Re: stopwatch/worktime program?

[Jan Muszynski]

Micha Feigin wrote:
> I'm looking for some program to follow my work time on different projects,
> preferably something that can plug into the xfce, or if not the gnome panel.
> 
> I'm working on different projects for different people and I need to report
> work hours and it's a bit hard for me to follow the times by writing them down
> as I tend to work on and off for short times during the day. I want something
> like a stopwatch, preferable that would be able to keep a few of them around.
> If they can later give me an history, it's even better.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
aptitude install hamster-applet

Description: time tracking applet for GNOME
 Project Hamster helps you to keep track of how much time you spend on
various activities during the day.  Whenever you move from one task to
another, you change your current activity in the GNOME applet.

 It can present graphical statistics of how long you have spent on each
task, and may be useful for project management or keeping employee
timesheets.

http://live.gnome.org/ProjectHamster


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Re: A Font Size is a Font Size is a Font Size ... not in Iceweasel it's not!

[Jan Muszynski]

Klistvud wrote:

> On my laptop, those fonts appear extremely small: so far, my only way 
> of permanently correcting this has been to increase the 
> "smallest font" in Iceweasel to around 14. Is there a smarter/simpler 
> way?

You can try the nosquint firefox extension.
"NoSquint allows you to adjust the default text zoom level, which is
useful if you have a small display or run at a very high resolution.
NoSquint also optionally remembers the zoom level per site."

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2592


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Re: VNC Server?

[Jan Muszynski]

Depo Catcher wrote:
> uh, ok.  Thanks
> 
> Why didn't aptitude find it?
> 
Because you're not using the version in experimental :)
the versions currently in <=sid default to searching on package name
only. This changes in the experimental version where the search
parameters change. I almost always specify what I'm searching on. For
example, search on name:
aptitude search ~n"search string"

search on description
aptitude search ~d"search string"

In this case you would have found it by using:
aptitude search ~d"unix2dos"

I suggest you read through the aptitude documentation. There's a lot of
things you can do with it that may not be immediately obvious. Install
the doc package, quickly go through it to see some of the possibilities,
and then refer bak to it for specifics as needed. You'll get to know
what you commonly use fast enough, but knwing what's possible with more
advanced usage can come in handy down the road.

aptitude search ~n"aptitude-doc"
v   aptitude-doc-

p   aptitude-doc-cs   - Czech manual for aptitude
i   aptitude-doc-en   - English manual for aptitude
p   aptitude-doc-fi   - Finnish manual for aptitude
p   aptitude-doc-fr   - French manual for aptitude
p   aptitude-doc-ja   - Japanese manual for aptitude

I've created a desktop file that points to the command-line reference
portion of the manual for when I need it (and I can go to any other part
from there as well, that's just the part I refer to the most).

file:///usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en/rn01re01.html

You can just create a bookmark within your browser instead.

> 
> Jan Muszynski wrote:
>> Depo Catcher wrote:
>>   
>>> ok thanks.  That worked.
>>>
>>> for bonus points, were/how do I install 'dos2unix' and 'unix2dos'... it
>>> doesn't come install by default nor does it show up in aptitude
>>> 
>>
>> apt-file find dos2unix
>> tofrodos: /usr/bin/dos2unix
>>
>> apt-file find /usr/bin/unix2dos
>> tofrodos: /usr/bin/unix2dos
>>
>>
>> #aptitude install tofrodos
>>   


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Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

[Jan Muszynski]

Another way to accomplish this, assuming that X is started via gdm at
least (may also work for some of kdm, xdm, slim, I don't know) is to
edit the kernel parameters at boot and add "text" as a parameter. This
will prevent gdm from starting.

If you need to start X after booting with that option you'll need to use
startx. gdm will refuse to start (via /etc/init.d/gdm) as long as text
was part of the boot command.


