Re: problems with SounBlaster16
On Wed, Mar 26, 1997 at 09:59:17AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Carlos Camargo wrote: > > > > > Hi , I have a problem with soundblaster 16, my slakware 3.0 dont > > recognize my cdrom, Somebody know how make to recognize > > thanks carlos camargo > > If it is a CD-ROM which connects to the proprietary port on the > soundblaster, configure the kernel to use non-scsi or ide cdroms > (Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative) and edit sbpcd.h to specify the cdrom > parameters. > > These cd-roms don't like to be loaded as modules, by the way. No problem with sbpcd as a module here. Specifying the IO options to the module is a bit more difficult though. -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 40%
Re: md autostart?
On 26 Mar 1997, Dale Martin wrote: > The only "weird" problem that I have had with it is that I needed to > make sure md and raid0 support were compiled into the kernel and not > "modularized". After doing that, using "mdcreate" to make an mdtab > entry, and adding a line to my fstab, everything started "magically" > working. it works fine as a module IF you edit /etc/init.d/boot and move the stanza which loads the modules & kerneld to just before the stanza which runs 'mdadd -ar' however, this causes problems with 'depmod -a' because the / fs is still mounted RO at this time. craig
Re: power saving monitor
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a 'green' monitor. Since I leave my computer on for long periods > I'd love it if it could be put into power saving mode after a certain > length of time. I seem to recall reading that this is possible, but > can't remember where and can't find the source again. Any pointers? > > - Sue Some of the xservers support the option "power_saver" which will shut down the monitor in place of the default screen blanking. However, in the latest xbase, some things seem to have changed with the 'xset' command. I do know the following, you need a line like the following in the appropriate device section of your XF86Config: # Device configured by xf86config: Section "Device" Identifier "Diamond Stealth64 Video 2001 series (2121/2201)" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" #VideoRam2048 # Use Option "nolinear" if the server doesn't start up correctly # (this avoids the linear framebuffer probe). If that fails try # option "nomemaccess". # # Refer to /usr/X11R6/lib/doc/README.S3, and the XF86_S3 man page. # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate Option "power_saver" EndSection Also, look at the xset command to set the screen saver parameters such as the time interval prior to suspending the monitor. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>UCSD Physics Dept.
Re: Ghostscript with debian debian 1.2
> It seems to me, the GhostScript from 1.2.7 doesn't find it's fonts. > Did someone else make this experience? Is this a common Bug? How can > I configure this correctly? the fonts are distributed seperately (in gsfonts). As gs is very well usable without the gsfonts package, gs only suggests gsfonts, and thus it's possible for you to install gs withoug gsfonts. This may be your problem. Also, the current gs (I think from 1.2.7, or in unstable), doesn't work together with the older gsfonts packages. So, maybe that's your problem (fix: install gs and gsfonts from the same debian release). -- joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came, I saw, ..., well, it wasn't free so I left again. (LUA, 1988)
Re: Having the most popular problem
Franz J Fortuny writes: > It would be great is someone came up with the STRAIGHT FORWARD way of > doing this. I'm working on it :) > Yes: there must be about 4 variations. If only it was that simple. There is really no upper limit. > Please, simply post a message explaining the content of the magic PPP > files! Send me copies of your chatscript and your options file. Dial up your ISP, work through the login sequence, and send me a copy, and I will try to help you. You will be helping me as well, because every time I help someone solve one of these problems I learn more about how to avoid them in the future. -- 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: PGP setup question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 26 Mar 1997, Ted Okada wrote: > package installed.. I searched for a pgp package that worked like the > netscape package where the setup asks you where the binary you compiled > was located but none was found... How does one trigger a correct pinepgp > configure in dselect? > install the debian pgp-i package. Please see README.non-us on any debian mirror in the debian root dir. Erv - -- PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: A5 AB 25 7D 7A FD 4D FE BE 21 47 60 0C DC 67 9E ==-- _ / / \ ---==---(_)__ __ __/ / /\ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / / /_/\ \ \- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ /__\ \ \ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] \_\/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBMzmUPrkbWT/F2aV1AQFLkQP7BQOzS52Yjg1bDnHXc/FQrxv0tAGWosO9 NhVLAKmjb3czAMicDKETi9s/x5qIs0SQD10dibJCNv2HPuhiatPhMSyvHUFw/OnQ PbEo4JnBFYGq9fFq9h2s3cx71ag2FsNQLObGhEgtfuzsHguNE8U4UotAwGTfE//k og2vt0+gJAg= =eI4v -END PGP SIGNATURE-
PGP setup question
Hello... I just compiled pgp-i and installed it, it runs well... However, when I tried dselect to install pinepgp, dselect said that there was no pgp package installed.. I searched for a pgp package that worked like the netscape package where the setup asks you where the binary you compiled was located but none was found... How does one trigger a correct pinepgp configure in dselect? TIA amigos.. -- Ted --- \ o / _ o__|\ / |__o _ \ o / o | /\ __\o \o|o/o/__ /\ |/|\ ../.\...|.\../).|(.\../o\../.)|..(\../.|.../.\.../.\. Ted Okada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.fh.org/ Director| gopher://gopher.fh.org Washington D.C. Office | ftp://ftp.fh.org Food For The Hungry International ---
Re: power saving monitor
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > In X windows or regular console? Guy already answered the question. Works great! Now I can sleep comfortably knowing my monitor is happy. - Sue
Re: Appeal to IBM for VisualAge productline to Linux
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote: > Dear debian-users, > > Yesterday I attended an IBM-conference about IBM's line of VisualAge > products. Great stuff - exactly something that could give Linux an extra > boost. I would like to ask everyone on this list to send IBM an e-mail > (http://www.ibm.com/Assist/ ; if you want to know more about it, > http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/visualage_c++/) > > This is what I send them; I encourage you to send the same or similar; by > making our wishes known, we could win ourselves an important ally. I would just like to add that everything is not always as good as it might seem. I used VAC++ about a year ago under OS/2. The software recommended at least 32M of ram, and stated that you needed 64 megs to realistically use the visual tools. The compiler proper was so-so, I can't compare it to gcc because I haven't used gcc enough yet. But compared with Watcom and High C++ it didn't fare too well. The Windowing Class Library (OCL I think it's called now) looked nice, very modern C++ with good cross platform capabilities. It did have poorish docs when I was looking at it. Since then VAC++ has become basically the defacto OS/2 compiler, mostly because everyone else dropped support for their compilers on OS/2. The only two things that I think Linux could benift from the VAC set is the debugger (it was very nice looking, but slow and buggy) and the Visual Devel tools -- which were very nice but slow (and probably buggy ;>). Now, I might be biased, I evaluated the beta of the program one year ago and was so unimpressed by it that I didn't even look at the release. My Os/2 friends that did buy it confirmed that the release wasn't all that much better.. Version 4 which I think has been released for windows I haven't even looked at, so I will make no comments. Jason
Re: The WWW Pages.
