XDM not allowing logins
I just install Debian 1.3 on a fresh system and set XDM to load on startup like I have done before. But XDM isn't allowing me to logon using root or my normal account. It just tells me that the password is incorrect. Does this have something to do with XDM not knowing about shadow passwords? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine
Jens B. Jorgensen writes: Brian K Servis wrote: Help! Ever since I upgrade to frozen(May 25) I am having all kinds of problems with name resolution. Lpr is one of them, when lpd starts I get the following repeated 5 times in messages: Jun 3 13:35:39 widget-servis lpd[374]: unable to get official name for local machine widget-servis I connect to my isp via dialup and us slirp to emulate ppp so I gave my machine a bogus name of widget-servis. I didn't have any problems before with 1.2. Other problems include ppp, ping, emacs, etc. Basically anything that trys to do a name resolve when starting or uses a name resolve. I didn't change any of my hostname, resolve.conf, hosts.* files during the upgrade. This may be true. However, perhaps one of these got changed anyway. Why don't you include them in your post. This would be very helpful. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok here goes: /etc/resolve.conf: domain ecn.purdue.edu search ecn.purdue.edu nameserver 128.46.131.20 nameserver 128.46.131.20 nameserver 128.46.131.20 /etc/host.conf: order hosts,bind multi on /etc/hostname: widget-servis /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback widget-servis.ecn.purdue.edu widget-servis #(plus a bunch of other frequenctly used hosts at ecn.purdue.edu) /etc/hosts.allow ALL: LOCAL /etc/hosts.deny ALL: PARANOID /etc/hosts.equiv #(empty) /etc/hosts.lpd #(empty) /etc/init.d/network: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 dev lo Newly discovered info: I can ping 127.0.0.1 and it works if I ping widget-servis it gives a host unknown error, this used to work in before. Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Help me to build a fileserver!!!
Eliezer Figueroa Puello wrote: I want to build a small network using Linux as the fileserver and windows 95 computers as the clients. What I have in mind is something similar to what novell network do, but using Linux in the place of the novell server. I want to be able to map a linux partition in the server to work as a directory in the windows 95 computers. I tried to do that using the tcp/ip protocol but then I got realized that windows 95 do not have a client for UNIX networks using the tcp/ip protocol so, I have been unable to map. It is true, Windows 95 does not have a built-in NFS client. NFS is the unix standard for network file sharing. However, Linux *can* act as a Windows Networking (aka Lan Manager) file/print server. For this you would install SAMBA, which is available as a debian package. SAMBA will allow you to create Win95 shares and networked printers which your Win95 clients can use. We use this technology heavily here at my office. As a print server, SAMBA is rock-solid. We've never had a problem with it. As a file server, we have had a few problems. I believe, though, that they are isolated to locking issues. Which is to say: you won't run into these problems unless you are put database (Microsoft Access) files in the shares. These problems may have been fixed in a recent release. There may also be work-arounds. I don't know because I didn't have the time to work through the problems. The ideal, of course, would be to put an NFS client on the Win95 box. However, there are no share/free-ware clients available as far as I know and the recent review I read in the June '97 Unix Review article by Steven Baker about commercial implementations indicate that the software out there is not-yet-ready for primetime. To summarize: Try SAMBA. It will most likely provide a reliable and convenient means of running a file/print server for your Win95 clients. As an added benefit, your Linux box can be an Internet firewall/ gateway, a DHCP server, email gateway/server, etc., etc. etc. -- 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: new kernel
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: Hello, I have a machine that i just upgraded to v1.3 (that went perfectly). My question is this I want to upgrade the kernel (now v2.0.27) the easiest way possible can I copy the kernel from the install floppies for v1.3 (has kernel 2.0.30) or is it easier just to recompile the kernel? It would probably be easier to copy the kernal, BUT I still recommend you to recompile the kernal. Then you will get a kernel that is optimized for your needs, which doesn't include alot of non-used drivers. After you installed the kernal-source be sure to read /usr/src/linux/README other usefull information is available in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt (if you want to use modules that is) Tip: make menuconfig is nice, and have a easy-to-use built in help function (also availabel in make config) Good luck /fax -- +- Fredrik Ax -+-- Snailmail --+- Where to reach me on the net -+ |\\|// | Kämnärsvägen 13 E:202 | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | @ @ | S-226 46 LUND, SWEDEN | WWW: http://www.df.lth.se/~fax | +-oOO-(_)-OOo--+---++ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: new kernel
Hi, Unfortunately, it is not just a matter of copying the kernel, you have to copy the modules as well, and the System.map and psdatabase files (or else parts of the system may not work as advertized ;-(. Also, the distributed kernels are necessarily bloated, in order to recognize all possible device that are out there; you generally do not want that. It would be easier to compile a new kernel, (shameful plug: the package kernel-package from misc will help creating you own kernel image package). manoj -- Vendi, vidi, parenthesi -- I came, I saw, I programmed in Lisp! Dave W. Kimball Manoj Srivastava url:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile, Alabama USAurl:http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XDM not allowing logins
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Jason wrote: I just install Debian 1.3 on a fresh system and set XDM to load on startup like I have done before. But XDM isn't allowing me to logon using root or my normal account. It just tells me that the password is incorrect. Does this have something to do with XDM not knowing about shadow passwords? Exactly (sort of.) Until this is fixed in xdm, turn off shadow passwords: Ctrl-Alt-F1 log in as root and type: shadowconfig off return to x (Ctrl-F7) you can log in again Good luck, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: new kernel
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Fredrik Ax wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote:
Hello,
I have a machine that i just upgraded to v1.3 (that went perfectly). My
question is this I want to upgrade the kernel (now v2.0.27) the easiest way
possible can I copy the kernel from the install floppies for v1.3 (has
kernel 2.0.30) or is it easier just to recompile the kernel?
It would probably be easier to copy the kernal, BUT I still recommend you
to recompile the kernal. Then you will get a kernel that is optimized
for your needs, which doesn't include alot of non-used drivers.
I rolled a kernel on an existing debian machine using the kernel-package:
cd /usr/src/linux
make {,menu,x}config # configure ramdisk and initrd
make-kpkg clean
make-kpkg -revision custom.install.boot.1 kernel-image
after that I got a /usr/src/kernel-image-2.0.27_custom.install.boot.1.deb
(or something like that) that can be installed with dpkg -i.
I took this file to the new machine with base already installed and tried
dpkg -i kernel-image-etc.. This did not work as I expected because some
links were missing in / (/vmlinuz - /boot/vmlinuz and /System.map -
/boot/System.map) After I had made these links it installed fine.
The next installation attempt I just put the custom kernel on the
resc1440.bin diskette as linux (hence the compiled in ramdisk and initrd
support.) This way, your own kernel gets installed during the base install.
Of course, you have to have an existing debian box to prepare a custom
kernel, so if you don't, you'll have to install the kernel-source and gcc
packages (and quite a few others) to brew one yourself on the new
machine. Make sure you also get the kernel-package package, the special
debian tool for this purpose (you don't have to but it is really nice.)
Have fun,
Joost
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gcc X
Hi all, I just installed Debian 1.3, and everything works fine but compiling X programs. I tried to compile bdfresize (I want larger cursor) and I had to use xmkmf, but when I'm doing make, I got some unresolved symbol ... The program works because I could compiled it on a Sun. I believe is missing some libraries, but I don't know which one. Does anybody know what am I missing? graziano -- Graziano Obertelli - aspirante palombaro E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lab's phone: (619) 534 9669 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Can't get free page while making filesystem ...
Nathan E Norman writes: I'm sure I saw a post about this in the past few weeks. I've got a P-90 with 24 MB of RAM that I'm trying to make useful ... so I rounded up a bunch of SCSI drives to toss in it. However, when I try to make filesystems on the 2 gig drives, it says it can't get a free page, and freezes. When formatting a 1 gig drive, it says it can't get a free page, but manages to recover and finish the filesystem (As far as I can tell). Let's see, important info ... we're running Debian 1.3, kernel 2.0.30. The drives are a mixed bag ... Conner and Quantum for the 2 gigs, IBM and HP for the 1 gigs. There's also a Seagate and a Quantum in the machine (yes, it's a junkman's special). I'm sure I've forgotten some pertinent info ... Any ideas? -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- This seems to be a problem with the 2.0.30 kernels. Try using the 2.0.29 kernel in the latest boot-disk set (dated 1997-05-28 or later). You can also try increasing /proc/sys/vm/freepages values; this apparently raises the threshold before the paging problems of the '30 kernel surfaces. HTH, Norris -- Norris Preyer (541) 962-3310 (office) Physics Program (541) 962-3873 (fax) Eastern Oregon University [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Grande, OR 97850http://physics.eou.edu/npreyer.html *** Linux, for those with an IQ above 95 *** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: text mode 3270 emulator?
