What to do with a tape drive?
(Please CC all replies to me)
Hi,
I've just installed a new tape drive, but I can find no
documentation on how to use it. Do I just write cron jobs to
tar -zcvf {files} /dev/sct0 ?
and how do I do incremental backups and restores, please?
Thanks,
Matthew
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Tape problems
(pls cc replies to me) Hi, I have a TR5 drive, which I think is on /dev/st0, but using mt on it just gives: /dev/st0 Input/Output error sysklogd shows: target did not report SYNC. Any ideas? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
MP3 encoder
please Cc to Me Hi all, Things like cdgrip say and your favourite mp3 encoder, or default to lamer - but I can find to evidence of a mp3 encoder in the archive. Can anyone help me out? Thanks -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Glide packages
please cc all replies to me Hi, are the glide libraries packaged for debian? It seems that at one point mesag3-glide and mesag-glide-dev were available, but no longer. Or am I missing something? Thamks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Linking problems
Hi all,
More compiliation problems I'm afraid: I'm trying to get this
simple program to compile. It produces an object file OK, but ld
complains:
cannot open -lMesaGL: no such file or directory.
This is confusing, given I have mesage-dev installed, and libMesaGL.a is
next to libMesaGLU.a in the directory, which ld seems to find fine.
Mystified is,
Matthew
-Makefile
hello: helloworld.c
gcc helloworld.c -o hello -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/include/GL \
-L/usr/lib -lglut -lMesaGLU -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXmu -lX11 -lMesaGl
-helloworld.c
#include stdio.h
#include GL/glut.h
void display(void)
{
glClear( GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
glColor3f(0.0, 1.0, 0.0);
glBegin(GL_POLYGON);
glVertex3f(2.0, 4.0, 0.0);
glVertex3f(8.0, 4.0, 0.0);
glVertex3f(8.0, 6.0, 0.0);
glVertex3f(2.0, 6.0, 0.0);
glEnd();
glFlush();
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
printf(hello world\n);
glutInit(argc, argv);
glutInitDisplayMode ( GLUT_SINGLE | GLUT_RGB | GLUT_DEPTH);
glutInitWindowPosition(100,100);
glutInitWindowSize(300,300);
glutCreateWindow (square);
glClearColor(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0); // black background
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); // setup viewing projection
glLoadIdentity(); // start with identity matrix
glOrtho(0.0, 10.0, 0.0, 10.0, -1.0, 1.0); // setup a 10x10x2 viewing world
glutDisplayFunc(display);
glutMainLoop();
return 0;
}
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FAQ: realaudio player?
I can't find one in the archive Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: compiling simple program
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Uwe Behrens wrote: Hope that helps ;-) Thanks. I now get a bit further sigh Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home2/mcv21/programming/x/gl make hello gcc helloworld.c -o hello -I/usr/include -I/usr/X11R6/include \ -L/usr/lib -lm -lglut -lMesaGLU -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXmu -lX11 -lXext -lMesaGL \ -lMesaGLw /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to `XGetExtensionVersion' /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to `XFreeDeviceList' /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to `XQueryDeviceState' /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to `XListInputDevices' /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to `XFreeDeviceState' /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to `XOpenDevice' /usr/lib/libglut.so: undefined reference to `XSelectExtensionEvent' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [hello] Error 1 -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: compiling simple program
On 23 Apr 1999, Kenneth MacDonald wrote: Try putting the -lMesaGL and -lMesaGLw before the X stuff. I've just moved them around, and it makes no difference to the error messages. Thanks anyway, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
GTK probs again
Hi all,
please cc to me
Having solved my previous problems, I'm having problems with
g_print - it always blocks. The following code compiles fine, but when the
button is pressed, the thing just hangs, and has to be kill -9ed. Any
ideas?
