Re: Packages out of sync with archive
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Both ftp1.us.debian.org and mirror.aarnet.edu.au seem to have Have you tried purging the cache and apt-get updating again? It is not the first time I have seen this with ftp.questnet.net.au (mirror.aarnet.edu.au) if it continues email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask Paul and/or Andrade to sync it with the master source. BTW that is one sweet machineonly wich I could have the bar fridge 1 Gig drive it sits on ;) Nikolai
Re: Newbie Question
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Costa, Michael J. wrote: I have just loaded down the man-db package. However I can't seem to find any documentation on how to convert the .deb packages to anything useful. Any help would be much appreciated. dpkg --install filename while your at it have aread of http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ Nikolai
Re: dpkg/apt-get madness
On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Packages were downloaded and processing started, then the trouble began: I noticed that startx disappeared! I seemed to remember that the X11 maintainer specifically mailed to this list that the slink X packages were severely broken and only to be used by brave peoply meaning to help with the debugging process. That phase of the 3.3.2.3a-6 release of X is over and the next one is into testing (available only from the package maintainers website though). The problem here is that xbase has been split into a trillion and one little packages, good idea...bad timing although I hasten to add that is what one gets for using an unstable dist, anyway you'll probably want to install all the packages in the README.Debian file in /usr/doc/xbase . then some more. I only found out how broken it all was until I instaled slink on another guys machine the other night :) Nikolai
Re: Modem connection speed
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote: Just recently there was a posting here that said they got better connection speed in Win95 than in Linux. A couple of days ago I heard another Linux say the same thing. And so far, on a hamm box, I can only get 19200 out of my 28800 pc card modem. Is this typical of Linux, or is it just an improper init string or etc? My guess is that the init string is flunky. I have never got anything less than the modems limit out of my modems, 14.4 out of the 14.4 28.8 out of the 28.8 33.6 out of the 33.6 and 44 out of the 56 (this has to do with the modem banks at the ISP being set to 44kbs to ensure minimum dropouts...on the recomendations of the comms carrier). Nikolai
Re: No Next
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Imran Geriskovan wrote: I follow all the steps that dinstall suggest me (i.e. Initialize a Linux Partion, Install device drivers, Conf Network, install etc..). When it comes to Install Base System dinstall ask me the path of base2_0.tgz, I provide it, then it works a while (seems like installation in progress). But after then it drops back to dinstall menu with Next: Install Base system highlighted. No other Next s available. At the end I give up and reboot the machine with a boot floopy for the same partition. It boots and mounts /. However it ends up with blank screen with a prompt #!. Nothing else. Are you sure the partition is big enough? try switching to the second console and running df. If the root partition is filling up before the install of the base system can complete then it will give this sort of behaviour. I'd also setup more than one partition, at least move /usr onto another partition :) Nikolai
Re: How to check for new packages at debian.org ??
On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Andreas Neukoetter wrote: is there it tool which allows me to check for new packages at debian.org ?? i simply want to get a list of _all_ packages that are newer than the ones on the last (official) cd. i've got a very fast connection at work so it would be very easy to update my mirror (at home). (it's not a real mirror ... it's just an archive of _all_ packages ...) since i've got to use N(o)T(hanx) at work i can't use a simple script :8 any ideas ??? apt-get update :) if you point it at the right place apt will get the list of current packages for you, my /etc/apt/sources.list file looks like this: deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian-non-US stable/binary-i386/ deb http://ftp.questnet.net.au/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/ but it cam be just as easily pointed at any mirror you want :) Nikolai
Re: Configuring a mail client
On Mon, 26 Oct 1998, Clovis Sena/Servicos Recife wrote: I´m having a problem in configuring a mail client, that we can resume this way: in a client machine i have to configure the mail client to access the mail server, so what are the files to check it out?? which Client? it make all the difference in the world. Nikolai
Re: tar and the braindead man
On Sun, 25 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can't mount a tape. You need to write directly to the tape. Otherwise how could you do a full backup of your largest partition if it was over 50% full? Do this instead: tar -cvf /dev/st0 /usr/thedirectory where /dev/st0 is the device file for your tape. Assuming your tape is a scsi one(since it is a dat this is most likely true), you have scsi tape support for the kernel and it is your only or first one found by the kernel then the above device is correct. To the best of my knowledge the f option is not needed unless you want to create, test or extract from a file. the actual command would be tar -cv /path/to/tar/up tar automagically looks for the first tape device and writes it's archive there. if you doubt me then read the tar man page or the appropriate HOWTO. Nikolai
Re: dpkg-ftp thru Squid
