Printer configuration
I'm running hamm and wanted to set up a printer (HP OfficeJet). I want PostScript files to be automatically filtered using ghostscript, and text files to be printed in Courier. Under Red Hat there was a GUI tool that was really easy to set up, but under Debian I'm at a loss. Is there a FAQ or something on this? I looked and couldn't find one. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 831/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 831/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Paradise is exactly like where you are right now, only much, much better. --Laurie Anderson (Language Is a Virus / Home of the Brave)
Sendmail 8.9 on hamm?
I'm running a 'stable' (hamm) system and want to have Sendmail 8.9 for its spam-blocking abilities. Hamm comes with 8.8.8 which I am not happy with. Is there an 8.9 .deb file that will work with hamm? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 831/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 831/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Paradise is exactly like where you are right now, only much, much better. --Laurie Anderson (Language Is a Virus / Home of the Brave)
Help setting up virtual hosts
I am in the process of switching back to Debian from Red Hat, and am
having one serious problem ... I have paying customers who need my
virtual host web site to be up and running but I can't seem to get it
to work.
Under Red Hat, I had the PPP ip-up script do this:
ifconfig ${PPP_IFACE}:0 ipaddr
However when I try this under Debian, I get this error:
SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device
ppp0:0: unknown interface.
Perhaps there was some extra step that I had done under Red Hat to
make this syntax possible, but I can't remember what it is. Whatever
it is, it should work the same no matter which Linux distribution I
use, shouldn't it?
This is dreadfully urgent; if you know the answer please let me know.
--Bill.
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Re: Help setting up virtual hosts
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, William R. Ward wrote: Perhaps there was some extra step that I had done under Red Hat to make this syntax possible, but I can't remember what it is. Whatever it is, it should work the same no matter which Linux distribution I use, shouldn't it? Debian's default kernel does not have IP aliasing compiled in, you should recompile your kernel. [A good idea on any linux system!] I had recompiled it a few times, but didn't notice that setting before. I now am getting a slightly different error. SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument ppp0:0: unknown interface. And in /var/log/messages, it says this: Nov 7 15:41:01 komodo kernel: net_alias_dev_create(ppp0:0): unregistered family==2 Any ideas? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 831/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 831/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Paradise is exactly like where you are right now, only much, much better. --Laurie Anderson (Language Is a Virus / Home of the Brave)
Re: Help setting up virtual hosts
No, PPP was already working. What I forgot was that there are both IP aliasing and Network aliasing options, and I had only turned one of them on. I turned the other one on, rebooted, and it works. Thanks to all who helped. It is *SO* nice to be back on Debian. I had been running a bleeding-edge hamm system a few months back and it crashed and wouldn't boot so I figured I'd try Red Hat. Ugh, I hated it. Not anywhere nearly as configurable or slick as Debian. I'm glad to be back and I promise not to go astray again ;-) --Bill. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le 08-Nov-98, William R. Ward a pris ses électrons pour écrire: I had recompiled it a few times, but didn't notice that setting before. I now am getting a slightly different error. SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument ppp0:0: unknown interface. And in /var/log/messages, it says this: Nov 7 15:41:01 komodo kernel: net_alias_dev_create(ppp0:0): unregistered family==2 Any ideas? haven't you forgot to put PPP support in kernel ? /\//\/\/\\/\/\//\/\\/\/\\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\ Patrick M. [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.patoche.org/ Sysadmin of patoche.org, globenet.org, bde.espci.fr -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 831/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 831/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Paradise is exactly like where you are right now, only much, much better. --Laurie Anderson (Language Is a Virus / Home of the Brave)
MD5 check failed for some packages!!
Hi all, in a recent attempt to mirror hamm from the CDROM.COM web site (http://www.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian/dists/hamm) I received errors when validating the MD5 checksums on the following files. I don't know if they are bad on the debian.org site, since only FTP is supported there and I find HTTP to be much faster for mirroring. Anyway, here are the files that had problems: main/binary-i386/devel/kernel-patch-2.0.33-m68k_2.0.33-3.deb main/binary-i386/editors/xemacs19-support_19.16-2.deb main/binary-i386/editors/xemacs20-supportel_20.4-2.deb main/binary-i386/graphics/gimp_0.99.23-1.deb main/binary-i386/utils/gcal_2.40-2.deb main/binary-i386/x11/xext_3.3.2-3.deb main/binary-i386/x11/xserver-s3v_3.3.2-3.deb contrib/binary-i386/devel/ddd-dmotif_2.2.3-2.deb The only one of these that I am particularly concerned about is gimp. I don't believe I use any of the others. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Emacs 19.34
I am using the emacs package (19.34) and am finding that increasingly there are more and more packages (e.g. pcl-cvs) that depend on either emacs19 or emacs20 and for some reason the emacs package doesn't provide emacs19 as I would expect it should. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ckermit gone?
Apparently ckermit is no longer provided - I believe it used to be in either non-free or contrib. Why is this? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tm gone?
What happened to the tm package (mail utilities for Emacs)? It seems to be gone from hamm now... --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP mirror of non-us??
