Re: Eleccion del servidor de correo
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, David Charro Ripa wrote: El sistema que monte debera tener acceso POP3, para unos 120 usuarios (aunque crecera hasta unos 300), deberia ser facilmente configurable, tener todos los programas en paquetes Debian, que se puedan incluir utilidades del tipo de listas de correo, redireccionamiento del correo, Como MTA la mejor opción hoy es Postfix. Para servir POP3, Cyrus es muy buena idea, si además te interesa tener cuentas de correo que no sean necesariamente usuarios del sistema (usando cualquier sistema de autenticación por PAM, o en las versiones nuevas incluso SASL). De paso, sirve IMAP también. Y para listas de correo, por supuesto, majordomo. -- [http://ceu.fi.udc.es/gpul - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/eulug]
Re: rc.local para Debian
¿Te referias a esto? /etc/rc.boot Pero lo que quieres hacer no es el tipo de cosas para las que el 'rc.boot' fue diseñado. -- Saudos: ose[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vigo/Galicia/España) http://pagina.de/xmanoel/ http://w3.to/mikkeli/ 03/31 Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp. founded, Phila, 1946 pgpZ1HS5neEAo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Eleccion del servidor de correo
Hola El 01 Apr 2000 a las 10:03AM +0200, Fernando Sanchez escribio: Retomando la cuestión: ¿cual de los MTAs que se incluyen en Potato es mejor, porqué y para qué? Postfix es con seguridad la opción más segura, rápida y respetuosa con el entorno :-) Está hecho para ser compatible 100% con Sendmail (para sustituirlo sin problemas, es decir), pero sobre todo con la seguridad como premisa. Es bonito :-), elegante, flexible, muy fácil de configurar, muy rápido (pero evitando saturar los sitios a los que manda correo, por ejemplo), robusto, muy bien documentado, es software libre, y el autor es Wietse Venema! ¿qué más se puede pedir? :-))) Para qué... pues está pensado para sitios grandes y mucho volumen de correo, pero en casa con una conexión normal por modem funciona perfectamente también. En fin, una maravilla, oooiga :-) ¡Me lo quedo! ¡Deme 2! Nos lo has vendido. Fantástico. Venga, y ahora, ¡donde lo consigo! Yo uso slink y no lo veo que esté ahí. ¿Estará en Potato? o no está Debianizado? Me pasa lo mismo con majordomo y Cyrus que dices en otro mensajes. No los veo en Slink. Saludos y gracias. -- --- Andres Seco Hernandez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctv.es/USERS/andressh --- Microsoft Certified Product Specialist MCP ID 445900 Debian GNU Linux 2.1 (slink) - Linux Registered User no. 113867 --- 04/01 People of superb intelligence, savoir-faire, etc. born this day. 04/01 Yourdon, Inc. founded, 1974 (It figures.) pgp6gkDlx7Faf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: He perdido algunos acentos
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Roberto Lopez wrote: Hola Lista! Parece tonto pero es asi. Bueno no. Lo cierto es que no se que he hecho pero he perdido la capacidad de usar las teclas de acento en el teclado, solo en algunas aplicaciones. No soy consciente de haber tocado ningun fichero critico en este aspecto, pero desde hace dos dias, que yo sepa, en los editores gvim y nedit cuando pulso la tecla de acento agudo directamente aparece la comilla esa mas inclinada. Si lo hago con el shift-' aparece la dieresis, lo mismo para circunflejo y acento grave. Consecuencia, no puedo escribir caracteres acentuados. Como dato de que no he perdido realmente el teclado decir que Xemacs, gnotepad y la terminal si admite las teclas. Con mc pasa algo mas raro, y es que en modo editor no reconoce las teclas y la combinacion 'a no escribe nada. Vuestras ideas seran bienvenidas. Sigo con slink. Y lo unico que he hecho ultimamente fue actualizar fvwm2, que no creo que tenga que ver. apertas, Rober. -- Roberto Lopez Lopez I love this game! Optical Engineer, Technology Division Tel#: +34 922 605200 Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias Fax#: +34 922 605210 38200 - La Laguna[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tenerife, SPAIN http://www.iac.es -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Actualiza a Potato ! :). O prueba a instalar y desinstalar paquetes como el locales yo tuve un error parecido y así lo solucioné . Espero haberte sido de ayuda. bye. Javier Fafián Alvarez en un AMD-K6II a 350 con 64 Mb de RAM
Re: Internet Linux-Win
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Isaac Puch Rojo wrote: Hola Lista, tengo algún problema con mi conexión a Internet. En principio me puedo conectar perfectamente, pero en horas puntas no hay manera, el script da un error y sale. Pero reseteo, y Windows si puede, supongo que lo que habrá que subir es el tiempo de espera a una respuesta del servidor o algo así. Pero no se como se configura eso. ¿Alguna idea? Gracias de antemano. Por cierto uso el kernel 2.0.36, por si sirve de algo. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Hay que usar el minicom ( que es un programa que viene con debian ) para configurar el modem y cambiar el tiempo de espera a 1 minuto. Cómo se hace es facil si lo sabes, pero yo no lo se. Lo siento . bye Javier Fafián Alvarez en un AMD-K6II a 350 con 64 Mb de RAM
Re: dselect pide /usr !!!
Yo escribi, :-P RMEl mensaje de error avisa que no encuentra /usr en fstab ni mtab... Perdon, olvide decir que no tengo /usr separado en una particion... De todos modos quedo solucionado en /etc/apt/apt.conf, comentando un par de lineas en las que se remonta /usr... :-# -- Roberto
Re: Imagenes de Potato
Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: Y para pasar las imagenes .raw a .iso ¿Como? -- Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #64938541 Known Bugs: Works in MS-Windows :) Pagina web: (EN CONSTRUCCION) http://members.es.tripod.de/blaine Linux User 90535Blaine En IRC-HISPANO Usando kernel 2.2.14 y 2.3.47 En Linux/GNU Debian 2.2 (Potato) --
Re: Eleccion del servidor de correo
Fernando Sanchez wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: Retomando la cuestión: ¿cual de los MTAs que se incluyen en Potato es mejor, porqué y para qué? Postfix es con seguridad la opción más segura, rápida y respetuosa con el entorno :-) Está hecho para ser compatible 100% con Sendmail (para sustituirlo sin problemas, es decir), pero sobre todo con la seguridad como premisa. Es bonito :-), elegante, flexible, muy fácil de configurar, muy rápido (pero evitando saturar los sitios a los que manda correo, por ejemplo), robusto, muy bien documentado, es software libre, y el autor es Wietse Venema! ¿qué más se puede pedir? :-))) Para qué... pues está pensado para sitios grandes y mucho volumen de correo, pero en casa con una conexión normal por modem funciona perfectamente también. En fin, una maravilla, oooiga :-) En barrapunto lo dejan claro, yo llevo usando sendmail mas de dos años, incluso en un servidor con mas de 4000 cuentas de correo y se comportaba bien, pero jeje, es una especie en lenta extincion. La verdad es que postfix parece ser la nueva estrella. -- -- Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #64938541 Known Bugs: Works in MS-Windows :) Pagina web: (EN CONSTRUCCION) http://members.es.tripod.de/blaine Linux User 90535Blaine En IRC-HISPANO Usando kernel 2.2.14 y 2.3.47 En Linux/GNU Debian 2.2 (Potato) --
Re: Eleccion del servidor de correo
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: Retomando la cuestión: ¿cual de los MTAs que se incluyen en Potato es mejor, porqué y para qué? Postfix es con seguridad la opción más segura, rápida y respetuosa con el entorno :-) Está hecho para ser compatible 100% con Sendmail (para sustituirlo sin problemas, es decir), pero sobre todo con la seguridad como premisa. Es bonito :-), elegante, flexible, muy fácil de configurar, muy rápido (pero evitando saturar los sitios a los que manda correo, por ejemplo), robusto, muy bien documentado, es software libre, y el autor es Wietse Venema! ¿qué más se puede pedir? :-))) Para qué... pues está pensado para sitios grandes y mucho volumen de correo, pero en casa con una conexión normal por modem funciona perfectamente también. En fin, una maravilla, oooiga :-) -- [http://ceu.fi.udc.es/gpul - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/eulug]
Re: Ferramentas para desenvolvimento
Não, ele é italiano. Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: www.vdkbuilder.org (eu acho) É feito por um brasileiro Mario Motta (eu acho) -- Marcelo Elias Del ValleUIN: 30595143 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tilt.8m.com MLinuxer Do you visit GamesNow today?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://games_now.netpedia.net Autronix - Tecnologia em Automação Industrial http://members.xoom.com/autronix
Re: GTK (Re: Imposto de Renda no Wine)
