Re: Setting up suck for inn

[Randy Edwards]

Mark W. Blunier wrote:

> started with.  Now I want to add some public groups
> and fill the news spool and send out messages using
> suck.  I would like to do this in my ip-up script,
> but I haven't figured out how this is done.

   There's a couple of things you'll need to do.  You'll have to add the
lists to inn with ctlinnd.  Then you'll have to add your new newsgroups
into sucknewsrc.  Finally, try adding something like the following to
your /etc/ppp/ip-up:

# Fetch any news.
/usr/sbin/get-news

   The get-news script will handle both downloading new news and posting
any news.  Hope it helps.

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booting single, writable?

[Ken Gaugler]

Hi Folks.

I got a new motherboard and CPU (triton III with a Cyrix PR200MMX) and
of course there are problems booting now. It looks to me like if I can
disable XDM, I can get a handle on fixing things up.

However, booting from a floppy using "emergency root=/dev/hda4" I
cannot move the XDM inits because the disk is mounted read-only. 

What is the correct startup method to be able to write/change the hard
drive?

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Re: is anyone using NE1000?

[Aaron Walker]

Thanks to everyone for your help.  I got Debian to see my NE1000 at 0x320 and
IRQ 5.  The problem was that in the /etc/conf.modules file it said:
options ne io = 0x320 irq = 5

I changed it to:
options ne io=0x320 irq=5 (I just got rid of the spaces between the numbers
and the equal sings)
Now it loads the ne module w/o hanging.
Thanks again!

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> Hamish Moffatt writes:
> > The ne module handles both NE2000 and NE1000 cards. Just add
> > ne to your /etc/modules, and something like
>
> > options ne io=0x280 irq=10
>
> I just installed an NE2000 with 2.0.32, and couldn't get it recognized at
> irq 10.  I had to move it to 2/9.
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Re: HAMM kernel-source OK with libc5 BO?

[Sten Anderson]

Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is it OK to install the unstable (HAMM) kernel source (2.0.32)
> with my stable (BO) 1.3.1.r6 system, 

It should work just fine. 

> or should I just get the
> original source tar file and use that?

I would recommend this option. Unpack it to a temporary location, and
use the tools in the package 'kernel-package' to compile the sources
directly into a kernel-image package (and optionally a kernel-source
package). It is actually very easy.

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Re: Networking Info?

[Peter Prohaska]

> Do you have the Net-3-HOWTO (some information) and the Nag (Network
> Administration Guide). The second is from LDP and you can get it at sunsite.
> 
> Maybe we should package the LDP Books for Debian.

Good idea !!!

It´s really ineffective that everyone has to download them on his own.
Especially for new users, they are a good point to start ( own experience
:)

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Re: Netscape 4.04

[Sten Anderson]

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> So please just tell the name of the file at ftp.netscape.com
> including the path to the directory it is in.  If the file needs to be
> renamed please tell me that also.  

The file is 

  communicator-v404-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz

which is available at 

  ftp://ftp.netscape.com

in the directory

  /pub/communicator/4.04/shipping/english/unix/linux20/base_install/

No renaming is necessary.

It works for me...

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Re: Colours with Lynx

[David Stern]

On Sun, 21 Dec 1997 11:37:51 EST, Will Lowe wrote:
> Also,  if anyone could tell me where lynx get's it's default startup page,
> I'd be appreciative.  I don't have a ~/.lynxrc,  and $WWW_HOME is unset,
> but lynx still insists on starting with an ancient (and now obselete) page
> I must have specified years ago.

/etc/lynx.cfg is your lynx config file.  

The colors look like the system defaults, which are set in 
/etc/DIRCOLORS, but if you'd like to change them only for lynx, you 
might want to see the /usr/doc/README.debian file.

To see colors, you can run this script, which may have come from a 
linux gazzette article, but I'm not certain.  You can also type showrgb.

