Re: X color depth
Umum Wijoyo wrote: Hello... How can I set my X color depth to be more than 8 bpp (say... like 16 or 24)? You can also specify color depth when starting X with something like startx -- -bpp 24. You could then create an alias. Hard-coding it in XF86Config, as suggested previously, is probably best, though. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
web-based data entry
I work on a project funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The bulk of our work entails collecting historical census data for New York and Chicago and entering it into a database. Until now, we've given our workers floppy disks with simple Excel or comma-delimited databases on them for entering the data. I think it would be much more productive, and easier to manage, if we had them enter this data over the internet. However, I don't know what type of programs are available for this kind of task. I suspect MySQL may be the way to go, but I'm not sure. Could anyone give suggestions as to where I should start? I would love to be able to keep logs of people's time spent in the database application, and to keep track of what records they entered, but I would also be happy with a simple application that only has data entry capabilities. Given the skill level of our workers, a web browser interface would be most desirable. Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
segfaults in window managers - please help
I have been unable to run any window manager in X, including sawmill,
enlightenment, twm, wm2, as well as gnome panel. However, other apps
work okay like xterm and netscape. I did an strace of several of these
apps, and it seems that they all segfault in the same area. Here is
some of the output from wm2:
read(3, \1\370\7\0\0\0\0\0\312\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0..., 32)
= 32
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x8050b30, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8050b30, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x8050b30, [], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
write(3, \20\0\4\0\10\0\0\0WM_STATE, 16) = 16
read(3, \1\370\10\0\0\0\0\0]\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0..., 32)
= 32
write(3, \20\0\6\0\17\0\0\0WM_CHANGE_STATE\0, 24) = 24
read(3, \1\370\t\0\0\0\0\0003\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0...,
32) = 32
write(3, \20\0\5\0\f\0\0\0WM_PROTOCOLS, 20) = 20
read(3, \1\370\n\0\0\0\0\0\345\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0..., 32)
= 32
write(3, \20\0\6\0\20\0\0\0WM_DELETE_WINDOW, 24) = 24
read(3, \1\370\v\0\0\0\0\0\320\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0..., 32)
= 32
write(3, \20\0\6\0\r\0\0\0WM_TAKE_FOCUSDOW, 24) = 24
read(3, \1\370\f\0\0\0\0\0004\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0...,
32) = 32
write(3, \20\0\7\0\23\0\0\0WM_COLORMAP_WINDOWS\0, 28) = 28
read(3, \1\370\r\0\0\0\0\0005\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0...,
32) = 32
write(3, \20\0\5\0\f\0\0\0_WM2_RUNNING, 20) = 20
read(3, \1\370\16\0\0\0\0\0006\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0..., 32)
= 32
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Does this mean anyghint to anyone? I've also attached the full log of
the strace if you need more information. It's not very big. Thanks.
--
Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936
Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452execve(/usr/openwin/bin/wm2, [wm2], [/* 30 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x805618c
open(/etc/ld.so.preload, O_RDONLY)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=20268, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 20268, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40014000
close(3)= 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\000..., 4096) =
4096
old_mmap(NULL, 46528, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40019000
mprotect(0x40023000, 5568, PROT_NONE) = 0
old_mmap(0x40023000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x9000) = 0x40023000
close(3)= 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=678236, ...}) = 0
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\A\1\000..., 4096) =
4096
old_mmap(NULL, 656136, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40025000
mprotect(0x400bf000, 25352, PROT_NONE) = 0
old_mmap(0x400bf000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x99000) = 0x400bf000
old_mmap(0x400c5000, 776, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x400c5000
close(3)= 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=293056, ...}) = 0
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240\276..., 4096) =
4096
old_mmap(NULL, 293808, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x400c6000
mprotect(0x4010a000, 15280, PROT_NONE) = 0
old_mmap(0x4010a000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x43000) = 0x4010a000
close(3)= 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=71960, ...}) = 0
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0PC\0\000..., 4096) =
4096
