Re: Compilación del kernel
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 07:13:02AM +0100, Luís M. Arocha Hernández wrote: ¿Sabe alguien la diferencia entre el disco de rescate normal y de Toshiba tecra? Estoy compilando el kernel y tengo el mismo síntoma por el que tuve que usar el juego de diskettes de tecra: Con el normal el equipo se reseteaba a poco de arrancar. El disco tecra tiene un parche para tratar ciertos problemas de coherencia de la caché al habilitar/deshabilitar la linea A20 durante el arranque. El parche (y la explicación completa) los puedes obtener en http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/ . El parche también lo puedes obtener en mi espacio web (no hay página todavía) O:-) http://master.debian.org/~ezanard/toshiba-a20.diff.gz Saludos, -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]
acentos, eñes,...
hola, por lo que he ido leyendo en anteriores mensajes, he visto varios modos de cambiar el teclado para que acepte vocales acentuadas, eñes, diéresis. Al añadir, como alguien sugirió, en /etc/profile: export LC_ALL=es_ES export LANG=es_ES puedo leer y escribir los acentos tónicos y átonos, diéresis, eñes,... pero también si suprimo una de esas dos líneas, cualquiera de ellas, el efecto es el mismo ??? Otra cosa que me ha cambiado, es que ahora, al hacer, por ejemplo: ls --help la ayuda me aparece en castellano. Fantástico, pero yo tan sólo quería poder leer y escribir esos caracteres... no importa. Ahora bien, en X los siguientes programas siguen sin reconocer los susodichos caracteres: xcoral, xedit, textedit,... cmdtool, shell tool. mientras que Xemacs20, lyx, xterm, tkdesk, sí que los reconocen. En consola, emacs19 o joe no los reconocen, mientras que bash sí. ¿Cómo puedo solucionar esto? También se habló de ~/.inputrc, y lo que yo veo es /etc/inputrc*: # set convert-meta off # Be 8 bit clea set input-meta on set output-meta on Alguien dijo que había que descomentar la primera (set conver- meta off) ... pero dice algo más sobre eso, que en lugar de M (Meta), se usaría ESC... ¿qué signfica exactamente? * ¿debo copiar /etc/inputrc a /home/user/.inputrc y entonces editarla a mi gusto? Si es así, esto valdría sólo para un usuario... si lo copio a /root/.inputrc , ¿valdría para todos, o sólo para root? Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Configuracion XFree86 (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 11:18:45 +0200 (CET)
From: Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Configuracion XFree86 (fwd)
Hola.
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From: Richard Hidalgo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Configuracion XFree86
Hola!. Estoy empezando a desesperar. Necesito ayuda!!!. He intentado por
activa y por pasiva configurar XFree86 para mi tarjeta y no hay manera.
Me podeís dar alguna pista?. Os envío la salida del SuperProbe:
First video: Super-VGA
Chipset: Sigma Designs REALmagic64/GX (SD 6425) (PCI Probed)
RAMDAC: Sierra SC1148{2,3,4} 15-bit or SC1148{5,7,9} 15/16-bit HiColor
(with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
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Configuracion XFree86 (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 11:18:45 +0200 (CET)
From: Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Richard Hidalgo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Configuracion XFree86 (fwd)
Hola.
La dirección de la lista es debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org
La dirección -request es solamente para suscribirse o borrarse.
Gracias.
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Date: 7 Sep 1998 06:57:39 -
From: Richard Hidalgo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Configuracion XFree86
Hola!. Estoy empezando a desesperar. Necesito ayuda!!!. He intentado por
activa y por pasiva configurar XFree86 para mi tarjeta y no hay manera.
Me podeís dar alguna pista?. Os envío la salida del SuperProbe:
First video: Super-VGA
Chipset: Sigma Designs REALmagic64/GX (SD 6425) (PCI Probed)
RAMDAC: Sierra SC1148{2,3,4} 15-bit or SC1148{5,7,9} 15/16-bit HiColor
(with 6-bit wide lookup tables (or in 6-bit mode))
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d850cd14e288737db4c15bc04a1afe8c (a truly random sig)
HOWTO sobre como crear debs
Hola, hace ya mucho tiempo me pasaron un HOWTO en preparación (ya final) para que lo repasase que trataba sobre la creación de archivos deb, el caso es que lo perdí (ya empieza a ser costumbre en mi ) alguien podría pasarmelo o indicarme una dirección donde conseguirlo? Saludos y gracias, Josep Parera
Re: WindowMaker 0.19.0 y locales
On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 02:53:06PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El caso es que, a partir de ese momento, el wm no arranca, dando el mensaje: /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker error in loading shared libraries: undefined symbol _Xsetlocale (Marcelo dice algo respecto a un tal Overfiend...) ¿Alguien tiene una idea de lo que me puede estar pasando? Si. Hay un pequeño errorcito en las dependencias de wmaker, dice que es xlib6g (= 3.3-5) cuando en realidad es xlib6g (= 3.3.2). Instala el xlib6g más reciente de hamm (hamm/main/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g_3.3.2.3-1.deb) y funciona. Marcelo, tratando de hacer llegar la actualizacion a 200 b/s a master.debian.org
Re: Exim questions
Georg Thanks, I am looking at the docs now. There are a lot! I have not yet understood the smartuser so I think I will start by using the aliases (I found out how to do them when looking at the docs for smartuser ;-). Dave Georg Bauer wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Warnock) wrote: this behaviour so that instead all messages that are not to a valid account get sent to a named account and do not get rejected. You should look up the description of the smartuser director in the exim documentation. That does exactly what you need. bye, Georg
Help!!!
dear master: I'm very sorry to ask for this.But can you help me to stop messages from sending to my mailbox? It's filled with mails about debian. thanks!
chmod help
How can i change the perms on a directory so that a file that is copied into that directory is automatically owned by another user and group?
Re: using debian passwords in NT.
Pere Camps ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Does anybody know of a way of making winNT use the usernames and the passwords of a debian machine? Maybe you can try NISGINA. It appears to turn your NT box into a NIS client. Can't tell more - I've never got to use it. Try this URL, I don't know if its still valid http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~williams/ Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB pgpOcAyzWYeUO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ppp connection with Demon
Tom Bowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Incidentally it's not just receiving and sending data that is slow. There is also a 20-30 second delay between sending the modem initialisation (and phone number for that matter) strings and getting any response. Could it be something to do with the serial interface itself. I am now about 100 miles from anything I know anything about, but it's a hell of a lot more interesting than windows. I think you may be onto something here - since you're getting data, but there are serious timing delays (that you're certain aren't caused by Demon being slow - that is, delays even in the init strings), you may have the wrong IRQ set on your serial device, or there may be some conflict in IRQ settings. Do a: setserial /dev/modem (or /dev/ttyS1, or /dev/WhateverYourModemIs) and note the results. Since you are getting data, the port setting is correct and the UART listed is correct or close enough. The IRQ, however, may well be wrong. If you have some other OS in which the modem works well, you could look at the device information for the modem there. Once you have the correct IRQ for your modem, you'll want to edit /etc/rc.boot/0setserial down around lines 25-30 and fix the information there. You can then as root run /etc/rc.boot/0setserial and try your modem again. Is the modem a plug-and-play internal modem? If so, look at using the isapnptools to set up the modem. (You'll have to run one program to dump out the configuration info. on your modem, edit that file to suit your needs, and then run another program on the edited file to set the configuration in your modem - once you get the config. the way you want it, putting it into /etc/isapnp.conf will have it used at boottime - but there's much more info. in the isapnp docs) Note that if you have an external modem that calls itself plug-and-play, this doesn't actually mean anything. (Well, not anything that you care about with regards to setting up your modem for linux) If the modem is an internal one with switches/jumpers, you'll need to look at it and your modem manual to determine what IRQ it's set to. (If you've lost the modem manual, you might want to check the manufacturer's web site). If it's an external modem, then the IRQ's are probably 4 for /dev/ttyS0 (aka com1) and 3 for /dev/ttyS1 (aka com2). However, some machines (like mine) have BIOSes which can alter this, so that the built-in com ports use IRQ's 4 and 12. Check your BIOS's setup menu. DANIEL MARTIN p.s. What are all these settings: IRQ, io port (sometimes called just port) and the UART number? Well, UART is just a number that identifies the type of chip controlling the serial device. The kernel needs to know this so that it can know how large a buffer the device has, what speeds it supports, how it reports line conditions (like hardware flow control), etc. UART type can usually be detected automatically. The most common UARTs are the 16550, 16550A, and 16650. This number is something specific only to serial devices. The io port and IRQ require a very brief explanation of how the processor gets data from other devices in the system. Essentially, all devices in the system are connected to one set of wires called the data bus. The processor, when it wishes to send or get data, will set some wires to identify the address it wishes to access, a wire to indicate whether this is a read or a write, and will then either set the relevant data wires for a write or assume that whatever device responds to this address has set their state as soon as it requested the read and will then read the data wires. (this is oversimplified, but you get the idea). Anyway, the io port is the address the processor uses to get and send data to the modem. (actually, serial devices generally need 8 consecutive address; you specify only the first one - this is why this will sometimes be called the base io port address or io base; these ports are used not only to send and receive data but also to set/get status information) You can see what devices use which io ports on your system by doing cat /proc/ioports. Now, when a device needs to tell the processor something (like incoming data or my output buffer is empty, you could send more), the device can't force the processor to do a read. Instead, what the device does is raise a signal saying in essence pay attention to me. It does this through an Interrupt ReQuest, or IRQ. There are, I believe, only 16 of these lines available and several are allocated to system things (like the separate chip that controls the clock, or the keyboard, or the internal line used to signal floating point math errors). With an IRQ set incorrectly, the processor would not realize that there was incoming data on the modem - this could cause the unbelievably slow response time you seem to have. You can find out which devices use which irq lines by doing cat /proc/interrupts.
