and another. ... or, for more concise output: grep-available -FProvides -nsPackage expectk ...that's three things this evening. Much grass, muchos gracias, or whatever. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgppIG14jBP0B.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Licq from KDE2?
Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [licq-plugin-qt2] You _could_ use one of the other UI plugins; there's a few GTK-based and one that runs in a console. i've never tried any of them, so i can't speak for how well they work. I don't know if they've been Debianized yet. I have an unofficial .deb of licq-plugin-gtk at: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/debian/ It's a little buggy, but mostly seems to work; I use it all the time. The easiest way to switch is to replace 'qt-gui' in the [plugins] section of your ~/.licq/licq.conf with 'gtk_gui' (note the hyphen/underscore difference); it's possible to switch using the plugin manager, I think, but it's fiddly due to multiple front-ends to licq appearing on the screen at the same time. :) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg reg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed qmail from the .tgz files after removing the sendmail package forcefully. So at present I have a my mail transport agent as qmail instead of sentmail, but this fact is not known to dpkg,apt-get tools as I have installed from .tgz Now when I try to use apt-get install to install something, it says broken dependencies as thereis no mail transport agent and fails to install. So now I cannot use apt-get . Either use the qmail-src package and thus get a Debian binary package of qmail that you can install neatly, or else try manually fetching and installing (using 'dpkg -i') the Debian 'equivs' package and creating yourself a dummy package either called mail-transport-agent or which 'Provides: mail-transport-agent'. The former is probably easier, if you don't mind reinstalling qmail. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell script reading stdin?
Jim Breton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:54:32PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: What I couldn't find was *any* mention of was how to *use* stdin from within a shell script. Anyone here ever done anything like this? Yes, but this may or may not be suitable for whatever you're doing. As an example, this would take stdin and pipe it to tr. #!/bin/sh cat | tar [A-Z] [a-z] There are probably better ways (which I'd also be interested in knowing). :) Well, stdin sort of tends to happen automatically. For instance, this would also take stdin and pipe it to tr: #! /bin/sh tr [A-Z] [a-z] If you need to send stdin straight to a file, then 'cat filename' is the easiest way to do it, though; trying to use just ' filename' there will truncate 'filename' to a zero-length file. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: roaming user
Matt Emmett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, This is question for those users that have a deskop machine and a laptop... do you have any suggestions for making the life of a roaming user easier? Most importantly, how does one keep their home directories synced? I use coda for this. Try searching for coda in freshmeat. Greetings, Christoph
Re: esound (woody) broken?
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: :: On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 18:04:17 +0200, Dietmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: As already postet twice, I have problems with sound after installing potato. I'm using just the same sound card. (Creative PCI 128-Ensoniq 1371) Whenever I use gnome or sawfish with sound-support everything on my X-server freezes while I play mp3s. I still didn't found any solution Oh, well... I can play mp3s here. What are you using to play them? In xmms, try chosing the OSS driver instead of esound. The only thing that's not working here is esound. BTW, I'm running woody. J. I'm using xmms and it doesn't change anything whether I choose the OSS-driver or esound. In fact I figured out that gnome is not responsible for it in a special way, because similar things happen when I use fvwm95 without gnome. Whenever I'm running a sound-device consuming program and I try to start a second one, the second one will freeze as long as the sound device (/dev/dsp) is given free by the first one. (e.g. I run an mp3-player and try to start xblast: the introductory tcl/tk-script of xblast is running fine, but after pressing Start XBlast nothing happens until the mp3-player finishes playing) Under gnome this has the effect that everything freezes. As I don't think that such a behaviour is intended I'd be glad to get any advice how to repair this. Cheers, Dietmar
Debs for xindy
Are there .debs for xindy? Ciao! juh -- Rettet das Schaufelmännchen http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/nf/0,1518,52630,00.html
Re: Road Runner DNS Problems
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote:
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 02:56:07PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote:
internet
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debian-wall (Firewall box)
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Hub---(debian-server - DNS server for the network)
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(Multiple PC's)
You have 'debian-wall' set as the default gw route for every machine, and
you have 'debian-server' listed as the first nameserver in every
/etc/resolv.conf? Yes?
Yes, debian-server is in the /etc/resolv.conf of the other machines. In fact,
it is given as the only name server.
Then does 'nslookup' appear to working correctly on 'debian-server'?
Yes it appears to be working fine. Here is it's output.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nslookup www.bellsouth.net
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:www.bellsouth.net
Address: 205.152.0.46
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
I did directly connect my windows box to the cable modem and looked at the
dhcp address. I then added what it said where the dns servers to the
named.conf file on debian-server, but still no help.
What do you mean? You added forwarders to named.conf?
Yes. Here is what I did (showing only relevent part):
// generated by named-bootconf.pl
options {
directory /var/named;
forwarders {
24.31.195.64; ##I added this
24.31.195.65; ##and this
167.7.10.131;
205.152.0.20;
205.152.0.5;
};
---
I have since rebooted the box.
Be aware that for such as pop and smtp hosts you should use FQDN's; stuff
like mail and news might not work.
They gave me the following names for use when on their network:
pop-server, smtp-server, nntp-server. When I need to connect to the mail
server from a non-rr site, I have an FQDN. Also, I can connect to the pop
server using that.
Finally, I forgot to mention that debian-server is running dhcp for my internal
network. However, both debian-server and debian-wall have static ip's (don't
use dhcp for internal net).
