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Ola, Alguém da lista sabe qual pacote da Debian contém o arquivo newt.h? Recentemente precisei fazer uma reinstalação da Debian e esqueci o nome do pacote que abriga este arquivo. Antecipadamente agradeço --- gleydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] MailBR - O e-mail do Brasil -- http://www.mailbr.com.br Faça já o seu. É gratuito!!!
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Alguém da lista sabe qual pacote da Debian contém o arquivo newt.h? Use o último formulário em http://www.br.debian.org./distrib/packages/ A resposta é: FILE PACKAGE usr/include/newt.hdevel/newt0.25-dev Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra Amdocs (Brasil) Ltda
Re: confusing X problem
The only way I know to approach a problem like this is to get the system to a known state, and then proceed with a step-by-step analysis to reduce the number of variables, and isolate the problem. I would suggest something like the following: That sounds good, but I'm not really sure how to accomplish step-by-step analysis with X. Everything seems to be just fine until I try to run X. Even then, everything seems fine except for the power on and power off entries in /var/log/xdm.log and the fact that the monitor does just that. Given my limited knowledge, it seems that the only variables are the SVGA server and the XF86Config file. I don't know what else could cause such weird behavior. Verify whether the current version of stable does have support for your card. If so, purge your current xserver pacakges, and reinstall them. Make sure that the package dependencies are all met during the installation, and that any packages that were not configured get configured (run dpkg --pending --configure). The current version of stable does not support this card, that is why I have tried dropping in SVGA server binaries from the newer versions. Gather together all the relevant docs, HOWTO's, man pages, etc. Now begin the X configuration process. At each step, read the relevant portion of the docs to verify that the correct data is entered, and that the system gives the correct response. Assuming all goes well, run it. I finally see how a step-by-step analysis could help. I think it is safe to say that the mouse and keyboard settings have nothing to do with our problem. The monitor is clearly capable of what I am telling the xf86config program. I have the specifications for the monitor right here. According to to the card list on www.xfree86.org, SVGA is the right server to use. Now we get into things where I'm not quite so sure. In case the card doesn't really have 2MB, I'll set it to 1MB. It certainly has that. Since I have not been able to find the specifications for the card on the Internet, I can only assume that the SVGA server is detecting the RAMDAC, clockchip and chipset correctly. That could be where the problem lies. Both Windows95 and the SVGA server say it's a 2MB card with an IBM-RGB525 RAMDAC, so it was probably safe to put those in the config file (although it didn't fix the problem). Taking it like that, the problems might be: 1. wrong clockchip 2. wrong RAMDAC 3. wrong X server 4. wrong amount of video RAM 5. wrong chipset 6. something else Is this the kind of analysis you were suggesting? Any ideas for finding the specifications on this card? Diamond seems rather tight lipped about the specifications of its cards. Now observe what does or does not happen. Note the specific errors and where in the process they occur. Go back to the docs and read the relevant sections. As you attempt to resolve each error, again note what happens and try to find out why. In this way, the the potential problem areas are narrowed down and hopefully isolated. If not, it is much easier to ask someone to help when the problem has been clarified. Same old problem. What sections are relevant to the monitor turning itself off and the messages power on and power off in xdm.log? I have certainly read the troubleshooting sections of all documents I have come across. As far as clarifying the problem, about all I know is that it seems to succeed except for those strange messages in xdm.log and the monitor turning itself off. If this sound like a lot of work, well, it is. But IMHO it is easier than trying to solve a difficult problem intuitively. Taken a step at a time, it comes together easier than it might seem. I have plenty of time and don't mind the work. I just wish that both the configuration process and the documentation were a little more user friendly. Here is some additional information that will hopefully give someone an idea as to the problem: I have noticed a couple of interesting symptoms during additional attempts I have made. I started with no one logged in on VC's 1-6 and xdm not running. I telnetted in from another machine so that I would still be able to issue commands after starting xdm. Of course, when I started xdm, the screen turned off. Even so, I thought I might be able to log into xdm. Sure enough, ps aux now lists /usr/bin/X11/twm! That tells me that xdm is indeed working, albeit invisibly. I decided to also try mode switching with the Ctrl Alt + and Ctrl Alt -. That produced two new lines in /var/log/xdm.log (the first was already there): POWER ON Mode switch failed because of hardware initialisation error POWER ON In addition, stopping X produced something I had not thought to mention: All 6 VC's are now messed up vertically. The top and bottom lines are off the screen and there is a blank gap slightly above the middle. They are fine horizontally though. Thank you, Patrick Olson
FW: Kernel panic!
I used to get the same thing (Debian 2.0) on the first disk access after my PC went into suspended mode. I thought it was the powersave features of the bios but I didn't have the correct utilities to turn it off. (Too lazy to download them) On a long shot I used the utility hdparm to turn off the spindown of my harddisk (see: man hdpram) and the problem disappeared. P.S. I also took smail out on the mail cron-tab at the same time as this was the software that accessed the disk every 20mins keeping the PC out of suspend. Cheers David -Original Message- From: EXT Alvin Oga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17. August 1999 09:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 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... -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Xemacs Prcs problem (still persists)
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote: That file is in a package named prcs. If you go into dselect and install the prcs package, it should be able to load prcs.el. The problem persists. I removed my prcs and reinstalled it. The installation gave the following messages: Setting up prcs (1.2.11-7) ... install/prcs: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour xemacs20 Compiling /usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/prcs/prcs.el... ** Variable reference to constant :buffer ** Variable reference to constant :force [...] ** Variable reference to constant :get-descriptor-too Wrote /usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/prcs/prcs.elc Done Remarkably, xemacs still doesn't find it. It does [strace o/p] stat(/usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/octave/prcs.elc,0xbfffe510) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat(/usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/octave/prcs.el,0xbfffe510) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) but it doesn't look in /usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/prcs Is there a way of getting xemacs to look in the right place? Thanks, --prashanth
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Re: Xemacs Prcs problem (still persists)
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Prashanth Mundkur wrote: Setting up prcs (1.2.11-7) ... install/prcs: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour xemacs20 Compiling /usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/prcs/prcs.el... ** Variable reference to constant :buffer ** Variable reference to constant :force [...] ** Variable reference to constant :get-descriptor-too Wrote /usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/prcs/prcs.elc Done I don't know much about this message. Is there a file named /usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/prcs/prcs.el You can check using a command like ls /usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/prcs/prcs.e* It should list both prcs.el and prcs.elc. If prcs.el does not exist, you might try dpkg --pending --configure but I'm afraid if that doesn't work I don't know much more. Remarkably, xemacs still doesn't find it. It does [strace o/p] stat(/usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/octave/prcs.elc,0xbfffe510) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) stat(/usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/octave/prcs.el,0xbfffe510) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) but it doesn't look in /usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/prcs Is there a way of getting xemacs to look in the right place? ln -s /usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/prcs/prcs.elc /usr/share/xemacs20/site-lisp/octave/prcs.elc ought to make it find at file, getting rid of one of the two No such file or directory messages. Warning: This may not be the right way to fix it. I don't actually know anything about emacs. ln -s is just a command to make a link from the actual location to the place where the program is looking. Please someone else jump into this thread if there is a better answer! Hope this helps, Patrick
Re: [Summary] UPS anyone?
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 11:34:35AM -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote 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. One thing you *don't* seem to get with vendor-supplied stuff is support for multiple workstations on one UPS, as you get with upsd. Is that changing? John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: Mail-question; Quick One!
