Re: apache package
Bernard Leach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : It seems that Mark Shuttleworth is no longer maintaining the : apache package. Just wondering who, if anyone has picked : it up and if there is a 1.1 version. A debian apache 1.1.1 is available on ftp.fuller.edu/Linux/debian/apache This packe will be removed as soon as the official maintainer releases and Apache version. We run Apache 1.1.1 with debian on multiple machines.
setserial program
Is the setserial program contained in any of the Debian packages, or will I have to install it seperately? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Protections against a mad maintainer?
This is a matter of trust. If you don't trust binaries, install only a minimal system, read the source (every line of it), understand it, compile it and install it. ... and keep backups!!! - Jim
Re: problem with incremental dump updates
but I get lots of warning: cannot create hard link ./bin/uncompress-./bin/gunzip: File exists Dump is probably complaining that it can't create a symbolic link because the symbolic link already exists. It probably always archives symbolic links, whether they have been recently created or not. It should lstat() them and see if they point to the right place, and if so it should not complain. A recent alpha-test version of GNU tar emits this same complaint. Bruce
Anonymous ftp and the ls command.
Hello, I have debian 1.1 and I installed an anonymous ftp service. It works fine except for an annoying problem: ftp users can always see the files in the ftp site even though there is no ls binary under the bin directory of ~ftp. I understand that ftp users will only be able to execute commands with valid binaries under ~ftp/bin. So if there is no ~ftp/bin/ls there shouldn't be a way to see the directory structure. Am I wrong? I'd appreciate any hint on this. Thank you, Pedro Ivan --
Re: make-kpgk modules troubles
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Thomas Baetzler wrote:
Until recently, I just rolled my own kernel as I was used to do
with Slackware. But since I found out about make-kpkg, I decided
to do things the Debian way and use that instead. After much hassle
wit the broken tar (solved by downgrading), there's still a problem:
Whenever I try to make a modules package for my system, I end up
with a message like Modules not configured, so not making modules.
Sorry, I can't help you with your problem, but this does raise a question
in my mind: what exactly is the benefit of using the kernel-package vs.
rolling your own kernel? When I build my kernel, I have to build it 3
times, for a 586, 468, and a pentium. The 586 and 486 are diskless
clients, and all of them need different things in the kernel that
can't be provided as modules (math emulation for the 586, built in
nfs-root for the diskless machines, etc). So I've written scripts
to automate building and distributing the kernel to the 3 computers.
How would using kernel-package help me? I just don't see much of a point
to it for someone who's already comfortable with building the kernel,
unless you need to make a single kernel package to be used on a bunch of
machines.
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static vs. dynamic - gimp
Hello all. I would like to install gimp. Pardon my ignorance ... I see that there are two versions. gimp-dmotif (dynamic) vs. gimp-smotif (static) I am using a standard debian install with X, tcp/ip ... I would like to know : q1 - how do I know if I can use the static version? q2 - given a choice between both, what version would be better or faster Are there any pros and/or cons to choosing one or the other when both are valid options for a given machine (i.e.. speed vs. size ... )? Thanx in advance ... Keep up the good work - it is greatly appreciated.
Re: bug ins installation disks utilities?
Amos, This sounds like a probelm that I'm trying to track down! Here are some key questions: 1) Is your floppy boot disk connected to the floppy controller on the 1542? 2) What is the ROM release of the 1542? (It should appear as the system starts up). 3) What brand and revision is your system BIOS? -and- 4) Does the problem go away if you turn off the internal and/or external cache? Turning off the cache seems to be the way to get around this problem. To do this, you need to go into the BIOS setup. The settings might be internal and external cache, or level 1 and level 2 cache, or something like that. *PLEASE* let me know the answers to these questions. I've got the same problem. I've worked around it but I really want to *solve* it! Thanks! Chris -)- On Sep 11, 7:50pm, Amos Shapira wrote: Subject: bug ins installation disks utilities? : Hello, : : I was trying to test the boot process of Debian 1.1.8, which kept : failing in the stage of unpacking the bases diskettes. : : The system is: : : 80486 DX2/66 : 16Mb memory : AHA1542CF ISA scsi controller : PCI motherboard -- Christopher R. Hertel -)- University of Minnesota [EMAIL PROTECTED] Networking and Telecommunications Services
Re: bug ins installation disks utilities?
