Re: 2 simple questions
Brad Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: other question may be a little more complicated. I am using gdm to login and I normaly run Enlightenment but I wanted to try out Gnome but when I selecect it from the gdm menu it starts gnome and kde together. I have replaced the /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome script with one that just has exec /usr/bin/gnome-session but that didn't help, if I start kde it works fine and it is a script that just has exec /usr/bin/startkde, any ideas on this one? Enlightenment is a window manager that runs on top of gnome. Gnome does not have its own window manager. KDE on the other hand is both the desktop environment and the window manager. So you can't really run gnome without a window manager. You need enlightenment or sawfish or some wm. I am not sure what you mean when you say kde and gnome start together. I don't see how this is possible. I think gnome and kde have support modes for each other, but you wouldn't, say, get both the gnome panel and the kde panel. HTH, Anthony
Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....
As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. For the deamons the startscripts redide in /etc/init.d (SuSE/sbin/init.d/) and all accept start, stop, sometimes status, reload, restart. Try it by typing them without an argument. When you edit /etc/inittab, which is a little dangerous for newbes, you reload with init q. If you are not sure wich deamons you have to restart, change the runlevel. init 1 brings you to the singleuser mode without network I think, init 2 i.e. brings you to runlevel 2 and starts whatever you've defined in /etc/init.d/rc2.d. I allways use that if I change the IP-Address, because I am to lazy to restart the network and the routing ;-) The Linuxcommunity is proud of their uptimes, so we never reboot... martin SamBozo Debian User [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 16.02.2001 15:37:06 An: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Kopie: (Blindkopie: Martin Tanzer/dvs/DE) Blindkopie:Martin Tanzer/dvs/DE Thema: Rebooting is foolish Hello to the group, Recently there were comments made as to the foolishness of rebooting just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of the cli entrys that would have accomplished this? Are there different ones for different config files? SHUP something? blabla stop/start/restart It's a wonderful thing to already know all this... how about sharing? And if the standard RTFM reply is to be used ... please specify which freaking manual we are refering to reading. Any hostility you may percieve is directed at my newbie ignorance and the joys? of the learning curve ... gurrr! TIA, Sam Morgan http://www.wcc.net/~peacemkr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] persönliche Kategorie: Wiedervorlagedatum:
Re: upgrade to xfree 4.0.x
Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2001 14:44 schrieb Nils Crefeld: Hello, i'm running potato r2 with xfree 3.3.6. now i would like to upgrade to xfree 4.0.x. I tried to put a line for the woody release into my sources.list, but then dselect wants to update all newer packages. i just want to upgrade the xserver (and maybe some other packages x depends on) and not everything. is there a way to do this? Nils hi ... try to use apt-get with apt-get update you receive the package informations (provided by /etc/apt/sources.list)... with apt-get install packagename you get the wanted packages... but it's usefull (when dealing with woody) to use apt-get -s install packagename, then apt-get only shows what it would do... i hope i could help you a bit, cos im a newbie either... greets peter
Re: upgrade to xfree 4.0.x
That would be the way you should be able to do it. I was never able to get it to work. Too many things that broke other things etc. I just ended up going to testing and have been *very* happy with it so far. With a couple of minor exceptions nothing has broken and it is in terms of performance just as stable as Potato, IMHO. -- Original Message -- From: peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:05:42 +0100 Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2001 14:44 schrieb Nils Crefeld: Hello, i'm running potato r2 with xfree 3.3.6. now i would like to upgrade to xfree 4.0.x. I tried to put a line for the woody release into my sources.list, but then dselect wants to update all newer packages. i just want to upgrade the xserver (and maybe some other packages x depends on) and not everything. is there a way to do this? Nils hi ... try to use apt-get with apt-get update you receive the package informations (provided by /etc/apt/sources.list)... with apt-get install packagename you get the wanted packages... but it's usefull (when dealing with woody) to use apt-get -s install packagename, then apt-get only shows what it would do... i hope i could help you a bit, cos im a newbie either... greets peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: upgrade to xfree 4.0.x
That would be the way you should be able to do it. I was never able to get it to work. Too many things that broke other things etc. I just ended up going to testing and have been *very* happy with it so far. With a couple of minor exceptions nothing has broken and it is in terms of performance just as stable as Potato, IMHO. -- Original Message -- From: peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:05:42 +0100 Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2001 14:44 schrieb Nils Crefeld: Hello, i'm running potato r2 with xfree 3.3.6. now i would like to upgrade to xfree 4.0.x. I tried to put a line for the woody release into my sources.list, but then dselect wants to update all newer packages. i just want to upgrade the xserver (and maybe some other packages x depends on) and not everything. is there a way to do this? Nils hi ... try to use apt-get with apt-get update you receive the package informations (provided by /etc/apt/sources.list)... with apt-get install packagename you get the wanted packages... but it's usefull (when dealing with woody) to use apt-get -s install packagename, then apt-get only shows what it would do... i hope i could help you a bit, cos im a newbie either... greets peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
why does Apache depend on MySQL libs?
I would like to install Apache without any MySQL libs. Why does Apache depend on MySQL in the first place? Seems like if it depended on any DB it should be Postgres. :-) -Ian
Re: how to remove Xfree?
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:58:34AM -0500, seg wrote: I know I could probably find this info in HOWTOs or whatnots, but I am pretty it's quite simple and one of you nice fellows won't mind spending a few lines of text to explain:) I basicly want to boot up in the DOS like interface, no fancy stuff (just running firewall). Thx ---end quoted text--- In Debian if X is installed, by default, boots into xdm gdm etc. depending upon your window manager installation. To avoid this, use [update-rc.d] program, meant for chang- ing init parameters in Sys-V init process. Read man for this. #update-rc.d -f xdm remove The things that are done by the script include removal of all system startup links for /etc/init.d/xdm ... i.e. /etc/rc0.d/K01xdm /etc/rc1.d/K01xdm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /etc/rc3.d/S99xdm /etc/rc4.d/S99xdm /etc/rc5.d/S99xdm /etc/rc6.d/K01xdm You will boot into tty mode therafter, and would have to use startx subsequently to get into X. USM Bish
eth0 gone
I'm running the unstable dist and a recent upgrade seems to have destroyed information needed for my network interfaces. Running ifconfig displays the proper details for eth0 and lo but running ifup gives a Bad file descriptor error. The /etc/network/interfaces file is intact but under /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ there is only all and default and no eth0 or lo anymore. How do I regenerate these? What is the source of this problem? Can I keep it from happening again? adTHANKSvance, Chris
apt-get via firewall
Is there a way to run apt-get through a ftp/http firewall? Thank you
re discombobulated mirrors
this morning the de ftp debian unstable mirror is trashed in that the list of avail packages doesn't match what's actually available (offending packages are perl and tk) while the us ftp debian unstable mirror miraculously got its act together after umpteen days of package list not matching avail packages this is just an fyi for those of you using the de mirror that you may want to point to the us mirror for awhile Heitzso
Re: Slow SSH responses from server
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 08:18:14PM -0800, Forrest English wrote: i think it's because your server isn't generating enough entropy. enter random commands at the keyboard somtime. do ls -lahR /that should get you enough randomness to last for awhile. Any suggestions for keeping the entropy pool full on a headless box that mostly just serves files and web pages? Or will the nfs/http accesses replenish it without requring console interaction? -- SGI products are used to create the 'Bugs' that entertain us in theatres and at home. - SGI job posting Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P+ L+++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI D G e* h+ r y+
Re: why does Apache depend on MySQL libs?
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:42:08AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to install Apache without any MySQL libs. Why does Apache
depend on MySQL in the first place? Seems like if it depended on any DB it
should be Postgres. :-)
Um, apache doesn't depend on MySQL.
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Serial ports - how to get them to coexist peacefully...
P133, 48MB RAM, Debian Testing/Unstable (some bits from unstable) 2.2.17 (move to 2.4.1 on hold for time being whilst I read Rusty's howtos on netfilter etc. :) ). Have two onboard ports - ttyS0 and ttyS1 (IRQ 43 respectively) Have an ISA IO card (everything disabled on card save ttyS3 and lpt3 [dunno linux equiv] - reason for ISA - only have half slot, full and VLB IO cards in stockpile :) ) Have modem on ttyS0 Switch between mouse and Wyse60 terminal on ttyS1 Want mouse on ttyS3 but IRQ conflict ttyS1+ttyS3 Can I make the onboard and oncard ttyS's play nice on same IRQ? ... or should I play musical jumpers until they're on separate IRQs? Read something in 2.4.1 kernel config about making serial ports nice to one another when on same IRQ.. anything similar in 2.2.x? Should I go to 2.2.18 in interim? Will I need a custom compile? ... Will Danger Mouse save Penfold in time? :)
RE: Serial ports - how to get them to coexist peacefully...