old_mmap(NULL, 72504, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4010e000
mprotect(0x4011e000, 6968, PROT_NONE) = 0
old_mmap(0x4011e000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0xf000) = 0x4011e000
close(3)= 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=32000, ...}) = 0
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\\\0..., 4096) =
4096
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x4012
old_mmap(NULL, 34232, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40121000
mprotect(0x40128000, 5560, PROT_NONE) = 0
old_mmap(0x40128000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x6000) = 0x40128000
close(3)= 0
open(/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=78288, ...}) = 0
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\3404\0..., 4096) =
4096
old_mmap(NULL, 87024, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4012a000
mprotect(0x4013d000, 9200, PROT_NONE) = 0
old_mmap(0x4013d000, 4096, PROT_READ
Re: XFree86 4
Paul Kallstrom wrote: -- -- I just saw the article on Slashdot about nvidia's beta drivers. Unfortunately, they are for XF4. Are there any experimental debs anywhere? I certainly would LOVE to have my TNT2 Ultra actually WORK. I don't know if there are debs (but I would also be interested to find that out), but I downloaded the files from xfree86.org and it installed on my (woody) system without a hitch. It provides better support for my ATI Rage 128. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: XFree86 4
Robert L. Harris wrote: Diff between woody and potato? Anything major? Summary? I think they're virtually the same right now. There have been a few minor upgrades lately to packages in woody that are probably not in potato, but nothing major. It's very unlikely that there would be any difference that would affect the installation of Xfree86-4.0. Good luck. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
bash-related (?) segfault
My computer is regularly segfaulting. It runs fine for a while, but then when I try to execute an xterm, or netscape, or ncftp (for example) I get segfaults. I shutdown X, and try to reboot (using ctrl-alt-del), but that won't work either. I try to su to root to execute reboot directly, but that either segfaults or gives me an error message of something like error with dynamic linker. I'll write down that specific error message the next time it happens. Finally, I just turn it off and on again, and then it's fine for a while. This started happening about 2 weeks ago. For a long time before that everything was very stable. I haven't made any hardware changes, and I was using unstable for months before that, so it's not due to a distribution upgrade. I can't think of anything specific that I'm doing every time that it does this. Sometimes I'll go home for the night when everything is working fine, and when I come back the next morning I have this problem. Other times, it happens while I'm working. I realize I haven't given much information. If someone can suggest a solution, or give me some tips for how to debug this, I'd really appreciate it. I'm running woody with kernel 2.2.14. Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: bash-related (?) segfault
Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: My computer is regularly segfaulting. as you say, that really nothing has changed, it sounds like a hardware (RAM) failure. :-( run some memtest. we had a thread about that some days ago. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need. My first suspicion, too, was RAM failure, so I ran memtest86 last week and (hours later) everything checked out okay. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
post-delivery mail filtering
I would like to be able to take an existing mail spool file (e.g. /var/spool/mail/USER) and pass it to slocal for processing. If I simply do this... cat MAILFILE | /usr/lib/mh/slocal -user USER ...all the messages get interpreted as one big message (no surprise there, as slocal is designed to be run from .forward). So, is there a way to split the mail file into individual messages and filter them through slocal? Or perhaps there's a better tool for filtering in this manner. Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: connect to Internet via cable modem
Matthew Quigley wrote: Any thought on how I can do this? Any packages out there to do this? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Try the Cable-Modem mini HOWTO. http://www.oswg.org/oswg-nightly/Cable-Modem.html You'll probably need a dhcp client like dhcpcd. I use rr in Albany, NY and it was pretty easy to set up. Here are some other links to check out: http://www.fammed.ohio-state.edu/shane/rr/c2c/ http://www.hoku.net/projects/rrhowto/RoadRunner-Hawaii-HOWTO.html http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rr/ Or, in any search engine type something like this: +roadrunner +linux +kansas Beware, rr is not the same everywhere. For example, in Albany we do not have to login to rr but I think some places still do. Good luck. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: netscape6 anyone?
