Question about output from 'df'.
Hi, In fstab on a Debian Testing machine I have the following: # /dev/sda5 UUID=fbcdccf4-f329-4656-8ac2-7cff4c158404 /boot ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 # /dev/sda6 UUID=37de7813-0f65-41dd-b4ae-55912e454d0f / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /dev/sda7 UUID=4f2719cd-5e8b-4440-85d9-80db2a7e528a /home ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 # /dev/sda8 UUID=38d6809f-8c95-43c8-9a22-23fa1cbecdd4 swap swap sw 0 0 When I do 'df' (or look in System Monitor) I see the following for file systems: /dev/disk/by-uuid/37de7813-0f65-41dd-b4ae-55912e454d0f 10896648 5101224 5235248 50% / /dev/sda5 769760 44844 684980 7% /boot /dev/sda7 599139368 344433792 224264420 61% /home The output of 'blkid' is: /dev/sda8: UUID=38d6809f-8c95-43c8-9a22-23fa1cbecdd4 TYPE=swap /dev/sda5: UUID=fbcdccf4-f329-4656-8ac2-7cff4c158404 TYPE=ext4 /dev/sda6: UUID=37de7813-0f65-41dd-b4ae-55912e454d0f TYPE=ext4 /dev/sda7: UUID=4f2719cd-5e8b-4440-85d9-80db2a7e528a TYPE=ext4 Why is /dev/sda6 indicated as 'dev/disk/by-uuid' and the other two simply as /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda7? I can not remember that there has been a difference between the three in the df output before. -- //Christian
Re: [OT] Posting styles
On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 18:30:29 -0500, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: No one gains anything from it. Why does anyone do any of the bad things that they do? But that doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. People do spoof messages. It is a fact. If I am good for nothing else in this life then at least I can be an example case for the rest of you. :-) Please see this posting where *my* email was spoofed: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/08/msg03045.html My reply the next day that is in the next month's archive: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/09/msg00065.html Yes. My email address. Spoofed! To this mailing list. And such a very odd message too. I have no idea why. Strange that someone would take the time to craft that message individually. And now none of you can say that you have never seen it happen. It did happen to me personally. Bob Yikes! A love declaration to Debian! How utterly inappropriate (especially with the rocket reference) :) -- //Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/op.wcjzyhxogcp...@hit-nxdomain.opendns.com
Re: Converting to btrfs
On 01/30/12 at 06:52am, Alan Chandler wrote: On 29/01/12 18:21, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I have an older laptop running Sid I like to play around with. I would like to check out the new btrfs file system and know you can easily convert from ext4 to btrfs. The disk is partitioned with a small /boot partition, a 10 gb / partition and a /home parirtion taking the rest of the disk (except for swap). As long as I keep the /boot parition ext4 do I have to do more than point to the new UUIDs in fstab after conversion and update grub? Its been a while since I made myself a setup like this - but I think you will also have to ensure that initramfs has the bttrfs driver in it. That means I need a kernel with btrfs support and then do an 'update-initramfs' also? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f263e44.3070...@chandlerfamily.org.uk -- //Christian Dysthe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120130130211.GE8773@mint
Converting to btrfs
Hi, I have an older laptop running Sid I like to play around with. I would like to check out the new btrfs file system and know you can easily convert from ext4 to btrfs. The disk is partitioned with a small /boot partition, a 10 gb / partition and a /home parirtion taking the rest of the disk (except for swap). As long as I keep the /boot parition ext4 do I have to do more than point to the new UUIDs in fstab after conversion and update grub? -- //Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120129182157.GJ9385@mint
Re: need information of laptops that can run debian well
On 01/27/12 at 11:09am, Harshad Joshi wrote: is there any wiki or list of laptops that are supported by debian 6? i saw that many laptops are having highly proprietary drivers even for the nic. please help.. I've had great expriences with Asus laptops. The last four I've had have run Linux very well. Right now I have a Asus U43 which runs Debian perfectly. As always there are little quirks you have to iron out. With this one the wireless led didn't come back on after suspend, but it was easy for figure that out. -- Harshad Joshi -- //Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120128151332.GD4971@mint
Getting java applications to look like GTK
Hi, When I run Gnome Java applications looks like the rest of my GTK based applications. However, when I'm running another DE (Pekwm/tint2) Java applications do not look like my other GTK applications. How can I get Java applications too look like my other applications when not using Gnome? I use Gtk-ChTheme to see the GTK theme when not in Gnome, but it doesn't affect the look of Java applications. -- //Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120123170130.GA5536@mint
Re: Getting java applications to look like GTK
On 01/23/12 at 09:04am, Steve Mayer wrote: On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, When I run Gnome Java applications looks like the rest of my GTK based applications. However, when I'm running another DE (Pekwm/tint2) Java applications do not look like my other GTK applications. How can I get Java applications too look like my other applications when not using Gnome? I use Gtk-ChTheme to see the GTK theme when not in Gnome, but it doesn't affect the look of Java applications. Christian, Do you get the proper LAF if you pass this argument on the Java command line?: -Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel That did the trick, thanks! Do you know why I do not have to add this when running Gnome? Is there a way to set it at login so I do not have to for every Java application I launch? Thanks, Steve Mayer smaye...@me.com I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met. -- Steven Wright -- //Christian Dysthe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120123173342.GA19792@mint
Automount
Hi, I've been running a relatively minimal desktop for years (Pekwm/hint2). I haven't had many devices to connect to my computer so I have mounted as needed. Over the last couple of years I've gathered devices I like to connect to my computer like cameras, phones and a USB drive so I thought it might be time to look into getting automount working. What's the easiest way to do this without running Gnome (or KDE)? I'm running Sid -- //Christian Dysthe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120110173348.GA14201@mint
Re: Automount
On 01/10/12 at 06:36pm, Csanyi Pal wrote: Christian Dysthe cdys...@gmail.com writes: I've been running a relatively minimal desktop for years (Pekwm/hint2). I haven't had many devices to connect to my computer so I have mounted as needed. Over the last couple of years I've gathered devices I like to connect to my computer like cameras, phones and a USB drive so I thought it might be time to look into getting automount working. What's the easiest way to do this without running Gnome (or KDE)? I'm running Sid I have installed usbmount that automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices. Will USB mount work with a phone and MicroSD cards in the card reader on the laptop? I've tested in Gnome and both mounts there. -- Regards from Pal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vcojtq72.fsf@debian-asztal.excito -- //Christian Dysthe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120110174302.GB14201@mint
Re: Automount