Can I make the onboard and oncard ttyS's play nice on same IRQ? ... or should I play musical jumpers until they're on separate IRQs? I would change the jumpers. Hoping the software ca multiplex is a recipe for disaster. Read something in 2.4.1 kernel config about making serial ports nice to one another when on same IRQ.. anything similar in 2.2.x? Should I go to 2.2.18 in interim? Will I need a custom compile? ... Will Danger Mouse save Penfold in time? :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rebooting is foolish ....
SamBozo Debian User wrote: Hello to the group, Recently there were comments made as to the foolishness of rebooting just to reset an edited config file. How about a list of the cli entrys try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with rebooting not too long ago. a sun ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to move a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20 hours rebuilding it. fucking seagate hd. fucking sun!# argh. lesson learned: in 5 years seagate still doesn't make hard disks that are worth a shit.(that was the last time i risked using them) in another system with seagate cheetahs on raid5, we had a drive die within a week of the system going into production. quite sad. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rebooting is foolish ....
try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with rebooting not too long ago. a sun ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to move a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20 hours rebuilding it. Similar experience here at work with a Sun Sparc we had... moved from one building to another and for whatever reason didn't hook the machine back up right away (maybe the user wasn't here, it was a weekend, etc, etc). When we did hook it up, we discovered we had a sticktion problem ! ;-) One suggestion we had was to drop the case as we powered it up !! Back to what you're talking about though, that's not the same as rebooting. To me, rebooting is a warm restart. Shutting down entirely, as in yours and my examples, are different. Hall
Re: A debian-based distro for the New
Anyone have any experience with DemoLinux? Version 2.0 is based on Debian. Its unique feature is that it runs a complete Linux with KDE or Gnome or Enlightenment straight off of the CD without installing to your hard drive at all. If you like it you can install it to your hard drive. I ordered the CD in the hopes it would be something easy to give to curious friends. My copy should arrive in today's or Monday's mail. Homepage: http://www.demolinux.org/ Cheers, Chris On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a few friends who are interested in (trying)linux. For TRYING purposes I want them to use a debian based Linux. I love using debian 2.2 and I am pretty new my-self(1.5 year). I think it might be a little to overwelming for them. I beleive there are three to chose from Corel, Storm and Libranet. I have tried the first two but Libranet I have not tried yet. Anyone tried Libranet? Are there any reasons not to use the others? I wouldn't want the users to try Linux and despise it. __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backing up a complete linux system
Mike Egglestone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all. I trying to do a backup of my system and I think I might have the backup part rightcorrect me if I'm wrong I could use this command tar -cvzf hda2.tar.gz / ( I don't need to add this ... --exclude hda2.tar.gz do I ??) Yeah you probably do. You might want to exclude other stuff to, like /proc, /mnt, /tmp, and possibly /dev. Normally device files are created with /dev/MAKEDEV. I back up my machine to 4 100MB ZIP disks, using tar via a script that sets up all the options, prompts for the disks, etc. I can mail you the script if you want. I don't back up everything either. For example, the only thing under /usr that gets backed up is /usr/local. The theory being that I can re-create the debian stuff with the appropriate apt-get commands, given the stuff in /var/cache/apt and so on. I've never had to restore the whole system though, so there might be some bugs to iron out ;) anyway... the part where I'm stuck... I have no idea how to restore this tarred file on to a totally new drive my guess. add the other drive partition similar to hda (swap and such) mount the partition say..mount /dev/hdc2 /mnt then untar the file hda2.tar.gz into /mnt.. now I should have 2 file systems ... one at / and the other at /mnt so what do I do now? Just put the hdc drive in place of the hda drive... redo lilo and presto? I'd probably first leave the two drives where they are, reboot to the LILO prompt, pass a kernel parameter like root=/dev/hdc2, and see if the new filesystem does the right thing (ie boots). I've never replaced a drive, but you might run into problems e.g. if the new drive is a lot bigger and LILO gets confused, in which case you might have to read the LILO docs and/or upgrade your LILO. -chris
Re: Rebooting is foolish ....
On Friday 16 February 2001 17:27, Nate Amsden wrote: try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with rebooting not too long ago. a sun ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to move a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20 hours rebuilding it. fucking seagate hd. fucking sun!# argh. lesson learned: in 5 years seagate still doesn't make hard disks that are worth a shit.(that was the last time i risked using them) in another system with seagate cheetahs on raid5, we had a drive die within a week of the system going into production. quite sad. heh, noted.. using a seagate HD here.. only a few months old, had one prob with it.. which had something to do with the powersaving feature i'm guessing. can't see any reason to reboot linux at all, with exception as someone already said installing a new kernel.. but otherwise.. urgh, however.. i still have to use Windows for Dreamweaver, any suggestions anyone? it needs to be a WYSIWYG-editor (till i finally cleanup the generated code) that handles nested tables well.. and yes i know they shouldnt be used too much, and i wouldnt if i had a server to run apache and a DB
Re: Wake Up on LAN
I use /usr/sbin/arp. There are programs that build WOL packets out there - look for ether-wake.c, for example, -chris c-3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For WOL you need to know the node adress of the network card in the computer you want to wake up. Under Windows you can easily get it by winipcfg. But can someone tell me how to get it under linux? Christian On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 04:56:10PM +0100, Barthazi Andras wrote: | Hi! | | I should have to write a Backup system at my | company, and I need a program can wake up | the workstations. I know that I have to send | the the Magic code, do you know a program | can solve it for me? And is it true, that | I can just wake up a machine that suspended | before (not a machine turned off -- with a | motherboard under power)? | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: necesito información sobre Hurd
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:24:58AM +0100, wolfman wrote: | |La cuestión es donde puedo encontrar el kernel para bajarmelo??? | I don't understand much Spanish (no hablo mucho espanol), but maybe this will help : http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ -D
Re: eth0 gone
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Chris Gray wrote: I'm running the unstable dist and a recent upgrade seems to have destroyed information needed for my network interfaces. Running ifconfig displays the proper details for eth0 and lo but running ifup gives a Bad file descriptor error. The /etc/network/interfaces file is intact but under /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ there is only all and default and no eth0 or lo anymore. How do I regenerate these? What is the source of this problem? Can I net-tools version 1.58-1 was broken Install net-tools != 1.58-1 keep it from happening again? Don't run unstable - it's normal that unstable sometimes breaks. adTHANKSvance, Chris cu, Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig.
Re: apt-get via firewall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to run apt-get through a ftp/http firewall? ftp/http firewall? If you're doing packet filtering, allow those packets. Or set up a ftp/http proxy. hth, moritz -- Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chaosdorf.de/moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org/ GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199
Rebooting woes ..was.. Rebooting is foolish ....
Nate Amsden wrote: try avoid rebooting whenever possible. i had a bad experience with rebooting not too long ago. a sun ultra 10..up for about 130 days..shut it down to move a UPS, it never came back up. spent the next 15-20 hours rebuilding it. nate I Have had a simular experience (admitedly as a newbie, so wasn't adapt at saving the install) I had a box up for a month ... made many changes. Everything was fine. Had to shutdown for a thunderstorm. On reboot install was dorked ... which one of the 100's of changes I made killed it ??? Lesson learned: Newbie responce ... even if it is linux ... reboot so you know which change/upgrade killed it ... ie better chance to fix it. I KNOW THIS is NOT the proper way to do things with Linux ... but how else do you know? Please tell me? I'll change my evil ways... Sam
kde ignores /etc/profile
Hi, what am I doing wrong? I changed the PATH-line in /etc/profile (including now /usr/local/xyz/bin), at the end there is also an export PATH-line, but when I login via kdm (as user) into kde (version 2 and 2.1beta), there's still the old PATH set (even after rebooting!). So I logged in to another windowmanager, but there it works. Any ideas how to correct kde's behaviour?
Re: Rebooting is foolish ....
William Leese wrote: heh, noted.. using a seagate HD here.. only a few months old, had one prob with it.. which had something to do with the powersaving feature i'm guessing. can't see any reason to reboot linux at all, with exception as someone already said installing a new kernel.. but otherwise.. back in 1995(last time that i used seagate) i had 2 conner 420MB drives and 1 seagate 540 (and now they are the same company *shudder*) fail within 3 months of using them because of the powersaving auto spindown. ever since i have not used that feature unless its on a laptop. and i've only had 1 drive die since(maxtor) in 1998 .. urgh, however.. i still have to use Windows for Dreamweaver, any suggestions anyone? it needs to be a WYSIWYG-editor (till i finally cleanup the generated code) that handles nested tables well.. and yes i know they shouldnt be used too much, and i wouldnt if i had a server to run apache and a DB use vmware..win4lin or something.. i use vmware and it works good. needs a lot of ram.. but with 256MB sticks going for under $95 these days ...doesn't hurt to get 512MB :) ive been using vmware since the very earliest betas..works great on win9x/nt/2k and freebsd4 slackware/debian/redhat/corel/caldera even solaris 7 x86. rock solid program, never had it crash on me. doesn't work for games and stuff..but should be fine for dreamweaver if thats what you wanna use. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Rebooting woes ..was.. Rebooting is foolish ....
