Apache requires a trailing slash on URLs
I installed the Apache package. The only problem it's giving me is that, when I specify a URL of a directory (like "http://www.blah.com/snot";), it says that it's not found. If I add the slash, it does find it. Ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resetting a virtual console
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: > > How do I reset a textmode virtual console? I got one messed up the other > day... I had to login to different console. Is there a reset keystroke or > command? Try reset :-) (no joke, the command exists and does exactly what you want; other distributions have it too). See ya Nelson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help with NIS: close, but it don't work yet
Bruce Perens wrote: > > Don't you have to put entries starting with "+" characters at the end of your > hosts, passwd, group, etc., files before NIS will be used to look stuff up? > Just guessing... Thanks for the reply, Bruce. Buried deep in my verbose post was this line: >>> I have "+::" in /etc/passwd and "+:::" in /etc/group. The NIS HowTo says it isn't needed anymore, but the deb pacakge installation puts it in. Anyway, It doesn't seem to make a difference. I haven't ever seen mention of such an entry for the "hosts" file though. You wouldn't remember, but when I first installed Debian at the beginning of this year I used to get various RCP or clnt_rcp or some such errors coming out of nowhere. You and others (correctly) pointed out that I needed to remove the "+" entries in my passwd and group files. They were still there from when I had played with NIS last year. I had copied parts of my old passwd file to Debian! I hope somebody comes through with some ideas. I've spent hours at it and can't find anything else to tweek. :-( -- ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian/linux Colour Management Module
"Taking the lead" means taking responsibility for creating and uploading a package that addresses your particular area of interest, or coordinating a number of people who are working on the same area of interest. In this case, you may have to do both. Debian works very well when it is decentralized, which is another way of saying "don't wait for me to do anything". Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** "Toy Story" video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for "Toy Story": $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian/linux Colour Management Module
Bruce Perens says: >Note also that the color gamut of each device (printer, CRT, >photographic paper print, motion picture print, reversal color slide, >PAL TV, NTSC TV, SECAM TV) does not overlap the others. One of our main >concerns is NTSC TV, which can not represent many values that are valid >in RGB space. Allthough I'm more concerned with hardcopies, I'm aware of this problem too; and it there is support provided in the ICC profiles: just take at least two, one compression oriented, the other `window' oriented, i.e., only a subrange of colours is used. >It would be nice if you can take the lead on color management. >As Debian project leader I am already too far overworked to take on >any more. If you'd be so kind to explain what this means, I'll answer. But it seems probable that I'll agree, as I pretend to do it anyway. -- Ciccio C. Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2 versions of some packages
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote: > Also, there are two version of gs (Aladdin and GNU versions). While I see > the need for two versions here, perhaps they should be named differently > (gs_alladin and gs_gnu both providing gs). Having two versions with the > same name confuses dftp. I don't know if dselect can cope better with this > or not. Then I say it's a bug in dftp. Dselect/dpkg-ftp has no problem with this whatsoever. And having two names would be confusing, because it really *is* the same package with two versions, one that's free software and the other not. Christian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian/linux Colour Management Module
> High quality output of colour graphics have some trouble for most > frequently two reasons: (a) Most programs are RGB oriented > (b) Neither RGB nor CMYK are device independent, and neither show a > linear property. Note also that the color gamut of each device (printer, CRT, photographic paper print, motion picture print, reversal color slide, PAL TV, NTSC TV, SECAM TV) does not overlap the others. One of our main concerns is NTSC TV, which can not represent many values that are valid in RGB space. > I'd be happy to be able to share work on this, with the aim to provide a > new debian package. Help with the creation of Profiles will be needed in > any case, as this is really `no limits'. Anyway, as this is thought to be > matter of some well doted giants, the project is perfectly aligned with > Linux, Ghostscript and the like. It would be nice if you can take the lead on color management. As Debian project leader I am already too far overworked to take on any more. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** "Toy Story" video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for "Toy Story": $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian/linux Colour Management Module
