Re: Debian packages tag tools
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 01:55:52AM -0400, T wrote: Hi I saw now Debian packages almost all come with tags. E.g.: Tag: admin::forensics, hardware::storage, interface::commandline, role::sw:utility, use::scanning Is there any tools to search tools based on the tags? apt-get install debtags-edit Where is the vocabulary collection that available for tagging and searching the tools? try: http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/ google returns friendly results with the following search string: debian package tag query Forrest -- The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. -- S. Hawking -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xcircuit in debian testing
You could manually download it from the Stable repo and install it, but the version would be 3.1.19. The last version that was in testing was something like 3.1.19 and that's way behind the current stable release according to the xcircuit homepage. Check here, that current stable release is 3.4.26 : http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/xcircuit/ Forrest On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 07:20:46PM +0100, Carl Jackson wrote: Hello, I am not sure who to contact regarding this. But xcircuit used to be in testing and as of this week 19 June, 2006 it has disappeared. It still appears to be listed in stable and unstable distributions. Can you please advise how to get it back into testing or who to contact? Thanks in advance. Carl Jackson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail (package) for testing
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:58:08PM +0200, lee wrote: Hi, searching for a package providing fetchmail for testing didn't show up any packages. What's the way to go? I'm running the same version of fetchmail that's in stable now on my testing box. Forrest + use a replacement like getmail4 + try installing the version from stable + wait for a version for testing + get the source and compile myselfe Since I had some fun to find out how to configure fetchmail to use the ?? Did you use fetchmailconf ?? correct addresses and have a working config, I don't like the idea of using a replacement. But if fetchmail is not to be available in Debian anymore, I'd try getmail4. GH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his searchI was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. --N. Tesla -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: port forwarding problem. Probably easy if you know how.
The folks on the Shorewall project have done all this for you: apt-get install shorewall F.S On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 09:27:21AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running sarge on a vintage Pentium as a gateway machine for a home network. My machine was cracked last December and I reinstalled everything from scratch using a sarge netinstall CD. (I checked all scripts I resurrect from the old system, and recompiled all my *own* binaries from original source code. The script I mention below hasn't been molested.) I run the same script for port-forwarding and masquerading that I used before the reinstall. But it doesn't work. Lines like iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING --protocol tcp -d 216.138.195.194 --dport 27012 -j DNAT --to-destination 172.25.1.5:27012 --verbose iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING --protocol udp -d 216.138.195.194 --dport 27012 -j DNAT --to-destination 172.25.1.5:27012 --verbose iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING --protocol udp -s 172.25.1.5 --sport 27012 -j SNAT --to-source 216.138.195.194:27012 --verbose iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING --protocol tcp -s 172.25.1.5 --sport 27012 -j SNAT --to-source 216.138.195.194:27012 --verbose have no effect at all (as checked by iptables --list) but the line iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE works like a charm. I suspect there's probably a missing kernel module. But which one? And where do I find it? The docs for iptables way that it will attampt to load any necessary modules, so I presume a simple modprobe isn't enough. Or else that it doesn't try hard enough. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hundreds of years in the future there could be computers looking for life on earth --Coldplay -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: O.T. dvd burning from the command line
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:18:43PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: It's been a while since I attempted to burn a DVD from the command line. I'm using Tsunami DVD authoring software under wine, and yes I own my copy. When it generates the dvd structure, is has the AUDIO_TS VIDEO_TS structure complete. For the life of me, I gleaned the burning info from this group. I have, so far growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/(my burner) _ /path/to/dvd-structure I cannot remember how to get it to look at the dvd structure path. Are you passing growisofs the path to an ISO? I use something like the following on a dvd directory (containing the AUDIO_TS VIDEO_TS folders): mkisofs -dvd-video -o /NEW.ISO /path/to/dvd-directory then growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/(myburner)=NEW.ISO Forrest Any help would be appreciated. Thanks -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ITE 8212 INSTALL
im trying to install debian on a hardrive that is on a ite 8212 card in IDE/ATAPI mode, so far ive had no luck at all, i whant to install debian testing if i can, (with the linux26) --
Re: nVidia kernel drivers not working
Have you looked into using Xorg's driver for this? If you have Xorg see 'man nv'. Forrest On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 01:19:58AM +0100, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I tried to compile nvidia kernle module using both m-a and the binary package from nvidia site. The building always fails in the same way. I have: Kernel 2.6.14-1-k7 gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.2-2) NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667 I have the right kernel headers installed I cannot compile kernel modules, i get these errors, and many many more NVIDIA: calling KBUILD... ? ? make CC=gcc-4.0 -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/n ? ? make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.14-1-k7' ? ? echo \#define NV_COMPILER \`gcc-4.0 -v 21 | tail -n 1`\ /usr/src/mod ? ? CC [M] /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.o ? ? In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:11, ? ? from /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv-linux.h:45, ? ? from /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c:14: ? ? include/linux/linkage.h:5:25: error: asm/linkage.h: No such file or direct ? ? In file included from include/linux/posix_types.h:47, ? ? from include/linux/types.h:13,? ? from include/linux/kernel.h:13, ? ? from /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv-linux.h:45, ? ? from /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/nv/nv.c:14: ? ? /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.2/include/asm/posix_types.h:13:22: error: ? ? /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.0.2/include/asm/posix_types.h:14:35: error: ? ? In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:13, ? Did anyone have the same problem? Thnx Paolo -- The day went away The file still puts its weight on the tired mode-line. --Oliver Scholz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Thunderbird and deleting msgs in threaded display
I use Mutt and have no problems deleting 3000 msgs at a time :) It's also more tuned to list browsing. Forrest On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 09:25:25PM +, Oliver Lupton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Hardy wrote: I'm using Thunderbird 1.0.2 which is the latest available Debian packaged release, and I'd like to know if anyone else sees this bug, which is giving me grief at the moment due to my heavy use of the delete button. I wonder whether this is a bug on all platforms, or is it just in Linux Debian under Gnome that I run it under? I expand all the threads in the folder, and start deleting them, either with the delete key or the delete menu button. With the current message highlighted/focussed and all further messages unread, TB quickly marks the msg read and moves it to the trash folder. If I go fast because I want to delete the whole thread, after on average every 10 deletes, TB forgets which msg should have the focus, the highlight disappears and I have to use the down button to move onto a msg. This didn't happen in Mozilla Suite, which I was using until last week. Does anyone else experience this? Adam I have the same problem, it's just never bothered me enough to do anything about it. Cheers, - -ol - -- I will live forever, or die trying. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDbnTEOq/GuNpXGggRAivvAKDXayOeRg5CUt1tLD4FwhncIJDEUwCfetIA eul8mjL5OatzvHxecairFUI= =9xNA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- A dry riverbed glimpsed by lightning. --Issa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gnome doesn't see user's PATH
Hi all! Does anyone know why apps run from the panel aren't aware of user's environment vars, specifically PATH? Example, if Mutt is executed from my panel, I can't execute commands that are in my PATH. If I run it from a terminal window, I can. The same goes for Emacs. I'm using Gnome 2.8.2 in Sarge. Thank ya, Forrest Smith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a double boot
Hi, I ve just installed WIN98, the grub boot is erase I want to put it again, there is no option (for rescue) on the boot disk ( installation disk). I used RH 7.3 , it gives me the access to the system, I use the command grub-install (hd0,1) ( win is in first partition, and debian in second ), it seemed correct , but when I reboot I get same problem ( no boot menu). thanks for help I'm not really sure if this is what you're asking, but I think your problem is that you installed grub to a partition on your hard-drive and you need to install it to the MBR (Master Boot Record) of the drive for it to come up at boot time. Assuming your hard drive is located at /dev/hda and you have the two previously mentioned partitions with Windows on /dev/hda1 and Linux on /dev/hda2, run grub-install again but this time do it like this *grub-install /dev/hda *This will install it on the MBR. After you have run grub-install, it's always a good idea to run update-grub, this is Debian's smooth little addition to grub that will automagically detect your Debian kernels and add them to the menu.lst file in /boot/grub. You will also want to manually edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and add in the option for booting into Windows: *title Windows root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1* If this doesn't help, please post more information such as the contents of your menu.lst and the partition table on your hard drive. -Forrest -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hdparm and disk access
I am getting wireless Internet access from my college and I am wanting to put Debian on an old AMD K6-2 to serve as my Internet gateway for the rest of my computers. However, I want this box to run on as little power as possible so my question is one from more of a hardware perspective I guess. I will be getting Internet access via a Linksys 802.11b USB device plugged into the K6-2 box. This box will also be the firewall (using, of course, iptables for NAT and packet filtering), then routing out through a PCI NIC. Okay, now say I've used hdparm to specify that my 2 hard drives in the box should spin down after, say 5 minutes: hdparm -S 60 /dev/hda hdparm -S 60 /dev/hdb My question is, will the USB device, or firewall, or NIC need to access the drives for any reason under normal circumstances (which in this case will be simply routing packets through the system) and cause the drives to spin up every time one of my computers needs to access the Internet? Because if so, I know it could be detrimental to the drives if they are spinning up and down all the time. Also, is there anything else that could keep the drives spinning up related to my minimal Debian install operating under its normal circumstances? God bless, Forrest Humphrey --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.713 / Virus Database: 469 - Release Date: 6/30/2004 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rx: VICODIN is Here - Just Pennies per Tablet...fawzi
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pop-before-smtp in woody
pop-before-smtp stopped working at some point here, using woody.
truffula:~# /etc/init.d/pop-before-smtp start
Starting pop-before-smtp: pop-before-smtp.
truffula:~# Insecure dependency in `` while running with -T switch at
/usr/sbin/pop-before-smtp line 475.
i took a look at line 475, but i don't speak enough perl for it really to
be useful for me looking at the code.
my @mynets = cleanup_nets(`postconf mynetworks`);
while (my @tmp = grep { $mynets[$_] =~ m#^/# } 0..$#mynets) {
for (reverse @tmp) {
splice @mynets, $_, 1, cleanup_nets(`cat $mynets[$_]`);
}
}
but, line 475 is the splice @mynets line. so if anyone knows how to fix
it, that'd be cool.
