Re: Kernel panic!
hi VFS: cannot open root device 03:01 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 i get the same silly error when I tried 2.2.10 on my rh-6.0 box... ( that is /dev/hda1 ) i gave up trying to find out whyand just reverted back to 2.2.5-15 from rh... will try again later... have fun alvin What does this message mean?? The kernel booted from /dev/hda1 so why can't it mount the root partition now? I've tried giving Linux the different combinations of the root=... parameter but it doesn't seem to work. Does it matter which version of LILO I use to install the boot sector?? This system is running kernel 2.2.10 (custom build) and most packages are from potato. Due to some problems I had to use an older (slink) version of LILO -- will this screw it up? It seemed to be fine when I booted this same HD on my other machine (with the LILO setup for the other machine, of course). Also, if LILO is the cause of the problem, how would I run a glibc2.1 version of LILO from a slink rescue disk??? I don't have a potato boot disk handy...
Re: 2 lan cards..
hi I have both cards compiled with module support. ie. ne.o (ne2000 isa clone) and 3c509.o (3com), how do I tell the kernel via lilo and /etc/modules which card/module should be loaded on what irq/io. 3com set as irq 10, io 300 ne200 set as irq5, io 320. try the following: /etc/lilo.conf ... image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36 label=linux-2.0.36 root=/dev/hda2 read-only append=ether=0,0,eth1 /etc/conf.modules alias eth0 3c509 alias eth1 ne2000 Try: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/multicard.html have fun alvin
Gnome+IceWM
I'm not sure of the proper incantations to run both IceWM (the gnome-compliant version) and Gnome. My instinct was this: /usr/bin/gnome-session exec icewm-gnome But I end up with -two- toolbars on top of each other, which is rather dim. What's the proper? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. : Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his : powers. -- Erich Fromm
Slink - Potato upgrade problem WORKAROUND
Hi, all. I am a more or less experienced debian user, and I want to share this with you; I went through a few minor problems, when I recently decided that I had scr*wed up my system(Potato) and it was time for a reinstall. I reinstalled from a set of Slink CDs, and proceeded to do an apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade from the nearest mirror. this upgrade went wrong with the following error; (or something similar) Removing bash; Installing libreadlineg2; Confing libreadlineg2; Installing bash; error; cannot execute bla-bla-bla; no such file or directory; Now bash was gone, and I had no idea how to fix it, except for changing shell to tcsh, (and that's no workaround). I suspected that the mirror was broken or in the process of an update, so I reinstalled and tried 5 other mirrors, and it went exactly the same way every time, even if I tried to upgrade with dselect. At this point I was ready for a mental institution! (:o$) I now suspected that something was wrong with the new bash and libreadlineg2, so I reinstalled, put them on hold in dselect, and upgraded with dselect. This time everything went smooth, except for a minor error, where I had to kill cron manually to install a newer version of cron (or something else). Now I had a working system, and thought of looking at this mailinglist, and I could see from other mails on this list, that others have had the same problem. Someone suggested to use ash instead when bash is gone(thanks, pal!), and I found this to be a valid workaround; (still with bash and libreadlineg2 on hold) install ash with dselect or maybe apt-get (I used dselect) now select bash and libreadline for upgrading, and (try to) install. When the error occurs, quit dselect and do; cd /bin ln -s ash sh start dselect again and install, and bash gets installed, and your system is O.K. again. (and all packages are up-to-date) If you have already had this error and you don't have ash installed, I don't know how to get it working again. Maybe with a manual install of ash from a tar.gz? I have not been able to find a homepage or anything similar for ash, not even on the NetBSD site, does anyone know where to get a gzipped tarball with ash, so one can install ash manually ? Regards Jens C. Denmark
Re: questions to dselect.
* Lars == Lars Nixdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars The problem : I doesn't understand dselect. I know how to select Lars packages (+-) but ... Did you read the dselect beginner guide? It should be included in your CD set with the other installation files. Otherwise, get it from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/dselect-beginner.txt (also available as .html) Ciao, Martin
help meeee.
I have 2 harddrives the master has win98 the slave has caldera open linux 2.2, which I just purchased. So I installed it and then noticed the 30 day limit on my staroffice 5.0 and that I need to register. Where do I register and do they send me the code, Im on the internet thru win98 (master drive). Not on the internet thru linux yet..Please help...thank you Rod mccarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: confusing X problem
I took a look at your files on the web. A quick check of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards indicates the following: NAME Weitek P9100 (generic) CHIPSET Weitek P9100 SERVER SVGA NOCLOCKPROBE Thanks for that info. I didn't even know that file was there, but it wouldn't matter much since mine is old and doesn't have that entry. Did I do something bad by just getting a new XF86_SVGA and not upgrading anything else? I noticed that the NOCLOCKPROBE and tried putting that in the config file. It definitely didn't like that. Is there a way to tell it not to probe the clock? I noticed you have a RAMDAC entry and a Clocks entry in your XF86Config. It may be that the card does not like to be probed (the commented VideoRam entry would suggest this). If you haven't already, try removing those entries and see what happens. Beyond this I'm out of ideas. Just read, read, read :-) Thanks for the idea. I tried commenting those out as well as setting both RAMDAC and Clockchip to the values the it normally detects (ibm_rgb525 and icd2061a, respectively). None of these made any changes. I also tried specifying Chipset p9100, but it complained about rendition being an unknown chipset and then proceeded to detect the P9100! That seemed really strange, but I won't claim to know what it means. Thanks, Patrick Olson
Re: SCSI Zip help - Dmesg meaning?
I'm no expert, but with some motherboards, IRQ 9 is reserved. Check your documentation (if you have it) and try another open IRQ. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: dpkg -S
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: This is always available and up to date at the Search the Contents of the Latest Release seearch engine at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages.html Say I have local debs avail. in my system. Is there a program that can htmlized the contents just like the above? regards, = = Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated = = == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 = == = = = = E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] = WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com
Re: Gnome+IceWM
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Bek Oberin wrote: I'm not sure of the proper incantations to run both IceWM (the gnome-compliant version) and Gnome. My instinct was this: /usr/bin/gnome-session exec icewm-gnome But I end up with -two- toolbars on top of each other, which is rather dim. What's the proper? Edit /usr/X11/window-managers The topmost content should be: /usr/bin/X11/icewm-gnome That's basically it. regards, = = Andre M. Varon Lasaltech Incorporated = = == Technical Head Fax-Tel: (034)435-0836 = == = = = = E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] = WebPage : http://andre.lasaltech.com
Re: Gnome+IceWM
A. M. Varon wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Bek Oberin wrote: I'm not sure of the proper incantations to run both IceWM (the gnome-compliant version) and Gnome. My instinct was this: Edit /usr/X11/window-managers The topmost content should be: /usr/bin/X11/icewm-gnome That's basically it. Nothing has to go in my local .Xclients? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Statistics are nothing but people with the tears removed. : -- NBC TV, Thanks of a Grateful Nation
Re: help meeee.
There is a StarOffice 5.1 Personal Edition available from them free of charge, but it is restricted to non-commercial use. My opinion is that you should go for that if your use qualifies as non-commercial. There is more info on their web site at www.stardivision.com. Hope this helps, Patrick On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, rod mccarthy wrote: I have 2 harddrives the master has win98 the slave has caldera open linux 2.2, which I just purchased. So I installed it and then noticed the 30 day limit on my staroffice 5.0 and that I need to register. Where do I register and do they send me the code, Im on the internet thru win98 (master drive). Not on the internet thru linux yet..Please help...thank you
Re: Gnome+IceWM
Getting the gnome-session setup is a funny beast. There should be an easy way to do it, but I haven't found it. The docs aren't much help either. Anyway, what worked for me was to start icewm-gnome, in the regular fashion. Then execute gnome-nameservice , panel , and then gnome-session . The I edited my ~/.xsession to look like the this: #!/bin/bash xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources #get some custom settings loaded esd -terminate -as 2 #esound demon that shares exec gnome-session You'll probably have to futz with it a bit before it'll work. Note, it you exec something in a shell script, whatever that something does *replaces* the shell script. So, anything following will never be executed. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Slink - Potato upgrade problem WORKAROUND
Even easier work around: $ apt-get upgrade libreadline $ apt-get upgrade bash Get the readline first. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
DOSEMU problems
Hi all, I am using DOSEMU v 0.98.7.0 with kernel 2.0.36 and DOS 6.20 PS/2 mouse which is /dev/psaux and /dev/mouse. dosemu.conf uses /dev/mouse, type ps2. I have mouse support compiled into the kernel. When gpm is off, the mouse is functional under DOSEMU (in 'edit', for instance), except that there is no mouse cursor. I can move the mouse around by guessing where it is. If I enable gpm, then I get a cursor, but the mouse has only gpm functionality, i.e. the DOS program doesn't see the mouse, so I can't use it to click on menus. The only other thing I've thought of is recompiling without mouse support, but that doesn't seem reasonable. Any ideas on how to get normal DOS mouse functionality _and_ a cursor? Another less important problem: The DOS extended charset characters are wrong in DOSEMU. Again in 'edit' for example, the borders are made out of '|' instead of the extended characters. I can live with it, but just wondering if it is normal. Thanks, Steve Stancliff
Re: Gnome+IceWM
create your .xsession like this gnome-session this will do all the job. Xsession'll try to find your local .xsession and exec it. And gnome-session is the way to start gnome. If you have gnome-compliant window manager install you can changed that through gnome-control center. Chanop On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 06:33:23PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote: Getting the gnome-session setup is a funny beast. There should be an easy way to do it, but I haven't found it. The docs aren't much help either. Anyway, what worked for me was to start icewm-gnome, in the regular fashion. Then execute gnome-nameservice , panel , and then gnome-session . The I edited my ~/.xsession to look like the this: #!/bin/bash xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources #get some custom settings loaded esd -terminate -as 2 #esound demon that shares exec gnome-session You'll probably have to futz with it a bit before it'll work. Note, it you exec something in a shell script, whatever that something does *replaces* the shell script. So, anything following will never be executed. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Chanop Silpa-Anan Australian National University. Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) ICQ uin 11366301
Re: Rage128 Video Card
