Re: [lesspipe]
I really like using a .lesskey file to set up a .less binary configuration file. Then you'll have the configuration no matter what the environment is when you start less. Here is my .lesskey: # $Header: /users/bradshaw/RCS/.lesskey,v 1.1 1996/09/21 01:25:38 bradshaw Exp bradshaw $ #env LESS = -is LESSOPEN = |~/.lesspipe.sh %s The less manpage also shows separate lessopen and lessclose scripts, but using the pipe above seems to avoid the need for any of the cleanup provided by lessclose. Install the file by running lesskey. This will create a binary .less file. You'll also need something to put in the ~/.lesspipe.sh. Since you aren't at hamm yet, you might want to try my .lesspipe.sh. Unfortunately it doesn't handle all the file types mentioned in a previous message, but you should be able to extend it. This works for bash and tcsh, but I haven't tried anything else. #! /bin/sh # $Header: /users/bradshaw/bin/RCS/lesspipe.sh,v 1.1 1996/09/21 01:32:37 bradshaw Exp bradshaw $ case $1 in # view compressed files correctly *.Z|*.z|*.gz) gzip -dc $1 2/dev/null;; *.zip) unzip -l $1 2/dev/null ;; # view contents of .tar and .tgz *.tar) tar tvvf $1 2/dev/null ;; *.tgz|*.tar.gz|*.tar.Z|*.tar.z) tar tzvvf $1 2/dev/null ;; # groff source *.1|*.2|*.3|*.4|*.5|*.6|*.7|*.8|*.9|*.n|*.man) FILE=`file -L $1` ; FILE=`echo $FILE | cut -d ' ' -f 2` if [ $FILE = troff ]; then groff -s -p -t -e -Tascii -mandoc $1 fi ;; esac Remco Blaakmeer wrote: To configure less to be more useful, you can set some environment variables. If you like them, place the commands to set them in /etc/profile and they will be set every time you log in. These are the commands: export LESSOPEN='|/usr/bin/lesspipe %s' This makes less pipe everything you view through this script. This gives you readable information for verious non-text files, like .tgz, .gz, .tar, .zip, .arj and .deb files. This is nice, but where is lesspipe? $ more /var/lib/dpkg/info/less.list /. /usr /usr/doc /usr/doc/less /usr/doc/less/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/doc/less/copyright /usr/doc/less/NEWS.gz /usr/doc/less/README.gz /usr/bin /usr/bin/less /usr/bin/lesskey /usr/man /usr/man/man1 /usr/man/man1/less.1.gz /usr/man/man1/lesskey.1.gz Not there! Thanks! -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Next Level Communications[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Next Level Communications[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: qmail vs smail
On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 04:13:19PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: I have been using smail as the mail transport agent on a hamm system. Recently I tried to install the 12000 line aliases file that we keep on all our instructional machines. I found that this caused smail to grind to a halt. Apparently smail doesn't create dbm files when newaliases is run. Would qmail be a better alternative as a MTA? If it can resolve aliases faster it would certainly help. I would prefer not to install sendmail unless absolutely necessary. My memories of trying to configure sendmail are not pleasant memories. Well, smail can use a DBM file as an alias file. Take a look at /etc/smail/directors and the smaildrct(5) manpage. Adam Klein -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
StarOffice VS Applix VS WordPerfect
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Debian Pgp 5.0 question...
Hello all.. I just downloaded and installed pgp 5.0 from MIT. (I figured I might as well upgrade from the 2.6.2 version I was using) Anyway, everything seemed to go OK during the install, except when I try to do anything with pgp I get an error message cannot open ~/root/pgp/.pgp.cfg. I've looked everywhere for the pgp.cfg file and cannot locate it... anybody have anything similar happen? All the other pgp files seem to be there, generated keys, etc. This is the only glitch... I'm using Debian 1.3 on a 586... Everything else seems to run well... TIA!! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using obsolete Laser printers with Debian
On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 12:15:08PM -0800, Howard S. Ostrowsky wrote: Hi all: I have recently acquired two obsolete laser printers which were destined for the garbage dump. I would like to use one or both of them with my Debian system, but I'm having some problems. The first one is an HP LaserJet Plus (500K memory) with serial and parallel interfaces. It works well (parallel) under DOS and windows. In Linux I can print ascii text, but not post-script. I am using Magicfilter and Aladdin-Ghostscript, but when I send a postscript document to the printer it justs hangs. A log file says 25% done...50% done... etc. lpq says the document is in the queue, then a little later it says the queue is empty. But the printer remains silent. Does anyone have any suggestions for me? How about a printcap entry that has actually worked? You might try lowering the resolution. A while back I had a LaserJet (no numbers or plus) working with ghostscript. I no longer have the configs, but IIRC all I changed was the resolution. The LaserJet has no memory, so the only resolution was the lowest. :-( I hope yours will work better. HTH -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.bend-or.com/~mschmitz Don't blame me - I voted libertarian!http://www.lp.org/ Use Debian Linux - the free Gnu/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ --- If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Newbie Q: Color Xterms...
On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 01:12:37PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: Sorry everyone, I know this has been answered a billion times before... but I can't find the answer. What is it I have to change to allow things like bitchx/mutt to run in color inside an xterm? XTerm*customization:-color in .Xresources -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.bend-or.com/~mschmitz Don't blame me - I voted libertarian!http://www.lp.org/ Use Debian Linux - the free Gnu/Linuxhttp://www.debian.org/ --- If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to properly set TERM variable
On 26 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like to set TERM=xterm-color, and don't have a lot of patience with programs that can't deal with this. When telneting, it is good to put TERM=vt100 or some such thing in your .bashrc or it's equivelent on the remote system. Note that, as things stand now, in hamm there is no xterm-color. /etc/terminfo/x/xterm includes the color definition, and there is a /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-old.[1] (There are also color_xterm, xterm-16color, and xterm-pcolor, but no xterm-color.) For some details see: Oops. I still have xterm-color, but I always suspected that my 1.2-1.3 upgrade hadn't gone quite right. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/14/14366.html Kirk Hilliard [1] I hate dselect[2] in a color xterm since the whitespace surrounding the descriptive text of the information section is not colored, so big blocks of reverse video text jump around as I scroll through packages. Hence, I always run: # TERM=xterm-old dselect [2] I have noticed that, in hamm, dselect no longer seems to handle xterm resizing. Also, stray characters sometime appear after rapidly scrolling through packages. Has anyone else noticed this, and is it a bug in dselect, or in ncurses, or what? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PCI NIC support for 89C940?
I have a PCI ethernet with a Winbond chip as well (not sure if it's that exact one and I'm not home). I tried every driver that comes with the kernel source, and looked on KTI's web page, and found nothing (except an SCO driver). I could never get in tough with an engineer by phone. Finally I bought a card I knew was a PCI NE2000 card (it even had a linux driver, but it was against 1.2.13!) made by Ovislink, selected the NE2000 option (under 'Other ISA Cards' section, but I understand in 2.0.34 this wierdness will be fixed and NE2000 cards will show up in PCI card section). You might want to do the same. On the other hand, if you figure out how to make it work, please let me know. On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Chris Brown wrote: I've got a bunch of PCI Ethernet adapters lying around, several brands like Link-SYS etc. that I'd like to use with Linux. They all have the LSI Winbond W89C940F on them. I've seen some reference to them as being Novell NE2000 Compatible but they don't seem to work with that driver and they don't use NE2000 I/O addresses. The HOW-2's don't seem to list this chip. Does anyone know if this part is supported, the drive name and how to get it? Many thanks, Chris * Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] !!! HELP FIGHT SPAM !!! Join; www.cauce.org See; spam.abuse.net, spamsucks.com, www.cm.org -- 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] .
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.68 1998/01/27 01:50:51 johnie Exp $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/. 1.2. Purpose of this document This document is intended to identify areas that need your contributions. It provides information that hopefully changes quite often, so it supplements the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ. 1.3. Getting newer versions of this document Newer versions of this document will be available via FTP and HTTP: o http://www.debian.org/doc/prospective-packages.html o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.txt o ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/prospective- packages.html 1.4. Feedback Please send additions, corrections, suggestions and wishes to the WNPP maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mention to which version of this document your comments refer. Try to change the subject of your mail to reflect the packages you're talking about, it makes it easier for to sort out all Re: Work- Needing and Prospective Packages emails. A suggested subject line reads WNPP: removing foopackage or WNPP: working on barpackage. Thanks. 2. Recent Changes 2.1. Since version 1.67 1998/01/19 o The cfengine, saytime, sigrot, sniffit, and cfs packages are now orphaned. o The Enlightenment http://www.enlightenment.org/ window manager is being worked on by Shaleh mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o The libident, scm, and slib packages need a new maintainer; contact Rob Browning mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Erik Andersen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is now working on Willows TWIN http://www.willows.com, the multi-platform windows emulator. o Added mention that fltk http://www.cinenet.net/users/spitzak/fltk/ needs to be packaged, to replace the non-free XForms library. And mergemem http://www.mondoshawan.ml.org/mergemem/, which reduces application memory usage. o The C libraries have been adopted by Dale Scheetz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. o Jean Pierre LeJacq mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on printop, a tcl/tk GUI for lprng. o Adam Klein mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] has adopted ncompress. o Alexander Lazarevic mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is working on squeak, an implementation of Smalltalk. o The hsc package has been uploaded. 3. Orphaned packages (An orphaned package is a package that has no current maintainer.) Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] via e-mail: o when you find that you need to orphan a package o when you believe that the following list is incomplete o when you would like to maintain one of these packages. Patrick Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o cfs (non-us) o saytime o sigrot o sniffit Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o cfengine o zyxel Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o Kmodplayer Steve Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xtar-dmotif o xtar-smotif Andreas Jellinghaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o kde o giflib Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o blt Helmut Geyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o ghostview o xxgdb Orn E. Hansen : o xega o xmailtool Yves Arrouye [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o compress-package o ppd-adobe-common, ppd-adobe-extra, ppd-adobe-misc, ppd-gs o psptools Dominik Kubla [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o csh Raul D. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o j1 (in old source format) o sam Jim Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mh-papers o term Doug Geiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o apsfilter Erick Branderhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mathpad o mfbasfnt o wenglish Christian Linhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o xarchie o bibindex Stuart Lamble [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o fsp Guy R. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o dld (do we still need this ?) Patrick J Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o mailpgp Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o motifnls David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tcl74 o tcl75 o tk40 o tk41 Philippe Troin [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o tclx74 o tclx75 o tix40 Michael Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o javalex o java-cup o rsynth Karl Sackett [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o courtney o groupkit o imgstar o lee o objpak o pgapack o premail o saoimage o snns o tcs o wily o xbattle o xephem-smotif Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o hyperlatex o latex2rtf Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] : o gettyps Others: o rc o xcompat (should we drop it ?) o libc4 (a.out compatibility) 4. Packages needing a new maintainer Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] via e-mail: o when you find that you'd like to discontinue maintaining a package Please inform [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the mainatiner of the package: o when you would like to maintain one of the packages.
