Re: Faulty apache configuration problems
Alson van der Meulen wrote: > look like some libapache-perl or whatever that package is called is > missing = Thanks but, I am using the apache-perl.deb that has perl statically linked to apache--not mod perl. Any other ideas? John Foster
Re: Faulty apache configuration problems
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:32:21PM -0500, John Foster wrote: > I had Apache running nicely on a new test server (woody system) and I > added a complete set of perl-mods and apache-mods when dselect was > finished I attempted to restart the server with this as the result. Any > ideas what might have caused this and how to fix it? > > > server:/home/user# apachectl start > [Sat Oct 13 23:20:22 2001] [error] Can't locate Apache.pm in @INC (@INC > contains > : /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5 > /usr/shar > e/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 > /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/ > lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 > /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr > /lib/perl5/5.005 . /etc/apache/ /etc/apache/lib/perl) at (eval 1) line > 3. look like some libapache-perl or whatever that package is called is missing
Faulty apache configuration problems
I had Apache running nicely on a new test server (woody system) and I added a complete set of perl-mods and apache-mods when dselect was finished I attempted to restart the server with this as the result. Any ideas what might have caused this and how to fix it? server:/home/user# apachectl start [Sat Oct 13 23:20:22 2001] [error] Can't locate Apache.pm in @INC (@INC contains : /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/shar e/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/ lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr /lib/perl5/5.005 . /etc/apache/ /etc/apache/lib/perl) at (eval 1) line 3. -- John Foster
Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation
dman wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:47:23PM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dman) writes: > | > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:42:18PM -0400, Rong Fan wrote: > [...] > > | > | D-Link DFE-530TX+ > > | > > [...] > > | > tulip > > [...] > > | NO NO See that + on the end -- takes the rtl8139 driver. > > Doh! As I was writing, I was having difficulty recalling which this > card took. I was thinking this was tulip, and the non-plus one was > rtl8139. My bad. I see that someone else has suggested via-rhine. > The DE-530TX (no 'F') uses the via-rhine. Use the rtl8139 for a 2.2 > kernel and 8139too for the 2.4 kernel (you probably have 2.2). I use: 8139too (I have the same card. There are several different cards sold with this exact same model number (I have two of them and they are definitely different since the newer one did not work with older driver while older one did, this was confirmed by authors of the driver). You need either drivers from scyld.com (don's remeber exact name) or 2.4 kernel drivers (8139too) erik
How-to
A few weeks back I read this How-to for ex Be-os users switching to debian. I am not an ex-Be-os user, but I found the instructions a lot more readable and easier to follow than those provided by the official debian how-to. Now I am almost ready to install debian (I am waiting on some new hardware including a new hard drive) and the site that hosts this how-to seems to be down. The Link is http://tinyplanet.ca/pubs/debian/html/book1.html. I tried going there today and it gave me a page unavaliable error(stupid IE). I have tried the link on other computers and it still seems to be down. Now the reason why I am posting this mesage is because the network I am on is really tempramental and stupid. It gives these errors often for pages that can be accessed outside the network. As I do not have access to a computer outside the network I can not tell if this is what is happening. If someone can please go to this link and see if the site is down I would apreciate it. If it is up, could someone please email me the how-to(if its not too much trouble). If it isnt could someone with information as too why its not up and if it will ever come back up please let me know. Thank you -Scott
Re: netscape and debian stable
on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 05:31:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > a very strange thing happened to my system today. I am running debian > 2.2r3 and netscape 4.76. Everything ran fine until today when for no > apparent reason Netscape began locking up my keyboard. The mouse still > worked and all my running programs still worked, but no keyboard. This > only happened when I ran netscape. > > Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone know what might be > happening? Netscape 4.x sucks. It bites. It blows. It's shit. Ditch it. It's sometimes the most reasonable choice if your box has < 64 MB RAM or < PII processor, though dillo is faster (though less featureful) and BrowseX may be a suitable replacement (though not packaged for Debian). Otherwise, I'd strongly encourage you to look at Galeon, Konqueror, Mozilla, or Skipstone as replacements. Opera's there as well if you can stomach proprietary software. For more information, there's a review of GNU/Linux system browsers you may find useful, at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/browsers.html I occasionally see keyboard lockups under Galeon (or did in 0.11.5, not now with 0.12.1). Switching to a virtual console to kill the process got things back for me. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpXPG26FZQdC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can I force ftp to use passive mode?
on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:48:53PM -0400, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm behind a firewall, that requires that ftp be run in "passive" mode. > While this s easy enough to do with the -p option, I would like to be able > to set some system wide configuration, or environmnet variable, so that all > users get this as the default. > > Is this possible? Stan, that you again? $ man man Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpDypTTU7ckh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Can I force ftp to use passive mode?
on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:48:53PM -0400, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm behind a firewall, that requires that ftp be run in "passive" mode. > While this s easy enough to do with the -p option, I would like to be able > to set some system wide configuration, or environmnet variable, so that all > users get this as the default. $ man ftp $ pftp host -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpA0UbvWt13L.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??
Sunny Dubey wrote: > why do most UNIX OS's ship with an MTA enabled in the default install?? Erm, because unix is a multiuser operating system, and mail is one of the main communications channels between users and other entities on such a system. -- see shy jo
Can I force ftp to use passive mode?
I'm behind a firewall, that requires that ftp be run in "passive" mode. While this s easy enough to do with the -p option, I would like to be able to set some system wide configuration, or environmnet variable, so that all users get this as the default. Is this possible? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Re: bad file
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:07:12PM -0700, Kevin wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# chmod 644 guide.it.html > chmod: changing permissions of `guide.it.html': Operation not permitted try lsattr guide.it.html, guess the 'i' attribute is set (immutable) chattr -i guide.it.html should fix it (man lsattr and man chattr for more info) I still recommend though that you fsck that fs ASAP, since you don't know if there's any other damage.
Re: rxvt & vi
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 03:53:44AM +0700, Mark Rompies wrote: > Hi... > > First... > I wonder why my rxvt looks weird everytime I quit from vi? the rxvt window > is full of every last commands and its output, and I can't find my cursor > until i blindly type "clear" and press enter. > > Second.. > Everytime i use vi: > - i never see the "-INSERT-" (press "i", "o", "a" in command mode in vi) > mark at the bottom of my screen noted that i'm in the insert mode? Why? I > need it...How to show it up? Go into command mode and do this : set showmode It's off by default. If you don't want to do this every time then edit your .bash_profile and add this line set NEXINIT='set showmode' Ian > - i should press "i", "o", or "a" everytime i want to go to insert mode > just after every move i've made to another line. why?? > > thx a lot... > I really need it... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: bad file
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# chmod 644 guide.it.html chmod: changing permissions of `guide.it.html': Operation not permitted > > >> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:01:40 PDT, Kevin writes: > >> >it looks like the filesystem is screwed up > >> > > >> >is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) > >> > > >> >?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 > >> >g > >uid > >> >e.it.html > >> > >> Long shot: Have you tried `cat /dev/null >guide.it.html`? > > On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 18:47:55 PDT, Kevin writes: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# cat /dev/null >guide.it.html > >su: guide.it.html: Permission denied > > Another long shot: chmod. > > Then I'm out of ideas other than unmounting and fsck'ing... > > cheers, > &rw > -- > -- Debugger > -- Psychologe, der einem erklaert, warum man beim Anbaggern > -- abgeblitzt ist. > >
gravis eliminator aftershock gamepad in Linux
I'm not sure where to even start on this one. Alright, this is a USB joystick which is available here: http://www.gravis.com/products/pro_eli_d1022.html I've created a /dev/js0 device for this gamepad and jstest detects it and I can press all the buttons and whatnot and they respond. However, in emulators such as snes9x, the program likes to use the analog controller at the top-left. I want it to use the 8-way directional controller instead. Otherwise, the gamepad more or less seems to work. I know this isn't exactly a priority issue for most of you guys, but I'd appreciate any help. Also, in my kernel, I have GrIP support disabled. Should this be enabled? Thanks. Titus Barik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) AIM: TBarik ICQ: 1604453
Lock ups with kernel 2.4.10 & 2.4.12
I know this probably isn't debian related, but I figured I'd ask here anyway. My system is locking solid whenever I either (a) exit X windows, or (b) switch to a VT from X (i.e. Ctrl-Alt-F2), or (c) the console blanker comes on. I have this happen with kernels 2.4.10 and 2.4.12. I am running 2.4.8 right now, and I don't get the lockups with this kernel. I haven't tried 2.4.9. I've searched google (web and groups) with no success. Anyone know what's up with this? [Please Cc: me replies] -- Morgan Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xmission.com/~mt Encrypted mail welcome. Public key available on my website. pgpysXc3MJqQz.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Re: debug messages while logged out
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 06:41:57PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: > There are no background tasks running. At least non that I know about. Ah, that's where you're wrong... you have PostgreSQL installed and running. That cruft is telling you that it's hard at work. Not doing much of anything, probably, since you didn't yet know it was there, but it IS running. ^_^ > I just went through the Q&A and put in everything. Ah, that explains it. I'd remove it, if you don't need it. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp3pmFMxmrPY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 04:21:21AM +0200, Theo Wribe wrote: | > -Original Message- | > From: dman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | > Sent: den 14 oktober 2001 03:31 | > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | > Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation | > | > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:47:23PM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dman) writes: | > | > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:42:18PM -0400, Rong Fan wrote: | > [...] | > | > | > | D-Link DFE-530TX+ | > | > | > [...] | > | > | > tulip | > | > [...] | > | > | NO NO See that + on the end -- takes the rtl8139 driver. | > | > Doh! As I was writing, I was having difficulty recalling which this | > card took. I was thinking this was tulip, and the non-plus one was | > rtl8139. My bad. I see that someone else has suggested via-rhine. | > The DE-530TX (no 'F') uses the via-rhine. Use the rtl8139 for a 2.2 | > kernel and 8139too for the 2.4 kernel (you probably have 2.2). | | My bad, just checked and I'm running DFE-530TX (NO +) with via-rhine :) Oh, so the no-F one is the tulip? I was way off. It's never good to have almost the same name for something so radically different! -D
Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 07:39:17PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > How do you read your own e-mail? Do you pop it from somewhere to the > local box, or do you use fetchmail or maildrop or one of their relatives > to dump it into the local mail spool? > > Fetchmail and etc need a local MTA running because that's how they > put mail into the spool. There's one reason. fetchmail can be told to deliver via procmail. So no MTA is required in that case--just an MDA. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, WCNet, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/
Re: rxvt & vi
It's not 'vim-runtime', it's 'vim-rt', and if you're using unstable it's
not even that, because unstable has moved on to Vim 6.0.
