Re: xloadimage needs libtiff - where?

[Bob Nielsen]

libtiff3g

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, tony mollica wrote:

> Hi.  Trying to install some hamm packages but 
> can't find libtiff.so.3 anywhere.  
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> thanks,
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Re: Updated pidentd patch?

[Taren]

Look on ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se, in /pub/unix/ident/servers.  You'll find
pidentd-2.7.4.tar.gz, pidentd--2.8.2.tar.gz, pidentd-2.8.3.tar.gz and
pidentd-3.0b1.tar.gz there, as well as older versions.

Taren

> Does any one have or know where I can get an update pidentd patch.  I got
> the source for pidentd-2.7.4 and tried applying the pidentd-2.7*4 patches,
> and neither were succesfull.  Could someone tell me where I can get an
> updated patch, or how I can go about patching pidentd to include socks5
> support?
> 
> Thank you,
> Tom
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boot errors

[Robert Rati]

I have 1 2 gig drive separted into 4 partitions.  One is win95 boot
partition, another is 650 meg, and the last two are for Linux, one 800 meg
Linux native, and one 45 meg swap file.  I mount them in /etc/fstab like
this:
#  


/dev/hda6   /   ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro   0
1
/dev/hda7   noneswapsw  0   0
/dev/hda1   /mnt/c  vfatdefaults,rw 0   1
/dev/hda5   /mnt/e  vfatdefaults,rw 0   1
/dev/hdc1   /mnt/d  vfatdefaults,rw 0   1
/dev/hdd/cdrom  iso9660 defaults,ro 0   1

but when I boot, I get these errors:
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel: Unable to load NLS charset
cp437(nls_cp437) 
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel: Unable to load NLS charset
iso8859-1(nls_iso8859
_1) 
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel: Unable to load NLS charset
cp437(nls_cp437) 
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel: Unable to load NLS charset
iso8859-1(nls_iso8859
_1) 
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 16:01   
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel:  hdc: hdc1  
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 16:01   
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel:  hdc: hdc1  
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel: Unable to load NLS charset
cp437(nls_cp437) 
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel: Unable to load NLS charset
iso8859-1(nls_iso8859
_1) 
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel: hdd: media changed  
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 16:40   
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel: ISO9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level
3
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel: Max size:332569   Log zone size:2048
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel: First datazone:27   Root inode number
55296 
Jul 18 17:21:45 Obereon kernel: Unable to load NLS charset
iso8859-1(nls_iso8859
_1) 
Jul 18 17:23:11 Obereon kernel: registered device ppp0  
Jul 18 21:39:35 Obereon kernel: hdd: media changed  
Jul 18 21:39:35 Obereon kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 16:40 
Jul 18 21:39:36 Obereon kernel: ISO9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level
3
Jul 18 21:39:36 Obereon kernel: Max size:332940   Log zone size:2048
Jul 18 21:39:36 Obereon kernel: First datazone:27   Root inode number
55296 
Jul 19 01:32:12 Obereon kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.  
Jul 19 01:34:57 Obereon kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.  
Jul 20 21:25:38 Obereon kernel: registered device ppp0  
Jul 20 22:17:41 Obereon kernel: hdd : tray open or drive not ready  
Jul 20 22:17:43 Obereon last message repeated 2 times   
Jul 20 22:17:44 Obereon kernel: hdd: media changed  
Jul 20 22:17:44 Obereon kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device 16:40   
Jul 20 22:17:47 Obereon kernel: ISO9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level
3
Jul 20 22:17:47 Obereon kernel: Max size:332569   Log zone size:2048
Jul 20 22:17:47 Obereon kernel: First datazone:27   Root inode number
55296 
Jul 21 06:44:23 Obereon kernel: hdc: read_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekCom
plete Error }   
Jul 21 06:44:23 Obereon kernel: hdc: read_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError 
}, LBAsect=101, sector=38   
Jul 21 06:44:23 Obereon kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:01, sector
38
Jul 21 06:44:23 Obereon kernel: bread in fat_access failed  
Jul 21 06:44:23 Obereon kernel: Filesystem panic (dev 16:01, mounted on
03:06:12
201)
Jul 21 06:44:23 Obereon kernel:   FAT error  
Jul 21 06:44:23 Obereon kernel:   File system has been set read-only
Jul 21 06:44:24 Obereon kernel: hdc: read_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekCom
plete Error }   
Jul 21 06:44:24 Obereon kernel: hdc: read_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError 
}, LBAsect=101, sector=38   
Jul 21 06:44:24 Obereon kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:01, sector
38
Jul 21 06:44:24 Obereon kernel: bread in fat_access failed  
Jul 21 06:44:24 Obereon kernel: Directory 11676: bad FAT   

where to put ctan files?

[Jim Foltz]

Hello:

Where can I install a package from ctan? I tried putting it in
/usr/local/lib/texmf, then ran texhash as root. I thought this would be
enough, but not so. What did I miss here?


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even more sound problems

[Robert Rati]

I have a SB Pro/16/WSS sound card on my mother board that I use for sound.
I have compiled sounds support as a module and included /dev/dsp and
/dev/audio support in the kernel.  I Have isapnp setup and the sound
devices are detected and listed in /dev/sndstat.  When I try to play
sound, the best I get is fuzz.  Bplay gives me fuzz, xsplay and x11amp
both don't play anything.  Can someone help me get sound working?

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xloadimage needs libtiff - where?

[tony mollica]

Hi.  Trying to install some hamm packages but 
can't find libtiff.so.3 anywhere.  

Any suggestions?

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[Re: The future?] User Documentation

[Oliver Elphick]

On 24 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Right, what should I do with my packages for the next Debian release?
> I am kind of lost. What are the guidelines for Slink? The new file
> system standard?

Can we please have contributors to the Debian Documentation Project, to
write user documentation.  It would be really good to release slink with
a full set of user manuals.

Please look at the DDP home page at 

The kind of thing needed is a unified overview of the important parts
of a system from various points of view, with pointers to more detailed
information.

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Sun Sparc-Station 5 and Debian

[Markus Lechner]

Hi list!


First i have to say sorry for the long posting  ;)
I'm receiving a used Sparc5 this weekend. So i have a few questions
(of which some may be a little offtopic):

2GB SCSI-HD, 32MB-RAM, 2D Gfx card (fast for wireframe, i think), FDD
and
CD_ROM.

I have a bunch of official CD's (including Solaris - or is it really
Slowlaris :) - already on this machine. The machine is booting fine,
but...

The Gfx card seems to be a problem. We tried many different monitors
(all
of them should've been able to produce a normal screen) - but none of
them found any signal to display. Last we tried a monitor with fixed
frequency and finally got some output on the screen. The output was
scattered as if the Sparc and the monitor were not in sync or generally
use
and expect different frequencies. Hitting Alt-F(1-8) did change the
display
a bit and after a few more hits the screen went black and stayed black
until reboot.

I would like to use the Sparc as a Terminal (and more). But for this i
need to 'fix' the problem with the card.
If the card is really damaged and gone completely i would like to use
the
Sparc as a server in the background (maybe for serving X), backup and
stuff
like that.

The first thing for me is to install Debian :) (stable enough?)

The second thing may be to install Solaris (pro's, con's, suggestions?)

32MB RAM is not much. I would like to install a minimal System on the
Sun
and hope that memory will be enough to run without much swapping.

Is it illusionary to assume that the Debian base, a bit net, min. X
server,
and one or two additional daemons, packages will run without much
swapping?

And then there's the Gfx card. What to do? How to check? Any
suggestions?



I think i mentioned everything - if not, please ask...

