I screwed up and cannot boot
I moved some partitions around and now cannot boot Debian. Previously, I had three partitions dedicated to Mandrake (/dev/hda6-8), but deleted them so I could move my Debian partitions (/dev/hda9-13) to the old Mandrake positions. First, I changed /etc/fstab in Debian to reflect the new changes; then changed /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the new changes. Then I dumped my kernel onto a disk, rebooted into Windows and ran Partition Magic. I deleted the Mandrake partitions and then moved the Debian partitions into their new homes. But now I cannot boot. I put in the boot disk I made, but I get kernel panic messages. I've tried booting with the Slink CD I've got, and passing boot: Linux single root=/dev/hda6 initd= but that gets me to the point of you've got bad superblocks. Is there any hope? I didn't back up my home directory. Thanks for any support. Dave
Re: I screwed up and cannot boot
At 01:25 AM 3/11/00 -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: Boot from whatever rescue disk you have, mount your Linux partition(s) (you may want to fsck them first), and run LILO with the -C option to specify a config file: Still problems. I booted off the rescue disk, and then tried to mount some partitions using the set-up screen, but got the error message: Mount failed: invalid argument. I then tried running fsck on the root partition, but it wouldn't do anything; it complained about bad super-blocks, and suggested running e2fsck -b 8193 device but that too did nothing? Reinstall time? I have /home on a separate partition.
Re: I screwed up and cannot boot
At 07:10 PM 3/11/00 +, Paul J. Keenan wrote: Reinstall time? I have /home on a separate partition. Maybe not. I ran into a similar situation (bad superblock errors) and found that it was because my original rescue disk set couldn't mount the partitions. It was solved when I downloaded and created a brand new rescue.bin and root.bin from frozen and they were able to mount the partitions no problem. I booted up, mounted, chroot to run my old binaries, fixed my lilo.conf, re-ran it et voila. -- Regards, Paul Well, I'm getting there. Yes, the new rescue and boot disks helped. I was able to mount the partitions, run fsck on them (not while mounted, mind you), and edit /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf. Still there are problems. Lilo refuses to recognize that I've got any kernels; perhaps they are dead. When I run lilo -D Testing (Testing is the label for my newest kernel) I get that it's not recognized. The only way I can get a reasonably functioning machine is if I use the new rescue disk, and at the boot prompt type Linux single root=/dev/hda6. An error comes up that I must type in the root password for maintenance, or Control-D to go on. If I type in the password, I've got access to my files (I've pulled off my home directory), but I cannot startx. If I type Control-D, I end in a perpetual loop of cannot find module net-pf-1, at which point I must reboot. My latest kernel, which I've got on disk, doesn't work. I get kernel panic messages that there is no initd. Any ideas still? Potato will be out on CD soon so I could reinstall then. I do have my /home. But I feel like I'm almost there. Thanks again.
Re: Annoying potato KDE packages
http://kde.tdyc.com On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:20:28PM +, Rob Rati wrote: Does anyone know of a site with KDE packages that have the correct dependencies? The ones off the KDE site still depend on qt1g, which has become libqt1g in potato. Everytime I upgrade or install new packages, I have to remove all the KDE packages, and this is starting to get annoying. Has anyone fixed this dependency problem or know who maintains these packages so I might e-mail them? Thanks. Rob -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mutt, mailing lists, and senders
Do you just want the sender to get the message? If so, then just hit r. Otherwise I guess you could re-bind L to something else. On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:40:48PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: What I want is to be able to use the L key to reply, but not have the name of the mailing list (leaving the name of the actually sender) in the message list. ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE and other window managers
I followed the KDE instructions of getting it to use another window manager rather than kwm, but this doesn't seem to work. What I did was change the exec kwm in the kde/startkde script to exec afterstep or exec sawmill but logging on simply kicks me back to the xdm banner. Any ideas? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: netscape communicator 4.7
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 05:31:13PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: Is there a communicator 4.7 version uses libc6 instead of libc5 in potota 2.2? ---end quoted text--- ...It's called mozilla. (I think all Netscapes are libc5.) -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot compile newest Afterstep
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 07:41:36PM -0600, Gregory T. Norris wrote: AfterStep 1.8.0 compiles just fine here on potato, provided that all of the necessary x-dev packages are installed. ---end quoted text--- Yeah, I must have been missing some dev libraries. I apt-getted the png, jpeg, and xpm dev libraries, and the make ; make install when just fine. I wish I knew this before. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need qt1 qt2 to set up KDE in Enlightenment.Where??