I have it running on woody. I also started it from within the directory in which I unpacked it. Symbolic links won't work, you have to run it from that directory. I didn't have to change anything at all, but I had been running M14 of mozilla, and I assume it requires mostly the same libraries. Christian Hammers wrote: Hello Did anybody get the new netscape6-beta working on a Debian potato/woody system? (here it silently ends without giving more information) ... WEBSHELL+ = 1 I am inside the initialize Hey : You are in QFA Startup (QFA)Talkback loaded Ok. WEBSHELL+ = 2 assuming dd is off for Navigator nsCollationUnix::Initialize mLocale = de_DE nsCollationUnix::Initialize mCharset = ISO-8859-1 Inside netscape.xul overlay... -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
fips won't move hidden
I'm having trouble repartitioning a drive with a single FAT32 partition with FIPS. I defragged, did a clean boot, and ran it, but it gives an error that there are hidden or read-only files at the end of the partition. I tried disabling the swap file (which I probably should have done anyway.) That didn't help. Then I did dir c:\ /s /a:h to find all the hidden files and change them. That took forever and still didn't work. I don't want to shell out the money for Partition Magic. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
problem mounting NT share
My university just switched from Novell servers to NT. There are two servers containing discs to which I have access. One of them gave me no trouble at all. I used this command to mount the shared drive: smbmount //server1/shared /mountpoint. However, I could not get the drive on the other server mounted. My username and password are identical for both, and I can mount both easily from Windows98. The sysadmin knows nothing of linux, but did suggest one possible difference between the two servers that might be causing the problem. He said the first server, which I don't have trouble with, is a domain hosted server, or something like that. While the one that I am having trouble with is a stand alone server, or something like that. Sorry, but I know absolutely nothing about Windows NT. He also suggested that I explicitly pass my username and that I use GROUPNAME/USERNAME as my username rather then simply USERNAME. That didn't work, but I thought it might give you a better idea of what he thinks the problem is. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: problem mounting NT share
I've attached the debugging information... Not sure what to include, so I'm including everything. s2.txt is debugging for the share that I can mount, and s3.txt is the debugging info for the share I cannot mount. The response I get is: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.) SMB connection failed What seems strange to me is that from Windows98 both shares are mount without problems using the same username and password. Thanks again. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452 aphro wrote: turn up debugging in samba and include it in your post it makes it VERY difficult to debug with just it wont work in the email. nate On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote: bs7452 My university just switched from Novell servers to NT. There are two bs7452 servers containing discs to which I have access. One of them gave me no bs7452 trouble at all. I used this command to mount the shared drive: bs7452 bs7452 smbmount //server1/shared /mountpoint. bs7452 bs7452 However, I could not get the drive on the other server mounted. My bs7452 username and password are identical for both, and I can mount both bs7452 easily from Windows98. The sysadmin knows nothing of linux, but did bs7452 suggest one possible difference between the two servers that might be bs7452 causing the problem. He said the first server, which I don't have bs7452 trouble with, is a domain hosted server, or something like that. bs7452 While the one that I am having trouble with is a stand alone server, bs7452 or something like that. Sorry, but I know absolutely nothing about bs7452 Windows NT. He also suggested that I explicitly pass my username and bs7452 that I use GROUPNAME/USERNAME as my username rather then simply bs7452 USERNAME. That didn't work, but I thought it might give you a better bs7452 idea of what he thinks the problem is. bs7452 bs7452 Any ideas? Thanks.mount.smbfs started (version 2.0.6) Initialising global parameters params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section [global] doing parameter message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup %f %m %s; rm %s' doing parameter netbios name = ss3f129 doing parameter passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd doing parameter workgroup = loganlab doing parameter config file = /etc/samba/smb.conf doing parameter printer = lp doing parameter printing = bsd doing parameter printcap name = /etc/printcap doing parameter security = SERVER doing parameter load printers = True doing parameter hosts allow = 169.226.108.130 169.226.108.129 169.226.108.142 169.226.108.98 169.226.108.92 169.226.108.147 doing parameter wins server = 169.226.25.32 doing parameter guest account = nobody doing parameter log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m doing parameter lock directory = /var/lock/samba doing parameter encrypt passwords = yes pm_process() returned Yes load_client_codepage: loading codepage 850. added interface ip=169.226.108.129 bcast=169.226.108.