Hopefully someone can help in this context,
i need this additional piece of hardware for serving :)




thanks in advance,

Mac



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Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

[Michael B. Taylor]

On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 03:28:48PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> 
> Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> 
> > You can try the aic-driver which is available at
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/
> > 
> > I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than
> > the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently use), especially when
> > activating special features such as SCB paging and tagged command
> > queueing.
> > 
> > BTW: the aic7xxx driver changed alot in the last kernel releases, you
> > might also give 2.0.34 or 2.0.35 a try.
> 
> Stock 2.0.35 won't boot on an 2940U anyway.
> It appears to work fine with the aic7xxx-5.1.0-pre5-2.0.35.patch
> on ftp://ftp.dialnet.net:/pub/linux/aic7xxx/testing

Stock 2.0.35 booted and appeared to run fine on my system with an 
on-the-motherboard 2940UW.  I could not get it to find my scsi cdrom
though, so I went back to the Debian packaged 2.0.34 kernel.

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Re: hamm problem: X and backspace/home/end

[Lee Bradshaw]

I saw a message in another thread that stated the X keyboard extension
had to be enabled for backspace to work properly. That was my problem;
now I've gotten rid of the xmodmap statement to fix backspace.

On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 09:48:39AM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> I found the info on the bug tracking system that the home/end key problem was
> fixed in the latest release.
> 
> The xrdb problem was a user error -- have to start a new xterm to test the new
> resources. I had gotten used to xmodmap working immediately in xterms that
> were already open.
> 
> I modified /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 to add 'xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"'.
> The backspace key now works properly. Since I can fix the backspace problem in
> the file xdm is using to start managing the display, I suspect the problem is
> in some of the system files and not in any of the user setups. If it was a
> user problem, I would expect the change in Xsetup_0 to be overriden when the
> user logs in.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 15, 1998 at 05:17:43PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I installed hamm on a new system about a month ago. Backspace seemed to work
> > fine on this system. I installed it on a system that had been upgraded from
> > rex->bo->hamm last week and the backspace key doesn't work properly in X. I
> > need to type 'xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"' before backspace works
> > properly. Before using xmodmap, bash gives the following translations:
> > 
> >^[[3~
> >   ^[[3~
> >^H
> > 
> > I guess this is redundant, but (also before using xmodmap) xev indicates
> > that keycode 22 and 107 have the same keysym:
> > 
> >   KeyPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x341,
> >   root 0x26, subw 0x0, time 2391247581, (120,181), root:(194,272),
> >   state 0x0, keycode 22 (keysym 0x, Delete), same_screen YES,
> >   XLookupString gives 1 characters:  ""
> > 
> >   KeyPress event, serial 18, synthetic NO, window 0x341,
> >   root 0x26, subw 0x0, time 2391250101, (120,181), root:(194,272),
> >   state 0x0, keycode 107 (keysym 0x, Delete), same_screen YES,
> >   XLookupString gives 1 characters:  ""
> > 
> > One of my friends at work upgraded two systems from bo to hamm. He has to 
> > run
> > xmodmap on one system but not the other to get backspace to work.
> > 
> > Also the home and end keys seem to be reversed in X, but work fine on the
> > console. I tried reversing the strings from the /etc/X11/Xresources in my
> > .Xresources file and then "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources", but the keys still
> > behave incorrectly.
> > 
> > Any suggestions for solving these problems would be welcome. I can't see
> > anything wrong with the /etc/X11/Xresources or ~/.Xresources, but I'll be 
> > glad
> > to post these files and more if someone would like to comment.
> 
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Re: "Free" Interbase

[Peter S Galbraith]

>Want a good RDBMS for Linux???
>
>check www.interbase.com they have a FREE port of version 4.0 for
>Linux. It
>runs on Debian1.3.1 I didn't have the chance to try it on Hamm cos 
>I need to upgrade.

>Jorge Sousa

Mike Barton wrote:
 
> It may "appear" free but you ought to have a look at the license
> agreement. It says RedHat *only*. License agreements like this are good
> reasons to *avoid* software. So, InterBase, make what you can when you
> can but NOT from me.

It gets worse:

``You may install and use the Software or the foregoing components provided
  that (1) the Software is used only with the Red Hat Linux 4.2 operating
  system,''

Version 4.2?  Who would even uses that any more...
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"Free" Interbase

[Mike Barton]

>Want a good RDBMS for Linux???

>check www.interbase.com they have a FREE port of version 4.0 for
>Linux. It
>runs on Debian1.3.1 I didn't have the chance to try it on Hamm cos >I
need to upgrade.

>Jorge Sousa

It may "appear" free but you ought to have a look at the license
agreement. It says RedHat *only*. License agreements like this are good
reasons to *avoid* software. So, InterBase, make what you can when you
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Debian 2.0 [beta or released on HP Kayak XU?

[Sudhakar Chandrasekharan]

Has anybody installed Debian 2.0 (beta or released) on a HP Kayak XU? 
My Official CDs have not reached me yet.  So I would have to do the
basic installation via the dard disk and ask dselect to upgrade via
FTP.  There is a problem with the network / PCI cards on Kayaks that
people have reported (http://www.cs.uit.no/~johnm/os/linux/kayak.html))

I am going to do my installation later today.  Can anybody who is
running Debian on a Kayak send me configuration info for getting this
baby up and running?

Thaths
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install help ?libc5?

[John McPeek]

I just down loaded and installed the 2.0 release.  I got though the
install and selected the standard package for dselect to install.  After
hours of down load time I get the message that perl cant be installed
because of a libc5 conflict and shortly there after I got pages of
similar errors (libc5) until dselect stop because of all the errors.  I
thought 2.0 was suposed to use libc6.  Did I put in the wrong directory
(dists/stable/main)?

And another thing.  I had a problem with pon last week.  I asked for
help but the responses didn't do much for me.  I did however end up
swaping out my old USR Sportster 14.4 for my newer USR 33.6 (both were
set to com2 IRQ 3).  The 33.6 worked perfectly.  Then I put the 14.4 in
my win95 box and it worked just fine.  I had a problem a first, but I
set the dip switches to the factory defaults and all was good.  I stuck
the 14.4 back in the linux box and still nothing.  Does anyone know how
I can get the linux box to talk to my 14.4 (by the way both modems are
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Re: Stupid unix

[Steve Lamb]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 21:28:25 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:

>So what?
>Didn't you saw the "-i" option he supplied to the mv command?
>That's why Eric's solution works :P

If that is the case then why not just do it all by hand in the first
place?  Sheesh.


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Re: Stupid unix

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 11:20:19AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:09:41 -0700 (PDT), Eric House wrote:
> 
> >Why not, in bash:
> 
> >for f in $(ls); do
> >oldName=$f
> >newName=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z])
> >mv -i $oldName $newName
> >done
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/morpheus/t}ls -la
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x   2 morpheus users1024 Jul 24 11:22 .
> drwxr-xr-x  33 morpheus users3072 Jul 24 08:30 ..
> -rw-rw-r--   1 morpheus users   0 Jul 24 11:22 Blah.Blah
> -rw-rw-r--   1 morpheus users   0 Jul 24 11:22 blah.blah
> 
> That's why.  ;)

So what?

Didn't you saw the "-i" option he supplied to the mv command?

FYI:
   -i, --interactive
  Prompt  whether  to overwrite each destination file
  that already exists.   If  the  response  does  not
  begin with `y' or `Y', the file is skipped.

That's why Eric's solution works :P

Marcus

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Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

[Jean Pierre LeJacq]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote:

> Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
> 
> > You can try the aic-driver which is available at
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/
> > 
> > I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than
> > the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently use), especially when
> > activating special features such as SCB paging and tagged command
> > queueing.
> > 
> > BTW: the aic7xxx driver changed alot in the last kernel releases, you
> > might also give 2.0.34 or 2.0.35 a try.
> 
> Stock 2.0.35 won't boot on an 2940U anyway.

Well, for me the stock 2.0.35 been working fine for a few days now.

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Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

[Peter S Galbraith]

Torsten Hilbrich wrote:

> You can try the aic-driver which is available at
> 
>   ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/
> 
> I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than
> the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently use), especially when
> activating special features such as SCB paging and tagged command
> queueing.
> 
> BTW: the aic7xxx driver changed alot in the last kernel releases, you
> might also give 2.0.34 or 2.0.35 a try.

