Re: How to modify subject of incoming emails using procmail

[Rob MacWilliams]

> > instead just send the mail from that list to its own folder like:
> > 
> > :0:
> > * ^TOdebian-user
> > $HOME/mail/debian
> > 
> 
> I'd like to comment on this. If the debian-* list administrator(s) would edit
> the debian-*.config files and change the "subject_prefix" option to reflect
> the appropriate list, then all of the filtering would be easier on the members
> of the list. A subject line like 
> 
> Subject: I need HELP
> 
> would become
> 
> Subject: DEBIAN-USER I need HELP
> 
> I found out that the above formula for filtering does NOT catch all of
> debian-user messages. I have several non-related mail lists coming into my

I'm using the above style filter, maybe not as pretty, but I havn't had a list 
e-mail slip through.  If 
the message was addressed to me and the list, it goes into my normal mail box 
just as it should.  I'm
using the following:


:0:
*^TOdebian
/home/rob/Mail/debianfile

Maybe it's working because the only debian list i'm currently subscribed to is 
debian-user



> system, and some of them use that option. This list, unfortunately, does not
> thus making it hard to correctly separate debian messages from the rest of the
> pack (who use "listserv").
> 
> -- 
> -= Sent by Debian 1.2 Linux =-
> Thomas Kocourek  KD4CIK - member of ARRL
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine."

Rob MacWilliams   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
N9NPU

Re: SB cfg problem - need docs

[Harmon Sequoya Nine]

Dave --

Check out http://www-nt-ca.creaf.com/wwwnew/tech/spec/specs.html

-- Harmon

Re: communicator

[Paul Wade]

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, m* wrote:

> quick one:
> 
> 
> is communicator a memory hog?
> 
> my guess is yes.
> 
> m*
> 
> -- 
> "The Shining One"
> --

I just installed the beta3 on a 486-66mhz with 12mb. The only improvement
over beta2 that is obvious is stability. It takes a longgg time to
load. If it's not hogging memory, it's hogging something else (my patience
maybe). I haven't tried the page composer yet. beta2 was very explosive in
this area. All the previous versions have wanted to rewrite html for me in
annoying ways. I mean if I say ./foo or ../foo for a link in the dialog
box, that's what I want in the html.

BTW - It's also a piece of [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the same box under win95.

Paul Wade - Greenbush Technologies Corporation
http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html
Linux CD's sent worldwide

communicator

[m*]

quick one:


is communicator a memory hog?

my guess is yes.

m*

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"The Shining One"
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Re: intel ether express pro/10+ pci

[Boris D. Beletsky]

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 On Mon, 7 Apr 1997 mfrattola wrote:

 mfrattola> Hi all, does anybody have any experience with the LAN card
 mfrattola> in the subject? do they work with linux? which driver
 mfrattola> (eepro?)?

Yes, I have one working (ISA thought), I wouldn't say thought it's
the best Ethernet I ever worked with... At first I had problems with
it because autoprobing didn't find it. Had to stick a bootrom in it,
in order to find out the hardware address and irq. (it is 0x210 and
irq 5 if I am not mistaken)

Regards,
borik

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Bridging: Can I...

[Chris Van Hine]

I'd like to bridge our Token Ring and Ethernet LANs using a 133 Pentium
running Linux 2.0.27, with a 3Com319 TokenLink and SMC Ultra NIC cards,
and bridging SW developed by Chris Cole.  Both NICs recognized and
reachable with "ifconfig" (tr0 at addr 0xa20 and eth0 at 0x280).

Problem is that the TokenLink card is identified as tr0 and I'm not sure
how to _either_ change the bridging SW to use eth0 and tr0 _or_ change
the tr0 to eth1 so that I can attempt to bridge???

I've tried aliasing in conf.modules:

alias  eth1 ibmtr

And tried adding the following to lilo.conf to force TokenLink

append = "ether=11,0xa20,eth1"

Neither worked???

Haven't a clue as to modifying brcfg options.  Any one have this
running?
I've read the mini's on Bridging, Token Ring, Module-HOWTO but at a
loss.

TIA.

Re: disk problems

[Mary Conner]

On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Matt Lawrence wrote:

> Ok, I've run out of places to look.  I'm getting occasional "hda:timeout"
> messages and my system is locking up with a disk error after anywhere from
> a few hours to a couple of days.  When it locks up, I can still change
> virtual consoles, but I can't run anything and ctrl-alt-del doesn't work.
> Since I hope to leave this system running unattended in Austin, crashes are
> a very bad thing.  Help???

I'm having this same problem with a 486 with a fairly new motherboard.
It seems to happen most often when there is a fair amount of disk activity
which makes me think it might be triggered by queueing writes to both
disks under certain circumstances.  One of these days when I get the
time I'm going to upgrade the flash BIOS on the motherboard to see if
that helps.  Can you get a new disk controller for your machine to see
if that helps?

Re: motif and X

[Kevin J Poorman]

Kevin Poorman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] OR my web page at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2782
>...this is a fish
Memory Fault Where Am I ?


On Mon, 07 Apr 1997 21:14:24 -0400 (EDT) Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
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>
>On 07-Apr-97 Kevin J Poorman wrote:
>
>>when I type xdm absolutly nothing happens I just get a command prompt
>>back and no processes are spawned... any thoughts ?
>>
>
>Try checking the /var/log/xdm-errors file.
>
>>also I have afterstep and like it's look and feel my question for 
>this is
>>can I use the fvwm95 taskbar/startbar in afterstep instead of the 
>warf? 
>>
>
>I don't see why you'd want to do that.  It defeats the purpose in 
>using
>Afterstep other than xpm titlebars.  But I was able to start the 
>taskbar
>with Afterstep 1.0 pre6.

The reason I wanted to do this is so I could have the "window shade"
option for my windows... this is the neat thing that happens when you
double click on the title bar of a window 
the converse of my question is could I get window shade 
thing to work in fvwm95-2 ... if so how?

>>and finaly
>>I have the menu package installed but when I run update-menus and 
>then
>>look at my startmenu there is no difference ... do I need to add a
>>include statement or what ...
>>
>
>Edit the /etc/X11/~window-manager/system.*rc-menu file.  Copy the 
>import
>line to the start button menu section.
>
>Make sure that the Debian menu entries are a sub-menu.  In the 
>Afterstep
>*-menu file it replaced the normal menu's.  I had to adjust the file 
>so
>the Debian entry was a sub menu.
>
>>Kevin Poorman
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] OR my web page at
>>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2782
>>>...this is a fish
>>Memory Fault Where Am I ?
>>
>Have a good one.
>
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Re: SB cfg problem - need docs

[Dale Scheetz]

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>  Hello all...
>  
> I recently acquired a Sound Blaster 16 card for my debian box. I 
>  have seen the card working in a windows machine w/ an ide disk.
>  
> After plugging it in and powering up, the card obviously conflicts 
>  with the adaptec 1542c controller. The machine will not boot.
>  
> Unfortunately, the donor of the card has no configuration 
>  documentation for the SB16 and I need a little help.
>  
>  Does anybody out there know of a site that contains information for 
>  the jumpers and configs for this SB16 card?
>  
>  thanks in advance...

