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Mensaje Segmentation fault al arrancar WordPerfect
Hola a todos:
He bajado el sofware de WordPerfect y lo he instalado en el equipo.
Al principio me daba errores al intentar cargar librerías, porque las
buscaba en un lugar diferente de donde las instala Debian. Lo solucioné
creando enlaces simbólicos con ln -s. Pero cuando ya he solucionado el
problema, ahora no arranca porque me contesta con Segmentation fault.
Envío también la información que me da el comando strace cuando
intento arrancar el programa.
¿ Alguien me podría dar alguna pista de lo que está ocurriendo ?
Gracias
272 read(0, \33, 1) = 1
272 read(0, [, 1) = 1
272 read(0, A, 1) = 1
272 write(2, strace -p272 -f -ostracesegmenta..., 37) = 37
272 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, []) = 0
272 read(0, \33, 1) = 1
272 read(0, [, 1) = 1
272 read(0, A, 1) = 1
272 write(2, \rdebian:/WordPerfect/wpbin# ./x..., 36) = 36
272 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, []) = 0
272 read(0, \r, 1) = 1
272 write(2, \n, 1) = 1
272 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT], []) = 0
272 ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_STOP, {B9600 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
272 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL) = 0
272 sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8082ca0, [], 0}, {0x400296b0, [], 0}) = 0
272 sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x8082c10, [HUP INT ILL TRAP ABRT BUS FPE USR1 SEGV
USR2 PIPE ALRM TERM XCPU XFSZ VTALRM PROF], 0}, {0x400296b0, [], 0}) = 0
272 sigaction(SIGWINCH, {0x80738d0, [], 0}, {0x40029810, [], 0}) = 0
272 sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8082ca0, [], 0}, {0x8082ca0, [], 0}) = 0
272 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [INT CHLD], []) = 0
272 fork()= 296
272 setpgid(296, 296 unfinished ...
296 getpid( unfinished ...
272 ... setpgid resumed ) = 0
296 ... getpid resumed )= 296
272 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], unfinished ...
296 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], unfinished ...
272 ... sigprocmask resumed NULL) = 0
296 ... sigprocmask resumed NULL) = 0
272 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], unfinished ...
296 sigaction(SIGTSTP, {SIG_DFL}, unfinished ...
272 ... sigprocmask resumed []) = 0
296 ... sigaction resumed {SIG_IGN}) = 0
272 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], unfinished ...
296 sigaction(SIGTTIN, {SIG_DFL}, unfinished ...
272 ... sigprocmask resumed [CHLD]) = 0
296 ... sigaction resumed {SIG_IGN}) = 0
272 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [CHLD], unfinished ...
296 sigaction(SIGTTOU, {SIG_DFL}, unfinished ...
272 ... sigprocmask resumed NULL) = 0
296 ... sigaction resumed {SIG_IGN}) = 0
272 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD TSTP TTIN TTOU], unfinished ...
296 setpgid(296, 296 unfinished ...
272 ... sigprocmask resumed [CHLD]) = 0
296 ... setpgid resumed ) = 0
272 ioctl(255, TIOCSPGRP unfinished ...
296 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD TSTP TTIN TTOU], unfinished ...
272 ... ioctl resumed , [296]) = 0
296 ... sigprocmask resumed []) = 0
272 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [CHLD], unfinished ...
296 ioctl(255, TIOCSPGRP unfinished ...
272 ... sigprocmask resumed NULL) = 0
296 ... ioctl resumed , [296]) = 0
272 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], unfinished ...
296 sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], unfinished ...
272 ... sigprocmask resumed NULL) = 0
296 ... sigprocmask resumed NULL) = 0
272 sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], unfinished ...
296 sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, unfinished ...
272 ... sigprocmask resumed []) = 0
296 ... sigaction resumed {0x8082ca0, [], 0}) = 0
272 wait4(-1, unfinished ...
296 sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_IGN}) = 0
296 sigaction(SIGTERM, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_IGN}) = 0
296 sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, {0x80727f0, [], 0}) = 0
296 execve(./xwp, [./xwp], [/* 19 vars */]) = 0
296 mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x40007000
296 mprotect(0x4000, 21025, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
296 mprotect(0x8048000, 7298408, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
296 stat(/etc/ld.so.cache, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
296 open(/etc/ld.so.cache, O_RDONLY) = 3
296 mmap(0, 5755, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0x40008000
296 close(3) = 0
296 stat(/etc/ld.so.preload, 0xbd2c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
296 open(/usr/lib/libXt.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
296 read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
296 mmap(0, 294912, PROT_NONE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4000a000
296 mmap(0x4000a000, 275612, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0) = 0x4000a000
296 mmap(0x4004e000, 12820, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x43000) = 0x4004e000
296 close(3) = 0
296 mprotect(0x4000a000, 275612, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC) = 0
296 open(/usr/lib/libX11.so.6, O_RDONLY) = 3
296 read(3, \177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3..., 4096) = 4096
296 mmap(0, 671744, PROT_NONE,
Re: Instalar .deb con dselect de fuera del CD de distribucion
At 16.40 6/3/99 +0100, you wrote: Hola Hasta ahora, he usado dselect para instalar paquetes que vienen con la distribucion hamm. ¿Como lo hago para instalar paquetes que vienen con CDs de revistas? Por ejemplo: en el CD2 de LA6 viene el Gnome en el directorio /cdrom/gnome/pub/GNOME/debian/dists/released donde ademas de los .deb hay tambien un fichero Packages. Primero, no utilices esa versión de GNOME porque al menos uno de los ficheros está corrupto y no istala, creo que el libgif. Segundo, si el directorio contiene un Packages.gz, entonces puedes instalar con dselect diciendole que el directorio base es el de los paquetes que quieres instalar. Tercero, aunque puedas usar dselect para estos menesteres, te recomiendo emplear el apt-get. Las opciones de dselect en Access llamadas mounted y harddisk tienen pinta de ser para esto, pero hablan de que los .deb deben estar en binary/*/*.deb, y no veo esa estructura por ninguna parte en el CD2 de LA6 para Gnome. Tambien por si linux not e reconoce bien el CD-ROM y tienes una partición dos/vfat, o si quieres instalar por NFS (gozoso!!!). Ademas, si despues quiero volver a instalar algo desde el CD de la distribucion tengo que volver a seleccionar cdrom en Access de dselect, ¿no? si, o montarlo 'a mano' y utilizar el sistema mounted. __ / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ /la oportunidad de -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ dominar tu ordenador __ | | |Miguel Pérez Colino | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | http://www2.adi.uam.es/~migpc | |__|
Re: COMPARATIVA UNIX-NT
Lo siento pues me descuide de hacer el attchment del arxivo, ahora no puedo pero mas tarde lo enviare ---Lluís Palomes wrote: Hola como he visto que hablais del uso de linux, en la pàgina personal de uno de mis profesores de la udl, he encontrado este documento que creo es muy interesante sobre una comparativa entre unix y w'nt. A ver que os parece. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Debian 2.1
Buenas. A modo de nota informativa, a pesar de que ya se comentó, deciros que ya disponemos de Debian 2.1!! Have a nice day ;-) TooManySecrets
HP DeskJet 697C
Hola a todos: Voy a comprame una HP Deskjet 697C. ¿Sabe alguien de incompatibilidades con Linux? Sería muy desagradable tener que devolverla porque no me anda. Saludos y gracias. Pablo Villanueva
Apache 1.3.4+SSL en debian?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hola, saludos a todos, hacia bastante tiempo que no me asomaba por aqui... me he encontrado con el dilema de que necesito meter el apache 1.3.4 con ssl 1.31 en varios servidores debian, y al que a su vez tendre que an~adir bastantes modulos (xml, php, ...), pero no esta ni en stable ni en slink ni potato el deb correspondiente. si cojo las fuentes puedo generar sin problemas el paquete sin ssl, pero siempre hay algun paso en el parcheo apache.orig + parche ssl + parche debian que falla. preferiria,ya que los servidores no voy a mantenerlos yo, que quedase todo en paquetes debian bien empaquetaditos, sin meter yo mis fuentes parcheadas a la antigua usanza, y si son estables mejor, que no es plan de meter bombas de relojeria (inestables) en servidores en produccion. alguien ha podido generar los paquetes actualizados por casualidad? y de paso si alguien ha empezado ya a trabajar con xml me gustaria contactar. saludos -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNuUQlWBULELs5HfRAQGxuQMAghCaavYZeJTg2jdNDOmFjp7O8ywcIwxc vucOWEbh66bWc4aOpMU+Zp9+Se4lFgqeVs+Vd0mbAc3Dem3YUk3+WFEF+tXseLuE WHxBa6T6BuTGu4stBn0XQo2IRtoKxVZ2 =2oMv -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Debian 2.1
No recuerdo si ya lo había dicho, pero por si acaso. Hay un artículo sobre Debian 2.1 en Open Resources: http://www.openresources.com/magazine/debian-21/ (inglés) http://www.openresources.com/es/magazine/debian-21/ (castellano) Jesus. Manuel Trujillo writes: Buenas. A modo de nota informativa, a pesar de que ya se comentó, deciros que ya disponemos de Debian 2.1!! Have a nice day ;-) TooManySecrets -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jesus M. Gonzalez Barahona | Departamento de Informatica tel +3491 624 9458, fax +3491 624 9129 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | avd. Universidad, 30 Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones | 28911 Leganes, Spain
/usr/lib/mailhosts
Hola, ¿alguien me puede decir el formato del fichero /usr/lib/mailhosts de sendmail? Salute. | _ \ ___ _ __ _ _ ___ | |_) / _ \ '_ \| | | / __| | __/ __/ |_) | |_| \__ \ AOL Screen.: yoburtu |_| \___| .__/ \__,_|___/ E-Mail.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_| http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/1428
Sintonizadora TV BestBuy
Hola: _ _ _ _ _Recorte de publicidad del Web de Best Buy _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ El Kit Easy TV reproduce TV (y teletexto) a pantalla completa, con una capacidad de programación de hasta 181 canales y 16 canales en modo previsualización. Soportando además la entrada de un magnetoscopio, con el que grabar y reproducir cintas de video en el monitor del PC, a partir de una ventana redimensionable desde un pequeño icono hasta pantalla completa. Gracias a su poderoso Chipset BT-878 (última evolución del anterior BT-848.) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Pregunta facilita: ¿Tenemos software adecuado para Linux? Saludos y gracias por las respuestas. Pablo Villanueva.