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 05:28:15PM -0400, dman wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 03:53:44AM +0700, Mark Rompies wrote:
> | Hi...
> |
> | First...
> | I wonder why my rxvt looks weird everytime I quit from vi? the rxvt window
> | is full of every last commands and its output, and I can't find my cursor
> | until i blindly type "clear" and press enter.
> |
> | Second..
> | Everytime i use vi:
> | - i never see the "-INSERT-" (press "i", "o", "a" in command mode in vi)
> | mark at the bottom of my screen noted that i'm in the insert mode? Why? I
> | need it...How to show it up?
> | - i should press "i", "o", or "a" everytime i want to go to insert mode
> | just after every move i've made to another line. why??
>
> What vi clone are you using? I like vim the best. It shows the
> '-- INSERT --' text at the bottom. You should press [iIoOaA] evey
> time you want to enter insert mode, but if you are already in insert
> mode, pressing them will naturally insert them into the document. To
> install vim run
>
> apt-get install vim-gtk vim-runtime
>
> This will give you the console version ('vim') the GTK+ gui version
> ('gvim') and also the neat runtime support which includes syntax
> highlighting.
>
> HTH,
> -D
>
>
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Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??
How do you read your own e-mail? Do you pop it from somewhere to the local box, or do you use fetchmail or maildrop or one of their relatives to dump it into the local mail spool? Fetchmail and etc need a local MTA running because that's how they put mail into the spool. There's one reason. Another reason is that the mail system is usually how cron processes communicate with their owners. Since they run asynchronously, without a console, that's about the only way to get messages that might need a response back to someone who can deal with them. A log file is a poor substitute for this... you have to remember to go look at it. ^_^ As for connecting to it from outside... that's harmless enough. What does it matter? It's meant to be connected to from outside, so it's secure enough. On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:54:32PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: > hey, > > why do most UNIX OS's ship with an MTA enabled in the default install?? > is there some [un]written rule of unix that I'm not aware of or something?? > > everytime I install debian, I always ponder why is exim being installed even > though I never seem to use it. (For as long as I've used debian, no one but > root has had mail delivered to them, and those were very rare, and very > unimportant.) > > Additionally, if the MTA is there for localhost reasons only, why can I > connect to it from another machine on the network?? > > thanks for any info > > Sunny Dubey > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp8Tsayt2ypz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gotmail
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 08:18:10AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yep. that's my whole .procmailrc...if it's that incomplete maybe you can > send me yours so I can figure out what's wrong with mine. I'm not saying anything is wrong with yours... because I haven't seen it. ^_^ What appeared on the list doesn't have any recipies in it... all it has is variable settings and things like that. I don't think procmail is going to do anything other than leave things in your local mailbox with it looking like that. > user cat does exist on the local machine. mta used is exim/formail? Run gotmail from a command prompt. Tell it to be verbose. See what it does. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpzZWqTBVwCK.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation
> -Original Message- > From: dman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: den 14 oktober 2001 03:31 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:47:23PM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dman) writes: > | > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:42:18PM -0400, Rong Fan wrote: > [...] > > | > | D-Link DFE-530TX+ > > | > > [...] > > | > tulip > > [...] > > | NO NO See that + on the end -- takes the rtl8139 driver. > > Doh! As I was writing, I was having difficulty recalling which this > card took. I was thinking this was tulip, and the non-plus one was > rtl8139. My bad. I see that someone else has suggested via-rhine. > The DE-530TX (no 'F') uses the via-rhine. Use the rtl8139 for a 2.2 > kernel and 8139too for the 2.4 kernel (you probably have 2.2). My bad, just checked and I'm running DFE-530TX (NO +) with via-rhine :)
Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??
From: "Dave Sherohman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1) Go into /etc/inetd.conf, comment out all lines that mention > "smtp" (there should only be one), and restart inetd > (/etc/init.d/inetd restart). I think this will do both of those steps: /usr/sbin/update-inetd --disable smtp ~mark
Re: bad file
>> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:01:40 PDT, Kevin writes: >> >it looks like the filesystem is screwed up >> > >> >is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) >> > >> >?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 g >uid >> >e.it.html >> >> Long shot: Have you tried `cat /dev/null >guide.it.html`? On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 18:47:55 PDT, Kevin writes: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# cat /dev/null >guide.it.html >su: guide.it.html: Permission denied Another long shot: chmod. Then I'm out of ideas other than unmounting and fsck'ing... cheers, &rw -- -- Debugger -- Psychologe, der einem erklaert, warum man beim Anbaggern -- abgeblitzt ist. pgppNQtpEiV0a.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 17:51:52 -0400 "Bruce Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that you are getting too complicated. Windows is, indeed, > not very flexible but I am not sure that the comments in this thread > are either correct or relevant to the real problem. Complicated? Yes (not our fault). Correct and relevant? Yes. See below > What happens is the passing of control from the MBR to the first > sector of each partition which then boots the OS in that partition. > Once the MBR has passed control to the boot record of another > partition, Windows cares no more than any other OS which > physical disk or which partition it is on provided always that the > Windows tools have declared its partition bootable. Not true, at least not for Windows 95. http://www.v-com.com/support/sup_os95.html (from the makers of the excellent System Commander since Microsoft's Website doesn't seem to want to fess up to this) "The boot portion of Windows 95 can only be installed onto the first physical drive. The Windows 95 boot record always reads sectors from the first physical hard drive, and will behave unpredictably when booted from another physical hard drive." "Windows 95 cannot be installed into an extended or logical partition. It will only boot from a Primary FAT partition." > Please excuse the brisk tone of this message. My overall approach > is: K.I.S.S. --- Keep it simple, ... Do let me know if the suggestion > works. Like pretty much everything else that does not come from Redmond, K.I.S.S. is not compatible with Windows :-)
Re: bad file
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# cat /dev/null >guide.it.html su: guide.it.html: Permission denied and as for just trying to rm it, i already showed i cant do that > On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:01:40 PDT, Kevin writes: > >it looks like the filesystem is screwed up > > > >is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) > > > >?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 > >guid > >e.it.html > > Long shot: Have you tried `cat /dev/null >guide.it.html`? > > cheers, > &rw > -- > -- NT is 'more secure' in so far as, if your average cracker screws > -- around with it very much, an NT system tends to remove itself > -- from the network rather promptly. -- ?, some CERT guy > >
Re: concerning ext3fs
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011012 08:48]: > * Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011010 12:36]: > > > Thanks for the hint; I hadn't yet noticed mine. Perhaps > > > a better solution is to specify "ext3,ext2" in /etc/fstab > > > instead of auto? > > > > Is that a valid option for fstab ?? I'll let you try it and > > report back... How's that ?? ;-) Rebooted. Works fine. It's now my formal recommendation: use "ext3,ext2" to specify the fstype for an ext3 partition in /etc/fstab. This will allow it to be mounted as ext3 if possible, or ext2 by non-ext3-aware kernels. (It's better than using 'auto' because it's more specific (less chance of unexpected results) and updatedb skips partitions whose type is listed as 'auto' in fstab.) good times, -- Vineet http://www.anti-dmca.org Unauthorized use of this .sig may constitute violation of US law. echo Qba\'g gernq ba zr\! |tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M' pgpC2JuEiax5T.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: bad file
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:01:40 PDT, Kevin writes: >it looks like the filesystem is screwed up > >is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) > >?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 guid >e.it.html Long shot: Have you tried `cat /dev/null >guide.it.html`? cheers, &rw -- -- NT is 'more secure' in so far as, if your average cracker screws -- around with it very much, an NT system tends to remove itself -- from the network rather promptly. -- ?, some CERT guy pgpE8PFFhGTs0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:47:23PM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dman) writes: | > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:42:18PM -0400, Rong Fan wrote: [...] | > | D-Link DFE-530TX+ | > [...] | > tulip [...] | NO NO See that + on the end -- takes the rtl8139 driver. Doh! As I was writing, I was having difficulty recalling which this card took. I was thinking this was tulip, and the non-plus one was rtl8139. My bad. I see that someone else has suggested via-rhine. The DE-530TX (no 'F') uses the via-rhine. Use the rtl8139 for a 2.2 kernel and 8139too for the 2.4 kernel (you probably have 2.2). -D
