Re: Driver for Xserver
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 16:54, Samuele Pretini wrote: Hi, I try to install Debian 30r1 on my notebook, but the Xserver does't start. I suppose that this problem is generated of my chipset adn my graphics card ( Ati Radeon IGP 320M). My notebook is a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A 7600. There is a solution for my problem? Try: http://koti.mbnet.fi/~keiky/misc/linux/amilo/amilo_linux.html HTH, Stefan -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: simple (hopefully obvious) question + thankyou
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:42, matt wrote: first off, thanks everyone for trying to help me figure out my ssh2 delema. completely reinstalled woody and used openssh and the problem persists. but at least i now know it's not the debian machine. Sorry, didn't read the previous mails about your ssh2 delema - do you know the version of the sshd you are trying to connect to? Could you post the output of 'ssh -vv targetmachine'? Have you tried to connect using 'ssh -1 targetmachine', 'ssh -2 targetmachine'? Maybe we still can find out where the problem is... cheers, Stefan easy question...I need to load two kernel modules (mga.o and sb.o) but they don't show up in the modconf menu like in potato. where are they? lsmod dosn't show them. where/how can i download them? there's mention in the installation manual of being able to load the kernel and modules over the network (http/ftp) but never tells you how :( thanks guys, -matt -- http://fastmail.fm - The holy hand grenade of email services -- Stefan Janecek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Matlab R12 suddenly stops running
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 05:49, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: Hi everyone, I ran Matlab R12 under unstable debian. After several apt update, I cannot run Matlab with java support. The following is the error msg with I run matlab Warning: Unable to load Java Runtime Environment:/usr/local/matlabr12/sys/java/jre/glnx86/jre/lib/i386/native_threads/libjava.so:symbol __libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference. Warning: Disabling Java support. (sorry for not wraping the line.) Anyone know what that error msg mean? I have libc6 verison 2.3.1 I know this does not solve your problem, but if you desperately need Matlab, you can start it without the graphical desktop using 'matlab -nodesktop'. I think it needs java only for the gui (which ist shit anyway, IMHO). hth, Stefan -- Edwin ERTW Lau __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- Stefan Janecek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 07:21, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hi, Am 09:17 2002-11-20 -0500 hat Wathen, Metherion geschrieben: Hi all, I need to know how to add CD's with programs and dependencies I downloaded from Debian.org to the list searched by dselect. What about deselect - Access method - CDROM No. Nowadays, you should really use APT. (and, as far as i can remember, dselect's cdrom method does not maintain a cache of what's on your CDs) mw: do you have internet connection on the machine you want to install the packages to? if yes: no need to download them to CD first - use 'apt-get install' instead. cheers, Stefan. Thanks in advance, mw. Michelle -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. __ Stefan Janecek Institute of Semiconductor Solid State Physics Universtity of Linz/Austria signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 13:42, Jörg Johannes wrote:
Hi everybody
For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I
have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and
.ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png
for pdflatex in order to use them. The other way round, normal LaTeX
does not understand the .png format, so any photos or scanned-in images
have to be converted into .ps. My question now is: Are there any
\usepackage{s} for making use of .ps in pdflatex and .png in LaTeX?
Anything better than
for i in *.eps; do convert $i `echo $i | sed s/.eps/.png/`
?
You should really consider converting them to pdf, not to png, using
epstopdf. Maybe you could do this during the LaTeX run by clever
use of \DeclareGraphicsRule (i am thinking of something like
\DeclareGraphicsRule{.eps}{.pdf}{.eps.bb}{epstopdf ...}, as you do with
gzipped eps files - i did NOT try this!).
If you have a lot of pictures, your LaTeX runs will last very loong
- but why should you convert ALL of the pictures EVERY time you run
LaTeX?
I would use a Makefile like
-[snip!]---
FROM = $(subst .eps,.pdf, $(wildcard *.eps))
all:: $(FROM)
%.pdf: %.eps
epstopdf $ $@
-[snip!]---
to convert only the eps files that changed to pdf. You can also use a
makefile for running LaTeX on you .tex documents ... experiment!
