Checking mail from several ISPs
Hi all, I have set up a Debian system to allow several computers to utilise the one internet modem line using IP masquerade, and would like to get linux to check several email accounts at different ISPs, and route them to a mailbox, for the relevant win95 desktop to pick them up automatically, at say 10 minute intervals, while online. There are several email addresses going to several desktops, but there are no repeated email addresses. e.g collected mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] postbox for machine A collected mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] postbox for machine A collected mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- postbox for machine B Then the individual machines pick up their mail from the respective postboxes Linux is on a dial up connection so the IP never remains constant, so ppl sending email direct to the machine is not possible. Can anyone give me some ideas of where to start, and which packages may be of use ? I looked for some howto's but nothing really covers this. Thanks Ian Perry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help please!
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, mr anonym wrote: Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 19:00:11 +0100 (CET) From: mr anonym [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Subject: Help please! Resent-Date: Sun, 08 Feb 1998 18:00:51 + Resent-From: debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; I'm having trouble installing Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 on my computer and I wonder if someone can help me. My computer: 486-JA 4 MB RAM 150 MB of free space No soundcard/modem installed OS at the moment Win 3.11 and DOS 6.2 Im downloading files from ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/Debian-1.3/disks-i386/current/ I have reset the comp with the rescue-floppy and everything seemed fine.When i pressed enter at the boot prompt after a while this message came up: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 i believe 4M is too small for standard installation procedure. Look/ask about special procedure for low-mem systems And the computer stops. Anyone know what this means? regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Checking mail from several ISPs
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Ian Perry wrote: Hi all, I have set up a Debian system to allow several computers to utilise the one internet modem line using IP masquerade, and would like to get linux to check several email accounts at different ISPs, and route them to a mailbox, for the relevant win95 desktop to pick them up automatically, at say 10 minute intervals, while online. There are several email addresses going to several desktops, but there are no repeated email addresses. e.g collected mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] postbox for machine A collected mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] postbox for machine A collected mail for [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- postbox for machine B Then the individual machines pick up their mail from the respective postboxes Linux is on a dial up connection so the IP never remains constant, so ppl sending email direct to the machine is not possible. Can anyone give me some ideas of where to start, and which packages may be of use ? I looked for some howto's but nothing really covers this. Somewhere in the ip-up chain, issue this command, fetchmail -d 300 --invisible and in ip-down, fetchmail -q Then in root's home dir, create .fetchmailrc: poll isp1.com proto pop3 user abc pass password is box1 here poll isp2.com proto pop3 user def pass password is box2 here poll isp3.com proto pop3 user ghi pass password is box3 here You should be able to figure out what needs to be changed for your setup. Obviously, you need fetchmail installed. I also recommend running exim, and not smail/sendmail. This way, you could have the masqueraded machines point their smtp mailer to linux, and have it the mail either delivered immediately if online, or have it queued if offline. Smail doesn't work in that instance, and I don't know sendmail. This is my setup here, except that I only have one user(me!). Adam -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Automating PPP with cron?
-Original Message- From: Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, 9 February 1998 6:59 am Subject: Re: Automating PPP with cron? Hi, I would like to setup my system to do two things. To check periodically to see if my PPP connection has died, and redial my isp if it has. And to disconnect and redial every 6 hours, (my isp doesn't like it if you stay one more than 6 hours consecutively). What would be the best way to go about implementing this, and how should I start going about it? Add persist option to pppd. Alex Y. Is there a way to limit the number of times that the persist option will redial ?. I don't want my modem blindly redialling if it can't connect, would drive my phone bill through the roof !. John -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Checking mail from several ISPs
Install fetchmail, and look over its manpage. It can do everything you want. On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, IP == Ian Perry wrote: IP Hi all, IP I have set up a Debian system to allow several computers to utilise the IP one internet modem line using IP masquerade, and would like to get linux IP to check several email accounts at different ISPs, and route them to a IP mailbox, for the relevant win95 desktop to pick them up automatically, at IP say 10 minute intervals, while online. IP There are several email addresses going to several desktops, but there IP are no repeated email addresses. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Procmail, qmail and file locking
David Maslen writes: I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail. qmail only uses flock as a locking mechanism (no dotlocking). If your procmail binary also uses flock, there should be no problem. Try 'procmail -v' to check: Locking strategies: dotlocking, flock() If I use vm to view the folders created by procmail directly, this process won't occur. I'll be reading a mailbox that could well have something added to it, and that would be bad I think. You can use procmail delivery folders as vm incoming folders, eg procmail delivers to ~/folders/DEBIAN, which vm uses as the incoming folder for ~/folders/debian. Then you can type g to get new mail, without problems. Try the code attached below in your .vm file (I don't know who wrote it, so I can't give the due credit). There are other solutions as well: create a .qmail-debian file that delivers to a Maildir (not Mailbox), make procmail forward the mail to you-debian and make vm use maildirs. Maildirs don't require file locking, so you are safe. Also, there's a patch to make procmail deliver to maildirs, see www.qmail.org. HTH, -- Adriano ;; Since I use procmail to filter my mail, I like to shove my incoming ;; mail to folders. Due to Emacs (and hence VM) locking, it's not wise ;; to view the incoming spool file, so I make procmail dump mail to ;; folders IN ALL CAPS. Then I have VM make spool files from each one of ;; those, except they'll be in all lower case. (setq vm-spool-files (append (list (list vm-primary-inbox ~/Mailbox (concat vm-primary-inbox .crash))) ;; Mailing list inboxes ;; I arrange that all my procmail maildrops are in ~/Mail/[A-Z]* (mapcar '(lambda (s) make the appropriate entry for vm-spool-files (list (concat vm-folder-directory lists/ s) (concat vm-folder-directory lists/ (upcase s)) (concat vm-folder-directory lists/ s .crash))) ;; So I create a vm-spool-files entry for each mail drop (mapcar 'downcase (directory-files (concat vm-folder-directory lists/) nil ^[A-Z].+) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: Installing Debian Linux v1.3.1 from July '97
I'm not sure, but I would run some HDD diagnostics on your Quantum drive. I seems like there may be a problem with your HDD. Michael Barker Technician ATL Systems -Original Message- From: Alexander Skwar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 1998 11:02 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Installing Debian Linux v1.3.1 from July '97 Hello ! Last night I wanted to install Debian v1.3.1 from July '97 with a Kernel v2.0.29. After I partitioned my hard disk, the install programm checked my hard disk for errors and got a whole lot of them. It repeated printing: scsi0: Target 6 underflow - Wanted at least 1024, got 512, residual SG count 1. This started out with a higher number in wanted. This message has been printed about 6 times, then: SCSI disk error: host 0 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 return code = 27070002 scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:04, sector 1090338 And after that, the scsi bus got resetted. What does all this mean ? My hardware: - Adaptec 2940 v1.21 with SCSI ID 7 - Quantum Fireball ST2.1S with SCSI ID 6 - Plextor 12TSi with SCSI ID 5 - Teac CD-R 50S with SCSI ID 4 - Hercules Stingray 128/3D - Cyrix PR150+ (133 MHz) - 32 MB EDO (60ns) - Shuttle Soundsystem 48/Wav / HOT-239, chipset: Opti 82c930 - Teles S0 16.3 ISDN card - SimpleNet SN3200 NE-2000 compatible Network adaptor Thanks for all your help ! Bis denne / Have a nice Day Alexander Skwar -- E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check Out : http://www.digitalprojects.com PGP-KeyID : 0xA05119C7 -- 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: kernel v2.0.32 make
Carey Evans wrote: Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've recently had to replace my hard disk and re-load bo. I'm working once again, but when I tried to build a new kernel I got the message attached. Is it possible you've gotten a file named -y.o or something like that in the modules/ directory somewhere? Neither in modules nor in any subdirectory of linux. This is one of the first things I checked for (even though I couldn't imagine that it might really have occurred). I'm REALLY stumped on this one! -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary bought a pair of skates upon the ice to frisk now wasn't that a crazy way her sweet young *? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems with dual boot NT/linux
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 10:44:41AM +, Abdelrazak YOUNES wrote: Well, I tried to use bootpart and it says me that it has restore the NT boot sector but when I reboot, the problem remains. I guess that the problem is not only due to the boot sector because dos fdisk says that he couldn't read my first hard drive. I guess I'll have to re-install NT but I can't by now because my NT CD is not available. So, if someone knows what's going on please tell me, otherwise I'll wait for my NT CD to come back. Anyway, thanks to all the guys who tried to help me. Can't you use the NT install floppies with the rescue disk you created during install or with rdisk? You did create the rescue disk, right, like the Debian installation disk/CDROM warned you to back everything up ... ? 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] .
