/etc/rc.d/rc.local [era: somente uma ajuda :)]
pedro bastos - strm writes: ola colegas usuarios do debian :) estou 'migrando' do slackware e estou enfrentando uma serie de dificuldades, la vao umas perguntas ... : - ha algum arquivo que substitua o /etc/rc.d/rc.local do slack ? Eu não me lembro como é na Slackware, mas na Debian você tem um diretório /etc/init.d, que tem os scripts de inicialização, e os diretórios /etc/rcN.d (onde N é o runlevel), que tem links para esses scripts. Leia a documentação em /usr/doc/sysvinit (se não souber inglês, não hesite em perguntar de novo). bye Rafael Caetano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Estou preparando uma revista
Gente, que mancada, eu perdi meu HD e estou acessando do trabalho, com probleminhas de configuração eu acabei ficando duas semanas sem ler essa lista :-) On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 01:24:52PM -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote: Sim, acho q esses modos de coordenacao sao suficientes. A pagina teria mais a funcao de atrair colaboradores, postar FAQs, etc, e a lista seria para a coordenacao do projeto. Existe algum espaco q possa ser usado para sediar a pagina e a lista? A página provavelmente deveria estar em algum outro lugar. A lista deveria, é claro, ficar em @lists.debian.org - com a mesma facilidade que eu criei essa, podemos criar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (é exatamente por isso que essa lista chama debian-USER-portuguese) :-) []s, |alo + -- I am Lalo of deB-org. You will be freed. Resistance is futile. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key in the web page Debian GNU/Linux --http://www.debian.org
Re: Core Debian
On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 02:47:49PM -0300, Nelson Novaes Neto wrote: Bom galera, Venho acompanhando vc's ao longo desses dias, Estou comecando a programacao em Cshell, e gostaria de saber se algum conhece bem prog em GTK, assim posso colocar em modo grafico meu scripts É sério isso? Não existe como colocar interface GTK em scripts cshell. Você vai precisar aprender ao menos Python ou Perl. []s, |alo + -- I am Lalo of deB-org. You will be freed. Resistance is futile. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key in the web page Debian GNU/Linux --http://www.debian.org
Re: Core Debian
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 12:58:30PM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Eu quero virar developer, mas nao encontro nenhum programa para empacotar. Todos interessantes a Debian ja tem. :) Correndo o risco de soar repetitivo... `é sério isso?' Dá uma boa navegada em http://freshmeat.net/appindex/ e você verá dezenas de programas excelentes. Se gostar de um, vá em http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages e verifique se está empacotado. A quantidade de não-empacotados é suficiente para qualquer um precisando de trabalho :-) E, claro, verifique o `Work Needing and Prospective Packages no `Developers Corner' do site da Debian. Ali tem uma lista de pacotes precisando de maintainer, pacotes órfãos, etc. Apesar que fica meio desatualizado às vezes... até hj ele lista o FreeCiv como `needing a maintainer', e não está :-) []s, |alo + -- I am Lalo of deB-org. You will be freed. Resistance is futile. http://www.webcom.com/lalo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key in the web page Debian GNU/Linux --http://www.debian.org
Re: setting up a news server
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 06:41:42PM -0400, Sean wrote: I like slrn. It was simple for me to configure (which means it must be _real_ easy), and runs great. Slrn is just an agent, isn't it? I already use slrn, but online. In other words, I currently point slrn to my news server and read while the modem is connected. I want to have the articles downloaded automatically (say, in the middle of the night) so I can read them at my leasure, offline. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes
Re: tulip 100mps card; need advice
George, thanks for advices, The need for such setup was due to the estimated bandwith of overall network transaction of about 0.5Gps. Thus, using CISCO or any other non-PC based solution we need to establish high speed interface between this switcher and some proxy server. The idea is that attaching network interface directly to PC would allow us to solve this task. Is it sounds stupid? On Sun, 23 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Mon, 24 May 1999, Eugene Sevinian wrote: are working reliable at heaivy load. The main goal is to setup a network with star topology, i.e. one central box with 6-7 100mps channels attached to it as well 4-5 10mps ones. Any suggesions concerning hardware components for this central box? How much ROM, which CPU and motherboard I should look for? I have had good luck with the Intel Pro 10/100+ cards. The trouble with going into 10MB mode might not be the network card, many hubs do not auto-negotiate properly. Just force it in the driver at boot. Do you mean linux network driver or card's SETUP utility? I have noticed that hub was able to detect 100mps up to linux loading stage :( Well, looks like money is no object here. Hhmmm :) not quite right, unfortunatly ... Get three of the quad adaptec tulip cards, thats $500-$600 each and gives you 12 ethernet ports on three Are they supported in linux kernel? PCI slots. Make sure those boards will fit ... they are LONG. If you really want to get fancy, you can get a dual-PCI bus machine and put your network on one PCI bus and your disk on the other. Your bottleneck is going to be the PCI bus, you are probably better off getting something like a Cisco 2900 or 3000 series switch rather than trying to do this with a PC. Then we should connect this switch to the server at ~500mps. Is there any standard solution? May be fiber optic? CPU should be SMP Alpha processors. SCSI disk. You are probably in the $10-$15K range for a good system if I am reading this correctly. Eugene Sevinian CRD, YerPhI, 375036, Armenia URL: http://crdlx5.yerphi.am/ Phone: 374-2-344873
Re: setting up a news server
Then you need to get slrnpull, as it allows you to pull down newsgroups either manually or as a cron job. Sean Matt Garman wrote: On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 06:41:42PM -0400, Sean wrote: I like slrn. It was simple for me to configure (which means it must be _real_ easy), and runs great. Slrn is just an agent, isn't it? I already use slrn, but online. In other words, I currently point slrn to my news server and read while the modem is connected. I want to have the articles downloaded automatically (say, in the middle of the night) so I can read them at my leasure, offline. MG -- Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] And though the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning. --Pink Floyd, Echoes -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
EMERGENCY 'umount /'
Hello!!! I have a problem. Whilst trying to change the keyboard mapping my system got very messed up. I ran kbdconfig, choose sunt5-fi-something and that was that. First there was total confusion on my keyboard, the spacebar ,for instance, printed r when I pressed it and R when I pressed pause and spacebar at the same time. Then the system froze and I was forced to switch the computer off and then on again. My most immediate problem is getting into my system at all, so that I can find some way of fixing this problem. When I tried to boot normally I couldn't login because the keyboard was stil messed up. So I decided to try the rescue disk. After booting with linux-init=/bin/sh I was dropped into bash. I then tried to unmount the root filesystem so that I could mount it again as read/write. However, when I entered the command umount / I got some message like can't open mtab: file doesn't exist or something like this. Can someone please. I would to solve this without having to re-install the whole system. Thanx in advance. T:Irvine
Master.debian.org and Email
Hi all! It seems that with our recent IP change on master.debian.org Novare has inherited an IP space that has previously been used to send spam. I would like it if everyone could check that these two IPs are not listed in any spam listing services: master.debian.org A 209.41.108.5 murphy.debian.org A 209.41.108.199 Please only let me know if you find a listing, I don't need to have a full email box tomorrow : Thanks, Jason Debian-Admin
Re: setting up a news server
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 04:50:33PM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: I want to set up a NNTP server for reading Usenet news offline. I was reading in the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO about some possible solutions, CNews+NewsX or CNews+suck or Leafnode... I see Debian has these all packaged. My question is: which setup is typically the easiest to setup and get running? I don't need anything too fancy except the ability to read from more than one server (e.g. my ISP's news server and my school's news server). Also, my school's server needs to be sent a login and password before I can access it. other answers seem to have missed the main point of your question, so i'll have a go :) leafnode is what you want. it can use more than one news server, and it supports login/password access to them. it fetches new articles in all groups you're interested(*) in and stores them in a local news cache (under /var/spool/news). it's very simple to set up - just install the package, and edit the config file in /etc/news/leafnode. BTW, CNews is basically obsolete these days. if you want a real news-server (as opposed to a caching news server like leafnode) then inn is a much better choice. however, both inn and cnews are quite complicated pieces of software and take a lot of work to keep them running smoothly. this is especially true if this is your first time as a news admin and you haven't yet written a swag of scripts to deal with all the little quirks of news. leafnode doesn't require any maintainence. it just works. IMO, it is pretty much ideal for the scenario you describe. (*) interest level is based on whether you are actively reading a newsgroup or not. if you always want to fetch a newsgroup regardless of how often you read it, then just set up a cron job which runs at least once/day and does something like: touch /var/spool/news/interesting.groups/news.group.name here's my /usr/local/sbin/touch-leafnode script to do that: ---cut here--- #! /bin/sh newsdir=/var/spool/news interesting=$newsdir/always.interesting umask 002 cd $newsdir/interesting.groups cat $interesting | xargs touch ---cut here--- i also added the following line to /etc/cron.d/leafnode: ---cut here--- 0 0 * * * news /usr/local/sbin/touch-leafnode ---cut here--- to mark a newsgroup as always interesting, i just add it to the file /var/spool/news/always.interesting. leafnode still fetches it even when i don't read any news for a few days or a few weeks. craig -- craig sanders
mounting nfs when server down
Hi! I now have a mini NIS-network with /home directories mounted from a central server. Imagine this sceneraio: the two systems boot up together. The server is slower while booting up and the clients can't mount the nfs-partitions, but 2 minutes after the server is up and running. When my users try to log on the client machine, they can't because their directories are not mounted. Is there a standard solution for this besides a cron'ed script that looks for well-mounted directories? TIA! -- p.