Re: First time Custom Kernel help - No suck file of directory
John Purser wrote: 2. Once upon a time I ran across a tutorial on building a custom Kernel the debian way but I can no longer find it. Has anyone seen a good one they could steer me to? If you have done so already, install kernel-package; then look at README in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package. I hope this helps. -- Jerome
Re: apt 0.5.4: preferences file
Jens, Thanks for the ideas. In fact, today, I did a Google search on ``/etc/apt/preferences" and got many of the same results. My German is not as good as my Scandinavian languages (I did post- graduate study in Sweden and later married a Norwegian-American whom I met while she was majoring in Scandinavian studies) so I read the articles in English, French and Danish before venturing into the German. The other problem was that the Google results suggested that the apt_preferences system appears to have taken the developers some time to debug. There were a lot of ``unintended consequences" during the process. More recently, a number of user messages picked up by the Google search seem to have had trouble understanding the process. I am not surprised. I did too. The following appears to accomplish exactly what I am looking for -- namely to update packages downloaded from testing with testing updates and to update packages downloaded from unstable with unstable updates but not to transfer anything from testing to unstable without explicit user intervention. Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 777 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 333 Thanks again for the help. On 13 Oct 2001, at 21:34, Jens Benecke wrote: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=apt%20preferences%20testing%20unstable > > > Well, save yourself and ask Google. First hit. > Number four (Linux User FAQ) is actually from one of my web sites. ;)
XFree86 nolisten option: Debian specific or general?
I've been engaged in an extended offline discussion with an individual on the topic of running remote X applications under Debian. Getting beyond security concerns involved, the -nolisten flag of XFree86 is one of the blocks he's stumbled over. Discovering the 'man' command appears to be another My question: is setting the -nolisten flag in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc a Debian-specific default, or has this been more widely adopted in other GNU/Linux distributions and/or XFree86v4? Thanks. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpTcLIrxLtij.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Re. Star Office 6
Hello sheine, I am not sure what qualifies for serious work. I have been using StarOffice 5.2 since it came out for serious and productive work without nearly the amount of lost work as I had previously with any MS office product. It's not perfect but it is more reliable than MS products I have spent years pulling my hair out over. I installed SO6.0 on one of my machines (Debian Potato 2.2.17) and have begun to play a little with it. To do so, after I down loaded the file (something.bin) I had to do a chmod +x so-6.something.bin and then ./so-6.something.bin (sorry I don't remember the full name) and the whole install process started and completed in under five minutes. It all worked fine after that. I suggest that, since this is a beta release, the license states what it does because it is exactly that...beta software. I hope this helps. T. Tilton sheine wrote: > > Tommi Komulainen wrote: > > Just a thought, you weren't planning to do anything productive with, or > did you? If you did, guess you'd better reconsider: > > This message caused me to reconsider the several years that I have fooled > around with linux. Maybe it is just a computer game, not a serious tool. It > doesn't crash like Windows, but no matter how well things are going, a new > problem always arises. In the absence of good documentation, the best way to > solve a problem is to go to this web site. But a tool is something that works > when you need it and doesn't continuously call attention to itself. > > I suppose that this will offend real linux enthusiasts for whom building > linux is the goal. However, for ordinary people like me, what is wanted is a > reliable tool at least as good as Windows, without subservience to Microsoft. > > I shall continue to play the linux game, but regrettably depend on Windows > for serious work. Would that it were otherwise. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re. Star Office 6
sheine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tommi Komulainen wrote: >> Just a thought, you weren't planning to do anything productive >> with, or did you? If you did, guess you'd better reconsider: > This message caused me to reconsider the several years that I have > fooled around with linux. Maybe it is just a computer game, not a > serious tool. Linux is not the tool for all needs right now, and Star Office is not the only tool on Linux. First, the SO6 beta is a beta. One should not depend on a beta for production needs on any platform. It's always better to have a stable baseline for production use, even if it may be more buggy in some ways than the latest beta: at least you know the bugs in the stable release and can work around them. Second, there are lots of other tools which are stable under Linux. I've been getting work done for 7 years using Linux. In general, I don't use Office apps much... as a software developer under Unix and relatives, I don't need to very often. For my personal documentation needs, LaTeX is ideal. For work, where MS Office reigns supreme and I need to transfer docs back and forth all the time, MS is the only option, unfortunately. No other office suite, under any platform, does round tripping without diminishing my productivity. Free tools such as Gnumeric and Abiword, however, do meet my needs for document display, so I don't need to pump up VMware unless I need to edit. Your needs are likely to be unique to you, and what works well for one person may not for you. But for many people Linux is already ready for serious work. It may need more time learning how to fit within its worldview, but usually rewards with increased reliability and flexibility. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Actually, my goal is to have a sandwich named after me.
Re: linuxworld: shutting down application when window closes
on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 05:12:38PM +0800, ramsubs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > greetings all. > > i came across this article in linuxworld.com: > http://www.linuxworld.com/ic_706716_6995_1-3133.html > --- > The DA's Office Goes Digital > At the Queens County District Attorney's Office, keeping track of all the > documents associated with the 50,000 criminal cases it processes each year > is a family affair. There, necessity is the mother of invention, funding is > the father, and the prodigal child turns out to be a penguin. > > "One of the very few technical problems that arose with the Linux OS and the > custom interface stemmed from Linux's tendency to leave an application > running even when the application's window is closed. In Windows, closing > the window usually shuts down the application," said a much-enlightened > Kevin Hansen, ImageWork's president. Until ImageWork discovered and fixed > this quirk, users inadvertently launched multiple copies of the Linux > database and experienced some odd results. " > -- > > can anyone throw any light on this matter? A frequent issue in poor client/server application design. A similar issue faces users of SAS (http://www.sas.com/) in which remote sessions launched with SAS/CONNECT and SAS/SHARE remain open if not explicitly logged off. The result is a slow DoS self-inflicted attack as server load climbs. This has been an open issue with SAS for well over five years, and is common to *all* platforms on which the product runs. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgp2dch6vtP0B.pgp Description: PGP signature
debug messages while logged out
I'm a wintel appliance operator, so you can imagine my confusion at seeing the following on the screen of my logged off Debian/Linux box: DEBUG: --Relation pg_shadow-- DEBUG: Pages 1: Changed 0, Reappend 1, Empty 0, New 0; Tup 1: Vac 0, Keep/VTL 0/0, Crash 0, Unused 1, MinLen 80, MaxLen 80; Re-using: Free/Avail. Space 8096/0; EndEmpty/Avail. Pages 0/0. Elapsed 0/0 sec. DEBUG: --Relation pg_rules-- (same variable names, all values "0") DEBUG: --Relation pg_views-- (ditto) DEBUG: --Relation pg_tables-- (more of the same) DEBUG: --Relation pg_indexes (sic) (deja vu all over again) The barber-poling suggests another two, or more, messages have scrolled off screen. I did check /var/log/debug and ./debug.0 and found only references to changing discs during installation. There are no background tasks running. At least non that I know about. Installation of Debian 2.2 from a 3 disc set was done dark and early a couple of days ago onto a Dell PIII, 733mHz, 64meg box. Video is onboard Intel 810e chipset. I just went through the Q&A and put in everything. X did not configure as this chipset was not found. Until I get it onto the net, I'll try to figure out some low res generic. I mention this because X, and no modem are the only exceptions to the set-up. If more info is needed, let me know (and where to find it, ha). gt
LPRng.deb package failure when apt-get upgrade from woody
I consistently get this problem when I install a new system and apt-get update from woody. the system gets all the packages and when it comes time to unpack and install LPRng it fails and exits with a error status 2. I think this needs to be fixed.