On 01/10/12 at 01:46pm, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 07:34:28PM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote: Christian Dysthe cdys...@gmail.com writes: On 01/10/12 at 06:36pm, Csanyi Pal wrote: Christian Dysthe cdys...@gmail.com writes: I've been running a relatively minimal desktop for years (Pekwm/hint2). I haven't had many devices to connect to my computer so I have mounted as needed. Over the last couple of years I've gathered devices I like to connect to my computer like cameras, phones and a USB drive so I thought it might be time to look into getting automount working. What's the easiest way to do this without running Gnome (or KDE)? I'm running Sid I have installed usbmount that automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices. Will USB mount work with a phone and MicroSD cards in the card reader on the laptop? I've tested in Gnome and both mounts there. I don't have any of them so I don't know. However, you can try. I believe either thunar or pcmanfm (graphical file managers) come with all that automount stuff preconfigured. so you could just aptitude install pcmanfm, or something, if you want a graphical file manager to handle that. I'm not sure what other graphical bloat they're likely to bring with them. Thunar, iirc, is part of the XFCE desktop, but I don't think you need to install xfce to use it. To my knowledge, they both use gtk. Thanks. I found that I can start Thunar as a daemon which gives me automount. I'm using MC for file management, but I guess I could use Thunar since it'll be running at all times anyway doing automount for me. tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120110184614.ga12...@deathstar.hsd1.ct.comcast.net -- //Christian Dysthe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120110193204.GC14201@mint
Mail download problem
Hi, I am using fetchmail/exim to download my mail. Recently fetchamil quits in the middle of downloading mails with attachments and exim complains about a unexpected termination of SMTP. All other download works fine on my system. I have also tried using a MUA with it's own POP3 retrieval, but the same thing happens! What might be wrong? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
How to change fonts for applications under X
Hi, I have a desktop and a laptop both running Debian (unstable). The problem is that the fonts in the applications, at least motif and gtk based ones, are too large on the laptop. I am talking about the fonts in menus, dropdowns and on buttons. Is there a way to change it so that these fonts are smaller like on the desktop? The way it is now the button bar in for instance Netscape is hopelessly large and takes up a lot of screen space. My mailer which is Tcl/Tk based (Postilion) does not have this problem. I have not been able to find out what decides this font size, and where I might be able to change them. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Tranfer files from desktop to laptop.
Hi, what would be the easiest way to transfer (alot) of files from my desktop computer to my laptop? They both run Debian. The laptop does not have a network card. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
The IMG library not for Debian?
Hi, I use Postilion installed from a deb. On the Postilion home page it is recommended to install the IMG library for increased functionality, but I can't find this packaged for for Debian, nad I have problems having it compile on my machine. Does anyone know why this lib isn't packaged for Debian? The IMG homepage is: http://members1.chello.nl/~j.nijtmans/img.html TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
device full messages and lost file contents.
Hi, I am running Debian Woody i386. Yesterday I had a scary experience. I started getting these device full, can't save to device messages and several applications crashed. I could not send mail, I only got these messages. I rebooted the machine, and when I came back up I noticed that several config files for the programs that crashed was reduced to 0. Also, all the WindowMaker config files was 0 and I had to completely redo my desktop. After looking at this for a while it seemed like all files that was being written to for the period of time when I got these messages was reduced to 0. What might have caused this? Every thing works fine now, and for the record: My HD is *not* full! :) TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
No mouse in PowerShell (and Gnome Terminal).
Hi, I am currently using PowerShell (and Gnome Terminal) with Midnight Commander as my preferred file manager. The problem is that I can not use my mouse to control MC as I am used to from wterm (and also other terminals). I do have a sluggish slow mouse control initially, but if I for instance resize the window the mouse won't do anything at all. I have tried wterm again and have no such problems but prefer the PowerShell interface so I would like to find out what might be wrong. I am running Debian unstable with WindowMaker on the SVGA X-server. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Should I use squid?
Hi, would I gain anything by setting up, and configure my browser to use squid as a proxy on my workstation. I'm running Debian unstable. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Installing KDE in unstable using apt?
Hi, what do I put in sources.list to be able to install KDE using apt/dselect? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
lpd won't run on my unstalbe box.
Hi, tried to print but lpd isn't running. I have tried to start the daemon several times, but no go. What might be wrong? lpd isn't giving me any error messages either. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Netscape only beeps
Hi, lately (for a couple of days) I have had trouble clicking on URL's in my MUA, Postilion. See below what happens, and what I got in reply from the Postilion mailing list. What might have changed in Netscape causing beeps and no action when I try to load an URL from Postilion. I am using Netscape 4.7 On 26 Jan, Christian Dysthe wrote: when I now click on an URL in an e-mail all I get is a beep. Netscape is not invoked unless it is not already running. If it isn't it starts and show the URL. If it is, only a beep and no action I am quite sure I haven't changed the settings. In the Netscape command field I simply have netscape, and the argument is -install This has been working perfectly as long as I have used Postilion, but now it suddenly doesn't. What am I missing? This is most likely caused by netscape being reinstalled, and actually being some sort of shell script, or something similar. If you have been using this functionality for some time, and we _know_ that nothing has changed with Postilion, than it is probably something that changed with your netscape install. -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: What happend to Netscape?
On 26 Jan, George Bonser wrote: | Something changed in debian someplace that has tickled a problem with | netscape. I suddenly am finding my system thrashing to swap and processes | are dying off for lack of RAM when it is running. It seems so far to be a | problem when I leave the browser parked on a page that has a java applet | running but I am not yet convinced of that. | Another thing is that Netscape doesn't react to calls from other apps like it used to either. I used to call Netscape from Postilion. Now I can't. I dont not know if the performance issues, and this is related, but it started at the same time. See my post regarding this today. -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: What happend to Netscape?
On 27 Jan, paul wrote: | | 1) Netscape is still a piece of poop. I don't think so. If you have plenty of memory Netscape 4.7 have been fairly stable. Java makes it crash, and the are other small oddities, but I have been happy with it. | | 2) Libc5 version works a little better than libc6. I tried both. I have never been able to see much difference. | | 3) Netscape 3.x does not have the problems associated with Netscape 4.x. Use | Netscape 3.x whenever you do not need the added functionality of Netscape 4.x. I do not want to change browser based on sites I go to (unless I have to). | | 4) Disable java and javascript except for when you absolutely must have it. At least Java has to be disabled to avoid frequent freeze-ups. | | Also I would like to add that we should do whatever we can to support and help | with projects such as amaya in order to free ourselves from the Netscape | problems and the Netscape/aol/Time-warner corporate monster. Well, I work for a company putting out a Linux browser soon: Opera Software. The only problem is that we won't give it away. Personally I am used to pay for good software on my previous platform, Windows, so for me to pay for something I use as frequent as a web browser, or even a good e-mail client, won't be considered a problem. | | -ptw- | | | | | -- | Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null | | -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
What happend to Netscape?