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 09:43:30PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote 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. That's the way it works if you have a single machine (or small network) with dial-up access to an ISP's mailbox. Here's a more general description; please ignore it if it's confusing: There are two kinds of programs that handle internet mail: - Mail Transport Agents (MTAs) - Mail User Agents (MUAs). In the traditional UNIX world, MUAs are the programs that users run to read or write mail. MTAs are the programs that MUAs rely on to transport mail when you send a message so that it arrives in the addressee's mail box. MTAs usually receive messages either via SMTP on TCP/IP port 25, or by having the MUA run sendmail; most PC mailers use SMTP, as they can't assume that you have a copy of sendmail on your PC. The MTA typically then transmits the mail message via SMTP to an MTA on whatever machine handles mail for the addressee, and that MTA appends the message to the user's system mailbox (usually /var/spool/mail/user). Once it's in the mailbox, it's out of the hands of the MTA. If you're a local user, your mail reader displays (and deletes, etc.) messages directly from your system mailbox; some mailers transfer the contents holus-bolus to some other mailbox in /home/user/mail or /home/user/Mail, some operate on them in place in the system mailbox. If you have a dialup connection to an ISP, there is an extra step involved; your mail is on your ISP's mail server, but you have to transfer it to your own PC. One approach, the default for most PC workstations, is to use a mail program that downloads the mail using POP or IMAP directly into your mailer (XFMail, Netscape, Eudora, etc. do this); this is convenient, but ties you closely to a single mail program. The other approach, which Fetchmail takes, is to download the mail using POP like a regular PC mail reader but then to re-inject it into the local MTA (with appropriate adjustments to the recipient addresses), so that it ends up in /var/spool/mail/user or wherever you configure your MTA to send it. The fetchmail approach is more flexible as you can use all the regular UNIX mail tools that you would normally have available, rather than whatever is provided by your mailer. In the context of this explanation, you are using: Exim - Your local MTA mutt, pine, whatever - Your MUA Fetchmail- A bridge between MUA-land back into MTA-land pppd, pon, etc. - Froth that you use to establish a network connection required by fetchmail. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything. - Bill Gates in Denmark
Re: Samba and /etc/passwd
* Debian == Debian Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian So every user has to use passwd AND smbpasswd every time he Debian wants to change his password? You can sync them, so that users can use the windows dialog to change the samba and unix password. See the comments im smb.conf about password sync. Ciao, Martin
Weird XServer Problem!
My Xserver allows ONLY root user to login. Any other user, it just makes as it is going to conect normally, and then it comes to the login prompt again. PS. How can I make Xserver NOT start automatic. Thanks in advance for your help! _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: strange pppd question
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:11:13AM -0500, Brad wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote: 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. I haven't tried it, but couldn't you just use the nodetach option on pppd so it doesn't fork into the background? -- Don Strayer
Re: Need exim to rewrite Sender header
* Eric == Eric G Miller egm2@jps.net wrote:
Eric On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 09:37:06PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Eric snip
Eric | You do this in the remote_smtp transport.
Eric | headers_remove = sender
Eric | headers_add = ${header_from}
Eric That didn't work. Perhaps because I'm using smarthost?
No, because it should be headers_add = Sender: ${header_from}
But the real solution is, that your ISP checks your SMTP envelope, not
your Sender header.
So combine this header manipulation with the rewrite rule:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] egm2@jps.net F
And it should work.
Ciao,
Martin
Re: which pgp package?
Thus wrote Steve Gore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [99.08.17 21:03]: I'm new to pgp. It seems that there are many pgp packages in potato, ie pgp-us, pgp-i, pgp5i. Which one I should use? Personally, I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GPG): http://www.gnupg.org It's currently in beta - what isn't in the Linux world :), with 1.0 due out next month. It works quite well, especially with Mutt. Though it seems the potato Mutt doesn't have gpg support, so I had to compile that myself. Oh well... ---end quoted text--- (Hrmm.. testing 1 2 3...) My Mutt seems to be supporting GPG. I'm using the most recent binaries straight from potato. Please advise me if I'm mistaken. (I'm new to pgp/gpg also.) Maybe I just did something wrong, that sort of thing happens often :) At any rate, Mutt 0.95.7/0.95.7i was just released, so I'll try that when it hits potato. -- -- Chris Gushue - ICQ:409207 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- GCS d- s+:- a23 C++$ 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 -- pgpiV17nSihHf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Setting up Exim
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 07:57:39PM +0200, [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 ^^ I think this is a fetchmail problem, not exim. However, can you send mail to yourself locally, as well as to your ISP account? Anyway, you need to instruct fetchmail where to get your mail, the user name and password to use, protocol, etc... See man fetchmail. There isn't too much too it. | 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 | | | -- | Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null | | -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Setting up Exim
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 09:29:12PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | 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 If you're using the default setup, incoming mail is in /var/spool/mail/$USER ($USER - being the user name). Exim has it's own outgoing spool directory. You can save mail anywhere under $HOME, though the default for many programs is $HOME/Mail. Beware that different mail clients use different formats for storing mail. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: Weird XServer Problem!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Ing. Rodin Fadul wrote: My Xserver allows ONLY root user to login. Any other user, it just makes as it is going to conect normally, and then it comes to the login prompt again. i had this problem once, it turned out that the permissions on /tmp were bad. ll -d /tmp should output something like this: drwsrwsrwx 5 root root 1024 Aug 17 21:43 /tmp ^^ If this isn't right, chmod 1777 /tmp should do it. If that doesn't help, check the .xsession-errors file for the user, or use startx from a console to see the messages. PS. How can I make Xserver NOT start automatic. Remove the xdm package. If you'd rather keep it around, use the update-rc.d utility: update-rc.d -f xdm remove update-rc.d xdm start 99 5 . stop 01 0 1 2 3 4 6 . # This will start xdm in runlevel 5 only. Change to suit your needs. - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN7ofV77M/9WKZLW5AQFvJQP+LX8gEYwrkiQGVmbmAP5kVtIrRJHh66OC GMyfxfnFFbDQ4DGHebV92467M/VihLR88J3ZZnAU5OIjmX3AIwJ0ezI4uu8hdxvR w4AY3t2xbX84cxb69T/p4qJccHD2v2zckLqUvfLz776Eja6L/cp1hmoo97Ua9E9W nmokugbglWI= =Oaa5 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Printing problem..
I'm running a pure potato box, using lprng and a2ps. My printer is a Brother M-1824L dot-matrix using Epson emulation. I've selected the Epsom driver from apsfilterconfig. The problem is that printed output runs over the page length. I'm using tractor-feed, letter size paper. I have selected letter as the default paper size (experimented with other sizes, but letter is still the closest). The problem seems to be the distance that the paper is incremented during printing, as the rulers on the test page are too long vertically. Can anyone suggest a fix, or point me at the proper docs? I've read the printing-HOWTO and the a2ps info page without noticing anything apropos to my problem. (I vaguely remember reading how to set the increment distance at one time, but can't remember where..) -- Regards, Steve
Re: httpd: cannot determine local host name
How do I give my local machine a host name? Try running hostname and hostname -f. If you get the same output i.e. no domain shown with hostname -f, then that is the problem. In my case I had an entry in /etc/hosts such as 192.168.1.1fred instead of the correct 192.168.1.1fred.my.domain.tld fred It took some finding... Hello Lindsay, I don't have a /etc/hosts. When I run hostname it says 'debian'. Same iwth hostname -f. Obviously this is my fault during setup. I'm sure I pressed the enter key without knowing full well what I was reading. Now, that being the case, how do I change my hostname AND give my server a name that apache will recognize? Thanks Andre
DNA required for intranet?
Apache tells me httpd: cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually. While I'm at it, is it necessary to setup a DNS in order to give a server a name? I've no intention of going online with this particular pc. Thanks. Andre'
Re: httpd: cannot determine local host name
Try running hostname and hostname -f. If you get the same output i.e. no domain shown with hostname -f, then that is the problem. In my case I had an entry in /etc/hosts such as 192.168.1.1 fred instead of the correct 192.168.1.1 fred.my.domain.tld fred Hello Lindsay, I don't have a /etc/hosts. I accidentally sent the above message. After I typed it I found hosts in /etc/apache and edited it to change my host name from debian to www.one-click.com. Now to find out how to setup a servername that apache will recognize... Thanks Andre
Re: permissions/ownership of /tmp
Output from $ ls -dsn /tmp drwxrwxrwt 7 002048 Aug 17 20:39 /tmp/ As far as the StarOffice Installer, I don't know. I just grabbed SO5.1 from their site and installed it in my home directory. You could install it in /usr/local by using the /net option to ./setup. At least, something like that has worked in the past. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: DNA required for intranet?
