Strange smail core file..
I recently found a core file in my /var/spool/smail/ I was interested in finding out what caused this core-file so I did a 'strings' on it. Somewhere near the middle I noticed this text... # destination supports esmtp, but is buggy (%s) HELO %s 503 after EHLO/RSET/HELO (%s) RSET unexpected response to RSET (%s) MAIL FROM: %s%s%s%s%s SIZE=%lu RCPT TO: %s%s%s DATA ?QUIT SMTP-send: 499 write error, remote probably down SMTP-reply: %s 499 timeout on read from remote SMTP process 499 read error from remote SMTP process 498 protocol error in reply from remote SMTP process transport %s: no connection to remote SMTP server: %s transport %s: %s transport %s: Error writing to remote host The route-addr hits... Your mailer feels weeker The route-addr hits... ___ / \ /R I P\ / \ / \ | %s | | | |Eaten by a | | chain letter| |on level 1 | | %4d| *| * * * | * __)/\/\_//(\/(/\)/\//\/|_)__ %d , %d %d , %d ERROR # Anyone know what this is or means? Has my copy of smail been playning nethack/rogue without me knowing? TIA, mike... Micro$oft, what do you want to spend today? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Strange smail core file..
Use the source, luke! Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Question about new 'g' packages in unstable
On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 10:22:33AM -0400, Scott Ellis wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have to *upgrade* xlib6 before installing xlib6g (which conflicts only to older versions of xlib6. I hope you know that you are going to use the hamm system, which is somewhat unstable (because of the change from libc5 to libc6. xlib6 is libc5, and xlib6g is libc6, and they are not kompatible. PLease be shure to read the From xlib5 to xlib6 mini HOWTO from Scott (?) Ellis (??) here on the list (check the archive or mail me, and I will send you one). Yes you got my name right :) And the latest updated version is at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/ (in about every format you could want) I hesitated, but I could have written StormCrow, formerly known as Scott Ellis, now that I lurked a bit at IRC ;) thanks for the location... Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man-db ocassionally needs to be re-installed.
This is a little off-topic, but related to man-pages, too. My problem is that - when running man -a as I always do - I often get to see man pages multiple times. See this as an example: ~man -w rename /usr/man/man2/rename.2.gz /var/catman/cat2/rename.2.gz /usr/man/man3/rename.3tcl.gz /var/catman/cat3/rename.3tcl.gz /usr/man/man3/rename.3tcl.gz /var/catman/cat3/rename.3tcl.gz /usr/man/man3/rename.3tcl.gz /var/catman/cat3/rename.3tcl.gz I don't know when this started to happen, and I have no idea what has gone wrong. For example, I never anything in manpath.config A trimmed down output of dpkg -l '*man*' is here: pn man none (no description available) un man-aeb none (no description available) un man-browser none (no description available) ii man-db 2.3.10-38 Display the on-line manual. ii manpages1.15-4 Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 manpages pn manpages-de none (no description available) pn manpages-es none (no description available) pn manpages-fr none (no description available) pn manpages-it none (no description available) Hm, now this is funny, since I do have (some) german manpages. Oh, boy, this confuses me. HELP! :-) Maybe, the contents (without comments) of manpath.config will help: # man_db.config MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/man MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/X11R6/man MANDATORY_MANPATH /usr/local/man MANPATH_MAP /bin/usr/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/bin/usr/man MANPATH_MAP /sbin /usr/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/sbin /usr/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/bin /usr/local/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/local/bin/X11 /usr/local/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/X11R6/man MANPATH_MAP /usr/games /usr/man MANDB_MAP /usr/man/de_DE /var/catman/de_DE MANDB_MAP /usr/man/it_IT /var/catman/it_IT MANDB_MAP /usr/man/var/catman MANDB_MAP /usr/local/man /var/catman/local MANDB_MAP /usr/X11R6/man /var/catman/X11R6 Thanks a lot in advance, Andy. Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
magicfilter and (pdf = postscript) problems
Hi, Need to get pdf file printing working using magicfilter. The printer is a LaserJet 4P (no postscript module) Looked at the bug reports and came across the suggestion to include this line in the ljet-filter file: # PDF - Added by CRT 97/05/12 0 %PDFpipe/usr/bin/acroread -toPostScript After experimenting with this, I've come to the conclusion that, on my machine at least, this is *not* a good idea. It would be best to use ghostscript directly. Assuming a test file name of 'test', I've tried a few experiments. First of all I needed a .pdf file, and the easiest way to obtain one was to create one from a postscript file using ps2pdf. to .ps using pdf2ps Convert test.pdf to a .ps file using pdf2ps. One time when printing there were a few aesthetic problems (the first lines of the 2nd page were overlaid on the first page). However at least it did print on the LaserJet. Another time the first sheet had some errors (not identical to before, but similar: 'operand stack: --nostringval-') But the main printout was clean. (in support of above weirdness here is another report: http://xp9.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?recnum=1304495server=db97p4x; CONTEXT=876965612.1870135791hitnum=0 admitedly using a different printer) Same again, except final actual viewing and printing done in gv. Again the first sheet had the beginnings of the 2nd page, but the main printout was good. Tried a different file. First it was converted to postscript using pdf2ps, then viewed with gv and printed. No problems. use gv to print .pdf Secondly the pdf file was viewed directly in gv and printed. This time there were problems. Again the first line of the 2nd page followed by a few lines of ghostscript type error messages appeared on a first sheet. However the printout itself appeared *unblemished* on a separate sheet. use gs to print .pdf Thirdly, tried using the magicfilter commandline for postscript directly on the test.pdf file: gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sDEV=ljet4 -sOutputFile=\|lpr test.pdf This time there were no problems at all. :-))) One problem with the above command line is that ghostscript requires a ^D to exit. The aesthetic problems encountered were probably those documented in the file /usr/doc/gs/NEWS.gz Due to the above success I tried to add the following line to /usr/sbin/ljet4-filter: 0 %PDFfilter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=- - but this again gives the lpd error: lpd[16653]: lp: Daemon filter 'f' terminated (13) My guess is that ghostscript isn't exiting cleanly after the conversion. The 13 corresponds to value of status.w_termsig in lpd file printjob.c w_termsig is defined in /usr/include/waitstatus.h The following DejaNews article seems to be using the same idea tho :-? http://xp5.dejanews.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]serv er=db96q5CONTEXT=876965923.1249771631hitnum=3 admittedly, again, using a different printer ... catting into gs to ljet4 Using the following command gives errors: cat index.pdf.ps2pdf | gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=\|lpr - The errors are: Unrecoverable error: ioerror in bytesavailable Operand stack: --nostringval-- --nostringval-- Unexpected interpreter error -12. Error object: (f80)op(174:bytesavailable)0x802ccf0 Operand stack at 0x80f3478: 0x80faea4: 0x03 file --S-rx--- 0x0001 0x080f6d70 0x80faeac: 0x03 file --S-rx--- 0x0001 0x080f6d70 Execution stack at 0x80f34cc: 0x80fc80c: 0x0f oper --F---e-- 0x 0x0801ef80 = %interp_exit 0x80fc814: 0x12 str --F-rxe-- 0x 0x = 0x80fc81c: 0x03 file --L-rxe-- 0x0001 0x08104048 0x80fc824: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0020 0x0815d694 0x80fc82c: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0057 0x0815db30 0x80fc834: 0x05 mpry --G-rxe-- 0x0039 0x08132c76 Dictionary stack at 0x80f33f4: 0x80fd03c: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x 0x080fd18c 0x80fd044: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x 0x08141e18 0x80fd04c: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0x 0x08102090 0x80fd054: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0x 0x08102090 0x80fd05c: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x001c 0x0814fd8c 0x80fd064: 0x02 dict --Gwrx--- 0x 0x08158960 0x80fd06c: 0x02 dict --Lwrx--- 0x0815 0x081042dc to .ps using acroread Convert test.pdf to a .ps file using acroread. Obtained a postscript file, but when attempting to print to a HPLaserJet4P, lpd gave the error: lpd[16425]: lp: Daemon filter 'f' terminated (13) However the same file *would* print fine to a postscript printer. Investigating further, by grabbing the command used by magicfilter: gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=test.lj4 test.ps reveals the following error message in gs: Error: /undefinedresource in true Operand stack: false --dict:13/13-- Execution stack:
Re: /dev files
Is there a list explaining what each /dev file is used for? I was looking to cut down on my inode use by trimming /dev down some. I am using Debian as a home workstation so I figured some of it wsa superfluous. The Documentation/devices.txt under the linux src tree might help. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: msdos file system
Sorry, I missed the original post. I think you are looking for mformat, available in the mtools package. This may only work on floppies (not ^^ It depends on the configuration of the mttols. sure). I personally prefer superformat which is on the rescue image, but not part of the base installation (and no where else that I know of, so I stole it :-). Good luck, Brandon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Login's source absent
Hi, I wanted to see the source of a program login, and modify the greeting, and responses, however, I didn't find it under bo/source/base/[login] Is there any reason for it's absence? And where can I find the source for it? Or should I fiddle with PAM? Using some agetty switches and the /etc/issue, /etc/motd files can do part of this work. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Networking Problem
Problem getting debian 1.3.1 to work with network card. I have a Racal Interlan NI6510 chipset (AM7990) network card. During the debian install the card is detected and the driver is installed into the kernel, but when I reboot the machine, I am getting a -- Network not started -- message, and I can't seem to ping my Windows NT 4.0 workstation. Can someone tell me what I am not doing right. Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb
I was trying to install this package and came up with the following errors: mattyt# dpkg -i libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb dpkg: regarding libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb containing libgdbmg1: libgdbmg1 conflicts with libgdbm1 (= 1.7.3-20) libgdbm1 (version 1.7.3-19) is installed. dpkg: error processing libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing libgdbmg1 Errors were encountered while processing: libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb ...is it ok to to a --force-conflicts, or should I do a dpkg -r libgdbm1 or what? thanks, matty Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux as a mail and intranetserver
Dirk Kievith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Any idea where I can check out qmail? There's an experimental unreleased package under projects/experimental (or something) on most Debian mirrors. Also see URL:http://www.qmail.org/ for more information in general. There's basically just one choice for web proxy: squid. This comes with the Debian release or is it to be found elsewhere? It's part of Debian. A further note about using Linux as a server for Win95: you probably want to check out Samba, which lets your Linux server show up for file and print serving under the Network Neighbourhood, like an NT server. It's a Debian package, of course. -- Carey Evans * http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ gc kernel: Warning: possible SYN flooding. Sending cookies. kernel: validated probe(17f, 17f, 11557, 5010, -1645409555) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man page for mkfs.ext2 ??