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Re: Extracting CD boot loaders

[Jan Muszynski]

T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Anyone know ways to extract the CD boot loaders under Linux?
> 
> The reason that I'm asking is that, many .iso files come with size much 
> less than 700M. So it would be a waste of CD spaces to burn them as-is -- 
> I want to add more files to them (then pack them up again as iso) before 
> burning them. So the most important step is to extract the CD boot 
> loaders (mainly for Windows based bootable .iso images), so as to make it 
> bootable again.
> 
> Thanks
> 

isomaster is one possibility, that works quite well (see tools menu).

aptitude show isomaster
Package: isomaster
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.3.5-1
Priority: optional
Section: otherosfs
Maintainer: David Johnson 
Uncompressed Size: 1069k
Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.20.0), libc6 (>= 2.7), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4),
 libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1),
libglib2.0-0 (>=
 2.16.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0)
Suggests: mousepad
Description: A graphical CD image editor
 You can use isomaster to:
 * add files to an image
 * extract files from an image
 * delete files from an image
Homepage: http://www.littlesvr.ca/isomaster/

Command line tool try "man geteltorito". I haven't tried this one (it's
part of the genisoimage package).



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Re: VNC Server?

[Jan Muszynski]

Depo Catcher wrote:
> 
> ok thanks.  That worked.
> 
> for bonus points, were/how do I install 'dos2unix' and 'unix2dos'... it
> doesn't come install by default nor does it show up in aptitude

apt-file find dos2unix
tofrodos: /usr/bin/dos2unix

apt-file find /usr/bin/unix2dos
tofrodos: /usr/bin/unix2dos


#aptitude install tofrodos


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Re: File Server

[Jan Muszynski]

Lynn Kilroy wrote:
> I imagine this question has been answered lots of times, but I'll be
> dumb and ask it again.
>  
> I am setting up a Debian computer and hope to use it primarily as a file
> server.  This is for a network, and all the computers network together
> through an ISDN router modem thingy.  We have two Windows XP
> Professional Edition computers able to pass files back and forth through
> this network.
>  
> How would I set up the Linux box so it can be seen on this network?  
< snip >

# aptitude install samba swat
swat = configure samba via web browser http://localhost:901

http://us6.samba.org/samba/
See links under "learn samaba" on left.

HTH


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Re: Blank TTYs using the nvidia binary driver

[Jan Muszynski]

You can try what I have. Since you know you want these why do you have
them as modules? Compile directly into the kernel you don'y have to
worry about loading, and why ot why not it's loaded.

CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK=y

The above are the only things set, Anything else starting with
CONFIG_FB or CONFIG_VGA is off.


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Re: Windows Partition Cloning under Linux

[Jan Muszynski]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:47 PM, T o n g  wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:37:44 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
>
 Is there any good solution to clone Windows Partitions under Linux?
>>> have a look at "ntfsclone" . . .
>
> Thanks. looks like exactly what I'm looking for.
>
>> Do realise that cloning Windows partition often leads to an unbootable
>> system due to MS copy protection.
>
> Yeah, that's VERY annoying. I use Ghost to create an image from my
> Vmware, and ghost back to real HD, but it is not bootable. -- got the
> blue screen.

That's an easy fix if you know what's going on.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows
--
Hard Disk Support

For reasons we don't understand, Windows memorizes which IDE/ATA
controller it was installed on and fails to boot in case the
controller changes. This is very annoying because you will run into
this problem with basically all migrated images. The solution here is
to perform several modifications to the Windows registry. This can be
done while the installation is still running on the original system
because all it does is relax the IDE checks. Therefore the
installation will continue to work on the original system after the
modification. The easiest way is to use the excellent MergeIDE utility
from the German c't computer magazine.
--

The link for the MergeIDE utility
http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/wiki/Migrate_Windows/MergeIDE.zip

When you open up the zip the batch file etc is in German. What it does
is look for "%SystemRoot%\Driver Cache\i386\driver.cab" on your system
and then extracts 4 files. If you have these files already on your
system, then you can just merge the reg file that's included without
running the batch file.
They all belong in "%SystemRoot%\System32\Drivers" (where SystemRoot
is normally C:\Windows)
Atapi.sys
Intelide.sys
Pciide.sys
Pciidex.sys

Doing this has become standard practice for any XP systems I build
(which are few and far between nowadays). Saves a lot of grief.


