Re: Help! More problems compiling kernel

[Thomas S. Howard]

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Brian Servis wrote:

> by doing a make clean after make dep you are clean out all that you
> just did.
> 
Actually, make mrproper is what cleans out everthing. make clean removes
object files and kernel images and such. Do an ls -a after make clean
sometime. You should still see .depend, .config, etc.

Thomas S. Howard
http://www.thegrid.net/gaijin
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There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a
"hottest part" implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent
competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make
some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible. 
--Richard Davisson

mail2news problem

[Thomas Keusch]

Hello!

I've just tried to set up a local mail2news gateway on my
box - and failed miserably so far. :-)


I've set up my aliases like this and ran newaliases afterwards:

=
lists.earthdawn:"| /usr/bin/mail2news -o 'Visionaire \
Networks Mail2News Gateway dante' \
-n lists.earthdawn"
=
(this is one line in /etc/aliases - no use of "\" anywhere)


I get this error for every message that should go to the group:

=
1999-04-19 01:28:34 10Z0zK-0001o3-00 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U=thomas P=local S=310
1999-04-19 01:28:34 10Z0zK-0001o3-00 Neither the system_aliases
director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery
of | /usr/bin/mail2news -o 'Visionaire Networks Mail2News Gateway
dante' -n lists.earthdawn
=



This is the procmail recipe that passes the message to the mail2news
alias lists.earthdawn:

=
:0
* ^From.*earthdawn-owner
{
  :0c:
  ! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

  :0:
  lists/earthdawn
}
=
(also saves a backup in lists/earthdawn - you never know...)


The system is Debian 2.0 with some updates:
=
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ [01:30:46] # dpkg -l | grep -e procmail -e exim -e newsgate
ii  exim1.92-3 Exim Mailer
ii  newsgate1.6-9  Mail to News and News to Mail Gateway
ii  procmail3.10.7-6   Versatile e-mail processor.
=

Anyone know what the error is?

-- 

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   irc.:.#chatgate, #frust.ger

Re: kernel question

[Brian Servis]

*- On 18 Apr, Thomas S. Howard wrote about "Re: kernel question"
> On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>> > 
>> > Hi,
>> >If I compile something as a module rather than include
>> >it in the kernel, will I get a performance loss?? If I
>> >use something very often, such as ppp, should I include
>> >it in the kernel or compile it as a module?
>> > 
>> 
>> There should not be a difference.  If you use something the entire time the 
>> box is on, then consider compiling it in.  Some items must be a module
>> to allow irq and io addresses to be configed.
> 
> Actually, if you set versioning info on all modules, you're required
> to compile ppp support as a module.  Besides that, if you use modules
> at all, you may as well just load things as needed since you've already
> committed to the overhead incurred by modularizing.
> 

But things like NIC drivers, sound card drivers, etc, that are always
present are much nicer to have compiled in.  The kernel can auto config
them at boot for the most part, no need to specify io, irq, etc.  Where
as things like filesystem support, net protocols, etc are much less of a
hassle to load in and out.  I tend to compile permantely connect
hardware in and software things that are not needed much as modules.

-- 
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 because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." 
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Re: Help! More problems compiling kernel

[Brian Servis]

*- On 19 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Help! More problems compiling 
kernel"
> I'm having problems with compiling a new kernel 2.0.35 on a Debian 2.0 
> (2.0.34)
> machine.  I've tried downloading the kernel a couple of times, but after
> `make config', `make dep', and `make clean', when I do `make bzImage',
> eventually I get the following error:
> 

The order is

make clean
make [menu|x|]config
make dep
make bzImage

by doing a make clean after make dep you are clean out all that you
just did.

Suggestion, install the kernel-package package.  Read the man page for
make-kpkg then go to your kernel source directory and do

make-kpkg clean
make [menu|x|]config
make-kpkg --revision= --bzImage kernel_image
 ^^
  replace with
  your own label
  
After it is done you will have a kernel-image-2.2.5_custom.1_i386.deb
in the parent directory of your kernel source.  Just install the new
custom kernel package, it will install all modules and it will ask about
lilo and a boot disk.

-- 
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-
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 because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes." 
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Re: kernel question

[Thomas S. Howard]

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> > 
> > Hi,
> > If I compile something as a module rather than include
> > it in the kernel, will I get a performance loss?? If I
> > use something very often, such as ppp, should I include
> > it in the kernel or compile it as a module?
> > 
> 
> There should not be a difference.  If you use something the entire time the 
> box is on, then consider compiling it in.  Some items must be a module
> to allow irq and io addresses to be configed.

Actually, if you set versioning info on all modules, you're required
to compile ppp support as a module.  Besides that, if you use modules
at all, you may as well just load things as needed since you've already
committed to the overhead incurred by modularizing.



Thomas S. Howard
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There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of
a "hottest part" implies a temperature difference, and any marginally
competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and
make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously
impossible. 
--Richard Davisson

Help! More problems compiling kernel

[homega]

I'm having problems with compiling a new kernel 2.0.35 on a Debian 2.0 (2.0.34)
machine.  I've tried downloading the kernel a couple of times, but after
`make config', `make dep', and `make clean', when I do `make bzImage',
eventually I get the following error:

In file included from /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.35/include/asm/processor.h:11,
from /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.35/include/linux/sched.h:81,from readdir.c:11:
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.35/include/asm/math_emu.h:54: parse error before `<'
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.35/include/asm/math_emu.h:55: warning: function
declaration isn't a prototype
make[2]: *** [readdir.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.35/fs'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.35/fs'
make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2
homega:/usr/src/linux#

Please, could you help me with this?  Also, the first time I tried to install
the latest downloaded sources with `tar zxvf', the system completely stopped
and had to press the restart switch (I could switch terminals, but no ^C, nor
any other key would work).

TIA

Horacio
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jobs disappearing from lprng queue

[Bek Oberin]

LPRng is acting up.  When I 'lpr ' it appears to print fine
- no error message or anything - but nothing is printed and nothing
appears in the queue file.

I'm using the .deb - debian build, version 3.5.3-0.1.

I checked out the HOWTO which said to set the send_data_first flag,
and I have done that, to no avail.  

lpd is definately running, according to ps, and nothing shows up in
the syslog or message log.

Example session:

% lpr manifesto
% lpq
Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  'HP DeskJet 500'
Queue: no printable jobs in queue
Status: server finished at 08:28:46

... but nothing is printed.

Here's the printcap entry:

lp|dj500|HP DeskJet 500:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj500:\
:send_data_first:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/dj500-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:

Here's the /etc/lpd.conf:

send_data_first@

If I cat things to lp1, like this:

# cat /home/gossamer/writing/manifesto | perl -pe 's/\n/\r\n/' >> /dev/lp1

then it works perfectly.

Don't think I missed anything relavant ...


bekj

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Re: OT: sqrt() not recognized in c program??

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 10:00:25PM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> >I just checked (and hope to be corrected) but I couldn't find _ANY_
> >reference to requiring the -lm option to enable math functions.

> Try K&R

That's not really part of Debian, though.  It *is* documented in the
comp.lang.c FAQ, but that isn't packaged.  I guess what's being looked
for is more like writing something in the appropriate man pages or what
have we.

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Another pine dilemna

[Ian Ehrenwald]

Now that I've got pine working with sending mail from the right place, it
seems that it errors when I try and view any message from the list.  It
tells me: "[Error: can't find body for requested message]".
Anyone know why this would come up?  You'll have to cc: to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] because I'm not able to view the mailing list :/.

Thanks
Ian Ehrenwald

Re: SIOCADDRT error

[James M . Mastros]

Well, let's see.  You're looking for somthing that you know was said on this
mailing list recently.  Dosn't that suguest to you that you want to look at
the mailing list archives?  So you go to "www.debian.org" in your favorite
web browser, and find "Mailing List Archives" on the map to the left.  From
there, you find the April 1999 debian-user, and search for SIOCADDRT (using
alt-f in netscape or / in lynx).  You'll find it in the third page of
debian-user for this month.  You can find two specific fixes on that page,
mine (http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg01303.html),
and Wayne Topa's
(http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg01522.html).

-=- James Mastros
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makes you more human then any of us."
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Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

[Jiri Baum]

Hello,

Arcady Genkin:
> Well, I personally don't think that *that* is the problem. My outgoing
> mail bounces from the foreign servers, not sympatico's.

Why are you trying to send mail directly to foreign servers?

Simpler to give it all to your ISP and let *them* handle it. It's their
*job* to figure out how to talk to all the SMTP hosts on the planet, and
they have the resources to do it (including their own DNS, static IP,
permanent link, full-time staff to handle problems etc).

You should only need to figure out how to talk to your own ISP's SMTP host.
Most of them only require that you be calling in from their modem pool.


(My own mail address - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - is an MX-only domain pointing to
a commercial ISP; I have no problem using that address when sending e-mail,
provided I send it to whoever I've currently phoned (ISP server when I call
the ISP, university server when I'm on the uni modem pool). The machine I'm
typing on is called legend.baum.com.au)


In the routers section of exim.conf, use something like:

  smarthost:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = "* mail.sympatico.ca bydns_a"
  end

(Actually, since I routinely call either the ISP or the university, I have
the ip-up.d/exim script place the mailserver name in a file and then I pull
it into the exim config using the $lookup function.)


