Re: Tweaking cron for use on laptops
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a few things that could be modified to facilitate spinning down the disk. Syslogd is compulsive about writing information to the disk right away just in case the system crashes. It could be given an option to buffer. I think it would be best if this option is implemented as a priority level at which syslogd would sync, for example `crit'. Messages logged at lower levels would be unlikely to be followed by a crash. -- Shields, CrossLink. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with 1.2 and 3com during install
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Find the floppy disk that came with your 3com card and run it (I'm afraid you'll have to boot a DOS floppy to do that). There's also a place where you can get the 3com configuration utility over the net, someone please tell us. http://infodeli.3com.com. It comes in the form of an LHA self-extracting .exe file which expands to the contents of the floppy. -- Shields, CrossLink. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with X and gcc
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 04:41:21 EST Kevin McEnhill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: *** gcc *** This probably has to do with the upgrade I tried last week. According to 'dpkg --list', everything is installed and configured. That is all fine and dandy but when I tried to compile one of my programs, I get something like 'gcc command not found'. If I try to 'find / -name gcc' the only thing that it finds is the copy-write notice. This is not a good thing, in fact this can even be filed under bad things. Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone have any advice or theories? No theories. Did you try to reinstall gcc ? Is the cpp package installed (there might be a problem between conflicting cpp and gcc). *** X *** OK This one should be easy. When I tried to start the upgraded X11 (version 3.2 I think), I get a fatal error complaining: snip (--) SVGA: clgd5426: Specifying a Clocks line makes no sense for this driver SVGA: 'clgd5426' is an invalid chipset *** None of the configured devices were detected.*** Try to re-run xf86config. The X server has undergone many changes since last version. Notice that now exists a graphical configuration tool (enclosed with the VGA server). Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: noteboot install
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 10:04:12 EST Tim Sailer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm having to do a scratch install of debian 1.2 on 2 Toshiba Tecra 500CDT notebooks, and I'm slowly losing my mind from lack of sleep. It took an hour or so of fiddling to finally come up with 'disable all cache' to get the machine to boot from the floppy. Everything else went fairly normal, but a little slow. I copied the pcmcia stuff via floppy, then configured the card, nice and smooth. Now the fun started. From a local (on the ethernet) mirror, installing the rest of the packages with dselect via nfs took 5 hours! This is a p5-133 folks! Now, using loadlin to try to boot failed with the normal error I've seen about not enough memory, so I installed lilo, rebooted into DOS, enabled the cache, and rebooted... and rebooted... and rebooted. It gets to Uncompressing Linux, and reboots. If it only comes to `uncompressing linux`, the kernel has not started yet, and you probably have some cache problems and/or timing problem. Try the more conservative settings and then raise them progressively. OK.. I'm fairly intelligent (so I think). It must be the kernel, with all the compiled in goodies. I disabled the cache and rebooted, and am now recompiling the kernel I think it won't solve your problem. still compiling after *7 hours*! And... it died with How much memory do hou have ? 7 hours seems quite long, even without cache... unreferenced symbols at the vmlinux linking. Does anyone have any ideas about speeding this up? Did you compile the kernel correctly ? 1) make config 2) make depend 3) make clean 4) make zImage Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Latex installation troubles
I've cleaned my hd, downloaded the Debian 1.2 (rex), downloaded all the packages that were set the first time the system executed dselect, and installed them. All was ok, but when the dselect attempted to configurate the latex package, there was an error message: 'mf can't load libXt.so.6'. The required link/file is at /usr/X11R6/lib, so I attempted to put this directory in the file /etc/ld.so.conf, but this doesn't work, so I'm unable to install the latex package and other packages. Has anyone a solution? Could be an problem in the 'libXt.so.6' file? Thanks. Alexander Gieg. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dselect pre-dependency problem
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 21:07:24 +0100 Alexander LIST ([EMAIL PROTECTED] raz.ac.at) wrote: I just tried to upgrade to Debian 1.2. Unfortunately, dpkg has the following problem: # dselect dpkg: cannot see how to satisfy pre-dependency: perl pre-depends on libdl1 dpkg: cannot satisfy pre-dependencies for perl (wanted due to perl) installation script returned error exit status 1. When I looked into /lib, I found: # ls -l /lib/libdl* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 15 03:38 /lib/libdl.so - libdl.so.1.7.14 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 15 03:38 /lib/libdl.so.1 - libdl.so.1.7.14 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6991 Apr 12 1996 /lib/libdl.so.1.7.14 So what's wrong? I have PERL installed, I have the lib installed. The package might have been unpackaed, and not configured yet. Try to reinstall by hand libdl: dpkg -i path/libdlversion.deb BTW is there a way to tell dpkg to check installed packages and report broken installations, missing files etc? Yes. Try dpkg -C for a report of bad packages. Try dpkg -s package for a complete description of the package, including dependencies, maintainer, etc... Try dpkg -l shell glob pattern... for a short description of the status and versions of the packages regeular expression(s) given on the command line. More generally, try man dpkg for everything related to the packaging system :-) Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to get a bash shell with the new install floppies (Re: new boot floppies being uploaded)