You could go to the KDE ftp site; it has a qt1g deb. Look for something under distribution. On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 02:11:55PM -0600, John Foster wrote: I have installed KDE as an addition to Enlightenment. Many of the apps require qt1 or qt2. The potato installation seems to indicate that both qt1 qt2 are installed as libqt1 libqt2. However KDE doese not recognize thse as clearing the dependencies. Is a symlink the solution? If so, where to put them?? -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We install Debian Linux at no extra charge! John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome always crashes...help
The latest Gnome from frozen, for the last month or so, has been totally useless for me. It constantly crashes, more so than ever. This is my .xsession: xset dpms 1800 2700 3600 exec sawmill-gnome exec gnome-session But often Gnome will crash, while Sawmill will keep on working. For instance, all launcher buttons no longer work; the shortcuts on the desktop stop working, etc., but I can move the windows around and such. Should I just bag Gnome? Why is this happening? Someone here suggested the exec sawmill-gnome line, but this hasn't helped. I hate to say this, but KDE doesn't do this. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cannot compile newest Afterstep
I've followed the instructions, but never get the afterstep binary after compiling the 1.8.0 tarball source. Some error messages come up during the make ; make install stage, but nothing that looks too bad. Alas, no /usr/local/bin/afterstep, no new version. Oh well. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ned pointers in using KDE with Potato/Enlightenment
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 08:49:22AM -0600, John Foster wrote: I have Debian Potato using Enlightenment set up on my server. I want to try out the KDE applications with the Enlightenment connections. I would appreciate tips suggestions etc. from anyone using these presently. Thanks! ---end quoted text--- What exactly are you asking? If you want KDE debs, put this in your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is Gnome getting more UNstable?
I upgraded to the latest frozen Gnome packages, and Gnome is crashing more than ever before. I wanted to give it a shot, but wound up just sticking with trusty fvwm2. For instance, I may run the configuration tool launcher, nothing will happen and I cannot log out using the foot menu. The window manager works fine (sawmill or enlightenment), but Gnome is dead. This happen a lot: cannot log out of Gnome. This leads me to control+alt+backspace to get back to the xdm login screen, after which no one (root or me) can log back and use Gnome; I have to change exec gnome-session to exec fvwm2 and I can log back in. What gives? I've had to re-boot to be able to try Gnome again. Is there some wild process running? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kdevelop working?
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:45:32PM +0100, Sven Gaerner wrote: Which line did you add to your /etc/apt/sources.list to get KDE-apps. In my dselect package list no KDE app is shown. ---end quoted text--- deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde contrib rkrusty -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kdevelop working?
I keep getting this error after apt-getting kdevelop: Errors were encountered while processing: kdevelop E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) What can I do to fix this? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: startx hell
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 05:24:49PM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote: startx won't run. It gives me: System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 The XKEBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: -emp ? -em1 Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server keymap/xfree86 compiled/xfree86.xkm' ---end quoted text--- Me too, but I think I fixed it. Don't hold me to this: I wasn't able to get xdm to work after upgrading my X packages. I fooled around with the xfree config file and now all is well. I use xfstt, and that's where my problem seemed to be. This is how I changed the xfree config file to get everything sailing smoothly again: Section Files RgbPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath inet/127.0.0.1:7101 EndSection Don't ask me why this works better (as opposed to a long string of FontPath variables) but it does. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X/fvwm forcing me to place windows
I'm no fvwm guru, but there's an ActivePlacement flag that may be your problem. I have the same problem when a new window would overlap existing windows, so fvwm asks me where to place it as opposed to deciding for itself. I guess it doesn't want to take responsibility in this situation. I've got fvwm set up so that when it starts, I have 2 xterms and xjed on on page; mutt on another; and slrn on yet another. And when I start netscape, it automatically goes to another page. I'm working with that default 3x3 desktop, which is fine for me. If you want to know how to do this, let me know. On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 04:45:41PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since switcing to potato, fvwm is behavng much differently. Most annoying of the changes is that for some programs (netscape), it is requiring me to manually place the windows, a la twm. For others, the winows happily appear themselve (xterm, exmh). And occasionally (exmh), programs that usually work force me to place windows. ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X/fvwm forcing me to place windows
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 09:18:35AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 20:26:13 CST, David J. Kanter writes: I've got fvwm set up so that when it starts, I have 2 xterms and xjed on on page; mutt on another; and slrn on yet another. And when I start netscape, it automatically goes to another page. I'm working with that default 3x3 desktop, which is fine for me. If you want to know how to do this, let me know. at least I would like to know, but as I'm supposedly not the only one, maybe you could answer this to the list? tia rw ---end quoted text--- # ~/.fvwm/init-restart.hook # Make windows and icons snap to each other. SnapAttraction 8 All SnapGrid 8 # Some pre-start set-ups: These are going to ensure that when the programs # are started, they start on the rights pages. GlobalOpts ActivePlacementHonorsStartsOnPage Style gkrellm* Sticky Style e-mail* StartsOnPage 1 0, SkipMapping Style news* StartsOnPage 2 0, SkipMapping Style Netscape* StartsOnPage 0 1, SkipMapping # I don't want the CD player to have a title bar, so... Style XfreeCD* NoTitle # This stuff is started each time fvwm2 is either started OR restarted. # I'm going to have these always on: 2 xterms, xjed and gkrellm. Also, I # want mutt and slrn to start up, but on different pages of the desktop. + I Exec xterm -rv -geometry +64+0 + I Exec xterm -rv -geometry +560+0 -T root window + I Exec xjed -geometry +330+360 + I Exec gkrellm -geometry -0+0 + I Exec xterm -geometry 125x64+0+0 -T e-mail -e mutt + I Exec xterm -geometry 125x64+0+0 -T news -e slrn -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
parse-xf86config error?
