virtual domains under exim

[Pere Camps]

Hi!

I'd like to setup a virtual domain with exim. So far I've managed
to make it able to accept emails for the virtual domain, but it now sends
the emails to the local users. I'll give an example:

The machine is named machine.org and has tons of local users that
receive email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

So far I've managed to make exim accept emails for virtual.org.
Exim now sends these emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (without rewriting
headers, it just puts them in the /var/spool/mail/$USER).

I've done this with the local_domains seting.

Now I want to make exim send all the mail for virtual.org to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] A nice plus will be to have an independent
aliases file for this domain.

Is there an easy way to do this? Can anybody who has done it
before please send me his exim.conf file and any other appropiate files?

Thank you very much!

ps: Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] directly, as I'm not subscribed to
the list due to its high volume. Thanks.

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Quake 2 and glx/mga

[Alisdair McDiarmid]

Has anyone got Quake 2 to work with recent glx/mga CVS? Q3:A demo
works well (and very quickly) on my G400, but Quake 2 doesn't even
run.

Running /usr/games/quake2 +set vid_ref glx +set gl_driver libGL.so
loads Quake 2, and just before switching to ref_soft mode, it
complains that it can't load libGL.so (which is in /usr/X11R6/lib).
Switching back to VC7 (X), the X server is kind of screwed - it
doesn't register mouseclicks in any window other than the one the
pointer was on when I ran Quake 2 - and it acts as if the left button
is held down - moving the pointer around the aforementioned window
drags a selection (if it's an Eterm or Netscape, for example).

Is this a bug in the quake2[-bin] package or glx, or is it possibly my
configuration? Has anyone else suffered the same problems?
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[the day is done but i'm having fun i think i'm dumb maybe just happy]

Re: How do I fix an IO Error...

[Alberto Brealey G.]

> What utilities can I use to get past this error?

it can be a damaged hard disk but i had this problem to, like a year
ago, and disabled SMART for the offending harddrives and never had that
problem again, so you might want to try that.

alberto

Re: problem with symlinks

[aphro]

attached is the results of

dpkg -S /usr

it should list every package i have in /usr, there is a craplaod of them,
probably around 500, 

here it is..

tkfont, olwm, netscape4, biff, xzip, lg-issue28, xtoolwait, vgacardgames, 
purity, lg-issue26, cam, aalib1, octave, quota, dftp, makepatch, 
lg-issue27, trn, the-doc, mesag3, maplay, apache-common, lg-issue25, 
xfishtank, libgdbmg1, gltt2, nighthawk, lg-issue19, lg-issue24, lapack-doc, 
xtrlock, gmemusage, libstdc++2.9, xlib6g-dev, debianutils, sysklogd, 
glibc-doc, strace, xasteroids, lg-issue18, lg-issue23, xvt, perl-tk, 
wmaker, libstdc++2.8, lsof-2.2, gzilla, moonlight, lg-issue17, lg-issue22, 
sgml-tools, bibindex, xzoom, apache, bash, regina0, shhopt, cweb-latex, 
mozilla, lg-issue16, lg-issue21, libcurses-perl, libgtk1.1, lrzsz, gv, 
diff, docbook, bzip2, sharutils, sudo, xjewel, ivtools-doc, lg-issue15, 
lg-issue20, cbb, patch, xcdroast, libterm-readkey-perl, amanda-client, 
gs, tcsh, kernel-headers-2.2.12, xmountains, xcolors, lg-issue09, lg-issue14, 
libgpmg1, glut-data, chimera2, lg-issue11, floatbg, tmpreaper, netmaze, 
lg-issue12, tetex-doc, nvi, lg-issue13, netbase, imlib1, xdaliclock, 
cdparanoia, bitchx, dotfile-elm, lg-issue10, wm2, xtv, lg-base, cvs-pcl, 
ttysnoop, plotutils, screen, cddb, libelfg0, perl-suid, debiandoc-sgml, 
raidtools, ruari-diff, tkrat, libcgi-perl, libdb2, kernel-source-2.2.12, 
xbmbrowser, xnetload, libreadlineg2, info, mawk, abuse-lib, libncurses4, 
libpng2, kdenetwork, xbase-clients, smail, tcl7.6, fortunes, r-base, 
xscavenger, xonix, xskat, ascd, wmmail, ctwm, xcolorsel, ivtools, cvs, 
lincity, taper, et, python-base, compface, mgetty, cxhextris, vgagamespack, 
gcl, tkmail, joe, time, acct, razzle, cgi-scripts, login, fileutils, 
afbackup-client, doc-linux-text, xsok, fmirror, python-doc, octave-doc, 
lftp, python-mpz, libjpegg6a, postgresql-doc, autoconf, hostname, xkobo, 
libstdc++2.9-dev, libwww-perl, int-fiction, libguile4-dev, fort77, cdrdao, 
lincity-x, xntp3, redir, ibritish, tix41, cdrecord, xjig, xacc, workbone, 
xboard, elk, elvis-tiny, xpm4g-dev, telnetd, gnuplot, lesstifg, gdb, 
libhtml-parser-perl, afterstep, perl-base, xserver-mach64, ftape-util, 
fdutils, xsysinfo, isdnutils, zgv, liblockdev0-perl, dpkg-repack, tob, 
mtx, netstd, a2ps, diald, v1g, ssh, xmorph, jpeginfo, ftape-module-2.2.12, 
tkcvs, clisp, arena, python-wpy, sysutils, xntp3-doc, gcc, sysvinit,
 libpgtcl, xfree86-common, libsocks4, mutt, timezones, mtools, pdksh, sox, 
s3mod, ee, tcsh-i18n, gtimer, lapack-dev, bplay, qt1g, modutils, ed, debmake, 
dpkg-multicd, exuberant-ctags, libtool, pftp, bison, e2fsprogs, automake,
slrn, xonix-jahu, mtr, postgresql, groff, netdiag, g77, xscreensaver, 
wenglish, libgdbmg1-dev, at, worklog, libtiff3g, samba-common, dnsutils, 
snake4, xtron, nfs-server, vm1, xproc, xlife, ivtools-dev, psutils, 
mctools-lite, swish++, kdegraphics, slang1-dev, lockvc, php3-doc,
 kdelibs2g, kdetoys, xloadimage, newt0.25, mount, dc, debsums, m4, tcpdump, 
dhelp, dotfile-emacs, acm, slsc, auctex, whiptail, felt-doc, grep, cdda2wav, 
stat, pstoedit, guile1.3, zile, swisswatch, libjpeg62, kdeutils, inn, 
libmpeg1, man-db, xabacus, xoids, xgammon, an, rsync, libc6-dev, kdm, 
apcalc, debian-policy, libg++27, emacsen-common, mime-support, dump, 
tinyirc, gmp2, xodo, bsdmainutils, f2c, imagemagick, xcontrib, timidity, 
libmd5-perl, xserver-svga, xdemineur, mesag-dev, tkirc, yorick, synaesthesia, 
playmidi, locales, afio, xflip, procmail-lib, calc, xlib6g, xblast-sound, 
pacman, pdl, cweb, bc, multitee, checker, xoj, icewm, expect5.24, dpkg-dev, 
squid, xfonts-scalable, mailx, isapnptools, manpages-dev, elib, cxref, 
xbattle, wxxt1, wxhelp, libtimedate-perl, xmailbox, libwraster1, 
lincity-svga, aalib1-dev, mirrordir, python-dev, ppp-pam, cpp, debhelper, 
flex, less, af, shellutils, xscreensaver-gl, slang1, binutils, xviewg, ae, 
cdwrite, mkhybrid, shhmsg, xsoldier, xemacs20-nomule, cti-ifhp, dist, 
postgresql-dev, fweb, xevil, eperl, libguile4, cracklib2, emacs20-el, 
libg++272, sash, xmille, gcal, spline, zed, xspread, libgtk-doc, elm-me+, 
binstats, netpbm, xview-clients, fvwm95, perlsgml, catdoc, findutils, 
uudeview, scotty, wmaker-data, libpwdb0g, freeciv, secure-su, www-search, 
htdig, xfonts-100dpi, xserver-vga16, xosview, dpkg-ftp, cvs-buildpackage, 
doc-linux-html, base-files, cpio, djtools, octave-ci, r-cran, most, xless, 
kbd-data, mkisofs, xlockmore, v-dev, symlinks, bug, xvier, dotfile-fvwm2, 
xftp, bbdb, python-bsddb, xmix, dotfile, apcalc-dev, tkmixer, kbd, 
dotfile-fvwm1, amaya, afbackup, ical, the, dpkg, python-net, rpm, 
docbook-stylesheets, inewsinn, super, devscripts, proftpd, koules, 
xwave, libpam0g, lurkftp, omniorb, dejagnu, xtris, mon, sendfile, iptraf, 
nis, python-numeric, timidity-patches, hyphen-show, fortune-mod, mmv, abuse, 
eterm, emacs19-el, abcmidi, diffstat, xconq, asmixer, xmcpustate, tkps, 
libncurses4-dev, gclinfo, vrweb, kdenetwork-dev, figlet, felt, xarclock, 
gnuchess, svgalibg1, makepa

Re: Running X on a Diamond Stealth II S220

[aphro]

x11.org is very different, xfree has almost no relation to the X
consortium(at least until recently where they got on the
board) www.xfree86.org is for XF86.

nate


On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Howard Mann wrote:

howard >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
howard >> 
howard >> I've got the above card on my PC at the office, and have a need to 
run X on
howard >> it.  Evidently, it isn't supported directly.  (I'm using slink, by 
the way).
howard >> I checked on X11.org and it doesn't appear to be supported by the 
XFree86
howard >> servers either. 
howard >
howard >www.x11.org appears "defunct."
howard >
howard >> There are, however, two that X11 packages that do support
howard >> it, one that I don't want to pay $99 for, and the other, from SUSE.  
However,
howard >> I can't seem to find the driver on SUSEs ftp site.  Supposedly the 
server is
howard >> called XFCom_Rendition.
howard >> 
howard >> So... questions are:
howard >> 
howard >> * Is this card supported by XFree yet, and just not listed?
howard >
howard >
howard >It is supported ( XFree86, 3.3.5)  and listed  :
howard >
howard >http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html
howard >
howard >( The XFCom_Rendition was "wrapped" into XFree86)
howard >
howard >You may get XFree86 and the XF86_SVGA  x-server at:
howard >
howard >http://www.debian.org/~vincent
howard >
howard >URI for apt-get :
howard >
howard >deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main
howard >
howard >Cheers,
howard >
howard >-- 
howard >
howard >Howard Mann   Online Troubleshooting Resources: HOWTO
howard >http://www.newbielinux.comhttp://www.xmission.com/~howardm/t1.html
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Re: I need a truley interactive chat script for PPP

