Mozilla 1.3 and Java plugin
Hello, I can't get Mozilla 1.3 to recognize the java plugin that I install in my PC. I'm running Sid, and I've tried the Blackdown Java and Sun's Java run times, both 1.4.1. With both Java implementations, after doing the install, I go to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and do a soft link to the libjavaplugin_oji.so file that comes with the Java distribution. I verified that all the libraries are present by running the ldd command against this .so file and everything looks OK. However, when I relaunch Mozilla I don't get any java plugin listed in the about:plugins page. I however see all other plugins that live in the /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins directory. Any ideas? Thank you, -- Pedro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ximian Evolution and keyboard mappings
Hello, The mail composer in Evolution has a bizarre key binding and I can't figure out how to change it. For example, HOME/END take me to the begining/end of the document rather than to the beginning/end of the line, CTL-X doesn't cut the selection, CTL-V doesn't paste the selection (seems to take me to the end of the document), CTL-C copies to the pointer buffer rather than to the keyboard buffer, etc. All other applications in my gnome desktop seem to do the right thing, like gedit, abiword, etc. How can I chage this behavior in evolution? -- Pedro
How to create /usr/share/fonts/fontmap?
My Debian/unstable box is missing the file /usr/share/fonts/fontmap and Gnumeric is complaining about it. But I can't find this file in the distribution so I guess some utility is supposed to create it. How can I do it? Thank you, -- Pedro
CUPS: The Document contained no data
Hello, I'm running unstable with cups 1.1.6 and can't get the menus at http://localhost:631 to work. If I click on Do Administration Tasks I get the subject error message. The same happens with the other menu entries except help and download software which work OK. I have the default cupsd.conf file that comes with the distribution. Any ideas? -- Pedro
mozilla and .mailcap (and realplayer)
Hello, Does Mozilla read .mailcap? It looks to me that it doesn't. I am trying to incorporate support for the realplayer and a few other applications and I want to believe that there is an automatic way of doing this other than manually adding each mime type entry using the mozilla dialogs. Is this possible? -- Pedro
Locale annoying warning
Hello, I have a fresh unstable install and every time I operate on the packages with apt-get I get the following: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = (unset), LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = c are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale (C). Where am I supposed to set these variables, /etc/profile? Where am I getting this lower case c from? Thank you, -- Pedro
Help with setxkbmap
Hello, I am running Debian 2.2 (stable) plus some helix-gnome stuff. I want to use setxkbmap to switch the keyboard mapping but always get the following error: # setxkbmap Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property What does this mean? Any ideas on how to fix it? -- Pedro
Help with setxkbmap
Hello, I am running Debian 2.2 (stable) plus some helix-gnome stuff. I want to use setxkbmap to switch the keyboard mapping but always get the following error: # setxkbmap Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property What does this mean? Any ideas on how to fix it? -- Pedro
Who uses my floppy drive?
Hello, I am running a Woody box and I have the problem that whenever I try to use the floppy drive (mount it or using mtools) I get the error device already mounted or device busy. But /dev/fd0 is not mounted (as reported by df); also if I type fuser -m /dev/fd0 I get a null answer which I guess it means no process is using /dev/fd0. What I just noticed is that the floppy works fine if I boot into single mode with linux single or with the telinit 1 command. Then I can type mdir a: and I get the file listing in the floppy without problems. Any ideas? Thank you. -- Pedro
Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
I do this with XFig. Open a new document and import your landscape PS file using the picture tool (the photo camera button). When doing this use any picture size you want. You'll get a dialog where you can browse and pick up the desired file. Just before clicking done click use original size on the bottom left. You now have your PS picture with the original size into the XFig canvas. Select portrait mode from the view menu (or press alt-c) and then export the file (alt-x) to PDF. It works for me. -- Pedro I've had the same problem of converting Landscape PS files to PDF so that they can be viewed right way up in Acrobat Reader. The only way I've found is to use the 'pstill' program with the '-R' option: pstill -R90 .. generates a PDF which is rotated clockwise by 90 degrees. For the 'pstill' program, if you don't know it already, see http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html It is not totally straightforward to get this program set up, but once you have it running it does a good job. I don't know of any way to get ps2pdf to rotate the output. Ted.
Mozilla doesn't run under Woody
Hello, I'm running woody and installed the mozilla package (M17-3). However, this is what I get when running it: bash-2.04$ mozilla Starting Mozilla Could not obtain CmdLine processing service I apt-get upgraded today so I guess something is broken in woody? Thanks, -- Pedro
How to compile kernel 2.0.36 on Potato
Hello, I need to compile the old kernel 2.0.36 on a Potato machine (gcc 2.95.2-14). I know that gcc versions 2.8 and up won't compile these old kernels unless a patch is applied to them. I patched the 2.0.36 kernel with the patch file found at http://www.suse.de/~florian/kernel+egcs.html but still I get a lot of compilation errors similar to the following one: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.36/include/asm/string.h:118: Invalid `asm' statement: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.36/include/asm/string.h:118: fixed or forbidden register 4 (si) was spilled for class SIREG. Any suggestions? Thank you, -- Pedro
Missing modules.dep in root boot up floppy disk (Potato)
Hello, I'm trying to install debian (Potato) in an old PC using floppy disks (I'm using disk images version 2.2.16-2000-07-14). The PC boots up from the rescue disk, I hit return to proceed and after a few messages I'm asked to enter the root diskette. The PC reads this diskette and then enters the installation menus as expected. The problem is that while reading the root diskette I see a bunch of messages saying modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep (no such file or directory) Back in the installation menus I want to mount from an NFS directory where the base system is available but for this I need the network drivers. If I choose the option Configure Device Driver Modules I get the error message (I press alt-F3 to see it) configured modules; modconf returned 32512 So, how are the system modules supposed to be loaded during the installation process? Thank you, -- Pedro
Missing /lib/modules/ in root boot up floppy disk
Hello, I'm trying to install debian (Potato) in an old PC using floppy disks. The PC boots up from the rescue disk, I hit return to proceed and after a few messages I'm asked to enter the root diskette. The PC reads this diskette and then enters the installation menus as expected. The problem is that while reading the root diskette I see a bunch of messages saying modprobe: Can't open dependencies file /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep (no such file or directory) Then I want to mount from an NFS directory where the base system is available but for this I need the network drivers. If I choose the option Configure Device Driver Modules I get the error message (I press alt-F3 to see it) configured modules; modconf returned 32512 So, how are the system modules supposed to be loaded during the installation process? Thank you, -- Pedro
Re: Applixware 5 on Debian slink, potato or woody?
