Re: problem with man2html
> > Hi, > I have some problems with man2html, it doesn't appear to work correctly. > The cgi script seems to be unable to display most of the man page. For [...] > Dany Dionne When I installed man2html, netscape was unable to find the stuff needed, because netscape expected them to be in some directory, and the stuff was installed in another directory. So I went to the directory where netscape expected to find the stuff (/usr/lib/cern-httpd/cgi-bin) and put a symbolic link pointing to where man2html installed man2html, manwhatis, mansearch and mansec (/usr/lib/cgi-bin for the version of man2html I am using). Now I don't have problems with that. And once a month, from cron, I run manglimpse. Maybe there are other ways, but since this worked for me, I was happy. % 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: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive
Never mind. I see the cast patch and I'll make sure that gets included. Thanks Bruce
Re: where is:
Jon Phipps writes: > I have asked this before but got no response to it: if any one knows > where I can find the PGP-US || PGP-I files please let me know. If they > are supplied by some other package(s) please let me know that also. I > have several *.debs that depend on them and have been unable to find > them anywhere. > > > Help > Jon > Not only you asked, this is a FAQ...!-) You can't get them from ftp.debian.org because of export restriction by U.S. law. Although, you can import them. I got them from os.inf.tu-dresden.de, but look for mirrors near to you in /usr/doc/debian/mirrors.txt (or ftp:ftp.debian.org/debian/mirrors.txt) SEE ALSO: ftp.debian.org/debian/README.PGP -- "Where's my signature? I've lost my signature!" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive
You had that problem on Debian _1.2_ ??? I thought that was fixed in 1.2 . Bruce
Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Michael Iles wrote: [spip] referring to cfdisk w/ disks > 2G > > FATAL ERROR: Cannot seek on disk drive > After a suggestion on the BUG report system i have put the cast (ext2_loff_t) at two places in the source file. It seems to work now. Specialists please verify that this does not break anything else. diffcfdisk.c cfdisk.orig 396c396 < if (ext2_llseek(fd, (ext2_loff_t)sect_num*SECTOR_SIZE, SEEK_SET) < 0) --- > if (ext2_llseek(fd, sect_num*SECTOR_SIZE, SEEK_SET) < 0) 404c404 < if (ext2_llseek(fd, (ext2_loff_t)sect_num*SECTOR_SIZE, SEEK_SET) < 0) --- > if (ext2_llseek(fd, sect_num*SECTOR_SIZE, SEEK_SET) < 0) P.S. There is an attempt to correct this in the debian package util-linux, but it is unfortunately applied uneffectively: NIL: if (ext2_llseek(fd, (ext2_loff_t)(sect_num*SECTOR_SIZE), SEEK_SET) < 0) Stelios Parnassidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kapuzinerstr. 8, 80337 Muenchen, Germany, Tel. +49-089-7211505
Debugging cvspserver
I am using cvs with the file repository on the machine in my office. I would like to be able to manipulate these files from the machine at home. Both are running Debian Linux and both have the cvs package installed. The machine at home will communicate via a PPP connection and will have a dynamically assigned IP number and name. I would much prefer to use the pserver authentication for cvs tranfers instead of rsh because I don't want to put all the possible dynamic addresses into a .rhosts file. I set up the cvspserver line in my /etc/inetd.conf file as follows. cvspserver stream tcp nowait root/usr/bin/cvscvs pserver When I try the login procedure, all I get is $ cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/CVS login (Logging in to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) CVS password: cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from franz.stat.wisc.edu: E Fatal error, aborting. Does anyone know what the responses from the server should be if I telnet directly to that port? (I can always read the sources but asking readers of this list is a lot easier :-) Alternatively, has anyone set up kerberos on a Debian Linux system and used the kserver method for cvs authentication? Other machines in my department use kerberos authentication so it may be best for me to install kerberos on both machines.
Re: Zmodem recovery
Jeff Shilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Minicom doesn't recover when I have partial files. Well, technically, it's lrzsz that acts that way. This is because there is no recovery code in lrzsz (at least, there wasn't any last time I looked really hard---however I no longer actively use zmodem, and never really took a good look at 0.12b other than to package it, so it's entirely possible someone slipped the code in. It 0.12b purports to do so and doesn't, please file a bug report). So, while it would be nice, the only zmodem for Unix that I know of that implements crash recovery is that of Omen Technologies, and it is decidedly non-free. I suppose if you want to file a bug report you may, but I would recommend contacting the upstream author of 0.12b, as you (a user) would have a much better chance of making a persuasive argument than I (a non-user). Mike.