Re: Hard Install
On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 09:36:06PM +, George R wrote: Total time(ftp, making disks from images, formating hard disk, scaning disk, and install) under 1.5 hrs. One problem, I set up myself with the wrong user id. Now I have 2 users. How do I kill one user? Yes, I know RTM and the HOWTO's. That was easier than OS/2; about the same as DOS; tons easier than Win95. What is the fuss about? I agree with your sentiments but I don't think this is really true. When reinstalling my Microsoft OSs (all 3 -- DOS, 95 and NT) on Saturday (because I bought a new disk and couldn't find any way to move NT), it only took about 5 minutes to install 95, and there aren't any hard questions involved, even with a custom install. 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 with python
- Forwarded message from root - HI Folks, I have a problem installing python1.4 (hamm), and here follows the output from trying to run dpkg --configure python-base. Setting up python-base (1.4.0-4) ... File /usr/lib/python1.4/compileall.py, line 8 import os ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax dpkg: error processing python-base (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: python-base Does anyone know what I should do to correct this? Thanks Heine - End of forwarded message from root - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: single user mode
On Thu, Feb 05, 1998 at 08:20:32PM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: If this doesn't work, I don't think you have a choice. Ofcourse you can always boot into maintenance mode instead of single use mode (boot with linux maintenance or linux -b). It will get you a root shell directly, without password, and without running _any_ of the init scripts. Remember that your root file system is read only at that point and that not even /proc is mounted .. Is this different to linux emergency? Emergency does ask for a password here. 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] .
Re: Hard Install
On 02/09/98 at 03:20 PM, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, Feb 04, 1998 at 09:36:06PM +, George R wrote: That was easier than OS/2; about the same as DOS; tons easier than Win95. What is the fuss about? I agree with your sentiments but I don't think this is really true. When reinstalling my Microsoft OSs (all 3 -- DOS, 95 and NT) on Saturday (because I bought a new disk and couldn't find any way to move NT), it only took about 5 minutes to install 95, and there aren't any hard questions involved, even with a custom install. Sorry you don't think it is true. I don't have Win95 at home, but the last few times I've installed/re-installed Win95, there has been at least one PNP or Win-something-or-other that didn't work just right. Had to go find this that or the other driver. You are probably using better hardware than I have at work and my friends have. I don't have any of the Win-whatevers or PNP anything. Win95 may be a 5 min install; just not on anything I've dealt with lately. Has anyone had Win95 change your CMOS settings? George Eschew obfuscation reply to: grimel @icx Sorry for the trouble, I'm just getting to much spam. .net --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Automating PPP with cron?
Pardon me for being on a soap box. I work for an ISP. It costs us $30 for one phone line, not counting our T or anything else. Our customers pay anywhere between 10 and 18 dollars a month. Every one of them that hogs a line makes us lose money, gives everyone busy signals, and eats our T's. If you need dedicated access -- pay for it. You are only stealing from the very people you pay for service. And when you get a busy signal, remember why. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: file system copying nightmare
At 09:03 + 1998-02-08, David Maslen wrote: In the past I used a rescue disk, called I think rescue that I got from the linux archives at sunsite. It's probably a boit out of date by now. I really should learn how to make my own rescue disk, but it would be nice if there was a debian one that did what i wanted. How about a debian script to make one for you? Anyone? See the `boot-floppies' package. -- Joel Espy Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.espy.org/http://www.debian.org/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Procmail, qmail and file locking
perhaps you will find: http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man1/preline.html useful...(also searching for 'procmail' at http://www.qmail.org/ may be helpful) -sen at some point around 8 Feb 1998 16:20:26 - David Maslen [EMAIL PROTECTED] mentioned: I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installation problem
Hello, I found this message may be what I was looking for, but not sure. Will this slow down the output to my screen during boot-up? I am having trouble reading all that is being displayed, and cant get a complete log of what is occuring at boot time. There is an error that I am concerned about during boot, but cant get a chance to read it and its not showing up in my /var/log/kern.log file or show up in dmesg. I also would like to know if anyone knows of any high-end graphics editing programs that are for linux. Thank you for any help offered. Charles K. Rishel snip This indicates that the kernal is loading from your hard drive and begins execution. I'd start by booting from the rescue disk, mount the root partition, exit to shell and edit /target/etc/init.d/* adding an echo Starting filename at the beginning followed by a sleep 3 so that you can see which of your init scripts are working and which is in progress when the system reboots. Also have a look at /etc/inittab to see what your default run level is set to. This is set by a line like id:3:initdefault: near the top. You can put echos only in the appropriate init.d files by looking at /etc/rc3.d (for example)and see that S10sysklogd links to /etc/init.d/sysklogd, etc. Then let the list know what your results are and we'll proceed. snip 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: teTeX and \noindent
Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The teTeX version I have (re)installed is 0.4. The latest versions just out of hamm that I have are: % dpkg -l 'tetex*' ii tetex-base 0.4pl8-7 teTeX library files ii tetex-bin 0.4pl8-4 teTeX binary files ii tetex-dev 0.4pl8-4 kpathsea.a and include files for teTeX ii tetex-doc 0.4pl8-3 teTeX documentation ii tetex-extra 0.4pl8-3 teTeX library files LaTeX says This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1). The version of TeX isn't the problem in this case. (Wasn't a bug found in TeX a couple of years ago?) What are your versions of LaTeX2e and article.cls? Mine are 1996/12/01 patch level 1 and 1996/10/31 v1.3u. This bug was solved almost a year ago. (Piet van Oostrum [EMAIL PROTECTED]) The bug is that \noindent does not work inside a quote. This is particularly annoying for quotes that open a chapter... Can you mail me some code that demonstrates the problem, and tell me what to look for, so I can check the latest Debian version? -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Automating PPP with cron?
On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 11:43:15PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: Pardon me for being on a soap box. I work for an ISP. It costs us $30 for one phone line, not counting our T or anything else. Our customers pay anywhere between 10 and 18 dollars a month. Every one of them that hogs a line makes us lose money, gives everyone busy signals, and eats our T's. If you need dedicated access -- pay for it. You are only stealing from the very people you pay for service. And when you get a busy signal, remember why. Pardon me but it is not nice of you to describe your customers in this way. Your policies should give you a way to deal with the problem; if you want to have unlimited access (which I gather is the trend in the USA; we have quite a high amount of time-charging here in Oz), you should have advertised time limits per day or per call and you should enforce them. You should not get on your soapbox on a mailing list about it. 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] .
Re: Automating PPP with cron?
Hi, On this topic, why not try diald? Instead of keeping my ppp on all the time, I have made t so that I never need know whether I am connected or not. I just send mail, start a ftp session, or lynx, or query dns -- and the connection is brought up seemlessly. I go to the other extreme -- a couple of minutes of idle ppp causes a disconnect. I only use as much of bandwidth as I need -- and I also remove most of the bother of ppp connections. manoj -- The expenditure of funds is critical--engineers and scientists should not be permitted to authorize any purchase. -- Richard F. Moore 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] .
Installationsproblem mit CD-ROM bei Debian.Linux
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Re: X restarts in different console
I noticed strictly the sam effect in my bo box... :-( Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, mwb wrote: I normally run X under vt7, however I have had a couple instanced where when I exited X, by ctl-alt-backspace, it restarts in the next console. It doesn't always seem to do this. The message on the old screen after X exit is: received SIGPIPE signal: exiting... I am running hamm. Any ideas on how I should 'reset' the screens so X resarts in the 'right' screen. Mark [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: Using mgetty automated callback, and the NO CARRIER message.
On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, David Wright wrote: I have a chatscript to do callback, which looks like this. ABORTBUSY ABORTNO CARRIER - ABORTVOICE ABORTNO DIALTONE ATZ OK ATL1 OK ATDT5551212 ogin:\qmagic-login-id\q RING ata ogin: The problem is that if I leave in the arrowed line, it won't work. When I (or it) type magic-login-id, the other end hangs up so that it can call me back, but my modem says NO CARRIER at this point, which aborts the script. Is there a trick to avoid this. (If not, I guess I'll just have to leave it out.) I do dialback and it works fine for me. You have to leave out the ABORT on NO CARRIER of course or the chatscript will abort when the other end hangs up - because you've told it to. However, with newer ppp's this no longer seems to be sufficient, as apparently chat bails out if the DCD signal is gone. I have had to add ATC0 to the modem init strings, to disable DCD signalling by the modem. That made dialback work again, the only problem I still have is when dialling in to another provider without dialback, for which I use other modem settings. pppd often hangs up right after starting, but it restarts after a couple of seconds so I haven't really bothered yet to polish these rough edges. Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installproblem Xfree86.
