Japanese input method without Japanese interface?
Hi. I'm trying to set up X so that I can input Japanese characters (kanji, etc.) in applications like Mozilla, without the necessity to have the interface itself in Japanese. To this end, I used `set-language-env' from the `language-env' package to set up a Japanese environment in .Xresources and .xsession using kinput2 and canna. The result (as expected) was that I could now input kanji with shift+space, but the interface was now in Japanese as well. To get the interface back to English, I then modified .xsession so that LANG is unset after the kinput2 daemon is started. Unfortunately, this also had the effect of disabling Japanese input; shift+space doesn't do anything anymore. Is there a way to get an English interface with the ability to input Japanese characters? Thanks, Ben. -- Peter Seebach on managing engineers: It's like herding cats, only most of the engineers are already sick of laser pointers.
Re: french hyphenation patterns
Jitse Niesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Feb 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote: I'm currently trying to figure out how to typeset French properly with LaTeX under Debian. Most everything seems to work properly [...] However, hyphenation doesn't come out correctly. I get the following output from TeX: [...] Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for (babel)the language `French' (babel)I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead. [...] You need to build a new so-called format file which includes the hyphenation patterns for French. To do so, run the program 'texconfig' (as root), choose the option hyphen and uncomment the line about French, ie. remove the percent sign in front of the lines: french frhyphen =patois All should fine afterwards. Please feel free to ask if the above is not clear or does not work. Thanks for the suggestion. When I go to do this, I find that there are similar lines already in the file: % French, TWO lines! french frhyph.tex =patois So I modified the whitespace in the file a little to force texconfig to rebuild the formats. It then did rebuild them. However, even then hyphenation doesn't work properly--I still get the same error message as above. Just to see if it would make a difference, I downgraded the tetex packages to the latest stable versions (I normally run bleeding-edge unstable) but nothing changed. Any further suggestions? -- There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be. --Orson Scott Card, _Ender's Game_
french hyphenation patterns
[CCs appreciated, I'm not subscribed to debian-user.]
I'm currently trying to figure out how to typeset French properly with
LaTeX under Debian. Most everything seems to work properly if I use
something like the following for my LaTeX file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{t1enc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\begin{document}
Insensiblement nous tombons dans des situations périlleuses, dont nous
pouvions aisément nous garantir, mais dont nous ne pouvons plus nous
tirer sans des efforts héroïques qui nous effaryent, et nous tombons
enfin dans l'abîme en disant à Dieu : Pourquoi m'as-tu fait si
faible ? Mais malgré nous il répond à nos consciences : Je t'ai
fait trop faible pour sortir du gouffre, parce que je t'ai fait assez
for pour n'y pas tomber.
\end{document}
However, hyphenation doesn't come out correctly. I get the following
output from TeX:
blp:~/frn420(0)$ latex \\nonstopmode\\input explication.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
LaTeX2e 1999/12/01 patch level 1
Loading CZ hyphenation patterns: Pavel Sevecek, v3, 1995
Loading SK hyphenation patterns: Jana Chlebikova, 1992
(explication.tex (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1999/09/10 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/switch.def))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)the language `French'
(babel)I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0
instead.
)) (explication.aux) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/cyrillic/ot2wncyr.fd) [1]
(explication.aux) )
Output written on explication.dvi (1 page, 768 bytes).
Transcript written on explication.log.
The No hyphenation patterns were loaded for the language `French' is
the part that worries me. I've consulted the documentation on this
issue, but it seems to say that if `french' is turned on in
/etc/texmf/language.dat (which it certainly seems to be) then French
hyphenation patterns should get loaded.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ben.
--
Whoever you are -- SGI, SCO, HP, or even Microsoft -- most of the
smart people on the planet work somewhere else.
--Eric S. Raymond
Re: Cc: to poster (was Re: OT: less v. more...)
Gerfried Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I assume that Bolan is on the list? And Ben, are you on -user? See, the thing is, I didn't start this thread of discussion and I'm not at all interested in a rehash of this topic. And what's more, I already asked on debian-user to be dropped from CC:'s. So, if you'd just not email me any more about it, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Ben.
Re: Cc: to poster (was Re: OT: less v. more...)
Frankly, I'd appreciate it if you guys would stop CC:'ing *me* in this discussion, which is *way* sidetracked from what I wrote.
Re: Gnus broken by Emacs upgrade!!
Ian Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After I did the upgrade today to Emacs 20.6-2, this happens whenever I try to run Gnus: Yes, I got the same thing. A stopgap measure that worked for me was to go into /usr/share/emacs/20.6/lisp/gnus and delete all the .elc files, leaving only the corresponding .el files. Apparently compiling these files triggers a bug. (You will have to make sure you have emacs20-el installed first, of course.) I didn't report this as a bug because I assumed that it was my own problem. But I guess that it's not if others are having the same trouble.
Re: scsi
webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this linux support the NCR 53C710 scsi chip ? Not in general. Only 53c8xx are supported on all archs. 53c7xx is supported on Linux/m68k in particular; ISA and PCI versions are definitely not supported.
Re: left hand mouse in X
Fabrizio Polacco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there anybody who can tell me how to invert the buttons of the mouse under X? From xmodmap(1): Many pointers are designed such that the first button is pressed using the index finger of the right hand. People who are left-handed frequently find that it is more com- fortable to reverse the button codes that get generated so that the primary button is pressed using the index finger of the left hand. This could be done on a 3 button pointer as follows: % xmodmap -e pointer = 3 2 1
Possible NFS/mountd compromise?
