pppoe and kernel 2.4.x
Hi debianers, well, I have a debian system connected to a ISP using pppoe. Everithing works well with the 2.2.x kernels, but for different reasons, I need to install a 2.4.x kernel. Reading the file /usr/doc/pppoe/KERNEL-MODE-PPPOE I understand that I must recompile ppp from the tar-ball at http://www.shoshin.uwaterloo.ca/~mostrows/ which is a patched ppp, install it and then compiling rp-pppoe enabling plugins. This look strightforward but will obviously clash with the package structure of my machine. Just for one, intrusion-detection tools (e.g. tiger) will complain about unmatching cecksums. For another, updating will become painful. Is there another, more debian conformant, way to do it? Thanks a lot -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #roma2 ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GED/CS d? s-:++ a+ C++ UL+++ P E+ W++ N+ o K? !w O? M V PS+++ PE-- Y+ PPG+ t++ 5? X-- R+ tv+ b+++ DI? D G++ e*() h r++ y+++(*) --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- ++
Re: (OT) Re: ma esistono donne che usano debian?????
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 06:40:09PM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni scripsit: so there are women who use debian too??? i'm talking about eleonora. what a wonderful surprise. sex equality and open source. that's the right philosophy freedom everywhere. the world is changing! children will soon use linux too ... just to start a new offtopic thread :-) pietro. Sorry, but this is not an _new_ off topic thread, there was something on this about 1 year ago... A big thread also:) look for women in the list's archives... Leo -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #roma2 ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GED/CS d? s-:++ a+ C++ UL+++ P E+ W++ N+ o K? !w O? M V PS+++ PE-- Y+ PPG+ t++ 5? X-- R+ tv+ b+++ DI? D G++ e*() h r++ y+++(*) --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- ++
Re: Perl and CPAN
06/02/2002 14.52.17, Paul Hampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:33:39AM -0500, Chris Hilts wrote: The installation instructions of a piece of software I'm considering asks me to fetch several (ok, a lot of) modules from CPAN. Since this will be adding software to my Debian system, is this safe? Is there a Debianized way to do this? dh-make-perl It's exactly what you're looking for. :-) But, there is not a debian version of the CPAN Module? --- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #roma2 ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Installing ALSA?
Hi debianers, I have a big problem in installing and configuring ALSA modules. At boot time I got the folowing message Starting ALSA sound driver (version none):modprobe: Can't locate module snd failed. I got the same msg when I try a /etcinit.d/alsa start So I tried to compile alsa source with make-kpkg [options] modules_image, wgere the options where the same as for bulding the custom kernel image. Compilation of alsa module fails, after giving a bunch of errors messages (see below). What do I do wrong? 10Q for your help -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #roma2 ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- = output of make-kpkg --append-to-version .20011210d --added-modules alsa-driver-0.5-0.5.10b-9 --config xconfig modules_image Warning: The file include/linux/version.h exists If you did not run make-kpkg clean after configuring the kernel with make (menu|x)?config, the chances are that it does not contain the appended version: .20011210d If that is the case (or if you are not sure), I strongly recommend that you abort now. By default, though, I assume you know what you are doing, and I apologize for being so annoying. Should I abort[Ny]? test -f stamp-debian || make -f /usr/share/kernel-package/rules debian test -f .config || make -f /usr/share/kernel-package/rules .config test ! -f stamp-configure \ make EXTRAVERSION=.20011210d \ ARCH=i386 xconfig \ make EXTRAVERSION=.20011210d \ \ ARCH=i386 dep \ make EXTRAVERSION=.20011210d \ ARCH=i386 clean \ touch stamp-configure make: [stamp-configure] Error 1 (ignored) for module in /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver-0.5-0.5.10b-9 ; do \ if test -d $module; then\ (cd $module; \ if ./debian/rules KVERS=2.2.20.20011210d KSRC=/usr/src/linux \ KMAINT=Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer KEMAIL=[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ KDREV=1.00.Custom kdist_image; then\ echo Module $module processed fine;\ else \ echo Module $module failed.; \ echo Hit return to Continue; \ read ans;\ fi; \ ); \ fi; \ done make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver-0.5-0.5.10b-9' make -w -f debian/rules MODDIR=/usr/src/linux/.. binary-modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/alsa-driver-0.5-0.5.10b-9' for f in debian/debconf/Makefile.in debian/debconf/alsa-source_VERSION_.conf.in debian/debconf/alsa-source_VERSION_.config.in debian/debconf/config_VERSION_.templ.in debian/debconf/templates_VERSION_.templ.in debian/alsa-headers_VERSION_.files.in debian/alsa-modules_VERSION_-_KVERSION_.config.in debian/alsa-modules_VERSION_-_KVERSION_.dirs.in debian/alsa-modules_VERSION_-_KVERSION_.postinst.in debian/alsa-modules_VERSION_-_KVERSION_.postrm.in debian/alsa-modules_VERSION_-_KVERSION_.prerm.in debian/alsa-modules_VERSION_-_KVERSION_.templates.de.in debian/alsa-modules_VERSION_-_KVERSION_.templates.es.in debian/alsa-modules_VERSION_-_KVERSION_.templates.in debian/alsa-modules_VERSION_-_KVERSION_.templates.sv.in debian/alsa-source_VERSION_.README.debian.in debian/alsa-source_VERSION_.conffiles.in debian/alsa-source_VERSION_.config.in debian/alsa-source_VERSION_.postinst.in debian/modules.d/control-0.5.module-image.in debian/modules.d/control-0.5.module.in debian/modules.d/control.module-image.in debian/modules.d/control.module.in; \ do \ fi=`echo $f | sed -e 's/_VERSION_/-0.5/g' \ -e 's/_KVERSION_/2.2.20.20011210d/g'`; \ file=`dirname $fi`/`basename $fi .in`; \ echo -n Generating $file...; \ sed -e 's/_VERSION_/-0.5/g' \ -e 's/_MAJORVERSION_/0.5/g' \ -e 's/_PRIORITY_//g' \ -e 's/_KERNELVERSION_/2.2.20.20011210d/g' \ $f $file; \ echo $file stamp-debian; \ echo done; \ done Generating debian/debconf/Makefile...done Generating debian/debconf/alsa-source-0.5.conf...done Generating debian/debconf/alsa-source-0.5.config...done Generating
Re: Realplayer: You are running in non-interactive mode...