Re: How to properly set TERM variable
Note that, as things stand now, in hamm there is no xterm-color. /etc/terminfo/x/xterm includes the color definition, and there is a /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-old.[1] (There are also color_xterm, Has anyone found a way for the TERM setters to determine whether or not an xterm can do color xterm stuff? For example, I ssh into my linux box a lot from Sun machines, which set TERM=xterm. But the sun xterms can't handle color xterm stuff, and therefore it needs to be set TERM=xterm-old. But I haven't found a way for .bashrc to tell the difference between these sun boxes and other machines that CAN to xterm-color stuff, so I have to do it by hand. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- | So don't beg, and don't plead. | | You can't have the heart you make bleed. | |-- The Beautiful South, Love is... | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Network config -- slip + null modem
Thanks very much for your responses. All responders recommended using ppp instead of slip. I will try a ppp setup tonight. I started trying to use slip because the NET-3-HOWTO recommends it in this situation. Is that advice now obsolete? John says: If this works I suggest upping the speed to 115200 and adding compression. As I understand it, 38400 is the highest speed that may be set directly. To get 115200 one must specify 38400, and use the spd_vhi option to setserial. Is this correct, or can the higher speed be set directly by pppd? Lindsay and Gregory: I have a couple of suggested files. If I have trouble getting it to work, I will ask you for the files you offered. Thanks again for your prompt and helpful responses. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sorry for the html-mails
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Adam Shand wrote: Between that and it auto-loading lynx on a an HTML attachment it's getting to be a pretty fancy reader! :-) ^^^ How did you get it to load lynx? ... -K -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?
Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry if my previous post on this made it out as well. It seems that on Debian, the maximum single file size on ext2fs is 1GB and not 2GB. Can someone confirm this, and suggest how to fix the problem, if possible? I am getting bigger than 1 gig: garfield /scratch$ cat /dev/zero test cat: write error: No space left on device garfield /scratch$ ls -l total 1433633 drwx-- 4 jgoerzen jgoerzen 1024 Jan 19 13:19 jgoerzen drwxr-xr-x 2 root root12288 Dec 14 11:26 lost+found -rw-rw-r-- 1 jgoerzen jgoerzen 1462290432 Jan 26 20:46 test Kernel 2.0.33, libc6. This is well over a gig. John -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. --+-- Find out how to avoid all those pesky crashes, lockups, application errors, and slow applications at http://www.debian.org -- Debian can replace Windows 95 with a much more stable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: MWave Modem
The real reason is that the MWave (and similar modems like the WinModem) are not really real modems. They offload the stuff that the modem should be doing itself on to the computer's CPU. This is bad. First, it eats CPU time like crazy. Secondly, it requires special OS-specific drivers to work. In all, a bad design and something to be avoided. Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tommy knocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an IBM computer with debian installed and it uses an internal Mwave modem. I can't seem so write a script that will initialize the modem. Does anybody have a script that will work with this modem that I can look at? I have bad news I have bad news. The answer is almost certainly: buy a pcmcia modem. AFAIK, there is no support for MWave devices in linux, mainly because IBM/(what is their name ?) won't provide documentaion without lots of legal/economic strings. -- Stephen --- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. --+-- Find out how to avoid all those pesky crashes, lockups, application errors, and slow applications at http://www.debian.org -- Debian can replace Windows 95 with a much more stable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: adduser in hamm dumps core !
Oleg Krivosheev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote:
[snip]
You can make sure by typing ldd /usr/bin/perl. If you see any mention
of libc5, you know something is causing perl to be linked to the worng
library
that's the case - perl is linked against both libc6 and libc5.
But i have latest perl bundle from hamm !!!
[adduser has not segfaulted for me yet, but other Perl scripts have]
I also have the latest perl bundles, and I show.
~ $ ldd /usr/bin/perl
libnsl.so.1 = /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4000e000)
libgdbm.so.1 = /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1 (0x40014000)
libdb.so.2 = /lib/libdb.so.2 (0x4001a000)
libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40028000)
libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4002b000)
libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40044000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)
libcrypt.so.1 = /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x400e9000)
What do you show?
The reason that I posted this instead of just emailing Oleg is that I
hope that someone here can riddle me this:
~ $ ls -il /usr/bin/{perl,perl.dist,perl5.00404}
115161 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 492108 Dec 9 20:17 /usr/bin/perl*
115161 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 492108 Dec 9 20:17 /usr/bin/perl.dist*
114698 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 492108 Dec 9 20:17 /usr/bin/perl5.00404*
~ $ diff /usr/bin/{perl,perl5.00404}
~ $
Why do I have two distinct copies of perl?
Kirk Hilliard
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Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?
Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think it is the kernel (unless, it's due to a specific configuration option in the kernel?) I tried it on 2.0.33 and 2.1.78, same result on both: lilu# ls -l xxx -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1073741824 Jan 25 15:36 xxx lili# uname -a Linux lili.eecs.umich.edu 2.1.78 #1 Wed Jan 21 06:44:08 EST 1998 i686 unknown Does anyone have any ideas on what the issue is and how to fix the problem for those of us stuck at the 1GB limit? I would suggest mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the linux-kernel mailing list served by majordomo). They might be able to help. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. --+-- Find out how to avoid all those pesky crashes, lockups, application errors, and slow applications at http://www.debian.org -- Debian can replace Windows 95 with a much more stable operating system. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Network config -- slip + null modem
Bob, One small point. You can get compression from a modem but it is very difficult to get compression over a piece of wire. :-) I fell for the same thing myself. But do go for 115200. Lindsay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj Debian Unix =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: Thanks very much for your responses. All responders recommended using ppp instead of slip. I will try a ppp setup tonight. I started trying to use slip because the NET-3-HOWTO recommends it in this situation. Is that advice now obsolete? John says: If this works I suggest upping the speed to 115200 and adding compression. As I understand it, 38400 is the highest speed that may be set directly. To get 115200 one must specify 38400, and use the spd_vhi option to setserial. Is this correct, or can the higher speed be set directly by pppd? Lindsay and Gregory: I have a couple of suggested files. If I have trouble getting it to work, I will ask you for the files you offered. Thanks again for your prompt and helpful responses. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: version 0.15 of autoupgrade script
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: version 0.15 of the script is now available from: http://www.taz.net.au/autoup changes in this version: v0.15: 1998-01-26 (Craig Sanders) - i should have checked rob's changes more thoroughly. yet another fix: added $PKGS_LDSO to ALL_PKGS so that the script checks to see if the ldso package is available to install. this bug nearly killed someone's system today and i am pissed off. - made the script use --force-overwrite because @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@$!^@^#$ dpkg 1.4.0.20 doesn't do it by default anymore. this also pisses me off. - don't run 'dpkg -r' if there's nothing to remove. Why is the --force-overwrite necessary? What files are overwritten? In what old and new packages are they? Ik think this ought to be fixed before hamm is released, if at all possible, so that the --force-overwrite is not needed in the script. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
gpm and emacs
according to the gpm info file, I need the file t-mouse.el to be able to use my mouse in emacs while on the console. where can I find t-mouse.el??? -brad -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #120
LOOK HERE i SAID I WANTED OFF YOUR SILLY LIST A LONG TIME AGO PLEASE COMPLY OR I WILL FIND A WAY TO SUE YOUR COMPANY!!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 10:53 AM Subject: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #120 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mount: only root can do that??
