clock
Hi, This is my third try. The first time I wrote the wrong address to send to, the second time I got blocked by the spam filter because I've never posted anything before, so third time's a charm,right? Ok, I have Debian Linux 1.1 and the clock displays the wrong time. The time's ok under dos, but not under Linux. I think maybe I answered one of the questions wrong when installing, but that was a while ago and by now I have too much stuff set up to reinstall. How do I reconfigure the clock without reinstalling? Thanks, Rich -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pppd and ethernet error (dialup)
Hi, I'm trying to get my new debian system fully configured, i've setup everything fine so far. I thought everything was going fine till i tried to dialup my isp to run dselect to update some things this is what i got out of the log file. Feb 18 20:46:36 uk pppd[1065]: Serial connection established. Feb 18 20:46:37 uk pppd[1065]: using interface ppp0 Feb 18 20:46:37 uk pppd[1065]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: local IP address 194.247.41.27 Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: remote IP address 194.247.41.30 Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: ppp not replacing existing default route to eth0[0.0.0.0] Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP So the connection establishes ok, it something to do with internal network running on 10.0.0.1 on eth0. Has anybody got any ideas how i can get around this or fix it ? Thanks, Chris. -- Chris Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] SysOp of Logics BBS, Hereford, UK. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1.1 dselect stuff
1) Deselect detected the new packages and attempted to upgrade everything. I actually thought this was kind of neat at first until I realized how long 82MB of stuff takes to download over a 28.8 link. There actually is a way to tell it to take no action, however that's not the default. 2) A bug in dpkg couldn't deal with zlib1's Version: 1:4-6 line. Hand-install the latest dpkg, and then run dpkg --clear-available. 3) Dselect deletes uninstalled files (ones that encountered installation errors) when it asks you delete installed files?, I'm assuming this is the FTP installation method. It should not do this unless you tell it to remove the directory. It may need an upgrade too. 4) Deselect downloads the files in a random order (a perl hash at work here no doubt:) What it should do is a DFS on the dependency tree so that if your download is incomplete most of the files you grabbed will still install. We know. We've been working on dependency graph tools. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a dictionary for abbreviations like WTF?
On Feb 18, Dr. Andreas Wehler wrote I would like to resolve these many abbreviations today, as So, is there any appropriate dictionary? Thanks. J. H. M. Dassen gave several URL's which should answer your questions, but the start of your subject line reminded me of something else that I am interested in -- a ``webster'' like dictionary that I could install on my linux box. I think that ``webster'' might come with NeXT machines, but it has been available at every university at which I have had a UNIX account, and I find myself telnetting into my university account several times per day, specifically to make use of it. (Yes, I have a real paper and ink dictionary, and I usually choose to use it when I am reading a book, but I want an online dictionary when I am typing or reading mail.) Several linux dictionary options come to mind. WWW -- I believe that there are www dictionary sites available, but I want a dictionary installed on my machine that I can use whether or not I am connected to the net. Commercial UNIX dictionaries -- I recently saw a c.o.l.a article announcing the availability of a ``webster''-like American Heritage dictionary for linux, but the price was a bit steep. (I think it was $89 US for a single user license.) DOS or Windows dictionary, converted for linux -- I would spend $20 - $30 US for such a dictionary on CDROM if I could break the format of the data file and write my own linux viewer for it. (This would probably be a violation of the letter of the license, but not the spirit, as I would only use the linux version installed one single user machine.) GNU Free Dictionary project -- What ever happened to this? Gutenberg Project dictionary -- I just noticed that the Gutenberg Project released a 1919 Webster dictionary last year, both as an ASCII flat file, and in html format. That is a little old (necessitated by copyright concerns) but it would serve nearly all my purposes (and add some historical flavor to boot). I believe that it is 40 MB uncompressed, and I plan on downloading it shortly. Has anyone else had a look at it? While an html version would be usable, I would like to see a dictionary specific browser/viewer built for it. It is not appropriate to wrap up all the works of the Gutenberg Project as debian packages, but it might be appropriate to do so with a dictionary and thesaurus. (They have also released a version of Roget's Thesaurus.) At the very least, a contrib package could be built containing viewers (and possible even ``webster''-like client and server) and including instructions for downloading the data files. Is any one else interested in this? Kirk Hilliard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MH 6.8.4-8 broken or feature?
I promiced to report my upgrade 1.1 - 1.2. I did belive I done that but do so no more It was probably trapped by the spam filter and newer returned to me. The upgrad of MH to 6.8.4-8 broke my From field. The upgrade story is old by now but I repost it if You want to. First the row localname: micropp.se was removed from /etc/mh/mtstailor and the FAQ describing it was removed from /usr/doc/mh. Both werry understndable as mh no longer care about that line when I put it back... Is ther another way to specify the E-mail domainame whit this version of mh, or is it a bug. It cant be intended to force the maskin-name into the E-mail adress? Must be a comon case where peopel run the mail apps on network-clients with maskin-names diferent from the right E-mail name. I have read the docs in /usr/doc/mh/papers and many of the mh man pages inncluding the man page of post (hwo is probably messing up IMHO). Do anyone have a simular problem? Ponters? solutions? AFIK smail cant change the From field in outgoing mail. Dont want to swap my MDA over this and i starts to like both mh comandline tools and exmh... A temporarly fix is to put a From: field in ~/Mail/components but that results in an incorect Sender: field insted. Hope the Spamfilter dont trap the Sender: field... TIA /Lars -- / / _/_ _/_ Lars Hallberg IT-konsult Micro++ /\_/\ / / www.micropp.se/lahwww.micropp.se / Micro++OOP C++ WWW-Design Utbildning LINUX FreeWare -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SWAP problem, have anyone seen it?
Hello! I do have a problem with my debian system. It do work OK for one day, but then in one day or two i do get (lots of) swap errors like swap_duplikate: trying to duplicate unused page Bad swap-tabel entry (not exact wording) trying to free unused page (not exact wording) After a while the system runs out of memory (out of memory for cron, out of memory for update...etc). I then cant log in or do anything usefull. Sometimes I still can swap betwen wc but not do any Ctr-Alt-Del will sometimes start to do somthing but will newer shutdown the system... lots of bad rebots... This started under Debian 1.1 kernel 2.0.0, I then uppgraded to Debian 1.2.5 and kernel 2.0.27 (instaled kernel - no costom recompile). I have a intel 486 DX4 100 on an Asus mothercard AMI-bios and a 1.2 GB EIDE harddisc. 16M RAM and 64M Swap (later changed into two 17M Swap-partisions - No progres). After uppgrading my kernel reports to be 2.0.27 at boot-time, but kerneld reports 2.0.0 while booting. Is this normal? The problem do (alvays?) happen when the machin is idle so I have checked the BIOS powersave options an disabled some that was previos enabled (whitout progress). Have anyone sen something similar? Can this be a bad swap partision? Hove du You check a swap partision? (I have rebuid the swap whit mkswap) Pointers, anything? If this is a bug somewhare, can I be to help with debuging info? This thing is happening about 3-4 times every week so it shuld be debuggable. Is ther anny loggs I shuld look into? Debuging mode I shuld aktivate? Tell me! If You ned more info ask me! I'm afraid all thes bad reboots gona bite me finaly. Help is werry welcome. Any sugestion besides going thru the Bios setup again (pointers to the bios setup is welcome to)? TIA /Lars (Hope You can understand, and stand, my poor english) -- / / _/_ _/_ Lars Hallberg IT-konsult Micro++ /\_/\ / / www.micropp.se/lahwww.micropp.se / Micro++OOP C++ WWW-Design Utbildning LINUX FreeWare -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.36 1997/02/18 21:41:28 sr1 Exp sr1 $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ ( http://www.debian.org/FAQ/ ). 1.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 1.3. Getting newer versions of this document Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: o http://www.debian.org/Documentation/Debian/packages.html o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt 1.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. 2. Packages needing a new maintainer Please inform me via e-mail: o when you find that you need to discontinue maintaining a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of the packages listed here. orphaned : o libc4 (a.out compatibility) David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o libc5, libc6 (potentially a lot of work) Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o statserial o tgif o xarchie Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fdutils o hkgerman o html2latex o icmake o lshell o ntfs o umsdos o watchdog o xftp Dale Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lclint Ian Murdock [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o pmake Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o idanish o mh-papers o term o wfrench o witalian o wswedish Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o seyon o lpr Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xfractint o fractxtra o xarclock o xdaliclock o lha o dosfstools o ctwm o sendfile o uudeview Andrew Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xtron Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp o libelf o lyx Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o abuse o apsfilter Yves Arrouye : o compress-package o mush o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools Michael Nonweiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ipx o nas o ncpfs Joe Kirby [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lxtools Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o glibcdoc o hyperlatex o id-utils o mathpad o dlh o wenglish o wdutch o idutch Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o adbbs (needs a better setup of pre-customized files) o bridge/bridgex (Bridging Tools for Kernel 2.0.X/2.1.X) o chos o defrag o freefont o genromfs o ibcs o ircd o ncompress o ncsa (new Webstandards need to be implemented) o netdiag o newsx o pash o poppassd o sharefont o syslinux o upsd llucius [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dialog Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o sysutils Marcel Riedi: o rsynth 3. Packages that someone is working on Programs listed in this section aren't yet available as Debian packages, but someone is working on providing a package. If you would like to work on one of these packages please contact the responsible person listed below. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl R. Sackett) : o swarm - Objective-C based artificial life research tool o GNU Smalltalk o utf-mailx: scripts to add UTF support to mailx. o SATAN - net security scanner o courtney - detects SATAN scans o gabriel - detects SATAN scans o drone - automatically runs batch jobs of simulation programs. o xephem - interactive astronomical ephemeris program for X o empire - Wolfpack Empire war simulation o togl - a Tk widget for OpenGL rendering o MIT Scheme - scheme interpreter o nanocad - a freeware CAD system for nanotechnology o WISE - WWW-based project management and metrics system Darren [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o giftool o lx-gdb Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o glimpsehttpd David H. Silber [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dbackup - A Debian-specific backup program. o lockstep - A program to keep various directory trees in sync. o uucpconfig - A configuration program which will become part of my uucp package. o latex2html Brian Sulcer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vile (vi-like editor) o rogue o umoria Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o vtwm: Virtual Window Manager for X11 o yodl o w3-msql (W3 frontend for mSQL) Michael Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o amanda, the University of Maryland's free network backup system. o nntplink Christophe Le Bars [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o MMM: a WWW browser implemented in Caml o doc-debian-fr Christian Lynbech [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ilisp (emacs interface to a number of lisp systems) o hyperbole (emacs hypertext/info management system) o oobr (emacs package for browsing OO programs) o STk (Scheme Tk, a scheme interpreter with Tk support) Christian Hudon [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o qmail (waiting for license change) Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o metapost (postscript generating language similar to metafont) o TeX packages Dermot Bradley
Re: Easy ways of configuring Debian
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote: I think this is a great idea. LinuxConf makes the configuration far easy for beginners. Let's think about this... I am a Linux beginner, and I find dselect confusing. If this will make dselect less confusing, then it's a *great* idea! I'll check out their web page to see what it's all about. The base Debian install (from disks) was great, but it's going to take a while before I am comfortable with dselect. This wont effect dselect, and right now I would say not to use it b/c it will wreck the future upgradability of your Debian system. I am working on a RFC for debian-devel to put in support for linuxconf or any future admin tool that comes around. Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beginner kit
Oops. Well I just accidentally dumped the mail I'm responding to. This is Re: not wanting to buy a Debian CD or spend hours on the line downloading. I saw that there is a company selling Linux-on-a-drive advertising in Linux Journal. I think they were loading the drive with Debian 1.1. But you do have to commit to buying a 1.1G drive, so it comes out pretty pricy. Good if you want to upgrade your hd anyway. I can look up their contact if you don't subscribe to LJ; e-mail me. It also occurred to me that I have a) a ready access to a steady supply of small (150-300MB) used ide hard drives at a good used price (approx 10 cents a meg) and b) a small amount of free capitol and c) a linux-savvy friend who is job hunting and needs spending money. Would people be interested in helping said friend pay for his beer and pizza if he were distributing a base/ install plus i386 binary .deb files (updated nightly via dselect, of course) for something in the area of $35 shipping included? (I think that's about what it would work out to) Some of the drives are pretty fast actually -- lotta Quantums/some WD Caviars. Would make a good swap device for older ISA/EISA bus PCs running the slow but ever-so-cheap conner/seagate 1G drives and such. Long as you aren't maxed out on ide connections, that is. Anyway I should probably check with my friend and see if he's actually interested before I go pimping his services on the Internet :-). For that matter anyone else is very welcome to implement the venture described above -- I won't flame; it's just an end-of-the-workday idea. -- Brian S. Julin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Umsdos support?