Re: Backspace in xterm (again)
I had the same problem, I found a solution, it may not be the best solution but it works for me. I used xmodmap to make the backspace key work in the way you want. check your keymap table for X (xmodmap -pke). If BackSpace is not in it then add it using the command (xmodmap -e keycode 22 = BackSapce). At least for my system that is what BackSpace is. Then dump the keymap table again to make sure it took (xmodmap -pke). That should make it work for the current session. To make the change permanent take the output from xmodmap -pke and dump it to the /etc/X11/Xmodmap file. This is used by both xdm and xinit (according to my documentation). This will make the change permanent globally. To make the change on a per-user basis put a .xmodmap file in the users directory. Read the man on xmodmap for more stuff. I hope this helps. -jeremy -- Jeremy Hinegardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Research Assistant http://meru.cecs.missouri.edu University of Missouri - Columbia Multimedia Communications and Visualization Laboratory -- On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Joost Witteveen wrote: Does anybody know what I should do to get my beloved backspace back again (yes, I want backspace to delete the char left to the curser, as it does in the VC's). Make sure the following is present in your /etc/X11/Xresources: Thanks. But unfortunately, it _is_ already present! *Text.translations: #override ~Shift ~Meta KeyDelete: delete-next-character() XTerm*termName: xterm-debian *VT100*backarrowKey: false *VT100.Translations: #override KeyBackSpace: string(\177)\n\ KeyDelete: string(\033[3~)\n\ KeyHome: string(\033OH)\n\ KeyEnd: string(\033OF) I don't like introducing xterm-debian terminfo entry myself and just renamed it to xterm. And my $TERM variable already is set to xterm-debian. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
kernel problems
Perhaps this isn't the proper list to send kernel problems to but I not sure where else to post it. Anyways, I have never been able to properly make a kernel...i dloaded the kernel-source kernel-headers .deb packages and then did unpack them...it created a kernel-sources and headers dir in my /usr/src dir. So i went into the /usr/src/kernel-header-etc... directory and did the make config make dep make clean per the Kernel-HOWTO but then when i get to the make zImage it fails out after a bit of compiling with this errors. ./xtract /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/vmlinux | gzip -9 | ./piggyback piggy.o Non-GCC header of 'system' Compressed size 20. gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/include -traditional -c head.S gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/include -O2 -DSTDC_HEADERS -c misc.c -o misc.o ld -qmagic -Ttext 0xfe0 -o vmlinux head.o misc.o piggy.o ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0fe0 misc.o: In function `fill_inbuf': misc.o(.text+0x1ebc): undefined reference to `input_data' misc.o(.text+0x1ec1): undefined reference to `input_len' misc.o(.text+0x1ed7): undefined reference to `input_data' make[2]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot/compressed' make[1]: *** [compressed/vmlinux] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/arch/i386/boot' make: *** [zImage] Error 2 I'm not sure if I am going through the wrong procedure to install a new kernel or if there is an error somewhere else. Sorry about asking such a general question to a debian list.
Intel Pro 10/100 PCI ethernet adapter
Does this adapter work with Linux 2.0.35? -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades!
HELP: More Problems Configuring Email
Okay ... I have uninstalled SENDMAIL and reinstall SMAIL. I can send e-mail, however I cannot recieve e-mail. When I send it, the Return-Path line on the e-mail reads root. In my SMAIL config file, I have changed the visible name to my full e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED], and change the hostdomain to miracle.net. I have also added a line [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know what else to do. Thanks, Denis
Re: Backspace in xterm (again)
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Joost Witteveen wrote: I upgraded my system yesterday (OK to slink, but it appears the same problem is present in hamm), and now my bacspace generates an delete again. (in an xterm that is. Emacs (X11) and VC are OK) I already asked this question once, but I seem to have lost the responce I got then. Does anybody know what I should do to get my beloved backspace back again (yes, I want backspace to delete the char left to the curser, as it does in the VC's). Hi Joost, I too have this problem few weeks ago. What I did was: 1. Run xf86config 2. When it asks me for Do you want to use XKB? say yes. 3. Choose a preconfigured keymaps. I selected then: 1 Standard 101-key, US encoding With this one, no more fiddling with xmodmap or anything, Backspace the Delete key simply works. regards, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 == = == ==== == E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] == WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com
Re: Intel Pro 10/100 PCI ethernet adapter
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: Does this adapter work with Linux 2.0.35? -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null yes. running one fine here.
Re: Intel Pro 10/100 PCI ethernet adapter
It would appear so. From 'make menuconfig': Intel EtherExpressPro PCI 10+/100B/100+ support On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: Does this adapter work with Linux 2.0.35? -- Bruce Jackson Linux: because reboots are for hardware upgrades! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: HELP: More Problems Configuring Email
Denis, go to the FAQ-O-MATIC at the debian site (www.debian.org), and find the FAQ about SMAIL configuration for dynamic accounts (you _do_ have a single-user dynamic account--right?) And if you have a dynamic IP account, also change the visible name to your ISP's domain name (for example, isp.com) without the @ symbol or the username. I have no idea what the extra postmaster line will do to an smail config. It appears to be something that belongs in your /etc/aliases file if at all. Disregard this reply if you have your own domain with more than one user account with your ISP. Hope it helps. Anyone else...corrections, additions, etc.? Art On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 11:32:33PM -0400, DMDP wrote: Okay ... I have uninstalled SENDMAIL and reinstall SMAIL. I can send e-mail, however I cannot recieve e-mail. When I send it, the Return-Path line on the e-mail reads root. In my SMAIL config file, I have changed the visible name to my full e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED], and change the hostdomain to miracle.net. I have also added a line [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know what else to do. Thanks, Denis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: g++ Is Fine. I Was Wrong
Yes, g++ works just fine. Please disregard my previous messages on this and sorry for the clutter. Art On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 04:00:04PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote: Thanks to Alan Su and Marcus Brinkman for correcting me in regards to g++. I did not have it installed on this system (only had gcc installed). What can I say, but that I am a newbie. ;-) g++ is downloading here now, and the status after the download will be reported. Art, who is in the corner wearing a dunce cap for now Heh, heh,... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
WindowMaker 0.19.1
Hello, I am running hamm. To install the latest windowmaker, I downloaded the following files for WindowMaker 0.19.1 from http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages (as was suggested by the maintainer): libproplist0-dev_0.8.1-2.deb libproplist0_0.8.1-2.deb libwings-dev_0.19.1-1_i386.deb libwmaker0-dev_0.19.1-1_i386.deb libwmaker0_0.19.1-1_i386.deb libwraster1-dev_0.19.1-1_i386.deb libwraster1_0.19.1-1_i386.deb wmaker_0.19.1-1_i386.deb Installation was without errors. But when I do a 'startx', the xserver crashes with the following error message: .. /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker: error loading shared libraries undefined symbol: _Xsetlocale What else has to be downloaded or installed to make it work? BTW, on the same machine, I can compile the source (not the deb's) and run WindowMaker. I also installed icewm from slink? Why does it not put an entry in /etc/X11/window-managers? Is this expected? Thanks, sridhar Sridhar M. A Department of Physics University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Mysore 570 006, INDIA Tel: +91-821-516133 Fax: +91-821-516133 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
CRC- Algorthim Details
Hello ! This is sivakumar! When I was in search mode for CRC encoding/decoding , I found your address. Can you please mail me the above details ? Thank you! Sivakuamar. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to use different domain in Exim
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Chew) wrote: My domain is foo.com and I want to send mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] I use the -f option to set the From: field. Uh - -f set's the _sender_, not the From: field (it set's the from in the envelope). For setting the From:-field, just change the address in your mail-client. bye, Georg -- http://www.westfalen.de/hugo/
Re: Exim questions
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Warnock) wrote: Thanks, I am looking at the docs now. There are a lot! Yep. Exim is one of the rare programs, where you don't have to less documentation, but actually are a bit scared by the sheer mass of it ;-) But it is written well and very helpfull. I wish I had this problem with other programs, too. bye, Georg -- http://www.westfalen.de/hugo/
Re: My system too often freezes
May be it is just getting hot ? Are you using at least the biggest meanest CPU cooler you could find ? I run a Cyrix 166 and 233 and don't have any problems. Peter Barbera Eric Jacoboni wrote: Hi, I've a Cyrix P166+ with 96 EDO Ram on an Asus motherboard PI55T2P4C and a Matrox Millenium MGA video card. My system runs under Debian Hamm. I often use Xemacs and Gnus (original deb packages) under X11 (3.3.2.3-1) and Wmaker (0.19 from slink). Too often, the system freeze when under X11 and the _only_ solution is to press the reset button :-( No way to have a console. I've read docs about set6x86 and i've removed it from rc.boot to be sure the problem doesn't come from a bad configuration of it. In both cases (with or without set6x86) the problem arises... 6x86_reg gives now : =-=-=-=-=-= 6x86 (Classic/L/MX) Register Dump utility 6x86 DIR0: 0x31 2X core/bus clock ratio DIR1: 0x16 6x86 Rev. 2.6 Wait a moment... Calculated BogoMIPS:130.00 Kernel BogoMIPS:106.09 6x86 CCR0: 0x2 NC1 set (address region 640Kb-1Mb non-cacheable) CCR1: 0x82 NO_LOCK reset CCR2: 0x80 SUSP_HLT reset (low power suspend mode disabled) CCR3: 0x10 CCR4: 0x17 DTE cache enabled, no I/O recovery time CCR5: 0x21 slow LOOP disabled, allocate cache lines on write misses 6x86 Address Region Register dump: ARR0: address = 0xA , size = 128 KB RCR = 0x9 : not cached, write gathering ARR1: address = 0xC , size = 256 KB RCR = 0x1 : not cached ARR2: disabled ARR3: address = 0xA8000 , size = 32 KB RCR = 0x9 : not cached, write gathering ARR4: disabled ARR5: disabled ARR6: address = 0x600 , size = 32 MB RCR = 0x1 : not cached ARR7: address = 0x0 , size = 128 MB RCR = 0xB : cached, weak write ordering, write gathering =-=-=-=-= I've read the doc about the Cyrix 'coma' bug and i've try to use set6x86 to set the NO_LOCK bit : no change... (BTW : the doc speaks about a little source code to detect this coma bug but i've found nowhere...) I've read the various log files : nothing... Is there a way to have a trace of the crash (a core dump or something like that ?). Thanks for any advice... -- --- Éric Jacoboni « J'ai épuisé le tout-venant, je vais me risquer dans le bizarre » (M. Audiard) --- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: X Windows
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Ken Westerback wrote: 1. ... don't know (I'm still using dselect, haven't tried apt) Apt is good, and it is (apparently) the future to package installation, and It will (as I understand) have an X interface.. but it is still in the pipeline. 3. ... haven't played with it ditto 6. ... Still working on this myself install the 'diald' package. 1. Is there a different way to install packages while in X or should I still be using dselect?? 3. I want to install WINEare there any steps that I need to take first??? 6. Can I set ppp to start automatically when I need it?? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a NZ$ 40 administration charge. (Hmmm another Stolen Sig) - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: Your friends...... whatever.
