Linux and Nuevas tecnologias
Bueno todo el mundo esta invertiendo en hardware y a mi me ha llegado una Sound Blaster PCI 64 v Que tal lo tengo para poder oir algo en mi debian. Los nuevos kernels soportan estos elementos Muchas gracias y Prospero año nuevo (La Navidad ha sido Feliz ¿Verdad?)
Unidentified subject!
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:27:17 TooManySecrets wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] el día Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 02:32:24AM -0300 expuso lo siguiente: la verdad es que eso ya lo probe y lo unico que hace es decirle a las applicacions que traten de hablarme en castellano. Pero lo que quiero es mas o menos al revez...quiero apretar la tecla e~ne y que salga una. Hombre... yo tengo puesto eso, y me salen las eñes, los acentos, el sistema me traduce lo que buenamente puede al castellano, etc. Osease, que yo pulso la eñe desde el shell, y obtengo una ñ. Hola, Pues enconces tengo mala suerte. aqui esta mi LANG: $echo $LANG es_ES y mira, ; , eso _no_ es una e~ne. al instalar debian 2.1, lo hice hace 3 dias, me pregunt'o sobre el teclado, le dije castellano y pude escribir las e~nes, acentos, etc. Rebootie y se paso todo al ingles Porque me pasa esto? gracias, Phillip Neumann
(sin asunto)
Es cierta la condena a muerte a piratas informáticos ? begin: vcard fn: Antonio Fernández Fernández n: Fernández Fernández;Antonio email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: (sin asunto)
Antonio Fernández Fernández writes: Es cierta la condena a muerte a piratas informáticos ? Pues no estoy absolutamente seguro de su autenticidad, pero una fuente bastante fiable me ha enviado esto (desafortuandamente no tengo la URL): Chinese Hackers Get Death Reuters 8:55 a.m. 28.Dec.98.PST -- SHANGHAI, China -- Two hackers who broke into a bank computer network and stole 260,000 yuan (US$31,400) have been sentenced to death by a court in eastern China, the official Wenhui Daily said on Monday. Hao Jinglong, formerly an accountant at the Zhenjiang branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, was condemned to death, as was his brother, Hao Jingwen, the newspaper said. The Yangzhou Intermediate Court in Jiangsu province also confiscated 40,000 yuan from Hao. The two opened 16 accounts under various names in a branch of the bank in September and later broke into the branch to install a controlling device in a bank computer terminal, the newspaper said. They used the device to electronically wire 720,000 yuan in non-existent deposits into the bank accounts. Afterward, they successfully withdrew 260,000 yuan from eight different branches of the bank, the newspaper said. All the money has since been recovered, the newspaper said, without giving further details. Copyright© 1998 Reuters Limited. Related Wired Links: China: The Great Firewall 1.Dec.98 China Foils Cyber Bank Robbers 22.Oct.98 Hacking for Human Rights? 14.Jul.98 Search Wired News: Have a story or tip for Wired News? Send it here. Or send us your feedback. Wired News | Wired Magazine | HotWired RGB Gallery | Web 101 | Suck.com | Webmonkey Contact us | Work at Wired Digital | Advertise with us Copyright © 1994-98 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved. About Wired Digital | Our Privacy Policy -- Jesus M. Gonzalez Barahona | Departamento de Informatica tel +3491 624 9458, fax +3491 624 9129 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | avd. Universidad, 30 Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones | 28911 Leganes, Spain
Tarjetas gráficas AGP
Hola, Quiero dar las gracias al grupo por facilitarme la dirección para bajar el servidor XBF_i740. Llevaba bastante tiempo intentando hacer funcionar mi tarjeta RAGE II C AGP con las X-window y no lo había conseguido. Nada más bajar los dos ficheros, el servidor y el de configuración, funcionó a la primera. Únicamente, comentar que el fichero de configuración XF86Config parece que lo busca en otro subdirectorio diferente que el original de la distribución de Debian. Pero de eso ya se encarga el programa de configuración. Tengo instalado el gestor de ventanas fvwm95 y me gustaría realizar algunas consultas: ¿Existe alguna forma de personalizar colores de fondo, modificar los menús que aparecen por defecto, etc? Me imagino que habrá que tocar en algún fichero de configuración pero no sé cuál es. He intentado instalar el gestor KDE porque he oído que es muy bueno y con muchas utilidades. Lo he intentado instalar desde el tercer CDROM de la distribución de Debian, pero se queja de que faltan librerías, etc. ¿ Alguien lo ha instalado desde aquí sin problemas ?. Saludos a todo el grupo y gracias de antemano.
re:teclado
[EMAIL PROTECTED] el dia Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 02:32:24AM -0300 expuso losiguiente: la verdad es que eso ya lo probe y lo unico que hace es decirle a lasapplicacions que traten de hablarme en castellano. Pero lo que quiero es mas omenos al revez...quiero apretar la tecla ene y que salga una. Ese problema lo tuve con la instalacion de debian, no te puedo dar los detallesporque aqui tengo una de red hat y no es exactamente igual pero si mal norecuerdo: - Debes buscar un fichero que es algo asi como /etc/*/*key* (creo que/etc/keyboard/default.key o algo asi)- Este fichero tiene el mapa de teclas. Debes sustituirlo por otro que es algoasi como /usr/lib/*...*/keyboard.sp Lamento no dar mas detalles, pero te aseguro que funciona.
Re: Tarjetas gráficas AGP
¿Existe alguna forma de personalizar colores de fondo, modificar los menús que aparecen por defecto, etc? Me imagino que habrá que tocar en algún fichero de configuración pero no sé cuál es. ?has probado el Window Maker? http://www.windowmaker.org/ Te olvidarás de los ficheros de configuración a cambio de 1.5 Mb de RAM ... __ / / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ __ --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ /la oportunidad de -//_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ dominar tu ordenador __ | | |Miguel Pérez Colino | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | http://www2.adi.uam.es/~migpc | |__|
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 11:06:04PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:27:17 TooManySecrets wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] el día Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 02:32:24AM -0300 expuso lo siguiente: la verdad es que eso ya lo probe y lo unico que hace es decirle a las applicacions que traten de hablarme en castellano. Pero lo que quiero es mas o menos al revez...quiero apretar la tecla e~ne y que salga una. Hombre... yo tengo puesto eso, y me salen las eñes, los acentos, el sistema me traduce lo que buenamente puede al castellano, etc. Osease, que yo pulso la eñe desde el shell, y obtengo una ñ. Hola, Pues enconces tengo mala suerte. aqui esta mi LANG: $echo $LANG es_ES Prueba a ver con: export LANG=es_ES.ISO-8859-1 export LC_CTYPE=es_ES.ISO-8859-1 y mira, ; , eso _no_ es una e~ne. Mira mis eñes al instalar debian 2.1, lo hice hace 3 dias, me pregunt'o sobre el teclado, le dije castellano y pude escribir las e~nes, acentos, etc. Rebootie y se paso todo al ingles Porque me pasa esto? Eso son meigas seguro ;-) ... es broma no lo se, pero prueba lo que te digo, a mi me pasaba algo como lo tuyo y me funcionó. gracias, Phillip Neumann No hay de que Suerte -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tarjetas gráficas AGP
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 10:32:14AM +0100, Antonio Angel Sanz Arróspide wrote: Tengo instalado el gestor de ventanas fvwm95 y me gustaría realizar algunas consultas: ¿Existe alguna forma de personalizar colores de fondo, modificar los menús que aparecen por defecto, etc? Me imagino que habrá que tocar en algún fichero de configuración pero no sé cuál es. Echale un vistazo a Window Maker 0.2 que hay en Slink... te olvidarás de fvwm95 como yo hice. Te permite de forma cómoda personalizar tu escritorio a tope, no com en fvwm95. Me gusta más que KDE pues es menos mamotreto, más flexible y está más integrado en Debian, te lo aconsejo, por lo menos pruéba la version que te digo. He intentado instalar el gestor KDE porque he oído que es muy bueno y con muchas utilidades. Lo he intentado instalar desde el tercer CDROM de la distribución de Debian, pero se queja de que faltan librerías, etc. ¿ Alguien lo ha instalado desde aquí sin problemas ?. Yo y no tuve ningún problema. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Colorado 8 Gb
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Ximo Nadal wrote: Hola:-) Tengo instalada una HP Colorado de 8 Gb con Debian 2.0 y no se como hacerla funcionar, ni si hay utilidades para su manejo desde linux. Si alguien sabe algo, que me lo cuente. Gracias y feliz 1.999 a todos. Yo uso una HP Colorado Travan. Tambien estoy con la Debian 2.0 El dato importante es saber si es una SCSI o no. Si no es una SCSI no hace falta que sigas leyendo. La mía si lo es. No creo que tengas ningun problema con ningun dispositivo de cinta SCSI ya que el kernel lo suele reconocer sin problemas. En mi caso el kernel según puede verse en /proc/scsi me reconoce lo siguiente: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: T4000s Rev: 1.05 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Dispones de dos tipos de dispositivos muy utiles. /dev/stn y /dev/nstn. El primer tipo rebobina el dispositivo en el momento de cerrarlo. El Segundo es apropiado para escribir varios ficheros secuencialmente en la cinta aun que esto no suele usarse mucho. Tambien se usa para comandos especiales de cinta. Como por ejemplo 'mt -f /dev/nst0 retension' Comprueba si estan soportados en el kernel y si están generados los dispositivos. Normalmente los dispositivos se crean con: mknod -m 660 /dev/st0 c 9 0 mknod -m 660 /dev/st1 c 9 1 mknod -m 660 /dev/nst0 c 9 128 mknod -m 660 /dev/nst1 c 9 129 /dev/tape suele ser un enlace simbolico al dispositivo al dispositivo por defecto para cinta. mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind mt -f /dev/st0 status echo Espere. Realizando prueba de escritura if ! echo Prueba /dev/st0 then echo !!! Imposible escribir !!! exit else echo OK fi cat /dev/st0 Para más informacion ,man mt, man st. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null --- 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] | +()()()--()()()--+
Como hacer una buena copia de seguridad
Hola a todos, ante todo FELIZ 1999 por si no os escribo antes de mañana por la noche. Las copias de seguridad que hago a mi sistema (uso personal y con conexión a red por módem) las realizo con Taper en un mismo fichero de backup a disco zip, eligiendo: Configuracion del sistema: /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/ /etc/mail/sendmail.cf /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/hosts /etc/userdb /root/ Configuracion de usuarios /home/vigu/ /var/spool/mail/vigu Las realizo cada vez que me acuerdo (debo acordarme más frecuentemente por cierto) y se que debería incluir más cosas en la copia de seguridad pero no se cuales, por favor alguien me podría decir: a) ¿Qué es aconsejable incluir en una copia de seguridad el sistema?. b) Hay algún método más automatizado que el ahora me acuerdo ahora la hago tradicional. Saludos y gracias. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No comprendo los mensajes de cron.