Giuliano Procida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible to fool the installation process roughly as follows: You need a DOS partition, say /dev/hda1, umssync, and perhaps other things (it's been a while). Replace the boot-floppy kernel with one that has FAT and UMSDOS compiled in. Ah, you make it sound so easy ;-) I can't seem to get this right. I copy the kernel to the file linux and run ./rdev.sh. This script tries to run rdev /mnt/linux /dev/ram0 - and there is no /dev/ram0. Why does the script ask for something Debian doesn't supply? Anyway, if I ignore this error or run the command manually with /dev/ram (which I do have), and boot the floppy, it stops here: RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem) Root is mounted from /dev/ram /etc/rc done. And then it just sits there. I can get a shell at Alt-F2, but obviously something must be wrong so I didn't try going any further. What could cause this? The other instructions you gave seem easy enough to follow, but unfortunately I didn't get that far :-( Unfortunately, after a message of VFS: Mounted umsdos filesystem as root (or similar), the system hangs in an endless loop continuously reading the harddisk. You seem to have got most of the way. What messages does it give? Just that. Perhaps this was caused by the remounting in /etc/init.d/boot? I didn't know I had to change that. In the mean time I deleted the test harddisk partition so I can't easily try again. As an alternative, you could try my modifications to the boot-floppies package to handle UMSDOS installs. There has just been a new boot-floppies release, so I'll have do some merging before I have a proper set of patches ready. Have a look at ftp://pootle.magd.cam.ac.uk/ if you are interested (patches against boot-floppies 1.2.5). My mirror doesn't carry 1.2.5, only 1.2.4. It seems there's some stuff specific to your system in the patch (I saw some copying of loadlin); was I too early downloading it? In your other message you mentioned a ZIP drive, can't you format a disk as ext2? Or is that not a possibility for you? Not really. I want Debian to run from the ZIP disk so I can take it to my father's place and run Linux there. This way, I don't need a special boot floppy, or files on his harddisk. I just insert the ZIP disk and get Linux. This is only possible using umsdos. (I am a bit surprised, actually, that Debian doesn't support installation to umsdos). Thanks for your help, Gertjan. -- Gertjan Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Boot Control home page: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gklein/bcpage.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading by shaky ftp...
How will dselect react to the PPP-link going down while upgrading by ftp? Sometimes I can be on for hours without problems, othertimes the connection drops every 5-15 minutes... Can I just reconnect and restart dselect Install/Upgrade and it will resume with regetting the last (incomplete) .deb file? I've had success with this only because I have a static IP address with my ISP. If you are running PPP with dynamic addressing, then I think you can forget it Later, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper Chartered Accountants http://users.uniserve.com/~erca Chilliwack, B.C. Pager: (604) 918-2054 Office: (604) 792-1915 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do they burn CD's?
If you are locking for a nice GUI to burn your own CD's you can use X-CD-Roast, it has a lot of options, I found it very usefull for me! http://www.rz.fh-muenchen.de/home/ze/rz/services/projects/xcdroast/e_overvie w.html It's a really long URL, isn't it? Except that it doesn't support Pinnacle drives! DOH! My $0.02... Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper Chartered Accountants http://users.uniserve.com/~erca Chilliwack, B.C. Pager: (604) 918-2054 Office: (604) 792-1915 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
real audio ...
Hi, I installed the real audio player raplayer in my /usr/local with a link in /usr/local/bin for the binary. It works from the command line with their test welcome message, but doesn't work from Netscape. I have the appropriate entries in mimi.types and mailcap, and the helper is defined in Netscape for type audio/x-pn-realaudio as raplayer %s. The entries I have are as follows: # grep realaudio /etc/mime.types audio/x-pn-realaudiora ram # grep realaudio /etc/mailcap audio/x-pn-realaudio; raplayer %s; test=test $DISPLAY != ;description=RA RAM realaudio format When I select a real audio link, I get a popup dialog asking me to save the file of type audio/x-pn-realaudio. The other helpers (such as xanim) work fine for their respective file types though. Any ideas? TIA. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading by shaky ftp...
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Michael Tempsch wrote: How will dselect react to the PPP-link going down while upgrading by ftp? Sometimes I can be on for hours without problems, othertimes the connection drops every 5-15 minutes... Can I just reconnect and restart dselect Install/Upgrade and it will resume with regetting the last (incomplete) .deb file? Yep, that is it, dselect's ftp method implements reget, which is like crash recovery in zmodem. Shaya Or is there more to it? Maybe better to ftp updated packages by hand and point dselect to them? But that is definately not as neat as just pointing dselect to the site and periodically checking on progress and if necessary reconnect... /Michael -- |Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | |Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, TDGP#20 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installation
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: OK - I went back a few messages and you did show us your partition table. Boot Begin Start End Blocks System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 163 82120+ Linux native /dev/hda2164 164 244 40824 Linux swap /dev/hda3245 245 1260 512064 Linux native /dev/hda4 1024 1261 2484 616896 Extended Am I reading this right? Could the extended partition in hda3 be overlapping the one in hda4? I see hda3 ending at 1260 and hda4 beginning at 1024. I think the problem is that I don't understand extended partitions, and thus I don't see what the difference is between begin and start. /dev/hda5 1024 1261 1870 307408+ Linux native /dev/hda6 1024 1871 2484 309424+ Linux native Something is wrong here. If Extended means what it does in the dos world i.e. as opposed to primary, something is very wrong. hda1-4 should be primary and hda5-... would be extended. This means that when it says Extended, Extended is a type, such as linux native, dos fat, HPFS, NTFS. Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The LSL TriLinux2 CD?