compiled with gcc hello.c -o hello `gtk-config --cflags --lib`
Matthew
#include gtk/gtk.h
void hello(GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data)
{
g_print(Hello World\n);
}
gint delete_event(GtkWidget *widget, GdkEvent *event, gpointer data)
{
g_print (delete event occurred\n);
return(TRUE);
}
void destroy(GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data)
{
gtk_main_quit();
}
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
GtkWidget *window;
GtkWidget *button;
gtk_init(argc, argv);
window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (window), delete_event, GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC
(delete_event), NULL);
gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (window), destroy, GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC
(destroy), NULL);
gtk_container_border_width (GTK_CONTAINER (window), 10);
button = gtk_button_new_with_label (Hello World);
gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (button), clicked, GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (hello),
NULL);
gtk_signal_connect_object (GTK_OBJECT (button), clicked, GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC
(gtk_widget_destroy), GTK_OBJECT (window));
gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), button);
gtk_widget_show (button);
gtk_widget_show (window);
gtk_main();
return(0);
}
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NFS mount probs
Hi, I have a couple of nfs servers mounted on /sunsite and /nymph. Unfortunatly, when either server goes down, things stop working - bash I think reads its parent directories, and so if it can't read /nymph and /sunsite, it tries lots of times and fails. If this behaivour can't be modified in /etc/fstab, then is this a bug? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
talkd doesn't work
Hi all, I just updated things to potato, and now talkd doesn't work - I runnign in.talkd and in.ntalkd doesn't stop me getting no talk daemon on pick.sel.cam.ac.uk errors. Where should the talk daemons be started? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
GTK problems - not compiling
Hi all,
I grabbed this from the gtk tutorial page, but it won't compile:
it complains that gtk_signal_connect is undefined (I think this is a
linker problem). I'm compiling with
gcc helloworld.c -o hellowword `gtk-config --cflags --libs`
Any ideas? (please Cc)
Source is:
#include gtk/gtk.h
void hello(GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data)
{
g_print(Hello World\n);
}
gint delete_event(GtkWidget *widget, GdkEvent *event, gpointer data)
{
g_print (delete event occurred\n);
return(TRUE);
}
void destroy(GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data)
{
gtk_main_quit();
}
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
GtkWidget *window;
GtkWidget *button;
gtk_init(argc, argv);
window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (window), delete_event, GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC
(delete_event), NULL);
gtk_signal_connnect (GTK_OBJECT (window), destroy, GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC
(destroy), NULL);
gtk_container_set_border_width (GTK_CONTAINER (window), 10);
button = gtk_button_new_with_label (Hello World);
gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (button), clicked, GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (hello),
NULL);
gtk_signal_connect_object (GTK_OBJECT (button), clicked, GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC
(gtk_widget_destroy), GTK_OBJECT (window));
gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), button);
gtk_widget_show (button);
gtk_widget_show (window);
gtk_main();
return(0);
}
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Xhost probs
Hi, This is probably a FAQ, but anyway. I'm trying to set things up so that I can run a root Xterm should I need to. The methodology is: xhost root@ su /usr/X11R6/bin/Eterm --icon-name ROOT -n ROOT --scrollbar-right -S red -b red -I /usr/X11R6/include/X11/pixmaps/bomb.xpm -e bash Unfortunatly, xhost root@ doesn't work: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 109 (X_ChangeHosts) Value in failed request: 0xfe Serial number of failed request: 8 Current serial number in output stream: 10 How do I sort this out, please? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Bizaree IPaliasing problems
Hi all, hurd.sel.cam.ac.uk (kenel 2.2.2) is IPaliasing for pick.sel.cam.ac.uk, but things don't seem to be working quite right: If I dialup from home, and ping (undre DOS) pick.sel.cam.ac.uk, I get request timed out. If I then poing hurd.sel.cam.ac.uk,m it respondes OK. If I then ping pick.sel.cam.ac.uk, then it also responds OK Can anyone suggest a reason for this? Do people have the same problems connecting to pick.sel? Please Cc replies to me. Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Cdir problems
Hi all, I use cdadd to create a record for a CD, and then run cdir, it still displays unknown cd. Strace shows that it is opening the ~/.cdtooldb file fine, but beyond that I can't tell. Any ideas? Please Cc replies to me. Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Memory Help
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Jesse Lee wrote: Why will linux only recognize half of my 128 meg of ram? It reads my swap space fine but when I look in dmesg It says it only found 64 megs RAM. Thanks in advance everyone! Hi, If you're still running kernel 2.0.x then you need to add this to lilo.conf append=mem=128M Alternatively, get yourself a shiny new 2.2.3 kernel ;) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Don Erickson wrote: Somebody (through jhb60.jaring.my) wandered into my system, set up a user account for themselves and set up a couple of programs, eggdrop and smurf. Also, upgrade your kernel when you reinstall - a notice was posted to this list a couple of days ago mentionting an exploit in 2.0.35 Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
IP-aliasing scripts - in /etc/rc.boot?
I have a little custom script set up to ipalias. I need to make it auto-run on bootup (I'm leaving the machine in a cupboard a long way from home). Can I just place it in /etc/rc.boot/ip_alias_fudge ? or do I need to do anything else. Will it be run last of all (and if not, where should I put it in order to do this?) Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: [off-topic] User Account Information
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote: I would like to write a cgi script to display to the user a listing of their usage on my system. I have the acct package installed so I can get the information from the command line, but how do I display this information to the users? If you have quotas installed, then quota -v in their .bash_profile would do the trick Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Debian Linux Install -
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Ian Keith Setford wrote: If I remember correctly, this is asking you where all the base files are stored on the disk. Now, C disk for Windows is /dev/hda for Linux, but you need to insluce the partition # as well. If you are not sure, fdisk and see where the Windows resides, but generally it's on /dev/hda1 So, for example, if you have files in C:\Debian\ then the path to it would be /dev/hda1/Debian/ Make sure that the /dev/hda1 partition is mounted or this won't work. I'm not sure if the install offers you an option of mounting a pertition though. If not, alt-f2 will get you to a new shell where you can mount it Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
NFS problems making system unusable
I have sunsite mounted via nfs on sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk I've lost the connection to sunsite (network problems elsewhere in the university), but whenever mcv21 tries to do anything that involves running a shell, I just get the error nfs: task 358 the number varies can't get a request slot and the thing just hangs: root can call up shells fine tho. The load is steadily rising as well. It's now about 8 :(. Any ideas? will unmounting /sunsite do anything, or will I just get a /sunsite: device busy message? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Further problems
the nfs server continues not to respond, still causing the same problems. Trying to umount /sunsite gets: Cannot MOUNTPROG RPC: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Timed out umount: /sunsite: device is busy The kernel logs also contain: nfs_revalidate_inode: /// getattr failed, ino=2, error=-512 Is this a kernel bug? surely a dead nfs server shouldn't cause such problems? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: root doesn't have permission?