Did you see any error messages on the floppy I/O? I've seen the floppy driver fail in several cases. I have a Pentium 120 laptop here in which the floppy works when cold, not when warm. Windows 95 runs that floppy just fine. The fix is probably to tune the floppy timing parameters automaticaly in the driver when there is an I/O failure. Not that I have time to implement that. Thanks Bruce
Re: apache package
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stoyan Kenderov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you may want to know, that the package version 1.0.5-1 gives me on an ordinary machine, ordinary setup a lot of oops A user level program can _never_ result in a kernel oops. If it does, it's bad hardware (RAM!) or yes, a real kernel bug. Some Linux kernels in the late 2.0.x series do indeed have these kind of bugs. Upgrade to 2.0.19 (released yesterday) and you'll be fine. Mike. -- Miquel van | Cistron Internet Services --Alphen aan den Rijn. Smoorenburg,| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cistron.nl/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +31-172-419445 (Voice) 430979 (Fax) 442580 (Data)
Re: apache package
On Sep 11, 6:39pm, Bernard Leach wrote: } Subject: apache package } It seems that Mark Shuttleworth is no longer maintaining the } apache package. Just wondering who, if anyone has picked } it up and if there is a 1.1 version. The 1.1.1 version will be in unstable this week. Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55
Re: re:D-Link DE-220P driver needed
Todd Some friends and I all have a bunch of D-Link DE-250CT's, which are Todd NE2000 compatible. They all work fine under Linux. I had to use Todd their setup program (under M$-DOS) to set the IRQ, I/O address, BNC, Todd RJ-45, and a few other things. After that, yer set! Looking around at Don Becker's site, I once found two really handy C source files for us NE2000 users. The first, atlantic.c, allows me to set these irq, i/o, bnc or rj-45, ... under Linux rather than the unspeakable os. The other, ne2k.c, display the ne2000 cards status. I seem to have gotten them from ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
First time installation
Hi all, Thanks for all the replies on elf-x11r6lib. To avoid just dribbling enquiries out I think it would be better to let you know what I'm doing and see if you can help me. I am installing a Debian-Linux server for the first time in order to comply with the following criteria (in chronological order): 1) Setup as an Internet client. I will be the only person using it. Connected to an ISP using SLIP or PPP. The ISP will assign my IP address at connection. It must dial/disconnect on demand. I need all the normal access (ftp, telnet, http, news, gopher, mail) 2) Setup as a firewall. This server will become a Proxy server to supply Internet access to an internal organization. Again all normal Internet access must be available. 3) Setup as an Intranet server. Serve our own internal news, mail, http requirements 4) Setup as a dedicates Internet server. 24 hour leased line Internet server. In parallel I will start developing software on this UNIX kernel. I work principally in control and MMI (man machine interfaces). Up till now I have only designed and implemented on DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 (32 bit-multi threaded) and proprietary Embedded and Stand alone controllers. If anyone could help me by sending any kind of instructions, links to Web sites, or other information that might be helpful I would be much obliged. Thanks, in advance, for any help. Simon Martin[EMAIL PROTECTED] Old software engineers never die, they just fail to boot Any Trademarks used in this document are recognized as Registered Trademarks of their respective owners.
Apache 1.1.1 release
Hello, Please note that the 1.1.1 apache package, which will be on Debian archives as soon as transferred from chiark, still installs in /var/web and don't take www-data into account. The next release will use www-data correctly, run the server under www-data.www-data identity if wanted, but I didn't have the time to do that properly and there was much demand on a 1.1.1 release. The 1.1.1 package does offer dynamic linking of modules, and a PHP module will be available shortly. Please not that CGI scripts that used to be in the Apache package were moved to the new cgi-scripts package that you may want to get along with the Apache one. Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55
Re: setserial program
Chris R. Martin wrote: Is the setserial program contained in any of the Debian packages, or will I have to install it seperately? Package: setserial priority: required section: base maintainer: Gordon Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] version: 2.10-8 filename: unstable/binary-i386/base/setserial_2.10-8.deb msdos-filename: unstable/msdos-i386/base/setseril.deb size: 11933 md5sum: 89b0478ea6cc74d78083f732f3f78016 description: Configures serial ports. essential: yes pre-depends: libc5 (=5.2.18-1) -- ...RickM...
Strange problems with mc.
Just recently I have begun having strange problems with midnight commander. After some time some of the keys stop working. This usually involves the arrow keys, but occasionaly the function keys stop working as well. When this happens pressing the key produces characters at the prompt, but no results. In the case of the arrow keys I can quit mc, type reset at the prompt and return to mc with functional arrow keys. In the case of the function keys killing the process and resetting the terminal does not fix the problem. However, if I log out and log back in mc again works fine. I am using the 3.2.1-1 version of mc. I have updated several package recently (don't clearly remember which ones) and installed xpdf. Has anyone had similar problems? Anybody have any idea what's happening? TIA, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
Re: setserial program
On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: Is the setserial program contained in any of the Debian packages, or will I have to install it seperately? Setserial is provided in the base packages (as it is used at boot time) Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
Re: Protections against a mad maintainer?
