the following regexp *should work:
217\.78\.(6(4|5|6|7|8|9)|7(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9))\.[0-9]+
it's not really obscure, but it's not really all that clever either.
=) i'm sure there are more compact solutions out there!
-alan
Gary Turner wrote (Mon, 20 May 2002 16:11:00 -0500 ):
|I am not
ever since doing 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get upgrade' last night,
my eterms have been broken. when i start one, the window is mapped to
the screen, but my shell prompt doesn't appear. about a minute after
i start the eterm, the shell prompt finally appears and all is well.
to try to debug
i've got an installation of testing on my laptop, but i wanted to
upgrade a few packages (notably galeon) to the unstable version. i'd
rather not just point apt to the unstable distribution, as i'm pretty
happy with the way testing is working out for me.
in order to do this, i'm manually using
i just did an update for my potato box, and the only error that didn't
correct itself with several Install passes was emacs. here's the
error, as far as i can tell:
install/dpkg-dev: Byte-compiling for emacs20
cp: debian-changelog-mode.el: No such file or directory
emacs-install:
hi everyone-
i'm trying to install slink onto an ibm thinkpad i1452, and i'm having
some problems when it comes to configuring pcmcia support. i allow
all the defaults to stand (i82365 chipset, no special options), but
the next thing it does (presumably probing for the pcmcia hardware?)
locks
hi everyone-
i have a linux box and a win98 box on a network, with the windows box
exporting a directory via SMB. i use smbmount to mount the share,
which works fine. the problem arises when i try the following
operation:
9:27 [28] alsu (alsu):tmp/salishan99/CVS - ls -l Entries*
-rwxr-xr-x
R. Brock Lynn wrote (Sat, 17 Apr 1999 12:16:27 -0500 ):
|
|Well here's a simple thing to check:
|
|Do you have write permission on the SMB share? In windows you can have two
|passwords... one for read and one for write.
|
Brock-
thanks for the idea. actually, i'm quite sure i have the correct
Hi everyone-
we have a box that doesn't run X. i'd like to configure it to switch
to a specific virtual console after some amount of idle time on the
other virtual consoles. is there a solution out there? thanks.
-alan
i probably missed something as i upgraded to slink today, but is the
tty that the xserver uses somehow changed to be in some config file
(rather than taking the first unused one)?
i had a couple extra virtual consoles which i used to use on tty7 and
tty8. after the upgrade, the xserver
does anyone know of a a utility to test memory on the video card?
kinda like a memtest for the video memory? thanks!
-alan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (Thu, 18 Feb 1999 13:54:37 EST ):
|
| does anyone know of a a utility to test memory on the video card?
| kinda like a memtest for the video memory? thanks!
|
|
|You can see how much video memory you have with SuperProbe - if you have X
|installed, you have SuperProbe.
i just did a fresh install of slink, and for some reason, the audio
devices (most notably /dev/audio and /dev/dsp) were not created. was
this done by design? anyway, i created the necessary devices by doing
'(cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV audio)' as root. the devices were created, but
the ownership of
Hi everyone-
i'm having some problems with pcmcia on a laptop here. i'm trying to
get it to recognize a 3com 3c575bt cardbus ethernet card, and the
stock pcmcia modules aren't cutting it. so, i'm installing hamm from
scratch. then, i install new libc6 (v2.0.7u) so that i can install
v3.0.6
hi all-
i'm trying to set up the internal modem on a Winbook laptop. it's
configured to be on COM2 under the BIOS. as described by the Serial
HOWTO, i'm using kermit to test the modem, and this is the result:
[/home/alsu] C-Kermitset line /dev/ttyS1
Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/ttyS1
Hi-
i have a laptop here that does not see the pcmcia cards after
resuming. basically, suspending the machine goes fine, and after
resuming, i can do most everything. however, the network is not
there. bouncing the card manager with '/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart'
gets things back to normal.
this probably isn't a debian specific error, but i think it might have
something to do with how i have the system set up. i'm logging in
remotely to an SGI IRIX machine and attempting to run an X
application. it fails with something like the following error:
Error initializing colors for
Anders Hammarquist wrote (Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:45:20 +0200 ):
|
|I think you can swap them in the console as well by using loadkeys. I'm
|afraid I can't offer you any help as to how to go about doing it though.
|
so i'll shamelessly use this as a segue to a question i've had for a
while. i've
Martin Schulze wrote (Wed, 26 Aug 1998 02:12:58 +0200 ):
| Martin Schulze wrote (Wed, 26 Aug 1998 01:04:36 +0200 ):
| |If you want to write portable programs then you use gethostname() to
| |determine the hostname, check for a '.' and if it's not included you
| |use gethostbyname() to get the
when i call gethostname() on my hamm, it returns only the name of the
machine, rather than a fqdn. i distinctly remember that when i was
running bo, i got a fqdn. does anyone know how i can make it return
the fqdn? or is there another function i should be using? thanks.