On 26 Jan 1998, Paul Seelig wrote: The command mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy works only for root, but mount /floppy should properly work for every user who is member of the 'floppy' group. The same applies for 'cdrom'. Thanks. I did not know that. As a user I tried mount /dev/fd0 /floppy before. mount /floppy works fine. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Dates, postgresql and pygresql
When I want to write a date to a postgres table in the following query (using python and pygresql) INSERT INTO lidmate VALUES (3157,864,'ACKERMAN','MARTHINUS THEODORUS','MNR', '','ACKERMAN','','O','M','B','','','17/06/1997','19/08/1997') the following error message occurs: Traceback (innermost last): File stdin, line 78, in ? File stdin, line 71, in skryf_data ValueError: WARN:Bad date external representation I have the following lines in my .bashrc to set the locale: LANG='en_GB' export LANG I also did a os.system(set DateStyle to 'SQL,European') in the program to see if that will solve the problem, but it made no difference. Can somebody help, please? Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xresources
On Sun, 25 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a list of all the variables used in the .Xresources file? No, that list would be far too large. Many programs have a file in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ that contains some defaults. You are not supposed to edit these files, but anything you put in .Xdefaults will override them. Also, you can use the editres program to find out what resources a program knows of. You can use this program to change them, but it can not display the current values. It is a program you can do cool things with, though. Imagine changing the color or the font of one specific button. It can save any changes you made to a file that you can merge into Xresources. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Sorry for the html-mails
Between that and it auto-loading lynx on a an HTML attachment it's getting to be a pretty fancy reader! :-) ^^^ How did you get it to load lynx? ... To be honest I have no idea. I just notice that pine was doing it a few months back... it's pretty neat though. I assume it's just a mime-type setting but I'm not sure exactly where yet. Actuall pine is doing three things that I have yet to track down and see exactly what it is that makes it happen, but are pretty damn cool :-) 1. Load lynx (I assume you could change it to netscape if you wanted) when you view an HTML attachment. 2. Hides some HTML tags when you read a message (they appear when you reply). 3. Auto reformats text when you reply to a message and the makes the works wrap messily. I *love* this :-) Adam. PS. I assume you are an Orson Scott Card fan? :-) Internet Alaska - 4050 Lake Otis Adam Shand(v) +1 907 562 4638 Anchorage, AlaskaSystems Administrator (f) +1 907 562 1677 - http://larry.earthlight.co.nz -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?
To anyone interested in this -- The problem was not related to the kernel, but to ulimit. /etc/login.defs has ULIMIT set to 1GB for some reason. However, it is not clear to me why some accounts use this value, while other accounts ignore it. In any case, if you comment out the ULIMIT line, all accounts no longer have the 1GB restriction and you can create files up to the real 2GB limit. On 26 Jan 1998, John Goerzen wrote: Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sorry if my previous post on this made it out as well. It seems that on Debian, the maximum single file size on ext2fs is 1GB and not 2GB. Can someone confirm this, and suggest how to fix the problem, if possible? I am getting bigger than 1 gig: garfield /scratch$ cat /dev/zero test cat: write error: No space left on device garfield /scratch$ ls -l total 1433633 drwx-- 4 jgoerzen jgoerzen 1024 Jan 19 13:19 jgoerzen drwxr-xr-x 2 root root12288 Dec 14 11:26 lost+found -rw-rw-r-- 1 jgoerzen jgoerzen 1462290432 Jan 26 20:46 test Kernel 2.0.33, libc6. This is well over a gig. John -- John Goerzen | Developing for Debian GNU/Linux (www.debian.org) Custom Programming| Debian GNU/Linux is a free replacement for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DOS/Windows -- check it out at www.debian.org. --+-- Find out how to avoid all those pesky crashes, lockups, application errors, and slow applications at http://www.debian.org -- Debian can replace Windows 95 with a much more stable operating system. -- 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] .
DNS QUESTION
Hello , I have a problem getting dns to start on the linux server. When i try to run named it says '/etc/named.conf' cannot be opened. I could not find such a file anywhere in the system. Any help in this matter will be deeply appreciated. Much Obliged, Regards, Eugene _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: A few questions
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 05:24:18PM +1300, Michael Beattie wrote: Hi, I have a few questions involving things that have stumped me for a while... 1) How do I get a 320x200 modeline for svgalib?? Is there some explanation somewhere about how to do this? I cant get quake working :) I did it for my card and monitor, but you need to be very carefuland it is not easy. You can do any weired things (like 100x675 modeline ;), but you need to know the explicit datas from your monitor and your card. Here is the doc: /usr/doc/svgatextmode/monitor-timings.howto.gz (for text mode, but useful) /usr/lib/X11/doc/VideoModes.doc (this is the one to study). You will need perhaps three hours to read, understand and follow the text. /usr/doc/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO.gz is also very useful. It really is a HOWTO in the sense that it talks you through the making of a modeline and at the end you know everythink about it. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: X-Windows questions
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Markus Lechner wrote: Here are many Questions about X-Windows: snip I'd like to run X-Windows on almost every Terminal (except the first one) on my Computer. Do you really want that? This requires that you start an X server for every console. It is much less memory consuming and much faster to take a window manager that knows about multiple virtual desktops like fvwm. How to configure the system (or what do i need to know for that case) to bring up a xdm/kdm login on every terminal except the first? Simply add a line for each to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers . You might also want to add a parameter that tells each server which console it must run at. Also, rou can specify a different color depth for each server, like this: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt9 :0 -bpp 16 :1 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt10 :1 -bpp 8 This runs an X server at console 9 with 16-bit color depth and one at console 10 with 8-bit color depth. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
new hard drive
Yo- I just got a new hdd and I am having trouble with lilo. I have installed win95 on this drive which is currently located as master on the primary controller with the debian drive on slave. With the lilo.conf shown below my system gets to the LILO prompt, and I can press TAB and see both linux and win but if I choose win lilo runs again and then boots linux. boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hdb1 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux append=mem=96m read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=win table=/dev/hda That's it. I have making root=/dev/hdb1 but then I get an error message from lilo that says, Warning /dev/hdb is not on the first disk! In summary, /dev/hda -- Win95 /dev/hdb -- Debian /dev/hdc -- CD-ROM Any help greatly appreciated! -Ian _ .__. __ __ | | .__. .__..__. .__. .__. \ \/ / | | | | | \ | | | | | | \ \ / / | | | | | |\ \ | | | | | | \ \/ / | |__ | | | | \ \| | | |_| | / / \ \ |__|__.|__| |__| \| |___| /_/ \_\ * DEBIAN GNU/Linux * -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bo, hamm, stable, unstable
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Markus Lechner wrote: Maybe this question is really stupid, but anyway: bo, hamm, stable, unstable, etc. What's this? Hamm means unstable or untested - concerning to the kernel or only to the software packages? I feel a bit outdated when running bo and it looks like the amount of problems is mostly the same - no matter whether running the stable or the unstable distribution. nitpic (for example) won't run on my system (but it should be stable, or not?). How can kde-beta2.2 (i got the Lehmanns CD) reside in stable? I do not understand what is actually stable and what's not - and how this relates to the kernel-version. Stable is what it says, stable. It has been tested and has no known serious bugs when released. Only bug fixes are added to it. Unstable is where the development takes place, so packages might break at some time if the developer made an error. One result of this policy is that new programs are never added to stable. The reason for a beta program to be in stable can be that the program itself is reasonably stable and the debianisation (the process of making a debian package from a program) has no knows errors. bo and hamm are just code names. bo has been unstable when rex was stable and hamm will become stable with the next release. The names actually are names of figures from Pixar's movie Toy Story. Bruce Perens, who used to be the project leader, works at Pixar. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: where is it?
Now that two people gave the same advice, I'm going to dissent. The instructions in install.txt are adequate if you have Debian on CDROM. Not if you download to disk yourself. I downloaded what I believed was an accurate copy of ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/linux/debian/bo onto a spare hard drive and mounted it on the machine being installed. But I could never find an answer that would satisfy the ambiguous prompt that wants to know where to find the Debian distribution already mounted. (Is there a missing top level directory? What's its name?) I installed from CD ROM later with no problems. Install.txt glosses over this, I suppose because most people are installing from the CD or over the network. I don't know how to fix it or I would have sent in a patch. For now, we shouldn't be telling newcomers to Linux that install.txt is all the info they'll need to install Debian. The ones who try to download it may be disappointed. Cameron -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PCI NIC support for 89C940?
I've got a bunch of PCI Ethernet adapters lying around, several brands like Link-SYS etc. that I'd like to use with Linux. They all have the LSI Winbond W89C940F on them. I've seen some reference to them as being Novell NE2000 Compatible but they don't seem to work with that driver and they don't use NE2000 I/O addresses. The HOW-2's don't seem to list this chip. Does anyone know if this part is supported, the drive name and how to get it? I have two of these devices at present, One in a windows box and the other in my Linux machine. Both working OK. From memory I needed a kernel version greater than 2.0.29 to enable the Linux one. Below has been cut from my /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 12, function 0: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 1). Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000. Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Ethernet controller: Winbond NE2000-PCI (rev 0). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. I/O at 0x6100. The I/O address and irq can be set via software only, no jumpers that I recall. Let me know how you get on. John. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
UUCP Sendmail problem
Hallo, I have very interesting problem : I'm using Debian on 586 as Mail Gateway to my computers which is connected via UUCP. UUCP connection is established by modems in regular time intervals. When e-mail arrives with dest. address like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendmail stores it in UUCP qeue named abc. And now : if I send mail to tis address it works fine. Sendmail return stat=mail sent But if I send mail with attachment - It doesn't work. Sendmail return stat=Service unavaible. I don't know exactly which attachments make this error, but sometimes it works with ZIP file and NEVER with XLS file format. Thank you in advance for any answer. marty -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anybody ever set up /etc/printcap with an HP LaserJet II on a network?