Aplixware 5.0 runs well for me under Potato. No problems at all with the installation. -- Pedro
Zope 2.2 on Woody broken?
Hello, I installed the Zope 2.2.0-1 Debian package from Woody with no problems. But when I try to access the web pages (localhost:9673) I get the following Zope error: Zope Error Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource. Error Type: TypeError Error Value: unexpected keyword argument: validated_hook The same happens when trying to access localhost:9673/manage for maintenace. Looks to me like the page is broken. Any succesful installs? -- Pedro
Re: IMAP (Netscape?) hiccups in Woody
Well, this is bizarre: # ls -l /var/spool/ total 20 ... lrwxrwxrwx1 root root7 May 5 09:59 mail - ../mail ... # ls -l /var/ total 72 ... drwxrwsr-x2 root mail 4096 Jul 14 18:04 mail ... What created this symlink? I didn't. I have quite a lot of messages like this in the mail log: Jul 10 09:30:39 psanchez-1 imapd[16264]: Killed (lost mailbox lock) user=psanchez host=psanchez-1 [127.0.0.1] I will get rid of the symlink and test to see if that makes the difference. I'll let you know. Thank you, -- Pedro Hello, I upgraded from Potato to Woody and now I'm experiencing problems (non fatal fortunately) with the IMAP server when using the Netscape mail client: 1. 9 out of 10 times, when I try to delete a message from the INBOX I get an error window saying something like IMAP message copy failed. I close the error window and then retry the delete operation again and it works well. So, at the end, I need to click twice on the delete icon to get the thing done. 2. 6 out of 10 times, when I click on a message to read it I get a blank screen in the viewing section of Netscape and I get the message Document: Done in the status bar at the bottom. I have to click on some other message (viewing always works at this point) and then click back on the original message; then I can read it. I'm using IMAP version 4.7c-1 and netscape 4.73 running on a Woody box. Any ideas? I've got to admit this is a new one for me. Not an awful lot has changedetween the ptato and woody version. What are the permissions on your mail folder? Do you see any error messages in /var/log/mail.log? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ProFTPd and NIS problems in Woody
Hello, ProFTPd doesn't recognize NIS accounts and says (Login failed): Can't find user in the log file. It works fine with local (non NIS) accounts. This has been reported as bug #62197 which is over 90 days old already. Does anyone know of a workaround (other than scraping ProFTpd which is what I am about to do)? Thank you, -- Pedro
IMAP (Netscape?) hiccups in Woody
Hello, I upgraded from Potato to Woody and now I'm experiencing problems (non fatal fortunately) with the IMAP server when using the Netscape mail client: 1. 9 out of 10 times, when I try to delete a message from the INBOX I get an error window saying something like IMAP message copy failed. I close the error window and then retry the delete operation again and it works well. So, at the end, I need to click twice on the delete icon to get the thing done. 2. 6 out of 10 times, when I click on a message to read it I get a blank screen in the viewing section of Netscape and I get the message Document: Done in the status bar at the bottom. I have to click on some other message (viewing always works at this point) and then click back on the original message; then I can read it. I'm using IMAP version 4.7c-1 and netscape 4.73 running on a Woody box. Any ideas? Thank you, -- Pedro
Re: ProFTPd and NIS problems in Woody [Solved]
Ernest Johanson wrote: Not sure about woody since I'm not running it, but one thing to check is whether the proftpd.conf fine contains the PersistentPassword directive. It needs to be set to off to recognize NIS accounts. Thank you for the hint. This in fact fixed the problem. I wonder why a bug is still open against proftpd though. -- Pedro
RE: gigabit solutions
Hi Marc, I have debian (Potato) running with 3Com GE adapters and have no troubles at all with them. Support for them is available already in the standard 2.2.x kernels. -- Pedro
Netscape and MS Intellimouse
Hello, Netscape used to have support for the Intellimouse in my Debian 2.1 box. Now I have a fresh Potato install (new hard drive), only a few days old, and the old ¨tricks¨ don´t work anymore. So far I have the line ZAxisMapping4 5 in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file. I also have some blurb in /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape that starts like this !## NETSCAPE Netscape*drawingArea.translations: #merge\ Btn1Down: ArmLink() \n\ Btn2Down: ArmLink() \n\ ~ShiftBtn1Up: ActivateLink() \n\ ~ShiftBtn2Up: ActivateLink(new-window) \ DisarmLink()\n\ ShiftBtn1Up: ActivateLink(save-only) \ DisarmLink()\n\ ShiftBtn2Up: ActivateLink(save-only) \ DisarmLink()\n\ Btn1Motion: DisarmLinkIfMoved() \n\ .. I also installed the imwheel package. However, netscape (4.7.2) simply ignores my mouse´s wheel. What am I missing? Thank you, -- Pedro
Null Login Password and X Windows
Hello, I have an account in my Debian box that has no password assigned to it (empty password field in /etc/passwd). I can login from the console (any virtual terminal) or from a telnet session and as expected no password is required. However, when I´m logged in as some other user under X and I type ¨su x¨ at the xterm prompt I´m always asked for a password and just hitting return doesn´t work. The same happens when trying to login from GDM into X, a null password doesn´t work! Any ideas why this null password login doesn´t work under X? Thank you, -- Pedro
Re: latex and xemacs
I use latex and xemacs like editor. On my previous installation, xemacs recognizes automatiquely the tex file (yet latex appears in the tools bar) and for example Control CC automatiquelly compile. I don't know how to configur xemacs to obtain this result. May i install emacs also? is any anybody can send me his .xemacs ? thank you Hervé I installed the auctex package which also works with XEmacs (I don´t have Emacs in my system). The following is part of the code I have in my ~/.emacs: ;; Try to initialize AUC-TeX mode (cond ((not (eq (locate-library tex-site) nil)) ; Tackle the problem that AUC TeX will produce error-messages if the ; function `set-text-properties' is defined. (fset 'set-text-properties (symbol-function 'ignore)) (require 'tex-site))) ;; autoload style files (setq TeX-auto-save t) (setq TeX-parse-self t) ;; The documentstyle command is usually near the beginning. (setq-default TeX-auto-parse-length 200) (setq LaTeX-default-options letter,12pt,twoside) (setq-default TeX-master t) ;; Try to install a toolbar for AUC-TeX (cond ((not (eq (locate-library tex-toolbar) nil)) (load-library tex-toolbar))) And I couldn´t live without RefTeX so I added also ;; Make RefTeX active in LaTeX mode and AUCTeX (setq reftex-plug-into-AUCTeX t reftex-cite-format (quote natbib) reftex-insert-label-flags (quote (t nil)) reftex-toc-follow-mode t reftex-save-parse-info t reftex-enable-partial-scans t reftex-label-menu-flags (quote (t t t t t t t t)) reftex-guess-label-type t) (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-reftex) (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) Ça marche pour moi. J'espere ça va vous aide! -- Pedro
Python broken in Potato?