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 02:46:58PM +0100, Cron Daemon wrote: /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: File /usr/bin/htpasswd registered but not installed File /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail registered but not installed /usr/bin/mail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.mail 777 changed to root.mail 2755 Por favor alguien me puede explicar qué significan las lineas del mensaje que me envia cron cada vez que ejecuta las tares de crontab (arriba copiado), crontab que en mi caso es: # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file. # This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do. SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin # m h dom mon dow user command 42 14 * * * rootrun-parts --report /etc/cron.daily 47 14 * * 7 rootrun-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly 52 14 1 * * rootrun-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly # # Removed invocation of anacron, as this is now handled by a # /etc/cron.d file con /etc/cron.daily/ asi: calendarman-db standardtetex-bin findmgetty suidmanager login_app.dpkg-new netbase sysklogd con /etc/cron.weekly/ asi: auctex dpkg-mountable man-db super distributed-net efax mgetty-fax sysklogd y con /etc/cron.monthly/ asi: standard ¿Sería aconsejable meter algo más en alguno de los directorios? Gracias. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grabadora de CDs ¿cual?
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 03:36:00PM +0100, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: como decía Ignacio, yo he sido bueno este año así que le voy a pedir a los Reyes una grabadora de CDs, he estado mirando la lista de compatibilidades hardware para asesorar a sus majestades los Reyed de Oriente pero no me aclara mucho pues son muchas las que trabajan bien sobre Linux. Si aprecias tu propia sanidad mental, compra una SCSI (no, no es más cara; si, si es mejor) Una de puerto paralelo podrá ser muy barata, pero en términos de velocidad y de problemas es una total basura. Un amigo tiene una IDE y está como loco por deshacerse de ella. La máquina se 'sienta' cuando está quemando un disco (es bus IDE será muy lindo y todo eso, pero no fue hecho para estas cosas) Una SCSI es casi garantizado que funciona (mira las páginas de cdrecord para asegurarte que un modelo particular está soportado). De lo que te tienes que preocupar es de la controladora. Usualmente las controladoras incluidas con estas cosas dejan mucho que desear. Una buena opción ahora son las Adaptec de bajo rendimiento (para el CDR lo único que necesitas es que sea capaz de sostener una velocidad de ~ 600 kB/s, lo cual cualquier controlador SCSI puede hacer). Si el precio de las Adaptec es muy alto (aún las más baratas son caras), busca alguna controladora con chips NCR 53C8xx (hay modelos PCI que hacen incluso 'bus mastering' y cuestan menos de US$ 60). Una opción excelente son las controladoras BusLogic FlashPoint (que no me acuerdo cual es el nombre que tienen ahora -- *si* el vendedor sabe de lo que está hablando será fácil que te entienda que quieres si le pides un controlador FlashPoint). Personalmente no recomendaría controladoras Future Domain... Con una controladora SCSI de bajo rendimiento puedes pensar en colocar una lector SCSI también, y posteriormente un scanner así como una unidad ZIP. Una vez que uno está en el tren SCSI es muy difícil bajarse -- SCSI es *la* solución Plug-n-Play; no he visto hasta el día de hoy nada SCSI que lleve más de 5 minutos instalar. La parte más dificil suele ser instalar la controladora... la que más guerra me ha dado alguna vez fue una con un chip NCR antiguo, pues la tarjeta insistía en utilizar la interrupción 'A' del bus PCI que la tarjeta de video *también* insistía en usar. Si piensas a largo plazo, la inversión extra que representa la controladora se paga sola. Marcelo
Re: Cambio de contexto en WindowMaker
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 12:03:08AM +0100, Juanmi Mora wrote: Sabe alguién donde encontrar el parche para WindowMaker que permite el cambio de contexto (de ventanas) con Alt+Tab. No me refiero al CirculateRaise. Me refiero a la forma de cambiar entre tareas como se hace en Güindos. Hereje. :-) Si no recuerdo mal en http://www.windowmaker.org/ hay un enlace que dice 'Links', y allí hay uno que dice 'Window Maker patches'. Eso es lo que buscas. Perdona si no te doy algo más preciso, pero todas estas páginas ya expiraron en el cache... :( Marcelo
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 11:06:04PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: al instalar debian 2.1, lo hice hace 3 dias, me pregunt'o sobre el teclado, le dije castellano y pude escribir las e~nes, acentos, etc. Rebootie y se paso todo al ingles Prueba con 'kbdconfig' (como root) Marcelo
Re: Cambio de contexto en WindowMaker
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Si no recuerdo mal en http://www.windowmaker.org/ hay un enlace que dice 'Links', y allí hay uno que dice 'Window Maker patches'. Eso es lo que buscas. Perdona si no te doy algo más preciso, pero todas estas páginas ya expiraron en el cache... :( http://members.mint.net/daerr/wm/ Marcelo
Re: Teclado
On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 08:33:13PM +0100, TooManySecrets wrote: Tengo el tipico problema... Como hago que mi teclado espa~nol actue como tal? Pon en tu fichero /etc/profile lo siguiente: LANG=es_ES y ya'tá. Pues yo tengo LANG=es_ES.ISO-8859-1 ¿Hay alguna diferencia? -- Rafa C. Marcos BCN Art Directe (Promotora d'Art) http://www.bcnartdirecte.com Visit Internet Virtual Studios at: http://www.bcnartdirecte.com/studios
Re: Cambio de contexto en WindowMaker
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 12:03:08AM +0100, Juanmi Mora wrote: Hola Lista!!! Sabe alguién donde encontrar el parche para WindowMaker que permite el cambio de contexto (de ventanas) con Alt+Tab. No me refiero al CirculateRaise. Me refiero a la forma de cambiar entre tareas como se hace en Güindos. Gracias!!! No entiendo a qué te refieres. Con el CirculateRaise activado a mi me funciona como en Windows. -- Rafa C. Marcos BCN Art Directe (Promotora d'Art) http://www.bcnartdirecte.com Visit Internet Virtual Studios at: http://www.bcnartdirecte.com/studios
Re: Cambio de contexto en WindowMaker
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 09:37:58PM +0100, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: No entiendo a qué te refieres. Con el CirculateRaise activado a mi me funciona como en Windows. Windows tiene la característica de cambiar la ventana focalizada de una forma bastante rara (personalmente yo la detesto -- MS o no). Si tienes tres ventanas: ++ |1 | | +---+ | |2 | | | +-+ +--| |3| 3 -- | | | 2-- | +-+ 1 +---+ Si 3 tiene está enfocada, en Windows, presionando Alt-Tab cambia a digamos 2 (digamos es la clave del asunto). Soltando Alt, y presionando Alt-Tab nuevamente cambia a 3. Si presionas Alt-Tab, y sigues presionando Tab luego, el foco cambia entre 3, 2 y 1. Adicionalmente Windows cambia el orden Z de las ventanas. Window Maker hace otra cosa: presionando M-Tab con 3 enfocada, cambia el foco a 2. Si sueltas M, y ahora presionas M-Tab nuevamente, enfoca 1 (sigue el orden Z de las ventanas, no lo cambia). Si CirculateRaise está activo, al cambiar el foco se cambia el orden z, pero *sabes* que al presionar Alt-Tab la ventana que se enfoque será la que sigue en el orden z. En Windows eso no es necesariamente cierto. Creo que esta explicación no está clara, la mejor forma es que te sientes en una máquina con Windows y veas (o trates de ver) cual es la diferencia entre CirculateRaise y lo otro. Por cierto... no voy a poner ese parche en el paquete oficial de Debian por una razón simple: tiene errores y el autor está consiente... en principio puede sonar como una razón inválida pues me pueden decir que Window Maker en general tiene errores, pero el punto es que los errores del patch pueden botar toda la sesión -- y no quiero meter uno más de esos :) Marcelo
Re: Interfaz dpkgweb
On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 05:13:40PM +, Antonio Calvo Rodriguez wrote:
Este fin de semana e estado preparando unas paginas web para un servidor
que tengo en el trabajo,
me interesaria mostrar una lista de los paquetes instalados en el mismo,
para ello he escrito
este script, pero como mis conocimientos son bastante limitados, me
gustaria saber si alguien
ha escrito algo parecido , o por lo menos como filtrar los paquetes no
instalados para reducir el
tamaño de la pagina generada ).
Mira a ver si te vale esto ;-)
Si aun sigues queriendo hacer la tabla, me lo dices i te digo como hacerlo.
Bueno, feliz año nuevo a todos!!
--BEGIN--
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
#-
# Nombre: deb2web [genera lista de debs instalados para la web]
#
#--
# Leemos la lista de paquetes
open(DEBS, dpkg -l |);
# Cabecera HTML
print EOF;
html
head
titleLista de paquetes instalados/title
meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1
/head
body
pre
Paquete VersiónDescripción
--- --
EOF
# Para cada linea
while($linea = DEBS) {
# Pasamos de la linea si el paquete no está instalado,
# i.e. el segundo carácter de la linea ha de ser i
next unless ($linea =~ /^.i/);
# Machacamos los primeros tres caracteres
$linea =~ s/^...//;
print $linea;
}
# Final HTML
print EOF;
/pre
/body
/html
EOF
close(DEBS);
--END--
--
Rafa C. Marcos
BCN Art Directe (Promotora d'Art)
http://www.bcnartdirecte.com
Visit Internet Virtual Studios at: http://www.bcnartdirecte.com/studios
Re: Install wierdness or newbie goes doh!
On 1998-12-29 16:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received: from pop3.freewwweb.com by fetchmail-4.6.4 POP3 for wind/localhost (single-drop); Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:05:44 EST Received: from murphy.novare.net (murphy.debian.org [209.176.56.6]) by mx2.freewwweb.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA4394459 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:55:52 -0500 (EST) Received: (qmail 18315 invoked by uid 38); 29 Dec 1998 14:52:51 - Resent-Date: 29 Dec 1998 14:52:50 - Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 16:50:49 +0100 (CET) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Install wierdness or newbie goes doh! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Resent-Message-ID: TYQyQB.A.1dE.BzOi2@murphy Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailing-List: debian-user@lists.debian.org archive/latest/30912 X-Loop: debian-user@lists.debian.org Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: c8672d2349052c83fd756875b6514061 Status: O Content-Length: 633 Lines: 20 On 30 Dec, John Reid wrote: - 2Gb mode-4 ide disk drive on hda (3 partitions - 1.2gb fat32, ~515mb linux, 96mb linux swap) I think this might be the problem. LILO has problems booting linux if the primary linux partition is located above a certain block. I think it would be best to have the linux ext2 partition as the first, located below the 1Gb mark. I am not sure though. Someone please correct me if I am wrong. Actually, it's 1024 cyl = 1/2 GB. This restrictions is started to disappear in newer bioses. /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Phone: 781.938.5272 (home) 687 Main St., 2nd fl. Fax:781.938.6641 (home) Woburn, MA 01801Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)
Re: OFFTOPIC: How to use strings with libstdc++?