Bob Nielsen wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Chris R. Martin wrote: I'm in the process of copying my Debian system to a new (larger) partition and I want to tinker with the number of inodes, etc. The man page for mkfs refers me to the man page for mkfs.ext2... but I don't have it! Does anyone know which package this belongs in? I thought I got all the man pages... I don't know why, but try 'man mke2fs' instead. It was a bug in package e2fsprogs, fixed in recent versions. It's missing a symlink from mke2fs.8.gz to mkfs.ext2.8.gz fabrizio -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pluto Leader - Debian Developer Happy Debian 1.3.1 User - vi-holic | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man-db ocassionally needs to be re-installed.
Andy Spiegl wrote: This is a little off-topic, but related to man-pages, too. My problem is that - when running man -a as I always do - I often get to see man pages multiple times. Yes, and if you skip one choosing Ctrl-D its entry disappear from the next run (and from the whatis database). All are known problems, fixed in the latests versions. I've built bo (aka for Debian 1.3) version numbered 42-51, while the hamm are numbered 52 . Latest ( -44 ) went installed just yesterday into: project/experimental/man-db_2.3.10-44_i386.deb You can have the .deb binary also from ftp://ftp.icenet.fi/private/fpolacco/debian/libc5 FYI, here is a list of recent changes (post -38 in 1.3.1), from the changelog file (in reverse order, recent on top): * avoided bashism in debian/rules. * deleted bogus files with spaces embedded in name (#13888) * applied patch for alpha by [EMAIL PROTECTED] #13851 * zsoelim.l - added new start condition to avoid expansion of .so requests inside a macro definition. (fixes #2969 and #13812) * added quote around var in mkcatdirs (fixes #13738, tx M.Konarski) * added removal of tempfiles from handler for SIGINT (fixes bug#13352 Thanks to John Goerzen) * changed way to call groff adding -P-g so grops can guess a page size (fixes #13563 uncorrectly assigned to groff, thx John Kallal) * solved deletion of entries in index when skipping their display (#10483) * wiped wrong message displayed when skipping display of manpage. * avoided redundant searches for section names longer than one char. * Added removal of tempfiles via atexit(). * restored original order in search sections (3 before 2) changed by previous maintainer (don't know why) (#12192 thx Juan Cespedes) * redirecting unusefull error messages in postrm and preinst (#12224) * doesn't provide gencat anymore, but can't use libc6's gencat. (#9841) * Changed tests in postinst to work with ash (#12212 thx Herbert Xu) * Changed define of debian version for use in non-debian systems (thanx to Albert Chin-A-Young); added file include/version.h * (Italian version) Minori correzioni a mandb.m da parte di Borto. * several corrections to it's = its typos in manpages [man(1), manpath(1), zsoelim(1), mandb(8)] Fixes Bug#11440 thanx to David Damerell. * Restore correct NAMN swedish parse for whatis (bug introduced by me fixing #6497 on version -34) Thanx to John F. Bunch. (fixes #12069) * Fixed segfault using an empty arg to -S option (Bug#12074, Thx Herbert Thielen) * Fixed wrong manpath behaviour (Bug#10377, Thanx to Michael Lachmann) * reduced output in postinst (Bug#11902). * included execution of chmanconfig (which adds MANDB_MAP lines for lang manpages) inside mkcatdirs (which creates catdir hierarchies). * added debian version info to option -V * corrected a couple of italian messages that didn't work (Grazie Borto) * added nlsutils in Replaces: field of control file (fixes Bug#9943) * Ugly typo in debian/rules that made .dwww-index disappear from last version (-38): my fault! (sigh) (autoBug#10130) * dropped scan of current directory if explicitly present in PATH both as an empty entry or an explicit dot; this used to left index files here and there. (fixes Bug#10039, thanks to Giuliano Procida) * allowed non man dirs if in manpath.config (now accepts manpages hierarchies like /usr/share/ucbman) fixes Bug#9947, thanks to Richard Kettlewell. Cheers, Fabrizio -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pluto Leader - Debian Developer Happy Debian 1.3.1 User - vi-holic | 6F7267F5 fingerprint 57 16 C4 ED C9 86 40 7B 1A 69 A1 66 EC FB D2 5E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Very weird behaviour - hardware failure ?
I wonder, if he were alive today, would Galileo have used my monitor and
computer instead of an apple and a feather to experiment with gravity. I
think I would.
My system is behaving very strangely since I installed Debian. I had
Slackware on my box before and it seemed to behave as one would expect. I
was despondent at first because it seemed that I could not configure
Debian to behave as I come to expect with Slackware. Now I suspect
something far more insidious and hope someone out there will recognize the
problem. In short, am I experiencing a hardware failure ?
The symptoms involve hda errors, kernel panics, making a ppp connection
with PAP, and freaky xdm light shows. Personally I am beginning to
suspect that my hard disk has gone, but don't know enough to say for sure.
Maybe something else is going that makes it look like the HD has gone.
Maybe its software somewhere.
Symptom # 1 Preparing my Linux partitions for the Deb install.
When initializing an ext2 Linux native partition with a bad-block
scan things started out fine with
checking for bad blocks (read only test): xx/542776
but then things started to get nasty and I got messages like the following
interspersed with the above message
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
]
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect = x,
sector=yyy
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:07, sector yyy
I got about a gazillion of these error messages. At first I thought that
all of a sudden something had happened to my disk that was causing blocks
to go bad, but I am no longer so sure. I did get the install finished and
Debian seemed to be working.
Symptom # 2 Disappearing DOS partitions
Before I installed Linux I had DOS primary partition and an extended
partition containing two logical drives. When I bought the computer, I
knew I would be installing Linux, so I only used about a third of the disk
for these DOS partitions. I didn't have to use fips or anything similar
to get ready for Linux.
After installing Linux everything seemed hunky-dory. I could access C:,
D:, and E: from both Linux and form DOS or Windoze 3.1. Then one day, in
windoze I went to File Manager to look for something on D:, and neither D:
nor E: was visible -- no little driver icon to click on on the driver icon
bar.
I can still see them from Linux however.
Symptom # 3 Seeming random hd i/o timeouts
I can't remember the exact message to this error and can not find where I
wrote it. But it was hard disk i/o timeouts that started with hda:
status error or somesuch, then said hda: drive not ready for command
then something or other about resetting and things being okay. This never
caused a crash or anything but happened doing things like an ls. I
could get these messages in the middle of a directory listing if the
directory was long.
I haven't had this problem for awhile.
Sympton # 4 Kernel Panics
I foolishly didn't write down all of these and now can't remember what I
was doing when these panics happened. They were always during ordinary
things though. The most recent happened when I was trying to get my new
ppp connection setup with pppd and chat. I was just testing a new script
and whammo! Dirty powerdown.
Just found a message from one of the first times this happened
message from syslogd
Kernel: Kernel panic: EXT2 fs panic (device 03:07): ext2_read_inode:
unable
to read i-node block - inode = , block= y
When I tried to shutdown -r now I got
hda: status error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
Error ]
hda: status error: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect =
x,
sector=yyy
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:07, sector yyy
got that four times then
hda: drive not ready for command
bash: /sbin/shutdown: I/O error
Symptom # 5 pppd not working
I'm not sure if this one is me or my new ISP (not the freenet) but I will
mention it anyway. pppd connects, I get assigned my IP address, ifconfig
reports the ppp0 interface and the lo interface, and route -n reports the
host, the local loopback and the gateway. Then I can do nothing. Can't
telnet, ftp or browse known sights, can't even ping the host I am
connected to and it can not ping me (talked to my ISP). No one else seems
to having problems. The server was happily working with other dial-in
clients while we spoke and the ISP was able to ping them. This is a
connection that was working.
Then as I mentioned in the above symptom, a kernel panic was provoked.
