Help! My Debian blew up!
All of a sudden while trying to emacs -nw options to setup my new modem , things refuse to execute! It just stalls and doesn't do anything! I see no particular connection between things that work and those that dont: Working: xterm, ls, cat, fsck, vi Not: startx,emacs, xemacs, netscape, syslogd (Renders system unbootable but for single mode)... Please tell me I dont have to d/l a new debian install over a 1.0 kps ppp link?! :(. I am using potato + kernel 2.2.12 last upgraded about a week ago and running fine until just now. Thanks, tim
SoundBlaster128
I've read the list archives on SB128 topics and tried both the OSS and Alsa modules. But whenever I try to do anything I get a No such device error like so: frontier:/dev# ls -al dsp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root9 Oct 5 02:00 dsp - /dev/dsp0 frontier:/dev# cat ~/english.au ./dsp bash: ./dsp: No such device frontier:/dev# Any ideas what i'm doing wrong to be getting this? Also frontier:/dev# cat /dev/sndstat cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device frontier:/dev# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [card1 ]: AudioPCI - Ensoniq AudioPCI Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371 at 0xe800, irq 10 frontier:/dev# lsmod Module Size Used by snd-pcm1-oss 12972 0 (unused) snd-card-ens13712192 0 snd-ens1371 7184 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd-pcm1 16380 0 [snd-pcm1-oss snd-ens1371] snd-timer 7324 0 [snd-pcm1] snd-ac97-codec 19840 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-mixer 24544 0 [snd-card-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec] snd-midi 12236 0 [snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371] snd-pcm 8620 0 [snd-pcm1-oss snd-card-ens1371 snd-pcm1] snd33292 1 [snd-pcm1-oss snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm1 snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-midi snd-pcm] soundcore 2116 4 [snd] etc Any ideas? Thanks, Tim
Video Board Support?
Hi, my new computer came with an ATI Rage Fury 128 AGPx2 (32MB). I'm not sure which X-server to use for htis, does anyone know, or know whether it is supported by xfree/accelx/metrox etc at all? Thanks, Tim
Databases
Hi, ive been trying out MySQL and PostgreSQL on debian too see which I will use for my database projects. Can anyone recommend: 1. Documentation / HOWTOs or whatever on how to set these up with web interfaces - expecially about how to do so as a database beginner and not compromise the security of your whole system:). 2. What web/software client interface method is best to use and why? - The two clients in unstable/misc seem to be non-free and ide rather use Open Source stuff naturally. Thanks, Timothy
XDM startup?
How can I get apps to start automatically with X if its using XDM? Before I used to use .xnitirc, but this doesnt seem to work any more since apt installed xdm. :(. Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 06-Sep-99 Time: 11:34:46 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Palm Pilot Software
Hi, I was trying to get the pilot-manager and pilot-link packages to play with my new palm IIIx. But things seem to be fried due to the perl upgrade...? SNIP jade:/dev# apt-get install pilot-manager pilot-link Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: pilot-manager: Depends: perl-tk but it is not installed E: Sorry, broken packages jade:/dev# apt-get install perl-tk Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: perl-5.005 apache-common liburi-perl libgtk-perl libhtml-parser-perl apache perl-base autoconf eperl perl-5.005-base dpkg-dev libnet-perl libmime-base64-perl sgml-data libwww-perl The following packages will be REMOVED: libmd5-perl mailtools w3mir dns-browse mrtg makepasswd perl checkbot wu-ftpd-academ webmagick The following NEW packages will be installed: perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base perl-tk /SNIP I cant let it remove stuff that i need like wu-ftpd-academ etc. What does that have to do with perl anyway? But, point being, does anyone have any tips for getting around this mess, or have any other (Preferably debianized) software which wont conflict to suggest? (I played with Pyrite but it doesnt seem to do much beside back up the palm pilot) Thanks, Timothy PS: Which software do I need in order to beable to install downloaded 3rd party apps on the palm pilot? -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15-Jul-99 Time: 09:20:09 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Xemacs
Hello, I have been using Xemacs more and more and begin to realize that it is obviously the single coolest program ever written;). Unfourtunately it is far from easy to learn, and right now I am too broke to buy any more books. So can anyone point me to any online tutorial/manual type resources which are more comprehensive than the included tutorial (from help menu) which doesnt even scratch the surface? (The included xemacs info pages themselves are quite helpfull but a step by step guide through various procedures rather than the command by command approach in the info pages would be nice). Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Jul-99 Time: 20:05:02 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Palm Pilots
Which palm pilotswill available linux software work well with? I was thinking of buying a palm IIIx and was wondering if there were any isses with it good or bad stories appreciated! Thanks! Timothy PS:Does anyone know if the later palms with infra red are compatable wit heach other across versions for beaming purposes?
Emacs psgml mode?
How do I get Xemacs to colorize/facerize HTML tags in psgml mode? I did M-x sgml-mode, M-x set-variable, and set sgml-set-face to '1' as specified in the psgml doc files, but html files are still quite normal looking:(. Any idea? Thanks! Tim -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 25-Jun-99 Time: 05:32:48 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Writing Drivers? Info Appreciated!
When people are trying to write drivers for stuff that isnt already supported under linux, how exactly do they go about doing it? I mean, if I want to, say, make a program to grab pictures from my unsupported digital camera. Could I get some program to 'filter' the serial port or whatever in winblows to see what control codes the software uses to control the camera and then try to re-implement such a system under linux? Basically Reverse engineering the software's functionality I guess? (I would, of course, then donate the code to one of the OpenSource camera projects ;)). Anyway, if this sort of thing is possible could someone point me to a winblows program to use to examine what gets sent over a port? Thanks! Tim -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Jun-99 Time: 01:21:42 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Re: Debian applications - where to get them???
3. I wanted to download x11amp (also called winamp in the Windows world) to play MP3 files but could not find it anywhere. Any suggestions on where I might be able to get a copy (preferably in .deb format)? (Any suggestions for a better player are also welcome :-) ). apt-get update; apt-get install x11amp allways works for me! :) x11amp uses the least CPU time of any of the others ive tried, (All!), so its probably the best:) HTH. Tim -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-Jun-99 Time: 22:02:03 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Re: I worry...
We had a hard time finding someone willing to do our Debian server. All of the ones we contaced to get our web server built told us they felt more confident doing a RH install or they said: RH is pretty strong in this ares, and some of them even had some nifty deals for us if we chose RH. How will the Debian community be able to fight in a market like this in the future? This sounds like all the supposed linux gurus that got interviewed actually dont know what they are doing - if the ABSOLUTELY NEED RH's fancy GUI tools to configure everything! :). -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Jun-99 Time: 01:07:57 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
RE: ICQ programs for Debian GNU/Linux
I have tried most of the ICQ clones available and I find that micq is the most stable! And does the least weird stuff like loosing messages. The command line thing is quite neat also; I found it unexpectedly good to not have to click to recieve messages - saves lots of time! :). Unfourtunately it doesnt look like micq is debianized; but its compiles easily out of the box so thats okay. I forget the URL; but just search on freshmeat and youll find it! However, since micq doesnt do file xfers; I use gtkicq whenever I have to accept file transfers from people who are too clueless to login to me ftp and send it over:) HTH! Tim Hi, I'd like to know what are the good packages for ICQ people use in Debian. I've been using gtkicq for some time, and though I think it is a nice package, I'm not sure as to how reliable it is... looks like I never get to receive some messages while using it... More than that, it looks like gtkicq is no longer in potato (why?), and I can't upgrade some of my gnome slink stuff to potato, because this would remove my gtkicq. Any comments? -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30-May-99 Time: 23:42:00 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
xemacs + nextawg?