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 08:21:43PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi All I've stated that there is no old good String class in libstdc++. Instead I've found the string header which defines the string class. Is it OK to use it in new C++ programs, or it is added only for compatibility? Why has it such nonstandard name (without .h suffix). From Stroustrup: =Section B 3.1, third edition= Traditionally, every header file had a .h suffix. Thus C++ implementations provided headers such as map.h and iostream.h. For compatibiilty, most still do. When the standards committee needed headers for redefined versions of standard libraries for newly added library facilities, naming those headers became a problem. Using the old .h names would have caused compatibilty problems. The solution was to drop the suffix .h in standard header names. The suffix is redundant anyway because the notation indicates that a standard header is being named. Thus, the standard library provides non-suffixed headers, such as iostream and map. The declarations in those fiels are placed in the namespace std. Older headers place their declarations in the global namespace and use a .h suffix. == So, the decision is neither arbitrary nor non-standard. The only thing left is to actually implement namespaces in gcc :) Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
Re: Install wierdness or newbie goes doh!
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, John Reid wrote: rm Also I may need to add hdc=cdrom as a boot parameter for my cdrom (see below) - I can't find anywhere obvious to do this in the install script. I tried adding the cdrom module and feeding it hdc=cdrom as a parameter - received error - this module does not accept command line parameters or word to that effect. I think that's only for the cdrom common support and not the module for a specific cdrom in the base install. The parameters would be addr and irq dev='0x340,11' or whatever, if you needed to pass them. Later you would make a symbolic link of /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc rm (__)Sourcerer /()\ O|O|O|O||O||O The world hadn't ever had so many \../ |OO|||O|||O|O moving parts or so few labels. || OO|||OO||O||O -- mlo
Re: mounting W95 partitions
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Ted Llewellyn wrote: I need to mount my Windows 95 partitions from the Debian 2.0 setup. I keep getting errors that say I am trying to mount an extended partition. Well, guess what? That's exactly what I'm trying to do! Just what is Linux's syntax for these DOS extended partitions that Windows puts all those drive letters on? I've tried /dev/hda1 and so on, and I've tried combinations from /dev, but nothing works. What's the secret password? _ () _-- __() Ted Llewellyn ) _-- / /_--/__--- (/ (/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null mount -t vfat /dev/YOURW95PARTITIONHERE should do it However, if you don't have vfat support in your kernel (you should though), then recompile the kernel. Be sure to say 'yes' to native language support. Then an option will come up asking about vfat support, say 'yes' there also. Oh... make sure you're trying the proper partition too. Hope this helps! [~[ Avijit Bandyopadhyay ]~] Computer Engineering Management | McMaster IEEE Communications Society Class of 2001 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Engineering Competition @ Mac) McMaster University | McMaster IEEE Computer Chapter Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | McMaster Solar Car Project [.Montreal Canadiens... E.R.T.W. .Brasil in '02..]
Re: debian-cd package broken? (hamm)
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: OK, I have a few questions. Background: [ Simple responses to most of these, your biggest problem is #4 ] We have a mirror (debian.ssc.com for those on the west coast who hadn't noticed) which makes on-site installs a breeze. However, we have employees who'd like to install Debian at home, so I thought Gee, we have a mirror, why don't I just burn a CD or two? Question 1: Why?? hamm: debian-cd_2.0.3.deb slink: debian-cd_2.0.2.deb Good question... Question 2: (the words hack and frozen both make me nervous in this context) There is a line in 'Configuration': # This is not the released version STATUS=frozen which I changed to STATUS=stable and there is a comment in 'Rules': # Create a dists/ subdir in debian/ subdir of the tmpdir. define init-dists # Hack for frozen (cd $(ARCHIVE); cp -dpRPl dists/$(STATUS) $(TMPDIR_MAIN)/debian) -ln -s $(STATUS) $(TMPDIR_MAIN)/debian/dists/stable -ln -s ../hamm $(TMPDIR_MAIN)/debian/dists/hamm endef OK, it hasn't been updated since hamm was frozen then. Question/Comment 3: I want to burn a hamm CD. I execute 'make binary-i386' and /usr/src/debian-cd/Rules breaks down because it wants to copy fips15.zip and fips15c.zip, but the only file available for it is /home/ftp/pub/debian/tools/fips20.zip. OK, I fixed that. (But perhaps the script should be fixed?) This is a problem on the ftp sites - the tools directories are not release-specific, so updates to them will result in older tools (like debian-cd) breaking. Question 4: Now things move along swimmingly until mkiofs takes off. I guess it's assigning alternate file names. Here is the output, starting with the last line that looks correct to me, followed by a line that looks broken to me, and ending with the abend of the make. [snip] /home/ftp/pub/debian/tmp/main/install/resc1440.bin (resc1440-fast.bin) Unable to open disc image file make: *** [binary-i386] Error 1 Hmmm. Check on where the output iso image should be going and make sure you have write permissions there. I'd guess you're trying to write the images somewhere under the mirror and you're not able to. -- Steve McIntyre, CURS CCE, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sent ten dollars to death.net and all I got was... well, nothing. Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, +-- Tongue-tied twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I... |Finger for PGP key
Re: debian-cd package broken? (hamm)
Pann McCuaig wrote: OK, I have a few questions. Background: We have a mirror (debian.ssc.com for those on the west coast who hadn't noticed) which makes on-site installs a breeze. However, we have employees who'd like to install Debian at home, so I thought Gee, we have a mirror, why don't I just burn a CD or two? Question 1: Why?? hamm: debian-cd_2.0.3.deb Yes. slink: debian-cd_2.0.2.deb NO! Don't even think about trying to use debian-cd for it. Please subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] A new method of creating slink cds is being developed there. The hamm package debian-cd is useless for this and will be removed from slink. Question 2: (the words hack and frozen both make me nervous in this context) They do? Maybe some valium may help... :) Regards, Joey -- If you come from outside of Finland, you live in wrong country. -- motd of irc.funet.fi Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
Hey girls and boys
Hey there! I'm new. I installed Debian 2.1 (frozen) and received a X11 error (both on Intel and Alpha platforms): Fatal server error: could not open defualt font 'fixed' I figured it must have been some mis-configuration on my part, but I can't find any mismatched dependencies. Oh: Intel: 100 Mhz, I128 (Number Nine 2MB), SCSI + IDE hdd's. Alpha: 166 Mhz, TGA, SCSI Thanks! ,,/, o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .---__;;;' \ ,;;;~( /``~-'o http://evil.68k.org `~'' `\ )--__ ) )__ //'/' \\~-~~\ o Efnet: konrad | `\ =/' o ICQ #: 1539748
Re: ip-up ip-down
Frederic Breitwieser writes: In the ip-up and up-down scripts, I had to switch directories in order for the program to see its config file in the same directory - it doesn't use any path or environment variables ! This documented in the pppd man page. It is done for security reasons. The standard Debian ip-up and ip-down scripts set PATH and export it. Why are you rewriting ip-up and ip-down? The standard Debian ip-up and ip-down scripts use run-parts to run whatever you put in ip-up.d and ip-down.d. Thus you would create a script named dynip in ip-down.d, make it executable and put this in it: #!/bin/bash dynipclient -k ... ... and put a similar script in ip-up.d. By rewriting ip-up and ip-down you are going to foul up packages that put scripts in these directories and expect them to get run at appropriate times. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
Re: Acroread Hamm ???
I am totally confused by this here is my ldd acroread output. libreadcore.so = wc_deb:/usr/local/opt/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/bin-ldd acroread libreadcore.so = /usr/local/opt/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/lib/libreadcore.so (0x4000a000) libpfs.so = /usr/local/opt/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/lib/libpfs.so (0x4015c000) libagm.so = /usr/local/opt/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/lib/libagm.so (0x401e) libXt.so.6 = not found libXext.so.6 = not found libX11.so.6 = not found libm.so.5 = /lib/libm.so.5 (0x40268000) libdl.so.1 = /lib/libdl.so.1 (0x40271000) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40274000) As you can see it does not find Xt or X related libraries yet I have them installed and have motif apps that I have written which use these libraries and those show the correct location of Xt libraries in the ldd output. Wayne On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Stephan Engelke wrote: Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:12:45 +0100 From: Stephan Engelke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Acroread Hamm ??? Hi Wayne, Wayne Cuddy wrote: Does Acroread work with hamm? Yes it does. It tells me it can't find libXt.so.6. If I set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH I get a SEGV. I do have libc5 installed. Did you try running ldconfig as root? I think this is what solved this Problem for me. Also find the actual Reader-Binary (I don't recall its name, acroread is a mere shellscript) and do a ldd binaryname to see if all other libraries are found. Check /etc/ld.so.conf and add the readers library directory if necessary. So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] +++ Divide by cucumber +++ Out of cheese error +++ Redo from start +++
Nevermind... sorry Re: Acroread Hamm ???
I did not have the old Xt and X libraries that where compiled against libc5 installed and that was the problem. I can wait for this libc5 legacy stuff to go away. Thanks for the help. On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Stephan Engelke wrote: Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:12:45 +0100 From: Stephan Engelke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Acroread Hamm ??? Hi Wayne, Wayne Cuddy wrote: Does Acroread work with hamm? Yes it does. It tells me it can't find libXt.so.6. If I set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH I get a SEGV. I do have libc5 installed. Did you try running ldconfig as root? I think this is what solved this Problem for me. Also find the actual Reader-Binary (I don't recall its name, acroread is a mere shellscript) and do a ldd binaryname to see if all other libraries are found. Check /etc/ld.so.conf and add the readers library directory if necessary. So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] +++ Divide by cucumber +++ Out of cheese error +++ Redo from start +++
molim pomoc
Pozdrav ! Posto iz subjecta mozete zakljuciti o cemu se radi, prijeci cu odmah na stvar. Evo upravo sam vec treci put pokusao instalirati taj OS sa VIDI CDa iz broja 29/30 no sve prodje ok osim instalacije X Window systema. Naime podesim u xbase-configure sve kako i je, sto se tice graficke kartice i monitora, no kada pokusa nakon toga ga pokrenuti, jedno vrijeme ekran je crn i onda stisnem alt+f1 i onda mi javi nesto u stilu unable to connect to X server i onda pokusa ponovo no isto. Pretpostavljam da je rijec o podesavanju graficke kartice no isprobao sam dosta kombinacija no nista. Graficka kartica je ATI 3D Xpression sa 4 MB (mach64) a monitor ADI ProVista E44 (15). Jos jedna stvar no nevezana uz X Windows. Naime kao root htio sam promijeniti shell sa chsh iz bash u tcsh i vidio sam putanju za bash da je /usr/bash i pretpostavio da je isto i za tcsh no ocito nije, i sada se vise ne mogu prijaviti kao root jer mi javi da /usr/tcsh ne postoji i vrati me na upit za login. Puno Vam hvala unaprijed !
