dselect deja de funcionar
Bueno pues estoy actualizando la versión de Debian. Dispongo de los CD's de Datom y los de Linux Actual. Parece que el contenido original de los CD's de Debian no lo respeta nadie. Intentando actualizar con apt me daba un problema. # apt-get -f dist-upgrade Updating package status cache...E: Can't open /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - open (2 No such file or directory) E: The previous errors apply to a Package Cache File /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin E: You should probably re-run apt-get update Decido entonces probar con 'cd_autup.sh' Tambien me da problemas pero veo que se deben a los cambios introducidos en el CD. Copio el CD de Datom al disco duro y cambio unos links por aqui y por alla hasta que el script encuantra todo lo que necesita. Parece que fué bien pero ahora el dselect no funciona bien. El mensaje que da al intentar instalar es el siguiente. perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = es_ES, LC_CTYPE = ISO_8859_1, LC_COLLATE = es_ES, LANG = es_ES are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the C locale. internal error - no filename at -e line 12, P chunk 15. installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. Sabe alguien como arreglarlo. --- En caso de contestar a la lista mandame copia personal. /\ /\ Los mas importantes desarrolladores de Bases de datos \\W//están portando sus productos a Linux. Porque crees tu _|0 0|_ que será ?Yo creo que Linux es el futuro. +-oOOO--(___o___)--OOOo--+ | . . . . U U . . . . Antonio Castro Snurmacher | | http://slug.ctv.es/~acastro.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | +()()()--()()()--+
Re: permisos para correo
echo Reply-To: Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UNKNOWN-8BIT Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 1241 Ugo Enrico Albarello dixit: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 07:09:10PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =20 Respecto a lo de ppp, tengo un pequeno programa que te env_o para que cualquier usuario ejecute una conexi_n ppp. No puede seleccionar entre varios ISPs pero (como solo tengo uno) funciona a las mil maravillas. Mira el c_digo fuente para mas detalles, no es muy complicado. Adem_s solo le tienes que aplicar restricciones al ejecutable y no andar cambiando de grupos. Bueno, tarde o temprano tendr=E9 que aprender a usar los permisos, crear grupos, cambiar permisos,... El script que me has enviado... =BFen qu=E9 formato est=E1? Al intentar leerlo como texto me ha llenado de caracteres extra=F1os toda la pantalla, y he tenido que reiniciar... =BFpodr=EDas envi= =E1rmelo de nuevo en formato de texto? IMPORTANTE: no contestes a la direcci=F3n que aparece en este mensaje ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), es err=F3nea, hazlo a [EMAIL PROTECTED] =20 -- Ugo Enrico Albarello L_pez de Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Attachment, skipping...] --=20 Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: permisos para correo (y II)
echo Reply-To: Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UNKNOWN-8BIT Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 2029 Ugo Enrico Albarello dixit: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] =20 Para bajar el correo, tengo lo siguiente en mi .fetchmailrc: =20 poll correo.javeriana.edu.co protocol pop3 username ugo_albarello password mi_clave_secreta mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %s Bien distinto, yo lo que tengo es: server pop.vlc.servicom.es protocol pop3 password mi_clave fetchall =20 Y para bajar el correo, ejecuto 'fetchmail' o 'fetchmail -v -a' para asegurarme de que me baje todos los mensajes y ver lo que est_ pasando. Con el .fetchmailrc de arriba y ejecutando: fetchmail -v -u usuario pop.vlc.servicom.es me baja el correo perfectamente... s=F3lo que: a) lo hago todo desde root; b) lo leo con elm desde el usuario horacio; c) para componer mensajes, lo hago desde el reci=E9n creado usuar= io homega. As=ED que para esto, estoy usando tres usuarios. =BFC=F3mo se hace para que los mensajes entrantes que leo desde horacio, los pueda leer desde homega? La raz=F3n por la que cre=E9 el usuario homega fue porque era la =FAnica manera de que en la parte anterior a la @ me aparecie= ra mi aut=E9ntico nombre de usuario de correo ([EMAIL PROTECTED], en lugar de [EMAIL PROTECTED], o [EMAIL PROTECTED], seg=FAn usara elm desde el usuario horacio o root). =20 Con lo del smail, tengo configurado el smart_host en /etc/smail/routers y el correo se env_a inmediatamente. =20 Espero que te sirva... No, el problema es no puedo ejecutar smail desde un usuario que no sea root: $ smail -q -v bash: smail: command not found Tampoco puedo ejecutar fetchmail desde un usuario que no sea root. =20 P.D: Hora de crear HOWTO-Internet-98. Alguien se apunta? Solo me falta procmail para organizar el correo por carpetas... S=ED, se podr=EDa crear un C=D3MO-Conexi=F3n-Smail(o Sendmail)-Fetchmail(-P= rocmail..) en un lenguaje que podamos entender los mortales. --=20 Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mutt-i, configuracion y saber version de distribucion.
BUENOS DIAS!! Antes de nada me presento a la lista, al la que hace unos dias me suscribi. :-) Me he instalado la version non-us del mutt, ( pakete debian 2.0) y hay cosas que no me van ( uso el mismo ~/.muttrc de la version US ), en concreto ignora las siguientes lineas: bind pager up previous-line bind pager down next-line ¿Le ha pasado a alguien?, me incomoda ahora que podia ver los acentos y usar el pgp, que no pueda cambiar la teclas. el resto de las definiciones del ~/.muttrc si funcionan. Tras revisar por encima los doc, no parece que haya cambiado la sintaxis ni nada similar. La otra pregunta es que estoy haciendo un shellscript que necesita saber que distribucion y version de Linux usa. ¿ Es buen metodo comprobar la existencia de /etc/debian-version para determinar si es una d. Debian ? ¿ y coger el contenido para saber la version ? -- Mam , pq pap se pone verde cuando ve esos coches con gancho y rampa?? __ Gretting /\ __\ \ \ _\ __\[EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] of \ \ \ \_\ \=\ \ www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/peaks/5222 Saludos\ \_\_\___\___\_\_\ ** PGP Key avalible in WEB page ** de \/___/___/___/_/_/ Asturnet: 98:98/1.10 ICQ#17770744 PGP Fingerprints: 3853 1613 5BEC 5455 AFB9 EAA2 7978 8ED8 3493 94E9
Re: dselect deja de funcionar
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 02:08:12PM +0200, Antonio Castro wrote: Bueno pues estoy actualizando la versión de Debian. Dispongo de los CD's de Datom y los de Linux Actual. Parece que el contenido original de los CD's de Debian no lo respeta nadie. Intentando actualizar con apt me daba un problema. # apt-get -f dist-upgrade Updating package status cache...E: Can't open /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - open (2 No such file or directory) E: The previous errors apply to a Package Cache File /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin E: You should probably re-run apt-get update ¿Has ejecutado apt-get update previamente, como dice en las instrucciones? Decido entonces probar con 'cd_autup.sh' [...] ahora el dselect no funciona bien. El mensaje que da al intentar instalar es el siguiente. perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = es_ES, LC_CTYPE = ISO_8859_1, LC_COLLATE = es_ES, LANG = es_ES are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the C locale. Hasta aquí debe ser debido a que no encuentra los locales para es_ES. ¿Instalaste el paquete locales? (ojo a la s final) internal error - no filename at -e line 12, P chunk 15. Este sí que es raro. ¿Qué método del dselect estás usando? -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Amistosidad en Debian
Guenas On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 03:25:05PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 03:48:28PM +0200, Andres Herrera wrote: Solo tiene una pega: Son demasiados programas, deberia haber menos paquetes ;-) Oops. Creo que no estoy colaborando en ese sentido entonces... en los -- cortado, sorry -- Tranqui, era broma. Es que siempre he visto argumentaciones sobre la falta de claridad del dselect, que tampoco creo que sea para tanto, y ya puestos pues se me ocurrio que la peor pega de Debian era que al tener tantos paquetes uno no sabe con cual quedarse. He probado RedHat y ahi no hay ese problema: si te gusta sendmail te lo pones, y si no tambien (ok, siempre puedes bajarte otro), si te gusta inn te lo pones, y si no tambien. Personalmente me encanta que mi distribucion traiga mogollon de paquetes y ser yo el que elija, aun sabiendo que por Inet se pueden encontrar muchos mas. Me encanta que en debian siempre haya varias alternativas a cada programa. Quizas por eso yo uso Smail y Leafnode en lugar del clasico sendmail-inn. El dia que Debian deje de traer tantos paquetes, y sobre todo tantas alternativas, me la corto (del ordenador, malpensados ;-))) El dia que RedHat traiga todas esas alternativas, empezare a considerarla una distribucion seria. Saludines -- -- POWERED BY Linux. Debian 2.0 - Kernel 2.0.35 - User reg. 66054 Andres Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Antequera (Malaga) - Spain
Re: permisos para correo
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 07:09:10PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Como mi dirección de correo siempre aparecía con el nombre del usuario en la primera parte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), y no pude cambiar esto, creé otro usuario, homega, con el nombre de la dirección ([EMAIL PROTECTED])... ¿existe otro modo de hacer esto? Supongo que esto es por que al configurar smail, le has indicado como 'visible name' para tu host vlc.servicom.es. Lo puedes ver en /etc/mailname. Con esto consigues que el correo enviado por usuario tenga en el campo from la dirección usuario@vlc.servicom.es en lugar de usuario@localhost. A mí configurarlo así me parece un inconveniente, por lo siguiente: 1.- Necesitas crearte un usuario (en tu caso homega) con el nombre correcto según la dirección que te da tu proveedor, y sobre todo... 2.- Todo el correo que envíes a direcciones del dominio vlc.servicom.es se reparte localmente. Imagina que quieres enviar una queja al postmaster de servicom, en [EMAIL PROTECTED], ¡pues el mensaje se reparte localmente a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yo cambiaría, con (como root) smailconfig --force para que no utilice ningún 'visible name' adicional aparte de 'localhost' (o 'debian', o como hayas llamado a tu máquina) y configuraría mi cliente de correo para que incluya en los mensajes el campo from correcto. En mi caso, mi dirección de e-mail es [EMAIL PROTECTED], pero mi nombre de usuario es ismael y mi máquina se llama bosshog. En /etc/mailname aparece simplemente. bosshog mientras que en /home/ismael/.muttrc aparece la línea (utilizo Mutt como cliente de correo) my_hdr From: Iron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Si lo haces así, puedes utilizar tranquilamente el usuario horacio para enviar correo electrónico. al principio me daba el siguiente mensaje: File /home/homega/.fetchmailrc must have no more than -rw-- (0600) permissions. y creo que tenía 0654, así que lo cambio: chmod 0600 .fetchmailrc y al volver a intentar bajar el correo: File /home/homega/.fetchmailrc must be owned by you. Apuesto a que el fichero /home/homega/.fetchmail lo has creado con el usuario horacio o con root. Entra como root y prueba de nuevo despues de $ chown homega /home/homega/.fetchmailrc También, al intentar enviar el correo en cola: $ smail -v -q me da el error: bash: smail: command not found smail está en /usr/sbin, el cual por defecto no está en el PATH más que para el usuario root. Prueba con $ /usr/sbin/smail -v -q o incluye /usr/sbin en el PATH de horacio o homega. Te recomiendo que, si lo tienes en un script, ejecutes en su lugar /usr/sbin/sendmail -q porque así te sirve de máquina en máquina. Si tienes sendmail instalado, pues ejecuta sendmail. Si tienes smail, pues entonces /usr/sbin/sendmail es un enlace simbólico a smail. Er... pues nada más, espero haber sido de ayuda. -- Ismael Valladolid ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://personales.mundivia.es/iron/ 'I gotta tell you my tale, Of how I loved and how I failed I hope you understand, These feelings should not be in a man' R.Ashcroft
Re: mutt-i, configuracion y saber version de distribucion.