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Re: Switch from lenny-stable to squeeze-testing

[Jan Muszynski]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Mark McCorkell
 wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 08:52 -0400, Robert Menes wrote:
>> Hi folks, I've just installed Debian lenny-stable onto my Asus Eee PC
>> 10", and I'd like to
>> switch over from stable to squeeze-testing in order to make use of
>> more up to date apps
>> and KDE 4.2. I remember that you have to add a new repo, or I believe
>> point /etc/apt/sources.list
>> to the testing repos, but I'm not completely sure.
>>
>> Can someone point me in the right direction? This is relatively easy
>> for me, but I just want to
>> be certain I'm pointing my sources to the right place. Thanks!
>>
>> --Robert
>> --
>
> You've pretty much got it. You need to change any references to lenny
> in /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the whatever repository you want.
>
> So a line like
>
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main non-free contrib
>
> becomes
>
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
>
> Depending on your choice of repository some existing lines may have to
> be commented out, e.g. if you switch to unstable, lines referencing
> volatile.debian.org or security.debian.org aren't needed.
>
> It might also be an idea to add new lines for testing and keep the old
> lenny ones in place, just in case you have to install packages whose
> dependencies aren't yet complete in the new repository or to revert back
> to an older version (although this is more of an issue with unstable
> than with testing).
>
> After making the changes, a 'sudo apt-get update' will download package
> lists from the new repositories and 'sudo apt-get upgrade' or 'sudo
> apt-get dist-upgrade' will start the process. I'd recommend dist-upgrade
> when changing the main repositories.
>
> --
> Mark McCorkell 

I'd recommend that this be handled the same as any other version
upgrade (eg etch->lenny)
1) First make sure that stable is up to date with all the latest updates.
2) Change sources as indicated above
3) Update your upgrade tools
# aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude
4) perform a safe upgrade first.
# aptitude safe-upgrade
5) Finish with a full upgrade
# aptitude full-upgrade


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Re: Re: Deleting unused configuration files

[Jan Muszynski]

Simplest way:

aptitude purge ~c


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SMTP Authorization

[Jan Muszynski]

Does anyone know of any MTA's that currently support SMTP 
Authorization? (RFC2554)

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Re: grep "\" ... how

[Jan Muszynski]

You might also want a copy of O'Relly's 'Mastering Regular 
Expressions'

And instead of Amazon check out . They offer 
techbooks at probably the best discounts I've seen (O'Reilly at about 
35% off), and their shipping charges are very good as well - 
especially if you order multiple books (They charge actual cost for 
shipping).

On 11 Jun 99, at 10:41,  Kenneth Scharf 
 wrote about Re: grep "\" ... how :

> Yeah I guess I really need to order a copy of the 'camel' book from
> amazon.
> 
> --- Michael Stenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >> > I need to write a script to replace '\'s with
> > '/',
> > >> > but how can I get grep to accept '\' as a
> > regular 
> > >> > expression (it assumes it to be line continue 
> > >> > character, at least from the sh prompt)?
> > 
> > -- stuff about tr and sed --
> > 
> > >> 
> > >> If backslashes will only appear in file paths,
> > you
> > >> are set.  If they
> > >> appear in some other contents where they need to
> > be
> > >> kept, then look at a
> > >> more sophisticated tool like sed.
> > >> 
> > >This it true... the '\' also appears in printf's
> > >IE: fprintf("\t hello \n");
> > 
> > At this point, it might be worth your time to learn
> > a little perl.  I
> > know that sed and awk are rather powerful, too, but
> > if you're porting a
> > program, you must be reasonably proficient at
> > programming.
> > 
> > you will find a little time learning perl's regular
> > expressions rather
> > useful later on, too.
> > 
> > -Michael
> > 
> > I (and many others) can give you a little help with
> > a perl script (less
> > than 10 lines) that would correctly modify 99% of
> > your backslashes.
> > 
> >   Michael Stenner   Office Phone: 919-660-2513
> >   Duke University, Dept. of Physics  
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> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: mail clients

[Jan Muszynski]

On 22 May 99, at 19:03,  Steve Lamb 
 wrote about Re: mail clients:

 
[snipped to conserve bandwidth]

> 
> A perfect example of this is PMMail98 on OS/2 & Windows.  Yeah, I know,
> Windows, GUI, ick.  But my point is not the GUI, not the mouse, not the
> keyboard, not the look but the underlying logic of how it handles seperate
> accounts as completely seperate entities within a single application.