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:27:25PM -0300, Debian Linux User wrote: Exato, eu não só entrei na página, peguei as libs e instalei o gimp para windows, como tentei compilar com djgpp... O problema é que com djgpp + RSX não rolou... DJGPP é pra DOS, não pra Windows. Não vai rolar _mesmo_. Parece que é possível usar o compilador da cygnus, mas não entendi direito como fazer e não achei o download... Não sei se tb é pago... http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ Em sumo, é muita complicação, comparando com instalar um delphi e rodar um programa... Não sei até que ponto chega a ser uma solução viável... Talvez se existisse um HOW-TO... Isso seria tb uma boa idéia... É complicado porque não está pronto. Historicamente, hackers se preocupam primeiro em fazer funcionar, e só depois em facilitar e documentar. :-) Pra vcs fazerem uma idéia de quão longe de pronto... tem um alemão que compila a maioria das versões do Freeciv com mingtk pra rodar no Windows. A versão atual (1.10) ele compilou duas vezes; uma rodava no Win95 mas não no 98, NT ou 2000. A outra rodava e na hora de desenhar o mapa caia com erros no GDK. Aí ele atualizou as bibliotecas, tentou de novo, e a coisa parou de compilar. []s, |alo + -- Hack and Roll ( http://www.hackandroll.org ) News for, uh, whatever it is that we are. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key in the personal page Brazil of Darkness (RPG)--- http://zope.gf.com.br/BroDar
Re: GTK (Re: Imposto de Renda no Wine)
Lalo Martins wrote: On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:27:25PM -0300, Debian Linux User wrote: Exato, eu não só entrei na página, peguei as libs e instalei o gimp para windows, como tentei compilar com djgpp... O problema é que com djgpp + RSX não rolou... DJGPP é pra DOS, não pra Windows. Não vai rolar _mesmo_. Você pode fazer programas Windows usando o DJGPP com RSX. Veja na página da delorie. Parece que é possível usar o compilador da cygnus, mas não entendi direito como fazer e não achei o download... Não sei se tb é pago... http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ Eu fui lá... Cadê o download? Em sumo, é muita complicação, comparando com instalar um delphi e rodar um programa... Não sei até que ponto chega a ser uma solução viável... Talvez se existisse um HOW-TO... Isso seria tb uma boa idéia... É complicado porque não está pronto. Historicamente, hackers se preocupam primeiro em fazer funcionar, e só depois em facilitar e documentar. :-) Exato... Se cada rogramador da sua empresa precisar ser um hacker para que sua empresa possa criar um programa... Não é viável... Ou seja, é uma solução legal, mas ainda precisa ser mais melhorada pra maioria das aplicações comerciais de verdade... Com Qt a coisa já rola melhor... Pra vcs fazerem uma idéia de quão longe de pronto... tem um alemão que compila a maioria das versões do Freeciv com mingtk pra rodar no Windows. A versão atual (1.10) ele compilou duas vezes; uma rodava no Win95 mas não no 98, NT ou 2000. A outra rodava e na hora de desenhar o mapa caia com erros no GDK. Aí ele atualizou as bibliotecas, tentou de novo, e a coisa parou de compilar. Pois é... Será que esse porte do gtk para windows tem futuro? O cara que fez o porte fez porque gostava do gimp e o scaner dele não funcionava no linux... -- Marcelo Elias Del ValleUIN: 30595143 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tilt.8m.com MLinuxer Do you visit GamesNow today?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://games_now.netpedia.net Autronix - Tecnologia em Automação Industrial http://members.xoom.com/autronix
Re: (eh?) Perl library shifted...?
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 03:29:09 +0100, Paul J. Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Net::POP3 is also part of libnet-perl. I would make sure you have the -2 version, if it's still a problem, post the exact error msg. I ran perl -MNet::POP3 -e 'Net::POP3-new()' without any problems. (Ah.) Thanks, Paul. The module's there; Perl is finding it -- but something changed within it at the recent update, leading to the thwarting of the little program in question. All better now, thanks to your helpful thinking-out-loud with me. :-) All the best, -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
Re: Questions from a new debian user
Thanks everyone. Eventually I'm going to remove xdm from the startup script, but I'm finding it handy while I'm learning the system to use the windows until I feel comfortable using other ways to get around the system. The reason I asked about leaving it was because I read somewhere that it was better not to upgrade with X running. The browser I'd been using is Opera and if I had been able to find a .deb version I would have used it. I'm not sure what I'll find when I unzip it; the Opera website was unhelpful and I haven't gotten a newsreader set up yet to read the Opera/Linux newsgroup for tips. And thanks again for answering my questions so quickly. I've just read so much documentation lately that if I never see another man page or HOWTO it will be way too soon. Hilary Hilary L. Hertzoff From here to there, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a bunny goes where a bunny must. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Little Bunny on the Move by Peter McCarty
Re: Quake2 libs
Brian Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, First, thanks to the good folks that helped me get my Debian green card. I'm in the process of moving a quake2 server over from a Red Hat machine to a Debian machine for the better of all humanity. I realize that there are probably packages for this, but I don't need to run a client on the Debian machine, just the server and it's needed cfgs/libs/binaries, and I'd rather do it this way. I'm creating an ISO to make this easier, but first I have moved everything over from Red Hat to Debian, and placed it in /usr/games/quake2. Everything is ready to go, except for the libs. % ldd quake2 libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x4000a000) libm.so.5 = not found libc.so.5 = not found libc.so.5 = not found I'm running Potato, and I want to make sure that I don't hose something because I'm still wet behind the ears. ;-) I'm guessing the second two that were not found are libc5? OK to `apt-get install libc5' on Potato? Yep. What is the libm.so.5? `apt-get install libm5' (If its even a package, I haven't checked)? libm is part of libc. Getting libc5 should get libm.so.5 as well. -- Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://jakob.kaivo.net/
Re: Questions from a new debian user
On 01-Apr-2000 00:02:07 Hilary Hertzoff wrote: Thanks everyone. Eventually I'm going to remove xdm from the startup script, but I'm finding it handy while I'm learning the system to use the windows until I feel comfortable using other ways to get around the system. The reason I asked about leaving it was because I read somewhere that it was better not to upgrade with X running. You could, when you decide you no longer want xdm to start when you boot the machine, either remove the links (using update-rc.d) or just put 'exit 0' at the top of the script, below #!/bin/sh That is what I did, so I can undo it easily in case I ever want to start xdm. I did not remove xdm because it was a dependency for something else I had installed. -- Andrew
AMD PCNET PCI Ethernet question
Hi, (absolute Newbie to Linux): Using Slink and trying to setup my eth0 for the first time. I am reading the Ethernet-HOW-TO and have a few ques. When I did dmesg | more, it did not show any eth'N' messages so my first installation did not see the card. I looked under /lib/modules/2.0.36/ and found pcnet32.o which is what the HOW-TO says as being the correct driver for AMD PCNET PCI. if I do a ifconfig as root, I still do not see the eth0. if I do a modprobe eth0, I don't get anything. Can you help me detect my Ethernet Card without having to compile my kernal(cause I don't know how and don't want to get into that if I can avoid it). If I have to edit the /etc/conf.module, what exactly should I add/edit ? Thanks in advance, kuraldeb Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: Sun 3 xterminal debs?
C. Falconer writes: It is obviously a better thing to use a deb package if available, but what damage might I be causing if I install something from source? None as long as you either install in /usr/local or build your own local deb. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Neighbor table overflow
Helpp What is neighor table overflow?? I'm getting this after changing the IP addr of a machine I changed /etc/network/interface from xxx.xxx.xxx.17 to xxx.xxx.xxx.16 I had seen this before when I switched a diff machine to a 192.168.100 addr, but I never found a solution Alex
Re: Questions from a new debian user
Hilary Hertzoff writes: Eventually I'm going to remove xdm from the startup script, but I'm finding it handy while I'm learning the system to use the windows until I feel comfortable using other ways to get around the system. Removing xdm does not remove X or render it inaccessible. Just log in on a VC and start X with 'startx'. The reason I asked about leaving it was because I read somewhere that it was better not to upgrade with X running. I've never had a problem. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
libdl.so.2 for bo?