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Igor Grobman wrote: Some time around Thu, 03 Sep 1998 14:37:55 +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: Isnt that a valid reason to filter out @hotmail.com, @lycos.com etc? I am the debian anti-spam person, and I don't like to blanketly filter on from: addresses. Hotmail or lycos do not have anything to do with spammers. Most of the time the spammers set their from address to an invalid hotmail address just because that's the service they know. However, there are more than a few people who use such email services legitimately. I would rather block the real providers of the spammers (those that give them access and/or relay for them) rather than block on the from: address which does not mean much with spammers. True.. I stand corrected. I just got too much spam that Thursday :) Having said that there is one exception to this rule ;-) and that is aol.com . It has been established that 99.9% of the mail with @aol.com from field has nothing to do with any topics relevant to debian lists. Right now, all aol.com posts come to me, and I forward them to the list if necessary (I haven't had to do any of that lately). Heh... its funny really.. AOL has quite strict rules does it not? Correct me if I am wrong. I dont know about anyone else... But that sort of [EMAIL PROTECTED] really bugs me. Unfortunately, my spam filter wont catch stuff sent to the list.. :( I am trying my best to make sure debian lists do not get spam. You do a pretty good job... from what I have seen. I just meant the odd one or two like the one I referred to here. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - If NT is the answer, you didn't understand the question. (NOTE: Stolen sig) - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: Virtual Poohsticks
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Thomas Adams wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:17:04PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: Does anyone know of any virtual poohsticks software, or is anyone working on some at the moment? What is a virtual poohstick?? I might be way off the beaten path here, but isnt it a game that winnie the pooh plays with eeyore (sp?) or tigger? They drop sticks on one side of a bridge and run to the other, the persons stick which gets to the other side of the bridge (via the stream/river current) wins? Is that right? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - If it can't be fixed with Vise-Grips duct tape, it can't be fixed. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: running root X programs
I know this has been addressed before, I've tried searching the archives for it, but without success. How do you run an X program as root whilst still in a user X session? Use either fakeroot, or run su in an xterm, and then launch apps in the background: su password /usr/sbin/some_nifty_root_thing HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: My system too often freezes
On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, PJ Barbera wrote: May be it is just getting hot ? Are you using at least the biggest meanest CPU cooler you could find ? I run a Cyrix 166 and 233 and don't have any problems. I use set6x86, and it has caused no problems for me. Like Peter said, make sure you have got the 'biggest meanest CPU cooler you can find'. These Cyrix babies get hot! I've read the doc about the Cyrix 'coma' bug and i've try to use set6x86 to set the NO_LOCK bit : no change... I think the coma bug would only be used in a form of attack by a user, It would be unlikely to be in the programs you mention (BTW : the doc speaks about a little source code to detect this coma bug but i've found nowhere...) I downloaded the set6x86 source, and it _is_ in there, but it is more of a demo of what it can do rather than a detection program.. It is full of warnings: UNMOUNT YOUR PARTITIONS __BEFORE__ RUNNING THIS PROGRAM I've read the various log files : nothing... Is there a way to have a trace of the crash (a core dump or something like that ?). Pass.. a core dump leaves behind a 'core' file. (usually) check with `updatedb;locate core` to find any left behind.. but not /dev/core.. The set6x86 source has a kernel source patch, and this is applied to all but the head.S file in the debian 2.0.34 kernel source package. I have attached my copy of this, It is not really necessary, It only correctly identifies the CPU in /proc/cpuinfo. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - WinErr: 013 Reserved for future mistakes of our developers. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out! /* * linux/arch/i386/head.S * * Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Linus Torvalds */ /* * head.S contains the 32-bit startup code. */ .text #include linux/tasks.h #include linux/linkage.h #include asm/segment.h #include linux/config.h #define CL_MAGIC_ADDR 0x90020 #define CL_MAGIC0xA33F #define CL_BASE_ADDR0x9 #define CL_OFFSET 0x90022 /* * swapper_pg_dir is the main page directory, address 0x1000 (or at * address 0x00101000 for a compressed boot). */ ENTRY(stext) ENTRY(_stext) startup_32: cld movl $(KERNEL_DS),%eax mov %ax,%ds mov %ax,%es mov %ax,%fs mov %ax,%gs #ifdef __SMP__ orw %bx,%bx jz 1f /* Initial CPU cleans BSS */ /* * Set up the stack */ mov %ax,%ss xorl %eax,%eax movw %cx, %ax movl %eax,%esp pushl $0 popfl jmp checkCPUtype 1: lss stack_start,%esp #endif __SMP__ /* * Clear BSS first so that there are no surprises... */ xorl %eax,%eax movl $ SYMBOL_NAME(_edata),%edi movl $ SYMBOL_NAME(_end),%ecx subl %edi,%ecx cld rep stosb /* * start system 32-bit setup. We need to re-do some of the things done * in 16-bit mode for the real operations. */ call setup_idt xorl %eax,%eax 1: incl %eax # check that A20 really IS enabled movl %eax,0x00 # loop forever if it isn't cmpl %eax,0x10 je 1b /* * Initialize eflags. Some BIOS's leave bits like NT set. This would * confuse the debugger if this code is traced. * XXX - best to initialize before switching to protected mode. */ pushl $0 popfl /* * Copy bootup parameters out of the way. First 2kB of * _empty_zero_page is for boot parameters, second 2kB * is for the command line. */ movl $0x9,%esi movl $ SYMBOL_NAME(empty_zero_page),%edi movl $512,%ecx cld rep movsl xorl %eax,%eax movl $512,%ecx rep stosl cmpw $(CL_MAGIC),CL_MAGIC_ADDR jne 1f movl $ SYMBOL_NAME(empty_zero_page)+2048,%edi movzwl CL_OFFSET,%esi addl $(CL_BASE_ADDR),%esi movl $2048,%ecx rep movsb 1: #ifdef __SMP__ checkCPUtype: #endif /* check if it is 486 or 386. */ /* * XXX - this does a lot of unnecessary setup. Alignment checks don't * apply at our cpl of 0 and the stack ought to be aligned already, and * we don't need to preserve eflags. */ /* * A Cyrix/IBM 6x86(L) preserves flags after dividing 5 by 2 * (and it _must_ be 5 divided by 2) while other CPUs change * them in undefined ways. We need to know this since we may * need to enable the CPUID instruction at least. */ xor %ax,%ax sahf movb $5,%ax movb $2,%bx div %bl lahf cmpb $2,%ah jne ncyrix /* * It behaves like a Cyrix/IBM 6x86(L) so put Cyrix in the
Re: Whats the best Dist?
Hi all, I am currently wondering what the best distribution of linux to get next would be, as i am a big fan of S.u.S.E. , RH and Debian I am looking for most advanced, and biggest. Hmm - I'm sure you'll get lots of balence opinions round here ;) I think Debian is the best, because (essay title for homework?): .deb packaging system is great the FS is logical and consistant - files are where you expect them to be large number of packages available from debian mirrors - easy to upgrade - all new packages in the same place all .debs on the mirrors are made by `certified' developers (= nasty security holes are v. unlikely) anyone can contribute to debian - it is a non-commercial community effort. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: debian 2.0 stable?
I've just read some postings complaining that their systems crash too often with debian 2.0 Is debian 2.0 stable or should I stick with 1.3? The machine serves e-mail and web services for about 300 people... pick:~$ w 8:43am up 79 days, 12:09, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT mcv21ttyp0194.176.222.658:43am 1.00s 1.07s 0.29s w see the website, but I have about 10 users (but this is the vac ATM, so load is low). I think that's pretty stable ;) hth, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
quota
Hi all, I have a problem related to quota: I have just compiled the kernel for quota support and changed the fstab in that way: 1. /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults,usrquota,grpquota,errors=remount-ro 0 1 2. /dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults,usrquota,errors=remount-ro 0 1 when I used the number 1. I found a file /remount-ro that is used for the quota. Then I changed to number 2. but still that file is used. Why? Looking throught the documentation I saw that the file name should be something like quota.user and quota.group. Bye, Giuseppe
Installation problems
Hi, I'm having a couple of problems installing Linux on my machine. The problems are revolving around two pieces of hardware, my ethernet card and my video card. My ethernet card is a 3com 3c905TX card. During the boot messages, the card appears to be correctly detected, however I don't seem to be able to communicate with any other machines. Every so often, I also get the following messages on my screen: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status ff status fff. eth0: Transmitter encountered 16 collisions -- network cable problem? eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device? eth0: Host error, FIFO dagnostic register . (That line repeats a bunch of times) eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status . Temporarily disabling functions (7800) The card works fine under Win98. Any suggestions? My video card is a Real 3D StarFighter AGP card with 8M of RAM. There doesn't seem to be any support for this card and when I try to use the SVGA server, it detects the amount of RAM wrong. It thinks I have 64k instead of 8M and therefore don't have enough memory to start the server. At best I can run X Windows with 320x200 resolution, which is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Is there an X server out there that works with this card? I was so looking forward to installing Linux. It kind of sucks that I've hit these road blocks. Thanks, Rich
Re: chmod help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Default Debian Reader) | | How can i change the perms on a directory so that a file that is copied into that directory is automatically owned by another user and group? You can't. Two suggestions: * Use chown -R to change ownership of all files i a directory * Write a shell function (cp) that just copies normally but copies and changes owner and group if the destination is that directory (if you're really desperate ;-) -- .elOle.
TEXINPUTS ?
Dear Debian TeX/LaTeX users,
I have just installed the revtex library under $HOME/tex/sty/revtex, as
in my previous Linux system (2 years old, S.u.S.E. 4.2), under Debian
2.0. Although I have set the variable TEXINPUTS to include
$HOME/tex/sty and $HOME/tex/sty/revtex, the system finds a file
/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/misc/revtex.cls and stops within it at the line
\input{revtex.sty}, saying that it does not find it (correct, since it
is not in that directory): why doesn't latex find my revtex directory
first? I did not have this problem with the old Linux system (teTeX, as
in Debian).