Hi, I have been using Netscape 4.7 on my Debian (unstable) box for quite a while. Lately I feel Netscape has gone back to having the problems I felt was solved in 4.7: Memory leaks, crashing and slow rendering. Since it is still Netscape 4.7 something else in Debian must have changed to cause this. Or am I imagining it? I do not think so though -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Menu problem.
Hi, I just saw that my menu (WindowMaker) is on a diet. It used to contain almost all software installed, but now only a few items remains. I tried to run update-menus, but got this error message: cat: write error: Bad file descriptor Update-menus[26346]: Script /etc/menu-methods//afterstep returned error status 1. and the menus remains broken. What might be wrong? I am running unstable. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Setting up a PPP connection using a calling card
Hi, this may be a little off topic, but please bear with me. I am using Debian unstable on my laptop now and have a local dial-up account using PPP. Sometimes when I travel I want to use a company calling card to dial my local ISP and get mail and stuff having the long distance directly billed to my employer. The problem is that using the calling card requires putting in a customer number and a pin and finally my ISP's number. Does anyone know where I can find information regarding how to do this? I have looked several places but can not find information I am able to use. Windows have calling card features in their dial software, but I can not find info regarding this when it comes to Linux. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: Epson Stylus Photo 700
Hi, I sat up my Epson Stylus Color 740 using printool and gs. I had to be root to do so though, and had to get some additional filters from: http://dutera.et.tudelft.nl/~haver/linux/epson.html. First I was playing around with apsfilter and magicfilter, but couldn't make it work. Setting it up with printtool was pretty straight forward and works fine. You can find some useful information at: http://eunuchs.org/epson/index.html and http://gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi I am aware of the fact that you have a different printer than I have, but I am sure using printool will make it work. Good luck! On 25 Jan, Jonathan Markevich wrote: | I just got the above printer and am trying to get it working... I purged and | reinstalled apsfilter (is there a better way to get to the config?? I | couldn't find it) and installed using the escp2 gs driver, but all of the | jobs sit in the queue. I haven't tried it under Wingdings yet, but really | want it under Linux. I know it works, people say it does, but never | actually HOW. | | Thanks | | -- | Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://members.xoom.com/JMarkevich | | Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. | | | -- | Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null | -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Netscape (4.7) trouble on unstable
Hi, I upgraded my unstable installation with dselect last night and Netscape 4.7 has stopped working. The message is: Bus error and all I get is a lockfile in /home/.netscape and no GUI. What might have caused this, and how can I fix it? -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
IRC troubles
Hi, since I usually use the #debian channel on Openprojects.org to get help and currently not able to log on there I ask here: I use X-Chat 1.2.1 on my Debian potato system for IRC. Since yesterday when I log on to irc.openprojects.org and join the #debian channel the IRC client crashes. It does not crash when I go to channels on Undernet or Efnet or if I log on openprojects.org and do not join the channel. What might be wrong? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Webalizer and Apache
Hi, I have webalizer and apache running fine on a potato box. I have added the following to /etc/apache/cron.conf: # Pre-rotation script to run (leave blank if none). APACHE_PRE_SCRIPT=/usr/bin/webalizer It works fine but I get a report mail on Webalizers doings every day from cron. I have tried to add a -Q but then Webalizer won't run. How do I make webalizer shut up in this case? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
WDM troubles
Hi, I am trying to make WDM work on my Debian (potato) box. After having installed it I am not longer able to log in even though I know I type in the correct passwords. WDM shakes it's head as if the passwords are wrong. They aren't. It doesn't matter which account I am trying to log into. Same result. I then have to log in as root and un-install WDM to be able to return to how I used to log in: console and startx which works fine. What might be wrong? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/ ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Latest licq packages seems broken
Hi, I upgraded to licq 0.7.1 on my potato box today. I didn't receive any error messages, but licq won't run now. When I try to run it I get: Illegal instruction Anyone know what might be wrong? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/ ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
RE: Latest licq packages seems broken
On 17 Nov, Pollywog wrote: On 17-Nov-1999 Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, I upgraded to licq 0.7.1 on my potato box today. I didn't receive any error messages, but licq won't run now. When I try to run it I get: Illegal instruction Anyone know what might be wrong? The .70 and later packages require QT 2.x -- Andrew -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I do have the libqt2 package installed, and licq 0.70.1a worked fine. I now tried to downgrade licq to 0.70.1a. I still get the same error! I can't even run 0.70.1a that I have been running fine for a couple of weeks. -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/ ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
RE: Latest licq packages seems broken
On 17 Nov, Pollywog wrote: Did you read the UPGRADE file? There is a small addition you must make to your licq.conf so that it will be compatible with newer versions; either that, or just start with a fresh .licq/licq.confIt is a very small change that you need to make, but without this change, Licq will not start. -- Andrew Yes, I did read the upgrade file. Either licq itself or the plug-in package must have been broken because after I went to Incoming and got the 0.7.1-2 packages everything works fine again. I guess these two packages will be among todays upgrades on potato so others with this problem wil only have one icq free day. Thanks anyway! :) -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/ ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Apache-SSL: Can't get XBitHack to work.
Hi, I am trying to enable SSI using the XbitHack option. However, it won't work either from adding XbitHack on to config files or to add it in a ..htaccess file. I have another box running standard Apache. No such problems there. I am running Apache-SSL on a Debian Slink box. Any ideas what might be wrong, or is this simply a bug in Apache-SSL, or in the Debian version? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/ ICQ 3945810 eFax/Voicemail: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: console-tools-data errors on install.
On 2 Nov, Todd Suess wrote: I will report this as a bug, anyone else get this also? -Todd Yes, and I tried to uninstall and reinstall. It just got worse. New error messages. -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/ ICQ 3945810 eFax: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: console-tools-data errors on install.
On 2 Nov, Todd Suess wrote: Looks like the latest console-tools-data and console-tools has a bug. See following output upon installation attempt. Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-3) ... Cannot find termcap: Can't find a valid termcap file at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/Term/ReadLine.pm line 305 Seems debconf is to blame for this: I uninstalled debconf (and a couple of packages depending on it, Real Player was one). I then installed console-tools again without debconf and the install went fine. Then I resinstalled debconf and the pakcages I need that I want that need debconf. Voila! All is working fine. -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/ ICQ 3945810 eFax: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: console-tools-data errors on install.