Re: Logo
When I started using Debian a little over 2 years ago I thought the capital DEBIAN that was multi-color looked really sharp. It would make a cool sticker, t-shirt, CD-cover or anything actually. Kudos to whoever designed it. It appeared on the web page 'back in the day and looked great! Keep the change from my two cents. -Ian On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 05:18:05PM -0500, James LewisMoss wrote: I'm looking at the logo for debian and the text under one version of the Logo is 'Debian GNU/Linux'. Since we are now working on Gnu/Hurd and there have been grumblings about other ports for years is the GNu/Linux appropriate still? Yeah, let's start another logo discussion :) If you ask me, we should be brave enough and run a gimp contest and choose a new logo from the entries. The Gnome logo was also the result of a gimp contest, and it is great. About the text: I think Debian GNU/Linux is (still) appropriate. The Debian GNU/Hurd is not yet released. However, if you want to be prepared, my suggestion would be Debian in general, and Debian GNU/Linux for the linux versions and Debian GNU/Hurd if you mean the Hurd in specific. Note that the Hurd and Linux will never be completely seperate. The Hurd will be able to use a lot of Linux binary packages, and maybe the Linux kernel will run on top of the Hurd sometime, who knows :) Because we always have the possibility to drop back to Debian I don't see the problem with Debian GNU/Linux for now. However, I _am_ concerned about the fact that the Debian logo is a penguin. I think this IS inappropriate, and I think we should have neither a GNU nor a chicken related with OUR logo. I will make this a proposal really soon, if nobody else steps forward (probably a native english speaker, who can word it more carefully. I would be happy to cooperate with someone who is interested). Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- Please respect the privacy of this mailing list. To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92 50 E3 CD D7 A2 D9 C4 CE 08 A6 98 E0 0F 58
Trying to compile a new kernel.
This is my first attempt at compiling a new kernel. I downloaded the latest Linux kernel 2.1.132 in hopes that one day I will be able to get my SoundblasterPCI128 sound card to make some noise like music CDs , midi, Real Audio/Video , etc... But that will have to wait because at this time I can not get my printer to properly work with the new kernel. It is an Epson Dot Matrix Action Printer 5000+ . I have a Debian hamm distribution and my printer works fine with the 2.0.34 kernel. When the 2.0.34 kernel boots up I get two responses form my printer and I am able to print. When I make the new kernel and install it, I get only one startup response from my printer. The only time time that I can get it to print anything is with the command : % echo print something! /dev/lp0 but % lpr test.doc produces no response. lpq command gives the following message: % lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Epson ESCP2' Queue: 1 printable job Server: pid 378 active Unspooler: pid 379 active Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, sleeping 10 at 22:29:59 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time active [EMAIL PROTECTED]A 377 test.doc 313 22:29:59 I can't figure out what else I have to configure. I have read and reread the HOWTO's and the man pages for just about everything there is to read ( I think ) for booting a new kernel, installing modules, and configuring the printer. I don't know if I have configured my make menuconfig correctly or not ( there a MANY options ) but I know that I have enabled parallel printer support as a module. I have also gone through the motions of make modules and make modules_install . I have tried several different combinations of options in the menuconfig file but I am beginning to get weary of the whole process. Is there anyone that can tell me a list of exactly what options I am to configure into my kernel and which options I should configure as modules. Also, do I have to do any special work when it comes to getting the modules to work with the kernel? I have read about insmod, modprobe, depmod, kereld, and kmod but it was a little confusing and I have probably missed some step somewhere. I could sure use some advise about now, because I am beginning to think that I have stepped into water that is a little too deep for me. Monte Copeland Knoxville TN
Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 03:39:27AM +, Monte Copeland wrote: % echo print something! /dev/lp0 snip Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, You need to edit /etc/printcap and change lp1 to lp0. Not sure why this is setup this way, do you have more than one parallel device? -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- - - - --- --- -- The Choice of the GNU Generation
Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.
% lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Epson ESCP2' Queue: 1 printable job Server: pid 378 active Unspooler: pid 379 active Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, If your printer is at lp0 that would certainly explain why you can't print. However, I have no idea why it would assume lp1, since the default normally is lp0... sleeping 10 at 22:29:59 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time active [EMAIL PROTECTED]A 377 test.doc 313 22:29:59 work with the kernel? I have read about insmod, modprobe, depmod, kereld, and kmod but it was a little confusing and I have probably missed some step somewhere. I could sure use some advise about now, because I am beginning to think that I have stepped into water that is a little too deep for me. The modules should be inserted automatically; try lsmod and see if the lp module is inserted. if not, cd to the modules directory (/lib/modules/2.1.312/whatever subdirectory lp.o is in) and insmod lp.o looks like lpd is running, so likely the module is inserted. --- The chief cause of problems is solutions. -- Eric Sevareid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.
Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, You need to edit /etc/printcap and change lp1 to lp0. Not sure why this is setup this way, do you have more than one parallel device? Hmm. I look at my printcap, and by default it's set to lp1. I shall include it for educational purproses :) # /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5). # You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for # your own filters. See the printcap(5) manual page for further # details. lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry :lp=/dev/lp1 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp :af=/var/log/lp-acct :lf=/var/log/lp-errs :pl#66 :pw#80 :pc#150 :mx#0 :sh I haven't configured the printer on my machine yet, but I rather question the lp1 default... --- The chief cause of problems is solutions. -- Eric Sevareid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Web-based email for Debian
I am working (and about ready to upload) on a web based IMAP mail program called IMP. I have a .deb up for download along with an example of what it looks like and how it works. http://www.tdyc.com/~rkrusty/Debian It's still in beta but works really well. I use it when I'm at work and have had extremly little problems. Ivan On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 10:35:39AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: I'm running a slink system w/Exim as my MTA. Does anyone know of a web-based e-mail system that would fit into a Debian system nicely? -- Regards,| Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a . | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 Randy | bit operating system originally coded for ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit http://www.golgotha.net | company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ivan E. Moore II Rev. Krusty http://www.tdyc.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Imagination is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstien -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- GPG KeyID=0E1A75E3 GPG Fingerprint=3291 F65F 01C9 A4EC DD46 C6AB FBBC D7FF 0E1A 75E3 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: Logitech TrackMan Maple+
Martin Schulze wrote: Hmm... my Trackman Marble is a PS/2 device: Section Pointer ProtocolPS/2 Device /dev/mouse EndSection ...and... device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= type=ps2 append=-l \a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\ (The append= line isn't relevant to the device type; it's to do with recognising words and sentences.) Of course, he has the link ln -s psaux /dev/mouse Other than the append line, my file XF86Config and gpm.conf are identical to the reply above). While I have never used it, the following is a nice graphical mouse setting tool found in xbase, /usr/X11R6/bin/xmseconfig
installing on cdrom-less box
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to install debian on a box which lacks a cdrom; I can export the debian cd's via nfs, ftp, whatever. I had heard that you could install debian with floppies and nfs, but haven't been able to find the floppy image(s) to do so. thanks, Chris - Visit Me At http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/ - -- Public PGP Key: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject retrieve pgpkey or visit http://www.frostnet.advicom.net/chris/pgp_key.phtml -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNomqlOEzIlbKpewXEQLxqgCgjd0y8GPntK0E/UScM5iXZgk5TRUAoJtG QfxMtFGmlQLxMZZt7t46GbuX =BMan -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.
/dev/lp1 is for older kernels, /dev/lp0 for newer kernels. Don't ask me why. On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, D'jinnie wrote: Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, You need to edit /etc/printcap and change lp1 to lp0. Not sure why this is setup this way, do you have more than one parallel device? Hmm. I look at my printcap, and by default it's set to lp1. I shall include it for educational purproses :) # /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5). # You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for # your own filters. See the printcap(5) manual page for further # details. lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry :lp=/dev/lp1 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp :af=/var/log/lp-acct :lf=/var/log/lp-errs :pl#66 :pw#80 :pc#150 :mx#0 :sh I haven't configured the printer on my machine yet, but I rather question the lp1 default... Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Re: pkgsel
With respect to pkgsel, I thought our ultimate idea (not really for slink) was to provide actual empty 'metapackages', which are just normal packages with a whole slew of dependancies and a little README/Changelog/etc in /usr/doc/metapkgname . Is this the plan? I'll try to be sure and document how to exploit the existing pkgsel stuff. Anyone volunteering text snippets for the Installation Manual would be appreciated. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/
Re: installing on cdrom-less box
ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ Your cd will probably have a similar directory. Instructions are in the directory. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter | On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Chris Frost wrote: I'd like to install debian on a box which lacks a cdrom; I can export the debian cd's via nfs, ftp, whatever. I had heard that you could install debian with floppies and nfs, but haven't been able to find the floppy image(s) to do so.
Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.
D'jinnie wrote: Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, You need to edit /etc/printcap and change lp1 to lp0. Not sure why this is setup this way, do you have more than one parallel device? Hmm. I look at my printcap, and by default it's set to lp1. I shall include it for educational purproses :) # /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5). # You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for # your own filters. See the printcap(5) manual page for further # details. lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry :lp=/dev/lp1 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp :af=/var/log/lp-acct :lf=/var/log/lp-errs :pl#66 :pw#80 :pc#150 :mx#0 :sh I haven't configured the printer on my machine yet, but I rather question the lp1 default... --- The chief cause of problems is solutions. -- Eric Sevareid [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Yes I thought that lp1 as a default device might be the problem but it worked fine using the 2.0.34 kernel and /dev/lp0. I did not want to mess with something that worked before. Call me a chicken or just too cautious. :) But changing the lp1 to lp0 is the printcap file was the problem. My printer works now at least as well with the new 2.1.132 kernel as it did with the old one.
Re: pkgsel
With respect to pkgsel, I thought our ultimate idea (not really for slink) was to provide actual empty 'metapackages', which are just normal packages with a whole slew of dependancies and a little README/Changelog/etc in /usr/doc/metapkgname . Is this the plan? How about another thought on how to do it. Do a dpkg --get-selections. Then compare what is currently installed to the groups of packages that have been defined. You then show the user if all, some, or none of the group is currently installed. The user then has the choice to change the group to all or none. Finally save the changes (will dpkg --set-selections remove things?), maybe even offer to run apt-get. Just my 5 cents (inflation) :-) Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |
Where is libgmodule-1.1.so.3?
I broke down and upgraded from slink to potato and am now paying for my lack of will. I get 'error loading shared libraries' when I try to run gnome-session. 'Dpkg -S' is no help, I haven't a clue as to what .deb holds this lib, although its got to be gnome related. Any help? TIA -- Ed C.