HTH

Jiri
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Re: Setting up ssh

[Igor]

The man pages for ssh are pretty comprehensive. That's what I used to set up
ssh both on my (first Slackware, then Debian slink) box and the Sun Ultra's
in our computer lab. I'm able to ssh into my box, which has only a static IP
address. I use $-> ssh -l username XXX.YYY.ZZz.www  (ip address)

Works fine for me

-igor

- Original Message -
From: Corey Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian User 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 9:12 PM
Subject: Setting up ssh


> Does anyone know where I can find a howto on setting up ssh?
>
> I have tried running the script to get the hosts using dns, but it doesn't
> find any hosts.  Is there a way to give it an IP address to try, and have
it
> add the host?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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Re: Telnet from M$win to Debian (newbie)

[Igor]

Well, you can login as root through telnet, but it's not recommended. I used
to do that alot on my Slackware setup, but it seems that Debian (at least
Slink) is set up to not let you do that. I'm sure you can change the
settings somehow, but it's simpler and more secure to login as a regular
user and then su. Try setting up ssh as well. It's a lot more secure and
automatically forwards your X connection (encripted, unlike simply setting
your display to the remote computer).

my $0.02

-igor

- Original Message -
From: Assad Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: Telnet from M$win to Debian (newbie)


> John, first of all you can't login as root via telnet. It is probably
> something with telnetd or the kernel as security, also never log in as
root.
> A lot of exploits can be used and you can accidently format your whole
hard
> drive. Use su, but only use it when you need to, since only bad system
> administrators login as root all the time.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Harte, Tiemen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' 
> Date: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 12:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Telnet from M$win to Debian (newbie)
>
>
> >
> >First, give up on logging in as root over telnet unless you want to
ignore
> >about a dozen rules of thumb for computer security and override one or
two
> >built in safties.  As for normal users, I haven't needed any special
perms
> >to get a few dozen friends to log into my box:  you're sure that you have
> >telnetd installed?  Perhaps the remote host is in hosts.deny (it sounds
> >like that might be the prob, but I really don't know for sure)?  If you
> >really need to use the root account, first login as a user, then su.  HTH
> >
> >On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Harte, Tiemen wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Debian people,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to telnet to my debian PC.
> >> I can get the login screen but I can't log in with the ROOT account or
a
> >> other account created with adduser.
> >> It's like my password is wrong, i keep getting the message "access
> denied".
> >>
> >> Do I need to give the account the rights to login via telnet from
another
> >> computer?
> >> And if that's it, what do I need to change?
> >>
> >> Groetjes, Tiemen
> >>
> >>
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> >
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> >
> >Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
> > -- Ferenc Mantfeld
> >
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kernels 2.0.x, 2.2.x and networking

[Jor-el]

Hi,

I just shot myself in the foot, when trying to reach for the
stars...

I was trying out the 2.2.5 kernel on my Slink install. Before I
saw the page on running 2.2 by Anthony Towns (did I get the name right?),
I had noticed that when bring up my 2.2 kernel, my route using lo was not
coming up. And I couldnt bring it up manually either. The messages that I
was getting indicated some kind of syntax error - which was strange, since
I was booting off of the same rootdisk used by my 2.0.36 Slink install.

Anyway, when I discovered Anthony's page, I went and downloaded
the new netbase and installed it. This of course required the new libc6
(otherwise it wouldnt configure), and which required apt version 0.10 (and
which I couldnt find - what I found was apt version 0.3x [x = something
or the other]). Anyway, everything is installed, and now my 2.2 kernel
still doesnt produce a route for lo, but worse (oh horrors!) my 2.0.36
kernel now produces the following 'ifconfig' output :

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:78:15:E3:9E
  unix addr:  Bcast:  Mask:
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0
  Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1200

loLink encap:Local Loopback
  unspec addr:00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-3B-01-40-02-00
Bcast:00-00-7F-FF-FF-FF-00-00-00-00-00-3B-01-40-02-00
Mask:00-00-FF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-3B-01-40-00-00
  UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0


This is what a working 'ifconfig' setup looks like (on my Redhat
system - same machine) :

loLink encap:Local Loopback  
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

eth0  Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:78:15:E3:9E
  inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
  Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1200 

Save me!

Jor-el

Re: Looking for trouble.

[Randy Edwards]

>> 3) I tried to create some scripts, very simple ones, but they refuse to
>> run, or the system says "command not found." Example: [...]
>> Saved as "telltime," then mode changed with chmod -v u+x telltime. With cat
>> I can still see the contents of the file as plain text. Is this normal?
>> As said, when executing "telltime" the system returns "command not found."

   Are you executing this as root?  If so, root only runs programs in its'
path -- you'd have to do something like a "./telltime" if that were the case.

   Yes, you should be able to cat the file as a plain text file (that's what
it is).  Try doing a "chmod +x telltime" to give everyone executable access
and see if that works.

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Re: OT: sqrt() not recognized in c program??

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just checked (and hope to be corrected) but I couldn't find _ANY_
>reference to requiring the -lm option to enable math functions.

Try K&R

Mike.
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X mystery solved (sort of)

[Mark Wagnon]

Hi all:

I downloaded the X 3.3.3 files from Vincent's directory late last month.
I ran into a small problem with the installation that wouldn't let me
run XF86Setup. It kept complaining about some README file for xkb not
being installed and then it would bail.

I was able to get X working using xf86config, though. 

I tracked down the location of the file in xclients-base ad re-installed
it with out improvement. Since the file was just a README, I decided to
create it where it thought it should be. Voila! problem solved. Now it
complains about some misc READMEs, but it runs perfectly.

Has anyone else had this problem, or am I the only idiot on this list? I
thought I would ask before I emailed Vincent.

TIA


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Re: Banshee

[Shao Zhang]

I think you still can get it to work in linux although it is not that
well supported. Check out all the infos at www.linux3d.org

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 03:37:47PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > Hello
> > 
> > As a Debian newbie and was wondering if there is an HOWTO or a faq on how to
> > get an Creative Labs Banshee 16mb working in Debian ?
> > 
> 
> The steps are:
> 
> go to store
> buy a new card
> take out Banshee card
> install new card
> enjoy working Xfree
> 
> Banshee cards are not currently supported.  A coworker of mine sold his and
> bought a TNT.  Cheaper and in all ways a better card.
> 
> It can be forced to work by using the frame buffer console and Xframebuffer
> BUT it is non acclerated and is a waste of card.
> 
> 
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Re: Debian vs. RedHat

[Mark Brown]

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 09:02:30PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:

> You don't see that as a terrible indictment of dselect?  What kind of
> installation system makes you select your options in *increments*?

It doesn't require it, it's just a sensible policy to install what you
know you need and then go wandering through looking for things you might
need (particularly given the size of the distribution - if you install
everything that looks interesting you'll end up with a whole load of
stuff sitting around on your disk that gets forgotten).

A running count of disk space used would be useful, but you also have to
worry about which partitions have how much space, caches which may be
created and so on.

> Especially when, without apt, it makes you sit around for twenty
> minutes on each cycle while pointlessly listing packages it *isn't*
> installing?

That's been fixed - use dpkg-multicd, apt or some other current method.  

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Re: Debian vs. RedHat

[William R Pentney]

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Carl Fink wrote:
> 
> You don't see that as a terrible indictment of dselect?  What kind of
> installation system makes you select your options in *increments*?
> 
> Especially when, without apt, it makes you sit around for twenty
> minutes on each cycle while pointlessly listing packages it *isn't*
> installing?
I have to agree with this. dselect was supposed to be a user-friendly
front end, but it has a very bizarre structure. Why can't it update the
package list in the same step in which you choose a method of
installation? (I realize you may want to update the packages without
changing the method, but why can't it automatically update the packages
when you change it?) 

Furthermore, is there a method of searching by package description, rather
than name, in dselect, and if not, why not? It could be very useful. (My
apologies if I just need to RTFM more carefully. I learned the proper use
of dselect primarily through trial and error.)

- Bill

Re: [off topic] new apt ?

[Rick Macdonald]

On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Chad A. Adlawan wrote:

>   i see ppl are still fighting about debian and redhat and dselect and stuff
> ...  anyway, would someone please try and check out
> http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt/screenshots/  ???  i was roaming around a
> while ago when i saw them ...
>   any idea what they are, their package names, etc ... i really think theyre
> neat ... they look so neat ... 

Those are very old screenshots of apt (originally named deity). I have no
idea if they still resemble the current apt.

 Parent Directory28-Mar-1999 23:36  -  
   deity1.gif  26-Nov-1997 20:2727k  
   deity2.gif  07-Dec-1997 19:0330k  
   deity3.gif  23-Mar-1998 21:1634k  

...RickM...

Re: Whoops

[Ole J. Tetlie]

>-Richard Harran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I did something really stupid:
>   #mv /usr/bash 
> (don't ask).  Then I exited root, and (of course) I can't log in as root
> to fix it.  I'm still logged in as a normal user, but anything using a
> script with /bin/bash or /bin/sh doesn't work. 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this.  

Try:

su --shell=/bash

or, if you have shut it down:

linux -b sushell=/bash

at the LILO prompt.

-- 
MS-DOS: Micro$oft Denial Of Service. The most popular denial of
service attack. It is commonly disguised as an operating system.
The easiest fix is to install a freenix.

Re: More trouble ahead....

[Ole J. Tetlie]

>-Hans van den Boogert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Thank you James, March, Richard, Oliver and Jan for answering my questions.
> It seems indeed that the base system doesn't come with the man command. A
> bit strange, but who am I to comment on that :-)

Lack of space.

> BTW, Oliver, $ type telltime comes back with "bash: $: command not found."
> Bash is installed and in /bin.

Don't type the dollar sign. It's only used in writing to imply
that the following should be written after the shell prompt.

> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Adding Swap: 20940 swap-space (priority -1)
> 
> Exqueeze me, but what is VFS and is the fact that my Mounted root (hda1) is
> readonly correct?

VFS is the Virtual File System. It is an abstract wrapper around
the different filesystems.

root is supposed to be mounted readonly at first.

> I'm still having fun, though. Problem solving is the fastest way to become
> smart. Maybe that is street smart, but it'll come in handy sooner or later

Certainly.

> >From a dark and gloomy Taipei (no wonder at 10:20 pm) greetings from,

The moon is up here too. Luckily it's not full, or I'd be stalking
people in the forest instead of writing this :-E

-- 
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service attack. It is commonly disguised as an operating system.
The easiest fix is to install a freenix.

Re: Looking for trouble.

[William R Pentney]

> 3) I tried to create some scripts, very simple ones, but they refuse to
> run, or the system says "command not found." Example:
> 
> #! /bin/bash
> #
> echo The time and date is..
> date
> 
> Saved as "telltime," then mode changed with chmod -v u+x telltime. With cat
> I can still see the contents of the file as plain text. Is this normal?
> As said, when executing "telltime" the system returns "command not found."
> I know that you have to watch the path, but even when I put this script in
> / or /bin it still won't run, while installed commands like "date" do run
> from almost every directory. What do I do wrong?