Hello, Trying to install python in Potato fails due to libdb1.85 not installable (whatever that means). Any solutions? Thank you, -- Pedro # apt-get install python-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: python-base: Depends: libdb1.85 but it is not installable E: Sorry, broken packages
How to install Zope products in Debian
Hello, I'm trying to install some Zope products, particularly Squishdot, following the install instructions of untaring the tar file in zope's root directory (/var/lib/zope) and then restarting zope (zopectl restart). However, the products never show up in zope (not even under product management). Is there something Debian-specific about installing zope products that I am missing? I managed to install ZPhotoAlbum only because it comes with a .zexp file that allows me to import it directly into zope. But there's no equivalent import file on Squishdot. I'd appreciate any suggestion. Thank you, -- Pedro PS. I'm running Potato.
IMAP authentication is broken
Hello, I´m running potato and up to yesterday Wednesday I was happily accessing my mail from netscape using imapd. But with the latest update I made to the system imapd always refuses to authenticate my account (however imap was not updated). From the syslog: allegro imapd[1330]: AUTHENTICATE LOGIN failure host=allegro I can login to my machine with no problems and everything else, including inetd services, is running ok. Someone suggested a PAM-related problem. If this is the case, how do I trace the problem? any other suggestions? I´m running imap 4.7-2 Thank you, -- Pedro
debian-user-digest list down?
Something wrong with this digest list? I haven't received anything lately! -- Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
Help me get apt-get through this ftp firewall
Hello, I want to give apt-get access to some ftp sites but the login procedure for the ftp firewall in the company is kind of bizarre. Here's how it goes: $ ftp ftp-fw Name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] my_employee-id Password: remote_password Account: my_employee-password In the first line, Name, there is a space before my_employee-id. remote_userid and remote_ftp_addr can be those for anonymous login, i.e. ftp and my_email-address. I've seen references to a file named /etc/apt.conf and still another called /etc/ftp.conf but I can't find the right docs (for some reason, after upgrading apt to version 0.3.6 I no longer have the man pages for apt). I'd appreciate any help, Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
Help me get apt through this ftp firewall
Hello, To connect via ftp to the outside world I have to ftp first to a firewall (ftpFW) and respond to the prompts using my employee id (empID) and internal employee password (empPW) as follows: $ ftp ftpFW Name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] empID Password: remote_password Account:empPW (there is a space in the first line before empID) I'm interested in remote anonymous login so remote_userid can be anonymous and remote_password can be [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can this be done? how? Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
Communicator 4.5 and LDAP
Hello, I switched from communicator 4.05 to 4.5 and now I can't access the LDAP server in our company. All searchez return an unknown LDAP error 0xFF when trying to access the LDAP server. Going back to 4.05 fixes the problem. Is there anyone aware of any changes to the LDAP support in Comm 4.5? any work arounds? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
Buggy kernel-sources package in Debian 2.1?
Hello, I'm trying to install the kernel-source-2.0.36 package from the 2.1 distribution. I call dpkg -i deb_file and everything seems to work fine, no errors are reported. However, when dpkg is done I look at /usr/src and it doesn't have the source tree or any of the simlinks; the only thing I see is an untared tar file with the kernel sources. Has anyone experienced this? If I untar the tar file manually, what are the required simlinks I need to create (like /usr/src/linux)? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
pppd can't find Ethernet address for proxy ARP
Hello, Everytime I launch pppd with the pon command I see that the log file reports something like Can't determine Ethernet address for proxy ARP. So far I've been unable to connect my home network to my ISP using IPMasquarade and the only reason I can think of is this proxy ARP problem with ppp. I don't recall seeing this message before debian 2.0, when my home network was happily connected to the Internet. Any ideas? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
Re: Redirecting display output to multiple monitors
Thank you for your suggestions. VNC seems to be the coolest thing to try. Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
Redirecting display output to multiple monitors
Hello, I have three computers on a LAN. I want to run an application in one of them and have the display output showing on the other two at the same time. I guess what I'm trying to do is something like MS netmeeting. Is this possible? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
Re: About network daemons in a multi homed workstation
Thank you for your answers. I was absent for a few days and couldn't follow on this thread that I started. My NFS/SAMBA server is in a lab with no connections to the external world and it is just serving a few Debian development workstations. That's why I don't care about security. Anyway, I think I found the source of the problem. The two Ethernet interfaces with problems in the server are connected to a prototype router that at this moment is not learning MAC addresses properly. However, it handles well ARP and the workstations know about the MAC addresses of the router. What happens then is that all incoming traffic, from the router into the Debian server, has as the destination MAC address. Curiously enough, this layer 2 broadcast address is processed well by ICMP (the ping command in my case) but not by the network daemons. That is, I can ping the server from the other workstations across the router but I can't NFS/SMB-mount any files on them. Fixing the problem with the MAC address makes the network daemons available to the clients. So the question probably is, who is stopping these layer 2 broadcast messages from getting to the network daemons? and why? Pedro I. Sanchez Hello, I have Debian 2.0 in a PC with three different Ethernet interfaces, each interface in a different subnet. I notice that network daemons like telnet, ftp and NFS only work via the first interface (eth0) and completely ignore the other two interfaces. What has to be done to make them work in all interfaces? Even more, is it possible to tell, say NFS, to work on two of them and ignore the third one? Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
Re: About network daemons in a multi homed workstation
The interfaces are well configured; I can ping on any of them, I have a custom client/server application running on the second interface and the routed daemon is aware of the third one. But still NFS, telnet and ftp don't work. The /etc/hosts.access and /etc/hosts.deny files are empty (just comments). Any other ideas? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have Debian 2.0 in a PC with three different Ethernet interfaces, each interface in a different subnet. I notice that network daemons like telnet, ftp and NFS only work via the first interface (eth0) and completely ignore the other two interfaces. What has to be done to make them work in all interfaces? Even more, is it possible to tell, say NFS, to work on two of them and ignore the third one? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez The network daemons know nothing about such mundane details as to the network interfaces that a particular system has. They are completely screened from these details by the IP network layer and the TCP or UDP transport layers (which is a good thing). If the network interfaces are configured correctly, then there should be (at least) three IP addresses assigned to the system, one for each network interface (Ethernet device in your case). Any of these IP addresses is a valid address for that system. So, if a user on another system (client) telnets to the system in question, he would command telnet to connect to one of the IP addresses of that system (server) and, as long as the client has connectivity with the server, then the telnet session should occur normally. So without going into any more details of this, if you're having problems telneting (or whatever) on two of the three network interfaces, the first thing I'd check is whether these network interfaces are configured properly. What does the command 'ifconfig' show? Are the interfaces UP, RUNNING, and are you receiving and transmitting packets over them? Can you 'ping' other systems that are on the directly connected networks for those two interfaces? If the anwsers to all of these are yes then the network interfaces are probably configured properly and your network services should work. The other thing that comes to mind is denying host access through the /etc/hosts.allow, /etc/hosts.deny configuration. See if these files are configured and read 'man hosts_access' for an explanation. Hope this helps... Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
About network daemons in a multi homed workstation
Hello, I have Debian 2.0 in a PC with three different Ethernet interfaces, each interface in a different subnet. I notice that network daemons like telnet, ftp and NFS only work via the first interface (eth0) and completely ignore the other two interfaces. What has to be done to make them work in all interfaces? Even more, is it possible to tell, say NFS, to work on two of them and ignore the third one? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
RIP on Debian?