Assuming the system has Windows 95 on it, look around in the Windows display settings. Somewhere, it should say the proper name of the card. Alternately, we can use the process of elimination: There's a whole mess of ATI cards in the card list at http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html If you narrow it down to the ones with Rage in the name, you get: ATI Mach64 3D RAGE II .. XF86_Mach64 ATI Mach64 3D RAGE II+DVD .. XF86_Mach64 ATI Mach64 3D Rage IIC . XF86_Mach64 ATI Mach64 3D Rage Pro . XF86_Mach64 ATI Mach64 GT (264GT), aka 3D RAGE, Int. RAMDAC XF86_Mach64 ATI Pro Turbo+PC2TV, 3D Rage II+DVD XF86_Mach64 ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] PCI and AGP, 3D Rage Pro XF86_Mach64 ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED], 3D Rage Pro XF86_Mach64 Now since the list on their web site is probably the latest version, chances are that if this card is supported, is will work with XF86_Mach64. I would start by trying XF86_Mach64 and seeing if it works. If not, it may work better if you download the latest XF86_Mach64 binary from www.xfree86.org or one of their mirrors. This is about all I know, but I hope it helps. Patrick On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, westk wrote: I've recently acquired a new Gateway computer that has a video card that I can't locate the specs on. I've cracked the case and found that it's an ATI and it has a paper label on one of the chips that says R128 52001. I lifted the label and the markings on the chip are ATMEL AT49F512 90JC 9911. The other major chip, which is much larger, has a heat sink on it, so I can't read the actual chip markings, but the heat sink is labeled Graphics by Rage 128. The paper work that came with the PC says it has an ATI AGP card, and the Gateway part number on the paperwork and on a label on the card is 6001129. I've tried Gateway's web site, but apparently their web designer doesn't keep up with the latest and greatest, because neither their search engine nor their video card section mentions such a part number. I couldn't find an email address for Gateway tech support, and so far I haven't been able to get to anyone via the telephone. Assuming that this card is properly referred to as an ATI Rage 128, I can't find such a card/chipset listed in the XF86 card database (when running XF86Setup or xf86config). I'm running a fresh install of Slink (with 2.0.36 kernel) from a Slink Special Edition CD set distributed at last June's USENIX conference, which has XFree86 3.3.3.1. I hope someone can tell me what I need to do to get this card working pr
HP-T20 SCSI Tape
I've installed a HP-T20 into one of my linux machines and it doesn't seem to be working correctly. I can see in the /proc/scsi/scsi the following, which tells me that the drive is loaded: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: T20 Rev: 3.01 Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 And when I create the block devices by running: mknod -m 660 /dev/st0 c 9 0 mknod -m 660 /dev/st1 c 9 1 mknod -m 660 /dev/nst0 c 9 128 mknod -m 660 /dev/nst1 c 9 129 It comes back with no problems. But, when I run: # mt -f /dev/st0 status mt: /dev/st0: Operation not supported by device I've also tried st1 and nst1 and nst0. No luck. Or if I try to tar something to it, I get the same problem. Keep in mind that this drive was added after the OS was installed, but everything looks good. Kernel is 2.0.36 running on Debian 2.0. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ryan C. Sumner Director of Technology LIS Consulting, LLC
anyone tried sortmail?
I found I had a Debian package called sortmail installed, so I decided to try it, even though I use Exim and thus don't need procmail. Anyone else try it? I think it might be better than using an Exim forward file, since it is written in C and is probably faster than scripts. Sortmail seems much easier to use than procmail, which I could never figure out. Opinions sought. thanks -- Andrew
Re: Kernel panic!
Hi all! Thanks for the replies... I managed to figure out what was wrong: my custom-compiled kernel had the IDE drivers as *modules* (and I didn't list them in /etc/modules) -- so after the kernel finished initializing, it discovers that it didn't know *how* to read /dev/hda1 because it hadn't loaded the IDE drivers yet!! That was what the kernel panic was all about. :-) Silly, silly, me... don't know why in the world I would configure the IDE drivers to be modules rather than compiled-in, but after managing to boot into the system with the older kernel on my Rescue Disk (which, of course, had built-in IDE drivers, not modules), I managed to recompile the kernel with the right config. Now the server is up and running. Thanks anyway for the help... T
Re: from glibc2.0 to glibc2.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Oliver wrote: I've got a CD from Oracle with ORACLE 8.1.5. This RDBMS uses glibc2.1. How can I change the C-Libraries? 1. install glibc2.1 from tar archive 2. ldconfig glibc2.1 (name ?) Instead, you may want to use the potato debs for glibc (currently at 2.2.0pre7, IIRC). This way, the dpkg system won't get confused over which library version you have installed. Will my system run after the exchange? Do I have to recompile packages? If vital programs like init or sh break, then your system probably won't run. But if you go with the potato glibc, all you have to go is install the potato versions of the broken packages, no recompiling necessary. As always, potato is unstable. Things could easily break. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN7jSGr7M/9WKZLW5AQEYcQP/c3Dc9QFyrmgvAiFHJOMOTZQLtG51krnJ qVbKDR9z8xqFhrDCkgc9rRz3g4J6XYNWLXfTT8smPajKelxtZ8AfU98B3RY+pWze 3V3XNb9YXEXvG/X437/ARhJGOlfLbYVlCHDFpJoi1PIYJcSTaN4bLsWbLP6A0jks mFF9KPHhq2U= =zARc -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: should I upgrade PERL from 5.004 yet?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: Is Debian's PERL still broken or is it safe to upgrade? Should I remove PERL 5.004 when I upgrade? I am using Potato. It seems that most of the packages are fixed, although a few still need to be updated. Basically, the thing to do is to tell dselect to upgrade perl, and see if it wants to remove anything you want to keep. If it does, use the 'R' command in the dependancy screen to reset things to the way they were. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN7jUIb7M/9WKZLW5AQFKnQQAnQtF3Jfc5bBxL11JtxzXVQfGOfIeHBYp xTekP71s9TWeHQkKTWqBBrIwpdZIlMMycDyHl9s8yFcTY0vXi8XaFplrX8ePaZek n1Raws6CN7mNTonxAyVNeAFudtU0LGDKO6c7CQoxmNwbvCi5jmazsmthCxUeem1R wEqkaHBHcGk= =xxFV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: kbd and kbd-data incompatible?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: I am presently confused about kbd. Has there been some change that makes this package incompatible with kbd-data? I want to know before I reboot and find that I cannot boot into Linux. If you're installing kbd version 0.99-1 or -2 from potato, then go ahead and remove kbd-data. It appears to be no longer necessary (i have a potato system, kbd but no kbd-data, and it works fine) - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN7jVxL7M/9WKZLW5AQGTcgP/XrppqCqlG7nnZ1tM/85D1J/9ZSeGPhop CrikH3UgAc6RPm8p75K3MyYZQ32xtm2JL09XVNbh2L7txOf+WDJ18FnF/2kE1qQd Oc46zlzBotSJ95ZvtHglndC9TJw5RHecU4wD52D7ud9/rIPsWy859eXyJ6FZl0pV TvRYiGroFew= =193f -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: kbd and kbd-data incompatible?
The lates kbd uses consoletools instead Chanop On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 10:23:45PM -0500, Brad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: I am presently confused about kbd. Has there been some change that makes this package incompatible with kbd-data? I want to know before I reboot and find that I cannot boot into Linux. If you're installing kbd version 0.99-1 or -2 from potato, then go ahead and remove kbd-data. It appears to be no longer necessary (i have a potato system, kbd but no kbd-data, and it works fine) - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN7jVxL7M/9WKZLW5AQGTcgP/XrppqCqlG7nnZ1tM/85D1J/9ZSeGPhop CrikH3UgAc6RPm8p75K3MyYZQ32xtm2JL09XVNbh2L7txOf+WDJ18FnF/2kE1qQd Oc46zlzBotSJ95ZvtHglndC9TJw5RHecU4wD52D7ud9/rIPsWy859eXyJ6FZl0pV TvRYiGroFew= =193f -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Chanop Silpa-Anan Australian National University. Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) ICQ uin 11366301
Toshiba Laptop - Portege 3015
Some of you may be interested to find that I was able to get Debian up and running on a Toshiba Portege' 3015CT laptop (finally). And in deference to my post to debian-user last week regarding this issue, I promised to let everyone know what I found... First, I found a VERY nice document on the subject by Stephen Foskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the Linux Laptop Volunteer Database... http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ I'd highly recommend anyone installing on a laptop check out this huge resource. First off, Stephen should get MEGA-KUDOS and thank-you's from all of us running the Toshiba Portege's! Great job, Stephen! His instructions are at: http://slf.gweep.net/~sfoskett/linux/p3010.html I used his technique of starting out in Windows/DOS and booting through loadlin.exe, which worked very well. Only error I found in his documentation was that while the method he describes always boots correctly when coming in from DOS, if you try to boot using the standard kernel image for slink on this laptop from LILO, the system goes into a continuous reboot cycle after loading the kernel image. Old bug, I know, but it still bites hard. I downloaded the tecra images and renamed them to replace the standard images, in Steve's suggested installation directory, and I also downloaded the ltecra kernel image into the install directory. Then I booted from loadlin.exe from DOS, and installed Debian more or less the standard way after that point. PCMCIA works, everything else (that should be) is working, and I'm very happy to have Debian on my laptop system instead of that -- other -- Linux variant I was forced to use in a pinch this weekend. My PCMCIA CD-ROM isn't very happy yet, but I know that's fixed in the 2.2 kernels... so now the decision becomes, do I do it on slink? We'll see... Stephen's method works fine if you're going to always load up DOS/Windows first and then boot to Linux. He mentions in his text that he uses a script in his autoexec.bat to decide which OS to start up. I wanted to use LILO to select the OS (and actually I go back and forth from using LILO to BootMagic, the commercial package, depending on my mood... they both work now...) at boot-time, and the tecra images do the trick using the usual installation diskette menus to set it up. Stephen, again... THANK YOU! Other stuff I tried: I attempted to boot and load from floppy using the tecra rescue disk image, and it WOULD NOT BOOT. It had the same symptoms as if I'd used a bzImage kernel, and the same symptoms as the first time I attempted to get LILO installed after following Stephens instructions in the document without adding the tecra images. Very strange. I also tried the tecra-safe rescue disk, but since it's really to fix problems with SYSLINUX and not the kernel image, had no different effect. Neither tecra diskette would boot, and yes... I remade them three times each and once in a different machine's floppy drive, just to make sure the disks were okay. If it weren't for Stephen's documentation, I'd have never thought to get things installed in this way. I owe you a beverage of your choice if we ever meet someday! +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: Umax 1220S scanner and Linux
Hello! On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 04:10:07PM +0200, Tadas wrote: Scanner UMAX Astra 1220S ... know, that SANE supports my scanner. I use SCSI adapter that came with scanner. Does Linux suppports this adapter? I have the same Scanner. I already had an Adaptec AHA-2920A, so I got the SCSI cable I needed and connected it. It worked like a charm! SANE recognized it inmediately. I used xscanimage to scan images right away. I also scan images into GIMP. I don't know if the SCSI card that came with it will work. Maybe someone out there has done this? I am happy about this scanner, I decided to buy Umax since the SANE driver for it is stable. Now I like the brand a lot. Greetings, Alexis Maldonado Engineering College University of Costa Rica
Off-Topic: Re: Possible to connect win95 to linux using ethernet boards?
