Re: gmc: fonts for desktop
Timeboy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
My font on desktop is very small. I found no file of gmc where i could
change this font. What can i do to get an other font on desktop?
It is hardcoded into the program.
You could try this in your ~/.gtkrc, maybe it will work:
style user-font
{
font=-adobe-times-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
}
#widget_class * style user-font
widget_class *DesktopIcon* style user-font
Ciao,
Martin
Re: using convert to batch convert
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Miaoling Chiu wrote: Hi, Wow! I've been using Linux for a year, and even from the first week I have been trying (without success) to figure out how to do exactly that (ren *.doc *.txt). install teh mmv package, then do mmv *.doc #1.txt Ciao, Martin
Re: Midnight commander undelete?
* Adam C Powell, IV Adam wrote: Oops, typo in the email! I was trying /#undel:hdb1 but to no avail. Just tried it again, no such file or directory. mc -V says the undelfs is not compiled in. I have no idea why, the object file is compiled during build. Maybe because it is build in a chroot. I'll have to investigate further. Ciao, Martin
Re: Midnight commander undelete?
* Adam C Powell, IV Adam wrote: Hi, So I looked through /var/lib/dpkg/available and found something promising-looking in mc. I installed, ran, read the instructions, and tried to cd /#debug:hdb1 but it kept saying no such file or directory. It's cd /#undel:hdb1 Why do you think it is #debug? Ciao, Martin
Re: Drawing diagrams of servers
* Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, I'm using DIA and it's pretty good. It misses a few things such as the ability to put text in the center of a box and have the text get moved whenever the box gets moved. If you group the text and the box, this is possible all right. Ciao, Martin
Re: If exim is run from inetd what happens to queued outgoing mail?
* Scott V McGuire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In that case, what will happen to outgoing mail if it can't be delivered right away? It will be queued, and the next queue-runner (see /etc/cron.d/) will try to deliver it again, if the retry time has passed, until the limit is reached (see /etc/exim.conf - retry configuration). Ciao, Martin
Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??
* John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still would like to have full mouse control in the console apps.. i.e. MC and some other curses based apps. mc does use gpm. Unfortunately, the latest security build for r2 left out gpm. I will do a fixed upload to proposed-updates soon. Ciao, Martin
Re: When was /dev/gpmdata put into use??
* Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use an alias like alias mc='mc -b', couldn't you:) The otherway around is impossible without recompilation. BUT... You mean mc -d. I will add a note about it in README.Debian. I must admit, that I use mc in xterms only, and then I use the mouse only for cutpaste. In X it's clear from the visual context when the mouse is in `cutpaste' mode or in `command' mode. Is it? Not in xterms. So I think it's wise to have a Debian policy to *not* have the mouse act in `command' mode on the console, unless specified otherwise by the user. I am indifferent about this. Shift+mouse for cutpaste is documented in mc's help. I'm no Debian-developer, so I think I'm not entitled to propose such a policy chance:(, besides, I don't know how to procede with it:) Check /usr/doc/debian-policy/policy-process.text.gz or the html version. Nontheless, I think the Debian mc man should alter the behaviour and the options for mc to reflect the above, If you can convince upstream (the mc2-devel@nuclecu.unam.mx) or make it policy, then I will do it. I can't really judge if this is a good thing or not. I will only change mc's behaviour in a incompatible way (different mouse handling) to its prior version for compelling reasons. Ciao, Martin
[mc]: Help reproducing a bug
Hi, I have a bugreport stating mc segfaults when a shell command that was started inside mc fails, e.g. because it is not found, it is interrupted, or it crashes. This error only occurs since a few weeks on my system and therefore might be related to kernel-2.4 or recent library updates in Debian unstable. [ this doesn't happen everytime a command fails ] I never had such a thing, nor did I hear about this prior to this report. Does someone else have this problem? Thanks for your help, Martin PS: Günter, maybe you could recompile the package with -ggdb so we can get a backtrace from the coredump?
Re: dselect
* Ken == Ken Weingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken Kind of, thanks. But I remember something even more general, Ken like I could select Workstation, and it would install a whole Ken bunch of packages that one might want, like editors, X, Internet Ken stuff, etc. This was part of the Debian 2.1 installation. One reason why it was replaced was that you can't run it a second time. Therefore it is deleted after the installation. Ciao, Martin
[SECURITY] serious DoS possibility in Midnight Commander (mc)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, there is a problem with mc (BugTraq ID 1945), that allows any local user to overwrite the first byte of any file (/vmlinuz, /dev/hda, whatever) with a Zero. A fixed package has been uploaded to unstable (4.5.51-11). Until fixed packages are created for stable I advice anyone using mc (dpkg -l mc will show) to disable the cons.saver helper application using chmod -x /usr/lib/mc/bin/cons.saver cons.saver is normaly used for a screensaver on the linux virtual console. Ciao, Martin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBOhmsBnzgxeT40EqFAQElDAP9GoVaOkNYSkzTxQ90x+qWP0EM1+XsREyY jfyXfOv1PRK8bP+HtXzbFi0A9djFGC98NkKDilMLWmheUToIHbTKB6lVEO+AMdts zAz1RT5nbxx8dyMMObPzuNGuTlAi9QO7TDIbanG0SkiuHXP8YSRe7MJLUkEs+z6b JTGgxs4NGus= =EqZI -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Compiled debs are upgraded
* Joachim == Joachim Trinkwitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joachim Same here with gmc -- after an 'apt-get --compile source gmc' Joachim another 'apt-get upgrade' will replace my newly compiled Joachim package with the same version. Actually, this is by design and the reason the equivs package was rewritten. Unfortunately, I didn't take notes why apt behaves like this. Therefore, I crosspost this to the gurus. They can say for sure. Ciao, Martin
Re: Q: Debian's Midnight Commander version problem
* Jonathan == Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan mc: /dev/gpmctl: Connection refused Jonathan mc: /dev/gpmcrl: No such file or directory [ You chould copypaste logfiles, config files etc, not retype them. This makes sure you don't post a typo that may leasd to some false conclusion ] apt-get install gpm will fix this I believe. Ciao, Martin
using the mouse in gpm and X, was: Re: Q: Debian's Midnight Commander version problem
* Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, [ gpm ] The only problem is the msg did go away, but the mouse stopped working in X windows... Does that mean I have to run the gpmconfig program? I don't have this problem with my logitech pilot 3-button mouse. In /etc/gpm.conf I have device=/dev/ttyS0 responsiveness= type=mman append= and in /etc/X11/XF86Config I use Section Pointer ProtocolMouseMan Device /dev/ttyS0 EndSection For cases like yours, I heared gpm has a repeater mode. That is you configure gpm for use on the virtual console, then you advise X to use gpm as the source of mouse information. But I am not familiar with this, maybe someone else can give some advice? How cut and paste terminal text?? In X, you mark text using button1 (usually the left one), and the just paste it using button2 (middle one or simultanously pressing left and right on two-button mice). On the virtual console it is the same, although gpm has to run for mouse support :-) Ciao, Martin
Re: Does a debian-user webring or links list exist?