On Jun 3, Marcelo wrote Does anyone know of a _text mode_ 3270 terminal emulator for debian (package, pre-compiled or source that compiles under debian)? There's 'tn3270', but it's not packaged for Debian. I looked at it a while ago but it required the NetKit source to compile... Peter, would you be willing to package it up? Since you're the netbase/netstd maintainer, it'd be easier for you than for anyone else. I'd be willing to provide help if you have problems doing so... Christian pgpWscmUgN6tm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Help me to build a fileserver!!!
I want to build a small network using Linux as the fileserver and windows 95 computers as the clients. What I have in mind is something similar to what novell network do, but using Linux in the place of the novell server. I want to be able to map a linux partition in the server to work as a directory in the windows 95 computers. I tried to do that using the tcp/ip protocol but then I got realized that windows 95 do not have a client for UNIX networks using the tcp/ip protocol so, I have been unable to map. Actually, you can do everything using TCP/IP - which is what I'd recommend. Rather than having the Linux box emulate a Netware server (which I think is possible, but not sure), set it up with SAMBA. This will allow peer sharing just about like things work in a typical Windows workgroup environment. There is a HOWTO on this (see /usr/doc/HOWTO or http://www.li.org/Resources/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html ) I heard that Linux can to use the IPX protocol. I think that maybe I can to configure Linux to emulate a novell network server and then configure the windows 95 computers as novell network clients. I'm writing this letter because I want to know how to configure Linux as a novell server or any other server that windows 95 has client for. If that is not possible I will appreciate if you email me telling that is not possible. I will also thank any other suggest of how to use Linux as a fileserver for windows 95 computers. The only think I do not want to hear is that I have to open a UNIX shell in the windows computers in order to have access to Linux server. As I suggested, don't go the Novell route. Things'll be *much* easier using SAMBA. And, no, you won't require a Linux shell to access things. Using SAMBA is pretty much just like sharing between other Win computers in a workgroup. If you help me to learn how to configure the fileserver with Linux then I will write a howto under the terms of GNU to help others newbies like me to that. See the HOWTO I mentioned above. Someone's already done this for you ;-) Later, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper CA http://www.eroper.bc.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: new kernel
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Syd Alsobrook wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello, I have a machine that i just upgraded to v1.3 (that went perfectly). My question is this I want to upgrade the kernel (now v2.0.27) the easiest way possible can I copy the kernel from the install floppies for v1.3 (has kernel 2.0.30) or is it easier just to recompile the kernel? Well, you can certainly get the 2.0.29 from the boot floppies, but it has every ethernet driver you can imagine built in, which makes the kernel quite large. If you compile your own, you can configure it specifically for your hardware and end up with a less bulky, faster booting, kernel. I would suggest you build you own. 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: XDM not allowing logins
Interesting. I installed 1.3 today, upgrading from 1.2, and, after I 1) killed X, 2) typed shadowconfig on (and confirmed its success), and 3) restarted the machine, xdm logins functioned perfectly well, with no modifications on my part. (I went to look for xdm-shadow, because I thought I'd need it, but couldn't find it -- apparently because it has been outdated by a single, cooler xdm that can do shadow or non-shadow.) Perhaps I'm just a lucky SOB? -Chris On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Jason wrote: I just install Debian 1.3 on a fresh system and set XDM to load on startup like I have done before. But XDM isn't allowing me to logon using root or my normal account. It just tells me that the password is incorrect. Does this have something to do with XDM not knowing about shadow passwords? Exactly (sort of.) Until this is fixed in xdm [snip] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: text mode 3270 emulator?
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: On Jun 3, Marcelo wrote Does anyone know of a _text mode_ 3270 terminal emulator for debian (package, pre-compiled or source that compiles under debian)? There's 'tn3270', but it's not packaged for Debian. I looked at it a while ago but it required the NetKit source to compile... [...] I have it working now... There is the tn3270-510.tar.gz package at sunsite with an a.out tn3270 binary that works when termcap-compat is installed. Thanks for your reply, Marcelo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Unidentified subject!
*RFC* - Linux Router Project - Preliminary discussion First if there is such a project already please point me towards it if not here are my ideas: LInux is a fine vertical network application OS, but hand building and maintaining it from scratch is pain staking. I would like to form the Linux Router Project (LRP) to build and maintain a turn-key style distribution of Linux for routers, terminal servers, and other typically 'embedded' hardware TCP/IP network devices. The main focus is a minimal space base root fs suitable for floppy, eprom, and flashram disks (=1MB?) and outside maintainence / communication tools. (html configuration, RADIUS client, forwarding of logs, snmp, etc.) Starting from scratch at this point would be a bit pointless, so what I have chosen to do, and what the project may see fit to do, is take a base install of a pre-exsisting distribution (Debian in my case) and work backwards, removing all non critical components and then adding maintenance tools that seemlessly intergrate with the distribution. The project will also look to upgrade critical router software such as internal ISDN TA support, and Equal Load Balancing. (EQL) -- Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can't get free page while making filesystem ...
This is a kernel problem that started small in 2.0.29 and got worse in 2.0.30. On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: I'm sure I saw a post about this in the past few weeks. I've got a P-90 with 24 MB of RAM that I'm trying to make useful ... so I rounded up a bunch of SCSI drives to toss in it. However, when I try to make filesystems on the 2 gig drives, it says it can't get a free page, and freezes. When formatting a 1 gig drive, it says it can't get a free page, but manages to recover and finish the filesystem (As far as I can tell). I can get more memory. I can, and have, obtained a better hba. All these errors occurred with an NCR 53c810. I've got an Adaptec 2940W sitting here that I can throw in there ... but I'd like to use both controllers in the long run. Let's see, important info ... we're running Debian 1.3, kernel 2.0.30. The drives are a mixed bag ... Conner and Quantum for the 2 gigs, IBM and HP for the 1 gigs. There's also a Seagate and a Quantum in the machine (yes, it's a junkman's special). I'm sure I've forgotten some pertinent info ... Any ideas? -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . 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] .
*RFC* - Linux Router Project - Preliminary discussion
*RFC* - Linux Router Project - Preliminary discussion First if there is such a project already please point me towards it if not here are my ideas: LInux is a fine vertical network application OS, but hand building and maintaining it from scratch is pain staking. I would like to form the Linux Router Project (LRP) to build and maintain a turn-key style distribution of Linux for routers, terminal servers, and other typically 'embedded' hardware TCP/IP network devices. The main focus is a minimal space base root fs suitable for floppy, eprom, and flashram disks (=1MB?) and outside maintainence / communication tools. (html configuration, RADIUS client, forwarding of logs, snmp, etc.) Starting from scratch at this point would be a bit pointless, so what I have chosen to do, and what the project may see fit to do, is take a base install of a pre-exsisting distribution (Debian in my case) and work backwards, removing all non critical components and then adding maintenance tools that seemlessly intergrate with the distribution. The project will also look to upgrade critical router software such as internal ISDN TA support, and Equal Load Balancing. (EQL) -- Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ -- Elite MicroComputers 908-541-4214 http://www.psychosis.com/emc/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xemacs?