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 resolve_lmhosts: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name s2_casnet0x20 getlmhostsent: lmhost entry: 169.226.108.92 ss3f092 getlmhostsent: lmhost entry: 169.226.108.98 ss3f098 getlmhostsent: lmhost entry: 169.226.108.130 ss3f130 getlmhostsent: lmhost entry: 169.226.108.129 ss3f129 getlmhostsent: lmhost entry: 169.226.108.142 ss3f142 resolve_hosts: Attempting host lookup for name s2_casnet0x20 resolve_wins: Attempting wins lookup for name s2_casnet0x20 bind succeeded on port 0 nmb packet from 169.226.25.32(137) header: id=9609 opcode=Query(0) response=No header: flags: bcast=No rec_avail=No rec_des=Yes trunc=No auth=No header: rcode=0 qdcount=1 ancount=0 nscount=0 arcount=0 question: q_name=S2_CASNET20 q_type=32 q_class=1 Sending a packet of len 50 to (169.226.25.32) on port 137 Received a packet of len 62 from (169.226.25.32) port 137 nmb packet from 169.226.25.32(137) header: id=9609 opcode=Query(0) response=Yes header: flags: bcast=No rec_avail=Yes rec_des=Yes trunc=No auth=Yes header: rcode=0 qdcount=0 ancount=1 nscount=0 arcount=0 answers: nmb_name=S2_CASNET20 rr_type=32 rr_class=1 ttl=0 answers 0 char @. hex 4000A9E21916 Got a positive name query response from 169.226.25.32 ( 169.226.25.22 ) Connecting to 169.226.25.22 at port 139 Sent session request size=0 smb_com=0x0 smb_rcls=0 smb_reh=0 smb_err=0 smb_flg=0 smb_flg2=0 smb_tid=0 smb_pid=0 smb_uid=0 smb_mid=0 smt_wct=0 smb_bcc=0 session request ok size=91 smb_com=0x72 smb_rcls=0 smb_reh=0 smb_err=0 smb_flg=136 smb_flg2=1 smb_tid=0 smb_pid=3520 smb_uid=0 smb_mid=1 smt_wct=17 smb_vwv[0]=7 (0x7) smb_vwv[1]=12803 (0x3203) smb_vwv[2]=256 (0x100) smb_vwv[3]=1024 (0x400) smb_vwv[4]=17 (0x11) smb_vwv[5]=0 (0x0) smb_vwv[6]=256 (0x100) smb_vwv[7]=0 (0x0) smb_vwv[8]=0 (0x0) smb_vwv[9]=64768 (0xFD00) smb_vwv[10]=67 (0x43) smb_vwv[11
system requirements for SCSI
I want to by a SCSI drive and controller for one of my older computers so it can act as an ftp server. My understanding is that a slower computer can act as a decent server if you use SCSI since it doesn't require much from the processor. Is that right? Also, are there any minimum requirements? The computer is a Gateway P166 with 32MB of EDO ram. It will boot from an IDE drive, but the files that will be available from the server will all be on the SCSI drive. Sorry this isn't entirely Debian-related, but I use Debian and I want to install Debian on this computer, too. I'm thinking of buying a 9.1GB IBM Ultrastar 18ES and an Adaptec 2940U2W U2W/S host adapter. Thanks in advance for any input. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
pronunciation of daemon
Silly, but... How do you pronounce daemon? I thought it was pronounced day-mun, but an online dictionary I checked said it had the same pronunciation as demon. Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
when is swap allocated
I was just wondering when/why swap space is used. I rooted around a bit in the various sources of documentation, but didn't find what I was looking for. The reason I ask is that swap is very rarely used on my system. Most of the time, the results of free look like this: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:128300 125204 3096 91920 2784 61060 -/+ buffers/cache: 61360 66940 Swap: 273024 4344 268680 Maybe I should be glad that there is little need on my system for swap, but I'm a little surprised and worried that something is not set properly. Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
recapture unallocated memory
When I start StarOffice it sucks up a bunch of memory, no surprise. Then when I close it, memory usage does not go back down to the level it was at before StarOffice started. I assume this means that all the memory is not being released back into the unallocated pool even though it should be. Is there a program that will take all that memory back and free it? I know there are countless win32 programs that do it, but I haven't seen one for linux. Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: Does any Linux Realplayer[TM] work under newest Potato?
