Re: detaching a process from an ssh session ??
Thus spake Zenaan Harkness: # The thing with this is that it terminates the backgrounded process. # # Eg: # # ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # # run a long-running process, background it: # # apt-move mirror # # CTRL-Z # # bg # # # disconnect ssh: # # ~. # # All looks fine, except I go back in and check: # ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # ps aux|grep apt # # and I get no output/ processes - and the CPU should be maxed out but # it's on zero; I'm guessing the process must have been killed. Try running it through screen instead: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # run a long-running process in screen and detach it: # screen apt-move mirror # CTRL-ADD The CTRL-ADD will detach the screen terminal and all its running processes and automatically disconnect your ssh session. if you go back and look for the process you will still find it running. You may, however need to grep for screen, although apt should still show it. You will also notice that the CPU will be maxed as expected. Once the process finishes, screen will automatically terminate, so there is no need to go back in and terminate it manually. HTH, PRINCE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
atmalwlandriver, 2.6 kernel and Debian
I have an 11wave WaveBuddy PCMCIA wireless network card, and I want to use it with the 2.6.6-1-686 kernel on Debian Sid. I have the kernel-source-2.6 package and hav untarred it and symlinked the resulting directory to /usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1-686, which is apparently where it is expecting to find the kernel source. However, whenever I try to build the driver, I get about a million errors from headers in the kernel source, including redeclarations, unknown types and parse errors. Obviously these errors can't be real, because if they were, one would never be able to even compile the kernel. This driver doesn't require that I compile the kernel, just that I have the source installed. I am trying to use the latest version of the atmelwlandriver package as found at http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net Actually, it's the latest snapshot, which still shouldn't cause these problems, as they seem to be kernel related. If anyone has gotten this driver to compile correctly with a 2.6 kernel on Debian, please let me know how you did it. Thanks, PRINCE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: gnu assembler
Thus spake Rob Benton: # Is there a package somewhere with gas in it? The binutils-doc has info # pages for it but I don't see it in the binutils package. Is it out # there somewhere in a package? It is part of binutils. The filename is /usr/bin/as, but it definitely is the GNU assembler used by gcc. HTH, PRINCE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't play audio CD's
Thus spake James Hosken: # lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Nov 26 2003 cdrom1 - hdc # lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Feb 12 21:34 cdrom2 - scd0 # # I'm a member of the following grups # james cdrom audio www-data src # # # In the Xmms Preferances, I've gone to CD Player Audio Config and set the # first device as /dev/cdrom1 # and the directory as /mnt/dvd # # On checking the drive I get the error # # Failed to open device /dev/cdrom1 # Error: Permission denied # Directory /mnt/dvd OK. What are the permissions of /dev/hdc? The links are rwxrwxrwx, but the devices themselves may not be. /dev/hdc should be rw-rw root cdrom, and in fact should be, but anything could happen. PRINCE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Typical partition table for Debian?
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # What's a typical partition table look like for a Debian box? # # I thought that the minimum would be: # # /boot around 100-200 mb # swaparound 1-2x RAM (in this case, 2 gig) # / everything else... This is typical, but not the minimum requirement. All you really need is swap and /. /boot can simply be a directory on the / partition if it doesn't have its own partition. The system will still run that way, which is, I guess why Debian sets it up that way automatically. SNIP # The problem that I'm trying to track down is with the Beta 4 Debian # Installer and it appears that it DOESN'T create the /boot partition when # you let it partition automatically. # # Instead, it creates just: # # swaparound 1-2x RAM (in this case, 2 gig) # / everything else... # # Notice no /boot partition at all so where would Grub and the kernel be? This is fine. The kernel and GRUB don't have to live on their own partition. I just put Debian on my new laptop, and it partitioned my disk the same way, because I just didn't feel like fooling with all those partitions yesterday. It is working flawlessly today, and I don't have to worry about outgrowing any of my partitions, although I was a little partial to /boot having /dev/hda1 as well. PRINCE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: c++ hello world help
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Thus spake Kevin Mark:
# gcc works with C programs.
# but c++ programs cant find the libs.
# =
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# ~/cpluscplus\% cat page23.cpp
# #include iostream.h
# int main() { cout Hello, World!\n; return 0; }
Try this instead:
#include iostream
using namespace std;
int main() { cout Hello, World!\n; return 0; }
This should solve your problems.