I typically use AltaVista for tasks like this. Use the advanced search
option and search on "Sound Blaster" OR SB16. This should provide you with
a source of technical information.

Luck,

Dwarf
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  Flexible Software  11000 McCrackin Road
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Re: SB cfg problem - need docs

[Ken Gaugler]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>  Hello all...
> 
> I recently acquired a Sound Blaster 16 card for my debian box. I
>  have seen the card working in a windows machine w/ an ide disk.
> 
> After plugging it in and powering up, the card obviously conflicts
>  with the adaptec 1542c controller. The machine will not boot.
> 
> Unfortunately, the donor of the card has no configuration
>  documentation for the SB16 and I need a little help.
> 
>  Does anybody out there know of a site that contains information for
>  the jumpers and configs for this SB16 card?
> 
>  thanks in advance...

I messed around with a configuration like this for a while, and finally
came up with these settings:

AHA-1542:
  Address 0x334-0x337
  IRQ 9
  DMA 5

SB16:
  Address 0x220-0x22f
  IRQ 5
  DMA 1,1

Also with these settings you can put the MPU at 0x300 if you want.

Bear in mind you will likely have to build a kernel with SB support.


  
-- 

Ken Gaugler  N6OSK  URL: http://www.wco.com/~keng/
"The life of a Repo Man is ALWAYS INTENSE..."

Re: Unidentified subject!

[Jim Pick]

> The other day I was using dselect, and when I was installing some of the
> packages, I was getting read errors on the drive.  What could I do about 
> this?  Is there something LIKE  Disk Doctor for linux?  
>   joe

You want to use fsck, from the e2fsprogs package.

Switch to single user mode by typing (as root):  init 1

Then run fsck.  For example:  # fsck /dev/hda1

If you get lots of errors, you may want to run it
using the -y option so you don't have to hit 'y'
all of the time.

You can also use the -b option to scan for bad blocks
on you hard drive.

Yesterday, my hard drive had some very serious problems,
and I found that the fsck in e2fstools_1.06 didn't work --
but I upgraded to e2fstools_1.07 (in experimental), and that
did the trick.

Cheers,

 - Jim



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RE: SB cfg problem - need docs

[Rick]

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creaf.com is Creative Labs.  I have a SB16 and will help you if you tell
me what you need to know.


On 08-Apr-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all...
> 
>I recently acquired a Sound Blaster 16 card for my debian box. I 
> have seen the card working in a windows machine w/ an ide disk.
> 
>After plugging it in and powering up, the card obviously
conflicts 
> with the adaptec 1542c controller. The machine will not boot.
> 
>Unfortunately, the donor of the card has no configuration 
> documentation for the SB16 and I need a little help.
> 
> Does anybody out there know of a site that contains information for 
> the jumpers and configs for this SB16 card?
> 
> thanks in advance...
>
Have a good one.

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Date: 08-Apr-97 
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SB cfg problem - need docs

[David_Oswald]

 Hello all...
 
I recently acquired a Sound Blaster 16 card for my debian box. I 
 have seen the card working in a windows machine w/ an ide disk.
 
After plugging it in and powering up, the card obviously conflicts 
 with the adaptec 1542c controller. The machine will not boot.
 
Unfortunately, the donor of the card has no configuration 
 documentation for the SB16 and I need a little help.
 
 Does anybody out there know of a site that contains information for 
 the jumpers and configs for this SB16 card?
 
 thanks in advance...

Re: Safer package installation

[Dima]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>> "Dima" == Dima  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> As you state, disk space is now pretty cheap. That's not an
>>> excuse to wantonly waste disk a la Microsoft, but symlinks
>>> aren't exactly huge.
>
>Dima> Which is even worse, in a sense -- they waste a whole disk
>Dima> block each, using only a few bytes in it.
>
>It was my understanding that the ext2fs compacts things so that
>several small files/symlinks actually are placed in one block.  Am I
>wrong? 

I didn't know that (obviously :) -- I suppose it would, too.
--

Unidentified subject!

[Klaus Hergerschiemer]

The other day I was using dselect, and when I was installing some of the
packages, I was getting read errors on the drive.  What could I do about 
this?  Is there something LIKE  Disk Doctor for linux?  
joe


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Re: Debian's 'group' system

[m*]

Pete Harlan wrote:
> 
> The problem is that "ssh" won't work unless you remove group-write
> permissions from your home directory (and the ~/.ssh directory).
> 
> It's either a misconfiguration with Debian (i.e., files should not be
> group-writable by default) or with the ssh Debian package (i.e., it
> shouldn't mind that a directory/file is group-writable); neither way
> is clearly better than the other, but they should at least agree.
> 


i installed ssh using the tar file distribution and i did not have
any permissions problems, so maybe it is package issue.

m* 


-- 
"The Shining One"
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Re: How to modify subject of incoming emails using procmail

[Martin Schulze]

> > > So the question is, is there an easy way to make a substitution on *only*
> > > the 'Subject:' line of the *header* of the mail, either using procmail or
> > > something else?
> > 
> > Sure.  man formail.
> > 
> > I wonder, however, why on earth you would want to do this.  Why not,
> > instead just send the mail from that list to its own folder like:
> > 
> > :0:
> > * ^TOdebian-user
> > $HOME/mail/debian
> > 
> 
> I'd like to comment on this. If the debian-* list administrator(s) would edit
> the debian-*.config files and change the "subject_prefix" option to reflect
> the appropriate list, then all of the filtering would be easier on the members
> of the list. A subject line like 
> 
> Subject: I need HELP
> 
> would become
> 
> Subject: DEBIAN-USER I need HELP

All Debian lists contain a line like the following:

X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Unless the mail is sent to you via CC or BCC you can use this line
for filtering issues.

There is no need for mangled subject.

Regards

Joey

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Re: No automatic PST->PDT time change?

