Re: vim and GTK
If you read vim-dev, you should probably noticed that GTK+ support is probably not for long...=20 The contributor does not like the way his code was re-indented and requested to remove it from further releases :) He did not request it yet I think, but seeing his threats it is very likely. I hope someone else will step up to support the GTK+ port though. If I read the quotations correctly Bram (main vim author) said it looked very nice.. Let me get this straight--he wants the code pulled because he doesn't like the way someone else indented it? In short - yes, but this would be only half the truth. Indenting style of VIM looks weird enough for me - I absolutely cannot read the code with indentation used by Bram - original VIM author. When I wanted to fix some bugs I had to re-indent some parts of it by hand to be able to read. Another problem is that the contributor made some further changes to the code but cannot just apply the patch because his original code was re-indented. In any case, the probelem seem to be resolved by now - Bram decided to keep his code with contributor original indentation. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: UNIX questions
Where are defined daemon which are run at boot ? (I would like to run fetchmail -d at boot) Just add these couple of lines to, say /etc/init.d/netstd_misc Or create your own file and add it with update-rc.d command. Is there any bash command to wait for n seconds ? sleep n Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: vim and GTK
Work on vim is progressing steadily, and a new alpha version has just been released. One of the new versions is a GTK+ frontend. I would like If you read vim-dev, you should probably noticed that GTK+ support is probably not for long... The contributor does not like the way his code was re-indented and requested to remove it from further releases :) Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Adding a user... but they can't use X
I installed fvwm95 and got it configured properly. Then I used 'useradd' to give her an account, and gave her her own .fvwm95rc. When I log on as her, I can run 'startx' and it brings up the taskbar and so forth. But when I try to fire off any programs from the taskbar or an icon, they lock up. I tried opening an rxvt and it brings up a window and then says 'You don't have permission to run the X server'. Make sure /usr/X11R6/bin is in the PATH of the user in question before you do startx. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: ftp (client?) problem
I'm having a problem where I can download a file to my Linux box but not upload in the opposite direction. (BTW, the remote machine is a Unix box running Digital Unix or Solaris.) When I do a put, ftp (the program) will simply sit there doing nothing. Sometimes, I'm lucky (?) and it uploads about 2.5K before it sits still. Odd. My suspicion is on the ftp client program as I can upload a file fine from a PC running Win95 which the Linux box masquarades for. (Is that the correction expression??) Any help would be appreciated. Try using passive mode of ftp client. (Just type passiveCR before put) Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: problems with read()
I'm in the need of tracing a read(). After creating a socket (socket+bind+listen) I make a telnet call the machine+port and after the first read(), the program fails at it. More exactly I get a errno that says: Invalid argument And the exact call is: cont=read(sd, line, max-longitud-1); I've tripled checked the arguments with gdb and all of them are what read expects. sd is the value given by bind(), line is a char * with Since you have a server socket, sd should be a value returned by accept(). Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Hello World doesn't work
main()
{
printf(Howdy, World!\n);
}
I would sugest putting the following line before main()
#includestdio.h
Alex Y.
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Re: GTK problems
I have installed the Debian libgtk1.1 package and all is fine. Almost. When trying to compile gtk dependent sources where a configure script is given, I always get the following error message on running configure: *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found Install libgtk1.1-dev package. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Motif?
Ok, I'm going to thoroughly expose my ignorance of all things X Motif... I'm taking a class on Motif programming and thought I could use my Linux machine at home to compile the code...no go, obviously. So I guess I'm wondering - is Motif thoroughly un-free? I attempted to go to their website (why would someone call themselves Open Software Foundation yet sell Motif for such huge fees?) but didn't understand price schedules at all...so, how the heck does this whole thing work? Also, is lesstif usable yet or am I stuck compiling on my school's server? Motif is a true commercial product. You can get Motif for Linux for about $100 (www.metrolink.com is one of the vendors). Lesstif is probably not a good thing to learn Motif with. Behavior of XmForm is confusing enough by itself, Lesstif still has a LOT of problems with this widget. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Nescape 4.5 for SWim Motif 2.1?
Is there a package of Netscape 4.5 compiled for SWiM Motif 2.1 ? Most probably not. Netscape always used Motif 1.2 for linking. May be glibc2 version uses Morif 2.1 - but unlikely. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: [Dual boot] dual boot NT and debian?