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Kent West wrote: (BTW, if everyone but IBM calls it a Network Interface Card, and IBM calls it a Network Adapter Card, shouldn't we refer to it as a NIC/NAC? Paddy-whack Sorry.) ... Give the slink an MBONE? (: This new-bie came trol-ling home... Couldn't resist -- Ugh... I'm hating my own joke already! (: p.s. For the international crowd, this is a vague reference to a children's song in the U.S. -- and a bad one, at that. +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: Possible to connect win95 to linux using ethernet boards?
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 09:12:16PM -0700, André Bell wrote: Thanks Aaron, Crazy as this may sound, I'm trying to simulate a local connection to my hosted domain so I can see how different perl scripts will react _before_ I add them to my hosted domain. I know i could simply ftp them to my hosted domain and then test them but that is a pain because it takes soo long to ftp files, access them with a browser to see if there are errors, edit the scripts, and re-ftp them all over again. Of course instead of connecting my two os's I could run netscape on my linux system as http://localhost and see how the scripts handle with netscape, but there are other browsers, etc that function differently. I want to to see how the other browsers respond to the scripts. Some scripts work just fine on one browser but return blank pages on another. Since not all perl instructions work in a win95 environment I can't test them on my win95 pc. Instead I have to run them on linux to get them to work locally, then ftp them to my domain to see how they respond to different browsers by accessing them with my win95 pc. At 56k connections FTP'ing files to test them online is a very slow process. I wish to avoid these hassles of ftp'ing the files to my hosted domain to find out if the scripts work properly with a variety of browsers when I can simply g connect my win95 pc to my linux pc and go for broke locally. I've considered purchasing that $299 software that allows me to virtually run multiple os's on the same linux platform and at the same time but I haven't found a recommendation from an actual user. Oh, m linux pc also has win95 installed so once I have networked the two pc's together I can hopefully play head-to-head games once in a while with the kids :) Andre' Answer to the subject heading: yes. Standard solution is to mount Linux drive in Win95, after which you can excess your files using file://. Telnetting to your hosted site is another idea that I saw in this thread. Here, I have Win95 and Linux connected using 10base2 (coax); and, my Linux can mount Win95 shared drive, but Win95, as yet, refuses to see anything under Linux. Yours truly, William Park
Re: how to connect client xserver to networked host?
Ken, Take a look at SSH. It would get you a couple of things you probably need in your headless webserver configuration : 1. Secured connections to your headless system from anywhere. 2. X forwarding over that same secured connection. X forwarding allows you to have the base X stuff and X applications loaded on the webserver and after logging in via an SSH connection (like Telnet, only secure...), you can have them display on your local machine. You set your DISPLAY shell environment variable with (for bash) on the webserver with : export DISPLAY=yourdesktopmachine:0.0 -- then run the program you want to see appear on your regular desktop machine, and voila! Works great. Make sure to put it in the background if you want your shell back after starting it. Also look into the switch options for SSH for compression if you're connecting to your web server over a slow data link. You can get all the way up to bzip -9 level compression for your connections, which is nice, but eats a lot of processor time on each end. Best thing is to look at the manpage for that yourself and decide what works best in your network environment. With SSH installed, you can disable telnetd completely and close off one more point of possible non-authorized access to your headless system... very nice. If you need access to the webserver from Windows systems, check out Tera Term and the SSH extentions written overseas for it. It works pretty well, and I use it regularly without trouble. There also used to be a free Windows X server (so you could display X apps from the headless box to a Windows machine...) at www.microimages.com, but I've heard rumor that it's not free anymore ... :( Hopefully this is helpful! On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: I know it is possible to run an xserver on a local host computer, and then connect to a window manager and aps running on a networked host. Question is how to set this up? I'd like to start an X session between two computers (I guess this is what an Xterminal is). I have a 'headless' computer running apache web server which I admin over the network. I would like to do this via an Xterm. +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: kbd and kbd-data incompatible?
On 17-Aug-99 Brad wrote: If you're installing kbd version 0.99-1 or -2 from potato, then go ahead and remove kbd-data. It appears to be no longer necessary (i have a potato system, kbd but no kbd-data, and it works fine) Thanks, that is what I did, but I was afraid to reboot the machine. -- Andrew
Re: should I upgrade PERL from 5.004 yet?
On 17-Aug-99 Brad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote: Is Debian's PERL still broken or is it safe to upgrade? Should I remove PERL 5.004 when I upgrade? I am using Potato. It seems that most of the packages are fixed, although a few still need to be updated. Basically, the thing to do is to tell dselect to upgrade perl, and see if it wants to remove anything you want to keep. If it does, use the 'R' command in the dependancy screen to reset things to the way they were. Several packages were removed when I upgraded PERL, but I reinstalled them manually. thanks -- Andrew - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN7jUIb7M/9WKZLW5AQFKnQQAnQtF3Jfc5bBxL11JtxzXVQfGOfIeHBYp xTekP71s9TWeHQkKTWqBBrIwpdZIlMMycDyHl9s8yFcTY0vXi8XaFplrX8ePaZek n1Raws6CN7mNTonxAyVNeAFudtU0LGDKO6c7CQoxmNwbvCi5jmazsmthCxUeem1R wEqkaHBHcGk= =xxFV -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: how to connect client xserver to networked host?
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 11:06:06PM -0600, Nathan Duehr wrote: Ken, Take a look at SSH. It would get you a couple of things you probably need in your headless webserver configuration : 1. Secured connections to your headless system from anywhere. 2. X forwarding over that same secured connection. X forwarding allows you to have the base X stuff and X applications loaded on the webserver and after logging in via an SSH connection (like Telnet, only secure...), you can have them display on your local machine. You set your DISPLAY shell environment variable with (for bash) on the webserver with : export DISPLAY=yourdesktopmachine:0.0 If you ssh to youre webserver machine with X11-forwarding option turned on (which is not a default ooptions on current ssh in potato ) you don't have to export display because If you do that X11 connection won't be secure anymore. ssh with create display name ie. DISPLAY=webservername:10.0 display socket no 10.0 is s secure channel that ssh create. If you need access to the webserver from Windows systems, check out Tera Term and the SSH extentions written overseas for it. It works pretty well, and I use it regularly without trouble. There also used to be a free Windows X server (so you could display X apps from the headless box to a Windows machine...) at www.microimages.com, but I've heard rumor that it's not free anymore ... :( I heard about ssh2 implementation on windows not sure where. For Xserver on windows, I suggest startneti X-win 32. It's not free but quite cheap ($100) and has a good performance. You can use a demo version for free up to 2 hours each time you start it. -- Chanop Silpa-Anan Australian National University. Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) ICQ uin 11366301
strange pppd question
Strange what I'm doing; pppd works fine :) I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) that monitors the health of the next hop on an ethernet port (think DSL or cable connection), and dials a provider when the connection goes down. To do this, I need to invoke pppd from my prgram ... pppd forks and disconnects to do this, so I have no easy way to determine WHEN the link is up (I delete the eth default route and add a ppp0 default route only once the dial-link is up, or that's the plan). Right now I have to use sleep and that's plain ugly (and doesn't always work when the dial server is cranky). So, how to discover that pppd is up and running on a link? Perhaps I'm being incredibly dense here (I'm sure I am) but I don't see how to do it ... Any ideas? Am I re-inventing a wheel? -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: strange pppd question
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 12:52:03AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: Strange what I'm doing; pppd works fine :) I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) that monitors the health of the next hop on an ethernet port (think DSL or cable connection), and dials a provider when the connection goes down. To do this, I need to invoke pppd from my prgram ... pppd forks and disconnects to do this, so I have no easy way to determine WHEN the link is up (I delete the eth default route and add a ppp0 default route only once the dial-link is up, or that's the plan). Right now I have to use sleep and that's plain ugly (and doesn't always work when the dial server is cranky). So, how to discover that pppd is up and running on a link? Perhaps I'm being incredibly dense here (I'm sure I am) but I don't see how to do it ... Any ideas? Am I re-inventing a wheel? Well, one kinda round-about way would be to write a script that could 'signal' your daemon and put it in the /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory. I don't think ip-up is run until after pppd has completed the link. Mike [Private mail welcome, but no need to CC: me on list replies.] -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Debian GNU/Linux Fan -- http://www.debian.org --- CenLA-LUG Founder -- http://www.angelfire.com/la2/cenlalug -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison
Re: strange pppd question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) Isn't Perl wonderful? At the moment, i'm working on a CD ripper using cd-diskid, perl-tk, cdparanoia, id3, and bladeenc and CDDB.pm. It actually works pretty well! that monitors the health of the next hop on an ethernet port (think DSL or cable connection), and dials a provider when the connection goes down. To do this, I need to invoke pppd from my prgram ... pppd forks and disconnects to do this, so I have no easy way to determine WHEN the link is up (I delete the eth default route and add a ppp0 default route only once the dial-link is up, or that's the plan). Right now I have to use sleep and that's plain ugly (and doesn't always work when the dial server is cranky). You're invoking pppd directly? Why not use pon or wvdial? (just curious) Are you going to continue monitoring the health, and undial/restore eth0 when it heals? So, how to discover that pppd is up and running on a link? Perhaps I'm being incredibly dense here (I'm sure I am) but I don't see how to do it Put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d to send SIGUSR1 to your program (create a pid file in /var/run so the script can find you). This way, your program just waits til it gets SIGUSR1 before tearing down the eth0 route. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN7j9C77M/9WKZLW5AQGoLgP/T/6nccjknF+EsLUeTXOnkR6juEhLjgPb TjWVGtZbxtKnRUB+EaNdf3/Z+HvU5uT7rghkqZyu9Is0RPRKMtQBQ1nrTmXHTphe 8OaHI8l4gzW2BjMtkAE1A1DgVzHyaPbGBrSjkdv3tvT7KSRxt0AhF9U3WDc0cXVM RpkyW+mnuv8= =/69Y -END PGP SIGNATURE-
How to install fortify?