Christopher R. Barry wrote: I can't get any darn version of Realplayer working with Netscape. Is it known to be impossible with the newest Debian, or do any of you have it working? Thank you, Christopher -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I've been using RealPlayer G2 (version 6.0.4.433) with potato and it's been surprisingly stable. I got it from http://proforma.real.com/real/player/linuxplayer.html. I got the one for Linux 2.0/2.2, not the one for Red Hat which has been recommended in the past. Just make the binary executable and run it. That will take you through a simple installation program, and voila. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: Staroffice and gtop
Yes, I've noticed the same. When I do a ps aux, I get staroffice using 236MB of memory. It's certainly not true. What I actually get is 7 instances of staroffice using 33.7MB each. I've been assuming that this really indicates it's using 33.7MB total. That still means staroffice is a hog, but at least it's more realistic. -Brian Aaron Solochek wrote: I was checking gtop today to see how much memory was going to various things, and staroffice was reported as using 500+ megs. Now, I did just upgrade to 512mb of ram, but I have like 200megs of other things in memory, so this didn't make much sense. Also, LCDProc (A program to display system info to a LCD) reports 300 and some megs free. So, whats going on here? I find it hard to believe that staroffice uses that much memory. Anyone else see this behaviour? -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: man -k doesn't work
David Teague wrote: You may have fixed the problem, and not recognize it. If you are getting 'nothing appropriate' that may be the correct answer. For example, on my system, elentari:~[1]man -k ls ls (1) - list contents of directories mkls-lR (8) - Make ls-lR files on FTP server for mirror use mktexlsr (1) - create ls-R databases texhash (1) - create ls-R databases elentari:~[1]man -k xxx xxx: nothing appropriate. elentari:~[1] Try that and compare results. Funny you should suggest using ls because that's what first comes to my fingers when I want to test it. Indeed, man -k ls results in, ls: nothing appropriate. It turns out mandb is failing. When I run mandb as root I get this: Processing manual pages under /usr/man... Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...mandb: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied I don't know enough about how mandb works (even after reading the manpage and documentation) to know why this is happening. Any ideas? -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: man -k doesn't work
Fabrizio Polacco wrote: On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 01:04:49PM -0500, Brian J. Stults wrote: Hi, When I type man -k [anything], I always get this result: [anything]: nothing appropriate and when you try man [anything] what do you get? man [anything] works (for appropriate anythings). If you get a manpage then it is the db to be rebuilt (mandb -c from root), if you get No manual entry for [anything] then [anything] is really not appropriate :-) I tried mandb -c and got: Processing manual pages under /usr/man... Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...mandb: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied I don't know enough about mandb to interpret this correctly. Anyone know what file it is trying to create and where? It is always better to leave that env var unset, unless you have very specific stuff to add there. In any case, /usr/bin/man cannot go there! Use the command manpath to see if this setting is harming you; it should reply: /usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/man Thanks for the advice. I don't remember when or why I added the manpath env var, but I removed it now. I do indeed get the above result from manpath. Thanks. Still can't get man -k to work, though. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: man -k doesn't work
Ethan Benson wrote: It turns out mandb is failing. When I run mandb as root I get this: Processing manual pages under /usr/man... Updating index cache for path `/usr/man'. Wait...mandb: can't create a temporary filename: Permission denied I don't know enough about how mandb works (even after reading the manpage and documentation) to know why this is happening. Any ideas? check permissions on /tmp mandb is suid man so it does not have root privileges, however one annoying thing i have found is it creates a temp file but for some reason it gets owned by root so when it goes to delete it it gets a operation not permitted (because /tmp has the sticky bit) it seems to work better if you use sudo -u man mandb instead shrug That worked. Thanks so much! I have really been missing man -k. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
howto send message open xterm
Can someone tell me how to send a message to any open xterm? When I used to receive my email from a Novell server, a broadcast message would print to any open xterm when I received mail. Now I would like to add that function to my simple bash script local mail checker. Can someone suggest a simple way to do this (e.g. echo New mail arrived `date` ???)? Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
man -k doesn't work
Hi, When I type man -k [anything], I always get this result: [anything]: nothing appropriate It doesn't matter what I substitite for anything. I have the environment variable MANPATH set like this in .bash_profile: MANPATH=/usr/bin/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man Can someone suggest an answer? Thanks! -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
sudden IPX problems
Until a few days ago, I could mount local netware drives and print to netware printers without any problems. Now, I can't access the server. When I try slist I get this: slist: Server not found (0x8847) in ncp_open When I try ncpmount I get this (not surprisingly): ncpmount: Cannot assign requested address when trying to find [SERVERNAME] I thought it might be a problem with the server, but if I boot my machine into Window98 I am able to connect. Any ideas? I don't know what to do. Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
cannot make anything - Please Help