Re: mounting nfs when server down
Pere Camps wrote: Is there a standard solution for this besides a cron'ed script that looks for well-mounted directories? hard The program accessing a file on a NFS mounted file system will hang when the server crashes. The pro cess cannot be interrupted or killed unless you also specify intr. When the NFS server is back online the program will continue undisturbed from where it was. This is probably what you want. Try adding that to the nfs options in your fstab. -- see shy jo
passing ENV var's w/kfm (KDE) launched shell scripts
I thought for a while that I could not launch shell scripts from kfm in my [slink] debian dist. (my slackware dist. works no problem) but it was the environment variables that I was referencing inside the scripts... e.g. below I simply create a kdelnk file using the below script file, and point and click should just work: #!/bin/sh # if [ -f $HOME/.Xstuff ]; then xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xstuff fi if [ -f $XAPPDIR/xappbinary ]; then cd $XAPPDIR ; exec $XAPPDIR/xappbinary fi If I simply replace the above PATH env variables with the real pathnames, the scripts launch fine. So curiousity has the better of me... Now why would kfm be able to interpret the SHELL enviroment variables in Slackware and not in Debian. Not that it matters likely, but I run in tcsh. TIA, Ralph remove 'no-soc' for personal replies should someone be kind enough to save me face.
Re: tulip 100mps card; need advice
George, thanks for info, I'll think about it. Eugene. On Sun, 23 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: Why not use gigabit ethernet? There are a few cards that are supported under Linux. See http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/index.html#gigabit for more details.
smail config
I want to be able to send mail to another server and have that server send the mail to it's appropriate address on the internet. I ran smailconfig and used option: 3 (No mail is to be delivered or routed here. Any mail generated on this system is sent to a central mail switch using SMTP. This configuration is for workstation, which have mounted /var/spool/mail from a central server) which sounds like what I wanted to do. I setup to run smail as a daemon at boottime. After entering the information needed, I tried to send a test message only to have it not work. I then stopped the smail daemon figuring it might need to be restarted. When I try to restart it, it fails. Can anyone help me out? TIA. Rob === [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Role-Player, Babylon 5 fanatic 1998-99 Aka Khyron the Backstabber : ICQ# 2325055 Homepage: www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/ratirh Happiness comes in short spurts. Don't be fooled. ===
deb for qvwm?
Does anyone know where I might find a package for qvwm? Thanks, Wayne
Re: deb for qvwm?
Nevermind, found it at the Japanese Debian Project. Wayne On Sun, 23 May 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 22:01:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Wayne Cuddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user list debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: deb for qvwm? Resent-Date: 24 May 1999 02:12:58 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Does anyone know where I might find a package for qvwm? Thanks, Wayne -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Fetchmail problems
On Sat, 22 May 1999, XRDLAB wrote: Hi, I upgraded my hamm system to slink. Everything went well. The old configurations generated by ppconfig run equally well under the new system also. But I am having some trouble with regard to getting the mail from my isp. This has happened after upgrading to slink. When I do a fetchmail, I get the following error message: mysxrd-in-haralu:~$ fetchmail 1 message for mysxrd at giasbg01.vsnl.net.in (1241 octets). reading message 1 of 1 (1241 octets) fetchmail: SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address [EMAIL PROTECTED]' fetchmail: can't even send to mysxrd! fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from giasbg01.vsnl.net.in fetchmail: Query status=10 With this I am not able to download the messages from the isp to my machine. Can anyone suggest some remedy for this? This occurs because of a minor change in the initial setup scripts with exim (The new default email server). To fix this problem, edit your /etc/exim.conf file and change the following line :- local_domains = yourbasedomainname to local_domains = yourbasedomainname : localhost This should fix the problem you are having. If you don't use exim, then unfortunately I don't have a clue as to what is happening :) HTH, Peter Ludwig
Re: setting up a news server
Matt Garman wrote: I want to set up a NNTP server for reading Usenet news offline. I was reading in the ISP-Hookup-HOWTO about some possible solutions, CNews+NewsX or CNews+suck or Leafnode... I see Debian has these all packaged. My question is: which setup is typically the easiest to setup and get running? I don't need anything too fancy except the ability to read from more than one server (e.g. my ISP's news server and my school's news server). Also, my school's server needs to be sent a login and password before I can access it. Slrnpull which someone suggested it out because it cannot handle multiple upstream news servers. I'm sure that cnews can, but it's a full-fledged news server and isn't very easy to set up. That leaves leafnode, which supports multiple upstream servers, passwords, and is designed to be easy to use, and to require no maintanance. -- see shy jo
kde headers
Hello people, I was wondering if anyone can help me with me with KDE headers. Im trying to install a few programs that keep comming up with a prefix error when I run 'configure', but i can't seem to find out where they are supose to be or get any info on the KDE site. Im using debian 2.1 with kernel 2.2.3 if it matters. Thanks Alan.
Sound Card Config/Kernel Compile Problems
I'm having some problems with my yamaha pci sound card that I just installed. After reading the kernel documentation, I compiled in every thing it said to for the olp3-sa stuff. However, on the reboot of my system, it looks like some of the sound card parameters are wrong, and I'm not sure what they should be. Here is what the kernel said: OSS: OPL3-SA chip not found Found OPL3-SAx (YMF719) MSS: I/O port conflict Sound initialization complete Alright, the kernel found my card and called thinks it's a YMF719, although it really is a YMF724E-V. Anyway, how can I tell what the MSS i/o port should be? Here is some other information I've found while snooping around the proc dir. /proc/sound: OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 Load type: Driver compiled into kernel Kernel: Linux debian 2.3.1 #2 Sun May 23 23:48:52 EST 1999 i586 Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 10: MS Sound System Type 27: Compaq Deskpro XL Type 42: OPL3SA2 Type 43: OPL3SA2 MIDI Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM Type 5: Roland MPU-401 Type 26: MPU-401 (UART) Type 38: Yamaha OPL3-SA Type 40: OPL3-SA MIDI Type 36: SoftOSS Virtual Wave Table Card config: (Yamaha OPL3-SA at 0x530 irq 11 drq 0,3) (OPL3-SA MIDI at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0) SoftOSS Virtual Wave Table (OPL3SA2 MIDI at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0) OPL3SA2 at 0x530 irq 9 drq 0,1 (Compaq Deskpro XL at 0x530 irq 11 drq 3) (Roland MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0) (OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0) Audio devices: Synth devices: 0: SoftOSS Midi devices: Timers: 0: System clock 1: SoftOSS Mixers: /proc/pci: PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C585 Apollo VP1/VPX (rev 35). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 39). Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0x6000 [0x6001]. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 5). Vendor id=1073. Device id=4. Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=25. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe200 [0xe200]. Bus 0, device 10, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C595 100bTX (rev 0). Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=8. I/O at 0x6200 [0x6201]. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: VGA compatible controller: NVidia Unknown device (rev 4). Vendor id=10de. Device id=20. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe000 [0xe000]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe100 [0xe108]. Thanks for any help you can provide. Chris
RE: kde headers
On 24-May-99 Alan wrote: Hello people, I was wondering if anyone can help me with me with KDE headers. Im trying to install a few programs that keep comming up with a prefix error when I run 'configure', but i can't seem to find out where they are supose to be or get any info on the KDE site. Im using debian 2.1 with kernel 2.2.3 if it matters. Try your /usr/bin/X11/include directory if you installed from debs. -- Andrew
Re: tulip 100mps card; need advice
Hi, tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip at 0x6100, 00 c0 f0 17 16 0d, IRQ 11. eth0: EEPROM default media type Autosense. eth0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block. eth0: MII transceiver found at MDIO address 1, config 3000 status 7829. eth0: Advertising 01e1 on PHY 1, previously advertising 01e1. Works fine at 100MB on an autosensing 10/100 ProCurve hub. The load is non-existant to moderate, though, but I have heard good things about this card from other people. manoj -- I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness. Steve Martin Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
Re: sourcing the new install
One thing I was hoping to avoid...I haven't seen slink/apt yet, but I am aware that it will install from multiple CD's...under the previous release, I had copied the binaries of Contrib/Non-Free/Non-US to my hard drive, left the i386 CD in the tray, and told dselect that I was installing from the hard drive. Then, I could tell dselect the paths to each of the sets of packages, and it installed all without my having to change CD's (which the previous release wouldn't do, anyway). Will I be able to get a Non-Free and Non-US CD, and will apt do the multiple install from them? Or, if not, how do I make apt aware of where I am keeping those sets of files? Steven C. Martin I had very good results with the Debian 4 pak CD set that I gotr here for $4.95 +shipping and handling. http://www.lsl.com/ -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Making a Debian CD?