-- This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. -- Hi, I've just tried to install fortify under Debian 2.1. But fortify 1.3.0-2 and fortify-linux-x86 1.3.0-2 depend on each other, so I can't configure them. How to solve this dilemma? Thanks! -- Tad
Re: How to install fortify?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Tadeusz Bak wrote: I've just tried to install fortify under Debian 2.1. But fortify 1.3.0-2 and fortify-linux-x86 1.3.0-2 depend on each other, so I can't configure them. How to solve this dilemma? Thanks! Install them both at the same time. dselect or apt-get should handle this with no problem. With dpkg, dpkg --install fortify_1.3.0-2.deb fortify-linux-x86_1.3.0-2.deb should work... - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN7kLnL7M/9WKZLW5AQFWjgP/YNz48qJPWqW5wZGhSJBMYDGzG4XlPApZ w5rOYhHPMIdE2M1tefvsYTvJb5+eX+4dlPVy3l9OuZT2/ZcCSWNTARqZbWYzyThb rWmrD4raRvX4Oq2sP3qg3egEHRCRewt1FWh0v96UU4WaTSYjjl2ZlilbsiPUgoO6 43pVkbd5DPA= =AL7P -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: How to install fortify?
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Brad wrote: Install them both at the same time. dselect or apt-get should handle this with no problem. With dpkg, dpkg --install fortify_1.3.0-2.deb fortify-linux-x86_1.3.0-2.deb should work... Yes, it works. Thank you very much! -- Tad
Re: 3com509c not recognized
westk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was planning on upgrading to the 2.2 kernel as soon as I got the box on the network, but now it sounds like I might be better off to download a 2.2 kernel now in order to get the NIC working. In which case, maybe I should just forego slink and go straight to potato. Or am I just asking for trouble doing that? Even if you did download 2.2.11 or 2.2.12 (which should be out really soon now), your 3c905C would not work. 2.2.1[12] comes with a little bit older version of the driver that does not recognize the new 3c905C card. The reason I know that even 2.2.12 will not work with your card, is that Alan Cox wrote that he will not take the risk of putting a new version of the driver into 2.2.12. He did wrote that 2.2.13pre1 should have support for 3c905C. Also, potato has problems when upgraded from slink (bash gets removed) so you probably do not want to do that unless you have read about the workarounds to that problem. If you are willing to trust me, you can download the 3c59x.o files I compiled for 2.0.36 and 2.0.37 kernels. The driver modules have been compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3 against the correct kernel headers. If you decide to use the drivers I have compiled, you can put them on e.g. floppy and install them from there. After installing the module fails with the debian installer, mount the floppy and install the module from the floppy drive. Later you can copy the driver over the old driver on the hard disk. The modules can be found under /lib/modules/ You can get the precompiled drivers from http://sunsite.tut.fi/~hessu/3c905C/ // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland
Re: qmail question
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Robert Varga wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Nikolay Hristov wrote: has anybody tried to limit the size of the Sended mail with qmail for a single user? /var/qmail/control/smtpsize seems to be for that purpose. Search on the Qmail mailing lists for it to be sure, anyway. Sorry, make that /var/qmail/control/databytes Robert Varga
leafnode won't fetch
I'm trying to setup leafnode. I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., news.myisp.net). When I run the command 'fetch' absolutely nothing happens. Why is this? -- NatePuri (natedawg) Certified Law Student McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ompages.com PGP: http://www.ompages.com/PGP.html UIN: 43504034 IRC: ompages.com #ompages pgpBUuecPHDrO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bizarre Clock Problem
Keith G. Murphy wrote: It may actually be due to the *documented* behavior of adjtime. ... This makes a lot of sense. I vaguely remember something about this happening when I found my clock out by months. In this case, I imagine it would be a good idea to set a drift threshhold wherein adjtime data is not recorded for large drifts due to likely inaccuracies. -- Matthew Tuck - Software Developer All-Round Nice Guy mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ICQ #8125618) Check out the Ultra programming language project! http://www.box.net.au/~matty/ultra/
which pgp package?
hi, I'm new to pgp. It seems that there are many pgp packages in potato, ie pgp-us, pgp-i, pgp5i. Which one I should use? thanks Chanop -- Chanop Silpa-Anan Australian National University. Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) ICQ uin 11366301
[HYLAFAX] Strange dialout
Hi all, I am wondering If anyone has experienced strange dialout when Hylafax is installed. Here is a log entry dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 10:56 - 10:56 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 09:55 - 09:55 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 08:54 - 08:55 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 07:53 - 07:54 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 06:53 - 06:53 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 05:52 - 05:52 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 04:51 - 04:51 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 03:50 - 03:50 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 02:49 - 02:49 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 01:48 - 01:48 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Tue Aug 17 00:47 - 00:48 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Mon Aug 16 23:46 - 23:47 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Mon Aug 16 22:46 - 22:46 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Mon Aug 16 21:45 - 21:45 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Mon Aug 16 20:44 - 20:44 (00:00) dialout ttyS1/usr/sbin/faxget Mon Aug 16 19:43 - 19:43 (00:00) Anyone have any ideas what this is. -- Geordy Korte --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ 14458242 http://www.nai.nu | Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key |--
Re: leafnode won't fetch
Thus wrote NatePuri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [99.08.17 06:21]: I'm trying to setup leafnode. I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., news.myisp.net). When I run the command 'fetch' absolutely nothing happens. Why is this? As of leafnode 1.9.4 (I think), fetch has been renamed to fetchnews. Reasons for this are in the documentation. Or, if that isn't the problem, try running it with -vvv to see extra output. -- -- Chris Gushue - ICQ:409207 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- GCS d- s+:- a23 C++$ UL+++ P+++ L+++ E W++ N++ o-- K- w--- O- M-- V-- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP+ t++ 5+ X++ R- tv+ b++ DI+ D+ G++ e h! r y+ -- http://seymour.napalm.net --- http://owirc.napalm.net -- pgp8DywvyVJ9S.pgp Description: PGP signature
mlockall() and pthreads together?
I assume if I execute mlockall and then later create a bunch of threads, they come into existance without their memory locked into RAM? Anyone know for sure? Britton
Re: which pgp package?
Thus wrote Chanop Silpa-Anan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [99.08.17 06:46]: hi, I'm new to pgp. It seems that there are many pgp packages in potato, ie pgp-us, pgp-i, pgp5i. Which one I should use? thanks Chanop Personally, I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG): http://www.gnupg.org It's currently in beta - what isn't in the Linux world :), with 1.0 due out next month. It works quite well, especially with Mutt. Though it seems the potato Mutt doesn't have gpg support, so I had to compile that myself. Oh well... -- -- Chris Gushue - ICQ:409207 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- GCS d- s+:- a23 C++$ UL+++ P+++ L+++ E W++ N++ o-- K- w--- O- M-- V-- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP+ t++ 5+ X++ R- tv+ b++ DI+ D+ G++ e h! r y+ -- http://seymour.napalm.net --- http://owirc.napalm.net -- pgpSfFyXeAtbJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Samba and /etc/passwd
I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to authenticate a user. How do I do that? You can't. So every user has to use passwd AND smbpasswd every time he wants to change his password? Stef
Re: leafnode won't fetch
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:48:30AM -0700, NatePuri wrote: I'm trying to setup leafnode. I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., news.myisp.net). When I run the command 'fetch' absolutely nothing happens. Why is this? Could you define exactly what absolutely nothing is - does it hang, does it return immediately to the command prompt? What does fetch -vvv say? Is there any network activity (check by using ifconfig, watching any appropriate blinking lights or using tcpdump)? Since fetch isn't very chatty by default, it may be that it is doing things but not providing the sort of feedback you are expecting. It is normal for your first download to take quite a long time, since leafnode will download the entire active file from the upstream news server. If there's network activity but no visible feedback, that's probably what's happening. Similarly, the first time you download a group you may find that it takes a long time because there are a lot of old articles being downloaded (adjusting the parameters in the configuration file can help with this). -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpi4rxjyXtxe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Redhat mutt with xterm-debian
On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 13:13:33 -0400, Andrew Leiserson wrote: but since I have the xterm-debian entry in ~/.terminfo/x/ I don't see why mutt shouldn't work. Did you set the environment variable TERMINFO to point to $HOME/.terminfo ? Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: which pgp package?
