How can I configure it under Linux ? Must I make a device with MAKEDEV? How
can
You have to compile your own kernel. Check the Sound-HOWTO
Stef
On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 06:56:46PM -0800, rod peters wrote:
where exactly is qt1.42. I cant seem to find it.
debian/dists/potato/non-free/binary-i386/libs/qt1g_1.42-1.deb
I wanted to run XF86Setup. It told me, that it cannot find
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
So I checked in slinks Contents-i386. According to it, xinitrc should
be in xserver-common. So I installed that package, but xinitrc still
is not there (also not in /etc/X11/xinit/).
Am I missing
Hi,
the card, but when I use ifconfig to assign an IP address (or make the card
active using ifconfig tr0 up), the process that is running ifconfig hangs.
I had the same problem. If I remember right, the Token Ring adapter
can't be configured if it is not connected to a network.
So just
There is a version of the kdenetwork package for hamm, but there is
none for potato on the ftp.kde.org. Ehat happened to it?
Stef
Since I updated my system using dftp, no windowmanager ist started
when I startx.
Does anybody have an idea what the problem could be?
Cheers
Stef
I can't find the kde* packages in slink or in potato. Where are they?
Thanks a lot
Stef
They're on KDE's ftp site. Debian won't distribute KDE binaries based on
OK, I did so. I had a look into
http://www.kde.org/documentation/en/general/userguide/index-3.html#ss3.3
There it says, that I need libkde0 which should be in
/pub/kde/unstable/distribution/dpkg
But this directory does
Yes you should be able to run 'dftp getselect' again, but first you want
to:
I did what you told me. After doing
dftp getselect
it got all the packages, but then ist stopped, so next I did
dftp unpack
Which kept the system busy for some minutes. Since the packages were still in
/root/packages,
This weekend I made an update via dftp. I also upgraded to mutt
0.95.1i which is in slink. Now my /etc/mailcap has changed. There are
no more text/* entries. eg. text/html
Any idea how theu disapeared and how to get them back?
Stef
Last night I started dftp to update my system. After ist downloaded
packages for some hours, the connection to my ISP was shut down. Is
there a way how I can resume dftp with the packages it already
downloaded?
Stef
Few days ago I setup a machine withe Debian 2.0 r3. I have named
running on that machine, since it will be connected to the internet
later. Right now its just part of my private network
192.168.1.0. After installation, named ran fine, and could resolve the
two hosts I put into /etc/hosts. After I
How can I compile the newest Smail Debian source under Debian 1.3.1?
Doing
dpkg-source -x *.dsc
and
./debian/rules binary
resultes in:
/bin/sh: ./debian-defs.sh: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
Stef
When I reply to an author of an usenet posting using rtin, I get the
following error message from our Mailserver:
|- Message log follows: -|
no valid recipients were found for this message
|- Failed addresses follow:
The \'s are not supposed to be there, and the 2nd one causes the bounce.
It's known that rtin isn't that good in handling From: lines in some cases
when replying. Just edit the To: line of your message to contain just To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED], without those quotes and without the full name etc.
I just installed Debian 2.0. ProFTPd is installed, but when I ftp to
the machine i see:
FTP server (Version 6.2/OpenBSD/Linux-0.10) ready.
How do I make Debian use ProFTPd?
Stef
I try to load and use the autoop script in BitchX. Si within BitchX I say:
/load autoop
Then I say:
/addchan #channel
But BitchX tellx me: Unknown command. What do I do wrong?
Stef
I didnt receive the debian-user-digest for 4 days now. Do you have
troubles with it?
No, I don't think so. Maybe there were some troubles with your e-mail
account, and you have been deleted from the list (it happened to me
once...)?
Subscribe again, and everything should be fine.
Stef
The save as option on my Gimp only offers its internal
(.xcf) format instead of stuff like .gif. What'm I
missing here?
Layers can only be saved in gimps own format. So you have to flatten
an image first, before you can save it as GIF. Also if it has more
than 8-bit colors, it can't be saved
case $- in
*i*)# interactive shell only
echo \n
fortune -a
echo
;;
esac
Hm, this gives me an
Illegal variable name.
error...
Stef
There probably a mismatched quote somewhere, or something similar.