[CC:'s are appreciated; I am not subscribed to debian-user. Thanks!] I got the followed logged in my /var/log/syslog today. It looks to me like a buffer overflow attack of some kind (character is `no operation' in x86 assembly language). Does anyone know of a vulnerability in mountd to this sort of thing? I think that the attack failed since it says `Blocked attempt' at least on the second one. Is there a reliable way to tell whether the attempt succeeded? I am running the latest potato as of yesterday, so everything on the system is the latest version. Thanks, Ben Jan 31 18:26:41 pfaffben 29Jan 31 18:26:41 mountd[355]: NFS mount of 3Û3À°^[Í3Ò3ÀÚ°^FÍ0Þ¢1uô1À°^BÍ,[EMAIL PROTECTED](Bubëb^V¬ýt^FþÀt^Këõ°0þÈFÿëì^°^B^FþÈF^D°^FF^H°f1ÛþÃ(IqÍ(B^F°^BfF^L°*fF^NF^LF^D1ÀF^P°^PF^H°fþÃÍ01^AF^D°f³^DÍ0Ë1^DëLëR1ÀF^DF^H°fþÃÍ,HC°([EMAIL PROTECTED]@F^D1ÀF^Gv^HF^L°^K(Is(BN^HV^LÍ1À°^A1ÛÍ0È1EýÿPrivet ADMcrew(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H( Jan 31 18:26:41 pfaffben ^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H attempted from 129.247.106.135 Jan 31 18:26:41 pfaffben syslogd: Cannot glue message parts together Jan 31 18:26:41 pfaffben mountd[355]: NFS client anon clnt tried to access 3Û3À°^[Í3Ò3ÀÚ°^FÍ0Þ¢1uô1À°^BÍ,[EMAIL PROTECTED](Bubëb^V¬ýt^FþÀt^Këõ°0þÈFÿëì^°^B^FþÈF^D°^FF^H°f1ÛþÃ(IqÍ(B^F°^BfF^L°*fF^NF^LF^D1ÀF^P°^PF^H°fþÃÍ01^AF^D°f³^DÍ0Ë1^DëLëR1ÀF^DF^H°fþÃÍ,HC°([EMAIL PROTECTED]@F^D1ÀF^Gv^HF^L°^K(Is(BN^HV^LÍ1À°^A1ÛÍ0È1EýÿPrivet ADMcrew(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H( Jan 31 18:26:41 pfaffben -^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H Jan 31 18:26:41 pfaffben syslogd: Cannot glue message parts together Jan 31 18:26:41 pfaffben mountd[355]: Blocked attempt of 129.247.106.135 to mount 3Û3À°^[Í3Ò3ÀÚ°^FÍ0Þ¢1uô1À°^BÍ,[EMAIL PROTECTED](Bubëb^V¬ýt^FþÀt^Këõ°0þÈFÿëì^°^B^FþÈF^D°^FF^H°f1ÛþÃ(IqÍ(B^F°^BfF^L°*fF^NF^LF^D1ÀF^P°^PF^H°fþÃÍ01^AF^D°f³^DÍ0Ë1^DëLëR1ÀF^DF^H°fþÃÍ,HC°([EMAIL PROTECTED]@F^D1ÀF^Gv^HF^L°^K(Is(BN^HV^LÍ Jan 31 18:26:41 pfaffben 1À°^A1ÛÍ0È1EýÿPrivet ADMcrew(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H(-^E^H Jan 31 18:26:47 pfaffben tcplogd: port 10752 connection attempt from trabbi.ia.kp.dlr.de [129.247.106.135] -- MONO - Monochrome Emulation This field is used to store your favorite bit. --FreeVGA Attribute Controller Reference
Re: Debian goes big business?
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 06:12:14PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: They should have `a word to say', and they do--they can subscribe to Debian lists and give their feedback and advice, which developers are free to follow or ignore. But they do not, and should not, IMO, have the privilege of voting or otherwise setting policy. Users are not developers and shouldn't presume to be. i mostly agree but wouldn't put it anywhere near that strongly. users are not developers, but they might be one day. one of the good things about debian is that users who are willing to put in some work CAN join up as developers. I guess that that's the corollary to what I'm saying. If users want to have a stronger in say in whether their advice is followed, they should be become developers. It's not that hard, and doesn't take that long. -- ...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver. --Daniel Pead
Re: Debian goes big business?
Laurent Martelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ChL == Christian Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ChL Bottom line: Debian should remain developer controlled. What about non-developper users ? Shouldn't they have a word to say, even if they can't or do not have the time to contribute with code ? They should have `a word to say', and they do--they can subscribe to Debian lists and give their feedback and advice, which developers are free to follow or ignore. But they do not, and should not, IMO, have the privilege of voting or otherwise setting policy. Users are not developers and shouldn't presume to be.
Re: Termcap and Libc5/6 with Debian Problems...
Ryan Kirkpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, how, if possible, can one get this binary running? I imagine that I need a libtermcap2 built/linked with libc6. Does such a debian package exists? Or do I need to go find the sources and built it myself? AFAIK there is no libtermcap precompiled for Debian, since we use ncurses with everything. I think your best bet is to fetch the sources for the libtermcap-compat package and attempt to build it for libc6.
Network latency?
I've got two Linux boxes in my room here connected via the campus network, going additionally through a hub in the room. Both of the boxen are running kernel 2.1.122, although I've also tried 2.0.36 and the results are the same. Anyway, the problem is that one of the boxen, a 486/25 with an NE2000 clone card, causes problems for the other Linux box (a Pentium II with a pair of SMC EtherPower IIs) when I try to access it via the net. Sometimes it works. Other times, nothing at all happens for up to a couple of minutes--pings don't come back, telnet sessions stop, ftp stalls. This doesn't happen when accessing the Linux box from a Windows machine in the same room. It doesn't happen when a keyboard is attached to the machine's console and you type at the keyboard. Also, sometimes ftp sessions *from* the 486 stall. I tried enabling the `CPU is too slow for network' option in the kernel options, but it didn't help. Does anyone have a suggestion? This is really mysterious behavior. I'm considering trying a different network card. Thanks, Ben.