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: What would cause root not to have permission to delete a file, directory or symlinks. There are ext2fs flags to make files undeletable. You should be careful about deleting such files; it can be done tho. What are you trying to delete? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Problems with my HD
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip My HD is a Western Digital 6.4gb drive... /dev/hda: 784 cyls, 255 heads, 63 sectors units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes deviceBootBeginstartEndBlocksIDSystem /dev/hda1 *1117 131323+ 6 Dos16-bit=32M Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys = (16,89,63) should be (16,254,63) It is telling you thet you ended the partition at 23 and fdisk wants you to end it at 16 or 89 or 63. It takes some time but you can enter them such that you don't get those pesky '+'. Alternatively, try cfdisk. It makes the whole procedure much easier Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Go \latex package?
Hi all, Is there a default place to put this? and furthermore, is there an update programme I need to run to get \latex to recognise it? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: I have PINE .debs...
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I have pine .debs if anyone wants them, let me know. I post them to my web site or email them to you, however you like. I was running mutt. But I have a soft spot for pine. It was the first email app I ever learned back in 92 when I started college. I realize that it is not GPL. But if you want them, I'll be glad to post 'em or email 'em. It's pine.deb, pico.deb (a great text editor), and pilot.deb. This is illegal, IIRC. You can't distribute modified binaries. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: lpr and text formatting
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: Thank you for forwarding me this information. I have one problem. I'm not sure where in my /etc/printcap file to put this line. My file looks like this: lp|hplj6l|HP LJ 6L:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj6l:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4l-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Please inform me as to the proper location of the line you provided below. Thank you so much. /etc/magicfileter/ljet4l-filter:\ Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Removal of idle telnet connections?
Dear all, One of my users is complaining that if he leaves sessions idle for more than about 30 mins the connection that gets dropped. I don't recall running any idled or whatever; is this a feature, and if so, how might I disable it? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Many questions
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Bon Lam wrote: 1. When I boot Linux I always get this kernel message SIOADDRT: invalid argument This is due to the route command in the network startup script. Don't worry about it. I removed the offending command, and the network stopped working :( Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Debian who?
I'm a Brand Spankin' Shinning Newbe with a Brand Spankin Shinning New Debian install using floppies, all seven of them D/Led from Debian.org, so now what? The man pages don't work. Nothing will install because of dependency errors except for joe (works great but there must be something better). Can't get the computer on the internet because that machine isn't connected and doesn't have the software, yet. Games won't install either. Really wanted to get it up and running to learn Linux, C, C++ and a few other things. Besides, I'd like to replace WinDoze95 with something I can depend on and understand how it works and maybe even tweak a little. So, what do I do now? You currently have a very minimal set of packages installed - i.e. enough to enable you to install the rest ;). You need to get some debian packages from somewhere: 1) over a fast net link (slow ones are OK, if you're not paying per minute) 2) get a debian CD (A suppliers list is on the website) Then run dselect, and pick the packages you want snip Mounting local file systems ... not mounted anything This is fine. Not a problem at all. You only have linux installed on one partition, right? local file systems would be other disk partitions that you may at some point get, and add to /etc/fstab. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Make postscipt files use less pages?
Dear all, Is it possible to make postscipt files print out with two postscript pages fitting onto one physical page (or is there an option in ghostview for this?), please? 350 pages of hurd manual could do with being shrunk before I use _all_ my paper up Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Sound working almost...