#!/bin/bash
# Display ANSI colours.

esc="\033["
echo -e "\t  40\t   41\t   42\t43\t  44   45\t46\t 47"
for fore in 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37; do
line1="$fore  "
line2=""
  for back in 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47; do
line1="${line1}${esc}${back};${fore}m Normal  ${esc}0m"
line2="${line2}${esc}${back};${fore};1m Bold${esc}0m"
  done
echo -e "$line1\n$line2"
done
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DPT PM2044W problems...

[Mika Marjamaki]

Hi!

On one machine we have a DPT PM2044W PCI Wide SCSI-Adapter with a RC4040
RAID/Caching module. There are five 2G IBM DCAS-32160W-drives connected to
the adapter and RAIDed as one 8G RAID5-array. The operating system on that
machine is Debian GNU/Linux, running Linux kernel version 2.0.33 with the
newest patches (2.0.31) obtained from "The EATA homepage". The Debian
version on the machine is hamm.

However, it doesn't work correctly. Under low load it works just perfect,
but when I start doing something that uses disks a lot -- i.e. running
a benchmark called Bonnie -- I start getting these messages from the
kernel:

- - -
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 17596, scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun
0 Write (6) 19 32 98 f8 00
eata_abort called pid: 17596 target: 0 lun: 0 reason 3
Returning: SCSI_ABORT_BUSY
- - -

Does anyone know, what could be wrong with my setup or something, and how
to fix it, and where to look for problems?

Best regards and Merry Christmas,

  Mika

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Re: is anyone using NE1000?

[john]

Hamish Moffatt writes:
> The ne module handles both NE2000 and NE1000 cards. Just add
> ne to your /etc/modules, and something like

> options ne io=0x280 irq=10

I just installed an NE2000 with 2.0.32, and couldn't get it recognized at
irq 10.  I had to move it to 2/9.
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Re: Colours with Lynx

[Martin Schulze]

On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 11:37:51AM -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
> Also,  if anyone could tell me where lynx get's it's default startup page,
> I'd be appreciative.  I don't have a ~/.lynxrc,  and $WWW_HOME is unset,
> but lynx still insists on starting with an ancient (and now obselete) page
> I must have specified years ago.

In my /etc/lynxrc there is an entry

STARTFILE:http://where/do/you/want/to/fly/tod.ay/linux.html

Regards

Joey

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Searching the list archives.

[DebianUser]

I've been trying to use the search engine on debians web site to check through
the mailing list archives but apparently it wont. Currently I'm using
searching the mailing list archives using altavista. (host:www.debian.org and
[search_keyword]) Is there any plans to include the mailing list archives in
the search enging on www.debian.org? Seems like their should be.


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Re: Netscape 4.04

[David Stern]

On Sun, 21 Dec 1997 12:09:36 EST, wrote:
> [.. snip .deb netscape install woes..]

As for installing netscape with a .deb script, I wouldn't be able to 
help you.  However, the 3.01 linux netscape moved a few weeks or so ago 
to a new home:

ftp://archive.netscape.com/archive/index.html

Netscape comes with a really easy set of instructions as well as it's 
own install script.  I prefer the instructions so I know exactly what's 
going on.  The first time it might take a few minutes to read and 
understand, but after that it's a walk in the park (about a five minute 
walk, to be specific).
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Re: Colours with Lynx

[Bob Nielsen]

On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Will Lowe wrote:

> Also,  if anyone could tell me where lynx get's it's default startup page,
> I'd be appreciative.  I don't have a ~/.lynxrc,  and $WWW_HOME is unset,
> but lynx still insists on starting with an ancient (and now obselete) page
> I must have specified years ago.
> 

I have (in /etc/lynx.cfg, NOT /usr/local/lib/lynx.cfg--posibly this is
debian-specific):

STARTFILE:file://localhost/~/lynx_bookmarks.html

You can use whatever you want as a default, of course.

Bob


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HAMM kernel-source OK with libc5 BO?

[Rick Macdonald]

Is it OK to install the unstable (HAMM) kernel source (2.0.32)
with my stable (BO) 1.3.1.r6 system, or should I just get the
original source tar file and use that?