Re: Banshee

[shaleh]

> 
> Hello
> 
> As a Debian newbie and was wondering if there is an HOWTO or a faq on how to
> get an Creative Labs Banshee 16mb working in Debian ?
> 

The steps are:

go to store
buy a new card
take out Banshee card
install new card
enjoy working Xfree

Banshee cards are not currently supported.  A coworker of mine sold his and
bought a TNT.  Cheaper and in all ways a better card.

It can be forced to work by using the frame buffer console and Xframebuffer
BUT it is non acclerated and is a waste of card.

Re: kernel question

[shaleh]

> 
> Hi,
>   If I compile something as a module rather than include
>   it in the kernel, will I get a performance loss?? If I
>   use something very often, such as ppp, should I include
>   it in the kernel or compile it as a module?
> 

There should not be a difference.  If you use something the entire time the box
is on, then consider compiling it in.  Some items must be a module to allow
irq and io addresses to be configed.

Re: Dual Boot Linux/NT and ATI Rage IIc video

[John Gay]

Well,
 I'm not quite sure what happened, but here it is. I decided that I would
try putting the original X files back in from my CD, so I ran dselect, pointed
it at my CD, and let it go. It restored alot of files, but not all of them. I
ran the install option several time, but kept getting the same dependency
problems. Then I tried using dpkg to install JUST xserver-mach64, thinking I
could just check the dep's for it, and of course it failed miserably. At this
point I figured my X directory was pretty hosed up. XF86Setup kept complaining
about xinitrc files missing. I ran xf86config, and it let me select the Rage IIC
card. But XF86Setup still wouldn't run. I rebooted it back to Windows out of
disgust with myself. Later I figured I would just delete the entire X11R6
directory and try again with dselect. Imagine my surprise when, just as I was
waiting for login at tty1, all of a sudden I got the X login screen! I logged
in, and now I've got X. About 4 time the size of my 17" monitor. The screen
scrolls with the mouse. The menu is there, I'm using fmw95, and lots of app's
seem to be installed, but most of them don't work, yet. I haven't tried running
XF86Setup yet, But I think I'll contact my friend here and see if he'll burn me
a new CD with the latest version on it and try to upgrade with that. I need to
get together with some Linux users to find out how to configure the rest of my
system, but at least I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I
just hope it doesn't turn out to be a train! As for the other prob's, My modem
is a Rockwell, I need to get that replaced, I think. My sound card is a crystal
something. I have a lexmark 3200 colour printer, and I plan to get a cheap PC
for my daughter as an X terminal, so we can stop fighting over the PC! This is
certainly going to be an interesting and, hopefully, fun, learning curve. But I
might as well jump in with both feet and take the plunge!

Wish me luck!

Cheers,

 John Gay

kernel question

[Shao Zhang]

Hi,
If I compile something as a module rather than include
it in the kernel, will I get a performance loss?? If I
use something very often, such as ppp, should I include
it in the kernel or compile it as a module?

Thx.

Shao.
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Re: www.debian.org

[Ted Harding]

On 18-Apr-99 Bill Bell wrote:
> It looks like this is the default I am seeing when I go to debian.org. 
> I can't tell for sure though.

This gives it away (view Doc Source):

  
  

Ted.

  "In German oder English I know how to count down,
   Und I'm learning Chinese," says Werner von Braun. 


E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18-Apr-99   Time: 19:46:32
-- XFMail --

Re: how to reset the console?

[John Pearson]

On %M 0, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> 
> If it's any good to you Rob, I could run savetextmode on my machine and
> post it to you.  I'd hate to see you lose your uptime :)
> 
> Can anyone on the list see a reason why this wouldn't work ?
> 
> Ivan. 
> 

It may not work if your video cards are sufficiently dissimilar,
or if either is not very SVGA-ish; and he has to run the command 
from a textmode session so he has to login and type the command 
blind, but if he can it may work. 


John P.
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Re: [off topic] new apt ?

[matt]

"Chad A. Adlawan" wrote:
> 
> hello everyone !
> 
>   i see ppl are still fighting about debian and redhat and dselect and stuff
> ...  anyway, would someone please try and check out
> http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt/screenshots/  ???  i was roaming around a
> while ago when i saw them ...
>   any idea what they are, their package names, etc ... i really think theyre
> neat ... they look so neat ...

If that is the future of package management, then we are all winners.
It does look good.
But I suppose there will always be people who swear by the command line
(I'm not saying thats a bad thing!).

Matt

[off topic] new apt ?

[Chad A. Adlawan]

hello everyone !

  i see ppl are still fighting about debian and redhat and dselect and stuff
...  anyway, would someone please try and check out
http://www.debian.org/~jgg/apt/screenshots/  ???  i was roaming around a
while ago when i saw them ...
  any idea what they are, their package names, etc ... i really think theyre
neat ... they look so neat ... 

regards everyone,
Chad A. Adlawan

Re: OT: sqrt() not recognized in c program??

[ivan]

I just checked (and hope to be corrected) but I couldn't find _ANY_
reference to requiring the -lm option to enable math functions.

I, like many others, was aware of this requirement but IMHO the
documentation may be deficient in this respect.

I would like to know if anyone can find the reference as it seems
not to be in the places I would look myself or expect a beginner
to look.

Ivan.


On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 10:56:32AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 10:36:39AM -0700, Alan Su wrote:
> > sqrt is probably in the math library, so you need to link with the -lm
> > argument.  try that, and if it doesn't work, i'm sure i can find out
> > what the right way to do this is...
> > 
> > -alan
> > 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (Sun, 18 Apr 1999 10:27:19 -0700 ):
> > |>Does someone know why I would get the following errors in a compilation 
> > of a
> [...]
> 
> Thanks Alan.  That did it.  Sorry for what must be a trivial question, but I
> am only on page 3 of my "Ansi C programming for Scientists and Engineers"
> book.  
> 
> Kenward
> 
> 
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Re: libc6 2.1 on slink

[Vincent Murphy]

On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 10:03:07PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> A possible solution is to download the package source and build it yourself.
> 
> [snip advice..]

 excellent!  thanks shaleh and dan.  i'm off to build Eterm-0.8.9..

-vinny

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  "With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available.
  On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge."  --P J Schoenster

Re: Debian vs. RedHat

[matt]

Jan Muszynski wrote:
> 
> On 18 Apr 99, at 12:31,  Stephan Goldenberg
>  wrote about Re: Debian vs. RedHat:

> This newbie found it easy just selecting one of the pre-configured
> installs. You can then fine tune the package selection after the
> initial configuration is installed (this can of course take days,
> weeks, maybe months or years :) ). This then amounts to 1 or 2
> minutes deciding which configuration to install (based on
> needs/wants), and no fighting of dependencies. You can, of course,
> take longer to decide which configuration to install by checking the
> complete list of packages installed with each configuration etc.

I just installed the workstation standard, but since then I have been
'fighting with dependencies' and learning dselect and dpkg, but I still
prefer them to glint.
The hardest part for me was partitioning. I'd just bought a new 8GB
drive, and wondered how much space to allocate for /, /usr, etc.
I have some Linux experience, with SUSE and RedHat. Debian sounded like
a challenge and I've found it to be very user friendly, although many
have not.

 
Matt

Re: Mutt question

[Carl Mummert]

One good way to archive files (which is the way that the files in /var/log 
are archived) is to use savelog.

Type 'crontab -e' at the prompt, and add the following line to your crontab:

0 0 1 * * /usr/bin/savelog /path/to/my/file


Carl

Re: Debian vs. RedHat

[Carl Fink]

In linux.debian.user, Michael Schuerig wrote:
>
>I don't think it qualifies you as dumb, but is not a good idea to
>install each and every package you might need the first time around. Get
>a basic system running and then selectively install packages you want.

You don't see that as a terrible indictment of dselect?  What kind of
installation system makes you select your options in *increments*?

Especially when, without apt, it makes you sit around for twenty
minutes on each cycle while pointlessly listing packages it *isn't*
installing?
-- 
Carl Fink   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

Re: OT: sqrt() not recognized in c program??

[ivan]

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 10:27:19AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does someone know why I would get the following errors in a compilation of a
> C app?  I would think that the sqrt function is in one of the libraries
> defined in the beginning of the code (e.g. #include  ).
> 
> kaynjay:/home/autodock/dist_3.0/src/autotors# cc -o autotors autotors.c
^^
cc -lm -o ...
    don't forget to link the math library :)

HTH
Ivan.

> /tmp/ccc01215: In function 'check_aromatic':
> /tmp/ccc01215(.text+0x1b4f): undefined reference to 'sqrt'
> /tmp/ccc01215: In function 'main':
> /tmp/ccc01215(.text+0xa586): undefined reference to 'sqrt'
> /tmp/ccc01215(.text+0xba83): undefined reference to 'sqrt'
> 
> The compile dies with these.
> 
> There are no directions for compiling.  I'm following the same pattern given
> for another program in the distribution.
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Kenward Vaughan
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 

Re: OT: sqrt() not recognized in c program??

[kaynjay]

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 10:36:39AM -0700, Alan Su wrote:
> sqrt is probably in the math library, so you need to link with the -lm
> argument.  try that, and if it doesn't work, i'm sure i can find out
> what the right way to do this is...
> 
> -alan
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (Sun, 18 Apr 1999 10:27:19 -0700 ):
> |>Does someone know why I would get the following errors in a compilation of a
[...]

Thanks Alan.  That did it.  Sorry for what must be a trivial question, but I
am only on page 3 of my "Ansi C programming for Scientists and Engineers"
book.  

Kenward

Banshee

[R.Feenstra]

Hello

As a Debian newbie and was wondering if there is an HOWTO or a faq on how to
get an Creative Labs Banshee 16mb working in Debian ?