The script I use to download .deb files uses libwww-perl, which is apparently not very effective for FTP connections. I typically get speeds of 2-2.5 kB/s using HTTP and 0.3 using FTP (this is over a 2.88 kB/s connection). Is there an HTTP site where I can download non-us packages? The only site I know of is ftp://nonus.debian.org. (I download my regular hamm files from http://www.cdrom.com) Any help would be most appreciated. Also, is there any hope of convincing the owners of www.debian.org to include a mirror of ftp.debian.org on their HTTP server? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble installing dump_0.4b4-6.deb
This is the error I get (Reading database ... 35660 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace dump 0.4b4-4 (using .../utils/dump_0.4b4-6.deb) ... Unpacking replacement dump ... dpkg: error processing /news/debian/hamm/main/binary-i386/utils/dump_0.4b4-6.d (--install): trying to overwrite `/usr/man/man8/rmt.8.gz', which is also in package cpio [] Why is this file in both dump and cpio packages? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HTTP mirror of non-us??
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US/stable/binary-i386 Great, thanks! Check the mailing list archives of debian-www for a more complete list. I've never heard of debian-www; is that also on lists.debian.org? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slink [was: Re: Debian Hamm Dselect]
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, William R. Ward wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Simple. Slink doesn't currently duplicate anything that is in hamm. Set
dselect or whatever to look in dists/frozen and dists/unstable if you want
stuff specifically from slink.
How do I do that? There is only one each of 'main', 'non-free', and
'contrib', and only one Packages file for each. Is there a way to get
a Packages file that covers hamm with the changes from slink? Or
should I just stick with hamm for now?
dists/{frozen,unstable}/{main,non-free,contrib}
Yes, but dselect only has room for one Packages file in each of
{main,non-free,contrib,local}
--Bill.
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Slink [was: Re: Debian Hamm Dselect]
Andreas Mueck \(Stud.93\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it ok to set dselect to use the package files in /debian/hamm/ yet? I was using /debian/dists/unstable before now, and I noticed the other day that my package list went to nothing. hamm is now dists/frozen, the new 'unstable'-version is slink. I noticed this too. However the 'slink' version seems incomplete. What is the current status of the unstable version? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xterm weirdness
When I resize an xterm that has been running for a while, it shrinks down to a very tiny size. I am using some of the nifty features of xterm so that may be the cause, but it looks like a bug to me. Has anyone else seen this? I'm using hamm, but I haven't updated it in a while yet. Has there been any update to the xlib6g or xbase packages that might fix this? Another problem I have been having seems to do with either the line discipline, termcap/terminfo, tcsh, or some combination of the above. I've found that the terminal settings (for xterm at least) get all screwed up after trying to scroll through recent commands, edit files with vi, and other things that use the cursor movement, bold, inverse, etc. terminal codes. This only happens, however, when I am using a non-Debian xterm to log into my Debian system. This happens on my Sun at home and my SGI at work; when I connect to the Debian system, the term gets so hosed must either do a 'hard reset' periodically or launch a Debian xterm to display on the remote X server (which works fine). Any ideas? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slink [was: Re: Debian Hamm Dselect]
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1 Apr 1998, William R Ward wrote: Andreas Mueck \(Stud.93\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it ok to set dselect to use the package files in /debian/hamm/ yet? I was using /debian/dists/unstable before now, and I noticed the other day that my package list went to nothing. hamm is now dists/frozen, the new 'unstable'-version is slink. I noticed this too. However the 'slink' version seems incomplete. What is the current status of the unstable version? Simple. Slink doesn't currently duplicate anything that is in hamm. Set dselect or whatever to look in dists/frozen and dists/unstable if you want stuff specifically from slink. How do I do that? There is only one each of 'main', 'non-free', and 'contrib', and only one Packages file for each. Is there a way to get a Packages file that covers hamm with the changes from slink? Or should I just stick with hamm for now? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS/2 Mouse Port
I have a motherboard that has a PS/2 mouse port. It's *not* an ATX motherboard, though - the PS/2 port and the parallel port are together on a metal insert that goes in one of the card slot holes in the case. I have a TrackMan that has a PS/2 port: with an adapter it works fine in the serial port, but I want to free up that port and use the PS/2 port on the motherboard. I tried plugging the mouse in, powering up the system, and configuring XFree86 to use /dev/psaux or /dev/psmouse, but no dice. I also tried cat /dev/psaux and moving the trackball and pushing buttons, and saw nothing - I expected to see gibberish. So maybe it isn't working at all! I'd appreciate any suggestions for 1) testing to see if my PS/2 port even works, 2) configuring Linux to find my PS/2 port, and/or 3) getting it to work with X. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion. - John Adams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PS/2 Mouse Port
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You probably did this already, but have you enabled your PS/2 mouse port in your BIOS? You also need a kernel with PS/2 support compiled in, or you need to insert the module. I believe typing 'cat /proc/misc' will show you if ps2 support is currently enabled. Also, check /proc/interrupts to see if IRQ 12 is free. Well /proc/misc shows only rtc and softdog whatever those are. IRQ 12 is free. I'll play with the BIOS - I assumed it would have been enabled out of the box like the rest of the ports. My kernel has PS/2 mouse port support included as a module. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion. - John Adams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dial Script
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) writes: I have a web page that people can use to page me on my numeric pager. It uses a very stupid program (npage) to dial the phone. I was wondering if someone has a better way, maybe perl, chat, a well written C program, etc. to do this. Most pager companies these days have an e-mail interface. I use AirTouch, and any message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will appear on my pager (assuming the message is less than 245 characters long). While I have an alphanumeric pager, this would also work with numeric pagers - just send a numeric message. However I wasn't very happy with the interface to AirTouch's system, so I wrote a Perl script that removes extra spaces and blank lines, includes the From and Subject headers, checks the length, and sends it to both the AirTouch e-mail and my regular e-mail addresses. So now if you mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (*much* easier to remember, too) it gets processed by this script. I also wrote a similar one that works from a web page (there's a link to it from my homepage, URL listed below, if you want to look at the web page). If anyone is interested in getting copies of these scripts, mail me. If you are an AirTouch customer and would like to use these scripts running on my system for your pages, let me know and maybe we can work something out. They should work for any AirTouch customer, and it should be possible to adapt it to other pager companies as well. --Bill. P.S.: If you want to page me please don't do so between the hours of 10pm and 10am Pacific time. Thanks. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion. - John Adams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Viewing bootup message
Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 09:11:27PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can you view the entire list of messeges that show when you boot into linux? It all either scrolls by too fast or too much read/decipher as it rolls off the top. Is there a file that mirrors that output or someway I can re-direct it to a file for perusal? dmesg will show you the kernel stuff, eg dmesg | less. Most of it is in the logs in /var/log too. There's no way (that I know of) to see all the non-kernel stuff. I could shift/page right back to the bios messages after startup until I upgraded svgatextmode (currently Version: 1.8-4.) Now I cannot go back past whatever is on the screen when svgatextmode starts. Has anyone got a fix for this? I've never seen much point in svgatextmode, personally - you can get 80x50 from LILO, isn't that enough? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion. - John Adams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Nis refusing logins
Pedro Quaresma de Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have instaled nis_3.1.deb (with libc6) but I am having problems with the non-local users. I have the following entry in /etc/passwd +piupiu:*:0:0::/home/merlin/msky:/bin/bash but when the user piupiu try to login Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 hilbert.mat.uc.pt hilbert login: piupiu Password: Login incorrect What is the problem (and the solution)? I have set the ypdomain correctly, ypwhich finds the correct machine, ypcat passwd | grep piupiu finds the correct user, but... The entry in your /etc/passwd is overriding the yp entry. Your /etc/passwd '+' entry should not have the user information, just +::0:0::: - then all users in the passwd map will be included. Get a copy of Managing NIS and NFS from O'Reilly. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion. - John Adams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Question re: splitting files
Charles Briscoe-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott McDermott) wrote: I just tar as multi-volumes, set volume size appropriately to fit on a disk. Do you even need to set the size? I find this works pretty well: % tar cvMf /dev/fd0 * and at the other end: % tar xvMf /dev/fd0 Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble with this. Stick a 'z' in the tar options to get gzip (fewer floppies!) --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion. - John Adams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Home dir Permissions
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 12 Feb 1998, William R. Ward wrote: One comment about permissions: Web files do *NOT* have to be world readable. They just have to be readable by the web server. If you set up a user and group for your web server (I use www for both) you can get by with just having the files be group-readable by the webserver's group (and not all the other users on the system). I missed the beginning of this thread, but why forbid local users from viewing files that you let any user outside of your system view? Most people I know concerned with security in their directories remove the read permissions on directories so anyone can get to the file, but only if they know the name. Note, this isn't a high level of security, just another thing to do. I don't see any reason to add users to more groups. You might have a .htaccess file that limits access to a smaller group of people. I do this in my own web pages - I have a subdirectory with limited access so I have to enter a password to get at the documents there. That directory is mode 750 with the group being www - and other users are *not* in the group www (that's the whole point). --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion. - John Adams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Home dir Permissions
One comment about permissions: Web files do *NOT* have to be world readable. They just have to be readable by the web server. If you set up a user and group for your web server (I use www for both) you can get by with just having the files be group-readable by the webserver's group (and not all the other users on the system). --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion. - John Adams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: UPS again
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I believe I have a week to do so and it's real stormy now, so I'm glad to have it anyway), I wanted to ask if anyone knew if I could do anything with it. I bought a MinuteMan 280 Pro UPS. It looks like it has smart features but does not come with a cable or software. It is made by Para Systems. Is there any Linux software that'll talk to this beast? As far as I know, the only package that supports any kind of smart signalling is the apcd package (for APC systems, of course). If your UPS has a dumb-signalling mode, then you can probably build a cable that genpower can drive. Beyond that, though, I can't help you. They sell controller software for SCO Unix; is Debian binary-compatible enough to run SCO binaries? I seem to recall hearing it is. Barring that, I'll have to see if I can't talk them out of the specs... -Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: UPS again
Yikes that sounds like a chore. I hope it doesn't come to that. --Bill. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William R. Ward wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Raymond A. Ingles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Feb 1998, William R Ward wrote: Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I believe I have a week to do so and it's real stormy now, so I'm glad to have it anyway), I wanted to ask if anyone knew if I could do anything with it. I bought a MinuteMan 280 Pro UPS. It looks like it has smart features but does not come with a cable or software. It is made by Para Systems. Is there any Linux software that'll talk to this beast? The UPS-HOWTO has a lot of info about using a UPS under Linux. I'd check there before returning it. I know that genpowerd is pretty flexible and can be configured to support almost any UPS. The UPS-HOWTO does not mention my brand. I even did a web search and found nothing, Linux or otherwise, about my UPS. You might try doing this the hard way - turn off and unplug your UPS, get a plug that fits its control plug and wire a bundle of wires keeping track of which wire goes to which pin, use a meter in ohmmeter mode to find the ground wire(s), bundle those, connect them to the meter ground probe, switch the meter to volts mode, plug in the UPS and note levels on other wires, allow UPS battery to charge, unplu UPS and note levels on each wire, monitor levels on each wire while battery discharges, get a plug to fit one of your free serial ports, wire the ground wire(s) from the UPS plug to the serial port ground wires, wire the appropriate signal wires from the UPS to the RTS, CTS, etc. lines of the serial port plug, write your own C or perl or tclsh/tk or ... program to do what you want, debianize the resultant package, use your imagination ... HTH, lots of Luck, e-mail if you get stuck. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary bought a pair of skates upon the ice to frisk now wasn't that a crazy way her sweet young *? -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #193