When I try to make zImage, I get tons of errors like the ones listed at the end of this message. It happens with almost anything that I try to make (glibc, gcc, etc.) Any ideas? Also possibly related, when I ./configure when trying to compile make, I get this message: checking argument types of select()... configure: error: can't determine argument types Thanks. Error messages when doing make zImage for kernel 2.2.10 follow: In file included from /usr/local/include/stdio.h:57, from conmakehash.c:17: /usr/local/include/libio.h:333: parse error before `_IO_sgetn' /usr/local/include/libio.h:333: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/libio.h:333: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from conmakehash.c:17: /usr/local/include/stdio.h:233: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:239: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:269: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:273: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:277: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:442: parse error before `fread' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:442: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:443: warning: data definition has no type or storage class And so on -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
kernel config problems
I am updating my kernel (2.2.10 to 2.2.13) and when I type make xconfig, I get the following errors. Can anyone help me? Thanks. rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkparse.o tkparse.c In file included from /usr/local/include/stdio.h:57, from tkparse.c:37: /usr/local/include/libio.h:333: parse error before `_IO_sgetn' /usr/local/include/libio.h:333: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/libio.h:333: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from tkparse.c:37: /usr/local/include/stdio.h:233: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:239: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:269: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:273: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:277: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:442: parse error before `fread' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:442: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:443: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /usr/local/include/stdio.h:445: parse error before `fwrite' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:445: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:446: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /usr/local/include/stdio.h:450: parse error before `fread_unlocked' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:450: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:451: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /usr/local/include/stdio.h:452: parse error before `fwrite_unlocked' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:453: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:454: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from tkparse.c:38: /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:80: parse error before `__ctype_get_mb_cur_max' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:80: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from tkparse.c:38: /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:356: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:386: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:474: parse error before `__size' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:476: parse error before `__nmemb' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:482: parse error before `size_t' In file included from /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:492, from tkparse.c:38: /usr/local/include/alloca.h:33: parse error before `__size' In file included from tkparse.c:38: /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:497: parse error before `__size' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:613: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:618: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:678: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:681: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:685: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:688: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:695: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:698: parse error before `*' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:702: parse error before `wchar_t' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:706: parse error before `mbstowcs' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:706: parse error before `*' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:707: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:709: parse error before `wcstombs' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:710: parse error before `*' /usr/local/include/stdlib.h:710: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from tkparse.c:39: /usr/local/include/string.h:5: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/string.h:7: parse error before `__strnlen' /usr/local/include/string.h:7: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/string.h:7: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /usr/local/include/string.h:14: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/string.h:16: parse error before `size_t' tkparse.c: In function `tokenize_line': tkparse.c:306: warning: implicit declaration of function `strncmp' tkparse.c:464: warning: implicit declaration of function `strdup' tkparse.c:464: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast tkparse.c:466: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast tkparse.c:468: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast make[1]: *** [tkparse.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts' make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
export varname with a hyphen
I need to export a variable called SSI-HLM. It appears that the hypen causes problems. I thought the quotes would take care of it but they don't. Can someone help me? Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
printcap for JetDirect printer
Can someone help mewith the proper printcap entries for a HP 4000TN (ps) hooked up with JetDirect? It will be my only printer. Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
printing to novell printer with apsfilter
Can anyone help me with this? I can print to it directly via nprint, but I cannot create a printcap file that will work. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
time is 5 hours ahead (using ntp)
I'm using ntp and it's working just fine. The problem for me is that the time is always 5 hours ahead of what it should be. I think this is something in the kernel settings, right? I set it to report GMT or UTP or something, and I'm in the EST zone. Can someone tell me how to switch that back? Thanks, Brian -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: Why use Enlightenment?