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:16:24AM +0200, Alvaro Alea wrote: BUENOS DIAS!! Antes de nada me presento a la lista, al la que hace unos dias me suscribi. :-) Me he instalado la version non-us del mutt, ( pakete debian 2.0) y hay cosas que no me van ( uso el mismo ~/.muttrc de la version US ), en concreto ignora las siguientes lineas: bind pager up previous-line bind pager down next-line ¿Le ha pasado a alguien?, me incomoda ahora que podia ver los acentos y usar el pgp, que no pueda cambiar la teclas. el resto de las definiciones del ~/.muttrc si funcionan. Pues a mí hostname no me va Tras revisar por encima los doc, no parece que haya cambiado la sintaxis ni nada similar. La otra pregunta es que estoy haciendo un shellscript que necesita saber que distribucion y version de Linux usa. ¿ Es buen metodo comprobar la existencia de /etc/debian-version para determinar si es una d. Debian ? ¿ y coger el contenido para saber la version ? No sé, pero yo miraría en el /etc/issue Salu2, netman. -- Windows98: a 32 bit graphical front end to a 16 bit patch on an 8 bit operating system written for a 4 bit processor by a 2 bit company without 1 bit of decency... Powered by Debian/GNU Linux 2.0 - Kernel 2.0.35 pgpIfCHlIF0JJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Múltiples proveedores
Hola a todos, he estado configurando los scripts y demás para conectarme a internet usando /etc/chatscripts/proveedor y /etc/ppp/peers/proveedor, y todo funciona muy bien. El problema es que tengo diferentes proveedores y, claro, 'pon proveedor' no me cambia el /etc/resolf.config dependiendo de a cual me he conectado (y también ejecutar o no algunas cosas del ip-up.d e ip-down.d dependiendo de él). He pensado en hacerme un script que fuera como el pon, pero que además arreglara algunas cosillas como por ejemplo tener resolv.conf por proveedor y antes de la coneción, que resolv.conf se linkara al que toque (y lo mismo con ip-up.d, ip-down.d). ¿Hay alguna solución mejor? Otra pregunta, ésta sobre permisos: para que el pon me funcionara he hecho suid tanto el chat como el pppd. ¿Hay alguna solución mejor? Por cierto, tengo Debian 2.0 Muchísismas gracias Juan Manuel +-+ + Babui | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ctv.es/USERS/jmgimeno/home.htm + +-+ + But if the while I think on thee (dear friend) William Shakespeare + + All losses are restored, and sorrows end. Sonnets, XXX+ +-+
Re: dselect deja de funcionar
En el mensaje 10, Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo que perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = es_ES, LC_CTYPE = ISO_8859_1, LC_COLLATE = es_ES, LANG = es_ES are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the C locale. Hasta aquí debe ser debido a que no encuentra los locales para es_ES. ¿Instalaste el paquete locales? (ojo a la s final) Con permiso, debo recordar que, como se discutió largo y tenddo en esta lista hace unas semanas, lo más apropiado para las variables de entorno para las locales es definir únicamente LANG=es_ES.ISO-8859-1 y dejar sin definir las LC_* a no ser que nos obligue alguna peculiaridad idiomática muy concreta. Un saludo. -- Ismael Valladolid ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://personales.mundivia.es/iron/ 'I gotta tell you my tale, Of how I loved and how I failed I hope you understand, These feelings should not be in a man' R.Ashcroft
Re: Amistosidad en Debian
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 01:49:11PM +0200, Andres Herrera wrote: El dia que RedHat traiga todas esas alternativas, empezare a considerarla una distribucion seria. No puede traerlas. RedHat es una distribución comercial (no deja de ser un GNU/Linux pero es comercial. Debian es 100% libre). Para ellos es más dificil juntar en un CD todo el mogollón de paquetes que trae Debian porque se les aplican más restricciones. Un saludo. -- Ismael Valladolid ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://personales.mundivia.es/iron/ 'I gotta tell you my tale, Of how I loved and how I failed I hope you understand, These feelings should not be in a man' R.Ashcroft
Re: dselect deja de funcionar
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 02:08:12PM +0200, Antonio Castro wrote: Bueno pues estoy actualizando la versión de Debian. Dispongo de los CD's de Datom y los de Linux Actual. Parece que el contenido original de los CD's de Debian no lo respeta nadie. Intentando actualizar con apt me daba un problema. # apt-get -f dist-upgrade Updating package status cache...E: Can't open /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - open (2 No such file or directory) E: The previous errors apply to a Package Cache File /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin E: You should probably re-run apt-get update ¿Has ejecutado apt-get update previamente, como dice en las instrucciones? Estupendo !! Las lei tres veces, subraye lo que tenía que hacer, pero se me pasó. Bueno pues aunque sea despues de 'cd_autoup.sh' lo acabo de hacer y ya me funciona el dselect. Para probar instalo el gimp, el sane y otra cosilla más que no me acuerdo pero ahora se queja de mi configuración. .. Warning: Older releases of .bin/createlist used HARDlinks to link files from the lists directories to the .etc directory. This was not good, because updating the configuration files in .etc actually would make these files not to be linked anymore. You might want to stop here (by pressing Control-C, instead of pressing Enter) and transform all those hardlinks into symlinks before upgrading. Press Control-C now, or else press Enter to continue Menuda advertencia. Pues como siempre estoy a tiempo de volverlo a intentar doy Control-C a la espera de noticias. No se cuales son los links que debo de cambiar. Decido entonces probar con 'cd_autup.sh' [...] ahora el dselect no funciona bien. El mensaje que da al intentar instalar es el siguiente. perl: warning: Setting locale failed for the categories: LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = es_ES, LC_CTYPE = ISO_8859_1, LC_COLLATE = es_ES, LANG = es_ES are supported and installed on your system. perl: warning: Falling back to the C locale. Hasta aquí debe ser debido a que no encuentra los locales para es_ES. ¿Instalaste el paquete locales? (ojo a la s final) Pero para eso necesitaba apt y no me funcionaba. Ahora ya esta arreglado. Los discos de Datom y de Linux Actual son demasiado distintos en cuanto a nombres de directorios, links, permisos, etc. Yo estoy apostando por Datom pero se que algunas cosas no están bien y el 'cd_autoup.sh' se quejaba por ello. (No existía ningún camino '.../debian/hamm/...' internal error - no filename at -e line 12, P chunk 15. Este sí que es raro. ¿Qué método del dselect estás usando? Pues el método que usé no es el normal. El 'cd-autoup.sh' me fallaba así que copie el CD de Datom a disco duro corregí la estructura de directorios y usé el dselect sobre disco montado. En el de LinuxActual me venián menos cosas y quizas los comentarios recientes de la gente tampoco me han animado a considerarlo seguro. Bueno ahora que el apt me ha funcionado me olvido del dichoso 'cd-autoup.sh'. El 'make zImage' continua quejandose de la desaparición de 'string.h' aunque supongo que reinstalando las fuentes quedará solucionado. Estuve tentado de empezar la instalación desde cero pero esto ya es otra cosa. Parece que empiezan a verse los claros. Y todo por un maldito despiste. Mil gracias. -- Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- En caso de contestar a la lista mandame copia personal. /\ /\ Los mas importantes desarrolladores de Bases de datos \\W//están portando sus productos a Linux. Porque crees tu _|0 0|_ que será ?Yo creo que Linux es el futuro. +-oOOO--(___o___)--OOOo--+ | . . . . U U . . . . Antonio Castro Snurmacher | | http://slug.ctv.es/~acastro.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | +()()()--()()()--+
Varias impresoras y LPRng
Hola, que hat que hacer para que LPRng reconozca varias impresoras en el /etc/printcap? Si yo meto en mi /etc/printcap lo que sigue la próxima vez que reinicio el sistema no me reconoce ninguna impresora. lp|dj|hpdj|HP DeskJet 690C:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: # HP DeskJet 690C (PostScript calidad borrador) econofast|HP Deskjet 690C econofast:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/psjet0:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ :if=/etc/psjetfilter0:\ :mx#0:\ :sh # HP DeskJet 690C (PostScript calidad normal) normal|HP Deskjet 690C normal:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/psjet1:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ :if=/etc/psjetfilter1:\ :mx#0:\ :sh # HP DeskJet 690C (PostScript calidad presentación) optima|HP Deskjet 690C optima:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/psjet2:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ :if=/etc/psjetfilter2:\ :mx#0:\ :sh Que posibilidades pueden influir en que no me funcione? Un saludo, J. Parera
KDE ya no forma parte de hamm?
