Re: SVGATextMode?
Also works great for me too! I had no problems setting it up, although I was a bit scared the first time I ran the program as it talked about what to do if you lose or can't see any text. I'm using SVGATextMode with the S3 Trio64 video chip set. Matthew On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Hello! This (s. below at ~~~) is definitly wrong. SVGATextMode does not only increase the number of lines on the screen. Setting kernel vidmode results only in 80x25, 80x28 and 80x50 modes. There is no gain for your eyes in that, but: * With SVGATextMode you get all out of the expensive modern video cards. The old EGA modes work - at a low refresh rate, with SVGATextmode you can increase the refresh rate to whatever your card supports. - with the same font, so your characters get smaller and smaller in higher modes, with SVGATextMode you can set the font size as you like (if you have the consoilefonts installed). - with 80 chars per line. With SVGATextMode you can built your *own* modes. With a little knowledge (see docs in /usr/doc/svgatextmode) you can create the mode *you* like. Try 50*15 (if you have bad eyes :-). So you can get the most out of your monitor and video card. I use S100x37 (an enriched 100x37) mode with 9x16 font on a 15 Monitor at horizontal scan of 56.5 kHz and a vertical scan of 84 Hz (!) (pixel clock 65.05MHz) and it is really smooth. To the question of documentation: READ THE DOCS, and do it carefully. You could crash something if you do wrong! SVGATextMode does not autotest your card, so try modes at lesser refresh rate first. If you have a special question, mail me your problem and spec. of card and mon (you have to know your card, clock chip, RAMDAC, refresh rates of your monitor...). If you get it working, it works just fine, believe me. Marcus. Thought writes: Why do you want to run SVGATextMode anyway? I ran it once and it was more trouble than it's worth. The only good of it is to make more lines on the screen, and you can set your kernel vidmode to EXT for that (50 line ~~~ mode) On Sun, 16 Mar 1997, Bjoern Starke wrote: Hello, where to find a good HOWTO or FAQ for SVGATextMode? I have read the manpages and found them very unintelligible and userunfriendly. Has anyone running a S3 Graphics 2001 (Stealth Dram 64) running with it and can mail me his TextConfig file to have a look at it? Thanksbjoern
Re: My screen gets messed up :-(
Debian - Leander Berwers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi list After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I correct this 'problem'? try to avoid messing up your screen (some recipes to restore it have already been sent, but your terminal can get into really bad states). less escapes non-printable chars; you can also make it an alias for more in your .profile
Re: Security Issue
Matthew Tebbens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not sure if this is normal, but it seems that any file owned by someone else and in one of my directories can be deleted by me even if I don't have the proper permissions to do so. I also can rename the file, but I can't alter the file. This holds true even if the file is owned by root. Is this normal ? yes, for deleting/renaming a file entry in a directory you need write permission for that directory. To change the contents of the file (deleting is deleting and not changing the contents) you need write permission for the file.
Re: Security Issue
David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew You could use chattr to make the file immutable. It is documented as chattr(1). Also see lsattr(1). but keep in mind that it's an extension only valid for the ext2 filesystem.
Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support
Markus Diesmann wrote: We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with all its disks connected to a Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3 controller. Does anyone have experience with this controller? Do we have to expect any problems with the driver? Markus I have been using for some time and have had no problems, including booting from it. dirac:/home/evan# time dd if=/dev/sda3 of=/dev/null bs=20971520 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 0.01user 0.93system 0:03.62elapsed 25%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (75major+5128minor)pagefaults 0swaps This corresponds to a transfer of 5.5Mb/sec, which seems to about the same as Win95 users get. Thanks, Evan. -- Evan Thomas Department of Physiology University of Melbourne Parkville, 3052 ph: 9344-5849 fax: 9344-5818
Re: Security Packages
Last I looked, cops was not debianized. There is little reason for it since it need _lots_ (and simple) twinking to make it work right but with minimal results. It is not worth it. For filesystem security, it is worth to redirect your time to cfengine and tripwire (both are debian packages), to fixperms, and scanning regularly the log files. -- Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: Seems like there used to be a COPS package, or something similar, that did a fairly automated security audit of one's Linux system. Can't seem to find or recollect what it was. Anyone know of a program to do this? Is it a Debian package? Thanx! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE...
Re: Problem with Smail
Lars Hallberg writes: I think smail refuses to rewrite the from: field. Putting from_field=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ($fullname) in /etc/smail/config works for me. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: yaq (yet another question)
i still can't mount remote file systems, but i think that is because the fle system isn't being exported to me and it will be a while before he (the sysadmin) can make that change Depending on the type of use of the file system (e.g. for software), maybe it is already exported (readonly) to the whole domain. To check it, you can log into the machine which owns the file system you want, and use the command showmount -e, and that will show you which file systems are exported and to which machines. The location of this command varies from system to system (e.g. /usr/sbin, /usr/etc), but many machines have the command whereis (whereis showmount) that will let you know the complete path of the command. The file system you want, as I recall, is a user file system, and in this case the system administrator might be reluctant to export the file system to you. Why ?? -- I don't know how to map users and uid numbers between different unix machines. But to the extent that I know, without mapping, the same person will have to have the same uid (login name will not matter) in the two machines. Otherwise you won't be able to write in the area that should belong to you, and you *will* be able to write in somebody else's area, if in your machine you have the same uid as some other person in the machine exporting the file system to your machine! Therefore the sysadmin from the other machine might be reluctant to export his machine's file system to you! In my institution we decided not to export big machine's file system to any linux machine, unless the owner of the linux machine gives up the privilege of becoming root! We also normalized uids among users (we don't do mapping): each user has one only uid that should be used in any account he has in all machines of the institution. Some machines can export the parent directory simultaneously to subdirectories of the same parent directory (e.g., /users to machine1 and /users/user to machine2. If this is the case in the machine you want to get the file systems, than the sysadmin will probably not have restrictions to exporting only the directory which belongs to you. Sorry I only talked about a past subject... % MARCIA TAKAGUI E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % Instituto de Fisica - USP [EMAIL PROTECTED] % Dept. Fisica Geral PHONE: (55) (11) 818-6811 % PO Box 66318 FAX: (55) (11) 813-4334 % 05315-970 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil == new since Oct 22 96
Re: My screen gets messed up :-(
On 17:14:44 Paul Wade wrote: After I do a 'more (binary file)' often my command prompt and everything I type is unreadable. This has probably something to do with ANSI. How can I correct this 'problem'? sometimes the clear command solves it sometimes I logout and login again Paul Wade, CEO Try the 'reset' command! Paul *
Re: Problem with Smail
Hello! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lars Hallberg writes: I think smail refuses to rewrite the from: field. Putting from_field=From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ($fullname) in /etc/smail/config works for me. I have the same line in my /etc/smail/config, but I feel *VERY* sick about it, because *EVERY* mail gets this From: field. No! The From: field must be user dependent, or there is something wrong. But after spending too much time about too much documentations, I didn't find a solution. Perhaps anybody out there can help? This will be very appriciated. (If it is of interest for this subject, I use elm but will try mutt soon) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a question (stupid?)
