Mike Fleming has brought together a series of presentations at the Washington
Statistical Society. The theme has been public-domain software, including our
usual friends in statistics and Linux like R (S+ clone), octave (Mathlab
clone), LaTeX. Beyond the packages many of us have heard of,
Your libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.txt saves many people from ruinning their
operating systems. A few changes could save a few more people. When a
person
ruins zher operating system by badly adding packages from hamm, zhe
consumes
weeks of time. You might save tens of people
I concur that Best Power's products; eg, the Fortress that I also use, have a
well deserved reputation. While the inexpensive Fortress models may not still
have all the push buttons they did a year ago; when the lights got bright
here, the firemen came to put out an electrical fire next door,
Ideally, the environment variable NNTPSERVER or the file /etc/news/server
would determine the NNTP news server for any news-reader. This would ideally
work for knews, netscape, pine, trn, ... . I believe one can configure the
traditional news readers like knews, pine, trn to use the variable
Knews receives articles wonderfully.
However, whenever I try to reply to mail, I get the message
Domain name not available, posting will not be allowed!
Of course, there is a domain-name problem of some sort.
My domain-name should be something like mnsinc.com.
In the mail-user-agents of
Hi guys,
I have expected just a problem,
I want to conect on the internet with my Debian.
I have configured the file /etc/ppp.chatscript, so that i have
writing my provider's phone number, my login and pass
But when i lauch ppp i don't know what i shall do.
Please help me so that i
I can not decipher recommendations for setting time for those with ppp
connections that can get very good time with ntpdate (referencing 3 ntp
servers). In the following, hardware-clock refers to the medium grade
clock that runs whether the computer is on or off; Linux-clock refers to
the
When mounting /usr over a link, we locked our Debian Linux and ended all
network mounts for Linux SunOS and Solaris.
For two years, we have tailored RedHat Linux. We boot up with a minimal /usr.
We then mount a large Linux /usr directory from a Sun's disk drive. We use
this /usr in common on
Back in the 1980's, AtT produced S.
Most statistical departments quickly worked with S; eg,
Stanford, Purdue, Carnegie-Mellon.
Numerous statistics departments contributed code to S.
In the early 1990's, Statistical Sciences licensed S from ATT, producing
S-Plus.
They put on a pretty front end,
I also found the fvwm changes troublesome since I had to spend a few hours
(or was that days) redoing post.hook. I also feel something like ctrltab
should raise and focus on successive windows. I found the default fvwm
configuration anemic.
I solved this focus and raise problem, but I use
This message addresses several private questions about R from my earlier mail
to the Debian users mail-list.
Of course, the real experts gave us R, knowing answers better than I.
Indeed, I answer these questions from the perspective of a novice.
I include here a little about the R developers,
I leave my xdm X-windows session running 24 hours a day.
My wife uses Linux for a few minutes each day.
I could give her permissions to run X-windows applications on top of my
X-windows session with
xhost +localhost
but xauth is considered more secure and does not receive complaints from
Daniel Martin suggested a magical solution, one his mail prodded me to use.
I now have an X-session for myself on cntlaltF7,
one X-session for my wife on cntlaltF8,
one X-session for my child on cntlaltF9.
WOW
Mail to debian-users on January 4, 1998, by Remco Blaakmeer showed how to do
this in
I believe I had a similar problem last year with IRS forms.
I have but 4MB of printer memory.
Perhaps you have too little printer memory for such a large file.
Maybe there is a slick way around low printer memory.
In the end, I selected a few pages at a time for printing.
I hope the
I seek to use one computer with two full X-windows users.
This would be a cheap in time/money approach for my wife and I simultaneously
using Linux.
I believe I could get a dummy terminal working through the serial port,
then display on a second monitor (though I don't know any approach for a
Over 4 months, I used dump to successfully back-up 5 filesystems in this order
/ /usr /var /home /usr/local
Now, for two weeks, I have gotten no successful backup.
dump always goes wild on the /var filesystem.