Re: Compiling error
Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I try to compile some C program i got the following message: $ cc foo.c ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory $ I already installed libc5-altdev, cpp, libg++27-dev packages and I still have this message ! Install libc5-dev then. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV
(I didn't know until about a month ago that .deb files were just 'ar' archives -- where is this documented?) See deb(5). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet from Windows/NT thru Linux
I'm currently connecting to the internet from the Debian/Linux box. I'd like to know how would I go about access the internet from other PCs (windows/nt) which are on the same network as my Linux box. You should probably mention whether you are accessing the internet through PPP dialup or through Ethernet. Once you tell us, we can help you a lot more readily. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Telnet Timeouts
Anyway, how do I set the interactive time out for Telnet Sessions? I do alot of accessing from work to my home machine and if I am compiling or getting News, it may take longer than what the session is set to time out (Default) and I get logged off the session. And have to start all over. Maybe you have the timeoutd package installed. This can log out users. The file you're looking for is /etc/timeouts. If you do have this package installed you probably just want to uninstall it. Also what is the command to look at just the boot up log. I know someone posted it a while back and I used it once or twice. But if you don't use it all the time, at least I do, I forget the commands. dmesg Here's a good one, does anyone have all the commands available on a web page or print out? I guess it would a pretty big file:) apropos -w \* And it is long, on my system a total of 3559 lines. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cpu
Can somebody tell which low price CPU is for (made) Linux. I was = thinking on Cyrix but I heard it is bugy, very uncompatible. So it looks = that Intel is my only hope. I recommend AMD chips. They're at least slightly cheaper than Intel and just as fast, or faster, except for floating point. My roommate has a K6-200 and it's a screamer. Of course, he runs Windows, but that's beside the point. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Swap
I am going to configurate a linux machine. But I don't know if it is = good to use a old 120 MB drive for swap. I would like to know if it is = good to use that drive for swap and a new WD for /. The new drive is = around 4GB so I could use the new drive for swap too and the old one for = garbage. I do not know which configuration is better. I would be very = gled for any advice. Thanks in advance.=20 The newer drive is probably much faster than the old one. I would recommend putting both swap and / on the new drive because of this. HTH, Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ANNOUNCE: deb-view.el 1.5 - deb file viewer for Emacs
This won't be in hamm so you can grab the latest deb-view from: http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~macdonal/deb-view.el http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~macdonal/deb-view.el.gz Though it won't be in hamm, there's no reason you can't install the debview from slink on a hamm system, if you'd like to try out the extra features. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X's with Matrox Millenium II
I have a Matrox Millenium II video card and Linux Debian 1.3.1. I would like to install the X environment but so far I haven't been able of doing so. Is it possible to achieve this with this release of Debian ? No, not AFAIK. If so, how can I do it ? You should upgrade to Debian 2.0 (hamm). It has Mill II support in the SVGA server. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Another tape drive question
First of all, check http://www.info-systems.com/ftape/. Normally every questions you may have should find an answer there. I thought that applied only to the ftape (floppy tape) driver. Does it cover SCSI tapes too? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP: Netscape and bus error
I want to bring up a Java applet at a website under Netscape 3.04. The applet seems to work ok, but when I close it, Netscape aborts with a bus error. I am using Debian 1.31. Can anyone help? Thanks. Probably no one can help. However, does the Java applet do the same thing under Communicator? Under a different OS? If the answer to both is `yes', then you're really out of luck. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A funny little mistake
This works for any filename which the kernel can recognize (that is, any filename except one with a '/' in it. If you have one of THOSE, good luck. Hint: `debugfs'. (If you do have one with a /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Web Browsers without xwindows?
I am new to Linux and have installed Debian 1.3 without xwindows. I want to do as much if not everything I can without using xwindows or some other windows like interface. I would like to know if there is a web browser that I can use that does not require some type of Windows interface. I am just trying to learn everything about Linux and want to learn the hard way. Anyone can point and click. If I wanted to do that I would have installed Windows 95 or bought a Mac. Not that in the future I might not want to go to xwindows or something but for now I want to learn the nitty gritty. You want the `lynx' package. Or maybe w3-el, but that's slower and harder to use, though in some ways more featureful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: securing debian
i took a look at some article and manpages for securing my system and i want to do 2 things to secure my system,i already disalowed telnet access but there's 2 place i need to secure thing up,it's in the file securetty,i want to remove login as root (i'll only need to use su when i need root access) and i want to take care of the permission of my different ppp config files so they are only viewable when root and by the ppp dialer (i'm using pon only,i dont have a ppp util for X nor i need to have one) also,does it's possible to do the same thing with the config files for mail (i'm using smail and fetchmail but i only need to take care of the .fetchmailrc file) You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as root. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: securing debian
does there is a a reference for this package (say a web page,manual,etc...)it's because i'm a bit nervous to try an unknown (by me) package and removing any root access (which i can do anyway using the /etc/login.access,take a look at man 5 login.access for information on that topic),and yes i'm using shadow password. There's a manpage that's quite helpful, if that's good enough. And you can always boot your system from a rescue floppy and change the password on disk to whatever you want, if it comes to that. FWIW, I ran a system in such a configuration for quite a while, until I got tired of not being able to log in as root at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: securing debian
this is a no go,i dont want to install this package because i dont want to give root access to my brother: Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done. But you don't have to give root access to your brother. Sudo lets you set up access by username, in the /etc/sudoers file. i.e., on my system: # User privilege specification rootALL=(ALL) ALL blp ALL=(ALL) ALL So no one but root, blp can take advantage of sudo, and anyone else who tries will get a message logged in syslog saying that they tried. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: securing debian
You might consider installing the `sudo' package and using that for all your root access. If you do that, then you can change the encrypted root password to * in /etc/shadow (you *are* using shadow passwords, I hope) and thus it becomes impossible to log in as root. Is this really a good thing? ... What happens when you need to add a command to sudo, or when you need to come up in maintenance mode? Like I say, I changed it back later, for similar reasons, but it's definitely an option, if you're really paranoid. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memory problem....