I'm trying to install StarOffice 5.1, which is said to be compatible with my linux 2.0.30. However, when I try to run the setup program: ./setup: error in loading shared libraries libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Indeed, the version of libdl.so on my system is 1.8.12. Is there a way to upgrade without upgrading to a newer version of Debian? A search on libdl with dselect of the available bo packages turned up nothing, but I suppose libdl is included implicitly in another package. Thanks and regards Tom Kuiper p.s. In case you wonder, I haven't upgraded because my system works wonderfully, and I don't want to mess with it until I can spare some time for dealing with unexpected problems. -- Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (137.79.89.31) SnailMail: Jet Propulsion Lab 169-506, Pasadena, CA 91109 Phone/fax: (818) 354-5623/8895 WWW:http://DSNra.JPL.NASA.gov/~kuiper/
Re: Neighbor table overflow
Hi Alex, This is almost always caused by not having a loopback interface. If you haven't, make sure the first interface you configure is lo. Neil. Alex McCool wrote:- Helpp What is neighor table overflow?? I'm getting this after changing the IP addr of a machine I changed /etc/network/interface from xxx.xxx.xxx.17 to xxx.xxx.xxx.16 I had seen this before when I switched a diff machine to a 192.168.100 addr, but I never found a solution Alex
Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1
Bob, thanks for the help. I tried it, to little avail. (session below). I can't tell if 1) just better tool usage is needed, 2) my configuration is broken, and if so how to recover, 3) the tools are broken (less likely..) But, how does one probe into the details of: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status? Any more ideas, I'm stuck! Greg csgrg.root(501) dpkg -r samba (Reading database ... 15436 files and directories currently installed.) Removing samba ... dpkg: error processing samba (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: samba csgrg.root(503) dpkg --force-depends -r samba (Reading database ... 15436 files and directories currently installed.) Removing samba ... dpkg: error processing samba (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: samba csgrg.root(504) exit csgrg.root(501) apt-get check Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...dependency error Checking system integrity...dependency error You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: samba: Depends:libpam0 At 03:58 PM 03/31/2000 -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 02:19 PM 03/30/2000 -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I took a new CDrom (2.1) and did re-deselect, which did a lot of upgrades to various stuff. ... dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: samba libpam0 libpam-util Try `dpkg --force-depends --purge libpam0 libpam-util', then do apt-get install samba -- Bob, thanks, I tried it, and now get: (see below). It looks like you got rid of libpam0 and libpam-util. apt-get is picky about having a broken system, but dpkg is less so, especially with the forcing options. You might try dpkg -i pathsamba* (unlike apt, dpkg requires a full pathname to the .deb for installation, but just the package name for purge, remove, or configure). I don't have a recent slink Packages file. In the one I have, samba has no dependencies other than netbase and libc6. If that is no longer true, it should tell you what dependencies it needs. You can append them to the dpkg command line above. It might be necessary to remove samba with `dpkg -r samba'. If dpkg refuses, try ` dpkg --force-depends -r samba'. If this doesn't work look at `dpkg --help' and `dpkg --force-help' for other possibilities. After samba is removed, `apt-get install samba' should work, automatically installing any missing dependencies. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USA PGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125 Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University 1971-1995) http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept
Re: Questions from a new debian user
I found the easiest way to deactivate XDM on startup was to simply rename xdm to xdm.d in the dir /etc/init.d. Now when the computer starts up, it stays in the text mode until a user wishes to enter x by typing startx. All you have to do is enter the /etc/init.d directory and type mv xdm newname, newname being any name. The computer will not recognise it and xdm will fail to startup on boot. This is the easiest way I figured out how to use the text mode and X interchangeably. Hope this helps.
Re: (eh?) Perl library shifted...?
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:42:42PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: If you're talking about Net::FTP being unable to locate method Net::FTP-requires_firewall(), it was a bug in libnet-perl which has been fixed with version 1.0703-2, now in the archives. (Good thought, but no: Net::POP3 is what went wandering off; needed for a little program I have that POP's my ISP's server before exim relays outgoing mail to it.) -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com Net::POP3 is also part of libnet-perl. I would make sure you have the -2 version, if it's still a problem, post the exact error msg. I ran perl -MNet::POP3 -e 'Net::POP3-new()' without any problems. -- Regards, Paul
Re: Boot disk quit working after second install
Lehel Bernadt wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: Hello, I have a 6 gig hard drive with debian on the first 4 gigs. I installed an old SUSE last night on the last 2 gigs in order to try out MySQL which allegedly came with that distribution. I boot debian with a boot disk as I have, sigh, Windows on another drive and I had a scary experience once with LILO that I don't care to repeat. Now I can't boot anything on my Linux drive. My boot disk (and backup boot disks) runs in the A drive but windows 95 starts right up each time. What kind of boot disk do you have : ext2+lilo, fat+syslinux, loadlin or just the raw kernel ? What is its configuration ? I understand that you use the same disk for debian suse. How did you altered the config to boot suse instead of debian ? U. . .. I don't know. It was a boot disk I made during the install. I seem to recall seeing loadlin come up but I confess I didn't pay that much attention when it was booting. When I booted my computer some text would come up with the word boot and almost immediately it would say booting the kernel or something like that, then it would scroll through the various drives and so forth and then I would be in Debian, and it would ask for login password. I hope you can help with this. Erik
Re: libdl.so.2 for bo?
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 05:14:19PM -0800, Tom Kuiper wrote: snip ./setup: error in loading shared libraries libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Indeed, the version of libdl.so on my system is 1.8.12. Is there a way to upgrade without upgrading to a newer version of Debian? A search on libdl with dselect of the available bo packages turned up nothing, but I suppose libdl is included implicitly in another package. snip You find out which package a file is in by doing the following : funkiest:/home/paul# dpkg -S libdl ldso: /lib/libdl.so.1.9.11 libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libdl.a libc6: /lib/libdl-2.1.3.so ldso: /lib/libdl.so.1 libc6: /lib/libdl.so.2 libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libdl.so funkiest:/home/paul# Which shows it's in libc6. Since upgrading a C-library can affect a lot of packages, you would probably get less problems by upgrading the whole lot to potato, which should be stabilising nicely. -- Regards, Paul
sound hell
hello, i'm currently running potato (upgraded from slink) and am finding it absolutely impossibe to get sound working. i've never had this problem w/ my last 2 debian machines. the only difference being those two had SB AWE64 cards, and this one has a SB PCI128. in the past i've always just downloaded and installed OSS w/ no problems. this time however, is different. it's given me a billion errors. i seem to have fixed most of them by downloading the kernel source (which wasn't there after the initial install), making some changes in xconfig, saving them and doing a 'make dep'. finally i've got it down to only one error during installatio of oss: *** 'sndshield' version error *** See /usr/lib/oss/Readme for more info. in which it mentions: This means that the active kernel sources have to be in /usr/src/linux. If compiling sndshield fails it usually means that you have installed, configured or compiled the kernel incorrectly. which they're not. fine. recompile time. yet, a good ways through make bzImage it dies w/ this: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -E -D__BIG_KERNEL__ -traditional -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect.S -o bbootsect.s as86 -0 -a -o bbootsect.o bbootsect.s make[1]: as86: Command not found make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot' make: *** [bzImage] Error 2 grr.. so my question is: 1. am i just stupid? 2. am i making this way too complicated 3. is there an easier way? all of the HOWTO's end up mentioning isapnptools which does me no good since it's a PCI card. i'd be willing to do a re-install if i have to (btw, i got lazy and installed a preconfigured setup this time around. the dialup machine option, if that matters). i absolutely can NOT do w/o sound and afraid i'll have to wipe out this drive in favor of Corel this weekend (damn it! why can't debian adopt corel's sound_setup program. it works so nicely!), which i really don't wanna do. so if anyone has ANY suggestions, i'd be SO grateful. thanks in advance, james
Re: lm-sensors: can't access /proc file
* Marc == Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But, when I invoke sensors itself, it tells me that it couldn't access /proc file, and I don't have /proc/sensors. Also, the /dev/i2c nodes the docs mention seem to be missing. What am I doing wrong? Do you have the modules loaded? On my computer (with a p5a-board too), it was necessary to add the modules listed below to /etc/modules: i2c-proc i2c-ali15x3 i2c-dev w83781d sensors smbus i2c-core With this it works. bye Gerhard -- Hi! I'm a .signature *virus*! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: Help
From: Robert Mognet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let's don't make the operating system 'dumber'. Let's have users who are willing to learn. We're not talking about making the operating system dumber. We're not talking about the operation system at all. We're talking about the mailing list. Subscribers shouldn't have to learn Unix/Linux just to unsubscribe from a mailing list. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )
Re: sound hell
apt-get install bin86 Sean
Re: can I execute a shell during booting?
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, john smith wrote: I would like to know if there is a way to execute a bash shell or whatever shell during booting or bootstrapping of the kernel. i.e. No, it's not. You'll have to boot off a floppy, and go fix whatever you broke.
Re: ipmasq and howto
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:47:20 -0600, matt garman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the help! But unfortunately it's not working. You're probably really, really close to succeeding. :-) It -sounds- like all the bits are working, but 'forwarding' is not fully activated; that your roommate's requests are not getting out the door because they don't know where the door is. That can be either a glitch in your routing setup, or 'forwarding' itself is not enabled. Do: cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ...and see if 1 is the result. If not, re-do the 'echo' command that puts 1 there: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward If no success after that, do: ipchains -L ...and you should see (policy ACCEPT) for the three 'chains'. If that's okay, do: ipchains -M -L ...and see if the MASQ entry is still present -- dunno why yet, but we're experiencing that entry's disappearance from time to time; 'diald' or somebody is deleting it, I think, when being taken down, and not putting it back up again. Also useful: Your roommate's computer should have a 'hosts' file and a 'resolv' file (or whatever Mr. Gates may have used in place of those :-). -- Jeff -- http://www.wellnow.com There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve.
Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 09:45:35AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 03:55:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I suggest you close bugs filed by such people without comment. Call it the Malicious Blacklist User Behavior Modification System. Of course, you could always just get the work done and email back to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; since it'll go through Debian the email will indeed arrive just fine. Blacklisters may have the right to speak and *say* what they think I should do, but they have no right to be heard. If you have the right to refuse to listen to me on my terms, I have the right to refuse to listen to you on yours. There are many options available for blacklist-employing Debian users that require only minimal additional effort on their part. If they are using an ISP that employs the DUL and have no ability to opt out of it, perhaps they should explore using a different ISP. There are lots of them, you know. That's pretty hypocritical coming from you lot who claim you can't find another ISP -- you're the ones with the broken ISP after all. My regualr email address rejects on RSS, RBL and DUL (I configured it that way myself) -- you can still email me at debian.org just fine though. You have a staggering inability to perceive rhetorical congruence. -- G. Branden Robinson|If you wish to strive for peace of soul, Debian GNU/Linux |then believe; if you wish to be a [EMAIL PROTECTED] |devotee of truth, then inquire. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |-- Friedrich Nietzsche pgpLDF8R5ZB7x.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: AMD PCNET PCI Ethernet question
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, syed huq wrote: I looked under /lib/modules/2.0.36/ and found pcnet32.o which is what the HOW-TO says as being the correct driver for AMD PCNET PCI. if I do a ifconfig as root, I still do not see the eth0. if I do a modprobe eth0, I don't get anything. eth0 is a semi-virtual interface. There is not actual eth0 driver, rather eth0 is provided by the actual ethernet driver. I may be wrong here (and I'm sure someone will correct me if I am) but I believe you can do a 'modprobe pcnet32' and then do ifconfig eth0 up 1.2.3.4 Otherwise add the following line to /etc/modules.conf: alias eth0 pcnet32 later, joseph -- the LaterDude ICQ: 52640402 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ice-works.com/personal/LaterDude/index.html All opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employer unless otherwise noted.
mirroring subset of debian files with rsync
I'm trying to mirror a subset of the debian files (specifically everything for sparc in the potato release). In order to minimize the load on the server I was trying to use rsync. But it seems rsync's include/exclude facility is either broken, or incorrectly documented. I've tried quite a number of different combinations of options, and I get either no files at all, or it tries to download everything. Before I give up on rsync and start using mirror via FTP (which I know works because I use it in ways similar to this already), I thought I would ask here to see if anyone had any idea how to make rsync actually do what I want. Here's the command I'm using now: rsync --block-size=8192 --verbose --stats --recursive --compress --links --perms --times --timeout 300 --delete --delete-excluded --include '/dists/potato/main/binary-all/**' --include '/dists/potato/main/binary-sparc/**' --include '/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/**' --include '/dists/potato/main/source/**' --include '/dists/potato/contrib/binary-all/**' --include '/dists/potato/contrib/binary-sparc/**' --include '/dists/potato/contrib/source/**' --include '/dists/potato/non-free/binary-all/**' --include '/dists/potato/non-free/binary-sparc/**' --include '/dists/potato/non-free/source/**' --exclude '/**' 'download.sourceforge.net::debian/.' 'data/download.sourceforge.net' As seen from the list, I'm trying to include every file that matches the includes, and exclude whatever gets by all of them unmatched. It's as if rsync isn't doing the sequential match test like the docs say it does. -- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | My current boycotts: Amazon.Com, DVDs, Mattel, Sony | [EMAIL PROTECTED] + | Dallas - Texas - USA | My current websites: linuxhomepage.com, ham.org
Re: mirroring subset of debian files with rsync
Phil == Phil Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Phil Here's the command I'm using now: Phil rsync --block-size=8192 --verbose --stats --recursive Phil --compress --links --perms --times --timeout 300 --delete Phil --delete-excluded --include Phil '/dists/potato/main/binary-all/**' --include Phil '/dists/potato/main/binary-sparc/**' --include Phil '/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/**' --include Phil '/dists/potato/main/source/**' --include Phil '/dists/potato/contrib/binary-all/**' --include Phil '/dists/potato/contrib/binary-sparc/**' --include Phil '/dists/potato/contrib/source/**' --include Phil '/dists/potato/non-free/binary-all/**' --include Phil '/dists/potato/non-free/binary-sparc/**' --include Phil '/dists/potato/non-free/source/**' --exclude '/**' Phil 'download.sourceforge.net::debian/.' Phil 'data/download.sourceforge.net' Phil As seen from the list, I'm trying to include every file that Phil matches the includes, and exclude whatever gets by all of Phil them unmatched. It's as if rsync isn't doing the sequential Phil match test like the docs say it does. I am afraid I really can't help you with your problem, but this is what I would do: 1. That is a very long command line. I think it would simplify it a lot if you could use --exclude-from=FILE and --include-from=FILE (not tested). A simpler command line is easier to debug... 2. Try to test very simple commands on a smaller filesystem, perhaps even on the same system. eg rsync ... /tmp/mytest /tmp/out --include /tmp/mytest/a \ --exclude '/tmp/mytest/**' (not tested, I don't often use rsync, so beware!) 3. look at other programs that use rsync, eg apt-move. From memory, apt-move uses rsync in a similar way. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing a single package
dpkg -i packagfile Or, perhaps more useful and simpler: apt-get install some-package ...which also gets it for you. On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 10:33:21PM +0200, FreeMan wrote: Hi, I've downloaded the swat-package file. But I don't know how to install it. I tried it with dselect, but it seems to that with dselect it's just possible to install packages which came with the distribution. Can anybody tell me what I have to do? have to do? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/
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Re: GUI FTP package
I have used Caitoo - found it from freshmeat. Kari On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Alex Kwan wrote: Hi! I am looking for a GUI FTP download software with resume broken download fuction (like Gozilla under MS Windows), Does anybody know which and where? Thanks! Alex
Re: Make/makefiles
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Bart Friederichs wrote: Hi, Can anybody tell me how to make a *simple* makefile? Or a URL where I can find more info? The manpages aren't very clear, and *way* too extensive. I have a small project with 3 source code files, and I don't want to compile all of them every time. Check the make-doc package.
Re: Boot disk quit working after second install
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Erik Ryberg wrote: Lehel Bernadt wrote: What kind of boot disk do you have : ext2+lilo, fat+syslinux, loadlin or just the raw kernel ? What is its configuration ? I understand that you use the same disk for debian suse. How did you altered the config to boot suse instead of debian ? U. . .. I don't know. It was a boot disk I made during the install. I seem to recall seeing loadlin come up but I confess I didn't pay that much attention when it was booting. When I booted my computer some text would come up with the word boot and almost immediately it would say booting the kernel or something like that, then it would scroll through the various drives and so forth and then I would be in Debian, and it would ask for login password. If this is the disk you've created when installing debian, then it is syslinux. You can check the disk from dos (because it's a fat fs). There should be a file named ldlinux.sys. The config file is syslinux.cfg. It has a line like : APPEND root=/dev/hda2 ro This tells the kernel from what partition to mount the root fs. If you haven't modified the config file, I really don't know how gets windows loaded. Maybe you should check the disk with scandisk.
Re: sound hell
I LOVE YOU! heh, well, no. but seriously. after installing bin86, the kernel did, indeed compile correctly. after many tries, the soundcard still wouldn't work (i did select sound support for Ensoniq pci 97... the chipset for my card). i swapped it w/ a SB AWE64 i had in another machine and xconfig'ed again and selected support for it and, upon reboot, it worked fine. though, nothing i did w/ my PCI 128 ever worked. does anyone have a success story for this card? perhaps i still did something wrong(?) well, as a last resort i installed OSS again which WAS a asuccess w/ the PCI 128 card w/o any probs. so, while not a perfect solution (i'd rather have it compiled into the kernel), i have sweet, sweet sound emanating from my speakers, nonetheless. so, while i'm here, i have one last thing until this whole setup is perfect. does anyone know about the current support for USB devices? i have an Epson Stylus Color 740 w/ USB i'm trying to get to work. though no luck so far. can't find a HOWTO for the life of me on this. thanks again, james On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 10:36:44PM -0500, Sean Johnson wrote: apt-get install bin86 Sean -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
unlink or kernel error?
Hi all,
Sorry, my problem is probably not Debian specific... I tried to run under
slink with the 2.0.36 kernel the following program:
#define RUN /tmp/.rem.run
#include stdio.h
#include sys/types.h
#include sys/stat.h
#include fcntl.h
#include unistd.h
main()
{
open(RUN, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR);
printf(File created\n);
sleep(30);
unlink(RUN);
printf(File removed\n);
sleep(30);
printf(Finish\n);
}
After the message File created I can see that there is a file .rem.run
in /tmp directory. After File removed that file disappears. But
according to unlink man page it should exist up to the message Finish
because it is not closed. Only after terminating the program kernel
closes all open files and .rem.run should be removed. Does anybody have
an idea what's going on here? Thanks!
--
Tad
Re: unlink or kernel error?
On Sat, 01 Apr 2000, Tadeusz Bak wrote:
Hi all,
Sorry, my problem is probably not Debian specific... I tried to run under
slink with the 2.0.36 kernel the following program:
#define RUN /tmp/.rem.run
#include stdio.h
#include sys/types.h
#include sys/stat.h
#include fcntl.h
#include unistd.h
main()
{
open(RUN, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR);
printf(File created\n);
sleep(30);
unlink(RUN);
printf(File removed\n);
sleep(30);
printf(Finish\n);
}
After the message File created I can see that there is a file .rem.run
in /tmp directory. After File removed that file disappears. But
according to unlink man page it should exist up to the message Finish
because it is not closed. Only after terminating the program kernel
closes all open files and .rem.run should be removed. Does anybody have
an idea what's going on here? Thanks!