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Re: static vs. dynamic - gimp
As [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello all. I would like to install gimp. Pardon my ignorance ... I see that there are two versions. gimp-dmotif (dynamic) vs. gimp-smotif (static) motif is a commercial library of routines for X applications to use. The static gimp binary has the necessary motif functions linked in with it... resulting in large file. The dynamically-linked motif does not have those motif functions. The executble file is much smaller this way, but you need to have the motif library installed on your system. To do this, you have to buy it. The going price is about $100 or so (I believe). Developers are allowed to statically link their executables to the motif library and distribute the resulting program freely, as long as they do not distribute the motif source code. I am using a standard debian install with X, tcp/ip ... I would like to know : q1 - how do I know if I can use the static version? You can always use the static version. You can *only* use the dynamic version if you buy motif. Of course, in the tradition of free software, there is a group of programmers working on a free drop-in-replacement for motif. It's called lesstif, but it's still in its early stages. q2 - given a choice between both, what version would be better or faster Are there any pros and/or cons to choosing one or the other when both are valid options for a given machine (i.e.. speed vs. size ... )? I'd go for the dynamic version because of the smaller file size. BUT you need to buy motif to do so. So until you do, you'll have to use the static version. Thanx in advance ... Keep up the good work - it is greatly appreciated. --gilbert __ Gilbert Ramirez Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Texas http://merece.uthscsa.edu/gram Health Science Center at San AntonioUniversity Health System
Re: static vs. dynamic - gimp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gimp-dmotif (dynamic) Use this one if you have purchased and installed Motif on your computer. gimp-smotif (static) Use this one otherwise. -- Rob
Re: static vs. dynamic - gimp
Hello all. I would like to install gimp. gimp-dmotif (dynamic) vs. gimp-smotif (static) I am using a standard debian install with X, tcp/ip ... I would like to know : q1 - how do I know if I can use the static version? You can use the static version. Whether or not you want to is another story. The difference is in how the two packages are linked. Gimp requires the use of the Motif libraries. However, the Motif libraries have restrictive distribution requirements. You must pay money for the shared version of the Motif libraries, but it is perfectly acceptable to distribute programs linked statically with the Motif libraries. The tradeoff is memory -- each copy of the static libraries gets loaded into memory for each statically linked program running, whereas for the shared libraries, only one copy of the library is loaded into memory regardless of the number of programs using it. In addition, each executable statically linked has a copy of the library on disk, as opposed to only one copy in the /usr/X11/lib directory. So the static version can be used by anyone -- it doesn't require the use of the costly shared Motif libraries. The dynamic version is only useful if you have the shared Motif libraries. q2 - given a choice between both, what version would be better or faster Are there any pros and/or cons to choosing one or the other when both are valid options for a given machine (i.e.. speed vs. size ... )? If you -can- use the dynamic version, you probably should. Since you will probably be using other Motif applications (else why would you have bought the libraries?), using shared libraries instead of static libraries will give you more free memory, less swapping, etc. However, if you -can't- use the dynamic version, then you need the static version. If you only have Debian stuff installed, then you don't have Motif installed. So in that case, you will need the static version. Thanx in advance ... Keep up the good work - it is greatly appreciated.
Re: static vs. dynamic - gimp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gimp-dmotif (dynamic) vs. gimp-smotif (static) [...] I would like to know : q1 - how do I know if I can use the static version? q2 - given a choice between both, what version would be better or faster Are there any pros and/or cons to choosing one or the other when both are valid options for a given machine (i.e.. speed vs. size ... )? The problem here is that Motif is commercial software, with a licence that restricts certain kinds of distribution. If Motif were free (and there are efforts in progress to write a free version), then there would only be one version of Gimp available - the dynamic one. In brief: Have Motif licence - Use dynamic version Do not have Motif licence - Use static version or buy licence The dynamic/static refers to how the program is linked with the Motif libraries. Dynamic means it is done at run-time, static means it is done at compile-time. Dynamic means the executable is much smaller, both on disk (it need not include a copy of the library) and in memory (it can share a copy of the library with other processes), but requires the user to have the Motif libraries installed on their system. Static means the executable is much larger on disk, and cannot share a copy of the library in memory, but means a user without the Motif libraries can run it. This what I understand of how the licensing works (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong). To be able to use the dynamic version, you must have the Motif libraries installed, which means you must have purchased a Motif licence, because the libraries may not be distributed in standalone form. However, the libraries may be distributed if they are statically linked in with a program (which means they can't be re-linked with another program). This licensing scheme means that developers are not discouraged from using Motif for development (they can distribute a version which users can use even without a Motif licence), but it also encourages users to obtain a Motif licence (their programs will be able to share one copy of the library on disk and in memory). Warwick Warwick Harveyemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Sciencephone: +61-3-9287-9171 University of Melbourne fax: +61-3-9348-1184 Parkville, Victoria, AUSTRALIA 3052 web: http://www.cs.mu.OZ.AU/~warwick
Re: Anonymous ftp and the ls command.
