Re: root.dip: invalid group when installing ppp
David Gaudine writes: > When I try to configure ppp I get: > Setting up ppp (2.2.0f-19) ... > chown: root.dip: invalid group > dpkg: error processing ppp (--configure): I ran into that recently with diald. Turned out to be a typo in /etc/group. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: Local X application defaults
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James W. Lynch) wrote: >> Riku Saikkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Can X be set to read app-defaults >> > files in /usr/local/X11/app-defaults/ (or whatever) in addition to the >> > normal directory? >> You could try (ab-)using XUSERFILESEARCHPATH. Mine is currently >the XAPPLRESDIR environment variable is used to identify local application Hmm, okay, I'll try that. Thanks. As a more general question, should Debian (xbase or whatever) set something like that as default? I mean, Debian puts /usr/local/bin in the PATH, and /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.so.conf, so why not local app-defaults too? -- -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] In memory of Telonir-V, choked on a hill giant corpse in The Dungeons of Doom on level 20. May she rest in peace... NetHack is frustrating. :)
Re: How to change termcap defaults of an xterm?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes: > I would like to change the way xterm displays highlighted words. > Currently it underlines those words, but I would like to have it > change the background color to something else, let's say yellow > (as my xterm background is set to dark blue). > > What do I have to do to achieve this? Can think of which HowTo > to look for. I don't know if it is in a howto, but I have been doing it for several years. You just need to have the tools 'infocmp' and 'tic', which are both in the 'ncurses-bin' package. You can change the system definition or just your personal definition, but if you change the system one, you will probably have it overwritten whenever you upgrade. Assuming you are doing it as a user, just type something like: 'infocmp xterm >xterm' This will create a file called xterm with the terminfo source. I then change the values of bold, smso, and smul to: bold=\E[1;36m, smso=\E[1;33m, smul=\E[4;1;32m In this case, bold is set to bright cyan foreground, standout mode is set to bright yellow, and underline mode is set to bright green with underline. You would use something like 'smul=\E[4;43m' to set the underline to have a yellow background. You can test your colors at the shell prompt with something like: echo '\33[43m Testing yellow background \33[m' Once you have everything set up as you like, just type 'tic xterm' and it will compile the terminfo definition, and put it in a '.terminfo/' subdirecory in your home directory. Your shell will immediately start working with the new entry. If you do this as root, it will instead overwrite the system entry. -- Carl Johnson[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Connecting to a Windows NT server
You can very definitely make a connection to a Windows NT server. You neglected to say what kind of connection. PPP? Should be pretty easy. File service or printer sharing via a LAN-Manager-compliant protocol? Make sure to install TCP/IP and Microsoft file/printer sharing on the NT side. Use the "samba" and/or "ksmbfs" packages on the Linux side. Some other kind of connection? Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 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
Sz Package
Hi, I use minicom with the Sz package for Zmodem download, and was wonder, to resume a download is it sz -r, sz r, szr, or something else? Thanks, Pete Poff---AKA---BlackJack Personal E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kyron E-Mail Address:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kyron address: telnet.cyberconinc.com 4000
root.dip: invalid group when installing ppp
When I try to configure ppp I get: Setting up ppp (2.2.0f-19) ... chown: root.dip: invalid group dpkg: error processing ppp (--configure): Should I simply create the group using "addgroup"? What should the group ID be?