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:18:47AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com scripsit: I filed a bug report on this last night, um, no, that was this morning. Anyway, yes, I'm using testing, and I suspected perl 5.6 as one of the causes. No, perl5.6 is not concerned, I was on stable and I had the same problem. The problem is that the install script of realplayer is wrong. It puts out a needed question with priority 'low' in debconf, and debconf is usually configured in such a way to rule out question with priority lower than 'medium' Anyone got a suggested workaround? Yes:)) 1. run dpkg-reconfigure debconf 2. answer as follows to questions about debconf: - frontend (as you like, I use dialog) - Ignore questions with priority less than... answer 'low' the following questions do not appear unless you answer 'low' to the preeceding question - Pre-configure packages before installing? answer no (I'm not sure if this is needed) - Show all old questions again and again? answer yes (I think the problem is here). 3. install realplayer 4. Set back debconf to standard definition. Note that if you want to set the ignored level to something higer than low you must run dpkg-reconfigure debconf two times: the first one answering yes and no respectively to Pre-configure packages before installing? and Show all old questions again and again? and the second one to set the level to medium or higher. This because, as I said above, the last two questions do not appear unles the level is low. -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #flct,#roma2 ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- ++
Re: Cannot install RealPlayer
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:06:24PM +0200, Daniel Mashao scripsit: Hi, I cannot install real player because the Debian install program says You are running in non-interactive mode ... What? I am running in an interactive mode I thought. Anybody see this error anywhere? Hi, I got the same problem. It seems to be a problem in deboconf and realplayer installer procedure. I'll try to fill a bugreport, but for now here is how I did. 1. run dpkg-reconfigure debconf to reconfigure the debconf package. Answer 'low' to the question about the level of questions that should be ignored. Also answer 'No' to 'preconfigure packages' and 'yes' to 'should debconf ask you the same questions again and again?'. 2. Install realplayer by apt-get install realplayer (or by using dselect) 3. (optional) set back debconf to standard mode. This must be done by running dpkg-reconfigure debconf two times: - the first one let the level to low and answer 'yes' to 'preconfigure packages' and 'No' to 'repat the same question'. - the second time set the level to 'medium'. You need to do this in to pass, because if you set the level to medium directly, then you'll not see the two other questions and you'll not able toi set back to default value their options. Hoping this helps. -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #flct,#roma2 ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: exim configuration problem (solved)
Mike scripsit: Frodo Baggins wrote: Hi debianers, I have a small problem in configurating exim. I actualy have to ISP, using the one or the other depending on the time of the day. Is the time of day when you switch fom one to the other always the same time of day? If it is, then here's an idea. Set up two different exim conf files, named something like /etc/exim.conf.1 and /etc/exim.conf.2 Then set up a cron job or two to set up a sym link /etc/exim.conf pointing at /etc/exim.conf.[12] as appropriate for the current time. That was a good idea, but I did better :))) Well, when you think to it the solution is simple, someone (on the italian mailing list) sugested me to put the exim conf stuff into the script I use to connect. Now this made me think... I use pon (and poff to get out:) and they handle well the dns stuff, having a DNS file for each provider. I wondered how they did it, and I found a script named 0dns-up into the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory (and its couterpart 0dns-down in the /etc/ppp/ip-down.d one). I simply mimiked what these scripts do and wrote 1exim-up and 1exim-down. 1exim-up safely (at least I belive it's safely) replaces /etc/exim.conf with (a copy of) the file named after the provider int the newborn /etc/ppp/sendmail/ directory. When the ppp link get dow, 1exim-down put things back. As this message proves, all goes well :))) -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
exim configuration problem
Hi debianers, I have a small problem in configurating exim. I actualy have to ISP, using the one or the other depending on the time of the day. Each one of them has a smtp host to relay mail for. Obviously, each one of these smarthosts is smart enough not to relay mail iussed by a machine having an IP address belonging to the other one ISP domain. Looking into the exim configuration it seems to me that one could us a rule like smart_route: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = * mailer.domaine-one.fr:smarthost.anotherdomain.org bydns_a since in the Domainlist examples section of the exim manual is said that: If a colon-separated list of smart hosts is given, they are tried in order. someone of you have a smat idea to solve this smarthost problem? :) Thanks a lot. -- Leo TheHobbit -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