Re: gpm, X-Windows, MS Serial mouse
On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Curtis L. Daugaard wrote: > Before I changed to Debian, I could swear that under Slackware I was > able to use my MS serial mouse in X-Windows without first killing gpm. > No more. X refuses to start, complaining "device in use." > > I've tried everything I can think of based on the documentation for gpm, > including invoking the -M option and pointing the XF86Config file > to /dev/gpmdata. > > My current serial settings: gpm set to /dev/cua2 and XF86Config to > /dev/ttyS2. > > Can anybody tell me the secret? While I'm not 100% sure that this will end your problems, I am 100% sure that the first thing to try is pointing gpm to /dev/ttyS2. The ttySX's handle some things (like device locking) differently than the /dev/cuaX's. Certainly, you should use the same name for you mouse dev in both cases. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>UCSD Physics Dept.
Zmodem recovery
Minicom doesn't recover when I have partial files. It sees it and skips to the next file or stops the download. I'm usually downloading from my school shell account. I type sz files and minicom automatically starts download. In the setup it says it's running rz -vv for zmodem downloads.
Re: cfdisk: Cannot seek on disk drive
> "Michael" == Michael Iles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> I have only one physical drive, a 3.8 gig Quantum Fireball Michael> that Linux = correctly detects. (At least I think it does; Michael> I can see its name go by = in all the hardware information Michael> that Linux prints while starting.) If I = switch to a Michael> different console, though, I can't see anything on the Michael> drive = (there's nothing in the /target directory). It did Michael> read the partition = information _once_ though, so I assume Michael> it can see the drive. Michael> What's going on here? Can anyone help me on this? I had exactly the same problem installing onto that type of drive. I had to escape to a shell and use "fdisk" to partition the drive rather than "cfdisk". It seems that cfdisk has out-of-date routines for seeking to parts of an IDE drive that are beyond the 2.0 Gb range. "fdisk" does not share this problem. It is less friendly than cfdisk but at least it works. Hope this helps. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison
Re: g++ file doesn't run
>Thanks for the help - it does compile with g++ instead of gcc, but the
>executable produced isn't doing anything. Here's what i'm doing:
>
>//test.c
>#include
>
>main(){
> cout << "Hello there.";
>}
>
>The test file doesn't print out anything when I run it.
Append a \n to your string. Or include iomanip.h and use the "flush"
manipulator.
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Re: Other Than FIPS
Non-destructive partitioning is more difficult to do for ext2 than for MSDOS as ext2 distributes blocks across the entire partition rather than building linearly from zero. This is done for rotational efficiency, and is a discussion in itself. FIPS works because it's possible to squeeze an MSDOS partition into a linear span of blocks easily. You really should copy the partition to some other medium and restore it from there when you are finished re-arranging. That is also the best way to defragment - back up the partition, not using DD or any other "raw-mode" backup because that preserves the block-level organiation of the filesystem, make a new filesystem, and restore the backup to the new filesystem. Thanks Bruce
where is:
I have asked this before but got no response to it: if any one knows where I can find the PGP-US || PGP-I files please let me know. If they are supplied by some other package(s) please let me know that also. I have several *.debs that depend on them and have been unable to find them anywhere. Help Jon
gpm, X-Windows, MS Serial mouse
Before I changed to Debian, I could swear that under Slackware I was able to use my MS serial mouse in X-Windows without first killing gpm. No more. X refuses to start, complaining "device in use." I've tried everything I can think of based on the documentation for gpm, including invoking the -M option and pointing the XF86Config file to /dev/gpmdata. My current serial settings: gpm set to /dev/cua2 and XF86Config to /dev/ttyS2. Can anybody tell me the secret? Thanks. C.L. Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] __
Re: Security Issue
> As root, what if I want to keep a file in someones directory without them > deleteing it ? Using conventional Unix permissions, that is indeed the case. Note that this so for all Unix-like systems, not just Linux. Root generally keeps important files in root's own directories. Using ACLs you might be able to keep a file from being removed. I've never tried them. Bruce
Re: problems with shmget
On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: > Ran into this error when trying to use the GIMP: > shmget failed: Function not implemented > gimp fatal error: shmget failed! > Is there something I need to configure to get the function shmget > working? It's your kernel compiled with SYSV IPC support? It's very important to compile this.. -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- | From Buenos Aires, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Argentina!
Other Than FIPS
Hello, I'm looking for an FTP'able partitioning tool that handles Extended partitions and is non-distructive. What could I Use? Thanx -- Greg.
problems with shmget
Ran into this error when trying to use the GIMP: shmget failed: Function not implemented gimp fatal error: shmget failed! Is there something I need to configure to get the function shmget working? Thanks! -- Ken Gaugler N6OSK Santa Clara, California email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng "The life of a Repo Man is always INTENSE..."
Where is oldmitpthreads?