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, d. nathan hood wrote: i am having some problems mounting a remote file system on my computer. i have PPP up and running and am having no problems with it, but when i try and mount a remote file system i get an unknown file system error the command i am using is mount prophet4.unl.edu:/usr1/user5/nhood /disks/prophets -t nfs 1. the -t nfs should come at the start of the line, like so: mount -t nfs prophet4.unl.edu:/usr1/user5/nhood /disks/prophets see 'man mount' for more information. 2. does your kernel support nfs? you have to either have it compiled into the kernel or as a module. if it is compiled into the kernel, you don't need to do any more. if it is compiled as a module, you need to edit /etc/modules and add a line containg nfs. to load the nfs module by hand without rebooting, type modprobe nfs from a root shell. btw, you can check what filesystem types are currently supported in your kernel by typing: cat /proc/filesystems or use the procinfo command. see 'man procinfo'. also another question, when i try and start a remote application through X-windows (XFree86) i get an error something about the server not being able to access the client or the other way around. is there a file hat i need to edit to allow the two machines to communicate? again i have tried to find it in the docs and FAQs and have not gotten much help... xhost is the command you need to use. try 'xhost +remotehostname' to allow remotehostname to use your DISPLAY. craig
X11 Permission denied
Hi all, I'm using xdm, which starts on boot, on my Debian system. If I login as rob and then su, I can't get any X apps to work. They all fail with the following error: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Initialization error: X server not responding : :0.0 I havn't been able to find anything in the docs and I know this has been answerd by the list before, but I can't find it in the archives either. Would someone be so kind as to point me in the right direction. Thanks Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine. Rob MacWilliams [EMAIL PROTECTED] N9NPU
Re: X11 Permission denied
I'm using xdm, which starts on boot, on my Debian system. If I login as rob and then su, I can't get any X apps to work. They all fail with the following error: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server What I do is: (1) in my regular user window, use xhost + my_host_name (though I saw people not recommending this) (2) in the window I su to other user, set the environment variable DISPLAY: (i) setenv DISPLAY my_host_name:0.0 (for tcsh) (ii)DISPLAY=my_host_name:0.0(for bash) export DISPLAY Then from that window I can open X applications. I don't know of other better way of doing this % MARCIA TAKAGUI E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] % Univ Sao Paulo - Fisica - DFGE PHONE: (55) (11) 818-6811 % PO Box 66318, Sao Paulo, SPFAX: (55) (11) 813-4334 % 05315-970 BRAZIL == new zip code since Oct 22 96
Re: yaq (yet another question)
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:03:26 CST d. nathan hood ([EMAIL PROTECTED] u) wrote: now for the question... i am using xdm to launch an x-server as soon as i boot the machine, this x-server starts in 8 bit color, and i don't seem to be able to get it to switch to 16 bit color no matter how hard i try. (the card is a #9FX Motion 771 w/ 2mb of ram so it will support the higher colordepth) To do this, modify /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers and change the line: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X to: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 Phil.
Re: Module utilities disappeared
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 12:24:51 PST Garrett Jost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am now using the unstable Debian release with a custom-built 1.0.27 kernel. A week or two ago, I somehow lost the module utilities (modprobe, insmod, etc.) while I was doing a dselect ftp update from unstable. It could have been because my /usr filesystem filled up. I was able to fix it by copying the utilities from a 1.1 disk. Now I want to put back the up-to-date module utilities, but I can't find which pkg it is in. I though it was in module, but that package is a dummy. It refers to a package called modutil, but I can't find it anywhere. There's been a packing problem. Before, the modules package contained the module utilities. Now, it's the modutils package. What happened is that the modules/modutils maintainer prepared an empty transition modules package, but it got to the mirrors before the modutils package. As of today, modutils isn't yet in bo. So revert to rex's modules package. Phil.
Re: X11 Permission denied
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 18:00:27 EST Rob MacWilliams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm using xdm, which starts on boot, on my Debian system. If I login as rob and then su, I can't get any X apps to work. They all fail with the following error: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Initialization error: X server not responding : :0.0 If you're suing to root, just do: export XAUTHORITY=home of the user you were/.Xauthority If you're suing to someone else: As the user you're suing from: xauth list As the user you're suing to: xauth add paste here the yourmachine/unix:0 line Recommended lectures: (3x)Xsecurity (1x)xauth (1x)xhost Phil.
Re: Upgrading from slackware to debian
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: Any suggestions? [...] You then need to obtain the non-debian source for dpkg. Once you have this compiled and running, you need to carefuly install the base system, using dpkg -i. Start with ld.so and libc5 and the rest should go smoothly. The procedure you describe is perfect.. but.. I users asks I would suggest: Moving everything to /usr/local and untar base*.tgz from root. This should be much safer... I think... Perhaps one very secure procedure should be chosen and included in the FAQ list. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- | From Buenos Aires, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Argentina!
