excessive periodic scsi disk seeks
Upgrade from previous (3.0) to current Debian stable (3.1r3) resulted in periodic scsi disk seeks (approximately 1/sec) on a PIII with default kernel Linux version 2.6.8-3-686 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Thu Sep 7 03:38:22 UTC 2006 and with Adaptec 2940U2W controller: scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 Adaptec 2940 Ultra2 SCSI adapter aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs and Quantum drive: (scsi0:A:6): 80.000MB/s transfers (40.000MHz, offset 31, 16bit) Vendor: QUANTUM Model: ATLAS IV 9 WLSRev: 0B0B Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 with the following partitions: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 11067 8570646 83 Linux /dev/sda210681116 393592+ 5 Extended /dev/sda510681116 393561 82 Linux swap Swapping appears to be working: cat /proc/swaps FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority /dev/sda5 partition 393552 0 -1 The disk seek frequency does not appear to be effected by turning swapping off or on. I couldn't find a bug report on this issue. Also, these frequent seeks do not occur on two other systems with ide drives. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keyboard Shortcuts in Gnome
Has anyone got the keyboard shortcut (Applications-Desktop Preferences-Keyboard Shortcuts) assigned to Take a screenshot or Take a screenshot of a window to work for Sarge distribution (latest release with 2.6.8 kernel, gnome 2.8 and keyboard: pc104, us, xfree86)? Default setting has the Print key assigned to Take a screenshot and AltPrint to Take a screenshot of a window. It appears to be a hot-key problem. The (Actions-Take Screenshot) works and the application /usr/bin/gnome-panel-screenshot will capture the entire screen or the active window. Also, I can assign a keyboard shortcut to AltF12 to pop up the Home Folder. However, if instead I re-assign AltF12 to Take a screenshot or Take a screenshot of a window - nothing! Is this a Gnome or Debian issue? There's a recent Debian bug report (#384475) which addresses this issue; however, there is a claim that the PrtScr button does work. It's not clear in the bug report which distribution (sarge, etch, etc) this report addresses. I have found this problem on two separate Debian (Sarge) systems. -- Carl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
umount(ing) usbdrive mounted via gnome-volume-manager
I cannot umount a usb memory stick that was mounted with gnome-volume-manager while the file browser, Nautilus 2.8.2, is running either by right clicking the desktop usbdisk icon or the folder in the file browser. Error message: umount: /media/usbdisk: device is busy. The following is the attempt to execute pumount with debug option: $: pumount -d usbdisk checking whether usbdisk is a mounted directory checking whether /media/usbdisk is a mounted directory resolved mount point /media/usbdisk to device /dev/sda1 resolved /dev/sda1 to device /dev/sda1 policy check passed Executing command: /bin/umount /dev/sda1 umount: /media/usbdisk: device is busy umount: /media/usbdisk: device is busy umount program terminated with status 256 Error: umount failed The usbdisk folder is not open in the file browser. The fuser -m /dev/sda1 does not list any processes using the usbdisk. Umount is successful if file browser is closed first. I am a member of the plugdev group, the /etc/mtab entry for /media/usbdisk is assigned to my uid,gid, and usbdisk is not listed in fstab. This should be possible. I've been able to umount the usbdisk while file browser is running on a ubuntu 5.10 system. I'm running sarge with packaged kernel 2.6.8-2-686. -- Carl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
re: OpenOffice.org 2.0
Alternatively, you could just download your favorite non-free JDK (as long as it is Sun's) and OOo from their home page and install it yourself from the upstream RPMs. -Roberto I did this, and it works quite well. But it took up a huge amount of space on my harddrive. -Mark I doubt that the unofficial Debian distribution is any smaller. The OOo2.0 distribution takes ~284MB (OOo2.0 shipped with stripped executable files) compared to ~219MB for OOo1.1.5 (which was about the same for OOo1.1.4) plus the required jre weighing in at ~87MB. Remember 2.0 added a database engine to the mix.The openoffice website indicates that 2.0 will take 200MB disk space on linux - which was somewhat optimistic. -- Carl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 04:37:52PM +0100, Joseph Haig wrote: --- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edit your sources.list file (usually in /etc/apt). Add the following line: deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ Once you've done that, run apt-get update followed by apt-get install openoffice.org Will this work in Sarge or just Testing/Unstable? It will not work in Sarge as the new OpenOffice packages depend on newer versions of kaffe and on gcc-4.0, which is only available in Etch/Sid. -Roberto OpenOffice 2.0 can however be installed on sarge directly from the original openoffice.org distribution, i.e, download OOo_2.0.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz; gunzip/tar to a file and run alien -i from the RPMS subdirectory. You can also install the menu links from the included deb file: openoffice.org-debian-menus_2.0.0-3_all.deb -- Carl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg -l / truncation of names
Sebastian Kayser wrote:
Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
I would like to save the names of all the installed packages.
# dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'
Does the work, but some packages with long names are name truncated.
What's the option to provide to display the full name?
a) You may try to call dpkg -l with COLUMNS set to more than 80.
# COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l | awk '{ print $2 }'
See 'man +/COLUMNS dpkg'.