VM, iso-latin1 and uptating emacsen packages
Hi debianers, I got no answer on a preceeding mail on almost the same subject, so I try again. The basic problem is that I have some problem with vm under xemacs. More precisely, it does not handle well messages containing accents: it always put a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii header. I tried a lot of things, but it seems I'm unable to got it. As you may understand, this is quite annoying for a french speacking person :)) Someone told me that first off all I should try to update the VM package and this brings me to my questions: 1. Does anyone know *how* to have the VM package shipped with potato behave? 2. How should be *correctly* installed a *raw* package as the ones you can get at (x)emacs sites? The latter question is really two-fold: -how to install a new package, and -how to upgrade an exsisting package. I bet one should use the emacs-package-install in /usr/lib/emacsen-common/, but... I couldn't find out _how_ to do it on raw packages: the only documentation I found explains how to use the script in the preinstal, postinstall and remove scripts for debian packages. I'll appreciate your help :) -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Upgrading Xemacs packages
Hi debianers, I'd like to upgrade some of the lisp packages shipped with potato's XEmacs to their more recent version from http://www.xemacs.org Is there any standard procedure to do it in debian in order not to break the file structure? Thanks for your help. -- Leo TheHobbit -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
MP3 players
Hi debianers, This evening I saw the perfect self-gift for Christmas :) A mp3 portable player equiped with a hard disk og 7Gb... Wonderful, isn't it? Only problem, they sell it with a interfacing software for M$ and Mac. Do anyone know if the Creative Lab Jukebox can be interfaced with a Debian potato box? Thaks for your help. -- Leo TheHobbit -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd.
Colin Watson scripsit: More accurately, it's a known bug in the Linux kernel (specifically, version 2.2.17, I think, and possibly certain 2.4.0-test versions as well). I'm told 2.2.18 will fix it. Well, It doesn't :) I have installed the 2.2.18 kernel on potato and still have this problem... And it does not seems so unharmfull to me. Sometime the box freeze, just as if I got a BSoD on a M$ machine! This happens a lot when I use memory-greedy applications, of course. -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: OT: regular expression question
Viktor Rosenfeld scripsit: Frodo Baggins wrote: [Pumping Lemma] 1 w = xyz 2 y is not empty 3 x has less than n caracters That would be xy has less than/equal to n characters (|xy| = n). 4 for any integer k, the word w_k = xyy..yz (k times y) is in the language (i.e. matches the regex) Yes, you're right... It was late at night and I was a bit tired:) -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y--(+)+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: OT: regular expression question
Peter Jay Salzman scripsit: recently, i started wondering if there was a way, using regex only, to express a palindrome of arbitrary letter length? i've used some grey matter, and the answer seems to be no, but there's nice symmetry here. maybe i'm missing something... Well, maybe you're simply forgetting your compilation and formal languages course:) The answer is NO. Any book on formal language (cinderella for one;) will explain you way. Simply stated, one can prove that any regular language, i.e. any set of words that can be described using a regular expression, has the following property: There exist an integer n, such that if w is a string belonging to the language (i.e. matching the regular expression) and longer than n caracters, then there exists words x, y, and z, such thet: 1 w = xyz 2 y is not empty 3 x has less than n caracters 4 for any integer k, the word w_k = xyy..yz (k times y) is in the language (i.e. matches the regex) Suppose there is a regular expression r describing palindromes, ie. such that a word match r if and only if it is a palindrome. Take the palindrome w=aaa...abb...b where there are n 'a' and n 'b'. By the above property (which, by the way, is known as the Pumping Lemma) there exists x, y, z satisfaying 1 to 4 above. By property 2, x is in the form aa...a and y starts by a. Obviously, xyyz is not a palindrome. But, for property 4 above, it must match r. So r does not describe only the palindromes. QED. -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: Software Development from Russia! ($15-$20 per hour)
urbanyon scripsit: isn't this supposed to be an ad-free list? just curious, not really complaining... On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear IT Manager: Please consider deploying our highly skilled off-shore programmers on your e-commerce and software development projects. Well, not exactly ad-free... Debian lists are free-ad-free, i.e. people willing to post an ad should pay 1000 US$ per ad. Now, I don't belive for a second that [EMAIL PROTECTED] paid the fare, but I'm known as someone who do not trust human nature, may be I'm too cynical... By the way, If [EMAIL PROTECTED] realy didn't paid the 1000 US$ fare, he/she can be asked to pay 1999US$ penality. :) -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y--(+)+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: Ispell in woody?