With the exception of an Atapi CD, all other such hardware is attached to an
Adaptec
For four months, I noticed no problems with my tape drive or my disk drive.
In the last two weeks, I have updated a few packages in hamm, but not many.
I now have two indicators that just one partition (out of 8+ partitions) on my
disk drive gets its signals diverted to the tape drive.
1. mke2fs
I confirm possible problems with scsi.
Here's my story
For four months, I noticed no problems with my tape drive or my disk drive.
In the last two weeks, I have updated a few packages in hamm, but not many.
I now have two indicators that just one partition (out of 8+ partitions) on my
disk drive
My nightly cron job mirrors a debian site.
Here is my cron job, which runs mirror if not already running,
then turns off ppp with poff.
if [ -z `/sbin/pidof -x mirror` ]; then (pon; sleep 120; /bin/mount
/dev/sdb2 /mnt 2/dev/null; cd /mnt/mirrors; ./run-mirror; poff) ;fi
I like to display fortune or the dhammapada in my x-window at login,
so I have in ~/.xsession
xmessage -center `dp`
In fact, I like it so much that I generate a new dhammapada every 10 minutes
on an X-window in the fourth quadrant:
xterm -T dhammapada -geometry +1024+1118
I have been told to display a warning message whenever a person enters a
particular, secure, directory. Of course, on first thought this is a
lame idea since people can access a directory without using cd.
And you cannot put out a message into standard output whenever the
directory is accessed
I see no wish or tclsh packages.
These are required by the Debian hamm package exmh_2.0zeta-3.deb.
I have had this problem with other packages that required dependent-packages
not at ftp.debian.org.
The following packages were missing for gimp gimp-data-min_0.99.14-1_all.de
b
[snip]
The Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO says to install
libreadline2_2.1-4
but I only find libreadline2_2.1-2.
I never did find this debian package.
Go to http://www.debian.org/packages.html and do a search for
libreadline2. Then you'll find libreadline2_2.1-7.deb (I
After upgrading ldso, libc6 and several other packages, several packages
failed to work, responding segmentation violation,
xv, xfig, xephem
The cause of this was my setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH in .bashrc.
I had used this setting with no problems for a year under rex and bo.
To correct
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Jameson Burt wrote:
: After upgrading ldso, libc6 and several other packages, several packages
: failed to work, responding segmentation violation,
:xv, xfig, xephem
: The cause of this was my setting of LD_LIBRARY_PATH in .bashrc.
: I had used this setting
In README.mirrors, Debian's primary site ftp.debian.org has the remote
directory listed as /debian. Using the standard mirror program, I have
always gotten the response
Cannot get remote directory details (/debian )
For a year, I just went on to other mirror sites.
The above message
The key document for upgrading from stable bo to unstable hamm is
libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.txt. I have botched the upgrade from rex to bo, and
the upgrade from bo to hamm. I botched the upgrades because I installed
programs from the unstable version over several months successfully, then one
I am not very familiar with the Debian distribution, and would like
suggestions on what to include in the Debian mirror on ftp.tux.org that
would fit within 2 GB maximum.
The current exclude_patt for mirror is rather ugly and over-micromanaged, I
suspect it is trying to do too much in
Debian rescue disks have supported my Adaptec 2940UW disk for 1 1/2 years.
Now, none of the rescue disks in
.../dists/hamm/disks-i386
work with my Adaptec 2940UW.
I have tried all four
.../dists/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-21/resc1440*
and I have tried
Debian rescue disks have supported my Adaptec 2940UW disk for 1 1/2 years.
Now, none of the rescue disks in
.../dists/hamm/disks-i386
work with my Adaptec 2940UW.
I have tried all four
.../dists/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-21/resc1440*
and I have tried
So I needn't end my xdm session when I get up and my wife uses Linux, I run
three X servers under xdm. For this, I have within /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 :0
:1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt8 :1
:2 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt9 :2
Usually, on booting, :0 starts, then :1
Harald Koenig of XFree86 solved my problem with 3 X-servers under xdm.
Here is his reply, annotated.
Starting multiple X servers at the same time doesn't work reliably.
