Re: Directory permissions.
On 13:28:43 Nathan E Norman wrote: > >Using the correct tools is important. David gives you one such tool - I >personally type the following command in the directory I wish to copy: >"find . -print | cpio -p /target". This is of course a simplification; >find and cpio have a lot of powerful options, and people will argue the >merits of tar vs. cpio all day. It works for me. At any rate, mc is not >up to the task. > For an even more precise duplicate of a directory hierarchy I've used this: find . -depth | cpio -pdmv /target This will create an exact duplicate and traverse any sub-dir's, preserving symlinks, permissions, and dates of everything from the current directory down thru the tree. I've used this many times moving an entrie filesystem such as /usr from one partition to another, etc. Works slick. It is also true that the newer GNU tar offers the same functionality as well. But, I've used this so often, that I simply trust it implicitly. Paul >> > system structure standards. I don't remember if it gave ownerships but >> > it's worth a shot if someone knows what it's called and where I can find >> > it. >> >> No, it's far too short to cover ownerships, only locations. The 1.2 FSS >> doesn't give it's own location(!), but only that of its FAQ which is >> ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/docs/linux-standards/fsstnd/FSSTND-FAQ >> > >I concur. You're in for an install - I can smile cos I've bombed >my machines a few times. > >> P.S. I don't see multiple copies of your postings here. > >Nor do I. > >Nathan > >-- >TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] . >Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clear screen on logout
Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: > > > > > At 09:50 AM 29/04/97 -0700, Ryan Shaw wrote: > > > >i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. > > > >i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at > > > >the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm > > > >sure there is a better way. > > > > > > > >any ideas? > > > > > > Best way (the way I do it) is to do this: > > > > > > clear > /etc/motd > > > > > > However, make sure you make a backup copy of your original MOTD so you can > > > then edit the file and after all the ascii characters put it back. > > > > > Well, actually adding clear to motd will cause the screen to clear after > > the login has been entered. If you want a clean screen after every logout > > this should go into /etc/issue. The way I did this was: > > > > cd to /tmp (or some other reasonable place) > > clear >temp1 > > cp /etc/issue ./temp2 > > cat temp1 temp2 >issue > > cp issue /etc/issue > > > > After which a logout clears the screen. > > I first wanted to do this when I began using linux years ago and thought > the solution was quite simple - edit /etc/issue and add 40 or so blank > lines before what ever you want displayed with the login. That might be > too simple though:) Cheers, Colin. > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Has no one got any editors installed? I seem to recall they make these jobs a bit easier... :) 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 | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help with printing, please...
Rick Jones wrote: > > Just type "command > lpr". Replace command with the command you want print > the output of. This will send the output to lpr (printer). You can also > look at .xsession-errors (in home dir) and xdm-errors in the /var/log dir, > depending on what you are doing and at what point you get the errors. Of course you mean "command | lpr". Note that this requires the installation of the lpr package. > Just play with combo's of the above and you will get all the errors. Also > read the man page on the command and see if you can increase debugging > with an arg (-d or --debug normally). > > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, smorrill wrote: > > > sorry, this is a second request... > > > > Is there any way I can send what's actually showing on the on the screen > > to the printer? I'm trying to get XFree86 running and getting a lot of > > error messages. I'd like to be able to print these out so I can try to > > address the problems without having to write everything down... As is > > obvious, I'm really new at this Linux stuff, so I'm still very much in > > the thrashing around stages. > > > > I'm using Debian Release 1.2 on a 586 / 133 mhz coexisting with > > winbloze95... I can't even get my ppp stuff going yet so I have to still > > use winbloze to connect to the 'net.. I'm so ashamed!! :( -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clear screen on logout
I'm inherently lazy, and I hate typing. All these solutions work, but what's wrong with suing to root, typing 'vi /etc/issue', typing '!!clear' and finishing off with a ':wq' ?? Just goes to show there's more than one way to do it. (I think that may be trademarked by Larry Wall). Nathan On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: > > > At 09:50 AM 29/04/97 -0700, Ryan Shaw wrote: > > >i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. > > >i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at > > >the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm > > >sure there is a better way. > > > > > >any ideas? > > > > Best way (the way I do it) is to do this: > > > > clear > /etc/motd > > > > However, make sure you make a backup copy of your original MOTD so you can > > then edit the file and after all the ascii characters put it back. > > > Well, actually adding clear to motd will cause the screen to clear after > the login has been entered. If you want a clean screen after every logout > this should go into /etc/issue. The way I did this was: > > cd to /tmp (or some other reasonable place) > clear >temp1 > cp /etc/issue ./temp2 > cat temp1 temp2 >issue > cp issue /etc/issue > > After which a logout clears the screen. > > Luck, > > Dwarf > -- > _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- > > aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 > Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 > > _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clear screen on logout
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: > > > At 09:50 AM 29/04/97 -0700, Ryan Shaw wrote: > > >i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. > > >i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at > > >the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm > > >sure there is a better way. > > > > > >any ideas? > > > > Best way (the way I do it) is to do this: > > > > clear > /etc/motd > > > > However, make sure you make a backup copy of your original MOTD so you can > > then edit the file and after all the ascii characters put it back. > > > Well, actually adding clear to motd will cause the screen to clear after > the login has been entered. If you want a clean screen after every logout > this should go into /etc/issue. The way I did this was: > > cd to /tmp (or some other reasonable place) > clear >temp1 > cp /etc/issue ./temp2 > cat temp1 temp2 >issue > cp issue /etc/issue > > After which a logout clears the screen. I first wanted to do this when I began using linux years ago and thought the solution was quite simple - edit /etc/issue and add 40 or so blank lines before what ever you want displayed with the login. That might be too simple though:) Cheers, Colin. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup
(Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > mike horansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Using trn to thread articles is more convenient than using elm (a > > GNUS-user tells me that its threading and searching are not as > > good). > > Gnus not as good at this as elm or trn... possible, but I'd be > surprised. As a mail-reader I'm sure gnus is more powerful than elm. I just like elm's simplicity. The most recent I've heard about gnus as a news-reader is that it doesn't thread related articles as well as trn, nor is its searching as good. -- -Mike Horansky, Leland Consultant (http://consult.stanford.edu/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY ME ARE NOT NECESSARILY SHARED BY MY EMPLOYERS. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: depmod error reading ELF header
i just tried to make the modules by hand and then install them with 'make modules_install' (instead of using make-kpkg) and none of the *_MODULES files were copied to /lib/modules/2.x.x. make-kpkg explicitly copies these files to that directory (look in /usr/lib/kernel-package/rules). i suspect the new depmod tests to see if all the files in the modules subdirectories are elf objects and, if they are not, crashes. it could be a bug in depmod, it should skip non-elf objects, but then the *_MODULES files are not supposed to be there in the first place. it's hard to say whose bug this really is, but i think i would go with make-kpgp (don't copy extra files where they are not supposed to be in the first place just to be cute). so, indeed, removing all the *_MODULES (including the one in misc) gets depmod working again. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredit completely the world of reality. | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clear screen on logout
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Karl Ferguson wrote: > At 09:50 AM 29/04/97 -0700, Ryan Shaw wrote: > >i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. > >i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at > >the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm > >sure there is a better way. > > > >any ideas? > > Best way (the way I do it) is to do this: > > clear > /etc/motd > > However, make sure you make a backup copy of your original MOTD so you can > then edit the file and after all the ascii characters put it back. > Well, actually adding clear to motd will cause the screen to clear after the login has been entered. If you want a clean screen after every logout this should go into /etc/issue. The way I did this was: cd to /tmp (or some other reasonable place) clear >temp1 cp /etc/issue ./temp2 cat temp1 temp2 >issue cp issue /etc/issue After which a logout clears the screen. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect for X?
I strongly second Bob Nielsen's remarks. Bob Hilliard On Mon, 28 Apr 1997 17:14:38 Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If a version of dselect is created for X, PLEASE let it be an option, not > the only version. Many of us have X-less installations and intend to keep > it that way (I have both X and non-X machines). > > Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: AccelX and Xfree together
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Chris Hanson wrote: > You will need to install an XFree86 server in order to satisfy the > package dependencies that require an X server. Other than that, it's > not important. In the future, you will have to be careful not to > update the XFree86 server package accidentally, because this will > overwrite the AcceleratedX server. Actually, it will not overwrite the AcceleratedX server, rather it will just point the /usr/X11R6/bin/X link to the newly upgraded XFree86 server (that may be what you meant), so whenever you upgrade XFree, all you will need to do is to run /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/AcceleratedX/Xintall again to recreate the proper link. However, the reason I am replying to this note is regarding xdm. I always use xdm and I have found that when you upgrade XFree, the server listed in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers is removed and you must put it back in by hand so that xdm can start the server. I was somewhat confused about this at one point so I thought I would pass it along. Cheers, Colin. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: New Hard Disk
Syd -- Looks like you can use the "cp" command with the "--archive" option (see "cp" man page). What you need to do is, after you place a linux filesystem on the partition with "mke2fs", mount that partition under the generic mount-point directory "/mnt": mount /dev/hd?? /mnt Then, copy everything from /usr/lib onto the partition: cp --archive /usr/lib /mnt Once you're sure everything has been copied and is intact, erase everything under /usr/lib: rm -r /usr/lib/* Then umount the partition, and remount it under /usr/lib umount /mnt mount /dev/hd?? /usr/lib Be sure to place the necessary data in your /etc/fstab file so that the partition gets mounted at boot time from now on (/etc/fstab format is self-explanatory). Drop me a line if you have problems, or this procedure doesn't work out (be sure to back up your files before doing this!). Hope it works! :-) -- Harmon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help with printing, please...