LI 010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101...
Hola! llevo varios días intentando instalar Debian 2.0 en mi máquina, pero al instalar LILO aparece el mensaje del topic hasta el infinito (vaya, u nscroll del cpon llenito de 0 y 1). Si ejecuto fdisk /MBR me quedo sin LILO :-( Qué puedo hacer (aparte de arrancar con disquette)? Los discos que tengo ahora son estos: /dev/hda1 6.5Gb FAT32 con el windoze 98 /dev/hdb CDRom ASUS 40x /dev/hdc Grabadora Sony CRX100E /dev/hdd1 Partición 50 Mb con MSDOS6 /dev/hdd... espacio disponible a particionar. Un saludo y gracias.
Re: RV: LiNUX en la calle ???
juanma escribió: Estimados amigos de Debian: Yo os voy a comentar mi punto de vista personal en cuanto a Linux. Mi profesión no se acerca (ni con mucho) a la informática y simplemente me quedo en un usuario más de windows. Más bien lo padezco aunque poco a poco y con la ayuda de otras personas voy emigrando (en concreto a la distribución Debian). Lo que veo en despachos profesionales son como mucho un ordenador en cada habitáculo y para imprimir cualquier archivo o bien se hace en el mismo habitáculo o se le lleva un diskette a la secretaria para que lo imprima en la laser. Existen multitud de despachos formados por dos profesionales y la secretaria a los que les instalan una redecilla con win95 o win 3.11 creando la ilusión de que trabajan en equipo. ¿que comentar de cuelgues y demás esquisiteces? porque un simple bloqueo hace perder más de media hora entre que qué me ha pasado y chicos, voy a apagar la red. Además como esa media hora se acerque a la hora del café, la mañana perdida. Con respecto a Linux, veo un grán futuro a pesar de que se diga que es un sistema operativo difícil. Los usuarios normales no se defienden ni con windows. En los despachos hasta les tienen que instalar el windows porque son incapaces, además les instalan las herramoenatas que precisan. Lo justo saben escribir en un programa de tratamiento de textos y lo imprimen. Esa es la realidad y no otra la que aparece en la mayoría de los sitios. Para muestra un botón: cuántas veces he visto en curriculums informática a nivel de usuario y ni siquiera saben insertar un campo con la fecha en el documento (no digo ya hacer macros sencillas con MSWord). Por eso, a un usuario normal, le da igual lo que tiene delante mientras el programa no le haga muchas preguntas. Linux se instala una vez, se prueba una vez, se configura para que el usuario no haga el burro Y PRÁCTICAMENTE TE PUEDES OLVIDAR (perdón por el grito pues es alegría). Por esa razón puede servir de alternativa a windows u otros SO, pero ¿qué se necesita? un linuxero cerca. Un linuxero que puede atender a muchos amigos a la vez. Pero a partir de ahí, a partir de la instalación es raro, muy raro, que precises otra vez al que te lo instaló, a no ser que quieras sacarle mucho más jugo a la máquina. Por detrás queda el programa instalado que no va a colgarse práctcamente nunca. Pues completamente de acuerdo, hombre; da gusto que alguien que se autocalifica casi de profano se haya dado cuenta de algo tan simple; pensando en eso, un grupo de amigos y yo estamos montando una empresa de informática para la pequeña empresa, y queremos basarnos principalmente en LINUX; por cierto, y para que se vea que empezamos de pardillos, agradecería que si alguien de por ahí ha hecho algo así, nos comentara algo de la experiencia; creo que entre todos deberíamos hacer algo para demostrar que el LINUX no es un juguete para informáticos raros, sino una opción comercial completamente real... Buenos, hasta luego, y perdon por la parrafada... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: LiNUX en la calle ???
Mar 07, 1998 at 05:45:47PM +0100 X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux Organization: toron.net El Sat, Mar 07, 1998 at 05:45:47PM +0100, juanma decías: Estimados amigos de Debian: Entonces nos encontramos con tres tipos de usuario de un ordenador: 1.- el que enreda (tarde o temprano usará linux) 2.- el que no lo hace pero que solo utiliza un ordenador en casita y que seguirá siempre con windows conformándose con la típica enciclopedia en CDRom. 3.- El que no enreda y tiene el ordenador como una herramienta de trabajo. A este, si se le instala (solo instalar) lo que necesita, podrá tirar con linux y con toda su filosofía y no querrá windows para nada. ¿A quién va dirigido Linux? Al inquieto y no a otro. Y el inquieto no quiere que le sirvan a la rusa quiere cortar él la carne. Totalmente de acuerdo, aunque yo añadiría algo en el punto 2: ...pero que como ha oido hablar tanto de linux, al comprar un nuevo ordenador pide que le instalen la última distrib de RedHat, con arranque directo al kde, sin login ni password, porque piensa que linux es la octava maravilla del mundo. Este usuario seguramente, tras jugar un poquito con kde, olvidará-borrará la partición de linux y pensará que los que usan linux son unos fanáticos, etc, etc, etc. Creo que todos los que usamos linux más o menos le hacemos cierta propaganda dentro de nuestras posibilidades, aunque de una forma racional y señalando las diferencias con win. Un énfasis exagerado podría ser, incluso, contraproducente. Como bien dices, el inquieto acabará usando linux (y debian a poco que se inquiete más). De hecho, el nº de usuarios linux crece como la espuma, porque a casi nadie le gusta sentirse estafado. El uso de linux en las redes de grandes empresas es otra historia. Dependerá, por un lado, de los administradores de red de las empresas; por otro, la estrategia de ventas que sigan las grandes multinacionales (lease IBM por ejemplo). Si esas multinacionales pueden sacarle jugo a linux, ellas se encargarán de instalar las redes con linux (Keynes dixit). Resumiendo: creo que linux ya está en la calle, como así lo demuestran las revistas de informática, que cada una dedica una sección, en sus páginas y en los CD's, al mundo linux. Otra cosa es que esté o llegue a estar en las empresas... Saludos. -- carlos saldaña emilio's : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kernel 2.2 y procinfo
Estoy intentando actualizar el kernel de mi Debian 2 (hamm) a la version 2.2 He actualizado todo lo que me pedia en la documentacion, menos el el procinfo (me dice que necesito la version 15 y segun me dice el 'procinfo -v' yo tengo la 0.9) ¿Que paquete .deb tengo que actualizar? Saludicos digitales -- francho --- Programar es como el sexo, un error y hay que soportarlo para el resto de la vida. ---
Re: kernel 2.2 y procinfo
SP, ma 9 mar 17:57:13 1999 Hola : La informacion que pides esta aqui : LNQRNMR2:~ procinfo -v This is procinfo version 15 (1998-07-04) LNQRNMR2:~ dpkg -S procinfo sysutils: /usr/bin/procinfo sysutils: /usr/man/man8/procinfo.8.gz LNQRNMR2:~ dpkg -l sysutils Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- ii sysutils1.3.3.1Miscellaneous small system utilities. Estoy intentando actualizar el kernel de mi Debian 2 (hamm) a la version 2.2 He actualizado todo lo que me pedia en la documentacion, menos el el procinfo (me dice que necesito la version 15 y segun me dice el 'procinfo -v' yo tengo la 0.9) ¿Que paquete .deb tengo que actualizar? Saludicos digitales Espero que te sirva, Hernán Hernán J Cervantes Rodríguez Instituto de Física da USP e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage : http://fge.if.usp.br/~hernan/
Re: Netscape y rendimiento
El lunes 08 de marzo de 1999 a la(s) 09:06:26 +0100, Antonio Castro contaba: On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Hue-Bond wrote: En mi opinión cuando el administrador va a alterar el funcionamiento normal por alguna razón justificada debería hablar por telefono o en persona. El correo electrónico sirve si avisa con un día. Yo me refería más que nada a 'wall'. Por el contrario cuando el sistema está degradado y la gente no puede trabajar normalmente más vale no hacer muchas preguntas y solucionar el problema rápidamente. Tampoco es que sea una pregunta. Creo que con un simple Por razones de rendimiento es necesario cerrar todos los Netscapes. Por favor, cierren el suyo y tal y cual, ya llega. -- El servidor de NT se ha ido a tomar por c***. (Dakota) David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Registered User no. 87069 http://come.to/Hue-Bond.world In love with TuX. Linux 2.2.2 PGP Public key at http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano/pgp_pubkey.asc
RE: xdm question from a newbie
Xdm works fine ( when you have the X configured correctly) in hamm as well. Just install xdm, and it will work. If you ever want to get rid of it, edit the /etc/X11/config file and comment the line that says 'start-xdm' Same, to get it to work again, uncomment that line. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
Re: bitchx (sucks!)