[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Roy C Bixler wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > Hmmm, my Debian (rex) shows MDT, but my Red Hat shows (correctly for
> > Arizona) MST.  R. H. seems to have a few more configuration choices,
> > including various parts of Indiana. 
> > 
> > The files don't seem readable, so I don't know what to make of it.
> 
> If you run 'tzconfig' you will see a lot of choices including all the ones
> you mention that Redhat has.  I also saw the problems people were
> compaining of where the time did not properly adjust itself on Monday
> morning, but all the machines I saw this on had the timezone incorrectly
> configured.

O.K. I figured it out.  If you select U.S.A., you get the following
choices:

Central
Eastern
Hawaii
Mountain
Pacific

This won't work for Arizona and the parts of Indiana which do not use DST.

If you select America (excluding USA), you get the full list.  

Confusing but it works.

Bob


Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tucson, AZ  AMPRnet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Debian's 'group' system

[Pete Harlan]

> Uhm, isn't smail finicky about the permissions on a .forward file?  If it
> does not trust the file, it will not obey it.

This reminds me---Debian has adopted this nice system of every user
having his/her own group.  (No sarcasm: It's a Good Thing.)
Everything is then group-writable by default, which is probably what
you want.

The problem is that "ssh" won't work unless you remove group-write
permissions from your home directory (and the ~/.ssh directory).

It's either a misconfiguration with Debian (i.e., files should not be
group-writable by default) or with the ssh Debian package (i.e., it
shouldn't mind that a directory/file is group-writable); neither way
is clearly better than the other, but they should at least agree.

I'd vote to remove group-writable permissions by default.

--
Pete Harlan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to modify subject of incoming emails using procmail

[Santiago Vila Doncel]

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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [ ... ]
> 
> I'd like to comment on this. If the debian-* list administrator(s) would edit
> the debian-*.config files and change the "subject_prefix" option to reflect
> the appropriate list, then all of the filtering would be easier on the members
> of the list. A subject line like 
> 
> Subject: I need HELP
> 
> would become
> 
> Subject: DEBIAN-USER I need HELP
> 
> I found out that the above formula for filtering does NOT catch all of
> debian-user messages. I have several non-related mail lists coming into my
> system, and some of them use that option. This list, unfortunately, does not
> thus making it hard to correctly separate debian messages from the rest of the
> pack (who use "listserv").

There is absolutely no need to munge the Subject line, since you have
already the Resent-Sender field.

The only people who ask for Subject munging are those that insist on
"hand-made" filtering: Believe me: If you are subscribed to one or more
mailing list you *need* a filter program. You may use procmail.

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Re: ppp & diald problem

[Philippe Troin]

On Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:54:48 +0200 Peter Bodnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
 wrote:

>   i have a problem vith diald daemon..it start correctly, set up 
>   slip line ant others, but..if i try connect to site out of my
>   internal network, nothing happend...diald NOT START ppp daemon

Which version of diald are you running ?
What are your conffiles ?

Phil.

Re: pppd and pon / poff

[Dale Scheetz]

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Andrew Martin Adrian Cater wrote:

> Having just installed a full system from unstable via dpkg-ftp, I find
> I've messed up pppd, pon and poff with bad permissions trying to allow
> users ppp access.  
> 1. How can I restore the correct files from base disks without overwriting
> all the stuff I've downloaded ? 

Not from the base disks. Simply re-install ppp using dpkg -i and
everything should be back the way the maintainer intended.

Luck,

Dwarf
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pppd and pon / poff

[Andrew Martin Adrian Cater]

Having just installed a full system from unstable via dpkg-ftp, I find
I've messed up pppd, pon and poff with bad permissions trying to allow
users ppp access.  
1. How can I restore the correct files from base disks without overwriting
all the stuff I've downloaded ? 
2. What is the canonical way to do this with a suidmanager ?

Andy

Andrew Martin Adrian Cater (Andy) +44 1242 672705 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fw: Occasional inetd lockups...

[Al Youngwerth]

I have also seen this problem very occasionally along with other strange
problems that I finally chased down to a design flaw in the cache timing of
the motherboard I was using. It was causing programs (some more often than
others) to get kernel paging request failures.

Gcc was really good at finding the problem and would abort cleanly on a
signal 11. Try doing a kernel compile. If it fails somewhere with a signal
11 error you probably have a hardware problem lurking in your system.

BTW, as I remember, I found all of this information In the kernel 2.0
readme or changes file.

Good luck,

Al Youngwerth
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

delete and backspace in emacs

[Andrea Arcangeli]

I have installed GNU emacs and I can' t map the delete and the backspace
keys in .emacs.

In xemacs I have done the same think fine.

How can resolve the problem?

Thank you.

Andrea Arcangeli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.imola.queen.it/user/arcangeli/

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Re: No automatic PST->PDT time change?

[Roy C Bixler]

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Hmmm, my Debian (rex) shows MDT, but my Red Hat shows (correctly for
> Arizona) MST.  R. H. seems to have a few more configuration choices,
> including various parts of Indiana. 
> 
> The files don't seem readable, so I don't know what to make of it.

If you run 'tzconfig' you will see a lot of choices including all the ones
you mention that Redhat has.  I also saw the problems people were
compaining of where the time did not properly adjust itself on Monday
morning, but all the machines I saw this on had the timezone incorrectly
configured.

Roy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No automatic PST->PDT time change?

[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> 
> > > The time change was the other night, but my machine still says PST
> 
> > I noticed the same problem with my machine. It said EDT when the date
> > printed, but was still an hour behind. I fixed it with netdate ;-)
> > I guess we should report it as a bug?
> 
> I'm up-to-date with "unstable", and my clock magically changed over night.
> I don't have this problem! I'm in MDT now.

Hmmm, my Debian (rex) shows MDT, but my Red Hat shows (correctly for
Arizona) MST.  R. H. seems to have a few more configuration choices,
including various parts of Indiana. 

The files don't seem readable, so I don't know what to make of it.

Bob


Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tucson, AZ  AMPRnet:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: PEX Extension to X

[Jim Lynch]

Ed Down wrote:
What about OpenGL, or Mesa as it has been implemented under Linux?  I 
compiled my sample code from my OpenGL class without too many problems
on my Linux box and it worked!  Surprised, was I.

Jim.
> 
> Has anyone any experience programming with the PEXlib under Debian?
> 
> I have managed to get PEX running in the Xserver (Note to the maintainer -
> maybe the install should modify XF86Config?) but there are no demos/code
> supplied with the xext package.
> 
> I have scanned the PEXlib reference manual and the Protocol books supplied
> with the xbooks package, but they do not give anything near a tutorial
> such as is given in O'Reillys 'Xlib Programming Guide' for Xlib. I would
> prefer not to have to buy a book to see if PEX will do what I want -
> anyone got any example code/demos?
> 
> What I am trying to do is display a fairly detailed 3D map for a game
> client which has various bits changing continuously and allow different
> viewing positions/magnification. I am open to suggestions for other
> methods of achieving this under any _free_ 3D X library if anyone knows of
> one.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ed

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Re: Installation of Debian 1.2 from a PCMCIA CD-ROM drive

[Andreas Nolda]

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Andreas Nolda wrote:

> Second, `/etc/scd0' is missing so that dselect did not mount my CD-ROM
> drive. 