Re: I've got a problem installing a new Graphic Card (ELSA Gloria Synergy)
Hi, Andrea This card use the 3DLabs PERMIDIA 2 Chipset and I don't know how to run an X server from the debian 2 distribution. there is no applicable X server in debian 2. I know that XFree86 3.3.3 provide a new Xserver for 3DLabs Chipsets but where can I find the Debian Package for it ? there is packaged XFree 3.3.3 on Debian Japanese cite, but i think it is packaged for slink (debian 2.1) There is other possibilities for me to run an Xserver without the new version of Xfree86. yes, just go to ftp.xfree86.org, grab precompiled X server for linux_glibc (X3DL.tgz?), get SVGA server from the distribution, replace X server in /usr/X11R6/bin with X3DL and that's it. Well, XF86Config you'd have to set by hands... works for me Thanks Andrea Zennaro HNY OK
Mwave Support?
The title pretty much explains this one. But is Mwave at all supported in Linux or is it pretty much in vain to install? Merry Christmas! Nils =O) [EMAIL PROTECTED] You could trouble me for a big glass of shutup! http://youthrage.base.org Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
argh, disked again
A simple job, stick a 500mb drive in, make a new partition out of spare space, and tar it over. A few minutes in, garbage appears during tar, which i initially attributed to screwy characters in a dos filename. But it seems that instead, it was on some kind of rampage through the rest of my hard drive. I'm amazed at what was recovered, but i'm missing random pieces here there. Like my entire mail directory. But the papers for my job search are still there (once apache a few others were reinstalled. I had to reinstall everything . . .). I went into fdisk to make the new partition. SHould have been no problem; I've only allocated half an 8G disk (too long to wait for e2fsck on big partitions). BUt it said the disk was full. THis didn't seem right, so i used cfdsik to look at it, which happily reported 3g at the end. I had it add a 1g logical, and off I went. I'm wondering if it did something funny, such as stretch the partition extended partition, as it fit's *exactly*. Here's the table: eyry:/home/hawk# fdisk -l The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 16278. This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16278 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hda111 12864480+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda2 129 129 256645126 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda3 257 25711180 55056965 Extended /dev/hda5 257 257 6498 3145936+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda6 6144 6499 6758 131008+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 6144 6759 7018 131008+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda8 6144 7019 9099 1048792+ 83 Linux native /dev/hda9 8192 910011180 1048792+ 83 Linux native Disk /dev/hdb: 32 heads, 63 sectors, 524 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 bytes Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 *11 523 527152+ 6 DOS 16-bit =32M /dev/hda9 is the new partition, and i used tar -zcv to wrap up the contents of /dev/hdb1. Or so i thought. I seem to have everything working again, save that exmh claims not to work: eyryttyp0:hawkwhich exmh /usr/bin/exmh eyryttyp0:hawkecho $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/bin/athna:/usr/athena/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/bin/mh eyryttyp0:hawkexmh exmh: Command not found. eyryttyp0:hawk/usr/bin/exmh /usr/bin/exmh: Command not found. and ppp-pam is apparently doing something bad during install: Unpacking ppp-pam (from .../net/ppp-pam_2.3.5-2.deb) ... Adding `diversion of /usr/sbin/pppd to /usr/sbin/pppd.ppp-pam by ppp-pam' dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting `/usr/sbin/pppd.ppp-pam' with different file `/usr/sbin/pppd', not allowed dpkg: error processing debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/net/ppp-pam_2.3.5-2.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 rick, the tired, who isn't going to make it back hoe 7 hours ago on this 20 minute trip . . .
Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.
D'jinnie wrote: Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, If your printer is at lp0 that would certainly explain why you can't print. However, I have no idea why it would assume lp1, since the default normally is lp0... Before the 2.1.x kernels, the lp[0-2] devices were hardwired to I/O addresses. Which one you used depended on how your hardware was set up. In 2.1.x, the first printer configured is lp0, whatever its address. There seem to have been one or more additional layers of parallel port handling added. Read through the documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/parport.txt. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not away. Matthew 5:42
Re: spreadsheet
I tried the XLite, found in uunet. I just had a look, but it seemed very good. Bye, Giuseppe Stan Brown wrote: Anyone have a reomendation for a good spreadsheet, under Debian?
Defragging large filesystems
I know this isn't a Debian-specific question but I'm at home for xmas and I don't have access to the newsgroups here, so forgive me this transgression. I have an 8gig hard drive which I made a single ext2 filesystem to hold my mp3s. While ripping and encoding some of my CDs, the fragmentation jumped to 45%, so I figured it was time to defrag. e2fsck runs with no problems, but e2defrag says it can't seek to the end of the filesystem. I've read all the docs, none of which mention a size limitation or how to work around this problem. Is there something I can do to make this work, or another ext2 defragger? /--\ | pretzelgod | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | (Eric Gillespie, Jr.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |---*| | That's the problem with going from a soldier to a | | politician: you actually have to sit down and listen to | | people who six months ago you would've just shot. | | --President John Sheridan, Babylon 5| \--/
Re: Where are the configuration files for Afterstep?
On 29 Dec 1998q, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Try /usr/share/afterstep. That is the system-wide root for the afterstep configuration. HTH. -Ian I know those files are there, but they don't do the basic configuration. I finally discovered where it's lurking; it's in /etc/X11/afterstep/menudefs.hook. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
Trying to install gide
Hi Debian users, I'm trying to install gide using apt-get and ocurrs an error: phantasy:/home/paulo# apt-get install gide Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following NEW packages will be installed: gide 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 627 not upgraded. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: gide: Depends:libgtk1.1 phantasy:/home/paulo# But, when I try to install libgtk1.1: phantasy:/home/paulo# apt-get install libgtk1.1 Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok Sorry, libgtk1.1 is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 627 not upgraded. phantasy:/home/paulo# What I have to do? I have a mix of Hamm, with some packages upgraded. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique
Re: Trying to install gide
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:03:20 +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: phantasy:/home/paulo# apt-get install libgtk1.1 Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok Sorry, libgtk1.1 is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 627 not upgraded. phantasy:/home/paulo# What I have to do? Do what I would do, grab the deb and use dpkg to install it. Apt pisses me off sometimes when it won't install things so just hammer it a bit. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. ---+-
Re: [PB] a quiet sound blaster
debian writes: debian FYI: You might have a cdrom installed.. But I suspect it is on an IDE debian channel rather then on the IDE channel on the soundcard? You're right. It's on /dev/hdc. I just remember having connected a wire directly from it to the SB. -- / / _ _ Didier Vernahttp://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ / /_/ / /__ /46 rue BarraultTel. (33) 01 45 81 73 46 75634 Paris cedex 13 Fax. (33) 01 45 81 31 19
Debian install failure on laptop. Please help ...
I cannot boot any Debian (tecra or whatever) rescue disk on my latest laptop (previous 3 IBM Thinkpads where OK). Really need a solution. Here is the description (in the attachment). Thank you very much. Happy 1999. Bob Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED]Very dear Debian friends, In the past I have succesfully installed many Debian levels on a host of IBM Thinkpads (755s,760s). Despite having usually to resort to the TECRA disks because of the IBM Thinkpads dislike of bzImage kernels until now I always made it ... Now I got this WONDROUS 770E which is a PII-233, 128MB RAM, 5GBHDD thing with a huge (14.1) TFT (sorry ... couldn't resist a little enthusiasm) but am totally unable to get Debian booting on it. I would appreciate VERY much any help. Here is my situation Thank you VERY MUCH in advance ... happy 1999 !!! Bob Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] Current configuration: IBM Thinkpad 770E : Intel PII-233, 128MB RAM, 5GB HDD Linux HDD partitions : 600MB /dev/hda2 ext2, 128MB /dev/hda3 swap at the end of the 5GB HDD Tried various flavours of resc1440.*tecra.* disks from 2.0, 2.1.2 qnd 2.1.3. All hang after the Loading Linux 10 or so dots with an A20 Gating Failed message. I am able to IPL Linux flawlessly on this machine using Tom's root/boot disk (current 1.7.102 level) and with it I built the ext2 and swap filesystems on my HDD partitions. I have an (almost) complete 2.0 Frozen CD I have mastered a while ago. What could I do to get a running kernel on my HDD, gcc, the kernel source and the make-kpkg utility and possibly all of the debian base packages ??? Tried mounting the base floppies with no luck ... After IPLing with tomsrtbt I can mount my 2.0 CD and see all packages but I cannot manage to extract/install them since I don't have any Debian utility up and running. I could download stuff like base_20.tgz on my /dev/hda1 partition which is FAT (Win95)
What are the Dpkg perl modules used for?
Hello I was poking around in the perl5 lib directory and noticed 3 Dpkg modules: List.pm, Packages.pm, and Index.pm. What can they be used for? -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ip-up ip-down
j == john [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: j #!/bin/bash j dynipclient -k j ... j ... j and put a similar script in ip-up.d. Just a thought: When ip-down is run, the ip-layer is already down, so there is no way to make contact to hosts over the link. So some programm like contact the dynip service to tell them I am going offline doesn't work. Just wanted to stress this. Ciao, Martin
Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?
I can't find the sslftp in the debian non-US archives... Why? Are there any legal problems with it? Or may be it is possible to ftp files securely using the ssltelnet? TIA Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to install gide
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 10:03:20AM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi Debian users, I'm trying to install gide using apt-get and ocurrs an error: [..] Hi, if You using apt-get for installing, updating or upgrading packages, please try: apt-get update package ; apt-get install package e.g. apt-get update gide ; apt-get install gide please note: eventually You have to change the entries in: `/etc/apt/sources.list` to Your needs e.g. # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian slink main contrib non-free -- Peter
Re: Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?