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, debian mailing list wrote: Has anybody here setup an HP LaserJet II on a network? I've been able to wrangle my /etc/printcap to dump out a banner sheet but that's it. I don't get any output. I've not been able to find anything (in English anyhow) that explains how to setup an HP LaserJet II connected directly to the network. If it has a JetDirect card, you can access the print engine at port 9100. I prefer the lprng-package wich allows the following entry: mylaser:\ lp=laserjet%9100:\ sd=. if= (etc) where laserjet is the hostname of the network card. Note that the lpr, lpc, lpq, lprm, lpd binaries must be suid root to access privileged originating ports, which are required by the JetDirect Cards. The above printcap entry is doing well for a LaserJet IVSiMX and a LaserJet III, both equipped with JetDirect's. --- Rolf Obrecht Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen RWTH Aachen Schinkelstrasse 4 D-52056 Aachen Tel. +49 241 807646 Fax +49 241 270 PGP public key available. God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind I shall never die. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Pure Energy wrote: Hello, I have debian installed on /dev/hdb /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd with a cdrom as /dev/hdh. I have Dos and Win3.11 on /dev/hda. I now wish to upgrade the dos/win3.11 to win95. I boot debian via floppy and *dont* use lilo. Ah. Careful, eh? Is there anyway that this upgrade could affect my linux on the other drives? No. Once i replace dos/win3.11 with win95 on /dev/hda will i still be able to use my boot floppy? Yes. Should i remove the linux drives durring the upgrade to win95 to be absolutly sure that win95 doesnt kill them? No. Thanx for any help/suggestions :) This may be brief, but I think it is true. Win95 may be a horrible thing, it does not touch those other drives, as far as I know. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using obsolete Laser printers with Debian
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Howard S. Ostrowsky wrote: The first one is an HP LaserJet Plus (500K memory) with serial and parallel interfaces. It works well (parallel) under DOS and windows. In Linux I can print ascii text, but not post-script. I am using Magicfilter and Aladdin-Ghostscript, but when I send a postscript document to the printer it justs hangs. A log file says 25% done...50% Hi, I had a similar problem (using gs and magicfilter). I found that ghostscript crashed while converting the PS-file to PCL. The effect was that lpq said all xxx bytes printed but the printer remained silent and no errormessages were generated. You might try to call the gs-commandline for magicfilter from shell to see if gs hangs and fiddle with the drivers or additional gs-switches to get it working. --- Rolf Obrecht Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen RWTH Aachen Schinkelstrasse 4 D-52056 Aachen Tel. +49 241 807646 Fax +49 241 270 PGP public key available. God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind I shall never die. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?
To anyone interested in this -- The problem was not related to the kernel, but to ulimit. /etc/login.defs has ULIMIT set to 1GB for some reason. However, it is not clear to me why some accounts use this value, while other accounts ignore it. Just guessing: do they use different shells? 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] .
Re: mount: only root can do that??
On 26 Jan 1998, Paul Seelig wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johann Spies) writes: I am trying to change /etc/fstab to allow the user to mount the floppy and the cdrom. The following lines did not help: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy msdos defaults,noauto,user0 0 Why not? Are the users members of the 'cdrom' and 'floppy' groups? What is the command user's are supposed to use for mounting, but resulting in the error message stated in the subject header line? The command mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy works only for root, but mount /floppy should properly work for every user who is member of the 'floppy' group. The same applies for 'cdrom'. I thought this was true, but it doesn't seem to be true anymore somehow. I am following hamm closely and using shadow passwords. When /bin/mount is setuid root, everybody can mount the floppy drive. When someone tries to mount something that is not in /etc/fstab, I get this error: mount: only root can do that I didn't expect it because mount is setuid root, but this is okay to me. However, when mount is not setuid root, only root can mount filesystems. Any user, whether a member of the floppy group or not, gets this: $ mount /floppy mount: must be superuser to use mount $ Note that the error is a different one. But it is still an error. The relevant entry in /etc/fstab reads: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults,noauto,user,umask=077 0 0 All the /dev/fd0* devices have these permissions: brw-rw 1 root floppy 2, 0 Jan 9 15:05 /dev/fd0 Does anybody know what's going wrong on my computer? I think it worked once for me, but I am not sure how I did it then and how long ago it was. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Good Soundcard
One notable difference between SB32 and 64 is that if you want to expand the wavetable RAM, the 32 boards can take 30-pin SIMMs (With the exception of AWE32 Value that can't be upgraded.), while the 64 boards needs Creative RAM upgrade modules. You can find info on SB32/64 at http://www.lysator.liu.se/awe/ . Mats Eriksson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
IP_ALIAS problem
Does anyone know the trick to get ip_alias to work on debian? The how-to seems pretty simple, compile kernel, make modules ,install modules and kernel, (easy... Not!!) when I do a ifconfig eth0:1 the system returns no sutch device and modprobe of ip alias tells me register_net_ip_alias is unrecognized version. I am at my wits end here folks. This started on a slakware system 3 weeks ago, and I thought it was just another bug in it.. appearantly it is a bug in my thinking I am getting desperate to get my other domains on this box... THIS IS A FRANTIC PLEA FOR HELP!!! Thanks Kent -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: How to kill a process which refuses to be killed a bit more
Hi, I am sorry I do not have anything to say by way of addressing your problem. I would however like to say that I have experienced the same problems (without the error messages, using the same kernel). It happened after Lynx hung and again when I exited mc (midnight-commander) whilst I was editing its ext file... Another problem I think that I should mention is that when I try to suspend jed whilst running gpm (started prior to starting jed) I get an access denied message. Even after I kill gpm that jed session still cannot be suspended (it works fine otherwise) . ... I wonder, if anyone else has these problems?? Jonathan On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Johann Spies wrote: I am typing this message after I received the message that shutdown is running for a reboot now. I started shutdown after lynx just freezed and I could do nothing. I tried to kill lynx and although after that that there is no lynx running anymore, the tty-screen stilled stayd the same. I then tried to kill bash in that tty, but without any success. Now, with shutdown running, nothing is happening. I cannot kill shutdown - even as root. I have tried killall, top and kill and have tried kill -1, -2, -6, -9 and -15 without success. I am using the 2.0.30 kernel. I thought this situation should not be possible in Linux. How can I find out what is wrong? I would probably push the reset button now, but in the future, what should I do? I must mention that when I started up lynx I got the followin kernel message: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0004 current-tss.cr3 = 00924000, %cr3 = 00924000 *pde = Oops: 0002 CPU:0 EIP:0010:[0013058f] EFLAGS: 00010206 eax: 400060b0 ebx: 0f50 ecx: 0f50 edx: 400060b1 esi: 400060b0 edi: 0005 ebp: 0003 esp: 00925ca0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Process tr (pid: 193, process nr: 30, stackpage=00925000) Stack: 00b0c6f8 400060b0 00130a84 400060b0 0005 0003 002b 0002 0023dc88 0812 5f50 400060b0 400060d0 0005 0001 4000 00b0c698 86c0 00131425 00925dac a6e4 00925d78 fff8 00925e6c Call Trace: [00130a84] [00131425] [00140015] [0012b42f] [0012b695] [0012b6ba] [00109f32] [0010a865] Code: 64 c6 00 00 4b 75 f6 5b 5e c3 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 83 ec 0c Johann. Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 -- 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: mount: only root can do that??
Try changing the permissions on /dev/cdrom to read and execute for all. For the floppy chmod 666 /dev/fd0 should do the trick Jonathan On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Hallo, I am trying to change /etc/fstab to allow the user to mount the floppy and the cdrom. The following lines did not help: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0 /dev/fd0/floppy msdos defaults,noauto,user0 0 Why not? I don't know about the floppy, but for the cdrom you will have to put the actual device in the file instead of /dev/cdrom, so you'll get something like /dev/hdd/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 The problem with /dev/cdrom is that it is a symbolic link. If you type mount /cdrom, it will follow the link, and mount (e.g.) /dev/hdd on /cdrom. But if you try to unmount it, umount only knows that /dev/hdd is mounted (doesn't know about /dev/cdrom anymore), and fails. 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] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dates, postgresql and pygresql
Johann Spies wrote: When I want to write a date to a postgres table in the following query (using python and pygresql) INSERT INTO lidmate VALUES (3157,864,'ACKERMAN','MARTHINUS THEODORUS','MNR', '','ACKERMAN','','O','M','B','','','17/06/1997','19/08/1997') the following error message occurs: Traceback (innermost last): File stdin, line 78, in ? File stdin, line 71, in skryf_data ValueError: WARN:Bad date external representation I have the following lines in my .bashrc to set the locale: LANG='en_GB' export LANG I also did a os.system(set DateStyle to 'SQL,European') in the program to see if that will solve the problem, but it made no difference. The message you are getting appears to be a PostgreSQL message, but the syntax you are using works OK in psql. Is it possible that Python is mangling the data being sent to the backend? Can you run a debugger to check what is happening? Try running the postmaster in the foreground and have the backend echo queries, to check what requests the backend is seeing. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using obsolete Laser printers with Debian
On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 09:24:56AM +0100, Rolf Obrecht wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Howard S. Ostrowsky wrote: The first one is an HP LaserJet Plus (500K memory) with serial and parallel interfaces. It works well (parallel) under DOS and windows. In Linux I can print ascii text, but not post-script. I am using Magicfilter and Aladdin-Ghostscript, but when I send a postscript document to the printer it justs hangs. A log file says 25% done...50% Hi, I had a similar problem (using gs and magicfilter). I found that ghostscript crashed while converting the PS-file to PCL. The effect was that lpq said all xxx bytes printed but the printer remained silent and no errormessages were generated. You might try to call the gs-commandline for magicfilter from shell to see if gs hangs and fiddle with the drivers or additional gs-switches to get it working. I had problems with printing too. My solution for debugging lprng with magicfilter is: a) temporary redirecting lpd output to file - edit /etc/printcap and change lp entry from lp=/dev/lp1 (in my configuration) to lp=/tmp/printer.out - touch /tmp/printer.out - chmod 0666 /tmp/printer.out - lpc reread all - and go testing b) analizing errorlog - you must create it ( I don't have it as default ) because stderr (from filter) doesn't going to printerlog: - edit /etc/printcap and add lf entry: lf=/var/log/lp-errs - touch /var/log/lp-errs - chmod 0644 /var/log/lp-errs - chown lp.adm /var/log/lp-errs Mirek Kwasniak -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: new hard drive