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: [snip] I agree Steve, there are plenty of Manual(s) to read. But for a new IRC user they sure confusing. I have been trying to Window it but, as of yet, no luck. Sure, there's plenty of documentation, unfortunately that's like saying MS Office has plenty of documentation. It's a pain to sort through sometimes because there's just too many features in it. My $.02 See you on the flip side - Steve Walsh (EfNet:#Babylon5:KnaraKat) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
xdm kdm
Hi, I have got kde installed, but I never configured my systems to use kdm. In my /etc/X11/config, I still have the line start-xdm. and even I do a ps, I can only see xdm running, and no kdm. But when I shutdown my linux box, I got the message: Shut down the kdm display manager checking the local xservers Shut down the xdm display manager xdm is not running So what did I do wrong? Am I missing anything here?/ thx. Shao.
Diskless network booting
Can anyone offer me any advice on setting up diskless machines? From what I have read, I should be able to boot from a bootrom and nfs mount the root filesystem from a server. Does anyone make bootroms for intel eepro cards, as I don't have a working eprom burner?
FTP Install
Hi All! I'm trying to install via FTP with dselect. I keep getting a Packages file not found error, but I can see the file in the directory. any ideas? Thanks! -- Chuck Lackey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Macon, Ga.
snmp
Hi, How do I use snmp to reset all the statistics for all the ports?? if I do something like snmpset IPPADDR COMMUNITY interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifInOctets.1 i 0 it returns an error occured quitting... thx shao
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Re: modprobe errors
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 07:39:12PM -, Pollywog wrote: Here are some errors I am getting. Below I include my /etc/modules. I compiled the modules into the kernel, so do I need /etc/modules at all? You have compiled the modules for _use_ with the kernel. If you wanted them to be build _into_ the kernel you should have compiled them not as modules, but as regular kernel options. Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sorry, can't help you there. I've no ideia. # /etc/modules #auto Anyway, why don't you uncomment the auto entry? This way the kernel loads the modules as it needs them, and you don't have to mention all of them in /etc/modules. OTOH, why don't you try 2.2.x? It's great with the modules, installing and removing them from memory and you don't even notice. Cheers, -- Pedro Guerreiro (aka digito)([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Diplomacy: the art of letting someone have your own way.
Re: Setting time - Question
I would like the clock in my X-window environment to show my local time, not GMT/UTC. When I type in date I get my local time, when I type in date -u I get GMT, but how do I get a clock on I had this problem after upgrading to slink. First, run tzconfig to make sure your time zone is set correctly. Then, type 'hwclock --hctosys' This will synchronize the time that your internal clock uses (which should be in the format you want) with Linux's software clock. That should be all there is to it. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Framebuffer scan rates
Is there any way to change the scan rates of the framebuffer in the 2.2 kernel? I finally got it all to work, but the default refresh rate is really noticable (and gives me a headache!)
are the usernames case-insensitive?
I create a user mario. After that I tried to create Mario and I was unable to do so. also I recive the same info fingering marion or Mario. Are the usernames case-insensitive? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: are the usernames case-insensitive?
AFAIK, everything in Linux is case-sensitive. Reason behind not being able to make user Mario is that user names do not generally contain upper case letters. You can --force it, though. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
unable to delete a home folder?
I deleted a user and I forgot to use use -r to remove it's home folder. I erase all files in that directory with rm *. After that I used ls -l. It report zero files. Then I tried to delete the folder with rmdir but it reply that it is not empty why? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: unable to delete a home folder?
There are files that start with a . in the directory. These are often used for configuration stuff. ls -lA will show you them, or just you rm -rf to kill the whole directory and everything in it. On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: I deleted a user and I forgot to use use -r to remove it's home folder. I erase all files in that directory with rm *. After that I used ls -l. It report zero files. Then I tried to delete the folder with rmdir but it reply that it is not empty why? -- Matthew Sachs [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- random fortune quote -- Bore, n.: A guy who wraps up a two-minute idea in a two-hour vocabulary. -- Walter Winchell
Re: xserver fixated on tty7?
On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 08:57:19PM -0800, Alan Su wrote: i probably missed something as i upgraded to slink today, but is the tty that the xserver uses somehow changed to be in some config file (rather than taking the first unused one)? Yes. See /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. i had a couple extra virtual consoles which i used to use on tty7 and tty8. after the upgrade, the xserver periodically got hosed (no response to keyboard input/mouse clicks) and when i was able to switch over to virtual consoles, i saw that the one sitting on tty7 was hosed. i modified inittab to remove the two extra getty's, and now everything's back to normal. anyone have any ideas? thanks. This was done because, guess what, sometimes xdm would fire up its X server on the first available VC, but getty hadn't yet taken control of it (don't ask me why, xdm is the LAST thing started in the init sequence). This resulted in problems at least as bad as what you report (for many people, it froze their console entirely, and a hard reset was the only way out). So the first available VC allocation tactic does not work on all systems during boot. I therefore made the conffile ship with :0 on vt7, since the inittab conffile ships with getty on vt1 through vt6. There's more about this in /usr/doc/xdm/README.Debian. -- G. Branden Robinson | To be is to do -- Plato Debian GNU/Linux | To do is to be -- Aristotle [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do be do be do -- Sinatra cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | pgpvOgC8c3F6u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: unable to delete a home folder?
Because /home/username/ includes dot files. Like, .bashrc, etc. To see them do la -la To delete directory which is full, just use rm -R dirname Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
Re: modprobe errors
On 09-Mar-99 Pedro Guerreiro wrote: OTOH, why don't you try 2.2.x? It's great with the modules, installing and removing them from memory and you don't even notice. I am staying away from the newer kernels because I don't know anything about them, and I don't know how to use ipchains. I fixed my problem. All I had to do was remove the entries I had in /etc/modules since all the modules are compiled into the kernel. I upgraded to kernel 2.0.36 without problems, so I must have goofed the first time I tried it. I probably left something out. thanks -- Andrew -- PGP Key ID 0x5EE61C37 PGP5.0 --
Re: [exim] Custom headers -- outgoing email
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you tie a rewrite rule to a particular route? The documentation wasn't very clear on this. It seems that aaron would want it to only rewrite the sender header going through the smarthost route. Mmm... point... It's in the Exim cookbook, istr. You have to hack it ;) And run two Exims, and pass messages between them. Somewhere around this point you run into the Agony/Ecstasy Of Rewriting holy war... sigh I think the best solution is to pick one mail address you want on your sender: line and stick to it, not try rewriting too much for an internal domain. Although this probably isn't practical in all cases... SRH -- Steve HaslamValidation Engineer, ARM Limited, Cambridge, England I will protect you from your visions to save you from illusions I will protect you from ideals to save you from defeat[covenant]
New Install
I am trying to install Official Debian 2.0 in my 48ram, 166meg, P.B. system. I get to (A)ccess, It asks me for Where to install from with chooses of CD, Floppy, Ect. When I choose CD-ROM, I go into a screen that asks for CD, and block device. I don't know what a block device is, or what my CD-ROM drive is. Any help?
Re: New Install
A block device is generally a physical storage device, such as a hard drive of CD-ROM drive. Assuming your system is based on IDE storage, your CD drive will be /dev/hdX where X=the IDE device number. The naming convention is simple once you get the hang of it: Primary Master=hda; Primary Slave=hdb; Secondary Master=hdc; Primary Slave=hdd. Joe wrote: I am trying to install Official Debian 2.0 in my 48ram, 166meg, P.B. system. I get to (A)ccess, It asks me for Where to install from with chooses of CD, Floppy, Ect. When I choose CD-ROM, I go into a screen that asks for CD, and block device. I don't know what a block device is, or what my CD-ROM drive is. Any help? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: bitchx (sucks!)