-- From: Hunter Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: The LSL TriLinux2 CD? Date: Tuesday, February 18, 1997 7:00 PM At 05:45 AM 2/17/97 +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: The best naturally is to order one of those writable CD's from I-Connect Why is that? BTW. Is there a 1.2.5, Yes! Our Current Tri Linux CD contains Deb 1.2.5 with the contrib. directory. This is a binary only release. so we were able to fit the full binary distributions of Red Hat 4.1 and slackware 3.1 on the CD as well. We started shipping last week, see http://www.lsl.com. We plan on updating this CD monthly and hope that we can incorporate a single floppy or no floppy install in the next few iterations. -Dan. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installation
This is a [bug|feature] of fdisk that has existed at least since my first Slackware installation over a year ago. If a disk has more than 1024 cylinders, the 'Begin' column will never exceed 1024, but the 'Start' column reflects the true starting cylinder. The 'Begin' column may be ignored for all practical purposes. The 'v' command (verify the partition table) will complain vigorously in such cases, but its complaints may be safely ignored. For reasons that are probably related to this behavior, if you want to change the size of a partition that extends beyond 1024 cylinders, you must first delete all partitions that are in the 1024+ cylinder range. If the starting and ending cylinders are recorded before the deletion, they can be re-created during the same session (before the 'w' command is given). Bob On Tue, 18 Feb 97 12:02 PST, Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK - I went back a few messages and you did show us your partition table. Boot Begin Start End Blocks System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 163 82120+ Linux native /dev/hda2164 164 244 40824 Linux swap /dev/hda3245 245 1260 512064 Linux native /dev/hda4 1024 1261 2484 616896 Extended Am I reading this right? Could the extended partition in hda3 be overlapping the one in hda4? I see hda3 ending at 1260 and hda4 beginning at 1024. I think the problem is that I don't understand extended partitions, and thus I don't see what the difference is between begin and start. /dev/hda5 1024 1261 1870 307408+ Linux native /dev/hda6 1024 1871 2484 309424+ Linux native Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LPRng talking with lpd
Eko Fajar Nurprasetyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After giving up to deal with lprm issue in lpr package, I installed lprng. I then came up with another problem again : * As an ordinary user lprng commands (lpr/lpq..) cannot talks with * SunOS 4.1's lpd In order to talk to traditional lpd LPRng sometimes requires the :bk: option. Do you already use this? Sven -- Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installation
Shaya: Something is wrong here. If Extended means what it does in the dos world i.e. as opposed to primary, something is very wrong. hda1-4 should be primary and hda5-... would be extended. This means that when it says Extended, Extended is a type, such as linux native, dos fat, HPFS, NTFS. I suspect that this means there's a nameless extended partition that begins at 1024, and that hda4 starts at offset 1261 into _that_. Bruce Boot Begin Start End Blocks System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 163 82120+ Linux native /dev/hda2164 164 244 40824 Linux swap /dev/hda3245 245 1260 512064 Linux native /dev/hda4 1024 1261 2484 616896 Extended /dev/hda5 1024 1261 1870 307408+ Linux native /dev/hda6 1024 1871 2484 309424+ Linux native -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installation
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: Shaya: Something is wrong here. If Extended means what it does in the dos world i.e. as opposed to primary, something is very wrong. hda1-4 should be primary and hda5-... would be extended. This means that when it says Extended, Extended is a type, such as linux native, dos fat, HPFS, NTFS. I suspect that this means there's a nameless extended partition that begins at 1024, and that hda4 starts at offset 1261 into _that_. I don't hink so b/c extended partitions are by default after hda4. You can have 4 primaries and many extended. The extended are part of a logical partition. That is why during a boot we get hda1, hda2 hda5 , or something like that. WE have primary hda1, logical hda2, which has hda5 as a prt of it. All extended partitions are after 4. Shaya Boot Begin Start End Blocks System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 163 82120+ Linux native /dev/hda2164 164 244 40824 Linux swap /dev/hda3245 245 1260 512064 Linux native /dev/hda4 1024 1261 2484 616896 Extended /dev/hda5 1024 1261 1870 307408+ Linux native /dev/hda6 1024 1871 2484 309424+ Linux native -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installation
Bruce Perens wrote: Am I reading this right? Could the extended partition in hda3 be overlapping the one in hda4? I see hda3 ending at 1260 and hda4 beginning at 1024. I think the problem is that I don't understand extended partitions, and thus I don't see what the difference is between begin and start. /dev/hda5 1024 1261 1870 307408+ Linux native /dev/hda6 1024 1871 2484 309424+ Linux native This occurs not just on extended partitions, but may occur on partitions with cylinders greater than 1024. It may force the beginning to be multiples of 1024 or 512. I could not find explanation of the difference between begin and start in the fdisk manual. I inadvertantly had one disk running in this configuration for a year without problems. I recently installed another large disk and placed a DOS partition above 1024 cylinders. Win95 then silently wrote all over the linux partition. (This was annoying.) If your BIOS supports it, it may be worth setting the disk to LBA mode (you'll have to repartition all over again). Then there won't be a problem with LILO either. Evan. -- Evan Thomas Department of Physiology University of Melbourne Parkville, 3052 ph: 9344-5849 fax: 9344-5818 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clock
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Richard Heller wrote: Hi, This is my third try. The first time I wrote the wrong address to send to, the second time I got blocked by the spam filter because I've never posted anything before, so third time's a charm,right? Ok, I have Debian Linux 1.1 and the clock displays the wrong time. The time's ok under dos, but not under Linux. I think maybe I answered one of the questions wrong when installing, but that was a while ago and by now I have too much stuff set up to reinstall. How do I reconfigure the clock without reinstalling? Thanks, Rich It sounds like you either have your system clock set to GMT time but not your linux system, or the other way around. Look in /etc/init.d/boot for a line at the top that defines the variable GMT. If this is set to (a null string), then linux thinks your system clock is not set to GMT time. If it is, you need to change this definition to be -u. That should fix it on the next boot up. To fix it ASAP, run the clock -a command with the correct flag (e.g. if GMT should be defined as -u, run clock -a -u -- if its already defined as -u and you changed it to a null string, run clock -a). I hope that solves it for you. If it doesn't, I don't know what's wrong. Good luck. Richard G. Roberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] 011-81-3-3437-7967 - Tokyo, Japan -- *** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Easy ways of configuring Debian
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote: I think this is a great idea. LinuxConf makes the configuration far easy for beginners. Let's think about this... I am a Linux beginner, and I find dselect confusing. If this will make dselect less confusing, then it's a *great* idea! I'll check out their web page to see what it's all about. The base Debian install (from disks) was great, but it's going to take a while before I am comfortable with dselect. This wont effect dselect, and right now I would say not to use it b/c it will wreck the future upgradability of your Debian system. I am working on a RFC for debian-devel to put in support for linuxconf or any future admin tool that comes around. What do I use instead of dselect to install software? I have all these .deb packages on my vfat partition that need installing. Thanks for the info... -=- Daniel Robbins School of Medicine Computer Services University of New Mexico [email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Easy ways of configuring Debian
You can use dpkg by itself. dpkg -i package_name. Read the help page for dpkg, it is not that difficult once you get used to it. Shaya On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Alexander Gieg wrote: I think this is a great idea. LinuxConf makes the configuration far easy for beginners. Let's think about this... I am a Linux beginner, and I find dselect confusing. If this will make dselect less confusing, then it's a *great* idea! I'll check out their web page to see what it's all about. The base Debian install (from disks) was great, but it's going to take a while before I am comfortable with dselect. This wont effect dselect, and right now I would say not to use it b/c it will wreck the future upgradability of your Debian system. I am working on a RFC for debian-devel to put in support for linuxconf or any future admin tool that comes around. What do I use instead of dselect to install software? I have all these .deb packages on my vfat partition that need installing. Thanks for the info... -=- Daniel Robbins School of Medicine Computer Services University of New Mexico [email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DepenGNUian Logo
Ronald van Loon wrote: Maybe we should call ourselves DepenGNUian Linux from now on. I've always wondered why I saw nobody come up with the following idea: If you've ever watched a documentary on the tv (you know, that monitor without a keyboard) about penguins, you must have noticed these animals' typical tendency to cluster themselves together in large communities. Wouldn't an image of that be the ultimately descriptive Debian logo? Well, just a thought, of course. Joost PS: Also notice the stunning analogy in the fact that the South Pole, the penguin's natural habitat, is generally considered to be nature's most hostile and harsh environment, where only few species dare reside. On the other hand though, the waters surrounding it are considered the richest on earth. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[REVIEW]: [REVIEW] Linux in a Nutshell
Sorry everybody, but I just _have_ to join the shameless plugging, as I too am very enthousiastic about this book. Paul Seelig wrote about Linux in a Nutshell: It is by no means suitable for the beginner But I think it _is_. Sorry to waste bandwith on a not-strictly-Debian subject, but this book answers a lot of not-strictly-Debian questions on the list. If more people read it, there would be less not-strictly-Debian questions and hopefully more answers in general. I think that if you're a beginner to Linux and you installed it for keeps, it is a very good idea to get this book. [...] With 'Linux in a Nutshell', we have thoroughly updated and adapted 'UNIX in a Nutshell' for Linux. Not only that, we've produced a book that many other UNIX users will want too, because for the first time this reference work covers the tolls produced ^ grin, sorry by the FSF for the GNU project. GNU tools are popular on a lot of UNIX systems, so you may be using them even if you don't run Linux. (p. 3) PS: I supposed the book still contains some errors which i have not detected being no Unix or Linux geek at all. Well, dpkg(8) is missing, but that's actually not a toll: everytime it gets upgraded you have to print the manpage yourself and fold it into the book. :-) Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lpr - help please!
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, William Chow wrote: I think that the lpr in Debian is broken. I had a similar problem, so I pulled lpr off of my Slack installation on another machine. Hopefully you can do the same. Well, I investigated a little further. Another list reader pointed me to the fact that there might be a newer version available. I took a look, and I was using lpr_5.9-13 and a lpr_5.9-13.1 was available. FTP'd it, unpacked, still same problem. So I grabbed the source, and diff files. It appears that a problem with 'canonizing hostname' (whatever that means?) was fixed in July, and the most recent release fixes a buffer overflow security bug. At any rate, I'm still in the dark. My problem, for those who havent followed is the following error: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine Any help is still appreciated. Thanks Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
missing/non-functional identd service?
Hi there. I've been learning about PGP, and was in the process of taking a look at a few public keys, when I ran into a small stumbling block. You see, I was fingering [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I ran into a small obstacle: tcsh finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [master.debian.org] Debian Linux 1.1 Copyright (C) 1993-1996 Debian Association, Inc. and others Your site has been rejected for some reason. This may be caused by a missing RFC 1413 identd on your site. Contact your and/or our system administrator. -- Tue 21:02 on templinux : pwd is ~ tcsh Since my system is also Debian (why else would I be sending this to deb user?), I decided to try it against my system from a machine which I knew suffers from a lack of identd: 20:48 on charcoal : ~ finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [templinux.bucknell.edu] Your site has been rejected for some reason. This may be caused by a missing RFC 1413 identd on your site. Contact your and/or our system administrator. 20:54 on charcoal : ~ Is this a configuration error I need to fix, a package I haven't installed, or something else? It would seem best if Debian systems could at least finger Debian systems, right? Thanks in advance for the help, --Pete ___ Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installation
Regarding the disk being too large, the partition that the system boots from should be entirely within the low 1023 cylinders. I handled this by creating a separate partition (about 40 MB) for /, and a larger one for /usr. Other than that, the disk size is not a concern, and this is a BIOS limitation, not a Linux one. Should not be a problem with LBA -- my Linux root partition is the last 700mb of a 1.6gb drive, ie well after 1023 cylinders. Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
need /usr/lib contents
I inadvertently erased my /usr/lib directory (meaning to erase /usr/local). I have tried to reconstruct it as best as I can, but I am not sure that I have gotten everything. Here is the output of 'ls /usr/lib': games libgnumalloc.so.5 libpng.so.1.0.89c libdb.so.1 libgnumalloc.so.5.4.20 libstdc++.so.27 libdb.so.1.85.2 libhistory.so.2.0 libstdc++.so.27.2.1 libg++.so.27libhistory.so.2.0.1 libwrap.a libg++.so.27.2.1libjpeg.so.6a netscape libgdbm.so.1libjpeg.so.6a.0.0 perl5 libgdbm.so.1.7.3libpng.so.1 If someone could send me the same listing from their system or point out which libraries I am missing, I would be appreciative. Would there be any hidden files in /usr/lib? (w/ names starting with .) Does X keep any libraries there? Thank you, Rikki Doh! Hall *** If you have already paid your bill, please disregard this notice. *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /usr/include/linux, /usr/include/asm, ...
Hamish Besides, the gcc manual page says: -I Append directory dir =09Are you sure? Also the manual page warn to look at the info pages, as so: True. Unfortunate (imho) that GNU cannot stick with the standard documentation system, or extend it, rather than replacing it with something that requires a tutorial just for simple first use (info). `-IDIR' Add the directory DIRECTORY to the head of the list of directories Ahh well, different to the manual page entirely. I'll keep trying ftape. Thanks. Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tecra's and resume?
Do any Tecra 720/30 users have suspend/resume working on the machines with Debian 1.2? When I try to resume it just has a black screen. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MUA that allows you to browse mail on a pop mail server?