Stock 2.0.35 won't boot on an 2940U anyway.
It appears to work fine with the aic7xxx-5.1.0-pre5-2.0.35.patch
on ftp://ftp.dialnet.net:/pub/linux/aic7xxx/testing

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Re: Xemacs help

[Keith Beattie]

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>
> Hi All,
> 
> I have two questions regarding Xemacs ..

There is a wealth of information in the Xemacs sample files
(sample.Xdefaults and sample.emacs).  These can be brought up in Xemacs
via the Help->Samples pull-down or can be found in the Xemacs' etc
directory (e.g. /usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.4/etc/ )

> 1. My delete key is acting as backspace. What should I do to make
> delete act as delete?

sample.emacs has the line:

  (setq delete-key-deletes-forward t)

which appears to do what you are looking for.

> 2. My toolbar buttons come in grey. How do I make them in colors?

Read through the sample.Xdefaults file, look for the colors and
backgrounds section.

HTH,
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Re: dot files

[Shaleh]

If you must get gimp to show a dotfile (or directory) just type '.' in
the file blank and hit 'tab'.  GIMP (and all GTK apps) work like bash
does.  Tab gives file completion.


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Previous posts

[Taren]

This is just to thank all of those who responded to my original post, and
repost, about my problems with setting up ipchains...

Your help was overwhelming.

Taren


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Re: dot files

[Richard L. Alhama]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Shaleh wrote:

> What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing?
.directories 

> As for a book, there a lots of good UNIX books.  Any "Teach yourself
> UNIX" type book will work.  Linux is fairly standardized.  Also, Debian
> is working on some new user docs.  Might want to subscribe to
> debian-docs and see what they have to say.  The /usr/doc/HOWTO directory
> is FULL of great info.

Read some of it.

Thanks for the reply

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Re: dot files

[Richard L. Alhama]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote:

> > How can I make GIMP show dotfiles?
> I think this is a gtk-wide thing ... not sure how to go about fix it,  but
> all my gtk-using apps don't show dotfiles.
> 
> > I should get a book can someone recommend a good one?  Not linux for
> > dummies please.
> If you're not a unix person,  try "Running Linux" by Matt Walsh,
> www.ora.com.  Also,  there's a Debian book, http://www.linuxpress.com has
> it.
Thanks.  Now I'll somehow find a way to acquire it.  It's kinda hard to
get good books in my country.  Maybe I'll just tell my relatives in the US
to buy me one

>   Will
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Re: Bo crashes under heavy disk load

[Torsten Hilbrich]

On: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:42:36 +0300 Jaakko Niemi writes:
> 
>>> I can repeatably crash two (nearly) stock Debian 1.3 systems using
>>> one or more scripts, such as
>>> 
>>> find /usr |xargs grep some-arbitrary-string
>>> 
>>> looping with some background activity to use up CPU cycles.
>>> 
>>> The systems seem stable, otherwise.  Only common hardware are
>>> ultra-SCSI disks and controllers (AHA-2940).  Any ideas?
> 
>  Do you get any logs / errors ? 
> 
>  You might want to try newer kernels which have newer drivers for
>  the SCSI cards, if this seems disk io related.

You can try the aic-driver which is available at

ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/

I made some good experience, this driver seems to be more stable than
the one included in 2.0.33 (which I currently use), especially when
activating special features such as SCB paging and tagged command
queueing.

BTW: the aic7xxx driver changed alot in the last kernel releases, you
might also give 2.0.34 or 2.0.35 a try.

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Re: dot files

[Will Lowe]

> What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing?
The gtk file selection dialogs don't show _any_ file or directory that
starts with a dot,  in any gtk-enabled app.
Will


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Re: Time is still not right.

[Bob Nielsen]

Install timezones (hamm) or timezone (bo).  These are flagged as required
packages and should be installed by default.

Bob

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, David B. Teague wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > 'man tzconfig' should explain it for you.
> 
> I have the same problem as Keith, my hardware clock doesn't report the
> same thing as date. 
> 
> I have been following the discourse with interest.  I have a Hamm
> system, and two Bo systems, neither of which has a tzconfig, (locate
> tzconfig reports nothing) nor a man page for tzconfig. 
> 
> I have read the scripts in rc*, and have tried to follow the boot up
> that activate these scripts by following inittab etc. I still need help.
> Please advise what package(s) may need to be installed, and how to fix
> this problem. 
> 
> 
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Re: Hamm not in Stable Dir

[Jason Gunthorpe]

Most mirrors are still not caught up. I expect this to occure in two days
time (for all mirrors)

The only two mirrors that are up-to-date are

http://ftp1.us.debian.org/debian
http://open.hands.com/debian

And va's private mirror. All 3 are the only push mirrors an were uptodate
about an hour after guy finished with the archive. If you run a mirror off
master -PLEASE- contact me so you can be converted to a push mirror or at
least an rsyncd mirror.

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Re: Time is still not right.

[David B. Teague]

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 'man tzconfig' should explain it for you.

I have the same problem as Keith, my hardware clock doesn't report the
same thing as date. 

I have been following the discourse with interest.  I have a Hamm
system, and two Bo systems, neither of which has a tzconfig, (locate
tzconfig reports nothing) nor a man page for tzconfig. 

I have read the scripts in rc*, and have tried to follow the boot up
that activate these scripts by following inittab etc. I still need help.
Please advise what package(s) may need to be installed, and how to fix
this problem. 


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Re: Stupid unix

[Steve Lamb]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:09:41 -0700 (PDT), Eric House wrote:

>Why not, in bash:

>for f in $(ls); do
>oldName=$f
>newName=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z])
>mv -i $oldName $newName
>done

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/morpheus/t}ls -la
total 4
drwxr-xr-x   2 morpheus users1024 Jul 24 11:22 .
drwxr-xr-x  33 morpheus users3072 Jul 24 08:30 ..
-rw-rw-r--   1 morpheus users   0 Jul 24 11:22 Blah.Blah
-rw-rw-r--   1 morpheus users   0 Jul 24 11:22 blah.blah

That's why.  ;)


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Re: dot files

[Shaleh]

What dotfiles should GIMP be seeing?

As for a book, there a lots of good UNIX books.  Any "Teach yourself
UNIX" type book will work.  Linux is fairly standardized.  Also, Debian
is working on some new user docs.  Might want to subscribe to
debian-docs and see what they have to say.  The /usr/doc/HOWTO directory
is FULL of great info.

Richard L. Alhama wrote:
> 
> How can I make GIMP show dotfiles?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> P.S.
> 
> I should get a book can someone recommend a good one?  Not linux for
> dummies please.
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Re: dot files

[Will Lowe]

> How can I make GIMP show dotfiles?
I think this is a gtk-wide thing ... not sure how to go about fix it,  but
all my gtk-using apps don't show dotfiles.

> I should get a book can someone recommend a good one?  Not linux for
> dummies please.
If you're not a unix person,  try "Running Linux" by Matt Walsh,
www.ora.com.  Also,  there's a Debian book, http://www.linuxpress.com has
it.

Will

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Re: Stupid unix

[Eric House]

On 24 Jul 1998, Joerg Plate wrote:

> > Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they
> > are lowercase?
> 
> 1> cat /usr/local/bin/rename
> #!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
> 
> use locale;
> [...]

Why not, in bash:

for f in $(ls); do
oldName=$f
newName=$(echo $oldName | tr [A-Z] [a-z])
mv -i $oldName $newName
done

I'd not bother with the variable names, but they make it clearer.

Disclaimer: I didn't test the above, and may have gotten the tr syntax
wrong.  But you get the idea.

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RE: Small laptop, 120Mb HD: Linux?