Sorry for the typo -- it has to be `/dev/scd0'!

Andreas Nolda

Re: No automatic PST->PDT time change?

[J . R . Goncalves]

> I'm up-to-date with "unstable", and my clock magically changed over night.
> I don't have this problem! I'm in MDT now.
> 
> RickM...
 
My clock changed from GMT to BST (British Summer Time), but when
I use mail to send messages the Date field on the message still
shows the time in GMT. The same happens with the headers generated
by qmail. Does anyone know why? If I use exmh or xfmail the Date
field is correct.

Ramos.




 

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Re: Installation of Debian 1.2 from a PCMCIA CD-ROM drive

[Martin Schulze]

On Apr 8, Andreas Nolda wrote
> Trying to install Debian 1.2 (rex) on my laptop from a PCMCIA (SCSI)
> CD-ROM drive (besides the seven installation floppy disks), I ran into the
> following problems: 
> 
> First, I got an error message indicating that the PCMCIA drivers could 
> not be found on the device driver floppy disk. 
> 
> Second, `/etc/scd0' is missing so that dselect did not mount my CD-ROM
> drive. 
>
> What to do?

mknod /dev/scd0 b 11 0

Regards

Joey

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Re: No automatic PST->PDT time change?

[Rick Macdonald]

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> > The time change was the other night, but my machine still says PST

> I noticed the same problem with my machine. It said EDT when the date
> printed, but was still an hour behind. I fixed it with netdate ;-)
> I guess we should report it as a bug?

I'm up-to-date with "unstable", and my clock magically changed over night.
I don't have this problem! I'm in MDT now.

...RickM...

Installation of Debian 1.2 from a PCMCIA CD-ROM drive

[Andreas Nolda]

Trying to install Debian 1.2 (rex) on my laptop from a PCMCIA (SCSI)
CD-ROM drive (besides the seven installation floppy disks), I ran into the
following problems: 

First, I got an error message indicating that the PCMCIA drivers could 
not be found on the device driver floppy disk. 

Second, `/etc/scd0' is missing so that dselect did not mount my CD-ROM
drive. 

What to do?

Andreas Nolda

PEX Extension to X

[Ed Down]

Has anyone any experience programming with the PEXlib under Debian?

I have managed to get PEX running in the Xserver (Note to the maintainer -
maybe the install should modify XF86Config?) but there are no demos/code
supplied with the xext package.

I have scanned the PEXlib reference manual and the Protocol books supplied
with the xbooks package, but they do not give anything near a tutorial
such as is given in O'Reillys 'Xlib Programming Guide' for Xlib. I would
prefer not to have to buy a book to see if PEX will do what I want -
anyone got any example code/demos?

What I am trying to do is display a fairly detailed 3D map for a game
client which has various bits changing continuously and allow different
viewing positions/magnification. I am open to suggestions for other
methods of achieving this under any _free_ 3D X library if anyone knows of
one.

Thanks,

Ed

Re: Frontpage and Debian (SOLVED!)

[Dale Scheetz]

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Steffen R. Mueller wrote:

> Thus spake Adam Shand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> 
> > Hi.
> 
> Hi Adam,
> 
> > 
> > Sorry for the follow-up post so soon after.  I managed to find a copy of
> > the old libg++ 2.7.1 that I needed on the September 1996 Infomagic CD.
> > 
> > For anyone interested if you want the FP97 extensions to work with Debian
> > linux all you need to do is is *downgrade* libg++ to version 2.7.1 and it
> > all becomes easy.  If anyone needs help I'll be happy to provide what help
> > I can.
> 
> Was it really necessary to downgrade the complete system ? I wonder if it is
> possible to use the LD_PRELOAD feature like the one used by the netscape
> installer package.
> 
One way to deal with this would be to downgrade to the old library, then
copy the installed libraries, by hand, into /usr/local/lib. You can then
upgrade back to the current libraries and everything should work without
the need for the LD_PRELOAD.

Luck,

Dwarf
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Re: No automatic PST->PDT time change?

[Dale Scheetz]

On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Steve wrote:

> 
> The time change was the other night, but my machine still says PST
> which is an hour behind the correct PDT. My CMOS clock is set to GMT.
> Any suggestions? Do I need to update the timezone package?
> 
> Please CC any responses to my address as I'm no longer subscribed to
> the list. I checked the list archives yesterday but could find no info
> on this subject.
> 
I noticed the same problem with my machine. It said EDT when the date
printed, but was still an hour behind. I fixed it with netdate ;-)
I guess we should report it as a bug?

Waiting is,

Dwarf
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Re: IP/TTY Watcher

[Peter Iannarelli]

Matthew Tebbens wrote:
> 
> Are there any debian packages similiar to IP-Watcher or TTY-Watcher ?
> 
> Matthew

There is trafshow and statnet and a bunch of other
utilities which enable network monitoring.

Peter

IP/TTY Watcher

[Matthew Tebbens]

Are there any debian packages similiar to IP-Watcher or TTY-Watcher ?

Matthew

Re: How to modify subject of incoming emails using procmail

[tomk]

Jason Costomiris writes:
> 
> On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
> 
> > So the question is, is there an easy way to make a substitution on *only*
> > the 'Subject:' line of the *header* of the mail, either using procmail or
> > something else?
> 
> Sure.  man formail.
> 
> I wonder, however, why on earth you would want to do this.  Why not,
> instead just send the mail from that list to its own folder like:
> 
> :0:
> * ^TOdebian-user
> $HOME/mail/debian
> 

I'd like to comment on this. If the debian-* list administrator(s) would edit
the debian-*.config files and change the "subject_prefix" option to reflect
the appropriate list, then all of the filtering would be easier on the members
of the list. A subject line like 

Subject: I need HELP

would become

Subject: DEBIAN-USER I need HELP

I found out that the above formula for filtering does NOT catch all of
debian-user messages. I have several non-related mail lists coming into my
system, and some of them use that option. This list, unfortunately, does not
thus making it hard to correctly separate debian messages from the rest of the
pack (who use "listserv").

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RE: Occasional inetd lockups...

[Dave Ross]

Thanks to all who responded about this problem.

I have taken the consensus view and installed xinetd instead of inetd. Only 
time will tell...