I updated my X packages and ran into a problem: when rebooting xdm would not start up automatically because there was a parse-xf86config error. I was left at the console prompt and had to type startx, and everything worked fine. Below is the error ouput when trying to update the X packages. This is remarkably similar to the errors I was getting at boot time. Does anyone know what's going on? Thanks. Setting up xserver-svga (3.3.6-3) ... /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config:D:35: Impossible parser error. Please contact the maintainer of this program. Stopped at /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config line 1565, INPUT chunk 35. Do you want to create the XFree86 configuration file? (y/n) [y] Checking existing /etc/X11/XF86Config for problems (E = error, W = warning, A = advisory)... /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config:E:34: No argument for field FontPath. /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config:D:35: Impossible parser error. Please contact the maintainer of this program. Stopped at /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config line 1565, INPUT chunk 35. dpkg: error processing xserver-svga (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 Setting up xserver-vga16 (3.3.6-3) ... /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config:D:35: Impossible parser error. Please contact the maintainer of this program. Stopped at /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config line 1565, INPUT chunk 35. Do you want to create the XFree86 configuration file? (y/n) [y] Checking existing /etc/X11/XF86Config for problems (E = error, W = warning, A = advisory)... /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config:E:34: No argument for field FontPath. /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config:D:35: Impossible parser error. Please contact the maintainer of this program. Stopped at /usr/sbin/parse-xf86config line 1565, INPUT chunk 35. dpkg: error processing xserver-vga16 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xf86setup: xf86setup depends on xserver-vga16 | xserver; however: Package xserver-vga16 is not configured yet. Package xserver is not installed. Package xserver-svga which provides xserver is not configured yet. Package xserver-vga16 which provides xserver is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing xf86setup (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: xserver-svga xserver-vga16 xf86setup E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A quicky on kerneld and kmod.
On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:57:15AM +1100, Martin Bishop wrote: From the docs that I've read in the kernel source, I gathered that kerneld and kmod are two different utils to load modules. But how do I know which one is being used on my system, and does it really a make big difference? ---end quoted text--- I think the deal is that with newer kernels, the 2.2.X variety, kmod supplants kerneld. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got sound!
After many months wallowing because of my Aureal Vortex 2 chipset, I finally downloaded Aureal's Linux drivers, recompiled the latest kernel, and viola: I've finally got sound in Linux! Sorry for an essentially pointless post, but I'm so excited. Now I can probably use my Quake III Windows CD in Linux. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I've got sound!
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 11:21:41PM -0800, aphro wrote: can you let me know what you think of those drivers? one of my friends has a vortex2 and doesnt want to pay for OSS.. (hes on suse 6.3) ---end quoted text--- I've only played an mp3; I'm still trying to figure out xfreecd. But it sounds fine. I haven't cranked it, but at a moderate volume it sounds good. Definitely tell your friend to give it a try. I agree: don't pay the $20 for 4Front's drivers. It was really easy to set up too. make install and all of a sudden my speakers popped, which I'd never heard in Linux before. That was a good pop by the way; they were turning on. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Playing audio CDs question
Just to be sure I did this the correct Debian way: to let myself play audio CDs, I added myself to the disk group. I can play CDs now, so everything works. But again I want to do this right. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
insmod sound question
Yesterday I recompiled my kernel with sound support, as a module, and then compiled the Aureal Vortex 2 driver. All worked well until I rebooted. After rebooting I had to log on a root, then type insmod au8830.o because all sound software said no sound device was detected. After that everything worked just fine. This isn't a big deal, but how can I get this process automated? I've never had to insmod anything before. The module autoloader (kmod) was compiled into the kernel, and in my /etc/modules.conf I've got: ### update-modules: end processing /etc/modutils/arch/i386 alias sound au8830 alias midi au8830 -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Playing audio CDs question
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 03:50:36PM +, Ethan Benson wrote: the proper way to identify your cdrom device and do a chgrp cdrom on it, then add yourself to group cdrom instead. if its a ATAPI cdrom (probably) and its master on the secondary IDE its /dev/hdc if its slave on primary its /dev/hdb.. OK, I did chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc, and then adduser david cdrom. But now I can't play CDs. When I start xfreecd, I get: CDROM device: Permission denied. Do I need to change the group on the /dev/cdrom as well? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Playing audio CDs question
On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 11:32:18AM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: OK, I did chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc, and then adduser david cdrom. But now I can't play CDs. When I start xfreecd, I get: CDROM device: Permission denied. Do I need to change the group on the /dev/cdrom as well? ---end quoted text--- I think I answered my own question: I logged, then logged back in and it works fine. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Update Xfree, now xterm is monocolor
I updated a bunch of X-related files: all those listed for a basic X set up. However, now when I start xterm-type programs like mutt or slrn, they're black and white. Did I forget to update something? Also, the pretty xbanner is gone during the graphical login. I've just got the box where I can type my username and password. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recompile kernel for sound?