b) You can also get the list of installed packages via
# dpkg --get-selections | awk '{ print $1 }'
- sebastian
Or use the following to print just the installed packages otherwise all
packages including deinstall are printed:
dpkg --get-selections | awk '{ if($2 ==install) print $1 }'
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CD burner and automount experiences/misadventures w/ kernel 2.6.8 on sarge
I just recently upgraded from woody to sarge and struggled to get my CD burner (SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-348B, ATAPI) and automount to work. Since I could not find a cogent and concise description in any one document, thought I would share with the list how I finally succeeded with the kernel 2.6.8. I originally thought I would have to upgrade to a more recent version of the kernel since I found numerous references to a problem with the kernel 2.6.8 and atapi cd burners. Fortunately, this turned out not to be the case. Following the Sarge release notes [http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes.en.txt] for upgrading from a previous release, I upgraded to sarge then installed kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686. I removed all references to ide-scsi from '/etc/lilo.conf' and '/etc/modules' and added ide-cd, ide-disk and ide-generic to '/etc/modules'. Added (or verified) my username was a member of groups: disk, cdrom, floppy, plugdev and adm (not sure if this last one is necessary). Use adduser username group as root to do this. The gnome-volume-manager provides automount for removable devices. It, in turn, requires udev, d-bus (dbus-1, dbus-glib-1) and HAL. Some (if not all) of these packages were added or upgraded in the distribution upgrade. However, the gnome-volume-manager was not installed to start (auto-magically). I added it to the startup menu for my gnome session using: Applications-Desktop Preferences-Advanced-Sessions (Startup Programs tab) Can now automount pre-recorded CD's and burn new ones using the Nautilus file manager. :-) -- Carl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dh_clean error with apt-get source build
nate said on November 13, 2001 at 22:15 (-0800) Carl Greco said: I get the following error with the command I'm running 2.2r4. dh_clean is part of the debhelper (2.0.86) package. dpkg is version 1.6.15 as is dpkg-dev where dpkg-buildpackage is located. It would appear that debhelper/dh_clean version difference with dpkg and dpkg-dev is the problem. Can anyone confirm this or offer another alternative? its pretty common with packages from testing or unstable. sometimes you can get away with changing the rules files and stuff to bypass the errors and it still works(i did it with the sysstat package, removed debhelper totally and it works fine for my needs) other packages(like mysql 3.23) are much harder to compile from testing on potato(i was unsuccessful) as for alternative, depends on the package. i haven't used fetchmail in years so i can't reccomend much. nate Thanks, I was able to get it to build by editing the rules file changing DH_COMPAT from 3 to 2, i.e., export DH_COMPAT=2 and commenting out dh_installman, which removed the fetchmail.1 file from the deb file. It appears everything else is ok but have tried to install it yet. Carl
dh_clean error with apt-get source build
I get the following error with the command --- apt-get -b source fetchmail . . dh_clean dh_clean: Sorry, but 2 is the highest compatability level of debhelper currently supported. make: *** [clean] Error 1 -- dh_clean executes ok from command line. I'm running 2.2r4. dh_clean is part of the debhelper (2.0.86) package. dpkg is version 1.6.15 as is dpkg-dev where dpkg-buildpackage is located. It would appear that debhelper/dh_clean version difference with dpkg and dpkg-dev is the problem. Can anyone confirm this or offer another alternative? Carl
HP DeskJet driver (hpijs)
Has the HP DeskJet driver, hpijs, been included in gs, or gs-aladdin in testing or unstable? I'm attempting to install lprng with magicfilter to serve a 895Cse printer under stable (potato). If not, what would be the best alternate solution? -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hostname with dhcp-client
Anyone know how to set the hostname under dhcp? I have
dhcp-client [2.0pl4-2]
debian 2.2 - potato [patched to date]
kernel [2.2.19]
I establish a lease with dhclient with the following config file, i.e.,
[/etc/dhclient.conf]
send host-name peregrine.cox-internet.com;
lease {
interface eth0;
option host-name peregrine.cox-internet.com;
}
I have used several combinations in the above config file including
setting the hostname and domain names separately.
I don't find an error message from dhclient; however, the hostname
assigned by DNS, i.e., from nslookup on the ip address, is not
`peregrine' but some combination of letter, numbers and dashes.
I found several messages in the Debian Mailing List Archives that
may be useful but it appears there is a problem with the database. I
get the following message when I attempt to read one of the messages:
The requested URL
/www/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200107/msg02249.html was not found
on this server.
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Re: Building SPICE3 deb packages.
Stefan Srdic said on May 8, 2001 at 23:55 (-0600) I know that SPICE3 is BSD software, and that it comes with the same license as BSD, but I want to build a SPICE3 deb package so that I can use it with Oregano from the unstable. I've found some documentation on building deb packages out of SPICE3 at: http://www.eda.ei.tum.de/~mcp/spicedeb/ and have attempted to compile it. However, when I try to dpkg-buildpackage I get an funky error. I'm not experienced with building Debian packages and would apreciate some assistance from you developpers out there. This is what I get bashed with: NodeFilter:/home/stef/SPICE3/spice-3f5# dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc dpkg-parsechangelog: error: cannot open debian/changelog to find format: No such file or directory dpkg-buildpackage: unable to determine source package NodeFilter:/home/stef/SPICE3/spice-3f5# I'm assuming that the error is related to dpkg-buildpackage. I beleive that I need to create debian/changelog in order to compile this thing as spice_3f5-1_i386.deb Any thoughts? Stef Take a look at SPICE OPUS ``SPICE with integrated OPtimization UtilitieS'' [http://fides.fe.uni-lj.si/spice/] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alsa Sound in Potato stable - question
ALSA 0.5.10b works for me on a SoundBlaster PCI512 board and Potato (2.2r3). Here are my configure options (compile and install in this order): cd ~/src/alsa-driver-0.5.10b/ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-cards=emu10k1 --with-sequencer cd ~/src/alsa-lib-0.5.10b/ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local cd ~/src/alsa-utils-0.5.10/ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local And the alsa section in /etc/modules.conf: # ALSA portion # base modules alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore # soundcards alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # OSS compatibility alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss # sequencer-related alias snd-seq-client-62 off # may be snd-seq-dummy (MIDI thru) alias snd-synth-midi snd-seq-midi # soundcard options options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=29 options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_index=0 snd_id=LIVE post-install snd-card-emu10k1 /usr/local/sbin/alsactl restore You will need to add ``local'' the following line in /etc/init.d/alsasound alsactl=/usr/local/sbin/alsactl Dana J . Laude said on May 1, 2001 at 19:24 (-0500) I was wondering if the SoundBlaster Live Value card is supported in the stable potato release of Alsa? I checked Alsa's site and it's listed as supported, but it's up to version 0.5.10b there, compared to version 0.4.1 that's on the debian site. Normally I just compile a new kernel and toss in OSS from 4Front, but throught I would try something new since I got bit twice now on the Woody dist, and really need a stable box for home. Thanks! Dana -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Probs compiling gnucash 1.4.11 from sources (gtk-xmhtml.h is missing)