Symptom # 6 xdm light show
The latest in this series of frustrating little phenomena is the strobe
effect I was getting from xdm. From xdm I did a control-alt-F1 to get
back to the console. I was going to shutdown but then wanted to go back
to xdm to do something. I hit alt-F7 as
Re: Linux as a mail and intranetserver
On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 10:36:11PM +0500, Dirk Kievith wrote: What I would need is a support for multiple email users on one or two machines, like Pegasus Mail. The kind of thing they implement in a college I suppose. Thus password protected login would also be necessary. Pegasus does not feature that either. Suppose I will have to shift to Linux-based-email-packages?? :-) Well, the simplest solution would be to give your users an account on the machine, with login and password, and let them telnet into the box. Bingo, the only security problems you have are the ones you would have anyway (except for somebody using the shell account to hack the debian server, but well, no), and the security on the Mess-DOS thingummies is not relevant to the security of the Linux box. From the shell account, any common Unix mail-reader can be used, Emacs does it (like it does everything else), and elm, mutt and pine are specialized, easy-to-use and light-weight solutions. Netscrape could be used on another plane, without user authentication. Unless, of course, you don't want your users hanging around on a Unix box... Everything depends on the level of the users, maybe using a different system would be asking too much ? Another solution is to consider a secure Mess-DOS part [1] and a working Samba solution, and to deliver into the Samba-exported directory for each user. I don't know if it would work, more specifically I don't know if Samba lets the normal Unix processes write to the Samba-exported directories as if there were normal ext2fs Linux partitions. Hope this opened up an avenue of choice :-) [1] that's an oxymore, ie. a contradiction in terms :-) -- include std_disclaim.h Lorens KOCKUM ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xmix
hello, again, y'all, well, i've got most of the hamm packages installed so far. RealAudio from Netscape, and the GIMP work great! thanks loads for all of your help. incidentally, it's stable so far, but i'll keep ya up to speed. now to the subject: i re-installed xmix from dselect (accessing hamm, of course) and when i try to start it, i get: Segmentation fault (core dumped) ...i thought it might be a permissions problem, but the same thing happens as root. ??? thanks, matty Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mutt 0.84-0 [PGP-capable??]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 03:08:12PM -0500, Joe Stewart wrote: Received this from debian-changes list - where can it be downloaded from? It is still in master's Incoming directory, presumably because it needs manual processing. I've put a copy at ftp://ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl/pub/linux/devel-ray/ Ray Does this mutt-84-package support PGP? -- Yours, Frank Barknecht a href=http://www.koeln-online.de/einblick/; Das Koelner Stadt- und Unimagazin /a --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Matt Thompson wrote: I was trying to install this package and came up with the following errors: mattyt# dpkg -i libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb dpkg: regarding libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb containing libgdbmg1: libgdbmg1 conflicts with libgdbm1 (= 1.7.3-20) libgdbm1 (version 1.7.3-19) is installed. dpkg: error processing libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing libgdbmg1 Errors were encountered while processing: libgdbmg1_1.7.3-21.deb ...is it ok to to a --force-conflicts, or should I do a dpkg -r libgdbm1 or what? Upgrade to libgdbm1_1.7.3-22 first. Then install libgdbmg1. [ Then, you may try to remove libgdbm1 if you like (but do not use - --force-anything), it will work if no program is using it ]. The same trick should work for all g packages containing shared libraries. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNEXnEiqK7IlOjMLFAQFM6QP/S+d7ejhTuRgQVU3g7zAw+DdsKQcOncSt GYgHBytrBnIcerzipfE1ro6m8YYt2hUlcKZ0l7g8D0JGXrTOd1Wct26diPItZQBf D+9PeEE0iBO8G+U8ll7VXzEIefPbXFp9DMqA2gOjxv/7CkeUz8im/xcuOhNApRmD 0lWNH+FDhCc= =S7r7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Smail configuration, rewriting from line
I configured smail using smailconfig using the following options: ail generated on this system will have `bln.de' used as the host part (after the @) in the From: field and similar places. Message-ID's, Received lines, etc. will use the system's canonical hostname, which is currently set to marvin.bln.de. The following hostname(s) will be recognised as referring to this system: marvin.bln.de, bln.de Mail for postmaster, root, etc. will be sent to root. Local mail is delivered. Outbound remote mail is sent to mail.combox.de via SMTP and TCP/IP (using any MX records in the DNS). Everything works fine so far, if not online all external mail is queued and if online the mail are sent immediatly. Now I look for a way to rewrite my from line using smail. Without any interaction it would generate [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is obviously wrong (as my really pop account is called [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Does smail support this? I already tried the alias mechanism which is the other way round. Unfortunatly I couldn't find further information in the smail documentation or the smail FAQ. Thanks for your help, Torsten -- And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space. Because there's bugger all down here on Earth Monthy Python, Galaxy Song PGP Public key available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: I can lock up machine. Why?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey. I've been doing lots of programming lately and have noticed (how could I not) that I am reliably able to cause my machine to lockup. [Delete some lines] open a document in xfte that is several pages long. Quickly scroll through it using the page up and page down keys. In as little time as a minute I'm able to lock the machine solid -- no disk access, nothing. You are running that under X? Can you try a remote login or use an external terminal? Maybe this application just blocks all mouse and key events from X so you can't even Zap it or switch to another console. But login via terminals or network still works. I don't know xfte, maybe this is a Motif application which are quite vulnerable to this bug (as Motif is quite buggy here). I have seen that behaviour with Netscape (3.01, I think) and Staroffice (both statically linked with Motif), but unreproducable. Netscape 4.03 even crashed my X completely (quitting it) one times. Torsten -- And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space. Because there's bugger all down here on Earth Monthy Python, Galaxy Song PGP Public key available -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: scroll-back buffer
Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I clear the scroll-back buffer when a use logs out (other than
changing tty's)?
Echo four thousand spaces from .bash_logout?
Another way:
runvc false
where runvc is the following script:
#!/bin/sh
# Run something on a VC, from X, and switch back to X when done.
# GPL Joey Hess, Thu, 10 Jul 1997 23:27:08 -0400
exec open -s -- sh -c $* ; chvt `getvc`
and getvc is compiled from the following source
/* getvc.c
* Prints the number of the current VC to stdout. Most of this code
* was ripped from the open program, and this code is GPL'd
*
* Joey Hess, Fri Apr 4 14:58:50 EST 1997
*/
#include sys/vt.h
#include fcntl.h
main () {
int fd = 0;
struct vt_stat vt;
if ((fd = open(/dev/console,O_WRONLY,0)) 0) {
perror(Failed to open /dev/console\n);
return(2);
}
if (ioctl(fd, VT_GETSTATE, vt) 0) {
perror(can't get VTstate\n);
close(fd);
return(4);
}
printf(%d\n,vt.v_active);
}
/* End of getvc.c */
This method automates the switching of VC and can be run from .logout
(if you run a csh).
I use this script for 'runvc mc' from inside X.
Torsten
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Re: A quickie on telnet
I am the author of pass, which may well suit your needs. This software will be uploaded to sunsite a few weeks later; by then, the quatity of of documentation should improve beyond the draft stage. Right now, I am willing to email you a copy in .tgz format, or, if you prefer, a week later, in an un-official .deb package. Title: pass Version: 0.1 Entered-date: 13 October, 1997 Description: pass(1) mimics the behavior of rsh . All commands are executed through telnetd at target hosts that run on unix; thus, no special servers are needed at the remote location. . Standard input to pass is piped to the remote program and the exit status, stdout, and stderr match those of the remotely executed program. Because the login procedure is transparent to the user, pass(1) is ideal for scripts that need to excecute commands on remote machines. . Keywords: telnet, pipes, scripts, remote, commands Author:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ioannis Tambouras) Maintained-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ioannis Tambouras) Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/network/misc 997 pass.lsm 22 M pass-0.1.tgz Alternate-site: None Original-site: None Platforms: g++ (or equivalent) for code compilation. Copying-policy: GPL -- Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
linuxthreads problems
Hi All! I'm trying to install debian/hamm and work with threads. First of all I've discovered that debian python_1.4.0-4 is compiled w/o threads, so I tried to rebuild it with. This had partial success (before hamm all my attempts were in vain: I was permanently getting SIGUSR1). Investigating the only problem found yet (coredumps during thread or program exit) I've discoveried that python with pthreads uses exit() rather than pthread_join(). Is it ok? After that I've noticed that libc6-dev_2.0.5c-0.1 conflicts with libpthread0-dev_0.6-1 and what's more, glibc includes old version of LinuxThreads (0.5). Could please somebody explain me the situation? Trying to run examples from LinuxThreads I found a bug concerning ex4.c: glibc's version of LinuxThreads multiply (PTHREAD_DESTRUCTOR_ITERATIONS=4 times) applies pthread_key_create()'s destructor to thread-specific data which causes multiple free() of pointer and can be fixed by making pointer NULL after free(). Native LinuxThreads don't iterate here and behave well. The question is: is it intended behaviour? If not I'm slightly disappointed to whom I should send bug report: Xavier Leroy, Ulrich Drepper or Guy Maor? Thank you for your attention and excuse me for my English. Vitaly Belostotsky. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mutt 0.84-0 [PGP-capable??]
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 11:39:17AM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Does this mutt-84-package support PGP? As of 0.68-1, mutt was moved from non-US to main following a policy decision that hooks to crypto don't prevent a package to go into the main distribution. The mutt package is the normal, non-castrated version with hooks to PGP. Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NFS as root
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
Note, that for hamm, the not-perfectness is somewhat extreme: it
doesn't work at all, however hard you try.
Can you explain why it doesn't work?
cause I'm an incompetent, lazy and useless maintainer, that's why.
Or, put it differently, because the /tftpboot/$IP/lib directories
are filled with libc5 versions of the libraries only, not the libc6
versions. And, most networking utilities use libc6 now, well, things
fail. I really have to upgrade the package.
I think I haven't used my diskless
computer since I upgraded the nfsroot package to the current hamm version.
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#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
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ghostview
Hi all, I got problem viewing files with ps extention, I had tried gs and ghostview, no luck with both, yield me this error message in a pop up windows: Error: /undefined Aladin Ghostscript: unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in currentdistillerparams. Operand Stack: Execution Stack: %interp_exit --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false Dictionary stack: --dict:600/631-- --dict:0/20-- --dict:70/200-- --dict:105/400 Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 8348 can somebody please help me out, I am desperate thanks kusuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ghostview
Error: /undefined Aladin Ghostscript: unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in
currentdistillerparams.
Operand Stack:
Strage. Are you sure your .ps file is postscript? Looks like it
isn't.
can somebody please help me out, I am desperate
I don't think anybody will be able to give you any advice unless you
give us eighter the postscript file, or at least in what way you created
it. I think the'res something wrong with the postscript file.
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#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
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Re: ghostview
GV works great, try that. http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/ On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Wiria Amadja Kusuma wrote: Hi all, I got problem viewing files with ps extention, I had tried gs and ghostview, no luck with both, yield me this error message in a pop up windows: Error: /undefined Aladin Ghostscript: unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in currentdistillerparams. Operand Stack: Execution Stack: %interp_exit --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false Dictionary stack: --dict:600/631-- --dict:0/20-- --dict:70/200-- --dict:105/400 Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 8348 can somebody please help me out, I am desperate thanks kusuma -- 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: nslookup failure due to Connection refused
On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: Using the latest versions of libc6, netbase and netstd 2.17-1, and dnsutils 8.1.1-2, I can't seem to get nslookup working. The error message is *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed I've been using this set of packages with nslookup without problems. My guess is that your DNS configuration is incorrect. Have you checked: /etc/host.conf /etc/resolv.conf and your various named configuration files? -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ppp
It's me again. OK. Now and again, when I try to go online via pon (ppp), the modem hangs up before I'm connected but pppd just sits there and never goes away. Even as root, I'm unable to kill it with any signals, but going to single user mode does it. What is wrong and why can't I kill the process? Going back into mode 2, I can go online flawlessly. -- Jon Nelson U of MN Housing and Res. Life Computing Supervisor [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ghostview
GV works great, try that.
http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~plass/gv/
First: gv is a debian package, no need to build it yourselve.
Second: gv is only a (very nice indeed) wrapper around gs. If gs cannot
understand the file, the gv will also fail, as gv just calls gs.
So, although I advice everyone to use gv instead of plain
gs or ghostview for viewing postscript files, it cannot be the solution
to this guys problems.
Hi all, I got problem viewing files with ps extention, I had tried gs and
ghostview, no luck with both, yield me this error message in a pop up
windows:
Error: /undefined Aladin Ghostscript: unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in
currentdistillerparams.