By the way, who has put that revtex.cls file in ./misc?
Isn't the user supposed to have a revtex file at all only if he installs
revtex? There is no revtex in the Debian distribution.
Thank you for your help.
Remo
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Re: chmod help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Default Debian Reader) | | How can i change the perms on a directory so that a file that is copied into that directory is automatically owned by another user and group? You can't. Two suggestions: * Use chown -R to change ownership of all files i a directory * Write a shell function (cp) that just copies normally but copies and changes owner and group if the destination is that directory (if you're really desperate ;-) Don't know if anyone mentioned it already, but you can actually do this for the group ownership. If you do a `chmod g+s dir', new files created in this directory will get the same group. HTH, Eric -- 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
Audio
I was going through my .wav file collection, and after a while (250 odd playings) bplay died reporting there was no room left on device. I tried starting quake after this... segfault, like I predicted. DMA allocation failed. I am nowhere near a sound guru, but this does not seem right, I mean quake plays many sounds, a lot together, or in succession. More than 250 anyway. Is this a problem with bplay? If not, how can it be cured? Playing mp3's still worked, and some other things did not. Has anybody stumbled across this before? I am sorry, I can't supply more information, I was silly and rebooted to fix the problem, hence losing the actual error messages. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject. - If it can't be fixed with Vise-Grips duct tape, it can't be fixed. - Debian GNU/Linux Ooohh You are missing out!
Re: Virtual Poohsticks
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Thomas Adams wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:17:04PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: Does anyone know of any virtual poohsticks software, or is anyone working on some at the moment? What is a virtual poohstick?? I might be way off the beaten path here, but isnt it a game that winnie the pooh plays with eeyore (sp?) or tigger? They drop sticks on one side of a bridge and run to the other, the persons stick which gets to the other side of the bridge (via the stream/river current) wins? Is that right? Indeed ;) the precise mechanism for the stream is still open to debate, but it looks like being a bit of SMTP hackery ;) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
psfixbb in Debian?
Hi Is there psfixbb (the program for fixing of bounding box in postscript) available in any debian package? TIA Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Virtual Poohsticks
*-Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Thomas Adams wrote: | | On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:17:04PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: | | Does anyone know of any virtual poohsticks software, or is anyone | working on some at the moment? | | What is a virtual poohstick?? | | I might be way off the beaten path here, but isnt it a game that winnie | the pooh plays with eeyore (sp?) or tigger? They drop sticks on one side | of a bridge and run to the other, the persons stick which gets to the | other side of the bridge (via the stream/river current) wins? Is that | right? Almost. Actually, you are right in a way when you say that they play _with_ Eeyore. Pooh was playing with Piglet, Rabbit and Roo when suddenly a big, grey stick came floating. Upon closer inspection they found out that it was Eeyore that came down the stream. He had been bounced into by a very bouncy Tigger. The story is called In which Pooh invents a New Game and Eeyore joins in and it's highly amusing. Sorry for being slightly off-topic :-) -- .elOle.
Re: Virtual Poohsticks
On 7 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: *-Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Thomas Adams wrote: | | On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:17:04PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: | | Does anyone know of any virtual poohsticks software, or is anyone | working on some at the moment? | | What is a virtual poohstick?? | | I might be way off the beaten path here, but isnt it a game that winnie | the pooh plays with eeyore (sp?) or tigger? They drop sticks on one side | of a bridge and run to the other, the persons stick which gets to the | other side of the bridge (via the stream/river current) wins? Is that | right? Almost. Actually, you are right in a way when you say that they play _with_ Eeyore. Pooh was playing with Piglet, Rabbit and Roo when suddenly a big, grey stick came floating. Upon closer inspection they found out that it was Eeyore that came down the stream. He had been bounced into by a very bouncy Tigger. Do I not recall pooh tripping and dropping a pinecone into the stream? Matthew (who is NOT a member of Pembroke College Pooh Society) -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: Fonts for Gimp
Chris Hoover hat gesagt: // Chris Hoover wrote: Thanks for the help. I went and installed both of these font packages, but it did not seem to solve the problem. I still seem to be missing the fonts that gimp wants to run many of the xtns. Especially the ones under script-fu. Is anyone else having the same problem? Are there any other font packages that I need to install? This is strange. I have only installed this font-packages and all the scripts run fine. Maybe you have to make sure, that your FontPath setting in /etc/X11/XF86Config is also pointig to the free- and sharefont directories. My section looks like this: /etc/X11/XF86Config: --- snip --- Section Files RgbPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont EndSection --- snap --- -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: X App Launcher?
David Warnock hat gesagt: // David Warnock wrote: Hi, I am using XFree86 (the suse one that supports Permedia 2 cards). I am currently using icewm as my window manager. I am looking for an application launcher that will sit on my desktop and provide direct access to applications. I guess I could change the menu but I would prefer to lick on icons. I would prefer something that does not tie me into a single window manager but it would also be nice if I could specify which virtual window items load in. It would be nice if it had a .deb package and was quick to setup. What are your suggestions? Apart from the BIG solutions aka Gnome and KDE and the small ones built into your favourite window manager (FVWMButtons in fvwm(2/95), WARP in Afterstep), you could take a look at tkdesk, which as far as I remember, has a configurable button bar and is not tied to a window manager/Desktop Environment. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Apple diskettes
How can I read Apple McIntosh dikettes on a Debian system? Blazej
Re: Segmentation faults
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, C.J.LAWSON wrote: You might want to chech if you have enough memory (if not you may want to do something about your swap space). Run free when you try and start one of those 'seggy' programs After your message I changed taper's memory configuration and at first it seemed to have solved the problem. Now I do no longer get a segmentation fault message... I get a stack overflow message. I do not have time now but I will try out slink's version of taper to see if there is any improvement. In the mean time my backups are useless... Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Romans 10:13
Re: Apple diskettes
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 01:09:47PM +0200, Blazej Sawionek wrote: How can I read Apple McIntosh dikettes on a Debian system? Get the hfsutils package. In additon you may look at macutils too. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L Linus Torvalds, W Winfried Truemper | | Lthis is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | WUmh, oh. What do you mean by special easter release?. Will it quit | * Wworking today and rise on easter? * pgpHPMOPQpvwj.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: WindowMaker 0.19.1
XRDLAB writes: Hello, I am running hamm. To install the latest windowmaker, I downloaded the following files for WindowMaker 0.19.1 from http://master.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages (as was suggested by the maintainer): libproplist0-dev_0.8.1-2.deb libproplist0_0.8.1-2.deb libwings-dev_0.19.1-1_i386.deb libwmaker0-dev_0.19.1-1_i386.deb libwmaker0_0.19.1-1_i386.deb libwraster1-dev_0.19.1-1_i386.deb libwraster1_0.19.1-1_i386.deb wmaker_0.19.1-1_i386.deb Installation was without errors. But when I do a 'startx', the xserver crashes with the following error message: .. /usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker: error loading shared libraries undefined symbol: _Xsetlocale Hi, I4ve posted a question about this on Saturday. You can search the wmaker 0.19 thread. First, I recommend you to download the Debian version of wmaker 0.19.1 (it is in unstable section (slink) in a Debian mirror site). Better than compiling things yourself and no fear of putting things in the wrong place. After that you4ll still have the _Xsetlocale problem. To solve it I was asked to try two things: 1) As root run ldconfig. 2) Upgrade to xlib6g 3.3.2.3-1 (it4s in hamm). The first thing did not solve my problem (as the maintainer expected), but the upgrade of xlib6g made it run smoothly. Good Luck. Paulo.
wmaker
Hi, Is there anyway in wmaker 0.91-1 to put something like slrn in the dock and assign an icon like news.xpm without changing every other xterm icon to this icon? Thanks Aot -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rknebel.csrlink.net -
Problems w/bash upgrading to libreadlineg
Howdy, I think I've really got my Debian Linux system messed up now. I was trying to upgrade to: bash_2.01.1-3.1.deb, which requires libreadlineg2 (2.1-10.1). Well, dselect would always fail with an internal error - filename not found...chunk 16 message. So, I decided to try to install with dpkg command line. It basically said I couldn't upgrade bash because the current bash used libreadline2 and that conflicted with libreadlineg2. And it wouldn't upgrade to libreadlineg2 because it said that the conflict would break libreadline2 and thus bash. Aargh! So here's where I really hosed up my system. I forced the upgrade to libreadlineg2 and tried to force the bash upgrade. The libreadlineg2 upgrade worked, but has now broken the current bash, so no scripts (including the dpkg subprocess pre-installation script) will run, and thus the new bash will not install. Help! How can I install the new bash so I will have an operational system? Perhaps if someone can send me the new bash executable, I can install that by hand. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Randy Saint [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELP: More Problems Configuring Email
When Art Lemasters wrote, I replied: Denis, go to the FAQ-O-MATIC at the debian site (www.debian.org), and find the FAQ about SMAIL configuration for dynamic accounts (you _do_ have a single-user dynamic account--right?) I have that, but chose sendmail rather than smail, so the FAQ-O-MATIC wasn't much help. My current state is: when I rune fetchmail, it responds: fetchmail: 36 messages at mail.my_isp.net reading message 1 of 36 (1732 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: connection refused fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.my_isp.net I've attached my .fetchmailrc (or a reasonable facsimile thereto) And if you have a dynamic IP account, also change the visible name to your ISP's domain name (for example, isp.com) without the @ symbol or the username. I have no idea what the extra postmaster line will do to an smail config. It appears to be something that belongs in your /etc/aliases file if at all. Disregard this reply if you have your own domain with more than one user account with your ISP. Hope it helps. Anyone else...corrections, additions, etc.? Art On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 11:32:33PM -0400, DMDP wrote: Okay ... I have uninstalled SENDMAIL and reinstall SMAIL. I can send e-mail, however I cannot recieve e-mail. When I send it, the Return-Path line on the e-mail reads root. In my SMAIL config file, I have changed the visible name to my full e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED], and change the hostdomain to miracle.net. I have also added a line [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know what else to do. Thanks, Denis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Insert sardonic phrase here poll mail.my_isp.net protocol pop3 username rjw password secret_password
Re: Problems w/bash upgrading to libreadlineg
Randy Marianne Saint hat gesagt: // Randy Marianne Saint wrote: Howdy, I think I've really got my Debian Linux system messed up now. Yes, you REALLY did :( I was trying to upgrade to: bash_2.01.1-3.1.deb, which requires libreadlineg2 (2.1-10.1). Well, dselect would always fail with an internal error - filename not found...chunk 16 message. So, I decided to try to install with dpkg command line. It basically said I couldn't upgrade bash because the current bash used libreadline2 and that conflicted with libreadlineg2. And it wouldn't upgrade to libreadlineg2 because it said that the conflict would break libreadline2 and thus bash. Aargh! I read this as if you tried to upgrade to the libc6/glibc-bash and therefore to a libc6 system without following the critical upgrade path as described in the Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO (Look at www.debian.org for pointers to this.) So here's where I really hosed up my system. I forced the upgrade to libreadlineg2 and tried to force the bash upgrade. NEVER force if you're not 1000 % sure what you're messing up. The libreadlineg2 upgrade worked, but has now broken the current bash, so no scripts (including the dpkg subprocess pre-installation script) will run, and thus the new bash will not install. Help! How can I install the new bash so I will have an operational system? This will be complicated, sorry to say. I would maybe try to somehow get the old bash and the old readlinelibs working again. Difficult, because you don't have a working bash and dpkg, I know. Maybe you can boot from a bootdisk and try to replace the files by hand (*.deb files are just archives packed with ar. Inside you will find three files: * debian-binary * control.tar.gz * data.tar.gz In data.tar.gz there are the needed binaries. BUT: To be honest, I think it is time to backup your home- and etc-directories and do a fresh reinstall, prefarably from a new-bought Debian-2.0-CD. Perhaps if someone can send me the new bash executable, I can install that by hand. -- ____ Frank Barknecht __ __ trip\ \ / /wire __ / __// __ /__/ __// // __ \ \/ / __ \\ ___\ / / / / / / / // // /\ \\ ___\\ \ /_/ /_/ /_/ /_//_// / \ \\_\\_\ /_/\_\
Re: X Background
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 12:45:43PM +, David Warnock wrote: I am using XFree86 with icewm. The desktop background is a distracting pattern. So far I clear this (which has sort of difraction patterns at high res) by using the fishtank application. I am quite a boring person and wondered how to clear it to a single colour. Thanks Dave xsetroot -solid [color] is just fine for one color. For a little less boring background try floatbg -- it sets a solid color and changes it every so often. I exec mine on the way into icewm -- in ~/.xinitrc: #!/bin/sh exec icewm floatbg tkdesk Ciao! davew -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . . . . This computer is running Linux! For pgp key, send message with subject get pgp key If you think the system is working, ask someone who's waiting for a prompt.