TIA,
Chris
apache and frontpage
I'm still battling with enabling frontpage in apache. I dopn't want to stray far from the debian apckage system, so I don't want to compile apache, although I have done it before so I am capable. I wondered if I coud compile apache with FP extensions on another system then copy the binaries onto my main system. Is that feasable? What files would I need to copy, given that I would compile the same version of apache? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq
Re: apache and frontpage
OOT: i have trouble setting httpd.conf to enable perl and how can i config it to other user in my server so.. if someone access to my url such as http://lola.ee.itb.ac.id/~doniac/cgi-bin/test.pl, it will work thx alot - doni ac - On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Chris Mason wrote: I'm still battling with enabling frontpage in apache. I dopn't want to stray far from the debian apckage system, so I don't want to compile apache, although I have done it before so I am capable. I wondered if I coud compile apache with FP extensions on another system then copy the binaries onto my main system. Is that feasable? What files would I need to copy, given that I would compile the same version of apache? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: how do I find which deb pakage contains man command?
Hi Geengun: I would check to make sure you don't already have man your system. I've noticed that that is a common error message which is given when man can't find the requested file. ( In this case securetty) So any mis- spellings or missing . or - will give that same message. Try a simple man command like man ls to see if you get a response. Also info has a lot better information at least in potato. Dean Geengun Guim wrote: Hi all, How can I find which deb pakage contains man command? okebary:~/okebary-sys-conf# man securetty bash: man: command not found I'd like to know about login as root. So I ran man securetty. But command not found. So I'd like to install man. But I cannot find which deb pakage has the man command. Also I can, do the below. okebary:/mnt/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/misc# dpkg -c gpm_1.14-3.deb drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/doc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/doc/gpm/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 2494 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/doc/gpm/faq.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 3707 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/doc/gpm/copyright -rw-r--r-- root/root 8791 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/doc/gpm/changelog.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 4625 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/doc/gpm/README.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 2506 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/doc/gpm/README.twiddler.gz -rwxr-xr-x root/root 25436 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/bin/gpm-root drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/sbin/ -rwxr-xr-x root/root 39256 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/sbin/gpm -rwxr-xr-x root/root 30468 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/sbin/gpm-mouse-test -rwxr-xr-x root/root 5787 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/sbin/gpmconfig drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/info/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 22482 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/info/gpm.info.gz drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/man1/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 4837 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/man1/gpm.1.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 1602 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/man1/mev.1.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 2784 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/man1/gpm-root.1.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 593 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/man1/gpm-mouse-test.1.gz drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/man8/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 1184 1998-10-31 08:24 usr/man/man8/gpmconfig.8.gz drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:25 etc/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 1998-10-31 08:24 etc/init.d/ -rwxr-xr-x root/root 1164 1998-10-31 08:24 etc/init.d/gpm -rw-r--r-- root/root 1756 1998-10-31 08:25 etc/gpm-root.conf okebary:/mnt/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/misc# But I have to confirm each pakages, I cannot do dpkg -c *. Is there any good solution to solve that I check every pakages under mounted cd? Many thanks to responsers, Geengun -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
True Type Support of Xfree86 4.0
I have seen the release notes of XFree86 4.0 said that it will supported the True Type Fonts. Is it mean that if I have installed the 4.0R and I don't need to install the xfs or xtt server to support true type fonts any more?
eqlplus...
Hi! Has anyone tried to use eqlplus with Debian (2.2.14)? If so, has anyone managed to get it to work? :-) Many thanks, Jason.
Re: how do I find which deb pakage contains man command?
Geengun Guim wrote: Hi all, How can I find which deb pakage contains man command? okebary:~/okebary-sys-conf# man securetty bash: man: command not found I'd like to know about login as root. So I ran man securetty. But command not found. So I'd like to install man. But I cannot find which deb pakage has the man command. Also I can, do the below. just go to www.debian.org, select Debian Packages and search for man. Dietmar
mandb-errors!?
Hello Whenever I run mandb for the first time (after starting up the system), I get errors. When I then rerun mandb those errors dont appear. How can I fix them? ERRORS Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait... Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait... Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait...mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/view.1.gz is a dangling symlink mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/view.1: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/view.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz is a dangling symlink mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/vi.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/ex.1.gz is a dangling symlink mandb: can't open /usr/share/man/man1/ex.1: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/ex.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait...done. Updating index cache for path `/usr/X11R6/man'. Wait...done. /ERRORS TIA
Anyone get IBM TopPage to work on Debian Potato??
I downloaded the beta package for evaluation of IBM's TopPage it was distributed as a .rpm so I used alien to convert it to .deb. There was only 1 warning but that seems to have been unimportant because alien reported that it had been sucessful in the conversion. TopPage also required a specially patched version of wine so I also converted that from .rpm to .deb with alien. After installing the .deb's with dpkg they do not work--no segfault, no crash after start, not a peep. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks. -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We install Debian Linux at no extra charge! John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173
Re: esound (woody) broken?
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:01:48PM +0200, Dietmar wrote: I'm using xmms and it doesn't change anything whether I choose the OSS-driver or esound. In fact I figured out that gnome is not responsible for it in a special way, because similar things happen when I use fvwm95 without gnome. Whenever I'm running a sound-device consuming program and I try to start a second one, the second one will freeze as long as the sound device (/dev/dsp) is given free by the first one. (e.g. I run an mp3-player and try to start xblast: the introductory tcl/tk-script of xblast is running fine, but after pressing Start XBlast nothing happens until the mp3-player finishes playing) Under gnome this has the effect that everything freezes. As I don't think that such a behaviour is intended I'd be glad to get any advice how to repair this. The fact that XBlast freezes is intended and correct. The bug is in XBlast. If it is a C program, the fix is trivial (opening /dev/dsp with modes O_WRONLY | O_NONBLOCK rather than just O_WRONLY). If it's not a C program, things could be more difficult. This should really *not* freeze gnome. I would try upgrading gnome, seeing if you can reproduce the bug, and then filing a bug report if you can. Cheers, Chris -- pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl.
Re: mozilla segfault...
