which reference book on linux?
Hi all, I would like to know if anyone knows a book that he found usefull as a reference to linux, of intermediate/advanced level, and preferably one that does not specialise on non-debian distributions (ie one with lots of examples that are irrelevant to debian). I have seen the linux bible advertised but judging from the accompanying CD I'm affraid it will be non-debian specific. Ideally simply writen and well organised. Thanks in advance Manos Papantoniou -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clueless people on debian-user
personally I find the usenet more efficient since I don't have to download the complete messages, just the headers Manos G John Lapeyre wrote: On 12 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My students were messing around with my classroom computer, and now I have stuff all over the place. I can't get everything back in proper order. What do I do? This is obviously a windows user. Because of postings like this, See my reply to the post as well ! and because of all the spam we are getting and all of the clueless people who mail to our personal mailboxes, there has been a clamor to shut down the news gateway and go to mailing-list-only distribution of the Debian lists. To compound the problem the news gateway has been stripping out the X-No-Archive header, and the operator is too busy to fix it for now. Also, some web archives do not honor that header at all. I think having our lists on news benefits us, and we can tolerate the spam and the mis-directed mail. What do you think? I don't see why people let a little spam get to them. Its bad, but its life. About one out of 50 or 100 messages on debian-user is like this. Thats not much, and Im pretty fast with the 'D' key. I think that the benefits outweigh the costs. I tend not to have an emotional reaction to spam in my inbox, but again , for me its 50 to 1 or more legitimate mail. Question is how many debain users prefer to access the list via usenet ? G John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: multiple X sessions problem
Remco Blaakmeer wrote: E Papantoniou wrote: my problem is that I cannot run more than one X server at the same time. When I am logged in as a user one and run startx on display :0.0, I do Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in as a user two and type startx -- :1.0 I eventually managed to run the second X session using xinit -- :1 instead of startx -- :1 which makes me think you might be right talking about a bug. What version of the X packages are you running? There have been bugs in the startx script that would cause exactly this problem. my software specification is: kernel 2.0.31, X configuration: XFree86 Version 3.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: Jun 2 1997 Operating System: Linux 2.0.21 i486 [ELF] Configured drivers: S3: accelerated server for S3 graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0) newmmio, mmio_928, s3_generic If you want a working startx script I can send you mine [1]. This should work on any recent version of X (at least on any 3.2 or 3.3 version, I think). Remco [1] This is the standard startx package from the xbase package, version 3.3.1-2 . If you can please send me your startx script to check for differences against mine thanks, Manos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian
but how do you vote? and where are the current results? I went to the URL you give and it's a REAL MESS Joey Hess wrote: At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which is currently trailing redhat by about 50 votes. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: slashdot.org linux distribution poll - vote for debian
apologies, I had white letters in white background, please don't throw any stones :-))) I just voted for Debian, we are ahead with 239, red hat 219 Manos Gary L. Dolan wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 1997 at 02:18:11AM +, Manos Papantoniou wrote: but how do you vote? and where are the current results? I went to the URL you give and it's a REAL MESS Joey Hess wrote: At http://www.slashdot.org/, there is a poll of favorite linux distributions. I encourage you all to go vote for debian, which is currently trailing redhat by about 50 votes. I just went and voted, and it worked fine, shows debian at 118 and red hat at 154. -- Gary -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xhost error msg
Hi all, when trying to run the xhost command from a tcsh I get the following error msg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 28% xhost + Xlib: connection to eenpc65:0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xhost: unable to open display eenpc65:0.0 as you can see I am running a tcsh with the username ptolemy and hostname eenpc65 any idea what might be causing that and what can I do to correct it? thanks in advance Manos -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
makefile problems...please help
Hi all, I am trying to port into Debian a package called ptolemy, written for sun workstations. I am getting an error during make. I am not an advanced linux user so any advise, even a simple one, will be appeciated. Here are the details: snipped make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ptolemy/obj.linux/tcltk/itcl2.2' for dir in tcl7.6/unix tk4.2/unix itcl/unix itk/unix iwidgets2.2.0/unix ; do \ (cd $dir; make all) \ done; /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' /bin/sh: -c: line 1: `for dir in tcl7.6/unix tk4.2/unix itcl/unix itk/unix iwidg ets2.2.0/unix ; do (cd $dir; make all) done;' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ptolemy/obj.linux/tcltk/itcl2.2' make[2]: *** [/home/ptolemy/obj.linux/tcltk/itcl2.2/libitcl.a] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ptolemy/src/tcltk' make[1]: *** [tcltk_bin] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ptolemy' make: *** [install_tcltk] Error 2 The procedure I followed before the make everything comand is: I downloaded the files pt0.7p1.src.tar.gz, pt0.7.other.src.tar.gz, and I unziped-untared them to the appropriate directories. I also defined the appropriate $PTOLEMY and $PTARCH variables. Then I tried make everything from the $PTOLEMY directory (all this in a tcsh). The package version is ptolemy 0.7, patch 1. The Debian version is 1.3.1.r6, kernel 2.0.31. Also, GNU C++ compiler gcc ver. 2.7.2.1 libg++27 ver. 2.7.2.1-8 and libc5 ver. 5.4.33-6 I have currently installed in my machine the packages tcl version 7.6 and tk version 4.2. I have read in the ptolemy installation guide that I can use my preinstalled tcl/tk by editing $PTOLEMY/mk/config-default.mk or creating the proper links in $PTOLEMY/tcltk/tcl* and $PTOLEMY/tcltk/tk* However they don't explain how you can do this. Manos Papantoniou -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: can't install LILO
perhaps you should make the linux root partition bootable (if you haven't done it already) Manos Papantoniou Ken Deboy wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble installing LILO inder Debian 1.3.1 (installing from floppies). My disks: /dev/hda DOS/Win3.1 boot /dev/hdb1DOS FAT16 /dev/hdb2Linux Swap /dev/hdb3Linux Root /dev/hdb4Minix My /etc/lilo.conf file: boot=/dev/hda compact vga=normal install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map ramdisk=0 prompt timeout=200 message=/boot/startup.message default=3 ## LINUX image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb3 read-only label=3 ## DOS/Windows other=/dev/hda1 table=/dev/hda label=1 ## MINIX other=/dev/hdb4 label=2 When I run LILO, the HD light comes on for a second, I get a message that 1 and 2 are added... then I reboot and instead of LILO coming up, the computer just boots DOS. Shouldn't the line boot=/dev/hda cause LILO to write itself to the MBR of the first HD? Any ideas? I'm sure the HD is OK - it worked last week under a different Linux but I want to run Debian. I made sure I turned off all the anti-virus stuff under DOS, too, just in case before booting Debian from floppy and running LILO. Thanks... Ken Deboy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