The thing that happens is that the file name is deleted
from the directory, but its inode is kept until the program closes the
descriptor.
Latest version of babel
Anyone know where I can find the latest version of babel (for Greek, specifically)? I can only find 3.7j but I know there are more recent ones. I thought it was part of TeX but I just downloaded the latest version of this and it isn't there. -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.pentelikon.freeserve.co.uk/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.freethinker/uklinux.net/ To be forced by desire into any unwarrantable belief is a calamity. I.A. Richards
Re: sound hell
after many tries, the soundcard still wouldn't work (i did select sound support for Ensoniq pci 97... the chipset for my card). i swapped it w/ a SB AWE64 i had in another machine and xconfig'ed again and selected support for it and, upon reboot, it worked fine. though, nothing i did w/ my PCI 128 ever worked. does anyone have a success story for this card? perhaps i still did something wrong(?) a far as i understand, you are talking about a cratvie sb 128 pci, today called sb 16 pci (at least in germany) - right? well ... the chipset from this board (at least mine) is the es1371 ... -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
Re: sound hell
james == james [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: james so, while i'm here, i have one last thing until this whole james setup is perfect. does anyone know about the current james support for USB devices? i have an Epson Stylus Color 740 james w/ USB i'm trying to get to work. though no luck so james far. can't find a HOWTO for the life of me on this. You will need Linux 2.3.x (still in development), or wait until 2.4.x is released. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: unlink or kernel error?
Lehel == Lehel Bernadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lehel The thing that happens is that the file name is deleted Lehel from the directory, but its inode is kept until the program Lehel closes the descriptor. Yes. Now for some really weird behaviour, try the same thing program on NFS (and use ls -a to show files starting with a period). NFS doesn't support the same mechanism Unix does for this feature, so it has to be hacked in. Different OS are slightly different in how they behave here (eg some OSs allow you to delete the deleted file, others don't), so experiment! -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question
Hi! I have configured the ppp dialup connection with pppconfig, (for example the connection named: MYISP), Now how do I establish and shut down the ppp dialup connection (not under GNOME)? Thanks! Alex
Re: Questions from a new debian user
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 05:38:02PM -0500, Phoenix Amon wrote:
Why would you want to close X? You can also switch to a
virtual terminal
from X at any time using alt-ctrl-F1 to F6 (there are six virtual
terminals at default).
Well, for instance... if what you want to do from the terminal is upgrade
your X server. :) Trying to do this from within X can be a Very Bad Thing, or
so I hear. It certainly doesn't sound like a good idea to me. But of course
I'm mostly clueless. ;)
not really, the only time upgrading X while its running could be bad
is if you have {x,w,k}dm set to restart automatically after the
upgrade, in which case the curent X session will be killed
unexpectedly would might annoy the user. i do not have wdm set this
way and have upgraded X many times behind the users back (i ssh in to
maintain the system) never had a problem, except that i cannot remount
the /usr filesystem back to read-only until the user logs out so i can
restart the X server. *nix unlike other braindamaged OSes allows
files which are in use to be replaced/deleted without causing
breakage. the existing file remains accessable to whoever is using it
until its closed, then its really removed from the disk.
i do tend to agree its better to run major upgrades from the console
just in case X dies you can still monitor the upgrade and answer any
questions.
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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Re: ipmasq and howto
Try something like this with your IP No's in /etc/init.d/network
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
#ethernet card
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1
route -add net 192.168.1.0
route -add net 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.1.1
IPADDR=192.168.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
ifconfig ppp ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
/sbin/ipfwadm -F -a acc -m -b -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
- Original Message -
From: matt garman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jeff Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: ipmasq and howto
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 07:52:01AM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote:
The answer seems to be, Yes...sort of. :-) See if this helps:
...
Thanks for all the help! But unfortunately it's not working.
I double checked the IP-Masquerading howto to make sure I have all the
necessary kernel components compiled in. I also installed the ipmasq
package and rebooted. When I establish a PPP connection, however, I
cannot see the external network (i.e. the internet) from my roommate's
computer (e.g. cannot ping outside of 192.168.*, cannot load web pages).
By the way, I do have my roommate's computer recognizing mine and mine
seeing his (I've got samba working to share files between the two
computers also).
I also tried following your steps, still no luck. I've got a network
traffic monitor utility called wmnet running on both my modem and ethernet
card. I had my roommate watch these programs for activity while I tried
pinging, telnetting and httping from his computer. He said he saw
activity on both monitors, but still I couldn't get productive results on
his computer. He's running Windows 98.
Anyone have any ideas? Are there any config files I could post that would
be useful in diagnosing the problem, or output of any particular program?
Thanks,
Matt
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done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done.
But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the
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Xfree update for slink 2.1
I have mirrored the whole directory at http://www.debian.org/~vincent/dists/xfree-update/main/binary-i386/ to avoid having to download it every time I do a fresh installation from my official cds. What command will upgrade it, shoud I run apt-get upgrade xfree or so from within the directory where the files are? Thanks, AR.
Re: Questions from a new debian user
Phoenix Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Hillary. I'm about a week newer to Linux that you are... I know your
bewilderment well. :)
1. Is there a way to exit X without halting the computer? The methods
I've tried have either shut down the computer correctly or
brought me back
to the X login prompts.
If you're in the login screen and you haven't yet logged in, you should
be able to CTRL-ALT-Backspace to exit to the plain terminal. This worked
for me with plain XDM. It did not work with KDM however, and I deleted
KDM in frustration. :)
I think xdm is the one that's broken here (on your installation); kdm's
behaviour here is what's supposed to happen with both. Ctrl-Alt-F1 to
Ctrl-Alt-F6 is the way you get to a virtual console, or '/etc/init.d/xdm
stop' if you want to close down X altogether. ('/etc/init.d/xdm start'
restarts it.)
Have a look in /var/log/xdm.log and see if you can find out why xdm
isn't restarting the X server (or perhaps you've deliberately set it
that way somewhere in /etc/X11/xdm?).
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Questions from a new debian user
Have a look in /var/log/xdm.log and see if you can find out why xdm isn't restarting the X server (or perhaps you've deliberately set it that way somewhere in /etc/X11/xdm?). Thanks, Colin, but I can't. I zapped both XDM and KDM to dust. :) And actually even if it was broken (it was a straight install from the CD as part of my initial debian install process so I don't know why it would be) I preferred the way XDM was letting me force it to go away. With KDM I felt like I wasn't allowed to ever exit to the plain old ordinary terminal and I was trapped in X forever whether I wanted it or not. Granted it might not be necessary to ever leave X at all... but sometimes I just want out of it. A graphical login struck me as unnecessary because it only saved me having to type startx and for the sake of typing 6 characters, why have a whole program installed? :) I like X a whole lot. I like my pretty little icons and I'm a real point-n-click gal... but when Enlightenment sends my pagers into another dimension and Eterm crashes 3 times in a row, I want to be able to shut the bloody thing down and retreat to my plain grey characters on my plain black screen. Phoenix
Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question
Alex Kwan wrote: Hi! I have configured the ppp dialup connection with pppconfig, (for example the connection named: MYISP), Now how do I establish and shut down the ppp dialup connection (not under GNOME)? pon MYISP poff note that if you only use one ISP, you can use the name 'default' for the connection, and only need to issue the command: pon hth dyer
Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question
Alex writes: I have configured the ppp dialup connection with pppconfig, (for example the connection named: MYISP), Now how do I establish and shut down the ppp dialup connection Type 'pon' to establish the connection and 'poff' to shut it down. 'plog' will show you the status. not under GNOME If you have Gnome and want pointy-clicky ppp control install gpppon from unstable. It's a gnome wrapper around pon and poff. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
auto dial on startup
Hi all I'm using wvdial from command line only on my Debian (woody) box, can someone please tell me how to get it to dial automaticaly when the computer is started. Thanks in advance Bill * The Mind is like a parachute; it works much better when it's open. *
Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question
dyer writes: pon MYISP Which is what I should have written in my previous response. note that if you only use one ISP, you can use the name 'default' for the connection and only need to issue the command: pon Not 'default', 'provider'. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Kernel building fault...
I'm using the woody release of Debian and have had a problem the last part of this month. I've had IRQ problems and problems with the kernel not recognising how much mem i have in the machine. I've been thinking i've had harware problems and been trying to find the fault. Now i've noticed that it was the kernel which was the error. I looked back at my old kernals and found that the last working kernel which gave me no problems. I tried to compile that same kernel again and i noticed those problems occured again. So my guess is that some part of the packages needed to build my kernal generate faulty code. gcc, binutils, libc6... those are my best guesses. The latest working kernel i have is from the 13th of march. So some package after that should make the difference... Am i the only one with this problem ?? /Mikael 'Nik' Grahn - Mindkiller Systems -
Re: Basic PPP dialup to ISP question
note that if you only use one ISP, you can use the name 'default' for the connection and only need to issue the command: pon Not 'default', 'provider'. -- whoops! Need more coffee! dyer
Re: auto dial on startup
Bill writes: I'm using wvdial from command line only on my Debian (woody) box, can someone please tell me how to get it to dial automaticaly when the computer is started. Run pppconfig and set up the connection named 'provider' (that's the default). Then go to /etc/ppp and rename the file no_ppp_on_boot to ppp_on_boot . -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: serial ports faster that 38.4K?