SamBozo Debian User wrote: I KNOW THIS is NOT the proper way to do things with Linux ... but how else do you know? Please tell me? I'll change my evil ways... if it comes to it you can always go to runlevel 1 (init 1), when it prompts for the root password hit CTRL-D to come back to runlevel 2. that will effectivly restart all programs on the system except (i think) init, and of course the kernel. restarting programs really depends on the program, some have scripts to restart them, others respond to the -HUP kill signal, but not all. init 1 is the next best thing to rebooting without actually having to reboot. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 simple questions
To change the login prompt message, you can edit the file /etc/issue. You will probably have to restart the login on each console for the change to take effect. For example you could log in, and then log out, and you will see the new message. Tom Brad Cramer wrote: I am not really new to linux (used Redhat for 3 years) but I am a recent Debian convert and I have a coulpe of simple questions. I am running Debian Woody and everything is up to date but I want to know how to change the type of system or version of Debian that shows up on a console login screen. Right now it says testing/unstable I looked at /etc/debian_version and it said the same thing there and I changed it to Woody but that didn't make any difference, any ideas? The other question may be a little more complicated. I am using gdm to login and I normaly run Enlightenment but I wanted to try out Gnome but when I selecect it from the gdm menu it starts gnome and kde together. I have replaced the /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome script with one that just has exec /usr/bin/gnome-session but that didn't help, if I start kde it works fine and it is a script that just has exec /usr/bin/startkde, any ideas on this one? Thanks Brad Cramer
Re: Rebooting is foolish ....
back in 1995(last time that i used seagate) i had 2 conner 420MB drives and 1 seagate 540 (and now they are the same company *shudder*) fail within 3 months of using them because of the powersaving auto spindown. ever since i have not used that feature unless its on a laptop. and i've only had 1 drive die since(maxtor) in 1998 .. ..okay, so we have maxtor, seagate, conner (same company as seagate maybe, but they still sell HDs under their name) and i think i've heard something about samsung.. so, which HD manufacturer makes reliable HDs, anyone? IBM maybe? use vmware..win4lin or something.. i use vmware and it works good. needs a lot of ram.. but with 256MB sticks going for under $95 these days ...doesn't hurt to get 512MB :) mmm, i'll give it a try. Just hope someone will come along with a good WYSIWYS-editor for linux (GPL-ed.. ofcourse, unlike Bluefish) some time. William
annoying modules.dep message
Hi, Just a quick question that shouldn't be too hard to answer. Since rolling my own 2.4.1 kernel, I'm getting this annoying message during bootup that i can't get to go away: modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.1/modules.dep i tried doing a 'depmod -a' to redo the modules.dep file, and then reboot, however i still got this message. Somewhere during the bootup process something must be doing a touch on modules.conf or something to cause this. Perhaps it's the modprobe call in /etc/init.d/modutils ? I looked at that script, but couldn't figure it out. Could anyone tell me how to fix this? thanks, dave
Re: Rebooting is foolish ....
William Leese wrote: ..okay, so we have maxtor, seagate, conner (same company as seagate maybe, but they still sell HDs under their name) and i think i've heard something about samsung.. so, which HD manufacturer makes reliable HDs, anyone? IBM maybe? IBM is all i use now.. i'd buy a maxtor if i wanted a 80GB drive..but i haven't tried em yet. but for reliability and running cooler i use ibm. performance isn't most important for me. quantum is ok too but they seem to need more cooling fans:) last year i had 2 quantums overheat in my desktop even though i had about 9 fans in the system..they run ok now..added 6 more fans. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: eth0 gone
Thanks, Adrian, That did the trick. I know the risks of running unstable and I'm willing to take them to get the more up-to-date packages. Actually, I run the stable dist on a somewhat more mission critical machine. Chris On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Chris Gray wrote: I'm running the unstable dist and a recent upgrade seems to have destroyed information needed for my network interfaces. Running ifconfig displays the proper details for eth0 and lo but running ifup gives a Bad file descriptor error. The /etc/network/interfaces file is intact but under /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ there is only all and default and no eth0 or lo anymore. How do I regenerate these? What is the source of this problem? Can I net-tools version 1.58-1 was broken Install net-tools != 1.58-1 keep it from happening again? Don't run unstable - it's normal that unstable sometimes breaks. adTHANKSvance, Chris cu, Adrian -- Nicht weil die Dinge schwierig sind wagen wir sie nicht, sondern weil wir sie nicht wagen sind sie schwierig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to remove auto start to X
If you prefer a simpler method simply use dselect to uninstall xdm or whatever X login you are using. When you come up in a console mode launch X using startx. Cheers, Robin - Original Message - From: USM Bish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: seg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 7:51 AM Subject: Re: how to remove Xfree? On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:58:34AM -0500, seg wrote: I know I could probably find this info in HOWTOs or whatnots, but I am pretty it's quite simple and one of you nice fellows won't mind spending a few lines of text to explain:) I basicly want to boot up in the DOS like interface, no fancy stuff (just running firewall). Thx ---end quoted text--- In Debian if X is installed, by default, boots into xdm gdm etc. depending upon your window manager installation. To avoid this, use [update-rc.d] program, meant for chang- ing init parameters in Sys-V init process. Read man for this. #update-rc.d -f xdm remove The things that are done by the script include removal of all system startup links for /etc/init.d/xdm ... i.e. /etc/rc0.d/K01xdm /etc/rc1.d/K01xdm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm /etc/rc3.d/S99xdm /etc/rc4.d/S99xdm /etc/rc5.d/S99xdm /etc/rc6.d/K01xdm You will boot into tty mode therafter, and would have to use startx subsequently to get into X. USM Bish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A debian-based distro for the New
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] automatic perl module building from CPAN
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:47:39AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: -- see shy jo, who is ready to throttle CPAN for its insessient There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.59) available! hear hear! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newbieDoc -- we need your brain! http://www.dontUthink.com/ -- your brain needs us!