Re: mutt error
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 10:54:54PM +1200, Andrew wrote: when I try to run mutt I get: Need to be running setgid 0 to lock mailbox! - ensure the mutt binary has the proper permissions: -rwxr-sr-x and ownership: user root, group mail - ensure /var/spool/mail has the proper permissions: drwxrwsr-t and ownership: user root, group mail. HTH, Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: wmaker
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 11:22:13AM -0500, Michael Montz wrote: Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: (Before somebody asks: I *am* uploading -- or trying to -- 0.19.1-1 right now) Has this happen yet? I just checked. wmaker has been installed on slink and it's available on the incoming directory of ftp.windowmaker.org Marcelo
RE: hostname lookup failure
Perplexing it is. s My hosts also has a localhost (set to local machine, 127.0.0.1) -- should that be in there? Now, it happens I have a domain name I can use to put in here, but what would one do if one did not have one? Thanks, Hank -Original Message- From: Lindsay Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 06, 1998 9:17 PM To: Hank Fay Subject: Re: hostname lookup failure I'm no expert, but I would check that /etc/hostname has the right name and that /etc/hosts shows something like www.xxx.yyy.zzz myhost.something.orgmyhost Then try hostname hostname -f This problem can be really perplexing at times. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj Debian Linux =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Hank Fay wrote: I have a Hamm box set up with a cable modem driver for the SB-1000 (courtesy of Franco Venture, [EMAIL PROTECTED]), and so far am connecting to the ISP just fine. However, being networking challenged, I am getting Host name lookup failure -- but of course it's a user setup failure also. g I have the nameserver in resolve.conf set to the IP of the ISP's nameserver. I am not running a local DNS. Any directions to start looking would very much appreciated -- so near yet so... s Hank -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
X is hosed
I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink. At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker. Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm starts but when a user logs in, the session crashes. Root can log in ok. Root can use startx, but a user cannot. Looks like permissions. Permissions of WHAT? I now downgraded back to the X11 packages in hamm, but the same problem persists. I still don't understand what wmaker did. I upgraded the libraries, and installed wmaker libs too. That's one of the last things I did before this happened. Thank you for any help. Alan Davis
Re: X is hosed
I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink. At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker. Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm starts but when a user logs in, the session crashes. Root can log in ok. Root can use startx, but a user cannot. Looks like permissions. Permissions of WHAT? I now downgraded back to the X11 packages in hamm, but the same problem persists. I still don't understand what wmaker did. I upgraded the libraries, and installed wmaker libs too. That's one of the last things I did before this happened. I'm not quite sure about this, but: a) do you now have no wmaker at all? b) is your x config such that it tries to launch wmaker If both of these are yes, then that is the problem. Install wmaker again (hamm version), or change ? /etc/Xsession or .xsession to fire up something else HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
proxy server blues
John,
thanks very much. I assume you mean in /etc/init.d/network ? I rem'd
the
last line, and I can now ping from that machine, but not from any of the
others who have this set as gateway. Nor FTP, nor HTTP (the other machines
are set with this machine as gateway, and the ISP's DNS servers as their DNS
servers).
Here's what I have in my network script now -- any comments appreciated.
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=192.168.1.3
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
GATEWAY=192.168.1.3
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
# [ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
Hank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 1998 7:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
I'm using local IP, because this is to be an IPMasq machine, acting as
proxy for the rest of the network. In this case, should I have
noipdefault?
Yes. The IPMasq is irrelevant. Make sure that you don't have a default
route set up to your local network. You don't need it, and it will stop
pppd from making the ppp link a default route.
Sep 6 15:55:12 firewall pppd[4898]: not replacing existing default route
to
eth0 [0.0.0.0]
Here is your problem. You should not have a default route set up to your
local network. You don't need it, and it will stop pppd from making the
ppp link a default route.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
Re: xlogmaster
Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's rumored that this has been packaged for debian, but I don't see it when I run dselect (I'm using apt, stable (hamm), main - contrib - non-free - nonUS). Can anyone provide a clue? TIA I believe it is in unstable distribution (slink) -- Arjan Scherpenisse, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.coal.nl/arjan
ne2k_pci and other Modules question
My Ethernet Card was NE-2000PCI (Realtek RTL-8029) (1) When I install Hamm on my system, The Installation program asked me append command on the Command Line Agruments of ne2k_pci module, If I let it empty, this module installation will failed, also I can't find any interface of the ethernet card, How to completed it? (2) some modules of the other sections (like ipv4) also needed the Command Line Agruments or parameters, where will I found the informations (The Modules HOW-TO is out dated)? Thanks Alex
Re: Your friends...... whatever.
Some time around Mon, 07 Sep 1998 18:44:35 +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Igor Grobman wrote: Having said that there is one exception to this rule ;-) and that is aol.c om . It has been established that 99.9% of the mail with @aol.com from field ha s nothing to do with any topics relevant to debian lists. Right now, all aol.com posts come to me, and I forward them to the list if necessary (I haven't had to do any of that lately). Heh... its funny really.. AOL has quite strict rules does it not? Correct me if I am wrong. Yes they do, but they do have a huge customer base and it's very easy to sign on even for a newbie, plus their clueful/clueless ratio is probably the lowest in the industry ;-). That means that the spammers have no problem signing on with a new account as soon as they are kicked off, and that the chances of a relevant post to debian lists are very low. I haven't seen one in about 2 months. -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation problems
Some time around Mon, 07 Sep 1998 03:19:22 EDT, Richard Heller wrote: Hi, I'm having a couple of problems installing Linux on my machine. The problem s are revolving around two pieces of hardware, my ethernet card and my video card. My ethernet card is a 3com 3c905TX card. During the boot messages, the card appears to be correctly detected, however I don't seem to be able to commun icate with any other machines. Every so often, I also get the following mes sages on my screen: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status ff status fff. eth0: Transmitter encountered 16 collisions -- network cable problem? eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device? eth0: Host error, FIFO dagnostic register . (That line repeats a bunch of times) eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status . Temporarily disabling functi ons (7800) This sounds like you have an irq conflict. Make sure your card is detected at the correct irq, and that the irq isn't being used by something else. If it's the former, read ethernet HOWTO on how to pass the settings to the kernel on boot. If it's the latter, reconfigure your card for another irq. The card works fine under Win98. Any suggestions? Win98 is not as strict with IRQ conflicts and may be working around the problem. My video card is a Real 3D StarFighter AGP card with 8M of RAM. There doesn 't seem to be any support for this card and when I try to use the SVGA serve r, it detects the amount of RAM wrong. It thinks I have 64k instead of 8M a nd therefore don't have enough memory to start the server. At best I can ru n X Windows with 320x200 resolution, which is something I wouldn't wish on m y worst enemy. Is there an X server out there that works with this card? What chipset does it have? Maybe it needs a special server (as opposed to SVGA) designed for its chipset. Figure out what chipset your card has, and search the net for what the status of the driver development is. I was so looking forward to installing Linux. It kind of sucks that I've hi t these road blocks. They are not that bad. Everyone has some kind of problem first time they install. Thanks, Rich -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /de v/null -- Proudly running Debian Linux! Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
window sizing
Hi, hopeing someone can help me. I'm adjusting to using debian linux and still finding things a challenge. I'm running X and have been using various windows managers like fvwm95, icewm, and window maker. The problem is my display is 640 x 480 (due to visual impairment on my part) and I can't get windows to come up the right size when I start X. I always have to resize which gets old after awhile! Please help! Kathy A Miles For an out of this world experience, visit earthspace.net!
can smail change the Envelope?
