Why lynx asking for a password?!?
Lynx says access denied and then asks me to authorize 'ByPassword'. What I don't understand is that there are no files or subdirectories within /var/www/oneclick nor in /var/oneclick. I've no idea why it is asking for a password to access the localhosts documentroot area. I do know I had an htaccess file in there a day or so ago but have since recursively removed all files and subdirectores from the documentroot area. Despite no files or folders in there lynx still ask for password authorization. :( At first I thought maybe lynx 'remembers' there once was an htaccess file in there so I've scanned lynx.cfg file for authorization and password keywords and found nothing. Any ideas what could be causing this? Thanks! André Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Give a skeptic an inch... and he'll measure it.
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
That's odd, considering i tried it just now and it worked perfectly. Make sure you use the search engine at the address i gave, and not the one linked from the search button on the main page. They are different. Yep, I used their search button (which doesn't work). The search form field works fine. I have slink on cd so I installed it from there. Thanks.
where's a good howto for dpkg?
I'm having issues trying to install single applications from the cdrom. For example I can't find xawtv using dselect on the cdrom so I can install xawtv to my harddrive. Using '/' with dselect doesn't find xawtv, and when I type dpkg -i xawtv_2.19-1.deb I get no such file or directory errors. I got the name xawtv_2.19-1.deb by doing a search for xawtv on debian.org. maybe the file name I'm using is wrong. I'm guessing the file name is the same when installing from cdrom but looks like I don't know enough just yet to successfully install xawtv with dpkg nor dselect. Any ideas what the error is -- besides user error :) Andre'
Re: where's a good howto for dpkg?
Using '/' with dselect doesn't find xawtv, and when I type dpkg -i xawtv_2.19-1.deb I get no such file or directory errors. I got the name xawtv_2.19-1.deb by doing a search for xawtv on debian.org. maybe the file name I'm using is wrong. Oh I forgot to mention, when I type apt-get install xawtv I get these messages: Can't open /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - open (2 No such file or directory) E: The previous errors apply to a Package Cache File /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin E: You should probably re-run apt-get update I'm guessing this might be a way of telling me apt-get is not on the cdrom(?). So I tried the apt-get update thingy but it failed because this machine is not connected to the internet. Next step? Andre
finding xawtv (was Re: where's a good howto for dpkg?)
Are you saying that you put binary 2 disk in your cdrom; executed dselect from a command prompt; went through the steps Access, Update and Select; and xawtv wasn't found listed under xtr x11? It should be there, at least thats where it is on my slink cheapbytes CD. dang, I thought debian would prompt me to put in cd2 if it wanted it (like installing from many windows cd's). It never occurred to me to mount cd2 and then try installing xawtv from it. So I put binary 2 in mounted it and then dselect, then updated, then select and guess what. xawtv didn't show up. x11 section is there but xawtv isn't in the package list, at least I couldn't find it. I tried '/' to find x11 and xtr and then scrolled through the list. Neither turned up xawtv. I have slink. Give a skeptic an inch... and he'll measure it.
Re: finding xawtv (was Re: where's a good howto for dpkg?)
Yeah! Silly them they put it in the readme files :-) Windoze never uses them do they? Lost me on this one. There are 15 readme files on cd#1 and seven readme files on cd#2, I read them all. None of them tell me xawtv is on cd#2. I don't understand what you meant. BTW, since I couldn't figure out how to find the xawtv deb on the cdrom, let alone install it, I went ahead and downloaded xawtv and installed the downloaded .deb Maybe some day I'll figure out how to successfully install debs that do not show up as packages in dselect searches. Thanks Give a skeptic an inch... and he'll measure it.
How retain Windows long file names?
When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s and then copy those files to my linux machine with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long file names when using media instead of ftp to transfer files between systems? Also, is there an equivalent command to copy the files to linux including full paths? The above mentioned diskette has around 500 cgi and html files in 50 subdirectories and I'd like to be able to copy them to linux within their respective paths without having to manually enter all 50 subdirectories and manually copy the files over, one subdirectory at a time. Maybe there's some other way to achieve the same results besides the 'cp' command if cp does not support long file names and if it can't copy entire subdirectories(?). I'm reading man cp right now to see if the above can be accomplished but since man cp is no longer being maintained it seems best to ask here as well, for updated info. Thanks Give a skeptic an inch... and he'll measure it.
Re: How retain Windows long file names?
How long are the names??? The Linux filesystem supports names up to 256 characters. Are you sure you're not first putting the files on a plain DOS filesystem that lacks support for long names? Positive. I'm running win95 and used xcopy /s to copy the files to the floppy. I can view the files from dos and windows and the long file names are there. When I put the floppy into my debian system debian only sees the 8.3 filename (example: filena~1.htm). When I cp the files, 'what I see is what I get'. So I took advise and zipped the files with winzip and then downloaded the non-free unzip utility so I can unzip the files to my /var/www/oneclick area. I'm installing the unzip deb now so hopefully that resolves the long filename issue for now. cp -r copies entire directory trees. It's in the man page. Yes, I read that and tried it as well as -R. Neither coppied all the subdirectories from floppy to the harddrive. The root files copied but not the subdirectories. I'll try again. Syntax I used while in /floppy was 'cp -r *.* /var/www/oneclick' I also tried it with -R Maybe I'm using the wrong syntax here(?) Give a skeptic an inch... and he'll measure it.