I currently have debian running on a ide drive on my computer and I have recently purchases a scsi drive so that I can boot windows from the scsi. Can I use lilo to tell it to boot the scsi drive up and run windows? Trying to make a dual boot machine. Check out Linux+NT-Loader mini-HOWTO. Also, you may wiant to get bootmenu package out of sunsite for alternative solution. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: -lX11
I'm trying to compile a program called dataplot. It's in Fortran, and I've partially succeeded in converting it to C...however, at the end of a compile, it claims: ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory X11 stuff is in the ldconfig path...so what's going on? You should have put instead of plain -lX11: -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: motif debian
i have motif2.01, and i used alien --deb , and installed the .deb result. After i tried to lounch mwm and get a segmantation fault!!! i tried again with an other file from the motif package and got the same thing!! the motif package was first in rpm format, after converting it, i uninstalled lesstif , and installed motif i got the result i told you, second try: i installed lesstif again , and installed motif after, and i got the same result! would you please tell what is your explanation of what hapenned? and tell me how you installed it thanks The thing is your Motif 2.0.1 is libc5-based library while your system is probably Debian 2.0 which is libc6 (glibc2) - based. You should install libc5 package along with xlib6 package (in addition to xlib6g) and try again. Unfortunately, some Motif vendors used to sell Motif 2.0.1 compiled in such a way that it would still link with libc6 even it was compiled with libc5 and libc5 is present on the system. I cannot imagine anything would help in this case. Ask your vendor for an upgrade to Motif 2.1 (libc6-based version). This should be fairly cheap. I myself _never_ paid the full price for my motif (Used some trade-in option) and since the first purchase I keep getting upgrades basically for free. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: unattended ftp
| Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a | host and retrieve a file? If you install ncftp, you get a program called ncftpget that can be used to get files non-interactively (eg in a script). Not necessaraly with ncftp, plain fto will do. In a script: #!/bin/sh ftp -i -n host EOI user userid passwd cd /some/dir bin get somefile save/file/name bye EOI Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Oracle
Slashdot ( http://www.slashdot.org/ ) has an article about Oracle's plans to support a Linux port. It cites http://www.theregister.co.uk/980908-23.html which tells us that Oracle have signed up with RedHat, VA Research, Pacific HiTech, and SuSE. Slashdot (though not the cited article) refer to these as `all 4 major distributions'. Debian is conspicuous only by its absence. Does anyone know if this is likely to change in future, or will it soon be the case that if I want to run Oracle under Linux I should choose another distribution ? Debian is not a company to sign up with. You can use Oracle on Debian with no problems whatsoever. It is even distributed in plain tarballs and not rpms. You can download it right now, if you want. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Oracle
Debian is not a company to sign up with. You can use Oracle on Debian with no problems whatsoever. It is even distributed in plain tarballs and not rpms. You can download it right now, if you want. Yes, where is it available to download? http://technet.oracle.com You have to sign up first. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Netscape and libXt.so.6
I installed Netscape Navigator 4.06 (base install, not Communicator) on Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.34) in /usr/local/netscape according to Netscape's installation instructions. I try to run the executable but I get the message: /usr/local/netscape/netscape : can not load libXt.so.6. The library libXt.so.6 is on my system (in /usr/X11R6/lib) and the path is referenced in /etc/ld.co.conf. I tried running /sbin/ldconfig -v |less and there were no errors, however, libXt.so.6 points to libXt.so.6.0. Gee, this should really be somewhere in the FAQ. Netscape binary is libc5-based. Therefore you would need to install libc5 package along with libc5-based X libaries (xlib6 package, in addition to xlib6g). You may need also to install xpm4.7 package. Better yet, use dselect to install netscape4 package (installer of the archive you downloaded from netscape ftp site). Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Starting daemons under debian 2.0
I would like to control myself starting of daemons booting up my new debian 2.0 powered machine. Under RedHat 5.x I had ntsysv program which permitted to choose the daemons to launch on startup and generated automaticallu /etc/rcX.d files. Is there something similar under Debian? update-rc.d Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: 'man'
I just installed Debian for the first time (Install was very easy and went well). So far I've only installed the base system (rescue, driver, bases 1 through 5) It seems to be working quite well and I'll start adding some packages soon but I have one concern. I can not use 'man'. I always need help when it comes to using various commands. When I type 'man' and the name of a command like df or something it says unknown command. Do you think there's a problem with my install? Do I need to install a package in order to get the manual command? Any suggestions you have would be greatly appriciated. No problem with your install. man is just not a part of the base installation. Fire up dselect and select man-db package (and everything it depends on - quite a few actually). ALex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: XWindows Help
exec of /usr/vin/X11/XF86_NONE failed How do I solve this? I imagine XF86_NONE is a file I don't have (I checked to see if it was there). What do I need in this file or how can I create it? Edit /etc/X11/Xserver file and put the name of the driver you want to use there instead of XF86_NONE (like XF86_SVGA ). As an aside, how can I determine how much drive space I have left on my harddrive? In other words, what command will tell me this? df Good luck, Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Help ppp
Hello, i have just installed Linux, how do i do to get connected(ppp)? As root, run pppconfig command. Then start ppp with pon, stop with poff, see log with plog. Good luck, Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Problem with communicator
I'm currently running communicator v4.5b1, but it's buggy and I'd like to move to pr2 or back to 4.06... However, when I try to install either of these I get netscape: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' I have that library, but communicator won't see it. v4.5b1 runs fine. Any ideas? Have you installed libc5 or libc6 (glibc2) version of 4.06 ? If libc5 one then you need to install all the libc5 compatibility libraries (xlib6 package, in addition to xlib6g package). Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: /usr/lib/X11 vs. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11
These 2 directories (/usr/lib/X11 and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11) seems to me an exact copy of each other. I could not find any link between them. Can I rm --force --recursive --verbose /usr/lib/X11 ? And if not, why ? jessica:~ ls -l /usr/lib/X11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Aug 25 13:46 /usr/lib/X11 - ../X11R6/lib/X11 So, this is not a duplicate, but a historic compatibility symlink /usr/lib/X11 - /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 Do not remoe it :) Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: printer advice
I'm planning to purchase a laser-printer in the near future, and am currently looking at a HP LaserJet 6Lse. I was wondering if anyone has used this model under Linux, and how well it performed if so. I use it with no problems here. Nice printer. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Motif on Hamm??
