How to detect network offline and execute script
I know this is something I have seen somewhere (and it is probably something right in front of my eyes). But I have just setup a cable modem that uses dhclient to grab it's IP. Every once in a while the cable modem will flake out and then it is unusable - until I sit down and either physically reboot it, or (I've figured this out) release the IP and drop the NIC then reconnect the card and the dhclient. What I want is a script I can run as a cron job (every 15 minutes or so) that will check to see if the network is usable or not. If the modem has flaked out on me, it will bring it down and then keep trying to bring it up until it succeeds. (Oh and it would be nice to have it send me a little email telling me what it did - that's not asking too much is it? :). Like I said, I know this has got to be somewhere, but I can't find it. Can someone point to where it is laid out for me or maybe put together a little script fragment that will do the checking for me? Thanks, David -- The Morris Family David, Lori, Sarah, Emily and Anna --
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Setting variables for menu access
Greetings Debianites, I have a little nagging problem, that I decided to find an answer for. My example is TkCVS. I go to run the program from the X menu, but it tells me I don't have my CVROOT variable set. If I run it from xterm, everything is fine, but the variables that are set when I login are not available when I call anything from the menu. Where do I need to set variables like that so my xdm-started session menus have access to them? David -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.nerdnosh.org/attic/ Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ --
Basic cvs question
I decided to give cvs a try on a programming project I am about ready to get started on and thought it easier to start from the beginning with the cvs setup. So I installed the cvs package this morning. However, I have what must be a very basic FAQ, but I can't find the answer to it in the FAQ. I think I understand the concept of CVSROOT, but am not sure and don't know what to use for it. Especially to start with a completely clean canvas. Is it as simple as setting my CVSROOT environment variable and starting to use it? Is the CVSROOT path what the debian cvsconfig script wants when it asks for the list of repositories? If so, what is a standard value to use on a Debian system for the CVSROOT path? And shouldn't that be set as a default when someone clueless like me tries to set up the program initially? Thanks for any help I can find. (even if it is a pointer to the right place in the FAQ) David -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.nerdnosh.org/attic/ Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bugs in latest ncftp package?
On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 02:25:40 EDT. Norbert Veber wove together: [snipped] problem is that ncftp has been downgraded from 3.0b to 2.something, so it doesn't recognise those options, personally, I snagged the 3.0 deb from one of the mirrors before it was gone, and I use that (mainly because of the bgget feature) +++ End of Original Message +++ I certainly am hoping the 3.0 version moves out of beta pretty soon. I did really like the bgget feature as well. And it only took a little looking at the help to find the pls command to page through long directory listings. For me, I found more good gained in it than was lost with the loss of the curses interface. -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.nerdnosh.org/attic/ Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux On NPR
Oh, I see. I, like Joey, have not found any embedded rpm files that would trigger the plugin. But it looks like you need to tell netscape you have an application that will play .ram and .rm and .ra files. Go to the edit-preferences-advanced-applications line of menus in netscape and find the RealAudio line to see what is defined for that. If it is nothing you will need to set it. the rvplayer has a set of html docs that are accessible from /usr/doc/rvplayer/index.htm I know that is one of the topics there. On Thu, 09 Apr 1998 23:58:59 PDT. Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wove together: Joey Hess writes: Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: This turned my attention to the fact that RealPlayer is not being called as a Netscape plug-in, even though I installed it through the .deb... Is there anything I'm doing wrong? ii rvplayer5.0-1 Real Video Player (installer) What site are you trying to use it on? It has to be a site with embedded real video content, not just a link. I haven't been able to find such a site yet to test it. I'd suppose that the simple fact that you click on a .ram file, Netscape was supposed to call rvplayer, much the same way that with a .pdf it calls Acrobat, and with .avi it calls xanim... Am I missing something? -- see shy jo -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] n.org +++ End of Original Message +++ -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.nerdnosh.org/attic/ Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux On NPR
It was a nice little piece. NPR has put it on their web page. If you have a RealAudio player installed (rvplayer is the wrapper deb) then you can point it at: http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980408.atc.14.ram On Thu, 09 Apr 1998 08:56:28 EDT. ' ALLAN W. BART wove together: hi, I was listening to my local public radio station on wednesday and there was this 5 minute long program about linux. it was expansive, went into the whys of linux, even had a small interview with linus. so heads up it looks as if linux may be the the only viable alternative to microsoft domination. allan bart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] n.org +++ End of Original Message +++ -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.nerdnosh.org/attic/ Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ --- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Knews and missing domain-name