Connect pc to linux with tcp/ip without a network card
If you are like me and are trying to figure a way to connect your windows pc to a linux system without a network card than you may find these links handy. I've found several sites that offer freeware, shareware, and trialware that connect the pc to linux via tcp/ip connection of the serial port. Here are a few that looked promising. Though I've downloaded several so far, I haven't tested any of them yet to see if they are simple comm programs or something better. The comments are from their respective web pages. If you are familiar with these please let me know. http://www.aball.de/~gotti/tcptoser.html TCP to Serial Remote modem connection http://www.midasoft.com/koala98/products.htm KoalaTerm For Windows 95, 98, and NT. KoalaTerm is a cost effective terminal emulator specifically designed to enable Windows 95, 98, and NT PCs to access host applications requiring VT420/VT320/VT220/VT100 support. Using the Winsock TCP/IP stack in Windows 95 and NT, it provides fast and efficient telnet access to a wide range of UNIX, VMS or other host applications. http://www.sci.ouc.bc.ca/cosc/tshost/twinsock.html TwinSock is a free program which enables your Windows 3.1, Windows NT or Windows 95 machine to use any Windows Sockets Application over a serial line (also known as asynch lines) or dial up connection to a UNIX shell account. http://blitzen.canberra.edu.au/slirp/ SLiRP is a free TCP/IP emulator over the (C)SLIP/PPP link-level protocols which allows a normal user with a shell account on a UNIX system to act like a real (C)SLIP/PPP account. This means you can use programs like Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mosaic, ftp, telnet and other internet clients from your home machine with only a shell account http://www.noguska.net/nonags/telnc32.html Tera Term (Pro) is a free software terminal emulator (communication program) which supports: - Serial port connections. - TCP/IP (telnet) connections. - VT100 emulation, and selected VT200/300 emulation. - TEK4010 emulation. - File transfer protocols (Kermit, XMODEM, ZMODEM, B-PLUS, and Quick-VAN) - Scripts using the Tera Term Language. http://www.iit.edu/~hujianq/simpterm.html A Telnet client that allows a PC user to connect to a remote UNIX or MAINFRAME computer using either a modem or a TCP/IP network. It provides VT100/ANSI Color terminal emulation and Kermit, xmodem, ymodem and zmodem file transfer capability along with TELNET and RLOGIN client services. Chinese support feature, up to 32760 line scroll buffer, excellent easy to use interface. Freeware. http://www.jriver.com/products/download.html ICE.TCP Pro connectivity software connects 32-bit Windows PC's to UNIX hosts via TCP/IP, and delivers reliable terminal emulation, easy-to-use file transfer and transparent printing capabilities. English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish support included. Also available is ICE.TEN which connects Windows PC's to a UNIX host via serial lines. Includes terminal emulation, file transfer, and printing. Also available is ICE.NFS which is a standard NFS for Windows. Provides a virtual drive for Windows to your UNIX files. http://www.fenix.com/abw.htmABW is a terminal emulation product from AlphaBASE Systems Inc. that permits PC's to be used as terminals on Windows NT, UNIX, AMOS, or LINUX-based computer systems running the Metropolis database. Using ABW, users can connect via serial, dial-up or network connections (using TCP/IP) to access the host system. You can even run it over the Internet! For those who want them, here are over 2000 other pages with links to similar software: http://www.hotbot.com/?NUMMOD=2act.next=nextDC=25AW0=tcp+unix+windows+ser ialRD=RGFS=%2EzipFSU=1BT=H Andre'
How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
I have several perl scripts saved to my pc I need to convert to linux-able ascii so I can transfer them to my local linux system via disks or tape. I now get the following error message when I copy from my pc to diskette to linux: illegal character \015 (carriage return) at admin.cgi line 2 (Maybe you didn't strip carriage returns after a network transfer?) I know it's because the file is in pc binary instead of true ascii (despite being saved as a text file). My question is this, is there any way I can convert the file to true ascii while it's still on my pc then copy it to floppy then copy it to linux, without the need to ftp the file between one system and the other? Thanks! Andre
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
The way to get rid of those ^M characters is to either transfer the files using ascii mode in ftp, or use the dtox program or dos2unix program or :%s/^V^M//g in vi, or a sed script or write a program or .. half a million ways to do the same thing (would recode do it? :) Thanks Seth, that's exactly the info I was looking for. My linux pc is not yet networked to my pc so I'm forced to transfer small via floppy for now. I will do a search for dtox and dos2unix. Looks like neither are a part of debian so I searched the net for them. Here's one solution from http://ume.med.ucalgary.ca/usenet/Linux/0053.html: save as dos2unix - #!/bin/sh sed 's/^M//' $1 --- save as unix2dos - #!/bin/sh sed 's/$/^M/' $1 --- Note that the `^M' has to be produced by pressing `Ctrl-V Ctrl-M' in vi, or `Ctrl-QCtrl-M' in emacs. Then you can do, e.g., `dos2unix unixfile dosfile' and `unix2dos unixfile dosfile'. - end -- Those look like perl scripts. If so it's just that I'm unfamiliar with the SED command that is throwing me off. I'll try each as a perl script anyways just to be sure. Andre p.s. Here is aother solution: cat filename | sed 's/^M//' -- I tried this one, it didn't convert the file, it ran the file (all of the print commands printed to screen. Afterwards I typed perl filename and same issue exists. I even tried this command and piped it with to create anew file still the same error message :(
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
At 11:20 AM 8/28/99 +, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: André Bell wrote: Thanks Seth, that's exactly the info I was looking for. My linux pc is not yet networked to my pc so I'm forced to transfer small via floppy for now. I will do a search for dtox and dos2unix. Looks like neither are a part of debian so I searched the net for them. You have fromdos which is on utils/sysutils package. Thanks Nuno, I thought dos2unix and dtox were exactly what I was looking for, I was wrong. 'fromdos' is what I was looking for. Thanks for telling me about it. 'fromdos' works better for me than the dos2unix commands. 'fromdos' actually removed the invalid characters in the file and now the file runs correctly. dos2unix didn't remove the characters. Thank again
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
dpkg -S dos2unix Thanks Wayne. Interesting that worked just fine but dselect then / searching for dos2unix turns up nothing. Is it common for dselect not to find specific items as requested or is there some other command I need to enter in order to get dselect to search and find the files I want? Thanks
Re: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
You can also use the search engine on the Debian website, at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be true anymore: Search The site we were using for our search engine has been taken down. Please be patient as we implement a new searching system - Debian's Webmasters I've tried accessing that thing for the past 4 months and come up with the same error.
RE: How convert PC text to UNIX ascii
NoteTab Pro is the text editor I use in Windows and it lets you save files in the Unix format. Have a look at: http://www.notetab.com -- Hello Bart, Thanks for the source. I already have some 3,000+ files which are already saved to my drive. I needed something that will convert those files instead of me having to open them and save as. I'll download notetab if it is open source and add it to my archives to prevent this from happening with future files I create. I will use fromdos for files that already exist on my pc and on files I download to my pc. Thanks
Re: apache/lynx problem - this is driving me crazy...
Probably should be www.one-click.com Look in /etc/lynx.cfg for a line that begins STARTFILE: and I think that will be the line you want to change. Beautiful!!! That was it! I couldn't figure out why apache would run without errors but lynx gave me errors everytime I tried starting it without a servername or hostname on the command line. Now I can just type lynx on the command and lynx starts up without any errors whatsoever. What really threw me is that I didn't configure the lynx conf file and didn't even know it existed until you posted. Seems lynx must have tried to make sense out of my mixed up configuration and came up with the www/one-click error all on its own. Now that I've edited that conf file lynx is good to go. Thank you very very much Patrick. I was about to give up on this and maybe try another less secure distribution of linux because I spent so many hours and didn't get anywhere with it (I figured I really must have screwed this distribution up royally). Now that apache is running and lynx is running ...That headache is over! Now to get Samba up and running correctly too and connect my two pc's and start testing scripts and browsers between theme. YEAH!!! :) Andre'
Found it!!! (Re: apache/lynx problem - this is driving me crazy...)
Alert! Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: can't startfile http://www/one-click.com I believe the error is the /www/one-click.com settings. This looks like an invalid http format. Unfortunately I cannot find the file which is controlling this. Any ideas which file is doing this? The file is access.conf It has a line which reads Directory /var/www looks like this might need to say Directory /var/oneclick in httpd.conf.
apache/lynx problem - this is driving me crazy...
httpd errors have been a week long problem and I thought everything was fine because there weren't any error messages when I typed apache on the command line. It wasn't until I actually tried using apache that I found out it wasn't running When I type apache I just get another line. No response, no errors, nada. When I type lynx localhost I get: Alert! Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: can't startfile http://localhost When I just type lynx I get: Alert! Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: can't startfile http://www/one-click.com When I type apachectl start I get: /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started I've re-run apacheconfig a million times and am stumped as to why I get these errors. I've also checked /etc/host and /etc/apache/httpd.conf to see if there is anything obvious that is wrong. i can't find the problem. Any ideas?? Andre'
Re: apache/lynx problem - this is driving me crazy...