(btw, getdomainname()
is there anyway to permanently override the suggests form of
dependency in dselect? i have a system on which i want xbase
installed, but not an xserver. every time i run dselect, it insists
on changing the status of xserver-vga16, xfntbase75, and xfntbase100
(i think those are the ones) to
i'm pretty confused about some weird behavior i'm seeing with the
socket routines on a couple hamm machines. i've written a simple dumb
server to demonstrate the behavior, and i'll attach it below.
basically, it opens a socket and tries to bind it to a specific port.
the wierd thing is that bind
just out of curiousity, if i do 'make clean ; make zImage' in
/usr/src/linux repeatedly and compare the size of
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage, should i expect to get the same
size image?
i'm currently burning in a computer by sticking it in such a loop, and
i'm saving the images, just to
Well, that is a bit extreme. don't worry about shutting down the X
server. when the tty on which the X server is running is active, you
can switch to other tty's by using Control-LeftAlt-Fx, where x is the
number of a different tty (presumably a text console).
in response to the original
I just installed hamm, and I noticed that the log file rotation in
/etc/cron.{daily,weekly}/sysklogd now uses a facility called
syslogd-listfiles. does anyone know how to change the periodicity
with which logs are rotated? most notably, i want to rotate syslog on
a weekly, not daily basis, but
Nathan E Norman wrote (Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:51:59 -0500 (CDT) ):
|On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Alan Su wrote:
|
|: I just installed hamm, and I noticed that the log file rotation in
|: /etc/cron.{daily,weekly}/sysklogd now uses a facility called
|: syslogd-listfiles. does anyone know how to change
Shaleh wrote (Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:00:56 -0400 ):
|Alan Su wrote:
| Well, this is only half the solution; if i simply exit the script
| without doing anything, i don't get the daily rotations. however, i
| don't get the weekly ones either (which is what i want).
|
| -alan
|
|So move the script
OK, both Norman and Shaleh didn't understand my question. i can only
conclude that i'm an idiot. =) here's a second shot:
these are the output of 'syslogd-listfiles' and
'syslogd-listfiles --weekly':
alsu# syslogd-listfiles
/var/log/syslog
alsu# syslogd-listfiles --weekly
Shaleh wrote (Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:58:18 -0400 ):
|Have you tried man on syslogd-listfiles?? It should give you a
|pointer. If not, contact the packages maintainer and ask him. He/she
|will know the correct way to do this. If the script needs editing or a
|conf file he can either make his own
i'm doing a fresh install of hamm, and i'm just wondering: what
happened to the ftp method of installation? my choices were floppy,
cd-rom or hard drive, but no option to do an ftp install. basically,
i'm forced to do a floppy install since all i have on the system is
win98, and in their great
Hi-
i'm kicking windows off my disk, and i'd like to put hamm in it's
place. currently, i'm dual booting between windows and bo, but i'd
like to keep it available, just so i can compare and fiddle with both
of them.
My question is: what's the best way to do this? i've considered:
- somehow
being to install hamm on this system with
no working floppy drive, while preserving the existing bo
installation.)
thanks for your help!
-alan
Alan Su wrote (Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:51:37 -0700 ):
|
|i'm kicking windows off my disk, and i'd like to put hamm in it's
|place. currently, i'm dual booting
Shaleh wrote (Tue, 07 Jul 1998 21:59:32 -0400 ):
|Well on Alan Cox's web page for TV in Linux he has a pretty GIF that has
|the red circle w/ the slash on an ATi logo and specifically states that
|until ATi gives out specs their all-in-wonder card will not do anything
|more than X. SO I refuse to
Does anyone know what the following error (extracted from
/var/log/syslog) means:
:May 28 13:46:18 alsu kernel: Warning: kfree_skb passed an skb still on a list
(f
:rom 017ff8f8).
:May 28 13:46:18 alsu kernel: bounds:
:May 28 13:46:18 alsu kernel: CPU:0
:May 28 13:46:18 alsu kerneld:
After my machine was completely hung this morning, I did a hard reset,
fsck'd the filesystems, and found the following in /var/log/syslog:
:May 20 02:10:42 alsu kernel: Warning: kfree_skb passed an skb still on a list
(from 01d5ccf0).