My kernel, 2.2.13, was not compiled with sound support because my card had no drivers. Now it apparently does: the Aureal Vortex 2 chipset at linux.aureal.com. Do I need to (re-download and) re-compile the kernel to enable sound support, or is there something simpler I can do? The drivers are apparently object files. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim appropriate for dial-up?
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 01:51:47PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: In view of this, is exim the right choice in such a setting? What is the alternative? Exim works fine for me. I had used smail before, but everyone here said to use exim. Setting up mail on debian seems very complicated compared to the usual process on Windows, where you simply configure a client with a few parameters. It seems here you have a client and a transport agent to configure. Yes an no. Netscape, I think, has its own transport agent; it's an MTA and MUA all balled into one. So I would think that if you only use Netscape for mail/news, you wouldn't have to worry about a real MTA. Retreiving mail uses POP, and there is no reference to POP in the exim manual as far as I can tell. You'll want fetchmail for getting the POP mail. It's pretty easy to set up. It even has an easy set-up setting. Like another poster mentioned, I get a lot of mail from lists. Using exim, fetchmail, procmail and mutt couldn't make me happier. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PS/2 Mouse Port...related question
I have a Logitech MouseMan Wheel, yet must use the ps2 driver rather than the Logitech MouseMan driver when running XF86Setup (the Logitech driver makes the mouse jumpy). Why is that? Is my mouse schizophrenic? Is the key the connector at the back of my desktop, not the label on the bottom of my mouse? On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 07:55:50AM +0930, Terri and Glen Kondos wrote: I'm having trouble figuring out what device I should use for my PS/2 port mouse. I have a Microsoft PS/2 mouse and notice on boot up the Linux recognizes that there is a PS/2 mouse port. When configuring /etc/gpm.conf, I don't know what device to use for the mouse. ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New HP Printers...?
Yeah. I use the dj550c magicfilter filter. On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 06:39:54PM -0800, Lowell Voelker wrote: Has any one been able to use the HP DeskJet 694C. ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ntpdate and burstmode
I would like to use ntpdate in burstmode to set my sysclock when I log on to the Internet via a PPP connection. How can I do this? I cannot seem to find any documentation beyond the fact that burstmode exists. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: my font suddently become very ugly
Put these entries: FontPath unix/:7101 FontPath unix/:7100 after these entries: FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chinese/ -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Re: mutt ignoring [tags]
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:32:51PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: If you're using exim, you might try using the .forward file filtering built into exim instead of trying to do it in mutt, if you're having trouble. My two-cents worth: the default exim config is set up so you don't need to use a .forward file if you use procmail. Here's how I have it: ~/.procmailrc: PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail # you'd better make sure it exists PMDIR=$HOME/procmail # procmail recipies are here LOGFILE=$PMDIR/procmail.log# recommended VERBOSE=yes# for debugging LOGABSTRACT=all INCLUDERC=$PMDIR/lists.rc # plug-in recipies start here! ~/procmail/lists.rc: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/ -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Music has been too much a part of my life to try to listen to it with one ear while digging out a liver tumor with both eyes and the other ear. -- Dr. Francis D. Moore Sr., Moseley professor emeritus of surgery, Harvard Medical School.
Re: How to install new Window manager
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:58:25PM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote: I'm a newbie at this. I figured I'd get started learning to customise all this stuff by installing a new Window Manager. I like the look of AfterStep (one of its skins in particular), so I've downloaded all the relevant bits. But I can't work out how to get Afterstep to come up instead of KDE. I would just have my ~/.xsession contain the line: exec afterstep I'm also interested in the meta-question: where would I look, on the net or in /usr/doc or whatever, to work out the answer to this question for myself? /usr/doc is a good start. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Music has been too much a part of my life to try to listen to it with one ear while digging out a liver tumor with both eyes and the other ear. -- Dr. Francis D. Moore Sr., Moseley professor emeritus of surgery, Harvard Medical School.
fvwm2 basic question
When (re)starting fvwm2, I'd like mutt and slrn to start on page 0 1 and 0 2 of desktop 0, respectively. I've written the below init-restart.hook file, but it doesn't do the trick: mutt and slrn start on page 0 0. What's wrong with my syntax? Thanks. # This stuff is started each time fvwm2 is either started OR restarted. # I'm going to have these always on: 2 xterms, xjed and gkrellm. Also, I # want mutt and slrn to start up, but on different pages of the desktop. + I Exec xterm -rv + I Exec xjed Style gkrellm* Sticky + I Exec gkrellm -geometry -0+0 Style e-mail* StartsOnPage 0 1, SkipMapping + I Exec xterm -T e-mail -e mutt Style news* StartsOnPage 0 2, SkipMapping + I Exec xterm -T news -e slrn -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Re: PGP for Windows - GnuPGP?