Rick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Just type "command > lpr". Replace command with the command you want print That should be "command | lpr". Otherwise you'll just get a file called `lpr', which of course one could print :) 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 | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: upgrade to debian 1.3
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > ... > >I'm not sure there was actually an error in the above lynx install > >session (appart from the possibly wrong error message) > ... If the > >lock is held by someone else, this call returns > >-1 and sets errno to EACCES or EAGAIN. > > > >So, probably I should also test for EACCES. (why doesn't dpkg does this?) > > Perhaps dpkg mmaps the file, so it always gets EAGAIN. No, it doesn't (read the code I showed, and you'll see that errno excactly is not EAGAIN, that's what I test for). > Anyway, I had this error while dpkg was installing hdimage for dosemu. > Everything got installed fine, so the error message is in error. :) update-menus wasn't run, that's all (very slight error). > You probably should log messages via syslog so that they don't mess > with output from foreground jobs. Fortunatly I didn't, as otherwise people never would see when it happens. I am glad I now at least know that the fcntl() call also can give something else than EWOULDBLOCK or EAGAIN (that's what these messages prove), I'll just go and check what the other thing is (probably it's EACCES). > AFA I can see open() should block > until dpkg run is complete The fd=open(DPKG_LOCKFILE, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0660); call above doesn't block. (otherwise, none of the messages above would appear!). > -- the only test I can think of is to poll > with non-blocking open() and see if it makes any difference. So this is not needed. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i
Re: help with printing, please...
Just type "command > lpr". Replace command with the command you want print the output of. This will send the output to lpr (printer). You can also look at .xsession-errors (in home dir) and xdm-errors in the /var/log dir, depending on what you are doing and at what point you get the errors. Just play with combo's of the above and you will get all the errors. Also read the man page on the command and see if you can increase debugging with an arg (-d or --debug normally). On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, smorrill wrote: > sorry, this is a second request... > > Is there any way I can send what's actually showing on the on the screen > to the printer? I'm trying to get XFree86 running and getting a lot of > error messages. I'd like to be able to print these out so I can try to > address the problems without having to write everything down... As is > obvious, I'm really new at this Linux stuff, so I'm still very much in > the thrashing around stages. > > I'm using Debian Release 1.2 on a 586 / 133 mhz coexisting with > winbloze95... I can't even get my ppp stuff going yet so I have to still > use winbloze to connect to the 'net.. I'm so ashamed!! :( > > TIA > --- > > Steve Morrill > > > > > > > Please reply to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.. + PGP pub key id: 0xF2459FCD < > > > header changed to prevent spamming! + Linux..it's not just an OS, < > > > + it's an adventure! < > > > > -- > Steve Morrill > > > > Please reply to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.. + PGP pub key id: 0xF2459FCD < > > header changed to prevent spamming! + Linux..it's not just an OS, < > > + it's an adventure! < > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Invalid NBT Packets?
hello, I've been modding around with samba and winnt4. Samba works, nothing wrong with that, but when i say smbmount it fucks up and displays: "Invalid NBT Packet". Is this some weird misconfiguration in Linux or just another bug in Windowze NT? ;) Thanks for any. Tom This is a signature file. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: depmod error reading ELF header
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Dima wrote: > >The problem was avoided by removing the *_MODULES files. > > Didn't work here. What version of kernel/ld.so/(what else?) are you > using? > > Dimitri When I compiled my first kernel, it was out of necessity for another machine, so I couldn't use the "install" parts of make. The installation had left these *_MODULES files on the first machine, and I fretted over how to get them into the right places on my target machine. Nowadays when I'm compiling kernels (on the target machines themselves), I notice that I never end up with any of these files in my /lib/modules. I can't find anything about them in all the documentation I've read. Does anybody know what they are, or where they are documented? -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: depmod error reading ELF header
> Didn't work here. What version of kernel/ld.so/(what else?) are you > using? Did you remove misc/NET_MISC_MODULES or whatever it is? I'm using kernel 2.0.30 modutils 2.1.34 ldso 1.9.2 (though I was using something like 1.8.10 at the time). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clear screen on logout
> "Ryan" == Ryan Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ryan> i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer Ryan> as of yet. i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the Ryan> login prompt to appear at the top. i've worked around this Ryan> by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm sure there is a better Ryan> way. See if this works: $ su root # cd /etc # mv issue issue.body # TERM=linux tput clear > issue.clear # cat issue.clear > issue # cat issue.body >> issue # exit $ issue Description: Sample /etc/issue with clear screen and figlet logo. -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.0.30t
Re: help!
I don't know if this is an option for you but I installed sendmail instead of smail for my debian system and have not regretted that decision. Personally I think sendmail is better. my two cents. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dead end?
Larry James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, [ snip ] > and when I run dselect or dpkg, I get lots of error messages. The most > significant seem to be "bash: command install not found", and > ...configure not found". Where should these commands be? It's kind of a > pickle because I don't see how to add anything if there's no install > command - but how did everything else get installed??? [ snip ] > Any ideas would be appreciated! There is a link missing from one of the perl packages. Go look at one of the files that "it says is missing." It's actually there - for instance, do a "which install-info" as root, and it will say "/usr/sbin/install-info". If you look at first line that file, you will see that it is a perl script. If you go look for /usr/bin/perl, then my guess is it's not there. So, make a soft link from perl5. to perl. (Someone correct if this is a bad solution, please. It's what I did!) So, do a: cd /usr/bin ln -s perl5.00307 perl (as root of course, and this assumes your perl5 binary is perl5.00307) > Larry James This bug, and xbase not putting /usr/X11R6/lib into ld.so.conf seem to be the biggest of Debian 1.2. (They are pretty big bugs, IMHO, but with this list or a decent knowledge of linux, not TOO hard to figure out.) Later, Dale -- + finger for pgp public key -+ | Dale E. Martin | University of Cincinnati Savant Research Laboratory | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~dmartin | +--+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Directory permissions.
On Apr 29, Nathan E Norman wrote > > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > > > > > [ description of problem ] > > > > > > I did this to avoid a full install when I repartitioned since I have no > > > backup system and have installed from ftp. Somebody out there must have a > > > good way to reset my ownerships. > > > > Well, the /easiest/ way might just be to copy the files in one of the > > correct manners, overwriting both them and their ownerships. For example, > > tar to stdout and pipe it to stdin of another tar with --save-permissions > > and --save-owners (done as root). > > Using the correct tools is important. David gives you one such tool - I > personally type the following command in the directory I wish to copy: > "find . -print | cpio -p /target". This is of course a simplification; > find and cpio have a lot of powerful options, and people will argue the > merits of tar vs. cpio all day. It works for me. At any rate, mc is not > up to the task. Or, since Debian has GNU cp, I simply use "cp -a". It preserves everything. (The 'a' stands for archive.) You might want this as a bug report against mc, though. If it said 'preserve' in the menu, IMHO it should preserve both files and directories's permissions. Christian pgpotaGkykCH7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: depmod error reading ELF header
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory > >The problem was avoided by removing the *_MODULES files. Didn't work here. What version of kernel/ld.so/(what else?) are you using? Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: upgrade to debian 1.3
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: ... >I'm not sure there was actually an error in the above lynx install >session (appart from the possibly wrong error message) ... If the >lock is held by someone else, this call returns >-1 and sets errno to EACCES or EAGAIN. > >So, probably I should also test for EACCES. (why doesn't dpkg does this?) Perhaps dpkg mmaps the file, so it always gets EAGAIN. Anyway, I had this error while dpkg was installing hdimage for dosemu. Everything got installed fine, so the error message is in error. :) You probably should log messages via syslog so that they don't mess with output from foreground jobs. AFA I can see open() should block until dpkg run is complete -- the only test I can think of is to poll with non-blocking open() and see if it makes any difference. Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clear screen on logout
Karl Ferguson wrote: > > At 12:32 PM 29/04/97 -0400, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > >mgetty, agetty & mingetty use /etc/issue (by default, though this > >is of course configurable for mgetty and agetty) rather than motd. > >(I wonder what uses /etc/motd?) So, you can run (as root, of course): > > > >clear >> /etc/issue > > > >(no need to save original issue, as ">>" appends to the file rather > >than writing over it). > > This won't work right - >> appends to the end of the file and what'll > happen is that the issue will spit out and then clear with "name login: " > Ah yes, very important! Rather: (clear; cat /etc/issue) > /etc/issue.new ; mv /etc/issue.new /etc/issue -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dead end?
