problem logging on
When I try to dial my ISP, I get the following errors in my /var/log/ppp.log Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (VOICE) Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: send (ATDT7454342^M) Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy pppd[248]: Serial connection established. Dec 29 18:59:11 speedy pppd[248]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 29 18:59:11 speedy pppd[248]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 Dec 29 18:59:14 speedy pppd[248]: Serial line is looped back. Dec 29 18:59:14 speedy pppd[248]: Connection terminated. Dec 29 18:59:14 speedy pppd[248]: Exit. Does anyone know what this means? Thanks for whatever help you guys have. -- Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iconmedia.com (954)418-0817 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian on CD.
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Cleto Pescia wrote: For now, the only thing I can tell you for sure is that you should *NOT* buy the Debian CDs from Greenbush Technologies Corp. (www.greenbush.com). I ordered the official CD set in September by filling out their secure on-line form, they charged my credit card (at least that is what I've seen on my bank's reports), but never shipped anything... I sent them e-mail twice ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), politely asking them what was going on, but never got an answer. Maybe I should have sent them a fax as well, but you really expect a company with an online ordering system to have some way to read its e-mail... I had exactly the same problem with Greenbush. They don't seem to answer on polite emails, but they/he do react on the impolite ones. I've subscribed to four monthly CD's in April and so far have only received 2. If you can write a really nasty email they will probably send something. Cleto = === mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] = http://physlab.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex |__ Alexander Stavitsky -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem logging on
Aaron Walker wrote: When I try to dial my ISP, I get the following errors in my /var/log/ppp.log Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (VOICE) Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: send (ATDT7454342^M) Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy pppd[248]: Serial connection established. Dec 29 18:59:11 speedy pppd[248]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 29 18:59:11 speedy pppd[248]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 Dec 29 18:59:14 speedy pppd[248]: Serial line is looped back. Dec 29 18:59:14 speedy pppd[248]: Connection terminated. Dec 29 18:59:14 speedy pppd[248]: Exit. Does anyone know what this means? Thanks for whatever help you guys have. Most likely you did not make it all the way through the chat so your characters were getting echoed back as they do in a normal terminal connection. -- 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: couldn't match host name or address
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 06:53:10PM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote: Does it really matter? On my machine, the only person that can view the logs, is root. I guess not then. Can't hurt though. I like to have syslog dump everything to a virtual console (makes it easy to debug things) and that means passwords would be visible if this was done in a physically insecure environment. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
problem using SCSI tape devices
I have just switched from RedHat 4.2 (gee, it seems I preface all my mail to this list with that...grin) and am having a problem accessing my tape drive (a Conner DDS-2 SCSI drive) The drive responds to the mt commands I have issued (ie, mt tell, mt datcompression, mt rewind, etc) but I have been unable to either restore any of the backups I already had on tape before the switch or write to tape (using tar). The console locks up and I cannot free it by switching to another VT and killing the process. Here are some more details: $TAPE = /dev/tape which is a symlink to /dev/nst0 BTW, what are those other devices -- nst0a, nst0l, nst0m, etc? I am using kernel 2.0.32 with support for generic SCSI, Buslogic SCSI adapters, SCSI tapes, SCSI disks I was using the command tar -xv * to restore a complete archive to the current directory Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks! Tim -- ## # # # # # # ## ## # # # # # Debian GNU Linux ## # # # # # # ## # ## # # # # Power to the people... # # # ## # # E-Mail: Tim Ferrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian setup w/HP LJ6 and MagicFilter
Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have a configured printcap entry and/or /etc/magic file configured for a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 6L printer and MagicFilter? Use the script 'magicfilterconfig', and select the driver 'ljet4'. - Sten Anderson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SLRN problem
Pann McCuaig wrote: When I invoke 'slrn --spool' I have no newsgroups listed. I'm sure it's something simple but I'm missing it. This is becoming a FAQ. :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/doc/slrnls README.slrnpull.gz README.slrnpull.gz Read this file. Specifically: Setting up a minimal .slrnrc file. == Assume that the SLRNPULL_ROOT refers to the directory /var/spool/slrnpull. Then the following .slrnrc lines should be sufficient to tell slrn how to deal with the news provided by slrnpull: set spool_inn_root /var/spool/slrnpull set spool_root /var/spool/slrnpull/news set spool_nov_root /var/spool/slrnpull/news set read_active 1 set use_slrnpull1 -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Question.
Does anyone know if there have been any studies on the cost effectiveness of networks based on linux vs networks based on NT? While linux seems to be cheaper, where I live technical expertise is in _very_ short supply and so linux would probably be alot more expensive to admister.? ( A relation of mine is incharge of an organization of a thousand or so people which is looking to upgrade its LAN and add various internet servers etc.. the NT estimate was many tens of thousands of US. So I promised to find out the comparitive cost of linux networks ). thanx, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Changing space reserved
Hi, My Debian system has only a 100Mb Hard Drive, I stuck a resonable system onto it, managed to recompile my kernel (although I've now deleted most of the source) and have now set it up as much as I want to for now. I use my system to recieve mail using fetchmail. What I want to know is, can I reduce the amount that is reserved. ie, df reports: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1 91230 80945 5574 94% / It says I have 5Mb free, but 91Mb-80Mb = 11Mb! Can I change it so it reserves say, 2Mb instead? Is it safe to do this? What could go wrong? Thanks in advance, Tim. Customer: I'm using Windows 95 Tech Support: Yes... Customer: My computer isn't working now Tech Support: Yes, you said that -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: New maintainer request
I am sorry for this. I didn't see the extra TO: field before I sent. I wish I had a life outside Quake. Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H.323 effort. Email http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux! [EMAIL PROTECTED] with http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3375265 - Page Me the word subscribe in the body. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mail!
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote: On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote: Are you guys using Netscape 3.01? Thats the version that the netscape debian package is. I take it there are no newer versions of netscape for linux? There's a version of communicator for linux someplace, but I'm still using 3.01 ... communicator is kinda bloated, and I really only want it for the browser; I don't care about the mail interfaces, etc. ... There is also an unbundled navigator in the filesystem at ftp.netscape.com /pub/communicator/4.04/shipping/english/unix/linux20/navigator_standalone/ navigator-v404-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz A word about the the netscape debian package -- redistribution terms on netscape are screwy, so the package you found requires you to first download the proper binary release .tar.gz file from ftp.netscape.com, and the package installs it for you. I beleive that there is a communicator installer-package probably in unstable. If you want a simple, powerful email/news client, I recommend pine. I agree, I have tried others since using pine, and they never seem to work as good as pine. It's nonfree because you can't redistribute it for profit, but works good, and runs really well in an xterm ... I use it because it's what we use at school, and I can run it without X across a dialup link when I have to. Will /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian on CD.
My two cents: I've always liked the Infomagic CD set (Linux Developer's Resource). I've bought them quite regularly since they started doing them. The only problem I ever had was with one that I bought through a suspicious reseller at a local computer show; it had two disc 2's and no disc 1. I called Infomagic, and they had a copy of disc 1 out to me within a week. I just recently switched from Slackware to Debian; I used the August 97 Infomagic CD, and it went without a hitch. - Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Printing problem solved
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote: essentially: What will it take to get a (any) search function for debian-user? Or conversely, what is blocking a search function from being implemented? Or does a search function plan already exist? .. Well, you can hit the archives at www.debian.org and search _them_ with something simple like Netscape's find ... Will Although why one can't use the glimpse engine supposedly provided for this very purpose is beyond me - what's with the web-based search engine, huh? I'd volunteer to set something like that up on my machine, except that: 1) I have dynamic IP (and haven't yet gotten my ml.org account) 2) I have only one phone line, and often need it for other purposes. 3) I've only been saving all my incoming mail since about mid-December, so have a very incomplete archive (though I suppose I could always run a lynx -traverse and suck down the existing archives) That I should be studying for qualifying exams is probably another good reason... Hmmm... Actually - I wouldn't really necessarily need a web-accessible copy of the archives on my machine, since I could have a search engine just return links to the archives on debian.org... Well, it's something to consider when I get back to school in a week or two. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Epson Stylus 400
Can anyone tell me if the Epson 400 Color Stylus can work under Linux. I can force it to do normal text, but I can not get it to do anything when in X, such as printing in Netscape or StarOffice. I installed the apsfilter, but I fear It does not work right for me. Any suggestions, help or direction would be appreciated. -- Dana M. Epp Director NetMaster Networking Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netmaster.ca Connecting networks to the Internet... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian on CD.
