Re: Off-topic Actualizar la hora
El Wed, Oct 13, 1999, Hue-Bond... $ grep rdate /etc/crontab 0 */6 * * * rootrdate -s slug.ctv.es Si no me equivoco, le estás diciendo que lo ejecute cada 6 horas en punto, ¿no? Un poco raro... :-) Yo pondré esta: 18 4* * * /usr/sbin/rdate -s slug.ctv.es en el crontab de `root'. Saludetes. -- Cosme P. Cuevas --- Claves GnuPG/PGP disponibles. http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lounge/8698/ pgpeG25ZvuGTo.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Enmascaramiento del correo con SEndmail
El Wed, Oct 13, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¿Como os las ingeniais con sendmail si teneis dos cuentas de correo? Si cada vez que quiero mandar un correo desde una dirección tengo que poner un smarthost diferente (servidor smtp) o se puede poner de alguna forma en el sendmail? Por ejemplo, para el correo tengo fetchmail para recogerlo, sin problemas, mutt (más lioso para usar dos cuentas a la vez, vamos no se como...) y el sendmail. Con 2 `sendmail.cf', uno para cada usuario, y envías el correo con # sendmail -C/etc/mail/sendmail_cosme.cf -qScosme # sendmail -C/etc/mail/sendmail_pepa.cf -qSpepa O sea, tienes un `/etc/mail/sendmail.cf' genérico, y cuando estás conectado utilizas las líneas de arriba, en un script o en `/etc/ppp/ip-up', por ejemplo. Pero si compones un mensaje y lo envías con mutt mientras tienes la conexión abierta el servidor sendmail intentará enviarlo , utilizando el `sendmail.cf' genérico... Para evitar esto había que trastear algunas lineas, en concreto esto: # ### SMTP Mailer specification ### # # @(#)smtp.m4 8.38 (Berkeley) 5/19/1998 # Msmtp, P=[IPC], F=emDFMuX, S=11/31, R=21, E=\r\n, L=990, T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP, A=IPC $h Mesmtp, P=[IPC], F=emDFMuXa, S=11/31, R=21, E=\r\n, L=990, T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP, A=IPC $h Msmtp8, P=[IPC], F=emDFMuX8, S=11/31, R=21, E=\r\n, L=990, T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP, A=IPC $h Mrelay, P=[IPC], F=emDFMuXa8, S=11/31, R=61, E=\r\n, L=2040, T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP, A=IPC $h Si en estas líneas en tu `sendmail.cf' no aparece la letre `e' detrás de `F=', ponla para evitar lo que ter comentaba (y reinicia sendmail). Saludos. -- Cosme P. Cuevas --- Claves GnuPG/PGP disponibles. http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lounge/8698/ pgptLgWwcdxYu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OFFTOPIC. Re: Iddeo que ha cambiado?