Dale == Dale Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dale As someone else mentioned, it's back in bo. Also, version Dale 19.15 is in hamm, and it can coexist with regular emacs. Dale I've been using it for a week or two, and aside from a few Dale very mior bugs, it's working pretty well. 20.2 has been released; it works very well. There is not a Debian package yet. ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs-20.2/ 8-8 Announcing XEmacs 20.2 XEmacs 20.2 is now available. This is a version of GNU Emacs derived from Emacs version 19 from the Free Software Foundation. This is a continuation of the Internationalization development path started with XEmacs 20.0 and is not yet considered an official upgrade path from XEmacs 19.15. It is a major upgrade from 20.0, containing many bug fixes and enhancements. If you are using XEmacs 20.0 in any flavor (including off of the Sun CD) you should consider upgrading to 20.2. The primary new feature in XEmacs 20.2 is additional support for MULE MUlti-Lingual extensions for Emacs. It has only been seriously tested in a Japanese locale, and no doubt many problems still remain. The support for ISO-Latin-1 and Japanese is fairly strong, so we're releasing it now. MULE support comes at a price -- about a 30% slowdown from 19.15. We're working on making things faster, but it's taking time. Currently, 19.15 and 20.2 compiled without MULE (20.2-latin-1) are faster than 19.14. In short, if you don't need the internationalization features and you're not interested in participating in the upgrade path of XEmacs until the new code stabilizes you should use 19.15. If you like the idea of running the latest code, but don't want to take the performance hit of MULE, don't need to have non-Latin-1 language support, and are willing to put up with the occasional incompatibility caused by the change to the character type, then you should use XEmacs-v20-latin-1. If you wish the whole `v20 experience', then you should use XEmacs-v20-MULE. You can get XEmacs via anonymous FTP from FTP.XEMACS.ORG (128.174.252.16). ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs-20.2/ or from the following mirrors: ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu:/pub/xemacs/ ftp://ftp-digital.cern.ch:/pub/beta/xemacs-20.0/ ftp://ftp.uu.net:/systems/gnu/xemacs/ ftp://ftp.sunet.se:/pub/gnu/xemacs/ ftp://tp.cenatls.cena.dgac.fr:/pub/Emacs/xemacs/ ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/editors/xemacs/ ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk:/gnu/xemacs/ ftp://ftp.ibp.fr:/pub/emacs/xemacs/ ftp://uiarchive.cso.uiuc.edu:/pub/packages/xemacs/ ftp://ftp.technion.ac.il:/pub/unsupported/gnu/xemacs/ ftp://thphys.irb.hr:/pub/xemacs/ ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/xemacs/ ftp://ftp.unicamp.br:/pub/xemacs/r20.0/ ftp://ftp.usyd.edu.au:/pub/Xemacs/ ftp://ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp/xemacs/ ftp://SunSITE.sut.ac.jp/pub/archives/xemacs/ ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/unix/xemacs It may take a few days for the files to propagate to all of the mirrors. (Mirror sites are encouraged to automatically check ftp.xemacs.org) The complete list of mirror sites, the current FAQ, and several other XEmacs related items can be found at the XEmacs World Wide Web page: http://www.xemacs.org/ Note that as of announcement time no binary kits have been built yet. They should become available over the next couple of weeks given sufficient interest. README This file. xemacs-20.2.tar.gz The complete source distribution. This file is about 20.5 megabytes. When unpacked, the source distribution will take up about 78 megs. You will need another 26 megs or so to compile it. Don't forget to set binary mode when transferring these files. Unpack them with some variation of the command gunzip -c xemacs-20.0.tar.gz | tar -pvxf -. There is a newsgroup for discussing XEmacs. comp.emacs.xemacs: For reporting all bugs in XEmacs, including bugs in the compilation and installation procedures. Also for random questions and conversation about using XEmacs. There is also a mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] This mailing list is bidirectionally gatewayed with the newsgroup comp.emacs.xemacs. To be added or removed from this mailing list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Send all administrative requests, and only administrative requests, to this address.) Please use the newsgroups instead of mailing directly to the maintainers, you are likelier to get a better response that way. Crashes should be reported by using the `M-x send-pr' command built into XEmacs. This sends the problem report off to a Gnats-based bug tracking system. If this fails for any reason you can still report the crash to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but the report won't be
Re: XDM not allowing logins
J == J P D Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J Until this is fixed in xdm, turn off shadow passwords: Mine works. 'shadowconfig on', and then when xdm is *restarted*, through /etc/init.d/xdm stop;/etc/init.d/xdm start, you can log in. The /etc/init.d/xdm script will start xdm-shadow when `shadowconfig` is on. -- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: XDM not allowing logins
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Jason wrote: I just install Debian 1.3 on a fresh system and set XDM to load on startup like I have done before. But XDM isn't allowing me to logon using root or my normal account. It just tells me that the password is incorrect. Does this have something to do with XDM not knowing about shadow passwords? Exactly (sort of.) Until this is fixed in xdm, turn off shadow passwords: Ctrl-Alt-F1 log in as root and type: shadowconfig off return to x (Ctrl-F7) you can log in again Or you could try running xdm-shadow in stead of xdm. 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] .
Small Samba problem
I'm running Samba on two of my Linux boxes so they can act as fileservers. One machine is a 486/66, the other a 486/100, both with 16M. These machines have only two purposes: Samba server (with TCP/IP), and IPmasq with a 28.8 modem. Neither is what I would call heavily loaded (usually no more than 2 users at a time connected thru Samba) For some reason, Linux/Samba seems to be a good bit slower than Windoze95 on the same machines in terms of file transfers. Any idea what I've done wrong? I'm used to seeing Debian boxen run circles around BlozeBoxes. Thanks, Tim - LINUX 2.0.6 i486 Because reboots are for upgrades!! - Please direct Email to: tjobrien(at)traveller.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Missing Part 1 of libg++27 On Maui
Aloooha, The Good News: I have successfully install Linux on my P200. Using Netscape my gameplan was to select dunc2.0 so I could use the dial up and ftp features to download many of your debian packages. I read somewhere (perhaps the FAQs) that after ppp is installed, the kernel will need to be recompiled (?). If this is true, what's involved here? Being a novice, all I want to do is find the simplest, easiest way to be able to ftp. Here's what I've done so far. I selected and downloaded dunc 2.0 and related support files using Netscape from debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/. The Bad News: Then, using the dselect function, during the Select section, I notice that cpp and netstd were in Broken Standard Packages. I selected them anyway, and proceed to Install. During the Install process I get the Oh dear missing Part 1 message regarding libc6. So after I checked the version names and numbers, and file sizes which were all correct, I manually ftped libc6, Packages.gz, cpp and netstd from debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/. Upon returning to dselect, completing sections on Access, Update, and Select, during Install I now get the Oh dear message regarding libg++27. Could you help me? Signed, Melody Bohn Perplexed In Paradise -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: gcc X
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Obi wrote: Hi all, I just installed Debian 1.3, and everything works fine but compiling X programs. I tried to compile bdfresize (I want larger cursor) and I had to use xmkmf, but when I'm doing make, I got some unresolved symbol ... The program works because I could compiled it on a Sun. I believe is missing some libraries, but I don't know which one. Does anybody know what am I missing? I could guess, but there are quite a few possibilities. The error message you recieve during compilation would be helpful. What does it say? Waiting is, 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: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Brian K Servis wrote: Jun 3 13:35:39 widget-servis lpd[374]: unable to get official name for local machine widget-servis When my ISP drops my ppp connection I get the same thing. If I do a hostname localhost then printing works again. Mark. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
gated
Does anyone know of a good set of sources AND patch(es) (if necessary) for gated for linux? I mirror the gated sources here and have just tried building it on Debian 1.2, kernel 2.0.29 (from bo) using the patches for gated 3.6A2 I got some time ago from ftp.redhat.com. I guess it would be even better if gated was packaged for Debian (hint hint) but I'm happy to build it from sources IF it'l build! I have previously successfully done this (redhat 3.0.3, kernel 2.0.0) but now it seems broken (with my more up-to-date Debian). Anyone got pointers to better stuff than me? TIA 8---8 Richard Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 8---8 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xemacs?
On 3 Jun 1997, Dale Martin wrote: Alexander Stavitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems to be withdrawn from bo distribution. Is there an explanation somewhere? As someone else mentioned, it's back in bo. Also, version 19.15 is in hamm, and it can coexist with regular emacs. I've been using it for a week or two, and aside from a few very mior bugs, it's working pretty well. Yes, it's back in bo but not in bo Packages file. This better be fixed soon, as 1.3 is already announced. -- + finger for pgp public key -+ | Dale E. Martin | University of Cincinnati Savant Research Laboratory | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~dmartin | +--+ = === = |__ Alexander Stavitsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~stalex -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netscape hung
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
The instant you click on anything Netscape goes out looking to
connect. The default is to connect to http://home.netscape.com.
This will cause a temporary hang lasting several minutes. It
will then come back with an error message. At that time you will
be able to access the various menus. If you have Navigator, you
can change the default home page in the setting menu. You can
change this to nothing or to a local file, and then no more hang.
This does not seem to work with Communicator. But then the
Communicator beta seems to have several serious problems.
Hi,
I'd like to know if anyone here has a quick fixed for netscape
hung problem that I'm experiencing.
Everytime I bring up netscape, it comes up fine. Once I press
a icon button, the netscape will no longer respond. Ever worse
if I press any of the pulldown menu, it will hang up the whole
system because the pulldown menu grab the mouse pointer. I must
reboot..
BTW, I'm currently not connect to an ISP in Linux just yet.
Thanks!
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Debian 1.3 Release FAQ - Preliminary
I've just volunteered to write a FAQ that will be specific to the Debian 1.3 release. Sue Campbell will put it on the website once I've written something. I'm looking for ideas on topics. How's this: 1. Overview 1.1 What new features are there in Debian 1.3? 1.2 What is rex/bo/hamm? unstable/stable? 2. Installation and Upgrading 2.1 Installing from Scratch 2.1.1 - Where do I start? 2.2 Upgrading from a Previous Release 2.2.1 - What do I have to do? 2.3 Networking 2.4 X Windows 2.4.2.1 - Which packages do I need to select to install X? 2.4.2.1 - Why can't I log in with xdm? 2.4.2.2 - What about the libXt security hole? 3. Tips Please send me ideas, or even better, fully written sections. Cheers, - Jim BTW, the lists seem slower than usual today. pgptc1tiw2AVG.pgp Description: PGP signature
ssh for Debian?
Where can I find information baout setting up a couple of debian boxes with ssh? I want to do some sysadmin over the net on a remote system and would like to make it a little difficult for someone to watch what I am doing incase they want to swipe passwords, etc. George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: SU Problems
All of the suggestions were more or less appropriate, but I think a more secure way to grant another user the right to run programs on your display is to use xauth. See the xauth manpage for more details, but I use xauth extract - $DISPLAY | rsh otherhost xauth merge - to allow *only* myself on otherhost to connect to the current display. If I had used something like xhost +otherhost then anyone on otherhost could snoop my display, or whatever... -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: A Debian 1.3 pre-release user at Pixar gets this complaint when running Netscape. I think he gets the same complaint when running remote stuff with Debian doing the display. This is a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000, I think. Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for #C0C0C0 Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background Try netscape -install. Your friend probably just has a background patern that's eating up some of the colors on what I would guess is an 8-bit display. Netscape is a real color hog (among other things), so running it with -install will let it install its own colormap which will be used whenever netscape has the focus. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can't get free page while making filesystem ...