Hello, Is the routing protocol RIP available as part of a debian package? If so, which package? Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
Problems with transfig
Hello, I'm running debian 2.0 and when trying to export a xfig file in GIF format a get an empty file. I tried the command fig2dev (which is actually used by xfig) and this is what I get: $ fig2dev -Lgif my_fig.fig my_fig.gif $ ls -l my_fig.fig -rw-rw-r-- 0 Nov 10 13:27 IPMux_lab.gif I noticed problems with other file types: $ fig2dev -Ljpeg my_fig.fig my_fig.jpg Unknown device: jpeg Broken pipe $ fig2dev -Lpng my_fig.fig Unknown device: png256 Broken pipe $ fig2dev -Ltiff my_fig.fig Unknown device: tiff24nc Broken pipe In fact, the only format that doesn't complain is GIF, but I get an empty file. As far as I can say I have installed all the packages transfig depends on. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thank you. Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
Support for PC2TV on ATI Xpert@Play?
Hello, I have an ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] video card that I've been unable to connect to my TV. Is this feature supported by the Xfree86 project? (I haven't found any specific reference to this feature in the docs). Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
Puzzled with segfault in the speakfree package
Hello, I have two almost identical PCs with fresh Debian 2.0 installs on them. I installed the speakfree package and while it runs well in one workstation it seg-faults in the other. I've reinstalled all involved packages from the same CD, including shared libraries, and I'm using the same config file for my custom kernel (2.0.34). Still I get sementation fault on one PC when running sfspeak or sfmike. All other applications run well on both PCs. Can you suggest a possible cause for this to happen? Thank you in advance, Pedro I. Sanchez Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
AGP Video Cards?
I'm trying to get a good AGP video card to work with Debian 2.0. Looking at the list of supported cards in the xf86config utility I see the matrox Milenium II (AGP). However this card seems hard to find now since it's been replaced by the new one G200. Does anybody know if this new card is supported? Any advice on any other AGP card? Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez ---\r\nGet your free email from altavista.iname.com
Help me get dselect through this firewall
Hello, In order to update my system I want dselect to ftp into one of the debian mirrors. The problem is that the interface to our firewall is kind of unique. It goes like this: local_host% ftp firewall Name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] local_userid Password: remote_password Account: local_password In answering Name I have to type two things in the same line. Is there some place where the login procedure to the firewall can be customized? (Note, I tried apt also with no success :( Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Unidentified subject!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ISO 9660 support in Hamm? I'm running a clean Hamm installation. Since the default kernel doesn't have support for the ISO 9660 file system used in CD-ROMs (shouldn't it be there by default?) I am recompiling the kernel. However the make config menus never ask if I want support for this file system or not. I remember this question was there in previous releases. Any ideas how to get support for this? Thank you, Remember to say yes to NLS, then you'll get it. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thank you, it works. I only hope when hamm is finally released support for ISO 9660 will be already there. I can't think of any reason why we have to recompile the kernel just to be able to read CD-ROMs. I don't think this would be user friendly! Pedro I. Sanchez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ISO 9660 support in Hamm?
I'm running a clean Hamm installation. Since the default kernel doesn't have support for the ISO 9660 file system used in CD-ROMs (shouldn't it be there by default?) I am recompiling the kernel. However the make config menus never ask if I want support for this file system or not. I remember this question was there in previous releases. Any ideas how to get support for this? Thank you, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
adduser and NIS
I mentioned this problem in the list a while ago but I got no answers. Adduser doesn't work when you are a NIS client and I just filed a bug on this. What you can do is temporally remove the +::: and +: entries from /etc/group and /etc/passwd, run adduser and then replace the NIS entries in those files. Pedro I. Sanchez Hi all ! Can somebody tell me if there is a bug in adduser? I tried to use it yesterday to add some new users to my system when, to my surprise, iut failed. As a matter of fact, adduser had problems with the NIS entries of the files: /etc/passwd and /etc/group; it didn't remove those entries to add the new users, so there was trouble. Therefore, I had to remove then by hand and to add then latter (by hand too). Is this ok? Thanks in advance. Daniel. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
New Install 1.3.1: /etc/init.d/xdm empty
Hello, I installed Debian 1.3.1 on a new machine and I found two problems: 1. After installing xbase and the SVGA server, the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xserver refers to /usr/X11/X11R6/bin/X (or something like this, I don't recall well). The right name should be /usr/bin/X11/X. 2. /etc/init.d/xdm is empty so my PC doesn't boot into X automatically. If I execute xdm manually everything is ok. Are these well known bugs in xfree 3.3-3? -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Serious problem with adduser_3.4
I have the following problem with this version of adduser. Here's what I get when I try to add a user to my system: # adduser adams Adding user adams... Selecting from 1000 2 (0,0,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,9,9,10,10,11,11,13,13,15,20,21,21,22,24,25,26,29,30,30,31,31,32,33,33,34,34,35,35,36,36,37,37,40,42,50,60,100,101,102,102,103,104,105,1000,1000,1001,1001,1002,1002,1003,1003,1004,1004,1005,1005,1006,1006,1007,1007,1008,1008,1009,1009,1010,1010,1011,1011,1012,1012,1013,1013,1014,1014,1015,1015,1016,1016,1017,1017,1018,1018,1019,1020,1020,1021,1021,1022,1022,1023,1023,1024,1024,1025,1025,1026,1026,1027,1027,1028,1028,1029,1029,1030,1030,1031,1031,1032,1032,1033,1033,1034,1034,1035,1035,1036,1036,65534,65534). Adding new group adams (1037). groupadd -g 1037 adams Adding new user adams (1037) with group adams. useradd -d /home/adams -g adams -s /bin/bash -u 1037 adams useradd: unknown group adams adduser: `useradd -d /home/adams -g adams -s /bin/bash -u 1037 adams' returned error. Aborting. # tail -2 /etc/group +::: adams:x:1037: As you can see, adams is added after the NIS entry and then useradd can't see it. Is this a bug? -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xemacs vs. Emacs
Hello, I remember seeing some messages in this list not long ago saying that the maintainers of these two packages had agreed on a format that would allow both to coexist in the same machine. What's the status of this? I'd like to try Xemacs but I don't want to give up my old friend Emacs! -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!