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Craig Sanders wrote: On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, Shaya Potter wrote: 1. ftp is still missing from the base install set. This makes it difficult to install a custom compiled kernel. Actually impossible if you don't have your kernel available on an nfs mount or floppy disk. Don't know what you mean. I used the original rex disks to install and I was able to install the whole system by dpkg-ftp, and I was able to ftp to any machine I wanted to. /usr/bin/ftp, the command line ftp client. not dpkg-ftp. I have used that too, thats how I tested if the networking was working. Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: noteboot install
Philippe == Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: still compiling after *7 hours*! And... it died with Philippe How much memory do hou have ? 7 hours seems quite long, Philippe even without cache... You'd be surprised what turning off cache can do to your computer. For instance my PPro200 took 10minutes to boot when I turned off cache (and I didn't even get to see X start up properly, since I managed to switch over to the console to shut the beast down). I have a feeling that turning cache off hurts performance significantly more than not having it in the first place, not sure why. On the other had, PPro on-chip cache might be a whole different beast than a normal L2 cache. Gleb -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing large files
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Allan Anderson wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Fred Zarnowski wrote: I am trying to install Debian on a laptop with no network connection and no CDROM. I have been ftp'ing files to a W95 desktop then sneaker net via floppy to the laptop. Unfortunately, I haven't solved large files like Xbase that won't fit on a 1.44 floppy. I did get minicom going on the laptop so I could download from a BBS if I could find one. I would appreciate any suggestions or comments. Thanks. I would reccommend using a null-modem serial connection between your laptop and the machine which has the debian files. The newer versions of 95's dialup networking support this. Just get ppp set up on the laptop and proceed from there. Even better, if you have a program like LapLink, or DOS's Intersvr and Interlnk, you can use a null parallel cable. It's amazingly faster. U, yeah sure, if only you could find a Linux port of LapLink or Intersvr... Linux has PLIP too but I don't think you can get PLIP for DOS. Isn't there something called the crymner (or somethin like that) packet driver. I think this provides PLIP for DOS. Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Latex installation troubles
i had the same problem when installing LaTeX, but it worked fine after i added /usr/X11R6/lib to the ld.so.conf file. did you run ldconfig afterward to update the library links? -david -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some notes on Debian experiences
Alan Eugene Davis writes: I wanted to compile a new kernel. Remembering that Debian has a screwy header file setup, ^ You forgot a , IMO, here. I had to relink as described in the /usr/src/linux/README. For the umpteenth time. You don't need these links to compile the kernel. I haven't had those links on any of my systems in over a year and it hasn't stopped me from compiling hundreds of kernels. BTW, libc6 will use a different approach. I need to double check, but I think it sucks all of the information it needs from the kernel headers at build time. You won't need any kernel headers in /usr/include, symlinked or otherwise, to compile programs with it. David -- David EngelOptical Data Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 E. Arapaho Road (972) 234-6400 Richardson, TX 75081 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XWindows Login Screen
Carlo U. Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed, that is what I meant above by saying that the configuration files seem OK. Both the Xresources files have valid entries in them for the 'greetColor' (CadetBlue) and 'greeting' (Debian Linux (CLIENTHOST)). Clearly the configuration files are not the problem but something else must be set improperly. I have the same problem here, so you're not alone. The files are fine, but xdm appears to ignore them... Hmm -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf files
Wieboldt, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This isn't debian specific, but what does it take to read/print pdf files in linux? Thanks -lars I think gv also handles PDF. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XWindows Login Screen
On 12 Dec 1996, Rob Browning wrote: Carlo U. Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed, that is what I meant above by saying that the configuration files seem OK. Both the Xresources files have valid entries in them for the 'greetColor' (CadetBlue) and 'greeting' (Debian Linux (CLIENTHOST)). Clearly the configuration files are not the problem but something else must be set improperly. I have the same problem here, so you're not alone. The files are fine, but xdm appears to ignore them... The problem is that xdm uses xrdb to read these configuration files in. xrdb has been broken for a while. It crashes if run with no options. My solution was to mv xrdb to xrdb.bin and create a shell script named xrdb that run xrdb.bin with the -nocpp option. Erv ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ ==-- _ / / \ ---==---(_)__ __ __/ / /\ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / / /_/\ \ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ /__\ \ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org \_\/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shadow Passwords