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Netscape 4.04

[tmalloy]

It might be a good idea if the netscape4.deb installation did not remove
netscape 3 until it has verified that everything is set for the new
install.  As of now I am left with nothing.  As far as I can tell the file
I got from ftp.netscape.com matches the required syntax of the ' file in
/tmp must be named blah.blah.blah message.  But apparently I am to stupid
to live.  So please just tell the name of the file at ftp.netscape.com
including the path to the directory it is in.  If the file needs to be
renamed please tell me that also.  Perhaps it is just better and easier to
bypass the Deb file.  But I do not know where I should be installed.

Any help is appreciated.

Pitifully yours,

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Re: Colours with Lynx

[Sten Anderson]

Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Also,  if anyone could tell me where lynx get's it's default startup page,

/etc/lynx.cfg

- Sten Anderson


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Re: Colours with Lynx

[Will Lowe]

Also,  if anyone could tell me where lynx get's it's default startup page,
I'd be appreciative.  I don't have a ~/.lynxrc,  and $WWW_HOME is unset,
but lynx still insists on starting with an ancient (and now obselete) page
I must have specified years ago.


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Forcing xforms installation?

[Paolo M. Pumilia]

Hi all,
I have recently removed xlib and installed xlib6_3.3.1-2.deb. that
provides shared libraries required by libc5-based X clients and should
replace elf-x11r6lib and xlib.
As i try to install xforms0.86_0.86-2.deb, dpkg seems to check only if xlib
can be found (that is not installed any more) and therefore complains: 
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xforms0.86:
>  xforms0.86 depends on elf-x11r6lib; however:
>   Package elf-x11r6lib is not installed.
>   Package xlib which provides elf-x11r6lib is not installed.
> dpkg: error processing xforms0.86 (--install):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> xforms0.86


should i force installation for xforms or does something is wrong in
my procedure?

thank you for your suggestions

Paolo Pumilia


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FTP Problem

[Fenrick]

I was wondering if anyone had experienced a situation where they're ISP
provided them with a FTP Proxy (squid based); and terrible non-proxy
access. Is there anyway inwhich I can get perl scripts (dselect, etc) to
use the FTP Proxy. I've tried using the firewall stuff; but that doesn't
work at all.
Thanx in advance.

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Re: dpkg and deb files, Thanks

[Daniel Martin at cush]

"Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> All i need now is some guidence on what files to get next!, i am leaving
> x-win until the cd arrives, but if anybody has any farorite packages that
> will be good for a newbie, just some general thinks to help get to grips
> with linux, fun stuff etc!

less and mc, then the doc-linux package.
I personally find the bsdgames package quite fun.


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Re: is anyone using NE1000?

[Aaron Walker]

I tried what you suggested but it just hangs when trying to load the module.
Any other suggestions?

Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 12:20:34AM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote:
> > Has anyone successfully setup a NE1000 card (not a clone) using Debian
> > 1.3.1 with the loadable kernel module.  I can't get my 486SX/25 with 8MB
> > RAM to detect my NE1000 card.  I can only use loadable modules because
> > there's no way for me to get the newest kernel to my 486 (no modem, no
> > zip drive, etc.)  If anyone has successfully done this, I would
> > appreciate your help.  Thanks very much.
>
> The ne module handles both NE2000 and NE1000 cards. Just add
> ne to your /etc/modules, and something like
>
> options ne io=0x280 irq=10
>
> to /etc/conf.modules.
>
> An original NE1000 might need a shared memory address too,
> but I can't tell you how to set that up because I've never needed to.
> Try it and see though.
>
> Hamish
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Re: bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD

[Oliver Elphick]

Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
  >> Debian-CDs are bootable, at least the official ones. If you are
  >> using the CD from Lehmanns-Bookstore: this one is!
  >
  >Does anybody has an Adaptec AHA 2940 and was able to boot from this
  >(or any other) CD. 

Yes. I have an Adaptec 2940UW and SCSI CD-ROM, and am able to boot
from a Debian 1.3.1 CD.

I can't tell you the Adaptec BIOS version without shutting down, but
I bought this card about the beginning of 1997.

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Re: Off-Line NNTP?