Actually, I found a great HOWTO on integrating GnuPGP with Mutt that helped me with everything. It's at: http://www.linux.com/howto/Mutt-GnuPG-PGP-HOWTO.html I'm curious though: did you set anything for the pubring or secring? THe howto says to: set pgp_gpg_pubring=~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg set pgp_gpg_secring=~/.gnupg/secring.gpg but Mutt says these variables don't exist. I've commented them out and everything still works OK, as far as I can tell. Thanks. On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 11:45:15AM -0600, Gregory T. Norris wrote: I'm using GnuPG with mutt 1.0.0-2 without any problems. I can email you the relevant entries from ~/.muttrc if you like... ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Menus aren't updating in fvwm2
When I apt-get a package (rxvt for instance) and it installs, no menu entry is created. What I've got to do is delete ~/.fvwm/menudefs.hook, run update-menus, then restart fvwm2. I thought menu generation was supposed to be automatic? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
PGP for Windows - GnuPGP?
I've got a public and private keyring, created with PGP 6.5 for Windows NT, that I'd like to use on my Linux box. Can I use the GnuPGP package as a substitute? The keys are nothing fancy, like no encoded pictures or anything, so I would think they are fairly backward-compatible. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Re: PGP for Windows - GnuPGP?
Just a quick follow-up to my post: I use Mutt and have read in one place that Mutt does not support GnuPGP (in the PGP notes in /usr/doc) and in another place, the on-line FAQ, that GnuPGP is recommended? What gives? I've got the latest Mutt from the unstable branch. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
What are glibc2.X, libc5 and 6?
What's the purpose of these files? And is the older version of glibc (version 2.0, right?) synonymous with libc5, and the newer version of glibc (2.2?) synonymous with libc6? I'm a little confused because I thought my system was pretty up-to-date, but when I tried to remove libc5, dselect wanted to blow away Netscape, which is a relatively new program. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
How do I install Netscape with Debian?
I'm confused on how to install Netscape using the available Debian packages. From what I've read, it sounds like all I need to do is: download the tarball from Netscape (Linux 2.0 glibc version); put it into the /tmp directory; and then apt-get install netscape4, a package which should automagically install the tarball for me. Is this off base? Why are there so many netscape/navigator/communicator packages listed when I run dselect --- smotif, dmotif, base, java, etc.? Do I need any of these, too? Information overload... -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Fetchmailconf bug?
I believe the newest fetchmailconf is mis-saving the ~/.fetchmailrc file. I just downloaded the newest fetchmail/fetchmailconf and ran the configuration program to see if there was anything new. Nope, but I saved the file anyway. However, that broke fetchmail. Running fetchmail would give this error: fetchmail:/home/david/.fetchmailrc:6: parse error at ' Apparently, this is the offending error: [snip] '' ssl '' because I edited it to this: [snip] ssl and everything was back to normal. Is this a bug? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Re: Can't Print
I had a similar problem, and did two things to fix it. 1. Your Slink /dev/lp1 is now /dev/lp0. Make sure you change your printcap file to reflect this. 2. Re-install lprng. I happened to notice that after upgrading the kernel, lprng was half-installed. So I uninstalled it and then re-installed it. Everything has worked like a charm since. On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 07:40:34AM +, David Densmore wrote: I'm running Slink and wanted to run kernel 2.2.13 so I upgraded all of the stuff listed in http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/running-kernel-2.2 to the Potato versions as recommended. After doing that and re- compiling ther kernel I can't start the print spooler. When I try to print something I get the jobs queued, but cannot start daemon message. When I try /etc/init.d/lpd start I see: Starting printer spooler: lpd. but nothing happens. When I try /etc/init.d/lpd stop I see: Stopping printer spooler: lpd not running. So I think it is not starting. Does anyone know how I should go about fixing this? Thanks, David Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Scwm, anyone?
I'm intrigued by scwm, and wonder if anyone else isn't able to use the configuration tool. When I select Preference-Scwm options... nothing happens. Pretty much the only thing that works in the Preferences menu is the themes. Does anyone have any pointers? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Why is Enlightenment slow?
Enlightenment, for the most part, is fun for me. But its slowness compared to something like Sawmill drives me a little nuts. What is it about E that slows it down? Certain themes are faster than others, which leads me to think that the theme has something to do with it. But is there anything else? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Cannot install Sawmill 0.18
I have Sawmill 0.16 and last night tried to apt-get the latest available, 0.18, from this site: deb http://www.rcpt.to/ pending main. However, the install failed because of librep5 problems. Everything went smoothly and was seemingly uneventful until the end. I ran apt-get update, then apt-get install sawmill. I was prompted with a screen showing what had to be updated, and what new stuff needed to be installed. One of those files was librep5. But after everything was downloaded and dpkg ran automatically, I got errors that a lot of stuff depends on librep5, but I chose not to download it. What? I saw it being downloaded, and see it in /var/cache/apt/archives. Any ideas? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Re: procmail
Do I need a .forward file if these lines are in my /etc/exim.conf? I thought
there were conditions where no .forward file is necessary.