Hi, is there any way to use shadow-passwords on Debian 1.2? Thanks Stefan *-* Dipl. Ing. Stefan Walder (techn. Ang. in der EDV-Systemtechnik) Universitaetsstrasse 150 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Werkstofftechnik IA 2/47 Tel.: (0)49(0)234-700-5952 D-44780 Bochum Fax:(0)49(0)234-7094-104 *-* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing large files
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Allan Anderson wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: U, yeah sure, if only you could find a Linux port of LapLink or Intersvr... Linux has PLIP too but I don't think you can get PLIP for DOS. Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Gazette issue #7 (available online) had details of just how to interface PLIP to a winsock and gave details of where to get the packet drivers for the Win machine and details of an X Windows emulator to run X programs remotely under Windows - all this for Win 3.x but it may help you for '95. Andy -- Andrew Martin Adrian Cater -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What package do I need ? (libXpm.so.4)
3) but after installing the fvwm2 afterstep Window managers. I get: fvwm2: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'. afterstep: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' What package do I need to instll to get this lib? I got that too. I fixed it by adding /usr/X11R6/lib to the /etc/ld.so.conf file and then run ldconfig. TIA Allan Jacobsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Solved (problems with 3com)
Thanks Nils, your PnP fix solved the problem. I was just about to start removing the cards and changing their places, but luckily I don't have to do it. Problem description: I have a new computer with Tyan TomcatIII main board, Plug n' Play aware BIOS, Sound Blaster 32 PnP card and a 3com 3c509b (Etherlink III) ISA card (PnP disabled). I was trying to install Debian 1.2 but the device driver module for the 3c509 card failed to load during the initial installation and in every reboot. The message from insmod was following: 3c509: WARNING! Module load-time probing works reliably only for EISA bus!! Initialization of 3c509 failed Adding parameters as 'insmod 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10' only suppressed the warning about probing, the initialization still failed. The io and irq values were correct. The solution: Nils Rennebarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated that the SB 32 PnP with the PnP motheboard causes the problem. His fix was to get the isapnptools (isapnp and pnpdump) and add the following lines in /etc/init.d/boot if [ -x /sbin/pnpdump ]; then echo Deconfiguring PnP devices /sbin/pnpdump /dev/null f The isapnptools (I used version 1.8) package can be found from http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/pnp/other.html Some notes: After getting the isapnptools I reinstalled everything. Just before selecting the driver for 3c509 from the device driver modules, I switched to another virtual console and manually did command 'pnpdump'. However this didn't work because of unresolved symbol '_ioperm'. After 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/target/lib' the pnpdump command succeeded. Right after the pnpdump command I edited the /target/etc/init.d/boot file and inserted the lines above before the lines that load any modules needed. After that I switched back to the installation program, loaded the 3c509 module and finished the install. The reboot was successful and everything works now just fine. The auto-probe works too. It does give the warning but the module loads ok. Thanks again Nils and everybody else who also offered their help. -- 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]
Shouldn't mh add it's dir to PATH?
Last night I installed part of the debian (going to install the rest tonight) and I noticed that mh doesn't add /usr/bin/mh to PATH in /etc/profile. Is this the correct behaviour? I also noted that there is '.' in the PATH. comp.unix.faq has something to say about this in question 2.13) What's wrong with having '.' in your $PATH ? // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sticky bit problem
Hello. I've got a problem when I install packages. The sicky bit is never activated. For instance, if I install man package, I get : -rwxr-xr-x man/root 66865 Dec 8 01:04 1996 /usr/bin/man -rwxr-xr-x man/root 52869 Dec 8 01:04 1996 /usr/bin/mandb instead of : -rwsr-xr-x man/root 66865 Dec 8 01:04 1996 /usr/bin/man -rwsr-xr-x man/root 52869 Dec 8 01:04 1996 /usr/bin/mandb Do anyone know where the problem is ? --- Hugo HAAS, Engineering Student at Ecole Centrale Paris, France E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC : Bartman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Token-ring errors
I am using an IBM auto token-ring card, with Linux 2.0.6. Whenever I transfer large amounts of data, I get the following error: eth0: xmit ret_code: 23 xmit error code: 00 Can someone tell me what this means? Do I have to worry about this? -- Filip ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Send a message with send pgp key in the subject line to receive my public key. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sticky bit problem - Setuid bit pb
Just a correction. I've got a problem when I install packages. The sicky bit is never ^ activated. For instance, if I install man package, I get : [...] I wanted to say setuid bit, not sticky bit, of course. --- Hugo HAAS, Engineering Student at Ecole Centrale Paris, France E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC : Bartman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cheap Alpha anywhere?