Have you tried running this under Wine? That's probably what I'm 
going to end up doing, except that I run Pegasus, not PMmail98. I've 
heard reports that Pegasus runs fine under wine (although I haven't 
heard anything about the latest revision which includes IMAP). I 
haven't tried it yet for a number of reasons - I was hoping to find a 
'nix client that would match it in functionality - but so far no luck 
:(

Note that _if_ it does run *completely* under wine then it would give 
you the functionality you need/want.

 
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Re: slink and netscape/mozilla

[Jan Muszynski]

It's even less clear cut than that. 

While in Netscape enter the following URL 

about:mozilla 

Don't forget that Netscape was Mozilla before it was Netscape. 
Mozilla comes again. 

On 6 May 99, at 10:23,  Jerry Gardner  wrote about Re: slink and 
netscape/mozilla: 

> Ray writes:
>  > Netscape and Mozilla are DIFFERENT things.  Netscape is release level
>  > software and for most of us works fairly well (aside from being a memory
> 
> The difference isn't as clear-cut as you may think. Every version of
> Netscape that I've ever used (and this goes back to prior to v1.0)
> has a readme file that has this in it:
> 
>  * And remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but it's pronounced "Mozilla."
> 
> Although not as common as it used to be, Netscape is sometimes called
> Mozilla.
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Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...

[Jan Muszynski]

Assuming it was the CIH virus (and there's an excellent chance it 
was) here's an extract from DataFellows web site about this virus:

> What makes the CIH case really serious is that the virus activates
> destructively. When it happens the virus overwrites most of the
> data on the computers hard drive. This can be recovered with recent
> backups. 
> 
> However, the virus has another, unique activation routine: It will
> try to overwrite the Flash BIOS chip of the machine. If this
> succeeds, the machine will be unable to boot at all unless the chip
> is reprogammed. The Flash routine will work on many types of
> Pentium machines - for example, on machines based on the Intel
> 430TX chipset. On most machines, the Flash BIOS can be protected
> with a jumper. By default, protection is usually off. 

So even if you do have a data backup your BIOS is probably fried.

For more information see:
http://www.datafellows.com/v-descs/cih.htm

Good luck


On 27 Apr 99, at 12:38,  Mitch Blevins 
 wrote about Re: Hit by virus !? Help, please...:

> In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> > after my kid was playing games on win95 yesterday
> > evening i was unable to boot into Linux - actually unable
> > to boot into win95 also... Looks like some kind of
> > virus destroyed boot sector with partition table.
> > 
> > i can remember approximate partition sizes and order.
> > 
> > Is there any way to recover partition table and the system
> > as well ?
> 
> You got hit with the CIH virus.  It was well publicized at least
> a week prior to the detonation date (yesterday).  All reports that
> I have seen don't hold much hope for recovering without a full reinstall.
> (hope you backed up your data..)
> 
> It is an unfortunate fact that if you want to run Windows on a machine
> nowadays, you must pay tribute to the antivirus gods or suffer their
> wrath from time to time.
> 
> -Mitch

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Re: Netscape install problem

[Jan Muszynski]

Having just gone through this :)
When you download the files from Netscape make sure you download the 
glibc version. This is the 'unsupported' version. Then try again 
(using the Debian installer).


On 27 Apr 99, at 17:55,  Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven 
 wrote about Netscape install problem:

> Hi,
> 
> I have installed netscape 4.5, but when try to start it I get the following 
> error:
> 
> can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'
> 
> I have tried to find a library with such name, but I could not find it.
> 
> Can anybody help me out here, please?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Robert-Jan
> 
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Re: proxy/firewall for debian?

[Jan Muszynski]

For the most recent docs check out
http://ipmasq.cjb.net/

HTH

On 25 Apr 99, at 17:08,  Eliezer Figueroa 
 wrote about proxy/firewall for debian?:

> I heard about IP masquerading as the best way of connecting my 
> internal net to internet and keep it safe if that is true can 
> somebody point to a howto of it.