Hi, Is it possible to make xemacs work with nextawg and if so can someone direct me as to how? I tried the usual export LD_PRELOAD thing. And ldd on xemacs binary shows the first library in the nextawg directory. But it still comes up as usual. Or if not. Is there any way to make it look prettier? (Color at least?) The dull black-grey-white thing kind of spoils a pretty windomaker + gnome-themeified desktop! :) Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-May-99 Time: 13:06:49 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
rvplayer working?
Hi! Has anyone got the RealVideo player to work? I got the .rpm package from www.real.com and debianized it with alien and then installed it. Then I set it up with netscape as per instructions. (It didn't come with the .class files for the plugin; so I had to get those from the .tgz archive). But the only thing it will play is the default in rvplayer's location bar: pnm://video.real.com/welcome.rm. Everything else - EG: the welcome.rm that comes with it wont play, clips from cnn, trailers from movie sites, clips from realguide etc either give the General Error #1, or Error #19? - Unable to connect to server. :(. Errors of the first kind are accompanied by: audio: write error: 706 bytes errno: 0 type messages at the command prompt. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?! Thanks! TiM -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30-Apr-99 Time: 23:35:41 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Re: kernel 2.2.6
What is the inherent issue which puts a limit on the size max size of the kernel? And what plans do Linus et al have for 3.0+ or whenever even bz Kernels pass this size limit? Root device is (3,5) Boot sector is 512 bytes Setup is 1286 bytes System is 526 kB System is too big. try using bzImage or modules. bzImage does not work and my kernel is in no way bloated. i only included standard stuff and it was practically the same as i had 2.0.36 except for joystick support. what can i do? Make more things modules. And do use bzImage. -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 24-Apr-99 Time: 17:59:13 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
File Processing: Please Advise
Hi! I have a file processing task and would like some advice on how best to go about it! I have afew thousand .jpg files from my scanner and I want to rotate them all and maybe some other things. I forget the exact command but with something like imagemagick -rotate 90 infile outfile where infile[s] are a set of files - file[0001-2000].jpg and outfiles[s] would be created as processedfile[0001-2000].jpg. I cant figure out how to make a bash script to do this easily. I could do it with C but would like to know how to do it in some scripting type langage. So is there a good way to do this with BASH or should I bring Perl up to the top of my TO-LEARN list or what? Thanx! TiM -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Apr-99 Time: 22:05:40 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Re: File Processing: Please Advise
With the example echo script only returns: (Despite the fact that there are many .jpgs) $find . -name '*.jpg' | xargs ./Suggestion.sh ./test1.jpg $ Is this how it is meant to work? I was reading the man page for xargs but didnt understand most of it: I get the impression that xargs should do: ./Suggestion.sh find result1 ./Suggestion.sh find result2 etc etc? Thats what it would probably have to do since image magick's convert seems to refuse to convert multiple files on one command line. Further Ideas? Thanks a Mil! TiM --cut here #!/bin/sh #$1 holds first command line argument #do stuff to $1 here... echo $1 #example --end cut Put this in a file, then chmod +x that file. Now, invoke this like so: $ find . -name '*.jpg' | xargs myscript.sh Carl -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Apr-99 Time: 23:29:54 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
BASH programming
Hi, Where can I find a bash programming HOWTO? Im trying to make some scripts to make my life easier but I cant seem to decipher the langage by looking at scripts on the system:(. thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 11-Apr-99 Time: 15:05:12 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Program Stats glibc2.1
Hi all! How can I tell how much time a program spent running? (Real elapsed time as well as cpu time or something). Also: apt-get install of some things wants to upgrade me to glibc2.1 etc. (from regular glibc2). is this safe yet? ive heard it breaks things!:( Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 09-Apr-99 Time: 12:17:49 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
w3mir and perl
Hi all, When I try to use w3mir on just about any site it says: w3mir: bookc/c21-2.ps, receiving headerCan't locate object method basename via package URI::file at /usr/lib/perl5/URI/WithBase.pm line 41. Is this a problem with w3mir or perl? and how do i fix it? :) These are my package versions: ii w3mir 1.0.5-1w3mir is an all purpose HTTP copying and mir ii perl5.004.04-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Thanks! TiM -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 24-Mar-99 Time: 18:28:43 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows
Could someone tell me how to read info pages / find out what info pages are available? I know this is probably a dumb question, but I don't seem to have an info topic command - so does info use a different kind of syntax to man or is it a special package or what? Thanks! Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've no intention of starting a flame war - but the fact remains, if the man pages are no longer being supported by developers, there's no sense including them in the man pages package. It just adds to the confusion. Not true. If the manpage says this manpage is out of date, see the info pages then I've learned _exactly_ what I need to know from the manpage. If there's no manpage there then I'll just be confused and wondering why there's no documentation. Later, Dale -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Mar-99 Time: 15:06:56 This message was sent by XFMail Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. --
dia debian package
Hello! I have tried dia (0.30). Its very good, however, when I try to open files that I have saved, it allways says: Error loading diagram filename. Not a Dia file. Does this happen to anyone else? - Would this be bug/unimplemented feature in dia, or a bug in the debian package or something broken on my system? The files seem to be saved allright, as if you uncompress them you can go and read the actual xml. I am running slink with afew things from potato on kernel 2.2.0 Thanks for any advice! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-Feb-99 Time: 12:19:22 This message was sent by XFMail --
RE: hp cdwriter (where to mount?)
My HP IDE writer works fine with mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom as slave. or mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom when I have it configured as master. Which IDE controller you have it on shouldn't matter: I have my writer and reader on one cable on the secondary. Getting it to write is another story which I am still working on getting SCSI emmulation etc to work :). If it still wont mount some more detail on what it says when you cant mount it would be helpfull! Good luck! Tim On 15-Feb-99 Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I installed an hp ide cd writer. What is the best way to do this? Should I make it the primary cdrom, and use my former cdrom's ide cable? Or should I make it the secondary ide? When I install it together with my cd-rom drive the kernel reads it as /dev/hdd, but then I cannot mount it. For now I'm installing it into my windows box, until I can figure out how to make this work in linux Thanks NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian/GNU Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-Feb-99 Time: 22:58:55 This message was sent by XFMail --
Extreme Security Suggestions?
Hi, I am wondering what is the recommended way to secure a sizeable volume (0.5-2GB ) of confidential data such that it is non-retreivable/unusable even in the event that a hacker has gained user level or shudder root access? I have thought of some kind of encryption; but I haven't seen anything fast enough to make that practical given that I would have to re-encrypt the whole data set after working on it. I also thought of simply having a dedicated partition for the data in question and unmounting it when I leave the machine. But I suppose a hacker with root access could easily remount it. Which leaves the option of having a dedicated physical drive and unplugging it when I leave. But that is annoying since I would have to leave my machine open all the time. :(. So any other suggestions, comments? Thanks! Timothy PS: I have no intention of letting a hacker gain access to my machine; but its nice to be prepared for the worst. ;). -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05-Feb-99 Time: 00:47:27 This message was sent by XFMail --
GNUcash/Libs
Hello! I am trying to get GNUCash to work; the binary distribution (1.1.23); converted with alien from rpm gives libXm.so.1 = not found libXmHTML.so.1.1 = not found libreadline.so.3 = not found Can anyone tell me what packages I need to get these libs? And has anyone successfully compiled the src? After installing lots of libs 1.1.25 nearly finishes but dies with lots of parse errors when it starts to compile perl stuff. If you've got it to work please tell me what relevant packages/versions you have! Thanks alot! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 25-Jan-99 Time: 23:59:09 This message was sent by XFMail --
Printing with 2.2pre kernels?