HTH and HAND,
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Trying to have some fun with fbgetty but it doesn't work
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to have a little fun with fbgetty. I want it to play a beep sound whenever I switch to a new tty that has a login prompt. However, I keep getting permission denied errors on /dev/dsp or connect failures in alsa instead of beeps. I tried 'ps aux |grep fbgetty' and it says it is running as root. I tried putting `whoami` in /etc/issue and that tells me it is runing as fbgetty. But when I add fbgetty to the audio group, I still get the same errors. The only thing I have been able to do to get the beeps to play is to chmod 666 /dev/dsp which I would rather avoid if possible. What other things could I try to get fbgetty to play a beep. I actually have a blind friend who would greatly benefit from such a beep, and it really would be a lot of fun on my own machine as well. Thanks for any help, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAs5rKAl2SNUPt1I8RApeaAJ92c3vJ6yVfw88ucsabqXKR13y9jACfRS+f vR2TdmS3f9DSwnir5xSjSis= =DA/Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian, rpm and corporate world
Thus spake dircha: # Paul Johnson wrote: # What's wrong with, Make me a Debian package or lose a customer? # # I'd venture to guess: # We're sorry, but we can not presently justify the costs of maintaining a # Debian port. Perhaps if one of our larger customers express an interest # in it... If an ISV really had to maintain packages of their proprietary software for every possible distro their customers may be using it probably would be quite time consuming. Actually, probably the best way for an ISV to distribute their proprietary software would be in something like makeself or their own proprietary equivalent. It could be made to check for its dependencies based on the files (not packages) installed on the system, and it could even automatically download and/or install the packages it needs based on the distro if they so desire. This would truly be a cross-distro package. It wouldn't have to rely on a distro, debian or otherwise, to be properly installed and fully functional. This would be by far the best way for vendors to release their software, because it wouldn't matter what Linux their customers are using. PRINCE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mingetty refuses to run on /dev/tty[1-6]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am using mingetty to run login in my virtual terminals. As of last night, whenever I boot the system, mingetty refuses to allocate the virtual terminals. I tried using rungetty, and it will open the ttys, but it refuses to run login or any other program. Rungetty refuses to run its login in any tty, whereas mingetty will run login in tty1 but refuses to open any other tty. I am also running ledcontrol, and whenever I restart ledd it opens /dev/tty[2-6] but mingetty and rungetty still refuse to run logins in those ttys. - From the look of things, getty works normally, but I prefer mingetty or rungetty, as they are for consoles only, so they are smaller and run faster, and I don't have anything other than virtual consoles that need gettys. Here is a listing of the permissions of the first 6 ttys: crw---1 lorenzo tty4, 1 May 23 17:08 /dev/tty1 crw---1 root root 4, 2 May 23 09:50 /dev/tty2 crw---1 root tty4, 3 May 21 21:41 /dev/tty3 crw---1 journee tty4, 4 May 22 13:02 /dev/tty4 crw---1 root root 4, 5 May 21 07:19 /dev/tty5 crw---1 root root 4, 6 Apr 30 15:13 /dev/tty6 So it looks like the ttys are retaining the ownership of their logins before this problem started. However, some ttys are still root.tty and mingetty still refuses to open them. Changing the ownership of /dev/tty[1-6] doesn't work either. Since I try to reboot my system as little as possible, I'm not sure exactly when this problem actually started. There are no error messages regarding ttys in dmesg, /var/log/syslog or any other log, and I couldn't find a log for mingetty or rungetty, which also produce no errors. I installed udev yesterday before I noticed the problem. Naturally, it was the first package I suspected when I noticed it. So I removed udev, but the problem persists. I tried mounting /dev using devfs, and mingetty will open /dev/vc/*, but a lot of other things are broken because of the relocations and name changes of devices in the devfs filesystem, and devfsd doesn't solve this problem. So I took a rescue CD I happen to have on hand and fixed /etc/fstab so that it would no longer mount /dev as devfs, and since I had mounted devfs over the existing /dev, the original /dev remained unbroken except for my mingetty problem. Could udev have messed up my ttys so that mingetty can't open them as virtual consoles? If so, what do I need to do to remake those devices? Thanks for any help, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAsVNOAl2SNUPt1I8RAm3/AJ4pXaAKRx2eEvufKBkyoteXppr+KgCfVbJT SQB+VZM6pnnreZ7DEieDDHg= =vigq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Can rpm packages from other linux distribution be used on Debian?