Re: Blank Messages To Mailing List With Attachments Containing Message
At 04:30 PM 2/20/2002, Craig Dickson wrote: begin Brian Clark quotation: * Craig Dickson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 20. 2002 19:01]: Its free. So are a number of others. TheBat!, for one. I haven't used it myself but I've heard a lot of good things about it. No, TheBat! is not free. It's well worth the $35 bucks, however, if you're a Windows user. My mistake. It's been a while since I paid much attention to Windows mail clients. Is there still a free version of Eudora? Craig Yes there is a free version of Eudora, BUT is has advertisements displayed. -=[cwa]=- Home: cwaiken at roadlynx dot net Web: http://www.cwaiken.com
Re: XF86Setup Problem with ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP 4x
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Shivakumar Patil wrote: :)Hi, :) :) I am new to debian and installed debian potato 2.2r3 on my 866Mhz, 128 :)MB RAM Dell Machine. I have xserver-svga as my X driver. I used XF86Setup :)gui tool to create a XF86Config file. :) I selected ATI rage 128 Pro generic, chipset as generic, memory as 16 meg :)and monitor as a :)SVGA with 1028X768, 800X600 and 640X480. :) SNIP I have ATI Rage Pro with 4MB ram. I use the mach64 driver, with 1024x768 resolution only (32bit). No problems what so ever. I believe I used none for RAMDAC. When it came to vidtune I didn't use it. I just chose save. After I fired up X, I used the mechanical buttons on my monitor to adjust H/V centering and size. -- -=[cwa]=- Debian 2.2_r2 Linux
Re: MouseMan ??
Thanks Hall. I got the mouse up and running (bothe Debian FreeBSD) except for the wheel. I would assume that the wheel is used to scroll up and down in lieu of the scroll bars in an apt such as Netscape. I did add the OptionZAxisMapping4 5 to my XF86Config file but the only thing I can use the wheel for is clicking like a middle mouse button. Any ideas? BTW... What is the thumb button for? -=[cwa]=- FreeBSD 4.2 On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: :)* Christopher W. Aiken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010617 21:51]: :) I got a Fathers' Day present of a Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical :) mouse. Has anyone have this mouse? Will it work under Linux or :) FreeBSD? :) :)I've got the non-cordless version (I assume the receiver connects to a :)PS/2 port, so from that end, there's nothing unique about it). Actually, :)the optical part shouldn't make much difference either. The good news :)is, it uses a regular Logitech protocol... Here's the relevant part of :)my XF86Config file: :) :)Section InputDevice :) Identifier MouseMan+ :) Drivermouse :) OptionCorePointer :) OptionProtocolImPS/2 :)# OptionProtocolMouseManPlusPS/2 :) OptionDevice/dev/psaux :) OptionZAxisMapping4 5 :)EndSection :) :)I had no luck with using the scrolling wheel in apps when I used the :)MouseManPlusPS/2 protocol. :) :) :)Regards :)Hall :) :) :)-- :)To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :)with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) :)
MouseMan ??
I got a Fathers' Day present of a Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical mouse. Has anyone have this mouse? Will it work under Linux or FreeBSD? -=[cwa]=- FreeBSD 4.2
Network Help
I know this is a Debian news group, but the networking stuff should be Linux platform independant. Right? We just had a new Intel Itanium IA64 file server installed at the office. I installed TurboLinux ( O/S came with system ). The system is on a closed/secure LAN. When I log into the system, I can ping other system on the LAN. When I'm on another system I can ping the new IA64 system. All seems to be OK. What I can't do is rlogin/telnet/ftp/ssh into the new IA64 system from other machines on our LAN. I removed the # comments from the ftp/telnet/shell/etc. lines in the /etc/inetd.conf file and restarted the IA64 system (yeah I know, but old habits are hard to break. Besides, no one is on the system yet except root.) What am I missing? What else do I have to do to activate rlogin/telnet/ftp/ssh services? What can I look for when I get back to the office on Monday? Thanks for your help... -- -=[cwa]=- Debian 2.2_r2 GNU/Linux
Re: Console Terminal Colors
Thanks for the info and help. setterm -background black -foreground green -save was what I was looking for. -=[cwa]=- Debian 2.2_r2 On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Sebastian Drews wrote: :)Christopher Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :) In FreeBSD I can use the vidcontrol command to change :) my non-GUI consoles to a black background with a green :) foreground. It is much easier on the eyes for me. Can :) this be done in Debian Linux, or for that matter, any :) flavor of Linux? :) :)$ setterm -background black -foreground green :) :)Use -store to save the settings permanently (e.g. when you logout). :) :) :)Sebastian :)-- :)/etc/sendmail.cf may be a binary file. See it anyway? :) :) :)-- :)To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :)with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) :) :)
StarOffice
Is there a Debianized version of Staroffice 5.2 available somewhere? -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
IceWM
Does anyone know how to change the clock on the icewm toolbar to a 12 hour format? I couldn't find anything in the icepref configuration tool. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com : A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station
/etc/passwd
A general question (i.e. not Debian specific) about the /etc/passwd file. Can comment lines (i.e #) or blank lines be inserted into the /etc/passwd file w/o causing havoc on a Linux system? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com : A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station
Re: /etc/passwd
What I was trying to do is arange my passwd file by departments, like this: ## accounting dept ### user1:x:. user2:x:.. user3:x:... ## Developmet dept user1:x:. user2:x:.. user3:x:... ## Research dept user1:x:. user2:x:.. user3:x:... -=[cwa]=- On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Wes Wannemacher wrote: :)On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:58:28PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: :) :) A general question (i.e. not Debian specific) about :) the /etc/passwd file. Can comment lines (i.e #) :) or blank lines be inserted into the /etc/passwd file :) w/o causing havoc on a Linux system? :) :) :)Blank lines are a definite no-no. There is a comment section of the :)standard entry. Is this space insufficient? If you need more :)functionality, you may need to take a look at LDAP. Even though it :)doesn't work well with Debian. :)Here at the University we store all user account information in a MySQL :)database. We run scripts frequently to update our debian systems with :)the appropriate data from the database. If you implement a solution like :)this, you can add / change the MySQL any way you want, just make sure :)that your scripts only update the /etc/passwd file appropriately. :) :)-W :) :) -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com : A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station
Unidentified subject!
I'd like to try Xfree86 4.0... on my Debian 2.2_r system. Which deb packages do I have to install? apt-cache search xfree lists out a lot of things that I probably don't need/want. Maybe I do but need to know. -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
[OT] OpenGL Experiance
Anyone have OpenGL experience? I'm porting my companies engineering software from HP/IBM/SGI UNIX systems to Linux. Our graphics take advantage of OpenGL. From what I can see OpenGL is a set of graphics libraries that need a special graphics card to run. I found the OpenGL libraries (actually Mesa libraries) but I need some recommendations for a graphics card that is OpenGL capable and also Linux supported. I need to be able to tell our customers that we tested and certified card A, card B, etc. that our software works and works correctly with OpenGL. Recommendations please? Any special drivers for these cards or is XFree86 all that is needed? -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Install/Configuration Warning
Using the official cd's I install Debian 2.2_2 on my Office PC. When it came time to choose packages to install, I chose the simple setup, then chose some development packages and the X packages. The install went clean. However during the configuration step I get this warning printed out for almost every package: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libblacs-pvm.so (No such file or directory), skipping What am I missing? How do I fix or get rid of this warning? -=[cwa]=- -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com : A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station
WindowMaker Question
Is there a dock program like xbiff that will visually notify me when my fetchmail daemon gets email delivered to me? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com : A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station
FTP fails
I have Debian 2.2_2 set up on my office PC. I have wu-fptd installed and running. I can rlogin, ssh, telnet, etc. into my desktop PC from any other PC's on our LAN. What I can't to is FTP into my system. I get the following: ftp n4cwaiken9 Connected to n4cwaiken9. 220 n4cwaiken9.ansys.com FTP server (Version wu-2.6.0(1) Name (n4cwaiken9:cwa): cwaiken 331 Password required for cwaiken. Password: 530 Login incorrect. Login failed. ftp I removed wu-ftp and installed proftpd and I have the same problem. It will not accept my password. What am I missing? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com : A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station
adduser vs useradd
Why is it that useradd does NOT create a home directory and copy the /etc/skel files?? I use the standard useradd -u... -g... -d... -s... -c... logname command on our Debian system and no home directory is created. I use adduser and the home directory is created, but I have to manually edit the /etc/passwd file to adjust the UIG, GID, etc. -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: Printer not printing
Keith, Brian I have Epson 740 up and running with 360x360, 720x720, and 1440x720 resolutions. I use enscript and ghostscript to print. I have a all the necessary printtab, print filters, and a simple install script. Send me a email if you want this information. -=[cwa]=- -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Keith G. Murphy wrote: - - -Brian S Enyart wrote: - - I've got an Epson 740 I've set up with magicfilter. - - When I attempt to print a file (user or root), the job queues up - normally, then disappears as if it had been printed, but it hasn't been! - I get no error messages, and if I ask lpr to send email on completion, - I get an email indication successful completion. I also get no in any - of the log files. - - When I first try to print, several modules get loaded: - parport, lp, parport_pc, and parport-probe - - My /etc/printcap (without comments): - - |lpep740|Epson 740|lp:\ - :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ep740:\ - :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ - :if=/etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ - :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: - -Where did you get the StylusColor-740 magicfilter from? I haven't seen -that in the Debian distribution. What driver does it end up using? -I've never gotten stcolor to work with my 740, but stp does. - -You might want to check out www.linuxprinting.org for further info. - -Also, are you dual-booting? I've found that Win95 bollixes up the -printer, such that nothing but a hard reset (unplug/plug in) can get it -working under Linux again. - - --- -To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -
Re: X problems after upgrade
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Nathan wrote: -I recently upgraded to 4.0.2 from 3.3.6 using dselect so all dependencies -should be OK and now X won't start at all. I ran xf86config and created the -new XF86Config-4 file in /etc/X11 and every time I try to run X, it gives me -this error msg: - -X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting. -giving up. -xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server -xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. - - -Anybody know what's wrong? - I got the same error on 3.3.6 when I installed xfce from unstable. The problem was the symb link of /etc/X11/X - /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64 was removed. I replaced the symb link and all was/is OK. Maybe the same sort of thing is needed for the 4.0.2 version. Hope this helps... -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
FTP Question
Due to my office firewall and office policies I can not FTP files to my office PC. However I can ssh into my office and then rlogin to my office PC. At that point I can use the IP address assigned to me by my ISP (info from the ifconfig command )and FTP back to my home. The problem is when I FTP back to my home in Debian I get a connection refused message. With SuSE and FreeBSD the connection is made and I can transfer files back and forth. What am I missing in Debian? -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: FTP Question
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Martin Würtele wrote: -On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 01:52:41PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: - - Due to my office firewall and office policies I can not - FTP files to my office PC. However I can ssh into my - office and then rlogin to my office PC. At that point - I can use the IP address assigned to me by my ISP (info - from the ifconfig command )and FTP back to my home. - -why ftp back when you have ssh - use scp (secure copy), additionally with --C for compression to copy your files. this works fine for me and adds -security as well. - -hth martin Using scp doesn't answer the question of why I can't FTP into into my home Debian box. -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: FTP Question
I feel so stupid. Next time I'll do my homework a little better. Thanks Martin Würtele. I didn't know that there was a scp command for secure copies. Works OK. Thanks Carel Fellinger. Your response got me thinking, and after checking, I don't have a fptd installed!! I installed profptd and all is well in ftp land. Thanks for the quick responses. -=[cwa]=- -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: - -Due to my office firewall and office policies I can not -FTP files to my office PC. However I can ssh into my -office and then rlogin to my office PC. At that point -I can use the IP address assigned to me by my ISP (info -from the ifconfig command )and FTP back to my home. - -The problem is when I FTP back to my home in Debian I get -a connection refused message. With SuSE and FreeBSD the -connection is made and I can transfer files back and forth. - -What am I missing in Debian? -
Re: xinitrc isn't being read??
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote: -| -|Out of curiosity, I made .xinitrc a sym link to .xsession. Is this okay -|?? Saves me from having to edit two files in case I change from using -|xdm or starting X with startx... -| -|Regards -|Hall -| Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the .xsession file is used if you boot up in a graphics mode (i.e. xdm, gdm, kdm, etc.) and the .xinitrc file is used if you boot up in a non-gui mode and manually run startx to bring up your desktop. A symb link on these files should pose no problems. -=[cwa]=- -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE
Re: tripple booting dos/win/linux
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Saqib Shaikh wrote: -|hi, how is it possible to tripple boot dos/win/linux? what i have done so Visit: http://raster.cibermillennium.com/gageng.htm Multiple bootloader is FREE and works from floppy or your HD. I used the floppy to boot until I made sure everything worked OK. Then used HD. Keep floppy for emergency booting. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE
Re: building pine from debs
I didn't play with the debs. I just went to: ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/ and downloaded: pine4.32.tar.gz Use: tar -xzvf pine4.32.tar.gz cd pine4.32 ./build slx In a few minutes Pine 4.32 was built!!! As root I copied the pine4.32/bin/pine executable to /usr/local/bin and I was done. No patches were needed. Also worked on SuSE 7.0 -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Romain Lerallut wrote: -Sorry if it's a usual problem, but I can't find info in the archives. -Here it is -(it's pine 3-96) - - -apt-get source -b pine - -fetching data...OK -compiling...OK - -and then: - -install bin/pine debian/tmp/usr/bin -install: cannot stat `bin/pine': No such file or directory -make[1]: *** [binaryPine] Error 1 -make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/pine-3.96M' -make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2 -Build command 'cd pine-3.96M dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. - - -Thanks for any help, I don't like mutt that much (besides, I'm used to -pine:) -Romain - - --- -To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -
Re: Netscape /etc/resolv.conf problem
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, TimeBoy wrote: -|Hi! -| -|I have no /etc/resolv.conf on my harddisk. Can you give mi an example how -|/etc/resolv.conf has to look like? -| -|TimeBoy -| domain my.isp.com nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy Where xxx is primary IP and yyy. is secondary IP -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: 128-bit encryption netscape
I have the 2.2_r2 CD's. Netscape 4.75 128bit is on the CD's already. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: FreeBSD 4.2 RELEASE On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote: -Hey people. I'm running netscape 4.75 from the security site, which has -128-bit encryption. I want to upgrade to potato r2 from r1, and it's going to -upgrade netscape. So, how do you tell if the version you're about to upgrade -to has 128 bit encryption support? I've looked in all of the descriptions and -I don't see anything there. - -Mike - --- -Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] -...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount -of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX -PGP Public Key: http://24.43.42.96/email.phtml -
Re: 128-bit encryption netscape
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Nate Amsden wrote: -Michael P. Soulier wrote: - - Hey people. I'm running netscape 4.75 from the security site, which has - 128-bit encryption. I want to upgrade to potato r2 from r1, and it's going to - upgrade netscape. So, how do you tell if the version you're about to upgrade - to has 128 bit encryption support? I've looked in all of the descriptions and - I don't see anything there. - -i use www.fortify.net they have a SSL check there that shows what cipher -and how many bits your browser(any SSL browser) supports. - -course u gotta install the browser to test it :/ - -nate - Well if you have to install it, then just pick: Help -- About Communicator. On the left side, where it talks about security, look for DES-.. If the DES-... is listed you have 128 bit secutrity !! -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: pine
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote: -I'm having a bit of a problem getting pine to compile on Debian. I -installed the src and the diffs package and then followed the instructions -in the README. It compiles for several minutes and then starts giving errors. - -os.c:1122 -invalid operands to binary == -incompatible type for argument2 od 'fseek' -make[1]: *** [os.o] Error 1 - -Link to executables are pine/bin -Dir: /pine/bin not found. - -*** [binaryPine] Error 1 -*** [binary-arch] Error 2 - -Any idea what's going on here? Thanks! - -Ben Pharr - I just downloaded pine4.32.tar.gz (3.3M), un-tared/unziped the file, ran the build script (./build slx), and version 4.32 works perfectly. pine4.32.tar.gz is just source code no diffs package was needed. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: epson stylus color 740 - ugly printing
I use my Epson 740 flawlessly on Linux FreeBSD 4.2.
I have used my same setup on RH, SuSE, Caldera, MD,
Debian, and FreeBSD. Works on all systems.
I do NOT use cupsys. I use the standard lpr/lpd.
To be truthful with you I don't even know what cupsys is :)
What I have is three queues: lp=720x720, lp1=360x360,
and lp2=1440x720. All three queues work great.
I wrote an install script that will copy the Epson740
drivers to the Ghostscript directory, put in a new
/etc/printcap file, create /var/spool/lpd/{lp|lp1|lp2}
directories, and your done. You just have to restart
the lpd daemon.
All you have to do is:
1) remove cupsys??
2) install lpd
3) install enscript-letter
4) install ghostscript
5) run my install script
If you want I can tar up my script and the Epson740 ghostscript
drivers and email them to you tonight when I get home from the office.
Let me know at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good Luck...
-=[cwa]=-
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:
-|Matthew Dalton wrote:
-|
-| Erik Steffl wrote:
-|
-|I have epson stylus color 740 printer and cupsys 1.1.4-3
-|
-|the printing seems to be working but:
-|
-|lp -d epson740 picture.jpg # 360 dpi
-|
-|prints a picture but it's ugly, the colors are quite off (not
-| completely off, just noticeably different)
-|
-| Like I said to someone on this mailing list less than 2 hours ago:
-|
-| http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
-|
-| thanks for the response. I did install the gimp-print but:
-|
-| 1) I have cups installed, how do I use the gimp driver? when I choose
-|printing from gimp and choose anything else but the postscript driver it
-|simply does not get out to the printer and it seems that cups dies.
-|there are no error messages but nothing gets printed and localhost:631
-|does not respond. in other words: how do I send data to printer so that
-|it bypasses all the filters and goes straight to the printer?
-|
-| 2) after I installed the cups related part I cannot configure or
-|manage printers anymore (via localhost:631). I still can add the
-|printer, I added one with the new driver from gimp-print and it seems to
-|do slightly better job but I would like to fine tune it - how do I do it
-|when localhost:631 does not allow me to? how to fix it?
