Re: Initial thoughts about Debian 2.1 (and I need some help!)
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 07:41:19PM -0400, Salman Ahmed wrote: However, I still have quite a few questions that I am hoping to get answered : (1) For console logins, how can I get the console screen to be cleared after a user logs out ? RedHat 5.2 seems to do it by default (ie without playing with any config files). that is done by create a file in the homedir called .bash_logout if you put in there the line: clear the screen will be cleared by logout... an advise: put that file in /etc/skel to if you want the feature enabled for future user-accounts you make. (2) If I download a bunch of .deb files myself to a dir on my HD, how can I install them using a combination of dselect/apt ? dpkg -i debfile will do also (that's what apt and dselect do...) (5) Initially, I tried to get the .debs for XFree86-3.3.3.1-2 from the following site : ftp.netgod.net. Upon instructions from another Debian user, who has been kind enough to offer email support during my installation nightmare (Hi Kris!), I added the following line to the end of /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://ftp.netgod.net/debian x/ try: deb ftp://ftp.netgod.net x/ but that has been said many times now... Is there anyway to backup these .debs which were downloaded to my HD so that if I reinstall Debian 2.1, I don't have to download all these .debs all over again (which BTW took over 2 1/2 hours over my 56k modem connection) ? I have a couple of old 540Mb HDs which I use for backing up downloaded files prior to OS reinstallations. after using apt, if it has downloaded packages, it asks you if you want to remove the downloaded .deb files, answer no. Then you can find them in /var/cache/apt/archives (7) How can I get my SoundBlaster PCI128 sound card configured ? Do I have to recompile the kernel for that ? Also, how do I setup/install the ALSA drivers for this card (I had to use ALSA to get this sound card to work with RedHat 5.2). No id, I want to know that too. (8) During installation, I noticed a whole number of Linux Gazette issues were being installed along with other docs. How do I read these docs ? I thought they would have shown up on the menu system! (9) I'd like to to upgrade to WindowMaker-0.60. What is the best/ recommended way of doing that ? One way is to upgrade to potato ( but only if you feel ready for, it is quite stable now, I must say.) (10) It seems that I am booting up in 8bit color mode because the icons in WindowMaker look quite bad. How do I change this so that I start up in 16bit or 32bit mode ? startx -- -bpp 16 you can make an alias for that in your .bash_profile or /etc/profile (system wide) Good Luck Paul ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... Eindhoven University of| ICQ: 8678828 Technology, The Netherlands| email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .xsession problem: The Next Generation
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 10:11:56AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: And I fixed it. I also modified my .xsession file as suggested at www.gnome.org, so it looked like this: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal /usr/bin/X11/icewm-gnome /usr/bin/panel Adding either of the other lines (or trying to background icewm) makes it fail. Any suggestions on diagnosing why? got problems with panel as native for the session to, try for .xsession: /usr/bin/gnome-name-service /usr/bin/gnome-terminal /usr/bin/X11/icewm-gnome /usr/bin/panel maybe that will help (worked on 4 computers here...) ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... Eindhoven University of| ICQ: 8678828 Technology, The Netherlands| email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Icecast
Hi all, I wanted to experiment a little with icecast, so I apt-ed icecast-server and icecast-client (1.0.0). I went to www.icecast.org, read the FAQ and gettin started and started... I set up the server with default values, (port: 8000 client, poort: 8001 encoder and poort 8002: remote admin) /etc/init.d/icecast restart works fine, it is ready, then I start shout, that works fine too, but then it is going to send data to icecast on port 8001, that doesn't seem to work. netstat shows me all packages from shout are waiting to get to port 8001. telnet localhost 8002 (remote admin)doesn't work either, and shout isn't getting very far with the mp3 it wants to send. And all of the sudden, icecast gives errors, accepts the remote connection and the client for a few secs and then starts forking hundreds of icecasts servers, draining all my RAM and swap like hell. Then icecasts stops, I have to killall them... my: /var/log/icecast.log source(/1):~$ cat /var/log/icecast.log [23/Jul/1999:18:59:47] Icecast Version 1.0.0 Starting... [23/Jul/1999:18:59:47] server started... [23/Jul/1999:18:59:47] listening for encoders on port 8001... [23/Jul/1999:18:59:47] listening for clients on port 8000... [23/Jul/1999:18:59:47] listening