xwd (GIMP) screen cap error
Hi. I get an error sometimes when attempting a screen capture: xwd: Warning. Error in XWD-color-structure (flag) xwd: EOF encountered on reading xwd: load_image (xwd): XWD-file /root/.gimp/tmp/gimp_temp.277523.xwd has format 2, depth 24 and bits per pixel 24. Currently this is not supported. What's this trying to tell me? Strangely, sometimes screen capture has a problem and sometimes it doesn't. If Netscape is up on the screen then screen caps tend to work better. Why would this be? I'm trying to capture screens containing different video players (so I can show what the players look like). I can capture (with difficulty) everything but Xtheater. Please pardon if this is the wrong place to ask this. I'm guessing it is a system configuration error, not really an xwd or GIMP problem. I'm running Potato and XFree 3.3.x. If there is a better place to ask let me know. Thanks, Robin
Re: 2 simple questions
Thanks that ddid the trick - Original Message - From: Tom Pfeifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-users debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 12:28 PM Subject: Re: 2 simple questions To change the login prompt message, you can edit the file /etc/issue. You will probably have to restart the login on each console for the change to take effect. For example you could log in, and then log out, and you will see the new message. Tom Brad Cramer wrote: I am not really new to linux (used Redhat for 3 years) but I am a recent Debian convert and I have a coulpe of simple questions. I am running Debian Woody and everything is up to date but I want to know how to change the type of system or version of Debian that shows up on a console login screen. Right now it says testing/unstable I looked at /etc/debian_version and it said the same thing there and I changed it to Woody but that didn't make any difference, any ideas? The other question may be a little more complicated. I am using gdm to login and I normaly run Enlightenment but I wanted to try out Gnome but when I selecect it from the gdm menu it starts gnome and kde together. I have replaced the /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome script with one that just has exec /usr/bin/gnome-session but that didn't help, if I start kde it works fine and it is a script that just has exec /usr/bin/startkde, any ideas on this one? Thanks Brad Cramer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fetchmail Sendmail
I'm using the fetchmail-procmail-sendmail combo to get mail off of a mailserver, filter it, and read it locally. I'm using that same mail server to pass sent mail to. In this case, I don't know if sendmail is overkill and if I should be using something different. What I'd like to fix is this... When fetchmail gets mail, I think it passes it to sendmail which checks to make sure the domain exists. Today, my DNS servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf were down, and all the mail I fetched got bounced and lost. I'd like for this not to happen and get any and all mail that is in my box no matter if it's spam and has an unresolvable domain or not. How can I set this up? Thanks, Rob
XFree86Config bpp depth confusion
Hi. I have a little confusion with XFree86Config. What is the difference between bpp and color depth? With the DefaultColorDepth set to 24 my screen rate was 115 hz, but at 32 it is just 85 (max 86). What does choosing 32 or 24 signify? Isn't 24 bits as much as there actually is? At 85 hz I can almost (but not quite) get the screen to fit to the edges of my monitor. Using 85 hz in Win2k/NT/98 booting on the same machine works fine. In XFree86 3.3.x Potato there is a half inch of black left at the bottom edge I can't get rid of. Why can't I get the screen to fit using xvidtune? Thanks! Relevant sections of XFree86Config below. Cheers, Robin Section Monitor Identifier Primary Monitor VendorName ViewSonic ModelName E790 HorizSync 30-95 VertRefresh 50-200 # DefaultColorDepth 24: # Modeline 1024x768 115.50 1024 1104 1296 1440 768 771 781 802 -hsync -vsync # Modeline 1024x768 115.50 1024 1088 1280 1300 768 768 806 814 -hsync -vsync # DefaultColorDepth 32: # Modeline 1024x768 85.00 1024 1104 1296 1440 768 771 781 802 -hsync -vsync Modeline 1024x768 85.00 1024 1100 1292 1328768 771 781 794 -hsync -vsync EndSection Section Device Identifier Primary Card VendorName Unknown BoardName Hercules Terminator 128 2X/i AGP VideoRam8192 #Option no_accel #Option sw_cursor #Option hw_cursor #Option sgram #Option sdram EndSection Section Screen Driver SVGA Device Primary Card Monitor Primary Monitor DefaultColorDepth 32 SubSection Display Depth8 Modes1024x768 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth15 Modes1024x768 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth16 Modes1024x768 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth24 Modes1024x768 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth32 Modes1024x768 EndSubSection EndSection
Re: wav -- audio cd
Hi all I find that for audio CDs, cdrdao works the best for met. Cdrecord forces a 2 second pause between each track. Cdrdao can make an exact copy of a cd, that will even cause the correct CDDA entry to be loaded. Furthmore, it has an automagic copy command, where you just feed it the original, followed by a blank, and Presto! Cheers Neilen
Re: Fetchmail Sendmail
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:46:10AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: I'm using the fetchmail-procmail-sendmail combo to get mail off of a mailserver, filter it, and read it locally. I'm using that same mail server to pass sent mail to. In this case, I don't know if sendmail is overkill and if I should be using something different. What I'd like to fix is this... When fetchmail gets mail, I think it passes it to sendmail which checks to make sure the domain exists. AFAIK, it is actually trying to work out where to deliver email: it is using the DNS servers to try to work out the final destination for the email. This behaviour is likely to be because of the usage of sendmail as a mail gateway, though of course you yourself are not using it as such. All you need to do (I think) is to make sure that in your /etc/nsswitch.conf file you have the hosts line as dns first and then files. Hence: hosts: dns files networks: files Thus if your dns servers are down then your computer will fall back on the files, in which case all you probably need is an entry or two in /etc/hosts with a localhost entry and your hostname entry. Personally I use postfix but the configuration is very similar to sendmail. I could of course be very wrong here! Matthew Today, my DNS servers listed in /etc/resolv.conf were down, and all the mail I fetched got bounced and lost. I'd like for this not to happen and get any and all mail that is in my box no matter if it's spam and has an unresolvable domain or not. How can I set this up? Thanks, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree86 agpgart.o
hi there !! im recently trying to run an xserver on a fuckin (sorry) i810 intel board... all those on-board stuff sucks... but anyways... im running potato with a new 2.4.1 kernel ( i also got the new modutils and stuff and all works fine )... on the xfree site they say to run the server with the i810 chipset i would need a agpgart.o - module that comes with the server !?! i cant find it anywhere... i got one compiled with the kernel and modprobe loads it, but still the server wont start... heres what it said = XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: keymap: xfree86(de) (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/psaux, buttons: 3 (**) Mouse: 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms) (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: i810 (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: My Monitor (--) SVGA: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 64.25 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1024x768 needs hsync freq of 70.24 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 70.88 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 74.59 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 75.00 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 76.01 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 78.86 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1024x768 needs hsync freq of 80.21 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 81.13 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 87.50 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 89.62 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 91.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 93.75 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 105.77 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1800X1440 needs hsync freq of 96.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1800X1440 needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (--) SVGA: PCI: Intel Unknown chipset (0x7121) rev 3, Memory @ 0xd800, 0xdc10 (--) 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 XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. anyone got an idea ?? thx a lot... peter
No incoming mail
Recently I installed my Debian 2.2 system, and I'm having a problem with incoming mail. Outgoing mail works fine, but I don't get any main from the outside (local incoming mail works OK too). Any ideas how to fix this? I've re-run eximconfig, but it doesn't help. My machine is permanently on the internet, so I made all the default choices when running eximconfig. Lars. %%% Lars Jensen, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno NV 89512-3999. Tel: 775.673.7113 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Professional Institute
On behalf of the Linux Professional Institute, I invite anyone interested to participate in our current survey of Linux professionals. We are in the process of developing our next level of tests for our certification process. We need the help of Linux professionals and system adminins to develop a strict standard for testing. Based on the feedback in the study, a polymetrician will develop the tests to be taken worldwide. Furthermore, we could use the experience and professionalism of many Debian developers to develop the next series which will deal with hacking the kernel and much more advanced techniques. Please explore the LPI web site, and see if there isn't someway your organization can help us out. We truly would like your participation in this endeavor. Also, we would like to spread the word to all your lists, that we are certifying individuals who have passed our first series of exams. The LPIC-1 is currently being issued after passing two exams costing a total of $200.00. The tests are available worldwide through VUE. We look forward to your participation. Visit the web site at www.lpi.org for more information on the survey and getting involved. We appreciate your assistance in this matter. Thank you. Ray Ferrari 650.322.3137 [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.S.: This is not spam mail. I have also written to Wichert and Joey Hess to help us with this. I have participated in Debian mailing lists, and also helped Debian at Linux World/San Jose a couple of times. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Serial ports - how to get them to coexist peacefully...
On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:16:44AM +1100, hogan wrote: P133, 48MB RAM, Debian Testing/Unstable (some bits from unstable) 2.2.17 (move to 2.4.1 on hold for time being whilst I read Rusty's howtos on netfilter etc. :) ). Have two onboard ports - ttyS0 and ttyS1 (IRQ 43 respectively) Have an ISA IO card (everything disabled on card save ttyS3 and lpt3 [dunno linux equiv] - reason for ISA - only have half slot, full and VLB IO cards in stockpile :) ) Have modem on ttyS0 Switch between mouse and Wyse60 terminal on ttyS1 Want mouse on ttyS3 but IRQ conflict ttyS1+ttyS3 Can I make the onboard and oncard ttyS's play nice on same IRQ? ... or should I play musical jumpers until they're on separate IRQs? Making onboard serial ports share interrupts is vudu. Basically the serial port 'hardware' can either hold the interrupt line or let it 'float' when it isn't signalling an interrupt. If it holds the line, that means the other port can't signal properly, and then more often then not neither port will work until reset. All you can really do is try it out to see if it works or not. Read something in 2.4.1 kernel config about making serial ports nice to one another when on same IRQ.. anything similar in 2.2.x? Should I go to 2.2.18 in interim? Will I need a custom compile? ... Will Danger Mouse save Penfold in time? :) You do need to enable sharing serial interrupts. -- Ferret
Re: No incoming mail
Lars, I think we need more help to help you - what programme are you using to bring mail down? Fetchmail? Something else? Can you put up that information, maybe the last lines of any log you have from fetchmail and exim? Glyn M -- so here we are then http://members.tripod.co.uk/Christchurch2000uk Running Debian/Gnu Linux 7:59pm up 12:28, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.39, 0.37
Re: New Install of Debian: How do i create boot disks???