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: This is a kernel problem that started small in 2.0.29 and got worse in 2.0.30. AFAIK this is a problem in all the 2.0 kernels that was angered by 2.0.30's new buffer modifications. I have had it nuke a 8M box just idling on 2.0.27. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: *RFC* - Linux Router Project - Preliminary discussion
Brian Candler [EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on something called Linnet that would be a turn-key router and server. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Request for MIME'd html email samples
I'm goofing around with the perl5 MIME:: mods, and would like to have some samples of html embedded in MIME email by various mail programs, especially the Netscape 4 beta, which I don't have installed since it wouldn't post form data when I tried it. Would one you you guys clatter down a quick note that demonstrates most of the composer's features, in full MIME regalia? TIA. :-) (I'll save them.) -- Karl M. Hegbloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Floppy tape formatting
Hi, I just wanted to announce that the new ftape 3.03a floppy tape driver supports formatting of tapes. Formatting takes really loong but I needed it for a faulty tape. Thanks to Claus-Justus Heine zftape and the old ftape are merged and enhanced (module locking does function, formatting is supported). For the 2.0.30 kernel there is a debian package in unstable/utils. Please note that this driver is bleeding edge software and don't blame anyone if there are still problems (there weren't any problems for my setup). If you encounter problems, I would be happy if you would report via our bug system (see http://www.debian.org for more info). Greetings, Christian -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the railroad to me ? I never go to see Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a-blowing, And the blackberries a-growing. (Henry David Thoreau) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ssh for Debian?
Have you checked the non-US section? From there you can find .debs for ssh and other crypto related packages. README.non-US in Debian mirrors lists all the sites that carry the section. George Bonser wrote: Where can I find information baout setting up a couple of debian boxes with ssh? I want to do some sysadmin over the net on a remote system and would like to make it a little difficult for someone to watch what I am doing incase they want to swipe passwords, etc. // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: converting .hqx files
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walt Tautz) writes: What are *.hqx files (mac?), how to I convert them to something i can look at them. Apparently i need something that emulates BinHex 4.0 -W.T. BinHex is a kind a of Macintosh uuencode. The resulting file is in low ASCII and preserves the Mac resource fork. The debian packages macutils and hfsutils have the tools you need to look at binhex files. However, if the original file is a StuffIt archive (as is often the case for .hqx files on the Internet), you'll need to look further for tools to expand the archive. Scott -- Scott Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Johmsweg 9a, D-21266 Jesteburg, GermanyPGP Key ID: 90A8A14D work: Inter-Research Science Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Small Samba problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote: I'm running Samba on two of my Linux boxes so they can act as fileservers. For some reason, Linux/Samba seems to be a good bit slower than Windoze95 on the same machines in terms of file transfers. Any idea what I've done wrong? I'm used to seeing Debian boxen run circles around BlozeBoxes. Try the following options in the global section of smb.conf [global] socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY Could you tell me if that makes a difference? Nils - -- \ /| Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \| 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBM5UnLVptA0IhBm0NAQE5oAL/SHzwCUOKmP1+AIwd3vWajduie09TwFzp H157eddjhgtQ8AN/Upp5Yla7j0QQKnSRWwm6BbgfYL2n3fYKVs97FTPBA4bBSJ4E KHg7KEZ16t9yu6/qlsarytDk/m00OUmk =W9/Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian 1.3 Release FAQ - Preliminary
Looks good Make sure to put a big spotlight on 'how to enable shadowconfig'. It is, as I understand it easy (shadowconfig on, restart some deamons, eg xdm), but ther allot of other descriptions on the net (and posably in /usr/doc/HOWTO) a user might run into. We alredy seen two masages about xdm not working with shadow and ther will be more if the 'Debian way' is not pushed hard enuff. Thanx /Lars In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jim Pick writes: --==_Exmh_-435991816P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I've just volunteered to write a FAQ that will be specific to the Debian 1.3 release. Sue Campbell will put it on the website once I've written something. I'm looking for ideas on topics. How's this: 1. Overview 1.1 What new features are there in Debian 1.3? 1.2 What is rex/bo/hamm? unstable/stable? 2. Installation and Upgrading 2.1 Installing from Scratch 2.1.1 - Where do I start? 2.2 Upgrading from a Previous Release 2.2.1 - What do I have to do? 2.3 Networking 2.4 X Windows 2.4.2.1 - Which packages do I need to select to install X? 2.4.2.1 - Why can't I log in with xdm? 2.4.2.2 - What about the libXt security hole? 3. Tips Please send me ideas, or even better, fully written sections. Cheers, - Jim BTW, the lists seem slower than usual today. --==_Exmh_-435991816P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: 2.6.3a iQCVAwUBM5TkWOQz770qyIfJAQEDrgP+N+3yeqdxk0h3T0RlofXFm9U/isobfAHz VHL1KrG0QQIcWDgbG3G1CQ6hWRa0+Ae6ZtdyVpJhoxpf25142QTpLqgmLbDmo3zQ x0mvLStBhxgO5dJKXOWTuXmmgxb+o4Liio8tUPNjz3kqbiJCmGX9P51gil0fUUu1 /FXX3s9dRIk= =t8jL -END PGP MESSAGE- --==_Exmh_-435991816P-- -- 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: FIXED POST: Two problems after upgrade to Debian 1.3
On 3 Jun, Martin Bialasinski wrote: On 3 Jun, Curtis L. Daugaard wrote: 1) Irqtune was working for me under v.1.2, but though my configured hardware is the same I now get an error message. Here is the message at boot time: irqtune: setting system IRQ priority to 3/14 irqtune: insmod failed on '/usr/lib/hwtools/irqtune_mod.o' snip irqtune is compiled to work with any kernelversion (great work). I had the same errors, so I tracked it down with the developers. The result was that modutils 2.1.23 had a bug. After upgrading to 2.1.34-5 everthing worked fine. What actually happend was that insmod dumped core when trying to load irqtune_mod.o leaving it half configured. Just update modutils and everthing will work as expected. Thanks for your post. Unfortunately upon checking I find that I already have modutils 2.1.34-5 installed. Best regards, Curt C.L. Daugaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine
Brian K Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback widget-servis.ecn.purdue.edu widget-servis #(plus a bunch of other frequenctly used hosts at ecn.purdue.edu) [snip] /etc/init.d/network: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 dev lo I have found that having anything other that localhost after 127.0.0.1 caused me problems in the past. I use the dummy driver to create a fake network: --- /etc/hosts --- 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.117.2 psyche.evansnet psyche www.evansnet news.evansnet [ 192.168.*.* are available for provate use; see RFC 1918. ] --- /etc/hostname --- psyche --- /etc/init.d/network #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo localhost route add -net 127.0.0.0 ifconfig dummy0 psyche route add -net 192.168.117.0 [ dummy if it's in the kernel, dummy0 if it's a module. ] There still seem to be things that expect _one_, _permanently_ connected interface and hostname. :-( -- Carey Evans * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lies, damn lies, and computer documentation. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netscape hung
Hi,
I waited and waited for hour and it still did not come back.
I've also tried:
$ netscape file:nothing.html## or nothing.html
The netscape would not even come up with the above command.
W Paul Mills wrote:
:From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 3 22:23:45 1997
:Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 20:32:47 -0500 (CDT)
:From: W Paul Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:To: Timothy Phan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:cc: Debian User debian-user@lists.debian.org
:Subject: Re: netscape hung
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:
:On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
:
:The instant you click on anything Netscape goes out looking to
:connect. The default is to connect to http://home.netscape.com.
:This will cause a temporary hang lasting several minutes. It
:will then come back with an error message. At that time you will
:be able to access the various menus. If you have Navigator, you
:can change the default home page in the setting menu. You can
:change this to nothing or to a local file, and then no more hang.
:This does not seem to work with Communicator. But then the
:Communicator beta seems to have several serious problems.
:
: Hi,
:
: I'd like to know if anyone here has a quick fixed for netscape
: hung problem that I'm experiencing.
:
: Everytime I bring up netscape, it comes up fine. Once I press
: a icon button, the netscape will no longer respond. Ever worse
: if I press any of the pulldown menu, it will hang up the whole
: system because the pulldown menu grab the mouse pointer. I must
: reboot..
:
: BTW, I'm currently not connect to an ISP in Linux just yet.
:
: Thanks!