I usually write email on the Debian box here, for which I installed UUCP and SMail, which works fine. I can change the From: line to whatever I like and my provider still accepts and delivers the emails. So far, so good. But there is a Mac here which communicates with my Linux box via Ethernet and which I would also like to send mail from. I installed Internet Config and MacSOUP and started reading mail. Worked fine. Then I send some email which returned with an error message from my provider's MTA. It told me the return-path of my message was wrong. I assume what it means is the first line in an email's header which looks like: From cat.ping.de!tom . . From: Thomas Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . If my assumption is correct then MacSOUP generates a wrong header because the first line looks like: From pobox.com!tadams Now I wonder if I can configure SMail in such a way that it rewrites the first From line (aka Envelope?) to a format my provider likes? Below is an example error message: From MAILER-DAEMON Mon Sep 7 08:51:14 1998 Return-Path: real-tom Received: by cat.ping.de via rmail from stdin id [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 08:51:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 12284 invoked by uid 10); 6 Sep 1998 22:54:28 - Date: 6 Sep 1998 22:54:28 - Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail failed - invalid return-path Status: RO Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 31 Hi. This is the rmail program at lilly.ping.de. I am afraid I can only accept messages that have a valid return-path (or From_ line) pointing to an address in the .ping.de domain. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. --- Below this line is a copy of the message. From pobox.com!tadams Sun Sep 6 21:50:56 1998 remote from cat Received: from [192.168.1.2] (really [192.168.1.2]) by cat.ping.de via in.smtpd with smtp id [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 21:50:56 +0200 (CEST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (xx xx) Subject: x xxx xxx From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Adams) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 21:50:53 +0200 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Organization: none X-Mailer: MacSOUP D-2.3.1 (unregistered)
Error Initializing swap partition on lowmem install
Hello Debian users! I'm hoping you can solve my problem. I am installing debian 2.0 on a 386sx/20. The system has 4Mb RAM w/ a 125Mb HDD, partioned as follows: Partion# Size Type - 1 16M Linux Swap 2 4MMinix/Old Linux 3 89M Linux Native 4 16M Caldera DR-DOS -- The two lines below appeared (along with many other things) when I chose option #4 exit. (from the lowmem setup menu) *** swapon failed device or resource busy *** I have run the low memory setup, and all appears well until, In dinstall, I am told to initialize the swap portion. I have already done so under the Lowmem install program. I have tried all the options, except doing without a swap partition. Each time, it says the partion is busy and it cannot be initialized. HELP!!! Troy -- Tercero -- Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone; --Psalms 118:22 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed. --Luke 20:18
Re: chmod help
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Default Debian Reader) : | : | How can i change the perms on a directory so that a file that is copied into that directory is automatically owned by another user and group? : [ snip ] : Don't know if anyone mentioned it already, but you can actually do this : for the group ownership. If you do a `chmod g+s dir', new files : created in this directory will get the same group. In fact, this is why Debian uses usergroups rather than catch-all groups like users - the default umask can be set so that your private files in your home directory are indeed private, but files in a shared project directory (take /usr/local/src as an example) can be editted by anyone in group src, provided /usr/local/src has permissions 2775. I hated usergroups when I started using Debian, until I figured out what they were for. Now I find them quite useful. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: Virtual Poohsticks
*-M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | On 7 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: | | Pooh was playing with Piglet, Rabbit and Roo when suddenly a big, grey | stick came floating. Upon closer inspection they found out that it was | Eeyore that came down the stream. He had been bounced into by a very | bouncy Tigger. | | Do I not recall pooh tripping and dropping a pinecone into the stream? Almost. Pooh invented the game when he tripped and dropped a fir-cone into the stream. -- .elOle.
Re: window sizing
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 11:36:35AM -0500, Kathy Miles wrote: Hi, hopeing someone can help me. I'm adjusting to using debian linux and still finding things a challenge. I'm running X and have been using various windows managers like fvwm95, icewm, and window maker. The problem is my display is 640 x 480 (due to visual impairment on my part) Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't a larger resolution with matching fonts be more suitable for you? and I can't get windows to come up the right size when I start X. I'm including the relevant part of my ~/.Xresources file, which illustrates how to set the default fonts for xterm and rxvt. Another resource you might find useful is the Linux Access HOWTO's section for the visually impaired: http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Access-HOWTO-3.html . Hope this helps, Ray !! ! ! ~/.Xresources - X resource preferences. ! ! For information about X resources and associated commands, see xrdb(1x), ! editres(1x), appres(1x), listres(1x). ! !! ! This file uses xrdb's capability of using cpp as a preprocesor. ! For documentation on cpp, see cpp(1) and the cpp info entry. ! xrdb defines several preprocessor symbols, including: ! HEIGHT=num ! the height of the root window in pixels. ! WIDTH=num ! the width of the root window in pixels. ! Use `xrdb -symbols' to view the symbols and their values. ! Abbreviations to shorten tests on display size #if (WIDTH = 1280 ) (HEIGHT = 1024) # define W_1280 #elif (WIDTH = 1152 ) (HEIGHT = 864) # define W_1152 #elif (WIDTH = 1024 ) (HEIGHT = 768) # define W_1024 #elif (WIDTH = 800) (HEIGHT = 600) # define W_800 #endif !! ! ! Fixed width fonts ! ! Useful programs for determining font preferences: ! - xlsfonts(1x) ! - list X fonts matching a pattern (e.g. xlsfonts -fn '*-iso8859-1' ). ! - `-ll' includes information on whether a font is proportional or not ! (`monospaced', `character cell'). ! - xfd(1x) - show all glyphs in a font. ! - xfontsel(1x) - point and click selection of font names. . ! (e.g. xfontsel -noscaled -pattern '*-iso8859-1' ) ! ! Constraints: ! - Fixed width (essential for terminal emulators) ! - ISO 8859-1 encoding and full ISO 8859-1 character set ! - Slightly on the big side (I don't like to have many windows on my display, ! and often use screen(1) to keep things managable). ! - The `huge' font should be as big as possible within the screen size. ! - FONT_UNREADABLE FONT_TINY FONT_SMALL FONT_NORMAL FONT_LARGISH !FONT_LARGE FONT_HUGE !! ! I don't see the need for a separate Medium font - I use default for a ! medium (normal) sized font. XTerm*fontMenu*font4*Label: Largish #ifdef W_1152 # define FONT_NORMAL -*-fixed-bold-r-*-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 # define FONT_LARGISH -misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 # define FONT_LARGE -sony-fixed-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 # define FONT_HUGE -bh-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 # define FONT_SMALL -misc-fixed-*-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 # define FONT_TINY -bh-lucidatypewriter-*-r-*-*-8-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 #endif #ifdef W_1024 # define FONT_NORMAL -misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-13-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 # define FONT_LARGISH -misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-15-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 # define FONT_LARGE -bitstream-terminal-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 # define FONT_HUGE -sony-fixed-medium-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 # define FONT_SMALL -bh-lucidatypewriter-*-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1 # define FONT_TINY -*-fixed-*-r-*-*-7-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1 #endif #if !defined(FONT_NORMAL) || defined(W_800) ! Default fonts # define FONT_NORMAL -misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-70-iso8859-1 # define FONT_LARGISH -misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-13-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 # define FONT_LARGE -misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 # define FONT_HUGE -misc-fixed-medium-r-*-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 # define FONT_SMALL -bh-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 # define FONT_TINY -misc-fixed-medium-r-*--7-*-*-*-*-50-iso8859-1 #endif ! default fonts #if !defined(FONT_UNREADABLE) # define FONT_UNREADABLE nil2 #endif !! ! ! Fonts for terminal emulators ! !! XTerm*VT100*font: FONT_NORMAL XTerm*VT100*font1: FONT_UNREADABLE XTerm*VT100*font2: FONT_TINY XTerm*VT100*font3: FONT_SMALL XTerm*VT100*font4: FONT_LARGISH XTerm*VT100*font5: FONT_LARGE XTerm*VT100*font6: FONT_HUGE ! rxvt takes over fonts from XTerm, but is has fewer font slots ! (normal and 1..4); we override the XTerm font settings by skipping ! FONT_UNREADABLE and FONT_LARGISH Rxvt*font:
HELP newbie find specific shared libraries
Could anyone tell me where to find the following shared libraries (not just site location, but specific tar files). I need them to hopefully get Communicator 4.06-4.5 working (they are suggested in release notes) libXm.so.1.2.4 libICE.so.6.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] libXpm.so.4.9 libXext.so.6.1 libdl.so.1.7.14 libc.so.5.3.12 libg++.so.27.1.4 libstdc++.so.27.1.4 libm.so.5.0.6 Any help would be much appreciated. Albert Hurd
Re: Virtual Poohsticks
On 7 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: *-M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | On 7 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: | | Pooh was playing with Piglet, Rabbit and Roo when suddenly a big, grey | stick came floating. Upon closer inspection they found out that it was | Eeyore that came down the stream. He had been bounced into by a very | bouncy Tigger. | | Do I not recall pooh tripping and dropping a pinecone into the stream? Almost. Pooh invented the game when he tripped and dropped a fir-cone into the stream. :) pedantry of cam.misc quality! Does the sudden surge of interest mean that someone might actually use a server? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
Re: HELP newbie find specific shared libraries
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:16:00AM -0700, Albert Hurd wrote: Could anyone tell me where to find the following shared libraries (not just site location, but specific tar files). I need them to hopefully get Communicator 4.06-4.5 working (they are suggested in release notes) Any particular reason why you're not simply using the netscape4 installer package from contrib/web? It has all the proper dependencies: Depends: motifnls, ldso (= 1.9.7-0), libc5 (= 5.4.0-0), libc6, libg++27 (= 2.7.2.1-1), xlib6 (= 3.3-0), xpm4.7 (= 3.4j-0) libXm.so.1.2.4 That's Motif; it's commercial software. If you don't have Motif, get the statically linked version of netscape. HTH, Ray -- UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY, SNEAKY, UNDERHAND and JUST LUCKY I GUESS. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: Audio
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was going through my .wav file collection, and after a while (250 odd playings) bplay died reporting there was no room left on device. I tried starting quake after this... segfault, like I predicted. DMA allocation failed. I am nowhere near a sound guru, but this does not seem right, I mean quake plays many sounds, a lot together, or in succession. More than 250 anyway. Is this a problem with bplay? If not, how can it be cured? Playing mp3's still worked, and some other things did not. Has anybody stumbled across this before? I am sorry, I can't supply more information, I was silly and rebooted to fix the problem, hence losing the actual error messages. While running bplay, what does a watch df in another window show? HTH, Jens -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 Here is a patch for one of the nastiest 2.1 (and earlier) problems: the uptime counter wraps back to zero after 497 days. The heartbreak of seeing that carefully-nurtured uptime go to zero is not something that should be inflicted on anybody. -- http://lwn.net/ August 27, 1998