[aphro]

an easy way to do this is to dial manually with minicom and then quit
without resetting the modem and manually load pppd.(not sure what the
command line options wuld be though maybe somene else can assist in that
area)

nate

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Mallar >I need to connect to the mainframe from the office, and have a need for 
a 
Mallar >complex chat script.  Can someone help me out?
Mallar >
Mallar >Under Win95, I have my dialout connection set to bring up a terminal 
window 
Mallar >after connecting, so I can do the following:
Mallar >
Mallar >Login:  
Mallar >Password: 
Mallar >Challenge: abc93029
Mallar >Response: 
Mallar >
Mallar >[Here I take the challenge number above and key it into a card-like 
device.  
Mallar >It then gives me another number I need to key in as the "response".  
Then I 
Mallar >press F7 (Continue) to start the PPP session.
Mallar >
Mallar >How do I mimic this functionality in Linux?  
Mallar >
Mallar >chat doesn't seem to be powerful enough.  I can use SAY or REPORT to 
see the 
Mallar >challenge, but chat doesn't seem to provide a way to key in a number 
Mallar >interactively.  wvdial doesn't seem to be capable of this either.
Mallar >
Mallar >Any thoughts?
Mallar >
Mallar >Thanks,
Mallar >Jay
Mallar >
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Re: multi-processor kernel

[aphro]

im approaching 5 months runtime with 2.0.36 SMP.  at least cpu 1 is always
loaded with [EMAIL PROTECTED], the other does some of the rest, running a asus
p2b-d i *think* (never actually seen the board) with 2 p2 233s, 128MB ram
and 2x4GB ultra 2 scsi drives on an adaptec 2940UW running in software
raid0.

i have never had a system more stable then this!

nate

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Michael Procario wrote:

procar >
procar >[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
procar >> does slink with kernel 2.0.34 support a multi-processor system with 2
procar >> power supplies?
procar >
procar >SMP support in 2.0 kernels is not great. I tried it and had crashes 
about once 
procar >a day.  I am now running with a 2.2 kernel under Redhat on the same 
machine 
procar >and it is very stable (multi month uptimes).  You can run 2.2 kernels 
with 
procar >slink although I have not done it myself.
procar >
procar >[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
procar >>  So I am thinking about putting debian slink on the machine and not
procar >> running xwindows as we think xwindows may be a contributing factor to
procar >> it crashing.
procar >
procar >The few crashes that I have had with Linux on uniprocessor machines 
have 
procar >always seemed to be X related. I would expect a system without X to 
extremely 
procar >stable.
procar >
procar >
procar 
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procar >Carnegie Mellon University   "Another casualty of applied 
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Re: multi-processor kernel

[aphro]

links 2.0.34 can support SMP although i would reccomend at least 2.0.36
for SMP, you can always turn X off in redhat, although im not sure how to.

probably somewhere in /etc/rc.d or maybe /etc/inittab

nate

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

zdrysd >Hi
zdrysd >
zdrysd >does slink with kernel 2.0.34 support a multi-processor system with 2 
power
zdrysd >supplies?
zdrysd >
zdrysd >We currently have our file server set up on redhat 6.1 running
zdrysd >xwindows..but it crashes almost everytime we reboot.  So I am thinking
zdrysd >about putting debian slink on the machine and not running xwindows as we
zdrysd >think xwindows may be a contributing factor to it crashing.
zdrysd >
zdrysd >thanx
zdrysd >
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RE: libglide2x.so

[aphro]

i'll try that, i have DGA mouse disabled so i dont know if it will have
any effect(with dga mouse on it crashes)

thanks!

nate

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Harlan Crystal wrote:

harlan >to slow down the curser in Q3, you gotta use the console command
harlan >"in_dgamouse 1"
harlan >
harlan >
harlan >if you cat the quake3 file, you'll see that it sets this to 0 on 
startup in
harlan >that file
harlan >
harlan >> -Original Message-
harlan >> From: aphro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
harlan >> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 10:15 AM
harlan >> To: Dave Sherohman
harlan >> Cc: Debian-User
harlan >> Subject: Re: libglide2x.so
harlan >>
harlan >>
harlan >> sure, glad it worked!
harlan >>
harlan >> now if i could only get the cursor in Q3 to slowdown..moves too $##@ 
fast
harlan >>
harlan >> (waiting for loki to respond to my Q)
harlan >
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Re: Error message when using 'apt-get'

[aphro]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote:

rradha > -> libg++.so.2.7.2.8
rradha >lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   20 Dec 27 10:39 
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.
rradha >7.2 -> libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8

those are symlinks not actual files, for the above example the file
libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8 libg++.so.2.7.2.8 must exist for the links to be
functional.

the packages those files are in is libg++272.  that is assuming you are
using slink, if your using potato the name may be different.

nate

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Re: Module query.

[Hans]

At 08:26 PM 1/4/00 +0100, Konrad Mierendorff wrote:
>Hans wrote:
>> Why are all modules used by "0" only snd used by "1"? What does this mean?
>
>Start playing some sound and this will change. BTW if all modules were
>used you couldnt unload them -- see?

No, I don't see anything. I load all the modules, but devices like pcm, cd,
line-in are just blanked out.

>> Sound is working except the mixer. Devices are not showing up, except
>> master volume and tone control and they are not having any effect. Could
>> this be related to the above, or might this have to do with the isapnp
setup?
>
>You have to use an ALSA-mixer (e.g. gamix, xamixer2 or amixer) or you
>have to load the snd-mixer-oss module to get "normal" mixers working.

Sure, $amixer set DEVICE 100 unmute. After that I can cat file.au >
/dev/audio and it works. CD also produces sound, but the snd-mixer-oss
doesn't seem to be doing anything.

Also strange that when I use the OSS drivers build in the kernel sound is
coming out, but no mixer capabilities. 

Strange thought, but might the fact that I have Video4Linux build into the
kernel have something to do with it? -- Hans

Re: New to debian - adding a disk drive

[aphro]

this may be a bit complicated but once you get the hang of it it takes
only a minute. there may be an easier way to do this i dont know this is
how i do it.

[begin]

install the new drive, make note of the configuration, if it is IDE note
that is it a master or a slave and is it on the primary or secondary
controller.  if it is SCSI note the ID of the drive.

boot linux

login as root

type fdisk /dev/XXX

where XXX = device 

for ide
/dev/hda = primary master
/dev/hdb = primary slave
/dev/hdc = secondary master
/dev/hdd = secondary slave

for SCSI
(usually)

/dev/sda = SCSI disk 1
/dev/sdb = SCSI disk 2
(etc..)

once fdisk is up, type p to print the current partition table.  if its a
new drive it should be empty, type 'n' for new partition, then select the
type of partition you want, you probably want to add a logical
partition(so use 'l') then accept the defaults for the next 2 prompts
which asks how big the partition should be, then you should be at a new
prompt again, hit p again to show the new partition, and you should see it
there, hit 'w' to write the partition table(note the name of the
partition)

now to format the partition,

type /sbin/mke2fs /dev/XXX

where XXX is the name of the drive/partition (i.e. /dev/hdc1) -- DOUBLE
CHECK THIS OR YOU COULD ERASE THE WRONG DRIVE.

now time to make a mount point and mount it:

make a directory (preferrably in /mnt) name it anything(e.g. /mnt/stuff)

now type mount /dev/XXX /mnt/stuff

where XXX is the name of the drive/partition


now to add it to mount on boot:

edit /etc/fstab use your favorite editor, add a new line exactly like the
one for the root partition ("/") except change the mount point and
device.  like this:

/dev/hda9 /stuff ext2 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda9 /stuff ext2 defaults 0 2

if you need more info lemme know.

nate

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Joseph Norris wrote:

sirron >Hello group,
sirron >
sirron >I am very new to debian (mostly redhat). I have a server that
sirron >is becoming more in need of disk spaces. I want to add 
sirron >a new hard drive. The hardware guy has added the hard drive
sirron >and I want know a step by step process to get debian to 
sirron >recognize the hard drive. To sum it up, I need help with 
sirron >the following:
sirron >
sirron >1) The steps in using fdisk and fstab under debian to add the
sirron >new drive.
sirron >2) I have the home directory on another partition and I would like
sirron >some thoughts on how best to spread /home across the two drives.
sirron >
sirron >Any help at all would be most appreciated.
sirron >
sirron >Thanks to all.
sirron >
sirron >
sirron >#Joseph Norris (Perl - what else is there?/HP3000/Linux/CGI/Msql)
sirron >print @c=map chr 
$_+100,(6,17,15,16,-68,-3,10,11,16,4,1,14,-68,12,1,14,8,
sirron >-68,4,-3,-1,7,1,14,-68,-26,11,15,1,12,4,-68,-22,11,14,14,5,15,-90);
sirron >
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Changing font size for xterm

[Brian Fuller]

What is the best way to change the font size for xterm, emacs etc?

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

[Martin Bialasinski]

* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

John> the offending file, but then it errored out saying that gmc
John> depended on "perl5" and that "perl5" was not installed. What is
John> that all about. It is a stable slink system with perl5.00404
John> installed in /usr/bin with symlinks in /usr/local/bin to "perl"

You have the package perl, version 5.004-blah installed, not the
package perl5 (which is actually only a virtual package, provided by
the various flavours of the perl-5.00x packages.

Why do I need perl5 again.. Ah, yes convert-metadata.db needs it. 

Reorganisation of the perl packages is one of the things in potato
that make rebuilding packages not that easy. 

You can either change debian/control to depend on perl instead of
perl5 and rebuild it, or you can --force-depends the existing package, 
but I think dpkg, apt and dselect will bitch about the missing perl5
package, so the first alternative is the better way.

Ciao,
Martin

Re: network troubles

[aphro]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Marketsource Online wrote:

suppor >a.  Is there some sort of system configuration tool, like lisa/lizard,
suppor >netconfig, etc available for Debian?  I do enjoy editing .conf files and
suppor >scripts but a frontend would be a big help considering how much time I
suppor >spend looking for the configuration files!

dont think such a tool exists with the stock install of slink, potato has
linuxconf which is partially operational i read.  you may want to look
into webmin (www.webmin.com) its seems decent, although its not updated to
run with debian 2.1(i think its configured for debian 1.3) so use at your
own risk :)

i prefer config files myself, most of my admin stuff is done through ssh
anyways.

suppor >b.  How can I change the system name I came up with during install?  I 
even
suppor >grep'd through /etc and can't find the current system name anywhere.

hostname is changed by changing /etc/hostname.  this can cause havok with
X authority, perhaps someone can mention how to update Xauth to work with
the new hostname? i never figured that out.

suppor >c.  My old system is set up with ADSL and ipforwarding.  Starting with a
suppor >clean slate, I can bring up lo and ping localhost.  I then bring up eth0
suppor >with ifconfig, add the local network route, and can't ping in or out of 
the
suppor >system.  ifconfig shows no packet movement.

make sure your firewall is wiped clean, the ipmasq package royally fries
my machines by adding all kinds of firewall rules which blocks 100% of all
ingoing and outgoing traffic. i always remove the package because ipmasq
brings the rules back without me telling it.  turning on ipmasq manually
is only a 2-3 line script, so i do that instead of having a package do it
for me.

suppor >I'm sure I'm missing something simple in some configuration file but I 
just
suppor >can't find it.  If someone could walk me through this, or point me to 
some
suppor >specific documentation (I've read over the NAG and Network HowTo too 
many
suppor >times to count) I'd be eternally grateful!

i do that on many machines, the main network config is located in
/etc/init.d/network

add a line that says something like

ifconfig eth1  netmask  broadcast 

if you are using kernel 2.0.x then you also need to add a line:

route add -net 

ignore that if your using 2.2.x

example:

ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 10.255.255.255
route add -net 10.0.0.0

then you can bring it up by typing /etc/init.d/network

the next time you boot it will be on as well.

if you want more info lemme know

nate

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Re: How do I fix an IO Error...