Yo- I just got a new hdd and I am having trouble with lilo. I have installed win95 on this drive which is currently located as master on the primary controller with the debian drive on slave. With the lilo.conf shown below my system gets to the LILO prompt, and I can press TAB and see both linux and win but if I choose win lilo runs again and then boots linux. boot=/dev/hda1 root=/dev/hdb1 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux append=mem=96m read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=win table=/dev/hda That's it. I have making root=/dev/hdb1 but then I get an error message from lilo that says, Warning /dev/hdb is not on the first disk! In summary, /dev/hda -- Win95 /dev/hdb -- Debian /dev/hdc -- CD-ROM You are getting there here is a revised lilo.conf which should work... boot=/dev/hda - Must be MBR if using a second HDD install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map compact vga=normal delay=20 default=??? - Want something to load automatically? image=/vmlinuz label=Linux root=/dev/hdb1 append=mem=96m read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=win loader=/boot/chain.b - Lets lilo load dos partitions table=/dev/hda If you are going to use a second HDD, I think (cant remember exactly) that the docs say that lilo HAS to be installed into the first HDD's MBR. (thats why you got: That's it. I have making root=/dev/hdb1 but then I get an error message from lilo that says, Warning /dev/hdb is not on the first disk! because the second HDD is never looked at to boot the system (normally) :) I have mine set up similar to that, and it works fine... although my linux partition is /dev/hda7. The only reason I have it indented is to recognize the different boot options. I added the default line because I load dos automatically, (to initialize sound card IRQ/PORT etc) which is listed second in my lilo.conf. If there is no default setting, the first entry is used (as you probably know) Lastly, loader=/boot/chain.b is needed to enable lilo to boot the hda1 partition, I think thats how it works :) Hope that helps. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --- Those who can, do. Those who can't, don't. --- Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: qmail vs smail
On 26 Jan 1998, Douglas Bates wrote: Would qmail be a better alternative as a MTA? If it can resolve aliases faster it would certainly help. I would prefer not to install sendmail unless absolutely necessary. My memories of trying to configure sendmail are not pleasant memories. lots of people think sendmail is difficult to configure, and yes that used to be true with the old edit sendmail.cf and get hopelessly confused style configuration, but it isn't with the new m4 configuration and it is far from true with the sendmailconfig script written for the debian sendmail package by Robert Leslie (and improved by Johnie Ingram and others) it is nowhere near as difficult as many people think it is. here's a transcript of exactly how difficult it is to configure sendmail on a debian box. It takes about a minute (longer if you haven't run it before and have to read the help text). 99% of the configuration is as easy as hitting enter to accept the defaults (because, like most things in debian, the defaults are remarkably sane). anyway, here's the transcript: (the only editing i have done on this is remove the ^M characters at the end of each line which are logged by the script command) --- cut here --- Script started on Tue Jan 27 21:59:25 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21:59:25] mail# sendmailconfig Sendmail Configuration -- By answering the following questions, you can configure sendmail for your system. Default values are determined either by your existing configuration or from common usage. Press [ENTER] Mail Name - Your `mail name' is the hostname portion of the address to be shown on outgoing news and mail messages (following the username and @ sign). This name will be used by other programs besides sendmail; it should be the single, full domain name (FQDN) from which mail will appear to originate. Mail name? [taz.net.au] Null Client --- A special configuration known as the null client can be created for this host if all mail should be forwarded to a central hub via a local SMTP-based network. This may be a suitable configuration if you want to forward all of your mail to your local Internet service provider (ISP) for delivery. To enable this option, give the name of the host to which all mail should be forwarded. Otherwise leave the option empty or answer `NONE' to disable it. Null client forward host? [] Address Canonification -- Usually sendmail will canonify all addresses by consulting a name server and resolving hosts to their fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Under special circumstances you may want to disable this feature, for example if this machine acts only as a mail gateway. Disable address canonification? [N] SMTP Mailer --- If you plan to exchange mail with other computers, you should enable the SMTP mailer. Even if you don't plan to exchange mail with other computers, it is still a good idea to enable this so local programs can use it. Enable the SMTP mailer? [Y] Masquerade Envelope --- If you want mail envelopes (as well as mail headers) to appear to come from `taz.net.au', you can enable this option. Masquerade envelopes? [Y] All Masquerade -- If enabled, this feature will cause recipient addresses to also appear to come from `taz.net.au'. Normally they get the local hostname. Although this may be right for ordinary users, it can break local aliases. For example, if you send to localalias, the originating sendmail will find that alias and send to all members, but send the message with To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Since that alias likely does not exist, replies will fail. Use this feature ONLY if you can guarantee that the ENTIRE namespace of `taz.net.au' supersets all the local entries. If in doubt, it is safe to leave this option disabled. All masquerade? [N] Always Add Domain - If enabled, the local host domain is included even on locally delivered mail. Normally it is not added unless it is already present. Always add domain? [N] Mail Acceptance --- Sendmail is usually configured to accept mail for your mail name (taz.net.au). However, under special circumstances you may not wish sendmail to do this, particularly if (and disabling this option generally requires that) mail for `taz.net.au' is MXed to another host. If in doubt, it is safe to leave this option enabled. Accept mail for `taz.net.au'? [Y] Alternate Names --- In addition to the canonical mail name `taz.net.au', you can add any number of additional alternate names to recognize for receiving mail. If other hosts are MXed to you for local mail, this is where you should list them. This list is saved into the file /etc/mail/sendmail.cw so it can be changed later as needed. To answer this question, separate each alternate name with a space, or answer `NONE' to eliminate all alternate names. Alternate names? [siva.taz.net.au] Trusted Users - Sendmail
getting back to the prompt with
you type ls at the prompt. why the task is not complete until you press return? Is it possible to get the task done without any key press ? Please cc to email. thanx for any suggestions. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
powerpc debian
Hi, have somebody used debian in a ppc machine? What about rs6000 ibm machines? does debian/linux run smooth on such beast? thanks, []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Docs in swedish?
IIRC, I saw an announcement of some Debian specific docs in swedish here... I've searched the list archive but can't seem to find it. Nor could I locate it with web search engines... If anyone has a pointer to it I'd be very grateful for it as I'm introducing another convert to Debian and hoping it to spare me some of the questions (no doubt I'll get enough anyway... :-) The Debian Linux Users Guide in english is good but something in swedish would be even better in this case. /Michael -- | Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out...| | Michael Tempsch, member of Ballistic Wizards, TIP#088, POG#130 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]|hotmail.com] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Cell.Phone:+46 705487554 URL:http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/%7Ed1temp | -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: debian-user-digest Digest V98 #141
This should probably be a bug. It was either the emacs or the gpm maintainer who thinks that this file is not needed, and his handiwork managed to clobber the version I had on my machine, that was working before. When I contacted him by email, he hadn't a clue. I also want to find a new copy. Alan Davis Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:27:20 -0800 (PST) From: B. Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian-User debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: gpm and emacs Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII according to the gpm info file, I need the file t-mouse.el to be able to use my mouse in emacs while on the console. where can I find t-mouse.el??? -brad -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Solved, SMTP problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I finally got it solved, I selected teh ined option for smail but it didn't work, I reran the config script and selected daemon and it works fine. Not sure why the inetd didn't work. Maybe because you installed xinetd. Make sure xinetd is running and that there is a entry for smail in /etc/xinetd. itox should resync inetd's and xinetd's configfiles. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xresources
Remco Blaakmeer writes: On Sun, 25 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a list of all the variables used in the .Xresources file? No, that list would be far too large. Many programs have a file in How large is too large? 8-) /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ that contains some defaults. You are not supposed to edit these files, but anything you put in .Xdefaults will override them. Also, you can use the editres program to find out what resources a program Thanks for the tip. I just found out another command that I didn't know that I had. 8-) knows of. You can use this program to change them, but it can not display the current values. It is a program you can do cool things with, though. Imagine changing the color or the font of one specific button. It can save any changes you made to a file that you can merge into Xresources. Remco -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mount: only root can do that??
When /bin/mount is setuid root, everybody can mount the floppy drive. When someone tries to mount something that is not in /etc/fstab, I get this error: mount: only root can do that I didn't expect it because mount is setuid root, but this is okay to me. I do expect that. Mount checks for a line in /etc/fstab and for user in that line, and if both are not found, it issues an error message and refuses to mount. What's wrong with that? See section (iii) of man mount. Just because a program runs setuid root, it doesn't mean the author will let you do anything. Probably just the opposite, in fact. However, when mount is not setuid root, only root can mount filesystems. Any user, whether a member of the floppy group or not, gets this: $ mount /floppy mount: must be superuser to use mount $ Note that the error is a different one. But it is still an error. Only superuser can mount filesystems (see (iii) again). So that error message is correct. Either you must be superuser, or you must be running a program with root privilege. The relevant entry in /etc/fstab reads: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults,noauto,user,umask=077 0 0 All the /dev/fd0* devices have these permissions: brw-rw 1 root floppy 2, 0 Jan 9 15:05 /dev/fd0 Does anybody know what's going wrong on my computer? I think it worked once for me, but I am not sure how I did it then and how long ago it was. Doesn't look like anything is wrong. Cheers. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
where is t-mouse.el?
I have checked my mail; it was the maintainer of gpm who had set up the install of an earlier package to strip out t-mouse.el from the system---it worked fine until then. It might still be available in the upstream source for gpm. Yes, the package was working ok until it got stripped out. I've been living with it, since I don't use the console so much anymore. Alan -- Our loyalties are to the species and the Alan E. Davis planet. We speak for Earth. Our[EMAIL PROTECTED] obligation to survive is owed not just to Marianas High School ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient AAA196, Box 10001 and vast, from which we spring.Saipan, MP 96950 Northern Mariana Islands ---Carl SaganGMT+10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: gpm and emacs
B. Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: according to the gpm info file, I need the file t-mouse.el to be able to use my mouse in emacs while on the console. where can I find t-mouse.el??? I removed t-mouse.el* from gpm because it doesn't work with GNU Emacs later than 19.29 (Debian has 19.34). -- James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Dates and postgresql / pygresql
INSERT INTO lidmate VALUES (3157,864,'ACKERMAN','MARTHINUS THEODORUS','MNR', '','ACKERMAN','','O','M','B','','','17/06/1997','19/08/1997') ^^^ I guess, you are not an American and thus not accustomed to their strange way to specify dates. The 17th of June is: 06/17/1997. Please check this out, Regards, Albert -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bo, hamm, stable, unstable
bo and hamm are just code names. bo has been unstable when rex was stable and hamm will become stable with the next release. The names actually are names of figures from Pixar's movie Toy Story. Bruce Perens, who used to be the project leader, works at Pixar. A bit of a silly question, but has anyone decided on a name for the next [after hamm] release? I find this whole naming thing incredibly cute :) D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: where is it?