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: While I'm at it, is it necessary to setup a DNS in order to give a server a name? I've no intention of going online with this particular pc. No. DNS is only necessary if you want to go on the Internet. If you are not on any network (or if you only have a home LAN) you can do everything you need with the /etc/hosts file.
how to format mySeagate ST33210A
I just got a new HD and tried to format it using my Debian 1.0 Installation Boot Emergency disk set. I made the disk primary and unplugged my current 2.1Mb drive and booted the first disk and partitioned using the second (Ramdisk). I made a 100Mb swap and the rest, ~3Gb, Linux bootable, then made the swap area with no problems. But when I tried to format the Linux partition it failed with 256/373mkfs.ext2: can'r resolve symbol 'llseek'. I then made the drive secondary and re-plugged my 2Gb 2.2 primary drive and rebooted, hoping to format from my regular system. I tried mke2fs /dev/hdd, but it says, no such device. I did an apropos format | more, but didn't spot a disk formatter in the voluminous output. Can anyone spare a clue for a veteran? TIA -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ is lowest divided by the number of members. (Present company excepted of course).
Re: DNA required for intranet?
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 05:31:48PM -0700, André Bell wrote: | Apache tells me httpd: cannot determine local host name. Use the | ServerName directive to set it manually. | | While I'm at it, is it necessary to setup a DNS in order to give a server a | name? I've no intention of going online with this particular pc. | | Thanks. | | Andre' bind (DNS) is not required to run apache locally. Make your /etc/hosts look like: 127.0.0.1 localhost debian and make your /etc/host.conf look like: order hosts You might need to run apacheconfig again. Then you should be able to access the server as http://localhost or http://debian . If apache won't run, try changing the line ServerType inetd to ServerType standalone in /etc/apache/httpd.conf. -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Re: DNA required for intranet?
William T Wilson wrote: No. DNS is only necessary if you want to go on the Internet. If you are not on any network (or if you only have a home LAN) you can do everything you need with the /etc/hosts file. Sort of... Strictly speaking, DNS is not required for internet access. More accurately, an end user does not have to set up DNS on his/her machine to enable him/her to go onto the internet. The internet service providers provide one or more of their own DNS servers for the end user to use. Alternatively, it would be possible to use the /etc/hosts file to hold the names and ip addresses of each machine on the internet, but this would be totally impractical. DNS is used instead for this reason. Matthew
Re: DNA required for intranet?
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Matthew Dalton wrote: Sort of... Strictly speaking, DNS is not required for internet access. More accurately, an end user does not have to set up DNS on his/her machine to enable him/her to go onto the internet. The internet service providers provide one or more of their own DNS servers for the end user to use. Right. I think what we have here is a matter of confusion over terminology. I said 'DNS is only necessary if you go on the Internet' which, I think, is pretty much true (minus the pathological case of putting everybody in /etc/hosts). It isn't necessary to set up a whole DNS server for that (though you may as well as it will speed things up) but it is necessary to 'set up DNS' - in the sense that you need to sort out how your system will communicate with whatever DNS server it's using.
HELP : SETUP problem (DSELECT)
Hi, every one I'm trying to setup DEBIAN to my PC for the first time. I have no experience LINUX before and DEBIAN is my first linux. When I setup the DEBIAN, I encountered serious problems. I hope anyone who knows the reasons of those let me know it. My problem is as follows : (1) I cound not install any package I copied the binary files from FTP mirror site to my hard disk. When I set up the DEBIAN the dSELECT program is lauched. But when I entered ACCESS menu I selected harddisk and put the name /dev/hda1 ( My hard disk is partitioned into 3 one is for DOS, another is for LINUX and the other is for LINUX SWAP) and to the TYPE I wrote msdos, and DSELECT program asked me to write the top location of the files and so I wrote user/frog/Linux/Debian/dists/slink. But DSELECT told me the there is no such directory . What is the problem??? I copied the linux program Debian/dists/slink/~~~ into my hard disk ( - c:/user/frog/Linux/). So I could not setup any more program.. (2) Network function is abnormal When the setup procedure, I selected network interface card to S3509 and I full-filled the IP address items such as DNS, GateWay, my ip, etc. But when setup is completed I execute the ping command. But the command put any message(response) to me. How can I solve these problems??? I hope your help. Thanks in advance
Re: HELP : SETUP problem (DSELECT)
Hi, Kim, Jeong-Hwan wrote: (1) I cound not install any package I copied the binary files from FTP mirror site to my hard disk. When I set up the DEBIAN the dSELECT program is lauched. But when I entered ACCESS menu I selected harddisk and put the name /dev/hda1 ( My hard disk is partitioned into 3 one is for DOS, another is for LINUX and the other is for LINUX SWAP) and to the TYPE I wrote msdos, and DSELECT program asked me to write the top location of the files and so I wrote user/frog/Linux/Debian/dists/slink. But DSELECT told me the there is no such directory . What is the problem??? I copied the linux program Debian/dists/slink/~~~ into my hard disk ( - c:/user/frog/Linux/). So I could not setup any more program.. You probably have to mount your dos partition before dselect can read from it. Mounting is sort of like drive letters in DOS/Windows, except the partition is accessed through a specific directory instead of a drive letter. It sounds as though you've got the base system installed, that's good. At the prompt type (as user root): # cd /mnt # mkdir dos # mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 dos If this is successful, the directory /mnt/dos will now be the same as c:\ in dos. Now run dselect again and type in the location as: /mnt/dos/user/frog/Linux/Debian/dists/slink (2) Network function is abnormal When the setup procedure, I selected network interface card to S3509 and I full-filled the IP address items such as DNS, GateWay, my ip, etc. But when setup is completed I execute the ping command. But the command put any message(response) to me. Lets get the installation bit done first, and we can come back to this later. Matthew
Re: Kernel Compilation Error?
On Wed 08/18/99 01:01AM, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: My guess is that your gcc is too new. In my potato system I have these too compilers installed: % gcc --version 2.95.1 % gcc272 --version 2.7.2.3 for me: # gcc --version egcs-2.91 (something like that) I installed the gcc and gcc272 packages and made the changes in the top Makefile and the kernel compiled without a hiccup. I hope this helps, It sure did :) -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.debian.org _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Re: Apache: unable to use authentification
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote: You need to specify the AllowOverride AuthConfig directive for that directory in one of the main config files (e.g., /etc/apache/access.conf). I have AllowOverride All for this directory. I hoped that All would be enough :) Anyway, without AllowOverride set to either All or AuthConfig, I do get a request for usernamepassword, but this alwais fails. I tried using a plain password file, a dbm file and using PAM. All fail. I'm trying to get Apache (tried the Slink version and the current Potato version) to use authentification for some directory. Inside the directory have the following .htaccess: AuthType basic AuthName rinet AuthUserfile /etc/apache/htpasswd require user bartjan When I try to authentificate myself, I get in error.log: [Tue Aug 17 16:13:20 1999] [error] (13)Permission denied: access to /rinet/ failed for 10.2.100.11, reason: Authentication failure Passwd file was produced with htpasswd and does contain the user bartjan. I tried to authentificate myself numerous times, so mistyping the password is not the problem. auth_module is loaded in httpd.conf The systems I tested on are Slink systems, but with Potato libc6 (2.1.2-0pre2) and a few other upgrades. Kernels 2.2.5 and 2.2.6 Tot ziens, Bart-Jan
Re: Booting problems!
Make sure you try the Tecra disk images, which are zImage kernels instead of bzImage kernels. There's some notes on the mirrors in the README files and in the HTML doc files of the bootdisks regarding this in the disk-i386 directory. On 16 Aug 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: thank you for reading this message. The first boot for installation of debian 2.1 fails. After 'Loading linux ..' nothing happens, the machine hangs. Generally this means a bad floppy. There are other boot methods also, such as CD-ROM or loadlin from a DOS partition. Soon, TFTP for i386 also. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | 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: how to connect client xserver to networked host?