> I must say, I was really thrown backwards when I saw the new look of > debian.org. It's Perfect I just love it. Me too. I'm very impressed. Good work. Cheers, - Jim pgpaPlRqiQsft.pgp Description: PGP signature
Finding harddisk?
I have an IBM ps/2 with 212 mb harddrive, and Debian says it cannot find a harddrive! What do i do to fix this? (some kind of command at boot prompt!) Please email me with ANY help! Drew -- _ | __ \ | | | |_ __ _ __ | | | | '__/ _ \ \ /\ / / | |__| | | | __/\ V V / |_/|_| \___| \_/\_/ @ drew.nws.net Drew Nichols http://earth.base.org
Re: power saving monitor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a 'green' monitor. Since I leave my computer on for long periods > I'd love it if it could be put into power saving mode after a certain > length of time. I seem to recall reading that this is possible, but > can't remember where and can't find the source again. Any pointers? If you have an S3 or Mach64 video card, add the power_saver option to XF86Config Display section. You can set the timeouts with the SuspendTime and OffTime options. See XF86_Accel(1x) and XF86Config(5x) for details. Guy
Re: Zyxel
> Has anyone used Zyxel(?) it is in the unstable directory and looks a lot like > mgetty (v,and the fax stuff). Has anyone used vgetty and had it work > *with out problems*. I asked earlier about using my linux box as an aswering > machine and got tons of messages telling me to use vgetty and now that I've > read some of the docs I am not sure about which modem to buy. I used the Zyxel package temporarily (my first Debian package, I believe) but switched to efax. I recommend trying mgetty or vgetty as you will probably have fewer problems. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- measure with micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with axe, hope like hell
what's going on with the list?
Hey I AGAIN got re-subscribed to the list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).. without me saying that! strange // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://cam053212.student.utwente.nl // " Never make any mistaeks. "
power saving monitor
I have a 'green' monitor. Since I leave my computer on for long periods I'd love it if it could be put into power saving mode after a certain length of time. I seem to recall reading that this is possible, but can't remember where and can't find the source again. Any pointers? - Sue
mh problem
When I try to send mail from mh (comp, repl, etc.) I get this. post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available send: message not delivered to anyone Looks like it's my week for questions. Jason Killen Question Stupidity Monolith : the new ANSI standard for humans RPS : better living through [EMAIL PROTECTED] world domination
The WWW Pages.
I must say, I was really thrown backwards when I saw the new look of debian.org. It's Perfect I just love it. -- Erik Johansson, one of those sloppy students A big QNX, Linux/x86/m68k Amiga and BeOS fan
Re: PPPproblem
> > say the line is not 8 bit clear and that bit 7 is 0. What does this > This often happens when you don't get past the "chat" with the other > modem to log in. When you try to connect to a host which prints out Just to underscore a common case: if your username and/or password aren't right, you get the message about the line not being 8-bit clean. I'd wish at least that the ppp docs would make this clear; one can spend a long time messing with tty settings when all that's wrong is a bad password. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:39:39 +0100 Heiko Schlittermann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > find -type f -printf "%f\n" | sort > files.exist > sort < searchlist > files.search > comm -1 -3 files.exist files.search Which can be abbreviated with zsh to: comm -1 -3 <(sort searchlist) <(find -type f -printf "%f\n" | sort) Hop ! No more cluttering, no more intermediate files. I love zsh's redirection ! Phil.
Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)
Eloy A. Paris wrote:
>
> Hi Martin,
>
> > How about using find and generate a list of ALL files, then "grep
> > `indivual_lines_from_your_list` list_of_ALL_files" and checking grep's
> > return value?
>
> Well, what I am doing right now is generating a list of the files that
> are present (using find and redirecting its output to a file). Later,
> I search this file for files not in my original list, so I know which
> files are missing. I am using Perl to do this.
>
You know, perl is a fine language, it's true. But I think that perl
has made many people think that awk, find, and grep are now "obsolete".
Think again. Heres one solution to your problem: (I'm asssuming that
the list of files is in a file called "searchlist") (WARNING: I'm
sending this with Netscape, and it will probably wrap the lines for
me but this command is all one line--although it needn't be with a
few judicious '\'s)
grep -v $(find / \( $(awk '{if (s != 0) { print " -o " } ; printf
"-name %s", $1 ; s = 1 }' searchlist ) \) -printf '-e %f\n' )
searchlist
Never doubt the power of bash/grep/awk/find!
--
Jens B. Jorgensen
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Re: problems with SounBlaster16
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Carlos Camargo wrote: > > Hi , I have a problem with soundblaster 16, my slakware 3.0 dont > recognize my cdrom, Somebody know how make to recognize > thanks carlos camargo If it is a CD-ROM which connects to the proprietary port on the soundblaster, configure the kernel to use non-scsi or ide cdroms (Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative) and edit sbpcd.h to specify the cdrom parameters. These cd-roms don't like to be loaded as modules, by the way. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)
Hi,
thank you very much for your solution; it is very sharp. I was doing
things the hard way. I like the shell solution very much.
Regards,
Eloy.-
> On Mar 26, Eloy A. Paris wrote
> : Hi,
> :
> : I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path name)
> : per line. My task consists of searching the entire filesystem and
> : generate a list of the files that are NOT present.
>
> 1. The perl solution:
> ---
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> # * probably overkill, if your file list
> # is rather short.
> # * probably storing the existing files in a @Array
> # and grepping is faster
> # * probably a shell line with sort / uniq / comm would
> # do the same job
>
> # generate a list of existing files
> open(IN, "find . -type f -printf \"%f\n\"|") or die;
> while() { chomp; $Files{$_} = 1; }
>
> # read in the search list and see, the file exists
> open(IN, "searchlist") or die;
> while () { chomp; $Files{$_} or print "Missing: $_\n"; }
>
>
> 2. The Shell solution
>
>
> find -type f -printf "%f\n" | sort > files.exist
> sort < searchlist > files.search
> comm -1 -3 files.exist files.search
>
> Heiko Schlittermann
> -
> Heiko Schlittermann / Internet & Unix-Support
> Kamenzer Str. 52 D-01099 Dresden
> Voice: +49-172-7909055 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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problems with SounBlaster16
Hi , I have a problem with soundblaster 16, my slakware 3.0 dont recognize my cdrom, Somebody know how make to recognize thanks carlos camargo
Re: 1740 controller
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : aha1740 controller, and says '174x detected, but not in enhanced so : disabled' (or something close to that. Huh? I have several machines running Debian on aging 1740A cards. You need to run the EISA configuration utility (usually provided on floppy with the system) and change the configuration of the card. There are two different operating modes. You're in standard, not in enhanced mode. The Linux driver only supports enhanced mode. It's not clear to me why anyone ran in standard mode, but all of my cards showed up that way, too. Two notes. First, the Linux kernel driver only supports one 1740 card, even though other OS's allow multiple cards. This has annoyed me once in a while but not enough to fix the driver. Second, the 1740 is a fairly solid card, but it's *not* as fast as some of the other available EISA cards. Bdale
Re: Network Configuration
Jordi Inglada wrote:
>
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >> last week, I had a problem with my ethernet card not being detected by
> >>the modconf program so I asked this list. I got lots of answers and
> >>finally my card is detected.