[aphro]

either your drive is misconfigured in the bios or by LILO (would be nice
if you included full info on the drive that your getting errors on)

but its more likely that the drive is failing, if its a recent IBM or
Maxtor both companies have excellent diagnostics software for their
drives, not sure about other companies.

also is this error on a fresh install or has the system been running a
while then this started happening?  a bout 2 weeks ago i powered down a
p100 (with debian) to yank the cdrom, another admin fired it up a week
later and 2 out of 3 of the drives were dead.

nate


On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Deloy Cole wrote:

dcole >Help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm getting this IO error when 
booting my debian linux machine.  And e2fsck won't fix it.
dcole >
dcole >hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
dcole >hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2310231, 
sector=2310168
dcole >end_request: I/O error, dev 3:01, sector 2310168
dcole >
dcole >What utilities can I use to get past this error?
dcole >
dcole >Thanks, Deloy
dcole >
dcole >--
dcole >Prof Deloy Cole
dcole >Greenville College
dcole >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dcole >Phone: 618-664-2800 x4318
dcole >

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Re: UPS software compatibility

[aphro]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Ron Stordahl wrote:

ron.st >I am considering buying a Tripp Lite OmniSmart 450PNP.  They claim that
ron.st >their PowerAltert V10.1.9 software supports Linux, however I would be 
much
ron.st >more confortable if I knew for sure that it worked, and ideally was open
ron.st >source.

i am not a user of tripp lite stuff but you can be pretty sure its not
open source.  NUT(Network UPS tools) has support for the internet office
series from tripp lite, treats it as a 'dumb' ups.  you can get NUT from:

http://www.exploits.org/nut/


ron.st >It uses a DB9 cable to talk to the system, perhaps someone knows if 
there is
ron.st >a package in Debian already which will do the job?

can't say for sure..

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Re: I need a truley interactive chat script for PPP

[Marcin Kurc]

Try minicom.
and after you get connected start pppd.

On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 05:11:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
> I need to connect to the mainframe from the office, and have a need for a 
> complex chat script.  Can someone help me out?
> 
> Under Win95, I have my dialout connection set to bring up a terminal window 
> after connecting, so I can do the following:
> 
> Login:  
> Password: 
> Challenge: abc93029
> Response: 
> 
> [Here I take the challenge number above and key it into a card-like device.  
> It then gives me another number I need to key in as the "response".  Then I 
> press F7 (Continue) to start the PPP session.
> 
> How do I mimic this functionality in Linux?  
> 
> chat doesn't seem to be powerful enough.  I can use SAY or REPORT to see the 
> challenge, but chat doesn't seem to provide a way to key in a number 
> interactively.  wvdial doesn't seem to be capable of this either.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jay
> 

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Re: Running X on a Diamond Stealth II S220

[Howard Mann]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> I've got the above card on my PC at the office, and have a need to run X on
> it.  Evidently, it isn't supported directly.  (I'm using slink, by the way).
> I checked on X11.org and it doesn't appear to be supported by the XFree86
> servers either. 

www.x11.org appears "defunct."

> There are, however, two that X11 packages that do support
> it, one that I don't want to pay $99 for, and the other, from SUSE.  However,
> I can't seem to find the driver on SUSEs ftp site.  Supposedly the server is
> called XFCom_Rendition.
> 
> So... questions are:
> 
> * Is this card supported by XFree yet, and just not listed?


It is supported ( XFree86, 3.3.5)  and listed  :

http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html

( The XFCom_Rendition was "wrapped" into XFree86)

You may get XFree86 and the XF86_SVGA  x-server at:

http://www.debian.org/~vincent

URI for apt-get :

deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main

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I need a truley interactive chat script for PPP

[MallarJ2]

I need to connect to the mainframe from the office, and have a need for a 
complex chat script.  Can someone help me out?

Under Win95, I have my dialout connection set to bring up a terminal window 
after connecting, so I can do the following:

Login:  
Password: 
Challenge: abc93029
Response: 

[Here I take the challenge number above and key it into a card-like device.  
It then gives me another number I need to key in as the "response".  Then I 
press F7 (Continue) to start the PPP session.

How do I mimic this functionality in Linux?  

chat doesn't seem to be powerful enough.  I can use SAY or REPORT to see the 
challenge, but chat doesn't seem to provide a way to key in a number 
interactively.  wvdial doesn't seem to be capable of this either.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Jay

Re: multi-processor kernel

[Michael Procario]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> does slink with kernel 2.0.34 support a multi-processor system with 2
> power supplies?

SMP support in 2.0 kernels is not great. I tried it and had crashes about once 
a day.  I am now running with a 2.2 kernel under Redhat on the same machine 
and it is very stable (multi month uptimes).  You can run 2.2 kernels with 
slink although I have not done it myself.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>  So I am thinking about putting debian slink on the machine and not
> running xwindows as we think xwindows may be a contributing factor to
> it crashing.

The few crashes that I have had with Linux on uniprocessor machines have 
always seemed to be X related. I would expect a system without X to extremely 
stable.


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Re: Running X on a Diamond Stealth II S220

[MallarJ2]

In a message dated 1/4/00 3:58:38 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
writes:

> * Is this card supported by XFree yet, and just not listed?

Well, I hate to answer my own question, but I think I found the answer to it 
anyway.  I guess XFree86 just hasn't updated their website - in like - ages.

So, my next question is this.  I now know the latest version of XFree86 
supports this above card, but there's no .deb for them.  So, is there a way 
to install it over my existing X installation?  Or should I just remove all 
my .debs and install the new X server with the .tgz files instead?

Running X on a Diamond Stealth II S220

[MallarJ2]

I've got the above card on my PC at the office, and have a need to run X on 
it.  Evidently, it isn't supported directly.  (I'm using slink, by the way).  
I checked on X11.org and it doesn't appear to be supported by the XFree86 
servers either.  There are, however, two that X11 packages that do support 
it, one that I don't want to pay $99 for, and the other, from SUSE.  However, 
I can't seem to find the driver on SUSEs ftp site.  Supposedly the server is 
called XFCom_Rendition.

So... questions are:

* Is this card supported by XFree yet, and just not listed?

* If not, does SUSE still include this driver?  If so, where would I find it?

* Is there any other way to get this card working under X?

* Has anyone gotten this card to run under X yet?

Many thanks in advance.
-Jay

multi-processor kernel

[zdrysdal]

Hi

does slink with kernel 2.0.34 support a multi-processor system with 2 power
supplies?

We currently have our file server set up on redhat 6.1 running
xwindows..but it crashes almost everytime we reboot.  So I am thinking
about putting debian slink on the machine and not running xwindows as we
think xwindows may be a contributing factor to it crashing.

thanx

Black Magic

[Dave Sherohman]

OK, so I spoke too soon...  I managed to get glide working last night, but
only in software mode.  I still can't get it to recognize my Voodoo2 Black
Magic 3D card for hardware acceleration.

Last night I was working with the rpms and raw source from linux.3dfx.com.
Today I pulled the new Potato device-3dfx-source, libglide2-v2, and
glide2-base debs from Debian.org.  Either way, I get the same error:

gd error (glide): _GlideInitEnvironment: libglide2x.so expected Voodoo, none
detected

/dev/3dfx exists with permissions 666, major 107, minor 0, just like it
should be.  libglide2-v2 says that it's the version of libglide intended for
Voodoo2 cards.

Anyone have any experience with the Black Magic cards?  Anybody not know the
card, but have some ideas anyhow?

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Re: split archives using tar

[Howard Mann]

"Michael W. Shaffer" wrote:

> 
> I highly recommend using cpio in preference to tar if the archives are
> for your own use and not public distribution to unknown platforms. The
> command to use cpio would be:
> 
>   find directories_to_archive | cpio -ovH crc > /dev/sdz
> 
> Cpio will automatically span volumes and prompt for the next disk or tape
> when it runs out of space. The 'H crc' option a causes GNU cpio to create
> an archive in portable ASCII format with a 32-bit CRC for each file. This
> allows you to easily verify the archive's integrity and detect errors on
> restore. Unlike tar, cpio will not puke if it encounters a single error
> on restore but will continue to restore all undamaged data after the
> error.

What command would one use to _exclude_ certain directories from the
archive?

Specifically, what would the cpio command be to achieve the following
? :


tar -cvpf /mnt/zip/homebackup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar \
--directory /home/howard --exclude=vmware --exclude=.netscape/cache . 


Here I have archived my home directory except for the "vmware" and
".netscape/cache" directories.

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Anacron problem

[Abdul Aziz]

Following a system update I get the following message (e-mailed to root)
from Anacron regarding job cron.daily:

"nice: cannot set priority:Permission denied."

cron.daily exits with nothing done. What needs to be done? I've only
been using Debian a while and am a bit stuck. Any help appreciated and
thanks in advance.

Re: pointer trails in X?

[Joey Hess]

Brian Servis wrote:
> Is it possible via some configuration to get the mouse to have a trail
> in X?  It makes it nice to spot the cursor after your eyes have lost
> focus of it.

I've never found anything like this. However, the big-cursor package allows
you to quadruple your cursor size, which makes it easier to spot on laptops.

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Installation trouble

[Robert Smith]

--boot:Uncompressing 
image...|Decompression error: uncompressed image too long - wouldn't fit 
intodestinationImage not found try 
again---I recieve that error when trying 
to boot from a floppy install disk on mysparcstation 10. i'm trying to 
install debian linux. Please, any help wouldbe much 
appreciated!Thanks,Robert Smith

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

[John Foster]

Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> 
> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> John> The problem seems to be this one file, which apparently should
> John> be in mc-common (which it is not) and not in either of the other
> John> packages.
> 
> No, it should only be in the gmc package, as the convert-metadata.db
> script is also only in this package, and it is its manpage that you
> have problems with.
> 
> What confuses me is that debian/rules copies the manpage to the gmc
> buildtree only. So I have no idea how you managed to get it into the
> mc package :-)
> 
> As a quick fix, --force-overwrite when installing will do it.
---
When I tried using the simultaneous install
everything went the same as
doing each app. Doing "dpkg -i --force-overwrite
gmc*.deb" did overwrite
the offending file, but then it errored out saying
that gmc depended on
"perl5" and that "perl5" was not installed. What is
that all about. It
is a stable slink system with perl5.00404 installed
in /usr/bin with
symlinks in /usr/local/bin to "perl"

Reviewing my steps while logged in as root:

1. created directory /temp
2. downloaded files from potato with wxftp:
  mc_4.5.42-4.dsc  
  mc_4.5.42-4.diff.gz  
  mc_4.5.42.orig.tar.gz
3. changed ownership of downloads to root
4. ran command: "dpkg-source -x -su mc*dsc"
5. that created 2 new directories; /mc-4.5.42
   /mc-4.5.42.orig
6. ran "cd /mc-4.5.42"
7. ran "debian/rules binary"
8. that created the files;
mc-common_4.5.42-4_i386.deb
   mc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb
   gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb
9. tried installing each package separately, as a
group and using  
   --force-overwrite: you have the results of that.
10. mc works and the original mouse problem is
solved, but gmc will not
install because of "perl5" missing dependency.