Subject: Re: bitchx (sucks!) Date: Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 01:45:18PM -0600 In reply to:steven walsh Quoting steven walsh([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BitchX suffers from it's own unique form of feature creep. Use IRCII with a nice script (one you are comfortable with and hopefully has no nasty backdoors like the ircN script that mIRC had *snicker*). I hear EPIC is a nice client as well, but I haven't toyed with it yet. I had a problem with Bitchx and looked for what was available in slink. Just downloaded zircon. Wow, I'm inpressed. Tck and loaded with features. I don't, haven't, used IRC before this week and I can use this pgm. Very nice. -- Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. -- H. L. Mencken ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wabi
Craig T. Hancock wrote: Does anyone use wabi and if so please is it better than wine I bought wabi 2 years ago just to run Quicken 4.0. At the time I inquired about wine but it didn't seem ready enough. I couldn't risk years worth of financial data to it. Wabi has been pretty good; I haven't lost anything in two years. You didn't say, but unless you have old applications (win3.x) then wabi probably won't work for you. The success of wine seems to depend on the particular application and version. Consult the rating lists available from the wabi web site. -- ...RickM...
Re: New Install
Well...it's basicly asking you where in the system CDrom is. Like, primary IDE master drive is /dev/hda Primary slave is /dev/hdb Secondary master is /dev/hdc Secondary slave is /dev/hdd Just figure out which one is yours, and enter it there. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
Read-only not Read Write
After installing Debian 2.0, I need to edit /dev/mod, to /dev/ttys. But the system does not give permission. On boot of linux, a line says read-only is my system read -only? How bo I make my system read-write so I can edit?
Re: New Install
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 09:22:43PM -0500, Joe wrote: I am trying to install Official Debian 2.0 in my 48ram, 166meg, P.B. system. I get to (A)ccess, It asks me for Where to install from with chooses of CD, Floppy, Ect. When I choose CD-ROM, I go into a screen that asks for CD, and block device. I don't know what a block device is, or what my CD-ROM drive is. Any help? There are two possible cases (three really). You have a normal ATAPI CD ROM on IDE controller. Check if this is on your primary IDE controller, or on your secondary. Also, if it is Master or Slave. Probably the information is in the BIOS. (modern BIOS show a list of four IDE devices: 1 AUTO LBA would be a hard drive at master/primary 2 CDROM would be CD ROM at slave/primary 3 AUTO LBA again hard drive 4 NONE ooops. empty Those four ports are called /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, /dev/hdd under Linux. A block device transmits data in blocks instead of byte by byte. Don't worry, you don't need to know what a block device is. If you have SCSI, the names are /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc. When Linux boots, you can see the auto detection working. If you want to halt the messages, press the key between break and print (roll on my keyboard). Ther terminal will stop and you can go up with SHIFT+ PG UP and down with SHIFT+ PG DOWN. Press again Roll to continue with start up. YOu should try to get he online information (Install Manual) Hope that helps, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
Bogomips disparity
I'll be looking for some docs to explain this, but in the meantime perhaps someone knows off the top . . . Just screwed together a couple of new boxes. AMD K6/2-350 CPUs. The kernel on the slink rescue disk (2.1.8) as well as the kernel installed as slink:kernel-image-2.0.36 both report ~350 bogomips. The kernel on Tom's Root Boot Disk reports ~700 bogomips. We're talking 2.0.36 in all cases. Any ideas? -- your man pann
Re: Read-only not Read Write
That depends who you are logged in as. If you are root, then it don't matter. If you are a user...well, then you can not do much of maintenance work, have to be root for that. Your system is not read-only. If it were, you'd not be able to save anything. Nor would the system itself (log files, etc.) To make sure check out your /etc/fstab and see which flags are given to /. Should be rw Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
Re: Bogomips disparity
I remember this being discussed a month or so ago. You might take a look at the User's archives at, http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ Good luck, Kent Pann McCuaig wrote: I'll be looking for some docs to explain this, but in the meantime perhaps someone knows off the top . . . Just screwed together a couple of new boxes. AMD K6/2-350 CPUs. The kernel on the slink rescue disk (2.1.8) as well as the kernel installed as slink:kernel-image-2.0.36 both report ~350 bogomips. The kernel on Tom's Root Boot Disk reports ~700 bogomips. We're talking 2.0.36 in all cases. Any ideas? -- your man pann -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: AcceleratedX
I would like to put debian on my laptop but my chipset is not supported by Xfree in the accelerated mode. Will Accelerated X Laptop Server work with debian?? Yes, it will. Just make sure to install AccelX server ONLY. (Well, may be also fonts, if you like). DO NOT INSTALL their X libraries. Be aware that AccelX is still libc5-based so you will need to install libc5, xlib6, xpm4.7, etc Debian packages (libc5-based compatibility libraries). But look at Metro-X (www.metrolink.com) first. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Framebuffer scan rates
Try fbset.. and read the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/*... Cheers, Vaidhy On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 11:43:37AM +1000, Corey Ralph wrote: Is there any way to change the scan rates of the framebuffer in the 2.2 kernel? I finally got it all to work, but the default refresh rate is really noticable (and gives me a headache!) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Prob:block on freelist at 00b10bd1 isn't free
Can anyone help me with this error mesg? Prob:block on freelist at 00b10bd1 isn't free I usually get it when I am using the dselect program, afterwhich any program I run (including shutdown) will result in the same error mesg. The only solution currently is to rebot the system. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: writing device drivers for fbsd
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: What is a good reference to learn to to write device drivers for fbsd? I remember some recommended a good book a few months ago but forgot to save the message. There is a book Linux Device Drivers ( or a similar name) by Alexandro Rubini published by O'Reilly.It is a bit costly (by indian standards,so I do not have it).I don't know whether it contains anything on fbsd. --- Ramakrishnan M #211 ,Cauvery hostel, Indian Institute of Technology,Madras, Chennai-600 036, INDIA Software is like sex;It's better when it's free -Linus Torvalds ---
Re: are the usernames case-insensitive?
Andrei Ivanov writes: AFAIK, everything in Linux is case-sensitive. Reason behind not being able to make user Mario is that user names do not generally contain upper case letters. You can --force it, though. But it isn't a good idea. According to the RFC's email addresses are not supposed to be case-sensitive. This means that some MTA's may confound mario and Mario. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Acct and kernel 2.2.x
Hi, I am having problem with the acct when upgrading to kernel 2.2.1 I am using acct_6.3.5-6 and it seems that it cannot recognize the /var/account/pacct file format anymore. When I try lastcomm, it will produce garbage and usually with comment 'Segmentation fault' at the end. Anyone can point me where the problem is. Thanks, Jusak S Kosasih -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New install question
Hi, I have two questions for a new installation(Debian2.0): 1)After completing all the installation and setting up Xserver, I found out that the root pulldown menu of my 'olvwm' has the 'Debian' selection ghosted...I cannot select it. How do I fix this ? 2)I would like to install Linux on my work NT machine. There is enough unpartionted harddrive space to do this. I have never used LILO before or the NT boot loader. At home I use 'System Commander' to select boot options. Can you point me to the do's and don't and HOW-TO's before I install Linux on this NT box and how I should use LILO ? Thanks in advance, Rathon Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: New install question
*- On 8 Mar, rathon wrote about New install question 2)I would like to install Linux on my work NT machine. There is enough unpartionted harddrive space to do this. I have never used LILO before or the NT boot loader. At home I use 'System Commander' to select boot options. Can you point me to the do's and don't and HOW-TO's before I install Linux on this NT box and how I should use LILO ? There is a mini-HOWTO in the doc-linux-text package called /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.gz that will probably get you started. -- Brian - Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes. - unknown Mechanical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: TOP
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Re: I can't believe this
Folks, My 2- cents: I've come from a background of writing dataacq apps for DOS/Windows for product manufacturing. Maybe that gives me a leg up to getting a Linux system running, maybe it doesn't. Still, I found that downloading a dozen or so floppies and installing to a dual-disk NT system was pretty painless. I didn't really have to think very hard about the choices offered to me and, other than the length of time it took to download the distribution over a 28.8 modem, I managed to get a very stable machine up rather quickly. My wife and 6 year old son have very rapidly learned what it takes to get useful results from this system and our overall experience has been very pleasant. (Of cousre, having access to this mailing list has been of imeasureable help! :-) I feel that most of the press coverage of Linux has been tainted by the commercial marketing efforts of certain distributions. If I were a writer and had no knowledge of the subject matter of my current task, I would first look to other media to see what gets the most play and work from there. If Debian is to suceed in the Linux markeplace they need to increase their marketing influence, but I think that's not their real goal; they instead want to create the best distribution available and hope that those who truly care will find their way through the Linux jungle. 'til next we type... HAVE FUN!! -- Jesse
What to do with base???