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:53:37AM -0500, rich wrote: Howdy all, I am running Windowmaker on a pure potato system. I just grabbed mozilla using apt, but this is what happens when I try to run it... monkeyhouse:~/$ mozilla Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : End ProfileManager : GetProfileDir ProfileManager : GetProfileDir Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : End Segmentation fault Any ideas? Yes. Don't use Debian packages of Mozilla. Grab a nightly build from mozilla.org. The debs are generally way out of date. You might also be having issues with libstdc++, but I'd try a nightly build before going and upgrading things willy-nilly. Cheers, Chris -- pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl.
Re: mozilla segfault...
* rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: monkeyhouse:~/$ mozilla [...] Segmentation fault Any ideas? What does strace say? -- Microsoft is sort of a mixture between the Borg and the Ferengi. Combine the Borg marketing with Ferengi networking... [Andre Beck in dcouln]
Re: mozilla segfault...
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 17:14:16 +0200, Christopher Splinter wrote: monkeyhouse:~/$ mozilla [...] Segmentation fault Any ideas? What does strace say? And does mv-ing ~/.mozilla help? Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: mandb-errors!?
Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Whenever I run mandb for the first time (after starting up the system), I get errors. When I then rerun mandb those errors dont appear. How can I fix them? ERRORS Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait... Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait... Updating index cache for path `/usr/share/man'. Wait...mandb: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/view.1.gz is a dangling symlink [snip] Are you running vim? vim's alternatives keep breaking. :( I've already reported a previous iteration of this bug, I may get round to doing it again ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape -- recent severe instability
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Netscape is driving me nuts. I'm running 2.2 unstable (woody), with Package: navigator-smotif-461 Status: install ok installed Source: netscape4.61 Version: 4.61-11 Recently (within the past week), Netscape has become even more unstable than usual, crashing when cycling through windows, raising or lowering windows, or other actions. I have both java and javascript disabled as they typically lead to similar behavior. Window manager is WindowMaker: Package: wmaker Version: 0.61.1-4 I am not using a desktop environment (KDE, Gnome). -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself This may or may not be relevant. I had a pretty stable potato system, but last week I replaced my video card and modem, and started pulling a few things from woody (I know better than to change more than one thing at a time in case problems arise, but I figured to take a chance that everything would go smoothly). Two or three times now I've seen X (icewm) just up and quit while Netscape was running, and while downloading some stuff in dselect in the background (without Netscape running) I've noticed some weird X display problems (like Gnome Freecell leaving image remnants all over the screen if I move the window). After the download was finished, I tried to, but could not, duplicate some of the problems. I say this to imply that the problem may not be with Netscape, but with X. Of course, I may just be adding noise to the signal of this thread, so you might be better served to simply ignore these comments.
Re: which SQL database?
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Randy Edwards writes: Both have excellent manuals and tutorials. Being in the process of teaching myself SQL by way of PostgreSQL, I have to say that the PostgreSQL docs fall far short of my definition of excellent. I'm afraid that I'd agree, but the docs do seem to be improving. For instance, according to the postgresql web site, Bruce Momjian is in the process of writing a book about postgres, and the working draft is on the postgres web site: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html --Miguel
Re: Install problem with AHA 2940 SCSI (older PC)
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 04:02:49PM -0500, Robert C. Ramsdell was only escaped alone to tell thee: Adaptec 2940 SCSI Host Adapter (LUN 7) You need a different kernel, one with AHA-2940 SCSI support *exclusively* and *specifically*. No other SCSI adapter drivers should be in the kernel if they are not installed on your system. The presence of all the drivers screws disk writes (but not reads! The install knows what kind of disks you have, for instance, and partition sizes, so it looks doable). Your DOS disk cannot recognize your HD because the partition table is trashed. I did that, too. Debian has this information on their website; you should just remember to carefully examine the website before you do anything rash, like installation. :) Go to the website, look through the FAQ-omatic and install webpages for the AHA-2940 pre-compiled kernels. Alternatively, if one has a working Debian system, you can download the kernel source, upgrade gcc, make, libs, c. and compile a custom kernel yourself. (Not recommended for newbies, I used Debian (and Linux/Unix in general) for about six months before I felt comfortable doing this. -- i'm determined to stand, whether god |=| [EMAIL PROTECTED] will deliver me or not. -- bob dylan |=| www.cris.com/~bedlam
Re: mandb-errors!?
Are you running vim? vim's alternatives keep breaking. :( I've already Yes, I use vim. What do you mean by vim's alternatives keep breaking? reported a previous iteration of this bug, I may get round to doing it again ... When / how will this be fixed? Sven
RE: Mail Error Warning; DebianDomain Name Explanation
Hello Group, Apparently my new domain name stirred up a few question, so let me explain what DebianDomain.com is. I registered the domain for learning purposes. I currenlty am only using the name to help learn about setting up apache, smtp and a ftp server on linux. For me its easier to learn by doing rather then reading books. If the group has a need for a doamin such as Debiandomain.com please email me. I have no problem using the domain to help the group out and maybe other newbies such as myself. Thanks Jay -Original Message- From: Joseph de los Santos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 11:49 PM To: Bob Bernstein; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Mail Error Warning yes. I too am curious...so what is this debiandomain??? perhaps the place where the non-free packages can be stored should the developers agree to stop distributing the non-free packages? - Original Message - From: Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, June 10, 2000 10:51 PM Subject: Re: Mail Error Warning On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 03:10:10PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org http://www.debiandomain.com wtf? # whois debiandomain.com Domain Name: DEBIANDOMAIN.COM Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC. Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com Referral URL: www.networksolutions.com Name Server: NS1.HOSTING.PACBELL.NET Name Server: NS2.HOSTING.PACBELL.NET Updated Date: 13-may-2000 Registrant: Jay Kelly (DEBIANDOMAIN-DOM) 5226 Magnolia Ave Riverside, CA 92506 US Domain Name: DEBIANDOMAIN.COM Administrative Contact, Billing Contact: Kelly, Jay (KJ1964-ORG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5226 Magnolia Ave Riverside , CA 92506 US 909-275-9717 Fax- 9097885831 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Hostmaster, Pacbell Internet Services (HO1937-ORG) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pacific Bell Internet Services 303 Second Street, Suite 650n San Francisco, CA 94107 USA 800-463-8724 Fax- 415-442-4999 -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, R.I., USA -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
PDF Writer for Linux ?