Hi, I've gotten bogged down with my installation of debian, could really use some hints to get me going again. I have a working system, i boot off a floppy and can log in, cruise my directories, even run the c compiler. There are a few things missing, and when I run dselect or dpkg, I get lots of error messages. The most significant seem to be "bash: command install not found", and ...configure not found". Where should these commands be? It's kind of a pickle because I don't see how to add anything if there's no install command - but how did everything else get installed??? I had to download everything via ftp because of some problem with my CDROM. ( I have the infomagic 6-CD set but could not successfully install any of the 3 distributions!) Any ideas would be appreciated! Larry James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
cdwrite / hybrid cd's
Is there any way to make a hybrid CD on Linux? I guess cdwrite just writes an image file onto the CD, so the question is if it is possible to create that hybrid (mac / iso) file? Steve -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
AccelX and Xfree together
Date:Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:39:43 +0100 (BST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Skreeg) I`ve just got hold of AccelX2.1 but already have xbase installed for Debian1.2.8 . Is it OK to install AccelX in as well as xbase? If not, what happens to the dependancies on xbase? This will work fine. AcceleratedX is an X server, and will not work unless the rest of XFree86 is present, so you must install xbase, xfonts, etc. to use it. You will need to install an XFree86 server in order to satisfy the package dependencies that require an X server. Other than that, it's not important. In the future, you will have to be careful not to update the XFree86 server package accidentally, because this will overwrite the AcceleratedX server. The easiest thing to do is install an appropriate server from XFree86, then install AcceleratedX. (Use "xserver-vga16" if you can't find anything better.) AcceleratedX will rename "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" to "/usr/X11R6/bin/X.LINUX" and install itself as "/usr/X11R6/bin/X". One other thing to be careful of: you _must_ install the "termcap-compat" package before installing AcceleratedX. The installation program depends on it, and if it isn't there, the installation will fail without an error message. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problems with X fonts
I have used the Dec 96 InfoMagic cd set to install Debian 1.2 on a couple machines. On one machine I had trouble installing X. When dselect was installing/configuring xfntbase, the program mkfontdir printed a whole bunch of messages like this: mkfontdir: unable to process font ./5x7.pcf.Z, skipping and mkfontdir ended up dumping core. Later, I was able to run X -probeonly, but when I tried to really run the X server, it complained about not being able to find the font 'fixed', and exited immediately. I noticed that there are two versions of xbase, 3.2-1 and 3.2-1a. There are also two versions of xlib6. When dselect is in the install step, I noticed that it says -- Version 3.2-1a of xbase already installed, skipping. Will not downgrade xbase from version 3.2-1a to 3.2-1, skipping. -- but then later it says -- Preparing to replace xlib6 3.2-1 (using .../x11/xlib6_3.2-1a.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlib6 ... Preparing to replace xlib6 3.2-1a (using .../x11/xlib6_3.2-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlib6 ... -- This is on the machine that has the problem. Has anyone seen this problem? Any advice? -- Steve Preston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help with printing, please...
In your email to me, smorrill, you wrote: > > sorry, this is a second request... > > Is there any way I can send what's actually showing on the on the screen > to the printer? I'm trying to get XFree86 running and getting a lot of > error messages. I'd like to be able to print these out so I can try to > address the problems without having to write everything down... As is > obvious, I'm really new at this Linux stuff, so I'm still very much in > the thrashing around stages. Try using 'script', or, if you just have a virtual console with stuff on it you want to print, you can say 'cat /dev/vcs1|lpr' if you were on tty1, use vcs2 for tty2, etc Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it." -- Sam Rayburn ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: New Hard Disk
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: > I'm trying to add space to my system and all i have is a 170meg HD what I > want to do is move everything from /usr/lib to the new HD and have the new > drive mount at that point. I would like to have the move done in one > command. is that posible or will i have to move the whole tree by hand? Sure.. Mount the new partition under /mnt, then: (get into single user mode) cd /usr/lib tar -cvO . | (cd /mnt ; tar -xpf - ) (Now check the files and perms under /mnt, and make sure it's ok) cd /usr/lib (in case you left there...) rm -rf * cd .. mount -t ext2 /dev/newpartition /usr/lib (Now change your /etc/fstab accordingly) Be careful! Backup your data first! Jason Costomiris | Finger for PGP 2.6.2 Public Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "There is a fine line between idiocy My employers like me, but not| and genius. We aim to erase that line" enough to let me speak for them. | --Unknown http://www.jasons.org/~jcostom -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clear screen on logout
At 12:32 PM 29/04/97 -0400, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: >mgetty, agetty & mingetty use /etc/issue (by default, though this >is of course configurable for mgetty and agetty) rather than motd. >(I wonder what uses /etc/motd?) So, you can run (as root, of course): > >clear >> /etc/issue > >(no need to save original issue, as ">>" appends to the file rather >than writing over it). This won't work right - >> appends to the end of the file and what'll happen is that the issue will spit out and then clear with "name login: " Regards -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mc..missing library!
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, smorrill wrote: > mc: can't load library 'libgpm.so.1' Install libgpm. regards, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Andre M. Varon Lasaltech, Incorported Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)433-3520 e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] web page: http://www.lasaltech.com/andre.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help with printing, please...
smorrill wrote: > > sorry, this is a second request... > > Is there any way I can send what's actually showing on the on the screen > to the printer? I'm trying to get XFree86 running and getting a lot of > error messages. I'd like to be able to print these out so I can try to > address the problems without having to write everything down... As is > obvious, I'm really new at this Linux stuff, so I'm still very much in > the thrashing around stages. > > I'm using Debian Release 1.2 on a 586 / 133 mhz coexisting with > winbloze95... I can't even get my ppp stuff going yet so I have to still > use winbloze to connect to the 'net.. I'm so ashamed!! :( > Ok. Assuming you are printing via the standard (what would be LPT1 in Dos/Windows) parallel port and your printer is ok to print plain ascii when it receives it: 1) Make sure you have parallel port support in your kernel. I don't know if it is by default these days. You can find out by doing 'cat /proc/devices'. You should see a line under "Character devices:" which says 'X lp'. If so then you're set with the kernel. Then, you should be able to print by just directing the output from X into the device. You'll have to make sure that the perms on the device allow writing by whoever you're running as. If you use startx to run X, then you can type: startx >/dev/lp1 2>&1 This should send all that diag info to the printer (although a formfeed may be necessary if your printer won't print out the last page until it receives this. Then you could do an echo '\f' > /dev/lp1 To get the printer to spit out the page. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clear screen on logout
Karl Ferguson wrote: > Sorry - my aplogies - I meant /etc/issue, hey it's 1am here :-) At the top of my /etc/issue I put the ANSI Codes for home/clear: ^[[H^[[J --> (ESC)[H(ESC)[J you can get the ESC char in vi by hitting ctrl+V, then ESC. Hope this helps troy -- Psychiatrists say that one in four people are mentally ill. Check three friends, if they're okay, you're it. t r o y @ d a k o t a . n e t http://www.dakota.net/~troy <- PGP Public Key Here -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clear screen on logout
Karl Ferguson wrote: > > At 09:50 AM 29/04/97 -0700, Ryan Shaw wrote: > >i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. > >i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at > >the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm > >sure there is a better way. > > > >any ideas? > > Best way (the way I do it) is to do this: > > clear > /etc/motd > > However, make sure you make a backup copy of your original MOTD so you can > then edit the file and after all the ascii characters put it back. > mgetty, agetty & mingetty use /etc/issue (by default, though this is of course configurable for mgetty and agetty) rather than motd. (I wonder what uses /etc/motd?) So, you can run (as root, of course): clear >> /etc/issue (no need to save original issue, as ">>" appends to the file rather than writing over it). -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fdisk problem - can't seek
Assuming you are using "cfdisk", the fdisk utility that is run as part of the initial Debian installation (i.e. the 6 disks). I had the same problem when I partitioned a large disk. I particular I was partitioning it into several logical partitions on the outer-most part of the disk. "cfdisk" did not like this and gave me the error you mentioned. To solve this, what I had to do was "Execute a shell", which is the last item on the debian installation sequence menu (i.e. the large menu you get when performing an initial install, first item is "partition a hard disk, etc." Then from the shell, I executed the old "fdisk" utility, which is a not-as- nice-looking-but-sufficient precursor of "cfdisk". It's use is self-explanatory (type 'm' for help, etc.). Incidentally, I was going to report this but forgot! :-( Once you've partitioned with "fdisk" instead of "cfdisk", go back into the Debian installation procedure by typing "exit" at the shell prompt. DO NOT go into "partition a hard disk" at this point, since you've already done it with fdisk, and you'll just get that cfdisk-error that you got before. Jusr move right on to the next step in installation. Hope this works (did for me)! -- Harmon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: upgrade to debian 1.3
> On Apr 29, Danny ter Haar wrote
> > During the upgrade i saw the following message:
> >
> > Update-menus: Dpkg is locking dpkg status area: forking to background
> > and wait for /var/lib/dpkg/lock to become unlocked.
> > Setting up lynx (2.7-2) ...
> >
> > Configuration file `/etc/lynx.cfg'
> [...]
> > The default action is to keep your current version.
> > *** lynx.cfg (Y/I/N/O/Z) [default=N] ? unable to lock dpkg status
> > database(/var/lib/dpkg/lock)
> > This means your system is messed up badly. Aborting.