Re: Security Issue
FYI, your mailer is broken. The headers mention calyx.net as a return address, but there's no calyx.net domain around... Well, actually, there's a Calyx.net domain in WHOIS, suspended yesterday. Say thank you to Internic, NSF and NSI ! I'm posting on debian user, in case this message doesn't arrive... On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:48:54 EST Brian S. Julin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: Congratulations, you've found a big *nix security flaw ! Hardly. It's only a flaw to people who haven't RTFM. It's a valuable feature actually. If you don't like it and you want your ext2fs partitions to behave after the braindead OSF-1 implementation style, read the manual page for 'mount'. Oh, sorry, I should have put a ton of smileys... Phil.
compile problem
Hi all, When I try to compile a program with -l*(anything from /usr/X11R6/lib), I get no such a file or directory error. I have /usr/X11R6/lib in my /etc/ld.so.conf, and I have ran ldconfig -v. I'm out of ideas as to what I need to do in order to make this error message go away. So far, I have just link files from /usr/X11R6/lib/* to /usr/lib/, but this is so ugly. Thanks for any help, David I have ran ldconfig -v. I'm running ideas as to what I need to do in order to make this error message go away. So far, I have just link files from /usr/X11R6/lib/* to /usr/lib/, but this so ugly
Re: Upgrading from slackware to debian
On This Day, In The Year of Our Lord 18 Mar 97, 13:23 I wonder if it is possible to upgrade from slackware to debian, and keep most of my system. Is there an easy way to do this, or should I just fdisk the thing and start all over? I wouldn't mind finding out myself. I am very new to Linux and I am just trying to understand the difference between the various distributions. What is the difference between Red-Hat, Debian and Slackware? Thanks =) Leandro+ ___ Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro (LA672) Assistant to the Editor and Localization, IFRONT Internet Frontier, Toronto, Canada Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (416) 656-2659 ext. 425 Fax: (416) 656-0863 Rumenta: per chi non si accontenta. ZimID 46B98555 1993/12/15 0D 6E 96 68 D6 B3 9A 96 20 ED 1F AF 11 46 13 79
Re: Upgrading from slackware to debian
On This Day, In Th
Re: Security Packages
There is a program that probes a machine quite extensively for security holes (from what I hear from trusted sources). It is called SATAN (security analysis tool for auditing networks) Here is a few url's to get you going... http://www.interaus.net/1995/6/satan.html http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/f-20.shtml http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9125110/satan.html I don't believe it is a debian package, someone feel free to prove me wrong because I truly don't know. On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: Seems like there used to be a COPS package, or something similar, that did a fairly automated security audit of one's Linux system. Can't seem to find or recollect what it was. Anyone know of a program to do this? Is it a Debian package? Thanx! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE... = | dpk| | | DECS, Systems Undergrad | It is better for them to think you | === a fool, than to open your mouth| | work: 353.8892 | and prove it. -Mark Twain | | page: 253.0724 | | =
Connection closed by foreign host.
I have a problem that I havent been able to fix. Since I upgraded everything from 1.2 to 1.2.7 I havent been able to telnet into my machine. I have tried everything from deleting host.allow and hosts.deny and then touching them to installing the new netstd and nothing seems to help. I cant rlogin either but I do get mail along with other services. What happens exactally is I try to telnet in and I get Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. I have tried telneting in from off machine but that dosent make any difference either. Can anyone help? Jason KillenQuestion Stupidity Monolith : driven by inner daemons RPS : better living through world [EMAIL PROTECTED]domination
16bit X-windows
hi does anyone know how to configure x-windows 2 display 16 bit color? i have a diamond stealth 2400XL and i'm running the S3V Server, but it only loads X w/ a depth of 8. thanks dOn
X P70 monitor
hi i have an IBM P70 Monitor and i was wondering if anyone knew where i can get the proper sync timings for X-Windows. I'd like 2 set it up w/ 1024x768. thanks dOn
Re: make-kpkg
Hi,
You do not give the kernel version number, so I can't tell
whether or not you are running into the problem with sed and kernel
config scripts ...
I'm including an excerpt from /usr/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz
manoj
==
This is an (incomplete) list of problems that people have encountered
in the past while using kernel-package. Please remember to configure
the kernel for your machine using make menuconfig, and to clean the
source tree before compiling a new image using make-kpkg clean.
[munch]
d) make-kpkg goes into an infinite loop when trying to make oldconfig.
This is _not_ a bug with kernel-package, it is a well known
incompatibility between the new version of sed (which has suddenly
become POSIX compliant) and the kernel sources (which did not expect
sed to behave this way).
The fix is to apply the following patch to the kernel sources.
--- scripts/Configure.dist Mon Jan 20 14:43:24 1997
+++ scripts/Configure Tue Jan 21 05:41:30 1997
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@
def=${old:-$3}
while :; do
readln $1 ($2) [$def] $def $old
- if expr $ans : '0$\|-?[1-9][0-9]*$' /dev/null; then
+ if expr $ans : '0$\|-\?[1-9][0-9]*$' /dev/null; then
define_int $2 $ans
break
else
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@
while :; do
readln $1 ($2) [$def] $def $old
ans=${ans#*[x,X]}
-if expr $ans : '[0-9a-fA-F]+$' /dev/null; then
+if expr $ans : '[0-9a-fA-F]\+$' /dev/null; then
define_hex $2 $ans
break
else
--
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think
about. Whorf
Manoj Srivastava url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mobile, Alabama USAurl:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/
Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with all its disks connected to a Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3 controller. Does anyone have experience with this controller? Do we have to expect any problems with the driver? Markus I use this controller without problems. When I was about to buy it, I was advised that early releases were unreliable, but a recently manufactured one should be fine. The controller is also very sensitive to bad cables; buy a kit and use the cables supplied by Adaptec.
Re: kernel patch for sound config woes
Hi, Richard == Richard Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Richard Hi folks, I've finally gotten around to focusing on my kernel Richard sound problems, and I just need some info about just how I go Richard about applying the patch that is mentioned in Richard /usr/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz Just a little leary bout Richard causing a larger error :-) 1) cd /usr/src/linux (or wherever you have kept the kernel sources) 2) zcat /usr/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz kpatch 3) patch -s kpatch 4) find . -name \*.rej (any output is a cause for concern) 5) find . -name \*.orig (just one orig file should show up) 6) make menuconfig (or config or xconfig, take your pick) 7) make-kpkg clean 8) make-kpkg -r Custom.1.0 kernel_image 9) dpkg --contents ../kernel-image-*.deb 10) dpkg -i ../kernel-image-*.deb (when you are satisfied with the image) Best of luck. manoj -- Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything. Karl Lehenbauer Manoj Srivastava url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile, Alabama USAurl:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/
Re: 16bit X-windows
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, ( Don ) wrote: hi does anyone know how to configure x-windows 2 display 16 bit color? i have a diamond stealth 2400XL and i'm running the S3V Server, but it only loads X w/ a depth of 8. thanks dOn have you tried? startx -- -bpp 16 Richard Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] === It was as small as the hope in a dead man's eyes.