-|
-| my system:
-|debian unstable,
-|kernel 2.2.17
-|ii cupsys 1.1.4-3
-|ii cupsys-bsd 1.1.4-3
-|ii cupsys-client 1.1.4-3
-|print-4.1.1.tar.gz
-|
-| btw the cups part didn't compile/build right away, the epson.c misses
-|cups/http.h and also -lcups and -lcupsimage libraries are missing in
-|Makefile...
-|
-| are there plans to package gimp-print? include the cups part in cups?
-|
-| TIA
-|
-| erik
---
Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: epson stylus color 740 - ugly printing
Wow a lot of interest on this subject. Sorry it took so long
to get back to you guys but I had to wait until I got home
from the office so I could check on things for you.
A few dpkg -l piped through grep shows what packages that
I have installed. enscript was on my 2nd CD, the rest were
found on my 1st CD. Use apt-get install to install.
ii enscript 1.6.2-4Converts ASCII text to Postscript, HTML, RTF
ii gs 5.10-10.1 Postscript interpreter with X11 and svgalib
ii gsfonts5.10a-2Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter
ii lpr0.48-1 BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system
To set up my Epson 740 printer, I wrote a script that copies
three ghostscript drivers for the Epson 740 printer to the ghostscript
directories. It then creates /var/spool/lpd/{lp|lp1|lp2} directories
and places print filters in each of the directories. Finally the
script copies a pre-defined printcap file in the /etc directory.
Once all is setup you just restart the printer daemon to pick up
the new /etc/printcap file (/etc/init.d/lpd {stop|start}).
I can the use lpr to print 720x720 resolution, lpr -Plp1 for
360x360 (draft quality), and lpr -Plp2 for 1440x720 (photo quality).
I have a gziped tar file ( about 33K ) that contains my install script,
the printfilters, and the ghostscript print filters for the Epson 740.
All you need, besides my tar file, are the above mentioned packages.
If you would like a copy of my tar file just drop me an email
at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will be more that happy to email it
to you.
--
Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
RE: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO !
This is no different than running Winderz and using a copy of McAfee's Antivirus that is several years old. If you don't keep up your going to get hit eventually. -=[cwa]=- On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: -|WELL, i'm might have been somewhat too eager to spark a discussion ... the -|thing i'm wondering/confused about is that the 'worm' infects only redhat -|systems, according to this article at least ... strange eh ? -| -|i only now had the time to read the securityfocus report, and yes indeed all -|linux's with these versions are vulnerable. -| -|anyway, good to know i turned of my machine this morning :) -| -|J.L. -| -|-Original Message- -|From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -|Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:00 PM -|To: Joris Lambrecht -|Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' -|Subject: Re: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO ! -| -| -|-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -|Hash: SHA1 -| -|A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... -| -| The Register.url -| -| http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16168.html -| -|Anything that runs the vulnerable versions of those programs is -|vulnerable, including Debian. The key is to keep up to date with security -|patches so that you aren't running the vunlerable versions of those -|programs. -| -|Problems like this will only affect those systems that aren't being -|maintains (through lack of time, administrator cluelessness, or whatever). -| -|- -- -|- -- -|Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] -| -|GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC -|GPG key id: 50DE1CFC -|GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -|-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- -|Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) -|Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org -| -|iD8DBQE6ZwTf/ZTSZFDeHPwRAmgzAJ0RaaOELp++bBJ7kFGDYmkfUiR2VwCgzwD/ -|CnMTj0iEikSTcg9vjS24CcM= -|=xr0n -|-END PGP SIGNATURE- -| -| -|-- -|To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -|with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] -| -| -|-- -|To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -|with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -| --- Christopher W. Aiken Programmer Analyst UNIX System Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ansys, Inc. 275 Technology Drive Canonsburg, Pa 15317
RE: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO !
This is no different than running Winderz and using a copy of McAfee's Antivirus that is several years old. If you don't keep up your going to get hit eventually. -=[cwa]=- On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: -|WELL, i'm might have been somewhat too eager to spark a discussion ... the -|thing i'm wondering/confused about is that the 'worm' infects only redhat -|systems, according to this article at least ... strange eh ? -| -|i only now had the time to read the securityfocus report, and yes indeed all -|linux's with these versions are vulnerable. -| -|anyway, good to know i turned of my machine this morning :) -| -|J.L. -| -|-Original Message- -|From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -|Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:00 PM -|To: Joris Lambrecht -|Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' -|Subject: Re: Debian is safer than this ? I REALLY HOPE SO ! -| -| -|-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -|Hash: SHA1 -| -|A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... -| -| The Register.url -| -| http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16168.html -| -|Anything that runs the vulnerable versions of those programs is -|vulnerable, including Debian. The key is to keep up to date with security -|patches so that you aren't running the vunlerable versions of those -|programs. -| -|Problems like this will only affect those systems that aren't being -|maintains (through lack of time, administrator cluelessness, or whatever). -| -|- -- -|- -- -|Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] -| -|GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC -|GPG key id: 50DE1CFC -|GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -|-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- -|Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) -|Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org -| -|iD8DBQE6ZwTf/ZTSZFDeHPwRAmgzAJ0RaaOELp++bBJ7kFGDYmkfUiR2VwCgzwD/ -|CnMTj0iEikSTcg9vjS24CcM= -|=xr0n -|-END PGP SIGNATURE- -| -| -|-- -|To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -|with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] -| -| -|-- -|To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -|with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -| --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: .forward syntax
If you are trying to forward all of your mail to a differnet address then your .forward file should just have a line(s) with the address as to where they are to be forwarded to. Ex: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] This will forward your email to both of the above addresses. If you are forwarding your email to procmail for filtering or pre-processing then your .forward file should look something like: |IFS=' 'exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -ptoY -f-||exit 75 #cwaiken Make sure you use all of the and ' characters as above. Make sure your path to procmail is OK (the above is for FreeBSD). My login name is cwaiken. Replace with your name. Hope this helps -=[cwa]=- -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: FreeBSD 4.1
Machine/Domain Name
My Debian system has a name of darkstar.localdomain When I'm at home I can no longer send email to my office because of spam filters that were setup to reject any mail from rdsomains that are unresolvable. I have exim setup with my ISP's smtp server for outgoing mail. Mail gets delivered to everyone I send to except to my office. How do I change the name of my machine to darkstar.cwaiken.com? cwaiken.com is my domain name at a re-director service and is resolvable and should work. --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: new boot disk?
SNIP -| -|BTW, I've been using grub since all the LILO changes going on in unstable. I -|sort of like the pretty little menu it gives. It's easier for my wife to use at -|least:) -| -|Scott Your wife would like the GAG bootloader with Icons to choose from. Find it at freshmeat.net --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: Netscape - mailcap file?
On 11 Jan 2001, Brian May wrote:
-| Christopher == Christopher W Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-|
-|Christopher I just installed Netscape/Communicator 4.76 from my
-|Christopher Debian 2.2_r2 CD's. When I run netscape, I get this
-|Christopher error:
-|
-|Christopher Netscape: Ignoring unsupported format code in mailcap
-|Christopher file: %{
-|
-|Christopher Then Netscape comes up OK. What's that all about? A
-|Christopher locate mailcap indicates the only mailcap file on
-|Christopher my system is in /etc.
-|
-|Does $HOME/.mailcap exist?
No $HOME/.mailcap does not exist. Only /etc/mailcap on my system.
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Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: new boot disk?