Jim Pick wrote: ~ ypmatch rover passwd rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash ~ su rover su: user rover does not exist 'su' doesn't work, but 'login' does. Ok, I tested it and the 'su' from shellutils-1.16-2 works, but the 'su' from shellutils-1.16-4 doesn't (from unstable). I filed a bug report. Cheers, - Jim --- Part 1.2 Type: application/pgp-signature Did you resolve the problem? Cheers, No, I haven't solved the problem. I tested the 'su' from shellutils-1.16-2 and it didn't work for me. I believe the problem is a mismatch between libc and the Debian NIS package. For me nothing works, not only the system utilities like su and ls, but also my MTA (smail and exim) which cannot see the users and aliases defined in the NIS maps. -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: At 05:28 PM 11/06/97 -0400, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: Hello, A few days ago I reported the problem of NIS not working in Debian 1.3. It still does not work and unfortunately no one seems to have an answer. However, I just read the following from H.J. Lu regarding his new release (5.4.33) of libc: Yes, I do agree with you that Debian 1.3 broke NIS - but not the latest version of disks. I decided to test the latest disk set 1997-05-30 (I can't remember the date of the last 1.3 disks) and NIS now works for me - you must make sure you say No to shadow passwords during the setup as well (I think it defaults to yes if you press enter). My servers went from Debian 1.1 to 1.2 to 1.3 using ftp to upgrade. The last time I used the installations diskettes was when I installed 1.1. During this process I don't recall having been asked for any shadow options at all. Can you tell me what package is suppose to ask something about shadow passwords? Even more, can someone explain how shadow passwords relate to the NIS stuff? Probably here is where I have my problems. Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)
Karl Ferguson wrote: Well this won't affect you then - I was referring to a completely fresh install of the 1.3 basedisks - during that setup it asks whether or not you want to uyse shadow passwords. Enabling shadow passwords in 1.3 is simply a matter of doing a shadowconfig on at the prompt - however, I advise not to do it, it may break NIS. Basically, to find if your running a shadow system, see if you've got the /etc/shadow file with all your passwords in it or not. Regards I don't have any /etc/shadow file on my systems. So, I'm back to nothing. My only hope is that the new libc is released soon and will solve my problem. By the way, will it be released to the stable tree? -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NIS Problem ... about to be solved? (I hope)
Hello, A few days ago I reported the problem of NIS not working in Debian 1.3. It still does not work and unfortunately no one seems to have an answer. However, I just read the following from H.J. Lu regarding his new release (5.4.33) of libc: ... 4. I have modified the NIS support in libc, which is not compatible with the previous version, but is compatible with SunOS, Solaris, ... except for those brain dead xxxBSD. Please make sure you have the same ypclients as the one at where you get this C library. Otherwise your NIS won't work with the modified NIS code in this libc. If you use a different yp client other than those in my YP clients package, you may need a patch. Please send me a note and I will fix it for you as soon as possible. Now, Does debian uses Lu's YP client package. Could it be that the source of the NIS problems is a mismatch between Debian's YP clients/servers and libc libraries? Could this new libc release solve the problems? I whish someone could elaborate a bit more on this issue. Just in case someone who might help me with the NIS problem is reading about it by the first time in this list, I explain what is happening to me after my signature. Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Here is what happens to me. I have two Debian 1.3 boxes. One runs the NIS server, the other is a client. What follows is a transcript of a two-command session in the client machine: ~ypmatch rover passwd rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017:Nadia Rover:/home/rover:/bin/bash ~su rover su: user rover does not exist all other YP commands work well like ~ypcat -x Use passwd for passwd.byname Use group for group.byname Use networks for networks.byaddr Use hosts for hosts.byname Use protocols for protocols.bynumber Use services for services.byname Use aliases for mail.aliases Use ethers for ethers.byname and no errors are reported anyplace. So, the ypbind client connects with the server but for some reason the system commands, like su or ls, cannot see the NIS mappings. I am running libc5_5.4.23-6, libc6_2.0.3-4 and NIS_2.20-1. I have a third Debain box on the works and three more are about to come. However, if this problem is not solved soon, I'm afraid I'll be forced to completely replace Debian with Solaris. I wish someone could help. I really enjoy Debian. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!
Hello, I asked this once and I got no answers. I know there's at least one more person in this list with the same problem but we've been unable to solve it. The problem: With the lattest versions (unstable) of everything, the NIS clients are unable to read the maps from the NIS server. No errors are reported, the ypbind daemon seems to run well, even ypcat -x returns the proper answer, but the fact is, the client can't see the server's user accounts, groups or aliases files. NOTE: In my configuration, the NIS server is Debian 1.3 with two clients, one Debian 1.2 and one Debian 1.3. The lattest has never worked but the former was just running ok ... until I installed Debian 1.3. I don't believe I have any problem with my configuration (all the + entries in the passwd, group and aliases files) and the ypbind daemon connects just fine to the server. So, Does anybody have a NIS installation running ok with Debian 1.3? I would appreciate if any one can help me figure out what's going on. -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NIS is broken in Debian 1.3!