Hola, he oido que KDE ya no forma parte de hamm ni de las siguientes versiones, es eso cierto? En tal caso, alguien va ha continuar haciendo los debs? Un saludo, J. Parera
Sobre el leafnode
Hola, el leafnode solo me baja los grupos de noticias a los que estoy suscrito si previamente yo envio una noticia. Es decir, solo me baja las news si antes el leafnode tiene news para subir. Que debo hacer? Un saludo, J. Parera P.D. La versión de leafnode que tengo es la que trae la Debian 2.0
Fuentes TrueType con xfstt y GV
Hola, uso el servidor xfstt para las fuentes TrueType. Tengo entendido que para poder imprimir documentos que contengan fuentes TrueType antes devo indicarle al GV las fuentes que tengo. En que fichero debo indicarselo? El servidor xfstt me crea el fichero de fuentes automáticamente, hay algún programa que convierta el formato de dicho fichero al formato que usa el GV? Hay alguna otra alternativa para la impresión de fuentes TrueType? Un saludo, J. Parera
kdeoffice
Hola, Me he bajado el Kdeoffice...tar.gz, y la documentación dice que hay que copiarlo al directorio de kde y desarchivarlo allí. Según dice, el directorio debería estar en /usr/local o /opt (en el primero no está, y el segundo creo que no existe en Debian), y kde parece estar diseminado... ¿dónde está? Otra cosa, ¿sería posible debianizarlo con alien? Tal vez así no tendría que preocuparme por el directorio de kde. Gracias. -- Un saludo, Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: permisos para correo (y II)
Guenas On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 01:59:39PM +0200, Horacio Menezo Ganau wrote: Con lo del smail, tengo configurado el smart_host en /etc/smail/routers y el correo se env_a inmediatamente. =20 Espero que te sirva... No, el problema es no puedo ejecutar smail desde un usuario que no sea root: $ smail -q -v bash: smail: command not found Para enviar mensajes usa 'sendmail -q'. Smail crea un comando 'sendmail'. Saludines -- -- POWERED BY Linux. Debian 2.0 - Kernel 2.0.35 - User reg. 66054 Andres Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] Antequera (Malaga) - Spain
Re: your mail
¿cuaderno de cabra? ¿qué es eso?
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 03:25:16PM +0200, Víctor García Castelló wrote:
sistema base, ya que me pide que inserte el CD y que le diga el nombre del
First Device Block, y aparte de eso no puedo montar el cd porque en
/etc/fstab/ no tengo el sistema de archivos de CD. ¡¡Estoy perdido!!
¿Sabes donde está colocado tu lector de cd?
Para discos IDE:
maestro en el primer canal - /dev/hda
esclavo en el primer canal - /dev/hdb
maestro en el segundo canal - /dev/hdc
esclavo en el segundo canal - /dev/hdd
si pones 'dmesg | more' en la línea de comandos vas a poder ver los
mensajes del kernel. Hay uno que dira algo del CDROM, (ATAPI CDROM
o algo así), y allí dice donde está el aparato.
Para lectores SCSI, el cdrom es /dev/scd0
Una vez que sepas donde está el cdrom, puedes hacer esto:
$ ln -s {pon aquí lo que corresponda} /dev/cdrom
'lo que corresponda' será probablemente hdb o hdc (lo que
determinaste antes que correspondía al cdrom). Eso lo que hace es un
enlace simbólico de /dev/cdrom hacia el fichero correspondiente al
aparato.
y luego:
$ mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom -o ro,nojoliet
Así ya puedes leer el disco. Si estás usando dselect y seleccionas el
método por cdrom, lo que te está preguntando es eso. Si has hecho lo
de ln -s ... le puedes contestar /dev/cdrom y debe funcionar.
Marcelo
Re: mutt-i, configuracion y saber version de distribucion.
Me he instalado la version non-us del mutt, ( pakete debian 2.0) y hay cosas que no me van ( uso el mismo ~/.muttrc de la version US ), en concreto ignora las siguientes lineas: Estás usando la versión 0.93i de mutt... es un poquito distinta a la que está en main bind pager up previous-line bind pager down next-line bind pager up previous-line bind pager down next-line Tras revisar por encima los doc, no parece que haya cambiado la sintaxis ni nada similar. Me pasó lo mismo, pero en mi caso era peor, porque yo tenía: bind index delete delete-message y el resultado es que cada vez que presionaba 'd' mutt se quedaba esperando (esperaba una 'e'); si le daba 'd' nuevamente borraba el mensaje... sabrá Linus por qué... si le daba 'c' (compose-message), y comenzaba a escribir 'debian-...', adivinen que tecla tenía que pulsar dos veces... ¡tardé como tres semanas y varias actualizaciones para darme cuenta que estaba pasando! Marcelo
Re: several messages
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 01:10:36PM +0100, Tomás Bautista wrote: ftp_proxy=ftp://el.proxy.ftp:puerto/ http_proxy=http://el.proxy.http:puerto/ Ya... Tenía que haber insistido. Intentaba que funcionase con el ftp. La variable ftp_proxy no la tenía definida y, tras haberla definido como me dices, lo del wget sí que funciona. Pero el apt sigue sin funcionar. Me salen mensaje como Si funciona con wget es porque está bien, pero de cualquier forma, ¿estás seguro que el proxy para el ftp usa el protocolo ftp? (eso suena un poco tonto, ya sé) En algunos sitios el proxy de ftp funciona con el protocolo http, así: ftp_proxy=http://proxy.tu.dominio.es:puerto/ (el squid, por ejemplo, hace eso) En sources.list(5) dice que vea ftp.conf(5), ¡pero ftp.conf(5) no existe! Marcelo
compiling mod_perl
I'm trying to compile mod_perl and it doesn't seem to see my gdbm library in /usr/libs: ip046:/usr/local/src/mod_perl-1.16# perl Makefile.PL EVERYTHING=1 Configure mod_perl with ../apache/src ? [y] Shall I build httpd in ../apache/src for you? [y] Appending mod_perl to src/Configuration Using config file: /usr/local/src/mod_perl-1.16/src/Configuration Creating Makefile + configured for Linux platform + setting C compiler to gcc + setting C pre-processor to gcc -E + checking for system header files + adding selected modules + doing sanity check on compiler and options Note (probably harmless): No library found for -ldbm ld: cannot open -lgdbm: No such file or directory make: *** [dummy] Error 1 ** A test compilation with your Makefile configuration ** failed. This is most likely because your C compiler ** is not ANSI. Apache requires an ANSI C Compiler, such ** as gcc. The above error message from your compiler ** will also provide a clue. Aborting! It goes on, of course, and says everything's okay, but I'm kind of sketchy about this. Does anybody out there have a clue to what's going on? -- Christopher Fury Aerosoft, Inc ... a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Bind/Sendmail question
Hi My Debian system is connected to the outer world by uucp. How can I tell Bind that there are no root servers - only the computers on the local network. I can configure Bind with no root server information, but then Sendmail gets an error and holds the mail until I fix the problem. Thanks in advance -- John Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: masqdialer
Christopher J. Morrone writes: I don't want random packets causing my modem to dial out. :) Then you'll like diald: it has elaborate, configurable filtering rules to prevent just that. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Problems installing Debian (2)
Just to clarify my previous post, I'm installing on a desktop not laptop, and in any case i tried the tecra rescue disk, also without any luck. I've been going through this list's mail archives and it seems other people managed to clear up problems similar to mine using those disks, but not me
Re: Problems installing Debian
I have never seen this particular behavior before. However, strange problems during installation from floppys is often attributable to corupt floppys. The rawwrite or dd process usually used to make installation floppys from downloaded images does not tolerate bad media very well. I suggest remaking your rescue disk on a different floppy. But first, check the floppy for bad sectors by formatting it under dos or whatever, or any other method you find convienient. Even better, use a new floppy, if you have one handy, checking it for bad sectors first. Hope this helps Mike On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 02:59:21PM -0500, Alexander Bugeja wrote: I am trying to install Debian from floppy (I have the rescue, driver and 5 base floppies set up) on my AMD K6 machine. However when I try to start the installation, with the rescue disk, the machine just reboots. More specifically, I first get the following messages Loading root.bin... Loading Linux... Uncompressing Linux followed by a string of messages too fast to read, and then the machine reboots all over again, leaving me right where I started.