My system is now uptodate with the newly released Slink, but there are now a number of obsolete packages. In particular, there are two _required_ packages listed as obsolete: --- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base --- *__ Req base base 1.1.0-14none *** Req base slang0.99.38 0.99.38-6 none When dselect attempts to delete base, it complains that This is an essential package - it should not be removed. Now I could use dpkg to force its removal, but when I asked about this on the list earlier, George Bonser told me: NO DO NOT REMOVE BASE! IT WILL KILL YOUR SYSTEM!!! Just wait, that is a known bug and is on the list of bugs that must be fixed. Leave it until there is a solution for the problem. Otherwise you will remove several vital packages. But now that Slink has been officially released, has this bug been fixed? Is there a way to safely remove base? (Not to mention slang0.99.38) Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!
Re:(solution) What to do with base???
*- On 9 Mar, Mark Phillips wrote about What to do with base??? My system is now uptodate with the newly released Slink, but there are now a number of obsolete packages. In particular, there are two _required_ packages listed as obsolete: --- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base --- *__ Req base base 1.1.0-14none *** Req base slang0.99.38 0.99.38-6 none When dselect attempts to delete base, it complains that This is an essential package - it should not be removed. Now I could use dpkg to force its removal, but when I asked about this on the list earlier, George Bonser told me: NO DO NOT REMOVE BASE! IT WILL KILL YOUR SYSTEM!!! Just wait, that is a known bug and is on the list of bugs that must be fixed. Leave it until there is a solution for the problem. Otherwise you will remove several vital packages. But now that Slink has been officially released, has this bug been fixed? Is there a way to safely remove base? (Not to mention slang0.99.38) If I remember correclty you can remove slang without a problem. The solution to remove base without waiting for a clean way to do it in dselect is, and I quote from http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9707/msg01109.html To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eloy A. Paris) Subject: Re: 1.3.1 upgrade: getting rid of the package base 1.1.0-13 -- dselect and downgrading dosemu From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 16:45 PDT References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, edit /var/lib/dpkg/status and remove the paragraph about the base package, and that will effectively purge it. Forcing dpkg to remove the package removes all of the files in /dev. It's my error, sorry. Bruce Then remove the files /var/lib/dpkg/info/base.* That worked for me when I did it. DISCLAIMER YMMV, make backups of /var/lib/dpkg/status and /var/lib/dpkg/info/base.*. DISCLAIMER -- Brian - Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes. - unknown Mechanical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
IP_ALIAS (kernel 2.2.1)
Hi I amgoing to have SDSL connected to my private network (192.168.0.x) I have 3com (3905b Net card). I would like to connect the SDSL to my local ethernet HUb. I will be assigned a fixe IP to comunicate with the world. I compiled the kernel to support IP aliasing so that I could use the same ethernet card for the local network and the Global network having different IP for each network. But when I type ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 I get the following error SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFNETMASK: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device When I type ifconfig eth0:0 I get eth0:0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:26:04:F1 unspec addr:[NONE SET] Bcast:[NONE SET] Mask:[NONE SET] UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xa800 this tels me that the card is recognized. Thanks -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126
Linux! Linux!
I met some of you at the Linux World conference. Here is a little tough: Linux World Conference It was a pleasure to see so much enthusiasm about an alternative to the current proprietary systems that keep fighting each other and limiting our freedom (http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/). While it seems like the roots for a great open source system is well being taken care of with the many Linux projects, there is not enough going on to take advantage of this awakening to do Wright this time. Lots of talk about compatibility, transportability, multiple platform, etc., but missing the fundamental: no standardization = no functional commonality = no design driven software compiler = back into the agony of the current proprietary systems. I hate to insist, but if we do not have a Functional Thesaurus for functional standardization, leading to a System Design Methodology (SDM) which guarantees integration of the software elements and software/hardware elements, the future of LINUX is compromised. See www.stargate-se.com Forum. The current path will lead to Applications (database, word processing, Internet development and browsers, multimedia, h/w components, peripherals, etc.) which cannot provide the needed standardization for the user. One must understand, first of all, that the application requiring extreme specialization to make it productive is yesterday thinking. The great number of user (99 of every 100 users) cannot afford the specialization. They need to be productive with multiple tools that must allow the integration the resulting data. On the other hand, the creation of the Functional Thesaurus and SDM will lead to the ultimate software development environment. Graphical user interface, like today's Visual C++, is just a small token into the total graphical functional software development tool needed. Join that revolution at the Stargate Forum, discussions and projects. I would be interested in getting some help from you, as well as maybe provide you with support at the design/documentation level. from Humberto W. Sachs - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit www.stargate-se.com, from ancient mysteries, H.G. Wells, Star Trek and Star War visions to the Stargate of tomorrow's reality * Only for the brave and courageous * __
Re: xdm kdm
Hi, I have got kde installed, but I never configured my systems to use kdm. In my /etc/X11/config, I still have the line start-xdm. and even I ^^^ That's the reason. If you want to start kdm instead, change it to start-kdm. do a ps, I can only see xdm running, and no kdm. But when I shutdown my linux box, I got the message: Shut down the kdm display manager It just says it executes the /etc/init.d/kdm script (which actually checks for the start-kdm line on startup but does not on shutdown) checking the local xservers Shut down the xdm display manager xdm is not running Here the kdm script already has stopped the xdm. I have to give you a little warning though. If you upgrade to slink, it does not have /etc/X11/config file. Instead, xdm is started as soon as you install the xdm package. In order to switch to kdm you'll need to: 1) remove original /etc/init.d/kdm (it still uses that config file) and copy it from /etc/init.d/xdm. 2) edit the new /etc/init.d/kdm to replace xdm with kdm. 3) disable original /etc/init.d/xdm either by inserting exit 0 somewhere in the beginning of the script, or removing links to xdm from /etc/rc.*/ Sergey.
RE: IP_ALIAS (kernel 2.2.1)
On 09-Mar-99 Oz Dror wrote: Hi I amgoing to have SDSL connected to my private network (192.168.0.x) I have 3com (3905b Net card). I would like to connect the SDSL to my local ethernet HUb. I will be assigned a fixe IP to comunicate with the world. Lucky you (-: Not to ask the obvious question but did you compile all the IP_ALIAS stuff (as a module or otherwise)??
More than 5 SCSI disks? (/dev/sdf: ENXIO)
Hello. There are 5 SCSI disks happily running at sda - sde. The 6th disk is accepted as /dev/sdf, as the kernel output after lilo says. But fdisk /dev/sdf fails with Unable to open /dev/sdf. strace fdisk /dev/sdf gives open(/dev/sdf, O_RDWR)= -1 ENXIO (Device not configured) open(/dev/sdf, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENXIO (Device not configured) What is missing here? Other details follow, thank you. Andreas Wehler Debian 2.0 # uname -a Linux classix 2.0.34 #3 Thu Jan 14 10:38:59 CET 1999 i686 unknown # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 (- sda) Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130W Rev: S92A Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 (- sdb) Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130W Rev: S92A Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 (- sdc) Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130W Rev: S92A Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: C1533A Rev: A708 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-ROM CD-532S Rev: 1.0A Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4260 Rev: 1.0j Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 (- sdd) Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST19171N Rev: 0024 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 (- sde) Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST19171N Rev: 0024 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 (- sdf) Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39140N Rev: 1281 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 # ls -al /dev/sdf* brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 80 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 81 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf1 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 90 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf10 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 91 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf11 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 92 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf12 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 93 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf13 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 94 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf14 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 95 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf15 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 82 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf2 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 83 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf3 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 84 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf4 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 85 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf5 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 86 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf6 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 87 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf7 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 88 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf8 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 89 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf9 -- CAD/CAM straessle GmbHTel.: (+49) 211 - 52740 - 228 Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler Fax.: (+49) 211 - 52740 - 280 http://www.cc-straessle.com
dvisvga (tmview) can't do resolution more than -d320x200!
I've just installed dvisvga and discovered that it can't seem to handle resolutions higher than 320x200. Now I have a SVGA card that should be capable of handling 1024x768 --- certainly, this is the resolution of X. When I try I get the following error: fatal error: display: no such vga-mode on this machine How can this be? How can I fix it? Thanks, Mark. _/\___/~~\ /~~\_/~~\__/~~\__Mark_Phillips /~~\_/[EMAIL PROTECTED] /~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_ /~~\__/~~\ __ They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!
