df problem
I'm just sort of reporting this; the system is fine itself. I installed GNU/Debian on an older i486 model and oddly df shows the mount point of /usr and /usr/local (both separate partitions) as having the exact same specifications - total block count, usage, etc. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Special control characters ???
Michael writes: First, two examples: ^I ^M Obviously, you know that these are each single characters, and not two: caret+letter. Where do these come from? Are they features of the shell? They're simply adjustments to the output for the rendering of non-visual ASCII characters for the sake of the person sitting behind the console. They're features of the terminal; see stty(5), specifically: * [-]ctlecho echo control characters in hat notation (`^c') Where is an exhaustive list of such special control characters, and their definitions? $ apt-get install ascii $ ascii for starters although if you're extremely interested in this you may want to investigate the origins of encoding standards used in early serial communications. http://www.staubassociates.com/dbase/bu07sh.htm They come in quite handy for shell scripts, and I'm sure there are those about which I do not know, that can make life easier. What do you think? It has its place. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnome-panel in stable/main
Hi Everyone, I recently installed the stable/main distribution of Gnome (1.4) and I have been experiencing problems with applets segfaulting. There seems to be one or two that segfault and throw the panel into a tizzy. Any ideas on why this is happenning? I've checked the bug reports and didn't see any that seem related to this so I suppose that my machine is different from others? (Its a 486). In an effort to correct this problem, I adjusted etc/gnome/panel-config/panel.d/default/Applet_Config by removing the applets that were segfaulting but now when the user chooses Log Out it only stops the panel and doesn't carry on to the other programs so the user is looking at a blank desktop with only a middle-button that is responsive. Thank you, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Howto get assembly of linux or windows executables ?
Joris writes: I'm currrently learning assembly and I'd like to get more used to it - is there a way to get to see the assembly of a compiled program, what program(s) do I need for that ? gcc is able to show the assembly it generates with the -S option and leaves the result in a file of the same name as the input file but with an .s extension. e.g.: $ gcc -S test.c $ cat test.s .file test.c gcc2_compiled.: .section.rodata .align 2 .LC0: .string hello world!\n .section.text .align 2 .globl main .typemain,@function main: stwu 1,-32(1) mflr 0 stw 31,28(1) etc For disassembling an executable file the only thing I can think of off hand is the debugger, such as gdb. I may want to look into small windows programs too is that possible MS-DOS has a program entitled debug. Perhaps it is in that MS-DOS emulator or FreeDOS? Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache/DSL Modem/Port Forwarding
eric writes: My isp qwest.net assigned dsl modem actiontec R1524SU, accord tech support said it use port 80, he said If I am going to broadcast website, I need to configure webserver to use other port and config modem to forward that port, so I use port 70 Listen 70 in httpd.conf I tried http://(FQDN) or (public ip):70it reponse connection refused-if no appendix 70, then it show the modem 's configure page my apache test page still can be accessed by , http://localhost, http://127.0.0.1, or http://192.168.0.2(shown in my ifconfig) Can you access your Apache test page when httpd.conf is set to Listen 70 like this: http://127.0.0.1:70 ?. If so, then you may be experiencing a problem related to your DSL modem. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache/DSL Modem/Port Forwarding
eric writes: If so, then you may be experiencing a problem related to your DSL modem. welcome any softer soln so I can save a little money to rent static ip. actiontec tech support told me port 80 be used by that dsl/router You mentioned Port Forwarding in your original email so if your DSL modem is capable of doing that then it may work. Keep in mind, however, that the reverse action from your side of the modem may not be what others see; it may be working but you can't see it. After you set up port forwarding on your DSL modem then you may want to ask a friend or someone with a different net IP address to try and report what he or she sees. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache/DSL Modem/Port Forwarding
One of the things that seems kind of goofy is the Modem Control Web Page at port 80 of your DSL modem. This isn't the type of information one would usually want available on the net. Normally, the DSL modem only allows this information from the internal network (your side of the DSL modem) so it may be possible to port forward port 80 to your internal Apache webserver host. Have you played around with http://scan.sygate.com/ ? # WAN IP Address # Wireless Settings # LAN IP Address # DHCP Server # Services Blocking # Website Blocking # VPN Pass Through # Remote Management # Port Forwarding # DMZ Hosting # Firewall # Dynamic Routing # NAT # Static Routing # MAC Address Cloning Try Port Forwarding of port 80 to 192.168.0.2:80. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: router questions
Hi,
James writes:
Hello. Just can't seem to get this old 486 configured as a router.
The problem lies in the that I cant get both nics configured, loaded
and bound to eth0 and eth1.
I am able to load either of the 2, but never both at the same
time. They are identical dlink, ISA 220 cards and use the ne
module. Using this list and google, I have compiled much info on
the subject, but cant determine the correct sequence of operations
to make it work. Here are my specs. If anyone could kindly walk me
through this or provide a nod to good documentation, I would be
forever greatfull:)
COMP: 486
nics: eth0: io=300 irq=10
eth1 io=240 irq=3
To my understanding, this should do it.
modprobe ne io=0x240,0x260 irq=5,9
Here is a lengthy answer that I wrote before realizing the above will
do the trick and doesn't really pertain to your situation:
I have a similar set up. The trick IIRC is to use isapnp ala
http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/isapnptools.html
(apt-get install isapnptools)
*OR* use one of the newer kernels making sure to compile ISA-PNP into
the kernel and then load the ne module.
The second method is much easier but briefly this is how one does
it using isapnp tools.
1) Run pnpdump:
pnpdump dmp
2) edit dmp. For example:
# Card 1: (serial identifier 2e f3 16 9f 05 11 20 05 07)
# Vendor Id AXE2011, Serial Number 4078345989, checksum 0x2E.
# Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.0
# ANSI string --NETGEAR EA201 Ethernet Card--
#
# Logical device id AXE2011
# Device supports I/O range check register
# Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x39
# Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3a
# Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3c
# Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3d
# Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3f
#
# Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required.
# Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be changed if required
# Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy
(CONFIGURE AXE2011/4078345989 (LD 0
# Compatible device id PNP80d6
# Logical device decodes 10 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0240
# Maximum IO base address 0x0380
# IO base alignment 32 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 32
# (IO 0 (SIZE 32) (BASE 0x0240) (CHECK))
# IRQ 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 or 15.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt
# (INT 0 (IRQ 3 (MODE +E)))
(NAME AXE2011/4078345989[0]{NETGEAR EA201 Ethernet Card})
# (ACT Y)
))
# End tag... Checksum 0x00 (OK)
You'll need to modify the various parameters (IO and IRQ) until
such a time as when you load ne it works correctly, e.g.
modprobe ne io=0x240 irq=3
eth0: whatever
So, to recap, you update the dmp file:
(CONFIGURE AXE2011/4078345989 (LD 0
# Compatible device id PNP80d6
# Logical device decodes 10 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0240
# Maximum IO base address 0x0380
# IO base alignment 32 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 32
(IO 0 (SIZE 32) (BASE 0x0260) ) # NO CHECK! * --
# IRQ 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 or 15.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt
(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
(NAME AXE2011/4078345989[0]{NETGEAR EA201 Ethernet Card})
(ACT Y)
))
# End tag... Checksum 0x00 (OK)
3) and then run:
isapnp dmp (or maybe just isapnp dump; check the man page)
then try modprobe:
modprobe ne io=0x260 irq=5
and perhaps it will work.
4) Now, assuming that it does work, YOU NEED TO COPY OVER THE
WORKING dmp file (the one generated by pnpdump and edited by
you until it works) over to
/etc/isapnp.conf
so that
/etc/init.d/isapnp
uses it at boot up.
So, to re-cap, at this point you can boot up and manually type in:
modprobe ne io=0x240 irq=3 (just example parameters)
and the kernel responds appropriately.
To do more than one,
modprobe ne io=0x240,0x260 irq=5,9
Anyway, if this doesn't work let me know as it has been a long time
since I did it with isapnptools. By simply compiling isa-pnp support
into the 2.4 kernel its simply a matter of modprobe ne.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth
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Re: COBOL compiler
Alex writes: I've, unfortunately, been forced into taking a COBOL class as a requirement for getting my BS. (And that's just what it is, a load of BS...) What's worse is that I can't seem to find any Free COBOL tools. 'apt-cache search cobol' returns 3 hits, all of which are documentation utilities. Any suggestions? Or am I going to be stuck using school PC's loaded with Windows and more proprietary software than you can shake a warez-kiddie at? Whilst looking for one I knew about in the early 90's I found this: http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/cobol.shtml and this has a debian package: http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/snapshots.html hth, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RealTex 8139 Problem -- Dmesg output
Andreas writes: Robert wrote: I am unable to use my D-Link RTL-8139 with any of kernel 2.4.19, 2.4.21, or 2.6.0-test2 despite the Network Device explicitly being set to RTL-8139 with make menuconfig. Dmesg reports that my NIC is found and the 8139too driver loaded. But any attempt to load a web page resultcs in Address not found. Even a simple ping of 192.168.1.1 (address of my Linksys router) results in Address Not Found. Is your card correctly configured in /etc/interfaces? Or just do a quick check: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10 up ping 192.168.1.1 or whatever you need to. The kernel saw it but now you need to configure it. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
Hi Agung, Agung writes: The error message that I got was: = Installing module 8139too. If the device isn't there, or isn't confugred correctly, this could cause your system to pause for up to a minute. The reason you are receiving this error message may be that the device has already been reckoned with by the kernel as the 8139 driver is built into the kernel, as is 8139too_8129 (though 8139too is built as a module): http://sluglug.ucsc.edu/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/kernel-config CONFIG_RTL8139=y CONFIG_RTL8139TOO=m CONFIG_8139TOO_8129=y Did you notice the kernel recognizing your NIC on boot? If you are not sure, a quick way to find out is to move to another virtual console during installation (ALT - [Left Key] ; alt + right or left key switches among them) and drop into a shell (there is a message that states how to do this). Then, use the command dmesg which should display the messages from boot. You may want to pipe the output to more or grep 8139 (e.g. dmesg | grep 8139). There is no reason to pass IO and IRQ parameters to a PCI device; these are generally used with ISA devices. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: redumping TeX's format file(s)
Jerome writes: Hi Jerome. What is `passivetex' ? Its a TeX package for generating PDF and PS files from XSL-FO documents. ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=435777]. \iterate ...leCount :\the \arraylength \endcsname \relax \else \advance \arr... l.3995 /fo:block If you really absolutely need more capacity, you can ask a wizard to enlarge me. try a larger capacity, e.g, pool_size.pdfxmltex = 250 then update, as root, update-texmf Now, try to compose your manuscript. For some reason, update-texmf didn't do anything *but*, thanks to your help, it did render the document quite well. Here is a summary of what I did (as root): 1) I edited /etc/texmf/texmf.d/96passivetex.cnf and modified the pool_size.pdfxmltex variable as prescribed: % TeX uses % for comments. The next line is in the % original: % pool_size.pdfxmltex = 60 pool_size.pdfxmltex = 250 2) /usr/bin/fmtutil --all And voila! Thank you, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
redumping TeX's format file(s)
Hi, In /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf are the words: % If a change here appears to be ignored, try redumping the format file. and I've encountered errors a seemingly configuration error when using the passivetex package: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=435777]. \iterate ...leCount :\the \arraylength \endcsname \relax \else \advance \arr... l.3995 /fo:block If you really absolutely need more capacity, you can ask a wizard to enlarge me. So, how do I do this? And, if the answer to this question is: Adjust the line 'pool_size.pdfxmltex = 50' in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/96passivetex.cnf, then how do I redump the format file? Thank you, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Solved] Large X Fonts after switching to font server
Karol writes:
I switched from using font files to using a font server and now the
standard font size is larger, especially on Mozilla. For example,
Mozilla's 'Preference' page takes up practically 90% of the screen
vertically as before it was more of a normal window. Plus, the link
names in the Personal Toolbar just above the browser's content area
are pretty large and not as many fit onto it as before.