Richard Cobbe said on April 14, 2001 at 11:14 (-0500) Lo, on Saturday, April 14, Viktor Rosenfeld did write: Hello folks, SNIP Was anybody lucky in installing 1.4.11 from sources? Or is there an unofficial site out there, that hosts Debian packages for gnucash? Try ximian: http://www.ximian.com/ They've got a number of GNOME packages built as .debs that are more recent than the versions included with potato (and likely woody as well; I'm not entirely sure). I didn't install everything they had to offer, but their build of gnucash fits quite nicely into my potato system. Richard Did not work for me on a potato system with Debian's version of gnome. You must have Ximian's gnome installed. peregrine:~# dpkg -i /home/cgreco/gnucash_1.4.9-0.ximian.1_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package gnucash. (Reading database ... 48561 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking gnucash (from .../gnucash_1.4.9-0.ximian.1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnucash: gnucash depends on libart2 (= 1.2.0); however: Version of libart2 on system is 1.0.56-3. gnucash depends on libgnome32 (= 1.2.0); however: Version of libgnome32 on system is 1.0.56-3. gnucash depends on libgnomesupport0 (= 1.2.0); however: Version of libgnomesupport0 on system is 1.0.56-3. gnucash depends on libgnomeui32 (= 1.2.0); however: Version of libgnomeui32 on system is 1.0.56-3. gnucash depends on libgtkxmhtml1 (= 1.2.0); however: Version of libgtkxmhtml1 on system is 1.0.56-3. gnucash depends on libgwrapguile0 (= 0.9.1); however: Package libgwrapguile0 is not installed. dpkg: error processing gnucash (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: gnucash -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem compiling openssh
Anthony - You don't state which version of Debian (stable, testing, etc), OpenSSH or OpenSSL you are using. OpenSSH's `INSTALL' file describes which version of OpenSSL you will need. I have OpenSSH 2.5.2p2 which requires OpenSSL 0.9.5a or greater. I have installed OpenSSL 0.9.6a (in /usr/local) and used the following to configure OpenSSH: ./configure --prefix=/opt/openssh --with-ssl-dir=/usr/local/ssl \ --without-pam --with-md5-passwords This works for me on a Debian 2.2r2 system with Linux 2.2.18. Carl Anthony Fox said on April 13, 2001 at 09:14 (-0400) A few days ago, an apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade broke ssh for me. Apparently the version of ssh that was installed was compiled against a later version of the openssl library than I have. So I attempted to compile the ssh package from source against my version of the openssl library. This failed saying it could not find libwrap. However, when I checked for libwrap, it was there. Does anyone know what is going on here or what to do? -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DefaultColorDepth with acroread and netscape
Setting the DefaultColorDepth to 24 causes acroread to segfault and netscape to display toolbar icons in black/white. All other apps are OK. With DefaultColorDepth set to 16 all is well with acroread and netscape. Is this a know problem? Is there a fix without upgraded XFree86? System software and hardware are the following: Debian 2.2r2 (patched with latest security patches) xserver-svga (3.3.6-11potato32) enlightenment (0.16.3-8) gnome-core(1.0.55-2) netscape (4.75/U.S., 15-Aug-00; non-deb package) acroread (4.05-1) Matrox G400 -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DefaultColorDepth with acroread and netscape
Setting DefaultColorDepth to 32 seems to solve the problem. Thanks Erik. Erik Steffl said on April 5, 2001 at 09:57 (-0700) Carl Greco wrote: Setting the DefaultColorDepth to 24 causes acroread to segfault and netscape to display toolbar icons in black/white. All other apps are OK. With DefaultColorDepth set to 16 all is well with acroread and netscape. Is this a know problem? Is there a fix without upgraded XFree86? System software and hardware are the following: Debian 2.2r2 (patched with latest security patches) xserver-svga (3.3.6-11potato32) enlightenment (0.16.3-8) gnome-core(1.0.55-2) netscape (4.75/U.S., 15-Aug-00; non-deb package) acroread (4.05-1) Matrox G400 with some cards you might be able to use 32 (which is actually 24 bits used for color but uses 32 bits per pixel because of memory layout or something like that (the extra byte is unused, no alpha or anything like that AFAIK), 3dfx cards work like that, not sure about matrox). erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian with read-only /usr
Dave - You could always mount the `/usr' filesystem on the server as readonly and use the `remount' option of `mount' to remount `/usr' as writeable during an apt upgrade. The other option would be to export `/usr' readonly, i.e., in the `/etc/exports' on the server. Dave Sherohman said on March 15, 2001 at 10:22 (-0600) I'm looking at NFS-mounting /usr for a largish number of machines, with the basic idea that then I can just keep the binaries on the central server up-to date and the workstations will all follow along with (hopefully) a minimum of effort. I'm a little concerned about apt, though... I wouldn't expect it to be very open-minded about /usr being read-only. OTOH, I probably wouldn't need to run apt very often on the workstations unless there's a change to config file formats or an all-new package is being installed. Any Debian-specific advice on running a setup like that? -- Linux will do for applications what the Internet did for networks. - IBM, Peace, Love, and Linux Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+ L+++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r y+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)
StarOffice 5.2 does an excellent job. Knud =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8rensen?= said on March 12, 2001 at 15:17 (+0100) Hi I have to do a presentation of extreme programming for my colleges. And I have found a powerpoint presentation on the net. Is there any powerpoint players for Linux. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation)
If you whould prefer, as I do, not to install M$+VMware or wine on your Linux system, then install StarOffice 5.2 under debian. StarOffice will import `*.ppt' files. Joris Lambrecht said on March 12, 2001 at 17:07 (+0100) This might be the way to go, in case you do ... there is a free powerpoint presentation viewer available at the microsoft site. Maybe someone should try to get this to work with WINE. -Original Message- From: Gavin Hamill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 12 maart 2001 17:06 To: Carl Greco Cc: Knud Sørensen; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Powerpoint player (extreme programming presentation) I have to do a presentation of extreme programming for my colleges. And I have found a powerpoint presentation on the net. Is there any powerpoint players for Linux. Nope, any solution would be based around either running an entire Windows installation in VMware, or using WINE... Probably easier just to install windows on a spare partition :) gdh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: emacs memu bars in linux console
The following is from the Emacs - Menu Bar section of the Emacs Info page: On text-only terminals with no mouse, you can use the menu bar by typing `M-`' or F10 (these run the command `tmm-menubar'). This command enters a mode in which you can select a menu item from the keyboard. A provisional choice appears in the echo area. You can use the left and right arrow keys to move through the menu to different choices. When you have found the choice you want, type RET to select it. Each menu item also has an assigned letter or digit which designates that item; it is usually the initial of some word in the item's name. This letter or digit is separated from the item name by `='. You can type the item's letter or digit to select the item. Some of the commands in the menu bar have ordinary key bindings as well; if so, the menu lists one equivalent key binding in parentheses after the item itself. Osamu Aoki said on March 9, 2001 at 21:09 (-0800) Can we use emacs menu bars on the top of screen in Linux console? Buffers Files Tools Edit Search Mule Help I know these works as menu in X, but what does it do in console??? Should I close it with meta-x menu-bar-mode since it is not doing anything and eating precious screen. Osamu - Is it only me??? -- + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3D92 C3F8 EA94 D5DE 453D + + http://www.aokiconsulting.com/pc/ Cupertino, CA USA + -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where should top-level info menu (dir) for emacs be?