I have debian 1.1 and I installed an anonymous ftp service. It works fine except for an annoying problem: ftp users can always see the files in the ftp site even though there is no ls binary under the bin directory of ~ftp. The chroot is only done for _anonymous_ ftp and thus only this login has limited command access. All other userids will run with the standard commands in /bin. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Want to get it together? We can help! http://www.verisim.com/coordinator/
Re: setserial program
chris == Chris R Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the setserial program contained in any of the Debian packages, or will I have to install it seperately? I didn't do anything special, and it is here on my Debian 1.1 system. I don't know which package it is a part of off hand, but I just used it to set the port for my modem and now I'm up and running and reading your email... Mike -- Michael A. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nuclear Physics Lab, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign PGP public key at URL:http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/miller5
Trying to use gs without X
I am trying to use gs to view postscript files. I don't have X, and have tried the command gs -sDEVICE=linux try.ps I get a message that the clocks have not been set, and an offer to set them for me. After I have the machine do that and run gs again, I get illegal instruction (core dumped) Can somebody explain what might be happening? If it helps my libvga.config file (comment lines deleted) is: (starts below this line) clocks 100 126 92 36 50 57 0 45 135 32 110 80 40 45 75 65 mouse microsoft monitor 35.5 C0 c1
Debian Web Site Index
THE DEBIAN WEB SITE HAS NOW BEEN INDEXED!!! Since Verisim has been claiming on our web site to support Debian, we thought the least we could do would be to index Debian as part of our new InSite search service. So, drop on by http://insite.verisim.com/search/debian/simple and give it a try. Perhaps somebody running the Debian web site would place a link to this on the front page? (hint, hint) Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.00. For this and more, visit http://www.verisim.com/
dpkg-ftp 1.4.3
i've updated dpkg-ftp to 1.4.3 and now i can't seem to download any more files. this is a typical output of what i get (tried it with a few different packages): Processing Package files... unstable... contrib... non-free... Constructing list of files to get... want: unstable/binary-i386/admin/lshell_2.01-3.deb (9k) Approximate total space required: 9k Available space in : 120805 513309 424890 1272581 227382 607497 405104 858882 39264 877656 64274 124654 49133 54550 126048 198773 37510 168844 15217 0 650746 21897 49%k Do you want to select the files to get [n]: Do you want to download the required files [y]: Downloading files... use ^C to stop Connecting to sun10.sep.bnl.gov... Login as anonymous... Setting transfer mode to binary... Cd to /pub/Linux/debian... getting: unstable/binary-i386/admin/lshell_2.01-3.deb Processing downloaded files...(for corrupt/old/partial) Can't stat : No such file or directory i've even downloaded the file and put it by hand in /var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/debian/unstable/binary-i386/x11/ but to no avail. if i try to retrieve the file a second time dpkg-ftp won't even try thinking it already has it. what do i do now other that going back to 1.4.2. thanks. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |
Re: -lX11 problem
Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't do this!!! I tried this fix for netscape and it causes problems with 'man'. It search X11, X11R6 and X386 directories for man pages so if you create a link like this, it will find all of you X manpages twice. The better solution is to add the -L flag to the compile line. Agreed. A little earlier in the thread (article's already gone) if was mentioned you could add the -L/... flag to CFLAGS in a Makefile. I'd like to amend that: if the Makefile keeps LDFLAGS separately, as some do, it belongs there instead, as a flag specifically to the linker. Messed this up just today :-) -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
New Apache module mod_info.so available on master
Thanks to Joey Hess, a bug in the info module has been spotted (the module makes a SIGSEGV). The bug has been corrected and another bug in this module, regarding the dumping of the currentr configuration, has been fixed too. The module will be part of the next Apache release. In the meantime, it is available from master.debian.org in ~arrouye/apache/modules/mod_info.so and can be installed (mode 755) in place of /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_info.so. Yves. -- Yves Arrouye Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7, avenue Leon BolleeWeb: http://www.fdn.fr/~yarrouye/ 75013 Paris Work: +33 45 95 64 59 France Home: +33 53 61 09 55
Re: how to exclude a directory from find?