Hi, have you been pointed to www.debianplanet.org yet? Ciao, Martin
Re: How to start sgml?
* Daniel == Daniel Freedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel You can find more info (including free online copy of an Daniel O'reilly book on the subject) at: Daniel http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ Also, a guide how to use emacs with psgml mode is available at http://www.snee.com/bob/sgmlfree/ Ciao, Martin
Re: Php-Roxen-Mysql
* Eileen == Eileen Orbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eileen My question is really how to add php as a module to Roxen? The php4 module doesn't really work for anything more than trivial things yet. However, the cgi version of php works nicely. Install it, then 1.) Add the following modules: - CGI executable support - PATH_INFO support - Redirect Module v2.0 2.) Put the php3.cgi binary in your /cgi-bin/ directory. 3.) Add the following redirect pattern in the Redirect Module: /(.*)\.php3(.*)$ /cgi-bin/php3.cgi/$1.php3$2 Ciao, Martin
Re: how to fix this broken system?
* chris == chris edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chris I can't remember the exact error, but something involving gmc chris caused my system to become unusable. This is nothing about gmc, but about you upgrading libc6 to unstable. chris When i boot linux up now, i get this error message: chris init: unable to load shared library: /usr/lib/libc6.so:, chris undefined symbol GLIBC_2.0 Uuuuh, bad. Well, you can bypass init on startup by passing init=/bin/sh on the lilo prompt. Mail debian-glibc@lists.debian.org about this problem. Ciao, Martin
Re: a whole bunch of questions
CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I normally do is cp the .Xauthority from /home/username to /root and starting X as root would then be okHowever, I am unsure whether this would compromise certain security features, etc This is also OK, but I would just set the equivalent environmentvariable. export XAUTHORITY=/home/foo/.Xauthority as root [Please learn how to quote in useful way. Don't just smack the mail you replay to at the end as a full quote] Ciao, Martin
Re: a whole bunch of questions
* robert == robert wilhelm land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: robert When trying to start emacs out of a xterm with su permissions the robert system complaines: robert MINI:/home/rland# emacs robert Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server This is OK. You don't have permission to open widows in someone else's X session. Even as root. See man xauth. The best way allow root to open windows in the X session is to install the ssh package, then do ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]. For some tweaks, create ~/.ssh/config with this content: Host localhost User root Compression no Compression is better turned off for local (or fast) connections, and User root will use root as default username, so you can do just ssh localhost. Or add alias ssu='ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]' to ~/.bash_profile and use ssu as a shortcut. robert The error recommends to use xhost - but this seems to be a robert GUI app Actually, it is not. man xhost. But better forget about it. It is a bad solution. Don't use it. robert ...which states there should be somewhere a sound module, but robert cat /etc/modules.conf|grep -A 4 sound returnes no output. /etc/modules.conf is not a list of available module. It just has optional configuration for modules and some other stuff. Check /lib/modules/ to see what modules are installed. For a GUI, try modconf. robert Does dselect build up a database for all indexed packages? I robert cannot find wine by running dpkg -l wine or dpkg -l | grep robert wine although the debian installation routine was fed by all robert 4 CD's. Seems like you used only apt-get so far. apt-get doesn't update the database (/var/lib/dpkg/available) dpkg -l uses (btw, you can use dpkg -l \*wine\*). Either use apt-cache search wine, but this won't give you the status (installed etc.) of a package. Or run dselect, configure the access methode to apt, then select update. If you run apt-get update, you also have to run dselect update to update this list. Or run /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update, which will do all the magic. Make some alias like alias apt-update='/usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update' for convenience. robert Neither does dpkg seem to support a query routine simular to robert rpm. I don't know rpm. What kind of query do you mean? Ciao, Martin
Re: gmc 4.5.51 problem
* Alexey == Alexey Kakunin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexey I have debian 2.2 installed with glibc updated to 2.1.95 and Alexey gnome update to last packages. And I have problem with gmc Alexey (4.5.51-6) - then I try to start it, I get message: Alexey gmc --sm-client-id . Alexey No response to the SaveYourself command. Alexey The program may be slow, stopped or broken. Alexey You may wait for it to respond or remove it. libc6 problem I believe. Complain to the glibc maintainer. Also compare with http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=74905repeatmerged=yes [...] It seems that something is really broken now, because I logged in as a root into my workstation from there I logged with my normal account into NFS server, removed metadata.db (and metadata.lock directory), tried to login with my normal account and now I can't even start gmc. Well, I can start it, but nothing comes on screen and after a while I get No response to SaveYourserlf command Actually, when I was finalizing this letter, I noticed that gmc icons started to pop-up one by one, but its still so slow that its practically useless. I guess I'll just have to wait and see if some libraries get updated or new versions pop up from gnome packages. As last resort, I can always downgrade myself back to stable... [...] He recompiled the package himself, and this fixed it. Ciao, Martin
Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused
* Paul == Paul McHale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Paul This is what it was set to. I changed it to try the suggestion. Paul Unfortunately, it did not improve. I think I might just upgrade to potato. Paul I know this is not the best cure, but I am interested in testing the new Paul storm release anyway. No, this is indeed not the best way. You got the correct answer already, what's wrong with it? From: brian moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Telnet to mail host replies connection refused To: Debian-User debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 23:06:57 -0700 On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:39:20PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: Sendmail: Rejecting connection on port 25 : min free: 100 You're low on disk space on /var -- sendmail will refuse to accept mail until it has a place to put it. You check your diskspace with df. sendmail wants at least 100 (kB). Note that anything above 95% diskspace used is only available to root. Maybe your apt cache is quite big. apt-cache clean will remove the files. Ciao, Martin
Re: Filesystem free space and reserved allocation (was Re: Telnet to mail...)
