Re: Core Debian
Oi Macan, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote: Bem, nos da Core tinhamos a intencao de traduzir e internacionalizar a Debian, e ajudar sempre que possivel neste sentido. De fato eu fiz a traducao de 80% dos boot-floppies, mas tive um problemao com hardware e perdi boa parte do trabalho, principalmente devido a evolucao dos boot-floppies durante o tempo em que ocorreu o problema. Nao sabia desse fato lamentavel ... :( Deixa eu contar algumas coisas interessantes, eu pus em dia meu trabalho de Debian-developer com mais dois pacotes de minha autoria, e resolvi abracar uma causa nobre, a bandeira do uso do linux na educacao. Publiquei um manifesto que foi o resultado de uma palestra que dei em algumas universidades, estou orientando novos developers (ou aspirantes a), alias, o pessoal do Rio nao se manifestou mais a respeito! Estou aguardando a iniciativa de voces em manifestarem seu interesse em se tornar developers para assinar as chaves de voces :) legal. Quais pacotes voce empacatou? Quanto a usar Linux na educacao acho muito valido. Eu quero virar developer, mas nao encontro nenhum programa para empacotar. Todos interessantes a Debian ja tem. :) Deem uma lida no artigo em http://thecore.com.br/artigos . Tive um feedback muito grande ate agora. Para voces terem uma ideia nesta semana estarei conversando com representantes do estado do RS, onde existe um plano para a implantacao do Linux em escolas e instituicoes governamentais, para o qual irei contribuir. Por isso ando meio sumido, estou negociando com a McMillan para escrever um Livro sobre Debian GNU/Linux e revisando o Guia de Linux para a segunda edicao, que deve sair em Julho proximo. Quanto ao RS e' legal. Mas, livro sobre a Debian? Em ingles? Ano passado, tivemos a ideia de escrever um livro, mas nao foi para frente. Alias, queriamos colocar o Livro da Debian/Linux na distribuicao da Debian em Portugues. Po, voce ta cheio de planos e a gente pensando que voce estava descansando em louros. :) E' que voce nao fala. A Core trabalha para a divulgacao do Linux, e sempre vai ate o final de seus dias (da core, meus, ou do linux :). certo. Um abraco, e obrigado por dizer que eu sou legal, os outros da Core tambem, a gente nao usa Windows, nossa distribuicao principal e a Debian, o Malheiros escreveu o plugin solid noise do gimp (ate agora o unico brasileiro no about do gimp) e a maioria dos gradientes disponiveis para ele, sem falar na criacao do LDP-BR e, junto comigo do http://linux.unicamp.br. O AFMoraes ajuda a manter o site linusp.usp.br e seus quase 70Gb de Linux, eu fui um dos responsaveis por criar o www.br.debian.org e o ftp.br.debian.org no linusp, alem de comecar a traducao do site (que mea culpa, esta defasada). A core edita semanalmente o Core News, entao eu acho que na media a gente e legal :) certo. :) A unica coisa que eu discordei um pouco contigo, foi sobre dizer que a Debian era otima para servidor. Ela e' boa para desktop tambem. Se voces enviarem e-mail para o malheiros [EMAIL PROTECTED] mandando que ele termine logo sua maldita tese de mestrado em computacao grafica quem sabe a gente consiga mais tempo para contribuir para o Debian em Portugues :) vou fazer isso, e dizer que voce que mandou. :) O e-mail dele e [EMAIL PROTECTED] , mandem e-mails carinhosos sugerindo que ele pare de ficar jogando xkobo e termine a tese de mestrado ;) Um grande abraco para todos, e parabens ao pessoal do Rio pela traducao do boot-floppies! :) De nada. Espere mais coisa. --macan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Abracos,PH
Re: Partitioning hard disk
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:33:01PM -0500, Michelle Maria Coelho wrote: snip.../snip This is how I plan to partitiion the disks: /hda1 40MB swap hda2 8MB /usr hda3 68MB swap hdb1 8MB /usr hdb2 250MB where hda is the 116MB disk and hdb is the 258MB disk. Will the above configuration work..and can I split /usr across 2 partitions or will X complain? Thanks, Michelle No, you cannot do that --- one partition, one mounting point. Also, try to increase swap size to 32Mb. Why are you making 2 8Mb swap partitions, when single 16Mb will do? My recommendattion is use 116Mb hard disk for / and swap use 258Mb hard disk for /usr, /home/, or whatever.
error in read()ing first
I am getting lots of these errors and have no idea what they mean. What is it all about? I have not seen these before. May 15 22:35:16 lilypad /usr/sbin/gpm[156]: Error in read()ing first: No such file or directory May 15 22:35:16 lilypad /usr/sbin/gpm[156]: Error in read()ing first: No such file or directory thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: icewm-gnome config files
Hi Tim Thanks for the help. Perhaps I was not clear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well what you want to look at, is the menu of the gnome panel :-) That will contain StarOffice. This is correct. Staroffice does appear in the menu of the gnome panel. I added it using the gnome menuing utility. However Staroffice does not appear anywhere when I use icewm-gnome. icewm-gnome is a version of icewm preconfigured to run gnome. It is a separate deb and a separate manager from regular icewm. This must mean that gnome runing in icewm-gnome must be reading a different config file from regular gnome. fvwm+gnome has staroffice, fvwm2+gnome has staroffice, windowmaker+gnome has staroffice icewm+gnome has staroffice etc. icewm-gnome does not have staroffice. icewm-gnome must be reading a differnet menu file. Running as root, I issued the following command find / -name ice* | most I found no icewm-gnome config files I'm not sure where the ICEWm menu is stored, probably in the ~/.icewm directory :-) There is no ~/.icewm or ~/icewm-gnome directory I can live without this. I am actually using windowmaker now. It seems pretty cool I looked briefly at enlightenment. It is quite hedious, but that another story. I just don't like when I don't understand stuff that should be pretty simple. Anyway thanks again for the help
Re: small problems after installing potato
P == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P software with dselect, it tries to upgrade my custom kernel to the P default 2.2.5 kernel (my custom kernel is also 2.2.5). How did you build it? When you use kernel-package, you can use a revision number that is higher than any that could possible be in the archive (well on reasonable grounds), so dselect and apt won't recognise the official one as a newer version. Either set the kernel-image package on hold ( = in dselect), or recompile you cuszom kernel with somthing like make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel-image Ciao, Martin
Re: smail problem
SZ == Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SZ Some sites block the emails sent from an unqualified domain. How SZ do I configure smail so that I can send the mail via a qualified SZ smtp, or as it looks like my domain is qualified. First make sure you don't deliver mail directly to the destination, but use your ISP's mailhost. This will save you some trouble. If you have a smart_host entry in /etc/smail/routers, then this is set up this way, otherwise rerun smail-config. Then, make sure masquerade your host on smtp handshaking. In /etc/smail/config you should use visible_name=cia.com.au or such some. You may also want to rewrite your Sender: header if it contains an internal hostname (can't check this, I read the list through a local mail2news gateway). See http://www.debian.org/fom/137.html If hostname --fqdn doesn't show a hostname in the form of host.net for your box, then you should fix this as well. Refer to this list about it. Ciao, Martin
Re: Partitioning hard disk
Thank you for the prompt replies. I'll try what you said and I think it will work. I decided to split the swap among the disks because the Howto on Partitonioning a Hard Disk suggested this. I guess since I'll be the only user, I needn't have a /home partition. Are any other partitions besides / and /usr needed in my situation? Thanks. Michelle On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:33:01PM -0500, Michelle Maria Coelho wrote: snip.../snip This is how I plan to partitiion the disks: /hda1 40MB swap hda2 8MB /usr hda3 68MB swap hdb1 8MB /usr hdb2 250MB where hda is the 116MB disk and hdb is the 258MB disk. Will the above configuration work..and can I split /usr across 2 partitions or will X complain? Thanks, Michelle -- Michelle Maria Coelho Department of Computer and Information Science Purdue School of Science Phone: 1-317-278-2948 Fax : 1-317-274-9742
[ ppp-2.3.8 is out]
Thought that this might be of interest to the Debian group. - Forwarded message from Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 16:27:20 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: ppp-2.3.8 is out Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ppp-2.3.8 is available now, in the usual place: ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp Mostly bug fixes and minor pppd improvements this time. There are a couple of bug fixes in the kernel PPP driver for Linux. These fixes are already in linux-2.2.8 (and 2.2.9). Here's the what's new section from the README: What's new in ppp-2.3.8. * The exit status of pppd will now indicate whether the link was successfully established, or if not, what error was encountered. * Pppd has two new options: fdlog n will send log messages to file descriptor n instead of standard output, and nofdlog will stop log messages from being sent to any file descriptor (they will still be sent to syslog). Pppd now will not send log messages to a file descriptor if the serial port is open on that file descriptor. * Pppd sets an environment variable called PPPLOGNAME for scripts that it runs, indicating the login name of the user who invoked pppd. * Pppd sets environment variables CONNECT_TIME, BYTES_SENT and BYTES_RCVD for the ip-down and auth-down scripts indicating the statistics for the connection just terminated. (CONNECT_TIME is in seconds.) * If the user has the serial device open on standard input and specifies a symbolic link to the serial device on the command line, pppd will detect this and behave correctly (i.e. not detach from its controlling terminal). Furthermore, if the serial port is open for reading and writing on standard input, pppd will assume that it is locked by its invoker and not lock it itself. * Chat now has a feature where if a string to be sent begins with an at sign (@), the rest of the string is taken as the name of a file (regular file or named pipe), and the actual string to send is taken from that file. * Support for FreeBSD-2.2.8 and 3.0 has been added, thanks to Paul Fulghum. * The Tru64 (aka Digital Unix aka OSF/1) port has been updated. * The system panics on Solaris SMP systems related to PPP connections being established and terminated should no longer occur. * Fixed quite a few bugs. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ppp in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End forwarded message - -- In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?