Hello Debian-users! Can someone help me with some Newbie questions.. 1. When I try to install Xfree86 whith gzip I got (I think) an errormessage like Broken Pipe. What does that mean? 2. How do you run shell script? In Howto:s for Xfree86 they say you want to run the shellscript preinst.sh first of all but I don«t now how to do that. 3. It don«t seems that I have the manual-klient man. What packagename is that manual-klient? When I try to run with startx as root the message I get is: xinit: Can«t load library «/lib/libc.so.4« Incompatible version. In my /lib/ I only have libc.so.5 What«s wrong? Many thanks / Joakim burman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using mgetty automated callback, and the NO CARRIER message.
Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, with newer ppp's this no longer seems to be sufficient, as apparently chat bails out if the DCD signal is gone. I have had to add ATC0 to the modem init strings, to disable DCD signalling by the modem. % man chat [...] HANGUP The HANGUP options control whether a modem hangup should be considered as an error or not. This option is useful in scripts for dialling systems which will hang up and call your system back. The HANGUP options can be ON or OFF. Does this work? -- Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: www.debian.org trouble
On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 09:54:25PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 12:45:47PM -0800, Adam Klein wrote: Somehow, the the Debian web site has been pointed at the Berlin Project's web site, and theirs ahs been pointed at www.us.debian.org. Has anyone else noticed this, and is anything being done about it? www.debian.org is restored. The apache config was modified with errors. We're about to fix it. This happened to me when I was playing with non-IP virtual servers. Apache's root server appears to become inaccessible as soon as you add such a virtual server. I had to add a virtual server for what was originally the root server to get it to work. I find Apache's treatment of servers as either the root or virtual to be a bit annoying. Virtual servers don't seem to be able to override things done in the root; sometimes I might not want to use an ErrorDocument on a virtual server for example, while I want one on the root. I think that all servers should be on equal footing. 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 pgpcdmKWrceDE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: file system copying nightmare
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I'm having a nightmare trying to copy my root file system to its new home. If I mount the original as / and the new one as /mnt, both cp -ax /* /mnt and ( cd /; tar clvf - * ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xf - ) attempt to copy /mnt anyway, and /proc too. ie, the -x and -l switches to cp and tar respectively appear to be ignored. that's because you're TELLING cp and tar to copy /mnt. * matches everything, remember...so cp -af /* /mnt means copy everything in / (including /mnt) to /mnt. Everything except filenames starting with a dot... Try echo * vs. echo * .* in your $HOME and notice why you should never backup you home dir with cd ~ ; tar c * (made this mistake myself once.) Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installproblem Xfree86.
Please use the debian packages of X, not the tarballs distributed by XFree86. See http://www.debian.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=21 for instructions. On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, JB == Joakim Burman wrote: JB Hello Debian-users! JB Can someone help me with some Newbie questions.. JB 1. When I try to install Xfree86 whith gzip I got (I think) an JB errormessage like Broken Pipe. What does that mean? 2. How do you JB run shell script? In Howto:s for Xfree86 they say you want to run the JB shellscript preinst.sh first of all but I don«t now how to do that. JB 3. It don«t seems that I have the manual-klient man. What packagename JB is that manual-klient? When I try to run with startx as root the JB message I get is: ... -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Procmail, qmail and file locking
Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues writes: David Maslen writes: I'm a bit unsure if it's safe to use procmail with qmail. qmail only uses flock as a locking mechanism (no dotlocking). If your procmail binary also uses flock, there should be no problem. Try 'procmail -v' to check: Locking strategies: dotlocking, flock() Forgot to mention that if all your mail goes to procmail (qmail doesn't do deliveries) then you shouldn't worry about procmail not using flock. -- Adriano -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load
Hi-
Many thanks to those who have commented thus far on the xemacs slow load post.
Being relatively new to Linux, i am still slogging thru the process of
analyzing why
the load takes so long on my machine.
In particular, i have just run an strace on the program as it loads, and it
gives me about
280k worth of text file on the system calls, many of which are mysterious
to a newbie
like me.
If find particularly interesting any lines in the file where a timeout
occurs. I have attached
a snippet below, which is repeated many times in the load process. Could
anyone shed
light on just what is happening here?
I will continue to try and understand analyze the file in the meantime.
Many thanks again
Jerry
***
snip
sigaction(SIGALRM, {0x80d7810, [], SA_INTERRUPT}, {0x80d7810, [],
SA_INTERRUPT}) = 0
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({887026195, 850087}, {300, 1}) = 0
gettimeofday({887026195, 850337}, {300, 1}) = 0
gettimeofday({887026195, 850578}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({887026195, 850831}, NULL) = 0
oldselect(5, [4], [], [], {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({887026195, 852457}, NULL) = 0
oldselect(5, [4], [], [], {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({887026195, 854022}, NULL) = 0
oldselect(5, [4], [], [], {0, 995556}) = 0 (Timeout)
gettimeofday({887026196, 858258}, NULL) = 0
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}, NULL) = 0
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={15, 0}}, NULL) = 0
uname({sys=Linux, node=zeropoint, ...}) = 0
open(/etc/hosts, O_RDONLY)= 6
fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=39, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x4000
read(6, 127.0.0.1\tzeropoint\n127.0.0.1\t..., 4096) = 39
read(6, , 4096) = 0
read(6, , 4096) = 0
close(6)= 0
munmap(0x4000, 4096)= 0
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 6
connect(6, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53),
sin_addr=inet_addr(163.125.1.2)}, 16) = -1 ENETUNREACH (Network is
unreachable)
close(6)= 0
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 6
sendto(6, ,#\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\tlocalhos..., 37, 0,
{sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(53),
sin_addr=inet_addr(163.125.1.1)}, 16) = -1 ENETUNREACH (Network is
unreachable)
close(6)= 0
snip
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Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load (follow up)
Hi - I just started up xemacs while connected to my ISP and it came up in under 3 seconds! The timeouts (there are 225 of them) i reported previously are apparently related to unsuccessful attempts to connect to my ISP while i am offline! Is there a way to instruct xemacs not to try and connect the socket? Progress! Thanks again Jerry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using mgetty automated callback, and \q
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: Take out the trailing \q.. that turns the echo back on. I see. Yes, I think I need the second \q before the ata to resume logging real strings. However, using just a single \q suppresses the first occurrence but not the second, viz. Feb 6 18:08:30 here chat[960]: there!login: -- got it Feb 6 18:08:30 here chat[960]: send (??) Feb 6 18:08:30 here chat[960]: expect (RING) Feb 6 18:08:30 here chat[960]: magic-login-id^M Feb 6 18:08:30 here chat[960]: ^M A \q will only supress anything that chat _sends_ - the second occurrence of magic-login-id happens because chat is seeing magic-login-id as the remote machine is sending it back; note the preceding space - that space is the space the remote machine sends immediately after sending login: - chat is just echoing to the logs what it's getting from the remote machine. I don't think that there's anything you can do about that, short of modifying pon to call chat without the -v option, which is probably not advisable. If there's something you want kept out of the logs, the other machine shouldn't be echoing it back at you. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Emacs Menu/Scrollbar Color
On Sun, 08 Feb 1998 11:53:08 +0100 (CET), you wrote: Hi all, I'd like to use GNU Emacs under X with a black background and white foreground. The problem is, this should be true of the menubar as well, but Xresources background foreground don't do the job. (It's possible, though: I saw a screenshot.) And can I set the scrollbar color separately? (This seems to be an unrelated problem: the aforementioned Xresources _do_ affect the scrollbar.) I couldn't find the relevant information in the man pages or info documents. Any ideas? This may help. At work I use emacs on solaris, and the menus had a funky stipple border instead of a cool motif-like shadow look. I started poking around with editres and found a few things. Then I poked around in the source to emacs to see how the resources were being used. I now have this is my .Xdefaults file: !Setting menu background turns off ugly stipple shadows. Emacs*XlwMenu*background: gray75 If debian has editres (or something better) try that to see what resources are availiable and experiment. Dale -- Dale P. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cleveland Linux Users Group: http://cleveland.lug.net/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installproblem Xfree86.