HTH, Stefan
Thanks
joerg
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[Fwd: Re: [OT] cdrdao and toc files]
Please reply to the list chris, not to me in personal. -Forwarded Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stefan Janecek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] cdrdao and toc files Date: 21 Nov 2002 20:41:52 +0100 On 21 Nov 2002, at 11:59, Stefan Janecek wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 02:00, Bill Moseley wrote: Can someone point me to info about the toc files used by cdrdao. Specifically I'm trying to understand what I can and cannot do just with the toc file -- such as how to split a track into multiple tracks, or shorten a track. I'm a linux newbie, but still beleive I can input some info for you. Since I always used cue file when burning CDDA cds to my friends (in windows). The reason why I prefered cue files instead of the just doing a simple CDDA burning is: 1. Every new track strats with an index. When you are using cue files, you can put in as many indexes as you please, e.g. spittning the wav to many tracks. 2. If the first wasfile has index 0, it gets ignored by the cdplayer and creates kind of a hidden track b4 track 1. To listen to it, you have to start playing track one and from there rewinding. Now to the newbie stuff, I didn't se any indexing entry in this bash script below, so I assume the cdrecord assumes indexes b4 each new wav and therefore also writes one, but this is just a quess. Neither have I a clue how to write cue-files sinces I had a little proggie in win95 that did it 4 me. And how I can build a toc file from a collection of .wav files (where I don't know their length in seconds). I use the following bash script to do that... (if you don't give the length explicitly, cdrdao is wise enough to take the length of the .wav file ;-) [snip!]- #!/bin/bash # # create .toc file for cdrdao echo CD_DA for file in *.wav do echo echo TRACK AUDIO echo FILE \$file\ 0 done [snip!]- HTH, Stefan Thanks, -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. __ Stefan Janecek Institute of Semiconductor Solid State Physics Universtity of Linz/Austria signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [OT] cdrdao and toc files
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 17:20, Bill Moseley wrote: At 11:59 AM 11/21/02 +0100, Stefan Janecek wrote: And how I can build a toc file from a collection of .wav files (where I don't know their length in seconds). I use the following bash script to do that... (if you don't give the length explicitly, cdrdao is wise enough to take the length of the .wav file ;-) Oh, sorry I was not clear. Maybe I'm assuming the toc/cue sheet does more than what it really does. I'm trying to find out what I can do with the toc -- e.g. can I adjust song/track lengths (cut the last 20 seconds out of a song)? Or can I split a track into two tracks (say I have a single wave file I want to include on a CDR that has two songs and I want the track display to change mid-way through that song)? Yes, you can do all of that with the toc-file. See 'man cdrdao' for the exact specification of this file. And if I can do those things (by adjusting the times in the toc file) then I'd need a way to get the length of the wav file in seconds when creating the toc file. Yes. I never used those features, so I can't recall a simple method to get the length of the wav file (but I am sure there is such a simple method) Maybe the 'gcdmaster' program might be interesting for you: it is a graphical user interface to cdrdao, and you can set indexes, track beginnings and ends and all the like with it. This is off topic for debian-user, so pointers to any good active linux CDR list would be helpful. Hmmm.Don't know any list, but http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdr.html provides an extensive list of links to Linux/CDR-related information... HTH, Stefan Thanks very much, -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. __ Stefan Janecek Institute of Semiconductor Solid State Physics Universtity of Linz/Austria signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements: Conspiracy
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:37, Pigeon wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:55:41 -0800, Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is exactly what burnproof does. You can load the machine; you can deplete the buffer. Rather than spewing the contents of the empty buffer to the disc (creating a coaster), it suspends the write and resumes when the buffer fills some more. Just imagine if the electronics of your hard drive spewed garbage to the platter if it ran out of incoming data for a bit. Or if your NIC broadcast random crap while the processor was attending to someone else. What a stupid way to build a device. *GG* that's bullshit, of course. It is easy not to send data over the network while you are busy doing something else. It is not so trivial to resume writing to a CDR exactly at the point you stopped... I don't think the CD-R manufacturers are being stupid. I think they're being greedy. You have two essentially identical CD-Rs, a cheaper one with stupid firmware and one with proper firmware which is more expensive. So people buy the cheaper one, and then have to buy the more expensive one a bit later because the cheaper one is unfit for the purpose for which it was sold (Hit them with Trades Descriptions Act?) Or maybe the salesperson in the computer shop will con them into buying a whole new computer. Moral: never buy anything until it's been out for at least 2 years, and make sure you know exactly what you're buying before you go anywhere near a shop. Burn down Babylon Pigeon signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [OT] cdrdao and toc files
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 02:00, Bill Moseley wrote: Can someone point me to info about the toc files used by cdrdao. Specifically I'm trying to understand what I can and cannot do just with the toc file -- such as how to split a track into multiple tracks, or shorten a track. And how I can build a toc file from a collection of .wav files (where I don't know their length in seconds). I use the following bash script to do that... (if you don't give the length explicitly, cdrdao is wise enough to take the length of the .wav file ;-) [snip!]- #!/bin/bash # # create .toc file for cdrdao echo CD_DA for file in *.wav do echo echo TRACK AUDIO echo FILE \$file\ 0 done [snip!]- HTH, Stefan Thanks, -- Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. __ Stefan Janecek Institute of Semiconductor Solid State Physics Universtity of Linz/Austria signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[Fwd: Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list?]