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gary L. Hennigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William R. Ward wrote: [snip] The UPS-HOWTO has a lot of info about using a UPS under Linux. I'd check there before returning it. I know that genpowerd is pretty flexible and can be configured to support almost any UPS. The UPS-HOWTO does not mention my brand. I even did a web search and found nothing, Linux or otherwise, about my UPS. Just a suggestion but I'd switch search engines if I were you. Excite found a few hits on my first try with the Minuteman and UPS keywords and to top it off the first of those hits was the company itself. Take a look at http://www.minuteman-ups.com Might not have any relevant Linux info but it at least has some contacts so you can get the specs for cabling. I *was* using Excite, but I was thinking of Minute Man as two words. Thanks! --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: UPS again
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Raymond A. Ingles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Feb 1998, William R Ward wrote: Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I believe I have a week to do so and it's real stormy now, so I'm glad to have it anyway), I wanted to ask if anyone knew if I could do anything with it. I bought a MinuteMan 280 Pro UPS. It looks like it has smart features but does not come with a cable or software. It is made by Para Systems. Is there any Linux software that'll talk to this beast? The UPS-HOWTO has a lot of info about using a UPS under Linux. I'd check there before returning it. I know that genpowerd is pretty flexible and can be configured to support almost any UPS. The UPS-HOWTO does not mention my brand. I even did a web search and found nothing, Linux or otherwise, about my UPS. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
UPS again
Like a dummy, I bought a UPS without bothering to check if genpowerd supports it (I don't think it does). But before taking it back (I believe I have a week to do so and it's real stormy now, so I'm glad to have it anyway), I wanted to ask if anyone knew if I could do anything with it. I bought a MinuteMan 280 Pro UPS. It looks like it has smart features but does not come with a cable or software. It is made by Para Systems. Is there any Linux software that'll talk to this beast? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Maturity of debian for sparc?
I have a SPARC system that's currently on SunOS 4.1.3. I've been contemplating switching to Linux. I would like some comments from users of SPARC Linux on the stability and maturity of Linux for this platform, and specifically Debian GNU/Linux. I've been using HAMM on one of my PC's and liking it quite a bit and would like to have the SPARC be more compatible with the PC's in order to simplify administration. Thanks for any all input --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape doesn't work (libc5/libc6)
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 30 Jan 1998, William R. Ward wrote: I'm running hamm and I can't get Netscape to work. I know it's probably a problem with libc5 vs libc6, and that I probably need to reinstall one or more libc5 files, but I don't know which ones! I ran ldd and strace and the output is attached here. I just don't know how to read the output of these programs in order to find out what to install. Any help would be most appreciated. Here's the output of ldd: /lib/nfslock.so = /lib/nfslock.so (0x4000c000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x4000e000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x40056000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x4005f000) libXmu.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x40074000) libXpm.so.4 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4 (0x40086000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40094000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400a) libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40143000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40146000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x40204000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4020d000) ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x402af000) And here's the output of strace: snipped output Tell me, what version of the xlib6 and xlib6g packages do you have installed? Probably they are too old. I think you upgraded them to hamm when they didn't work with netscape and left them in this state. Try upgrading them to the latest version. xlib6 and xlib6g are both version 3.3.1-2 which I believe is the latest and greates from hamm. I keep my system right on the bleeding edge... I even tried reinstalling xlib6 just in case that helped. What version of Netscape are you using? The above was from netscape Communicator 4. I removed that and will try installing netscape 3 instead. What I get is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ ldd /usr/lib/netscape/netscape libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000c000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x4004e000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x40057000) libXmu.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXmu.so.6 (0x4006c000) libXpm.so.4 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x4007e000) libXext.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXext.so.6 (0x4008c000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x40097000) libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40135000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40138000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x401f6000) Once the libc.so.6 stops showing up I think you are safe. In general, it is a bad thing if libc.so.5 and libc.so.6 both show up in ldd's output. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape doesn't work (libc5/libc6)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Ward) writes: I'm running hamm and I can't get Netscape to work. I know it's probably a problem with libc5 vs libc6, and that I probably need to reinstall one or more libc5 files, but I don't know which ones! I ran ldd and strace and the output is attached here. I just don't know how to read the output of these programs in order to find out what to install. [snip output of ldd/strace] Turns out that the problem was fixed by some combination of: 1. Re-running ldconfig 2. Removing $LD_LIBRARY_PATH from my .cshrc Thanks to those of you who had suggestions ... if you are having similar problems, try these two things. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape doesn't work (libc5/libc6)
|PROT_EXEC) = 0 mprotect(0x4000, 20961, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0 geteuid() = 501 getuid()= 501 getgid()= 101 getegid() = 101 getpid()= 1026 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt - Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report: There's a naked person outside! - Mike Nichols -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: VM (Emacs mail reader) maintainer?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, That would be me. I've been busy for a while, but I have a new package in the works, and shall shoot it out soon. You are using hamm, aren't you? Yes, I am. There've been a number of nice improvements since 6.34; it's up to .39 now. I have been installing it in /usr/local/share but would like to be able to just update the .deb file when a new version comes out --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
VM (Emacs mail reader) maintainer?