I just converted yet another MS-dissatisified friend to Debian yesterday. However, when we were installing debian on his box, a P-100 w/ 32MB. freemem returns only 15MB or so free. Implying that debian only found the first 16MB. First, there is no command `freemem' AFAIK. `free' is the command. Second, you will rarely if ever see more than a small fraction of your memory free. Most of the time, it is used up by cache, which gets freed automatically as necessary. The number you should be concerned about in the `free' output is Total, which should be somewhere between 31000 and 32000, approximately, for a 32 MB system. HTH, Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A funny little mistake
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# cat /dev/null -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# rm -i rm: too few arguments Try `rm --help' for more information. [...] It took me some time to deal with it. There is a trick. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader. Hint: It is possible with rm. ;) rm -- -i -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf files..
a friend has been shipping me pdf files. is there a viewer available (bo...) Use xpdf or acroread. I think both are available in bo. Unfortunately they're non-free. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: zip drive
how do I use a zip drive with debian? Thanks Read the ZIP-Drive mini-HOWTO. It's in the unmaintained section, but still should be quite useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which emacs to install?
Can anyone point me to a document that outlines the differences
between the various flavors of emacs?
Read the NEWS file in emacs20. Invoke emacs20, then type C-h C-n.
You could do the same thing in xemacs{19,20}, I assume.
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Re: `From' line (Re: exim mutt, weird)
[...] However, the full headers don't look like they came from the mailing list! There's no X-Mailing-List line at all! [...] Can anyone compare this recent message and tell me whether it looks the same to them (no X-Mailing-List header)? My copy of it has an X-Mailing-List, just like the other messages. However, you might have this problem with messages that are sent to you directly via To:, CC:, or BCC:, since they might not have passed through the list. In fact, the message you cited doesn't say that it was ever Received: by murphy.debian.org (the mailing list server), so I don't really know what's going on with that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re-compiling Kernel error
Any ideas on what is wrong? You need to install the bin86 package, which contains the as86 program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: emacs
I realize this isn't specifically a Debian question -- but which versions of emacs have postscript-mode? AFAIK no version of Emacs come with a builtin postscript-mode. I think you will have to look for one as a third-party package. Also, I have a large .el file that works great under emacs 19, but not under emacs 20. Should I expect to be able to port it so that it works under both versions, or just focus on emacs 20? It shouldn't be too much trouble to make it work under both versions, the differences are not big. And there are lots of people still using version 19, in case you're interested in making the patches widely available. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian list `From' line (Re: exim mutt, weird)
I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic : :0 * ^From [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian I suggest you use the X-Mailing-List header instead. It's added by the mailing list manager, so it gets added to every mailing list message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with NE2000 Card not working after kernel compile.
messages. Upon exploring around, I see that these messages are being
caused when the file /etc/init.d/network is run
the 2 lines are:
route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
You also need an ifconfig command. See the ifconfig man page for
details.
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Re: Linux DRAW or Linux ILLUSTRATOR
Can someone tells me about some apps thats do the work of Corel Draw in Linux, Like Corel Draw? O heard about GIMP that can substitute Corel PhotoPaint and Photoshop! And about substitute Corel Ventura, Adobe Pagemaker or QuarkXpress? xfig might fit your needs for a Corel Draw-like program. There is currently no suitable substitute for PageMaker. However, there is a project called GLUe that is working on one. Their home page is at http://aix2.uottawa.ca/~s1204672/glue/. Currently the program is rather primitive; I don't know if it's at all usable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP LaserJet 6Lse and Linux???
Does nay one know if anHP LaserJet 6Lse will talk with Linux? Or better, do you know a a way to make it print postscript (in software) from Linux? It understands Enhanced PCL 5 printer control language. Yes, use Ghostscript, it translates PostScript = PCL quite well. My printer died, and I have a short deadline. M$Word 6 format is required by my publisher. So I bought the HP LaserJet 6Lse, which is known to work with Win3.1/95 amd M$Word6. It appeared to be the only printer in the store that did not say something horrible such as WinPrinter or Windows ONLY. It's a good printer. You shouldn't have any major problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strcpy HELP!!!!
This is your fault. You need to allocate memory for temp2.
void main(void)
{
char *temp1, *temp2;
temp1 = malloc (10);
insert `temp2 = malloc (10);' here.
strcpy (temp1, high all);
strcpy (temp2, temp1);
printf(%s %s, temp1, temp2);
}
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Re: debian packages : DESTDIR
DESTDIR should be debian/tmp and not `pwd`/debian/tmp no ? How can change it ? No, DESTDIR should probably be an absolute path, so `pwd` is correct. The likely cause of the error is that the program's Makefile attempts to install files into directories that it does not create first. You can either modify the Makefile to create them or you can create them in the binary target before running make install. HTH, Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ficticious login
Occassionally running 'who' shows something like: nielsen ttyp1Apr 15 08:49 (:0.0) There have been no network logins, however. What would cause this indication? Running an xterm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape and Mozilla both choke on bookmark operations
Where would one report such a bug? http://www.mozilla.org/report.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GIMP How is it?
I saw the linux journals write-up on gimp, now i would like to ask the question, how does it stack up against commercial or established shareware products? It's as good as PhotoShop, and better than any shareware program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to cope with bad blocks (and off-topic: WD warranty policy)
The drive has a three year warranty. Will WD fix the drive or sent me a new one because of bad blocks? Has anyone has experience with WD warranty? Should I try to make heavy use of the drive to detect more (soon to be) bad blocks, as long as I have warranty? If the drive is actively developing more bad blocks, back up important data *NOW*. You may have as little as three days, or even less, before it dies forever. IDE drives do not develop bad blocks, in a normal situation, unless they are about to die. In my experience, anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tape drive
I have an exabyte 8mm tape drive. I have compiled in scsi support, and scsi tape drive support into the kernel. It shows up in dmesg: Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 2618 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 however, a device is not assigned to the drive. How do I tell which device it is? I looked at the SCSI HOWTO and it didn't say much You have tried /dev/st0 and /dev/st1, I take it? Those would be my first guesses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?
Hi, Are the terms DFSG and Open Source completely interchangeable or not? They're based on identical wording. Yes, they are, AFAIK. http://www.opensource.org/osd.html http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines What's the relationship between Debian and Open Source? (I know they share webspace, but I mean business-wise.) The DFSG is targeted to the free software community. Open Source is targeted at the business community. AFAIK, IIRC, and IMHO. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: infnan()?