Re: [DEB] Re: *total* switch of CapsLock and Ctrl
on Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:23:22AM -0400, Paul M Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 11:01:33PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > * Eugene Tyurin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011011 17:59]: > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I would like to remap CapsLock and LeftCtrl keys on my system - not > > > only for X, but also for console system-wide. Obviously, I have to do > > > better than .Xmodmap. > > > > > > I tried using loadkeys(1) with /usr/share/keymaps/i386/include/ctrl.inc > > > but it didn't seem to change anything... > > > > > > What should I change in my setup? > > > > X and the console are total separate. I can't help you with X, but on > every system I install, I swap the caps lock and control keys. You have > to find the keymap file for your system. On mine, it's > > /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz > > In that file, find keycodes 29 and 58 and swap them. That is, decompress > and edit the file so those two keycodes are swapped. Recompress. Then > you can copy that file to /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz. I use a slightly different strategy. As you can include files in keymap files, I include the default, then make the switch. This makes the modification more visible. My own /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz (uncompressed ;-): # us.map include "/usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz" # include "us.kmap" strings as usual # Swap 29 and 58 #keycode 29 = Control keycode 29 = Caps_Lock #keycode 58 = Caps_Lock keycode 58 = Control # fix backspace keycode 14 = BackSpace Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpTt7NadMki6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: howto avoid connection reset by peer with ssh
on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:51:25PM -0300, Alejandro Diego Garin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > hello linuxfriends: > > The firewall of my company is reseting my conections with ssh when is idle 3 > minutes or something like these. > How can I prevent this with the ssh client on my Linux? I need to send every > 2 minutes a "x" caracter to don't lose my session > > On my windoze machine I am using SecureCRT , and I was set an automatic idle > prevent send a "\n" every 2 minutes. > I need the same! > > any suggestions? $ man ssh /keepalive -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpQ8g5Fe6bwY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: bad file
Kevin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > it looks like the filesystem is screwed up > > is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) > > ?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 > guide.it.html > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# rm guide.it.html > rm: cannot unlink `guide.it.html': Operation not permitted > well if you did ls /usr/share/doc/apt/guide.it.html you would see it is a directory. As I don't speak Italian I did rm -rf /usr/share/doc/apt/guide.it.html and got rid of the whole directory. Is that what you wanted to do? -- A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing. ___
Re: Shouldbe EASY?
No idea. modules.dep should be built automagickally, but if you want to build it manually, run "depmod -a". Mike On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 11:37:58AM +, forrest curo wrote: > All right, this would not have happened had there been kernel images for > potato (or an obvious link thereto) near the basic potato distribution > folder, but the critter IS running, as long as I log in at various alt-F1 > to alt-F6s and leave it awaiting commands on some of them. > > But there's no obvious place to defnurgle /etc/inittab or whatever other > configuration file I need to defnurgle, to stop this lonesome modprobe that > scrolls all over my screen looking for its lost "modules.dep". > > (It begins during the boot process & continues until I've logged on and > gotten the critter awaiting commands, then returns if I give it one on the > wrong terminal, WHILE a command is executing, and also when I log out or > shut down. > > This is no doubt a valuable learning experience, but can someone please let > me know WHAT I'll need to learn for this & where to look for it? > > Forrest Curo > San Diego > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "Pretty soon, massive bloat is the industry standard and everyone is using huge, buggy programs not even their developers can love." -Eric S. Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming pgpVa0QG93dZJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Enlightenment theme Customization...
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 06:28:57PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > http://www.themes.org used to be quite good for this sort of thing, but > they seem to be down right now. You could try The site seems to work if you go to http://classic.themes.org. Some of the links are broken, in that case you just need to change them to classic. For example, sawfish.themes.org and sawmill.themes.org are down, but sawmill.classic.themes.org works. Some of the links *within* the latter point to the former, so you need to replace it with the 'classic' inserted. It's a pain in the butt but there are a lot of themes there! --Adam pgpJExJ13UN6f.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Enlightenment theme Customization...
Thus spake Ricardo Diz: > > Hi there! > > I'm trying to change some defaults in theme BlueSteel for Enlightenment, > specially the borders. I mean, I know I can change them for any window I want > and then use the remember option, but I want it to be the default with > BlueSteel. > > BTW, where can I get I "Do-a-theme-yourself-HOWTO" for enlightenment? > > Thanks in advance, > Ricardo Diz http://www.themes.org used to be quite good for this sort of thing, but they seem to be down right now. You could try http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/main.html although I haven't looked through to see if they tell you step by step. Good luck, Steve -- QOTD: "I've always wanted to work in the Federal Mint. And then go on strike. To make less money." pgpm5DOTZRIDD.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation
Use via-rhine it will work. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of W. Paul Mills > Sent: den 13 oktober 2001 23:47 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dman) writes: > > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:42:18PM -0400, Rong Fan wrote: > > | Hello, > > | my ethernet card(D-Link DFE-530TX+) wasn't recognized during > installation. what should i > > | do to make it work? any advice is welcome. > > > > Run 'modconf' and pick the tulip driver. Then see 'man interfaces' > > for information on editing /etc/network/interfaces to set up the > > logical part of the network connection. For example : > > > > Static IP, load at boot time : > > > > auto eth0 > > iface eth0 inet static > > address 192.168.0.6 > > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > gateway 192.168.0.1 > > > > > > Dynamic IP, load at boot time : > > > > auto eth0 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > > > > NO NO See that + on the end -- takes the rtl8139 driver. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * > * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: date gives tomorrows date
Faheem Mitha writes: > if you don't have dialup but have an always-on connection like with dsl > or cable modem, then you are better off using the ntp package, which runs > a daemon and periodically contacts an ntp server. And if you _do_ have a dialup you are better off using the chrony package, which does the same thing as ntp but works well with a dialup. The postinst installs the necessary script and the default configuration works out of the box (though I suggest that you replace the default timeserver with one near you). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
mozilla cut and paste not working
anyone else having problems with Mozilla's cut and paste? I should be able to highlight it and paste it into another window using the middle button. it works for everything else and worked for netscape. Has this happened to anyone else? thanks!! xucaen
Re: bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, csj wrote: > Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my meager > 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process ppp traffic > becomes so abysmal I even get disconnected. You have a proper modem, or one of those 'software modems' aka win/linmodem POS? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
bzip2 brings ppp to its knees?
Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my meager 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process ppp traffic becomes so abysmal I even get disconnected. -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Re: date gives tomorrows date
On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Tony wrote: > > Potato 2.2.19 Linux only box. I'm having a problem with the dates. > $date Sun Oct 14 03:58:09 EST 2001 <- is tomorrow $date -u Sat Oct 13 > 17:59:40 UTC 2001 <- is correct have checked the date in the BIOS is > ok. have tried UTS=yes and UTS=no in the /etc/default/rcS and it is > still the same. Anyone know how get the right date? I think the issue is that the hardware clock and the system are not in sync. A crude but effective way of making all these problems go away is by running ntpdate in your dialup script (I'm assuming dialup) and then synchronising to the hardware clock. Install ntpdate (apt-get install ntpdate), and put a script called ntpdate in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d as follows (put a local ntp server in place of clock1.unc.edu). See http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm for a list of public ntp servers and use one that is close to you on the net. if you don't have dialup but have an always-on connection like with dsl or cable modem, then you are better off using the ntp package, which runs a daemon and periodically contacts an ntp server. Sincerely, Faheem Mitha. #!/bin/sh #invoke ntpdate to set time from system clock if [ -x /usr/sbin/ntpdate ]; then /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s -t 5 clock1.unc.edu /sbin/hwclock --systohc fi
Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (dman) writes: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:42:18PM -0400, Rong Fan wrote: > | Hello, > | my ethernet card(D-Link DFE-530TX+) wasn't recognized during installation. > what should i > | do to make it work? any advice is welcome. > > Run 'modconf' and pick the tulip driver. Then see 'man interfaces' > for information on editing /etc/network/interfaces to set up the > logical part of the network connection. For example : > > Static IP, load at boot time : > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.0.6 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > gateway 192.168.0.1 > > > Dynamic IP, load at boot time : > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp NO NO See that + on the end -- takes the rtl8139 driver. -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 *
Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub
I believe that you are getting too complicated. Windows is, indeed, not very flexible but I am not sure that the comments in this thread are either correct or relevant to the real problem. What one needs is a good boot manager in the MBR of the first hard disk on the system. GRUB is an excellent boot manager for this purpose and, to my thinking, it is more intuitive than LILO. I believe that the crux of the problem is that ae.roy's GRUB command line was too complicated. What happens is the passing of control from the MBR to the first sector of each partition which then boots the OS in that partition. Once the MBR has passed control to the boot record of another partition, Windows cares no more than any other OS which physical disk or which partition it is on provided always that the Windows tools have declared its partition bootable. These tools vary from one release of Windows to another but they do not restrict you to making only the first partition bootable. Assuming that ae.roy keeps his Linux on /dev/hda and Windows95 on /dev/hdb, this is accomplished with the following simple command: title = Windows 95 chainloader = (hd1, 0)+1 (N.B. in GRUB, *everything* is numbered from 0. Thus the first partition record of the second physical hard disk is (hd1, 0) and its boot sector is (hd1, 0)+1 ) On my system, GRUB runs from a Caldera boot partition. In addition, I boot Windows 2000 plus two other Debian Linux distributions from GRUB using this simple chainloader syntax. Each of the two other Linux installations have LILO in the boot records of their respective partitions. There was a reference in the original message in the title line to ``Windows NT". If there is an NT partition in this system, then this example syntax might not apply. BTW, Microsoft did not write the Windows NT boot manager. It is the OS/2 boot manager; Microsoft licensed it. Please excuse the brisk tone of this message. My overall approach is: K.I.S.S. --- Keep it simple, ... Do let me know if the suggestion works. On 13 Oct 2001, at 13:23, dman wrote: Date forwarded: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 13:38:51 -0400 (EDT) Date sent: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 13:23:21 -0400 From: dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub Forwarded by: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:08:38AM -0700, Tim Moss wrote: | On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:08:38 -0400 | "ae roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > I have lying about a 120MB drive, very old, with W95 on it, and I'm | > trying to | > boot it using grub, but it doesnt work. This is what I have in my grub | > fi | > le | > | | Windows' system partition has to be on the first disk. Yeah, windows isn't flexible at all. | With lilo, you can use the | disk= | bios= | options (see man lilo.conf) to "switch" the disks around. I don't know | if grub has a similar option but it might be something to look for. Yes, grub has the 'map' and 'hide' commands, but they only work if the BIOS supports mapping drives. The easiest thing is to put the windows disk first and the linux one second because linux is nice and flexible and won't complain about it (just be sure and update your menu.lst and fstab first so they point to the right disks). HTH, -D
netatalk from source problem.
Hello all -- I'm attempting to build netatalk from its source package, due to the fact that the binary package doesn't seem to support encrypted passwords. I keep getting an error after doing: debian/rules binary debian/rules build works fine and completes without any noticeable errors. When I do debian/rules binary though, I get an error stating: dpkg-shlibdeps -pnetatalk debian/build/netatalk/usr/bin/* debian/build/netatalk/usr/sbin/* unable to open 'debian/build/netatalk/usr/bin/hqx2bin' for test at /usr/bin/dpkg-shlibdeps line 79 I'm pretty new with Debian, and don't yet have a full grasp of how packaging works, so I'm stumped. I assume it's checking the binaries for dependencies before packing everything up, but when I look in the debian/build/netatalk/usr/bin directory, everything is just a symbolic link to a nonexistent file called "megatron". Is this something wrong with the package, or am I doing something wrong. For some background, I simply downloaded the source and diffs to /usr/src with apt-get source netatalk. After that I uncommented the Makefile line pointing to the DES libraries and stuck the libraries in. I'm running 2.4.9 with appletalk compiled in...but I'm sure that doesn't matter...the binary version is running fine as I speak and as I said...it builds fine. Just wont package...so tell me this is a simple problem and I'm just dumb and I'll be happy :-) Thank you very much for any help, Brian Boucheron.
Re: lynx-ssl: Alert! HTTP 1.0 400 bad request; Not with other browsers
> Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: lynx-ssl > > Version: 2.8.4.2-1 > > > > Does the following a lynx bug or is there a way to get lynx behave like > > other browsers? > > It could be a Lynx bug, certainly. Whether or not one should > dub some behaviour in a brower's interaction with html a bug is > too complicated a subject for me but following one of the links > you referred to in "Links" (another text based browser with > this very silly name) worked ok. so at least you could say that > Lynx is less fault tolerant than "Links" in this instance. > It is certainly a modified behavior on the part of lynx. Those links used to work with lynx until recently. More over, there are more examples of this sort on eBay site. After reading your message I tend to believe that the problem started with one of the recent versions of lynx: [23:36:39 tmp]$ zgrep '+0200' /usr/share/doc/lynx-ssl/changelog.Debian.gz |head -5 -- Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 30 Aug 2001 11:13:27 +0200 -- Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:45:53 +0200 -- Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 18 Aug 2001 16:22:26 +0200 -- André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 13 Jun 2001 05:45:56 +0200 -- Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:00:05 +0200 [23:36:51 tmp]$ > > Reproducing the problem: > > > > 1. Go to http://www.ebay.com > > 2. In the search box have something reasonable, say tv. > > 3. Hit Find It. > > 4. You should get a list of suggested items. > > 5. Randomly choose one of the items. > > > > Now try following the link marked as `view seller's other auctions'. > > > > This results in an error screen. Prior to the error screen there is > > an error message at the status line at the bottom of the screen, saying > > > > Alert! HTTP 1.0 400 bad request. > > Lynx either inserts or does not strip a space between the > "&userid=" and the actual identity in the referring url so in > Lynx for instance such a url may look like this: > > http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid= gypsyseller > > Note the space between the '=' and 'gypsyseller'. > > You can remedy the situation by hitting 'E' while staying on > the link to edit it and then remove the space. > > I'll send your message to lynx-dev to see if anyone has any > comments. > > > Regards, > > Morten > > > -- > "To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep > was tautology." (Mark Twain) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
paache+php wiht postgres or mysql
hi, which of the (see topic) namde database system woudl work best in conjunction with apache and php 4? --- Andor Demarteau [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: where can I get older versions of debs?
> > Where can I get the debs? > I actually don't know if the old debs are still available anywhere, but > you ought to still have them yourself if you had that version installed > previously. Look in /var/cache/apt/archives. It should be there unless > you've deleted it. D**. Ok, does anyone feel like posting the 4.0.6-6 debs for php4 somewhere I can download them? Tarjei
Perl CPAN maodule usinf passive ftp?
How can I prsuade the perl CPAN module to use Debians passive mode ftp? Is the a environment varibale that I can set theat will tell all ftp tasks, suchs as ncftp to do the same? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
netscape and debian stable
a very strange thing happened to my system today. I am running debian 2.2r3 and netscape 4.76. Everything ran fine untill today when for no apparent reason Netscape began locking up my keyboard. The mouse still worked and all my running programs still worked, but no keyboard. This only happened when I ran netscape. Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone know what might be happening? thanks! xucaen
Re: rxvt & vi
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 03:53:44AM +0700, Mark Rompies wrote:
| Hi...
|
| First...
| I wonder why my rxvt looks weird everytime I quit from vi? the rxvt window
| is full of every last commands and its output, and I can't find my cursor
| until i blindly type "clear" and press enter.
|
| Second..
| Everytime i use vi:
| - i never see the "-INSERT-" (press "i", "o", "a" in command mode in vi)
| mark at the bottom of my screen noted that i'm in the insert mode? Why? I
| need it...How to show it up?
| - i should press "i", "o", or "a" everytime i want to go to insert mode
| just after every move i've made to another line. why??
What vi clone are you using? I like vim the best. It shows the
'-- INSERT --' text at the bottom. You should press [iIoOaA] evey
time you want to enter insert mode, but if you are already in insert
mode, pressing them will naturally insert them into the document. To
install vim run
apt-get install vim-gtk vim-runtime
This will give you the console version ('vim') the GTK+ gui version
('gvim') and also the neat runtime support which includes syntax
highlighting.