Re: Screen Saver
Nop, not the motherboard, thats one of the first things I checked. I'm able to control it now using the following commands: xset s off (for xwindows, will not go blank after 10 minutes) setterm -blank 0 (for my console sessions, does not go blank at all) Should these options be run as root ?? Matthew On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Klaus Hergerschiemer wrote: > Are you sure that your motherboard dosent have some powersaving feature > that is kicking in? > > Joseph Palicke > http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/palicke > > On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 00:09:54 -0500 (EST) > > From: Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Larry 'Daffy' Daffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Debian Users > > Subject: Re: Screen Saver > > Resent-Date: 14 Mar 1997 05:11:53 - > > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown:;@cs.purdue.edu > > > > Actually, even when I'm not in Xwindows the screen still goes blank after > > a few minutes. These is default on every Debian system I setup so far. > > Would anyone know where that setting is ? > > > > Matthew > > > > On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote: > > > > > "MT" == Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > MT> I like keeping a screen saver on sometimes but I see that Debian > > > MT> still blanks the display after a few minutes if I'm not using > > > MT> the system. Where is this option in Debian ? I want to disable > > > MT> it during the day. > > > > > > Look at the man page for xset. I believe you're looking for "xset s > > > off". > > > > > > HTH > > > -Larry > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the workstation in your PC! > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://web2.airmail.net/vizzie/ > > > Clarke's Third Law: > > > Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. > > > > > > > > > >
Re: Screen Saver
Are you sure that your motherboard dosent have some powersaving feature that is kicking in? Joseph Palicke http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/palicke On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 00:09:54 -0500 (EST) > From: Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Larry 'Daffy' Daffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Debian Users > Subject: Re: Screen Saver > Resent-Date: 14 Mar 1997 05:11:53 - > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Resent-cc: recipient list not shown:;@cs.purdue.edu > > Actually, even when I'm not in Xwindows the screen still goes blank after > a few minutes. These is default on every Debian system I setup so far. > Would anyone know where that setting is ? > > Matthew > > On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote: > > > "MT" == Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > MT> I like keeping a screen saver on sometimes but I see that Debian > > MT> still blanks the display after a few minutes if I'm not using > > MT> the system. Where is this option in Debian ? I want to disable > > MT> it during the day. > > > > Look at the man page for xset. I believe you're looking for "xset s > > off". > > > > HTH > > -Larry > > > > > > -- > > Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the workstation in your PC! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://web2.airmail.net/vizzie/ > > Clarke's Third Law: > > Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. > > > > >
Re: Login Incorrect with xdm...
On Mar 12, Mathieu LEGRAND wrote > my keyboard was not well configured. My AltGr key on > my french keyboard doesn't work. Therefore, this is a > bug of the Debian distribution ;-). Does someone know > how to fix this bug ? This isn't a bug but a bad confugiration of your XF86Config. Uncomment "RightAltModeShift" in your /etc/X11/XF86Config. -- David Rocher, [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ ANRTT - Linux CULTe | http://excalibur.inp-fc.fr/anrtt ]
Connecting to a Windows NT server
Hello =) Has anyone managed to succesfully connect a Windows NT server? THe How-To's I've looked up and the books I have bought assume I use a normal server (Unix/Linux) but unfortunately at work we run Windows NTfor our servers .. Thank you. Any RTFM please tell me where to find the information. Leandro+ --- Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro (LA672) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Any of the opinions I may have stated in the above message are just mine and do not necessarily reflect those of the Internet Frontier, Gamesmania or anyone else I may work for. ZimID 46B98555 1993/12/15 0D 6E 96 68 D6 B3 9A 96 20 ED 1F AF 11 46 13 79
gdb-> Can't find a default source file
Hi All, I would like to know does this debuger (GDB 4.16) work with fortran source files or no. Tried to set source directory using 'directory MySourc' but in vain. Thanks forward for any help. Eugene Sevinian Cosmic Ray Division Yerevan Phisics Institute Alikhanian's Brothers str.2 375036 Yerevan 36 Armenia URL: http://www.yerphi.am/crd/prs/sevinian.html Phone: 374-2-352041 (YerPhI), 374-2-344873 (aprt.) Fax: 374-2-350030
magicfilter and hp laserJetIIIp
Hi I have been using ghostscript 3.33 and magicfilter to produce printer PCL from postscript. With large documents, occasionally a strange character sequence appears on a page and some of the page body is skipped. Sometimes the printer just halts and refuses to continue. The printer has 3MB of RAM installed, so it's not a memory problem. I am using the ljet3 device driver. Is this OK for a HP LaserJetIIIp? Thanks Matt -- Matt DelaneyE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Space Science & Advanced Materials tel:+353 1 706 2202 (work) Physics Dept. 497 7480 (home) University College Dublin fax:283 7275 Belfield Dublin 4 IRELAND
Re: Strange problem with debian install
On 14 Mar 1997, Sven Rudolph wrote: > Brian Freeze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1) I just installed the lasted release of debian on a pentium 166 system > > with 64 megs of ram. This system has a pci etherlink XL card in it. > > > > Problem: I am having major delays in ftp'ing or telneting to any site from > > this system. When I try I get excessive delays when prompted for a username > > and passwd from the remote system. Once I get through that I also have the > > same delays if I use any commands such as "cd" or "ls" or give a command to > > download a file. > > I have the same problem here. I believe I saw a patch for this on a > web site listing inofficial Linux patches, but I don't remember the > URL. (This patch was for the 3c59x driver and was described to fix > some problem that occured on high network highload.) We're about to buy our first XL etherlink card. I already saw the URL: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html Hope it helps. Syrus. -- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>UCSD Physics Dept.