What are people using for Motif on glibc systems? Motif Complete! from Metro Link Inc. (www.metrolink.com) is an EXCELLENT product. Great documentation, possibility for multi-version development environments, latest versions, customized winow manager, etc. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Real Player
I configured rvplayer for Netcape under applications, and when I click a link in Netscape rvplayer will start, but not play. It behaves as if I simply invoked it from the command line with without a URL. It comes up on the screen and just sits there. I bet you put application name as rvplayer, not as rvplayer %s :) Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Choice of database
I would like to consolidate some of the data in our office into a database. Our office staff uses Windows NT with the usual MS Office tools. I see they have MS Access available on a menu but I have no experience with it. From the Linux side I would prefer to use an SQL-aware relational database that supports access through perl DBI or JDBC. Postgresql is accessable via both JDBC and ODBC. Which makes it possible to link tables on the server to local ones in MSAccess. You just need to download Postgres ODBC driver for windows. I tried that once and it worked. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: [DBI] Structure of table?
I wonder if there is a legal way using the DBI driver for Perl to gain information about the structure of the table, especially the length of some fields. I think there is no DBI function that would do it uniformly for all databases, but for most of them you could execute a SELECT query which would give you desired result. For example, in PostgreSQL SELECT a.attnum, a.attname, t.typname, a.attlen FROM pg_class c, pg_attribute a, pg_type t WHERE c.relname = 'yourtable' and a.attnum 0 and a.attrelid = c.oid and a.atttypid = t.oid ORDER BY attnum Hope it helps. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: xringd problem
I just installed xringd. It must be a cool thing, but it can not find the modem #xringd -m /dev/ttyS1 xringd: error opening modem device No such file or directory Are you doing it as a normal user or a root. If not root, is this user a member of dialout group? Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Backspace in xterm (again)
Does anybody know what I should do to get my beloved backspace back again (yes, I want backspace to delete the char left to the curser, as it does in the VC's). Make sure the following is present in your /etc/X11/Xresources: *Text.translations: #override ~Shift ~Meta KeyDelete: delete-next-character() XTerm*termName: xterm-debian *VT100*backarrowKey: false *VT100.Translations: #override KeyBackSpace: string(\177)\n\ KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\ KeyHome: string(\033OH)\n\ KeyEnd: string(\033OF) I don't like introducing xterm-debian terminfo entry myself and just renamed it to xterm. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: /bin/sh vs. /bin/bash
Is this[1] to be considered as a bug and should I report it? Torsten Footnotes: [1] the using of non-sh features in a script started with #!/bin/sh Yes, this is a bug! Please report it. Even more, we had a BIG discussion of this issue and dicided to have an alternatives for /bin/sh link (like bash, ash, pdksh). A few developers even expressed desire to remove essential flag from bash, that is every package that uses bash would have to declare explicit dependency on it. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: Missing toolbar icons on KDE for Debian Linux
I installed KDE 1.0 on my Debian Linux 2.0 with the .deb packages from ftp.us.kde.org and it worked find; except one thing: I get blurred images instead of nice looking icons (i.e., the Up, Home, ... buttons) on the toolbar in kfm. This problem occurs in some other applications, too. Yep, that happend to me also. But I don't use KDE and just wanted to get an impression what it is and thus left that alone and didn't find the reason for that... Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: I need an explanation!
Can someone explain why the folowing happens: 15:21:35$ gnomine gnomine: can't load library 'libX11.so.6' ii xlib6g 3.3.2.2-4 shared libraries required by X clients Everything looks like it is installed! This is hamm system converted recently (as I'm sure some of you remember) Though you converted to hamm, gnomine binary is still libc5-based and it needs libc5-based X libraries. You would need to install xlib6 package. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: WYSIWYG Word Processor
Only available FREE as part of the Caldera distribution ! ??? Go ahead and download it from www.stardivision.com Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: vi
Do you know whether debian has vi editor. How about latex? Sure, both are available. Different vi's are in vim (my favorite), nvi, elvis packages. And latex is in tetex-* packages. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Questions
Hello, Im trying to learn Linux and I have no clue where to start. My first problem is what file do I need for the Linux operating system? The file I thought was it was had a suffix of gz and if i was correct with that being the file, then how do you install it? Is it a compressed file? What is used to decompress it. I hope this doesnt sound too stupid but I have never worked with Linux and I feel lost. I hope you can help and hope to hear from you soon. Thanx for your time and effort. Please read ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: What should I buy ?