# This transport is used for procmail
procmail_pipe:
driver = pipe
command = /usr/bin/procmail -d ${local_part}
from_hack
# This director runs procmail for users who have a .procmailrc file
procmail:
driver = localuser
transport = procmail_pipe
require_files = ${home}:${home}/.procmailrc:/usr/bin/procmail
no_verify
On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:32:55AM +0100, joost witteveen wrote:
Je 1999/11/20(6)/18:11, GECOS montris sian geniecon skribante:
Hi,
I am trying to filter my mail with procmail.
I gues in debian you need a forward file.
For the rest it seems like it should work, although I wonder
why you don't just use the example from the procmail manual:
|exec /usr/bin/procmail
Or, if using exim:
|/usr/bin/procmail
--
David J. Kanter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies
and coincidences.
-- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Re: Slrnpull error
Everything works now. I was getting the error while using the Blackbox window manager, but when I went back to look at Gnome later in the day, the problem mysteriously rectified itself. I was able to start the spooled slrn just fine in Gnome. I guess going back to Gnome let it take care of what ever it had to do? On Sun, Nov 21, 1999 at 10:32:24AM +0100, Colin Marquardt wrote: * David J Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For some reason, when I try to run slrn --spool, I get this error message: slrn fatal error: slrn: pid 1549 is locking the newsrc file. For this reason, I guess, nothing shows up in the spooled slrn window. What can I do to fix this? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Cannot create ksymoops*.ksyms?
Everything was fine until yesterday. GIMP crashed my X-session, so I had to kill the X-server with contrl+alt+backspace. Now when I reboot I get many errors that /var/log/ksymoops/foo.ksyms cannot be created. What can I do to fix this? It's giving me errors for modules like ppp, slhc, unix.o, etc. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Slrnpull error
For some reason, when I try to run slrn --spool, I get this error message: slrn fatal error: slrn: pid 1549 is locking the newsrc file. For this reason, I guess, nothing shows up in the spooled slrn window. What can I do to fix this? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
My ppp connection is (stalling)
This is driving me nuts. My PPP connection seems to be stalling all the time. I'm often seeing (stalled) in Netscape, and trying to do some updates to Potato has become painful (multiple mirror sites); it'll download a bit, then stop, download a bit, then stall...you get the picture. I remember reading something about PPP and the 2.2.X kernels. Could that be what's going on? I've got my pon configured to use all the compressions I can. Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Adding Styles to Blackbox window manager
After untarring a downloaded Style for Blackbox into my home directory, how can I get it to appear as a menu entry? Do I have to manually create a new menu item (e.g., My Styles) for it? If so, then can I [include] the entire Debian menu tree in my definition and just have the tail end be the entries for the Styles I've downloaded? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Cannot print after kernel upgrade
I upgraded my kernel with the 2.2.10 image. Now I cannot print. During boot-up, I noticed what was once a message about lp1 is now about lp0: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present. lp0: using parport0 (polling). I can send a job to lpd, but nothing happens; it sits in the queue. I have used lpc to stop/restart my printer, but still I cannot print to lp1, even though magicfilter is set up for lp1. Any ideas? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Re: Cannot print after kernel upgrade
I changed /etc/printcap to point to /dev/lp0 and I'm still out of luck. If I try this below, I get nothing; just a new line: milwaukee:~# ls | lpr So I typed this: milwaukee:~# lpq Printer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' - cannot open connection - Connection refused Make sure LPD server is running on the server So I try to restart lpd, with this: milwaukee:~# /etc/init.d/lpd start milwaukee:~# ls | lpr Status Information: sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1 cannot open connection to localhost - Connection refused Make sure LPD server is running on the server job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed Still no luck. But this works: milwaukee:~# ls /dev/lp0 Any other suggestions? On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 06:14:15PM -0600, David J. Kanter wrote: I upgraded my kernel with the 2.2.10 image. Now I cannot print. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Kernel-image 2.2.10 or linux.tar.gz 2.2.10?
I've got both of the files above, but don't know which is the best one to use in order to update the kernel (2.0.36) on my Slink + Potato system. I saw the buzzword system.map in the docs for the kernel-image, but I know I won't be able to customize a kernel unless I've got the sources: the tar.gz file. Is the kernel-image just a generic kernel to get you running? And is the potential error with the system.map easily fixable if I were to use the tar.gz file? (Just look for where the symlink points to the new system.map, right?) Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Core dumps /proc/kcore
I'm trying to free up some disk space so hunted for core dumps. All I could find (find / -name core -xdev) was /proc/kcore, which is a whopping 131Mb. Is this a monolithic core dump that can be deleted? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Slink + some Potato = What?
I have Slink, but have spent some time over the last few days updating essentially all the required base and standard packages from Potato. So, when I look at packages for Slink or for Potato, which one am I supposed to choose? For instance, the October Gnome. Should I avoid the Slink version? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Apting to a ZIP
I'm quite confused; I'd like to get some Potato files from a T1 onto a ZIP, but the apt-zip package isn't much help. There isn't any documentation for it, as far as I can tell. And I've looked at the apt-offline.html docs but that too is a bit confusing; I have no interest in using wget. I just want to FTP a bunch of files from a mirror onto my ZIP and go. So, what's the best way of getting the list of files apt-get dist-upgrade needs? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
What do I REALLY need for Potato upgrade?