Hey there, I am currently searching a program similar to Adobe Acrobat under Linux that makes PDF-files out of files of all kinds... Any ideas and / or hints on that ? Besides I am also searching a good and powerful HTML-editor and a logo creation tool like Xara Webstyle... Any help is appreciated ! Thanks in advance ! -- Mit freundlichem Gruss [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oliver Schoenknecht Join us at http://www.kapa.de KOSTENLOS! Online-Auktion bei KAPA! Teilnahme unter: http://www.flohmarkt.kapa.de
Re: Road Runner DNS Problems
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 07:25:02AM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote:
Yes it appears to be working fine. Here is it's output.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nslookup www.bellsouth.net
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:www.bellsouth.net
Address: 205.152.0.46
Then perhaps you need to set it so that, instead of 'localhost,' nslookup
returns 'debian-server' and its local IP address. Typically 127.0.0.1 is
used for a caching only server, but debian-server is doing more than that.
So, my guess would be that if you ran nslookup on any of the machines that
look to debian-server for dns services, you will find an error.
Presumably debian-server and its internal IP address are listed in its zone
files, so make its resolv.conf file contain a nameserver with
debian-server's internal IP address.
options {
directory /var/named;
forwarders {
24.31.195.64; ##I added this
24.31.195.65; ##and this
167.7.10.131;
205.152.0.20;
205.152.0.5;
};
Why so many? What are those last three?
--
Bob Bernstein
at
Esmond, R.I., USA
Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux
Hi, On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, John McBride wrote: XF86Setup will start working right. Main problem now is that when I log in through gdm/helix gnome, there is no wm started -- just a gray stipple and a single button 2 menu. sawfish is installed and configured, but not launching I guess. Any help is appreciated. Just a perhaps very stupid question: When you say, you have a gray stipple on the screen, it does mean, that there is no mouse-X visible and no menu shows up, when pressing the left mouse button? A naked fvwm shows just a cross patterned black and white background and the mouse-X when being started. Regards, Kerstin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 06:43:12PM +0200, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: I am currently searching a program similar to Adobe Acrobat under Linux that makes PDF-files out of files of all kinds... One way to do it is via SGML, with the jadetex package. A handy driver file for this, db2pdf, can be found in the cygnus-stylesheets package. It is, as they say, a non-trivial exercise. Besides I am also searching a good and powerful HTML-editor and a logo creation tool like Xara Webstyle... Don't know about the latter, but - if you are *not* talking about a WYSIWYG editor - then emacs running under X with the psgml package and an appropriate DTD is imho the best way to write HTML. Others will no doubt dissent from that view! -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, R.I., USA
Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?
* Oliver Schoenknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides I am also searching a good and powerful HTML-editor XEmacs. and a logo creation tool like Xara Webstyle... Hm, Gimp? :-)
Re: mouse gpm/xwindow conflict
Hi, On 6 Jun 2000, Eric Hanchrow wrote: Are you sure that MouseSystems is the correct choice? I always use Microsoft here. I put Microsoft in there and it worked. Thanks for helping! But I would anyway like to know, where this Microsoft comes from. Is it mentioned somewhere in the gpm files? Regards, Kerstin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail Error Warning; DebianDomain Name Explanation
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 09:31:15AM -0700, Debiandomain wrote: Apparently my new domain name stirred up a few question, so let me explain what DebianDomain.com is. And, since I was the first to call attention to it, let me explain. On the one hand, Jay, you could be a very nice person with the best of intentions. Etc, etc... On the other hand, you could be someone setting up a site designed to sell services or products of some sort and you are seeking to gain credibility and currency by associating yourself with the Debian project. You have gone to some trouble and expense already to obtain a block of four IP addresses from pacbell, and set up a gateway box with three nics on it. I don't know what your plans are, but it would not be the first time someone has sought to gain a commercial advantage through some sort of vague implied alliance with a Free Software project. Surely your signature suggests that you are somehow attached to or associated with Debian: Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org http://www.debiandomain.com There are endless ways by which you can help Debian. I would urge you to take the dollars you expended for that domain name and kiss them goodbye now; get another name, please. -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, R.I., USA
Re: The Thrill of Debian Gnu/Linux
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: Hi, On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, John McBride wrote: XF86Setup will start working right. Main problem now is that when I log in through gdm/helix gnome, there is no wm started -- just a gray stipple and a single button 2 menu. sawfish is installed and configured, but not launching I guess. Any help is appreciated. Just a perhaps very stupid question: When you say, you have a gray stipple on the screen, it does mean, that there is no mouse-X visible and no menu shows up, when pressing the left mouse button? A naked fvwm shows just a cross patterned black and white background and the mouse-X when being started. I reinstalled and documented as many problems as I could reproduce in another message. This particular problem went away (root and user both have full sawfish and gnome displays when I log into them from gdm now). Before the most recent install, I did have a mouse, and a middle button menu. I could launch some commands, but not things like gnome run, for example. Now I'm going to try and get the thing working from the command line: 1) use update-rc.d -f gdm remove to stop gdm. [per Mike Werner] 2) use /sbin/init 0 and /sbin/init 3 to clean up the runlevel 3) now I have the situation as described -- grey stipple, cursor and a simple button2 menu. 4) try to run xterm, which is on the menu, nothing happens. 5) .xsession-errors has a single line in it: sh: xterm: command not found You had some other questions, so I will post the answers here: Do you have a window manager installed? $ which sawfish /usr/bin/sawfish What's your /etc/X11/Xsession file look like? it has 136 lines, so I don't think I'll post it. But it does look for .xsession early on... startx /usr/bin/x-window-manager -- :0 same thing. startx sawfish -- :0 same thing. 6) Mike Werner KA8YSD, proud suzuki owner, suggested : - begin .xsession - #!/bin/sh exec gnome-session - end .xsession - ...which fixed everything. Many thanks, folks -- that's the end of my wish list! Great support on this list. Regards, John
Re: Mail Error Warning; DebianDomain Name Explanation
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Bob Bernstein wrote: Surely your signature suggests that you are somehow attached to or associated with Debian: Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org http://www.debiandomain.com There are endless ways by which you can help Debian. I would urge you to take the dollars you expended for that domain name and kiss them goodbye now; get another name, please. Now I am glad I did not get linuxpond.com. It was already taken. -- Andrew
Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 06:43:12PM +0200, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: I am currently searching a program similar to Adobe Acrobat under Linux that makes PDF-files out of files of all kinds... gs contains a program called ps2pdf that will convert any Postscript file to PDF. PDF is mostly postscript to begin with. Regards, Jeff
Re: Shell script reading stdin?