Joakim Burman wrote: Hello Debian-users! Can someone help me with some Newbie questions.. 1. When I try to install Xfree86 whith gzip I got (I think) an errormessage like Broken Pipe. What does that mean? It probably means that gzip tried to pipe its output to a command that never got started. For example: $ ls -lR | rubbish bash: rubbish: command not found Broken pipe 2. How do you run shell script? In Howto:s for Xfree86 they say you want to run the shellscript preinst.sh first of all but I don«t now how to do that. If the script is executable, just type its pathname relative to the current directory: `./preinst.sh' (if its in a directory on your search path, you can just type its name); if it isn't executable you can do `. ./preinst.sh' or else make it executable. 3. It don«t seems that I have the manual-klient man. What packagename is that manual-klient? $ dpkg -S `type -p man` man-db: /usr/bin/man ^^ So install man-db. When I try to run with startx as root the message I get is: xinit: Can«t load library «/lib/libc.so.4« Incompatible version. Where did you get this copy of Xfree86 from? If you're using Debian, you should install xbase, the appropriate xserver-??? and a font package (which dselect ought to suggest to you). It looks as though you are trying to install a non-Debian version; this is not really a good idea. In my /lib/ I only have libc.so.5 What«s wrong? libc.so.4 is the aout format libc, which is out of date as far as the bo (stable) distribution is concerned. You appear to be running bo (??) -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.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] .
dselect and ftp: Packages file not found
Hi, If I use dselect with ftp access, it complains about a missing Packages[.gz], although I am sure it's there (I checked this manually with ftp). Here are the details: ftpsite=ftp.eunet.be username=anonymous ftpdir=/pub/linux/debian distribs=bo It sais: Cd to /pub/linux/debian/... Getting Packages file from /pub/linux/debian/bo/binary-i386 Couldn't find Packages[.gz] in samedir, stopped I tried to trace the script /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/update, but couldn't find a way (like set -xv). Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Q] cannot print
Hello, Some how, after installing and configuring debian's hamm snop-shot of December 19's -- I cannot print. I have Okidata with HP emulation and just a simple command like cp text.file /dev/lp0 -- kind of starts the printer -- the printer displays that it is receiving data and then nothing happens. I use kernel 2.1.85 and have a parallel port drive built in the kernel. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load
Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi- Many thanks to those who have commented thus far on the xemacs slow load post. Being relatively new to Linux, i am still slogging thru the process of analyzing why the load takes so long on my machine. In particular, i have just run an strace on the program as it loads, and it gives me about 280k worth of text file on the system calls, many of which are mysterious to a newbie like me. If find particularly interesting any lines in the file where a timeout occurs. I have attached a snippet below, which is repeated many times in the load process. Could anyone shed light on just what is happening here? I will continue to try and understand analyze the file in the meantime. snip Hmm... - it appears that xemacs is attempting to do a dns lookup, and that's the connection that's taking so long. If you had a bo machine, I'd ask you what your /etc/host.conf said, (and make certain it had the line order hosts,bind at the top) but I know that in hamm the configuration for name lookups has changed a bit - does anyone know what you need to do on a hamm box to be certain that gethostbyname() doesn't produce a dns query if a given name is found in /etc/hosts? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using mgetty automated callback, and the NO CARRIER message.
On 9 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: Joost Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, with newer ppp's this no longer seems to be sufficient, as apparently chat bails out if the DCD signal is gone. I have had to add ATC0 to the modem init strings, to disable DCD signalling by the modem. % man chat [...] HANGUP The HANGUP options control whether a modem hangup should be considered as an error or not. This option is useful in scripts for dialling systems which will hang up and call your system back. The HANGUP options can be ON or OFF. Does this work? I didn't know that one, but I'll look into it. It certainly looks much more elegant. Thanks! Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help (my first crash)
I'm a relative newcomer to linux (used Amiga's for years). I've been running a bo system for about six months. This morning the system crashed and will not boot from the hard disk. I booted from the rescue disk but cannot mount /hda3 (/hda1=w95, /hda2=swap). e2ckfs reports a bad superblock. Is there a way to create a new superblock so that I can mount this drive? -Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Gerald Wann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If find particularly interesting any lines in the file where a timeout occurs. I have attached a snippet below, which is repeated many times in the load process. Could anyone shed light on just what is happening here? Hmm... - it appears that xemacs is attempting to do a dns lookup, and that's the connection that's taking so long. If you had a bo machine, I'd ask you what your /etc/host.conf said, (and make certain it had the line order hosts,bind at the top) but I know that in hamm the configuration for name lookups has changed a bit - does anyone know what you need to do on a hamm box to be certain that gethostbyname() doesn't produce a dns query if a given name is found in /etc/hosts? I needed to add an entry into /etc/nswitch.conf. -- Jean Pierre -- 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
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 append=mem=128M === add this in your /etc/lilo.conf, mine is like this: append=mem=80M boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda1 compact install=/boot/boot.b blah blah blah blah blah etc 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? as for dual processor i'm not sure yet, i'm upgrading to a dual processor machine as well, if i get the info on how to utilize both via a patch or what not, i'll let you know -- 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] . *** dA' Phucilage Phactory*Yesturday upon the stair,* *I met a guy who wasn't there,* *He wasn't there again today, * [EMAIL PROTECTED]*I think he's from the CIA. * *** author unknown -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help (my first crash)
Christopher Judd wrote: I'm a relative newcomer to linux (used Amiga's for years). I've been running a bo system for about six months. This morning the system crashed and will not boot from the hard disk. I booted from the rescue disk but cannot mount /hda3 (/hda1=w95, /hda2=swap). e2ckfs reports a bad superblock. Is there a way to create a new superblock so that I can mount this drive? You have backup superblocks on the disk for just this reason. You can try e2fsck -b 8192 /dev/hda3 and see if that helps. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Paranoia is a survival mechanism. -- Anon ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help (my first crash)
Fortunately, the filesystem keeps numerious copies of the superblock on the disk. You just need to find out where they are! Actually, the locations of backup superblocks are printed to the screen when the filesystem is created (not that this helps you now, right). If I remember correctly though, superblocks are place at regular, predictable places on the parttion. As an exercise, try creating a filesystem on a floppy drive and watch where the superblocks are place. On my system I create a 10MB file and the make an Ext2 filesystem on it and get: chilin$ dd if=/dev/zero of=fs.bin bs=1024 count=10240 10240+0 records in 10240+0 records out chilin$ mke2fs fs.bin mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 fs.bin is not a block special device. Proceed anyway? (y,n) y Linux ext2 filesystem format Filesystem label= 2560 inodes, 10240 blocks 512 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 2 block groups 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 1280 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 8193 Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done chilin$ So, try to run fsck like 'e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/XXX' and see what you get. If that doesn't net you anything you might try to guess where another superblock will be. Or, you could try something more drastic. The mke2fs man page talk about a '-S' option: -S Write superblock and group descriptors only. This is useful if all of the superblock and backup superblocks are corrupted, and a last-ditch recov ery method is desired. It causes mke2fs to reini tialize the superblock and group descriptors, while not touching the inode table and the block and inode bitmaps. The e2fsck program should be run immediately after this option is used, and there is no guarantee that any data will be salvageable. Good luck (from someone else who was trying to bring back a failing disk from the brink this weekend). Christopher Judd wrote: I'm a relative newcomer to linux (used Amiga's for years). I've been running a bo system for about six months. This morning the system crashed and will not boot from the hard disk. I booted from the rescue disk but cannot mount /hda3 (/hda1=w95, /hda2=swap). e2ckfs reports a bad superblock. Is there a way to create a new superblock so that I can mount this drive? -Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- 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: xfmail 1.2p0-1 seg-faults
I have noticed that this version of xfmail does produce more segfaults than earlier versions. However, I have not had this trouble with new mail (until one time this morning, of course). I have not seen any segfaults from folder changes. I am using hamm. Paul On 08-Feb-98 Stefan Baums wrote: Hi all, I'm running xfmail 1.2p0-1 under hamm (i.e., I think all the other packages which I think _might_ be relevant to this problem are from hamm). When xfmail has to deal with new mail (in this new version marked in pink) on startup (or even folder change (?)) it crashes with a Segmentation fault. When I restart it, the new mail is no longer considered new (and not pink anymore) and xfmail works fine (until the next new mail arrives, that is). Could this even be an upstream problem? Have a nice day, Stefan -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
winhelp file viewer
Hi, Anyone knows of a (if possible, Linux) program which can show me Windows HLP-files? So not winhelp.exe :-) Maybe something that is capable of converting a HLP-file to HTML? I don't have the RTF-documents of the HLP-file. Any ideas? thanks, Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: www.debian.org trouble
This happened to me when I was playing with non-IP virtual servers. Apache's root server appears to become inaccessible as soon as you add such a virtual server. I had to add a virtual server for what was originally the root server to get it to work. That you need a virtual server for the original root server is not stated explicitly, but is shown in the examples in the docs. I find Apache's treatment of servers as either the root or virtual to be a bit annoying. Virtual servers don't seem to be able to override things done in the root; sometimes I might not want to use an ErrorDocument on a virtual server for example, while I want one on the root. I think that all servers should be on equal footing. Can't this be done using per-directory options? - Jay -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
modem-netcard X modem+netcard?