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SquirrelMail installation difficulties
Hi all. I'm trying to get SquirrelMail installed on two of my systems, both running woody, one ARM, one PowerPC. The ARM is my primary server, a Netwinder, and when I install SquirrelMail on it directly, everything's great, except for the fact that it only has 64MiB of RAM and is already swapping like crazy much of the time. It swaps a *lot* when SquirrelMail's running, and forget getting a full list of folders from it, because it'll time out. So I want to install SquirrelMail on the PowerPC, which has 1.5GiB RAM and isn't very stressed out about much of anything. I've installed SquirrelMail and pointed it at the UW-IMAP and Postfix servers on the Netwinder, but when I try to log in, I start getting the SquirrelMail You must be logged in to view this page error. Thinking that I might be seeing the problems that some people have seen between SquirrelMail 1.2.6 and recent versions of PHP, I upgraded SquirrelMail to 1.2.7, the version in testing. Same error. Then I fired up Ethereal, and saw that SquirrelMail was succesfully logging into the IMAP server and then closing the connection before returning the error message. So that's not it. And cookies are going back and forth, so that's not the problem either. What's going on here? Please CC: me on any replies, as a boy can only read so much debian-users in a day. Thanks! yours, Forrest L Norvell -- . . . the self-reflecting image of a narcotized mind . . . ozymandias G desiderata [EMAIL PROTECTED] desperate, deathless (415)823-6356 http://www.pushby.com/forrest/ ::AOAIOXXYSZ:: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SquirrelMail installation difficulties
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:21:36AM -0700, Tony Wasson wrote: So I want to install SquirrelMail on the PowerPC, which has 1.5GiB RAM and isn't very stressed out about much of anything. I've installed SquirrelMail and pointed it at the UW-IMAP and Postfix servers on the Netwinder, but when I try to log in, I start getting the SquirrelMail You must be logged in to view this page error. Thinking that I might be seeing the problems that some people have seen between SquirrelMail 1.2.6 and recent versions of PHP, I upgraded SquirrelMail to 1.2.7, the version in testing. Same error. Then I fired up Ethereal, and saw that SquirrelMail was succesfully logging into the IMAP server and then closing the connection before returning the error message. So that's not it. And cookies are going back and forth, so that's not the problem either. What's going on here? Forrest, I ran into a slight dependency problem when I installed SquirrelMail -- install php4-cgi and you'll be set. I tried this, but alas, it didn't work for me. Same error as before. Do I have to alter my configuration somehow after installing php4-cgi (and php4-pear)? But thanks! Anyone else have any ideas? Well, except for the new Cross Site Scripting exploits found http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=squirrelmail I can live with this, as only one user (me) is going to be using SquirrelMail on this network for now. I'll keep this in mind for the other network I administer, though. Forrest -- . . . the self-reflecting image of a narcotized mind . . . ozymandias G desiderata [EMAIL PROTECTED] desperate, deathless (415)823-6356 http://www.pushby.com/forrest/ ::AOAIOXXYSZ:: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SquirrelMail installation difficulties
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 11:33:43AM -0700, nate wrote: Forrest L Norvell said: You must be logged in to view this page error. Thinking that I might be I read in the PHP docs that something to do with session management was broken on powerPC: Sessions do NOT work on hppa, m68k, mips, powerpc, sparc, s390 Sorry about that. :( from README.Debian.gz on the php package. Well, that just sucks. I didn't see that in the Readme; thanks for pointing it out to me. Anyone got a webmail package they like that isn't dependent upon PHP sessions? Does imp work on PPC? Forrest -- . . . the self-reflecting image of a narcotized mind . . . ozymandias G desiderata [EMAIL PROTECTED] desperate, deathless (415)823-6356 http://www.pushby.com/forrest/ ::AOAIOXXYSZ:: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Weird realplayer problem
I have a strange problem with realplayer on my sid box. I can listen to local files, but I can't listen to streaming real off the internet. Caputuring some tcp packets and comparing them to a successful streaming session on my wife's Win2K box, I see what the error is: outgoing RSTP packets are truncated to exactly 30 bytes of data. For example, the first RSTP message from the linux box as it attempts to negotiate streaming looks like this: OPTIONS rtsp://bonobo.realimpa The successful Windows session (oh, the shame!) looks like this: OPTIONS rtsp://bonobo.realimpact.net:554 R There are responses to the first several truncated RSTP requests, which look like truncated versions of the successful responses from the Windows session. There isn't an exact number of bytes for the responses, though: it's more complicated then that. The last thing that my linux realplayer does is say Buffering in the status bar, but never actually buffers anything. It just sits there forever. Both boxes sit behind a woody box connecting them to the internet with ip_masqurade; but this must be configured correctly because the Windows box receives streams successfully. Does anyone have any clue what might be going on? | Forrest Cahoon | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |--| | 850 21st Ave SE |--| Only unbalanced people | | Mpls MN 55414-2514 | |can tip the scales... | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: phpgroupware postgres
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:26:22PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: I want to start backing up my postgres database for phpgroupware but I am clueless as far as postgressql. Where is the database kept? dpkg -L postgresql shows that postgresql creates /var/lib/postgres, and the databases are stored in the 'data' directory under that. What extentions or names do I search for to find the databases? Back up everything under /var/lib/postgres/data, and be sure to preserve permissions and ownership when you do. You'll want to read http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?backup.html before running a backup -- and be sure to note the caveat about shutting the database down if you're going to perform backups at the system level instead of using the tools that Postgres provides. yours, Forrest -- . . . the self-reflecting image of a narcotized mind . . . ozymandias G desiderata [EMAIL PROTECTED] desperate, deathless (415)823-6356 http://www.pushby.com/forrest/ ::AOAIOXXYSZ:: pgpptFZcwOJHw.pgp Description: PGP signature
evolution / uw-imapd-ssl woes
I'm trying to get the hang of Evolution while at the same time moving my home mail setup over to maildirs (from mh directories). It's always a good idea to cause the maximum amount of chaos at once, you know, because you never know if you've screwed up or are just going insane. Anyway, after a ton of experimentation, I have my whole mail hierarchy stored under ~/Mail in maildir format. On the mail server, mutt can read everything just great, and with a little bit of Perl (and safecat) tomfoolery I was even able to get Mailagent to store to maildirs, thus saving myself a whole lot of time and pain in converting my mail rules over to procmail. I'm pretty pleased with the way that's all working. The only real problem at this point is getting Evolution and imapd-ssl to talk to each other. I have SSL enabled between Evolution and the IMAP server. After a lot of head-bonking, I figured out that setting the namespace to Mail would allow me to subscribe from the various mail folders I have stored under ~/Mail without all the other detritus under my home directory. I can even get a listing of subject lines in the subscribed folders. However, when I click on a message, I get the error text, Error while 'Retrieving message 1638': Could not find message body in FETCH response. Sometimes I'll get a message that says BAD Bogus sequence in UID FETCH instead. Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Forrest -- . . . the self-reflecting image of a narcotized mind . . . ozymandias G desiderata [EMAIL PROTECTED] desperate, deathless (415)823-6356 http://www.pushby.com/forrest/ ::AOAIOXXYSZ::
Shouldbe EASY?
All right, this would not have happened had there been kernel images for potato (or an obvious link thereto) near the basic potato distribution folder, but the critter IS running, as long as I log in at various alt-F1 to alt-F6s and leave it awaiting commands on some of them. But there's no obvious place to defnurgle /etc/inittab or whatever other configuration file I need to defnurgle, to stop this lonesome modprobe that scrolls all over my screen looking for its lost modules.dep. (It begins during the boot process continues until I've logged on and gotten the critter awaiting commands, then returns if I give it one on the wrong terminal, WHILE a command is executing, and also when I log out or shut down. This is no doubt a valuable learning experience, but can someone please let me know WHAT I'll need to learn for this where to look for it? Forrest Curo San Diego
newby kernel installation
If you look for support on the gnu site you are referred to mailing lists, but neither the gnu site nor this one features an easily findable list for newbies suffering from kernel/basic system mismatches. So first, I would like to suggest that someone should rederrange one or both of these sites so that people looking for help can find either this list or a simpler one for us idiots, without first trying the wrong list in desperation. Forrest Curo San Diego
newby kernel installation II
The actual PROBLEM I wanted help with was with having installed the basic stable gnu-linux system from debian WITH a compact kernel image from ANOTHER part of the site [did not seem to BE one where I needed it!) , which seems to have ONE bad fit: the kernel seems to periodically run a process that calls modprobe, which looks unsuccessfuly for modules.dep in /lib/modules/2.2.19.pre17, and prints an error message all over the screen. If I manage to log on from several alt-f# ttys, the message stops while waiting for commands, so I can go ps -e -f, but of course it doesn't SHOW the process because it's stopped to wait for commands. If I put in a dummy modules.dep (even the one from the basic system moved to the right directory) I am REALLY in trouble, because the kernel runs modprobe before finishing booting, and won't let me log in. I can muck around with things by reaching down through //target with the rescue disk, but I don't know either where to find the files to make modprob happy or how to put a stake through it's nasty little heart. Help? Forrest Curo San Diego
fixing demand-dialing ppp
I have the same problem that is described in bug #103843: my woody box can't do demand-dialing ppp. While the bug is still open, the maintainer (Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED]) posted this response: The reason is the kernel-mode-pppoe patch, having removed it the pppd seems to start fine. I have no clue what this is supposed to mean. I got pristine 2.2.19 sources from ftp.us.kernel.org and built a kernel with make-kpkg, but I still have the problem. I've tried both building ppp into the kernel and building it as a module, but both fail. A couple of points that might be relevant: 1) My woody box that is having this problem is running ip masquerade. 2) I've been building these kernels on a sid box with make-kpkg, then installing them on my woody box. Anyone have any suggestions? | Forrest Cahoon | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |--| | 850 21st Ave SE |--| Only unbalanced people | | Mpls MN 55414-2514 | |can tip the scales... |
Re: fixing demand-dialing ppp
From: Shaun Crossley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: fixing demand-dialing ppp Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:10:25 -0800 I had this same problem, so I manually removed woody ppp and installed potato ppp, then marked it 'hold' so that it wouldn't get replaced on the next apt-get upgrade. What I found in the directory Eduard mentioned in his message http://people.debian.org/~blade/ was a .deb file which appears to be the latest version with the problem patch removed: ppp_2.4.1-4.wo-kernelpatch.0_i386.deb Installing this made everything work fine. | Forrest Cahoon | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |--| | 850 21st Ave SE |--| Only unbalanced people | | Mpls MN 55414-2514 | |can tip the scales... |
Re: Ethernet device
edit /etc/network/interfaces -- Forrest English http://truffula.net/~forrest When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Juan wrote: Hi, - I updated /etc/hosts and /etc/networks. - ifconfig eth0 192.168.66.1 - ping 192.168.66.1 or other IP within my lan is working Bu when I restart my machine, the Ethernet is not working anymore. How can I configure to activate my Ethernet device at start? TIA, Juan. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Text Processing Question
you could do it with perl... -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Adahma wrote: I have about 400 little 2 line files to create, that I'm sure should be scriptable, but can't seem to figure out the right tools. The file format should be as follows: DBUSER=username/password export DBUSER I'd like to be able to run something like: scriptname username password and just have a file created and saved as the user name parameter. Is this a sed or awk kinda thing? Any help is greatly appreciated! jdk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 486 router is very slow
a 486 33 should be fine, and able to handle up to about 700KBps, the limit of the isa bus. or so i belive anyhow. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Hi all I set up a router with my old 486 computer. I have there potato witch kernel 2.4 installed. Normally i have have rates of 7.8 kb/s (ISDN) throughput. But if i try it over my new router the rate is not more than 2 kb/s. Is it possible that the Masquerading process takes too much recources on that machine? It's a 33 Mhz Intel DX Processor. Any hints to speed that up? cheers, Raffaele -- Raffaele Sandrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] For encrypted Mail get my Public Key from search.keyserver.net ID is: 0xEC4950E9 Fingerprint: FFEA 3317 8624 4771 A05D 2AFA 46A2 A22B EC49 50E9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Sean Morgan wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:07:43PM -0700, Forrest English wrote: you could tell the people that this is a more advanced OS, and to NOT hit the power switch. i mean, it's just a thought. And after this you would have to proceed to teach a class in operating consoles, top, killall, and all that good stuff. Truth be told if it wasn't my machine and I had relatively little computer experience, I wouldn't even bother listening to such stuff. Adding a journalling fs is a much nicer alternative. why would you need to teach them that? gtop or ktop would probably suffice. somthing along the lines of... if it doesn't do anything after a minute... kick this thing, click this thing, and press the kill button. perhaps written somewhere beside the machine? i've heard far to many horror stories about reiser from people i know, i would be extremly wary of relying on it. loss of all data on reiser seems to be the end result i hear. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems
thneed:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6-dev libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 306 not upgraded. 5 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/2727kB of archives. After unpacking 2145kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 31064 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.2.2-4 (using .../libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/rpcgen', which is also in package netbase dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) and i don't belive i want to remove that file... or especially remove the package netbase.i'm open to suggestions. cause it sucks having apt broken. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
cryptographic file systems for use with 2.4 kernel?