for remote admin on port 8002... [23/Jul/1999:18:59:47] waiting for encoder or redirection... [23/Jul/1999:18:59:52] encoder [127.0.0.1:15108] connecting... [23/Jul/1999:18:59:52] password accepted... | | /* This DIDN't take 1 minute, this took 10 minutes? */ | [23/Jul/1999:19:09:53] directory_add() failed... directory server error #0... [23/Jul/1999:19:19:55] directory_touch() failed... directory server error #0... [23/Jul/1999:19:19:55] remote admin [127.0.0.1:19204] connecting... [23/Jul/1999:19:19:55] remote admin [127.0.0.1:20484] connecting... [23/Jul/1999:19:19:55] password not accepted from remote admin... [23/Jul/1999:19:20:56] lost encoder... kicking clients... /* Forking all that servers, so much that bash gives with some scripts: fork() no longer available. */ -- TIA, Paul ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... Eindhoven University of| ICQ: 8678828 Technology, The Netherlands| email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ssh* pkg and LinuxLogo
Hi, I have two questions I hope you can answer, I am using Debian 4 months now, after 6 months of RedHat, and I LIKE it. 1) I installed Linux Logo, but I have a bit problems with it. * It won't update /etc/issue.net? * Can I get the default issue line back in the logo: Debian GNU/\s potato \n \l it shows the TTY number and Debian version, missing that now. To the right of the logo now only stands the hostname, can it be replaced by this line (Debian GNU/ SYSTEM VERSION HOSTNAME TTYnr.) * Why changed the logo to the swirl, I liked the bird/pinguin-thingy! but I will get used to the swirl ;) 2) I want to use ssh2 and ssh2d, I use them everywhere, mostly on SlackWare systems, but there ssh is symlinked to ssh2, so I am used to it and I don't like ssh1. Two months ago I added these lines to my sources.list (using APT off course): deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free and I installed ssh2, symlinked everthing from ssh2 to ssh and it worked, BUT everytime using dselect (fine program, after getting used to it :) it reports a fail in dependencies involving ssh2 everytime I want to install/update something: EIOM Pri Section Package Description *** Opt non-US/n ssh2 a secure replacement for rlogin, rsh, and rcp _* Opt non-US/n ssh a secure replacement for rlogin, rsh, and rcp !! and ssh reports: ssh2 recommends ssh (= 1.2.26-1) it says RECOMMENDS, but dselect let me feel it DEPENDS, because it wants to install it badly. Now I force with Q after selecting ssh for removal, that works fine, but it gets annoying. TIA, Paul ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... Eindhoven University of| ICQ: 8678828 Technology, The Netherlands| email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ACK! Too many ftpds.
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 12:28:42AM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: You can turn off the netstd ftpd by commenting out the apprpriate line in /etc/inetd.conf and then '/etc/init.d/netbase restart'. As for proftpd, I am not sure if it wants to ru under inetd or as its own daemon. Look for an entry (maybe commented out) in /etc/inetd.conf, look for /etc/init.d/proftpd, and try th eproftpd manpage to see how proftpd wants to be started. If the proftp daemon will not be used often it is smart the let it be started by the inetd. This can be done by changing 2 lines in your config files: 1: in /etc/inetd.conf ftp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/proftpd proftpd (when someone connects on ftp port, proftpd will be started) 2: in /etc/proftpd.conf ServerType inetd (sets the proftpd in inetd mode. Default the value is StandAlone IIRC) if you changed this: # killall -HUP inetd # /etc/init.d/proftp restart and you are done. Paul ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... Eindhoven University of| ICQ: 8678828 Technology, The Netherlands| email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mozilla
Hi, because I want to keep up with mozilla and it's progress I installed the mozilla pkg and libnspr3 pkg. Everything went fine, no errors. I compiled it before and then (M2, IIRC) in the README I was told to run apprunner of viewer, but I get this: target(/1):~$ /usr/lib/mozilla/apprunner /usr/lib/mozilla/apprunner: error in loading shared libraries: libnsappshell.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory target(/1):~$ /usr/lib/mozilla/viewer /usr/lib/mozilla/viewer: error in loading shared libraries: libraptorwebwidget.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I also, saw an mozilla binairy in /usr/bin, but if I start that: target(/1):~$ mozilla *** Registering html library Registered Ok target(/1):~$ and I get my prompt back, nothing happens? Can somebody help me out, /usr/doc isn't helping me and there is no man page... TIA, Paul P ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... Eindhoven University of| ICQ: 8678828 Technology, The Netherlands| email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setting Wmaker prefs?