I asked this question a week or so ago and received no answer. I searched the archives and found various others who asked the question and I found either that no-one answered or what was suggested didn't work for me. Here is the set-up: Latest Frozen version of Debian; dynamic ppp dialup; leafnode gathers the newsgroups I am interested in. Knews looks to localhost and can read news wonderfully. No problem there. But whenever I try to post or to forward news by mail I receive the error message: Domain name not available. From digging in the archives, I checked my hostname (gently) which by virtue of me being dynamic ppp does not exist outside of my own box. I checked dnsdomainname (netins.net) this does exist and is the domain name for my server. My /etc/hosts reads like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 gently.netins.net gently That's all I've been able to find out as meaningful from looking at previous discussions of this question. Where can I look now? -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.nerdnosh.org/attic/ Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trouble posting with Knews and leafnode
Greetings, I currently use leafnode to periodically grab articles for the usenet groups I am interested in for later reading off-line. I then use Knews to read them and have knews configured to look to localhost (leafnode) as its news server. It had been a while since I had tried to post or forward anything from knews, so I am not exactly sure when in the upgrade cycle it happened (I have a hamm setup that was up-to-date until the crash of master and I have been waiting for things to settle down). But now whenever I try to post or even to forward by mail a post I have read, knews beeps and says: Domain name not available, posting will not be allowed! I vaguely remember something like that before, but cannot even vaguely remember what fixed it. Can anyone help? Thanks. -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.nerdnosh.org/attic/ Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dosemu and graphics
My computer runs Debian continually. However, lately, I have been needing to reboot to dos (a 6 year old daughter who wants to play a couple dos games who it is very hard to say 'no' to). I have the latest (hamm) dosemu installed for a text based program and have tried to get it to run in graphics mode so the games are more accessible. However, as a normal user I can't get it. If I try to run vgaon it kicks out an error: CAN'T DO VIDEO INIT, BIOS NOT MAPPED. As root from a console I can get the graphics with no problem. I hate to teach my daughters how to gain root access on my computer though just to run a couple games. What can I change to all my normal user account to access the video? David PS. On a related note, it would be nice to get graphics in the xdos windows, but I get the same error as above even logged on as root. Any hints on this one? -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.nerdnosh.org/attic/ Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 13:00:07 +0100. Santiago Vila Doncel wove together: [snip] [ It may be worth to know that magicfilter supports .dvi format, so if you [ have magicfilter installed, you can even do: [ [ cat whatever.dvi | lpr Or even more simply: 'lpr whatever.dvi' -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh/ Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Where to nice fetching mail?
I have a cron job that runs every half an hour to grab my waiting email and whatever usenet messages are applicable for the groups I am reading. The trouble is that once it starts the system load increases rapidly (to anywhere from 3 to 5) and causes any other process I am running to stall until it has finished its course. It is beginning to frustrate me. I know the simple solution is to buy more RAM but with my computer budget basically in negative figures when it comes to my wife's point of view I need to explore any other options first. I was wondering the other day if it was possible to reduce the paralyzing load by nicing the process somewhere, but I have doubts and am wondering if it will really help and if so, where to do it. My system: kernel 2.0.32 (the latest pre-patch), latest Debian unstable, Intel 486-dx2 running at 50Mhz, 16M RAM, 26M Swap. I have diald setup to logon via ppp over a 14.4 modem. The process to pop my email: fetchmail - sendmail - procmail in .forward - and finally using rcvstore to split my mail into whatever mh folder it should go into. Also around that time (I really should put them in sequence rather than in parallel) leafnode connects to my ISP's news server via fetch. Thanks for any help. -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Anyone getting jdk1.1 working?
Yesterday I downloaded the jdk1.1 packages to a hamm machine. I also recompiled my kernel for java binary support. Then I went to run some of the demo programs using appletviewer and java spins into some sort of endless loop. I can watch it on top eat up all the spare CPU cycles and just grow in memory usage. I let it run for 15 minutes before finally killing it. I'm sure I'm missing something in setting things up, but the settings I can see in the various README files I've checked. But still nothing. -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[OFF-TOPIC] rescue floppy error, hardware problem?