Hi Robert, You wrote: Robert Robert I know Netscape can leave the mail there if necessary but Robert what I'd like ... in the abscence of IMAP support is the Robert ability to simply look at mail and remotely choose to read or Robert delete the mail. If I read the mail I don't want to bring the Robert _whole_ mailbox down ala Netscape. Robert Robert Something very Like PopOver under NeXTSTEP would be nice. Robert Although I'd prefer the program had it's own reader rather Robert than relying on Mail.app Robert Robert Not having used IMAP is that how IMAP support works in Robert Netscape? Sounds like pine. borik -- Boris D. Beletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hebrew University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jerusalem, Israelphone: +972 2 6411880 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clock
Richard Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anything before, so third time's a charm,right? Ok, I have Debian Linux 1.1 and the clock displays the wrong time. The time's ok under dos, but not under Linux. I think maybe I answered one of the questions wrong when installing, but that was a while ago and by now I have too much stuff set up to reinstall. Check /etc/init.d/boot. You want to change the lines that read: # Set GMT=-u if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT= if not. GMT=-u I assume that you don't want the -u flag. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd and ethernet error (dialup)
Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: ppp not replacing existing default route = to eth0[0.0.0.0] Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: Cannot determine ethernet address for = proxy ARP You have the option 'proxyarp' added, either in your ppp/options file or in diald configuration file (if you're using diald). just remove (comment it) that options, and you're home free. Ørn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] home+fax; +46 035 217194 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: OK - I went back a few messages and you did show us your partition table. Boot Begin Start End Blocks System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 163 82120+ Linux native /dev/hda2164 164 244 40824 Linux swap /dev/hda3245 245 1260 512064 Linux native /dev/hda4 1024 1261 2484 616896 Extended Am I reading this right? Could the extended partition in hda3 be overlapping the one in hda4? I see hda3 ending at 1260 and hda4 beginning at 1024. I think the problem is that I don't understand extended partitions, and thus I don't see what the difference is between begin and start. /dev/hda5 1024 1261 1870 307408+ Linux native /dev/hda6 1024 1871 2484 309424+ Linux native Something is wrong here. If Extended means what it does in the dos world i.e. as opposed to primary, something is very wrong. hda1-4 should be primary and hda5-... would be extended. This means that when it says Extended, Extended is a type, such as linux native, dos fat, HPFS, NTFS. No, not exactly. Extended partition itself has to be primary, that is, one of the first four. Inside the extended partition, you can create as many logical drives (what people usually call extended partitions) as you want to. The strange thing is that begin and start numbers don't coincide. They do coincide for every partition on my machine, which has a similar setup. I would guess fdisk docs might explain why this would happen __ Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBMwpuof6MRr9c8VylAQHUlwH8Dfk0xdM8UNlZgg4FXA87M6KAmKjStZR4 GOAz98KrhaxnwOIdocjxsee+1oIPdfs99CAeOsk6ikk9iUNT+3PwEA== =3Aqd -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installation
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Igor Grobman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Shaya Potter wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: OK - I went back a few messages and you did show us your partition table. Boot Begin Start End Blocks System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 163 82120+ Linux native /dev/hda2164 164 244 40824 Linux swap /dev/hda3245 245 1260 512064 Linux native /dev/hda4 1024 1261 2484 616896 Extended Am I reading this right? Could the extended partition in hda3 be overlapping the one in hda4? I see hda3 ending at 1260 and hda4 beginning at 1024. I think the problem is that I don't understand extended partitions, and thus I don't see what the difference is between begin and start. /dev/hda5 1024 1261 1870 307408+ Linux native /dev/hda6 1024 1871 2484 309424+ Linux native Something is wrong here. If Extended means what it does in the dos world i.e. as opposed to primary, something is very wrong. hda1-4 should be primary and hda5-... would be extended. This means that when it says Extended, Extended is a type, such as linux native, dos fat, HPFS, NTFS. No, not exactly. Extended partition itself has to be primary, that is, one of the first four. Inside the extended partition, you can create as many logical drives (what people usually call extended partitions) as you want to. The strange thing is that begin and start numbers don't coincide. They do coincide for every partition on my machine, which has a similar setup. I would guess fdisk docs might explain why this would happen Ahm now I understand, got the terms mixed up. But still, when I used fdisk to install debian, I used extended partitions and nothing like that showd up. Sjaua -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clock
I have the same problem here, fixed by typing clock -s that sets the clock going by the bios. Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Richard Heller wrote: Hi, This is my third try. The first time I wrote the wrong address to send to, the second time I got blocked by the spam filter because I've never posted anything before, so third time's a charm,right? Ok, I have Debian Linux 1.1 and the clock displays the wrong time. The time's ok under dos, but not under Linux. I think maybe I answered one of the questions wrong when installing, but that was a while ago and by now I have too much stuff set up to reinstall. How do I reconfigure the clock without reinstalling? Thanks, Rich -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Matrox Millenium Video Card Problem
AUBORD Alain writes: Alain I have some problems with my Matrox Millenium Video Card. I Alain want to start X with the XFree 3.2 super vga server but I Alain only get 320x200 display. The chip seems not to be recognized Alain properly. AFAIK the current XFree has a server for the MGA? kai It worked for me. The server is included in the xserver-svga package. Of course, you need to install xserver-vga16 first, and run the XF86Setup program. Cheers, - Jim pgp4NiQKvGCsa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Upgrading by shaky ftp..
How will dselect react to the PPP-link going down while upgrading by ftp? Sometimes I can be on for hours without problems, othertimes the connection drops every 5-15 minutes... Can I just reconnect and restart dselect Install/Upgrade and it will resume with regetting the last (incomplete) .deb file? I've had success with this only because I have a static IP address with my ISP. If you are running PPP with dynamic addressing, then I think you can forget it Later, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper Chartered Accountants http://users.uniserve.com/~erca Chilliwack, B.C. Pager: (604) 918-2054 Office: (604) 792-1915 If I remember correctly, my FTP went down a couple of times during dselect. I got the connection back relativly quickly, but sometimes with a new address. I don't think the FTP part of dselect will continue in the middle of a file transfer, but dselect as a whole will pick up on incomplete files and finish them off. You might have to exit and rerun dselect, however. Take this with a grain of salt, as my link has been pretty stable lately. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of it's students Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] N9NPU -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installation
Boot Begin Start End Blocks System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 163 82120+ Linux native /dev/hda2164 164 244 40824 Linux swap /dev/hda3245 245 1260 512064 Linux native /dev/hda4 1024 1261 2484 616896 Extended /dev/hda5 1024 1261 1870 307408+ Linux native /dev/hda6 1024 1871 2484 309424+ Linux native Something is wrong here. If Extended means what it does in the dos world i.e. as opposed to primary, something is very wrong. hda1-4 should be primary and hda5-... would be extended. This means that when it says Extended, Extended is a type, such as linux native, dos fat, HPFS, NTFS. This assertion is incorrect. If you want extended partitions, in either dos or linux, the 4th primary partition is labeled extended and the partition information for the extended partitions and the extended partitions themselves are contained within /dev/hda4. From what I see on this parition table, it looks valid. -- - John Larkin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://aij.st.hmc.edu/~jlarkin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail
Rob MacWilliams writes: - - After installing fetchmail 3.4 I think my problems were caused by a - bad config file in smail. Version 3.1 of fetchmail seemed to be - less forgiving of errors when connecting to smail. - If anyone is running smail on a dial-up PPP single user - non-networked SMTP system, I would appreciate hearing from them via - private e-mail. These config files can be confusing. When I get - this thing working properly, I will post the info to the list or - write a micro-howto. **NOTE** The following instructions assume that your login on your ISP and your login on your machine are one and the same. If not, you can easily change incoming mail with the fetchmailrc, but outgoing mail will be send with the wrong address. If anyone knows how to configure fetchmail to rewrite From lines, please let me know :) It's relatively easy to do. I used smailconfig and answered as follows: (1) Internet site: You send and recieve mail over the internet... You ARE connected to the Internet, and that's how you send/recieve mail. fetchmail just slams the incoming data into localhost's SMTP port. For what is the 'visible' mail name, use the host part of your email address. For instance, my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], so I answered airmail.net here. This tells smail that mail with this name is meant for it, and that any mail it sens out should look like it came from this address. for Any other names, answer with any other domain names that may arrive on your machine Don't you want your localhost name here? It seems to me that cron, etc. would otherwise send your system messages to your ISP? For instance smail, if a message bounces it would go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] not back to you even if it was generated internally. That is my concern, my ISP doesn't need to have my error messages sent to him. Maybe I'm out to lunch, I hope so, because it would make my config job much easier. Thanks 'none' is probably OK here, but look at a few of the mail addresses that arrive on your machine to be sure. For Do you have a smarthost.. give the name of your POP server. That way, you won't have mail sitting on your system for long periods of time, waiting to get out. for Do you wish to use the smarthost answer (1) All outbound mail All mail goes out onto a more-well connected host, so mail doesn't sit on your (sometimes connected) machine when transient errors occur. For Which user account(s) should system mail go to, use your login. That way all smail errors will be mailed to you. Tell smailconfig to write the config files and off you go. One other thing you need to do: add a blank line, followed by the following lines to /etc/smail/directors. THIS SHOULD BE THE LAST LINES OF THE FILE. Otherwise, mail loss is a definite possibility. smartuser: driver=smartuser; new_user=$user@insert POPhost here, well_formed_only That tells smail that any mail which it thinks is for it, but it doesn't know how to deal with should be sent to your POP host. Without those lines, you will not be able to send mail to anyone else at your ISP. After that, life should be happy, and smail should happily deliver both incoming and outgoing mail. To get fetchmail to suck the mail in, use something like this for a ..fetchmailrc: defaults user login is login password password batchlimit 10 fetchall server POPhost protocol pop3 then you just type fetchmail, and it gets your mail, stuffs it into smail, which delivers it to your mailbox, or through your .forward. You can also add 'su -c /usr/bin/fetchmail -d 600 login' to /etc/ppp/ip-up and 'su -c fetchmail --quit login' to /etc/ppp/ip-down to make it automagically check for mail every 600 seconds while your online (and shut it off when you're not) -- Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the workstation in your PC! [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://web2.airmail.net/vizzie/ The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. --Eden Phillpots -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Time is the best teacher, unfortunately it kills all of it's students Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] N9NPU -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installation