>
> > Somebody can shed some light on this ?
>
> Just a guess (Joost, please comment): update-menus is expensive to run
Yes, but that's not the main reason.
> This was done by some form of waiting until dpkg's
> lock was removed, and then locking it for update-menus. Your example shows
> that this does (unfortunately) not indicate that the dpkg run is complete,
> and that this interferes with normal dpkg operation.
To be more precise, I try to lock the dpkg file, and then
_immediately_ afterwards, unlock it:
fd=open(DPKG_LOCKFILE, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0660);
fl.l_type= F_WRLCK;
fl.l_whence= SEEK_SET;
fl.l_start= 0;
fl.l_len= 1;
if (fcntl(fd,F_SETLK,&fl) == -1) {
if (errno == EWOULDBLOCK || errno == EAGAIN)
return 1;
cerr<<"unable to lock dpkg status database("DPKG_LOCKFILE")"< Maybe this is a solution: let update-menus use a lock file of its own to
> prevent concurrent runs, and have the single active run wait until dpkg's
> lock file is gone before doing the expensive operations?
update-menus acutally does have it's own lock file (/var/run/update-menus.pid).
The main reason why update-menus checks for a running dpkg is that
it has to know what packages are installed (to create the menu's
files). While dpkg is still running, it doesn't update the
/var/lib/dpkg/info/status file, and thus update-menus would see the
old status file (the one from before dpkg was started).
I'm not sure there was actually an error in the above lynx install
session (appart from the possibly wrong error message) Apparently, the
manpage for fcntl has:
F_SETLK The lock is set (when l_type is F_RDLCK or
F_WRLCK) or cleared (when it is F_UNLCK). If the
lock is held by someone else, this call returns
-1 and sets errno to EACCES or EAGAIN.
So, probably I should also test for EACCES. (why doesn't dpkg does this?)
Anybody know more about this?
--
joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#!/bin/perl -sp0777i
Re: New Hard Disk
Syd Alsobrook wrote: > I'm trying to add space to my system and all i have is a 170meg HD what I > want to do is move everything from /usr/lib to the new HD and have the new > drive mount at that point. I would like to have the move done in one > command. is that posible or will i have to move the whole tree by hand? > Syd Try cd /usr ; find lib -print | cpio -pd /mnt or cp -a /usr/lib /mnt/lib or ( cd /usr ; tar czf - lib ) | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvzf - ) Bye. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem: getting nfs up and running
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael J Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm trying to get nfs to allow my users on the client machines to have >access to their home directories on the server. I recently was given >these helpful hints: > >> Add this line to your server's export: >> /home *. (rw) >> Then reboot, or do /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs start >> >> Add this line to your client's fstab: >> :/home /home nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,bg,intr >> Then do mount -a > >I did all this, and when I executed the nfs start, I got this message: >Starting remote filesystem services: > >Notice that none of the "nfsd","mountd","ugidd", etc..., lines are being >printed to the screen. Am I missing a basic setup step? Yes it should be "/etc/init.d/netstd_nfs reload". Otherwise no daemons are restarted since they are ofcourse already running. Mike. -- |Miquel van | "I need more space" "Well, why not move to Texas" | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "No, on my account, stupid." "Stupid? Uh-oh.."| | PGP fingerprint: FE 66 52 4F CD 59 A5 36 7F 39 8B 20 F1 D6 74 02 | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
New Hard Disk
I'm trying to add space to my system and all i have is a 170meg HD what I want to do is move everything from /usr/lib to the new HD and have the new drive mount at that point. I would like to have the move done in one command. is that posible or will i have to move the whole tree by hand? Syd http://www.uc.edu/~alsobrsp "How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it." Douglas Adams -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: clear screen on logout
At 05:58 PM 29/04/97 +0100, Alec Clews wrote: >I think /etc/issue might be a better choice 'cause it gets displayed by >getty I believe Sorry - my aplogies - I meant /etc/issue, hey it's 1am here :-) -- Karl Ferguson Tower Networking Pty Ltd Tel: +61-8-9456- [EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online Services Fax: +61-8-9455-2776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
fdisk problem - can't seek
I'm trying to install debian (version 1.2.10 or so) on my new computer. It is a Compaq presario 8772 with a 6.5 gig IDE drive. I have partitioned it using partition magic to have 3 fat drives and an unpartitioned area for Linux and a Linux swap partition. In the second step of the install (partition hard drive /dev/hda) I get a message from fdisk "Fatal error: cannot seek on disk drive. press any key to exit fdisk". Any ideas on how to proceed? Thanks - Al -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
RE: clear screen on logout
> >At 09:50 AM 29/04/97 -0700, Ryan Shaw wrote: >>i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. >>i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at >>the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm >>sure there is a better way. >> >>any ideas? > >Best way (the way I do it) is to do this: > >clear > /etc/motd > >However, make sure you make a backup copy of your original MOTD so you can >then edit the file and after all the ascii characters put it back. > I think /etc/issue might be a better choice 'cause it gets displayed by getty I believe Regards, Alec -- Alec Clews, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, TCA Consulting Ltd Tel:44-(0)171-415-8159 Fax:44-(0)171-556-0022, PGP keyid:48FA EB81 New City Court, 20 St Thomas Street, London, Britain, SE1 9SD ===Usual Disclaimers Apply== -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: upgrade to debian 1.3
On Apr 29, Danny ter Haar wrote > During the upgrade i saw the following message: > > Update-menus: Dpkg is locking dpkg status area: forking to background > and wait for /var/lib/dpkg/lock to become unlocked. > Setting up lynx (2.7-2) ... > > Configuration file `/etc/lynx.cfg' [...] > The default action is to keep your current version. > *** lynx.cfg (Y/I/N/O/Z) [default=N] ? unable to lock dpkg status > database(/var/lib/dpkg/lock) > This means your system is messed up badly. Aborting. > Somebody can shed some light on this ? Just a guess (Joost, please comment): update-menus is expensive to run, so it was modified not to run for each individual package install, but for each dpkg install session. This was done by some form of waiting until dpkg's lock was removed, and then locking it for update-menus. Your example shows that this does (unfortunately) not indicate that the dpkg run is complete, and that this interferes with normal dpkg operation. Maybe this is a solution: let update-menus use a lock file of its own to prevent concurrent runs, and have the single active run wait until dpkg's lock file is gone before doing the expensive operations? Greetings, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: clear screen on logout
At 09:50 AM 29/04/97 -0700, Ryan Shaw wrote: >i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. >i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at >the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm >sure there is a better way. > >any ideas? Best way (the way I do it) is to do this: clear > /etc/motd However, make sure you make a backup copy of your original MOTD so you can then edit the file and after all the ascii characters put it back. Regards -- Karl Ferguson, Tower Networking Pty LtdTel: +61-8-9456-[EMAIL PROTECTED] t/a STAR Online ServicesFax: +61-8-9455-2776[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
clear screen on logout
i've looked through the archives and haven't found an answer as of yet. i'd like the screen cleared on logout and the login prompt to appear at the top. i've worked around this by using an alias in bashrc, but i'm sure there is a better way. any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
help with printing, please...
sorry, this is a second request... Is there any way I can send what's actually showing on the on the screen to the printer? I'm trying to get XFree86 running and getting a lot of error messages. I'd like to be able to print these out so I can try to address the problems without having to write everything down... As is obvious, I'm really new at this Linux stuff, so I'm still very much in the thrashing around stages. I'm using Debian Release 1.2 on a 586 / 133 mhz coexisting with winbloze95... I can't even get my ppp stuff going yet so I have to still use winbloze to connect to the 'net.. I'm so ashamed!! :( TIA --- > Steve Morrill > > > > Please reply to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.. + PGP pub key id: 0xF2459FCD < > > header changed to prevent spamming! + Linux..it's not just an OS, < > > + it's an adventure! < > -- Steve Morrill > Please reply to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.. + PGP pub key id: 0xF2459FCD < > header changed to prevent spamming! + Linux..it's not just an OS, < > + it's an adventure! < -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
problem: getting nfs up and running
I'm trying to get nfs to allow my users on the client machines to have access to their home directories on the server. I recently was given these helpful hints: > Add this line to your server's export: > /home *. (rw) > Then reboot, or do /etc/init.d/netstd_nfs start > > Add this line to your client's fstab: > :/home /home nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,bg,intr > Then do mount -a I did all this, and when I executed the nfs start, I got this message: Starting remote filesystem services: Notice that none of the "nfsd","mountd","ugidd", etc..., lines are being printed to the screen. Am I missing a basic setup step? Thanks in Advance... Mike Devine Eastern Washington University -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mc..missing library!
I have debian release 1.2 installed on my 586/133mhz. I'm just learning how to move around in this system as I have no linux experience. When I try to start midnight commander, I get the following message: mc: can't load library 'libgpm.so.1' When I try to locate libgpm.so.1 using find, I can't find it. Under /usr/lib/ I do find 'libgdbm.so.1'. Is this the file I'm actually looking for, like an updated version or something? Or is there a link or something I need to make so mc can find the appropriate file? My base system seems to be OK, however I'm getting similiar messages as the above when I try to start some programs, or when I try to start XFree86. I loaded my packages off the cheapbytes cd, and I thought everything was there...maybe I'm missing something or didn't link some things that I was supposed to? TIA! --- Steve Morrill > Please reply to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.. + PGP pub key id: 0xF2459FCD < > header changed to prevent spamming! + Linux..it's not just an OS, < > + it's an adventure! < -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Directory permissions.