> >>
> >> The problem now is that I can't make it work. I mean, I can't do ftp,
> >>telnet, etc... When I try some of these, I wait and wait,... If I use
> >>nfs as the access method to the distribution, I got the message "server
> >> seems to be down or inexistent".
> >>
> >> I have configured the network, I have installed the drivers (my card is
> >>a DIGITAL depca), the card is found when rebooting at the correct
> >>address and interruption...
> >>
> >> Could somebody give me a hint about what's happenning? Maybe there's
> >>something I forgot to do. I'm a beginner in LINUX, so I would apreciate
> >>being told what to do step by step.
> >>
> > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:30:08 +
> > From: "Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > First, try the command ifconfig
> >
> > You should see something like:# ifconfig
> > loLink encap:Local Loopback
> > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
> > UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
> > RX packets:31668 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> > TX packets:31668 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> >
> > eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:4F:49:00:E0:5D
> > inet addr:193.195.30.1 Bcast:193.195.30.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:164771 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> > TX packets:184328 errors:13 dropped:0 overruns:0
> > Interrupt:11 Base address:0xef80
> >
> > #
>
> OK, if I run ifconfig I got the same thing, but in lo, the inet address
> is the same that in eth0. Is that correct?
>
> > If that works, try pinging other machines on your network, using their
> > IP numbers; next try their names.
>
> I can ping my machine an doing telnet and ftp to it (with telnet and ftp
> I got _connection refused_ but I think it's OK because I've got no
> server running). But it doesn't work with the other machines in my
> network. So I can't make a query to my dns server.
>
> I have also been told to setup routing. If I type #route add default
> eth0" nothing changes. If I add it to /etc/init.d , nothing changed
> either. My init.d file looks like:
>
> ifconfig lo 192.168.13.1 (my gateway)
> route add -net 192.168.13.0
> IPADDR=192.168.13.114
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.13.0
> BROADCAST=192.168.13.255
> GATEWAY=192.168.13.1
>
> ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
> route add -net ${NETWORK}
> route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
>
> I have add to it the line route add default eth0, but it doesn't work
> either.
>
> Any other suggestions?
Yes, actually. Where shall we start?! Your /etc/init.d/network looks
pretty screwed up. The lo ("loopback") interface should *always*
have the IP address 127.0.0.1 (I won't go into why this is so).
At any rate try changing the file to this:
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=192.168.13.114
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.13.0
BROADCAST=192.168.13.255
GATEWAY=192.168.13.1
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
I think this will work for you. If not, post the messages which
print out at boot.
--
Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: md autostart?
Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there, > 1) Do I need to do anything to ensure that my /dev/md0 has been started if > I expect to use it in /etc/fstab? If so, where do I put that? My kernel > has md compiled in (not a module). Other people have addressed this question. > 2) Can I also assume that it'll get unmounted cleanly and properly? It does. > Thanks for your help, > > Pete The only "weird" problem that I have had with it is that I needed to make sure md and raid0 support were compiled into the kernel and not "modularized". After doing that, using "mdcreate" to make an mdtab entry, and adding a line to my fstab, everything started "magically" working. I have been using a raid0 partition quite heavily for a few months, and it works very well. Later, Dale -- + finger for pgp public key -+ | Dale E. Martin | University of Cincinnati Savant Research Laboratory | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~dmartin | +--+
Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)
On Mar 26, Eloy A. Paris wrote
: Hi,
:
: I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path name)
: per line. My task consists of searching the entire filesystem and
: generate a list of the files that are NOT present.
1. The perl solution:
---
#!/usr/bin/perl
# * probably overkill, if your file list
# is rather short.
# * probably storing the existing files in a @Array
# and grepping is faster
# * probably a shell line with sort / uniq / comm would
# do the same job
# generate a list of existing files
open(IN, "find . -type f -printf \"%f\n\"|") or die;
while() { chomp; $Files{$_} = 1; }
# read in the search list and see, the file exists
open(IN, "searchlist") or die;
while () { chomp; $Files{$_} or print "Missing: $_\n"; }
2. The Shell solution
find -type f -printf "%f\n" | sort > files.exist
sort < searchlist > files.search
comm -1 -3 files.exist files.search
Heiko Schlittermann
-
Heiko Schlittermann / Internet & Unix-Support
Kamenzer Str. 52 D-01099 Dresden
Voice: +49-172-7909055 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: PPPproblem
R. Chris Ross wrote: > > I have a Debisn 1.2 system which I had been using on the net at > one time. For various reasons I had to stop using it and now I am > trying to get it going again however there is a problem with PPP. In > the ppp.log file the dymamic ip addresses are acknolaged and a lock > established then there is a line that says that it is attempting to > add an ethernet address to the arp table. What ethernet address? his > or mine? If mine I don't have one and if his what should it care > since it is running via modem? After this line the link is dropped. This means that somewhere (most likely in the /etc/ppp/options file) pppd is getting the "proxyarp" option. Naturally proxyarp is not useful (and may be causing ppp to fail) if you don't have a network card. > > At other places amd at the end there are ppp.log entries that > say the line is not 8 bit clear and that bit 7 is 0. What does this > mean? At some point my ISP's system was taken out of service for > maintainance but it may have been at that point that I started > recieving this second error. > This often happens when you don't get past the "chat" with the other modem to log in. When you try to connect to a host which prints out a user-readable "login: " and banner screen, naturally all the data which is printed out will have bit 7 = 0 since there aren't any standard printable characters with an ascii code above 127. > Any help would be greatly appriciated. > > Chris I don't know if the above will completely solve your problem. It generally helps those of us trying to help when you include the *actual* error/log messages which occur. Remember, when asking a question of the list keep in mind detail, clarity, and brevity. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: X server not working