Post /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc here, the error should be obvious
to spot
I don't think so:
# /etc/profile: system-wide .profile file for bash(1).
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
PS1=\\$
Since I put these lines
echo \n
fortune -a
echo
in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.cshrc, less gives me a fortune and the
newlines instead of the contents of a file:
sos:~ less ei
The two party system ... is a triumph of the dialectic. It showed that
two could be one and one could be two and had
Now booting shows lilo getting through LI but then nothing. I
assume something is going wrong in the loading of linux but I'm not
sure what's likely to be wrong and how I should deal with it. I found
one report of something similar in the archives but no answer there.
In the lilo manual
When I take out the three lines from /etc/csh.cshrc, I still get this
lesspipe.sh: Command not found. error message, but after that the
contents of the file are displayed.
What could that be?
( - man less )
less tries to run lesspipe.sh. just remove the environment variables
I want to build a hamm source package under bo. After saying
./debian/rules binary
I get the following:
test -f src/smail.h
test root = `whoami`
rm -rf debian/tmp
install -g root -o root -m 755 -d debian/tmp/DEBIAN \
debian/tmp/etc/{smail,cron.daily} debian/tmp/var/log{,/smail} \
I use Debian 1.3.1 and smail configured to handle virtual
mailhosts. For one virtuel host I have a mailinglist. Since some days,
some of the messages sent to the list are delivered several times to
the same people.
What can I do to find out what the cause of the problem is?
Stef
I use Debian 1.3.1 and smail configured to handle virtual
mailhosts. For one virtuel host I have a mailinglist. Since some days,
some of the messages sent to the list are delivered several times to
the same people.
I had a look into /var/spool/smail/msglog
there were messages concerning the
I use Debian 1.3.1 and smail configured to handle virtual
mailhosts. For one virtuel host I have a mailinglist. Since some days,
some of the messages sent to the list are delivered several times to
the same people.
P.S. I use Smail-3.2 (#2 1996-Nov-26)
Stef
Can anybody give me the e-mail address of the smail mailinglist, and
tell me how to subscribe there?
Stef
For user ftp, the ftpd does a chroot to ~ftp
Can I make ftpd to do that for another user: When joe makes an ftp
connection, his homedirectory ~joe should be the root directory, so
joe cannot go bellow ~joe ?
Stef
I use Debian 1.3.1. Are there ftp Servers who still carry the old
libc5 Packages I need?
Stef
I want to make a backup from one machine directly into a tar file on
another machine. How could I do that? I'm thinking about something
like: tar -c / | rcp ...
Stef
In /usr/include there is a softlink called ncurses pointing to . I
want to make a backup of the whole machine, so I connected to it via
ftp as root, cd'ed to / and said: get ..tar
But now tar gets stuck with that softlink pointing to itself: Its
still transfering, but a tar -tf just shows more
smail sent me the following message:
Xfail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] parent: [EMAIL PROTECTED] reason: (ERR152)
transport
smtp: 552 Message exceeds administrative size limit (2868234 200 bytes)
On both hosts I use smail, and have the following line in /etc/smail/config:
max_message_size=10M
Has anyone ever seem this error from tin?
Error: Bad charset for non-7bit encoding (must not be us-ascii)
I consistently get this error and it won't let me post because of it.
The solution: Press M in rtin, choose item 73. MM_CHARSET and set it
to ISO-8859-1.
Now I can post without rtin
We already had this kind of problem, but I believe the answer is
quite simple: try restarting the 'nfs daemon' on '/etc/init.d'. I \t
should suffice.
What do you mean with try restarting the 'nfs daemon' on '/etc/init.d'?
Stef
Why can't I save my pictures as GIF in the gimp?
Stef
Why can't I save my pictures as GIF in the gimp?
Because I didn't install gimp-nonfree...
Stef
I upgraded from Slackware to Debian 2.0. Now vacation does not work
correctly anymre, and I get an e-mail from the MAILER-DAEMON telling
me:
|- Failed addresses follow: -|
|/usr/bin/vacation alpenr ... failed: transport pipe: child returned status
EX_1
i have installed the tar-file from vnc (vnc-3.3.2r2_x86_linux_2.0.tgz)
and copied
all files correctly to /usr/local/...
in netscape i can start the the vnc viewer to look on my win95 desktop.
the (X) vncviewer dies with a core dump.