pointing device on Toshiba Satellite 110CS
Hi On a Toshiba Satellite 110CS I would like to be able to use the pointing deviec situated on the keyboard instead of an external mouse attached to the serial port, which I want that to use for a modem. The info I'm after is the device and protocol to enter in XF86Setup. I guess I have to recompile the kernel with the proper support? Karsten
Re: Security Issue
If someone else owns the directory that the file is in, then they basically own the file allocation table and can rename the file to anything they want, or remove the filename alltogether. It's basically like they own the filecabinet, and the other person's file is in the cabinet. Even though they may have a lock on the file so that nobody can read it, the person who owns the cabinet can throw out the file. Isn't that how it should be? On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, Matthew Tebbens wrote: I'm not sure if this is normal, but it seems that any file owned by someone else and in one of my directories can be deleted by me even if I don't have the proper permissions to do so. I also can rename the file, but I can't alter the file. This holds true even if the file is owned by root. Is this normal ? If so, what things can I do to someone elses file thats in one of my directories , just delete or rename the file ? As root, what if I want to keep a file in someones directory without them deleteing it ? As I see it now, that can't be done ?!?!? Matthew
Re: Problem with Smail
On Mar 19, Marcus Brinkmann wrote : Hello! : : I have the same line in my /etc/smail/config, but I feel *VERY* sick about : it, because *EVERY* mail gets this From: field. No! The From: field must be : user dependent, or there is something wrong. But after spending too much : time about too much documentations, I didn't find a solution. Perhaps : anybody out there can help? This will be very appriciated. Try: echo 'testmail' | /usr/sbin/smail somewhereout and have a look into the files in /var/spool/smail/incoming or whereever your mail gets relayed. (Probably you should set the `queue_only' config variable, or add the ?? option for queue_only to the above line.) : (If it is of interest for this subject, I use elm but will try mutt soon) ... mutt seems to be really cool, for elm users. Heiko -- private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp: A1 7D F6 7B 69 73 48 35 E1 DE 21 A7 A8 9A 77 92 finger : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 16bit X-windows
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, ( Don ) wrote: hi does anyone know how to configure x-windows 2 display 16 bit color? i have a diamond stealth 2400XL and i'm running the S3V Server, but it only loads X w/ a depth of 8. thanks dOn have you tried? startx -- -bpp 16 Richard Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course you can make it a permanent change by editing file /etc/X11R6/bin/startx and add the following line to it: serverargs=-bpp 16 The startx command will always launch the 16-bit mode afterwards. Alain. -- Alain Nadeau[EMAIL PROTECTED] Medieval Studies Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland http://www.unifr.ch/iem/welcome.html
xvmount_3.6-2 uploaded to master
I have uploaded the corrected package xvmount_3.6-2 to master. It should appear in unstable as soon as it is moved automatically out of Incoming. Users of the previous package xvmount_3.6-1 should upgrade as soon as possible since the old version contains a security hole which allows normal users to gain root access. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Format: 1.5 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 21:45:00 +0200 Source: xvmount Binary: xvmount Architecture: source i386 Version: 3.6-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: high Maintainer: Volker Ossenkopf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: xvmount- Small graphical utility for mounting devices by users. Changes: xvmount (3.6-2) unstable; urgency=high . * Changed defaults equivalent to user mounts (noexec, nosuid, nodev) * Removed possibility to use an alternative configuration file * Corrected bug in description field * Compressed man page * Corrected maintainers address Files: 9fdf7b17d46bea7dfe00b44ae945fcf4 539 x11 extra xvmount_3.6-2.dsc a9a134b1190ae5fe4d7feaca66d271c7 3652 x11 extra xvmount_3.6-2.diff.gz 5f54075b571b97b6311370744e71ad1c 10408 x11 extra xvmount_3.6-2_i386.deb -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQBVAwUBMy2wMWEcOYUGBVv5AQHnvQH/XoGvX4C82DZMK8ADt5YMqRO47cMHt+nU VHxBTk/GDf1irirEdUdZB5LgRtx/WFuYaVdZKJaw5/yUgCHg2Rp0UA== =N14P -END PGP SIGNATURE- Best wishes -- Volker - Volker OssenkopfKOSMA (Kölner Observatorium für submm-Astronomie) Tel.: 0221 47034851. Physikalisches Institut der Fax.: 0221 4705162 Universität zu Köln E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Debian Linux install. from CD Set
I am new at installing Linux. I have problems on how to proceed when trying to create the booting floppies from the CD set, where my Debian distribution of Linux is. I have look for installation instructions: not a single line of usefull info. Please, don't ask me to access the www.debian.org web site. There's nothing usefull in it. Could anybody please explain me in some detail how to proceed with the installation? Thanks folks, Marisol
Re: where is libpam0 fot samba 1.9.16p11-2
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Where I can found the package libpam0 for the samba 1.9.16p11-2? Thanks -- Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.imola.queen.it/user/arcangeli/ Debian GNU __ _ _ __ __ _ _ /\ ( ) (_ _)( \( )( )( )( \/ ))( )(__ _)(_ ) ( )(__)( ) ( \/ ()()(_)\_)(__)(_/\_)() Because of this or some related problem, my samba got broken. It doesn't accept passwords from the win95 client. My temporary workaround is at ftp://ftp.greenbush.com/pub/samba/ Paul Wade, CEO Greenbush Technologies Corporation Web:http://www.greenbush.com/ Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Fresh Linux CD's mailed monthly No refrigeration needed Under 1 billion sold! *
Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support
I have two critical machines using this card. For me everything works fine. However, I'd buy a Buslogic 958 if possible. People report that the 2940* extreme sensitivity to cables is somewhat substandard. Also, the buslogic driver seems more stable and faster. Adaptec doesn't give any hint on their product, and the maintainers have to do heroic efforts. On the other hand, Buslogic gives full support to the linux maintainer. did anyone done a performance comparison of buslogic 958 and adaptec 2940? Lawrence,
News and News reader
Hi, I have tried to install a news reader but it seems to require that I install a nntp package. Is that so? Is there any way to get a news reader that will connect to a remote server instead of requiring that I run a server locally? Thanks, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76
Re: Security Issue
Philippe Troin very kindly remarked Permissions for removal/addition of files in a directory are controlled by the directory permissions, not the file permissions. Makes sense when said like this. Except_ for directories with the sticky bit set where only the owner of a file can remove it (eg. /tmp). ^^ Not only - nobody seems to have picked up on this ... In directories where the sticky bit is set, the user and the group owning the directory have the rights attibuted to them by the permissions on the directory, irrespective of the owners of the files. So far, nothing is different from non-sticky directories. If write permission is granted for others (which is the point of it all), others can create files (belonging to them, of course) and only delete files belonging to them. In essence, drwxrwxrwt sysop wheel /tmp permits sysop and wheel users to delete any and all files in /tmp. For further discussion, any Unix basic administration book... this isn't really the place. -- include std_disclaim.h Lorens KOCKUM ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