uuups. forgot to CC the list ... -Forwarded Message- From: Stefan Janecek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Wathen, Metherion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do I add CD's to dselect package list? Date: 20 Nov 2002 16:01:47 +0100 On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:17, Wathen, Metherion wrote: Hi all, I need to know how to add CD's with programs and dependencies I downloaded from Debian.org to the list searched by dselect. If your CD is a Debian archive (i.e. correct directory structure, Packages.gz files and the like) just do 'apt-cdrom add'. (I suppose you use the apt access method in dselect, which you really should use...) HTH, Stefan. Thanks in advance, mw. -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. __ Stefan Janecek Institute of Semiconductor Solid State Physics Universtity of Linz/Austria signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Tool showing directory size of the complet drive
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 18:52, Oliver Fuchs wrote: Hi, I am looking on Debian woody for a tool which can show me the size of folders/files of my complete drive to proof where my disk-space is wasted. I am now on 75% and I do not have a clue where my space is wasted. Can I scan my hole drive and show the largest files in sorting order. Can anyone recommend a tool for that? see: man du to see where my diskspace had gone, i usually use: du | sort -rn|less or du | sort -rn DiskUsage.txt HTH, Stefan. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. __ Stefan Janecek Institute of Semiconductor Solid State Physics Universtity of Linz/Austria signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: apache and php
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 14:17, Chris Lale wrote:
Php is not working in Apache. I am trying to install phpgroupware in
Woody. It did not work in one go so I am doing it in stages. Apache is
up and running (hostname 'athlon' or '127.0.0.1').
I installed php3.deb and put a test file ('test.php') in /var/www/. When
I point the browser at http://athlon/test.php it tries to save the file
rather than run it.
I have uncommented the line (suggested by the installation script)
LoadModule php3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp3.so
in /etc/apache/httpd.conf, stopped and started apache. No improvement.
I think you are missing the following line in your
/etc/apache/httpd.conf:
AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3
You would have to call your PHP3 file test.php3 in this case. The .php
ending is usually used for PHP4 sources. But IMHO you should really
consider using PHP4 - then you will need these lines in your httpd.conf:
LoadModule php4_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp4.so
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
HTH, Stefan.
I did get an alert during installation:
[alert] apache: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain
name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName.
Can anyone help?
Regards,
Chris.
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Re: home firewall problems
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 07:13:56 -0500 (CDT) Gene Gallistel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'm setting up a firewall for my home network and i'm having problems w/ my network cards. eth0 connects to the internal LAN w/ address 10.10.10.1 eth1 connects to my cable modem gets a dhcp address the problem: if both cards are listed in /etc/network/interfaces eth1 will error out on its configuration. this happens both at boot time ^ can you post some error messages etc.? network configuration and if i restart the networking service. eth0 will work fine and be able to communicate with all workstations on the internal network. if i remove eth0's entry from the interfaces file and reboot eth1 will work perfectly. this has been confusing me for the last few days, so if anyone has ideas i would really like to hear them. below is a copy of my /etc/network/interfaces file: # The loopback interface iface lo inet loopback #eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.10.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.10.10.0 broadcast 10.10.10.255 # The first network card-this entry was created during the Debian installation iface eth1 inet dhcp What does 'ifconfig' say? Are both interfaces listed or just one? Your problem could be a simple interrupt conflict. If both interfaces are listed, pls post the output of 'route -n', I noticed you do not have a 'gateway' line in your interfaces file. HTH, Stefan.
Re: Packages of Evolution, Nautilus for potato
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 14:59:52 +0200 LAMIRAULT Nicolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to test evoution and nautilus. I have potato 2.2r3 Where i could find official packages. I would like replace all my Ximian packages by Official debian packages Thanks There are no potato packages for evolution nautilus (potato became stable in August 2000, i think...). You could try to compile the unstable(=sid) packages for potato, but i think you will have a hard time satisfiying all the build dependencies. Did anybody on this list try? Any hints? BTW, does anybody know if nautilus will make its way into woody before the freeze ? HTH, Stefan.