I had the same problem. Now I use the vncserver from
After the information comming with Staroffice 5, every user has to
start the Staroffice 5 setup program after it has been installet with
the /net option. Is there a way to automate this? Is there a Debian
package that does this?
Stef
I have a Debian 1.3.1 Machine where I started /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd and
updated /etc/exports. If I want to nfs mount from the host I put into
/etc/exports (this host runs Debian 2.0), I get the following error
after some time:
mount: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive
Any ideas, what
A Friend sent me an e-mail telling me about a security hole in named:
It should be possible to gain root privileges by sending named a too
long paket. Does the named in Debian 1.3.1 have this bug?
Stef
I compiled kernels before (under slackware). How do I do it properly
in Debian? I think the proper way will be to have a .deb package in
the end. How do I do that? Is there information on the web on how to
do that?
Stef
Install the kernel-package package then:
man make-kpkg
OK, I did that, but I still feel stupid: Do I have to do
make xconfig
make
make-kpkg binary
in the source directory now? Or did I miss something?
Stef
Okay, I'm a little confused. I have everything the disks installed (the
five install disks I made with rawrite), but I don't see any module for
scsi on the hd. Where would I find that, and what would the syntax be
for insmod?
If you start your installation from the rescue disk, you will get
is there any way i can avoid having to boot through disquette? i am having
Its puzzling: You can install Debian from MS DOS very easily, but
there seems to be no easy way to do this directly from an existing
Linux system. We have a Mailserver without a floppy or CD
drive. Someone mailed me, I
Well, I loaded Debian from floppy. However, while it boots from the boot
floppy fine, when I try to boot from the hd, it doesn't appear to load
anything, and stops at a 1FA: prompt (to which nothing can be typed).
Hm, to me it sounds like a problem with lilo. What does it say, if you
execute
There seem to be two independent system.fvwm95rc on my freshly
installed Debian 2.0 system:
sos:~ ls -i /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc
14384 /etc/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc
sos:~ ls -i /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc
149639 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95/system.fvwm95rc
sos:~ ls -l
I have computers that don't have cd's so I installed the base system
from floppies. (It works! :) What do I have to do to set up a zip drive
on the parallel port so I can start installing packages (can't handle a
stack of hundreds of floppies).
You just insmod the module for ZIP. Its in the
As far as I can tell, any given application in the Debian
distribution is embedded in one of the *.deb files with any number of
other applications. Is there a document available that tells which
apps are contained in which *.deb packages?
Yep. Its in the Contents-* File. E.g.
While updating from Slackware to Debian I seem to be deleted
erroneously from the debian-user mailing list. Should anybody already
have answered to my posts concerning PATH for tcsh or access denied
using ftp to an account in /home/users, could he or she please send
the response again to my normal
I use Debian 2.0. EDITOR is set to 'emas -nw'. When I want to post
something using rtin, it tell me:
Error: Bad charset for non-7bit encoding (must not be us-ascii)
But I don't see any 8 bit character in my posting.
What could be wrong?
Stef
I just installed Debian 2.0 via ftp.
I cannot move up and down in mutt to select individual mails using the
arrow keys (is that the right expression?) in my keyboard. It just
tells me: Key is not bound. A bug or a feature? Under Slackware I
didn't have a problem with that.
Stef
Under Debian 1.3.1 I just had a /etc/named.boot file. In Debian 2.0
ther is now also a more complicated looking /etc/named.conf file, and
guess what, my nameserver is not serving the zones it should be
primary for anymore. I guess this is just a RTFM issue. So could
someone please tell me which
well, I didn't see the original emails, but I'll take a stab at your ftp
problem. take a look at the file /etc/shells.
Gosh, that was quick :-)
Silly me! Changing from Slackware to Debian, I thought it was smarter
to do a ln -s /usr/bin/tcsh /bin/tcsh instead of changing the
according line
I just installed Debian 2.0 via ftp.
I cannot move up and down in mutt to select individual mails using the
arrow keys (is that the right expression?) in my keyboard. It just
tells me: Key is not bound. A bug or a feature? Under Slackware I
didn't have a problem with that.
I just realised,
To fiddle withe the /etc/passwd file is one way to disable anonymous
ftp. But what ist the 'natural' way? I use wu-ftp.
Stef
Did you update or make a new install?
I made a new install. Debian 1.3.1 is running on another machine.