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: Thanks for the correction. I should've read the SSH documentation more closely. Now you have me wondering how the export DISPLAY machinename:0.0 method has been working between the office and home, since the firewall setup shouldn't allow that incoming (new) X connection in. Time to do some testing and see what the admins missed, I guess. Have to think about that one. Nice catch, anyway, on my bad information. I appreciate it! 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. +---++ | 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| ++
rsync for potato
Hi! Is there any way of using rsync to download, and keep up to date, the potato/unstable dist of Debian? /Marcus
Looking for Help w/ xfs
Hello, I've just recently started playing w/ debian and was able to get potato installed and configured on my computer. However, I went and screwed up my X install by trying to install Accelerated X from Xig. To make a long story short, the install crapped out so I decided to go back to what was working. the accelx install ruined my entire x install so I decided it would be best to use dselect to remove and reinstall all the pertinent components. that went pretty well and i did not get any warnings from dpkg after reinstalling. However, now when i got to start up xfs it tells me the following: xfs error: CONFIG: can't open configuration file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config xfs error: fatal: couldn't read config file I took a look at the man pages and it tells me the config file is usally a symbolic link to etc/X11/xfs/config. sure enough the file doesn't exist. the problem is I have no idea how to recreate that file. If anyone could help, I'd appreciate it much. thanks.
Re: rsync for potato
Marcus Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way of using rsync to download, and keep up to date, the potato/unstable dist of Debian? I use rsync to mirror the unstable binaries and source packages. The rsync scripts I use flatten the symlinks that point to slink so that all the packages that are the same for slink and potato get picked up too. The script for main archive (anonftpsync) has a couple of exclude lines that I need to keep the archive size down. I am pulling the files to the laptop I am using, so it makes sense to me to not to get everything from the archives. Since you are from Sweden, the closest rsync-enabled mirror is probably the sunsite we have here. You can get the scripts from http://sunsite.tut.fi/~hessu/deb-rsync/ Be sure to modify at least the TO variable in the script files. /Marcus // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland
HP JetDirect and Debian
Hello, I am experiencing a strange problem with an HP JetDirect J2552A (firmware A.3.0.16) printer server installed in an HP DesignJet 750C plotter. I can telnet to the plotter and configure it from a Debian 2.0 box, but I can not send anything to it. I have tried *everything* reported in the Printing-HOWTO, included the small Perl script to directly access the JetDirect through port 9100, but without success.. The Debian box has LPRng installed on it, and the spooling software works perfectly. I have read on the Bug Tracking mailing-list that LPRng seems not to be able to talk to networked printers, but I am not sure if that applies to my case as well, since even direct TCP connection does not work for me... What really drives me nuts is the fact that the same plotter works without any glitches if accessed from two NT 3.51 boxes via Microsoft's LPR service... One more thing: When I use lpq on the networked plotter, in addition to the info from LPRng I get the following line: JetDirect lpd: no entries. So it seems that at least *something* is understood by the JetDirect. Does anyone have an idea what else I could try? Thanks in advance for any help! Cleto
No network?
Hello from a newbie (please be patient!) I've just installed a std.server. I have 2 windows machines and the linux box. I can ping from one windows machine 1 (192.168.1.1) to windowsmachine 2(192.168.1.2) When I ping the linux (192.168.1.3) - ping times out. I can ping the linux box from the linux box, but not the windows-machines. Netmask is set to 255.255.255.0 at all mashines. Linux-box will be it's own dns No gateway Network-ip-address 192.168.1.0 (I think - I don't remember...just accepted the suggest) The linuxbox has a eth0 installed with no error-messages in the startup-screen. What can I do to troubleshoot? Yours Henning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Bilag:
/dev/mouse: not supported by device
I everybody, I tryed to run XFree after configuring with xf86config. After a while that I typed startx (and the monitor came black) there is a return to comand line and appeared the message: Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse (Operation not supported by device) So I tryed gpm, with a similar resul: gpm: /dev/mouse: not supported by device And even gpm -m /dev/ttyS0 is not better What's the problem? What should I do? Thanks to any help, Davide
latest install diskettes
I need these to format my new disk, I guess. Can anyone tell me where to find them? TIA -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ is lowest divided by the number of members.
secure tunnels
Some application software we have here (running on a Microsoft OS, even) needs to open an SSL connection to a remote server. It supports tunneling through proxy servers, but only proxy servers which require authentication. Our ISP's proxy does not require authentication, and the software can't handle it. (This is the most outrageous thing I've ever heard, but that's the way it is.) I want to set up some piece of software locally which will accept the authenticated connection and pass this on to the ISP's proxy. What software do I need to do this? I have no idea how these tunnels work. (General discussion: our ISP blocks outbound connects on port 80 so as to enforce proxy usage. All other ports are transparent. It would seem that the software is trying to talk to a remote web server. However, as far as I understand it, SSL http connections are usually done on port 443, which isn't blocked by our ISP. Thoughts?) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
Re: DNA required for intranet?
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, André Bell wrote: Apache tells me httpd: cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually. While I'm at it, is it necessary to setup a DNS in order to give a server a name? I've no intention of going online with this particular pc. just put the name of your machine in httpd.conf, ServerName directive, as suggested by the msg. I have this at home; it works fine. []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
Printer question : Does the HP DeskJet 610c run under Linux ? {Was : [HELP NEEDED] The Canon LBP 660 printer under Debian (Slink)}
Hi !
I've previously posted on question relative to the Canon LBP 660 printer.
Actually, it appears that such a printer is a real LOSS as it can not be
used under Linux.
I've installed Debian (Slink) on my friend box and would really like her
benefit from the available desktop. I'm now looking for a cheap printer
that will be ABLE to run under Linux. The DJ 610c is a new printer made by
HP.
I don't think it's a M$-Win-Printer ? But I'm not a hacker !
I simply know that HP put the printer PCL commands on a WEB page
(http://interactive.hp.com/cgi-bin/cspt/cds/dlvr.pl?lid=usefid=bpd02925pid=hpdeskjet610481).
And this makes me think that it's an open hardware.
Note that the commands given are shared used the HP dj{600, 700, 820c, 880c,
895c, 1000} printers.
Does somebody made it run under Linux or, know it may run under Linux ?
If so, how ?
Thanx in advance for your answers, Max.
PS. Please CC me the answer as I'm not on the list.
Re: No network?
As root, type 'ifconfig' and post the output to the list. Knowledgeable people on the list (not necessarily myself) are pretty good at trouble- shooting NIC problems using this output. Marc -- Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 -- It's such a fine line between clever and stupid. -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/18 4:21 AM Hello from a newbie (please be patient!) I've just installed a std.server. I have 2 windows machines and the linux box. I can ping from one windows machine 1 (192.168.1.1) to windowsmachine 2(192.168.1.2) When I ping the linux (192.168.1.3) - ping times out. I can ping the linux box from the linux box, but not the windows-machines. Netmask is set to 255.255.255.0 at all mashines. Linux-box will be it's own dns No gateway Network-ip-address 192.168.1.0 (I think - I don't remember...just accepted the suggest) The linuxbox has a eth0 installed with no error-messages in the startup-screen. What can I do to troubleshoot? Yours Henning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Bilag: -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: IP-Masquerade
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Guilherme Soares Zahn wrote: 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 ^^^ is there a typo here or you're using the entire range from 192.168.0 to 192.168.255. If you're using one C class (192.168.0.0), your mask should be 255.255.255.0 (or 192.168.0.0/24). I'm not sure but as you didn't specified the interface, ipfwadm is trying to guess from you source definition, that may not match ifconfig settings. Just curious: você não está utilizando o potato? Kernel 2.3.x? Por que não utiliza o ipchains? (sorry all others :) []s, Mario O.de MenezesMany are the plans in a man's heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
Re: xemacs at console won't suspend
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. The gpm part is fixed in XEmacs 21.1. I have never seen a bug report about hangs when resizing. Jan
Re: Xemacs Prcs problem (still persists)
Prashanth Mundkur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ** Variable reference to constant :buffer ** Variable reference to constant :force [...] ** Variable reference to constant :get-descriptor-too The messages are nothing to worry about. They are caused when a package tries to be compatible with Emacsen that do not support keywords natively. Is there a way of getting xemacs to look in the right place? Normally it picks up all subdirectories of site-lisp at startup. Are the permissions on the prcs directory OK? Jan
rsync from a cron script
I am running rsync from a script that is executed by cron. It is intended to mirror work stuff at home. It uses my personal accounts on both ends (different accounts). Sadly, rsync returns the following error (and doesn't work :) Permission denied unexpected EOF in read_timeout Here's what I've tried: The script works when executed by hand I have included the command ssh remotehost date in order to test that ssh is working from the script (it is) -- yes, I have RSYNC_RSH set to /usr/bin/rsync The only thing I can think of is that some environment isn't being set, but I can't figure out which one. Any ideas? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
Re: How does one forward mail on EXIM?