Depends of the definition of Info-directory-list. On my system (2.2r2 with GNU Emacs 20.7.2) the default value is (/usr/local/lib/info/ /usr/local/info/ /usr/share/info/ /usr/info /usr/share/info/ /usr/info /usr/share/info) (Not sure why all the multiple listings?) and /usr/share/info-/usr/info. The dir file containing all the links to the info files is in /usr/info. William F. Dowling said on March 7, 2001 at 17:35 (-0500) Where should the top-level info menu (dir) for emacs be? Debian policy says: Info documents should be installed in /usr/share/info. Your package must call install-info to update the Info dir file, in its post-installation script: install-info --quiet --section Development Development \ /usr/share/info/foobar.info But this call to install-info modifies the dir file in /usr/info, not in /usr/share/info. Now when I install a package (eg gcc-doc or binutils-doc) that follows this policy, the info files go in /usr/share/info, but the dir file there is not updated. Thanks for your suggestions, Will -- William F. Dowling ISI/Thomson Scientific (www.isinet.com) 215-386-0100 x-1156 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sblive
Alexander, You can use emu10k1 driver with the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) [http://www.alsa-project.org/] packages. I have a Creative Labs PCI 512, Linux 2.2.18 (CONFIG_SOUND=m) and (alsa-driver-0.5.10b, alsa-lib-0.5.10b and alsa-utils-0.5.10). The relevant section from /etc/modules.conf is the following: # ALSA portion # base modules alias char-major-116 snd alias char-major-14 soundcore # soundcards alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # OSS compatibility alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss # sequencer-related alias snd-seq-client-62 off # may be snd-seq-dummy (MIDI thru) alias snd-synth-midi snd-seq-midi # soundcard options options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0660 snd_device_gid=29 options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_index=0 snd_id=LIVE - Using the following to configure the drivers modules package prior to make: cd ~/src/alsa-driver-0.5.10b/ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-cards=emu10k1 --with-sequencer If you continue to have problems you may want to post to the ALSA list. Check website for email address. Good listing, Carl Pascal Hos writes: I was having similar problems until I tried creative's drivers. You can get them at http://opensource.creative.com Just compile you kernel with modular sound support and support for the OSS sound modules without selecting the emu10k1 module. Reboot with the new kernel and then build the creative drivers and they should work. Good luck, Pascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 26 February 2001 00:45, Alexander Pott wrote: Can anyone help? I am having trouble setting up my sblive. When I use lsmod I can see that the emu10k1 driver is loaded but is unused. The soundcore module is also loaded. When I list the pci device the sblive is there and using the correct irq. But when I use a program like gcd to play an audio cd I can't hear anything. I have used gmix to set the volume levels so it is not that. Also when I use cat /dev/sndstat it doesn't show any drivers loaded. What am I doing wrong? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: *.gz
Chad C. Walstrom writes:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 01:32:41PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
this is a very elemental question: how can I read a text file which
is gzipped? Al documentation files are stored in this way... eg
README.gz
Why do people suggest using things like mc(1)? What if Marcelo hasn't
installed midnight commander? Let's instead suggest he learns about
the tools on the system instead of learning about crutches such as mc.
Marcelo, *.gz files are compressed files created with the gzip(1)
tool. When you see people referring to an application like I referred
to gzip above, it means that there is a manpage -- aka manual page --
available. You can view the manpage with the man(1) command.
Now, go take a look at gzip(1), as gunzip(1) shows you the same
manpage. gunzip is a simple wrapper for
bash$ gzip -cd file.gz
The nice thing about shells and UNIX in general is that you can
redirect the input into pager's you're familiar with, such as more(1),
less(1), most(1), or even vi(1), my favorite editor.
bash$ gzip -cd file.gz | more
Notice the pipe ('|'). You can read about redirection of standard
input (stdin), standard output (stdout), and standard error (stderr),
in the manpage for the shell that you are using. Debian installs with
bash(1) as your default shell, so that would be a good place to start.
Someone mentioned the use of zless. This is a way of calling less(1),
a popular pager, to automatically decompress the file. Essentially,
zless does the following:
bash$ gzip -cd file.gz | less
zless is a keystroke saver, but it only handles *.gz files. With
the preprocessor feature of less it can be made to handle *.deb, *.bz2
and other compression types as well. A lesspipe script has been
attached that can do these. Thus typing
less package.deb
will list the contents of the deb package. You will need to define
the environmental variable LESSOPEN, i.e., for csh|tcsh
setenv LESSOPEN | ~/bin/lesspipe %s
Of course lesspipe must be made excutable.