Try to exclude from configuration 100dpi fonts or set the default
fonts to 75dpi.
Mozilla's system font size can be adjusted via the userChrome.css
file in:
~/.mozilla/default/XXX/chrome/userChrome.css
in my case, simply adding to the end of the file:
* {
font-size: 12pt !important
}
did the trick.
OTOH, gtk's (1.x) font size is adjustable via the ~/.gtkrc file:
style smaller-text {
font=-*-Charter-Medium-R-Normal--14-*
}
widget_class * style smaller-text
I guess because there was such a smaller choice of fonts available
before, the server was forced to use the smaller fonts and when more
were available, a better match was made.
Thank you, Elizabeth
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Re: compromised box. please advice
Shri writes: The program was called bd.c and was created on June the 6, so all the logs I have are too new to be able to do any real kind of tracking down. Does the code in: http://kaizo.org/mirrors/phrack/phrack58/p58-0x07 look familiar? One of the source files is named bd.c (backdoor). Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Large X Fonts after switching to font server
Karol writes: I switched from using font files to using a font server and now the standard font size is larger, especially on Mozilla. For example, Mozilla's 'Preference' page takes up practically 90% of the screen vertically as before it was more of a normal window. Plus, the link names in the Personal Toolbar just above the browser's content area are pretty large and not as many fit onto it as before. Try to exclude from configuration 100dpi fonts or set the default fonts to 75dpi. Hi Karol, Unfortunately that did not clear it up. It seems like its the main System Font Size or something like that as even gnome-terminal's menu font is larger. In Mozilla, I can always make the *content*'s size smaller via C-- (control minus) or the preference dialog, but I have not yet determined how to make its own, system fonts smaller like they were. The only clue was via the Edit Preferences Appearance Fonts Display Resolution I choose Other and Mozilla asked how long a line was on the screen and then set itself to 96dpi which was even larger than it is now! Oh well. Thanks, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gzip problems
Larry writes: If I just gzip and gunzip a file, I don't get it either. I gziped these in batch ?? There is a constant (as far as I've examined) 512 bytes on front, with a few ID things, like file name, etc, with lots of 0's. On the end, there's many more bytes, well over 1000. Haven't determined yet if it's a constant number (probably is). I can write such a program, just wondered if I did something wrong procedurally, so I'll don't to that anymore. Or if there was a gunzip option (which I don't see) that would undo it. What is strange is this sounds a lot like tar. Here is the 512 byte header I made using the command 'tar cf test.tar main.cpp': 6D 61 69 6E 2E 63 70 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 main.cpp 0010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0060 00 00 00 00 30 31 30 30 36 34 34 00 30 30 30 31 0100644.0001 0070 37 35 30 00 30 30 30 31 37 35 30 00 30 30 30 30 750.0001750. 0080 30 30 30 36 31 33 36 00 30 37 36 37 34 37 36 37 0006136.07674767 0090 36 31 35 00 30 31 31 36 37 32 00 20 30 00 00 00 615.011672. 0... 00A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0100 00 75 73 74 61 72 20 20 00 6C 69 7A 7A 79 00 00 .ustar .lizzy.. 0110 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0120 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 6C 69 7A 7A 79 00 00 .lizzy.. 0130 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0140 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0150 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0160 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0170 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0180 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0190 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01A0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01B0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01C0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01D0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01E0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 At the bottom are a great deal of zeros. tar places the files within block boundaries and pads the boundaries with zeroes. Anyway, if this is what is going on and the tar files are the same name as the file it should be, you'll need to change the mis-named tar names temporarily before you untar them. This should do it: for i in * ; do mv $i $i.tar ; done and then just untar them (individually its 'tar xf SOMETHING.tar'): for i in *.tar ; do tar xf $i ; done provided that works you'll need to delete them (rm *.tar). Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Large X Fonts after switching to font server
Hi Everyone, I switched from using font files to using a font server and now the standard font size is larger, especially on Mozilla. For example, Mozilla's 'Preference' page takes up practically 90% of the screen vertically as before it was more of a normal window. Plus, the link names in the Personal Toolbar just above the browser's content area are pretty large and not as many fit onto it as before. Any idea of how this happened or is there some setting to make the standard font size smaller? FWIW, I installed *all* Debian bit-mapped Xfont packages onto the font server. Thank you, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gzip problems
Larry writes: I gzipped a bunch of files for easier transport to another machine. Both machines running Woody. When I gunzip them, they have some binary info on both ends of the file, with the original content inbetween. Is there some way to unzip them that will get rid of this header/footer information put there by gzip? Incidentally, how did it get there? I was not able to re-produce this error. If there is some kind of standard trait in each of the deformed files (always 512 bytes on top, 16 on bottom), then you can always write some kind of code to correct the documents. It sounds like its some kind of wrapper around the documents, possibly containing the name of the file, its size, checksum, etc, something that tar does. Did you use tar at all? Try the command 'file' on one of your uncompressed with header and trailer documents. Does it say anything weird? Have you examined the data with 'hexedit'? Is there a small text-string like TAR4 or RIFF2 in it? Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla e-mail list
David writes: I am using mozilla, when replying to this list, I have the options of reply to sender only, or reply to all. To reply to the list I have to reply to all. Then I have to remember to delete the to: personale e-mail addred, some people realy don't like it if you don't! I received a complaint before about this in the past but you know, I'm on many mailing lists and it is common to reply directly to the original sender as well as onto the mailing list. Further, I *like* receiving the direct reply even if it also goes onto the mailing list so the problem does not seem to be Mozilla. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cut command not working as expected
David writes: I want to cut the first two file names from the list ... To my way of thinking this should be easy ... cut -d' ' -f2 $directory The xterm goes nuts and ends up in hyroglyphics ! At a guess I would say that the white space between .gz 200... may not be space but may have a different ascii value. I have not found a utility to display raw ASCII for a file yet to check this out. hexedit. SYNOPSIS cut [OPTION]... [FILE]... Your $directory is expanding out to each file which is compressed data. cut reads the data in from the files, modifies it, and then sends it to stdout. When the data is displayed on xterm, xterm interprets the raw data in weird ways. setterm -reset will correct this after the fact. ls -r --format=single-column | tail +3 maybe? Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel won't boot (was Re: compiling a kernel)
Joris writes: In case you allready received this question (or even answered ??) I apologise, but I have seen no reactions, or my own question, so I guess something has gone wrong The thing is, I can't figure out what's option I should choose which is currently off. As I thought I might have changed a lot at the same time, I started again on the original config and compiled the kernel. Unfortunately, I have the same problem again: Probably ext2 file system support. make menuconfig File systems --- * Second extended fs support Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: leaving computer on 24/7
Koen writes: Are there options in linux where I can turn of the hard disks after x minutes? There are two methods that I am aware of: 1) By tweaking the hard disk drive itself via the utility hdparm(8) 2) Using the utility noflushd(8) Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT:Cross-compiling
Jeff writes: /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.2.2/../../../../i386-linux/bin/ld:/home / jeff/bglibc/libc.so.lds:114: syntax error What does line 114 look like in this file? Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MySQL over NFS
Angel writes: I've got to install a MySQL server with a hihg availabity configuration: one MySQL server running and the other in standby. I was thinking about using a NAS serving NFS partitions. But I have read documents about database servers (like oracle and others) not running well over NFS filesystems (because they use raw files). It certainly works; I have my MySQL server's filesystem on NFS. Do you know if there is any problem to run MySQL over a NFS filesystem? Personally I wouldn't recommend it in a production environment. My system is in my room and I'm the only one who uses it. Since the database is operating via the network (assuming your MySQL server is receiving commands from another host), having its backing store via NFS will just enlarge the network traffic (assuming NFS and the other host are on the same network channel). If this is the case then there may be some speed problem. Or do you know any other way to configure MySQL with high availabiliy? Replication. From: http://www.mysql.com/news/article-54.html One way replication can be used is to increase both robustness and speed. For robustness two (or more) systems can used to switch to a backup server if you have problems with the master. The extra speed is achieved by sending part of the non-updating queries to the replica server. Replication can also benefit database backup operations. Live backups of the system can be done on a slave instead of a master, eliminating potential problems and possible downtime. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT:Cross-compiling
Jeff writes:
What does line 114 look like in this file?
{
(114) KEEP (*crtbegin.o(.dtors))
KEEP (*(EXCLUDE_FILE (*crtend.o ) .dtors))
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.2.2/libgcc.a(unwind-dw2-fde-glibc.o):
In function `size_of_encoded_value':/home/jeff/gcc-3.2.2/gcc/unwind-pe.h:76:
undefined reference to `abort'
It looks like an error when it was making the file (or else it has
error messages embedded in it); specifically, unwind-dw2-fde-glibc.o
references the abort function but it was not resolved.