Subject: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem? Date: Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:46:14PM +0100 In reply to:Kris Quoting Kris([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Problem: PPP works fine under kernel 2.0.36; under 2.2.x it connects, but it seems like no packets go in or out. tcpdump only shows what looks like things trying to get out, but not getting anything back (really technical, huh?). I can ping myself (localhost local IP), but not _any_ remote IPs (including my nameservers). All IRQs, nameservers, so on are set correctly. PPP is compiled into the kernel (of 2.2.9), and I'm using the latest version of PPP. It's slink, but I've tried it with apt-get update upgrade using the unstable area; makes no difference. Re-installed many times. Booting from floppy due to a resistant HD/BIOS. I've spent about two weeks on this problem, scouring searchlinux.com, deja(news), the HOW-TOs, Google, and so on. And I reckon I've spent about £5 on phone bills trying things. Here are various outputs while connected (my apologies if everything gets munged by Eudora): [ snip ] # egrep -v '#|^ *$' /etc/ppp/options asyncmap 0 authcrtscts lock hide-password modem noipdefault-am -vj debug lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 noipx I have a working ppp on kernel 2.2.9. my pppd command is exec /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 lock modem crtscts \ asyncmap 0 defaultroute connect $DIALER_SCRIPT pppd --version (pppd version 2.3 patch level 5) egrep -v '#|^ *$' /etc/ppp/options domain mindspring.com mru 1500 mtu 1500 name login-name I don't recall making any changes to the above when going to the 2.2.x kernel. The only differences I can see are what i show above. HTH Wayne -- Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help installing - can't find hdd
Subject: Need help installing - can't find hdd Date: Sat, May 15, 1999 at 02:40:43PM -0700 In reply to:freefood Quoting freefood([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I cannot figure out how to get the debian boot program to recognize my hdd. I have a 13.5GB hdd, so I know there are issues with drives larger than 8GB, but I don't know how to resolve them. This is what I've done: Check the mail archives for the last 2 months. I seem to recall a discussion on that here and there were IIRC solutions posrted. HTH -- Real programmers disdain structured programming. Structured programming is for compulsive neurotics who were prematurely toilet-trained. They wear neckties and carefully line up pencils on otherwise qclear desks. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: packages for dialing isp
M == MallarJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: M but KPPP refuses to do the job. XISP is nice, but I couldn't get M it to dial over 38,000kbps for me for some reason. WVDial is what M I use now. It's not Both are frontends to pppd, so as long as the same options are used, the result should be that same. Check if wvdial uses some special init string for your modem, and entre in into options-communication options. Also make sure that Serial Port Rate in the same dialog is set to 115200, Flowcontrol Hardware. Other than that, I can't think of any reason why the result could be different. Ciao, Martin
Re: isapnp problems
Quoting Paul Nathan Puri([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm trying to get the modem going. Windows reported that it sat on IRQ 4, on io port 0110-0117. WT == Wayne Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WT That is a strange looking port address. Common address for COM 1 WT is 3F8 on 'normal' PC hardware. This is OK. It looks like it is an internal modem (evil), that's why he uses isapnp What modem is it anyway? It's not one of the winmodems that only work with windows 95/98 ? Ciao, Martin
Re: small problems after installing potato
On 15-May-99 Martin Bialasinski wrote: P == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P software with dselect, it tries to upgrade my custom kernel to the P default 2.2.5 kernel (my custom kernel is also 2.2.5). How did you build it? When you use kernel-package, you can use a revision number that is higher than any that could possible be in the archive (well on reasonable grounds), so dselect and apt won't recognise the official one as a newer version. I was wondering if I could do that, and avoid this problem without having to download a newer kernel. Either set the kernel-image package on hold ( = in dselect), or recompile you cuszom kernel with somthing like make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel-image thanks, I was unsure if I could just put the kernel package on hold. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 KeyID 0x5EE61C37]
Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?
At 20:21 15/05/1999 +, you wrote: Ppp is known to have problems with 2.2.X. Indeed it does. *thwap* How about the far end of the ppp link? Nope; the only thing I can ping or otherwise communicate with is localhost the dynamic IP which I'm assigned (from /var/log/ppp.log). Option names have changes and the old ones may not be supported anymore. To turn off compression use 'nobsdcomp', 'nodeflate', and 'novj'. I no longer recall what '-am' did. Check the man page. As a long shot, try turning off all compression. I've tried nobsdcomp, nodeflate, novjc, novjccomp, and probably a few other things; nothing cures it. I reckon that even if the compression stuff wasn't set right, _some_ packets should make their way in/out. Incidentaly, I earlier tried upgrading to potato (libc6 so on) and recompiling the kernel to include anything which looks even remotely route-looking; no luck (made the man output have a Perl error though; nothing serious). I'm starting to think that I've either got a curse put on me my by an evil goat, or I'm just dmed to failure. Any other ideas, anyone? (Pretty please?)
Re: small problems after installing potato
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 11:42:25PM -, Pollywog wrote: On 15-May-99 Martin Bialasinski wrote: P == Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: P software with dselect, it tries to upgrade my custom kernel to the P default 2.2.5 kernel (my custom kernel is also 2.2.5). How did you build it? When you use kernel-package, you can use a revision number that is higher than any that could possible be in the archive (well on reasonable grounds), so dselect and apt won't recognise the official one as a newer version. I was wondering if I could do that, and avoid this problem without having to download a newer kernel. Either set the kernel-image package on hold ( = in dselect), or recompile you cuszom kernel with somthing like make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel-image thanks, I was unsure if I could just put the kernel package on hold. This is not a common problem, but exists with kernel-2.2.5 because the version includes an epoch in the numbering (see /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz). If you use: make-kpkg --revision=1:custom.1.0 kernel-image you can avoid this in the future. Putting it on hold works, however. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: icewm-gnome config files
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 07:43:56PM -0400, Tommy Malloy wrote: Hi Tim Thanks for the help. Perhaps I was not clear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well what you want to look at, is the menu of the gnome panel :-) That will contain StarOffice. This is correct. Staroffice does appear in the menu of the gnome panel. I added it using the gnome menuing utility. However Staroffice does not appear anywhere when I use icewm-gnome. icewm-gnome is a version of icewm preconfigured to run gnome. It is a separate deb and a separate manager from regular icewm. This must mean that gnome runing in icewm-gnome must be reading a different config file from regular gnome. fvwm+gnome has staroffice, fvwm2+gnome has staroffice, windowmaker+gnome has staroffice icewm+gnome has staroffice etc. icewm-gnome does not have staroffice. icewm-gnome must be reading a differnet menu file. Running as root, I issued the following command find / -name ice* | most I found no icewm-gnome config files I'm not sure where the ICEWm menu is stored, probably in the ~/.icewm directory :-) There is no ~/.icewm or ~/icewm-gnome directory I can live without this. I am actually using windowmaker now. It seems pretty cool I looked briefly at enlightenment. It is quite hedious, but that another story. I just don't like when I don't understand stuff that should be pretty simple. Anyway thanks again for the help icewm and icewm-gnome will put the Debian menu system in its menu under Programs, so you can use update-menus. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re[2]: Partitioning hard disk
Michelle Maria Coelho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess since I'll be the only user, I needn't have a /home partition. A '/home' _directory_ will be created for you, and you should use it, just to get out of the habit of always logging in as root. Since your email address at school is [EMAIL PROTECTED], I would create a user called 'mcoelho'. Are any other partitions besides / and /usr needed in my situation? The _partitions_ you 'need' are only those you specify to meet your particular hard drive space situation; all needed _directories_ will be created for you, under the mount points you assign to your linux native partitions. -- Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Esmond, R.I., USA -- this space intentionally left empty ---
Re: How do I load CDRom driver?
I did a dmesg|grep 'hd'. All I got was hda1, hda2. So I guess the CDrom was not detected. Michelle Michelle Maria Coelho Department of Computer and Information Science Purdue School of Science Phone: 1-317-278-2948 Fax : 1-317-274-9742
help on installing (starting) staroffice
i downloaded all the files and the installer package from teh debian site adn everything seemed to install fine. everytime I type swriter hwoever a setup program starts and it doesn't have the user installation option that the readme mentions. just four options - modify, upgrade uninstall and repair. I cna't make anything of thsi, how do I get staroffice running? vladimir.
Re: VIM questions
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:15:05PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: 1) For some reason vim inists on showing file stats at the bottom of the screen whenever I edit a file. It isn't too bad normally, but when I invoked from mutt it waits for me to press a key. Very annoying. How do I get rid of that behaviour? I'd love to know how to shut that thing off as well. Completely unneeded and annoying as all hell. 2) How do I make use the dark background syntax settings? Set them up in a local directory and have the local directory override the global syntax directory. 3) In the long running debian coding standards debate on devel, it was mentioned that tabs shouldn't be used to indent, but spaces instead. How do I set up vim to insert n amount of spaces when I press the TAB key? Or is there some other key that is used for that purpose? Here's from my .vimrc set tabstop=2 set expandtab expandtab is the one that will automatically set tabs to spaces. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-
for David B. Teague: installing on a SCSI HD
Hi David, I hope your exams went well. Thank you for your help, now I tell you whay my sistem requires. If you will tell me what your system requires, then after my exams are over, i.e. after May 15, I will compile a kernel and make the kernel available for down load. This is my sistem: 486 processor 16 Mb RAM Math coprocessor Floppy disk IDE HD (with windows95: VFAT) IDE/ATAPI CDROM (ISO9660) SCSI host adapter: Adaptec AHA-1510 SCSI HD Serial mouse (3 buttons) Sound card: SoundBlaster Pro2 Italian keyboard (and language) Modem Is this enough? What about the compiled kernel? Have I to put it in a rescue-disk? and, if so, how? Or have I to install debian 2.1 after booting from the floppy with the new kernel? and, if so, how to put it on a boot floppy and how to install debian? Thank you very much. Davide
Re: making linux look bad
tf wrote: Hey everybody I make linux look bad. I've been messing with it for almost 2 years and have never had it running well enough to use. So. can someone give me a strategy to follow? I'm obviously going about this the wrong way. I think it would help if I got ppp working-both pon and wvdail dial out, but leave the line open and not connected to anything. right now, my only internet connection is via windows. This is awful! But luckily you have come to the right place. The Debian community is a wealth of information and expertise unsurpassed by any other distribution follownig in my experience (ymmv). Ok, here are my recomendations, to be followed by some of my personal experiences. This may get long so I will start with the summary and you can stop reading beyond that if it gets boring. 1. Catalog _all_ of your hardware and ensure that _every_ piece is supported (well). 2. If you have hardware that is not supported then buy, barter, or trade, for pieces that are. 3. Aquire some desk references - good Linux books. Buy two and you will be amazed at how often the answer you are looking for is in book 'A' but not 'B'. Then you will find the answer to another question only in book 'B'. There are to many good books to list, but you need at least one. This is not an option - get one or more. 4. Set some goals and priorities for getting things working. a) get a solid installation completed. b) get ppp working -- important. use to access info for solving all other pronblems. d) start with the next most important feature and work on it until you get it working. e) repeat step 'd' untill everything works. f) after all your hardware is working keep learing (shell scripting, compiling sources, etc.) Personal experiences: Don't get discouraged. The first time I installed Linux it took me _months_ to get all of my hardware working correctly. Then one day I sat down in front of the thing and everything was working. That was so great. The turning point for me was the day I realized that every time I got stuck and couldn't find a solution to a problem I would boot Windoze (ie. I would take the easy way out.). I realized that as long as I kept dropping back to Windoze every time Linux got tough I would never learn. At that point I decided to try an experiment - total immersion. I resolved not to boot windows at any cost. I wanted to do two things: 1)learn more by forcing myself to find solutions to Linux problems, and 2) To see if Linux really could supply all I needed from a computer. Well it worked. In '98 I removed windows to make more space for Linux -- I hadn't booted windoze in over a year! It was not easy at first, but in the first two months of project total immersion I learned more than I had in the previous _year_ of dual-booting. If you do this I am sure you will look back in three months and be amazed at how far you have come. I know that not everyone can make that level of commitment to using Linux, but I recommend it if you can. The good news is that it gets easier as you learn more. There will come a day when you can sit down in front of a bare system and walk away an hour later leaving a fully configured system complete with network, printing, sound, x-windows, etc. And even better, you will know how to use it! Then the fun begins. Hang in there. We will be here to help. -- --- Ben Messinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only dead fish go with the flow. Use Debian/GNU Linux. ---
StarOffice 5 and Glibc 2.1 (potato) mini-HOWTO
Before i begin, please CC all replies to my email address. dyn.cx seems to be severely broken (or at least their nameserver is hosed), and this mailbox can't take the onslaught that is debian-user :( ... Anyone know of any functional free domain hosts? Sometime two or three weeks ago, we were discussing making StarOffice work under Potato. i didn't see in the archives that anyone solved the printing problem, so i went ahead and wrote the mini-HOWTO like someone recommended i do. It's available at http://199.74.95.157/random/StarOffice501_glibc21.gz, if anyone could mirror it that would be a good thing. Also, please send any and all comments, that's the only way it can be made better. i can send the file by email as well if anyone needs it. I'd post it to the list except that i don't want to overflow anyone's mailbox...