Hi, I was wondering if any one can tell me if it's possible to make one's own Debian CD. MkLinux has a 648MB CD image file for people to download and make CD of. I don't know if this is the case for Debian. Thanks! Best wishes, Chip
Re: Staroffice 5.1 under slink
Hi, I use wget for all downloads, i cut and paste urls into a text file as i come across them which in turn is set up to be read by wget when it starts. I then start wget up in ip-up.d no problem, apart from being impatient sometimes :) wget is included with debian to ;0) cheers Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I don't understand why they don't split the one big tar into pieces. With the daily use of the telephone, it is nearly impossible for me to download the whole thing. Is there any programs similar to Go Right in linux? Thanks. Shao. On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 01:40:40PM +1200, John Leget wrote: Unfortunately it seems the tar file i downloaded is corrupt :(. The sum of extracted files is less than the originall tar file bugger cheers Paul Harris wrote: i didn't have a single problem: i just downloaded the tarball again to be sure: download it, untar it. cd so51inst/office51 ./setup thats it... its there (in the tarball from mirror.aarnet.edu.au), along with shitloads of f_..._. files, setup.ins and setup.zip you didn't just forget to look at the whole dir right? ls | less ? just try typing the binary name and see if it works... Paul On Sun, 23 May 1999, John Leget wrote: Im about to try under potato except i cant find the .office51/setup file there lots off f files and a setup.ins and thats it. I had a look inside the older 5.0 version and it does have a setup and also a setup.zip ,thing is the file i have appears ok same size as on the server - file length of the tar is72336K as on the ftp site i got it ? Did i miss something obvious. Cheers Paul Harris wrote: hi, yeah it works under slink fine... but i'm wondering if that is all they changed... apart from some small user interface diffs in the configuration section, nothing seems to have changed... i still see the little annoyances from 5.0... Paul -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: sourcing the new install
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 04:52:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Sounds like more trouble that it is work. Slink packages (usually) don't change, because they are the stable distribution. Right now, packages in unstable are changing. I use apt-get in the apt package to do what you want to do, keep my system up to date. One thing I was hoping to avoid...I haven't seen slink/apt yet, but I am aware that it will install from multiple CD's...under the previous release, I had copied the binaries of Contrib/Non-Free/Non-US to my hard drive, left the i386 CD in the tray, and told dselect that I was installing from the hard drive. Then, I could tell dselect the paths to each of the sets of packages, and it installed all without my having to change CD's (which the previous release wouldn't do, anyway). Will I be able to get a Non-Free and Non-US CD, and will apt do the multiple install from them? Or, if not, how do I make apt aware of where I am keeping those sets of files? Dselect in slink provides a 'multi-CD' access method that works well with properly-made CD sets. Apt in slink doesn't support multiple CDs well at all, although apt-0.3.4 from potato does and works fine for me on slink systems. Slink doesn't fit onto a single CD, so you will need some way of dealing with at least two CDs anyway; multi-CD access is the most straightforward, but your old scheme should still work. I don't use the 'official' CDs, but I think non-free non-US will make it three CDs or so; if you want to use multi-CD access in dselect I believe that the CDs must be designed to work together as a set (or at least, one of them must be designed to work with the other two), as the contents of the entire set are read from one of the CDs. apt-0.3.4 appears extremely flexible, and I expect that it would work with just about any collection of reasonably well organised CDs. If you 'need' non-US and non-free packages you should be able to find a set that puts slink, contrib, non-US and the re-distributable bits of non-free onto 2 CDs (but that would exclude, among other things, Netscape). If you use apt-0.3.4 or working equivalent you can use apt with the official CD set for main and contrib, and http for non-free non-US, 'transparently'. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
質問
Ｄｅｂｉａｎをインストールするには、ファイルの大きさは、どれくらいです か？ 初心者なので、分かりやすくインストール方法を教えて下さい。 インターネットのホームページで分かりやすい所も教えて下さい。
laptop netconfig
I have a laptop with three possible network configurations that I would like to use. 1. Ethernet 10 Mbps DHCP-sv 2. PPP daild 3. None at all is there any suggestions on tools for configuration techniques for this kind of setup. It looks as if I could do it if one of the init.d scripts sniffed out the PCMCIA to see if there where activity, then if there was not it would start daild instead of DHCP. I have no idea where to begin on such a thing though. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, Justin
Re: help /var is filling up!!!
I have two large files in my /var/log: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18523020 May 24 07:14 lastlog - -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm871296 May 24 07:14 wtmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 7499904 May 5 14:07 wtmp.0 - -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 49369 Oct 1 1998 wtmp.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 26365 Aug 1 1998 wtmp.2.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 56427 Jun 9 1998 wtmp.3.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 18072 Mar 1 1998 wtmp.4.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 652 Feb 1 1998 wtmp.5.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130944 Aug 21 1998 wtmp.libc5 It seems as if wtmp.0 is on its way to become wtmp.1.gz some time but what about lastlog? Is this normal? I have tried to look at the contents of lastlog and it contains thousands of ^@'s. On 21 May 1999, Carl Johnson wrote: Bruno Boettcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You really should find the real problem before you try changing logging. Try something like the command 'find /var -xdev -size +5000k -print'. This will print out the names of all files more than 5MB (there probably shouldn't be any). Then look into the file and see if right found another big file.. daemon My /var/log directory is only a little over 2MB, but mine is mostly just a workstation for me. Just for reference, I only have 5 files over 100KB, and the largest is only 300KB. Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made... Psalms 139:14
writing Debian CD images
(Sorry I lost the original message to reply to, hope the person who asked this question will read this) For your Debian CD images to write yourself, take a look at: http://cdimages.debian.org You can find the official CD images for Debian there. Beware that it's a huge download though, hope you don't pay on a per megabyte basis :) -- nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: Making a Debian CD?
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 02:34:41AM -0400, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: Hi, I was wondering if any one can tell me if it's possible to make one's own Debian CD. MkLinux has a 648MB CD image file for people to download and make CD of. I don't know if this is the case for Debian. Thanks! Take a look at http://cdimage.debian.org/ I've got the CD images from one of the mirrors, to prepare CD's for debian users in our institute. -- Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnupg.org - Gnu Privacy Guard: protect your mail data with the FREE cryptographic system
Re: EMERGENCY 'umount /'
per_adua32 wrote: After booting with linux-init=/bin/sh I was dropped into bash. I then tried to unmount the root filesystem so that I could mount it again as read/write. However, when I entered the command umount / I got some message like can't open mtab: file doesn't exist or something like this. I don't know what the option linux-init=/bin/sh makes. Rescue disk creates a root filesystem in memory (doesn't use any hard disk, the device for that fs is /dev/ram0) which is loaded from the diskette with the kernel image. The root fs in the hard disk is not mounted. Nevertheless, it can be mounted for example in /target with: # mount /dev/hdb3 /target (/dev/hdb3 is the device for the disk partition where my working Linux has the root filesystem) Now, your mtab can be read in /target/etc/mtab. In order to know which filesystems are mounted and where, try df. BTW: You cannot umount / if it is busy (open files or processes with their working directory under it). If umount find it not busy (unbusy?) then it will umount it, and then will try to write the new situation in /etc/mtab but... /etc/mtab does not exist because / is not mounted. After this, you will be able to do nothing but running programs already in memory (e.g., shell and built-in commands). For example, you will not be able to mount because this program was somewhere under /. -- Conrado Badenas (Assistant Lecturer) Department of Thermodynamics. University of Valencia c/. Doctor Moliner, 50 | e-m: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 46100 Burjassot (Valencia) | Phn: +34 - 963 864 350 SPAIN| Fax: +34 - 963 983 385
Re: mounting nfs when server down
Joey, hard The program accessing a file on a NFS mounted file system will hang when the server crashes. The pro cess cannot be interrupted or killed unless you also specify intr. When the NFS server is back online the program will continue undisturbed from where it was. This is probably what you want. I've tried it, but I see two problems with it: a. 'root' can not login as it looks for it's mail on /var/spool/mail (also nfs-mail). I can put a .hushlogin and anyway root never receives email (admin does it for him), but if root tries to ls /var/spool/mail it hangs. Maybe I'm too much of a purist here. b. Imagine bot the client and the server fall (power out, for example). The client boots up faster than the server and when it tries to mount the partition it can't. Idea for this: make a C program that looks for well mounted directories and if they aren't good it mounts them. C because the program will run 'suid' from /etc/profile (and mount is not suid). Of course the C program will not accept any parameters nor configuration (I don't know much of C program security, so better make it simple). What I'm looking for exactly is if it exists a standard solution for problem b. Thanks for your help! -- p.