The VM mail reader has recently gone through several releases but the Debian package isn't keeping up. I've been installing it in /usr/local/whatever but would like to be able to use the .deb files. Who maintains this (or how can I find out)? I would like to encourage him/her to stay on top of the new releases of VM --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xinetd not starting -- where is rpc.portmap?
I just figured out and fixed this on my system last night. I run a
fairly bleeding edge hamm - I have my own mirror and I upgrade about
once a week. The new version of netbase renames rpc.portmap to
portmap, but xinetd has not been made aware of this yet. The fix is
to edit the file /etc/init.d/xinetd and change 'rpc.portmap' to
'portmap' and it works fine. I'm sure xinetd will be updated soon to
make this the default.
--Bill.
debian mail recipient [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've had a problem telnet-ing to my machine recently, and the reason is
because xinetd is not starting. This is because the startup script
(S20xinetd)
checks for a file called /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap and, as it is not on my
system,
causes the startup script to exit:
--- LISTING OF S20xinetd ---
#!/bin/sh
#
# Start networking daemons. (with xinetd)
test -f /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap || exit 0 # -- THE
CULPRIT
test -f /usr/sbin/xinetd || exit 0
case $1 in
start)
echo -n Starting base networking daemons:
echo -n rpc.portmap ; start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec
/usr/sbin/rpc.portmap
echo -n xinetd ; start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec
/usr/sbin/xinetd
echo
;;
stop)
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/xinetd
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap
killall -9 slattach 2/dev/null || exit 0
;;
reload)
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --pidfile /var/run/inetd.pid
--signal 1 --exec /usr/sbin/xinetd
;;
*)
echo Usage: /etc/init.d/netbase {start|stop}
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
--- END LISTING ---
I've tried to find the package containing this file, but could not do so:
--- CONTENTS (PARTIAL) OF bo/Contents-i386 ---
usr/sbin/rmt utils/cpio
usr/sbin/room_server devel/groupkit
usr/sbin/rootflags base/util-linux
usr/sbin/routed net/netstd
usr/sbin/rpc.bootparamd net/netstd
usr/sbin/rpc.bwnfsd net/netstd
usr/sbin/rpc.mountd net/netstd
usr/sbin/rpc.nfsdnet/netstd
usr/sbin/rpc.pcnfsd net/netstd
usr/sbin/rpc.rquotad admin/quota
usr/sbin/rpc.rstatd net/netstd
usr/sbin/rpc.rusersd net/netstd
usr/sbin/rpc.rwalld net/netstd
usr/sbin/rpc.ugidd net/netstd
usr/sbin/rpc.yppasswdd net/nis
usr/sbin/rpc.ypxfrd net/nis
usr/sbin/rsmtp
mail/smail,mail/exim
usr/sbin/run-msqld non-free/msqld
--- END LISTING ---
What should I do about this?
TIA
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Re: PS/2 mouse setup; /dev/mouse?