Take a look at unwind-pe.h line 76.
Consider the error messages of:
#include stdio.h
extern int x;
int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
if(argc == 2) {
x = 2;
}
return 0;
}
$ gcc test.c
/tmp/ccNyp4FK.o: In function `main':
/tmp/ccNyp4FK.o(.text+0x22): undefined reference to `x'
/tmp/ccNyp4FK.o(.text+0x2a): undefined reference to `x'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
$
Elizabeth
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Re: adding eth1
Frank writes: Is modifying /etc/interfaces and /etc/ifstate sufficient? If the cards are PCI cards, it should be sufficient. Where do I tell the system what IRQ to use. For ISA cards, one generally passes in the parameters when loading the module (if the drivers have been compiled as a module). If the drivers are compiled into the kernel, you'll need to pass the data in to the kernel at start-up. But, if they are modules then they are module options and then I suggest placing something like: rtl8139 options rtl8139 io=0x240,0x260 in /etc/modutils/rtl8139. And does that have to be another IRQ as eth0? Yes, they are two different devices and need to interrupt the processor at different times. Or can they share it? No. Or do I have to compile a new kernel? If your cards are ISA cards I personally recommend you do this as the 2.4.x kernels have the ISA-PNP built in and makes bringing up such devices a snap. For example, my firewall uses two identical ISA-PNP cards, an ne type, and I literally have a blank /etc/modutils/ne. Or is there a config tool for it, like gpmconfig for the mouse? I don't know of one. I try to find out what to expect before trying it, so I have no experiance yet. If your cards are PCI, however, you might just want to plug the new one and see if the kernel recognizes both when the rtl8139 kernel is loaded. If so, its just a matter of determining which one is eth0 and which is eth1 and going from there. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PowerPC screen off
Jeffrey writes: I have an iMac running Debian stable. The only way I've discovered to turn off the monitor (not just blank the screen, but turn it off) is to have X running. Is there software to turn off the screen without running a display manager? For the StarMax I use: setterm -powersave on setterm -powerdown 10 which is in a start-up script. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where would I ask...
GSO writes: Where would I ask if anyone has any linux hardware to sell - need a parallel port scanner (UK). Its just a matter of verifying that a certain scanner is known to work on Linux and then finding it. For the latter I suggest eBay. The former is a bit trickier and you might want to start here: http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: interpretting DHCP Client messages
Emma writes: I'm curious to know what's actually happening when I pull up my wireless ethernet connection. Below is what I do and then what I see. I don't understand what the DHCPOFFERS received means. This seems to be the longest part of the connection. Hi Emma, This is from http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2131.txt and while I was going to paraphrase it, a hefty copy and paste seems best: The following summary of the protocol exchanges between clients and servers refers to the DHCP messages described in table 2. The timeline diagram in figure 3 shows the timing relationships in a typical client-server interaction. If the client already knows its address, some steps may be omitted; this abbreviated interaction is described in section 3.2. 1. The client broadcasts a DHCPDISCOVER message on its local physical subnet. The DHCPDISCOVER message MAY include options that suggest values for the network address and lease duration. BOOTP relay agents may pass the message on to DHCP servers not on the same physical subnet. 2. Each server may respond with a DHCPOFFER message that includes an available network address in the 'yiaddr' field (and other configuration parameters in DHCP options). Servers need not reserve the offered network address, although the protocol will work more efficiently if the server avoids allocating the offered network address to another client. When allocating a new address, servers SHOULD check that the offered network address is not already in use; e.g., the server may probe the offered address with an ICMP Echo Request. Servers SHOULD be implemented so that network administrators MAY choose to disable probes of newly allocated addresses. The server transmits the DHCPOFFER message to the client, using the BOOTP relay agent if necessary. Table 2: DHCP messages Message Use --- --- DHCPDISCOVER - Client broadcast to locate available servers. DHCPOFFER- Server to client in response to DHCPDISCOVER with offer of configuration parameters. DHCPREQUEST - Client message to servers either (a) requesting offered parameters from one server and implicitly declining offers from all others, (b) confirming correctness of previously allocated address after, e.g., system reboot, or (c) extending the lease on a particular network address. DHCPACK - Server to client with configuration parameters, including committed network address. DHCPNAK - Server to client indicating client's notion of network address is incorrect (e.g., client has moved to new subnet) or client's lease as expired DHCPDECLINE - Client to server indicating network address is already in use. DHCPRELEASE - Client to server relinquishing network address and cancelling remaining lease. DHCPINFORM - Client to server, asking only for local configuration parameters; client already has externally configured network address. Figure 3: Timeline diagram of messages exchanged between DHCP client and servers when allocating a new network address Server Client Server (not selected)(selected) v v v | | | | Begins initialization | | | | | _/|\ | |/DHCPDISCOVER | DHCPDISCOVER \| | | | Determines | Determines configuration| configuration | | | |\ | / | | \| /DHCPOFFER | | DHCPOFFER\ |/ | | \ || | Collects replies| | \|| | Selects configuration | | | | | _/|\ | |/ DHCPREQUEST | DHCPREQUEST\ | | | | | | Commits configuration | | | | | _/| | |/ DHCPACK | | | | |Initialization complete| | |
Re: [OT] volunteer work
I currently do no do any volunteer work using Debian, but I do volunteer work and the place I volunteer at uses Windows which is mostly what I want to talk about. I am *shocked* that so many non-profit organizations are using Microsoft products. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: sometimes it's good to see the competition
And it was, but in the process they introduced a new bug into YOU, it uses wget to download stuff apparently, and they failed to configure wget to use passive ftp, so any attempts to download fail(if your behind some form of NAT). I didn't know at the time, so I configured SuSE to use a proxy using their YaST2 tool, but I guess that setting doesn't affect YOU since wget's config wasn't changed. Only later did I see on their support page that they forgot to turn on passive ftp. When running YOU it just spits back a generic message saying basically 'error, try another mirror'. Perhaps renaming wget something, say real-wget and replacing wget with a script will do the trick: #/bin/sh real-wget --passive-ftp $* Thanks for the report on SuSE. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Chat servers
I don't know a lot about Jabber but it allows chatrooms as well as the peer-to-peer messaging. There is also a Jabber server that is open source and from what I can tell written in C. http://www.jabber.org/ They have GPL clients for Win32, too: http://www.jabber.org/user/clientlist.php hth, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: iptables
There are some directions in /etc/default/iptables Elizabeth Reaz Baksh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where do I save the settings in iptables so that on reboots the settings are reinstated? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hdc: [PTBL] [2495/255/63] hdc1, what is PTBL?
Egor Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I see when my system boot up: hda: 19932192 sectors (10205 MB) w/426KiB Cache, CHS=1240/255/63, UDMA(66) hdb: 44150400 sectors (22605 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=2748/255/63, UDMA(33) hdc: 40088160 sectors (20525 MB) w/1961KiB Cache, CHS=39770/16/63, UDMA(33) Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hdb: hdb1 hdc: [PTBL] [2495/255/63] hdc1 ^ what is this? Thanx. Good question. A quick google came up with: http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/lists/slug/2000/January/msg00737.html Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: making alsa work, ix86, als120, wine
Donald writes: FWIW, I just got the Crossover Bundle CD for my birthday and just installed both the Plugin and the Office sections. I didn't have any problems with my already-working sound at all. I really didn't even think about it! Happy Birthday! My sound system here is different from yours, but I am using the stock kernel sound module for my SB-PCI128 card (es1370.o module). My impression is that if you already have working sound, then Crossover will use that...dunno for sure, though. I DON'T have ALSA installed here. BTW, I didn't read the Docs...just grabbed the CD and started playing. Maybe I got luckygrin. Glad it worked out for you and that you were using the stock sound modules and not ALSA or another abstraction library. I wrote CrossOver and let them know about it. Thank you for letting me know about your setup, perhaps helping me avoid treading certain ground unnecessarily! Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
making alsa work, ix86, als120, wine
Dear All, I recently purchased CrossOver Plug-in for a K6 box that contains a SoundBlaster compatible ISA soundcard, an ALS120: Card 1 'ALS0120:PnP Sound Chip' PnP version 1.0 Logical device 0 '@@@2001:Unknown' Now, this soundcard works fine with the simple sb module loaded, but to the best of my understanding, in order for the sound to work with the CrossOver Plug-in, I need to install some kind of sound abstraction library and the one that seems most supported by wine is ALSA. So I downloaded the drivers from the ALSA site (the more stable 0.5 series) and installed the debian packages that should allow them to work but so far they have not produced any sound. # modprobe snd-card-als100 # tail /var/log/messages ... Dec 25 21:30:12 kernel: snd: SB [0x220]: DSP chip found, version = 4.2 So far so good, but trying to play a WAV file produces no sound ouput. # aplay 41_30secOgg-q0.wav Aplay: version 0.5.10 by Jaroslav Kysela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Using soundcard 'Avance Logic ALS100 soundcard, ALS100 chip at 0x220, irq 5, dma 31' Playing WAVE '41_30secOgg-q0.wav' : Signed 16-bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo For about 30 seconds it just sits there, supposidly playing the piece but not really piping it out to the speakers. It should be noted that the mixer's master setting is set at 42/42. Does anyone spot anything out of the ordinary here or may be inclined to offer any wisdom they have received while working with any of these drivers and applications? Thank you, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
calendar printing revisited
Hi,
Some time ago, someone was enquiring about software that will make
a pretty calendar complete with certain events. I forget the ultimate
outcome of that exchange, but in case anyone is still interested,
there is the 'pcal' program:
Package: pcal
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 268
Maintainer: Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Architecture: powerpc
Version: 4.7-8
Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.4-4), libpaperg
Filename: pool/main/p/pcal/pcal_4.7-8_powerpc.deb
Size: 116310
MD5sum: 21003c80aa1efb6bb3be14d2426b9206
Description: Makes printable Postscript calendars without X.
Pcal is a program to print PostScript calendars for any month and year.
By default, it looks for a file in the home directory named calendar
for entries with leading dates matching dates on the calendar, and prints
any following text under the appropriate day.