Dear all, I have got my OPL-3AX sound working under kernel 2.2.1 It plays CDs, windowmanager sounds, and quake(II) noises fine. Unfortunatly, if I cat foo.au /dev/audio, or use something like saytime, the speech comes out very low and slow (sounds like it's 1/2 speed or something). DoeS aNyBody know what the problem is, and/or what can be done to fix it? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Tex
Hate to sound stupid but just what is TeTex? What is it used for? It is latex, tex, and a bunch of add-ons. They are _the_ way to typeset documents. Combine this with a decent editor[1] and you'll produce better documents than MSWord Matthew [1]I could name one, but that might be flame-bait ;) -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: hiding sterr
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, tracheotomy bob wrote: Hi all How do I hide error messages displaying on the console? I'm trying to set up IPX and whenever I get it wrong the screen is flooded with error messages I don't know how to redirect them to either a file or /dev/null. Any suggestions would be helpful foobar 2 /dev/null IIRC (it might be 1) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Sound configuration not in initial install
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/13/99 12:09:41 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] treff.uni-koeln.de writes: Because sound in 2.0 kernels is not modular enough. IO, IRQ etc. have to be hardcoded into the kernel. Some option must not be set for some soundcard, whereas others have to be etc. Is there some reason these can't be set up in a config file so that it CAN be included in the initial installation? Seems to me hardcoding these values is against Debian's policy of allowing us to configure everything but the kitchen sink. It can probably be done when we move to 2.2.x on the boot floppies. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
RE: Sound configuration not in initial install
gain sound. I had several reasons for wanting to learn Linux but as a musician my stance quickly becomes, No sound, why bother? What is your sound card? I haven't really used Linux since October out of the hope that Slink would have the updated kernel with it's added multimedia features or that a sound utility would be added to the setup. Now with Slink pushed back for the fifth time and frozen before the new kernels release, I'm thinking that Debian will probably have to wait until next Winter when hopefully we'll have Potato. You can download the kernel sources from many mirrors, and compile your own 2.2.1 kernel (the kernel-package package makes this easy) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
CDs only playing the first track :(
Dear all, I've been playing with various CD playing utilities, and recently, they have taken to only playing the first track of my cd, and then stopping, even when I run something like cdplay 1 15 Any ideas what I've done wrong? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: CDs only playing the first track :(
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Kent West wrote: I've experienced similar symptoms in Windows95; it turned out to be a bad CD-ROM drive. HmmTHe other tracks will pay if I select them, just only one at once. sigh It's a newish drive too. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Installing Sound Card
Thanks for the reply. Is there a way to get the card setting without going to windows... My system doesn't have windows on it at all. I installed linux directly onto it. Its kind of MS free... As much as I could make it. Gain 100karma points! :) I am also pure in this regard ;), so I've had to figure out getting these settings without DOS: You want isapnptools (section base) (and possibly pciutils (section admin)). As root, run pnpdump -c foo look at foo; this should contain all the settings you want. If it is a PCI card and the above doesn't work, then try lspci -vv bar In either case, having set up the kernel OK, you'll want to move foo to /etc/isapnp.conf; this will run the script you created earlier at boot-up (and initialise the card to those settings). It's also worth looking at Documentation/sound in your linux source tree, and using the latest kernel (2.2.1) HTH, Matthew p.s a few notes on recompiling your kernel. I prefer menuconfig to xconfig (YYMV though). Either way, go through all the options systematically, and read the relevant help screens; generally try not to include too much, and consider having things as modules (I particularly recommend sound in this regard) -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: NE2000 PCI Card
The problem I have right now is that the kernel won't recognize the NE2000 PCI card. A friend and I tried autoprobing it, and making it a module and loading it after compile, but neither has worked. We also tried to forcing recognition by putting an append line into LILO, but that didn't seem to work either. Are there any other ways to get the card recognized or did we miss a step or something? Try looking with lspci to see if the kernel is finding the card at all Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Sound card suggestion
I've had absolutely no luck with sounds cards and Linux. I'm in a position to where sound isn't really important on the machines I use, but I want to hear what a penguin sounds like. eh? I used to have an Awe64 but didn't hit on the trick of patching the drivers into the source and configuring it properly. I then ran across one of those SB16 Vibra cards, but I guess you have to first configure its ISA PnP in Windows/DOS before one could use it. Well, I don't have Windows/DOS and it wasn't worth the hassle to go put it into a friend's machine and configure it. pnpdump -c is your friend in this regard I have a Yamaha OPL3-SAX, and it works fine... Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Conrado Badenas wrote: Hi all! I am trying to create a kernel-image-2.2.1 package in order to install the new kernel. I downloaded and installed kernel-source-2.2.1 and kernel-doc-2.2.1 packages, read all the files /usr/doc/kernel-source-2.2.1/* and /usr/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.1/* (except Documentation directory: 919 Kb of compressed text files), and upgraded the packages mentioned in /usr/doc/kernel-doc-2.2.1/Documentation/Changes.gz I mention that in order that I have read almost everything I should. Well, then I make menuconfig (whilst continue reading for a whole day individual files under Documentation), at the next day I make-kpkg clean and then make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image, but after one hour compiling, this appeared: You forgot kernel_headers Try make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.1. kernel_image kernel_headers Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: kernel-image-2.2.1 package cannot be created with make-kpkg
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, MacKenzie, Andrew wrote: Newbie question: I've compiled my own kernels (I am using a self-compiled 2.0.36) but use make clean make dep and make xconfig. What is make-kpkg? It's part of the kernel-package package, which is a set of scripts that make building kernels much easier - it turns your kernels into a debian package that can be installed etc, and has scripts to make boot floppies run lilo, and so on Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