Re: New Install
At 08:38 PM 3/8/99 -0600, Andrei Ivanov wrote: Well...it's basicly asking you where in the system CDrom is. Like, primary IDE master drive is /dev/hda Primary slave is /dev/hdb Secondary master is /dev/hdc Secondary slave is /dev/hdd Just figure out which one is yours, and enter it there. Andrew snip Just a question ... I already have installed Debian/GNU Linux many times and each time the same question occurs to me ... why is it that the CD-ROM device name cannot be auto-detected in Linux as it is in Windows (and maybe then automounted if it contains a disk) ? Sorry for the Q. this has bugged me for a long time and this seems an appropriate thread to add to. Ivan
Re: bitchx (sucks!)
steven walsh dixit: On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: [snip] I agree Steve, there are plenty of Manual(s) to read. But for a new IRC user they sure confusing. I have been trying to Window it but, as of yet, no luck. Sure, there's plenty of documentation, unfortunately that's like saying MS Office has plenty of documentation. It's a pain to sort through sometimes because there's just too many features in it. Steve, most of the docs you pointed out say next to nothing. One may try to guess (as surely most bitchx users do) how to work things out, and that works some times, but not always. What really puts me off is the fact that, eg., /help say, will tell me how to show some fancy (but useless and annoying to others) way of echoing the typed characters on screen, and though other commands, probably more useful, there's no help available or almost none. What DID make me angry was the fact that whenever I tried to join #bitchx to get some help, I was banned from entering the reason being spammers, flooders and cloners, oh my! I just felt they didn't want most ppl using their program (whoever they were), fair enough, just don't make it publicly available and make me waste my time. My $.02 BTW, is there any way of typying the new euro sign? how about the old cent sign? Horacio.
Re: lprng from slink (Debian 2.1) so secure can't use it!!!
You are absolutely wright! I just downgrade to hamm for the same problem. I could print in text mode only, but I think the problem was not due to permission mistakes. Anyway I will stop the upgrade to slink to total defrozen. James D. Freels wrote: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. I just upgraded from hamm to slink. I have found one problem with the upgrade in the lprng package. I downgraded to the hamm version until such time as it gets fixed. Basically after installing the new version, I could not print due to some time of permissions error. I have the standard lpd.conf and lpd.perms files as defined by Debian. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dr. A. Gustavo Gonzalez Dept. Anal. Chem., Univ. Seville (Spain) Phone: (34) 5-4557173 Fax: (34) 5-4557168 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RMAIL mode and metamail frustrations
Hi, more more often i get MIME messages from other people, often with just plain text. There are also a lot of people using `quoted printable' iso-latin-1 or something like that. I read mail with Emacs RMAIL mode, mainly because i do everything in Emacs. Lately, under Debian pre-2.1 (slink), all my M-x metamail-interpret-body commands give me a viewer (xterm) that allow me to read a message once. Then it is gone. Is there a _clean_ way in modern Debian that will allow me to read/process MIME and quoted-printable messages withing RMAIL? It is quite frustrating that Emacs can do anything except treat mail attachments cleanly, like every stupid silly mail reading PC-program can. ---david
imap/pop3 problem
Hi Mybe it's off-topic so I'm sorry. I used IMAP for the last months but now I have to use POP3. Is there a possibility to get the imap folder structure via POP3 or to save the structure on HDD ? thanx Stefan
X problem with slink
Hello ! I use a DIAMOND Fire GL 1000 Pro with 3D Labs Permedia 2 and Xserver XF86_3DLabs. Since upgrading to slink some programs report X errrors. PV wave : Not enough colours available xmaple: X-Error BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) [resid=10 opcode=(56,0)] Can someone help ? Thanks -- Daniel Faller Fakultaet fur Physik Abt. Honerkamp Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg Tel.: 0761-203-5875 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
KDE x Gnome
Hi Debian users, I'm wondering if the new Qt license released a week or so ago is DFSG? I saw some news screenshots of KOffice at: http://www.linux-magazin.de/ausgabe.1999.03/KOffice/koffice.html and I cant waiting to install koffice Debian packages and other kde apps. :) I already have Gnome debian packages installed but would be good to get the best of both worlds. Have a nice day
WVDial segfaulting
Hi Debian users, a friend of mine installed Debian 2.0 and tried to connect in Internet using pppconfig and doesnt suceed but with wvdial he can connect in Net but when he disconects wvdial segfaults and he has to reboot the computer. Any ideas? I think that he is using the last wvdial because he updates do Debian 2.1 later. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique
Re: Prob:block on freelist at 00b10bd1 isn't free
At 07:37 PM 3/8/99 PST, rick hunter wrote: Can anyone help me with this error mesg? Prob:block on freelist at 00b10bd1 isn't free I usually get it when I am using the dselect program, afterwhich any program I run (including shutdown) will result in the same error mesg. The only solution currently is to rebot the system. I started getting this message after I installed a set of new simms. When I tested them I found a bad memory location. Replaced the simms and it never happened again. Ed
Printer in kernel 2.2.1
Hi Debian users, I'm setting a printer with the new kernel: 2.2.1. When I tried make xconfig and search for parallel printer support in character devices section I couldnt mark the option. It's in gray collor. How I can mark this option? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique
Where is the exim cookbook? Was Re:[exim] Custom headers
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, George Bonser wrote: On 9 Mar 1999, Frozen Rose wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you tie a rewrite rule to a particular route? The documentation wasn't very clear on this. [snip] It's in the Exim cookbook, istr. [snip] Where is the Exim cookbook? It didn't come with a recent stock exim installation. I have a recently installed frozen/slink, where exim is the default. There is no exim cookbook, nor any file named istr, nor any file with that substring in its name. Please tell me where I can find the exim cookbook. BTW: The slink install was much easier than Hamm. Thanks, guys. --David Teague Debian GNU/Linux: Because software should be expected to be stable; reboots are for hardware and kernel upgrades.
Outgoing port 53 redirected to special port.
Hello! I have a slight problem that i want to solve. Since the admins on our school is really nosy and scans our computers for ftp and web-servers among, to name a few examples i would like to shut them out completely from my computer. As it is now i have a pretty straight-forward firewall that only allows certain IP's that i accept to connect to my computer. Just for the sake of it and for learning-purposes i would now like to build a better wall. The problem is that one computer that they scan from is the name-server and that one is hard to isolate it completely from here. The only thing i allow from the DNS is UDP from 1024-65535 since DNS, in case the packets isn't larger than 512 bytes which i haven't encountered so far, uses UDP on a port that the program can access itself. What i now would like to do is to organize it so that all the outgoing requests to the nameserver goes through a special port. I guess it would be done it i set up a nameserver on my own machine that sends the requests which should come back on port 53 but i don't like the idea of another large program that takes up my memory. 1) Is there a way just using chains to do that task or do i have to learn how masquerading works too? An example of how i would like it to be: netscape sends a gethostname() and the request goes out on, lets say, port 567 to the nameserver which responds to the same port on my computer and netscape gets the IP it searched for. 2) Another question is, is it possible to isolate 2 or more specific IP's with the same mask? How would i do? I guess that it would be possible with some sort of simple boolean algebra but i'm not sure. Example: isolate the addresses 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 and 10.0.0.7. I would be very glad if someone could help me out here. I know how to set up chains using ipchains so that won't be nessecery to explain, but i haven't fooled around with masquerading so that's the problem perhaps. These questions is directed to people that are kind enough to send me a good answer and not just to point to a bunch of HOWTO's. Advance thanks. // Marwin -- | Björn Elwhagen aka Marwin Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Student at Wexio University for PGP public key. (broken) | | SwedenICQ: 356095 |
Re: Printer in kernel 2.2.1
*- On 9 Mar, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote about Printer in kernel 2.2.1 Hi Debian users, I'm setting a printer with the new kernel: 2.2.1. When I tried make xconfig and search for parallel printer support in character devices section I couldnt mark the option. It's in gray collor. How I can mark this option? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique Printer support in the new kernel has lots of possibilities: General Setup: * Parallel port support == required *PC-style hardware == required for x86 Plug and Play Support: * Auto-probe for parallel devices Character Devices: * Parallel printer support == required [*] Support IEEE1284 status readback == I like this! At boot with the above options selected I get this: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 660C -- Brian - Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes. - unknown Mechanical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
debian-cd for slink ?
Hi there, do you know about any tool for creating the slink cd-images from a mirror of the distribution (like the debian-cd package in hamm) ? Thanks, Andras
debian-cd
I want to make Debian CDs, but I cannot find debian-cd package in slink or potato. If anybody knows how to use debian-cd from hamm or any other solution for this problem - please help me! begin:vcard n:Shtinkov;Peter x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Spectrum NET version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:System Administrator x-mozilla-cpt:;0 tel;work:(+359 2) 974 3238 fn:Peter Shtinkov end:vcard
Re: Outgoing port 53 redirected to special port.