I printed out one of its calendars and it looks fantastic but there
is only one (small) set back preventing this application being used
with gnomecal and evolution: the format of the data file that houses
the calendar events is very different. From pcal(1):
Dates in the .calendar file may be expressed in any of
several formats:
ordinal day_spec in month_spec{*} {text}
{ordinal} day_spec prep date_spec{*} {text}
date_spec{*} {text}
holiday
Evolution and gnomecal, however, use the iCalendar format and now
with libical[1], a fairly small translation of pcal's native parser to
use libical and convert the iCalendar events to something pcal can
work with seems rather easy and straight-forward.
Evolution, btw, is able to generate a mean looking postscript
calendar all ready, so perhaps the above-mentioned modification is not
called for but perhaps someone will find this newsworthy.
Elizabeth
[1] http://softwarestudio.org/libical/
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Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]
Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, I'll give him your phone number to call when he has questions and can't understand why the background on his mailer changed colors. He's 65 and has just learned windows in the last 2 years, uses his computer just to send email every other day so he's oh so motivated to learn something new every day instead of going out on the boat fishing or what not down in his Fla retirement village. FWIW, I switched my mother over to evolution form Win32/OE and she seems to be handling it pretty well. From this end, it is absolutely wonderful because I can rlogin to her box and fix things up for her. She's about that same age, too. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ps/gs issue ; individual pages look different
Hi, I am working with the latest rc of FOP, 0.20.5rc and the resulting postscript file appears to be okay in regards to the BoundingBox, which should be 8.5 x 11, standard US letter size. Here is part of the beginning of a FOP produced postscript file whose BoundingBox is correctly set: %%Page: 1 1 %%PageBoundingBox: 0 0 612 792 %%BeginPageSetup The key thing to notice is the 612 and 792, which define the width and height in postscript points (psp) (1psp/72 == in), respectively. (612 / 72 == 8.5; 792 / 72 == 11). http://www.prepressure.com/library/didot.htm Ghostscript has a device entitled pswrite which simply churns out another postscript file. If one tells gs to break it up into individual pages via the % in the OutputFile parameter, it will do so: gs -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=%02d.ps -sDEVICE=pswrite ../job-listing.descending.ps -c quit One would think that each resulting page would have the same BoundingBox as the original postscript file. Here is the bb from 01.ps: %%BoundingBox: 0 0 578 777 %%HiResBoundingBox: 0.00 0.00 577.55 776.50 which is similar to 8.5 x 11 but not quite. The reason I'm so interested in this is that the printing of a postscript file fails to print the header on the pages and this discrepancy between the original postscript file and the individual pages seems the most likely suspect. Anyone see anything particular? Thank you, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apm
daves debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am i right in thinking that I need apm compiled in the kernel to allow my system to turn its own power off when i shutdown -h now ?? All the documentation seesm to be about laptops and batt saving ? I run a full size system. Yes; it's funny that you mentioned this as I wondered about this same thing and via testing determined that it is necessary. [*] Power Management support [ ] ACPI support * Advanced Power Management BIOS support [*] Ignore USER SUSPEND [ ] Enable PM at boot time [ ] Make CPU Idle calls when idle [ ] Enable console blanking using APM [*] RTC stores time in GMT [ ] Allow interrupts during APM BIOS calls [*] Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off The Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off is only necessary for some machines. If mine is not set, the kernel oops on shutdown -h. Secondly I am having difficulty finding documentation explaining the parameters I can pass to the apm module, any ideas ??? The source code itself is a pretty good place to look. ./arch/i386/kernel/apm.c /* * See Documentation/Config.help for the configuration options. * * Various options can be changed at boot time as follows: * (We allow underscores for compatibility with the modules code) * apm=on/off enable/disable APM * [no-]allow[-_]ints allow interrupts during BIOS calls * [no-]broken[-_]psr BIOS has a broken GetPowerStatus call * [no-]realmode[-_]power[-_]off switch to real mode before * powering off * [no-]debug log some debugging messages * [no-]power[-_]off power off on shutdown * bounce[-_]interval=n number of ticks to ignore suspend * bounces * idle[-_]threshold=n System idle percentage above which to * make APM BIOS idle calls. Set it to * 100 to disable. * idle[-_]period=n Period (in 1/100s of a second) over * which the idle percentage is * calculated. */ Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP! dhcp server not talking to clients
sean finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hey charles, are you sure another machine isn't running a dhcpd? i sure don't see 192 addresses in your config... try installing nmap and then doing # nmap -sU -p 67 host for all the suspect hosts. =20 IIRC, the 192.168.1.0/24 network is what Win32's dhcp servers hands out by default. Win32 is pretty weird about this, too. After I placed a DHCP server on segment shared with a Win98 box, the Win98 box noticed this and put up a dialog box informing me that it was stopping DHCP service - which wasn't intentionally on (Windows does lots of crafty little things behind the users back [some like it, some don't]). Win98 has a program that can be run to release a lease as well, entitled WINIPCFG (or similar). Perhaps the other Win32 boxes have that or something like it so you can force them to start trying to obtain a new lease. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: could we use c replace perl in cgi program?
eric writes:
1) If you want to install that library, you ought to do it manually
as the way the Makefile is, it will not work correctly.
highly apprecaite you point out how to as the way the Makefile
is(modify Makefile in cgilib-0.5? by adding or deleting or modifying
anything?)?
To my understanding, cgilib-0.5's Makefile install operation
(i.e. make install) does not install the library in a convenient
location (such as /usr/lib), but rather places the example CGI
executable cgi-test in /usr/lib/cgi-bin.
install: cgitest
install -m 755 cgitest /usr/lib/cgi-bin
My point is that you should just copy the generated library
manually and place it into /usr/lib.
some in debian seem also have a package do about using c replace perl
this is my c program try, to achieve get data out from html's submit
and form, if it is not a dream
It's certainly possible but you do not yet seem to understand the
framework you are working with.
#include stdio.h
int main()
{
extern char name[][];
extern char value[][];
printf(Content-type: text/html\n\n);
printf(htmlbody\n);
printf(the price fo , name[1], equal , value[1], \n);
printf(/body/html);
}
Well, sure, where do you expect name and value to actually be defined?
(I don't think 'extern' is allowed to modify local variables in any
case.) You also might look for C CGI libraries if this would make you
happy; there seems to be a libcgicg1-dev package in unstable, which
appears to provide the right functionality.
Name and value are not bound to anything; they're just pointer
pointers that have yet to be assigned.
For CGI-BIN, parameters are passed to your program via environment
variables. For a reference, you may want to look here:
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/env.html
The nice thing about the CGI libraries is they package up the
submitted parameters and place them nicely in variables, such as the
name and value variables mentioned above. If you do not want to
use one of theirs, you shall have to construct you own.
Elizabeth
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Re: [users@httpd] Re: what is perl 's syntax
eric lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
foreach (param()) {
print p\n;
print $_ has value(s) = ;
print param($_);
print /p\n;
}
print end_html();
Same thing, only show This is an example CGI script.
I keep doubt it is my httpd and perl module did not configure well
any opinion?
You need to pass parameter(s) to the script else the foreach loop will
not be entered (the parameters are empty).
If the name of the script is test.pl on your local machine in the
cgi-bin ScriptAlias, then something like:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.pl?name1=value1name2=value2
Elizabeth
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Re: Help! Exim verizon.net
R Ransbottom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to set up a debian mail server that sees the world through incoming.verizon.net and outgoing.verizon.net. Fetchmail is set up and recieving mail fine. Are you doing this: (2) Internet site using smarthost: You receive Internet mail on this machine, either directly by SMTP or by running a utility such as fetchmail. Outgoing mail is sent using a smarthost. optionally with addresses rewritten. This is probably what you want for a dialup system. If you are trying to send your mail via Verizon's SMTP server and it is giving you trouble, you may want to go with configuration option (1): (1) Internet site; mail is sent and received directly using SMTP. If your needs don't fit neatly into any category, you probably want to start with this one and then edit the config file by hand. which will cause your host to not use verizon's SMTP server but, rather, it will go out and try to find the host's SMTP server and deliver mail directly to it, thus not using verizon's outgoing SMTP service. Do you absolutely must need to use Verizon's SMTP service for outgoing mail? Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it possible to switch these processors?