* kmself == kmself kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: kmself The ext2fs default is to reserve some number of blocks -- 10% kmself of total, IIRC -- for root access only. This reserved value kmself is *not* reported by df and other tools as available, it's kmself reserved off the top. You can modify the value with, IIRC, kmself tunefs. Yes, 5% that is. I have not mention the glory details for simplicity reasons :-) kmself If your FS reports 95% free, then 5% of the user-allocated kmself space remains available. Yes. I was wrong with this. Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 925064696375180898 80% /home When the remainig 180898 == 20% are consumed, the output will be Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 925064877273 0 100% /home The remaining 47791 block are only available for root. Ciao, Martin
Re: Writing scripts and online support
* JP == JP Sartre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: JP Anyhow, I want to learn how to do basic scripts to perform tasks, JP as well as getting to learn cron and similar daemons.. aside from JP going out and buying a few perl books (which I intend to someday) JP are there any good online sources for basic script writing? Not for you, but for any german speaking readers who might read this message: http://www.koehntopp.de/kris/artikel/unix/shellprogrammierung/ JP For instance, I would like to rename some wav files to 01.wav, JP 02.wav etc. and renaming 01-A_Wav.wav and 02-Another_Wav.wav to JP 01.wav and 02.wav seems tedious. I know a simple script file could JP do this. mmv [0-9][0-9]_*.wav #1#2.wav package mmv. Ciao, Martin
Re: gnome icons
Hi, Eric How can I get the icons *without* gmc window ? gmc --help shows: --nowindows No windows opened at startup Ciao, Martin
Re: MONOCHROME mutt/mc, COLOR ls/elvis ...?
* Will == Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will mc == monochrome w/reverse-video and bold The terminal type mc considers to be color-capable is defined in /etc/mc/mc.ini (overriden by ~/.mc/ini). You can force colormode by using mc -c. Ciao, Martin
Re: equivs problem-o
Hi, Brien Maintainer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This has to be: Maintainer: Michael O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ciao, Martin
Re: equivs problem-o
Hi, Brien dh_installchangelogs Brien parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted trailer line, at changelog line 5 Brien dh_installchangelogs: changelog parse failure Brien make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 Brien Error during the build process: Illegal seek at /usr/bin/equivs-build line 162, IN chunk 44. Please send me the contol file you use with equivs-build, I'll check this. Ciao, Martin
Re: xisp and kppp and gnome-ppp and ...
* Alberto == Alberto Meroni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alberto Here is the log file generated by plog. It seem that the Alberto problem is with authentication, Yes. Alberto I noticed that as user caeyme I cannot read and execute Alberto /etc/ppp. Maybe xisp shold be set user id ? pppd itself is setuid root. Or it should be. $ ls -l /usr/sbin/pppd -rwsr-x---1 root dip183504 Apr 4 09:52 /usr/sbin/pppd* Furthermore, I don't think using pon and poff as the user would work in this case. The /etc/ppp and /etc/ppp/peers directories should be readable by group dip. pap-secrets is mode 600. Are you sure you selected pap authentication in xisp? Ciao, Martin PS: Your From address bounces.
Re: xisp and kppp and gnome-ppp and ...
* Alberto == Alberto Meroni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alberto I added the user to the group dialout and dip and the user Alberto can log to the provider with pon and logout with poff but... OK, this is good. He should then also be able to use any other pppd frontend. Alberto He cannot read the log file fo a problem of permissions. Is Alberto there a clean way to solve the situation? Any user in the adm group can read (all) logfiles (remember to relogin after adding the user to the group). For now, you can just su to root in a xterm. Alberto And if the same user tries to use xisp or kppp or gnome-ppp Alberto it does not work apparently pppd get a modem hangup. I Alberto installed the peer file and so on but I have no idea for the Alberto solution (of course I could do it as root but...) Well, first thing would be posting the relevant logfile parts. Start xisp as xisp -debug and try to connect. Then check the logs. Also mention what kind of connection this is (terminal login or direct PPP or such). Ciao, Martin
Re: Stuck...
* w == w trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: ESC + 0 ^= F10 w hi, newbie mode here, how do you learn of those keystroke w equivalences? Hmm, somebody told me long time ago :-) Maybe it is a VT100 thing or such. Ciao, Martin
Re: Stuck...
* w == w trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: w if it were clear on how to exit mc, i'd be more in favor w of recommending it to the new folk... w (i tried it from a telnet session where the Fkeys don't w exactly work as they should... Well, this is a problem of this particular telnet implementation/setup not mc, no? BTW: ESC + 0 ^= F10 Ciao, Martin
Re: How to forward by default in exim
[ Catch all account in exim ] I'd go to www.exim.org. The FAQ you find there contains some cookbook solutions to common requests. Ciao, Martin -- begin LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs Outlook sucks End
Re: Midnight Commander without mouse?
* David == David Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David No, I mean how do I INSTALL mc without a mouse? You can't, unless you recompile the package. Once it is compiled with gmp support, the lib has to be present. David I guess I could go ahead and install libgpmg even though there David physically is no mouse present, but won't that create problems David for libgpmg setup? Correct, this will work. Ciao, Martin
Re: URGENT: Gateway problems (again, more information added)
* Ron == Ron Rademaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron The gateway calls using ISDN (which works fine), but keeps Ron calling and calling when it shouldn't... Forget about tcpdump, it doesn't work with syncPPP. Instead set isdnctrl verbose 2 and check the syslog (I think). You get messages why a connection was brought up there, like OPEN: 194.8.196.50 - 194.8.194.98 TCP, port: 2065 - 119 Also use echo 7 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr One reason could also be samba. Windows does all kind of strange stuff on the net that can make your box dial out. Check the samba docs, deja.com and the Suse support DB. With deja, you should get hits in de.alt.comm.isdn4linux. You can also ask there in english as the last resort. Ciao, Martin
Re: roxen webserver problems
* Martin == Högman Martin wrote: Martin I just installed the Roxen webserver in order to check it out, Martin but when I pointed my browser to the standardized address Martin (http://moonspell.nowhere:19656) it seems that I can't connect Martin to the server. Check that it is indeed running with ps axf | grep pike. Check /var/log/roxen/debug/default.1 (or .2). Check you have tried the correct port (grep ConfigurationURL /etc/roxen/Global_Variables). Oh, and if you intend to upgrade to frozen, the Roxen packages are way better in potato than in slink. Ciao, Martin
Re: Debian logo et al.
Speaking of logons, what control character may I write in the /etc/issue file so the screen is cleared and text writing begins in the upper left of the vc screen? I tried Ctl-L but it didn't work; I looked in the archives, no good, man pages getty and issue also ng. clear file Ciao, Martin
Re: Fake package for Wordperfect 8?