Rick Jones wrote: > 1. Is there an easy way to reset the permissions of my directories to > what they should be? Such as a program that I can exicute that will set > them or go through and prompt me for the changes. I'd suggest using the dpkgcert package by Klee Dienes - it scans all of the files installed by packages and informs you of what files have changed, and what files have different permissions/groups/owners. I found it very useful and informative here. I believe it is currently in experimental. You will also need a database of "package certificates" which contain the checksums. Send e-mail to Klee Dienes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to find out where to get these. An alternative is do a "dpkg -c" on the original *.deb files to figure out the permissions. Note that just reinstalling the packages won't work, since dpkg -i doesn't replace old file permissions with the new ones. Cheers, - Jim p.s. I'm going to be out-of-range of the lists and my e-mail for a week -- I have to go to a clients site (a pulp mill in Nanaimo) -- ie. no 'net access -- arrgh pgpEwR9an9TdH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: STL
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Clint Adams wrote: > > #include > > #include > > etc. > Isn't this HP's STL rather than GNU's? In point of fact, many of the files are unchanged HP implementations. Many are also of completely GNU origin. Check it out. ==David - LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [345]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | User interface copyrights & software patents make [EMAIL PROTECTED] | programing a dangerous business. Ask me or [EMAIL PROTECTED] spy counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet Bosnia clipper -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: broken installation
David S. Jackson wrote: > > Hi, > > I just installed a system using dselect and got about 40 packages that > were broken; they installed but are unconfigured. Mostly they have > dependencies that were covered in multiple deb packages. Libraries of > other files of the same name were redundant in several packages. What do > you do in a case like this? > I had that happen to me, I just went thru the stored files one by one and did a "dpkg -i ***.deb" and wrote down the missing depends. It was usualy one or two that were holding the whole thing up, something like ncurses or libreadline or one of those. Installing them took care of most of the problem. As your system gets more complete, you should not encounter that problem. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
upgrade to debian 1.3
During the upgrade i saw the following message: --- Setting up libg++27-dev (2.7.2.1-9) ... Update-menus: Dpkg is locking dpkg status area: forking to background and wait for /var/lib/dpkg/lock to become unlocked. Setting up lynx (2.7-2) ... Configuration file `/etc/lynx.cfg' ==> File on system created by you or by a script. ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I : install the package maintainer's version N or O : keep your currently-installed version Z : background this process to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. *** lynx.cfg (Y/I/N/O/Z) [default=N] ? unable to lock dpkg status database(/var/lib/dpkg/lock) This means your system is messed up badly. Aborting. -- Somebody can shed some light on this ? Regards, Danny -- Danny ter Haar | Cistron Internet Services | Unix & Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] SP6| finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP-key |specialists --0.68 seconds which for an android is an eternity-+31-172-419445--- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ok with new kernel (was "who" says nothing about other users)
Compiling new kernel fixed this problem as well as few others. > Doing some experiments with new kernel and modules I have noticed that > 'who' does not work correct while the "top" reports about all other > users. Since my experiments are not finished yet I would like to know > about other possible source of this problem. Is there any idea? > Thanks in advance, > Eugene Sevinian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
AccelX and Xfree together
I`ve just got hold of AccelX2.1 but already have xbase installed for Debian1.2.8 . Is it OK to install AccelX in as well as xbase? If not, what happens to the dependancies on xbase? TIA Ozzy, __ _ _ / \ \ \ / / / / / |-Brian SkreegIRC:_Ozzy-| \__/ \ \ |-Lead guitarist extraordinaire-| \__/_/ |-I don't look like two zombies-| -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ACM 4.7-3 with Debian Linux 1.2.4
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Nicola Bernardelli wrote: > > > Sad to say, I'm not replying to my own question about Air Combat > > Maneuvers under Debian 1.2.4... > > Not yet... > ... And not yet, but I can rebuild the binaries now. I found that the configure script did not actually complain for lack of any random generator, instead silently it was getting an error from ld, unable to link -lelf; afterwards, src/server.c was trying to include filio.h, which seem to be well represented by file.h; so here are two very small patch files, see attachments (of course, the first one may not be necessary... I tried reconfiguring ld but I still HAD to do that change to the configure script; and for the second, you could avoid it just creating inside /usr/include/sys/ a symbolic link filio.h -> file.h). Now, inside the acm-4.7 dir: ./configure ./make cd src ./acms & (now under an xterm session of course) ./acm -geometry 320x200 Everything still slw. Maybe the keyboard or the mouse configuration? What's so heavy? Or is it some timer that works in a different way under Debian (1.2.4) than under Slackware (almost up to 3.1 December '96)? I mean, today it is ACM, tomorrow may be a cad or mathematics package or whatelse. Why is it so slow under Debian? Is the "rotor" mode of xlock slower than elsewhere too? A-ehm, I was forgetting... About that complain, it was something like "can't load libX11.so...": saw ld documentation, incompatible binary types... Damn, just installed xcompat and that was ok. Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Please use <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for messages from any kind of robot, such as mailing lists. From that address no autoresponse messages will return even when I'm not at home. --- 585c585,586 < LIBS="$LIBS -lelf" --- > # LIBS="$LIBS -lelf" > LIBS="$LIBS -L/usr/lib/elf" 20c20,24 < #include --- > #if defined(__linux__) > #include > #else > #include > #endif current-kernel-config.gz Description: Current kernel config.
Re: Directory permissions.
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, David Wright wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > > > [ description of problem ] > > > > I did this to avoid a full install when I repartitioned since I have no > > backup system and have installed from ftp. Somebody out there must have a > > good way to reset my ownerships. > > Well, the /easiest/ way might just be to copy the files in one of the > correct manners, overwriting both them and their ownerships. For example, > tar to stdout and pipe it to stdin of another tar with --save-permissions > and --save-owners (done as root). Using the correct tools is important. David gives you one such tool - I personally type the following command in the directory I wish to copy: "find . -print | cpio -p /target". This is of course a simplification; find and cpio have a lot of powerful options, and people will argue the merits of tar vs. cpio all day. It works for me. At any rate, mc is not up to the task. > > > About a year ago I remember running across a doc that described the file > > system structure standards. I don't remember if it gave ownerships but > > it's worth a shot if someone knows what it's called and where I can find > > it. > > No, it's far too short to cover ownerships, only locations. The 1.2 FSS > doesn't give it's own location(!), but only that of its FAQ which is > ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/docs/linux-standards/fsstnd/FSSTND-FAQ > I concur. You're in for an install - I can smile cos I've bombed my machines a few times. > P.S. I don't see multiple copies of your postings here. Nor do I. Nathan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Directory permissions.