Operand Stack:
Execution Stack:
%interp_exit --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false
Dictionary
stack: --dict:600/631-- --dict:0/20-- --dict:70/200-- --dict:105/400
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 8348
can somebody please help me out, I am desperate
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#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777iX+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0j]dsj
$/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$kSK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
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permission probs at os.inf.tu-dresden.de
Greetings! I think some of the permissions need to be reset at this mirror site. Here's my mirror output: Mirrored DebianNonUS (os.inf.tu-dresden.de:/pub/debian-non-US/stable/ - /mnt/debian/local/) Mirror of parts of ftp.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US @ Wed Oct 15 21:21:06 EDT 1997 Failed to get binary-i386/sambades_1.9.7p2-1.deb: 550 binary-i386/sambades_1.9.7p2-1.deb: Permission denied. Failed to get source/sambades_1.9.17p2-1.diff.gz: 550 source/sambades_1.9.17p2-1.diff.gz: Permission denied. Failed to get source/sambades_1.9.17p2.orig.tar.gz: 550 source/sambades_1.9.17p2.orig.tar.gz: Permission denied. Failed to get source/sambades_1.9.17p2-1.dsc: 550 source/sambades_1.9.17p2-1.dsc: Permission denied. unlink /mnt/debian/local//.mirror Take care, and thanks for all the great work! -- Camm Maguire[EMAIL PROTECTED] == The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens. -- Baha'u'llah -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ppp
Last resort: killall -9 pppd On Thu, 16 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's me again. OK. Now and again, when I try to go online via pon (ppp), the modem hangs up before I'm connected but pppd just sits there and never goes away. Even as root, I'm unable to kill it with any signals, but going to single user mode does it. What is wrong and why can't I kill the process? Going back into mode 2, I can go online flawlessly. - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Trovalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Shared Libraries Howto?
to make this work? Is there a howto? Any info pages I should read? Yes! It may be helpful to look at the info pages that come with the libtool package. -- Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help with xserver
I was once again tempted to upgrade my xserver and all hell broke loose. Now I cannot get into X any more. The server fails with the message: __ Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' -- I am hoping that someone might speedily help me. This is a production machine and I need to run in X. I did not provide all other details because i think someone migh easily recognize the error message. // Daniel J. Mashao -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel // -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help with xserver
I had this problem recently, and I believe that the solution may be to reinstall the X fonts. The new xserver expects to find gzipped fonts, and it is probably finding .Z files instead. Just download the various xfnt*.deb packages, install them, and you'll be back in business. Rikki Hall On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: I was once again tempted to upgrade my xserver and all hell broke loose. Now I cannot get into X any more. The server fails with the message: __ Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' -- I am hoping that someone might speedily help me. This is a production machine and I need to run in X. I did not provide all other details because i think someone migh easily recognize the error message. // Daniel J. Mashao -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel // -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . *** Please dispose of this message properly *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ghostview
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 02:58:41PM +0200, joost witteveen wrote: Error: /undefined Aladin Ghostscript: unrecoverable error, exit code 1 in currentdistillerparams. Operand Stack: Strage. Are you sure your .ps file is postscript? Looks like it isn't. I've seen this with ps files produced by FrameMaker and aladdin ghostscript 3.33; when I used 5.xx there were no problems. currentdistillerparams has something to do with PDF generation; ghostscript's PDF support is fairly recent (4.x IIRC). Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help with xserver
Or the reverse may be occuring if you are using a commercial X server like AcceleratedX. It expects to find *.Z fonts, not *.gz fonts. So if you did install new fonts when you upgraded you may hose up your commercial X server. kevni Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:55:05 -0400 (EDT) From: I Brake for Moths [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:Daniel J. Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Help with xserver I had this problem recently, and I believe that the solution may be to reinstall the X fonts. The new xserver expects to find gzipped fonts, and it is probably finding .Z files instead. Just download the various xfnt*.deb packages, install them, and you'll be back in business. Rikki Hall On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: I was once again tempted to upgrade my xserver and all hell broke loose. Now I cannot get into X any more. The server fails with the message: __ Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' -- I am hoping that someone might speedily help me. This is a production machine and I need to run in X. I did not provide all other details because i think someone migh easily recognize the error message. // Daniel J. Mashao -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel // -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . *** Please dispose of this message properly *** -- 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] .
majordomo list server
Has anyone successfully setup majordomo to have a list server? If so, how do you set it up once you've installed the majordomo package? Thanks for your time, Aaron Walker -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ghostview
this is one of the files I had tried, see the attachment, but I can view pics well in the /ghostview/examples. Strage. Are you sure your .ps file is postscript? Looks like it isn't. can somebody please help me out, I am desperate I don't think anybody will be able to give you any advice unless you give us eighter the postscript file, or at least in what way you created it. I think the'res something wrong with the postscript file. thanks kusuma Gs_btokn.ps Description: PostScript document
Compiling the Kernel
Hi There! I'm compiling the kernel for the first time a having some problems, Avery thing up to the make zImage , it works to the end and then has some error msg's: the last few lines are: as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsec.s Make[1]: as86: Command not found Make[1]: *** [bootsec.o] Error127 Make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux/i386/boot Make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 2 Then stops. All rest of the before these step worked fine. I know that it trying to find the file or script for bootsec.o, but it is not in the /usr/src/linux/i386/boot dir, the bootsec.s is though. Do you know where to find this file? Thanks Steve Koop: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Anyone getting jdk1.1 working?
Yesterday I downloaded the jdk1.1 packages to a hamm machine. I also recompiled my kernel for java binary support. Then I went to run some of the demo programs using appletviewer and java spins into some sort of endless loop. I can watch it on top eat up all the spare CPU cycles and just grow in memory usage. I let it run for 15 minutes before finally killing it. I'm sure I'm missing something in setting things up, but the settings I can see in the various README files I've checked. But still nothing. -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compiling the Kernel
I'm compiling the kernel for the first time a having some problems, Avery thing up to the make zImage , it works to the end and then has some error msg's: the last few lines are: as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsec.s Make[1]: as86: Command not found Make[1]: *** [bootsec.o] Error127 Make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux/i386/boot Make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 2 Then stops. All rest of the before these step worked fine. I know that it trying to find the file or script for bootsec.o, but it is not in the /usr/src/linux/i386/boot dir, the bootsec.s is though. You guess is wrong. It cannot find as86 program which will _produce_ .o file. To have this program on your system you would have to install bin86 package from devel. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Orientation documentation please (was: Re: Changing mouse drivers)
(Hoping I have the attributions correct:) On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Daniel Martin wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote: I now want to change to using a serial mouse. What would be the steps (I do not want to reload the OS.)? Reload the OS? That's windows-world thinking. First, if you installed the gpm package, you'll need to run 'gpmconfig' as root, and tell gpm about your mouse. Those who live in glass houses... No, that's not windows-world thinking. It's the kind of thinking you get when the operating system doesn't come with good installation/configuration _documentation_. Since users set up the system by running installation scripts, that's the only way new users know that the system can be configured. If the system came with better installation and configuration documentation users would have documentation in which to look up things like changing mice, etc. I thinking of an overview of the things to do and of how the system-manage- ment utilities fit together (as opposed to documentation of individual utitilies, which is probably close to sufficient). Why doesn't Debian come with a document that points to the system-wide Debianizations of the system (e.g., the xxxconfig commands (which _are_ quite convenient once you know they exist)), and why doesn't the Debian installation document point to that orientation document? (Consider new users: They follow the instructions for loading Debian on the system. Those instructions (last I saw), dumped the user into dselect, without given an orientation of what still needs to be configured, to Debian-specific ways of doing things, etc.) (I know there are some LDP documents out there. However, they don't cover the Debianized aspects of a Debian distribution.) (Also, I know that many packages' README files are in /usr/doc/xxx, but they don't apply when Debian has changed the default configuration of the package, and the changes from that default are not all documented in README-Debian files for the packages.) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ghostview
But why do you want to view this file? As far as I know, this is not a file inteneded for viewign (it's from /usr/lib/ghostview/*/). Actually, I don't know what this file exactly does. Do you have any special reason for wanting to view this file? that is not the file I intended to view, but that is file that give me the same error message, what I want is about 2.5 megs so it is impossible for me to attach.., :-) Actually I had d/l a system administrator book from The Ohio State University, and I am sure that it is in postscript format, that is what I intended to view, may be I should had upgrade to the 5.xx thanks kusuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NFS as root
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, joost witteveen wrote: Can you explain why it doesn't work? cause I'm an incompetent, lazy and useless maintainer, that's why. Or, put it differently, because the /tftpboot/$IP/lib directories are filled with libc5 versions of the libraries only, not the libc6 versions. And, most networking utilities use libc6 now, well, things fail. I really have to upgrade the package. Ah, now I know why I didn't notice it didn't work. I changed the config files to include libc6 a long time ago on my own system. I didn't really think of it as hey, this package is broken. I just changed it so that it worked. BTW, I don't like the approach where /var and /tmp on the clients are nfs mounts of server:/var and server:/tmp respectively. Something like server:/var/$IP and server:/tmp/$IP would be more appropriate I guess, but I fear it doesn't work very well with /tmp being completely emptied at boot time. Remco -- Very funny, Scotty. Now beam up my clothes. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Q] HP LaserJet 6MP
Hi I want to set EconoMode (on and off) in a HP LaserJet 6MP from within Linux. It is possible? I have tried to set the EconoMode using dosemu but the dos program RCP (Remote Control Panel) does not work under dosemu (I have not succeed in doing it work). Thanks. -- At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ghostview
Wiria Amadja Kusuma wrote: :Actually I had d/l a system administrator book from The Ohio State :University, and I am sure that it is in postscript format, that is what I :intended to view, may be I should had upgrade to the 5.xx Are you sure it's PostScript and not PDF? The URL where you got it from would be most helpful. Bye, -- Thomas Baetzler, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] A HREF=http://www.fh-karlsruhe.de/~bath0011/Visit my Homepage!/A The cowards never came, and the weaklings died on the way - R.A.H. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
majordomo list server
Aaron Walker Has anyone successfully setup majordomo to have a list server? If so, how do you set it up once you've installed the majordomo package? Thanks for your time, I have installed majordomo and (following the NEWLISTS doc) I have ALMOST setup a list in majordomo. The list is set - the info listname message give the correct output - the subscribe listname works fine! But when I try to send a messagem to the list ... :( ;( It seems that the syntax :include: in test-list: :include:/var/lib/majordomo/lists/test it is not the correct one!? Any help it is (very) welcome. Thanks -- At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia Universidade de Coimbra P-3000 COIMBRA, PORTUGAL e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Q: gcc cpp
In the first place, thank you everyone for all
the help. Sorry if I ask so many questions.