On 2 Nov, Joey Hess wrote: console-tools does different things depending on if debconf is installed or not, but the bug is in console-tools. I just want to make sure I understand this. If I install cosole-tools without having debconf installed will console-tools be operating differently than if I install it with debconf already present? Also, will installing debconf later update console-tools to do these different things, or does different things just means it does the same things differently? -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/ ICQ 3945810 eFax: 1-208-248-9634 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Where are gmp2?
Hi, I need gmp2 to compile some software. I went to the Debian pages and found that the package I need are to be found under devel. Then I tried to run dselect, but gmp2-dev was not not be found. I went back to the web and tried to download from there, but the deb's are not available. What gives? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Parallel port problem - No printing possible
Hi, I am struggling getting my printer to work (Epson SC 740). I am now pretty sure my problem is that the printer doesn't receive anything because documents are spooled, and it looks like the documents are sent to lp0. Still, the printer is dead (It prints in Windows though). I am pretty sure that I have installed all the required packages. I have also downloaded and tried special filters for my printer. I can also see ghostscipt dealing with the print jobs using top. I am running potato with kernel 2.2.9. I have tried to recompile the kernel also without auto detect of the parallel port, but no go. When compiling with auto detect I can see the printer detected, but on parport0 (or something like that) instead of lp0. I am not able to print either way though. How can check that my parallel port works like it should? How can I see that lp0 really receives the documents? And finally, what might be the reason I am not able to print at all? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Printer problem
Hi, I have been trying to install an Epson Stylus Color 740 printer. I have installed the neccesary packages and run magicfilterconfig. I see my printer doing dmesg, it is connected and detected on parport0. When I try to print I get the following message: lpr: connect: Connnection refused, jobs quened, but cannot start daemon. This is weird since the daemon is actually running. I get the same message trying to print from both printtool and Netscape which are the only two programs I have tested so far. Can anyone help? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: modprobe errors return
On 18 Oct, Pollywog wrote: Those odd modprobe errors have returned after I did an apt upgrade today. Oct 18 21:43:46 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep Oct 18 21:43:53 lilypad insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep Oct 18 21:43:53 lilypad insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep Oct 18 21:44:40 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep Could it be a problem with a package? -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream* -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I still get this when I do depmod -a. I have recompiled my kernel depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/aten.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/bpck.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/comm.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/dstr.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/epat.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/epia.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/fit2.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/fit3.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/friq.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/frpw.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/kbic.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/ktti.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/on20.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/on26.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/pcd.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/pd.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/pf.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/pg.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/pt.o This also shows up when I boot. Weird. I am still hoping it will go away by itself just like it started by itself :) -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Ftp problem.
Hi, I am not able to login to my machine with ftp anymore. I get a connection to the server, but whatever user/password I use I get: 550 Authentication failure I get this on all accounts with the right use name and password combinations. Telnet works fine. Can anyone tell me where to start looking. I have tried and tried to find out what is wrong, but no go. I have also reinstalled ftpd, login and passwd. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade
On 16 Oct, Martin Fluch wrote: Then recompile the kernel ... that should work. Nope, did that. Same errors. -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade
On 16 Oct, Martin Fluch wrote: Then there seems to be some modules in the directory, wich are not needed, e.g. they are left from the previous kernel... (have a look at their date) ... I guess you can savely remove them ... or move /lib/modules/2.2.12 to /lib/modules/2.2.12.old and install the modules again... There are no old modules in there. Only the new ones created and installed by using make-kpkg and dpkg. These errors started a couple of days ago after a dselect upgrade. I have not touched the kernel and the modules since I kernel 2.2.9 came out a while back until I did the recompile today. I suppose I just have to wait and keep upgrading my potato box and hope these errors disappear just as mysteriously as they appeared? -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade
On 15 Oct, Pollywog wrote: I did an upgrade of my potato system yesterday, and now I am getting this error even though I went back to the /etc/modules.conf I was using before the upgrade. Oct 15 16:56:47 lilypad modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.12/modules.dep Any ideas on how to fix this? -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream* -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I am gettting som /usr/lib/modules.something..errors when I boot after yesterdays upgrade. I am not able to read it, cause it races by so fast, and I can not see them it when I do a dmesg.It looks like it says something about /lib/modules/2.2.9/modules.dep and /etc/modules.conf. I have some messages like this in my daemon.log also now that are new. There's at least 10 of these module related messages during boot that I have never seen before. No idea what this is either. -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: modprobe errors after apt-get upgrade
On 15 Oct, Martin Fluch wrote: depmod -a Did depmod -a This is what I got: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/aten.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/bpck.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/comm.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/dstr.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/epat.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/epia.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/fit2.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/fit3.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/friq.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/frpw.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/kbic.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/ktti.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/on20.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/on26.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/pcd.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/pd.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/pf.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/pg.o depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/pt.o This looks like what I am getting while booting also. This started yesterday after an upgrade of my potato box. -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
dselect has gotten hungry
Hi, lately I have the feeling that dselect has gotten more resource hungry. After having retrieved packages CPU usage goes up to 100% for a long time while dselect prepares install. It also races up and down a lot while packages are being installed, and has a lot of lasting peaks at 100% while this is going on also. It wasn't like this before. What happened? I am running potato btw. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Trouble with dselect: Hangs
Hi, I am running potato and have upgraded my system using dselect/apt without problems for a long time. Now I have problems though: dselect downloads the selected packages, the message Fetched kB in XXmXXs (B/s) shows up and then it hangs. Nothing happens, no error message even. It seems like the command to start the unpacking and installing aren't given or something. I then have to terminate dselect and manually install the packages using: dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb This is the ONLY way I am able to upgrade now. What might be wrong, and how can get dselect to function normally again? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Modem speed