I am interested in running Debian on an Alpha - anyone know a good source for one? lowest cost preferred! Thanks! Michael Laing -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Latex installation troubles
Thanks to J. Ramos Gancalves and David Ogilvie for the 'ldconfig' command. I don't know very well Linux, so I didn't know this command. I'll attempt it. Alexander Gieg. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Card
You may need to rebuild the kernel and supply the correct IRQ, DMA, and port information for your sound card. --- Jean Pierre On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, J. LILLIBRIDGE wrote: Hi. I've been running Debian 1.1 for a few months now. I haven't had any problems, except I can't get the sound card to work. Actually, it is a modem/sound combination card. The modem part works, and I can listen to audio cd's, but I can't play audio files. I recently upgraded to the 2.0.23 kernel, and it gave a little more descriptive info on bootup: sound sb: Interrupt test on IRQ7 failed - device disabled How would I go about getting this sucker to work? Thanks. -- Joe Lillibridge - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://web.nmsu.edu/~jlillibr My PGP fingerprint: 58 7E 84 A6 BC 3A 67 3A 01 F6 F0 F8 10 B6 68 14 PGP Public Key available at http://web.nmsu.edu/~jlillibr/PublicKey.html If you have PGP, please encrypt all e-mail to me. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: noteboot install
In your email to me, Richard G. Roberto, you wrote: Tim, I did an install on one of these for my boss and I did it using 1.1 boot + root floppy + 1.1 base.tgz. I installed the 2.0.6 kernel and pcmcia stuff from floppy with no problem. Then I did an ftp install from dselect using frozen and it took about 2 hours to complete! I had some initial trouble getting the pcmcia ethernet card configured, but after I got past that, I had none of the problems you speak of. I also run in a dual boot mode (Win95+Debian), but I use the FreeBSD boot manager (beta version) which is graphical and very good (only works from DOS though). I have since compiled my own custom 2.0.24 kernel and pcmcia modules/tools and it took about 45 minutes for all of that. Actually, I got the kernel recompiled, and it now boots. Booting with a 'buzz' install disk seems to work. It was just the rescue disk from 'rex'. I think you may need to take a look at what's running, what errors are being logged to syslog/klog and what your resource usage is like. I had 40MB of RAM and a 100MB swap partition in the 500CDT I installed on. You may also need to take a look at some disk I/O statistics. I'm not sure how to do that on a Linux box. Anybody? In any case, it sounds to me like you should definitely get some sleep first. Take a fresh look at it after that. There may be something very silly that's set up wrong, but you won't find it on 30 minutes sleep every 50 hours! Heh.. I got 4 hours last night. Now, I can get the system up and running with the pcmcia stuff in, but then the builtin mouse doesn't work. If I kill off cardmgr and rmmod the pcmcia modules, the mouse works... sheesh Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Too much information running through my brain, too much information, driving me insane. -- The Police ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf files
Note that a recent posting in comp.risks asserts that Adobe's PDF reader for Linux will attempt to *execute* any file which can't be read as a PDF file and has its execute permissions set, quoting Adobe's documentation about this. Mind that MIME mail! -- Bill Roman ([EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED]) running linux -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shadow Passwords
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Stefan Walder wrote: Hi, is there any way to use shadow-passwords on Debian 1.2? Thanks Stefan I'm using the shadow packages from project/experimental, and it works all right. There were two or three binaries I belive which didnt support it: imapd, xdm, and ssh. I don't need the first two, so I just recompiled sshd (got the source and ran debian/rules ) Greg Ps: there are other problems with shadow/ssh, such as ssh doesnt use /bin/login, so /etc/limits, and password aging doesnt work with ssh -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: noteboot install
In your email to me, Philippe Troin, you wrote: If it only comes to `uncompressing linux`, the kernel has not started yet, and you probably have some cache problems and/or timing problem. Try the more conservative settings and then raise them progressively. Heh.. 'on' or 'off' not real good.. :( OK.. I'm fairly intelligent (so I think). It must be the kernel, with all the compiled in goodies. I disabled the cache and rebooted, and am now recompiling the kernel I think it won't solve your problem. It actually did! And after the fact, I tried the old buzz boot disk, and that worked... or it at least booted the system! still compiling after *7 hours*! And... it died with How much memory do hou have ? 7 hours seems quite long, even without cache... It has 16 MB ram and 32 mb swap. unreferenced symbols at the vmlinux linking. Does anyone have any ideas about speeding this up? Did you compile the kernel correctly ? 1) make config 2) make depend 3) make clean 4) make zImage Yup... actually, I got the same unref vars on 2 other systems (PPro HPs) (which, BTW, don't boot with the new disks.. hangs after the Goldstar CD), and just running make dep again solved the problem. It seems that the arp/rarp stuff in make config is the problem... Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Too much information running through my brain, too much information, driving me insane. -- The Police ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Latex installation troubles
In your email to me, Alexander Gieg, you wrote: I've cleaned my hd, downloaded the Debian 1.2 (rex), downloaded all the packages that were set the first time the system executed dselect, and installed them. All was ok, but when the dselect attempted to configurate the latex package, there was an error message: 'mf can't load libXt.so.6'. The required link/file is at /usr/X11R6/lib, so I attempted to put this directory in the file /etc/ld.so.conf, but this doesn't work, so I'm unable to install the latex package and other packages. Has anyone a solution? Could be an problem in the 'libXt.so.6' file? add '/usr/X11R6/lib' to /etc/ld.so.conf, and run 'ldconfig'. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Too much information running through my brain, too much information, driving me insane. -- The Police ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Adaptec 2940U - boot disk failure?