You wrote: Subject: how to exclude a directory from find? Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:11.09.96 21:33 I'm trying to search for unused files, but I want to exclude a directory from the search. I tried cd /scratch find . -atime +7 -path ./var -prune -o -print but it doesn't work. Any clues? Carlos If you're only interested in regular files, try adding the `-type f' to the find command, e.g., $ cd /scratch find . -type f -atime +7 -path ./var -prune -o The -print flag is not really needed as is executed by default. Certainly it would be nice to have something like: $ find . -type !d to match files which are not directories, but I don't know if something like that is possible for find. So if can take your question and rephrase it: Is there any kind of logical not affecting a flag in find? Something similar to the `grep -v regexp' as opposed to `grep regexp'. Answers are welcome. When I need something like that, I always end up adding the flag -ls to `find', and piping to `grep -v pattern'. Just to give you an idea of what I have in mind (I haven't tried this... would you?) $find . -ls | grep -v dr and if only the filename list is what you need, pipe the ouptut to `cut -c column_number_here- '. As it is written above it will fail, as it filters out a filename with the string `draconiano ', but you got the idea. right? I repeat the above is a dirty/slow/inefficient/ugly/ and _imperfect_ solution :-). I am guessing the ?s attempt to catch any of `the single characters r w x s or - which may appear in the permission string written due to the `-ls' flag to `find'. I am sure there might be better ways of specifying the pattern to match (maybe grep'ing -v all the possibilities : `drwxrwxrwx ', `drwxrwxrw- ', etc). The space at the end is important and the double quoting too to avoid the shell to expand the patttern. Of course, this may not be a solution for including in shell scripts, but if you do it once in a while it might work. Cheers, Lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS. BTW, the man page for gnu find is the 1st one I recommend to learn thoroughly (I should do it again :-).
Re: dpkg-ftp 1.4.3
i've updated dpkg-ftp to 1.4.3 and now i can't seem to download any more files. this is a typical output of what i get (tried it with a few different packages): i hate to answer my own questions, but after comparing the files in 1.4.2 to 1.4.3 i've discovered that 1.4.3 will let you set the download directory as opposed to 1.4.2 when it was hardcoded. so one needs to setup the access mode again and after that everything will work just fine. shouldn't this be done automatically when installing the package? i think it should. maybe we should consider this a bug. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |
Re: DOSEMU
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got and compiled DOSEMU 0.63.1.75. After several attempts, going back and forth to pick up needed stuff like bison, byacc, libslang it finally compiled. Then when I tried to run it, I get this: Error:The module was compiled on kernel version 2.0.0 This kernel(mine) is version 2.0.13. They don't match. Check that the module is useable with the current kernel, recompile the module and try again. Where can I find the up to date module (emumodule) ? Or what should I do to make the one I have match the current kernel? Chuma I had some problems like that at one time when compiling some programs. Chances are the /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm are pointing to the original installed kernel you had. You have probably since then compiled your own version of the kernel but not used the proper Debian kernel source package and hence didn't update these two directories. You may want to try making symbolic links for these directories to the include directories for the kernel you compiled and do a clean recompile of dosemu. Cheers! Richard.. I looked at both directories . They do not compare so I hesitate to do that until I learn how to unlink in case I mess up. Thanks Richard. I'm afraid I may not have understood you well enough. Chuma
A couple of package spec glitches
I tried to install xemacs 19.14, and dselect complains that it conflicts with FSF emacs. This is simply not true. The two emacsen keep their support files in different places--as a matter of fact, I have xemacs 19.14 installed, and both it and FSF emacs work fine. This is a bug in the package spec for xemacs 19.14. Also, I have netnews support software installed, and use Gnus with FSF emacs to read news. But: every time I go into dselect, it tries to install nn. FSF emacs should provide newsreader (or whatever it's called), so dselect will stop hassling me. -Randy -- http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~gobbel
Re: DOSEMU
Michael Harnois wrote: Chuma Agbodike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I got and compiled DOSEMU 0.63.1.75. After several attempts, going back and forth to pick up needed stuff like bison, byacc, libslang it finally compiled. Then when I tried to run it, I get this: Error:The module was compiled on kernel version 2.0.0 This kernel(mine) is version 2.0.13. They don't match. Check that the module is useable with the current kernel, recompile the module and try again. Where can I find the up to date module (emumodule) ? Or what should I do to make the one I have match the current kernel? Chuma With some linux packages -- e.g. Debian -- a separate set of kernel headers is maintained, and dosemu's autodetect routine finds those instead. The cure is to disable the autodetect and hardcode the path to the headers for the kernel you're using. You'll have to do make pristine and configure again. Then go to dosemu/src/arch/linux and edit Makefile.main. You'll see the line to comment out and the one to uncomment near the top of the file. Thanks Michael. I followed your suggestion. After recompiling, I did ./load_module.sh as instructed. But I got a new error: error reading zSystem.map errno=2. I have System.map in /boot not zSystem.map Chuma
Re: shadow passwords
Bernard Leach writes: I am trying to locate a current set of packages that would upgrade a 1.1.7 system to use shadow passwords. The shadow packages are in project/experimental. Most packages in rex are already shadow aware. Also what is the Debian standpoint on shadow passwords? Will be included in 1.2. Michael -- Michael Meskes |_ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// / // / / __ \___ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian GNU/Linux!| //_/ /_/ //\___/_/ //
Debian Logo?