Wathen, Metherion [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, I have an older system with a P100 processor, I have another older system with P450 processor. what dangers do i face in swapping the processors? thanks in advance. mw If they have the same pin-count and the same voltage, then you might as well try it, although some motherboards have jumpers one can set so as to accommodate different CPUs with different voltage requirements and speeds. For the latter you should check the motherboard's manual (it may be on the web if you do not possess a copy). One of the reasons I suggest just doing it to find out is because I did exactly that (I replaced a generic 33MHz 486 [/proc/cpuinfo could not determine the manufacturer] with a Intel 486 DX2) and sure enough, it worked! Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LDAP Authentication help
There is also a GUI application entitled Directory Administrator that makes setting up the users and groups easy. I do not recall it being in the distribution, however, and I had a little difficulty with the program's logic but all and all it helped a great deal. http://diradmin.open-it.org/index.php Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /etc/init.d/omniorb
Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just idly wondering: /etc/init.d/omniorb: what is it for? It was put in by default when I originally installed the system, and I soon disabled it, and haven't noticed anything complaining that it's not there. It runs omniNames. What is omniNames? man omniNames gives the following: omniNames - OMNI Naming Service The OMNI Naming Service is an omniORB2 implementation of the OMG's COS Naming Service Specification. which leaves me none the wiser. CORBA. OmniORB was originally written by the fine folks at ATT is now at sourceforge: http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/ OmniORB is a well-respected ORB (Object Request Broker) and OmniNames is the ORB's nameserver (similar to DNS except for objects). Most likely, some application you installed is dependent upon OmniORB and so it was installed as well. It is of note that GNOME uses ORBit for its ORB. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Opps !! HELLLLLLLLPPPPPP !!! iptables and a clingon
daves debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HELP I was experimenting with firewall scripts, one of which was mason, the one that as you use the internet it generates rules. I have since deleted all these scripts, read up about iptables and am happy to DIY !!! HOWEVER a bit of mason still seems to be hanging on when I connect with iptables -L showing accept on everything, (I know this is SO insecure, but bear with me ...) all is OK, when I use a web browser, mail etc iptables -L starts comeing up with rules, I didnt put them there, I think it must be mason. However the rules are no good and block my dial on demand link the next time I wnat to use it I have to /etc/init.d/iptables reload to clear iptables -L to accept, then its OK till I use the web !!! I have tried everything, re-load mason, purge it etc etc From now on no more flashy scripts, good old text config files for me . Any advice on how to unscrew my system greatly appreciated .. Why don't you just clear the iptables and then save them with: /etc/init.d/iptables save active ? The instructions are in /etc/default/iptables. Here's what I did: I wrote an iptables script and saved it in root's home directory, and when I want to change the iptables rules, I modify the script, run it, and then do: /etc/init.d/iptables save active Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Blinking Keyboard Light Error Condition Codes after early boot freeze
Hi, I made a bootdisk as per Tom's instructions here: http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bootdisk-HOWTO/x1440.html although my bootdisk is using busybox and uClibc - but it does not get as far as busybox. The error occurs directly after LILO completes and decompress_kernel() in arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c successfully displays: Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. The entire boot sequence stops here as far as screen output is concerned; however, two of the lock keys are flashing in sequence: the Num Lock LED light and the Caps Lock LED light. I have been looking for the meaning of Caps Lock and Num Lock blinking in sequence but so far to no avail. Does anyone know what the lights mean or where I should look to find out? Thank you, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED! Blinking Keyboard Light Error Condition Codes after early boot freeze
Hi Kent, I'm replying to your letter on a computer that was booted off of a floppy and telnet'd in to my main work station (that is to say, it works!). Brad Cramer told me he had seen a similar error and deduced that it was related to bad memory on his machine, but the on my machine it was a kernel configuration error. It turns out that it was the o SCROLL LOCK (scrolllock) and the o CAPS LOCK (capslock) and not the number lock LED that were blinking in unison. Anyway, the source of the error was that I did not enable the Virtual Console option when configuring the kernel. During the boot, one of the first things it does is try to figure out the video, and since I had not specified any, it just plain halted. It is of note that a different error but one with the same consequences (the kernel had no where to go so just shut down) did the same blinking lights so apparently the specific lights themselves do not mean something special, just that the kernel failed to boot up properly. Thank you for all your help! Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rtl8139.c compile problem
Anita Chawla Hasija [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am trying to compile a linux driver module out of your rtl8139.c = source for my rtl8139 based cardbus NIC, but cannot succeed. The compile fails and giving error pcmcia/driver_ops.h : no = such file or directory. I am working on slackware linux 2.0.30.I tried = to find out this file , but I didn't get the file. Kindly suggest me what should I do. I suggest building a new kernel and enable the rtl8139 driver as a module. From what you said, it sounds as though you do not have a gnu/debian distribution installed, which would make my suggestion of installing kernel-package of no effect. So, I suggest you download the latest kernel from: http://www.kernel.org/ and then build it. Here is a HOWTO that should help: http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Kernel-HOWTO.html Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: web based survey/database
Mike Egglestone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm looking for a deb package (or any linux package) that would provide a web based solution for users to take surveys, answer questions and have the data stored in some kind of database to be displayed on a web page. Any such software packages out there? Thanks! Mike Hi Mike, I'm unaware of a .deb package that includes the files for a web survey, but I used this and thought it pretty good: http://phpesp.sourceforge.net/ It's in PHP, of course, so you should just be able to install the PHP + Apache .deb packages and then configure phpesp by hand. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need some help on lynx
Sandip writes: once in the text mode news, i type in the same query in the space provided. =20 i wanted to know if i can automate the whole thing or at least the last typing a query part of it. may be i can store the query in a text file and be done. there is an 's' option in lynx but i did not understand it much. =20 Do you mean simply visit the Text Google News Page? no. not just visit the page. i already have it bookmarked. automation is required more on entering the query. i type it everyday! sorry for ambiguity in my original post. My apologies. You were clear with the same query in the space provided. When I first read it I thought you were speaking of USENET, and when I understood you meant regular news I did not re-read that part. Regardless, though, you should be able to bookmark the search URL: http://news.google.com/news?hl=enq=indiabtnG=Google+Search After typing in the query and hitting the submit button, you could just a add it to your bookmarks. I just did it and it works. Is that what you mean? The trick of this has to do with how the web-page author implements the query submission - via the POST method or via the GET method. If it's via the GET method, it can be bookmarked because the query parameters are passed to the web-application via the URL, such as the q=india in the above example URL. If it's via the POST method, similar name=value pairs are passed in the body of the *incoming* message and not within the URL. To make an automatic query for the POST method, you could use the perl script POST (in libwww-perl)... ** OR ** I just looked at the man page lynx(1): -post_data properly formatted data for a post form are read in from stdin and passed to the form. Input is termi nated by a line that starts with '---'. Perhaps sending the data in via -post_data would work, as in: lynx -post_data q=india -- http://www.google.com/ Best regards, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need some help on lynx
Elizabeth writes: lynx -post_data q=india -- http://www.google.com/ This doesn't work. lynx expects the parameters to be given to it via stdin and ending with a --. So, say: $ cat query.post q=india -- ^D $ lynx -post_data http://new.google.com/news query.post returns: Google Error Not Implemented The server is unable to process your request. But: $ lynx -dump http://news.google.com/news?q=india returns: [1]Go to Google News Home News BETA [2]Preferences[3]Search Tips ... Searched news for india. Etc. Is this what you mean? Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: big libtoolize problem.
Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had some problem (crashes) on my computer (debian/unstable), and as a result I think some system files got corrupted. Now the crash cause is fixed, but libtoolize is broken: whenever I run libtoolize, the libtool it generates has syntax errors in it. But when I simply copy /usr/bin/libtool over the generated one, then the build works. I've tried reinstalling a bunch of packages (libtool, all auto*, and a load of others) but it didn't do anything. As I need my machine to develop, I want to get this fixed but can't totally reinstall that. Anyone knows how libtoolize generates libtool, what packages are needed to get back to a working system ? m4? You can always download the latest (CVS if you want) versions of libtool and the autotools as well. What errors exactly are you receiving? Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: big libtoolize problem.
Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
/bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -g -Wall -Wall -o gimp-remote-1.3
gimp-remote.o -Wl,--export-dynamic
-lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lpangoxft-1.0
-lpangox-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lSM -lICE -lX11 -lXmu -lXt
../libtool: line 4947: syntax error near unexpected token `done'
../libtool: line 4947: `done'
I have attached the generated libtool; there's effectively something
really messed up inside, but I don't know why it's been born dead.
Looks like a bad ltmain.sh. If your version of libtool is part of a
distribution, you may want to file a bug report.
The problem is a parse error in that /bin/sh expects one token but
was given another, note the ADDED comments below:
# Handle -dlopen flags immediately.
for file in $execute_dlfiles; do
if test ! -f $file; then
$echo $modename: \`$file' is not a file 12
$echo $help 12
exit 1
fi
dir=
case $file in # [E]
*.la)
# Check to see that this really is a libtool archive.
if (${SED} -e '2q' $file | egrep ^# Generated by .*$PACKAGE) /dev/null
21; then :
else
$echo $modename: \`$lib' is not a valid libtool archive 12
$echo $help 12
exit 1
fi
# Read the libtool library.
dlname=
library_names=
# If there is no directory component, then add one.
case $file in
*/* | *\\*) . $file ;;
*) . ./$file ;;
esac
# Skip this library if it cannot be dlopened.
if test -z $dlname; then # [a]
# Warn if it was a he absolute pathname.
absdir=`cd $dir pwd`
test -n $absdir dir=$absdir
fi # ADDED
# Now add the directory to shlibpath_var.
if eval test -z \\$$shlibpath_var\; then # [b]
eval $shlibpath_var=\\$dir\
else
eval $shlibpath_var=\\$dir:\$$shlibpath_var\
fi # [c]
esac # ADDED
done # [d]
Without the Added! parts
1) Bash goes into the [a] if, and then it looks for fi.
2) At [b], it goes into another one, but this is closed at
[c].
3) Then it hits done at [d], which doesn't make sense as
the parser must have seen a token-wise immediately prior,
but in fact has the if of [a] there.
To remedy, I closed off the if at [a], then added the esac to close
the case at [E].
This was not an exhaustive study, but with the added instructions,
this built the test library okay as where before it did not.
My guess is that ltmain.sh (which is distributed with libtool) is
corrupted somehow and for some weird reason, those loops were not tied
off properly.
Elizabeth
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Re: big libtoolize problem.