Timothy Hospedales [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My current Debian system is off FTP sites. I am looking to buy Debian on CD when the next version comes out with libc6 standardized. What are the pro's and con's have you guys noticed for the different vendors? I ordered from linux system labs - http://www.lsl.com/ - the only caveat I have there is that they have lots of nice, cheap linux stuff so it's easy to go there intending to just buy the debian CDs and end up buying much more. My CDs came promptly and (that I can tell) without error. If you're a stickler for having hard plastic cases with your CDs, though, you might want to try somewhere else (mine came in little papery holders), or go and buy those elsewhere (hard plastic CD cases are usually pretty cheap; I see them where I see floppies being sold). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bizarre problem.
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Timothy Hospedales wrote: Hey guys! I've got a really *bizarre* problem!!! When I am using my PPP dialup connection, I can use everything on the 'net perfectly. EXECEPT, that I cannot access any dialup IP's in my ISP's domain, including my own. Any attempt at contacting, using the IPs directly, or via a dyn.ml.org domain name, with PING's, or various clients fail. Do you have your /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow files set up properly. My ISP's domain is 196.3.144.*. The first five IP's (196.3.144.1-5), are the IPs of my ISP's domain, web, ftp, etc servers. These IP's I can access fine. Subsequent IP's (6-about 200) are assigned to dialup accounts, I can't access any of these. :(. Well, this is good for them. Unless they have allowed certain or all addresses access to their machines. This is their option, not yours! :) I've got no idea where to start trying to fix this. :(. Any ideas at all are appreciated. :). Thanx, Timothy /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Unidentified subject!
Hail, My name is demon bear but you may call me Eric if you wish. I have a linux system elsewhere which needs some serious updating. I already have the new Linux 1.3. What I am looking for are the packages necessary to set up a usable X-windows system( hehe). What other packages do you reccomend? Demon Bear __ 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] .
RE: .bash_profile and TCP/IP
I'm not sure that I'm doing this right, as I am new to the list thing, so bear with me. 2: I am also requesting suggestions for a study guide/brain candy type book on TCP/IP networking. If any of the Linux/*nix gurus or senior system administrators would make a suggestion I'd appreciate it. [Robert Denver Crawford] I am not a sys admin nor a guru of any sort, but I have found a site that has many books to be read online. Visit http://www.mcp.com This site will allow you to read books on many, many computer subjects. I am new to Linux and between this site and my local mall I think I am getting enough of a grasp to become productive. Thanks in advance, Ian [Robert Denver Crawford] If I didn't post correctly let me know what happened. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail vs procmail
Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a .forward file with the following line: |IFS=' ' p=/usr/bin/procmail test -f $p exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #mario This used to work under sendmail. Now, I just replaced sendmail with smail and I can't get my email filtered trough procmail. snip Looking at /var/adm/smail/logfile, I found: 12/29/1997 16:00:01: [m0xmjTt-YCa] |IFS=' ' p=/usr/bin/procmail \ test -f $p exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #mario ... director \ dotforward: child of mario insecure, access as 'nobody' 12/29/1997 16:00:01: [m0xmjTt-YCa] Delivered TO:IFS=' ' \ p=/usr/bin/procmail test -f $p exec $p -Yf- || exit 75 #mario \ ORIG-TO:mario DIRECTOR:dotforward TRANSPORT:pipe Can somebody help to decipher this for me, please? Short answer (probably): chmod go-w ~/.forward Well, for some reason smail is saying that your .forward file is insecure - the rules smail uses for determining this are explained in the smaildrct manpage - search for the word unsecure and then go back and forth from that. My /etc/smail/directors file (which is as generated by smailconfig) has the following: dotforward: driver=forwardfile, owner=postmaster, nobody, sender_okay; file=~/.forward, checkowner, modemask=022, owners=root, unsecure=0-99:~ftp:~uucp:/tmp:/var/tmp, This means that a .forward file will be considered secure iff: 1) It is owned by either the user associated with the file (checkowner), or by root (owners=root) 2) It is not writeable by the group or by others (modemask=022) 3) It is not owned by anyone with a UID in the range 0-99 (unsecure=0-99), nor is it in the directories ~ftp, ~uucp, /tmp, or /var/tmp. (unsecure=...:~ftp:~uucp:/tmp:/var/tmp) My suspicion is that your .forward file is writeable by members of your group - in the debian default way of doing UIDs this isn't really a security hole, since each user is given her own group. However, if one is using a different user/group scheme for some reason, this could cause problems. If your user ID happens to be between 0 and 99 for some reason, then you can just change the list of unsecure UIDs in /etc/smail/directors. The reason why mail is failing is that when smail passes mail to a pipe it considers insecure, it runs the resulting child process as user nobody, instead of your user ID. I suspect that procmail is trying to then modify files that (rightly) it can only modify when it's you, not when it's the user nobody, and hence failing. Somehow this failure is not getting communicated to smail, which is unfortunate, as that means that the mail isn't even accumulating in an error directory somewhere. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ppp log security (was: couldn't match host name or address)
Well, the bo base install disks make /var/log/ppp.log world readable (why?) so that anyone using the system can then see the password. Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does it really matter? On my machine, the only person that can view the logs, is root. Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 02:06:58PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: password \qpassword\q \qpassword\q Incidentally, you don't want the second \q; it will turn echo to the log back on, and the password WILL then go into the log. hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iconmedia.com (954)418-0817 -- 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: Offline news access
Martin Bialasinski wrote: Unfortunatly due to the way tin works, leafnode doesn't see which group you enter for the first time, so you can't use tin with leafnode. This may be fixed in the leafnode currently in hamm. I know that an experimental leafnode package with version 1.0.pl6 had this fixed (or so I was told, I don't use tin), but the change may have been lost again. -- see shy jo, leafnode maintainer -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem logging on
Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Aaron Walker wrote: When I try to dial my ISP, I get the following errors in my /var/log/ppp.log Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (VOICE) Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy chat[249]: send (ATDT7454342^M) Dec 29 18:59:10 speedy pppd[248]: Serial connection established. Dec 29 18:59:11 speedy pppd[248]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 29 18:59:11 speedy pppd[248]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS0 Dec 29 18:59:14 speedy pppd[248]: Serial line is looped back. Dec 29 18:59:14 speedy pppd[248]: Connection terminated. Dec 29 18:59:14 speedy pppd[248]: Exit. Does anyone know what this means? Thanks for whatever help you guys have. Most likely you did not make it all the way through the chat so your characters were getting echoed back as they do in a normal terminal connection. Which is most likely caused by your chat script (/etc/ppp.chatscript) being too short - it's not even waiting for a CONNECT signal from the modem. pppd is trying to send configure requests immediately after the modem has been told to dial - this causes the modem to abort the dial, and then the modem just echoes back to pppd everything pppd is sending (this is that looped back bit in the logs). Make certain that your /etc/ppp.chatscript contains a line like: CONNECT This will make it wait until the modem finishes dialing and actually connects before it tries to start up ppp. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Changing space reserved