Re: mysql_pconnect troubles
In a galaxy not too far away, John Griffiths spoke on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:57:22AM +1100: hullo all.. i realise that to some extent i'm talking to myself here but i'm hoping at some point someone will jump in and tell me what i'm doing wrong. okok, but you really should supply some more information on your problem... running on potato newest versions of apache, php3, mysql, and php3-mysql I discovered that apacheconfig wasn't working, uncommented the php3 module line myself and restarted apache so far so good, my hello world now works (woohoo) now i try to use mysql and i get a mysql_pconnect error could you post the php3 code you use to connect to the mysql server, plus the exact error message? are the webserver and mysqld running on the same machine? have you set the password of the mysql root user? on devshed: http://www.devshed.com/Books/ProPHP/print.html i found this: sql.safe_mode boolean MySQL has its own safe mode. If you set this to TRUE, mysql_connect and mysql_pconnect will ignore any host, user and password information you supply. This means you can only connect to the MySQL database as the user the web server is running as. could this be the problem? and if the debian packaged mysql is running in safe mode can someone tell me how to stop it? hmmm.. i'm also using potato's apache/mysql/php3 (the ever dreaded LAMP combination ;-) and it is working fine (save i also had to uncomment the php3-module line for myself...). so i suppose safe mode is disabled by default... greets, /stefan. or point me at the right doco? thanks John -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine
In a galaxy not too far away, robert_wilhelm_land spoke on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:31:16PM +0100: What does bind for domain name resolution mean? Does the mashine want to contact a internet nameserver? yes, that's exactly what it means. Surprising that today after boot-up GOOFY _can_ ping MINI by name, but not MICKEY. What I didn't seem to had made clear was that all mashines can ping each other by IP adress except MINI vs MICKEY. How can I achive that? uh,uh. things start getting complicated, especially because i missed the beginning of the thread. from what i can figure out, your configuration is the following: GOOFY (192.168.1.1)eth0 eth1(192.168.2.1) / \ /\ (192.168.1.2) MICKEYMINI (192.168.2.2) and on goofy your hosts file is #file /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.domain 192.168.1.1 GOOFY.ORION.DE GOOFY 194.25.2.129 t-online.de t-online 192.168.2.2 MINI.ORION.DE MINI 192.168.1.2 MICKEY.ORION MICKEY first: DONT use real (internet) domain names if you ever want to connect your system to the internet. this will save you a lot of troubles. - Can all machines ping each other by IP ?(that would mean IP-forwarding works)? - Who can ping whom by name? thats a matter of name resolution. i noticed that you have 192.168.2.2 MINI.ORION.DE MINI but only 192.168.1.2 MICKEY.ORION MICKEY maybe thats the source for some of your problems. - How do the /etc/hosts files of the clients (mickey, mini) look like? if you want them to ping each other by name you will have to do one of the following: + keep correct hosts files on every client. bad idea, esp. if you want to attach more clients to your network. + serve /etc/hosts by NIS. thats what i would do for a home network. + install a DNS server on goofy for your domain. maybe too sophisticated for just a few clients - except you want to learn how to run a DNS server... What i did not catch at all: why are you serving two clients by two NICS? would make sense only for an exercise on 'how to configure ipforwarding' greets, /stefan. Robert -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: install 2.2 with 2.2.13 kernel
In a galaxy not too far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 04:19:32PM +0100: Hi, sorry for my stupid question but how can i install debian 2.2 with the 2.2.13 (or 2.2.15) kernel ?? apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.15 cd /usr/src tar -xIf kernel-source-2.2.15.tar.bz2 cd kernel-source-2.2.15 make config or make menuconfig or whatever you like to configure your kernel with... make-kpkg --revision yourkernel1 kernel_image dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.2.15_yourkernel1_i386.deb this assumes you have make-kpkg installed(apt-get install make-kpkg) err... you have to do the above as root. this is generally considered not to be a good idea. if you want to be pedantic, add yourself to group src and do the above as you, using fakeroot for make-kpkg. hope that helps, /stefan. Thanks in advance for help. Laurent -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Create an Installation CD from /var../archives
In a galaxy not too far away, Robfrank spoke on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 12:58:30AM +: I would like to create an instalation CD from my archived packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. What I have tried is to create a bootable CD with the 2.88mb recue.bin and include a directory of all of my .debs and base_2.2.tgz. It boots into the installer fine, but it breaks when it asks for kernel and modules. How can I get the installer to install the kernel from the bootable CD and then install drivers? My installation was done, initially about a year and a half ago, by modem with floppies and dselect. There has got to be a way to restore or recreate a system by CD. I have tried and searched and you guys are my last resort. have you tried the package debian-cd? its normally used to make full installation cds from a mirror, but AFAIK it allows you to select the packages that go on the cds (via selecting tasks, i'm only using COMPLETE=1). maybe you can use it for your purposes. i know that's not much, but possibly it points you in the right direction. greets, /stefan. Robert Frank -- Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them. Others are so fast, they don't notice you. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: PHP setup with apache