You should try adding some delay (maybe ~5...15 seconds) between starting
multiple instances.
Unfortunately, xdm can't
I had for 6 months used mirror to mirror the Debian distribution through
the site uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu.
On August 30, 1997, MY MIRRORING PROCEEDED TO GET THE WHOLE MIRROR,
REPLACING FORMER IDENTICAL FILES.
I did not change mirror sites, I did not change my mirror.defaults file,
though I did
You could have avoided the transfer with a mirror -T. Whenever I
see it going haywire (usually because I did something stupid to my
clock), I stop it and try that first.
Thank you very much.
My computer's clock is off by 30 minutes, though on bootup Linux eventually
accomodates that
Oz Dror wrote:
Prior to the debian 2.0 installation I used to have a detail boot log
on /usr/adm/messages.
Where is it on the 2.0 version. the /var/log/messages is very abbreviated
the /var/log/syslog is also very abbreviated
The following comes from Debian Bug report #31689.
It solves
I did a few searches in user's archives and came up with the book
Beginning Linux Programming.' I read a review and it said it was for
people who already have programming experience. I have none. I look
at files and understand very little. I would like to be able to
understand the
On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 11:37:23PM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
Hi,
Where can I learn how to write the shell scripts?? Is there any
good documentation to read??
Thx.
Shao.
I would recommend O'Reilly Learning the bash Shell.
(http://www.ora.com) and Beginning Linux
--Message-Boundary-7696
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Content-description: Mail message body
Hi,
Can anyone help me how I have to interpret the output of the
(Matrox) X-server. I start but crashes. but how to interpret all the
messages
On 16-Jan-99 Shao Zhang wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone tried out the Xi graphics video server??
Is it really much better that XF86??
Depends on the card, monitor, etc. However it does not interface nicely with
the Debian X packages. Personally I would suggest supporting
I too have an Exabyte 8200. Mine works, so I mention what I do,
avoiding working with an actual blocksize.
I sent this almost verbatim to another person on December 31, 1998.
Over the years, Exabyte has sold about 1 million tape drives,
so there are many on the market used, including the 8200
call me crazy, but after messing around with shell programming for a while, i
discovered perl. i'm no major system programmer or admin or anything, but
why on earth would someone ever want to use some shell programming language
over perl? especially since perl can run on almost any
Hello.
There are 5 SCSI disks happily running at sda - sde. The 6th
disk is accepted as /dev/sdf, as the kernel output after lilo
says. But fdisk /dev/sdf fails with Unable to open /dev/sdf.
strace fdisk /dev/sdf gives
open(/dev/sdf, O_RDWR)= -1 ENXIO (Device not
The best statistical pagacke is IMHO R.
-Egon
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, William Park wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 08:29:38AM -0600, rich wrote:
Hello all,
I'm just about to get my doctorate in neuroscience,
and I have have several large databases essential for my dissertation.
I've just added an NT 4.0 server machine onto my linux network so I can
work on learning it. Anyway, since I've added it, my dial up
connection has been going on continually. It appears to be dns look
ups since it is connecting on port 53. Does anyone know how to stop
this in NT?
I have
I was actually going to check the message archive this time, but I'm
sitting here at a Netscape status bar telling me Connect: Contacting
Host www.debian.org... endlessly.
Anyway, I can't even get my printer to print a simple text file. It is
a Panasonic KX-P4430. I checked the basic
I couldn't initially share my printer when I upgraded from hamm to slink;
in fact, I couldn't even print from my local printer.
To solve my problem, I decided it was a good time to switch from the lpr
package to the more complex/complete/modern lprng package.
I could then print from my local
I LOOK FOR A COMMAND THAT SETS THE PERMISSIONS OF ONE FILE LIKE THE PERMISSIONS
OF ANOTHER FILE.
This is analogous to the touch command that sets the timestamps of one file
like another file,
touch -r file-template file-target
Of course, one can go through machinations like
cp -p
I see no upgrade notes for slink.