Regards,

Dave Ross, Senior Technical Specialist

-Original Message-
From:   Matthew Tebbens [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:   Tuesday, April 08, 1997 1:11 PM
To: Dave Ross
Cc: Debian-User (E-mail)
Subject:Re: Occasional inetd lockups...


Hows about xinetd ?  Works great for me.

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dave Ross wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been having a recurrent problem with inetd freezing. I am at my wits 
> ends with this problem. Here is the setup:-
> 
> Basic 1.1 installation, but with networking components upgraded to:-
> 
> netbase-2.09-1
> netstd-2.06-1
> 
> (i.e. parts from Debian 1.2).
> 
> The upgrade has made no difference to the problem. The hardware is fine, and 
> even when inetd is stuffed, I can ping, telnet and FTP out of the machine. 
> The Web Server (Cern) still works (probably because it isn't going through 
> inetd).
> 
> If I do a "/etc/init.d/netbase stop", a "/etc/init.d/netstd_init stop" and 
> "/etc/init.d/netstd_misc stop", followed by the appropriate "start", then 
> everything springs back into life.
> 
> The machine is used as an internet gateway to 80-odd Windows PCs, so it is 
> mostly used for Mail and Web browsing. Mail is picked up using qpopper. 
> 
> Any ideas on what I should try next?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave Ross, Senior Technical Specialist
> 
> 

mgetty errors?

[Rowan Deppeler]

Hi all,

could anyone enlighten me as to what the following entries from the 
mgetty log file means?

Modem is usd as a dial in device and appears to work correctly.


04/08 22:10:02 yR0  TIOCMBIS failed: I/O error
04/08 22:10:02 yR0  cannot turn off soft carrier: I/O error
04/08 22:10:02 yR0  tcgetattr failed: I/O error
04/08 22:10:02 yR0  cannot get TIO: I/O error
04/08 22:10:02 yR0  mg_init_device failed, trying again



thanks,

Rowan
. . . . 
Rowan Deppeler System admin
Cybernex Networking
http://www.cybernex.net.au
vk3vw/vk3rcr
. . . .

Re: xemacs and emacs

[Alair Pereira do Lago]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> The maintainers of these two packages reached an agreement on
> how to make possible to install both without any conflicts.
> They uploaded corrected versions to master.debian.org/Incoming
> but for some reason they were not transferred to Bo. I downloaded
> these two packages from Incoming and installed them without problems.

It would be very nice if these packages reachs frozen.  It is annoying that
dselect reclaims both are conflicting every time I update my system.

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Computer Science Department -- Universidade de S~ao Paulo -- Brazil

Re: Occasional inetd lockups...

[Matthew Tebbens]

Hows about xinetd ?  Works great for me.

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Dave Ross wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been having a recurrent problem with inetd freezing. I am at my wits 
> ends with this problem. Here is the setup:-
> 
> Basic 1.1 installation, but with networking components upgraded to:-
> 
> netbase-2.09-1
> netstd-2.06-1
> 
> (i.e. parts from Debian 1.2).
> 
> The upgrade has made no difference to the problem. The hardware is fine, and 
> even when inetd is stuffed, I can ping, telnet and FTP out of the machine. 
> The Web Server (Cern) still works (probably because it isn't going through 
> inetd).
> 
> If I do a "/etc/init.d/netbase stop", a "/etc/init.d/netstd_init stop" and 
> "/etc/init.d/netstd_misc stop", followed by the appropriate "start", then 
> everything springs back into life.
> 
> The machine is used as an internet gateway to 80-odd Windows PCs, so it is 
> mostly used for Mail and Web browsing. Mail is picked up using qpopper. 
> 
> Any ideas on what I should try next?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave Ross, Senior Technical Specialist
> 
> 

Re: xemacs and emacs

[J . R . Goncalves]

The maintainers of these two packages reached an agreement on
how to make possible to install both without any conflicts.
They uploaded corrected versions to master.debian.org/Incoming
but for some reason they were not transferred to Bo. I downloaded
these two packages from Incoming and installed them without problems.

Ramos.

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Department of Physics - University of Reading - England - U.K.

Re: xemacs and emacs

[Alair Pereira do Lago]

Steve Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Can someone explain why the xemacs and emacs packages can't coexist on the
> same Debian system?  (What would it take to make them coexist?) 

I have both on my computer at home.  All that I know is that there are some
conflict in some few auxiliary binaries like /usr/bin/etags. (There was such a
question few months ago.)  Both packages provide them.  Such binaries does not
have the same syntax and their usage may be quite different.

Someone mentioned on /etc/alternative. I do not know this well but I think
this could be used to resolve the conflicts.  For sure some package would loss
a few of its functionality.


Other idea: split emacs package in emacs and emacs-utils. In emacs-utils you
put all these conflicting binaries.  Do the same for xemacs and install only
one of emacs-utils and xemacs-utils.  We could have something like:

emacs depends emacsutl
emacs suggests emacs-utils
xemacs depends emacsutl
xemacs suggests xemacs-utils
emacs-utils provides emacsutl
xemacs-utils provides emacsutl
emacs-utils conflicts xemacs-utils  (would it be necessary to explicit?)

Another idea: (feasible?) move the conflicting binaries of xemacs to some
internal directory (like we have with movemail, hexl) and configure the
specific variables in site-start if these is a problem.
Perhaps renaming some bins like etags to xetags could be done.

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Re: how to get mirror to send a local dir to a remote locn?

[Martin Schulze]

Terrence M. Brannon writes:
> 
> I placed the following in /etc/mirror/packages/bufo.usc.edu and called
> it with mirror. It did a wonderful job of pulling things from the
> remote site to the local site but wouldnt take the SwarmGenesis
> directory and mirror it to the remote machine. How can I do this
>  
> package=swarm-genesis
> site=bufo.usc.edu
> local_dir=/root/SWARM/SwarmGenesis
> remote_dir=/home/hyla-01/brannon/backup/ipsalu
> remote_user=brannon
> remote_password=Dong.jia.fu
> recursive=true
> remote_fs=unix
> compress_prog=gzip
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> verbose=true

add a
get_file=false
line

Regards

Joey


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Re: Frontpage and Debian (SOLVED!)

[Adam Shand]

>> For anyone interested if you want the FP97 extensions to work with Debian
>> linux all you need to do is is *downgrade* libg++ to version 2.7.1 and it
>> all becomes easy.  If anyone needs help I'll be happy to provide what help
>> I can.
>
>Was it really necessary to downgrade the complete system ? I wonder if it is
>possible to use the LD_PRELOAD feature like the one used by the netscape
>installer package.