I'm new to pgp. It seems that there are many pgp packages in potato, ie pgp-us, pgp-i, pgp5i. Which one I should use? Personally, I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG): http://www.gnupg.org It's currently in beta - what isn't in the Linux world :), with 1.0 due out next month. It works quite well, especially with Mutt. Though it seems the potato Mutt doesn't have gpg support, so I had to compile that myself. Oh well... ---end quoted text--- (Hrmm.. testing 1 2 3...) My Mutt seems to be supporting GPG. I'm using the most recent binaries straight from potato. Please advise me if I'm mistaken. (I'm new to pgp/gpg also.) -- Regards, Steve pgpiBo4E8ne5S.pgp Description: PGP signature
boot problems
I tried to install linux on an old 386dx-40 with 16mb of ram. It reads the resc1440 floppy VERY SLOWLY and somewhere between loading kernel and decompresssing just dies with 'boot failure'. I am assuming this is either a bad floppy disk (though it does boot in two other machines), a bad floppy drive (though I've tried 2 others), or bad memory (though I'v tried other simms ... only have 1m simms so I tried several 8mb configurations). Any other ideas? I've looked at the bios settings but nothing looks out of place there. And the machine does boot dos 6.2 (not that that means anything). === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: xemacs at console won't suspend
Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a know bug with xemacs20-nomule and gpm. The solutions are to either recompile xemacs without gpm support, or stop gpm before starting xemacs on the console. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lxemacs20-nomule.html for the several VERY OLD bugs on this subject. I think someone had submitted a patch but for some reason it has never been fixed. It _has_ been fixed in recent version of libgpm. This is not an XEmacs bug at all. XEmacs just happens to be one of few programs that uses libgpm. It isn't even a _real_ libgpm bug. It is actually a libc5 vs glibc 2.x issue. Glibc has changed the semantics of signal handlers (I think from BSD to sysv). Its subtle problems like these that cause real headaches. The libgpm code now uses a more portable method (although it still runs only on linux). Jan
printer accounting
Hello, can you suggest me a software for printer accounting, please? Armin
Re: full color ghostview ?
Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: b) is there a sensible replacement for ghostview that is functionally similar the windows' GSview ? I much prefer the 'gv' package over 'ghostview'. It is another front end to 'ghostscript' which has a much better feel and look IMHO. You might give it a shot. -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where do all the bits go when the computer is done with them?
Re: bash smaller fonts
To change the console text, I use the 'SVGATextMode' package and the 'setfont' command which is in the 'kbd' package. Hope this helps, -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where do all the bits go when the computer is done with them?
Re: strange pppd question
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Brad wrote: : On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : I'm trying to write a daemon (in perl) : : Isn't Perl wonderful? At the moment, i'm working on a CD ripper using : cd-diskid, perl-tk, cdparanoia, id3, and bladeenc and CDDB.pm. It actually : works pretty well! I'm really starting to appreciate it! So, when can we get a copy of your CD ripper? :) : that monitors the health of the next hop on an ethernet port (think : DSL or cable connection), and dials a provider when the connection : goes down. To do this, I need to invoke pppd from my prgram ... pppd : forks and disconnects to do this, so I have no easy way to determine : WHEN the link is up (I delete the eth default route and add a ppp0 : default route only once the dial-link is up, or that's the plan). : Right now I have to use sleep and that's plain ugly (and doesn't : always work when the dial server is cranky). : : You're invoking pppd directly? Why not use pon or wvdial? (just curious) I was using pon originally, and that's when the trouble started. I don't see a reason to not use pon, unless I decide to strive for distribution independence (and since I use only Debian that's not a big issue right now). : Are you going to continue monitoring the health, and undial/restore eth0 : when it heals? That's the plan, though I'm hoping to achieve some flexibility by having my program handle the routing - I'd like to be able to bring up the ethernet route, and if it fails soon (where soon is a user defined parameter) the ppp route is simply restored without having to redial. : So, how to discover that pppd is up and running on a link? Perhaps I'm : being incredibly dense here (I'm sure I am) but I don't see how to do it : : Put a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d to send SIGUSR1 to your program (create a : pid file in /var/run so the script can find you). This way, your program : just waits til it gets SIGUSR1 before tearing down the eth0 route. Duh! Thanks for the enlightenment ... cable modems have spoiled me. I believe you've supplied me with the missing link :) (This list is very cool, btw, and I've been here for three years now ..) -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: No Mouse, No X Windows(SOLVED)
Thank you for your input, LeeE and everybody else who responded. I actually fixed this problem this past Sunday! After calming down (I was totally frustrated) and rereading the responses, concerning this matter, on Sunday, I was able to figure it out! As the my linux box was booting, I saw it connect the ttyS0 serial port (light bulb). DUH!!!(WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS 12 HOURS AGO!) So I set my mouse to that device and all was right with the world for a little while. Wxb1 -Original Message- From: Lee Elliott [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, August 16, 1999 2:06 PM Subject: Re: No Mouse, No X Windows Hello Ed, On 16-Aug-99, you wrote: EC Wendell Buckner wrote: EC EC Well the graphically interface is nice(I've been dealing with just EC console up to now), but it's not solving my problem (thanks EC anyway). I go through the configuration process, save it and it EC tells me that my server is now running. It then exits me to the EC console prompt. I run startx and it it gives me the same EC error(/dev/mouse, no such file or directory). I look in the /dev EC for a mouse file or directory and it is not there!! I will check to EC make sure that the serial port is working by booting it with a dos EC floppy and mouse.com. EC EC EC /dev/mouse is usually a symbolic link to your mouse device which EC is usually /dev/ttyS0 (for a standard serial mouse). I seem to EC remember someone saying that symlink is not a good idea to have EC (or was it /dev/modem?). Anyway, check /etc/X11/XF86Config and EC look for a 'pointer' section. The pointer section will have a EC 'device' line; make sure its your mouse device, ie. device EC /dev/ttyS0. The xf86config program will ask you for this info, EC IIRC, so alternatively you could try running 'xf86config'; its not EC the same as 'XF86Setup'. EC EC I suspect the sym link, or lack of it is the problem. I've just put Debian on an Amiga and had to create a link from /dev/amigamouse to /dev/mouse. Try 'ls /dev/*mouse*' to see if any likely ones already exist. Regards, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Auto-mounting and unattended boot
Hi. I have a removable drive in a machine that doesn't have a display and is used via the network. Since the drive is removable, sometimes the machine boots without the drive, and sometimes with it. I'd like to have it mount the filesystem on the drive automatically on boot, but if it's not there it shouldn't wait for a root password like it does now, but just fail and continue booting. Is it possible somehow? Thanks in advance! Please, CC me on your replies, since I'm not on this list. Thanks. -- Alex Shnitman| http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--- http://alexsh.hectic.netUIN 188956PGP key on web page E1 F2 7B 6C A0 31 80 28 63 B8 02 BA 65 C7 8B BA Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles Duell, head of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899 pgpt5MjUaWDnr.pgp Description: PGP signature
PPPoE Client?
Hello, my internet service provider is switching from a dhcp connection to a PPPoE connection. We as customers have to install the PPPoE client. I have the client in source code. but unclear how to change my routing, ethernet connection and so. can some please give me step by step instructions on how to get this working. I am on Sympatico's high speed edition. Has any else experienced a similar experience. If you need more information please let me know. Paul
Panasonic EggCam?
I heard that Video4Linux provides support under Linux for the Panasonic EggCam video-conference camera, but I cannot find specifics anywhere. Does anybody know (1) whether this is true and (2) how to do it? Jorge L. deLyra, Associate Professor of Physics The University of Sao Paulo, IFUSP-DFMA For more information: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
update-alterntaives question by proxy
This question was presented to me by someone else, and, as I couldn't find an appropriate answer, I pass it on the the list for futher enlightenment. What is the Right Way to increase the priority of one option for an alternative? For example, on my system, nvi was installed with a priority of 30, and vim with 20 -- I wanted to make vim 35. The solution I found was to run update-packages --install for vim, as if adding it as an alternative in the first place. Is this correct? An option such that you could do 'update-alternatives --priority vim 35' would be a very good thing, imho.
FAT32 to FAT16
Hi! I have a problem, I really hope you can help me. I need to convert my computer back to FAT16 from FAT32. How can I do that? I have already formatted my harddisk (850MB), so does their exist any program, which in MS-DOS mode can convert my harddisk back to FAT16? Do you know any download sides which contain such a program? (I have searched, could'nt find any!!!). Anyway, thanks. Sincerely Kim. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: leafnode won't fetch
NatePuri wrote: I'm trying to setup leafnode. I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., news.myisp.net). When I run the command 'fetch' absolutely nothing happens. Why is this? IIRC, don't you have to access the newsgroup (say, from within SLRN or Netscape Messenger) first, to let leafnode know you're interested? I vaguely recall having to do something like that... I think when you do this, you get a little newsgroup message telling you fetch will get it or something.
Re: full color ghostview ?
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Paul Miller wrote: Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: b) is there a sensible replacement for ghostview that is functionally similar the windows' GSview ? I much prefer the 'gv' package over 'ghostview'. It is another front end to 'ghostscript' which has a much better feel and look IMHO. You might give it a shot. I prefere gv too, but it does not eliminate the problem. I spoke about ghostview in the generalized sense (gv, kghostview, ghostview). The all use ghostscript as a back end and produce identically horrible output. Sergey.
