Re: libc no longer executable in testing/unstable, was in stable (matlab)
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:47:13PM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello! > > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:25:35AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: >> On a stable system, libc is executable and returns version info: >> [...] >> But on testing (same package in unstable) libc is not executable. >> [...] >> Matlab is one of the applications that tries to execute the library to >> figure out what kind of system it is on. Making the libraries executable >> again doesn't help: >> [...] >> Can anyone explain what's going on? > > I think it was some issue with NPTL once, but can't find any details > now. Does > $ /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/libc.so.6 > help? It does here... I'm not sure what that is supposed to to, but I get the same message as when trying to run an executable libc.so.6: $ /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /lib/libc.so.6 Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1259: dl_main: Assertion `_rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_prev->l_next == _rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_next' failed! > PS: Mail-Followup-To not honored as it appears to be munged. Thanks. I changed "lists" to "subscribe" in .muttrc. We'll see if that fixes the problem. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] WiQuest Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG D8C3BBD2 CC08 D690 0B70 3C70 351E EB05 96A3 3789 D8C3 BBD2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libc no longer executable in testing/unstable, was in stable (matlab)
On a stable system, libc is executable and returns version info: $ /lib/libc-2.2.5.so GNU C Library stable release version 2.2.5, by Roland McGrath et al. Copyright (C) 1992-2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Compiled by GNU CC version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease). Compiled on a Linux 2.4.18 system on 2003-04-08. Available extensions: GNU libio by Per Bothner crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others linuxthreads-0.9 by Xavier Leroy BIND-8.2.3-T5B libthread_db work sponsored by Alpha Processor Inc NIS(YP)/NIS+ NSS modules 0.19 by Thorsten Kukuk Report bugs using the `glibcbug' script to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. $ But on testing (same package in unstable) libc is not executable. freefall /usr/share/doc/libc6 $ ll /lib/libc.so.6 /lib/libc-2.3.2.so -rw-r--r--1 root root 1243856 May 25 14:40 /lib/libc-2.3.2.so lrwxr-xr-x1 root root 13 Jul 7 15:27 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.2.so freefall /usr/share/doc/libc6 $ Matlab is one of the applications that tries to execute the library to figure out what kind of system it is on. Making the libraries executable again doesn't help: freefall ~ $ cp /lib/libc.so.6 . freefall ~ $ chmod +x libc.so.6 freefall ~ $ ./libc.so.6 Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1259: dl_main: Assertion `_rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_prev->l_next == _rtld_local._dl_rtld_map.l_next' failed! There are bug reports, but they're both around 300 days old and don't have any info on why things have changed or if they'll work again as they did in the past: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=210840 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=207872 Can anyone explain what's going on? Thanks, Lee -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] WiQuest Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG D8C3BBD2 CC08 D690 0B70 3C70 351E EB05 96A3 3789 D8C3 BBD2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mutt problems after recent sid upgrade
After upgrading two machines (first one Saturday, and second one yesterday), mutt no longer works. When started on the console it segmentation faults, and when started in a gnome-terminal it seems to try to grab more memory until it is killed. mutt itself wasn't upgraded - it remained at version 1.4.0-5 during the upgrade. I've tried several easy things - remove and reinstall, build the deb package myself and install that - but the upgraded systems won't run mutt. Evolution and elm seem to work ok, but I'd rather use mutt. Any ideas what the problem is? strace from a segmentation fault on the console is available at http://www.mindspring.com/~lee.bradshaw/mutt2.log Version info: old working system (restored from backup): freedom ~ $ ldd /usr/bin/mutt libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4001f000) libsasl.so.7 => /usr/lib/libsasl.so.7 (0x4005f000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4006a000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4006d000) libdb2.so.2 => /lib/libdb2.so.2 (0x4018) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x401c1000) libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x401ee000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) a different system after the upgrade: freefall ~ $ ldd /usr/bin/mutt libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x4002) libsasl.so.7 => /usr/lib/libsasl.so.7 (0x4006) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4006b000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4006e000) libdb2.so.2 => /lib/libdb2.so.2 (0x4017e000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x401bf000) libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x401ec000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Galeon/Mozilla Java Plugin Problems (woody)
I found this on the list archive through a google search, but this trick does not work for me. Perhaps something has changed in the last 6 months Here's what I get when I try Lee's advice: $ apt-get install j2sdk1.3 j2sdk1.3-doc-installer Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package j2sdk1.3-doc-installer So I tried it without that line: $ apt-get install j2sdk1.3 [...] Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: j2sdk1.3: Depends: j2re1.3 (= 1.3.1.02b-2) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages So, I tried adding j2re1.3 to the list, and then I got: j2re1.3: Depends: j2se-common (> 1) but it is not installable and that's where I stop, since j2se-common isn't available. Help? --Bill. Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've installed the blackdown java packages. Add this line to >/etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ woody >non-free > >And then: > > apt-get update > apt-get install j2sdk1.3 j2sdk1.3-doc-installer > >I'm actually using unstable now, but java is working in both mozilla and >galeon. > >On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:08:19PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: >> On one system I have potato and the ximian packages installed. I have >> java installed in my mozilla/galeon by a symlink... >> >> ls -alF /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so >> lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 57 Feb 15 18:57 >> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> >> /usr/java/jre1.3.1/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so* >> >> However on my woody systems, installing this link, and then going >> about:plugins in both mozilla and galeon do not show the plugin as >> operational. >> >> Has anyone managed to install a working java plugin into the woody >> packages? If so, how? >> >> Secondly, the galeon packages use the blue chrome look scronn bar in >> galeon rather than a normal grey scroll bar (But thats just ascthetics). >> >> Kind Regards >> Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Galeon/Mozilla Java Plugin Problems (woody)
I've installed the blackdown java packages. Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ woody non-free And then: apt-get update apt-get install j2sdk1.3 j2sdk1.3-doc-installer I'm actually using unstable now, but java is working in both mozilla and galeon. On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:08:19PM +0800, Crispin Wellington wrote: > On one system I have potato and the ximian packages installed. I have > java installed in my mozilla/galeon by a symlink... > > ls -alF /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 57 Feb 15 18:57 > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so -> > /usr/java/jre1.3.1/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so* > > However on my woody systems, installing this link, and then going > about:plugins in both mozilla and galeon do not show the plugin as > operational. > > Has anyone managed to install a working java plugin into the woody > packages? If so, how? > > Secondly, the galeon packages use the blue chrome look scronn bar in > galeon rather than a normal grey scroll bar (But thats just ascthetics). > > Kind Regards > Crispin Wellington > > > -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Instruments[EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG D8C3BBD2 CC08 D690 0B70 3C70 351E EB05 96A3 3789 D8C3 BBD2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
terminal capabilities WAS: muttcolors vs.TERM types
I saw your question while browsing the debian user archives. I believe you're looking for a way to control whether programs like vi and less use the alternate screen buffer (when you quit them, their output disappears, and the original contents reappear) or the normal screen buffer (just overwrite what's already there when starting and leave the screen alone when exiting.) # you need write permission, so change to your home directory cd # decompile the system xterm capabilities infocmp xterm >xterm.dec # edit xterm.dec removing the smcup=something, and rmcup=something, entries vi xterm.dec # and make the edits # compile the modified file # this will create ~/.terminfo/x/xterm tic xterm.dec # start a new xterm and set TERM=xterm if that's not what's already # there # you should no longer have alternate screen capability, so vi, less, # etc, will just overwrite the current display Hope that helps. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Texas Instruments[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems upgrading to 2.2r1
My system has modutils_2.3.11-10 and that seems to be what's currently on the ftp site: http://ftp.debian.org/dists/Debian2.2r1/main/binary-i386/base/ On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:35:54AM -0500, James D. Freels wrote: > Most packages have upgraded fine. However, because modutils will not > upgrade correctly, a few packages are not upgrading. Has anyone else > had problems upgrading modutils? > > Please find the error messages shown below. Ny idea how to fix? I am > running kernel 2.2.17 and do not use kerneld demon. > > # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/modutils_2.3.11-11_i386.deb > (Reading database ... 107566 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace modutils 2.3.11-10 (using > .../modutils_2.3.11-11_i386.deb) ... > Saving KDOPT setting from /etc/init.d/kerneld .. > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/modutils_2.3.11-11_i386.deb > (--install): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/modutils_2.3.11-11_i386.deb > > -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Texas Instruments[EMAIL PROTECTED]
i810 and potato X
r supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) XKB: model: "pc104" (**) XKB: layout: "us" (**) Mouse: type: Microsoft, device: /dev/mouse, baudrate: 1200 (**) Mouse: buttons: 3 (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "Primary Card" (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: "Primary Monitor" (**) FontPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" (--) SVGA: PCI: Intel Unknown chipset (0x7121) rev 3, Memory @ 0xf800, 0xf400 (--) SVGA: error doing ioctl(GARTIOCINFO): Invalid argument Fatal server error: Aborting When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Texas Instruments[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend and X
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:34:59AM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: >> I set replies to go to debian-laptop. > > And you added debian-user to the addresses? No, I was replying to a message from debian-user. I left both groups this time since others have. > >> I actually posted one solution to the debian-laptop list this morning. I >> force the laptop to switch to vt 1 when it suspends. Add the following >> script to /etc/apm/event.d/01chvt (be sure it's executable): > > How important is that specific filename? I assume it is simply to > determine in which order the scripts are executed... any specific reason > why it should be executed early? I just picked it. On my system I have: freedom /etc/apm/event.d $ ls 00hwclock* 01chvt* pcmcia* >> #!/bin/sh >> # change to vt1 when suspending to keep X from locking >> >> if [ "$1" = suspend ]; then >> chvt 1 >> fi Since I'm usually in X, I added: if [ "$1" = resume ]; then chvt 7 fi I'd prefer to go back to the same virtual terminal I was on. Is there a way to query the system for what tty is active? I tried putting "/usr/bin/tty >/tmp/ttysuspend" into my script, but all I ever see in the output file is "not a tty". Does it work properly in your case statement? /usr/bin/tty seems to provide something in /dev if I run it in an xterm or on the console. >> >> Of course after suspending the system comes back up on vt 1, but I can >> easily switch back to X if it keeps the system from crashing. > > I still have my case statement in there, to not switch if it is currently > on tty[1-9]. It seems to work very well if I use "apm -s" as root, but if > I close the laptop display, it doesn't switch and it locks up... any > ideas? No ideas about your problem, here's what happens for me in X: apm -s change to vt 1, suspend to disk close on ac power no effect (bios option) close on batterychange to vt1, suspend to disk Good luck. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Suspend and X
I set replies to go to debian-laptop. I actually posted one solution to the debian-laptop list this morning. I force the laptop to switch to vt 1 when it suspends. Add the following script to /etc/apm/event.d/01chvt (be sure it's executable): #!/bin/sh # change to vt1 when suspending to keep X from locking if [ "$1" = suspend ]; then chvt 1 fi Of course after suspending the system comes back up on vt 1, but I can easily switch back to X if it keeps the system from crashing. Does anyone know how to grab Fn-F1 (Setup Menu) or Fn-F3 (Battery status) that switch back to text mode? They also crash if you hit those keys from X, but are fine from a text console. If you find out how do suspend without switching to a text console first, please let us know. On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 08:11:24AM +, Mats Rynge wrote: > Hi! > > I'm running potato + kernel 2.2.14 on my laptop, a Dell Inspiron 7000. I > used to be able to susend the thing without any problems at all, but > then something happend. I can't recall that I changed anything or that I > did see any updates on apmd. Now I can only suspend when I am in console > mode. When I try it under X, the thing just freezes. I can tell that it > does something right because it shuts down my pcmcia card before > freezing. I have tried to recompile the kernel with different apm > options and I have tried to run X with different window managers, but > nothing helped. I have no clue on what to do now. Any ideas? > > TIA > > Mats > > -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netscape6 vs Potato
Check the Contents file to see what package owns any particular file: freefall ~ $ zgrep libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 Contents-i386.gz ./usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 oldlibs/libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 freefall ~ $ The Contents file should be in dists/frozen/Contents-i386.gz on the web/ftp site. I try to keep a local copy for checking things like your question. On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 09:11:16PM +0200, Vitux wrote: > Forgive me if this is obvious, but I can't crack this one: > I was hoping to try out Netscape6.0 in potato, but it > complains about a missing "libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2". While > dselect was still working, I did a search for it, but nothing > turned up. Anybody know what FM to R or which pkg this is in? > Regards > Vitux > -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xconsole craps out after Potato-upgrade
if you didn't specify the file option, try: xconsole -file /dev/xconsole On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 03:47:53PM +0200, Vitux wrote: > Hi Debs > Previously (in slink, 4 days ago), Xconsole was run when > launching fvwm. Now, it doesn't start automagically, and gives > an error: Couldn't open console when I start it manually. > I find it quite annoying; I've gotten used to keeping an eye > on the modem when dialing and my ailing /dev/hdc (old WD > drive). > Any ideas? > Best Regards > Vitux > -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied
Unfortnately I deleted the email, but I believe Darren sent me a private email saying the permissions on /dev/tty were wrong. Anyway the permissions on /dev/tty were incorrect. On the non-working machines this device was owned by a user and was rw by him only. I changed the device to "crw-rw-rw- root:tty" and things are working correctly now. On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:47:13PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > I've upgraded several systems from slink to potato using a mirror I > made a few weeks ago. On some of the systems xterm works fine, but on > others it generates the error message: > > xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied > > rxvt works fine and seems to have the same permissions as xterm: > > -rwxr-sr-x1 root utmp81616 Mar 18 12:40 > /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt-xterm* > -rwxr-sr-x1 root utmp 161680 Mar 13 22:07 /usr/bin/X11/xterm* > > I'm using xterm 3.3.6-6 which seems to be the latest available. I > can't "strace xterm", and I'm not sure what to look at without more > information than I see in the error message. Anyone else have any > ideas? > -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied
I've upgraded several systems from slink to potato using a mirror I made a few weeks ago. On some of the systems xterm works fine, but on others it generates the error message: xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied rxvt works fine and seems to have the same permissions as xterm: -rwxr-sr-x1 root utmp81616 Mar 18 12:40 /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt-xterm* -rwxr-sr-x1 root utmp 161680 Mar 13 22:07 /usr/bin/X11/xterm* I'm using xterm 3.3.6-6 which seems to be the latest available. I can't "strace xterm", and I'm not sure what to look at without more information than I see in the error message. Anyone else have any ideas? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LyX crashed and now doesn't work
My problem with lyx and the Options/Reconfigure selection seems to have been caused by a bad environment variable. I had set TEXINPUTS in my .bashrc file to a set of paths I needed for a document at work over a year ago. When I commented out the TEXINPUTS= statement, Options/Reconfigure started working properly. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grip and cdparanoia, must run suid?