Just for the sake of it and for learning-purposes i would now like to build a better wall. The problem is that one computer that they scan from is the name-server and that one is hard to isolate it completely from here. The only thing i allow from the DNS is UDP from 1024-65535 since DNS, in case the packets isn't larger than 512 bytes which i haven't encountered so far, uses UDP on a port that the program can access itself. What i now would like to do is to organize it so that all the outgoing requests to the nameserver goes through a special port. I guess it would be done it i set up a nameserver on my own machine that sends the Wouldn't it be sufficient for this purpose to only accept connections on those ports which are in reply to a request from your own system? I thought ipfwadm could do this with the '-k' flag. requests which should come back on port 53 but i don't like the idea of another large program that takes up my memory. It's not that big, and you could even make it caching so your lookups will be a little faster. Maarten -- Maarten Boekhold, [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIBCO Finance Technology Inc. The Atrium Strawinskylaan 3051 1077 ZX Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 3012158, fax: +31 20 3012358 http://www.tibco.com
Re: IP_ALIAS (kernel 2.2.1)
I will assume that you are running slink because you did not say. I also assume that the version of netbase you are running is 3.11-xx. Download the netbase package from unstable/Potato (v. 3.12) and your IP aliasing should work normally. For some reason the slink/3.11 version of netbase doesn't work correctly with the 2.2.x series kernels. Let me know if this solves your problem. -Ian On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Oz Dror wrote: Hi I amgoing to have SDSL connected to my private network (192.168.0.x) I have 3com (3905b Net card). I would like to connect the SDSL to my local ethernet HUb. I will be assigned a fixe IP to comunicate with the world. I compiled the kernel to support IP aliasing so that I could use the same ethernet card for the local network and the Global network having different IP for each network. But when I type ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 I get the following error SIOCSIFADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFNETMASK: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Operation not supported by device SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device When I type ifconfig eth0:0 I get eth0:0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:26:04:F1 unspec addr:[NONE SET] Bcast:[NONE SET] Mask:[NONE SET] UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:10 Base address:0xa800 this tels me that the card is recognized. Thanks -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92 50 E3 CD D7 A2 D9 C4 CE 08 A6 98 E0 0F 58
RE: lprng and slink
You are absolutely wright! I just downgrade to hamm for the same problem. I could print in text mode only, but I think the problem was not due to permission mistakes. Anyway I will stop the upgrade to slink to total defrozen. The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. I just upgraded from hamm to slink. I have found one problem with the upgrade in the lprng package. I downgraded to the hamm version until such time as it gets fixed. Basically after installing the new version, I could not print due to some time of permissions error. I have the standard lpd.conf and lpd.perms files as defined by Debian. Just a question for both parties concerned here, did you remember to change your printer setup over to the new lp* format? Slink has removed lp0 and replaced it with lp1 (I believe that's the way it is), anyway I first off could not print under slink until I had a look at the new config file, and realised it had hosed my configuration for my printer, and also changed the printer port... but it's working great now that I've changed the printer port to the new settings. Actually I've just remembered, the new kernel version (2.2.1 is what I'm running) is the thing that changed the lp port... geez, have to remember these things else I'll be considered a fool... (though that isn't hard for people who have actually met me) grin. Regards, Peter Ludwig
Re: IP_ALIAS (kernel 2.2.1)
Oz Dror [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi I amgoing to have SDSL connected to my private network (192.168.0.x) I have 3com (3905b Net card). I would like to connect the SDSL to my local ethernet HUb. I will be assigned a fixe IP to comunicate with the world. I know I'm answering a different question, but maybe it's useful info to you. I have ADSL and a private network. What I did was put two NICs into one machine which acts as a firewall for my network and does IP masquerading. The advantage of doing it this way is simply that you can firewall your subnet and share the speedy connection. I realize that putting a private subnet behind a firewall is somewhat paranoid. I find it somewhat reassuring though :-) Later, Dale -- +- pgp key available --+ | Dale E. Martin | Clifton Labs, Inc. | Senior Computer Engineer| | [EMAIL PROTECTED]|http://www.clifton-labs.com | +--+
Linux and Partition Magic
Hello Debian-user, I have Windows and Linux on my HD. As time has passed I now prefer my Debian installation and seldom use Windows (big surprise, eh?:) I want to expand/move my Linux partition and I do have Partition Magic on my system. Will using Partition Magic harm my Linux installation? I use LILO as bootmanager to boot both Windows and Linux. //Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe If everything is coming your way, you are probably in the wrong lane
Is ftp.debian.org down?
Yes I know that slink was released but *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - -
Re: Linux and Partition Magic
Hello Debian-user, I have Windows and Linux on my HD. As time has passed I now prefer my Debian installation and seldom use Windows (big surprise, eh?:) I want to expand/move my Linux partition and I do have Partition Magic on my system. Will using Partition Magic harm my Linux installation? I use LILO as bootmanager to boot both Windows and Linux. I don't believe so unless you do something silly like delete your boot partition. Also remember lilo stores information on what partition to boot based on hda1, hda2, etc, so if you remove hda1 and create two partitions where it was, your hda2 will become hda3, etc... just boot from the rescue disk, edit lilo.conf to reflect these changes, run /sbin/lilo, edit /etc/fstab to reflect the changes, and away you go. HTH -Dano
New Install
I have installed Debian-Linux, after I boot, and the system asks for the login, I log in as root. the problem is I'm at a $prompt, I don't know what to do from their. I need to change /dev/mod.. to /dev/ttys... but the sys. says I do not have permission. Any help?
RE: WVDial segfaulting
I use wvdial and have never had nay problems. How is he disconnecting it? Is he using it under X or Console. You can hit ctrl + C and it will 'attempt to exit gracfully' and disconnect without seg faults -Original Message- From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 6:18 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: WVDial segfaulting Hi Debian users, a friend of mine installed Debian 2.0 and tried to connect in Internet using pppconfig and doesnt suceed but with wvdial he can connect in Net but when he disconects wvdial segfaults and he has to reboot the computer. Any ideas? I think that he is using the last wvdial because he updates do Debian 2.1 later. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg. What's the different?
Hi all, I am new at Debian and I am kind confused about the Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg programs. Slink was released earlier today and it has: Apt (part 1), the new backend to dselect Apt (part 2), the new commandline I know Apt will soon have a front end (Apt 3 for Potato) that will replace Dselect but for now does Apt (part 1), the new backend, replaces Dpkg program because Dpkg is also a backend to deselect? I am really confused about the relation of Apt, Dselect, and Dpkg. If anyone has the time, please write back and tell what is the defferences and relationship between these programs. If this question was asked before, please tell me the date of it and I will look for it. Thanks alot, Tam
rc.local - What is the Debian Eqivalent
I have installed some tars and I need to set some thing to run at boot. For example I need to have the followiung to line execute at boot. /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt --sync /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt I used RH for a minute and these were placed in rc.local...I must confess I forget the debian placement. What file do I place these in or can I just make a bash script and and place a symlink to it in the appropriate rc#.d ? Roderick P. Person Title, I don't need no stinking title 454-2616 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: portforwarding question
Anyone? I will try one more post with these questions. Thanks, -Bill Hello again, I have a web site on my Debian box visible to the world. Of course this is using xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80. I also have an internal web site visible to the world using portforwarding xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:port. Question 1- Which port(s) should I forward to allow this visibility and not overrun my real web site already on port 80? Question 2- This internal site is a management tool for my bridge. I am not too worried about security on that site. Does having a port opened exposes me to other site security issues? As always, Thanks for the great help on this list! -Bill
Re: New Install
If your prompt is a $ you are not logged in as root. This is the regular user prompt. The prompt under root is #. You should have a password for a user account and one for signing in as root. When you login type root and then your root password and you will have permission to do anything. Or from the user prompt type su and then you will be asked the root password. The prompt will change to #. This will be adequate for most administrative tasks but for some you must login as root as described above. Hope that helps, Kent Joe wrote: I have installed Debian-Linux, after I boot, and the system asks for the login, I log in as root. the problem is I'm at a $prompt, I don't know what to do from their. I need to change /dev/mod.. to /dev/ttys... but the sys. says I do not have permission. Any help? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: bitchx (sucks!)
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: steven walsh dixit: On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: [snip] I agree Steve, there are plenty of Manual(s) to read. But for a new IRC user they sure confusing. I have been trying to Window it but, as of yet, no luck. Sure, there's plenty of documentation, unfortunately that's like saying MS Office has plenty of documentation. It's a pain to sort through sometimes because there's just too many features in it. Steve, most of the docs you pointed out say next to nothing. One may try to guess (as surely most bitchx users do) how to work things out, and that works some times, but not always. What really puts me off is the fact that, eg., /help say, will tell me how to show some fancy (but useless and annoying to others) way of echoing the typed characters on screen, and though other commands, probably more useful, there's no help available or almost none. I get the impression you think I _like_ BitchX. I assure you I do not, nor do I believe the documentation is adequately provided. As for EfNet #bitchx, well, let's just say that I'm not surprised at their behavior. :) See you on the flip side - Steve Walsh (EfNet:#Babylon5:KnaraKat) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: New Install
I have installed Debian-Linux, after I boot, and the system asks for the login, I log in as root. the problem is I'm at a $prompt, I don't know Do 'whoami' and see who you are really logged on as. Why do you need to change /dev/modX anyway? /dev/ttySX is a COM port. But if you really need to, just make a link to /dev/modX and call it /dev/ttysX. Or whatever you need. Same trick as you go around with modem setup sometimes with programs that use /dev/modem, which is not initially installed in the system. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv --Little things for Linux.