Xavier Bestel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le lun 25/11/2002 à 23:01, Elizabeth Barham a écrit : The problem is that I re-installed (apt-get --reinstall) libtool package, the auto(make,conf,etc.) packages, all packages to which the /usr/share/aclocal/*.m4 files belong, and then some more ... and I still have this problem. So ltmain.sh (which comes from libtool) has been replaced. You may want to work through your version of ltmain.sh and determine why those loops are not closed off properly. I use debian/unstable, and as many other developpers use it I don't think it's broken. My problem seems to be that some file, somewhere is corrupted, but I don't know which one. Working through ltmain.sh would be a step in the right direction to determine exactly what introduced the problem. Is there a command to reinstall all packages, without touching config files ? Or better, a command to verify the integrity of all installed packages, like rpm can do for redhat-based distros ? Probably. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bind and .tv domains
Jason M. Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can anyone else reach http://www.io.tv? Yes. and if so, do you know of any changes to root servers i need to add to bind? There was a recent change in the root zone hints, see: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/07/1613256mode=threadtid=95 Perhaps updating your root hints will alleviate the problem. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Low Disk Space (deleting /usr/share/locales) and printing
Dear Everyone, I have a limited-disk capacity machine (about 130 Megs) that acts as a firewall and a print server (with lpd and samba). I am now interested in allowing this machine to accept postscript streams, convert it into something acceptable for the HP 5L printer with ghostscript, and then pipe it out to the printer. Unfortunately, there is only about 7 Megs available on the machine's HDD. To work around the low disk-space before, I deleted a lot of the directories within /usr/share/doc. Now that that has been done, the next directories to delete are the man pages, since man is not even on that particular system. But, even then, that would not be enough to install gs: Need to get 10.0MB of archives. After unpacking 31.2MB will be used. 1) Do I need all those locale files? LANG=C and if I understand this correctly, I do not need *any* locale files. Removing all these files will only free up about 7 megs but that should help me achieve the goal some. 2) What printing subsystem do you recommend? I have heard a lot about CUPS on this mailing list but I have not used it, rather I have stuck with lpd in the past and simply made filters. Thank you, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Low Disk Space (deleting /usr/share/locales) and printing
Mike writes: Take a look at the package called localepurge That, removing the manual pages, extra docs, and lpr has given me an enough room for CUPS with an extra 7 MB to spare. Thank you Mike. CUPS is very impressive! :-) Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dist-upgrade (from potato to woody) snag
will writes: seeing lots of this during an apt-get dist-upgrade from potato to woddy today: yada snip Setting up libxslt1 (1.0.16-0.1) ... ldconfig: /usr/oracle/lib/libvbj30ssl.so is not a shared object file (Type: 768). Setting up libreadline4 (4.2a-5) ... ldconfig: /usr/oracle/lib/libvbj30ssl.so is not a shared object file (Type: 768). Setting up libssl0.9.6 (0.9.6c-2.woody.1) ... ldconfig: /usr/oracle/lib/libvbj30ssl.so is not a shared object file (Type: 768). yada snip 1) is this an unimportant side-effect that can be ignored? 2) is it fixable? i toyed with oracle 8i for about half a day and then went postgresql instead. is that the 'oracle' being referred to? if so, what's it got to do with ldconfig? If you are no longer using the libraries in /usr/oracle/lib and it is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf, then you may want to remove the listing of it in /utc/ld.so.conf. If apt-get is running ldconfig after it updates libraries (which it looks like it is) and /usr/orace/lib is listed in the dynamic linker's configuration file, /etc/ld.so.conf, then ldconfig is checking that library to help set-up the dynamic library sub-system and apparently there is something wrong with libvbj30ssl.so. I suggest removing /usr/oracle/lib from /etc/ld.so.conf and then re-running ldconfig. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail failing in fetching mail from a pop server
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilhelm Land) writes: The file below shows errors relating to unexpected message lengths. Could it have something to do with the missing options exim is complaining about? Any help is grately appreciated Probably. From fetchmail(1): -m command, --mda command (Keyword: mda) You can force mail to be passed to an MDA directly (rather than forwarded to port 25) with the -mda or -m option. To avoid losing mail, use this option only with MDAs like procmail or sendmail that return a nonzero status on disk-full and other resource-exhaustion errors; the nonzero status tells fetchmail that delivery failed and prevents the message from being deleted off the server. If fetchmail is running as root, it sets its userid to that of the target user while deliv ering mail through an MDA. Some possible MDAs are /usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -f %F %T, /usr/bin/deliver and /usr/bin/procmail -d %T (but the latter is usually redundant as it's what SMTP listeners normally forward to). Local deliv ery addresses will be inserted into the MDA command wherever you place a %T; the mail message's From address will be inserted where you place an %F. Do not use an MDA invocation like sendmail -oem -t that dispatches on the contents of To/Cc/Bcc, it will create mail loops and bring the just wrath of many postmasters down upon your head. Exim doubles as sendmail, so the: mda /usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -f %F %T will probably work. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: weird g++ behavior
What about running conftest.cc through the pre-processor with the -E option (g++ -E ...)? That often helps clear up some of the odder parse errors. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Looking for a good LDAP book
Mike Fedyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking for a good book for someone new to LDAP with a unix/open source perspective. Also, if it covers some proprietary products as well that isn't a problem. Can anyone make a suggestion? I read most of: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1578700701/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/002-7184386-1355201?v=glances=books Understanding and Deploying Ldap Directory Services (MacMillan Network Architecture and Development Series), 1-57870-070-1 at Safari.com and, all and all, it explained LDAP pretty well although I do not recall too many examples and I believe that hands-on experience helps understand things better than only reading about it. But before I read it I pretty much did not even know the point of LDAP and after reading most of it I knew what it was and what it is good for. However, the only LDAP servers I recall being mentioned in it were Netscape's and possibly (probably; its been a while), the UM LDAP server that (to the best of my understanding) went on to become OpenLDAP. There is another book, however, that I would like to read as well, http://www.src.nu/scripts/src/uds/uds.pl Understanding Directory Services, 0-7357-0910-6 Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!
Jerome Acks Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Instead of using rescue disk you could try tomsrtbt at=20 http://www.toms.net/rb/. Or make a custom, static version of busybox so that you can do some of the preliminaries. Once you have the target mounted, then you could operate on the dpkg file directly. ldconfig has a '-r root' option, too, when you are ready for it. Is it possible to add dpkg to busybox? That would be useful. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Manual ldconfig required HELP!!!
Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can boot using my install CD, unpack the .deb manually and copy *.so to /usr/lib. But of course ldconfig is broken too, so I can't tell the machine its libraries are back. Please can someone tell me how to do ldconfig's job by hand... Try using the rescue disk. If it has dpkg, you could mount your HDD filesystem on, say /target, use dpkg with the --root option and then chroot into /target and run ldconfig. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: awk problem
It works for me although I did place your script into a file and
ran it as:
awk -f neals-script.awk /etc/services
{
if (index($0,@) == 0 index($0,--none---) == 0) {
if(substr($0,1,1) == #) {
print $0;
} else {
TMP = $1\t\t$2\t\t#;
for (i = 3; i = NF; i++)
TMP = $TMP $i;
print $TMP;
}
}
}
}
hth, Elizabeth
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Re: OT: awk problem
Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, it doesn't help...I tried putting it in a file - same exact problem. I assume you ran it with mawk? (/usr/bin/awk links to /etc/alternatives/awk which links to /usr/bin/mawk on my system). Yes. I have two architectures running and both worked fine with the script. Sounds like something is wrong with your system. Have you checked your memory? That might sound unusual, but I kept having strange bugs running java, so I checked the memory with memtest86 and memory errors showed up. This was corrected by removing the cache chip and replacing a SIMM. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Disk boot failure
Helgi =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D6rn?= Helgason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank's for your reply, but the boot sequence is already A, C so this is not the problem. It may be a bad floppy or a bad floppy-disk drive. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/sbin/insmod_ksymoops_clean - What does it do? ; was Samba causes printer to freeze after long period of inactivity
What does insmod_ksymoops_clean do? It looks like this:
firewall:# cat /sbin/insmod_ksymoops_clean
#!/bin/sh
# Delete saved ksyms and modules not accessed in 2 days
if [ -d /var/log/ksymoops -a -r /proc/ksyms ]
then
set -e
# Make sure there is always at least one version
d=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
cp -a /proc/ksyms /var/log/ksymoops/${d}.ksyms
cp -a /proc/modules /var/log/ksymoops/${d}.modules
find /var/log/ksymoops -type f -atime +2 -exec rm {} \;
fi
From all I can tell, it simply makes a snapshot of the modules and
symbols that are active.
Does it purge not-recently-used modules from the kernel?
Elizabeth
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Re: What's the best way to contact someone knowledgeable on nis?
Neal Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to sort out a strange problem with nis - or at least, I think it's with nis. I haven't been able to find answers, including with an earlier post hear, so I was wondering if I could locate, perhaps, someone knowledgeable in the internal workings of nis, but I don't know how to go about that. Anyone with suggestions? The problem I have is strange. I use nis for lookups for passwd, groups, hosts, etc, so that I can keep a central database on one server in my home LAN and not have to duplicate accounts, etc. The problem is with /etc/services. When I set up nsswitch.conf to use nis for servers, some commands no longer work properly. For instance, apt-get. If I try apt-get update or apt-get upgrade, they fail, stating that connections to my various apt sources are refused. However, when I edit nsswitch.conf so that servers uses the local file instead of nis, all works fine. I've tried ltrace'ing and strace'ing apt-get to see if I can spot where the problem lies, unsuccessfully. The same thing happens if I try to telnet to a specific port (eg telnet mail.foo.bar pop3), but only when services is being delivered via nis. I'm at a loss to figure out why this is the case. A test program to use getservicebyname works identically regardless of whether services is handled by nis or not. Any thoughts? I'm reading a book on NIS and NFS so I suppose I'm somewhat knowlegable ;-) I had a similar problem when using nis_ldap (or something like that) after setting nisswitch.conf's services to ldap - I did not even have the services installed in the server so that is obviously why it was not working. However, if you are using the regular databases for the /etc files (services, hosts, etc), then there should be a group of map files that correspond to the files your NIS server exports to your clients. These are simply hash's so that the clients can quickly lookup information, such as the IP address of a host (in host.byname.db IIRC). Are all your map files created successfully? In the book, there was talk re-building the maps if you modify the files they are built from (/etc/hosts, etc). In the book, edition one, p. 58, After editing a map source file, building the map ... is done with make: cd /var/yp (editor [me!] comment: may be in another directory) make passwd(comment: Rebuilds only password map) make (comment: Rebuilds all maps that are out of date) (Hal Stern's Managing NFS and NIS, First Edition, O'Reilly, 1992) Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba causes printer to freeze after long period of inactivity
Hi Nate, everyone, nate writes: This condition seems to only happen when using Samba from the Win98 machine; another gnu/linux workstation uses the printer via lpd and has not had the same problem. this makes me think the printer has a jetdirect(or similar) card in it? I don't know about that, but I have used a similar printer directly hooked up to a gnu/linux box with no problem whatsoever in the past - it is just a matter of telling ghostscript the correct DEVICE. HP has drivers for win32 which allow the system to spool directly to the printer bypassing any print server, works pretty good. have you tried this? The printer was hooked up to the win98 machine but I moved it over to a gnu/linux box running samba. The main error was with HP's litte printer-daemon that caused the machine to stall durring start-up. I have disabled this, so, there is still the option of putting the printer back on the win98 machine. However, I was hoping to figure the cause of this error out as it only happens with Win98-Samba-lpd after the Win98 machine has been non-operational for a lenghty period of time. Win98 Box --\ GNU/Linux Box w/ Samba --- HP Laserjet 5L Printer GNU/Linux Box --/ Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba causes printer to freeze after long period of inactivity
