Trying to make dvd from cd iso's
Ok I got a new toy, and would like to make an install DVD from the cd images? And have some questions. Can I just merge the dist and pool directories from each cd image? What file is dselect using when it is indexing the cd’s. What is the boot file? Thanks, brian
my /usr partition is corrupted. How can I fix it?
Is there a way to fix my usr partition without reinstalling Debian completely? It was hosed either by a KDE crash, powerloss, or synaptic crashing and restarting the system, or a combination. The story as complete as I can follows since I have no idea where the problem is or how to fix it. System Specs: PIII 600Mhz with 256 MB Ram, SB Live sound card, nVidia Geforce 256 DDR (subsystem: AGP-V6800) with the nvidia driver installed, 3Com 3c905c-Tx (Tornado), Kernel is my 2.4.18 Debian unstable, (recently changed from woody). I use wmaker for my window manager and kde is installed for my wife. I manage my packages with synaptic. Problem: I have used tuxracer in wmaker before and it works no problem. However, I tried tuxracer in KDE under my wife's account for the first time and it gave a segmentation fault and the resolution stayed at 800x600(?). I then logged out and back in to my own account and wmaker but the resolution was still wrong. It wouldn't switch back to my preferred setting of 1280x1024. I restarted the machine for lack of other ideas. No problems, so I ran synaptic and updated my list and began a dist-upgrade. Partway through this process, the machine started to reboot! Then on booting up, it failed and complained of corruption. So I used tomsrtbt and ran fsck without automatic fixing and answered yes to all questions. Afterwards, I rebooted and everything seemed normal. However, synaptic wouldn't run until I downloaded the palm-conduit package and installed with dpkg. Then, I switched to sarge from unstable, hoping sarge is approximately as stable as woody was. But I still complaints about errors with packages. Now, gnome-terminal is not even installed so I have tried aptitu From: root@peter (Cron Daemon) To: root@peter Subject: Cron test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 06:29:15 -0700 /etc/cron.daily/man-db: gzip: /usr/share/man/man8/kernel-packageconfig.8.gz: not in gzip format run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/man-db exited with return code 3 /etc/cron.daily/standard: Files were found in lost+found directories. This is probably the result of a crash or bad shutdown, or possibly of a disk problem. These files may contain important information. You should examine them, and move them out of lost+found or delete them if they are not important. The following files were found: /lost+found: #33668 #33696 #33697 #33698 #33715 #33740 #33769 #33771 #49352 #49394 #49609 #50036 #50038 #50196 #64785 #64786 ... Any ideas? Please email comments to me as I don't subscribe to this list. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can i trust you with this project
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 08:14:37PM -0500, Michael Olson wrote: > This is probably a hoax. I heard a news account of someone who got > ripped off in a northern State for a million dollars or two. Besides, > it's illegal and too good to be true. > Probably? How about absolutely? This is one of the oldest and most popular con games in the world. Look up "Nigerian Scam" or "Advanced Fee Fraud" on Google for more info. There scam must work. I've been getting a lot more of them lately, sometimes as many as two or three a week. -- --- Mary had a crypto key, she kept it in escrow, and everything that Mary said, the Feds were sure to know. --- Brian Barcus mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.barcus.net/ ICQ: 45593001 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN/AIM/Yahoo: bgbarcus === msg05296/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
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Re: print html without netscape
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:05:01AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:09:46AM +0200, Petr Vanek wrote: > > hi all, > > i wont to print html but don't wont to install netscape, i > > mean print rendered html file from command line. is there something > > rendering ps from html in debian? also i use to have a program, which > > was (i guess that also without netscape) able to do it in X window, > > it lookd like gpr, but propably not gpr, since gpr calles netscape... > > > > any ideas? > > # apt-get install html2ps # ? > > It's far from perfect though... > > If only it was possible to add that sort of stuff to > a printer filter instead... It is possible and is available via apsfilter using html2ps. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fonts too large
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 03 September 2002 20:37, David Zelinsky wrote: >> I recently upgraded to woody (actually I ended up doing a clean >> install, for reasons I won't get into), and now most of the fonts in >> application windows are way too large. Examples include: menus, >> dialog boxes and input fields in netscape, mozilla, dillo and >> acroread, to name a few. (The font preference for netscape et al only >> affect the document fonts, not the menus and toolbars.) >> >> Can anyone tell me how to change this? I'm using xfs (tried changing >> the default-point-size in /etc/X11/fs/config but it had no effect). >> I've been using fvwm started by gdm, but it doesn't seem to matter >> which window manager or desktop I use. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> David Zelinsky > > from /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/README.Debian-upgrade.gz: > > FONT AND DPI (DOTS-PER-INCH) SETTINGS SET TO 100DPI BY DEFAULT: > > You should be aware that, by default, xdm and xinit (and thus startx) start > the X server using the "-dpi 100" argument, which forces the X server to > treat the display as having 100 dots per inch. Furthermore, xfs is > configured to serve fonts with a preference for 100dpi versions over 75dpi > version if a font request could be satisfied by either, and dexconf, the > Debian X Configurator, writes XFree86 server configuration files with a > preference for the 100dpi font directory over the 75dpi directory. > > This particularly affects the visible font size. Another common default is 75 > dpi; some font rasterizers do not deal well with dpi settings other than 75 or > 100. But note that, as stated in xfonts-100dpi description field, "xfonts-100dpi may be more suitable for large monitors and/or large screen resolutions (over 1024x768)." In that case, you'd be better off just changing the font size manually (through Gnome/KDE's control center, or whatever). -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fonts too large
Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Sean 'Shaleh' Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020904 21:58]: >> On Wednesday 04 September 2002 19:50, Brian Nelson wrote: >> > But note that, as stated in xfonts-100dpi description field, >> > "xfonts-100dpi may be more suitable for large monitors and/or large >> > screen resolutions (over 1024x768)." >> > >> > In that case, you'd be better off just changing the font size manually >> > (through Gnome/KDE's control center, or whatever). >> >> maybe for those with poor eyesight but I find that 100dpi fonts are always too >> big. Because most apps seem to have really poorly chosen default font sizes. Correct your font sizes; don't use an inaccurate dpi setting for your monitor. > Well, that's neither here nor there. The dpi setting is useful for > setting a screen font size that correlates to a "real-world" > measurement: 1 pt is 1/72 of an inch, not an arbitrary number of pixels. > So if you're running at higher resolution, such that 100 dots take an > inch on your screen, it's more appropriate to use 100dpi fonts. If you > want more real estate, use a smaller point size. When using fonts whose > dpi matches your actual screen dpi, you'll find that the same point size > is the same point size and provides the same readability, whether you > use 1280 or (gasp!) 600 pixels across your screen. Yep. Jeffrey Baker wrote up an even more elaborate description of this topic a few months ago here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200204/msg01679.html -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Main breakup?
Matthew Hambley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It strikes me that the 'main' part of the Debian distro is way too big. > The fact that every user who does an "apt-get update" is pulling well over > a meg each time one package in it changes can not be good. It's a waist of > Debians server resources and it's certainly not swift over a 56k modem. > > Is there a good reason for keeping all these packages in one section or is > it just that no one has thought about it before? It's been discussed for a long time. For example: http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=633 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200204/msg01081.html and so on... -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HPPA Install Problem with libc6
I am attempting an install on an HP B2600. Due to the USB keyboard/mouse I am installing via the serial interface. I downloaded the Jigdo ISO images (with good checksum verify) and burned CD1. I then booted from it via PALO. The install program comes up and all is well. I set up the partitions and have gone as far as the "Install the Base System". At that point, I have tried multiple methods - direct from the CD, network from debian.org, and NFS from the CD on another box. Each time I get the following error: http://http.us.debian.org:80/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.5-6_hppa.deb was corrupt Can someone point me in the right direction (or to the right lib file) here? [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: syncronizing two directories
Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > thanks a lot to all the people who asnwer my question so fast! I will > try rsync and unison Note that rsync is really only useful for one-way transfers, ie. for mirroring a directory. It won't handle cases well where, for example, one file was deleted on one machine, and another file was deleted on the other machine you're trying to synchronize. Nor does it handle conflicts. Unison is a much better tool for 2-way synchronization. It will track deletions, handle conflicts, etc. It also uses the rsync protocol for transfers, so it's just as efficient as rsync. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: storing laptop (Li-ion) batteries
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > because one of my laptops died right after its warranty expired (how > could it have been different), i am left with two spare batteries that > i can use for my other laptop. thus, i now have four batteries, but > the laptop only holds two at a time. because i have just gone through > a battery trauma because i kept a battery out of system for too long > so that it now can't be recharged no more, i am wondering how i should > go about storing the two batteries that i don't use? http://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+battery+storage At least a couple of the links look helpful... -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wget's Great; Is there a wput?