Re: Intel Network Card
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Qiang Rao wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get my Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 (Model A I believe) to > work in Linux. I used to have an old driver which only works with Intel > EtherExpress Pro 100 Model B. Does anyone know where I can get the > drivers for my ehternet card? [...] You may wanna try browsing http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html for one or two hints. /Bjorn - - - - umop apisdn 'sdoo - - - - Bjorn Isaksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Please :-( GE2500 Network card
Paulo Ramos wrote: > > No anwser ultil now... I would like to know where e can get the > driver for the network card GE2500. > As I've seen Bruce respond before... No answer == No one knows.
Re: could someone send me these files?
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:41:46 -0500 (EST) Richard Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you dial up to your ISP, with PPP, and your not on a network, please > send me the following. I have a simple dialup PPP connection to my PSP. I don't use diald. My installation is essentially the same as setup by the distribution. > /etc/init.d/network #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 This is unchanged from the distribution. > /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 206.103.141.50 bobspc bobspc.metrolink.net The first line in this file was set up by the distribution; I added the second. This may have been necessary since I didn't elect to configure the network from the installation program. A recent posting on this list said that the order of the entries on the second line is important. Mine used to be 206.103.141.50 bobspc.metrolink.netbobspc and it worked, bt I changed it after reading that message. My ISP uses dynamic address assignment. The 206.103.141.50 in this file is in the middle of the range of addresses that I am assigned. This was recommended in /usr/doc/ppp/README.linux.gz. I have seen postings in this list that said 127.0.0.1 could be used as well, but as long as it works, I'm not changing. I don't know if it is essential in this file, but many config files that are set up in columnar format must have at least one tab character, not blanks, between columns. I am always careful to set up all columnar config files this way. > /etc/network I don't have this file on my system. > and your /usr/bin/pon (if you use it) #!/bin/sh if [ -r /etc/ppp.options_out -a -r /etc/ppp.chatscript ]; then /usr/sbin/pppd connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp.chatscript" `cat /etc/ppp.options_out` else echo "You do not have permissions to access /etc/ppp.chatscript or /etc/ppp.options_out" fi This is unchanged from the distribution. Hope this helps. You didn't mention your specific problems. The biggest problems i have had in setting up ppp have been permissions on files and directories that kept non-root users from running ppp. Bob
Intel Network Card
Hi, I am trying to get my Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 (Model A I believe) to work in Linux. I used to have an old driver which only works with Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 Model B. Does anyone know where I can get the drivers for my ehternet card? thanks in advance, -Qiang
Re: Strange network problems
Brian Freeze typed: > If I telnet out or ftp out I wait long periods of time for the username to > be excepted then the passwd. From there it is the same for "ls" or any other > command. For example. System www2.deltastar.nb.ca is the system with the new > debian release on it and www.deltastar.nb.ca is the my main system with > debian 1.2 on it. BTW both systems have the same hardware as in system and > ethernet cards. > > I telnet or ftp over to www.deltastar.nb.ca and it takes forever to login > and do anything. If I login into the www2 system from www it is real fast > and know problems. Every ftp or telnet site I try from www2 takes forever to > get into and get anything done. I would say it could be two things: - Those hosts are having trouble doing a *reverse* DNS lookup. - Those hosts are trying to do a inetd. For the first, go into nslookup, and do something like this. $ nslookup Default Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 > set type=PTR > 17.13.136.44.in-addr.arpa Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 17.13.136.44.in-addr.arpa name = gonzo.vk2xlz.ampr.org 13.136.44.IN-ADDR.ARPA nameserver = gonzo.vk2xlz.ampr.org > exit The IP address I was trying to lookup was 44.136.13.17, notice on how it is reversed in the query? For the second reason, telnet to 127.0.0.1 port 113 and see if you get anything if you type something. - Craig -- // /\ | | | Craig Small VK2XLZ @home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||==||===|==|=| [44.136.13.17] @play: [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ \/ | | | finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key!
Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]
Carey Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 14 March 1997 13:32: >Here (with gzip 1.2.4-14) the postinst script is for /bin/sh. >I suspect the problem is the line in /etc/zshenv: > >PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:." > >which means that every time zsh is used, /usr/sbin gets removed from >the PATH, which is where install-info (a perl script used by the >postinst) is located. >I've commented out this line and put it into /etc/zlogin instead, >which corresponds with setting PATH for bash in /etc/profile. Maybe I >should file a bug report on zsh for this? If the zsh package has this line it's obviously a bug. Here I install it manually because I upgrade more often than the maintainer, and I don't have this line. Anyway, this isn't the problem; it happens in a read or something.
Re: fdate
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Jesse Goldman wrote: > I've run into what appears to be a library problem with one of my debian > systems. When I try to compile a fortran program one one of them, > compilation chokes at the linking stage because a subroutine called > "fdate" can't be found. This doesn't happen on any of the other machines > but all of them, as far as I can tell, have the same version of the > library packages installed (libc5, libelf etc...) Does anyone know what > package contains the library with the routine fdate? Maybe my old version > on this machine was destroyed somehow. Thanks.. Run `strace command-to-compile-fortran 2> out' in the machine that works, and in the machine it doesn't, and compare out. Nicolás Lichtmaier.- | From Buenos Aires, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Argentina!
Please :-( GE2500 Network card
No anwser ultil now... I would like to know where e can get the driver for the network card GE2500. TIA Paulo
Re: Strange problem with debian install
Brian Freeze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) I just installed the lasted release of debian on a pentium 166 system > with 64 megs of ram. This system has a pci etherlink XL card in it. > > Problem: I am having major delays in ftp'ing or telneting to any site from > this system. When I try I get excessive delays when prompted for a username > and passwd from the remote system. Once I get through that I also have the > same delays if I use any commands such as "cd" or "ls" or give a command to > download a file. I have the same problem here. I believe I saw a patch for this on a web site listing inofficial Linux patches, but I don't remember the URL. (This patch was for the 3c59x driver and was described to fix some problem that occured on high network highload.) Sven -- Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; WWW : http://www.sax.de/~sr1/
Strange problem with debian install
Greetings to the list. I am having a problem with my debian install and I was wondering if anyway else has any solutions? 1) I just installed the lasted release of debian on a pentium 166 system with 64 megs of ram. This system has a pci etherlink XL card in it. Problem: I am having major delays in ftp'ing or telneting to any site from this system. When I try I get excessive delays when prompted for a username and passwd from the remote system. Once I get through that I also have the same delays if I use any commands such as "cd" or "ls" or give a command to download a file. Funny part of the problem is if I ping the address I am telneting to from another login prompt at the same time I am trying to ftp or telnet, the session will work fine quite fast actually. Also if I use and ip address the reaction time is good for the connection. Ftp'ing and telneting into the new system works fine from any of my other systems one being linux and the other 2 being win95 machines. Both linux machines are running debian the system in question running debian 1.2 and the other system running debian 1.0. I have checked to see if the DNS setup for the machines is differant but both are running caching only name servers and the /etc/hosts files and /etc/resolv.conf files are much the same. Even if I have the remote address that I want to connect to in the /etc/hosts file I still get the delays. Any ideas of what could be causing this? Brian Freeze Deltastar Communications Ltd RR#2 Belleisle Cr. New Brunswick, CA E0G 1E0 Voice (506) 485-2541 Fax (506) 485-2129
Re: testing tonight
What's wrong with ASCII art? Just don't waste the time scrolling down to read it... Thought [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zipcon.net/thought/imain.html _/_/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/ On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Pure Energy wrote: > > > [annoying ASCII art .sig Bobbitted] > > Say adren, > > Are you a regular on alt.fan.warlord or something? Lose the nasty art. A > full page .sig is a bit excessive, don't you think? > > Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "There is a fine line between idiocy > My employers like me, but not | and genius. We aim to erase that line" > enough to let me speak for them. |--Unknown > > http://www.jasons.org/~jcostom > > > >