Wow, good choice, man! Check out http://www.tdl.com/~netex/ or http://www.varesearch.com/ Alex Y. - Dual Pentium II 300 - 256 Mb RAM - Two 7Gb SCSI HDDs - 2 Mb AGP Card - 19 Monitor - 4x SCSI CD-Recorder - 32x CD-ROM - Network Card (100 Mb/s) - SoundBlaster Clone - Flatbed SCSI Scanner - Small Postscript Printer - Radio-modem - SO: Debian Slink -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Win 95 and NT
I am currently running 3 operating systems on a P200MMX, Win 95, Win NT Workstation and Win NT Server. If I install Debian Linux in it's own partition on this system, will it use the NT boot menu or trash my system and make the Windows OS inoperative? No, Linux won't trash anything. Install Linux but DO NOT install Lilo, boot from floppy for some time. After that install Lilo on Linux root partition and read NT-BootLoader mini-HOWTO on how to make NT Boot Loader boot Linux. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Hamm not in Stable Dir
I'm confused. I thought Debian 2.0 (hamm) was officially released last night. Does that not make it the stable version? Near as I can tell, the ftp.debian.org site still has 1.3 in it's stable directory. Should I be pulling from the stable dir or still from the frozen dir? Thanks. I would advide you to wait till mirror is updated and hamm becomes stable. There were some important bugfixes put in there last minute. I am not aware of ANY updated mittor though. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Stupid unix
Please excuse this lame non Debian specific question. Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they are lowercase? I would like to change all the *.cpp and *.h files in a project directory to be lowercase letters only. I know this seems like a lame task but it would simplify working on some of my source at home on Linux. I use Windoesn't 4.0 at work which retains name case but doesn't use it. In csh/tcsh: foreach file (*.h *.cpp) mv $file `echo $file | tr A-Z a-z` end In sh/bash: for file in *.h *.cpp ; do mv $file `echo $file | tr A-Z a-z` done And please don't call UNIX stupid, OK? Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Pine not building from source
dpkg-buildpackage It cranks through the building process than errors at the end. Run it as a root. (There are other methods, but this is the simplest) Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: libs 2.........
All needed libs and packages are in Slink. I have a new E package coming down the pipes that is near 100%. Existing package users will have to purge the old one. Sorry (that's what you get for using experimental code (-: Btw, why don't E package does not include a menu entry for itself? (So that I could switch to it from other WM session?) Also, I found some bad bug in it: if I want to change some xterm settings on the fly using CTRL/Middle mouse button or CTRL/Right mouse button, the menu appears, but draggind the mouse does not to move the highlight... Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: simple perl question
I thought maybe something like: $CurrentTime=exec`date +%D %T`; print $CurrentTime; $CurrentTime=localtime(time); Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: [off-topic?] real audio capture?
I am running a debian frozen system and would like to capture a real audio stream for future use. That may sound silly, but I find that ra is somewhat at the mercy of the speed of the net and it wobbles and bobbles sometimes. does anyone know how I can capture the stream into an .ra file? That's probably not waht you want, but there is an (unusable) kernel module called paudio which was meant to allow capture of everything played through the soundard into the file in raw dsp or au format. I hacked it quite a bit and now it works pretty seemlesly. At least I am able to record any RealAudio translations. I sent the patch to the author of original paudio module, and while he seemed to be excited about it, he haven't release a new version of the module yet. So, if anyone's like, I can e-mail the source. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Packages of FTP Client (GUI)
I am looking for the packages of FTP Client (GUI) under X, Would someone know that? What is its name location? WXftp GUI FTP client was recently packaged and uploaded to Incoming. You may get the packages (wxftp-doc, wxftp-gtk, etc) from ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/debian/Incoming/ Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ppp.log question
RK and then a bunch of : RK Jul 10 07:27:14 chuy pppd[138]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0xebff] RK Jul 10 07:27:15 chuy pppd[138]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 magic=0x86533e6c] Try adding noccp to the pppd options. Well, you could just remove debug line from /etc/ppp/peers/provider file. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.
I just keeping getting all these lovely questions for you. At a console, if I want to search for a file or any files with a certain extension in the current directory and all sub directories and list them, what's the best way to do this? The equivalent in DOS would be dir /s *.whatever but this doesn't work with ls like ls -R *.deb, for instance. I can do ls -R | more and then use more's search ability but this is getting tiring. Man page isn't too helpful either. 1) ls -R | grep '.whatever$' 2) find . -name \*.whatever -print Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Newbe Question - Setting up X11
I new to Linux and I'm trying to setup X Windows. I loaded all the packages. When I run startx I get the following message: X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed Any idea what I've done wrong? Any help would be appreciated. You should install one of the xserver-* packages which match your video card. (most probably xserver-svga) and respond yes to making it default X server. If console configuration wouldn't work (i.e. startx gives some errors), install xserver-vga16 package (make sure to answer no on the question as to whether make it default X server) and then run XF86Setup. This is a wonderful graphic configuration utility. Good luck. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???
anything. Anyway, could you compare RPMs and the Debian package manager? Also is there some kind of uninstall manager? Main Debian package manager (dpkg) is very similar to rpm, they both can install and uninstall packages, etc. What they were talking about is probably dselect - front-end to dpkg which lists all the packages and let you select which packages you want to install, uninstall, upgrade, etc. and then download and install/uninstall/upgrade everything automatically. The main problem of dselect is that user intrerface is a bit non-intuitive and with 1400 packages in archive - a little messy. It does a good job, though. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: win95/NT vrs. Linux For profetional program development
That includes: How dificult is it for a programer to make the switch to programing for X instead of win95. Well, programming for X is much more verstile then Win programming. The thing is that you have a choice in a GUI Toolkit. The oldest and most popular is Motif. It is not free and available from several vendors for ~$100 (e.g. http://www.metrolink.com) There is also a free Motif clone which is not quite ready for a prime time (http://www.lesstif.org) There are also several newer toolkits - Qt (which also has a Win port), GTK+, XForms, etc. And of course, there is Java (tm). Also what software is there to develop programs (Compiler environments) and to develop man/machine interface. I'm looking for a c/c++ based system. There is no problem with purchasing commercial programs if they exist. c/c++ compilers are free and good. (gcc/egcs) I'm looking for something of the sort of Visual c++. I remeber that I heard of several GUI builders for Linux, both free and commercial, but I don't use them so can't be precise here. For an example of the GUI in X/Motif anf GTK+, you may visit the page of WXftp, the application I wrote, at http://www.wxftp.seul.org Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: I hate smail and everything else!!!!