Bruce Perens says: >Yes, some of us do real computer graphics on Debian. The color module >belongs at the X level. I'd be interested in hearing about any you find >(or make), one should be packaged for Debian. Could this not be done as >a TCL/TK program? > >Has anyone interfaced a colorimiter? We have some lying around here, but >I don't have the slightest idea how to use them (and I'm color-blind). I'm pleased to hear that I'm not the only interested, as I'm looking around for a couple of weeks. Of course, the first idea seems to be that this is a matter of X, but a CMM is also active when just sending a (colour) PostScript file to a printer or another PostScript file which is thought for an expensive typesetter we don't have at home. But I'll start at the other end. High quality output of colour graphics have some trouble for most frequently two reasons: (a) Most programs are RGB oriented (try imagin a POV which is CMYK based!), which is not subject to a trivial conversion to CMYK because addititive and substractive colour spaces are as different as video and audio. (b) Neither RGB nor CMYK are device independent, and neither show a linear property. While RGB just depends on a (calibrated) monitor, CMYK usually depends on typesetter settings (resolution, screen frequency, and angle, besides spot function, etc.), on the type of paper we will be printing, the dyes the printer will use, the humity (season) of the printer service' area, etc. Lately I found out, that there is a `Internation Colour Consortium' (ICC) composed, as usual, by the giants (Adobe, Agfa, Apple, SGI, Linotype, etc). The have a draft of an pseudo industry standard which is public and specifies: (roughly) All graphics pass through a CMM (colour management module) which tries to find out the originator and an appropriate ICC-PROFILE. This profile explains by means of tables and algorythms how to transform the originator's colour space (e.g., the RGB of a particular screen) into either CIE-Lab or CIE-XYZ, both of which are device independent. As a next step, a destination device is looked for which has associated another ICC-PROFILE, and which allows to perform the second transformation. This nice idea, of course, depends by itself on the quality of the ICC-Profiles, which not only are propietary, but have also space reserved for private implementations (whose depeloper must be registered in ICC to get a label, a matter of $2000 a year). So implementation is a two side matter: Write an CMM, and provide an infinite amount of good profiles. (An ICC-Profile has a structure which is very similar to a TIFF). I sent the ICC chairman a message asking for a sample profile, but never got an answer; may be they don't deal with some nobody as me. I never have seen a colorimeter, so I've no idea how to interface it with linux. (Shouldn't be that hard). I found in the `PostScript Corner' at a swiss university, a short description for how to calibrate a colour space. This could be a nice starting point. Also PANTONE's could be very interesting to get into a ICC Profile, but in this case, I'm afraid some investigation in matters of copyright will be necessary. Regarding TCL/TK, I see no reason why not use it on front end software (interactive PostScript spooler, tools for creating an ICC profile), but I wouldn't limit it to this, so if X is not available, it's still useful. Currently I'm struggeling with a postgres application, which I hope to finish this weekend. Then I'll try to write some kind of library which implements reading / writing of ICC-Profiles and performs the specified actions on PNG files. But I've no idea how to integrate this into X and/or kernel level, so I'll not be able to do this. Another thing, which is not directly related, is an exhaustive interface to Adobe's PPD files, altough it'll also help wih colour (available resolutions, screen frequencies, etc.) This is at least worth another library. I'd be happy to be able to share work on this, with the aim to provide a new debian package. Help with the creation of Profiles will be needed in any case, as this is really `no limits'. Anyway, as this is thought to be matter of some well doted giants, the project is perfectly aligned with Linux, Ghostscript and the like. Sorry for the long message. -- Ciccio C. Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resetting a virtual console
At 12:28 PM 10/11/96 -0500, you wrote: > >How do I reset a textmode virtual console? I got one messed up the other >day... I had to login to different console. Is there a reset keystroke or >command? > >Thanks, Chris. I take it that you mean that the screen has turned to garbage? Try hitting ^V ^O and it should reset it - works for me. Regards, ...Karl -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty Ltd (ACN: 072 322 760)[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +61-9-455-3446 Fax: +61-9-455-2776 http://www.star.net.au/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resetting a virtual console