HTH,
-D
Re: where can I get older versions of debs?
Tarjei Huse wrote: > I whant to revert back to the 4.0.6-6 version of php4 in unstable. > Where can I get the debs? I actually don't know if the old debs are still available anywhere, but you ought to still have them yourself if you had that version installed previously. Look in /var/cache/apt/archives. It should be there unless you've deleted it. Craig
Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:42:18PM -0400, Rong Fan wrote: | Hello, | my ethernet card(D-Link DFE-530TX+) wasn't recognized during installation. what should i | do to make it work? any advice is welcome. Run 'modconf' and pick the tulip driver. Then see 'man interfaces' for information on editing /etc/network/interfaces to set up the logical part of the network connection. For example : Static IP, load at boot time : auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.6 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.1 Dynamic IP, load at boot time : auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp HTH, -D
Re: how to get Skipstone
That was simple, I downloaded the single package. Then apt-get install skipstone and its working now. Yhank you very much. Hans On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:21:46PM +, Hans wrote: > Hi, > > I just started with Debian and now I want to install Skipstone on it. > The problem is now that whatever I try I get message from apt-get install > like the one underneath. > This is a message when I did apt-get install skipstone, but when I the try to > get mozilla I messages just like this one. > > I'm running Blackbox on Debian unstable, is it maybe not possible to install > Skipstone on this version? > > > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against > that package should be filed. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > skipstone: Depends: libstdc++3 (>= 1:3.0.2-0pre010908) but it is not > installable > Depends: libmozilla > Depends: libnspr4 (>= 2:0.9.1-0.1) but it is not going to be > installed > Depends: mozilla-mailnews (>= 2:0.9.1-0.1) but it is not going > to be installed > E: Sorry, broken packages > > thanks, > Hans > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
where can I get older versions of debs?
Hi, I whant to revert back to the 4.0.6-6 version of php4 in unstable. Where can I get the debs? Tarjei
Re: Maximum mount count?
Petre Daniel wrote: > so like,after 2,3 days at start up it stops and it runs fsck i > believe..just as if i unplugged my pc.how can i make it not to > check my fs ?it says "maximum mount count.." and it runs > fsck..Dani man tune2fs check out the -c option John -- Powered by the Penguin
rxvt & vi
Hi... First... I wonder why my rxvt looks weird everytime I quit from vi? the rxvt window is full of every last commands and its output, and I can't find my cursor until i blindly type "clear" and press enter. Second.. Everytime i use vi: - i never see the "-INSERT-" (press "i", "o", "a" in command mode in vi) mark at the bottom of my screen noted that i'm in the insert mode? Why? I need it...How to show it up? - i should press "i", "o", or "a" everytime i want to go to insert mode just after every move i've made to another line. why?? thx a lot... I really need it...
Re: Security Update
--- Mark Rompies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-10-13 21:30): > I've just use Debian for the first time in my life. I want to upgrade the > applications or anything to mmake it more secure (i think it will use apps > >from security.debian.org). The problem is very simple: > > what commands should i type from the console to update the security fixes > for a/any package(s)? Could i use apt-get? Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following line: deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free Then run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. Any packages that have been updated with security fixes will be upgraded. You might want to subscribe to the debian-security-announce list as well, to get notified when security fixes are applied. Cheers, Sean -- Sean Quinlan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
D-Link DFE-530TX+ Installation
Hello, my ethernet card(D-Link DFE-530TX+) wasn't recognized during installation. what should i do to make it work? any advice is welcome. thanks in advance. Best regards, Roam
Re: Security Update
Mark Rompies wrote: > Hi! > > I've just use Debian for the first time in my life. I want to upgrade the > applications or anything to mmake it more secure (i think it will use apps > from security.debian.org). The problem is very simple: > > what commands should i type from the console to update the security fixes > for a/any package(s)? Could i use apt-get? > Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list #From debian weekly news July 18, 2001 deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free Then run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade -- David Raeker-Jordan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Harrisburg, PA, USA
Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 02:55:46PM -0400, dman wrote: > | Additionally, if the MTA is there for localhost reasons only, why can I > | connect to it from another machine on the network?? > > I guess it listens to port 25 (SMTP) by default. This can surely be > disabled, or firewall rules can be added so connections to that port > are ignored. Indeed it can, in just two easy steps: 1) Go into /etc/inetd.conf, comment out all lines that mention "smtp" (there should only be one), and restart inetd (/etc/init.d/inetd restart). 2) `update-rc.d -f exim remove` Step 1 prevents inetd from starting exim in response to port 25 connections and step 2 prevents exim from being run as a daemon. Most programs that send local notifications will still work, since they invoke sendmail (which, on a default debian install is a link to exim) on the command line instead of connecting to port 25. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Mr. Slippery
Re. Star Office 6
Tommi Komulainen wrote: Just a thought, you weren't planning to do anything productive with, or did you? If you did, guess you'd better reconsider: This message caused me to reconsider the several years that I have fooled around with linux. Maybe it is just a computer game, not a serious tool. It doesn't crash like Windows, but no matter how well things are going, a new problem always arises. In the absence of good documentation, the best way to solve a problem is to go to this web site. But a tool is something that works when you need it and doesn't continuously call attention to itself. I suppose that this will offend real linux enthusiasts for whom building linux is the goal. However, for ordinary people like me, what is wanted is a reliable tool at least as good as Windows, without subservience to Microsoft. I shall continue to play the linux game, but regrettably depend on Windows for serious work. Would that it were otherwise.
Re: Security Update
You must add a line in your sources list that points to security.debian.org. Then you can use apt-get Mark Rompies wrote: > > Hi! > > I've just use Debian for the first time in my life. I want to upgrade the > applications or anything to mmake it more secure (i think it will use apps > from security.debian.org). The problem is very simple: > > what commands should i type from the console to update the security fixes > for a/any package(s)? Could i use apt-get? > > thx.. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
obtaining makemap [postfix]
Where do I find 'makemap' to use with Postfix ? What package ? Looking at an OpenBSD box I have here, the makemap seems to have come from Sendmail... but I'm not sure. Thanks. -- Darren Wyn Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Security Update
Hi! I've just use Debian for the first time in my life. I want to upgrade the applications or anything to mmake it more secure (i think it will use apps from security.debian.org). The problem is very simple: what commands should i type from the console to update the security fixes for a/any package(s)? Could i use apt-get? thx..
Enlightenment theme Customization...
Hi there! I'm trying to change some defaults in theme BlueSteel for Enlightenment, specially the borders. I mean, I know I can change them for any window I want and then use the remember option, but I want it to be the default with BlueSteel. BTW, where can I get I "Do-a-theme-yourself-HOWTO" for enlightenment? Thanks in advance, Ricardo Diz pgptuP5o59y8c.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to get Skipstone
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > skipstone: Depends: libstdc++3 (>= 1:3.0.2-0pre010908) but it is not installable > Depends: libmozilla > Depends: libnspr4 (>= 2:0.9.1-0.1) but it is not going to be installed > Depends: mozilla-mailnews (>= 2:0.9.1-0.1) but it is not going to be installed > E: Sorry, broken packages Try running apt-get install libstdc++3 and seeing why that cannot be installed. Ross
how to get Skipstone
Hi, I just started with Debian and now I want to install Skipstone on it. The problem is now that whatever I try I get message from apt-get install like the one underneath. This is a message when I did apt-get install skipstone, but when I the try to get mozilla I messages just like this one. I'm running Blackbox on Debian unstable, is it maybe not possible to install Skipstone on this version? Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: skipstone: Depends: libstdc++3 (>= 1:3.0.2-0pre010908) but it is not installable Depends: libmozilla Depends: libnspr4 (>= 2:0.9.1-0.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: mozilla-mailnews (>= 2:0.9.1-0.1) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages thanks, Hans
Re: gnumeric and mozilla fonts
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Two minutes after sending this e-mail I searched under gnumeric and fonts, and I got the solution. Sorry - I'll try to be a bit more patient! Harvey On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:44:38PM +0100, kellyh wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I know this is an old topic, but can anyone remind me of the *subject* > for upgrading to XFree 4.1 and GTK/Mozilla fonts going haywire? > Actually it is only Gnumeric and Mozilla that have freaked out - AbiWord > is still fine. > > I've searched under different combinations of GTk fonts upgrade but to > no avail. Please guide me... > > Thanks > > Harvey
gnumeric and mozilla fonts
Hello everybody, I know this is an old topic, but can anyone remind me of the *subject* for upgrading to XFree 4.1 and GTK/Mozilla fonts going haywire? Actually it is only Gnumeric and Mozilla that have freaked out - AbiWord is still fine. I've searched under different combinations of GTk fonts upgrade but to no avail. Please guide me... Thanks Harvey
PHP4 downgrade.