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 12:43:56AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:20:07AM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote: I've seen scripts like this and I'm wondering exactly what this line does: cat EOF foo.scr I guess that up to the EOF it reads text and puts that into the named script..? EOF means EndOfFile, correct? Any refs for this? that is called a `here' document the indicates that input should be read until a certain keyword (in this case EOF) is found, then it stops reading. EOF is common but not special, it can just as easily be FOE, FOO, BAR etc, i don't think it even has to be all caps but that helps avoid accidently catching something legitimate in the here document itself. Amplifying slightly. Here documents are defined by the shell. The keyword is completely arbitrary, but EOF (end of file), END, LAST, etc., are common. Casing can be mixed. One semi-advanced feature people may not know of. Writing a here document as: cmd -KEYWORD ...strips leading tabs (but not blanks). This is to allow natural indenting of here documents in shell scripts. Some editors (eg: vi, vim, nvi) may replace tabs with some number of leading blanks. This is configurable behavior. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpw4SErZDIiB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: True Type Support of Xfree86 4.0
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:13:34PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote: I have seen the release notes of XFree86 4.0 said that it will supported the True Type Fonts. Is it mean that if I have installed the 4.0R and I don't need to install the xfs or xtt server to support true type fonts any more? That's the theory. I haven't installed XF86 4.0 myself. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
linuxconf for debian
hi, is it possible to use linuxconf with debian (2.2) ? thanks, -- Felix Natter
Re: wine
Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could someone please send me there wine.conf file as I'm having trouble getting it to work. Please 'CC' it to me. try downloading the latest version (the source-code package). it should be just ./configure make su make install and then follow the instructions in the documentation to find out how to create a wine.conf (there is a sample - you only need to change it) -- Felix Natter
Re: Library like DirectDraw or DirectX for Linux?
Sven Garbade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear List, is there a similar library for graphics programming like DirectDraw or DirectX on windows-systems for Linux (not OpenGL)? yes, there is SDL: simple direct-media layer. try www.lokigames.com (or similar), or search for SDL (maybe it's listed on freshmeat ?). -- Felix Natter
Re: Q: Gimp installs to .gimp-1.1x
Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm curious while Gimp 1.04 installs in my root directory as .gimp, why does Gimp 1.1x go in at .gimp-1.1x? Anyway to have it just go in as gimp 1.1.x is the unstable branch. (1.2 will be released very soon) it creates ~/.gimp-1.1 to enable users to install both 1.0.4 and 1.1.x without interference. .gimp, I thought at first it wouldn't overwrite the original Gimp it doesn't. directory so I removed it but the install repeated the directory entry. with recent versions, you can specify a configure-option (only when compiling) to specify a different user-directory (instead of ~/.gimp-1.1): --enable-gimpdir=~user/.gimp -- Felix Natter
Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?
* Jeff Noxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gs contains a program called ps2pdf that will convert any Postscript file to PDF. ps2pdf is only a wrapper around ghostscript: ,[ ps2pdf ] | [...] | # Doing an initial 'save' helps keep fonts from being flushed between pages. | exec gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$outfile $OPTIONS -c save pop -f $infile `
NFS Booting
I want to use the Debian Image as a NFS. So I have downloaded the image and unzipped it in a i686 architecture PC. I am using the 2.3.99 kernel and have used bootp for mounting the root fs. The ARM board (client) has 16MB RAM and no hard disk attached. How do i go about doing this? Are there any help pages for this? Regards, Lavu Sridhar -
where to report kernel bugs
I am using kernel 2.3.99-pre9 and I don't seem to be having any obvious problems with it. I do see the following in my logs, rather frequently: Sun 11 19:20:47 lilypad kernel: kmem_alloc: Bad poison (name=size-128) Where is the best place to report kernel bugs, anyone know? thanks -- Andrew
Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?
Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: Hey there, I am currently searching a program similar to Adobe Acrobat under Linux that makes PDF-files out of files of all kinds... Any ideas and / or hints on that ? The already mentioned ps2pdf comes to mind (in the ghostscript package) or you could also use PDFTeX. And then is Adobe porting their Distiller to Unix, but that isn't done yet and will probably cost $$$. Besides I am also searching a good and powerful HTML-editor There are tons of HTML Editors available. A search at Freshmeat or the desktop sites (KDE, Gnome) might be helpful. Or, you can just use XEmacs (yuck!) or VIM (yeah!). MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG:http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/
APT -- Proxy Problems?