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 05:37:42AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I installed grip, but I can't run in unless I am root > (sudo, or suid). The error I get is 'can't access cd > rom drive'. My /dev/scd1 is owned by root, group is > cdrom. The drive is actually on /dev/hdc physically > but I am running scsi-ide emulation. I also have a > 'real' scsi cdrom that is /dev/scd0. I added myself > to the cdrom group (edited /etc/group as root) and > logged out and back in as myself. No joy, still can't > run grip or cdparanoia (actually it was cdparanoia > that issued the error message). I did chmod +s on > cdparanoia and grip and then it worked. But I should > be able to access the cdrom if I'm in the cdrom group? > I can access my /dev/dsp device by adding myself to > the audio group (I don't think xmmm is suid, I can run > it as a user in the audio group). > Ideas? If it's anything like "real" scsi devices, then the scsi generic devices must be writeable. Unfortunately these device id's can change if you add or remove scsi devices. I wrote a script to correct the permissions at system startup, but I must not be using it since I can't find the script. Anyway, notice that sg2 and sg3 are writeable by group cdrom. Only one of the devices is really writeable, but the script changes all sg devices back to crw--- root:root and then all cdroms (writeable or not) to crw-rw root:cdrom. freefall ~/technical $ ll /dev/sg* crw---1 root root 21, 0 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg0 crw---1 root root 21, 1 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg1 crw---1 root root 21, 10 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg10 crw---1 root root 21, 11 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg11 crw---1 root root 21, 12 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg12 crw---1 root root 21, 13 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg13 crw---1 root root 21, 14 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg14 crw---1 root root 21, 15 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg15 crw---1 root root 21, 16 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg16 crw-rw1 root cdrom 21, 2 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg2 crw-rw1 root cdrom 21, 3 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg3 crw---1 root root 21, 4 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg4 crw---1 root root 21, 5 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg5 crw---1 root root 21, 6 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg6 crw---1 root root 21, 7 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg7 crw---1 root root 21, 8 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg8 crw---1 root root 21, 9 Aug 18 1999 /dev/sg9 I think cdparanoia had some docs on how to determine the scsi generic device number to go along with a particular device, but I don't know how ide emulation affects it. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
viewing pdf from mutt - procmail question?
I can view pdf attachments from mutt if they have mime headers like Content-Type: application/pdf; name="file.pdf" However I get quite a few emails with Content-Type: application/octet-stream Does anyone have a reliable way for modifying the Content-Type and changing octet-stream to a useable type (pdf in this case)? The "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" may appear before or after any of the fields that provide the filename. I'd like to add something like this to my procmail recipes. Here's part of an example: Original: = Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="_Turnpike_)xJ'3b(WKj+12e_BWEyqXn(zJrIAHoTE0,HCnc/7" X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 4.02 U X-UIDL: ed016b1b488649da6b0ef2351ce0 Status: RO Content-Length: 1296074 Lines: 16853 This is a MIME message --_Turnpike_)xJ'3b(WKj+12e_BWEyqXn(zJrIAHoTE0,HCnc/7 Welcome to Issue 17 of Incisor, a newsletter created by Click I.T. Ltd - the IT industry PR and marketing company - for those people interested in Bluetooth. --_Turnpike_)xJ'3b(WKj+12e_BWEyqXn(zJrIAHoTE0,HCnc/7 Content-Description: Incisor Issue 17.pdf Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Incisor Issue 17.pdf" Content-MD5: WiByMdlwV8pzsqD6omG8GA== Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Type: application/octet-stream JVBERi0xLjINJeLjz9MNCjc2IDAgb2JqDTw8IA0vTGluZWFyaXplZCAxIA0vTyA3OCANL0ggWyAx MjIzIDQ5MCBdIA0vTCA5NTg4MTUgDS9FIDkwMDAzIA0vTiAxNCANL1QgOTU3MTc3IA0+PiANZW5k b2JqDSAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAg Modified: = Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="_Turnpike_)xJ'3b(WKj+12e_BWEyqXn(zJrIAHoTE0,HCnc/7" X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 4.02 U X-UIDL: ed016b1b488649da6b0ef2351ce0 Status: RO Content-Length: 1296074 Lines: 16853 This is a MIME message --_Turnpike_)xJ'3b(WKj+12e_BWEyqXn(zJrIAHoTE0,HCnc/7 Welcome to Issue 17 of Incisor, a newsletter created by Click I.T. Ltd - the IT industry PR and marketing company - for those people interested in Bluetooth. --_Turnpike_)xJ'3b(WKj+12e_BWEyqXn(zJrIAHoTE0,HCnc/7 Content-Description: Incisor Issue 17.pdf Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Incisor Issue 17.pdf" Content-MD5: WiByMdlwV8pzsqD6omG8GA== Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Type: application/pdf; name="Incisor17.pdf" JVBERi0xLjINJeLjz9MNCjc2IDAgb2JqDTw8IA0vTGluZWFyaXplZCAxIA0vTyA3OCANL0ggWyAx MjIzIDQ5MCBdIA0vTCA5NTg4MTUgDS9FIDkwMDAzIA0vTiAxNCANL1QgOTU3MTc3IA0+PiANZW5k b2JqDSAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAg -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LyX crashed and now doesn't work
Thanks Pat. I think the full sequence that caused my problems was: Options/Reconfigure (but didn't restart) crash in Math Panel restart lyx, but article class no available because reconfigure didn't work properly After using Options/Reconfigure I have to cp /usr/X11R6/share/lyx/textclass.lst ~/.lyx After removing ~/.lyx, and running lyx, the .lyx/textclass.lst file is incorrect. I can again copy it from the system lyx directory to get things working. I've seen the problem on two systems - one has been upgraded through several debian releases and the other was just slink base to potato. The bug report is 62873. Can anyone else duplicate my problem with Options/Reconfigure? On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 12:44:27AM -0500, Pat Mahoney wrote: > Try deleting your $(HOME)/.lyx dir. It may have been corrupted during the > crash. > > On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 05:52:04PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: >> Hi, >> >> LyX crashed while I was playing with the Math Panel. Now it only sees >> two available textclasses in layout/document/class. Both are SGML and I >> was using the default article class . I purged and reinstalled LyX, but >> there was no change. Here's the error log from trying to generate a dvi >> file: >> > ...snip... > -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with gnats aliases and exim
On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 09:21:01PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 04:46:56PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: >> freefall ~ $ 2000-04-21 16:27:32 12ik1U-0001bx-00 Neither the >> system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid >> for local delivery of | /usr/lib/gnats/queue-pr -q > > exim requires you to specify somewhere a uid for any external programs > it runs. > >> system_aliases: >> driver = aliasfile >> # >> Option added by convert4r3 >> file_transport = address_file >> # >> Option added by convert4r3 >> pipe_transport = address_pipe >> file = /etc/aliases >> search_type = lsearch >> # user = list >> # Uncomment the above line if you are running smartlist > > This is one place. You can check the exim documentation for more > explanations, descriptions of how to specify different > directors/transports (which lets you have different users), and all > sorts of other tricks. Thanks, I added "user = gnats" to system_aliases to get things working. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade failed
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 05:26:56PM +1000, Bill wrote: > Problem solved. found answer in archives (file attached) > > many thanks to those who tried to help > > Bill > > > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 10:27:34PM -0600, Alberto Brealey G. wrote: > > > > i've done a fresh install of slink (because i have the bootable CD lying > > around...), and need to upgrade to potato/frozen. it does the apt-get update > > fine (retrieves the package lists). when i try to dist-upgrade, it downloads > > 13.7 MB fine, but when trying to install, it exits with: > > > > E: Internal error, couldn't configure a pre-depend > > > > does anyone knows what might be wrong? (I tried different mirrors on my > > sources.list, they all did the same). > > It's a circular pre-depends. I'm appending my previous email on the > subject. I've seen a few posts that say my method works, but I still > don't guarantee it :) > This is the first message I've seen in this thread, but I thought I'd point out that I had upgraded several systems from slink to potato with the following commands: apt-get update apt-get -f dist-upgrade -f = fix broken dependencies dist-upgrade = attempt to upgrade important packages at expense of less important ones if necessary -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: odd ppp performance
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 06:04:49PM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 11:51:35AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: >> > mentor:# ping t99 >> > PING t99 t99.xxx.wa.edu.au (192.168.1.99): 56 data bytes >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=0 ttl=254 time=7441.6 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=6459.8 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=5474.5 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=254 time=4517.5 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=4 ttl=254 time=3525.3 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=5 ttl=254 time=2532.6 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=6 ttl=254 time=1542.5 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=7 ttl=254 time=552.7 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=8 ttl=254 time=7996.1 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=9 ttl=254 time=7037.2 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=10 ttl=254 time=6061.9 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=11 ttl=254 time=5071.6 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=12 ttl=254 time=4077.2 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=13 ttl=254 time=3082.3 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=14 ttl=254 time=2108.0 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=15 ttl=254 time=1116.9 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=16 ttl=254 time=128.5 ms >> > 64 bytes from 192.168.1.99: icmp_seq=17 ttl=254 time=119.4 ms > > This has occured with different Deb boxes and different ISPs. Seems to me > that it is either a ppp bug or a kernel bug but it has persisted over > different versions of both. It may be your isp. I've seen the problem where neither ppp nor the kernel should have been involved. At the time I was using an ethernet to ISDN router, so ppp wasn't involved. The ISDN router was the default gateway, so I wasn't bringing interfaces up and down and changing routes. The router would bring up the isdn line if it saw traffic that needed to go off the local net. If the connection got really slow I'd stop using it and/or force the isdn connection to drop. If a brought it back up a couple minutes later, everything was fine. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LyX crashed and now doesn't work
Hi,
LyX crashed while I was playing with the Math Panel. Now it only sees
two available textclasses in layout/document/class. Both are SGML and I
was using the default article class . I purged and reinstalled LyX, but
there was no change. Here's the error log from trying to generate a dvi
file:
freefall ~ $ lyx firstlyx.lyx
LyX: Unknown textclass `article' [around line 3 of file
~/#firstlyx.lyx#]
Processing file firstlyx.sgml
/usr/bin/nsgmls:0:20:9:E: document type does not allow element
"ABSTRACT" here
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
LaTeX2e <1998/12/01> patch level 1
Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, n
ohyphenation, loaded.