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, James W. Lindenschmidt wrote: -|Greetings, everyone. -| -|I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled so -|far. -| -|But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7 minutes for -|the -| -|Loading Linux.. -| -|process to complete from /dev/fd0 before Linux actually boots. I suspect -|I have a bad floppy, and I want to make a new boot floppy. -| -|I've tried going back into dbootstrap to make it from there, but it -|won't work. It says my disk is either write protected or I'm not using -|the first disk drive, despite the fact that /dev/fd0 whirs before I get -|this error message. I've tried 5 different newly formatted disks, and I -|always get this error. -| -|Is there any other way to make a boot disk? I need to use this -|temporarily until I can install LILO. -| To make a boot floppy: dd if=Your_Kernel of=/dev/fd0 bs=18k rdev /dev/fd0 Your_Root_Partition rdev -R /dev/fd0 1 If you change your kernel or move your root you will have to remake your floppy. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: Grub vs LILO
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Tom Schuetz wrote: -Anybody know much about pros/cons of grub for a boot manager? - -Thanks! - It's not grub, but GAG is Great !!! http://raster.cibermillennium.com/gageng.htm Works off a floppy where you can try it over and over before you actually write it to your HD. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: [0T] need a url that crashes netscape
Why not just open up another window and kill the netscape pid? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: - This may be a strange request but I'm trying to write a little - wrapper of sorts for Netscape that removes the lock file - automatically after killing the browser when it hangs. The - problem I'm having is finding a site that hangs Netscape. I - usually have no trouble when I'm not looking:) - thanks, - kent -
Re: libcurses/libncurses problem
I had libcurses problems when I tried to compile an application (pine 4.31 I think, can't remember). What I had to do was: cd /lib ln -sf libncurses.so.5.0 libncurses The compile/link was looking for libncurses and there was none. The symb link created by the above ln command worked. -=[cwa]=- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 On 10 Jan 2001, Giulio Morgan wrote: -| -|I believe I have a problem in my libcurses/libncurses configuration. I have a -|woody system, upgraded to from potatoo, upgraded to from slink. Following is my -|directory structure showing the relevant files. -| -|from /lib -| lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 18 Aug 26 1999 libcurses.so.1 - libcurses.so.1.0.0 -| -rwxr-xr-x1 root root52641 May 18 1995 libcurses.so.1.0.0xo -| lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 19 Jul 5 2000 libtermcap.so.2 - libtermcap.so.2.0.8 -| -rw-r--r--1 root root10500 Feb 3 2000 libtermcap.so.2.0.8 -| -rw-r--r--1 root root 242644 Oct 30 1998 libncurses.so.3.4 -| lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 17 May 27 2000 libncurses.so.4 - libncurses.so.4.2 -| -rw-r--r--1 root root 238700 Mar 5 2000 libncurses.so.4.2 -| lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 17 Nov 27 08:26 libncurses.so.5 - libncurses.so.5.0 -| -|- -|from /usr/lib -| lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 12 Jul 5 2000 libcurses.a - libncurses.a -| lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 13 Jul 5 2000 libcurses.so - libncurses.so -| lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Nov 25 22:59 libcurses.so.1 - /lib/libncurses.so.5 -| -rw-r--r--1 root root 372674 Mar 5 2000 libncurses.a -| lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 20 Jul 5 2000 libncurses.so - /lib/libncurses.so.4 -| -|I think this is wrong because I am not able to launch an application (octree - -|cad program) which I know works for other debian users, and which I believe to -|be properly installed on my system. -| -|If someone can suggest simply how to modify by hand the files, I would -|appreciate it. Otherwise, Should I -| apt-get -purge remove ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurse-term, and then -| apt-get install those same packages -| -|Any help much appreciated. -| -|-- -|Giulio Morgan -|[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libcurses/libncurses problem
On 10 Jan 2001, David Z Maze wrote: -Christopher W Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -CWA I had libcurses problems when I tried to compile an application -CWA (pine 4.31 I think, can't remember). What I had to do was: -CWA -CWA cd /lib -CWA ln -sf libncurses.so.5.0 libncurses -CWA -CWA The compile/link was looking for libncurses and there was -CWA none. The symb link created by the above ln command worked. - -Don't do that by hand. Install the appropriate -dev package -(libncurses-dev, probably) instead; it should install the needed -header files, create that symbolic link, and possibly also install a -static library. - I already have libncurses installed and STILL had to set up the symb link. # dpkg -l | grep ncurses ii libncurses44.2-9 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libncurses55.0-6.0potato1 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libncurses5-de 5.0-6.0potato1 Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses ii ncurses-base 5.0-6.0potato1 Descriptions of common terminal types ii ncurses-bin5.0-6.0potato1 Terminal-related programs and man pages ii ncurses-term 5.0-6.0potato1 Additional terminal type definitions -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: removing exe files...
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: -Hi to all! - -I installed potato at home because I want to move my production system -from OS/2 to Debian. After two month of playing around with potato, and -with the great help of people at this list, I am almost ready to stat -working with Debian. I copyied al my files from the hpfs partition of -OS/2 (in another disk) to the Debian disk. I have a lot of FORTRAN -exe files which will not work under potato because they were compiled -in OS/2. I want to remove them, but they are spreaded in many directories -and subdirectories. -How can I remove all of them? I search in the rm documentation (man rm and -info rm) but I didn't find anything. - -Thanks in advance for the help - -Marcelo The locate command is your friend when it comes to finding files on your system. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: libcurses/libncurses problem
Looks like you have something screwed up. I would try to remove libncurses4-dev and install libncurses5-dev. BTW... I'm using Debian 2.2_r2 that is why the potato1 shows up in my dpkg -l listing below. Here is my /lib (I removed owner/group): (The first symb link is the one I had to add.) # ls -l /lib|grep curse lrwxrwxrwx1 17 Jan 2 20:59 libncurses.so - libncurses.so.5.0 lrwxrwxrwx1 17 Jan 2 20:05 libncurses.so.4 - libncurses.so.4.2 -rw-r--r--1 238700 Mar 5 2000 libncurses.so.4.2 lrwxrwxrwx1 17 Jan 2 20:04 libncurses.so.5 - libncurses.so.5.0 -rw-r--r--1 233816 Nov 21 22:55 libncurses.so.5.0 Here is my /usr/lib (I removed owner/group): # ls -l /usr/lib|grep curse lrwxrwxrwx1 12 Jan 2 20:33 libcurses.a - libncurses.a lrwxrwxrwx1 13 Jan 2 20:33 libcurses.so - libncurses.so -rw-r--r--1 235558 Nov 21 22:55 libncurses++.a -rw-r--r--1 381726 Nov 21 22:55 libncurses.a lrwxrwxrwx1 20 Jan 2 20:33 libncurses.so - /lib/libncurses.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx1 12 Jan 2 20:33 libtermcap.a - libncurses.a lrwxrwxrwx1 13 Jan 2 20:33 libtermcap.so - libncurses.so -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 On 10 Jan 2001, Giulio Morgan wrote: -Christopher W. Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - - On 10 Jan 2001, David Z Maze wrote: - - -Christopher W Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - -CWA I had libcurses problems when I tried to compile an application - -CWA (pine 4.31 I think, can't remember). What I had to do was: - -CWA - -CWA cd /lib - -CWA ln -sf libncurses.so.5.0 libncurses - -CWA - -CWA The compile/link was looking for libncurses and there was - -CWA none. The symb link created by the above ln command worked. - - - -Don't do that by hand. Install the appropriate -dev package - -(libncurses-dev, probably) instead; it should install the needed - -header files, create that symbolic link, and possibly also install a - -static library. - - - - I already have libncurses installed and STILL had to set up the symb link. - - # dpkg -l | grep ncurses - ii libncurses44.2-9 Shared libraries for terminal handling - ii libncurses55.0-6.0potato1 Shared libraries for terminal handling - ii libncurses5-de 5.0-6.0potato1 Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses - ii ncurses-base 5.0-6.0potato1 Descriptions of common terminal types - ii ncurses-bin5.0-6.0potato1 Terminal-related programs and man pages - ii ncurses-term 5.0-6.0potato1 Additional terminal type definitions - - -- - Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA - -Thank you Christopher and David. - -I have tried a combination of you suggestions, with no luck. - -First, I tried to install libncurses5-Dev, but apt complained as follows: - -Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: - libncurses5-dev: Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.0-6.0potato1) but 5.0-8 is to be - installed -E: Sorry, broken packages - -I then created the synb link manually per Christopher's suggestion, and this -had no effect (so I rm'ed the libncurses file). Then, - -# dpkg -l | grep ncurses -ii libncurses44.2-9 Shared libraries for terminal handling -ii libncurses4-de 4.2-9 Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses -ii libncurses55.0-8 Shared libraries for terminal handling -ii ncurses-base 5.0-8 Descriptions of common terminal types -ii ncurses-bin5.0-8 Terminal-related programs and man pages -ii ncurses-term 5.0-8 Additional terminal type definitions -ii ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8.11Video terminal manipulation - shared librari -ii typist 2.3.1-1A simple ncurses typing tutor - -Sorry for asking what must be an obvious question, but...Does it appear from -the directory structure included in the original post (included again below for -convenience) that there is something obviously wrong - -/lib/libcurses.so.1.0.0xo? - -Thanks for your time and help - --- -Giulio Morgan -[EMAIL PROTECTED] - -from /lib - root root 18 Aug 26 1999 libcurses.so.1 - libcurses.so.1.0.0 - root root52641 May 18 1995 libcurses.so.1.0.0xo - root root 19 Jul 5 2000 libtermcap.so.2 - libtermcap.so.2.0.8 - root root10500 Feb 3 2000 libtermcap.so.2.0.8 - root root 242644 Oct 30 1998 libncurses.so.3.4 - root root 238700 Mar 5 2000 libncurses.so.4.2 - root root 17 Nov 27 08:26 libncurses.so.5 - libncurses.so.5.0 - -- -from /usr/lib - root root 12 Jul 5 2000 libcurses.a - libncurses.a - root root 13 Jul 5 2000 libcurses.so - libncurses.so - root root 20 Nov 25 22:59 libcurses.so.1 - /lib/libncurses.so.5 - root root 372674 Mar 5 2000 libncurses.a - root root 20 Jul 5 2000 libncurses.so - /lib/libncurses.so.4 - -perms removed for legibility -