[Martin Schulze]

On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 12:34:42AM +0200, Neilen Marais wrote:

> I'm looking for a simple solution allowing me to fetch only the
> newsgroups I want through a PPP link, and then having it served locally
> as NNTP so that I can use any reader.
> 
> In fact, I'm looking for leafnode.  I did use leafnode before, and it
> suited my needs perfectly, but I had to change ISPs, and leafnode does
> not seem to want to work with the new isp...  It connects to the
> server, fetches 2 messages, and then does nothing further
> 
> So, if anyone has A) Any ideas on leafnode B) an alternate solution,
> that is hopfully simple to set up (for someone who has never really set
> up a news server before) I'd be very glad to hear about it.

I don't know leafnode but I'd use inn and nntpget / suck for fetching
the groups.  Well I'd also prefer uucp but maybe your ISP doesn't
provide it.

Regards

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Colours with Lynx

[Martin Schulze]

Morning folks,

the program lynx from bo comes with predefined colours.  That's fine,
but I don't like them.  I tried to re-configure them but couldn't find
a user-based way.

I thought this should be able to do on ~/.lynxrc but how?  The only
way was to comment out the COLOR statements in /etc/lynxrc and modify
them.  Btw. how do I know what those numbers reflect?

Regards,

Joey

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Re: bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD

[Torsten Hilbrich]

Frank Barknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Christian Hagemeier hat gesagt: // Christian Hagemeier wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > 
> > My motherboard supports the feature to boot from a CD-ROM. I read
> > that I can install Debian this way. But how do i create such a CD?
> > Or is the "Official CD" such a bootable CD?
> > 
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> Debian-CDs are bootable, at least the official ones. If you are
> using the CD from Lehmanns-Bookstore: this one is!

Does anybody has an Adaptec AHA 2940 and was able to boot from this
(or any other) CD.  I have BIOS-Version 1.21 and the ldlinux.sys died
while booting from CD.  Do I need a BIOS update (I couldn't find
anything newer than 1.21 yet) or is there any other way to
successfully boot from CD-ROM.

The host adapter recognize the CD as bootable, seems to do some
swaping of floppy disk and cdrom and load the ldlinux.sys code.  This
code fails gracefully without any further message.

Similiar happens with the FreeBSD CD-ROM's from Walnut Creek.
Depending on the version the only thing I can see is a | or an \
(the | / - \ rotating sequence).

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Re: Ghostscript 5 for 1.3.1 working?

[Torsten Hilbrich]

Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I installed gs 5 a while ago, but I havn't been able to make it work
> with my Epson Stylus Color 600.  When I install the package, it says
> that it can't be configured (for reason which I forget at the
> moment).  It seems to try to work though, but I can't figure out how
> to make the new unified printer driver thingy work for me.  Anyone
> gotten this new system working?

I have installed the libc5 package of gs (file name for archie:
gs-aladdin_5.03-0.99_i386.deb) and it worked out of the box.  For
Stylus Color I use magicfilter with the following lines in its config
file:

~/Incoming$ more /usr/sbin/stc-normal-filter 
#! /usr/sbin/magicfilter
#
# Magic filter setup file for 720 DPI Epson Stylus Color series 
#
# This file has been automatically adapted to your system.
#

# PostScript
0   %!  filter  /usr/bin/gs @stc600p.upp -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 
-dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- - 
0   \004%!  filter  /usr/bin/gs @stc600p.upp -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 
-dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=- - 

# ... more lines follow ...

The other lines are identical to the filter create with
magicfilterconfig.

The @stc600p.upp means: read options from the file stc600p.upp, where
the uniprint driver is selected and some options for the driver are
selected.  There is also the stc600ih.upp file for 1440x720 printing.

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Re: Filter

[Torsten Hilbrich]

Toth Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> Yes 5L. :)) 
> What do you use for it?

I installed a 4 MB memory card in my 5L because with some sort of
input (e.g., pages full of text converted by a2ps) I got memory
problems.

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Re: Printing

[Torsten Hilbrich]

Toth Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> I've got a Canon BJ-200ex printer. Can I use it under LINUX?
> I have used ghostscript 5.03 and magicfilter, but it doesn't working!
> 
> [some lines removed]
>
> The /var/log/lp-err contains this line
> Can't find initialization file gs_init.ps

The gs_init.ps file is essential for gs and probably not installed on
your system.  I have installed gs in /usr/lib/ghostscript/5.03 and the
gs_init.ps file is in this directory.  Please check this.