Tim Thomson wrote: It says I have 5Mb free, but 91Mb-80Mb = 11Mb! Can I change it so it reserves say, 2Mb instead? tune2fs -m 2 /dev/hda1 Is it safe to do this? What could go wrong? The man page for tune2fs warns: Never use tune2fs on a read/write mounted filesystem to change parameters! Also, BUGS We didn't find any bugs yet. Perhaps there are bugs but it's unlikely. WARNING Use this utility on your own risk. You're modifying filesystems. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Changing space reserved
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My Debian system has only a 100Mb Hard Drive, I stuck a resonable system onto it, managed to recompile my kernel (although I've now deleted most of the source) and have now set it up as much as I want to for now. I use my system to recieve mail using fetchmail. What I want to know is, can I reduce the amount that is reserved. ie, df reports: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1 91230 80945 5574 94% / It says I have 5Mb free, but 91Mb-80Mb = 11Mb! Can I change it so it reserves say, 2Mb instead? Yes, you can, with the tune2fs program, which is in the base package e2fsprogs. Note that you shouldn't run tune2fs on a read-write mounted system. I'd first inspect the man page of tune2fs and determine what I wanted to do and then either: get a debian root disk, copy the tune2fs program onto it (It's not already on the default root disks, is it?), and reboot from floppy - once I'd gotten to the menus, switch to console 2, do the tune2fs, and reboot not from floppy. -or- (this one is the risky method) sync mount -n -o remount,ro / tune2fs whatever mount -n -o remount,rw / Is it safe to do this? I think so; then again, I've never tried tune2fs. What could go wrong? I won't speculate much - the only thing I can think of is that it gives you a little less room to work with if your system gets full; however, I can only see the reserved space for root being useful when a system has to be fixed without bringing it down completely (e.g. remote administration). When I built my low-disk-space debian box, I made the filesystem with nothing reserved for root. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: More that 64 Mb memory
You need to modify the /etc/lilo.conf file and add a startup parameter of mem=128m It's pretty much, that simple... hope it helps... -Dave. On 29 Dec 1997, Douglas Bates wrote: I have searched the FAQ's but I still can't find the answer to this one. I have a new machine with 128 Mb. of memory. When I boot a standard kernel using the standard lilo configuration from Debian the kernel reports only 64 Mb of memory. Could someone tell me what I change to have the kernel recognize the full available memory? Also, this is a dual-processor system. If I look at /proc/cpuinfo it seems to be reporting only one processor. Could someone please remind me how to check if both processors are being used? -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- 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] .
Telnet translation modes...
I'm not sure if this is a Linux problem, or common to telnet in general. I haven't run into it until installing Debian though, so here it is: Telnet has two modes, linemode, and charactermode. It defaults to linemode if the other side will handle it. This cooks some characters and does some extra signalling. It appears that in this mode, hitting the Return key sends a ^M. That's normally not a problem, but I've found that some programs (mutt, and trn in the article selector) don't recognize this key, preferring ^J instead. I have found two workarounds for this: - Change the bindings on the software to recognize ^M as a synonym for ^J. - Manually escape to a telnet prompt after connecting and do a 'mode char'. In this mode, hitting return sends a ^J. I can't put it into the .telnetrc though, since that's read up front, and the linemode is negotiated afterward. I'd like to just tell telnet to use ^J all the time. jason -- The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go without restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody. BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiners/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Printing problem solved
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: essentially: What will it take to get a (any) search function for debian-user? Or conversely, what is blocking a search function from Well, you can hit the archives at www.debian.org and search _them_ Although why one can't use the glimpse engine supposedly provided for this very purpose is beyond me - what's with the web-based search Yeah, that'd make sense to me, too. I'd offer to host it if I had the resources, but I don't. The mailing-list-archives are a vault of information, but it's like finding a book at the library of congress without a Card Catalogue. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- |If at first you don't succeed, redefine success. | | -- Taken from Hennesey and Patterson,| | _Computer_Organization_And_Design_:_The_Hardware_/_Software_Interface_ | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Printing problem solved
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997 22:21:03 EST, Daniel Martin wrote: On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, David Stern wrote: essentially: What will it take to get a (any) search function for debian-user? Or conversely, what is blocking a search function from being implemented? Or does a search function plan already exist? .. Although why one can't use the glimpse engine supposedly provided for this very purpose is beyond me - what's with the web-based search engine, huh? What's with it is that it's not practical for the people who would need it most to set up glimpse (I think, that's on my to do list). I'd volunteer to set something like that up on my machine, except [..good reasons and interesting ideas snipped..] Don't let this stop you from fulfilling priorities. I also thought of setting up a local web based search engine. On the one hand it's a really good idea because searches can be cpu intensive, and offloading this task might free the debian developers from distractractions which might result if the load became too severe. On the other hand, it would probably take a permanent internet link to be feasible, and that's something neither of us have. Hmmm... Actually - I wouldn't really necessarily need a web-accessible copy of the archives on my machine, since I could have a search engine just return links to the archives on debian.org... The search I envision would index not merely the subject line, which if you've ever tried it is seldom worth the bother, but the body of the message. I'm unsure how the search index is updated, so I don't know if you'd need to keep all copies locally or not. I'm a little surprised at the lack of support for a web based search utility. A debian-user web search engine: 1.) Promotes Debian for personal and commercial users. 2.) Reuses existing support resources otherwise only used once. 3.) Saves time for both those who request and offer support. -- David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Stopping retries
Hi,
I've been trying to copy files off a dying hard drive, using my Linux
system.
I mount the drive using mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt
If I do something that causes an error, I get lots of lines of:
hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hdb: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, CHS=496/15/2,
sector=413401
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41, sector 413401
This is what you would expect I guess, as the drive is almost dead ( I can
still get lots of files off though, seems to be an intermitent problem).
What I would like to know is, can I set something that limits the number
of retries, and can I limit the terminal it writes to ( if I swap to
another terminal, it writes all the errors to that.
I accidentally typed df which caused many errors. I left it about 5-10
mins, thinking it might work time out, but alas, it was still going when I
came back. I reset the system, which took about 15 mins to halt, as it
kept coming up with errors.
Also, when I plugged the hard drive in, I used the power cable from a
floppy drive, I tried mounting the floppy without realising it wasn't
plugged in, and I got this:
floppy1: perpendicular mode not supported by this FDC.
It did this for about five mins, again, on whatever terminal I was on.
Can't the kernel work out that I won't be changing the FDC while the
system is on, and give up sooner???
Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut?