I, too, once had this problem with. Just make sure that /usr/X11R6/bin is in your path. Paul On 26-Mar-97 The Gardyan wrote: >>I have the Debian distribution of Linux. When I type xdm as they suggest i >get the "command not found" message although I can clearly see the binary >in the directory. I checked to see the file attributes and they are set to >be 755 so I don't understand what the problem is. > >When I try running startx it also gives me the same error although I can >see the the startx binary as well. > >What's going on? > >thanks for your help. -- Paul Rightley DX-3 Hydrodynamics, MS P940 Los Alamos National LaboratoryLos Alamos, NM 87545 Phone: (505)667-0460 Fax: (505)665-3359 Email: Paul Rightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Received: (qmail 8894 invoked by uid 888); 26 Mar 1997 15:33:45 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 8892 invoked by uid 888); 26 Mar 1997 15:33:45 - Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 8890 invoked from network); 26 Mar 1997 15:33:44 - Received: from bdschi.xsite.net (HELO chilin.bdschi.com) (206.126.244.8) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 26 Mar 1997 15:33:42 - Received: from coolin (coolin.bdschi.com [192.9.201.3]) by chilin.bdschi.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA09260; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:06:48 -0600 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:06:31 -0500 From: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Business Data Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "R. Chris Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PPPproblem References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit R. Chris Ross wrote: > > I have a Debisn 1.2 system which I had been using on the net at > one time. For various reasons I had to stop using it and now I am > trying to get it going again however there is a problem with PPP. In > the ppp.log file the dymamic ip addresses are acknolaged and a lock > established then there is a line that says that it is attempting to > add an ethernet address to the arp table. What ethernet address? his > or mine? If mine I don't have one and if his what should it care > since it is running via modem? After this line the link is dropped. This means that somewhere (most likely in the /etc/ppp/options file) pppd is getting the "proxyarp" option. Naturally proxyarp is not useful (and may be causing ppp to fail) if you don't have a network card. > > At other places amd at the end there are ppp.log entries that > say the line is not 8 bit clear and that bit 7 is 0. What does this > mean? At some point my ISP's system was taken out of service for > maintainance but it may have been at that point that I started > recieving this second error. > This often happens when you don't get past the "chat" with the other modem to log in. When you try to connect to a host which prints out a user-readable "login: " and banner screen, naturally all the data which is printed out will have bit 7 = 0 since there aren't any standard printable characters with an ascii code above 127. > Any help would be greatly appriciated. > > Chris I don't know if the above will completely solve your problem. It generally helps those of us trying to help when you include the *actual* error/log messages which occur. Remember, when asking a question of the list keep in mind detail, clarity, and brevity. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)
Hi Martin, > How about using find and generate a list of ALL files, then "grep > `indivual_lines_from_your_list` list_of_ALL_files" and checking grep's > return value? Well, what I am doing right now is generating a list of the files that are present (using find and redirecting its output to a file). Later, I search this file for files not in my original list, so I know which files are missing. I am using Perl to do this. Regards, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323
Re: Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)
> > Hi, > > I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path name) > per line. My task consists of searching the entire filesystem and > generate a list of the files that are NOT present. > > At first I thought this was a task easyly solved with a couple of > awk's, sed's, and find's. However, it's been four days now and I still > haven't finished this stupid thing. Right now I am working with Perl > but haven't finished. I think I am close but just wanted to know > if someone here at debian-user has a simple solution, the shortest > one. > > The problem with using find is that this command does not return an > error code when it does not find a file. > > Thanks in advance. > > E.- > > -- > > Eloy A. Paris > Information Technology Department > Rockwell Automation de Venezuela > Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323 How about using find and generate a list of ALL files, then "grep `indivual_lines_from_your_list` list_of_ALL_files" and checking grep's return value? Happy hacking, MartinS
Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)
Hi, I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path name) per line. My task consists of searching the entire filesystem and generate a list of the files that are NOT present. At first I thought this was a task easyly solved with a couple of awk's, sed's, and find's. However, it's been four days now and I still haven't finished this stupid thing. Right now I am working with Perl but haven't finished. I think I am close but just wanted to know if someone here at debian-user has a simple solution, the shortest one. The problem with using find is that this command does not return an error code when it does not find a file. Thanks in advance. E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323
Finding files not present (challenge to your intelligence)
Hi, I was given a text file containing one file name (no full path name) per line. My task consists of searching the entire filesystem and generate a list of the files that are NOT present. At first I thought this was a task easyly solved with a couple of awk's, sed's, and find's. However, it's been four days now and I still haven't finished this stupid thing. Right now I am working with Perl but haven't finished. I think I am close but just wanted to know if someone here at debian-user has a simple solution, the shortest one. The problem with using find is that this command does not return an error code when it does not find a file. Thanks in advance. E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323
Re: tetex
Jesse Goldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hiya, > > I've had trouble replacing latex with the now available tetex. I > selected (I believe) all appropriate packages and then tried to install > them. The installation script said that I needed to do a "dpkg --purge > --force-depends" on a bunch of files which I did. The result is the > following: > > dpkg: error processing tetex-base_0.4pl6-4.deb (--install): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > tetex-base_0.4pl6-4.deb > bash-2.00# dpkg --purge --force-depends babel latex texbin > (Reading database ... 31291 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing babel ... > Purging configuration files for babel ... > Building new format(s) without babel support using install-fmt-base(8) > /var/lib/dpkg/info/babel.postrm: install-fmt-base: command not found > dpkg: error processing babel (--purge): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 > dpkg: texbin: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: > psfig depends on tex; however: > Package tex is not installed. > Package texbin which provides tex is to be removed. > Removing texbin ... > Purging configuration files for texbin ... > dpkg: latex: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request: > revtex depends on latex. > Removing latex ... > Removing latex format(s) using install-fmt-base(8) > /var/lib/dpkg/info/latex.prerm: install-fmt-base: command not found > dpkg: error processing latex (--purge): > subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 > Building new latex format(s) using install-fmt-base(8) > dpkg: error while cleaning up: > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127 > Errors were encountered while processing: > babel > latex > > Everything else seems to have been removed successfully. How can I > override this problem or get this "install-fmt-base" command? Thanks. > Reinstall mflib, then try again. Christoph -- Christoph Martin, Uni-Mainz, Germany Internet-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boot Disk
Hello, I've got bad memory on the spare machine. How do I set up a boot from floppy on a regular basis? Just use the Rescue disk? Thanx -- Greg.
Re: XTerm with Colors ???