This is only marginally connected to Debian, but since the Debian rescue gave me a certain error I'm hoping someone can offer some insight. I am trying to upgrade my motherboard from a 468sx-25 to a 486DX-2-66 CPU. The motherboard supports it (according to the manual) and the CPU is straight Intel. The problem... I set all the jumpers correctly for CPU type, speed, bus speed (I have an VLBus board set at 33MHz). I get everything all set and start the machine and it does the system test, the Bios seems to find everything right, then it goes to start the OS. I normally boot to MS-DOS and from a config.sys menu choose windows or dos or linux via loadlin. If I just let it run, booting from the hard drive it just stops (warm-boot works so the system doesn't fully hang up). If I boot from a floppy it will display Loading MS-DOS and then either stop or say Divide Overflow. If I boot from the Debian Rescue floppy, I get all the wonderful help screens with no problem and if I hit enter for the default boot it will load root.bin and then start loading the kernel. Then the system will halt with this message... invalid compressed format (err=2) Do I have a buggy CPU (bought it cheap and used) or is there some motherboard or BIOS setting I am completely missing. Or is there anything else? When I put my old CPU in everything works with no problem. As I said, off-topic, but the Debian error message might be more helpful in figuring out what is the problem. -- The AtticKeeper: Rev. David Morris mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Leap and the net will appear -- unknown --- Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Sendmail and domain name
I am working on getting everything configured after having to rebuild my debian partition over the weekend. I am sure there are a few more things to work on, but the one that keeps hounding me is a persistent error message I receive from sendmail. In booting the init script gets to starting sendmail and then hangs there for a couple minutes (haven't timed, but I know I can go away for a little while and still see it hanging in mid-boot). I hear my diald kick in and dial-wait-logoff twice before things finally get going again. Then when I look at the mail.err log this is what I see: Sep 8 14:55:07 gently sendmail[897]: My unqualified host name (gently) unknown; sleeping for retry Sep 8 14:56:07 gently sendmail[897]: unable to qualify my own domain name (gently) -- using short name The error message is repeated about every half hour (when I have a fetchmail routine set up.) If this goes out, I know that it set up to work, but the hanging and the error messages are a sign that something isn't right. I can't find this addressed in any of the sendmail documents on the www.sendmail.org site so am unsure if it is really a sendmail problem or a problem with misconfiguring my debian box. Can anyone help? David [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sendmail and domain name
I would take a look at the follwing lines in sendmail.cf: # my official domain name # ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain #Dj$w.Foo.COM Ah, so that is the $j variable it told me about. No wonder a 'grep $j *' showed nothing. OK, so I tried to change it (and reboot) but when I changed it to: Dj$gently or to Dj$gently.myispdomain.net Neither one solved the problem. Thanks, for the help. David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xemacs19 error
I've just had to start from scratch on my debian install and I thought I would cut to the chase and start with a hamm system. However, in trying to get xemacs 19 running on the console I hit this error. I remember seeing someone write about it earlier before I lost all my email in the crash. The error: xemacs: can't resolve symbol '__sigsetjmp' What might I be missing? (I know it worked on the libc6 system I had running last week) -- David Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Language cannot do everything-- chalk it on the walls where the dead poets lie in their mausoleums. - A. Rich --- Home Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available there or via Finger. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Upgrading Netscape Installer
I really like the netscape installer package and used it many months ago to get netscape working. I have 3.01-1 currently installed. So far, when dselect tells me there is an update available on the netscape package, I've placed it on hold. However, I was wondering if it is safe/needed/possible to update the deb package without having to DL the netscape binary again? I've been wondering more lately after I upgraded my system to the glib6 unstable version of Debian. I've been seeing errors when I try to print a page. The error is as follows. sh:error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so.5: undefined symbol: __default_morecore_init Would the installer package fix that? Or is it a bit more complicated than that? -- The AtticKeeper: David Morris --- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending... -- Unknown --- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX +1 515 474 2499 The Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh The Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available via Finger --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Formula for ftp access to unstable tree
I had been following the stable tree for quite a while and decided I wanted to follow unstable now, but I am having trouble finding the formula to give to dselect to both get the right Packages files and to actually get the files I want. I want to know how to answer the questions for dselect Access -- ftp method. (I access ftp.debian.org) Before when it asked for directory I put debian and for distributinos stable non-free contrib I have tried: debian unstable non-free contrib but obviously that doesn't access the unstable contrib/non-free tree; If I just do: debian unstable I don't have the unstable contrib/non-free tree either; My latest attempt (after looking at the directory tree some): debian/dists/unstable main non-free contrib And that works well to get the right Packages files, but when it goes to actually download and install the files I've chosen all the choices come back with an error that it cannot find the directory or file. I am sure someone has a working formula and that I have missed something obvious. Thanks for your help. -- The AtticKeeper: David Morris --- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending... -- Unknown --- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX +1 515 474 2499 The Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh The Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available via Finger --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
from 1.3 to hamm
I've successfully completed the 1.2 to 1.3 update on all my current packages (love that dselect). And now I see some updates and bug-fixes I would like to use starting to show up in hamm (I already have xfree and xemacs19), however, I see that more of them are being compiled with the new glibc6. What are the issues in converting to the new glibc? Is there a suggested path to follow in beginning to migrate in that direction? -- The AtticKeeper: David Morris --- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending... -- Unknown --- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX +1 515 474 2499 The Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh The Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available via Finger --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: zircon needs X11R6 package?