Hi! Is there an official Debian Logo? I haven't found one. If not, we could start a Logo contest, just as the Linux Logo Contest. I'm just an administrator and not an artist, but perhaps we have some on this list! An logo would be nice for disk labels, CD covers, www.debian.org, etc. Cheers, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!
gs cuts off my TeX characters
Hi! I've got a problem with ghostscript and TeX. I convert a TeX file to postscript with dvips and print it with gs. If I use gs-4.01, the characters are cut off at the very right side (of each character!). This is not much so you have to look very carefully to see it, but when you use italic, it's quite obvious. Note the this is not a gsfonts problem, since dvips converts the TeX fonts into a Postscript/bitmap font. When I use gs-2.xx, this problem does not occur. I used the same postscript file to test this, so it isn't a TeX or dvips problem. I haven't tried it with gs-3.xx, but I remember that I had the same problem on my old Slackware system, where I switched from gs-2 to gs-3 and the problem appeared, but I never tracked the error down. (This also means, that it isn't a Debian specific problem.) Does someone else have a similar problem or a hint what I can try? I can provide more infos and/or a small demo file so this can be tested on more systems. Thanks in advance, Chris -- _,, Christian Schwarz / o \__ [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ! ___; [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / \\\__/ !PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA \ / http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -.-.,---,-,-..---,-,-.,.-.- DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN!
Re: Strange problems with mc.
Scheetz (warf) writes: Subject: Strange problems with mc. Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date:12.09.96 04:59 Just recently I have begun having strange problems with midnight commander. After some time some of the keys stop working. This usually involves the arrow keys, but occasionaly the function keys stop working as well. When this happens pressing the key produces characters at the prompt, but no results. In the case of the arrow keys I can quit mc, type reset at the prompt and return to mc with functional arrow keys. In the case of the function keys killing the process and resetting the terminal does not fix the problem. However, if I log out and log back in mc again works fine. I am using the 3.2.1-1 version of mc. I have updated several package recently (don't clearly remember which ones) and installed xpdf. Has anyone had similar problems? Anybody have any idea what's happening? Well I have just an idea of what may be the problem if that happens under X. If you have the problem on the console too, just forget this message. It smells like a terminfo/termcap problem. xterm have usually such a problem. I experienced the same running mc on HP machines with broken terminfo database. In the manual of mc there is some info about how to fix that. hope it helps, lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: how to exclude a directory from find?
Lazaro Salem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The -print flag is not really needed as is executed by default. This isn't true of all systems. If you want portability, include the -print. Certainly it would be nice to have something like: $ find . -type !d to match files which are not directories, but I don't know if something like that is possible for find. So if can take your question and rephrase it: Is there any kind of logical not affecting a flag in find? Yes, ! is it. find uses shell-style evaluation, so for the above you would say: find . ! -type d -print Casper Boden-Cummins.
RE: how to exclude a directory from find?
Carlos Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to search for unused files, but I want to exclude a directory from the search. I tried cd /scratch find . -atime +7 -path ./var -prune -o -print but it doesn't work. Any clues? Move the -atime condition to just before the -print (then have a think). Casper Boden-Cummins.
Re: how to exclude a directory from find?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : : Certainly it would be nice to have something like: : $ find . -type !d find ! -type d or depending on your shell find \! -type d Heiko -- email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp : A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Creating deb packages
Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on creating deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually figured out how to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg out), but how do I make dpkg run some post-install shell script after unpacking it? Thanks. AK
CDROM
Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is a UK source of Debian CDROMS ? I would be most grateful for any info. John Olwoch
Debian 1.2 release date?
Hi folks, Is the release of Debian 1.2 around the corner as scheduled? Thanks for such a good job! lazaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anonymous ftp and the ls command.
This is exactly my problem. The _anonymous_ users still can use the ls command even though there is no ~ftp/bin/ls binary! How's that possible? Pedro Ivan -- Brian C. White wrote: I have debian 1.1 and I installed an anonymous ftp service. It works fine except for an annoying problem: ftp users can always see the files in the ftp site even though there is no ls binary under the bin directory of ~ftp. The chroot is only done for _anonymous_ ftp and thus only this login has limited command access. All other userids will run with the standard commands in /bin. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Want to get it together? We can help! http://www.verisim.com/coordinator/
Re: Debian Logo?
Is there an official Debian Logo? I haven't found one. There was one: a baby-gnu. It was decided to drop it following the troubles with the FSF (the lignux stuff). I still have copies: http://www.debian.org/attic/debian-small.gif http://www.debian.org/attic/debian.gif DIE ENTE BLEIBT DRAUSSEN! As opposed to in die Badewanne(sp?)? It looks like a rubber one. Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
Re: Debian Logo?