Re: Problems installing Debian
Thanks for your reply. However I tried 3 different floppies, all without success - none of them has bad sectors either. I really don't think this is a floppy problem. Alex. I have never seen this particular behavior before. However, strange problems during installation from floppys is often attributable to corupt floppys. The rawwrite or dd process usually used to make installation floppys from downloaded images does not tolerate bad media very well. I suggest remaking your rescue disk on a different floppy. But first, check the floppy for bad sectors by formatting it under dos or whatever, or any other method you find convienient. Even better, use a new floppy, if you have one handy, checking it for bad sectors first. Hope this helps Mike
Solved [I'm an idiot] Re: compiling mod_perl
DOH! I needed to install the libgdbm-dev package. Stupid, stupid, stupid... bangs head against desk Christopher Fury wrote: I'm trying to compile mod_perl and it doesn't seem to see my gdbm library in /usr/libs: [... blah blah ...] -- Christopher Fury Aerosoft, Inc ... a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Printer Problems
I try and print and get an error lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found What does this mean and what do I need to do to print? Thanks Lance
unattended ftp
Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a host and retrieve a file? -R. Sood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: worse off with debian 2.0?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- No answers, but I have noticed problems with huge load averages when using suck with debian 2.0. Load averages 25 up!! - -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * pgp public key emailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQB1AwUBNiFaCnenzt/xy5yFAQFQbAL+PtJ7S+XaoqiSktSGpDuxSIBCae0QQNcS 0ND7HYpGPGuKTCP4fqRPwYJr9cCoy8OM746OiW7EPRCtdNWmY4MSERNjPF8xiF6W RAc82duupXdSd0tlYcFI2CNfhgvOpcZq =SGNh -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: network disconnect
Sounds like an irq problem. X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 11:14:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Zheng Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/21434 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 03a0a4e87fe9d857fd8dd623b3c9da57 Hi, When I install the Debian base, the network is working. But when I choose to install all package from the CD. The network is disconnected. Could I get some help to solve this problem? Thanks. -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * pgp public key emailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] */
Dosemu problems
I have read the HOWTO and followed the instructions. IN my /etc/dosemu.conf I
have a line
disk {partition /dev/hda3}
and added a line
lredir d: /linux/fs\dos in autoexec.bat both on my dos partition and in
/usr/lib/dosemu/commands.
When I go into dosemu and type d: I get a directory of approximately he right
size but there
is a directory listed with unidentifiable characters. What do I need to do to
correct this
and get dosemu working properly?
Thanks
Lance
Re: Problems installing Debian
Had this problem with the Solaris 2.6, I ended up playing with the memory timing settings, set them slower. Just an idea... Peter Barbera Michael B. Taylor wrote: I have never seen this particular behavior before. However, strange problems during installation from floppys is often attributable to corupt floppys. The rawwrite or dd process usually used to make installation floppys from downloaded images does not tolerate bad media very well. I suggest remaking your rescue disk on a different floppy. But first, check the floppy for bad sectors by formatting it under dos or whatever, or any other method you find convienient. Even better, use a new floppy, if you have one handy, checking it for bad sectors first. Hope this helps Mike On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 02:59:21PM -0500, Alexander Bugeja wrote: I am trying to install Debian from floppy (I have the rescue, driver and 5 base floppies set up) on my AMD K6 machine. However when I try to start the installation, with the rescue disk, the machine just reboots. More specifically, I first get the following messages Loading root.bin... Loading Linux... Uncompressing Linux followed by a string of messages too fast to read, and then the machine reboots all over again, leaving me right where I started. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Of course, there are degrees of rottenness. Some bad error messages, Ezzell says, are just placeholders that slip through. We've all been there. Ezzell acknowledges he once wrote a message that addressed the user as Dumbkopf and was mortified when the dialog made its way into production. Thus, he sympathized with Orem, Utah-based Viewpoint DataLabs, which managed to include the following in its LiveArt install: Setup is unable to locate a suitable version of DirectX on your machine. You will need to install DirectX before you can use LiveArt98, dumbass!
Re: Setting size that windows start as
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- emacs -geometry 80x35 or add to your .Xresources file -- *Emacs.geometry: 80x35 this eliminates having to type the argument every time you use emacs Dear debian people, When I launch emacs in X, it comes up just a little too big for my screen. Is there a command-line argument for setting the size of the window, please? Thanks, Matthew - -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * pgp public key emailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQB1AwUBNiFjy3enzt/xy5yFAQFdXQL5ATdC0jTgYiK9P3Kwq9B9QHW/ighznEW1 GviUIGeXIRAfDX8OIq8Wzki1EcnzbWYyDZpUKXG6mPzSUZ0AuSYeo3mZcPyh2vXn JrLvEPRN0fmauI/QyZlIs9mgwLWgLL4G =DGn8 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
kernel manpages?
Hello everyone, does anyone know where the kernel manpages are. they are the ninth section. debian only supports the following: This package contains the Linux man pages for these sections: * 4 = Devices (e.g. hd, sd). * 5 = File formats and protocols, syntaxis of several system files (e.g. wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs). * 7 = Conventions and standards, macro packages, etc. (e.g. nroff, ascii). I went to get the manpages from sunsite and they had the rest 2, 3, 6, and 8. Where is 9? Paul
Hello, problems with installing
Hello, I am having problems installing the kernel images and source from the CD-ROM. The reason that I want this section, is due to the fact that the present kernal from the intial install does NOT recongnize the CD-ROM drive, thus I can not add or upgrade any of the packages that reside on it. I have tried copying the necessary parts on to the hard drive and then install in from there, but I can not get it to accept most of the packages with out the errorlevel 1 or 2 coming up. The system specs are as follows: CPU:Cyrix 5x86 100MHz Bus:PCI Sound card: Sound Blaster Pro (compatible) a220 i5 d1 t4 CDROM: TEACCD-55 Floppies: 3.5 Hard Drives: 1.2 Gb Bigfoot and 4.0 Gb Western Digital root location: hdc7 (on Western Digital) DEbian Version: 2.0 Controler location: on motherboard Memory: 24 Mb Operating systems on machine: MSDOS 7.0 and Win 95 version A booting method: floppy (3.5) Thanks! Craig Kimmer
Hello, problems with installing
Hello, I am having problems installing the kernel images and source from the CD-ROM. The reason that I want this section, is due to the fact that the present kernal from the intial install does NOT recongnize the CD-ROM drive, thus I can not add or upgrade any of the packages that reside on it. I have tried copying the necessary parts on to the hard drive and then install in from there, but I can not get it to accept most of the packages with out the errorlevel 1 or 2 coming up. The system specs are as follows: CPU:Cyrix 5x86 100MHz Bus:PCI Sound card: Sound Blaster Pro (compatible) a220 i5 d1 t4 CDROM: TEACCD-55 Floppies: 3.5 Hard Drives: 1.2 Gb Bigfoot and 4.0 Gb Western Digital root location: hdc7 (on Western Digital) DEbian Version: 2.0 Controler location: on motherboard Memory: 24 Mb Operating systems on machine: MSDOS 7.0 and Win 95 version A booting method: floppy (3.5) Thanks! Craig Kimmer
Newbie: Excess Idle Time
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 10:20:50AM +0800, root wrote: Logged off - excess idle time - zhaoway Mon Oct 12 10:20:50 1998 tty = tty2 Please, what's the problem? How to avoid this? Why I'm forced to log off when I'm just reading? Please, please help! zhaoway, confused newbie
Re: help(newbie): emacs20 install
On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 02:06:35PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote: MCV I think the problem is partly that you're trying to MCV install emacs19 and emacs20: this will make things unhappy. MCV Purge one or the other. Installing the emacs20-el package MCV should created those files your lacking. I've purged both emacs19 and emacs20 and corisponding -el's (Since xemacs20 works, I didn't touch it.) Then --install emacs20, again, it failed at /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/debian-startup.el missing Then I tried --install emacs20-el, but this depends on emacs20, so have not been succeed, yet. Hmm... try --configure emacs20 I seem to recall trying --configure on both emacs20, emacs20-el and gnus several times, and it all sorted itself out eventually. Inelegant, but there you go... Matthew I got through! Thanks! Thanks for people answered me. I purge everything related to emacs, and remove all of the directories dpkg failed to delete during the purge, then installed again. Now, it works fine. Thank you! zhaoway
Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/10/98 at 01:13 PM, Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But people can always yank the power cord. Follow Paul's advice -- make the machine physically in-accessible. Lock it, fence it in, whatever. Locking racks is also nice. That way people can't even see the machine, just a big cabinet. What if it is a workstation in a lab? Then disable as much as you can. Make sure bios is safe if it is a x86 box. This is why real workstations are nice -- they are much more secure than x86 PC's. Most x86 pc's can be set to boot from harddisk *only*, with a password- protected bios. This means the machine is safe as long as people don't remove the cover. (Resetting the bios password is then trivial by removing the backup battery. A floppy-less workstation may be useful though, and nothing stops you from compiling a lilo that doesn't accept any keyboard input.) No workstation is safe if people can remove the cover. Connecting a carefully prepared scsi drive would be one way of circumventing security - on any platform. (Lab people tend to know how to use a screwdriver. Keep the machine in a locked cabinet or a safe if security is paramount.) The ability to take control over an accessible machine is usually useful. What if the password file get corrupted? Or the system manager who knows the password dies or goes on strike? Sitting there with a lot of important data that cannot be read from an encrypted drive isn't that funny. Helge Hafting -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: Newbie: Excess Idle Time
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, what's the problem? How to avoid this? Why I'm forced to log off when I'm just reading? Please, please help! This is not a problem it is a configureable behaviour. Did you install idled? this would cause idle users to be logged off. if you did then eithre stop it from running or remove it, you may even be able to configure it to ignore certain users. Nikolai
WP 7.0 on Db 2.0
Hello ! Thank all who responded to my mail about missing libraries for WP 7.0. I have different problem now. At the end of installation of WP 7.0 I get message Segmentation fault Idir/$SHBIN/$DSTEXC -f (I don't remember the rest). After installation I tried to start the program anyway, but I received message Segmentation fault. Any ideas what is wrong ? Bostjan
Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/11/98 at 01:15 AM, Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] However, I said that the power chord should be removed. the reason is that I think you can get the monitor screen, user input etc from radiation led through the power chord. This may be hard but possible, someone else might know more. No power cord is needed for this. I can stand outside the building with an antenna array and tune in to your screen. The (S)VGA card is basically a tv-transmitter with a non-standard signal. Of course it isn't really designed for transmission, but the card, cable and particularly the monitor leak too much. A big antenna and some sophisticated equipment may be necessary, but it is possible. An antenna array can be used for focusing on one particular monitor, so wa don't get confused by the 40 others in the building. How to avoid this? Shielded equipment, or simply a machine without a video card. Displaying only non-sensitive data is safe too of course. Helge Hafting -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
localhost and missing DNS
Dear Debs, I rarely use Netscape (4.06) on my Notebook, except when connected to my institute's net via an ethernet card. I tried to run dhelp while at home (i.e., standalone machine) and got the error: localhost does not have a valid DNS entry (or similar). This is certainly an easy thing to fix. Can anyone tell me how? Thank you. Remo | Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Nonlinear Dynamics and | 5232 Villigen PSI | | Stochastic Processes Group | Switzerland | ||___| | badii at psi.ch | http://www1.psi.ch/~badii | ||___|
Re: Cannot run any executables under Debian2.0 - Help(newbie)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/09/98 at 07:48 PM, rathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, let me explain this as best as I can - Problem: -- I had installed Yggdrasil Linux long time ago and everything on that setup worked ok. Recently, I upgraded to Debian2.0 and none of my executables or Perl scripts are working anymore. I get bash: filename: command not found Background: --- Within Debian, I did not create a /home dir. I wanted to use my existing Yggdrasil /home with all my files intact when I ran Debian. So, within Debian /etc/fstab, I added the following: /dev/hdc4 /home ext2 defaults Now, I could see all my files. Since I was logged on with a different username, I did the following to change file permissions: chown -R rathon /home/guest (as root, username=rathon) Now, I could open up any file and edit as I needed in my /home/guest dir. As I mentioned earlier, Perl scripts that worked on Ygg do not work on Debian. I get a 'command not found' I did a env and got this: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11: I could do 'which Perl' and see the path being /usr/bin/perl. Same as my Ygg path for Perl. So I was sure Perl got detected right. So I wanted to do a test to see if this is Perl specific or not. I wrote a 3 line 'C' code and compiled it using gcc. This gave me a 'a.out' file(no error in compiling). When I run the file, I get: bash:a.out:command not found Note that your PATH does not contain the current directory (.) This is default for Debian, and is considered a security feature. I believe you can run standard executables like ls and such? To run the a.out file, use ./a.out instead of only a.out The same applies to anything else that isn't in your path. Why is this a security thing? Because a nasty user on a multiuser system could create a virus or something and name it ls in his home directory. Someone else might cd's into that directory and run ls in order to get a directory list. Not having the current dir in PATH is then useful. So, my present setup(Debian)WILL NOT allow any executables to run! If you are the only user (normal on a home machine) add . to your PATH. Or you may put your private executables in ~/bin¨ and add that to your path. Or get used to type ./executable I checked my permission and that was ok. I even did a chmod 777 on my file and that did not work. Additional info: --- I am giving some additional info in the hopes that someone can point me in the right direction. I have a feeling that I did not move my /home dir from Ygg to Debian properly. If I do a ls -l: -rw-r--r-- 1 rathon users 64 Oct12 10:44 test.c -rwxrwxr-x 1 rathon rathon 4157 Oct12 10:44 a.out Notice that the gid changed when I compiled the file ? Is that normal to get uid and gid the same ?? It didn't change when compiling. The compiler simply creates a new file (a.out) and it get the default uid/gid for files you create. Try compiling someone else's source file - you'll be the owner of the executable because *you* ran the compiler. Helge Hafting
Re: Newbie: Excess Idle Time
Logged off - excess idle time - zhaoway Mon Oct 12 10:20:50 1998 tty = tty2 Please, what's the problem? How to avoid this? Why I'm forced to log off when I'm just reading? Please, please help! There are various packages that log off idle sessions. YOu probably have one installed. Depending on how many users you have, you can probably just remove it. 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: Issues in switching to Debian
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/09/98 at 01:16 PM, Raymond A. Ingles [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] No, a boot-sector virus essentially runs under the BIOS. This *can* infect a Linux machine but I find it difficult to believe that Linux would still boot in such a circumstance. A boot virus could spread during boot (i.e. infect other partitions and floppies) while LILO load the kernel. The virus would end as soon as the kernel loads, and would be unable to mess with linux executables. Linux might still boot if the virus doesn't try to mess with the kernel being loaded. Helge Hafting
Re: Oracle
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/09/98 at 11:27 AM, Jeff Noxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] I wish decisions were made on technical merit alone, but this is the real world. For that reason, it would be nice if Debian had a marketing interface to corporations like Sybase, Oracle, etc. And we need to know key things like how big our user base is. The problem is that this is a full-time job... :-( The situation is fortunately a little better than A good technician can get any linux software running on Debian Debian is redhat-compatible using the alien package. If that is enough, then try getting the www.debian.org people to put that statement somewhere on their site, which is a sort of marketing interface. Helge Hafting -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: Oracle
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/09/98 at 04:36 PM, Martin Oldfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Alex == Alex Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Debian is not a company to sign up with. You can use Alex Oracle on Debian with no problems whatsoever. It is even Alex distributed in plain tarballs and not rpms. You can download Alex it right now, if you want. Personally I think that this misses the point. If Oracle support RedHat and I can just get the software and install it then it's a much more attractive proposition than having to install tarballs on Debian. Is it too much to hope that Debian's supposedly superior technology would persuade Oracle to release their software in a .deb ? And if they won't take the trouble of making a .deb, maybe someone interested can offer to make the .deb for them? Or supply a script that does the job? Helge
Re: Do I have a win-sound card?
Hi, Paul On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Paul Rightley wrote: I just bought a new machine (at work) and it came with both video and sound on the motherboard. If it's SiS 5578, then you can check out SuSe X server - www.suse.com I tried (briefly) to get XFree to work with the on-board video controller, but to no avail (other than at standard VGA resolutions). I was able to use it with standard X SVGA server - but with soft cursor only... I used instead the video card from my 'old' machine. I did not have a sound card in the 'old' machine and I was interested in getting sound working. The motherboard is made by Amptron and is a PM-9100. The description of the sound is SB 16/PRO compatible with DirectSound 3D support, HRTF 3D Positional Audio Technology with full duplex stereo, Supports 44.1K digital audio-in (SPDIF) and Windows NT/98/95/3.1 and MS-DOS supported by drivers This last statement makes me doubt that I will get it to work, however I though I would ask the list. I compiled in sound (SB16 with appropriate addresses), but - so far - to no avail. Does anyone have any experience with such a motherboard? i don't use sound, but you can try to set it as WSS (windows sound system), and check WSS driver... Thanks for any assistance, Paul Rightley regards OK
Re: unattended ftp
*-Rahul Sood [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a | host and retrieve a file? If you install ncftp, you get a program called ncftpget that can be used to get files non-interactively (eg in a script). -- ...Unix, MS-DOS, and MS Windows (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). (Matt Welsh) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sound Card
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/10/98 at 09:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: . some generic modules could be included in the installation section, but the module code would have to be adjusted so that io/irq info can be passed as parameters. I must be totally missing something. I use make menuconfig with the kernel-package and have no option to set io/irq etc when making the sound drivers as modules. Parms must be passed to the modular drivers when calling unless I have missed some kind of hidden option in the make menuconfig dialog. The parameters can be set up in make menuconfig if you compile the driver into ther kernel. If using modules, put them in /etc/conf.modules. Read manpages, /usr/src/Documentation/kmod.txt (for a 2.1 kernel) and files in /usr/src/Documentation/sound for details. Helge Hafting -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: Diamond Stealth 220 and (no) X
I got the Permedia2 server from there and I found that I had to link the 'X' file to the XFCom_3DLabs file myself before it would work for me. You should not do this, since it destroys the debian X11 setup. In debian X is a suid wrapper program, not a link. To understand how this works read the file /usr/doc/xbase/debian.README. I would advice you to reinstall the xbase package, skip all the configuration (backup your /etc/X11/XF86Config file), and put the full pathname of the server you use on the first line of the file /etc/X11/Xserver. If you used the xf86config program from SUSE, also check if the XF86Config is in /etc/X11/. All other `copies' of this file should be symbolic links. This setup is also different in debian than it is in other distributions. If you have written the XF86Config file to a different location, you might get into trouble if you upgrade to a newer version of debian that does include the server for your card. If you then reconfigure your card, the Xserver might still read the old XF86Config, leaving you doubting your sanity (speaking from experience here :). BTW, I did solve my problem with the Diamond Stealth II S220. I think the best procedure is to run the debian version of the xf86config program, pretend to install some card that uses the svga-server, of course not allow any probing or testing, and then change the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver. From all the debian installation process I think the X installation is the most terrifying to the newbie (meaning: people who don't know the particulars of the debian setup). Maybe there should be some virtual package that ensures that the right packages (i.e., the _right_ xserver, the xserver-vga16 package, and xbase) are installed before any attempt is made to start the setup program? 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
Re: unattended ftp
On 12 Oct 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: *-Rahul Sood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a host and retrieve a file? wget. no shell script necessary to get a file. Handles anonymous and password protected FTP sites. regards, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 == = == ==== == E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] == WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com
Python
I am trying to install some packages from the slink arcive with apt-get. I receive an error message that python-examples is dependent on python-base. But after installing python-base from slink, the message remains. Installing python-base from stable gives me a more error messages. How can I solve this? Regards, Ruud.