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It sounds like a SAMBA problem, but whether it's on the server or client side is unclear as yet. When printing fails from the Win box, can you see the printer in the Network Neighborhood? Yes. It looks good. Do you get any interesting clues in your SAMBA/lpd logs? conrad: dumb X terminal firewall: samba print server leonardo: win98 machine liliwhite: samba file server Nov 5 18:54:26 liliwhite smbd[30099]: connect from leonardo.renaissance.oasis Nov 5 18:54:48 firewall.renaissance.oasis kernel: lp0 off-line Nov 5 19:01:11 conrad.renaissance.oasis -- MARK -- Nov 5 19:01:58 liliwhite smbd[30103]: connect from leonardo.renaissance.oasis firewall is an older machine and the parallel port driver is kept as a module. It's hdd is set to spin down after one minute of inactivity and most of the time it just sits there. When, however, the Print dialog comes up in Win98, there is activity on firewall (samba print server) such that the drive starts to spin again, which perhaps is Windows checking out the network? or perhaps modprobe installing the parrallel port drivers? I do wonder why the printer seems to jam, though. After I pull the plug and plug it back in, it often times will print a very-messed up page (like the letters are huge). Perhaps there is some early sequence that confuses the printer. It may be a Win98 thing for all I know as it just printed something from ghostscript via lpd just fine after 16 or so hours of inactivity. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samba causes printer to freeze after long period of inactivity
Hi, I have a HP Laserjet 5L hooked up to a Samba print server that a Win98 machine accesses to print, samba printing via standard lpd. Under normal conditions, it works fine, but if the Win98 machine has not been up and printed for a long period of time (over 24 hours), the printer acts as though it is about to print, but then the amber (warning) light comes on and the printer sticks. To fix it, I have to unplug the printer and then plug it back in a few seconds later. This condition seems to only happen when using Samba from the Win98 machine; another gnu/linux workstation uses the printer via lpd and has not had the same problem. Any ideas on why this might be occurring and perhaps a remedy? Thank you, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 386 or 486 machine
Andrei Smirnov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How you made it? The root.bin disk dosent load RAM disk image as for me. And i got 3 different machines - one 386 and two 486. no one loads RAM disk Oh. The one that worked for me is the idepci potato version, see: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/idepci/ This is with an 8MB 486DX/33 Machine. The first build, though, had CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_LARGE_TABLES set, and after the TCP notice in the kernel boot messages (TCP, ICMP, etc), I was informed that something like 256 buckets were made, 4k. Then it began looking for an internet device and modprobe became stuck in a loop because it continued to run out of memory. (This is in case anyone was wondering or if someone googles onto this letter later on) The problem was because I opted for the UNIX domain sockets (unix.o, CONFIG_UNIX) to be a module when making a new kernel. This caused a problem because various programs needed the domain sockets and the domain sockets were not yet loaded by modprobe. This was easily corrected by compiling them directly into the kernel. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 386 or 486 machine
Andrei Smirnov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is it possible to put Debian on a 386 or 486? Yes. where to found information on this? I suppose the standard Debian installation pages: http://www.debian.org/ One word of caution, however, is if the machine you are installing onto has limited memory, then you might want to try the potato boot disks and go from there. (For my ISA-only 486 machine, the potato idepci boot disks did the trick as where the others stalled.) There is an installation named Dlite (Debian Lite) that I only recently found out about and I have not used it personally. But, from what I understand, it is for systems with limited disk space and limited memory. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 386 or 486 machine
Joyce, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was able to install woody v3 on a 486/16mb/500mb the other day. I'm of the impression that 16MB is required for the Woody install. The machine I installed (and... am... installing...) has only 8MB. Here is a general question though and hopefully the new kernel that is being installed while I write this will remedy the problem. This new machine is to be the firewall/router for the net connection and the new kernel for it has iptables, nat, and the advanced routing configurations enabled. The first build, though, had CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_LARGE_TABLES set, and after the TCP notice in the kernel boot messages (TCP, ICMP, etc), I was informed that something like 256 buckets were made, 4k. Then it began looking for an internet device and modprobe became stuck in a loop because it continued to run out of memory. So, this new build does not have CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_LARGE_TABLES set, and it is still installing so it may be like an hour before I can attempt to boot up into it to check again, but should this take care of the problem? Thank you, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php not working
Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hey htere everyone, trying to get php4 installed on my woody server and don't seem to have it figured out right. I've downloaded a package (SPIP) that runs on php3; I have php4 installed; when I try to load page (http://pc09.hist.utoronto.ca/~matt/spip/ecrire/index.php3) in my browser, it always wants to download it, and if it opens the page, all I see is the sourcecode. Do I need to use php3 instead? thanks, matt iirc, it has to do with the extension of your page. Try renaming it to have just the .php extension (note that this is configurable in httpd.conf), or installing php3 (which is GPL'd). Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 NIC, 2 Gateway
david hong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: eth0: 210.182.232.22 gw: 210.182.232.1 and eth1: 192.168.0.12 gw: 192.168.0.1 if i insert the setting into ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth1, will i able to ping 2 different subnet ip? Yes, your box will see that you are closer to certain networks and route your packets out the closer interface. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 NIC, 2 Gateway
nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: david hong said: eth0: 210.182.232.22 gw: 210.182.232.1 and eth1: 192.168.0.12 gw: 192.168.0.1 if i insert the setting into ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth1, will i able to ping 2 different subnet ip? I hate to disagree with someone else on the list but my experience would tell me that doing the above alone will not be enough to have the box take advantage of 2 gateways. So, if there is a host 192.168.0.11, and David attempts to ping it, the packet may *not* go out eth1 (in this example)? Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making the Epson Stylus Color 880 work with GNU/Debian
waterboy waterbody [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, i began to install GNU/debian linux and now i,m configuring my computer. I have some problems with escputil package for install my printer epson stylus color 880. The synopsis i write isn´t admitted by my computer. i don´t understand it. If you could say me the way of i have to use the escputil package with an example or with my printer, i would be so much grateful to you. The fine people at LinuxPrinting.org claim that gimp-print works best to their liking: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=317801 I have an epson inkjet printer that I have not used in eight or nine months, but I used ghostscript to convert the documents to an epson-compatible format and then used 'lp' to send them to the printer. I forget the name of the ghostscript driver, though. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shutdown hangs at deconfiguring network interfaces
solutrean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The title sez it all. here are some particulars: athlon t-bird 750, all-scsi, 393M RAM, Debian testing. this is my first post to the list - I apologize for any improper netiquette. I googled for this condition, but found nothing. I had this for a while. Lets take a look at what is happening: From /etc/init.d/networking: stop) [...] echo -n Deconfiguring network interfaces: ifdown -a echo done. [...] From ifdown(8): FILES /etc/network/interfaces Descriptions of all the network interfaces the system has. /etc/network/ifstate Current state of network interfaces. In my case, there were interfaces that were not up that ifstate said were up. Why? Because /etc/rcS.d/S39ifupdown was causing a segmentation fault. Why? Because I had compiled a newer version of libstdc++ when using the potato distribution and after upgrading to woody, applications were using the one I compiled in /usr/local and not the one that came with woody. Deleting my library in /usr/local/ most likely cured it although I recall writing a script to do the following: As a quick work-around, try wiping out /etc/network/ifstate and see if you continue to have the problem (echo -n /etc/network/ifstate) right before shutting down. If that works, you might want to add that to /etc/init.d/networking right before the ifdown -a part mentioned above. HTH, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Emacs and ALT Key in New Debian Installation
Mark Seven Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently installed Debian (Woody 3.0), and I have Emacs 21. I have found that the ALT key does not work. When I go to use M-X as a prefix, or when I need to use the ALT key for any command, all I get is a beep, and nothing else happens. The ALT key works as a META key just fine when working from a real console (without X). It is only in X that it doesn't work. This is irritating, because for instance, when scrolling backwards, I have to keep hitting ESC V, instead of holding down the ALT key and hitting V. Any ideas on why my ALT key doesn't work? I seem to recall something like this. Does the left Alt key work and not the right Alt key? Is it possible that the Window keys work in place of the Alt key? You may want to look at the configuration for the x keymap in /etc/X11/xkb, such as /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes/xfree86 and also in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/alt. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xine error (IMLIB ERROR: Cannot Find Palette. A Palette is required for this mode) (was: Viewing avi files)
Tinus =?iso-8859-1?q?Kotz=E9?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am personally using Xine, but have also used aviplay. Both is part of the Debian dists. Xine looks nicer and can play most video formats, but aviplay is less resource intensive and can play dix4(i heard also divx5 with correct codecs). Any idea why running xine I receive this error? ~$ xine This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.8 (c) 2000, 2001 by G. Bartsch and the xine project team. Built with xine library 0.9.8 [Sat 19 Jan 2002 16:21:38]-[gcc version 2.95.4 (Debian prerelease)]-[Linux 2.4.17-ben0 ppc]. Found xine library version: 0.9.8 (0.9.8). IMLIB ERROR: Cannot Find Palette. A Palette is required for this mode Unable to initialize Imlib Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LDAP address book - where to start?
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd appreaciate an advice on where to start when I want to have LDAP based address book that can be accessed from various mail clients, at least mozilla mail client (mutt, evolution a plus). a web interface would be nice. any hints on where to look, which one to use etc. TIA! (I use unstable) btw I checked howtos (searched www.linuxdoc.org), I found some info there but it's kinda scattered so I would appreciate some pointers... A general understanding of LDAP should suffice. There are a few notable books available. Understanding Directory Services by Beth and Doug Sheresh looks pretty good. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please verify: does your ln work?
Does your ln work as expected for creating hard links? I'm using fileutils 4.1-10 and when I make a hard link: shelby:~/src# touch k shelby:~/src# ln k y ln: creating hard link `y' to `k': No such file or directory Anyone else? Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: idiosyncratic ln not making hard links
Jamin W.Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | :~$ touch k | :~$ ln k y | :~$ ln --version | ln (fileutils) 4.1 | Written by Mike Parker and David MacKenzie. | | Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is | NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR | PURPOSE. Works fine here. Any idea of what might be causing ln not to work correctly on my system? Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ethernet card problem
Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My debian pc with on-board 82559 intel ethernet board stopped talking. I can ping localhost, but the windows pc sees the cable from it as 'dead'. I checked all relevant files and ifconfig and netstat, and it was all normal, except for a few packet over-runs. If it just started happening all of a sudden, what significant event occurred prior to it not working? Any way, i put in another pci card which was detected as realtek 8139B, and i changed all the relevant files from eth0 to eth1, and checked with ifconfig and netstat and ping localhost. (Hint: i think /etc/network/interfaces is translated to /etc/init.d/network) Anyway the other windows pc sees the link as 'alive', but i can't get any packets. Pinging from the debian pc doesn't work either (ping stalls). What else can i check? (i've checked the cable). Is there a way to disable the mainboard ethernet hardware? It maybe a routing issue. Is eth0 down according to netstat? Does your BIOS allow you to turn off the on-board ethernet? What are you seeing with tcpdump? Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: idiosyncratic ln not making hard links
Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:33:15AM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
| :~$ touch k
| :~$ ln k y
=20
Any idea of what might be causing ln not to work correctly on my
system?