[Ted Harding]

On 24-Jul-98 Young, Ed wrote:
> I'd like to put Linux onto a Toshiba T2100 Satellite laptop with 120Mbyte
> harddrive. I believe it's a 486sx.  It has 8 megs of ram so I don't care to
> run X. I'd like to put on a minimalist installation but I need to have some
> emacsen, gcc. Optional but highly desireable is Octave, Perl. I'll be
> installing the base with floppy disks, but will be installing the rest from
> a parallel zip drive, if possible. 
> 
> I want to use it for a numerical analysis class so it needs quite a few
> utilities, but we'll have to see how much I can fit on it.

Way way back I once had SLS Linux on a 40MB disk + 4MB RAM. No X of course, nor
emacs. Octave was smaller then (so were a lot of other things, including gcc)
but it went on.

Basically: 5MB swap, 25MB for the Linux stuff, 10MB for user apps (including
octave) and user files. I managed to get a lot of work done with this (mainly
with octave & troff).

(Mind you, a lot of stuff got archived to floppies, and there were periodic
fierce deletion sessions).

You might even find space for a minimal X: if you can get it on the HD along
with your other stuff, it should run OK in 8MB RAM.

Best of luck,
Ted.


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dot files

[Richard L. Alhama]

How can I make GIMP show dotfiles?

Thanks.

P.S.

I should get a book can someone recommend a good one?  Not linux for
dummies please.

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Re: Stupid unix

[Joerg Plate]

> Is there a simple way to change all filenames in a directory so they
> are lowercase?

1> cat /usr/local/bin/rename
#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw

use locale;

# usage: rename perlexp [files]

($op = shift) || die "Usage: $0 perlexp [filenames]\n";
if ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) {
  @ARGV = ;
  chop(@ARGV);
}

$op =~ m/(.*)/; $op = $1;   # Un-taint $op

for (@ARGV) {
  $old = $_;
  eval $op;
  die $@ if $@;
  $new = $_;
  next if $old eq $new;
  next if -e $new;
  $old =~ m/(.*)/; $old = $1; # Un-taint $old
  $new =~ m/(.*)/; $new = $1; # Un-taint $new
  rename($old,$new) || die "$0: cannot rename $old to $new: $!\n";
}

1> rename "y/A-Z/a-z/" *# lowercase all files
1> rename "s/.jpeg/.jpg/"   # change jpeg to jpg

This is fun if you know perl :-)

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DHCP and hostname

[E. S. Venkatraman]

My linux machine is in a network where the IP addresses are assigned 
using DHCP.  I use "dhcpcd" to get the IP address but it also mangles 
my machine's hostname (probably because the DHCP server is not properly
configured).  Is there a way to query the DNS server for the correct
hostname from the assigned IP address and assign it?  Can this be
automated?  Thanks.

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Re: Small laptop, 120Mb HD: Linux?

[Shaleh]

With no X, 120mb is plenty of room for your needs.  The 8mb of RAM will
make it slow to use on a daily basis, but for travel time use it will
not be too bad.  I would recommend a 20mb swap and the other 100mb for
the rest.  If you are picky about what you install, you should be fine. 
My ful blown install is just over 300mb w/ X and all.  So 100mb should
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Re: Advanced Power Management & Linux

[Ian Keith Setford]

Yo-

> I'm looking to install Linux into a(n almost brand-spanking new) Sony
> Tower VAIO PCV-210 multimedia PC with the stable version of Debian 2.0
> (just released today). The PCV-210 has got this feature called "Advanced
> Power Management (APM version 1.2) where it puts itself in "sleep" mode
> when there is no activity for a certain period of time. I'm wonder if this
> will cause problems for Linux.  I fooled around a little with Debian 1.3
> and it definitely seemed to act wierdly (I wasn't able to get the screen
> to come back on after it shut off).  Anyone have any experience with this? 

If I remember correctly, APM support is included in the latest kernel
sources.  I do not know if it is compiled into the binary kernel packages
Debian includes. Anyone know?  You should be able to avoid almost
all problems with any kernel by adjusting APM settings in your BIOS/CMOS. 
You should be able to disable certain functions of APM (i.e.sleep) or
disable APM all together.

Since you are going to insatll Debian 2 from scratch I would suggest that
you document all your hardware settings before the attempt.  I am assuming
you are running some Windows version currently and you can print system
reports that give you this information.  This is especially useful for and
Plug-n-Pray devices you might have.

Hope that helps.

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Small laptop, 120Mb HD: Linux?

[Young, Ed]

I'd like to put Linux onto a Toshiba T2100 Satellite laptop with 120Mbyte
harddrive. I believe it's a 486sx.  It has 8 megs of ram so I don't care to
run X. I'd like to put on a minimalist installation but I need to have some
emacsen, gcc. Optional but highly desireable is Octave, Perl. I'll be
installing the base with floppy disks, but will be installing the rest from
a parallel zip drive, if possible. 

I want to use it for a numerical analysis class so it needs quite a few
utilities, but we'll have to see how much I can fit on it. 

My questions are: 
What is the best way to install? 

I can't install all the recommended stuff because that is just too big. My
tentative plan is to put base on it, see how much space is left, add emacs
with no x, add octave, and Perl. I'll need about 5 or 10 megs for user
account space. 

Can anyone who has had a similar situation or experience comment? 

Thanx, 

Ed

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Advanced Power Management & Linux

[Marcus Johnson]

Hi all,

I'm looking to install Linux into a(n almost brand-spanking new) Sony
Tower VAIO PCV-210 multimedia PC with the stable version of Debian 2.0
(just released today). The PCV-210 has got this feature called "Advanced
Power Management (APM version 1.2) where it puts itself in "sleep" mode
when there is no activity for a certain period of time. I'm wonder if this
will cause problems for Linux.  I fooled around a little with Debian 1.3
and it definitely seemed to act wierdly (I wasn't able to get the screen
to come back on after it shut off).  Anyone have any experience with this? 

TIA,

Marcus



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Re: Obtaining stable 2.0 on CD-ROM

[Matthew D. Myers]

If you are a newcomer, the source CD is not necessary.  The source CD
contains source code to all the applications, etc on the Debian
distribution.  All you really need is the binary CD.   As for the most
recent stable version, with this being the initial release, they will all be
the same.


-Original Message-
From: Marcus Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org 
Date: Friday, July 24, 1998 10:55 AM
Subject: Obtaining stable 2.0 on CD-ROM


>Hi all,
>
>I'm a newcomer to the world of Linux and Debian and I want to get a CD-ROM
>copy of the just-released (today) stable 2.0 version to do my first ever
>Linux installation.  I've been waiting for this release for quite some
>time and now I want to take the plunge. I'd like to do the installation as
>much off the CD-ROM as possible onto a Sony VAIO Tower PCV-210 multi-media
>PC.
>
>I've looked at the CD-ROM vendors list at Debian.org and checked out their
>sites. I'm wading through all the lingo but I can't discern which ones
>would be able to supply this newest stable version and what the magic
>words are I need to use to get what I have in mind and need.  I don't want
>to request/order it and then find I got the wrong thing. I guess I need a
>binary CD and a source CD.  Could anyone supply me with the required
>incantation and who I should talk to in order to get the right set?
>
>Your help is much appreciated!
>
>Marcus
>
>
>
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No Official 2.0 CDs yet?

[Peter S Galbraith]

I can understand that CDs aren't cut and available for purchase just yet,
but I'd like to place an order before the weekend!

No US or Canadian web pages that I've have updated their web pages to
advertise 2.0.

BTW, what does an official 2-CD set contain?  main and source but not
contrib? 

--
www.lsl.com:  Debian 2.0 "hamm" (Beta) on main page.
  Official `pre-orders' available on order form.
 
---
www.cheapbytes.com: Well CheapBytes has this:

 CheapBytes Debian 2.0 CD-ROM Install + Add-on Pack
 Our Price: $6.99
  
 This 4 CD-ROM kit includes the Official Debian 2.0 Binary Install along
 with our 3 CD-ROM Debian Add-on Pack which includes source code and
 selected legally distributable contrib and non-free files.

Sounds like what I want, but the Official CD link says: Expected to be
shipping the week of August 10.  I can't wait that long!