Ibm TokenRing Module
Anyone know if someone maintains or is working on a new TokenRing module ? IBM has a new TokenRing card out that I could send to someone if they want to update or create a debian tokenring module for it. Matthew
Re: where is libpam0 fot samba 1.9.16p11-2
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Where I can found the package libpam0 for the samba 1.9.16p11-2? They are in Incoming on master. You need the following files: samba_1.9.16p11-3_i386.deb libpam0_0.56-2_i386.deb libpam-util_0.56-2_i386.deb libpwdb0_0.54preD-1_i386.deb You might be able to get these off of a mirror somewhere, but I'm not sure where. I wouldn't recommend using packages out of the unstable distribution unless you know how to grab stuff out of Incoming. Cheers, - Jim pgppdrzglPIgd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Swap partition out of control
Over the last couple of days, I have been noticing that I have been getting Out of Memory errors that I never got before. I just looked at my free output and it showed 18M of swap used, after running swapoff /dev/hda3 and then swapon /dev/hda3, it showed 10M used. I also have a second swap partition on another drive. One other symptom. I saw a message on tty7 saying: INIT: Id s2 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes The process with id 2 is kflushd. What is kflushd? kflushd is a kernel process. It's not the process with id 2, it's a line in /etc/inittab that's giving you the problem. In mine, I've got a commented out s2 entry for mgetty. Maybe that's the problem? The only thing I can think of that has changed is that I switched from my own installation of Netscape to Brian White's, which allowed Java applets to work (thanks Brian). Could Java applets cause a memory leak? Or is something else wrong here? I think that Netscape's Java implementation does have memory leaks - but it shouldn't be that serious. Steve Tonnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cool - Linux users in Terrace! Cheers, - Jim (from Penticton, BC) pgpf9YzhPae59.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Security Packages
dpk writes: There is a program that probes a machine quite extensively for security holes (from what I hear from trusted sources). It is called SATAN (security analysis tool for auditing networks) Here is a few url's to get you going... http://www.interaus.net/1995/6/satan.html http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/f-20.shtml http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9125110/satan.html I don't believe it is a debian package, someone feel free to prove me wrong because I truly don't know. I have a Debianized SATAN on my to-do list, but in its present release it's next to unusable. I spent several weeks working with SATAN's developers and gave up. However, they are working on a SATAN 1.2 which should be Linux-friendly. -- Karl Sackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
Re: pointing device on Toshiba Satellite 110CS
On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Karsten Bolding wrote: On a Toshiba Satellite 110CS I would like to be able to use the pointing deviec situated on the keyboard instead of an external mouse attached to the serial port, which I want that to use for a modem. The info I'm after is the device and protocol to enter in XF86Setup. I guess I have to recompile the kernel with the proper support? You're correct. Find out what protocol your mouse uses. Most of the notebooks I've configured use the PS/2. Then build a new kernel that supports your mouse. Then for X, you can directly modify the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to indicate the mouse you have or run XF86Setup. -- Jean Pierre
[THANKS] Installing debian 1.2 from december 1996 InfoMagic 6 CD set
Thanks to all of you who helped me on that problem. Now everythings works fine except pari but I think that now I'll be able to cope with it. I have to apologize because as one of you pointed out to me there was a FAQ answering to the most part of my problem. Laurent.
Mutt and Menus
Hi, after reading about mutt I decided to try again (first time it would give some sort of error). Anyway, I like it very much but sort of miss the menus in elm. Is there any way of activating the menu display (as was possible under elm). I have looked through the documentation but couldn't find a way of doing it. Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76
Re: 1.1 - 1.2 dselect/dpkg breaks
On Mar 19, Nathan O. Siemers wrote There's no big syntax error that I can see (with my uneducated eyes) in that area of available, The section before it most likely has an entry with a ':' in the version numbering. This is a use of the new epoch feature in dpkg (to deal with packages whose version numbering scheme has changed), which causes problems with older dpkgs. and now dpkg won't run because of the problem. How do I work around this? Delete available for now? Thanks for any help! I recently did an 1.1-1.2 upgrade. When I encountered this problem, I removed the offending entries in available, installed the new dpkg, and asked dselect to update the list of available packages again. HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: XWindows .deb package for debian gnu linux
Hi . . . Hi. (this post belongs in debian-user, so I'll reply to it there) I'm potential Debian GNU/Linux user and I have some questions no covered by this FAQ. I would like to get some information about where I could find the XWIndows files for the newest version of the Debian linux (probably X11 R6.3) in the deselect .deb distribuition pack. Following the Debian GNU/Linux instructions I just got to generate the 6 instalations disks with the Kernel and the Base .deb Pack. I looked for the X11 in the debian.org ftp site and didn't had sucess to find the X11 .deb pack, I just encoutered several programs and utilities (e.g. FVWM, OLWM, Xclock, ...). You want the xbase, xlib6, xfntbase, xserver-vga16 and possibly some other packages. I would suggest just installing the base system (text mode only), and then use something like the ftp method from dselect to install these, and other packages. If you don't have an Internet connection, it may be easier to just get a CD ROM. I also have a doubt about the instalation process. My PC is Pentium 100 MHz / 32 MB / HD 2.1 Gb with a 504 Mb WIN95 active(bootable) primary partition and a extended partition with two DOS logical drives (D: with 1.0 Gb and E: with 504 Mb). The logical partition E: was created to be used with Linux, and C: D: will continue to be used with WIN95 (I expect that Debian Linux will instal any kind of Master Boot Record program loadable at startup that will ask what Operating System (WIN95 or Linux) will be loaded).However, the instalation instructions say that linux requires two partitions: a 16-128 Mb swapp file partition and the real linux self partition, both marked in partition table as UNIX partitions. These instructions also say that the instalation program will ask if there are two partitions like those at the HD and iff