CDDB updates
Is there any way to upload a record to a CDDB server (either the cddb one, or in a local record)? I have a cd in front of me that gcd refuses to play because cddb doesn't produce a match for that CD id Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: slashdot poll
you could easily go even farther than that? OK, this might be impractical, but it sounds easy... Each step could be assigned (internally) a ranking according to user knowledge: 1 = what's a computer ---to--- 10 = Linus at the beginning of the install, you rank yourself. Then, for each step, 1) Explanation is automatically offered if it ranks higher than you AND 2) a default config is assumed if it ranks higher than you. You could make it so that the explanation is also available in expert modes via a help button My worry here is that it's starting to get big Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
RE: slashdot poll
Debian's harder to install. One guy mentionned he could install Red Hat in less than 15 minutes. Hard to have something fully up at that speed with Debian. Right. I've recently tried Redhat and SuSE on a separate partition and Debian's installation is still pure stone age. Well, i guess there's still Slackware... What do people like about RH? Is it worth trying to nick parts of their install? I found it a pain - It wouldn't let me just install individual packages, though I wonder whether some of the modconf stuff could be left out for the initial install. And now imagine the power of Debian combined with an installation routine at least as convenient and user friendly like Redhat's or SuSE's. Debian would be the absolute killer! But oh well, talk is cheap... How about suggesting some improvements, rather than I don't like the Debian install? :) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Ping run-away
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Dean wrote: Just got debian up ( bare bones) and went to internet and to check I first pinged IPS, then debian.org and ping wouldn't stop. Finally got off internet by poff in another vc, ping cont. to try to send. Any suggestions on ping? Also what can I do to stop a run away like this? Man ping is your friend ;) Of course, if you've not run dselect yet, you won't have man. Anyway, ^C will stop ping and make it give you the statistics. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: slashdot poll
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Ben Messinger wrote: Pollywog wrote: Several people have told me that as newbies (first time install) they got RedHat up and on the net in 15 minutes, but I don't believe any of them. -- Andrew I recently installed RH just to see what the big deal was about. I was totally offended by the hands-off install. The hardware detection was kool, but I know my hardware anyway. When the install was complete x So perhaps we should try taking RH's hardware detection stuff? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Controlling Volume on an Audio CD?
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: I finally bought a cable to connect my sound card and cd-rom drive. I started up workbone and it sounds great! Is there a keypress or other utility that will allow me to control the volume though? I'm using a hamm system. Aumix is the best IMHO Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
RE: workman and sound
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Richard Hall wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote: I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. I really hate doing that, though. It seems like there should be a way to make /dev/audio available to me and various processes I start like workman without making it world writable and without having to do group calisthenics. The proper thing to do is to add any user that wants sound to the audio group. You stated sound worked, so I assumed it was not a permission problem. It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
RE: workman and sound
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: Here is my /dev/audio prompt$ ll /dev/audio crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Jul 20 1998 /dev/audio run 'groups' as the user. If audio appears then the above should work, it does on every one of my machines. If audio is not listed as one of your groups, as root run 'vigr' and add your user name to the end of the audio line. The logout and log back in so the group change takes effect. Also note, you need read access to /dev/hdc or whatever your cd drive is. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
RE: workman and sound
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom OK, so all I had to do was make /dev/hdc world-readable sigh Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
RE: workman and sound
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom OK, so all I had to do was make /dev/hdc world-readable sigh Matthew Again .. you do not have to change ANY permissions. Type ls -l filename.. My cdrom is on /dev/hdh so 'ls -l /dev/hdh' shows brwxrwx--- 1 root disk 34, 64 Apr 26 1998 /dev/hdh Do the samething you did with your /dev/audio groups but add yourself to the group 'disk' like so 'adduser user disk' This assumes I want to add myself to group disk, which I do not. OTOH, giving everyone read permissions to my CDROM is unlikely to cause problems ;) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
RE: slashdot poll
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 09-Feb-99 Adam Di Carlo wrote: Debian seems to be taking a beating on the recent /. poll of distributions. Have you all voted? Why is that? I just ordered a copy because I have heard good things about the distro. RH is a commercially-based distro, so they can spend loads of cash on advertising etc, so they are the most popular, despite Debian's inherantly free-er nature, and techincal superiority Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
3D software
Dear all, I want a nice (preferably simple) package to created 3D-scenes (spaceships and the like, so based on geometrical shapes), ideally with flashy raytracing and the like. Any suggestions? Processor,memory and video card no object :) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: fvwm2 menu not working
On 8 Feb 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: MCV == M C Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MCV shows an option to exit fvwm2, and nothing else. I have menu MCV installed, and the various config files in /etc/X11/fvwm2 seem to MCV be there, but a decent menu is not being generated. Any ideas? Try running update-menu as root with verbose and debug enabled to see what it does. Also make sure the user doesn't have a crippled menu or This seems to work OK fvwm config in his homedir. Start fvwm2 on your account. Same problem? It doesn't look like fvwm2 at all. No decoration on the window bars, no little thing in the corner to select virtual desktops, and the menu has only two options: builtin menu (which does nothing) and exit FVWM (not FVWM2). I have fvwm-common and fvwm2 installed OK. Also, moving windows doesn't work. It seems that something is deeply broken (I have no .fvwm2 or the like) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: fvwm2 menu not working