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > And don't forget to make sure that these resources are merged from > your ~/.xinitrc, because it won't be done automatically! (See man pages > for xinit and xstart.) > > $ head -12 ~/.xinitrc > #! /bin/sh > > # First merge global resources > if [ -f /etc/X11/Xresources ] ; then > xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources > fi > > # Now local resources > if [ -f ~/.Xresources ] ; then > xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources > fi > I have merged the resources, but the xterm haven't switch in the color-mode. I estimate that the xterm on my system has a bug. Where can I find the newest xterm-Version ?? THX Chris
sgml-tools cannot produce html
I cannot produce html files with sgml2html (even example.sgml and guide.sgml). Apparently, other kinds of output work fine. I suppose the problem is in sgml-tools (I use version 0.99.7-1) It says : Processing file example.sgml /usr/bin/sgmlsasp: /usr/lib/sgml-tools/rep/html/mapping:326: bad input character `\' and stops. The lines causing problems are + "\n" + + "\n" + + "\n"+ + "\n"+ When I remove them (I have to remove them, because just commenting them out doesn't work), there's no complain any more, but sgmlsasp fills the memory and nothing else happens. So, is it a bug or am I missing something? Frederic Dumont / / (_)__ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / PGP key 0711F125//_/_//_// /_/\_\ forever!!! Homepage : http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~fdm
Re: 1740 controller
>I was given a Compaq ProSignia pentium 50 for our user group here >at the lab. It has 82 MB RAM and 6 1 gig drives on the builtin >scsi controller. When I boot a custom kernel, it sees the >aha1740 controller, and says '174x detected, but not in enhanced so >disabled' (or something close to that. Huh? Does anyone have one >of these beasties running? This will make a kickin Debian box >*if* I can get it going. It also has a EISA ne3200 card in it, but thats >another day. > >Tim > Hello Tim. Well, i have a 2742 Controller running and i read a lot from people having this card running. In my opinion, due to this message, you have to configure your controller with the EISA configuration utility, you should have for your motherboard. And you need configuration files for each EISA card. The EISA configuration usually runs under MSDOS, bootet from a floppy or from a special boot disk. I also have a ne3200 (intel etherexpress 32) in my system, but i can not run it with linux, as it seems to be not supported. I tried a lot of drivers for network cards, but it is not detected at boot time. If you know more about it, please let me know. good luck. Marc. - Marc Herden, Dipl.-Ing. Fraunhofer Institut fuer Integrierte Schaltungen - Bauelementetechnologie Schottkystr. 10, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Tel: +49(0)9131/761-319, Fax: +49(0)9131/761-390 -
Re: problem with setting time
On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Eugene H. Sevinian wrote: > Hi All, > Is there any magic for setting system time except using > `date -s 14:20:00 ? I have it shifted forward by 3 hours each time > after rebooting while the board clock is set correct. > > ( date --version > date - GNU sh-utils 1.12) > > Eugene Sevinian > I have substituted "clock -a $GMT" by "clock -s" in /etc/init.d/boot. Alfons Juan
problem with setting time
Hi All, Is there any magic for setting system time except using `date -s 14:20:00 ? I have it shifted forward by 3 hours each time after rebooting while the board clock is set correct. ( date --version date - GNU sh-utils 1.12) 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
query on tk42
Hi, Recently I had a strange problem. I tried to install the program called addressbook from unstable and the installation went fine. However when I tried to run its graphical interface using the command addressbook I got bash: /usr/bin/addressbook: No such file or directory I could't figure what was going on so I looked around and relaised that the command wish would not work. I checked the symlinks and I finally realised that wish4.2 did not work . I was using the latest version of tk42 from unstable. When I downgraded to tk42_4.2.1 from stable the problem disappeared. Could anyone tell me whether I am doing something stupid or if wish should start different in this new version. I know this is not a bug since wish does not work at all. Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DS U.K.E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: Smail, From header
On Mar 26, J. LILLIBRIDGE wrote > I'm running Debian Linux at home. When I send e-mail out, I want to have > the From: header say [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've figured out how to get > nmsu.edu put in there (instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]). But my login here at > home is just jl. What is the best way to make sure the From: field > is adjusted? I'd rather not change my login name on my debian box > to jlillibr. I would want to have similar setups for other users. > I'm running smail version 3.2-3. With some mail user agents, e.g. mutt (available from debian-non-US), you can add/modify arbitrary headers. E.g., on a laptop system, my account is "ray"; I have a "my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen)" in my .muttrc, and this setting gets used. HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Appeal to IBM for VisualAge productline to Linux
Dear debian-users, Yesterday I attended an IBM-conference about IBM's line of VisualAge products. Great stuff - exactly something that could give Linux an extra boost. I would like to ask everyone on this list to send IBM an e-mail (http://www.ibm.com/Assist/ ; if you want to know more about it, http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/visualage_c++/) This is what I send them; I encourage you to send the same or similar; by making our wishes known, we could win ourselves an important ally. === I visited your Visual Age-products tour in Amersfoort yesterday (25/3/97). I was impressed with the ease of use of various products and was wondering whether it would be possible to make your line of Visual-Age software available for Linux and other free Unices. The reasons for asking are manyfold: - Currently, there is a big gap on the Application Development side of Linux applications waiting to be filled; all applications use the GNU compiler; except for one other free compiler, lcc. VisualAge tools could fill that gap, going beyond the traditional edit-compile-debug paradigm. Having such a tool-suite available for Linux will strengthen the position of Linux, making it a viable alternative to the Microsoft monopoly. - Linux is rapidly spreading; it can now be considered a serious rival to other commercial UNIX-flavours, such as SCO. - Having VisualAge available for Linux, would allow employees of software companies to use IBM software at home; this would encourage the use of IBM products at the Office. - Linux is very popular at universities worldwide; making VisualAge available for Linux creates a huge potential customerbase for IBM, as well as create free mouth to mouth advertisement. - Porting to Linux should be relatively easy, as most of the code generating parts should be already there: - class libraries have already been ported to Solaris and AIX, Linux is similar to those two platforms (POSIX.1 compliant) - code generation for the i386-family is already there - Motif for Linux is available at low cost - Several hardware and software vendors, such as Digital, have an active interest in Linux. IBM would not be the only major player in the industry. === -- Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, and I want it *NOW*!" - Bethany J. Parkhurst
Re: PPPproblem
R. Chris Ross wrote: > > At other places amd at the end there are ppp.log entries that > say the line is not 8 bit clear and that bit 7 is 0. What does this > mean? At some point my ISP's system was taken out of service for > maintainance but it may have been at that point that I started > recieving this second error. > > Any help would be greatly appriciated. > > Chris Hi Chris: I may be able to help you. I've seen that "8 bit clear" problem before when one does not specify their service type in /etc/ppp.chatscript. To determine what your ISP will transmit and expect, dialup and login you ISP manually. Following is an example of my ppp.chatscript. ABORTBUSY ABORT"NO CARRIER" ABORTVOICE ABORT"NO DIALTONE" "" ATDT214-6222 name vh119001 word \qabcdefg\q vice ppp <--- notice this line. my service provider requests a service type, I must answer with a ppp to start negotiation. Please note that the strings which may be received from you ISP may vary. This may be the case with you ISP as well. If I leave the last line out, I will get the "8 bit clear" error in my log file. regards Peter Iannarelli
Smail, From header
Hi. I'm running Debian Linux at home. When I send e-mail out, I want to have the From: header say [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've figured out how to get nmsu.edu put in there (instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED]). But my login here at home is just jl. What is the best way to make sure the From: field is adjusted? I'd rather not change my login name on my debian box to jlillibr. I would want to have similar setups for other users. I'm running smail version 3.2-3. Thanks, Joe -- Joe Lillibridge - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://web.nmsu.edu/~jlillibr My PGP fingerprint: 58 7E 84 A6 BC 3A 67 3A 01 F6 F0 F8 10 B6 68 14 PGP Public Key available at http://web.nmsu.edu/~jlillibr/PublicKey.html If you have PGP, please encrypt all e-mail sent to me.