Yes I am a perfectionist and I want to get this
right so your advice is
greatly appreciated.
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squidGuard: odd compile error

[Dwayne C . Litzenberger]

I get an odd error when compiling squidGuard.  I had to change the -ldb to
-ldb2 in the configure script to make it recognize BerkeleyDB 2.6.4
(Debian), but now it's giving me an odd error that I don't get.

Here's the info:

make:
making all in src
gcc -I.. -I. -I. -I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -g -O2 
-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/include -c sgDb.c
sgDb.c: In function `defined':
sgDb.c:112: too many arguments to function
make: *** [sgDb.o] Error 1

db.h:
int (*cursor)   __P((DB *, DB_TXN *, DBC **, u_int32_t));

sgDb.c (line 112-115):
  if ((errno = Db->dbp->cursor(Db->dbp, NULL, &Db->dbcp, 0)) != 0) {
sgLogFatalError("cursor: %s", strerror(errno));
exit (1);
  }




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RE: libglide2x.so

[Harlan Crystal]

to slow down the curser in Q3, you gotta use the console command
"in_dgamouse 1"


if you cat the quake3 file, you'll see that it sets this to 0 on startup in
that file

> -Original Message-
> From: aphro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 10:15 AM
> To: Dave Sherohman
> Cc: Debian-User
> Subject: Re: libglide2x.so
>
>
> sure, glad it worked!
>
> now if i could only get the cursor in Q3 to slowdown..moves too $##@ fast
>
> (waiting for loki to respond to my Q)

Re: education warehouse, sound-video player

[kaynjay]

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/04/00 
   at 11:49 AM, Antonio Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

...
>without having to dump 5K-40K USA $ a year. Any way, seems to me that the
...
Well, one gets to choose which end they are going to pay at, yes?  I teach at
a community college where expenses are $13/unit maxing out at something less
than $100/semester regardless of load.  Worth two years at a 4 year school,
and decent ones if you don't screw around.  

>Software that enables video recording of lectures, with the highest
>compression and facility of use, to facilitate speed of transfer, etc. I am
>sure that many educators (such as myself) will be found willing to record
>their lectures and similar for this matter.

Perhaps if used within the confines of that institution; but lectures, etc.,
represent intellectual property.  There's far more to this than simply having
the tools to do the recording (or whatever). 

>What happens is that  seeing how students are obligated to pay huge amounts
>of money (many end up in debt for many, many years of their lives) makes any
>person sick. Except of course if you are benefiting from it and give a s***
>about others. Remember the dorm fees, etc.? Not that they are bad, but they
...
>power of its components and the reputation of its graduates will be able to
>easy the grip of the existing educational centers, who have become money
>sucking machines and forgotten much of the original intention.

???  I don't believe I have forgotten the reason I teach.  I don't think that
the dramatic increase in the cost of higher education is related to that.  

Again, one has a choice of institutions/prices, too.  If you go down such a
path and wind up with a job that doesn't help you pay off any debt
accumulated within a reasonable time period, then it seems to me that a poor
choice was made somewhere else as well.


Kenward

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Error message when using 'apt-get'

[Rajesh Radhakrishnan]

Hi,

I get the following error messages when I use 'apt-get install',

ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libg++.so.27 (No such file or 
directory), skipping
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.27 (No such file or 
directory), skipping
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libg++.so.27 (No such file or 
directory), skipping
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.27 (No such file or 
directory), skipping
 
But I have them installed on my system,

lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   17 Dec 27 10:39 /usr/lib/libg++.so.2.7.2
 -> libg++.so.2.7.2.8
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   20 Dec 27 10:39 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.2.
7.2 -> libstdc++.so.2.7.2.8

Any ideas?

-Rajesh

New to debian - adding a disk drive

[Joseph Norris]

Hello group,

I am very new to debian (mostly redhat). I have a server that
is becoming more in need of disk spaces. I want to add 
a new hard drive. The hardware guy has added the hard drive
and I want know a step by step process to get debian to 
recognize the hard drive. To sum it up, I need help with 
the following:

1) The steps in using fdisk and fstab under debian to add the
new drive.
2) I have the home directory on another partition and I would like
some thoughts on how best to spread /home across the two drives.

Any help at all would be most appreciated.

Thanks to all.


#Joseph Norris (Perl - what else is there?/HP3000/Linux/CGI/Msql)
print @c=map chr $_+100,(6,17,15,16,-68,-3,10,11,16,4,1,14,-68,12,1,14,8,
-68,4,-3,-1,7,1,14,-68,-26,11,15,1,12,4,-68,-22,11,14,14,5,15,-90);

Re: man -k doesn't work

[Konrad Mierendorff]

I have no MANPATH set on my slink-r4 and everything works fine and when
I set it to what you mentioned in your mail, it works as well. Maybe
that means that the error is something else.

Hope it helps ...

- Konrad

Re: Module query.

[Konrad Mierendorff]

Hans wrote:
> Why are all modules used by "0" only snd used by "1"? What does this mean?

Start playing some sound and this will change. BTW if all modules were
used you couldnt unload them -- see?

> Sound is working except the mixer. Devices are not showing up, except
> master volume and tone control and they are not having any effect. Could
> this be related to the above, or might this have to do with the isapnp setup?

You have to use an ALSA-mixer (e.g. gamix, xamixer2 or amixer) or you
have to load the snd-mixer-oss module to get "normal" mixers working.

Bye,

- Konrad

Re: pointer trails in X?

[Shaul Karl]

> 
> Is it possible via some configuration to get the mouse to have a trail
> in X?  It makes it nice to spot the cursor after your eyes have lost
> focus of it.
> 

(1) I am not sure but I believe that it is the WM business and that Fvwm has an 
option to do it. (2) Isn't xeyes do just that?

Re: .emacs file please

[Shaul Karl]

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm just coming to grips with emacs and discovered that most people have a 
> .emacs file with default settings that they can use.
> 

1) At least with XEamcs, probably with Emacs too, you can try Help->Samples.
2) You can look at Emacs Beginner's HOWTO, I belkieve the author append one or 
mention a link for 1 or 2.

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

[Martin Bialasinski]

* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

John> The problem seems to be this one file, which apparently should
John> be in mc-common (which it is not) and not in either of the other
John> packages.

No, it should only be in the gmc package, as the convert-metadata.db
script is also only in this package, and it is its manpage that you
have problems with.

What confuses me is that debian/rules copies the manpage to the gmc
buildtree only. So I have no idea how you managed to get it into the
mc package :-)

As a quick fix, --force-overwrite when installing will do it.

Ciao,
Martin

ATHLON K7 AMD & Linux

[Alexei Smirnov]

Dear Colleagues,

What Linux version and X-window competely compatible with AMD K7 Athlon 
having ATI Xpert video card ?


Happy New Year,

Alexei V. Smirnov,

DULY Research Inc.

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Re: How do I fix an IO Error...

[Francois Deppierraz]

Deloy Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2310231, 
> sector=2310168
> end_request: I/O error, dev 3:01, sector 2310168

It seems to be a very bad hardware problem :(

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http://www.ctrlaltdel.ch
ICQ: 176 770 09

Re: Modem dials without reason

[John Foster]

Klaus Drews wrote:

> > -Original Message-
> > From: Klaus Drews [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 10:09 AM
> > To:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject:  Modem dials without reason
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I configured demand dialing with diald on my machine. Now my modem dials
> > every
> > five minutes without reason. I increased logging but could not find a hint
> > why.
> > Does anyone know how to find the event that wants a connection ?
> >
> > Another question:
> > When I run "route" my modem dials, but the command itself hangs. After a
> > while
> > (the second or third dial) my routing table looks like this:
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
> > Iface
> > 194.1.1.1   *   255.255.255.255 UH1  00
> > sl0
> > 194.1.1.0   *   255.255.255.0   U 0  00
> > sl0
> > localnet*   255.255.255.0   U 0  00
> > eth0
> > default *   0.0.0.0 U 1  00
> > sl0
> > default *   0.0.0.0 U 0  00
> > ppp0
> >
> > After that route works fine. The ifconfig output is the following:
> > loLink encap:Local Loopback
> >   inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> >   UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
> >   RX packets:751 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >   TX packets:751 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >   Collisions:0
> >
> > eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 52:54:05:DE:DB:4E
> >   inet addr:17.10.10.1  Bcast:17.10.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >   RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >   TX packets:73 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >   Collisions:0
> >   Interrupt:12 Base address:0xd800
> >
> > sl0   Link encap:Serial Line IP
> >   inet addr:192.168.0.1  P-t-P:194.1.1.1  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >   UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >   RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >   TX packets:3099 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >   Collisions:0
> >
> > ppp0  Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> >   inet addr:212.184.131.140  P-t-P:193.158.137.77
> > Mask:255.255.255.255
> >   UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >   RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> >   TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> >   Collisions:0
> >
> > Maybe these two questions are one.
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Klaus.
--REPLY--
I had the same or a very similar problem about a year ago. I removed
pppupd from my system and the problem disappeared. I have never tried to
reinstall it. I never bothered to try figuring out why it did this as it
was not a problem to operate without it.
Best Wishes!
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network troubles

[Marketsource Online]

Greetings:

I recently made a jump from caldera to debian and am in general very happy.
 I am, tho, getting hung up on a few points...

a.  Is there some sort of system configuration tool, like lisa/lizard,
netconfig, etc available for Debian?  I do enjoy editing .conf files and
scripts but a frontend would be a big help considering how much time I
spend looking for the configuration files!

b.  How can I change the system name I came up with during install?  I even
grep'd through /etc and can't find the current system name anywhere.

c.  My old system is set up with ADSL and ipforwarding.  Starting with a
clean slate, I can bring up lo and ping localhost.  I then bring up eth0
with ifconfig, add the local network route, and can't ping in or out of the
system.  ifconfig shows no packet movement.

What I'm getting desperate to do is:

- bring up eth0 and eth1
- set up eth0 with my static ip address and make it the default gateway
- set up eth1 as the local nic

I'm sure I'm missing something simple in some configuration file but I just
can't find it.  If someone could walk me through this, or point me to some
specific documentation (I've read over the NAG and Network HowTo too many
times to count) I'd be eternally grateful!