* Gregory == Gregory T Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gregory I haven't used it myself, but I believe that the package name Gregory is equivs. Gregory On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 10:04:58PM +0100, Jonas Steverud wrote: I downloaded WP8 for some months ago and the idea struck my earlier tonight that it would be a good idea to build a fake package for WP8 that depended on those packages WP8 depends on (whatever those are, I've forgotten). That way I can be assured that I never removes a package I need. Has anyone built such a package? I know there is a package that helps you build fake packages, but I've forgotten the name. Can someone help me with the name? Correctly. Use the potato version. There is even /usr/doc/equivs/examples/wp8.ctl Ciao, Martin
Re: Package dependency issues
* Damon == Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damon This is what I did myself and it worked well. This is off the Damon top of my head, so you may have to play around a bit, but Damon basically that's what equivs is for. BTW: Anyone should use the equivs from potato. It is better than the slink version and easier to use. And it runs on slink. Ciao, Martin
Re: Reinstalling Packages
* mike == mike ber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike Is it possible to go back to the point where you are asked which mike Tasks or Profiles you want installed. Thanks. No, not in Debian 2.1 It will be possible in Debian 2.2 Ciao, Martin
Re: gzipped logs loose format
* Blazej == Blazej Sawionek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blazej When I view them with mc using F3 they appear to have lost Blazej their format. All end-of-lines are removed and the text is Blazej `justified' to approx. 80 columns. This makes the logs very Blazej difficult to read and practically useless. When I ungzip the Blazej files and view them in the same way (mc - F3) - the effect is Blazej the same. mc does syntax highlighting and preprocessing based on the filename/extention. kern.log.1 looks like a manpage for the parser. It pipes the file through nroff (I think), which formats the text. File a wishlist grade bug on mc if you like. Don't know if it is possible to put in an exception to the bahaviuor, but I can check when I have some time (in an month or so). Blazej Is there an easy way to see the gzipped file correctly and Blazej quickly? Put eval $(lesspipe) into /etc/profile or such some, then less will do on the fly decompression of files. Ciao, Martin
Re: Reinstalling Packages
Task selection in Debian 2.2 will be done by $ apt-cache show tasksel Package: tasksel Version: 1.0-2 Priority: optional Section: base Maintainer: Randolph Chung [EMAIL PROTECTED] Depends: libc6 (= 2.1), slang1 ( 1.3.0-0) Architecture: i386 Filename: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/tasksel_1.0-2.deb Size: 13712 MD5sum: 67e68909e8770052c4e31622a232dade Description: New task packages selector Interface for selecting task packages; used for boot-floppies, but can also be called independently installed-size: 108 The task selection in Debian 2.1 uses dpkg --set-selection, therefore it is not save to use it after installation (it is deletes itself). The new system will use apt-get to install the task-* packages. Apt will resolve dependancies (easier to handle wrt to task creation and update), and unlike with dpkg --set-selection, one can not have a state that two conflicting packages are marked for installation. You can also install a task-* package with the usual means. It is just a regular package. Ciao, Martin
Re: PPP and cdparanoia
* Alisdair == Alisdair McDiarmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alisdair No idea. You could email the author of cdparanoia and ask Alisdair him to work out a way of reducing interrupt usage. You could Alisdair report it as a kernel bug - ppp and /dev/ttyS* should have Alisdair higher priority than PIO ATAPI devices, perhaps. You can do this with irqtune from the hwtools package. Ciao, Martin
Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME
* John == John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John (Reading database ... 78011 files and directories currently installed.) John Unpacking gmc (from gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb) ... John dpkg: error processing gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb (--install): John trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/convert-metadata.db.1.gz', John which is also in package mc John dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Run the installation of mc, mc-common and gmc simultaniously with dpkg -i mc.. gmc ... mc-common... Maybe the old mc package you have installed erroneously contains the manpage as well. You could deinstall the old mc package first as well. Ciao, Martin
Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME
* John == John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John The problem seems to be this one file, which apparently should John be in mc-common (which it is not) and not in either of the other John packages. No, it should only be in the gmc package, as the convert-metadata.db script is also only in this package, and it is its manpage that you have problems with. What confuses me is that debian/rules copies the manpage to the gmc buildtree only. So I have no idea how you managed to get it into the mc package :-) As a quick fix, --force-overwrite when installing will do it. Ciao, Martin
Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME
* John == John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John the offending file, but then it errored out saying that gmc John depended on perl5 and that perl5 was not installed. What is John that all about. It is a stable slink system with perl5.00404 John installed in /usr/bin with symlinks in /usr/local/bin to perl You have the package perl, version 5.004-blah installed, not the package perl5 (which is actually only a virtual package, provided by the various flavours of the perl-5.00x packages. Why do I need perl5 again.. Ah, yes convert-metadata.db needs it. Reorganisation of the perl packages is one of the things in potato that make rebuilding packages not that easy. You can either change debian/control to depend on perl instead of perl5 and rebuild it, or you can --force-depends the existing package, but I think dpkg, apt and dselect will bitch about the missing perl5 package, so the first alternative is the better way. Ciao, Martin
Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME
* John == John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John As you can guess I have never tried to recompile any debian John stuff from the sources so I need a little hand holding here. No prob. $ ls mc_4.5.42-3.diff.gz mc_4.5.42-3.dsc mc_4.5.42.orig.tar.gz $ dpkg-source -x mc_4.5.42-3.dsc dpkg-source: extracting mc in mc-4.5.42 $ fakeroot debian/rules binary dh_testdir AWK=awk CFLAGS=-O2 -g -Wall \ [...] Ciao, Martin
Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME
* John == John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Depends: mc-common (= 4.5.40-2.slink.0), libc6, libglib1.2 (= 1.2.0), John slang1 ( 1.3), slang1 ( 1.2.2-0) John This has me really perplexed. I can find no reason why the mouse John is not working. It does not depend on libgpmg1. Whoever recompiled it (check the last entry in the changelog) did not have libgpmg1-dev installed. Also libextfs2 is missing (ext2 undelete). I don't have a slink system at hand to recompile it. I would mail this person and make him aware of it. Maybe he can recompile it with mouse support. It is not so much his fault. autoconf'ed apps will build fine, even if some features are not available. build-dependancies will solve this, but they are new, and I didn't have time to play with them so far. Ciao, artin
Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME
* John == John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Since I have all of these installed-- then I can recompile mc John from the source code and it should be OK--is that correct?? Yes. If you can get hold of the Debian sources for this version, you can also recompile the package, instead of compiling the upstream source. When you have them dpkg-source -x mc*dsc will unpack them. Ciao, Martin
Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME
* John == John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John 1. It uninstalled my console version of Midnight Commander. I John reinstalled it again using apt and now my mouse will not work in John mc. Does dpkg -s mc show a dependancy on libgpm* ? John 2. The taskbar in icewm-gnome (my personal choice) is gone! I John reran iceconfig to no avail. I don't use it, but maybe it is disabled in the config file, if you run icewm-gnome instead of icewm? Gnome has its own task thingy panal-applet, so maybe the icewm one was disabled, as it duplicates functionality of the gnome panel? Ciao, Martin
Re: Packages referenced but missing from the archive
* Martin == Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fvwmconf = fvwm2 (yes! fvwm2 doesn't exist) Martin Where is fvwm2 gone to? It is named fvwm now, as this is now the official fvwm version (prior to that fvwm 1.24 was the official version, and fvwm2 was a beta). fvwm 1.24 is fvwm1 now. BTW, I think Julian is looking for someone to take fvwm. Ciao, Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#41407: Please include new profile for spanish users
* Adam == Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Martin, is there someone to make a task-es or whatever package, Adam so we can close Bug#41407? Not that I am aware of. I include debian-user-spanish in this reply, so someone interested may take this. --- Hi spanish speaking Debian users, Debian is currently getting task packages to help non-english speaking users. Task packages are installation helpers that just depend on other packages. task-german (you will find it in Incoming) is Package: task-german Architecture: all Depends: user-de, manpages-de, wgerman, igerman, doc-linux-de, trans-de-en, ding Description: German-speaking environment This task package installs modifications and documentation in German to help German speaking people using Debian. Bugreport 41407 requests such a task package for spanish. Therefore I am looking for a maintainer (or a non-maintainer, in this case I would proxy the upload) to take responsibility for this package. An easy way to create this is to take task-german from Incoming and change the control, copyright and README files. The bugreport mentions - doc-debian-es - doc-linux-es - manpages-es - ispanish - wspanish - user-es as possible Dependancies. So if you are interested, get back to me. Ciao, Martin
Re: Samba and /etc/passwd
* Debian == Debian Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian So every user has to use passwd AND smbpasswd every time he Debian wants to change his password? You can sync them, so that users can use the windows dialog to change the samba and unix password. See the comments im smb.conf about password sync. Ciao, Martin
Re: Need exim to rewrite Sender header
* Eric == Eric G Miller egm2@jps.net wrote:
Eric On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 09:37:06PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Eric snip
Eric | You do this in the remote_smtp transport.
Eric | headers_remove = sender
Eric | headers_add = ${header_from}
Eric That didn't work. Perhaps because I'm using smarthost?
No, because it should be headers_add = Sender: ${header_from}
But the real solution is, that your ISP checks your SMTP envelope, not
your Sender header.
So combine this header manipulation with the rewrite rule:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] egm2@jps.net F
And it should work.
Ciao,
Martin
Re: How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount
* Eberhard == Eberhard Burr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eberhard 2) similarly, get a mainboard with functioning power-off and Eberhard remove the main switch. The pooter can only be switched off Eberhard with software assistance then and you should be ok. To Eberhard switch on the computer, the D/V button of the modem can be Eberhard used to generate an interrupt on the serial line (most Eberhard modems generate an OK when D/V is pressed). Another way (if one has such a ATX Mainboard) is to configure the switch to issue a suspend (done in the bios). Then install the spmd, and write a small script that does a shutdown -h now when entering suspend mode. Most likely, the Bios wil suspend the box, before it finished the shutdown. Pressing the power switch one more time will end the suspend, and the shutdown command will finish. Ciao, Martin
Re: questions to dselect.
* Lars == Lars Nixdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars The problem : I doesn't understand dselect. I know how to select Lars packages (+-) but ... Did you read the dselect beginner guide? It should be included in your CD set with the other installation files. Otherwise, get it from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/dselect-beginner.txt (also available as .html) Ciao, Martin
Re: deb http://security.ebian.org/ stable updates
* Thomas == Thomas Keusch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas dante:~ $ apt-get update Thomas Err http://security.debian.org stable/updates Packages Thomas Could not connect to security.debian.org (132.229.131.40). Looks like a network problem. Could you reach the site with a web browser? Ciao, Martin
Re: Need exim to rewrite Sender header
* Eric == Eric G Miller egm2@jps.net wrote:
Eric My ISP just changed their mailer, and they will no longer accept
Eric mail that doesn't have a valid Sender header.
Are you sure it is about the sender header and not the SMTP envelope?
Eric Since I have a home system with no domain name, my Sender header
Eric reads [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I'd like exim to do is make the Sender
Eric header be the same as the From header for any mail not being
Eric delivered locally. I tried the header rewrite, but it
Eric apparently doesn't work with the smarthost transport.
You do this in the remote_smtp transport.
headers_remove = sender
headers_add = ${header_from}
or such (not tested).
Ciao,
Martin
Re: update-menus does not add a mosaic entry to my menu ?