Hi, I am running Debian Potato with wmppp.app as dialer. I am using a Diamond SupraExpress external modem (great modem for Linux btw!) to connect to my two ISP's. I have wmppp.app set to report the speed I connect at. On my first ISP I get connects between 42600 and 44000 (accrding to wmppp.app), on the other ISP ALWAYS 33600. At least that it what is reported because the ISP that shows the slowest connection is the fastest one to use for me. I have run tests online that show that this is true, so I assume that what the second ISP reports must be wrong (especially since it ALWAYS shows 33600, never below and never above). Can anyone tell me why this is? I have been playing around with another modem, and also with init strings, but the result is the same. The only difference between the two ISP's is that the first one is using a modem pool while the other one is using CISCO 5200. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: Modem speed
On 29 Sep, Marc Mongeon wrote: Christian: I'll guess that ISP 1 has 56K modems on their end, and ISP 2 has 33.6K modems. Or, the loop between you and ISP 2 is not fit for the digital communication required for 56K, so the modems fall back to 33.6K (analog). What sort of tests have you done to verify the speed of the links? I would think that observing the turn-around times on pings to the gate- ways of each ISP should give a pretty good indicator of the line speed. Perceived differences in throughput beyond that are more likely the result of the ISP's internal network and Internet connection. Marc -- Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- It's such a fine line between clever and stupid. -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap I do not think ISP two has modems at all. You dial directly in to the Cisco unit or something. At least that is what they told me. ISP one has 56k modems. We have a Windows machine here dialing into the same ISP (the slow one), and that machine gets at least a 42000 connection. Below you can see ping stats from ISP two: --- ping statistics --- 26 packets transmitted, 26 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 89.4/107.6/174.8 ms -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
mc error message
Hi, after the latest upgrade of mc in potato I have noticed an error message every time i start it: oddbird:/home/cdysthe# mc.real params.c:OpenConfFile() - Unable to open configuration file /etc/smb.conf: No such file or directory Can't load /etc/smb.conf - run testparm to debug it load_client_codepage: filename /usr/lib/codepages/codepage.850 does not exist. What does this mean? Does it matter? If yes, how do I fix it? While I am at it: How do you cut/copy/paste from/to to the mc editor? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Netscape - Real Audio problem
Hi, I know this might not be a Debian spesific problem, but since I have installed both NS 4.61 and Real Player using the deb's I ask here: When I go to some sites using Real Audio the player is spawned and everything works fine. At other sites this is not the case. Two examples: http://www.netradio.com works fine. (The player is spawned) http://www.imagineradio.com doesn't work (The player isn't spawned) I was wondering if there is some default settings in Netscape I can alter to make Real Player open at the latter site (and others also)? -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Printer advice
Hi, I need to purchase a printer for my Debian box. Of course I want one that will be easy to install and run from Linux without problems. Please advice when it comes to purchasing an ink printer in the $150-200 class. TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Can't install emacs on potato
Hi, I can't install emacs 20 on my potato box with dselect. This conflict stops me: emacs20 depends on liblockfile0 liblockfile0 does not appear to be available emacs20 depends on liblockfile0 (= 0.1-1) liblockfile0 does not appear to be available What can I do? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: Why use Debian? Why not Red Hat?
On 1 Sep, Mark Brown wrote: Doing a distribution upgrade without *having* to reboot is rather nice. It is not only rather nice. It is wonderful! We chose Debian becuase it is a great distro when it comes to admin in remotely. Our server is co-located on another continent than our company location. Running Debian has been incredibly problem free for us. Not only can we add and upgrade remotely. Debian has dselect/apt which it as great (almost intuitive) tool for maintaining and upgrading the system. I guess I also should mention that we do not have downtime at all! :) -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Problem with the login.app package
Hi, I have tried to post to other lists to get a solution for this. It seems to be Debian related though. Here goes: I installed login.app on my Debian box. I run WindowMaker. What happens when I boot up is that I get to the login.app login screen, but when I put in my user name and password the screen blanks for a little while and I am back to the login screen (it does not shake like it does when you put in an erroneous user name and password). I am not able to log in at all, and I have to press Ctrl+Alt=Backspace to get to a normal login prompt where I can do a login and a startx to get into WindowMaker. I also tried to type console from the login.app screen. I then get to a terminal from which I can log in, but when I try to do startx from there I get the message that I do not have permission to start the X-server. Does anyone know what might be the problem? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Listing floppy drive correctly in fstab - Need help
Hi, I have a stupid question, but I have been trying to figure this out now for too long by trial, error and some reading, so I ask: I want my floppy drive mounted in /etc/fstab so that I can use and app like wmmount to mount it. It all works fine with my HD and CD-Rom drive, but I can not find the right line to add to /etc/fstab to make it work with my floppy drive. I am able to mount it from command line using the mount command. My floppy drive is /dev/fd0. wmmount only passes the mount point to mount, so I have to have the device correclty listed in /etc/fstab to make this work. TIA for help. -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
How do I limit cron reports?
Hi, I have a couple of cron jobs running that I have added myself. The problem is that I get mails from cron with the subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily In the mail it may say: /etc/cron.daily/linbot_autorun: And below comes all that the program linbot has been doing, in this case cheking all links on our web site which is alot. I have a feeling it has to do with the --report statement, but I am not able to find out how to stop this :reporting from happening. TIA for help. -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Why no ftps and/or telnets?
Hi, one thing that puzzles me is why we have gotten SSH, SRP and other services for secure data transfer instead of secure versions of already existing services like we have for http (https). Some of this stuff is even commercial software to the degree you literally need to license the protocol itself (SSH2). I am not a network guru at all, so I might miss something obvious here. However, I would really have liked to see something like ftps and telnets which was as invisible to the user as https. Then I would be able to use my normal ftp client (ftps enabled of course) instead of using ssh where file transfer is command line. Yes, I know Linux folks like command line clients, but there are people out there preferring GUI clients and mouse control. I am one of them. I said above I might have missed something. Maybe I even missed that what I have stated here as wish even exists? I have looked through the packages in Debian, but I can not find any trace of anything like it though. Guess I will have to keep running SSH? -- Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Java won't run
Hi, I installed Java JDK 1.1 on my potato box. Whenever I try to run a java app I get the error message below and the app won't start. What am I missing? /usr/bin/java: [: too many arguments /usr/bin/java: [: too many arguments /usr/bin/java: [: too many arguments java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/usage: arch listname mbox/green_threads/java TIA -- - Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: Screwed up my alternatives (Still a problem)
On 12 Aug, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: I screwd it up too. My solution was # update-alternative --auto netscape hope this help Chanop Thanks, I tried that. Unfortunately it didn't work. You can see the output below: Setting up automatic selection of netscape. Checking available versions of netscape, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see `man ln'.) Last package providing netscape () removed, deleting it. Could it have to do with the fact that I deleted /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/netscape when I tried to get rid of all traces of Netscape before the re-install? -- o - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Weird swap growth
Hi, I am running Debian potato on a box with 128 MB RAM. My swap file is 64 MB. This was the size I got recommended when partitioned the disk. Lately I have my swap getting dangerously full while I still have a lot of free memory. Even when I close almost all programs the swap file stays filled up. What might cause this? Should I use Partition Magic and resize my swap partition, or is my 64 MB normally enough for a system like mine? TIA -- o - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Screwed up my alternatives
Hi, a few days ago I had all kinds of Netscape trouble. I decided to remove evey trace of it and resinstall. I even removed to netscape file in /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives. After I had re-sintalled the only way I can start Netscape is to do: /usr/lib/netscape/461/navigator/navigator-smotif.real What must I do to get the Netscape alternatives reinstated? TIA -- o - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Netscape died on me.