On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: Anybody having trouble using dselect/ftp to slink thru a Squid proxy? Or is it just me... Nope, No problems here :) I did have some probs with the change from 1.1 to 1.2 (otherwise know as 2.0), they arose from the change in the conf file. have you tried putting this in the conf file: acl FTP proto FTP always_direct deny FTP never_direct allow FTP since I put both the never and the always in my squid handles ftp fine, befor that is another matter :) hope it helps Nikolai
Re: No command line prompt for root
Something strange happened to my Debian system. I can login as an ordinary user and it works normally but when I login as root, it printed out the motd on the screen and said that root has been logged in. A 'who' from another user confirms it. It even told me no mail for root but I don't get the command line prompt # and so I can do nothing as root. Su'ing from an ordinary user meets with the same failure. A Ctrl-C will give back the login: prompt. I've used the rescue disk to boot up and checked the .bash_profile, .bashrc and /etc/passwd files and they are all OK. (I upgraded to slink, kernel 2.0.35 from hamm a few days ago.) Your version of sysklogd is? if it is 1.3-29 then you have the bugged up version. download the latest sysklogd (it's been fixed to 1.3-30) from your local mirror then boot single and install it :) It does sound like this is the problem, and this error has been frequently raised in #debian and on the dbian-user mailing lists :) Nikolai
Re: just shoot me
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan wrote: I just wonder when a freeze is announced, a lot of people load up their systems from unstable to give it a good workout. You might consider this a wide but not ubiquitous beta. At this point, now that you have several more times more systems in sync with the unstable tree, would it make sense for someone ( other than the package maintainer ) to install the package and check it out before addig it to the archive? I mean, not an extensive feature bugcheck, just a basic integrity check to make sure that it does not crash a system when installed. A freeze is the responsibilty of the committee that oversees the entire distribution, not that of individual package maintainers. The fact that a freeze is announce does not mean inherant stability, all it means is that no new things will be added for that release of the distribution, the release could be buggy as all hell. The announce of freeze is analogous to the close acceptance of papers for a conference. I think everyone would agree that before a freeze is released, you should expect anything to happen if you are in the unstable tree. There is an implied level of security when it changes to frozen that all the basic system crashing bugs have been worked out that is why its status was changed. A freeze is not released, it is simply another step towards the release of a distribution, by the very nature of the unstable tree you should expect nothing to be perfect in there. And s I have already said freeze does not imply stability, it simplie states that the only submissions that will be accepted for inclusion into the tree are those that fix pre-existing bugs, it also by no means implies that _any_ bugs have been fixed. The statuse merely changes to frozen to tell people that release is approaching and that all the bugs are being fixed. Nikolai
Re: just shoot me
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: That turned out to be the problem. I thought SURE I had that package on hold in dselect but I must have made a slip-up. For all practical purposes 1.3-29 should be considered FATAL. Maybe Debian was a bit premature in its freeze announcement ;) The whole point of freeze is that no new packages are added and bugs in existing packages (like this, an obviously other bugs in sysklog as it is a the 29th release of 1.3) are fixed before the system release. The idea of dee freeze is that the only the fixes for release critical bugs, bugs that the system should not be released with, are added to the release system. By doing this you can set a general time for the release of a system that is fairly stable with any further updates to go in the update section of mirrors. Nikolai
Re: 2.1.x series with IP-Masqing
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: Just a warning to anyone who is considering using the 2.1.x series since 2.2 is rumoured (I stress that word highly) to be out soon. If you use IP-Masqing it appears that the 2.1.x kernels break ipfwadm. With a broken ipfwadm it isn't possible to add/remove IP-Masqing rules like normal. There may have been another way, but I did this on my production machine (silly, I know) and just simply reverted back to my 2.0.x series kernel. It's not so much that ipfwadm breaks with 2.1.102+ kernels as that the network firewall ing code (which was orrigionally 'borrowed' from BSD) has been completely re-written. This means that you will need to use the ipchains package (not yet debianised) to do firewalling/masq'ing. For those interested, and remember that when we go 2.2.0 you'll have no choice, the ipchains homepage is at http://www.adelaide.net.au/~rustcorp/ipfwchains/ipfwchains.html Nikolai
Re: 2.1.x series with IP-Masqing
On 18 Oct 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Nikolai == Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nikolai This means that you will need to use the ipchains package Nikolai (not yet debianisedq) to do firewalling/masq'ing. What do you mean, not yet Debianized? It's in netbase. Well it wasn't when I got and installed it. :) Nikolai
Re: Can't login as root
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Shin Ogino wrote: After updating a few packages with dselect and rebooting my machine, I am not able to login as root any more. When I type root and its password on login prompt, I do not get any response. I have to use CTR-c to kill process. This problem has been raised before, it is a problem with one of the sysklogd packages, the version eludes me ATM. There has been a work around suggested but I didn't pay much attention as I won't be rebooting my machine for a while and as such can wait for the fix to be released :) Nikolai
Re: Hrrm, sendmail again...