Re: libcurses/libncurses problem (fwd)
Looks like you have something screwed up. I would try to remove libncurses4-dev and install libncurses5-dev. BTW... I'm using Debian 2.2_r2 that is why the potato1 shows up in my dpkg -l listing below. Here is my /lib (I removed owner/group): (The first symb link is the one I had to add.) # ls -l /lib|grep curse lrwxrwxrwx1 17 Jan 2 20:59 libncurses.so - libncurses.so.5.0 lrwxrwxrwx1 17 Jan 2 20:05 libncurses.so.4 - libncurses.so.4.2 -rw-r--r--1 238700 Mar 5 2000 libncurses.so.4.2 lrwxrwxrwx1 17 Jan 2 20:04 libncurses.so.5 - libncurses.so.5.0 -rw-r--r--1 233816 Nov 21 22:55 libncurses.so.5.0 Here is my /usr/lib (I removed owner/group): # ls -l /usr/lib|grep curse lrwxrwxrwx1 12 Jan 2 20:33 libcurses.a - libncurses.a lrwxrwxrwx1 13 Jan 2 20:33 libcurses.so - libncurses.so -rw-r--r--1 235558 Nov 21 22:55 libncurses++.a -rw-r--r--1 381726 Nov 21 22:55 libncurses.a lrwxrwxrwx1 20 Jan 2 20:33 libncurses.so - /lib/libncurses.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx1 12 Jan 2 20:33 libtermcap.a - libncurses.a lrwxrwxrwx1 13 Jan 2 20:33 libtermcap.so - libncurses.so -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 On 10 Jan 2001, Giulio Morgan wrote: -Christopher W. Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - - On 10 Jan 2001, David Z Maze wrote: - - -Christopher W Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - -CWA I had libcurses problems when I tried to compile an application - -CWA (pine 4.31 I think, can't remember). What I had to do was: - -CWA - -CWA cd /lib - -CWA ln -sf libncurses.so.5.0 libncurses - -CWA - -CWA The compile/link was looking for libncurses and there was - -CWA none. The symb link created by the above ln command worked. - - - -Don't do that by hand. Install the appropriate -dev package - -(libncurses-dev, probably) instead; it should install the needed - -header files, create that symbolic link, and possibly also install a - -static library. - - - - I already have libncurses installed and STILL had to set up the symb link. - - # dpkg -l | grep ncurses - ii libncurses44.2-9 Shared libraries for terminal handling - ii libncurses55.0-6.0potato1 Shared libraries for terminal handling - ii libncurses5-de 5.0-6.0potato1 Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses - ii ncurses-base 5.0-6.0potato1 Descriptions of common terminal types - ii ncurses-bin5.0-6.0potato1 Terminal-related programs and man pages - ii ncurses-term 5.0-6.0potato1 Additional terminal type definitions - - -- - Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA - -Thank you Christopher and David. - -I have tried a combination of you suggestions, with no luck. - -First, I tried to install libncurses5-Dev, but apt complained as follows: - -Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: - libncurses5-dev: Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.0-6.0potato1) but 5.0-8 is to be - installed -E: Sorry, broken packages - -I then created the synb link manually per Christopher's suggestion, and this -had no effect (so I rm'ed the libncurses file). Then, - -# dpkg -l | grep ncurses -ii libncurses44.2-9 Shared libraries for terminal handling -ii libncurses4-de 4.2-9 Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses -ii libncurses55.0-8 Shared libraries for terminal handling -ii ncurses-base 5.0-8 Descriptions of common terminal types -ii ncurses-bin5.0-8 Terminal-related programs and man pages -ii ncurses-term 5.0-8 Additional terminal type definitions -ii ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8.11Video terminal manipulation - shared librari -ii typist 2.3.1-1A simple ncurses typing tutor - -Sorry for asking what must be an obvious question, but...Does it appear from -the directory structure included in the original post (included again below for -convenience) that there is something obviously wrong - -/lib/libcurses.so.1.0.0xo? - -Thanks for your time and help - --- -Giulio Morgan -[EMAIL PROTECTED] - -from /lib - root root 18 Aug 26 1999 libcurses.so.1 - libcurses.so.1.0.0 - root root52641 May 18 1995 libcurses.so.1.0.0xo - root root 19 Jul 5 2000 libtermcap.so.2 - libtermcap.so.2.0.8 - root root10500 Feb 3 2000 libtermcap.so.2.0.8 - root root 242644 Oct 30 1998 libncurses.so.3.4 - root root 238700 Mar 5 2000 libncurses.so.4.2 - root root 17 Nov 27 08:26 libncurses.so.5 - libncurses.so.5.0 - -- -from /usr/lib - root root 12 Jul 5 2000 libcurses.a - libncurses.a - root root 13 Jul 5 2000 libcurses.so - libncurses.so - root root 20 Nov 25 22:59 libcurses.so.1 - /lib/libncurses.so.5 - root root 372674 Mar 5 2000 libncurses.a - root root 20 Jul 5 2000 libncurses.so - /lib/libncurses.so.4 - -perms removed for legibility -
Netscape - mailcap file?
I just installed Netscape/Communicator 4.76 from my Debian 2.2_r2
CD's. When I run netscape, I get this error:
Netscape: Ignoring unsupported format code in mailcap file: %{
Then Netscape comes up OK. What's that all about? A locate
mailcap indicates the only mailcap file on my system is in /etc.
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Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: X Window Manager
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, cdryburgh wrote: -|Have got an old 386 with Debian Linux on it. Have loaded X and am -|looking for a window manager for it. There are a lot of them. I was -|hopping that if I give some specs that someone could narrow down the -|list. -| -|1. Have limited memory resources so must not use much. -|2. Have small monitor 14. Must allow for maximum screen viewing. -|3. I am a programmer so will probably be doing GUI's and CORBA related -|stuff at some point. -| -|The ICEWM looks like a possibility to me. Any other opinions. -| -|Loaded on Debian 2.2. There is a keyboard error that is nonfatal to X -|that shows up. Will have to post the exact error message later. -| -|Chris -| I like, and use, xfce3. Small, fast, not a resource hog. See: http://www.xfce.net To install use apt-get install xfce from unstable -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
OT: logname?
Slightly off topic. There is a utility, /usr/bin/logname that returns the login name of the user. The problem is: 1) in xterm, Eterm, kterm logname works OK 2) in gnome-terminal and kconsol logname always returns logname: no login name Why doesn't logname work correctly all of the time? We have an application what depends on the logname function to return the correct value. If a user installs Gnome or KDE the activity bar at the bottom has a gnome-terminal or kconsol by default. If they use those Icons to open up a work space, logname will not work. We shouldn't have to instruct our customers to setup an xterm, Eterm, of kterm just so that the logname function will work. Any ideas? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: Debian distribution with free support
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Holp, John Mr. wrote: -|Debian People, -| -| Someone wrote me an e-mail and included an URL to a seller of -|Official Debian that included free support. Please re-send the URL as I -|have lost it. -| -|Thanks, -| -|John -| Look here: http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors Various costs for CD's. Various levels of support. -=[cwa]=- -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Apt needed
I got a bunch of avi type of movies/animation. Is there an apt that will play these? I thought xanim would work but it doesn't. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Realplayer
I did an apt-get install realplayer and was instructed to download rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_b2_rpm. I download said file and finished the install. I then ran /usr/X11R6/bin/realplayer and was presented with a registration screen. I entered my data and was promply informed that this UNIX version was expired and a segfault occured. I tried again and I get nothing but a message that this UNIX version was expired. Now what??? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: Official Debian
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Holp, John Mr. wrote: -|Debian Warriors, -| -| Some time back I found a book listing titledOfficial Debian -|GNU/LInux 2.0 -| Linux 3 CD-ROM with -|new manual -| -| Does anyone know where I can purchase this book? I cannot find it -|today with any of the on-line book sellers. -| -| What I really need is a complete distribution of Debian on CD/s -|along with a book that takes the pain out of installing this distribution. -|The CD in the back of my book - Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Unleashed appears to be -|bad and there is no point of contact to ask questions. -| -|Thanks, -| -|John D. Holp -| Hi John I would keep the book that you already have. I don't believe that there are enough differences between Debian 2.1 and 2.2 (the current version) to warrant buying more books (at least for a newbie). You might go to: http://www.debian.org On the left side of the Debian home page there is a Distribution topic with Debian on CD and Debian Books. These two links will point you to inexpensive CD's, and, if you want, some Debian books. Good Luck... -=[cwa]=- -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: LILO 0x40 ERROR when trying to multiboot freebsd and linux
It's been a while since I used FreeBSD, but if I remember correctly, you just set up your lilo.conf file for FreeBSD the same way you do for a Winderz partition. Try: other=/dev/hdb3 --- FreeBSD boot partition label=freebsd After you setup lio.conf, re-run lilo for corrections to become active. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Susumu Takuwa wrote: - On Wed, 3 Jan 2001 14:50:47 -0500 (EST) - Walter Tautz writes: - -WT NOTE: I can run linux with NO difficulty. I just can't get freebsd -WT to boot...maybe someone is trying to tell me something ;-) - -I suggest your using GNU GRUB. Maybe you can solve -the problem. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ - -regards, - - - Susumu Takuwa - - - --- -To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -
dist upgrade
I have Debian 2.2_r0 installed and a set of 2.2_r2 CD's on the way. Can I do a dist upgrade from the new CD's? What would the steps be to do this? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2_r2 GNU/Linux
Where is libblacs-pvm.so ???