You can also create boot floppies off the Debian CD. There should be a directory on the cd called disks-i386. It contains the boot floppy image files. You will also need the utility rawrite2 from the dosutils directory (or somewhere on the net like ftp.us.debian.org). Pat On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:58:31PM -0800, Robert Cymbala wrote: Hi ~ Here's a method that installs Debian from floppy disks and then from a parallel port CD-ROM device (microSolutions bantam backpack). Debian GNU/Linux on Toshiba T4700ct Notebook http://www.lafn.org/~cymbala/Debian/t4700ct.html -- === Patrick Ouellette Amateur Radio: KB8PYMi mobile/portable 9 (somewhere in 9 land) Debian Linux Developer (as time and family permit) Human? (the jury is still out on this one) === GPG Fingerprint: 8577 CFA7 B984 8E58 0D00 79B6 CFDA 9D82 06A7 376E
Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I know you only might want to reboot if you change the hostname and want it active. If you change the partitiontable it might be usefull. You don't need to reboot to change the hostname, either. The command is 'hostname'. You need to reboot to change the partition table of a disk with mounted filesystems, and you need to reboot to recompile the kernel, and you need to reboot for hardware upgrades. That's about it, really... The Linuxcommunity is proud of their uptimes, so we never reboot... That is the real reason :}
Help. Odd install problems.
I tried posting this question a while ago, but I received no reponses. I looked in the mailing list archives and it doesn't appear there either, which is probably why I got no responses. Anyway, here's my problem. I'm trying to install Debian 2.2 on an old PS/2 386. It was running Debian 2.0 without any problems, but the HD crashed and I figured I'd get a slightly bigger HD and install 2.2 on it. I haven't been able to get 2.2 to install and I can't find 2.0 install disks anymore (no CD-Rom drive). I'd like to get 2.2 on this if possible. Basically I get through the install process with no problems, but when it tries to run lilo it fails. The entire kernel is below the sector limit for old bioses. Even so, the install program warns me that I'm not installing it on the first device on the chain even though the device is /dev/eda. I don't know enough ESDI drives to know if they have a master/slave setting, but the kernel finding it as /dev/eda should mean it's the first drive on the chain right? I've tried installing it on /dev/eda and /dev/eda1 and both produce the same results. I tried dropping to the console and running lilo manually, but it doesn't appear to recognize the drive as being mounted. It says to mount the target drive under /target, but it's already mounted. I even tried unounting it and remounting it, but lilo doesn't seem to see it. This completely baffles me. So then I created a boot diskette and tried to boot the kernel installed on the HD, but that doesn't work either. Just after it recognizes the ESDI HD, I get an error like this: unable to exec: /usr/sbin/modprobe -t -u binfmt- The - options are probably wrong, but that's the gist of the error message. This message repeats forever and the system won't boot. I've tried the newest set of install floppies, but this still happens. Does anyone have any idea what is causing these problems or how to fix them/get around them so I can install the system? Why would 2.0 work and not 2.2? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Rob
LPI:Survey
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Re: backing up a complete linux system
On 16 Feb 2001, Krzys Majewski wrote: tar -cvzf hda2.tar.gz / ( I don't need to add this ... --exclude hda2.tar.gz do I ??) Yeah you probably do. You might want to exclude other stuff to, like /proc, /mnt, /tmp, and possibly /dev. Normally device files are created with /dev/MAKEDEV. With recent GNU tar you don't need to exclude the tarfile explicitly. Other versions of tar you sometimes do. The simplest thing to do is to simply make individual backups of each filesystem (the l option). This way you can take backups frequently of filesystems that change a lot (/home), less frequently for those that don't change much (/usr) and never for others (/tmp, /proc) anyway... the part where I'm stuck... I have no idea how to restore this tarred file on to a totally new drive You just untar it. Make sure that the filesystems are large enough for containing the data, and untar it. You can make of course a whole filesystem tree under /mnt (or wherever). I'd probably first leave the two drives where they are, reboot to the LILO prompt, pass a kernel parameter like root=/dev/hdc2, and see if the new filesystem does the right thing (ie boots). I've never It should. However, there are a few caveats. Some systems can't boot off of hdc or hdd and require the kernel to be on hda or hdb. Other systems can boot hdc/hdd but can't do LBA on them, meaning the kernel has to be on the first 500MB of the disk. This refers only to the location of the kernel, the root filesystem can be anywhere. Note that you'll have to change your /etc/fstab to reflect the new layout.
How to get rid of warnings in ldconfig?
I've been running the same system since, oh Debian 2.1 I believe. I recently went and cleaned out all the libc5 stuff because nothing I have installed requires it. However, now when I run ldconfig it warns that libg++2.7.2.so, libstdc++2.7.2.so, and libntdll.so are missing (well, those names are pretty close anyway). ld.so.conf file just has three dirs in it, so where are these warnings coming from? Those files don't exist on my system, but how does ldconfig know if they should be there? I must be missing something here. How would I get rid of these warnings short of reinstalling those libc5 packages? Rob
Re: Rebooting is foolish ....
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, William Leese wrote: ..okay, so we have maxtor, seagate, conner (same company as seagate maybe, but they still sell HDs under their name) and i think i've heard something about samsung.. so, which HD manufacturer makes reliable HDs, anyone? IBM maybe? IBM drives are quite good. I've had good luck with Western Digital and, surprisingly, Fujitsu. (There seem to be two kinds of Fujitsu drives, those that die immediately and those that last forever). There's also Quantum, are they owned by someone else now?
OffTopic - What's the proper way to...
I've got a web site that has some protected data. On some of the pages I have javascript that does some calculations. Right now I have it so if they click on the link to that page it auto asks for username/password, however, what I would like to do is let them see the page and only ask for username/password once they click the calculate button. Is this type of thing done thru the use of cgi scripts or what. There is probably more than one way to do it but I'd be interested in some opinions in a good way to accomplish this. Wm
Tool to measure network/connection speed
Hi all, can anyone recommend a tool that will estimate network/connection speed? In particular I want to estimate my upload/download times over my cable DSL... thanks Richard begin:vcard n:Black;Richard tel;fax:416-971-4159 tel;home: tel;work:416-217-4350 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Algorithmics Inc adr:;;185 Spadina Avenue;Toronto;Ontario;M5T 2C6;Canada version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Financial Engineer x-mozilla-cpt:;-18400 fn:Richard Black end:vcard
Re: IMPS/2 problems after kernel 2.4.1 update
To quote Dave Bresson [EMAIL PROTECTED], # On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, David B. Harris wrote: # Yeah, sorry about that...my babbling doesn't translate well to paragraphs. # Ah well... :) # First of all, if your mouse isn't initialized as an IntelliMouse, it # pretends it's a regular PS/2 mouse. # # Right. What do you mean by 'initialized'? You mean initialized as in # what gpm.conf and XF86Config-4 have it set as? Or something else? Well, it depends on what gets to the mouse first. If X gets to the mouse first, then it'll be initialized as whatever XF86Config-4 has it set to. If gpm gets to it first, it'll be initialized to whatever gpm.conf thinks it is. Anyways, I'm sure this is all very confusing, and it took me nearly a month to figure out what was going on :) Basically, you *have* to make sure that whatever gets to the mouse first initializes it to the highest degree possible. The means using the protocol that most closely matches what the mouse actually uses. # Third, it sounds like both GPM and X are trying to use /dev/psaux. Check # to see what /dev/mouse is linked to. Since you're using GPM and X, # specify explicitly in XF86Config[-4] that the mouse device is # /dev/gpmdata, not /dev/mouse . # # # Well, since X wants to use /dev/mouse , i made it a sym link to # /dev/gpmdata (since that is what gpm is set to repeat to) I guess i # probably shoulda stated that it was just a link in my previous email. I had thought this ... but since 'gpm' and X were conflicting, I wasn't sure. Are you using devfs with devfsd? Double-check the /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/gpmdata. Using devfsd, changes arn't always kept over a reboot. # Now, try rebooting, after making sure all those config options are set # properly. If it still doesn't work, set X to use /dev/psaux, type # ImPS/2, 'rm /etc/rc2.d/*gpm' to stop 'gpm' from being started on boot, # and then re-boot. Hopefully that will work. If it doesn't, you have # problems that arn't caused by X or gpm. # # Okay, i had tried this before, however it was without the reboot, so i # tried it again. As it turned out, this fixed it. Pointing X straight to # /dev/psaux, and not starting gpm at all did it. Which leads me to believe # that gpm doesn't work with the new kernel 2.4.1 i set up, since the old # configuration worked just fine with 2.2.18...very strange. Any ideas on # why this might be? Yup, I figured a reboot would fix it. :) It's that bloody initialization thing. I don't think it's a problem with gpm and 2.4.x. I'm running 2.4.1-ac15, with devfs, but without devfsd and it works fine. I think that if gpm.conf is set to use the imps2 protocol, it should work. Just to humour me, try explicitly stating in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 that X should use /dev/gpmdata. Make sure 'gpm' starts at boot time, and re-boot. If that doesn't work, feel free to contact me for more help :) David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
perl
When I update my packages with apt-get i have problem with perl. Then some packages don't wan't to install. And then apt-get , when i type apt-get install package , after download apt-get: Compilaton failed ...perl .. etc. And I can't use apt-get
Re: Tool to measure network/connection speed
Various online speed tests available at http://www.dslreports.com/stest/0 Done via browser applet, hence not OS specific. Wil - Original Message - From: Richard Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 3:12 PM Subject: Tool to measure network/connection speed Hi all, can anyone recommend a tool that will estimate network/connection speed? In particular I want to estimate my upload/download times over my cable DSL... thanks Richard __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: kde ignores /etc/profile
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:16:16 +0100, you wrote: Hi, what am I doing wrong? I changed the PATH-line in /etc/profile (including now /usr/local/xyz/bin), at the end there is also an export PATH-line, but when I login via kdm (as user) into kde (version 2 and 2.1beta), there's still the old PATH set (even after rebooting!). So I logged in to another windowmanager, but there it works. Any ideas how to correct kde's behaviour? /etc/profile is a file read by BASH when it is started by after a logon. ~/.bash_profile is your local equivalent ~/.bashrc is what happens when bash gets started regardless of whether it is a login shell. Since you are starting bits of kde, then bash doesn't run and doesn't change the path (I think, but I am not sure, from default set by init??). I am not sure where the prefered place is in that case, I would suspect you should look at /etc/X11/Xsession script (this just runs all the scripts in /etc/X11/Xsession.d after setting up a few parameters) You do of course start bash when you call up konsole (or an xterm for that matter) but not as as a login (unless you set the options on xterm to tell it to treat it like one), so only ~/.bashrc gets run. You could put PATH statements in there. Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.chandler.u-net.com
Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....