i was looking into TCFS but it looks like it is only supposed to work on a 2.2 kernel, and my laptop is using a 2.4 kernel (if it's stolen, i don't want some of the data on here being read...) so basicaly i'm wondering if there are any options out there for a crypto file system that is compatible with linux 2.4.5. thanks -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
Re: tried installing latest gtk-perl, apt problems
didn't seem to change anything, same results exactly. is there a way to disasociate that file with netbase? thneed:~# apt-get -o DPkg::Options=--force-overwrite -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libc6-dev libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 306 not upgraded. 5 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/2727kB of archives. After unpacking 2145kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 31064 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6-dev 2.2.2-4 (using ../libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libc6-dev ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/rpcgen', which is also in package netbase dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-dev_2.2.3-5_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 19:36:01 +0100, Colin Watson whispered to the router: !!On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 at 11:32:55 -0700, Forrest English wrote: !! thneed:/usr/bin# apt-get -o DPkg::Options::--force-overwrite -f install !! E: Option DPkg::Options::--force-overwrite: Configuration item !! sepecification must have an =val. !! !! did i do somthing stupid? i'm not real familier with what the above !! does. was there an option there i was supposed to change? !! !! [Cc'd back to -user to correct myself, hope you don't mind] !! !! Sorry, I should have checked that before posting. I meant: !! !! apt-get -o DPkg::Options=--force-overwrite -f install !! !! That passes --force-overwrite to all dpkg invocations, so that if a !! package contains a file that's already in another package it will be !! installed anyway and overwrite that file. It's not for general use, but !! handy in situations like this when a package is missing an appropriate !! Replaces: header. !! !! Cheers, !! -- Forrest English http://truffula.net/~forrest America is at that akward stage, it is too late to work within the system, but too early to start shooting the bastards -Claire Wolfe
Re: Audio CDs
another way to do this.. chmod /dev/cdrom (and it's link) and /dev/dsp to 777 put the cd in, press play on your favorite cd player. audio cds don't need to be mounted to play. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, David Nusinow wrote: On Monday 04 June 2001 06:12 am, Robert Mosher wrote: Hi Not too long ago I installed Debian2.2r2 on my computer. Since then I have slowly been getting things the way I want them. One thing I have yet to do, and would appreciate any help on, is playing (mounting) Audio CDs. I don't know if this will make a difference, but I have run 'apt-get upgrade' since release 3. I've read about cdfs for mounting audio CDs, but that requires kernel 2.4.x. Will I need to upgrade my kernel, and if so, how? Also, I noticed when browsing through the available packages that there are several CD players. I'm assuming this means I can play CDs somehow, without too much trouble (relatively speaking), since it would be pointless to include these packages if you can't. Thanks, Rob Mosher What you probably need to do is add yourself to the appropriate groups. There's an audio group and a cdrom group and if your user is a member of both (I'm not totally sure about the cdrom one, but definitely the audio) then you should be able to play CD's. If you can't hear a sound, then it's probably a mixer issue and you can download a mixer program to mess with your sound levels. Once you've added yourself to the group just fire up a CD player and it should work. CD audio is one of the easiest things to get setup generally. - David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
you could tell the people that this is a more advanced OS, and to NOT hit the power switch. i mean, it's just a thought. i've never had a problem with ext2, and there are power outages here all the time, and my ups is to weak to handle more than my server and dsl router. somtimes i've had to run fsck manually, but after that no problems. my .002 $currency -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi The situation I'm reffering to here is that of someone who might see a temporary interface slowdown or crash(happen quite often in office suites of any kind), and having no knowledge of how linux works, just hits the reset button(this could easily get repeated a whole bunch of times throughout the day in a school environment, and would do all kinds of nasty things to the fs). The background you seem to be coming from is some kind of server farm or similar setup where the users are all at least competent enough not to do lots of hard resets. Generally speaking, Linux with ext2 is probably the worst OS I've ever worked with for recovering from mundane stuff like that, but I do agree with you that it is much better than most as far as low instance of failure due to actual bugs within the filesystem are concerned. I don't see how RAID mirroring is an option though, as it would only serve to guard against mechanical failure, which is sort of beyond the ability of a filesystem to affect one way or the other.
Re: Getting Started!
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, HawkY wrote: Hi! I'm new to Debian and to Linux too. (I've just (tried to) installed Debian Potato next to a Win2k.) And I have questions: How can I get a list of my installed packages. ( dpkg ???) dpkg -l | less Does this command list the packages I've installed with mc? sorry, i havn't a clue what mc has to do with installing packages. How can I install a bunch of packages with one single command? (I want to install gnome, but I don't really know the package dependencies.) apt-get update apt-get install task-gnome-desktop (also handy, apt-cache search gnome | grep task) Is there a book I can get from the net that describes Debian? (If it is free... :o) ) there is... but it's for 2.1, which is ancient. also helpful man dpkg man apt -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
Re: High Load Average
what is running on it? have you checked top for processes? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: Just a question: Is there any reason in particular for a Debian Box keep its load average always over 6? It is a AMD Athlon 750 Mhz with 256 Megs of RAM, running potato and 2.2.19, compiled to run on i686. It has the Patches Debian puts on the stock kernel, and the new-style raid patches, although no RAIDs are set up yet. Sometimes the Load Average goes over 10, making sendmail refuse connections. It is running sendmail, IMAP, POP3, apache+perl, Radius(cistron) and that's it. What can possibly be wrong? Sidenote: We had another similar machine (processor was a PIII 550 Mhz) running the same stuff, but with Slackware. Load was never that high, and the machine swapped all the time, at least 25 Megs. The new Debian Box never swaps, but has a high load always. Any thoughts? Jordi S. Bunster [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Woody release date
sometime this century, maybe. ;) -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Sun, 27 May 2001, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: Ok folks, I already know Debian is only ready with it's ready, but, beign involved with the community, can anyone risk a probable time range for woody to become stable? Just wanted to know to see if I download 2.2r3 CDs or wait for official woody iso images. Thanks in advance -- Jsb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Libranet, Stormix, Progeny
there would be no reason to 'upgrade' to debian. they basicaly are debian, with updated packages in some cases, and gui installers and config tools. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On 26 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After much effort, I have totally failed on my efforts to install Debian, but I would still like to run it. (My linux partition is past sector 1023, and it won't make a boot floppy. I sort of managed to get around this by using the Grub install that RedHat did, since it pointed to the correct partition, but then Potato wouldn't recognize my cdrom drive to complete installation) So, my question is this: if I were to install one of the debian-based distros (it doesn't matter which), would it be easy to upgrade to debian with apt? If so, how would I go about it? Thanks, Kyle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Driver help
Note: I am not a Debian user and have NEVER seen Debian run. Over some time and through several potential sources I have asked about drivers. I do not know which drivers I need. This is not a request for general help on installing Debian. I have done about twelve microsoft installs with little or not help. The questions I have to communicate are: 1) Does Debian come with any drivers for my computer? 2) Do I have the drivers on the Debian install disk? 3) From whom or where do I request the drivers? 4) Is there documentation on how to request or install the drivers? 5) At what point or location do I get to install the drivers to make Debian able to locate my computer's hard drives and use my specific motherboard? Statements: 1) I will gladly pay for this information! 2) I do not have internet access beyond getting a non-Debian-using neighbor to type my hand-written request for me, as I don't type. 3) He is my only access, and his Mac G4 does not have floppy drives, nor does it have a CD burner, etc. 4) This is my first computer. 5) I built my computer from OEM parts, and taught myself to load five versions of Microsoft operating systems. 6) They crashed a lot. Request: Because I have no other means, I would like to obtain loadable hard copies of the drivers. (Important note. I have never met a Debian user. There is noone I know who uses any form of Linux or Unix. And my computer does not have an operating system that works). For reference: I will repeat the list of my computer's hardware and software. 1) Supermicro P6 DGU 440GX 82443 GX-family chipset motherboard using upgraded flash BIOS R03.0 DGU 4061 ROM. The original BIOS was super.ROM. (Has built-in SCSI RAID support). 2) My CPU is an Intel Pentium III running at 450Mhz. 3) I am attempting to load Debian version 2.2 with GNOME 1.2.1, and the Opera web browser. 4) I have a 3Com USR 56K Voice/Faxmodem. 5) One Toshiba SCSI2UW 40X CD-ROM. 6) One SoundBlaster LIVE! sound card 7) One 3DLabs Oxygen GVX 210 Dualhead Video card. 8) One Viewsonic VPA150 Flat monitor. 9) One Logitech Trackman Marble FX trackball. 10) Three IBM 9.1GB SCSI2UW HDs. 11) One generic 3.5 floppy drive. I will be building a stripe set across the three HDs. I am teaching myself these tasks. Without drivers that come on some form of disk that I can use, I can't continue. So far, people have asked various questions or said to ask the Debian developers and users. But noone has replied to my request for the drivers. How can I find a hard copy of the drivers? Anticipating that I will need various drivers, I included the above list. If I need to supply serial numbers or ven numbers I will be happy to do so. Please, if there anyone who will help me to get my machine's drivers? [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -Forrest Cameranesi, Geek of All Trades forrest [at] bungie [dot] org - forrest [at] west [dot] net http://myth.bungie.org/ - http://www.west.net/~forrest/ I am Sam. Sam I am. I do not like trolls, flames, or spam.
Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
i think star office is going to be your best bet as far as word proccessing and graphing goes. though, koffice might work, i havn't used it in a long time, and it seemd nice enough then, so it might work for you now. might want to think of using one of the newer mozilla builds. they're fast enough to use all the time. deb http://pandora.debian.org/~robot101/mozilla ./ adding that to your apt sources will get a fairly recent version. On Sun, 20 May 2001 16:53:19 , joe golden whispered to the router: !!I am trying to switch our small (12 machine) NT network over to Linux. Some !! of the main computer applications at our school are web browsing , word !! processing and spreadsheets (MS Internet Explorer, Word and Excel). !! !! I am running Linux debian 2.2.18pre21 and just updated last week. !! !! Netscape makes a great replacement for Internet Explorer. !! !! Abiword seems to work OK, but sometimes appears to split lines and I've had !! problems importing an image into a document. I haven't used Abiword much, !! but have already seen these problems. What is a better alternative that !! isn't too bloated. This is the major application we need for the school. !! !! For spreadsheets in school, you need to make graphs. Gnumeric seems slick, !! but last time I checked, *no graphs*. I need graphical representation of !! data for test scores, etc. !! !! Is Star Office the answer? Can the huge Star office package be broken into !! smaller more manageable parts? !! !! Thanks for previous help and thanks in advance, !! Joe Golden, !! The Stevens School of Peacham !! _ !! Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com !! !! -- Forrest English http://truffula.net/~forrest America is at that akward stage, it is too late to work within the system, but too early to start shooting the bastards -Claire Wolfe
Re: [users] Re: opera
On 21 May 2001 01:14:59 +0800, csj whispered to the router: !! Maybe you should just follow the Debian motto. When in doubt, recompile. i thought that was slackware's motto -- Forrest English http://truffula.net/~forrest America is at that akward stage, it is too late to work within the system, but too early to start shooting the bastards -Claire Wolfe
Re: 12 box network in small school
definitly. at freegeek.org we run 10+ machines sans disks by using a diskless setup, and getting their x sessions from another box completely. the server i belive is a dual ppro 180.and we've been using client machines of 486 and pentiums on a 10Mb network. so, i think you'll be fine with that machine. and if you've got a 100Mb network, that will help things along quite a bit. On Fri, 18 May 2001 15:08:55 , joe golden whispered to the router: !!Our school has a Dell Dimension XPS T450 with !! pentium III x86 Family 6 Model 7 Stepping 3 450 MHz processor !! 128 MB Ram !! one 5GB hard drive and one 3GB hard drive !! ethernet card !! Sony RW drive !! Can I use this as a *server* for a 12 machine linux network. !! !! Main workstation uses will be internet research and word processing. I'm !! sure this machine could function fine as a NFS file server and proxy server !! for web pages. Could it handle 12 simultaneous X sessions smoothly? !! Administration would be much easier if One server was doing all security and !! file permission checking, etc. !! !! Thanks in advance, !! Joe Golden !! _ !! Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com !! !! -- Forrest English http://truffula.net/~forrest America is at that akward stage, it is too late to work within the system, but too early to start shooting the bastards -Claire Wolfe
Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)
have you tried skipstone? it's basicaly like galeon, without all the garbage. http://muhri.net/skipstone -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Tue, 15 May 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: I might add that I'm quite pleased with Galeon. After reading your review and seeing the screeshot (are those tabs what I think they are???) I decided I had to try it. I changed my mind when I saw that it depends on GNOME crap. Can't I install a browser without installing a fscking desktop environment? Guess I'll stick with mozilla. noah -- ___ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
Re: Karsten's browser reviews (updated)
if galeon seems a bit slow... i've had a great time using skipstone on my laptop. p2 266, 64 megs of ram. works wonderfuly, never has it used more than 25 megs of ram (with 4 websites open in different tabs). -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Mon, 14 May 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 02:20:19PM +0800, ha shao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 08:34:22PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I might add that I'm quite pleased with Galeon. I am not. Try use it with 64MB of RAM I'll give that a shot. Hint: LILO boot parameters are your friend. I once booted a RH box on 16 MB, with GNOME, just for kicks. 30 minutes to login screen What's your primary browser? -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
Re: woody release date
On Sun, 13 May 2001, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: On Sun, 13 May 2001, Stuart Krivis wrote: On Saturday, May 12, 2001, at 11:25 PM, Ethan Benson wrote: my personal guess is that anything before late november is not going to happen. but who knows, if more people help with boot floppies that would probably help. the main thing is going to be seeing how many times freezes have to be restarted because RC bugs were not fixed. thats why potato's freeze took so long. I've always wondered why Debian has such trouble with releases. The RedHat clones put stuff out regularly. Yeah, I know, Debian actually wants things to _work_. :-) But FreeBSD also does a better job at new releases, and FreeBSD is high quality like Debian IMO. One consideration, already mentioned, is the number of packages that make up a Debian GNU/Linux release. this is what i was thinking. however, this is one place where debian has somewhat of a weakness. because of the number of people involved i imagine that it's difficult to coodinate such a huge amount of packages over so many differnt people. however, the upside to this is. whenever there is a security flaw found in a package, or a new version of an application comes out, it can usually be had very quickly for exactly the reason above, there are a lot of people, and they are each managing their own little peice of the puzzle. Another is, unlike FreeBSD, Debian supports a huge number of architechtures. FreeBSD supports x86, DEC-Alpha and PC98 (taken directly from their site)... The installer project for Debian is much more ambitious than any of the *BSD's as well - this isn't a knock at the *BSD'ers, either - but the goals are different. The Debian team wants to make it much easier for newer folks to install Debian. Whatever graces FreeBSD may have, a user-friendly install is NOT one of them. i find freebsd's and debian's installers really really similar actually. easy to use if you have an idea what you're doing. Also - the Debian team works on integrating software into releases that is constantly - and rapidly - changing. Often when one thing changes, it breaks another thing - and you have to change thing A because it's either a crucial bux or security fix, or a vital new feature that everyone wants. what i do is run unstable on my workstations, and stable on firewalls and servers, when security is an issue. just my thoughts on the matter -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
Re: Request for assistance
At 2:44 PM -0700 05/11/2001, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:29:50PM -0700, Forrest Cameranesi I don't see a reference to your SCSI controller. This is going to make a difference in configuring things, and may be the biggest single issue here. For the rest of your hardware, I'd strongly recommend you do some targeted Google searches or look at hardware lists. If your internet access is so limited this is difficult, have someone do this for you or hit a more accessible terminal someplace. The system is assembled and the hard drives are partitioned. But, Debian can't see the drives and I don't have the Debian-compatible software drivers for any of the above hardware. SCSI card info is necessary here. Review your dmesg output and/or post here if you can't interpret it. It says: SCSI0:0:2:0 Synchonus aat 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15 Vendor: IBMModel: DRV509V Rev. 0140 Type: Direct accessANSI SCSI revision: 0 Detected SCS disc SDC at SCSI O, Channel 0, I.D. 2, LUN 0 (SCSI0:0:4:0) Synchronus 15 20.0 Mbyte/sec, pffset 16 Vendor: Toshuiba Model: CD-ROM XM-640ITA Rev: 1009 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI Revision: 02 Detected SCS CDROM SR0 at SCSI0, channel 0, ID4, LUN0 SCSI: Detected 1 SCSI cdrom 3 SCSI discs total Uniform CD-Rom driver revision 3:11 SCSI device sda:hdwr sector=512 bytes. secors=17916240[8748MB]8.7GB SCSI device sdb:hdwr sector=512 bytes. secors=17916240[8748MB]8.7GB SCSI device sdc:hdwr sector=512 bytes. secors=17928698[8754MB]8.7GB Partition check: sda: sda2 sda2 sda5 sda 3 sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb5 sdb3 sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sdc5 sdc3 UFS: mounted root (ext2filesystem) readonly freeomg unused kernel memory: 140K freed net4: UNIX domain sockets 1.0 for Linux Net 4.0 Adding swa[ 1140604K swap-space (priority-1) Seruak driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled TTYS00 at oxo3P8 (IRQ=4) is a 16550A TTYS01 at oxo2f8 (IRC=3) is a 16550A Note: The supermicro P6DGU [BX] motherboard has built-in SCSI using Adapted 7800 family manager, the manual shows when used with SCO UNIX that BLAD or BLAD325 set drivers are to be used. -- -Forrest Cameranesi, Geek of All Trades forrest [at] bungie [dot] org - forrest [at] west [dot] net http://myth.bungie.org/ - http://www.west.net/~forrest/ I am Sam. Sam I am. I do not like trolls, flames, or spam.