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Re: Epson Stylus 400
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: Can anyone tell me if the Epson 400 Color Stylus can work under Linux. I can force it to do normal text, but I can not get it to do anything when in X, such as printing in Netscape or StarOffice. I installed the apsfilter, but I fear It does not work right for me. Any suggestions, help or direction would be appreciated. Sorry, you are out of luck. As far as I know, the EPSON Stylus COLOR 400 is a Windows-only printer. Part of the printer code (ESC/P2, I guess) is in the software instead of in the printer hardware. Unless EPSON provides those source codes (highly unlikely) and someone bothers to write a Linux driver for it, this printer won't do much good for you. If it is not too late, return the SC400 and exchange for a SC600 or SC800. GhostScript 4.03 and especially 5.x support SC500, SC600, SC800, etc. Hope this helps. Anthony (who is happily using the SC500 here, although I wish I had waited another half a year to get the SC600 instead. grin) -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
smail, mutt and outgoing From: field
I am rebuilding my Debian/Linux box after moving from 1.1 to 1.3. Somewhere along the line between my new system and my correspondents in the outside world, my From: mail header is getting altered. I don't know what is causing it. Perhaps the smail in Deb 1.1 is different from the one that comes with 1.3. Maybe it is mutt, my MUA, that I have upgraded from 0.85 to 0.88 at the same time as I upgrade my system. Then again, I have maybe missed some detail in a configuration file somewhere. It doesn't seem likely to me that fetchmail or procmail is the culprit. Here are the parametres to my problem. I create mail on my home box which is occasionally connected to the net via a dial in ppp link to an ISP that assigns IP addresses dynamically. The hostname of my machine, therefore, has no relation to the DNS system on the net. I must circumvent the desire of my system to send mail out with my local [EMAIL PROTECTED]'sname. With my old system, I told mutt to strip off the existing From: field and add the custom header From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Name In the past this worked marvelously. With my new system however, [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets quoted as if it were my Real Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] and My Name gets prepended to my isp's domain and is enclosed in angle brackets as if it was a valid e-mail address My [EMAIL PROTECTED] this means that anybody who wants to reply to a mail will get a useless address brought up automatically. There are a couple more details that may or may not be useful if anyone is still reading this. I actually receive mail at two addresses. I can fetch mail from both and use either as my smart host for outgoing mail. I always use isp2.com as my smart host. I wish to use my address at isp1 as my public address. My userid's at these two ISP's are different as is my userid on my home box. What actually happens to the outgoing from field depends on whether I use isp1.com or isp2.com as the visible_name in the smail/config file. In the example above, I have used isp2.com as the visible_name. If I use isp1.com, the From: field I decare in mutt is still mangled, but differently. My address as I had written it disappears completely. The My Name part is taken and prepended to isp1's domain name. My Name@isp1.com If anyone can tell me where this modification is taking place, and I what I can do to have my custom From: field preserved, I would very much like to hear about it. tia, Gerald Crimp -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
laser printers and linux
Seems to be a lot of questions about printers in the last week. I might as well get in mine. NEC SuperScript 860. Will it work or not. I bought it because a magazine review said it worked with OS's other than Windows (and cheap and fast and generally highly recommended). I now have this sinking feeling that it won't. The manual says that it differs from other printers in that it is driven directly by the CPU of your computer... This sounds suspiciously like what the Hardware-HOWTO says to avoid -- equipment that has had its brains taken out and uses Windows driven software to do the job. I have not gone any further than the manual yet because I have 20 days to return it (well 16 now I guess), but if I crack the toner, I'll have to replace it. I am not too keen on that until I am sure it will work because a new toner cartridge will cost me nearly half what I payed for the printer. So, anyone have one that they use under Linux for more than just oridnary ascii text stuff ? Anticipating an unhappy answer, I have a follow-up question. Any recommendations for a cheap fast laser that puts out excellent text and nice graphics ? I've been to the aforementioned HOWTO and to a ghostscript compatibility list, but I can't believe that there are so few compatible printers. The only HP lasers mentioned there are no longer on HP product list. Someone mentioned an HP 6L on the list recently that doesn't appear on the lists, so there must be more useable printers out there. TIA, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PLEASE, postmaster@debian.org, are you there?
This mail is from my old uni-account. I'm having massive problems with my new private email address, from which any mail to debian.org is refused for an entry in the badmailfrom list. Please?... Thank you. Andreas. -- Dr. Andreas Wehler Tel./Fax.: (+49) 202 75 36 64 Luebecker Str. 16 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 42109 Wuppertal http://home.t-online.de/home/Dr.A.wehler/profil.html problems stuff == From: Dr. Andreas Wehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HOWTO escape from the badmailfrom list? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 09:06:29 +0100 (MET) Resent-Date: 13 Dec 1997 07:57:54 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; Gnus-Warning: This is a duplicate of message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Message-ID: F8h9fB.A.ZjB.BAkk0@debian Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-from: From POPmail Sat Dec 13 17:07:34 1997 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from debian.novare.net ([205.229.104.5]) by mailin04.btx.dtag.de with smtp (S3.1.29.1) id m0xgmaE-0030gOn; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 09:05:58 +0100 Received: (qmail 6376 invoked by uid 38); 13 Dec 1997 07:57:54 - X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 6342 invoked from network); 13 Dec 1997 07:57:49 - Received: from welfa4.elektro.uni-wuppertal.de ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@132.195.13.11) by 205.229.104.5 with SMTP; 13 Dec 1997 07:57:49 - Received: by welfa4.elektro.uni-wuppertal.de id m0xgmaj-000El8C (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Sat, 13 Dec 1997 09:06:29 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original-Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/21442 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Lines: 181 Xref: midi2 lists.debian.user:1848 X-Gnus-Newsgroup: lists.debian.user:1848 Sat Dec 13 17:08:28 1997 Hello. there are problems with my private mail address. Whats wrong with it, how could I proceed? Thank you. -- Dr. Andreas Wehler; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Luebecker Str. 16, 42109 Wuppertal; Tel./Fax.: (0202) 753664 From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:57:10 +0100 Mail-from: From POPmail Sat Dec 13 08:57:45 1997 Return-Path: MAILER-DAEMON Received: from mailout02.btx.dtag.de ([194.25.2.150]) by mailin02.btx.dtag.de with smtp (S3.1.29.1) id m0xgey6-002Q1RC; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:58:06 +0100 Received: from root by mailout02.btx.dtag.de with local id 0xgexC-00078m-00; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:57:10 +0100 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lines: 146 Xref: midi2 other:173 X-Gnus-Newsgroup: other:173 Sat Dec 13 08:58:32 1997 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: debian-user@lists.debian.org: SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO: debian-user@lists.debian.org: host debian.novare.net [205.229.104.5]: 553 sorry, your envelope sender is in my badmailfrom list (#5.7.1) -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from (fwd09.btx.dtag.de) [194.25.2.169] by mailout02.btx.dtag.de with smtp id 0xgevy-0006k8-00; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:55:54 +0100 Received: from midi2 (0202753664-0001(btxid)@[193.159.59.140]) by fwd09.btx.dtag.de with smtp (S3.1.29.1) id m0xgevv-0003TRC; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:55:51 +0100 Received: by midi2 id m0xgewZ-0009ZFC (Debian Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #2); Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:56:31 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:56:31 +0100 (MET) To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: HOWTO escape from the badmailfrom list? Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bcc: X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Andreas Wehler - Wuppertal) Hello. after trials to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got the following replies. What's wrong, what should I do? Thank you. Andreas. -- Dr. Andreas Wehler Tel./Fax.: (+49) 202 75 36 64 Luebecker Str. 16 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 42109 Wuppertal http://home.t-online.de/home/Dr.A.wehler/profil.html From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 10:53:36 +0100 Mail-from: From POPmail Fri Dec 12 23:27:19 1997 Return-Path: MAILER-DAEMON Received: from mailout00.btx.dtag.de ([194.25.2.148]) by mailin01.btx.dtag.de with smtp (S3.1.29.1) id m0xgRoM-00181LC; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 10:55:10 +0100 Received: from root by mailout00.btx.dtag.de with local id 0xgRmq-0006TZ-00; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 10:53:36 +0100 Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lines: 154
Re: Changing space reserved
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: (this one is the risky method) sync mount -n -o remount,ro / tune2fs whatever mount -n -o remount,rw / Worked!!! (had to go to maintence mode). Thanks a lot!!! What does the volume name you can set do? Doing this reminded me of a problem I had trying to defrag the drive. I unmounted it and booted off a floppy, typed edefrag and : stalin# edefrag -d -r /dev/hda1 edefrag 0.61 DEBUG: read_tables() edefrag: bad magic number in super-block What's going on? I tried the same on an unmounted floppy disk and it said the same thing. I downloaded another copy thinking it had got corrupted, but it did the same thing. Any ideas? Thanks again, Tim. Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut? http://www.debian.org Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian vs. Caldera
On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Brinsfield, Sean wrote: I'm new to the Linux scene, actually want to get into the Linux scene and have two copies that I could start out with, Debian 1.3.1 and Caldera OpenLinux Standard. Please tell me which flavor would be best for a newbie and why. I'm excited about Linux and ready to get rolling with it. Errr Debian. :) You are asking a question to a mailing list where almost all listers here uses Debian. regards, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web page: http://www.lasaltech.com/andre.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail, mutt and outgoing From: field
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 11:29:21PM -0800, G. Crimp@freenet.victoria.bc.ca wrote: With my old system, I told mutt to strip off the existing From: field and add the custom header From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Name In the past this worked marvelously. With my new system however, [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets quoted as if it were my Real Name [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your realname mentioned in /etc/passwd? Anyways you can set any From line by putting such a line in your ~/.muttrc: my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Your Real Name) Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / /Erfahrung ist eine nützliche Sache / / Leider macht man sie immer erst kurz nachdem man sie brauchte / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PLEASE, postmaster@debian.org, are you there?