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to upload a 700MB file to a remote Debian machine, and the > network is "iffy" between here and there. Is there a counterpart to wget > that will push a file and keep trying until all the pieces arrive? > > The remote machine has sshd running (so I can ssh and sftp in); I've > tried to sftp the file up, but the connection keeps dropping. I can't > sftp/ssh the other way, to this machine, so I can't use wget from that > machine to pull it from this one; I need to "wput" it from this one to > the remote machine. Try lftp using the fish protocol, which works over ssh. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wget's Great; Is there a wput?
"Marvin J. Kosmal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 11 September 2002 3:53 pm, Joey Hess wrote: >> Brian Nelson wrote: >> > Try lftp using the fish protocol, which works over ssh. > > > Is that lftp or what?? > > Is there a HOWTO on this??? For some reason, there's very little documentation about it, but it's simple enough to use. Instead of using: ssh some_remote_host use: lftp fish://some_remote_host -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect wont show installed programs
Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 05:54:54AM -0700, Armenteros Roberto wrote: >> This is my first time using dselect to install debian. >> I did install X and all the necesary components, but >> it went horrible and it didnt work, so I decided to >> install it by hand. > > I only use dselect when installing the system for the very first > time. I say no to run tasksel and then enter dselect and exit as > soon as I can. This will install all basic packages you really need. > > After that everything is installed with apt-get. Most documentation > concerning Debian mentions apt-get anyway so if you want to do foo on > your system all you usually need to do is apt-get foo. > > Sorry about not being able to give a direct answer to your question, > but maybe you'll like this alternative. This is generally poor advice. A typical would be much better off using an interactive apt frontend for package management. If dselect gives you the willies, then try aptitude. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dselect wont show installed programs
Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:06:12AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> > What is wrong with that? >> >> The chief problem with apt-get is that it doesn't show Recommends: and >> Suggests: (and isn't designed to do so - it was originally just a test >> program for the apt libraries). Since package maintainers often use >> these fields to provide extra information to users, you lose out by >> using a tool that doesn't tell you about them. > > I can see that the extra information can be useful. I don't think I > need that information too often though. I either know what I want or > I turn to other sources of information to find out what software > forfills a given need. That's not always so easy to find out. Some packages are rather crippled if you don't install their Recommended: packages, and it's usually not at all obvious why some functionality is missing. In most cases, you really want to install all Recommended: packages, and you should consider installing Suggested: packages. > As I understand it, apt-get will make sure that any piece of > software just works. Not necessarily. apt-get can't always do a very good job of dependency resolution. It can be pretty easy to get your system into a broken state that's tough to fix with apt-get alone, especially if you track unstable. Also, apt-get tends to be too quiet. For example, it may decide to hold back a whole bunch of packages without giving the user any hints as to why. apt-get is useful for times when you know exactly what package you want to install. However, it's a rather inadequate for tracking updates to continuously-changing distributions. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get "package held back" question
Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just did a "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" and was told that a > package (which I know to have been recently updated) was being "held > back." Please see some of my earlier posts to see why tracking testing/unstable updates with apt-get isn't a very good idea. > Not being an apt expert, I'm not sure how to figure out WHY this occured > and/or what to do about it in order to get the updated package. Can > someone help me out with some info or pointers to a reference? A package management tool such as aptitude will tell you. Usually the problem is a dependency that can't be met. For example, I can see that locales is currently held back on my system because it depends on an unavailable version of glibc. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems upgrading to testing dist...