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Re: W95 defrag [also lilo+Linux+Win98 FAT32]

[Jan Muszynski]

On 23 Apr 99, at 23:45,  Matt Folwell 
 wrote about Re: W95 defrag [also lilo+Linux+Win:

> On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 05:42:09PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> 
> > For quite a while, Windows refused to boot at all from lilo. i finally
> > solved the problem by using some obscure commands buried deep in TFM.
> > Probably you won't need them, but they're here for a reference anyway.
> > 
> >   other=/dev/hdb1
> > table=/dev/hdb
> >   # The map-drive directives make windows think it's on the primary
> >   # master drive instead of the primary slave. Windows would think
> >   # Linux was on the slave if it could see it.
> > map-drive = 0x80
> >   to = 0x81
> > map-drive = 0x81
> >   to = 0x80
> > label=win
> > alias=2
> 
> Which FM did you find this is?  I've been unable to boot windows from lilo

/usr/docs/lilo/manual.txt.gz (or something like that, case might be off)

> since I moved it (windows) to /dev/hdc.  I'd guess I need to use 0x82 where
> you've used 0x81, but I'd rather make sure before I risk it, and I can't
> see map-drive mentioned in the lilo.conf man page.

You can try it, but you might have a problem booting windows off 
anything other than the first 2 drives. The one thing about MS OS's 
in general (except for NT) they need to boot off of the the primary, 
active partition, and I believe it can be the only primary partition 
visible on the drive.

> 
> For a while I was able to boot windows using other=/dev/hdc but this
> suddenly stopped working, saying "Missing Operating System"  Does anyone
> know what could cause that?

What primary partitions do you have on the first 2 drives? Did this 
change between then and now?

TTFN
> 
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> Matt
> 
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Re: A file is not always what you think it is.

[Jan Muszynski]

On 19 Apr 99, at 17:58,  Hans van den Boogert 
wrote about A file is not always what you think:



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> What I did: - write a script using Notepad under Winblows on the
> P200. Saved it as a .txt file. - copied it on a DOS formatted
> disk. Changed the filename to one without the .txt extension. -
> copied it on my notebook in the directory /root - chmod it, and
> ran it with the result "file not found" 
> 
> Apparently a .txt file written under Win95 can be chmod-ed, but
> not executed. I used ae to write a simple script from scratch
> under Linux and it worked no problem at all.



The problem is with the way 'nix and DOS/Windoze handle EOL in txt  files. DOS/Windoze represents end of line as a Carriage Return + Line  Feed combination (x0D0A)

'nix on the other hand uses just a LF cahracter (x0A) 
[and just for the record - Mac uses just a CR (x0D)]

This was what caused the problem - Linux couldn't succesfully read  the DOS text file because of the difference in formatting.

There are (freeware) programs which enable you to read/write 'nix  text formatted files under windoze (as well as improving drastically  on Notepads limited capabilities). Let me know if you'd like more  info.

> 
> That makes me wonder: I have to install some packages on the
> notebook to get the external CD-ROM drive working. If I copy them
> from the CD-ROM on a DOS formatted floppy and then transfer to the
> notebook, will I get the same kind of trouble?

The only things that give you the problem are scripts (text) files  created on one system for use on the other, as noted above. A  straight binary copy of a file shouldn't be a problem.

HTH

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Re: Debian vs. RedHat

[Jan Muszynski]

On 18 Apr 99, at 12:31,  Stephan Goldenberg 
 wrote about Re: Debian vs. RedHat:

> On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:04:53PM +0100, Matt wrote:
> > Dan Nguyen wrote:
> > > 
> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > > : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > : Luca Filipozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > : :It's unfortunate that the Debian install is difficult in comparison to
> > > : :RedHat.
> > 
> > Having just switched to Debian 2.1 from RH 5.2, I think the Debian
> > install is easier and more informative.
> 
>   H, is it just me being too dumb ? I didn't manage to install
> slink (5 CD-Set/german bookstore Lehmanns). Two hours of selecting
> packages and fighting dependencies and then.
> internal error - no filename at -e line 13  chunk 14

This newbie found it easy just selecting one of the pre-configured 
installs. You can then fine tune the package selection after the 
initial configuration is installed (this can of course take days, 
weeks, maybe months or years :) ). This then amounts to 1 or 2 
minutes deciding which configuration to install (based on 
needs/wants), and no fighting of dependencies. You can, of course, 
take longer to decide which configuration to install by checking the 
complete list of packages installed with each configuration etc.