Rene

Re: www.debian.org

[Bill Bell]

It looks like this is the default I am seeing when I go to debian.org. 
I can't tell for sure though.

http://www.debian.org/index.zh.html

Quoting Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> 
> Hi,
>   What do you mean you can see debian home page in Chinese??
> Is there acutally a Chinese version of the debian homepage??
> 
> On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 12:35:20PM -0500, Bill Bell wrote:
> > Wow!  The Debian home page, (http://www.debian.org), just suggested to my
> 
> > broswer, M$IE 5, that I install the Chinese font set.  Looks like M$
> found
> > another way to break the standards?  I don't seem to be able to set the
> > default browser language so the Debian home page comes up in EN.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > BTW,  The site really looks cool in Chinese.
> > 
> > - Bill
> > So many good sigs out there, which one to use?
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
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> /dev/null
> > 
> 
> -- 
> 
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> _ 
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> |___/ 
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> 
> 



- Bill
So many good sigs out there, which one to use?

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- Bill
So many good sigs out there, which one to use?

Sending mail with Exmh?

[Phillip Deackes]

I am trying Exmh and like it a lot. It works great on my Debian 2.1
system except for sending mail. Whenever I compose a message and click
'send' I get this error message:

post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available
send: message not delivered to anyone

I understand that sending mail from a Tk app is not so straightforward.
All I want to do is put the outgoing message into my mailqueue to be
sent using sendmail when I connect to my ISP. I can do this from any
other mail client.

I do not use xdm, not have any desire to. I log on and run startx. Has
anyone managed to send mail with Exmh and Debian? If so, please tell me
how to do it.

Many thanks.


--
Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Linux v.2.1 

Re: OT: sqrt() not recognized in c program??

[Richard Harran]

You need to link to the maths library.  Add the -lm option to your
linking line eg:
gcc program -lm
HTH
Rich.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Does someone know why I would get the following errors in a compilation of a
> C app?  I would think that the sqrt function is in one of the libraries
> defined in the beginning of the code (e.g. #include  ).
> 
> kaynjay:/home/autodock/dist_3.0/src/autotors# cc -o autotors autotors.c
> /tmp/ccc01215: In function 'check_aromatic':
> /tmp/ccc01215(.text+0x1b4f): undefined reference to 'sqrt'
> /tmp/ccc01215: In function 'main':
> /tmp/ccc01215(.text+0xa586): undefined reference to 'sqrt'
> /tmp/ccc01215(.text+0xba83): undefined reference to 'sqrt'
> 
> The compile dies with these.
> 
> There are no directions for compiling.  I'm following the same pattern given
> for another program in the distribution.
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Kenward Vaughan
> 
> --
> Unsubscribe?  mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

www.debian.org

[Bill Bell]

Wow!  The Debian home page, (http://www.debian.org), just suggested to my 
broswer, M$IE 5, that I install the Chinese font set.  Looks like M$ found
another way to break the standards?  I don't seem to be able to set the
default browser language so the Debian home page comes up in EN.

Any ideas?

BTW,  The site really looks cool in Chinese.

- Bill
So many good sigs out there, which one to use?

OT: sqrt() not recognized in c program??

[kaynjay]

Does someone know why I would get the following errors in a compilation of a
C app?  I would think that the sqrt function is in one of the libraries
defined in the beginning of the code (e.g. #include  ).

kaynjay:/home/autodock/dist_3.0/src/autotors# cc -o autotors autotors.c
/tmp/ccc01215: In function 'check_aromatic':
/tmp/ccc01215(.text+0x1b4f): undefined reference to 'sqrt'
/tmp/ccc01215: In function 'main':
/tmp/ccc01215(.text+0xa586): undefined reference to 'sqrt'
/tmp/ccc01215(.text+0xba83): undefined reference to 'sqrt'

The compile dies with these.

There are no directions for compiling.  I'm following the same pattern given
for another program in the distribution.

Thanks for any help!

Kenward Vaughan

Compilation problems with XEmacs

[Torsten Hilbrich]

I have the debian sources for xemacs 20.4-13 and wanted to recompile
it to remove the gpm support.  After applying a little filter to the
debian/rules file to get rid of the mule variants:

  while() {
print unless /mule/;
next unless /nomule/;
s/\S*canna\S*//g;
s/\S*[-_]mule\S*//g;
s/[ ]mule\S*/ /g;
print;
  }

I compiled it as usual.  However, gcc complained about the ndbm.h file
missing.  I used locate to find it in /usr/include/db1 and changed the
rules file to point to this include locatation.  The compilation
succeeded, however xemacs crashed as soon as I started it in X11 (with
-nw or in linux console it run fine).

I was able to track the problem down to the database library.  If I
add the "--with-database=berkdb" option to the configure call in
debian/rules, the resulting version won't crash on my system.

Does anybody has similiar problems after stepping to glibc2.1
(currently 2.1.1-0.2 is installed)?  Is there a better way to solve
this problem without correcting the self-detection routines in
autoconf.h?  I'd like to compile unchanged debian packages on my
system.

Torsten

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Xfree support for SiS 6316 Pro 3D?

[Daniel Elenius]

Does anyone know if there's an x server for this chip, I have a friend 
who's got it. Seems uncommon, he says it doesn't appear in xfconfig.

-- 
-~* Daniel Elenius *~-

Re: PS/AUX

[John Foster]

Michael Beattie wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, John Foster wrote:
> >
> > > Michael Beattie wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, stupid question, I just decided to change to a PS/2 mouse, but I
> > > > dont have the faintest about how to set it up. kernel recompile?
> > > >
> > > ---
> > > YEP! probably a good time to upgrade to 2.2.5 :-)
> >
> >
> > It's too late for that:
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux bob 2.2.6 #1 Fri Apr 16 19:57:45 MST 1999 i586 unknown
> 
> Ouch... well, Im not going that far, yet, Ive been told my VX/Pro MB wont
> like the 2.2 series very much... but a simple upgrade to 2.0.36 with PS/2
> enabled sorted things... My only question.. how do I increase the mouse
> speed in X? gpm was easy.
--
run gpmconfig from the consol ( this will set it globally)
or 
run xmseconfig from your xterminal.begin:vcard 
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Re: Whoops

[Leen Besselink]

On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Richard Harran wrote:

> I did something really stupid:
>   #mv /usr/bash 
> (don't ask).  Then I exited root, and (of course) I can't log in as root
> to fix it.  I'm still logged in as a normal user, but anything using a
> script with /bin/bash or /bin/sh doesn't work. 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this.  
> PS I don't think I have a rescue floppy 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Slightly Sheepish: Rich

Do you have something like sudo or su installed ?

other wise... you can maybe make a tomsrtbt disk... and restore it from
there...

(you can make those from DOS too... so)

I'm out of ideas now...

> 
> 
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[Fwd: [Re: Whoops] Hurray]

[Richard Harran]

Richard Harran wrote:

Got it sorted.  Copied the man for su to my home directory and unzipped
it and read it.  Used -s  option for su.  Moved bash
back to where it belonged.  Vowed to stop mucking about and get on with
some work.
 
Still feeling a bit silly: Rich


> >
> > I did something really stupid:
> > #mv /usr/bash 
> > (don't ask).  Then I exited root, and (of course) I can't log in as root
> > to fix it.  I'm still logged in as a normal user, but anything using a
> > script with /bin/bash or /bin/sh doesn't work.
> > Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this.
> > PS I don't think I have a rescue floppy
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Slightly Sheepish: Rich
> >
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Re: Mutt question

[Wayne Topa]

Subject: Mutt question
Date: Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 07:37:31PM +1000

In reply to:Shao Zhang

Quoting Shao Zhang([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi,
>   I was wondering how to use mutt to configure a folder called sent-mail,
>   and then on a monthly basis, move the sent-mail to sent-mail-date and 
> create
>   a new sent mail folder, just like what pine has got.
> 
>   thx.
> 
> Shao.

# nerxt puts mutt mail in dated monthly folders ???
save-hook mutt  +mutt.`date "+%m%y"`

-- 
Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
___
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Re: More trouble ahead....

[Brad]

> I still haven't solved the script problem, though.
> 
> - I have used ./telltime, but still no luck.
> - I have changed the mode to 0777 (or +u if you prefer).
> - I have checked the PATH and put the file in /bin and /usr/local/bin, both
> of which are in the path.
> 
> BTW, Oliver, $ type telltime comes back with "bash: $: command not found."
> Bash is installed and in /bin.

That's a very strange error for bash to be giving... Because, unless you
changed the script from before, there is no $ in it at all! i'm stumped...
for the moment.

> When booting now I see the following
> 
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Adding Swap: 20940 swap-space (priority -1)
> 
> Exqueeze me, but what is VFS and is the fact that my Mounted root (hda1) is
> readonly correct?

That's completely normal. i forget exactly what VFS stands for (Virtual
File System?), but the root partition is always mounted readonly until it
can be checked. Then it's remounted read-write.

> The reason why I need this problem solved is that I want to use paride to
> connect a parallel port CD-ROM and thus I need to make a /dev/pcd (which
> also doesn't come standard). Once I have the CD-ROM I can install the
> system in full, otherwise I will have to start thinking about buying some
> extra floppies and install it via that medium :-(

Slow net connection? Or are you on a different computer emailing us?

Either way, it's a pain...

> I'm still having fun, though. Problem solving is the fastest way to become
> smart. Maybe that is street smart, but it'll come in handy sooner or later

That's the best way to learn! Just get in there and do it...

Whoops

[Richard Harran]

I did something really stupid:
#mv /usr/bash 
(don't ask).  Then I exited root, and (of course) I can't log in as root
to fix it.  I'm still logged in as a normal user, but anything using a
script with /bin/bash or /bin/sh doesn't work. 
Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this.  
PS I don't think I have a rescue floppy 

Thanks

Slightly Sheepish: Rich

Re: how to reset the console?