El Wed, Oct 13, 1999, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona... No s'e en que sentido estar'a limitada la conexi'on por Alehop. Yo he usado telnet, HTTP, SMTP y CVS sobre ssh (si no recuerdo mal). A velocidades razonables, contra m'aquinas en RedIris y fuera de Espa~na... Pues hay que olvidarse del acceso a los servidores de news. He probado tropecientos que son acesibles desde I+, y solo he tenido suerte con 2 o 3, pero que tienen incompleta la herarquía es.* y esp.*, :-( Llamé al teléfono de info de Alehop y dicen que pasan. Les pregunté porqué no habren el acceso al de Iddeo y que no, que es servicio de pago... Total, llevo algunas semanas conectando desde Alehop y voy a dejarlo, porque me he quedado sin news, ya que el servidor de RedIris, que si me dejaba conectar pero no postear, también está fallando (hoy ni siquiera había mensajes del grupo linux). Los de Airtel dan cuenta POP y tiene servidor de news. Voy a provar una temporada a ver. Saludos. -- Cosme P. Cuevas --- Claves GnuPG/PGP disponibles. http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Lounge/8698/ pgpzZB7yrNrAT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: undefined reference to `crypt'
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Ricard P.G. wrote: Buenas, Tengo un problemilla programando que creo que tambien incumbe a la destribucion Debian en si: Me he puesto a provar de programar algo en C mediante la libreria libpq que proporciona postgres. La cuestion es que cuando compilo me aparece el siguiente mensaje: bash-2.01$ make cc -g -Wall -lpq socket.o text.o db.o main.o -o prueba /usr/lib/libpq.so: undefined reference to `crypt' make: *** [done_mud] Error 1 Está muy clarito. Te falta poner -lcrypt para que enlace con la librería. /usr/lib/libcrypt.a /usr/lib/libcrypt.so Supongo que me falta alguna libreria de encriptacion. La cuestion es que al instalar el paquete no me advirtio/recomendo/pidio otras dependencias ... no deberia haberme pedido que instalara la libreria crypt o algo asi? Supongo que si. PD: Alguien sabe lo que me falta, no encuentro la libreria/paquete en cuestion Gracias ... = .. (O) See you, Nos vemos, Ens veiem ab. o M http://www.doneval.speedhost.com d88b. /| .. /:M\--- 8PYPY88 (O)[]XX[]I:K+}= TOR NEC DONAVAM == 8|o||o|88 \| ^^ \:W/--- 8'.88 o W Microsoft gives you Windows ... 8`._.' Y8 (O) Linux gives you the whole house d/ `8b. __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ /\ /\ Ciberdroide Informatica (tienda linux) \\W// http://www.ciberdroide.com _|0 0|_ +-oOOO--(___o___)--OOOo--+ | . . . . U U . . . . Antonio Castro Snurmacher | | http://slug.ctv.es/~acastro.[EMAIL PROTECTED] | +()()()--()()()--+ +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ (((Donde Linux)))http://www.ciberdroide.com/misc/donde/dondelinux.html +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
Re: undefined reference to `crypt'
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Re: Off-topic Actualizar la hora
El jueves 14 de octubre de 1999 a la(s) 14:48:23 +0200, Cosme Perea Cuevas contaba: 0 */6* * * rootrdate -s slug.ctv.es Si no me equivoco, le estás diciendo que lo ejecute cada 6 horas en punto, ¿no? Un poco raro... :-) ¿Raro por qué? Tengo conexión permanente, en la medida que la [EMAIL PROTECTED]% timo me deja. -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano In love with TuX - Linux 2.2.12Linux Registered User #87069
¿Alguien trabajando con MPI?
Me gustaria saber si hay alguien trabajando con MPI desde Debian, porque a mi no me funciona nada con mas de un proceso. Con un solo proceso si, pero con 2 ya no. -- - * - E.T.S.I. INFORMATICA Linux Booting Nuevo E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nueva Web:
Compilando otra vez.
Estoy empezando a mosquearme con esto. Compilando un programa me sale: /usr/bin/ld: cannot open -ltcl: No existe el fichero o el directorio Pero juer!: ii tcl8.0 8.0.5-4The Tool Command Language (TCL) v8.0 - Run-T ii tk8.0 8.0.5-5The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v8.0 - Run-Ti ii tcl8.0-dev 8.0.5-4The Tool Command Language (TCL) v8.0 - Devel ii tk8.0-dev 8.0.5-5The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v8.0 - Develo U, lo acabo de arreglar. Viendo que las libs se llaman libtcl8.0.so.1 y libtk.8.0.so.1, cogí el Makefile, busqué tcl y ahí apareció en una variable noseque-FLAGS, lo cambié a tcl8.0, cambié también tk a tk8.0 y ahora ya compila. Esto en redhat no pasaría... pero tampoco lo habría aprendido. :^) -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano In love with TuX - Linux 2.2.12Linux Registered User #87069
Framebuffers (was:Re: Unidentified subject!)