---
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 Official Debian
 Coming soon official 2 CD set.
 $3.95

 Not on order form.

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Re: startup info

[Richard L. Alhama]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Robert Rati wrote:

> Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged?  Dmesg
> doesn't show me enough of the info.  Thanks.

see the files on /var/log 


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Obtaining stable 2.0 on CD-ROM

[Marcus Johnson]

Hi all,

I'm a newcomer to the world of Linux and Debian and I want to get a CD-ROM
copy of the just-released (today) stable 2.0 version to do my first ever
Linux installation.  I've been waiting for this release for quite some
time and now I want to take the plunge. I'd like to do the installation as
much off the CD-ROM as possible onto a Sony VAIO Tower PCV-210 multi-media
PC.

I've looked at the CD-ROM vendors list at Debian.org and checked out their
sites. I'm wading through all the lingo but I can't discern which ones
would be able to supply this newest stable version and what the magic
words are I need to use to get what I have in mind and need.  I don't want
to request/order it and then find I got the wrong thing. I guess I need a
binary CD and a source CD.  Could anyone supply me with the required
incantation and who I should talk to in order to get the right set?

Your help is much appreciated!

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Re: GREAT NEWS!!! Oracle 8 on Linux by 1999!

[Raul Miller]

Jorge Sousa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Want a good RDBMS for Linux???

Also, postgresql is a part of debian 2.0.

[If you want high performance, you'll need to change
/etc/postgresql/postmaster.init so that it has PGFSYNC=no].

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xview and xviewg in hamm

[Thomas Gebhardt]

Hi,

after the upgrade to hamm an old libc5-executable that depends
on xview did segfault (I had both xview and xviewg installed.):

# arb
Program ARB will be startet in the background, please wait
# /bin/arb: line 118:   946 Segmentation fault  (core dumped) arb_ntree 
$args
ARB done

I tried to remove xviewg, but for some reason xview depends on
xviewg:

# dpkg --purge xviewg
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of xviewg:
 xview depends on xviewg (= 3.2p1.4-4).
dpkg: error processing xviewg (--purge):
 dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xviewg

# dpkg --purge --force-depends xviewg
dpkg: xviewg: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
 xview depends on xviewg (= 3.2p1.4-4).
(Reading database ... 48748 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing xviewg ...
dpkg - warning: while removing xviewg, directory `/etc/X11/xview' not empty so 
not removed.
Purging configuration files for xviewg ...

Now the program works ok for me:

# arb
Program ARB will be startet in the background, please wait
#   ARB:Loading '.arb_prop/ntree.arb'
ARB:Loading '/usr/local/arb/lib/arb_default/ntree.arb' done
ARB done
 
Any ideas?

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Xemacs help

[vaidhy]

Hi All,

I have two questions regarding Xemacs ..

1. My delete key is acting as backspace. What should I do to make delete act as 
delete?

2. My toolbar buttons come in grey. How do I make them in colors?

Thanks ,
Vaidhy


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startup info

[Robert Rati]

Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged?  Dmesg
doesn't show me enough of the info.  Thanks.


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Re: Hamm not in Stable Dir

[aqy6633]

> I'm confused. I thought Debian 2.0 (hamm) was officially released last
> night. Does that not make it the "stable" version? Near as I can tell, the
> ftp.debian.org site still has 1.3 in it's stable directory. Should I be
> pulling from the stable dir or still from the frozen dir? Thanks.

I would advide you to wait till mirror is updated and hamm becomes "stable".
There were some important bugfixes put in there "last minute".

I am not aware of ANY updated mittor though.

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Re: Hamm not in Stable Dir

[Nuno Carvalho]

> I'm confused. I thought Debian 2.0 (hamm) was officially released last
> night. Does that not make it the "stable" version? Near as I can tell, the
> ftp.debian.org site still has 1.3 in it's stable directory. Should I be
> pulling from the stable dir or still from the frozen dir? Thanks.

 I think you should wait! I don't know till when!
 On irc.debian.org they said that they are still mirroring Debian 2.0 ! 

 Best regards,
   Nuno Carvalho


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Hamm not in Stable Dir

[Kent West]

I'm confused. I thought Debian 2.0 (hamm) was officially released last
night. Does that not make it the "stable" version? Near as I can tell, the
ftp.debian.org site still has 1.3 in it's stable directory. Should I be
pulling from the stable dir or still from the frozen dir? Thanks.

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Dselect doesn't install from non-free or contrib

[Liam Healy]

I am trying to install a 2.0 beta system from mounted filesystem,
/usr/debian which has subdirs main, non-free and contrib.  Dselect
sees everything, even gives a reasonabe package count in each of the
three areas (> 1500 in main, in the hundreds for each of non-free and
contrib, as I recall).  When I go to select individual packages,
everything seems to be there.  When it gets to actually installing,
however, it appears to quietly skip over everything in non-free and
contrib -- no explanation.  The dpkg manpage says for --yet-to-unpack 
  "Searches  for  packages  selected for installation,
  but  which  for  some  reason  still  haven't  been
  installed."
and I have 
# dpkg --yet-to-unpack
 19 packages, from the following sections:
   contrib/misc (1)   contrib/net (1)   contrib/sound (1)   contrib/tex (1)
   contrib/web (1)   non-free/comm (1)   non-free/games (1)
   non-free/graphics (5)   non-free/libs (1)   non-free/sound (1)
   non-free/tex (1)   non-free/text (2)   non-free/x11 (2)
But, what is the reason and how do I get it to install these packages?

Liam


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RAID controller & dinstall

[Daniel Imamura]

Hi all,

Has anyone ever tried to install a Mylex DAC960 PL Raid
controller? I'm trying to do so and ran into the following problem: I've
got its driver from www.dandelion.com/Linux/ , re-built the rescue disk
and set the rdev. The system boots up normally and it finds the
controller. But the problem is that I've got to manually build
some special devices (/dev/rd/c*d*p*) and I cant make de dinstall program
to use fdisk on this device (/dev/rd/c0d0). When I select the
"Partition Hard Disk" on the dinstall main menu it says "No hard disk
drivers could be found". Does anyone know how to set the device on the
dinstall, so that I wouldnt have to mkswap/mke2fs/mount/install everything
from the scratch? Thanks in advance!

Daniel.


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Re: linux on a gateway laptop

[Jens B. Jorgensen]

I've got a Gateway 2000 Solo 2100 and have sound working. It mainly depends on 
what
chips are used. My 2100 uses the ESS ES1688 AudioDrive. Check the info in Win95 
or
your manuals to see if you have this same chipset.

Seth M. Landsman wrote:

> Greets,
> So I have this shiny new laptop running Linux flawlessly (X,
> pcmcia, cdrom, everything), but I can't get sound configured.  Might
> someone have had experience getting sound working on a Gateway 2300 series
> laptop who might be able to lend a clue?
>
> -Seth
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Re: Stupid unix

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "s" == servis  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

s> *-Martin Bialasinski (24 Jul)
s> | mmv is cool, but has no "lowercase" function.

>> From the mmv man page:

[...]

*blush* OK, just delete everything after "cool".

Perl rules anyway ;-)

Ciao,
Martin


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Re: GREAT NEWS!!! Oracle 8 on Linux by 1999!

[Jorge Sousa]

Want a good RDBMS for Linux???

check www.interbase.com they have a FREE port of version 4.0 for Linux. It
runs on Debian1.3.1 I didn't have the chance to try it on Hamm cos I need to
upgrade.

Jorge Sousa


-Original Message-
From: Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org ; FVLUG
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Quarta-feira, 22 de Julho de 1998 16:48
Subject: GREAT NEWS!!! Oracle 8 on Linux by 1999!