Hi all! I have been using 2.2pre6 for the last few days and everything works perfectly except this bizarre new parport device which broke my printer. :(. Any advice on how to setup the parport thing properly would be greatly appreciated!!! lpq says this when I try to print: Status: cannot open '/dev/lp0' - 'Operation not supported by device', attempt 1490, sleeping 60 at 13:16:18 My lilo.conf section for this kernel is like: image=/boot/bzImage3 label=Test3 read-only append=aha152x=0x140,9,7,1 parport=auto lp=parport0 I now have a /proc/parport/0 directory, which reports: $ ls total 0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root0 Jan 19 13:16 autoprobe -r--r--r-- 1 root root0 Jan 19 13:16 devices -r--r--r-- 1 root root0 Jan 19 13:16 hardware -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 Jan 19 13:16 irq $ cat autoprobe $ cat devices $ cat hardware base: 0x378 irq:none dma:none modes: SPP $ cat irq none $ -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-Jan-99 Time: 13:12:28 This message was sent by XFMail --
Re: Printing with 2.2pre kernels?
I still get this when I switch to lp1 in printcap and restart lpd. Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Operation not supported by device', attempt 2, sleeping 20 at 15:00:54 Any other ideas? Thanks! Try to swap /dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1 in your printer setup. The numbers have been swapped for some reason nobody understands (to correct some BIOS error or to provide compatibility with BIOS, dunno). Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 19-Jan-99 Time: 15:01:29 This message was sent by XFMail --
CDROM ISE-SCSI: Help please!
Hello! I have compiled my kernel with IDE-SCSI emmulation to try and burn CDs. However, I can no longer mount my CDROM drives using /dev/hd[x]. Can someone point me to the new devices they are being seen as, and|or the relevant manpages? /dev/sd[x], /dev/sg[x], /dev/scd[x] don't seem to work. :(. Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-Jan-99 Time: 21:07:49 This message was sent by XFMail --
Adding ftp users?
Hi, I have what is probably a stupid question. :). How should I add a real user to my wu-ftpd server? I suppose I could just copy my /etc/passwd to the ~ftp/etc/passwd, but is this secure? And will I have to do it again everytime I add a new real user? I can't hardlink to /etc/passwd because /home/ftp is on its own partition...? I haven't seen much about this in the relevant manpages and wuftpd FAQ. adduser and addftpuser scripts don't seem to be much help either. Thanks for all advice! Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 14-Jan-99 Time: 16:29:03 This message was sent by XFMail --
X-CD-Roast
Hello, In X-Cd-Roast hard disk setup tab, I am not able to enter anything for Image-Partition 1: it doesn't let you type into the field, and the select button brings up a box with nothing in it except OK and CANCEL. Everything else in setup works fine. Any idea what is going on here / how to fix it? Apparantly it can't work without this field filled in. I have 2.0.36 compiled with SCSI-ATAPI-emmulation, and everything detects fine on bootup as well as on the SCSI/IDE info section of X-CD-Roast. Thanks in advance! Timothy Hospedales -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12-Jan-99 Time: 13:35:50 This message was sent by XFMail --
VCD player.....
I just got my first VCD! Does anyone know of a open/source/free VCD player for linux? All I could find was mpegtv which doesn't do audio unless you pay for it. :(. Thanx in advance! Timothy
WindowMaker/XFMail?
Hi all. I just used apt to get and install WindowMaker, (I was using icewm b4). Now that its installed, my xfmail refuses to do anything that involves opening a new window - Reading Mail, Composing mail etc. When I press compose or something, the main XFMAIL window goes into the background, but no new window appears. Everything works fine again if I start X with icewm. any ideas? Thanks, Timothy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: e2fslibsg conflicts with e2fsprogs (hamm) | APT
I did an 'apt-get upgrade', and apt went ahead and removed e2fslibsg in favour of e2fsprogs without any messages or warnings. So now I have no e2fslibsg, but everything seems to be fine, what will happen if I have to reboot? Thanks, Timothy PS, for the developers: apt-get upgrade is really cool! I suppose people could just set it up as a weekly or monthly cron job and have machines keep themselves up todate! :). On 01-May-98 Torsten Hilbrich wrote: Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dselect won't install e2fslibsg because of a conflict with e2fsprogs, but it won't remove e2fsprogs because it is an essential package. How do I resolve this dilemma? I did it using the --force-remove-essential flag to dpkg while removing. Make sure that you install e2fslibsg before rebooting the system. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-May-98 Time: 18:52:29 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Diety / Apt Questions.
First, thanks alot for everyones help! I am presuming that you want to run programs that open windows on the X-display that you have already logged into as a 'normal user', yes? The 'xhost +localhost' (or any other host that you are using on your network) is a good solution (probably the best). IF you are not running multiple X displays on your machine then a simple technique is to 'su' in an xterm, 'cp /home/user/.Xauthority /root' which will then let root open things on your display. So does root get to keep my user's .Xauthority file permanently then? Or is .Xauthority periodically generated? (Man -k xauthority and variations thereof return nothing. :(...) And what does the .Xsession file that someone was talking about do? (No luck with man and that file either) SNIP BTW, unless I am mistaken, you never need to do the 'export DIPLAY' command unless you are trying to open a display on a display OTHER than the on that you are using to issue the command. So if I am logged into a remote computer telnet, could I do xhost +remotecomputer on mine, and export DISPLAY=myipaddr on remote, and then start some X program on remote and have it send the display to my Xserver? thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-May-98 Time: 19:32:05 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Terminal Corruption
Any idea why / how to prevent the text on Virtual Consoles going nuts and being replaced with lots of funny garbage characters? This happens to me occasionally if I accidentally cat an executable file. But today it happened when I mounted an msdos floppy, and tried to do 'ls'. When this happens the VC it happens on is useless and the characters are only normal again when I reboot. Even when I type exit (which appears all corrputed of course), the little pengiun logo on the login screen is all corrupted. :(. Any ideas? I really hate having to reboot my computer, it reminds me of windoze! Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-May-98 Time: 22:05:32 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Terminal Corruption
Kewl. Thanx. it works. On 03-May-98 George Bonser wrote: On Sat, 2 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas? I really hate having to reboot my computer, it reminds me of windoze! Have you tried the following command: reset -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-May-98 Time: 22:19:56 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Diety / Apt Questions.
1. (Out of curiosity) is there any way to specify the server apt-get uses? Are we just out of luck if the default one goes down? 2. Could I make a symlink from /var/cache/apt/archives to another drive/partition with more space and let it keep the cached archives there? 3. If apt retrieves a newer version of a package and stores it as usual in the archives directory, does it delete the older one? or does that directory grow without limit? Thanks! Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-May-98 Time: 10:57:45 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Diety / Apt Questions.