Now that two people gave the same advice, I'm going to dissent. The instructions in install.txt are adequate if you have Debian on CDROM. Not if you download to disk yourself. I downloaded what I believed was an accurate copy of ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/linux/debian/bo onto a spare hard drive and mounted it on the machine being installed. But I could never find an answer that would satisfy the ambiguous prompt that wants to know where to find the Debian distribution already mounted. (Is there a missing top level directory? What's its name?) You probably should have entered debian/bo/disks-i386/current. The script jusst looks for a directory that contains all the files needed for the initial setup, and they all come from disks-i386 I installed from CD ROM later with no problems. Install.txt glosses over this, I suppose because most people are installing from the CD or over the network. I don't know how to fix it or I would have sent in a patch. For now, we shouldn't be telling newcomers to Linux that install.txt is all the info they'll need to install Debian. The ones who try to download it may be disappointed. Well, install.txt has its shortcomings, and that's why I have taken over the maintenance of it. However, I haven't done work on it yet, because I was told the new bootdisks are completely redone, and I decided to wait for their release. Of course, this means that the bo install.txt will never get improved, but I don't see much sense in doing it at this point. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [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: where is t-mouse.el?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have checked my mail; it was the maintainer of gpm who had set up the install of an earlier package to strip out t-mouse.el from the system---it worked fine until then. Really? It never worked for me with GNU Emacs 19.34, and the author of t-mouse.el said it was known not to work. If you can show me that t-mouse.el works with Emacs 19.34 or later, I'll put it back in the package. I removed it, because as far as I (and the upstream author) knew, it was just dead wood. It might still be available in the upstream source for gpm. It's still available in the Debian source, I just chose not to install it in the binary package. -- James -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
DSelect SUGESTION
Hi Debian Project. It would be very cool if one could search not only by package name but for package description. Maybe Dselect already does that but i didn't found any hint. Congratulation anyway you are doing a great task. _ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telefono: 691.30.56 Licenciado en Matemáticas y Computación Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Potenciado por Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Newbie Q: Color Xterms...
Mike Schmitz hat gesagt: // Mike Schmitz wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 01:12:37PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: Sorry everyone, I know this has been answered a billion times before... but I can't find the answer. What is it I have to change to allow things like bitchx/mutt to run in color inside an xterm? XTerm*customization:-color in .Xresources Plus: Some programs like it if you put # Set COLORTERM for s-lang programs if this is a color terminal #if [ $TERM = xterm -o $TERM = linux ]; then COLORTERM=y export COLORTERM #fi in /etc/profile. -- Yours a href=http://www.koeln-online.de/einblick/; Frank Barknecht Das Koelner Stadt- und Unimagazin - /a -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [lesspipe]
Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is nice, but where is lesspipe?
lesspipe is in less version 332-2, at least. Perhaps it is only in
hamm versions of less.
In bo you can do it like this:
LESSOPEN='|~/bin/lesspipe.sh %s'
and lesspipe.sh reads:
---cut--
#!/bin/bash
# This is a preprocessor for 'less'. It is used when this environment
# variable is set: LESSOPEN=|lesspipe.sh %s
lesspipe() {
case $1 in
*.tar) tar tvvf $1 2/dev/null ;; # View contents of .tar and .tgz files
*.tgz) tar tzvvf $1 2/dev/null ;;
*.tar.gz) tar tzvvf $1 2/dev/null ;;
*.tar.Z) tar tzvvf $1 2/dev/null ;;
*.tar.z) tar tzvvf $1 2/dev/null ;;
*.Z) gzip -dc $1 2/dev/null ;; # View compressed files correctly
*.z) gzip -dc $1 2/dev/null ;;
*.gz) gzip -dc $1 2/dev/null ;;
*.zip) unzip -l $1 2/dev/null ;;
*.1|*.2|*.3|*.4|*.5|*.6|*.7|*.8|*.9|*.n|*.man) FILE=`file -L $1` ; # groff src
FILE=`echo $FILE | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
if [ $FILE = troff ]; then
groff -s -p -t -e -Tascii -mandoc $1
fi ;;
# *) FILE=`file -L $1` ; # Check to see if binary, if so -- view with 'strings'
#FILE1=`echo $FILE | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
#FILE2=`echo $FILE | cut -d ' ' -f 3`
#if [ $FILE1 = Linux/i386 -o $FILE2 = Linux/i386 \
# -o $FILE1 = ELF -o $FILE2 = ELF ]; then
# strings $1
#fi ;;
esac
}
lesspipe $1
Happy Linuxing.
Jens
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Re: mount: only root can do that??
Try changing the permissions on /dev/cdrom to read and execute for all. For the floppy chmod 666 /dev/fd0 should do the trick Jonathan Just tested that to floppy. Now mtools works by users also. I recommend all to install these mtools, these are very good when disks are used as transfer media. mdir mcopy mdel and these works just like DOS commands. There is no need of mounting by hand, because these mounts - does task - and unmounts. --- Jarkko Niemi-==( Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (P)anic )==- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=( finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.sci.fi/~jin )=- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
mailbox error
hi there, When i use popclient release 2.6b (2/7/96) to get mail from my isp mail server i got this [inbox (file /var/spool/mail/root) is not in valid mailbox format] when trying to run Pine to read the mail. Below is the example of the mail content msg vmlinuz# cat /var/spool/mail/root Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from iron.singnet.com.sg (iron.singnet.com.sg [165.21.7.29]) by wisteria.singnet.com.sg (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA25207 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:00:33 +0800 (SST) Received: from vmlinuz.dyndns.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [137.132.254.118]) by iron.singnet.com.sg (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA23692 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:00:31 +0800 (SGT) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 21:04:30 +0800 (SGT) From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: . vmlinuz# -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: DNS QUESTION
Run bindconfig On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, eugene mendoza wrote: Hello , I have a problem getting dns to start on the linux server. When i try to run named it says '/etc/named.conf' cannot be opened. I could not find such a file anywhere in the system. Any help in this matter will be deeply appreciated. Much Obliged, Regards, Eugene -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Help serial port communication
Hi, I am trying to set the baud rate of one of my serial ports I am writing and application for and I am really at a loss. I have even tried to use the setserial package, however I cannot get it to work (probably because I do not understand the documentation). Does anyone have/know of any code (native C) which does this, which I can learn from. Thanking you very much in advance Jonathan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: where is t-mouse.el?
On 27 Jan 1998, James Troup wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Really? It never worked for me with GNU Emacs 19.34, and the author of t-mouse.el said it was known not to work. If you can show me that t-mouse.el works with Emacs 19.34 or later, I'll put it back in the package. I removed it, because as far as I (and the upstream author) knew, it was just dead wood. okay, I got it out of the source package, and everything does seem to work, except the 'pull-down' menus... my emacs is 19.34 out of hamm. -brad -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [lesspipe]
Craig Sanders wrote: lesspipe is in less version 332-2, at least. Perhaps it is only in hamm versions of less. yes, it is only in hammbut it will work fine with the bo version of less. i have attached a copy to this message. to install it, save it into /usr/bin. then edit /etc/profile or ~/.bashrc and add the following line: eval $(/usr/bin/lesspipe) I use tcsh, and if I use: setenv LESSOPEN | /usr/local/bin/lesspipe '%s'; setenv LESSCLOSE /usr/local/bin/lesspipe '%s' '%s'; then less works correctly. Thanks to all who answered to the call of the bo-restricted! -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: getting back to the prompt with
Xavier Bergade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: XB you type ls at the prompt. XB why the task is not complete until you press return? XB Is it possible to get the task done without any key press ? It's not clear what you're asking here. Do you want to type l s (no RET) and have a directory listing show up? While you might be able to configure your shell to do this, it prevents you from typing anything else on the line. My shell (zsh) supports a ! modifier at the end of the line, as well as just , and this would be impossible with this setup. It also prevents you from typing more commands (i.e. make ; ls ). Sometimes, though, things happen in a non-intuitive way. You type l s RET, and see a directory listing with no shell prompt. There actually _is_ a shell prompt, and if you type ls again without pressing RET first, you'll get another directory listing. What happens: -- You type ls . -- Shell starts another process to do the directory listing. -- Shell prints its next prompt and starts waiting for input. -- ls starts up and prints a directory listing. Pressing RET here causes the shell to say to itself, oh, we just got an empty line, let's display another prompt. The ls process is actually finished here. HTH... -- _ / \ The cat's been in the box for over | David Maze | 20 years. Nobody's feeding it. The | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |cat is dead. | http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ | -- Grant, on Schroedinger's Cat \_/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?
Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To anyone interested in this -- The problem was not related to the kernel, but to ulimit. /etc/login.defs has ULIMIT set to 1GB for some reason. However, it is not clear to me why some accounts use this value, while other accounts ignore it. In any case, if you comment out the ULIMIT line, all accounts no longer have the 1GB restriction and you can create files up to the real 2GB limit. Aha! Then this might be fixed in hamm: On my machine running bo: $ ulimit 1048576 On my machine running hamm: $ ulimit unlimited I ran out of space at 1GB on the bo machine, but I don't have space to check this on the hamm machine. Did anyone here run into a 1GB limit on a hamm machine? Kirk Hilliard P.S. There doesn't seem to be sufficient difference between /etc/login.defs on the two machines to account for this. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
upgrading from libc5 to libc6
hello everyone, I have a bo system and want a hamm system. I got the howto to do the upgrade, but i can't find libc6_2.0.5c-0.1 that it says you need. It does not say anywhere where to get it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: upgrading from libc5 to libc6
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: hello everyone, I have a bo system and want a hamm system. I got the howto to do the upgrade, but i can't find libc6_2.0.5c-0.1 that it says you need. It does not say anywhere where to get it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. libc6 is now up to version 2.0.6-3. I recomend checking out http://stormcrow.ml.org/pub/debian/autoup/ for a script to perform the core actions described in the howto automagically. -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Problem with mc
Hi, I'm running hamm-Linux on a 386. Because of a small harddisk I mount the usr-directory of a 486-System via nfs. Most programs work correctly but starting mc i get the message 'segmentation fault'. What's rong? Bye, / // Andreas Mueck // // e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // / -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mount: only root can do that??
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, David Wright wrote: However, when mount is not setuid root, only root can mount filesystems. Any user, whether a member of the floppy group or not, gets this: $ mount /floppy mount: must be superuser to use mount $ Note that the error is a different one. But it is still an error. Only superuser can mount filesystems (see (iii) again). So that error message is correct. Either you must be superuser, or you must be running a program with root privilege. The relevant entry in /etc/fstab reads: /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults,noauto,user,umask=077 0 0 All the /dev/fd0* devices have these permissions: brw-rw 1 root floppy 2, 0 Jan 9 15:05 /dev/fd0 Does anybody know what's going wrong on my computer? I think it worked once for me, but I am not sure how I did it then and how long ago it was. Doesn't look like anything is wrong. But what I want is this: 1 root can mount anything 2 users in group floppy can mount the floppy drive 3 users not in group floppy can not mount the floppy drive Of course, 1 is always true. But I can't get 2 and 3 at the same time. Either mount is setuid and then all users can mount the floppy, or it is not setuid and then only root can mount the floppy. Now, how can I do that? Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: my cdrom goes wrong with a debian 1.3.1
Well, finaly, i found the solution:
---
Some said to me that they had the same problem, and that it was due to
some cheap and low quality cdrom units. And it seem it's true: I
borrowed another cdrom (hitachi x16), and there was no problem more.
(Note that on the other hand my Funai had no problem under win95,
but i think that 'windoze' isn't as exigent as linux with such
devices).
Well, at least, i bought another cdrom, and i feel better, so
people willing to buy a cd and who want to use it under linux,
don't take the cheapest ones! (or at your own risk)
matimbert a écrit:
precisions on the cdrom problem:
George Bonser a écrit:
I am thinking that you might need the old serialize trick.
I seem to have forgotten the exact syntax but I THINK it is like this:
append = hdb=cdrom
append = hdb=serialize
On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, matimbert wrote:
i installed recently a debian 1.3.1.
My cdrom (a funai e285xa) is correctly detected during boot up. But,
near half the times, when i
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom, i get:
hdb: status error: status=0x08.
Drive not ready for command.
ATAPI reset complete.
and then my hard disk starts to work for a while, then pause, in loop, as
i continuously have some messages telling me
that my hda (not hdb) is not ready. The system is not crashed but i can't
get the control back, and i must reset the pcbetween two periods of
hard disk work. I had an old Slackware before this debian and i never had
any problem (with my cdrom, i mean...). Under win95 there's no
problem.
My config: pentium 233 mmx. chipset tx on an asus txp4 motherboard.
.hda=ide0 master=quantum fireball 3.2 go udma (whith 3 partitions:
hda1=linux/hda2=linux swap/hda3=win95)
.hdb=ide0 slave=cdrom (8x funai e285xa)
.hdc=ide1 master=old 80Mb conner hard disk
.hdd=nothing
.no SCSI device in my config, just a parallel port Iomega Zip Drive.
you can mail me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So i tried including append=ide0=serialize but it did not solve the
problem.
I see that i forgot to give my kernel's version: 2.0.29
For the error messages, i noted them very precisely if someone can
understand what it means:
hdb: status error: status= 0x08
hdb: drive not ready for command
hdb: ATAPI reset complete
hdb: status error: status=0x08
hdb: drive not ready for command
hdb: ATAPI reset timed-out status=0x080
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
hdb: status timeout: status=0x80
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40, sector 0
hdb: drive not ready for command
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 {busy]
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
... and so on ... from there it loops with messages concerning hda...
here's the whole problem. thanks for anybody giving me any
explication...Is my cdrom broken? Is it possible that it is incompatible
whith linux?
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Memory in a process
Hi, I am interested in knowing if there is some way of finding out the memory being used by a process. Currently I am opening /proc/ppi/mem but the info there is only in K. Is there a raw way of accessing that info using some kernel interface? Thanks, Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Using obsolete Laser printers with Debian
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Rolf Obrecht wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Howard S. Ostrowsky wrote: The first one is an HP LaserJet Plus (500K memory) with serial and parallel interfaces. It works well (parallel) under DOS and windows. In Linux I can print ascii text, but not post-script. I am using Magicfilter and Aladdin-Ghostscript, but when I send a postscript document to the printer it justs hangs. A log file says 25% done...50% Hi, I had a similar problem (using gs and magicfilter). I found that ghostscript crashed while converting the PS-file to PCL. The effect was that lpq said all xxx bytes printed but the printer remained silent and no errormessages were generated. You might try to call the gs-commandline for magicfilter from shell to see if gs hangs and fiddle with the drivers or additional gs-switches to get it working. --- Hi, I think the laser jet+ prints postscript actually from graphic mode. With 500k memory, you can only get about 1/2 page of graphics while printing 300x300. See if you can configure Ghostscript to use less resolution (say 150x300 or something similar). That's what I had to do with windows and some dos programs. i.b.m. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: MWave Modem
The real reason is that the MWave (and similar modems like the WinModem) are not really real modems. They offload the stuff that the modem should be doing itself on to the computer's CPU. This is bad. First, it eats CPU time like crazy. Secondly, it requires special OS-specific drivers to work. In all, a bad design and something to be avoided. This is absolutely NOT true. MWave is a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) which offloads the CPU from doing any modem work. It DOES eat DSP cycles like crazy, though, so in that respect you are correct (though applied to the wrong processor). Please also note that virtually ALL of the newer modems use this type of technology. Only the others usually hide the DSP behind a UART, so they can't use it for things other than a modem (like voice or sound for example). Steve -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Fw: X11R6 and Xterm problem
Russell Cook, Engineering Branch WSR-88D Operational Support Facility (405)366-6520 x4237 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Russ Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: X11R6 and Xterm problem Date: Tuesday, January 20, 1998 11:10 AM I am running Debian Bo, kernel 2.0.30. I recently recompiled my kernel, making some changes related to my sound card. I used the kernel-package, and all went smoothly. I have noticed a minor glitch, however, and I need some help. My XWindows system seems to be working well, except for Xterm. Anything I type from the Xterm command line is unreadable (gibberish). Much of what is displayed in the window in response to a command such as 'ls' is unreadable. Some filenames are fine, others are distorted and unreadable. Applications such as xemacs, netscape, mosaic, etc don't display this problem with typed commands, only Xterm. Can anyone offer suggestions as to what may be wrong, and what I can do to correct it. What do I need to check? I'm using a DFI WG-1010P PCI Accelerator Board with 1 MB of ram, and my screen depth is 16 bpp. It doesn't matter what screen resolution I use with ctl-alt +, scrolling through the defined screens. The problem is the same. Any help/suggestions greatly appreciated. Russ Russell Cook, Engineering Branch WSR-88D Operational Support Facility (405)366-6520 x4237 [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: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?
On my machine running hamm: $ ulimit unlimited I ran out of space at 1GB on the bo machine, but I don't have space to check this on the hamm machine. Did anyone here run into a 1GB limit on a hamm machine? My hamm machine has a 1GB limit, that I don't remember ever setting: blp:/raid/home/blp$ ulimit 1048576 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: getting back to the prompt with
Xavier Bergade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: XB you type ls at the prompt. XB why the task is not complete until you press return? XB Is it possible to get the task done without any key press ? Is this transcript what you see? blp:/raid/home/blp$ ls [1] 15060 blp:/raid/home/blp$ #.newsrc-dribble# dpkg-1.4.0.20 Mailfiasco fiasco-70 Newsfiasco-0.1.2fiasco-web PSPP-0.1.8 fiasco-0.1.3fiasco-web-1 PSPP-0.1.9 fiasco-0.1.4fiasco-web-3 TODOfiasco-0.1.5fiasco-web-4 cpp_2.8.0-0.1_i386.deb fiasco-0.1.6floppy diffcvt fiasco-36 gcc_2.8.0-0.1_i386.deb [1]+ Donels blp:/raid/home/blp$ There are several things going on here: 1. You type `ls' and press return. 2. bash starts up the ls program and prints the job number ([1]) and its process id number (15060). It then displays the prompt. 3. While this is going on, ls is reading the directory and sorting it. It displays the directory list. 4. At the same time, bash is waiting for you to type a command. It has already displayed the prompt. You can type a command now. However, you press enter instead. 5. bash detects that the ls process is dead. It displays a message to that effect. 6. bash displays another prompt. Does that help? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: mailbox error
Kevin Ong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When i use popclient release 2.6b (2/7/96) to get mail from my isp mail server i got this [inbox (file /var/spool/mail/root) is not in valid mailbox format] when trying to run Pine to read the mail. First, you should consider to use fetchmail, popclient's successor. Below is the example of the mail content msg vmlinuz# cat /var/spool/mail/root Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] This is indeed not a valid format. In a mboxfile, a message starts with a header like From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov 14 00:15:37 1997 Notice the From . This indicates a new message. A message ends with a blank line. You deleted the mbox file, fetched mails with popclient, and popclient again wrote the main in a wrong format? Maybe you really should try fetchmail. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: adduser in hamm dumps core !