In a galaxy not too far away, John Griffiths spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:07:10AM +1100: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all. I'm trying to get a Linux Apache Mysql Php (LAMP) setup going on a machine on my home network. running a potato base install i've happily got Apache and Mysql apt-get'ed and running fine. apt-get install php4 runs away and does its stuff and tells me its happy and runs apacheconfig. the problem is (i think) that its not putting the apache php module into /usr/lib/apache (i think i sadly don't have the bits to hand) and so apacheconfig isn't finding it and is taking it out of the httpd.conf (correctly) is there something else i should be getting/doing? there should be a line in your /etc/apache/httpd.conf: LoadModule php3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp3.so and in your /etc/apache/srm.conf: AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 (as you see, i'm using php3, you will have to substitute your values for php4) are these lines there? what does not work? can you post some error messages/a description of what fails? greets, /stefan. any help will be appreciated. John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 7.0 iQA/AwUBOhG3jtw8Sd3Rlz0HEQLfLgCdEmZIrIN1fLVATbwYjUN0MQndNdwAn0yh Cc4bQvyZWekXvok1DCTpK/qt =nVlF -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian 2.2 installer boot floppys
In a galaxy not too far away, Chris Howells spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 09:55:25AM +: I have just obtained the full three CD-ROM Debian CD-ROM set. I wish to try it out on my old computer first, which does not have a CD-ROM drive capable of booting. Therefore I must make a boot floppy. I used rawrite to create a floppy from the image install/rescue.bin, which boots the machine up with syslinux, and then asks for Insert root floppy disk to be loaded So, I made a floppy with the image of install/root.bin. i hope you created it with dd/rawrite and did not just copy root.bin on it... When I take the first (rescue.bin) floppy out, and put this one (root.bin) instead I get a 'Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root fs ' I asked on #debian about this, and was told that I needed to edit the file syslinux.cfg on one of the floppies, yet I am unsure how to do this (or why even -- all I want to do is start the installer from the CD-ROM?). They won't mount under Linux Mandrake (on my other machine), to edit the file, even if I specify mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy i can't imagine that this is really necessary. have you tried different floppies ? - they are an extremely unreliable medium... maybe you should even try to d/l the image again - there could have been some error during downloading it. of course you can't mount these floppys as ext2 (or any other fs) - they just contain an image (or, in the case of root.bin, a compressed image) of a filesystem. if you have the loop-device compiled in your kernel, you can mount the images in the following way: mount -o loop rescue.bin /mnt or mv root.bin root.bin.gz;gunzip root.bin.gz;mount -o loop root.bin /mnt btw, syslinux.cfg is in rescue.bin ... hope that helps, /stefan. I'd be really grateful if somebody could help. I do have a fair amount of Linux experience (with mainly Red Hat style distros -- where it's just a matter of writing installer.img or similair, and making sure the CD-ROM is in the drive), but this has got me stumped. -- Chris Howells E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 93699029 Web: http://www.linuxfan.com/~chowells -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Simple question
In a galaxy not too far away, Salvador Petit Marti spoke on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:24:48AM +0100: Sorry, I am a newbie in debian mailing lists... Is debian-user a good place to ask questions about usability/problems with woody? or there is another place?. I am subscribed to debian-testing but it yes. does not appear to have any traffic... Anyway, I am in woody cause of kde2. However, my current graphics hardware ? there is also kde2 for potato, you might want to use the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato kde2 greets, /stefan. (ViRGE GX/2 + SMP) seems not to be supported very well by XFree 4.0. I would like to maintain the previous release of XFree (3.3.6) but the problems are: 1º KDE2 _depends_ on XFree 4.0 ¿Is this dependence correct? I kept back the xserver-svga 3.3.6 and KDE2 runs fine but dselect gets crazy. 2º It is planned in woody to support the old version of XFree?. Now there is only a xserver-common-v3 incompatible with most X packages. Thanks, -- BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 FN:Salvador V. Petit Martí N:Petit Martí;Salvador;Vicente;; ORG:Universidad Politécnica de Valencia;DISCA ADR;TYPE=intl,post,parcel,work:;;Camino de Vera s/n;Valencia;;46022;España TEL;TYPE=work,voice:+34-96-3877007-5737 TEL;TYPE=work,fax:+34-96-3877579 EMAIL;TYPE=internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] REV:2000-04-11 END:VCARD -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: System.map
In a galaxy not too far away, Debian Ghost spoke on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at
11:34:40AM -0500:
Recently I started getting a message when I do a ps -ef | grep *something.
The message reads about my system map not matching my kernel. I recently
recompiled a kernel to include msdos support, but that is all I've done.
How did you install your new kernel - maybe you didn't install the new
System.map?
if you didn't do it that way: you should really use make-kpkg to make a debian
package of your new kernel and then install it with dpkg. just search this
mailing lists' archive, how this is done has been explained numerous times in
here...
greets,
/stefan.
Anyone help with this?
meanwhile as Debian Ghost does a shift insert and locks netscape up...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ps -ef | grep netscape
{no_halt} {init_task_union}
Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.15 does not match kernel data.
{no_halt} {init_task_union}
Warning: /boot/System.map does not match kernel data.
Thanks so much,
D. Ghost
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Re: fetchnews running automatically?