I would like to use NaN's. It appears that isnan() works as advertised so I can check for NaN. However, there is a man page for infnan() but no such function appears to be available. Does anyone know the proper way to generate a NaN value? (I am using NaN as an initialization value so that I can check that a valid value is used later.) For the moment I am using NAN as defined in nan.h but it requires the use of #define _GNU_SOURCE 1. I would like to keep the code somewhat portable. /* HUGE_VAL is traditionally defined as positive infinity, or alternatively, DBL_MAX. */ #if !HAVE_ISINF #define isinf(X)\ (fabs (X) == HUGE_VAL) #endif /* A Not a Number is not equal to itself. */ #if !HAVE_ISNAN #define isnan(X)\ ((X) != (X)) #endif /* Finite numbers are not infinities or NaNs. */ #if !HAVE_FINITE #define finite(X) \ (!isinf (X) !isnan (X)) #elif HAVE_IEEEFP_H #include ieeefp.h /* Declares finite() under Solaris. */ #endif The definition of infnan() is left as an exercise to the reader :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?
To clarify, RedHat is DFSG-compliant (it's listed in Open Source products), and Debian is Open Source-compliant (Open Source definition is DFSG), but because DFSG targets non-commercial software (ironically the same software that appears on commercial Linux distros) and Open Source targets commercial software, this classification is correct but unintentional? shaking head Products that are DFSG compliant are Open Source compliant, and vice versa. It's two names for the same thing. Suits understand `Open Source' better than they understand `Free Software'; they have a suspicion of anything that has `Free' in the name. On the opposite side, hackers understand `Free' better than `Open' because they associate `Open' with abominations like `The Open Group' that aren't open at all. What is the rationale for this distinction and why is it not stated explicitly? I hope I've clarified this a bit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help with da requirements
No, in the installation readme file it says that Linux works on Pentium, Pentuim Pro, now, what about Pentium II? It works fine on Pentium IIs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clean shutdown
Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root? Ctrl+Alt+Del works. If you want to restrict normal users from doing CAD, then put the allowed users in /etc/shutdown.allow. Of course, over the network, this doesn't work. You could use the sudo or super packages, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Graphic card installation : 3D Emotion
Accelerator : Alliance Semiconductor's 128-bit ProMotion AT25 PC RAMDAC : 190 Mhz Where can I find a driver for this card ? There is a driver for AT25-based cards in the newest XFree86 3.3.2 SVGA server. If you are running bo, then upgrading to hamm will let you use this card. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: tm gone?
What happened to the tm package (mail utilities for Emacs)? It seems to be gone from hamm now... I think that no one ever updated it to the new standard for emacs-related packages. There is a much newer version available, too. I was going to work on it but I never got around to it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best mirror program?
Can anyone recommend a mirror program that will try to reconnect if the ppp connection is dropped? If it can't reconnect, it should exit gracefully in a state that permits it to resume the next time it is called? Ideally it should do the equivalent or reget on partial files. I suggest lftp. It is smart about reconnecting with dropped connections, it will resume in the middle of a file. Use the `mirror' command. Also, you can combine lftp commands into a script. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Choosing a printer for Linux:
I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good printers to choose from? Does anybody have experience with those? I have plenty of experience with HP laser printers. The L series is in general a little iffy; it can be really difficult to clear some kinds of jams. I'd really recommend a P series over the L's. And my HP LJ 6MP (PS level 2) is beautiful, just beautiful. I love it. Don't know about the Stylus, sorry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: missing features in new mozilla
does anybody know of any hidden options or anything to get them back? or do I need to hunt down files to remove so I can reinstall 3.0? There's no reason you couldn't hack them in yourself. That's one of the beauties of open source--if it doesn't have a feature you want, you can write it yourself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[OFFTOPIC] Announce: Archive for Free Software in Real Life
An Archive for Free Software in Real Life - There's been a lot of discussion lately about the free software paradigm and where it's headed. Now with the release of Netscape as free software, and formation of free software support companies like WilberWorks and Sendmail, among other events, the pace has been increasing. During these discussions, we've heard lots of stories that seem to be worth saving for others to learn from. We think that a community resource center (an archive with emphasis on the human experience) should be set up to record these thoughts and experiences. Story tellers know that you have to tell stories in order to hear some new ones: So we've set out a table with a few stories on it. There is plenty of room for your story, too! Write down stories, essays, comments - whatever you choose - it's all welcome as long as it relates to free software. Tell us how you participate in the free software community by using, developing, supporting, or making money from free software. The most important part is giving examples so that we can help to develop a community resource center of what works and what doesn't work. Part of what works and what doesn't work are extra-technical issues, in particular, cultural and power issues. You can see in the stories by Ken David that cultural misunderstandings and perceptions of power inequity can impede the work. We are trying to find ways to bridge over cultural differences and to neutralize power problems and thus facilitate free software development projects. We will write up stories and lessons and present them to you as soon as possible. Other resources --- Mailing list: Besides the repository, I have set up a mailing list for discussion of free software issues. This list parallels the crynwr.com free-software-business list, but the intent is to be more general in scope instead of focusing on business. This is *not* a forum for advocacy of any particular development style. Free software introduction: In addition, I'm working on a paper intended to provide an introduction to the free software community for non-technical people. If you'd take a look at the pre-release version of the paper and send me your comments, bug reports, and suggestions, I'd appreciate it. URLs * Free software repository: URL:http://pfaffben.user.msu.edu/fsr. * Free software introduction: URL:http://pfaffben.user.msu.edu/anp. * Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Join the mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Currently the list is manually operated, so subscription messages have no special format.) Thanks, Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ken David [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the Bill lover