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Rick: # #rpm -ivh myproduct-xxx-xx.rpm # the program will prompt: myproduct need perl 5.6, and the bash must be installed # In fact,the 2 debian packages has been installed,I think rpm command will read info from only rpm DB on debian. This is generally not recommended, but the easiest thing to do would be to simply add the --nodeps option on the command line: rpm -ivh myproduct-xxx-xx.rpm --nodeps If all dependencies are installed in Debian, you will find that the newly installed RPM package will run flawlessly. The RPM dependency check is only done at install time, not at runtime. The package will also be uninstalled properly without complaining about dependencies: rpm -e myproduct HTH, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFApSOnAl2SNUPt1I8RAgilAJ95ku4xjb1QBgQg29xyMAhVuUmNjQCfdhkS 6jV/7y+kHNT1zpEttmkWKlE= =lbVA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cd and floppy disk use
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Douglas Pollard: # I've installed Debian Woody 3.0r2 and I'm trying to import files on cd and floppy disk. I keep getting permission denied. # How do I give myself as user permission to use these drives. Be sure your user name is listed in groups floppy and disk. Floppy will give you access to the floppy disk and disk will give you access to the cdrom. Also be sure the user option is set in /etc/fstab for both devices. This will allow a normal user to mount and unmount them. Note that only the user who mounts the device can unmount it, which keeps other users from unmounting your floppy or cd drive after you have mounted it. HTH HAND, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAlRwkAl2SNUPt1I8RAt2bAJ9XkglDrdaIprFpPI+cE6mVsEJ1CQCfa5JV /a9vVnTlW4IY9gkCyTX5lzY= =5jZP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cd and floppy disk use
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Chris Metzler: # No. Instead of disk, you meant to say group cdrom. Assign users # to group cdrom so that they can access the cdrom device. # # Group disk has write access to all the raw disk devices (/dev/hd* and # /dev/sd*). Assigning users to group disk is both dangerous and a # security risk. Sorry. I may need to change my /dev/hdc group then. ls -l /dev/cdrom shows: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 11 Mar 23 19:23 /dev/cdrom - /dev/cdrom0 ls -l /dev/cdrom0 shows: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root8 Mar 27 20:59 /dev/cdrom0 - /dev/hdc and ls -l /dev/hdc shows: brw-rw1 root disk 22, 0 Feb 3 07:28 /dev/hdc This is where I got 'disk' for the group to put users into. But I see now that /dev/hd* is group 'disk'. However, only my /dev/pktcdvd0 (udf packet writing to CDRW) is group 'cdrom'. And group 'cdrom' doewn't mention 'disk' and 'disk' doesn't mention 'cdrom'. Is this a problem? Do I need to change something? This is how Debian set it up for me. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAlVG2Al2SNUPt1I8RAnplAJ4uINcGtCme7k1iWz2OM7wWwFvzpwCff1L1 UtKEBpf9+UiWNpHuqQxCSYY= =Nff9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Suddenly no keyboard?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I did the latest upgrade earlier this evening, which installed a new version of locales. All was fine for about an hour or so, until my keyboard locked and the scroll lock, which had been blinking for new mail messages I hadn't read yet, (mailleds), stayed on and didn't blink off, (total keyboard meltdown). I was able to use the power button to shut down the system properly, thanks to ACPI, but when I powered up again, the numlock turned on of its own free will as soon as the boot loader (grub) was run, and then, when I selected my kernel, (2.6.5-1-k7), the keyboard just simply melts down again and I get message like: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (raw set 0, code 0x0 on isa0060/serio1). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes 00 keycode' to make it known. atkbd.c: Keyboard on isa0060/serio1 reports too many keys pressed. This kernel-image package was recently upgraded, but didn't change the end result, (still a total meltdown of the keyboard). I am logged into this machine using ssh now, as it is the only thing that lets me type on it. What can I do to solve this problem? Is my keyboard bad? My BIOS? Locales? Why such a sudden and complete meltdown? Thanks for any help, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAi0FoAl2SNUPt1I8RAlHDAKCHNMDKDQTA5JtZhdthFx44XzoRawCfVaS4 E2WqLX3QPvYdz1HOIjyvaek= =gkM1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The Traps Of Linux...open Source Software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # The Traps Of Linux...open Source Software # A scandalous book published on-line # Just look at this... I