In a galaxy not too far away, Ekkehard Kraemer spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:33:27PM +: Hello, does fetchnews install some cron/anacron/etc. script which makes it fetch news automatically? I have created a crontab entry which runs fetchnews every 4 hours, but it seems to me like it is run more often that every 4 hours... you only have to run fetchmail once, it then polls your mails periodically - the delay time can be set (in seconds) in your ~/.fetchmailrc with 'set daemon xxx'. e.g. 'set daemon 300' would fetch your mail every 5 mins. /stefan. Ekkehard -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: fetchnews running automatically?
In a galaxy not too far away, Stefan Janecek spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 05:55:11PM +0100: In a galaxy not too far away, Ekkehard Kraemer spoke on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 04:33:27PM +: Hello, does fetchnews install some cron/anacron/etc. script which makes it uhhh... stupid me ;-/ fetch news automatically? I have created a crontab entry which runs fetchnews every 4 hours, but it seems to me like it is run more often that every 4 hours... you only have to run fetchmail once, it then polls your mails periodically - the delay time can be set (in seconds) in your ~/.fetchmailrc with 'set daemon xxx'. e.g. 'set daemon 300' would fetch your mail every 5 mins. /stefan. Ekkehard -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What partition?
In a galaxy not too far away, Eric G . Miller spoke on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 08:18:21AM -0800: On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:00:42AM -0500, Paindavoine, Matthieu (MPAINDAV) wrote: Out of curiosity I spent my weekend trying to reinstall Deb 2.2 out of floppies, on a 4GB HD. The installation kept sending me back to the floor, (the floppies would die before the end of the install of the base, or it wouldn't make the hd bootable). I was using a partition like /boot primary 10MB /swap primary 32MB / primary 32MB /home logical 1000MB /usr logical800MB /varlogical250MB I changed that now to /boot primary 10MB /swap primary 32MB / primary rest and the installation went smoothly. Now I'm just wondering what was wrong with what i assume is a wrong partitioning of my HD? I think the problem is the install routine need enough space for /target/base_2_2.tgz *and* its unpacked contents. This leads to needing more space for '/' than you will probably ever need again. I know I had the same problem using a 50MB '/', but if I made it bigger, say 100MB (if I recall), it worked. I didn't see any documentation about what the minimum disk space requirement is for a floppy install. Yes, i think your / partition is too small for the above reason. last time i installed potato i used about 65MB for root and it worked... /stefan. -- Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net Time is Free -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
mysql/errors rotating logs
Hi!
I installed mysql-server on my potato system and changed the password
for the mysql root user afterwards. i think this is a good thing(tm),
but now i'm getting the following error from cron/logrotate in my mail:
Subject: errors rotating logs
errors occured while rotating /var/log/mysql.err
^G/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password:
NO)'
error running postrotate script
... and the same for /var/log/mysql.log. the files were rotated correctly,
the problem seems to be in the 'postrotate script'. no clue what this one
does, but apparently it wants to connect to the database - without
password.
I have set the root password by connecting to the database and issuing:
SET PASSWORD FOR root=PASSWORD('x')
FLUSH PRIVILEGES
... is there a 'debian way' to do this? I don't have this problem on an
old slink box, but do not remember how i set the password there :-(
thanks in advance,
/stefan.
Re: mysql/errors rotating logs
In a galaxy not too far away, Stefan Janecek spoke on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at
11:18:49AM +0100:
Hi!
I installed mysql-server on my potato system and changed the password
for the mysql root user afterwards. i think this is a good thing(tm),
but now i'm getting the following error from cron/logrotate in my mail:
Subject: errors rotating logs
errors occured while rotating /var/log/mysql.err
^G/usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using
password: NO)'
error running postrotate script
... and the same for /var/log/mysql.log. the files were rotated correctly,
the problem seems to be in the 'postrotate script'. no clue what this one
does, but apparently it wants to connect to the database - without
password.
I have set the root password by connecting to the database and issuing:
SET PASSWORD FOR root=PASSWORD('x')
FLUSH PRIVILEGES
... is there a 'debian way' to do this? I don't have this problem on an
old slink box, but do not remember how i set the password there :-(
thanks in advance,
/stefan.
sorry to have bothered you - but i found the solution in the meantime:
you have to put the password in /etc/logrotate.d/mysql-server, for
anyone who is interested... maybe i should RTFM before asking
stupid questions
/stefan.
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Re: Q: Procedure to follow w/Compiled apps?