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, John T. Larkin wrote: Boot Begin Start End Blocks System /dev/hda1 * 1 1 163 82120+ Linux native /dev/hda2164 164 244 40824 Linux swap /dev/hda3245 245 1260 512064 Linux native /dev/hda4 1024 1261 2484 616896 Extended /dev/hda5 1024 1261 1870 307408+ Linux native /dev/hda6 1024 1871 2484 309424+ Linux native Something is wrong here. If Extended means what it does in the dos world i.e. as opposed to primary, something is very wrong. hda1-4 should be primary and hda5-... would be extended. This means that when it says Extended, Extended is a type, such as linux native, dos fat, HPFS, NTFS. This assertion is incorrect. If you want extended partitions, in either dos or linux, the 4th primary partition is labeled extended and the partition information for the extended partitions and the extended partitions themselves are contained within /dev/hda4. Then how come the kernel says something like hda1, hda2 hda5,hda6 shouldn't it be hda1, hda4 hda5,hda6 I take this to mean I have primary on hda1 and an extended on hda2 with logical hda5, and hda6 in it. (or something like that language, not sure on the extended/logical thing). Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installation
This assertion is incorrect. If you want extended partitions, in either dos or linux, the 4th primary partition is labeled extended and the partition information for the extended partitions and the extended partitions themselves are contained within /dev/hda4. Then how come the kernel says something like hda1, hda2 hda5,hda6 shouldn't it be hda1, hda4 hda5,hda6 I take this to mean I have primary on hda1 and an extended on hda2 with logical hda5, and hda6 in it. (or something like that language, not sure on the extended/logical thing). Yes, you're right. Rather than saying the 4th primary partition I should have said one of the 4 primary partitions. -- - John Larkin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://aij.st.hmc.edu/~jlarkin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
G77 in stable
Does anyone know the status of the package g77_0.5.19-2 I just tried to download this package from stable at ftp.debian.org, and got a message saying the file was not there. Debian-1.2-fixed/binary-i386/devel/g77_0.5.19-2.deb: No such file OR directory. It does show up in the list of packages available in stable, however. Scott Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd and ethernet error (dialup)
Feb 18 20:46:37 uk pppd[1065]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: local IP address 194.247.41.27 Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: remote IP address 194.247.41.30 Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: ppp not replacing existing default route to eth0[0.0.0.0] So the connection establishes ok, it something to do with internal network running on 10.0.0.1 on eth0. Has anybody got any ideas how i can get around this or fix it ? Yes, it does have something to do with your internal network. Since you probably already have a route in the routing table, ppp won't add a new one. Try doing this after ppp is up and running: route add default gw 194.274.41.30 metric 1 This should make net trafic go over ppp by default, but your local net should (hopefully) still work. Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Sorry, don't know anything about that error -- - John Larkin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://aij.st.hmc.edu/~jlarkin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pppd and ethernet error (dialup)
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997 21:12:47 GMT Fingers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to get my new debian system fully configured, i've setup everything fine so far. I thought everything was going fine till i tried to dialup my isp to run dselect to update some things this is what i got out of the log file. Feb 18 20:46:36 uk pppd[1065]: Serial connection established. Feb 18 20:46:37 uk pppd[1065]: using interface ppp0 Feb 18 20:46:37 uk pppd[1065]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS1 Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: local IP address 194.247.41.27 Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: remote IP address 194.247.41.30 Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: ppp not replacing existing default route to eth0[0.0.0.0] Feb 18 20:46:41 uk pppd[1065]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP So the connection establishes ok, it something to do with internal network running on 10.0.0.1 on eth0. Has anybody got any ideas how i can get around this or fix it ? You probably have your default route going through your ethernet before starting pppd, and pppd doesn't remove it. Either: 1) Remove the ether defaultroute (it's not necessary if you've got only one network, and if you've just got a few of them, add manual routes) 2) Set up the defaultroute in an ip-up script and re-establish the previous one in an ip-down script. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Beginner kit
In your email to me, Brian S. Julin, you wrote: Oops. Well I just accidentally dumped the mail I'm responding to. This is Re: not wanting to buy a Debian CD or spend hours on the line downloading. I saw that there is a company selling Linux-on-a-drive advertising in Linux Journal. I think they were loading the drive with Debian 1.1. But you do have to commit to buying a 1.1G drive, so it comes out pretty pricy. Good if you want to upgrade your hd anyway. I can look up their contact if you don't subscribe to LJ; e-mail me. We (Coastal Internet/buoy.com) do this also. We can supply the drive, our you can ship us the drive. We partition it and load your choice of packages on it. X11 config is extra because we just don't have every card and monitor out there. There doesn't seem to be a lot of response for it tho.. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps You may be right, I may be crazy Billy Joel ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail/procmail
Jason Killen wrote: Thanks for the pointer on fetchmail. The part about having procmail send the mail to an intermediate mail box is intresting and a little over my head (I don't know much about procmail, just a sweep of the man pages.) but I will try to work things out. Thanks a lot. On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Behan Webster wrote: (clip) Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons My thoughts of despair are getting [EMAIL PROTECTED] loud. --Social D. If you are loosing mail, you might want to look in the /var/spool/mail directory. I don't remember what I did wrong, but earlier this year I had a configuration problem and my mail ended up there with the user name of nobody. I wish I could remember what I did to fix it (it works now). I think I had a problem with the .procmailrc and I scrapped it and wrote another one (the old one had gotten a lot of junk in it anyway.) After this everything went fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED]/GNU--1.2---Linux--2.1.25--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. -- Rod Serling -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lprng bouncequeus
Another reader on this list replied to my question about lprng, but I read your mail and am still having problems, but have lost your email address. My printcap now says lp|bj20|bubblejet:\ :[EMAIL PROTECTED]:sd=/var/spool/lpd/bj20:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :if=/usr/sbin/bj10e-filter:\ etc lpq shows that the queue is a bouncequieue to the correct destination. But when I print some postscript, it fires up gs but nothing ever happens from then, gs is asleep. This happens even if I get the filter to be gs directly, rather than magicfilter. It seems that lpd is not feeding the job to magicfilter, so no output. Or something; current status (still no printout) is sending file ... to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and thats the last thing in the log too. lpd (berkeley) is definately running on silly. Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
lprng still disasterous
I thought perhaps my lprng problems might be helped if the server ran lprng too. So I installed it on there, and it works great; an lp queue (raw) and a ps queue (runs ghostscript), no magicfilter as yet. But now I can't print a damn thing from the remote machine; lpq on the server just says ERROR: cannot open '/var/spool/lpd/lp/...' - 'No such file or directory' always, using any queue. Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail
Rob MacWilliams writes: - for Any other names, answer with any other domain names that may - arrive on your machine - - - Don't you want your localhost name here? It seems to me that cron, - etc. would otherwise send your system messages to your ISP? For - instance smail, if a message bounces it would go to - [EMAIL PROTECTED] not back to you even if it was generated - internally. That is my concern, my ISP doesn't need to have my - error messages sent to him. Maybe I'm out to lunch, I hope so, - because it would make my config job much easier. The question you asked falls into 2 different categories: 1) The debian smailconfig automatically assumes the FQDN is local, and lists it as such. That's why the instructions say not to include it :) 2) Smail automatically sends postmaster mail to the name you gave it in the config (usually yourself). So it's not a concern there. Cron c, on the other hand get handled by case #1. It confused me at first, until I read it. But you can look in the generated smailconfig after the fact and verify that it is indeed there. -Larry -- Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the workstation in your PC! [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://web2.airmail.net/vizzie/ Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DepenGNUian Logo
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: Ronald van Loon wrote: Maybe we should call ourselves DepenGNUian Linux from now on. I've always wondered why I saw nobody come up with the following idea: If you've ever watched a documentary on the tv (you know, that monitor without a keyboard) about penguins, you must have noticed these animals' typical tendency to cluster themselves together in large communities. Wouldn't an image of that be the ultimately descriptive Debian logo? Well, just a thought, of course. Joost Have you ever seen Nick Park's claymation The Wrong Trousers? There's a really cute penguin in that short film. Someday I may render one. -=- Daniel Robbins School of Medicine Computer Services University of New Mexico [email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetchmail/procmail
I have procmail working now but everyonce in a while it says that it cant get the lock /var/spool/mail/jasonlck. Do you know why?? Can I fix it?? On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Kevin M. Bealer wrote: Jason Killen wrote: Thanks for the pointer on fetchmail. The part about having procmail send the mail to an intermediate mail box is intresting and a little over my head (I don't know much about procmail, just a sweep of the man pages.) but I will try to work things out. Thanks a lot. On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Behan Webster wrote: (clip) Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons My thoughts of despair are getting [EMAIL PROTECTED] loud. --Social D. If you are loosing mail, you might want to look in the /var/spool/mail directory. I don't remember what I did wrong, but earlier this year I had a configuration problem and my mail ended up there with the user name of nobody. I wish I could remember what I did to fix it (it works now). I think I had a problem with the .procmailrc and I scrapped it and wrote another one (the old one had gotten a lot of junk in it anyway.) After this everything went fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED]/GNU--1.2---Linux--2.1.25--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. -- Rod Serling Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons My thoughts of despair are getting [EMAIL PROTECTED] loud. --Social D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installation
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Regarding the disk being too large, the partition that the system boots from should be entirely within the low 1023 cylinders. I handled this by creating a separate partition (about 40 MB) for /, and a larger one for /usr. Other than that, the disk size is not a concern, and this is a BIOS limitation, not a Linux one. Should not be a problem with LBA -- my Linux root partition is the last 700mb of a 1.6gb drive, ie well after 1023 cylinders. Does this mean that you boot with lilo on such a drive? LBA takes care of the problem? This would be good news for me if it were true. Thanks. Syrus. -- Syrus Nemat-Nasser [EMAIL PROTECTED]UCSD Physics Dept. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
21041 dec-chip
i have just installed debian on my machine, however the network is unreachable. i have an smc with a 21041 dec-chipset on it. the module (tulip) was added without any problem upon installation. however when i rebooted the system i get these errors: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable ifconfig and route only show the lo interface. no eth0. i have been able to get the same type of card to work with debian sucsessfully, which makes this frustrating. the only difference is this card connected via a bnc connector, the 'working machine' was 10baseT. i know that i will need the eth0 interface for this to work. i would appreciate some direction. ps. i tried route add default eth0 and then route add default gw xx.yy.zz.1 which was a cheap hack that i have seen work before. however i had no sucess with this. thanks to whom reply, dennis = | dpk| | | DECS, Systems Undergrad | It is better for them to think you | === a fool, than to open your mouth| | work: 353.8892 | and prove it. -Mark Twain | | page: 253.0724 | | = -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ANNOUNCE: New Logo and Feedback Page for the Debian Logo (v7)
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Daniel Stringfield wrote: Unless massive action is taken to avert this ominous development, the Personally, I hate the Penguins, except the ones that are the outline. I I think there should be RULES declaring that if any logotype for the Linux project is present in the Debian logo, so should the GNU be! // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Marimba - Bongo - Debian ...