I just installed Debian 2.2_r2 and chose some packages from the simple setup. I got a lot of the same errors reported during the package configuration step. ldconfig also reports the same error. The error indicates that /usr/lib/libblacs-pvm.so is not available. Sure enough libblacs-pvm.so is a symb link to libblacs-pvm.so.1 and libblacs-pvm.so.1 is not available. Does anyone know where libblacs-pvm.so is? What it is used for? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
Re: Netscape problems
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:46:11PM +0200, Freddy Boy wrote: -| -| -| Hi all ! -| -| -| Maybe someone can help me. I can't start netscape as normal user except one user account. When starting netscape it says 'Bus error'. Any ideas what is wrong? -| Try: Save your ~.netscape/bookmarks.html file, then delete your ~.netscape directory. The next time you run Netscape a new ~.netscape directory will be created. You can then move your bookmarks.html file back into the new ~.netscape directory. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: problems with netscape
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 10:06:41AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: -| I am no fan of Microsoft, but I have come to hate Netscape. -| -| I'm quite sure you're not the only one... :-( -| -| IE has simply become a better browser. -| -| Sad, but probably true. -| -| I hope I am wrong, but there really is no alternative, is there? -| -| I'm hoping that Mozilla saves us. The latest in unstable is milestone -|18, but if you grab the daily builds directly from the Mozilla.org site -|you can install them easily in your ~ directory. The problem is that -|Mozilla is still in beta -- it's not as fast as Netscape and it also has -|its bugs. Still, it's quite useable. -| -| Another browser out there is Opera, which is commercial. They've just -|released a free[sic] version, which feeds ads instead of making you pay -|directly for it. -| -|-- -| Regards,| Need some help with Debian GNU/Linux? -| . | -| Randy | Look no further than http://debianhelp.org -| ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | -| The one BIG problem with Mozilla is its lack of encryption. I can't use it for my on-line banking because 128bit encryption is needed. W/O encryption it's a waist of time for me to even try it. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: SuSE 7.0 Professional Linux
Re: APOLOGY!!!! for my earlier posts about unsubscribing
Apology accepted my me... -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Jim Kroger wrote: -Dear Debian list: - -I recently, in unprecedented poor judgement, sent messages to the -list about unsubscribing that were in extremely poor taste. I deeply -and humbly apologize. I had been attempting to unsubscribe from the -list for weeks. I had successfully unsubscribed from the GNOME, KDB, -Yellowdog, and other lists, after subscribing for a few days to find -out some things about LInux; but though I eventually sent several -messages to the unsubscribe address for Debian, then sent mail to the -address listed in the bottom for problems, and finally posted -(politely) to the mailing list for help, I was still not contacted. -This may be due to my filtering, although I had the same filtering -set up for all those mailing lists and had no difficulties -unsubscribing from them. I had become convinced that my messages WERE -NOT reaching the list, and when I noticed again the 60-100 messages -in my box, in frustration I fired off those unfortunate messages in a -matter of seconds, thinking I was doing little more than talking to -the wind. My god, had I thought they would arrive, with my signature -and affiliations attached no less, I would never, never have sent -them. In retrospect I certainly should have more carefully considered -the possibility that in fact they might arrive despite how convinced -I was to the contrary. - -Moreover, I'm aware of the role Debian has played in bringing Linux -into the mainstream of computing, and have great respect for them, -and have no desire to demean the people at Debian or those that -support and use it. - -I hope you understand that I did not intend this, and hope that you -will accept my humble apology for those messages. - -Jim Kroger -_ -James K. Kroger, Ph.D. -Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior -Department of Psychology -3-N-4D Green Hall -Princeton University -Princeton, NJ 08544-1010, USA -Tel: (609) 258-1291 -Fax: (609) 258-1113 -[EMAIL PROTECTED] -http://www.princeton.edu/~kroger/home/ - - --- -To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -
Keyboard problems
A couple of days ago I asked about my backspace key acting like my delete key in Netscape and other aps. The backspace key was deleting to the right instead of the left. Well I finally found it, but I haven't a clue as to why I had to do this: ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp Why is my system looking in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp for the keyboard layout? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Gnome, held back
I added the http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com to my sources list and did an apt-get update and an apt-get upgrade. I got the following: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back gedit gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-help gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-terminal gnome-utils gnumeric libcapplet0 34 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. What does The following packages have been kept back mean?? Is my system set up wrong? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: Backspace key
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:36:37PM +, Glyn Millington wrote: -| -|I've been upgrading things from Woody - a foolhardy venture but everythng -|went well amd works beautifully apart from my backspace key which now -|deletes the next character just like the delete key. I really want it to -|delete backwards - this is almost as bad as those first heady days when I -|discovered Emacs! -| -|Can't find the way on this - can anyone point me in the right direction ? -| -|Thanks for your time -| -|Glyn M I had the same problem in Netscape and other apps. What I did was startx 1log 2log. Then I checked the log file. It was full of errors pointing to xkbcomp. Based on the reported errors, as root I did: ln -sf /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbcomp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp and restarted X and all has been OK since. I posted a question earlier on why I had to do this but no one has been able to shed any light. I feel better now knowing that I'm not the only one with the backspace problem after an update. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: This list is rudderless, damn it, damn it, damn it
For someone who is educated with a Ph.D. you apparently can't read or follow directions. You have posted several emails to this list asking to unsubscribe. The directions at the end of each email tell you to send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading: unsubscribe. Not the email BODY, but the SUBJECT line. I believe that the SUBJECT line of: unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] will also work. Read Understand Simple On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:06:46PM -0500, Jim Kroger wrote: -|Unsubscribe me already! I've sent the right mail to the right place -|multiple times, sent mail to the guy at the bottom who says send me -|mail if you have a problem, and now several days later -| -|I'M STILL NOT UNSUBSCRIBED TO THIS STINKING LIST ! -| -|WHAT A LOSER !!! -|_ -|James K. Kroger, Ph.D. -|Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior -|Department of Psychology -|3-N-4D Green Hall -|Princeton University -|Princeton, NJ 08544-1010, USA -|Tel: (609) 258-1291 -|Fax: (609) 258-1113 -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] -|http://www.princeton.edu/~kroger/home/ -| -| -|-- -|To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -|with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -| -- -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Latest Version of Gnome ?
I have Debian 2.2_r0. I added: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free to my /etc/apt/sources.list, then I did an apt-get update and an apt-get upgrade. My Gnome desktop is not working right. All windows open in the upper left cornet and I can not move them. My cursor is a large X. The mouse buttons have no action on the desk top. Any clues?? How does one upgrade Gnome to the new Helix code so that I can see if this fixes my 2.2_r0 install? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: xfce
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:14:55PM -0500, Jesse Goerz wrote: -|Has anyone used xfce? I'd like to try it but first wanted to get some input -|on how it is. -| -|Jesse -| In my opinion, XFCE is great on all systems (RH, SuSE, MDK, FreeBSD) except for Debian. The Debian package needs work on menu's, backgrounds, and a lot of other things. The deb package for xfce is in the unstable leg and should be used cautiously. BTW in the Debian package of XFCE, my mouse pointer is a large X -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: SuSE 7.0 Professional Linux
Number of processors
A little off topic... Does anyone know how to get the number of CPU's that a machine has using the C programming language?Any URL's on the subject? Thanks you... -=[cwa]=- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: Number of processors
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: -|On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:01:05PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: -| Does anyone know how to get the number of CPU's -| that a machine has using the C programming -| language?Any URL's on the subject? -| -|There's probably can easier way using system calls, but I quick and sloppy -|way would be to read /proc/cpuinfo or /proc/stat . Here are the contents -|from one machine I administer: -| -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] hgebel]# cat /proc/cpuinfo -|processor : 0 -|vendor_id : GenuineIntel -|cpu family: 6 -|model : 7 -|model name: Pentium III (Katmai) -|stepping : 3 -|cpu MHz : 498.759223 -|cache size: 512 KB SNIP Nope. We have to use some C or C++ system/function call. Our programmers don't want to depend on the /proc file system being available. Thanks... Any other takers on this one? --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Netscape Oddity ??
I just upgraded my Netscape to 4.76 and have this problem. The backspace key now deletes the character to the right of the cursor instead of the one to the left like it used to. This happens un the URL line and in and forms that I type into. The backspace seems to work OK in xterm and other places, only in Netscape is it wrong. How do I fix??? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: Does unsubscribing from this list really work?
SNIP -| -|Are other people also having problems to unsubscribe from debian-user? -| -|Ringo -|-- -|** Ringo De Smet Ringo.DeSmet AT bigfoot.com ** SNIP This is directly from the Debian pages: listname[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word `subscribe' or `unsubscribe' as subject. Please remember the -REQUEST inside of the name. Most majordomo type of lists that I subscribe to require you to place subscribe/unsubscribe in the BODY of the email. The Debian lists require you to place subscribe/unsubscribe in the SUBJECT not the body. Also I believe that a unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] format in the SUBJECT will allow you to unsubscribe from a list from a different email (subscribe also). If you haven't tried yet, use the SUBJECT line. Hope this helps... -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Boot Module Error Message
I just did a fresh install of Debian 2.2 When I boot the system I get the following error: insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20001201182539.ksyms Read-only file system Any one know what this is about? How to fix or remove. What is unix.o module? Is it needed? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: Few question of newbie | need urgent help.