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > As some of you are aware, I recently transfered my file system from hda1 > to hda2. When I did it I used midnight commander. > > MC has an option to keep UID's and GID's when copying. Supprise! It only > does this on the files. When it created the directories on hda2 it > made them ALL root.root using umask. > [...] > 1. Is there an easy way to reset the permissions of my directories to > what they should be? Such as a program that I can exicute that will set > them or go through and prompt me for the changes. > [...] > So now my system is half-hosed. I assume there are other things not > working correctly even though I'm not getting any other errors and all > seems to be fine, so far. > > I did this to avoid a full install when I repartitioned since I have no > backup system and have installed from ftp. Somebody out there must have a > good way to reset my ownerships. Well, the /easiest/ way might just be to copy the files in one of the correct manners, overwriting both them and their ownerships. For example, tar to stdout and pipe it to stdin of another tar with --save-permissions and --save-owners (done as root). > About a year ago I remember running across a doc that described the file > system structure standards. I don't remember if it gave ownerships but > it's worth a shot if someone knows what it's called and where I can find > it. No, it's far too short to cover ownerships, only locations. The 1.2 FSS doesn't give it's own location(!), but only that of its FAQ which is ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/docs/linux-standards/fsstnd/FSSTND-FAQ P.S. I don't see multiple copies of your postings here. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: help! - Majordomo
Solomani writes: > > On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > > Hi, thanks for your help, I added the line you suggested, but now I get > this error ... > > > |- Message log follows: -| > no valid recipients were found for this message > |- Failed addresses follow: -| > ":include:/var/lib/majordomo/lists/ev-delta" ... failed: director > aliasinclude: include file open failed (parent ev-delta-outgoing): No such > file > or directory > |- Message text follows: | > Received: by electric-rain.net > id m0wLjfe-000qEXa The order that the lines are added to /etc/smail/directors is important. Make sure the "aliasinclude:" lines are the first ones in the file, (i.e. insert them _before_ the existing lines) Secondly, double check your setup using the /usr/doc/majordomo/README.GZ file as your guide. I had similar problems and found that file to be very helpful in straightening out my situation. Let me know if you need additional help. 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.2 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK - member of ARRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
"who" says nothing about other users
Doing some experiments with new kernel and modules I have noticed that 'who' does not work correct while the "top" reports about all other users. Since my experiments are not finished yet I would like to know about other possible source of this problem. Is there any idea? Thanks in advance, 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux on 701CS
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, David S. Jackson wrote: > Hi, Robert > > Thanks for your terrific page on Linux for the 701. I was hoping you > could help me with a couple of things: > > 1) I'd like to find a way to reset my modem without rebooting my machine. > How can I do that for the internal IBM modem included with the ThinkPad? Hopefully your modem doesn't need a power reset, as mine does after my ISP does this. Try typing "echo atz > /dev/ttyS1" for com2. Just change the ttyS# to whatever port your modem is on. ttyS0 - com1 ttyS1 - com2 ttyS2 - com3 ttyS3 - com4 > > 2) I goofed when running dselect and downloaded a new kernel image > (2.0.27). I thought I was d/ling the source, but it was an image. I > doubt that it includes PPP service compiled in, which I need to run to > connect to my ISP and run dselect with PPP. So I can't reboot to reset > the modem anyway, yet. How do I get my old kernel back? Can I copy from > my rescue disk or recompile the ppp modules in from the drivers disk? The modules my still be in place. Try just copying the kernel image from floppy. Check directory /lib/modules to see if they are there. --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: broken installation
This comes up frequently but is being fixed by the new diety. You have to recycle through the install phase until it's all installed. Each time it will install more because the dependencies are satisfied. The current dselect doesn't use dependant order. On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, David S. Jackson wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed a system using dselect and got about 40 packages that > were broken; they installed but are unconfigured. Mostly they have > dependencies that were covered in multiple deb packages. Libraries of > other files of the same name were redundant in several packages. What do > you do in a case like this? > > I 'forced' downloading them and figured I could work out the details > later, even if I had to configure by hand. Is this customary for ftp > installs? > >__ _ > David S. Jackson / / (_)__ __ __ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / > [EMAIL PROTECTED] //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ > > * * * CHOICE OF A GNU GENERATION * * * > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Newby: dselect failure
George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One trick that I have learned is to SELECT NOTHING the first time you run > dselect, simply let it install the PRESELECTED things only. THEN run > dselect again and choose your other software. > > The original problem was problems with installing the quota package. I'd suggest trying dselect again, but without selecting quota. If that fails to work, or there are lots of problems then the advice above is worth following. When the other packages are installed, try quota again. In either case it is probably worth submitting a bug report - I've checked, and there is only one bug against quota, and it wouldn't have caused your problem. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.html for details on how to submit a bug. The problems occur because packages sometimes depend on other packages being installed. They shouldn't do this (in most cases), but the problems are sometimes difficult to spot. An alternative solution may be to try the packages in frozen - though this includes the same version of quota. Chris -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bo.
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: > I have had debian linux running for about 9 months (So I still a newbie) > in this time I have learned alot about system admin and system keepup. > also in this time I have made some royal srewups. so I have made the > desion to wipe clean my hard disk and start anew with a 1.3 system. I was > wondering if any one knew when 1.3 would be released and also I was > wondering how well / stable bo is now ... as I would like to order a cd > with 1.3 on it and start with the base disk install from 1.3. so any info > you have I would appreciate. Debian 1.3 is just about to be released. I think that there is a small risk, but it's very acceptable. Install 1.3! -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Directory permissions.
As some of you are aware, I recently transfered my file system from hda1 to hda2. When I did it I used midnight commander. MC has an option to keep UID's and GID's when copying. Supprise! It only does this on the files. When it created the directories on hda2 it made them ALL root.root using umask. I discovered this when the following error appeared: runq 04/29/1997 08:43:00: mailer error: cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog: Permission denied Which made me investigate the permissions. There are two problems I'm addressing here. 1. Is there an easy way to reset the permissions of my directories to what they should be? Such as a program that I can exicute that will set them or go through and prompt me for the changes. 2. The above error is actually related to the file permissions now since I've changed it before. It seems that cron did some kind of clean up this morning and changed the permission back (on the files in this directory) to what they were before. Here is the directory after I changed permissions to add group write permission to stop the error: drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1024 Apr 29 06:43 . drwxrwxr-x 7 root adm 1024 Apr 29 06:44 .. -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 3356 Apr 29 09:07 logfile -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 649572 Apr 29 06:56 logfile.0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 5830 Apr 15 06:44 logfile.1.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail15244 Apr 13 06:44 logfile.2.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail13330 Apr 11 06:44 logfile.3.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail11078 Apr 8 06:43 logfile.4.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 2453 Apr 5 06:43 logfile.5.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail11769 Apr 4 06:43 logfile.6.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail0 Apr 29 06:43 paniclog -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 750 Apr 29 06:43 paniclog.0 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 31 Apr 15 06:44 paniclog.1.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 31 Apr 13 06:44 paniclog.2.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 31 Apr 11 06:44 paniclog.3.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 31 Apr 8 06:43 paniclog.4.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 31 Apr 5 06:43 paniclog.5.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 root mail 31 Apr 4 06:43 paniclog.6.gz Why has this error started since the move from hda1? I have been using the file ownerships to set the directory ownerships since I know that mc kept the file ownerships intact. So now my system is half-hosed. I assume there are other things not working correctly even though I'm not getting any other errors and all seems to be fine, so far. I did this to avoid a full install when I repartitioned since I have no backup system and have installed from ftp. Somebody out there must have a good way to reset my ownerships. About a year ago I remember running across a doc that described the file system structure standards. I don't remember if it gave ownerships but it's worth a shot if someone knows what it's called and where I can find it. I thought it might have been a HOW-TO but I just checked linux.org and found none that looked like they described the file system structure. I see a re-install in my future. Can anybody give me a hand with this so I don't have to resort to the obvious? --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: HELP WITH - Re: Multiple copies of the same message from Rick Jones in debian-user. (fwd)
Thank you for the response. I checked the headers and figured the problem was on debians end but wanted confirmation and maybe for someone at debian to realise this and fix it. I will let mom know you send regaurds and give her a hard time since you are a couple years older than she is. She thinks ppl your age are not capable of learning computers as well as the younger generation (dad too). I try to tell her otherwise. Dad's coming around now. He's taking an MIS course (minor) in college and is asking for help now and then. He's 52 now. He's always thought computers were too complicated to bother with. I went to him about 6 years ago with an idea, since he was an Electronics engineer in the Army, to build a card to put in a computer that could be hooked up to the cable system and allow computers to comunicate. A cable modem. He told me it would never work. He didn't want to give it any thought because it involved these damned computers I was into. I figured he was right. He was the Electronics expert. I could be doing well if he'd taken me seriously. Live and learn. On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Witold Kulinski wrote: > it means that you have sent ONE message, and this message was resent > at 18:29:06 -, but sums1.rdg.ac.uk have got this message from > debian.novare.net repeated at different times ! > > It's something wrong with debian.novare.net ! > > I have had very similar problem with my ISP (4 times !), but after > investigating mail headers I was demonstrated that messages were > multiplied on ISP's server. Last time it was nightmarish - during > 5 hours was spammed over 15 MB on ISP's disk ! > > But remember, you _must_ investigate headers with text editor, > mail program don't show headers details. > > Hope I help you a bit... > > PS. some days ago you wrote: > > > challenge. So we aren't a bunch of engineers. Set up properly anyone can > > use it and like it. My mom uses it sometimes and knows nothing about > > computers. > > Give your mother my best regards ! > It's very nice to hear that I'm not alone - I'm also BBC (born before > computers) generation. I'm 55 years old and I'm playing Linux on my > box over 2 years. > > Regards, > > wk > -- > Witold Kulinski > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian_user mailing list vs newsgroup
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there a mailing list gateway from debian_user to linux.debian.user? [...] >> The newsgroup was almost dead in my end, until a week ago. It does >> not seem to be up to date though. > >I remember reading somewhere that the gateway from the mailing lists to >the linux.* newsgroups was shutting down. Unfortunately, I can't find >the message here anywhere. I've forwarded H. Peter Anvin's original announcment of the shutdown to debian-devel on Fri, 4 Apr 1997 09:40:08 +0200 under subject "End of linux.* mail <-> news gateway". It is available from the mailing lists archives on www.debian.org (currently as http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9704/msg00034.html). HTH, Ray -- J.H.M. Dassen | RUMOUR Believe all you hear. Your world may [EMAIL PROTECTED] | not be a better one than the one the blocks | live in but it'll be a sight more vivid. | - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: NIS problem, please Help
According to Richard Zoni:
> Hello,
>
> here at the CS students lab of the University of Bologna we have
> a debian linux NIS server running on a 166Mhz Pentium with 64Mb,
> it serves a cluster of 20 debian linux boxes.
> We are having some problems with the NIS:
>
> 1. Our ypserv is consuming up to 90% CPU time,
> We have very big maps (600 lines in passwd
> and 2 hundreds more in group)
> is it normal?
No, we have 1500 people in our passwd file and NIS isn't consuming any
time at all. HOWEVER, you might have a lot of people in additional groups-
you say that your groups file is 200 lines. The Unix initgroups(2) operation
is very "expensive", especially over NIS. You might want to turn it off wherever
possible, for example in sendmail.