I thought it was funny that the Win95 lover even bothered to mail his stupid message. :) I think that it's funny that people took this April Fool's joke seriously. Troll! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HP DAT drives
Does anyone out there have experience with Hewlett-Packard SCSI DAT drives, specifically the 12/24 GB models? I'm thinking about getting a backup system for my computer (which has 12 GB of HDDs), and this seems to be the best deal out there. Do they cooperate nicely with other devices (HDDs) on a SCSI bus? Does `dump' work okay with them? How loud is one of them; would it wake up me or my roommate when it kicks in for a backup at 3:00 a.m.? Thanks in advance, Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP DAT drives
Any, just a datapoint. If you want some pointers to cheap sources of used (have you looked at the prices for new DAT drives?) drives, let me know. Right: $881 is lowest I found for a 12/24 GB. If you'd pass along those pointers, I'd greatly appreciate it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X-Intrinsics
just a small question as i'm searching for the 'lowest-level' to use to programm under X-Win. Somebody told me that X-Intrinsics is this lowest-level, where other GUI's and lib's like OSF/MOTIF setup on. So, what's X-Intrinsics? It's a thin object layer over Xlib written in C (not C++). Is it this lowest-level? No. Xlib is the lowest C language layer. Below Xlib is the X protocol. You don't want to deal with the X protocol. Where are doc's for this? The xbooks package has manuals that describe Xlib and X Intrinsics. The xmanpages package has descriptions of Xlib and X Intrinsics functions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running X11 over a network
No, in one sense. Either you have to set up hostnames in the /etc/hosts file or run a DNS server for them to `know the others [sic] IP address'. So I will be able to ping/ftp/etc IP addresses without doing anything? Do I have to do anything special to be able to ping the Linux machine from a Win'95 box (to check the network card is setup OK)? Yes. No. Yes, in one sense. This is the ARP protocol. Can you point me at a URL on this please? http://152.15.16.15/ELET3281/ch1qr_13.html is what altavista found. You might want to consult a basic book on TCP/IP if you're really interested in ARP, but in normal circumstances you don't have to care about it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting up network on Hamm install
The Bo install notes say I need to know the following. I assume Hamm will need it too. I have a LAN with Linux (none yet installed) and Win'95 boxes on and will also want to connect to the 'net. Since you are on two networks (LAN + Internet), your choices will depend on whether you have two Ethernet cards in the machine. If you do have two--one hooked into the LAN, one to the Internet--then you configure the LAN card with your LAN IP address, and the Internet card with your Internet IP address. In this case, just make sure that you're consistent when you answer the prompts--use either the data from the LAN or the Internet, but not a combination. You will have to set up the second card manually later by editing /etc/init.d/network. If, OTOH, you have only Ethernet card, then you only want one IP address; this should be the Internet IP address. In this case, there's no need to add a second LAN IP address; just have the other machines on the LAN refer to this machine via its Internet IP. If you really want two IPs, then you can set up IP aliasing, but I don't know anything about that. Hope this helps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/dhcpd.conf
How would I set the domain search order in /etc/dhcpd.conf? I couldn't find it in the man page nor in my O'Reilly TCP/IP admin book. The domain search order is set in /etc/resolv.conf, not in a DHCP config file. See resolver(5) for details. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rumba package?
is there a rumba (ramba?) package? ..a program that allows users to mount shares over SMB...? You're looking for samba. Yes, it's in the distribution, in the otherosfs section. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running X11 over a network
Incidently, do you know what kind of performance hit I will get running X over 20m of BNC cable (there are 2 other (Win'95) machines on the network)? It won't be too bad. I used to regularly run Netscape remotely from an SGI halfway across campus, and the performance was quite acceptable. Other than startup time (which is always slow with Netscape), it was hard to tell that I wasn't sitting at the SGI. BTW, I wasthinking about the IP addresses and would it make sense for me to use 192.168.xxx.1 and 192.168.xxx.2 (xxx=random number) in case I added someone elses Linux system to my network for some reason in the future? It doesn't matter. You can always change IP addresses. Personally, I use 192.168.128.x just for the hell of it. I am also confused about how each computer knows the others IP address. Does it just broadcast it over the whole network and anyone who wants it grabs it? No, in one sense. Either you have to set up hostnames in the /etc/hosts file or run a DNS server for them to `know the others [sic] IP address'. Yes, in one sense. This is the ARP protocol. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video card recommendations...
Currently i'm building a machine and am down to the last piece of hardware, the video card. i was wondering if anyone could shed some light on the pro's/con's of the following cards: ATI all-in-wonder Diamond Viper Matrox Millenium II I love my Millenium II 8MB. It runs X great with 32-bit color @ 1600x1200. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multi-Boot
Maybe someone else out there with a bigger, more interesting, system can add some comment... Personally, I have the following setup: Adaptec 2940UW 3 x 4.3 GB UW SCSI HDDs 3 x 128 MB swap, one per drive 128 MB root partition on /dev/sda RAID-0 across the remaining space on all drives It gets me some really good performance. I ran `bonnie' today. Here are the numbers (see the PII/233 line), along with some other computers' figures for comparison: ---Sequential Output ---Sequential Input-- --Random-- -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks--- MachineMB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU PII/233 500 3732 88.8 15087 47.7 4307 24.4 4263 90.3 17789 34.3 58.8 1.9 Sun4/260 78 285 90.9 650 26.4 305 20.0 282 95.5 803 28.3 38.5 15.2 Mips M2k 180 387 44.0 442 6.1 360 5.4 416 48.1 1701 14.8 26.3 3.1 Sequent95 140 97.8 1017 66.2 251 17.7 122 95.7 713 34.9 31.0 15.9 4M i38625 130 90.5 199 26.1 179 46.1 121 93.5 400 59.7 10.5 23.8 NeXT 125 241 94.7 347 39.3 253 31.7 246 94.8 772 49.6 27.7 20.8 VAX 8650 200 208 89.0 232 8.3 143 7.4 197 65.0 373 8.6 17.3 4.6 You might want to consider combining your drives with RAID-0 (or some other level) in such a manner as well. More information on my computer's setup is at URL:http://pfaffben.user.msu.edu/computer.html. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: smail postmaster messages
My doubt: when moving the messages back to /var/spool/smail I need to do something more? Will smail take care of the msg and redistribute them? No. Yes. (AFAIK.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Autoup script is dangerous?