(/tmp/sgmltmp.firstlyx14979.dir/firstlyx.tex
! LaTeX Error: File `article.cls' not found.
Type X to quit or to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: cls)
Enter file name:
! Emergency stop.
l.2 \usepackage
{linuxdoc-sgml}^^M
No pages of output.
Transcript written on firstlyx.log.
file:firstlyx.dvi: No such file or directory
The article.cls file does exist:
freefall ~ $ ll `locate article.cls`
-rw-r--r--1 root root19639 Mar 23 1999
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Should I try to purge/reinstall the tetex packages or does anyone have
a better idea?
--
Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred)
Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem with gnats aliases and exim
gnats Version: 3.113-10 exim Version: 3.12-7 exim doesn't seem to work with the gnats aliases: freefall ~ $ send-pr a)bort, e)dit or s)end? s send-pr: problem report sent freefall ~ $ 2000-04-21 16:27:32 12ik1U-0001bx-00 Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of | /usr/lib/gnats/queue-pr -q from /etc/aliases: # begin gnats aliases gnats-admin:gnats bugs: "| /usr/lib/gnats/queue-pr -q" query-pr: "| /usr/lib/gnats/mail-query" freefall-gnats:bugs # end gnats aliases The sections of /etc/exim.conf mentioned in the error message: system_aliases: driver = aliasfile # >> Option added by convert4r3 file_transport = address_file # >> Option added by convert4r3 pipe_transport = address_pipe file = /etc/aliases search_type = lsearch # user = list # Uncomment the above line if you are running smartlist address_pipe: driver = pipe return_output Any suggestions? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
keywords - freeswan ipsec debian
Hi, Does anyone have freeswan working on debian? Is there a package or list of steps to get it installed anywhere? I've got the kernel images built, but don't have the startup scripts working yet. I didn't see anything in the archives and couldn't get the search function on the web page to work. Is it broken? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How can go back to 'stable' from 'frozen'
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 09:19:14AM -0500, Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote: > Hi, > > Other than replacing my ethernet card 3com595, I don't seem to have > an alternative as I have a dual Processor Pentium machine (the second > processor isn't recognised by the 2.0.36 kernel) with 'frozen' loaded > and can't get my compiled kernel, 2.2.14 to talk to the internet. > > I want to go back to 'stable' so that when I install 2.2.x so that the > kernel recognises the dual processors and ethernet connection is up. > > Is there any way I can erase _all_ the current 'frozen' packages and > install 'stable' using dselect or apt-get. Try updating your frozen install if you haven't done it lately. I installed frozen on a laptop last week and the modem didn't work. I updated the install early this week which got a new version of ppp and setserial in addition to a bunch of other things. The modem started working without any kernel changes. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using power save and power down features
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 04:26:55PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > When using windows my computer move the screen automaticly to standby mode > to save power after a certain time ( a bit after the screen save starts), > and when I shut down it turns the computer of automaticly. > Is it posible to perform these using linux? ( I am using potato, currently > 2.2.9) Here's the beginning of my .xsession file: # set power saving modes xset dpms 1800 2100 2200 # set screen locking xautolock -time 30 -locker "xlock -mode blank" \ -corners 00+0 -cornerdelay 2 -cornerredelay 5 -cornersize 10 & It's set for 1800 (30 minutes) because that is what the monitor docs recommended as the minimum time between degaussing. The monitor degauses when it powers up. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rebuild kernel and modules
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 12:07:46PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi Lee, > > So, when I do a dpkg -i kernel_image, would this allowed > me to install the modules one by one or it would just > install all the modules that I configure to build before > rebuilding the kernel? dpkg -i install the modules onto the disk. Some other mechanism is required to install the modules into memory when you boot. The command should install (onto the disk) all the modules that you compiled into a directory under /lib/modules (/lib/modules/2.2.14 for example). You can put specific modules to load (into memory) in the file /etc/modules or use auto to have the kernel get them automatically (if you compiled the kernel with support for this feature.) You can also install modules (into memory) with 'modprobe modulename' by hand. > Secondly, when I installed the module during the fresh > installation, I selected a several modules and the system > would prompt me for some command line options to the modules > that I selected, what are the available options? Look in /etc/modutils and edit whatever seems to be the appropriate file, or make a new file called options. Add a line of the form: options module module_options Then run update-modules. This command will process the files in /etc/modutils and generate a single /etc/modules.conf file. > > I believe at the same time, it also display some warning > message about unavailable of some document... > > Thanks! > -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rebuild kernel and modules
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 09:57:32AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:22:11AM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm in the middle of rebuild the 2.2.13 kernel for potato >>> to include IP-MASQ plus some other modules. I'd like to >>> know after the kernel and some modules were built, how would >>> I go about install the modules. >>> >>> I learned that I can re-install the new kernel by simply >>> dpkg -i. But, for module, what is the command to install >>> or unstall. >>> >>> Thanks! >> >> After you do something like: >> >> make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image >> >> add: >> >> make-kpkg modules_image >> >> Install both the kernel-image and pcmcia-modules .deb files. >> >> See /usr/share/kernel-package/README.modules for more info. > > First, it seems that Timothy is not using the kernel-package > package. You'll want to use this Timothy since it makes life a lot > easier on our Debian systems, and it is the Debian Way (TM). Timothy was using "dpkg -i" to install his new kernel. I assumed he was asking about extra modules since the .deb he installed would have the standard modules. Maybe he just didn't realize the modules were in the .deb file. > > Now, what Lee said only applies to "extra" modules, like PCMCIA. The > modules that are part of the kernel source tree are included in the > kernel image file that is generated by make-kpkg. Read the docs for > the kernel-package package to learn how to use it. It's pretty > straightforward. An example session for building a kernel: > > % cd /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.13 > % make menuconfig > % make-kpkg --revision homePC.1 --bzimage kernel_image > % cd .. > % dpkg -i kernel-image-2.2.14_homePC.1_i386.deb > > and you're done. > > Gary > > -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rebuild kernel and modules
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:22:11AM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the middle of rebuild the 2.2.13 kernel for potato > to include IP-MASQ plus some other modules. I'd like to > know after the kernel and some modules were built, how would > I go about install the modules. > > I learned that I can re-install the new kernel by simply > dpkg -i. But, for module, what is the command to install > or unstall. > > Thanks! After you do something like: make-kpkg --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image add: make-kpkg modules_image Install both the kernel-image and pcmcia-modules .deb files. See /usr/share/kernel-package/README.modules for more info. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Running FrameMaker on Debian 2.1
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 05:15:23PM -0800, FM Linux Admin wrote: > (1) C library incompatibiliy with some distributions of Linux, including > Red Hat 5.2 and Debian 2.1. > > Users will typically see the following message in this case: > > ./maker: error in loading shared libraries > : undefined symbol: __register_frame_info > > The FrameMaker executable is incompatible with certain releases > of version 2.0.7 of the GNU C Library, which are included with > some distributions noted above. > > FrameMaker will not run on systems with this incompatibility, > unless access to a different version of the C Library is provided. Here's a first cut at some directions. It works for me, hopefully I included everything necessary here. # make sure you're using an 8-bit X display # if you're using xdm, you can start both a 16 and an 8 bit display with # the following lines in /etc/X11/xdm/xservers (after removing the #'s) #:0 local /usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -bpp 16 -dpi 100 #:1 local /usr/bin/X11/X :1 vt8 -bpp 8 -dpi 100 # load new X config /etc/init.d/xdm reload # Control-Alt-F8 should take you to the 8 bit display # change to your home directory cd # Get the register frame info symbols from suse's ftp site # the command uses wget, but you can just use ftp wget ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/a1/regframe.rpm # Unpack with alien, rpm, and tar (need these programs installed) alien --to-tgz regframe.rpm tar xvzf regframe-0-1.tgz # you should now have ~/lib/libregframe.so # create frame directory # this should create ~/frame/FM556_linux mkdir ~/frame cd ~/frame tar xvzf ~/fmlinux.tar.gz # assuming you download frame in your home dir # prepare license dir mkdir ~/fminit # run fmaddlicense # in "sh" type shells, the following command sets the environment # variable LD_PRELOAD for a single command # for "csh" type syntax you'll have to look it up # you may not want LD_PRELOAD set in general, # I recommend setting it only when needed # you may want to create aliases or shell scripts to set the variable LD_PRELOAD=~/lib/libregframe.so ~/frame/FM556_linux/bin/fmaddlicense # type the add command as described by adobe at the prompt # then you should see your license with the list command # fmaddlicense-> Add number username # fmaddlicense-> List # fmaddlicense-> Done # now run framemaker LD_PRELOAD=~/lib/libregframe.so ~/frame/FM556_linux/bin/maker -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
certain X apps don't work on debian xservers?
Hi, I've had some problems with X apps compiled on hpux not displaying on debian systems. I've tried xserver-mach64 from slink and slink-update (dpks -s reports versions 3.3.2.3a-11 and 3.3.5-1.99.slink.0). ssh to hp machine (twin) from debian machine, and run software with DISPLAY pointing back to debian machine twin ~ $ /tools/avanti/hpux10/polaris/designacc/bin/signalscan -vendor avanti fatal: FATAL ERROR: MSG 0x0034deb2 [CAT 3/4 STD 57010 ] Category: XVT release 3 assert (Signaled assert4) Function: xvt_app_create File: ./kpalet.c line: 479 Recursive call to msg or fatal: FATAL ERROR within last chance error handler exiting application twin ~ $ The software works fine when displaying to another hp machine or to a windows machine running eXceed. But it doesn't work with xfree86 or the demo version of AcceleratedX. Any suggestions? Does the message look like anything having to do with X? Please cc me in responses since I'm not on the list now. Thanks, Lee
Re: NFS performance problems
Thanks for the suggestion. 2.2.10 also has better nfs client performance -- I just tried it after a few hassles building a .deb to get dhcp-client-beta to work on a slink system with the 2.2.10 kernel. user time real time both kernels 2.0.36 2.2.10 compile/link 6 sec 30 sec 7 sec many files read from nfs server all writes local NFS write performance from linux to the hp server is still bad. I may try the 2.2.10ac1 patch and see if that helps things. I think Alan was working on a write-gathering patch for NFS. I hope you don't mind me replying to the list. I wanted to post a resolution of my problem there for anyone searching the archives for a similar problem. I'm still not on the list, so if you have questions write me directly. On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 07:29:37AM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Hi Lee, > > I haven't tryied yet, but new kernels (2.2.x) have nfs server > built-in, which leads to a performance improvement. This is only from > doc's. Maybe you should try this. > My $0,02. > > []s, > Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but > IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" > http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 > -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NFS performance problems
Hi, Does anyone have any recommendations on improving nfs client performance on slink? All of our linux machines are running slink and they all have poor performance to an HP nfs server. I've heard of some kernel patches for 2.2.x, but I haven't been able to find out exactly what I needed with my web searches. Does anyone have a summary of the patches? I've seen messages referring to NFSv3 and write gathering, but so far I haven't been able to determine exactly what I needed. (2.0.x patches preferred if they are available.) Please cc your reply to me, I browse the list on the web and it sometimes takes a while for the new messages to show up. Thanks, -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memory above 64M and slink
I think 2.0.36 was the first stable kernel to recognize more than 64M automatically. Try it without the append= line. My systems recognizes 256M without the append= line in lilo.conf. Here are the first few lines from dmesg: >>Memory: sized by int13 0e801h Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fdb60 pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfdb70 pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb91 Probing PCI hardware. Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 400.59 BogoMIPS >>Memory: 256984k/262144k available (816k kernel code, 384k reserved, 3960k >>data) If it doesn't work I can't offer any other suggestions. On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 06:56:37AM -0500, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: > Hi: , I was under the impression that going from Hamm to > slink would enable me to use all my 80M of memory. > > I am using kernel 2.0.36, with, in the /etc/lilo.conf > the first line append="mem=80M" but only about 63 odd M > are recognized? Is it possible to overcome this? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
virtual private network?
Hi, I need some software to allow laptop users to connect to machines on our private network (192.168.x.x) from anywhere on the internet. Has anyone used FreeS/WAN, Mobile IP or similar programs to set up a virtual private network on debian? Does anyone know the development status? Some of the Mobile IP projects seem to have last been released two years ago. I see a package called Tunnel Vision, but it looks like it requires a newer kernel than is currently supported on debian. Any suggestions/experiences would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) ASIC Designer/de facto Sys Admin Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?