John writes: How do you make the serial ports in 2.1 go faster than 38,400? By telling them to. Speeds to 115200 are supported. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: auto dial on startup
Than you, works well - Original Message - From: John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 11:59 PM Subject: Re: auto dial on startup Bill writes: I'm using wvdial from command line only on my Debian (woody) box, can someone please tell me how to get it to dial automaticaly when the computer is started. Run pppconfig and set up the connection named 'provider' (that's the default). Then go to /etc/ppp and rename the file no_ppp_on_boot to ppp_on_boot . -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Install XFree86 4.0 on Potato
Hi! Debian Friends, Thank you all the help of yours, the ppp dial-out now work! Now I have another lesson to learn, it's install the XFree86 4.0 (non .deb packages) on Potato. I have already download the necessary binary files of Free86 4.0 (following to the XFree86's document), but I am afraid that if I follow the instruction of XFree86 to install (us Xinstall), it will make the dkpg system confuse (my debian box do not have X Window right now), which way is the better way to install the XFree86 4.0 on Potato? Thanks and have a nice weekend! Alex
Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:19:40PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 09:45:35AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Of course, you could always just get the work done and email back to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; since it'll go through Debian the email will indeed arrive just fine. Blacklisters may have the right to speak and *say* what they think I should do, but they have no right to be heard. If you have the right to refuse to listen to me on my terms, I have the right to refuse to listen to you on yours. You should at the very least mention why you're closing the bug report. It may, for example, be the case that user is unaware that their usual mail system uses the DUL or whatever. Randomly closed bugreports will just annoy people without actually helping them realise that you find yourself unable to talk to them and what they can do to work around this situation. Not that I would advocate doing this in the first place. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgp59qRIdud8S.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xfree update for slink 2.1
Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mirrored the whole directory at http://www.debian.org/~vincent/dists/xfree-update/main/binary-i386/ to avoid having to download it every time I do a fresh installation from my official cds. What command will upgrade it, shoud I run apt-get upgrade xfree or so from within the directory where the files are? If you've mirrored the Packages.gz file as well, then add a line to /etc/apt/sources.list pointing at that directory like this (assuming you've put them in /home/username/debian/xfree-update): deb file:/home/username/debian xfree-update/ (The / at the end is important.) After you've done that, 'apt-get update', and then 'apt-get upgrade'. 'apt-get install xbase' would probably also do the job instead of upgrade, but I'm not sure exactly what the recommended way is. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Keys in Emacs
Hello, I am running the lastest version of Potato and I have the following problem. All my programs have right key configurations, except Emacs, when in Xterm. My END key doesn't work in Emacs in XTERM, but works fine when I am in console or in X. Any idea? Thank you, -- Rodrigo Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Science undergraduate student - University of Sao Paulo I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. -- Isaac Asimov
Re: Install XFree86 4.0 on Potato
Alex Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I have another lesson to learn, it's install the XFree86 4.0 (non .deb packages) on Potato. I have already download the necessary binary files of Free86 4.0 (following to the XFree86's document), but I am afraid that if I follow the instruction of XFree86 to install (us Xinstall), it will make the dkpg system confuse (my debian box do not have X Window right now), which way is the better way to install the XFree86 4.0 on Potato? It will probably confuse dpkg somewhat, yes, although perhaps not too badly if you don't have X installed already. Don't expect dependencies to work without some fiddling around with the equivs package. You might be able to build and install it into /usr/local or /usr/local/X11R6 if you then symlink /usr/bin/X11, /usr/include/X11, and /usr/lib/X11 to the appropriate places, but at your own risk. The best way if you don't already know what you're doing is probably to wait for the Debian XFree86-4.0 packages to be released for woody; at that stage you'll probably still be able to install woody packages on potato without too much trouble. See: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-0003/msg00973.html -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IDE/DMA/VIA chipset question (compiling new kernel)
Hello, Before anything else, I'd like to thank the people who have helped me before. This has been really nice... And so far, support here in this list has been really efficient. Thank you all. Ok - now, to my little problem: I have a Pentium II 400Mh with 64Mb RAM; my motherboard and HD both support DMA/66, the CD-rom drive also supports DMA/33. I'm running potato now, and I've compiled a new kernel (2.3.47), optimized for my box... But at a certain point when running make xconfig I had one doubt... According to the help box, I shouldn't choose to use DMA by default when available is I have a VIA VP2 chipset. Well, I have a VIA 693/596 chipset in my motherboard (which has 2 PCI IDE interfaces on-board)... And I don't know if my chipset would be somehow related or derived from the VP2, or whatever... In short, I don't know if it's safe to use DMA by default... So I've compiled it without it. Now... My questions are: 1) How much difference would that option make? 2) Would it be safe to compile the kernel with that option? Thanks a lot! J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
3 questions. Please, HELP ME!
Hi! I'm a Debian Linux 2.1 'slink' user, and I have 3 questions: 1. I have compiled the version 2.2.4-intl of Linux Kernel and, at boot time, my screen shows the following message: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument I have read the documentation, and says that is a bug in pppd versions 2.2.0 and earlier. I have currently installed pppd v2.3 patch level 5. Why does occur this? How can I patch the kernel? 2. My distribution doesn't make some device files, such as /dev/modem, /dev/audio, /dev/mixer, /dev/sndstat (I cannot use my SoundBlaster PCI 64, and I use my modem with device file /dev/ttyS1 directly). How can I workaround this? 3. I have the defrag utility. How can I defragment my Linux partition, since a mounted drive cannot be defragmented? Please, send your reply at [EMAIL PROTECTED], as soon as possible. Thanks very much for your support!!
Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, José María Pongilioni López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm a Debian Linux 2.1 'slink' user, and I have 3 questions: 1. I have compiled the version 2.2.4-intl of Linux Kernel and, at boot time, my screen shows the following message: SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument I have read the documentation, and says that is a bug in pppd versions 2.2.0 and earlier. I have currently installed pppd v2.3 patch level 5. Why does occur this? How can I patch the kernel? I *think* this occurs when running a 2.2.x kernel with slink, because the /etc/init.d/network script tries to add a route to the loopback interface (lo). This is not neccessary any more with a 2.2.x kernel. Look for a line starting with route add ... in /etc/init.d/network, comment it out and see if that helps. 2. [...] 3. I have the defrag utility. How can I defragment my Linux partition, since a mounted drive cannot be defragmented? There is no need to 'defrag' ext2 filesystems, you don't have to worry about that. -- Philip Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:19:40PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Blacklisters may have the right to speak and *say* what they think I should do, but they have no right to be heard. If you have the right to refuse to listen to me on my terms, I have the right to refuse to listen to you on yours. Yes, but you have not the right (what loaded words!) to close the bug reports. Feel free to ignore them, but don't close them without a better reason. Someone else might want to take alook into it, and listen to the submitter. (And be able to contact him). Also, it might be that the submitter reads the bug archive to correspond with you. I don't know if you were serious or not, but I think the whole discussion got well out of hands. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.orgfor public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound hell
Oswald Buddenhagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [attribution lost] after many tries, the soundcard still wouldn't work (i did select sound support for Ensoniq pci 97... the chipset for my card). i swapped it w/ a SB AWE64 i had in another machine and xconfig'ed again and selected support for it and, upon reboot, it worked fine. though, nothing i did w/ my PCI 128 ever worked. does anyone have a success story for this card? perhaps i still did something wrong(?) a far as i understand, you are talking about a cratvie sb 128 pci, today called sb 16 pci (at least in germany) - right? well ... the chipset from this board (at least mine) is the es1371 ... Same with mine, and it works fine. (Though I've never succeeded in getting recording working ... are there any particular tricks to this?) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sound hell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i absolutely can NOT do w/o sound and afraid i'll have to wipe out this drive in favor of Corel this weekend (damn it! why can't debian adopt corel's sound_setup program. it works so nicely!), What's the licence like? If it's free, then maybe we could integrate it. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gnome mimetype and /etc/mailcap
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 09:12:51 +1200, Hunter H Marshall wrote: My mutt claims no handler for image/jeg. There is no entry for image/jpeg in /etc/mailcap. ok. But gnome control center mimetypes has extensive mime.type/mailcap info and in particular has an eeyes entry for image/jpeg. This is a bug in eeyes; I've filed a bug report for it. Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
dhcp-client not working with att @home cable modem
I'm trying to get ATT @home cable modem service working on my system. From what I have gathered, it seems as though it should be as easy as installing a dhcp client package, and let dhcp get everything working for me. I installed Debian's dhcp-client package. It runs, looks as though it's trying to get an IP address but fails. Also, I have the IP I've been assigned, so I don't think I really *need* dhcp, but I forgot to ask the tech the address of the nameserver(s). Anyway, here is the output of dhcp-client; eth0 is the card that is plugged into the cable modem: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:60:08:15:9d:e2 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:60:08:15:9d:e2 Listening on LPF/lo/null Sending on LPF/lo/null Listening on LPF/eth1/00:a0:cc:5b:dd:f8 Sending on LPF/eth1/00:a0:cc:5b:dd:f8 Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. Any ideas? Thanks, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!