SV: FAT32 to FAT16
Hey, if it's formatted it's empty, so just get a set of old DOS-diskettes and do a normal install with a reformat. But then again; why bother with dos when you can have Linux?! Cheers Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Kim Andersen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt:17. august 1999 18:54 Til: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: recipient list not shown Emne: FAT32 to FAT16 Hi! I have a problem, I really hope you can help me. I need to convert my computer back to FAT16 from FAT32. How can I do that? I have already formatted my harddisk (850MB), so does their exist any program, which in MS-DOS mode can convert my harddisk back to FAT16? Do you know any download sides which contain such a program? (I have searched, could'nt find any!!!). Anyway, thanks. Sincerely Kim. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
apt-get strange behaviour
Hi there, From some time on (since I've last upgraded apt-get? Can say for sure! ;-/) I've been facing some strange problems with apt-get... When I do a 'apt-get update' it seems to go all over the download of the packages (as expected), but then it come to a segfault when building the dependency tree... If I run 'apt-get update' again, I find it has something else to download, then all goes fine, so it seems apt-get is OK'ing some package file bero it is REALLY 100% downloaded (thus the segfault when building the dependency tree on the first try)... Any guesses on what could be going on? I use apt-get 0.3.11... Ciao, Guilherme Zahn
Fetchmail won't configure
As a newbie, I thought I'd let fetchmailconf take me by the hand and help me configure the bastard instead of futzing around with config-files. But all I get is: promptfetchmailconf (I type at prompt) Linux answers: env: python: no such file or directory I search dselect for python but all the python dselect can find seems to be already installed. I've successfully configured exim (I think -it didn't complain, just tells me there's no mail) and mail runs ok, so I just don't get it?! I figure I do need fetchmail for getting the mail off of my ISP, right?! I tried some different FM's but they all seem to assume the stuff is actually able to execute... Regards Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer
Re: full color ghostview ?
*- On 17 Aug, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote about Re: full color ghostview ? On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Paul Miller wrote: Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: b) is there a sensible replacement for ghostview that is functionally similar the windows' GSview ? I much prefer the 'gv' package over 'ghostview'. It is another front end to 'ghostscript' which has a much better feel and look IMHO. You might give it a shot. I prefere gv too, but it does not eliminate the problem. I spoke about ghostview in the generalized sense (gv, kghostview, ghostview). The all use ghostscript as a back end and produce identically horrible output. This sounds like a font problem. Do you have the font packages installed for ghostscript? gsfonts gsfonts-other -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: printer accounting
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 03:49:05AM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: Hello, can you suggest me a software for printer accounting, please? Try LPRng. There is a debian package for it, and their online FAQ is detailed with very useful information: http://www.astart.com/lprng/LPRng-HOWTO.html Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU
Re: full color ghostview ?
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 17 Aug, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote about Re: full color ghostview ? On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Paul Miller wrote: Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: b) is there a sensible replacement for ghostview that is functionally similar the windows' GSview ? I much prefer the 'gv' package over 'ghostview'. It is another front end to 'ghostscript' which has a much better feel and look IMHO. You might give it a shot. I prefere gv too, but it does not eliminate the problem. I spoke about ghostview in the generalized sense (gv, kghostview, ghostview). The all use ghostscript as a back end and produce identically horrible output. This sounds like a font problem. Do you have the font packages installed for ghostscript? No, this is not the font problem, fonts look ok (please, look at my original post). The problem is that gv (and the family) produce horrible dithered images and do it very slowly. It seems that ghostscript's x11 device is to blame. So I was wondering if there is alternative pastscript viewer with a similar capabilities, which does not suffer from the dithering. Xv looks good, but it does not support multiple pages. If you've seen GSview for windows - this is how it should look like. Sergey.
Re: SV: FAT32 to FAT16
I mention this a lot, but its a great app. Partition Magic has converted a FAT32 to FAT16 flawlessly for me a couple of times. Actually, all I use is the boot disk, brings up a nice GUI, and does just about anything I need. Granted I don't have to pay for it, I just borrow my friends copy -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, if it's formatted it's empty, so just get a set of old DOS-diskettes and do a normal install with a reformat. But then again; why bother with dos when you can have Linux?! Cheers Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Kim Andersen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt:17. august 1999 18:54 Til: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: recipient list not shown Emne: FAT32 to FAT16 Hi! I have a problem, I really hope you can help me. I need to convert my computer back to FAT16 from FAT32. How can I do that? I have already formatted my harddisk (850MB), so does their exist any program, which in MS-DOS mode can convert my harddisk back to FAT16? Do you know any download sides which contain such a program? (I have searched, could'nt find any!!!). Anyway, thanks. Sincerely Kim. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
[Summary] UPS anyone?
Here's another update about what I have so far concerning this confusing UPS issue (prices in Canadian dollars). Thanks to all who contributed. Please email again if you have more info to add. Peter --- `Best Power' general comments (http://www.bestpower.com) - manufacturer has `free' Linux software which may be packaged for Debian soon (All I have found in the source are lines like: CheckUPS II BASIC V3.23Copyright (c)1985-99 by Best Power, All Rights Reserved. They'll need to clarify this). Both the dumb and smart models listed below use the same software download, which supports both `basic' and `advanced' programs for dumb and smart UPS. - bpowerd Debian pacakge does not currently support the INT-0051 cable packaged by Best Power for all OSes - The Patriot Pro II hat comes with cable seems to be the much better deal from Best Power: Best Power Patriot $219 + $52 for INT-0051 cable 250VA dumb mode (looks like a big power bar instead of a UPS) Best Power Patriot Pro II$304 (includes cable) 400VA smart mode Best Power Patriot Pro II$408 (includes cable) 750VA smart mode See web site for other models. --- APC general comments (http://www.apcc.com/) - No manufacturer Linux software, but announced for Q3-99. - They have a Back-UPS line which appear to be dumb-mode only, and a more expensive Back-UPS Pro line (smart mode). - Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] has a Back-UPS Pro and it works with the genpower Debian package and the apc-pnp cable: `All models of APC from the Back-UPS Pro to the Matrix-UPS have the same interface and will work with the custom apc-advanced (which I designed) or the apc-pnp (standard cable from APC) cables. Both cables have the same dumb-signalling abilities but obviously the apc-pnp cable also supports the smart-signalling modes.' - The debian apcupsd package mentions all Back-UPS (dumb mode), Back-UPS Pro and Smart-UPS (both in smart mode), so it's a safe bet that they all work with this package. APC Back-UPS BK500M $199 + $40 for cable kit. 330 W dumb mode APC Back-UPS BK650M $335 + $40 for cable kit. 400 W dumb mode APC Back-UPS Pro 420 $397 (cable included?) 260 W smart mode APC Smart-UPS 420$417 (cable included?) 260 W smart mode See web site for other models. --- CyberPower general comments http://www.cyberpowersystems.com/ I only very recently discovered this company. I emailed them concerning Linux support and quickly exchanged about 10 emails with a very nice and helpful guy from the company. Their models all come with cable and Windows software. They pointed me to Linux software on the net written by Alberto Maria Segre from the University of Iowa. I have contacted him about making his software DFSG-free (currently educational purposes only) and he is very responsive about this. I will package it if I buy a CyberPower unit and the license changes. The units look somewhat like power bars. Power 99/500VA PnP US$89 at www.outpost.com Power99/720VA PnP US$99 at www.outpost.com CDN$230 at Future Shop stores (why so much more?) --- To me, the CyberPower look pretty affordable, and the quick response from the company was impressive. I also like the Best Power Patriot Pro II 400 VA. It comes with Linux software direct from the company, and we can at least make an unofficial package from .dsc and .diff files if the license forbids us packaging it. Unresolved questions: - What do we get for smart mode? I presume more info about the state of the UPS and the line condition gets to the user software. But can the Linux software display it? -- Peter Galbraith, research scientist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada. 418-775-0852 FAX: 775-0546 6623'rd GNU/Linux user at the Counter - http://counter.li.org/
Re: confusing X problem
How old is your version of Debian? Did you install the XF86_SVGA from a debian package or compile it from source? Thanks for that info. I didn't even know that file was there, but it wouldn't matter much since mine is old and doesn't have that entry. Did I do something bad by just getting a new XF86_SVGA and not upgrading anything else?
Re: FAT32 to FAT16
I have a problem, I really hope you can help me. I need to convert my computer back to FAT16 from FAT32. How can I do that? I have already formatted my harddisk (850MB), so does their exist any program, which in MS-DOS mode can convert my harddisk back to FAT16? Try the normal FDISK and just tell it not to dtart in 32 mode. Then delete the partion make a new one and reformat. -- Geordy Korte --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ 14458242 http://www.nai.nu | Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key |--
How do I set samba permissions?