When I just type lynx I get: Alert! Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: can't startfile http://www/one-click.com Ok, so now I figured out that part of these errors came from the virtualhost settings. Now that I've commented out all of the virtual host settings lynx now runs when I type lynx localhost. And when I type apachectl I now get a message saying httpd is already running. Yipee!!! Now to figure out which conf file is causing this error when I type lynx at the command line: Alert! Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: can't startfile http://www/one-click.com I believe the error is the /www/one-click.com settings. This looks like an invalid http format. Unfortunately I cannot find the file which is controlling this. Any ideas which file is doing this? Thanks
Got your own ISP? Wanted: scripts for web hosting
Any idea where I can download a good set of scripts for hosting and managing web sites on my apache server? I can't imaging re-inventing the wheel creating custom perl scripts for something that may already be available to thousands of ISP's around the world. I've found three commercial scripts that manage hosting, but they each lack an important feature or two. I'm looking for something that that will: ***automate adding new users accounts allow users to upload files from their browser or ftp client automate copying cgi templates into the new users cgi-bin (preferably automatically edit the scripts too) allow me to lock and/or remove accounts, restrict max size of uploaded files, etc and other general maintenance options Any idea of a script or unix application that can do this??? Thanks! Andre'
Re: DSL good enough to run a small server on?
Thanks Tom for the help. My phone company charges a $99 install fee and requires one to three year contracts to install dsl, modem included. The one thing they won't disclose in their literature or their web page is the monthly price :( Now I'll have to call them (listen to the hard sale) and find out if they have $4,000 per month in mind -- no thanks -- or something less. $4,000 per month just for a hook up, plus ISP fees, is way too expensive for what I have in mind. Thanks too for letting me know the ip address changes every 12 hours, that could be a real bugger. Andre' If you can get DSL and afford it do it! You should have no problem running a server off of it. I work for an internet company that offers DSL for corporate use (Bell Atlantic has not really made that technology availibale in upstatd NY yet). All of our DSL customers are running servers off of the connection. The one DSL install that I did was configured line from the DSL jack - DSL Modem - crossover cable - Win NT server - router - work stations You can though go DSL jack - modem - router - network of comptuers. I've heard that sometimes the phone company changes your IP address every 12hrs though which sort of makes it hard to run a server. You could always try to get a static IP but which I'm sure IF they offer will cost you a pretty penny :) Your best bet would be to go through a local ISP to get the service. They maybe able to get it to you cheaper and they have deal with all of the BS from the phone company and not you. Right now in the upstate NY area the price of DSL for a 8m line is $4999.00/ month (most of which is just the phone company charge for the line each month). In my experience it is more reliable than ISDN or Frame Realy. It is more secure than Cable. Most of all, it is FAST! Just my $.02
Re: Suggested GUI to apache and GUI to ftp?
At 01:59 AM 8/22/99 -0500, John Foster wrote: André Bell wrote: Do you have a suggested GUI for apache and ftp? see http://www.littleigloo.org/ for the slickest ftp GUI around it's shareware and worth every penny. Nice site. Looks like a real nice ftp program too. The only question I have (being new to linux) is which version do I download? All other linux downloads I've come across so far only had one version and one tar/gzip to download. Not three different linux versions as below. GLIBC2 distribution (for RedHat, Mandrake, Suse, Caldera, etc.) IglooFTP-PRO-0.9.1-linux-ix86-glibc2.tar.gz LIBC5 distribution (for Slackware) IglooFTP-PRO-0.9.1-linux-ix86-libc5.tar.gz RPM package (for RedHat, Mandrake, etc.) IglooFTP-PRO-0.9.1-1.i386.rpm I have a general idea that if I download the rpm package I will have to use a tool (like alien or RPM which are already installed on my system though never used) to convert rpm packages to debian friendly packages(?). If there are other tools that I should or must use please let me know. Though I'm completely unfamiliar with the other two packages (GLIBC2 LIBC5) so I have no clue what I need to do to make them debian-friendly. I'm guessing they are a form of the C programming language, which are not installed on my debian version. Hopefully I don't need to learn to program in C to be able to download and use the software. :( Thanks! Andre
Dselect question
Any way to get dselect to only show me the packages I have selected for installation, but not yet installed? I've scrole through and think I may have selected a couple of wrong packages and their dependent files at a conflict to my existing system. I'd hate to scroll through the entire list to find out which have astrixes and which do not. If displaying only the files I want installed is not an option how do i clear the entire list of selected packages without scrolling through one by one to unselect them? I've already tried clearing the choices with Q and X and R and D and ctrl-C. When I re-run dselect and do a search for those I know I selected, they are still selected. Obviously I'm entering the wrong commands... I just don't know what the correct keystrokes are. Thanks Andre'
Stumped! Where find resources for web hosting on apache?
I've spent over 30 hours searching the internet for resources for hosting web sites on my server and have come up empty. I've found well over 100,000 sites which are resellers of web hosting services and products on their servers. Unfortunately I cannot find more than four companies which sell software to host web sites on apache on my server. I'd prefer to use open source software but since I can't find any I'll probably have to buy one of these four I've found so far. $60 Webby Scripts http://w3.elonex.co.il/index-w.html $80 Webhome http://webhome.cyberscript.net/ $199.00 Vlinto http://www.customcgi.net/truevirtual $200 Homefree http://solutionscripts.com/vault/homefree/index.shtml I know no one who uses the above packages so I'm a little leary perl software there are no refunds. It seems hard to imagine there are only these four companies around the world who provide software of this kind. With the thousands of webmasters and isp's it seems there would be more competition for these dollars. I'm guessing there are more competitors and am guessing I just haven't found them yet. Any ideas of other resources for similar software? Thanks! Andre' ...A little frustrated with sitting in this same seat for all these hours and days with nothing more to show for the lost time.
Samba question
Ok, now I have samba running on my linux pc and I have apache up and running swell at localhost 127.0.0.1 My question is how do I get win95 on my other pc to recognize samba on my linux machine? Can I get away with ppp or slip via modems or serial cards or must I install my network cards at this time? I had hoped to wait a couple of weeks to install the cards et al because then I will buy and install the pentium to the linux machine and hoped to have both hardware issues out of the way the same day. In the meantime, is it now possible to get win95 to recognize linux via serial or modem connection? Andre'
Re: httpd: cannot determine local host name
What does hostname -f give you? Lindsay, you are absolutely correct. My hosts file is in /etc and my host.conf is in /etc/apache. I typed the wrong thing on the previous message (sleep deprivation...) So is it fixed? You do not answer my question. Well... in my httpd.conf file I've entered: virtualhost www.oneclick.com Serveradmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /var/www/oneclick ServerName oneclick ErrorLog /var/log/apache/oneclick/error.log TransferLog /var/log/apache/oneclick/access.log /VirtualHost To answer your question here's what I get when typing the following: hostname oneclick hostname -f oneclick Despite the above apache still says: [error] Cannot resolve host name www.oneclick.com --- ignoring! httpd: cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually. So I changed virtualhost www.oneclick.com to virtualhost oneclick and rebooted, and still get this when running apache: httpd: cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually At this point I have no idea what is causing the conflict. My /etc/hosts is this, 127.0.0.1 oneclick localhost, so it appears that's not the issue either. Any ideas? Thanks!
How determine all users logged into linux...
How do I determine all users who are logged into debain while they are logged in? I've finally gotten apache up and running currectly and have logged in locally as well as logged in via telnet under a different user name at the same time. Now I'd like to see each user, and ideally pick and choose who to log off without logging off other users. My Special Edition Using Linux doesn't tell how to log off a telnet'ed user. It only tells how to log oneself off. Thanks
Suggested GUI to apache and GUI to ftp?