On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 02:22:05PM +0100, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi > -> command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too > -> lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this > -> behavior configured? > > hmmm use bash or tcsh as your shell I think there are several ways to change command line editing behavior in bash. One is to edit ~/.inputrc: set editing-mode emacs If someone changed this to vi, change it back to emacs or delete it. I think ksh uses $EDITOR or $VISUAL to control command line editing behavior. If these pointers didn't help, try "man bash" (or whatever your shell is) to find other ways of changing the behavior. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bison/ld problem?
Thanks Henning, everything is working now. On Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 10:22:05PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to port some code from HP-UX to linux. The debian flex > > package includes /usr/lib/libl.a, but the bison package doesn't contain > > /usr/lib/liby.a. I checked the latest contents file I could find and > > there is no liby.a. What is gcc -ly supposed to link with? > > liby, found on various commercial Unices, contains a default > definition of yyerror() and a default main(). There is no > default yyerror() anywhere in bison (at least as of bison 1.25). > > I couldn't find any documentation mentioning -ly at the HP-UX > box I'm sitting at; it does not seem to be in the canon of > "things one can expect do to portably on unices". > > bison.info contains source for a reasonable default yyerror() > you could use instead of -ly. > > -- > Henning Makholm > http://www.diku.dk/students/makholm -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bison/ld problem?
Hi, I'm trying to port some code from HP-UX to linux. The debian flex package includes /usr/lib/libl.a, but the bison package doesn't contain /usr/lib/liby.a. I checked the latest contents file I could find and there is no liby.a. What is gcc -ly supposed to link with? Thanks -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running seperate eth0 & ppp0 networks
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 01:19:41PM -0800, Ian Eure wrote: > Ok. Let's say I have a linux box on an ethernet. It's ip is > 192.168.111.55. The router on the ethernet is 192.168.111.1. Let's say I > have a web server on 192.168.111.55, accessible from outside my local > network. Let's further say that I set up ppp the way you described, with > a network route to my localnet (route add -net 192.168.111.0 netmask > 255.255.255.0 dev eth0) and the default set to the ppp0 interface (route > add default gw ip.addyof.ppp.peer dev ppp0). What happens when a request > for a web page comes in? Does the page get sent back from the ethernet > interface, with the ip 192.168.111.55, or through the ppp0 interface > with the dynamic address of the dialup? Someone else suggested making ppp the default. I suggested adding a static route so that only traffic to the isp would go over ppp0: > > > > > > route add -net 130.2.0.0 dev ppp0 In my suggestion the default route remains eth0. The only time a web page would be returned over ppp0 is if the web browser was on 130.2.x.x. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with Compuserve and Fetchmail
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 04:15:51PM +0100, Dieter Jäger wrote: > I am trying to use fetchmail to receive mail from Compuserve. > Everything works fine except that sometimes, when I get a mail from > the > Compuserve Postmaster with an Sender of "@" or even "", because there > is no > domain, fetchmail refuses to get any further mail. > This blocks the whole mail transfer and I have to get the mail > manually via some > mail client. > > Is there a way to get fetchmail reading beyond those unqualified mails > ? I had similar problems with fetchmail before upgrading to 4.6.4-1 (from slink, I don't know what the current version is). What version of fetchmail are you using? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running seperate eth0 & ppp0 networks
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 10:19:35AM -0800, Ian Eure wrote: > Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 03:29:04AM -0600, John C. Ellingboe wrote: > > > Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:29:49PM +, Ian Stuart wrote: > > > > > > > > > > what I wish to do is set up my PPP connection so that (when it is up) > > > > > all > > > > > requests for the ISPs network is routed via ppp0, whilst all other > > > > > traffic > > > > > is routed via eth0 > > > > > > > > > > (Assume that my academic lan is the class B 129.1 and my ISP is the > > > > > class > > > > > B 130.2) > > > > > > > > Try something like: > > > > > > > > route add -net 130.2.0.0 dev ppp0 > > > > > > > > > > This will limit your access to just the 130.2.0.0 network over ppp. > > > > That's what he wanted -- isp network over ppp0, everything else over eth0. > > I suspect your ppp0/eth0 setup is more common, but it's now what he needed. > > > > > Do > > > > > > route add -net [your local net address] dev eth0 > > > > > > and use the "default route" option for ppp to get to everything on the > > > internet. I ran this way for some time and it worked fine for access > > > to either route. > Ah but, let's say that you also have file sharing or some other > service on your system, and that it is visible to the outside world > through your ethernet. Will the services still work, or will the system > send out the syn/ack packet (in reply to the syn for requesting a > connection) on the ethernet, or over the ppp? I'm not sure I understand the question. Addresses in the 130.2.0.0 net are routed through the ppp0 interface. Everything else is routed through eth0. In general requests from the eth0 interface will be serviced through eth0 and those from ppp0 will be serviced through ppp0. There are two wierd cases. 132.2.x.x addresses requesting services through eth0 - the reply will go through ppp0. Non 132.2.x.x addresses requesting services through ppp0 - the reply will go through eth0. If you have a specific problem in mind, please provide an example using the original ip addresses - 132.2.0.0 (isp) ppp0, 129.1.0.0 (local) eth0, default eth0. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running seperate eth0 & ppp0 networks
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 01:32:43PM -0500, Mark Tucker wrote: > I've been working on a similar setup only with with two ethernet cards, > one for the lan and the other for internet access. The problem I've been > having is that when I attempt to specify the device I get an error: > "SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument" when I load the commandline > > route add -net [local net address] dev eth0 > > or > > route add -net [wan address] dev eth1 > > Both interfaces recieve correctly but all outbound is going through the > latter (eth1) interface. I'd love to know how to get this to work > correctly. > > Mark I don't know what the error message means. Two ethernet cards work for me. As far as I can tell you just ifconfig the cards and then add the routes. What does ifconfig say after both cards have been configured? It should provide info on lo, eth0, and eth1. $ ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:63058924 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:63058924 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:09:DC:89:1A ..info similar to lo deleted.. eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:1D:83:EF ..info similar to lo deleted.. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running seperate eth0 & ppp0 networks
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 03:29:04AM -0600, John C. Ellingboe wrote: > Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:29:49PM +, Ian Stuart wrote: > > > > > > what I wish to do is set up my PPP connection so that (when it is up) all > > > requests for the ISPs network is routed via ppp0, whilst all other traffic > > > is routed via eth0 > > > > > > (Assume that my academic lan is the class B 129.1 and my ISP is the class > > > B 130.2) > > > > Try something like: > > > > route add -net 130.2.0.0 dev ppp0 > > > > This will limit your access to just the 130.2.0.0 network over ppp. That's what he wanted -- isp network over ppp0, everything else over eth0. I suspect your ppp0/eth0 setup is more common, but it's now what he needed. > Do > > route add -net [your local net address] dev eth0 > > and use the "default route" option for ppp to get to everything on the > internet. I ran this way for some time and it worked fine for access > to either route. > > John C. Ellingboe -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xbiff
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 03:09:08PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Shao Zhang hat gesagt: // Shao Zhang wrote: > > > Is it possible to use xbiff to watch out for two files?? I want it to > > watch /var/spool/mail/my account & ~/mail/debian at the same time!!! > > Never tried this until now but this seems to work: > $ xbiff -file /var/spool/mail/account -file ~/mail/debian You can also try xbuffy. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running seperate eth0 & ppp0 networks
On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 03:29:49PM +, Ian Stuart wrote: > I'm trying to set up my machine to use two networks: > > I occasionally access an ISP (who requires that all non-web access is > done only through their modem-banks) on my workstation which is connected > to my academic LAN. > > what I wish to do is set up my PPP connection so that (when it is up) all > requests for the ISPs network is routed via ppp0, whilst all other traffic > is routed via eth0 > > how? > > (Assume that my academic lan is the class B 129.1 and my ISP is the class > B 130.2) Try something like: route add -net 130.2.0.0 dev ppp0 Your default route should stay on your ethernet. I think there are ip.up and ip.down scripts that are executed automatically by ppp. Add the above line to ip.up and a similar line with delete instead of add to ip.down. Untested. I'm not using ppp. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmcd local database
On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 05:00:10PM -0500, lee wrote: > Thanks Colorado and everyone else, oops ^^ Conrado -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmcd local database
Thanks Colorado and everyone else, I had already converted /var/xmcd to group audio after seeing some of the other suggestions. But I went ahead and installed the new version since it fixes the directory permissions itself. The xmcd.deb from slink didn't run xmcdconfig like the one from hamm did. Is this because it was already installed? Or because all the dependencies weren't satisfied the first time I tried to install (see Process: below)? It's fine after running xmcdconfig, but first time users wouldn't know to look for that program. Process: download slink xmcd.deb attempt to install install failed because of unsatisfied lesstifg and cddb dependencies download and install lesstifg and cddb install xmcd freefall / $ sudo dpkg -i ~lee/xmcd_2.3-5.deb (Reading database ... 38293 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xmcd 2.3-5 (using /home/lee/xmcd_2.3-5.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xmcd ... Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background) Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock) Setting up xmcd (2.3-5) ... Configuration file `/etc/xmcd/common.cfg' ==> File on system created by you or by a script. ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I : install the package maintainer's version N or O : keep your currently-installed version Z : background this process to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. *** common.cfg (Y/I/N/O/Z) [default=N] ? y Installing new version of config file /etc/xmcd/common.cfg ... Installing new version of config file /etc/xmcd/device.cfg ... freefall / $ xmcd Fatal: Xmcd configuration error Cannot open configuration file: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xmcd/config/rcd0" On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 08:04:36PM +0100, Conrado Badenas wrote: > Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I just installed xmcd. It is able to query remote databases to find info > > on the CD's I insert, but it can't save the information. > > > > The about box shows: > > > > CD Database paths: > > /var/xmcd/rock > > /var/xmcd/jazz > > ... > > cddbp://cddb.sonic.net:888 > > Install xmcd 2.3 and cddb from slink. Then, your database would be in > /var/lib/cddb. With "ls -ld /var/lib/cddb" I get: > > drwxrwsr-t 13 root audio1024 oct 28 11:32 /var/lib/cddb > > Thus: only users with access to cdrom should pertain to group audio (I > think). > > -- > Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer) -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xmcd local database
Hi, I just installed xmcd. It is able to query remote databases to find info on the CD's I insert, but it can't save the information. The about box shows: CD Database paths: /var/xmcd/rock /var/xmcd/jazz ... cddbp://cddb.sonic.net:888 Here are the permissions on /var/xmcd/rock: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Apr 5 1998 rock/ I think xmcd is setuid root, but according to the docs, it gives up root privileges before writing the database: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 230428 Apr 5 1998 /usr/bin/X11/xmcd* Should I make the /var/xmcd directories writeable by everyone, or is there a better solution? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS-DHCP solution for linux?
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 12:31:02PM +, John Lines wrote:
> > Is there any such? It would be nice not having to update the DNS server by
> > hand all the time. And using DHCP to assign IP:s automatically could solve
> > this if there was a tool for updating the DNS server.
> >
>
> There have been some published patches to the ISC DHCP server (the one which
> is in the debian dhcp-beta package) which do this.
>
> If you are not expert in both DHCP and DNS I would suggest you do not use this
> on a production network at present as this is leading edge development work.
I've been using dhcp-beta without problems, but I haven't been upgrading it.