2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?
Hi, I don't know what's going on, but when I try to install (from my slink CD) the 2.0.36 kernel package .deb, I get a 2.0.36 aource .tgz under /usr/src (with a rehat package icon under tkdesk...!) and a directory under /usr/src of REDHAT, with al it's associated sub dirs! Is this a practical joke??? I wasn't amused! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: strange msg in bootup
On Sat, 22 May, Graham Aston wrote: On Friday 21 May, Dan Willard wrote: The route command now requires a netmask. Just add one in to both of the route commands and it should go away. if you read the 2.2 docs in /usr/src/linux/Changes (or whatever it's called) then you should find a bit that tells you that routes for local interfaces are added automatically by the kernel. comment out the route... lines in /etc/init.d/network and the problem should go away. Thanks, the problem is solved now. The correct solution seems to be commenting out the appropriate lines in the file /etc/init.d/network
Re: gui progs as root in x under normal user?
I just use Xnest -query localhost :1 and login via the xdm prompt as root. voila - a root session in a window under a normal users session. No faffing about with authorities and crap. How do i start graphical programs under X as root while I'm logged in as a normal user? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Sound blaster 16 pnp
Roddie, I've just configured my SoundBlaster Vibra 16pnp card on Friday. I started off sending a posting to this newsgroup, compiled a 2.2 kernel, read plenty of docs and manuals and if you have the some card that is Vibra 16, than I guess you may be experiencing the same problems I have experienced a week before. The answer is in the kernel docs. I have installed kernel 2.2.9 and looking up ./Documentation/sound/VIBRA16 will be helpful. The following paragraph is from the mentioned file. So, the big problem still remains, because the sb module wants a 8-bit and a 16-bit dma, which we could not allocate for vibra... it supports only two 8-bit dma channels, the second one will be passed to the module as a 16 bit channel, the kernel will yield about that but everything will be okay, trust us. What this means is that, as the 16-bit dma channel you have to pass another 8-bit dma channel that is instead of passing irq 5,6,7 etc. you have to pass irq 0,1,2,3 At some point an error message is displayed, something similar to Bad dma channel. Simply IGNORE THIS MSG. Everthing works fine once configuration is complete. The message is displayed because the sb module expectes one 8-bit an another 16-bit dma channel, but you have to pass teo 8-bit dma channels to the module. Another tip that might be helpful; if you are using slink, install pciutils package, which provides lspci utility which can be invoked by pnpdump when called with the argument '-c '. Once lspci is installed pnpdump worked fine for me, I did not have to make any further modifications in /etc/isapnp.conf Before invoking pnpdump, do not forget to remove all the sound modules first. This was one of the mistakes I made. If you skip this step some of the irq's might be marked as being used. and pnpdump will not produce the correct results. Using lsmod and rmmod may be helpful. Summary Install pci utils pnpdump -c /etc/isapnp.conf Install the following modules: sb, sound. soundcore, uart401, opl3 Using insmod what I did for testing was insmod soundcore insmod sound insmod uart401 insmod sb irq=5 dma=1 dma16=3 io=0x220 mpu_io=0x330 insmod opl3 io=0x388 Then cat /dev/sndstat That's all. Send a mail, for further questions.
Installing from source
Hello, I have a couple of questions. 1. How am I supposed to install programs from tarball source code? I can untar and compile them, but then the debian package system doesn't recognize it. For instance I have downloaded qt-1.44.tar.gz, compiled and installed it. Then qt installs itself in /usr/local which violates the debian policy as I understand. KDE does the same thing. As my system doesn't recognize them, it wouldn't configure it properly. Also how do I uninstall them then? 2. I have Creative AudioPCI 64, and got it working with es1370 module. Now I can play xgalaga with sound, watch movies with MpegTV, but none of the cdplayers play CD. No sound at all. Gom says CD channel is 64, so it's not closed. What could be wrong? Thanks a lot. ---Otgonbayar
Re: netscape menubar blackwhite
*- On 23 May, Fethi A. Okyar wrote about netscape menubar blackwhite Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: Don't run your X server in 24bpp mode. Netscape has a known problem with 24bpp, use 16bpp or 32bpp. Other than the icons being in bw (and i like the reduced visual clutter) is there any other reason you shouldn't run Netscape under 24bpp? Thanks, judith
Translation of Debian User Manual
Hi Debian users, I'm interested in translate the Debian User Manual to portuguese. I found one time it and downloaded. I have only a .html copy. How to translate it? Is there a sgml copy? Where to get it? Who contact to coordinate translations? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique
pciutils package (was: Sound blaster 16 pnp)
Another tip that might be helpful; if you are using slink, install pciutils package, which provides lspci utility which can be invoked by pnpdump when called with the argument '-c '. Once lspci is installed pnpdump worked fine for me, I did not have to make any further modifications in /etc/isapnp.conf That explains something I experienced before. Thanks for the tip. BTW, this pciutils package is not in the basic Debian 2.1 set up, yet with every boot up the kernel invokes lspci, which is doesn't find of course. Is this an oversight from the team who compiled the installation list, or is there a reason for omitting? Seems a bit strange to me. Hans
Re: mail clients
JB == Jim B [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dispite some vocal mails from other users, I have a simple solution for you. JB Someone sends to joe and the mail is filtered into his JB mailbox... meanwhile, tom's mail is filtered into his mailbox. No problem. postilion does this without any problems. You can have local or remote folders (like pop3, imap), and for each folder, you define name, emailaddress etc. It has some other nice features as well. Another option is to use fetchmail, and add an indication for the mailbox you fetch to the program call in the mda option. This way you have sorted them into different folders. Now you just need to use a mail client that uses different identities depending on the folder you are in. AFAIK, this is no problem with mutt. Gnus, *the* news/mail client, does this with ease as well. Try the first suggestion first. If you want to try the second possibility as the firstone doesn't fulfil your needs, I can get more specific. Ciao, Martin
MPEG-3
I downloaded an mp3 file of an interview with Bob Young (RH CEO) on friday from LinuxToday.com. Now I needed a way to hear it! So I finally rebuilt my kernel (and moved up to 2.0.36) with support for my sound card (and also added scsi emulation to support my new cd rom burner). The only mp3 software I could find on the slink cd was freeamp, and it didn't like the downloaded file for some reason, so I went to the debian ftp site and downloaded the source to x11amp from potato and built it (tried to make a debian package but I don't have pgp installed. What mirror site has it?) Oh well , just do it the old way, 'make', 'make install', and oops 'chmod +s x11amp'. Great this works! (Bob's interview is worth the work to hear) X11amp is a playback only though? What software is available for recording mp3's? Now I'd like to compile my own cd's. (hmm, I can fit between 10-20 cd's worth on one cdr in mp3, and give that cdr drive something to do) Any ideas? === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com
Re: MPEG-3
works! (Bob's interview is worth the work to hear) X11amp is a playback only though? What software is available for recording mp3's? Now I'd Check the stuff on freshmeat. Personally, I use mpg123 for playback and bladeenc for encoding. The latter isn't free, but the (few) free projects that were around seem to have disappeared because of patent problems :( Rob.