the answer is NO the linux partition program (like DOS FDISK) will create them. I would like to know if is possible to transform the second DOS logical drive at the extended partition (E: 504Mb) in two new UNIX logical drives (e.g. 64 Mb 440 Mb) at the same extended partition where previously there was a logial DOS drive (D: 1 Gb), at the same Western Digital EIDE HD with a previously defined DOS primary partition (C: 504 MB) with no data loss.If your answer is No, where can I encouter a DOS based program that modifies the partition table with no data loss at the partitons not modified (I my case, is necessary to delete drive E:, create two new Unix logical drives in this region and to keep unchanged The C: and D: partition information and disk structure). I think you can do this, but I'm not 100% clear on this - I would suggest trying it out with the install disks -- they will prompt you before they destroy any partitions. Be careful. If you get stuck, you could always try out a commercial program called Partition Magic that is supposed to fix up stuff like this - there's also a free utility that can do something similar. Of course, if you use those programs, you really need to make a backup -- so it might make more sense anyways to just backup the data, remove and recreate the partitions, then restore the data. Cheers, - Jim pgp09paVyQEHe.pgp Description: PGP signature
where is libpam0 fot samba 1.9.16p11-2
Where I can found the package libpam0 for the samba 1.9.16p11-2? Thanks -- Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.imola.queen.it/user/arcangeli/ Debian GNU __ _ _ __ __ _ _ /\ ( ) (_ _)( \( )( )( )( \/ ))( )(__ _)(_ ) ( )(__)( ) ( \/ ()()(_)\_)(__)(_/\_)()
Re: SCSI Ultra/Wide support
Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote on 18 March 1997 23:13: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: We would like to run Debian Linux on a PC with all its disks connected to a Adaptec AHA 2940U/W PCI Ultra/Wide SCSI-3 controller. Does anyone have experience with this controller? Do we have to expect any problems with the driver? I have two critical machines using this card. For me everything works fine. However, I'd buy a Buslogic 958 if possible. People report that the 2940* extreme sensitivity to cables is somewhat substandard. Also, the buslogic driver seems more stable and faster. Adaptec doesn't give any hint on their product, and the maintainers have to do heroic efforts. On the other hand, Buslogic gives full support to the linux maintainer. Carlos
Re: Problem with Smail
On Mar 19, Alexander Koch wrote So you may see what Mutt is like. But you should be careful. I'd say: stick with the Debian- MUTT- Package and you're fine. It's not as news as the real MUTT but it _works_ (believe me, it's a bit tricky to make it It is. Due to unclarity wrt ITAR for packages with hooks for crypto, such as mutt, the Debian mutt packages resides on debian-non-US sites nowadays. I've reported a bug against ftp.debian.org to get the old package removed. work sometimes). Basically, the Debian mutt package is simply the latest non-developer release (i.e. one announced on mutt-announce), with all bugfix patches that apply cleanly, and a matching Muttrc. Otherwise if you install it by hand and want to use it, you are better off following the mutt-users mailing list, there're still too much bugfixes and expermintal patches flying around. Remember: MUTT is still alpha software! Well, besides the point ELM 2.5 beta is _without_ PGP support at all there's only one choice for me. And please don't mention PINE, thanks. ,-) The Debian elm-me+ package has PGP support. Greetings, Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.
Re: Problems compiling gnuplot---Followup
I reported that in recent beta gnuplots, a core dump occured in response to set locale After installing the debian package locale-bin, the problem has apparently been solved. Yeah, someone reported that problem I think before I released my pre-319 version, so I patched that problem. What versions did you try that still have the problem? I sent my patch to the gnuplot team, but never got a responce from it (its a rather closed circle, and I don't seem to be able to get on any mailing lists). Even if I use the configure switch '--with-linux-vga', ./configure doesn't see -lvga. But the debian gnuplot does have the vga stuff compiled in, and is capable of displaying on vga (tried it, few seconds ago). Only thing is, it's not installed setuid root, so you may have to be root to run it (or install a setuid root version in /usr/local/bin). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)
Re: News and News reader
On Wed, Mar 19, 1997 at 12:19:40PM +, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: Hi, I have tried to install a news reader but it seems to require that I install a nntp package. Is that so? Is there any way to get a news reader that will connect to a remote server instead of requiring that I run a server locally? Thanks, Luis. -- Try slrn, available from ftp://space.mit.edu in the directory /pub/davis/slrn. You will need the S-lang library as well, which is in /pub/davis/slang. Both are also available in Debian format. Great newsreader, very fast and versatile. Larry
Re: Security Packages
Do you have any experience running SATAN ?? I as well as others in my department are interested in running it, however I am wondering how affective of a tool it is because others here have previously used a very early version which was bug-gy. Dennis On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Karl Sackett wrote: dpk writes: There is a program that probes a machine quite extensively for security holes (from what I hear from trusted sources). It is called SATAN (security analysis tool for auditing networks) Here is a few url's to get you going... http://www.interaus.net/1995/6/satan.html http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/f-20.shtml http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9125110/satan.html I don't believe it is a debian package, someone feel free to prove me wrong because I truly don't know. I have a Debianized SATAN on my to-do list, but in its present release it's next to unusable. I spent several weeks working with SATAN's developers and gave up. However, they are working on a SATAN 1.2 which should be Linux-friendly. -- Karl Sackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. -- Thomas Jefferson = | dpk| | | DECS, Systems Undergrad | It is better for them to think you | === a fool, than to open your mouth| | work: 353.8892 | and prove it. -Mark Twain | | page: 253.0724 | | =
Re: applixware
Thanks to all who responded to my query on applixware. The gist of the responses is that applixware can be installed and works. So I'll give it a try. I need an office suite and would like to stay within Linux. Regards, Richard
Re: Linux Expo in Research Triangle Park NC (4/4-5/97)
I will be there, and I'm giving two talks. I don't know if any Debian CD sellers will be there. 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
Additional remarks to: A lot of errors while installing (dselecting) bo
On Tue, 18 Mar 1997, I wrote: Does anybody think that it is a problem of the unstable tree. But if this would be the case anybody would have reported such serious errors before. I tried to verify the problem today by installing stable. --- It was the same ... :-(((. Please help. I tried very hard, several days and I'm afraid I will go mad with this stubborn box. I havn't any clue how to cope with this problems. I seriously need help. Andreas.