Well, zircon needs tk which needs tcl and X. And yes, I didn't notice that before, but there is no X11R6 package, and there has been some discussion about what the dependancy should be, And for the life of me, i can't find where someone answered that. Help, anyone? On Wed, 18 Dec 1996 21:12:41 EST. System Account wove together: [ why does zircon depend on X11R6 package?? there is no package. i just [ installed this system last week so i have all the updated packages. [ -Rob [ [ [ [ [ [ -- [ TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ -- The AtticKeeper: David Morris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending... -- Unknown --- The Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh The Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available via Finger --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
repartitioning hard drive
This is a variation on the theme of moving parts of the directory tree to another hard drive that was on this list a while ago. I have a 800M hard drive that is currectly split roughly in half between a DOS partition (411M) and a Debian + swap set of petitions. The Debian partition is almost full and the DOS one is half empty (reflecting the amount of time I find myself spending in the respective OS's (and if I could learn (La)TeX I would use DOS even less) then it would be a matter of teaching my daughters). I boot using loadlin from DOS. So what I want to do is take the DOS partition /dev/hda1 and split it in half, creating a new Linux partition (copying and mounting as /home). As I contemplate the move I think it could get very sticky. As I see it this is what might happen... Current Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *11 413 416272+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda2 414 414 799 389088 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 800 800 82526208 82 Linux swap Projected Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 *11 200 ... 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda2 201 201 413 ... 83 Linux native /dev/hda3 414 414 799 389088 83 Linux native /dev/hda4 800 800 82526208 82 Linux swap First, am I correctly understanding what will happen when I fdisk and create the new partition between 201 and 413? If so, then must I unmount the old /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3, perform the fdisk and then mount them again? And if I do that, do I need to mount a floppy with the kernel on it and possibly other files (umount, mount, fdisk, mkfs maybe?) for the transition? After I get past that part, I think I know what to do (gleaned from previous maessages). Thanks for any help I can get! -- The AtticKeeper: David Morris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending... -- Unknown --- The Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh The Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available via Finger --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: repartitioning hard drive
Thanks, David, I took the plunge and everything worked like a charm. I thought I'd drop this on the larger debian-user list as well so others in the same boat can benefit. Now I have some more playi... working (yeah, that's what it is) room in my Debian section. On Fri, 06 Dec 1996 20:15:41 MST. David Puryear wove together: [ Hi David, [ [ You wrote: [ [ This is a variation on the theme of moving parts of the directory tree to [ another hard drive that was on this list a while ago. [ [ I have a 800M hard drive that is currectly split roughly in half between a DOS [ partition (411M) and a Debian + swap set of petitions. The Debian partition is [ almost full and the DOS one is half empty (reflecting the amount of time I [ find myself spending in the respective OS's (and if I could learn (La)TeX I [ would use DOS even less) then it would be a matter of teaching my daughters). [ I boot using loadlin from DOS. [ [ So what I want to do is take the DOS partition /dev/hda1 and split it in half, [ creating a new Linux partition (copying and mounting as /home). [my own ramblings snipped] [ First, am I correctly understanding what will happen when I fdisk and create [ the new partition between 201 and 413? [ [ I think new partition will become /dev/hda4(new linux partition) That was indeed the case. The documentation really didn't touch on this point, that I can find.) [another rambling question of mine snipped] [ You might want to use fips to make you dos partition smaller. I have [ used it without problem. But please read ALL the docs. that come with [ it. Also you might want to use cfdisk which is lot easier then [ fdisk. 'fips' worked like a charm as well as cfdisk. It took a while to find 'fips', and I found it in the slackware mirror my isp keeps. I didn't bother looking to see if debian had it in the tools section. if it isn't there I would recommend putting it there. [ BTW. BACKUP! I know you'll hear this but it is true. Anything can go [ wrong so backup. Good advice. Everything worked fine so I didn't need it, but something good to do. -- The AtticKeeper: David Morris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending... -- Unknown --- The Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh The Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available via Finger --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xdm using 8bpp: how?
I remember reading here not long ago about how to setup multiple xdm sessions with different color depths. But in a fit of tidyness I erased the message and can't find the answer in any of the manpages or informational docs that came with X. I would like to start up my single session with something other than 256 colors. Can anyone help? -- The AtticKeeper: David Morris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending... -- Unknown --- The Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh The Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available via Finger --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems installing Tex,Latex, etc.