I guess on 1.3.1 you used bin
4.x.x and now 8.x.x. They have different configuration files. If you
put your old configuration and zonefiles in /var/named, you could run
bindconfig to
The primaries are configured in named.conf with a new syntax (primary
is now master). If you now run bindconfig, your old zones will be put
in named.conf.
No, I ran bindconfig once more, and ended up with the same result as before...
Stef
netscape4_4.0-12.deb will only install navigator* or communicator-v4*
packages, but not communicator-pro-v4* packages. Can I just rename my
package from communicator-pro-v4* to communicator-v4*, or will this
mess up something?
Stef
When i start vncserver, and then xvncviewer or vncwiever from Windows
NT, the keyboard ist totaly mismatched: a seems to be TAB, c and d
result in a q, LEFT ALT in a 2 and so on...
Stef
When i start vncserver, and then xvncviewer or vncwiever from Windows
NT, the keyboard ist totaly mismatched: a seems to be TAB, c and d
result in a q, LEFT ALT in a 2 and so on...
I now installed vnc-3.3.2r2 'by hand' into /usr/local/bin. The
vncserver runs now without that keymaping problem.
Is there a way, like in sendmail, to dissalow EXPN and VRFY in smail
via the configuration files?
Stef
How can I configure smail, not to send an email to someone being on an
mailinglist, if that someone is the sender of the mail. In other
words: someone sends email to list, where he is also included, and I
don't want him to receive the mail he sent.
Stef
You could also just edit /var/named/boot.{zones,options} as before and then
use the command named-bootconf to automatically convert them to the new
syntax.
Yep, that did the trick :-)
Muchas gracias
Stef
I prefer tcsh as the standard shell instead of the bash. Why is the
path not set as for the bash? I manualy inserted
setenv PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
into
/etc/csh.cshrc
Now it works.
Is this a bug or a feature or did I miss something?
Stef
I use a /home/users and a /home/friends folder. Users in that
directories cannot access our server via ftp. They get an
530 User doris access denied.
error (wher doris is a sample user). The users that have their
homedirectory in /home can however access the server via ftp.
Whats wrong?
Stef
I use Debian 2.0.0 When I want to start gimp, I get the following
error messages:
** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 115 (gdk_font_ref): font != NULL
** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 177 (gdk_font_equal): fonta != NULL
** WARNING **: file gdkfont.c: line 115 (gdk_font_ref): font != NULL
I have two problems with netscape. The first has already been posted,
but I din't see a solution to it: The menus are just black instead of
colored.
The second is, it cannot find some fonts:
Warning: Cannot convert string
-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* to type FontStruct
I use Debian 2.0.0
xanim displays animated GIFs and MPGs garbled. The GIFs have black
vertical stripes...
Stef
Are you running X in 24 bpp? Netscape, and other programs, can not run
correctly in this color depth.
Hm, so why does the same netscape work under Slackware in 24 bpp color
depth?
Stef
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I made a new installation on a new harddisk with Debian 2.0
Before I used Debian 1.3.1
I copied my ppp scripts from my old harddisk, and I inserted the ppp
module into the kernel. If I want to fire it up now, it starts, but
network connection doesn't work. After 30 seconds the other side hangs
How can I enable pop3 support in Debian 1.3.1?
I added a line saying:
pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.pop3d
to /etc/inetd.conf (copied that from Slackware), but in.pop3d seems
not to exist in Debian (checked the Contents-i386 file)
Stef
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Our Mailserver runs with Slackware. I want to change to Debian. The
problem is the following: There is no CD-ROM, no floppy disk and no
DOS installed. How can I install Debian from an existing ext2fs
partition. In Installing Debian Linux 2.0 it says to make a floppy if
I want to do this, hmmm
I use Debian 1.3.1
I want my smail not to relay. So I have to add the line
smtp_remote_allow = 127.0.0.1:IP
to the config file. This works only from smail_3.2.0.101 on, which
is a hamm package. So I need to upgrade libc5_5.4.33-3 to at least
libc5_5.4.33-7 first, in order to be able to upgrade to
In order to use PPCHTeX i have to recompile teTeX with a parameter
stack of 200 instead of 60 in the file:
.../tetex-bin-0.4pl6/kpse-2.6/web2c/tex/tex.ch
But what do I do now? Edit all the other files as said in the README
and INSTALL and do a make world? Or is there a way to compile a
debian
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