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mirá, en la referencia tecnica dice que es VESA 2.0 La placa es una Diamond 3D 2000 PRO con 4 mb. Pero solo el hecho de ser Vesa 2.0 ya indica que soporta frame buffer? pedantic mode Creo que es más correcto decir, que como hay un dispositivo framebuffer que funciona con tarjetas VESA 2.0, tu tarjeta está soportada por él. /pedantic mode En cualquier caso, prueba simplemente. Sólo hay que compilar la opción, y arrancar con un disquete, lilo o loadlin sin fastidiar el kernel que ya tienes, y si algo no va, vuelves al antiguo. NOTA: El framebuffer en principio permite acceder a cualquier resolución soportada por la tarjeta. Sin embargo, el fb vesa no lo permite. ¿Por qué? Pues porque para usar llamadas a VESA y cambiar de resolución, hay que pasar por la BIOS, y Linux no puede permitirlo. Por esta razón, si entras en 640x480x256, así te quedas hasta que rearranques el ordenador, porque la resolución sólo la puede especificar en el arranque. Personalmente, sería razón suficiente para considerar esta opción de framebuffer más como un juguete que como algo usable. Es mejor presionar a los fabricantes de tarjetas para que hagan sus drivers de framebuffer. Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gogosoftware - http://welcome.to/gogosoftware/ Windows NT - Nice Try.
Re: [Off-topic: sólo España] Conexión ADSL
Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote:
Hola,
Hace unos dias se comentaba por aquí algo sobre ADSL y
Timofónica. Esto es lo que sé por ahora, si alguien tiene más info le
agradecería que contactara conmigo.
La información la he obtenido en http://www.teleline.es/servicio-adsl/
y después llamar al telf. 902 15 20 25 y argumentar con operadoras,
'tesnicos' y comerciales.
- El servicio lo ofrece Teleline
- NO existe por ahora un servicio que proporcione IP fija ni se prevé
en el futuro. Un 'tesnico' me aseguraba que la IP era fija cosa que
me extrañó. Colgué. Volví a llamar y me dijeron que la IP era
dinámica. Cosa bastante lógica.
Si no me equivoco la conexión que establece el modem ADSL es permanente
por lo que creo, la IP debería serlo también, no ?
- El módem que ofrecen es un Efficient Networks 3060 es un PCI Winmodem
(http://www.efficient.com ). Si buscais en DejaNews vereis que
da más problemas que otra cosa. Además NO FUNCIONA con GNU/Linux y
por lo que dicen en su web no piensan hacerlo nunca. Aunque hay una
nota sobre una lista de distribución de drivers en Linux.
Lo bueno es que según parece la gente de Efficient Networks no
acepta bug reports de los usuarios directamente así es que los
drivers deben ser la pera.
He oido en algun sitio que infonegocio o algo asi, que debe estar
relacionado con telefónica, ofrece el servicio de conexión con un modem
externo, conectado mediante red eth., eso si un poquito más caro.
- He llamado a Teleline para ver si es posible contratar el servicio
SIN tener que comprar el módem pero... no me han sabido contestar.
¿alguien sabe de otra marca de modems ADSL que sean compatibles con
GNU/Linux?
Saludos,
Rafa C. Marcos
Saludos.
--
Fernando.
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Hackers do it with fewer instructions.
Re: No recibo mensajes de la lista
Miguel Rodriguez Penabad decía: A proposito, lo que a mi me pasa ahora es que el servidor news-3.rediris.es ya no tiene los grupos de noticias es.comp.os.linux.* ¿Sabeis lo que ha pasado, o si hay algun servidor de news gratuito que los tenga? Creo que han cerrado el acceso hacia fuera de las universidades, no sé si me explico, dejando sólo los grupos de charla. Ahora la que no contesta es news.mad.ttd.net y estoy más que harta de la mafia de las news... ~-root# fetchnews -v 1.9.4: verbosity level is 9 Trying to connect to news.mad.ttd.net ... failed. Trying to connect to news.ctv.es ... connected. Getting new newsgroups from news.ctv.es Reading new newsgroups failed. Read server info from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/news.ctv.es Disconnected from news.ctv.es. -- I love computing because it's the most logical thing in my world. Barbwired (The Translatrix) - U. Complutense de Madrid - Filología Inglesa Web personal http://www.bigfoot.com/~barbwired/ Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (Kernel 2.2.12) on a Dell Laptop
Re: [Off-topic:s?lo Espa?a] Conexi?n ADSL
No me lo he leido pero seguro que http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/ADSL.html puede resultar útil. Es un Mini-Howto.