* shaul == shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shaul Can someone tell me why update-menus does not add a mosaic shaul entry to my menu ? If this is not an obvious error, where shaul should I look ? a) does dpkg -l mosaic show the package as installed? b) run update-menus with verbose and debugging for more than enough info. Ciao, Martin
Re: debian list security; mh question (was Re: spam on debian lists (Re : Program Submission))
* Samuel == Samuel R Scarano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Samuel 2) the fact that no '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is subscribed to Samuel the list? You are not required to be subscribe to post to the list. It is more trouble than it is worth - I am on three such lists. Ciao, Martin
Re: Local users denied write via ftp
* Stephen == Stephen Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen However, since that episode I cannot upload to my home Stephen directory. I can login and recieve files fine, but cannot Stephen upload. I get permission denied messages. Now, I have checked Stephen all the permissions in my home dir, and well and the parent Stephen directories, and nothing looks out of place. Well, they look OK for you, but are they OK? Better send the output of ls -ld /home/username. Is cd ~ touch foo successful? Ciao, Martin
Re: Installing admin packages
* Andri == Andri Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andri admin packages to an ancient and very slow 486. Is there a way Andri to make debian automatically install all of the admin packages Andri without me having to answer yes/no to different applications as Andri they install? No, not yet. And AFAIK, it won't be ready for Debian 2.2 unfortunately. A solution is being worked on, and there are some hacks floating in the mailinglists, but nothing official yet. Ciao, Martin
Re: samba 2.0.5a wanted for slink
* Lindsay == Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lindsay I just tried to build the potato 2.0.5a source against slink, Lindsay but failed. Does anyone know if and where slink debs are Lindsay available? security.debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/1999/19990804 Ciao, Martin
Re: equivs doesn't work
* Werner == Werner Reisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Werner I installed equivs (stable version) and put the line perl, Werner perl5 into /etc/equivs.conf but the installation of sysutils Werner still fails complaining about a not installed perl5 package Werner (btw searching for a perl5 package on the debian site fails). The equivs version in stable doesn't work very well with apt. I assume this is the problem for you. You would have to bump up the version of the equivs package generated. Werner I tried to use the latest unstable version of equivs but this Werner version depends on a debian perl package and that is exactly Werner one of the packages I would like to fake with equivs. equivs 1.999.9 depends on perl | perl5, so this should work. Ciao, Martin
Re: equivs doesn't work
* Pollywog == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pollywog It worked for me, though I did have a problem with one Pollywog package (kcrontab I believe) when I tried to install it. It Pollywog would not see my fake kdelibs, if I recall correctly. Maybe it depended on a specific verision you did not provide or such. Checking dpkg -s your-fake-package and dpkg --info problematic-package.deb should show why it doesn't work. Just if you have such problems in the future. Ciao, Martin
Re: equivs doesn't work
* Pollywog == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pollywog I don't see the problem, and I was able to install a newer Pollywog kcrontabs package with no problem. The older kcrontabs Pollywog package was looking for an older kdelibs version, kdelibs0 I Pollywog believe it was. Your fake package is called kdelibs2g. If kcrontabs needed kdelibs0, this dependancy was not fulfilled. Ciao, Martin
Re: can't start x on ThinkPad (Slink)
* Pollywog == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pollywog Fatal server error: Pollywog could not open default font 'fixed' Do you have ii xfonts-100dpi 3.3.3.1-4 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-75dpi3.3.3.1-4 75 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-base 3.3.3.1-4 standard fonts for X installed? Ciao, Martin
Re: equivs doesn't work
* Werner == Werner Reisberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Werner I doesn't help me since perl (the interpreter) is one of the Werner packages I have to fake. Maybe I could replace my perl with Werner perl5 (if this has support for the Berkeley DB 2.0) but I Werner wasn't able to find this package. It is from unstable. But wait, do you mean, you currently don't have perl installed? Equivs needs perl (not only perl-base) for its operation. So install the perl package. Build your fake package that provides perl, install it, deinstall the Debian perl package (I think you have perl in /usr/local, no?). Ciao, Martin
Re: dpkg --fsys-tarfile and dpkg --contents contradiction ?
* shaul == shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shaul tar: Cannot open usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright: No such file or directory ^^ Is your current working directory / ? Actualy, I find /usr/doc/packagename/copyright easier to use. Ciao, Martin
Re: gtk-config
* Stephen == Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen How so? I've been running unstable since last Dec and I have Stephen yet to have any serious problems. glibc2.1 broke java, and I Stephen had to rebuild liburi-perl to get netscape to install, but Stephen other than that, my system has not been severely hosed. Did you recently try to upgrade? Perl is a pain currently. Currently, I do not sync with unstable. Did you read about the foobar package, that killed /dev a few days ago? The menu package seems to hang for some people, fakroot and tar have some problems, currently rendering fakeroot useless. This is what can happen when using unstable. So before someone even thinks about using unstable, he should be aware why it is called so, he has to be able to solve problems himself, and he should probably follow debian-devel. I avoid pointing someone to unstable whenever possible. Ciao, Martin
Re: Dial in server
* David == David Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Which packages should I start looking at installing on the dial David in server? mgetty if you use modems, isdn does handle this internally (isdnctrl setting). Ciao, Martin
Re: Mutt dependency on an MTA
* Kaa == Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kaa you don't know about it. My specific problem was solved by Kaa downloading equivs and installing a fake package for an MTA, but Kaa that looks and smells like a big kludge. Actually, I do not think so. Creating a dummy MTA package is a very clean (=fitting to the system) way to tell dpkg about locally installed software. An alternative would be a plain text file. Kaa I feel that Debian should be easier to use with non-Debianised Kaa software, and in particular the packaging system should not Kaa assume that it knows everything about the particular machine. It has to this is the only way, it can *assure*, that a package installed can run. And this is one of the core functions of a package system. Kaa Especially in the case where the dependency is not on a very Kaa specific piece of code (as a library), but on a general class of Kaa service provider. I think that for dependencies on stuff like a Kaa text editor, an MTA, etc. the installation software should ask Kaa the admin/user if he has such a beast and believe him when he Kaa says yes. a) this would produce more interactivity during the installation - something to be avoided whenever possible. b) it would annoy to answer the question on every update. So it has to be saved in some file, also for frontend like dselect not to complain about unfulfilled dependancies as well. So if you have to save this, you can as well use a fake MTA package. c) how does dpkg decide which dependancy it should ask about. The criterias are quite moot. There are people, who compile some core libs they use themself, So libfoo-bar has the same value for them as MTA has for you. Ciao, Martin
Re: Matrox Millenium G200LE
* Andreas == Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) I think no, but I use the linux 2.2 framebuffer to get high resolution and refresh rate at the console Andreas Is this the prefered method. I'm a little bit slow in following Andreas new things and I'm not really sure, how to implement that. It is a kernel option. Once compiled in, you use it with a lilo append option like video=matrox:vesa:0x105,fv:74. THe kernel sources have a readme. Ciao, Martin
Re: UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR
* Andreas == Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas If I want to Reply to all recipients? I get at first the Andreas addres from the original sender, and as first CC the list. Andreas But the But the next (last) entry in the CC-list is Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the original mail. Does it have a sparce Comma after the last address in Cc? I also remember (long time I used pine at home), that debian-user adds a (slightly malformed I believe) header that causes this. Maybe you can use procmail to correct this. Ciao, Martin
Re: UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR
* Andreas == Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Resent-cc: recipient.list.not.shown:;@rki.de This is the problematic line. Maybe you can use procmail to correct this. Andreas How to do that. I never fidled around with such stuff. Me neither :-) I just sort. IIRC formail called from procmail can remove headers. Ciao, Martin
Re: What process is sending these UPD packets?