I'm in the process of going from Slink to Potato, but I've got a modem. I'm not going to download all the updated packages, but what should I get to get a relatively solid Potato build? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Gnome is a G-nightmare!
I apt-get'ed the task-gnome-desktop package to try it out with Sawmill, but using it really messed things up. For root, everything was fine but for me (user david) it couldn't have been worse. I changed my .xesession to have only exec gnome-session. But only Enlightenment would display. I got no Gnome icons or menus or desktop. Nothing. It just looked like E until I logged out, when I got the Gnome save-session dialog box. I tried using jed, and I couldn't use the backspace key. It was hell. But for root I got all I exepected: Gnome desktop with the ability to configure it. What gives? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Re: emacs and word processing
On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 01:45:35AM +0100, Philip Lehman wrote: However, when adding a word to a paragraph or deleting some words I miss a convenient way to re-justify the whole paragraph, something like hitting ^J in Pico. It's M-q -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Re: Sawmill window manager
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 03:33:25PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: IMO, the sawmill in potato is slightly broken because it isn't picking up the debian menu system. Hopefully this will be fixed before release. And I thought I had screwed something up...Good to know I'm not the only w/o the Debian menus. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Sawmill window manager
I've heard a lot of good things about Sawmill, so I downloaded it an started looking at the documentation. The problem is, I haven't the foggiest idea on how to use all the functions. The docs seem to be written from someone with experience in lisp, which I really don't have. Is there a pre-Sawmill intro anywhere so I can learn how to use the functions? For instance, I looked at the Popup menu info node because I'd like to add a program to the Applications menu, but have no clue on how to do it. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Menus in X Windows
Just how is it that all my window managers can essentially show the same menu entrues, such as when I click on the root window? For instance, in E I can click Debian, and I see all the selections that I'd see with Window Maker, fvwm2, etc. How does this happen? Is there a central menu file that all the managers can read? Or is it that the packages are maintained so nicely that part of the installation is to put menu entries in the appropriate language for each window manager? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Can't change window managers on the fly
I used to be able to change window managers on the fly by selecting a manager from the Window Managers menu. But after updating a few managers to the Potato version, selecting a new manager from the Window Manager menu kicks me out to the xbanner login. Any ideas? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
fvwm2 question
How can I get an xterm to start on a specific virtual desktop in fvwm2? I've got this in my init-restart.hook: + I Exec xterm -xrm *Page:0 2 1 but that doesn't seem to work. I'm using the default Debian system.fvwm2rc with one desktop but a 3x3 virtual set up. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Jed and ispell
I've hunted around the man page, but I can't seem to find a way to have jed use ispell on anything more than one word (ESC $). Is there a way to have jed spell-check the whole document? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Why use Enlightenment?
Am I the only one who finds Enlightenment bloated, too busy and too hard to read? I'm willing to listen to those who use it; but after trying it out last night, I'm not too willing to switch from my speedy and trusty fvwm2 or window maker. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans have an innate tendency to attribute significance to anomalies and coincidences. -- John Allen Paulos, mathematics professor at Temple University
Re: Installing Linux (RedHat) on NT 4.0
Just use the program bootpart for NT; you'll be up and running in about 5 minutes. On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 03:26:08PM +1000, Wallentin, Henrik wrote: Hi all! I know this has been brought up a couple of times, but I would really be happy if any of you could help me with this. Last week a had a really good URL for how to set up Linux on a machine which already has NT on it. The URL was www.li.org/Resources/LDP/sg/sg.html, and if you take a look now it has disappeared. I've seen a couples of MINI HOWTOs but those aren't as good as the above was! Any suggestions are welcomed! Cheers, Henrik -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Wvdial and non-root access
Only root is able to use wvdial, even though I thought wvdial has been set up for use by non-root users. When I, as user david, type wvdial, I get an error that david cannot have access to /dev/ttyS1. That's better than before, when david couldn't access the wvdial.conf file. david has been added to both the dip and dialout groups. Any idea why root still is only able to use wvdial? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Perl problem with fvwmconf
With apt-get, I updated fvwm. But when it came to fvwmconf, I got this error message: E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package perl-base due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option. E: Internal Error, Could not early remove perl-base My questions are: 1. Should I proceed anyway? Some perl packages were downloaded with the fvwmconf files. 2. How do I run APT::Force-LoopBreak option? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Wmload is messed up
I was switching here and there to a number of window managers, and now my wmload seems to be messed up. The new background is green while the peaks are a more opaque green, and they are dipping down from the top, not originating from the bottom (this is the stalactite vs. the stalagmite thing, isn't it?) Wmload is docked with WindowMaker. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Re: Error using apt-get install
I fixed the problem. Yes, I touched the ntpdate file, but then cmod +x'ed it. Now that it's an executable, everything goes OK. On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 08:10:06PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: David J. Kanter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I tried this, but I still get the same error. Any other ideas? update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ntpdate: file does not exist /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntpdate.postinst: /etc/init.d/ntpdate: No such file or directory touch /etc/init.d/ntpdate Then retry your installation. Did the 'touch' command work? Do you have an /etc/init.d/ntpdate file? Does it still say No such file or directory? If all else fails, you may need to edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntpdate.postinst and take out the part that tries to run update-rc.d. But I'd only do that as a very last resort. -- Greg Wooledge| Truth belongs to everybody. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Re: Error using apt-get install