TIA

Mike

python startup files

[Douglas Bates]

According to some python documentation I have read I should put
commands that I want executed in every interactive python session into
the file `~/.pythonrc.py'.  I have done that but these commands do not
seem to be executed when I start python on a Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
system with
||/ NameVersionDescription
+++-===-==-
ii  python-base 1.5.1-7An interactive object-oriented scripting lan

Is there another convention for python startup with this package?

Also, what is the recommended form for adding to the python search
path?  I believe there is an environment variable to set.

Please cc: me on replies.  I am unable to keep up with the amount of
traffic on this list.

Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

[John Foster]

Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> 
> * "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> John> (Reading database ... 78011 files and directories currently installed.)
> John> Unpacking gmc (from gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb) ...
> John> dpkg: error processing gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb (--install):
> John> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/convert-metadata.db.1.gz',
> John> which is also in package mc
> John> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> 
> Run the installation of mc, mc-common and gmc simultaniously with dpkg
> -i mc.. gmc ... mc-common...
> 
> Maybe the old mc package you have installed erroneously contains the
> manpage as well.
> 
> You could deinstall the old mc package first as well.
---
I tried purging mc, mc-common, and gmc along with the dependent
applications. The offending file was gone. Then I tried  installing
mc-common, and mc and lastly gmc. That had the same result. I purged all
of them again and tried this order; mc-common, gmc, and lastly mc. This
time mc would not install, yielding the same error message as before.
The problem seems to be this one file, which apparently should be in
mc-common (which it is not) and not in either of the other packages. BTW
I can not seem to downgrade because October Gnome requires at least
these versions. I will try your idea of a simultaneous installation. I
appreciate the help.

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man -k doesn't work

[Brian J. Stults]

Hi,

When I type man -k [anything], I always get this result:

[anything]: nothing appropriate

It doesn't matter what I substitite for "anything".  I have the
environment variable MANPATH set like this in .bash_profile:

MANPATH=/usr/bin/man:/usr/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/local/man

Can someone suggest an answer?  Thanks!
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Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
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Re: Netscape Communicator 4.7 dies silently.

[Joe Block]

Wayne Topa wrote:
> 
> Subject: Netscape Communicator 4.7 dies silently.
> Date: Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 05:19:56PM -0500
> 
> In reply to:Todd Suess
> 
> Quoting Todd Suess([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >| Greetings all,
> >|
> >| Anyone else noticed that at times Communicator will just die silently while
> >| minimized, leaving no error messages, etc?  I usually have about 5 
> >navigator
> >| windows open to various sites and check and referesh them regularly
> >| (I am using potato, XFree 3.3.5, and Kde 1.1.2), but sometimes I will pull 
> >up
> >| my window list and all occurances of Communicator will be closed with no
> >| errors showing.  Just curious if anyone else has seen this behaviour and if
> >| there is any workaround/fix for it.  I checked memory to see if that might 
> >be an
> >| issue and while physical memory was a little low I still had plenty of swap
> >| space left.
> 
> Yes, just today, I had that happen 4 times.  I had also noticed that
> everything seemed a bit slower then usual, and had been getting that
> way for a few weeks now.  Keyboard repeats, changing consoles/or X
> screens, etc., all slowed down.  As I hadn't rebooted for a few months
> I decided that I would try it just to see what would happen.

I have been having netscape silently die every day or so.  Everything
else has been running just fine though - I haven't noticed any other
slowdowns.

Quitting netscape, rm -fr ~/.netscape/cache/* and restarting netscape
seems to have fixed the problem.  Going into preferences and erasing the
disk cache from inside netscape does not seem to clear things up btw.

jpb
-- 
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CREOL System Administrator

Social graces are the packet headers of everyday life.

Re: .emacs file please

[Nitebirdz]

Patrick,

Check the URL I posted below.  It contains an example of .emacs
file, although this one is meant to be for the Windos version of the
program. 


http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~skx/win/NTEmacs2.html



Nitebirdz

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Linux: the free 32-bit operating system, available NOW. 
Why waait for NT? (Brandon S. Allbery)

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote:

> Thanks...but obviously I don't want the defaults but I also don't want to 
> write the whole thing from scratch...mainly interested in pruning headers in 
> rmail.
> 
> I'll post to the emacs newsgroup you suggested.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
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> 
> 

How do I fix an IO Error...

[Deloy Cole]

Help would be greatly appreciated.  I'm getting this IO error when 
booting my debian linux machine.  And e2fsck won't fix it.
 
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error 
}
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=2310231, 
sector=2310168
end_request: I/O error, dev 3:01, sector 2310168
 
What utilities can I use to get past this error?
 
Thanks, Deloy
 
--Prof Deloy 
ColeGreenville CollegeEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Phone: 
618-664-2800 x4318

howto send message open xterm

[Brian J. Stults]

Can someone tell me how to send a message to any open xterm?  When I
used to receive my email from a Novell server, a broadcast message would
print to any open xterm when I received mail.  Now I would like to add
that function to my simple bash script local mail checker.  Can someone
suggest a simple way to do this (e.g. echo "New mail arrived" `date` >
???")?  

Thanks.
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Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
Phone: (518) 442-4652  Fax: (518) 442-4936
Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452

Re: Exim

[Ronald Tin]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 03:14:02PM -0600, Matthew W. Roberts wrote:
> > I have just recently upgraded from debian 2.1 to potato and I cannot send 
> > any
> > email at all (either internal or external) i keep getting the following 
> > error
> > message.
> > 
> > 1999-12-21 14:34:58 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: procmail director deferred:
> > file existence defer in procmail director: Permission denied
> >
> > Does anyone know what is going on and how to get it working?  I have run
> > eximconfig again and i select option 1 (internet mail) but that still 
> > doesn't
> > work!
> 
> This looks like a procmail problem, so running eximconfig probably
> won't help.  Are you using a procmail director in your exim.conf file,
> or using the .forward method?  I know that using procmail with a 
> .forward file is different with exim than with sendmail so you might
> want to look at the exim documentation:  http://www.exim.org/
> 
> If you send me your exim.conf file I might be able to help...
> 
> 
I find that recent eximconfig will add a procmail director
to exim.conf. with bugs.

# This director runs procmail for users who have a .procmailrc file

procmail:
  driver = localuser
  transport = procmail_pipe
  require_files = +${home}:+${home}/.procmailrc:/usr/bin/procmail
  ^^ hopefully these "+" shall fix the problem.
  no_verify

IIRC, without these exim defers the mail when it cannot check the
existence of .procmailrc (when the home dir is not readable) With the
"+" signs exim just ignore the director and proceed to the next one.

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

[Joey Hess]

Jens Guenther wrote:
> I tried to build several potato packages for my slink machine. This failed,
> because some debhelper scripts were not available. After installing the
> potato version of debhelper, it failed again, this time because some command
> (it might have been "chown") did not support some command line option.

Was it chown --no-dereference? Perhaps that has been added to chown
recently, though the changelog doesn't say what version I should depend upon.

-- 
see shy jo

Re: Problem with exim rewriting rule

[Ronald Tin]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 03:45:36PM +0100, Klaus Drews wrote:
> Hi Ronald,
> 
> wich section you put this in ?
the section after the comments "REWRITE CONFIGURATION",
probably the same place as you put your rewrite rules?

> > I am doing my rewrites this way:
> 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffr
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "${if eq {$sender_address}{} [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Tt
> 
> Regarding to the docs, b and c stand for
> b   rewrite the Bcc: header
> c   rewrite the Cc: header
> 
> Since my entry in exim.conf is bcfrF it should only work for 
> b   rewrite the Bcc: header
> c   rewrite the Cc: header
> f   rewrite the From: header
> r   rewrite the Reply-to: header
> F   rewrite the envelope From field
> 
> Since I didn't say "t", it shouldn't rewrite the To: header.
> 
> But I will try your alternative if you tell me about the section to put it.
> 

I think so too. But perhaps there are some hidden caveats
that you and I didn't recognize?
If you need it I could send you my exim.conf. :)

Re: TeX, THANKS

[G. Crimp]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 04:07:16PM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> Go to an ftp archive and go into the proposed-updates for 
> slink. There was some sort of y2k problem with tex where
> the make format or something to that effect failed. Anyway, the
> updated package will work. In fact here is the url for
> the cdrom debian archive.
> 
>

Thanks.  That did the trick.  The packages on the main Debian ftp site must
have changed between the first install that worked and the second that
didn't.  How weird that the y2k problem was even a problem before 2000.

Anyway, looks like I have a working system again. 

-- 
Gerald Crimp

apt sources list

[Stephen A. Witt]

Now that Debian 2.1r4 has been released, I'm wondering what an appropriate
/etc/apt/sources.list file should be. I have been using the following to
pick up all the updates, etc. that have been made to the slink baseline:

deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/
deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ slink-update main
deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable updates
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
deb ftp://ftp.us.kde.org pub/kde/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb/slink/i386/
deb ftp://debian.tdyc.com/pub/users/rkrusty stable kde contrib rkrusty


Are all of these sites still necessary with 2.1r4?

Thanks...

Re: problem with symlinks

[Nathan E Norman]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:

 : On 4/1/2000 Sylwester Zelazko wrote:
 : 
 : >While moving /usr partition to other location i copied links as files.
 : >Now most of programs and libraries in /usr/lib aren't symlinks. Is't other 
way
 : >to recreate them except installing again ?
 : 
 : this is why its better to use tar instead of cp but cp -a might do 
 : the copy correctly. another option is cpio, but I am not quite used 
 : to using that utility yet.
 : 
 : (cd / ; tar -cvpf - usr) | (cd dest ; tar -xvpf -)

cpio is easy to use once you get used to its twisted ways of thinking :)

  find /usr | cpio -padm /target 

Mount the target partition on "/target" (/mnt is a good choice)

use `find -xdev' if you want to confine find to one partition e.g `find
/ -xdev' will only find files on the root partition and won't enter
mounted partitions ...

HTH,

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UPS software compatibility

[Ron Stordahl]

I am considering buying a Tripp Lite OmniSmart 450PNP.  They claim that
their PowerAltert V10.1.9 software supports Linux, however I would be much
more confortable if I knew for sure that it worked, and ideally was open
source.

It uses a DB9 cable to talk to the system, perhaps someone knows if there is
a package in Debian already which will do the job?

Ron

Problems after upgrading to potato

[Rajesh Radhakrishnan]

Hi,

I upgraded to potato and have the foll problems,

1. My mouse doesn't work after I boot and start X windows.
   I have to run gpm,gpm-mouse-test after I boot in to make 
   my mouse work.
   Any ideas what I have to check in my init script so that
   my mouse driver is installed at boot time.

2. 'xset r ' is not on by default (for key repeats). I don't
   know why it changed. I have to type 'xset r on' at my
   screen and have a script that does this on the machines
   I log into. Is there a way to set this permanently in my 
   X windows session?