Hi there, today I tried to install the latest debian on a PPro180 system with an Adaptec 2940U. Unfortunately, no boot-disk seems to work for that system. The strangest thing I get is 'Controller at 0x378 doesn't react' (the controller is located at e000-efff (irq 11). Any ideas as to what could be done here? Benedikt signoff --- Benedikt Eric Heinen - Muehlemattstrasse 53 - CH3007 Bern - SWITZERLAND email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]phone: ++41.79.3547891 RIOT, n. A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. Ambrose Bierce ``The Devil's Dictionary'' -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange ppp problem.
I have recently been experiencing a problem with ppp. The problem began when I built myself a new 2.0.27 kernel, but does not seem to be related to the kernel. Here's the problem: After a boot up, I can ppp to my ISP just fine the first time, but after dropping the connection, I can not establish a connection until after rebooting the machine. Ppp cranks up the chat script, which dials the provider. The modems negotiate speed and seconds after the connection is established chat declares an error an aborts causing pppd to drop as well. The modems are still happily chirping to each other, and I must disconnect the phone line to get the provider modem to drop. I am running both 2.1.5 and 2.0.27 kernels. I can swap from one kernel to the other, or keep rebooting the same one and the behavior is always the same: First time connect works flawlessly, any attempt after the first connection always fails the same way. Aside from building a new kernel, I can think of no other packages that I might have installed during this period. Since that time, I have installed all the rex base packages, but this has not changed the behavior. Any idea what's going on? A method of debugging this problem would do as well. TIA, 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: xterm-color : green cursor??
I recently installed xterm-color, but now ALL my xterm windows have a nasty green cursor in them... is there ANY way to tell xterm to use a specific cursor color, either for each window or globally? You have 2 (or more?) options here. First, you can make a system wide alias in /etc/environment which is something like: alias xterm=xterm -cr cursor_color Of course, this assumes you're using Bash. You'd need to modify it for csh or ksh or whatever else you have. The other, nicer option would be to add the following to /etc/X11/Xresources: XTerm*cursorColor: whatever_color_you_want Hope this helps, -- Lamar Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~fols9488 Life is wasted on the living. - The Master -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Some notes on Debian experiences
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, David Engel wrote: I had to relink as described in the /usr/src/linux/README. For the umpteenth time. You don't need these links to compile the kernel. I haven't had those links on any of my systems in over a year and it hasn't stopped me from compiling hundreds of kernels. Hear, hear! Since at least 1.3.something, the kernel makefile explicitly points gcc to the kernel include files. So unless you compile antique kernels for fun, you do *not* need the said links. As further proof, here are the relevant extracts from my toplevel 2.0.27 kernel makefile: ---snip--- TOPDIR := $(shell if [ $$PWD != ]; then echo $$PWD; else pwd; fi) HPATH = $(TOPDIR)/include FINDHPATH = $(HPATH)/asm $(HPATH)/linux $(HPATH)/scsi $(HPATH)/net HOSTCC =gcc -I$(HPATH) HOSTCFLAGS =-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer CROSS_COMPILE = AS =$(CROSS_COMPILE)as LD =$(CROSS_COMPILE)ld CC =$(CROSS_COMPILE)gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I$(HPATH) CPP =$(CC) -E ---snip--- Notice how -I$(TOPDIR)/include (i.e. -I$(HPATH)) is included on *every* gcc command. QED. Read question 1 of /usr/doc/libc5/FAQ.gz if you want to know why Debian doesn't use symlinks. Christian PS Could someone who is on linux-kernel volunteer to at least ask the kernel people to update the kernel's README? It still says make sure your /usr/include/asm, /usr/include/linux, and /usr/include/scsi directories are just symlinks to the kernel sources even though people don't need to do that anymore to compile the kernel... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make-kpkg troubles, again
Hi, Regarding my previous message, I kind of solved it. I rm -r linux and started again. Now the error I'm getting is: --- cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage \ debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.27 cp vmlinux debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinux-2.0.27 cp System.map debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.0.27 chmod 644 debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.27 \ debian/tmp-image/boot/vmlinux-2.0.27 \ debian/tmp-image/boot/System.map-2.0.27 dpkg-gencontrol -pkernel-image-2.0.27 -Pdebian/tmp-image/ dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek make: *** [stamp-image] Error 29 Does anyone have any ideas on this subject? I have kernel-package 3.03, dpkg-dev 1.4.0.3, cpio 2.4.2-8... TIA, Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
color-ls??