Request for assistance
I am sending this message for a friend who is without internet access. Please reply to his email address at the bottom and not to this address. Thank you, Dear group, I would like specific help in building and configuring my home-built computer. Here is a list of what I have: A) Debian 2.2 B) Gnome 1.2.1 C.1) Supermicro Pentium III Super P6 DGU GX 440 (82443GX) family motherboard 2) Using upgraded flash BIOS (R03.0DGU4061 ROM) Original BIOS was super.ROM D) Three each, 9.1GB IBM SCSI HDs. E) Viewsonic VPA150 Monitor (flat) F) 3DLabs Oxgen GVX 210 w/ v1.00 CD G) Soundblast Live card H) 3Com USR 56K voice/faxmodem I) Toshiba OEM 40X SCSI II CD-ROM J) Logitech Trackman Marble FX K) APC BackUPS 650 (smart power supply) L) HP ScanJet 6300C M) HP DeskJet 970cxi I do not have much access to the internet to search, therefore any real help is much appreciated. The system is assembled and the hard drives are partitioned. But, Debian can't see the drives and I don't have the Debian-compatible software drivers for any of the above hardware. I do have the Debian CD and boot floppy. I don't know how to work from the command prompt, and so I need help with specific instructions that aren't on the Debian GNU Linux X86 V.2.2 CD. My goal is to install GNOME, Opera, communcations packages (phone answering, webradio, fax etc), a firewall, and a 3-volume (3 HDs) stripe set. The Oxygen GVX 210 Video card has dual monitor support which I will use, and the motherboard has two-CPU support which I will use later. I would like to achieve integration of these components, and move on to add DVD, digital camera, and an art pad and firewire support. It's a big list, so any help will truely be appreciated! email- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -Forrest Cameranesi, Geek of All Trades forrest [at] bungie [dot] org - forrest [at] west [dot] net http://myth.bungie.org/ - http://www.west.net/~forrest/ I am Sam. Sam I am. I do not like trolls, flames, or spam.
Re: Where's lame
check the unoffical apt sources page. there's one for lame there that i use. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Sun, 6 May 2001, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hi, how come, lame is nowhere in Debian? Not even in sid? Or libmp3lame for that matter. Cheers, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
way for postfix to restrict users to certain domains?
is there a way to limit which users can use which outgoing domain names in their mail account? and incoming for that matter. for instance, currently i've got... truffula.net madronepress.com now, i can send mail to any user on my system, at either address, and they at will can use either address. i'm mostly fine with this except that one of those is a company site i host. so, is there a way to say bob, can only use truffula.net sally, can only use madronpress.com joe however, is special and can use both. any suggestions? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
attempted windows install, linux won't boot
1. i tried to install win98 to play games 2. it decided it wouldn't get through the setup. locked 4 times. 3. so, i put in my debian cd 3. rescue root=/dev/hda5 4. it boots up, all good... 5. login, re-run lilo 6. lilo seems to work fine. 7. i reboot 8. I9990305 is all that apears where i expect to see: MBR LILO: 9. so i use the rescue disk again. i try loging in and doing fdisk /mbr, it reports, unable to open mbr. uh, greeet 10. reboot using the win98 cd to dos. fdisk /mbr. it doesn't complain 11. do the reboot, rescue, lilo thing again. 12. stare at I9990305 again. does anyone have any suggestions short of never install install windows _after_ installing linux? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
Re: attempted windows install, linux won't boot
On Fri, 4 May 2001 22:34:41 -0500 (CDT), Petr [Dingo] Dvorak whispered to the router: !! !! either add 'install=/boot/boot.b' line in /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo, or run !! /sbin/install-mbr and then rerun lilo, then reboot, and as long the win 98 is !! on 1st primary partition and linux on 2nd primary partition, or extended !! partition, you will not have problem. !! !! windows never installed anyhow, i'd very much settle for a working system at this point. install=/boot/boot.b that line was already in my lilo.conf so i did, install-mbr /dev/hda then i tried to run lilo. grickle:~# lilo Fatal: First boot sector doesn't have a valid LILO signature what in the heck does that mean... i've got... hda1 is my swap partition hda5 is my root partition (logical) hda6 is my home partition (again, logical) so, what am i doing wrong here? i get a different message where lilo should be though on boot. MBR FA: help. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
is dpkg broken currently?
i get a LOT of segfaults whenever i'm trying to install an application. so, i basicaly can't install anything anymore. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
dpkg totally broken. some more details inside.
grickle:~# dpkg --configure -a dpkg: /home/doogie/debian/mine/dpkg/v1_9/dpkg-1.9.4/main/packages.c:191: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry = 4' failed. Aborted due to earlier nastyness with dpkg segfaulting and stuff, i've got a bunch of packages that just didn't install correctly. so now whenever i try and apt anything, or do the above... i get that message. what in the heck is going on? without dpkg, life is pretty dull -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
Re: Framebuffer question
use the actual nvidia drivers from their website. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On 28 Apr 2001, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: Marko Simendic (MS) writes: MS Hello! How can I set framebuffer to work using higher refresh MS rates then 60hz? I have a Geforce2 card and I am using MS 2.4.0-pre12 kernel which is not going to change soon. Is there a MS new kernel driver for nvidia cards? There is one for Rivas but MS not for Geforce2 based cards. Did you try fbset utility? Some framebuffer drivers can not be configured to high resolutions or refresh rates during boot time. -- Alexander Zhuckov [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:5030/518.50 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
static routes
in redhat, there's /etc/sysconfig/static-routes is there an equivalent of this in debian? i grep'd around a little in /etc looking for static, but nothing turned up. pointers anyone? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
using xfree 3.3.6 in unstable?
can it be done? cause i see... xserver-common-v3 but, it doesn't have startx or anything like that. so, anyone want to share how to setup xfree 3.3.6 in unstable? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
converting pdf to html?
i've got a book that someone has asked me to convert to html. it's got tons of images, and other things to complicate things... even if it didn't convert the images, i could do that by hand. and obviously, if i have to do the whole thing by hand... i will. but, i'd much preffer to use somehting that automates it. the only thing i've found thats close is htmldoc, to take html to pdf. is there anything that does the reverse? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
aterms, home and end not working?
so, i'm using my aterms. it looks sexy. all my windows friends look at their shoes in shame. anyhow. but... home and end don't seem to go to the begining and end of whatever i'm entering in the termnial. however. home and end work fine if... i'm using nano or i run screen anyone got a quick explanation? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
thinkpad 600, xfree 4
so, i just got my little tp600. seems sweet so far. nice size. great looking screen. but, i'm encountering a huge problem. i installed xfree86 4.02, and ran through xf86config. so, i can start with XFree86. everything worked as expected. so, i installed blackbox. and changed my .xinitrc file. so, i startx. and the fonts look all weird. they don't quite fit into where they belong... which seems really weird to me. but, i figure i can fix it. so, i right click to get a menu. everything locks. hard machine lock. i can't get to another tty, and i can't kill x. it doesn't even finish drawning the menu. this same weird occurance happens in icewm as well. as soon as i do ANYTHING it just hard locks. one thing i notice if i kill x (doing XFree86 to start it). i see... (II) NEOMAGIC(0): Not programming shadow registers does anyone have any suggestions? i've never had x cause a hard lock on my machines before. so this just baffles me. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
Re: Progeny Debian
i tried it. here's a message i sent to my lug. alright, i gave it a shot. i repeal my defense of progeny. wanna know how to break a progeny install, even one from scratch really fast? uncheck installing gnome. tell it you don't want sawfish... boom. dependancy hell, which i tried for a good 20 minutes to get apt to correct properly. which it wouldn't. some garbage about esound, and sawfish, and and... well, it goes on. yes, i probably could have fixed it. but it's not worth that kind of trouble on a fresh system. fresh systems should work after install. am i incorrect? oh, it didn't setup x properly in the install. i had to run xf86config afterwards. yes, i could install gnome i guess... but... i'm a blackbox user, and use that and lots of gtk apps. but, i do not use anything that requires bunches of gnome libs. i know what apps i want, and like, and that about does it. if progeny essentially forces me to end up with a bloated install... well, it won't be finding my support anytime soon. ah well, was worth it just to satisfy curiousity. just pop in a debian cd and rerun lilo to fix the mess it made with grub. what is the point of making an 'easier debian', when debian is easier than this. /rant i think it's a great idea, often times lately, i'd like a nice gui configuration center for setting up a printer, or samba or somthing. but... if the install won't let me do what i want. i think i'm going to have to stick with plain debian and like it. i hope they get some of those issues worked out. i really do think it's a good idea. On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:29:04 -0400 (EDT), Net Owl whispered to the router: !!Hey Users... !! I caught this article over at /. that other day. It !! was discussing Progeny Debian. It seems kinda like a !! neat Idea...What does the list think? Any ideas? !! anyone already tried it? !! Thanks, !! --Net Owl !! !! Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste !! !! I guess then, that he had had other experiances with !! Valis, as he called him. As a matter of fact, he had !! had other experiances with Valis, as he called him. !! --Phillip K Dick Radio Free Albemuth !! !! - !! This mail sent through Atlantic.Net Webmail: http://webmail.atlantic.net/ !! !! -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
apt-get source failure?
i'm trying to get a current version of gkrellm on my potato server so i can view it remotely over an ssh login. but make enable_nls=1 make[1]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7' (cd locale make all) make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/locale' msgfmt -f -v -o de.mo de.po make[2]: msgfmt: Command not found make[2]: *** [de.mo] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/locale' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7' make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2 Build command 'cd gkrellm-1.0.7 dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. E: Child process failed that seems the important part. what is msgfmt, and why is it failing? truffula:~# apt-get --compile source gkrellm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Need to get 379kB of source archives. Skipping unpack of already unpacked source in gkrellm-1.0.7 utmp entry (forrest) does not match value of LOGNAME (root); using root at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47. utmp entry (forrest) does not match value of LOGNAME (root); using root at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47. dpkg-buildpackage: source package is gkrellm utmp entry (forrest) does not match value of LOGNAME (root); using root at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47. utmp entry (forrest) does not match value of LOGNAME (root); using root at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47. dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 1.0.7-2 utmp entry (forrest) does not match value of LOGNAME (root); using root at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47. utmp entry (forrest) does not match value of LOGNAME (root); using root at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47. dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Brian M. Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] utmp entry (forrest) does not match value of LOGNAME (root); using root at /usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47. debian/rules clean DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux dh_clean make clean make[1]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7' (cd locale make clean) make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/locale' rm -f de.mo es.mo fr.mo ja.mo make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/locale' (cd src make clean) make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/src' rm -f *.o *~ *.bak gkrellm core make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/src' make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7' rm -fr build-stamp install-stamp debian/rules build DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux DEB_HOST_ARCH=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU=i386 DEB_HOST_GNU_SYSTEM=linux DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE=i386-linux make enable_nls=1 make[1]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7' (cd locale make all) make[2]: Entering directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/locale' msgfmt -f -v -o de.mo de.po make[2]: msgfmt: Command not found make[2]: *** [de.mo] Error 127 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7/locale' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/gkrellm-1.0.7' make: *** [build-stamp] Error 2 Build command 'cd gkrellm-1.0.7 dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. E: Child process failed -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
what do i need for truetype fonts and antialiased fonts?