looked at this, and it is clear that the author doean't grasp the concept of Open Source at all. He makes this especially plain in chapter II when he tells of his friends' use of PHPNuke to improve a web site for his online newspaper. He makes the mistaken assumption that since his friends made the site using Open Source software that neither he nor they own the copyright to the site itself. He seems to make this the basis for his whole book, when in fact, the actual content of the site belongs legally to the creator of that content and it is only the software that is free for all to use. He also seems to be making the point that there can never be commercial apps for Linux because the Linux kernel is under the GPL license. Wrong again. Just look at Oracle, which in the enterprise is touted as one of the best, if not the best, database system available. And Oracle is definitely not the only commercial software out there for Linux. The conclusion he probably would have come to, if he had researched Open Source more thoroughly, is that the operating system is free for all to use, as are the development tools, and thus greatly reduces the production costs involved in making commercial software. My conclusion is that either this author works for Microsoft, or he is simply terribly missguided, so much so that I stopped reading somewhere in the middle of chapter II. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAiS2IAl2SNUPt1I8RAoV8AJ97q+2LSZoaQLGqma5B/2CKA8hwMQCaAkzv ukq7uSzQZruw9Al1rUnfNWI= =uGcw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
recompiled kernel, now no framebuffer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have just recompiled the latest 2.6.5 kernel to use the pktcdvd patch. The patch works great. However, my framebuffer is totally disabled. If I try to use vga=791 on the kernel command line, I get a blank screen. I know that it is still working because I hear the hard drive spinning, I set up a procmail recipe to sound whtn I get mail and that works and if I blindly login and type startx the x-window system works normally. However, there is no video at the console at all. Note that I don't normally use x-windows so this does me little good. All I have done was to add the pktcdvd patch so that the kernel works with udftoold, which, IMHO should have already been done by the kernel maintainers as it is needed by an existing Debian package in the unstable archive and copied /boot/config-2.6.5-1-k7 to .config at the top of the kernel source tree and ran make oldconfig. I compared the two config files and the *only* difference is the set of options added by the pktcdvd patch. But the console video works in kernel-image-2.6.5-1-k7 and it doesn't work in kernel-image-2.65-1-k7-pktcdvd (created by make-kpkg). What step did I miss to make my console video work in this kernel? My make-kpkg command line was as follows: make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version -k7-pktcdvd --revision 2.6.5-1 - --arch-in-name buildpackage There is no indication of any problem until I try to boot with the vga=791, or any other vga boot parameter. Thanks for any help, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAhhrLAl2SNUPt1I8RAs4nAJ91d3/s9yr7Wu+IzLSolBzn+syXswCcC/Lz yaHFzOgIJz7E2WgilagCu20= =Db9G -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: anyone gotten udftools to work with CDRW?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Kirk Lowery: # I am exactly where you are in this process. The word is that packet # writing support in *not* in the main kernel source tree for 2.6.x and # that you must patch the sources and compile a custom kernel. Which raises one of two rather interesting, and perhaps important questions: a) Why does Debian include a package that doesn't work with any of the kernels it provides? or b) Why are stock Debian kernels not built with the proper patches to handle all the included packages? I don't really have a problem with compiling a custom kernel, except for the fact that every time there is an upgrade I would have to do it again if I want to keep testing the latest kernels as I'm doing now. I just find it odd that packages are included in Debian that don't work with Debian kernels or that the Debian kernel isn't built to handle all packages that are included with Debian. Just my thoughts, and I'm not saying either that I won't create the correct kernel package that can handle udftools if someone will help me get it into Debian. If I can get this package into Debian, I might not be able to patch both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, but I would be happy to patch all available versions of 2.6 kernels, assuming of course that they will all accept the patch. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAfz8xAl2SNUPt1I8RAqDFAKCC8BQFAOQVpzLB+LDemhtusYJSuACcDm6e W3Nn6aR0CzehK7wOngDWy4w= =gmjF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anyone gotten udftools to work with CDRW?