I am going to upgrade from libc5 to libc6 with autoup script on a live machine with bo system (sendmail, apache, etc) ..Is the upgrade this way safe? Yes, from what I hear, it is safe, and works very well. But I haven't done it myself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fat - ext2
Is there a way to retrieve the original filename when moving from a fat/dos filesystem to ext2? A script/command would be nice, if it exists. If not, is there an algorithm to extract this information? I'm a little confused about what you mean by `original filename'. The file on the fat partition has a filename, right? Isn't this the original filename and can't you copy it to the ext2 partition with the same name? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fat - ext2
I'm a little confused about what you mean by `original filename'. The file on the fat partition has a filename, right? Isn't this the original filename and can't you copy it to the ext2 partition with the same name? Sorry, I have a file that started out as say 'filename' that was transfered to a fat filesystem and was renamed by the system to 'filena~1'. Is there an algorithm or way to retreive the original filename? Nope. Unless the `dos' partition is actually a `vfat' partition that isn't mounted as `vfat', then there is no way to recover these, because it is not stored anywhere in the filesystem. OTOH, sometimes (depending on Lose95 setup), Lose95 will store the *first* file that's too long (`longfilename1') as the ordinary, but truncated name (`longfile'), and only store additional files having the same prefix with ~X (`longfilename2' as `longfi~1'). You can recover two characters this way if you go on this assumption, but not more. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Missing file for X
It looks like I may have given you misleading advice, or advice that you have inadvertently misinterpreted. The Debian X Window System is set up slightly different from the standard XFree86 setup. The file /etc/X11/Xserver contains the full path to the X server as its first line; /usr/X11R6/bin/X is not a symlink in this setup. The only file that you needed to replace from X332SVGA.tgz was /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA. Make sure that this file actually did get updated and that nothing else got stomped on or overwritten. Alternatively, it sounds like 3.3.2 will be in Debian Real Soon Now, so you might just want to wait. Hope this helps, Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Twain Driver
I think you must be mistaken as to the purpose of this list. TWAIN drivers are MS Windows-based, and thus have no relation to Linux. Helping with Linux (specifically Debian GNU/Linux) is the purpose of this list. You might try a comp.os.ms-windows.* newsgroup instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running X11 over a network
* Install Hamm and, when prompted for IP addresses, give 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 (even though they may both be connecting to the 'net via a modem with a fixed IP address) * install X on the laptop only (?) * on the 486 type xhost + * on the laptop type DISPLAY=ip:0.0 ; export DISPLAY (I am using Bash) * on the laptop I type startx Somehow this doesn't seem quite right to me. Try this, which is slightly different: * Give 192.168.1.1 to the laptop. * Give 192.168.1.2 to the desktop. * Install any X software you want, but no xserver package, on the laptop. * Install only xserver-* (whichever you need), xbase, xlib6g on the server. * On the laptop do `export DISPLAY=192.168.1.2:0' in bash. * Run `startx', then `xhost +192.168.1.1' on the 486. * Run your xclients from the laptop command line. I am also interested in how to run console aplications in this way too. You can just telnet from one machine to the other or run an xterm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Matrox Millenium II XWindows problem
You need to upgrade to the xserver-svga 3.3.1 that's in hamm in order to use the Matrox Millennium II effectively. Even after that you should probably upgrade manually to 3.3.2 that you can get from ftp.xfree86.org. All that needs to be replaced is the one XF86_SVGA server file. I am unable to get my Millenium Matrox II driving my ViewSonic 15 to come up in XWindows in anything but 320 X 200. I don't know if I=20 am configuring things correctly for the Millenium Matrox II. =20 According to an FAQ from the Matrox Millenium Xserver group just about everything is autodetected in the SVGA server. I upgraded my=20 xserver-svga to debian package 3.3-4. It claims to support the MGA = 2064W video chipset. I am unsure what the deal is with the clockchip. Any help is greatly appreciated I'm sure Someone out there is probably=20 running a Matrox Millenium II ( I here it is considered an excellent=20 card for X) and knows the exact cause of my problem. Below is=20 info from my XF86Config and output from startx as add'l details which might be necessary. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running X11 over a network
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Try this, which is slightly different: * Give 192.168.1.1 to the laptop. * Give 192.168.1.2 to the desktop. * Install any X software you want, but no xserver package, on the laptop. * Install only xserver-* (whichever you need), xbase, xlib6g on the server. How CPU/RAM heavy are these 3 only? Is it absolutely necessary t run them on the 486? xserver-*: This actually talks to the hardware. Definitely necessary. xbase: This is where the `xhost' program, which you need, comes from. xlib6g: Library required by xbase. * On the laptop do `export DISPLAY=192.168.1.2:0' in bash. Ah, that makes more sense. * Run `startx', then `xhost +192.168.1.1' on the 486. Presumably I could put the xhost line in the startx script? Whereabouts should it go? It could go in /etc/X11/Xsession (near the top probably), but I don't think it could go in startx. I am still confused as to how I would specify which window manager I want to use and which computer it goes on? If you add /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm at the beginning of /etc/X11/window-managers, then you can run a window manager remotely (on the laptop), and just have an xterm running on the 486. Maybe there's a more elegant way to do this (any X11 wizards around?). Is there anyway to run them locally without cp'ing them to the local HD? And speaking of which, is there a way to cp across a LAN or would I have to FTP them or use Samba or something? You can use the `rcp' command if you set up hosts.equiv properly. And one more quick question: Do I need to tell each computer the IP address of the other one? That's what the `export DISPLAY' and `xhost' commands do, in part. Other than that, there's nothing to do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network/PPP Help
This is where my problem starts. When I ping my ISP I get good pings but only 204.47.44.4, but if I try the name, dallas.net, I get nothing as I have not be able to establish a link to the DNS. I can ping my own machine and my ISP by IP numbers only. Can you ping any of your nameservers? (By IP address, not name, of course.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is this list discontinued?