2.0 SCSI_HOSTADATER, st0, Zip, vs depmod ?
When I originally installed Debian 2.0 from CD I could swear that my SCSI tape drive on my ncr53c8xx SCSI host adapter was seen and reported at boot up time. I eventually compiled up a custom kernel and since I never use the tape drive (I mean, what could happen to my files on disk anyway?) I stopped looking for the message and I don't know if was ever there after the installation of my custom kernel. Anyway ... I attached my Zip Plus to the external connection of the ncr53c8xx after my NT box blew itself to smithereens (software-wise) and now I wanted to actually use SCSI. I recompiled my kernel to include SCSI disk support and rebooted. No luck on the Zip. After some cursing, browsing, searching, thinking and reading (in that order) I did an 'insmod ncr53c8xxx' and viola I could use the Zip drive. Then I thought - how could my tape drive be working if I had to load the SCSI adapter driver manually? I rebooted, watched the messages and then tried the tape drive with a quick tar. No luck. So neither my tape drive nor my Zip Plus (both on the ncr53c8xx) were available automatically after a boot. All the SCSI stuff was configured as modules so ... curse, browse, search, think, read I added the line alias scsi_hostadapter ncr53c8xx to /etc/conf.modules and the line scsi_hostadapter to /etc/modules just before the line st. I rebooted and now the devices are available automatically after a boot. But ... why did I have to add the lines? If st was already in /etc/modules would modprobe not automatically load the modules it depends on? Would it not depend on ncr53c8xx? I tried a quick depmod -a to rebuild the dependency file but this did not help - still needed the explicit line in /etc/modules. So the question is: Is something wrong with the dependencies or is this the way it is supposed to work? And second, is what I did the best way to make the tape drive and the zip drive automatically available? Any information welcome! Ken
Re: HELP newbie find specific shared libraries
*- Albert Hurd wrote about HELP newbie find specific shared libraries | Could anyone tell me where to find the following shared libraries (not | just site location, but specific tar files). I need them to hopefully | get Communicator 4.06-4.5 working (they are suggested in release notes) | | libXm.so.1.2.4 | libICE.so.6.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libXpm.so.4.9 | libXext.so.6.1 | libdl.so.1.7.14 | libc.so.5.3.12 | libg++.so.27.1.4 | libstdc++.so.27.1.4 | libm.so.5.0.6 | | | Any help would be much appreciated. | | Albert Hurd | | | -- | Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null | Go get the file, ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz Then use zgrep to search the Contents file for each library(minus the version number) you are missing. I.e. % zgrep libICE.so Contents-i386.gz usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so x11/xlib6g-dev usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6x11/xlib6g usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6.3 x11/xlib6g usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/libICE.so oldlibs/xlib6-altdev usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 oldlibs/xlib6 usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6.3 oldlibs/xlib6 So if you are running the glibc version of Netscape you need the xlib6g package and if you are running the libc5 version of Netscape you need the xlib6 package. The better thing would be to use the netscape installer in the contrib section of the Debian packages and it will tell you what it depends on, at least for the libc5 version of Netscape. Brian - Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes. - unknown Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: HELP newbie find specific shared libraries
You probably should get the Debian packages, not the tar files. 1. The easy way (the Debian way): If you download communicator 4.06 (not the glibc version) and put it in /tmp, then use dselect or apt-get to install the netscape4 package, it will examine the dependencies and install all the necessary libraries. 2. The harder way: (It looks like you have the libc5 version of Netscape. Note that the libc6 versions of some of the files have the same names, but are installed in different directories.) libXm.so.1.2.4- libXm.so.1.2 in the lesstifg package libICE.so.6.0 - libICE.so.6 in the xlib6 package libXpm.so.4.9 - libXpm.so.4.10 in the xpm4.7 package libXext.so.6.1- libXext.so.6.3 in the xlib6 package libdl.so.1.7.14 - libdl.so.1.9.9 in the ldso package libc.so.5.3.12- libc.so.5.0.38 in the libc5 package libg++.so.27.1.4 - libg++.so.27.2.1 in the libg++27 package libstdc++.so.27.1.4 - libstdc++.so.27.2.1 in the libg++27 package libm.so.5.0.6 - libm.so.5.0.5 in the libc5 package I strongly recommend that you use either dselect or apt-get to avoid getting into dependency problems. The apt method in dselect works quite nicely. Unfortunately apt is not part of the Debian 2.0 distribution, but is available in /dists/unstable/binary-i386/admin. Don't let the unstable scare you away from it--it is a valuable tool and IMHO should be on every Debian system. Bob On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: Could anyone tell me where to find the following shared libraries (not just site location, but specific tar files). I need them to hopefully get Communicator 4.06-4.5 working (they are suggested in release notes) libXm.so.1.2.4 libICE.so.6.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] libXpm.so.4.9 libXext.so.6.1 libdl.so.1.7.14 libc.so.5.3.12 libg++.so.27.1.4 libstdc++.so.27.1.4 libm.so.5.0.6 Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: Commandline FTP
Darren Benham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When looking at the ncftp, I didn't see any place to specify a command line.. but I didn't look deeply into it. I eventually just ended up writing a python script (and getting it to work :) In bash: ncftp EOF open ftp.xyz.com user name password cd /xyz get xyz.tar.gz cl EOF HTH, Jens -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 Global War[m|n|p|r]ing? -- Peter G. Neumann (Comp.Risks 19.91)
Re: deb for StarOffice 4
David Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have downloaded StarOffice 4. I have not seen a package to install this (there is one for StarOffice 3.1). a) Is there a package somewhere that will install so40sp3_lnx_01.tar.gz AFAIK: no. The installer of SO is rather good (It installs everything in one directory, so no problems on delete time). b) If there is not how easy is it to create on like the one for StarOffice 3.1 (or Netscape 4)? I am interested not just for StarOffice but for apps we write and need to install/uninstll on our own LAN. It's easy. See http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/deb-make/ Jens -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things, The fate of empires and the fall of kings; While quacks of State must each produce his plan, And even children lisp the Rights of Man; Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention, The Rights of Woman merit some attention. -- Robert Burns, Address on The Rights of Woman, 26/10 1792
Cannot convert string -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-.... to type FontStruct
Hi! I always get the above warning/error messages when I invoked some applications like Netsape, emacs, acroread... How can I solve this problem? Thank you Joseph
Re: wmaker 0.19
On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 01:20:33AM +, Robert Wilderspin wrote: 1. As root, run ldconfig. If that fixes it, please report it back to me. (I *hope* it doesn't fix it) [note: look at the bug-reporting system to find out who me is] I know... do I get a prize or something?!? ;-) 2. If 1. fails, upgrade to a newer version of xlib6g. You can pick the one in debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/x11/xlib6g_3.3.2.3-1.deb This fixed the problem for another user. (1.) won't work (yipee!!); 2. will; the problem is an ancient version of xlib6g. I have talked with the maintainer of X about this. 0.19.2 will have this problem fixed (/me hopes) Marcelo
jdk 1.5 - 1.6 incompatibilities? (was Re: ICQ Does Not Match the JDK?)
Art Lemasters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running slink. The JDK available appears to conflict with the ICQ available. Is this the case, and if so, is there an update for this on the way? Thanks. I'm running this here without problems: ii jdk1.1-runtime 1.1.5v5-1 JDK 1.1.x (Java Development Kit) - Runtime o ii icq-java0.1Popular online communication software (insta The new jdk 1.1.6v2-1 seems to conflict with jdk 1.1.5v5-1. icq-java depends on jdk1.1-runtime. Where has -runtime gone, is it obsolete? Does icq-java have to depend on jdk1.1 and not on runtime? Jens -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 Here is a patch for one of the nastiest 2.1 (and earlier) problems: the uptime counter wraps back to zero after 497 days. The heartbreak of seeing that carefully-nurtured uptime go to zero is not something that should be inflicted on anybody. -- http://lwn.net/ August 27, 1998
Re: window sizing
Hi, Try a variation of these: -~/.xsession or .xinitrc--- default_dir=/home/srivasta userresources=$default_dir/.Xresources if [ -f $userresources ]; then xrdb -merge $userresources fi __ ~/.Xresources XTerm*boldFont: 6x13bold XTerm*menuFont: 6x13bold XTerm*VT100*geometry: 80x5+0+100 __ manoj -- Dear Emily: How can I choose what groups to post in? Confused Dear Confused: Pick as many as you can, so that you get the widest audience. After all, the net exists to give you an audience. Ignore those who suggest you should only use groups where you think the article is highly appropriate. Pick all groups where anybody might even be slightly interested. Always make sure followups go to all the groups. In the rare event that you post a followup which contains something original, make sure you expand the list of groups. Never include a Followup-to: line in the header, since some people might miss part of the valuable discussion in the fringe groups. Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
Re: HELP: More Problems Configuring Email
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:33:11AM -0300, Ralph Winslow wrote: When Art Lemasters wrote, I replied: [...] wasn't much help. My current state is: when I rune fetchmail, it responds: fetchmail: 36 messages at mail.my_isp.net reading message 1 of 36 (1732 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: connection refused fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.my_isp.net [...] fetchmail is configured by default to use smtp to receive mail. Check /etc/inetd.conf. It should have something like the following. #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. smtp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd fetchmail is trying to use in.smtpd and the connection is being refused. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux
Runs linux on a partition with fat32 and win98
I have win98 with fat32 installed on my pc and I want to know if it is possible without the formating of the hard disk to install Debian 2.0 Thanks!