i'm pretty sure there's a way to make all of my fonts be true type fonts, and i've heard rumors there's a way to make use of antialised fonts. what packages do i need, apt-cache search ttf seemed fairly inconclusive. and what sort of configuration do i need to do? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
how do add this to my sources.list?
http://people.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla is the url i'd like to add. i've tried... deb http://people.debian.org/~kitame/mozilla and deb http://people.debian.org/~kitame mozilla both report this: thneed:~# apt-get update E: Malformed line 29 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse) (29 is the line it's on) anyone got any idea's? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
passing options when doing apt-get --compile source?
cause i'd like to compile skipstone with cookie support, which is usually make cookiesupport=1. any way to do this? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
Re: installing ssh
i belive apt-get install ssh will install openssh for you, which is what you'll want. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi, I want to install ssh in my potato box. However there is a bunch of packages related with ssh in stable. So: 1) What package should I install? 2) I am in Brazil. Should I use the non-us site in order to apt-get the package? TIA Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Japanese fonts
i would also like to know how to do this, my girlfriend is learning japanese, and has not been able to get it to work in windows (which doesn't surprise me). come on, make linux look good ;) -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Dean Posey wrote: Hello, I have a computer at home that myself and my wife use, I would like to set it up for her to be able to log in and email/surf using Japanese fonts. I know it's possible, but I was looking for suggestions from someone using a similiar setup. In the past I've used the jamondo program for Win, and I was looking into dual booting with the Japanese Win98. Since her use will be limited this seems like overkill, I'm sure there must be a better solution in linux. Any help would be appreciated, Dean Posey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Japanese fonts
how would i switch the locales for one user? because i'm not to keen on the idea of running my entire system in a lanugage that i don't even understand. i can however reach for ctl+d when she's logged. thanks -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Henrique M Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Forrest English wrote: i would also like to know how to do this, my girlfriend is learning japanese, and has not been able to get it to work in windows (which Install japanese font packages, the X-TT truetype font server (built-in in X 4.0.x, but make sure to enable the right one), and Mozilla. Setup mozilla to use whatever japanese fonts you have in your system. You'll probably need also the japanese locales, a kana input method and a few other niceties (and do remember to enable the japanese locale in the shells you'll be working in japanese!). Installing task-japanese might help you there. I don't use any kana input methods, but I had no trouble whatsoever to get mozilla to render japanese web pages. Emacs also works fine for inputing japanese text, as long as you install the correct emacs package for the input method you need. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
Re: Hdparm and 2.4 kernel
is your kernel compiled with dma support? because if it's not, thats not gonna work. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I'm having trouble using hdparm (versions 3.6 and 4.1) on a Debian Potato system. When I do: hdparm -d1 /dev/hda The message is: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted. Does anybody have any suggesstions why? The same hardware worked with DMA under Linux on Mandrake 7.0 (LX chipset + Maxtor disk drive) Even compiling my own version of hdparm doesn't help. Generally you need to be root to use hdparm. Even more generally you shouldn't need to use hdparm with 2.4.x kernels. 2.4.x has much better IDE support. - -- - -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6tGpK/ZTSZFDeHPwRAl1lAJ4jDRHK60VO8O/7GdCFgdarFo6qbwCeIuQA z1O9xIx5WS3VBQcfHMN1DAE= =O6v5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there any movie player that could do mpeg-4 in debian?
avifile http://divx.euro.ru -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just curious if there's any software out there for linux that could read mpeg-4. If there's any, could you guys name them? Calyth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The perfect X terminal emulator
home and end work for me in my xterms and eterms. could it be you are using older versions or somthing? i remember at one point they didn't work. but, i think it works using woody or unstable packages. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Seth Arnold wrote: Greetings folks; I cannot find an X terminal Emulator I like. I am hoping someone out there can point me in the right direction. (CC's on replies would be nice, BTW.) xterm doesn't let home/end work. aterm doesn't let home/end work. Eterm doesn't let home/end work. wterm doesn't let the numeric keypad work. rxvt (in the five minutes I have played with it during the preperation of this email) lets both of keypad and home/end work, but boy I like the transparency options of some of the other terminal emulators... (nothing quite like cheesing off Windows users by having the sexiest desktop. :) Am I missing any? Thanks. :) -- Earthlink: The #1 provider of unsolicited bulk email to the Internet. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NVdriver problems
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 20:27:27 -0600, Zac Epkes whispered to the router: !!NO!!! the NVdriver does not work with 2.4.x kernels !! Use XFree 4.0.x [preferable 2] i'm sorry, yes it does. i'm running 2.4.1, nvidia .96 works just great. just download from kernel.org, and make sure it's in /usr/src/linux shouldn't have a problem with them. but he says he's using 2.2.19presomthing anyhow, so why mention the 2.4 kernels? !! !! u MUST have the kernel source and headers in /usr/src/ !! leave the kernel header folder alone... i would rename the kernel-source* !! folder to linux/ and then build the GLX package then the NVIDIA_kernel !! package... !! !! Hope this helps !! !! - overid3 =] !! !! On Thursday 15 March 2001 09:39, Kyle Girard wrote: !! Alright I've been trying to get this kernal module to work for a couple !! of days off and on without any success I have tried many different !! ways with many different kernels and I get natta, zip, zilch. Any help !! would be apprieciated... !! !! Here's my problem: !! !! I cannot insert the NVdriver module into my kernel I get the following !! error: !! !! !! insmod NVdriver !! Using /lib/modules/2.2.19pre11/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver !! /lib/modules/2.2.19pre11/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver: unresolved !! symbol create_proc_entry_R0ca385ff !! /lib/modules/2.2.19pre11/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol !! init_mm_R400c8da0 /lib/modules/2.2.19pre11/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver: !! unresolved symbol remove_proc_entry_Rc8a0ae1b !! /lib/modules/2.2.19pre11/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol !! proc_root_R26e7cf1e /lib/modules/2.2.19pre11/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver: !! unresolved symbol mem_map_R3362b304 !! /lib/modules/2.2.19pre11/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol !! __wake_up_R0e58d99a /lib/modules/2.2.19pre11/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver: !! unresolved symbol printk_R1b7d4074 !! /lib/modules/2.2.19pre11/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol !! register_chrdev_R0429f8ef !! /lib/modules/2.2.19pre11/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol !! __pollwait_R2cf42003 !! !! !! I've tried building the kernel-module from the tarball straight from !! nvidia, using the nvidia-kernel-src_0.9.6-2_i386.deb with kernels 2.2.15 !! - 2.2.19pre11 and I get the same thing every time.. !! !! I've done everything I can think of, I followed the instructions in !! /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-src, I've tried following the instructions !! from nvidia's page.. I'm not a guru when is comes to these kinda things !! but I can usually plow my way through but this one has me !! stumped... !! !! Thanks in advance, !! !! Kyle !! !! ps This might be all my own dum fault since I've never been able to !! install a kernel module that I have built !! !! !! System info !! !! Debian unstable !! TNT (Diamond Viper V550) !! kernel 2.2.19pre11 (was 2.2.15 until a couple of days ago) !! Pentium 2 350 !! !! !! Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8; name=Attachment: 1 !! Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit !! Content-Description: !! !! !! -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
Re: nfs problems
no change. same results. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote: Forrest English wrote: ok, here's what i do on the server. /etc/exports file contains /cdrom 192.168.2.30 From my experience it has to look like this: /cdrom 192.168.2.30/255.255.255.255(ro) 192.168.2.30 is the ip address allowed to remote mount the cdrom 255.255.255.255 is the netmask. In this case is only a host (ro) is the option that tell to the nfs server to export read-only Fabio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nfs problems
oh, the test thing is because initially i thought it might have been a problem with trying to export a cdrom. and i made a test dir and export. anyhow, i switched it back to the cdrom in both cases. thneed:~# rpcinfo -p program vers proto port 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper 1000211 udp 32768 nlockmgr 1000213 udp 32768 nlockmgr 1000241 udp895 status 1000241 tcp897 status 132 udp 2049 nfs 132 tcp 2049 nfs 151 udp906 mountd 152 udp906 mountd 151 tcp909 mountd 152 tcp909 mountd the server shows that, so it looks like everything is running alright to me, and the client still has grickle:~# mount /nfscdrom mount: 192.168.1.10:/cdrom failed, reason given by server: Permission denied i never had any problems with the nfs-kernel-server, but since this is a 2.4 machine, i don't think thats an option, is it? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Forrest English wrote: ok, here's what i do on the server. /etc/exports file contains /cdrom 192.168.2.30 and the client's fstab contains 192.168.1.10:/cdrom /nfscdrom nfs rsize=1024,wsize=1024 0 0 i on the server, i then did... /etc/init.d/nfs-server reload and mounting on the client reports grickle:~# mount /nfscdrom mount: thneed:/test failed, reason given by server: Permission denied Hmm, you try to mount /cdrom on the server, but it reports that you try to mount /test. Have you loaded nfs-common-utils? What does 'rpcinfo -p' on the server say? At least rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd should have been loaded. Also did I discover that sometimes portmapper is not load automatically, so by doing: /etc/init.d/portmapper restart /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart /etc/init.d/nfs-server restart and rpcinfo -p should display something like: 1 2 tcp 111 portmapper 1 2 ucp 111 portmapper 389 2 tcp ??? mountd 389 2 ucp ??? mountd 385 2 tcp ??? nfsd 385 2 ucp ??? nfsd I cannot remember exactly, just check the most right colom. Greetz, Sebastiaan could someone please elighten me on what the heck i'm doing wrong? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
more nfs problems (thank you all for last time)
sorry folks, i don't know why i didn't tail my syslog on those systems sooner. it would have helped a lot faster. here is my network setup. server/router/etc (truffula.net) eth0 192.168.2.1 (lan2.truffula.net) eth1 externalip eth2 192.168.1.1 (lan1.truffula.net) on eth0 is a hub. on eth2 is a crossover cable to thneed. thneed is the nfs server in this case (192.168.1.10) on the hub swomee (192.168.2.20) grickle (192.168.2.30) lerkim(192.168.2.40) now...i can mount the nfs share fine on truffula.net. since the interface going from it to thneed is 192.168.1.1.but, i can not mount the share from anything on the hub.when i try and mount from a machine on the hub, syslog on thneed reports that it got another mount request from lan1.truffula.net.i belive this has somthing to do with ip masquerading that i'm using. but, i couldn't say for certain. the only solution i can think is to re-export from truffula.net to the machines on the hub. the odd thing about this is, the machines on the hub can ping, nslookup, ssh etc, etc... each other just fine. so, would all machines have to be on the same hub, or is there a way to do this? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
Re: about apt-get
did you do apt-get update first? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Rogelio E. Castillo Haro wrote: Hi! I'm do an apt-get upgrade, but something is wrong. It seems that some files there isn't at server on my source.list... http.us.debian.org stable/main dnsutils and modutils by example, apt-get says file not found, any help about this? Or maybe I need to change my source.lists lines? -- Rogelio E. Castillo Haro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vive libre o muere!!! Linux 2001 :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nfs problems
ok, here's what i do on the server. /etc/exports file contains /cdrom 192.168.2.30 and the client's fstab contains 192.168.1.10:/cdrom /nfscdrom nfs rsize=1024,wsize=1024 0 0 i on the server, i then did... /etc/init.d/nfs-server reload and mounting on the client reports grickle:~# mount /nfscdrom mount: thneed:/test failed, reason given by server: Permission denied could someone please elighten me on what the heck i'm doing wrong? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
exporting nfs?