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote: The XF86 config file points to /dev/mouse, which is a link to a serial port, but, my mouse is not on S0/S1. the correct PS/2 mouse port is /dev/psaux. How should /dev/mouse be setup for this, in windows it is a separate port at IRQ 12. use /dev/psaux and it'll be taken care of automatically. You might do rm /dev/mouse ln -s /dev/psax /dev/mouse to make a new /dev/mouse link that points to /dev/psaux, and then use /dev/mouse instead of /dev/psaux. That way if for some reason you ever need to use a serial mouse, you can just change the link rather than reconfiguring every piece of software that uses the mouse. My system has a /dev/psmouse that is the same device as /dev/psaux as far as I can tell... I have a PS/2 port on the motherboard (it's an Intel TX chipset board) and I tried hooking my Logitech trackball to it but it managed to make the computer very upset -- the keyboard locked up! Also when I tried to start X without the mouse plugged in - but with it configured to use /dev/psmouse - it wouldn't start. Both times I had to log in over the ethernet and fix the problem by rebooting (keyboard lockup) or killing the X processes (mouse problem). Anyone get this to work? I'd like to be able to hook up a terminal to the serial port that i've been using for mouse. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xload
Matt Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, so what happened to xload now? I just upgraded my hamm system and xload has disappeared. Don't we go through this every once in a while? It moved to a different package. Look in Packages for 'xload' - I don't remember which package it's in, but you'll find it. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: pgp and elm
Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: find /usr/bin/pgp. Now I have pointed dselect both at ftp.debian.org and at ftp.de.debian.org (which I thought was outside the U.S.), but I found no package that would give me a pgp executable usable by elm. What is the solution? It seems a bit strange to provide a package that is broken. Please read ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/README.pgp Is there a mirror that has the files available via http? My mirroring script works better with http (ftp has no HEAD command). I use www.cdrom.com to get the rest of the hamm stuff, but they obviously don't have the non-US stuff. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SEGMENTATION FAULT
Faiz ul Haque Zeya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All the Xprograms (my own or source) compiled on my system (gcc) exits immediately showing Segmentaion fault when run . They however get compiled and linked without showinig any error . Any help . Sounds like a mismatch between your libc and your Xwindows libs. I had this too, and I had to upgrade just about everything to hamm before things started working properly again. Now everything works except Netscape, which I can't possibly recompile!!! :( --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SEGMENTATION FAULT
Faiz ul Haque Zeya [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All the Xprograms (my own or source) compiled on my system (gcc) exits immediately showing Segmentaion fault when run . They however get compiled and linked without showinig any error . Any help . Sounds like a mismatch between your libc and your Xwindows libs. I had this too, and I had to upgrade just about everything to hamm before things started working properly again. Now everything works except Netscape, which I can't possibly recompile!!! :( --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
socks 5 debian module?
Does anyone know why there isn't a socks5 debian module in hamm? I compiled it myself and have it in /usr/local but would rather have it installed properly... --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help: System time lags CMOS time
Oz Dror [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My system time lags after the CMOS time. They start as the same time, but then through the day the system time lags. By 12 hours it is about one hour behind. This started since I have added a new SCSI-UW disk, I have transfered the linux root to the new disk, the old EIDE is still the master boot. Does anyone have any idea why, and how it can be fixed. Do I need to recompile linux on the new hard disk. Slave your system to a trusted Net host using 'netdate' and then set your CMOS clock from that using 'hwclock'. I have a cron job that does this nightly; you may wish to run it every 3 or 4 hours. It's probably due to your SCSI card stealing interrupts that would otherwise update the clock. You might be able to configure your SCSI host adapter to use less interrupts or get a bus mastering adapter. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help: System time lags CMOS time
Oz Dror [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My system time lags after the CMOS time. They start as the same time, but then through the day the system time lags. By 12 hours it is about one hour behind. This started since I have added a new SCSI-UW disk, I have transfered the linux root to the new disk, the old EIDE is still the master boot. Does anyone have any idea why, and how it can be fixed. Do I need to recompile linux on the new hard disk. Slave your system to a trusted Net host using 'netdate' and then set your CMOS clock from that using 'hwclock'. I have a cron job that does this nightly; you may wish to run it every 3 or 4 hours. It's probably due to your SCSI card stealing interrupts that would otherwise update the clock. You might be able to configure your SCSI host adapter to use less interrupts or get a bus mastering adapter. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HELP! Netscape under hamm??
Whenever I try to run Netscape, v3 or v4, under my HAMM system I get 'Segmentation Fault'... I suspect it's because it was compiled for libc5 and I'm using libc6. Any way I can get it to work --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NFS woes
Is anyone else using hamm for a file server? The nfs daemon keeps dying on me. After some indeterminate amount of time it just stops working - the client machines lock up when they try to access a mounted filesystem. I can restart it using /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs (sometimes it requires some help from killall nfsiod) but it shouldn't be dying like this. Is anyone else experiencing this? It didn't do this until I upgraded... I'm using 2.0.32 kernel, if that matters. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Scanner
I have a Tamarack (sp?) SCSI-based TWAIN compliant scanner and would like to use it under Linux. Of course it only came with Windoze drivers... Is there (preferably Debianized) software for Linux that would talk to it? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Energy Star screensaver?
I believe that my video card and monitor are capable of powering down the monitor through software; is there any way to get Debian to make this happen? I would like both text and X11 to be able to do this... Any help would be appreciated. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
tty confusion
Ever since I upgraded to hamm, my ttys have been getting confused. Once vi or less or man introduces reverse text or underline, all text in my xterms is that way - it is as if the command to revert the text to plain is never sent! Also, I have been having trouble with my shell losing its stty abilities (I use tcsh) - if I hit ^U the line is not cleared, but the shell acts correctly (whatever I type after doing so is treated as the entire command), for instance. Is anyone else seeing this problem? Is there a fix? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
tty confusion
Ever since I upgraded to hamm, my ttys have been getting confused. Once vi or less or man introduces reverse text or underline, all text in my xterms is that way - it is as if the command to revert the text to plain is never sent! Also, I have been having trouble with my shell losing its stty abilities (I use tcsh) - if I hit ^U the line is not cleared, but the shell acts correctly (whatever I type after doing so is treated as the entire command), for instance. Is anyone else seeing this problem? Is there a fix? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /sbin/clock missing?