In a galaxy not too far away, Jonathan Gift spoke on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 01:35:27PM +0100: Hi, Thanks for getting back to me... 1. I have compiled and installed a new kernel. I'll keep the source in place for future work, but what of the org bzImage? Does one leave that in place as well or is it ok to remove it? Sorry. Where's that bzImage? Under /usr/src/linux or in /boot? If the The original in /usr/src/.../boot. When I ran make install it made a copy which it placed in /boot and linked to vmlinuz. So I have this extra original floating around doing nothing. Do I leave it? What do people do? Usually I'll do the following with apps compiled from sources: - remove source tree ...once you've installed the binaries (and/or associated configuration and man pages), you can delete the source tree. Just delete the source directory from which I just compiled the app, that's it? 3. The new app went in /usr/local/bin but I feel it belongs in /usr/lib/X11 with the other X apps. Is it a good idea to move it? Can I? You can. Generally, you shouldn't. Ok. Thanks for the advice. Debian doesn't manage files under /home/user/ or /usr/local. It was the Blackbox window manager I dl from Debian unstable. I thought it being a wm and all it had better be out of my own personal area... if you dled the sources from unstable, you should really consider making a .deb package out of it and install it via apt. you will have to dl the .tag.gz sources, the .dsc file and all patches/diffs. then you can unpack the sources by doing: dpkg-source -x foo.dsc cd into the source directory and issue ./debian/rules binary when compilation is ready, you should have foo.deb in ../ - voila! PS If I remove the source, can I still remove the app later? If so, how? removing the app is no problem if you installed it with apt 8-) This varies strongly by application. There are several mechanisms which facilitate this process, one incorporated into Debian is 'stow'. Otherwise, 'make uninstall' is a common build target which will remove a Good to know. But what name do I use and from where? If I compiled, say Blackbox, and it installed itself in /usr/local/bin + a man page. This is all a big help. I'm about to get cracking on compiling some of my favorite apps bt I want to know how to do it right Jonathan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null greets, /stefan. -- God is real, unless declared integer.
Re: VI probs
In a galaxy not too far away, Grischa Schuering spoke on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 05:30:13PM +0100: Hi, I just changed from SUSE to Debian and kind of have problems with the VI. When in INSERT mode I used to see that from the status line below, now there isnt anything. Also Delete isn't working as before, also when using the cursor keys, always the INSERT mode discontinues... Any way of changing that ?? Whats called 'vi' in suse is actually vim. do 'apt-get install vim vim-rt' and use vim to edit your files - it should behave like vi on suse... hope that helps, /stefan Greetings, Grischa
Re: ISP accounting software
In a galaxy not too far away, USM Bish spoke on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:14:31PM
+0518:
I am on the lookout for a light weight ISP accounting
software, preferentially a command line version which
can be fired from ppp scripts. Should have features
of configuration for rates, volume of transaction etc
Should output to a log file.
Yes, kppp suits the bill fine but kde is too resource
hungry on my anaemic system.
USM Bish
have you tried ipac('apt-get install ipac')?
that's what i am using for IP accounting.
/stefan
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Re: Printing problem
In a galaxy not too far away, Paul spoke on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 05:01:58PM -0500: Hi everybody, I am having problems getting my printing working. When I try to print I get this error message Hi everybody, I am having a problem getting my printer working. I have upgraded from Corel Linux 1.2 to a full Woody distro. The printing that was setup in corel broke which I expected so I installed printtool and the necessary dependent files.I can create a printer but if I try to print I get Get_local_host: hostname 'paulmt.sympatico.ca' bad. Which printer spooler do you use? LPRng? Could you post your /etc/printcap - it seems you are somehow trying to print to a remote printer I am using an ADSL client called roaring penguin which uses PPPOE.The name of the machine is paulmt and the ADSL provider is sympatico.ca. If anybody could help me it would be appreciated. Thanks -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null /stefan.