:
: --
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: 1525 Walnut Hill Ln. Irving, TX 75038
: tel: (214)-518-3437 fax: (214)-518-3499
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Cron setup
I know the basics of cron and its crontab file, but have a couple of questions about the specifics of how Debian implements cron. In other words, I've never seen cron divided with subdirs for daily, weekly, monthly, etc. I get the point of doing things daily or weekly, but I wonder what about the specific time to do these events.. I'm at a point to where I want to run a mirror process to fire off daily at about 1:00 am local. Could someone outline the best way for me to implement this into Debian's cron setup? If so, I'd greatly appreciate it; and, any additional info/tips you could shed on Debian's cron implementation would convince me to nominate you for sainthood. :-) Thanks in advance. | Debian GNU/__ o Regards, | / / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ .| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / Randy| // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help! Weird console errors
Hi I have a mostly complete installation 1.2 about halfway to 1.3 but anyway.. I was routing around in /etc and I'm not sure what I did but suddenly it prints out the bell character (it appears as a small circle) instead of actually beeping, and it also prints out the tab character instead of tabbig. Anyone have any idea what could do this or how to fix this? Thanks muchly, Nick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Cron setup
I know the basics of cron and its crontab file, but have a couple of questions about the specifics of how Debian implements cron. In other words, I've never seen cron divided with subdirs for daily, weekly, monthly, etc. I get the point of doing things daily or weekly, but I wonder what about the specific time to do these events.. The scripts in cron.* don't run magically. They are run by cron that checks /etc/crontab. Mine looks like: # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file. # This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # m h dom mon dow user command 42 6* * * rootrun-parts /etc/cron.daily 47 6* * 7 rootrun-parts /etc/cron.weekly 52 61 * * rootrun-parts /etc/cron.monthly 30 10,15* * 1-5 root/etc/cron.coffee * * * * * rootatrun -d -l 0.5 This is pretty much an `ordinary' crontab file with an additional user field. Normal users have the `ordinary' crontab files like they exist on other unices. I'm at a point to where I want to run a mirror process to fire off daily at about 1:00 am local. Could someone outline the best way for me to implement this into Debian's cron setup? You can add your script to /etc/cron.daily and change the time these scripts are run from 6:42 am to 1:00 am, or you can add an extra item running your script. If so, I'd greatly appreciate it; and, any additional info/tips you could shed on Debian's cron implementation would convince me to nominate you for sainthood. :-) Does that include a free aureole? Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
xdvik not in frozen?
Subject says it all. It's in the available list, but not in the directory. Alex. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ssh for Debian?
In your email to me, George Bonser, you wrote: Where can I find information baout setting up a couple of debian boxes with ssh? I want to do some sysadmin over the net on a remote system and would like to make it a little difficult for someone to watch what I am doing incase they want to swipe passwords, etc. It's actually quite easy. For root: 1) run 'ssh-keygen' on both systems as root. 2) either copy the host public key via secure means from each host to the other, or just slogin to the other host if you are reasonably sure of your connection and systems. 3) copy the /root/.ssh/identity.pub from one host, and *append* it to the /root/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the other host. 4) Create a /root/.shosts in the same format as a .rhosts file on each machine. You should now be able to 'slogin remote.host.com' as root, get in with no password or passphrase, and have the complete session encrypted. Tim PS: I may have left out 1 or 2 minor steps, but this is the basics. It's been a while since I had to set this up. -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps The squeaky wheel gets the grease, but gets changed at the next opportunity if it squeaks habitually. ** 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: ssh for Debian?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, George Bonser wrote: Where can I find information baout setting up a couple of debian boxes with ssh? I want to do some sysadmin over the net on a remote system and would like to make it a little difficult for someone to watch what I am doing incase they want to swipe passwords, etc. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/README.non-US ++ || Your friends will know you better in the | | Scott K. Ellis | first minute you meet than your acquaintances | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | will know you in a thousand years.| ||-- Illusions | ++ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM5Vs96Ck2fENdzpVAQHV/AQAhqgYuzLY5KLMGYJdDHktYtkPQTlRAbHv QSICM6Qpa5d5gFgoreivobGxL5nMt1v+iKcN8p/177a+uzyrD5lnvb/OVupX0aR2 H+PSqcdYg4Gez8VL9O9R8vG7NMuxCMdXI0hf7DMhp0W7Xi518eoAvKHRdFJnary2 rqPKbvk1cyg= =kGow -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
frozen unstable distribution problems
Folks, I've just discovered that the Packages file on ftp.debian.org is again out of synch with the actual packages in the distribution. I'm sure (since this has been reported time and time again) that the Packages file on master is correct. We really do need to find some way to keep the ftp.debian.org mirror up to date. The second problem I just ran into is that the size of the main directory in the frozen (bo) distribution has grown to such a size that it can no longer be contained on a 650,000,000 byte CD along with the unstable version. This means that you (at least I) can no longer build a CD of the unstable version because of all the symbolic links back into bo which I can no longer fit on the CD -- I do these tests to verify that the thing can be used to build a brand new system from scratch. I could do it over the phone line, but a 28.8 connection is just too slow to build a complete system from scratch. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Frank -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian 1.3 Release FAQ - Preliminary
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote: 2. Installation and Upgrading 2.1 Installing from Scratch 2.1.1 - Where do I start? 2.2 Upgrading from a Previous Release 2.2.1 - What do I have to do? 2.3 Networking A real FAQ: how do I install Debian using FTP *and* PPP? Stress the fact that this means downloading 50-100 MB, depending on configuration. Good luck, Marcelo Magallon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdvik not in frozen?
Subject says it all. It's in the available list, but not in the directory. Alex. xdvi is in tetex-bin package. Alex Y. -- 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] .
YAP^4 : Yet Another PPP Problem
My PPP connection through the inscrutable and apparently anti-linux (xunil?) ISP concentric.net invariably breaks down after receiving a few packets. This happens both when using Netscape and when using Lynx, although more quickly with Netscape. I have tried many variations for /etc/ppp/options, including all 8 subsets of -ac, -pc, and -vj on the theory that there is an incompatibility in compression negotiations. Currently I have: asyncmap 0 crtscts lock modem network 255.255.255.0 noipdefault -ac -pc -vj debug kdebug 7 lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 lpcp-restart 10 defaultroute user [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've tried variations on mtu and mru from the high 200's through the 500's, 1000, and 1500. kdebug through /dev/xconsole shows what I believe are continuing successful lcp pings even after the browser stalls. In netscape I have never brought in any graphics. Reproducibly, if I first go to the directory entry Netscape home, I get the page's text, then a message saying 100% of 21K (at a gradually diminishing rate) is displayed, and finally the program hangs. If I stop Netscape and restart with the same PPP connection, the second Netscape instance does not even get that same page's text. Sometimes I get a message about compression synchronization breaking down, although I don't believe I have gotten such with all three of -ac, -pc, and -vj. By the way, I had a devil of a time figuring out that I was supposed to append @ppp to my login name, thanks to the aforementioned ISP xunility. But I gather that some people do successfully use concentric.net with Linux. My connection works OK with Windows95. Any ideas? Is more detail needed? If so what? Thanks, Leonard Monk -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: frozen unstable distribution problems
Francis Swasey wrote: The second problem I just ran into is that the size of the main directory in the frozen (bo) distribution has grown to such a size that it can no longer be contained on a 650,000,000 byte CD along with the unstable version. This means that you (at least I) can no longer build a CD of the unstable version because of all the symbolic links back into bo which I can no longer fit on the CD -- I do these tests to verify that the thing can be used to build a brand new system from scratch. I believe Bruce has some official CD images that would better to use for the frozen (now stable) distribution. I think it's a 2 disk set. Cheers, - Jim pgprpFq4hhVdt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Cron setup
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can add your script to /etc/cron.daily and change the time these scripts are run from 6:42 am to 1:00 am, or you can add an extra item running your script. Don't forget to use the crontab command if you edit the main file rather than doing it directly. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Is xdm required?
Is it possible to upgrade to 1.3 without installing xdm? John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian 1.3 Release FAQ - Preliminary
A real FAQ: how do I install Debian using FTP *and* PPP? Stress the fact that this means downloading 50-100 MB, depending on configuration. I've never done this myself (setting up PPP from just the base system). Does anyone have a no-fail recipe for doing this that would be suitable for the FAQ? Cheers, - Jim pgpfyohXehfHS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ISP conn.