Do you have a suggested GUI for apache and ftp? I'm very familiar with point and clicking/drag and dropping my way through ftp. Typing the millions of commands to access ftp seems time consuming when a simple drag and drop would do nicely. Special Edition Using Linux lists 72 commands for controlling ftp from the command line. I'm lazy, I'd rather point and click my way through ftp than type 72 different commands :)
Virtual hosting resource wanted
At http://www.flux.org/linux/mooney.html I came across all these Howto's for virtual hosting on apache: . http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/ip-based.html . http://www.apache.org/docs/vhosts/name-based.html . http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias.html . http://www.apacheweek.com/features/vhost.html . http://homepages.thespere.com/~dlp/TwoServers/ . http://www.nvg.ntnu.no/linux/HOWTO/WWW-HOWTO-7.html Any idea if there is a good one-book resource for this that I can carry around with me so I can figure out how to control such things as automated new user validation and account setup, automated configuring and installing standard cgi's to their cgi-bin, automated web space allocation/limits, etc etc.? I'd like to avoid having to manually create accounts for new users and avoid having to manually edit, copy, and set file permissions to cgi's over and over again each time a new account is created. I'd rather this as well as account creation/management be automated as well -- just like signing up online for any paid ISP account. Account validation and setup is automated on geocities, hypermart.net, thegrid.net, etc etc. I want to accomplish the same. Any ideas of a good resource? Thanks!
DSL good enough to run a small server on?
My local phone company sends me ads every week for a dsl account and I'm wondering if it is good enough to run a small server on since it is 24 hours direct connection and 50 times faster than 28k. Something about the pricing and the offer make it seem too good to be true. I'm thinking maybe dsl only allows one connection through one dsl modem instead of multiple connections that can be achieved through server/hub/router. I'm only guessing since I know nothing about dsl. Are there manholes I need to watch out for? Should I instead get a 4-8 port ethernet hub and digital lines and a partial t1 line whatever that is )I know what t1 is I don't know what a _partial_ t1 line is). I read about this at http://www.draper.net/RedHat-FAQ/DOCS/tips4.html Thanks! Andre' p.s. I'm not trying to create dial up access, I simply want to provide virtual domain web and ftp space to a targeted group of surfers via my server. Do I still need ports and hubs and routers for this?
Re: Easy way to determine where files are installed?
let me know if you need dns help... - the cheat way: use /etc/hosts on all machines that need to talk to you... - will need to know your dns server from your ISP.. - will need to know if you plan on being live or only when you are connected - will need to know if you want run virtual domains/hosts or not... - will need to know your machine name you assign vs what they assign you - caution: if you are running web server...you should have a static name ip# - independent of the above...you should be able to make your own server and play with all the various config files ( local to your server ) Hello Alvin, Yes I do need help but at this point I'm not sure what my needs are. For now I simply need/want to get my windows pc to communicate with my linux pc, preferably via tcp/ip to simulate an internet connection so i can run perl scripts on linux and see how they respond to my windows browsers which is on my pc I want networked to linux. My linux machine will not be accessed via the internet, the two pcs will be directly connected together for now. If I need dns for that then I need to know what steps to take next. If I don't need dns for that then great! After September/October I intend to connect this very same linux machine to the internet if all goes well. I will then give away free web space and ftp space to a targeted group of surfers. I know I will need dns at that time to handle the virtual hosts and all that... so eventually I will have to setup dns, but not now. My linux machine and modem are too slow right now for internet access and won't be upgraded until mid-september. I still want to test it while networked to my windows system. Thanks Andre
Re: How determine all users logged into linux...
the ways to see logged-in users: who w finger the only way to log off a user is to kill his/her shell you can see what pid a shell running on a certain vterminal has by running ps axf then kill a user's pid with kill pid-no hope this helps It certainly did. i also type ps by itself and ps aux and got different information. No idea what ps aux is for, I accidentally typed it and was surprised the typo actually was valid. Anyways, I logged on several different users and ps'ed and kill'ed them Thanks, now I know how to log off accounts when I telnet in and forget to log off. Andre
Re: httpd: cannot determine local host name
How do I give my local machine a host name? Try running hostname and hostname -f. If you get the same output i.e. no domain shown with hostname -f, then that is the problem. In my case I had an entry in /etc/hosts such as 192.168.1.1fred instead of the correct 192.168.1.1fred.my.domain.tld fred It took some finding... Hello Lindsay, I don't have a /etc/hosts. When I run hostname it says 'debian'. Same iwth hostname -f. Obviously this is my fault during setup. I'm sure I pressed the enter key without knowing full well what I was reading. Now, that being the case, how do I change my hostname AND give my server a name that apache will recognize? Thanks Andre
DNA required for intranet?
Apache tells me httpd: cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually. While I'm at it, is it necessary to setup a DNS in order to give a server a name? I've no intention of going online with this particular pc. Thanks. Andre'
Re: httpd: cannot determine local host name
Try running hostname and hostname -f. If you get the same output i.e. no domain shown with hostname -f, then that is the problem. In my case I had an entry in /etc/hosts such as 192.168.1.1 fred instead of the correct 192.168.1.1 fred.my.domain.tld fred Hello Lindsay, I don't have a /etc/hosts. I accidentally sent the above message. After I typed it I found hosts in /etc/apache and edited it to change my host name from debian to www.one-click.com. Now to find out how to setup a servername that apache will recognize... Thanks Andre
Possible to connect win95 to linux using ethernet boards?
I'd like to connect my win95 pc to my debian linux system via tcp/ip but don't know if there will be compatibility issues. In theory it seems it should work smoothly since we can connect all kinds of OS's via the internet. On the otherhand, connecting remote systems may not be as easy as dialing up via my isp. Anyways I figured I'd better ask before I spent the money just to find out different os's cannot connect in a lan or peer-to-peer environment. Thanks Andre'
Re: Possible to connect win95 to linux using ethernet boards?
At 07:12 PM 8/15/99 -0400, Aaron Solochek wrote: Well there is no doubt that both linux and windows use the same tcp/ip, the question is just what you want to do? you'll be able to use windows telnet and ftp to gain access to your debian box (assuming you're running telnetd and ftpd) and if you get ftp server software for windows you and ftp to the windows box. I don't think that samba will work over tcp/ip, someone correct me if I'm wrong. But what exactly are you trying to do? Are you setting up a LAN? Or are you trying to connect two machines at different locations via the internet? Thanks Aaron, Crazy as this may sound, I'm trying to simulate a local connection to my hosted domain so I can see how different perl scripts will react _before_ I add them to my hosted domain. I know i could simply ftp them to my hosted domain and then test them but that is a pain because it takes soo long to ftp files, access them with a browser to see if there are errors, edit the scripts, and re-ftp them all over again. Of course instead of connecting my two os's I could run netscape on my linux system as http://localhost and see how the scripts handle with netscape, but there are other browsers, etc that function differently. I want to to see how the other browsers respond to the scripts. Some scripts work just fine on one browser but return blank pages on another. Since not all perl instructions work in a win95 environment I can't test them on my win95 pc. Instead I have to run them on linux to get them to work locally, then ftp them to my domain to see how they respond to different browsers by accessing them with my win95 pc. At 56k connections FTP'ing files to test them online is a very slow process. I wish to avoid these hassles of ftp'ing the files to my hosted domain to find out if the scripts work properly with a variety of browsers when I can simply g connect my win95 pc to my linux pc and go for broke locally. I've considered purchasing that $299 software that allows me to virtually run multiple os's on the same linux platform and at the same time but I haven't found a recommendation from an actual user. Oh, m linux pc also has win95 installed so once I have networked the two pc's together I can hopefully play head-to-head games once in a while with the kids :) Andre'
httpd: cannot determine local host name
Apache tells me httpd: cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually. Now I know ServerName is not something I can run from the command line because I tried it. That means there must be something else I need to type on the command line after typing 'apache' to define a servername(?). Any ideas what I've missed? The answer isn't obvious in Que's Using Linux. There are four pages of stuff about DNS and IP addresses but nothing specific to giving a host name to an Intranet or local machine. Since they say DNS is 'notoriously hard to configure' and is used for resolving mnemonic names that represent hosts I'm guessing it's not the tool for giving a name to my local host. How do I give my local machine a host name? Andre' BTW, is there a good book for debian and packages which may be unique to debian?