Robert L. Harris scripsit: Nope, but I bet that'd do it. You'd think part of it's install would be to check for a dictionary and say you need one, etc. Why should it? what if I wrote my own dictionary? (I didn't do that, and I bet I'll never do that, but debian is freedom, isn't it?: -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: I want out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Erik Steffl scripsit: read the last line of your post. it says how to unsubscribe, just send an email with subject unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmmm, problem is that not-Unix people may not be able to understand that: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null means: send an email with subject unsubscribe and empty body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A lot of posts signaled that, and the lists' mantainers were asked to change the line to reflect this many times, but they never did :( -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y--(+)+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: Installing applications manually ?
Jonathan D. Proulx scripsit: Hi, you can just install by hand using `make install` or whatever, but then things can get confusing in the future. If you take the later route, make sure to install under /usr/local (usually the default when building from source), that way deb packages won't stomp on your files later. Better yet, use stow. Then you do something like ./install --prefix=/usr/local/stow/wathever make make install cd /usr/local/stow stow -v wathever thins makes easier to avoid confusion :)) -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Auxiliary screen
Hi debianers, I put my hands on a old 15 screen and scavenged a old PC to get a S3 PCI graphic card which can be installed on one of the free PCI slots of my current potato box. I would like to configure things in such a way that the new screen is say tty8 so that I can use it to display some interesting things and even switch to it (mean attach to it the keyboard) by something like Ctrl+Alt+F8. I do not realy need to put X on that screen, a simple tty will suffice so I do not think that I need (and in any case I don't want to) install the XFree 4.0.x thing. Anyone could help? At least by providing a good documentation pointer? Thank's a lot people. -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: -- MARK -- in log files
Rob Hudson scripsit: I was curious how to not have all of the '-- MARK --'s in my log files. What are their intended purpose? Why, just to say that syslogd is still there: -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
procmail and VM under emacs
Hi, I use xemacs VM to read my email. I tried to install a .procmailrc file into my homedir, but that give me some big problems. More specifically, I told procmail to put my mail into ~/Mail/INBOX, which is my vm-primary-inbox. But vm complains that INBOX has changed, which is normal I think How should be procmail and vm be configured to work together? 10ks Leo -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: OT: Cross-platform document format?
Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document format, so that the students on campus would quit turning their homework in as .DOC format. I don't think I'm going to get the students to give up MS-Word on MS-Windows to learn LaTeX, etc, although in an ideal world Well... I know nothing about ideal world.. But I simply told to my student that first they must give me bot an hardcopy and a soft copy of the document. Second that no file in a proprietary format can got better than a B- grade. It works:) -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: IMWheel help
Peter Jay Salzman scripsit: 3. there's a webpage -- forget the guy's name, but his first (or maybe last?) name is colas and he's from france. he has an extensive page on wheelie mice. he has config lines you can put in .Xdefaults to take care of programs, like netscape, which do not support wheelie mice. Hi, the page is at http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ have fun:) -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: which software for professional Mailling? OT: Actual help
C. Falconer scripsit: Okay - we seem to have a group consensus that spam is bad. Now can a large group of intelligent and highly knowledgeable people come up with some useful advice for Mister Mann ? Well, He'll can use bulk-mail perl module... Is quite effective -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
RE: maximum file number
Anderson, TimTL33E scripsit: I will manage about 100,000,000 files in near future. How many files does one directory has? I am afraid of the performance, Do you really need to store Files as such? What kind of data are you keeping? Maybe you could use a good database server instead - a filesystem isn't really going to handle numbers like that very well at all. Also because IIRC block size is by default 4096bytes. With this value, 10^8 files will need _at_least_ some 400Gb, without counting superblock(s), reserved blocks, directories and so on... It seem to me that this is a h..l of a disk, and overall an h..l of a partition... I wouldn't like to have to wait for fdisk to scan it after a power failure... :)) Moreover, you'll also need 10^8 i-nodes I can't remember, but it seems to me that there will not be so many i-nodes, even with a 400Gb HD (by the way, there exist such huge disks for PCs?). -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Exim smarthost proble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi debianers, I'm sure the answer should be in the doc, but I couldn't find it :) Problem is, I use two different ISP, dependig on the time of the day (no flat rate in france). Both of them have a smtp relay server and, rightly enough, each one of them refuse to relay mail for IP in the other one domain. So my problem is, how do I do to have exim smartly choose his smarthost? :) The very bad thing is the do not even use the same hostname, which will allow using just the host name in the smarthost field and let gethostbyname handling the thing by adding a domain line into the resolv.conf files... Thanks a lot for your help - -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* - --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ iD8DBQE5zIXiv9iOG/S6owkRAg6OAJ0fj7g6exGCGdKHqmQbgy3Sl4RMOgCfU1vs B0FsZ4v2XeAng274pO0SgbE= =4MZg -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: OT: IRC the ~
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Jensen scripsit: My experience is that some refuse to let you on until you install auth or say you are not authorized to use the server. That is why I wanted to get it installed. Is there a secure way of providing the information an IRC server wants, while rejecting the cracker's attempts? Use tcp wrapper to wrap ident, then add this to /etc/host.allow identd: my.irc.server.ip and this to /etc/host.deny identd: ALL then nobody but your irc server will be allowed to access your auth port. - -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* - --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ iD8DBQE5zTsAv9iOG/S6owkRApp+AKCVAkCUCtp69/jseH7oaXlJ7W+8xQCfW+lq 8ZwPcNblMck4g/oY7msj/z0= =yOwM -END PGP SIGNATURE-
How to get proposed updates?