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oct 18 12:53:04 dogbert sendmail[20230]: MAA20230: from=root, size=267, class=0, pri=30267, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oct 18 12:53:04 dogbert sendmail[20230]: MAA20230: to=mail, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, stat=Sent Oct 18 12:53:04 dogbert icmplog: destination unreachable from localhost And they repeat every two and a half minutes or so... the messages (with the exception of the icmplog thing) are normal. The behaviour sounds like a mail loop, the message means that a message with the ID [EMAIL PROTECTED] is being sent from root to mail. If you are getting the same message every time then I would be checking aliases and forwards for mail and root and then killing sendmail and 'rm -rf'ing the /var/spool/mqueue dir to purge any mail that the thing has generated. Also try a mailq to see what mail is in the queue before cactusing it. Nikolai
Re: New Install... pon not working
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Bob Eidt wrote: I Have installed Linux 2.0 from floppy disk to a unit without any non- linux partitions and have tried both using pppconfig and manually editing the provider files as indicated in install.txt. FTP is the only method to my disposal of enhancing my installation. Sorry to point this out but I hate to see people get things like this wrong, you installed Debian 2.0 not Linux 2.0, the default kernel for that release is 2.0.34 I belive. Using pon and plog I get an OK in response to ATZ, I get a CONNECT in response to the ATDT1231234. But then a string of some sort of PPP negotiation talk is sent and after a while I get a message it has been sent 9 times without a response and I disconnect. what form of authentification is being used? are strange things being done with bit types (I know of at least one ISP that uses 7P2 for the login then goes to 8N1 for ppp)? have you tried to connect using minicom and a manual ppp run? can we see the error/talk that is occuring? Nikolai
Re: help w/ kerneld loading of modules
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Shaleh wrote: My work machine is unable to load modules via kerneld. The file /etc/modules has the auto line uncommented. What else can I do? Do you have a kernel with support for the auto loading of modules? Failing that just write a script whic will insmod the relevant drivers, put it in /etc/init.d set the correct ownership and permissions, and then use update-rc.d to add it to the list of things to do at boot time :) Nikolai
Re: help w/ kerneld loading of modules
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Shaleh wrote: Yes I did compile it w/ module support. I want to make it work, or find out why it does not work. No hacks please (-: ahh yes you did module support, but there are 2 other options that go with modules, allow me to past from a make menuconfig [*] Enable loadable module support [*] Set version information on all symbols for modules [*] Kernel daemon support (e.g. autoload of modules) Now if you didn't tag the first and last ones then it won't work :) as for the hack, you asked for a solution so I gave you one :) Nikolai
Re: Debian 2.x , MCA 3COM Etherlink/MC?
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: How should I proceed to get the Ethernet working? I would prefer to have it already during the initial installation, so I can install using FTP and NFS. well the first question is do you know if there is any linux support for the card at all? if there is but it's just not built into the kernel on the disk then compile one with support, and all the other modules that come with those kernel, then put it and the modules onto the floppy yourself. Of course you'd have to do all this on another linux machine :) Nikolai
Re: Changing partition type
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: I want to change the type of hda1 from hurd to swap (or hurd swap if such a beast exists). Will doing this erase all the data on my disk? hell yes :) well changing the type ID won't but if you intend to use the partition then you will have to do a mkswap onit and this will :) on the existance of HURD swap, checking the recognised types under fdisk shows the following 63 GNU HURD 82 Linux swap b8 BSDI swap but no HURD swap. :) Nikolai
Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?