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, New Star Service Company wrote: -1) I install Debian 2.1 today , I'm single user. - I need setup internet dialup network urgently. - I use pppconfig to setup internet connection. setup is ok. - I use #pon in root for dial, connection ok , everything ok. - but when i use $pon command in my user account (/home/satyajit), I -received - error message : /usr/bin/pon : /usr/sbin/pppd : permission denied - I use this # chmod u+s /usr/bin/pon - # chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd - but same error. - Please someone urgently help me how can I active pon/poff command in my - user account (/home/satyajit) for take internet connection - SNIP As root, use adduser user dip to add the user to the dip group. The user will have to logout and login to have the changes activated. Have user use the groups to verify they are part of the dip group. See: man adduser -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
XFCE
Does anyone know id there is s deb package of the XFCE WM? I tried an apt-get install xfce and it failed with a not found. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
/var/cache/apt/archives
I want to install Debian 2.2 to a second machine. I have used apt-get to get and install a whole lot of stuff (over 65MB of files) on my first machine. After I install on my second machine can I copy /var/cache/apr/archives from the first to my second machine and do a dpkg -i *.deb to install all this info? Is there a better way? What would be the prefered way? Thank you.. -=[cwa]=- -- -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Progeny Linux
My latest copy of Maximum Linux Magazine has an ad for Progeny Linux built by debian's founder and leading Debian developers... What's this all about?? A better Debian?? See: http://www.progeny.com -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Boot Module Error Message
I just did a fresh install of Debian 2.2 When I boot the system I get the following error: insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20001201182539.ksyms Read-only file system Any one know what this is about? How to fix or remove. What is unix.o module? Is it needed? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Compile Module files
I have located a xx.c file in the source tree that I would like to compile and install into the modules directory so that I can insmod the file. How does one do that with out doing a make mrproper/xconfig/depens/modules/modules_install. There must be an easier way to compile a single routine and copy it to the correct directory. When I gcc the routine, I get an error that the routine must be compiled as a module. -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
DSL Firewall
My Mom Pop phone company had an insert in my latest phone bill that indicated they would be providing DSL service in the very near future. A friend of mine suggested that if I get the DSL service that I should set up a firewall to protect myself. He also suggested that I start with a page on the net (TrinityOS at http://24.7.216.129:8192/) that has some basic ipchain configurations. I don't understand any of this stuff, but the TrinityOS pages had a 100 line rc.firewall script and a 1300 line ipchains config file. Is all of this really necessary? Why cant I just set my /etc/hosts.deny file to ALL: PARANOID, comment out the telnet ftp and http lines out of my /etc/inetd.conf file? Wouldn't that be enough protection for my system? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Off topic - Netscape
Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know how to get rid of that stupid Shop button from the top of the netscape screen? BTW... I down loaded the newest 4.76 version from the Netscape site. I installed it in /usr/local/netscape476 and copied the plugger.so files over. Seems to be extremely stable even on those java sites. They must have changed the rules because the version is the 128bit encryption and I wasn't asked if I lived in the USA. -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: Off topic - Netscape
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 10:06:09AM -0500, mike wrote: -| -|On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:02:50 -0500, Christopher W. Aiken said: -| -| Sorry for the off-topic, but does any one know -| how to get rid of that stupid Shop button from the -| top of the netscape screen? -| -| Read the Netscape.ad file (application defaults) and put the -|desired default lines in your ~/.Xdefaults e.g. -|Netscape*toolBar.myshopping.isEnabled:False -|and then run xrdb -load ~.Xdefaults to reload the file. -|-- Thanks... That worked... -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: Lilo and vga=mode Question
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 03:56:36AM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: -|Hi Christopher! -| -|On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: -| -| 9 0122 100x30 -| -| BTW... I have tried all the modes and they all work for me. -| I just want to automatically start in mode=9. -| -|If you had read the docs carefully, you would have read somewhere, that -|this 0122 is hex but lilo does not accept hex values. -| -|vga=290 should work. -| yours, -| peter -| Thanks !!! That worked. Where did you find docu on this stuff? I must have tried man on everything I could think of. -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: installing Star Office 5.2
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Bob Edwards wrote: -Can anyone tell me how to install Star Office 5.2 ? -I have downloaded the file which is a .bin file, and -put it in a seperate directory. what is next ? I know -how to install .tar files and .gz files, but not -.bin files. - -I downloaded the file directly from Sun's site, and -thhere were no installation instructions. - -Thanks very much in advance for your help. - Make sure the file has x permissions, then as root, issue a ./so... /net (just exec the .bin file with the /net option). When asked, I would save in /usr/local/office52 but the choice is up to you. Once installed, login as user and go to /usr/local/office/programs and run (./soffice) the soffice program. This will install about 1.8MB of personal files in your home directory. Each user on your system should do this to get his/her personal files. To finally run the program just exec /home/user/office52/soffice -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Lilo and vga=mode Question
I placed a vga=ask line in my Debian 2.2 lilo.conf file and re-ran lilo. When I re-boot, lilo askes me for video mode. I press enter and the following seven modes are listed: 0 0F00 80x25 1 0F01 80x50 2 0F02 80x43 3 0F03 80x28 4 0F05 80x30 5 0F06 80x34 6 0F07 80x69 Then a question asks to enter mode or scan. I enter scan and after a few seconds, these additional modes are listed: 7 0100 40x25 8 0121 100x25 9 0122 100x30 a 0123 132x25 b 0133 132x44 I would like mode 9. I tried to put vga=9 and vga=0122 into my lilo file but when I re-boot, I'm told I chose an invalid mode. How can I get the mode that I want w/o using vga=ask and then using the scan command? If this can't be done through lilo, is there some sort of command that could change the video modes after boot up? Something I can put into a rc.local type of file? BTW... I have tried all the modes and they all work for me. I just want to automatically start in mode=9. -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: Printer advice EPSON 740
I have set up my Epson 740 on Debian 2.2. Works perfectly. I set up three print queues (360x360, 720x720, 1440x720 resolutions). If you want I will email you instructions and GS drivers this evening when I get home from the office. Pretty simple. Probably about 15-20 minutes of work. email me if you want this info. -=[cwa]=- On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Joakim Svensson wrote: -| -|Hello list, -| -|I am running woody and am about to get my EPSON 740 printer -|up and running. -| -|What are the prefered way to do this ? I am thinking -| -|Ghostscript -|gimp-print stp driver -|what else ? magicfilter -|what are PDQ,CUPS,LPD ? can it help me ? -| -|Has anyone done this ? -|Do I have to get gs source and compile myself or are there a -|working solution in woody ? -| -|I have done this once before (not with stp) but from what I can -|remember there are no drivers (stp740...) included in the gs -|debian provides. -| -|Any help and advice in how to do this is most welcomed. -| -|Best regards -|Joakim -| -| -|-- -|Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -| --- Christopher W. Aiken Programmer Analyst UNIX System Engineering and CASE Tools [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ansys, Inc. 275 Technology Drive Canonsburg, Pa 15317
vga=791
I may have posted this before, but for the life of me, I can't find iti, or if there was any responses to my question. In Rh/SuSE/Slack I can add vga=791 to my /etc/lilo.conf file, re-run lilo, and when I re-boot my system I get smaller text and much more info in my text consoles. I can't do this in Debian so there must be something I have to compile into the kernel to do this. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Can anyone point me to the light on what needs to be added to the kernel? Sorry if this is a re-post --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: vga=791
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Frederik wrote: -|-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -|Hash: SHA1 -| -|On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: -| -| what I'm talking about? Can anyone point me to the light -| on what needs to be added to the kernel? -| -|I think you might need framebuffer support. It's one of the last options -|in the kernel configuration. -| Boy that was quick... Thank you very much. -=[cwa]=- -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: Printing from browser
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:59:29PM -0500, Cavaiani, Don wrote: -|I have netscape working fine. I can print fine for a command line. When I -|hit the print button from the Netscape browser, I just get pages and pages -|of garbage. What should I be looking at ?? -| When the Netscape print box appears, change the lpr to lpr -Plpx where x is your printer. -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: path to syntax.vim
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:21:35PM +0200, Willi Dyck wrote: -|Hello, -| -|vi searches for the syntax.vim file in /usr/share/vim/syntax/. -|But my path to that file is different. Where can I change this -|behaviour? -|Best regards -| Set your environment variable in your .tcshrc or .bashrc file: For tcsh: setenv VIM /usr/share/vim For bash: export VIM=/usr/share/vim Just use your correct vim path -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Off Topic - 4th Annual Linux Showcase
Any Debianites out there attend the 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference in Atlanta GA USA last week? W-O-W !!! Over 1200 registered attendees and exhibitors. Really great show. Lots of information. Lots of big name companies like IBM, HP, SGI, VMWARE, SuSE, RH. (just to name a few). Kudos to all who helped set up this event. -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Framebuffer Console ???
When I played with the RH and Slackware flavors of Linux, I could add the following lines to my lilo.conf file to get a nice looking bootup screen and a much better resolution on my console screens. # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k vga=791 Is there any way to do this in Debian 2.2? The Debian lilo objects to the 791 value. --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: Netscape 4.75 with 128 bit encryption?
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:09:12PM -0500, Brad wrote: -|On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:12:43PM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: -| Hi, -| -| so far I use an alien rpm package of netscape with 128 bit -| encryption. I would like to switch to a secure (that is version 4.75) -| deb package. -| -| Are the netscape version under www.debian.org/security/2000/2901 -| 128 bit? If not, is there a place to find 128 bit debian packages? -| Just fire up Netscape 4.75 and pick on Help -- About Communicator. If the security section lists a couple of DES- then you have 128bit. Add: deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list and do an apt-get install netscape That should get you the 128bit 4.75 version. -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
What is all of this junk??