BTW: There is a binary gs-aladdin Debian package for libc5, its name is:

gs-aladdin_5.03-0.99_i386.deb

and should be on every Debian mirror (I retrieved it from
http://www.di.unipi.it/~pistore).

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Re: the ghost of permissions past

[David Stern]

On Sun, 21 Dec 1997 00:15:00 PST, David Stern wrote:

Although I figured since I'd already rebooted and had experienced it 
twice consecutively that it was permanent, but I just rebooted again 
and all is well.

I think I have an idea of what's going on.  When I began using ssh I 
started having some erratic behavior with X-windows (like crashing my X 
server when I dropped an app titlebar a little bit off the non-virtual 
edge, usually after doing something like testing an imperfect system 
config file).  And I think my window manager (afterstep) is reputed to 
have two rare bugs.  So, any combination of ssh and my window manager 
are probably the reason for the problem.

Sorry for the help call, but the behavior was completely consistent, 
I'd rebooted and previously it had been great. The one thing I didn't 
consider is that the first thing I do after login is run ssh in that 
one xterm. I suppose I'll have to consider alternatives to ssh and 
afterstep.  That wasn't what I thought was happening.

Bah.
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the ghost of permissions past

[David Stern]

Hi,

This afternoon I noticed that while web browsing netscape kept losing
focus, but could be restored with a right-click on the titlebar.  Then I
noticed I couldn't edit files (text, cgi, rename..).  There were also
about five xv zombies which I couldn't kill -9 in an ssh root window.

I shutdown to leave, and am now having the same problem: apps don't take
focus on start (I can force focus with a right click on the titlebar,
though) and I can't edit files in filerunner, exmh, (I can't type in
xterms or rxvt's).

I think I screwed up some permissions, because if I login as root and
startx, all works great.  Basically, the only control I have is mouse
clicks and I can type in the one xterm which is loaded in my
system.steprc but apps spawned from this one terminal, even if I ssh
root, have only mouse control with--I can read mail and click buttons
in exmh, but I can't type anything.

I looked through my logs and history files, but don't see any errors or
problems.  Today I relocated some backup files but didn't make any
changes to my user's config files (very minor mods to a few system
config files, deleted some junk). One thing I did that seems suspicious,
even though I've done it many times is that I chowned files (chown -R
kotsya.kotsya /home/kotsya/*) several times after messing around with
some user html, cgi, jpg files, but permissions look ok, I think.

Does anybody know what permission would dissallow user to edit own
files, have problems taking focus, and for apps started from that sole
working terminal window, even when ssh'ed to root to act likewise?

Bah, humbug!


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Re: a few questions...(exactly one :-) )

[Vaclav Hula]

> > 
> > Hi...
> > I have Debian/hamm box at home, and I have a problem:
> > When I try to print, I do:
> > lpr file
> > it hangs and strace lpr file stops at 
> > connect(4, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(515), 
> > sin_addr=inet_addr("195.113.48.42")}, 16 
> > (195.113.48.42 is invalid adress used during installation from my work. 
> > It looks to me that I have to re-configure the network and/or lpd to use 
> > localhost address. Where?
> 
> Are you using lpr (not lprNG)? if so,  try looking into /etc/printcap. there'd
> be a line saying something like this:
> 
> lp|name-of-printer|comments:
>   :lp=:\
>   :rm=195.113.48.42 (or the fqdn of this address):\
>   :rp= ...
>   :sd= 
> 
> change it to
> 
> lp|name-of-printer|comments:
>   :lp=/dev/lp0:\
>   :sd= ...
> 
> look into /var/log/messages to see where exaclty your printer is (lp0,lp1,lp2)

gee, I am using lprNG :-(


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Re: is anyone using NE1000?