Ok cool! One more thing though; is the APT GUI going to be X based? Normally when i'm installing stuff, I su to root in an Xterm and use apt or dpkg. But if the APT GUI will be X based, and I do that, won't the X-serve reject the connection? thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-May-98 Time: 13:39:39 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Diety / Apt Questions.
Hi! I've been looking for a way to run root stuff under X! I tried doing what you said and su'ing to root, and then export DISPLAY=:0 Then when I start anything X it says: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key I'm not sure what you mean by whatever I run X on, but when I try other numbers besides 0, it says: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 Any ideas / explanation of what is going on here? Thanks Alot! Timothy On 02-May-98 Shaleh wrote: Any time you log in as a user different than the one who owns the X session you have to set the variable DISPLAY. so next time you su to root simply: export DISPLAY=:0 or whatever you run your X on. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-May-98 Time: 16:13:00 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Free/OpenSource software?
Hi, I am planning to start to write a piece of software in the near future, and I am considering whether or not to make the source open when I do so. I would appreciate any advice on pros and cons of having the source open. I don't understand some free software people. To me computers are tools to get a job done, if a proprietary source tool works best, i would use it. As it stands, I use Linux because its better than Windoze et al. Anyway, some questions. 1. I am planning to write in Java. Does the fact that Sun seems to have control over the language itself affect the ability to apply the GPL or similar liscences to Java software? 2. As I understand it, the GPL forbids use of your source code in closed source software. However, if an unscruplous individual were to do so anyway, how would you know since the individual's source would be closed? 3. Is there any other major benefit to open source beside peer review? Thanks In Advance! Timothy Hospedales -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 30-Apr-98 Time: 17:21:23 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Memory problem....
I just converted yet another MS-dissatisified friend to Debian yesterday. However, when we were installing debian on his box, a P-100 w/ 32MB. freemem returns only 15MB or so free. Implying that debian only found the first 16MB. I've heard about this before, but only w/ 128MB systems, and debian finds the 64MB on my box fine. Any ideas? Thanks, Timothy Hospedales -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26-Apr-98 Time: 13:49:52 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memory problem....
Oh! Sorry! My mistake. I meant to say that Total: was about 15MB. Free was slightly less than that again. Which as I understand would be okay for a 16MB system, since the kernel takes about 1MB, but implies that about 16MB is not being found since it is a 32MB system. On 26-Apr-98 Ben Pfaff wrote: I just converted yet another MS-dissatisified friend to Debian yesterday. However, when we were installing debian on his box, a P-100 w/ 32MB. freemem returns only 15MB or so free. Implying that debian only found the first 16MB. First, there is no command `freemem' AFAIK. `free' is the command. Second, you will rarely if ever see more than a small fraction of your memory free. Most of the time, it is used up by cache, which gets freed automatically as necessary. The number you should be concerned about in the `free' output is Total, which should be somewhere between 31000 and 32000, approximately, for a 32 MB system. HTH, Ben. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26-Apr-98 Time: 14:22:24 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memory problem....
Hm. Well. I have no idea what options the default kernel that comes with the hamm install disks built with? Does anyone know where this is documented? But in any case, the default hamm kernel found my 64MB just fine. So I doubt this is the problem. Thanks, Timothy Hospedales There used to be (I imagine there still is) a kernel config option that has to be turned on to use more than 16MB. Have you checked this? -- ...RickM... -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26-Apr-98 Time: 17:28:56 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: securing debian
I would like to make my Debian box use shadow passwords since it is allways on the 'Net. Firstly, how do I turn on shadow passwords in debian? Secondly, will this affect my pppd, proftpd, telnetd, apache or other daemons? Thanks, Timothy Hospedales BTW, I was reading the Shadow-HOWTO and it says SNIP System crackers know all this, and will simply encrypt a dictionary of words and common passwords using all possible 4096 salt values. Then they will compare the encoded passwords in your /etc/passwd file with their database. Once they have found a match, they have the password for another account. This is referred to as a dictionary attack, and is one of the most common methods for gaining or expanding unauthorized access to a system. If you think about it, an 8 character password encodes to 4096 * 13 character strings. So a dictionary of say 400,000 common words, names, passwords, and simple variations would easily fit on a 4GB hard drive. The attacker need only sort them, and then check for matches. Since a 4GB hard drive can be had for under $1000.00, this is well within the means of most system crackers. /SNIP If a 4GB drive and lots of time are all it takes, how do any systems at all w/o shadow passwords avoid breakins? SNIP Also, if a cracker obtains your /etc/passwd file first, they only need to encode the dictionary with the salt values actually contained in your /etc/passwd file. This method is usable by your average teenager with a couple of hundred spare Megabytes and a 486 class computer. /SNIP Since /etc/passwd is world readable, then it sould not be a problem to break into any non-shadow system? Yes, i'm clueless about security having used Windoze all my life until afew months ago when I first heard about Linux! So thanks for any advice! -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26-Apr-98 Time: 17:36:50 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Possibly Off Topic: Fonts gone bananas in X.
Hi, I recently upgraded my X packages to 3.3.2-3. (xlib6g, xbase, xserver-vga16, xserver-svga, xfntbase, xfnt75, xfnt100, xfntbig, xfntscl). I also upgraded my gimp stuff to gimp0.99.26-1, libgimp0.99.26-1, libgtk10.99.10-1. Now when I do text in gimp with any font, say, lucida bright or times, the text is super duper blocky just as if it started off a small fixed size and was stretched to many times its current size. Any ideas how I can fix this? I am guessing it broke somewhere during the upgrades, but I'm not sure. Thanks in advance, Timothy -- E-Mail: Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-Apr-98 Time: 13:35:54 This message was sent by XFMail. Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Offtopic: Java Mode broken in Xemacs20?]
I installed cvs, and it works again just like you said. But when I added the line you suggested to the ~/.emacs file, it didn't make any difference when I loaded up .java files. Any ideas? (As you may have guessed i'm a clueless beginner to emacs. Sigh). :). Thanks, Timothy Well, I don't know why registerring the file with version control would give you syntax highlighting, but you problem may come from not having cvs installed. But registerring something with version control is not the way to get syntax highlighting anyway. I just have the following in my .emacs, and it suffices to give every java file pretty colors: (add-hook 'java-mode-hook 'font-lock-mode) If you just want to higlight one file, just do M-x font-lock-mode. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paralell Port tape drives under linux?
Hi, I have a Parallel Port Ditto 3200 tape drive. Is there support for these sorts of things under Linux? If so where should I start looking to get it setup. Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 05-Apr-98 Time: 15:34:28 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DPKG question.
Is there a dpkg command to veryify the integrity of a package too make sure it downloaded okay? I skimmed through the manpage and documentation, but I didn't find anything like that. Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03-Apr-98 Time: 23:11:16 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Offtopic: Java Mode broken in Xemacs20?]
Hi. I just installed xemacs20 (I had xemacs19 before). Previously I did Tools-VC-RegisterFile-FileName.java, and it would do syntax highlighting and allow me to use indentation and stuff. Now when I try that, it says Searching for program: No such file or directory, admin. Any idea on how to fix this, or any other way to get it to syntax highlighting? Thanks, Timothy -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 04-Apr-98 Time: 15:30:36 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Running java (JDK 1.02) applicatios.