Cool, huh? Say you want to email someone the uncompressed version of
that file. Given that you've set up sendmail(1), smail(1), or other
Mail Transfer Agent (MTA). You can do stuff like this:
bash$ gzip -cd file.gz | mailx -s 'Here is the file...' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And thus you see the beauty of the UNIX philosophy: Everything is a
filter.
The next place for you to look for information is in the document
directories:
/usr/share/doc/package
So go look there for stuff on: gzip, more, less, bash, etc...
Have fun!
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Re: what is going on with the digest?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At Mon, 19 Feb 2001 02:39:02 -0800 , Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There have been posts to this effect in the debian-user archive for at least the past 3 weeks. These aren't local problems, [snip] Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^^ Has anyone tried contacting this address? I tried a couple of times, with no response - nobody's home. I have the fear that one of these days my mailbox will be filled with back issues. I'm unsubscribing for the present. Too bad - I prefer the digest version. Get your own FREE E-mail address at http://www.linuxfreemail.com Linux FREE Mail is 100% FREE, 100% Linux, and 100% yours! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: library's hiding?
Run the following command and check for errors: ldconfig -nv /usr/X11R6/lib Sebastiaan writes: Hi, I try to run a program, but it seems that it cannot find the librarys needed. With ldd, I see that the following librarys can not be found: libXt.so.6 libXext.so.6 libX11.so.6 They are all present in /usr/X11R6/lib directory. My /etc/ld.so.conf contains, among others, this directory too. When I do 'echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH', the string is empty. When I add the correct paths to it, the program still can not find them. How do I solve this properly (in stead of copying them to /lib)? Thanks in advance, Sebastiaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: library's hiding?
Check that the libs actually exist, i.e., my potato (patched to current release) has the following: peregrine:/etc/init.d# ldconfig -nv /usr/X11R6/lib ldconfig: version 1.9.11 /usr/X11R6/lib: libXaw3d.so.6 = libXaw3d.so.6.1 libforms.so.0.88 = libforms.so.0.88 libforms.so.0.89 = libforms.so.0.89 libMrm.so.1 = libMrm.so.1.0.2 libXtst.so.6 = libXtst.so.6.1 libXt.so.6 = libXt.so.6.0 libXp.so.6 = libXp.so.6.2 libXmu.so.6 = libXmu.so.6.0 libXi.so.6 = libXi.so.6.0 libXext.so.6 = libXext.so.6.3 libXaw.so.6 = libXaw.so.6.1 libXIE.so.6 = libXIE.so.6.0 libX11.so.6 = libX11.so.6.1 libSM.so.6 = libSM.so.6.0 libPEX5.so.6 = libPEX5.so.6.0 libICE.so.6 = libICE.so.6.3 libxview.so.3 = libxview.so.3.2.4 libolgx.so.3 = libolgx.so.3.2.4 libXm.so.1 = libXm.so.1.0.2 libwraster.so.1 = libwraster.so.1.2.0 libXpm.so.4 = libXpm.so.4.11 peregrine:/etc/init.d# ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 -rw-r--r--1 root root 293100 Feb 11 15:41 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0 peregrine:/etc/init.d# ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.3 -rw-r--r--1 root root44456 Feb 11 15:41 /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.3 peregrine:/etc/init.d# ls -l /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1 -rw-r--r--1 root root 679148 Feb 11 15:41 /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.1 Also, make sure the links have full (executable) permissions, i.e., lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 13 Feb 16 21:42 libX11.so.6 - libX11.so.6.1 Sebastiaan writes: Hi, it gives no errors. It shows all the libs and to which they are linked to. Perhaps there is a problem because the program is 'old' (1998) and uses the old binary format (cannot remember which). Thanks, Sebastiaan On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Carl Greco wrote: Run the following command and check for errors: ldconfig -nv /usr/X11R6/lib Sebastiaan writes: Hi, I try to run a program, but it seems that it cannot find the librarys needed. With ldd, I see that the following librarys can not be found: libXt.so.6 libXext.so.6 libX11.so.6 They are all present in /usr/X11R6/lib directory. My /etc/ld.so.conf contains, among others, this directory too. When I do 'echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH', the string is empty. When I add the correct paths to it, the program still can not find them. How do I solve this properly (in stead of copying them to /lib)? Thanks in advance, Sebastiaan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Why do emacs' info files not show up in info?
One good aspect of emacs always was the very good documentation. However, after installing emacs20 from potato I discovered that info emacs shows the man page and that there is not a way to get the info files to show up when calling emacs' info mode. I have noticed that most of the files in /usr/share/info have -info or .info in there name, but emacs' files and some other packages also don't - and they do not show in when calling info. Is this a bug or am I missing something obvious? Johann. Several info file do have info in there name, i.e., g77.info, g77.info-1, etc. Emacs can also uncompress (ungzip) these files if you want to save some disk space. You may not have the info files in a directory searched by emacs. Check your Info-directory-list variable, i.e, type C-h v (without ) from emacs and the Info-directory-list. I get the following for mine. Info-directory-list's value is (/usr/local/lib/info/ /usr/local/info/ /usr/share/info/ /usr/info /usr/share/info/ /usr/info /usr/share/info) This is the list of directories searched by emacs for info files. Make sure your info file directory is included in this list. -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Emacs-20.5a info path
The search of the info-directory-list variable is corrupted when the auto-compression-mode is activated in the latest release of emacs for slink, i.e.: http://http.us.debian.org stable/main emacs20-el 20.5a-1.99 [5729kB] http://http.us.debian.org stable/main emacs20 20.5a-1.99 [8971kB] The info-directory-list is defined as: (/usr/local/lib/info/ /usr/local/info/ /usr/info/ /usr/info/ /usr/info /usr/share/info) but only /usr/share/info is searched once auto-compression-mode is turned on. Is this a bug in the debian distribution of Emacs-20.5a or endemic to the 20.5a version of emacs. If the latter, will the recently released version 20.6 be made available as a deb package in slink? Carl
Debian Hardware Certification??