I am trying and trying and trying so hard to get my email to work on my Debian 1.3 system, but nothing I ever do seems to work. I am going nuts. Smail has somehow gotten halfway installed on my system and it wont go away. If I try and remove smail with this command: To do it cleanly, I would suggest downloading smail*.deb file from ftp.debian.org and installing it with dpkg -i smail*.deb The just do dpkg --purge smail. subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 ... hmm, can't open /etc/smail/config? Another way is to look into /var/lib/dpkg/info/smail.prerm and see what causing the problem. No-brainer approach would be to edit this file and put exit 0 right after #!/bin/sh line. I would hightly recommend execute the following: /etc/init.d/smail stop update-inetd --comment-chars \#disabled\# --disable smtp I myself wouldn't do it this way, but try to understand what does the smail.prerm wants to make it happy. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: need more info please
Sure. Install the apt package for 'bo' (http://master.debian.org/~jgg/) and run apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. Install it how?? From dselect or what? Just download .deb file and install it with dpkg -i apt*.deb (as root). Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: glibc / libc6
Hi all, I was wondering if someone could tell me what the difference between glibc and libc6 is, I've seen a few apps coming out these days written for libc5 or glibc , no mention of libc6... is libc6 compatible with glibc. libc6 is the name Debian uses for glibc2. They are just different names for exactly the same thing. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X-window for debian2.0beta
I have installed the base system of debian2.0beta, and I want to setup X-Windows too, (1) can I use the packages of X-window on the CD-ROM of debian 1.3.1R6 (distributed by Cheapbytes.) Well, the answer to this question is not easy. Transition between 1.3 to 2.0 is assiciated with the changes of the c library, all the packages had to be recompiled with new library. And though we have support for running old binaries, huge packages like X could break. You would be much better off downloading new X packages from ftp.debian.org (2) can I use the others applications' packages on the captioned CD-ROM. The same thing as before, not recommended, but some of them will run with no problems whatsoever. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X-window for debian2.0beta
Hi! Alex, Which directory of ftp.debian.org will contain the new X-window packages? I can't find it. what is the latest version? The easiest way would be to use dselect ftp method and point it to ftp.debian.org dists/hamm/main dists/hamm/contrib dists/hamm/non-free (Even better is to download apt package from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/experimental/apt*.deb and then use apt method of dselect - WAY better). Just in case you want to do everything mannually the new X packages are in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/main/binary-i386/x11/ Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade problems..
2) After update, it says now use dselect to upgrade the rest of your system, then reboot. ?? How do I know what to upgrade? I would like to say; whatever needs an upgrade, if I have it installed, do it. Instead, I had to go through dselect, look at hundreds of packages, try to remember which I had selected, and decide if they need update. Am I missing something here? Yes. Dselect will automatically mark the packages with newer version available for upgrade. You may still look through them, and mark for removal the ones you don't need to avoid extra time for download. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: WXftp .debs??
I was wondering if Alex's WXftp program have been debianized. I scanned the ftp.debian.org directories but haven't found any. Does anyone know if they exist and if so where? No, it is not debianized. I received a request from Justin Burket to package WXftp with GTK+ interface. He is not an accepted maintainer yet. And I don't know how long it would take him... Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printing man pages
Can anyone explain me how can i print a man page? Is there any utility program for this? Sure. You may convert the source of the man page to postscript file and then print it, like: zcat /usr/man/man1/ls.1.gz | groff -tmandoc -T ps ls.ps You may also convert man page to a plain test file with man ls | ul -T dumb ls.txt Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help: vi ESC sequence entry used in PCL codes
This can be generated in MS-DOG edit by: hold down the Ctrl+V, and press [ BUT - I must do this in vi So that my scripts will generate a readable report. To enter any non-printable charachter in vi just do Ctrl-V and _then_ charachter to enter (like Esc). Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Afterstep?