> 
>   And more informative than RH ? I didn't realize any informations
> about the required diskspace.

The pre-selected configurations do give information about required 
diskspace.
 
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TTFN
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Re: Looking for trouble.

[Jan Muszynski]

Can't help you much, but some of the smaller questions I can answer.

On 18 Apr 99, at 14:34,  Hans van den Boogert 
 wrote about Looking for trouble.:

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> Questions:
> 1) What is an easy way to go to the previous directory, e.g. I am in
> /usr/bin and want to go to /usr?

try cd ..
This will take you to the parent directory of any directory you're in.
Another handy shortcut along these lines is
cd -
this will take you to the most recent directory you were in. For 
example - you're in /etc and you issue a cd /usr/src
you're now in /usr/src; if you issue a cd - you will end up in /etc, 
if you then issue another cd - you will be back in /usr/src

> 2) With the base system installed I can't open man pages, that is, when
[snipped to conserve bandwidth]
> installed? How to open/read .gz files.

you need to get the man page package installed - catch22 :) I'm not 
sure if you have gzip, gunzip installed at this point or not. if so 
you can issue a gunzip  to unzip the file, then look at the 
file, then followed by a gzip  to zip it up again (don't forget 
this last step).

> 3) I tried to create some scripts, very simple ones, but they refuse to
> run, or the system says "command not found." Example:
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> Saved as "telltime," then mode changed with chmod -v u+x telltime.
> With cat I can still see the contents of the file as plain text. Is
> this normal? As said, when executing "telltime" the system returns
yes - it is normal
> "command not found." I know that you have to watch the path, but
try - while in directory with script, issuing ./telltime
I'm not sure what your current path is. Issue an echo $PATH to find 
out.
> even when I put this script in / or /bin it still won't run, while
> installed commands like "date" do run from almost every directory.
> What do I do wrong? 

try, while in the directory with the script, issuing ./telltime

> 4) Any hints to where to find some in dept Debian specific FAQs? I know
> there is a lot around, and believe me I've been reading, but most
> tutorials/FAQs assume that the system is running smoothly and hardly deal
> with problem solving.

That's because no-one ever has any problems to solve 

It appears that most of the Debian specific stuff is still in the 
process of being written, and they probably want to get all the base 
documentation down first.

> 
> Thanks for the help.
what little it was - you're welcome.

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SHELL environment variable.

[Jan Muszynski]

I was always under the impression that the SHELL envirinment variable 
was supposed to point to the _current_ shell. In my setup at least, 
it doesn't. It _always_ points to the login shell (I change to a 
different shell but the variable remains the same). Bug, feature, 
user error?  Any comments or suggestions welcome.

TIA
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   (Robert Heinlein)

Printing in Color

[Jan Muszynski]

How can I get my printer to print in color? I print a page from 
Netscape and select lpr as  the printer. Everything prints fine, but 
it prints in B/W.

Printer is an Epson Stylus 850. Printcap is set up to refer to 3 
magicfilters (ie. 3 printers all pointing to same dev):
stylus800-filter   (this is default)
stylus_color_360dpi-filter
stylus_color_720dpi-filter

I assume I need the above to print in different dpi settings?

Any assistance greatly appreciated - TIA
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Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

[Jan Muszynski]

On 13 Apr 99, at 15:34,  Wayne Topa 
 wrote about Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files:

> 
>   Subject: Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?
>   Date: Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 07:11:35PM +0100
> 
> In reply to:Anthony Campbell
> 
> Quoting Anthony Campbell([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > On 13 Apr 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > I've a nasty feeling the answer is going to be  "no", but I wonder whether
> > > there is any way to convert or read a Word 7 file on linux?
> > > 
> > > Or do I have to borrow a Windows machine and convert it to txt?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > Thanks to all who replied about this. A lot of you suggested WP8 but I was
> > unable to get this to install, possibly because it doesn't work with kernel
> > 2.2.x.
> 
> Humm, I guess the wp8 I'm running on 2.2.5 is a fluke?  Runs fine here
> tho.