WZ == Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WZ Or may be it is possible to ftp files securely using the WZ ssltelnet? If you have ssh on both hosts, you can use scp, which works basicaly like cp, but over a secure connection. Ciao, Martin
Re: mounting W95 partitions
Thanks, that did it. _ () _-- __() Ted Llewellyn ) _-- / /_--/__--- (/ (/ On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: It sounds like you are trying to mount the extended partition itself rather than one of the logical partitions which it contains. To see what is there, run fdisk and use the 'p' command. Bob On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Ted Llewellyn wrote: I need to mount my Windows 95 partitions from the Debian 2.0 setup. I keep getting errors that say I am trying to mount an extended partition. Well, guess what? That's exactly what I'm trying to do! Just what is Linux's syntax for these DOS extended partitions that Windows puts all those drive letters on? I've tried /dev/hda1 and so on, and I've tried combinations from /dev, but nothing works. What's the secret password? _ () _-- __() Ted Llewellyn ) _-- / /_--/__--- (/ (/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
Installation problem: HAMM CD structure
Hi After 5 years of NT only, I decided to have a look at Linux again. My old Slackware disk was way outdated so I downloaded Debian. I downloaded SLINK, made a CD copy of the files, installed, got to the point of installing the packages, and then the install failed with dependency errors. So I downloaded HAMM. To be sure things will go my way, I want to make sure the CD directory structure matches the official CD structure Note that I am building these CD's on my Office NT box so I cant use any Linux CD packaging tools. Is the directory structure important? If so, what is the structure, or where can I get a look at it? Regards Pieter Viljoen Tel: +27 (11) 235-7312 Fax: +27 (11) 235-7307 Mobile: +27 (82) 896-2718 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.atio.co.za http://www.atio.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.smartnet.co.za/~pieterv/
Re: Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 13:57:56 +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: I can't find the sslftp in the debian non-US archives... Why? Because noone packaged it. I looked into it a long time ago, and it looked like it was based on fairly old BSD source. As several security vulnerabilities in ftp and ftpd have been found over the last years, I suspect it would be quite a lot of work to fix sslftp up. And as plain ftp is quite unfriendly, lftp or so should be made to work with SSL for a comfortable interface. Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
LILO hassles
Hi LILO gets to 'LI' and then hangs with the IDE disk light on. I have tried the linear option. The partition is 900 something cylinders (below 1024), and on a SCSI disk. I read that LILO wont work if the Linux partition (or for the matter any partition) is not disk0 or disk1. Is this correct. My system has the following disks: Primary IDE - Primary Disk - 2Gb Disk (DOS and Win95 for games) Primary IDE - Secondary Disk - CDROM Secondary IDE - Primary Disk - 8Gb Disk (NT for work) Secondary IDE - Secondary Disk - None SCSI - Device 0 - 2Gb Disk (Linux) SCSI - Device 3 - CD Writer SCSI - Device 4 - Tape - If I boot Linux using the NTLoader (on hda1) with the bootsector from sda1 I get to 'LI'. - If I set my Bios to boot SCSI before IDE, I get 'LI' Any suggestions. (Other than moving Linux to hda1) Regards Pieter Viljoen Tel: +27 (11) 235-7312 Fax: +27 (11) 235-7307 Mobile: +27 (82) 896-2718 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.atio.co.za http://www.atio.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.smartnet.co.za/~pieterv/
Re: Installation problem: HAMM CD structure
PV == Pieter Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PV So I downloaded HAMM. To be sure things will go my way, I want to make PV sure the CD directory structure matches the official CD structure PV Note that I am building these CD's on my Office NT box so I cant use PV any Linux CD packaging tools. PV Is the directory structure important? PV If so, what is the structure, or where can I get a look at it? Basically, it is the sructure found on the ftp servers (dists/ subdir). Better yet: download the official ISO images and burn the CDs. This is the recommanded way. http://cdimage.debian.org/ Ciao, Martin
Re: Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?
On 30 Dec 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: WZ == Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WZ Or may be it is possible to ftp files securely using the WZ ssltelnet? If you have ssh on both hosts, you can use scp, which works basicaly like cp, but over a secure connection. Yes, but due to the ssh license I'm not allowed to use the ssh for some purposes without buying a commercial version :-( Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Free SSH (was Re: Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?)
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 16:33:43 +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Yes, but due to the ssh license I'm not allowed to use the ssh for some purposes without buying a commercial version :-( A free (GPL-ed) implementation of the SSH protocol version 2 is in the works; see http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/lsh/. HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
X font fixed missing (was: Re: Hey girls and boys)
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 07:52:50PM -0600, me wrote: Hey there! I'm new. I installed Debian 2.1 (frozen) and received a X11 error (both on Intel and Alpha platforms): Fatal server error: could not open defualt font 'fixed' I figured it must have been some mis-configuration on my part, but I can't find any mismatched dependencies. Have you installed sufficient font packages? I am not sure the dependencies are ok in frozen at the moment. Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 09:32:14PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: /dev/lp1 is for older kernels, /dev/lp0 for newer kernels. Don't ask me why. It is explained in the kernel sources. It has to do with the order of the port addresses in conjunction with traditional BIOS naming. Now the naming is thesame as under traditional DOS, which makes newcomers happy. Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.Debian GNU/Linuxfinger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.orgmaster.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
Re: Debian install failure on laptop. Please help ...
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Robert J. Alexander wrote: I cannot boot any Debian (tecra or whatever) rescue disk on my latest laptop (previous 3 IBM Thinkpads where OK). Try the latest rescue/drivers images in incoming (mirrored at llug.sep.bnl.gov). They use the 2.0.36 kernel and are now zImages so laptops should be easier. Let me know how it goes as they are hot out of the oven (released yesterday) and I haven't heard any reports back from the other testers yet. (grab the 2.1.4 images) HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |
Re: OFFTOPIC: How to use strings with libstdc++?
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've stated that there is no old good String class in libstdc++. Instead I've found the string header which defines the string class. Is it OK to use it in new C++ programs, or it is added only for compatibility? Why has it such nonstandard name (without .h suffix). Wojciech There is some difficulty with the string class semantics. The library with egcc provides rope class that is said to fix some of the semantics. I hope soneone can clarify this question. The ANSI C++ standard provides many new features which most compilers are more or less tracking. Among them is a full set of template container and algorithm libraries, a string class string and namespaces. The standard provides for the C++ specific headers to have no extension. These headers include a bunch of headers equivalent to ANSI C headers, such as cmath for example. The new C++ headers that are equivalent to the C headers have much the same information in them as do the originals, except (I think) they have C++ linkage, giving full type checking. The differences between the behavior of .h headers and headers without is that the .h headers dump their symbols into the global namespce, whereas those headers without dump their symbols into namespace std. Whether you have to deal with namespace depends on your compiler. In all the g++/egcc compilers I know about, namespaces vary from mostly broken to don't work terribly well. You can find out about a substantial subset of the STL and string from Tim Budd's Data Structures in C++ with the Standard Template Library, AWL, ISBN 0 201 30897 7. There are better books for experienced programmers. I'm sorry I don't have one at my finger tips right now. Authors like Musser and Saini, Brett Glass, Nelson come to mind. Ping me back and I'll look up some pointers to these sources. Hope this helps. --David Teague[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux: Because reboots are for kernel and hardware upgrades.
Apache, Apache-SSL
Here's my silly question for the day. ;-) Does the non-us SSL version of Apache also require the non-SSL package or is it a standalone replacement for Apache? -- Regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] . | http://www.golgotha.net Randy |
Re: Debian install failure on laptop. Please help ...
Thank you very much Brandon. Good to hear there is some hope ... I tried your .gov site but despite having many 2.1.4 stuff the rescue are only 2.1.3 ... probably will have to try in some more time ... BTW the .gov site is a mirror. I looked for an Incoming directory on ftp.debian.org but no luck ... where is it hidden ?? May you and our Debian friends enjoy a magic 1999. Cheers from Rome (just sunset now ...). Bob Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Robert J. Alexander wrote: I cannot boot any Debian (tecra or whatever) rescue disk on my latest laptop (previous 3 IBM Thinkpads where OK). Try the latest rescue/drivers images in incoming (mirrored at llug.sep.bnl.gov). They use the 2.0.36 kernel and are now zImages so laptops should be easier. Let me know how it goes as they are hot out of the oven (released yesterday) and I haven't heard any reports back from the other testers yet. (grab the 2.1.4 images) HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter | -- Robert Alexander - IBM Italy work e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] private : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't get full capacity of my disk!
Hi, I just buy a new hard drive (Maxtor 6.4G). I want to dedicate this new Maxtor drive to linux. So I leave my old hard drive as a master on the first IDE bus (the old drive has DOS/win95), and set my new Maxtor drive as a master also on the second IDE bus. OK, here is the problem. On my first attempt to install hamm (CD), I partition my new Maxtor drive using the Maxtor software included. The Maxtor software split the new drive into 4 partitions labeled as D, E, F, G, each partition with a MAXIMUN OF ONLY 2.0 G. Someone told me that the reason for this is the limitation of DOS/win95 FAT16, so I am OK with and start to install hamm. -First, I ran boot.bat from DOS and it loads the kernel and all that stuff... -Second, I switch to the color screen. -Third, I configurate the keyboard to English. -Then, the next is partitioning my hard drive, I pick hdc because my new Maxtor drive is a master on the second IDE bus. I then press RETURN and I get this error message: FATAL ERROR, bad first primary partition How come? Ok, so I reset my computer and start a second attempt to install. I now delete all 4 partition on my new Maxtor hard drive using fdisk from DOS. (So now I assume that I have one big free space of 6.4 G, I think) Install hamm again. -Get to the partitioning the hard drive part and pick hdc like before. But this time I didn't get the error, YESSS! So now I am in the cfdisk program and I notice another problem: I can't use full capacity of my disk. It only give a MAXIMUN of only 2014 MB(2G) to split my linux partitions(I intend to have 4 linux partitions: swap, /root, /usr, and /home). I thoungt I have 6.4 G on my new Maxtor drive, how come I can't see the full capacity? sigh! a man! SUCKS! If anyone knows the problem, PLEASE HELP. Well, if you can't tell, I am a newbie Thanks, -- Tam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Rules!
Re: Apache, Apache-SSL
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 10:47:53AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: : Does the non-us SSL version of Apache also require the non-SSL package or : is it a standalone replacement for Apache? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg --print-avail apache-ssl Package: apache-ssl Priority: optional Section: non-us/web Installed-Size: 479 Maintainer: Christoph Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: i386 Version: 1.3.3+1.27-1 Replaces: apache-modules Provides: httpd Depends: libc6, libgdbmg1, libssl09, mime-support, perl, ssleay (= 0.9.0-1), libssl09 (= 0.9.0), apache-common (= 1.3.3) Suggests: apache-doc, lynx Conflicts: apache-modules, php3 (= 3.0.3-1), libapache-mod-perl (= 1.15-2.1) Filename: dists/unstable/non-US/binary-i386/apache-ssl_1.3.3+1.27-1.deb Size: 267708 MD5sum: 5876e367a108dcf5df0e7e37909c0b42 Description: Versatile, high-performance HTTP server with SSL support The most popular server in the world, Apache features a modular design and supports dynamic selection of extension modules at runtime. Some of its strong points are its range of possible customization, dynamic adjustment of the number of server processes, and a whole range of available modules including many authentication mechanisms, server-parsed HTML, server-side includes, access control, CERN httpd metafiles emulation, proxy caching, etc. Apache also supports multiple virtual homing. . This version includes SSL support for secure transactions. . Separate Debian packages are available for PHP3, mod_perl, Apache and other common extensions. More information is available at http://www.apache.org. In other words, it needs the apache-common package (which is in main). Cheers, -Remco
Re: OFFTOPIC: How to use strings with libstdc++?