ncurses segmentation fault
Package: ncurses3.4
Version: 1.9.9g-8.8
The following program, compiled with egcs 1.0.3, causes a segmentation
fault at the mvwinch statement:
#include curses.h
int main ()
{
WINDOW *win;
initscr();
refresh();
win = newwin(0, 0, 10, 10);
getch();
chtype r = mvwinch(win, 1, 1);
getch();
endwin();
return 0;
}
I'm using Debian 2.0.
Any ideas?
Ingo
vnc x-windows server looking for xauth
Hello, I just installed the vnc x-windows server (.deb) and when I fire up vncserver, it says: vncserver: couldn't find xauth on your PATH. First I checked my hard-drive for xauth (find / -name xauth); the file does not exist on my drive. Then I checked in packages.gz (from hamm), and couldn't find it there either. From what I've gathered, it's a file which controls who has access to the vncserver, but that's about all I know. Can anyone help figure out how to set this up? TIA, --David
xserver for Matrox Productiva?
Hi, my new PC has a Matrox Productiva AGP graphics card, and I'm installing Debian on it. There doesn't seem to be a xserver in hamm or slink by now -- or is anybody running X-win on such a beast? I know that SuSe has developped a special server for the Productiva, but how to install this one in a Debian system? I would even be satisfied with an existing server with fewer capabilities, it's only important that I can work in X-win with Xemacs and some tcl-apps. I've tried with the VGA16-server, but it only showed a black monitor. Any help appreciated, thanks, joachim
How to post with slrnpull and GNUS?
Hi, I get my news with slrnpull and read it with xemacs/GNUS, but don't know how to post articles _offline_ with such a combination. When I write an article and send it, xemacs says that all's okay, but the article disappears without leaving a trace in the file system. However, sending news online is no problem. I suppose I should tell xemacs where the outgoing news spool is, but have nowhere found a hint how to do that. Any help appreciated. Greetings, joachim
Re: xserver for Matrox Productiva?
Hi, my new PC has a Matrox Productiva AGP graphics card, and I'm installing Debian on it. There doesn't seem to be a xserver in hamm or slink by now -- or is anybody running X-win on such a beast? I know that SuSe has developped a special server for the Productiva, but how to install this one in a Debian system? I think the following procedure works: - get the suse xserver - use _debian's_ xf86config to configure for some card that uses the svga server (like the diamond viper 330) and your correct mouse and monitor settings (and video card memory), make sure not to probe or test anything - change the first line of /etc/X11/Xserver into the path name of your xserver - run startx to see if it works It might be a good idea to read /usr/doc/xbase/readme.README to understand the debian X11 setup. Do not use the SUSE xf86config, or if you do, don't let it make /usr/bin/X11/X a link to the xserver and make sure that the XF86Config file is written into /etc/X11 instead of somewhere else. 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
CD ROM BURNER
CompUSA has an Acer 2x6 CD-RW drive on sale for $199.99 after mail in rebate. If you buy this drive you can get an Acer 40X cd rom reader for FREE (after mail in rebate). Is there any possibility that this drive (probably ide, model number not given) supported by Linux? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
using apt with kde pkgs?
does anybody have a line for /etc/apt/sources.list which allows one to download the hamm kde packages from ftp.kde.org or one of its mirrors? regards, vinny
***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)
This is a security hole ONLY if someone has access to the machine itself. I bet many UNIX machines have a similar problem. Thats why I've seen PDP mini computers where the power switch was under lock and key, and the front panel on these machines was also lockable. Most PC's used to have a keyboard lock switch on the box which will render the machine safe from such an attack (but unless the power switch is locked someone could at least bring the thing down!) Don't bother trying to fix this in software, to be secure from such an attack you must secure the HARDWARE! --- On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 10:42:52 +0100, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 00:52:49 -0700 (PDT), George Bonser wrote: [...] ALlow me to translate. Boot the rescue disk as if you are installing, [whole story deleted] Hey guys, why so complicated??? What's wrong with giving LILO a kernel command line of init=/bin/sh? This way you boot straight into sh, and you can then change the root password. This is how I usually do it under Slackware, and even tho Debian uses shadow passwords it should work the same way. Ouch, I tried it, it really works That means on a standard Linux-machine, everybody could just switch off the power, give the LILO-kernel option on reboot and be root??!! Why not simply drop the need of a login password? _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
ls-120 drives
Anyboy had any success installing an ls-120 drive into a debian system? --- YES I have an ls-120. Compile 'ide floppy support' into your kernel. My LS120 is the slave on the second IDE interface, so it is /dev/hdc. I can boot from the LS120 (my bios is new enough) but only using the debian boot/resuce disks. I have not yet got my own kernel onto a floppy and booted it from the ls120 (i have been told to try syslinux, havn't done so yet). I also have yet to find a way to format floppies on the ls120 under linux (works under windows). I am using the ls120 to sneaker net files from work to home. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: ncurses segmentation fault
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Ingo Brueckl wrote:
Package: ncurses3.4
Version: 1.9.9g-8.8
The following program, compiled with egcs 1.0.3, causes a segmentation
fault at the mvwinch statement:
#include curses.h
int main ()
{
WINDOW *win;
initscr();
refresh();
win = newwin(0, 0, 10, 10);
getch();
chtype r = mvwinch(win, 1, 1);
getch();
endwin();
return 0;
}
I'm using Debian 2.0.
Any ideas?
Do you not need to include stdio.h for getch?
Matthew
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Re: ***HUGE*** security hole??!! (Re: Lost root passwd)
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998 05:21:25 -0700 (PDT), Kenneth Scharf wrote: This is a security hole ONLY if someone has access to the machine itself. This is not exactly uncommon, especially in computer labs. What's wrong with giving LILO a kernel command line of init=/bin/sh? This way you boot straight into sh, and you can then change the root password. [...] Ouch, I tried it, it really works That means on a standard Linux-machine, everybody could just switch off the power, give the LILO-kernel option on reboot and be root??!! Why not simply drop the need of a login password? You can give LILO the password option in lilo.conf so that people must enter a password when they try to specify different kernel options than the default ones. -- Ralf G. R. Bergs * Welkenrather Str. 100/102 * 52074 Aachen * Germany +49-241-876892, +49-241-86 (fax) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * PGP ok!
Re: unattended ftp
Rahul Sood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a host and retrieve a file? Some have suggested using ncftp or wget to do this. That may be the best way to go. However, it is also possible to do it with plain-old ftp. You have to specify the login and password in a file called `.netrc' in your home directory. Then `ftp' to a host listed in that file can be invoked from a script. See `man ftp' for details. -- David Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ncurses segmentation fault
Quoting M.C. Vernon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Do you not need to include stdio.h for getch? man getch. It's an ncurses function, not a std library function. Mike Stone
Reading rtf
I have unfortunately come into possession of some files in the rtf format. Is there any way to read these on Linux, or even better, is there a cleaner to just extract the text? -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee to theorems (Martin Schulze) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-: .elOle. :-] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network disconnect
Thanks Paul, Could you give me some clue to solve it? Thanks again. Zheng Wang, Ph. D Department of Statistics and Applied Probability University of California, Santa Barbara E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/~zwang On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, W. Paul Mills wrote: Sounds like an irq problem. X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 11:14:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Zheng Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/21434 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 03a0a4e87fe9d857fd8dd623b3c9da57 Hi, When I install the Debian base, the network is working. But when I choose to install all package from the CD. The network is disconnected. Could I get some help to solve this problem? Thanks. -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * pgp public key emailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] */
Re: Cannot run any executables under Debian2.0 - Help(newbie)
Helge Hafting writes: [snip] Note that your PATH does not contain the current directory (.) This is default for Debian, and is considered a security feature. I believe you can run standard executables like ls and such? To run the a.out file, use ./a.out instead of only a.out The same applies to anything else that isn't in your path. Why is this a security thing? Because a nasty user on a multiuser system could create a virus or something and name it ls in his home directory. Someone else might cd's into that directory and run ls in order to get a directory list. Not having the current dir in PATH is then useful. Unnecessary, Just place the . at the end of the $PATH variable so that all other directories are searched first before defaulting to the current directory . Thus, official binaries (like /usr/bin/*) are searched before attempting the current directory. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
look up process
I was having trouble with diald bringing up the line. A dump of the /var/log/ppp.log showed something connecting to local (127.0.0.1) and sending a DNS request (port 53 on destination IP). Is there a way to query a connection to find out which process is doing the connection? I'd sure like to know what was connecting thru local and requesting DNS. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.-
Re: ncurses segmentation fault
Quoting Ingo Brueckl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Package: ncurses3.4 Version: 1.9.9g-8.8 The following program, compiled with egcs 1.0.3, causes a segmentation fault at the mvwinch statement: Looks like an ncurses bug. Works fine with the libncurses4-dev package from slink. Mike Stone
Unidentified subject!