On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 03:35:17PM +1000, Revenant wrote: When I first ran Wmaker it contained an icon that ran a preference editor. I moved this icon, it disappeared and I can't find it again. Can someone please tell me how to set the preferences for Wmaker without it? You can edit ~/GNUstep/Default/WindowMaker or you can start /usr/X11R6/bin/WPrefs and dock it again ;) ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... Eindhoven University of| ICQ: 8678828 Technology, The Netherlands| email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cosmetic question
On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 10:16:04PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, standard MOTD You have new mail. I want to replace this with fortune. Can anyone suggest how I go about this? Yes 1) echo /etc/motd 2) add this to /etc/profile at the end: # Give a fortune echo /usr/games/fortune -o echo Bye, Paul ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... Eindhoven University of| ICQ: 8678828 Technology, The Netherlands| email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xircom pcmcia card
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 09:38:39PM -0400, Bob C. Ruddy wrote: Hello, Hi I've got a problem getting my xircom Ethernet+Modem multifunction card working right. The first problem is that I can't get the card manager to automatically load the modules for the card. The second problem is that even when I do modprobe the module. When I run ifconfig it tells me that the device doesn't exist. The strange thing is that about one out of ten times though it does actually work. I've retraced my steps on the few times I've gotten it to work but have not been able to reproduce the results of it working. I'm running kernel 2.2.10 if any one has experience with this card please let me know. It is the one without the doggles on it. Thanks again for your help. I have a Xircom PCMCIA 100/10 MBit + 56 Modem card too. But I think (because PCMCIA is not included with the kernel) you are missing the pcmcia modules. Aspecially when you are using 2.2.* now, I would advice you to get the newest pcmcia-cs tarball at: http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/ftp/ compile it and install! Paul ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... Eindhoven University of| ICQ: 8678828 Technology, The Netherlands| email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Toshiba Mouse Problem
On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 03:22:17PM -0500, Stanley J. Benes wrote: Hi all. I'm using 2.1 (slink?) on a Toshiba satellite pro 410CDT laptop. It has a built in mouse-like device called an accu-point. I also have such a device on my Toshiba Satellite 320CDT I've been trying to use gpm with the built in device without success. I read a few web pages about the toshiba and its mouse, and I've tried just about every gpm combonation (e.g., -t ps2, nrc others). gpmconfig worked fine with me, it was perfectly detected... after that gpm is loaded as: gpm -t ps2 -m /dev/psaux Paul ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... Eindhoven University of| ICQ: 8678828 Technology, The Netherlands| email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Star Office 5.1 with Slink?