To quote William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED], # On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # You don't need to reboot to change the hostname, either. The command is # 'hostname'. # # You need to reboot to change the partition table of a disk with mounted # filesystems, and you need to reboot to recompile the kernel, and you need # to reboot for hardware upgrades. That's about it, really... You also need to re-boot for some hardware re-initialization. See the recent thread on XFree 4.0.2 and an IntelliMouse-compatible mouse. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
What is going on with the digest?
Greetings, I apologize if this has been hashed over already, but I haven't been getting the debian-user-digest for the past week or so. Don't know what is going on, they just quit coming. I tried subscribing again today in the chance that I had been unsubscribed and so I tried resubscribing, both by the Debian mailing list web page, and by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I never got a response. Has the digest been removed? Like I said, I haven't received a digest in over a week (and I was subscribed). Thanks for any info anyone may have. -Bryan
ssh and devices
Hi, I'm using testing I was having an issue (think I saw a post regarding this recently), where a regular user couldn't use ssh due to ' no controlling tty' I found that the issue was an inability for nonroot to write to /dev/tty and changed o+w for /dev/tty Now all seems happy, but I was curious if this is actually a good fix or creates a security issue...and why this would've been changed. Also, what packages are in charge of which devices...is there a debian standard for this or do package maintainers just create and modify devices as they see fit? thanks rick
Promise SuperTrak 100 RAID
Dear fellow Debian users, Did anybody get succesfully Promise SuperTrak100 RAID5 controller working? Kernel 2.4.1 seems to recogize the PDC20265 chip set, I2O driver even tells me the controller is there, but I really don't know how to talk to it nor where to mount the array. It is probably just my ignorance but information on this type of hardware seems rather rare... Thanks David
Re: Special issues with X on a TFT screen?
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:04:24PM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: I am helping a friend set his X on a Laptop. The graphic chip is handled by the SVGA server. I have configured the whole thing using XF86Setup and Xconfigurator and after that manually tweaking the setup file. I get the X server up,(the gray screen) but when it tryes to switch, the screen becomes black and there is no way to get it back. I suppose it is stepping out of the frecuencies allowed by the TFT screen. I am not very sure home a TFT screen works, it seems to me vertical frecuency is fixed? I haven't been able to get any information from the vendor. I think you should just pick the predefined monitors in XF86Setup. For example I used the SVGA for my 800*600-TFT. Phil
Re: Fetchmail Sendmail
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:46:10AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: | I'm using the fetchmail-procmail-sendmail combo to get mail off of a | mailserver, filter it, and read it locally. I'm using that same mail | server to pass sent mail to. | | In this case, I don't know if sendmail is overkill and if I should be | using something different. For sending, ssmtp works (check the FAQ on www.mutt.org to find a link). ssmtp is like a sendmail replacement, but all it does is forward the mail to a smpt server. No local delivery, etc. | | What I'd like to fix is this... | | When fetchmail gets mail, I think it passes it to sendmail which | checks to make sure the domain exists. Today, my DNS servers listed | in /etc/resolv.conf were down, and all the mail I fetched got bounced | and lost. I'd like for this not to happen and get any and all mail | that is in my box no matter if it's spam and has an unresolvable | domain or not. How can I set this up? | You might be able to tell fetchmail to hand the mail off to procmail directly. If not you can probably have fetchmail just dump the stuff in your inbox, then use the bash script in the procmail man page to filter the mail from the inbox. HTH, -D
Re: Tool to measure network/connection speed
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:12:49PM -0500, Richard Black wrote: can anyone recommend a tool that will estimate network/connection speed? In particular I want to estimate my upload/download times over my cable DSL... $apt-get install bing Phil
Re: ssh and devices
To quote Rick Rezinas [EMAIL PROTECTED], # Hi, # # I'm using testing # I was having an issue (think I saw a post regarding this recently), # where a regular user couldn't use ssh due to ' no controlling tty' # # I found that the issue was an inability for nonroot to write to /dev/tty # and changed o+w for /dev/tty # # Now all seems happy, but I was curious if this is actually a good fix or # creates a security issue...and why this would've been changed. Also, what # packages are in charge of which devices...is there a debian standard for this # or do package maintainers just create and modify devices as they see fit? I think the correct fix would be to change the group of all the tty* devices to the tty group. Then, when you log in, it gets temporarily changed to your own group ID. So, permissions should be rw-rw, with tty as group, root as owner. I think. :) David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
Re: ssh and devices
where a regular user couldn't use ssh due to ' no controlling tty' That would have been me. I found that the issue was an inability for nonroot to write to /dev/tty and changed o+w for /dev/tty No such luck on my end, /dev/tty is already 0666. Sorry, I can't answer your other questions. thanks rick
Re: Antwort: Rebooting is NOT foolish ....
Rebooting is _never_ foolish if it keeps peace in the family... :-) Kenward -- It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he doesn't really need a college education, for he can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to thinking--something that cannot be learned from books. Albert Einstein
general kernel question
Hi! I just wondered why the kernel is always compressed. Couldn't you save boot time, if it's not??? Christian
Re: ssh and devices
I actually have execute perms also...maybe that makes a difference? I found the issue using strace: strace ssh host and it spews gibberish for a bit, then you see something like open (/dev/tty),??? ENOACCESS(-1,) (sorry, from memory...) which indicated that my user couldn't access the device, since the error appeared shortly (in gibberish terms) before exit. The open was successful when the I ran ssh as root, which worked right anyway. good luck rick On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Lance Levsen wrote: where a regular user couldn't use ssh due to ' no controlling tty' That would have been me. I found that the issue was an inability for nonroot to write to /dev/tty and changed o+w for /dev/tty No such luck on my end, /dev/tty is already 0666. Sorry, I can't answer your other questions. thanks rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:06:03PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: ... You also need to re-boot for some hardware re-initialization. See the recent thread on XFree 4.0.2 and an IntelliMouse-compatible mouse. I doubt it. Any trouble I've had with PS2 mouses not being properly initialized could be solved by /etc/init.d.gpm restart preceded by the occasionally physical reconnecting of the mouse. But YMMV:) -- groetjes, carel
SIOCSIFADDR neighbour table overflow
Hola~ I try to keep up with unstable (I run apt-get dist-upgrade about once a week). Anyway, after a power failure, my machine is not in a happy state. Trying to run ifconfig I receive: % ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor lo: unknown interface: Bad file descriptor Running ifconfig -a lists lo as a valid interface. I'm using the 3c59x driver. Which, for loopback, I wouldn't think would matter. Anyway, has anyone having problems? MO -- Michael O'Brien Tools Pixar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Censorship is the mother of metaphor. -Jorges Luis Borges
Re: OffTopic - What's the proper way to...