I have to decide between an integrated modem and net card (like 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN+56K) or a us robotics modem card plus a 3com pci net card. Since I am going to use both modem and net card simultaneously (I will be connecting from home using ppp), I would like to know which option would be better supported by Debian. Fernando T. C. Brandt Instituto de Física | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. de São Paulo | CP 66318, 05315-970 | tel.: (55) 11 8186718, 9356907 São Paulo - SP - BRAZIL | fax: (55) 11 8186715 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Making X a command center
I'm about 2 months into using debian linux so I still use a lot of dos programs. I devised this shell script that allows me to make X a command center that can call and open full consoles with programs already loaded. It supposedly relieves me from having to open the console, remember which one is open and where to switch to. It's about 90% ripe. This is my first script, so help me out a little. SCRIPT FOLLOWS = # Find out what processes are ongoing # Setup beginning virtual screen, why doesn't 10 work?, oh well. ps /tmp/process myprog=$1 begnum=11 # (1) Check for command line program name if test -z $myprog then exit fi # (2) First check to see if any console programs have been run if test ! -e /tmp/console.dat# If console.dat doesn't exist then echo $myprog $begnum /tmp/console.dat open -c $begnum -s -l -- $myprog exit fi # (3) If file does exist, then check to see if our program is already # listed in the console.dat grep -hiw $myprog /tmp/console.dat /tmp/play mycode=$? # (4) Nonsuccessful search, mycode =1 # Let's get the last number in the file, add 1 to it # Add program name and new number to file # Finally open a new virtual number if test $mycode -eq 1 then tail -1l /tmp/console.dat /tmp/play read x y /tmp/play let newnum = $y + 1 echo $myprog $newnum /tmp/console.dat open -s -c $newnum -l -- $myprog #Open Program in another virtual console exit fi # (5) If successful search, mycode = 0 # Now let's see if the program is a process on the computer # You see, we could have erased it (Our system doesn't automaticly update # the console.dat file) read x y /tmp/play grep -hiqw $y /tmp/process#Search for the whole process number process=$? # # If both mycode and process register exit codes of 0, we got it if test $mycode -eq 0 -a $process -eq 0 then switchto $y exit fi # If just mycode shows, use the same VC and restart program if test $mycode -eq 0 then read x y /tmp/play open -s -c $y -l -- $myprog exit fi exit == END OF SCRIPT = Now I've got a few problems? 1) On loading Midnight Commander, function keys don't work 2) Pine, my favorite, no color (even though setterm is there), aborts and disappears 3) I get no login requests (so I don't know if this program), for instance, I would prefer dosemu to be suid root. 4) Do I need to deallocate memory after quitting a file. If so, where are the debian utils for doing so? Any answers, suggestions, or improvements ??? Thankx i.b.mackey -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
How do I convert data e-mailed from a mac?
Hello, I have been sent files of this sort: jpmaster.dvi This is a application/mac-binhex40 Is there a utility that will convert these? Is it available in a Debian package? Thank you Tony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How do I convert data e-mailed from a mac?
Dvi is a 'tex' extension I believe. You can convert this to a postscript file with the command 'dvips'. Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Tony wrote: Hello, I have been sent files of this sort: jpmaster.dvi This is a application/mac-binhex40 Is there a utility that will convert these? Is it available in a Debian package? Thank you Tony -- 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] .
SCSI
Hello all: I am having problems detecting my scsi drives. I have three drives all jumpered correctly and I recompiled the kernel for raid5, and also for my correct scsi controller. I installed the correct raid145 patch, and raidtools, and the latest linuxthreads. The problem is that I cannot mkfs or mdcreate on these drives. I cannot even fdisk them, I keep getting unable to open /dev/sda. The PC Bios detects the SCSI card on boot up, but then Linux detects 0 scsi. I have a NCR53875J SCSI controller. Below is my dmesg, I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks, Greg Green Below is my dmesg, I would appreciate any suggestions. Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fae70 pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb310 pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb340 Probing PCI hardware. Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 59.80 BogoMIPS Memory: 63160k/65536k available (772k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1220k data) Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. moving IDT ... ... done Linux version 2.0.32 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #1 Mon Feb 9 07:11:26 MST 1998 Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed. Real Time Clock Driver v1.07 ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f hda: ST32140A, 2015MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63 hdc: 655A, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 linear personality registered raid0 personality registered raid1 personality registered raid5 personality registered scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. PPP line discipline registered. eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x6100, 00:60:08:04:3c:f8, IRQ 11 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface. eth0: MII transceiver found at address 24. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. eth0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 32, new value is 248. 3c59x.c:v0.46C 10/14/97 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1) Module inserted $Id: cdrom.c,v 0.8 1996/08/10 10:52:11 david Exp $ eexpress.c: Module autoprobe not recommended, give io=xx. loading device 'eth1'... eexpress.c: Failed to register card at 0x0. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SCSI
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Greg Green wrote: : Hello all: : : I am having problems detecting my scsi drives. I have three drives all : jumpered correctly and I recompiled the kernel for raid5, and also for : my correct scsi controller. I installed the correct raid145 patch, and : raidtools, and the latest linuxthreads. The problem is that I cannot : mkfs or mdcreate on these drives. I cannot even fdisk them, I keep : getting unable to open /dev/sda. The PC Bios detects the SCSI card on : boot up, but then Linux detects 0 scsi. I have a NCR53875J SCSI : controller. : Below is my dmesg, I would appreciate any suggestions. : Thanks, : Greg Green You need to compile the correct driver into the kernel. It is ncr8xx, not ncr7,8xx ... this drove me crazy for a day or two. We're running an NCR53875 here, though I don't know if I like it yet. HTH : Below is my dmesg, I would appreciate any suggestions. : : Console: 16 point font, 400 scans : Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) : pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fae70 : pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb310 : pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb340 : Probing PCI hardware. : Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 59.80 BogoMIPS : Memory: 63160k/65536k available (772k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1220k : data) : Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 : NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. : Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 : IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP : VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized : : Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. : : Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. : Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. : moving IDT ... ... done : Linux version 2.0.32 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.1) #1 Mon Feb 9 : 07:11:26 MST 1998 : Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 : Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled : tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A : tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A : PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed. : Real Time Clock Driver v1.07 : ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 : ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007 : ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f : hda: ST32140A, 2015MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63 : hdc: 655A, ATAPI CDROM drive : ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 : ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 : Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M : FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 : md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 : linear personality registered : raid0 personality registered : raid1 personality registered : raid5 personality registered : scsi : 0 hosts. : scsi : detected total. : PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) : TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of : California : PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. : PPP line discipline registered. : eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x6100, 00:60:08:04:3c:f8, IRQ : 11 : 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface. : eth0: MII transceiver found at address 24. : Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. : eth0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 32, new value is : 248. : 3c59x.c:v0.46C 10/14/97 Donald Becker : http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html : Partition check: : hda: hda1 hda2 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 : VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. : Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1) : Module inserted $Id: cdrom.c,v 0.8 1996/08/10 10:52:11 david Exp $ : eexpress.c: Module autoprobe not recommended, give io=xx. : loading device 'eth1'... : eexpress.c: Failed to register card at 0x0. : : : : : : -- : TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to : [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . : : -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 phone: (605) 334-4454 fax: (605) 335-1173 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net PGP Key ID: 0xA33B86E9 - Public key available at keyservers PGP Key fingerprint: CE03 10AF 3281 1858 9D32 C2AB 936D C472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
On the fly compression with ext2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi! I would like to know when there will be ext2 on the fly file compression, supported in the kernel, ext2 has already support but kernel seems to not support it yet, nor the 2.1.8x kernels... Does this will be introduced prior 2.2 version? Any comment will be greatly appreciated at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in advance, Ulisses -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key avaliable at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNN9KTA/N+5+NQ63pAQEIrgL+PLbQte5CV1D+IVgIpbzS/4LaCdFj6Sk7 tZxWiiWJLMPAPR9pGCbhQxM1FAq+xvCVA37leZM7Ev7Kak9mlQ233I+lCYtBL5WY K6BPVfVbM1m/R86phnOMVwWWMs/wM3MN =mPZ0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
HELP: tkdesk not appearing on desktop
After using tkdesk successfully for two months, the following problem just arose. When I call up tkdesk from an xterm, the initialization window appears and then, instead of appearing as usual, the tkwindow is nowhere to be found, even though ps shows it is active. I have tried to reinstall using dselect but still doesn't work. I am using Debian 1.3.1. Any help would be much appreciated. Albert Hurd -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xauth for my wife over my xdm X-windows session?