Java just uses the class name, if you add a .class extension it won't work. Hope that helps. Timothy. BTW - Does anyone know why Sun makes javac use filename.java and java use filename with no .class extension? On 02-Apr-98 Liran Zvibel wrote: Hello! I re-subscribed (and remembered why I unsubscribed - in 10 min. I had 7 msgs in my spool...). I installed all the important parts of the JDk 1.02 (at least all the parts that were at the ftp server). My CLASSPATH is set to .:/usr/lib/jdk/classes.zip but when ever I do java ???.class it says it can't find the class. Can you help? TIA, Liran Zvibel. http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-Apr-98 Time: 17:44:17 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Non-Free Software
I am curious as to what the problem is with the current system of distribution whereby Debian is distributed 'pure' on CD. And those users who have no problem with non-free liscences are free to download non-free debian packages from the Debian FTP site and mirrors thereof? Thanks, Timothy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 31-Mar-98 Time: 12:27:00 This message was sent by XFMail -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BackSpace Key
My backspace key has suddenly stopped working in X. Now it acts like a [Delete] Key. This happened when my KBD package died along with my /usr/loal/ directory, but did not recover when I reinstalled KBD. Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks, Timothy -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SCSI changes Interrupts?
I just got my Adaptec 152x SCSI adapter to work However, two weird things happened in the process that I wonder if anyone could shed some light on Firstly, before I got it to work, cat /proc/interrupts reported my PS2 mouse as being on IRQ 8, SoundScape as being on IRQ 10, and had no listing for sound. After I got it to work by setting the jumpers on the SCSI adapter to IRQ 9, and giving the kernel the appropriate parameters at boot time, cat /proc/interrupts reports the PS2 mouse on IRQ 12, sound on IRQ 5, and does not list SoundScape any more. (The SoundScape support in the kernel is configured to use IRQ 10 for MIDI, and IRQ 5 for Audio... (DSP?)). Any ideas on the discrepancy? Also, before it started working, I tried setting the IRQ jumpers on 11. (Not listed as in use by /proc/interrupts at the time), however, at boot time, it failed to initalize that IRQ, and suggested that it might be wrong.. So, after that I tried IRQ 9, (also not listed as in use), which worked. Any ideas on why it wouldn't work on an interrupt not listed as in use? I suspect my /proc/interrupts is abit crazy, because even now that it doesn't show the SoundScape on IRQ 10 any more, it still initalizes fine on that IRQ at boot time, and I can still play mp3s fine. :). Thanks in advance for any thoughts on the matter, Timothy. PS: I use aha152x=0x140,11,7,1 at boot time now. Can anyone fill me in on what the '7' and '1' are about? The SCSI howto used them, but I couldn't find anything on their significance. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
POP3 Client..
Does anyone know of a good POP3 client for Linux/X? Something like Eudora or Pegasus in Windoze...? I just want to beable to check multiple mail boxes easily. (Its a pain in netscape mail). I'de rather not have to setup fetchmail and related apps. Thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Modem Problems....
Is there a neat utility to display what things are using what IRQs? Thanks, Timothy Sounds like you have an IRQ conflict. Read the 'dmesg' output and see exactly what interrupt the serial port is on, and make sure it's not the same interrupt as another card. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
GhostView / GhostScript problem...
I have GhostView 1.5-16.1 and gs-aladdin 5.10-3 / gs 3.33-6. Using either gs and gs-aladdin, all the files i've tried to open in GhostView (eps,ps,pdf), have given some sort of errors, such as: Unknown paper size: (A4). Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow. Unexpected interpreter error -17. Error in object: dup in dup and then lots of hex numbers.. Any ideas? Thanks, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: GhostView / GhostScript problem...
different sort`s of errors? Or always the same? is libpaperg installed and configured? Yes, I have the newewst libpaperg installed: Aside from the error I get when opening gziped ps/eps/pdf files, which I presume is a separate problem, all the errors are the same A4: Unknown papersize thing. One thing I noticed, in the gs man page, it lists the valid paper sizes. 'A4' is not on the list, just 'a4'. I looked in some of the ps files and they had 'A4' papersize set. - If this is the problem, what sort of workaround might I beable to do? Would I have to do a search replace of 'A4' with 'a4' in every ps file I want to read? Thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Broken Man pages after uprade!
Hi, I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before I was using the old ones from Bo). Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says: sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory sh: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot execute: No such file or directory. Where can I get this pager thing, or whatever is required to fix this? Thanks in advance! Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Modem Problems....
I was trying to setup debian on another computer: The serial module only detects /dev/ttyS1. I tried to get minicom to dial out on /dev/ttyS1, but it doesnt seem to initialize it, and the modem doesn't make any noise when I try to dial. Any suggestions as to where I should go from here to try and get the modem to work? Thanks, Timtohy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Enlightenment Stuff.
Has anyone gotten Enlightenment related apps (ImLib, eMusic, ePlus, eTerm, etc), to compile properly on their debian system? From what i've seen RH5 people seem to beable to compile E-stuff fine, while they give trouble on other distributions. I'm wondering what the RH5 people have that i'm missing: On my Hamm system, ImLib compiles fine, but none of the other Enlightenment things or Enlightenment itself will compile. Any ideas on what RH5 might have over my Debian Hamm, and how to fix it? Thanks, Timothy. PS: Are there any plans to debianize Enlightenment now that it's in beta? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Sound Modem on one ISA Board?
A friend of mine would like to install Linux; he has a board by creative that has both sound and modem on it. Might linux have a problem with this - Is there any reason why it mightn't work properly with a single board for music modem? (It's not one of the IBM DSP things). Or better yet, has anyone been able, or unable to get one of these to work? Thanks, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape 4.0 Bus Error Fixed, New Linux Distribution....
Just a note for others who have been experiencing the Netscape Bus Error bug when attempting to view Java Applets; I just upgraded to X-Suse (Matrox), in an attemt to get X-Anim to work better, and inadvertently 'fixed' Netscape. I can run all Java applets I encounter just fine now; (previously any applet caused netscape to crash with a bus error). And they run faster than Netscape 4 for Windoze to boot! :). Also, I just noticed a new linux distribution: stampede linux. - www.stampede.org. They claim that the reason for their distribution is to have one which new users will beable to use easily, and which power users will think is 'awesome'. What do ya'll think about this? Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xanim.....
Thanks for everyones help with the PPP problem. It's fixed now. :). I recently installed the XAnim package; I've tried playing AVI,MOV and MPG files. All of them play black white, criss crossed with lines, and distorted with multiple outlines of the animation at different offsets. When I add the +b option, or various other options suggested in the xanim man page, it plays bw with only vertical lines and no distortion. However, I can't get it to work any better than that. Any ideas? I have a Matrox Millenium 4MB video board with the regular SVGA X-server. I'm Running X at 1152X864, 24bit color. My X is still libc5 although I have upgraded to libc6. Thanks in advance! Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.
Hi, I'm helping a friend setup debian on his computer; he uses the same ISP as me, so I set it up just like mine. It didn't work immediately (It just disconnected shortly after connect), so I added +chap to the options file to make sure it was using the CHAP auth that the server wanted. Now when I start pppd, it says. Peer Authentication Required, but no authentication files accessible. - I presume this means that the problem is that it couldn't / cant find or access the chap-secrets file that I made. The chap-secrets is in /etc/ppp, and I chmod'ed it to 777 just incase, but it still does the same stuff. I'm sure its something really silly that i'm missing. Any ideas what it could be? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.