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:09:40 -0500 (CDT), Timothy Phan wrote: Hi, I've tried EXACT procedure described in the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO and I failed to connect to my ISP from the Debian/Linux box. chat is looking for name: Your ISP is sending Login: Edit your /etc/ppp.chatscript to reflect this. You might want to try connecting to your ISP with a terminal emulator like minicom or seyon, and writing down the exact login sequence. Then edit your chatscript with this fresh knowledge in mind. My ISP, for example, asks for a username, a password, and then presents a menu to select terminal or PPP connection, so I look for name:, ogin:, AND umber:. Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] A rainbow is not *degraded* by having arisen from 'mere' physical processes. Physical processes are *ennobled* by giving rise to such beauty. - Me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: 2 ethernet cards and loadlin
Last night I tried the: loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1 ro There was no success there but I'm a little confused in that I thought that you just told the kernel that the second card was there and then it would look for it. Most of the time I have been compiling the drivers into the kernel but I haven't gotten to it yet on this machine. Does that mean that you need to take the approach that I was going tward if the driver is compiled in and the other approach if the driver is a module? It would be nice it one approach would work in both cases so that if I changed from one method to the other that I wouldn't have to change things in several places to make the cards work. Would it possibly be better to go to say ne2000 cards, (which I have around) if there is a problem in probing the 3c509 cards? Or possibly having one ne2000 and one 3c509? The point to this, by the way, is to set up a machine between a DMZ (attached to a cisco router) and the rest of our network. It will initially just route then probably get filtering added and finally (if the boss wasnts it) get a proxyserver. Right now there is a different machine doing kind of a strange thing, by having an alias address on the single network card. Both the DMZ and the main network are on the same ethernet cable but everything routes via this one card. The addresses on the card are on different subnets and the machines on these subnets have it set as their gateway. Strange but it works for now. The 3c509 card probe is a little strange and only works if you list them in the order of their ethernet MAC addresses. If you just said ether=0,0,eth0 ether=0,0,eth1 it would find them both, but the eth0/eth1 names would refer to the wrong cards. Are you sure that the driver is compiled into the kernel? If you are loading the driver as a module, you'll have to take another approach. Edit /etc/conf.modules and see if these three lines are there: alias eth0 3c509 alias eth1 3c509 options 3c509 io=300,310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Couple little things (bugs?)
Hi! I'm having couple of a small problems: 1) 'irqtune: setting system IRQ priority to 3/14 irqtune: insmod failed on '/usr/lib/hwtools/irqtune_mod.o' This rised it's head after upgrade to either kernel 2.0.30 or modutils 2.1.34-5. Seems that insmod can't find version- information from irqtune_mod.o. I've dealt before with a few module-related problems, but this goes over my head. 2) xmkmf has diappeared from xbase-package. It is still in xbase3.2-3, but not in 3.2-6! Should this package be moved to X-files ? :) I couldn't find any information nor relevant docs. Where is changes-file from /usr/doc ? Also I would like to thank everybody for a great system. It's a joy using Linux and especially Debian. I just wish I knew how to contibute something. BTW. Any Finns on this list ? I've had somekind get-together on my mind for some time now. Naturally you can find my address from the headers. Cheers, Jaska. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Connecting terminals
How many terminals can I connect to my PC using the 4 standar serials ports?. How can I configure Linux for this? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is xdm required?
Is it possible to upgrade to 1.3 without installing xdm?
Well, xdm comes with the xbase package, so, if you don't want to
install xdm, you'd have to live without X at all. But, if you want
to just upgrade 1.3, without automatically activating xdm, that's
very possible (it'll ask you at install time whether you want
xdm to be setup).
John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain.
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Re: Is the libXt security hole fixed in Debian 1.3?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Farzad FARID wrote: Is the XFree86 3.2 provided with the soon to be released Debian 1.3 free from the recently announced security hole? No, but it is planned to include Xfree86 3.3 in Debian 1.3.x (maybe 1.3.1) as soon as it is available (currently, it is not). -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBM5WtOyqK7IlOjMLFAQEbJgP+Kn+1lciIEL0DLTAGsUKkiQjvtskvYMJL j6Z9PzP8uz11NYfDHF8SmZL/ts0JDQYxxyJPawKjC9Iw5eoWFAYu2XRTth2vlM8J p1H/aR2zBI6IuxIdQUrbJ3Y0DZRZCOeJV6nzO84PDK71YxKKg+oUyVdN/IN4vAU2 5KXTEZga2XM= =dt4o -END PGP SIGNATURE- Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
IConnect Corp Debian any good?
I bought infomagic's devel resource for the debian stuff and apparently it's broken. So I'm looking at getting something from iconnect (www.i-connect.net). Are their cdroms any good? Has anyone ordered from them? All I want is a basic debian linux system set up with X and PPP support so that I can download new stuff. Ben -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Weird emacs autoload question
emacs seems to be having trouble loading a BibTeX file _only_ after loading a LaTeX file. for example, I have three files in my home directory, test.f, test.tex, and test.bib. The autoload commands I have in my .emacs file are listed below (the whole .emacs file is there for reference). If I load just one of these files, the particular mode(ie bibtex-mode), font-lock-mode and auto-fill-mode start up successfully. If I load the fortran file and then the BibTeX file, then fortran-mode, font-lock mode, auto-fill mode, and bibtex-mode all get properly loaded. However, if I first load the latex file, and then load the bibtex file, bibtex-mode is successfully loaded, but font-lock-mode and auto-fill-mode are not. The *messages* buffer gives me the following: Loading bibtex... Loading bibtex...done File mode specification error: (invalid-function (macro . #[(rest cdr) \300\301BD\207 [function lambda cdr] 3 758067])) (I had to type the \300\301 \207 in myself, must be control chars and cut and paste wouldn't handle them). Any idea what is wrong? I am running hamm and ii tetex-base 0.4pl6-5 teTeX library files ii tetex-bin 0.4pl6-8 teTeX binary files ii tetex-dev 0.4pl6-8 kpathsea.a and include files for teTeX ii tetex-doc 0.4pl6-1 teTeX documentation ii tetex-extra 0.4pl6-4 teTeX library files Below is my .emacs file. Any help is gratefully appreciated. Cheers, Colin. --begin ;; Colin Telmer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;; .emacs customization file ;; Directory for personal elisp code. (setq load-path (append load-path (list /usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp))) ;; Key mappings (global-set-key [mouse-3] 'find-tag) ;; Make backup files (setq make-backup-files t) ;; Turn on column number mode (setq column-number-mode 1) ;; Parentheses matching (require 'paren) ;; Set the line length before it wraps - Change it locally with [C-x f] (setq-default fill-column 77) ;; Make the RETURN key behave as the LFD key (defun RET-behaves-as-LFD () (let ((x (key-binding \C-j))) (local-set-key \C-m x))) ;; Set up emacs to recognize certain files types and load the ;; major mode associated with the type. (setq auto-mode-alist (mapcar 'purecopy '((\\.bib$ . bibtex-mode) (\\.a$ . c-mode) (\\.c$ . c-mode) (changelog . debian-changelog-mode) (\\.h$ . c-mode) (\\.el$ . emacs-lisp-mode) (\\.emacs. emacs-lisp-mode) (\\.f$ . fortran-mode) (\\.m90$ . f90-mode) (\\.f90$ . f90-mode) (\\.html$. html-mode) (Makefile. makefile-mode) (\\.m$ . octave-mode) (\\.octaverc . octave-mode) (\\.tex$ . TeX-mode) (\\.txi$ . Texinfo-mode Mode Definitions ; ;; BiBTeX mode (setq bibtex-mode-hook '(lambda () (auto-fill-mode 1) (if (eq window-system 'x) (font-lock-mode 1)) )) ;; Debian-changelog-mode (autoload 'debian-changelog-mode debian-changelog-mode nil t) (add-hook 'debian-changelog-mode (lambda () (if (eq window-system 'x) (font-lock-mode 1)) )) ;; Elisp mode (setq emacs-lisp-mode-hook '(lambda () (if (eq window-system 'x) (font-lock-mode 1)) )) ;; F77 mode (setq fortran-mode-hook '(lambda () (auto-fill-mode 1) (if (eq window-system 'x) (font-lock-mode 1)) )) ;; F90 mode (setq f90-mode-hook '(lambda () (setq f90-do-indent 3 f90-if-indent 3 f90-type-indent 3 f90-program-indent 2 f90-continuation-indent 5 f90-comment-region !!$ f90-directive-comment-re !hpf\\$ f90-indented-comment-re ! f90-break-delimiters [-+\\*/,=% \t] f90-break-before-delimiters t f90-beginning-ampersand t f90-smart-end 'blink f90-auto-keyword-case 'upcase-word f90-leave-line-no nil f90-startup-message t indent-tabs-mode nil fill-column 80) ;;The rest is not default. (abbrev-mode 1) ; turn on abbreviation mode (f90-auto-fill-mode 1) ; turn on auto-filling (column-number-mode 1) ; turn on column number mode (if (eq window-system 'x)
Re: Debian 1.3 Release FAQ - Preliminary
Jim Pick wrote: I've never done this myself (setting up PPP from just the base system). Does anyone have a no-fail recipe for doing this that would be suitable for the FAQ? Probably not -- because there are 2 possible easy setups (pap chap) and lots of difficult ones (text logins.) E.g. for the account I'm posting from it is login to terminal server rlogin to sun box (was done via a menu at one stage) start slirp in ppp mode I think you should refer them to ISP-hookup HOWTO and add debian-specific info: pon, poff, /etc/ppp.options_out and /etc/ppp.chatscript (sorry I can't be of much help here -- of these I'm only using poff.) Rgds -- Dimitri emaziuk at curtin dot edu dot au if you're replying to --- a Usenet posting Avoid reality at all costs. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is xdm required?
On 4 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to upgrade to 1.3 without installing xdm? Yes. Why do you ask? 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] .