Easy way to determine where files are installed?
) I've finished my admin install and apache install of debian and am trying to figure out where all the *.conf files are copied to so I can edit them. I've logged in as root and looked in /bin /boot /dev /etc /home /user /root and still cannot find httpd.conf so I can configure a host name for my new install so I can have apache up and running. I may be going about trying to configure my host all wrong. Maybe there is another file I need to edit to create a host name(?). So, I'd like to know where it is so I don't have to manually keep looking through 36,083 installed files to find it -- because I've probably overlooked it already... Thanks. Andre
Re: httpd: cannot determine local host name
At 11:06 PM 8/15/99 -0700, André Bell wrote: Apache tells me httpd: cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually. Now I know ServerName is not something I can run from the command line because I tried it. That means there must be something else I need to type on the command line after typing 'apache' to define a servername(?). Any ideas what I've missed? The answer isn't obvious in Que's Using Linux. I'm guessing I need to type something into the httpd.conf file. Maybe something like: Virtualhost www.one-click.com DocumentRoot /www/htdocs/one-click.com ServerName www.one-click.com /Virtualhost The problem is I can't find that httpd.conf file. I've no idea where it resides on the drive to find out if the above is the correct info I need to type in the file to make apache work properly. Thanks
Re: Easy way to determine where files are installed?
At 11:54 PM 8/15/99 -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: hi andre... easiest way to find files... root# find / -name http.conf -ls root# find /usr /etc -name http.conf -ls ( if you suspect it in /etc or /usr ) Alvin, for some reason find did not find the httpd.conf file that way. I eventually found it in /etc/apache after double checking manually. Thanks for the info about dns needing to be configured, now that I've edited httpd.conf I will try to setup dns to work. I didn't realize I needed it. Thanks again. Andre'
Re: Easy way to determine where files are installed?
I don't have apache installed, but I would think that the conf file would be in /etc. Thanks Mark, since you pointed me in the right direction I eventually found it in /etc/apache. Now to edit it and then add a DNS server. Andre
Re: Possible to connect win95 to linux using ethernet boards?
If you're talking about vmware, I really like it. It's pretty sluggish on my P5-233 with 64MB RAM when I've got WinNT4.0 Workstation running, and especially so when I've got Netscape running also (on the Linux side). Yep, that's the one I was referring to. Didn't know it was so sluggish though. I was thinking of installing it on my 486 but not now that I read your comments. maybe I'll switch my os's around and install debian on my p2 and win95 on my 486... naw, either way is slow. Sounds like I will need a second p2 to make use of vmware. :( I see they have it available for students at $99 and a non-supported downloadable version for win2000. Since it's only 3megs I think I will check it out tomorrow. Thanks
Host config tool? (Re: httpd: cannot determine local host name)
you do need to how to properly setup your DNS for your machine... its a pain or 5 minutes of work... most distro have a config tool that asks you the machine name, ip# and domain name etc...use their tool... Anyone know what tool debian provides for this? I installed apache using dselect and it didn't prompt me for a host name or IP#. Thanks. Andre
Is dpkg unique to debian?
I just bought QUE's Special Edition Using Linux and there is no mention of dpkg in its index or table of contents. Bummer... I've typed 'dpkg --help' and still don't understand what I need to input so that apache installs. I've installed the admin package by running boot.bat and following the prompts and now would like to install apache and a few other web server packages. Unfortunately when signed in as root I get errors when I type dpkg --install apache and dpkg apache and errors with dpkg -apache. I'm obviously doing something wrong. Any ideas what I need to type to install apache? Deslect is supposed to be more user friendly but it seems deselect requires more effort to get to the item I want installed. Thanks. Andre' p.s. Oh, the error says 'Cannot access archive: No such file or directory Errors were encountered while processing'
Installing admin packages
For the past 12 hours I've been waiting for debian (slink) to install the admin packages to an ancient and very slow 486. Is there a way to make debian automatically install all of the admin packages without me having to answer yes/no to different applications as they install? It would be nice if there were a way to enter my choices upfront on one or more screens and have everything istall automatically. Seems there should be a better way to install than to answer each of these questions as a package is installed: Yes make sash the default for root My news server is My default URL is... Etc etc etc Since I have to wait for the package to begin installing to answer the prompts it slows down everything else, especially if I'm away from my office when slink gets to that point. Since it waits for me to answer the prompts that means the entire installation process stops. Too bad it can't just install everything that doesnt need an answer and then install everything else, or the other way around... Anyhow, if you know of a way I can start installing and not have to do anything until all applications are installed please let me know. It could save me some time the next time I reinstall. Thanks Andre' p.s. I know I know... if I installed it to my fast p2 system it wouldn't take over 12 hours to install 577mb of files. The slink is for testing for now and maybe later place the server online.
How set desktop/resolution for xwindows?
How do I set the resolution for xwindows applications? I know with win95 I just right click on the desktop and resize it. But with my debian installation my applications are too large for the screen and I have to scroll up, down, left, and right to see the rest of the screen -- what a pain! I've tried formatting and repartioning and reinstalling debian to see if I missed a step during installation and I can't figure what I setup incorrectly. Please help. Thanks!
Re: How set desktop/resolution for xwindows?
How do I set the resolution for xwindows applications? I know with win95 I just right click on the desktop and resize it. But with my debian installation my applications are too large for the screen and I have to scroll up, down, left, and right to see the rest of the screen -- what a pain! I've tried formatting and repartioning and reinstalling debian to see if I missed a step during installation and I can't figure what I setup incorrectly. Please help. Oh, I want the entire desktop to show on the screen without having to scroll all over the place to see portions of the screen
Re: What software to use for setting up an ISP web server on debian?