Both the server and the client machines have libc5 version 5.4.23-4 and libc6 version 2.0.3-4. Let me give you an example of what's happening on the client machine: ~ ypmatch rover passwd rover:V/8DB9sycYRnM:1017:1017::/home/rover:/bin/bash ~ su rover su: user rover does not exist However, the /etc/passwd file in the client machine ends with the line +:: Shouldn't this work? So, the NIS binding process is ok, but all system utilities (like su, ls, passwd, etc.) in the client machine are unable to see the NIS maps. Jim Pick wrote: Does anybody have a NIS installation running ok with Debian 1.3? I would appreciate if any one can help me figure out what's going on. It works here. I'm not sure what your problem is. What version of libc5 are you using? Cheers, - Jim --- Part 1.2 Type: application/pgp-signature -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How to see the group and aliases file on the NIS server
Hello, I installed NIS on a Debian server and I'm trying to set up another Debian as a NIS client (latest Debian versions from the unstable tree). In the latter, I added the line +::: to the /etc/group file and the line + to /etc/aliases. Then, I started the ypbind daemon. In the client machine, if I give the command ypcat group I can see the groups defined in the server. However, the system utilities can't see those groups. By this I mean, an ls -l just reports the GID of the files as numbers, not names, the chgrp command doesn't recognize the NIS server's groups, etc. Also, smail doesn't see the aliases file even though the ypcat aliases command shows the right content. The password file however seems to be recognized. I can login on the client machine using the users defined in the master. If you have an idea of what I may be missing please drop me a note. Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xservers ... always empty?
Hello, I've updated the X-windows stuff two or three times to the latest versions. After each upgrade I noted that the file /etc/x11/xdm/Xservers only had comments on it, not the typical call to the X server, so I had to add it manually (I'm using the SVGA server). Yesterday I installed version 3.2-5 and again my Xservers file was empty and manual editing was required. Is this a bug? -- Pedro I. Sanchez Product Manager CTI Datacom Inc. 514.683.6363 x31 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Lyx: Where is Xforms?
Hello, I'm trying to install LyX version 0.10.7-2 but it fails because the Xforms package is not installed. However the only package which seems to be available is xforms0 (which I installed succesfully). So, what is Xforms0? Is it supposed to replace Xforms? Is Lyx supposed to depend on Xforms0? Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Product Manager CTI Datacom Inc. 514.683.6363 x31 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Lyx: Where is Xforms?
Well, it seems that the current Lyx package is still looking for Xforms, not Xforms0. As I said in my original message, I already installed Xforms0 but Lyx insists in having Xforms. Given that Xforms0 is already installed, is there a way to force dpkg to configure Lyx? (I tried --force-configure-any but it didn't work). Paul McDermott wrote: yes lyx depends on xforms0 On Wed, 14 May 1997, Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install LyX version 0.10.7-2 but it fails because the Xforms package is not installed. However the only package which seems to be available is xforms0 (which I installed succesfully). So, what is Xforms0? Is it supposed to replace Xforms? Is Lyx supposed to depend on Xforms0? Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Product Manager CTI Datacom Inc. 514.683.6363 x31 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- Pedro I. Sanchez Product Manager CTI Datacom Inc. 514.683.6363 x31 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Adaptec 2940 and 3940 PCI/SCSI adapters
I need to know if these two adapters are supported by Linux. For the 2940, the SCSI HOWTO says 294x support requires a new version of the driver, what does this mean? About the 3940 I found no reference. I'd appreciate any info you can give on this. Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Product Manager CTI Datacom Inc. 514.683.6363 x31 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dselect deity and debian in the lab
Hello, I'd like to suggest that the deity team take into consideration the open problem of installing and maintaining packages accross NFS-mounted volumes (see the recent thread debian in the lab in this list). I believe that making deity NFS-aware will take the debian packaging system one further step ahead of competition! Cheers, -- Pedro I. Sanchez Product Manager CTI Datacom Inc. 514.683.6363 x31
RE: error in bind.postinst with froze
Hello, I reported this problem a few weeks ago here in this list but never got an answer back. I manage to install bind anyway basically ignoring this error (however, dselect still says that bind is not properly installed). I suspect something's wrong with bash 2.0-2 though. Try some other bash. That might help. -- Pedro I. Sanchez Product Manager CTI Datacom Inc. 514.683.6363 x31
Suggestions on NFS strategy
Hello, I'd like to have your opinions on an issue I have on the proper way to install NFS. I set up a Debian file-server with two purposes: - Provide file space to Linux and Win95 users (with NFS client software), and - Keep all Linux users with an up-to-date release of Debian. For the latter, I want to update software in the file-server ONLY and have all Linux users nfs-mount /usr and /home from it. Each Linux client will have its own root and /var partitions. My main concern is with /etc. Certainly, I cannot have the Linux clients mount /etc from the file-server because the start-up scripts, X11 and a bunch of other things change from one machine to another. But on the other hand, all Debian packages keep their default config files under /etc. This means that if the clients don't mount /etc from the file-server, they'll run into troubles when running the new applications I install in the file-server. I'm thinking of having the clients mount the file-server's /etc into, say, their local /user/etc, have these clients manually copy the relevant config files from there into their /etc, and then tune-up these config files if required. Is this the right way of doing things? How would do you do it? I'd appreciate your comments very much, thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez
Where is modutils? bind syntax error
Hello, I'm installing a new Debian server downloading the latest versions from unstable. Everything was ok except for two problems: 1. modules version 2.1.23-1 depends on modutils. Where is modutils? I couldn't find it. 2. While setting up bind version 4.9.5-1 I get the following error: Setting up bind (4.9.5-1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/bind.postinst: line 120: syntax error near unexpected token `done' dpkg: error processing bind (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 There seems to be a done instead of something like echo done. I changed this but I got an error then on line 125 so I decided to stop looking into it. Has this been fixed in another version? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez
What happend to the debian-user-digest list?