Kent Andersen wrote: I guess exim will use a .forward file in the users directory and if so what is the format of that file? Just put the e-mail address of where you want the e-mail to go to. I think this would be the easiest way of doing this. Hope this helps -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where do all the bits go when the computer is done with them?
Re: Printing problem
Isabelle Poueriet wrote: lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Why use a printfilter? As far as I know, all HP LaserJets have built in support for postscript. So you do not need to filter your docs from Netscape or Wordperfect as they are postscript and can be directly sent to the printer. Here what I have for our HP printer: # HP Laser jet - for POST-SCRIPT hp-ps :rm=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx :rp=raw :sd=/usr/spool/lpd/hp-ps :lf=/usr/spool/lpd/hp-ps/errs :mx#0 # HP Laser Jet - for TEXT files hp-text :rm=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx :rp=text :sd=/usr/spool/lpd/hp-text :lf=/usr/spool/lpd/hp-text/errs :mx#0 Of course you will need to stick with lp= instead of rm=, but the rp= becomes important. You will need the two setups, one for postscipt and the other for ASCII text. I hope this helps, -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where do all the bits go when the computer is done with them?
a request for a copy of your linux
Laktouti zakaria 89 rue ibn batouta casablanca cp 2 Morocco tel : 21202311684 / 21203311944 im a student who wich getting your interessting software i tryed to get from ftp but it so hard while my connexion is so long and i write this letter asking if you can send me a copy of your softwars im sorry i cant pay because i m still a student thanx a lot __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: IP-Masquerade
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 ^^^ is there a typo here or you're using the entire range from 192.168.0 to 192.168.255. If you're using one C class (192.168.0.0), your mask should be 255.255.255.0 (or 192.168.0.0/24). Nope... we have at least four C classes from that router (192.168.10.0, 192.168.11.0, 193.160.12.0, 192.168.13.0), so I decided to try the more general approach just to make things easier... I'll try to follow some of the other suggestions, though, just to make the setup 'cleaner' (I think that specially using the '-W eth# should make the whole setting match my needs, allowing ONLY calls from the internal networks to be masqueraded... ;-) Just curious: você não está utilizando o potato? Kernel 2.3.x? Por que não utiliza o ipchains? (sorry all others :) No, potato kernel 2.3.x are in my personal machine... the router has a much more 'conservative' setup ;-) Thanks for your support, everybody!!! Guilherme Zahn
Re: Printing problem
Hi Y'all, On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 07:51:10AM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: Isabelle Poueriet wrote: lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Why use a printfilter? As far as I know, all HP LaserJets have built in support for postscript. no, they do not all come with PS support! Especially the L-series doesn't do Postscript! I do not use magicfilter myself, but is it possible, that the filter which is being used only accepts Postscript files. If so, try to run the text file through a2ps or enscript first. So long -- Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Microsoft leads to fear, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads to suffering. -- Master Yoda (more or less) ***
Re: rsync from a cron script
Michael Stenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have included the command ssh remotehost date in order to test that ssh is working from the script (it is) -- yes, I have RSYNC_RSH set to /usr/bin/rsync ^ Shouldn't this be ssh, not rsync? Heikki, hoping to find an easy solution :-) -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland
glibc 2.1.2 and slink
Hi! Can I safely compile and install glibc 2.1.2 (and respective dev packages) from potato on slink? -- Alexander Zhuckov [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:5030/518.50
what do I need to upgrade perl from slink to provide perl5 virtual package?
I have slink on my machine, and the perl which it contains. However that does not provide the perl5 virtual package. What do I need to upgrade to what, so that my packages provide perl5? It would be needed to be able to install packages dependant on it, but nothing else currently. Please help, Robert Varga
Re: rsync from a cron script
What I'm doing with cron script is #!/bin/sh rsync -avCuz -e ssh whatever_directory whatever_host:whatever_directory_youwant that works all the time. chanop On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 08:39:42AM -0400, Michael Stenner wrote: I am running rsync from a script that is executed by cron. It is intended to mirror work stuff at home. It uses my personal accounts on both ends (different accounts). Sadly, rsync returns the following error (and doesn't work :) Permission denied unexpected EOF in read_timeout Here's what I've tried: The script works when executed by hand I have included the command ssh remotehost date in order to test that ssh is working from the script (it is) -- yes, I have RSYNC_RSH set to /usr/bin/rsync The only thing I can think of is that some environment isn't being set, but I can't figure out which one. Any ideas? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- 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: [Summary] UPS anyone?
John Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 11:34:35AM -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote 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. One thing you *don't* seem to get with vendor-supplied stuff is support for multiple workstations on one UPS, as you get with upsd. Is that changing? Just FYI, apcupsd is not a vendor-supplied product and it handles multiple Linux computers attached to it quite nicely. I have two machines hooked up to it and while it hasn't had to operate yet, I tested it and it shut both machines down just fine. Gary
Re: HP JetDirect and Debian
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 11:15:30AM +0200, Cleto Pescia wrote: Hello, I am experiencing a strange problem with an HP JetDirect J2552A (firmware A.3.0.16) printer server installed in an HP DesignJet 750C plotter. I can telnet to the plotter and configure it from a Debian 2.0 box, but I can not send anything to it. I have tried *everything* reported in the Printing-HOWTO, included the small Perl script to directly access the JetDirect through port 9100, but without success.. The Debian box has LPRng installed on it, and the spooling software works perfectly. I have read on the Bug Tracking mailing-list that LPRng seems not to be able to talk to networked printers, but I am not sure if that applies to my case as well, since even direct TCP connection does not work for me... LPRng can be used to talk directly to the plotter, here is a simple printcap for HP Laserjet 4MVs/5SIs/4000s/8000s: queuename :lp=jetdirect.box.net%9100 :if=/usr/lib/filters/ifhp :[EMAIL PROTECTED] @defaults :rw:sh:sf :mx#0 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P :af=/var/spool/lpd/%P.acct :lf=/var/spool/lpd/%P.log :ps=/var/spool/lpd/%P.status Just replace jetdirect.box.net with your host or IP. The %9100 tells it to connect to 9100. You may need to create the spool directories and log files manually. You can then test, and check the logs to see what it reports. Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adminstrator College of Engineering, MSU
Re: a request for a copy of your linux
laktouti zakaria wrote: im a student who wich getting your interessting software i tryed to get from ftp but it so hard while my connexion is so long and i write this letter asking if you can send me a copy of your softwars im sorry i cant pay because i m still a student thanx a lot There's a site where he can get free Linux CDs that people have given away. Perhaps someone knows it. I doubt you can get one without paying for shipping.