Re: Runs linux on a partition with fat32 and win98
On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, [iso-8859-1] Bernhard Hödl wrote: I have win98 with fat32 installed on my pc and I want to know if it is possible without the formating of the hard disk to install Debian 2.0 Yes. You will need to get the program fips15c.zip. This is on ftp.debian.org in /pub/debian/tools (it may also be on Debian 2.0 CDs). It will allow you to repartition your hard drive to dedicate some space to Linux. The 15c version will handle FAT32. The commercial program Partition Magic will also work with a FAT32 file system. Debian 2.0 installs kernel 2.0.33. If you want to be able to read/write to FAT32 partitions after installing Debian 2.0, you should upgrade to kernel 2.0.34 or later, which recognize FAT32. 2.0.35 is the latest in the 2.0 series, and is available as a Debian kernel-image package in /unstable, while 2.0.34 is in /stable. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
database
Hi, I use access at work for some really simple database work. Is there anything in linux I could start using so i can be using one less app in NT. I know there is nothing real similiar but maybe a little bit alike. Most of the databases i have looked at in linux are very hard to set up and do way more than I need. Thanks Alot Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rknebel.csrlink.net -
users starting with digits?
Why shouldn't I create users starting with digits? //Ben -- http://surf.to/anTiX
Database Client
Hi All. I'd DEARLY love to get Linux established on my university campus, but one of the stumbling blocks is that one of our major apps is based on an SQLServer 6.5 database running on an NT Server. The clients are all Win95/98/NT based. Is there anyway for me to connect to the SQLServer data using a Linux client? I at first thought postgresql might do it, but after installing it I can't even figure out how to get it to run (I can't even find the pgsql that a Postgresql tutorial mentions). Thanks for any clues. Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Database Client
Kent West wrote: Hi All. I'd DEARLY love to get Linux established on my university campus, but one of the stumbling blocks is that one of our major apps is based on an SQLServer 6.5 database running on an NT Server. The clients are all Win95/98/NT based. Is there anyway for me to connect to the SQLServer data using a Linux client? I at first thought postgresql might do it, but after installing it I can't even figure out how to get it to run (I can't even find the pgsql that a Postgresql tutorial mentions). Thanks for any clues. Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Okay. I found the pgsql file (although I wonder why locate didn't find it, even after I did an updatedb). Still, since I don't know what I'm doing, will this app do what I want it to? Thanks.
Re: HELP: More Problems Configuring Email
When Jack Kern wrote, I replied: For reference my .fetchmailrci, as previously attached: poll mail.my_isp.net protocol pop3 username rjw password secret_word On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:33:11AM -0300, Ralph Winslow wrote: When Art Lemasters wrote, I replied: [...] wasn't much help. My current state is: when I rune fetchmail, it responds: fetchmail: 36 messages at mail.my_isp.net reading message 1 of 36 (1732 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: connection refused fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.my_isp.net [...] fetchmail is configured by default to use smtp to receive mail. Check /etc/inetd.conf. It should have something like the following. #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. smtp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd fetchmail is trying to use in.smtpd and the connection is being refused. But I thought that the phrase protocol pop3 in ~rjw/.fetchmailrc would make fetchmail use pop3 instead. In any case, I found an active line for smtp, and commented-out lines for pop-2 and pop-3. I commented smtp out and pop-3 in, but even after a /etc/sbin/netbase restart, sendmail still gets the same SMTP errors. Was ist lose? Auch I found /etc/init.d/exim and /etc/init.d/netbase have references to smtp and inetd; exim's specify smtp, I used netbase to restart inetd after editing /etc/inetd.conf. Since exim is an mta that supplies a sendmail command (but no fetchmail), I'm guessing that I can leave it alone. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Insert sardonic phrase here
Re: Commandline FTP
What about $ ftp -n hostname script.name /dev/null and the script.name is just: user username password put local.file remote.file quit Would it solve your problem? ZORO
domain name
Hi, I have a registerd domain name and have a static IP address from my ISP. Is there any way I could call my home box my registered domain and use the nameservers that I get from my ISP. I have a small web site on my home computer and when someone types www.knebel.com I wouls like it to show my web page. Thanks Alot Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rknebel.csrlink.net http://members.tripod.com/~Rick_Knebel -
Re: HELP: More Problems Configuring Email
On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 04:13:06PM -0300, Ralph Winslow wrote: When Jack Kern wrote, I replied: For reference my .fetchmailrci, as previously attached: poll mail.my_isp.net protocol pop3 username rjw password secret_word On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 10:33:11AM -0300, Ralph Winslow wrote: When Art Lemasters wrote, I replied: [...] wasn't much help. My current state is: when I rune fetchmail, it responds: fetchmail: 36 messages at mail.my_isp.net reading message 1 of 36 (1732 bytes) .fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: connection refused fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.my_isp.net [...] fetchmail is configured by default to use smtp to receive mail. Check /etc/inetd.conf. It should have something like the following. #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services. smtp stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd fetchmail is trying to use in.smtpd and the connection is being refused. But I thought that the phrase protocol pop3 in ~rjw/.fetchmailrc would make fetchmail use pop3 instead. In any case, I found an active line for smtp, and commented-out lines for pop-2 and pop-3. I commented smtp out and pop-3 in, but even after a /etc/sbin/netbase restart, sendmail still gets the same SMTP errors. Was ist lose? Auch fetchmail will use protocol pop3 to fetch the mail from your isp server. fetchmail then wants to deliver the mail via smtp to your system where smail, sendmail, exim, or whatever, will take over. Did you mean to say that you commented smtp out? Sorry, I am having trouble following you. Please try leaving the smtp line _uncommented_ in /etc/inetd.conf (as noted above) and then doing (as root) killall -HUP inetd. That should wake up smtp and get your mail delivered. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jack Kern Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Debian GNU/Linux
apt-get just the packages
Hi. I'd like to be able to type in apt-get latest-version-of-windowmaker and have apt-get instead of installing the packages, stick them in /zip, my zip drive, so i can take them home. Is this possible? thanks, vincent murphy
Re: domain name
Yes, but it looks like you are already set up for this. Ping and traceroute both work, although a reverse lookup shows x192.ntx.net. www.knebel.com takes me to your web page (not much there yet!). Bob On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Rick Knebel wrote: Hi, I have a registerd domain name and have a static IP address from my ISP. Is there any way I could call my home box my registered domain and use the nameservers that I get from my ISP. I have a small web site on my home computer and when someone types www.knebel.com I wouls like it to show my web page. Thanks Alot Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rknebel.csrlink.net http://members.tripod.com/~Rick_Knebel - -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: X is hosed
On 7 Sep 98 14:34:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink. At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker. Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm starts but when a user logs in, the session crashes. Root can log in ok. Root can use startx, but a user cannot. Looks like permissions. Permissions of WHAT? Upgrade xlib6g to the latest version. Wmaker has a problem with the old one such that it crashes immediately (after xdm has finished). I now downgraded back to the X11 packages in hamm, but the same problem persists. I still don't understand what wmaker did. I upgraded the libraries, and installed wmaker libs too. That's one of the last things I did before this happened. It sounds like your system is still trying to run wmaker, and so still crashing. Edit your user's ~/.xsession file and comment out the line which loads wmaker. And replace it with a different manager, preferably. I'd suggest giving wmaker another try though, after upgrading xlib6g. Rob Wilderspin -- But I need it to crash once every few days - reboots are the only chance I get to sleep... --= (send replies to rob@)
Re: apt-get just the packages
apt-get -d install wmaker This will retrieve the file (by default to /var/cache/apt/archives) and you can copy it to the zip drive. You could link this to /zip. On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote: Hi. I'd like to be able to type in apt-get latest-version-of-windowmaker and have apt-get instead of installing the packages, stick them in /zip, my zip drive, so i can take them home. Is this possible? thanks, vincent murphy -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: Your friends...... whatever.
Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some time around Mon, 07 Sep 1998 18:44:35 +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Igor Grobman wrote: Having said that there is one exception to this rule ;-) and that is aol.com . It has been established that 99.9% of the mail with @aol.com from field ha s nothing to do with any topics relevant to debian lists. Right now, all aol.com posts come to me, and I forward them to the list if necessary (I haven't had to do any of that lately). Heh... its funny really.. AOL has quite strict rules does it not? Correct me if I am wrong. Yes they do, but they do have a huge customer base and it's very easy to sign on even for a newbie, plus their clueful/clueless ratio is probably the lowest in the industry ;-). That means that the spammers have no problem signing on with a new account as soon as they are kicked off, and that the chances of a relevant post to debian lists are very low. I haven't seen one in about 2 months. In addition their software is proprietary from scratch. Rumor goes they wrote a complete OS for providing the service. This gives them 100% virus protection... (well nearly). And this is why their software only runs on Windows boxes, thus the signal to noise ratio is stunningly low, isn't it? Jens -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID: 2048/E451C639 1998/01/28 Print: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 Global War[m|n|p|r]ing? -- Peter G. Neumann (Comp.Risks 19.91)
Re: Database Client
Kent == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kent Organization: Abilene Christian University Kent X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.34 i586) Kent Okay. I found the pgsql file (although I wonder why locate didn't find Kent it, even after I did an updatedb). Still, since I don't know what I'm Kent doing, will this app do what I want it to? Kent Thanks. I doubt it, since it is the interface to the postgres db system. Not sure whether you can connect with it to other rdbms. Maybe you ought to look into ODBC stuff, which MS-SQL Server supports. When I was in my final year, my Uni switched from SunOS to Lignux (Debian, incidentally, hehehe) and they offered a dual-boot, nt and debian. Administering the Debian network side never took much time accrdng to the admins, it's the nt side of things that cost them a lot of time... -- Nicolai P Guba BT Laboratories GNU Project http://www.labs.bt.com http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Database Client
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All. I'd DEARLY love to get Linux established on my university campus, but one of the stumbling blocks is that one of our major apps is based on an SQLServer 6.5 database running on an NT Server. The clients are all Win95/98/NT based. Is there anyway for me to connect to the SQLServer data using a Linux client? I think so, there is undoubtedly a Perl DBD driver for it so you can use DBI and DBD to talk to the database. That is supposing you want to use perl for the job, but there is also a command line sql client written in perl that comes with DBI. Hmm... I checked, there is not really something for M$ databases, but they supposedly use the same protocol as Sybase, so the Sybase stuff _might_ work with a M$ SQL server. See also the FreeTDS project at http://tbwa.volcano.org/freetds/ I at first thought postgresql might do it, but after installing it I can't even figure out how to get it to run (I can't even find the pgsql that a Postgresql tutorial mentions). Postgres _is_ a database. You don't want to install a database, you just want a way to connect to the remote database right? Mike. -- Seed me, Seymour -- a random number generator meets the big green mother from outer space