Re: Fetchmail, Procmail and multiple Email accounts
In a galaxy not too far away, Jim Lisi spoke on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:53:52PM -0500: Glyn Millington wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 06:06:13PM -0500, thus spake Jim Lisi: Note: Please CC me, I am having problems with the email addrs subsribed to the list I am trying to setup fetchmail and procmail so that I can get mail from two email accounts and diliver that to my debian box into to subfolders under ~/Mail. exp. fetchmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] via exim fetchmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] via exim Here's my .fetchmailrc (suitably doctored) for collecting from two ISP's set postmaster glyn set nobouncemail set properties # next line when uncommented sends output to maillog - # set syslog poll mail.uklinux.net with proto POP3 user aaardvark there with password is aaardvark here options stripcr warnings 3600 poll pop.freeserve.net with proto POP3 user [EMAIL PROTECTED] there with password xxx is glyn here options stripcr warnings 3600 procmail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] send mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to ~/Mail/abc/inbox send mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to ~/Mail/xyz/inbox In your .procmailrc file insert the recipes :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/Mail/abc/inbox and :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] /home/Mail/xyz/inbox That should do the trick. HTH, Glyn M Thanks. that seams to do the trick. Just had to modify it since I only have one userid (by choice) Only problem is with crossposted emails, they all end up in my first mailbox... Is there a way to make fetchmail add headers? (e.g. X-Source: abc.tld) you could use formail in your procmail recipes to do that... i guess :0 fhw * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | formail -a X-Source: abc.tld should do what you want, yet i have not tested it. hope that helps, /stefan. Thanks, Jim PS. sorry about the return addrs, my exim addrs masq filter seams to be on the blink. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: subnets 2 NICS in a mashine
In a galaxy not too far away, Robert Guthrie spoke on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 01:29:24PM -0600: On Thursday 09 November 2000 12:05, robert_wilhelm_land wrote: Robert Guthrie wrote: Now, I'm not quite sure what your setup is here, so let see if your setup is the same as mine... 1 linux box, serving NFS and SMB to 2 desktops that dual-boot linux and windows 98. Under linux, I mount (among other things), /home over nfs, so that when I log in to any linux computer, I have the same files available. Thats a good idea! Does this mean that all settings (X11, fvwm2, the whole enviroment) will be used on the client? Well, not exactly; If you have, say 5 computers that have different video cards, you'll want them configured differently (XF86config file). You'll probably need to add the same software to each workstation to support the same set of window managers and other applications. You could share /usr over nfs, and that _MIGHT_ work, but it'd be slow; plus, that could cause SERIOUS problems with package management. Sharing /usr works (that's what i do at my site, and i'm using / over nfs on a lot of machines too), but you you have to configure some things in /etc by hand that would normally be done by the package installation scripts. If you want to do this, sharing /etc/alternatives and /etc/texmf, /var/lib/texmf /var/spool/texmf is generally a good idea. Package management is done on the server only, of course - thats the reason why i do this. For only 5 computers the benefits of this my not be that large, but it could be handy if you want to use some old machine without harddisk as X terminal. Mostly, I just share home out so that I have the same www bookmarks, same mail folders, and same custom scripts (under ~/bin) available to me. There are lots of issues when you do this kind of thing, though (you have to make sure your /etc/group and /etc/passwd files are synchronised across the LAN, so that every machine identifies group and user ownership correctly. Usually NIS or LDAP are used for synchronizing user/group information across your network. IMHO nis is much easier to set up, but also less secure and lacks a lot of LDAP's features - but for only a few computers behind a firewall nis should be enough. You could do 'apt-get install nis' and read the nis-howto in /usr/doc/nis. Under windows, I map a drive letter (H:) to an SMB share of my home directory, accomplishing roughly the same thing. I do this all on one network. I use another machine (on the same network) as a router/gateway/firewall to my dial-up account. Now, are you serving 3 computers with your nfs/smb linux box in roughly the same way as I am? I just wanted to spare (at least for some time) a switch, therefore had the idea to plug 2 NICS into the linux server who serves 1 Win95 box and 1 linux box. Is there some reason you want to use two different NICs? You can usually support 10 or more computers over NFS and SMB shares before you start seeing bandwith problems (on 10Mbits, on 100Mbits, you have more bandwidth that you can shake a stick at). Networks are a very difficult area, it is just attempt to understand the simplest things... Again, I think you're compicating your life by creating 2 subnets to support only 2 computers. Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000. *GGG*, had to find out that the hard way, recently... Wher did you get that from!:)) I saw it on somebody else's .signature. I copied it from memory, so I can't credit the original author. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null greets, /stefan.
Re: .deb
In a galaxy not too far away, Sathish C spoke on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 09:40:09PM -0800: Hi All I have Red Hat linux on my M/C. Can any body tell me how I can open *.deb files? try: ar -x foo.deb this should give you a file called data.tar.gz which contains the binary files. /stefan. Thnk u in advance Bye Kilaru Content-Description: Card for Sathish C
Re: Key mapping in X
Rob Hudson wrote: Awesome. I added this to my .Xmodmap in my /home dir... ! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L ! remove Lock = Caps_Lock keysym Escape = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Escape add Lock = Caps_Lock ... and it worked after I typed 'xmodmap .Xmodmap'. Will X read this file on start up each time? Or do I have to tell it to? you can tell it to by putting the line 'allow-user-modmap' in /etc/X11/Xsession.options. see 'man 5 Xsession.options' for other options /stefan. Thanks, Rob.
Re: PHP
Adrian Nims wrote: Hello, I try to use PHP language in connection wiht web, I'm on debian potato and using apache web server 1.2.6. I have the following problem: when I run a php file in netscape it appears a window Save as ... instead of executing my php file. Does anybody know how can I solve this ? i assume you already have LoadModule php3_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/libphp3.so in your httpd.conf. Additionally, you will have to put lines like AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3 AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php ...etc in srm.conf so that apache knows which files it should process through php. (httpd.conf and srm.conf should both be in /etc/apache). hope that helps, /stefan. Thank you, Adrian Nims -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