Hi debianers, In the dist/proposed-updates directory there is a README file stating Debian is committed to providing security updates to the stable distribution as quickly as possible, but we also need time to thoroughly test such updates to ensure that they meet our high standards. Updates to stable are placed in this directory, dists/proposed-updates. After testing, and possible bug-fixing, a new release of the stable distribution is made which includes them. You can access this directory with apt by adding deb http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ to your /etc/apt/sources.list Well, I done it but apt complais about a Malformed line in the /etc/apt/sources.list file, precisely the one above. Looking into the doc, I found that there should be the components to download such as main contrib.. I tried to add something like main, but the it complains it can find http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian/dists/proposed-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages file... Aparently, directory proposed-updates is structured differently from potato/main: files belonging to different architectures are differenciated by their suffix instead to be found into separate subdirectories. The question is: how do I do to have apt looking into proposed-updates? Thanks a lot -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: mIRC
Timothy C. Phan scripsit: hi, is there a mIRC for Linux or specifically for Debian? thanks! First, mIRC is the name os _a_ client for irc... and it has no Unix version. However, if you meant tehere exists a IRC client for Linux? the answer is YES. Try xchat (it comes with the standard debian distr). -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y--(+)+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: no xdm on startup
Noah L. Meyerhans scripsit: On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, suresh kumar wrote: How to configure a slink/potato so that xdm *DO NOT* start on bootup. I want them to start only on startx. 'update-rc.d -f xdm remove' This sould be on the FAQs :))) -- Leo TheHobbit ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y--(+)+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Palm packages
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi debians, Looking into the local package database with dpkg -l *palm* I found two packages concerning palm, namel gcc-mk68-palmos anf binutils-m68k-palmos. If I understand weel, they allows to install a cross-compiler for palmos. Now, doing dselect I'm unable ti find these packages... Here is my /etc/apt/source.list deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main deb http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb-src http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main deb-src http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free Could someone explain me how to find these packages? And, by the way, how happens that there are packages that I can find with dpkg -l but not with dselect? - -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e()* h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* - --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ iD8DBQE5ibN1v9iOG/S6owkRAonjAKCZiu7EPLmRd9U/z2QeEBNAv4IFzACgh+4P //jXlOmDFvdIQtCeCUlRk7E= =NnBX -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Is newsgroup linux.debian.user broke ...
Christopher Mosley scripsit: Is the newsgroup linux.debian.user broke everywhere or just here? The newserver here never has any posts but deja news picks up the posts? I'd much prefer a newsgroup than a mailing list. AFAIK, there is not such newsgroup... linux.debian.user does not even looks like a newsgroup name... there is no linux hierarchy... :)) -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e(*) h(+) r--(---) y(+)--+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: httpd and directories
Patrick Dahiroc scripsit: On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:54:40PM -0500, Sean Richardson wrote: Look in /etc/apache/srm.conf Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/ ## The above line is for Debian Policy 3.0.1 (FHS), which specifies that /doc ## is /usr/share/doc. Packages should symlink to share/doc. --apacheconfig ah so that's where it's being set. thanks. it also gives a warning that Some packages may not work otherwise with out this alias - so i won't bother removing it. i was just a little worried that apache can see some directories without me specifiying it. You may be interested in knowing that I can't access to that directory... May be that the directory is specified as local? -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e h(+) r--(---) y--(+)+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: why is kernel recompilation necessary?
Krzys Majewski scripsit: Why is it that under Windows or whatever I don't have to recompile the kernel just to add a new driver? Is it a protection thing? Or an optimization thing? Or something else? -chris Well, stricly speaking kernel recompilation isn't mandatory. You cold just compile a modulke and load it with modconf. This way is exactly the same thing as under nullsoft windog, except that you have the source of the driver:). -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet #leiene ICQ 56656060 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GED/CS d? s-:+-: a C+++ U+++ L++(+++) P E+(++) W++ N+ K? o? !w O? M V--- PS+++ PE-- Y+ GPG+ t++ 5? X- R+ tv+ b D? DI? G e h(+) r--(---) y+(--)+++* --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
pppconfig
André Dahlqvist scripsit: On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:04:30PM -0500, R. D. Loga wrote: Is there an easy way to allow non-root users to use pon? There sure is, just run pppconfig and choose to add a ppp user. Or you could manually add that user to the dip group. Speaking about pppconfig... I remarked that when the script creates the resolv file it does not include a `domain` line. Sure, you may always editing the resulting file by hand, but it sucks:) So I patched the script instead... Is anybody interested? -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet (#leiene, #roma2, #roma2+) I am the ILOVEGNU signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Re: PS2 mouse and gpm