Re: Installing from source
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 07:30:02PM +0900, Otgonbayar Uuye wrote: Hello, I have a couple of questions. 1. How am I supposed to install programs from tarball source code? I can untar and compile them, but then the debian package system doesn't recognize it. There is an instmon package intended to do that. You may found it at http://argeas.cs-net.gr/pub/unix/instmon It checks which files are being installed and creates a .deb (or rpm) file. Thanks a lot. ---Otgonbayar -- Nikos Mavroyanopoulos mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sg1.math.uoi.gr/~ma06205
Re: mail clients
SP == Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SP Windows is designed for the causal user. That's great, SP initially. There is no learning curve, Hahahahahahah. Sorry. I work parttime on phone support to pay for my studies. I can assure you, that a current Linux is no more complicated to learn than Windows, when the user is new to computers. I just got your CD. What do I do now? - Well, you put it in your CD drive and start setup from the CD. - How do I do this? Set someone (a relative or such) infront of windows 95 and tell them to copy a file a textfile you have on the harddisk to a floppy. They won't be able to do this. So far about no learning curve. Also users comming from Windows 3.1 can't use Windows95 initially. They have to learn *much* as well, as many things changed. I also casually spek to them. Therefore you often still find windows3.11 at work (at least here), even on new computers. It is sufficient, it is what the employees know, the sysadmins know the quirks of the different software acting together (win + lotus + whatever), and you don't have to spend a huge amount of money to teach them a new windows. If you take a person, who isn't spoilt by windows paradigmen, and give hin/her a current Linux distribution, they won't have more problems using it than windows. But they have to have someone to ask questions. They will do this when then install windows as well. Hmm, quite off topic now. Ciao, Martin
Re: EMERGENCY 'umount /'
On Mon, 24 May 1999, per_adua32 wrote: [snip] After booting with linux-init=/bin/sh I was dropped into bash. I then tried to unmount the root filesystem so that I could mount it again as read/write. However, when I entered the command umount / I got some message like can't open mtab: file doesn't exist or something like this. Can someone please. I would to solve this without having to re-install the whole system. In /etc/init.d, I find the lines: # Ensure that root is quiescent and read-only before fsck'ing. # mount -n -o remount,ro / This command should remount an rw root file system read only. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (Hope this qualifies.)
linuxconf
hi, I'd like to know if there is a tools in debian distribution similar the linuxconf in redhat? Thanks! -- tcp
Re: netscape menubar blackwhite
Judith Elaine Bush wrote: *- On 23 May, Fethi A. Okyar wrote about netscape menubar blackwhite Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: Don't run your X server in 24bpp mode. Netscape has a known problem with 24bpp, use 16bpp or 32bpp. Other than the icons being in bw (and i like the reduced visual clutter) is there any other reason you shouldn't run Netscape under _ I have it running in 24bpp and the only thing I have noticed is it crashes on some play requests for some animated scripts. esp shockwave. I suspect that is because of the depth setting, BUT that is only a suspicion. Anyone else have any ideas about this? I just have not had the time to reconfigure the xserver, to see if that fixes it -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?
MW == Martin Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MW I don't know what's going on, but when I try to install (from my MW slink CD) the 2.0.36 kernel package .deb, I get a 2.0.36 aource MW .tgz under /usr/src Yes, this is intended. You unpack it when you need it (with tar xfvz ) and it is also easier to handle by the packages manager. MW (with a rehat package icon under tkdesk...!) I don't know tkdesk, but if it uses a red hat icon for tarballs, then I would call it a bug. Use the bug package to report it. MW and a directory under /usr/src of REDHAT, with al it's associated MW sub dirs! It you install the rpm package, it will create these directories, as you can check with dpkg -S /usr/src/redhat. Ciao, Martin
Gnome themes
I'm having a little trouble attempting to install themes for gnome (gtk). I've downloaded a few from gtk.themes.org. When I go to install them from the control center it doesn't seem to work. Here's what I do. In the Theme Selector I hit the Install new theme... button. Then I navigate my way to the directory that contains the gtkrc file. I select that file. It tells me: Error installing theme: .../gtkrc Unknown file format Obviously I am doing something wrong. I don't know what. When I get this method working (with some help) does it make this theme only available to the user who installed it? I am assuming yes. If that is the case, how do I make the themes available to the other users on the system? I.e. do I put it in /usr/share/some/path? BTW I have GNOME from potato, and I've got the gtk-engines-* packages installed. TIA -- -- Jason Murray - jmurray (at) computer (dot) org Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain
Re: Unsupported protocols??
Quoting Jens B. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Some kinda error I'd guess. I took a look at the assigned numbers RFC and the only one of those defined is 0x7f and its: 007freserved (compression inefficient)[RFC1662] I'm thinking there must've been some sort of corruption of the data. This shouldn't happen though since the ppp frames FCS should've discarded any corrupted frame which is received. Very odd. Worse than that, they're not just unsupported protocols (I get one of these, 0x8029, whenever I connect to a certain ISP) but they should be flagged as unrecognisable. PPP protocols are all supposed to be odd at the end and even in the middle, i.e. XeXo, and many of those quoted aren't. Sean wrote: I was glancing at tail /var/log/messages, and noticed the following: pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x7f) received pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x88fc) received pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x67ec) received pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x7432) received pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x4822) received pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0xfe39) received pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x8c73) received pppd[1007]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x61 pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0x848c) received pppd[1007]: Unsupported protocol (0xbacd) received etc, etc, etc Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
Sound Card
Hi! I still have problems in configuring my sound card in linux. I search at mail archives, FAQs HOWTOs,documentations, downloading the OSSfree evaluation software and I didn's have sucess.My sound card is an Aztech Sound Galaxy that uses 2316/R Chipset. Is this card supported by kernel 2.2.9? If yes, how to setup the drivers? If not, I thing that it's time to buy a new sound card. I's using a slink with kernel 2.2.9 Any help is welcome. []'s Adilson
Re: pciutils package (was: Sound blaster 16 pnp)
Hans van den Boogert wrote: BTW, this pciutils package is not in the basic Debian 2.1 set up, yet with every boot up the kernel invokes lspci, which is doesn't find of course. Is this an oversight from the team who compiled the installation list, or is there a reason for omitting? Seems a bit strange to me. It's strange indeed; it has come up before, and because the default Debian 2.1 install comes with 2.0.36, which doesn't support the /proc/bus/pci interface of the 2.2 kernels (the interface that pciutils uses) it might have been better to not to include that call to lspci. -Remco
Re: netscape menubar blackwhite
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 07:37 -0500, Judith Elaine Bush wrote: *- On 23 May, Fethi A. Okyar wrote about netscape menubar blackwhite Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: Don't run your X server in 24bpp mode. Netscape has a known problem with 24bpp, use 16bpp or 32bpp. Other than the icons being in bw (and i like the reduced visual clutter) is there any other reason you shouldn't run Netscape under 24bpp? I might be incorrect about this, but I recall reading somewhere that running the xserver at 32 bpp is faster than running it at 24 bpp, as it can then take advanatage of the fact that image data is nicely aligned along word boundaries (I presume the data is padded with an extra 8 bits in 24 bpp mode, which would slow things down). Not so much a reason for not running Netscape at 24 bpp, but rather a general reason for running X at either 16 or 32 bpp... Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen | Debian 2.1 on Linux i386 2.2.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | PGP key available on request [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation --
Re: [Help] Memory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nguyen Hai Ha) writes: | Hi folks, | | I've just installed the debian 2.0.34 on my machine. | Everything seems to work well excepts the memory. | The real memory consists of 2 DIMM 128M+32M. But it | seems to me that the kernel doesn't think so. | | % cat /proc/meminfo | | total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: | Mem: 15171584 13418496 1753088 7012352 593920 6090752 | Swap: 119697408 5156864 114540544 | MemTotal: 14816 kB | MemFree: 1712 kB | MemShared: 6848 kB | Buffers:580 kB | Cached:5948 kB | SwapTotal: 116892 kB | SwapFree:111856 kB | | I think this is the problem of the kernel's configuration. | Please tell me something. Thanks in advance. It's probably something strange going on with the BIOS function used by linux to detect the amount of memory in your computer. I have two suggestions you can try: 1) Manually edit /etc/lilo.conf and add a line like: append=mem=160M or, if you already have an append line add it to the line like: append=floppy=thinkpad,mem=160M 2) Alternatively, upgrade to kernel 2.0.36 or higher. Starting with 2.0.36 the memory detection uses an extended BIOS call to get the amount of memory and this could solve your problem. If Windows can properly find the amount of RAM then a Linux kernel = 2.0.36 will also, since they use the same BIOS call. Gary
Key board and mouse lockup
Every once in a blue moon, when I am in X my keyboard and mouse lockup. I am forced to turn the computer off. This is bad. Is there a log file that I could look at that might help me to figure out what the problem is? Also is there a particular grep syntax that I should us on the log file. Thanks Tom
Re: /bin/bash - /bin/sh
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 11:30:37AM -0500, Brad wrote: Just out of curiousity, which important startup script has the /bin/bash? So i can watch out for it if i ever have a broken bash I had bash in /etc/init.d/rcS (hamm). -Werner
RE: linuxconf
There is a linuxconf in the debian experimental archives. It requires libc6 from potatoe and some other stuff from there, it works and is better that the linuxconf that I used (redhat 5.1 version). The X version of the linuxconf is really cool. But, the libc6 from potatoe did like some stuff on my slink box, so I had to get rid of it. -Original Message- From: Timothy C. Phan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 9:24 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: linuxconf hi, I'd like to know if there is a tools in debian distribution similar the linuxconf in redhat? Thanks! -- tcp -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
help: clock resets on reboot
My clock resets when I reboot, pretty much at random. Doesn't matter how long it's been off; when I check in the CMOS before it boots, it's still right. But sometime between when lilo loads and I get a login prompt, it sets, pretty much at random. date and hwclock agree, but they're wrong. Sometimes it's back half an hour; sometimes it's a couple of hours; once it went to march 1997. Never goes forward. This never happened before a couple of weeks ago. I have no idea. Does anybody? Rob -- Keyboard not detected. Press F4 to reboot.