Hi, I did a dselect upgrade on my potato box today. I saw that some Netscape base stuff got upgraded. After that my NS 4.61 static motif wouldn't run anymore. I tried to uninstall and reinstall, but no go. What happens when I try to run NS is: /usr/lib/netscape/base/uri_escape: No such file or directory /usr/lib/netscape/461/navigator/navigator-smotif.real: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/netscape/plugins/build-tree/plugger-3.0/plugger.so: undefined symbol: flose How do I get Netscape back? TIA -- o - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: Debian support for PAP
On 9 Aug, A. M. Varon wrote: Any recommended dialers for Debian which supports PAP? regards, = = Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated = = == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 = == = = = = E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] = WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I have used X-ISP a lot. It is easy to set up, supports PAP and multiple ISP's. -- o - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Apache-ssl wont auto restart. Needs password.
Hi, we have Apache-ssl installed and running on our Debian Slink web server. The only problem we have is that Apache-ssl won't restart automatically if it goes down or if we reboot. This because we need to put in a password after having entered apache-sslctl start. This is probably also why the startup scripts fail. How do we implement this password in the startup scripts? Or how do we disable the password protection so that Apache-ssl will work like Apache did? TIA -- o - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
SSH2 on slink?
Hi, our web server is running Debian slink, but we have several workstations running Debian Potato and Windows 95/98 that would need to connect SSH to the web server. Especially for Windows everything is easier using SSH2 so we would like to offer this option. I see that there is a SSH2 package for Potato available and wondered if anyone has installed this successfully on slink. I also need to know if installing this package disables SSH1 that we currently have running on the web server TIA .. -- o - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?
On 2 Aug, Hartmut Figge wrote: Christian Dysthe wrote: Opera will be ready for Linux soon. But Opera is not free. I work for ^^ could you be a bit more precisely? -- hafi -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Ummm...don't quote me on this, but I would be surprised if the Linux beta is not out three months from now (We released a BeOS version this weekend btw). The price will be close to what we charge for the Windows version, 35$. Precise enuff? :) -- -- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux -- Clones are people two
Re: How can I change the host name?
On 31 Jul, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 31 Jul, Tadas wrote about How can I change the host name? Edit /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname, I also have a file /etc/mailname but I don't recall what that is used for. If you have that edit it as well. Do you have to reboot to have these changes take effect? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- -- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux -- Clones are people two
Re: Netscape crashing - Why do we have to rely on Netscape?
On 31 Jul, Phillip Deackes wrote: I have been following the threads about the instability of Netscape with great interest. I too suffer the same symptoms - the ones where Netscape disappears when a certain page is requested, or where it closes/crashes when one window of two/several is closed. What I cannot understand is why we have only Netscape as a *viable* graphical web browser. I am no programmer so maybe someone could point out why there aren't several to choose from. I am aware of old ports of Mosaic and the 'test-bed' Amayana? (sorry, can't remember the exact name). I am also aware of Mozilla. is that usable yet? Thinking about it, there are not that many choices available for Windows either - I was investigating some for use by my students and it appeared most 'alternatives' were based on IE and just provided a different front end. -- Phillip Deackes Debian Linux (Potato) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Opera will be ready for Linux soon. But Opera is not free. I work for Opera Software and seen that the Linux version will be just as stable and lightweight under Linux as it is under Windows. You don't get all the bells a whistles you do from Netscape, but you will get a lightning fast, rock solid, browser. And you will have to pay...sorry! :) -- -- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux -- Clones are people two
Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA
On 31 Jul, Mark Brown wrote: For MUAs which send mail by calling sendmail, it is pretty much a dependancy. But you do not *need* the sendmail package installed. exim, for instance, is almost 100% sendmail compatible and listens to all common sendmail commands. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ -- -- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux -- Clones are people two
WmWare on Debian
Hi, I have been to the WNWare home page, and Debian is not mentioned as one of the supported distributions. Have anyone succsessfully installed and run it on Debian (I run potato)? TIA -- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux -- Clones are people two
Netscape x 2 = 0
Hi, all since I installed the netscape 4.50 packages I have had the problem that I can not close one of several instances without having all of them close on me. The problem is still there in the latest 4.61 I recently installed. I have posted about this earlier, and I think somone thought it could be glibc 2.1 that was the reason for this. Has anyone come closer to a solution? I run potato. TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
Server slowly dying
Hi, we had a problem with our server today. First we could not log in ssh, then ftp and mail (exim/qpopper) died and finally Apache. It took about an hour for all these services to die. Since we couldn't log in ssh, and telnet is removed, we could not monitor what was going on (the server is located outside our premises). We had to have the server rebooted, but had to start Apache-ssl manually after it was back up. Apache didn't resart on reboot. Below I have pasted some entries from the syslog that seems to be repeated all the time while this was going on (and maybe ealrier also). Maybe someone could make something of this and help me find out whats going on? Jul 17 00:03:06 kernel: ll_rw_block: device 08:05: only 1024-char blocks implemented (4096) Jul 17 00:03:06 last message repeated 15 times Jul 17 00:04:15 ypbind[174]: broadcast: RPC: Timed out. Also some of these showed up: Jul 17 00:14:30 kernel: possible SYN flooding on port 80. Sending cookies This server is running Debian Slink with Apache-ssl and has been acting nicely for a long time. TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
Setting up additional domains.
Hi, we have installed Debian slink on our web server. It has been running like a dream! Now we want to host two new domains on this server. Which files do we have to change to add the new domains, and where can I find documentation (for non Linux guru's) on how to do this on Debian? Also, do we have to reboot to make theses changes take effect? And finally, which other packages have to be re configured (exim, ftp, ssh etc...)? TIA for all help. --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
nfs-client
Hi, I was upgrading my potato box and got this as the nfs-client was being set up. I also get an error message about this when I am rebooting. Here goes: Setting up nfs-client (1.4.3-2) ... Starting NFS client services: rpc.lockdlockdsvc: Function not implemented rpc.statd. Whar does this mean? TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
RE: upgrading perl
As far as I have been able to find out the best thing to do is to wait until the other packages has caught up with this Perl upgrade, at least a week or so. I tried to find out how to work arond this, but it didn't seem worth while, so I will just put upgrades on hold for a week or so hoping the Perk dependencies are fixed by then. On 05-Jul-99 Max wrote: Can anyone suggest how I can upgrade perl to 5.005 without dselect forcing me to remove something like 150 packages? It seems that perl-5.005-base conflicts with perl but doesn't provide it. Consequently, all the packages that depend on perl want to uninstall themselves. Any clues? Please cc me on the replies. Thanks, Max -- The hopeful depend on a world without end Whatever the hopeless may say Neil Peart, 1985 --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
NFS / VFS messages
Hi, the two entries keeps showing up in my syslog (the last one also in debug. log) lately after I have rebooted. Jul 6 07:43:24 oddbird /usr/sbin/rpc.statd[345]: open (/var/lib/nfs/state): No such file or directory Jul 6 07:44:24 oddbird kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64) What are these? TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
ps output looks like crap
Hi, I did dselect upgrades on my potato system yesterday. After that ps outputs looks like crap. To much space between each data field so that one entry takes up several lines. tkps (and other process tools) now needs a 3 feet wide window to show proecesses! ;) Help needed. TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
RE: x11amp still available?