Hello, Two weeks ago I was subscribed to the list debian-user-digest and suddenly I stopped receiving messages. I tried to re-subscribe but there is no menu to do that in www.debian.org. Is that list still alive? If so, how can I subscribe to it again? Thank you, Pedro I. Sanchez
Olicom PCI Ethernet 10/100 and NEC 4x4 CD-ROM
Hello, Does anyone know if the following two elements ar supported under Linux? - Olicom Ethernet PCI 10/100 Adapter, Model OC-2315 - NEC Multispin 4x4 CD-ROM unit (4 CD's in one unit) (I believe this is an IDE unit). If so, what are the appropriate drivers? So far, I haven't found any references to these two in the HOWTO's and other sources. Thank you, Pedro Ivan -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Weird dselect
Hello, I finished installing 1.2 and after some minor hi-cups everything is ok. However, now when I run the Access option of dselect I get double options like this: dselect - list of access methods Abbrev.Description cdrom Install from a CD-ROM. cdrom Install from a CD-ROM. nfsInstall from an NFS server (not yet mounted). nfsInstall from an NFS server (not yet mounted). harddisk Install from a hard disk partition (not yet mounted). harddisk Install from a hard disk partition (not yet mounted). mountedInstall from a filesystem which is already mounted. mountedInstall from a filesystem which is already mounted. floppy Install from a pile of floppy disks. floppy Install from a pile of floppy disks. * ftpInstall using ftp. ftpInstall using ftp. However it works pretty well! so this is some sort of a curiosity. How do I fix it? -- Pedro Ivan -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't load the nfs module
Hello, I am trying to set up an NFS client in my PC, but when I issue the command modprobe nfs I get the following: ~ modprobe nfs nfs_mknod undefined nfs_sillyrename_cleanup undefined nfs_create undefined nfs_mkdir undefined nfs_lookup_cache undefined nfs_rename undefined nfs_lookup undefined nfs_rmdir undefined nfs_link undefined nfs_refresh_inode undefined nfs_symlink undefined nfs_unlink undefined Loading failed! The module symbols (from linux-2.0.6) don't match your linux-2.0.6 The command modprobe -l -t fs returns the following, /lib/modules/2.0.6/fs/affs.o /lib/modules/2.0.6/fs/binfmt_java.o /lib/modules/2.0.6/fs/hpfs.o /lib/modules/2.0.6/fs/isofs.o /lib/modules/2.0.6/fs/ncpfs.o /lib/modules/2.0.6/fs/nfs.o /lib/modules/2.0.6/fs/smbfs.o /lib/modules/2.0.6/fs/sysv.o /lib/modules/2.0.6/fs/ufs.o /lib/modules/2.0.6/fs/umsdos.o /lib/modules/2.0.6/fs/vfat.o so I assume the NFS module is available. Any suggestions? Thank you, -- Pedro Ivan -- P.S. I have modules version 2.1.8-1 and I'm running Debian 1.1. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Missing files in the TeX directory
Hello, I can't find several files that used to live in the TeX directory, for example mflib. I've looked in buzz, rex, unstable to no avail. The only things I get are misssing links. Still with problems at ftp.debian.org? Regards, Pedro Ivan -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Missing files in the TeX directory
Hello, I can't find several files that used to live in the TeX directory, for example mflib_1.0-8.deb and mfbasfnt_1.0-7.deb. I've looked in buzz, rex, unstable to no avail. The symlinks do not exist. Still with problems at ftp.debian.org? Regards, Pedro Ivan -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pine and fvwm2
Hello, I used to run pine under an xterm or rxvt while using fvwm and I had full cut/paste support (I mean, I could copy from the pine screen and paste into any other X-application and viceversa). Now that I am using fvwm2 the pine screen ignores the cut/paste events even though they work fine on the xterm and rxvt screens (other than pine). Can somebody give an idea on how to fix this? In a separate issue, I liked the little virtual (sticky) desktop that used to show up in my screen allowing me to navigate from one virtual desktop to another by just clicking the appropriate rectangle. How do I enable this in fvwm2? Thank you for your info, Pedro Ivan -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pine and fvwm2
Thank you, Cut and paste functions work well with the shift key. Pedro Ivan -- On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Rick Macdonald wrote: Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: I used to run pine under an xterm or rxvt while using fvwm and I had full cut/paste support (I mean, I could copy from the pine screen and paste into any other X-application and viceversa). Now that I am using fvwm2 the pine screen ignores the cut/paste events even though they work fine on the xterm and rxvt screens (other than pine). Can somebody give an idea on how to fix this? In pine, go into Setup/Config and look at the feature enable-mouse-in-xterm. If you have this turned on, apparently you need to hold the shift key when cutting/pasting. Here is the help info: FEATURE: enable-mouse-in-xterm This feature controls whether or not an X terminal mouse can be used with Pine. If set, and the $DISPLAY variable indicates that an X terminal is being used, the left mouse button on the mouse can be used to select text or commands. Note: if this feature is set, the behavior of X terminal cut-and-paste is also modified. It is necessary to hold the shift key down while clicking left or middle mouse buttons for the normal xterm cut/paste operations. End of help on this topic -- ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pine and fvwm2
On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Pedro I. Sanchez wrote: Hello, ... In a separate issue, I liked the little virtual (sticky) desktop that used to show up in my screen allowing me to navigate from one virtual desktop to another by just clicking the appropriate rectangle. How do I enable this in fvwm2? Easy way out is to edit your ~/.fvwm2rc and add to AddToFunction InitFunction whatever's in there + I Module FvwmPager 0 0 ^^^ (see man on FvwmPager and fvwm2). Also add this line to RestartFunction, so the pager is activated when you restart fvwm2, too. I have a file called ~/.fvwm2/post.hook which has the following on it: # # START-UP Functions # AddToFunc InitFunction I Module FvwmButtons + I Module FvwmPager 0 0 + I Module FvwmAudio + I Next [!iconic CurrentScreen xterm] Focus + I CursorMove 30 40 AddToFunc RestartFunction I Module FvwmButtons + I Module FvwmPager 0 0 + I Module FvwmAudio + I Next [!iconic CurrentScreen xterm] Focus + I CursorMove 30 40 # Uncomment this to make windows auto-raise after [x] milliseconds # AddToFunc InitFunction I Module FvwmAuto 0 Shouldn't this make the trick? When I change some other stuff in this file I can see the changes right as soon as I reliad fvwm2. But I don't have any pager at all. Pedro Ivan -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help with LaTeX permissions
Hello, I just install the latest release from Debian and I decided to try (again) the LaTeX packages. But again I am running into problems. I compile a test document with no problems, but whe I try dvips (or xdvi) I get the following: [ Text on font metrics generation deleted] Font metrics written on cmr10.tfm. Output written on cmr10.300gf (128 characters, 13184 bytes). Transcript written on cmr10.log. mkdir: cannot make directory `/var/spool/texmf/fonts/pk/deskjet': Permission denied chmod: /var/spool/texmf/fonts/pk/deskjet: No such file or directory /var/spool/texmf/fonts/pk/deskjet: MakeTeXPK could not create directory. mv: cannot move `cmr10.300pk' to `/var/spool/texmf/fonts/pk/deskjet/pktmp.1158': No such file or directory /usr/bin/MakeTeXPK: Could not mv cmr10.300pk /var/spool/texmf/fonts/pk/deskjet/pktmp.1158. /usr/bin/MakeTeXPK: /var/spool/texmf/fonts/pk/deskjet: No such file or directory kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. dvips: Font cmr10 not found, characters will be left blank. It looks to me that there are some errors in the way some permissions are set in some packages, or am I missing something? Thanks for your help, Pedro Ivan -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keyboard mess
Hello, I have problems with backspace, delete, and function keys and others under X windows. 1. Under rxvt, the shell prompt (bash) doesn't understand any of them (I get the character ~ and a beep for the backspace and delete keys. Under ae, that simple editor, F10 works but Shift-F10 gives ^[[34$, the arrow keys don't work neither!) 2. Under xterm at least I can use backspace at the shell prompt (why is this different from the rxvt?), but ae under xterm is almost the same as befor (but I get ^? for the backspace instead). 3. All keys work well under the console (non-X)!. I am using the latest version of Debian (brand new system installed yesterday). Is there something to be done to properly set up X? Thanks for your help, Pedro Ivan -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need advise on repartitioning
Hello, I have two hard disks, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. The latter has only two primary partitions assigned to swap and /home. I want to create a third partition in /dev/hdb and asign it to /var, which currently lives in /dev/hda in the same partition of / (no separate partition for /var). I am thinking on the following: 1. tar cvf var.tar /var/* to have a backup of the current contents of /var. 2. tar cvf home.tar /home/* to have a backup of home. 3. umount /home and use cfdisk to create the new partition. 4. Modify /etc/fstab to account for the new mapping of file systems. 5. Mount /home and restore the files from home.tar 6. Reboot Linux and once the new /var is mounted restore the files from var.tar I'm not sure about the last point since during the booting process some info in /var might be needed. Also, if it works, what happpens to the files in the original /var (in /dev/hda)? I'd appreciate if someone can enlighten for me the right way to do this. Thank you, Pedro Ivan -- P.S. I overlooked giving /var its own partition when I first installed debian and it lives under the root partition. However /var/spool/mail is getting to big (to many users!) and that's why I need the extra space available in /dev/hdb.