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:12:19PM -0600, William Jensen wrote: I've got a web site that has some protected data. On some of the pages I have javascript that does some calculations. Right now I have it so if they click on the link to that page it auto asks for username/password, however, what I would like to do is let them see the page and only ask for username/password once they click the calculate button. Is this type of thing done thru the use of cgi scripts or what. There is probably more than one way to do it but I'd be interested in some opinions in a good way to accomplish this. don't know what kind of calculations you offer and in what way the javascript is involved, but if your requirements fit into the scheme of having some kind of form into which the user fills in several parameters before clicking calculate, then the classical CGI script would probably be the best solution. In that case, everything you might want to protect - data, algorithms, whatever - is on the server side, and you can easily control at which point you require authentication/ authorization. When doing it in javascript (client-side, I assume), keep in mind that the code is delivered to the browser as is, so you have no real control over what the user then does with it. If this code implements the calculations you would like to protect, then this probably isn't the best way of doing it (it only requires very little expert knowledge to get that code executing outside of the context of your website, except if you devise some clever challenge-response mechanism). However, these concerns only apply if you are _not_ having some data on the server side without which the javascript would be useless... Maybe you could elaborate a little more on the details of your intentions... (e.g. what you mean by let them see the page, etc.) Cheers, Erdmut -- Erdmut Pfeifer science+computing gmbh -- Bugs come in through open windows. Keep Windows shut! --
Re: general kernel question
At 10:32 PM 2/16/01 +0100, c-3 wrote: I just wondered why the kernel is always compressed. Couldn't you save boot time, if it's not??? Depends on the speed of the medium from which you read the kernel, and the speed of the processor. If the processor can decompress faster than the medium can read, it makes sense to compress the image. Erik
reconfiguring pcmcia nic when laptop resumes
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reconfigured the nic. this was quite convenient since it often
awakes on a new network.
somewhere along the line, it stopped doing that. now i usually resort
to physically ejecting and reinserting the card to get it to reconfig
on a new network.
what's the best way to re-enable the old behavior?
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Re: Problem building X 4.0.2 from debian source
On Tuesday 13 February 2001 15:12, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Martin Albert wrote: On Son, 11 Feb 2001, Frederik Vanrenterghem wrote: using 'make World'. The error only seems to show up when I use 'debian/rules build', which is rather odd. Anyway, here is the debian/rules build applies patches found in debian/patches As you may have overlooked in my posting, I only get the error when I use 'debian/rules build' to build a debian package of X. If I execute 'make World' (also after applying the debian patches), everything seems to be OK (I saw the same error messages, but they do not cause the build process to die). Any ideas what might be going on? Might it have something to do with different levels of optimization? If yes, can this be altered? Well, not overlooked - but i might have guessed it ;-) So, you didn't clean the sourcetree after the last try with the debian setup, before doing make World? Then make World cd your_toplevel_that_includes_debian touch debian/stampdir/build debian/rules binary martin
Re: Can't connect two debian boxes via PLIP
Matthew Dalton wrote: I've followed PLIP-Howto steps, but even when I already tried two cables (which work under Windows, I know this doesn't prove anything, but..) It proves that the cables are okay. , I still can't make this to work. I stop in the ping step. My potato says plip0: transmit timeout(1,87) and my woody stays forever waiting for an answer. This are my settings: What happens if you try to ping from the woody machine? When I try to ping from the woody machine, it stays forever waiting for an answer ¿any suggestion? Do you have any ipchains rules setup on either of the machines? Does one of the machines have a modem and is used to dial in to the internet? Maybe your firewall rules are stoping the packets getting through. input (policy ACCEPT) forward (policy DENY): MASQall - 192.168.0.0/24 anywhere n/a output (policy ACCEPT) Check the log files in /var/log for any denied packet log entries (you did use the 'log' switch with ipchains, didn't you?) or kernel error messages. Nothing in the log You could also use 'traceroute' to see how far the packets are getting. They don't go anywhere, just my box is listed. HTH Matthew _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: SIOCSIFADDR neighbour table overflow
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 13:52:51 -0800, Michael K. O'Brien wrote: % ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor Known problem. Downgrade to the net-tools package from Testing. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
broken gnucash in unstable
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when i try to add it, it immediately removes itself in conflict
resolution because it depends upon two packages which ultimately
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Re: broken gnucash in unstable
I have had this problem in testing ...
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when i try to add it, it immediately removes itself in conflict
resolution because it depends upon two packages which ultimately
conflict with each other.
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Problem binfmt module-Help define?
Hi, I'm posting about a recent error in my daemon log that occurs every other day stating: modprobe can't locate module binfmt-002 (these change) What did I forget in my last kernel build. I build all modules. What is going on? Thanks, Jonathan -- __ _ / / (_)__ __ __ / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Jonathan Gift //_/_//_/\_ _/ /_/\_\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....
To quote Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED], # On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:06:03PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: # ... # You also need to re-boot for some hardware re-initialization. See the # recent thread on XFree 4.0.2 and an IntelliMouse-compatible mouse. # # I doubt it. Any trouble I've had with PS2 mouses not being properly # initialized could be solved by /etc/init.d.gpm restart preceded by # the occasionally physical reconnecting of the mouse. But YMMV:) Don't doubt it. I didn't just make it up to prove that a reboot *could* be required to re-initialize hardware :) David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
boot-floppies mirroring problems
Dear all. I'm trying to get the boot-floppies generation to work because I need to build a custom installation procedure for a machine I want to install debian on (the default kernels do not have drivers for the raid controller on this machine, and there is no ide hard disc, so a special kernel must be used to allow installation onto the raid array). I've installed the boot-floppies package, ncftpd, and ftpgrab. I've set ftpgrab up to copy ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/base into /home/ftp/archive/debian I've been through the scripts in the boot-floppies package, and made a list of all the other packages that boot-floppies wants, and have setup ftpgrab to get all of those aswell (and dump them in /home/ftp/archive/debian). Thus everything is going into /home/ftp/archive/debian. Inside /usr/src/boot-floppies/config I have the following: ftp_archive := /home/ftp/archive/debian archive := $(ftp_archive)/ but this is not working as doing a make check seemingly lists every single package as being missing. What am I doing wrong here? Is there a file heirarchy that I must follow? Do packages need to be renamed? Can someone help please? Frustratedly, Matthew Sackman
Newbie
Greetings to all! I have just Installed Debian Potato. Delighted to see that it could be done. I am extremely new to apt-get and the other debian package managaement tools. Had heard a lot of apt-get and thus I came to debian. apt-get is cool. I have a small dumb problem. How can I just upgrade to woody. I could not figure out the exact command?? apt-get distupgrade woody?? thanks for help Kundan
Re: Antwort: Rebooting is foolish ....
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:30:11PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: To quote Carel Fellinger [EMAIL PROTECTED], # On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 04:06:03PM -0500, David B . Harris wrote: # ... # You also need to re-boot for some hardware re-initialization. See the # recent thread on XFree 4.0.2 and an IntelliMouse-compatible mouse. # # I doubt it. Any trouble I've had with PS2 mouses not being properly # initialized could be solved by /etc/init.d.gpm restart preceded by # the occasionally physical reconnecting of the mouse. But YMMV:) Don't doubt it. I didn't just make it up to prove that a reboot *could* be required to re-initialize hardware :) But I *do* doubt it:) You see, unplugging the mouse and then replugging it resets the mouse, restarting gpm redoes the initialisation, so what else could be necessery? Ofcourse I could be overlooking something. I've read that thread you refered to, but I don't remember having seen that the really did the above, i.e. unplug the mouse, reconnect the mouse, restart gpm. If they did, and the mouse still refused to work, please tell me and I admit you're right. -- groetjes, carel
Re: XFree86 agpgart.o
I used the i810gtt-0.2-4.src.rpm and xfcom_i810-1.2-3.i386.rpm files from http://www.intel.com. Then I rpm -U i810gtt and alien xfcom_i810. Going to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE I rebuild agpgart.o for my running kernel, insmod it, and then dpkg -i xfcom's deb I just alienated. I maked sure /etc/X11/X pointed to /usr/X11/bin/XFCom_i810 and ran xf86config to reconfigure my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I reviewed the file, and startx worked at last! I don't know if this could work for you, but here it did. I can send you the files if you like to. peter wrote: hi there !! im recently trying to run an xserver on a fuckin (sorry) i810 intel board... all those on-board stuff sucks... but anyways... im running potato with a new 2.4.1 kernel ( i also got the new modutils and stuff and all works fine )... on the xfree site they say to run the server with the i810 chipset i would need a agpgart.o - module that comes with the server !?! i cant find it anywhere... i got one compiled with the kernel and modprobe loads it, but still the server wont start... heres what it said = XF86Config: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: keymap: xfree86(de) (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/psaux, buttons: 3 (**) Mouse: 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms) (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: i810 (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: My Monitor (--) SVGA: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 64.25 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1024x768 needs hsync freq of 70.24 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 70.88 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 74.59 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 75.00 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 76.01 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 78.86 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1024x768 needs hsync freq of 80.21 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 81.13 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 87.50 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 89.62 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 91.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 93.75 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 105.77 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1800X1440 needs hsync freq of 96.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1800X1440 needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts /misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (--) SVGA: PCI: Intel Unknown chipset (0x7121) rev 3, Memory @ 0xd800, 0xdc10 (--) 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 XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0 after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. anyone got an idea ?? thx a lot... peter _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: broken gnucash in unstable
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:08:19PM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: I have had this problem in testing ... has anyone else managed to get gnucash deb installed in unstable i386? when i try to add it, it immediately removes itself in conflict resolution because it depends upon two packages which ultimately conflict with each other. - -- This has been going on for maybe a week; bugs are filed against the package. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=gnucasharchive=no; bugs: #85652: Needs recompile against libguile9 #85966: dependencies conflicts #86029: gnucash: gnucash depends on libguile6-slib but that package is not available I think the problem was caused by the guile maintainer stipulating that libguile6 and libguile9 conflict with each other. Jonathan
Re: What is going on with the digest?