I can't seem to find the color-ls package. Has it been replaced by something else? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key upon request 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]
1.2 release?
Will 1.2 be officially released soon? Also, when can I expect to find it on CD-ROM distributions (I'm NOT downloading all that stuff again...too slow!) Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key upon request 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: Shadow Passwords
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Gergely Madarasz wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Stefan Walder wrote: Hi, is there any way to use shadow-passwords on Debian 1.2? Thanks Stefan I'm using the shadow packages from project/experimental, and it works all right. There were two or three binaries I belive which didnt support it: imapd, xdm, and ssh. I don't need the first two, so I just recompiled sshd (got the source and ran debian/rules ) Greg Ps: there are other problems with shadow/ssh, such as ssh doesnt use /bin/login, so /etc/limits, and password aging doesnt work with ssh I don't know about the ssh and imapd problem but for xdm, the xbase pckg have an xdm-shadow binary. Two solutions: backup xdm and make a link from xdm-shadow to xdm, or change the /etc/init.d/xdm script to use xdm-shadow in place of xdm. And if security is your business, looks at os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/debian-non-US/ss* for sstelnet and sslayet though I don't try it enough to say if it work well... Fabien. --- Little Billy goes to the zoo: Looks mom! An elephant like those on the Web! --- Fabien Ninoles aka le Veneur|| Running Debian-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| Lover of MOO, mountains, http://www-edu.gel.usherb.ca/ninf01 || poetry and Freedom. --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XWindows Login Screen
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Dec 1996, Rob Browning wrote: Carlo U. Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed, that is what I meant above by saying that the configuration files seem OK. Both the Xresources files have valid entries in them for the 'greetColor' (CadetBlue) and 'greeting' (Debian Linux (CLIENTHOST)). Clearly the configuration files are not the problem but something else must be set improperly. I have the same problem here, so you're not alone. The files are fine, but xdm appears to ignore them... The problem is that xdm uses xrdb to read these configuration files in. xrdb has been broken for a while. It crashes if run with no options. My solution was to mv xrdb to xrdb.bin and create a shell script named xrdb that run xrdb.bin with the -nocpp option. Unfortunately, this did not solve the problem for me. Maybe I didn't follow the instructions correctly. The script file I put in xrdb is: #! /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb.bin -nocpp I still do not get the proper login screen. Maybe a bug report is in order? Cheers, Carlo *** *Carlo U. Segre * * Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences * *Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616 * * Voice: (312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
app-defaults file for Offix?
I have installed the Offix-2.3a-1 package file and am having some trouble locating the app-defaults file. I was reading the man page looking for resource names, and it said to see the app-defaults file. When I run dpkg --listfiles, I see nothing installed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults. Is there somewhere else I should be looking? -- Lamar Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~fols9488 Life is wasted on the living. - The Master -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: color-ls??
I can't seem to find the color-ls package. Has it been replaced by something else? No more color-ls. It is now part of fileutils, a base package, so it is already installed. Add few aliases to /etc/csh.login for the miracle to happen (for more info, see /usr/doc/fileutils/color-ls.gz): eval `dircolors` alias ls 'ls --color=auto '; alias ll 'ls -l'; alias dir 'ls --color=auto --format=vertical'; alias v'ls --color=auto --format=long'; alias ols '/bin/ls'; Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP 512/D042DD45, West Palm Beach, Florida -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: color-ls??