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 12:20:34AM -0500, Aaron Walker wrote:
> Has anyone successfully setup a NE1000 card (not a clone) using Debian
> 1.3.1 with the loadable kernel module.  I can't get my 486SX/25 with 8MB
> RAM to detect my NE1000 card.  I can only use loadable modules because
> there's no way for me to get the newest kernel to my 486 (no modem, no
> zip drive, etc.)  If anyone has successfully done this, I would
> appreciate your help.  Thanks very much.

The ne module handles both NE2000 and NE1000 cards. Just add
ne to your /etc/modules, and something like

options ne io=0x280 irq=10

to /etc/conf.modules.

An original NE1000 might need a shared memory address too,
but I can't tell you how to set that up because I've never needed to.
Try it and see though.


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Re: Is `Okidata 6e' page printer a `Windows-based' printer?

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sat, Dec 20, 1997 at 09:33:53PM -0600, Charles Read wrote:
> Following the Print-HOWTO, I did this from root:
> 
>  # cat /etc/printcap > /dev/lp1
> 
> My printer's LED blinked, with no further response after.
> /proc/devices shows that lp exists; `dmesg | grep lp' shows
> that my printer is recognized at port 0x378 (the IRQ should
> be 7, but I could not verify this from Linux).
> 
> QUESTION:  Does this mean my printer is `Windows-based',
> ie, unusable under Linux?  [If not, is there some other
> way to determine an answer to this question?]

It looks like it should be fine since the LED blinked.  However
a page printer (like all lasers) will not actually print until
it has seen the end of page, ie a form feed (ASCII 12). Sending
jobs to the printer port with cat won't append a form feed,
so the page isn't actually printed until I press the button
on the front panel (of my 5L). Try that. Once you have print out
from that, install magicfilter, which will take care of all
your printing like of straight text with lpr (it will fix up
the problem of the printer needing CR/LF versus unix just
LF which Tim Sailer mentioned, ie the stair case effect),
and also add the line feeds, let you print postscript on
a non-postscript  printer etc.


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is anyone using NE1000?

[Aaron Walker]

Has anyone successfully setup a NE1000 card (not a clone) using Debian
1.3.1 with the loadable kernel module.  I can't get my 486SX/25 with 8MB
RAM to detect my NE1000 card.  I can only use loadable modules because
there's no way for me to get the newest kernel to my 486 (no modem, no
zip drive, etc.)  If anyone has successfully done this, I would
appreciate your help.  Thanks very much.

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Setting up suck for inn

[Mark W. Blunier]

I've installed suck and inn on my home system.  Inn
seems to work, at least on the local.test groups it
started with.  Now I want to add some public groups
and fill the news spool and send out messages using
suck.  I would like to do this in my ip-up script,
but I haven't figured out how this is done.  I'd
appreciated some pointers to a howto, or how others
have done this.

Thanks
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Re: Is `Okidata 6e' page printer a `Windows-based' printer?

[Tim Sailer]

Charles Read wrote:
> 
> Following the Print-HOWTO, I did this from root:
> 
>  # cat /etc/printcap > /dev/lp1
> 
> My printer's LED blinked, with no further response after.
> /proc/devices shows that lp exists; `dmesg | grep lp' shows
> that my printer is recognized at port 0x378 (the IRQ should
> be 7, but I could not verify this from Linux).
> 
> QUESTION:  Does this mean my printer is `Windows-based',
> ie, unusable under Linux?  [If not, is there some other
> way to determine an answer to this question?]

I think that this laser printer has the same 'problem' as
the rest. Linux will only send a linefeed by default when
the line ends, and the next one starts. This only advances
the printing down to the next line, but at the same spot it
stopped printing. This creates the classic 'stairstep' effect.
DOS on the otherhand, sends a carriage return, which sends
the printing position to the beginning of the line, and then does
the linefeed to start the new line. Simply catting to the
device is a good start, since you saw the printer blink. Try
installing magicfilter or apsfilter and you should be in
business.

Tim

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Is `Okidata 6e' page printer a `Windows-based' printer?