Re: Screen Saver
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: > Actually, even when I'm not in Xwindows the screen still goes blank after > a few minutes. These is default on every Debian system I setup so far. > Would anyone know where that setting is ? Try 'setterm -blank n', where n = 0 to 60 (minutes.) 0 = no blanking. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Steve wrote: > The problem is that the scripts only work with bash in sh mode and not > with sh-compatible shells such as ash. Try making /bin/sh a symlink to > /bin/ash and reboot. You'll get error messages from the startup So if these script doesn't work with ash nor zsh in sh-mode, then shouldn't they be changed to #!/bin/bash ? > Most people have no problem using ash or zsh for /bin/sh. But most > people are not Debian users. :-/ I'd like to have zsh as my *only* shell on the system. Apparently, this is not possible with Debian. What are those bash-specific options you refer to? Could the scripts be changed to work with ash & zsh's sh-compatible modes? // Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2:201/262.37]
Unsupported NM flag settings on CD-ROM mount
Hi, after mounting a self-toasted CD-ROM with Debian 1.2.7 I get tons of kernel messages like "Unsupported NM flag settings(2)". AFAIK this is because the CD-ROM has been made on an SGI workstation, which uses some extensions to ISO9660. It works however perfectly with "dpkg -i ...". The message comes from the kernel (printk in /usr/src/linux/fs/isofs/rock.c). Is there a better way than out-commenting this printk and re-buildung the kernel to get rid of these messages? I'm just curious why these annoying and apparently superflous messages are in the kernel at all since it works anyway. Thanks kws --- O##OO##O O##O O##O ==The famous "Schwebebahn"AA==suspension==AA===AA===railway===AA Dr. Karl-Wilhelm Schulte AA AA AA AA Bergische Univ.-GH/HRZ ,__AA__AA___AA_AA___. Gaussstr. 20 | || || || |X| |X| || || || | D-42097 Wuppertal | || || || |X| |X| || || || | Tel 0202/4392807,Fax -2910 |_|| ||___|| |X|_|X| ||___|| ||_| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | |X X| | | | | `==+=+=+=+X===X+=+=+=+=='
fdate
Hi, I've run into what appears to be a library problem with one of my debian systems. When I try to compile a fortran program one one of them, compilation chokes at the linking stage because a subroutine called "fdate" can't be found. This doesn't happen on any of the other machines but all of them, as far as I can tell, have the same version of the library packages installed (libc5, libelf etc...) Does anyone know what package contains the library with the routine fdate? Maybe my old version on this machine was destroyed somehow. Thanks.. J. Goldman
Re: Screen Saver
For the console, I believe "setterm -blank 0" is what you want. It won't change the X screen blanker, though, which uses a different mechanism. You can use xset, or I believe there is an option to set the blank time in the XF86Config file. -Larry -- Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the workstation in your PC! [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://web2.airmail.net/vizzie/ Ray's Rule of Precision: Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe.
Re: Screen Saver
Actually, even when I'm not in Xwindows the screen still goes blank after a few minutes. These is default on every Debian system I setup so far. Would anyone know where that setting is ? Matthew On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Larry 'Daffy' Daffner wrote: > "MT" == Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MT> I like keeping a screen saver on sometimes but I see that Debian > MT> still blanks the display after a few minutes if I'm not using > MT> the system. Where is this option in Debian ? I want to disable > MT> it during the day. > > Look at the man page for xset. I believe you're looking for "xset s > off". > > HTH > -Larry > > > -- > Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the workstation in your PC! > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://web2.airmail.net/vizzie/ > Clarke's Third Law: > Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. > >
Re: Screen Saver
"MT" == Matthew Tebbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MT> I like keeping a screen saver on sometimes but I see that Debian MT> still blanks the display after a few minutes if I'm not using MT> the system. Where is this option in Debian ? I want to disable MT> it during the day. Look at the man page for xset. I believe you're looking for "xset s off". HTH -Larry -- Larry Daffner| Linux: Unleash the workstation in your PC! [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://web2.airmail.net/vizzie/ Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Re: could someone send me these files?