Hi Patrick Kirk, you wrote on 7/17/99 4:20:11 PM: http://opensrc.org/dlite/dlite.html is a debian for ISPs distro. Thanks Patrick, I'll start comparing what is in the distro with what I've already installed to see if I have those packages already. I've installed of debian 2.1 (except for packages that caused conflicts with other packages) and hopefully I already have everything I need. I just don't know enough to know :) If I don't have those packages I will download them and install them. Thanks again! Andre' p.s. Anyone know how to give a pc an ip address on an intranet? I serial connected two pc's using microsoft's direct connect and now would like to connect the two pcs with network cards, one running windows and the web server running debian. I've read that it's possible to have multiple operating systems accessing the same resources through ppp and mgetty but I think I need to give the web server an ip addresses in order for the windows pc to be able access the web server on the debian system once the web server is set up(?). Or maybe I misread the articel... - Original Message - From: André Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, 17 July 1999 20:28 Subject: What software to use for setting up an ISP web server on debian? Do you know where I can find information which explains how to setup a commercial web server on debian? I want to setup a server which gives away free web space and have the server automate installation of a few custom scripts. What I'm looking for is information which explains which software registers new members and automates installation of approved perl scripts to the new user's cgi-bin and other subdirectories that I've decided on. I don't really need nor want the information dealing with dial up access, server/routers, newsfeeds, etc. I found a lot of that info already and it isn't what I've been looking for. What am I looking for? Well, if you've signed up for an ISP online and have accessed your ftp area or have worked with cgi you know that your ISP created one or more subdirectories which have several approved scripts in your cgi-bin, ftp, or other areas of your web space. Often those scripts are automatically edit with the new user's web space path and/or URL. I figure if others are doing this then I should also be able to have a new user sign up online and have debian automatically create their account and install the scripts before or after editing the scripts with the new users URL and ftp host address and the new users remote directory that was just created for them. I could edit these scripts manually after someone signed on but if this free services gets any kind of volume it would be impossible for me to manually edit the scripts each time someone signs up. The computer can do this far more efficiently than me, if I knew how to make it do it. :( I've done considerable online research to determine how to create an ISP on Linux and unfortunately am still stumped. I cannot find the information which explains which software controls automating an ISP or which software automates web space setup, including script installation. Do you know what software to use and how to accomplish auto installing scripts for the new user? Thanks! Andre p.s. I've found two software programs which allow creating web space on my server for others to sign up for. The programs range from $60 - $150.00. Neither can install scripts written by other authors FyI, here are the sites: http://www.ukwebs.com/webscripts/webnow.htm http://www.perlpalace.com/ultrahome/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?
Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off debian tells me at bootup that devices were not unmounted properly. I don't use any commands to shutdown debian, I just use the on/off switch when I'm finished. Apparantly that is a bad idea. I'm guessing there must be a way to get debian to shutdown properly so I don't have to wait for everything to uncompress and unmount before it can boot up again(?). If so, what is the command to shutdown? Or is it simply cntrl/alt/del to cause debian to stop everything from running and then turn it off at memory checking? That's the only way I know how to avoid error messages that say the system was not properly unmounted. Thanks Andre'
What software to use for setting up an ISP on debian?
Do you know where I can find information which explains how to setup an ISP on debian? What I'm looking for is information which explains which software to run to automate registration of new members and automate installation of approved scripts to the new user's cgi-bin and other subdirectories. I don't really need nor want the information dealing with dial up access, server/routers, newsfeeds, etc. I found a lot of that info already and it isn't what I've been looking for. What am I looking for? Well, if you've signed up for an ISP online and have accessed your ftp area or have worked with cgi you know that your ISP created one or more subdirectories which have several approved scripts in your cgi-bin, ftp, or other areas of your web space. Often those scripts are automatically edit with the new user's path to his ftp and/or new www area. I want to be able to accomplish the same thing. That is, I want to be able to have a new user sign up online and have linux automatically create their account on my server, and then have linux automatically install additional scripts that I have approved. No use in me manually editing the scripts each time someone signs up because the computer can do it far more efficiently. I've done considerable online research to determine how to create an ISP on Linux and unfortunately am still stumped. I cannot find the information which explains which software controls automating an ISP or which software automates web space setup, including script installation. Do you know what software to use and how to accomplish auto installing scripts for the new user? Thanks! Andre p.s. I've found two software programs which allow creating web space on my server for others to sign up for. The programs range from $60 - $150.00. Neither can install scripts written by other authors :( FyI, here are the sites: http://www.ukwebs.com/webscripts/webnow.htm http://www.perlpalace.com/ultrahome/
What software to use for setting up an ISP web server on debian?
Do you know where I can find information which explains how to setup a commercial web server on debian? I want to setup a server which gives away free web space and have the server automate installation of a few custom scripts. What I'm looking for is information which explains which software registers new members and automates installation of approved perl scripts to the new user's cgi-bin and other subdirectories that I've decided on. I don't really need nor want the information dealing with dial up access, server/routers, newsfeeds, etc. I found a lot of that info already and it isn't what I've been looking for. What am I looking for? Well, if you've signed up for an ISP online and have accessed your ftp area or have worked with cgi you know that your ISP created one or more subdirectories which have several approved scripts in your cgi-bin, ftp, or other areas of your web space. Often those scripts are automatically edit with the new user's web space path and/or URL. I figure if others are doing this then I should also be able to have a new user sign up online and have debian automatically create their account and install the scripts before or after editing the scripts with the new users URL and ftp host address and the new users remote directory that was just created for them. I could edit these scripts manually after someone signed on but if this free services gets any kind of volume it would be impossible for me to manually edit the scripts each time someone signs up. The computer can do this far more efficiently than me, if I knew how to make it do it. :( I've done considerable online research to determine how to create an ISP on Linux and unfortunately am still stumped. I cannot find the information which explains which software controls automating an ISP or which software automates web space setup, including script installation. Do you know what software to use and how to accomplish auto installing scripts for the new user? Thanks! Andre p.s. I've found two software programs which allow creating web space on my server for others to sign up for. The programs range from $60 - $150.00. Neither can install scripts written by other authors :( FyI, here are the sites: http://www.ukwebs.com/webscripts/webnow.htm http://www.perlpalace.com/ultrahome/
Free web site software...?
Do you know of software I can install to my server which will allow me to provide free web pages? I need something that will automatically install perl scripts I have in mind, so those who sign up for the free site do not have to configure the scripts. What would be ideal is an open source solution that allows anyone to sign up online without me having to manually manage their accounts for them. The site would function sort of like hypermart.net and www.geocities.com as far as free sign ups go. The software must 1) provide users access to setup and manage their own web sites without my help, 2) must automatically setup perl scripts I've pre-defined for each user (each script needs to be edited with their web address and email address, etc. - I don't want to manually set these up for each free web site). Any idea what software allows this or does debian already have all the tools I need to accomplish this? Thanks! Andre' P.s. Next I will check out each of the sites here to see if they have the software that I need: http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=qwhat=webfmt=.q=%2Blinux+%2Bst art+your+own+isp
Display issues
Everytime I run anything from the command line that requires x I get one of these errors: - unable to open display - cannot connect to X server I can run startx just fine. I don't get display errors there at all. But if I type xhost, xtv, or any other x application from the command line I get one of the above error messages. I've changed my xf86config file several times to select vga and svga displays as well as cycled through the cards, and still I get those errors. Maybe the display errors are unrelated to xf86config setup(?). Any ideas how I can get these applications to run from the command line without those error messages popping up? Thanks! Andre
Re: Shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember?
You start with foo.tar.gz gunzip foo.tar.gz Now you have a file called foo.tar which should be much larger than foo.tar.gz was. tar -xvf foo.tar Now all the files are extracted from foo.tar As others have said, you can do this all in one step with tar -zxvf foo.tar.gz. In general, files that end in .tgz or .tar.gz are gziped tar archives while files that just end in .gz are really just one file. Thanks Ray and all, This was exactly the case. Though the unarchived file didn't have an extension after I ran gunzip it turned out to be a tar file. Once I ran tar -xvf on the file it uncompressed just fine. Now I have all the files I could see with winzip. Andre' ...now if I can only figure out which of the hundreds of files is the executable...