Try running strace on it:
strace ln k y
execve(/bin/ln, [ln, k, y], [/* 21 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys=Linux, node=shelby, ...}) = 0
brk(0) = 0x804d9a8
open(/etc/ld.so.preload, O_RDONLY)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
Should /etc/ld.so.preload be here?
open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=22775, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 22775, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40014000
close(3)= 0
open(/lib/libc.so.6, O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\30\222..., 1024) = 1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1153784, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 1166560, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4001a000
mprotect(0x4012d000, 40160, PROT_NONE) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 1166560, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4001a000
mprotect(0x4012d000, 40160, PROT_NONE) = 0
old_mmap(0x4012d000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x113000)
= 0x4012d000
old_mmap(0x40133000, 15584, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
-1, 0) = 0x40133000
close(3)= 0
munmap(0x40014000, 22775) = 0
brk(0) = 0x804d9a8
brk(0x804d9d0) = 0x804d9d0
brk(0x804e000) = 0x804e000
stat64(y, 0xb1fc) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
lstat64(k, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
lstat64(y, 0xb18c)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
lstat64(y, 0xb18c)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
link(k, y) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, ln: , 4ln: ) = 4
write(2, creating hard link `y\' to `k\', 29creating hard link `y' to `k') = 29
write(2, : No such file or directory, 27: No such file or directory) = 27
write(2, \n, 1
) = 1
_exit(1)= ?
The only thing that seems odd in the stat64(y, 0xb1fc) in that
the file does not exist when, apparently, it should have been created
by then?
I did have some sporadic memory errors with this machine but corrected
them although I have not run memtest in a while (the mmap).
Look for indications of obvious brokeness. And, as has been said
already, unmount the filesystem and fsck it.
Tried the fsck; it's still buggy.
Thanks,
Elizabeth
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SOLVED: idiosyncratic ln not making hard links
Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did have some sporadic memory errors with this machine but corrected them although I have not run memtest in a while (the mmap). This could be it; it does do some 'mmap'ing, so memory errors could be affecting it. They can affect everything, in fact =3D) For lack of a better pointer, I'd say memtest86 should be the next thing to try. RAM's cheap these days, so don't sweat it too much. It just finished an entire pass and it checked out. Tried the fsck; it's still buggy. I take it you mean the fsck said the filesystem was fine, but ln still doesn't work? Right. Is this the only symptom, or ar other things acting screwy on this machine as well? nfs has some weird messages... Now it works :-) I ran memtest86 and it took along time to boot up the next time; perhaps it ran fsck although I had specified that it run fsck with a previous re-boot. shelby:~# touch x shelby:~# ln x y Well it works now. Thank you everyone!! Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Modem Difficulties (was: A)
Scott B. Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: QUESTION ABOUT MODEM DIALINGhELLO THERE, i HAVE NOW GOT MY MODEM WORKING i AM TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THOUGH WHY IT IS NOT DIALING. i GET A DIAL TONE BUT NO DTMF TONES OR TOUCH TONES. i RETRIED CONFIGURING PPPCONFIG WITH NO SUCCESS AND i AM NOT UNDER ANY STRANGE CIRCUMSTANSES SUCH AS PBX'S OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. Hi Scott, Glad to hear your modem is working enough so as to pick up the phone. Have you tried playing with the AT command-set within minicom? If so, are you able to dial out in it with something like ATDT 18005551212? Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Services
Marek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the command to start and stop services ? I use /etc/init.d/SERVICE-NAME start | stop Is systemconfigurator the only option to control the network setup or is there another ? I dunno. Speaking of which, is there a tool for automatically installing and/or removing the links from the /etc/rc.d directory to the init scripts in /etc/init.d ? Thank you, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remapping of dead key ??
Sunny Dubey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a small problem. I just took an old laptop and set it up as a MASQ box for my girl friend. It runs debian woody, and works just perfectly. There is this one problem ... the / key doesn't work. ( The key with / and ? on it). So I was wondering if it was possible to map / to another key or something?? Yes that is fairly easy to do. The keymaps are located in /usr/share/keymaps and the default is in /etc/console-tools/default.kmap.gz . Possibly the easiest method is to gunzip the default.kmap.gz and work with it. Find the keycode for the slash character; mine looks like: keycode 53 = slashquestion control keycode 53 = Delete alt keycode 53 = Meta_slash shift alt keycode 53 = Meta_question To find out the keycode for an arbitrary key to remap the character to, use the program showkey, then replace the keycode number for slash (53 in the above example) with the new one and remove the previous definition for the new key. Then gzip it again and to test it use loadkeys. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: learning how to set up a win modem
Scott B. Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am wondering since I have a supra Express 56i how to set it up in my linux box. I have read the winmodem how to. This box is a Pentium 300 with 6.4Gb of hard disk space with 64mb of Ram. I am using speech synthesis built in to the kernel called Speakup. If anyone is interested you may read more at http://www.linux-speakup.org. I have used isapnp/etc/isapnp.conf to try to get the values right but it is saying Don't know what to do with any of the stuff that I have taken the # away from. I am just wondering do I have to tweak settings or does isapnp already do that for me. I am using kernel 2.2.18 right now. Thanks for the help. Hi Scott, To the best of understanding, isapnp tweaks the settings according to what is in /etc/isapnp.conf during start-up. If there are interrupt (irq) conflicts or io address conflicts, then you may need to adjust these by hand, however. Are you sure the SupraExpress 56i is a WinModem? A spec page: http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-2295748-417-126688.html says that it works with Win 3.1 which would put it into the normal, internal modem category. If you are not able to make it work after a little while, the exact error messages, your /etc/isapnp.conf and/or the output of pnpdump would aid greatly in diagnosing and correcting the problem. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: learning how to set up a win modem
Jeremy Nickurak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 18:39, Elizabeth Barham wrote: Are you sure the SupraExpress 56i is a WinModem? A spec page: http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-2295748-417-126688.html says that it works with Win 3.1 which would put it into the normal, internal modem category. If only it were that simple. Some WinModems (a 3com one I had, for example), included drivers for Win3.1. Thanks for pointing that out. I was of the impression that that WinModems were a Win32-only thing. There was another page which questioned the WinModem'ness of the SupraExpress: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Linux/Q_10196344.html Some say it is, others that it is not. :-/ Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl problem?
I just downloaded and looked at it. Those specific lines involving
$cell-Value have been changed to:
$output .= $cell-Value if(defined $cell);
Which remedies the problem of calling Value on an undefined value
($cell).
Here's where I downloaded the latest package,
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/interpreters/libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl.html
Elizabeth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian P. Flaherty) writes:
Hello,
I just installed libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl from testing and the
xls2csv.pl in the
/usr/share/doc/libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl/examples/xls2csv.pl
gives me an error when I try to run it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ~/bin/xls2csv.pl ps.xls 1-A1:C3
Can't call method Value on an undefined value at
/usr/share/perl5/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/Utility.pm line 994.
I don't know very much perl, but here is the relevant section of
Utility.pm (beginning at line 990):
if( !$rotate) {
for( my $y = $y1 ; $y = $y2 ; $y++) {
for( my $x = $x1 ; $x = $x2 ; $x++) {
my $cell = $oWkS-{Cells}[$y][$x] ;
$output .= $cell-Value ;
$output .= , if( $x != $x2) ;
}
$output .= \n ;
}
I think that it doesn't like 'Value' on the fifth line. The word
'Value' doesn't appear anywhere before in Utility.pm and only occurs
once more later. I checked one of the other examples dmpEx.pl, and it
appears to work. dmpEx.pl also has the 'Value' term used, so I am
puzzled as to why the other did not. Any thoughts or suggestions will
be appreciated.
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Re: Q: cfdisk error
Alice M. Pinard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trying to ready a 60g drive on a Promise Ultra card for first use. used MAKEDEV to create /dev/hde when I did 'cfdisk /dev/hde' I got no partition table or unknown signature on partition table um... does that sound at all right? u no. You have more than one IDE card in the machine, yes? And you're trying to set up the system to use, at most, eight IDE drives? The kernel is going to have to recognize the card and set up the connections - usually done during bootstapping. During boot, does it recognize: 1) The card (Promise Ultra) 2) /dev/hde ? 'dmesg' should tell you. OTOH, if you mean the 60g drive is new and is what is referred to in first use, and you just plugged it into the IDE connectors on the mother board, you may want to use dmesg and see if it's on a different device, such as /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd. I don't understand why you had to make /dev/hde unless you have more than one IDE operational controller in your system. Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rc.local in debian (was: Ip Masquerading)
I made my own entitled local in /etc/init.d by copying /etc/init.d/skeleton to /etc/init.d/local, added what I needed it to do in the start section, and created a softlink to it in rc2.d entitled S99local. I don't know how others do it, though. Elizabeth Ronald Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. Thanks to you all for your suggestions for trying to connect my Linux box to my Windows one via serial port, but after trying some things and not being able to make it work I decided to try to do that via network cards. On the IP Masquerading HOWTO it says I have to edit my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, but actually I have 6 rc?.d folders in /etc, and none of them have a rc.local file. Is there an equivalent file in Debian I could use? Some help about this or a link to some Debian specific help will be appreciated. Thanks for your help.. Ronald Castillo -- 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]
UML Modeling w/o Rational Rose
Hi Everyone, I'd like to be able to view a UML Model that is available for download in Rational Rose Format from: http://www.hl7.org/Library/data-model/RIM/modelpage_non.htm Rational Rose is a very expensive software product and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem (that is, wanting to view a Rational Rose file using free software) and how you overcame it? Thank you, Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