Would handing out fixed ip-addresses with DHCP solve your problem? Then
you wouldn't need to keep editing the DNS files. I rebuild the DNS
files automatically from /etc/hosts on the DNS/DHCP server. I haven't
automated the dhcpd.conf creation yet, but MAC addresses are available
as comments in the hosts file as soon as I get around to it. Check out
the h2n program on the oreilly web site for automated hosts to dns
translation. Here's an edited dhcpd.conf file which provides fixed
addresses based on the MAC address of the ethernet cards:
# global values
default-lease-time 86400;
max-lease-time 604800;
option interface-mtu 1500;
option domain-name "sr.alantro.com";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.254.1;
option nis-domain "sr.alantro.com";
option nis-servers 192.168.254.1;
#option lpr-servers 192.168.254.1;
#option ntp-servers 192.168.254.1;
# routes to remote locations
option static-routes 192.168.1.0 192.168.254.2, 192.168.100.0 192.168.254.3,
192.168.13.0 192.168.254.3;
# set default route on clients
option routers 192.168.254.1;
# specify subnet dhcpd is controlling
# range is for dynamic hosts
subnet 192.168.254.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.254.200 192.168.254.254;
}
# host info
# look at client identifier strings instead of hardware addresses?
group {
use-host-decl-names true;
# SAMPLE FIXED ADDRESSES HERE
host bigdog {
hardware ethernet 00:60:B0:7A:9A:89;
fixed-address 192.168.254.20;
}
host curly {
hardware ethernet 00:10:5A:14:5C:CC;
fixed-address 192.168.254.50;
}
}
--
Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred)
Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie needs help
On Mon, Nov 30, 1998 at 05:15:31PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all. I've just recently installed the Debian sytem on an old 386. > > It is the only OS on the computer. The install worked fine (minus I > > can't boot from the HD). > > I'm having problems with the FTP. The modem connects fine to my ISP > > (i'm using ppp) but when I try to open a site I get "unable to look up > > host" error. Also I have no clue how to install the software packages. > > I tried to download to floppy and then transfer over (which is a problem > > since my zip program doesn't do a split) > > and then run DSELECT. When I choose the floppy access method, it says > > to enter the floppy with the packages file. I put in the disk that has > > the downloaded file on it but it does not except it. Any help with > > getting this going would be great. > > The computer is a PC clone 386, 16M Ram, 1.44 and 1.2 disc drives, 500M > > hd, 33.6 modem. No CDROM. Thanks alot. > > hmmm... sounds like you're not resolving names correctly. > You should have been given two numbers from your ISP called > DNS Nameserver (primary and secondary). > Add these numbers to your /etc/resolv.conf file. > > The file should look like this > > ### /etc/resolv.conf # > search localdomain > nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy > Your isp may tell you that you don't need the nameserver ip addresses (they are commonly provided by ppp to windows machines.) Here are the nameservers for capital.net: freefall ~ $ nslookup Default Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 > set type=NS > capital.net Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: capital.net nameserver = NS1.LOGICAL.NET capital.net nameserver = NS2.LOGICAL.NET capital.net nameserver = NS3.LOGICAL.NET capital.net nameserver = capital.net Authoritative answers can be found from: NS1.LOGICAL.NET internet address = 204.97.128.2 NS2.LOGICAL.NET internet address = 204.97.128.4 NS3.LOGICAL.NET internet address = 204.97.128.6 capital.net internet address = 204.97.168.17 > -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: procmail ........ (again)
On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 02:42:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: > > > > :0 ic > > > | cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* |sed -e 1,32d` > > > > Great idea here for new users to procmail and to others aswell who test > > new procmail recipes (-: > > > > Hopefully, more people will be using Exim and find no need for procmail. > Exim's filter files are in plain language and much easier to look at a > year later and realize what you did. Just say no to procmail. Exim's filters are easy to read, but they don't seem to be as powerful as procmail. I'd love to be wrong about that statement so I could switch everything to exim. How do you remove messages with duplicate message id's in exim? from .procmail: # remove duplicate messages, ie. to me and mailing list :0 Wh: msgid.lock | formail -D 32768 $MAILDIR/cache.msgid You may not think dropping these messages is a good idea, but when a mailing list gets hosed and spews several copies of every message I like it. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Error: "user adm does not exist"
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 03:28:05PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I'm trying to start the licence manager for matlab and it comes up with > > su: user adm does not exist > su: user adm does not exist > su: user adm does not exist > > Is "adm" some kind of standard user on unix systems that for some reason > doesn't exist in debian? I think matlab uses flexlm. I wrote the following script to start flexlm, it should probably support start/stop/restart...: #!/bin/sh # run flexlm lmgrd for software which requires it FLEXHOME=/tools/flexlm/lmgrd/current/i486 LICENSES=/tools/flexlm/licenses LOGDIR=/var/log # virsim su -c "$FLEXHOME/lmgrd -c $LICENSES/virsim.dat >> $LICENSES/log/virsim.log" install It is in /etc/init.d. I then ran update-rc.d to set the links in the rc.d directories. User install is a locally created user that owns the tools directories. I would prefer the log files to go to /var/log, but didn't want to deal with permission problems when I was setting this up. Just fix the paths to your flexlm binaries, put the license in the location referenced by "-c" and change "virsim" to "matlab". If you every want to kill the daemon, make sure you kill lmgrd and the vendor daemon (mentioned in the license file). -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
imap server and ssl
How do you set up an imap server so that the connections are encrypted with ssl? Netscape has an option to support this on the client side, and I'd like to try setting up a server. The RELNOTES file mentions SASL authentication, but I don't know how to have SASL use SSL (I think that's how it works.) Is there a tcpd wrapper that uses ssl to insert in /etc/inetd.conf? imap2 stream tcp nowaitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/imapd ^ replace with ssl version?? Any help would be appreciated. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
exim filters, mutt, and pgp
Hi, Does anyone have any suggestions on modifying the Content-Type: field with exim filters so mutt will see pgp messages? I was using formail in my .procmailrc file before switching to exim filters. mutt requires something like: Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=sign Messages with "-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-" in the body may need their headers modified if the Content-Type: field is not present or has a value of text. Thanks, Lee -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alt Key no longer functions
Run XF86Setup. You think, "But I already had a working X config file." Run XF86Setup anyway. Don't run xmodmap until you check how the new keys function and verify which ones to modify. On my system backspace deletes to the left and delete deletes to the right in every app I use. (Unfortunately things don't work quite so well when I login to HP systems at work.) Alt works in xemacs. I just tried Alt-Backspace and it works just like backspace. On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 07:26:49AM -0500, Brian White wrote: > Just as a follow-up... If I put back my original /etc/X11/Xmodmap file > (which has settings to make keyboards with the "Windows" keys work), then > emacs recognizes the Alt keys (emacs wants the Meta keysym). Tcsh still > doesn't recognize it properly, though... Alt-Backspace prints a garbage > character instead of deleting the word. > > Here is my Xmodmap... > > keycode 0x73 = Super_L > keycode 0x40 = Alt_L Meta_L > keycode 0x71 = Alt_R Meta_R > keycode 0x74 = Super_R > keycode 0x75 = Menu > > Brian > ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: changing default window manager - How!
On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 10:49:23PM +0100, Stephan Engelke wrote: > > Also, how I can I change my shell permanently from bash to csh.. > > > Become root and edit /etc/passwd. Use the "vipw" command!! > Find the line with your user-id at the beginning (should be at the very > bottom of the file) and change the last but one field, the one that says > /bin/csh to something you like (e.g. /bin/bash). (The path could be > /usr/bin/.. > in both cases, chech with "which bash" first). > Now log out as user and log in again. Viola - here' your new shell. > > So long, > Stephan Any user should be able to change their shell using "chsh". The new shell just has to be in /etc/shells. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing domain
Don't forget /etc/init.d/network if you're not using dhcp. On Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 09:36:00AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I am moving one of my systems and need to change its FQDN. > > Other than /etc/hostname and /etc/mailname, what other files would need to > be changed? Both the host name and domain name will be changing. > > Bob -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DHCPCD?
On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 11:43:39PM -0500, SEGV wrote: > If I run it manually I get this: > > # /usr/sbin/dhcpcd -d > ioctl SIOCSIFBRDADDR (ifConfig): Cannot assign requested address > > and it does *not* configure my eth0 device. I have to manually configure it to > get access to my network. I'm using dhcp-client-beta, not dhcpcd. To start the client software before configuring the ethernet device I use: dhclient eth0 I'm pretty sure it doesn't work without the "eth0", although once the card is configured I can type just "dhclient" to make it run again (for testing). -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim and bad Sender: header
On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > I ended up with the following fetchmail messages: > reading message 1 of 31 (1088 header bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 > <@kira.peak.org> : colon expected after route > fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 : sender address must contain a domain > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from kira.peak.org I had a similar problem with messages bounced from non-existent accounts. The automatic reply from the server is from <>, I guess to prevent loops. Upgrading to fetchmail in slink (Version: 4.6.4-1) solved my problem. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim filters and/or procmail (Solution)
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 09:59:26AM -0500, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<@pop.mindspring.com> SIZE=2249 > fetchmail: SMTP< 501 <@pop.mindspring.com> : colon expected after route Sorry to follow up my own post, but I got the answer from the exim list. Install a new version of fetchmail. I installed the slink version and the problem was solved. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: colors in text-mode
On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 12:53:03AM +0100, Carsten Wimmer wrote: > Hi! > > >> I was wonderinghow might I get the login prompt to use some colors? > > in your home-dir modify .bashrc, try e.g.: > > I tried this and the colors themselves work fine. > > But if I type something on the keyboard and hit column ~70, all the > next characters are placed on the same row and column 1. No real line > bread is done, also the columns 70-80 are completely unused. > I am using rxvt v2.4.5 and GNU bash 2.01.1(1). > > Without the \e['s it works as expected (real line bread at > col 80). Any ideas? You need to tell the shell to only count certain characters so it knows the correct width. See the example below. If you're changing colors several times, you will need \[ \] pairs around each set of color control chars. # Set up shell variables: case "$TERM" in xterm* ) PS1='\h \w \$ \[\033]0;\h \w\007\]' ;; # set xterm title/icon # \[ \] surround non-printing chars * ) PS1='\h \w \$ ' ;; esac -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
general packaging problem
Hi, dpkg seems to be indicating I have packages installed properly, but I don't have all the files from the packages. How should I force this package to be reinstalled? Does anyone have a script to veryify the installed software against the Contents file? I've got the latest xbase installed properly according to dpkg: freefall ~ $ dpkg -s xbase Package: xbase Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 5715 Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: xfree86 Version: 3.3.2.3-2 freefall ~ $ zgrep Xsession Contents-i386.gz etc/X11/Xsession x11/xbase etc/X11/Xsession.options x11/xbase etc/X11/wdm/Xsession x11/wdm usr/man/man5/Xsession.5.gz x11/xbase usr/man/man5/Xsession.options.5.gz x11/xbase freefall ~ $ locate Xsession# locate can't find the files that should exist /etc/X11/Xsession freefall ~ $ ll /usr/man/man5/Xs* ls: /usr/man/man5/Xs*: No such file or directory -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Networks
On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 12:24:23PM -0600, Paul Baloo Johnson wrote: > Ok, Ive tried and tried looking through all the support stuff on the > Debian site, but I just can't figure out how to get my Intel EtherExpress > PRO/10+ Adapter to work. Intels site wasn't informative, either... > Please help! > > Baloo > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you compile the driver as a module or into the kernel? You might need to turn on experimental support for this card. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim filters and/or procmail