Re: Partitioning hard disk
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:33:01PM -0500, Michelle Maria Coelho wrote: This is how I plan to partitiion the disks: /hda1 40MB swap hda2 8MB /usr hda3 68MB swap hdb1 8MB /usr hdb2 250MB You can split the swap and it is recommended that you do that. You cannot split the /usr partition that way, though, unless you use special software (the md driver, which is an advanced topic). If you are using X, I suggest that you create a bit more swap (like 16 MB on each disk). Kristian
3D stereo glasses for Linux?
I realise this is not only off-topic, but completely out in left field. I have just been searching a few 3D glasses sites, and found many games have 3D patched available for them, including, Quake, Doom and Duke Nukem! But the sites I found only listed DOS and Windows drivers. I was wondering if anyone knew of any software or patches for 3D glasses for Linux. I'm talking about the LCD shutter-type glasses and not the old Red/Blue type ones, of course. I have always had an interest in 3D photography and films and used to have a book called Garage VR that had lots of software for VR stuff, including drivers for generic 3D LCD glasses, special output format that used a stereopticon type viewer that was attached directly to the monitor as well as the old Red/Blue output. This is just for my own curiosity and as an extra selling point to the Wife for Linux. Thanks for your help and information. Cheers, John Gay
Re: Partitioning hard disk
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 06:26:02PM -0500, Michelle Maria Coelho wrote: Thank you for the prompt replies. I'll try what you said and I think it will work. I decided to split the swap among the disks because the Howto on Partitonioning a Hard Disk suggested this. I guess since I'll be the only user, I needn't have a /home partition. Mmmhh you mean you'll work as root for all the time? It's not a Good Thing. You should log in as an user in order to avoid unwanted disasters to happen. IMHO you need a /home directory. Are any other partitions besides / and /usr needed in my situation? /var usually tends to grow but I think it's not your case. The suggested partitioning schemes in the last replies will do the job. Ciao, Illo. -- Ilario Nardinocchi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Computer Science Adept since 1982 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Know-nothing-bozo rule: The views expressed above are entirely mine and do not represent the views, policy or understanding of any other person or official body.
Temporaly disable program
Hi, I've installed a program (gpm to more precise) and I want to disable/enable it for the next booting. Remove/install every time I want to experiment would be weird. Any ideas are wellcome Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1-431-2977 I am not a cat to play with the mouse.
P5A Asus board and M1541 Aladdin...
Well I do know this is not the right mailing list but you're so kind, so... ;) Ok, I've got this ASUS P5A-B motherboard, with this Acer Labs M5229/c1 IDE interface. This is the output of lspci -v: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. M1541 (rev 04) Subsystem: Unknown device 10b9:1541 Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64 Memory at e000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc.: Unknown device 5243 (rev 04) Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: e000-dfff Memory behind bridge: de80-dfff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e7f0-e7ff 00:03.0 Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. M7101 Subsystem: Unknown device 10b9:7101 Flags: medium devsel 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. M1533 (rev c3) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:0f.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. M5229 (rev c1) (prog-if 8a) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ ? I/O ports at d800 01:00.0 Display controller: Texas Instruments TVP4020 [Permedia 2] (rev 01) Subsystem: Unknown device 1092:0146 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at df80 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at df00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at de80 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) ... and the kernel (2.2.9) says... ... PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9, DID=5229 PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) hda: WDC AC313000R, ATA DISK drive hdb: 685A, ATAPI CDROM drive hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: WDC AC313000R, 12416MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=25228/16/63 hdb: ATAPI 7X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55 hdc: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm hdc: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity ... The BIOS is correctly set to Auto in the PIO/UltraDMA IDE modes. My question is: is it me, or the latest kernels cannot support ALi M5229 ide interface? Another question: I really made a mistake buying a WDC AC313000R, didn't I? ;) Ciao, Illo. -- Ilario Nardinocchi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Computer Science Adept since 1982 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Know-nothing-bozo rule: The views expressed above are entirely mine and do not represent the views, policy or understanding of any other person or official body.
Re: P5A Asus board and M1541 Aladdin...
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 10:29:30AM +0200, Illo de' Illis wrote: Well I do know this is not the right mailing list but you're so kind, so... ;) Ok, I've got this ASUS P5A-B motherboard, with this Acer Labs M5229/c1 IDE interface. This is the output of lspci -v: [snip] The BIOS is correctly set to Auto in the PIO/UltraDMA IDE modes. My question is: is it me, or the latest kernels cannot support ALi M5229 ide interface? It's available as a patch at http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/ It's also being included in the 2.3.x development series, and has a possibility of being merged into 2.2.x Adam
Cubic mouse cursor
Anyone know how to get rid of this 2x2 cm mouse cursor under X? I just re-installed X (3.3.3.1) from potato. --David P.S. Pls CC me.
Newbie X (no @ on kbd)
Hi all, I just succeed to start X under frame buffer (thanks to Geert Uytterhoeven!), bur I don't have the '@' available from my keyboard! (quite silly, isn't it?). Its a huge problem, because it oblige me to use windows. How can I recover it?? Regards, JY -- Jean-Yves BARBIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Les choses ne sont pas toujours ce que l'on voudrait qu'elles soient qu'elles fussent... P. DAC Boycott Intel, watch: http://www.bigbrotherinside.com If you need N components to build your board, you'll ALWAYS have N-1 in stock Murphy's law
Re: X desktop keys
AI == Andrei Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AI I just ran into an interesting thing: On my desktop, I accidently AI hit Shift+Alt+arrow key. I know that Alt+arry key switches between AI screens, bbut what does Shift+Alt+arrows do? It switches me into AI an empty screen, where I can open more windows, but where does it AI come from? I'm thinking along the lines of virtual consolesam AI I anywhere close? Yes, but it is not something done by the kernel as the normal consoles, but by the windowmanager. I use fvwm2 with a 2x3 (=6 desks) setup, and with alt+arrow, I can navigate trough them. I also have a pager, which shows all desks (and which you can use to move to a desk or manipulate the windows). On http://www.internet-treff.uni-koeln.de/~martin/shot.jpg (rather big, beware), you can see the pager on the lower right corner. Ciao, Martin
Re: HELP! mail does not work (exim+fetchmail)
SZ == Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SZ After a long time, I finally decide to replace smail with exim. I SZ have sucessfully set it up on one machine. But the other one stops SZ working... So I guess my late reply on settig upsmail is obsolete :-) SZ After installing exim, my fetchmail does not work at more.. SZ The error message is: SZ fetchmail: 4 messages for shao at pop3.cia.com.au (7683 octets). SZ fetchmail: POP3 RETR 1 SZ fetchmail: POP3 +OK SZ fetchmail: reading message 1 of 4 (1200 octets) SZ fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused SZ fetchmail: POP3 QUIT^M SZ from exim is: SZ 1999-05-12 21:18:55 10hX2N-7H-00 Completed SZ 1999-05-12 21:23:00 Start queue run: pid=473 SZ 1999-05-12 21:23:00 10hWvm-6W-00 Message is frozen SZ 1999-05-12 21:23:00 10hWio-5i-00 ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unknown local-part shao in domain virge SZ 1999-05-12 21:23:00 10hX6K-7g-00 = R=10hWio-5i-00 U=mail P=local S=1684 SZ 1999-05-12 21:23:00 10hWio-5i-00 Error message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] SZ 1999-05-12 21:23:00 10hWio-5i-00 Completed SZ 1999-05-12 21:23:00 End queue run: pid=473 Are you sure this is from the same run? I would have guessed that the Connection failed is caused by exim not listening to the smtp port. Does telnet localhost smtp give you the greeting? What does you .fetchmailrc look like? Do you have the is s2193893 here part in there? SZ strange thing is I don't even know where is this shao come from! See the first line of the fetchmail message?
Re: Visual Basic type IDE/Compiler
d == deblists [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: d There are other IDE's, but those are the ones that include visual d interface builders that I can think of right now. There are code crusader, sniff++ and wipeout as well. All aiming at c/c++/java. I don't know C, just perl and pike, but I also didn't see any programms writen in Basic (of whatever flavor) on Linux yet. Ciao, Martin
RE: Temporaly disable program
On 16-May-99 Urban Gabor wrote: Hi, I've installed a program (gpm to more precise) and I want to disable/enable it for the next booting. Remove/install every time I want to experiment would be weird. Any ideas are wellcome Generically, the way to prevent a program from executing is to change its permissions so that it is not executable (i.e. does not have x permission). My gpm has (ls -l `which gpm`): -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root36515 Dec 1 1997 /usr/bin/gpm i.e. 755 permissions. If you do chmod 644 /usr/bin/gpm then the result would be -rw-r--r-- 1 root root36515 Dec 1 1997 /usr/bin/gpm i.e. the x permissions would have gone and the program would not execute. When you want it back, you restore them with chmod 755 /usr/bin/gpm I'm not running a Debian system at the moment, so I can't answer for precisely how Debian starts up gpm when it boots, but in my SuSE system the file /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm has the lines test $START_GPM = yes || exit 0 case $1 in start) if test -x /usr/bin/gpm ; then echo Starting console mouse support. (gpm) /usr/bin/gpm $GPM_PARAM fi ;; The if test ... checks whether /usr/bin/gpm exists and is executable. If not (which would be the case if you changes the permissions) then nothing is done. For what you want to do, achieving it simply by changing permissions is going to be simpler than fiddling deep inside the boot-up initialisation scripts. Hope this helps, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-May-99 Time: 10:34:17 -- XFMail --
netscape, navigator, communicator...
Hi! Can somebody explain me what's in each package and what are their inter-relationships? What's the bare minimum if I want to have just a 'lightweith' netscape 4.5 browser? TIA! -- p.
Re[2]: icewm-gnome config files
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, there's supposedly a way to add your own entries to the Debian menus, but I don't yet know how exactly that works :-) Yes and usually it works very well. If you install a .deb then the menu item should appear on your menus automatically. If you want to add your own menu item then you need to add a file to ~/.menu/, or to /etc/menu/ if you want the new item to be on all users' menus. A typical file would look like this: ?package(local.mystuff):needs=x11 \ section=Apps/Net title=Ishmail \ command=/usr/local/lib/1.3.2/bin/ishmail Pretty self-explanatory really. Once you have created the file and saved it, just run 'update-menus' and you should see the new menu items. Sometimes I have needed to run update-menus as root too. Not sure if the Debian menu system applies to all WMs, I have a feeling that it doesn't - I have used it successfully with Icewm and Window Maker, and a Debian section is added to Gnome and KDE. The latter two, though, are clumsy in that the sum total of all your installed apps are relegated to one item on the menu (sometimes duplicated on two items) and the Gnome or KDE apps get categorised. I *hate* that! You could, of course, change that manually. -- Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux (Potato)
Re: How do I load CDRom driver?
do you have an over OS (Win95,WinNT, BeOS) that found your cdrom ?