i apt-get'd nfs-server, and i created /etc/exports but, exportfs doesn't exist on my system. it exists on my potato system which is using nfs-kernel-server. so, how do i export what i specified in /etc/exports in the userspace server? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
Re: mp3 encoding
check the unofficial apt source page. there's one that has lame there. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote: Ok, I know there have been some licensing issues which is probably why so many of these disappeared, but is anyone still doing mp3 encoding on linux? I installed grip, but I don't have an encoder installed. What is everyone else using? Yes.. I am using lame is great.. dont know if I installed it by apt-get or from source code tarball anyway go for it. Regards Roberto Roberto Diaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://vivaldi.ddts.net Powered by ddt dynamic DNS Powered by GNU running on a Linux kernel. Powered by Debian (The real wonder) Concerto Grosso Op. 3/8 A minor Antonio Vivaldi (so... do you need beautiful words?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla 0.8-Special setup required?
do you have permissions on the directory? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jonathan Gift wrote: hi, I dl the 0.8 build, untarred and zipped it to /usr/local/share/mozilla than ran /usr/local/share/mozilla/mozilla to get it started. I get lot's of error message and changing themes crahses it cold. They couldn't have released this as is, so it's me. What haven't I done? I'd love to use it, so any help appreciated. Thanks, Jonathan -- /* Jonathan Gift [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: woody installation
-- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi Tru64, and IRIX are also high on the list of difficult to install(even with instructions). there are companies that provide a user friendly frontend to debian for the newbie, corel's spinoff(?) is one and there is another..forget the name though i dont think its out of beta. ease of installation is the last thing im interested in, afterall you usually only install it once. and never see it again.(i can't remember the last time i used deselect either) Most newbies can't even get by in installing a basic version of win9x or NT or win2k. what you're thinking of here is progeny i belive. or possibly libranet, or storm. i've only tried storm, which is quite nice. but, progeny will probably turn out all right if ian murdock is involved. libranet used to charge for their cds. which was nuts. so i had no interest in trying that. at this point i'd turn my desktop into a progeny install... except that my desktop is unstable, not potato which it must be to apt up to progeny. anyhow, just thought i'd throw that in there... that and.. corel? gag. i have never seen a less userfriendly linux distro ever. well, maybe redhat -- Forrest English http://truffula.net
Re: X terminal on Win
youd need to be running a correctly setup x server on the windows side. but yeah, technicaly it's possible. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Ales Jerman wrote: Hello! I was wondering if it is possible to connect from Win95 with ssh to an Linux box and recieve X packets in ssh window? So I would connect to Linux box from Win with ssh program and type like $ X -export DISPLAY Win_IP:0 But I know that this is wrong but, so can you tell me the right command line? Thanks! BYe AleS Jerman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: web/kernel problem
i heard of people having problems like this using 2.4 kernels. i have yet to encounter one myself, but i heard many a complaint in #linuxsphere about it. could be sites that are trying to detect browser and os and alter page accordingly, and don't know what to do with linux 2.4 yet? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Michael Meskes wrote: Is anyone able to access www.lego.com with kernel 2.4.2? I am not. But Iif I reboot to 2.2.18 all works well. Does anyone have an idea what the reason may be? All other webpages I tried do work. Michael P.S.: My system is up-to-date unstable. -- Michael Meskes Michael@Fam-Meskes.De Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rc.local equivalent
as far as i know there isn't one. make your own script in /etc/init.d and link to it in the runlevels that you want /etc/rc2.d is the default runlevels init scripts. personally, i like this method better, as you can just remove symlinks to stop them from starting up, but don't have to delete the init script itself. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Holp, John Mr. wrote: A couple of days ago someone asked the question that was in the back of my mind, but I don't recall seeing the answer/s. In Red Hat and some other Red Hat like distributions the path sequence /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc.local can be used to execute your custom scripts and/or start daemons at boot time, that is they are run out of rc.local The person was asking what/where is the place where one does this kind of thing in Debian? I cannot find /etc/rc.d There is an /etc/rc.boot and a /etc/init.d If I wanted to start the printer daemon at boot time where would I put the following lpd start You can also use rc3.d to start the lpd daemon in the Red Hat way of doing things - is this the answer? This appears to be an area where things are done differently in Red Hat versus Debian Thanks John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Cool *nix/GNU/FS/Perl/FSF/etc. Caps?
there's also copyleft, i forget their address right now. but a quick google for copyleft store should come up with stuff. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Carlos Laviola wrote: On 07-Mar-2001 John Bacalle wrote: * John Bacalle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20010305 18:30]: Is anyone aware of a good source to buy quality hats/caps for Free Software types? I would prefere a Debian/Copyleft design vendor but I can't find anything of *good quality*. No one has any good suggestions? http://www.thinkgeek.com -- Carlos Laviola - ICQ 55799523 pub 1024D/3516D372 2000-06-05 Carlos Laviola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 3BE1 6591 C78C 2AA4 31DD AEEF 6406 0227 3516 D372 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
getting a fake xfree package?
i want to isntall imagemagick on my server for use with some scripts i have for thumbnail gallerys. but... there's no way i want x on that system. besides forcing each package i want besides x, is there a way for the system to stop paying attention to x dependancies, or to fake it out somehow? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
Re: getting a fake xfree package?
xlibs is one of the dependancies. but xfree86-common is also one of them. thats what i'm trying to avoid without forcing and manualy installing them all. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On 6 Mar 2001, David Z. Maze wrote: Forrest English [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FE i want to isntall imagemagick on my server for use with some scripts i FE have for thumbnail gallerys. but... there's no way i want x on that FE system. besides forcing each package i want besides x, is there a way for FE the system to stop paying attention to x dependancies, or to fake it out FE somehow? You can just install the xlibs (xlib6g on potato) package, which gives you the X libraries that X client programs link against. You shouldn't need to install a full set of X client programs, or an X server, or anything else; the library package should be sufficient for this. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal. -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DSL
you're gonna have to explain that a bit more. ppp or bridging mode? are you using an external router or an internal dsl modem? bridging external router is easy. anything else... i've never used. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Robert Tucker wrote: I'm new to linux and I'm looking to find out how to set up for DSL (which I'm using under W95. I need to know what program(s) I'll need to get online with linux. Anyone have experience with DSL? Appreciate your help... Thanks Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DSL
it's really easy then. just enter the same settings for your ethernet card in linux as you would in windows. you will be prompted for this info on the installation of debian. might i suggest for a first time storm? (stormix.com) it's debian based, and compatable with debian in everyway. but, it adds some gui stuff that you might find useful as a newbie. /me prepares to dodge the mob of debian puritians... -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Robert Tucker wrote: I'm using a Kingston ethernet card (internal) to an Alcatel LAN (external). Right now I using W95 and so it is very difficult to find all the info that it seems I need... I'm upgrading to linux and don't have a clue as to what I'm doing with the exception that I know that ANYTHING is better than windoz and it seems linux is at the top of the list of better choices. Thanks for you help, Forrest Robert Forrest English wrote: you're gonna have to explain that a bit more. ppp or bridging mode? are you using an external router or an internal dsl modem? bridging external router is easy. anything else... i've never used. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Robert Tucker wrote: I'm new to linux and I'm looking to find out how to set up for DSL (which I'm using under W95. I need to know what program(s) I'll need to get online with linux. Anyone have experience with DSL? Appreciate your help... Thanks Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux with bsd on second hard disk
whats wrong with installing lilo on the MBR of hda? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Balbir Thomas wrote: Hi I am running debian on /dev/hda and want to install bsd on /dev/hdc . However lilo is unable to boot freebsd on /dev/hdc and and I get the error 0x01 . The freebsd documentation say that I must install its boot manager on the first hard disk . I would like to avoid this . Could you please advice? I have read linux+freebsd howto but could not glean anything about dealing with a second hard disk. Please note: my lilo version number is 21.5beta Sincerely Balbir Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Any problems with this hardware?