Also, is there a way to allow xterm to add utmp entries? At this point, knowing who is logged onto the machine is much more important than the machines security for me. (as root) chmod u+s /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm and uncomment XTerm*utmpInhibit: false line in /etc/X11/Xresources Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11 libs problem
There seems to be some sort of problem with the libraries in /usr/X11R6/lib. Almost every program I install that isn't from a debian package won't run because it can't find libraries from this directory. You are using hamm, right? My guess would be that the programs you install are libc5-based. And for them to run you need to install libc5-based X11 libraries. They are included into libc5, xlib6 (not xlib6g), xpm4.7, libg++27 packages. ALex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11 libs problem
I saw your message about libc5 and libc6 to another user. I've also had trouble with this. Everytime I try to install libc5, it says it conflicts with libc6, and disables libc6 and all other packeages that depend on it when running dselect. Is there a way around this? I'm still trying to get x11r6 running, but it requires libc5, which isn't working (because of what I said above.) Any suggestions? If you has hamm installed, you can install libc5 package available from hamm/oldlibs section. it does not conflict with libc6. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11 AGP Card
Hi, I'd like to know if X11 on Linux support the AGP card? I'd like to in particalur which card makers are supported and if there is any special configuration/setup I need to do. Thanks! Latest Xfree86 supports at least #9 Revolution 3D and Matrox Millenium II AGP cards, may be a few others too. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape in hamm
I've recently upgraded to hamm, but can't install netscape. Apparently it depends on xlib6 which I had to deselect because it conflicted with xlib6g. Is there a version of netscape which uses the newer library? Or is there a way of installing both? Yes. Install xlib6 (along with xpm4.7, libg++27, libc5) from oldlibs section of the hamm. I thought that netscape had made the source code freely available, and that someone from debian had packaged this up - but I couldn't find it - what happened to it, or am I mistaken? I wouldn't advise using it - still _very_ buggy. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot to Linux from NT; problem
I setup my machine with NT and Linux, and followed the instructions in NT Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO. As per their instructions* I used bootpart to make the NT loader adjustments. When I boot, indeed I get the option for Linux from the NT loader (boot.ini), which points to the boot file made by bootpart; but NT reports: winnt root\System32\ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupt please reinstall a copy of this file. Well, the file is there in /winnt/system32/ How does your boot.ini (on NT partition) look like? Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need an HTML Editor
I would to get a good HTML editor for Linux. Preferrably something that utilizes xwindows, GUI. I also want something that is not like Frontpage, I like raw editing similar to Homesite, if you used that before. asWedit is probably what you are looking for. You should install it yourself though. Check out http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/www/asWedit/ for full details. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scsi cdrom
I hope I'm not in the dark about this due to mental deficiancy. I can't seem to mount my cdrom. I have a buslogic bt946c controlling a 1gig drive and a chinon 1X cdrom. It recognizes the cdrom at boot buty I cannot mount it. I either get special device not found error or not a valid block device error. Is this a common newbie (yes, I am) error? Could you please give the command you use to mount CD-ROM? During boot you see messages from the kernel about recognized devices. It should say that it sees the CD-ROM as a device (something like) /dev/sr0 You would then mount it with mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Word for Linux
Is there a *.doc (MS Word) viewer / converter for linux is it a deb pkg? http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pon - When am I connected?
As root I do pon whatever and 3 seconds or later it is connected. However, I cannot tell when except by trying it until it works. How do I tell when a connection has been negotiated? And how can I tell if it has failed? Using PAP for the moment, in case it matters. plog Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linux download
how to download and install linux from your website on my computer? Go to ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/hamm/disks-i386/current/ and read install.txt (or install.html) Good luck. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NT: boot to Linux?
NT provides a boot manager, with a startup option to boot to various OS's, clearly intended mainly for MSoft versions! Can this be used to provide a boot to a Linux partition? Yes. Check out Linux+NT-Loader mini-HOWTO. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: redirecting display of program over telnet (with DISPLAY)
I remember reading somewhere that I can change the remote DISPLAY variable so I can see the applications on my local screen. My machine name is debian (I gave it a lot of thought...) I tried changing DISPLAY to debian:0 but it didn't work. Remote host should be able to find your host by the name. So, in most cases it should be a fully-qualified domain name or (in case you don't have that - say because you are using PPP to connect to the internet) just a valid current IP address of your debian box. So, set DISPLAY to something like 203.234.22.33:0.0 and it should work. Good luck. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: redirecting display of program over telnet (with DISPLAY)
Remote host should be able to find your host by the name. So, in most cases it should be a fully-qualified domain name or (in case you don't have that - say because you are using PPP to connect to the internet) just a valid current IP address of your debian box. So, set DISPLAY to something like 203.234.22.33:0.0 and it should work. Well I did it, and after trying xhost + , the response was: Xlib: connection to 132.67.97.136:0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server xhost: unable to open display 132.67.97.136:0.0 (BTW: debian:0 didn't work) What should I do? You should have done xhost + on your local box (debian). Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape - can't locate libXt.so.6....
Anyway, install went okay, but when trying to start Netscape, I get the error mentioned in the subject line and Netscape dies You could do: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH Or, what you really should do is configure you dynamic linker properly. Insert the line /usr/X11R6/lib into your /etc/ld.so.conf I bet this line is already there :) The problem is that netscape is libc5-based applaication and you need to have all libc5-based libraries installed , i.e. libc5, xlib6 (in addition to xlib6g), xpm4.7, libg++27. Good luck. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tulip Network drive
(Alex Yukhimets) wrote: Does the hamm/kernel_2.0.33 include the Tulip network drive? Yes, but you may need to download and compile newer version of the tulip driver depending on the particular card you use. (I had to.) I have a NetGear 10/100 Fast Ethenet Card. Does this require a newer version of the tulip? No idea :) I would give a 50/50 chance. You will see whether your card will _work_. (It will be recognized by the kernel in any case). In general, refer to http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html This is _the_source_ of the information about tulip driver. Goos luck. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how do I delete not empty directories
I have been trying to delete directories that are not empty. I try doing a rm -d * but I get a response that the operation is not allowed. I am logged in as root. What am I doing wrong. I am looking something that works like deltree in dos. rm -rf dirname In general, refer to man rm, or man whatever. They have ALL the answers. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tulip Network drive
Does the hamm/kernel_2.0.33 include the Tulip network drive? Yes, but you may need to download and compile newer version of the tulip driver depending on the particular card you use. (I had to.) Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie question on backspace key in VIM editor
Hi, I am having problems with my keyboard mappings. I can't get my backspace key to work in VIM. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Where do you use it- on console ot xterm? In any case, there is a :fixdel command in vim, check out :help fixdel. But it can be done in a more consistent manner using keyboard configuration and xterm translations. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to build Debian Linux cluster?