Re: Temporaly disable program
try as root : update-rc.d gpm remove see also : man update-rc.d
Re: Update ... Re: Ethernet newbee failure
First I want to thank everyone who sent me a reply, both private and on the list. I now know 3 different way to create working routing tables. With regret, this has not resolved the problem. It was John Hasler who actually resolved things for me. I now have the following routing tables on both machines: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 01 lo 10.0.0.0* 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 eth0 I get better results now than ever before, but still can't complete a ping. Here are the facts: 1. Each machine can ping itself successfully. 2. A ping to the other machine returns 0 packets to the kernel. 3. The PKT light on the hub blinks while a failed ping is in progress. The NICs are EtherLink III cards connected through a hub using twisted pair cable. Suppositions: Fact 1 is not useful, as the kernel, seeing the information in the routing table, has no reason to go to the card to resolve the ping. In this circumstance the kernel is talking to itself and the ping program, not the card. Fact 3 indicates that the ping is getting out of the kernel, into the card, and onto the cable. When properly configured the card in machine one gets a reply from the card in machine two, but fails to get that message to the kernel. (fact 2) At this point, it is my supposition that the card is responding on another interrupt from the one it was commanded to use by isapnp, and the driver. The kernel, the driver, and the isapnp program, all think the card has been configured for base address 0300, and irq 10, yet no traffic makes it out of the card into the kernel, suggesting that it is using another interrupt. Isapnp? Turn off the pnp and try settings manually. As painful as it seemed at this point, I was ready to try loading the driver commanding each interrupt that the card might use, hoping to stumble on it by a careful search. Although the documentation seems to indicate that the only parameter that I can send to the driver is the irq, modconf says that the io base address can also be entered. Worse than that, if you try to specify another interrupt for the driver install, it hangs forever. I was able to do an insmod including the parrameter, but the results were not what I expected: dwarf# insmod 3c509 irq=12 eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 10 5a de c8 16, IRQ 10. 3c509.c:1.16 2/3/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note that the driver still declares irq 10 rather than the irq 12 that I requested. Is my syntax faulty? You propably have machines with ps/2 mouse and keyboards. The irq 12 is sort of reserved for these. If 10 is free, why not use it. One thing you might try is fiddling with the irq and settings with the dos based 3c5x9cfg.exe program, that comes with the normal driver package from 3com (you can download this from www.3com.com). Ben Pfaff indicated that his card requires a special option before the kernel can hear it. I can find no such indication for the EtherLink III card, but his experience seems similar to mine. Can anyone clue me in? This is from Donald Becker's site (http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/3c509.html) : No received packets If a 3c509, 3c562 or 3c589 can successfully transmit packets, but never receives packets (as reported by /proc/net/dev or 'ifconfig') you likely have an interrupt line problem. Check /proc/interrupts to verify that the card is actually generating interrupts. If the interrupt count is not increasing you likely have a physical conflict with two devices trying to use the same ISA IRQ line. The common conflict is with a sound card on IRQ10 or IRQ5. The easiest solution is to move the 3c509 to a different interrupt line. And let's move this to -user, as it's the proper forum. --j
Re: ZIP drive and kernel 2.2?
The only think I can think of is there's another program, more specifically a TSR that's running resident in the background causing modprobe to report with this error. Are you sure that you don't have lpd running in the background and that you have unloaded any other possibly conflicting modules that may take up your IRQ or use the parrallel port? I killed lpd and rmmod lp. Now lsmod gives me: Module Size Used by ppp_deflate39940 0 (autoclean) bsd_comp3568 0 (autoclean) appletalk 17472 0 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean) nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean) sg 4080 0 (unused) ppp18956 2 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp] slhc4392 1 [ppp] dummy716 0 (unused) serial 19852 2 parport_probe 2884 0 (autoclean) (unused) unix 10012 9 (autoclean) parport 7028 0 [parport_probe] vfat 11408 1 smbfs 25944 0 (unused) nfs30136 0 (unused) lockd 31240 0 [nfs] sunrpc 52420 0 [nfs lockd] Trying modprobe ppa still gives the 'Device or resource busy' error. The drive works under windows 95. There the parallel port uses IRQ 7. here in linux cat /proc/interrupts gives: CPU0 0: 168531 XT-PIC timer 1: 2588 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3: 43548 XT-PIC serial 4: 1906 XT-PIC serial 8: 2 XT-PIC rtc 13: 0 XT-PIC fpu 14: 90398 XT-PIC ide0 15: 4 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 Any other suggestions? Stef
Re: netscape, navigator, communicator...
Pere Camps wrote: What's the bare minimum if I want to have just a 'lightweith' netscape 4.5 browser? if you want just a browser, use the netscape4.5 package. (there is now the 4.51 version) if you have motif, download the dynamic version else download the static. if you want to use netscape to read your mail you have to download the communicator (perhaps)
Re: Partitioning hard disk
~ This is how I plan to partitiion the disks: ~ /hda1 40MB ~ swap hda2 8MB ~ /usr hda3 68MB ~ swap hdb1 8MB ~ /usr hdb2 250MB ~ ~ where hda is the 116MB disk and hdb is the 258MB disk. ~ Will the above configuration work..and can I split /usr across 2 ~ partitions or will X complain? I think you could split /usr across two different partitions by making the second a symlink to the first, eg. name hdb2 partition something like /usr2 and make it a symlink to /usr. Horacio
Re: Temporaly disable program
I like to remove the execute flags from the startup script in init.d. in this case. Then when the system boots and when it shuts down, I get a console message that the daemon is not starting or stopping, reminding me that I have disabled it. For example, you could as root 'chmod a-x /etc/init.d/gpm', disabling gpm at bootup. When you want to play with it just 'chmod a+x /etc/init.d/gpm; /etc/init.d/gpm start'. I got this tip from this list some time back and often use it for fooling with new daemons. Michael Laing Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 10:20:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: Urban Gabor [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi, I've installed a program (gpm to more precise) and I want to disable/enable it for the next booting. Remove/install every time I want to experiment would be weird. Any ideas are wellcome Gabor Urban --- Lufthansa Systems Hungaria KfT mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (36)-1-431-2949 Fax :(36)-1-431-2977 I am not a cat to play with the mouse.
Re: Partitioning hard disk
~ This is how I plan to partitiion the disks: ~ /hda1 40MB ~ swap hda2 8MB ~ /usr hda3 68MB ~ swap hdb1 8MB ~ /usr hdb2 250MB ~ ~ where hda is the 116MB disk and hdb is the 258MB disk. ~ Will the above configuration work..and can I split /usr across 2 ~ partitions or will X complain? I think you could split /usr across two different partitions by making the second a symlink to the first, eg. name hdb2 partition something like /usr2 and make it a symlink to /usr. Not quite, because then what would you call the *real* /usr (since the name /usr is already taken by a symlink ;)
Re: Why sendmail rather than qmail
On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 18:01:51 +0200, I wrote: On Sat, May 01, 1999 at 21:10:13 +0530, M.K.Pai wrote: Even more puzzling, why does qmail go in as non-free ? qmail is not free software. The qmail license prohibits Debian from redistributing binaries, as the require prior approval by the qmail author. It has been pointed out to me that qmail binaries are distributable under a strict set of conditions (ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/qmail/dist.html). So be it; I stand corrected. This in no way changes qmail's non-freeness. Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. | - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
running scripts (manual and auto)
I usually download mail from my ISP by running the following command as user horacio: $ fetchmail -v -a -u my_id and I just created a script with that line and named it /home/horacio/getmail: - start getmail - #!/bin/sh fetchmail -v -a -u my_id - end getmail - and gave it executable permissions(0777): 1 -rwxrwxrwx 1 horacio horacio This works providing I run it like: $ ./getmail but how can I make it ran as a normal command (without ./). Also, I created another script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/: - start script - #/bin/sh fetchmail -f /home/horacio/.fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456 runq - end script - named it 02fetchmail, and gave it the following permissions: 1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root so that it fetchs mail from my ISP at connection, but this one doesn't work at all... what's wrong with it? I too have another two scripts in the same directory: - start 01sendmail - #!/bin/sh # Flush exim queue if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -qf fi - end 01sendmail - (actually, this is just the default exim script renamed), and: - start 00time - #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/rdate -s slug.ctv.es /sbin/hwclock --systohc - end 00time - I think these two work (don't really know for sure). TIA Horacio
dselect problem
today I try to see if there's someting to install but running dselect with apt I found this in the select zone of dselect: I don't understand why this packages are in Obsolete. In fact I find the downloaded Packages list is empty. Waht have I to do ? my source_list : deb ftp://ftp.jussieu.fr/pub2/linux/distributions/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://pandora.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian potato rkrusty some over info : = :/root # cat /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.jussieu.fr_pub2_linux_distributions_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Relea se Archive: unstable Component: main Version: 2.2 Origin: Debian Label: Debian Architecture: i386 = /root # ls -l /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.jussieu.fr_pub2_linux_distributions_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root0 May 15 14:27 /var/state/apt/lists/ftp.jussieu.fr_pub2_linux_distributions_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages = - All packages - --- Obsolete and local packages present on system --- - Obsolete/local Required packages - --- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base --- *** Req base adduser 3.8 none *** Req base ae 962-23 none *** Req base base-files 2.1.6 none *** Req base base-passwd 2.0.3.3 none *** Req base bash 2.02.1-1.4 none *** Req base bsdutils 2.9i-1 none *** Req base debianutils 1.11none *** Req base diff 2.7-18 none *** Req base dpkg 1.4.1.1 none *** Req base e2fsprogs1.14-2 none *** Req base fileutils4.0-1.1 none *** Req base findutils4.1-34 none *** Req base grep 2.3-2 none *** Req base gzip 1.2.4-29none *** Req base hostname 2.04none *** Req base kbd 0.97-1 none *** Req base kbd-data 0.97-1 none *** Req base ldso 1.9.11-2none
URGENT to DEBIAN
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz is empty. If I do a mistake excuse me.