Re: Installing from source
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Otgonbayar Uuye wrote: 1. How am I supposed to install programs from tarball source code? I can untar and compile them, but then the debian package system doesn't recognize it. For instance I have downloaded qt-1.44.tar.gz, compiled and installed it. Then qt installs itself in /usr/local which violates the debian policy as I understand. KDE does the same thing. As my system doesn't recognize them, it wouldn't configure it properly. Also how do I uninstall them then? Actually, that is exactly Debian policy: programs you install yourself go under /usr/local, the distro never touches it. If you make a deb from the sources, then you should of course make it not touch /usr/local.
International characters
Thanks for all help, regarding international characters for the swedish language. It seems to be more than one solution to the problem. The first one is: export LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.iso-8859-1 insert this line in /etc/profile. And, all users on the system will been able to use the swedish characters. And, the second solution is: set convert-meta off set input-meta on set output-meta on insert these lines in /etc/inputrc. And, it works as well. However, are there any advantages/disadvantages using the first or the second method? My system already had the set input-meta on and set output-meta on in the /etc/inputrc, but the set convert-meta off was not activated. Why? Christian Ericsson
Re: 2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?
From: Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] MW == Martin Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MW I don't know what's going on, but when I try to install (from my MW slink CD) the 2.0.36 kernel package .deb, I get a 2.0.36 aource MW .tgz under /usr/src Yes, this is intended. You unpack it when you need it (with tar xfvz ) and it is also easier to handle by the packages manager. so this has changed from hamm then which used to unpack it all for you and make the link from /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/kernel version ? MW (with a rehat package icon under tkdesk...!) I don't know tkdesk, but if it uses a red hat icon for tarballs, then I would call it a bug. Use the bug package to report it. MW and a directory under /usr/src of REDHAT, with al it's associated MW sub dirs! It you install the rpm package, it will create these directories, as you can check with dpkg -S /usr/src/redhat. Ah - that explains it. Excuse my confusion! It all makes sense now. Martin __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
running programs from other computers on local net (window manager)
How do i start a window manager from another computer on the local net (university) when I start up a xwindows session? Alternatly, can i check on what local computer i am running in order to chose the local available window manager, and if so, how do i encorperate this into xsession?
Re: help /var is filling up!!!
Johann Spies at Johann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not an expert on this, so I had to search a little to find this, so if anybody finds any problems with this, please correct me. The lastlog file appears to be an array of structures of binary data, with an entry for each UID (except 'nobody' on mine). The size of yours would indicate that your last UID is 63434 if your is a x86 based system. You could do a 'ls -s' /var/log/lastlog to get the real size in blocks to see if the file has holes in it. The structure information is in /usr/include/utmpbits.h, which is included from /usr/include/lastlog.h. The lastlog file simply holds the last time each user logged in, so is appears to never be rotated. The wtmp file should be an array of structures of all logins and reboots. The size of yours might be correct if your system has a lot of users, although I just discovered that my wtmp.0 file is corrupt. The 'last' command will show a decoded version of the file, and the option '-f file' will also allow you to specify another file. This file appears to be rotated from the /etc/cron.monthly/standard script. The dates of your files indicate it has not been rotating properly in the past, so your wtmp.0 file probably has 7 months of logs. The utmp(5) manpage has further details on the file, if you need it. I have two large files in my /var/log: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18523020 May 24 07:14 lastlog - -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm871296 May 24 07:14 wtmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 7499904 May 5 14:07 wtmp.0 - -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 49369 Oct 1 1998 wtmp.1.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 26365 Aug 1 1998 wtmp.2.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 56427 Jun 9 1998 wtmp.3.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 18072 Mar 1 1998 wtmp.4.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 652 Feb 1 1998 wtmp.5.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130944 Aug 21 1998 wtmp.libc5 It seems as if wtmp.0 is on its way to become wtmp.1.gz some time but what about lastlog? Is this normal? I have tried to look at the contents of lastlog and it contains thousands of ^@'s. On 21 May 1999, Carl Johnson wrote: My /var/log directory is only a little over 2MB, but mine is mostly just a workstation for me. Just for reference, I only have 5 files over 100KB, and the largest is only 300KB. -- Carl Johnson[EMAIL PROTECTED]
X server and pseudo-color
I've got some slink systems running at 1024x768 at 24bpp. Several of the apps that need to run on these systems require exactly 8bit color and refuse to run if the display is set to anything other than 8bpp. I still need the high color (16 or 24 bpp) for other work which must be done concurrently. How do I define pseudo-colors for the current display? Yes, I've done some reading of the docs and searched dejanews, so far without results. The graphics cards have 4mb video RAM which should be enough for this task. Thanks. -- Mark Tucker Information Technology Lyndon State College [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linuxconf
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 08:23:58AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: hi, I'd like to know if there is a tools in debian distribution similar the linuxconf in redhat? Thanks! Yep!. Debian has linuxconf as well. Since Redhat and Debian do things differently, the Debian folks are now working on it. It should be ready for testing in potato soon. Read the DWN news to find more. -- tcp -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Problems: setserial, mgetty
Howdy! First: I'm trying to get my Palmtop (HP680- Jornada) to dial into my system. My system is a Debian 2.1 machine with an internal Zoom modem jumpered for com3. Although the system has com1/com2 configured, there are no devices on them. There are two problems. First, I seem to have problems getting /dev/ttyS3 to recognize the modem in the first place. I use the following command to set up the port: /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0x03e8 irq 4 Seems simple enough, but a review of /proc/ioports shows nothing: # more ioports -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : npu 01f0-01f7 : ide0 0378-037f : lp 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f0-03f5 : floppy 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR 1000-101f : eth0 1400-147f : eth1 This isn't always true. sometimes, after dinking around with various port settings, it'll show up, but it is unreproducable. I double-checked my settings, comparing them to the jumpers on the card, and they are the same. (The fact that I sometiems get it working with these values is proof) --- Second problem. When I do get the modem working, the WinCE palmtop connects, tried to negotiate password, then disconnects without a reason. There is no useful information in the mgetty docs. I followed the win95 documentation that was provided with mgetty. Any ideas would be appreciated, since I'm going on a trip in two days, and it would be nice to be able to check email. Also, if responses could be CCed to my email, it'd be appreciated, since I don't know yet if I'm successfully reading the mailing list. --Mike
Debian applications - where to get them???
I am running into problems getting applications for Debian. 1. I wanted to get the Communicator 4.5 and so I checked the Debian archives. There is a listing for Communicator 4.5 but when I add up the file sizes, they don't match nowhere close to the Netscape Binary posting (of around 12MB). Are there any other files that I should be installing along with these (there are no other dependencies shown on the package listing) ??? 2. I have seen posting on Real G2 player for Linux but I could not find it at www.real.com http://www.real.com . Is there a G2 player for Linux yet or is it still version 5.0? 3. I wanted to download x11amp (also called winamp in the Windows world) to play MP3 files but could not find it anywhere. Any suggestions on where I might be able to get a copy (preferably in .deb format)? (Any suggestions for a better player are also welcome :-) ). Thanks. -D
Installing Base System from Floppies
I am trying to install the latest stable Debian on a Dell 486DX and am running into trouble installing teh base system. Having tried it with FOUR different sets of install floppies (no CD, no network connection, no other machine nearby) I always get the same message when it finishes copying the 7 install disks and begins extracting the base2_1.tgz file: Error extracting file. The REALLY strange thing is that when I try to install the Base System again it will stop in between disks 6 7 (once between 5 6 and once between 4 5) after having copied the whole disk with no problem and will display an error somtehing to the effect of, Error outputting file: Success. THis happens whenever I try to install the Base System again without starting the installation from scratch. Any ideas? Thanks for helping the newbie in advance.
how to make modem silent?