I tried this, but I still get the same error. Any other ideas? Thanks. On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 08:00:31PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: David J. Kanter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ntpdate: file does not exist /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntpdate.postinst: /etc/init.d/ntpdate: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing ntpdate (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 touch /etc/init.d/ntpdate Then retry your installation. -- Greg Wooledge| Truth belongs to everybody. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Red Hot Chili Peppers, http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | ---end quoted text--- -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Error using apt-get install
I messed something up but don't know how to fix it. I installed ntpdate, then accidentally removed it, then tried to re-install it, and this is the error I get: update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/ntpdate: file does not exist /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntpdate.postinst: /etc/init.d/ntpdate: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing ntpdate (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: ntpdate E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) Thanks for any help. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Re: a2ps margins
You may want to try two things: 1. Look at the docs in /usr/doc/a2ps/html. Nicely laid out help there. 2. Set the default paper size. I have a DeskJet, and telling a2ps that adjusts the margins appropriately. On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 11:28:33AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: How do I set the a2ps margins? When using the two page default layout, it prints just about outside of what my printer accepts, making the leftmost column unreadable. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Did Mutt eat my mail?
I just signed up for this listserv, and fetchmail saw/downloaded 76 messages. When I went to Mutt, there were only 10 in the Mutt index pager! Huh? Even weirder, about 10 minutes later, Mutt reported I new mail in my mailbox (I was already off-line) and the rest of those messages fetchmail saw magically appeared. What happened? Did I swamp fetchmail and it needed to catch its breath? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Sudo and other root-based security issues
From what I've read, I'm relatively pertrified to use my root account unless absolutely necessary, like configuring X or setting up my MTA. (There are only two users here, me and root.) But since some commands require root access, and it's a pain to su root all the time, how secure is it to run sudo on something like wvdial or slrnpull? I'm generally under the impression that once logged on as root and on-line with the Internet, anyone can crack into my system. This has got to be wrong, right? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
WMPPP.APP and transfer rate
For some reason, my docked icon for wmppp.app (I'm using WindowMaker) will NOT show the transfer rate until about 1 minute and 10 seconds into the connection. Until then, it shows 0K0 It wasn't doing this a couple of days ago. Any ideas? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
hwclock and fear of rebooting
I'm nervous about rebooting my machine because I have used the hwclock program to set the RTC to an atomic clock, and am waiting a couple of weeks to set it again and calculate the drift. (Eventually, I'll set up the hwclock to make adjustments to the system clock using adjtimex.) Anyway, if I reboot will I the hwclock settings in the drift file be affected, and therefore I'll have to start all over again? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
My broken iceconf
I have Slink, but update the icewm and iceconf packages. Now when I run iceconf, I get this error message: Can't locate object method add_with_viewport via package Gtk::ScrolledWindow at /usr/bin/iceconf line 312 Until I updated iceconf and icewm, this didn't happen. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Modem connection transfer rate
I read here last week about addind the following lines to my /etc/ppp/peers/provider file: bsdcomp 15,15 defalte 15,15 vj-max-slots 16 asyncmap 0 mru 576 mtu 576 So I did. But then, after running modconf, I noticed that some new modules appeared---ones I never specified during set up. They were: bsd_comp and slhc. Did these magically appear because of what I added to the above file? And if so, was I correct in installing these modules (changing the - to a +)? Thankks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Redialing ppp
How do I set up pon to redial if the telephone number is busy? There are example scripts in the /usr/doc/ppp/examples but those are for ppp-on, which I don't think is the same as pon, right? Perhaps I'm a little confused as to the difference between the three potential dialers I have: wvdial, pon/poff, and ppp-on/ppp-off. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Creating/Moving a partition
I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because I've got plenty of available drive space, but what set-up files will I have to modify to make sure things go smoothly? I assume I'll have to change fstab. But then do I have to move all contents of the current /var to the new /var? Could I create the new partition using a temporary name, move all the /var stuff to it, then rename it to /var? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
apt-get dist-upgrade problem
When attempting to upgrade, in pieces, from Slink to Potato, I got this error message when typing apt-get dist-upgrade: E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ Do I have too small a partition, is that the problem? What can I do to fix this? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Cleaning out dselect
While using dselect when I really didn't know what I was doing, I'd select packages and in the heat of the moment, wind up putting some things on hold, flagging others for deletion, and eventually quitting out of confusion. But now that I know how to use dselect better, I'd like to update some of my Slink packages to Potato. The problem is, dselect remembers all those screw ups I made; it still has a list of all those packages that I'd put on hold or flag for deletion. Is there any way to wipe the slate clean and get rid of this mystery cache list? What do I have to delete? -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