I have written a basic C program just to try
out gcc, the source code is:
#include stdio.h
main()
{
printf(This is a test\n);
}
When I compiled it I ran:
gcc test.c -o test
When I executed the application, it ran
yet I did not get the This is a test
message to show up on my screen. I have
read the doc's on gcc. Am I missing
something? I even tried using cpp and
I get the same results.
Thanks,
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Q: How to add to X Mngr popup menu
The subject line says it all. I am using Afterstep as my WinMngr. I would like to add menu items both to the menu that pops up when you left mouse click on the background and to the Afterstep menu. There must be a doc for this someplace, yet there are so many I am probably stumbling over it and missing it. Thank you, -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compiling the Kernel
Hi, From the kernel-package README file: -- INSTALLATION NOTES: Before you go any further, please allow me to point out that you need to have a few other packages installed before you can compile your own kernels (it is difficult to compile anything without a compiler ;-). Firstly, you will need gcc, the libc development package (libc5-dev at the time of writing), and, on Intel platforms, bin86. [If you use the menuconfig target of make, you will need ncursesX.X-dev, and make xconfig also requires tkX.X-dev, and other packages these depend on] The packages suggested are: devel:gcc, libc5-dev, binutils, make, and, for intel x86 platforms, bin86 (non-Intel platforms don't need this). interpreters: gawk. base: gzip, shellutils, and grep. Of course, pretty gui front ends to kernel configuration require more packages, but they are not strictly essential (though quite nice really). Oh, and of course, make-kpkg is part of kernel-package, usually found in section misc. For the Brave and the impatient: 1% cd kernel source tree 2% make config # or make menuconfig or make xconfig and configure 3% make-kpkg clean 4% make-kpkg -r=custom.1.0 kernel_image 5% dpkg -i ../kernel-image-X.XXX_1.0_arch.deb 6% shutdown -r now # If and only if LILO worked or you have a means of # booting the new kernel. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!! -- manoj -- Just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that isn't immune to bullets. The Brigadier, Doctor Who Manoj Srivastava url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile, Alabama USAurl:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Q: gcc cpp
Dean C. Sullinger wrote: When I executed the application, it ran yet I did not get the This is a test message to show up on my screen. I have read the doc's on gcc. Am I missing something? I even tried using cpp and I get the same results. I'm willing to bet you ran it as prompt test Try running it as prompt ./test teest is a shell built-in under bash, so the shell never even looks for an executable with that name. Renaming test would also work. Stephen --- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Q: gcc cpp
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Dean C. Sullinger wrote:
In the first place, thank you everyone for all
the help. Sorry if I ask so many questions.
I have written a basic C program just to try
out gcc, the source code is:
#include stdio.h
main()
{
printf(This is a test\n);
}
When I compiled it I ran:
gcc test.c -o test
When I executed the application, it ran
yet I did not get the This is a test
message to show up on my screen. I have
read the doc's on gcc. Am I missing
something? I even tried using cpp and
I get the same results.
You probably got the wrong test program. There's one built into bash
and there's also an (equivalent) one in in /usr/bin/test.
You need to type
./test
to be sure to run the test program in your current directory.
You can use bash's type command to see what's happening:
$ type test
test is a shell builtin
Hope this helps,
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
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Re: Anyone getting jdk1.1 working?
David Morris wrote: I'm sure I'm missing something in setting things up, but the settings I can see in the various README files I've checked. But still nothing. Which applets specifically? I have jdk1.1.3 (from hamm) it works just fine. However, I'm aware that the kind soul who ported jdk to linux has seen problemms with AWT objects not releasing memory (am going to help investigate the problem just as soon as SUN approve my licence). Stephen --- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RealAudio 5.0b1: NO sound under linux 2.x
I have just installed the new version of RealAudio, but there is no sound. I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages: Oct 16 09:25:32 OZ kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer sound does work for me in RealAudio 3.0 and other application. Any ideas? -Oz -- NAME Oz Dror, Santa Monica, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94 PHONE Fax (310) 396-5798 -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQBtAzA/tLQAAAEDAKUy/TEjQ/jiZ+9/WJb/+NHxqkvOxGZ3W/F2JCNm5v5ZTZz+ BVZC9GM/I+plQ8xz+7B+KhDSVax8gxNTAkJ+I7P/zAP2ZDMwVf4lq5ZFxMJC+7c7 ET+hNtmQUt8vCVR8hQAFEbQZT3ogRHJvciA8ZHJvckBuZXRjb20uY29tPg== =EU23 -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bug#9766: magicfilter and (pdf = postscript) problems
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, J.Sigbrandt wrote: Hi, Need to get pdf file printing working using magicfilter. The printer is a LaserJet 4P (no postscript module) [SKIP] use gs to print .pdf [SKIP] Hi, first of all, thank you very much for your experiments! Some problems with pdf files have been solved in the new version of gs-aladdin (5.03). I am trying to upload a libc5 version of this package since yesterday, but there are problems with master.debian.org (the libc6 version has been uploaded some weeks ago). If you want, you can download the package from http://www.di.unipi.it/~pistore/gs-aladdin_5.03-0.99_i386.deb I'd be very grateful if you could test the new package with your file and printer. Thank you, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: man page for nsswitch.conf
On 14 Oct 1997, Dale Martin wrote: Hello. As I have mentioned on this list several times, I have upgraded my machine to a fair amount of libc6 stuff. In general, it seems to be working pretty well, but a lot of the NIS stuff is messed up. I just wanted to remind you that libc6 is unstable and in development. So problems about it should go in [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Login's source absent
On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to see the source of a program login, and modify the greeting, and responses, however, I didn't find it under bo/source/base/[login] Is there any reason for it's absence? And where can I find the source for it? You don't need the source to modify the greeting. It's in /etc/issue for the local logins and /etc/issue.net for the others. You can use ansi sequences for it (colors and everything). Try fiddling around with setterm --color . When you're happy you can use (setterm ; echo...; setterm) /etc/issue to write a happy colorful greeting. Probably cp /etc/issue /etc/issue.old is a good Idea. After logging in, login displays /etc/motd. Can be colorful too, I think. Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems
On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Julien Pham wrote: First : my xterm has no color. Or, no, it has colors (when I do a ls --color in it, it works) but when I launch a text based appli (such as deselect for example) in it, it in in B W... Why ? I hassled a lot with this. I have no black-and-white-xterms, never seen. So I copied /etc/termcap/x/xterm-color over /etc/termcap/x/xterm after having made a backup of the black-and-white xterm description. No problems encountered until now. So, every normal xterm is known to be able to handle colors. Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone getting jdk1.1 working?
make sure you are in 256 colour mode, at first. David Morris wrote: Yesterday I downloaded the jdk1.1 packages to a hamm machine. I also recompiled my kernel for java binary support. Then I went to run some of the demo programs using appletviewer and java spins into some sort of endless loop. I can watch it on top eat up all the spare CPU cycles and just grow in memory usage. I let it run for 15 minutes before finally killing it. I'm sure I'm missing something in setting things up, but the settings I can see in the various README files I've checked. But still nothing. -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ -- -- 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: Strange smail core file..
On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 04:26:41PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know what this is or means? Has my copy of smail been playning nethack/rogue without me knowing? This is the so-called rogue-mode (see man page). Try 'smail -bR' (without the quotes of course) to see it life. Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: several problems with a new installation (hey, I'm learning)
On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 03:04:47PM -0500, Richard A. Guay wrote: Hi, I have a list of problems that I need help with: 2) I can not get the sound to work! If I execute cat bong.au /dev/audio I g et zsh: no such device: /dev/audio (I did the cat at root level, so it is not a permissions conflict). How do I check for the drivers for the audio board? I t is IBM MWave sound card. Did you recompiled the kernel, enabling sound support ? (It is not done by default, the standard kernel is big enough, supporting all possible hard discs etc). Install the kernel-sources, kernel-package and other packages mentioned in the README filel from kernel-packages, than follow the documentation to rebuild the kernel. See the Sound-HOWTO for more details about your sound card. 3) How do I check the number of bit planes being used by the xserver? I seem t o still run out of colors with a S3-Virge board with 2 Megs of RAM! How do you specify the resolution and number of bit planes to come up in with startx? Look at the error output, if you use startx. If you use xdm, do: # cat /var/log/xdm-errors [...] (--) S3: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 59.957 MHz) (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 80.000 MHz (**) S3: Mode 1024x768: mode clock = 75.000 (**) S3: Mode 800x600: mode clock = 50.000 (**) S3: Using 16 bpp. Color weight: 565 (--) S3: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768 (--) S3: Local bus LAW is 0xFB00 (--) S3: Using a banksize of 2048k, line width of 1024 (--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area at (960,769) for expanding pixmaps (--) S3: Using 16 planes of 960x255 at (0,769) aligned 8 as font cache Notice the 16 planes = 16 bit = 16 bpp The resolution is set in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config, the bpp's with startx -- -bpp 16 IIRC. There are other ways, please look in the mailing archive at www.debian.org for more of them. (xdm is set in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -bpp 16 for example. 4) Where can I look to find some good background pictures in xpm format? What do you like? Search with your favourite web engine (www.yahoo.com for example). If the pronounciation is on xpm format, then please notice, that you can convert any format in xpm with many tools (xv, netpbm, ...). But are you sure you need xpm format? This depends on your window manager and the packages installed... Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem with leafnode and gnus
On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 11:30:14PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: On Oct 13, Frank Barknecht wrote Gustaf Erikson hat gesagt: // Gustaf Erikson wrote: However, after subscribing to c.o.l.misc and c.o.l.advocacy with gnus, I run fetch. It takes a long time. I check /var/spool/news, and see lots of directories for alt, gnu, soc, and uk. That's a feature, I think. A lot of messages get crosspostet to groups you don't have subscribed and you are not interested in. I even have /var/spool/news/microsoft/... :( I started to use leafnode, but thought that this was ugly and stopped. I hoped that either I was doing something wrong or leafnode would be fixed. leafnode is a program, you don't need care about - just install it and that's it (ok, change one or two lines in config file). But you have to install inews, too. Otherwise you cannot post. I now use inn and newsx (I like newsx, but inn was a pain - maybe now I have a better idea things won't be so bad). I have a page at http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/wyvern/isp which should help if you are feeling lucky :-) For one or a few users, inn is overkill, and leafnode one way to go. Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ghostview