I leave my xdm X-windows session running 24 hours a day. My wife uses Linux for a few minutes each day. I could give her permissions to run X-windows applications on top of my X-windows session with xhost +localhost but xauth is considered more secure and does not receive complaints from the exmh application. It seems reasonable to me that anyone physically at my computer could run zher X-windows applications on top of my X-windows session. Unfortunately, I see no way to easily do this or to give just my wife access, and have only come up with a kludge myself. Since xdm creates a new entry in .Xauthority each time I login through the xdm X-manager, I can not make entries into other users' .Xauthority just one time, expecting that entry to work in the future. Since .Xauthority does not provide read permission to other users, they can not get X-windows permissions from me and I can not give those permissions to them without becoming root. The standard method to export permissions is designed for the same user on different computers; perhaps by giving rsh permissions through ~/.rhosts. This standard approach runs a script like the following, inappropriate for another user, xauth extract - $DISPLAY |rsh otherhost2 xauth merge - IS THERE A SLICK WAY TO GIVE MY WIFE OR ALL USERS PHYSICALLY AT MY COMPUTER, X-WINDOWS AUTHORIZATION TO RUN X-WINDOWS APPLICATIONS ON TOP OF MY X-WINDOWS SESSION? Here is my kludge. In .bashrc, a user gets the authorizations from zhe who started X-windows, xowner=$(/bin/ps -auxw|grep Xsession|egrep -v 'sed|grep' \ |sed 's/\([^ ]\) .*/\1/') if [ $xowner != $USER ]; then eval xauth merge ~$xowner/.Xauthority fi In .xsession, the starter of X-windows gives permissions for another user to read .Xauthority, chmod g+r ~/.Xauthority#This line is unnecessary after first set. chgrp dialout ~/.Xauthority #both my wife and I are in this group -- Jim Burt, NJ9L, Fairfax, Virginia, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mnsinc.com/jameson [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is not the shortcomings of others, nor what others have done or not done that one should think about, but what one has done or not done oneself. --Dhammapada [dp command for quotes from the Dhammapada, in Linux] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xemacs 20.3 slow load
On Mon, 09 Feb 1998 10:40:18 EST, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: Hmm... - it appears that xemacs is attempting to do a dns lookup, and that's the connection that's taking so long. If you had a bo machine, I'd ask you what your /etc/host.conf said, (and make certain it had the line order hosts,bind at the top) but I know that in hamm the configuration for name lookups has changed a bit - does anyone know what you need to do on a hamm box to be certain that gethostbyname() doesn't produce a dns query if a given name is found in /etc/hosts? I needed to add an entry into /etc/nswitch.conf. What specifically did you add? Here's my nswitch.file: passwd: files group: files shadow: files gshadow:files hosts: files dns networks: files dns protocols: files services: files rpc:files Its important to have files before dns for hosts entry. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HELP: tkdesk not appearing on desktop
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: After using tkdesk successfully for two months, the following problem just arose. When I call up tkdesk from an xterm, the initialization window appears and then, instead of appearing as usual, the tkwindow is nowhere to be found, even though ps shows it is active. I have tried to reinstall using dselect but still doesn't work. I am using Debian 1.3.1. Any help would be much appreciated. Albert Hurd Don't know if this helps, but if you're in fvwm or afterstep, if you have the words SuppressIcons in your configuration, an application will sort of disappear if you iconify it. It's still there but unseen. You window list menu will show it though. i.b.mackey -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Question re: splitting files
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott McDermott) wrote: I just tar as multi-volumes, set volume size appropriately to fit on a disk. Do you even need to set the size? I find this works pretty well: % tar cvMf /dev/fd0 * and at the other end: % tar xvMf /dev/fd0 Apart from when a disk goes bad (obviously), I've never had any trouble with this. -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4 PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Install Help on ThinkPad Wanted
William V. Vera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I'd be most grateful to anyone who can help me with my installation of Debian 1.3.1 on an IBM ThinkPad 760C. I was able to complete the base installation from diskettes where I believe I included the necessary drivers to support my external Panasonic KXL-783A 8X-CD-ROM via its PCMCIA credit card interface. I still cannot, however, read any of the distribution CDs (in binary ISO image format) because it cannot mount /dec/cdrom nor /dev/hd[b|c] when running dselect to load the rest. Am I limited to loading it on the same removable hard drive on a friend's ThinkPad which has an internal CD-ROM drive?, or is there a way around it on mine. If I do load it from my friend's, a different model ThinkPad, will it still work on mine after I put the hard drive back? I welcome any/all suggestions or explanations on how I can overcome this obstacle. Thank you. AFAIK, the standard kernel does *not* include the PCMCI drivers (certainly not the kernel with the 1.3.1 boot-disks). If you can build a boot-floopy with PCMCIA support compiled in on some other machine, that should let you access the CD-ROM. HTH -- 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: How do I convert data e-mailed from a mac?
Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I have been sent files of this sort: jpmaster.dvi This is a application/mac-binhex40 Check out the program frommac in the macutils package (which contains all sorts of utilities for converting to/from binhex and macbinary formats). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
AT keyboard X
I managed to get my hands on a used AT keyboard at the schools surblus sale (for the grand price of $1!) My fingers are now happy :) nice tactile, the control key's where God meant it to be, and I can reach the Fkeys without leaving the keyboard (though I suppose an alt on the right hand side would be nice.) But there are a couple of problems. I expect there's a rtfm answer for that, but I've never made much headway with these fm's. I need to: a) map the numeric pad to the arrow/page keys when numlock is off, if this is possible. while some applications (Star Office ) recognize them, X doesn't seem to. I'd hate to give up real estate on netscape for the back button :) b) is it possible to swap the capslock for another alt? rick, who's wanted this keyboard for a long time. -- 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: HELP: tkdesk not appearing on desktop
Albert Hurd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After using tkdesk successfully for two months, the following problem just arose. When I call up tkdesk from an xterm, the initialization window appears and then, instead of appearing as usual, the tkwindow is nowhere to be found, even though ps shows it is active. I have tried to reinstall using dselect but still doesn't work. I am using Debian 1.3.1. Any help would be much appreciated. Albert Hurd It could be that what happened to me is happening to you - I assume that you're talking about the appbar or the file window when you say the tkwindow - my problem was that the appbar was appearing off the right-hand edge of the screen; since it makes itself sticky, I couldn't just find it on another screen. What I had to do to fix it was edit the file ~/.tkdesk/_layout - I found every spot that had an X windows geometry setting (something like 470x100+340+60) and changed the last part of the geometry setting to +10+10 - this moved everything to the top-left corner, but did fix things for me, since I then just moved everything to where it ought to be. If that doesn't work, you may want to just delete your ~/.tkdesk directory, unless you've done lots of customizations you need to save. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
hdd problems
Yo-
I recently removed my Windows drive from a machine that runs Debian 95%
of the time. The previous arrangement was as follows:
/dev/hdaWindows (master primary controller)
/dev/hdbDebian (slave primary controller)
/dev/hdcCD-ROM (master secondary controller)
I removed /dev/hda (Windows) and switched the Debian drive cable and
set the jumper to master. I *thought* I was thinking ahead when I
re-configured LILO to boot from the actual Linux drive instead of from the
boot sector on the Windows drive. I ran /sbin/lilo and I also configured
fstab before I physically removed the drive.
After removal Linux will not boot. The BIOS detection of the HDD also
takes about 2 minutes whereas previously it took about 5-10 seconds.