On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run windows? Trying to make a dual boot machine. I only know two people running dual boot NT/linux (actually tri-boot NT/95/linux) and they inform me that lilo won't boot NT or NT need the mbr or something and so they have to use the NT bootloader and loadlin to get linux bootstraped. Nikolai
apt-get and exit status
While in the process of testing a little script I wrote to do system updates via apt-get I found a curious little problem: child process exited abnormally now I did some investigating under the shell that the scrip is written for (tclsh) and found that no matter what I did apt-get always causes this error. I was just wondering if anyone knew how apt-get was exiting it's process? and if it was catchable, i.e. is there some way I can get it ignored short of writing a bash subscript. Nikolai
Re: subdomain
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Collin Rose wrote: I have a very long subdomain for my computer (username.host.host.org) One of my friends has a domain name and a Linux computer. How could he point myusername.hisdomain.org to my long address? an alias or Cname in the dns entry Nikolai
Re: Networking
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Steven Udell wrote: ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.# netmask 255.255.255.0 up on each one.. but this is where I am I'd add broadcast 192.168.0.255 as force of habit :) I need to edit /etc/ resolv.conf hosts and then add route.. is this it? then is should be good to at least ping each other? or telnet in ? Still not sure how I would go add the eth0 info ontop of my resolv.conf ppp(isp) info on the one box.. (yea my isp uses dynamic) I don't need my network to use the ppp (WWW) yet..just to see each other.. you don't need to edit your resolv.conf file, just the hosts file. then all you do is route add -net 192.168.105.0 on each of the machines and you have a network :) of course I might point out that for your network topology the dialup box should be the firewall :) Nikolai
Re: internet pon help 2
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Chesshome wrote: I need to istall the ppp kernel module can someone tell me how to do that? insmod ppp
Re: Y2K Compliant?
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Robert Dominguez wrote: I am Robert Dominguez. My company uses Debian GNU Linux 1.3 running a DNS server. The OS works fine with no bugs. My question is, is this version compliant with Y2K. I really don't see how it's directly affected but I had to ask. If you have a white paper in it, please let me know where I can find it. Any information and help would be greatly appreciated. The simple answer to this question is yes. The longer one goes into the way dates are stored in systems and points out that while the OS is compliant many apps and hardware may not be, but to summarize this I will just say that it is the nature of unix systems to store dates as a series of integers which note day, month, year(in 4 digits) and time ... the way that the year is handled means that there will be no problem on 1/1/2000. However I am unsure as to the situation that will occur on linux systems on 29/2/2000, not know the algorith being used to do leapyear calculations. Nikolai
Re: Newbie: Excess Idle Time
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, what's the problem? How to avoid this? Why I'm forced to log off when I'm just reading? Please, please help! This is not a problem it is a configureable behaviour. Did you install idled? this would cause idle users to be logged off. if you did then eithre stop it from running or remove it, you may even be able to configure it to ignore certain users. Nikolai
Re: Plug-and-Pray Question
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Christopher J. Stevenson wrote: Does isapnp work with PCI cards. (I have a PCI Network card that's PnP) Let Of course isapnp doesn't work with PCI cards, it only works with ISA cards. What you should do is set the irq's of the PCI slots in your bios that will remove 1/2 of the problem, PCI plug'n'try_Again support is in the current stable kernel dist. My PCI network card works fine, infact it work first time when I was guessing exactly what it was (long story). me geuss... I need the 2.1 Kernel as well... (Recompile the kernel and stuff) no, but unless you are using a kernel that has module support for everything under the sun in it(read the default kernel that comes with the Hamm), chances are you will have to recompile your kernel. Nikolai
Re: beginner, system questions
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Aldinga Library wrote: I have a floppy with several text files on it, How do you list the filenames and file sizes on the floppy disk. How do you copy an individual file from the floppy disk. How do you save an individual file to the floppy disk. I cant seem to find how to do this. first you need to mount the floppy (I am asuming it is in vfat format) mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy then to get the list of files on it you can cd to it or just use ls cd /floppy;ls or ls /floppy for filenames and sizes just change ls for ls -l to save a file to the disk just cp the file onto the floppy cp file.I.want.on.floppy /floppy Finally, before you remove the floppy from th drive you will need to ensure that you have no sessions use the directory(either activly or with it a their current working directory) then use umount umount /floppy then you can take the floppy from the drive. The system clock is about two hours incorrect. Logged in as root, I have tried setting the system clock with the date command but the system clock goes back to the old time when I reboot. How do I set the system clock and make it permanent. you need to set the actual system clock in the bios this means that at boot you usually press del during the ram count. How do you alter screen and text colors, rather than the standard monochrome. you are probably after ls --color=tty. put this line in your .bashrc file alias ls=ls --color=tty then either logout and login or just execute the same line at the command line. Nikolai