I have problems with APT, I can't download the files. I know that the problem is that I use a proxY SEVER for HTTP an FTP. HOW can I configure APT for the Proxy? Thanks
Re: linuxconf for debian
apt-get install linuxconf Ron Rademaker On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Felix Natter wrote: hi, is it possible to use linuxconf with debian (2.2) ? thanks, -- Felix Natter -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: where to report kernel bugs
Hmm, ever did an ls in the root of the tree you get when you unpack kernel sources?? There's this file called: REPORTING-BUGS, well... what do you think that is? ;) Ron Rademaker On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Pollywog wrote: I am using kernel 2.3.99-pre9 and I don't seem to be having any obvious problems with it. I do see the following in my logs, rather frequently: Sun 11 19:20:47 lilypad kernel: kmem_alloc: Bad poison (name=size-128) Where is the best place to report kernel bugs, anyone know? thanks -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: APT -- Proxy Problems?
Here's what I have: export http_proxy=http://proxy.rnd-consulting.com:3128; export gopher_proxy=http://proxy.rnd-consulting.com:3128; export ftp_proxy=http://proxy.rnd-consulting.com:3128; Thus spake Gregory Cascante ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have problems with APT, I can't download the files. I know that the problem is that I use a proxY SEVER for HTTP an FTP. HOW can I configure APT for the Proxy? Thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! 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: APT -- Proxy Problems?
I guess you'll have to try apt-proxy... Ron Rademaker On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Gregory Cascante wrote: I have problems with APT, I can't download the files. I know that the problem is that I use a proxY SEVER for HTTP an FTP. HOW can I configure APT for the Proxy? Thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: wine
Look at the documentation here, especially the HOW TO for wine: http://www.winehq.com/ On 11 Jun 2000, Felix Natter wrote: Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could someone please send me there wine.conf file as I'm having trouble getting it to work. Please 'CC' it to me. try downloading the latest version (the source-code package). it should be just ./configure make su make install and then follow the instructions in the documentation to find out how to create a wine.conf (there is a sample - you only need to change it) -- Felix Natter -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Shell script reading stdin?
Mike Werner wrote: Jim Breton wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:54:32PM -0400, Mike Werner wrote: What I couldn't find was *any* mention of was how to *use* stdin from within a shell script. Anyone here ever done anything like this? Yes, but this may or may not be suitable for whatever you're doing. As an example, this would take stdin and pipe it to tr. #!/bin/sh cat | tar [A-Z] [a-z] There are probably better ways (which I'd also be interested in knowing). :) Thank you! It appears that this will do the job for me. It appears I was too optomistic. It's not working. Here's the error from the exim log (originally all one line - wrapped here for clarity): 2000-06-11 14:13:02 131CEI-0002xP-00 ** |/home/picuser/picadmin/message_handle.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] D=userforward T=address_pipe: Child process of address_pipe transport returned 1 from command: /home/picuser/picadmin/message_handle.sh The local username on my box is picuser, and the shell script I'm trying to write is message_handle.sh Fwiw, you could use exec cat instead of cat if you needed the shell to persist after the cat invocation, but that's a different story. I'll keep that in mind, but for this application I don't think it'll matter. I tried both ways, but no difference in the error message received. Maybe if you posted what you're trying to do, some better ways of doing it might come to light? snipped my lengthy original explanation Here's the shell script as it currently stands: - start message_handle.sh - #!/bin/sh WD = /home/picuser/picadmin exec cat $WD/message.txt return 0 - end message_handle.sh - As you can see, it is a *very* simple script. I've also tried the: cat /dev/stdin message.txt that someone else was suggesting. That gives the same error in the exim log. But I think I've finally found a possible solution - I wrote a very small program in C that reads from stdin and writes to a file. And that does work. So I guess I'll be doing this in C instead of a shell script. That's okay though - I could use the practice with C. Thanks to everyone for the pointers. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | Where do you want to go today? | As far from Redmond as possible! '91 GS500E| Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
Re: where to report kernel bugs
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hmm, ever did an ls in the root of the tree you get when you unpack kernel sources?? There's this file called: REPORTING-BUGS, well... what do you think that is? ;) Ron Rademaker On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Pollywog wrote: I am using kernel 2.3.99-pre9 and I don't seem to be having any obvious problems with it. I do see the following in my logs, rather frequently: Sun 11 19:20:47 lilypad kernel: kmem_alloc: Bad poison (name=size-128) Where is the best place to report kernel bugs, anyone know? Sorry, I forgot about that. *goes to hide under a rock* -- Andrew
Re: where to report kernel bugs
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, S. Salman Ahmed wrote: Read /usr/src/linux/REPORTING-BUGS (assuming that /usr/src/linux is a symlink to /usr/src/linux-2.3.99-pre9) for more details on the procedure. Basically you will have to send a detailed email to the Maintainer (see /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS) for the relevant area/driver of the kernel that you think is causing problems *and/or* the linux-kernel mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Thanks, I read the file, ran the ver_linux script, and sent off my bug report. -- Andrew
Diamond Viper v770
How do I get Debian 2.1 to work with a Diamond Viper v770(NOT Ultra) card?
kernel2.3.99pre3 to pre9
Hi, Has anyone ever used the development kernels 2.3.99pre3 to pre9?. Currently I am using kernel 2.3.99pre3 and it works great. I have a soundcard that is automatically autodetected by isapnp and that's what I like most with that kernel. Now when I tried upgrading to the pre9 release..sadly, isapnp is no longer automatic :(. I Tried to look for some reasons why they scrapped it somehow but I could'nt find any.
Re: Diamond Viper v770
I guess you mean with X?? You just DON't select a card and use the XF_SVGA server. That should work... Ron Rademaker On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Ivan Vukosav wrote: How do I get Debian 2.1 to work with a Diamond Viper v770(NOT Ultra) card? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: NFS Booting
There's a package bootless, perhaps that'll get you a bit further Ron Rademaker On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Lavu Sridhar wrote: I want to use the Debian Image as a NFS. So I have downloaded the image and unzipped it in a i686 architecture PC. I am using the 2.3.99 kernel and have used bootp for mounting the root fs. The ARM board (client) has 16MB RAM and no hard disk attached. How do i go about doing this? Are there any help pages for this? Regards, Lavu Sridhar - -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: mandb-errors!?
Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin Watson wrote: Are you running vim? vim's alternatives keep breaking. :( I've already Yes, I use vim. What do you mean by vim's alternatives keep breaking? /usr/share/doc/debian/FAQ/ch-customizing.html, section 10.10, should give you a decent introduction to Debian's alternatives system; vim's man pages are managed that way. At one point, there was a bug that caused vim to disappear from the list of choices for vi, ex, and so on, and it wasn't fixed properly. I've mailed the maintainer about it. (What version of vim are you using?) In the meantime, try 'update-alternatives --config ex', 'update-alternatives --config vi', and 'update-alternatives --config view', all as root, to see if that solves the problem. If it doesn't, then wait for the next version of vim in unstable to appear and upgrade to that. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
masqmail - really a good safe solution for DIP connected box?
Hi All, I have to set up the reliable MTA for my home network. I use my own DNS system with unofficial domain name. The mail is transferred to the Internet by different dialup ISP. The problem is however, that the providers' smarthosts complain about the sender's hostname (because it contains my unofficial domain name), and this results sometimes in rejection of my message at the adressee's mail server. (See the headers in this message, to find what is the problem ;-) ) Therefore I need to forge the mail headers, to make them reasonable for different DIPs. I've heard that masqmail is suitable for such purpose, but its version number (0.0.12) makes me a little afraid of it ;-). Does anybody has any experiences with this beast? -- TIA Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Specify dial string for PPP connection with pppconfig
I'm trying to switch off modem sound when connecting to the ppp service provider, but can't seem to find a place to stick in M0 in the dial string... Is there a standard way of doing it? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Thanks God I'm still an atheist! -- Luis Bunuel
Re: Shell script reading stdin?
Mike Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears I was too optomistic. It's not working. Here's the error from the exim log (originally all one line - wrapped here for clarity): 2000-06-11 14:13:02 131CEI-0002xP-00 ** |/home/picuser/picadmin/message_handle.sh [EMAIL PROTECTED] D=userforward T=address_pipe: Child process of address_pipe transport returned 1 from command: /home/picuser/picadmin/message_handle.sh The local username on my box is picuser, and the shell script I'm trying to write is message_handle.sh [snip] Here's the shell script as it currently stands: - start message_handle.sh - #!/bin/sh WD = /home/picuser/picadmin exec cat $WD/message.txt return 0 - end message_handle.sh - As you can see, it is a *very* simple script. This has bitten me before. cat is an external command, living in /bin/cat, and so /bin needs to be on your $PATH in order for this to work. Normally it is, but by default exim filters are run with only /usr/bin on their $PATH. Either edit /etc/exim.conf and add a line reading 'path = /usr/bin:/bin' to the address_pipe transport (just below 'driver = pipe') [1], or else put 'export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin' at the top of any shell scripts you call from your .forward file. I've tested the second of these, but not the first. :) You could also just use '/bin/cat' instead of 'cat'. [1] I'm assuming you're using something close to the default exim.conf here. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF Writer for Linux ?
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 06:43:12PM +0200, Oliver Schoenknecht wrote: Hey there, I am currently searching a program similar to Adobe Acrobat under Linux that makes PDF-files out of files of all kinds... Any ideas and / or hints on that ? As suggested before, ps2pdf will convert postscript files to pdf. To get something to a postscript file under Linux, you can try a2ps or you can try just printing to a file from whatever application can print the file. Besides I am also searching a good and powerful HTML-editor and a logo creation tool like Xara Webstyle... For the HTML editor, i recommend vim. Others will certainly not like this choice ;) i don't know what Xara Webstyle is, but have a look at the Gimp. It has much to offer. -- finger for GPG public key. pgpfUKJdTlpVA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Specify dial string for PPP connection with pppconfig
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 04:46:29PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: I'm trying to switch off modem sound when connecting to the ppp service provider, but can't seem to find a place to stick in M0 in the dial string... Is there a standard way of doing it? Have you looked under Advanced Options? The first item: Modeminit - Modem init string sounds like what you're looking for. Or, you could always edit the generated chatscript. Either way works. -- finger for GPG public key. pgpXvdrhyOMcK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Installing AfterStep
I' ve installed AfterStep Windows manager (.deb package) by typing "dpkg -iafterstep.deb " in console. What should I do next? Shall I compile afterstep? And how? I have tried very hard to find some explanations in online manuals and faqs, but I don't understand a lot of things that is written in them. Look at this example (this is debian tutorial under chapter "Removing and installing software): 16.6 Compiling software yourself You´ll have to have -dev packages installed. Put it in /usr/local, /opt, or your home directory. The cofingure --prefix; make; make install routine. Ís there anybody in this world who can understand what this guy means by this shit: "The configure --prefix; make; make install routine." Should I configure something? Should I write "--prefix" somewhere? And where? In console? Should I after that write "make" in console or maybe write all this shit in console? The same problemI meetwhen I read the "readme" document which is included in afterstep.deb file. This guy write( for example ) this: Type: . /configure But, the problem is, that he doesn't write where to type . /configure. In console? And what to type? Should I type ". / " before the word "configure" ? or I should write the whole path to the file and then type configure? Is there anybody who can help? How to install and run AfterStep? Thanks, Zeljko Vukman Denmark
Re: mandb-errors!?
At one point, there was a bug that caused vim to disappear from the list of choices for vi, ex, and so on, and it wasn't fixed properly. I've mailed the maintainer about it. (What version of vim are you using?) hp:~# vim --version VIM - Vi IMproved 5.6 (2000 Jan 16, compiled May 1 2000 16:14:28) Included patches: 1-62, 64-70 In the meantime, try 'update-alternatives --config ex', 'update-alternatives --config vi', and 'update-alternatives --config view', all as root, to see if that solves the problem. If it doesn't, I will have a look at those. Thanks. then wait for the next version of vim in unstable to appear and upgrade to that. I dont actually have any problems with vim apart from the fact that mandb reports those errors the first time it is run. Thanks for your support. Sven
slink + 0.75 -potato login problem
Hi, I've just upgraded from slink with a lot of potato to potato. (apt-get -f dist-upgrade) having rebooted to let everything settle in, I then tried to login: When I try I can type my username, then it waits three seconds and asks for my username again. (No password asked for and no login) I have a rescue disk so I can much around with / (and /etc) which are the config files controlling the login? TIA Peter Allen
Segmentation fault X
I apologise in advance for the long message.