3. I get 'shmget failed' error in a couple of apps. How do 
   I increase my shared memory?

Thanks in advance.
Rajesh

quake2 installation help

[Chris Hoover]

I need help getting quake2 to install on potato.  when I use the
quake2/quake2-bin packages, I get errors (see below).  Is there a doc that
details how to get it installed with debian (preferably using the deb
packages)?  I really want to start playing quake2 again.

Thanks,

chris

errors:
When I try to install quake2-bin, I get the following messages:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
quake2-bin: Depends: libgl1 but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages 

When I try to install quake2 I get these errors:
Setting up quake2 (3.20-4) ...
ln: cannot create symbolic link `/usr/lib/games/quake2/opengl32' to 
`/usr/lib/libGL.so.1': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing quake2 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
quake2
E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)

Re: pon problems with Potato

[Douglas Baker]

I also had this problem. The AT&F didn't work for me. After some digging,
it looks like my 16550A was configured as a 16450. I re-ran setserial and
forced it to a 16550A, and it was fine after that. 
-Doug


On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Todd Suess wrote:

> I got that recently when I reinstalled potato, I cured it by using
> AT&F as my init string in pppconfig.  Once I did that I never
> got the error again.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Todd
> 
> 
> 
> At 11:38 AM 12/23/99 -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote:
> >I've just converted to potato. When I try to bring up ppp with pon
> >I get:
> >
> >Dec 23 11:16:13 Spock chat[146]: CONNECT
> >Dec 23 11:16:13 Spock chat[146]:  -- got it
> >Dec 23 11:16:13 Spock chat[146]: send (\d)
> >Dec 23 11:16:14 Spock pppd[145]: Serial connection established.
> >Dec 23 11:16:14 Spock pppd[145]: Using interface ppp0
> >Dec 23 11:16:14 Spock pppd[145]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
> >Dec 23 11:16:45 Spock pppd[145]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> >Dec 23 11:16:45 Spock pppd[145]: Connection terminated.
> >Dec 23 11:16:45 Spock pppd[145]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
> >Dec 23 11:16:45 Spock pppd[145]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
> >Dec 23 11:16:45 Spock pppd[145]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> >Dec 23 11:16:45 Spock pppd[145]: Exit.
> >
> >Any suggestions?
> >
> >
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Re: problem with symlinks

[Ethan Benson]

On 4/1/2000 Sylwester Zelazko wrote:


While moving /usr partition to other location i copied links as files.
Now most of programs and libraries in /usr/lib aren't symlinks. Is't other way
to recreate them except installing again ?


this is why its better to use tar instead of cp but cp -a might do 
the copy correctly. another option is cpio, but I am not quite used 
to using that utility yet.


(cd / ; tar -cvpf - usr) | (cd dest ; tar -xvpf -)


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Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

[Colin Marquardt]

* Jens Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Compilation worked fine. The only problem was that the package building
> process did not work. I could have installed the programs by hand, but I
> would have to bypass the package control system and would get problems when
> the real packages eventually come out.

Ah, okay, I misunderstood you then.

> It should be possible to build packages for local installations from potato.
> If it is not possible to do this, many of the advantages of providing source
> packages and not merely sources would go away. You would be stuck with

I agree that it would be nice, but if a package depends on things like
debconf, things become complicated (debconf may even be installable in
slink, but the dependencies/conflicts were too much for me). If it is
possible, yes, but if the pain is too much, then not.

If, however, an installation would only fail because of a simple
thing like an unsupported chmod switch then that would warrant a
bug report IMO.

exim error

[alex]

hi all:
My exim have some errors,please help me
In the /var/log/exim/mainlog I find this:
2000-01-04 17:38:01 1255we-00051d-00 == 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=procmail 
defer (-1): file existence defer in procmail director: Permission 
denied
and I can't find the "root" 
file in /var/spool/mail/
I use exim-3.11-2
Thanks
Alex Wang

Re: problem with symlinks

[aphro]

you may be able to copy them again, and tell it to overwrite existing
files, that is if you have the old /usr still available, if not ..dont
know what to reccomend

nate

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Sylwester Zelazko wrote:

slz >Hi.
slz >
slz >   While moving /usr partition to other location i copied links as files.
slz >Now most of programs and libraries in /usr/lib aren't symlinks. Is't other 
way 
slz >to recreate them except installing again ?
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Re: SMC EzCard 10/100

[aphro]

yeah, pain in the ass..

i had problems on 486s getting the network to communicate _at all_ i knew
the nics were good and they were detected but i always got 100% packet
loss for unknown reasons, and i had a p100 that failed after a few minutes
using a pci NIC but runs for months with an ISA nic.  the eepros have been
good to me too although im not an intel fan and i try to avoid their stuff
whenever possible, the 3com 3c905C failed eventually last night too:( it
worked for a while in my k6-2(never tested the driver but the lights on
the switch came on) when i slapped it into my i440BX/Celeron system, no
lights on the switch(although i got lights on my hub when i plugged it
in..) tried it in the k6-2 again and it still didn't work! ack so i had to
put an eepro100 back in my celery box and lights came on even when the
machine wasn't powered up! (which was weird)

pisses me off, damn network stuff, i wish they'd get a standard like the
VGA card makers did(VESA?) everything is splintering in the network
world.  sucks.

nate

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Nate Duehr wrote:

nate >All the vendors will drive you nuts right now.  They all used to work
nate >hard if they had good drivers and good cards to keep their good names.
nate >Then merger mania took over and it's all messed up.
nate >
nate >I tend to use the Intel EtherExpressPro 10/100's at work in my Linux
nate >machines. They always load up and run.  There's a known lockup issue with
nate >them, but at least I'm dealing with a KNOWN problem that way... I've only
nate >had one card do it out of ten or so in active traffic on full 100Base
nate >segments, so I don't lose any sleep at night over it.  Especially since
nate >all those machines are set up with bunches of redundancy anyway! 
nate >
nate >Hopefully your night is going well.  I just found a big ol' bug in
nate >OpenSSH from tonight's Potato I think.  Did some strace's and it
nate >certainly smells like a bug.  I asked the maintainer for confirmation,
nate >if he could.  (Requires reverse DNS records to be screwed up and that
nate >ALL : PARANOID be in /etc/hosts.deny to happen... I think it's
nate >reproducible though.)
nate >
nate >Have a nice night.
nate >
nate >On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 08:51:10PM -0800, aphro wrote:
nate >> hello (the other nate)
nate >> 
nate >> i have one of those cards as well, and it works great in linux, just 
make
nate >> sure to use a recent kernel or you will have to manually update the
nate >> driver.
nate >> 
nate >> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
nate >> 
nate >> There are too many vendors selling RTL8139 boards to list them all. The
nate >> RTL8139 and RTL8139A chips have the ability to load a different PCI 
Vendor
nate >> and Device ID from the EEPROM. Combined with a unique chip label, some
nate >> boards give the appearance of being new and unique chips. Identified 
chips
nate >> that fall into this category are 
nate >> 
nate >>Accton MPX5030 series (relabeled RTL8139) 
nate >>SMC 1211TX (relabeled RTL8139) 
nate >> 
nate >> only his newer drivers can see the relabled chips.. one weird thing, i
nate >> have a 3COM 3C905B that _refuses_ to work with a linksys 10/100 switch,
nate >> today i swapped it for a 3COM 3C905C and it appears to work
nate >> fine! wtf! damn 3com..
nate >> 
nate >> nate
nate >> 
nate >> On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Nate Duehr wrote:
nate >> 
nate >> nate >Ahh!  Good!
nate >> nate >
nate >> nate >You've made me a very happy man today.  I'll go home and put it 
in my
nate >> nate >system tonight!
nate >> nate >
nate >> nate >Now to see if it's compatible with the various other OS's 
installed on
nate >> nate >that box!
nate >> nate >
nate >> nate >Thanks for the heads-up!
nate >> nate >
nate >> nate >On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 02:30:46PM -0800, Bruce Mobarry wrote:
nate >> nate >> Hi Nate,
nate >> nate >> 
nate >> nate >> I have exactly this card in my computer.  I first tried to get 
it
nate >> nate >> working under slink with Linux 2.0.36 compilied as a loadable 
module,
nate >> nate >> but failed.  I compiled it (using the RTL8139 chipset driver 
from Donald
nate >> nate >> Becker) directly into a 2.2.13 kernel successfully and am 
running my SMC
nate >> nate >> EzCard 10/100 under potato.  I am on a 10baseT net also.
nate >> nate >> 
nate >> nate >> Bruce Mobarry
nate >> nate >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: split archives using tar

[Michael W. Shaffer]

This is not exactly what you were asking for, but you might try something
like:

  tar -cvMf /dev/sdz directories_to_archive

where /dev/sdz is replaced by the device for your Zip drive. The 'M'
option should (according to the man page) cause tar to prompt you for the
next disk when it runs out of space on the first one. You can then
extract the 'multi-volume' archive with a command like:

  tar -xvMf /dev/sdz

I highly recommend using cpio in preference to tar if the archives are
for your own use and not public distribution to unknown platforms. The
command to use cpio would be:

  find directories_to_archive | cpio -ovH crc > /dev/sdz

Cpio will automatically span volumes and prompt for the next disk or tape
when it runs out of space. The 'H crc' option a causes GNU cpio to create
an archive in portable ASCII format with a 32-bit CRC for each file. This
allows you to easily verify the archive's integrity and detect errors on
restore. Unlike tar, cpio will not puke if it encounters a single error
on restore but will continue to restore all undamaged data after the
error.

To verify with cpio:

  cpio --only-verify-crc -iv < /dev/sdz

This will not print any messages except the final block count if all the
CRC checks are good. This does not compare files on tape to those on disk
but instead reads the file from tape, calculates a CRC, and then compares
it with the one stored on the tape at the time of creation to see if they
match.

To restore with cpio:

  cpio -imudv < /dev/sdz

Warning: the 'u' option causes cpio to automatically overwrite existing
files on disk with those from the archive.


--- John Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> run tar so that it will take a 500 Meg archive and split it into 5 100
> Meg tar files?  If so, how do I do this?
> 

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Re: Acer machines

[aphro]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Oki DZ wrote:

litban >Where can I get the list?

all boards are supported unless its really obscure and based on an
obsolete spec(which is nothing made in the past few years)

litban >The Acers have the processors on daughterboards, so I think the same 
ones
litban >would have the same type of processors.

you talking about socket370 chips on slot1 cards or something
different? what exact board are you using(just curious)  acer usually uses
stuff from AOpen don't they..they own ALI too i believe so it could be an
ali based board.  or are they ppro chips on slot1 adapters?

litban >If the two daughterboards are the same, then Linux should be able to
litban >recognize them.

linux should recognize them regaurdless, the downside to running different
steppings is in hardware only, now linux is only as stable as the hardware
it runs on(cough my abit bp6 failed that test).  i read that intel fixed
the 'problem' so now people can use multiple steppings in a SMP
configuration(in P-III units only though). in the past it was rather
painful to purchase a second cpu a year later only to find out so many
things about it was different it made for a somewhat unstable
configuration.

nate

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Re: libglide2x.so

[aphro]

sure, glad it worked!

now if i could only get the cursor in Q3 to slowdown..moves too $##@ fast

(waiting for loki to respond to my Q)

nate

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote:

esper >I said:
esper >> ..but I missed the link to the source.  Time to dl that and see how it
esper >> works.
esper >
esper >Rolling my own libglide2x.so seems to have worked.  Thanks for the 
pointer to
esper >the source.
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Re: Removing ttyS

[Brian Servis]

*- On  4 Jan, Larry Shields WD9ESU wrote about "Removing ttyS"
> If one makes a device say ttyS6, using 'mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS6 c 4 70', and
> after it is created, then decides it is not needed, what would be the
> command  to use to remove it...???
> 

rm /dev/ttyS6

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problem with symlinks

[Sylwester Zelazko]

Hi.