On 8 Feb 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: MCV == M C Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MCV shows an option to exit fvwm2, and nothing else. I have menu MCV installed, and the various config files in /etc/X11/fvwm2 seem to MCV be there, but a decent menu is not being generated. Any ideas? Try running update-menu as root with verbose and debug enabled to see what it does. Also make sure the user doesn't have a crippled menu or fvwm config in his homedir. Start fvwm2 on your account. Same problem? Ah, I did have a .fvwm2rc (to bind f9 to something), and removing that works. I'm still mystified tho Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, wb2oyc wrote: I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should avoid eating your data. If you've installed Lilo, the system will not boot, I don't believe. Any change to the geometry will render it unable to access the disk. You probably will see the dreaded LI when you try. In that case, re-running LILO should make it work with the new geometry. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: using dpkg
When I try to use dpkg -i (filename.deb) I always get something like this: cannot open /var/lib/dpkg/status You need to run dpkg -i as root. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
fvwm2 menu not working
Dear all, I use E, but one of my system's users uses fvwm2, and is complaining that the menu isn't working properly. Sure enough, the menu shows an option to exit fvwm2, and nothing else. I have menu installed, and the various config files in /etc/X11/fvwm2 seem to be there, but a decent menu is not being generated. Any ideas? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Dan Hugo wrote: Apparently, I had forgotten to change the BIOS setting back to AUTO for the IDE drive probing, which I had set up when I first found that 3.2G drive to be flaky. Ugh! #includestdisclaim.h I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should avoid eating your data. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Severe DOS under 2.2.1
Dear all, Yesterday I had the rather disconcerting happening of my machine running a massive DOS in my abscence. I have an NE2000 card, and compiled a 2.2.1 kernel at 00.05 on Thursday morning, then went to bed. I then got up at about 7am, and did some ssh. I went out at 8. About 11pm, my machine started spewing random stuff out at full wack (10Mbits per sec), causing half the college network and a router to die. Since then, it has behaved fine (plugged in behind another box incase it repeats), and there is nothing in the kernel config or any logs to suggest anything extraordinary. DoeS aNy Body have any ideas what might have caused this, or any more diagnostics I could run? Regards, Matthew And no, none of the network admins were running tcpdump at the time -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Install to another hdd?
Dear all, I have a machine which I want to install debian on. Unfortunatly, it has not floppy drive; I can see a couple of possibilities: 1: put the hdd into my working linux box, and use the rescue disks to install onto /dev/hdc (Can I then install LILO onto that hdd, and have it boot correctly when I put it into the other machine?) 2: Cross-install base-packages etc...Which packages do I need, and again, how do I run lilo on this machine? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
RE: Install to another hdd?
1. is easily doable. lilo should be happy (make sure you write to the correct hdd). How? By putting boot = /dev/hdc in lilo.conf, and then specifying /dev/hda1 as root (which is what the disk will be when it gets put in the other machine) But why not just move the floppy over to the floppy-less machine? Because the floppy-less machine is rather fussy about floppies :( Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Modules and kmod - I'm confused
Dear all, I have a shiny new 2.2.1 kernel. I'm pretty sure I've not got modules sorted properly yet tho. I'm using kmod, so the kernel should load modules on demand. Do I need to add the rmmod -a line to root's crontab, or do the debian scripts put it somewhere? Also; I got a bunch of errors like ne: unable to find module ne at startup, but this doesn't seem to have had any detrimental effect (I'm writing this through my net card, for example). Modules that need config options need to go in /etc/modules.conf, right? How do I know which ones need some config? Also, with sound, for my card the documentation has the following: insmod mpu401 insmod ad1848 insmod opl3sa2 some options here insmod opl3 io=0xfoo Now I can do putting the options to opl3sa2 and op3 in /etc/modules.conf, but do I need to load all those modules by hand, or will kmod do this for me as soon as I do anything? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Counting number of lines in a text file
I was wondering what the quickest way to count the number of records (lines) in a text file. It would be neat to do many files at once and save the output in a seperate file in the format 'filename:::#records'. wc -l will do one file. Either write a shell script, or have a look at man wc Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: error with rescue disk
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Aaron Walker wrote: hello, When I try to boot the rescue disk (to install debian 2.0), I get the following errors. Anyone know what the problem is? Almost certainly the rescue disk is shot. Download a fresh copy, and write it to a new floppy. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Pnpconf stuff
Dear all, I have compiled a shiny new 2.2.1 kernel, and want to play with my sound card :). To do this, I need (I think) to run isapnp before loading the sound module into the kernel (strictly, with the new kernel, kerneld will load it on demand, but that's another matter). So, I put the config stuff into /etc/modules.conf, but how do I get isapnp to run during boot (i.e. which script do I need to alter?) Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Where is kernel 2.2.0?
I saw the uploaded message days ago, and sunsite still doesn't have the kernel-source or kernel-headers packages available yet :( ftp.debian.org doesn't either Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: 2.0 install problems
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, ivan wrote: snip (7) Configure device driver modules (I choose to install the modules: cdrom, lp and serial) IIRC you need to include a support for filesystems here; I haven't installed in a while though - probably under block devices. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?
On 2 Feb 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Mike Garfias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | M.C. Vernon spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: | I saw the uploaded message days ago, and sunsite still doesn't have the | kernel-source or kernel-headers packages available yet :( snip It's usually a dog. I'm not sure what sunsite MC was talking about, perhaps the UK sunsite? But certainly the sunsite in the US (sunsite.unc.edu) has the new kernels via their mirror of ftp.kernel.org. Here's the URL ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/ Yes, but I was wondering about the kernel-source and kernel-headers packages. How can I make these fromt he kernel source .tar.gz? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: XFree86 Almost Working...