Chris R. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >How do I reset a textmode virtual console? I always reset by sending the vt100 reset code: echo [cntrl-v][ESC]C (in brackets are keystrokes) This resets to default settings. Hope this helpes. Danny -- Danny ter Haar | Cistron Internet Services | Unix & Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP-key |specialists ---+31-172-419445SP6-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Package finder
Please correspond with Ray Dassen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> about placing this on our CGI server (which is not working today - I just sent someone a nudge about getting it going). If necessary, I can give you a login on our internal system. Thanks Bruce From: Vatiainen Heikki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have created a small search system where you can search for a Debian > package > either with a keyword, file name or direct browsing. The url is > http://house.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/debian/ > > However, this can not be it's permanent location since it resides on the PC I > use for the part time work here at the university. If you like it, I'll > try to arrange a more stable home for it. > > Here is a short description what you can do with it: > > o You can list all the packages that mention a keyword in their Description > or >other fields. You can also search for a package that contains a file. > > o With the section browser you can list the sections and see what packages > are >in them. > > o The search system also has mirror site selection, so when you find the > >package you are looking for, you can download it from the nearest mirror. > > The raw material for all this are the Contents and Package files in the > subdirectories 'stable', 'unstable', 'contrib' and 'non-free' of > ftp.debian.org. > > Feel free to use it, but please be nice to it :-) > > // Heikki > -- > Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ > Tampere, Finland -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** "Toy Story" video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for "Toy Story": $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: subscribe
That list server isn't catching administrative requests in the subject field. Uh-oh. That's why so many people had trouble unsubscribing. For now, put them in the body of your message rather than the subject, please. I won't have time to fix this until at least Wednesday. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** "Toy Story" video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for "Toy Story": $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
anyone got Crack to work in Debian
I recently downloaded Crack_4.1 from Sunsite (I couldn't find a Debian version, there isn't one is there?). When I ran it, I got "Version of crypt() being used internally is not compatible with standard. Terminating...". Is this true that Debian crypt() is non-standard? Has anyone got this to work with Debian? It seemed like there might be other things that needed to be changed to get it to run, but the crypt thing seemed like the most serious. I did successfully run Crack a year or so ago on a Linux system. Don't know what's changed since then. Gerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting files as filesystems
I run the output of "mkisofs" to a raw disk partition. That mounts just fine. It's a bit faster to access when writing the CD, too, as all of the blocks are contiguous. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** "Toy Story" video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for "Toy Story": $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: debian/linux Colour Management Module
Yes, some of us do real computer graphics on Debian. The color module belongs at the X level. I'd be interested in hearing about any you find (or make), one should be packaged for Debian. Could this not be done as a TCL/TK program? Has anyone interfaced a colorimiter? We have some lying around here, but I don't have the slightest idea how to use them (and I'm color-blind). Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** "Toy Story" video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for "Toy Story": $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2 versions of some packages
Currently, there are two versions of Lyx (one in contrib and one in section tex). Is there any reason for this? Also, there are two version of gs (Aladdin and GNU versions). While I see the need for two versions here, perhaps they should be named differently (gs_alladin and gs_gnu both providing gs). Having two versions with the same name confuses dftp. I don't know if dselect can cope better with this or not. Gerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
resetting a virtual console