Re: running scripts (manual and auto)
J Horacio MG wrote: I usually download mail from my ISP by running the following command as user horacio: $ fetchmail -v -a -u my_id and I just created a script with that line and named it /home/horacio/getmail: - start getmail - #!/bin/sh fetchmail -v -a -u my_id - end getmail - and gave it executable permissions(0777): 1 -rwxrwxrwx 1 horacio horacio This works providing I run it like: $ ./getmail but how can I make it ran as a normal command (without ./). I place my Perl scripts in /usr/local/bin. I would think that would work for you. I can't help you with the next one:( hth, kent Also, I created another script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/: - start script - #/bin/sh fetchmail -f /home/horacio/.fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456 runq - end script - named it 02fetchmail, and gave it the following permissions: 1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root so that it fetchs mail from my ISP at connection, but this one doesn't work at all... what's wrong with it? I too have another two scripts in the same directory: - start 01sendmail - #!/bin/sh # Flush exim queue if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -qf fi - end 01sendmail - (actually, this is just the default exim script renamed), and: - start 00time - #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/rdate -s slug.ctv.es /sbin/hwclock --systohc - end 00time - I think these two work (don't really know for sure). TIA Horacio -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: PPP woes
JH == John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JH David Teague writes: ppp has not been in default kernels I use. JH Only if you did not select it as a module when you installed. And even than, I believe all modules are installed, you just select which modules should be loaded by default. You can still select a module with modconf. Or uncomment auto in /etc/modules. BTW: the message kernel lacks ppp support could also mean the original poster used a wrong device name like /dev/ttys1 instead of /dev/ttyS1. Ciao, Martin
DHCP small problem
Hi, I'm running under 2.2.7 kernel, using DHCP with my cable modem. Each time I forgot to remove the 'dhcp-client' file in /var/db, at reboot dhcp is very very slow and often can't get me my IP adresse. How can I automatically remove this file at the shutdown? (beeing with Linux for less than a month, so I don't know how to program bash yet) JY -- Jean-Yves BARBIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] Les choses ne sont pas toujours ce que l'on voudrait qu'elles soient qu'elles fussent... P. DAC Boycott Intel, watch: http://www.bigbrotherinside.com If you need N components to build your board, you'll ALWAYS have N-1 in stock Murphy's law
Re: packages for dialing isp
Hi! AFAIK kppp does not like to have lock set in /etc/ppp/options. Commenting it out made kppp work for me. HTH Thorsten Manegold On 14-May-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/13/99 5:24:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about x-isp or kppp (for KDE users)? If you use x-isp (you can search xisp on Yahoo for the URL) you will first need to install xforms. I might have the URL for x-isp. I will send it to you if I find it. kppp is for KDE but xisp will work with any window manager. YMMV - I tried KPPP (I do have KDE installed) and could never get a successfull connection. I can dial using any other means without problems, but KPPP refuses to do the job. XISP is nice, but I couldn't get it to dial over 38,000kbps for me for some reason. WVDial is what I use now. It's not graphic, but does the job, and does it well. I'd love to find an app that works AND will dock in KDE's panel - but so far, no such luck. -Jay -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null \\|// ( o.o ) \(_)/ oOOo-oOOo--- E-Mail: Thorsten Manegold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 16-May-99 Time: 00:06:01 CET PGP Keys on public keyservers KeyID: 0xBEACCF0D __/ / \ \__ (___| |___)
Re: running scripts (manual and auto)
Hi, I cannot explain why your case does not work. But I think it is more convient to use the fetchmail in the following way. put a fetchmail, like your script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/. and then put a fetchmailrc mail in your root directory, and run fetchmail as root. In your fetchmailrc, have something like user horacio there has password is user horacio here. then root will forward all these mails to user horacio. You can then use .forward with procmail or exim to do the fitering... Hope this helps... shao. On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 02:48:42PM +0200, J Horacio MG wrote: I usually download mail from my ISP by running the following command as user horacio: $ fetchmail -v -a -u my_id and I just created a script with that line and named it /home/horacio/getmail: - start getmail - #!/bin/sh fetchmail -v -a -u my_id - end getmail - and gave it executable permissions(0777): 1 -rwxrwxrwx 1 horacio horacio This works providing I run it like: $ ./getmail but how can I make it ran as a normal command (without ./). Also, I created another script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/: - start script - #/bin/sh fetchmail -f /home/horacio/.fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456 runq - end script - named it 02fetchmail, and gave it the following permissions: 1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root so that it fetchs mail from my ISP at connection, but this one doesn't work at all... what's wrong with it? I too have another two scripts in the same directory: - start 01sendmail - #!/bin/sh # Flush exim queue if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -qf fi - end 01sendmail - (actually, this is just the default exim script renamed), and: - start 00time - #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/rdate -s slug.ctv.es /sbin/hwclock --systohc - end 00time - I think these two work (don't really know for sure). TIA Horacio -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: VIM questions
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 21:06 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:15:05PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: 1) For some reason vim inists on showing file stats at the bottom of the screen whenever I edit a file. It isn't too bad normally, but when I invoked from mutt it waits for me to press a key. Very annoying. How do I get rid of that behaviour? I'd love to know how to shut that thing off as well. Completely unneeded and annoying as all hell. Just figured it out: the culprit is the ruler option. Turn it off and the evil goes away...Bummer, really, as the ruler is slightly useful... 2) How do I make use the dark background syntax settings? Set them up in a local directory and have the local directory override the global syntax directory. OK, I feel a bit dumb, but how do I do that? 3) In the long running debian coding standards debate on devel, it was mentioned that tabs shouldn't be used to indent, but spaces instead. How do I set up vim to insert n amount of spaces when I press the TAB key? Or is there some other key that is used for that purpose? Here's from my .vimrc set tabstop=2 set expandtab expandtab is the one that will automatically set tabs to spaces. Great! Just what I was looking for... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: VIM questions
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 16 May 1999 14:29:08 +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: Just figured it out: the culprit is the ruler option. Turn it off and the evil goes away...Bummer, really, as the ruler is slightly useful... Bugger. 2) How do I make use the dark background syntax settings? Set them up in a local directory and have the local directory override the global syntax directory. OK, I feel a bit dumb, but how do I do that? Uhm, not sure. Go to the VIM home page and follow the links to the Windows version. I know, Windows, boo. But the guy has an example of how to do it on his web page. :) Great! Just what I was looking for... You're welcome. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - ---+- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBNz7LQXpf7K2LbpnFEQJE6ACfSvGqpwicQLlsg9tJDSF95krmcPIAnj4d P9QhmtKq+/pHRZ+OgxY9yCwF =ZEra -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: font vga11x19, bitchx
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 21:07:49 +0200, Johan Pettersson wrote: Were can I find font vga11x19 ? As /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/vga11x19.pcf.gz in the Debian bitchx package. HTH, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. | - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: PPP problems.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]John Hasler writes Daniel Sladic writes: Anyone know offhand what is causing this problem or what I can do to figure out what is the problem? Did you run pppconfig? If so, post your /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp/peers/provider, and the output of the 'plog' command. If not, put the options file back the way it was and run pppconfig. -- Well, I got it to work but I am no less confused. pppconfig by itself was not a help, but I found out if I use a chatscript rather than logging in manually it worked. In the latter case, I just commented out the connect line in the options file. Of course I was doing the logging in manually to make sure the problem wasn't in the chatscripts. Now does that make any sense? Oh, and it didn't help that the pon man page doesn't say it takes arguments. Dan.
Re: Cubic mouse cursor
[x] Emailed to author [x] Sent to mailing list David R. Kohel wrote: Anyone know how to get rid of this 2x2 cm mouse cursor under X? I just re-installed X (3.3.3.1) from potato. You REALLY need to give some more information. At the very least, we need to know which graphics card and which X server you are using. Also, you might want to go to a virtual console and run $ X :1 -probeonly probe.log 21 This will create a file named probe.log with the startup messages from the X server. If there are any anomalous messages, please post them as well. You night also want to check http://bugs.debian.org/xserver-svga (modify for the X server you use) to see if anyone else has reported similar problems. HTH. -- /'`\ zzzZ | My PGP Public Key is available at: ( - - ) | http://home1.inet.tele.dk/renehl/ --oooO--(_)--Oooo-- Don't ya just hate it when there's not enough room to fin
Re: Wierd PPP Problems
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: On 13 May 1999, John Hasler wrote: Snip out sections not of interest to my mail Of course, I have no way of knowing if Mr. Hoover did this, but asking on this list about ISP connection difficulties without consulting the ISP first is probably not the best way to go. I'm sure that this is not true of your company, but almost all ISP's would tell Mr. Hoover We do not support Linux and refuse to listen to his problem. You misunderstand. I'm not telling you or Mr. Hoover to ask the ISP what the problem is, only what a disconnect code (or however it's done on their system) is. Since that is independent of the operating system you use, it doesn't matter what you're running. You should NEVER expect telephone technical support to solve your problems, you should only expect them to provide the information you need to solve your own problems. (If they happen to be able to tell you what the problem is, that should be viewed as a happy windfall.) For a little side-note here, in Oz (that's australia) we have set of government regulations governing what steps are the best to take if we have problems with our telecommunications company(s) (even ISP's fall under this category). However, I would most certainly agree with Mr Hasler about the fact that most ISP's will say sorry no-do-linux and that's it. I myself was connected with one of the big ISP's here in Oz, and well, they decided that not supporting linux was going to be a big thing for them. You obviously run an ISP, so... how's this one, would you answer this question if it was asked of you? When I'm connecting to the server my ppp connection requires the remote-ip address. What is the remote IP address for your system for dial-up accounts? They decided that they could not provide me with that information... How's a guy supposed to connect ANYTHING other than win95/98 to their system? BTW - It was dynamic IP addressing, with the remote end not providing it's IP address for the connection, so pppd would not work properly... regards, Peter Ludwig
wp8 and tab
Hi, Somehow, im my wordperfect, the TAB does not work. This is really holding me up. Does anyone know how to fix it?? Thx Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: Cubic mouse cursor