Re: [Off-topic: sólo España] Conexión ADSL
On vie, oct 15, 1999 at 01:27:56 +0200, Fernando wrote: Si no me equivoco la conexión que establece el modem ADSL es permanente por lo que creo, la IP debería serlo también, no ? Os aseguro que la IP es fija. En Londres tengo un amigo que tiene ADSL en casa con BT y los mails me llegan procedentes de la misma IP y si hago un finger a la dirección de correo electrónica me confirma la IP. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webs: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/viguPersonal http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/linux/ ViguLinux PGP public key: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/vigu.pubkey
Menús en Enligthenment de Potato.
Buenas. Como estoy de cambio de máquina cada 2x3 últimamente, creo que se ha preguntado algo al respecto. Si es así, agradeceré que la persona que solucionó la duda se ponga en contacto conmigo. ¿Dónde demonios están los menues en el enlightenment de la Potato? Antes, en el que viene en la 2.1, pulsaba a la vez los dos botones del ratón y me aparecía, pero ahora nop... ¿Alguien sabe algo al respecto? Muchas gracias por todo. -- \|/ \|/ Have a nice day ;-) @'/ ,. \'@ TooManySecrets /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/
Jed de Potato
Y sigo... ;-) ¿Sabe alguien por qué no me funciona el tabulador ni la tecla Supr en el Jed que viene con la Potato (0.99.9 creo)? Muchas gracias por todo. -- \|/ \|/ Have a nice day ;-) @'/ ,. \'@ TooManySecrets /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/
[Off-Topic] Kmail
Hola, este es mi primer mensaje, y aunque no tiene mucho que ver con debian, creo que este es el unico foro donde podre encontrar la solucion a un problema con Kmail. Kmail se colgo ejecutando los filtros, y resulta que me ha copiado 6 veces el mismo mensaje en cada folder, tengo ahora unos 1000 y pico mensajes, de los cuales solo sirve una sexta parte... he probado con uniq en los archivos de texto de ~/Mail, pero nada, incluso en los *.index del Kmail tienen nº identificativos diferentes, y el Kmail no tiene ninguna opcion, ni he encontrado manera de aplicar filtros, para eliminar mensajes repetidos. Algien sabe como solucionar esto?? Muchas gracias por todo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Type Bits/KeyIDDate User ID pub 1024/6A2227ED 1999/06/25 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.3i mQCNAzdzjxIAAAEEALiNvP2egfT9Tv/Z4yDBlkEEDx0YM/5ki9/Kx43L304yi6UD +rgMZq094QagbdOO+mtSHf5CfmO3wtDXoVJIPRE3Y3Q6pWmM9sYPXfiGb/08WBAV mW1rO/2jQHdLThfwek8hWB2y/A7/258mxfETdXMaSRS5TWhundUcZLNqIiftAAUR tBxEUm9kcmlndWV6QGFib25hZG9zLmNwbHVzLmVziQCVAwUQN3OPEtUcZLNqIift AQGi0QP/cVT/Pg2HrOUnqWcyceVZ8xz8bE2TXsMGH+Au/Tixr9WLDs0VaqB1d0uz MQTM6KhWcbpSRmPpgEWxKELRSYAiO75cUjhBu5SpAPJmN0LVQENmD2NcbK2836y8 vXIR8e0L9UKo+lkMEeRlDwIbvwmYkD+XfCQbk9IC5MWFmaqNuwo= =XCUb -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
makeinfo en slink?