Anthony Fok [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 1 Jan 1998, William R Ward wrote: Until I upgraded to hamm, I could use /sbin/clock to set and view the CMOS clock. That program is gone now! Did something else replace it? Yes! :-) /sbin/hwclock is the new program that replaces the obsolete /sbin/clock. The syntax is different too, so make sure you read the manpage. :) Thanks! Actually the manpage says it has the same options for backwards compatibility; just the same, I used the new -- options. I run a cron job that grabs the date from my net gateway nightly and then stores that in the hardware clock. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: laser printers and linux
G. Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yep. Crystal clear. Time to face the music and take the thing back. Too bad. Less than 400$, small, 8 ppm, and (apparently) very good text and graphics output. Sigh... So that we don't all have to learn from your mistake ... can anyone suggest a good cheap laser printer that *will* work with Linux? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: laser printers and linux
William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G. Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yep. Crystal clear. Time to face the music and take the thing back. Too bad. Less than 400$, small, 8 ppm, and (apparently) very good text and graphics output. Sigh... So that we don't all have to learn from your mistake ... can anyone suggest a good cheap laser printer that *will* work with Linux? Oops, I meant repeat your mistake not learn from your mistake --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X and text consoles - switching back forth?
I once saw someone (running Red Hat) who had an X session going on one console, and text sessions (or if he wanted, he could run additional X sessions) on the others. He switched using Ctrl-Alt-Fn (1=n=6). When I try this, I can switch just fine from X to text, but not back again. If I run X on console 1, and then press Ctrl-Alt-F2, it works, but when I try to switch back with Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or just Alt-F1) I get a text screen showing the output of xinit, and can find no way to get back into Xwindows. Does anyone here know how to make this work? I've seen it working, although it was on a Red Hat system, so I know it's at least theoretically possible. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sparcs
Steve Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Ian Keith Setford wrote: I am looking to buy a used Sparc and I know that there are important differences between older models. What are the models to stay away from and which ones are ideal? How do I tell them apart? I've used just about all of the SPARCs at one time or another and know of none that one should stay away from. This includes a 1+, 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, and Ultra 1. These were all used with some version of Sun's OS, SunOS 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, and Solaris 2.4 and 2.5. I have no experience with Linux on a SPARC. From a hardware point of view, all of the Sun's I've used (starting in 1989) were very reliable and gave very good service. All of the SPARCs I've used were bought new. You leave out a few models: SLC, IPC, IPX, and Classic. The SLC and IPC are roughly equivalent to the SPARC 1; the IPX and Classic are roughly equivalent to the SPARC 2. The SLC is a CPU inside a BW monitor, with very little expansion ability, and is to be avoided IMO. There was another model like the SLC that was more powerful, but I don't recall exactly what it was called. The IPC, IPX, and Classic are shoeboxes rather than pizzaboxes, but are similar to their pizzabox equivalents (the numbered SPARCstations) in most respects. I have an IPX that I'm quite happy with, running SunOS 4.1.3. As for operating system, I would never use Solaris 2.x or higher on an older SPARC. It's slower and I don't see that it gains you much unless you need to run Solaris binaries. SunOS 4.1.3_U1 is the best operating system for the older SPARCs, though 4.1.3 (without the _U1) is acceptable. Anything older than 4.1.3 should not be used. I too know nothing about the SPARC version of Linux; I've been tempted to switch to it but I believe it's a bit less mature than the i386 version, so I'm holding off for now. If you can get the SPARC for substantially less than the equivalent PC hardware system, go for it. But PC hardware tends to be cheaper, and you can do more with it for less money... --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X and text consoles - switching back forth?
Ahh, thanks! That works! Now what if I go to F2 and run another X session. The original one will still be on 7, and the new one on 8?? --Bill. Greg Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: X uses the lowest-numbered unattached VT (i.e. no getty running on it). Assuming you havn't changed debian's defaults, that will be #7, so try Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to your X session. At 01:52 PM 1/1/98 -0800, you wrote: I once saw someone (running Red Hat) who had an X session going on one console, and text sessions (or if he wanted, he could run additional X sessions) on the others. He switched using Ctrl-Alt-Fn (1=n=6). -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
/sbin/clock missing?
Until I upgraded to hamm, I could use /sbin/clock to set and view the CMOS clock. That program is gone now! Did something else replace it? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems with NFSD?