I have been asked to specify a hardware platform for a Linux system for a commerical organization to function as a small departmental server. I plan to install Debian. With the exception of a couple system manufacturers, e.g., VAResearch, I find little or no statement of Debian support. Redhat has a hardware certification program [http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware]. It would be helpful to have such a database for Debian to encourage commerical utilization. Is there one that I have overlooked? -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apsfilter vs. magikfilter and hp printer
I have a Deskjet 660c and have been very happy with magicfilter and gs-aladdin.(which includes the hpdj patch)(see the man page for gs-hpdj when you install gs-aladdin.) The hpdj driver doesn't support your printer specifically but you should be able to get almost all of the features since the printer uses PCL-3. Don't know about 2-sided printing though. More info on the hpdj driver can be found at ftp://ftp.sbs.de/pub/graphics/ghostscript/pcl3/pcl3.html. Where did you find the magicfilter for hpdj? I am using magicfilter (1.2-28) on slink, but this version of magicfilter does not include a pre-defined filter for hpdj. Are you using a later version of magicfilter with a pre-defined filter (or filters) for hpdj or did you created your own? If you developed your own hpdj filter(s) can we get a copy? -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Emacs20 install error
Ian, Thanks for your help. I have the /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/debian-rundir.elc file but not the .el one which, I suspect, is the problem. Install script is probably looking for *.el to byte compile it for emacs20. Unless I hear otherwise, my next step will be to purge both emacs19 and 20 and start over. On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 01:55:41PM -0500, Carl Greco wrote: I am attempting to replace emacs-19.34 with emacs-20.3 on a Slink system with the following steps: 1) Remove emacs19: dpkg -r emacs19 [leaving emacsen-common (1.4.8) installed] 2) Install emacs: apt-get install emacs20 Emacs installs but fails to configure with the following error message: Cannot open load file: debian-rundir emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common emacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28. dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 Errors were encountered while processing: emacs20 E: Sub-process returned an error code Also attempted to install emacs20 with dpkg with similar results. Could not find debian-rundir on disk or distribution CD. Where do I get debian-rundir? I'm not sure I can be much help but as no one else has replied... On my system where I have both emacs19 and emacs20 installed and working I get $ locate debian-rundir /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/debian-rundir.el /usr/share/emacs/19.34/lisp/debian-rundir.elc and $ dpkg -L emacs20 |grep debian-rundir $ I had a quick scan of the install scripts for emacs20 (package version 20.3-7) in /var/lib/dpkg/info and saw no mention of debian-rundir which is kinda odd, so what package version are you trying to install? I remember I had problems when first installing Debian (hamm) and had to install emacs19 to get emacs20 to install properly. Maybe you should try installing emacs20 first and *then* remove emacs19. Either way if emacs20 needs emacs19 stuff to install it's a bug and you should probably file a bug report. Probably not much help but there you go... Ian. -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Emacs20 install error
I am attempting to replace emacs-19.34 with emacs-20.3 on a Slink system with the following steps: 1) Remove emacs19: dpkg -r emacs19 [leaving emacsen-common (1.4.8) installed] 2) Install emacs: apt-get install emacs20 Emacs installs but fails to configure with the following error message: Cannot open load file: debian-rundir emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common emacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 28. dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29 Errors were encountered while processing: emacs20 E: Sub-process returned an error code Also attempted to install emacs20 with dpkg with similar results. Could not find debian-rundir on disk or distribution CD. Where do I get debian-rundir? Carl
StarOffice 5.1
Has anyone installed StarOffice 5.1 (Personal addition) from CD? I need it to import MS Word 97 documents. I'm currently running version 4.0 under Debian 2.0 which is a bit slow on my 486 DX-2 (66MHz) 32 MB system. But it does a decent job of importing Word 6 documents. I'm guessing SO 5.1 will be even slower. Other than that, what problems might I expect? -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Porting Fortran apps to Debian
We are planning to port several scientific (Fortran77) applications from HP-UX to Linux. I have found a few examples with Redhat and other distributions but not Debian. In order to justify selecting Debian, I need some successful prior examples. If you have (or know of) a Fortran application that has been ported to Debian, please respond with details: o Fortran compiler used o Difficulties other than applications that read/write binary data where the big to little-ended data transition will be incompatible between OS's (regardless of distribution). o estimate of man-hours to convert per lines of code. o references to web sites or journal articles if available. TIA. -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Partitioning hard disk
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:41:21 +1000 From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT ~ This is how I plan to partitiion the disks: ~ /hda1 40MB ~ swap hda2 8MB ~ /usr hda3 68MB ~ swap hdb1 8MB ~ /usr hdb2 250MB ~ ~ where hda is the 116MB disk and hdb is the 258MB disk. ~ Will the above configuration work..and can I split /usr across 2 ~ partitions or will X complain? I think you could split /usr across two different partitions by making the second a symlink to the first, eg. name hdb2 partition something like /usr2 and make it a symlink to /usr. Not quite, because then what would you call the *real* /usr (since the name /usr is already taken by a symlink ;) However, you can symlink sub-directories, e.g., create /usr2/share /usr2/doc /usr2/local /usr2/src /usr2/games and ln -s /usr2/share /usr/share etc. Just make sure that all the information in these /usr subdirectories are moved to the corresponding /usr2 prior to the symlinks. For that reason be VERY careful about applying this to /usr/lib or /usr/bin. This is also useful if you out grow your original /usr partition. -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Super disk drive
Has anyone successfully integrated the 120MB Super Disk drive (by Digital Research) in their Debian system? Is it recognized by the linux floppy driver? The linux/drivers/block/README.fd (and driver software) in linux-2.0.32 does not have any information about this drive. There is a floppy drive type 5 and 6 listed as a 3 1/2 ED. Could this be used for the 120MB mode? Carl -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Best Debian CD?