Re: Anonymous ftp and the ls command.
Mark Eichin wrote: doesn't wu-ftpd use builtin code for simple ls? I don't know but I haven't installed wu-ftpd myself, only the standard ftpd that comes with the netstd package. Maybe the solution to my problem is just to install this package. Pedro Ivan --
Anonymous ftp and the ls command.
Hello, I have debian 1.1 and I installed an anonymous ftp service. It works fine except for an annoying problem: ftp users can always see the files in the ftp site even though there is no ls binary under the bin directory of ~ftp. I understand that ftp users will only be able to execute commands with valid binaries under ~ftp/bin. So if there is no ~ftp/bin/ls there shouldn't be a way to see the directory structure. Am I wrong? I'd appreciate any hint on this. Thank you, Pedro Ivan --
Re: Anonymous ftp and the ls command.
This is exactly my problem. The _anonymous_ users still can use the ls command even though there is no ~ftp/bin/ls binary! How's that possible? Pedro Ivan -- Brian C. White wrote: I have debian 1.1 and I installed an anonymous ftp service. It works fine except for an annoying problem: ftp users can always see the files in the ftp site even though there is no ls binary under the bin directory of ~ftp. The chroot is only done for _anonymous_ ftp and thus only this login has limited command access. All other userids will run with the standard commands in /bin. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Want to get it together? We can help! http://www.verisim.com/coordinator/
Need an 8 mm tape recommendation
Hello, I need to buy and install an 8mm tape system for our debian systems. If you happen to have one up and running, could you drop me a note telling me things like: - Tape system brand name, - Connection type (serial/parallel port, internal, etc.), - Software used to access the tape (I only see something called taper in the debian distribution), - Any other info that could guide me. Thank you, Pedro Ivan --
Re: Where is net-modules.txt
I received already a copy of this file. Thank you very much! ___ Pedro I. Sanchez|Phone:(514) 683-6363 x31 |2250 Pl. Transcanadienne Internetworking Systems |Fax: (514) 683-7997 |Dorval, QC., Canada CTI Datacom Inc.| |H9P 2X5 ---
Where is net-modules.txt
Hi, I'm trying to get a hold on the file net-modules.txt. Where does it leave? I saw a message refering to Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt in the Kernel-source directory. Where is that? Do I have to download the 6 Mb kernel source tar file? If so, I'd appreciate if someone can e-mail me the net-modules.txt file instead. (Shouldn't this file leave in /usr/doc/module, after the base system is installed?) Thank you, ___ Pedro I. Sanchez|Phone:(514) 683-6363 x31 |2250 Pl. Transcanadienne Internetworking Systems |Fax: (514) 683-7997 |Dorval, QC., Canada CTI Datacom Inc.| |H9P 2X5 ---
I can't configure my Ethernet card
Hello, I've been unable to configure my Ethernet card under Debian 1.1. The documentation that comes with the card says Software Driver compatible to existing NE-2100/AM-1500T. My first guess was to use the ne driver but it doesn't work. The ethercard uses the AMD 79C961 chip. From the Ethernet-HOWTO: AMD 79C961 (PCnet-ISA+) Status -- Supported This is the PCnet-ISA+ -- an enhanced version of the 79C960. It has support for jumper-less configuration and Plug and Play. See the info in the above section. This fits my ethercard. The above section mentions the LANCE driver as the one to use with this card. However, even though the driver lance.c is listed in the net-modules.txt file, I can't find the lance.o file in my system. If I give the command insmod lance I get Cannot open /lib/modules/misc/lance.o Actually, there's no such directory misc under lib/modules. Why is then ismod looking for that? Anyway, I have a directory /lib/modules/current/net with several net drivers on it except lance. My questions are then: 1. How do I get this lance module to work? (where is lance.o?) 2. How do I configure this driver? (My ethercard is set to use irq=5, dma=3, address=0x2E0). Thanks for any help on this matter. ___ Pedro I. Sanchez|Phone:(514) 683-6363 x31 |2250 Pl. Transcanadienne Internetworking Systems |Fax: (514) 683-7997 |Dorval, QC., Canada CTI Datacom Inc.| |H9P 2X5 ---
Can't find my Ethernet card
Hi, I installed Debian 1.1 in my Cyrix 586 and other than my Ethernet access everything seems to be doing well. While I am in M$ Windows, Netware installs ok and reports the NIC with IRQ=5, DMA=3, Port=2E0 (the same if I just use the MSD.EXE program under the windows directory). I added the following lines to /etc/conf.modules alias eth0 ne options ne io=0x2E0 irq=5 However if I run 'depmod -a; modprobe eth0' modprobe complains saying that there is no NE*000 device in that address. How shall I interpret the report I get from M$ Windows? Thanks for your help. ___ Pedro I. Sanchez|Phone:(514) 683-6363 x31 |2250 Pl. Transcanadienne Internetworking Systems |Fax: (514) 683-7997 |Dorval, QC., Canada CTI Datacom Inc.| |H9P 2X5 ---