Hi. I have an Artec WRR-4048 CDRW drive at /dev/hdc (linked to by /dev/cdrom.) This drive supports packet writing mode according to cdrecord. However, when I try to setup udftools, I get an error message that says: prince:~# /etc/init.d/udftools start Starting support for udftools packet writing: pktcdvd0=hdcpg: pg version 1.02, major 97 pga: Autoprobe failed pg: No ATAPI device detected open packet device: No such device or address . I also tried running pktsetup directly with the same result for both /dev/hdc and /dev/cdrom. I have tried putting both /dev/hdc and /dev/cdrom into /etc/default/udftools and I get the same error. I have also tried simply using mkudffs to make a udf filesystem on a blank CDRW. If I do that, I get this message: trying to change type of multiple extents This again happens whether I use /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc. I am running kernel-image-2.6.5-1-k7 and udftools-1.0.0b3-1. Has anyone been able to get this to work? If so, what did you do? Is there a certain module I need to load besides ide-cd? Is there something else I missed somewhere? Thanks for any help, PRINCE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
SSL error in lynx browser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whenever I go to a secure site in lynx I get the following seemingly harmless error: SSL error:Can't find common name in certificate-Continue? (y) I say that the error seems harmless because if I hit y or any other key except n, it continues and displays the page as it should with no further problems untill I go to the next secure link when it presents the same error message. I just need to know which part of SSL may be misconfigured that may be causing this error and how I can fix it. I am running Debian Sid with lynx 2.8.5-1 and openssl 0.9.7d-1. Thanks for any help, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAeIiaAl2SNUPt1I8RAkm6AJ9sXlujBNHw3ugfcn6ytbZteKhuvQCeN1qF ANkM92mRKEAlalWW45qX7bw= =rkOL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RPMs on debian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Phil: # Is there a way to install RPMs on Debian? Two ways I can think of: 1) apt-get install alien alien --to-deb package.rpm 2) mkdir /var/lib/rpm rpm --initdb then install the package with rpm -i package.rpm --nodeps If you have committed yourself to maintaining some RPMs and have since migrated to Debian as I have, this option will allow you to continue building RPMs on Debian (using rpmbuild -ba specfile.spec --nodeps) on Debian. HTH, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAbPYiAl2SNUPt1I8RAqXsAJ9+NYlzymBsL/h98bTgqyaDZB/s7QCfd8CK cxhHtuBlJGQq2GSAVEXpykQ= =v/FO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[solved] Re: problems mounting MS-DOS floppy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake CW Harris: # Strange. I guess because the (vfat,msdos?) module is loaded it will try # that type as a normal user? I am guessing that msdos is a loadable # kernel module. Well, after mounting a floppy as vfat, lsmod showed vfat, msdos and fat as loaded modules in the kernel. # Anyway, I think what you want is to put vfat or msdos into # /etc/filesystems, this will cause the mount to try these additional # types on a mount of an auto type. (man mount, search for # /etc/filesystems). Note vfat is the windows format with long filename # support. Worked like a charm. Thanks. So I guess technically, I could put vfat in either /etc/filesystems or /etc/modules, but since a module loader is being used, /etc/filesystems is the best choice. Anyway, I tried putting vfat in /etc/filesystems and then ran rmmod fat rmmod msdos rmmod vfat Then I logged in as a normal user and mount /floppy Now all is well and the module is loaded automatically. Thanks much, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAaTWKAl2SNUPt1I8RArvFAJ9et+0GRqvyib6VyjZKF6zn/0/F7wCeOsLb 9rADF55846BrjIDh6gsRl/M= =iQmv -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems mounting MS-DOS floppy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Paul E Condon: # I'm curious about this advice. I'm running Sarge. I don't find a file /etc/filesystems # on my computer. Is there a package that I failed to install? Which one? I don't think it's part of a package. I had to create it. It works though. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAagQzAl2SNUPt1I8RAmj8AJ0YVLRgohf8XUA9eP8QDmZgB8gzkACfXNik STXZqPBkjpdZN3dt5tpK730= =4Mgt -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problems mounting MS-DOS floppy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am trying to mount an MS-DOS floppy disk. I get the following error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /floppy mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Here is the relevant info from /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0/floppy autorw,user,noauto 0 0 But wait... It gets better! Now, if I run mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy as root and then unmount it and rerun mount /floppy from my normal user account, it seems to solve the problem, at least for a short time. Is this a bug? Is there a work-around for this strange behaviour? I know there are the mtools commands, but I want to be able to run Unix commands on the files as if they are on the system rather than copying to the Unix tree, running the necessary commands and then copying the files back to the floppy, which is what it seems mtools would make me have to do. I also tried dosemu as an option, and it let me access the files and run DOS commands on them including a rather nice edit command, but it was extremely slow. Any ideas or fixes are welcome. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAaRwSAl2SNUPt1I8RAvmgAKCGfuyfWCUF21NiCuZZ2Ob/Rfut9wCfWZXZ D/TFZRt6apqyFXBPujPJKC4= =opo2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Messages to list