KerstinKerstin Hoef-Emden scripsit: Hi, On 21 Jul 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: I had these problems too, but now the combination of X *and* gpm works flawlessly with a logitech 3-button mouse with the following gpm.conf: device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= type=ps2 append=-l \a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\ and the following lines in XF86Config: Section Pointer ProtocolPS/2 Device /dev/mouse EndSection This setting did not work for me. I have the following lines in /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section Pointer ProtocolMouseSystems Device /dev/gpmdata Well... I had (before removing gpm altogether) the same config as Kerstin. However, and this is _why_ I removed gpm, I couldn't get my ps/2 wheel mouse working... I had a look at man gpm and it says that this setting works fot 3buttons mouses... Now, my mouse has 4 bouttons + the wheel, which infact make it a 6-button mouse. I have 2 questions. First, is it possible to have gpm working and X getting Button4 and Button5 events (the ones produced by the wheel)? I tried to put type=raw in gpmconfig but it didn't help). Second, anybody knows a way to use all the 4 buttons? I know that X standard says that there are at most 5 buttons on a mouse, but it should be possible to configure the extra button to produce a KeyPressed event, say binding it to the Alt key... TYA for help -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet (#leiene, #roma2, #roma2+) I am the ILOVEGNU signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Re: Command Line on logout
Dale Morris scripsit: How do I get rid of the graphic login that comes up when I log out of X? It makes it impossible for me to do anything from the command line. It's the yellow screen that asks for my username and password. thanks Simply press Ctrl-Alt-Fn 1=n=6 and you'll get a term login Ctrl+Alt+F7 brings you back. You may also switch from graphic (X) and console (text-mode) during your X session... -- Leo TheHobbit IRCnet (#leiene, #roma2, #roma2+) I am the ILOVEGNU signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Re: Disk Defragmentation
Jon Hughes scripsit: What sort of Disk Defragmenters are there out there for debian? I have located one called 'defrag', but it requires me to unmount the hard drives, which is something I would (if possible) like to avoid, if it's just cause I'm lazy:b Can anyone recommend anything else, or is this the only possible solution? Hi, AFAIK, there is no need for defragmenter in Linux:)))
Re: grep crashes machine
Christian Pernegger scripsit: Hallo! I just stumbled upon the following. If I do # cd / # grep -r * stuff it outputs files for maybe half a second then hangs the whole machine. The last matches were under /dev. I can't remember grep ever scanning device files, but maybe it's just me... are you shure? shouldn't be # grep -r stuff * ? Anyhow... It will have a problem when grep-ing never endig devices such as /dev/zero. -- The Hobbit ICQ #56656060 I am the ILOVEGNU signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Re: simple grep command twister
john smith scripsit: Hi! mind twister break? how to use grep to show all the paladrome words in the linux dictionary? grep '\(.\)\(.\)\(.\)\3\2\1' \usr\dict\words partly works? You simply can't. period. palindrome (not palandrome) is a context-free concept, that is to say you can't express it with regular expression. See any good book on compilers or better still forma languages to understand why. -- Leo TheHobbit Cacciari I am the ILOVEGNU signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Re: sound still not working
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ;; This buffer is for notes you don't want to save, and for Lisp evaluation. ;; If you want to create a file, first visit that file with C-x C-f, ;; then enter the text in that file's own buffer. Hi, since we are talking about sound I configured everithing and it works fine for me, except... well, if I enable event-sound in the gnome control center, then I can play audio files. That's not right, I can play them, but any action which trigers a system sound is blocked until the end of the play. This happens with mp3 files as well as with wav files... I have an esoniq 1371 card. Of course, I can turn off sound systems, but that does not seems the right way to do it. Any idea? - -- The Hobbit ICQ #56656060 I am the ILOVEGNU signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ iD8DBQE5cXy0v9iOG/S6owkRAoo/AKCNFDeo8SIFmy+DrCz9q1lBpQ+eZwCgj7ph BANuxUFquwwhpgBWHOA74x4= =q9wH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: shell script question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans scripsit: Sorry, I'm full of questions today. I'm working on a script that can rename filenames. For now I want it to add an underscore before each capital letter there is in the filename and make the capital letter lowercase: e.g. FileName -- _file_name. I tried many things like: for a in *; do mv $a `echo $a | tr [A] [_a]`;done just to try with the letter A. I used quotes in various places, but it converts A in _ and not _a. I also tried the -c switch with tr, but that messed up thing quite badly. So basically my question is 'how to translate one character into two and vice versa?' Anyone? Thanks for the input. Hi, perl rules:) rename 's/([A-Z])/_\l$1/g' * will do the job. As I already pointed out on this list, rename cames with the standard perl package of potato. By the way, rename 's/([A-Z])/_\l$1/g;s/^_([a-z])/\u$1/' * will