On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: I can't seem to find the color-ls package. Has it been replaced by something else? ls includes now the option color : --color, --colour, --color=always, --colour=always Colorize the names of files depending on the type of file. See DISPLAY COLORIZATION below. --color=auto, --colour=auto Same as --color but only if standard output is a terminal. This is very useful for shell scripts and command aliases, especially if your favorite pager does not support color control codes. --color=none, --colour=none Disables colorization. This is the default. Pro vided to override a previous color option. --- Hugo HAAS, Engineering Student at Ecole Centrale Paris, France E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC : Bartman -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: color-ls??
Yes try the fileutils_3.13-4.deb package which replaces color-ls :) tho i can not seem to get it to do any background colors, only some of the foreground. -Rob On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: I can't seem to find the color-ls package. Has it been replaced by something else? Thanks, Chris. === Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key upon request 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] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XWindows Login Screen
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Dec 1996, Rob Browning wrote: Carlo U. Segre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed, that is what I meant above by saying that the configuration files seem OK. Both the Xresources files have valid entries in them for the 'greetColor' (CadetBlue) and 'greeting' (Debian Linux (CLIENTHOST)). Clearly the configuration files are not the problem but something else must be set improperly. I have the same problem here, so you're not alone. The files are fine, but xdm appears to ignore them... The problem is that xdm uses xrdb to read these configuration files in. xrdb has been broken for a while. It crashes if run with no options. My solution was to mv xrdb to xrdb.bin and create a shell script named xrdb that run xrdb.bin with the -nocpp option. Unfortunately, this did not solve the problem for me. Maybe I didn't follow the instructions correctly. The script file I put in xrdb is: #! /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb.bin -nocpp I still do not get the proper login screen. Maybe a bug report is in order? Cheers, Carlo I don't know about xrdb. But I had the same problem (XWindows instead of Debian (Hostname)). It was solved in my case by running the Xserver with 16 bit. I tried it only a minute ago by changing it back and on my computer the result with 8 bit is XWindows and with 16 bit is Debian. So try to set your Xserver (if it is capable) in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to 16 bit mode by appending -bpp 16. Here it helped but I don't know why :-| Greetings, Christian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nfs setup
Hi, This is a problem I tried to solve for about 3 weeks without much progress. My intended system setup has a dependency graph as follows... Sys-A -+--: Sys-B ---: Sys-C | | +-+ Where both Sys-C and Sys-B depends on Sys-A for an administrative directory containing the motd and hosts.* and Sys-B contains the home directory for both Sys-B and Sys-C. and Sys-C is a debian mirror. The reason for such an unusual setup involving Sys-A is that the uptime for Sys-B and Sys-C is dependent on the availability of the systems in my lab but Sys-A is consistently up. My problem is in the setting up of the nfs. Sys-B and Sys-C refuse to startup rpc.nfsd. they return the error: nfsd: could not make a UDP socket What is puzzling is that Sys-A's nfsd is up and running without any problem. I have tried copying the kernel to Sys-B and Sys-C to no avail. The intrigueing thing was that Sys-C actually worked twice.. both when I changed the kernel (when I copied Sys-A's kernel over and when I upgraded Sys-C to Debian 1.2). Unfortunately, it only lasted one reboot... afterwhich nothing else I tried worked. rpcinfo on Sys-(B|C) reports: No remote programs registered. Which is funny because `ps -xaef | grep rpc` returns: 712 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.nfsd INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.69 previous=N T 715 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.69 previous=N 662 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.69 previous= But if rpcinfo is ran locally, they return: program vers proto port 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 udp111 portmapper 132 udp 2049 nfs 132 tcp 2049 nfs 151 udp823 mountd 151 tcp825 mountd Sys-A and Sys-B are now on Debian 1.1, Sys-C is running Debian 1.2 I will upgrade Sys-B to Debian 1.2 when day breaks but am really reluctant to change anything on Sys-A, (unless Sys-B is willing to work). Things I have tried: 1) (Recompiling|borrowing|stealing) kernels from 2.0.(0|6|27) 2) Toyed with different setting of /etc/exports and /etc/fstab 3) Different settings of rpc.nfsd and rpc.mountd and rpc.portmap 4) Reinstalling Debian 1.1 and Debian 1.2 Can anyone please give any suggestion? Thanks Just me, Wire ... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[2]: PGP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The Reason for this is that RSA in america requires all to use RSAREF library for non-commercial use. There is a european rewrite of this RSA lib. Because it is a rewrite there are no copyright problems with the lib. Because it is not in america u r free to use RSA, cause the RSA patent is only (if at all) valid in the states. Actually, it is not an European rewrite. What PGP-i uses is the original encryption library from PGP's author Phil Zimmerman, which cannot be used in the States because of the RSA patent. RSA wants to keep the algorithm under complete control, so they won't allow any implementation other than their own to be distributed, not even the free one from Zimmerman. Because of that, Zimmerman's library, which is said to be better than RSA's (and compatible at the interface level) can only be enjoyed outside the United States. Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MC and libgpm.so.1