Davor Balder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My understanding of your problem is that you are trying to downgrade. I > believe somebody asked this question before and the answer was that the > doengrades are not supported (that is what I remember at least)... Well, downgrades are unsupported because there's probably a good chance they won't work smoothly, but it's possible to try. You just need to give the packages you want to downgrade a pin priority greater than 1000. man apt_preferences for details. Placing the following in /etc/apt/preferences (untested) should downgrade all packages to woody: Package: * Pin: release v=3.0* Pin-Priority: 1001 -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lost Mozilla
Help,Debian Newbie.Have installed Debian 3.0 OK. Problem, Mozilla was working OK. Now I cannot launch it, I get message 'No such file etc'. Tried apt-get to install &/or remove it, but can neither install or remove it.I'm now stuck! Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lost Mozilla
Gerhard, Here is the listing:- dpkg -l | grep mozilla ii mozilla-browse 1.0.0-0.woody. Mozilla Web Browser - core and browser ii mozilla-mailne 1.0.0-0.woody. Mozilla Web Browser - mail and news support ii mozilla-psm1.0.0-0.woody. Mozilla Web Browser - Personal Security Mana brian@debian:~$ mozilla bash: mozilla: command not found Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lost Mozilla
Gerhard, I'm sorry but I forgot to send the answers to your last 2 questions, here they are:- debian:/home/brian# dpkg -l | grep mozilla ii mozilla1.0.0-0.woody. Mozilla Web Browser - dummy package ii mozilla-browse 1.0.0-0.woody. Mozilla Web Browser - core and browser ii mozilla-mailne 1.0.0-0.woody. Mozilla Web Browser - mail and news support ii mozilla-psm1.0.0-0.woody. Mozilla Web Browser - Personal Security Mana debian:/home/brian# whereis mozilla mozilla: /etc/mozilla /usr/lib/mozilla /usr/share/man/man1/mozilla.1.gz debian:/home/brian# mozilla bash: mozilla: command not found Thanks, Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lost Mozilla
Kent, thanks for your suggestions but no joy I'm afraid, You might try "apt-get install --reinstall mozilla". You might also try starting it as another user, to make sure it's not related to your particular user (bad path setting, etc). You might also unplug your network connection, fire up X as root, and then try starting moz, which might indicate a permissions problem somewhere. (Don't run X as root as a general rule.) Here are the relevant bits:- Unpacking mozilla (from .../mozilla_1.0.0-0.woody.1_i386.deb) ... Setting up mozilla (1.0.0-0.woody.1) ... debian:/home/brian# mozilla bash: mozilla: command not found Thanks Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lost Mozilla Regained
On 22 Sep 2002 14:41:36 +0100 Brian Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Help,Debian Newbie.Have installed Debian 3.0 OK. Problem, Mozilla was > working OK. Now I cannot launch it, I get message 'No such file etc'. > Tried apt-get to install &/or remove it, but can neither install or > remove it.I'm now stuck! > Thanks in advance. The package you want (the one that contains the 'mozilla' command) is mozilla-browser - are you sure you have it installed? If so, what command are you running (exactly), and what's the (exact) error? Thanks David, You're correct about mozilla-browser! Somehow it had been deleted & I was trying to reinstall 'mozilla' which didn't help at all. It's now up & running OK, thanks for your assistance, Brian Webb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: tabbed browsing as 'zilla's default
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > also sprach Jamin W. Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.26.1550 +0200]: >> It takes a little bit of user training, but if you configure Mozilla to >> open middle clicked links in a new tab "Edit -> Preferences -> Navigator >> -> Tabbed Browsing", then you can simply start middle-clicking your links >> (instead of left clicking) and get the behavior your are looking for. > > i have a two-button mouse. middle clicks take twice the force. Is ctrl+left-click acceptable? -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Virtual Host set up problem
Hello, I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I've set up a Debian Server running Apache with 2 network cards - one for internal, one for external. The system works perfectly when I set up just one domain. When I go to set up ip-based virtual hosting, I've followed these steps: 1) set up the additional ips in /etc/network/interfaces and restart networking - everything seems OK. 2) set up the virtual servers in /etc/apache/httpd.conf - both websites are set up as virtual that I want to host. The main server isn't visible to the net. 3) change /etc/hosts to contain the ips and hostnames required The result is that the virtual host works for only one site. The only thing I see that could be the problem is that running ifconfig - the virtual ip numbers don't show, but they are in the network interfaces file. Any suggestions? Thanks, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