Hi, I'm running unstable, but have relixed that the latest php4 debs contain an api related bug so I cannot install Midgard, a CMS system. Is there a "downgrade" function in the apt-get system? I'd like to go back to the last 4.0.6 release. Yours Tarjei Huse
OT: Hello and 1st Question
He's naming the releases off characters from Toy Story? Now I'm scared. That's almost as bad as the way we used to name computers at where I worked. We used the names of old TV detectives, which was tough when I took over because the only one I recognized was Columbo. I had to ask others what the next name should be whenever I set up a computer and was considering changing to something I knew. When a new boss took over, he nixed that naming system, though, into a lifeless system of function and number (yuck!). I'm glad to see there's life out there. Thank you everyone for helping to clear this up for me. For the time being I'm going to stick to Potato while I continue learning basics. I need a stable environment so I can work day-to-day while getting used to it. I did manage to install KDE into it, which I love. I'll be trying Woody in a VM created by VMWare sometime. Thanks again for your help. I'm sure I'll be posting more questions soon. Brad R. -Original Message- From: Steve Kowalik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 4:17 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Hello and 1st Question At 3:32 am, Friday, October 12 2001, Robert L. Harris mumbled: > Debian has 3 distrubitions I guess you'd say. > > The current "stable" distribution of Debian Linux (gnu/linux) is named Potato. > The current "testing, soon to be stable" distribution is named Woody. At some > point in the future Woody will replace Potato as stable and a new unstable > will be named (Buz is next I think but don't remember). > The current "unstable, may be put into testing" is named Sid. > No, this is incorrect. Woody will replace Potato, yes, but a new unstable will not be named. Unstable (which you forgot) is called sid, will always be called sid, and releases drop out of sid into testing. The new testing's name is not set in stone, and AJ (the Release Manager) hasn't even watched Toy Story to see which one to pick. -- Steve BOFH excuse #47: Complete Transient Lockout
bad file
it looks like the filesystem is screwed up is there a way i can remove/fix this file remotely (ie no init 1) ?-wS--x-w- 25830 3373684167 3802483123 14067798681382885448 Sep 2 1905 guide.it.html [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# rm guide.it.html rm: cannot unlink `guide.it.html': Operation not permitted [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/apt# mv guide.it.html bad.file mv: `guide.it.html' has unknown file type
Re: Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:54:32PM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote: | hey, | | why do most UNIX OS's ship with an MTA enabled in the default install?? | is there some [un]written rule of unix that I'm not aware of or something?? Daemon type programs (such as cron) notify the admin of errors via email. Since the program is not run directly by the admin from a shell printing to stdout is useless. | everytime I install debian, I always ponder why is exim being installed even | though I never seem to use it. (For as long as I've used debian, no one but | root has had mail delivered to them, and those were very rare, and very | unimportant.) root should never get mail, since you should not login as root to read mail. Instead the user names of the admin(s) should be specified in /etc/aliases so that they get the mail that was addressed to root. | Additionally, if the MTA is there for localhost reasons only, why can I | connect to it from another machine on the network?? I guess it listens to port 25 (SMTP) by default. This can surely be disabled, or firewall rules can be added so connections to that port are ignored. HTH, -D
Shouldbe EASY?
All right, this would not have happened had there been kernel images for potato (or an obvious link thereto) near the basic potato distribution folder, but the critter IS running, as long as I log in at various alt-F1 to alt-F6s and leave it awaiting commands on some of them. But there's no obvious place to defnurgle /etc/inittab or whatever other configuration file I need to defnurgle, to stop this lonesome modprobe that scrolls all over my screen looking for its lost "modules.dep". (It begins during the boot process & continues until I've logged on and gotten the critter awaiting commands, then returns if I give it one on the wrong terminal, WHILE a command is executing, and also when I log out or shut down. This is no doubt a valuable learning experience, but can someone please let me know WHAT I'll need to learn for this & where to look for it? Forrest Curo San Diego
Re: what music players?
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 08:35:25PM +0200, Petre Daniel wrote: > Heya,what music players at console except mpg123? For a nice full-screen console player try mp3blaster. dt. -- Dave Thayer | If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about Denver, Colorado USA | cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the time, for no good reason. - Jack Handey
Re: ADSL startup and non-root users
While specialized tools like pon are fine for their special cases, Debian and other UNIX systems also have some different, generally usable way of granting normal users the right to perform some specific command as root, given roots prior permission. For Debian systems I would recommend the super package. Step by step instructions: 1. Install package super 2. Figure out which command you would do as root to bring up / down the line. 3. Edit /etc/super.tab to specify the command and which users may run it. 4. ln -s /usr/bin/super /usr/local/bin/yourcommand 5. Now those listed can type $ yourcommand to run the configured command line as root. Hope this helps Jakob On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 09:21:00AM +0200, Iam wrote: > Hi at all, > I'm using a Woody Linux distribution. > I want to know if it's possible to give non-root users > access to the Internet through ADSL connection in the > same way as they can pon/poff a normal PSTN connection. > In fact I, as a root user, use pon dsl-provider to > connect to the Internet but even if I add a normal user > to the dip group (so he can use the pon command) he > cannot connect to the Net. > I think this is a ethx access permission trouble so this > is my question: > how can I permit to a normal user pon/poff an ADSL > connection as if it was a simple analog modem connection > without gaining root privileges ? > > Thanks a lot. > > Luca De Giorgi -- This message is hastily written, please ignore any unpleasant wordings, do not consider it a binding commitment, even if its phrasing may indicate so. Its contents may be deliberately or accidentally untrue. Trademarks and other things belong to their owners, if any.
Re: lynx-ssl: Alert! HTTP 1.0 400 bad request; Not with other browsers
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: lynx-ssl > Version: 2.8.4.2-1 > > Does the following a lynx bug or is there a way to get lynx behave like > other browsers? It could be a Lynx bug, certainly. Whether or not one should dub some behaviour in a brower's interaction with html a bug is too complicated a subject for me but following one of the links you referred to in "Links" (another text based browser with this very silly name) worked ok. so at least you could say that Lynx is less fault tolerant than "Links" in this instance. > Reproducing the problem: > > 1. Go to http://www.ebay.com > 2. In the search box have something reasonable, say tv. > 3. Hit Find It. > 4. You should get a list of suggested items. > 5. Randomly choose one of the items. > > Now try following the link marked as `view seller's other auctions'. > > This results in an error screen. Prior to the error screen there is > an error message at the status line at the bottom of the screen, saying > > Alert! HTTP 1.0 400 bad request. Lynx either inserts or does not strip a space between the "&userid=" and the actual identity in the referring url so in Lynx for instance such a url may look like this: http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid= gypsyseller Note the space between the '=' and 'gypsyseller'. You can remedy the situation by hitting 'E' while staying on the link to edit it and then remove the space. I'll send your message to lynx-dev to see if anyone has any comments. Regards, Morten -- "To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology." (Mark Twain)
Why need an MTA in the defualt install ??
hey, why do most UNIX OS's ship with an MTA enabled in the default install?? is there some [un]written rule of unix that I'm not aware of or something?? everytime I install debian, I always ponder why is exim being installed even though I never seem to use it. (For as long as I've used debian, no one but root has had mail delivered to them, and those were very rare, and very unimportant.) Additionally, if the MTA is there for localhost reasons only, why can I connect to it from another machine on the network?? thanks for any info Sunny Dubey
RE: Maximum mount count?
On 13-Oct-2001 Petre Daniel wrote: > so like,after 2,3 days at start up it stops and it runs fsck i believe.. > just as if i unplugged my pc.how can i make it not to check my fs ? > it says "maximum mount count.." and it runs fsck.. > Dani after a certain number of successful mount a filesystem gets checked as a precaution. Nothing to worry about.
Re: linuxworld: shutting down application when window closes
> I know this happpens in Java using AWT or Swing - in the basic GUI Hello > World program you can make a window appear. Pressing the close button > closes the window but the program continues running, as the programmer did > not catch the window closing event and quit the application. Code has to be > written so that the programmer can close connections and open files, write > data to disk, etc, before the application closes. > another possibility is a GUI written as a frontend to a daemon/console utility that tries to run something but never kills it.