While moving /usr partition to other location i copied links as files.
Now most of programs and libraries in /usr/lib aren't symlinks. Is't other way 
to recreate them except installing again ?

Re: split archives using tar

[pseelig]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, John Davis wrote:

> I have a zip disk which I would like to use for archive in Linux.  Can I
> run tar so that it will take a 500 Meg archive and split it into 5 100
> Meg tar files?  If so, how do I do this?
> 
Have you already tried "man tar"?

To write a tar archive over multiple media use

 tar cMf /dev/your_zipdrive  500Meg.archive

Or use split(1) to split an already existing 500 Meg tar archive in parts
and cat(1) to join them again later.  Needless to say that this is
documented in "man split".
Good luck, P. *8^)
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education warehouse, sound-video player

[Antonio Rodriguez]

I have been thinking lately that there is something missing in the free
(software, etc.) community: Tools to educate any person that wishes to
do so without having to dump 5K-40K USA $ a year. Any way, seems to me
that the following will be needed, but if someone has a better idea it
will be great:
Software that enables video recording of lectures, with the highest
compression and facility of use, to facilitate speed of transfer, etc. I
am sure that many educators (such as myself) will be found willing to
record their lectures and similar for this matter.
What happens is that  seeing how students are obligated to pay huge
amounts of money (many end up in debt for many, many years of their
lives) makes any person sick. Except of course if you are benefiting
from it and give a s*** about others. Remember the dorm fees, etc.? Not
that they are bad, but they should not be compulsory, if you have where
to sleep. Sleeping is not part of the curriculum. Any way, I am sure
that with time a big warehouse or library of whole careers can be
formed, and perhaps even a free internet university system which gives
degrees in many languages, and which, by the power of its components and
the reputation of its graduates will be able to easy the grip of the
existing educational centers, who have become money sucking machines and
forgotten much of the original intention.
May be it is a US only problem, I don't know. But I thought that the one
of the best places to start was here, in the Debian community, by asking
for (soft-hard)ware expertise.
Thanks,
Antonio.

Re: Removing ttyS

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Larry Shields WD9ESU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If one makes a device say ttyS6, using 'mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS6 c 4 70', and
>after it is created, then decides it is not needed, what would be the
>command  to use to remove it...???

rm

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Re: Modem dials without reason

[Dave Sherohman]

Klaus Drews said:
> I commented it out (as shown), but dialing goes on. In the manpages it says, 
> that I won't
> have to restart cron after shanging jobs. So it should have worked. 
> 
> The logfile stats 
> Jan  4 14:56:43 coma diald[169]: Trigger: udp   192.168.0.1/138  
> 192.168.0.255/138
> before modem is dialing, but not always.
> This port I found in services:
> netbios-dgm 138/tcp # NETBIOS Datagram Service
> netbios-dgm 138/udp

Are you running samba or acting as a gateway for any Windows or samba
machines?  They'd most likely be the ones sending out these packets, which
your dial-on-demand sofware is diligently coming up and trying to send out.

I missed the start of this thread, so I don't know what dial-on-demand
software you're using, but I know that diald can be configured to ignore data
on certain ports, so you can tell it to never bring (or keep) the link up for
traffic on port 138.

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Re: Removing ttyS

[Ethan Benson]

On 4/1/2000 Larry Shields WD9ESU wrote:


If one makes a device say ttyS6, using 'mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS6 c 4 70', and
after it is created, then decides it is not needed, what would be the
command  to use to remove it...???


rm /dev/ttyS6

Ethan

RE: Modem dials without reason

[Biciunas, Paul John]

Well, Samba might, for one.
Port 137 is used for netbios name lookups
Port 138 is the netbios datagram service. This is for transferring
information between hosts

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> -Original Message-
> From: Klaus Drews [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 9:04 AM
> To:   Biciunas,Paul John
> Cc:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:  RE: Modem dials without reason 
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> cron jobs are ok. The only one running from that you mentioned is exim.
> And it
> should only run every 53 minutes:
> # 53 * * * * mail   if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim ]; then /usr/sbin/exim
> -q >/dev/null 2>&1; fi
> 
> I commented it out (as shown), but dialing goes on. In the manpages it
> says, that I won't
> have to restart cron after shanging jobs. So it should have worked. 
> 
> The logfile stats 
> Jan  4 14:56:43 coma diald[169]: Trigger: udp   192.168.0.1/138
> 192.168.0.255/138
> before modem is dialing, but not always.
> This port I found in services:
> netbios-dgm 138/tcp # NETBIOS Datagram Service
> netbios-dgm 138/udp
> 
> If this is a hint, who is using this port ?
> 
> Regards
> Klaus.
> 
>  
>  << Message: Untitled Attachment >> 

split archives using tar

[John Davis]

Hello

I have a zip disk which I would like to use for archive in Linux.  Can I
run tar so that it will take a 500 Meg archive and split it into 5 100
Meg tar files?  If so, how do I do this?

John Davis

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 02:23:16PM +0100, Jens Guenther wrote:

> > Some may be useless, e.g. sources that explicitly require glibc-2.1
> > or gcc-2.95.

> The problems I encountered where in no case compiler- or library-related.
> Compilation worked fine. The only problem was that the package building

This won't always be the case - I can see C++ packages needing a later
GCC version, for example.

> It should be possible to build packages for local installations from potato.

This would be nice if it were possible, but supporting up to date parts
of the distribution often means that a package won't work on the
currently released version.  Things like debconf or logrotate just aren't 
there in slink, and dependancy changes like the perl and netstd splits
need to be taken into consideration too.

> If it is not possible to do this, many of the advantages of providing source
> packages and not merely sources would go away. You would be stuck with
> stable. So often someone's problems were solved by "grab the potato
> version of it".

Well, the one of the advantages of providing source is the way it gives
you the freedom to go out and fix your own problems :-) .  Forcing all
packages to build on older releases would create a fair amount of extra
work for the developers which won't always be useful for users (mostly,
stable works just fine).

The way you're supposed to do this is with partial upgrades, but 
glibc2.1 makes this a bit more offputting than it normally is.

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Re: [O.T.] Architectures

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 11:00:51AM +, Emile Schwarz wrote:

> [O.T.] Architectures

> Do someone can explain to me what could be O.T. ?

Off-topic - not an appropriate topic for this list - because it's about
hardware, not Debian.

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Re: Problem with exim rewriting rule

[Klaus Drews]

Hi Ronald,

wich section you put this in ?
> I am doing my rewrites this way:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffr
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "${if eq {$sender_address}{} [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Tt

Regarding to the docs, b and c stand for
b   rewrite the Bcc: header
c   rewrite the Cc: header

Since my entry in exim.conf is bcfrF it should only work for 
b   rewrite the Bcc: header
c   rewrite the Cc: header
f   rewrite the From: header
r   rewrite the Reply-to: header
F   rewrite the envelope From field

Since I didn't say "t", it shouldn't rewrite the To: header.

But I will try your alternative if you tell me about the section to put it.

Regards,
Klaus.

RE: Modem dials without reason

[Klaus Drews]

Hi Paul,

cron jobs are ok. The only one running from that you mentioned is exim. And it
should only run every 53 minutes:
# 53 * * * * mail   if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q 
>/dev/null 2>&1; fi

I commented it out (as shown), but dialing goes on. In the manpages it says, 
that I won't
have to restart cron after shanging jobs. So it should have worked. 

The logfile stats 
Jan  4 14:56:43 coma diald[169]: Trigger: udp   192.168.0.1/138  
192.168.0.255/138
before modem is dialing, but not always.
This port I found in services:
netbios-dgm 138/tcp # NETBIOS Datagram Service
netbios-dgm 138/udp

If this is a hint, who is using this port ?

Regards
Klaus.

 

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You might just try looking at cron jobs. IIRC, one of the mail agents
attempts
mail retrieval every five minutes as a default.

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> -Original Message-
> From: Klaus Drews [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 10:09 AM
> To:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:  Modem dials without reason
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I configured demand dialing with diald on my machine. Now my modem dials
> every
> five minutes without reason. I increased logging but could not find a hint
> why.
> Does anyone know how to find the event that wants a connection ?
> 
> Another question:
> When I run "route" my modem dials, but the command itself hangs. After a
> while
> (the second or third dial) my routing table looks like this:
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse
> Iface
> 194.1.1.1   *   255.255.255.255 UH1  00
> sl0
> 194.1.1.0   *   255.255.255.0   U 0  00
> sl0
> localnet*   255.255.255.0   U 0  00
> eth0
> default *   0.0.0.0 U 1  00
> sl0
> default *   0.0.0.0 U 0  00
> ppp0
> 
> After that route works fine. The ifconfig output is the following:
> loLink encap:Local Loopback  
>   inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>   UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
>   RX packets:751 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:751 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   Collisions:0 
> 
> eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 52:54:05:DE:DB:4E  
>   inet addr:17.10.10.1  Bcast:17.10.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:73 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   Collisions:0 
>   Interrupt:12 Base address:0xd800 
> 
> sl0   Link encap:Serial Line IP  
>   inet addr:192.168.0.1  P-t-P:194.1.1.1  Mask:255.255.255.0
>   UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:3099 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   Collisions:0 
> 
> ppp0  Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
>   inet addr:212.184.131.140  P-t-P:193.158.137.77
> Mask:255.255.255.255
>   UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>   TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>   Collisions:0 
> 
> Maybe these two questions are one.
> Thanks in advance,
> Klaus.


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Removing ttyS

[Larry Shields WD9ESU]

If one makes a device say ttyS6, using 'mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS6 c 4 70', and
after it is created, then decides it is not needed, what would be the
command  to use to remove it...???

Thanks for any help one may offer...

Larry Shields WD9ESU
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Re: can't connect to ISP!

[John Hasler]

Oki DZ writes:
> There should be  on the last line;...

No there shouldn't.  That would mean that he was demanding that the ISP
authenicate to him.  He should be *receiving* 'auth pap' from the ISP.
However, it appears that pppd is not starting at the ISP. 

> ...have a look in your /etc/ppp/options, and see whethere pap
> authentication is defined.