squid
Hello all, I am having a slight problem. I run a squid proxy on my machine to save me time when I revisit sites, as my dialup connection is also firewalled my squid communicates with my ISP's squid on a parent-child basis. My problem is that my squid will not pass on cgi scripts to it's parent. I looked in the squid.conf file and found the hierarchy_stoplist option, the default is to directly fetch URLs containing 'cgi-bin' or '?' I commented that line out but tcpdump -i ppp0 shows the slippery squid is still trying to send the stuff directly out instead of via the parent proxy, I tries to put an empty hierarchy_stoplist line in but that didn't fix it. I was wondering if anybody had a solution to this damn problem :) Nikolai
Re: Newbie questions
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Adrian Gudas wrote: More questions from the guy who thought he had everything figured out. 1. X will not boot. It almost does, but it just exits with the error mouse: fd: Invalid argument or something like that. Fine, I'll go and reconfigure. But how? How can I run the X configure program again? (You know, the one that tells you to select your video card etc.) Personally I use XF86Setup, run it as root. another option is xf86config. All these config things have to be done as root. 2. How can I configure LILO to give me the option to boot using my DOS partition (/dev/hda1)? It would be nice for it to give me a menu... To the best of my knowledge LILO does not do menus, if you put an entry like other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda in /etc/lilo.conf then run lilo at the prompt it will allow you to boot dos from the LILO: prompt by typing dos (to get a list of options press the tab key). Nikolai
Re: Re(2): Newbie questions
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Adrian Gudas wrote: in /etc/lilo.conf then run lilo at the prompt it will allow you to Hmm Do I have to reinitialize LILO in some way? I did this and rebooted, but it still only gave me one option (Linux). Do that and it reinitializes. this means at a root prompt type lilo and then press return. Nikolai
Re: PPP, host lookup failure and related questions
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, G. Kapetanios wrote: 1) pppd comes up on boot fine and I can telnet to a remote host as long as I use the ip numeric address. When I use the word address e.g. cus.cam.ac.uk instead of 131 I get a message saying there was a host lookup failure. This is not a ppp specific problem as xdm will not start either giving a message of a non valid address. I have purged my system of all references to the previous name and ip address of machine (at leastas far as I know ) but I must be missing something . Any ideas ? this is just the complete failure of your machine to find you nameserver :) check that you have the correct IP['s] in /etc/resolv.conf 2) a related question. I have a static ip address with my isp. Do files such as /etc/network /etc/reoslv.conf e.t.c need to be reset or is everything taking happening with the /etc/ppp/* files ? Hoe about the /etc/init.d related files like /etc/network , /etc/netbase ? just set them all to the valid IP's for the dialup service. by the way is the command ifconfig ppp0 valid ? The system complains about an unknown inteface. I am asking this because I would like to set up services such as xntp sshd e.t.c. there isn't an ifconfig for ppp0 AFAIK. you start the ppp link with pppd and then it gets handed over to the kernel network stack. the services shouldn't be a problem they just sit there and run, xntp may need to go up and down with the link if it starts whinging about not being able to connect to the time server. 3) How can the connection be used only when a service is required and Diald, although most people tell me it is a bitch to setup. Nikolai
Re: PCI NE2000 network cards
On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: I have been informed that these cards need a kernel patch to work. Someone here will (hopefully) email this to me in the near future. At the moment, I have the base system and no more, as I can't get at the net to I don't know where you heard this but it is inaccurate. I have a PCI ne2k card that I got to work first time, the only time I had any trouble with it it turned out to be a flunkey piece of cable. Just insmod the module or compile a kernel with support in it. My card id even plug and pray and it work fine as the irq's of my pci slots are set in the bios :) Nikolai
Re: An at question
On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: What I am wondering is if at will wait for one job to finish before starting the next or will it start them at the appointed time? What these are are a series of jobs which start and stop a process at appointed times. One at to start the job, one at to stop it. Well by the very nature of at the jobs will be run at the apointed times. The queue is just a way of showing you what jobs are awaiting execution and allowing you the option to remove them from the queue hence stopping there execution at the given time :) Nikolai
Re: Help with sound
On Sun, 19 Jul 1998, Robert Henry Rati wrote: bplay: /dev/dsp: Device not configured My question is, how do I configure /dev/dsp? MAKEDEV doesn't appear to do anything. you need to compile sound support into your kernel, when yu do that build in the support for /dev/dsp . make sure you know all of your cards settings before you go ahead and doit otherwise it won't work. Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: color-ls how do I use it?