As far as I know, X11amp is being replaced with XMMS. Take a look at: www.xmms.org Trying to access www.X11amp.org will take you to XMMS also. On 05-Jul-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded to xmms and I'd like to go back to x11amp. xmms uses about 30% of my 233cyrix's cycles. I don't think x11amp used more than a couple percent. Is there a deb of x11amp around still somewhere? I can't find it in the archive. --- Get free personalized email at http://www.iname.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
squid - why?
Hi, we have installed Slink on a box that will be a normal company web server. This means will have normal visitors wanting to know about our company and maybe some e-commerce going on also. I chose to install Debian as web server which, after I brought the box up, includes the proxy squid (and of course Apache). What I would like to know is why I need squid running on this box which will be a normal web server with a couple of million hits a months? Will normal users vivting our site benfit from this, or can I remove squid? TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
RE: E-mail for dummies.
I was a Linux email newbie a few months back. What has brought me a good solution is a combo consisting of exim/fetchmail/XFmail. If I were you I would start out with XFmail on it's own. This email client is very simple to set up. It does what you expect a normal GUI based email client to do with ease. You will be able to receive mail in minutes! The only problem is that it doesn't do delivery and POP3 fetch in the background, so if you do a lot of mailing, and have a lot coming in, you will have to wait for the client to finish delivery/fetch before being able to continue your work. When you know how XFmail works you can add on fetchmail and exim which will fetch and deliver mail from your ISP in the background. XFmail can easily be configured to deal with mail managed by these two programs, which means you can grow into a more and more sofisticated solution without having to switch email client, convert mailboxes or other complicated adjustments. All these programs are packed and easily installed and configured for Debian. fetchmail has a GUI front-end for setting it up. exim has a script called eximconfig that will have it working for you quite easily (sendmail is much harder to deal with!), and XFmail has built in help and is VERY intuitive to use. I do tons of email daily as part of my work, and this combo is fast, safe and secure and very versatile without having to learn tons of key bindings and config file syntax. Good luck! :) On 04-Jul-99 Hans van den Boogert wrote: Sofar I'm quite happy with Linux, Debian and the documentation. If you read all you can find on the subject, use your senses and experiment a bit you can always get done what you want. However, for me the one thing that still remains a mystery is the setting up of a mail system. I'm used to telnetting and Pine to read my mail, but now with a stand alone machine, a ppp connection to my ISP I just can't understand how the whole setup works. I've read the NAG and MailHOWTO, but both were written in such a way that I can't find no head nor tail. Could someone please post a quick mail-system setup for dummies? As said, I simply want to connect to my ISP, collect/download my mail and read it in a browser-like X program like Mahogany. What is the principle setup? (Please, explain a bit!!!) What programs do I best use for what? What do these programs do? How do they interconnect? What is the sequence of collecting and sending mail? Is there any other on-line documentation besides the NAG and MailHOWTO? I have lots of time to read, much less to work on my system :-( Thanks for the help. -- Hans -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
GNUstep in /etc/rc2.d
Hi, when I bring my Debian potato box up I get an error message telling me that /usr/lib/GNUstep/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh does not exist. It is a script called GNUstep in /etc/rc2.d that tries to start this script. What is it, and what package might have left it behind? Or maybe I have installed something that is broken? TIA. --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
Brave New Perl
Hi, I tried to do a dselect update on my potato box today. New Perl debs caused a lot of trouble. After dselect saw the new Perl's it wanted to remove A LOT of (important) packages so I had to say no to the upgrade. Then I tried to freeze the Perl upgrade to be able to do the other avaialble upgrades, but no go. whatever I do dselect wants to do major changes to my system. Some Perl packages described as fake confuse me, and I have given up using dselect at all right now since whatever I try to do means all these packages will be removed and I am not able to freeze the old Perl with ='s in a way that leaves my installation intact. Should I wait until other packages catch up with the new Perl installation? If I have a lot of packages marked for removal right now. I guess I will have to go through it all and mark them installed again also? Help needed! :) TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???
On 03-Jul-99 Sami Dalouche wrote: anyone). I still find for everyday use Win95/NT is better (quaking, ircing) To a certain extent I have to agree, but where I REALLY think Linux lags behind is email. I miss an email client coming close to for instance Outlook Express and The Bat! for Windows (or even Eudora!). The only one is XFmail which currently is not being developed it seems. And don't reply with: Have you tried mutt? I have. I do not like mutt or elm or any ncursed software (cept for mc!). Im too old for that.. ;) AndX Chat is a great application. I miss a channel favortie/quick join. That's about it. No need to miss Windows there! :) --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
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RE: Exim Problem (I think....)
On 30-Jun-99 Peter Ludwig wrote: I'm running slink (upgraded to potato), and I seem to be having a minor problem with exim. I cannot receive any email using the system under linux. I am running exim fetchmail Exim version 3.0-2, fetchmail () Before I upgraded exim, everything worked really well, now (since 3.0-1 actually) it's not working. The latest exim will not work with fetchmail (at least not for me). This has been discussed on this mailing list a couple of days ago, and also on the exim mailing list. It has to do with IPV6 support, and there is a fix out, but this means you will have to compile exim from source. If you prefer to use the exim deb, you will probably have to downgrade to 2.11 and put it on hold until a deb comes along with the fix applied. Remember to replace /etc/exim.conf with the one from before the upgrade after having downgraded to 2.11. --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
RE: BEWARE: Exim in potato.
also if you are running fetchmail. exim 3.02-1 will not work with fetchmail. fetchmail complains about not being able to connect to localhost. On 28-Jun-99 George Bonser wrote: The Exim 3.02-1 is broken when run as a daemon. It works fine under tcp wrappers. If you run as a daemon it reads the config fine, forks off a child who tries to bind to a socket but ends up with: socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) socket(PF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) Then writes to paniclog: 1999-06-28 14:02:13 socket creation failed: Invalid argument Stay away from this version of exim if you are running as a daemon! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
Domain name not available
Hi, when I try to post from knews (installed the deb from unstable) I get the message: Domain name not available. Posting will not be allowed! What can I do to fix this? TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
Domain name not available.