How do I reset a textmode virtual console? I got one messed up the other day... I had to login to different console. Is there a reset keystroke or command? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [comp.os.linux.announce] Clarification - Linux-FT, The Road
Please write to Klee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. He's committed to take on the package, but I suspect he could use some help with running tests and submitting bug reports on the results of the tests. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** "Toy Story" video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for "Toy Story": $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bizarre virtual consoles whenever I leave the X screen
I have a bizarre problem with my computer when I run X. I managed to get gpm ... -R to work and I set the correct /dev/gpmdata in XF86Config so X starts OK. However, when I switch back to any of the Virtual Consoles 1 through 6, they are all gibberish. I sat down and worked out that the screen is displaying characters mapped thus (where 7654321 stand for the bits in 7bit ascii, 7 being msb, 1 being lsb): character 7654321 is displayed as 76540321 i.e. 32 through 39 display as 64 through 71, 40 through 47 display as 80 through 87, 48 through 96 display as 96 through 103, etc. After much fiddling, I've discovered that I can restore the screen by typing (blindly) setfont default8x16 but I have to do this every time I leave the X screen (not just the first time after starting X). Everything stays OK so long as I stick to VC1 through 6, until I visit "7", i.e. X, again. I imagine that the memory used by X to store the picture of the screen is overlapping in some way the memory where my ordinary text fonts are being stored. What should I do? The display card is an Acumos Avance Logic 2228, chipset ali2301 according to X's probing. The PC has an AMI BIOS, and I'm using the SVGA Xserver. David Wright. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
subscribe
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ALT doesn't work under X
This one should be simple... In X, my ALT key doesn't work. For example, when I run minicom -m in an xterm, and try to do an ALT command such as ALT-D or ALT-X I just get a lower case "u" or "." or "a" depending on the command. I checked my XF86Config and the "alt bindings" are commented out, which should mean both ALT keys become meta. What else should I check? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~crm7479 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting files as filesystems
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Maarten Boekhold wrote: > Hi, > > I remember having heard of some way to mount a *file* as filesystem. I > would want to use this to mount an iso9660 filesystem that is created as > file. Still with me? :) What you want to use is the loop device. I mount iso image files with: mount -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop0 image.iso /mnt Try it, you'll like it ;-) Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting files as filesystems
> I remember having heard of some way to mount a *file* as filesystem. I > would want to use this to mount an iso9660 filesystem that is created as > file. Still with me? :) > > I couldn't find info on this anywhere. Is there somebody who has > experience in burning CD's who has done this and can help me out here? You can mount a file as a filesystem with the loop file system. Go losetup /dev/loop0 then just mount or whatever /loop0. (Up to loop7 is supported). If you want to make a new file system in it, you need to create an image file of some format first, eg with dd; dd if=/dev/zero of= bs= count=1 then you can losetup it, then mkfs it or whatever else. Hope this helps, Hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting files as filesystems
> I remember having heard of some way to mount a *file* as filesystem. I > would want to use this to mount an iso9660 filesystem that is created as > file. Still with me? :) > > I couldn't find info on this anywhere. It's documented in the kernel's Configure.help: Loop device support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP Enabling this option will allow you to mount a file as a file system. This is useful if you want to check an ISO9660 file system before burning the CD, or want to use floppy images without first writing them to floppy. This option also allows one to mount a filesystem with encryption. To use these features, you need a recent version of mount, such as the one found at ftp.win.tue.nl:/pub/linux/util/mount-2.5X.tar.gz. If you want to use encryption, you might also be interested in the (old) DES package ftp.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/BETA/loop/des.1.tar.gz. Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback device used for network connections from the machine to itself. Most users will answer N here. Debian's mount is 2.5l-1; should be recent enough. (there is a 2.5n now). Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. | - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "find" and symlinks question