The standard Debian /etc/ppp/options includes 'auth' (but not
'require-pap').  Fortunately, pppconfig overrides it by putting 'noauth'
in the provider file.
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XF86Config for Tiedent ProVidia9685

[Jonathan Chang]

Hi all,

I need the XF86Config for this video card (Tiedent ProVidia9685). 
If you have a working config file, please mail me a copy. Thanks in
advance. 

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Re: problems w/Recent Upgrade to October GNOME

[Martin Bialasinski]

* "John" == John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

John> (Reading database ... 78011 files and directories currently installed.)
John> Unpacking gmc (from gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb) ...
John> dpkg: error processing gmc_4.5.42-4_i386.deb (--install):
John> trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/convert-metadata.db.1.gz',
John> which is also in package mc
John> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Run the installation of mc, mc-common and gmc simultaniously with dpkg 
-i mc.. gmc ... mc-common...

Maybe the old mc package you have installed erroneously contains the
manpage as well. 

You could deinstall the old mc package first as well.

Ciao,
Martin

Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

[Jens Guenther]

Hi!

> > Potato sources seem to be useless for slink installations.
> 
> Some may be useless, e.g. sources that explicitly require glibc-2.1
> or gcc-2.95.

The problems I encountered where in no case compiler- or library-related.
Compilation worked fine. The only problem was that the package building
process did not work. I could have installed the programs by hand, but I
would have to bypass the package control system and would get problems when
the real packages eventually come out.

It should be possible to build packages for local installations from potato.
If it is not possible to do this, many of the advantages of providing source
packages and not merely sources would go away. You would be stuck with
stable. So often someone's problems were solved by "grab the potato
version of it".

If I install a package from unstable and it does not work right in my
environment, that is OK. But I want at least to try if I like to. Without
having to turn my whole system into something unstable.

Jens

Re: Thinkpad 365x

[Debian user]

Greg Starkes wrote:

I have a 365xd (same deal, just has a cd-rom drive) and I found that it
doesn't like kernels that are compressed with bzip. gzipped kernels
work. I didn't have any problems with the tecra disk though.

It's been a while since I ran linux on this laptop, but I believe it was
a 2.0.34 kernel.


Thanks for your reply.. it seems that the problem was with the 2.0.36 
kernel.. i took the resc1440.bin from the 2.1 r4 and now it works well.


And by the way, for the thinkpad 365x, you should not specify 
floppy=thinkpad, or at least it did not work for me.


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Re: debhelper, potato sources on slink

[Colin Marquardt]

Hi,

* Jens Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I tried to build several potato packages for my slink machine. This failed,
> because some debhelper scripts were not available. After installing the
> potato version of debhelper, it failed again, this time because some command
> (it might have been "chown") did not support some command line option.
[...]
> 1) dependencies of debhelper in potato are wrong

I think not. You need to differentiate between build dependencies
(which are not yet implemented in Debians packaging system) and
install dependencies.

> 2) (some/all) potato sources are build with potato debhelper

Yes, of course. Why not?

> Potato sources seem to be useless for slink installations.

Some may be useless, e.g. sources that explicitly require glibc-2.1
or gcc-2.95.

> Does anybody know how to deal with this?

There is only a package-to-package solution, IMO. If building
new packages for `old' versions were that easy, we would have
more new/updated packages for slink. Thought out 'til the end,
eventually the differentiation between stable and unstable would
fade away...

Cheers,
  Colin

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debhelper, potato sources on slink

[Jens Guenther]

Hi,

I tried to build several potato packages for my slink machine. This failed,
because some debhelper scripts were not available. After installing the
potato version of debhelper, it failed again, this time because some command
(it might have been "chown") did not support some command line option.

Under another subject this problem was mentioned recently, but the author
encountered problems related to debhelper and perl.

This suggest to me, that
1) dependencies of debhelper in potato are wrong
2) (some/all) potato sources are build with potato debhelper

Potato sources seem to be useless for slink installations.

Does anybody know how to deal with this?

Jens

Re: Recommendations for a 220v (my local lines voltage) suitable UPS?

[Oliver Elphick]

Shaul Karl wrote:
  >Can any one recommends a UPS that will be suitable for working with an
  >electricity supply of 220v/50Hz?

Any device sold in a country should be usable with that country's power 
outlets.
If you buy from abroad, where will you get support if it goes wrong?

  >I have also the need for its power sockets leads to be shaped like an Y
  >since this is the local standard. Is this a European standard?

There doesn't seem to be one.  Britain uses 3 rectangular pins, arranged so
that the earth pin connects before either of the others.  Most of Europe
uses 2-pin plugs or a different arrangement of 3 pins.


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Re: Alsa on CS4236

[Frank Barknecht]

Jonathan Markevich hat gesagt: // Jonathan Markevich wrote:

> I have the above card, and I know it works.  For the life of me I can't get
> it to accept the values.  I had it working before, and my drive went
> kablooie so I forgot how I set it up.
> 
> Does anyone have this card with some tips?  Should I post my isapnp.conf and
> my /etc/modules/alsa file for inspection?  I hate rebooting to play MP3s,
> it's just so WRONG.

There have been two long threads about this chipset on the alsa-user
mailing list recently. Maybe you can find some info on the mailing list
archive at the project homepage:

http://www.alsa-project.org/
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Re: [O.T.] Architectures

[Emile Schwarz]

[O.T.] Architectures

Do someone can explain to me what could be O.T. ?

TIA (Thanks In Advance),

Emile,
France

Module query.

[Hans]

Running Slink with a 2.2.13 kernel. P200MMX box with an ISA SB64AWE.

I compiled sound into the kernel and also used the ALSA drivers. When I
lsmod the following appears...

Module  Size  Used by
snd-mixer-oss   3372   0
(unused)
snd-pcm1-oss   12572   0 
snd-card-sb16   3168   0

snd-mpu401-uart 1440   0  [snd-card-sb16]
snd-sb16-csp
5636   0  [snd-card-sb16]
snd-hwdep   2204   0  [snd-card-sb16
snd-sb16-csp]
snd-sb16-dsp   15296   0  [snd-card-sb16
snd-sb16-csp]
snd-pcm1   16148   0  [snd-pcm1-oss
snd-sb16-dsp]
snd-timer   7160   0  [snd-pcm1]
snd-mixer
  25148   0  [snd-mixer-oss snd-card-sb16 snd-sb16-dsp]
snd-midi
   11756   0  [snd-card-sb16 snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-pcm
8192   0  [snd-pcm1-oss snd-card-sb16 snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm1]
snd
32004   1  [snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm1-oss snd-card-sb16
snd-mpu401-uart snd-sb16-csp snd-hwdep snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm1 snd-timer
snd-mixer snd-midi snd-pcm]

Why are all modules used by "0" only snd used by "1"? What does this mean?

Sound is working except the mixer. Devices are not showing up, except
master volume and tone control and they are not having any effect. Could
this be related to the above, or might this have to do with the isapnp setup?

Any hints to get the mixer working highly appreciated. -- Hans

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Recommendations for a 220v (my local lines voltage) suitable UPS?

[Shaul Karl]

Can any one recommends a UPS that will be suitable for working with an
electricity supply of 220v/50Hz?
I have also the need for its power sockets leads to be shaped like an Y
since this is the local standard. Is this a European standard?

Re: wmsound: Error on Play Event

[John Miskinis]

Hi,


write(2, "Error on Play Event\n", 20Error on Play Event


Not sure if your problem is very simple, but I've seen this
message when 1) the sound set for the event does not exist
and 2) when the /dev/dsp device is open by some other process
maybe it was wmscope.

I'm not sure what your situation is.  Do you have a /dev/dsp
device?  Does it work with "wavp some_file.wav" for instance?
(Assuming you have the wavp program from the wave tools package).

It has been some time since I setup my sounds, but I would
look in the ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMSound file (you do have one
right?) for sounds that are specified but do not exist.  I also
don't remember if I compiled wmsound myself or not.  In any case
I have included my file, in case it helps get you going.  I
grabbed a bunch of sounds from the net, so replace with your
names as needed...

debian:~# more GNUstep/Defaults/WMSound

{
 SoundPath = ("~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Sounds",
 "/usr/share/WindowMaker/Sounds",
 "/jm/openstepsounds/OpenSTEP.Sounds/Sounds");

 SoundSetsPath = ("~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/SoundSets",
 "/usr/share/WindowMaker/SoundSets");

 Device = /dev/dsp;

 Startup = startup.wav;
 AppStart = Rooster.wav;
 AppExit = Bonk.wav;
 Maximize = Bullfrog.wav;
 UnMaximize = Frog.wav;
 Iconify = Block.wav;
 DeIconify = Drip.wav;
 Hide = Funk.wav;
 UnHide = Ping.wav;
 Shade = Tink.wav;
 UnShade = Basso.wav;

 UserDefined = replaceme.wav;
}



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Re: CTRL-C Doesn't work??!! ....

[E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)]

[ about Ctrl-C having no effect ]

> So... in conclusion:  Ctrl-C is working fine - the signal is being
> received.  However, the shell isn't killing the running process
> 
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Doesn't Ctrl-C work for any program at all?  It does not work for a lot
of interactive programs when they are expecting input.  In those cases
you can usually press Ctrl-Z to stop the program, read the number in
brackets that bash prints, and use that in a kill command, like this:

$ xclock
[ press Ctrl-Z ]
[1]+  Stopped xclock
$ kill %1

If you cannot kill a non-interactive program like xclock with Ctrl-C, I
don't know what is going on.  Note however that specific programs can
choose to ignore Ctrl-C.  I do not believe programs can choose to ignore
a stop signal (Ctrl-Z).

HTH,
Eric

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Re: installing apache from source

[Brian Lavender]

If apache that was installed was compiled with DSO support,
then you should be able to add php support by going into 
dselect and and selecting it. DSO means Dynamic Shared
Objects. Search your system for apxs which is the perl
script that allows you to dynamically compile in modules.

Then find your httpd binary and execute it as follows

$ httpd -l

It should list all the compiled in modules. If it lists

mod_so.c

then you have DSO support. If you feel inclined, you can
grab the php source, and compile its module. In the PHP
source you will find INSTALL.DSO where it will explain the
steps to install it.

Good Luck,

brian

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 05:24:59PM +, hypnos wrote:
> I'm gonna be downloading the sources for apache and
> php3, so that I can compile apache with support for
> php3.  I currently have apache installed (from slink
> .deb) on the machine.  What's the best way to go
> about this change?  I don't want my new installation
> of apache to conflict with the current installation.
> Should I use dselect to remove the current apache
> installation, and then install from source?  I believe
> that [R]emove (from dselect) will not delete my
> configuration files, so I should still be able to use
> those with the new installation, right?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
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> 
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Re: libglide2x.so

[Dave Sherohman]

I said:
> ..but I missed the link to the source.  Time to dl that and see how it
> works.

Rolling my own libglide2x.so seems to have worked.  Thanks for the pointer to
the source.

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