What's happening with debian user list? Are you dealing with a major crash? I'm not receiving any message since 5th March. Looks fine to me. Maybe some messages to you bounced and you got unsubscribed. Try resubscribing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netscape 4.04
is there a way to clear the cache of pages and images? Yes. There is a button to do this under Preferences in the same place you can set the cache sizes. Alternatively just `rm -r ~/.netscape/cache'. (I think that's the right directory. Take a look under .netscape.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Just thought you'd like tho know
Beleive it or not, pc magazine has a review of linux in which they actually say good things about it :) Didn't think that would ever happen, since the only software I've ever seen them talk about was windows stuff, anyhow, its at: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html Yeah, but the idiots seem to have installed only Slackware, and give comments based on what Slackware does. Why do people consistently pick the lousiest distribution and judge Linux based on that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: telnet from linux to win95
I was wondering if there was a way to telnet from a linux box to a win95 box? No. Win95 does not have a telnet server. If you want to use Win95 remotely, you could try the vnc package if you are running hamm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ppp problem
I am now able to connect to my ISP. I was placing the 'noauth' option = in the wrong file! I finally figured out how to correctly place it in = /etc/ppp/peers/provider. Now, the link comes up, but I get this error = from pppd - pppd[158]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP. Where should I look for the cause of this error? Don't worry about this. It just means that proxy ARP isn't set up on the other end. This isn't normally desirable for use with an ISP anyway. If the link doesn't work, it's probably not related to this error. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: telnet from linux to win95
Where can I read a description of vnc? I didn't get any hits on a debian package search :-(. There's a web page at http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc. The Debian package is in the X11 section at the usual mirror sites. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cdrom gone after kernel compile
After compiling a more modularized kernel today (using Debian 1.3.1 with kernel src 2.0.32) I've lost my cdrom- everything was working perfectly with the bloated standard kernel... When I try mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom I see something like fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel. Fine- I made it available as a module- why isn't kerneld picking that up? (kerneld *is* running) So, I insmod isofs. No luck- I see mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) So, I try insmod cdrom to no avail. The hardware is fine- I'm using the Adaptec 1542 driver (the card is a 1535- same but no bios) with a pretty vanilla SCSI-II dual speed (Compaq) cdrom. Both the support for the card and generic scsi support are compiled directly in, not as modules. What does /proc/scsi/scsi say? Does it recognize that there's a CD-ROM there? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and Pgp w/ RSA support?
Does anyone know if one of the newer versions of Pgp (like 5.0 or so...) has been complied with RSA key support for Debian? The international version of pgp5 is available at nonus.debian.org. I don't know about `RSA key support'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New handling of scripts external to PPPD (ie ip-up, ip-down)
If a package wants to be run when pppd is on, then include a file /etc/ppp/scripts.d/packagename. In the postinst, run the command ppp-update.d. And in the prerm, presumably? I like the proposal, by the way. My only possible concern is that it is perhaps a little too complicated, but sometimes that is needed to buy extra flexibility. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: denying finger info
How does a user deny the information given by the finger command? More concisely, I want the fingerd daemon running, but I do not want the no mail and .plan et al info shown. I just want to tell the client that the user is logged on. It would be better if this could be done at the per-user level. I think that you want to take a look at the cfingerd package. It looks to me like it can do everything you want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hamm woes...
I upgraded to hamm about 2 months ago. I *still* have the problem with last/wtmp after following the instructions for removing the libc5 files and rebooting. I cannot use man: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] man man man: can't open /tmp/zman07736aaa: Bad file descriptor No manual entry for man Usually the particular problem with man can be fixed by rebuilding the man database. This can be done, IIRC, using a particular command-line option, or by deleting the database on disk, or by reinstalling the man package. (Of course, this might not be your problem.) -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux
I cannot get a message to this [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. Everything I send to debian-user@lists.debian.org bounces. No it doesn't. This message appeared on the list. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What SCSI should I buy?
Howdy, a friend of mine wants to buy a scsi-card. His options are: Adaptec 2940 UW 300$ Adaptec 2930 (U) 180$ Advansys UW180$ Advansys U 150$ Diamond fireport (UW ?) 180$ Requirements: Linux compatible (ofcourse, he is an intelligent guy :-), PCI, compatible with Philips omniwriter, drivers for DOS/WIN95/WINNT (well, there is allways room for improvement :-). I am happy with my Adaptec 2940 UW. My 3 UW SCSI HDDs are running happily with software RAID-0. However, I know that the Diamond Fireport is supported as well. I think that the Advansys cards are too. It might come down to a price issue, I guess. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: long filenames in M$Dos partition
Can anybody of you please explain to me (hopeless newbie) why when I can't see long filenames on mounted msdos partition? This causes me some pain in the neck as I can't freely manipulate files between linux and dos... You are probably mounting the drive as `msdos' instead of `vfat'. Change the partition type to `vfat' in /etc/fstab, or use `-t vfat' when you mount it. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bitmap files
I was just wondering if anyone knew of a package for editing scanned in images. Use the `gimp' program. It's better than Photoshop. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: missing package emacs19
After struggling to downgrade some packages I needed to fix a situation when I tried to upgrade w3-el, but cannot upgrade emacs to version 20, I found several messages where the package emacs19 is mentioned, as an alternative to emacs20. But I can't seem to find this package anywhere! Is this package missing? It's not available yet, but should be uploaded before the 2.0 freeze. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help! Binaries link both libc5+libc6!
I just installed Raima's Velocis Server 2.0 on an up-to-date hamm machine. The binaries do not run (segfault), and when I run ldd I get this: This means that there is an upstream problem. If you do not sources, there is nothing you can do but complain. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: how to find an (not so) old package
I also cannot seem to find the old w3-el package (which would allow me to downgrade w3-el). Can someone help me? Use the w3-el from bo, which is in dists/stable/binary-all/web, I would guess. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do you e2defrag?
I have debian installed on a single partition, a partition which I suspect is greatly fragmented (is there an easy way to tell?). I wish to use the program e2defrag to defragment it, but have realized this could be more difficult than I first thought. You say you have a single partition, but it's possible you're forgetting a swap partition. If you do have a (large-enough) swap partition, then you can install Linux to it and run defrag from there. Or maybe you could just make up a boot/root disk with defrag utils on it. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Emacs20.
I get the following error message when trying to install emacs20 from hamm: [...] Suggestions? --David You should probably just report this bug to the emacsen-common maintainer, who is Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED]. -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