José María Pongilioni López writes: I use my modem with device file /dev/ttyS1 directly). How can I workaround this? Don't. You should use /dev/ttyS1 directly: /dev/modem is a bad idea (and it isn't a device file: it's just a link to /dev/ttyS1). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!
1. [snip] 2. My distribution doesn't make some device files, such as /dev/modem, /dev/audio, /dev/mixer, /dev/sndstat (I cannot use my SoundBlaster PCI 64, and I use my modem with device file /dev/ttyS1 directly). How can I workaround this? Those devices, some of htem, are just symlinks. For example, /dev/modem/ is a symlink to /dev/ttyS1, so if you run ln -s /dev/ttyS1 /dev/modem, it will make the symlink for you. As far as audio goes, to create those devices you need to go to /dev and ./MAKEDEV audio However, prior to that you have to include sound support into kernel, and with PCI card I am not sure hwo to do that (I think it is PnP, then you are sorta screwed.) Read Sound-HOWTO and Kernel-HOWTO for that. You can find them at linuxdoc.org 3. I have the defrag utility. How can I defragment my Linux partition, since a mounted drive cannot be defragmented? Well, one way is to unmount the partition (umount /zip , f.e) and defrag it. If its a /usr or /, then if you really wan to defrag it, then you have to do some more worka LOT more work. So dont worry about it. How big is the defragmentation, how many files you have and how big the partition is? HTH, Andrei - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://arhses.dyndns.org -| http://scorpio.dynodns.net -| http://scorpio.myip.org-| --All the pages bundled together. UIN 12402354 For GPG key, go to above URL/GnuPG -
Re: dhcp-client not working with att @home cable modem
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 11:02:55AM -0600, matt garman wrote: I'm trying to get ATT @home cable modem service working on my system. From what I have gathered, it seems as though it should be as easy as installing a dhcp client package, and let dhcp get everything working for me. ... Sorry, I was a bit hasty on the mailing list. I overlooked information on my paperwork. I'm on line. Thanks again, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
Re: ipmasq and howto
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:02:15PM -0500, Jeff Gordon wrote: ...and you should see (policy ACCEPT) for the three 'chains'. If that's okay, do: ipchains -M -L ...and see if the MASQ entry is still present -- dunno why yet, but we're experiencing that entry's disappearance from time to time; 'diald' or somebody is deleting it, I think, when being taken down, and not putting it back up again. I executed ipchains -P forward ACCEPT for the three default chains (forward, output, intput), so that I could in fact have (policy ACCEPT) for all three chains. But when I do the ipchains -M -L I have no entries, even after executing the following line: ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0/0 -j MASQ I even went through and did a ipchains -F chain for all chains (output, input, forward). The I re-did the line above, so my output of ipchains -L looks like the following: Chain input (policy ACCEPT): Chain forward (policy ACCEPT): target prot opt sourcedestination ports MASQ all -- home/24 anywhere n/a Chain output (policy ACCEPT): But still when I do ipchains -M -L I don't get anything. Any ideas? Thanks as always, Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
xemacs and the docbook 3.1 dtd's
Hey people - I'm just trying to edit docbook here, and it's quite obvious that emacs doesn't know to look for DTDs. I've found that emacs has a number of options for setting custom search paths for these kinds of files, but I can't decide what to set... It's somewhere under: Emacs/Programming/Languages/Sgml/Psgml/Psgml_Dtd Any ideas? thanks in advance for any help. -- ..Aaron Van Couwenberghe... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Berlin: http://www.berlin-consortium.org Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire
Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1
Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob, thanks for the help. I tried it, to little avail. (session below). I can't tell if 1) just better tool usage is needed, 2) my configuration is broken, and if so how to recover, 3) the tools are broken (less likely..) But, how does one probe into the details of: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status? You can look at the prerm script with `less /var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.prerm'. If you can see a line in the script that appears to be causing the problem, you can comment it out. If you can't see the cause of the problem, you could insert `exit 0' at the top of the script. Then try `dpkg --force-depends -r samba' again. I am not familiar with samba, but I see it has a _lot_ of files. By-passing the prerm might leave some directories, or even files, on your disk that would otherwise be removed. Since you intend to re-install samba, that probably won't be a be a problem, but you could always run cruft (../admin/cruft_*.deb) to locate files that aren't needed. In general, using --force options to dpkg, and/or modifying the maintainer scripts, have the potential to damage your system. In the present case, samba is already broken, so I don't see much chance of damaging anything but samba. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Re: EMERGENCY: LILO can't load Win95 / Mount fails
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, David Wright wrote: Quoting Stefan Baums ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hda1 contains what cfdisk calls Win95 FAT32 (LBA) (the lost Win95 partition) hda4 contains a Debian 2.0 base system LILO was set up to automatically boot Win95. The only major thing we did was install Ghostscript 6.01 for Windows, then next day when we turned the computer back on, LILO got stuck in booting after printing LI on screen. I then went into the Debian 2.0 system with a rescue disk, wrote a series of lilo.conf's, ran lilo, rebooted. The result was always that LILO got to the point where it told me Then I tried to mount the Win95 partition from GNU/Linux to save the most important data, but the result of mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt is: Just a thought, but does Debian 2.0 (this is hamm, released July 98) support FAT32 in its vfat, or only FAT16 with long filenames? Fat32 support seemed to creep rather quietly into linux kernels, judging by rgrep -i -r fat32 * Ie, have you mounted the partition successfully before from linux? I've been grateful to learn about the fdisk /mbr thing though in my case its closing the door after the horse has bolted ... result of using an immature bootloader with poor documentation. I do regularly browse my win95 files mounting thusly: mount -t msdos /dev/sdb1 /mnt angus claydon -- _ _ | | | | __ _ _ __ _ __ _ _ | |_| |/ _` | '_ \| '_ \| | | | | _ | (_| | |_) | |_) | |_| | |_| |_|\__,_| .__/| .__/ \__, | |_| |_||___/ _ _ __ __ _ _ __ | \ | | _ __ | \/ (_) | | ___ _ __ (_)_ _ _ __ ___ | \| |/ _ \ \ /\ / / | |\/| | | | |/ _ \ '_ \| | | | | '_ ` _ \ | |\ | __/\ V V / | | | | | | | __/ | | | | |_| | | | | | | |_| \_|\___| \_/\_/ |_| |_|_|_|_|\___|_| |_|_|\__,_|_| |_| |_|
Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 06:32:50PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Yes, but you have not the right (what loaded words!) to close the bug reports. Feel free to ignore them, but don't close them without a better reason. I would close such bugs if I need further information (and can't reproduce them without). cu Torsten -- Torsten Landschoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Committee Member pgpwQieJ3vLhH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1
At 12:11 PM 04/01/2000 -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob, thanks for the help. - again! But, how does one probe into the details of: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status? You can look at the prerm script with `less /var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.prerm'. If you can see a line in the script that appears to be causing the problem, you can comment it out. If you can't see the cause of the problem, you could insert `exit 0' at the top of the script. Then try `dpkg --force-depends -r samba' again.-- I checked the file, and found out that the problem is (was) that the pre-rm script was trying to stop two daemons, neither of which was running, so it would exit(1), and nothing else would work. This seems like an install error to me, if the daemons are not running it is OK to remove it. Anyway, I added the -oknodo to the stop commands, and then it removed fine. But now I cannot re-install it. Then, dselect to install samba reports that there is a dependency problem, that Samba depends on libpam0 (=0.56-1) but libpam0 does not exist. (I am using a 2.1 CDROM) More details below. Thanks, as now apt-get is happy, and dselect, but samba won't install. I find this curious as you reported that your samba only had libc6 and netbase dependencies; and I am surprised that anything ins 2.1 is libc5 dependent. Perhaps I have some old dselect files on the system from pre-upgrade?? Thanks, Greg - csgrg.root(504) apt-get install samba Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok E: Package samba has no installation candidate csgrg.root(501) dselect Debian Linux `dselect' package handling frontend. --- Xtr net samba 1.9.16p11-3 none samba removed (configs remain); remove (was: remove). Extra samba - no description available. description of samba Package: samba Status: deinstall ok config-files Priority: extra Section: net Installed-Size: 1455 Maintainer: Klee Dienes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.9.16p11-3 Config-Version: 1.9.16p11-3 Depends: netbase (= 2.02), ldso (= 1.8.0-0), libc5 (= 5.4.0-0), libpam0 (= 0 csgrg.root(501) apt-get install samba Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok E: Package samba has no installation candidate csgrg.root(501) apt-get update Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages Get http://non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/main Packages Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/non-free Packages Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok csgrg.root(502) apt-get check Updating package file cache...done Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok csgrg.root(503) apt-get -f dist-upgrade Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. csgrg.root(504) apt-get install samba Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok E: Package samba has no installation candidate Dr. Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] (515)472-1125 Fax: -1103 Computer Science Department College of Science and Technology Maharishi University of Management (Maharishi International University 1971-1995) http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept
apt-get dpkg-preconfigure problems
Whenever trying to apt-get install any packages, I now get: E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt exited unexpectedly E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt This happened when I was installing the lynx package. Any help much appreciated, using frozen recent within the last hour. The dpkg-preconfigure manpage says that the default priority can be permanently changed by: dpkg-reconfigure --priority=medium debconf I type that at the command line and get: newport:/home/mark# dpkg-reconfigure --priority=medium debconf Illegal instruction newport:/home/mark# Hopefully someday dpkg-reconfigure will get a little more verbose... -- Mark Sell your Microsoft stock while you still have the chance!