Debian error says, DMA reset, irq timeout {SEEK ... SEEK ... }' etc..
I am unsure of what is actually wrong. I also booted with a rescue disk
and a boot disk but both will die with error, Unable to open Initial
Console.
Any help appreciated. I am running 2.0.32.
Thanks,
Ian
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Re: StarOffice
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Group, I keep seeing posts regarding StarOffice. Where can I get this? ftp://ftp.stardiv.de/pub/so4/linux/final http://www.on-line.de/~michael.hoennig/AutoMultiUserSetupForSO40Linux.tar might be of interest too (see the message of Paul Seelig some days ago, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more details). 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: Numlock in an xterm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert D. Hilliard) writes: I have a script in /etc/init.d that runs /usr/bin/setleds -D +num to set the numlock on. How can I get the same result in an xterm? Maybe xset led works here. See man xset for instruction on how to use it. 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: Forwarding mail to news
Tim Thomson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am subscribed to a number of different mailing lists, but find it easier to read using a news reader. Also, I am at different systems that connect to the internet using a dial-up connection. I just put my mailing lists into such a form. Is there a way to automaticaly post mail from a mailing list to a local news group? Yes, I use fetchmail for it. Here is my /etc/fetchmailrc which is used by calling fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc as root: defaults mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %s fetchlimit 50 poll pop.combox.de protocol pop3 user Torsten.Hilbrich there is torsten here password x This file calls procmail as delivery agent for every incoming message. I have (as user torsten) an .procmailrc file in my home directory: # The default destination is my normal mailbox DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/torsten PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:. MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail # You'd better make sure it exists LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail :0w * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /usr/local/bin/mail2news local.debian.user :0w * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /usr/local/bin/mail2news local.bugtraq :0w * [EMAIL PROTECTED] | /usr/local/bin/mail2news local.dante-ev For example, mails with the Resent-From: header are from the debian list and are posted to my local newsserver (INN, but that shouldn't matter) using the mail2news script. This is derived from the mail2news.pl from the Mail2News mini-howto but heavily modified to fit my needs. It simply takes the mail coming from stdin, rewrites some headers, add some neccessary headers and uses (in my case) rpost to post the message to the news server. The only remaining thing is the create the local newsgroup as moderated newsgroup and add a line to the moderators file to get articles posted to this group sent out as email. If someone is interessted in this script, send me an email. My message is already much to long ;-) You can find more information in the already mentioned Mail2News mini howto. It uses the aliases mechanism for redirecting the mail, but this will not work with dialup accounts. Feel free to ask me about my setup, 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: Installing Debian Linux v1.3.1 from July '97
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Skwar) writes: Hello ! Last night I wanted to install Debian v1.3.1 from July '97 with a Kernel v2.0.29. After I partitioned my hard disk, the install programm checked my hard disk for errors and got a whole lot of them. It repeated printing: scsi0: Target 6 underflow - Wanted at least 1024, got 512, residual SG count 1. This started out with a higher number in wanted. This message has been printed about 6 times, then: SCSI disk error: host 0 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 return code = 27070002 scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:04, sector 1090338 And after that, the scsi bus got resetted. What does all this mean ? I had a period of getting this error too. In my case I could hear my hard disc resetting itself, sometimes several times in successsion. After month of getting this error I finally found the reason, the power plug of the hard disc (the one with the 4 pins) was broken and sometimes failed to provide power for a very short time. If that is not the problem recheck your termination. 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: proxy environment variable
Florian Attenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, What is the sysntax for the proxy variables: ftp_proxy=don't know http_proxy=don't know http_proxy=http://localhost:8080/ export http_proxy The same for ftp_proxy. 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: xauth for my wife over my xdm X-windows session?
This doesn't address your specific question, but what about this: I assume that when your wife uses linux, she normally logs in from the console (on one of the text mode consoles), and occasionally then wishes to run a few X applications. If so, then she can just do: startx -- :1 This will give her her own X display (on the next available virtual console, probably number 8), and she need not mess with any xauth stuff. (just make certain that Console is in /etc/X11/Xserver) If you do this, you'll also probably want to make a symbolic link from ~/.xinit to ~/.xsession (startx uses .xinit, xdm uses .xsession). Supposedly, one should be able to get xdm to start up with two X servers on two different virtual consoles, (and therefore two login screens) but every time I've tried it it just hung my xdm. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problem with python
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Heine DeJager wrote: HI Folks, I have a problem installing python1.4 (hamm), and here follows the output from trying to run dpkg --configure python-base. Setting up python-base (1.4.0-4) ... File /usr/lib/python1.4/compileall.py, line 8 import os ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax dpkg: error processing python-base (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: python-base Does anyone know what I should do to correct this? No, I don't. But maybe you can look at other possibilities. I recently removed debian python1.4 from my system and compiled and installed python 1.5 in /usr/local. Another possibility is to try out the python 1.5 rpm-packages that are already available using alien. I did not try that out myself, but it might just work. I include a message from the python user's mailinglist with information about the RPM-packages: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Feb 9 16:22:44 1998 Date: 9 Feb 1998 12:20:08 GMT From: Oliver Andrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ANNOUNCE: Addons to the Linux Python 1.5 RPMS (RedHat 5.0) [Update 2] Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Hi, as I promised last week I have packaged PIL, NumPy and gdmodule as addon packages to my linux packages of Python 1.5. There are three more RPMS available, that can be found on ftp://ftp.rhein-zeitung.de/pub/comp/redhat ... Regards. Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
StarOffice4.0 and Debian
Has anyone installed StarOffice 4.0 on a Debian system yet and were there any problems to watch out for? thanks, -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ddd doesn't do a thing
Hi, Some time ago I upgraded to ddd-2.1.1 with lesstifg-0.82-4, and ever since, ddd doesn't do a dd thing anymore. It starts up, and that's it. I can't even open a menu to open a file, or typw in the console window. Anybody knows how to fix this? I really start to miss my debugger Maarten _ | TU Delft, The Netherlands, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems | | Department of Electrical Engineering| | Computer Architecture and Digital Technique section | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: HELP: tkdesk not appearing on desktop
do me a favor and take me off this list serve some lamer put me on a million of them and i can't get off. I get 2000 emails a day thank you -Original Message- From: Albert Hurd [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 1998 2:45 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:HELP: tkdesk not appearing on desktop After using tkdesk successfully for two months, the following problem just arose. When I call up tkdesk from an xterm, the initialization window appears and then, instead of appearing as usual, the tkwindow is nowhere to be found, even though ps shows it is active. I have tried to reinstall using dselect but still doesn't work. I am using Debian 1.3.1. Any help would be much appreciated. Albert Hurd -- 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: hdd problems
I recently removed my Windows drive from a machine that runs Debian 95%
of the time. The previous arrangement was as follows:
/dev/hda Windows (master primary controller)
/dev/hdb Debian (slave primary controller)
/dev/hdc CD-ROM (master secondary controller)
I removed /dev/hda (Windows) and switched the Debian drive cable and
set the jumper to master. I *thought* I was thinking ahead when I
re-configured LILO to boot from the actual Linux drive instead of from the
boot sector on the Windows drive. I ran /sbin/lilo and I also configured
fstab before I physically removed the drive.
After removal Linux will not boot. The BIOS detection of the HDD also
takes about 2 minutes whereas previously it took about 5-10 seconds.
Debian error says, DMA reset, irq timeout {SEEK ... SEEK ... }' etc..
I am unsure of what is actually wrong. I also booted with a rescue disk
and a boot disk but both will die with error, Unable to open Initial
Console.
try to set disk into standalone mode
regards
OK
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Re: hdd problems
Well it sounds like LILO is trying to boot from the wrong partition. Or,
perhaps the kernel is loading but the root device is wrong. I'm guessing
this is the case since I wouldn't expect very elaborate messages such as you
site below from LILO. When you get to where LILO prints hit scroll-lock to get
the prompt and type:
Linux root=/dev/hda1
where 'Linux' is the name of your linux image (if you don't know what the name
of the image is you can hit TAB at the prompt to get a list of images) and
/dev/hda1 is the device path of your root partition. Once you get booted up
look at your /etc/lilo.conf file. There should be a 'root=...' line in it
which is probably incorrect.
As to the BIOS detection, it probably still wants to find two drives. Go into
the BIOS setup and tell it there's no secondary drive and it'll be happy.