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Michael Satterwhite: # There seems to be more spam showing up in the debian lists than I've seen in # others. Does this list allow non-subscribers to post to it - or is it just # that the spammers are joining mailing lists? Non-subscribers are allowed to post to debian-user. Not sure about any of the other Debian lists. I see messages every day that say something like I'm not subscribed to the list so please cc me in your reply. But I am only subscribed to debian-user, so I can't assume any other Debian lists allow non-subscribers to post. Also, non-subscribers can post to debian-user in a number of ways. Some simply send mail to the list email address. Others use a news2mail kind of site to send messages. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAZu9HAl2SNUPt1I8RAo1jAJ9ybUC/16Z9OqD3B0YphmMoRdz1MwCgjrSZ yObnk13Ft/x6I6wjjsp/t9w= =oTq3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
removed apmd but it still seems to be there
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am using acpi in place of apm because it allows me to press the power button to shutdown the computer. I can easily accidentally press the power button, so it is good to have it go through the shutdown sequence or even do nothing instead of powering down without performing the shutdown actions, which could possibly corrupt my filesystem. Well, here's the deal. I turned acpi on in the boot loader and removed apmd, but the system is still trying to use apm. I tried removing powermgmt-base, but doing so would remove the entire gnome system. What can I do to fix this problem? PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAZvWGAl2SNUPt1I8RAqT5AJ9OWLc1A3zMf0pHUCNxa2n9dIwtkACfdzLb 6Gbc6J8C0yTKC1TS+K8GmLA= =/aga -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: removed apmd but it still seems to be there
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Andreas Janssen: # What exactly does still trying to use apm mean? Well, I am guessing that's what it's doing when it prints to the console and dmesg the following error message: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. It also prints a fatal error to the console saying that when it is trying to insert the apm module that there is no such device. But that isn't sent to dmesg. I apologize. I guess I should have clarified what is happening a little better. # Does it try to use the apm driver instead of the acpi driver? Not exactly. It seems to keep trying to load the apm driver even though the acpi driver is already loaded. # Did you compile apm support as a module, or into the kernel? I am currently running a stock 2.6.4 kernel which has apm compiled as a module. # Did you try the apm=off boot parameter? Yes. No luck. Same thing happens. # Did you rerun lilo after changing the config file? I actually decided to try grub, so I didn't have to run anything after changing the config file. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAZxynAl2SNUPt1I8RAi+OAJ9mGQVpUsegyBr+OOUOtul4bN/9pQCcCd26 n11HokQeEhf14XWwDHdT5zc= =w/Wn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: removed apmd but it still seems to be there
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Alexis Huxley: # How did you remove apm? (precise commands please). apt-get --purge remove apmd # How do you know that the system is still trying to use apm? apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. sent to /var/log/messages and dmesg command. The same lines are printed to the console along with a fatal error inserting /lib/modules/2.6.4-1/.../apm.ko no such device message. The last message isn't sent to /var/log/messages or dmesg. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAZyTZAl2SNUPt1I8RAspIAJ9wJFErcMHrONarKKqJgZCONVnXSACgiqKY iHXhzd1kAUyNy6Y1GAjAi+M= =ZUBW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: removed apmd but it still seems to be there