I'm trying to use an NT editor to edit a bunch of perl scripts on my debian server, shared through samba. The problem is that the 'group execute' permission keeps getting turned off when I save the file. I've set create mask to 0770, but every time I save a file, the permissions change from -rwxrwx--- to -rwxrw. Here's the relevant part of my smb.conf: [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no ; By default, the home directories are exported read only. Change next ; parameter to no if you want to be able to write to them. read only = no ; File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to ; create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775. create mask = 0770 ; Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to ; create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775. directory mask = 0770
Re: leafnode won't fetch
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 10:00:46AM -0500, Keith G. Murphy wrote: IIRC, don't you have to access the newsgroup (say, from within SLRN or Netscape Messenger) first, to let leafnode know you're interested? I vaguely recall having to do something like that... I think when you do this, you get a little newsgroup message telling you fetch will get it or something. Yes, but to do this you need to download the active file. Without an active file there won't be any groups for you to select :-) . You can short-circuit things a little by touching a file named after the group in /var/spool/news/interesting.groups (at some point I'll probably get round to moving this into /var/state or /var/lib), but this mechanism is subject to change. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
Re: update-alterntaives question by proxy
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 07:40:13AM -0700, Robert Jones wrote: This question was presented to me by someone else, and, as I couldn't find an appropriate answer, I pass it on the the list for futher enlightenment. What is the Right Way to increase the priority of one option for an alternative? If what you want to do is override the priorities given by the package the supported method is to overwrite the symlinks in /etc/alternatives to point at the option you'd like to choose. update-alternatives will notice and won't touch the symlinks unless you tell it to go back into automatic mode. The proprities given are only defaults - you are free to override them. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
Re: Problems with the samba update
Peter, I had a similar problem when I updated my samba to Potato. In my case, it was because I had a installed Samba on a older version of debian and I used the easiest shortcut on my inital setup. The solution to my problem was to remove the samba password file and re-enter my users passwords into it. This fixed the problem for me. Good Luck, Doug peter karlsson wrote: Hi! A recent samba update (in potato) rendered all my shares non-functional. For some reason, no-one can mount anything, not even using the correct passwords, and if I try to browse my computer (from a Windows machine), it claims that I have to enter a password for \\computername\IPC$ I've tried fiddling around with the configuration file, and also to move the old shares to the end of the new template configuration file, but I cannot get it to work. Does anyone have any idea what is wrong? Samba version is 2.0.5a-2 -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World World.log -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
tkchooser not starting
Hi there, since the last update I did in my samba package, tkchooser refuses to start... It goes well all over the startup sequence, the window comes up but, when trying to start the SMB protocol (the only one I have configured), it aborts (error messages included in the end of the e-mail)... Is it a problem with samba or with tkchooser? My machine is set as preferred master, local master but NOT as the domain master (this task is left to a NT server)... error messages- Error in startup script: can't read master: no such variable while executing string length $master (procedure smb.getzones line 34) invoked from within smb.getzones (procedure smb.setzones line 2) invoked from within smb.setzones (procedure smb.refresh line 6) invoked from within smb.refresh (procedure smb.start line 8) invoked from within $protocol.start (procedure startproto line 22) invoked from within startproto $defaultprotocol (file /usr/local/bin/tkchooser line 646)
Re: confusing X problem
How old is your version of Debian? Did you install the XF86_SVGA from a debian package or compile it from source? I started from a Debian 2.0 CD, but did not install X from there. I pointed dselect to ftp://ftp.debian.org//pub/debian/dists/stable for updating the stuff that installed off the CD and then adding X. So, I _think_ everything is up to date with dists/stable. I have tried three XF86_SVGA binaries. The first (3.3.2) came as a .deb package from somewhere under dists/stable. The other two (3.3.3, 3.3.4) were from a .tgz file pulled from a mirror of xfree86.org That brings to light the question of whether or not I can get away with downloading a server binary and dropping it on top of an older version of X. Also, I just noticed something about my monitor. The specs say, Plug and Play: 1/2B. I don't have a clue what that means, but could that have anything to do with it? It is an NEC MultiSync XV15+. I can try it with a different monitor if that might help, but I don't have any sort of specs or docs on the other one, as it just says Tangent Computer. I hope some of this information helps bring to light whatever stupid mistake I am making! As always, I appreciate all of the people who take time to help me with this. Thanks, Patrick
Re: leafnode won't fetch
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 07:02:15AM -0230, Chris Gushue wrote: Thus wrote NatePuri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [99.08.17 06:21]: I'm trying to setup leafnode. I have configure /etc/leafnode.conf to use my isp's nntp server (i.e., news.myisp.net). When I run the command 'fetch' absolutely nothing happens. Why is this? As of leafnode 1.9.4 (I think), fetch has been renamed to fetchnews. Reasons for this are in the documentation. Or, if that isn't the problem, try running it with -vvv to see extra output. The -vvv thingy did the trick ... thanks -- -- Chris Gushue - ICQ:409207 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- GCS d- s+:- a23 C++$ UL+++ P+++ L+++ E W++ N++ o-- K- w--- O- M-- V-- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP+ t++ 5+ X++ R- tv+ b++ DI+ D+ G++ e h! r y+ -- http://seymour.napalm.net --- http://owirc.napalm.net -- -- NatePuri (natedawg) Certified Law Student McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ompages.com PGP: http://www.ompages.com/PGP.html UIN: 43504034 IRC: ompages.com #ompages pgpLbQGrBnB9s.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problems with the samba update
The solution to my problem was to remove the samba password file and re-enter my users passwords into it. This fixed the problem for me. The problem is that I do not have a password file for samba, I don't use encrypted password (mostly because I'm too lazy to set them up). -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
Re: full color ghostview ?
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 11:52:02AM -0400, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: This sounds like a font problem. Do you have the font packages installed for ghostscript? No, this is not the font problem, fonts look ok (please, look at my original post). The problem is that gv (and the family) produce horrible dithered images and do it very slowly. It seems that ghostscript's x11 device is to blame. So I was wondering if there is alternative pastscript viewer with a similar capabilities, which does not suffer from the dithering. Xv looks good, but it does not support multiple pages. If you've seen GSview for windows - this is how it should look like. From what I've read, you want anti-aliasing. With gs use the command line switch -sDEVICE=x11alpha instead of the normal (implicit) -sDEVICE=x11. In gv you can enable anti-aliasing through a menu option (State - Antialiasing). AFAIK, ghostview has no support for enabling anti-aliasing. Hope it helps, -- Arno
answering w/ mgetty
Is it possible to config mgetty so that it'll *only* answer the phone when it receives FAX from the modem? I don't want mgetty answering data/voice calls at all. What about silent answering? Can mgetty be configured to 'silently' listen to an answered call by a answering machine or human and if the remote fax machine starts connecting, answer the phone and start receiving a fax? I know this is possible in some software packages for dos/windows. Thanks -Paul
Re: xemacs at console won't suspend
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 16 Aug, David Teague wrote about xemacs at console won't suspend Hi Folks [snip] Would someone please tell me how to make xemacs running in text mode suspend as emacs always does and xemacs does when I'm connected to the machine via telnet? This is a know bug with xemacs20-nomule and gpm. The solutions are to either recompile xemacs without gpm support, or stop gpm before starting xemacs on the console. See http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lxemacs20-nomule.html for the several VERY OLD bugs on this subject. I think someone had submitted a patch but for some reason it has never been fixed. I've had some problems running xemacs20 (mule) on the console and it going into an error loop of some kind when resizing the console or killing gpm. I usually run my emaxen under 'screen', mostly because I switch around terminals so often. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBN7mbX9Zwc6w4vgodAQHflAgAhuuL1EIUcZHi6ZwmjucwCu2Unxh+eq3b qVJc6Ejqtm/zgJ6pr9VozMBeFSBpB099GFA3mnWSxa4r7dHWFkxOebi5iwva2oSG nHmQlZvA7fDvemNeWPJGh2tiE3Xta8PzSN4vJrc4w+NL62Td33SDsjGYCnqW0X41 5gRw9ZKoQoIoy4dO54HjW/8OoFZTswCo9dksitc8+/gQyiKr4GmvdOCRHdBaZZNd n8+V4Qt4gBzQ3B/FU3T+QCLVG6/Ihv5iSluw9powsheFN0X6ZE1Jaxa/unJYN7vw TaN8gPFmIwedIsZbul1rIah0S9sWnCqLoA8PhhjJmmNyD3Vm5PsGKA== =rY/E -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Samba and /etc/passwd
On Tue Aug 17, 1999, Debian Mail wrote: I'm quite puzzled since I cannot find the answer to what seems to be a faq: I want that samba uses /etc/passwd and not /etc/smbpasswd to authenticate a user. How do I do that? You can't. So every user has to use passwd AND smbpasswd every time he wants to change his password? Not necessarily. You don't have to use the same password for login and for samba. (Indeed, one could argue that this is a Good Thing.) Noel
Re: FAT32 to FAT16
Kim Andersen wrote: I have a problem, I really hope you can help me. I need to convert my computer back to FAT16 from FAT32. How can I do that? I have already formatted my harddisk (850MB), so does their exist any program, which in MS-DOS mode can convert my harddisk back to FAT16? There's several applications can do that: Partition Magic for example. Meanwhile, I think you can convert to FAT16 without that - you must have Linux and fdisk dos program. I don't know if it's possible to do it all on linux ... Go to fdisk on linux and change the type partition you want to DOS = 16bit (i think it's this option - i'm away from a linux box). Boot your system with DOS. Try to format such partition. If it doesn't work try to delete such partition from dos's fdisk program and create it again. Hope this help. Regards, Nuno Carvalho
Re: [Summary] UPS anyone?
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Unresolved questions: - What do we get for smart mode? I presume more info about the state of the UPS and the line condition gets to the user software. But can the Linux software display it? If you get the APC Back-UPS pro and use apcupsd in smart mode it can. The main advantage is that it can get an estimate of how long your system can run on the battery from the UPS. In dumb mode most of the UPS software immediately shuts down a system when a power outage is detected. In smart mode, with the right software, the system will stay up until the battery gets low. Here's the output of apcaccess status on my system (apcaccess is part of the apcupsd package): APC : Aug 17 11:21:25 CABLE: APC Cable 940-0095A UPSMODEL : BACK-UPS PRO 650 UPSMODE : Net Master SHARE: NetworkUPS UPSNAME : ULINE: 118.0 Volts MLINE: 118.0 Volts NLINE: 118.0 Volts FLINE: 60.0 Hz VOUTP: 118.0 Volts LOUTP: 042.9 Load Capacity BOUTP: 13.8 Volts BCHAR: 100.0 Batt. Charge TIME : 18.0 Minutes SENSE: HIGH WAKEUP : 060 Cycles SLEEP: 020 Cycles LOTRANS : 002.0 Volts HITRANS : 002.0 Volts CHARGE : 003.0 Percent BFAIL: 0x08 Status Flag ALARM: Always LASTEVNT : SELF TEST LOWBATT : 02 Minutes So, my system can run for an estimated 18 minutes if the power fails. I have it set so that a shutdown will be performed when either BCHAR drops below 10% or TIME drops below 10 minutes (this is something you can configure yourself). The other quantities that are neat to know about, but not critical, are the maximum, minimum and current line voltages (MLINE, NLINE and ULINE, respectively), and the load capacity (LOUTP). Again, it's interesting to see these values, but not really a necessity to save your system when the power goes out. Gary
Re: How to do it? [Xserver]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Di Carlo) writes: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Artur Zaworski) writes: - - Sorry, I forgot something... last sec. of my Xsun ; - - + strace Xsun - - access(/dev/fb0, R_OK|W_OK) = 0 - open(/dev/fb0, O_RDWR)= 6 - ioctl(6, FBIOGATTR, 0x2cf4f0) = 0 - ioctl(6, 0x80144604, 0x2c332c) = 0 - - This would make me think you perhaps are using the wrong X server? It's Xsun from debian dist. (slink) ii xserver-xsun3.3.2.3a-11X server for 8-bit Sun framebuffers I tried xsun24 too (the same version as above). - Which model of graphics card do you have (or Sun model if you don't - know the card)? Which X server are you using? It's Sparc Station 20, graphic card - i think it's a kind of SX, but it can be TurboGX or a kind of ZX too. Are they all supported in this xserver? What can I do or what can I read? :-( Thx's a lot, -M. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical University of Gdansk, Poland.