¿Tiene slink este programa? como puedo averiguar en que paquete esta? Gracias -- ||| (- -) oOOo(_)oOOo--- | Smile... tomorrow will be worse. Murphy | |--| | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | http://personales.jet.es/olsago/ | | http://fly.to/luzluciernaga | --
Como se hacen debs?
Estoy intentando hacer unos .debs pero no se por donde tirar. ¿Hay algún documento que diga como se hacen? por ahora he hecho deb-make dentro del directorio de fuentes y me ha creado el directorio debian. ¿Tengo que tocar algo ahí? Gracias. -- ||| (- -) oOOo(_)oOOo--- | Smile... tomorrow will be worse. Murphy | |--| | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | http://personales.jet.es/olsago/ | | http://fly.to/luzluciernaga | --
Re: [Off-topic: sólo España] Conexión ADSL
Hola. El 15 Oct 1999 a las 03:04PM +0200, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez escribio: On vie, oct 15, 1999 at 01:27:56 +0200, Fernando wrote: Si no me equivoco la conexión que establece el modem ADSL es permanente por lo que creo, la IP debería serlo también, no ? Os aseguro que la IP es fija. En Londres tengo un amigo que tiene ADSL en casa con BT y los mails me llegan procedentes de la misma IP y si hago un finger a la dirección de correo electrónica me confirma la IP. La verdad es que no se porqué estais tan seguros si no la disfrutais directamente. Yo creo que no tiene porqué ser fija, ya que sobre el enlace físico ADSL se transmite (o se puede transmitir) con el mismo PPP que se usa ahora sobre RTC o cable de modem nulo entre 2 pcs. Y usando ppp, la IP puede ser fija o dinámica. ¿no? -- --- Andres Seco Hernandez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctv.es/USERS/andressh --- Microsoft Certified Product Specialist MCP ID 445900 Debian GNU Linux 2.1 (slink) - Linux Registered User no. 113867 --- 10/15 First draft card burned, 1965 10/16 Boromir reaches Rivendell (LOTR) 10/17 Council of Elrond (LOTR) 10/18 Boston Shoemakers form first U.S. labor org., 1648 10/18 Soviets anounce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959 10/15 First FORTRAN Programmer's Reference Manual published pgpdOMW34KHDa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OFFTOPIC. Re: Iddeo que ha cambiado?
Cosme Perea Cuevas writes: El Wed, Oct 13, 1999, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona... No s'e en que sentido estar'a limitada la conexi'on por Alehop. Yo he usado telnet, HTTP, SMTP y CVS sobre ssh (si no recuerdo mal). A velocidades razonables, contra m'aquinas en RedIris y fuera de Espa~na... Pues hay que olvidarse del acceso a los servidores de news. He probado tropecientos que son acesibles desde I+, y solo he tenido suerte con 2 o 3, pero que tienen incompleta la herarquía es.* y esp.*, :-( Ya. Pero me temo que eso no es que est'e capado por Alehop, sino m'as bien que Alehop no da ese servicio, y otros no se lo dan a clientes de Alehop... Pero te entiendo. Llamé al teléfono de info de Alehop y dicen que pasan. Les pregunté porqué no habren el acceso al de Iddeo y que no, que es servicio de pago... Total, llevo algunas semanas conectando desde Alehop y voy a dejarlo, porque me he quedado sin news, ya que el servidor de RedIris, que si me dejaba conectar pero no postear, también está fallando (hoy ni siquiera había mensajes del grupo linux). Esa parte es m'as bien que no quieren que gente que no sea cliente de Iddeo pueda acceder al servicio de Iddeo... Y si eres de Alehop (y no pagas), pues no eres de Iddeo. En fin, posiblemente no es la pol'itica m'as amigable del mundo, de acuerdo... Los de Airtel dan cuenta POP y tiene servidor de news. Voy a provar una temporada a ver. Pues ya contar'as. Para mi, Alehop lo mejor que tiene es que configuras, PPP, y listo. Ni llamadas por tel'efono, ni datos personales, ni nada. Jesus. -- Jesus M. Gonzalez Barahona | Departamento de Informatica | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Grupo de Sistemas y Comunicaciones | Mostoles, Spain
problema con la BIOS...