:May 20 02:10:42 alsu kernel: general protection: 4674
:May
My linux box is connected to a campus network, and i'd like to provide
access to that network to a machine connected over a serial/modem line
via PPP. i *think* the normal way to do this would be:
- get an IP assigned for the PPP box
- compile the linux kernel with IP forwarding and have it
Ian Stuart wrote (Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:14:33 + ):
| On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Ian Stuart wrote:
|
| RedHat is easier to install initially (it's only 2 floppies as opposed
| to Debians 6+), however the updating system in debian (dselect) is _far_
| superior..
|
|I feel I must clarify my position
Richardson,Anthony wrote (Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:01:00 -0500 ):
|
|I'm trying to set up an anonymous ftp server. Everything seems to be
|working except
|ls or dir. I copied /bin/ls to /home/ftp/bin/ls and set up permissions
|as described in the
|ftpd man page. When I type ls however I get:
|
Ossama Othman wrote (Thu, 26 Feb 1998 12:31:56 -0500 (EST) ):
|Why are you trying to chroot to /bin/ls? The ftpd daemon automatically
|does a chroot when someone logs in as anonymous or ftp. Here is an
|excerpt from the ftpd man page. Did you follow what it says?
|
Tony was trying to diagnose
Ossama Othman wrote (Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:03:54 -0500 (EST) ):
|
|Ah, I see. However, what is the specific problem? I assume Tony ran ldd
|on /bin/ls and copied over the necessary shared libraries. What is wrong
|or isn't happening now?
Well, I can't speak to his situation, but currently, when
Steve Witt wrote (Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:27:58 -0800 (PST) ):
|
|[/usr/home/witt/devel/java] $ java HelloWorldApp.class
|Can't find class HelloWorldApp.class
|
|
|I've checked the environment variables CLASSPATH (I don't have it set, so
|it should be set by
Greg Green wrote (Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:12:45 -0700 ):
|Hi,
|I am having a very frustrating time with my .xsession. I can login just
|fine if I don't have a .xsession of my own, but if I copy the
|/etc/X11/Xsession to my $HOME/.xsession, my console just hangs. After
|this hanging, I have to
All this talk about setting up the X server got me wondering. So, I
checked it out, and it seems that there's some kind of inconsistency
on my machine:
:11:31 [1] alsu (alsu):/home/alsu - ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/X
:lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Nov 11 23:31 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -
Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ):
|Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
| The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last
| command should not end in , but it's most useful if that's the window
| manager. You could make it xclock or
Hamish Moffatt wrote (Thu, 11 Dec 1997 18:36:55 +1100 ):
|On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 08:00:30PM -0800, Alan Su wrote:
| Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ):
| |Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| |
| | The window manager should always be last too. Specifically
Brian V Bonini wrote (Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:28:59 -0500 ):
|What I need to do is somehow stop xdm at boot up (I'm booting Linux from a
|floppy) so I can get access to the console as root and delete the
|.xsession file that resides in /root. Please HELP
|Thanks
|
This is odd...the level of civility on this list is astounding. On
any other list I've been on, if someone were to write this, they would
immediately be ``punished''. this is almost disconcerting...=)
Mike wrote (Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:49:27 -0600 ):
|take me off this list!
|
Mike, and anyone
Aaron Brick wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 10:21:29 -0500 (EST) ):
|
|How can I set the ttys corresponding to ralt-Fx? /etc/inittab says nothing
|about which alt key is in use.
|
The point is you don't have to. By simply duplicating the
getty/agetty lines in /etc/inittab, new virtual consoles will be
Sten Anderson wrote (10 Dec 1997 16:32:12 +0100 ):
|Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
| These messages do not indicate a fatal error, only that you haven't
| installed these X extensions. If you're using your own .xinitrc,
| are you sure that the last command uses 'exec' rather than
Aaron-
When X starts, it will always locate itself on the next available
virtual terminal. Since the default is to have six, X gets tty7.
If you end up having 12 tty's as login consoles, X will (presumably)
get the 13th, ttyd.
I have no idea how you would map alt-esc to switch back to X.
Hi everyone-
I have a couple unrelated questions to which I'm hoping someone might
have answers.
First, I've installed APS for my HP DeskJet 682C. Everything works
wonderfully for PS files, but now when I pipe plain text to the
printer (via lpr), I get output that looks as if it's been rotated
Alan Su wrote (Sun, 07 Dec 1997 16:32:47 -0800 ):
|
|First, I've installed APS for my HP DeskJet 682C. Everything works
|wonderfully for PS files, but now when I pipe plain text to the
|printer (via lpr), I get output that looks as if it's been rotated to
|landscape format and is printed
Hi everyone-
I hope this is the right list...I'm having a problem getting Debian
Linux to recognize my Ethernet adapter, the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10
(the ISA version). So far, I've done the following:
- disabled PnP for the card
- set the interrupt to IRQ 10
- set the I/O address to 0x240
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