[my find/symlink problem: find each file _once_ in the FTP directory structure; to remove duplicates from http://www.debian.org/FTP/] Phil> How about: Phil> find unstable/* contrib non-free -name '*.deb' Phil> It won't find hidden files in unstable/, but it doesn't look like you Phil> want to. Martin> How about trying "find unstable/* contrib/* non-free/* -name '*.deb'", Martin> or something similar? Thanks! Although this doesn't appeal to my sense of aesthetics, it does the job. Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mounting files as filesystems
Hi, I remember having heard of some way to mount a *file* as filesystem. I would want to use this to mount an iso9660 filesystem that is created as file. Still with me? :) I couldn't find info on this anywhere. Is there somebody who has experience in burning CD's who has done this and can help me out here? Maarten _ | Maarten Boekhold, Faculty of Electrical Engineering TU Delft, NL| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "find" and symlinks question
> > Hi, > > As some of you may have noticed already, the http://www.debian.org/FTP/ > interface unfortunately has duplicated entries in it. > > The script that generates it does a 'find' through all the directories > of the FTP archive. To be precisely, it does a > find unstable contrib non-free -name '*.deb' -follow > > The problem is that the same file is now listed under its real name > (.../binary-i386/foo/bar.deb), and under the symlinks > (.../binary/foo/bar.deb). > However, I cannot remove the '-follow' since 'unstable' is itself a symlink > (currently to 'rex'), and would not be processed without it. > > The 'ls' documentation mentions a '--dereference' switch, which could be > used to do something like > find `ls --dereference unstable contrib non-free` -name '*.deb' > but this switch doesn't appear to work. > > How do I get a list of '*.deb' under all of unstable, contrib and non-free, > without getting duplicates because of symlinks? > > Ray [Klippa, klapp, kluppit] How about trying "find unstable/* contrib/* non-free/* -name '*.deb'", or something similar? Follow you, follow me, MartinS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation; configuring the network
At one point in the Debian installation, you are asked to type in the IP addresses of up to five DNS servers. However, you are not told with what punctuation to separate the IP addresses. The first time, I used commas, but FTP failed with, I think, Hostname lookup failure. I found /etc/resolv.conf and removed all but one of the addresses from the nameserver line. This time, I've just typed in one DNS servername. I can add the others to resolv.conf myself. However, what's the correct action in the first place, and might the dialog box tell one more explicitly? David Wright. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian/linux Colour Management Module
Hi, Is there anybody using debian linux for professional layouting / image processing? Actually, the hot question ist: Are there any efforts beeing done to implement an ICC compliant CMM module at kernel or X level? What would be a more appropriate place to ask for? -- Ciccio C. Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Package finder
Hello, I have created a small search system where you can search for a Debian package either with a keyword, file name or direct browsing. The url is http://house.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/debian/ However, this can not be it's permanent location since it resides on the PC I use for the part time work here at the university. If you like it, I'll try to arrange a more stable home for it. Here is a short description what you can do with it: o You can list all the packages that mention a keyword in their Description or other fields. You can also search for a package that contains a file. o With the section browser you can list the sections and see what packages are in them. o The search system also has mirror site selection, so when you find the package you are looking for, you can download it from the nearest mirror. The raw material for all this are the Contents and Package files in the subdirectories 'stable', 'unstable', 'contrib' and 'non-free' of ftp.debian.org. Feel free to use it, but please be nice to it :-) // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * http://www.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/ Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [comp.os.linux.announce] Clarification - Linux-FT, The Road