I am using the mach64 server and it appears to autoprobe my card OK using XF86Setup (The card isn't listed so I just left it to autoprobe the various settings). You may be better supplying what you know. If I set it up to run with 1024x768 I get 2-10seconds of flickering rolling lines and then screen suddenly starts looks OK. Is there a way of fixing this? If I try and use a lower resolution it all seems to start up cleanly. What is going on here? I put in my vert and horiz refresh rates from the monitor manual but it still seems to do this. It could be that this is the time it takes to probe your card. Try telling it things like how much memory the card has etc. I have an ATI Xpert98 card and a Dell D1028LR monitor. I am using X from a hamm distribution CD. (If any of that is relevant...) My Xpert98 works fine - I don't get this behaviour Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Tracking installs
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a nifty little program PCMag wrote for Win that tracks installations, and I'd like to have this functionality in Linux. Before I write my own, is there a utility that will do the same thing? dpkg does all of this :-) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Tracking installs
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I knew dpkg did the install, but where does it track what it did? Is there a dpkg log somewhere? dpkg -l lists packages installed. dpkg --get-selections produces an output which you could later feed to dpkg --set-selections to restore a ***ed system Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte
Re: Activating swap
How do I activate that swap? mkswap Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: Activating swap
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, dan wrote: How do I activate that swap? You need to setup the swap space first. try 'mkswap /dev/hda5'. It's the same as (only different) making a filesystem before mounting in. This will destroy all data on the drive. No, it will destroy all data on the partition. This is quite an important distinction :) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: No connect permission for the lp printer command (It's workings again!)
Yes, DEFAULT REJECT was there for a good reason. With DEFAULT ACCEPT, any arbitrary person from any arbitrary host can print to your printer. I have solved this problem by keeping DEFAULT ACCEPT at the bottom, but inserting REJECT SERVICE=XRPQ NOT SERVER above the REJECT SERVICE=CSU line (it's very important you insert it in the right spot). I believe this is fairly secure and it allows for local users printing. In that case, can I suggest you file a bug, and include this solution? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: reading /usr/doc files
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Richard Hall wrote: Is there a tool for reading the oodles of documentation in /usr/doc, or do I just have to go in there, gunzip, and more? zless /usr/doc/foo/bar.gz Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: converting numbers
If all you want is to convert to decimal, use this short C-program:
#include stdio.h
void main(int argc, char **argv)
This is undefined. main should return an int.
{
while (*++argv) printf(%s == %i\n, *argv, strtol(*argv));
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
Matthew
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Re: Browser for a slow computer?
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Daniel González Gasull wrote: Hi! Alec Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Netscape is about your only choice, other than Lynx. :-/ FWIW, you could try w3c in xemacs Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: Problem with Quake II...
On 27 Jan 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: For anyone else who is interested: 1) Quake II 3.20 seems to have fixed this problem. How do I upgrade my debian packages to 3.2 Should the maintainer do this? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: OPL3SAx sound card
Has anyone been able to get this card to work? I've tried every combination in the kernel and the best I've gotten is a series of four tones, each at a higher frequency than the last. If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. I think these cards are now properly supported in 2.2.0 If that works, then do let me know, as I've got one that I never use Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: Browser for a slow computer?
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Daniel González Gasull wrote: I already asked it some days ago. But I never saw my message or the answer in the list. I don't know why. Possibly because there is no easy answer. I'm looking for a browser for my computer, an old i486 DX2 66 MHz with 8 MB RAM. I.e. a very slow machine. Now I use Lynx, but I want a graphic browser with HTML 4.0, Java and images. Netscape is too big to install in my machine. Please, wich browser do you recommend to me? Try gzilla, or mosaic, both of which are development software. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: Help a newbie installing pine
On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Darknight wrote: I'm not sure if I missed a package when downloading hamm or something, but pine was not included, so I downloaded the newest version available from washington university. However, whenever I try to build it using the linux option, I get an error ld cannot open -ltermcap: no such file or directory. Please help if you know what I should do about this error. Thanks. Your easiest fix is to look on a debian mirror, in /project/experimental, and download pine.*. These will then build fine. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: Admin Questions
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Dan Furtney wrote: This is a bit off topic but the knowledege seems to be here so what the heck. When I did the Deb install I used the existing /home and swap areas from a RedHat installation residing on the same disk. I thought I would be able to use my /home/dan directory in Debian or RedHat. When I used adduser to create the account under Debian It recognized that the /home/dan directory existed and didn't overwrite it. The problem is that I don't have permissions for the directory from the debian account. The RedHat end is still fine. How should this be done? TIA You need to make sure the UID and GID (numerical) are the same under both distributions. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
RE: Learning more/Linux programming books
Yes, natural language is quite far from the code of a programm but the first algorithms that one must develope for a programm are much like cooking recipes in natural language. Is there someone out there thinking in C or Pascal? fprintf(HANDS,Me %s,SMILEY); Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
quake2 multiplayer (sorry)
Dear all, I've got quake2, and installed the potato versions of the debian packages. When someone tries to connect to my machine however, their quake2 (which is the same version as mine) fails: wrong version number Server is version 3.19 I've installed quake2, quake2-dm and quake2-ctf. Any ideas? Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: economy mode printing?