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:03:44PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I apologize if this has been hashed over already, but I haven't been getting the debian-user-digest for the past week or so. Don't know what is going on, they just quit coming. I tried subscribing again today in the chance that I had been unsubscribed and so I tried resubscribing, both by the Debian mailing list web page, and by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I never got a response. Has the digest been removed? Like I said, I haven't received a digest in over a week (and I was subscribed). Also, the web archives haven't been updated since Tuesday... -- Jeremiah
Re: Newbie
First change all references to stable in your /etc/apt/sources.list to woody. Then type: apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade All this is to be done as root. You could also upgrade to unstable instead of woody/testing by substituting unstable for woody above. If you have any questions, write back to the list and if I can help I'll try to do so. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 06:28:05AM +0800, #KUNDAN KUMAR# wrote: Greetings to all! I have just Installed Debian Potato. Delighted to see that it could be done. I am extremely new to apt-get and the other debian package managaement tools. Had heard a lot of apt-get and thus I came to debian. apt-get is cool. I have a small dumb problem. How can I just upgrade to woody. I could not figure out the exact command?? apt-get distupgrade woody?? thanks for help Kundan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Putting computer on standby or sleep
Hello, I would like to know if (and how) I can make my computer suspend so that all (most of) is powered down but I can resume it and have it in the same state it had before the suspend. Something like portables do, but with a workstation. The system is a dual PII-450 on a Supermicro P6DGU 440GX motherboard on an ATX power supply, and runs Debian unstable updated every night with kernel release 2.4.1. APM is disabled on multiprocessor systems, ACPI works. Thanks in advance, Enrico -- GPG public key available on finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Putting computer on standby or sleep
I think xset dpms is what you're looking for. Do man xset for the full story, but if I do: xset dpms 0 0 3600 then my monitor powers down after an hour. The first two settings are for going into a suspend state, where the monitor blanks out but doesn't actually shut off. Setting them to 0 disables this part, as I want the monitor to go straight to shutting off. To my understanding: xset dpms 0 1800 3600 would blank the screen after a half hour, and then shut the monitor off completely after an hour. Anyhow, read the man pages and see what it can do. I've just recently switched to XFree86 4, and this doesn't seem to work properly, so if you're using x4 you might encounter problems. Ty On Sat Feb 17/2001 @ 12:02:P +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: Hello, I would like to know if (and how) I can make my computer suspend so that all (most of) is powered down but I can resume it and have it in the same state it had before the suspend. Something like portables do, but with a workstation. The system is a dual PII-450 on a Supermicro P6DGU 440GX motherboard on an ATX power supply, and runs Debian unstable updated every night with kernel release 2.4.1. APM is disabled on multiprocessor systems, ACPI works. Thanks in advance, Enrico -- GPG public key available on finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tyler Braun [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Latest Kernel
Hi, I was looking around debian.org for the latest kernel. Am correct that it is currently 2.2.17? I thought there was a new kernel out? Thanks Eileen Orbell Software Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/proc/devices lists '188 usb/ttys/%d', choking MAKEDEV
I am running Debian 2.2 (potato) with the exception of having compiled the 2.4.1 kernel. MAKEDEV chokes, with the output: /sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usbtts%d=188: command not found I believe the problem is with line 150 of the script, and due to the fact that in /proc/devices, under Character Devices, is the line: 188 usb/tts/%d Can anyone help? Thanks, Dave
Re: Newbie
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 05:51:29PM -0500, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: | First change all references to stable in your /etc/apt/sources.list to | woody. Then Shouldn't that be testing ? -D
Re: Latest Kernel
I was looking around debian.org for the latest kernel. Am correct that it is currently 2.2.17? I thought there was a new kernel out? 2.2.18 and 2.2.19pre.xx in unstable at least... Martin
Re: Latest Kernel
2.2.18 is the latest in the 2.2 series, but there's also the 2.4 series now, and the latest there is 2.4.1. See http://www.kernel.org instead of the Debian site if you're looking for a kernel. Ty On Fri Feb 16/2001 @ 6:02:P -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was looking around debian.org for the latest kernel. Am correct that it is currently 2.2.17? I thought there was a new kernel out? Thanks Eileen Orbell Software Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tyler Braun [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: /proc/devices lists '188 usb/ttys/%d', choking MAKEDEV
On 16-Feb-2001 David M. Anderson wrote: I am running Debian 2.2 (potato) with the exception of having compiled the 2.4.1 kernel. MAKEDEV chokes, with the output: /sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usbtts%d=188: command not found I believe the problem is with line 150 of the script, and due to the fact that in /proc/devices, under Character Devices, is the line: 188 usb/tts/%d Can anyone help? do device=`echo $device | sed 's#/.*##'` case $major in Character|Block|'') ;; *) eval major_$device=$major devices=$devices $device ;; esac done is what mine looks like, and 'usb/tts/%d' gets munged to 'usb'. My MAKEDEV came from the package 'makedev'. Mine is version 2.3.1-51.
Invalid partition table?
Hi, I am having a problem booting to a Compaq LTE5200 laptop. It has been runnning linux for almost two years until yesterday when I decided to try to upgrade it using a bootable CD. Since it did not seem to boot from the CD, I thought I might make it happen by modifying /etc/lilo.conf. Here's what I have /dev/hda1 400+M ext2/opt /dev/hda2 1.6+G Extented /dev/hda5 80M swap /dev/hda6 1.6+G ext2/ *bootdisk /dev/hda1 used to have Windows98, but was reformatted to accommondate more linux applications, and is not bootable. (This was done more than one month ago.) But /etc/lilo.conf still has this windows information up until yesterday, so I thought I'd modify it and try to add /dev/hdb and see if that makes CDROM a bootable device. After reboot, the first message displays reads 120 MHz Pentium Processor External Cache: 256K Enabled Invalid partition table I tried to boot from a rootless diskette (floppy module and CDROM module share the same drive bay), and run lilo from there, but there an error message returning that said: # lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf -b /dev/hda6 -i /mnt/boot.boot.b Ignoring entry 'root' Ignoring entry 'install' First boot sector doesn't have a valid LILO signature The /etc/lilo.conf looks like this: boot = /dev/hda compact timeout = 1 prompt vga = normal read-only map = /boot/map install = /boot/boot.p image = /boot/vmlinuz lable = linux root = /dev/hda6 I am at my wit's end. As far as I can tell, everything looks fine. Mounting /dev/hda6 after booting from tomsrbt diskette shows that evrerything is still there. However, when I use Windows98 bootdisk to boot, and run fdisk from dos prompt, it shows that /dev/hda2 is not a bootable device, and there is no /dev/hda5 or /dev/hda6. I am not sure how the whole thing happened. Would appreciate any suggestion. Thanks! Best wishes, Chip
Re: DSL NT
As soon as I read MS Proxy, I thought eck, very sticky. I don't know and easy way possible, except for what was mentioned. Want proxy, use squid, but ipchains is a darn good fire-wall, cheap too! look into firestarter for newbie's - Original Message - From: Hanno Böttcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org; Erich Baur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 7:13 AM Subject: Re: DSL NT The simple way would be to make a linux mashine the router and simply masquerade.what about that?` bOhA - Original Message - From: Erich Baur [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 1:43 PM Subject: DSL NT Hi *, Since some days I'm able to access the internet through a MS Proxy Server (MS Proxy Server 2.0 runs on a NT machine in a network). I just had to change to Browser/Proxy settings to the right values. But how is it possible to bring programms like fetchmail, micq, ftp etc. to work? Under MS Windows I need to install MS Proxy Client for such things, but under Debian? Please help, I don't have any ideas (I'm a newcomer). Thanks in advance Erich PS: Would you please cc your replies to my email-address? At the moment I'm not subscribed to the list because of some problems with my mail programm. Thanks. -- E-Mail:Erich Baur [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kla4.r2u.de ICQ-UIN: 99741384 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