April Infomagic LDR Debian
Hi, Does anyone know if Infomagic corrected the missing files for Debian on their April LDR? TIA, Glenn -- Glenn Amerine Inet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems AnalystVoice: (614)224-1336 Metropolitan Human Services Commission Fax: (614)224-6472 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine (fwd)
Carey Evans writes: Brian K Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback widget-servis.ecn.purdue.edu widget-servis #(plus a bunch of other frequenctly used hosts at ecn.purdue.edu) [snip] /etc/init.d/network: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 dev lo I have found that having anything other that localhost after 127.0.0.1 caused me problems in the past. I use the dummy driver to create a fake network: --- /etc/hosts --- 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.117.2 psyche.evansnet psyche www.evansnet news.evansnet [ 192.168.*.* are available for provate use; see RFC 1918. ] --- /etc/hostname --- psyche --- /etc/init.d/network #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo localhost route add -net 127.0.0.0 ifconfig dummy0 psyche route add -net 192.168.117.0 [ dummy if it's in the kernel, dummy0 if it's a module. ] There still seem to be things that expect _one_, _permanently_ connected interface and hostname. :-( Ok, I think we are getting closer to figuring this out. I tried your suggestions(changed my machine name to servis.snet) and rebooted. /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 servis.snet www.servis.snet ftp.servis.snet servis /etc/resolv.conf domain snet search snet ecn.purdue.edu nameserver 128.46.131.20 nameserver 128.46.131.20 nameserver 128.46.131.20 /etc/hostname servis /etc/init.d/network #ifconfig lo localhost ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 # create the dummy network ifconfig dummy 192.168.1.1 route add -net 192.168.1.0 However, when /etc/init.d/boot called /etc/init.d/network ifconfig complained about host name lookup failure of localhost! This is run before rc2.d parts are run. This is really starting to make me mad. I have read almost all the network related howto's, man pages on all the conf files, etc.(each giving slightly different methods of setup by the way) Even if I use the IP address in /etc/init.d/network it still doesn't fix the problem. WAIT A MINUTE..I just discovered something as I was checking the log files. ifconfig is making kerneld try to load some net-pf-4 and net-pf-5 module? What is this? I can't find any reference to it in the kernel-source. %root% date ; ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 Wed Jun 4 12:49:12 CDT 1997 [snippet of /var/log/daemon] Jun 4 12:49:12 servis modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4 Jun 4 12:49:12 servis modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 This must be the root of the problem! Any pointers. Sorry for the length of this but I am trying to give as much info as possible up front. Thanks, Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Connecting terminals
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Pilon wrote: : How many terminals can I connect to my PC using the 4 standar serials : ports?. How can I configure Linux for this? : There is only a hardware limit if you're using standard devices. And you should configure each ttySx to use a different IRQ. Install the mgetty package for the getty-support. -- // Remco van de Meent // email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www: http://oloon.student.utwente.nl //Never make any mistaeks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Looking for a Sniffer
Has anyone out there seen or heard of a Packet Analyzer (Sniffer) that is available for Linux. Thank You - Scott -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Dead list?
Has this list died? I've received 0 messages all day and little more in the previous 2 days. What's happening here? L8R, --Rick Unsolicited commercial/propaganda email subject to legal action. Under US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), Sec.227(b)(1)(C), and Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a State may impose a fine of NOT LESS than $500 per message. Read the full text of Title 47 Sec 227 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Apache server-side includes questions
On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Pete Templin wrote: If I view the document source, the !--stuff-- shows up in italics, as if it's still a comment (and hasn't been parsed). If I add the XBitHack Full to my .htaccess, I get the following error in my error log: [Mon Jun 2 15:39:40 1997] access to /home/templin/public_html/.htaccess failed for templinux.bucknell.edu, reason: Invalid command XBitHack Ah! That means you need to use mod_include in httpd.conf. -- Tom Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.lpsg.demon.co.uk/ PGP ID 87D4D065, fingerprint 2A 66 86 9D 02 4D A6 1E B8 A2 17 9D 4F 9B 89 D6 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for full public key (also available on keyservers) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Cron setup
On 4 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote: :E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : You can add your script to /etc/cron.daily and change the time these : scripts are run from 6:42 am to 1:00 am, or you can add an extra item : running your script. : :Don't forget to use the crontab command if you edit the main file :rather than doing it directly. Huh? The /etc/crontab file explicitly states that you *don't* need to run crontab to edit it. The /etc/crontab file has an extra user field that the regular crontab files do not have ... -- $ head /etc/crontab # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file. # This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do. -- Did I misread or did you? -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- : :-- :Rob : : :-- :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] .
Netscape 3.01 128bit
Has anyone installed Netscape Gold 3.01 128bit with the installer ? Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: text mode 3270 emulator?
On Jun 3, Christian Hudon wrote: Does anyone know of a _text mode_ 3270 terminal emulator for debian (package, pre-compiled or source that compiles under debian)? There's 'tn3270', but it's not packaged for Debian. I looked at it a while ago but it required the NetKit source to compile... Peter, would you be willing to package it up? Since you're the netbase/netstd maintainer, it'd be easier for you than for anyone else. I'd be willing to provide help if you have problems doing so... I can't test the 3270 terminal emulator so I'm probably not the right person to maintain such a package. You might want to wait for the NetKit-0.10, it will probably use separate archives for the networking programs. It would be no problem to just take the telnet sources and create a separate tn3270 package for Debian then. If this is not possible for you I'll have a look at the package. If you need a current snapshot of the telnet sources please let me know. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background Try netscape -install. Doesn't work here. Your friend probably just has a background patern that's eating up some of the colors on what I would guess is an 8-bit display. Netscape is a real color hog (among other things), so running it with -install will let it install its own colormap which will be used whenever netscape has the focus. I don't know about Bruce's friend's problem, but, mine is a completely vanilla install, unmodified, straight from Netscape, using the Debian install package. It is truly a _default_ install, it is indeed 8 bit, but I don't know how to change it to other than 8 bit. Please ask for what ever configuration files you m ight need to help me and I'll send by private mail, rather than eat mailing list bandwidth. --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] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
knews - posting news ?
When I launch knews, it gives an error message: Couldn't determine domain name. Posting will not be allowed. I have a stand-alone PC, dialing up to my ISP with PPP. My NNTP server is leafnode. Documentation lacks. What do I miss? TIA, Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: IConnect Corp Debian any good?
Benedict I am a relative newbie, but I managed to install 1.1 and 1.2 from iConnect CDs. with only a few glitches. These CDs are a little cranky in that you have to guess (or ask, I didn't but should have) how to tell dselect where to find stuff. I gather that you can put symlinks in /tmp to directories on the CD to make things work like dselect expects. You can find the list of debian CD manufacturers on teh web page (www.debian.org). I think when I upgrade, I'll buy my CD from Dwarf. (Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) He is a Debian developer whose Flexible Software sells CDs. I think that he will be more careful than many in his setup, so broken CDs should be rare. --David On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Benedict Chong wrote: I bought infomagic's devel resource for the debian stuff and apparently it's broken. So I'm looking at getting something from iconnect (www.i-connect.net). Are their cdroms any good? Has anyone ordered from them? All I want is a basic debian linux system set up with X and PPP support so that I can download new stuff. Ben -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - 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 National Security Council explosion Treasury terrorist Delta Force bomb Iran Mossad data encryption munitions Serbian hydrazine ammonium nitrate fuel oil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
When will Debian 1.3 be available?