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: How do I use color-ls? man ls :) ls --color=tty ls --color=auto I use =tty out of preference. just set the alias in you .bash_profil or in /etc/profile Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Help! Mail problems ... again
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: fetching mail with `fetchmail -v` gives this output: add the line: smtphost localhost to your .fetchmailrc file :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: FetchMail problem
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Randy Edwards wrote: The problem I get is that my user mail for local username redwards is put into root's mailbox. In my above-mentioned /etc/fetchmailrc I have the following entry: try chowning thge script to the redwards user :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: fvwm2 config hook rant
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Tom Malloy wrote: editing the existing configuration file. This is practically impossible for the novice user. I wouldn't say I'm a novice but I had much the same problem, I used to have a great little .fvwmrc file and I wanted to do same thing with my .fvwm2rc file but looked at the hooks and said blow this. so after waddaling along with the default for a few month I decided to look at some of the config tools out there..Although I don't normailly use GUI's the dotfile generator is excelent for this. the fvwm2 module works a treat and I know have almost the setup I want, I still have to tweak it a bit but it is fine. try it and see if it makes oyu lifee easier. Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: configuring XFree86
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Avalon Rusk wrote: After typing:sudo /usr/sbin/xbase-configure I get the following response: Leaving existing /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers :0 entry alone. What does this mean and how do I reconfigure xbase? It usually means that there is no /etc/X11/XF86config file. Try XF86Setup or xf86config . either of them will create the file for you :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: linux + win95: linux boot partition/1024 cylinder limit
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Patrick Meidl wrote: primary: 1) X MB linux native for booting linux 2) 1 GB fat16 for win95 3) extended: 4) 48 MB linux swap (=2x my RAM) 5) 1 GB linux native for linux apps 6) 1 GB fat16 for documents accessible for both win95 and linux for ease I have indexed the partitioning you outlined :) What I recommend you do is make 1 a 15 meg linux native parittion to mount as /. Then break 5 up into 200 meg for /var, 1-200 meg for /home, 100 meg for /tmp and the rest for /usr my questions are: - what is the minimal size for the linux boot partition? well they say 50 meg but that includes var and tmp on that partition. my moving /var /tmp /usr and maybe even /home off of your main partition you can have sub 20 meg / partitions, this is a benifit beause if any other partition corrupts a unicie will handle it well but if / corrupts you are in deep do-do :) having / as small as possible limits the chance of corruption. - what files will it contain? the / dir structure, /proc, /etc, /boot, /dev, /mnt and various other dirs. - what happens during the installation process: how do I tell debian where to put what? (sorry for this unprecise newbie question) this is the easy part. make sure to install lose95 first partitioning 1 and 2 (order is unimportant if lose95 wants the front of the drive give it to it). then start the Debian install, select the initialize a linux partition option and initialize the partition of 1 and 2 that you have spared for linux and when asked tell it to mount it on /, then use the partition an hard drive option to create all your other partitions. then one at a time initialize and your linux partitions (write down _exactly_ which partition you want mounted where) telling the install script where to mount them when it asks (if the default isn't what you want then change it). then just finish the install. furthermore, I would appreciate any suggestions for a better solution of the win95+linux shared documents problem. give the other 1GB partition to linux and leave those docs on your lose95 partition and mount the partition under linux and edit them :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: REALLY small machine
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Robert Henry Rati wrote: I have an old 384 with 40 meg HD and 1 meg of ram and I wanted to set it up as my ftp server. Can Linux install into that small a HD and if so, how would I go about doing that? you can get a bare bones linux onto it but you'll have to put more ram in it. you'll also have to do without alot of stuff on it and there will not be much room for the progs you want it to serve. my recomendation is look at elks or more likley microKernel OS's like QNX. Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: netscape communicator for bo ?