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Toens Bueker wrote: Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread I have installed jdk-common 1.0.2-4 and jdk-static 1.0.2-4. I had the exact same problem when trying to run HotJava (a WWW-browser from Sun). Someone around here told me that this was because I had an old version of JDK. (I also have 1.0.2.) Too bad there is no Linux port of any newer JDK. But hang around www.blackdown.org (home of Java on Linux), and just wait... and wait... :) (or help?) // Jonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Weird! My network turns itself off on bootup! Why?
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, trio wrote: Wow. Now i see a /etc/conf.modules! I was looking for all the *.conf files, but didn't see that one. On the other hand, there's no man page for that either. This file and all related module information is covered in the man pages for modprobe, depmod, lsmod, insmod, rmmod, and kerneld. Hopefully you have these pages installed :) Will -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a dictionary ... solved
Thank you all for your help! I was overwhelmed when looking into the many mails about abbreviations and how to look them up. Nevertheless I'll probably not adopt the taste of speaking abbreviated, rather express it in C. Thanks all you helpers! Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xaccelerated
Hello, Since I have got a PC with a Matrox Mystique video card, I purchased Xaccelerated programs. All of the installation works fine but when I run Xsetup, nothing happens (it doesn't output any errors but doesn't do anything!). Does anyone have any idea about it ? Thanks Francks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wrong permissions of /etc/rmtab?
Hi Joost, thanks for your reply, but I think you missed and 'r' :-). The file I am refering to is '/etc/rmtab' not '/etc/mtab'. And it's not a relic from an ancient installation neither, an other of our machines that I converted to Debian-1.2 just a couple of weeks ago shows the same thing. Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-20146 Hamburgwww: www.app-geoph.dkrz.de -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: G77 in stable
Hi Scott, maybe you accessed ftp.debian.org during maintenance. The g77 package in 'stable' was apparently updated to 'g77_0.5.19.1-1.deb' last night. Just try again. Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-20146 Hamburgwww: www.app-geoph.dkrz.de -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 21041 dec-chip
: i have just installed debian on my machine, however the : network is unreachable. i have an smc with a 21041 : dec-chipset on it. the module (tulip) was added without any : problem upon installation. however when i rebooted the system : i get these errors: This reminds me at the cable not connected problem that we have with a new smc 8432BT EtherPower PCI card, sized just 70mm x 100mm, connected to BNC. The net works ok with another, 1 year old card, and this new mini card has worked too for about 1 month. With ezstart the loopback test fails, even on a 2m cable, terminated with 2 resistors. The generated and received electrical signals look ok (observed with a digital scope), but the card doesn't be happy with them. We called for a new one. (Do you see any messages in /var/log/messages?) - Andreas. -- Uni Wuppertal, FB Elektrotechnik, Tel/Fax: (0202) 439 - 3009 Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cron doesn't start at boot up?
Hi,
System: Debian 1.2
Package: cron_3.0pl1-36.1
It seems that cron is not started by postinst. Is this delibrate?
How do the /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} work?
Thanks.
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Re: ls colors gone after upgrade
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Richard Jones wrote: William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 Feb 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: .bashrc and/or .profile (or .cshrc or .zshrc, whatever): eval `dircolors` alias ls 'ls --color=auto' This would be wonderful if it were the correct answer. However, as we This IS the correct answer, WTF are you talking about? I've been using a similar alias in my startup scripts for months now. How often do you use X? Your solution will work on the console, it will even print bold characters for special files with Xterms, but it wont do colour on my system. The Xresource mentioned below needs to be set. Yeah, but nowhere did you mention this in your reply. You should've said this doesn't appear to work in my xterm... etc. not ls color doesn't work. As far as I know Michael is correct on this one, man ls will tell you how to get ls to output the required terminal codes to send color, but you need to setup xterm to be able to displace them. BTW is maybe your brain froze over really necessary? I know Michael was a little flamey on his reply, but this seems a reaction to your orignal unwarranted, Read the man page you bloody fool, response. I didn't appreciate the attitude expressed in this would be wonderful if it worked, etc. etc. when the person replied with the correct answer to the question. You should've asked the right question, which is ls color appears to work when I am in regular console mode, but not in my xterm, or even better when in my color-xterm. The reply to the former would mostly be are you sure you're using a color xterm the reply to the second would be are you sure your resources are set correctly? Ask the right question, get the right answer, otherwise you start confusing people. Will -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ls colors gone after upgrade
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: Version 3.13 of ls has the default dircolors compiled in, so the eval `dircolors` line in the profile is redundant as far as 'ls' is concerned. However, a few other programs (I can't remember which at the moment) depend on the LS-COLORS variable that dircolors sets and exports, so it is desirable to leave that line in the profile. :-) Interesting... For those who are lazy at setting up aliases, there is also a patched version of the program that automatically sets up the various required aliases. I had it in my original Slack distribution, but I am not sure if it is on sunsite. Probably in the release notes. Will -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is there a dictionary for abbreviations like WTF?
Hi, I would like to resolve these many abbreviations today, as AKA (also known as) WTF (???) ... So, is there any appropriate dictionary? Thanks. Andreas. Missed the beginning of this conversation. Hope I'm not repeating anything. Online web computer dictionary: http://wfn-shop.Princeton.EDU/foldoc/ Word list and other site: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/misc/dictionaries/unix-format Webster site: I've attached an emacs interface to a webster dictionary below. There was a post in comp.os.linux.announce today concerning a commercial dictionary that can now be obtained. I find myself using the online computer dictionary quite often. The word list site is great for creating really huge ispell lists. I also use the webster emacs interface frequently when I'm in emacs. The last I don't know much about other than it was posted just recently. Jim -- @James LewisMoss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Blessed Be! @http://www.cs.sc.edu/~moss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux is cool! @Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours. Bach webster.el Description: Binary data
Re: The LSL TriLinux2 CD?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see no reason why there ought to be another one of these quick ref manuals for Linux. The dozen or so commands that are different from Sys V and the lpr system are not worth whatever amount of money it is to get another book if you already own a the UNIX book, and although Linux newbies might benefit from the quick reference, often I think the man pages are much better. It is IMHO great to have a reference book dedicated primarily to the GNU tools because it is the relevant thing for Linux. The man pages have the disadvantage that you have to read them on the screen and that they usually contain too much data to be useful information. And i do think it is nice to actually have a real book made out real paper in your hands when doing your work. Nothing beats a well structured book when you need information instead of data. For the same money I'd get the Matt Welsh Running Linux book, which is in a 2nd edition and a lot of fun to read. You'd pay more money for less information actually! I've bought Running Linux one year ago and was largely disappointed because it seems to be primarily aimed at the beginner and leaves lots to be desired when you are more advanced. The chapters on programming and LaTeX are IMHO a waste of the paper they are printed on because they hardly scratch the surface and are not really useful. Here in Germany exist some books which are clearly better in this regard. It is probably a good book for doing positive Linux advocacy among those who still need to be convinced. I personally don't like that it contains so much words in comparison to such few useful information making it useable for your day to day reference. Linux in a Nutshell has the advantage of being very condensed and referencing almost everything you need to lookup once upon a while in a single source of information. Great book! :-) Regards, P. *8^) -- Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Marimba - Bongo - Debian ...
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Jonas Bofjall wrote: I had the exact same problem when trying to run HotJava (a WWW-browser from Sun). Someone around here told me that this was because I had an old version of JDK. (I also have 1.0.2.) Too bad there is no Linux port of any newer JDK. But how can there be any linux-versions of marimba, if there is no usable version of the jdk? And furthermore I'm not aware of a 'newer' jdk - 1.0.2 is the bug-fix-version of 1.0.1. Further hints? By Töns -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading by shaky ftp...
Kevin == Kevin Traas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How will dselect react to the PPP-link going down while upgrading by ftp? Sometimes I can be on for hours without problems, othertimes the connection drops every 5-15 minutes... Can I just reconnect and restart dselect Install/Upgrade and it will resume with regetting the last (incomplete) .deb file? Kevin I've had success with this only because I have a static IP Kevin address with my ISP. If you are running PPP with dynamic Kevin addressing, then I think you can forget it No it works fine. dselect notices after a short while that it is no longer connected and checks to see what it did get. (including excluding any partially retrieved packages) And goes into install mode 'Do you want to install the packages retrieved?' or some such. Just type n and hit install again. It'll reget the partial file and continue on. When you got them all install them. :) (Happens to me all the time) Jim -- @James LewisMoss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Blessed Be! @http://www.cs.sc.edu/~moss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux is cool! @Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours. Bach -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail
Rob == Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For instance, my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED], so I answered airmail.net here. This tells smail that mail with this name is meant for it, and that any mail it sens out should look like it came from this address. for Any other names, answer with any other domain names that may arrive on your machine Rob Don't you want your localhost name here? It seems to me that Rob cron, etc. would otherwise send your system messages to your Rob ISP? For instance smail, if a message bounces it would go to Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] not back to you even if it was generated Rob internally. That is my concern, my ISP doesn't need to have my Rob error messages sent to him. Maybe I'm out to lunch, I hope so, Rob because it would make my config job much easier. bounces occur while your MTA is talking to the machine it is delivering to. So it does the bounce and does it correctly to the local machine. (at least with sendmail I assume smail is the same) Heck I have sendmail on my machine translating both hostname and usernames to different ones and there is no problem. Jim -- @James LewisMoss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Blessed Be! @http://www.cs.sc.edu/~moss | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux is cool! @Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours. Bach -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks (Upgrading by shaky ftp...)
Thank you all for replying! (Kevin Traas, Shaya Potter, Rob Williams, Greg de Freitas, James LewisMoss) From your responses I conclude that dselect, as I thought, will do the right thing. I just wanted to make _sure_ it wouldn't mess things up... Seems like the phoneline will be busy tonight, /Michael -- |Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | |Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, TDGP#20 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Cell.Phone:+46 705487554 URL:http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d1temp | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem solved for fdisk (?)