Bruce Perens wrote: [...] (: NIST decided to make the suite available without charge. The Debian (: Project most heartily applauds this decision. In fact we most heartily (: jump up and down with glee and cheer unabashedly. I'd probably go a bit further than that :-) (: My plan is to package the POSIX.1 test suite so that any user can run it (: and independently verify the POSIX.1 compliance of his/her system. (: For this, we need volunteers. So far, Klee Dienes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has (: said he'd look at it but hasn't made a committment. We need more people (: to look at and work on this. Please volunteer if you can. I'm in pretty much the same situation - I haven't got that much time (one assignment down, four to go) - but if/when I get time, (more likely than not, in December :-( ), if it hasn't already been packaged, I'll do it. Should be interesting. (*note well the caveat about time* - if you've got the time, and I haven't explicitely stated to debian-devel that I've done it, go right ahead.) -- All emails sent from known sites supporting spams will be ditched upon arrival. This includes, but is not limited to, interramp.com, cyberpromo.com, and moneyworld.com. Copies of the .procmailrc used for this are available upon request. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"find" and symlinks question
Hi, As some of you may have noticed already, the http://www.debian.org/FTP/ interface unfortunately has duplicated entries in it. The script that generates it does a 'find' through all the directories of the FTP archive. To be precisely, it does a find unstable contrib non-free -name '*.deb' -follow The problem is that the same file is now listed under its real name (.../binary-i386/foo/bar.deb), and under the symlinks (.../binary/foo/bar.deb). However, I cannot remove the '-follow' since 'unstable' is itself a symlink (currently to 'rex'), and would not be processed without it. The 'ls' documentation mentions a '--dereference' switch, which could be used to do something like find `ls --dereference unstable contrib non-free` -name '*.deb' but this switch doesn't appear to work. How do I get a list of '*.deb' under all of unstable, contrib and non-free, without getting duplicates because of symlinks? 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
exmh suddenly spawns zombies
Suddenly exmh seems to be producing zombie processes whenever I try to reply to a message. Of course, I'm not able to make the reply. Specifically, when I click on the Reply button (then on Reply to sender), exmh shows this message: Starting ASYNC exmh-async xterm -e vi ... But exmh doesn't start the xterm. I do see this in the exmh log: Exwin_Toplevel .log 80x20+177+270 After a few minutes, a background wish process is started: /usr/bin/wish -f /usr/bin/exmh-bg exmh /usr/lib/exmh /usr/b (<==the line is cut off here) Then this process is zombie-ized after a couple of minutes. Now, exmh's reply button used to start the xterm just fine. I don't know when this odd behaviour started. (I've been gone for a week, but thought I'd used the reply button since I got back last night; am not really sure what happened in the last day to tell the truth.) I can successfully execute 'xterm -e vi' from the command line. Whatever is causing the problem is not specific to one particular (e.g., badly formed) message; I've tried and failed to reply to many messages. The list of possibly relevant packages is attached below. Obviously, any hints would be very much appreciated. Susan Kleinmann == ii exmh1.6.9-2An X user interface for MH mail. ii expect 5.19.0-1 The expect/expectk programs and libraries. ii nvi 1.34-134.4BSD re-implementation of vi. ii tcl74 7.4p3-4The Tool Command Language (TCL) v7.4 - Run-T ii tcl74-dev 7.4p3-4The Tool Command Language (TCL) v7.4 - Devel ii tcl75 7.5p1-1The Tool Command Language (TCL) v7.5 - Run-T ii tclX7.4a-p2-1 Extended Tcl (TclX). ii tk404.0p3-3The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v4.0 - Run-Ti ii tk40-dev4.0p3-3The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v4.0 - Develo ii tk414.1-1 The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v4.1 - Run-Ti ii tkdiff 1.0b9-3A graphical "diff" utility. == -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help with NIS: close, but it don't work yet
Don't you have to put entries starting with "+" characters at the end of your hosts, passwd, group, etc., files before NIS will be used to look stuff up? Just guessing... Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** "Toy Story" video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for "Toy Story": $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't do setuid
Jim Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It appears that Debian Linux does not have setuid capability. Is this a > feature that I can turn on through a configuration file? I would recommend that you investigate the sudo and super packages. They will allow you to do exactly what you want much more securely. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Need help with NIS: close, but it don't work yet
A year ago I tried out NIS and had it working on my Slackware system.
(I didn't actually need to use it, so I only ran it for a day.)
I can't seem to get it to work now. When ypbind is running, commands
that should trigger a name lookup don't even cause the lights on my
modem (ppp) or ISDN box to blink with any activity. Same is true when
I execute ypbind itself: no line activity.
Routing is OK, since I can telnet, ftp, etc to remote hosts by using
IP addresses rather than names.