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Rajesh Menon: # did you remove the apm packages? u have removed the apm argument from # lilo, and since you have built it in as a module, is it still there in # /etc/modutils (i'm not sure how this would make a difference if apm is # removed, but its worth a shot?) I have removed the apmd package and there never was an apm boot parameter, so I added apm=off to my boot parameters. I just tried removing /etc/modutils/apm and I will see how that goes, although like you, I don't see how that could be causing the problem if a) acpi is enabled and b) apm is explicitly disabled. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAZ0ljAl2SNUPt1I8RAqlKAJ9GXWBGcWZNG+lOPNQlyuv6qVUjiACfdJyT UsuBkLKfED2aonOagiumABM= =ZLtR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: weather reporting program in debian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Kevin Mark: # So, why do you want to install a program that is already available as a # debian package? # If you can provide a reasonable answer, then install it. The weather program is a demo stript that gives an example of how to use expect. In Red Hat and Fedora, this example program is either placed or linked in /usr/bin. Careful examination of my system which has expect installed shows thatthe weather script as well as all other expect example scripts are located in the more appropriate /usr/share/doc/expect/examples directory where they can more easily be found. If you want to use the weather script, there is no need to install an alien package. Simply ln -s /usr/share/DOC/expect/examples/weather /usr/bin Sorry for the late reply on this one, but it actually took me this long to find the relevant info. ;-) HTH, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAYgNfAl2SNUPt1I8RAhzcAJ0XMjh9R5kaj661BOUUD6p4mZydgQCdF1dk ctsqQuiC81+e7KjGKLFPg8E= =3Xaa -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apt-get update always ign mentors.debian.net
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried to add mentors.debian.net to my apt sources.list. I followed the instructions which said I need to add deb http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free to /etc/apt/sources.list and execute apt-get update But when I do this, I get lines of output that look like this: Ign http://mentors.debian.net unstable/main Release mentors.debian.net suggests that the packages fall in the unstable release, but that isn't a problem since I am running Debian unstable. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXvEQAl2SNUPt1I8RAkqnAJ946lK6pQf3uK12j3zdu/skgVwRGwCffytt qMwNsneshsYoyeWJpf6lFvY= =E+WZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get update always ign mentors.debian.net
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Colin Watson: # Ign http://mentors.debian.net unstable/main Release # # That shouldn't be a problem, should it? It looks like one. All the other sites in my sources.list say hit at the beginning of the line. And no package in mentors.debian.net is accessible using apt. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXwaNAl2SNUPt1I8RAi6xAJ9GQJ+v1hE16oTeFyvz7WkvFpm8FQCdHztE JGnUy7zv173MaXzT/WFrQ3k= =BL+M -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Solved] Re: apt-get update always ign mentors.debian.net
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Colin Watson: # A missing Release file is still not usually a problem. What does it say # for Packages? Packages always says get at the beginning of eadh line. I think I found the problem. I was trying to download libvorbis-header-perl, which was once on mentors.debian.net. On closer inspection of the repository, it seems as though that libvorbis-header-perl has been removed from mentors.debian.net, and is also unavailable from from an official mirror as well. Sorry for the confusion. It does look as though everything that is currently on mentors.debian.net is now showing up in apt. Thanks for the help, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAX30+Al2SNUPt1I8RAgcUAJ0X/RGR9sE6HUTRF7vAmNkx8put3QCeO+H6 7KNwKp/zsfRiGt32wFxs3Pg= =LNXk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which package creates /etc/environment?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Phil Edwards: # Because 'dpkg -S' can't find it. A little Googling indicated that your shell may look at it after /etc/profile. But from what I can see, no package actually creates it. It may have been created by a script invoked by you or by a program you installed from sources, but it isn't listed in any packages maintained in Debian. # And more to the point, what's looking at that file? It isn't my login shell, # it isn't any of the setup files that it looks at (.bashrc and so forth). Again, Googling suggested that some shell (not specified in the pages I found) look at it. However, whatever shell looks at it looks at /etc/profile first. # But the variables in that file are getting set somehow, and I'd like to # know how, and what's going to someday break if it gets removed. AFAIK, all the system-wide environment variables in Debian (using BASH as the login shell) are set in /etc/profile, /etc/bashrc and possibly in the scripts in /etc/profile.d. AFAIK, nothing will break if you remove the file, unless it is part of a package you compiled yourself. Nothing at all in Debian itself should break if you remove the file. HTH, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAW4I3Al2SNUPt1I8RAswXAJ9x1oEp/kzf1E89q6Oc/hZJS3KIZwCfaulH mI9aZx13+7fETLJCEznvZTA= =OfG9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ide-scsi emulation not working