The x probe output is below. I'm using the SVGA server with a Neomagic card. The cursor appears as a large square with upper left hand corner at the mouse point, replacing the normal arrow symbol. I've got no other problems with the xserver. If anyone has seen this and has a fix I'd appreciate it. Thanks, --David [x] Emailed to author [x] Sent to mailing list David R. Kohel wrote: Anyone know how to get rid of this 2x2 cm mouse cursor under X? I just re-installed X (3.3.3.1) from potato. You REALLY need to give some more information. At the very least, we need to know which graphics card and which X server you are using. Also, you might want to go to a virtual console and run $ X :1 -probeonly probe.log 21 This will create a file named probe.log with the startup messages from the X server. If there are any anomalous messages, please post them as well. You night also want to check http://bugs.debian.org/xserver-svga (modify for the X server you use) to see if anyone else has reported similar problems. HTH. -- /'`\ zzzZ | My PGP Public Key is available at: ( - - ) | http://home1.inet.tele.dk/renehl/ --oooO--(_)--Oooo-- Don't ya just hate it when there's not enough room to fin XFree86 Version 3.3.3.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: January 4 1999 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.2.1ide1 i586 [ELF] Configured drivers: SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0): NV1, STG2000, RIVA128, RIVATNT, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, ET4000W32i_rev_b, ET4000W32i_rev_c, ET4000W32p, ET4000W32p_rev_a, ET4000W32p_rev_b, ET4000W32p_rev_c, ET4000W32p_rev_d, ET6000, ET6100, et3000, pvga1, wd90c00, wd90c10, wd90c30, wd90c24, wd90c31, wd90c33, gvga, ati, sis86c201, sis86c202, sis86c205, sis86c215, sis86c225, sis5597, sis5598, sis6326, tvga8200lx, tvga8800cs, tvga8900b, tvga8900c, tvga8900cl, tvga8900d, tvga9000, tvga9000i, tvga9100b, tvga9200cxr, tgui9400cxi, tgui9420, tgui9420dgi, tgui9430dgi, tgui9440agi, cyber9320, tgui9660, tgui9680, tgui9682, tgui9685, cyber9382, cyber9385, cyber9388, cyber9397, cyber9520, 3dimage975, 3dimage985, clgd5420, clgd5422, clgd5424, clgd5426, clgd5428, clgd5429, clgd5430, clgd5434, clgd5436, clgd5446, clgd5480, clgd5462, clgd5464, clgd5465, clgd6205, clgd6215, clgd6225, clgd6235, clgd7541, clgd7542, clgd7543, clgd7548, clgd7555, clgd7556, ncr77c22, ncr77c22e, cpq_avga, mga2064w, mga1064sg, mga2164w, mga2164w AGP, mgag200, mgag100, oti067, oti077, oti087, oti037c, al2101, ali2228, ali2301, ali2302, ali2308, ali2401, cl6410, cl6412, cl6420, cl6440, video7, ark1000vl, ark1000pv, ark2000pv, ark2000mt, mx, realtek, s3_virge, AP6422, AT24, AT3D, s3_svga, NM2070, NM2090, NM2093, NM2097, NM2160, NM2200, ct65520, ct65525, ct65530, ct65535, ct65540, ct65545, ct65546, ct65548, ct65550, ct65554, ct6, ct68554, ct69000, ct64200, ct64300, mediagx, V1000, V2x00, p9100, spc8110, generic (using VT number 8) XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: keymap: xfree86(us) (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/mouse, buttons: 3 (**) Mouse: 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms) (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: NeoMagic (laptop/notebook) (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: My Monitor (--) SVGA: Mode 640x400 needs vert refresh rate of 85.08 Hz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 640x480 needs vert refresh rate of 75.00 Hz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (--) SVGA: PCI: NeoMagic NM2070 rev 1, Memory @ 0x3fe0 (--) SVGA: chipset: NM2070 (**) SVGA: videoram: 1024k (**) SVGA: clocks: 25.20 28.30 40.00 (**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666 (--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 65.000 MHz (--) SVGA: NM2070: Removing mode (640x400) that won't display properly on LCD (**) SVGA: Mode 800x600: mode clock = 40.000 (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 800x600 (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024 (--) SVGA: NeoMagic MagicGraph 128 (NM2070) chip (--) SVGA: NM2070: Panel is a 800x600 color TFT display (--) SVGA: NM2070: Internal LCD only display mode (--) SVGA: NM2070: Video modes are displayed in the upper-left corner (--) SVGA: NM2070: Low resolution video modes are stretched (--) SVGA: NM2070: MMIO registers at 0x3FF0 (--) SVGA: NM2070: Linear framebuffer at
Re: running scripts (manual and auto)
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Kent (ktb) wrote on behalf of Horacio: Horacio: but how can I make it ran as a normal command (without ./). Kent: I place my Perl scripts in /usr/local/bin. I would think that would work for you. I can't help you with the next one:( hth, kent Horacio: If you put the script in /usr/local/bin and that directory is in your path, as Kent says, you will be able to run the scripts there by typeing the command name. That directory is in my default directory, and should be in yours. If you want to run a script that resides in your home directory, you probably should just type ./script_name to run it, since there is no . (refers to current, i.e. working, directory) in the default path. This has to do with safety from executing trojan horses. If you insist on running stuff from your current directory, without the ./, then add . to your path by placing this line in your .profile, or .bash_profile export PATH=$PATH:. If you run tcsh or other shell, someone else will have to help. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies.)
Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?
At 08:32 16/05/1999 +, you wrote: I have a working ppp on kernel 2.2.9. my pppd command is exec /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 lock modem crtscts \ asyncmap 0 defaultroute connect $DIALER_SCRIPT pppd --version (pppd version 2.3 patch level 5) egrep -v '#|^ *$' /etc/ppp/options domain mindspring.com mru 1500 mtu 1500 name login-name I don't recall making any changes to the above when going to the 2.2.x kernel. The only differences I can see are what i show above. Nope. None of that makes any difference. I've now tried downgrading to PPP(d) 2.3.5, and upgrading to 2.3.8. I don't think it's anything to do with DNS, but here are a few things: # cat /etc/resolv.conf domain globalnet.co.uk # - Tried with, without, search globalnet.co.uk # - and combinations of. nameserver 194.126.82.5 nameserver 194.126.86.9 # /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 splodge localhost loopback Minus loopback, no change. Splodge is current hostname. # /etc/inetd.conf discard daytime timetalk ntalk shell login exec smtpident inetd.conf shouldn't matter if it works in 2.0.36. Someone might need a good LARTing over this but it's probably just me. Still seeking help on this... Thanks, Kris
majordomo
Hi! I'm trying to setup majordomo and I'm having difficulty with it. Can somebody please send me his configuration for a working list? Please send me /etc/aliases, /etc/majordomo.cf, and the contents of the /var/lib/majordomo/lists/sample-list* files? Thanks a lot in advance. -- p.
blocked SMTP port issue...
Have an interesting question here I live in On-Campus housing at RIT...my machine is on the Residential Networks with a full time net connection. Some time ago, RIT decided that it would be a good idea if they were to block off all SMTP connections to machines on the Residential Netowrk. I've talked to people about this, and I can't say that I find this completley unreasonable. But that doesn't mean that I don't want to get around it... :) I'm currently pulling mail down to my machine via fetchmail and dealing with it normally from there (they don't block outgoing mail ports...). However, I'd like to be able to deliver mail to other accounts, majordomo lists, etc. I've talked to the fellow who administers the octoraro.org domain (my machine's got a name on that domain...) and he's willing to apply whatever fix I come up with, but I've got to figure it all out... :) My machine is a Potato setup running smail as the mail deamon. I have no particular attachment to smail. The upstream server is running RedHat and Sendmail. He does have an attachment to that particular deamon. Is there some way that either : I can have smail listen to a different port (no problem) and somehow direct incoming traffic to that port instead of port 25? (and not from my machine) OR have the upstream server bundle all mail for meteu into one /var/spool/mail file which I can grab via fetchmail and redistribute locally? I've heard that IP tunneling may also provide a way around this, but I've not found any HOWTOs on IP tunneling... Thanks, - flip - [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.
How to Start Gnome at boot
I seem to remember seeing somewhere (and I can't find it now) a reference to starting the Gnome-session command with the xdm display manager at boot up. I want to start Gnome in the IceGnome window manager and possibly with Enlightenment. I need to know which files to edit specifically and the exact syntax to include. Any suggstions would be appreciated. BTW; I did search the archives. Thanks! Johnbegin:vcard n:Foster;John x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.advance-computing.com org:AdVance-Computing Systems;WHQ version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Owner note:We Build Multi-Processor Computers adr;quoted-printable:;;Stonetrail Drive=0D=0ASuite A;Plano;Texas;75023-7223;USA x-mozilla-cpt:;22240 fn:John Foster end:vcard
Mouse not recognized (but RedHat works fine)
I have a dual-boot RedHat 5.2 / Debian Slink system. The RedHat system has a symlink /dev/mouse - /dev/cua1 and works fine with both gpm and X. However, gpmconfig and X both fail to recognize the mouse at all under Debian. I've tried both allowing gpmconfig to guess the device (it always guesses ttyS0, which is my modem) and specifying ttyS1 on the command line. Either way, it receives no packets at all. In X, the mouse doesn't move at all. The mouse is a logitech 3-button mouse, and I'm pretty sure the protocol should be mman in gpm (or MouseMan in X). I've also tried ms (and Microsoft in X) which is what the redhat system uses. Nothing gives me any mouse movement at all. Does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this? Thank you very much in advance, Stuart.
Sound
Hello. I've got a running Debian Slink system, I've been using Debian since Hamm had become stable. Now that I have time for it, I would like to configure sound support. I have Sounblaster 16 sound card that works properly under NT, which I use quite rarely. From some of the postings to this list I have figured that I have to use isapnp utils. pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf Then edit /etc/isapnp.conf to set irq, dma etc. And now for the questions: What do I do next? Where do I get the sound module from? How do I install it? How do I test that sound is working before installing new software? Any pointers for information are welcome. TIA
RE: DHCP small problem
On 16-May-99 jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: Hi, I'm running under 2.2.7 kernel, using DHCP with my cable modem. Each time I forgot to remove the 'dhcp-client' file in /var/db, at reboot dhcp is very very slow and often can't get me my IP adresse. How can I automatically remove this file at the shutdown? (beeing with Linux for less than a month, so I don't know how to program bash yet) JY Short term solution: place a file called clean_dhcp in /etc/init.d. chmod +x said file BEGIN #!/bin/sh if [ -f /var/db/dhcp-client ] then echo Cleaning old old dhcp information rm -f /var/db/dhcp-client fi END then cd /etc/rcS.d and make a symlink to the clean_dhcp script named 'S60clean_dhcp'. The name ensures it is run last in that section. The above script test if the file exists (-f) and if so run echo and rm. if I have the file placement wrong, feel free to change the path. Long term: Contact the dhcp client maint and have this problem looked into as one should not have to remove this file.
how to install netscape
hello all :) im having troubles installing netscape. so, i would like to know if there is any how-to explaining the install process of netscape (.deb) in debian thanks'
GNOME minor problems
I recently managed to get GNOME from potato installed onto my hybrid slink/potato system (despite the dire warnings I've heard, I have had no problems from the conflicting glibc versions - apt seems to have dealt with it very well). The only problem I had was a missing dependency somewhere that meant I was able to get the whole thing installed without ever installing (the right version of) imlib-base, so everything core-dumped. I spotted this by doing apt-get -s dist-upgrade, and looking for anything relevant. Should I file a bug on this somewhere? if so, what package? Now for the current issue (it's a minor one, but infuriating). When I download a GTK theme from themes.org and try to install it from the GNOME control center, everything gives the appearance of working fine - but only a few of the settings from the new theme are applied. The ones that seem to be applied are basic coloring and font changes. Everything else (ie border styles, special images for buttons, pixmap backgrounds, gradients... basically all the cool bits) are ignored. A couple of other minor things: * My menus don't animate, despite the fact that I selected that they should in the control center. is this a bug? * Is there a way to get E to animate minimizing and unminimizing? It's the only window operation that I don't get animated feedback on, and it's a bit disconcerting. * Both E and GNOME want to control the background. I can disable setting it from GNOME, but I'd rather let GNOME do it and disable it in E. Is there a way to do that? Other than that, let me just say that Gnome *rocks*. Kudos to the GNOME team, and the Debian people that packaged it all up for us. You guys rock. I've used KDE for ages, and found it amazing to start with, but right from the start I had little annoyances, that grew into big annoyances over time. GNOME seems to avoid all of them... I haven't found any yet! Stuart.