Maybe... if anyone knows anything about this (I don't) and would be willing
to show me how or point me at something that will teach me how I'll give it
a go... otherwise it'll just have to stay as is until M$ gets around to
recompiling against the later libs.

Adam.

how to get mirror to send a local dir to a remote locn?

[Terrence M. Brannon]

I placed the following in /etc/mirror/packages/bufo.usc.edu and called
it with mirror. It did a wonderful job of pulling things from the
remote site to the local site but wouldnt take the SwarmGenesis
directory and mirror it to the remote machine. How can I do this
 
package=swarm-genesis
site=bufo.usc.edu
local_dir=/root/SWARM/SwarmGenesis
remote_dir=/home/hyla-01/brannon/backup/ipsalu
remote_user=brannon
remote_password=Dong.jia.fu
recursive=true
remote_fs=unix
compress_prog=gzip
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verbose=true

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Occasional inetd lockups...

[Dave Ross]

Hi,

I've been having a recurrent problem with inetd freezing. I am at my wits ends 
with this problem. Here is the setup:-

Basic 1.1 installation, but with networking components upgraded to:-

netbase-2.09-1
netstd-2.06-1

(i.e. parts from Debian 1.2).

The upgrade has made no difference to the problem. The hardware is fine, and 
even when inetd is stuffed, I can ping, telnet and FTP out of the machine. The 
Web Server (Cern) still works (probably because it isn't going through inetd).

If I do a "/etc/init.d/netbase stop", a "/etc/init.d/netstd_init stop" and 
"/etc/init.d/netstd_misc stop", followed by the appropriate "start", then 
everything springs back into life.

The machine is used as an internet gateway to 80-odd Windows PCs, so it is 
mostly used for Mail and Web browsing. Mail is picked up using qpopper. 

Any ideas on what I should try next?

Regards,

Dave Ross, Senior Technical Specialist

Re: Frontpage and Debian (SOLVED!)

[Steffen R. Mueller]

Thus spake Adam Shand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> Hi.

Hi Adam,

> 
> Sorry for the follow-up post so soon after.  I managed to find a copy of
> the old libg++ 2.7.1 that I needed on the September 1996 Infomagic CD.
> 
> For anyone interested if you want the FP97 extensions to work with Debian
> linux all you need to do is is *downgrade* libg++ to version 2.7.1 and it
> all becomes easy.  If anyone needs help I'll be happy to provide what help
> I can.

Was it really necessary to downgrade the complete system ? I wonder if it is
possible to use the LD_PRELOAD feature like the one used by the netscape
installer package.

Greetings,

Steffen
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Re: Frontpage and Debian (SOLVED!)

[Adam Shand]

Hi.

Sorry for the follow-up post so soon after.  I managed to find a copy of
the old libg++ 2.7.1 that I needed on the September 1996 Infomagic CD.

For anyone interested if you want the FP97 extensions to work with Debian
linux all you need to do is is *downgrade* libg++ to version 2.7.1 and it
all becomes easy.  If anyone needs help I'll be happy to provide what help
I can.

Adam.

dosemu..send me your configs...

[Richard Morin]

Hi folks,
I've read over most of the docs that come with the dosemu package, but I'm
still quite perplexed.
I was wondering if someone who uses the dos with win95 and dosemu could
give me some pointers.  I am hoping to try out some accounting software if
I can get this to work.
TIA.  I'll gladly assemble my findings for others to try if there is an
interest.  

So far I've resisted the urge to change anything and dosemu is as it came
out of the .deb package, it works, just can't access my hd or do much with
it.  

Richard Morin
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ppp & diald problem

[Peter Bodnar]

hi

i have a problem vith diald daemon..it start correctly, set up 
slip line ant others, but..if i try connect to site out of my
internal network, nothing happend...diald NOT START ppp daemon

and second problem: i try solve this problem to running
pon/poff script . i need to allow to run this by 5 others users
i set +s to scripts zand related programs (pppd, chat...) but if 
pon is started by one users, it can't be stoped by others

any hints?

peter

No automatic PST->PDT time change?

[Steve]

The time change was the other night, but my machine still says PST
which is an hour behind the correct PDT. My CMOS clock is set to GMT.
Any suggestions? Do I need to update the timezone package?

Please CC any responses to my address as I'm no longer subscribed to
the list. I checked the list archives yesterday but could find no info
on this subject.

TIA.


[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# dpkg -l timezone 
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ NameVersionDescription
+++-===-==-
ii  timezone7.55-1 Data files needed to set your local time
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# date
Mon Apr  7 23:11:56 PST 1997
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# date -u
Tue Apr  8 07:11:57 UTC 1997
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# clock
Tue Apr  8 07:12:27 1997
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# clock -u
Mon Apr  7 23:12:09 1997
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# grep "GMT" /etc/init.d/boot 
# Set GMT="-u" if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT="" if not.
GMT="-u"
clock -a $GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root# cat /etc/timezone
SystemV/PST8PDT

Frontpage and Debian

[Adam Shand]

Hi All.

I'm trying to get MS Frontpage extensions working on my Debian box.  After
repeated unsucess it turns out that the problem is that Frontpage was
compiled against an old libg++.

Has anyone here gotten it to work?  And if you have do you still have to
old library files in deb format lying around anywhere?

Thanks

Adam.

Re: shell problem after bo upgrade

[Philippe Troin]

On Mon, 07 Apr 1997 21:35:43 PDT "Kingsley G. Morse Jr." 
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> "John M. Rulnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >when I try to view a PostScript file under Netscape.
> 
> I think this may be caused by a bug in the 2.0 version of the bash shell. I
> seem to remember getting this error after upgrading to the 2.0??? version
> of the bash shell, which involved a symlink to sh. I fixed it by going
> back to bash version 1.14.7.

Actually, bash 2.0 is way stricter than bash 1.x. And netscape's programming is 
a little bit sloppy. Using debian netscape installer patches all these problems.

Phil.

Re: shell problem after bo upgrade

[Kingsley G. Morse Jr.]

"John M. Rulnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>sh: -c:line 1:missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression
>sh: -c:line 1:syntax error near unexpected token ';'
>sh: -c:line 1:'((gv /tmp/MO233499B410060202.ps); rm /tmp/MO233499B410060202.ps 
>) &'

>when I try to view a PostScript file under Netscape.

I think this may be caused by a bug in the 2.0 version of the bash shell. I
seem to remember getting this error after upgrading to the 2.0??? version
of the bash shell, which involved a symlink to sh. I fixed it by going
back to bash version 1.14.7.