On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 08:33:19PM -0800, George Bonser wrote: > BTW your mail is probably in smail's input queue. Try running smail -v -q Thanks, that worked. I switched to smail temporarily and then back to exim. I use fetchmail to get some of my mail. exim got the first few messages, but now it refuses the next message in the queue. Is there a way to get exim to accept this message? I didn't see this mentioned in the fetchmail section of the FAQ. I'll switch back to smail again so I can get clean out my POP queue. Message with strange address that exim is rejecting: fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1 fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2249 octets reading message 1 of 72 (2249 bytes) fetchmail: SMTP< 220 freefall ESMTP Exim 1.92 #1 Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:19:38 -0500 fetchmail: SMTP> EHLO freefall fetchmail: SMTP< 250-freefall Hello freefall [192.168.1.7] fetchmail: SMTP< 250-SIZE fetchmail: SMTP< 250-PIPELINING fetchmail: SMTP< 250 HELP fetchmail: forwarding to freefall fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM:<@pop.mindspring.com> SIZE=2249 fetchmail: SMTP< 501 <@pop.mindspring.com> : colon expected after route fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 <@pop.mindspring.com> : colon expected after route fetchmail: SMTP> MAIL FROM: SIZE=2249 fetchmail: SMTP< 501 : sender address must contain a domain fetchmail: SMTP error: 501 : sender address must contain a domain fetchmail: POP3> QUIT fetchmail: POP3< This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from pop.mindspring.com fetchmail: SMTP> QUIT fetchmail: SMTP< 221 freefall closing connection fetchmail: normal termination, status 10 After switching to smail and retreiving the message, I noticed that was generated by exim at work. (I fixed the .forward file that was causing this message.) Here is the message in the smail input queue after retreiving it with smail: !mail !8 8 !-oem !-f [EMAIL PROTECTED] !-oMs !freefall !-oMa !192.168.1.7 !-oMr !esmtp !-oMP !smail !<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Status: R Received: from pop.mindspring.com by freefall (fetchmail-4.3.9 POP3) for (single-drop); Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:51:46 EST Received: from tetsuo.mspring.net (tetsuo.mspring.net [207.69.231.11]) by camel9.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA11636 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:16:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from marine.sonic.net (marine.sonic.net [208.201.224.37]) by tetsuo.mspring.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id VAA01545 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:16:20 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 11289 invoked from network); 28 Oct 1998 02:16:21 - Received: from unknown (HELO sub.sonic.net) (208.201.224.8) by marine.sonic.net with SMTP; 28 Oct 1998 02:16:21 - Received: from gemini ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [208.201.237.194]) by sub.sonic.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA30871 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:16:21 -0800 X-envelope-info: <> Received: from mail by gemini with local (Exim 1.92 #1 (Debian)) id 0zYL9o-0005ou-00; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:16:20 -0800 X-Failed-Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:16:20 -0800 This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The following address(es) failed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - bad mode (100666) for /users/heegard/.forward (userforward director): retry timeout exceeded -- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from camel7.mindspring.com [207.69.200.57] by gemini with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #1 (Debian)) id 0zYL9n-0005os-00; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:16:19 -0800 Received: from freefall (user-38lcpvd.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.103.237]) by camel7.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA05137 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:16:12 -0500 (EST) Received: from lee by freefall with local (Exim 1.92 #1 (Debian)) id 0zYLAc-kq-00; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:17:10 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Oct 27, 1998 at 07:53:08AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > # Exim filter > if error_message then finish endif > > if $h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-user or >$h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-changes > then >save /home/servis/Mail/debian > endif > > if $h_X-Mailing-List: contains debian-devel > then >save /home/servis/Mail/debian-devel > endif Thanks, that's a good starting point. I'll try it when I get exim working again. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
exim filters and/or procmail
Aarg. I upgraded my system yesterday and smail stopped delivering my messages. I noticed that fetchmail was downloading, but then I didn't have any new messages in my folders. I couldn't find anything useful in the log files and I couldn't find the messages anywhere, so it looks like they went to /dev/null. I'm now switching to exim. Does anyone have an example of exim filters which split list mail into different files? Does anyone know how to get procmail working with exim? Here is one of my attempted .forward files: "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #lee" And here are the results from /var/log/exim/mainlog: 1998-10-26 23:12:40 0zY0Uq-CK-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=freefall [192.168.1.7] P=esmtp S=3410 id="-l7NY.A.JiG.icUN2"@murphy 1998-10-26 23:12:40 0zY0Uq-CK-00 ** |IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> D=userforward T=address_pipe: "IFS='" command not found for address_pipe transport 1998-10-26 23:12:40 0zY0Uq-CN-00 <= <> R=0zY0Uq-CK-00 U=mail P=local S=4246 1998-10-26 23:12:41 0zY0Uq-CK-00 Error message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1998-10-26 23:12:41 0zY0Uq-CK-00 Completed 1998-10-26 23:12:42 0zY0Uq-CN-00 => [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost T=remote_smtp H=mail.mindspring.com [207.69.200.195] 1998-10-26 23:12:42 0zY0Uq-CN-00 Completed Please cc: replies. Before I removed my .forward exim generated quite a few errors to debian-user-request. I'm afraid I may be kicked off the list. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Still having Printer Problems
Make a copy of your /etc/printcap and then run magicfilterconfig. I think the "if" line should be something like :if=/usr/sbin/ljet4l-filter ljet4l-filter is a magicfilter script (it starts with #! /usr/sbin/magicfilter). All lines should end with a \ until the end of the printer description. In the example below there is a blank line after lp and the sh line doesn't end with a \ either. On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 10:27:10AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > At 06:18 AM 10/26/1998 -0600, you wrote: > >OK, this is how my printcap looks. I still get the insidious message > >'transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed' > >What could be causing this? OR, what can I change in my printcap that > >mught get my printer working. > >It is an HP660C but I would think I could still get garbage out of it by > >typing 'lp test'? > > > > > >Is there anything special I need to do to set up magicfilter other than > >put it in my printcap? > > > > > > > > > > lp:\ > > > >:lp=/dev/lp1:\ > >:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ > >:mx#0:\ > >:sh: > >:if=/usr/sbin/magicfilter:\ > > Okay, after specifying the options in printcap, you then need to tell lpr > to read that file. You can reboot (but why reboot? this ain't winders) or > you can issue the command: > lpc reread all > This tells lpr/lpc to read all the entries in printcap. Or you could just say: > lpc reread lp > to read just the lp entries (if you had 20 printers defined, you might want > to do this). > > Then to double-check what lpr/lpc read, issue the command: > lpc printcap all > > I'd run this last command first, to see if the printer utility knows about > the changes you've made in printcap, then do the "lpc reread all" command, > then run the "lpc printcap all" command again to make sure the changes were > read. Now try printing and see what happens. > > Kent -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISDN Adapter or Eth Router or Serial
I believe the Netgear rt328 is an OEM product from Zyxel <http://www.zyxel.com>. I've used Combinet (now Cisco) and Ascend. The Zyxel box is by far the easiest to configure. It's especially good for connecting to multiple sites and masquerading as different IP addresses on different connections. Check out the P100 for low end stuff or P128 if you need management (SNMP) or IPX. My only warning on the zyxel routers is test the pots ports when you get the unit. Make sure the volume is ok and there is no buzzing. I had several zyxel products with pots problems, but the data services have been solid. On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 06:20:54AM -0700, Gregory Green wrote: > I have had great luck with the Netgear RT328. It is cheap ($280) and it is a > fully > functional router. This one has one ethernet interface and the next model up > has a > four port hub built in. No messing around with kernel tweaking, or > installing an > internal card, you just configure it over your LAN via telnet or serial port. > It has > all the dial on demand and multilink ppp options, and two analog ports like > the other > more expensive ones. > I shopped around a bit before I decided to go with this one and I am very > happy with > it. > > Steven Udell wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I need advice on what ISDN adapter to get. > > > > I have looked at the: > > 3comImpact IQ (serial) "modem" external device.. > > But am concerned about the limit of 115K speed on the serial port. > > And people say its just a toy..not a solid ISDN choice..(250.00 cost too) > > > > I have also looked at the: > > Cisco 766 or 776 ISDN router external. (quite expensive) > > One has just one eth port and the other has an intergrated 4 port 10baseT > > hub. > > On this one how well it would work with Linux. Connected to my Eth card > > in my Linux box, would it use diald ? .. Would I compile the linux kernel > > with ISDN support for this? > > > > Or should I go with a lower cost(most likely) ISDN adapter card.. > > I don't know which way I should go.. I will need it networked & > > I need a analog phone port for a fax & voice phone. I wouldn't mind > > useing the Linux kernels ISDN function either.. ;) But what should > > I look at..in terms of Adapter cards..suggestions? > > > > Steve Udell > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 10 more days till the ISDN wireing is in > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > -- > Gregory Green > AdvantageCom, Inc. > http://www.advantagecom.com > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.
On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 12:14:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Noam Gordon writes: Umm, that should be "> Lee Bradshaw writes:" > > They probably don't really _change_ the nameserver addresses > > dynamically. So add these servers to your /etc/resolv.conf file and > > things should work. > > Yes, but I would still like to support this 'dynamic' assignment of > nameservers transparently. I could call nslookup from pppconfig, but that > seems like a kludge and will lead to mysterious failures if the ISP ever > does change nameservers. I have neither Win95 nor an isp who uses 'dynamic > DNS'. Does anyone out there know how it works? > -- > John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. > Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. > Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address. I think the ppp documentation says something about win95 support for getting the nameserver at ppp initialization. It also says this will probably never be supported with linux. Can you run bind/named and bypass the isp altogether? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: screen and window
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 12:43:15PM -0700, Zheng Wang wrote: > Thanks. I got it. > > I have another problem. Except the bash shell , I can not let the > backspace work properly. I don't know how to config it. Could you help me > out? Run XF86Setup and use the Xkb extensions. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help me setup dynamic DNS server address.
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 06:11:25PM +0200, Noam Gordon wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am a Linux newbie. I have installed Debian 2.0 successfully. I would like > to set up ISDN dial-up to my ISP. > My ISP asigns me an IP address AS WELL AS DNS server address , dynamically > (In my win95 setup, I didn't need to input any info at all). I read in the > Linux tutorial that while setting up IP address dynamically at connect time > is indeed possible, Linux doesn't support dynamically asigned DNS server > addresses. Really? > > If so, how can I work around this? > > If it IS possible, then simply, How? > > thx for any info/advice, > > NoamGordon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] freefall ~ $ nslookup Default Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 > set type=ns > isdn.net.il Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 Non-authoritative answer: isdn.net.il nameserver = p2.isdn.net.il isdn.net.il nameserver = p1.isdn.net.il Authoritative answers can be found from: p2.isdn.net.il internet address = 192.115.104.72 p1.isdn.net.il internet address = 192.115.104.11 > They probably don't really _change_ the nameserver addresses dynamically. So add these servers to your /etc/resolv.conf file and things should work. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dhcp and nis problems solved
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Rainer Clasen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Lee Bradshaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:18:13AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >nis specific problems:
> > > >
> > > >When I run dhclient, /etc/resolv.conf is written with the new dns info,
> > > >but /etc/defaultdomain doesn't change. I guess the file doesn't need to
> > > >change, but the value returned by (nis)domainname isn't modified either.
> > > >I'm using the dhcp-beta_2.0b1pl6-0.1 and dhcp-client-beta_2.0b1pl6-0.1.
>
> > I set the domainname to a garbage value, ran dhclient, and then expected
> > to see the updated nis domainname from dhcp. But on my system the
> > nis information doesn't appear to be updated by dhcp. Am I missing
> > something? Here is the dhcp server nis information again:
> >
> > option nis-domain "alantro.com";
> > option nis-servers 192.168.50.1;
> >
> > Do I need to do anything on the client to enable dhclient to override a
> > previous value for the nis domain?
>
> theoretically this should work:
>
> a) put apropriate request / require lines in your dhclient.conf. dhclient
>only asks for dhcp-options it needs / you told it to ask. cat
>/var/db/dhclient.leases to see what options it got.
>
> b) You need to extend your /etc/dhclient-script. By default only the bare
>minimum of all those nice dhcp-options is used: IP adress(es),
>ip-alias(es), default route(s), netmask?, broadcast, DNS domain name,
>nameserver(s).
Thanks Ranier,
The dhclient-script was the piece I was missing.
I made a few modifications if anyone is interested:
function update_static_routes () {
local action static_routes destination gateway
action=$1
static_routes="$2 " # add space for easy looping
while [ "$static_routes" ]; do
destination=${static_routes%% *}
static_routes=${static_routes#* }
gateway=${static_routes%% *}
static_routes=${static_routes#* }
route $action $destination gw $gateway
done
}
I added the following code twice:
# don't need to test old values for domain/host
# no problems if resetting them to identical value??
if [ x$new_nis_domain != x ]; then
echo $new_nis_domain >/etc/defaultdomain
nisdomainname `cat /etc/defaultdomain`
fi
if [ x$new_host_name != x ]; then
echo $new_host_name >/etc/hostname
hostname --file /etc/hostname
fi
# old and new static routes different?
if [ "x$old_static_routes" != "x$new_static_routes" ]; then
# delete old static routes if they existed
if [ "x$old_static_routes" != "x" ]; then
update_static_routes "del -net" "$old_static_routes"
fi
# add new static routes if they exist
if [ "x$new_static_routes" != "x" ]; then
update_static_routes "add -net" "$new_static_routes"
fi
fi
I'm sending a wishlist bug to extend the debian dhclient-script.
--
Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred)
Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dhcp and/or nis questions?