Re: 16bit X-windows
On 19 Mar, Alain Nadeau wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, ( Don ) wrote: does anyone know how to configure x-windows 2 display 16 bit color? i have a diamond stealth 2400XL and i'm running the S3V Server, but it only loads X w/ a depth of 8. thanks have you tried? startx -- -bpp 16 Of course you can make it a permanent change by editing file /etc/X11R6/bin/startx and add the following line to it: serverargs=-bpp 16 The startx command will always launch the 16-bit mode afterwards. Or if your using xdm change the line :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers to :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 Adding a line Depth 16 in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, section Screen, subsection Display is how I do it right now - with xdm that is. Is that the generic solution, ie independent of starting mechanism being xdm or startx? /Michael -- |Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | |Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, TDGP#20 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
Re: X P70 monitor
( Don ) wrote: hi i have an IBM P70 Monitor and i was wondering if anyone knew where i can get the proper sync timings for X-Windows. I'd like 2 set it up w/ 1024x768. thanks dOn ^^^ Could we please dispense with the net.kool.dood lingo here? 2 does not have the same meaning as to or even too. I was confused by your first post inquiring about x-windows 2 display 16-bit which could certainly have meant that you were interested in running X Windows on 2 (ie. two) separate monitors. I'm not trying to be formal, snobbish, or stuffy--I just think that all posts to this list should use language which is as clear as possible. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mutt and Menus
On Mar 19, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote after reading about mutt I decided to try again (first time it would give some sort of error). Anyway, I like it very much but sort of miss the menus in elm. Is there any way of activating the menu display (as was possible under elm). I have looked through the documentation but couldn't find a way of doing it. mutt doesn't have a main menu like elm does. The closest you'll get is with the short command list in newer versions: q:Quit d:Del u:Undel s:Save m:Mail r:Reply g:Group ?:Help For this, get a new mutt. The one on ftp.debian.org is old, and should be deleted. New versions are available from debian-non-US sites and ftp://ftp.wi.leidenuniv.nl/pub/linux/devel-ray/. HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Cannot find system.map
When I boot up, the kernel tells me that it cannot find /System.map. I have it as a symlink to /boot/System.map_2.0.27 and I checked that root has read permission to both. What is wrong? I tried specifying /System.map in the line in init.d/syslogd that starts /sbin/klogd, but cannot find the right syntax. --Derek Lee
Experience approaching manufacturers for protocols
Debians, I am interested in writing a Linux interface for the PS6500 Personal Data Organizer from Texas Instruments. Before contacting TI, I would appreciate any experience or suggestions regarding approaching manufacturers for protocols. Is there an TI employee on this list who would like to be involved? Does anyone have any experience getting protocols from TI? Does anyone have any experience approaching any manufacturers for protocols? What features of such an interface would interest people? -- Robert Meier FANUC Robotics North America, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 1-810-377-7469 Fax: 1-810-377-7363
Re: compile problem
Hi all, When I try to compile a program with -l*(anything from /usr/X11R6/lib), I get no such a file or directory error. Usually, the options are: gcc -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXaw -l. I have /usr/X11R6/lib in my /etc/ld.so.conf, Those are for run-time linking, not for compile time linking. and I have ran ldconfig -v. Run time too. -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)
1.1 - 1.2 dselect/dpkg breaks
After a trouble-free complete 1.2 install on a new laptop, I began the process of upgrading my 1.1 box. dpkg and dselect have broken after the list of available packages is updated: log Uncompressing /u/dna/usr1/people/nathan/src/debian/stable/binary-i386/Packages.gz ... done. Replacing available packages info, using packages-main. Information about 716 package(s) was updated. Uncompressing /u/dna/usr1/people/nathan/src/debian/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz ... done. Updating available packages info, using packages-ctb. Information about 37 package(s) was updated. Uncompressing /u/dna/usr1/people/nathan/src/debian/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz ... done. Updating available packages info, using packages-nf. Information about 108 package(s) was updated. Update OK. Hit RETURN. dselect: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 15778 package `zlib1': empty value for version /log There's no big syntax error that I can see (with my uneducated eyes) in that area of available, and now dpkg won't run because of the problem. How do I work around this? Delete available for now? Thanks for any help! nathan -- Nathan Siemers - Research Investigator, Bioinformatics Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute K14-06, P.O. Box 4000, Princeton, NJ 08543-4000; (609) 252-6568
Re: Debian Linux install. from CD Set
Marisol Garcia Valls wrote: I am new at installing Linux. I have problems on how to proceed when trying to create the booting floppies from the CD set, where my Debian distribution of Linux is. I have look for installation instructions: not a single line of usefull info. Please, don't ask me to access the www.debian.org web site. There's nothing usefull in it. Could anybody please explain me in some detail how to proceed with the installation? Thanks folks, Marisol Marisol, If you CD is a straightforward copy of the ftp archive: Look in /debian/stable/disks* directories for complete instructions for your architecture. If you don't find it there check at ftp.debian.org or a mirror site. If you need further help, be sure to indicate what type of platform you are installing to. Paul Wade, CEO Greenbush Technologies Corporation Web:http://www.greenbush.com/ Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Fresh Linux CD's mailed monthly No refrigeration needed Under 1 billion sold! *
Re: compile problem
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, David Puryear wrote: Hi all, When I try to compile a program with -l*(anything from /usr/X11R6/lib), I get no such a file or directory error. I have /usr/X11R6/lib in my /etc/ld.so.conf, and I have ran ldconfig -v. I'm out of ideas as to what I need to do in order to make this error message go away. So far, I have just link files from /usr/X11R6/lib/* to /usr/lib/, but this is so ugly. Thanks for any help, David I have ran ldconfig -v. I'm running ideas as to what I need to do in order to make this error message go away. So far, I have just link files from /usr/X11R6/lib/* to /usr/lib/, but this so ugly Make sure that the primary so links (libxxx.so) point to the actual library (libxxx.so.y.z) rather than the intermediate link (libxxx.so.y). This should fix the compile. The gcc linker seems to not be able to follow repetative links farther than one level. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_-
Swap partition out of control