>Oracle has just announced that they're porting Oracle 8/8.1 to the
Linux/x86
>platform and that it should be ready and commercially available by early
>1999.
>
>I'm sure some of you aren't happy with "commercial" applications, but I,
for
>one, am very excited about this.  Commercial support of Linux will make
>great inroads for the Fortune 5000 markets, etc
>
>(I work for Baan Business Systems (Baan Company - www.baan.com ) and this
>would be a great step towards putting Baan on Linux as well.  This I'd
>*love* to see!  A great ERP solution with a great DB on a great OS!
>
>For more information, check out the following PC Week article:
>http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0720/20morac.html
>
>Regards,
>Kevin Traas
>
>
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Re: Stupid unix

[servis]

*-Martin Bialasinski (24 Jul)
| 
| 
| mmv is cool, but has no "lowercase" function.
| 

>From the mmv man page:

   To convert the string matched by a wildcard to either low­
   ercase  or  uppercase  before  embedding  it in the target
   name, insert 'l' or 'u', respectively, between the '#' and
   the string of digits.

Example:

% mmv -r -v "[A-Z]*" "#l1#l2"
LF441.DAT -> lf441.dat
TEXT.TXT -> text.txt


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Re: How to change IRQ on NIC?

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "KW" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

KW> One more question; after making a change like that, can you get the system
KW> to see the change without rebooting? I suspect you can, but I don't know
KW> how, so I just rebooted, which worked fine. But I'd like to know for future
KW> reference.

[Please use your quoting the other way round. I like to read from left 
to right and from *top* to *bottom* ]

As root do a lsmod. You get an output like:

lsmod# lsmod
Module PagesUsed by
softdog11 (autoclean)
misc   1[softdog]   1 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1  12 (autoclean)
nls_cp437  12 (autoclean)
sound 240
vfat   42
fat6[vfat]  2
nls1[nls_iso8859-1 nls_cp437 vfat fat]  0
smc-ultra  11
8390   2[smc-ultra] 0
hisax 232
isdn  21[hisax] 5
slhc   2[isdn]  1

smc-ultra is the module for my NIC.

- Shut down the use of the NIC
ifconfig eth0 down
- Change the configline in /etc/conf.modules
options smc-ultra io=0x300

Now reload the module

- Load the module
modprobe smc-ultra
  You should see some output with tail /var/log/syslog
- Reenable the networking
/etc/init.d/network

I like Linux, no reboot :-)

Ciao,
Martin

  





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Debian on Mac PPC

[Jorge Sousa]

Hi, 
Does anyone know if it's possible to install Debian Linux on a Mac PowerPC?



Thanks,


Jorge Sousa


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Re: Time is still not right.

[tko]

Keith writes:
> 
> My time is still not right.
> 
> My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what
> I get:
> 
> debian# clock
> Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998
> ---
> If I type date this is what I get
> 
> debian# date
> Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998
> ---
> 
> I don't know what the lines are for, but I want my linux
> time to say what the hardware clock says. I thought that
> maybe my timezone was wrong, here is what my timezone file has
> in it:
> 
> EST5EDT
> 
> I live in Florida Eastern time zone -5:00 GMT.
> 
> 
> I need some more help with this problem. 

Ok, look at /etc/init.d/boot and let us know what the 'GMT=' line is set to.

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Re: [Debian]: das Systemupdate funktioniert nicht richtig

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "DM" == Dirk Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

DM> ich zum Systemstart immer folgende Fehlermeldung:
DM> /etc/rc2.d/S89: line 20: syntax error near unexpected token ';'
DM> /etc/rc2.d/S89: line 20: ' ;cron reload automatically'
[...]
DM> ; cron reloads automatically
^
Das muß ein # sein.

Hast du diese JFL Debian 2.0 "beta" installiert (ist wenig brauchbar)?
Der Bug wurde längst behoben. Da Debian 2.0 jetzt offiziell draußen
ist, würde ich das System updaten (per ftp oder CD, wenn sie fertig
sind).

Ciao,
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Re: Stupid unix

[Martin Bialasinski]

>> "SVD" == Santiago Vila Doncel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SVD> (But just because I love awk, a perl hacker would surely give you a
SVD> different solution, and a Bourne-shell hacker yet another one, etc. :-).

Here is the perl hacker ;-)

perl -MFile::Copy -e 'for (@ARGV) {move $_, lc $_}' *.c

mmv is cool, but has no "lowercase" function.

What's stupid about unix anyways? Didn't understand that one.

Ciao,
Martin


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problems with anti-spam policies

[Ulisses Alonso]

Hi all

I'm subcribed to some mailing lists with my real email adress
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I read this email from pusa.eleinf.uv.es and
from a non-permanent link (wich I named caligula. with no domain...)

I always use pine, In caligula's pine setup I use the user-domain option
set to "pusa.eleinf.uv.es", this allows me to send mail to some mailing
lists, but not all mailing lists... some smtp servers says me something
like:

 Begin

>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 24 11:08:08 1998
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:39:14 +0200
From: Mail Delivery System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to all of its recipients. The
following address(es) failed:

  linux-diald@vger.rutgers.edu:
SMTP error from remote mailer after MAIL FROM:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=2837:
host vger.rutgers.edu [128.6.190.2]:
553-5.4.3 Policy analysis reports DNS error with your 
553-5.4.3 source domain.   Please correct your source 
553 5.4.3 address and/or the info at the DNS.

-- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. --

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Received: from ulisses by caligula with local-smtp (Exim 1.92 #1 (Debian))
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 10:39:10 + (GMT)
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<<< End

I'm using exim as MTA... how I can resolve this?... wich is the right way
to make that I want?


Any comment will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance


Ulisses

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Re: Fvwm2 and Debian menu

[Curt Daugaard]

On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 10:27:33PM -0400, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
> 
> Well, you don't have to start your FvwmButtons from the menu - you can 
> just start it automatically (assuming you always want it to be there); 
> on one account on my machine, this is done by putting all the
> customization into post.hook and a call to 'Module FvwmButtons' in
> init-restart.hook.
> 
> If, however, you want it in the menu you can always put it in yourself
> with an AddToMenu command in post.hook; modifying the menu entry
> itself (by changing /usr/lib/menu/fvwm2) gets wiped by a new fvwm2.
> This has the problem that the DebianFvwmButtons is still there...
> 
> The best solution is probably to use 
> DestroyModuleConfig DebianFvwmButtons
> in post.hook and then listing the entries one wants.

Thanks for your response.

Yes, I do want to start it from a menu, and your last method
sounded like the best idea.  Unfortunately, even after doing that
there remains some obscure left over bit of configuration somewhere
that screws up the display of the button bar.  In the end I just
made my FvwmButtons setup a new entry in the main-menu-pre-hook.
It works.

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Re: DVD support for linux

[Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra]

Shaleh wrote:
> 
> Curt E. Spann wrote:
> >What video card should I get?
> 
> You ask later so I will kill two birds with one stone.  AGP is both
> poorly supported and a waste of money.  AGP cards can actually lessen
> system performance.  System resources are stolen to give the enhanced
> video.  Also numerous motherboards have problems sharing AGP and other
> slots.  Best recommendation is to avoid them (yeah I will get flack for
> this one).

Of course, you could go for an Alpha (more bucks, but worth it) and get
a 64-bit PCI machine with a 64-bit video -- and SCSI controller, and
whatever -- card.

Be warned that Debian Alpha is yet beta.


> > If I have a choice between SCSI and Ultra ATA system which should I
> > get?  SCSI is a little more expensive but is it really worth it?
> 
> For a home workstation SCSI is not a great gain unless you intend to
> really beat the hard drive.  Even then the new IDE's make this
> questionable.  You will find that many UNIX vendors are shipping IDE in
> all but the highest end machines.

AFAIK, workstation vendors ship IDE (ATA) systems only in the
lowest-end machines, like the Darwin Suns (Ultra 5 and Ultra 10).

At http://www.adaptec.com./ there are some interesting remarks about
the matter.


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Re: HTML HAMM Man Pages

[Frank Barknecht]

Chris Russell hat gesagt: // Chris Russell wrote:

> Anyone know of a link to the hamm man pages via a browser since man is
> not included in the base system? In particular apt-get.