Re: Display issues
Just to make sure I understand, you mean I need to, 1) run startx (which for me launches fvwm) 2) start xterm from within fvwm 3) open the hidden file $HOME/.xinitrc and edit the xterm line 4) then try to run the X programs from within fvwm? I was hoping to avoid using fvwm because it takes so long to load on a 486, let alone launch another program within fvwm. I waited a half an hour for a game to load -- don't want to do that again... Is there a way to launch x programs work from the command line instead? Andre p.s. I don't have a $HOME/.xinitrc nor a /usr/.xinitrc = Brant Wells wrote: Howdy :) You need to start up a xterm session after you run startx. Do this by going into your $HOME/.xinitrc file and add a line in there somewhere before your window manager (usually the last line) to the effect of xterm and then try to run those programs after you get into X.
Shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember?
Is there a good shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember all the operators? I ask because I must be doing something wrong. When I ungzip file.gz the system converts my .gz file to one file with no extension instead of unzipping the file and all of its contents. I know there are multiple files in the gzips that I look at because I can view all of the compressed files when I view the contents of the gzip file on my pc, just not with gzip on linux :( If you knoww why this happens and know what I need to do to work around it please let me know. Thanks! Andre' p.s. If the files are small enough when uncompressed I just uncompress them and then copy to a floppy before moving everything over to my debian/linux system. Seems there's gotta be a better way :( I'd use my modem in the debian pc but I'm only running a 486 there and it is terribly slow at downloading :( So I download with my pc and trasnfer via floppies.
Shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember?
Is there a good shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember all the operators? I ask because I must be doing something wrong. When I ungzip file.gz the system converts my .gz file to one file with no extension instead of unzipping the file and all of its contents. I know there are multiple files in the gzips that I look at because I can view all of the compressed files when I view the contents of the gzip file on my pc, just not with gzip on linux :( If you knoww why this happens and know what I need to do to work around it please let me know. Thanks! Andre' p.s. If the files are small enough when uncompressed I just uncompress them and then copy to a floppy before moving everything over to my debian/linux system. Seems there's gotta be a better way :( I'd use my modem in the debian pc but I'm only running a 486 there and it is terribly slow at downloading :( So I download with my pc and trasnfer via floppies.
Norton Commander for Linux?
Is there an equivalent tool for Linux which resembles Norton Commander's dual window interface? I'd like to be able to see an entire subdirectory's files on my screen and be able to launch those I want simply by double clicking on them. Maybe one of the xserver programs does this(?) Also, have you found a place which lists screenshots of its programs so I can decide at a glance if I want to download them or not? Also, which of the xserver programs I currently have installed offers a GUI without eating up too much of my precious 16megs of ram? Thanks! Andre' Andre'
Any danger in dselecting emacs packages?
I've been reading a lot online that emacs takes up a lot of space and sometimes causes strange things to happen on the screen and within debian's setup. One online message jokingly hinted that maybe microsoft created emacs due to the multiple issues that occur when running emacs. I plan on networking my pc linux as well as play games, play music software, run perl scripts remotely, and run a pbtv card in the system. With that in mind, do you know if there any dangers in me running dselect on emacs packages? Are there any disadvantages to not having emacs installed in my system? Thanks! Andre'
Re: Apps For Debian?
Here's a LARGE link to 1,370 debian files/apps via hotbot search (many of them are at www.debian.org). You may need to cut and paste the URL below if it is altered by my email writer before reaching you: http://hotbot.com/?clickSrc=searchMT=submit=SEARCHSM=MCLG=anyAM0=MCAT0 =wordsAW0=AM1=MNAT1=wordsAW1=savenummod=2date=withinDV=0DR=newerDM= 1DD=1DY=98FSU=1FS=.debRD=RGRG=allDomain=PS=APD=DC=10DE=2_v=2OPs =MDRTPNUMMOD=2 Here's an html link to the same place if html links are supported: a href=http://hotbot.com/?clickSrc=searchMT=submit=SEARCHSM=MCLG=anyAM0= MCAT0=wordsAW0=AM1=MNAT1=wordsAW1=savenummod=2date=withinDV=0DR=new erDM=1DD=1DY=98FSU=1FS=.debRD=RGRG=allDomain=PS=APD=DC=10DE=2_v =2OPs=MDRTPNUMMOD=2 1,370 debian files via hotbot search/a
8 Newbie Questions
I just installed debian about three days ago and have several questions about navigating within debian and about accessing devices. If you can help me with one or more of these questions it would be greatly appreciated as I am growing a bit frustrated with not knowing what I am doing :) 1) How do I move from one partitioned drive to another? How do I know the drive letters to use too? 2) How do I copy files from my floppy drive to my partitioned debian drive? 3) Why does debian say 'only the root can do that' when I type the line below: $ mount /dev/fd0 (or any other floppy drive) I can't cd /dev/fd0 nor can I figure out how to access it. 4) How can i get a network connection or simulated network connection between my win95 pc debin pc via serial or via their modems? Windows allows direct connect with other windows pc, what can I use with debian? 5) How determine hardware which is functioning properly and how determine which kernels need to be removed or changed? I know with windows I had device manager and msd.exe. What do I have with debian? 6) How change kernels once I know the above? I'd like to remove the devices that I installed to the kernels during inital installation of debian but don't actually have in my system yet. I also want to add a new serial card since I never set one up when I installed debian. The new serial card is now in the pc. I don't know how to do this after the fact. I type 'setserial' and a bunch of stuff scrolls by that doesn't make sense to me yet. 7) Why can't I access my floppy after booting from it? I have /floppy on my system. I can see it by cd / and then typing ls. When I cd to /floppy and then try to write to it I get 'permission denied'. I read from it without error messages, it appears to be an empty directory. I can't access either of my physical floppy drives attached to my system when I read from it with ls commands and /dev/fd(x). 8) Do I have to regularly compile my own linux software? Aren't binaries available like with dos and windows? So much linux software on the net that I've seen isn't in binary format, it's rpm or plain source format. Is this standard for linux software? Can I use these with debian 2.1? * I hope you don't think I just posted without looking for the answers online. I've visited over 500 sites online, I've downloaded 40+ apps but can't use them because they are stuck on my win95 system or floppies, tried to access 'man man' to read the manual (but get an error can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config), I've read the help menu by typing 'help' and then hitting CONTROL-Z to stop it from scrolling off the screen and then type each command to see if I can figure out what they do, and still haven't found the answers to my questions. I hope you can help. Thanks in advance! Andre p.s. I've already downloaded mtools but since I can't copy the mtools files from the floppy to my partitioned debian drive, I'm stuck!!! My debian pc seems to be up and running just fine, I just can't do this or any other commands to the floppy: $ ls -a /dev/fp0 The floppy disk drive light doesn't even light up on when entering commands. This indicates that maybe the drive is not mounted properly in my linux system (I'm guessing), though I boot into my linux system from floppy just fine. :( ¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥« Attention Web Designers and Internet Marketing Professionals! Increase your Internet Profits Without Marketing Risks Go to http://www.one-click.com a href=http://www.one-click.com;http://www.one-click.com/a
xwindows wanted
Is xwindows already installed on my system when I installed debian 2.1? I can't seem to find it by cd / and then reading the subdirectories from there. If it's not there, where can I download it from? I've visited over 500 sites over the last week looking for it and I'll I can find are programs which require xwindows and people who are trying to sell me stuff -- I've obviously looked at the wrong 500 sites :( Can you help?!? Thanks! Andre
Re: bash functions
Does bash contain a pause feature other than control-z?