Hi! Is there an official Debian Logo? I haven't found one. If not, we could start a Logo contest, just as the Linux Logo Contest. I'm just an administrator and not an artist, but perhaps we have some on this list! An logo would be nice for disk labels, CD covers, www.debian.org, etc. When I read the subject, and the first line, I completely misunderstood. Is there a Debian Logo package? By this, I mean the programming language Logo. (And before people complain that Logo is too frivolous a language to have in the distribution, remember we have an Intercal package already.) Later, BP
Re: how to exclude a directory from find?
LS == Lazaro Salem [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LS Is there any kind of logical not affecting a flag in find? LS Something similar to the `grep -v regexp' as opposed to `grep LS regexp'. There is. Try find . ! -type d etc. See the section on operators in the gnu find man page. -- Juri Pakaste/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A couple of package spec glitches
Randy Gobbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to install xemacs 19.14, and dselect complains that it conflicts with FSF emacs. This is simply not true. The two emacsen keep their support files in different places--as a matter of fact, I have xemacs 19.14 installed, and both it and FSF emacs work fine. This is a bug in the package spec for xemacs 19.14. I don't have the file around anymore, but in the last debian-changes announcement for xemacs, the maintainter noted that he had a problem with the installation of info files that both emacs and xemacs provide. He couldn't get xemacs to not overwrite the emacs-provided ones, and so had to list the packages as conflicting for now, though he was very unhappy about that. I haven't downloaded the xemacs package, so I don't know if this is mentioned anywhere within. -- Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DANGER: installing ld.so libc5 with dftp
There is a significant problem when installing ld.so and libc5 using 'dftp'. Apparently, until ld.so is configured libc5 won't install, and if libc5 insn't configured then perl breaks. After which nothing will install. I'll fix this for dftp v2.1, but for now it would be wise to install these packages individually by hand with dpkg --install pkg before running 'dftp' to fetch the rest of them. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Mailagent package broken?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have made several attempts to install the mailagent_3.44-6.deb package from the stable tree without much success. After installation, the command mailagent -I (for user installation) results in: bash: /usr/bin/mailagent: Permission denied Mannually adding more rights seems to solve that, but the log file keeps complaining: mailagent[6]: starting SAVE /var/spool/mail/ben mailagent[6]: WARNING could not lock /var/spool/mail/ben mailagent[6]: WARNING was unable to get any lock on /var/spool /mail/ben mailagent[6]: ERROR could not save mail in /var/spool/mail/ben and I can't seem to deal with that. I am not really sure if I am overlooking some simple thing or if there is something wrong with the package. So I wander I anyone has managed to get this package working? Maybe I should divert to an older version? Any suggestions appreciated. Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.7.1 iQCVAwUBMjifzASsHV9rOgLdAQFG/AP8DJujJmq66WlyuK0GhFqHyC8Rhh/Vzhct 7jSF5tzEWBItZvE2Yj9TL70vzJ4q0Jn1D+//+SApePfXWOPC4urY226XTn4Q3J6w t8wsjMPE98X61J8qwmNYic9hS0T4Sn4B6jUVcCti4Ed3GffFEIGEUJ0R9relX6qu ZlKS+G53Hvs= =+cNJ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
!HELP! How to avoid the mail-lock (fetchpop / popclient)
Hello fellow debians, Last week, I moved over from slackware 3.0 to debian 1.1. What a relief, really, except for one thing: my connection with the world. Everything installed just fine, However, my mail really bothers me. Here, at my work I have to retrieve my mail from a novell server. I can do this by `fetchpop' or `popclient'. This is all right, but when I'm usingthe mailagent Pine as an ordinary user, I only can read the inbox file, but I cannot alter it: pine can't get the mailbox lock from the incoming folder. However, as root I do not have a problem. Last night, I managed to work my way around the problem with chmod-ding some directories and files. But at the xx-th startup, Everything was ruined again. For deleting my mail, I have to use W95 again (arghhh...) If someone can help me with this problem, I would be very, very pleased. thanks in advance, Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DOSEMU
Michael Harnois wrote: Chuma Agbodike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks Michael. I followed your suggestion. After recompiling, I did ./load_module.sh as instructed. But I got a new error: error reading zSystem.map errno=2. I have System.map in /boot not zSystem.map What kernel version are you using? I am using 2.0.13. I had also tried doing insmod emumodule.o and I get a sreenfull of all kinds of modules symbols undefined. Thanks Michael Chuma
Re: DOSEMU
Michael Harnois wrote: Chuma Agbodike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: error reading zSystem.map errno=2. I have System.map in /boot not zSystem.map My System.map is in /, not /boot. Looking at the notes in insmod.c, it's supposed to automatically take System.map if zSystem.map is not present. But I'm wondering why your System.map is in /boot, and I'm not enough of a hacker to have an answer for that question. In my linux Makefile, BOOTDIR is specified as /boot . I am very green in linux. Migrating from DOS and win31 / 95. I currently have to LILO boot DOS (and thus run Win95 or 3.1) or Linux. However I want to boot only linux and with DOSEMU have access to some DOS based apps that I must use. Chuma
Re: bug ins installation disks utilities?