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've stated that there is no old good String class in libstdc++. Instead I've found the string header which defines the string class. Is it OK to use it in new C++ programs, or it is added only for compatibility? [...] David Teague wrote: There is some semantic difficulty with string. Wojciech: I found the SGI URL that contains the discussion of problem with strings I mentioned in a previous post: http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/string_discussion.html The next level up has a bunch of interesting topics. Dinkumware, PJ Plauger's software company is another good resource. URL: http://www.dinkumware.com/ --David Teague[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux: Because I want to get there Today! Software patents remain land mines lying in wait to destroy the practice of programming.
netdate/screen blanking
The battery on my laptop seems to be shot so it doesn't keep the time correctly...when I netdate to my ISP, the screen blanks for some reason...any ideas? (I think this is a hamm version, but I'm not sure, I'm not well enough versed in the mysteries of dpkg to find out :) --- The chief cause of problems is solutions. -- Eric Sevareid [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SMP SCSI resets
Howdy All! I've finally got my SMP machine spinning both CPU's. (Seems that the MB was jumpered wrong...) However, when I boot the system the Adaptec SCSI Controller gets stuck while resetting. I seem to remember reading somewhere a LILO/boot command-line option to turn-off SCSI reset. Unfortunately, I've not been able to locate the reference. Could one of you kind folks either point me in the right direction, or even (***gasp***) tell me the answer! :) It'll be fun having both CPU's *and* SCSI drives (seeing how this is a SCSI-only system it's kinnda important for those drives to be available...) Thanks in advance!! Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Practical Network DesignVoice: +1-419-529-3841 9 Chambers Road FAX:+1-419-529-3625 Mansfield, OH 44906-1301 USA
Re: Debian install failure on laptop. Please help ...
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Robert Alexander wrote: Thank you very much Brandon. Good to hear there is some hope ... I tried your .gov site but despite having many 2.1.4 stuff the rescue are only 2.1.3 ... probably will have to try in some more time ... BTW the .gov site is a mirror. I looked for an Incoming directory on ftp.debian.org but no luck ... where is it hidden ?? I realized that shortly after sending you the message. Looks like Enrique either didn't get the who upload done (he has a hard time connecting from over seas sometimes) or the mirror didn't finish. The real incoming is for developers only (probably on master). Us lay people are stuck waiting for a mirror or the package getting into the actual archive :-) Cheers from Rome (just sunset now ...). Bob Heh, I'm sitting here at work missing the snow that I saw while driving in today. Rome would be a nice change. Happy holidays, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |
Re: Can't get full capacity of my disk!
[ cfdisk reports a 6+ gig drive as 2 gigs ] Two things to check 1) press altf2 to get a terminal and type dmesg to see all the kernel bootup messages. Scroll up using shiftpgup and look for where the kernel detects hdc to verify it works correct. 2) try fdisk from that terminal (fdisk /dev/hdc should work). It's not as pretty, but seems to work where cfdisk falls short. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://bhmit1.home.ml.org/ | | Sometimes you have to release software with bugs. - MS Recruiter |
RE: SMP SCSI resets
On 30-Dec-98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took time to write : I seem to remember reading somewhere a LILO/boot command-line option to turn-off SCSI reset. Unfortunately, I've not been able to locate the reference. Could one of you kind folks either point me in the right direction, or even (***gasp***) tell me the answer! :) I don't know the answer to your problem (never had a chance to come close an SMP machine, lucky you !) But for the lilo option it's no_reset ex: aic7xxx=no_reset (change aic7xxx to the name of your SCSI driver) you can put it in lilo.conf like that append=aic7xxx=no_reset or otherwise on the lilo prompt you can type: linux aic7xxx=no_reset if linux is the name of your kernel Good luck Patrick Ps: to find things like that see the kernel sources. for example aic7xxx=no_reset (along with all other options) is clearly mentioned at the beginning of /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.c
Changing(forcing) Alt-Fn to Ctrl-Alt-Fn
Again Howdy! When using the VT's I'd like to block Alt-Fn from being interpreted as a change to antother VT so that the key sequence would be available to the applications. How would that be done? Specifically, I have some DOS apps that I run locally and remotely (via SSH). When the application is run locally DOSEMU traps the Alt-Fn keys and the app works fine, when run remotely the console code locally snags the key-sequence and pops me to a different screen. If I could force the use of Ctrl-Alt-Fn for _all_ VT changing and then block Alt-Fn things would be consistent whether run local or remote. Ideas? Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Practical Network DesignVoice: +1-419-529-3841 9 Chambers Road FAX:+1-419-529-3625 Mansfield, OH 44906-1301 USA
Re: pkgsel
Brandon == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With respect to pkgsel, I thought our ultimate idea (not really for slink) was to provide actual empty 'metapackages', which are just normal packages with a whole slew of dependancies and a little README/Changelog/etc in /usr/doc/metapkgname . Is this the plan? How about another thought on how to do it. Do a dpkg --get-selections. Then compare what is currently installed to the groups of packages that have been defined. You then show the user if all, some, or none of the group is currently installed. The user then has the choice to change the group to all or none. Finally save the changes (will dpkg --set-selections remove things?), maybe even offer to run apt-get. Um, if we adopt *my* metapackage scheme, we already *have* all these benefit (i.e., in dselect) with no code needing to be written. Furthermore, we can deliver updates to the metapackages in the archive, just as we do any other package. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/
[dnelson@emsphone.com: Re: [joey@carelia.infodrom.north.de: [lead@gmx.de: limit of mutt]]]
-- ciao, Marco ---BeginMessage--- In the last episode (Dec 29), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: but than, i4ve wanted to view into my debian-devel-mbox mutt ran and ran -showing sorting mail (the swap-space decreased so i4ve added a swapfile) - after waiting about three hours i killed mutt (the processor ran idle) then i4ve tried it with another comp over nfs -- this time it worked without prob4s the mbox was about 90megs big the first comp. had 16mb ram, 32mb swap and 80 mb swapfile the second (nfs), had 64mb ram 64mb swap - no swapfile here4s my question: had this been a problem of mutt or only of resources?? Resources most likely. I've opened 100MB mailboxes before. The only limit mutt has is the number of emails per mailbox, which is 65535 (unsigned short). The sorting mailbox step takes so long because it's building threads. If you sort by date instead of by thread, it won't take more than a second or two to sort. -Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 29), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: had this been a problem of mutt or only of resources?? Resources most likely. I'll second this. I made an ass of myself on linux-kernel a few months back as I was experiencing processes running out of file descriptors or just randomly ceasing to exist. Turns out it was because I had installed lshell on my new Debian system and it was setting some rather insane resource limits (eg, lets limit the user to 20 file descriptors per process which worked wonders with squid and netscape ;) mutt would also occasionally just hang, usually when it had exhausted the per-process memory resource limit (eg, a 20Mb+ linux-kernel mailbox) Cheers, -- Matt ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- 1998-12-29-15:24:32 Dan Nelson: Resources most likely. I've opened 100MB mailboxes before. The only limit mutt has is the number of emails per mailbox, which is 65535 (unsigned short). I just opened a 571MB mailbox, with 64,479 messages in it. Looks like I'm gonna have to split that into two folders before too much longer! It's a real shame that limit is set low enough that people can actually hit it. I'm gonna wait until mutt actually falls over first, of course, so I can hear what the splat sounds like:-). BTW, the mutt process that opened that folder climbed up to 47MB virtual, all of which was active (i.e. real --- in the working set) at once, before it got completely open. I use Maildir format, I dunno if mutt's memory use would be significantly different with other mailbox folder styles. This was done on an SS-5 with 96MB of real memory and c. 200MB of swap, running Solaris 2.5.1 which means well over 250MB virtual available. Took about 10 minutes to open the folder. -Bennett ---End Message--- ---BeginMessage--- Resources most likely. I've opened 100MB mailboxes before. The only limit mutt has is the number of emails per mailbox, which is 65535 (unsigned short). That limit was lifted a year ago around version 0.88. It now uses int instead of unsigned short. So the new limit is up to 2.147.483.647 messages on a 32-bit word machine, and a lot more on a 64-bit word machine. Enough for a while, isn't it? :) Regards, - Byrial P.S. You will probably meet another limit first: The file size of mailboxes is limited by the size of a long which often is same as an int (i.e. max. 2.147.483.647 bytes per mailbox). ---End Message---
Re: LILO hassles
I had similar problem before. My setup is similar to yours: NT on /dev/hda1 and Linux on /dev/hdb1. I use NT boot loader to choose which partition to boot. To solve the problem, I boot from a Linux boot floppy and login as root. Run lilo (this rewrite the boot sector). Reboot to NT and use bootpart (or you can use dd command in Linux before you reboot, see http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader-5.html for detail) to get the boot sector. Replace the old linux boot sector with the new one and you are all set. Hope this can help. Tongyu Wang Pieter Viljoen wrote: Hi LILO gets to 'LI' and then hangs with the IDE disk light on. I have tried the linear option. The partition is 900 something cylinders (below 1024), and on a SCSI disk. I read that LILO wont work if the Linux partition (or for the matter any partition) is not disk0 or disk1. Is this correct. My system has the following disks: Primary IDE - Primary Disk - 2Gb Disk (DOS and Win95 for games) Primary IDE - Secondary Disk - CDROM Secondary IDE - Primary Disk - 8Gb Disk (NT for work) Secondary IDE - Secondary Disk - None SCSI - Device 0 - 2Gb Disk (Linux) SCSI - Device 3 - CD Writer SCSI - Device 4 - Tape - If I boot Linux using the NTLoader (on hda1) with the bootsector from sda1 I get to 'LI'. - If I set my Bios to boot SCSI before IDE, I get 'LI' Any suggestions. (Other than moving Linux to hda1) Regards Pieter Viljoen Tel: +27 (11) 235-7312 Fax: +27 (11) 235-7307 Mobile: +27 (82) 896-2718 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.atio.co.za http://www.atio.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.smartnet.co.za/~pieterv/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: SMP SCSI resets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On 30-Dec-98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took time to write : I seem to remember reading somewhere a LILO/boot command-line option to turn-off SCSI reset. Unfortunately, I've not been able to locate the reference. Could one of you kind folks either point me in the right direction, or even (***gasp***) tell me the answer! :) I don't know the answer to your problem (never had a chance to come close an SMP machine, lucky you !) It's a client's machine. Though the client happens to be my wife's company... But for the lilo option it's no_reset That's easy. Thank you. ex: aic7xxx=no_reset (change aic7xxx to the name of your SCSI driver) you can put it in lilo.conf like that append=aic7xxx=no_reset or otherwise on the lilo prompt you can type: linux aic7xxx=no_reset if linux is the name of your kernel Good luck Thanks again! Setting up LILO isn't going to be a problem...just couldn't remember the option... Patrick Ps: to find things like that see the kernel sources. for example aic7xxx=no_reset (along with all other options) is clearly mentioned at the beginning of /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.c Yes, you're right. It's there. Though there are 220 or so files in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi alone...finding a reference to an option you don't know in the source of a driver you don't use *is* somewhat problematic. It's akin to using a dictionary to learn the proper spelling of a word - it's easy to find the word if you already know how to spell it... Thanks again, I'll see if I can get over there tonight to do a re-boot. Chuck PS Please forgive the rant - sometimes answers like read the source remind me of being a dyslexic kid and being told look it up in the dictionary every time I couldn't spell a 4-5 letter word. -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Practical Network DesignVoice: +1-419-529-3841 9 Chambers Road FAX:+1-419-529-3625 Mansfield, OH 44906-1301 USA
modem answering to a different song?