For hamm, these upgrade notes reside in
.../hamm/hamm/upgrade-i386/README-upgrade
Usually, I just use dpkg to install whatever packages I want from the
upgrade distribution. For example, I might install a newer gimp from slink.
Since I wouldn't have upgraded
exmh I use. It is an X-based front end to mh.
I have thousands of mail in about 40 folders right now.
I like seeing message titles/date/author above and the messages below.
Perhaps since no one else has mentioned exmh, it might have a flaw.
For example, since it is based on mh, one could alter
I avoid the problem of a separate /etc/resolv.conf for each of my ISP's
by never using my ISP's DNS servers.
I found that DNS lookups to my local ISP took as long as lookups to the
the main internet DNS servers A through M, about 4 seconds.
So, I run a local DNS server, and I have but one entry
While it isn't exactly a tab, you could use
\qquad #big space
\quad#no so big space
\; #thickspace
\: #mediumspace
\, #thinspace
\! #negative thinspace
\hspace{2.3cm} #you probably want to avoid ruler measurements
\hspace{4.7ex} #varies by
I think the way to go as a community would to form a regroupment which would
define standards on how such suite of apps should behave and output, and let
the programmers do their job. Let's have a central brain which coordinates
everyone's effort in a single place, to get the most out of our
With a Buslogic (Mylex) BT-958 scsi adapter, my Exabyte 8200 8mm
tape drive fails.
With an Adaptec 2940uw, that same 8mm tape drive works well.
I merely switched scsi adapters on the same P2B motherboard
of my computer, using the same kernel and modules.
I want to use the Buslogic adapter with my
Buslogic is often touted as having the superior scsi adapters.
This probably has merit and Buslogic certainly works well with
the Linux community.
Without meaning to smear Buslogic, the following might tame excess
exuberance about Buslogic.
At the least, it shows a couple of their limitations.
The
On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Jameson Burt wrote:
Buslogic is often touted as having the superior scsi adapters.
Buslogic is now Mylex, BTW.
I have been using a Buslogic card with an Exabyte tape drive for years,
you have the configuration wrong somehow.
My comments about the Exabyte
I have used a fresh bo upgraded to hamm per instructions in
libc5-to-libc6 for 8 months.
After following those instructions, I felt free to use dpkg,
but avoided use of dselect (even though I have used dselect perhaps
40 times over the last two years).
Now, 8 months later, I decide to use
I know a couple people who have installed this card, including myself.
Here is what I did.
1. From http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html, I got the following
for my Matrox G200 video card,
xmatrox-2.2-0.i386.rpm
xsuseconfig-981102.tgz
2. I ran
alien
Consider the option power_saver.
This largely turns your monitor off, so you save a few electrons a rest
from their frantic day.
Monitors and I believe video cards produced in the last three years mostly
support the DPMS (Display Power Management System).
Both my NEC C500 and my Nokia 445Xpro
What you look for is not the executable file xconfig.
When you make a new kernel, you use the program make.
When you use the program make, it refers to the file Makefile
in the current directory.
If you installed the kernel-source package
I would like to lower the minimum time until the next mouse click is
recognized. I have looked a bit in xbase, xterm, and fvwm2 documentation, but
I haven't stumbled onto how to change the minimum time between mouse clicks.
Why? Linux users use the command line a great deal.
They often want to
The parameter that can be changed is the maximum click interval.
This can be changed with
xterm -mc 500
for 500 milliseconds. I believe the default is 250 milliseconds.
This gives me time to make another click if all three clicks haven't been
recognized. My problem probably did not demand a
Martin Schulze wrote:
Hmm... my Trackman Marble is a PS/2 device:
Section Pointer
ProtocolPS/2
Device /dev/mouse
EndSection
...and...
device=/dev/psaux
responsiveness=
type=ps2
append=-l \a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\
(The append= line
I too have an Exabyte 8200. Mine works, so I mention what I do.
The primary line I use is
/sbin/dump 0uBf 250 /dev/nst0 /
Notice the 0 for a whole dump, the B for size 2.5MB (250)
You merely needed to tell it how long your tape is,
otherwise the default is old-fashioned small.