Re: ipmasq and howto
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:14:52PM -0600, matt garman wrote: I executed ipchains -P forward ACCEPT for the three default chains (forward, output, intput), so that I could in fact have (policy ACCEPT) for all three chains. ... Problem solved, all of my roommates and I are connected! Thank you very much all of you that helped me out! Matt -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was just reading the interview with Korn in _Guitar_World_, and one of the guitarists said they don't play guitar solos because they've been done. Well, I guess that's true if you stick with what's been done. But you have to look beyond that; there's a lot more left to say on the guitar. -- Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule
Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:02:43PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: You should at the very least mention why you're closing the bug report. It may, for example, be the case that user is unaware that their usual mail system uses the DUL or whatever. Randomly closed bugreports will just annoy people without actually helping them realise that you find yourself unable to talk to them and what they can do to work around this situation. Did you bother to read my close message? Obviously not. I did in fact include an explanation of why I was closing the bug. Not that I would advocate doing this in the first place. Fine; if you want to have a conversation with people who refuse to listen to you, that's your right. I see communication as a bidirectional process, however. -- G. Branden Robinson| One man's magic is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | engineering. Supernatural is a [EMAIL PROTECTED] | null word. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein pgpFMozaTVFFJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ATTN: pjw@edmc.net
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:00:57PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 04:02:43PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: You should at the very least mention why you're closing the bug report. Did you bother to read my close message? Obviously not. I did in fact include an explanation of why I was closing the bug. I didn't look at any particular bug report. When you said that you would close such bugs without comment I assumed that you meant exactly that. Apparently this is not the case - my apologies. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgp6AlJZG3Thb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xemacs and the docbook 3.1 dtd's
On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 11:03:14AM -0800, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: Hey people - I'm just trying to edit docbook here, and it's quite obvious that emacs doesn't know to look for DTDs. I've found that emacs has a number of options for setting custom search paths for these kinds of files, but I can't decide what to set... It's somewhere under: Emacs/Programming/Languages/Sgml/Psgml/Psgml_Dtd Any ideas? thanks in advance for any help. I put these variables in my .bashrc which I source with .xsession. SGML_CATALOG_FILES=/etc/sgml.catalog SGML_PATH=/usr/lib/sgml DSSSL=/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/sgmltools export SGML_CATALOG SGML_PATH DSSSL I also have these lines in ~/.emacs (autoload 'sgml-mode psgml Major mode to edit SGML files. t) (autoload 'xml-mode psgml Major mode to edit XML files. t) I had problems a while back where psgmls wasn't getting byte compiled for Xemacs, though it was for emacs -- so it'd only work with Emacs. The problem was fixed, I think. I use LaTeX and vim mostly, so... -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Gnu/Linux 2.1 Install from the CD contained in Debian Gnu/Linux Guide to installation and usage
Greetings, I have been following the directions in the manual I bought meticulously, but cannot get the base system installed. First, the disk was purchased from Linux Central along with the book. Next, the directory structure implied by the text in the book is not even close to that on the CD. The book also refers to the rawrite2 program and the resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin files, which were not on the CD either. I got around this little problem by downloading the proper files from the HOWTO site, and hoped that the remainder of the install would go well. Alas, this does not turn out to be the case. I have tried both options in the install program: letting the program find base2_1.tgz, and supplying a path for it manually. However, the automatic option returned a message saying an appropriate path was not found, and when did a filefind on the CD on my other computer, I could not find it either. What is going on? Have I gotten the wrong CD, or have I purchased something other than the Debian GNU/Linux Release 2.1? Any and all help will be appreciated. Best Regards, Steve
DHCP
How do I force the machine to renew it's DHCP IP allocation? I've changed parameters on the DHCP server and I want the machine to reflect those changes. Also, how do I get a Linux machine to be a DHCP server? Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai bwz*mq
Re: Help with module problems on Upgrade to 2.1
Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 12:11 PM 04/01/2000 -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: Gregory Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob, thanks for the help. - again! But, how does one probe into the details of: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status? You can look at the prerm script with `less /var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.prerm'. If you can see a line in the script that appears to be causing the problem, you can comment it out. If you can't see the cause of the problem, you could insert `exit 0' at the top of the script. Then try `dpkg --force-depends -r samba' again. -- I checked the file, and found out that the problem is (was) that the pre-rm script was trying to stop two daemons, neither of which was running, so it would exit(1), and nothing else would work. This seems like an install error to me, if the daemons are not running it is OK to remove it. Anyway, I added the -oknodo to the stop commands, and then it removed fine. But now I cannot re-install it. Then, dselect to install samba reports that there is a dependency problem, that Samba depends on libpam0 (=0.56-1) but libpam0 does not exist. (I am using a 2.1 CDROM) It sounds like the samba on the CD has bad dependencies, or the library versions changed between when that samba was built and when the CD was made. I think your best bet is to download the current slink version of samba. At the present, that is 2.0.5a-1. It depends on samba-common and libc6. The apt-get update messages you quote indicate you have http.us.debian.org in sources.list, but you say you are using the 2.1 CD. If you have the mirror in /etc/apt/sources.list, and are still on line when you do apt-get install samba, apt should download samba and samba-common, and then install them. Since you have removed the old samba, apt-get update would not retrieve the samba packages. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard[EMAIL PROTECTED] |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9
Problem with Oracle 8i on potato
Greetings Has anyone tried to get Oracle 8i running on potato? I am having a segmentation fault problem with certain binaries: svrmgrl, sqlplus, sqlldr, imp, exp, dbv, to mention a few, immediately seg fault upon execution yet a couple of others (lsnrctl, tkprof) work fine. I initially tried with glibc 2.1.3-5; I installed the latest (2.1.3-7) but it's still no good. I have already installed the latest Oracle patch for this version of the database (8.1.5.0.2) plus have run their relinking tool; I also have verified that I am referencing the correct Oracle libraries in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Seems like current versions of Slackware, RedHat and SuSE don't have any problems at all getting 8i running. Any help would be most appreciated; I can send copies of strace run against several of the faulty binaries to anyone who wishes to see them. Cheers Matt -- Matt Surico | Oracle Certified| Database Administrator | -- Mummenschanz Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.buoy.com/~surico Pager: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
How to fix missing modules after kernel update?
I'm running an up-to-the-minute potato box. Today I compiled a custom 2.2.14 using dkpg-make. It installs and boots fine, except for errors produced by some things that were modules in the standard kernel (nic driver, NLSs,...) and are not modules anymore (either built in or not compiled at all). Those modules are reported not found during bootup. I suspect they are still scheduled for auto-load somewhere, but obviously I can't de-select them in modconf because they are not available in the new kernel... Is there any clean way to resolve this? Thanks a lot Christian
Re: 3 questions. Please, HELP ME!
3. I have the defrag utility. How can I defragment my Linux partition, since a mounted drive cannot be defragmented? Well, one way is to unmount the partition (umount /zip , f.e) and defrag it. If its a /usr or /, then if you really wan to defrag it, then you have to do some more worka LOT more work. So dont worry about it. How big is the defragmentation, how many files you have and how big the partition is? you need a separate /boot partition or a zImage and loadlin on a dos partition. go to single-user mode (init s). unmount all partitions, remount / read-only. defrag all (but /boot and /) partitions. then defrag / at last. reboot the system as soon as possible, as the filesystem data in memory will not be consistent with the one on disk any more (as / is still mounted). if you have a separate /boot partition, then after the reboot everything should be fine. now you may unmount /boot, defrag it, remount, AND DON'T FORGET TO RUN LILO BEFORE REBOOTING!! if your /boot is on /, then you need to boot with loadlin from dos, as the lilo map file will be made invalid by the defragmentation. first thing after booting: run lilo. then all should be fine. everything herein without any warranty!! it's your data! ;-) final notes: i don't thing, that the whole thing is worth the effort. the only partition on my system, that ever reaches fragmentation above 5% is /var, so it is sensible to defrag only that one (if any). you have a separate /var, don't you? :-) however - defragmentation is usually useless on ext2 as a) it keeps fragmentation low by nature and b) it spreads data all over the disk, so even defragmenting won't make the filesystem faster (only reading large files will be somewhat faster, but there are not many big files on a linux system, that need fast access and ever get fragmented). correct me, if i'm wrong ... regards -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