avoid putting the underscore at the beginning, changing back _a into A. - -- The Hobbit ICQ #56656060 I am the ILOVEGNU signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ iD8DBQE5caCXv9iOG/S6owkRAkssAJ9gRvIqr1X5lSNK2hOlIwQtc/yBrwCdGZIM T4gQXtaxPD6uXS7FsfVWMts= =kO91 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: shell script question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans scripsit: So basically my question is 'how to translate one character into two and vice versa?' Anyone? Thanks for the input. I forgot... to get the reverse transformation _file_name - FileName simply use rename 's/_([a-z])\u$1/g' * - -- The Hobbit ICQ #56656060 I am the ILOVEGNU signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ iD8DBQE5caEjv9iOG/S6owkRAscpAJwL8jNV02uQo8E7L2tGeLPC1/UOjACfd09/ aI3b7FuM4Dlji8GdMvdISGo= =ctUA -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: Some basic unix commanding, more please:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, as perl people says, there is more than one way to do it, but perl way is the right one:) In debian dist there is a perl scrip called rename, which allows you to transform your filenames as you please:). For instance, to transform ONE.HTM, TWO.HTM, THREE.HTM into one.html, two.html, three.html you write: rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/;s/\.htm$/.html/g' *.HTM to just transform all names from uppercase to lowercase you can use rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' * I hope it helps. - -- The Hobbit ICQ #56656060 I am the ILOVEGNU signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ iD8DBQE5bzn6v9iOG/S6owkRAntBAJ9IAuXP/DQRvfzHtq6t3QSdLoMw7wCglx6L VvUTcQhuqk8gfwIGdNM8qiw= =jziQ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: Some basic unix commanding, more please:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 virtanen scripsit: This: *** rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/;s/\.htm$/.html/g' *.HTM *** looks very very BEATIFUL to my eyes! (I'm an old matchematician, besides that sanskrit, Japanese and Chinse scholar as well, I've studied Buddhism for some years.) I wanted to learn Perl after seeing this command. Well, I can see sarcasm when it bytes my nose:))) Nevertheles... Perl is beautiful:) - -- The Hobbit ICQ #56656060 I am the ILOVEGNU signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ iD8DBQE5b0LFv9iOG/S6owkRAuxAAJ43I1iIUJrurAQb/xI28fn2OFynUwCfc+F6 x1qnOyFeNYoVDl/2xS9Oets= =95Gy -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: Some basic unix commanding, more please:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 virtanen scripsit: I'm deadly serious, not sarcastic. (Everything what I said is true. And I really liked the looks of that command.) But You probably know, where to get that script? There are so many perl packages, that I don't want to install them all... Well, rename is in the standard perl package of debian potato dist.. In short, if you inbstalled perl, the you have it:) cheers - -- The Hobbit ICQ #56656060 I am the ILOVEGNU signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ iD8DBQE5b0iuv9iOG/S6owkRAkSFAJ97xTR0JVTINkxJE0jVzMN0TXm7jACeI6dp H/qjHE7Jotove/yePGMDaUE= =Y5Fi -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: Some basic unix commanding, more please:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jaldhar H. Vyas scripsit: Sarcasm? Hardly. I came to perl via Sanskrit. The way perl compresses such a lot of information makes a lot of sense to someone who has studied, say, the Vyakarana sutras. Well, let me say that this will be saved in my pro-perl quotes list:))) - -- The Hobbit ICQ #56656060 I am the ILOVEGNU signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ iD8DBQE5b6d8v9iOG/S6owkRAldjAJ4g6ri6bSRKrusktm3K2WFghQijJgCgiVeU SdtYnzANYLxjWIG7awJ6WP0= =cOtj -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: introduce ourselves to you.
Superband scripsit: Dear Sir /Madam, We feel greatly honored to have the chance to c We are one of China's leading manufacturers of automobile aluminium wheel moulds Junk mail here??? well, couldn't we avoid this? -- The Hobbit ICQ #56656060
Re: apt-get problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 kmself@ix.netcom.com scripsit: On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:15:49PM +0200, Jens Luedicke wrote: Hi there ... I messed up some files on my system and needed to reinstall everything again. When I was finished with all my packages I wanted to run apt-get update. apt-get fetched all the lists but when it was reading/parsing the lists, I got an error message: E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room! ... What wrong here? Looks suspiciously as if you're out of memory. Not unlikely when trying to install a mess of packages. What's your memory situation look like? Swap? It's not exactly the same thing, but I'd like to give you a warn (I know, I know, I sould signal it as a bug... I'll do). In the In the Installing Debian/Linux 2.1 for Intel x86 document they say, about partitioning (section 4.2. Planing the use of the System): [...] Notably, the Debian '/var' partition contains a lot of state information. [...], you should usually allocate at least 50Mb for /var. Well, I did it. I even allocated 128Mb, just to be on the sure side. But during istallation it crashed. Infact, apt uses a subdirectory of /var to put packages dowloaded but not yet installed and at installation time you need a lot of packages. Then it seems to me that there are only two alternatives: make an huge /var partition, knowing that there will be a lot of unused space after your installation is complete, or don't make a partition neither of /var nor /usr, make a huge / partition and let the system use the space as it needs. bye - -- The Hobbit -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ iD8DBQE5bW2dv9iOG/S6owkRApaKAJ9clehbHX+sW/qlrf5REvl7WqtTIwCgk1ty 29Yn9qqZFhAze1B7OUXGnOU= =1J19 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: apt-get problems