[Charles Read]

Following the Print-HOWTO, I did this from root:

 # cat /etc/printcap > /dev/lp1

My printer's LED blinked, with no further response after.
/proc/devices shows that lp exists; `dmesg | grep lp' shows
that my printer is recognized at port 0x378 (the IRQ should
be 7, but I could not verify this from Linux).

QUESTION:  Does this mean my printer is `Windows-based',
ie, unusable under Linux?  [If not, is there some other
way to determine an answer to this question?]

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Re: XCircuit available as debian package?

[Dale Scheetz]

On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Wojtek Zabolotny wrote:

>   Hi All!
> 
> I'm just wondering if someone is "debianizing"  the XCircuit program
> (http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~tim/programs/xcircuit).
> It is a very nice schematic editor for X.
> Is it difficult to convert such a program into a debian package?
> 
I just looked at this, to see how hard it would be to package. The first
thing that I noticed is that there are no copyright notices, or license
agreements provided with the source code. This makes the package
impossible to distribute. Is the author willing to GPL it? 
I don't have the time right now to look into this, as I will be away from
net access for about a week, but I can look into this further if you are
interested. Other than that it doesn't look too hard to package.

Waiting is,

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Off-Line NNTP?

[Carl Fink]

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>I'm looking for a simple solution allowing me to fetch only the
>newsgroups I want through a PPP link, and then having it served locally
>as NNTP so that I can use any reader.

I use suck -- there's a debian package for it.  It works, it's being
actively developed, and I really like it.
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Apache

[Rob]

Hello all.

Hopefully this is a simple question, but I'm relativly new to Linux..

I have a fairly minimal installation of stable debian, as I'm short of disc
space. ie, no X, no compiler, no man pages.  (It's a 486/25 with 80Mb
although I have a spare 120Mb disc I havn't tried adding yet -that's
another question!)  

I have been using the apache web server, though.  I notice from
www.apache.org that they are currently up to version 1.2.4, wheras the
package I installed from ftp.debian.org is   apache 1.1.3-6, and doesn't
support some of the "version 1.2 and above" commands I was trying to use.

Not having a compiler installed, I can't just download the updated source,
and the binaries don't include debian.   Question is:  can I use one of the
other linux binaries, or is apache 1.2 or later available pre-compiled as a
debian package somewhere else, or can someone out there assist me in
compiling and installing the later version some other way?

Best regards,

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Off-Line NNTP?

[Neilen Marais]

Hi...

I'm looking for a simple solution allowing me to fetch only the
newsgroups I want through a PPP link, and then having it served locally
as NNTP so that I can use any reader.

In fact, I'm looking for leafnode.  I did use leafnode before, and it
suited my needs perfectly, but I had to change ISPs, and leafnode does
not seem to want to work with the new isp...  It connects to the
server, fetches 2 messages, and then does nothing further

So, if anyone has A) Any ideas on leafnode B) an alternate solution,
that is hopfully simple to set up (for someone who has never really set
up a news server before) I'd be very glad to hear about it.

Thanks
Neilen


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Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

[Neilen Marais]

Hello

>On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Neilen Marais wrote:
>
>> I have upgraded to 5.004.04-3, and the problem still persists!
>> 
>Did you install perl-base 5.004.04-3 and then perl 5.004.04-3 ?
>
>There should be a predepends line in perl 5.004.04-3, but I have heard
>that this restriction doesn't work somehow.

I do the following:

dpkg --purge --force depends perl
dpkg --purge --force depends --force remove-essential perl-base

dpkg -i perl-base_5.004.04-3.deb
dpkg -i perl_5.004.04-3.deb

no errors up to here at all

adduser
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Hmmm...  Dunno anymore...  doing dpkg -i --force downgrade
pel_5.003-summin fixes the core dump, but of course leaves misc
dependancies lying around, and might have security problems...

Cheers
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Re: Really dumb question...

[Sten Anderson]

Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 07:28:44PM -0500, DebianUser wrote:
> > Really dumb question;
> > 
> > I keep looking for Debians kernel to package tools and cant find it... 
> 
> Ahm, what exactly are you looking for?

I think he is looking for the tools to automatically create a
kernel-image...deb from the original kernel sources. If that is the
case, they are in the package named kernel-package (section misc).

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