When I type 'help' the screen scrolls past and control-z doesn't stop the
top few lines from scrolling away before I can read them. with dos I'd
just type 'dir /p' or type 'filename |more'
Are there equivalent set of commands for bash?
Thanks!
Andre'
At 10:27 PM 5/7/99 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Reply-To:
While doing some reading, I came across a section regarding adding functions
to .bash_profile like this
tarc () { tar -cvzf $1.tar.gz $1 }
but whenever I try to source the .bash_profile I get syntax error, unexpected
EOF messages. The article was old and I assume that bash no loger supports
this syntax, I messed around with this quite a bit and can't seem to make it
work. Can anyone offer me advice on this subject? I think these functions
would be quite handy.
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Re: 8 Newbie Questions
Peter Makholm wrote: There is no such thing as drive letters. Partitions are mounted around in the directory structure and you move around just like on any other directory. Either you mount it (on /floppy) or uses mcopy from the mtools package. Read some book about unix. I'm very sorry but you seem rather clueless on some fundemental stuff and then its hard to help. Yes, I'm clueless about linux basics. I'm three days into my installation of linux and have never seen it nor any unix operating system before now. I've been using pc's since they came out (70's onward). The funny thing is, I'm a pc tech support person working for a multi-billion fortune 200 company and I assumed that linux would work as many other computer systems work, i.e. with drive assignments. (Cocky Translation: 'If it's on a pc I can figure it out'. I've been humbled...) I know dos and windows and thousands of applications extremely well. I don't know linux other than what shows up when I type 'help' and what i've gleaned by perusing the linux newsgroups and linux web pages. Lots of stuff there that doesn't apply to navigating or altering kernels. Since I just installed linux a few days ago from my debian 2.1 cd there will be a slight learning curve during this week. One way or another I'll know linux well enough in less than a week that I can teach others how to install, navigate, and change the setup of their linux... I know computers I just don't know linux's command structure and syntax, yet. Once i start navigating I'm gonna take my linux apart kernel by kernel and see what makes it tick. Then I'll no longer be clueless. For now I can only associate what I know of other operating systems with linux. I've read a ton of sites, and none that I've come across so far are written well enough to go from install to expert. They waste a lot of words and tell very little about navigating about linux and very little about controlling linux kernels. They all assume that since I already installed linux I must know how to use linux. I think I just got lucky installing debian -- others say it's a challenging installation and it's running on my pc... sort of :) Like most pc instructions, the sites I've come across so far seem written for those who already know what to do with the information. One of my 'favorite' sites explained how to copy from a floppy. It 'said' copy some files from a floppy but didn't tell 'how'. They also said to copy mtools to your partitioned drive and then run mtools commands from there using drive assignments like a:, c:, etc. The assumption was that I already knew how to copy the files to the drive using Linux. Now if I knew that I wouldn't have searched for [+linux +how to copy files from a floppy] :) Anyhow, that's why I asked for help here (btw thanks for your detailed help. I figured I'd be lucky to get a reply to just one of my questions, you gave an answer to looks like each question I asked). Now I'm going to try to play with linux and see if I can get it to recognize my floppy and allow me to copy files to the system so I can run lots more stuff... Edit you /etc/fstab and put auto as an option in the line mentioning /dev/fd0. Please read man fstab first. I must have installed something incorrectly because 'man fstab' says: can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config When I cd /etc and then type ls manpath.*, it shows manpath.config.dpkg-new I'm guessing this means the installation was interrupted or is this the same as manpath.config just with extra extensions? Thanks very much for your help!!! Andre' ... headed back to http://www.debian.org Read a book? Is that a text file or pdf?
Re: xwindows wanted
It probally is. (I don't remember what a standard installation looks like.) Try looking at /usr/X11R6/ Before using Xwindow you need to configure it. You could do this with /usr/X11R6/XF86Setup or /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86configure. Thanks again Peter. Yes, I have /usr/X11R6 but the only subdirectores inside of it are bin include lib man None of them have a setup or xf86configure executable file :( There is a setup.tcl buried deep into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/dotfile/Generator but that is it as far as setup files go. Andre'
Re: 8 Newbie Questions
If you really really really need something that aint packaged for debian please say so. Probally others needs it as well. U ... not true. I've come across a lot of software I'd like that isn't in .deb packages anywhere - or the packages are poorly maintained, like the KDE ones. Am I just not looking hard enough? Thanks Bill for the perspective. Since I don't know much about RPM's and the like that after the last comment I thought maybe I'm gonna be stuck with the ability only to use apps found at www.debian.org I'm glad that's not the case because that would defeat the purpose of opensource software. Maybe he meant that the files found to be most reliable and require least compiling with debian are found at debian.org Thanks again. Andre'
Re: xwindows wanted
login to your system and type XF86Setup, this will take you through the graphical X setup. After your done you can just type startx to run X. I type XF86Setup and it says bash: XF86Setup: command not found :( Maybe I need to reinstall debian ??? I'm getting a lot of 'bash: command: command not found' messages even for stuff that IS in the subdirectories. Maybe they need to be in /usr to be found??? Andre
Re: bash functions
William R Pentney wrote: However, the less command is more powerful - it lets you move back and forth through the file, search it, etc: Type man less for more info. I must have installed something incorrectly because 'man less' says: can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config When I 'cd /etc' and then type ls manpath.*, it shows manpath.config.dpkg-new I'm guessing this means the installation was interrupted or is this the same as manpath.config just with extra extensions but am not sure(?). Also, less isn't in my system. I type less and get: bash: less: command not found Andre'
Thanks to You All! (Re: 8 Newbie Questions)
Thanks all for the help. Seems after reading all the suggestions and linux/debian commands you posted I found that not all of the packages installed the first time through (some of the subdirectories are empty and files are missing elsewhere). My paths weren't correct either. I'm now running dselect and having it install the uninstalled packages and will go from there to copy my files from floppies, navigate within the separate partitions to create the subdirectories and programs I want, and connect my win95 system to my linux system so I can transfer files easily and play multiplayer games against the kids... er test my perl scripts remotely prior to uploading to my domain. =^) After reinstalling the uninstalled packages and getting everything running I'll post the results. Thanks again for all the help! Andre'
Thanks to You All! (Re: 8 Newbie Questions)
Thanks all for the help. Seems after reading all the suggestions and linux/debian commands you posted I found that not all of the packages installed the first time through (some of the subdirectories are empty and files are missing elsewhere). My paths weren't correct either. I'm now running dselect and having it install the uninstalled packages and will go from there to copy my files from floppies, navigate within the separate partitions to create the subdirectories and programs I want, and connect my win95 system to my linux system so I can transfer files easily and play multiplayer games against the kids... er test my perl scripts remotely prior to uploading to my domain. =^) After reinstalling the uninstalled packages and getting everything running I'll post the results. Thanks again for all the help! Andre'