Matthew Dalton scripsit: Frodo Baggins wrote: It's not exactly the same thing, but I'd like to give you a warn (I know, I know, I sould signal it as a bug... I'll do). [...] apt-get downloads *.deb files to /var/cache/apt/archives, so you do need space there. It's not an apt-get bug, but it might be a documentation one. Exactly my point :) Then it seems to me that there are only two alternatives: make an huge /var partition, knowing that there will be a lot of unused space after your installation is complete, or don't make a partition neither of /var nor /usr, make a huge / partition and let the system use the space as it needs. third alternative: - make a directory /usr/local/apt - copy the stuff in /var/cache/apt to it: $ cd /var/cache/apt $ tar cf - * | (cd /usr/local/apt; tar xvf - ) - after making sure that everything copied okay, delete everything under /var/cache/apt: $ cd /var/cache $ rm -rf apt # be careful with this! - symlink to the new location $ ln -s /usr/local/apt apt Now apt-get will download packages and they will go on the same partition that /usr/local lives on. Of course it will work But it's awful :))) moreover, the basic user which never installed a unix cold have some problem doing this who means switching from installation to a side shell... -- The Hobbit ICQ #56656060
Re: apt-get problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Dalton scripsit: Frodo Baggins wrote: It's not exactly the same thing, but I'd like to give you a warn (I know, I know, I sould signal it as a bug... I'll do). [...] apt-get downloads *.deb files to /var/cache/apt/archives, so you do need space there. It's not an apt-get bug, but it might be a documentation one. Exactly my point :) Then it seems to me that there are only two alternatives: make an huge /var partition, knowing that there will be a lot of unused space after your installation is complete, or don't make a partition neither of /var nor /usr, make a huge / partition and let the system use the space as it needs. third alternative: - make a directory /usr/local/apt - copy the stuff in /var/cache/apt to it: $ cd /var/cache/apt $ tar cf - * | (cd /usr/local/apt; tar xvf - ) - after making sure that everything copied okay, delete everything under /var/cache/apt: $ cd /var/cache $ rm -rf apt # be careful with this! - symlink to the new location $ ln -s /usr/local/apt apt Now apt-get will download packages and they will go on the same partition that /usr/local lives on. Of course it will work But it's awful :))) moreover, the basic user which never installed a unix cold have some problem doing this who means switching from installation to a side shell... - -- The Hobbit ICQ #56656060 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ iD8DBQE5bZc3v9iOG/S6owkRAkC+AKCGnhivHSvc9fLN7jwEdsLjp/sj4ACgi5P6 mwRjuyn2C6qGBTDRlK26+Ls= =KiRy -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: apt-get problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Dalton scripsit: Frodo Baggins wrote: It's not exactly the same thing, but I'd like to give you a warn (I know, I know, I sould signal it as a bug... I'll do). [...] apt-get downloads *.deb files to /var/cache/apt/archives, so you do need space there. It's not an apt-get bug, but it might be a documentation one. Exactly my point :) Then it seems to me that there are only two alternatives: make an huge /var partition, knowing that there will be a lot of unused space after your installation is complete, or don't make a partition neither of /var nor /usr, make a huge / partition and let the system use the space as it needs. third alternative: - make a directory /usr/local/apt - copy the stuff in /var/cache/apt to it: $ cd /var/cache/apt $ tar cf - * | (cd /usr/local/apt; tar xvf - ) - after making sure that everything copied okay, delete everything under /var/cache/apt: $ cd /var/cache $ rm -rf apt # be careful with this! - symlink to the new location $ ln -s /usr/local/apt apt Now apt-get will download packages and they will go on the same partition that /usr/local lives on. Of course it will work But it's awful :))) moreover, the basic user which never installed a unix cold have some problem doing this who means switching from installation to a side shell... - -- The Hobbit ICQ #56656060 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.5 and Gnu Privacy Guard http://www.gnupg.org/ iD8DBQE5bZe/v9iOG/S6owkRAk1wAJ9oOgjb4bQ/Y7YSNHCxfGWCAe2iCQCdFFAA mPv5FKeTB0Dw63vJYcD2zIU= =m5Z+ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Two screens
Hi, I run a (almost) pure potato distrib with 2.2.17 kernel. Problem is, I have a Intel740 graphic card and a 17 monitor as standard output device. But I also have a S3 card a 15 monitor from an old PC which died sometimes ago. I would like to set up all this things such that I have a dual monitor setup. I understand that XFree 4 does the thing, but I would like to stick to stable things. Looking at the documentation, it seems to me that it should be possible to start two X servers, one by XFREE86_SVGA :0 (the standard monitor) and one by XFREE86_S3 :1, then use x2x to link the dislpays. This brings up some more questions that I could nmot answer by looking at the doc: 1. I suppose I must add a Device section to the XF86Config file, but how I specify which card is which? 2. at startup XFREE86_SVGA :0 is automagicaly launched on pseudoterminal 7, so there is some script file that do that. I suppose I should change it, but... where it is? Thaks a lot. -- The Hobbit ICQ # 56656060
Re: Soundblaster and a Firewall
Dave Sherohman scripsit: Peter O said: I installed Corel Linux and would like to install Soundblaster drivers so I can play my CD Roms. snip Grab some kernel source and rebuild it with support for your sound card and IP firewalling. Hi, sorry, but... why firewalling? could you explain it? Bye -- Leo TheHobbit