Are you sure it's PostScript and not PDF? The URL where you got it from would be most helpful. I had d/l the latest 5.03 from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html , but I have not tried it out, busy doing my accounting, I will try it again later. About the sysadm_book.ps, I d/l from ftp://www-wks.acs.ohio-state.edu/sysadm_course/sysadm_book.ps , incase somebody interested in sysadmin course, you may find some info from http://www-wks.acs.ohio-state.edu/sysadm_course/sysadm.html see ya kusuma -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
sound programs part 2
I now have bplay and timidity installed. Thanks for the help. When I run bplay as a user I get the following: bplay: setpriority: Permission denied: continuing anyway bplay: shmctl: Operation not permitted: continuing with unlocked buffers it still plays though. Does not happen as root. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ghostview
you are right Lukas, I had included the url in my previous post, thanks kusuma Oops, This is a bit too big for an attachment, in my opinion. Gruss -- Lukas Eppler (godot) http://www.fear.ch telnet://soil.fear.ch: talk:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: RealAudio 5.0b1: NO sound under linux 2.x
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Oz Dror wrote: I have just installed the new version of RealAudio, but there is no sound. I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages: Oct 16 09:25:32 OZ kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer sound does work for me in RealAudio 3.0 and other application. Any ideas? No, but it does work for me (except as a netscape plugin, but that's a bash problem). Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
fetchmail multiple hostname (was laptop in different places)
I traced (I think!) down what was (actually is) my problem. The responsible is (my poor administration :-)) and fetchmai trying to forward the fetched mail to port 25 on *two* hosts: host.domainA and localhost. Of course, since I'm not on domain_A, this is a problem because no hosts is going to answer (thanks god!): so fetchmail timeout and stop to fetch the mail ... I tried with the smtphost option in the fetchmailrc, but after the list I'm giving fetchmail always add the 2 hosts ... Now the workaround is to add a dummy interface with the IP address of the host.domainA, but I'd like to instruct fetchmail to do the right thing: that is forward the mail just to localhost!! Any idea on how to do that? graziano -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Compiling the Kernel
Steve Koop wrote: I'm compiling the kernel for the first time a having some problems, Avery thing up to the make zImage , it works to the end and then has some error msg's: the last few lines are: as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsec.s Make[1]: as86: Command not found bootsec.s is assembly code, but you don't have the assembler (as86) available. as86 is in the package bin86. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: several problems with a new installation (hey, I'm learning)
On 16-Oct-97 Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 03:04:47PM -0500, Richard A. Guay wrote: Hi, I have a list of problems that I need help with: 2) I can not get the sound to work! If I execute cat bong.au /dev/audio I g et zsh: no such device: /dev/audio (I did the cat at root level, so it is not a permissions conflict). How do I check for the drivers for the audio board? I t is IBM MWave sound card. Did you recompiled the kernel, enabling sound support ? (It is not done by default, the standard kernel is big enough, supporting all possible hard discs etc). Install the kernel-sources, kernel-package and other packages mentioned in the README filel from kernel-packages, than follow the documentation to rebuild the kernel. See the Sound-HOWTO for more details about your sound card. Okay, I will look into that. Where is the Sound-HOWTO? Where are all of the ho w to's? Sorry for dumb questions. 3) How do I check the number of bit planes being used by the xserver? I seem t o still run out of colors with a S3-Virge board with 2 Megs of RAM! How do you specify the resolution and number of bit planes to come up in with startx? Look at the error output, if you use startx. If you use xdm, do: # cat /var/log/xdm-errors [...] (--) S3: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 59.957 MHz) (--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 80.000 MHz (**) S3: Mode 1024x768: mode clock = 75.000 (**) S3: Mode 800x600: mode clock = 50.000 (**) S3: Using 16 bpp. Color weight: 565 (--) S3: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768 (--) S3: Local bus LAW is 0xFB00 (--) S3: Using a banksize of 2048k, line width of 1024 (--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area at (960,769) for expanding pixmaps (--) S3: Using 16 planes of 960x255 at (0,769) aligned 8 as font cache Notice the 16 planes = 16 bit = 16 bpp The resolution is set in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config, the bpp's with startx -- -bpp 16 IIRC. There are other ways, please look in the mailing archive at www.debian.org for more of them. (xdm is set in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -bpp 16 for example. When I run startx the information is removed by the switch to graphics mode to o fast for me to see. What is the easiest way of capturing the output? I can n ot get xdm to work. It launches okay, and sits in memory, but it never puts up a login. Since I can just use startx, I have not looked into why it does not wo rk. 4) Where can I look to find some good background pictures in xpm format? What do you like? Search with your favourite web engine (www.yahoo.com for example). If the pronounciation is on xpm format, then please notice, that you can convert any format in xpm with many tools (xv, netpbm, ...). But are you sure you need xpm format? This depends on your window manager and the packages installed... I think that I have this one under control. I use Fvwm2 and the xpmroot command to set a background. I just compiled ImageMagix on my system that will transla te most formats into xpm. Now for the hunt for a good picture (I like outdoors pictures or space pictures). Richard A. Guay Network Administrator ASIC International Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asicint.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Netscape's Stale Lock Files -- Automatic Removal
I grew weary of starting Netscape after it crashed only to get the message about there being a stale lock file. So I added this small script to my Netscape wrapper. It seems to work. Is there a better way of doing this? -BEGIN-- for lockfile in `find $HOME/.netscape -name lock` do lockpid=`ls -l $lockfile | sed 's/^.*://g' ` (ps --pid $lockpid | grep $lockpid.*netscape) /dev/null 21 if [ $? -ne 0 ] then rm $lockfile echo Removed stale lock $lockfile -- $lockpid. else echo Not Removing lock for $lockfile -- $lockpid. fi done END- Thanks Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anyone getting jdk1.1 working?
On 16-Oct-97 Lawrence wrote: make sure you are in 256 colour mode, at first. Are you saying that the jdk will not run in other graphics mode but 256 colour? I sure hope that that is not the case. Richard A. Guay Network Administrator ASIC International Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asicint.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
CDR drive replacement.
I have used Philips CDRs exclusively and have not been satisfied. For the usual reasons, I am replacing my current CDR and want something that will last a while. I can get an HP SureStore CD-Writer 6020 for a reasonable price. I am curious if anyone has had any first hand experience with this device? Is it encouraging? I would consider other options if they fall in the catagory of cheap (cost effective) and dependable, while at the same time available quickly through mail order using a credit card. Please reply by private e-mail. If there is lots of interest, I will post a synopsis back to the list. Thanks in advance, 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: Compiling the Kernel
Hi! What Manoj wants to give you a pointer to is his grandious kernel-package. It does an excellent job at kernel-compile (reduces the possible mistakes enormously), please give it a try and install it along with the other packages needed. Marcus On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 11:19:29AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, From the kernel-package README file: -- [snipped] -- manoj -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fetchmail multiple hostname (was laptop in different places)
Obi wrote: I tried with the smtphost option in the fetchmailrc, but after the list I'm giving fetchmail always add the 2 hosts ... Now the workaround is to add a dummy interface with the IP address of the host.domainA, but I'd like to instruct fetchmail to do the right thing: that is forward the mail just to localhost!! Any idea on how to do that? What does the entry for your hostname in /etc/hosts point to, 127.0.0.1 or x.x.x.x? I have 127.0.0.1 defined to my the address of my machine it works fine. Stephen --- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: several problems with a new installation (hey, I'm learning)
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote: Okay, I will look into that. Where is the Sound-HOWTO? Where are all of the howto's? Try ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO Sorry for dumb questions. S'Okay. This one is a faq, but the faq is in the same place as the howtos, so if you can't find the faq, the faq is useless ... Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ * Good Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the Park. Bad Idea: Feeding Stray Cats in the park ... to a bear. * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: several problems with a new installation (hey, I'm learning)
On Thu, Oct 16, 1997 at 12:07:28PM -0500, Richard A. Guay wrote:
On 16-Oct-97 Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Wed, Oct 15, 1997 at 03:04:47PM -0500, Richard A. Guay wrote:
Hi,
I have a list of problems that I need help with:
2) I can not get the sound to work! If I execute cat bong.au
/dev/audio
I g
et zsh: no such device: /dev/audio (I did the cat at root level, so it is
not
a permissions conflict). How do I check for the drivers for the audio
board? I
t is IBM MWave sound card.
Did you recompiled the kernel, enabling sound support ? (It is not done by
default, the standard kernel is big enough, supporting all possible hard
discs etc). Install the kernel-sources, kernel-package and other packages
mentioned in the README filel from kernel-packages, than follow the
documentation to rebuild the kernel. See the Sound-HOWTO for more details
about your sound card.
Okay, I will look into that. Where is the Sound-HOWTO? Where are all of the
ho
w to's? Sorry for dumb questions.
look under /usr/doc/HOWTO. If there is nothing, install the doc-linux and
doc-linux-text packages. Or look at sunsite.unc.edu in the LDP hierarchy.
3) How do I check the number of bit planes being used by the xserver? I
seem t
o still run out of colors with a S3-Virge board with 2 Megs of RAM! How do
you
specify the resolution and number of bit planes to come up in with startx?
Look at the error output, if you use startx. If you use xdm, do:
# cat /var/log/xdm-errors
[...]
(--) S3: Using Trio32/64 programmable clock (MCLK 59.957 MHz)
(--) S3: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 80.000 MHz
(**) S3: Mode 1024x768: mode clock = 75.000
(**) S3: Mode 800x600: mode clock = 50.000
(**) S3: Using 16 bpp. Color weight: 565
(--) S3: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768
(--) S3: Local bus LAW is 0xFB00
(--) S3: Using a banksize of 2048k, line width of 1024
(--) S3: Using a single 64x64 area at (960,769) for expanding pixmaps
(--) S3: Using 16 planes of 960x255 at (0,769) aligned 8 as font cache
Notice the 16 planes = 16 bit = 16 bpp
The resolution is set in the file /etc/X11/XF86Config, the bpp's with
startx -- -bpp 16
IIRC. There are other ways, please look in the mailing archive at
www.debian.org for more of them. (xdm is set in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -bpp 16
for example.