Strictly a guess (I just downloaded and heven't tried to install 
yet), but WP needs libc5 (from what I read so far). If he only had 
libc6 installed then he'd have a problem.

By the way - is there an install package (like for Netscape), or 
should I just install into /user/local. Also, assuming no install 
package (obviously I haven't checked yet), does anyone know what 
packages I need for the requisite libc5 support?

TIA

> 
> -- 
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>   There is not now, and never will be, a language in which it is
>   the least bit difficult to write bad programs.
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Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1

[Jan Muszynski]

I've just installed slink from the Cheapbytes CD's with no problem, 
once I figured out 1 little detail.

Dselect at 1 point asks for the location of the non-free, non-US, and 
local branches. These aren't on the Cheapbytes CDs and you have to 
answer 'none', otherwise you get an error (I had originally been 
trying scan).

TTFN

On 13 Apr 99, at 10:59,  Allen Wong 
 wrote about Re: Cheapbytes Debian 2.1:

> Mark Wagnon wrote:
> > 
> > Allen Wong wrote:
> > >
> > > Has anyone successfully installed Debian 2.1 from a Cheapbytes CD?
> > > I keep getting error messages with dselect stating that some of the
> > > packages are out of date and I need a newer version.  I am a newbie with
> > > Debian but not with Linux, having installed redhat and Slackware many
> > > times.
> > >
> > 
> Mark,
> 
> Is it safe to say that this is not because of my own stupidity?  I
> checked the files in the CD against the files on a Debian FTP site and
> the version numbers match.  Yet, dselect keeps telling me that netbase
> and a few other packages are not the right version.  I ignore it and
> tell it to install anyway, but it kicks out an "Error 1", I think,
> something about some script not being there.  I then press  and
> I am sent back to the main menu.  Ordinarily, I buy from LSL.  Are their
> Debian CDs better?  I bought from Cheapbytes this time because I wanted
> to try Stampede Linux too.
> 
> 
> > Allen
> > 
> > I have. I installed slink with them, but I don't remember any error
> > messages though. That was about a month ago, so who knows?
> > 
> > I do remember that I had bought some hamm cd-roms from cheapbytes, and
> > they gave me a lot of problems. Maybe the discs are messed up in some
> > way?
> > 
> > Since then, I've decided to live dangerously and use potato
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Re: How to use Netscape mail w/local mail system?

[Jan Muszynski]

All I can tell you is the message that showed up while installing 
Netscape. It said (in effect) that the external movemail program 
should be set to /usr/lib/netscape/movemail

I haven't started playing around with mail configuration yet so 
haven't gotten around to this point in my own setup. (I have to 
convert mailbox format for Windows first to ensure that I can get to 
the mail from both Windows and Linux - and/or I have to install Wine 
so I can continue to run my current client).

On 10 Apr 99, at 17:52,  Jesse Evans 
 wrote about How to use Netscape mail w/local ma:

> Folks,
> 
>   I've got Netscape 4.5 installed on my slink system. How do I get
> Netscape Mail to read from my local mail spool? I use a dial-up connection and
> have fetchmail set to periodically grab mail from my ISP POP account. This 
> ends
> up putting mail in my system's /var/spool/mail/ directory, from
> which I can access it using mutt, Kmail, or whatever. Most of the mail client
> programs I've experimented with have an option to be set up for this with no
> problems (for instance, KMail has a "Use Local Mail" choice which works just
> fine), but Netscape doesn't seem to capable of doing this.
> 
>   In Preferences>Mail & Newsgroups->Mail Servers I've selected Using
> Movemail->Use Built-in Movemail. When I ask for a new mail check, I get an
> error message complaining that Netscape cannot write to my mail directory. (It
> says it needs to write lock files.) It suggests that I set the permission of
> that directory to 01777 (it's currently -rw-rw), but doing so (it
> becomes -rw-rw-rwT) does not correct the problem. It also says that an 
> external
> setgid/setuid Movemail program could be used in the event that all else fails
> and refers me to the Release Notes for more info.
> 
>   Well, the Release Notes don't cover this and I don't know what might
> qualify for an external movemail program. Has anyone out there in Debian-land
> made this feature work? Thanks in advance for all your help.
> 
>  --
> 'til next we type...
> HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse

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Netscape (Newbie alert)

[Jan Muszynski]

I'm trying to install Netscape and have run into a small problem. 
First what I've accomplished so far:

1: downloaded from Netscape - finally found out that I had to rename 
package to include glibc as part of name before install would work.
2: First time I tried to run got error -
 can't load libXpm.so.4 - archives told me to load xpm4.7 package
3: next error - can't load libg++.so.27 - archives again - this time 
load libg++27 package

(why weren't 2 and 3 picked up as dependencies by the installer?)

4: Now I'm stuck - I try to run Netscape (from an xterm so I can see 
the error) and I get back 'Bus error'. Looked through archives, but 
not much help there, some vague (and very old) info. Can someone 
please help me get this to run.


Next question - (just point me in the right direction on this) 
autodial - can it be done, if so how. (pon, poff, and wvdial are all 
working, although I have to adjust permissions for pon since 
currently it only works from root - don't know about wvdial I only 
tried it once from root, and it worked).


Third (and last for the moment). Is there any way I can get to the 
virtual terminals (alt-Fx) from inside Xwindow?

TIA
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Re: Need isapnp early in boot. How?

[Jan Muszynski]

Enough lurking :) This newbie has questions, but we'll start with 
some answers.

Check out the following:
http://www-jcr.lmh.ox.ac.uk/~pnp/

It involves patching the kernel to provide pnp support directly 
within the kernel, therefore eliminating the need for isapnp 
completely.

He initially designed it for SB cards. here's a quote from the 
website:

> What hardware does it support?
> 
> The 0.1 and 0.2 patches support the SB16 PnP, Vibra16 PnP
> SB32/AWE32/AWE64 PnP, including the Game port and IDE parts of these
> devices, with a driver (kernel) patch. 
> 
> The 0.3 patches support these with driver patches, but have the added
> capability of supporting most other devices implcitly or indirectly -
> enable automatic configuration of all PnP devices to use this.


HTH

On 8 Apr 99, at 23:25,  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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> Hello-
> 
> My home system has a CD attached to a SB Vibra 16 board, with 2 other drives 
> off the
> single channel IDE controller.  If I don't first boot into DOS or OS/2, the
> CD is incorrectly recognized (hdg instead of hdc) and is inaccessable. 
> 
> Isapnp apparently comes up too late in the boot to help.  I currently get
> messages about resource conflicts when it tries to initialize (though things
> work since the card's been warmed booted from another OS).  I've checked the
> settings and they match what I use in DOS and OS/2.
> 
> How early can I get isapnp to initialize the card?  Should I put the script
> in rc.boot, or elsewhere? 
> 
> Under OS/2 I need a special little (3rd party) driver to specifically 
> initialize the IDE
> port ... does anyone know whether this is also a problem under Linux which 
> isapnp
> doesnt address on a cold boot?
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions!
> 
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Unidentified subject!

[Jan Muszynski]

> I'm working on a machine that has a 1.2 gb hdd in it (scsi)
> 
> 1 gig is ms-dog
> 200 mb is debian.
> 
> because I have transferred my debian system to a dedicated machine, I 
> would like to reclaim that 200 meg and "append" it to the 1 gb dos 
> partition without reformatting the 1 gb partition and the data that's 
> on it.
> 
 

the one way that I know off is with a package called Partition
Magic. Costs about $50 - but worth every penny if you have DOS partitions to
deal with on a large disk. Enables you to delete, create, move, and resize
partitions non-destructively!

Unfortunately, although it recognizes Linux partitions you can't do anything
other than delete them. For your situation though its fine. Just delete the
Linux partition and resize the DOS partition, although personally with a
disk that size I would split it into multiple partitions to cut down on
cluster size.

Hope this helps