Hello ! Thank all who responded to my mail about missing libraries for WP 7.0. I have different problem now. At the end of installation of WP 7.0 I get message Segmentation fault Idir/$SHBIN/$DSTEXC -f (I don't remember the rest). After installation I tried to start the program anyway, but I received message Segmentation fault. Any ideas what is wrong ? Is it possible that you need the libc5 libraries? I have libc5 libraries installed. Bostjan
Re: unattended ftp
I would definitely recommend wget for this. Excellent utility, with excellent docs (use info). It'll work through http proxies and everything. regards, vinny
Re: WP 7.0 on Db 2.0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Sounds like you are still missing some needed libs. what is your output of ``ldd xwp'' mine shows -- /lib/nfslock.so.0 = /lib/nfslock.so.0 (0x4000c000) libXt.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6 (0x4000e000) libX11.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4005) libXpm.so.4 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x400ee000) libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x400fc000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40105000) libSM.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libSM.so.6 (0x401c3000) libICE.so.6 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libICE.so.6 (0x401cc000) From: Bostjan JERKO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/21547 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 2e7d4202a8c3a102d06b76451ea12b3e Hello ! Thank all who responded to my mail about missing libraries for WP 7.0. I have different problem now. At the end of installation of WP 7.0 I get message Segmentation fault Idir/$SHBIN/$DSTEXC -f (I don't remember the rest). After installation I tried to start the program anyway, but I received message Segmentation fault. Any ideas what is wrong ? Bostjan - -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * pgp public key emailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQB1AwUBNiIGIHenzt/xy5yFAQFBGAL/bG7XPHZGdCE9Xwd/t7HLZPuZeXIsvu1g xUaZ2mlq0DSMHyC/qW0fdaDGC0cv+kDMdZqV7SrzpaqRUyfOX2tW2KeAdZzBkY6r JsbzeBFB/dtJKyDlLWR0b2QW1pJEGYaY =3n8V -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: vnc x-windows server looking for xauth
David Karlin wrote: Hello, I just installed the vnc x-windows server (.deb) and when I fire up vncserver, it says: vncserver: couldn't find xauth on your PATH. First I checked my hard-drive for xauth (find / -name xauth); the file does not exist on my drive. Then I checked in packages.gz (from hamm), and couldn't find it there either. From what I've gathered, it's a file which controls who has access to the vncserver, but that's about all I know. Can anyone help figure out how to set this up? Do you have X11 installed? ascus:~ $ dpkg -S xauth xbase: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth xbase: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xauth.1x.gz Noel
emacs20 woes
Hi all,
I'm having trouble to get emacs 20 properly installed on a hamm
system. If I try to (re-)install the emacs-package, I get:
pollux# dpkg --install emacs20_20.2-7.deb
Selecting previously deselected package emacs20.
(Reading database ... 24424 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace emacs20 20.2-7 (using emacs20_20.2-7.deb) ...
(...)
Cannot open load file: debian-rundir
emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common
emacs20 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install line 26.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 29
Errors were encountered while processing:
emacs20_20.2-7.deb
The perl-code in /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-install around line 26
looks like
20: sub execute {
21: my(@cmd) = @_;
22: if($dry_run) {
23: print join( , @cmd) . \n;
24: } else {
25: if(system(@cmd) != 0) {
26: die emacs-$action: . join( , @cmd) . failed;
27: }
28: }
29: }
My perl is rather, eh, non-existant, I couldn't tell if there was a bug
here. I searched the list-archives for postings on problems with
emacs20, and I found people had success with removing the tm package.
However, the tm package was not installed in the first place, so I
cannot remove that.
I downloaded the emacs20 packages from slink to see if they would be any
better. An attempt to install emacs20_20.3-1.deb however hangs on the
inability to remove the emacs20_20.2-7.deb package. I cannot for the
life of me find the --force option to dpkg that will remove/purge the
emacs20 package, it keeps telling me:
dpkg: error processing emacs20 (--purge):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it before attempting a removal.
Errors were encountered while processing:
emacs20
I'm out of ideas. Any wise words of comfort around?
Eric
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Re: unattended ftp
| Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a | host and retrieve a file? If you install ncftp, you get a program called ncftpget that can be used to get files non-interactively (eg in a script). Not necessaraly with ncftp, plain fto will do. In a script: #!/bin/sh ftp -i -n host EOI user userid passwd cd /some/dir bin get somefile save/file/name bye EOI Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+
Re: LS-120
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Are there any utilities for formatting 1.44m floppies in an LS-120 (on /dev/hdd)? Dunno. Ironically, Windows NT SP3 can't format floppies in the LS-120 unless you downgrade ATAPI.SYS back to the SP2 version. Also I have a custom kernel, how can I create a boot diskette which will boot in the LS-120 drive? (my bios WILL boot a floppy in the LS-120 drive, the debian 2.0 boot/rescue disks do work in the LS-120...but how were these images created??) The boot/rescue disk is just an ordinary floppy, so you can replace the kernel with you own, in one of several ways. Sounds as if you have a floppy drive so just use that. Otherwise you might go via any DOS medium available to linux, and then boot a DOS floppy and complete the move. You may have to rdev the kernel before you start moving it, though (or use parameters when you boot). If you're installing from a machine with an LS-120 and no floppy, it's easy if you (again) have any DOS medium available where you can put images of the rescue and drivers disks, and base2_0.tgz . If I can get these two questions answered I can 86 my floppy drive and use it's interrupt for something usefull (like a second network card, or a third serial port) Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
xfsft and Microsoft fonts
Folks, I'm keen on being able to use scalable fonts on my Linux box. I have a collection of fonts from Win95 (I dual boot sadly). Unfortunately, when I try to use these fonts only some of them appear. The fonts.scale file I generate automatically doesn't contain them either. I've used both ttinst and ttmkfdir to try to get a full list. Am I simply SOL using those other fonts? Or is there a way to use these fonts that I haven't tried? I'd also like to understand the configuration files for xfsft better, but there doesn't seem to be any documentation. Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated. Simon Read 2 Maryland Avenue, #36 Annapolis MD 2401-1651, USA 1 410 280 2792 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cannot run any executables under Debian2.0 - Help(newbie)
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, tko wrote: Helge Hafting writes: [snip] Note that your PATH does not contain the current directory (.) This is default for Debian, and is considered a security feature. I believe you can run standard executables like ls and such? To run the a.out file, use ./a.out instead of only a.out The same applies to anything else that isn't in your path. Why is this a security thing? Because a nasty user on a multiuser system could create a virus or something and name it ls in his home directory. Someone else might cd's into that directory and run ls in order to get a directory list. Not having the current dir in PATH is then useful. Unnecessary, Just place the . at the end of the $PATH variable so that all other directories are searched first before defaulting to the current directory . Thus, official binaries (like /usr/bin/*) are searched before attempting the current directory. He did say 'nasty' user. Nasty users don't just have trojan horses called 'ls', but common typos as well. These won't get caught by official binaries, so typing 'emaca' will do its dirty work before benignly replying bash: emaca: command not found . It's not very difficult to get used to typing ./ when you need to. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
lp in printer but no print!
I have installed my Okidata OL-410e printer as an HP3 Laser Jet; both use the PCL5 printer language. It prints ASCII from the command line 'lp filename' . From words in Applixware 4.4.1 I select 'lp' printer and PCL5 class and the document goes to the printer, but is NOT PRINTED; it stays in the printer buffer until the next page is sent to it. It prints then, but the second page does not because it is waiting for the next page to be sent from the computer to printer. It prints the banner page AND the first page if I select the Banner Page option. Selecting the Print in Background option continues the problem. Is there something in the printcap that should be changed to correct this problem? TIA, Bob Barth[EMAIL PROTECTED]...Unix, MS-DOS, and MS WindowsThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
problems compiling the kernel after upgrade to 2.0
After I upgraded to Debian 2.0 I haven't been unable to compile the linux kernel and also some other stuff (GIMP and related libraries are an example) Here's what I get: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux # make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/scratch/usr/src/linux/scripts' cat header.tk ./kconfig.tk ./tkparse ../arch/i386/config.in kconfig.tk make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 139 make[1]: Leaving directory `/scratch/usr/src/linux/scripts' make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 --- I have similar results with menuconfig too, which complains about multiple istances of ncurses: --- There seems to be a problem with the lxdialog companion utility which is built prior to running Menuconfig. Usually this is an indicator that you have upgraded/downgraded your ncurses libraries and did not remove the old ncurses header file(s) in /usr/include or /usr/include/ncurses. It is VERY important that you have only one set of ncurses header files and that those files are properly version matched to the ncurses libraries installed on your machine. You may also need to rebuild lxdialog. This can be done by moving to the /usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog directory and issuing the make clean all command. If you have verified that your ncurses install is correct, you may email the maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for additional assistance. make: *** [menuconfig] Error 139 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux # --- I've double checked and the only ncurses in libpath is the one which come with the debian cdroms Any hints ? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.1.122 #7 Thu Sep 17 13:56:01 CEST 1998 i586 unknown
Re: Linux and AOL
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Stephen Gore wrote: Is it possible to connect to the Internet through AOL? I'm installing Debaian v2.0 via floppy and ftp, and need internet access to complete the installation. Any alternative suggestions welcome. Thanx! Hi Stephen My son is a programmer for AOL. He says that a lot of the AOL software people are Linux users, but none access AOL through Linux. He discourages me from trying. Maybe once WINE or WILLOWS is up we can use their software. -David --- Eschew Microsoft, and eschew obsfuscation. But I repeat myself. David B Teague | Ask me how user interface copyrights software [EMAIL PROTECTED] | patents make programming a dangerous business.