RE: a request for a copy of your linux
I managed to get a four cd set (two source, two binary) of Debian 2.1 from Cheapbytes.com for something in the range of...12 bucks I think it was. CDs were 6 or so and shipping took up the rest. -Original Message- From: Peter S Galbraith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 11:13 AM To: laktouti zakaria Subject:Re: a request for a copy of your linux laktouti zakaria wrote: im a student who wich getting your interessting software i tryed to get from ftp but it so hard while my connexion is so long and i write this letter asking if you can send me a copy of your softwars im sorry i cant pay because i m still a student thanx a lot There's a site where he can get free Linux CDs that people have given away. Perhaps someone knows it. I doubt you can get one without paying for shipping. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
HELP: X window Setup Problem
Hi, EveryoneI'm novice in Linux (DEBIAN) and I amsetting up my PC with debian.I installed the debian with Admin. option.But I have a problem with Xwindow.When the system boots, it tells me file cannot be found.Also when I type startx in shell, it tells me XFree86Config file cannot be found.I installed twm, xbase-clients, xdm, xfree86-common, xfs, xmh, xproxy, xserver-common, xsm, xlib6g. Why cannot the system find the Config file? The booting message is as follows : : : : Starting x font server : xfs. Starting x TrueType Font Server : xfstt. Starting /usr/sbin/xntpd... Starting NFS server : . Starting additional networking services : . Starting filtering proxy server : junkbuster. Starting deferred execution scheduler : atd. Starting periodic command scheduler : cron. Checking For valid XFree86 server configuration ... file not found. Not starting X display manager. : : : I hope your advices. Thanks in advance.
newbie install problem with CD-ROM mount
I am totally new to linux and debian. I tried to install from CD-ROM but it (a Hi-Val (MITSUMI) FX400) wasn't recognized. Following the installation instructions I tried the second choice of booting in DOS/Win first and copying installation files to the C: partition. This works OK, but still, when I get to the part about mounting the CD-ROM it fails with no indication of why. How can I trouble-shoot this? Is there a way to shell out of the installation menus to try a manual mount? or where do I look to see why the CD-ROM fails to mount? I believe the driver was installed when I was prompted for that in a previous step, but can I check somewhere that it actually was? Is it possible that this CD_ROM is not supported by LINUX? What info should I post to this list so someone can undertand exactly where my problem lies? (I know you can't guess at it from my limited descriptions here). Thanks very much for your time, Dave
Best 2.2.x for Slink?
It's time to upgrade. Is there a recommended version of the 2.2.x kernel to use on a slink system for the least amount of problems, or should I just go for the latest that I can find? At this time, stability is more important than leading edge. thank, -- tony mollica [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rsync from a cron script
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 04:24:06PM +0300, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: Michael Stenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have included the command ssh remotehost date in order to test that ssh is working from the script (it is) -- yes, I have RSYNC_RSH set to /usr/bin/rsync ^ Shouldn't this be ssh, not rsync? Doh... Yes, it should, and unfortunately, that IS how it appears in the script. I mistyped in the post :) -Michael -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
[OT] StarOffice memory usage: 7 processes!
When I run StarOffice 5.1, I see the following in top (sorted by memory usage). Is this normal? Mem: 256980K av, 252556K used, 4424K free, 97084K shrd, 74920K buff Swap: 261496K av, 12K used, 261484K free 75220K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 25454 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 soffice.bin 25444 rickm 20 0 32676 31M 24772 R 0 0.0 12.7 1:12 soffice.bin 25455 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 soffice.bin 25456 rickm 1 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.3 12.7 0:00 soffice.bin 25458 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 soffice.bin 25459 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 soffice.bin 25462 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 soffice.bin 10312 rickm 0 0 21956 21M 8896 S 0 2.3 8.5 2:09 netscape ...RickM...
Re: Installation problem
nopex wrote: Hi I need some help. I have problem to boot debian installation disks (slink), it stops on detecting the scsi interface (aha 2940uw). It´s saying something about downloading instruktions. And someone told me to try to boot with a newer kernel, 2.2. But where do i find that? I dont have any linux installed to I can't compile it my self. And the current installation disk to potato is same as for slink (kernel 2.0.36) Thanx // Nopex I'm not the expert, so I've waited for someone else to answer this, but I haven't seen a reply. My understanding is that the default kernel has support for several SCSI cards, and that this causes problems with trying to use the 2940. The solution is to use a trimmed down kernel. Someone has created such a beast, but I don't recall where to get it. If you'll search the Debian Mail Archives for 2940, you should be able to find the location. All you have to do once you find the kernal is download it like you would the default root (or is it boot? - I forget) disk image, and rawrite[2] it to a floppy and then boot off that floppy instead of the default floppy. Everything else is the same.
Re: Apache: unable to use authentification
Marc, Try checking the file permissions on your password file. It needs to be readable by the user the web server runs as. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote: Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 02:49:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Bart-Jan Vrielink [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Apache: unable to use authentification On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Marc Mongeon wrote: You need to specify the AllowOverride AuthConfig directive for that directory in one of the main config files (e.g., /etc/apache/access.conf). I have AllowOverride All for this directory. I hoped that All would be enough :) Anyway, without AllowOverride set to either All or AuthConfig, I do get a request for usernamepassword, but this alwais fails. I tried using a plain password file, a dbm file and using PAM. All fail. I'm trying to get Apache (tried the Slink version and the current Potato version) to use authentification for some directory. Inside the directory have the following .htaccess: AuthType basic AuthName rinet AuthUserfile /etc/apache/htpasswd require user bartjan When I try to authentificate myself, I get in error.log: [Tue Aug 17 16:13:20 1999] [error] (13)Permission denied: access to /rinet/ failed for 10.2.100.11, reason: Authentication failure Passwd file was produced with htpasswd and does contain the user bartjan. I tried to authentificate myself numerous times, so mistyping the password is not the problem. auth_module is loaded in httpd.conf The systems I tested on are Slink systems, but with Potato libc6 (2.1.2-0pre2) and a few other upgrades. Kernels 2.2.5 and 2.2.6 Tot ziens, Bart-Jan
Java won't run
Hi, I installed Java JDK 1.1 on my potato box. Whenever I try to run a java app I get the error message below and the app won't start. What am I missing? /usr/bin/java: [: too many arguments /usr/bin/java: [: too many arguments /usr/bin/java: [: too many arguments java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk1.1/bin/usage: arch listname mbox/green_threads/java TIA -- - Regards, Christian Dysthe E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://oddbird.dyndns.org/cdysthe/ ICQ 3945810 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Clones are people two
Re: HELP: X window Setup Problem
There are several ways to do this: 1. Write the XF86Config file manually (not a lot of fun!) 2. Install package XF86Setup and run it (graphical set up program) 3. run xf86config (not so nice as the graphical program, but will make you a config file) Hope this helps, Patrick On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Kim, Jeong-Hwan wrote: Hi, Everyone I'm novice in Linux (DEBIAN) and I am setting up my PC with debian. I installed the debian with Admin. option. But I have a problem with Xwindow. When the system boots, it tells me file cannot be found. Also when I type startx in shell, it tells me XFree86Config file cannot be found. I installed twm, xbase-clients, xdm, xfree86-common, xfs, xmh, xproxy, xserver-common, xsm, xlib6g. Why cannot the system find the Config file? The booting message is as follows : : : : Starting x font server : xfs. Starting x TrueType Font Server : xfstt. Starting /usr/sbin/xntpd... Starting NFS server : . Starting additional networking services : . Starting filtering proxy server : junkbuster. Starting deferred execution scheduler : atd. Starting periodic command scheduler : cron. Checking For valid XFree86 server configuration ... file not found. Not starting X display manager. : : : I hope your advices. Thanks in advance.