Re: Sound
Heh... :) Just went through almost the exact same installation myself a couple of days ago... All you really need to do is check your kernel...if you roll your own, go to the sound section, include sound support...Soundblaster stuff is under the additional OSS modules section... If you use one of the prebuilts...(not sure 'bout this, since I roll-my-own...), you should be able to just install the sb module: modprobe sb irq=5 dma=1 io=0x220 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 replace the argumet values with whatever is appropriate to your setup... As that is a lot to remember, you should probably add that line to your /etc/modules file for automatic loading at boottime... :) % cat /proc/sound should give you a decent clue if the card is installed and funcitonal... - flip - [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff -- Peter de Vries
Re: Mouse not recognized (but RedHat works fine)
Subject: Mouse not recognized (but RedHat works fine) Date: Sun, May 16, 1999 at 11:24:25AM -0400 In reply to:Stuart Ballard Quoting Stuart Ballard([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have a dual-boot RedHat 5.2 / Debian Slink system. The RedHat system has a symlink /dev/mouse - /dev/cua1 and works fine with both gpm and X. However, gpmconfig and X both fail to recognize the mouse at all under Debian. I've tried both allowing gpmconfig to guess the device (it always guesses ttyS0, which is my modem) and specifying ttyS1 on the command line. Either way, it receives no packets at all. In X, the mouse doesn't move at all. The mouse is a logitech 3-button mouse, and I'm pretty sure the protocol should be mman in gpm (or MouseMan in X). I've also tried ms (and Microsoft in X) which is what the redhat system uses. Nothing gives me any mouse movement at all. I have a 3 button Logitech Trackball that works in every dist I have tried. Here is some info thet 'may' help. ls /dev/mouse lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root5 Jan 19 15:29 /dev/mouse - ttyS1 less /etc/gpm.confless /etc/gpm.conf device=/dev/ttyS1 type=mman append=-a 3 less /etc/X11/XF86Config [snip] Section Pointer ProtocolMouseman Device /dev/mouse EndSection [snip] You don't mention which kernel you are using. The 2.2.x series has changed the use of cua device names. From the kernel Changes file Also, please remember that cua* devices are now obsolete. Switch to the corresponding ttyS* device instead (e.g., cua0 - ttyS0, cua1 - ttyS1, etc.). Hope this Helps! -- Time, adj.: Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs there and then. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCP small problem
jean-Yves BARBIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running under 2.2.7 kernel, using DHCP with my cable modem. Each time I forgot to remove the 'dhcp-client' file in /var/db, at reboot dhcp is very very slow and often can't get me my IP adresse. Help me out: I am using dhcpcd on a slink-level install, and I don't have either this file or a problem renegotiating the lease and ip when I reboot. Am I missing something? -- Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Esmond, R.I., USA -- this space intentionally left empty ---
font
Hi! When I run in non X-mode I think my font is too big! How do I change it ? -- //thx Johan
Re: Thanks: Installing on a SCSI HD
On Sun, 16 May 1999, Davide Anchisi wrote: Subject: Thanks: Installing on a SCSI HD Hi David, I hope your exams went well. Hi Davide My students' exams went well, thanks for asking. Mine was not as good as I want, but in playing double bass, I am my own worst enemy. I expect perfection and seldom get it. ; If you will tell me what your system requires, then after my exams are over, i.e. after May 15, I will compile a kernel and make the kernel available for down load. This is my sistem: 486 processor 16 Mb RAM Math coprocessor Floppy disk IDE HD (with windows95: VFAT) IDE/ATAPI CDROM (ISO9660) SCSI host adapter: Adaptec AHA-1510 SCSI HD Serial mouse (3 buttons) Sound card: SoundBlaster Pro2 Italian keyboard (and language) Modem Is this enough? Probably enough for me to compile a kernel. What about the compiled kernel? Have I to put it in a rescue-disk? and, if so, how? Or have I to install debian 2.1 after booting from the floppy with the new kernel? and, if so, how to put it on a boot floppy and how to install debian? Once you have a kernel compiled with AHA 1510 support, you follow the instructions on the floppy. The boot floppy is an MS-DOS disk with syslinux installed on it. I thought the README on the boot floppy was more useful to me as a newbie than the syslinux usage instructions and manual, syslinux.doc. With regard to how to replace the kernel on the floppy: From DOS (a DOS window in WIN 95 is sufficient) do a dir with your Linux boot floppy in the drive. The floppy has a file called linux on it. This file is the kernel. You replace this file with your new kernel. There is README that talks about this. There are some other things, but you need to get a kernel that will boot and see your SCSI controller first. Once you have the floppy boot the system, you have a small Debian linux 2.1 system running. You follow the menu to install the 7 base floppies, then reboot and run dselect, choosing the apt access method. This is important, as apt will avoid the frustrations of rerunning configure 4 or 5 times. I suggest you not worry about sound for now, so I won't build in sound with the first kernel. I will try to create modules for your sound card. We can ask on the mailing list if you have trouble configuring your sound card, as I have limited experience with sould cards. Meanwhile I'll compile a kernel and figure out where to put for your access. I'll get back to you in a day or two. Good Luck to you! --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies!)
Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2
On Friday, May 14, 1999 at 15:53:16 -0800, Adam Shand wrote: so it looks like root isn't supposed to be able to do this. This may be because root account is intended only for certain administrative tasks. For everything else, one should (create and) use a normal user account. I don't believe there is much, if anything, that would require X11 in the list of things that require one to be root at the time. -- PGP Public Key available on request: Type Bits/KeyIDDate User ID pub 1024/CFED2D11 1998/03/05 Lazarus Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 98 2A 56 34 16 76 D5 21 39 93 99 EA 89 D4 B5 A2
Re: DHCP small problem
On 16-May-99 Bob Bernstein wrote: jean-Yves BARBIER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running under 2.2.7 kernel, using DHCP with my cable modem. Each time I forgot to remove the 'dhcp-client' file in /var/db, at reboot dhcp is very very slow and often can't get me my IP adresse. Help me out: I am using dhcpcd on a slink-level install, and I don't have either this file or a problem renegotiating the lease and ip when I reboot. Am I missing something? I am not experiencing it either. Unsure as to why he is, which is why I recommended he mail the maintainer.
Re: Cubic mouse cursor
Yes, thanks. That did it. --David Hi, From this line: (--) SVGA: NM2070: Using hardware cursor Probably, you need the option using sw_cursor. Check out the XF86Config man pages to find out exactly how to set it. I think you need to do something like: Option sw_cursor under the device section in your config file hope this helps.. Shao.
asclock kills gnome panel
When i try to start the asclock aplet it kills my Gnome panel and when i restart it, it has forgoten all the settings (a new panel). I am running potato with kernel 2.2.5 and the latest version on gnome on a 486dx2 (it has been like this for about the last three updates (i think it was version 1.0.5)
XKB problem - Please help
I have been trying to solve this problem for some time now but to no avail. When i use the XKB extentions for X and i try to set scroll-lock to mode-lock from XF86Config it doesn't do anything. xkeycaps doesn't have mode-lock at all. Also when i try to set up the keboard with xkeycaps to output hebrew letters (character codes above 128 - i think it's suposed to start at 224 under linux) I don't get any output under any program for these characters. I really need to be able to use these characters (for searches undre netscape mainly). If anyone can please help me. Also, is it possible to change the default font under X? (I'm using enlightment with gnome). Thanx
Starting programs on local x through telnet
Is it possible to start programs needing x to run through the net (telnet, rlogin ...). How do i tell them to use my screen? The program tells me its starting (it has a text output) and then doesn't do anything else (it's suposed to have a graphical interface). The remote system is a unix (one of the computers is running linux but it doesn't have all the relevant programs). Thanx
Re: MP3 encoder
M.C. Vernon wrote: please Cc to Me Hi all, Things like cdgrip say and your favourite mp3 encoder, or default to lamer - but I can find to evidence of a mp3 encoder in the archive. Can anyone help me out? Thanks theres always l3enc... cant remember where I got it from, but the archive name is dist10.tar.gz, and you want to apply the patch dist10patch-2.1f.gz. You should be able to find it with ftpsearch - thats how I found it. It compiled first time no probs. I suppose someone ought to package up an mp3 encoder at some point... -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff. --Peter de Vries http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk - Drum'n'Bass music, samples and links. ICQ://25576761begin:vcard n:;Frankie x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.skunkpussy.freeserve.co.uk adr:;;;Birmingham;;;UK version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Mr x-mozilla-cpt:;-25056 fn:Frankie end:vcard
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Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?
It's not just you. A couple of days ago I decided that I had pretty much butchered my Debian installation (which I had installed close to a year previous), so I decided to do the whole reformat/reinstall maneuver (after backing up my /home directory, of course). As I now have the Debian 2.0 CDs, the process was pretty painless. After I got everything installed, I immediately downloaded, installed and ran apt-get, and promptly upgraded to Slink, just as I had done when Slink first went stable. And now I can't use any of the 2.0.x kernels AND have ppp work. I've tried everything that has been mentioned in this thread, recompiling, moving back to the 2.2.7 kernel, which had just been working fine on my previous Slink installation, etc all to no avail. This is really driving me batty, but I thought you might like to know (Kris) that it isn't just your machine. I've just about decided to try a complete reformat/reinstall, as I've run out of just about all other options. I also thought about just using the 2.0.36 kernel, but as I have a dual PPro system the SMP performance just isn't there. Oh yes, something else I forgot to mention. I also put the proposed-updates link in my sources.list file, and upgraded to the packages present at that location. As I had not done this previously, I suspect this is where the problem is, so I'm thinking about reinstalling, upgrading, and then NOT upgrading again with the proposed-updates. Sean -Original Message- From: Kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, May 16, 1999 10:58 AM Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem? At 08:32 16/05/1999 +, you wrote: I have a working ppp on kernel 2.2.9. my pppd command is exec /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS0 115200 lock modem crtscts \ asyncmap 0 defaultroute connect $DIALER_SCRIPT pppd --version (pppd version 2.3 patch level 5) egrep -v '#|^ *$' /etc/ppp/options domain mindspring.com mru 1500 mtu 1500 name login-name I don't recall making any changes to the above when going to the 2.2.x kernel. The only differences I can see are what i show above. Nope. None of that makes any difference. I've now tried downgrading to PPP(d) 2.3.5, and upgrading to 2.3.8. I don't think it's anything to do with DNS, but here are a few things: # cat /etc/resolv.conf domain globalnet.co.uk # - Tried with, without, search globalnet.co.uk # - and combinations of. nameserver 194.126.82.5 nameserver 194.126.86.9 # /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 splodge localhost loopback Minus loopback, no change. Splodge is current hostname. # /etc/inetd.conf discard daytime time talk ntalk shell login exec smtp ident inetd.conf shouldn't matter if it works in 2.0.36. Someone might need a good LARTing over this but it's probably just me. Still seeking help on this... Thanks, Kris -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: running scripts (manual and auto)
J Horacio MG writes: - start script - #/bin/sh fetchmail -f /home/horacio/.fetchmailrc -a -u a4608456 runq - end script - That first line should read #!/bin/sh . -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: packages for dialing isp
Thorsten Manegold writes: kppp does not like to have lock set in /etc/ppp/options. I'd call that a bug in kppp. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: URGENT to DEBIAN
Khalid writes: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz is empty. Something went wrong with a dinstall run. The archive maintainers know about the problem. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?