Hello! Richard Morin writes: > > Hi folks, I'm still having some difficulty with my setup, but I trudge on. > No questions this time, just a request for some files so I can compare and > see for myself what I'm doin' wrong. > > If you dial up to your ISP, with PPP, and your not on a network, please > send me the following. > [..SNIP..] > > and anything else you thing might help from looking at this. > > TIA > Rich M > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Try reading the "Network Administrators' Guide", where you can find a lot of information building up a connection. There you can get the information about the files you need to configure (incl. /etc/hosts, /etc/networks, ...), and other information, e.g. configuration of mail and news software. You will find it really helpful. You can get it from sunsite.unc.edu (and its mirrors) in pub/Linux/docs/LDP/ among other useful books. If you can't get it (because your connection is totally down), I can mail it to you (or the relevant chapters). But be aware, that the total file is very big (338048 Bytes: nag-1.0.html.tar.gz), there are other formats, ascii and ps also, but they are not good for online reading. Hope you can cope with your trouble, Marcus. p.s.: if you want to share, mail me. I am trying to build up the same connection like you (stand alone machine to ISP via PPP)
Re: lprng+samba+some_filter? (WAS: LPD network printing)
>The problem is that I cann't get these three things working together. What >I did what set magicfilter as an input filter (if=whatever), and a shell >script that calls samba_print as an output filter (of=whatever), >but this doesn't work. In the printcap, lp is set to /dev/null, but >there's nothing unusual. I haven't yet tackled the .dvi thing (because I don't use DVI) but I have a script that works with lpr and a shared windows printer via samba. If you can figure out a way to detect dvi files then I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work. Oh, the printer is a deskjet 500 (ie. non postscript and it now prints postscript files perfectly so...)... It works really well for me... good luck. Adam. -- printcap entry -- Samba HP 500|smb|lp:\ :lp=/dev/null:sd=/var/spool/lpd/smb:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/usr/local/etc/smbprint:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/smb/acct:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: -- end printcap -- -- smbprint -- #!/bin/sh -x eval acct_file=\$$# spool_dir=`dirname $acct_file` config_file=$spool_dir/.config eval `cat $config_file` echo "server $server, service $service" >> $logfile IFS='' read first_line first_two_chars=`expr "$first_line" : '%!'` if [ "$first_two_chars" = "2" ]; then # it's PostScript ( echo "print -" /usr/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r300 -sDEVICE=djet500 \ -sOutputFile=- - ) | /usr/bin/smbclient "$server\\$service" $password -U $server -N -P else # it's plain text ( # NOTE You may wish to add the line #`echo translate' if you want automatic # CR/LF translation when printing. echo translate echo "print -" echo $first_line cat echo -e "\f" ) | /usr/bin/smbclient "$server\\$service" $password -U $server -N -P fi -- end smbprint -- -- .config -- # Name of the windows computer server=scobie # Name of the shared printer service=pumper # Password (in this case none) password="" -- end .config --
Re: fvwmrc --> fvwmrc2
On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Paul Rightley wrote: > I have heard a mention here of a (Debian?) install script that might convert a > .fvwmrc file to a .fvwmrc2 file. Where can I find such a utility? It comes with the fvwm2 package, and automatically makes the changes when fvwm2 is installed. However, be sure to back up your old .fvwmrc files, just in case...
Re: GNU/Linux 1.2, help please!