Yes, we use the same dialup number and everything. Our ISP only authenticates with CHAP, so we have to use this chap-secrets thing. The chap secrets, now mode 600, in /etc/ppp has - Hisusername * Hispassword - in it, just like mine. The PPP.log says: Feb 13 14:32:35 sexmajik pppd[174]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Feb 13 14:32:35 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x86b70234 pcomp accomp] Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5d asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x3442bd5 pcomp 0b 04 07 00] Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x5d auth chap md5 0b 04 07 00] Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5e asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x3442bd5 pcomp] Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x5e auth chap md5] Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x5f asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x3442bd5 pcomp] Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x5f auth chap md5] Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x60 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x3442bd5 pcomp] Feb 13 14:32:36 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x60 auth chap md5] Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x61 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x3442bd5 pcomp] Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x61 auth chap md5] Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: Modem hangup Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: Connection terminated. Feb 13 14:32:37 sexmajik pppd[174]: Exit. I don't know much about this, but it looks as if the server is sending Config Requests, and his computer is Rejecting them. This may be related to what I asked about first, when it said it couldn't find the authentication files. Any ideas? Thanks alot! Timothy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm helping a friend setup debian on his computer; he uses the same ISP as me, so I set it up just like mine... Does he dial the same number you do? Some isp's use different arrangements on different servers. ...so I added +chap to the options file to make sure it was using the CHAP auth that the server wanted. That isn't what +chap does. +chap tells pppd to demand that the server authenticate itself to you using chap. It won't do so, of course. Take the +chap out. The server will ask for chap authentication and pppd will know what to do. ...it couldn't / cant find or access the chap-secrets file that I made. That is a bit puzzling. The chap-secrets is in /etc/ppp, and I chmod'ed it to 777 just incase, but it still does the same stuff. Chmod it back. pppd runs suid root. I'm sure its something really silly that i'm missing. Any ideas what it could be? Send me copies of the files and I will try to help you. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Automating PPP with cron?
Sounds like a dooable crack. I see a cron.daily, weekly monthly directory in /etc, with scripts in it, which I presume get executed daily weekly and month respectively. I'de like it to run every 6 hours. I tried read the cron cron tab manpages, but I'm still clueless as to how to do this I can't find any howto's on this either. :(. Any pointers to doc files, (or actual help:), on this subject? Thanks, Timothy And about the hours disconnect/connect thing: You could kill pppd with a cronjob, but this is rather a bad idea (in the case you are doing a download at this moment :-). Maybe using diald is better. Never used it though. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Automating PPP with cron?
Hi, I would like to setup my system to do two things. To check periodically to see if my PPP connection has died, and redial my isp if it has. And to disconnect and redial every 6 hours, (my isp doesn't like it if you stay one more than 6 hours consecutively). What would be the best way to go about implementing this, and how should I start going about it? Thanks alot! Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Monolith DynDNS + ip-up
Hi, I'm trying to register my monolith domain from within my ip-up script using mlddc. I have the line (mlddc mymldata 21) /var/log/mlddc as specified in the readme file in ip-up. However, when I login as usual with pppd, it doesn't register and the /var/log/mlddc file is empty. When I type that exact line on the command prompt it registers fine and the /var/log/mlddc file has the registration info appended. I tried chmoding everything in my /etc/ppp and all contents to 777 incase something didn't have enough permissions, but there was no difference. Any thoughts on why it will work on the command prompt and not in the script? Thanks, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
CircleMUD
I was trying to compile Circle MUD 2.20 under my hamm setup. It said 'undefined refrence to 'crypt'' a bunch of times and died. Any idea what package am I missing to cause this message? Thanks, Timothy BTW - Does anyone know of any bininaries of mud servers worlds available for Linux? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SO4, dpkg
Hi! I just downloaded the StarOffice4 tarball from ftp.stardivision.de, and installed it fine. However, it generates segmentation faults and crashes with what appears to be complete irregularity. I installed it onto /usr/local/Office40 as root. (It seemed to want to install onto the home directory of what ever user I was logged in as, but I thought that was abit ridiculous since it would mean repeated use of 100 or so MB). Also, much of the time when I install new packages with dpkg, at the end of the install and config it says Unknown function multi -f: Aborting Unknown function multi -f: Aborting and then stalls. Any ideas on either problem? Thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]
I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND, (Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull reponses to mine or anyone else's messages about fixing this problem. So! Will anyone who's NSN4 will do Java applets properly please respond to this, then maybe we can figure out what those of us whose Java does not work have missed. Thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]
My MOZILLA_HOME as well as all the other directories NSN must find as described in the README are already set. :(.However, everyone who has replied indicating success seems to be running full hamm. Mine is half bo, half hamm. I suspect that the problem is rooted in the half bo, half hamm thing. Does anyone run applets successfully in NSN4 under a dual libc5 libc6 system?Thanks, Timothy. Mine works fine. I'm running full hamm, how about you? Works fine here too, full hamm. For those who are having trouble, you need to set the environment variable MOZILLA_HOME to the path where netscape is located. On my machine, it is located in... MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/netscape Orn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice+fax; +46 035 217194 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Package Installation....
Hi, just a quick question b4 I go to lunch. I just installed the StarOffice thing, and had two problems. The first, was mentioned in the FAQ; it wouldn't register the deamons. Unfourtunately, I have no idea how to enable the portmapper that the FAQ said I had to do. Where do I start with this? Then I went to run the setup script, (which was annoying; I couldn't find it because dpkg -L staroffice3 didn't list staroffice as owning it). And big install-sheild style window comes up with a smaller window in it that never got a chance to paint because the Xserver died, saying it caught error no 11. The script gave the error that my environment wasn't setup, so I rebooted, and set my XPPATH variable as suggested in the FAQ. This time I ran the script, and it crashed the X-Server again with the same error, but the script didn't give any error messages. Any ideas? Thanks! Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Package Installation....
I had been installing the StarOffice3.1 deb package as root, so I tried to redoo it as a regular user, but dpkg said I needed superuser priviliges.So, I tried untarring the tarballs manually according to the mini-howto, but I ran into the same Server Crash no 11 problem when I tried to do the setup script. I was wondering if it could be my libc5 or xpm, ( I have libc 5.4.38 (the newest on debian.org, unstable/base) and xpm4.7 3.4j-0.5), but the FAQsaid that you get a specific error message if your libc5 isn't good enough; which I didn't get, so I doubt it. Did you have to do anything special to get your manually untarred 3.1 to work? Timothy PS - This is very depressing, this is the first thing i've been trying to do under linux that hasn't worked. I think I'll go get version 4 just to see if it works. :). Error no. 11 is a subject for a thesis, but the jist of it is that memory is trying to be accessed which is not properly provided for. This can be the result of a number of things such as bad code, overclocked processors, and it may even be intentional. (Because I doubt you want to become a developer right now, I'll skip the debugging hoopla, although ideally that would be a Good Thing.) One reason it may be intentional is that one cannot install staroffice as root--any attempt to do so will intentionally dump core. The reason is that like some other programs which are intended to be networked, it is considered insecure to give superuser status to apps which could be heisted by a hacker. There are several ways this can occur, I believe one such type of attack is called buffer flow overrun, which is essentially what it sounds like. Anyway, make sure you're NOT root and see if that helps. This time I ran the script, and it crashed the X-Server again with the same error, but the script didn't give any error messages. Any ideas? Thanks! Timothy Remember that while I do have a functional staroffice3.1 installation, I haven't used the .deb myself. Before you criticize me for recommending that, let me explain: I spent FIVE MONTHS (no joke) trying to get staroffice to install using manual tarball and rpm methods, and finally I got a working installation. Then I installed Debian, and at about the same time I started hearing reports that the .deb script worked very well. Since that time (several months) I've not heard a single report of any difficulty, thus my recommendation. Meanwhile, my StarOffice installation is on /opt which I merely set in /etc/fstab to be booted automatically, so I just copied some user configuration files with filerunner from my old installation, and I was ready to go. Also remember that any large application with static motif libraries will likely have a performance impediment--it's not terrible with staroffice, but is noticeable. Version 4.0 is not linked against motif, and the performance is much improved. Also, the 4.0 installation is wizardly simple, fast, smooth, and flexible. Also, version 4.0 has nicer appearing fonts. In my opinion, version 4.0 is worth waiting three weeks for. I suspect that any further questions regarding this particular case will exceed by ability to knowledgably respond, so my recommendation would be to accomplish what you can with what I've given you and then post the list for soem more qualified help. But if I can be of any real help, don't hesitate to ask. -- David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Package Installation....