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: I'd like to have netscape communicator for bo, there's navigator 3.04 in dist bud i couldn't install it... can anyone help me ? netscape will not allow people to re-distibute their software. What is in the dist is a debainized (I believe) installer for the netscape mentioned in the package version. You need to d/l the netscape tar.gz from a mirror or netscape themselves, don't worry about getting 3.04 just get the communicator version you wanted and use the installed that comes with it. Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Thanks - any more suggestions ?
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Ivan wrote: I haven't tried telnetting but by export http_proxy=http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80 I can reach the WWW through Lynx. technically it should be [Ukraine$] export http_proxy=http://proxy.vianet.net.au:80/; The error is generated fro FTP, http, gopher,etc... check that bind is running properly, and if it keeps up after that just d/l fresh netscape .tar.gz and re-install it :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ssh for debian
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Robert Kerr wrote: Is there a port of ssh for debian? If so, where is it? I'm using hamm. yes there is. Try the debian-non-US directory on your ftp.debian.org mirror. Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: the time
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, David Parmet wrote: I got everything up and running (still working on X but that's another story) but when i ask for date it gives me May 25th. try [machine#] rdate -s your.local.time.host or adjtime or just set the bios clock to the right time :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: a simple drawing program?
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: Is there a simple, easily usable, drawing package that's been debianized? have you tried xpaint? I did some pixmap, bitmap, gif and jpeg manipulation a couple of years ago and found it easy to use. Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: pascal.+development
On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Michael B. Taylor wrote: I think there are some IDE's for Linux, but none seem to be as popular as Emacs/Xemacs. Emacs is not an integrated development environment per se, but it has many of the capabilities of one plus other things. latest vim has some similar featurs. TROLL and vi/vim is superior to emacs. /TROLL :) Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ipmasquerade questions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: What probably happened is you compiled a custom kernel, and left behind the old modules in /lib/modules/[kernel-version], if these messages are annoying, erase that dir, and run make modules_install in the kernel source dir. actually for saftey if you intend to use the old kernel you should move the dir to /lib/modules/[kernel-version].old . That way if there are any problems with the old kernel you can boot rescue and just move the old modules back and change lilo's conf and your back to where you were pre problems :) Nikolai -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNahBeezjvF754CJpAQGAxgMAlxi56puRH0bhJU/L7q+YgG6HyenwD08Y iir7uN4m07wBUXupnE7oossSX/qFNlD7Kq3oZ6EzdfMmKQO21dbtxaJmFDswo4Q8 SNWxCwDxXf5B3bw/Hr5WEHBjJNQpc+Wq =l5cQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Web access woes
On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Ivan wrote: Well, I thought I was really happy but I didn't tell my computer that the ISP I use uses a proxy server ( did I have the option ? ) The result of this is that I can't access the web from my Linux partition. should this really matter? but AFAIK no you didn't have the option :) I have downloaded Netscape (4.05) and installed using the Netscape installer but I get an error when I try to enter the proxy server details. what is the error? The Debian supplied browsers can't get past the ISP firewall either. try putting export http_proxy=http://the.proxy.you.use:proxyPort/; export ftp_proxy=http://the.proxy.you.use:proxyPort/; (for example I use http://localhost:8080/;) in /etc/profile. then the next time you login you will be able to get through using lynx, if you do not want to have to logout then login just run those commands on any open sessions. alternatly setup your own little squid proxy and use your ISP's proxies as parents. then use localhost as your proxy like I do :) Also I have read a lot of discussion regarding smail - do I need to set up smail if I am not running a network from my own computer? if your net access is limited to the firewall at your ISP (i.e. you cannot telnet or ftp from your machine to real world locations) and you are not provided with an smtp forwarder don't bother with an MTA Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Super disk drive
On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Carl Greco wrote: Has anyone successfully integrated the 120MB Super Disk drive (by would you mean the LS120 drives? Digital Research) in their Debian system? Is it recognized by the linux floppy driver? The linux/drivers/block/README.fd (and driver if it is the device I'm thinking about there is an option in new bioses which allows you to use the IDE versions as bootable floppy dirves. Nikolai -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