> 2. If we stop nis and we restart it
> we have this messages from Cron at run
> yp_next: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
It's a debug message from libc5, stating that it can't reach the NIS
server. Cron does a lot of getwpnam() etc.
> 3. filesystems exported to netgoups are not
> trusted (permission denied)
> the save is for netgroups in
> hosts.{allow,deny,equiv}
libc5 and/or Linux nfsd doesn't support NIS netgroups AFAIK.
Mike.
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NIS problem, please Help
Hello,
here at the CS students lab of the University of Bologna we have
a debian linux NIS server running on a 166Mhz Pentium with 64Mb,
it serves a cluster of 20 debian linux boxes.
We are having some problems with the NIS:
1. Our ypserv is consuming up to 90% CPU time,
We have very big maps (600 lines in passwd
and 2 hundreds more in group)
is it normal?
2. If we stop nis and we restart it
we have this messages from Cron at run
yp_next: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out
3. filesystems exported to netgoups are not
trusted (permission denied)
the save is for netgroups in
hosts.{allow,deny,equiv}
related deb:libc5 5.4.20-1
netbase 2.09-1
netstd 2.12-1
libreadline22.0.1-2
Thank you in advice
ricky
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Re: one thing latex is better than tetex
> previously, dvips gave me ps file with page numbering and I can > go to a particular page using ghostview or gv. > after I installed tetex and found that the ps file no more numbered > and I can only press in gv, can't get back. > Is there any magic to make tetex's dvips number the ps file? Well, I've still got the old latex packagres installed, but just reading the docs, could you try: dvips -N0 myfile.dvi -N turns structuring commands off (and I'm hoping the page numbers are part of the document structuring), while -N0 should undo that again (turning it on). Of cource I could not test it. Still, I think it's a bug in the tetex packages, if true. -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/perl -sp0777i
broken installation
Hi, I just installed a system using dselect and got about 40 packages that were broken; they installed but are unconfigured. Mostly they have dependencies that were covered in multiple deb packages. Libraries of other files of the same name were redundant in several packages. What do you do in a case like this? I 'forced' downloading them and figured I could work out the details later, even if I had to configure by hand. Is this customary for ftp installs? __ _ David S. Jackson / / (_)__ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ * * * CHOICE OF A GNU GENERATION * * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Linux on 701CS
Hi, Robert Thanks for your terrific page on Linux for the 701. I was hoping you could help me with a couple of things: 1) I'd like to find a way to reset my modem without rebooting my machine. How can I do that for the internal IBM modem included with the ThinkPad? 2) I goofed when running dselect and downloaded a new kernel image (2.0.27). I thought I was d/ling the source, but it was an image. I doubt that it includes PPP service compiled in, which I need to run to connect to my ISP and run dselect with PPP. So I can't reboot to reset the modem anyway, yet. How do I get my old kernel back? Can I copy from my rescue disk or recompile the ppp modules in from the drivers disk? I'm installing debian 1.2 from the 'stable' directory at debian.org, after having installed disk images 1-4 and the drivers and rescue images. My ISP dropped carrier in the middle of the dselect session, leaving me with a partial package and a disgruntled modem. :-) __ _ David S.. Jackson / / (_)__ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ * * * CHOICE OF A GNU GENERATION * * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
X questions
When I launch the X-server using the startx command and a personal .xinitrc, I got several messages: "sh:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: No such file or directory couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap" I can't find the xkb program. Is it a X standard program? If I launch an xterm session, I got the system can't find the command. I am thinking If I forgot to install both commands when I run dselect program. Please, could anybody advise me. J.R.Martinez Miro e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: missing packages from "stable"
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > I've noticed that many files are reported missing by deselect. The > problem is they're named wrong. In that case you have to manually ftp to > ftp.debian.org or wherever and get the file. Most of the time the file > version number is 1 or 2 off. Hmmm. At what times does the 'packages' file get updated? I take it the filenames are not always in synch with the 'packages' in the stable directory? Fortunately for me, it was only a few files, so I can manually ftp them as you suggest. Thanks! :-) __ _ David S. Jackson / / (_)__ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ * * * CHOICE OF A GNU GENERATION * * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lprng how?
> > I am using Alladin Ghostscript (from non-free) because I have a bjc600 > > printer and only non-free version support it(?). > > > > Aha! So of the three people (including myself) who are having or have had > this problem the common thread seems to be: > > !. All using lprng > 2. All using apsfilter > 3. All using Alladin Ghostscript > > So logic would dictate the bug is somewhere in the interaction of these > three. While still very meager, at least this is solid information and > hopefully some clever person can discover (and fix!) the problem. I'll > file a bug report straight away. > > In the mean time, I think you'll find magicfilter solves your printing > problem. I have a bubblejet too (210c) and things are great now. > To whom you will file the bug report? :) Lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lprng how?
-- Jaldhar On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > I am using Alladin Ghostscript (from non-free) because I have a bjc600 > printer and only non-free version support it(?). > Aha! So of the three people (including myself) who are having or have had this problem the common thread seems to be: !. All using lprng 2. All using apsfilter 3. All using Alladin Ghostscript So logic would dictate the bug is somewhere in the interaction of these three. While still very meager, at least this is solid information and hopefully some clever person can discover (and fix!) the problem. I'll file a bug report straight away. In the mean time, I think you'll find magicfilter solves your printing problem. I have a bubblejet too (210c) and things are great now. -- Jaldhar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
one thing latex is better than tetex
previously, dvips gave me ps file with page numbering and I can go to a particular page using ghostview or gv. after I installed tetex and found that the ps file no more numbered and I can only press in gv, can't get back. Is there any magic to make tetex's dvips number the ps file? Lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lprng how?
> > > > Just change from lpr to lprng but then whenever I try to run > > > > lpr or lpq, it said "cannot open connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED]". > > > > I have read the Intro and Tutorial in the /usr/doc/lprng but > > > > could not find any short answer. > > > > > > > > > > Are you using apsfilter or magicfilter? If the former, does it work if > > > you install magicfilter instead? > > > > Yes, I am using apsfilter, and I will try magicfilter when I get back home. > > Though, if lprng not works with apsfilter, should apsfilter be marked as > > conflict in the lprng's control file. > > > That's the thing though. It _should_ work. No doubt you read the docs > diligently just like I did. If it turns out magicfilter solves the > problem for you, you will be the third person I know of to encounter this > mysterious bug. > > One further question, are you using Alladin Ghostscript (from non-free) or > the regular one? > I am using Alladin Ghostscript (from non-free) because I have a bjc600 printer and only non-free version support it(?). Lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lprng how?
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > Just change from lpr to lprng but then whenever I try to run > > > lpr or lpq, it said "cannot open connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED]". > > > I have read the Intro and Tutorial in the /usr/doc/lprng but > > > could not find any short answer. > > > > > > > Are you using apsfilter or magicfilter? If the former, does it work if > > you install magicfilter instead? > > Yes, I am using apsfilter, and I will try magicfilter when I get back home. > Though, if lprng not works with apsfilter, should apsfilter be marked as > conflict in the lprng's control file. > > Lawrence, > That's the thing though. It _should_ work. No doubt you read the docs diligently just like I did. If it turns out magicfilter solves the problem for you, you will be the third person I know of to encounter this mysterious bug. One further question, are you using Alladin Ghostscript (from non-free) or the regular one? -- Jaldhar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lprng how?
> > Just change from lpr to lprng but then whenever I try to run > > lpr or lpq, it said "cannot open connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED]". > > I have read the Intro and Tutorial in the /usr/doc/lprng but > > could not find any short answer. > > > > Are you using apsfilter or magicfilter? If the former, does it work if > you install magicfilter instead? Yes, I am using apsfilter, and I will try magicfilter when I get back home. Though, if lprng not works with apsfilter, should apsfilter be marked as conflict in the lprng's control file. Lawrence, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: missing packages from "stable"
I've noticed that many files are reported missing by deselect. The problem is they're named wrong. In that case you have to manually ftp to ftp.debian.org or wherever and get the file. Most of the time the file version number is 1 or 2 off. On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, David S. Jackson wrote: > I'm still installing debian to my 701CS Thinkpad via ftp, and I seem to be > missing a 'required' package (required for me, anyway): > > stable/binary-i386/admin/pcmcia-cs_2.9.1-2.deb: No such file OR directory > > Any idea why this would be missing from "stable"? > >__ _ > David S. Jackson / / (_)__ __ __ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / > [EMAIL PROTECTED] //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ > > * * * CHOICE OF A GNU GENERATION * * * > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg Question
Alexandre Lebrun wrote: > > about : listing installed & unneeded packages > > Usually I do that with dselect. > You go through the list (skipping the base package), > and see every package that is installed. > I find it convenient for 2 reasons : > > -You have a short description for the packages (in case you don't remember) > -You can safely try to deselect them. deselect tells you if it breaks > other packages. Then you hit 'x' and keep the package. > > But that's slow and will take more than an hour. > Thanks for the reply, I may do just that. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg Question
Richard Morin wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Jim Smith wrote: > > > I've just read the man for dpkg and dselect, but my question is, is > > there any way to use either of them to audit a system to find out just > > what is there? I'm afraid my notes are not all that complete.(g) I've > > > > Jim > > -- > > dpkg -l > > you'll prolly want to pipe that through a less so you can actually read > it... > > dpkg -l |less > Thanks, I'll try that one next. Maybe also pipe it to a file. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg Question
Paul McDermott wrote: > > yes there is. There is a file called status in /var/lib/dpkg. the file > status will tell you what programs are installed and i think but don't > quote me programs that are not installed. At any rate take a look at > this file and see if it helps you > Paul > Ps. Good luck. I hope this helps and let me know if i can help out > any further. > > Thanks,I'll take a look. Jim -- Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oz.net/~jim/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
missing packages from "stable"
I'm still installing debian to my 701CS Thinkpad via ftp, and I seem to be missing a 'required' package (required for me, anyway): stable/binary-i386/admin/pcmcia-cs_2.9.1-2.deb: No such file OR directory Any idea why this would be missing from "stable"? __ _ David S. Jackson / / (_)__ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ * * * CHOICE OF A GNU GENERATION * * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: where is libXmu.so.6?