I'll second (or third) the I like E, but now I'm using sawmill senitment. I had no clear reason for moving from E to sawmill other than the fact that sawmill seemed a little more minimalist which is what I like in a window manager. If you like to hack your window manager and you're addicted to CVS, E may very well be the wm for you. Otherwise, I would recommendend checking out sawmill. The fact that it has the ability to more or less reproduce E themes is pretty cool, too. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
can't type some letters in xterm
When I login to my university's unix machines using xterm, I can't type an upper case C and X. If I do ctrl-v and then hit shift-c, a C is correctly displayed (same with X), but nothing appears if I just hit shift-c or shift-x alone. Any ideas? BTW, $TERM=vt100 if that helps. Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
debs to reinstall glibc
Can someone tell me which deb files are needed to reinstall glibc? I'm using potato. If you need more information, just let me know. I assume I can just download the files and then use dpkg to reinstall. Thanks, Brian -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
realplayer with broadcast.com
While we're on the subject of realplayer... I have G2 installed and it plays most realaudio formats just fine. However, when I try to listen to hockey games through broadcast.com, it plays the introductory advertisement, but then crashes when it tries to play the broadcast. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
parse error before `size_t' (audiofile)
I'm getting a lot of messages like this while trying to install audiofile from source. Here's some of the output from configure: In file included from /usr/local/include/stdio.h:57, from audiofile.c:33: /usr/local/include/libio.h:333: parse error before `_IO_sgetn' /usr/local/include/libio.h:333: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/libio.h:333: warning: data definition has no type or storage class In file included from audiofile.c:33: /usr/local/include/stdio.h:233: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:239: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:269: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:273: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:277: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:442: parse error before `fread' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:442: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:443: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /usr/local/include/stdio.h:445: parse error before `fwrite' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:445: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:446: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /usr/local/include/stdio.h:450: parse error before `fread_unlocked' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:450: parse error before `size_t' /usr/local/include/stdio.h:451: warning: data definition has no type or storage class There's a lot more, but I thought I'd just include a sample. Does anyone have some advice? Thanks! -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
nwpopup
I have my linux box set to access files and receive messages from a netware server. When I get mail, I am notified if I have an xterm window open. Does anyone know of a utility similar to nwpopup for Windows that will pop up a little window telling me I have mail? I tried running nwpopup through wine, but it didn't work. Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
messed up string.h
I am trying to install glib-1.2.5 from source, but I keep getting errors that seem to be stemming from /usr/local/include/string.h. That file includes string/string.h which doesn't appear to exist. I played with it a little bit, and now I think I've screwed up string.h beyond recognition. Where does it come from (e.g. what package)? Is there a way to replace it? Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
Re: messed up string.h
I'm trying, for arcane reasons, to install from the source tarball. Thanks! Bryan Scaringe wrote: are you trying to install from a .deb source package, or from a source tarball? I would think the .deb source package would have these issues addressed. Bryan On 05-Oct-99 Brian J. Stults wrote: I am trying to install glib-1.2.5 from source, but I keep getting errors that seem to be stemming from /usr/local/include/string.h. That file includes string/string.h which doesn't appear to exist. I played with it a little bit, and now I think I've screwed up string.h beyond recognition. Where does it come from (e.g. what package)? Is there a way to replace it? Thanks. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452