#3 if you are really talking about clustering and not just networking then I am afraid that I don't know what the status is in Linux in that regard. I do :) Check out http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/beowulf/ (Beowulf project page) Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Internet from Windows/NT thru Linux
I'm currently connecting to the internet from the Debian/Linux box. I'd like to know how would I go about access the internet from other PCs (windows/nt) which are on the same network as my Linux box. The keyword you are looking for is IP Masquerading Red the HOWTO and have fun. Works perfectly here. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian 2.0 Question
The question I have is looking at the /binary-i386 Disk section, there all the files and 2 I am not sure about. This is resc1440tecra.bin and drv1440tecra.bin. What exactly is the tecra? Do I need it for installing Debian 2.0? I checked the list archives and couldn't find anything about this for the last 2 months. Also, is it smart for me to go ahead with the Debian 2.0 upgrade starting out fresh? I do have some scripts - ppp.chatscript, reslov.conf, and a few others that will probably work with 2.0 that I have backed up and will probably use. But other than that, I was hoping to get all the updated files for 2.0 with this install. Is this Ok? Yep. Go ahead and do fresh install. Tecra disks are mainly for laptops. As for ppp.chatscript and friends, old scripts will be of big help, but the localtion of scripts themselves is changed, they are now in /etc/ppp/peers/provider and /etc/chatscripts/provider Good luck. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lib problem with netscape 4.05
Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Install xlib6 (not xlib6g) and libc5 packages. Goos luck. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: The effects of backspace and delete are reversed in vim
An annoying feature of vim is that the effects of backspace and of delete are reversed compared to any other vi. It is particularly annoying because backspace will delete existing text, including newlines, when it is in input mode. How can I put these effects back to normal, please? Hi. Put the following in your ~/.vimrc set t_kb=BS fixdel Should this be regarded as a bug? Probably. This is upstream property, which is inconsistant with Debian keyboard configuration (not sure). I have vim 5.1 and it is still there, (in GUI mode, however, everything is OK). May be it is a problem with xterm configuration, elm command lines are also act this way. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strcpy HELP!!!!
#include stdlib.h
#include stdio.h
#include string.h
void main(void)
{
char *temp1, *temp2;
temp1 = malloc (10);
strcpy (temp1, high all);
strcpy (temp2, temp1);
printf(%s %s, temp1, temp2);
}
/* error --- program recieved signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation Fault.
* 0x40050be7*/
No wonder. You have to allocate memory for temp2 string before copying to it.
do temp2=malloc(strlen(temp1)+1); in between of two strcpy and everything's
gonna be OK.
Good luck.
Alex Y.
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Re: Debian 2, What will it Have
i did have a question about Xfree, it is my understanding that x will not be free after a new version? allan X is going to split. There will be Open Group's X11R6.(=4) which you can still obtain free but can not distribute for money without buying a License and there will be XFree86 which will remain GPL code for you to I am sorry, but I think that my correction is important: XFree86 will remain under old BSD-like license, NOT GPL. Making XFree86 GPL'ed would cause a majot disaster for Linux. Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WXftp
Hi. I just release the first public version of WXftp - Linux GUI ftp client. It is available currently only from http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/WXFTP/index.html Please let me know what you think about it before I announce it to lagrer audience then Debian user community. Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need hellp installing debian....
i got my diskettes (rawimage files) wrote to disk and i goto install base it says unable to extract i redownload and got a fresh diskette out of my newly bought box of disks and it says it still unable to extract..If it helps i am using packerd bell legend supreme with win95 and a 56k modem a zip drive and a ide cdrom drive.please help me What disk images do you use? (Where did you get them? Specify the directory you downloaded them from.) Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk partition problem
on the Linux CD). First I scanned and defragged my disk, then I tried to run fips. Then it told me there was a file(s) at the end of my hard disk. So I checked the documentation on fips and it listed a two files that might be at the last sector, but it wasn't true on my machine. And First, what kind of filesystem you have: FAT16 or FAT32. If FAT32, do you use FAT32-capable FIPS? When you do defrag, do you see some unmovable files at the end of your drive? Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disk partition problem
Whoa - I'm out of touch. Is there a FAT32 capable fips? Tell me where. Richard P.S. Please http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to make kernel release socket..
I try to implement server program for specific purpose. If the server is killed, I found that the server can't binding again the socket for about 1 min. How to make kernel release socket, instantaneously, when the process killed? In addition, when the client is died without closing socket, I found that the server receive SIGPIPE and then server died.. How can we make the server ignore the SIGPIPE signal... First, could you please avoid MIME messages to the list? Please... Second, I guess you need some book on networking and UNIX system calls. Killing the server means sending some signal to the process, like SIGINT. To shut server cleanly, you have to close() socket before exit(). Use signal() to create a handler for a specific signal for that. AS for the server dying on client closing the connection, I guess this is more then acceptable behavior. (you are doing fork() upon accepting a connection, don't you? in this case only child serving the connection will die). Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with too much memory
Recently we have been build a number of Debian proxy servers with lots of memory. We are using an Asus P2L97 Motherboard, PII 300 and three 128MB SDRAM DIMM modules. We have almost a hundred PII 233's on the same motherboard, but with only one 128MB DIMM. In a majority of the systems we have built we 3 DIMM's, we a getting weird and unexplainable (to us anyway) errors that seem to be associated with memory. Here is one such example that happened when we were trying to send some files of several megs in size. Do errors persist if you set append=mem=128M in the LILO? Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with too much memory
Yes they do. Every time we add or remove memory modules we use one of these lines in lilo.conf and rune lilo, then reboot. append=mem=128M append=mem=256M append=mem=384M We have to have the append=mem=128M in our standard PII 233 servers in order to make them use all of the memory and we see no problems with them. It seems as though we only have these problems when we have more than one module installed. Yes, but if you have 3 modules installed, but still use append=mem=128M in lilo, do you have problems? I undersatand, that only one module will actually be used by a kernel in this case. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I need help with installation....!!