When I run startx the information is removed by the switch to graphics mode
to
o fast for me to see. What is the easiest way of capturing the output? I
can n
ot get xdm to work. It launches okay, and sits in memory, but it never puts
up
a login. Since I can just use startx, I have not looked into why it does not
wo
rk.
Did you try /etc/init.d/xdm start? This is the way to start xdm.
Look also in /etc/X11/config. My shows following:
# This file contains configuration flags for the X Window System.
# For a description of the meanings of the flags, see
# /usr/doc/X11/debian.README
run-xconsole
obey-nologin
allow-user-resources
allow-user-modmap
allow-user-xsession
allow-failsafe
start-xdm
xdm-start-server
Be sure to read the doc in /usr/doc/X11/debian.README.
4) Where can I look to find some good background pictures in xpm format?
What do you like? Search with your favourite web engine (www.yahoo.com for
example). If the pronounciation is on xpm format, then please notice, that
you can convert any format in xpm with many tools (xv, netpbm, ...).
But are you sure you need xpm format?
This depends on your window manager and the packages installed...
I think that I have this one under control. I use Fvwm2 and the xpmroot
command
to set a background. I just compiled ImageMagix on my system that will
transla
te most formats into xpm. Now for the hunt for a good picture (I like
outdoors
pictures or space pictures).
Look. This is why I asked for your windowmanager.
If you have the standard debian conf files (means no .fvwm2rc in home
directory), you can use background.{xpm|gif|jpg|color|list} in the directory
~/.fvwm2. look at /usr/doc/fvwm2/README.sysrc for details. it will detect
the image format automagically and you can even put a list there with
filenames randomly choosen from.
Go for it... Debian!
Thank you,
Marcus
--
Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.
Marcus Brinkmann
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Serial TTY's
Okay, I've got a fairly out-of-the-box Bo system, and I wanted to hook up a dumb text terminal to it (in addition to the standard console). I've done this before on Linux and Debian machines, no problem, but now it's not working. For starts, I tried uncommenting the line in inittab T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 19200 vt100 And I get a login prompt just fine. And it prompts me for a password. Then a minute later getty dies and is respawned by init. I get the same results with the corresponding commands for gettyps and mgetty. I am guessing that login's config is responsible, but it's a little hard to diagnose since login_961025-2.deb's documentation doesn't match the programs well. Oh, and the getty is 1.45a-3 Any ideas? -- Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Linux as a Terminal Server and Router
Anyone use Linux as a Router Terminal server to a 56K Frame Relay Tony Koehn -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help with xserver
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, I Brake for Moths wrote: I had this problem recently, and I believe that the solution may be to reinstall the X fonts. The new xserver expects to find gzipped fonts, and it is probably finding .Z files instead. Just download the various xfnt*.deb packages, install them, and you'll be back in business. Thanks Rikki I am back in business. // Daniel J. Mashao -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel // -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where is xload program?
I am looking for xload package and I don't know where it is? How can I find out where it is w/o having to waste bandwidth? and secondly why don't they just leave xload alone? There is no need for xload to be part of another program. My 2 cents. // Daniel J. Mashao -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel // -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem with leafnode and gnus
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: leafnode is a program, you don't need care about - just install it and that's it (ok, change one or two lines in config file). But you have to install inews, too. Otherwise you cannot post. Not really. You can use inews if you like. Or you can use a news reader like slrn that posts via nntp. Leafnode will accept the post and feed it to the upstream news server next time fetch is run. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SCSI CDROM, ID 0, not recognized or driveable
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. I have a Toshiba 4X Internal CDROM. Upon booting my PC, the scan of controller 0 reveals that the CDROM is indeed on SCSI controller 0. However, when Debian Linux 1.3 boots up, it says scsi: detected 0 hosts and attempting to install from CDROM fails because non of the options for CDROM are recognized. Any idea how to make this CDROM recognizable? -- Terrence Brannon * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://quake.usc.edu/~brannon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: RealAudio 5.0b1: NO sound under linux 2.x
Oz Dror wrote: I have just installed the new version of RealAudio, but there is no sound. I get the following message in /usr/adm/messages: Oct 16 09:25:32 OZ kernel: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer sound does work for me in RealAudio 3.0 and other application. Any ideas? I often have this problem using various sound programs. The problem is that the kernel needs to allocate memory in a certian region, and if the memory there is is use by something else, it fails. What I do is run some large program (netscape works well) to swap out a lot of memory, and then exit the program, which hopefully frees up the memory address the kernel needs for DMA, and then try again. If netscape doesn't swap out enough memory, I use the swapout program that is part of the ftape package. On my system with 80 mb ram, I've had to swapout as much as 60 MB before I could play sounds. Though normally swapout 16 will do the trick. I really hate this kernel problem. :-( -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Very weird behaviour - hardware failure ?
Updated reflection:
I am beginning to wonder if all this psychadelic stuff isn't
related to the initial install and physical and logical disk geometry.
My first experience with Linux was Slackware. I got nothing but a suite
of hda: errors when I tried to make the ext2 fs checking for bad blocks.
When it sais it was finished I could never get any further until I
finally realized that it was using the logical geometry from the bios
that DOS needs. It was not doing any translation to the actual physical
geometry. I had to tell the install process, at the install boot prompt,
about my actual geometry.
When i installed Debian, I noticed that it too was reporting hda
paremeters from the bios record during the boot process so I quit and
restarted. At the new installation boot prompt I reported the physical
geometry of the HD. The boot messages still reported the logical
geometry, and I went with that, not knowing what else to do.
Is this OK ? Does Debian handle making translations between
logical and physical geometry ? If not, how do I report the physical
geomtry to Debian ?
Thanks again everyone,
Gerald
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, I wrote:
My system is behaving very strangely since I installed Debian. I had
Slackware on my box before and it seemed to behave as one would expect. I
was despondent at first because it seemed that I could not configure
Debian to behave as I come to expect with Slackware. Now I suspect
something far more insidious and hope someone out there will recognize the
problem. In short, am I experiencing a hardware failure ?
The symptoms involve hda errors, kernel panics, making a ppp connection
with PAP, and freaky xdm light shows. Personally I am beginning to
suspect that my hard disk has gone, but don't know enough to say for sure.
Maybe something else is going that makes it look like the HD has gone.
Maybe its software somewhere.
Symptom # 1 Preparing my Linux partitions for the Deb install.
When initializing an ext2 Linux native partition with a bad-block
scan things started out fine with
checking for bad blocks (read only test): xx/542776
but then things started to get nasty and I got messages like the following
interspersed with the above message
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
]
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect = x,
sector=yyy
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:07, sector yyy
I got about a gazillion of these error messages. At first I thought that
all of a sudden something had happened to my disk that was causing blocks
to go bad, but I am no longer so sure. I did get the install finished and
Debian seemed to be working.
Symptom # 2 Disappearing DOS partitions
Before I installed Linux I had DOS primary partition and an extended
partition containing two logical drives. When I bought the computer, I
knew I would be installing Linux, so I only used about a third of the disk
for these DOS partitions. I didn't have to use fips or anything similar
to get ready for Linux.
After installing Linux everything seemed hunky-dory. I could access C:,
D:, and E: from both Linux and form DOS or Windoze 3.1. Then one day, in
windoze I went to File Manager to look for something on D:, and neither D:
nor E: was visible -- no little driver icon to click on on the driver icon
bar.
I can still see them from Linux however.
Symptom # 3 Seeming random hd i/o timeouts
I can't remember the exact message to this error and can not find where I
wrote it. But it was hard disk i/o timeouts that started with hda:
status error or somesuch, then said hda: drive not ready for command
then something or other about resetting and things being okay. This never
caused a crash or anything but happened doing things like an ls. I
could get these messages in the middle of a directory listing if the
directory was long.
I haven't had this problem for awhile.
Sympton # 4 Kernel Panics
I foolishly didn't write down all of these and now can't remember what I
was doing when these panics happened. They were always during ordinary
things though. The most recent happened when I was trying to get my new
ppp connection setup with pppd and chat. I was just testing a new script
and whammo! Dirty powerdown.
Just found a message from one of the first times this happened
message from syslogd
Kernel: Kernel panic: EXT2 fs panic (device 03:07): ext2_read_inode:
unable
to read i-node block - inode = , block= y
When I tried to shutdown -r now I got
hda: status error: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
Error ]
hda: status error: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect =
x,
sector=yyy
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:07, sector
Re: several problems with a new installation (hey, I'm learning)
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Will Lowe wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Richard A. Guay wrote: Okay, I will look into that. Where is the Sound-HOWTO? Where are all of the howto's? Try ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO Sorry for dumb questions. S'Okay. This one is a faq, but the faq is in the same place as the howtos, so if you can't find the faq, the faq is useless ... Also in doc-linux, if you install that package. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem with leafnode and gnus
Adrian Bridgett [EMAIL PROTECTED] I now use inn and newsx [ ... ] INN uses the same technique that you dislike, too - lots of hardlinks everywhere. May be ugly, but it's about the only way to store USENET using a Unix-like file system. --Arnt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem with leafnode and gnus
Gustaf Erikson [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, after subscribing to c.o.l.misc and c.o.l.advocacy with gnus, I run fetch. It takes a long time. I check /var/spool/news, and see lots of directories for alt, gnu, soc, and uk. I don't want this. If you want comp.*.advocacy and do not not want cross-posts, I don't think you're going to get what you want. FWIW, I use gnus too, and I regularly abort fetch. Fetch should handle that reasonably, perhaps except during the very first run. --Arnt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Serial TTY's
Richard Kaszeta wrote: Okay, I've got a fairly out-of-the-box Bo system, and I wanted to hook up a dumb text terminal to it (in addition to the standard console). I've done this before on Linux and Debian machines, no problem, but now it's not working. For starts, I tried uncommenting the line in inittab T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 19200 vt100 And I get a login prompt just fine. And it prompts me for a password. Then a minute later getty dies and is respawned by init. It prompts you for a password before you type your login? If so there must be something wrong with the terminal settings. I get the same results with the corresponding commands for gettyps and mgetty. I am guessing that login's config is responsible, but it's a little hard to diagnose since login_961025-2.deb's documentation doesn't match the programs well. Oh, and the getty is 1.45a-3 -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?
Tons of e-mail and attached files passed... Marcus and I spared those things to others, here's what survives of the message I had started writing for the list... On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: BTW, why does the sound module say what follows at each startup, when I have the default 4megs on the soundcard? (Sure, on some readme...) AWE32 Sound Driver v0.3.3e (DRAM 28672k) Mmmh. Because it can't detect your soundcard correctly :) From /usr/src/INSTALL.awe: * Manual Installation... ... ok, I wait a moment... (it will be the last thing in this message). before you do it, could you test what happens if you load a lot of samples with sfxload (more than four meg)? You can load the same big samples in different banks with: sfxload -b1 name sfxload -b2 name ... I would be interested in the error message (if any). -- nick:~$ sfxload -i /mnt/fat1/sb16/sfbank/gm35revc.sf2 nick:~$ sfxload -b1 /mnt/fat1/sb16/sfbank/2gmgsmt.sf2 [Loading Data 144] Error in loading data: No space left on device nick:~$ sfxload -x -b1 /mnt/fat1/sb16/sfbank/2gmgsmt.sf2 [Loading Data 144] Error in loading data: No space left on device nick:~$ sfxload -b1 /mnt/fat1/sb16/sfbank/2gmgsmt.sf2 [Loading Data 0] Error in loading data: No space left on device nick:~$ sfxload -b2 /mnt/fat1/sb16/samples/voiperpn.sf2 [Loading Data 0] Error in loading data: No space left on device nick:~$ then I restart from scratch... After all the tweakle-hours of this days/nights I want to listen to those demo files with drvmidi... while recompiling 2.1.55 (done it a lot of times these last days) nick:~$ sfxload -i /mnt/fat1/sb16/sfbank/gm35revc.sf2 ^^ cleans any fonts in any bank and send this to the default bank, which is 0 nick:~$ sfxload -b1 /cdrom/sf2demo/flight.sf2 nick:~$ drvmidi /cdrom/sf2demo/flight.mid nick:~$ sfxload -x -b1 /cdrom/sf2demo/radiatn.sf2 nick:~$ drvmidi /cdrom/sf2demo/radiatn.mid this one has nice use of guitar samples!... Niko Boese... Let's cut the standard fonts and isolate the peculiar ones... nick:~$ sfxload -i -b1 /cdrom/sf2demo/radiatn.sf2 nick:~$ drvmidi /cdrom/sf2demo/radiatn.mid Very interesting groove (though not one of my favourite genres). And... Linux is always great, no delays at all, while recompilation of kernel 2.1.55 doesn't seem to slow down, and I have the rc5v2 client in the background too, though it has a lower priority I think... This isn't but a P90 single CPU. Linux is so robust and efficient that it may well catch more and more the artists' attention in the future, say professional hd recording + MIDI + CD mastering... maybe even AudioVideo offline editing one day. And you can bet on Debian I believe. nick:~$ sfxload -i /mnt/fat1/sb16/sfbank/gm35revc.sf2 nick:~$ sfxload -b1 /cdrom/sf2demo/letmesay.sbk nick:~$ drvmidi /cdrom/sf2demo/letmesay.mid nick:~$ sfxload -x -b1 /cdrom/sf2demo/surprise.sf2 nick:~$ drvmidi /cdrom/sf2demo/surprise.mid nick:~$ sfxload -x -b1 /cdrom/sf2demo/riffmia.sf2 nick:~$ drvmidi /cdrom/sf2demo/riffmia.mid nick:~$ sfxload -x -b1 /cdrom/sf2demo/htonight.sf2 nick:~$ drvmidi /cdrom/sf2demo/htonight.mid nick:~$ sfxload -x -b1 /cdrom/sf2demo/awedigph.sf2 nick:~$ drvmidi /cdrom/sf2demo/awedigph.mid nick:~$ sfxload -x -b1 /cdrom/sf2demo/aweblown.sf2 nick:~$ drvmidi /cdrom/sf2demo/aweblown.mid not a MIDI file - broken also for Windog sequencers nick:~$ sfxload -x -b1 /cdrom/sf2demo/awegathr.sf2 nick:~$ drvmidi /cdrom/sf2demo/awegathr.mid Anything seems OK here! -- On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: [snip] Each time I did these steps (staying inside /etc and after 'mount -r -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/fat1' and after '/etc/init.d/nas stop'): rmmod sound modify isapnp.conf-poke and save it isapnp isapnp.conf-poke insmod sound sfxload -i /mnt/fat1/sb16/sfbank/gm35revc.sf2 saytime drvmidi /mnt/fat1/sb16/samples/awe64/*.mid Please, could you also try the following: sfxload -b1 your-path/sample.sbk drvmidi your-path/sfx.midi If you don't have those files, I would be happy to mail them to you (and I hope I would not violate any copyrights :( ). It is important for me, because it didn't worked for me the day before, but now after recompiling with awedrv 0.4.2c it works. (sfx.midi uses some samples in bank 1) I have sample.sbk but not sfx.mid* Oh, there is another example like this coming with vienna: sfxload -b1 voiperpn.sf2 drvmidi zebraper.mid (you shouldn't hear any piano with this, but I do) Try replacing any previously loaded soundfonts and putting the new one in bank 0: nick:~$ sfxload -i /mnt/fat1/sb16/samples/voiperpn.sf2 nick:~$ drvmidi /mnt/fat1/sb16/samples/zebraper.mid I don't hear any piano
Re: Help with xserver
yes, if you have AccelX (i do), this could be the solution: Subject: Re: default fonts and the x server Kevin wrote: Guys, I've seen the answer to this recently. Don't know how current the archive is--so you may not be able to search it for the exact answer. AccelX can't do compressed fonts (.gz I think). XFree has apparently ^^ That's true, .Z it handles well. decided to start compressing them. There is a workaround and it involves something like doing 'MAKEFONTDIR' in each of the target directories. Not quite, I wonder if AccelX 3.1 aka AX will handle .pcf.gz files... OK, I'm back in business now, what I had to do is: --- cd to /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ and then to the misc, 75dpi and 100dpi subdirs respectively. In each subdir doing a: gzip -d *.gz compress *.pcf (we want _some_ compression at least ^_^) mkfontdir --- That's it. Semi-happy camper again, lost 2 hours over this... Matt Thompson MZI, Inc. v-206.430.3726 707 S. Grady Wayf-206.430.3420 Renton, WA 98055 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Kevin F. Havener wrote: Or the reverse may be occuring if you are using a commercial X server like AcceleratedX. It expects to find *.Z fonts, not *.gz fonts. So if you did install new fonts when you upgraded you may hose up your commercial X server. kevni Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:55:05 -0400 (EDT) From: I Brake for Moths [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:Daniel J. Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Help with xserver I had this problem recently, and I believe that the solution may be to reinstall the X fonts. The new xserver expects to find gzipped fonts, and it is probably finding .Z files instead. Just download the various xfnt*.deb packages, install them, and you'll be back in business. Rikki Hall On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: I was once again tempted to upgrade my xserver and all hell broke loose. Now I cannot get into X any more. The server fails with the message: __ Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' -- I am hoping that someone might speedily help me. This is a production machine and I need to run in X. I did not provide all other details because i think someone migh easily recognize the error message. // Daniel J. Mashao -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel // -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . *** Please dispose of this message properly *** -- 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] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is xload program?
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Daniel J. Mashao wrote: Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:02:25 +0200 (SAT) From: Daniel J. Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Where is xload program? Resent-Date: 16 Oct 1997 18:51:20 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; I am looking for xload package and I don't know where it is? How can I find out where it is w/o having to waste bandwidth? and secondly why don't they just leave xload alone? There is no need for xload to be part of another program. My 2 cents. If I am not mistaken xload is in the package xproc(something).deb // Daniel J. Mashao -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ee.uct.ac.za/~daniel // Daniel. __ Daniel Doro Ferranteemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Manager http://www.cecm.usp.br/~danieldf CECM - Curso de Ciencias Moleculares - USP Course of Molecular Sciences - University of Sao Paulo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: majordomo list server
On 16 Oct 1997, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote:
test-list: :include:/var/lib/majordomo/lists/test
it is not the correct one!?
I think that's ok (don't take my word for this). But probably the
configuration of some director in smail is not... in /etc/smail/directors.
I don't remember, it either this one:
aliasinclude:
driver = aliasinclude, nobody;
copysecure, copyowners
or this one:
lists:
driver=forwardfile, sender_okay, owner=owner-$user,
caution, nobody;
file=lists/${lc:user}
HTH,
Marcelo Magallon
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Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:14:40PM -0200, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: BTW, why does the sound module say what follows at each startup, when I have the default 4megs on the soundcard? (Sure, on some readme...) AWE32 Sound Driver v0.3.3e (DRAM 28672k) Mmmh. Because it can't detect your soundcard correctly :) From /usr/src/INSTALL.awe: [snip] Then it should work. Done, but I still get this with kernel 2.0.30: AWE32 Sound Driver v0.3.3e (DRAM 28672k) _Now_ done also 2.0.29 and it is the same. - (BTW, forgot this: Steinberg Italy gave some advice about CubasisAudio and Windog 3.1, but that didn't work, so I'm enquiring Creative UK and hope _they_ will eventually contact Steinberg Germany, or I will.) Nicola -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dpkg slackware?
I've just been given the goahead to take over a project, in which there are linux boxes being used about the state as mail servers and mail monitors. Currently, it all works, but is a set of kluges running slackware. Ultimately, the machines will be switched over to debian (or possibly redhat, but i doubt it), but as they are distributed throughout the state, reinstalling is not an option until we figure out how to do it remotely (and on the first try :). In the meantime, though, a priority is to get the proprietary software in a package that we can work with. Which leads to the magic question: what will it take to install dpkg on top of slackware? rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
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Hi! Someone asked where the xload program is. It's in the xproc package. feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Converting ascii to ebcdic
I am looking for the name of the file that dd uses to perform its ascii to ebcdic conversion. I would like to make some changes to the translation table but don't know where to find it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Marc Lemke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
shared /usr
Hi! I have two linux boxes here, sharing the /usr filesystem via NFS. It all works well, more or less, trouble starts when I want to upgrade the software on both machines. I would very much appreciate your suggestions on how to handle this situation. feri. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape's Stale Lock Files -- Automatic Removal
Paul Serice wrote: I grew weary of starting Netscape after it crashed only to get the message about there being a stale lock file. So I added this small script to my Netscape wrapper. It seems to work. Is there a better way of doing this? I'm much more brutal - my wrapper just does rm -f $HOME/.netscape/lock Of course, it also checks to see if it can run netscape -remote to tell netscape to pop up a new window, so I don't start up unnecessary netscape processes if one is already running on my current display. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