[Rob Mahurin]

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 06:56:00PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> If it's any good to you Rob, I could run savetextmode on my machine and
> post it to you.  I'd hate to see you lose your uptime :)
> 
> Can anyone on the list see a reason why this wouldn't work ?
> 
> Ivan. 
> 

That would be something to try, I guess.  The only problem that I can
forsee is that I have my machine booting to something besides the
80x24 character screen and I can't remember which one it was (the vga
option in lilo.conf -- mine says "9" but I seem to remember that menu
being machine-dependent).  So unless you happened to do the same thing
then I'll have to figure out how to hot-switch that.  Shouldn't be too
hard.

If there are any dark secrets of vga incompatibility floating around
out there, this would be a very good time to air them.  I think it
says a lot about the stability and flexibility of Linux that I haven't
had a console since Wednesday and my machine is still accessible (and
would be even if I didn't have xdm running, though that would be a lot
harder), but I have no desire to make my monitor explode because I'm
too stubborn to reboot.

Please Cc: to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]  And thanks for the help.
You're all pretty cool.

Rob

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-- Thomas Dekker

Removing the Enlightenment Pager

[Colin Telmer]

I don't seem to be able to figure out how to stop the enlightenment pager
from automatically starting when enlightenment starts (and gnome-session
is controling). I don't want to use it as I use the gnome-pager. Any
ideas? I am using the most up-to-date debs as of today and I am running a
fully updated potato system. Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Cheers.

-- 
Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Re: more Mutt question

[Ian Peters]

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 10:20:00PM +0800, Chad A. Adlawan wrote:
>   thanks for the hot tip.  now how do i mark 20 files out of the 80 i just
> received and move them over to some folder called debian-user ...
>   presently i copy the selected emails to that folder (one by one) then i
> delete them afterwards ... (im a new mutt convert)
> TIA,
> chad

I'm not sure I completely understand what you're asking, but I'll give
it a shot.

If you're just looking to separate debian-user mail from everything
else, one suggestion is procmail.  I have the following procmail rule
in my .procmailrc:

:0:
* ^TOdebian-user@
debian-user

This files away all traffic from this list into ~/.mail/debian-user
instead of my normal ~/.mail/inbox for new mail.  Then, inside
.muttrc, I define which mailboxes receive new mail like so:

mailboxes   =inbox  =debian-user

This way, mutt will alert me when new mail has arrived in debian-user,
and when I press 'c' (for change folder), mutt will supply the name of
the next mailbox with new unread mail automatically.

Another way to go about this, if you still want all of your mail to
arrive in your inbox, but then get sorted after you read it, is to use
a mutt save-hook.  For example, for debian-user, you do

save-hook   ^debian-user-request=debian-user

Now, inside of mutt, whenever you hit 's' over a message from
debian-user, it "guesses" that this belongs in the debian-user folder.
You can still change this, of course, but you can save your mail by
hitting 's', , over and over.

To be really efficient, you use message tagging.  So you hit 't' over
all messages from debian-user as you read them, and they get a little
asterisk next to them (in the default configuration, at least).  When
you're done, press ';' (that's the tag prefix, makes the next
operation apply to all tagged messages), then 's', and the folder they
belong in (if you've set up a save-hook, you won't even have to type
this).

So basically, there are lots of ways, either with mutt or with mutt in
combination with other tools, to do this without copying the messages
over and then deleting.

Hope I've been of some help.

-- 
Ian Peters  "I never let schooling interfere with my education."
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   -- Mark Twain

More trouble ahead....

[Hans van den Boogert]

Thank you James, March, Richard, Oliver and Jan for answering my questions.
It seems indeed that the base system doesn't come with the man command. A
bit strange, but who am I to comment on that :-)

I still haven't solved the script problem, though.

- I have used ./telltime, but still no luck.
- I have changed the mode to 0777 (or +u if you prefer).
- I have checked the PATH and put the file in /bin and /usr/local/bin, both
of which are in the path.

BTW, Oliver, $ type telltime comes back with "bash: $: command not found."
Bash is installed and in /bin.

I have used a mini-Linux distribution (tomsrtbt 2.0.36 - the most Linux on
a floppy. Never leave home without it) to boot and then change the mode
according to the above. Still no result.

A wild guess of mine is that I maybe did something wrong when I cfdisked
the harddrive. As I said, when installing Debian 2.1 the installer didn't
want to execute cfdisk and so I partitioned by hand and skipped that step.
When booting now I see the following

Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 20940 swap-space (priority -1)

Exqueeze me, but what is VFS and is the fact that my Mounted root (hda1) is
readonly correct?

The reason why I need this problem solved is that I want to use paride to
connect a parallel port CD-ROM and thus I need to make a /dev/pcd (which
also doesn't come standard). Once I have the CD-ROM I can install the
system in full, otherwise I will have to start thinking about buying some
extra floppies and install it via that medium :-(

I'm still having fun, though. Problem solving is the fastest way to become
smart. Maybe that is street smart, but it'll come in handy sooner or later
:-) At least I find Linux a lot more logical than MS-DOS, although I can't
wait to install Moonlight Commander, because I really miss a commander like
that. Should be standard in every distribution.

>From a dark and gloomy Taipei (no wonder at 10:20 pm) greetings from,

Hans

more Mutt question

[Chad A. Adlawan]

> set folder  =~/.mail
> set mbox=~/.mail/inbox
> set postponed   =~/.mail/postponed
> set record  =~/.mail/outbox
> set spoolfile   =~/.mail/inbox
> 
> Now, when it comes to moving it every month - mutt is constantly
> fighting against mail client bloat, so if you ask about this on one of
> the mutt mailing lists, the official answer is:
> 
> "Use cron, it's designed to do things exactly like this, it works, and
> it means we don't have to inflate the mail client anymore."
> 
> So basically, just set up a quick monthly cron job that moves your
> sent-mail folder out of the way and touches a new one.

  thanks for the hot tip.  now how do i mark 20 files out of the 80 i just
received and move them over to some folder called debian-user ...
  presently i copy the selected emails to that folder (one by one) then i
delete them afterwards ... (im a new mutt convert)
TIA,
chad

Incorrect MD5Sum on unofficial Xfree debs

[Guido A.J. Stevens]

Hi all,

I'm going through the last stages of completely upgrading to slink.

Everything works smoothly, except for that last step. I already
installed xserver-glint from Vincent's 'unofficial' xfree-3.3.3.1
release.

However, when performing a 'apt-get dist-upgrade' I get the error
messages below. Is the master really corrupt, or did I screw up on my
machine, and if so, how can I remedy this? I already tried removing
the offending packages from the /var/cache/apt tree to force a new
download, but that doesn't help (no new download is triggered).

I'm running slink on a PII-350 w/128MB RAM, 8MB Permedia 2
video. Kernel 2.0.36.

wiz:/# apt-get dist-upgrade
Updating package status cache...done
Checking system integrity...ok
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  twm xsm xproxy xfree86-common xlib6g-dev rstartd nmh rstart xmh xfs 
19 packages upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2347k/13.3M of archives. After unpacking 10.1M will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Get http://master.debian.org xfree-3.3.3.1/ xlib6 [758k]
Get http://master.debian.org xfree-3.3.3.1/ xlib6g-dev [633k]
Get http://master.debian.org xfree-3.3.3.1/ xlib6g [956k]
ERROR http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-3.3.3.1/xlib6_3.3.3.1-0_i386.deb
  Incorrect MD5Sum
ERROR 
http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-3.3.3.1/xlib6g-dev_3.3.3.1-0_i386.deb
  Incorrect MD5Sum
ERROR http://master.debian.org/~vincent/xfree-3.3.3.1/xlib6g_3.3.3.1-0_i386.deb
  Incorrect MD5Sum
wiz:/# 


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Re: Pine question

[Johann Spies]

On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, iehrenwald wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I am using pine to read/send mail.  I am also using a dial-up connection
> for my Internet access.  My login name for my machine is 'ian'.  My
> account on my ISP is 'iehrenwald'.  How do I get pine to send mail from
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and not '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or whatever it is at now?
> I tried playing with the passwd file using chfn but that didn't seem to do
> it?  Anyone have some ideas?  Thanks.  
> 

Have you tried changing the 'From'-field in Pine's setup?

Johann

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  righteousness; and all these things shall be added 
  unto you." Matthew 6:33 

Samba problem: can't create a valid tmp service

[Curt Daugaard]

When I run "smbclient '\\[hostname]\tmp' (following the DIAGNOSIS doc) and
enter my password, I get "Invalid network name in tree connect".  The smb
log reports "couldn't find service tmp", yet the tmp service setup in
smb.conf is an exact match of the sample config file, and running testparm
on the config file reports no errors for the service setup.  FWIW, this is
how the service is configured:

[tmp]
   comment = Temporary file space
   path = /tmp
   read only = yes
   public = yes

Can anyone give me a clue about what I'm missing?

Thanks.

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Re: How to bring a file from Windows to Debian?

[David B.Teague]

Sebastian:

I hoped my first answer was useful and friendly.  Friendly,
perhaps, but the first answer wasn't too helpful. Sorry.

I answered this for Windows / MS DOS file systems, not for RW (I
assume CD-RW). The spirit of the answer is the same, but the
details are somewhat different. 

I assume that your "RW" is a read-write CD, that the file system
on the CD is iso9660, and that you have iso9660 supported by your
kernel.

If these things are true, then you can read the CD by mounting it
first: 

mount  -r -t iso9660 /mnt/hdxx /cdrom

where hdxx is device for your ide cd rw. 

If your CD-RW is SCSI, I don't know. My scsi CD ROM is /dev/scd0,
I would try that device, unless it is the second CD device, where
it should be scd1.

--David

 David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Debian GNU/Linux Because software support should be free, timely,
useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
   (Hoping that this is all of the above. Everybody 
else's help is certainly all of the above.)

Re: Mutt question

[Ian Peters]

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 07:37:31PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering how to use mutt to configure a folder called
> sent-mail, and then on a monthly basis, move the sent-mail to
> sent-mail-date and create a new sent mail folder, just like what
> pine has got.
> 
>   thx.