According to Benedikt Eric Heinen: Actually, if you've already got DOS running on your pc, it should be possible to put in the CD and run a setup.exe without ever making a boot floppy. MS-DOS may not be installed on every system running Linux. I just recently installed an e-mail server with Debian Linux that does not require a DOS partition. Still I'd say it'd be a good idea, if the system could be installed without having to make boot disks... That's what I liked about RedHat3 when it came out, you could just start linux from the dos prompt and the installation didn't even require you to write boot/root/base disks. (Still for quite a few reasons, I am happy I changed to debian - but I really think that this feature would be good, I just don't like all the hassle with those 6 disks you need for the installation, if everything could alternatively also be done from the CD directly. It may be possible to reduce the number of floppy disks required to install Debian if it could be assumed that every system has a CD-ROM. (Mine did not.) However, IMO it is not necessary nor productive to require that MS-DOS be available for Debian installation. I would like to build a Linux system w/o having to pay MS a license fee for DOS. Although, perhaps MS should require Linux as a prerequisite to install NT ;-). -- \/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (402) 496-3381 / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \==/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's the ALT-F4 stuff?
According to Todd Graham Lewis: On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote: Exactly what is this multi screen session concept that allows you to type ALT-F4 and login again... I'd like to read the documentation on this feature. 8^) This is one of many undocumented goodies which lie scattered throughout the Linux universe, waiting for you to stumble across them. It's called virtual consoles, and alt-f[0-6] is the default . Actually, Virtual consoles are (well) documented, along with other Linux features in the vast array of linux-documentation-project and HOWTO's available at you local linux mirror, i.e., see section 3.2.3 Virtual consoles in Linux Installation and Getting Started by Matt Welsh. One of the Great feature of Linux over several other free unix os's is its extensive documentation. Please RT(very Fine)M. -- \/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (402) 496-3381 / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \==/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Debian CD?
According to Ami Ganguli: Actually, if you've already got DOS running on your pc, it should be possible to put in the CD and run a setup.exe without ever making a boot floppy. MS-DOS may not be installed on every system running Linux. I just recently installed an e-mail server with Debian Linux that does not require a DOS partition. In fact, the ideal would be to have applications available such that DOS or Win95 partitions are not required. IMHO we should continue to support DOS/FAT and Win95/VFAT file systems w/o requiring them for Debian installation. I know it's against most of our philosophies to support the use of DOS in any capacity, but when Caldera releases OpenDOS this could provide a really nice, fast way to install the system and it would still be free. As it stands now, we still need DOS to use rawrite.exe anyway. rawrite.exe is not necessary. You can use dd from an existing Linux/unix system. -- \/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (402) 496-3381 / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \==/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cyrix 5x86 100 with Linux?
According to Jim Blaney: Anyone having any success getting Linux to run with Cyrix 5x86 100 Mhz processors? I am having trouble, and I've seen a few messages that imply there are problems, so I want to know whether I'm trying to do the impossible g. According the the latest(?) Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO (v6969, 14 November 1995) the Cyrix CPU is supported. Apparently, there were some problems with some older chips and earlier versions of the kernel. o What type of problems are you having? o Where did you see messages about problems with the Cyrix CPU and what were the reported problems? Also, does anyone have a copy of a later version of the Hardware-HOWTO? Just checked tsx-11 and this was the latest from there. -- \/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (402) 496-3381 / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \==/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg package database error
Got the following errors while attempting to update dpkg-ftp in preparation to upgrade from Debian 1.1-14 to 1.2. Updated dpkg several days ago without problem. mac-bsa:/usr/distribution/binary/net# dpkg -i dpkg-ftp_1.4.8.deb (Reading database ... 4971 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dpkg-ftp 1.4.8 (using dpkg-ftp_1.4.8.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dpkg-ftp ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dpkg-ftp: dpkg-ftp depends on perl; however: -- Package perl is not installed.-- dpkg-ftp depends on libnet; however: Package libnet is not installed. dpkg: error processing dpkg-ftp (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: dpkg-ftp dpkg thinks perl is not installed although it is and fully functional - as far as I can tell. I'm not sure how the perl installation information was lost from the dpkg database. Is there a convenient way to fix the perl database entry without re-installing perl? Does anyone know how this happen? - Carl = Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED] = -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: virtual mail domains... long-winded response
According to Nick Busigin: On Wed, 18 Dec 1996, Al Youngwerth wrote: I'd sure like to hear from other ISPs and linux masquerading/diald users out there and how they handle virtual domains. Using linux with masquerading and diald is becoming a very popular way to connect small LANs to businesses so I think its something that ISPs should support well. More ideas and comments? Hello Al, What do you think of using MX records to a uucp host and using uucp and sendmail's uucp-dom mailer? You can use uucp over a TCP/IP connection, so it should work with well with diald. Nick -- Nick Busigin Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine[EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: get pgp-key -- I have set up a couple of Linux based e-mail servers with uucp. The main advantages of uucp are low cost and local control of e-mail accounts. The latest system (a 386SX-16MHz 4MB PC) uses Debian 1.1 with smail and qpopper (pop3) to distribute e-mail to a LAN comprised of WfWg PC's running Eudora Light clients. The major disadvantage is the addressing currently required, i.e., [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suspect that the proper MX record at the ISP would fix this. -- \/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (402) 496-3381 / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \==/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to print dvi files??