should work fine. but if you want a good x server you'll want to go to nvidia's site and download and compile those for your kernel. not only will you 3d, you'll also get a faster and more responsive x, that uses less memory than the svga. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: Hi! It is time to buy a new computer. Will I face any problems with this hardware? Board: Socket A GIGABYTE 7ZX Via 133 ATX with Sound Blaster 128 Sound on board CPU: AMD K7 Thunderbird 900 MHz RAM: SD-RAM 256 MB PC133 Video: Riva 128 TNT2 Pro AGP 32MB TV out or GeForce 2 MX AGP 32MB DDR Creative Labs I will install Debian 2.2 or woody of course. Any problems with this hardware? Do I have to look for NVidia-Drivers on their homepage or will X run out-of-the-potato-box? The on-board-sound-chip is an original SoundBlaster. It can be deaktivated. Would you recommend to use X4.0.2 and the newest Kernel 2.4.2? I've heard about those minimal requirements compiling Kernel 2.4.2. TIA juh -- Der dornige Zweig der Abderiten-Familie http://www.sudelbuch.de/2001/20010221.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian on laptops
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, joe willson wrote: i have my laptop finally running fine but there are still a few things that's annoying me. first off everyday i start up, debian keeps on reading my harddrive, i do a top and see that the program find is using like 16% of my cpu! i think this is cause by cron loading up, so how can i turn this off. anacron i belive someone said awhile ago... second thing is since i don't have suspend working plus i have to boot into windows sometimes i have to boot linux a few times a day. the problem is fsck starts scanning the entire partition when it reaches max mount count so is it a good idea to turn this off? not a good idea to turn off. what kind of laptop do you have? if it's a thinkpad, you'll need the thinkpad tools compiled for your kernel, and if it's anything else, you'll need APM support in your kernel, which isn't there by default. running linux on laptops takes a little more work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new domain name
hostname hostname but, you'll need to do dns for it unless someone else is doing your dns. and dns will be slightly more complicated. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Glenn Becker wrote: I just purchased my first domain name. Is there an efficient way to change the name of my system from the rather ignorantly assigned name I gave it at install to the new domain name? Thx, Glenn Becker Online Producer, Community SCIFI.COM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using RHL 7's rpm in debian 2.2r2
no to the rpm of xfree. i mean, i suppose you technicaly could try it with alien... but in no way would i suggest it. kernels are kernels. as long as you have the libs to compile them. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ankit Jain wrote: Hi all, I have been a longtime user of RedHat and installed Debian 2.2r2 today. I have a few queries- 1. I have a dial-up connection so its not possible for me to d/l huge binaries. I have the RHL 7 cd, n it has XFree86 4.0.1.rpm, can i use this 2 install Xf 4.0.1 on my debian box ? 2. I have a sources for kernel 2.4.2, can i safely compile them on debian? thanx -Ankit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using RHL 7's rpm in debian 2.2r2
well... since debian doesn't USE rpms... using rpms via conversion with alien is only for last resort. you'd be much better of with debs or source or binaries. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Ankit Jain wrote: Is 'no to rpms' a general rule i shud follow or is it just with 'some' packages? -anks - Original Message - From: Forrest English [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ankit Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 12:57 AM Subject: Re: using RHL 7's rpm in debian 2.2r2 no to the rpm of xfree. i mean, i suppose you technicaly could try it with alien... but in no way would i suggest it. kernels are kernels. as long as you have the libs to compile them. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
Re: What's up with Mozilla
but in 0.8, psm is built in, it's no longer seperate. i don't see whats so hard about making a package for mozilla unless he's compiling it himself... (and then, only hard drive space would be a problem). at this point i think it's ridiculous not to have a new one... m18 is really old by this point, and .8 is so much faster than the older versions that i'm somewhat shocked. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Colin Watson wrote: Greg Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's going on with Mozilla packages. Sid still has Mozilla M18, and the maintainer seems to be ignoring all requests for an upgrade to something more recent(Like 0.8). Has the package been orphaned or something? No, apparently he's busy polishing the 0.8 packaging and trying to beat things like PSM into the Debian packaging scheme. It seems it's distinctly non-trivial to package. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS Server Setup?
you need to setup some other dns servers for yours to reffer to if they don't have the info. what you want to do is called a cahching dns server for a reason. it keeps places already visited in a local cache. but, you don't have a record of all of the sites on the entire internet right away. so, follow the howto as best as you can. but, at the very least add some other dns's that you reffer to. it's in um... named.conf or somthing like that in /etc/bind -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, I found an easy document on the homepage of RedHat. Search there for it. If you want to take a look at my files (which still do not work perfectly for every computer on the world), mail me privately. It is really simple to set up a simple server. Greetzm Sebastiaan On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Debian Gonzalez wrote: Hello everybody ... I want to set up a DNS server for users in my office. I've looked at all the HOWTOs out there and I couldn't make sense of them. Let me explain what I want to set up. You know like in Windows (or /etc/resolv.conf for us) when you specify a Primary DNS Server ... like so that when you type in www.yahoo.com the proper page comes up? I want to set up one of those types of machines. I believe such a server is called a resolver or a resolving and caching server or something ... please correct me if I'm wrong, please. So, I used dselect to install bind and bind-doc and stuff ... that was with Progeny. It didn't work and I was tired of the way the machine was working so I just set up Potato and had it set up the machine as a DNS Server (a setup option). ps -le | more (also ps -le | grep named) show me that named is up and running. If I put 127.0.0.1 alone in my /etc/resolv.conf, lynx will not be able to go to http://www.google.com (with a known, working DNS server it works just fine, though ... I know this machine can get on a network and everything). Also, when I specify the IP of this machine (192.168.10.249) as my Primary DNS Server in Win2k, it won't go to any webpages either. Now, I know, this is a right-out-of-the-box setup of bind, but I can't figure out what I need to configure. Like what files do I need to configure to make this work? Maybe the root servers or something in db.root are out of date? I have no idea and it's gotten pretty frustrating after a week or so. Any help would be appreciated, folks. Thanks! Please CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Christian __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: buring potato iso's for an older CDROM
you can't. if the cdrom is to old to read burns. it's just to old to read burns. :( -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an oold cdrom that seems to work fine with commericial CD's. Reads rh6.x and windows install cd's fine It will not read the debian potato CD i burned off the web fyi: this same CD works read/boots fine in my newer CD-ROM How can i burn the ISO image so the old drive will read it? mode1? 2? cdrecord and adaptec easyCD creater instructions would be helpful thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS Server Setup?
as far as i know, thats just not how it works. every dns asks above itself for those that it's not resposeable for, and usually keeps the info as soon as it knows another one though. anyone know how to setup your own stand alone dns server? like the ones that most isps seem to have that take time for the info to filter down from the root servers? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Debian Gonzalez wrote: Maybe I'm mistaken ... but my understanding was that my DNS server would just pull information from the Root Servers or something. You see, currently, I have two DNS servers that resolve our requests and such. They're pretty fast and everything except that about three times per day they freeze up for about two-five minutes. During that time, no one in my office can look at websites properly. I don't want to be in a position where the big DNS servers are down and someone looks up a brand-new non-cached site from my little DNS server. Since my little one doesn't know where the new site is ... it'd have to refer to the big ones ... which would both me down. Does this make any sense? -Christian --- Forrest English [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you need to setup some other dns servers for yours to reffer to if they don't have the info. what you want to do is called a cahching dns server for a reason. it keeps places already visited in a local cache. but, you don't have a record of all of the sites on the entire internet right away. so, follow the howto as best as you can. but, at the very least add some other dns's that you reffer to. it's in um... named.conf or somthing like that in /etc/bind -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, I found an easy document on the homepage of RedHat. Search there for it. If you want to take a look at my files (which still do not work perfectly for every computer on the world), mail me privately. It is really simple to set up a simple server. Greetzm Sebastiaan On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Debian Gonzalez wrote: Hello everybody ... I want to set up a DNS server for users in my office. I've looked at all the HOWTOs out there and I couldn't make sense of them. Let me explain what I want to set up. You know like in Windows (or /etc/resolv.conf for us) when you specify a Primary DNS Server ... like so that when you type in www.yahoo.com the proper page comes up? I want to set up one of those types of machines. I believe such a server is called a resolver or a resolving and caching server or something ... please correct me if I'm wrong, please. So, I used dselect to install bind and bind-doc and stuff ... that was with Progeny. It didn't work and I was tired of the way the machine was working so I just set up Potato and had it set up the machine as a DNS Server (a setup option). ps -le | more (also ps -le | grep named) show me that named is up and running. If I put 127.0.0.1 alone in my /etc/resolv.conf, lynx will not be able to go to http://www.google.com (with a known, working DNS server it works just fine, though ... I know this machine can get on a network and everything). Also, when I specify the IP of this machine (192.168.10.249) as my Primary DNS Server in Win2k, it won't go to any webpages either. Now, I know, this is a right-out-of-the-box setup of bind, but I can't figure out what I need to configure. Like what files do I need to configure to make this work? Maybe the root servers or something in db.root are out of date? I have no idea and it's gotten pretty frustrating after a week or so. Any help would be appreciated, folks. Thanks! Please CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Christian __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: burning potato iso's for an older CDROM
are you reffering to a cdr-drive? or a cdr cd? i ment the cd in case i said somthing stupid. the drives, it doesn't matter. some cdroms are to old for rw's, but can read once write just fine. i'd give that a shot. but i mean, my thinkpad's cdrom is to old to read cdrs or cdrws, and it's annoying. cause i have to do floppy installs. and i don't HAVE any pressed cds. -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does it matter that it was burned on a cdrw instead of a cdr? On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Forrest English wrote: you can't. if the cdrom is to old to read burns. it's just to old to read burns. :( -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an oold cdrom that seems to work fine with commericial CD's. Reads rh6.x and windows install cd's fine It will not read the debian potato CD i burned off the web fyi: this same CD works read/boots fine in my newer CD-ROM How can i burn the ISO image so the old drive will read it? mode1? 2? cdrecord and adaptec easyCD creater instructions would be helpful thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lilo-rotate.conf: No such file or directory
well, when i apt-get upgrade to unstable. everything went fine (i'm shocked actually), except for lilo... thneed:/home/forrest# apt-get install lilo Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 201 not upgraded. 3 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 143kB of archives. After unpacking 82.9kB will be used. Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main lilo 1:21.7-1 [143kB] Fetched 143kB in 7s (18.7kB/s) (Reading database ... 29011 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace lilo 1:21.4.3-2 (using .../lilo_1%3a21.7-1_i386.deb) .. already preserved: boot.b already preserved: chain.b already preserved: os2_d.b Rotating files /boot/*.preserve to avoid breakage on upgrade error: cannot stat /etc/lilo-rotate.conf: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/lilo_1%3a21.7-1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/lilo_1%3a21.7-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) thneed:/home/forrest# this is me re-running it after the update. anyone got an bright idea's? what exactly is lilo-rotate.conf, and what the heck is it needed for? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use -Fugazi