The package "dwww" installs a cgi-script, that gives a convenient user 
interface to  nearly all the documentation on a debian system. You should
install it and point your web browser to "http://localhost/dwww/index.html";.
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Re: Diff bet. may '98 hamm and official hamm

[Frank Barknecht]

Richard Alhama hat gesagt: // Richard Alhama wrote:

> I've upgraded my debian box from 1.3 to unstable in May 98.  And I also
> have some packages from slink.
> 
> Now my question is:
> 
> What packages has been changed from May '98 hamm(unstable) to offical
> Debian GNU/Linux 2.0?
> 
> Do I have to buy the CD's or stick with my setup?

I think there have been a lot of changes since may. For example the XFree
packages have undergone big changes with high urgency. To see what has changed
point dselect to your nearest debian-ftp-server and get the latest
Packages.gz's. You don't have to grab the packages themselves just look what
has changed...

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Re: How to change IRQ on NIC?

[Michael Beattie]

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Kent West wrote:

> Excellent! That did it.
> 
> FYI, I couldn't just change the config; I had to remove the module and then
> add it right back in, changing the parameters at that point.
> 
> One more question; after making a change like that, can you get the system
> to see the change without rebooting? I suspect you can, but I don't know
> how, so I just rebooted, which worked fine. But I'd like to know for future
> reference.
> 
> Thanks again!

I believe that the simple adding of the module solved that problem, the
device should work straight away.

another way to change the config, change the /etc/modules file... i.e.:

ne io=0x300 irq=15

stuff like that... whats in it now should help you. (thats if you need to
change anything... use rmmod then insmod - /etc/modules is used on
bootup, (comments? am I right?) so you need the parameters with insmod)

Hey, Im only getting out of newbie stage... If I am wrong, PLEASE correct
me... I dont want a `rm -rf /` situation. :)

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Re: Kernel Compilation Filesystem Configuration

[Oliver Elphick]

Michael Ziller wrote:
  >I'm having trouble compiling the kernel with support for MSDOS, VFAT, 
  >and ISO9660 filesystems. I used 'make xconfig', however the check boxes to
  >select these options are greyed out.  Other filesystems such as EXT2 and NFS
  >aren't disabled...
  >
  >Is there anything else I have to do to enable these filesystems in xconfig?

Enable 'Native language support' (CONFIG_NLS)

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Kernel Compilation Filesystem Configuration

[Michael Ziller]

I'm having trouble compiling the kernel with support for MSDOS, VFAT, 
and ISO9660 filesystems. I used 'make xconfig', however the check boxes to
select these options are greyed out.  Other filesystems such as EXT2 and NFS
aren't disabled...

Is there anything else I have to do to enable these filesystems in xconfig?
 


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Diff bet. may '98 hamm and official hamm

[Richard Alhama]

I've upgraded my debian box from 1.3 to unstable in May 98.  And I also
have some packages from slink.

Now my question is:

What packages has been changed from May '98 hamm(unstable) to offical
Debian GNU/Linux 2.0?

Do I have to buy the CD's or stick with my setup?

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Re: trn newsreader

[Brian May]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>Thank God, my signature is finally working. 
>
>Anyways, I am trying get the trn newsreader working.
>Actually it works fine, I just need help customizing it.
>In the /usr/doc/news/trn-hints file it talks about setting
>up a ~/.trninit file. It says to set an environment variable,
>how do I do that? 

I have the following .trninit file:
-EMAILPOSTER="comp -use -file %h"
-EFORWARDPOSTER="comp -use -file %h"
-EKILLGLOBAL="%p/Kill/Global"
-EKILLLOCAL="%p/Kill/%C"

This uses mh as my mailer, you may not want to do this.

You need to setup the TRNINIT environment variable. How you
do this depends on what shell you have, but I use:

export TRNINIT=~/.trninit

in my .zshenv file. If you use bash, I think you would need to
insert the same line into ~/.bashrc

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Re: Time is still not right.

[Oliver Elphick]

Keith wrote:
  >My time is still not right.
  >
  >My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what
  >I get:
  >
  >debian# clock
  >Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998
  >---
  >If I type date this is what I get
  >
  >debian# date
  >Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998
  >---
  >
  >I don't know what the lines are for, but I want my linux
  >time to say what the hardware clock says. I thought that
  >maybe my timezone was wrong, here is what my timezone file has
  >in it:
  >
  >EST5EDT
  >
  >I live in Florida Eastern time zone -5:00 GMT.
  >
  >
  >I need some more help with this problem. 

Your hardware clock should be set to UTC (Greenwich time).  Your timezone
is then applied to get your local time, which is what date reports.

They should not be the same, except in Britain and countries in the GMT 
timezone, and then only in winter -- oh yes, and Western Europe in summer.

I believe this can be a problem if you run Microsoft software too, because
they don't do it right.

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Re: printing 2.0 beta

[Erv Walter]

Richard Sevenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   lpr filename - produces no printer activity, but does queue file.
>   cat filename > /dev/lp1 - produces message
>   "/dev/lp1: Device not configured."
>   dmesg reports
>   "lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found."

The kernel is not initializing your parallel port.

>   There is a recognized iomega parallel port zip attached.

The kernel is initializing your zip drive?  You say these worked in
1.3, but had you compiled your own kernel back then?  a zip drive and
a printer can not be used at the same time with stock kernel.  It
requires one of the following solutions:

1) install the parport kernel patch (search www.linuxhq.com) and
recompile a custom kernel.  I don't think the debian kernel has this
addon installed by default.  It allows you to share the parallel port
between many devices.

2) Use modules for lp and ppa.  They can't bothe be loaded at the same 
time without the above parport patch to the kernel so you have to swap 
them in an out:
   a) Do it by hand everytime you want to switch from using your zip
  drive to your printer and vice versa (painfully)
   b) Don't load either at startup (check /etc/modules)
  and let kerneld load them only when they are
  needed automatically.  Each will be unloaded about 60 seconds
  after you stop using it.  Still can't use them both at the same
  time without the parport patch, but swapping is automatic this way.

Erv

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Re: mt and Colorado Jumbo 250 problems

[Raymond A. Ingles]

On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Will Lowe wrote:

> I'm trying to use mt to move a tape in my Colorado Jumbo 250 so that I can
> put an archive behind the one already on the tape ... I'm using 
> 
> mt -f /dev/ftape fsf 1
> 
> where /dev/ftape is a symlink to /dev/rft0.  I know the link works ok,
> because I use it with tar.

 Well, that's not quite the device you want to use anyway. If you're
trying to position the tape, you need to use /dev/nrft0. This is the
"non-rewinding" device. When you use /dev/rft0, it rewinds after every
operation.

> I'm getting 
> 
> mt: /dev/ftape: Input/output error
> 
> and the tape isn't moving.  Any ideas?

 It may be that ftape realizes you're trying to use the wrong device, but
I'd hope it would give a more reasonable error message. Try /dev/nrft0 and
see how it works.

 Sincerely,

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Re: Keeping Machine Up - Advice Needed

[Raymond A. Ingles]

On 19 Jul 1998, Carl Johnson wrote:
> If I have a momentary power flicker, the odds are
> fairly good that the modem will be completely locked up.  The only fix
> is to unplug the modem for a few seconds, and it will then come up
> fine.  This wouldn't be a problem if I had a UPS, but it seems a
> little ridiculous to buy a UPS just for a modem.

 If you have power glitches sufficient to mess up your modem, it's likely
to also stress the workstation, too, particularly the drives. If your
power quality's that bad, you may have brownouts you don't notice and
such. All of this reduces the life of your equipment. I'd recommend a UPS
that has some power conditioning. They're getting fairly cheap now.

 Sincerely,

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Re: more questions about time

[Colin Telmer]

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Keith wrote:

> I finally have my time right on my Linux box. I ran tzconfig
> and set the timezone to GMT+0. I don't understand why this is 
> the way I had to get it to work. My other Linux machine is set
> to EST5EDT and the time is right. What is the deal?
> EST5EDT is my time zone.