Regarding creating a sent-mail folder, use the record variable to
specify a folder which gets copies of outgoing mail.  For example, in
my .muttrc, I have:

set folder  =~/.mail
set mbox=~/.mail/inbox
set postponed   =~/.mail/postponed
set record  =~/.mail/outbox
set spoolfile   =~/.mail/inbox

Now, when it comes to moving it every month - mutt is constantly
fighting against mail client bloat, so if you ask about this on one of
the mutt mailing lists, the official answer is:

"Use cron, it's designed to do things exactly like this, it works, and
it means we don't have to inflate the mail client anymore."

So basically, just set up a quick monthly cron job that moves your
sent-mail folder out of the way and touches a new one.

-- 
Ian Peters  "I never let schooling interfere with my education."
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   -- Mark Twain

Re: Dayly cron job

[John Galt]

What you're asking for is something that's a part of anacron, a completely
different package.  cron just calls whatever when the system clock hits
the given time--if the system clock doesn't hit the time, cron doesn't do
the scheduled event.  anacron will call jobs that have been missed due to
downtime.  (anacron is in the main//admin directory)

On 18 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote:

> Hi all:
> 
> I've set up a dayly cron job to run at 11 pm. It's supposed to gzip
> some files on the system.
> 
> It seems like if the computer is turned off at 11 pm, the job never
> gets done. Shouldn't it run as soon as the computer is powered on in
> case that it never got to run because it was off?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> p.s. Output of my crontab -l:
> 
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.a01994 installed on Fri Apr 16 16:31:27 1999)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
> 1   23  *   *   *   gzip -r9 ~/Mail/mail/*/[0-9]*
> 
> -- 
> Arcady Genkin
> "I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE
> 
> 
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> 

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

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Re: How to bring a file from Windows to Debian?

[David B.Teague]

Sebastian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> Yesterday I downloaded the new
SVGA_Server in order to let work my Diamond Viper V550. I burned
the File on my RW. Who can help me how to copying the file in the
corresponding directory?  
>
> Thanks a lot 


Hi Sebastian:

You have two choices.

One is use mtools, the other is to mount the drive, and use Linux.  If
you have mtools installed, and configured (mine was configured out
of the box):

 mcopy C:/filename .

This is a bit for bit copy, meaning, this is for binary files. If your
file is  delimited text, you need to use

 mcopy -t C:/filename .

which will convert the   to . 

Conversely, you can mount the file system. On my system, Windows is on
/dev/sda1. As root, 

mount  -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt

If you don't have vfat (long file names) on your Windows system, then
use msdos instead of vfat for the file system.  Your Windows system's
files will appear under /mnt.  (NB There is no  to 
conversion here.)

One thing: your message had a very long line, it will help those of us
who use text mailers (PINE, etc) for you to press return every 70
characters or so. Some mail composers generate local  but don't
insert them into the file.

--David

David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian GNU/Linux Because software support should be free, timely,
 useful, technically accurate, and friendly.
  (I hope this is all of the above.)

Re: Debian vs. RedHat

[Jan Muszynski]

On 18 Apr 99, at 12:31,  Stephan Goldenberg 
 wrote about Re: Debian vs. RedHat:

> On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:04:53PM +0100, Matt wrote:
> > Dan Nguyen wrote:
> > > 
> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > > : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > : Luca Filipozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > : :It's unfortunate that the Debian install is difficult in comparison to
> > > : :RedHat.
> > 
> > Having just switched to Debian 2.1 from RH 5.2, I think the Debian
> > install is easier and more informative.
> 
>   H, is it just me being too dumb ? I didn't manage to install
> slink (5 CD-Set/german bookstore Lehmanns). Two hours of selecting
> packages and fighting dependencies and then.
> internal error - no filename at -e line 13  chunk 14

This newbie found it easy just selecting one of the pre-configured 
installs. You can then fine tune the package selection after the 
initial configuration is installed (this can of course take days, 
weeks, maybe months or years :) ). This then amounts to 1 or 2 
minutes deciding which configuration to install (based on 
needs/wants), and no fighting of dependencies. You can, of course, 
take longer to decide which configuration to install by checking the 
complete list of packages installed with each configuration etc.

> 
>   And more informative than RH ? I didn't realize any informations
> about the required diskspace.

The pre-selected configurations do give information about required 
diskspace.
 
[snipped to conserve bandwidth]
TTFN
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Re: Looking for trouble.

[Jan Muszynski]

Can't help you much, but some of the smaller questions I can answer.

On 18 Apr 99, at 14:34,  Hans van den Boogert 
 wrote about Looking for trouble.:

[snipped to conserve bandwidth]
> Questions:
> 1) What is an easy way to go to the previous directory, e.g. I am in
> /usr/bin and want to go to /usr?

try cd ..
This will take you to the parent directory of any directory you're in.
Another handy shortcut along these lines is
cd -
this will take you to the most recent directory you were in. For 
example - you're in /etc and you issue a cd /usr/src
you're now in /usr/src; if you issue a cd - you will end up in /etc, 
if you then issue another cd - you will be back in /usr/src

> 2) With the base system installed I can't open man pages, that is, when
[snipped to conserve bandwidth]
> installed? How to open/read .gz files.

you need to get the man page package installed - catch22 :) I'm not 
sure if you have gzip, gunzip installed at this point or not. if so 
you can issue a gunzip  to unzip the file, then look at the 
file, then followed by a gzip  to zip it up again (don't forget 
this last step).

> 3) I tried to create some scripts, very simple ones, but they refuse to
> run, or the system says "command not found." Example:
[snipped to conserve bandwidth]
> Saved as "telltime," then mode changed with chmod -v u+x telltime.
> With cat I can still see the contents of the file as plain text. Is
> this normal? As said, when executing "telltime" the system returns
yes - it is normal
> "command not found." I know that you have to watch the path, but
try - while in directory with script, issuing ./telltime
I'm not sure what your current path is. Issue an echo $PATH to find 
out.
> even when I put this script in / or /bin it still won't run, while
> installed commands like "date" do run from almost every directory.
> What do I do wrong? 

try, while in the directory with the script, issuing ./telltime

> 4) Any hints to where to find some in dept Debian specific FAQs? I know
> there is a lot around, and believe me I've been reading, but most
> tutorials/FAQs assume that the system is running smoothly and hardly deal
> with problem solving.

That's because no-one ever has any problems to solve 

It appears that most of the Debian specific stuff is still in the 
process of being written, and they probably want to get all the base 
documentation down first.

> 
> Thanks for the help.
what little it was - you're welcome.

==
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Re: Looking for trouble.

[Oliver Elphick]

Hans van den Boogert wrote:
  >1) What is an easy way to go to the previous directory, e.g. I am in
  >/usr/bin and want to go to /usr?

To go to the parent directory:
cd ..

To go to the directory you were in last:
cd ~-

  >2) With the base system installed I can't open man pages, that is, when
  >typing "man ls" for example, the system returns with "command not found."
  >In /bin and /sbin I also can't see any man-binary. There are man pages
  >stored, but in .gz format. Is it normal that the man command is not
  >installed? How to open/read .gz files.

man is not part of the base system, which has to fit on a few floppies;
install man-db

  >3) I tried to create some scripts, very simple ones, but they refuse to
  >run, or the system says "command not found." Example:
  >
  >#! /bin/bash
  >#
  >echo The time and date is..
  >date
  >
  >Saved as "telltime," then mode changed with chmod -v u+x telltime. With cat
  >I can still see the contents of the file as plain text. Is this normal?
  >As said, when executing "telltime" the system returns "command not found."
  >I know that you have to watch the path, but even when I put this script in
  >/ or /bin it still won't run, while installed commands like "date" do run
  >from almost every directory. What do I do wrong?

On the face of it you are doing the right thing, and it ought to run from
/bin, if your path is normal.  To see what your path is, type `echo $PATH'.
The normal place to put home-grown commands is /usr/local/bin, or ~/bin (~/
is your own home directory).  These directories should be in your path.
The command `type' will tell you where the system thinks a command is:

$ type telltime
telltime is hashed (./telltime)
$ type ar
ar is /usr/bin/ar

Sometimes you may find that the system is looking at a file you weren't 
expecting.

  >4) Any hints to where to find some in dept Debian specific FAQs? I know
  >there is a lot around, and believe me I've been reading, but most
  >tutorials/FAQs assume that the system is running smoothly and hardly deal
  >with problem solving.

You want the Debian Tutorial: links from documentation on www.debian.org

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Re: how to reset the console?

[ivan]

If it's any good to you Rob, I could run savetextmode on my machine and
post it to you.  I'd hate to see you lose your uptime :)

Can anyone on the list see a reason why this wouldn't work ?

Ivan. 

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 01:58:03AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:06:38PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 02:48:00PM +0200, Ookhoi wrote:
> > > 
> > > Cool. :-)
> > > So now we have:
> > > 
> > > reset
> > > stty sane
> > > -v  c
> > > 
> > > to restore a messed up text interface.
> > > 
> > >   Groetjes, Ookhoi
> > > 
> > 
> > don't forget setfont - maybe we can start a collection :)
> > 
> > But the original question referred to an svgalib messed up console which is
> > quite a bit different.
> > 
> > Ivan.
> 
> In particular, it's different in that none of those did me any good
> :(.  
> 
> svgalib comes with a couple of utils called "textmode" and
> "savetextmode" that are supposed to help in exactly my situation
> ... but the man page says: 
> 
>You  do this by being a smart guy and running savetextmode
>right after booting of your machine, prior  to  any  prob
>lems. 
> 
> Unluckily for me, I'm not a smart guy.  these are both scripts for a
> couple of restoration utils that take a previous config from a file
> and reinstate it -- but I have made no such file.  My question at this
> point:  is there such a file on my system?  could I create one?  Or
> should I just break down and reboot again?
> 
> If it helps, running textmode at this point changes the multicolored
> static pattern blinking on my textmode screens to a red static pattern
> blinking on my screen.
> 
> Thanks again for the help.  Please Cc: to me at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Rob
> 
> -- 
> It's computer hardware, of course it's worth having 
>   -- Espy on #Debian
> 
> 
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> 

Re: Debian vs. RedHat

[Stephan Goldenberg]

On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:04:53PM +0100, Matt wrote:
> Dan Nguyen wrote:
> > 
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > : Luca Filipozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > : :It's unfortunate that the Debian install is difficult in comparison to
> > : :RedHat.
> 
> Having just switched to Debian 2.1 from RH 5.2, I think the Debian
> install is easier and more informative.