I have System Commander as well. What it wants to do to laod linux is find lilo on the boot(right word?) sector of the partition linux is on, not the MBA of the whole disk. Lilo can be configured this way, but I'm not sure the Debian distribution has an option set up for doing it on install through the scripts. I am between distributions myself at the moment, when I get the time to put Debian on again (had 1.1 before buying a new computer) I think I'll just ditch System Commander in favor of lilo. It can load other OSs as well for you if you want. I like six eggs when starting on a journey. Fried - not poached. And mind you don't break 'em. I won't eat a broken egg. -- Thorin Oakenshield
Re: Cannot get full speed download on ppp
Thank you John, Just more info about it. Last night i did not give up and tried any BIOS settings i could think of but still the problem existed except when i tried: chdir to /extra ( this is on /dev/hdc1 ) tried a ftp session to retrieve a zipped file - lo and behold, i can download it ( 300K size ) at 3.1K bytes per second. quit to session and cd to my home directory ( /dev/hda ) started a ftp session and download the same file to that directory BAD now, the transfer rate was 2.6 K bytes per second. This could mean that there are some problems with my /dev/hda which is a quantum fireball 1G disk. So far i did not get bad sectors in dos, linux always started and said disks clean. PS: the drive on /dev/hdc is an old Maxtor 345 M harddisk (ATA mode 2 ). I may try your suggestions later and hope that will solve download problem. Regards. Paul John T. Larkin wrote: > > > I don't what i have done to my system. Recently i found that my > > download speed from our server at most can give me 2.6k byte/s ftp. > > You should try two things: > 1) Use hdparm to optimize the performance of your disks. I recomend >the '-u' option to unmask the IRQ for data transfers. Be careful >with this, as it (supposedly) has been known not to work on some >systems and causes severe data corruption. > 2) Use irqtune to give the serial port the highest priority. > > > I used to be able to > > get 3.1K bytes/s downloading compressed file. > I really don't know why you used to be able to get this performance, > but no longer (unless you just happened to hit a really busy time of > day, and your ISP couldn't get data fast enough). My 386-40, with an > old 8250 uart and external 28.8 modem, can get thru-put of 2.8ish for > transfers. This generates about 6000 interupts per second, and pretty > much pushes the limits of the old hardware (a newer 16550 uart would > help by greatly reducing the number of interupts). > I'm slightly confused by your situation, because you really should > have no problems with a p-133 and internal modem or 16550 uart on the > serial port. > Anyway, try it, and if it helps > > Good luck, > -- > - John Larkin > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - http://aij.st.hmc.edu/~jlarkin -- -- Paul Chau Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Facilities Management & SupportPhone: +61 2 9287 4647 231 Elizabeth St., Sydney Fax:+61 2 9287 5754 Telstra Australia Snail: ISG/FMS, Locked Bag 6728, G.P.O. Sydney, N.S.W. Australia 1100
Re: /bin/sh != /bin/bash ? [was Re: zsh vs bash]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] > The only problem is that some packages, such as gzip, give an error > in the perl (!!??) postinst script. Here (with gzip 1.2.4-14) the postinst script is for /bin/sh. I suspect the problem is the line in /etc/zshenv: PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:." which means that every time zsh is used, /usr/sbin gets removed from the PATH, which is where install-info (a perl script used by the postinst) is located. I've commented out this line and put it into /etc/zlogin instead, which corresponds with setting PATH for bash in /etc/profile. Maybe I should file a bug report on zsh for this? -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Linux and Linux-like systems such as UNIX(R) and FreeBSD..." - Yggdrasil Computing, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
sound-blaster/ide channel 2
Hiya Debian users! I just upgraded from Slackware 2.0 to Linux/Gnu 1.2.8 (read reformatted harddrive and installed Debian) So far things are great except for 2 things... I have a 8bit (old but stable) SoundBlaster (Factory default setup, IRQ 5 etc etc) and so far have been unable to figure out *how* to set it up under debian...I know debian uses modules and believe that it uses them for the sound card... 2. I have an IDE CDROM(Sony CDU55E) on IDE channel 2 (/dev/hdc) (only device on the second channel, CD is setup as master, and works without any problems under dos) However I can't seem to get Linux to reconize that *anything* is on /dev/hdc is there a way to let the kernel know that the CD is on ide1 ? Thanx for your time! any RTFM replies please point to what manual and where I can find it :-) Tadhge De Djin <><><><><><><><><[EMAIL PROTECTED]><><><><><><>