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 12:06:15PM +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote: Has anyone used Star Office 5.1 with Slink, or any other glibc2.0 based distribution? Star Office 5.1 was released to fix problems with SO5.01 and glibc2.1, but is it still compatible with glibc2.0? Yes, I use it now with pleasure. When the setup starts it comes with a big lists of libraries it can't find and asks: Proceed anyway y/n? Then pressing the Y-button, it installs just great! A while ago I tried this with 5.0, that won't work. Paul van Tilburg ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... Eindhoven University of| ICQ: 8678828 Technology, The Netherlands| email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mutt PGP Debian User Mailinglist
Hi all! I am sometime on this list now, and I have some questions. 1) I use mutt to read the debian-user-digest. It lists all attachments nicely in one mail. But how do I reply to a message. I can go in the attachment-list and save the mail I want to reply to, but that isn't very handy either ;) 2) I know nothing about PGP, but I want to try it and installed pgp5i from potato. As earlier mentioned on the list, pgp5.0 is composed of seperate programs: source(/2):~$ dpkg -L pgp5i /usr/bin /usr/bin/pgp5 /usr/bin/pgpe /usr/bin/pgps /usr/bin/pgpv /usr/bin/pgpk ** I added to /etc/Muttrc: set pgp_v5=/usr/bin/pgp5 set pgp_v5_language=mutt set pgp_v5_pubring=~/.pgp/pubring.pkr set pgp_v5_secring=~/.pgp/sekring.pkr ** But I still get the following message from mutt while reading: [-- PGP output follows (current time: Wed Jul 7 16:55:09 1999) --] sh: /usr/bin/pgp: No such file or directory [-- End of PGP output --] [-- The following data is PGP/MIME signed --] ** So I symlinked /usr/bin/pgp5 to /usr/bin/pgp, but then I get: [-- PGP output follows (current time: Wed Jul 7 16:55:09 1999) --] PGP is now invoked from different executables for different operations: pgpeEncrypt (including Encrypt/Sign) pgpsSign pgpvVerify/Decrypt pgpkKey management pgpoPGP 2.6.2 command-line simulator (not yet implemented) See each application's respective man page or the general PGP documentation for more information. [-- End of PGP output --] [-- The following data is PGP/MIME signed --] Sorry for the loads of output! Thanks in advance for your help, Paul van Tilburg ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... University of Technology | ICQ: 8678828 Eindhoven, The Netherlands | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re RealPlayer G2 for Linux -- where to get?
Hi all: I've read a couple of posts in the list about the RPlayer G2 for Linux. However, the Real's website doesn't list it among available downloads (neither free, nor Plus). Is it really available from somewhere, or is this a mass confusion? De G2Realplayer 6.0 is only provided as an RPM package... You have to download it in /tmp (and maybe rename). When you've done that, you can install the realplayer-installer (pkg-name: realplayer), provided (I think) by potato... with apt-get it's easy :) When de realplayer-installer starts, it will try to find the RH pkg in /tmp and install in smoothly on your system :) If you can'f find that RPM, it is available @ ftp://donald-duck.ele.tue.nl/pub/apps/ NB. G2Realplayer 4 Linux is still alpha software Good luck! Paul ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... University of Technology | ICQ: 8678828 Eindhoven, The Netherlands | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End forwarded message - - End forwarded message -
Re: unknown message
Hi scratch wrote: IIRC, this message probably means that you have recently updated to a 2.2 kernel. In this kernel, ifconfig sets it own routes, so there is no more need for a manual 'route add'. Check your init.d scripts, especially '/etc/init.d/network'. OTOH, I could be completely wrong here, and this message seems like the thing i described, but really isn't and you *are* trying to set a wrong route. I get this message too. Last night I was searching the archives on dmesg and this error message came up several times. From some of the postings, it would seem that you're right. There was a fix--commenting out some line or another. I forgot what exactly and I haven't gone back to take another look. A search on SIOCADDRT would turn up those fixes though. I think you switched to Linux 2.2.x here. With Linux 2.2 it's is no longer necessary to add the whole network to the routing table manually/by script, it will be done automatically by ifconfig... you can change the init script (/etc/init.d/network) to remove the rather harmless error, I think it looks like this now: - source(/0):~$ cat /etc/init.d/network #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 /* It tries to add the network, but that already has been done in the previous line */ - the route add -net line is superfluous, you can comment it with # or delete the whole line ;) Watch it! This only counts for 2.2 kernels!! Gtnx Paul ~~ Student @ | Using the Power of Linux... University of Technology | ICQ: 8678828 Eindhoven, The Netherlands | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End forwarded message -