shrink partition with fdisk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I just used resize_reiserfs to shrink a reiserfs partition. It worked fine, and df is reporting the device size that I expected. However, fdisk still reports the old size. How can I shrink the partition in fdisk so it reports the correct size, without harming the contents of the device? I'm assuming that if I simply delete the partition in fdisk, and then re-create it smaller, my data will be lost. Some info: ReiserFS report: blocksize 4096 block count 524288 (8753409) free blocks 296960 (8525829) bitmap block count16 (268) % df /dev/hdb7 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb7 2097084909244 1187840 44% /home/bs7452/docs/mp3 fdisk Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hdb7 3118 7476 35013636 83 Linux - -- Brian J. Stults Department of Sociology phone: (352) 392-0265 x286 University of Florida fax: (352) 392-6568Gainesville, Florida 32611-7330 pgp: http://clas.ufl.edu/~bstults/bstults.gpg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE9l4LTqmqY2oJw4kkRAjlgAJ9WGbO1eG+0uWqeBiCfOq3IYPn4CACfUaX0 jstDoyMhf3mcaNcuM3N4ws4= =0XZr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 0, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Monday 30 September 2002 19:04, Tom Cook wrote: >> > #include >> > #include >> > #include >> > >> > then you should be able to compile with: >> > >> > g++ -c -o helloworld.o helloworld.cpp >> > >> > Note also that the usual (proper?) way of naming C++ source is *.cc or >> > *.cxx, not *.cpp like M$ do. >> > >> > Tom >> >> actually cpp is a valid and common extension. In fact both qt and kde use it >> for their own projects. I happen to use .cc but no use getting into a naming >> scuffle. > > No, it's not worth it. I was just looking at the g++ man page that > lists .cc and .cxx but not .cpp. Huh? I see: C++ source files use one of the suffixes `.C', `.cc', `.cxx', `.cpp', or `.c++'; preprocessed C++ files use the suffix `.ii'. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp
Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: > >> Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > No, it's not worth it. I was just looking at the g++ man page that >> > lists .cc and .cxx but not .cpp. >> >> Huh? I see: >> >> C++ source files use one of the suffixes `.C', `.cc', `.cxx', `.cpp', >> or `.c++'; preprocessed C++ files use the suffix `.ii'. > > Your quote matches the man page for g++ 2.95. However, the man page for > g++ 3.2 does not mention .cpp. (I would say it should, since it's not at > all an uncommon extension for C++ sources.) It also does not mention .c++. g++-3.2 doesn't have the proper manpage, at least on my system. http://bugs.debian.org/162843 -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What are these groups for?
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> www-data:*:33: > > Some web browsers run as www-data. Web content should *not* be servers (e.g. apache) > owned by this user, or a compromised web server would be able to > rewrite a web site. Data written out by web servers, including > log files, will be owned by www-data. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Perhaps Linux will set the hardware standards?
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is very off-topic, but I just had a thought that I felt strongly > enough to share. > > Right now, hardware manufacturers, like video card makers, make their > hardware so that each has different interfaces (APIs, etc) that must be > dealt with in drivers, and often that information is kept proprietary, > which makes it difficult for XFree86 developers (and company) to get > things working for every little card out there. > > As Linux gains dominance on the desktop (notice I didn't say "if", but > implied "when"), is it out of line to think that perhaps the XFree86 > developers could set the API standards instead of the hardware > manufacturers doing so? > > In other words, perhaps some day the developers can say "Here's the > interface specs; make your hardware work with it if you want to sell > your cards." > > Pipe dream? Fantasy? Stupid innovation-stifling idea? Good idea? What? Isn't this the same idea as VESA? -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shutdown hangs at "deconfiguring network interfaces"
solutrean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > howdy all. > > The title sez it all. here are some particulars: > > athlon t-bird 750, all-scsi, 393M RAM, Debian testing. > > this is my first post to the list - I apologize for any improper netiquette. > I googled for this condition, but found nothing. Not that your netiquette was improper, but if you're interested in code of conduct and stuff for the mailing lists, you should read: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A ? for all you old time linux users
Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's feasible, and if you recompile from Debian sources, you can meet > all of the dependencies. There's only one problem though: most > packages are compiled with (reasonably) sane optimizations. There won't > be many performance gains. If I had to recompile four parts of my > system from source, they would be, in this order: > > 1. glibc, because it is THE library that all programs rely on For a while (since version 2.2.2-3), Debian's glibc was compiled with no optimizations at all. Is this still true? > 2. gcc, because it might speed up compiles > 3. kernel, because a correctly tweaked kernel is a thing of beauty > 4. XFree86, because I had to include a fourth (X takes FOREVER to > build) > > Even then I'm not sure that you'd get many performance gains. Remember > Knuth: "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." That statement refers to the actual writing of code. Turning on compiler optimizations really doesn't have the same effect. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: runnind bind as non-root
Alexey Chetroi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear List, > > I;m trying to setup bind9 on my woody box to run as non-root. > The problem I have is that non-root named cannot write to /var/run/named.pid > One solution I see is to make /var/run group writeable or to recompile named > to use pid=/var/run/named/named.pid. > > How other debian users circumvent this problem? Run bind9 in a chroot. I basically used the configuration from this page: http://cryptio.net/~ferlatte/config/ with the exception of using mount --bind /var/lib/bind9/etc/bind /etc/bind instead of ln -s /var/lib/bind9/etc/bind /etc/bind -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XML editor in debian?
Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are any XML editors included in the debian dostribution? If not, are > there any good freeware XML editors out there? emacs + psgml -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XML editor in debian?
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lars Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Are any XML editors included in the debian dostribution? If not, are >> there any good freeware XML editors out there? > > emacs + psgml Oh, I misread the subject as SGML. For XML, emacs + tdtd (an extension of psgml) probably would work better. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: Microsoft Explorapedia error
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > found this entertaining... > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q131109&; Err, please post this kind of stuff to debian-curiosa. Posting 7-year-old MSKB articles isn't very relevant to debian-user. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gpg: checking the trustdb
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ii gnupg 1.2.0-1GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement. > > It happens very often that GPG decides to check the trustdb. When it's > *f-i-n-a-l-l-y* done (takes like 10 minutes or so), it says that the > next check is scheduled for e.g. 31-12-2002: > > gpg: checking the trustdb > [...] > gpg: next trustdb check due at 2002-12-31 > > And then, the next day, or half a week later, it does it all over > again? Is it lying? I think gpg tries to implicitly figure out when the trustdb needs to be checked by default (though I'm not sure what triggers it). Try using the option --no-auto-check-trustdb. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kwintv?
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what happened to kwintv? i remember it being a package at one point... > now it's neither in stable, testing, nor in sid. It's been packaged here for a while: http://arachni.kiwi.uni-hamburg.de/~harlekin/binary-i386/ Last I heard, it was still way too buggy to go into Debian. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: another grave galeon bug
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 10:44:46AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >> My main gripe with galeon is the UI. It seems to me that so many of the >> features that galeon borrowed from opera are just so much much clunky in >> galeon (especially the "Personal Bar", or whatever it's called). I >> really dislike the usability of the gtk+ toolkit. Maybe I'm just a Qt >> bigot... > > Yeah, I keep saying the same thing to people and they look at me as if I > have two heads. And I'm definitely not a Qt bigot - I'm not a great fan > of that look either. > > I'm much more comfortable with the UI of Phoenix. Phoenix? Never heard of it. Got a link? -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DWL-650 Wireless PCMCIA Card
James Hughes wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 10:08:36PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Sorry, should have noted in previous mail, but... > >>I'm no expert, but I believe this is because you don't have a socket >>driver loaded. Based on the kernel listed in your output, you should >>probably be loading "yenta_socket". This is normally done by putting >>the following in /etc/default/pcmcia: >> >> PCIC=yenta_socket >> > > I have PCIC=i82365, which, again, works. Can you explain why > yenta_socket is the better option? > I believe yenta vs. i82365 is an issue of whether you are using pcmcia from the kernel or from the pcmcia_cs package. This is explained in the documentation provided with pcmcia_cs[1]. I also have this card, and I can confirm that both implementations of pcmcia work. I use linux-wlan-ng, but the orinoco_cs driver also works. I cannot explain why you are having trouble loading the drivers on boot. It took me a while to get things working properly. I often found it useful to wipe /etc/pcmcia and reinstall pcmcia_cs and linux-wlan-ng from source because I had fiddled with the config files beyond repair. [1] http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/README-2.4 -- Brian J. Stults Department of Sociology phone: (352) 392-0265 x286 University of Florida fax: (352) 392-6568Gainesville, Florida 32611-7330 pgp: http://clas.ufl.edu/~bstults/bstults.gpg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
subversion equivalent of 'cvs update -C'
Does subversion have an equivalent to the command 'cvs update -C', i.e. overwrite locally modified files with the current ones from the repository? -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: subversion equivalent of 'cvs update -C'
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 05:16:34PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> On Monday 14 October 2002 17:11, Colin Watson wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:01:21PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >> > > Does subversion have an equivalent to the command 'cvs update -C', >> > > i.e. overwrite locally modified files with the current ones from the >> > > repository? >> > >> > At least from experimentation and reading through the code, it appears >> > not to. So far I've just been doing the old hack of removing the files >> > and running 'svn update'. Perhaps file an issue at subversion.tigris.org >> > to ask that 'svn update -f' do this? >> >> how annoying, I use that feature of cvs quite often. "nah that was a bad >> idea, revert". > > 'svn revert' > > (So yes, I guess lateral thinking leads to 'svn revert; svn update'.) Yeah, that'll work. >> Damn shame it should be moving forward not removing useful features. > > I wouldn't be so quick to discount subversion. :) I keep much of my > home directory in it, and it's behaving very nicely. Me too. It seems to be working well so far. If nothing else, at least it beats having all those annoying CVS directories lying around... -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim misconfiguration ?
Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I am currently using exim on my laptop for local delivery and sending > mails. I'm also using fetchmail and procmail. > After the we, when I connect to the internet, the system retrieves many > mails, and exim is launched thousand times. > So that more than 1500 process ( 2/3 exim and 1/3 procmail) are running > and taking all the resources ; I even lose my read/write access to > files! > After restarting, I have to wait the number of exim process to decrease. > Is there a way to configure exim's behaviour differently ( for ex. to > start only one process ) ? If you run exim as a daemon rather than from /etc/inetd.conf (by removing the smtp line from this file), that should help, I think. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: subversion equivalent of 'cvs update -C'
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:58:51PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >> Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > I wouldn't be so quick to discount subversion. :) I keep much of my >> > home directory in it, and it's behaving very nicely. >> >> Me too. It seems to be working well so far. If nothing else, at least >> it beats having all those annoying CVS directories lying around... > > What are you doing about partitioning public and private dotfiles? I'd > like to be able to check out public parts of my home directory (e.g. > .bashrc) onto any machine where I have an account, but private parts > (e.g. .fetchmailrc) only onto machines where I'm also root. So far I > haven't come up with a good way to do this, especially because symlinks > and Unix permissions aren't versioned yet. I haven't run into this problem yet. So far for files that are site-specific (like my .emacs file), I've been able to code them to detect the environment and adjust accordingly. > The best I've come up with is a .hide directory for private things and a > (partially written) 'svnfix' script that sorts out symlinks and > permissions after each checkout based on some properties I set. I used to do something similar when I was using CVS for my home directory. Since I didn't want it tracking stuff directly in my $HOME, I tucked it away in a subdirectory and used a script to take care of symlinks and stuff. It sucked. :) -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Exim misconfiguration ?
Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am currently using exim on my laptop for local delivery and sending >> > mails. I'm also using fetchmail and procmail. >> > After the we, when I connect to the internet, the system retrieves many >> > mails, and exim is launched thousand times. >> > So that more than 1500 process ( 2/3 exim and 1/3 procmail) are running >> > and taking all the resources ; I even lose my read/write access to >> > files! >> > After restarting, I have to wait the number of exim process to decrease. >> > Is there a way to configure exim's behaviour differently ( for ex. to >> > start only one process ) ? >> >> If you run exim as a daemon rather than from /etc/inetd.conf (by >> removing the smtp line from this file), that should help, I think. > > I have removed exim from inetd.conf, and there are still many exim > process running Did you restart inetd and exim? # /etc/init.d/inetd restart # /etc/init.d/exim restart -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
terminal colors
Hi. I'm having problems getting colors to appear in my BASH prompt in Woody (3.0). This is on a fresh install I just finished today. I've made very few changes to the system so far. When I ssh (protocol v2) into my debian server, the prompt is monochrome. I've tried to export the TERM variable several times using xterm-color, linux, xterm-debian, and xtermc in .bashrc and .bash_profile. I've also tried these same settings in the terminal-type string setting in putty. Nothing works. However, once I'm ssh'ed into the server, if I su to the same account the bash prompt is in color. echo $TERM produces the same output (the putty setting) in both cases. Any suggestion on how to fix this? I've scoured google, google groups, and debianhelp.org to no avail. What are other good resources I can use to resolve this? I don't subscribe to this list so please copy me directly on any replies. Thanks, brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ALSA howto
Theodore Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any guides or howto's available for getting ALSA 0.9.x working > in Debian? (I'm using sid.) /usr/share/doc/alsa-source/README.Debian.gz in the alsa-source package, naturally. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xserver mysteriously dieing
Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Recently my X server has been dying unexpectedly and unpredictably. I > was wondering if anyone could help me diagnose this problem. I am > running Unstable with Xfree86 4.2.1 and Gnome2 packages from > experimental. This seems to occur when my computer is idle or possibly > when I lock the screen(using xscreen-saver). I am totally stumped on > this one. In my logs I see almost nothing. Hm, you could try attaching gdb to your running X process. Or you could enable core dumps and see if gdb gets anything useful out of those. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian, too easy?