Good luck :-)
Kingsley

Trouble installing debian from floppy

[Richard Collins]

When installing the base system with the graphical installer from floppy I
get the error message:

usage: floppy_merge device

There is a problem extracting the floppy from
 .

When I run floppy merge from a shell with:  floppy_merge dev/fd0
It seems to work fine, that is sends loads of garbage to the screen.

Any help would be appreciated.


Richard Collins

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Re: Question about dselect..

[Paul Wade]

On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, smorrill wrote:

> I have a base debian system installed on my 586 133 mhz.  I got the
> "Cheap Bytes" cd and am trying to install packages, specifically the
> Xwindows packages.  These are located in a directory called "rex-fixe"
> on the cd.  I must be missing something here, but I cannot get dselect
> to recognize that directory.  I've tried letting the program scan the
> various directories on the cd, tried over & over to do it manually to no
> avail.
> 
> I've read the faq, etc. on dselect.  I'm new to linux, so (once again..)
> I'm sure this is user error.
> 
> Any suggestions out there? 
> 
> TIA!!
> 

You need to mount the CD as filesystem type iso9660 so the filenames will
be complete.

Paul Wade - Greenbush Technologies Corporation
http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html
Linux CD's sent worldwide

Re: .forward not working

[George Bonser]

Uhm, isn't smail finicky about the permissions on a .forward file?  If it
does not trust the file, it will not obey it.



I am giving .sigs a break this month

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Re: .forward not working

[Jason Killen]

I'm using sendmail *duck*.  And it seems to work sorta I think
my problem is one with procmail and slocal.  Although I havent played much
with getting it to forward to another address, that was a problem from
a user that I couldn't figure out.


In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>Jason Killen writes:
>> 
>> Does anyone have any idea why .forward would not forward or pipe to a progra
>m
>> (ie procmail).  It seems like it is not even being looked at.
>
>Ouh, I thougt it was a misconfiguration by me on my machine in the
>offices.  Reading this it doesn't seem to be. :-(
>
>I came across the same problem.
>
>.forward is working fine as long as there are only some email
>addresses inside.  It seems that Smail can't execute a program
>at this point.  (maybe procmail can't be called as 'nobody')
>
>Seems I have to investigate my configuration on finlandia with
>the one on troi
>
>Regards
>
>   Joey
>
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start-stop-daemon blues. Perl is to big for my boot disk.

[Dave Cinege]

I would like to be able to use the standard Debian start-up scripts for my 
custom router bootdisk. (And it appears so would alot of other people)

Unfortunately start-stop-daemon requires perl.

All together perl and libs are about 500K (about 200K compressed)..a 
HUGH waste on a floppy.

Is there any compiled or shell compatible version of start-stop-daemon?
It looks fairly simple. If I wasn't completily ignorant of Perl and 'C' 
under Linux I'd do it myself..



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Re: motif and X

[Karl M. Hegbloom]

> "TT" == The Tick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

TT>  SWiM Motif came on a single CD-ROM, in a plain white envelope
TT> all in a cardboard mailer.  And thats it.  No manuals (manuals
TT> cost extra, but I saw PostScript Motif
TT> reference manuals on the CD).

 You can turn those PS manuals into a very readable form with DEC
SRC's virtual paper software.  You can find it at:

http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtualpaper/

... it works well; I bought a Zip drive just for documents in this
form.  You can browse around in a book with it really easily.  Press
'c' for the table of contents, 'i' for the index, and type a number to
jump to that page.  You can also search for things, and highlight and
paste out of books made with it.  I think I like the Lectern reader's
interface better than Adobe's acroreader.  You can get around a lot
faster than in a paper book.  It's got an excellent display. I like it
when you press 'z' and have it fill the screen.  It's sort of like
reading from microfilm at the library.

 I've got all of the X window's books in that form; waiting for when
I'm ready to read them.  The motif manual would be good that way too.

 There's no Debian package yet, AFAIK.  I don't know how to make them
yet either :-(, or maybe I'd look into doing it for everyone.

 Lectern is written in Modula-3, which is an important Internet
programming language.  Dr. Dobb's Journal just ran an article about a
distributed object system scripted with Obliq, which is another M3
program.  The w3 consortium talks about M3 in writings I've glanced
over...  It does things that java does; and did them first, I believe.
You can get it on Linux too; for free, at DEC SRC...

Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg
Portland, OR  USA
Debian GNU 1.2  Linux 2.0.29t
You tell me and we'll both know.  Or ask me again in a few years,
and maybe I'll tell you then.

RE: motif and X

[Rick]

On 07-Apr-97 Kevin J Poorman wrote:
>Hi 
>
>first the motif questions
>1: where can I get the motif librarys ?
>2: How much do they cost ?
>
>secondly the X questions
>
>when I type xdm absolutly nothing happens I just get a command prompt
>back and no processes are spawned... any thoughts ?
>
>when I look though /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/ I see a program/module ?
>called fwvmaudio what is this? I think it is suposed to be used to bind
>sound bytes to events ?... 
>
>also I have afterstep and like it's look and feel my question for this is
>can I use the fvwm95 taskbar/startbar in afterstep instead of the warf? 
>
>and finaly
>I have the menu package installed but when I run update-menus and then
>look at my startmenu there is no difference ... do I need to add a
>include statement or what ...
>
>Kevin Poorman
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] OR my web page at
>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2782
>>...this is a fish
>Memory Fault Where Am I ?
>

RE: motif and X

[Rick]

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On 07-Apr-97 Kevin J Poorman wrote:

>when I type xdm absolutly nothing happens I just get a command prompt
>back and no processes are spawned... any thoughts ?
>

Try checking the /var/log/xdm-errors file.

>also I have afterstep and like it's look and feel my question for this is
>can I use the fvwm95 taskbar/startbar in afterstep instead of the warf? 
>

I don't see why you'd want to do that.  It defeats the purpose in using
Afterstep other than xpm titlebars.  But I was able to start the taskbar
with Afterstep 1.0 pre6.

>and finaly
>I have the menu package installed but when I run update-menus and then
>look at my startmenu there is no difference ... do I need to add a
>include statement or what ...
>

Edit the /etc/X11/~window-manager/system.*rc-menu file.  Copy the import
line to the start button menu section.

Make sure that the Debian menu entries are a sub-menu.  In the Afterstep
*-menu file it replaced the normal menu's.  I had to adjust the file so
the Debian entry was a sub menu.

>Kevin Poorman
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] OR my web page at
>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/2782
>>...this is a fish
>Memory Fault Where Am I ?
>
Have a good one.