Hi, I installed the knews deb, but I am not able to post. I get the message: Domain name not available, posting will not be allowed I can not find anything in the docs or in the list archives regarding this. Can anyone help? P.S If this posting appears more than once I appologize. I have had problems posting to the list the last couple of days, and this is my third try. --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
RE: ICQ
Hi, I have used the lick deb in the Debian distro to install licq. It works fine on my potato box. Maybe you should install using the lick deb instead of compiling it yourself? That is if you are running Debian of course. The only problems I have with lick is that it easily forget settings you channge (and sometimes recently added users). What I have done is to edit the config files manually, since lick doesn't seem to write to them properly at times. On 27-Jun-99 The FreeStuff Web Ring wrote: I've been trying to install Licq, but it doesn't seem to be working, any suggestion? I keep getting char errors during make. It configures just fine. I have gtkicq installed but I don't like that one very much. thanks! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
Domain name not available (knews)
Hi, after having installed the mnews package I have problems creating postings. When I try to do so I get the message: Domain name not available, posting will not be permitted What can I do to fix this? TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
Package upgrade classes in dselect
Hi, one thing I would like to see is some kind of warning when a package that can be upgraded using dselect if the upgrade means the software needs to be majorly reconfigured after the upgrade. An example would be if for instance program-x could be upgraded and /etc/program-x.conf would have to be replaced with a new one with new syntax. I would like to know this *before* I did the upgrade since this could mean a lot of work. I know I cold go check doc's and changelogs before doing the upgrade, but one of the wonders of Debian is that you safely can upgrade most software without having to this. The only shortcoming of dselect is just the situation I have described here. I do not know how this could be done, but I would avoid some problems I have had in the past because packages have been upgraded and syntax or placement of configurations files has changes drastically. I am *not* talking about dselect upgrades actually being broken or bad, only that they may take more time than it initially looked like they would. Maybe I even have overlooked an option where I would be able to see this in advance? Am I being too demanding? It is just an idea! :) --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
RE: Package upgrade classes in dselect - It happened again!
Hi, too funny! Right after I posted this I upgraded to exim 3.02. AFTER the upgrade dselect gave me this message: Important! Exim configuration file format has changed! == Your old configuration file has been renamed to /etc/exim.conf-pre-v3. An automatic conversion script has been used to write a new /etc/exim.conf for you. However, this does not fix everything, and you should check it is OK. Because a wrongly configured mailer can cause serious problems, exim is now disabled! When you want to re-enable it, you should do eximconfig -i. I now have serious problems. exim won't work with fetcmail (outgoing and local mail works). If I had known this about the exim upgrade, I would have waited and planned this upgrade. This illustrates my earlier described problem perfectly! :) On 25-Jun-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: Hi, one thing I would like to see is some kind of warning when a package that can be upgraded using dselect if the upgrade means the software needs to be majorly reconfigured after the upgrade. An example would be if for instance program-x could be upgraded and /etc/program-x.conf would have to be replaced with a new one with new syntax. I would like to know this *before* I did the upgrade since this could mean a lot of work. --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
Re: problems with new Exim and Fetchmail
Please post a solution to the list. I have spent a lot of time trying to make fetchmail/exim 3.02 work, but no go. I rely on my MUA's pop abilities right now. Right now exim 3.02 and fetchmail is a no go combo. TIA. On 25-Jun-99 Pollywog wrote: On 25-Jun-99 George Bonser wrote: Hmm, looks like you have enabled ipv6 support in some things but not others. ;) YES :) It looks that way, but I did not do that. I will look at the docs to see if perhaps I did so in error and how I might fix that. I have returned to version 2.11 until I figure this out. thanks -- Andrew --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
Re: problems with new Exim and Fetchmail
I just downgraded to 2.11. Reinstated my old exim.conf, and everything is back to normal working order. So, guess it will not be 3.02 on my box until this is fixed. On 25-Jun-99 Pollywog wrote: On 25-Jun-99 George Bonser wrote: Hmm, looks like you have enabled ipv6 support in some things but not others. ;) It looks as though I will have to stick with version 2.11 of Exim, or else build from source instead of a Debian package, so that I can keep the ipv6 stuff out. -- Andrew --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
knews - can't post
Hi, I installed the knews package on my potato box. I am not able to create posts though. When I try I get this error message: ex/vi: Vi's standard input and output must be a terrminal What can I do to fix this? TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
New windows
Hi, I came from MS Windows to Linux a few months ago. I was tired of crashes and all that, and I had the feeling I could do better GUI-wise also. After a while I found Windowmaker, and set up a desktop with several handy dock apps. A refreshingly approach to a personal desktop environment. Also, Windowmaker looks good! So different from MS, and yet very easy to configure and use. Then I see that the big hype these days is KDE and Gnome. I have tried them both and felt I was taking one step back towards what I left. I just do not undetstand why the Linux community are working against a wm standard that is not based on what seems truly unique and well layed out: The nextish look. Instead I am again presented with the taskbar and popup menus that hasn't really changed for years. Is this to conquer new users, or is it becuase Linux users secretly have missed the look and feel of MS Windows? And in Debian Windowmaker is presented as: Yet another Windowmanager when it is actually GNOME and KDE that to me feels and looks like yet another... --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
Re: New windows
On 22-Jun-99 Revenant wrote: Well, this seems like the ideal opportunity for me to advertise my ignorance: What exactly is the difference between a window manager and a desktop environment? I am also ignorant regarding this. I just know I am perfectly happy with Windowmaker. So if Windowmaker is not a desktop environment I guess the simple fact is: I do not need one! :) --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux --- Clones are people two
PGP troubles
Hi, I installed the pgp 2.6.2-us on my potato box. I use it with XFmail and it works fine. The problem is that I actually have friends running Windows (!) and I can not verify their signatures. They use PGP 6.0.2 and when I try to verify I an error messaged telling me the ASCII armor has an error: HASH: Sha1. The people using PGP 6.0.2 also say they can not verify my signature. Aren't these versions of PGP compatible? What can I do? Can I install PGP 5 and hope that will work? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. TIA //\\//\\//\\ Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux //\\//\\//\\ Clones are people two