I think it is that your other machines have the hardware clock set to GMT
whereas the hardware clock in this machine is set to EDT. If you reboot
your machine and jump into the cmos configuration (or whatever it is that
you can get into by usually pressing  during the boot) and change the
hardware clock to GMT then you can have the timezone set to EST5EDT. Note
that this is the way that unix boxes usually run so that they can figure
out when to automatically kick in daylight savings if that is applicable
to where you live. Some of the above might be a little off, but the jist
of it is correct. Cheers.



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Re: Fvwm2 and Debian menu

[Daniel Martin at cush]

Curt Daugaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I like the design of the Debian menu package, and I'm trying to
> follow the docs to get auto-updating of menus under X, but I seem
> to have hit a roadblock.
> 
> I use Fvwm2, and according to the comments in system.fvwm2rc
> and the Fvwm2 docs--in the Debian package, compliant with the
> menu package--FvwmButtons (formerly "Good Stuff") is set
> up so that the user can easily override the defaults.  But it
> looks like the menudefs.hook, autogenerated by the menu-package,
> is determined to invoke "DebianFvwmButtons," which stubbornly
> overrides any configuration the user attempts.

Well, you don't have to start your FvwmButtons from the menu - you can 
just start it automatically (assuming you always want it to be there); 
on one account on my machine, this is done by putting all the
customization into post.hook and a call to 'Module FvwmButtons' in
init-restart.hook.

If, however, you want it in the menu you can always put it in yourself
with an AddToMenu command in post.hook; modifying the menu entry
itself (by changing /usr/lib/menu/fvwm2) gets wiped by a new fvwm2.
This has the problem that the DebianFvwmButtons is still there...

The best solution is probably to use 
DestroyModuleConfig DebianFvwmButtons
in post.hook and then listing the entries one wants.

Of course, since this command exists, one wonders why the author of
the fvwm2 config used DebianFvwmButtons to begin with...


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printing 2.0 beta

[Richard Sevenich]

I just installed 2.0 Beta from CD ROM. I cannot print via the local
parallel port. Printer works in that other OS - so hardware is OK. I
must have gone astray somewhere in the install.
Symptoms:
lpr filename - produces no printer activity, but does queue file.
cat filename > /dev/lp1 - produces message
"/dev/lp1: Device not configured."
dmesg reports
"lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found."
Other:
There is a recognized iomega parallel port zip attached.
I had this working under 1.3 R6.

Any hints would be much appreciated.
TIA,
Richard


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linux on a gateway laptop

[Seth M. Landsman]

Greets,
So I have this shiny new laptop running Linux flawlessly (X,
pcmcia, cdrom, everything), but I can't get sound configured.  Might
someone have had experience getting sound working on a Gateway 2300 series
laptop who might be able to lend a clue?

-Seth

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Re: Lan Tcp/ip Question

[Tomt]

At 08:52 PM 7/23/1998 +1000, you wrote:
>> >It may be useful for you to assign the NIC's address to something
>> >other than 0x300. A lot of different (very different even!) cards try
>> >to use 0x300 (sound cards, primarily).
>> Theres a sound card in the machine but its sitting on 0x330
>> >Also you may want to try pinging the machine's own address on the
>> >ethernet. See what that produces. Aside from that I can't help you
>> >much.
>> Works.  Both machines can ping themselves but not each other.
>check that you don't have an irq conflict with the ethernet card.
>i've had enough irq conflicts with network cards for that to be the
>first thing i check when i get a system which can send but not receive
>packets.
I'll check that but I'm nearly 100% sure that there isn't a conflict.

Thanks


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more questions about time

[Keith]

I finally have my time right on my Linux box. I ran tzconfig
and set the timezone to GMT+0. I don't understand why this is 
the way I had to get it to work. My other Linux machine is set
to EST5EDT and the time is right. What is the deal?
EST5EDT is my time zone.
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Re: elm still no signature file working

[Jack Kern]

On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 08:00:56PM -0400, Keith wrote:
> I edited my ~/.elm/elmrc file by uncommenting out the 
> these two lines:
> 
> # local ".signature" file to append to appropriate messages...
> localsignature = .signature
> 
> # remote ".signature" file to append to appropriate messages...
> remotesignature = .signature
> 
> And I made a .signature file and put it in my ~/.elm/elmrc 
> directory. But when I try and send mail it doesn't work.

I believe that the default ".signature" file should be in your $HOME
directory -- not in "~/.elm/" -- unless it may be specified otherwise in
"~/.elm/elmrc".

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trn newsreader

[Keith]

Thank God, my signature is finally working. 

Anyways, I am trying get the trn newsreader working.
Actually it works fine, I just need help customizing it.
In the /usr/doc/news/trn-hints file it talks about setting
up a ~/.trninit file. It says to set an environment variable,
how do I do that? 
Here is what the file says:

You can specify trn environment variables in an initialization file with all
the options.  See the first hint for details on that.  Certain environment
variables, like RNINIT, must be set in your shell (how else does trn know
to look there for the rest?).  Others, like REPLYTO may be useful in other
programs, so you could consider putting that in your shell startup file too.
But most of them are specific, like MAILHEADER, so you might as well set them
in the init file with the -E option.  That's why most of them look like
-EMAILHEADER=xx rather than MAILHEADER=xx -- to remind you.

Helpful hints:
  o You can make a file that contains all the flags and initialization that
trn will use at startup.  When you're done, point an environment variable
TRNINIT to the file.  A good choice is "TRNINIT=~/.trninit".  You can put
multiple lines in this init file and/or separate options by spaces.


If someone has a .trninit file I could look
at I would really appreciate it. 

 
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Re: good digital clock for x?

[Marcelo E. Magallon]

On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 09:21:56PM -0500, the lone gunman wrote:

> Hello -- are there any deb packages that have a digital clock that I can
> swallow in an x module (specifically, FvwmButtons)? I'd prefer one that
> does military time, and perhaps the date, too :)

Try asclock, debian://slink/main/binary-i386/x11/asclock*.deb, replace
debian:// with the partial URL to your favorite Debian mirror, up to the
dists directory.

Or look in http://windowmaker.org/ for "WindowMaker Apps", and look for
wmtime. It has a *really* nice analog clock.


Marcelo


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Re: Time is still not right.

[Bob Nielsen]

'man tzconfig' should explain it for you.

On Thu, 23 Jul 1998, Keith wrote:

> My time is still not right.
> 
> My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what
> I get:
> 
> debian# clock
> Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998
> ---
> If I type date this is what I get
> 
> debian# date
> Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998
> ---
> 
> I don't know what the lines are for, but I want my linux
> time to say what the hardware clock says. I thought that
> maybe my timezone was wrong, here is what my timezone file has
> in it:
> 
> EST5EDT
> 
> I live in Florida Eastern time zone -5:00 GMT.
> 
> 
> I need some more help with this problem. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Keith 
> 
> 
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Time is still not right.

[Keith]

My time is still not right.

My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what
I get:

debian# clock
Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998
---
If I type date this is what I get

debian# date
Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998
---

I don't know what the lines are for, but I want my linux
time to say what the hardware clock says. I thought that
maybe my timezone was wrong, here is what my timezone file has
in it:

EST5EDT

I live in Florida Eastern time zone -5:00 GMT.


I need some more help with this problem. 

Thanks,
Keith 


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elm still no signature file working

[Keith]

I edited my ~/.elm/elmrc file by uncommenting out the 
these two lines:

# local ".signature" file to append to appropriate messages...
localsignature = .signature

# remote ".signature" file to append to appropriate messages...
remotesignature = .signature

And I made a .signature file and put it in my ~/.elm/elmrc 
directory. But when I try and send mail it doesn't work.
The mail isn't even sending. But I have been having problems
with my smtp server acting up today.

If anyone can tell me what I am doing wrong I would appreciate it.

Thanks, 
Keith
 


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