Kris writes: # cat /etc/resolv.conf domain globalnet.co.uk # - Tried with, without, search globalnet.co.uk # - and combinations of. nameserver 194.126.82.5 nameserver 194.126.86.9 The 'domain' and 'search' directives won't affect your problem (In fact they are rarely needed at all). # /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 splodge localhost loopback Minus loopback, no change. Splodge is current hostname. 'loopback' just adds a nickname for localhost. You don't need it. You do want an fqdn in hosts, though. I use: 127.0.0.1 hasler.dhh hasler localhost This won't affect your problem either, though. inetd.conf shouldn't matter if it works in 2.0.36. inetd.conf shouldn't matter at all for this problem. Still seeking help on this... Wish I could be more help. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: Partitioning hard disk
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:41:21 +1000 From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT ~ This is how I plan to partitiion the disks: ~ /hda1 40MB ~ swap hda2 8MB ~ /usr hda3 68MB ~ swap hdb1 8MB ~ /usr hdb2 250MB ~ ~ where hda is the 116MB disk and hdb is the 258MB disk. ~ Will the above configuration work..and can I split /usr across 2 ~ partitions or will X complain? I think you could split /usr across two different partitions by making the second a symlink to the first, eg. name hdb2 partition something like /usr2 and make it a symlink to /usr. Not quite, because then what would you call the *real* /usr (since the name /usr is already taken by a symlink ;) However, you can symlink sub-directories, e.g., create /usr2/share /usr2/doc /usr2/local /usr2/src /usr2/games and ln -s /usr2/share /usr/share etc. Just make sure that all the information in these /usr subdirectories are moved to the corresponding /usr2 prior to the symlinks. For that reason be VERY careful about applying this to /usr/lib or /usr/bin. This is also useful if you out grow your original /usr partition. -- Carl Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cubic mouse cursor
[x] Emailed to author [x] Sent to mailing list David R. Kohel wrote: The x probe output is below. I'm using the SVGA server with a Neomagic card. The cursor appears as a large square with upper left hand corner at the mouse point, replacing the normal arrow symbol. I've got no other problems with the xserver. If anyone has seen this and has a fix I'd appreciate it. It is probably due to a bug in the new X server. Try doing a search on http://www.deja.com/ to see if anyone else has the same problem. As a workaround, you can add a line saying Option sw_cursor to the Device section of your /etx/X11/XF86Config as a workaround. You should probably submit a bug report on xserver-svga (man bug) if it hasn't been done already. Include all the detail you included in your second posting here. HTH. -- /'`\ zzzZ | My PGP Public Key is available at: ( - - ) | http://home1.inet.tele.dk/renehl/ --oooO--(_)--Oooo-- Don't ya just hate it when there's not enough room to fin
Re: GNOME minor problems
SB == Stuart Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SB The only problem I had was a missing dependency somewhere that SB meant I was able to get the whole thing installed without ever SB installing (the right version of) imlib-base, so everything SB core-dumped. As you can't be more specific about the packages involved, then I am afraid it is hardly a useful bugreport, as it can't be reproduced. SB Now for the current issue (it's a minor one, but SB infuriating). When I download a GTK theme from themes.org and try SB to install it from the GNOME control center, everything gives the SB appearance of working fine - but only a few of the settings from SB the new theme are applied. The ones that seem to be applied are SB basic coloring and font changes. Everything else (ie border SB styles, special images for buttons, pixmap backgrounds, SB gradients... basically all the cool bits) are ignored. You are most likely missing one of the gtk-engines-* packages (maybe the pixmap one). Ciao, Martin
Re: netscape, navigator, communicator...
PC == Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PC Can somebody explain me what's in each package and what are their PC inter-relationships? Basically it is netscape navigator communicator smotifdmotifsmotif dmotif qualified with the respective version numbers at each step. PC What's the bare minimum if I want to have just a 'lightweith' PC netscape 4.5 browser? Select the navigator-smofif-45 package. apt will fetch all needed packages as well. Ciao, Martin
Re: blocked SMTP port issue...
Hello, I have the same problem with my cabel modem provider. I am runing MDaemon on port 10025 and use my Dynamic Domain-Name-Provider at http://www.tzo.com/ to root the mail to another port. I think its port-rooting/forwarding. This works with dynamic and fixed IP addresses. Webmistress Michelle
Title change in rxvt
Hi all, I am running tcsh in rxvt. Is there any way to have the title of the rxvt window change according to the program running in it? (There must be one, as right now as I am typing this I notice that vim has changed the title to VIM - /tmp/mutt-sb51-12020-0.) TIA, Stefan pgp2z8kBWk7Mz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Starting programs on local x through telnet
Is it possible to start programs needing x to run through the net (telnet, rlogin ...). How do i tell them to use my screen? The program tells me its starting (it has a text output) and then doesn't do anything else (it's suposed to have a graphical interface). The remote system is a unix (one of the computers is running linux but it doesn't have all the relevant programs). Yes. Start X on your computer, telnet/ssh/rlogin to the remote comp, set the DISPLAY and then start whatever program you want. DISPLAY should be set to something like youripaddress:0.0 . You might need to set permissions for this with xhost -- Andrew Chung[EMAIL PROTECTED] See http://anderoo.dhs.org/~anderoo/pgp.html for PGP key It's a sin only if you dwell on the what ifs and the but ifs
Re: Dselect odd behaviour
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : I'm using dselect under potato using apt to ftp://sunsite.org.uk/ : and something strange seems to have happened. I did an 'update' and : now all the descriptions have disappeared. Also most of the packages : I don't have installed have gone. I've tryed updating again but to : no avail. Any hints on how to deal with this? Have you tried another mirror? Try editing your /etc/apt/source.list file and use ftp://ftp.debian.org, just to check. Occasionally mirrors don't get update correctly. I've gotten this before when using the canadian mirror. -- Dan Nguyen | It is with true love as it is with ghosts; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | everyone talks of it, but few have seen it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| -La Rochefocauld, Maxims 25 2F 99 19 6C C9 19 D6 1B 9F F1 E0 E9 10 4C 16
having trouble with kernel 2.2.5 and ppp
Hello, I have recently installed slink from CD on my computer. With kernel 2.0.36, I can use ppp and get connected to the internet (pon ourtown), however when I upgrade my kernel to 2.2.5, I loose ppp. It complains that LCP times out on configuration requests. I will appologize in advance for the length of this message, I felt it might help to see what is actually happening. I am not currently subscribed to debian-user, so if anyone could help, would you please reply offlist to [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks. History: In the past I have had ppp and kernel 2.2.5 working properly, howver since this new installation, it doesn't work. I have looked at the pages on www.debian.org in requards to kernel version 2.2.X Nothing about ppp is mentioned there, that I was able to find. In compiling the kernel (2.2.5) it mentions that one might need to upgrade pppd in order for ppp to work properly. I am using ppp_2.3.5-2 and also have ppp-pam_2.3.5-2 installed (not completely sure what ppp-pam is for). I have gone through pppconfig again since recompiling the kernel and it did not help. Modem init is currently ATZ, have also tried ATF. Neither seem to make a difference. Where the email will get long (again appologies): Here is what happens in kernel 2.0.36 taken directly from dmesg and ppp.log: 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. May 16 12:54:36 Mahdi pppd[4320]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0 May 16 12:54:37 Mahdi chat[4321]: abort on (BUSY) May 16 12:54:37 Mahdi chat[4321]: abort on (NO CARRIER) May 16 12:54:37 Mahdi chat[4321]: abort on (VOICE) May 16 12:54:37 Mahdi chat[4321]: abort on (NO DIALTONE) May 16 12:54:37 Mahdi chat[4321]: abort on (NO ANSWER) May 16 12:54:37 Mahdi chat[4321]: send (ATZ^M) May 16 12:54:37 Mahdi chat[4321]: expect (OK) May 16 12:54:37 Mahdi chat[4321]: ATZ^M^M May 16 12:54:37 Mahdi chat[4321]: OK May 16 12:54:37 Mahdi chat[4321]: -- got it May 16 12:54:37 Mahdi chat[4321]: send (ATDT6645522^M) May 16 12:54:38 Mahdi chat[4321]: expect (CONNECT) May 16 12:54:38 Mahdi chat[4321]: ^M May 16 12:55:03 Mahdi chat[4321]: ATDT6645522^M^M May 16 12:55:03 Mahdi chat[4321]: CONNECT May 16 12:55:03 Mahdi chat[4321]: -- got it May 16 12:55:03 Mahdi chat[4321]: send (\d) May 16 12:55:04 Mahdi pppd[4320]: Serial connection established. May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: Using interface ppp0 May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS2 May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x6e5e78fd pcomp accomp] May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 00 04 00 00 mru 1524 asyncmap 0xa auth pap pcomp accomp 11 04 05 f4 13 09 03 00 c0 7b 80 31 44] May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 00 04 00 00 11 04 05 f4 13 09 03 00 c0 7b 80 31 44] May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x6e5e78fd pcomp accomp] May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 mru 1524 asyncmap 0xa auth pap pcomp accomp] May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 mru 1524 asyncmap 0xa auth pap pcomp accomp] May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x6e5e78fd] May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user=* password=***] Note: the asterix in the file were added to hide username and password. May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x0] May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: rcvd [PAP AuthAck id=0x1 ] May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: Remote message: May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 addr 0.0.0.0 compress VJ 0f 01] May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 compress VJ 0f 01 addr 216.111.133.254] May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 compress VJ 0f 01 addr 216.111.133.254] May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 11 06 00 01 01 03]May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1] May 16 12:55:05 Mahdi pppd[4320]: sent [CCP ConfRej id=0x1 11 06 00 01 01 03]May 16 12:55:06 Mahdi pppd[4320]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x1 addr 216.111.133.80] May 16 12:55:06 Mahdi pppd[4320]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 addr 216.111.133.80 compress VJ 0f 01] May 16 12:55:06 Mahdi pppd[4320]: rcvd [CCP ConfRej id=0x1] May 16 12:55:06 Mahdi pppd[4320]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 addr 216.111.133.80 compress VJ 0f 01] May 16 12:55:06 Mahdi pppd[4320]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP May 16 12:55:06 Mahdi pppd[4320]: local IP address 216.111.133.80 May 16 12:55:06 Mahdi pppd[4320]: remote IP address 216.111.133.254 May 16 12:55:35 Mahdi pppd[4320]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0x6e5e78fd] May 16 12:55:35 Mahdi pppd[4320]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 magic=0x0] May 16 12:55:43 Mahdi pppd[4320]:
Re: Get thee behind me emacs20!
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's the 'dpkg -r' run; sorry about the length...
snip
xemacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-remove line 28.
dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 29
snip
My brute-force frontal attack on this seems to have succeeded. I made these
lines in the above noted script:
sub execute {
my(@cmd) = @_;
if($dry_run) {
print join( , @cmd) . \n;
} else {
if(system(@cmd) != 0) {
die emacs-$action: . join( , @cmd) . failed;
}
}
}
...look like this:
sub execute {
my(@cmd) = @_;
}
I'm not sure what I removed, but removing it caused things to move forward
apace, and I apparently then succeeded in removing the emacs20 deb package.
--
Bob Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
at
Esmond, R.I., USA