Re: X and Keyboards
Andrew Cater (Andy) | +44 1242 672705 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Hubert Palme wrote: > After upgrading to 1.2.7, X does only know a US keyboard. Where in > the many configuration files can I tell X, that I have a German one > -- and where can I read about it? > > Thanks in advance! > > Hubert Palme > > It may be a better idea to use xkbcomp to define your keyboard: this should allow you to define your keys correctly for a German keyboard layout. As far as I know, xmodmap is older than xkb and xkb is now preferred. If you use the graphical setup tool which comes with the vga16 X server, I think there is an option to set the keyboard layout. I hope this helps, Andy
Re: Network Configuration
>>Hello,
>>
>> last week, I had a problem with my ethernet card not being detected by
>>the modconf program so I asked this list. I got lots of answers and
>>finally my card is detected.
>>
>> The problem now is that I can't make it work. I mean, I can't do ftp,
>>telnet, etc... When I try some of these, I wait and wait,... If I use
>>nfs as the access method to the distribution, I got the message "server
>> seems to be down or inexistent".
>>
>> I have configured the network, I have installed the drivers (my card is
>>a DIGITAL depca), the card is found when rebooting at the correct
>>address and interruption...
>>
>> Could somebody give me a hint about what's happenning? Maybe there's
>>something I forgot to do. I'm a beginner in LINUX, so I would apreciate
>>being told what to do step by step.
>>
> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:30:08 +
> From: "Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> First, try the command ifconfig
>
> You should see something like:# ifconfig
> loLink encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
> RX packets:31668 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:31668 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>
> eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:4F:49:00:E0:5D
> inet addr:193.195.30.1 Bcast:193.195.30.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:164771 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:184328 errors:13 dropped:0 overruns:0
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0xef80
>
> #
OK, if I run ifconfig I got the same thing, but in lo, the inet address
is the same that in eth0. Is that correct?
> If that works, try pinging other machines on your network, using their
> IP numbers; next try their names.
I can ping my machine an doing telnet and ftp to it (with telnet and ftp
I got _connection refused_ but I think it's OK because I've got no
server running). But it doesn't work with the other machines in my
network. So I can't make a query to my dns server.
I have also been told to setup routing. If I type #route add default
eth0" nothing changes. If I add it to /etc/init.d , nothing changed
either. My init.d file looks like:
ifconfig lo 192.168.13.1 (my gateway)
route add -net 192.168.13.0
IPADDR=192.168.13.114
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.13.0
BROADCAST=192.168.13.255
GATEWAY=192.168.13.1
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
I have add to it the line route add default eth0, but it doesn't work
either.
Any other suggestions?
Thank you.
Jordi INGLADA
Re: X server not working
On 25 Mar, The Gardyan wrote: Re: I have the Debian distribution of Linux. When I type xdm as they suggest i Re: get the "command not found" message although I can clearly see the binary Re: in the directory. I checked to see the file attributes and they are set to Re: be 755 so I don't understand what the problem is. Re: Re: When I try running startx it also gives me the same error although I can Re: see the the startx binary as well. Re: Re: What's going on? Is it in your path? Run 'echo $PATH' Try invoking it with ./xdm (if your in the same directory), '.' is not in the path per default... /Michael -- |Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out... | |Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, TDGP#20 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Cell.Phone:+46 705487554 URL:http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d1temp |
X server not working
I have the Debian distribution of Linux. When I type xdm as they suggest i get the "command not found" message although I can clearly see the binary in the directory. I checked to see the file attributes and they are set to be 755 so I don't understand what the problem is. When I try running startx it also gives me the same error although I can see the the startx binary as well. What's going on? thanks for your help.
AT1500 Ethernet card?
Hello All: I have been helping a friend set his Debian Linux system and he has an AT1500 (AMD LANCE) ISA ethernet card installed. Apparently the driver for this card is not possible to install as a module and it must be compiled into the kernel. I have done this but during boot, no indication that this card is being autoprobed or located is given. The networking is obviously not functioning. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of card? Do I need to append an "ether=" command to lilo.conf? Is there some additional support besides the standard networking support which must be compiled into the kernel? Help! Cheers, Carlo *** *Carlo U. Segre * * Department of Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences * *Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL 60616 * * Voice: (312) 567-3498 FAX: (312) 567-3494* * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ***
Re: screen capture tool for Debian
Zach -- From what I can tell, the "xv" program does just what you want. If you don't have it on your Debian distribution, you can download it from a Debian mirror -- it's in "non-free", so it's not included on the cd's anymore (to my knowledge). There is an option under the "save" window that allows you to save a captured image as an "IRIS RGB" file. Worked just fine for me just now :-). Hope this is what you needed ... -- Harmon
Having the most popular problem
I have been reading all those messages about PPP being so screwed UP. I must admit that here, in this one, I got caught. I have not been able to get my connection running for more than 1 minute. I suppose my ISP is not getting the right stuff, and there is no way for me to know if the contents of the ppp.chatscript file are actually being transferred to the ISP computer. It would be great is someone came up with the STRAIGHT FORWARD way of doing this. Yes: there must be about 4 variations. Explain them All! Other than that, the Debian is still a very promising distribution. So let us contribute. Please, simply post a message explaining the content of the magic PPP files! Franz J Fortuny
Re: XTerm with Colors ???
Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:05:00 +0100 Christian Groeling > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > how can I switch on the colors in a XTerm under the > > Debian 1.2.4 release? > > Add: > *customization: -color > to the system-wide /etc/X11/Xresources, or to your .Xresources > > Phil. > And don't forget to make sure that these resources are merged from your ~/.xinitrc, because it won't be done automatically! (See man pages for xinit and xstart.) $ head -12 ~/.xinitrc #! /bin/sh # First merge global resources if [ -f /etc/X11/Xresources ] ; then xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources fi # Now local resources if [ -f ~/.Xresources ] ; then xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources fi Graeme -- | Graeme A Stewart, pgp public key finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Key fingerprint = AF C7 BF A4 52 D5 3C 3B 17 A5 62 43 DA 15 E8 97 | | "Keep a good head, and always carry a lightbulb." Dylan |
Re: Newbie question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > - A few months ago I buy a CD with Debian 1.1 distribution included. > After that, I download Debian 1.2 from www.debian.org. > I week ago I installed Debian 1.2 but I didn't run dSelect program, in > that moment. Last night I run dSelect program in order to install > several packages. When I finished the system was in Debian 1.1. After > that I reinstall, using floppy disks, Debian 1.2 again. I am not > very sure what I have rigth know. > Hmmm, you know you probably are running Debian 1.2 (or as near as damn it). That is to say, if you check (with `dpkg -l') which packages you have, you should find that most of them correspond to the 1.2 release, not the 1.1 one. Perhaps the problem is with the `Message of the Day' (the file /etc/motd, which is printed once a user logs in) or with the login message (found in the file /etc/issue and printed just before the login prompt)? In general an installation will (correctly) not overwrite these files if they exist; so, if they were installed by Debian 1.1, and not over written then they'll still announce `Debian 1.1', even though the system is 1.2. If this is the problem, then just edit the files suitably. Feel free to e-mail me if the problem's more serious. Cheers, Graeme PS. `uname' will only print kernel information (i.e. Linux), it won't give information about the distribution. -- | Graeme A Stewart, pgp public key finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Key fingerprint = AF C7 BF A4 52 D5 3C 3B 17 A5 62 43 DA 15 E8 97 | | "Keep a good head, and always carry a lightbulb." Dylan |
1740 controller
I was given a Compaq ProSignia pentium 50 for our user group here at the lab. It has 82 MB RAM and 6 1 gig drives on the builtin scsi controller. When I boot a custom kernel, it sees the aha1740 controller, and says '174x detected, but not in enhanced so disabled' (or something close to that. Huh? Does anyone have one of these beasties running? This will make a kickin Debian box *if* I can get it going. It also has a EISA ne3200 card in it, but thats another day. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are Crunchy, and good with Catsup! ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.**
Problem installing Linux
I downloaded the disks for Linux off of your web page and tried installing it on a secondary computer. I got part way through the installation process to where the program was trying to configure several different peripherals to see what was present on the system. The program then printed out the line NCR53c406a : no available ports found The program then stalls and does nothing else. I left it running at this point for over a half an hour and it did nothing more so I believe it is truly stuck. I would appreciate any help you can give me to help fix this, either to tell it what it wants to know or find some way to prevent it from checking for this item Thank You Matthew Novacek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MHS mail transport available for linux ?
I know that there is quite a bit of support for Novel networks in linux. Does anyone know if there is an MHS mail transport available? Currently I am running a DOS based remote client to my shop but it would be great if there were something in linux. dosemu is a possibility I suppose but I was really trying to avoid that if possible since the DOS based system wouldn't really integrate into linux properly.
PPPproblem
I have a Debisn 1.2 system which I had been using on the net at one time. For various reasons I had to stop using it and now I am trying to get it going again however there is a problem with PPP. In the ppp.log file the dymamic ip addresses are acknolaged and a lock established then there is a line that says that it is attempting to add an ethernet address to the arp table. What ethernet address? his or mine? If mine I don't have one and if his what should it care since it is running via modem? After this line the link is dropped. At other places amd at the end there are ppp.log entries that say the line is not 8 bit clear and that bit 7 is 0. What does this mean? At some point my ISP's system was taken out of service for maintainance but it may have been at that point that I started recieving this second error. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Chris
Re: screen capture tool for Debian
In your email to me, Guy Maor, you wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Zachary) writes: > > > I am frantically looking for a screen capture tool similar to the capture > > tool > > on SGIs. This tool lets you define a region of the screen to save as a .rgb > > file which may then be opened with xv ... If anyone can lead me in the right > > direction, I would really appreciate it. > > What about xv's screen grab? Push the grab button and you can grab > windows, regions, or the full screen. xwpick works real well too. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are Crunchy, and good with Catsup! ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.**
Re: md autostart?
MD setup is easier than it looks. When you used mdcreate to make /dev/md0 it wrote a file called /etc/mdtab. You do not have to modify /etc/init.d/boot since it already has a call to "mdadd -ar" if it and /etc/mdtab exist. In other words, if you are running a recent copy of the sysvinit code and you used mdcreate to make /dev/md0, you probably are already getting it enabled at boot time. Here's what I did to get mine working: # mdcreate raid0 /dev/md0 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc2 /dev/sdd2 /dev/sde # mdadd -ar # e2fsck -fyv /dev/md0 # mkdir /raid # echo '/dev/md0 /raid ext2 defaults 0 1' >> /etc/fstab # mount /raid # df "cool, it works!" OK, so I hammed it up but you get the idea. Costa Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 17:13:30 -0500 (EST) From: Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users List , debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: md autostart? Hi there, I just put the md package to use, and I have some semi-important questions... 1) Do I need to do anything to ensure that my /dev/md0 has been started if I expect to use it in /etc/fstab? If so, where do I put that? My kernel has md compiled in (not a module). 2) Can I also assume that it'll get unmounted cleanly and properly? Thanks for your help, Pete -- Peter J. Templin, Jr. Client Services Analyst Computer & Communication Services tel: (717) 524-1590 Bucknell University [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail on two hosts for one domain
On Mar 03, 1997 at 08:04:56AM +0800, Michael J. Maravillo wrote: > > what i really want to do is forward certain users to the second > machine. that is, without using aliases. if the user doesn't > exist on the first machine, it will try the second one. But how will you specify which users? You might as well use an alias file if you don't intend to forward all non-existing users elsewhere. You might be able to rig up an smail director (/etc/smail/directors) to do this. I wouldn't guess as to how to do it myself though. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust[EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~moffatt (PGP key here) CPOM: [ ] 40%
Re: screen capture tool for Debian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Zachary) writes: > I am frantically looking for a screen capture tool similar to the capture tool > on SGIs. This tool lets you define a region of the screen to save as a .rgb > file which may then be opened with xv ... If anyone can lead me in the right > direction, I would really appreciate it. What about xv's screen grab? Push the grab button and you can grab windows, regions, or the full screen. Guy
Ghostscript with debian debian 1.2
It seems to me, the GhostScript from 1.2.7 doesn't find it's fonts. Did someone else make this experience? Is this a common Bug? How can I configure this correctly? Thanks in advance! Hubert Palme
Re: Error while installing unstable/binary/base/at_3.0.deb
Hi Andreas -
This has been reported as a bug (by Dirk Eddelbuettel) and is fixed in
at_3.1.2-1. But, with the problem in the postrm script, normal
reinstallation of the new version doesn't work. :-( If your system gets
stuck in that state, you can edit the buggy postrm script pretty simply
to make it work.