What is this junk?? I must have gotten several dozen of these messages today. -=cwa=- On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Die angefügte Nachricht hatte vorübergehende unrelevante Übermittlungsfehler. - -DIES IST LEDIGLICH EINE INFORMATION - SIE BRAUCHEN DIE NACHRICHT NICHT ERNEUT SENDEN! - -Dieser Mail-Server ist konfiguriert, diese Mail nach einem bestimmten Intervall erneut zu versenden. Weitere -Versuche diese E-Mail zuzustellen sind eingeleitet worden. - -_ - - -The attached message had transient non-fatal delivery errors - -THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY - YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE! - -This server is configured to automatically retry delivery at configured -intervals. Subsequent attempts to deliver this message are pending. - - - -WETZEL GmbH -Systemadministrator -[EMAIL PROTECTED] Partial Session Transcript --- - Route Slip Port: 25 - Attempting SMTP connection to [193.98.35.63 : 25] - Waiting for socket connection... - Winsock Error 10061: The other host is either down or has refused to connect with you at that IP and/or on that port. - This message is 0 days old; it has 1 days left to get delivered End Transcript --- - -: Message contains [1] file attachments - ---BeginMessage--- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- - Debian Security Advisory [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/security/Daniel Jacobowitz October 13, 2000 - Package: traceroute Vulnerability: local root exploit Debian-specific: no Vulnerable: yes In versions of the traceroute package before 1.4a5-3, it is possible for a local user to gain root access by exploiting an argument parsing error. This problem is fixed in version 1.4a5-3, uploaded to Debian's unstable distribution on August 24, 2000. Fixed packages are now also available in proposed-updates and will be included in the next revision of Debian/2.2 (potato). The traceroute-nanog package is unaffected by this problem. Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink - Slink contains an earlier version of traceroute, which is not affected by this problem. Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (stable) alias potato - -- Fixes are currently available for the Alpha, ARM, Intel ia32, Motorola 680x0, PowerPC and Sun SPARC architectures, and will be included in 2.2r1. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/traceroute_1.4a5-3.diff.gz MD5 checksum: fa0c426fa84bf54ec33093bae90c1fdf http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/traceroute_1.4a5-3.dsc MD5 checksum: 4bd7bc9ec1894c75e7ccba51e6a91cc6 http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/traceroute_1.4a5.orig.tar.gz MD5 checksum: db5724df8d01b6c75aefe704e06e8160 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-alpha/traceroute_1.4a5-3_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: 6b3f20ecb08276c15715ae54ef8be0c7 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-arm/traceroute_1.4a5-3_arm.deb MD5 checksum: 3e92eb865b388769da00a5cb3297a862 Intel ia32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-i386/traceroute_1.4a5-3_i386.deb MD5 checksum: feba02e20848bdfafa6bf7dd9c594eba Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-m68k/traceroute_1.4a5-3_m68k.deb MD5 checksum: fdc5a6ed3cd97067c4b7e1ddf7945287 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-powerpc/traceroute_1.4a5-3_powerpc.deb MD5 checksum: 3cb1524fccc1eb0e011ec17d2d2a1407 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-sparc/traceroute_1.4a5-3_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: a9f078c807e52ab1a68bdeba0d364be1 Debian GNU/Linux Unstable alias woody - - This version of Debian is not yet released. Fixes are currently available for Alpha, Intel ia32, Motorola 680x0, PowerPC and the Sun SPARC architectures, in the Debian archives. The stable packages listed above are also installable on current unstable systems. - For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOeaXFz5fjwqn/34JAQEvDAP+MlJ7Zh/CeeTcp8BWDF7C1n4wYYIOCNbB 63jwvhhO3mgVKbv+4e1TscGeODKfjU6LHmkZBqamLUIF84El4rxcn+0R3DBu+KNE cq/dRKFNHhyB6AXS1u3+tFdj7sa+D7FeHhArRLHFPf5myOneVf5GZwHYNG3xl0cz oQbAWek2wa0= =TrOL -END
pon questions
1) How do I set up pon to issue a ATM0 to shutoff my modem speakers. 2) Can pon be set up to display a connect message for my wife and kids to see? The enter a pon command and expect to surf or read email before the connection is made. -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Tru Type Fonts Question
I know how to set up xfstt for true type fonts, but I see that Debian 2.2 uses xfs as a default font server. How do I set up xfs to use my truetype fonts? This is what I did: 1) Installed the fttools package. 2) Created /usr/share/fonts/truetype 3) Copied my 1132 fonts to the above directory. 4) Ran the mkttfdir utility. Shouldn't there be a ttmkfdir utility??? Where is it??? 5) Added /usr/share/fonts/truetype to the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. 6) Re-started the xfs daemon. 7) Re-started X That is when I got the error: Fatal server error. could not open default font 'fixed' What did I do wrong? What am I missing? Where is the ttmkfdir utility? I know xfstt works but I would rather use xfs since it is the default installed server. -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
wvdial / kppp
Has anybody been able to get connected to WorldShare using wvdial? It can be done with kppp but I would prefer to use wvdial. I downloaded kppp from the Freshmeat site. During the configure/make process I get the error: checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt = 1.42 (headers and libraries) \ not found. Please check your installation! Any clues which package I have to install to get this up and running? -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Modem port
I generally use xterm -e wvdial to fire up my dialup connection. I noticed that /dev/ttyS1 has rw permissions for the dialout group. A lot of times when I hit Ctrl-C to stop wvdial the permissions on /dev/ttyS1 are set to r. The next time I run wvdial, it fails because of the missing w permission. Why is this? Should I be stopping wvdial in another manner that a Ctrl-C ? -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
EXIM mail problems
My ISP is Telerama.com in Pgh. Pa. When I set up exim, I used telerama.com as the smtp. I also said to use telerama.com as the domain name after the @ on outgoing mail. Now when I send email to anyone at telerama.com it gets sent back because the name is not found at telerama.com. What did I do wrong? How do I fix? -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: xfce/tkgoodstuff
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 06:47:26PM -0400, mike wrote: -| I run Debian potato with XFce from woody. This is such -|a great light weight desktop that i dont use gnome-helix -|anymore. -| So just point to woody in sources.list and apt-get install -|XFce. -| Tkgoodstuff is available as an rpm so you can d/l and -|run alien to convert to a .deb. Just curious, what you will use -|from tkgoodstuff that XFce doesn't have? -| -|On Sat, 7 Oct 2000 22:53:34 +0200 (MEST), Marc Maute said: -| Mike Where did you get Xfce ? -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: xfce/tkgoodstuff
On 7 Oct 2000, mike wrote: - Sorry about that, its all lower case 'xfce' in apt-get. -Although dpkg -s is not case sensitive. Any way, if you -install 'xfce' you can still run the gnome task bar and any -gnome apps, but i prefer the XFce panel. - [SNIP] What URL do I need in my /etc/apt/sources.list? When I do a apt-get install xfce I get: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package xfce --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: pine in debian
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:28:36AM -0700, Parrish M Myers wrote: -|Hi, -| -|Does anyone rember why pine isn't included in the debian install (only -|the sources are)... I looked at the license and it doesn't seem that -|restrictive? -| -|Parrish Myers -| I'm a Debian newbee and wondered the same thing. I just installed the sources and built my own copy. Pretty easy and it only took about 10 minutes to compile on my system. -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: Listing only the package names with dpkg?
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Preben Randhol wrote: -|I'm trying to list out all the packages I have installed on my system. -|I can do a dpkg -l, but I only want the package names not the rest, as -|I'm going to use the package names. -| -|dpkg -l gives: -| -|ii xfonts-scalabl 3.3.6-2scalable fonts for X -|ii xfree86-common 3.3.6-10 X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure -| -|I would like to have: -| -|xfonts-scalable_3.3.6-2 -|xfree86-common_3.3.6-10 -|etc... -| -|I've been looking through the man page, but I cannot find out how to -|achieve this. -| I'm new to Debian (not to Linux/UNIX) but you could pipe the results through cut. For example: dpkg -l | cut -c 5-30 my_log_file This will output only columns 5-30 of the output. --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Package List
OK, I give up. On a rpm flavor of Linux I can do a rpm -qa to get a list of ALL installed packages on my system. What do I have to do to get a list of ALL installed packages on Debian 2.2?? -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Help!! I need my LS120
I have an external, parallel port, LS120 floppy drive (128Mb). When I tried MD 6.2, SuSE 6.2, MD 7.1, Caldera 2.4 flavors of Linux all I had to do was: modprobe paride modprobe epat modprobe pf mount -t vfat /dev/pf0 /mnt and I could use my LS120 just as any other floppy. When I do this in Debian 2.2 I get an error that there is no device /dev/pf0. I attached /dev and did a ./MAKEDEV pf0 ( and ./MAKEDEV pf ) and got the error don't know what pf0 is. I tried a ./MAKEDEV update and also got a don't know how to make device pf. Any ideas on how to get my LS120 working on Debian? -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian Linux 2.2