On Apr 28, Kevin M. Luck wrote > Hello. I'm a new debian user who just installed the floppy version of 1.2 > to a p75, and I'm now trying to add X11R6. I've installed xbase, xfntbase, > xlib6, xserver for vga16 and s3 (my card), but am unable to run any x > software because I always get a "xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6'" > error. I've checked my paths in /etc/ld.so.conf and /usr/X11R6/lib is > listed all right, and I've used updatedb and locate to search for the file > to no avail. I've also tried adding xcompat, xlib6-dev, and xslib, but none > of these have helped. If anyone can help me, I'd really appreciate it. Hmm. That's odd. libXmu.so.6 should have come with the xlib6 package. At least that's the way it is on my system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~] >dpkg -S libXmu.so.6 xlib6: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6.0 xlib6: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 Do "dpkg -L xlib6" (this will list all the files that came with the xlib6 package that you installed). If libXmu.so.6 isn't in the list (would be really surprising) then check if you have the latest version of xlib6. If libXmu.so.6 *is* in the list, then it means that the file got deleted somehow after you installed xlib6. Reinstalling xlib6 should cure that. (To make sure that the libXmu.so.6 file is in the xlib6.deb file, you can use "dpkg -c" on the .deb file to list its contents.) Luck, Christian pgpD0O1AbeHrT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Thinkpad 701CS (fwd)
Thanks to all who responded to my problem! Thanks, Oliver. You solved my problem! :-) On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > >conflict that might screw up my modem. Do you think running gpm (or > >trying to run) on the same device as my modem could cause some of the > >problems like I'm having? > > I can't imagine what that would do! It might be a good idea to reset the > modem to its factory defaults by using its switches -- just in case this > has messed up its settings. I went ahead and did a reboot. Seemed to do the trick. > If you have a PS/2 mouse, it's device is /dev/psmouse, for which ls -l should > report: > > $ ls -l /dev/psmouse > crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 10, 1 Apr 27 17:59 /dev/psmouse > $ Yup, it did. > You should delete /dev/mouse and run > > ln -s /dev/psmouse /dev/mouse > > to get that link correct. I went with ln -sf /dev/psmouse /dev/mouse in one swell foop. Thanks for telling me about /dev/psmouse. I never used it before!! Great tip! :-) > On the other hand, your last mail implies that gpm is working; if so, > it can't be a PS/2 mouse -- or is gpm using /dev/psmouse and bypassing > /dev/mouse altogether? I had to kill GPM before using the modem. since /dev/mouse was linked to /dev/ttyS0 my script sensed the modem device was busy. And it left the modem in an unusual state too. I linked /dev/mouse to /dev/psmouse and that left the ttyS0 open for the modem. Also, gpm got ahold of the correct pointing device. Now everything is peachy! :-) Thanks very much Oliver!! __ _ David S. Jackson / / (_)__ __ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ * * * CHOICE OF A GNU GENERATION * * * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bo.
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Kevin J Poorman wrote: > I have had debian linux running for about 9 months (So I still a newbie) > in this time I have learned alot about system admin and system keepup. > also in this time I have made some royal srewups. so I have made the > desion to wipe clean my hard disk and start anew with a 1.3 system. I was > wondering if any one knew when 1.3 would be released and also I was > wondering how well / stable bo is now ... as I would like to order a cd > with 1.3 on it and start with the base disk install from 1.3. so any info > you have I would appreciate. I would wait until bo is officially released. There are still some problems that need to be resolved. Cheers. Syrus. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Syrus Nemat-Nasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>UCSD Physics Dept. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lprng how?
-- Jaldhar On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Just change from lpr to lprng but then whenever I try to run > lpr or lpq, it said "cannot open connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED]". > I have read the Intro and Tutorial in the /usr/doc/lprng but > could not find any short answer. > Are you using apsfilter or magicfilter? If the former, does it work if you install magicfilter instead? -- Jaldhar -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Reply error in pine
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote: > I've had this error for the duration when using pine to reply to posts > from this list. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Anybody have this problem? Anybody know how to stop it? I get it all the time. I never bothered to look into it though. ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Reply error in pine
I've had this error for the duration when using pine to reply to posts from this list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] It shows up as the last line in the Cc field when I go into the editor after hitting R for reply in pine. Anybody have this problem? Anybody know how to stop it? BTW...I'm starting to recv duplicates of other ppl's posts now. I think the list server is getting a little nuts on us. --Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Cannot login to bo
Since upgrading from 1.2 to 1.3 I am not able to log into bo as root on run level 2. Each time I enter the password I get an 'incorrect password' back. As previously suggested I disabled nis which then allowed me to login as a user other than root but I still cannot login as root. (Thanks, Brian Borg) I can also go to su at run level 2 from another user's initial login. Any other suggestions? I have tried various things with the login config files: login.defs; login access; porttime; securetty and am now back to the basic defaults I started with at installation except for login.access which has "+:ALL:ALL" as the next to last line. Thanks Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: where can I find pgp-i ?
>The subject says it all. It's not in the debian package, couldn't >find anything in the FAQ's. So, where is it? Or look at the debian package finder at http://larry.earthlight.co.nz/debian/finder.cgi Adam. - Earthlight Communications Limited P.O. Box 5301 Adam Shand (fax) +64 3 477 5463 Dunedin, New Zealand Systems Manager(voice) +64 3 479 0303 -- http://larry.earthlight.co.nz/ -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Bo.
Hi I have had debian linux running for about 9 months (So I still a newbie) in this time I have learned alot about system admin and system keepup. also in this time I have made some royal srewups. so I have made the desion to wipe clean my hard disk and start anew with a 1.3 system. I was wondering if any one knew when 1.3 would be released and also I was wondering how well / stable bo is now ... as I would like to order a cd with 1.3 on it and start with the base disk install from 1.3. so any info you have I would appreciate. -- Kevin. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: depmod error reading ELF header
> modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory The problem was avoided by removing the *_MODULES files. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
depmod error reading ELF header
When I attempt to run depmod (modutils 2.1.34) for kernel v2.0.30, I receive a modprobe: error reading ELF header: No such file or directory Any ideas? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Odd majordomo error
I have just started my own list, and it seems to be working fine, but I
sometimes get the error - MAJORDOMO WARNING (mj_majordomo)!!
shlock: open('/var/lib/majordomo/lists/L.ev-delta'): No such file or
directory
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where is libXmu.so.6?
Hello. I'm a new debian user who just installed the floppy version of 1.2 to a p75, and I'm now trying to add X11R6. I've installed xbase, xfntbase, xlib6, xserver for vga16 and s3 (my card), but am unable to run any x software because I always get a "xinit: can't load library 'libXmu.so.6'" error. I've checked my paths in /etc/ld.so.conf and /usr/X11R6/lib is listed all right, and I've used updatedb and locate to search for the file to no avail. I've also tried adding xcompat, xlib6-dev, and xslib, but none of these have helped. If anyone can help me, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Kevin "Macavity" Luck http://www.geocites.com/Paris/1515 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN CODE BLOCK- furry:FFP3a A++ C D- H++ M+ P R T++ W Z Sp++ RLCT a c+++n$ d++ e+ f h++ i+ p* sm# geek:GCS d- s: a-- C++ U P L+ E- W++ N++ w+ O M- V-- PS+ PE Y+ t tv+ b DI D++ G e h-- r++ y+ --END CODE BLOCK-- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg Question
How about "dpkg -l | less" On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Jim Smith wrote: > I've just read the man for dpkg and dselect, but my question is, is > there any way to use either of them to audit a system to find out just > what is there? I'm afraid my notes are not all that complete.(g) I've > got a full-blown Debian system here and its probably time to look at it > and see what I don't need and can safely remove. > > Thanks, > > Jim > -- > > Debian Linux! Where I REALLY went today! > Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.oz.net/~jim/ > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dselect for X?
If a version of dselect is created for X, PLEASE let it be an option, not the only version. Many of us have X-less installations and intend to keep it that way (I have both X and non-X machines). Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AX.25:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