On Thu, 07 Nov 1996 21:13:09 EST. Fabien Ninoles wove together: [ Bad idea I think in fact... TeX needs all to be well configure... [ Install the base font, the mf font, the mflib, etc... The only package I [ doesn't catch how to install is auctex... he always throw me an error in [ the installation script. I was messing with this one tonight. I figured out that you need to add (require 'tex-site) at the end of the /etc/emacs/site-start.el Then you can run the auctex-auto-load script Further up and Further on... -- The AtticKeeper: David Morris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending... -- Unknown --- The Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh The Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available via Finger --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cleaning up kernel source
OK, I downloaded the source for the 2.0.24 kernel and compiled a custom kernel yesterday. And now I have the tree leftover taking up 30M on my hard drive. And I was wondering what I can clean up to free up the space. I know I can run a make clean to remove the *.o files and other compiling files, but that would still leave quite a bit leftover. I am tempted to rm -r the whole tree (which I have done previously), but I see the Documentation that I might want to keep some things handy (like the documentation). So what do I do with all the include files? should I copy them all over to the /usr/include directory? and do I want to leave something hanging around /usr/src/linux? Thanks in advance for your assistance. -- The AtticKeeper: David Morris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending... -- Unknown --- The Nerdnosh Attic: http://www.netins.net/showcase/nerdnosh The Lectionary Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available via Finger --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Babel installation fix?
Last week I tried to remove and then reinstall Babel3.6-4 and faced the same bug that someone wrote about last week (I had previously sent a bug report in to the bug-reports address). The error involved MakeTeXTeX filling the drive with the endless loop of trying to make a non-existent (that I can have yet to find) manfnt.mf (if I remembering correctly). dpkg now sees this package sitting there broken. it can't install it and it can't purge it because it always gets stuck in this loop. I haven't heard anything back about either the bug report or the message in this list. How can this be fixed? So far anything I've wanted to install has gone very smoothly. Do I have to completely remove TeX and then reinstall it? (ugh) or is there someway to get Babel to either get installed or purged (I really don't need it, but it won't hurt to have it there) I was content to just have it sit there broken while waiting for word from someone, but now I find that I can't use TeX or LaTeX because it thinks Babel is still there and functional. -- David Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The fundamental question in life is whether we live it from the outside in or from the inside out. - Fritz Perls (founder, Gestalt therapy) --- Home Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ ---
caffiene-free netscape
I have installed Netscape 3.0 (had to pull the deb package from the incoming directory since for some reason the packages file still has the last beta as the current version) on my debian system. The browser works fine, but I can't get any java applets to work. I have the setting set right and used the package setup that Brian put together, but something still isn't working. I don't receive any errors when I aim at a page that I know has an applet on it, it just doesn't work. The applet space is blank. I am wondering if there is anything else I would need to do to get java to kick in. I am not ready to start developing applets yet, I just want to have them work. I have the 2.0.6 kernel installed (compiled myself). Any ideas on where to look for settings that aren't right? -- David Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The fundamental question in life is whether we live it from the outside in or from the inside out. - Fritz Perls (founder, Gestalt therapy) --- Home Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available there or via Finger. ---
what is -ltk looking for?
I am trying to compile the Embedded Tk source code and run into an error when the compiler tries to link to the tk library (gcc ... -ltk ...) Should I modify that to specify the particular version of the library to look for. I do have the tcl74 tcl75 (current pointer) tcl75-dev, tk40 tk41 (current pointer) and tk41-dev packages installed. While I have compiled a few programs using make, I am clueless so far about it (but want to start figuring it out), so my question is the broader one as well... if I have -ltk in the command line for gcc, what specific file will gcc look for? -- David Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The fundamental question in life is whether we live it from the outside in or from the inside out. - Fritz Perls (founder, Gestalt therapy) --- Home Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available there or via Finger. ---
Re: what is -ltk looking for?
Allow me the privelege of flaming myself for not reading the man pages!!! I found the answer to all my questions right there in the gcc man file. My humblest apologies for spamming the list with my further inanities... On Wed, 28 Aug 1996 17:49:46 CDT. David Morris wove together: [ I am trying to compile the Embedded Tk source code and run into an error [ when the compiler tries to link to the tk library (gcc ... -ltk ...) [my own ramblings snipped] -- David Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The fundamental question in life is whether we live it from the outside in or from the inside out. - Fritz Perls (founder, Gestalt therapy) --- Home Page: http://www.netins.net/showcase/dmorris/ PGP Public Key available there or via Finger. ---