Subject: Re: bug ins installation disks utilities? Amos, This sounds like a probelm that I'm trying to track down! Here are some key questions: 1) Is your floppy boot disk connected to the floppy controller on the 1542? No, the floppy is connected to the on-board IDE controller - a 82078 chip (according to dmesg). 2) What is the ROM release of the 1542? (It should appear as the system starts up). It's a 1542CF with BIOS v2.02 3) What brand and revision is your system BIOS? AMI BIOS version 1.00.02.AY0 -and- 4) Does the problem go away if you turn off the internal and/or external cache? No. But when we turned off the turbo (in addition to turning off the caching) it DID go away. Turning off the cache seems to be the way to get around this problem. To do this, you need to go into the BIOS setup. The settings might be internal and external cache, or level 1 and level 2 cache, or something like that. *PLEASE* let me know the answers to these questions. I've got the same problem. I've worked around it but I really want to *solve* it! Hope the above helps. ME and my friend (Yigal, who actually did all the work) are at your service for more experimentation and info. (but we are entering a holidays period, so we'll have a little less time at work than usual). Thanks! Thanks to you. --Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] And... == Rosenberg Yigal. System Administrator. Tel: +(972)-3 5319367 Fax: +(972)-3 5313311 ==
Re: Creating deb packages
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Algirdas Kunigelis wrote: Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on creating deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually figured out how to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg out), but how do I make dpkg run some post-install shell script after unpacking it? Thanks. Please post it to the list, there are several people (like me) that wanna hear about it too. MANY thanks in advance, Vad. ++_ Vadik V. (_`[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.arbornet.org/~vadik/ Vygonets (_.lf For PGP public key, email me with sibject get pgp Linux hackers are funny people: They count the time in patchlevels.
Re: Creating deb packages
Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on creating deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually figured out how to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg out), but how do I make dpkg run some post-install shell script after unpacking it? Thanks. The best way I found was to grab an existing package (hello is a good one) and learn how it does it. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Re: Debian 1.2 release date?
Hi, Is the release of Debian 1.2 around the corner as scheduled? How about the PAckages with Distribution: unstable shouldnt we change this to Distribution: rex since it would require changing if the new release becomes stable, too? Greetings Bernd
Re: how to exclude a directory from find?
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Certainly it would be nice to have something like: $ find . -type !d to match files which are not directories, but I don't know if something like that is possible for find. So if can take your question and rephrase it: Is there any kind of logical not affecting a flag in find? Yes, see the operators section in the find manpage. Above would be $ find . ! -type d Guy
Re: dpkg-ftp 1.4.3
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Alex Romosan wrote: i hate to answer my own questions, but after comparing the files in 1.4.2 to 1.4.3 i've discovered that 1.4.3 will let you set the download directory as opposed to 1.4.2 when it was hardcoded. so one needs to setup the access mode again and after that everything will work just fine. shouldn't this be done automatically when installing the package? i think it should. maybe we should consider this a bug. Yes, I think it's a bug. 1.4.3 could just wipe out the recorded data in its postinst, forcing you to resetup, or it could come with 1.4.2's hardcoded location as the default. I'll file a report. Guy
Re: Creating deb packages
On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Algirdas Kunigelis wrote: Could someone please mail me a complete step-by-step instruction on creating deb packages? The manual page is somewhat outdated... I actually figured out how to do it simply using tar, gzip and ar (couldn't figure dpkg out), but how do I make dpkg run some post-install shell script after unpacking it? Thanks. Whatever you have gotten from the man page has recently been heavily changed by the new source format. You will find the latest versions of dpkg and dpkg-dev appearing shortly in the rex path (they were in Incoming this morning) but a recent version (1.3.14 should be on the faster mirrors) will have the information you require. You should look at Policy.html and Programmer.html in /usr/doc/dpkg. In any case you should be using dpkg to build your packages with as it will put everything in the correct place in the file for proper unpacking and installation. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --
smail isn't bouncing mail
I have undeliverable mail in my mail queue that dates back to August 12th, and smail hasn't bounced it back to the sender yet. Has anyone else noticed this problem? I thought it was supposed to bouncemail after 5 days.. -- #!/usr/bin/perl -i\$q='$q',\$p='$p';eval\$q.\$\^I\n# # [EMAIL PROTECTED] $q='print$p$^I\n',$p='#!/usr/bin/perl -i';eval$q.$^I # Joey Hess He. He. He. - - Herman Toothrot