Re: what music players?
#include Petre Daniel wrote on Sat Oct 13, 2001 um 08:35:25PM: > Heya,what music players at console except mpg123? splay, mpg321, ogg123, play (from sox package), bplay, midiplay, timidity. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Linux rebootet man in drei Fällen: Neuer Kernel, neue (Board-)Hardware, neue Partition angelegt Aber Windows rebootet man auch in drei Fällen: Schutzverletzung, Bluescreen, keinen Bock...
Re: Minimum Potato Files
On Saturday 13 October 2001 09:58, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > Hey, this question has been asked before, and no one gave imo > a really good answer. What is the minimum installation debs? There > are two schools of thought. First, the packages listed in > basecont.txt in the disks- contained in the base file. The > other is that once you reboot during installation, select advanced > setup, enter dselect, escape out, and take what's given. One might > think that they would be the same. > So, I took the liberty of doing a fresh install with disk 1 > of the 2.2r3 dist. At the prompt to choose simple/advanced, I > switched consoles and did a 'dpkg -l > dpkg_pre.txt', then I entered > dpkg, hit escape, installed the packages, and then did a 'dpkg -l > > dpkg_post.txt'! I also did a df -k and a df -l. > Well, it turns out that there are 79 packages in the base > dist, but once you go in and out of dselect, you end up with 169 > packages. It takes up about 220M of space. > Attached is a tar.gz file that has the details. By the way, > if you are planning to make CD-ROM's with the base packages, I > suggest installing apt-move and rsync into a base installation. Then > you can do an 'apt-move sync' that will fetch all the gory details > and create a mirror of the packages installed in your base system. > It does all the dirty work with the packages files, etc. I believe the minimum is zero (no debs). -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
wwwoffle bugfix
hi all, I use wwwoffle a lot so I need a version without bugs (in particular the problem with compressed pages). Well, I applied the patches founded in wwwoffle homepage, which fix four important bugs in latest release of this program (some of them are also open bugs in debian bug track system), and made a NO-DEBIAN NO-OFFICIAL NO-MAINTAINER packages of wwwoffle. You can find here: http://www.gelma.net/wwwoffle_2.6d-3_i386.deb hope this help, andrea gelmini
Re: QuickTime
On Saturday 13 October 2001 15:20, Francois Gouget wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, dooshiant wrote: > > http://openquicktime.sourceforge.net/ > > > > I don't know much Spanish but I guess that's what you're looking > > for. :-) > >Or you could also have a look at CrossOver (I don't know Spanish > either). It's not open source but it will let you view Sorenson > movies too. > >http://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover/ > > >You will also be able to use other Windows plugins like Shockwave > and the Word/Excel and Powerpoint viewers. > >(disclaimer: I work for CodeWeavers) Well, is there a difference between CrossOver and simply running the Apple QuickTime player under wine? -- Sir Isaac Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Re: Star Office 6
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 06:11:08AM -0700, sheine wrote: > I have downloaded all the files for Star Office 6, but haven't the > slightest idea of how to install them. The guide describes a method that > relates to the CD version. All the files are of the form *.bin. Does > anybody know what to do next? Just a thought, you weren't planning to do anything productive with, or did you? If you did, guess you'd better reconsider: 3.0 LICENSE RESTRICTIONS [...] 3.4 Licensee shall have no right to use the Licensed Software for productive or commercial use. You did read the license agreement of course, right? :) I think I prefer OpenOffice, if I really *really* need to edit Word documents... -- Tommi Komulainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG 1024D/68388EE66FD6 DD79 EB38 BF6F 3533 09C0 04A8 9871 6838 8EE6 pgpotUyhuSSoX.pgp Description: PGP signature
apt 0.5.4: preferences file
I put in a lot of effort yesterday studying the man pages for apt and apt_preferences as well as the APT HOWTO which is buried deep in the Debian website. To no avail. apt turned up its nose at my feeble attempt to write a preferences file. I usually beat my head against the brick wall until I figure out obscure documentation but on this one, the patience isn't forthcoming. Rather than ask help, if someone has a smoothly functioning /etc/apt/preferences file which they would be willing to share, please e-mail it to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I will use it to figure out where I went wrong on the concepts.
what music players?
Heya,what music players at console except mpg123? thx. Dani.
Maximum mount count?
so like,after 2,3 days at start up it stops and it runs fsck i believe.. just as if i unplugged my pc.how can i make it not to check my fs ? it says "maximum mount count.." and it runs fsck.. Dani
Re: booting W95 from a second harddrive with grub
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 10:08:38AM -0700, Tim Moss wrote: | On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:08:38 -0400 | "ae roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > I have lying about a 120MB drive, very old, with W95 on it, and I'm | > trying to | > boot it using grub, but it doesnt work. This is what I have in my grub | > fi | > le | > | | Windows' system partition has to be on the first disk. Yeah, windows isn't flexible at all. | With lilo, you can use the | disk= | bios= | options (see man lilo.conf) to "switch" the disks around. I don't know | if grub has a similar option but it might be something to look for. Yes, grub has the 'map' and 'hide' commands, but they only work if the BIOS supports mapping drives. The easiest thing is to put the windows disk first and the linux one second because linux is nice and flexible and won't complain about it (just be sure and update your menu.lst and fstab first so they point to the right disks). HTH, -D
Re: apt-get dist-update problem
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 07:03:50PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | Saturday, October 13, 2001, 5:42:09 PM, dman wrote: | | d> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:32:19PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | d> | Saturday, October 13, 2001, 4:08:53 PM, dman wrote: | d> | | | d>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote: | | d>> | I just did a apt-get dist-update to testing, and it killed my X. | | d>> | Why? | d> | | | d>> Probably because you didn't configure X after the upgrade. | d> | | d> | Ok and how do I do this? | | d> When I installed X4 (install, not upgrade) recently debconf asked me a | d> bunch of questions, then generated a config file. The config file is | d> named /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 by default so that you can have | d> simultaneous X3 and X4 installs. | | d> With X4 the config is built-in, you don't need a separate program. | d> Run "X -configure" from a console (you might need the full path to X, | d> I'm not sure) and it will autoprobe and generate the file. This | d> didn't quite work for me on one machine (el-cheapo SiS6326 card). I | d> got a config file, but it didn't work. I manually edited the | d> generated config file to have the same options as my old X3 config | d> file, and everything worked fine. | | No matter if I run startx or X -configure, I get: "X: cannot stat | /etc/X11/X (no souch file or directory), aborting" | | I guess that's where my problem is. Yeah, that would be a problem. If I look at my system, I see the following files that appear relevant : lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 22 Sep 8 2001 /etc/X11/X -> /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -rwsr-sr-x1 root root 7436 Sep 17 2001 /usr/bin/X11/X -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 1507548 Sep 17 2001 /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 12 Sep 25 2001 /usr/bin/X11 -> ../X11R6/bin/ I think /usr/bin/X11/X is just a small wrapper program that loads some config from /etc/X11 and then runs the real X server. The X server is identified by the /etc/X11/X symlink, and in my case it is /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86. This is the binary from xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-6. Try creating that symlink, and see if it helps. You could also try just running the real X server directly, /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 -configure | When I did apt-get, I had some problems with a Danish ftp mirror in | sources.list, but I solved this by using debian.org. Do you think | there could have gone something wrong anyway, and that's why I'm | having problems? And if so, how do I fix it, can I ask apt-get to | reinstall? apt-get remove xserver-xfree86 apt-get install xserver-xfree86 To "reinstall" the package. This doesn't always work so well because other stuff might get removed due to dependencies. To simply reconfigure the package, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 HTH, -D
Re: /sbin/ipchains: host/network `domain.name' not found - SOLVED
Sorry to be posting a followup to my own question, but I solved this. I was using ipmasq to set up rules which needed to resolve external domain names before actually allowing external traffic... A bit stupid, but there it is. Putting my rules in post-processing rules files: /etc/ipmasq/P30internal.rul /etc/immasq/P90external.rul which are executed after the internal and external input files in which I initially put them: /etc/ipmasq/I30internal.rul /etc/ipmasq/I90external.rul solved it. > I'm running Debian GNU-linux 2.2r3 (potato) and trying to set up firewall > rules with sources and destinations specified as domain names rather than > IP addresses. > > The problem is that ipchains returns an error: > > /sbin/ipchains: host/network `domain.name' not found > Try `/sbin/ipchains -h' or '/sbin/ipchains --help' for more information. > > The host this is running on can resolve the domain names OK. > > Anyone know what could be wrong? > > Thanks and best regards, > George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus