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 09:30:05AM +0100, Dr. Andreas Wehler wrote: This mail is from my old uni-account. I'm having massive problems with my new private email address, from which any mail to debian.org is refused for an entry in the badmailfrom list. Please?... Thank Yes, t-online.de is listed in the badmailfrom list. It has been added due to spam I think. What you could do against it is to get another provider. I know that there's at least franken.de and mayn.de in your area providing reasonable access to the internet. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / /Erfahrung ist eine nützliche Sache / / Leider macht man sie immer erst kurz nachdem man sie brauchte / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: oh my god the listserv is stuffed.. =)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] hat gesagt: // [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy... I subscribed here about .. 2 months ago.. since then i had to unsubscribe as i've been to busy lately.. When i unsubscribed, i was told that an error occurered, and i was never even on the mailing list.. ok, i thought, it's fine, i'm not getting any more mail, it's taken me off the list. Today i got a *1.8meg* back-catalog of what's happened in the last month.. argh!! If someone knows what's going on, could ya please help? =) TIA, Damien -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ^ You should mail a copy to this adress. -- Yours a href=http://www.koeln-online.de/einblick/; Frank Barknecht 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: oh my god the listserv is stuffed.. =)
Hi Damien! I subscribed here about .. 2 months ago.. since then i had to unsubscribe as i've been to busy lately.. When i unsubscribed, i was told that an error occurered, and i was never even on the mailing list.. ok, i thought, it's fine, i'm not getting any more mail, it's taken me off the list. Today i got a *1.8meg* back-catalog of what's happened in the last month.. argh!! If someone knows what's going on, could ya please help? =) TIA, Damien -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ^ You should mail a copy to this adress. Or ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're subscribed to two lists: [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-announce [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian-user-digest You should better remember to which lists you're subscribed. To unsubscribe from the -digest you need to write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and NOT to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've taken you off of debian-user-digest now. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * 26129 Oldenburg / /Erfahrung ist eine nützliche Sache / / Leider macht man sie immer erst kurz nachdem man sie brauchte / pgp9nt9CjT1RY.pgp Description: PGP signature
smailconfig removed my /etc/aliases
Hi, Is this a normal behaviour? I have smartlist installed and my /etc/aliases was rm by smailconfig, causing my list not working. Ok! the fix is simple. Just put the lines again, but ... []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian on CD.
Alexander Stavitsky wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, Cleto Pescia wrote: For now, the only thing I can tell you for sure is that you should *NOT* buy the Debian CDs from Greenbush Technologies Corp. (www.greenbush.com). I ordered the official CD set in September by filling out their secure on-line form, they charged my credit card (at least that is what I've seen on my bank's reports), but never shipped anything... I sent them e-mail twice ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), politely asking them what was going on, but never got an answer. Maybe I should have sent them a fax as well, but you really expect a company with an online ordering system to have some way to read its e-mail... I had exactly the same problem with Greenbush. They don't seem to answer on polite emails, but they/he do react on the impolite ones. I've subscribed to four monthly CD's in April and so far have only received 2. If you can write a really nasty email they will probably send something. Also, gettingg the Postmaster General involved for Mail Fraud or Wire Fraud (charging for something not shipped of charging before an item is shipped) is a sure way to get a response too. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps They tell me my job is easy... anyone can do it. Why doesn't anyone else want it? -- me ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Unusual behaviour after ugrading to login_970616
Hi all, Since i upgraded to login_970616-1.deb i noticed two weird things: - user that logs in through xdm cannot be detected by 'who' command, while users that log in during an X session, through 'telnet localhost' are displayed as usual. - Login from the 'command line level' (level 2 maybe, i am non sure of the common consent about levels) is not allowed to root! Ordinary users can log in, but root access is denyed because Login incorrect. Can anybody explain what has happened ? thank you for your suggesions Paolo Pumilia --- CSTC - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
lpr to ethernet printer / apsfilter
Hi! When using apsfilter for printing to an ethernet printer the input filter 'if=..apsfilter...' is _not_ run. This has to do with the fact that normally the printer spooler does the filtering. But if I mention the printer itself in the printcap file, like :lp=:\ :rm=195.48.69.8:\ , the printer is introduced as if it was a computer, a printer server. So, the filter isn't run. Now:Someone said here, that one could use two entries in the printcap, so, that one printer filters, and prints it to the other one. I tried this: lp|lp2|PS_600dpi-a4-auto-mono|PS_600dpi auto mono:\ :lp=:\ :rm=localhost:\ :rp=raw:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/PS_600dpi-a4-auto-mono:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/PS_600dpi-a4-auto-mono/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/PS_600dpi-a4-auto-mono/acct:\ :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-PS_600dpi-a4-auto-mono:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: raw|lp3|PS_600dpi-a4-raw|PS_600dpi auto raw:\ :lp=:\ :rm=195.48.69.8:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/PS_600dpi-raw:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/PS_600dpi-raw/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/PS_600dpi-raw/acct:\ :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-PS_600dpi-a4-raw:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: but this produces an error: $ lpr embassy lpr: connect: No such file or directory jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. $ ps -ax | grep lpd 4117 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd 4373 1 S 0:00 grep lpd $ lpq waiting for queue to be enabled on localhost Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1stgodot 7embassy 649 bytes Or, the same question simple and easy: how can I print textfiles on a postscript-only printer with lpr (avoiding a2ps and such) ? Any help is appreciated. Thanks, -- 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] .
Smail troubles
Hi, I'm trying to get aliases with smail. Even the smailconfig generated file /etc/aliases don't fit the mkaliases likes. After renaming /etc/aliases, I had tried: # mksort /etc/aliases.tmp | mkline /etc/aliases # mkaliases and the result is: /usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for /etc/aliases What is going wrong here? Some help, please. PS.: the smailconfig(5) pointed in /etc/aliases doesn't exists. I couldn't find any information on the file format, except the original path to the author's source location, even in the man pages. Every time one run smailconfig, it remove the /etc/aliases file. This is below the Debian Quality Software I would like to find in smail. Thanks, []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[kinda off-topic] accelx and matrox
I just purchased a Mystique 220 4mb card. I am trying to run accelx 4.1 w/ it. X locks up occasionally when switching from a V/C to X and when I load some high graphic themes in Enlightenment (alien). Has anyone seen and fixed this?? Suggestions? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Missing include file while configuring kernell 2.0.32 ??
Hi, I installed the kernel source 2.0.32. I just executed what the README file tells me to do, but when I start make menuconfig things go wrong. Why doesn't it find the include files ??? The first thing make does is compiling the file lxdialog.c, so gcc is invoked by make. lxdialog.c refers to include files dialog.h and locale.h which contain other include files such as stdlib.h, string.h etc... Then make stops saying dialog.h: stdlib.h: no such file etc... A find reveals string.h in /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386. But stdlib.h for instance is not on my disk ?? Very strange !! Regards, Marc Ministry of Agriculture. Brussels - Belgium -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
NT vs. Linux: is zero-administration a reality? (was: Question.)
Timothy Hospedales wrote: Does anyone know if there have been any studies on the cost effectiveness of networks based on linux vs networks based on NT? While linux seems to be cheaper, where I live technical expertise is in _very_ short supply and so linux would probably be alot more expensive to admister.? Oh yes, you seek after Microsoft's Holy Grail: zero administration. Guess what: it's not reality. Ever talk to a mathemetician about complexity? There are some problems which just can't be simplified. M$ gives you this GUI veneer over everything but it doesn't solve anything. Consider SQL Server. You can install the thing a create a single database in a jiffy but when it comes to performance tuning, replication, managing groups, backups, etc. you just have to know what your doing. Several months ago I needed to change the network address our office was using. Someone decided that though I could run a DHCP server on the Linux box we already use we should run an NT 4.0 Server for the job. In order to change the base network address I had to edit each entry and copy/paste the IP and MAC addresses into Notepad, then delete the scope, create a new one, and then re-enter each IP/MAC copying it to a newly created entry. If this had been Linux I could have opened the file and done a quick search/replace and been done in one minute. Sure the DHCP Manager window looks cool with it's slick tree-view. These are two examples but I could go on and on because my job requires that I write software (and do administration) in NT. NT make simple things simpler. In the process, by cramming everything into a neat little GUI it makes complex things difficult or impossible. For these reasons, NT is a breakthrough for small offices or workgroups who want to set up a small network and provide File, Print, small database, DHCP, and dial-in. For Fortune 500 companies who move to it because they think they can break free of dependence on highly paid computer experts who are extremely difficult to replace, they are just fooling themselves. I can't blame them for wanting a magic bullet but in this case as in most where a decision is made by someone without the knowledge and experience required, they're just shooting themselves in the foot. -- 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] .
WordProcessor + SoundCard + ZIP PRINTING
Hi. Do you know if there is any good word processor for Linux? (I mean like WordPerfect, or, at least, like windoze WordPad). If so, where can I find it? I also have another question. I finally recompiled the kernel (I needed it to support my soundcard). When finally I could recompile the kernel with a normal size, etc., I see that I can't hear anything through my speakers. The computer does as if the soundcard were recognized (for example, when I type bplay sound.au or cat sound.au /dev/audio it does like if it were reproducing the sound. But I can't hear anything. It's not a speakers problem or even a hardware problem. It's software. My soundcard is a Logitech SoundMan Wave, fully compatible with SoundBlaster16 with MPU/OPL4 OPL2/OPL3 (or something similar). The adresses: I/O: _220_ (can be 230, 240 or 260, IRQ: _7_ (can be 3,5,7), DMA:_1_ (can be 1,5, (7)). And another question! I use a Iomega Zip 100MB parallel port drive. I can use it with fstab, but I cannot print having this drive connected to the parallel port. I've heard that there's a patch or something that you can use the printer and the Zip. I know I can't use them at the same time, but it doesn't matter, I wanna use the printer... snip... If you need more information (my config file of the kernel) please mail me or mail the list. Thank you very much, have a happy New Year! --- Àlex Maneu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MAN Soft Magazine http://www.maptel.es/pagpersonal/mansoft Going to the future, living the present --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: laser printers and linux
G., [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to be a lot of questions about printers in the last week. I might as well get in mine. NEC SuperScript 860. Will it work or not. I bought it because a magazine review said it worked with OS's other than Windows (and cheap and fast and generally highly recommended). I now have this sinking feeling that it won't. The manual says that it differs from other printers in that it is driven directly by the CPU of your computer... This sounds suspiciously like what the Hardware-HOWTO says to avoid -- equipment that has had its brains taken out and uses Windows driven software to do the job. Ah, sounds like the early Sun SparcPrinter. It was simply a raster device. The manual for it said that if you needed faster performance you could simply upgrade the server! I don't believe that particular incarnation any longer exists. Take heart though, in the case of Linux this is not necessarily a bad thing. If you're printing stuff from ghostscript (and not using pass-through fonts) everything is essentially being rasterized anyway. Now, this doesn't mean that anyone's working on a driver for it. -- 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: WordProcessor + SoundCard + ZIP PRINTING
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Àlex Maneu wrote: Do you know if there is any good word processor for Linux? (I mean like WordPerfect, or, at least, like windoze WordPad). If so, where can I find it? You can buy a WordPerfect version for Linux. Applixware is a WYSIWYG word processor that you can also buy (I don't know where to get either, maybe try linuxmall.com or cheapbytes.com). If you are looking to produce a typeset document, you might want to look into the LyX frontend for LaTeX. This will generally produce better results than word processors. Or if you are writing something that does _not_ need to be typeset, you might want to keep it text: look into text editors, such as Emacs and vi. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help on printers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 29 Dec 1997, BRIAN SCHRAMM wrote: I have an IP address of 56.88.7.156 on my network at work. My printer IP address (HP Jetdirect card) is 192.0.0.192. How can I talk to it? You need a kernel with IP_ALIAS enabled. Then add a new network on the same physical network with: ifconfig eth0:0 192.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.0.0.255 route add -net 192.0.0.0 dev eth0:0 (This assumes, the printer thinks it's on a Class C network and the ip 192.0.0.1 is still free in your local network) Nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNKkWXVptA0IhBm0NAQG6UAL9EbpUk7OihEO+96bVauVRQS2qHvAwkn/y h7h3+AhtBsPxArBA1kWwdQvxZI7RLwYbeuh4ZdFFaDQF//ORQEIAq8sOroXHluAl aM/GAsQO/TK1cH+Wk2lyy+PUR6jTDgTV =o9JG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lpr to ethernet printer / apsfilter
Hi, I don't know what apsfilter does, but you probably need to write a script to call the apsfilter files. I'm using magicfilter to print postscript files to a non-postscript printer on the network. Printing to lp calls my input filter remote-filter which pipes the output from magicfilter to lp-r. /usr/local/bin/remote-filter: = #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/ljet4l-filter | lpr -Plp-r /etc/printcap: == lp|lj|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\ :sh:\ :pw#80:\ :pl#66:\ :px#1440:\ :mx#0:\ :if=/usr/local/bin/remote-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs: lp-r|HP Laserjet 4L-r:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l-r:\ :sh:\ :pw#80:\ :pl#66:\ :px#1440:\ :mx#0:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct-r:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs-r:\ :rm=jetd:\ :rp=raw: -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problem installing perl
# dpkg -i perl_5.004.04-3.deb (Reading database ... 14672 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace perl 5.004.04-3 (using perl_5.004.04-3.deb) ... Unpacking replacement perl ... Setting up perl (5.004.04-3) ... dpkg: error processing perl (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 123 Errors were encountered while processing: perl Well, what could the problem be? And what is error 123? Where do i find a list of all these errors? Thanx in advance Alex List -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Fwd: WordProcessor + SoundCard + ZIP PRINTING]
-- --- Àlex Maneu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MAN Soft Magazine http://www.maptel.es/pagpersonal/mansoft Going to the future, living the present --- ---BeginMessage--- Hi. Do you know if there is any good word processor for Linux? (I mean like WordPerfect, or, at least, like windoze WordPad). If so, where can I find it? I also have another question. I finally recompiled the kernel (I needed it to support my soundcard). When finally I could recompile the kernel with a normal size, etc., I see that I can't hear anything through my speakers. The computer does as if the soundcard were recognized (for example, when I type bplay sound.au or cat sound.au /dev/audio it does like if it were reproducing the sound. But I can't hear anything. It's not a speakers problem or even a hardware problem. It's software. My soundcard is a Logitech SoundMan Wave, fully compatible with SoundBlaster16 with MPU/OPL4 OPL2/OPL3 (or something similar). The adresses: I/O: _220_ (can be 230, 240 or 260, IRQ: _7_ (can be 3,5,7), DMA:_1_ (can be 1,5, (7)). And another question! I use a Iomega Zip 100MB parallel port drive. I can use it with fstab, but I cannot print having this drive connected to the parallel port. I've heard that there's a patch or something that you can use the printer and the Zip. I know I can't use them at the same time, but it doesn't matter, I wanna use the printer... snip... If you need more information (my config file of the kernel) please mail me or mail the list. Thank you very much, have a happy New Year! --- Àlex Maneu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MAN Soft Magazine http://www.maptel.es/pagpersonal/mansoft Going to the future, living the present --- ---End Message---
PPP Server Almost a Reality
Well... The PPP Server is almost working, still having one problem. When connecting to the Debian box with WIN95, Debian keeps giving a PAP authentication failure for username and then proceeds to disconnect WIN95. I don't have Shadow passwords enabled and the name and password is valid. Anyone have any ideas what's going on? Thanks a bunch... Greg Hively __ 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] .
Re: PPP Server Almost a Reality
G. H. wrote: Well... The PPP Server is almost working, still having one problem. When connecting to the Debian box with WIN95, Debian keeps giving a PAP authentication failure for username and then proceeds to disconnect WIN95. I don't have Shadow passwords enabled and the name and password is valid. Anyone have any ideas what's going on? Uh, we need a little more info on your setup. What are you using to answer the modem? (mgetty, uugetty, portslave, etc). Are you using radius or straight d pap? Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps The quality of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. G.B. Shaw ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
A new computer...and some questions...
I'm getting a new computer, and I have some is this supported questions...I've referred to the hardware how-to, bu some of this stuff is bleeding-edge so I couldn't find it. If anyone knows the answers to the following, I'd appreciate it. The computers are HP (for a variety of reasons): Are the following hardware devices supported in the current debian kernel/X: 1) Ultra ATA 33 (UATA) hard drives 2) Cirrus Logic Advanced Graphics Port (AGP) video 3) Pentium II processor. Thanks for any help. -- ++ | Andrew Akins | | Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ames.net/igor/| | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.cms-gt.com/| ++ | May your villages remain ignorant of tax collectors, and may your | | sons be many and ugly and strong and willing workers, and may your | | daughters be few and beautiful and excellent providers of love | | gifts from eminent families that live very far away, and may your | | lives be blessed by the beauty that has touched mine. | |- Number Ten Ox, Bridge of Birds | ++ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A new computer...and some questions...
Most AGP are not supported in Xfree86. Other X's do have support. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SLRN problem
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 07:52:21PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Pann McCuaig wrote: When I invoke 'slrn --spool' I have no newsgroups listed. I'm sure it's something simple but I'm missing it. This is becoming a FAQ. :-) README.slrnpull.gz Read this file. Specifically: Setting up a minimal .slrnrc file. By the time you sent this I had added this file to my list of RTFMs. And although my .slrnrc file wasn't the minimal one listed, it did indeed include all the lines you (and the README) show. I had also made a little progress. For some reason, after I run 'slrnpull --expire' I then get a list of newsgroups (with article counts) when I invoke 'slrn --spool', but if I try to read an article I'm told that there are no unread articles, and if I try using 'ESC - u' to tell the reader that I wanna read 'em anyway, it accepts the command, confirms that I want to mark the group unread, and still responds with no unread articles if I try to enter the group. BTW, after receiving your response, I tried the minimal .slrnrc approach, and there is no change. I'm thinking permissions, or ownership, or something like that. slrnpull is run out of ip-up, and this is a result of modifications to ip-up made by configuring slrn as part of the installation process. ip-up gets run when the PPP link is established as a result of me (pann, not root) running pon. Any ideas, or any more information I can provide? TIA Cheers, Pann -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem installing perl
Hi, Is perl-base installed and configured? manoj -- I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. Albert Einstein Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A new computer...and some questions...
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Andrew Akins wrote: 3) Pentium II processor. Should be fine, as it can execute the same instructions as a Pentium. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- |If at first you don't succeed, redefine success. | | -- Taken from Hennesey and Patterson,| | _Computer_Organization_And_Design_:_The_Hardware_/_Software_Interface_ | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: WordProcessor + SoundCard + ZIP PRINTING
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, ?lex Maneu wrote: Hi. Do you know if there is any good word processor for Linux? (I mean like WordPerfect, or, at least, like windoze WordPad). If so, where can I find it? WordPerfect 7.0 is available from Corel ($$). The StarOffice suite is available on CD-ROM from Caldera and can be downloaded (essentially unlimited trial period for non-commercial use) from ftp.gwdg.de in /pub/linux/staroffice. I also have another question. I finally recompiled the kernel (I needed it to support my soundcard). When finally I could recompile the kernel with a normal size, etc., I see that I can't hear anything through my speakers. The computer does as if the soundcard were recognized (for example, when I type bplay sound.au or cat sound.au /dev/audio it does like if it were reproducing the sound. But I can't hear anything. It's not a speakers problem or even a hardware problem. It's software. My soundcard is a Logitech SoundMan Wave, fully compatible with SoundBlaster16 with MPU/OPL4 OPL2/OPL3 (or something similar). The adresses: I/O: _220_ (can be 230, 240 or 260, IRQ: _7_ (can be 3,5,7), DMA:_1_ (can be 1,5, (7)). What does 'cat /dev/sndstat' report? Bob 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: PLEASE, postmaster@debian.org, are you there?
from Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED]: :On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 09:30:05AM +0100, Dr. Andreas Wehler wrote: : This mail is from my old uni-account. I'm having massive problems : with my new private email address, from which any mail to debian.org : is refused for an entry in the badmailfrom list. Please?... Thank : :Yes, t-online.de is listed in the badmailfrom list. It has been added :due to spam I think. : :What you could do against it is to get another provider. I know that :there's at least franken.de and mayn.de in your area providing reasonable :access to the internet. Thank you for the answer. The color of my face has become bleached a bit. Nevertheless I hope this is more a joke than the last answer, or is it in the spirit of debian to cut all folks from any debian conncetion for historical reasons? I know that T-Online keeps an eye or two on spammers, so the *masters of each side should be able to solve any problems with spammers. Thank you. Andreas. -- Dr. Andreas Wehler Tel./Fax.: (+49) 202 75 36 64 Luebecker Str. 16 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 42109 Wuppertal http://home.t-online.de/home/Dr.A.wehler/profil.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
1FA: Problem
I ran into the 1FA Boot problem after loading ver 1.3 Base System. The system would boot fine from floppy, but not from harddisk (it just sat at 1FA: until a floppy was put in and the F key was pressed). After reading a couple of replies to a similar problem I tried changing the /etc/lilo.conf to reflect boot=/dev/hda (it had been hda1) this alone didn't work. However, another reply suggested running liloconfig. I did and it asked if I wanted to build a boot block. I answered yes, and this fixed the problem. I don't know why this wasn't built when I answered yes to have it boot from the harddrive (during installation). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Smail troubles
Mario Olimpio de Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # mkaliases and the result is: /usr/sbin/mkaliases: unknown file type, , for /etc/aliases What is going wrong here? Some help, please. mkaliases is not necessary for a plain-text alias file. You caqn get rid of this message by patching mkaliases a bit: # XXX FIXME!!! this should be derived from current configuration # ALIASES_TYPE='lsearch' the author's source location, even in the man pages. Every time one run smailconfig, it remove the /etc/aliases file. This is below the Debian Quality Software I would like to find in smail. This is a Bad Thing(tm) and you should file a bug report. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ATA-3 drives
george bonser wrote, 1) Ultra ATA 33 (UATA) hard drives No linux supports ATA33 as far as I know. If you can put the drives in EIDE mode (as most will), Linux will work fine. There is a patch (I forget where, but it's out there) for the kernel to support them. I tried it, but my maxtor8.4 won't handle this mode at 83mhz, only 66. So I set the mode back down, and went back to my old kernel. rick - - -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. - --- End of Unsent Draft --- End of Forwarded Message -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem installing perl
On 30 Dec 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Is perl-base installed and configured? Yes, of course. -- Maenner der Wissenschaft! Man sagt ihr viele nach, aber die meisten mit Unrecht. - Karl Kraus ** Alexander List @ HTU Graz, Rechbauerstr. 12, A-8010 Graz Tel: +43-316-873-5111 Fax: +43-316-873-5115 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sbox.tu-graz.ac.at/home/alexlist PGP public key available via WWW or on request -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem installing perl
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Alexander LIST wrote: On 30 Dec 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Is perl-base installed and configured? Yes, of course. Looking at the messages posted earlier, I was pretty sure of this myself. Then I'd suggest putting a bunch of echo statements in /var/lib/dpkg/info/perl.postinst and run configure through dpkg to track down what is giving you the problem. Brandon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
IMAP help
Hi, I've used imap on a redhat system and it keeps the mailbox file under /var/spool/mail intact, which allows me to switch between an IMAP client and using PINE. I installed the debian imapd package, and although it does keep the mailbox file _somewhere_ because old messages still are retrievable, they are NOT in /var/spool/mail, so I can't use PINE to read any old messages! :( Can someone tell me where the file is kept, if there is an option to imapd which tells it to keep the spool file, or what other options do I have? thanks Ricardo Right now I can only view my old messages thru imap... I can't use PINE anymore to get at them :( -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: WordProcessor + SoundCard + ZIP PRINTING
Bob Nielsen wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, ?lex Maneu wrote: Hi. Do you know if there is any good word processor for Linux? (I mean like WordPerfect, or, at least, like windoze WordPad). If so, where can I find it? WordPerfect 7.0 is available from Corel ($$). Check out http://www.sdcorp.com/wplinux/linuxprice.htm. Full price is $l99, upgrade/tradeup $149, academic $59. The academic pricing is brand new, so far as I know. -- C.L. Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: LibGif2
Asher Haig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone out there know where I can get libgif2? Preferably in .deb form? Apparently I need it to be able to install KDE It is part of kdesupport package. Unfortunatly, the other kde packages needs a package libgif2 which is not provided by kdesupport. I used --force-depends while installing kde, another solution would be to change the kdesupport package to provide this libgif2 or to change the other packages to not require libgif2 but kdesupport. I just sent a bugreport to Kalle Dalheimer, the maintainer of these packages. Torsten -- I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere. Fortune Cookie 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: SLRN problem
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 12:34:04PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Could you look at the slrnpull spool directory in /var, and see if there appear to be articles in it? $ ls -R /var/spool/slrnpull/news agora or orst pdxpnw ls: /var/spool/slrnpull/news/agora: Permission denied ls: /var/spool/slrnpull/news/or: Permission denied ls: /var/spool/slrnpull/news/orst: Permission denied ls: /var/spool/slrnpull/news/pdx: Permission denied ls: /var/spool/slrnpull/news/pnw: Permission denied OurManPann# ls -alR /var/spool/slrnpull/news/agora total 4 drwx-- 3 root pann 1024 Dec 29 08:00 . drwxr-xr-x 7 news news 1024 Dec 29 13:02 .. drwx-- 2 root pann 2048 Dec 29 13:25 general /var/spool/slrnpull/news/agora/general: total 222 drwx-- 2 root pann 2048 Dec 29 13:25 . drwx-- 3 root pann 1024 Dec 29 08:00 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root9 Dec 30 12:34 .minmax -rw-r--r-- 1 root root22066 Dec 30 11:28 .overview -rw--- 1 root pann 816 Dec 29 08:00 2178 -rw--- 1 root pann 1165 Dec 29 08:00 2179 -rw--- 1 root pann 1219 Dec 29 08:00 2180 (and a whole lot more, too) I can view the articles with less. And anytime I run 'slrnpull -h hermes.rdrop.com' out of ip-up, if there are _any_ articles pulled down, I can no longer see a list of newsgroups until I run 'slrnpull --expire'. Ideas? Cheers, Pann -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SLRN problem
Pann McCuaig wrote: ls: /var/spool/slrnpull/news/agora: Permission denied I can view the articles with less. And anytime I run 'slrnpull -h hermes.rdrop.com' out of ip-up, if there are _any_ articles pulled down, I can no longer see a list of newsgroups until I run 'slrnpull --expire'. Ideas? Ah, I think I remember this problem now. What version of slrn are you using? I notive this in the changelog: slrn (0.9.4.2-4) unstable; urgency=low * Change umask to 022 in ip-up script for slrnpull, reset when done. I think if you upgrade to this version or higher, your problem will be fixed. Alternatively, edit /etc/ppp/ip-up, and add umask 022 to it before it calls slrnpull. You may need to fix the permissions of the directories it's already made by hand (or delete them and let it recreate them). -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: smail, mutt and outgoing From: field
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 11:34:20AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Is your realname mentioned in /etc/passwd? No, and I think it was on the Debian/Linux 1.1 system. Is this significant enough to cause the From: field to be changed. Anyways you can set any From line by putting such a line in your ~/.muttrc: my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Your Real Name) that's what I have in my ~/.muttrc except I use different punctuation, which is why I asked the question in the first place, because with Debian 1.1 (kernel 2.0.0) and mutt 0.85 that worked just fine. Now with Debian 1.3 (kernel 2.0.30) and mutt 0.88 the From: line gets garbled. Here is the punctuation I use which conforms to the format of address fields as I see them reported on my system. my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Real Name which is pretty much what you suggest above. I have tried this with both unmy_hdr From: and unset use_from. Thanks for the suggestion and any more. Gerald Crimp -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: laser printers and linux
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 09:33:35 CST, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: G., [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to be a lot of questions about printers in the last week. I might as well get in mine. NEC SuperScript 860. Will it work or not. I bought it because a magazine review said it worked with OS's other than Windows (and cheap and fast and generally highly recommended). I now have this sinking feeling that it won't. The manual says that it differs from other printer in that it is driven directly by the CPU of your computer... This sounds suspiciously like what the Hardware-HOWTO says to avoid -- equipment that has had its brains taken out and uses Windows driven software to do the job Unfortunately, you have a windoze GDI printer, which means some hardware functions are emulated in software to more closely integrate with (be controlled by) windoze. The one I saw said so right on the box. The upshot is I contacted NEC back in September and they told me it was only supported in windoze. Try the comp.os.linux.hardware usenet group. I think I heard there that a Brother printer was nicely priced. There were discussions about other printers there too. -- David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