Hello, all. This morning I've been installing some Debian packages, and I've tried to install the Midnight Commander (../misc/mc_3.2.1-1.deb). It installed without warning or error, but when I attempt to use it, there is an error message Cannot find library libgpm.so.1 I thing, because the name of this library, that it's installed with the gpm package. But the gpm package is installed, and I didn't found this library in none of my directories. And gpm is working fine. In Debian 1.1 the Midnight Commander worked fine. Anyone know where is the library libgpm.so.1, or if it changed its name? Thanks. Alexander Gieg =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XWindows Login Screen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 12 Dec 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that xdm uses xrdb to read these configuration files in. xrdb has been broken for a while. It crashes if run with no options. My solution was to mv xrdb to xrdb.bin and create a shell script named xrdb that run xrdb.bin with the -nocpp option. Unfortunately, this did not solve the problem for me. Maybe I didn't follow the instructions correctly. The script file I put in xrdb is: #! /bin/sh /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb.bin -nocpp I still do not get the proper login screen. Maybe a bug report is in order? Using the -nocpp option simply won't work with xdm, just because the xdm configuration file /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources makes use of preprocessor macros like CLIENTHOST, to achive the fancy Debian Linux (thehost) title, and other similar features. If you disable the preprocessor with -nocpp the macros won't be susbstituted, thus making that X Window System (yes, I've seen it as well) to appear instead. I found another solution, however. The (apparently broken) xrdb, can be forced to work by invoking it as xrdb -cpp '/lib/cpp -traditional' I don't know why, but I have noticed that it is enough to invoke it *once* whith this options to commit it to work *for the whole X session*. That makes me think the problem has more to do with the Xserver than with xrdb itself. By the way, it would be good to know what Xserver is being used by those experiencing the problem. In my case, I've observed the problem with XF86_SVGA, but the ATI Mach64 server doesn't seem to have it. So, what I did was moving my xrdb to xrdb.bin just like Carlo did, an replacing it by the following script: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb.bin -cpp '/lib/cpp -traditional' $* (notice the $* at the end of the second line). Altough this is not a perfect replacement for xrdb (it doesn't work with the -cpp option) it seems to solve the problem for me. Regards, M. S. Martin A. Soto J. Profesor Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion Universidad de los Andes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 1.2 release?
1.2 is released. The announcement went out yesterday on debian-announce and various other venues. There are two companies selling CD-writables of Debian today: Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Connect Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Infomagic is coming out with a CD set with 1.2 on it. This CD has already been mastered, and I don't know how long duplication will take. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MC and libgpm.so.1
Mine is in /usr/lib/, is it in your PATH? The file libgpm.so.1 is not in /usr/lib, but Daniel Stringfield (thanks!) send it attached to me. I'll try it. Alexander =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= By: Alexander Gieg E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/3222 IRC: AlexG =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2
Bruce was asking for upgrade stories - here's a data point. I installed my first debian system from the Sept 96 Infomagic set. (I'm a slackware convert.) I have been happily running 1.1, and it was current when I decided to upgrade to 1.2. It is now running nicely, with all weirdnesses resolved, but it took some doing. Some of the problems may have been with the old version of dselect, I don't know. Anyhow, here are observations/problems/suggestions I have. I had problems with things requiring the newer libc5 getting installed. Even though the newer libc5 did get downloaded, other pkg's depending on it were slam-dunked because their installation was attempted first. There are several ways to get around this. Pick one. Installation of an updated gpm and xbase were a little problematical. With gpm, I think it was because the preinstall script was unable to nuke the old gpm. Don't know why. xbase install was also unable to nuke xdm and xfs. I had to go to a non-X console and do these by hand. The new sendmail dependencies may not be complete. When I tried to upgrade it for the first time, it went through but could not handle my simple configuration file. After the full upgrade went through, it worked fine with the same configuration file. Sounds like a version-sensitive dependency to me, but I haven't a clue as to what it is. It just barfed on a perfectly good config file, that's all. A final suggestion - with net traffic getting heavier, maybe dselect can be made to handle anon ftp login refusals because of loaded servers better. To check directories, update package files and download stuff requires 3 connects - If the last one fails, you have to go through the whole process again (at least on the old dselect). Maybe the first two steps might be optional (menuified)? Anyhow, thanks to all involved. Debian is great. I don't think I could go back to the chaos of slackware again. One last thing - it isn't really ALL ELF - uucp and friends are still ?MAGIC. Let's update this so I can get rid of a.out support in the kernel! Jim -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