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:59:54PM +1000, Russell wrote: >> IMHO, a registry would be ok if it was ascii/human readable, you could >> tell applications to ignore it, and no applications are forced or required >> to know about it. A set of utilities for examining and manipulating it >> would be useful too. > > Don't we already have a registry? Isn't it called /etc? Isn't a lot > easier to deal with it spread out a little for better description? I think the idea would be to make it easier to use software (like debconf) to modify configuration data without overwriting the user's changes. Right now, unless a configuration file is trivially easy to parse, it's nearly impossible to use debconf to modify a file. The result is a file like XF86Config-4 containing something like: ### DO NOT MODIFY STUFF BELOW THIS LINE which is think everyone agree is not an optimal solution. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to clone/copy SanDisk 1.2G flash disk as soon as it is inserted?
Hi, We are using this card in manufacturing a product. Currently, the card is used by an embedded application and the information on the card is setup by the embedded hardware during the manufacturing process. We would like to take a flashdisk that has already been setup by the hardware, and clone/copy it. I have been able to do this on a Debian machine using the dd command to copy the contents of the flashdisk (using its raw memory interface) onto a hard disk and then copy it back to another card. It takes about 25 min. to write a flashcard from the hard disk this way. I used the following command: dd if=/dev/hde of=diskimage (I didn't know what block size to use so I didn't use one) I'm always trying to find ways of using Linux around here so this may be a good job for it. Is there an easy way to make a script or something that would display the progress of the copy so the user would know the status of the copying? I don't think people on the manufacturing line are going to like doing a dd command and then just watching it sit there. Any ideas how to make/do this better? I'm sure my boss will want me to find something for Windows to do this but I've looked and I can't find anything. When I use the Linux machine to copy the flashdisk I can't look at the contents of the disk and I cannot read the partition information, all I can do is use the dd command to make a byte-for-byte copy . which works! We are using the 1.2GB Flashdisk part number SDP3B-1280-101-50. I'd also like to be able to start the copying process as soon as the flashdisk is inserted. Can someone point me in the right direction to be able to do that? We would also like to build a machine that has several PCMCIA interfaces in it so we can write several cards at once. How many of these interfaces can I put in a machine and how could I determine the optimal number of flashcards to do at one time? I'm sure at some point writing multiple cards at once will take longer instead of it being faster I need to be able to determine the "sweet spot". The SanDisk documentation says something about a 16-20MBytes per second burst throughput although it took me about 25 min. to copy the image to/from hard disk on a PIII 750. Would a faster machine be needed to do this type of job? I'm sure that is enough questions. I love Debian 3.0! I have it everywhere. It Rocks! Thanks, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fetchmail rules for logcheck?
Hello, I recently started running the fetchmail service from /etc/init.d, rather than running it under my own account when I login. One thing that I like about this is that error messages go to syslog and then I see them in my logcheck emails. Unfortunately, there are also hundreds of lines of "x messages from mail.server retrieved..." and "flushed". I would like to eliminate these from my logcheck output, and am wondering if anyone has already written rules for intelligently removing regular email retrieval messages, but not useful problem related messages? I searched google, but did not see anything. Also, I had edited the logcheck rules for oidentd to ignore successful lookups by myself when fetchmail was running under my account. Now that it is running as fetchmail, there are a lot fetchmail oidentd lookups. Can anyone think of any reason not to ignore successful fetchmail lookups? TIA. Brian Flaherty -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Solved] fetchmail rules for logcheck?
Hello, Sorry for the wasted bandwidth, but it had not occurred to me to check the workstation and server directories. Rules for fetchmail are in both of those. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]