Installing drivers
I downloaded a driver for a Xircom card ( xirc2p~1.gz ) from the web site ( k.shuttle.de/isil/xircom/xirc2ps.html ). Unfortunately they don't show how to load the driver onto the Linux system. Can you tell me the correct way to copy the file off the floppy diskette and load the driver in the correct directory? Thanks Tony
Re: unattended ftp
You could write a script like: /home/foobar/ftp.script: user foobar foobars_password lcd /home/foobar get filename and then execute it whenyou want, or put it in cron... like this: /var/spool/cron/crontabs/foobar: 0 0 * * * ftp -n -i /home/foobar/ftp.script -- quiet rob --- Just keep telling yourself you are immortal --Albert Hofmann On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, A. M. Varon wrote: On 12 Oct 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote: *-Rahul Sood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Excuse if this is a FAQ, but how can I set up a shell script to ftp to a host and retrieve a file? wget. no shell script necessary to get a file. Handles anonymous and password protected FTP sites. regards, == == Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated == == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 == = == ==== == E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] == WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Urgent Help needed please
Hi! trying to install new packages I just noticed that I can't write to /var/lib/dpkg anymore. The error I get is: No space left on device. I took a look at /var/log/kern.log and found this: ... kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:07): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count \ corrupted for block group 4 ... last message repeated 207 times ... last message repeated 133 times and so on. Help! What can I do to resolve this without rebooting the machine? Well, I guess I could reboot it, but it is very far away from me and if it gets stuck during the reboot I'd have an even bigger problem. Besides, there are some users logged in and I'd hate to kick them out. :-( Please send help soon! Thanks so much in advance, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
Re: ncurses segmentation fault
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:54:14AM +0200, Ingo Brueckl wrote: The following program, compiled with egcs 1.0.3, causes a segmentation fault at the mvwinch statement: Why are you rehashing this on -user? You've already reported this problem as a bug, and as you can check in the bug log (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/27/27657.html) this problem isn't reproducable with the current unstable distribution, and thus will not be a problem in Debian 2.1. Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.
Re: Urgent Help needed please
It's hard to answer when you don't include any other information. The obvious question is: Are you really out of disk space? and the answer is df. What does the output from df say? If you are out of disk space, do you have a spare partition available? If so you may be ok. If not, you may be screwed. What does the output from fdisk -l say? On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 06:10:24PM +, Andy Spiegl wrote: Hi! trying to install new packages I just noticed that I can't write to /var/lib/dpkg anymore. The error I get is: No space left on device. I took a look at /var/log/kern.log and found this: ... kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:07): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count \ corrupted for block group 4 ... last message repeated 207 times ... last message repeated 133 times and so on. Help! What can I do to resolve this without rebooting the machine? Well, I guess I could reboot it, but it is very far away from me and if it gets stuck during the reboot I'd have an even bigger problem. Besides, there are some users logged in and I'd hate to kick them out. :-( Please send help soon! Thanks so much in advance, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IBM W/MCA Board
I need some help finding info on installing Debian on a IBM machine with a MCA board. Thank you much -- Best regards /-\ /***\ /***/ David Sherow \**\ /*/ President, Sherow Enterprises \***\ \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /*/ \*\ http://www.ourtownusa.net/~sherow /**/ \**/ \/
Re: Urgent Help needed please
Hi Jim, first of all thanks for the fast answer! It's hard to answer when you don't include any other information. You are right. I am sorry. I wanted to get my question out as fast as possible and stopped thinking. The obvious question is: Are you really out of disk space? and the answer is df. No, I am not. What does the output from df say? 2 GB free space: /dev/sda1 194405 12675 171691 7% / /dev/sda6 497667 311861 160104 66% /usr /dev/sda73299939 1000232 2129018 32% /var If not, you may be screwed. Oh, uh. I was afraid so. If I reboot do you think the startup scripts would run efsck automatically? What does the output from fdisk -l say? Hm, why just a moment: Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 527 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 *11 25 200781 83 Linux native /dev/sda2 26 26 527 40323155 Extended /dev/sda5 26 26 38 104391 82 Linux swap /dev/sda6 39 39 102 514048+ 83 Linux native /dev/sda7 103 103 527 3413781 83 Linux native Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1021 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb4 *11 1021 10454886 DOS 16-bit =32M Thanks, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~
screensaver-gl
Hello, I just install 3dfx drivers. Now i can run the mesa 3dfx demos as normal user. So i want to use a 3dfx screensaver. Xscreensaver-gl does that isnit?? Well, how do i use it?? or test it?? I have gnome. But the gnome screen-propeties, only see the xlock screensaver so i can not select any of the xscreensaver-gl. Xlock, has some nice 3d screensaver, but how do i make this use my 3dfx card ?? After 10 minutes, my screen goes black. So probably i should do 'setterm -blank 0' to disable it isnit? Thanks, -- __ / / / Phillip Neumann / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / _/_/
Re: FYI: DMA/33 and kernels
I get the same exact results with my PPro system (Intel 440FX chipset) and
Maxtor 7.2GB UDMA drive. This even happens under the developmental kernel
2.1.122 which I use for the better SMP handling. I've asked questions
before on newsgroups and such as to what could be causing this behavior, or
if anybody else had even seen this kind of behavior, but never got any
response.
Sean
MORE INFO
WHat I mean to say is that if you install a DMA/33 drive that claimes to
be compatable with IDE, I get a ton of errors that look like this:
hdwhatever: multwrite_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdwhatever: multwrite_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hdwhatever: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdwhatever: no DRQ after issuing WRITE
ide1: reset: success
I get MANY fewer with 2.0.32. In fact, I get many per minute with
2.0.3(3-5) yet only a few per day with 2.0.32. This is with plain vanilla
hdparm settings (i.e. the defaults)
Also, with 2.0.35 I kept getting errors for illegal blocks, accesses
beyond the end of the device, fsck failures due to illegal blocks in
inodes requiring manual repair, etc. None of these problems with 2.0.32.
I first noticed this earlier this year when I installed an 8G drive on a
2.0.33 box. I could not keep the bux running more than a day until I
reverted to 2.0.32 and put the large disk as the slave on the primary IDE.
These are two different brands of motherboards with two different chipsets
that show the same results.
SCSI controller and drive?
I'm looking to add a scsi hard drive and controller to my system which currently uses an ide drive. What is a good controller and drive to buy? Does only the controller matter or does the type of hard drive I get matter to? -jeff
Re: Urgent Help needed please
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) writes: I took a look at /var/log/kern.log and found this: ... kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:07): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count \ corrupted for block group 4 ... last message repeated 207 times ... last message repeated 133 times and so on. I'd be surprised if you had many other options besides rebooting with your fingers crossed. One thing that might be worth doing before rebooting is editing /etc/defaults/rcS and changing FSCKFIX=no to FSCKFIX=yes to force e2fsck to do whatever it thinks it has to do without any questions. If this fails, you really will have to get someone physically close to the machine to help to make any more progress :-( o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Nice .sig! -- __ \/ o\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edinburgh fetish club Permission \ / /\__/ Paul Crowley Nov 8 http://www.hedonism.demon.co.uk/permission /~\
Re: Urgent Help needed please
Hi Paul, editing /etc/defaults/rcS FSCKFIX=yes Thanks. Actually I did that last week, after some kind person in the list gave this as an answer to another question of mine. Well, I dared to do itandwas lucky! The system is up and running again. And I don't see any dubious messages in the log files anymore. But I can't tell whether fsck was called during bootup. There are no hints at all in /var/log/messages about this. Is there any other way to tell? Thanks again to all of you, Andy. -- Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) --- _`\,__`\,__(_) (_)/_\_| \ _|/' \/ -- (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_)(_) (_)(_)' _\o_ ~~~ Linux vs. Windows is a no-Win situation
Re: ls-120 drives
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 05:32 -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Stuff deleted havn't done so yet). I also have yet to find a way to format floppies on the ls120 under linux (works under windows). I am using the ls120 Umm, wouldn't a simple '/sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdc' do the trick (works for floppies under /dev/fd0 as I recall)? Or does that just assume it's a 120M disc? Oh, I don't know... Cheers Dave
HELP!!!!! binaries not executed (fwd)
I 'd like to thank you for all your help with my problem when the root partition on my box was deleted. The current situatrion is that I managed to install 2.0 from the dos partitiopn the system is minimally working. BUT i have no configuration files. No /lib libraries. I could reinstall but I thought that it would be easier if I retrieve staff from my backup. I use tob for my backups But of course tob does not work becasuse I have a generic kernel and the modules needed for ftape do not have the hardware configuration of my system So the uestion is how do I pass on the memory adress irq and dma which I know to the ftape module without recompilingthe ftape (which for some reason I can'yt do anyway) Any help will be really appreciated George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html ---