I seem to have screwed up xserver (not that it was operating that
well).
I used the Debian packages to set it up, but had trouble getting it to
recognise my card and monitor. The best I could get was a purported
640 x 480 screen, except that the message announcing success was (I'm
guessing) four times the size it should have been, the buttons for
selecting xvidtune, etc. were off the screen to the right (as was half
the message). I guessed at where the xvidtune button was, so I could
retune, but it saved the configuration. I could not get xvidtune to
run after that.
I downloaded XF86 3.3.6, and tried to install, but could not get
extract to work, so simply gzip'd and tar'd the files into place.
Clearly a mistake. Attempts to run startx, xf86config, or XF86Setup
now end in error messages.
What is my best course of action, please? It appears to be necessary
to generate two or three scripts or files, but I don't know about the
segmentation fault.
I am very new to Linux, so could be missing something very obvious to
those more experienced.
I have run strace on all three of the apps, and I provide below some
excerpts. I include the open and most stat commands:
startx:
execve(/usr/X11R6/bin/startx, [startx], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x80b44dc
open(/etc/ld.so.preload, O_RDONLY)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 4
open(/lib/libreadline.so.2, O_RDONLY) = 4
open(/lib/libncurses.so.4, O_RDONLY) = 4
open(/lib/libdl.so.2, O_RDONLY) = 4
open(/lib/libc.so.6, O_RDONLY)= 4
open(/dev/tty, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 4
stat(/usr/local/sbin/sh, 0xbaa4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat(/usr/local/bin/sh, 0xbaa4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat(/usr/sbin/sh, 0xbaa4)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat(/usr/bin/sh, 0xbaa4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat(/sbin/sh, 0xbaa4)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat(/bin/sh, {st_dev=makedev(3, 66), st_ino=9756,
st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_nlink=1, open(/usr/X11R6/bin/startx,
O_RDONLY) = 4
stat(/root/.xinitrc, 0xba9c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat(/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc, {st_dev=makedev(3, 8),
st_ino=125329, st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=10,
st_blksize=4096, st_blocks=2, st_size=666, st_atime=100/06/11-12:57:05,
st_mtime=100/01/08-09:09:58, st_ctime=100/06/09-17:27:04}) = 0
stat(/root/.xserverrc, 0xba9c)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat(/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc, 0xba20) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
stat(/usr/local/sbin/xinit, 0xbaa4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat(/usr/local/bin/xinit, 0xbaa4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat(/usr/sbin/xinit, 0xbaa4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat(/usr/bin/xinit, 0xbaa4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat(/sbin/xinit, 0xbaa4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat(/bin/xinit, 0xbaa4) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat(/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit, {st_dev=makedev(3, 8), st_ino=113,
st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=10, st_blksize=4096,
st_blocks=22, st_size=10612, st_atime=100/06/11-12:40:52,
st_mtime=100/01/08-09:09:57, st_ctime=100/06/09-17:26:46}) = 0
stat(/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit, {st_dev=makedev(3, 8), st_ino=113,
st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=10, st_blksize=4096,
st_blocks=22, st_size=10612, st_atime=100/06/11-12:40:52,
st_mtime=100/01/08-09:09:57, st_ctime=100/06/09-17:26:46}) = 0
_exit(139) = ?
XF86Setup:
execve(/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup, [XF86Setup], [/* 17 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8178c10
open(/etc/ld.so.preload, O_RDONLY)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 4
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
open(/lib/libXaw.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 4
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 4
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 4
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 4
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 4
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 4
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 4
open(/lib/libm.so.6, O_RDONLY)= 4
open(/lib/libdl.so.2, O_RDONLY) = 4
open(/lib/libc.so.6, O_RDONLY)= 4
getpid()= 279
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
My system:
triple boot (DOS, OS/2, Debian Linux)
ASUS SP97-V mobo, which provides video through the Sis 5598 chipset
80 MB RAM, four of them reserved for video
Sceptre Dragon Eye monitor, which is a multisync, adaptable to just
about anything
Thanks for any help anyone can offer
Cam
Cam Ellison, Ph.D., R.Psych.
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Re: Will Debian run on my system?
At 23.52 9/6/00 -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. ha escrit: On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 05:15:58PM -0500, Matthew W. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at buying a used computer and want to install Debian on it. I've taken a serious liking to the following and would appreciate any comments on whether or not there will be any hardware problems with it. Many thanks! It all looks fine to me. The only thing that might give you trouble are the Soundblaster and TNT cards, tough i'm not sure. Probably someone more informed about newer graphics and sound cards will tell you. Hello Matthew, NVIDIA (TNT people) had in their drivers section something relative to Linux. Take a look there. I read a comment in debian-user-spanish a story that ended happily regarding PCI 128. Hope that helps, Ignasi _ \___||/ \__| els fills abandonats |___/ \_||__/ from BarcelonaCatalonia ___ Do You Yahoo!? Achetez, vendez! À votre prix! Sur http://encheres.yahoo.fr
Re: mandb-errors!?
Sven Burgener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colin Watson wrote: (What version of vim are you using?) hp:~# vim --version VIM - Vi IMproved 5.6 (2000 Jan 16, compiled May 1 2000 16:14:28) Included patches: 1-62, 64-70 I meant more the Debian version - try 'dpkg -s vim', and look at the 'Version:' line. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