Re: Looking for Help w/ xfs
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Vaughn J Lujan wrote: reinstalling. However, now when i got to start up xfs it tells me the following: xfs error: CONFIG: can't open configuration file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config xfs error: fatal: couldn't read config file I took a look at the man pages and it tells me the config file is usally a symbolic link to etc/X11/xfs/config. sure enough the file doesn't exist. the problem is I have no idea how to recreate that file. If anyone could help, I'd appreciate it much. thanks. I think this will work: 1. If package xbase is installed, remove it. According to what I have read, it isn't needed any more. 2. Make sure you have a way to get the xfs package so we can re-install it (this will be xfs_3.3.3.1-10.deb if you are running potato) 3. purge package xfs 4. install package xfs 5. choose config from dselect or run dpkg --pending --configure Once xfs is purged, it will have to make new configs when re-installed. Note that this is a horrible Microsoft way to do things (re-install), and there is probably a way to make it re-configure, but I don't know it. Hope this helps, Patrick
Re: rsync from a cron script
Michael Stenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 04:24:06PM +0300, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: Michael Stenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RSYNC_RSH set to /usr/bin/rsync ^ Shouldn't this be ssh, not rsync? Doh... Yes, it should, and unfortunately, that IS how it appears in the script. I mistyped in the post :) Ok, that would have been too easy :) Anyway, since you gave same doubts about environment variables, have you tried adding env ; exit 0 and then comparing the output of the script when executed by hand or by cron. Maybe that could give you hints about what is different. // Heikki
Re: How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount
* Eberhard == Eberhard Burr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eberhard 2) similarly, get a mainboard with functioning power-off and Eberhard remove the main switch. The pooter can only be switched off Eberhard with software assistance then and you should be ok. To Eberhard switch on the computer, the D/V button of the modem can be Eberhard used to generate an interrupt on the serial line (most Eberhard modems generate an OK when D/V is pressed). Another way (if one has such a ATX Mainboard) is to configure the switch to issue a suspend (done in the bios). Then install the spmd, and write a small script that does a shutdown -h now when entering suspend mode. Most likely, the Bios wil suspend the box, before it finished the shutdown. Pressing the power switch one more time will end the suspend, and the shutdown command will finish. Ciao, Martin
Re: how to format mySeagate ST33210A
Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just got a new HD and tried to format it using my Debian 1.0 Installation Boot Emergency disk set. I made the disk primary and unplugged my current 2.1Mb drive and booted the first disk and partitioned using the second (Ramdisk). What do you mean by using the second? I made a 100Mb swap and the rest, ~3Gb, Linux bootable, then made the swap area with no problems. But when I tried to format the Linux partition it failed with 256/373mkfs.ext2: can'r resolve symbol 'llseek'. I wonder if this is a known bug. Can you reproduce it? Please report it if necessary. I then made the drive secondary and re-plugged my 2Gb 2.2 primary drive and rebooted, hoping to format from my regular system. I tried mke2fs /dev/hdd, but it says, no such device. Try mke2fs /dev/hdd2 or /dev/hdd5 depending on if the ~3GB is in a primary or extended partition. /dev/hdd is the complete hard disk. Please post a fdisk -l, if it does not work. What does dmesg report? I did an apropos format | more, but didn't spot a disk formatter in the voluminous output. Can anyone spare a clue for a veteran? TIA mke2fs is the formatter. Jens P.S.: Please vote against Spam! At http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ (Sorry Europeans only) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37
Re: newbie install problem with CD-ROM mount
I am totally new to linux and debian. I tried to install from CD-ROM but it (a Hi-Val (MITSUMI) FX400) wasn't recognized. Following the installation instructions I tried the second choice of booting in DOS/Win first and copying installation files to the C: partition. This works OK, but still, when I get to the part about mounting the CD-ROM it fails with no indication of why. How can I trouble-shoot this? Is there a way to shell out of the installation menus to try a manual mount? or where do I look to see why the CD-ROM fails to mount? I believe the driver was installed when I was prompted for that in a previous step, but can I check somewhere that it actually was? Is it possible that this CD_ROM is not supported by LINUX? What info should I post to this list so someone can undertand exactly where my problem lies? (I know you can't guess at it from my limited descriptions here). Thanks very much for your time, Dave It can be done. I have two systems, both with the FX400. One of the drives even came as part of a Hi-Val multimedia kit. From the system logs: Aug 10 09:56:19 picard kernel: hdc: FX400E, ATAPI CDROM drive date timehostnameLinux stuff I barely understand Linux auto-detected this thing hooked to my secondary IDE controller. Here's how I set it up: 1. I did not connect the CDROM drive's IDE cable to the sound card. 2. I think I set a jumper on the sound card to disable IDE or some such thing. 3. I set the jumper on the CDROM to master (it might work as slave too, I don't know) 4. I connected it to the motherboard's secondary IDE connector. 5. It magically worked. If it hadn't, I wouldn't have known what to do. Note that in my system, there are two IDE devices. The CD-ROM is the master on the secondary IDE controller. My hard disk is the master on the primary IDE controller. There are no slave drives in my computer. I don't know if this chart will help, but here goes: /dev/hdaprimary master (usually a hard disk) /dev/hdbprimary slave /dev/hdcsecondary master (in my case, a CD-ROM drive) /dev/hddsecondary slave If you still have difficulty getting the CD to mount, make sure the CD in the drive is a Debian binary, not Debian source. Also, I think it would be helpful to know how your CD-ROM drive is connected and how many IDE controllers your system has (usually 1 or 2, not counting sound cards). Hope this helps, Patrick
Re: [OT] StarOffice memory usage: 7 processes!
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 25454 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 soffice.bin 25444 rickm 20 0 32676 31M 24772 R 0 0.0 12.7 1:12 soffice.bin 25455 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 soffice.bin 25456 rickm 1 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.3 12.7 0:00 soffice.bin 25458 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 soffice.bin 25459 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 soffice.bin 25462 rickm 0 0 32676 31M 24772 S 0 0.0 12.7 0:00 soffice.bin It looks to me like what you have is actually one process and seven *threads*. A thread is essentially the same process running at a different location, but using the same memory. ps, top, etc. don't know about threads, so they appear as a seperate process. Bottom line: StarOffice is really only using 32 meg, but has seven threads working in there. I'm guessing, though. Can anyone confirm this? Greg --- With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. --RFC-1925
Re: Booting problems!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: thank you for reading this message. The first boot for installation of debian 2.1 fails. After 'Loading linux ..' nothing happens, the machine hangs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you for your replies. My original e-mail included: I tried several bootdisks (resc1440.bin resc1440-safe.bin resc1440tecra.bin) and even old bootdisks from a previous debian version. Also booting from DOS using loadlin doesnt work. Unfortunately the machine cannot boot from cdrom. Nathan Duehr wrote: Make sure you try the Tecra disk images, which are zImage kernels instead of bzImage kernels. There's some notes on the mirrors in the README files and in the HTML doc files of the bootdisks regarding this in the disk-i386 directory. I've read it and tried it. But thats a 'no go' On 16 Aug 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Generally this means a bad floppy. Tried several floppies. There are other boot methods also, such as CD-ROM or loadlin from a DOS partition. Soon, TFTP for i386 also. But that doesn't solve my problem .. Any other suggestions.?
RE: /dev/mouse: not supported by device
/dev/mouse is a symlink (via ln -s) from whatever is your mouse. So if your mouse is on com1 it should look like /dev/mouse - /dev/ttyS0 a ps2 is psaux.
Alpha, Linux and RAID..