Running the following commands:
/etc/init.d/nis start
rpcinfo -p localhost
rpcinfo -u localhost ypbind
domainname
ps -auwwx|grep yp
gives this output:
# /etc/init.d/nis start
Setting NIS domainname to: veritas
Starting yellow page services: ypbind
# rpcinfo -p localhost
program vers proto port
102 tcp111 portmapper
102 udp111 portmapper
172 udp748 ypbind
172 tcp750 ypbind
# rpcinfo -u localhost ypbind
program 17 version 2 ready and waiting
# domainname
veritas
# ps -auwwx|grep yp
root 1527 0.0 1.2 828 388 ? S 23:55 0:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind
root 1529 0.0 1.2 832 384 ? S 23:55 0:00 /usr/sbin/ypbind
Is is strange that ypbind appears twice?
Various commands give these error messages:
# ypcat passwd
YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain veritas
No such map passwd.byname. Reason: Can't bind to server which serves this
domain
# ping rickm
YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: No bound server for domain veritas
ping: unknown host rickm
# ypwhich
can't yp_bind: Reason: RPC failure
I get this message in /var/adm/daemon.log (remember, the lights never
blink on the modem):
Oct 10 00:06:01 localhost /usr/sbin/ypbind[28920]: Running in restricted
mode -- request to bind domain "veritas" rejected.
I have "+::" in /etc/passwd and "+:::" in /etc/group.
/etc/host.conf:
==
order hosts,nis
multi on
In the file /etc/init.d/nis, I've tried
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec ${NET}/ypbind -- -S
comsrv1,192.159.106.123
and just
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec ${NET}/ypbind
in case there's a problem with broadcasting.
I've installed the latest unstable versions of netbase, netstd and nis:
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root 206560 Sep 1 08:26 netbase_2.06-1.deb
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root 660206 Aug 30 18:27 netstd_2.07-1.deb
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root90118 Oct 3 06:47 nis_2.00-1.deb
With my ISDN:
# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.168.49.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.49.10.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 eth0
With my PPP:
# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
192.159.106.8 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1500 0 0 ppp0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.159.106.8 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 ppp0
Note that with ppp, I'm on the same subnet as the NIS server, but with
ISDN I'm on a different one. Both ways, I have this same problem.
The nis server is there:
# ping 192.159.106.123
PING 192.159.106.123 (192.159.106.123): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.159.106.123: icmp_seq=0 ttl=253 time=1037.5 ms
64 bytes from 192.159.106.123: icmp_seq=1 ttl=253 time=57.3 ms
64 bytes from 192.159.106.123: icmp_seq=2 ttl=253 time=27.6 ms
64 bytes from 192.159.106.123: icmp_seq=3 ttl=253 time=28.1 ms
...RickM...
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Re: Debian + POSIX
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gith) > Is the Debian distribution going to push for POSIX conformity? Yes, because it just got easy and cheap. > I may be missing something here, ( I'm still a relative newbie > to Linux ) but what is the importance of it? After viewing the > Linux-FT web pages, the only good thing I can see about a Posix > certification is the right to go around patting yourself on the > back for having one. ( Just the feeling I got from the site. ) Actually, until recently you could only be POSIX compliant by paying a lot of money. You paid for copies of the standard, you paid for validation software, and you paid for a POSIX compliance lab to certify you. So it was a way for the well-funded commercial Linux projects to differentiate themselves from high-quality but underfunded efforts like Debian. Now, they will have to use the still-costly X/Open standards to differentiate themselves. NIST developed a compliance test suite for the U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard. This is a superset of POSIX. They recently decided to make it free, so that more people would implement POSIX. We think that's a great idea, and we got right to work. And now, the POSIX standard can be used for what it was intended for: insuring source-level compatibility across multiple software platforms. Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project Leader -- Bruce Perens, Pixar Animation Studios *** "Toy Story" video tape in U.S. stores October 30 *** Worldwide box office total for "Toy Story": $353,275,005 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Linux-ISP] Re: NCR 825 ctrler