I have apparently solved the problem with my large disk, though not in an entirely satisfactory way. I noticed that fdisk will not allow a partition to begin AFTER cylinder 1024, be it a logical or a primary partition. I therefore had my last partition start before cyl 1024 and all error messages have disappeared. This is not entirely satisfactory since I did not want such a large fourth partition... Hope this might help someone else, and if you have better solutions let me know. Gennaro Zezza [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Change From: in mail
Hi, I want to change th from: field in my mail going out to my ISP. I'm using smail. Is there any solution. I also want to change the name of the sender. Thanks Stefan Walder *---* Dipl. Ing. Stefan Walder (techn. Ang. in der EDV-Systemtechnik) Universitaetsstrasse 150 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Werkstofftechnik IA 2/47 Tel.: (0)49(0)234-700-5952 D-44780 Bochum Fax:(0)49(0)234-7094-104 *---* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AUI cable in 3C590
Hi, I'm planning to connect a AUI cable into a 3C590 card. Is there some problem? Does Linux deal with it? Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes - oo-O-oo- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://tucano.ipen.br - http://www.ipen.br/~mario/mario.html | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need /usr/lib contents
Here's my suggestion. First cd to the /var/lib/dpkg/info directory and then execute this one line perl program: % perl -ne 'chop and print $ARGV$_\n if m|^/usr/lib/.[^/]+$|' *.list This tries to list all the lines that start with '/usr/lib/' and have no '/' afterwards. Just remove '[^/]' and it dumps the whole '/usr/lib/' tree. This is the head of the output it gave when I tried it: base-files.list/usr/lib/locale binutils.list/usr/lib/libbfd.a binutils.list/usr/lib/libbfd.so.2.7.0.3 binutils.list/usr/lib/libopcodes.a [cut] It also lists the directories that are in the /usr/lib e.g. /usr/lib/locale but I hope that's ok. My regexps are a little shaky, so maybe one of the perl gurus on the list can verify that it's correct. Rikki Doh! Hall wrote: I inadvertently erased my /usr/lib directory (meaning to erase /usr/local). I have tried to reconstruct it as best as I can, but I am not sure that I have gotten everything. Here is the output of 'ls /usr/lib': [cut] If someone could send me the same listing from their system or point out which libraries I am missing, I would be appreciative. Would there be any hidden files in /usr/lib? (w/ names starting with .) Does X keep any libraries there? I don't think X has any libraries there. As far as I know, they can be found from /usr/X11R6/lib. There is /usr/lib/X11 but it's a symlink to ../X11R6/lib/X11 ( /usr/lib/X11 - ../X11R6/lib/X11 ). // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wrong permissions of /etc/rmtab?
I just tried to export a file system from a machine which does normally export nothing so no '/etc/rmtab' existed. Result: again (IMHO) wrong permissions, '/etc/rmtab' was created world writable. So I think I'll file a bug-report... Thanks again! Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-20146 Hamburgwww: www.app-geoph.dkrz.de -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Umsdos?
Gertjan Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, you make it sound so easy ;-) I can't seem to get this right. I Nor could I for a long time! copy the kernel to the file linux and run ./rdev.sh. This script tries to run rdev /mnt/linux /dev/ram0 - and there is no /dev/ram0. Why does the script ask for something Debian doesn't supply? Anyway, if I ignore this error or run the command manually with /dev/ram (which I do have), and boot the floppy, it stops here: RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem) Root is mounted from /dev/ram /etc/rc done. I have to say I'm not sure what's going wrong. This looks like it _might_ be a corrupted root fs image. ALT F3 gives a log of all process deaths with error messages so any frantic activity should be reflected there. As an alternative, you could try my modifications to the boot-floppies package to handle UMSDOS installs. There has just been a new boot-floppies release, so I'll have do some merging before I have a proper set of patches ready. Have a look at ftp://pootle.magd.cam.ac.uk/ if you are interested (patches against boot-floppies 1.2.5). My mirror doesn't carry 1.2.5, only 1.2.4. It seems there's some stuff specific to your system in the patch (I saw some copying of loadlin); was I too early downloading it? Oh dear, 1.2.4 is the current stable version, 1.2.6 is the current unstable version. The boot-floppies package needs to reflect current locations of packages needed for the install. To use it you will also need an NFS mount (or whatever) of (parts of) a Debian distribution. It is probably not worth your while for the moment. I'll try and make up some new boot 'floppies' (actually just three files to download onto your ZIP drive). They contain everything needed to install the current _un_stable base packages; it would be nice to see if one other person can get through a UMSDOS install. I'll let you know when it's available by ftp from my machine. Let me know if you need anything peculiar in the kernel (besides fat, umsdos, parallel port?, scsi, etc, etc!) Giuliano. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian installation
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: Should not be a problem with LBA -- my Linux root partition is the last 700mb of a 1.6gb drive, ie well after 1023 cylinders. Does this mean that you boot with lilo on such a drive? LBA takes care of the problem? This would be good news if it were true. It is true. Nils -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clock
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Richard Heller wrote: Hi, This is my third try. The first time I wrote the wrong address to send to, the second time I got blocked by the spam filter because I've never posted anything before, so third time's a charm,right? Ok, I have Debian Linux 1.1 and the clock displays the wrong time. The time's ok under dos, but not under Linux. I think maybe I answered one of the questions wrong when installing, but that was a while ago and by now I have too much stuff set up to reinstall. How do I reconfigure the clock without reinstalling? Run tzconfig and make sure that you answer the GMT question correctly. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree for S3 86c765?
Hi all, I have a friend who wants to get Linux and X going on his fairly shiny new PC. He has installed Slackware but run into trouble with his video card. In between keystrokes on my PhD thesis (some non-trivial fraction of which is being written in latex on my little Debian notebook) I think I have him convinced to switch to Debian, especially if it looks more probable that he will be able to get X up and running. He claims to have a video card that is driven by an S3 86c765. I poked around XFree and cannot find any mention of this chip. So, what are the odds it looks like some other S3? or would that be an S3V? Any suggestions? Thanks, in advance, for any suggestions. -- Jeff Gunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** NEW WORK PHONE NUMBER (same home number) phone: 812 855 2317 or (812) 323-1031 * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ls colors gone after upgrade
William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Richard Jones wrote: William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 Feb 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: .bashrc and/or .profile (or .cshrc or .zshrc, whatever): eval `dircolors` alias ls 'ls --color=auto' This would be wonderful if it were the correct answer. However, as we This IS the correct answer, WTF are you talking about? I've been using a similar alias in my startup scripts for months now. How often do you use X? Your solution will work on the console, it will even print bold characters for special files with Xterms, but it wont do colour on my system. The Xresource mentioned below needs to be set. Yeah, but nowhere did you mention this in your reply. You should've said this doesn't appear to work in my xterm... etc. not ls color doesn't work. Yes I didn't mention it because I was not the original poster, read the attributions please. Perhaps the original poster should have mentioned in perhaps you should not have stated your fix worked in xterms. As far as I know Michael is correct on this one, man ls will tell you how to get ls to output the required terminal codes to send color, but you need to setup xterm to be able to displace them. BTW is maybe your brain froze over really necessary? I know Michael was a little flamey on his reply, but this seems a reaction to your orignal unwarranted, Read the man page you bloody fool, response. I didn't appreciate the attitude expressed in this would be wonderful if it worked, etc. etc. when the person replied with the correct answer to the question. You should've asked the right question, which is ls color appears to work when I am in regular console mode, but not in my xterm, or even better when in my color-xterm. The reply to the former would mostly be are you sure you're using a color xterm the reply to the second would be are you sure your resources are set correctly? Once again I was not the original poster, the original poster asked: ls colors gone after upgrade. How can I get these back? Now you are correct it doesn't give much information, but nor does it say I can't get color ls to work on the console as you assumed it did, but my quarrel is not with the quality of your reply (if he was having console problems it would have been perfect advice) it is with the general tone of the original and subsequent replies on this thread. They appear to me to be likely to discourage people in asking for help when they need it. Richard Jones -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libc/locale bug in strftime()?
[I'd submit this as a bug report, but I'm not sure which package has the
bug, or even if it is Debian-specific.]
[I posted about this a week ago to comp.os.linux.development.system; no one
replied. Later I got a chance to test it on a Slackware system (with libc
5.2.something, I think), and the bug wasn't there...]
I think I found a bug in libc 5.4.20. The strftime() function dumps core
when called with %b or %B in the format string (to get month names). But
if I compile the program statically, it works, strangely enough. The bug is
reproducible. Here's a transcript:
{anar}rjs:~/t$ cat k.c
#include stdio.h
#include time.h
main()
{
char s[32];
struct tm tm;
tm.tm_mon=1;
strftime(s,32,%b,tm);
printf(s='%s'\n,s);
exit(0);
}
{anar}rjs:~/t$ gcc -o k k.c
{anar}rjs:~/t$ ls -l k.c k
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rjs rjs 4121 Feb 12 00:05 k
-rw-r--r-- 1 rjs rjs 160 Feb 12 00:04 k.c
{anar}rjs:~/t$ ./k
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
{anar}rjs:~/t$ ls -l k.c k core
-rw--- 1 rjs rjs258048 Feb 12 00:05 core
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rjs rjs 4121 Feb 12 00:05 k
-rw-r--r-- 1 rjs rjs 160 Feb 12 00:04 k.c
{anar}rjs:~/t$ gcc -static -o k k.c
{anar}rjs:~/t$ ./k
s='Feb'
{anar}rjs:~/t$
My system is a Debian 1.2.6 installation with libc 5.4.20, gcc 2.7.2.1,
Linux kernel 2.0.27 (kernel compiled by me, nothing very special; libc and
gcc are from Debian, libc5_5.4.20-1 and gcc_2.7.2.1-4), running on a
Pentium-100. My locale settings are as installed by Debian (no LOCALE or
LANG environment variables set).
Can someone else try the above code to see if it happens on Debian in
general or only my system? Can someone fix the bug? :)
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Re: Easy ways of configuring Debian
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: What do I use instead of dselect to install software? I have all these .deb packages on my vfat partition that need installing. Thanks for the info... dpkg -i /path-to-packagefile/package_version.deb Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cron doesn't start at boot up?
Billy-
Try
# update-rc.d cron defaults
I had to add the links for cron after installing it to have it start
at boot time for run levels 2-5.
You should probably read about the boot process information in
# info debian
under 'Customizing' question 11.3 and 11.4
There is a good description of what happens at boot time and how to
change it.
If cron is running it is supposed to process the file in /etc/crontab
and on my system this is what starts the daily/weekly/monthly jobs.
Good luck,
-Bernt.
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Chow Chi-Ming wrote:
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:31:09 +0800
From: Chow Chi-Ming [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: cron doesn't start at boot up?
Hi,
System: Debian 1.2
Package: cron_3.0pl1-36.1
It seems that cron is not started by postinst. Is this delibrate?
How do the /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} work?
Thanks.