Re: How to do it? [Xserver]
I think your problem is that you need to 'chmod 0666 /dev/fb?'. This is a known bug in the slink Xsun X window system servers. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/
Re: (fwd) Re: How to do it? [Xserver]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Dunham) writes:
- Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-
- This would make me think you perhaps are using the wrong X server?
- Which model of graphics card do you have (or Sun model if you don't
- know the card)? Which X server are you using?
-
- One of our binaries (I think the 3.3.3.x ones in potato, and an
- unofficial release of 3.3.2.3a) have the access() function call
- removed (by me) because it ignores suid status. You'll have to get a
- newer server, or chmod 666 /dev/fb0.
I have already done it, but it doesn't work.
+ ls -al /dev/fb0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 29, 0 Aug 6 12:26 /dev/fb0
I 'use' xserver-xsun 3.3.2.3a-11, but i've already tried
xserver-xsun 3.3.3.1-10.1 (from slink and from potato).
Still I can see:
strace of Xsun
access(/dev/fb0, R_OK|W_OK) = 0
open(/dev/fb0, O_RDWR)= 6
ioctl(6, FBIOGATTR, 0x2cf4f0) = 0
ioctl(6, 0x80144604, 0x2c332c) = 0
access(/dev/fb1, R_OK|W_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
access(/dev/fb2, R_OK|W_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
fstat(6, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0666, st_rdev=makedev(29, 0), ...}) = 0
--- SIGBUS (Bus error) ---
+++ killed by SIGBUS +++
Any other ideas? Heelp! :-)
C ya!
-M.
--
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Technical University of Gdansk,
Poland.
Setting up Exim
Allright, maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm stuck: In X, I open a xterm and type eximconfig. I supply my mailserver's id and tell it where to put the mail (in the sole user's account: mine!). Not too difficult, even for a newbie like me. Now, when I try to get my mail, I run fetchmail (the modem flickers), then exim, and I get an error something like no mail adresses supplied. How come? I've set up exim at least 5 times, just to make sure, in and out of X, as root and as user, rebooted, all to no avail. What am I doing wrong? To the best of my knowledge, I am setting it up exactly as the Mail-HOWTO told me. Clues most welcome :-) Regards Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer
Re: Setting up Exim
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allright, maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm stuck: In X, I open a xterm and type eximconfig. I supply my mailserver's id and tell it where to put the mail (in the sole user's account: mine!). Not too difficult, even for a newbie like me. Now, when I try to get my mail, I run fetchmail (the modem flickers), then exim, and I get an error something like no mail adresses supplied. How come? I've set up exim at least 5 times, just to make sure, in and out of X, as root and as user, rebooted, all to no avail. What am I doing wrong? To the best of my knowledge, I am setting it up exactly as the Mail-HOWTO told me. First, are you sure local mail is being delivered correctly? Try opening up your mail program (mutt, elm, pine, xfmail, ...) and sending mail to your local userid (ie. I would send to 'greg' which is my accound on my home computer, not 'ggbaker'). If that doesn't work, your problem is with Exim. If it does work, your problem is with fetchmail. I'm not at a computer with fetchmail, so take this with a grain of salt... You should have a file in your home directory called .fetchmailrc. Mine looks (as I recall) something like: poll my.pop.server proto POP3 auth password user ggbaker pass mypassword keep Have a look at the fetchmail man page. Does that do it? Greg --- With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. --RFC-1925
Re: Fetchmail won't configure
on Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 05:28:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a newbie, I thought I'd let fetchmailconf take me by the hand and help me configure the bastard instead of futzing around with config-files. But all I get is: promptfetchmailconf (I type at prompt) Linux answers: env: python: no such file or directory I search dselect for python but all the python dselect can find seems to be already installed. I've successfully configured exim (I think -it didn't complain, just tells me there's no mail) and mail runs ok, so I just don't get it?! I figure I do need fetchmail for getting the mail off of my ISP, right?! I tried some different FM's but they all seem to assume the stuff is actually able to execute... Regards Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer I don't know about a configuration tool for fetchmail, but the syntax for the .fetchmailrc-file is very simple (man fetchmail). Try some entries in your .fetchmailrc like this: server name.of.your.isp's.pop.server proto name_of_the_protocol_to_use (usually pop3) user your user name (for the mail-account) user your password (for the mail-account) is your_local_login_name (if mail user name is different from your local login name) flush! (deletes all mail on your isp's host after download) Bye Thorsten -- Thorsten Jenal [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. -- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in Oath of Fealty
Xemacs Prcs problem
Hi, My slink xemacs-nomule tries to load the prcs.el package whenever I load any file. However, this file doesn't seem to be a part of any of the following: xemacs20-bin xemacs20-nomule xemacs20-support emacs19-el emacs19 emacsen-common How do I fix this? I'm assuming if someone can email me this file, along with where I need to put it, the problem will go away... --prashanth
Gateway/Slink Install
Hi: I am having trouble installing Slink ( using Linux Sytems Labs Cds ) on a Gateway 3000: at one point in the installation it comes up with the message: failed to extract the floppy drivers. I have used the same cd tp install Linux on an SAG computer earlier, so I doubt that there is anything wrong with the cd. I boot up from a floppy rescue1440.bin disketter, and select the cdrom as the medium to install from. I tried to copy the directory to a dos partition but here again it gives the same message. Any suggestion about how to proceed? Thanks. Sebastian Canagaratna Department of Chemistry Ohio Northern University Ada.
Re: Setting up Exim
Thanks for the quick response. Yes, it seems I can mail myself. I started mail and sent a message to viggo (my local username). It arrived promptly, and I was able to read it. I can not, however, find any file by that name (or any file at all) in my /home/viggo directory (using dir from an xterm, one the few recognizable commands to me from way back in them DOS-days). Fetchmail always prompts me for my password to my ISP, but seems to have gotten the ISP's mail-account right (I typed it, but no longer take anything for granted ;-) ). This would indicate to me that I would have to edit my fetchmail-config-file, right?! Oh, well, I must be basically heading in the right direction. I'll do some manpage-reading (great facility, that is) and try to get back with more info. Thanks a lot; I really appreciate it, and X is so beautiful... Regards Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Greg Baker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt:17. august 1999 20:34 Til: Wichmann, Viggo Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Emne: Re: Setting up Exim On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allright, maybe this is a stupid question, but I'm stuck: In X, I open a xterm and type eximconfig. I supply my mailserver's id and tell it where to put the mail (in the sole user's account: mine!). Not too difficult, even for a newbie like me. Now, when I try to get my mail, I run fetchmail (the modem flickers), then exim, and I get an error something like no mail adresses supplied. How come? I've set up exim at least 5 times, just to make sure, in and out of X, as root and as user, rebooted, all to no avail. What am I doing wrong? To the best of my knowledge, I am setting it up exactly as the Mail-HOWTO told me. First, are you sure local mail is being delivered correctly? Try opening up your mail program (mutt, elm, pine, xfmail, ...) and sending mail to your local userid (ie. I would send to 'greg' which is my accound on my home computer, not 'ggbaker'). If that doesn't work, your problem is with Exim. If it does work, your problem is with fetchmail. I'm not at a computer with fetchmail, so take this with a grain of salt... You should have a file in your home directory called .fetchmailrc. Mine looks (as I recall) something like: poll my.pop.server proto POP3 auth password user ggbaker pass mypassword keep Have a look at the fetchmail man page. Does that do it? Greg --- With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. --RFC-1925
Mail-question; Quick One!
Ok let me get this straight: I use a total of three (four) apps to read my mail: (pppd(pon) connects to my ISP,) fetchmail gets the mail, passes it on to exim, which sends it to the (one and only) user: me, and I finally invoke for example mail to read and edit mail. mail is (basically) an editor. exim takes care of internal mail (inside my machine, between root and user or apps like cron) fetchmail handles the connection out-of-the-box (mailwise) pppd/pon does the actual connecting bit (dialing and passwording and stuff) Please correct a pitiful newbie if he be lead astray from the path of righteousness. Best Regards Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer
IP-Masquerade
Hi there, today I was trying to set our computers to do IP-Masquerading (we'll be changing our external provider, and while the old one did the masquerading for us, the now one doesn't)... I tried to do everything as explained in the IP-Masquerade HOWTO, but for some reason things weren't running quite fine (well... not fine at all, as the packages coming from one adapter wouldn't see the other eth's)... I found a way to set things to work, but I'd like to know if this creates any problem or opens any security breach (and, if it does, what should I do)... The idea was to get our subnets 192.168.x.0 to go through a REAL net... The HOWTO suggested I should try something like ipfwadm -F -p deny (setting 'deny' as the default rule) ipfwadm -F -a masquerade -P tcp 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0 -D 0.0.0.0/0 (and the same for udp) I removed both lines and tried: ipfwadm -F -p accept -m (default policy: accept, masquerading) Now everuthing works fine, but I'm somehow suspicious this may open a whole in our security... does it? Is there a safer way to do it? []'s Guilherme Zahn