On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote: > Well, I will say this about Adaptec... Just like many other name brands, > you pay for the name. Thats why Digi International makes you pay through > the nose! You pay $2 for the board, $700 for the Digi logo. Another problem iwht the "high-end name brands" is that they sometimes have the attitude that only they can write drivers, and so there's no point in releasing programming info, cause that will only encourage the writing of "bad" drivers. However, since most big name brands don't bother with Linux drivers, that generally means either some poor programmer has to reverse engineer the thing or no driver will be written...and we won't use their product. -- Jon Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Unsolicited commercial e-mail will Network Administrator | be proof-read for $199/hr. Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key___ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian + POSIX
Is the Debian distribution going to push for POSIX conformity? I may be missing something here, ( I'm still a relative newbie to Linux ) but what is the importance of it? After viewing the Linux-FT web pages, the only good thing I can see about a Posix certification is the right to go around patting yourself on the back for having one. ( Just the feeling I got from the site. ) Willie Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NCR 825 ctrler
> Hi guys, > > I saw a price list which had the NCR 825 controller, and it said it's a > Fast & Wide controller. Is that true? Why is it so much cheaper than the > Adaptec, for example? Is it a poor performer? The price was about $100 > cheaper than the adaptec. > > Anyone use it? Is it worth to buy it? Well, I will say this about Adaptec... Just like many other name brands, you pay for the name. Thats why Digi International makes you pay through the nose! You pay $2 for the board, $700 for the Digi logo. Its an evil Microsoft world out there -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Replicating a Debian system
Here's what I came up with to "clone" a Debian system with the aid of a CD writer. If you don't have a CD writer, you may be able to use a Jaz drive or regular hard drive for the purpose. 1. Create tar files of each filesystem. Use tar's "--one-file-system" option to facilitate this. 2. Put these tar files on a CD. 3. Create a root disk using the "make-boot-floppies" package. Put the Rock Ridge filesystem module, isofs.o, on the disk. 4. Load the CD into the drive on the target system and boot from the boot & root floppies. 5. Partition the disk and make the filesystems. It makes life easier to use the same partition numbers for the same filesystems as on the source machine; otherwise, you will need to edit /etc/fstab. If you use a different device for the root or swap, there may be other things you need to do also. 6. Start a shell (it's at the bottom of the list of choices). Check that the new filesystems are mounted under /target. 7. change to the directory where you put isofs.o, and run "insmod ./isofs.o". This enables mounting CDROMs. 8. Mount the CDROM with "mount -r -t iso9660 /mnt". 9. Use "star" to untar the filesystems. For example: "cd /target; star
Re: where to put clock -s?
Hi Larry You wrote: > > David Puryear writes: > > -> But when I do "date" and "clock" I get two different times. The > -> time I get from "date" is way off. So I usually do "clock -s" > -> and everything is fine. Any idea as why? > > Define 'way off'. Seconds? Minutes? Hours? An even number of hours? > If the difference is an even number of hours or within seconds of it, > check the /etc/init.d/boot script and make sure near the top it says > GMT="", and not GMT="-u". That fixed it. Thanks, David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TCP/IP and SMB
Thanks to all that replied! I do believe that I have gotten everything I need for the Windows side. BTW, the site(and remote office locations) is NOT connected to the Internet Daniel == http://www.jax-inter.net/users/servo/ Organizer of Jax-LUG! Email me for details! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where to put clock -s?
David Puryear writes: -> But when I do "date" and "clock" I get two different times. The -> time I get from "date" is way off. So I usually do "clock -s" -> and everything is fine. Any idea as why? Define 'way off'. Seconds? Minutes? Hours? An even number of hours? If the difference is an even number of hours or within seconds of it, check the /etc/init.d/boot script and make sure near the top it says GMT="", and not GMT="-u". -Larry -- Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the workstation in your PC! [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://web2.airmail.net/vizzie/ The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds. --Claude Bernard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