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Debian install tkdesk etc...
I installed Debian from Infomagic winter edition. Dselect worked properly, except it did not configure/install 4 packages. Two of them I mention here: tkdesk. The complain is that it depends on xlib. motifnls. The complain is that it depends on xbaseR6. Now looking at the directories I see that X11/X11R6 is installed. I tried ghostview and it works properly. I even looked at the ftp site and saw that xlib6 depend on libc5. I ftpd and unzipped the latest libc5 library. I still have the problem. What to do? (ftp on debian is not yet installed. for that I still use Slackware.) Sandor -- Hass, alkoss, gyarapits, S a haza fényre derül. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Automount (amd) cdrom and floppy
Greetings ! Is it possible to configure amd to automount my cdrom and floppy device (iso9660 and vfat) ? If it is, could someone please direct me how to do this. An example of a map-config would be much appreciated. I have gone through the docs but got even more confused. TIA. Robert -- Robert Sickeldalemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontec Network Services AB (All statements above are my own, not my employers.) -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: package compilation
On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote: I've run into a snag making a kernel package for version 2.0.29. I got new sources, patched them, did a make-kpkg clean and then a make-kpkg Why patch the new sources? I thought you only needed to patch if you had 2.0.28 sources and wanted to upgrade to 2.0.29. Anybody?? --rev 2.0.29 kernel-image. Everything goes along fine until the very end which looks like this: cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage \ debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.29 cp vmlinux debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinux-2.0.29 cp System.map debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.0.29 chmod 644 debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.29 \ debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinux-2.0.29 \ debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.0.29 dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-image-2.0.29 -Pdebian/tmp-image/ parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted trailer line, at changelog line 6 dpkg-gencontrol: error: syntax error in parsed version of changelog at line 0: empty file make: *** [stamp-image] Error 29 It looks like you new kernel was made after all. I would copy it to the right place /boot/vmlinuz and use it. I think your problem may have a lot to do with the patching. // D.J. Mashao, [EMAIL PROTECTED], -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: real audio ...
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Richard G. Roberto wrote: Having problems with realaudio, looked in a few relevant files: # grep realaudio /etc/mime.types audio/x-pn-realaudiora ram # grep realaudio /etc/mailcap audio/x-pn-realaudio; raplayer %s; test=test $DISPLAY != ;description=RA RAM realaudio format My local configs in my home directory look like: $ grep realaudio .mime.types .mailcap .mime.types:type=audio/x-pn-realaudio exts=ra,ram .mailcap:audio/x-pn-realaudio; raplayer %s I suppose it's possible that the 'exts=' has something to do with it. I haven't had any problems bringing up realaudio sounds in Netscape... Sincerely, Ray Ingles (810) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree for S3 86c765?
I don't know much about the chipset numbers, but the chipset looks familiar... You might want to check if his video card is the S3 ViRGe chip. The latest lease of XFree86 (ver 3.2) contains the driver for this card. Make sure you get the X_S3V server for installation. Hope this is of some help. Dennis = | dpk| | | DECS, Systems Undergrad | It is better for them to think you | === a fool, than to open your mouth| | work: 353.8892 | and prove it. -Mark Twain | | page: 253.0724 | | = On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Jeff Gunter wrote: Hi all, I have a friend who wants to get Linux and X going on his fairly shiny new PC. He has installed Slackware but run into trouble with his video card. In between keystrokes on my PhD thesis (some non-trivial fraction of which is being written in latex on my little Debian notebook) I think I have him convinced to switch to Debian, especially if it looks more probable that he will be able to get X up and running. He claims to have a video card that is driven by an S3 86c765. I poked around XFree and cannot find any mention of this chip. So, what are the odds it looks like some other S3? or would that be an S3V? Any suggestions? Thanks, in advance, for any suggestions. -- Jeff Gunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** NEW WORK PHONE NUMBER (same home number) phone: 812 855 2317 or (812) 323-1031 * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AUI cable in 3C590
I'm not sure about a driver but you should probally use the dos utility to set your card to AUI instead of autodetect. On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: Hi, I'm planning to connect a AUI cable into a 3C590 card. Is there some problem? Does Linux deal with it? Thanks, []s, Mario O.de Menezes - oo-O-oo- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://tucano.ipen.br - http://www.ipen.br/~mario/mario.html | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons My thoughts of despair are getting [EMAIL PROTECTED] loud. --Social D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DepenGNUian Logo
Have you ever seen Nick Park's claymation The Wrong Trousers? There's a really cute penguin in that short film. Someday I may render one. Cute? He scared me. As you probably remember, he was master-mind jewel thief who dressed as a chicken to commit crimes. He also drove poor Grommit away from Wallace. Poor Grommit. Still, a pair of those surplus NASA trousers would be handy sometimes... Behan 8) 8) 8) 8) -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (613) 224-7547http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian install tkdesk etc...
I installed Debian from Infomagic winter edition. Dselect worked properly, except it did not configure/install 4 packages. Now looking at the directories I see that X11/X11R6 is installed. I tried ghostview and it works properly. I even looked at the ftp site and saw that xlib6 depend on libc5. I ftpd and unzipped the latest libc5 library. Well, you should never unzip (and probably untar) the libc5 files yourself. Always use dpkg or dselect for that: they will remmeber where the files went so that you can uninstall the packages, and they will mark the libc5 package as installed. Still, I wonder how you can unzip the debian libc5, as it's in .deb format. So, I guess you didn't get the debian libc5 (did the filename end with .deb?). To get recent debian packagres, ftp to ftp.debian.org (or on one to it's mirrors) I still have the problem. You mean, dpkg/dselect complaining that libc5 is not installed? That was expected. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What's wrong with Debian User List
Mikael Hallendal typed: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] Hi! I have a question. The same messages are dropping in over and over again. I've got the same messages for about 25 times now. I'm so glad someone else said that, I just thought I was going mad over getting 300+ messages a day. How often have i said, that message looks familiar - Craig -- // /\ | | | Craig Small VK2XLZ @home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||==||===|==|=| [44.136.13.17] @play: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ \/ | | | finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Automount (amd) cdrom and floppy
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:34:49 +0100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it possible to configure amd to automount my cdrom and floppy
device (iso9660 and vfat) ?
If it is, could someone please direct me how to do this.
An example of a map-config would be much appreciated.
I have gone through the docs but got even more confused.
Yes you can.
The followings are some of my /etc/adm/amd.xxx files.
On such configuration, I can
mount cdrom by accessing /l/cd,
mount floppy with ext2 format by /l/fd
mount floopy with fat format by /l/msdos.
and explicitly umount cdrom by amq -u /l/cd, and so forth.
= /etc/amd/amd.master ==
-x fatal,error,user,warn,noinfo,nostats -r -a /a
/n /etc/amd/amd.net
/home /etc/amd/amd.home
/l /etc/amd/amd.local
/r /etc/amd/amd.remote
= /etc/amd.amd.local ===
cdrom opts:=utimeout=12000,rw,nosuid;dev:=/dev/scd0;fs:=/cdrom;\
type:=program;\
mount:=/bin/mount mount -t iso9660 -o ro,nosuid ${dev} ${fs};\
unmount:=/bin/umount umount ${fs}
fd opts:=utimeout=1200,rw,intr,nosuid;dev:=/dev/fd0;fs:=/floppy;\
type:=program;\
mount:=/bin/mount mount -t ext2 ${dev} ${fs};\
unmount:=/bin/umount umount ${fs}
msdos opts:=utimeout=1200,rw,intr,nosuid;dev:=/dev/fd0;fs:=/floppy;\
type:=program;\
mount:=/bin/mount mount -t msdos ${dev} ${fs};\
unmount:=/bin/umount umount ${fs}
END of /etc/amd/amd.*** ===
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Help with disk partition.
I am new to Linux and I am trying to install it on a SCSI 2GB Quantum Fireball hard drive. I would like to use 500MB for Linux and 1.500MB for DOS, WINNT, WIN95. How do I go about creating partitions and formatting the disk, taking into account the problem with 1024 cylinders. I am starting from scratch so I can reformat the whole disk. Any help would be appreciated !! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian install tkdesk etc...
: :I installed Debian from Infomagic winter edition. :Dselect worked properly, except it did not configure/install :4 packages. Two of them I mention here: : :tkdesk. The complain is that it depends on xlib. :motifnls. The complain is that it depends on xbaseR6. I've got the very same package and some of the dependencies in that cut seem to be leftovers from earlier versions (ie gets the name wrong), probably corrected in the never distributions. Try to 'dpkg -i --force-depends /path/to/the/package.deb' the motifnls and tkdesk packages. At least the motifnls should be OK this way, since you did have X installed. The tkdesk should be OK too, I've got it working here... (1.2 from Infomagic Dec '96) :Now looking at the directories I see that X11/X11R6 is installed. :I tried ghostview and it works properly. :I even looked at the ftp site and saw that xlib6 depend on libc5. :I ftpd and unzipped the latest libc5 library. I still have the :problem. : What to do? (ftp on debian is not yet installed. for that I still :use Slackware.) You might need to get rid of the libc5 you installed and get the corresponding .deb package and install that one with dpkg so Debian will know whats installed (if you by unzipping do not mean installing with dpkg...) /Michael -- |Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | |Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, TDGP#20 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 21041 dec-chip
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, dpk wrote: i have just installed debian on my machine, however the network is unreachable. i have an smc with a 21041 dec-chipset on it. the module (tulip) was added without any problem upon installation. however when i rebooted the system i get these errors: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Try again SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable I have noticed that SMC cards in general are rather touchy about how their drivers are installed. I usually have the best luck by compiling the drivers directly in the kernel rather than using modules. I am somewhat mystified as to the cause of this erratic behavior but since I have to deal with a number of different SMC cards (WD8003, Ultra, EtherEZ and EtherPower PCI) I have not been able to isolate the cause of the problem. With the older cards, it is the 0x300 address and IRQ conflicts which gives the most problem. Cheers, Carlo *** *Carlo U. Segre * * Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences * *Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616 * * Voice: (312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug with libraries?
Two friends of mine receintly installed the stable Debian distribution, and both had the same problem. (One installed about 2 months ago, the other 2 days ago from an updated mirror). The file /etc/ld.so.conf did _not_ include the line: /usr/X11R6/lib This was bad; everything linked with the x libraries couldn't run since they couldn't find the libraries. They had installed a bunch of X packages, so one of the packages should have been responsable for making sure that this line was added to /etc/ld.so.conf, correct? Thanks much, -- - John Larkin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://aij.st.hmc.edu/~jlarkin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