Over the last couple of days, I have been noticing that I have been getting Out of Memory errors that I never got before. I just looked at my free output and it showed 18M of swap used, after running swapoff /dev/hda3 and then swapon /dev/hda3, it showed 10M used. I also have a second swap partition on another drive. One other symptom. I saw a message on tty7 saying: INIT: Id s2 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes The process with id 2 is kflushd. What is kflushd? The only thing I can think of that has changed is that I switched from my own installation of Netscape to Brian White's, which allowed Java applets to work (thanks Brian). Could Java applets cause a memory leak? Or is something else wrong here? Steve Tonnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pointing device on Toshiba Satellite 110CS
On Mar 19, 8:38, Karsten Bolding wrote: On a Toshiba Satellite 110CS I would like to be able to use the pointing deviec situated on the keyboard instead of an external mouse attached to the serial port, which I want that to use for a modem. The info I'm after is the device and protocol to enter in XF86Setup. I guess I have to recompile the kernel with the proper support? Karsten, The AccuPoint eraser tip pointer thingy (which I expected to hate, but learned to love) on my Toshiba 730 is just a regular PS/2 mouse. You can use Protocol PS/2 Device /dev/psaux in your Pointer Section. I used to use gpm a lot back when I had a machine on which X was slow, but now I rarely leave X. Still, I want gpm available on those rare occasions that I use the console, and the 2.0 kernels only allow one user of /dev/psaux at a time, so I run gpm with gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -R (`-R' setting up the repeater). I then put Protocol MouseSystems Device /dev/gpmdata in my XF86Config, and the mouse works great both in X and on the console. (I understand that gpm's `-M' switch will even allow you to use two pointers simultaneously.) You will, of course, want to add Emulate3Buttons Emulate3Timeout 50 to your XF86Config. I find that I use mouse-2 in X much more than mouse-3, so I run xmodmap -e pointer = 1 3 2 to swap the two. The one exception is that I use mouse-3 (WindowList) against the fvwm2 background much more than I do mouse-2, so I added Mouse 2 R A WindowList Mouse 3 R A Menu Window-Ops to my ~/.fvwm2/post.hook to swap those two. Email me if you need more details. Kirk Hilliard
Re: XWindows .deb package for debian gnu linux
Greetings. If you get stuck, you could always try out a commercial program called Partition Magic that is supposed to fix up stuff like this - I have a copy of Partition Magic III for Win '95 that I've used to success in getting my copy of Linux on the road. When I found myself with 450 Meg of extra free space after converting a FAT partition to FAT32, I reduced the size of the original partition to leave about 200 Meg free, of which I planned to make 16 Meg a swapfile and the rest for the main partition. Partition magic can't do that much with Linux partitions as far as I can tell. It can certainly make non-dos partitions, to what extent I'm not completely sure, I'd have to examine the manuals. It *can* however, change the size of the partitions on the fly, even move the partitions location on the HD. Of course, you can't put it down to less than the disk space available, but you can certainly take a spare hundred meg off one for another purpose. Very useful. As for configuring the Linux partitions, I did that with cfdisk on installation. Hope *some* of this is of help. I'll be posting my own problems shortly. ;-) Have fun, RtB. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fido: 2:2500/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Modem
This is a really stupid question, so feel free to flame away. ;-) I got hold of the PPP-How-To and examined it's contents with interest, it's all quite digestable, apart from the fact that it tells you what to do but not much about why you're doing it. I'll work that all out with other FAQ's, etc eventually, so thats not the problem. It mentioned /dev/modem, which I don't appear to have. Have I missed a package somewhere? Help! Plus on the side I'm having serious trouble getting any decent screen modes out of my SiS 5596 (86C205 chipset), which is rather annoying. I'm just picking the Generic VGA driver, is there a catered one which I don't know about? The problem is that the video memory is none existant, it uses on board memory instead, it's one of these built-into the motherboard thingys. I'm getting... SVGA: PCI: SiS SG86C205 rev 17, Memory @ 0xe000, I/O @ 0x6000 SVGA: chipset: sis86c205 SVGA: videoram 0k --- This is 'cause it uses Standard Memory SVGA: clocks: 28.32 28.32 28.32 28.32 28.32 28.32 28.32 28.32 SVGA: clocks: etc SVGA: clocks: 14.16 14.16 14.16 14.16 14.16 14.16 14.16 14.16 SVGA: clocks: etc SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 90.000 Mhz SVGA: There is no defined dot-clock matching mode 640x480 SVGA: Removing mode 640x480 from list of valid modes. SVGA: There is no mode definition named 800x600 SVGA: Removing mode 800x600 from listt of valid modes. SVGA: There is no mode definition named 1024x768 Fatal server error: No valid modes found. --- Help! Have fun, RtB. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fido: 2:2500/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
g77 0.5.20-1
when i try to compile the following program program andx integer a,b data a/11/ b/10/ print *, and(a,b) stop end using g77 version 0.5.20-1 i get: No AND implementation. f/com.c:4884: failed assertion `unimplemented intrinsic == NULL' gcc: Internal compiler error: program f771 got fatal signal 6 the g77 info page says that bit-manipulation intrinsics supported by traditional `f77' and by `f2c' are available in the GNU Fortran language. i can compile the same program with f2c. is this a problem with the debian version of g77, or with g77 in general? --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. |
Re: Modem
This is a really stupid question, so feel free to flame away. ;-) There are no stupid questions - just stupid answers - like this one. :-) I got hold of the PPP-How-To and examined it's contents with interest, it's all quite digestable, apart from the fact that it tells you what to do but not much about why you're doing it. I'll work that all out with other FAQ's, etc eventually, so thats not the problem. It mentioned /dev/modem, which I don't appear to have. Have I missed a package somewhere? Help! It's usually just a symlink to the appropriate /dev/ttyS? device. But my preference is to not use this, since it could lead to problems with locking the device. Cheers, - Jim pgpjdh3U6VHFK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Modem
Robin Beckett wrote: I got hold of the PPP-How-To and examined it's contents with interest, I read it several months ago, but when I switched to Debian ppp got a lot easier. I quickly edited the supplied chatscript and typed pon. It was a lot easier than 2 other distributions I tried. It mentioned /dev/modem, which I don't appear to have. Have I missed a package somewhere? Help! /dev/modem is usually a soft link for example my modem is on the 3rd port - COM3 in msdos/win ln -s /dev/cua2 /dev/modem creates the soft link if you switch your modem to the next port: rm /dev/modem ln -s /dev/cua3 /dev/modem and various packages configured for /dev/modem continue to work as expected. Paul Wade, CEO Greenbush Technologies Corporation Web:http://www.greenbush.com/ Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Fresh Linux CD's mailed monthly No refrigeration needed Under 1 billion sold! *