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:18:13AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Lee Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >nis specific problems: > > > >When I run dhclient, /etc/resolv.conf is written with the new dns info, > >but /etc/defaultdomain doesn't change. I guess the file doesn't need to > >change, but the value returned by (nis)domainname isn't modified either. > >I'm using the dhcp-beta_2.0b1pl6-0.1 and dhcp-client-beta_2.0b1pl6-0.1. > > Your NIS domainname has no relevance to your DNS domainname. Yes, I was just trying to point out that dhcp was passing some information correctly (DNS), but it did not seem to be passing the NIS information. > If you want to set your NIS domainname to "MICROSOFT" (all caps etc) > you can do that, it's valid. I set the domainname to a garbage value, ran dhclient, and then expected to see the updated nis domainname from dhcp. But on my system the nis information doesn't appear to be updated by dhcp. Am I missing something? Here is the dhcp server nis information again: option nis-domain "alantro.com"; option nis-servers 192.168.50.1; Do I need to do anything on the client to enable dhclient to override a previous value for the nis domain? > > Most people however find it convenient to keep the NIS and DNS > domainnames the same. > > Mike. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dhcp and/or nis questions?
general questions: Is there a recommended way to modify a debian system to use it as a dhcp client? The system was working on another subnet. Should I modify /etc/init.d/network so the system doesn't come up using the wrong network address? dhcp-client-beta doesn't seem to add anything to my /etc/init.d directory. Do I need to update this directory and the run level scripts to start dhclient before doing (for example) nis initialization? nis specific problems: When I run dhclient, /etc/resolv.conf is written with the new dns info, but /etc/defaultdomain doesn't change. I guess the file doesn't need to change, but the value returned by (nis)domainname isn't modified either. I'm using the dhcp-beta_2.0b1pl6-0.1 and dhcp-client-beta_2.0b1pl6-0.1. Here are part of my global options in /etc/dhcpd.conf: option domain-name "alantro.com"; option domain-name-servers 192.168.50.1; option nis-domain "alantro.com"; option nis-servers 192.168.50.1; system boots no /etc/resolv.conf domainname returns bongo run dhclient by hand new /etc/resolv.conf with alantro info domainname still returns bongo, I expected it to change to "alantro.com" Any suggestions? Thanks. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IP Masq and debian
Thanks for the help everyone. After looking at things some more, I dropped ipfwadm and patched the kernel to support ipchains. I haven't totally configured my second pc, but I can bring it up manually as a backup to my isdn router. (My isp seems to have performance problems on isdn, and I can sometimes get better response with a 56K modem.) FYI I have a machine at work where I'm setting up masquerading and three ethernet cards. Ipchains looked like it would support that system better than ipfwadm and it seems to be the required in the future anyway. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ditroff? man pages
I'd like to use man on some debian machines to view the man pages for some HP-UX software. Unfortunately the debian man doesn't seem to support this man page format by default. Even if man won't support these files directly, I'd be happy to just have the commands to read them. I tried "cat fmt2/compile.2 | grodvi" without success. Any suggestions would be appreciated. The software has a man directory structure as follows: man\ fmt1\ fmt2\ fmt3\ freefall$ file fmt2/compile.2 compile.2: ditroff text freefall$ head -30 fmt2/compile.2 x T post x res 720 1 1 x init V0 p27 x font 1 R x font 2 I x font 3 B x font 4 BI x font 5 CW x font 6 H x font 7 HB x font 8 HX x font 9 S1 x font 10 S s10 f1 H720 f3 V480 cC 72o50m83m83a50n56d56 33R72e44f33e44r44e44n56c44eh930c2 50.25 33 33S56y50n56o50p56s39y50s39 33C72o50m83m83a50n56d56s39 s14 h1361cc 62o70mh116cp 78i39l39en120 0 H720 s9 V960 cN Thanks, -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup programs
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 12:33:53PM -0700, Max wrote: > I just set up my system to use Amanda only to discover that it cannot > append to tapes, thus wasting a ton of space on every run (imagine > putting a 90MB incremental backup on a tape that can store 24GB and > then using a brand new tape the next night). Is there another package > with a similar level of sophistication and features as Amanda that can > append to tapes? How does afbackup stack up? Any others? > > Thanks, > Max Yeah, I ran into the appending problem trying amanda at work. We have a 6 tape jukebox, so we make system backups periodically :^) and just back up our data to one tape each night. BURT <http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~jmelski/burt/> seems to be another tool designed for network backups, but I haven't tried it. After trying a few programs, I decided I liked tob the best for home use. It's a front-end to afio. I compiled afio for libc5 and added it to Tom's Root/Boot disk <http://www.toms.net/~toehser/rb/> so I could recover my system with just a floppy. I have cron use mt to go to the end of the tape and then append incremental backups with tob -inc. Make sure you test the recovery procedures of whatever program you decide to use and that you have everything you need for a recovery on a floppy (or something you can access when your old hard disk is a paperweight.) -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IP Masq and debian
Hi, How am I supposed to use the ipmasq package with ppp? Is it possible? I tried using 0.0.0.0 as the external ip address, but I received a few error messages when booting and I couldn't telnet to the machine anymore. I couldn't find any documentation in /usr/doc/ipmasq and the man pages just said that there were no useful man pages. After removing ipmasq and rebooting telnet to the machine worked fine again. I executed the following commands to get masquerading to work manually: ipfwadm -F -p deny ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 After changing the default route on another system I was able to bring up web pages through the masquerading system. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to use the ipmasq package with ppp and dynamic addresses (I assume it works ok with static addresses)? How about suggestions on where to put ipfwadm filtering commands in the initialization directories? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: remote X apps
I've used two approaches in the past. 1. Log into the alpha system with ssh. ssh should modify your DISPLAY variable to something like alpha:10 (as long as you don't modify it in your .profile,...) Run your X app. ssh has permission to draw on your DISPLAY, so you don't need to open the system with xhost or transfer the xauth cookies. 2. I've done this on some router hardware, but I haven't tried IP-Masq. Direct a particular port from outside the router to a particular IP address. I think X is something like port 6000 or 6001. If you direct incoming connections to your masq server port 6000 to the .10 machine you may be able to get X working. You set the display on the alpha to the masq_server:0. If you need more machines running X through the firewall, direct the next port to another machine. i.e. port 6001 to .11 machine and set the display to masq_server:1. I recommend the ssh approach. On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 02:11:16PM -0300, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Hi, > > > I'm having troubles trying to run remote X applications under a > IP-Masquerading system. The situation is the following: > > Linux-Box--Linux-Server w/ IP-Masq.--DEC alpha > 192.168.9.10 valid IP valid IP > > > I would like to run an appl. in DEC alpha cpu and export the > display to Linux Box, passing thru the masq. > How can I tell the DEC alpha that it should export the display to > the Linux Box? > Is this possible? > Any help, please? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Font Servers
On Fri, Aug 28, 1998 at 05:15:27PM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > > Is anyone aware of were to get a fontserver to run on > > a Debian 2.0 system? > > just add > > > xfs-start-server > start-xfs > > to /etc/X11/config > > prior to starting up xdm > > rick I see the test for start-xfs in /etc/init.d/xfs, but what is xfs-start-server needed for? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linuxpress rumors
On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 12:25:57AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > > I hear that a new version of the Debian Linux user's guide is in the works > that covers 2.0. Any truth? Yes, according to [EMAIL PROTECTED] the target date for the new book is late this month. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
afio man page problem?
Hi, It looks like the -R option to afio should have an argument, but man doesn't show it. /usr/man/man1/afio.1.gz: .BR -R \" Disk format command string" This is the command that is run when you enter 2 to reformat the disk after a failed verify... man afio: -R This is the command that is run when you enter 2 to reformat the disk after a failed verify. The Can someone verify that this is a problem? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF file generation
On Tue, Aug 18, 1998 at 02:43:47PM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: > > > How does one create a PDF (Acrobat) file? In searching through the > > packages I found a number of ways to view a PDF file, but didn't seem to > > find any way to create one. > > The only ways I am aware of besides using Adobe Acrobat is to use > "ps2pdf," found in the ghostscript package or by using using "pdftex" in > the teTeX package. Note that if you use ps2pdf, make sure you are using > the one that comes with ghostscript 5.10+ since the ones before it are > somewhat broken. > If your using TeX or LaTeX, you could also try pdftex or pdflatex. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Driver for Intel Ether Express 10+
On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 10:23:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just installed Debian 2.0 but there is no driver for the > Intel EtherExpress 10+ ISA card. Does anyone know > where to get one? > > --Greg The last time I used an Intel EtherExpress card I had to turn on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL (code maturity level options/prompt for development drivers). With this on, I could pick the etherexpress driver in the network section. Hope this will help you. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VHDL design software for Linux?
On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 02:04:40PM -0600, Young, Ed wrote: > > > I'll be taking a digital hardware design class soon and am wondering if > there's any VHDL design software available for Linux. > > Open Source, free, or otherwise. I use verilog instead of VHDL, but these links might help. There was a free VHDL simulator project going as well, but I can't remember where. www.linuxeda.com www.jumbo.com/pages/utilities/linux/circuits/ free: verilog mode for vim verilog mode for emacs www.silocon-sorcery.com otherwise: finsim verilog simulator www.fintronic.com speedsim verilog simulator www.quicksim.com www.veritoolsi-web.com undertow waveform viewer signalscan waveform viewer (maybe) www.designacc.com virsim waveform viewer (maybe) www.summit-design.com veriwell ?? wellspring -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: warnings running man?
On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 11:02:17AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory > > mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuclient.xemacs20.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF > > `.so' request other errors/text deleted > > I have been getting these same errors for quite some time. It involves > symlinks to and from the /etc/alternatives dir. I've never been quite > sure what the problem is, so I don't know which package is at fault for > this, but something needs a bug report filed against it for this. > > -- > Ed C. It looks like the BTS alread has about 8 bugs reported against xemacs for this problem. Does anyone know of a way to fix it in the filesystem or are we waiting for a new version of man or ...? I got rid of the gnudoit.xemacs.1.gz file (which contained the .so command) and made it a link to gnuserv.xemacs.1.gz. Now the man page for gnudoit works. Will this screw up my system when a fixed debian package is released? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xwrapper & Netscape problems
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 07:25:43PM -0700, Jeremiah Cornelius wrote: > Still no Xwrapper... There is no file named Xwrapper. I think you're trying to do something the RedHat way and not the Debian way. In this case it doesn't matter which is better or worse, but you can't use distribution specific methods of doing things on other distributions. See Brian's description below. On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 04:00:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The binary /usr/bin/X11/X is a wrapper built by the debian team. It > executes the X server, in my case XF86_S3, suid root and then returns > to user space. This executable looks at the file /etc/X11/Xserver to > determine who can run X. Look at that file and change accordingly. > > % less /etc/X11/Xserver > /usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3 > Console > > The first line in this file is the full pathname of the default X server. > The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server: > RootOnly > Console (anyone whose controlling tty is on the console) > Anybody > > -- > Brian -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
warnings running man?