According to Hamish Moffatt: Is there way to print dvi files? I know I can print it by converting it to ps file but I would like to skip this step if there is way. E, isn't the whole point of dvi that it is device independent, ie it must be converted into something else to print? dvips (to postscript) is the common example, but I think there's also dvilj4 and the like to convert to PCL for HP LaserJets. I use a Bubblejet so I use dvips + ghostscript to print. What printer are you try to use? There are a couple of magic filters available to allow printing dvi files directly. Actually, they convert the dvi file to ps (or whatever is required for your printer). I use magicfilter with a HP DeskJet 660C. Also, look at apsfilter. -- \/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (402) 496-3381 / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \==/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DOS -- Linux
, and change de PATHS to the floppy drive name. 4)- Change AUTOEXEC.BAT, and CONFIG.SYS. The ones I use are : CONFIG.SYS: ; Disco para bootear en red a Margarita [menu] menuitem=RED-CLINICA menudefault=RED-CLINICA,0 [common] device=himem.sys /testmem:off device=emm386.exe noems dos=high,umb files=50 buffers=10 lastdrive = Z break=on numlock=on STACKS=40,256 FCBS=16,0 [red-clinica] device=A:\net\ifshlp.sys DEVICE=A:\VIRSTOP.EXE /COPY /BOOT /WARM AUTOEXEC.BAT @echo off prompt $p$g set comspec=a:\command.com path=a:\;a:\net;g:\wp51 SET TEMP=a:\ SET TMP=a:\ SHARE.EXE /L:500 /F:100 lh smartdrv.exe 1000 goto %config% :red-clinica doskey a:\net\net initialize a:\net\netbind.com a:\net\umb.com a:\net\tcptsr.exe a:\net\tinyrfc.exe a:\net\nmtsr.exe a:\net\emsbfr.exe cls a:\net\net start workstation rem * cls echo þ echo ** Un momento por favor, mapeando drives del servidor ** echo þ a:\net\net use e: \\cancer\netlogon a:\net\net use f: \\cancer\cdrom a:\net\net use g: \\cancer\temp a:\net\net use h: \\cancer\homes cls echo þ echo Drives mapeados a los que puede acceder: echo þ echo ÿ a:\net\net use rem *** goto end :end A: 5)- My batch file to connect to the Server: @echo off rem Bat para que entre el usuario a la red con cliente a: cd\net del margarit.pwd cls net logon echo þ echo ** Un momento por favor, mapeando drives del servidor ** echo þ net use e: \\cancer\netlogon net use f: \\cancer\cdrom net use g: \\cancer\temp net use h: \\cancer\homes cls echo þ echo Drives mapeados a los que puede acceder: echo þ echo ÿ net use 6)- My batch file to disconnect from the Server: @echo off cls a: cd net echo ** Un momento por favor, desconectandose del servidor ** net use e: /delete net use f: /delete net use g: /delete net use h: /delete net logoff cd\ 7)- My SYSTEM.INI file: [network] sizworkbuf=1498 filesharing=no printsharing=no autologon=yes computername=MARGARITA lanroot=a:\net username=MARGARITA workgroup=WORKGROUP reconnect=no dospophotkey=N lmlogon=0 logondomain=WORKGROUP preferredredir=full autostart=full maxconnections=8 [network drivers] netcard=ne2000.dos transport=ndishlp.sys,tcpdrv.dos,nemm.dos devdir=a:\net LoadRMDrivers=yes [386enh] TimerCriticalSection=5000 UniqueDosPSP=TRUE PSPIncrement=2 [Password Lists] *Shares=a:\net\Shares.PWL [network] sizworkbuf=1498 filesharing=no printsharing=no autologon=yes computername=MARGARITA lanroot=a:\net username=MARGARITA workgroup=WORKGROUP reconnect=no dospophotkey=N lmlogon=0 logondomain=WORKGROUP preferredredir=full autostart=full maxconnections=8 [network drivers] netcard=ne2000.dos transport=ndishlp.sys,tcpdrv.dos,nemm.dos devdir=a:\net LoadRMDrivers=yes [386enh] TimerCriticalSection=5000 UniqueDosPSP=TRUE PSPIncrement=2 [Password Lists] *Shares=a:\net\Shares.PWL 8)- My PROTOCOL.INI file: [network.setup] version=0x3110 netcard=ms$ne2clone,1,MS$NE2CLONE,1 transport=ms$nwlink,MS$NWLINK transport=ms$ndishlp,MS$NDISHLP transport=tcpip,TCPIP lana0=ms$ne2clone,1,ms$nwlink lana1=ms$ne2clone,1,ms$ndishlp lana2=ms$ne2clone,1,tcpip [TCPIP] NBSessions=6 SubNetMask0=255 0 0 0 IPAddress0=195 0 0 3 DisableDHCP=1 DriverName=TCPIP$ BINDINGS=MS$NE2CLONE LANABASE=1 [MS$NWLINK] FRAME=ETHERNET_802.2 DriverName=nwlink$ BINDINGS=MS$NE2CLONE [MS$NE2CLONE] IOBASE=0x320 INTERRUPT=10 DriverName=MS2000$ [protman] DriverName=PROTMAN$ PRIORITY=MS$NDISHLP [MS$NDISHLP] DriverName=ndishlp$ BINDINGS=MS$NE2CLONE Maybe it was not very optimized but it works ( in a 386, with 4Mb RAM, whitout HD ) - End of MSCLIENT Message - -- \/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (402) 496-3381 / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \==/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UUCP lib/distribution mismatch
The uucp_1.06.1-2.deb that was included in the Debian 1.1-14 distribution is not compatible with libc. The executables (uucico, etc) are looking for libc.so.4 while this distribution comes with libc.so.5. Is there an updated compiled uucp packages available? -- \/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (402) 496-3381 / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \==/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail server for MIME supported MUA's
I am setting up a Debian Linux e-mail server for a small Windows for Workgroups based LAN and need to use a MIME capable agent like pine. Pine uses Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) instead of POP to transfer mail to WfWg clients. IMAP is available as a (non-free) debian packages and pine clients software is available at University of Washington (ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pcpine). 1. I have had some experience with POP (and WfWg based MUA's) but not with IMAP. Are there any special precautions or concerns with IMAP and/or pc-pine? 2. The pine/IMAP combination is the only one that I have found that provides MIME capability in this setting. Am I overlooking others? -- \/ \ Carl Greco PHONE voice: (402) 496-3381 / \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \==/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