Is there a way will make pon dial my modem silently? I'm still using Hamm (version 2.0). Thanks, (Note: I'm not on debian-user@, so plz include this address in your msg). -Ping
Postgres SQL - potato installation problem
I am having a problem installing postgresql into a potato i386 system. I did not have a previous version of postgres installed. Here is the errors I'm getting ... I apologize for the length. Vacuuming template1 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied Creating public pg_user view /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied mv: /var/postgres/data/base/template1/xpg_user: No such file or directory /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied Creating view pg_rules /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied mv: /var/postgres/data/base/template1/xpg_rules: No such file or directory /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied Creating view pg_views /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied mv: /var/postgres/data/base/template1/xpg_views: No such file or directory /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied Creating view pg_tables /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied mv: /var/postgres/data/base/template1/xpg_tables: No such file or directory /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied Creating view pg_indexes /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied mv: /var/postgres/data/base/template1/xpg_indexes: No such file or directory /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied Loading pg_description /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied dpkg: error processing postgresql (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: postgresql E: Sub-process returned an error code (1) Any ideas? Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpeGxtUKKeT4.pgp Description: PGP signature
(OT?) Enlightenment memory hogging
Is there any way that I can reduce the amount of memory used by Enlightenment? Currently,with GNOME on top of it, it occupies about 95% of my memory wny programs loaded up. Any tips on making it use memory more efficiently would be appreciated. - Bill
Re: bios q
Koyote wrote: I'm rebuilding a 486/33 to be our internet server (when I get that far...) The cmos setup isn't handling the hdd (1 gig), nor the cdrom- I've heard that Linux bypasses the system setup, or it can use devices in spite of it. How much of this is true? This is indeed all true. However, LILO, the most commonly used boot utility, relies (as it must) on BIOS calls to load the kernel into memory and start the system. You may have to rely on a floppy to boot the system. Once the thing is booted you don't need the BIOS. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[solved] g2player (fwd)
Hi, I've solved the lib bugs by installing the stdlibc++-2.8 package. (I only had the stdlibc++-2.9 package installed). Works fine now. If only I knew how to install it properly on my Debian system. The way I did it now, I used Alien to convert the .rpm from real.com to a .deb. Of course this is not how it should be, as, for example, Netscape plugin support isn't there. Anyone has got some pointers on how to enable the plugin support in Netscape? (ie. which plugin *.so files to put where probably). Thanks, Nico. --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses ::: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 01:47:33 +0200 (CEST) From: scratch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: g2player Does Real G2 player need glibc2.1 ? I downloaded the binaries from real.com, but it refuses to run on my slink system. intra:~# realplay realplay: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: __eh_pc That's really all it does. Anyone? --nico --:: Nico Galoppo ::-- --:: scratch at ace.ulyssis.student.kuleuven.ac.be ::- :: :: --:: Linux - Free power for the masses :::
Re: Modem GM56PCI-L
I'm not sure if Linux supports any PCI modems yet. Check out the latest Hardware howto. Luiz Felipe wrote: Hello, now I use Debian 2.0 and a modem GM56PCI-L of Genius. My minicom (ttyS1) don't recive responce, in Windows my modem is COM3 it's put in PCI2 on my MotherBord, and how I can use it? Sorry my english but I'm Brazilian.!!! Wait your mail! -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kde locale
Hello! Today I install kde 1.1.1 (unofficial debian packages) on my Slink system. But kde localization does not work. Does anybody have this problem? And how I can overcome this problem? Thank you! -- Serge
Re: laptop netconfig
I don't know if anyone's come up with a slick way to do this. I too would like to have such a thing at my disposal. You might be able to do something like this by just running dhcp and then checking to see if dhcp succeeded in getting an address and starting diald if it didn't. Good luck, Justin Hagemeier wrote: I have a laptop with three possible network configurations that I would like to use. 1. Ethernet 10 Mbps DHCP-sv 2. PPP daild 3. None at all is there any suggestions on tools for configuration techniques for this kind of setup. It looks as if I could do it if one of the init.d scripts sniffed out the PCMCIA to see if there where activity, then if there was not it would start daild instead of DHCP. I have no idea where to begin on such a thing though. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, Justin -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pciutils package (was: Sound blaster 16 pnp)
That explains something I experienced before. Thanks for the tip. BTW, this pciutils package is not in the basic Debian 2.1 set up, yet with every boot up the kernel invokes lspci, which is doesn't find of course. Is this an oversight from the team who compiled the installation list, or is there a reason for omitting? Seems a bit strange to me. I was wondering about that message at boot up too. It started after upgrading to slink from hamm. I had no idea WTF lspci was, thought it was a hardware reference. Guess I'll have to install pciutils. BTW I did not have any problems configuring my SB16 (which I thought was a vibra), it's a 16 bit ISA card, PNP. Just let pnpdump do it's thing, edit the dump and then rebuild the kernel with the settings found. Then tested it with X11Amp (compiled from potatoe sources under slink). Now to get some real speakers instead of the 2 by nothing ones I have now. === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ Do You Yahoo!? Free instant messaging and more at http://messenger.yahoo.com
Re: postgresql installation trouble ...
I figured it out ... The permissions on /dev/null by default are set to 0600 root root. I set them to 0666 root root. Problem solved. Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mail clients
Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: See /usr/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz It answered all of my questions. See also info exim-filter. -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
DHCP and debian
I'm adding a debian workstation to our Windows network, and I'd like to use our DHCP server to assign it's ip-address, DNS servers, netmask, etc. Is this possible? --- Mark Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: linuxconf
Person, Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a linuxconf in the debian experimental archives. Where can I get experimental packages? Are they even more unstable than packages from unstable/potato? Jojo. -- Johannes Beigel | Gravity. http://come.to/jojob | It's not just a good idea, it's the law!
List archives? was: Re: fetchmail problems
On Thursday, May 20, 1999 at 11:17:01 -0500, Matt Garman wrote: Subject: Re: fetchmail problems Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 685403a47c42011da0baee50b375ebfe Also, I read through the fetchmail FAQ, and searched the debian-user list archives. How did you search the archives? Do you have a working URL for this handy? I just filed a bug against www.debian.org since the link from there appears to be broken recently. Is there another I overlooked? -- PGP Public Key available on request: Type Bits/KeyIDDate User ID pub 1024/CFED2D11 1998/03/05 Lazarus Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = 98 2A 56 34 16 76 D5 21 39 93 99 EA 89 D4 B5 A2
Re: We need centralized accounts -- Any docs for ldap passwords?
Sergey V Kovalyov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When you install libnss-ldap, there is a short howto in /usr/doc/libnss-ldap I also suggest downloading conversion tools from www.padl.com, which will help populate the LDAP database OK. I'm back working on this, and I've gotten openldap etc. installed, and I've gotten the migration tools, read the HOWTO, and played with gq to see that I can actually see my database, and I'm about ready to try and cram my passwd/group stuff in there. However, from looking at the migration tools, it seems that they can translate a lot more than just passwd/group stuff like services, protocols, aliases, fstab, etc. So I'm a little curious now. I'd like to get a brief overview of the overall picture. Are people using ldap much for things like fstab? If so, how would that actually work, and how would it interact with other package upgrades? (I can see how accounts work via glibc2 and libpam-ldap/libnss-ldap.) Also, I'm wondering what, if any, the security concerns are relating to ldap access to passwd etc. Can someone give me a brief overview or point me at an appropriate doc? I haven't found one yet. Thanks -- Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
Re: mounting nfs when server down
Pere Camps wrote: b. Imagine bot the client and the server fall (power out, for example). The client boots up faster than the server and when it tries to mount the partition it can't. Yes, and then it hangs until the server comes up. -- see shy jo
NDN: Re: 2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?