I'm having problems with some man pages. The warnings about "bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request" sometimes show up when typing "man somecommand". Is there a way to get rid of these warnings? Here are some of the relevant files and warnings: freefall /usr/man/man1 # ls -l gnu* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jul 23 01:23 gnuattach.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/gnuattach.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 Apr 21 01:50 gnuattach.xemacs20.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Jul 23 01:23 gnuclient.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/gnuclient.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 Apr 21 01:50 gnuclient.xemacs20.1.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jul 23 01:23 gnudoit.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/gnudoit.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58 Apr 21 01:50 gnudoit.xemacs20.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3060 Mar 27 05:04 gnuplot.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4620 Apr 21 01:50 gnuserv.xemacs20.1.gz freefall /usr/man/man1 # mandb -c Processing manual pages under /usr/man... mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/mailq.8.gz: whatis parse for mailq(8) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz: whatis parse for sendmail(8) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/runq.8.gz: whatis parse for runq(8) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/rmail.8.gz: whatis parse for rmail(8) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/rsmtp.8.gz: whatis parse for rsmtp(8) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man8/in.smtpd.8.gz: whatis parse for in.smtpd(8) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/uupath.1.gz: whatis parse for uupath(1) failed mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuclient.xemacs20.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuattach.xemacs20.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuclient.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnuattach.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnudoit.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/pstogif.xemacs20.1.gz is a dangling symlink mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/pstogif.1: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/pstogif.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request mandb: can't open /usr/man/man1/gnuserv.1: No such file or directory mandb: warning: /usr/man/man1/gnudoit.xemacs20.1.gz: bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request mandb: warning: /usr/man/man7/pgp-intro.7.gz: whatis parse for pgp-intro(7) failed mandb: warning: /usr/man/man7/pgp-integration.7.gz: whatis parse for pgp-integration(7) failed Checking for stray cats under /usr/man... Checking for stray cats under /var/catman... Processing manual pages under /usr/local/man... mandb: warning: /usr/local/man/man7/pgp-integration.7: whatis parse for pgp-integration(7) failed mandb: warning: /usr/local/man/man7/pgp-intro.7: whatis parse for pgp-intro(7) failed Checking for stray cats under /usr/local/man... Checking for stray cats under /var/catman/local... Processing manual pages under /usr/X11R6/man... Checking for stray cats under /usr/X11R6/man... Checking for stray cats under /var/catman/X11R6... 23 man subdirectories contained newer manual pages. 2920 manual pages and 0 stray cats were added. freefall /usr/man/man1 # -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommended SCSI cards
I have used NCR SCSI controllers since in 1989 (not in linux then.) I have a Buslogic flashpoint on my current system. I've had good luck with all my NCR cards/motherboards and the cards can be very cheap. I would probably go for a higher end card that had hardware RAID support or stick with the cheap NCR/Symbios/LSI? (has the LSI purchase gone through?) On Mon, Aug 10, 1998 at 05:02:33AM +0930, Mark Mickan wrote: > I'm going to buy a SCSI card soon, and I'm interested in peoples > opinions and experiences. > > In particular, I've seen IWill 2935UW cards for a reasonable price, > Adaptec 2940UW cards for nearly twice the price of the IWill, and > the cheapest DPT card for a little more than the Adaptec 2940UW. > I'm open to other suggestions though. > > I'd like to get away with it as cheaply as possible, but I want > something that will do the job well. At the moment, that means > burning CDs, but in the future will include reading hard disks > and SCSI CD-ROMs and for use with a scanner. > > While I'm on the topic, the Panasonic 8x4x CD burner has been > recommended as the best by a Windows enthusiast. If anyone has > had good or bad experiences with this drive or good experiences > with others, please let me know. > > TIA, > Mark > > --- > Mark Mickan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > PGP fingerprint = A2 B7 E3 18 B7 F5 56 53 A4 5B 53 97 DD F5 C0 31 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dump and restore problems
Hi, I'm trying to test dump and restore, and I've been having problems with restore. I'm using a buslogin 930 controller and an HP DDS3 tape drive. Here are some examples of my restore problems: freefall ~ $ sudo restore -x -v -f /dev/st0 lee/wav.old/clint.wav Verify tape and initialize maps Tape block size is 1 Dump date: Tue Aug 11 09:14:25 1998 Dumped from: the epoch Level 0 dump of /home on freefall:/dev/sda5 Label: none Extract directories from tape Initialize symbol table. bad name to addentry ./lee/wav.old abort? [yn] y dump core? [yn] n but if I do an interactive restore I can see the file: freefall ~ $ sudo restore -i -v -f /dev/st0 Verify tape and initialize maps Tape block size is 1 Dump date: Tue Aug 11 09:14:25 1998 Dumped from: the epoch Level 0 dump of /home on freefall:/dev/sda5 Label: none Extract directories from tape Initialize symbol table. restore > cd lee/wav.old restore > ls clint.wav 309253 clint.wav restore > add clint.wav bad name to addentry ./lee/wav.old abort? [yn] y dump core? [yn] n If I select the directory instead it works ok in the case: freefall ~ $ sudo restore -i -v -f /dev/st0 Verify tape and initialize maps Tape block size is 1 Dump date: Tue Aug 11 09:14:25 1998 Dumped from: the epoch Level 0 dump of /home on freefall:/dev/sda5 Label: none Extract directories from tape Initialize symbol table. restore > cd lee restore > add wav.old tore > ls ./lee: 4097 ./ 2 ../ . . . 309249 *wav.old/ 174081 work/ When I successfully extract the directory, the files have the correct permissions but the directories are owned by root. In other tests, selecting directories has failed with the bad name/abort message. The software is beta, is anyone using it successfully? Would anyone recommend BRU2000 or any of the other linux compatible commercial backup programs. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ATX and "shutdown -h"
Hi, What do I need to do to get "shutdown -h" to turn off my computer? It has an ATX power supply and win95 shutdown turned everything off so I know it's possible. Here is a snippet from my latest 2.0.34 kernel .config file: CONFIG_APM=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set # CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set # CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_MULTIPLE_SUSPEND is not set -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Palm Pilot software
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 11:31:21PM +0200, Joerg Plate wrote: > > http://www.moshpit.org/pilotmgr/> > There is a debian-pilot mailing list. I think the .debs for pilot-link and pilotmanager are available in project/experimental or slink. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: MCA debian Thinkpad
If you're still looking, check the mailing list archive or web pages for mirrors that still have 1.3. 1.3 was wiped off the main site when 2.0 was released. On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 05:07:34PM -0500, Alan Maciel Salcedo. wrote: > hi I am a debian-user-wannabe because I have a > thinkpad 720 4mb ram hd 120mb esdi and I am tired > of looking for a linux distribution that works with MCA/ESDI > I found a web page that have a bootdisk and a modules drivers disk > and a patch disk and have a story about this person and the installation > of debian 1.3 (http://mojo.calyx.net/~bri/projects/debian/MCA/) > with this disks all works until I reach the point of install the base > system but I do not find the 1.2 or 1.3 debian base disks set anywhere in > the web or ftp server, with the 2.0 base disks set that I found in > www.debian.org don't find my esdi hd either so if anyone can help > me please do it, I am having a bad time here! -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: PC Card Modem and Printer Recommendations
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 10:55:54AM -0700, Justin Liu wrote: > Are > multifunction devices worth it, or should I get separate scanner/fax/copiers? > > Thanks, > > - justin I think separate devices will be much easier for you to get working with linux. I had an HP OJ 350. It worked pretty well as a fax, but I never tried connecting a computer to it. I tried the new laserjet combo that is based on the 6L printer. The HP sales rep (who just happened to be in the store that day) said it would work with unix 6L drivers. Wrong. It's a winprinter. The fax and copy were much nicer than the inkjet machines, but I already had a 4L printer, so I really couldn't justify keeping it unless I could replace my old printer. I've got a xerox 450c now. Xerox software tech support said that they don't support unix, but the 450c would work with hp550c drivers. I tried one afternoon but couldn't get it working. I liked the control panel (on the unit, nothing to do with windows) better on the hp systems. Check out the linux driver for hp officejet webpage <http://hpoj.bst.tj/> to see what they've come up with lately. I'd like an automatic document feeder as well as flatbed scanner/copier capability. I think the hp1175 has these features, but I don't know about drivers yet. I'm starting to think it might be better to have a separate fax/modem, laser printer, scanner(any affordable flatbed scanners with feeders?), and possibly a color inkjet printer. Add a combination keypad/LCD display attached to a serial port (and some software) and you have your own multifunction device. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Is this expected ssh behavior?
On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 01:32:24PM -0400, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > And you do set your path in the .bash_profile and can verify that it is > being run? I do set the path, but it doesn't look like it is being run. (Other statements should print to the screen as an earlier example you ran showed.) "ssh hostname" does execute .bash_profile. On Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 01:06:50PM -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > Anyway, if I can just get "ssh host bash -c 'exec foo'" to execute foo > in my normal shell environment, I'll be happy. By the way, I'm > running ssh 1.2.26-1 if it's relevant. What version is Branden > running? I'm running 1.2.26-1 as well. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: dselect missing ftp option
Do you have the dpkg-ftp package installed? I think that's all you need. On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 05:31:10PM -0500, JonesMB wrote: > I am trying to update one of our Debian 1.3 systems here. It is being used > by > another group so will not get the upgrade to 2.0 just yet. When I run > dselect > I don't see ftp as one of the access methods to use. This is the first time > I > am seeing this. Do I need to enable something to see this option? > > TIA > jmb -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: TeTeX and timing package
Thanks Gary! TFMFONTS had "." in the path, so after copying the .tfm, .mf, and .pk files to my working directory everything started working. I'll try to figure out a better place to put the files after I learn a little more. On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 05:22:46PM -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Bradshaw) writes: > | Hi, > | > | I'm trying to use a package for drawing timing diagrams I downloaded from > | CTAN. I'm pretty new to TeX and haven't figured out all the programs yet. > | Specifically I don't where to place all the files in the package. I put them > | in a local directory and which was in my $TEXINPUTS environment > | variable. Here > | is part of the output from "latex main": > > [snip] > > TeTeX is much better than building TeX/LaTeX by hand, or other > distributions I've tried but TeX, in general, is sure a nightmare to > configure. > > Anyway, if I remember correctly, TFM files aren't found via the > TEXINPUTS environment variable, but via the TFMFONTS variable. Take a > look at the file /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and look for that variable. If > that doesn't work look at the other gazillion variables in there to > see if you can find where the kpse software is trying to find it. > > One tool I've found that helps a lot with this sort of thing is > kpsewhich. It's what all the TeTeX software uses to find files, and > with the --debug switch it'll help you, slightly, try and find out why > a file isn't being found. > > Good Luck! > Gary -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
TeTeX and timing package
Hi,
I'm trying to use a package for drawing timing diagrams I downloaded from
CTAN. I'm pretty new to TeX and haven't figured out all the programs yet.
Specifically I don't where to place all the files in the package. I put them
in a local directory and which was in my $TEXINPUTS environment variable. Here
is part of the output from "latex main":
(../tex_inputs/timing.sty
Timing Style, Ludwig May Jens Leilich .
kpathsea: Running mktextfm timing1
mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input timing1
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718 (Web2C 7.2)
kpathsea: Running mktexmf timing1
! I can't find file `timing1'.
<*> ...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input timing1
Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input timing1
Transcript written on mfput.log.
mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input timing1' failed.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
! Font \timon=timing1 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
\relax
l.82 \newfont{\timon}{timing1 scaled 1000}
?
timing.sty is found, but timing1.tfm in the same directory does not seem
to be found. The missfont.log file contains:
mktextfm timing1
Here are the files that come in the package:
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 2008 Jul 28 14:49 prozt1.tex
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 676 Jul 28 14:49 read.me
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 199 Jul 28 14:49 tim0594.upl
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 16568 Jul 28 14:49 timing.dvi
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 14966 Jul 28 14:49 timing.mf
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 7262 Jul 28 14:49 timing.sty
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 9458 Jul 28 14:49 timing.tex
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 627 Jul 28 14:49 timing1.mf
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 1284 Jul 28 14:49 timing1.pk
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 716 Jul 28 14:49 timing1.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 656 Jul 28 14:49 timing1s.mf
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 1528 Jul 28 14:49 timing1s.pk
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 716 Jul 28 14:49 timing1s.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 654 Jul 28 14:49 timing2.mf
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 1852 Jul 28 14:49 timing2.pk
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 716 Jul 28 14:49 timing2.tfm
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 654 Jul 28 14:49 timing2s.mf
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 2384 Jul 28 14:49 timing2s.pk
-rw-r--r-- 1 lee lee 716 Jul 28 14:49 timing2s.tfm
Any pointers to relevant documentation or another list would be
appreciated. If there is a TeX mailing list on CTAN, I didn't find it.
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/usr/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86
Thanks for the help Jens. I had indeed modified the X server to use xkb in order to get backspace working properly. I edited the /usr/lib/X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 to change xkb_symbols from pc105 to pc101. As you pointed out pc105 was mapping my alt keys to alt and the non-existent windows keys to meta. Does anyone know of a better way to solve this problem? Should I have rerun one of the X setup or config programs? On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 10:25:59AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > Hi, > > Sometime between Saturday and Monday morning my Alt keys stopped working > in Xemacs. I thought the only change I made was adding > > (setq delete-key-deletes-forward t) > > however after backing out this change Alt still doesn't work. The > Ctrl-Alt-Fx combination still works to change to a virtual terminal from > X, so the alt key seems to be working. > > > Ex. prints "A-x not defined" in the minibuffer. "Esc-x" prints the > correct "M-x". > > I tried to insert the character into a buffer with . I received > the following message in the minibuffer: > > key read cannot be inserted in a buffer: # > > Does anyone have any suggestions on debugging this problem? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Alt keys stopped working in Xemacs
Hi, Sometime between Saturday and Monday morning my Alt keys stopped working in Xemacs. I thought the only change I made was adding (setq delete-key-deletes-forward t) however after backing out this change Alt still doesn't work. The Ctrl-Alt-Fx combination still works to change to a virtual terminal from X, so the alt key seems to be working. Ex. prints "A-x not defined" in the minibuffer. "Esc-x" prints the correct "M-x". I tried to insert the character into a buffer with . I received the following message in the minibuffer: key read cannot be inserted in a buffer: # Does anyone have any suggestions on debugging this problem? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: looking for info from dpkg
Look at pkg-nodep in the pkg-order package. On Mon, Jul 27, 1998 at 12:02:54AM -0400, Damir J. Naden wrote: > Could anyone tell me if there is an option in dpkg command line which will > tell me what packages are _not_ used and/or needed but already installed? -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