The file is `/var/lib/dpkg/info/at.postrm'. You have to edit it as
root, or at least be root to put the edited version in place. The
problems are on lines 5 and 6:
update-rc.d atd remove >/dev/null; fi
rm -rf /var/spool/at{jobs|spool}
should be changed to:
update-rc.d atd remove >/dev/null
rm -rf /var/spool/at{jobs,spool}
That is, take the premature "; fi" off the end of line five, and change
the pipe ("|") into a comma on line 6. After this, I could install the
new version cleanly. Hope this helps,
--
Ed Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> While doing
>
>dpkg -i at_3.0.deb
>
> I got the following errormessage.
> The at_2.9b??.deb in stable works.
>
> (Reading database ... 21163 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace at 3.0 (using at_3.0.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement at ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/at.postrm: spool}: command not found
> dpkg: warning - old post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: spool}: command not found
> dpkg: error processing at_3.0.deb (--install):
> subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm: spool}: command not found
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> at_3.0.deb
>
> Is there anybody who observed the same or should I send a bug report
> (or are there any developers reading this and take it as a bug report
> and I havn't to send this twice)
>
screen capture tool for Debian
Hi, I am frantically looking for a screen capture tool similar to the capture tool on SGIs. This tool lets you define a region of the screen to save as a .rgb file which may then be opened with xv ... If anyone can lead me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it. BTW, I've been running Debian for three weeks now with not one crash or system hang while working on a couple of research projects (one in computer vision using Mesa, Glut, a homegrown Xlib framebuffer library, and lots of computation; the other a neural network project) and writing papers. Using Windows 95 *just* to write a single paper and occasionally do a little WWW browsing necessitated at least a daily reboot. Good job! I hope to contribute to the effort one day soon. John p.s. Any Debian t-shirts out there?
Re: which package in bo provides /etc/shells?
Hi, On my machine, (but I use shadow) it is: __> dpkg -S /etc/shells shadow-passwd: /etc/shells What does dpkg -S say for you? unless the dpkg database is aso trashed, that should be the canonical answer for you. BTW, I am attaching my /etc/shells so you may rebuild yours manually, if you wish. manoj ps. What on earth is a flin? --- # /etc/shells: valid login shells /bin/ash /bin/bash /bin/csh /bin/sh /usr/bin/es /usr/bin/ksh /usr/bin/rc /usr/bin/tcsh /usr/bin/zsh #-- flin begin /usr/bin/flin #-- flin end -- Slander meets no regard from noble minds; only the base believe what the base only utter. -- Beller Manoj Srivastava mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mobile, Alabama USAhttp://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
Re: which package in bo provides /etc/shells?
Manoj Srivastava:
> On my machine, (but I use shadow) it is:
I use shadow. In fact, I've been using the shadow packages from experimental
for 6 months or so, and I somehow lost /etc/shells in the process of upgrading
to the new shadow login and passwd that are now in bo.
> __> dpkg -S /etc/shells
> shadow-passwd: /etc/shells
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~>dpkg -S /etc/shells
dpkg: /etc/shells not found.
> What does dpkg -S say for you? unless the dpkg database is aso
> trashed, that should be the canonical answer for you.
Yeah, it would be, if it said anything. I notice you're using the old
shadow-passwd package -- the new one is called just "passwd", and has shadow
support, but seems to be missing /etc/shells. This may be bug in the new
package, but I'm not sure. I may have just done something stupid.
But this package does not provide /etc/shells, that's for sure:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/it>dpkg --contents passwd_961025-1.deb | grep shells
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/it>
> BTW, I am attaching my /etc/shells so you may rebuild yours
> manually, if you wish.
Thanks, I already grabbed one off of debian.novare.net.
> ps. What on earth is a flin?
Description: Menuing system with fvwm-like syntax
A color, ncurses-based menu system, intended to be an
easy login shell for new users. It understands the
simple menu syntax that was once used by fvwm-1.xx.
.
Flin means "Flin's a Learners Interface to 'Nix Systems."
> #-- flin begin
> /usr/bin/flin
> #-- flin end
--
#!/usr/bin/perl -i=-/*/~%*~%/~~%/~~~-/*/_/=~~~-/~~! # [EMAIL PROTECTED]
$o=35;$_="$^I-*!=_!/";s/~/!*/g;s~%~-/ / ~g;$_.='--- Joey Hess
';s/=/__/g;y|*!| \\|;for(split/-/){print' 'x$o--."$_\n"}# a M.C. Escher fan
"How appropriate, you fight like a cow." - - Guybrush Threepwood
Re: XTerm with Colors ??? (fwd)
> > On Tue, 25 Mar 1997 21:05:00 +0100 Christian Groeling > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > how can I switch on the colors in a XTerm under the > > Debian 1.2.4 release? > > Add: > *customization: -color > to the system-wide /etc/X11/Xresources, or to your .Xresources > I have added this line in the /etc/X11/Xresources File. But the Xterm haven't switch in the color-mode! Why? THX for coming help! Greeting Chris !!
Re: which package in bo provides /etc/shells?
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > shadow-passwd package -- the new one is called just "passwd", and has shadow > support, but seems to be missing /etc/shells. This may be bug in the new > package, but I'm not sure. I may have just done something stupid. Yes it is. I'll fix it. Guy
Re: sendmail on two hosts for one domain
what i really want to do is forward certain users to the second machine. that is, without using aliases. if the user doesn't exist on the first machine, it will try the second one. mike On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Frank Kujawski wrote: | Please be more spefic on what you are trying to do. Is one a backup, or a | mirror? or do you want to forward certian users to the second machine? | | On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Michael J. Maravillo wrote: | | > hi! i'm trying to setup two linux boxes to receive mail for one | > domain. where can i find documentation for this? any help is | > greatly appreciated. thanks! __ Michael J. Maravillo Philippines Online http://www.philonline.com.ph/~mmj/ InfoDyne, Incorporated 9045319E7CC15251528F5C6E89E896DC1184 Pasong Tamo, Makati, Philippines