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Re: shell problem after bo upgrade

[Richard Kilgore]

On Apr 7, John M. Rulnick wrote
>Help needed.  After upgrading today to bo's base and devel (and a few
>others), I'm receiving the following message:
>
>sh: -c:line 1:missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression
>sh: -c:line 1:syntax error near unexpected token ';'
>sh: -c:line 1:'((gv /tmp/MO233499B410060202.ps); rm /tmp/MO233499B410060202.ps 
>)&'
>
>when I try to view a PostScript file under Netscape.  For a long time
>I have had 'gv %s' set up as a Helper under Netscape, with no
>problems; clearly gv is being invoked, but is failing.  What's
>happening?  Any pointers greatly appreciated.  (Please "CC:" me
>directly if possible.)

I had to deal with the same problem, and decided to change my
/bin/sh to point to ash instead of bash.  This solves this
problem but can create others.  One problem I noticed already is
that ash doesn't seem to recognize ~usr or even ~.

   - rick

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Re: Question about dselect..

[Nicolás Lichtmaier]

On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, smorrill wrote:

> I have a base debian system installed on my 586 133 mhz.  I got the
> "Cheap Bytes" cd and am trying to install packages, specifically the
> Xwindows packages.  These are located in a directory called "rex-fixe"
> on the cd.  I must be missing something here, but I cannot get dselect
> to recognize that directory.

 The directory you should use is "stable", which is a link to "rex-fixed".
There's no "rex-fixe". You're probably looking the CD from DOS. Linux uses
an extension called `Rock Ridge' to use long filename, that neither DOS
nor Win95 understands.

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Re: Netscape Communicator 4.0b3 status (fwd)

[Larry 'Daffy' Daffner]

"PJG" == Philipp JW Grau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  PJG> On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Gary Lee wrote:
  >> Where can I find the 4.0b3 Netscape?

  PJG> home.netscape.com

  PJG> and its mirrors...

Aha! Finally found the linux version. It's on ftp2.netscape.com in the
directory /pub/communicator/4.0/4.0b3/unix/other. Dunno why most of
the UNIX versions are in the other directory. Anyways, downloading it
now. :)

-Larry





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shell problem after bo upgrade

[John M. Rulnick]

Help needed.  After upgrading today to bo's base and devel (and a few
others), I'm receiving the following message:

sh: -c:line 1:missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression
sh: -c:line 1:syntax error near unexpected token ';'
sh: -c:line 1:'((gv /tmp/MO233499B410060202.ps); rm /tmp/MO233499B410060202.ps 
)&'

when I try to view a PostScript file under Netscape.  For a long time
I have had 'gv %s' set up as a Helper under Netscape, with no
problems; clearly gv is being invoked, but is failing.  What's
happening?  Any pointers greatly appreciated.  (Please "CC:" me
directly if possible.)

Thanks.

Re: xscreensaver and Motif...

[Larry 'Daffy' Daffner]

"R" == Rick  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  R> I have looked in the doc's and
  R> find no way to display plain old jpg's as the screensaver instead
  R> of the animations.

  R> I would like to see an option to display the contents of an image
  R> directory, randomly maybe?

It should be fairly easy to do this. You will need to set 2 resources:
XScreenSaver*programs and XScreenSaver*colorPrograms. Try putting this
in your .Xresources and make sure allow-user-resourses is in
/etc/X11/config.

XScreenSaver*programs: \
xv -root picture1.jpg \n\
xv -root picture2.jpg \n\
xv -root picture3.jpg \n

XScreenSaver*colorPrograms: \
xv -root picture4.jpg \n

  R> I tried to run the demo mode to get this dialog box you spoke of
  R> but it just started and exited without displaying anything.

That's sort of the point I was trying to make :). The way xscreensaver
is compiled now, the demo mode and lock mode will not work. If I
compile it with Motif, the demo and lock modes will work, but the
binary packages will not be free. Motif is a widget set for X. And
yes, the look is part of Motif.

  R> I have the app-defaults file set to use xv to display some images
  R> and all others shut off.

What resource in particular did you set? BTW, you should set this in a
personal app-defaults or X resource file, since the app defaults file
will get overwritten on an upgrade.

It looks like I'll make 3 versions available: the current version, a
version statically linked with motif (and thus having the demo and
lock functionality) and a dynamically linked Motif version for people
who already have motif.

-Larry


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Re: motif and X

[The Tick]

On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote:
> Hi
> first the motif questions
> 1: where can I get the motif librarys ?


Cheap*Bytes (http://www.cheapbytes.com) sells a complete Motif
2.0.1 development system (SWiM Motif 2.0 by LaserMoon) for $69.00.  This
is a VERY good price considering Motif for Linux used to cost nearly $200
a couple of years ago.

I bought it and I am quite satisfied with it.  'Tho, if you've
never bought anything from Cheap*Bytes, you may be suprised by how they
really don't go all out in the fancy packaging, etc.  SWiM Motif came on a
single CD-ROM, in a plain white envelope all in a cardboard mailer.  And
thats it.  No manuals (manuals cost extra, but I saw PostScript Motif
reference manuals on the CD).  I also bought a Red Hat CD from them once
also, and it came on an all white, generic looking, CD-ROM also in a plain
white envelope all enclosed in a cardboard mailer.  But I'm not
complaining.  It's how they keep the costs down and how they can sell
stuff for so cheap.  Thier service is excellent and I highly recommend
them.


> secondly the X questions
> when I type xdm absolutly nothing happens I just get a command prompt
> back and no processes are spawned... any thoughts ?

Check the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file.  Check to see if you have an
X server defined for ":0".  


> when I look though /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/ I see a program/module ?
> called fwvmaudio what is this? I think it is suposed to be used to bind
> sound bytes to events ?...


Yes, it is.  You can bind sounds to window manager events like
maximizing and minimizing windows.  Do a 'man FvwmAudio' for more
details.


> also I have afterstep and like it's look and feel my question for this is
> can I use the fvwm95 taskbar/startbar in afterstep instead of the warf?


Well, I do know you can use the Task Bar from Fvwm '95 v2.42 and
prior with Fvwm v2.0.x (I'm using it right now ... 'tho I slightly hacked
it so I doesn't have a Start button anymore).  But since AfterStep is
based on Fvwm v.1.x, it is highly questionable if the Task Bar will work.
Note that starting with Fvwm '95 v2.43, they changed a few things so that
the Task Bar no longer works properly with Fvwm v2.0.x.  So it is very
unlikely that will work with AfterStep either.

> and finaly
> I have the menu package installed but when I run update-menus and then
> look at my startmenu there is no difference ... do I need to add a
> include statement or what ...


No clue here :-(.  What is the menu package?  (I'm still using
Debian 1.1 with only a few of the packages upgraded with more recent
.debs).


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