* Michael == Michael Laing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael I have a slink server which runs samba (smbd, nmdb), named, Michael and xntpd as well as an IP masquerade for a bunch of internal Michael windoz machines. Michael IP fw-in deny eth1 UDP 192.168.0.1:1033 255.255.255.255:1478 Michael L=329 S=0x00 I=64386 F=0x T=128 (repeated many times) This looks like the windows clients broadcasting through the net. Check the documentation in the samba and/or samba-doc package. There should be info how to kill this. Ciao, Martin
Re: GIMP perl
* Pierfrancesco == Pierfrancesco Caci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierfrancesco How come that the debianized gimp 1.1.7 doesn't have Pierfrancesco the perl scripts? Or does it have them but I miss Pierfrancesco something in my installation and they don't come out? They don't have them. Read changelog.Debian. For the reason, you'll have to ask the maintainer. Ciao, Martin
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
* Salman == Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Salman At 09:25 PM 7/31/99 , you wrote: clear /tmp/clear.txt # clear is in ncurses-bin cat /tmp/clear.txt /etc/issue /etc/issue.clear mv /etc/issue /etc/issue.noclear mv /etc/issue.clear /etc/issue Salman Ok. Just curious, but what's the proper/canonical way to do Salman this ? I am using tcsh, so what file(s) would I have to modify Salman ? This is the canonical way, as login reads the issue file, not a shell. Salman Why is this not the default behaviour ? It doesn't clear the scrollback buffer. Maybe it was considered as giving a false sense of security. Don't know. Ciao, Martin
Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
* Salman == Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, let's see what is still left open. Salman (3) I noticed that when I was running apt-get from a virtual Salman console (to upgrade to XF86-3.3.3.1), during the download the Salman other virtual consoles were 'locked' out. I couldn't switch Salman over to any of the other remaining 5 VCs. Also the first time I hear of such a thing. Salman Debian this time booted in around 10-15 seconds using this Salman boot disk created with mkboot. What gives ? Are you sure you still load the kernel from the floppy, or is it using lilo and the kernel from the HD? Salman (8) During installation, I noticed a whole number of Linux Salman Gazette issues were being installed along with other docs. How Salman do I read these docs ? I thought they would have shown up on Salman the menu system! They will rather show up on the documentation menu (package dhelp and/or dwww). They are HTML text, so they can't be started. Salman (9) I'd like to to upgrade to WindowMaker-0.60. What is the Salman best/ recommended way of doing that ? The GNOME update contains windowmaker 0.60 http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_debian.shtml Ciao, Martin
Re: proftpd vs wu-ftpd
* Ali == Ali Onur UYAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ali I am planning to enable anonymous ftp to my linux box. I am Ali aware of two alternatives: proftpd and wu-ftpd. Any advantages Ali of one over another? proftpd is actively maintained by the author, and is easier to configure IMHO. Ciao, Martin
Re: text screen shreenshots
* Keith == Keith Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith I'm doing an atricle on installing various OSs and need a way Keith to take screenshots of the installation process. Any Keith suggestions on how this can be done under the various Linux Keith dists? (Debian, RedHat, etc.) I would use vmware. Ciao, Martin
Re: Matrox Millenium G200LE
* Andreas == Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas is the Matrox Millenium G200LE supported by the current Andreas 1) XF86 drivers Andreas 2) SvgaTextmode Andreas 3) SvgaLib I have a G200 (don't know what the LE is suppose to be). So for the above items: 1) yes 2) I think no, but I use the linux 2.2 framebuffer to get high resolution and refresh rate at the console 3) Don't know, I don't use this. Ciao, Martin
Re: ssh with RSA-key login problem
* Fredrik == Fredrik Jonsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fredrik ssh client complains that Server does not allow RSA Fredrik authentication, or the public key for user user1 was not Fredrik accepted. Reverting to password authentication. ssh has a verbose switch. Use it and see why it rejects the RSA key. Ciao, Martin
Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?
** Brad == Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brad On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: But why not build the latest-and-greatest version of add-on packages against BOTH the stable and the latest-and-greatest unstable distribution? Then later versions of software (even if they're not long-tested and stable) could be run on the stable distribution. Brad Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of a stable distribution? If Brad you want the latest, go with unstable, that's what it's there Brad for (and don't forget to submit any bugs you find! That's also Brad what it's there for). Not always. It is nice to have the latest X packages (simply because much in hardware support has been added since the slink release) or GNOME (slink ships with 0.30), without the trouble of moving completely to unstable (glibc and perl comes to mind). And there are developers, who have the time, resources and will to do recompiles. I spoke to Wichert about this matter, and he says it is more a matter of a missing stable release management. There is a need for someone with enough knowledge and dedication to handle this. Such updates could then be handled by a seperate section in the archives update packs or such (and the infrastructure like dinstall has to be extended). Brad Or if you want to mix and match, feel free to grab the debian Brad sources and build the packages yourself. Sure. Although it is sometimes not that easy without source dependancies. One has to be able to interpret the errors, sometimes more packages from unstable are needed (autoconf, automake comes to mind), which themself might pull more packages and so on. Ciao, Martin
Re: Gnome
** Graham == Graham Lillico +44 1785 782329 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham Would the it be best for me to use apt (as described on the Graham gnome pages) You could also download the packages, and then use dpkg -i filename1 filename2 ... But apt is easier. Graham or are there any official debian packages for the latest gnome Graham deb's if so what else will need upgrading. These are official packages. Ciao, Martin
Re: ProFTPd configuration file?
** bruce == bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bruce Can someone save me some time and send me an example of a bruce ProFTPd configuration file that works correctly for both bruce anonymous and local users. Currently mine lets anonymous FTP, bruce but not me :-) The default configfile let's normal user log in. There is nothing special required. Maybe your shell is not in /etc/shells? Ciao, Martin ServerName ProFTPD ServerType inetd DeferWelcomeoff ShowSymlinkson DefaultServer on Port21 Umask 022 Userroot Group root AllowOverwrite on Anonymous ~ftp User ftp Group nogroup UserAlias anonymous ftp RequireValidShell off MaxClients10 DisplayLogin welcome.msg DisplayFirstChdir .message Directory * Limit WRITE DenyAll /Limit /Directory /Anonymous
Re: slave symlink?
** Carl == Carl Mummert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl With the alternatives sytstem, there are two links per Carl executable: /usr/bin/executable - /etc/alternatives/executable Carl - /real/executable Carl Apparently, the develoepr of update-alternatives calls the link Carl in the middle a 'slave symlink' No. If executable from above also has a manpage, then it has to be handled syncronously to the executable. So when a /etc/alternatives/executable is set to another programm, the man page link (the slave) has to be updated in the same way as the executable (the master ). Ciao, Martin
Re: creating dirs under cvs + tkcvs
** Micha == Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha How do i create dirs under the cvs module tree (in the cvs Micha repository). Don't know, I use the usual mkdir in the shell. Micha Also tkcvs won't show me the projects in the repository (oned Micha that do exist there) only one directory name alias. You have to use special comments for this in the modules file like #M modules CVS modules file modules CVSROOT modules #D debian Debian Pakete #M xtoolwait Xtoolwait Paket xtoolwait debian/xtoolwait #M xlogmaster Xlogmaster Paket xlogmaster debian/xlogmaster #M xispXisp Paket xispdebian/xisp Check the help in tkcvs. It has some info about this. Ciao, Martin
Re: setting variables under an X11 session
** Micha == Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Micha How can i set an environment variable under an x11 session (not Micha a specific xterm under x) so that they work for programs not Micha opened through a terminal ( for example the CVSROOT var for Micha tkcvs) /etc/environment should do it. Ciao, Martin
Re: IglooFTP goes commercial. Violation of GPL?