Hi! Two weeks ago there was an announcement of oldmitpthreads package which contains MIT Pthreads library. I haven't been able to find it since then. I have seen the recent list of packages still in Incoming but oldmitpthreads is not there. It just disappeared. Where is it? Thanks! Josip P.S. I have and use LinuxThreads but for some particular purpose (not gnats) I explicitly need MIT pthreads. | Josip Gracin, student at Faculty of EE and CS, Zagreb | ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
problem with man2html
Hi, I have some problems with man2html, it doesn't appear to work correctly. The cgi script seems to be unable to display most of the man page. For example, if i try with ls, i receive the error message from netscape : Documents contains no data However, it's false, if i try a man ls on the unix prompt, the manpage is found and displayed. Other man pages, like afterstep are correctly displayed in netscape. Any suggestion to solve the problem with man2html? Thanks, Dany Dionne Physics Department Universite Laval ( Canada ) \\\|/// \\ - - // ( @ @ ) +---oOOo-(_)-oOOo-+ | Nom: Dany DionneE-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Page web : http://poynting.phy.ulaval.ca/~ddionne/ | | | +---Oooo--+ oooO ( ) ( )) / \ ((_/ \_)
Re: Emacs-based mail programs with IMAP
> "bates" == Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bates> Are there any such emacs-based MUA's that support IMAP? Does gnus bates> do so? There will soon be IMAP support in Gnus. The Gnus FAQ has a pointer to the alpha IMAP code. Gnus FAQ: http://www.miranova.com/~steve/gnus-faq.html Alpha IMAP: ftp://naiad.fac.cs.cmu.edu/pub/nnimap -- Mark Plaksinhttp://www.negia.net/~happy/
Re: How to uninitialise partition?
On Mar 03, 1997 at 05:54:28PM -0800, Thought wrote: > If your old drive was for DOS, does DOS see the partition anymore? For > example, is there still a C: but it's unreadable (Invalid Media), or is > there just no C:? I've accidently been in a fdisk (I think it was linux) > and deleted one of my DOS partitions on accident, and got REALLY lucky > because I booted off a DOS bootdisk and ran fdisk and re-created the > partition of exactly the same size before and all my files (FAT and all) > were still there. I ran scandisk and lost 4096 (one block) somewhere, but > I just disregarded it and counted my lucky stars. Argh; never use DOS FDISK to recover lost partitions; it deliberately wipes the first few bytes of the partition; the manual page for fdisk (Linux) mentions this in the warning about creating DOS partitions with Linux fdisk. Once a friend of mine wiped another friend of mine's DOS partition. I recovered it with Linux FDISK (from a floppy because he was not a Linux user). I lost the partitions on my Linux server once and recovered that with Linux fdisk too. -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Melbourne, Australia. Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt CPOM: [ ] 40% PGP key available from web page above.
Marimba II
Hi *, I got Bongo running - but the tuner does not. JDK is jdk-static-1.0.2-7. Bongo and Tuner are 1.0 (available at www.blackdown.org). Hints welcome! By Töns
Re: to xlib6 or not to xlib6?
On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: [snip] > > I am not worried about gwm: I don't use it anyway. But I am > worried about trashing all my other X stuff if I install this > package. > > Is it OK to upgrade to xlib6 and let the chips fall where they > may with respect to elf-x11r6lib, or what should I do? Go ahead an upgrade to xlib6. The only problem you might run into it that a few old packages (like gwm) depended on things they shouldn't have depended on and so you might have to use --force-depends to get those installed. Let me repeat that... the only potential problem is dpkg dependencies problems with some old packages. Once you have everything installed, xlib6 will work just fine. If you still find packages that haven't been upgraded to depend on either "xlib6" or "elf-x11r6lib", you should file bug reports against them. Christian
Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > But that still doesn't solve the problem of viewing the Unix print > queue from within Windows. That works with regular lpr, but not lprng. i had no problems with the print queue when i used it on my system. this was with win95, not win3 if that makes any difference. Unfortunately, i can't check it again right now because i got sick of win95 crashing all the time and reformatted the disk as a linux only machineat some time in the future i'll add another drive and make it dual boot win95/linux. sorry that this isn't any help to you, but all i can say is that i don't recall that i had to do anything special to get it working. i added fairly obvious stuff to the smb.conf file (which i included in my last message on this topic) and just connected to the printer on the win95 box through the network neighbourhood browser. In all, except for some initial problems i had with PCL printing, it took about half an hour to get up and running including RTFM. have you tried hunting through the samba web site? there is a lot of good information about samba in there, as well as FAQs and archives of mailing lists. i don't recall the URL but it is easy to find from Yahoo etc. also, lprng probably has a web site too - there may be good info there. try an altavista search for 'samba near lprng' and other suitable search phrases. craig
parport patches.