Hi! I just downloaded StarOffice 3.1 from Caldera, and debianized the RPMs with Alien. (Thanks for the help with my Alien problem, it works now!). When I try to install it, it wants to install onto /opt/StarOffice-3.1. But my root partition doesn't have enough space for 100mb's of staroffice!! Any ideas or pointers to relevant documentation on how I can get it to install onto my /usr partition like everything else? I could just install the .rpms with RPM, because RPM seems to have an option to set destination directory, but the rpm man page says I should use Alien for .rpms unless you know exactly what your doing... Could I break anything by using RPM to install it? Thanks! Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ICQ for Java
Has anyone got ICQ for Java to work? Mine goes fine until it has to contact the ICQ server for creating a new account, whereupon it gives a warning message and then gets stuck in some kind of a loop between the warning message and the last page of info to fill out. It also screws up when I try to register an existing account; it says error contacting the server, but that message comes up so quickly that I don't think it actually tries. Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Kernel Modules...
When I recompiled my kernel, I built alot of stuff into it (like PPP etc), that used to be in modules before. Now when I startup, I get lots of messages about not being able to find the old modules. Is there any easy way to clean up / update the set of modules to be loaded at boot-time so it doesn't do this? Thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux article in Sunworl
Incase any of ya'll care, in my inexperienced opinion. Debian is definitely the best distribution. :). I tried Slackware, which as mentioned, was very difficult to maintain and upgrade, eventually I gave up. I tried RedHat which was easier, but wasn't quite as configurable. Then I tried Debian Which has just been great, and i'm going to use it until something better comes out! One thing mentioned in the article was that Linux [supposedly] didn't scale easily, and hence was not very good for enterprise level stuff. Yet, I seem to remember reading in either the linux or debian FAQ that it scaled very well to multiple pentium processors.. What's the real scene with its scalability? Timothy The other problem was that they'd compiled and installed mySQL themselves, and forgotten the on the line in the script to load it, so it seemed to hang. Of course, Debian does all this for you, so no issue. I took the opportunity to bag Slackware. (They are NT and Solaris people anyway.) Slackware seems to be to me almost unmaintainable; removing software completely is difficult, worse than Windows possibly. Although it's possible that Solaris people are used to installing additional software from sources anyway, so it isn't an issue. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: deb package format
I noticed the same thing too. I can't find the SANE scanner driver or Enlightenment Binaries and afew other things that I forget in.deb Only RPM. :(.. Whenever I try to install/debianize with Alien, it says /usr/bin/checkbash: tempfile: command not found /usr/bin/checkbash: $TMP: ambiguous redirect and stops.. The RPM package doesn't work either. Any ideas on how to fix those errors? Timothy John Spence wrote: I've been on a few software sites lately where the owner of the site is a software author. There seems to be a growing trend for linux package developers to provide packages in tarball and rpm format. The two sites I have in mind are the Tkrat (a mail client for X) and Rhide (Turbo C like environment for GCC) author's sites. Both sites had versions of their latest packages in rpm format. Is there, or should there be an effort to Debianize packages and provide the authors with a .deb package to make available on their sites? I know that 'alien' can install rpm files and in fact I did use alien to install both of the packages I mentioned. This might not be common knowledge to people who are making the dreaded which dist should I use? decision. -- John Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newave.net.au/~jspence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape 4.04 bug / problem?
I just downloaded Netscape 4.04 and installed it via the .deb installer. When I start Netscape, it prints out about two pages of messages like: netscape: can't resolve symbol 'execute_java_constructor' The messages are all something about Java or JavaScript.. Then, any time I go to a page with a Java applet, all my netscape windows just vanish. Does this happen to anyone else? Any ideas how to fix it? Thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mail not getting through....
I have to write all my messages from my old NT system, because for some reason whenever I send mail from my new Linux/X - Netscape, it doesn't seem to get through to the list. Everywhere else I send mail to is fine. Any ideas why its doing this? Thanx, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Fine tuning X.
Can anyone tell me how to, (or just where to start looking in order to): 1. Turn up my mouse sensitivity so it moves faster. 2. Change the font used in xterms and x apps so it's bigger. 3. Make my mouse emmulate 3 buttons. Oh yeah... has anyone tried Linux Explorer succesfully, it claims it needs the 'qt' package, I tried both the stable and unstable qts, and it still claimed that neither of them were good enough. :(. Thanks, Timothy BTW - Do the debian CD's have unstable / nonfree / contrib stuff, or just the regular stable stuff? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian.
Does anyone have an idea of how long it will be until the next release of debian? Thanx, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Ensoniq Soundscape
Following the Sound HOWTO, I just built a kernel with soundscape support (2.0.32), and only the MIDI is working. :(. Does anyone else have a Soundscape, and if so how did you fix this? It says this on bootup: Sound initialization started Ensoniq SoundScape at 0x330 irq 9 dma 3 SoundScape (MPU401) at 0x330 irq 9 dma 3 SoundScape: Invalid MSS IRQ11 Sound initialization complete It looks like the IRQ is wrong, but i'm not sure what to put because I noticed the soundscape uses different settings for things between my DOS and Win95/NT. :( Thanks, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ensoniq Soundscape
Can I (and if so how), change the settings that it's using now, or do I have to rebuild the kernel each time I want to change them? Also - when you say disable the SB compatability under MSDOS, do you mean changing 'SBENABLE=true' to false in the soundscape.ini and then running the batch file, or are you talking about something elese? I take it I should use the regular settings in the .ini file, and not the ones that it uses when its emmulating a soundblaster? Thanks alot! Timothy. Although I don't have a true Ensoniq Soundscape card, I do have a clone made by the now defunct Reveal. One thing I found out was that to use the Soundscape card under Linux I had to disable it's Sound Blaster compatibility mode under the DOS SSINIT program. On a closer note, you will most likely need to force the card into a non PNP mode and adjust it's settings manually to where you want them to be. (Either that or try the ISAPNP tools for Linux.. ). If your card (as mine does) uses the SSINIT program in DOS mode to set itself up, you can use that to determine where your card is trying to place itself. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Question.