** egm2 == egm2 egm2@jps.net wrote: egm2 That's what I was thinking. However, is it copyright egm2 infringement to take up the last GPL'ed version of the software, egm2 modify it and release it under GPL? Not if you are the copyright holder. Ciao, Martin
Re: probleme install with sgmltools-2
** Khalid == Khalid EZZARAOUI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Khalid i have a probleme when installing sgml : Khalid there is a confligt beetwin : sgmltools-2 and sgml-tools Please file a bugreport on sgmltools-2 containing the output you sent here. Ciao, Martin
Re: Flaming Debian Newbies
Nathan == Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nathan On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Nathan : Since many people who are slightly familiar with any form of unix will Nathan : be likely to try the man command on a new debian system, it may be a Nathan : good idea to include a script called `man' in the base system that Nathan : prints a message explaining that the man pages are not yet there, where Nathan : to get them, how to install them, and where to find other sources of Nathan : information (/usr/doc, ww.debian.org, this list). Nathan AOLAgreed/AOL Nathan Why hasn't this been done? File a wishlist bugreport on boot-floppies. You have to indicate your wishes, the developers can't think of everything :-) Ciao, Martin
Re: sgmltools and non-english stylesheets
Felipe == Felipe Alvarez Harnecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Felipe I want to produce a Spanish html document from a sgml Felipe (docbook) one. Felipe I've seen many international stylesheets under Felipe /usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/html/ but nor Felipe sgmtools nor jade have an option to set the language. I use article class=techreport lang=dege, but I don't know about the correct value for spanish. There is a debian-sgml list, maybe someone over there can help. Ciao, Martin
Re: How do I get exim to sustitute a different username?
Phillip == Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phillip Is there anyway he can get exim to substitute akjohnson for Phillip ant? I have few problems getting domains to show correctly, Phillip but haven't had to change a username before. The last settings in exim.conf deal with address rewriting. Ciao, Martin
Re: Networking ~ peer to peer
John == John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Walter writes:
So will setting the network up conflict with setting up the dial up
connection to the net?
John Only in that the network setup script will insist on making your
John LAN the default route. After setting up the network edit
John /etc/init.d/network and remove the defaultroute option from the
John route command.
[ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
So no, not unless you set a gateway.
Ciao,
Martin
Re: Gnome runs out of sockets without sound?
Graham == Graham Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Graham All works great, of course, except Gnome seems to be trying to Graham open some audio device (I haven't compiled any kernels and I Graham don't think my Sound Blaster Pro compatible card is supported Graham in the kernel I have?), failing, then gets into a loop trying Graham to open sockets, eventually failing by hitting the maximum Graham open file limit? I have seen this before, and it was not a GNOME package, but rather iplogger (or a package for a similar purpose) that caused this effect. Check this and remove the package for a test. Ciao, Martin
Re: Networking ~ peer to peer
Walter == Walter Logeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walter Currently I have an ethernet 10 base T connection I use to Walter connect directly to an ethernet PCMCIA card in an ACER laptop. Walter No hub, I use a crosslinked cable. I works well in Win98 If you are connected to a network, you'll need the information you collected from Information You Will Need, Section 3.2. However, if your primary connection to the network will be PPP, you should choose NOT to configure the network. Walter Does my current network count? Or would i be better to do it Walter after installation. You can do this step. Well, of cause you can cofigure it later, but you would have to set up the proper configuration lines later, because there is no UI available to do this later. The warning about PPP systems is there, because if you specify a gateway in the net (to reach some other nets), it will be set as a default route through this gateway. This is bad if you want to dialout to the internet, as in this case, the default route should point to your ppp link. So in your case, say yes to configuring the net. The default answers should work for you. Walter Will I actually need Linux on both machines to set up the Walter network? No. But you need to install TCP/IP on the Windows box. Walter If I do need to set something up in the base install, is there Walter somewhere I could get more understanding of that, Section 3.2 Walter is not quite enough for me... it still assumes I know more Walter than I do. Network Administrator's Guide at http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/LDP/nag/nag.html maybe. Ciao, Martin
Re: shutdown -h now : don't power off
Khalid == Khalid EZZARAOUI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Khalid does someone know how to see if the APM option are well Khalid setting in my running kernel, because it's selected in : In /boot/ you will find the config file used for the kernel. $ grep APM config-2.0.36 CONFIG_APM=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set # CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_MULTIPLE_SUSPEND is not set You need at least CONFIG_APM=y and CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y Ciao, Martin
Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?
Carl == Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-get --install icewm should be all you need to do. Carl No, actually it isn't, since that would install the version in Carl *stable*. That's what I have installed now. What I'd like to Carl do is install the version in *unstable*, without changing all my Carl other packages to the unstable version. The only half automated way, is to change stable to unstable in your source.list, apt-get update; apt-get install icewm, change unstable to stable in sources.list, apt-get update. Note, that this may still mean you have to update most of the system to unstable. unstable uses glibc 2.1, stable uses glibc2.0 (aka libc6) If icewm is compiled for glibc2.1, this library has to be installed as well. As it replaces glibc2.0, any other package needing glibc2.0 will have to be upgraded to a version compiled for glibc2.1. Ciao, Martin
Re: Lynx Problems
Doug == Doug Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug a mammoth job since I'm not aware of any way to find files with html Doug extensioins other than open every directory one by one to see whats in it. I find /usr/doc/ -name *.html locate .html Doug don't know whether or not its doing that correctly though since Doug it only shows html files as the text version of html (with all Doug the funny tags everywhere) This looks wrong. It shouldn't do this for files with .html extension. This suggests a problem with your internet connection: is your connection up when you try this? Doug yes I can ping one of my server DNS numbers (located about Doug 25Km away) without trouble but not the other one. Both DNS Doug numbers are listed in /etc/ppp/options Oh, this just sets the DNS server for computer dialing into your box, not if you dial out to your ISP. /etc/resolv.conf is the file to edit domain netcologne.de nameserver 194.8.194.70 nameserver 194.8.194.71 And check /etc/host.conf for order hosts, bind multi on Ciao, Martin