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enlightenment, rpm
ok i wanted the latest version of enlightenment on my debian 2.1 so i took the rpm off of the RH6 cd and copied it to /. then i did alien -d theenlightenmnetrpm.rpm on the rpm and it generated it. i also did it on the enlightenment-conf rpm. then i used dpkg -i on the .deb files and everything went smoothly except for warnings about libungif. then i attempted to start enlightenment but it said no libungif so i got that off of the RH6 cd also and did alien, dpkg etc. and installed it everything went smoothly also. then i try to start enlightenment and i get segmentation fault. can anyone tell me either how to fix this or how to get the latest (latest being 15) ver. of enlightenment on my sys using apt or dselect or something like that (either of which i do not have much knowledge). is there a way i can get it on there without installing it from tarballs? i'd like to keep my system homogenous of debian packages. thank you
Re: Installing from source
There is a package named 'alien' that can take care of some of this, depending on exactly what you are needing to install. What you do is to layout the files in some remote directory, like you would want them installed: /somewhere--etc/file1 | --usr/bin/\file2 | --- and so forth You can do this automtically with most makefiles by chainging the INSTALL_PREFIX or similar variable to point to some remote directory that you create for this purpose (then, 'make install' will put the files in that remote place.. just go slow.) You can also just build up the directories by hand. Make sure the permissions on all the files are correct. Then, cd to that remote directory. Notice that, in some sense, it is the root directory for your installation. What you will do is to package the files in this direcotry; then, when they are installed from the root directory, they will fall where they should. From that remote directory, run 'tar czvf package.tgz'. This will amke a file named 'package.tgz' that has all of the files that were in your current directory and below. Don't use the name 'package'! Now run 'alien package.tgz' as root - you will get a package.deb file. Now, run dpkg -i pacakge.deb. You cen rm the tgz file and the files in the remote directory. To uninstall, 'dpkg --purge package' will work. Carl
Re: Sound blaster 16 pnp
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Ali Onur UYAR wrote: What this means is that, as the 16-bit dma channel you have to pass another 8-bit dma channel that is instead of passing irq 5,6,7 etc. you have to pass irq 0,1,2,3 At some point an error message is displayed, something similar to Bad dma channel. Simply IGNORE THIS MSG. Everthing works fine once configuration is complete. The message is displayed because the sb module expectes one 8-bit an another 16-bit dma channel, but you have to pass teo 8-bit dma channels to the module. Odd. All this time i've been passing dma16=5 to the sb module and everything worked fine. pnpdump (and windows, for that matter) gave the same number for 16-bit dma. insmod sb io=0x220 irq=9 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x300 type=6 (the type=6 came from the soundcard manual, i'm not completely sure if the sb module uses it at all... or where i even got the option 'type' from) Before invoking pnpdump, do not forget to remove all the sound modules first. This was one of the mistakes I made. If you skip this step some of the irq's might be marked as being used. and pnpdump will not produce the correct results. Using lsmod and rmmod may be helpful. If it's not too late, do the pnpdump before booting to a kernel that even has sound support. That way you can't have the modules causing problems. Check the output anyway, especially if you know what the numbers should be. Summary Install pci utils pnpdump -c /etc/isapnp.conf Install the following modules: sb, sound. soundcore, uart401, opl3 adlib_card too. Using insmod what I did for testing was insmod soundcore insmod sound insmod uart401 insmod sb irq=5 dma=1 dma16=3 io=0x220 mpu_io=0x330 Pull the numbers out of isapnp.conf, they could easily be different for your computer. insmod opl3 io=0x388 Instead of the line above, i do this: modprobe adlib_card io=0x388 Probably a well-placed modprobe could be used in place of a good number of the other insmods, but i'm too lazy to mess around with it when it works ;) Then cat /dev/sndstat Just to check if things are sane. Another good check is to try playing a sound and see if it works! i do this every time i compile a new kernel (as well as checking net access and my printer)
how to spy out serial line communication?
Hi, I need to know the commands a windows based program sends to the modem. How is it possible to read what it's sending and receiving? (I'll start it under wine or dosemu/win311). thanks, Ingo
Re: Modem GM56PCI-L
Subject: Modem GM56PCI-L Date: Sat, May 22, 1999 at 03:57:56PM -0300 In reply to:Luiz Felipe Quoting Luiz Felipe([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello, now I use Debian 2.0 and a modem GM56PCI-L of Genius. My minicom (ttyS1) don't recive responce, in Windows my modem is COM3 it's put in PCI2 on my MotherBord, and how I can use it? Sorry my english but I'm Brazilian.!!! Wait your mail! Try to set up minicom to usr COM3 = Linux /dev/ttyS2. WIN COM1 = /dev/ttyS0 WIN COM2 = /dev/ttyS1 WIN COM3 = /dev/ttyS2 WIN COM4 = /dev/ttyS3 Be sure your mouns is not on the same port! HTH -- COBOL programs are an exercise in Artificial Inelegance. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail problems
Subject: Re: fetchmail problems Date: Thu, May 20, 1999 at 11:17:01AM -0500 In reply to:Matt Garman Quoting Matt Garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 09:10:03AM -0500, Marc Mongeon wrote: Make sure you have a line like this in your /etc/exim.conf: local_domains = localhost Yup, I have that in my /etc/exim.conf And one like this in your /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost Mine actually looks like the following: 127.0.0.1 loopback localhost ...but that shouldn't make a difference, right? Matt Here is something I have in my log files about your problem. Configuring exim: I finally! got the beast to work. I have a suggestion for how to install it. When the install script starts give it the following answers: Question # Answer 1. Your HOME network.domain 2 none 3 none 4 none 5 No Filter 6 Your.ISP's.domain.name 7 Any user (I made one called boss) 8 Yes - Replace /etc/aliases ( after you have the #7 already created) Then go into the /etc/exim.conf and check the following: qualify_domain = Your Home.domain local_domains = localhost # This made it deliver mail from the ISP to me. HTH -- There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: daylight savings time aint savin' ME time
Subject: daylight savings time aint savin' ME time Date: Sat, May 22, 1999 at 03:40:15PM -0400 In reply to:Michael Stenner Quoting Michael Stenner([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Ever since Daylight savings time struck, my clock has been incorrect. I've tried setting it with hwclock --set --date=bla bla which seems to work, according to hwclock --show but when I reboot, the clocks (system AND hardware) are still wrong. I've also tried setting it in the BIOS. Again, my computer outsmarts me. Once, I used hwclock --set --date= followed by hwclock --systohw (or whichever one makes the system clock the same as the hardware clock) this did permanently change my clock (i.e. upon reboot it was still changed), but it changed it by TWO hours!! What am I doing wrong, here? Thanks, Michael - Try man tzconfig Michael Other info: slink Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- COBOL programs are an exercise in Artificial Inelegance. ___ Wayne T. Topa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pciutils package (was: Sound blaster 16 pnp)
RvdM == Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RvdM It's strange indeed; it has come up before, and because the RvdM default Debian 2.1 install comes with 2.0.36, which doesn't RvdM support the /proc/bus/pci interface of the 2.2 kernels (the RvdM interface that pciutils uses) it might have been better to not RvdM to include that call to lspci. I think it has been done to allow to drop in a 2.2 kernel (I think you have to update netbase though). And as it doesn't do any harm on 2.0 kernels, it is easier to let keep the program execution in, as to advice the user to add it to the startup file. Ciao, Martin
Re: 2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?
MW == Martin Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MW so this has changed from hamm then which used to unpack it all for MW you and make the link from /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/kernel MW version ? Yes. Ciao, Martin
RE: Debian applications - where to get them???
On 24-May-99 Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: I am running into problems getting applications for Debian. 1.I wanted to get the Communicator 4.5 and so I checked the Debian archives. There is a listing for Communicator 4.5 but when I add up the file sizes, they don't match nowhere close to the Netscape Binary posting (of around 12MB). Are there any other files that I should be installing along with these (there are no other dependencies shown on the package listing) ??? What you saw on Debian's website is just an installer for Communicator. You also have to get the Netscape Communicator binary from Netscape's ftp site and then you place it in /tmp. Make sure it is owned by root.root when you have placed it there. Once that is done, use the installer (just install it as usual) and it will install Netscape as though it were a deb package. 2.I have seen posting on Real G2 player for Linux but I could not find it at www.real.com http://www.real.com . Is there a G2 player for Linux yet or is it still version 5.0? I believe it is still 5.0 but I am not certain. A similar situation exists with respect to RealAudio and Debian. You can download an installer and then install RealAudio in a fashion much as the one I described above. -- Andrew
NDN: Re: linuxconf
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NDN: Re: help /var is filling up!!!
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