If
Oz Dror wrote:
Prior to the debian 2.0 installation I used to have a detail boot log
on /usr/adm/messages.
Where is it on the 2.0 version. the /var/log/messages is very abbreviated
the /var/log/syslog is also very abbreviated
ditto.
After upgrading to 2.0, I now see the nice syslog entries MARK
Okay, everybody says lyx is great, but for the darnest, I can't get it
to work with latex's \typein.
Hi,
This is my personal opinion. I'm not particularly enthusiastic about Lyx, it
does not give me any speed up at all to build TeX file. It's quite limited
also.But more
Benno Overeinder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: bootlog on debian 2.0 missing in /var/log/messages
From: Benno Overeinder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 12:01:46 +0100
cc: Jameson Burt [EMAIL PROTECTED
My default gnome and enlightenment together open 1070 files according to lsof.
Running two other X servers for my wife and child, my Debian Linux
computer has 2800 open files according to lsof.
I must kill programs to reduce the number of open files, or else
requests like
ls -1 |wc
respond
I run Debian potato Linux (upgrading it weekly) within a network
that others have setup for Microsoft Windows 95/98.
This network has (over the same ethernet cables)
computers and printers covering 4 C-class networks
as follows [first 2 digits altered],
10.129.206.0
10.129.207.0
As I upgraded from slink to potato,
I believe an interactive comment mentioned that 2.2.* kernels
(I run kernel 2.2.16) need no explicit loopback.
Because of my selection, the upgrade script produced a file
/etc/network/interfaces
with all lines commented.
In particular, this interfaces
Three times I entered,
dpkg -i tk8.0_8.0.5-6.deb
Each time, the file
/usr/bin/wish8.0
was not installed.
I even purged the package then reinstalled the package.
All other files were installed from tk8.0;
only this file /usr/bin/wish8.0 was not installed.
I finally entered,
dpkg -X
.
I could make the links myself, but they have a certain number sequence,
so I had best let the Debian installation create this links.
Does anyone have an idea how to get proper links back into /etc/rc?.d
Thank you,
Jameson Burt
I installed Maple version V successfully 2 years ago.
I have had Maple version VI for 2 months.
My initial installation attempt failed,
so I paid for Maple VI but have not gotten it working.
Maple has a licensing managerie which I successfully maneuvered.
After a lapse of two months, I'll be a
On my home computer, I mirror Debian i386 versions,
including potato and woody.
The use of pool packages has hindered my search
for appropriate packages.
Here I give three techniques I once used,
the limitations caused by pool packages,
and partial solutions.
Below, of the three techniques, 1
gnumeric 0.61-1 (sid) requires libgal2, but
while debian's mirrors pretend to serve
libgal2; eg, thru
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
those links lead to no such package.
Jameson C. Burt, NJ9L Fairfax, Virginia, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coost.com
(202) 690-0380
version 1.3.2-3
Thanks,
Jameson Burt
unfamiliar with
the tools to find its source.
Any ideas where map_ptr comes from and if/how I might correct it?
Thank you,
Jameson Burt
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 02:39:11 Jameson Burt wrote:
I use rsync to mirror most of i386 Debian Linux.
This has worked well for a year until the last few days.
I tried
The new mozilla-browser, version 0.9.7-6, package, has a user friendly print
selector.
As it works with my lprng package, I am left with only a default selection,
so menus offer no alternatives.
And menu clicking within Mozilla offers no way to add another printer choice.
Before, we could enter
After running woody for 4 months, I once again upgraded woody,
this time getting the mirror package 2.9-24,
getting perl 5.6.0-20 on which mirror runs,
and getting about 300 other upgraded packages.
Unfortunately, after this upgrade, mirror consumes all memory and swap
space,
filling up my 128MB
On Sunday, April 2, I installed from scatch on all new hardware.
That installation failed to install
net-tools
The whole installation "seemed" to go well,
and on reboot the desktop interface worked well.
While the installation properly used some networking during installation,
afterwords I
79 matches
Mail list logo