I get every thing goin except for the base diskettes then it say its unable to extract them, whats goin wrong??? What disks are you using - form bo or hamm? hamm disks are not ready for a prime time yet. In any case the error you mentioned probably indicates bad floppy disk. Just create anotehr set of disks and try one more time. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mozilla.deb, get it while its hot
You might want to tell everyone that it comes _without_ the news and mail readers. look at this as an added bonus. no more unreadable html mail from clueless newbies (or seasoned morons). Hey, I don't like html mail either, but that was too hard. Dont you think so? Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with AccelX4.1 / Debian 2.0 [frozen]
I had Debian 2.0 frozen running just fine with XFree and my ATI Mach64 card. I recently purchased a Diamond FireGL1000Pro card and AccelX 4.1 which supports this card. Upon doing a Minimal Install of AccelX, I cannot run X at all. When I type startx, I get some symbol not found errors. Unfortunately, I am not at home so I cannot list the exact errors (will do so later), but I wonder if anyone has encountered these problems or know of a possible solution. My suspicion is that it is libc6 related or something. Well I didn't actually test this, but you could try to just install the server and config program, and nothing else. The server itself runs fine in Right, I did exactly that- install only server and fonts - this is less then minimal install. No problmes then. Alex Y. hamm, but the xinit and xdm included with it are the ones that complain about unresolved symbols, so I suggest trying to use the xinit that comes with debian.. [application/pgp-signature is not supported, skipping...] -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: X11R6.4 and Debian
Alex let's not start the war, please... May be it is time to realize Alex the existence of non-free software and try to live in peace Alex with that, not try to ignore as much as possible its existence, Alex adjust our policy and practice to the changing Alex world. Proprietary software has its own and very important Alex role,let's understand that. X has gone commercial, and the PC 98 harware standard requires a NDA, which means that the free software ommunity has been locked out. And you propose we just turn the other cheek? And help all the people who are locking us out? Turning the other cheek won't do any bad to us. Turning to destructive position won't do any good. I prefer to be on a safer side. Also, nothing seems to be as bad as you are trying to show, and no need for turning the cheek for a slap. If we change our policy and give in, there shall be no Debian or Linux around for much longer, IMO. I think adjust our policy and practice to the changing world shall destroy what we have, here in the free software world. I find it ironic that consumers of a free software product are advocating that it move to be more accomodating to proprietary schemes of software development. Should we require a $25000 membership fees for using Debian? I don't think there will be need for that. But those who want derive distribution based on Debian for *commercial* use might need to pay some fee. That's bad, but gives us a chance to survive intsted of being locked up and continue to play with outdated software and hardware. Also, let's not do any sharp moves right now. Let's wait a little bit. Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: non-free software
I have just installed debian from cdrom (infomagic), and some of my favorite packages, available on Red Hat, are missing from the Debian distribution. These packages (netpbm , xv) are in the non-free subdirectory of packages in www.debian.org, but in the distributions available on cdroms ( I checked other cdroms). Download them from ftp.debian.org/debian/non-free/ Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: non-free software
Bob Prior to the Official CD, some vendors, such as CheapBytes, Bob included substantial parts of non-free on their CDs while others, Bob including Infomagic, ignored non-free. Since we made the Bob Official CD available with the bo release, all CD vendors seem Bob to have taken the path of least resistance, and reproduced the Bob Official CD as is. Hey, cool. I like that. Seems like the social contract in action. I was always amaised how all revolutionaries are alike... All of them want to reach their goals by sacrifycing a little man (a user in our case). And of course, for the purporse to make his life better :) Good luck. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing Mouse Driver
No. While inastalling X or gpm you should tell coniguration program that your mouse using /dev/psaux device, and the protocol is ps2. The simplest way would be to exit from X, dpkg --purge gpm, then install gpm package. It will ask you questions about the device on the protocol of the mouse. Why not just run /usr/sbin/gpmconfig ? I didn't say that to avoid additional if statement in my sugestion: *if* you have gpm installed (check it with dpkg -s gpm) do gpmconfig, if not, install gpm and *if* it doesn't ask you to configure (existing old conffiles) do gpmconfig. dpkg --purge gpm dpkg -i gpm* looks much simpler :) Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Install process
1.) is there a log file of the choices make during the installation process that begins with resc1440.bin execution? 2.) can one do a partial reinstall that will modify some of the choices previously make by stepping through the install menu? The answer would be No to both, but... Once you have a running system, you can change practically anything you want without even partial reinstall. Please be more specific about the problem you have. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