Partition problem: not urgent
Hi, I have some kind of a partition problem. It exists some months, but i could use everyting whithout problems. The only thing i couldn't do is defrag my win-disk. The problem has to do with ending/beginning of a partition Output of cfdisk: NameFlags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) --- /dev/hda1 BootPrimary DOS FAT16 (big) [ ]300.24 /dev/hda2 BootPrimary Linux ext2 100.41 /dev/hda5 Logical DOS FAT16 (big) [WIN DATA ] 1000.13 /dev/hda6 Logical Linux ext2 1250.16 /dev/hda7 Logical Linux ext2 498.10 /dev/hda8 Logical Linux ext2 3000.38 Pri/Log Free Space 0.50 This is my fdisk output: Using /dev/hda as default device! Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *11 39 307408+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(304, 31, 63) logical=(38, 69, 63) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(304, 31, 63) should be (304, 254, 63) /dev/hda2 * 306 39 52 102816 83 Linux native Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(305, 0, 1) logical=(38, 70, 1) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(406, 31, 63) logical=(51, 18, 63) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(406, 31, 63) should be (406, 254, 63) /dev/hda4 408 52 784 58867205 Extended Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(407, 0, 1) logical=(51, 19, 1) Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(1023, 31, 63) logical=(783, 238, 63) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 31, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) /dev/hda5 408 52 179 1024096+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda6 1024 179 338 1280128+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda7 1024 338 402 510016+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda8 1024 402 784 3072352+ 83 Linux native Any help. No winblows program can repair this, not even pm4. Maybe some unix-tool may? -- Bernhard DobbelsStudent Electronic Engineer option Automation and Computersystems. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 25783372
Re: I can't believe this
George Bonser wrote: On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Jesse Evans wrote: I feel that most of the press coverage of Linux has been tainted by the commercial marketing efforts of certain distributions. If I were a writer and had no knowledge of the subject matter of my current task, I would first look to other media to see what gets the most play and work from there. If Debian is to suceed in the Linux markeplace they need to increase their marketing influence, but I think that's not their real goal; they instead want to create the best distribution available and hope that those who truly care will find their way through the Linux jungle. Which brings up a point I have oten pondered, if Red Hat's install is so great, why doesn't Debian just COPY it ... massage it a bit to make it use some different paths, etc, and THEN concentrate on IMPROVING it. Their current method of trying to invent a better wheel from scratch seems to be a waste of resources. It appears to be a(nother) very egotistical stance on the part of the Debian developers. Hell, just use the best thing that is out there, modify it to fit your needs, and then improve on it from there. Otherwise they are always going to be trying to catch up and wasting resources. Maybe if Debian could identify the weak points in the distro, adopt better ways from other distros as an intermediate measure and then get them completely integrated as time goes by might allow much faster progress and a more useable distro in the meantime. I agree somewhat, but... I had done 3 or 4 RedHat installs until I encountered a certain old machine at work (486/33, 2 SCSI controllers). I could not get a RedHat install (5.1 or 5.2) to work. Period. No way, no how. Always started swapping like crazy at a certain point, about the time I started partitioning the disks. Tried Debian for the hell of it, worked the first time, didn't find it unduly difficult. I guess what I'm saying is: * I'm not sure the installation itself needs radical fixing. * Please preserve robustness. * Maybe we need to represent a clear alternative. * Maybe RedHat has its priorities wrong (flash over functionality?). On that last point, let me insert another bit of personal experience: I was installing RedHat 5.1 on my machine at home, and got to the disk partitioning stage. I could not do what I needed to do from Disk Druid. The sequence of steps needed to partition a certain way was simply not accessible from the (pseudo-)GUI. So I used fdisk and could do it without any problem. What I'm saying there is that if you provide a GUI, you better be willing to spend a *lot* of time thinking it out and debugging it, because doing it right is a lot more complex than most people realize. (I know, I've written commercial software). Otherwise, you trap people instead of enabling them. So far, I feel this way about these two major distributions: * For a machine that I want to just play with a bunch of shit on, I'd pick RedHat. There's RPMs of everything under the sun out there; some of them work great, some are shit; they all install and uninstall *real fast*. That's what I want for my home machine, especially since its fast and has a lot of disk space, so I can store and run all that shit I download. * For a machine that needs to be ultra-consistent, dependable, up-to-date, locked down, I'd pick Debian. dselect and dpkg contribute to most of those qualities. That's what I want for any server that I use for work, especially since it's likely to be some old weird 486, where you *need* all those Debian installation floppies with all the drivers. (Hell, come to think of it, it might even be a m68k machine, in which case RedHat wouldn't even be an alternative...) The other thing is that I know everything on the CD-ROM is free, and free/contrib/non-free is clearly identified on the ftp sites; that's important to know in a work setting -- nothing ideological about it at all. I wonder how the rest of you feel about this distinction I've made?
Re: lprng and slink
Yes, my problem would a bit more obscured by the fact of gs conflicts with magicfilter. I am able to print plain text docs. However, HTML, ps and pdf formats cannot be prited without serious errors. Thus I prefer to wait for the slink release in CD. I am using now other distributions (OpenLinux 1.3, SuSE 6.0, Slackware 3.6) without any printing problem. Regards, Gustavo Peter Ludwig wrote: You are absolutely wright! I just downgrade to hamm for the same problem. I could print in text mode only, but I think the problem was not due to permission mistakes. Anyway I will stop the upgrade to slink to total defrozen. The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well. I just upgraded from hamm to slink. I have found one problem with the upgrade in the lprng package. I downgraded to the hamm version until such time as it gets fixed. Basically after installing the new version, I could not print due to some time of permissions error. I have the standard lpd.conf and lpd.perms files as defined by Debian. Just a question for both parties concerned here, did you remember to change your printer setup over to the new lp* format? Slink has removed lp0 and replaced it with lp1 (I believe that's the way it is), anyway I first off could not print under slink until I had a look at the new config file, and realised it had hosed my configuration for my printer, and also changed the printer port... but it's working great now that I've changed the printer port to the new settings. Actually I've just remembered, the new kernel version (2.2.1 is what I'm running) is the thing that changed the lp port... geez, have to remember these things else I'll be considered a fool... (though that isn't hard for people who have actually met me) grin. Regards, Peter Ludwig -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Dr. A. Gustavo Gonzalez Dept. Anal. Chem., Univ. Seville (Spain) Phone: (34) 5-4557173 Fax: (34) 5-4557168 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2 Official CDs...
What is contained on the 2 Official Debian Binary i386 CDs. I was thinking that disc 2 would be all the KDE/Gnome and X stuff... but I am not sure. Anyone know how the CDs are laid out? --Jay
Re: WVDial segfaulting
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira writes: a friend of mine installed Debian 2.0 and tried to connect in Internet using pppconfig and doesnt suceed What problem did he have with pppconfig? -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: rc.local - What is the Debian Eqivalent
Person, Roderick wrote: I have installed some tars and I need to set some thing to run at boot. The Debian equivalent of rc.local is rc.boot ragOO, VU2RGU. -- Keeping the Air-Waves FREE.Amateur Radio Keeping the W W W FREE..Debian GNU/Linux
XDM again
Hello Debian-user, I still have problems getting XDM to run. Starting X with startx works fine, but when I start XDM I get a minimal fvm desktop, not the setup I have in my .xinitrc file. I know I must be missing something obvious. Can anyone help? TIA //Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe If everything is coming your way, you are probably in the wrong lane
Re: I can't believe this
On Tuesday 9 March, Kieth Murphy wrote * I'm not sure the installation itself needs radical fixing. * Please preserve robustness. * Maybe we need to represent a clear alternative. * Maybe RedHat has its priorities wrong (flash over functionality?). I agree with these opinions, and moreover, I can possibly provide a useful point of view in that I am a newbie to Linux, though not to computing. Before leaping into Linux (as I desperately wanted to) I made sure I read everything about Linux, and the major distributions first. After accumulating as much knowledge as I could, I decided that Debian was the one for me. I understood from my analysis that RH was more user friendly in it's installation process than Debian, and was told many times to use RH first time round, but the distributions stand for much more than their software components. The reason I went for Debian is because I agree with the ideology behind it, as well as the more technical reasons. I would have used Debian even if the installation process was much harder. I know that this is not the only reason as to why I chose Debian, but I went through the install, Yeah, I had to do a bit of reading, but Linux is, to me, about learning and functionality. It's the reason I left Winblows. The point I'm trying to make is that effort often returns satisfaction and knowledge, which is why I'm here. Debian is more than just software, it's politics. Adam