H, is it just me being too dumb ? I didn't manage to install
slink (5 CD-Set/german bookstore Lehmanns). Two hours of selecting
packages and fighting dependencies and then.
internal error - no filename at -e line 13  chunk 14

And more informative than RH ? I didn't realize any informations
about the required diskspace.

I'm running Linux for four+ years and installed Slackware, DLD, RH
3.0.3, 4.1, 5.0, SuSE 5.1, 5.3, 6.0 but.

>  
> > Dselect is a major problem, however it's actually not that bad.  I
> > have no problems with dselect.
> 
> Its just a case of getting used to it. I prefer dselect to RH's glint.
> In fact after using Debian for about a week now I'm not changing back to
> RH (or SUSE for that matter).
> I also see that some here have trouble with Cheapbyte CD's. I must be
> lucky with mine as the install went perfectly, first time.
> My only slight grumble is that Debian does not have a detailed LILO
> setup during the install. Then again, its fun reading the docs and
> figuring it out yourself.
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
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> 
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Re: From hdr in mutt

[Eric Gillespie, Jr.]

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 08:16:50PM +1000,
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>   mutt by default displays my local username as the email
> address in the From field.
> 
>   I tried to change this with the alternative variable. But it still
> doesn't work.
> 
>   Can anyone please help??
> 

Straight from my .muttrc:

set realname="Eric Gillespie, Jr."
unset use_from
my_hdr From: \"$realname\" \<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

-- 
Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Don't you try to out-weird me! I get stranger things
than you free with my breakfast cereal!
--Zaphod Beeblebrox

From hdr in mutt

[Shao Zhang]

Hi,
mutt by default displays my local username as the email
address in the From field.

I tried to change this with the alternative variable. But it still
doesn't work.

Can anyone please help??

Thx.

Shao.
-- 

Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1  ___ _   _
Department of Communications/ __| |_  __ _ ___  |_  / |_  __ _ _ _  __ _ 
University of New South Wales   \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \  / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` |
Sydney, Australia   |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, |
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  |___/ 
_

Sendmail - aliases problem

[Robert-Jan \(ICQ#35262711\)]

Hi,

I have installed sendmail, but when I use newaliases I get (after aprox. 2 
minutes) the following warning:

WARNING: local host name (kuijf) is not qualified: fix $j in config file
/etc/aliases: 6 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 86 bytes total

Sendmail is very too. All sendmail actions (starting up, sending mail) take 
about 2 minutes each.

All help is appreciated,

Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
--
Download ICQ at http://www.icq.com

How to bring a file from Windows to Debian?

[Sebastian Lindenmüller]

Hi!
 
Yesterday I downloaded the new SVGA_Server in order to 
let work my Diamond Viper V550. I burned the File on my RW. Who can help 
me how to copying the file in the corresponding directory?
 
Thanks a lot
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mutt question

[Shao Zhang]

Hi,
I was wondering how to use mutt to configure a folder called sent-mail,
and then on a monthly basis, move the sent-mail to sent-mail-date and 
create
a new sent mail folder, just like what pine has got.

thx.

Shao.

-- 

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Department of Communications/ __| |_  __ _ ___  |_  / |_  __ _ _ _  __ _ 
University of New South Wales   \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \  / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` |
Sydney, Australia   |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, |
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  |___/ 
_

Re: Network problems with Vortex Adapter

[Nils-Erik Svangård]

I have had similar problems with 3c905b.
The trouble is propbably that the PCI card is in the first PCI slot, the
bios has problems reporting it to the kernel. Check the /proc/pci what irq
it has, if no irq is shown than its the PCI slot. You can either change
position of the card or turn PCI to manual in the bios, and assigning a
free irq to that card.
On thr other hand you could be lucky and have just misconfigured.
make sure that the correct module is loaded then go to
/etc/init.d/networks and check that the values are correct.
/nisse


On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Karl Gordon wrote:

> Hi
> I'm running Hamm on a Micron Millenia XKU 333 with a 3Com Etherlink 905B
> PCI installed.
> 
> The kernel is configured with the correct Vortex driver but the adapter
> does not connect with or even see the other machines on the network.  It
> has the correct IP address and can 'ping' itself but no other machine
> can ping it or vice versa.
> I tried moving it around in the machine but that doesn't work either. I
> down loaded the latest version of the driver and re-compiled the kernel
> and nothing.
> 
> HELP
> 
> 
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Re: Printing in Color

[Richard Harran]

I think that you may wish to use the -P option in lpr.  Note
that you may need to edit the stylus_color... filters to make them work
properly.  See /usr/doc/gs-aladdin/Devices.htm (or equivalent for gs) to
find out about the options (good luck: it looks a bit involved).  It
might be worth just trying what you have, and only trying to understand
these options if that doesn't work.
HTH
Rich 

Jan Muszynski wrote:
> 
> How can I get my printer to print in color? I print a page from
> Netscape and select lpr as  the printer. Everything prints fine, but
> it prints in B/W.
> 
> Printer is an Epson Stylus 850. Printcap is set up to refer to 3
> magicfilters (ie. 3 printers all pointing to same dev):
> stylus800-filter   (this is default)
> stylus_color_360dpi-filter
> stylus_color_720dpi-filter
> 
> I assume I need the above to print in different dpi settings?
> 
> Any assistance greatly appreciated - TIA
> ==
>Jan M.-  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>PGP key mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Fingerprint:397D 093C E802 964E  5316 B90A 93CE 6696
> 
> Thought for the day:
> I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
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Re: Dayly cron job

[Mirek Kwasniak]

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 03:30:58AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> I've set up a dayly cron job to run at 11 pm. It's supposed to gzip
> some files on the system.
> 
> It seems like if the computer is turned off at 11 pm, the job never
> gets done. Shouldn't it run as soon as the computer is powered on in
> case that it never got to run because it was off?

Install anacron package :)

Mirek

Re: misconfigured exim?

[Steve Gore]

I just started having a similar problem this weekend.  Mail delivery prior to
Friday evening had been fine, then this started happening:

 SyberSpace:/# exim -v -qf
   
Single queue run
LOG: 0 MAIN
  Start queue run: pid=1429
delivering message 10YYbE-00015f-00 (queue run pid 1429)
Connecting to mail.flex.net [207.70.185.245] ... connected
  SMTP<< 220 tron.flex.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Sun, 18 Apr 1999
01:55:24 -0500
  SMTP>> EHLO SyberSpace
  SMTP<< 250-tron.flex.net Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] [207.18.136.83],
pleased to meet you
 250-8BITMIME
 250-SIZE 1000
 250-DSN
 250-ONEX
 250-ETRN
 250-XUSR
 250 HELP
  SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=1473
  SMTP<< 451 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Domain must resolve
  SMTP>> QUIT
LOG: 0 MAIN
  == [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (0): SMTP error from remote
mailer after MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=1473: host mail.flex.net
[207.70.185.245]: 451 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Domain must resolve
delivering message 10YlQB-Lz-00 (queue run pid 1429)
Connecting to mail.flex.net [207.70.185.245] ... connected
  SMTP<< 220 tron.flex.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Sun, 18 Apr 1999
01:55:25 -0500
  SMTP>> EHLO SyberSpace
  SMTP<< 250-tron.flex.net Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] [207.18.136.83],
pleased to meet you
 250-8BITMIME
 250-SIZE 1000
 250-DSN
 250-ONEX
 250-ETRN
 250-XUSR
 250 HELP
  SMTP>> MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=1473
  SMTP<< 451 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Domain must resolve
  SMTP>> QUIT
LOG: 0 MAIN
  == [EMAIL PROTECTED] T=remote_smtp defer (0): SMTP error from remote
mailer after MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=1473: host mail.flex.net
[207.70.185.245]: 451 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Domain must resolve
LOG: 0 MAIN
  End queue run: pid=1429
==
I've run eximconfig to make sure I'm set-up to use my ISP as a smarthost
(first set of options, #2 - Internet site using smarthost),set the 'visible
name' to flex.net, and added 'localhost.  This is the result:

Mail generated on this system will have `flex.net' used
as the domain part (after the @) in the From: field and similar places.

The following domain(s) will be recognised as referring to this system:
 flex.net, localhost

Mail for postmaster, root, etc. will be sent to srgore.

Local mail is delivered.

Outbound remote mail is sent via mail.flex.net.
==
In exim.conf:

qualify_domain = flex.net
local_domains = flex.net:localhost
local_domains_include_host = true 
   
local_domains_include_host_literals = true
never_users = root  
host_lookup_nets = 0.0.0.0/0
sender_host_accept_relay = localhost
trusted_users = mail
smtp_verify = false
gecos_pattern = ^([^,:]*) 
   
gecos_name = $1
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100

(...some stuff I'm pretty sure doesn't affect delivery...)

address_reply:
   
  driver = autoreply
remote_smtp:  
   
  driver = smtp

(...more stuff clipped...)

smarthost:
   
  driver = domainlist 
   
  transport = remote_smtp 
   
  route_list = "* mail.flex.net bydns_a"
==
I have talked to a friend (sysadm) who claims ISP's are moving toward
requiring users to have a FQDN, is this true?  My hostname (SyberSpace) was
just a spur-of-the-moment decision at install time, and has caused no probs
till now.

What?! 02:20! I've got to get some sleep.

Thanks,
Steve Gore



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Dayly cron job

[Arcady Genkin]

Hi all:

I've set up a dayly cron job to run at 11 pm. It's supposed to gzip
some files on the system.

It seems like if the computer is turned off at 11 pm, the job never
gets done. Shouldn't it run as soon as the computer is powered on in
case that it never got to run because it was off?

Thanks!

p.s. Output of my crontab -l:

# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.a01994 installed on Fri Apr 16 16:31:27 1999)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $)
1   23  *   *   *   gzip -r9 ~/Mail/mail/*/[0-9]*

-- 
Arcady Genkin
"I opened up my wallet, and it's full of blood..." - GsYDE

Re: Looking for trouble.