I have just upgraded my Debian 1.2 to the latest bleeding edge stuff using HAMM, and have found that my nfsd appears to occasionally go into oblivion for no apparent reason. I have to stop and restart (using /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs) periodically as things just hang on the client machines. Has anyone else experienced this? I have tried turning on the debugging option but have yet to see anything that appears to be relevant in the logs. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mirror script
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I wrote a Perl script that sucks down a mirror of the latest copy of hamm. If you would like a copy, send me e-mail. It uses HTTP from www.cdrom.com since www.debian.org doesn't appear to offer the .deb files via HTTP. I use HTTP so that I can only download the files that have changed since the last time it was run. It uses the LWP::UserAgent Perl module (part of libwww-perl) to mirror() the documents. - --Bill. - -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~wrw/pubkey.txt iQCVAwUBNKNTbR25V7Ur0zHlAQFLOwQAmdww1UdMwsiPD5jWjGn5841BO6VqjR/W yZr91y6K0V4bEGSSzz6iYeErwl3NlTtO/5jBNCKzxpqzXhmxzHwO1r6kj9QHa49H 6uZ+bhjXB/ga946CnzuMWeyBUghoazl2C8q0cE7UqfM2TvIzqLJvB8KomTrEbHVT MZ0lauKUEco= =9+wS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Perl dpkg
I'm really unhappy with the way Perl and dpkg interact. I would like to use CPAN.pm to maintain my Perl distribution, rather than using dselect/dpkg, but some of the Debian modules require the .deb files for Perl modules such as libnet or libwww-perl. Does anyone have a solution to this? I'd like to install the basic Perl, and am fine with using .deb files for that, but wish to reserve the right to upgrade using perl -MCPAN -e shell and its nifty interface. Also I've noticed that some Perl modules get installed into /usr/lib/perl5 (bad!) when I use the 'perl Makefile.PL; make test; make install' method, and others into /usr/local/lib/site-perl (good). Does anyone here know how to force all Perl modules I install to go in /usr/local/lib/site-perl so they won't conflict with the Debian stuff? Ideally they could coexist; Debian would put stuff in /usr/lib/perl5 and Perl would put stuff in /usr/local/lib/site-perl, but I don't know how to achieve that state of bliss help?? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: truncating files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Carl Mummert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there already a (standard) utility on a linux box to truncate a file to 0 bytes? [Besides echo -n foo, which is 1) too long for my lazy fingers and 2) won't take multiple filenames ] Since I couldn't find one, I wrote a little C program to do it, but I am still interested in whether there is already one on the system. Other users have suggested the use of foo, a null command, but that does not work in tcsh, my preferred shell. Note that echo z does not, as you might expect it to, add a blank line (at least under tcsh). So you can save 5 characters from your example that way. However the way I do this is by doing cp /dev/null foo... I don't remember why but this is supposedly a better way of doing it. I think it preserves the file permissions more accurately? I am not sure. I picked that up years ago but have since forgotten the reason... HTH. - --Bill. - -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBNIo/lR25V7Ur0zHlAQHVUQP/cX0J9D6OFRmON4k4CM8Ah8lmePipA7O6 6nlSc3ibyfbQHAsf3mxhVNOPx/QhBxFafEwFE905OLx5PJQpePIkF12BviQcjP86 /Z4l0VGHIM1fj0Vka6huMx9ShhVLZZHeNMcQq4SM2kDYHX3oWD0LScr3zZadFTMe MN0hsbhtLXo= =S+BB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: truncating files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Carl Mummert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there already a (standard) utility on a linux box to truncate a file to 0 bytes? [Besides echo -n foo, which is 1) too long for my lazy fingers and 2) won't take multiple filenames ] Since I couldn't find one, I wrote a little C program to do it, but I am still interested in whether there is already one on the system. Other users have suggested the use of foo, a null command, but that does not work in tcsh, my preferred shell. Note that echo z does not, as you might expect it to, add a blank line (at least under tcsh). So you can save 5 characters from your example that way. However the way I do this is by doing cp /dev/null foo... I don't remember why but this is supposedly a better way of doing it. I think it preserves the file permissions more accurately? I am not sure. I picked that up years ago but have since forgotten the reason... HTH. - --Bill. - -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBNIo/lR25V7Ur0zHlAQHVUQP/cX0J9D6OFRmON4k4CM8Ah8lmePipA7O6 6nlSc3ibyfbQHAsf3mxhVNOPx/QhBxFafEwFE905OLx5PJQpePIkF12BviQcjP86 /Z4l0VGHIM1fj0Vka6huMx9ShhVLZZHeNMcQq4SM2kDYHX3oWD0LScr3zZadFTMe MN0hsbhtLXo= =S+BB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SCSI Linux IDE Win95 on same box?
Hi, I'd like to ask for some advice on a new system I want to build. I'd like to have a Windows 95 filesystem installed on an IDE disk and a Linux (Debian 1.3.1) on a SCSI disk. I have a generic EIDE controller with HD and CDROM currently, and will be installing an Adaptec 2842 in addition with a SCSI disk on it. I already have Win95 on the IDE disk I want to use, and want to install the SCSI disk. Do I need to do anything special to get it to boot properly? Always before I've had all-Windows or all-Linux boxes, to make things simpler, and basically I'd like some advice on how to set this up. I would also like to be able to access the Win95 partition from within Linux. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: multiple X sessions problem
I've seen this working (on a Redhat system) once, but have never managed to get it work on my own systems. It would be convenient, so for example my wife and I can both be logged in and switch back and forth easily. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: multiple X sessions problem
I've seen this working (on a Redhat system) once, but have never managed to get it work on my own systems. It would be convenient, so for example my wife and I can both be logged in and switch back and forth easily. --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339voicemail +1 408/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 408/458-8862 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