Has anyone been able to get a modem to answer to a distinct phone ring? My phone company allows one to have up to four numbers on one line each with a distinct ring and I would like to set up a fax server that answers only on one of these numbers. Any ideas? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.telmer.com
Re: APM on Linux?
I read the docu on APM. Seems like it is useful for laptop and may not be for desktop? Suppose I can turn the system into standby mode, how can I turn the hard drive spin down? The question boils down to: how can save maximum energy when the computer is idling? I mainly use the computer after work for surfing net and do a little programming. Thanks. Jinsong
Re: ip-up ip-down
Martin Bialasinski writes: When ip-down is run, the ip-layer is already down, so there is no way to make contact to hosts over the link. So some programm like contact the dynip service to tell them I am going offline doesn't work. A while back someone suggested hacking pppd to run ip-about-to-go-up and ip-about-to-go-down scripts, but so far as I know nothing was ever done about it. The best solution I can think of off the top of my head is to run pppd under the control of a script that would do stuff like this before shutting it down. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
Re: modem answering to a different song?
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 01:07:57PM -0500, Colin Telmer wrote: : Has anyone been able to get a modem to answer to a distinct phone ring? : My phone company allows one to have up to four numbers on one line each : with a distinct ring and I would like to set up a fax server that answers : only on one of these numbers. Any ideas? Cheers, Colin. I don't know if it's possible with a modem. Though I think, with the help of `xringd', you should be able to make difference between those 4 numbers. The xringd-package is in the comm-section of the main Debian distribution. Cheers, -Remco
Re: SMP SCSI resets
On 30-Dec-98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took time to write : Setting up LILO isn't going to be a problem...just couldn't remember the option... i didn't know the option either before your post. Ps: to find things like that see the kernel sources. for example aic7xxx=no_reset (along with all other options) is clearly mentioned at the beginning of /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.c Yes, you're right. It's there. Though there are 220 or so files in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi alone...finding a reference to an option you yes. but you probably aren't using all scsi drivers at the same time ;-) don't know in the source of a driver you don't use *is* somewhat problematic. It's akin to using a dictionary to learn the proper spelling of a word - it's easy to find the word if you already know how to spell it... Thanks again, I'll see if I can get over there tonight to do a re-boot. Chuck PSPlease forgive the rant - sometimes answers like read the source remind me of being a dyslexic kid and being told look it up in the dictionary every time I couldn't spell a 4-5 letter word. i probably don't like answer 'read the source' as much as you. that's why i _also_ give the answer. but i think it's nice for other people to know where you can find such informations. before your post i didn't know. so i've checked myself and answered to you. but for people new to linux they may think it's kind of a 'mystery' to know all options... so i point them to where i find it, _even_ if i agree with the fact it's hard to find what you need... So the purpose was not to remind you anything, it was just the way i think best to educate everyone. Please forgive me if you took it otherway. Patrick
login problems
Last week I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 Everything went (quite) well. I installed Linux, windowmanager, Netscape, connection with my ISP,... and got it working. Since yesterday I am unable to login. After login (with correct username password) I get following error message: login [128] unable to change tty '/dev/tty1' for user root Unable to change tty /dev/tty1: illegal seek I get the error message at every login (root, normal user) What is the problem? What have I done wrong? What is the solution? Paulussen Edmond
adding network stuff; easy way?
Hi all, Just now I have installed debian on another machine copying whole system from my home computer by cp -ax / /new-disk. As the new system should work at thin ethernet based LAN I have to add (or reconfigure) network stuff to it. How should I do that? Hope it is possible to do without too much trouble. (I have already added network support in kernel) Thanks in advance and ... Merry X-mass to all debian community, Regards, Eugene Sevinian
Re: SMP SCSI resets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On 30-Dec-98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took time to write : Setting up LILO isn't going to be a problem...just couldn't remember the option... i didn't know the option either before your post. Ps: to find things like that see the kernel sources. for example aic7xxx=no_reset (along with all other options) is clearly mentioned at the beginning of /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.c Yes, you're right. It's there. Though there are 220 or so files in /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi alone...finding a reference to an option you yes. but you probably aren't using all scsi drivers at the same time ;-) True. To be honest, It's been a while since I played with that system and I had forgotten that the 2740 installed uses aic7xxx. I was too quick to call for help, perhapslive and learn. don't know in the source of a driver you don't use *is* somewhat problematic. It's akin to using a dictionary to learn the proper spelling of a word - it's easy to find the word if you already know how to spell it... Thanks again, I'll see if I can get over there tonight to do a re-boot. Chuck PSPlease forgive the rant - sometimes answers like read the source remind me of being a dyslexic kid and being told look it up in the dictionary every time I couldn't spell a 4-5 letter word. i probably don't like answer 'read the source' as much as you. that's why i _also_ give the answer. I think one of the reasons read the source falls cold on me is that I'm not a programmer. I know - most of you are in disbelief that such people do exist. We do! Now this is not to say that I can't program - I can. I just don't like learning a specific language's syntax to the point where I avoid programming (that or I delegate it...) So the sources fall lower on my list of references than they should. If Linux is going to succeed with the General Public it's going to need to deal with a greater percentage of people like me. Either that or we should talk about a rewrite in COBOL. :) but i think it's nice for other people to know where you can find such informations. Absolutely!! I was ineffectively trying to point-out that (for me at least) just learning how to find where the information you need to learn about is hard. before your post i didn't know. so i've checked myself and answered to you. Yes. And I'm sorry I vented. Your answer was quick and accurate. AND I THANK YOU!! Truly. but for people new to linux they may think it's kind of a 'mystery' to know all options... so i point them to where i find it, _even_ if i agree with the fact it's hard to find what you need... There's a lot we take for granted. My father tried Linux once - couldn't get past drive/partition layouts. He's from MS-DOS and has worked in an MS environment so long that what he thinks of as a drive is different to what we expect the term to mean. So the purpose was not to remind you anything, it was just the way i think best to educate everyone. Please forgive me if you took it otherway. It wasn't your post that set me off. It was the shear frustration I have at times with the vast amount of knowledge available to us. I *know* that I know a lot about Unix and Linux and networks, yet I can't help but get overwhelmed at times by the volume of material I have yet to learn. Patrick Gratefully yours. Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Practical Network DesignVoice: +1-419-529-3841 9 Chambers Road FAX:+1-419-529-3625 Mansfield, OH 44906-1301 USA
ls dev_task
Just installed Debian 2.0 on a TI Extensa 570 Partitons: 480 MB Win 95 440 MB Linux 112 MB Linux Swap But after booting, and login root, I get always only rev_task at ls At installing from CD-ROM (this notebook has CD _or_ floppy) I copied the install folder to the win 95 partition, started with MS-DOS prompt only, boot.bat At the install, there is a call shell at this time, I get several directories like expected with ls and cd commands. But after rebooting, nothing else than rev_task best regards Mosl Roland http://pege.org/ clear targets for a confused civilization
Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:56:37 -0500, you wrote: The necessary package for telling Debian that you've got a locally built mail-transport-agent installed is equivs. Thanks. The equivs package only seems to be available from http://www.debian.org and not from any mirror sites. Or at least that was what seemed to be the case when I was doing all of this My local mirror had the package. Here is what I did (1) Download Package (2) dpkg --install equivs_1.0.5-3.deb (3) create single-line file /etc/equivs.conf containing mail-transport-agent (4) run debian/rules binary (5) fail (6) install devel/debmake (7) file bug report because this dependency is not recorded in the equivs package (8) run debian/rules binary (9) succeed this time, creating /usr/src/equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb (0) =ROOT[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src # dpkg --install equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb |dpkg: regarding equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb containing equivs: | smail conflicts with mail-transport-agent | equivs provides mail-transport-agent and is to be installed. |dpkg: error processing equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb (--install): | conflicting packages - not installing equivs |Errors were encountered while processing: | equivs_1.0.5-3_all.deb |=ROOT[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src # So I seem to be in a circular situation: I can't install equiv package just made because I have smail installed. I can't uninstall smail because I have numerous packages that require mail-transport-agent. How do I get out of this circle? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Binary-cat Console Junkedness... [(Sort of) OFF-TOPIC]
Knowing the answer to this question doesn't matter much, but I am curious... Why does a VC go bonkies when you cat a binary file from it? What doesn't make sense to me is that only some of the chars display wrong, and that it's only the display that is ruined, but the actual characters are intact as far as bash is concerned. I know all you have to do to un-junk it is `echo C-v ESC c`, (which helped me a lot before I learned about the `file` command), but I'm still curious. Anyone know what is happening? -Ryan
Re: login problems
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 07:23:56PM +0100, Paulussen Edmond wrote: Last week I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 Everything went (quite) well. I installed Linux, windowmanager, Netscape, connection with my ISP,... and got it working. Since yesterday I am unable to login. After login (with correct username password) I get following error message: login [128] unable to change tty '/dev/tty1' for user root Unable to change tty /dev/tty1: illegal seek I get the error message at every login (root, normal user) What is the problem? I don't know. What have I done wrong? Maybe nothing. What is the solution? I can only say what I would try: Use a rescue floppy to boot from. Mount your root partition and cd to the /dev directory. Look at the owner and permissions of the tty1 psuedo terminal. Change the owner, group and permissions of /dev/tty1 to reasonable settings. An example after booting from rescue floppy. Mount the root under /mnt # mount -t ext2 /dev/your-root-patition # cd /mnt/dev # ls -l tty1 crw--- 1 jf tty4, 1 Dec 30 14:00 /dev/tty1 # chown root.tty tty1 # chmod 666 tty1 # reboot Paulussen Edmond -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jim
Re: ip-up ip-down
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 12:11:49PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Bialasinski writes: When ip-down is run, the ip-layer is already down, so there is no way to make contact to hosts over the link. So some programm like contact the dynip service to tell them I am going offline doesn't work. You could have poff call some program and waits for it to exit before it takes the link down. I think this technique is called a wrapper. So you move poff to poff.real and create a new poff that tells your service you are going offline, then calls poff.real A while back someone suggested hacking pppd to run ip-about-to-go-up and ip-about-to-go-down scripts, but so far as I know nothing was ever done about it. The best solution I can think of off the top of my head is to run pppd under the control of a script that would do stuff like this before shutting it down. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