Hi,
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote:
Oleg Krivosheev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote:
[snip]
You can make sure by typing ldd /usr/bin/perl. If you see any mention
of libc5, you know something is causing perl to be linked to the worng
library
that's the case - perl is linked against both libc6 and libc5.
But i have latest perl bundle from hamm !!!
[adduser has not segfaulted for me yet, but other Perl scripts have]
i upgraded again all perl stuff last night
I also have the latest perl bundles, and I show.
~ $ ldd /usr/bin/perl
libnsl.so.1 = /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x4000e000)
libgdbm.so.1 = /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.1 (0x40014000)
libdb.so.2 = /lib/libdb.so.2 (0x4001a000)
libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40028000)
libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4002b000)
libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40044000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000)
libcrypt.so.1 = /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x400e9000)
yes, it now looks exactly the same...
no libc5 dependance
ADDUSER STILL DUMPS CORE
The reason that I posted this instead of just emailing Oleg is that I
hope that someone here can riddle me this:
~ $ ls -il /usr/bin/{perl,perl.dist,perl5.00404}
115161 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 492108 Dec 9 20:17 /usr/bin/perl*
115161 -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 492108 Dec 9 20:17 /usr/bin/perl.dist*
114698 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 492108 Dec 9 20:17 /usr/bin/perl5.00404*
~ $ diff /usr/bin/{perl,perl5.00404}
~ $
Why do I have two distinct copies of perl?
i found this too and diffed it - no difference at all, so
i don't bother very much.
regards
OK
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Re: Help serial port communication
I am trying to set the baud rate of one of my serial ports I am writing and application for and I am really at a loss. I have even tried to use the setserial package, however I cannot get it to work (probably because I do not understand the documentation). Does anyone have/know of any code (native C) which does this, which I can learn from. Read the serial programming howto, which is in /usr/doc/HOWTO or its mini/ subdirectory. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
dbm files for aliases in smail [was Re: qmail vs smail]
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 04:13:19PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote: I have been using smail as the mail transport agent on a hamm system. Recently I tried to install the 12000 line aliases file that we keep on all our instructional machines. I found that this caused smail to grind to a halt. Apparently smail doesn't create dbm files when newaliases is run. Well, smail can use a DBM file as an alias file. Take a look at /etc/smail/directors and the smaildrct(5) manpage. Changing /etc/smail/directors and /usr/sbin/mkaliases so the protocol for aliases is 'dbm' instead of 'lsearch' seems to work _except_ that the EXPN command on an smtp connection still takes forever. I can see that I have an aliases.dir and an aliases.pag file created by the call to mkaliases. Looking at the smail logfiles I can see that the mail delivery is occurring as quickly as I would expect if the alias lookups were being done with the dbm files. However, when I make a direct smtp connection to the server and ask for an expansion of a name, it started a /usr/sbin/smail process that ran for over 5 minutes on a Pentium Pro 200 before I killed it. It also ate up all the available memory. It was at 150 Mb of memory when I killed it. This is obviously not using the dbm files. Any suggestions? I backed out the changes for now. -- Douglas Bates[EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madisonhttp://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Making a CD ISO Backup...
Hello All, I wanted to know how I could create a backup of a server (that I have mounted) if the total space is 1.4G and I need to get that onto a 650M CD-R. Will it be some variation of the FIND command or CPIO? I basically don't know how to make it select out 650M of whole files and then write that ISO image to be burned, then continue onto the next group of files to make the second ISO image. Any thoughts? --Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Floppy and CDROM-Mount with amd (was: mount: only root can do that)
Hello ! As a suggestion how to use the amd automounter to mount floppies and cdroms check out the contents of the directory: ftp://134.147.254.50/pub/linux Regards, Albert Fluegel email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.muc.de/~af -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
PGP Which?
pinepgp depends on pgp and i went to ftp.de.debian.org and i found pgp_i and pgp_us. Which one shoud i pick? in any case i think that dpkg will complain. Thanks in advance. __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telefono: 691.30.56 Licenciado en Matemáticas y Computación Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Potenciado por Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org __ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Compression over null-modem connection (Was Re: Network config -- slip + null modem
Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One small point. You can get compression from a modem but it is very difficult to get compression over a piece of wire. :-) I believe compression from a modem is actually software compression implemented by the modem's ROM, while BSD compression is software compression implemented by the kernel. It seems to me that BSD compression should work over any ppp line, regardless of whether it went through a modem or not. Correct me if I'm wrong. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Network config -- slip + null modem
(My original post, requesting assistance configuring slip over a null modem, and the responses recommending ppp instead are omitted to save bandwidth.) Thanks again to all. My link is now working perfectly. The pppd man page mentions the tty_name option as requiring pppd to make a ppp connection using the specified device, but does not mention that pppd will then read the file /etc/ppp. README.linux and the comments in the file /etc/ppp/options.ttyXX included with the distribution document this, but I think the manpage should cover it as well. I am still puzzled about my failure with the slip method described in the NET-3-HOWTO, and why the HOWTO doesn't mention this simple ppp method. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?
Ben Pfaff writes: On my machine running hamm: $ ulimit unlimited I ran out of space at 1GB on the bo machine, but I don't have space to check this on the hamm machine. Did anyone here run into a 1GB limit on a hamm machine? My hamm machine has a 1GB limit, that I don't remember ever setting: blp:/raid/home/blp$ ulimit 1048576 'ulimit' is a bash builtin, the corresponding builtin command for tcsh is 'limit'. It appears that the bash ulimit has more options for setting various system limits as compared to the tcsh equivalent. See 'man ulimit' for bash users and 'man tcsh' for tcsh users. Brian -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PGP Which?
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pinepgp depends on pgp and i went to ftp.de.debian.org and i found pgp_i and pgp_us. Which one shoud i pick? in any case i think that dpkg will complain. You mean if you pick the other one? No, it will not. Since you are in Chile, you need pgp-i Marcelo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: PGP Which?
pinepgp depends on pgp and i went to ftp.de.debian.org and i found pgp_i and pgp_us. Which one shoud i pick? in any case i think that dpkg will complain. If you are inside the U.S. you must use pgp-us. Otherwise, use pgp-i. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6
Hello everybody, i am currently following the mini howto on how to upgrade from libc5 to libc6. Everything is going smoothly, up to this point. In part 3 under development it says to purge libc5 *--dev* I know how to use dpkg, and there is an option --purge. My question is how do you perge all of libc5 development packages. Thanking you in advance. Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Ans: Re: Debian max file size is 1GB instead of 2GB?
Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ulimit = 1 GB Aha! Then this might be fixed in hamm: On my machine running bo: $ ulimit 1048576 On my machine running hamm: $ ulimit unlimited /etc/login.defs is part of the login package. On my bo system its: #ulimit unlimited I´m running login Version: 961025-2 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp-key (during normal european business time hours) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [lesspipe]
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Craig Sanders wrote: lesspipe is in less version 332-2, at least. Perhaps it is only in hamm versions of less. yes, it is only in hammbut it will work fine with the bo version of less. i have attached a copy to this message. to install it, save it into /usr/bin. then edit /etc/profile or ~/.bashrc and add the following line: eval $(/usr/bin/lesspipe) I use tcsh, and if I use: In tcsh (or csh) just do a: eval `lesspipe` if you want to use the script posted from the hamm version of the less package. It will setup those environment variables automatically that way. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6
Hello everybody, i am currently following the mini howto on how to upgrade from libc5 to libc6. Everything is going smoothly, up to this point. In part 3 under development it says to purge libc5 *--dev* I know how to use dpkg, and there is an option --purge. My question is how do you perge all of libc5 development packages. Thanking you in advance. I think that you have to do it in a fairly manual way. For instance: # dpkg -l \*-dev [...a list of all the -dev packages...] # dpkg --purge all-the-packages-listed-above Maybe someone else has an easier way? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
lpr hostname
Hi all- I know this is pretty basic stuff, but when i try and print using lpr, i get the error message: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine. When i use the command hostname, it returns Zero_pt (the name i used when i set up debian linux). What config(s) do i need to address here? Thanks Jerry -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: adduser in hamm dumps core !
On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: Hi, yes, it now looks exactly the same... no libc5 dependance ADDUSER STILL DUMPS CORE check to see if there is a /usr/lib/perl5/IO/Handle.pm on your system and check the date of the file. If that is an old file then you should remove it because it can cause a version problem. A lot of reported perl problems have been attributed to that file being the wrong version. Anyway, the newest version of perl-* fixes this. Cheers, Joost -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: another question about upgrading libc5 to libc6
On 27 Jan 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote: Hello everybody, i am currently following the mini howto on how to upgrade from libc5 to libc6. Everything is going smoothly, up to this point. In part 3 under development it says to purge libc5 *--dev* I know how to use dpkg, and there is an option --purge. My question is how do you perge all of libc5 development packages. Thanking you in advance. I think that you have to do it in a fairly manual way. For instance: # dpkg -l \*-dev [...a list of all the -dev packages...] # dpkg --purge all-the-packages-listed-above Maybe someone else has an easier way? Yes, there is now a script a http://stormcrow.ml.org/pub/debian/autoup/autoup.sh that will download all the necessary core packages mentioned in my upgrade howto, remove all the old -dev packages, and install the new stuff in the exact order necessary. -- Scott K. Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