I would like to find out how to get the ZIP drive drivers running that will enable sharing of the parallel port. I have tried to download the parport patches for 2.1.29 from http://www.cyberelk.demon.ac.uk, but cannot get them to patch the kernel sources (original) cleanly. I would be interested in hearing success stories. Alan Davis -- Alan Eugene Davis Marianas High School 15o 8.8'N GMT+10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] AAA 196 Box 10,001145o 42.5'E Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one nonexistent."-- Lord Raleigh
quality of development tools
Hello, I have just started using debian and there is an area of interest to me, learning basic programming. i have used some of the borland products and now have an older version of visual basic. my question is how does the combination of x and the native packages available for debian compare to commercial ones? allan - Name: Allan W. Bart, Jr. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/22/97 Time: 11:53:43 PM This message was sent by Chameleon -
to xlib6 or not to xlib6?
Still trying to get gimp-smotif to run. However can't install gimp until I have xlib6 installed. When trying to install xlib6 I get error messages: bash# dpkg -i xlib6_3.2-1a.1_i386.deb dpkg: considering removing xlib in favour of xlib6 ... dpkg: no, cannot remove xlib (--auto-deconfigure will help): gwm depends on xlib (>= 3.1.2-4) xlib is to be removed. dpkg: regarding xlib6_3.2-1a.1_i386.deb containing xlib6: xlib6 conflicts with elf-x11r6lib xlib provides elf-x11r6lib and is installed. dpkg: error processing xlib6_3.2-1a.1_i386.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing xlib6 Errors were encountered while processing: xlib6_3.2-1a.1_i386.deb I am not worried about gwm: I don't use it anyway. But I am worried about trashing all my other X stuff if I install this package. Is it OK to upgrade to xlib6 and let the chips fall where they may with respect to elf-x11r6lib, or what should I do? Thanks! -- 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: How to uninitialise partition?
If your old drive was for DOS, does DOS see the partition anymore? For example, is there still a C: but it's unreadable (Invalid Media), or is there just no C:? I've accidently been in a fdisk (I think it was linux) and deleted one of my DOS partitions on accident, and got REALLY lucky because I booted off a DOS bootdisk and ran fdisk and re-created the partition of exactly the same size before and all my files (FAT and all) were still there. I ran scandisk and lost 4096 (one block) somewhere, but I just disregarded it and counted my lucky stars. If there is a C: (all this time assuming you old files were on C:) and it says "Invalid Media" or something like that, try UNFORMAT.EXE - maybe you were lucky and there was a image on the disk (a duplicate of the FAT table) that's still there (I know that lately some programs make a duplication of the fat table - Win95's command.com does I think. How do I know? One time I was using partition magic and it said that my duplicate FAT had inconstancies with my real one. Weird..) Anyway, I'm not sure exactly how far linux's 'initialization' process goes... Just some things to try.. On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, Nick Cropper wrote: > > Help! > During a long and complicated floppy installation (trouble due > to DOS's fdisk -- not debian) I managed to initialise my old > harddisk (containing all my files) instead of my new one. It > was just an initialisation (no surface/low-level scan) which > is why I'm still holding a glimmer of hope that someone can > suggest a retrieval trick. Is there any way to access the > files that were on that partition? > > thanks, > > Nick Cropper > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >
Re: How to get dir colors to work?
ls --color=auto will do it. man ls On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, johannes martinez wrote: > What files does one have to edit to get ls to display colors? And as a > total aside, how do you get xdm working? It says starting xdm at the > end of my boot but all i get is a nice console prompt. > > johannes martinez > >
Re: How to uninitialise partition?
( Re Message From: Nick Cropper ) > > Help! > During a long and complicated floppy installation (trouble due > to DOS's fdisk -- not debian) I managed to initialise my old > harddisk (containing all my files) instead of my new one. It > was just an initialisation (no surface/low-level scan) which > is why I'm still holding a glimmer of hope that someone can > suggest a retrieval trick. Is there any way to access the > files that were on that partition? > > thanks, > > Nick Cropper > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a last-resort suggestion. You've probably scrubbed all the directory info, but the actual data may be there. If you've got a working Linux on your new disk, then you can try "dd" which will read the old disk "raw". If the old disk still has partition info, then you can try it partition by partition (e.g. "dd bs=1024 skip=1024 count=512 if=/dev/hda2 of=hda2.rescue"). Otherwise you may just have to to the whole disk (use "/dev/hda"). Then of course you have to try to pick the bits of real file out of the jumble you will get. Best of luck! Ted.([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to uninitialise partition?
Help! During a long and complicated floppy installation (trouble due to DOS's fdisk -- not debian) I managed to initialise my old harddisk (containing all my files) instead of my new one. It was just an initialisation (no surface/low-level scan) which is why I'm still holding a glimmer of hope that someone can suggest a retrieval trick. Is there any way to access the files that were on that partition? thanks, Nick Cropper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