Ian Keith Setford wrote:
Yo-
I recently removed my Windows drive from a machine that runs Debian 95%
of the time. The previous arrangement was as follows:
/dev/hdaWindows (master primary controller)
/dev/hdbDebian (slave primary controller)
/dev/hdcCD-ROM (master secondary controller)
I removed /dev/hda (Windows) and switched the Debian drive cable and
set the jumper to master. I *thought* I was thinking ahead when I
re-configured LILO to boot from the actual Linux drive instead of from the
boot sector on the Windows drive. I ran /sbin/lilo and I also configured
fstab before I physically removed the drive.
After removal Linux will not boot. The BIOS detection of the HDD also
takes about 2 minutes whereas previously it took about 5-10 seconds.
Debian error says, DMA reset, irq timeout {SEEK ... SEEK ... }' etc..
I am unsure of what is actually wrong. I also booted with a rescue disk
and a boot disk but both will die with error, Unable to open Initial
Console.
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Re: X restarts in different console
I noticed strictly the sam effect in my bo box... :-( Same here with hamm; a solution I've found is to run startx -- vt12 (or whatever VT you want it on). Even better, set up an alias: alias startx=startx -- vt12 -- _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ Luke Chao (xekul) UIN4510570 _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ http://cyberluke.home.ml.org In war, truth is the first casualty. -- U Thant -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Automating PPP with cron?
Sounds like a dooable crack. I see a cron.daily, weekly monthly directory in /etc, with scripts in it, which I presume get executed daily weekly and month respectively. I'de like it to run every 6 hours. I tried read the cron cron tab manpages, but I'm still clueless as to how to do this I can't find any howto's on this either. :(. Any pointers to doc files, (or actual help:), on this subject? Thanks, Timothy And about the hours disconnect/connect thing: You could kill pppd with a cronjob, but this is rather a bad idea (in the case you are doing a download at this moment :-). Maybe using diald is better. Never used it though. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems with new install on old laptop
I have an old 486 DX2-66 laptop which currently has a 1.1.59-based Linux installation, and I'm trying to install Debian on it. Booting with the rescue disk is fine until just after it loads the md driver, at which point it hangs. I haven't seen this with any of the other Debian installs, but then again, this is the first time I've installed on a laptop. Are there any other Debian boot floppies I might try, perhaps for hamm? (I've tried installing the boot-floppies package in case I need to make my own, but the hamm package wants libc5-pic, which isn't available.) Any other tips? I've had a quick look at the Linux on Laptops page (http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/), but I'm not convinced this is necessarily a laptop-specific problem. TIA, Tim. -- Tim Bell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Dept of Comp Sci - Uni of Melbourne, Australia -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice multiuser
torsten wrote, http://www.on-line.de/~michael.hoennig/AutoMultiUserSetupForSO40Linux.tar might be of interest too (see the message of Paul Seelig some days ago, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more details). it doesn't seem to be necessary anymore. I used custom install as root to put it in /usr/local/share, than ran /usr/local/share/Office40/bin/setup as a user, ignored the incorrect statement that it was going to use 110MB again (really 12k or so, i think), then ran it with no problem. As near as I can tell this is what the README meant, but it is less than clear [uses /net rather than -net as an option???] rick -- 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] .
Any command to spin down a *scsi* drive?
I know you can use hdparm to set the spin-down period on an IDE drive, but is there a similar command for SCSI drives? Thanks -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Installation XFree86 klappt nicht...
Hallo! Leider stellt sich meine erstes Herantasten an die LINUX-Welt ein wenig schwieriger dar als gedacht. Speziell XFree86 will nicht laufen. Da auf der mir zu Verfuegung stehenden Distribution (Debian 1.3.1) kein X-Server für meine Grafikkarte (Viper V 330 mit Riva 128 Chip)ist habe ich von der S.u.s.e Homepage den Passenden Server xnvidia.tgz sowie die xsuseconfig.tgz geladen und wie beschrieben mittels tar entkomprimiert, was auch problemlos funktionierte.Leider war es anschließend nicht moeglich, die Datei xf86xonfig zu starten. Eine testweise Installation des auf der Debian-CD befindlichen SVGA- bzw- VGA 16-Server mit nachfolgender Entkomprimierung Eurer Dateien fuehrte immerhin dazu, dass die Datei xf86xonfig gestartet werden konnte und auch die Viper V 330 in der Liste(Nr. 145) auftauchte. Leider fuehrte der anschließende Start von startx nur zu Fehlermeldungen (siehe Anhang, Ausgabedatei x.out). Wenn Sie fuer dieses kleine Problem ein Loesung haetten... Es waere klasse. Vielen Dank Dirk X.OUT Description: Binary data
Re: Problems with new install on old laptop
Tim Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an old 486 DX2-66 laptop which currently has a 1.1.59-based Linux installation, and I'm trying to install Debian on it. Booting with the rescue disk is fine until just after it loads the md driver, at which point it hangs. I haven't seen this with any of the other Debian installs, but then again, this is the first time I've installed on a laptop. Sounds like you have the A20 gate problem. Try using the tectra boot-disks, they're on the ftp mirror somewhere. -- 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] .
Dial Script
I have a web page that people can use to page me on my numeric pager. It uses a very stupid program (npage) to dial the phone. I was wondering if someone has a better way, maybe perl, chat, a well written C program, etc. to do this. Thanks, Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Paranoia is a heightened state of awareness. -- Anon ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: StarOffice multiuser
it doesn't seem to be necessary anymore. I used custom install as root to put it in /usr/local/share, than ran /usr/local/share/Office40/bin/setup as a user, ignored the incorrect statement that it was going to use 110MB again (really 12k or so, i think), then ran it with no problem. As near as I can tell this is what the README meant, but it is less than clear [uses /net rather than -net as an option???] This MultiUserUnstall is helpful because once you (as root) installed everything somewhere, than any user can run soffice (which can be a symbolic link from /usr/local/bin to the actual location of this script) and install all the necessary files into the user directory non-interactively (if s/he starts soffice for the first time) and then starts the StarOffice itself. Pretty slick I would say. Alex Y. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.70 1998/02/09 23:38:47 johnie Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/. 1.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 1.3. Getting newer versions of this document Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: o http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.html 1.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to the WNPP maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're talking about, it makes it easier for to sort out all Re: Work- Needing and Prospective Packages emails. A suggested subject line reads WNPP: removing foopackage or WNPP: working on barpackage. Thanks. 2. Recent Changes 2.1. Since version 1.69 1998/02/02 o Ed Petron is working on the Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set (PCCTS). o Leland Olds mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on YADE (Yet Another Diagram Editor). o Jim Pick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on the mico ORB http://diamant-atm.vsb.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/~mico/. o Added sfio http://www.oasis.leo.org/perl/src/independent/sfio.dsc.html (a C library stdio replacement) and FPK pascal http://sun01.brain.uni- freiburg.de/%7Eklaus/fpk-pas/, GNU Nana http://wattle.cs.ntu.edu.au/homepages/pjm/nana-home/, and gddb to packages someone should make. 3. Orphaned packages (An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.) Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] via e-mail: o when you find that you need to orphan a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of these packages. Patrick Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o cfs (non-us) o saytime o sigrot o sniffit Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o cfengine o zyxel Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Kmodplayer Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xtar-dmotif o xtar-smotif Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o kde o giflib Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o blt Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ghostview o xxgdb Orn E. Hansen : o xega o xmailtool Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o compress-package o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o csh Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o j1 (in old source format) o sam Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mh-papers o term Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o apsfilter Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mathpad o wenglish Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xarchie o bibindex Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp Guy R. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dld (do we still need this ?) Patrick J Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mailpgp Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o motifnls David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tcl74 o tcl75 o tk40 o tk41 Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tclx74 o tclx75 o tix40 Michael Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o javalex o java-cup o rsynth Karl Sackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o courtney o groupkit o imgstar o lee o objpak o pgapack o premail o saoimage o snns o tcs o wily o xbattle o xephem-smotif Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o hyperlatex o latex2rtf Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o gettyps Others: o rc o xcompat (should we drop it ?) o libc4 (a.out compatibility) 4. Packages needing a new maintainer Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] via e-mail: o when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the mainatiner of the package: o when you would like to maintain one of the packages. J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o lesstif. Maintaining the package itself is not difficult - the packaging is reasonably straight-forward. The difficulty with this package lies in the fact that LessTif still suffers from many bugs (e.g. a memory leak showing up with xmcd, locking up X with nedit and DDD) and some missing features. The ideal maintainer would be somebody who is familiar with debugging X stuff, and who is prepared to work closely with the upstream developers.