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Kent West: # I've gotten a new Dell with a cdburner; the burner works fine in WinXP # (yech!), but I can't seem to get it working in Debian. # snip # I'm running sid, with a stock 2.6.3-1-686 kernel. snip # ide_scsi 15236 0 I am not running a 2.6.3 kernel, so I am going only on what I have read on this and other lists. The way I understand it, ide-scsi is unnecessary in all kernels 2.6.0 and later. Use ide-cd only and specify the burner device as /dev/cdrom (or whatever you specify to read the CD in that drive. This will work in cdrecord and should work in any app that is a frontend to cdrecord. Not sure about cdrdao and its frontends though. HTH, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWE3aAl2SNUPt1I8RAl6MAJ9cs+rEcmX8bxi89ZokSVb6lQHzVgCggmoP 44CCeDb3z0LZAxzsxIEy2Ns= =qd05 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mldonkey-server broken in Sid?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Haim Ashkenazi: # http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237193 Thanks very much for the pointer to this bug. It worked like a charm. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWFZkAl2SNUPt1I8RAlQ2AJ48Jjl2jZBSk/crOg9SRRhYFdu4TgCbBTXB 5jyIl3zZal+pynxUpEgvn9w= =QV19 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mldonkey-server broken in Sid?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Haim Ashkenazi: # If you hadn't done so already, install apt-list-bugs. this will show you # the bugs (if any) of every package you install. I just went to the debaday livejournal page posted in an email that arrived just before this one. Apt-listbugs was listed on that page and I installed it. Thanks again for the pointer. Apt-listbugs is a really good tool. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWHMMAl2SNUPt1I8RApDRAJ9bIBEW74vn/PmuKVHK6XwCRyl4TgCghVj9 tEGJ+Vc8TDkYUdb0OHKq0sE= =COnk -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie question: moving from RedHat to Debian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Roland Dunn: # - On RedHat /etc/rc.d/init.d/ was where you could find scripts to start/stop # apache, samba, etc where is this on Debian? /etc/init.d # - Also on RedHat you could use chkconfig to setup such a script to restart # on reboot - is there an equivalent for Debian? I think update-rc.d (as root) will do what you need. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWN6CAl2SNUPt1I8RAlpxAJ0ReJ8sCrzEA+f457XYUmBxDb+bGACfUcAz 9xhOQffa0sWsTtxkJPRv32g= =b1IQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mldonkey-server broken in Sid?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have installed mldonkey-server on my Sid system. I followed all the steps in the package configuration and told it to run as a ystem service at startup. However, I can never access either the web or telnet interfaces. All indications are that the program isn't even running, although running /etc/init.d/mldonkey-server start provides the following output: Starting MLDonkey: mlnet. I can't seem to figure what is wrong, only that it doesn't work at all. Could it be that the package is broken in Sid? Should I send this as a bug report? Thanks for any help, PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAVyYpAl2SNUPt1I8RApHmAJ4yMOHWxMj0enutGEgwI8wAfuvdCQCfaXPB bleSOCYyGjb5pBC7YCRMN1Q= =gmhG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mldonkey-server broken in Sid?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thus spake Remi Vanicat: # Everything seem normal. Seems perfectly normal when I start the system service. No indication of any errors. No indication that anything at all may be wrong except that there is never a pid for mlnet or mldonkey_server. # what do telnet localhost 4000 do ? telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused # and what is at the http://localhost:4080 url ? Nothing. The browser can't connect. PRINCE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAV9HMAl2SNUPt1I8RAvYqAKCJg7BB+EBx7dnER3u4GZ4OFcZdGgCgiqpG 9ozE70tl1pxOMoQCsObTQo4= =kFKD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problems with tty's (especially tty3)
I am having problems with my tty's. For some reason, most of my tty's, except tty1, are slow to recycle after logout. Tty3 is especially slow, and sometimes doesn't recycle at all. It just hangs and I get an error message every 5minutes that says: INIT: Id 3 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes I can't deallocvt the tty because it says tty3 is busy. I have also tried manually running getty on tty3 and even changing runlevels, both to no avail. I am running the getty in util-linux version 2.12-6 in Debian unstable. Does anyone know how I can fix this problem once it occurs, and more importantly, how I can keep it from even happening? Thanks for any help, PRINCE signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Problems with Proftpd
I have setup Proftpd as an anonymous ftp server. However, only telnet and the ftp command seem to be able to connect to it. I have tried lynx, lftp and ncftp and they all give me error messages like delaying before reconnect, alert, can't access document and other such cryptic errors. I simply uncommented the anonymous ~ftp section including the part that allows an incoming directory. And I can login to the server using the ftp command as well as using telnet. How can I fix it so all clients can connect? Thanks for any help, PRINCE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