Does anyone know if there have been any studies on the cost effectiveness of networks based on linux vs networks based on NT? While linux seems to be cheaper, where I live technical expertise is in _very_ short supply and so linux would probably be alot more expensive to admister.? ( A relation of mine is incharge of an organization of a thousand or so people which is looking to upgrade its LAN and add various internet servers etc.. the NT estimate was many tens of thousands of US. So I promised to find out the comparitive cost of linux networks ). thanx, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Debian on CD.
My current Debian system is off FTP sites. I am looking to buy Debian on CD when the next version comes out with libc6 standardized. What are the pro's and con's have you guys noticed for the different vendors? Thanks, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Bizarre problem.
Hey guys! I've got a really *bizarre* problem!!! When I am using my PPP dialup connection, I can use everything on the 'net perfectly. EXECEPT, that I cannot access any dialup IP's in my ISP's domain, including my own. Any attempt at contacting, using the IPs directly, or via a dyn.ml.org domain name, with PING's, or various clients fail. My ISP's domain is 196.3.144.*. The first five IP's (196.3.144.1-5), are the IPs of my ISP's domain, web, ftp, etc servers. These IP's I can access fine. Subsequent IP's (6-about 200) are assigned to dialup accounts, I can't access any of these. :(. I've got no idea where to start trying to fix this. :(. Any ideas at all are appreciated. :). Thanx, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
XF86
I asked about this before, but I don't think it got through because I didn't receive the message from the list... What command line options would I use to start X with 24bit color, 1024X size desktop, 75hz refresh rate, and open look window manager? thanx, Timothy. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dpkg
IS there a dpkg option to list all the installed packages? I looked in the man pages but didn't see anything that [obviously] did that If not, since it keeps track of what is installed, I presume there must be some file somewhere which has them listed in it, anyone happen to know which file that is? Thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Mail!
wow! I can finally get online with my linux box!:). Thanx 2 everyone who gave me advice. I'm looking for a mail (perferably X based) program to receive/send email from my ISP's POP3 server. Can anyone recomend a good one for me? Oh yeah Can anyone point me to drivers/setup howtos for my peripherals - a umax astra 1200s scanner, an iomega ditto tape drive, and an HP deskjet printer. thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Oh yeah!
I'm also looking for drivers for an APC UPS, and my Ensoniq Soundscape sound board. Thanx Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mail!
Are you guys using Netscape 3.01? Thats the version that the netscape debian package is. I take it there are no newer versions of netscape for linux? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[no subject]
Does anyone know what the story is with JDK? .According to my packages file, the stable debian packages is ver 1.0.2.. Sun recently released ver 1.2 (For Solaris/Windoze).. Is the package behind because Sun hasn't released any / any stable versions for linux beyond 1.0.2, or because the package hasn't been updated, or what? Thanx, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP dialup. :(.
Thanks to everyone who helped me before!... Now I have a somewhat more complicated looking problem. :(. I'm trying to dial into my ISP using PPP. (At this point I haven't done any extra configuration besides network config info that the debian setup asks for). In X, I startup minicom, dial, and login manually. It then tells me that it has started PPP and to start my PPP, whereupon it starts displaying the usual garbage. I open a bash term and type pppd, and it starts displaying its garbage. I open another bash term, and try to ping my ISP's domain server, and it tells me that the network is unreachable. :(. Afew seconds later, minicom hungup. My ppp.log says Dec 24 22:56:58 jade pppd[325]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Dec 24 22:56:58 jade pppd[325]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 24 22:56:58 jade pppd[325]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyp2 Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: Connection terminated. Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean: Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: Problem: nothing was received Dec 24 22:57:28 jade pppd[325]: Exit. So, then I follow the configuration instructions in section 6 (Network Installation) of the Debian Users Guide. Putting... (Most of which was there already). /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 jade /etc/resolv.conf domain cablenett.net search cablenett.net nameserver 196.3.144.2 nameserver 196.3.144.3 /etc/host.conf order hosts,bind multi on /etc/ppp/options debug /dev/ttyS0 38400 modem crtscts lock connect /etc/ppp/ppp-connect asyncmap 0 defaultroute Then I try again, going through the same process as described before. This time, my PPP doesn't output anything, pinging the DNS server's IP still generates a network unreachable message, I still get hungup, and the PPP log also says: Dec 24 23:10:28 jade pppd[350]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Dec 24 23:10:28 jade pppd[350]: Device ttyS0 is locked by pid 321 Dec 24 23:10:28 jade pppd[350]: Exit. Something is really weird because, previously, I was using RedHat for a while and the same stuff with network unreachable messages and getting hungup would happen. :(. Can anyone help me? Thanks alot!!! Timothy PS: Merry Christmas everyone! :) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PPP dialup. :(.
Okay Thanks! I will try the script... one thing though, when I login to my ISP manually, I have to press ENTER afew times before the login prompt comes up, how do I tell a script to send ENTER? Thanks, Timothy You are closer here. ttyS0 is locked by your minicom session. Forget minicom. All the info you need to dial should be in /etc/ppp/ppp-connect. Edit that file and put in the info needed, and then simply type pppd as root at a shell prompt. Tim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PPP is still a disaster. :(. Please Help. :)
I made to try out everyone's suggestions for getting my PPP dialup to work. The first thing that happened is t hat when I turned on my computer, for some reason /dev/mouse was linked to my /dev/ttyS0, and so things refused to use ttyS0. So I deleted /dev/mouse, but then nothing would detect the modem on /dev/ttyS0. I then booted off my bootdisk that I made during debian setup, and it was recognized okay.. Any ideas on how to fix this? Now, (having booted off the disk), I check my /etc/ppp/ and am disappointed to find that I have no scripts already there that I can customize. :(. So, I decited to try a program that was recommended to me by another user, wvdial (http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial). It starts to work beautifully, and logs in, detects a ppp, starts my ppp, and then disconnects, and says the ppp deamon exited with error code 2. I check the ppp-errors file, and it says that the /etc/ppp/ppp-connect file doesn't exist. Now, I take out the line 'connect /etc/ppp/ppp-connect' from the options file in /etc/ppp/ and dial again. This time it exits with error code 1. The ppp log file also says: Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xac65824f pcomp accomp] Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 accomp] Dec 25 17:59:23 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xac65824f pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:24 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xac65824f pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:25 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x70 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp 0b 04 07 00] Dec 25 17:59:25 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x70 0b 04 07 00] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x71 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x71 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x72 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x72 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x73 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x73 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x74 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x74 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x75 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0x75 auth pap] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x76] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x76] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x77 asyncmap 0xa auth chap md5 magic 0x6bd3ecf6 pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x77 auth chap md5] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 mru 1500 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0xac65824f pcomp] Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: Modem hangup Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: Connection terminated. Dec 25 17:59:26 jade pppd[192]: Exit. Any ideas? Thanx alot! Timothy PS: Assuming I ever get this to work, does anyone know if Apache or any other web servers will work even though I've got a dynamic IP? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Xfree86 question
Hi! I am a new Linux user converted from Windows NT. :). I have a 17 inch monitor, but my XFree86 insists on displaying in an approximately 15 inch rectangle of my screen. How do I configure it to fill the whole screen? Also! Is there an equivalent of Microsoft's file manager for X windows? Thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