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Hi all, Are there any economy mode print filters available for use with gs in debian? As root, hpset econo should do the trick Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
PGP public keysevers?
Dear all, Anyone know of any of these that work - the first few from the pgp documentation (dated 1995) all seem dead (unroutable mail domain, failed nslookup etc.)... Thanks, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: Language
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Sam Franc wrote: I have been lurking on this group. What text do I need to get to interpret what all this language means, such as: snip Learning a new language isn't necessary to get a linux box running, and use it effectively. Sure, there are some new concepts (uptimes 1 day :) ), but IMHO, you don't _need_ to worry about the complex stuff to begin with. I'd suggest getting hold of a book: Debian Linux Users' guide (comes with 3CDs), which is available from www.linuxpress.com Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: how to install sendmail or exim on my debian box ?
i am a beginner on debian linux ... i have installed a debian box in my office and it is connected to my LAN, i have installed telnetd on my linux and it is running fine. now i wanna install sendmail/exim on my debian to let it be my mail server ,,, i have downloaded this software from ftp.us.debian.org. my question is, how do i install this software, and what r the steps should i take or plan in order to get this mail server done. As a first step: dpkg -i /path/to/exim.deb This will (providing you have met all dependancies) run through a basic configuration script with you. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: substitute strings in text files (links in html files)
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Oliver Thuns wrote: Hello! How could I substitute a string (links) in html files with standard Linux (debian) tools? use sed. It is very powerful for this sort of thing. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: rich text format
On 15 Jan 1999, Harald Weidner wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rich Harran. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me the easiest way to view a rich text format under linux, preferably without installing staroffice / wp8, etc. In windows, it can be read with word, but wordview just won't load it up There is a nice tool called rtftohtml. It can be found on http://www.sunpack.com/RTF/ It is commercial, but you can download an evaluation copy for many operating systems. I dislike his - compile it for your OS, and then give me rights to the binary. I've just got hold of the RTF spec.. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: rich text format
Can anyone tell me the easiest way to view a rich text format under linux, preferably without installing staroffice / wp8, etc. In windows, it can be read with word, but wordview just won't load it up pw should do the trick Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: rich text format
Rich, Sorry, it's xpw: Matthew Package: xpw Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 377 Maintainer: Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: siag Version: 3.0.6-3.1 Replaces: pw Provides: pw Depends: siagoffice-common (= 3.0.6-3.1), siagoffice-plugins (= 3.0.6-3.1), libc6, libguile4 (= 1:1.3-11), libncurses4, libreadlineg2 (= 2.1-12), tcl8.0 (= 8.0.4), xlib6g (= 3.3-5), xpm4g (= 3.4j-0) Recommends: www-browser, postscript-viewer Suggests: xsiag, egon, offix-files Conflicts: pw Description: the Pathetic Writer word-processor The word-processor part of the Siag Office suite, which also contains SIAG and EGON. Siag Office uses the Offix DND Drag-and-Drop protocol. . A WWW browser is needed to read online doc. A postscript viewer is used for document preview. . It can read and write RTF and HTML files for inter-operation with other well-known word-processors. On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Rich Harran. wrote: I tried man pw but I don't have an entry. What is pw, and from where do I get it? Thanks Rich -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
XF86Config format changed?
I've just upgraded to slink, and the XF86Config file parser doesn't like my config file, so xdm won't start. I fiddled the hsync OK, but it doesn't like the pointer section either: Emulate3Buttons set in pointer, but 3 pointer buttons specified the pointer section is: SectionPointer Protocol PS/2 Device /dev/psaux BaudRate 1200 Emulate3Timeout 50 Resolution 100 Emulate3Buttons EndSection I'm really stuck now Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version
Dear all, When using dselect to upgrade to slink, it objects to the version of libc that I have, so I have to remove libc-doc :( Is this a known problem, or am I being dumb? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: Slink problem - libc-doc depends on a duff version
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote: There's a new version of all the libc6 packages in slink today, so hopefully there should be no problems with that. In fact, my slink mirror has no libc6 at all ! (sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk). Using the potato one unhosed my system. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: Setting Prompt
This wasn't what I wanted I only want the current working directory to show. I took a look at the man page for bash. It said that \w would list my working directory. So I tried the following: If I use, export PS1='\w:\\$ ' I get, ~:$ ^ This is your working directory - ~/ is short for your home directory. If you did cd /etc/init.d, then the prompt would say /etc/init.d:$ Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: RH vs Debian (Switch to Red Hat ?)
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: I used RedHat through version 5.1 before switching to Debian. Here are a few of the reason I stuck with Debian and continue to do so. snip lots of good reasons why debian is better than RH :) I'd like to add the GNU/Hurd project to the list of plusses. When I do hurd development, I still have to battl^H^H^H^H^Hwork with one packaging system, and I'd like to see RH plough resources into an OS that is far from being mainstream just yet. Matthew watch out, Hurd's about :) -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