Hi! Debian 1.3 is announced on www.debian.org, but stable is still linked to rex on ftp. When will 1.3 be available? And will the CD-Images available on ftp? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Newbie
Just installed Debian 1.3. Am a UNIX newbie as well as a Debian newbie. It's up and running but 1. Can't TELNET in to the system running it. Sez 'connection refused'. Can't even telnet into itself! TCP/IP is up and running as I can TELNET out. Can ping it, etc... 2. Any suggestions as to steps for getting X up and running? Thanks ... sorry for the bandwith waste. Rick Morrison Wayne State University -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Cron setup
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Huh? The /etc/crontab file explicitly states that you *don't* need to run crontab to edit it. The /etc/crontab file has an extra user field that the regular crontab files do not have ... Absolutely right. I wasn't paying close enough attention. I was thinking about user crontabs. Sorry for the confusion -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Newbie
Just installed Debian 1.3. Am a UNIX newbie as well as a Debian newbie. It's up and running but 1. Can't TELNET in to the system running it. Sez 'connection refused'. Can't even telnet into itself! TCP/IP is up and running as I can TELNET out. Can ping it, etc... 1. Make sure inetd is running and /etc/services has telnet entry. 2. Check /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny (well, /etc/hosts for 127.0.0.1 localhost entry also) 2. Any suggestions as to steps for getting X up and running? Install vga16 server. It has nice configuration utility XF86Setup. Alex Y. Thanks ... sorry for the bandwith waste. Rick Morrison Wayne State University -- 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: Warning: Cannot allocate colormap entry
David B. Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doesn't work here. Does netscape refuse to launch with that option, or does it just not solve the problem? but I don't know how to change it to other than 8 bit. Find the section in your /etc/X11/XF86Config that has the Screen section entry for the server (driver) you are actually using and modify it to have a DefaultColorDepth option like this (I'm using the SVGA server): Section Screen Driver SVGA Device Primary Card Monitor Primary Monitor DefaultColorDepth 16 SubSection Display ... Then next time the server is launched (via xdm or whatever), it'll be 16 bit. Note that in the case of xdm you have to actually kill the server via Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or stop and start xdm to get the server to reset. Please ask for what ever configuration files you m ight need to help me and I'll send by private mail, rather than eat mailing list bandwidth. OK, mail me the output of xdpyinfo when you're using the display. -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Connecting terminals
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Pilon wrote: : How many terminals can I connect to my PC using the 4 standar serials : ports?. How can I configure Linux for this? There is only a hardware limit if you're using standard devices. And you should configure each ttySx to use a different IRQ. Install the mgetty package for the getty-support. mgetty should not be necessary, agetty (the debian default) works fine for local terminals. read the Serial-HOWTO, and ignore the references to /etc/gettydefs (if you decide to use agetty) and of course read the appropriate man pages. -brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://weber.u.washington.edu/~maximill -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Newbie
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Rick Morrison wrote: :Just installed Debian 1.3. Am a UNIX newbie as well as a Debian newbie. It's up and running but : :1. Can't TELNET in to the system running it. Sez 'connection refused'. Can't even telnet into itself! TCP/IP is up and running as I can TELNET out. Can ping it, etc... Are you reverse name served? If not, the Debian default is to not let you in. If you don't like this behaviour (For exmaple, you have no control over reverse lookup maps) then edit the file /etc/hosts.deny and comment out the PARANOID line. Better would be to modify it, like this: # /etc/hosts.deny: list of hosts that are _not_ allowed to access the system. # See hosts_access(5) and /usr/doc/net/portmapper.txt # # Example:ALL: some.host.name, .some.domain # ALL EXCEPT in.fingerd: other.host.name, .other.domain # # The PARANOID wildcard matches any host whose name does not match its # address. ALL EXCEPT wu-ftpd: PARANOID This lets unconfigured systems ftp into our server. :2. Any suggestions as to steps for getting X up and running? I'll leave this to the X gurus, which I am not. :Thanks ... sorry for the bandwith waste. : :Rick Morrison :Wayne State University : -- Nathan Norman:Hostmaster CFNI:[EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key and other stuff Key fingerprint = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
orphan packages?
I recently upgraded to bo and when I run dselect it shows some packages which are apparently non-existent. I selected modules-2.0.0-15 from the base listing and multimedia-2.1-3 and dselect ignores the selection. I checked the directory listings at ftp.debian.org and these packages do not seem to exist. Why does dselect show them as available (and know enough to not try to get them) I updated the packages list, but dselect still shows them. Is there a way to get dselect to agree with the Packages file? 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] .
Re: Connecting terminals
How many terminals can I connect to my PC using the 4 standar serials ports?. As many as you have serial ports to connect them to. While a standard PC can support 4 serial ports, almost all only have two physical ports on the back of the PC. To get any more than that, you'll probably want a multi-port serial board. Linux supports quite a few different types; however, the only one I've used is the BB2016 from Boca. It's a 16-port board with RJ48 (10-conductor) connectors (others have RJ45 (8-conductor) or DB25 connectors). RJ48's and DB25's are best if you're thinking of connecting modems as well as standard terminals. How can I configure Linux for this? Check out the Serial HOWTO for more info on all of the above. You can find that as /usr/doc/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.gz or on the Web at: http://www.li.org/Resources/HOWTO/Serial-HOWTO.html Later, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper CA http://www.eroper.bc.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: orphan packages?
I recently upgraded to bo and when I run dselect it shows some packages which are apparently non-existent. I selected modules-2.0.0-15 from the base listing and multimedia-2.1-3 and dselect ignores the selection. I checked the directory listings at ftp.debian.org and these packages do not seem to exist. Why does dselect show them as available (and know enough to not try to get them) I updated the packages list, but dselect still shows them. Is there a way to get dselect to agree with the Packages file? Same thing goes for Pine and Pico from non-free Later, Kevin Traas Systems Analyst Edmondson Roper CA http://www.eroper.bc.ca -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: making 16bpp the default in X
Hi: A note of appreciation to several,and a continued request for help. Luke Bussanmas, Rob Browining, Brian White, and Gary Dolan (others? if so accept my apology!) have tried with varying degrees of success in helping me get Netscape running on my 1MB TVGA 9400 CXi card and KFC 15 monitor with X11R6, Debina 1.1 (with some upgrades). I am grateful to all the folk who try to help those of us who are informationally challenged. So far, I do not seem to be able to change the SVGA server from a 4 layer root window (Is this 4 bit color?). I have place the line DefaultColorDepth 16 in the XF86Config file, no difference. I can get netscape running in a usable fashion using the command netscape -visual StaticGray but this has limited resolution and limited colors. If anyone wants to see my XF86Config, I'll post or send it privately. xdpyinfo (output below) says I have 16 colormap cells. Help? -- David name of display::0.0 version number:11.0 vendor string:The XFree86 Project, Inc vendor release number:3120 maximum request size: 262140 bytes motion buffer size: 0 bitmap unit, bit order, padding:8, MSBFirst, 32 image byte order:LSBFirst number of supported pixmap formats:2 supported pixmap formats: depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32 depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32 keycode range:minimum 8, maximum 134 focus: window 0xcd, revert to Parent number of extensions:10 LBX MIT-SCREEN-SAVER MIT-SHM MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD Multi-Buffering SHAPE SYNC XC-MISC XFree86-VidModeExtension XTEST default screen number:0 number of screens:1 screen #0: dimensions:800x600 pixels (271x203 millimeters) resolution:75x75 dots per inch depths (2):1, 4 root window id:0x28 depth of root window:4 planes number of colormaps:minimum 1, maximum 1 default colormap:0x24 default number of colormap cells:16 preallocated pixels:black 0, white 1 options:backing-store YES, save-unders YES largest cursor:32x32 current input event mask:0x50003d KeyPressMask ButtonPressMask ButtonReleaseMask EnterWindowMask LeaveWindowMask SubstructureRedirectMask PropertyChangeMask number of visuals:4 default visual id: 0x20 visual: visual id:0x20 class:StaticColor depth:4 planes available colormap entries:16 red, green, blue masks:0x0, 0x0, 0x0 significant bits in color specification:6 bits visual: visual id:0x21 class:StaticGray depth:4 planes available colormap entries:16 red, green, blue masks:0x0, 0x0, 0x0 significant bits in color specification:6 bits visual: visual id:0x22 class:GrayScale depth:4 planes available colormap entries:16 red, green, blue masks:0x0, 0x0, 0x0 significant bits in color specification:6 bits visual: visual id:0x23 class:PseudoColor depth:4 planes available colormap entries:16 red, green, blue masks:0x0, 0x0, 0x0 significant bits in color specification:6 bits On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Luke Bussanmas wrote: What do I need to do to make 16 bpp the default in X? In your /etc/X11/XF86Config file place the following line under the Section Screen : DefaultColorDepth 16 That should solve the problem without having to delete the other subsections on Display. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . - 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 National Security Council explosion Treasury terrorist Delta Force bomb Iran Mossad data encryption munitions Serbian hydrazine ammonium nitrate fuel oil -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is xdm required?
I wrote: Is it possible to upgrade to 1.3 without installing xdm? Dwarf writes: Yes. Why do you ask? Because every X discussion I've seen here recently clearly presumes that xdm is being used, and because the last time I upgraded my 1.2 installation I was forced to create a dummy /etc/init.d/xdm to get the install to complete. John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Is xdm required?
joost witteveen writes: Well, xdm comes with the xbase package, so, if you don't want to install xdm, you'd have to live without X at all. I've already got the damn thing installed. I just don't want to be forced to activate it. X works just fine without it. So, how about me selling the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to some mass-mailer crook? Isn't that statement a bit contradictory? No. The statement is just so that the mass-mailer can't claim she didn't know I didn't want her junk. It's a notice, not a copyright license condition. You are free to sell my address to anyone fool enough to pay you for it. John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: xdvik not in frozen?
xdvi is in tetex-bin package. Ok, found that one, but if xdvik shows up in the available list, shouldn't it be there (or the removed from the list)? Alex. -- Donate your CPU cycles: Join DES Challenge http://www.des.sollentuna.se -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Solution to irqtune problems
Hi, I have tracked down the cause of the problems which were reported about irqtune. Apparently hwtools does not contain the most recent version of irqtune. Using irqtune 0.5 will solve your problems. I have addressed the package maintainer about this. Two solutions: 1. Wait for the new hwtools package. 2. Get the irqtune 0.5 from the website. You don't have to recompile, just copy irqtune_mod.o and irqtune from the tar to /sbin . Then change the invocation of irqtune in /etc/rc.boot/hwtools from irqtune to /sbin/irqtune Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