I'm looking at building up some large web caches, and so far the systems that look best are the 21264 alpha boxes from Microway based on the DEC reference boards. These caches are going to require a fast disk array, and I've been oogling the 64bit PCI controllers from DPT.. the DPT SmartRAID V Controller to be exact. I'm wondering if anybody has ever got one of these things working on the Alpha under Linux, and if so, have they ever done it using Debian Linux? DPT claims linux support, but they offer only RedHat's x86 installation disks (I'm assuming they're just loading a kernel module to support the raid card). Any help/info would be deeply appreciated. Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu
Re: Auto-mounting and unattended boot
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 05:33:47PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote: 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? I've not actually tried this recently but a messy way to do it is to set the filesystem noauto in fstab and then mount it as a background job later on in the boot. It's ugly, but it probably won't halt the boot. If they way the drive is used is suitable you could also use an automounter to mount it on demand. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgp2xWJqw6AlJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Printer question : Does the HP DeskJet 610c run under Linux ? {Was : [HELP NEEDED] The Canon LBP 660 printer under Debian (Slink)}
* Max Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've previously posted on question relative to the Canon LBP 660 printer. Actually, it appears that such a printer is a real LOSS as it can not be used under Linux. I've installed Debian (Slink) on my friend box and would really like her benefit from the available desktop. I'm now looking for a cheap printer that will be ABLE to run under Linux. The DJ 610c is a new printer made by HP. I don't think it's a M$-Win-Printer ? But I'm not a hacker ! Try your luck here (Un*x printer compatibility database listing): http://www.picante.com/%7Egtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi HTH, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: confusing X problem
* Patrick Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That sounds good, but I'm not really sure how to accomplish step-by-step analysis with X. Everything seems to be just fine until I try to run X. Even then, everything seems fine except for the power on and power off entries in /var/log/xdm.log and the fact that the monitor does just that. I would first get rid of xdm, then run X -probeonly 2 my_x-probe.log From the console. Then post the file my_x-probe.log (which shouldn´t be too long) here. What is printed on the biggest chip of this card (or have you already posted this?) Maybe also worth trying: I don´t know whether the big hardware support database at www.suse.de is also available in english---if not, I could look it up for you. Cheers, Colin -- Colin Marquardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
APACHE : server doesn't start
Hi, I've a problem. I compiled the fastcgi module and tried to install (compiling OK). But apxs prompts: apxs : ERROR : config file /etc/apache/apache.conf not found I think in /etc/apache/httpd.conf should be following entry: LoadModule fastcgi_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_fastcgi.so After that I restart apache but it doesn't start. It prompts: mod_fastcgi.so : undefined symbol : fstat What did I wrong? Please help. thx!, Oliver
Sound programs
Hi all, Just some small wonderings concerning sound configurations. I have a Soundblaster Live that I can play .au files on by piping (AS ROOT ONLY) $ cat sound.au /dev/audio Been reading the Howtos and understand that I need some more things installed. Is there a list of a basic working sound package (mixers, cd-player, mp3 etc) for debian. I am running WindowMaker and got hold of wmcdplay, wmsoundserver, wmsoundprefs. If I try to startr wmsoundserver I get segmentation fault and wmcdplay says: unable to open cdrom device '/dev/cdrom'. In addition to this I also have the following installed xmms, playmidi, xmix, tracker, sox, tcd, sound-recorder. So how should I proceed. Its all just a big mess at the moment. Running Debian unstable. 2.2.10 with emu10k1.o in /lib/modules/2.2.10/misc I can load it as root (do I have to do that ?) Any suggestions on where I can find some more information other than the 2 sound related HOWTOs would be much appreciated. Best Regards Joakim
Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from unstable?
For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and* unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security holes asap... without having to wait for the next official release of Debian. Well, it seems that bug fixed versions are placed in stable as well, so I don't need unstable for that. However, I still would like to get to all of the new packages there. Is there anyway to use unstable *only* for the packages that *don't* exist in stable? - Joe
Re: rsync from a cron script
I am running rsync from a script that is executed by cron. It is intended to mirror work stuff at home. It uses my personal accounts on both ends (different accounts). Sadly, rsync returns the following error (and doesn't work :) Permission denied unexpected EOF in read_timeout i've gotten this for two reasons. rsync is in a place on the remote server which isn't in the path (unlikely to be an issue with debian), or your ssh isn't setup to work passwordless for the user that the script is running as. you're script sounds similar to one i use to sync my passwd/shadow/group files between servers and it works fine (though i mostly run it by hand not from cron). i would check to make sure that whatever requirements exist for you're passwordless ssh (~/.shosts, ssh-agent etc) are setup and working for the user that the cronjob runs as. sorry i can't be more help. adam.
Re: Xemacs Prcs problem (still persists)
Hi, I think I figured out the problem. The culprit seems to be in the file /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50prcs.el in the highlighted line (if (string-match ^19. emacs-version) === (setq load-path (nconc load-path (list (concat /usr/share/ (symbol-name debian-emacs-flavor) /site-lisp/prcs) I commented this check out, and xemacs works fine. I don't know whether this is kosher though. Some helpful doc on how emacs starts up in debian is in the file /usr/doc/emacsen-common/debian-emacs-policy.gz Thanks for your help and interest! Hope this is useful! --prashanth
Re: OFF-TOPIC: hardware advice needed.
I have an Acer Extensa 390, and I would not buy another Acer laptop. Acer has very good repair service, very fast and friendly. But how did I find that out? The unit needed repairs! I went through a keyboard, CDROM drive and battery under warranty. Post-warranty, the case has started falling apart (is now held together with some new bolts and epoxy.) Further, the tech support poeple at Acer aren't very knowledgeable - either about their products (I had to inform the tech support guy what chipset was used in my internal modem), or about any OS other than W95/98/NT. I have tried to get help both with Win3.1 and with Linux to no avail. One caveat about the reliability is that my laptop model was designed by TI and inherited by Acer, so may not be representative of quality of Acer-designed laptops. However, customer satisfaction surveys in the major PC magazines confirm that Acer is below average on quality. All in all, I am not unhappy with my Acer, but I would not buy another. -Steve
Re: httpd: cannot determine local host name
I had this problem recently helping someone with a potato system. The mahcine was not on the net. ftp , finger, telnet used the loopback device and the name in /etc/hosts and could find the local machine 'bigsky' . I am not sure why apache could not find it. But there was some file in /etc/apache that allows you to set the server name explictly. This is what I get when installing apache Stopping apache with apachectl ... Waiting for apache to terminate ...done. apache: cannot determine local host name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually. So add the line ServerName yourhostname to /etc/apache/httpd.conf Then do apachectl restart and your pages should be found by netscape. This is proabably a kludge , but it works. -- John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
modem
Hello all I ahve a problem I just installed Debian 2.1 on my laptop. I have a 3com como card 33.36 pcmcia modem/Lan card and the problem that I am having is this. When I installed the OS I used wvdial to detect my modem which it did with no problem but then when I compiled my kernel for the first time I lost the ability to detect my modem and I don't understand why if anyone can be of assitance please let me know
RE: Sound programs
It sounds like a simple permissions problem. Check what your groups you are in. If you are not part of group audio, make it so. Check /dev/cdrom: is that a correct link to your CD-rom? (hdc?) On 18-Aug-99 Jocke wrote: Hi all, Just some small wonderings concerning sound configurations. I have a Soundblaster Live that I can play .au files on by piping (AS ROOT ONLY) $ cat sound.au /dev/audio Been reading the Howtos and understand that I need some more things installed. Is there a list of a basic working sound package (mixers, cd-player, mp3 etc) for debian. I am running WindowMaker and got hold of wmcdplay, wmsoundserver, wmsoundprefs. If I try to startr wmsoundserver I get segmentation fault and wmcdplay says: unable to open cdrom device '/dev/cdrom'. In addition to this I also have the following installed xmms, playmidi, xmix, tracker, sox, tcd, sound-recorder. So how should I proceed. Its all just a big mess at the moment. Running Debian unstable. 2.2.10 with emu10k1.o in /lib/modules/2.2.10/misc I can load it as root (do I have to do that ?) Any suggestions on where I can find some more information other than the 2 sound related HOWTOs would be much appreciated. Best Regards Joakim /--- | Wim Kerkhoff | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.canadianhomes.net/wim | ICQ: 23284586
Re: Sound programs
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 10:15:50AM +0200, Jocke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just some small wonderings concerning sound configurations. I have a Soundblaster Live that I can play .au files on by piping (AS ROOT ONLY) $ cat sound.au /dev/audio You need to add yourself to the audio group. man adduser Been reading the Howtos and understand that I need some more things installed. Is there a list of a basic working sound package (mixers, cd-player, mp3 etc) for debian. I am running WindowMaker and got hold of wmcdplay, wmsoundserver, wmsoundprefs. If I try to startr wmsoundserver I get segmentation fault and wmcdplay says: unable to open cdrom device '/dev/cdrom'. In addition to this I also have the following installed xmms, playmidi, xmix, tracker, sox, tcd, sound-recorder. Looks like you have enough software to me. Make sure /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to your cdrom device, most likely /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping. --Friedrich Nietzsche pgpi8QdE2yC43.pgp Description: PGP signature