[James Mastros]

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 02:34:57PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
> There doesn't seem to be a special group for Debian Newbies, so I hope
> y'all don't mind me bringing up some questions here.
Don't worry; this is a large part of what this mailinglist is here for.  And
we're glad that you RTFMed before you got here .

> Background: Dutch, teacher, location: Taiwan, 32, shortwave DXer. 
> System1: Pentium 200MMX, 64 MB RAM, 3.2+6.1 GB HD, S3 Trio64, Soundblaster
> AWE64.
> System2: Twinhead Slimnote 486-33, 8 MB RAM, 305 MB HD, VGA monochrome
> monitor.

> Questions:
> 1) What is an easy way to go to the previous directory, e.g. I am in
> /usr/bin and want to go to /usr?
Try "cd ~-".

> 2) With the base system installed I can't open man pages, that is, when
> typing "man ls" for example, the system returns with "command not found."
> In /bin and /sbin I also can't see any man-binary. There are man pages
> stored, but in .gz format. Is it normal that the man command is not
> installed? How to open/read .gz files.
The man reader is in the package "man-db"; run "apt-get install man-db" to
install it if you are connected to the 'net.  If you just want to read some
random textual .gz file, run zless on it -- it's in the package zgip, but
you need the package less to run it.  (Install them with apt-get too.)

> 3) I tried to create some scripts, very simple ones, but they refuse to
> run, or the system says "command not found." Example:
>From the following (cut), it looks like it, but did you try ./telltime?

> 4) Any hints to where to find some in dept Debian specific FAQs? I know
> there is a lot around, and believe me I've been reading, but most
> tutorials/FAQs assume that the system is running smoothly and hardly deal
> with problem solving.
Try http://www.debain.org/doc/ -- I did just look, and there isn't much with
problem solving there.  One of the few bad things about the current state of
Linux is that there aren't detailed problem-solving docs around -- perhaps
it has somthing to do with the incidance rate of such problems.

-=- James Mastros
-- 
"My friend Data: You see the world with the wonder of a child, and that
makes you more human then any of us."
-=- Lt. Tasha Yar, upon the occasion of her death.

Looking for trouble.

[Hans van den Boogert]

There doesn't seem to be a special group for Debian Newbies, so I hope
y'all don't mind me bringing up some questions here. I did a lot of reading
on Linux and Debian, but I now have a copy of Debian 2.1 and am trying to
get a system up.

Background: Dutch, teacher, location: Taiwan, 32, shortwave DXer. 
System1: Pentium 200MMX, 64 MB RAM, 3.2+6.1 GB HD, S3 Trio64, Soundblaster
AWE64.
System2: Twinhead Slimnote 486-33, 8 MB RAM, 305 MB HD, VGA monochrome
monitor.

What I did sofar: Installed Debian 2.1 with base system on the Twinhead,
with 9 floppies.
Aim: Connect a parallel port CD-ROM (Shuttle EPIA) and install the rest of
the system.

Remarks: I cleaned the HD and reformatted it as one partition (305 MB).
However, Debian 2.1 installation couldn't get cfdisk going and thus I used
the second console to manually partition and set the swap. 

Questions:
1) What is an easy way to go to the previous directory, e.g. I am in
/usr/bin and want to go to /usr?
2) With the base system installed I can't open man pages, that is, when
typing "man ls" for example, the system returns with "command not found."
In /bin and /sbin I also can't see any man-binary. There are man pages
stored, but in .gz format. Is it normal that the man command is not
installed? How to open/read .gz files.
3) I tried to create some scripts, very simple ones, but they refuse to
run, or the system says "command not found." Example:

#! /bin/bash
#
echo The time and date is..
date

Saved as "telltime," then mode changed with chmod -v u+x telltime. With cat
I can still see the contents of the file as plain text. Is this normal?
As said, when executing "telltime" the system returns "command not found."
I know that you have to watch the path, but even when I put this script in
/ or /bin it still won't run, while installed commands like "date" do run
from almost every directory. What do I do wrong?
4) Any hints to where to find some in dept Debian specific FAQs? I know
there is a lot around, and believe me I've been reading, but most
tutorials/FAQs assume that the system is running smoothly and hardly deal
with problem solving.

Thanks for the help.

Hans

I was riding on the e-train
I was whistling to the rhythm
I was thinking 'bout my livin'
I was feeling pretty fineI asked the time
.Got a poke in the eye.

(Sheryl Crow, The Globe Sessions)

Re:SIOCADDRT error

[chris]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Chad A. Adlawan wrote:
>
>> hi Vaidhy,
>>   i also got the same error as u guys did, that is, i got it after i
>> upgraded from 2.0.36 to 2.2.4.  do u think that same fix'll still work fo=
>r

I get the same error booting the 2.2.1 kernel; somehow I missed the fix,
please repost or advise.

Thanx

Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to reset the console?

[Rob Mahurin]

On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 09:06:38PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 02:48:00PM +0200, Ookhoi wrote:
> > 
> > Cool. :-)
> > So now we have:
> > 
> > reset
> > stty sane
> > -v  c
> > 
> > to restore a messed up text interface.
> > 
> > Groetjes, Ookhoi
> > 
> 
> don't forget setfont - maybe we can start a collection :)
> 
> But the original question referred to an svgalib messed up console which is
> quite a bit different.
> 
> Ivan.

In particular, it's different in that none of those did me any good
:(.  

svgalib comes with a couple of utils called "textmode" and
"savetextmode" that are supposed to help in exactly my situation
... but the man page says: 

   You  do this by being a smart guy and running savetextmode
   right after booting of your machine, prior  to  any  prob
   lems. 

Unluckily for me, I'm not a smart guy.  these are both scripts for a
couple of restoration utils that take a previous config from a file
and reinstate it -- but I have made no such file.  My question at this
point:  is there such a file on my system?  could I create one?  Or
should I just break down and reboot again?

If it helps, running textmode at this point changes the multicolored
static pattern blinking on my textmode screens to a red static pattern
blinking on my screen.

Thanks again for the help.  Please Cc: to me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Rob

-- 
It's computer hardware, of course it's worth having 
-- Espy on #Debian

Re: abiword troubles: improperly installed fonts

[Mitch Blevins]

In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> Running an old AcceleratedX 3.1
> Mostly hamm, with slink and potato stuff mixed in, but dpkg is happy.
> 
> abiword complains about improperly installed fonts.
> 
> I tried the following as per the /usr/doc/abiword/unix_fonts.txt.gz file:
> xset fp+ /usr/share/abiword
> export ABIWORD_FONTPATH=/usr/share/abiword
> 
> But still no go. Any suggestions?

Install the abiword-fonts package.

-Mitch

Re: Pine question

[David Densmore]

Find this entry in .pinerc:

# List of features; see Pine's Setup/options menu for the current set.
# e.g. feature-list= select-without-confirm, signature-at-bottom
# Default condition for all of the features is no-.
feature-list=

add allow-changing-from like this:

feature-list=allow-changing-from

This will allow you to use a customized header that is unrelated
to your local user account.

Next, find this entry:

# Add these customized headers (and possible default values)
# when composing
customized-hdrs=

Modify it like so:

customized-hdrs=From: Any Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Your copy of Pine must have been compiled to allow changing
from.  I think that is the default.

iehrenwald ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 17 April 1999 03:14:
>I am using pine to read/send mail.  I am also using a dial-up connection
>for my Internet access.  My login name for my machine is 'ian'.  My
>account on my ISP is 'iehrenwald'.  How do I get pine to send mail from
>'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and not '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or whatever it is at
>now?  I tried playing with the passwd file using chfn but that didn't
>seem to do it?  Anyone have some ideas?  Thanks.

Re: New Kernel install

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 02:07:14PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If all this is correct so far, what's the point in running lilo to update it?

Because LILO makes reference to the absolute location on disk of the vmlinuz
file (at the far end of the symlink) in the boot code it writes out. Changing
the symlinks makes no difference on its own; LILO knows nothing about ext2fs
file systems or symlinks.

No need to copy .config over; that's just for convenience.


Hamish
-- 
Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD. 
CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.

Re: Pine question

[blackie]

You may want to check into the "roles" feature in the latest pine.  Look
for it in the first configuration menu.  

On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Bruce Sass wrote:

> Hmmm,
> 
> Try editing /etc/{passwd,group,shadow,gshadow} manually,
> (make backups first!)
> then "cd /home;mv ian iehrenwald",
> followed by 
>   "chown * "
> (* == iehrenwald | .iehrenwald | iehrenwald.iehrenwald ).
> 
> Maybe it is simpler to create a new account for iehrenwald on your
> machine, then use it to do your mail.
> 
> 
> - Bruce
> 
> -- 
> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, iehrenwald wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > I am using pine to read/send mail.  I am also using a dial-up connection
> > for my Internet access.  My login name for my machine is 'ian'.  My
> > account on my ISP is 'iehrenwald'.  How do I get pine to send mail from
> > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and not '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or whatever it is at now?
> > I tried playing with the passwd file using chfn but that didn't seem to do
> > it?  Anyone have some ideas?  Thanks.  
> > 
> > --Ian Ehrenwald
> >   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
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Re: PS/AUX

[Michael Beattie]

On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, John Foster wrote:
> 
> > Michael Beattie wrote:
> > > 
> > > Sorry, stupid question, I just decided to change to a PS/2 mouse, but I
> > > dont have the faintest about how to set it up. kernel recompile?
> > > 
> > ---
> > YEP! probably a good time to upgrade to 2.2.5 :-)
> 
> 
> It's too late for that:
> 
> $ uname -a
> Linux bob 2.2.6 #1 Fri Apr 16 19:57:45 MST 1999 i586 unknown

Ouch... well, Im not going that far, yet, Ive been told my VX/Pro MB wont
like the 2.2 series very much... but a simple upgrade to 2.0.36 with PS/2
enabled sorted things... My only question.. how do I increase the mouse
speed in X? gpm was easy.


   Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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