Buenas, la pregunta que voya hacer no tiene nada que ver con Debian, es mas ni siquiera con linux pero si alguien me la respondiera estaria muy agradecido porque tengo una notebook parada hace meses ya que un virus (CIH), le ah cascado la flash bios. pense que tendria un jumper sobre la mother para flashearla pero no. Me temo a que mi unica solucion sera regrabarla en alguna grabadora eeprom. no es asi? si es asi me gustaria que me dijeran si se consigue en algun lado la imagen de la bios para grabarla y si tiene que ser especifica. muchas gracias
modulos de sonido
Hola, tras haber parcheado y compilado el kernel 2.2.12 (parchee 2.2.11 y 2.2.12) ya que antes usaba 2.2.10. me han traido problemas los modulos de sonido. Eh notado que despues de actualizar modutils /etc/conf.modules paso a ser /etc/modules.conf, asi que mantuve todas mis opciones : alias sound sb alias midi opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 , desde que meti el 2.2.12 con sus modulos de 2.2.12, cuando los intento cargar con modprobe me tira el siguiente error: maquina1:/home/cygar# modprobe sb /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: invalid parameter parm_io /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/sound.o: insmod sb failed Asi que me parece muy raro ya que mantube todas las configuraciones, y compile con las mismas opciones los modulos. (es decir los mismos modulos que usaba antes) Si alguien tiene idea por favor que me mande una respuesta. gracias
Re: problema con la BIOS...
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 05:30:04PM -0300, cygar wrote: Buenas, la pregunta que voya hacer no tiene nada que ver con Debian, es mas ni siquiera con linux pero si alguien me la respondiera estaria muy agradecido porque tengo una notebook parada hace meses ya que un virus (CIH), le ah cascado la flash bios. pense que tendria un jumper sobre la mother para flashearla pero no. Me temo a que mi unica solucion sera regrabarla en alguna grabadora eeprom. no es asi? si es asi me gustaria que me dijeran si se consigue en algun lado la imagen de la bios para grabarla y si tiene que ser especifica. muchas gracias Hola Cygar. Que yo sepa esa es la única manera. Si a mi me pasara estaría en un buen lio porque no se de ninguna grabadora a la que tenga acceso, espero que tu si tengas la posibilidad de usar una. Sobre la imagen de la bios, debería estar en la web del fabricante o por ahí. Si dices el modelo, te puedo ayudar a buscarla si quieres. Un saludo, Jordi. pgpIZzdkYQkw9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Exploits y otras yerbas...
Otro lugar donde tambien puedes obtener bastante informacion sobre temas de seguridad es: http://www.securityportal.com/ Nitebirdz On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Hue-Bond wrote: El martes 12 de octubre de 1999 a la(s) 11:29:49 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: Existe algun lugar donde se reporten todos esos problemitas de seguridad (lease exploits)? La lista de correo más conocida es bugtraq. No me acuerdo cómo es para suscribirse pero mira http://www.securityfocus.com/ -- Just do it. David Serrano [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ctv.es/USERS/fserrano In love with TuX - Linux 2.2.12Linux Registered User #87069 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
SBLive! Installation
Well, I've tried just about every installation instruction I've seen to install the beta driver (0.3) for the sblive, and it's still not working. I get the following error: emu10k1: init_module: Device or resource busy this is still the farthest I've gotten. I'm running the 2.2.10 kernel on an AMD K6-2 350Mhz, and it's an SBLive OEM card. Any advice anyone? The kernel is compiled with the proper options, and I've tried variations, but I still get the same error. Thanks
Re: Modem's and video cards for linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Micha Feigin wrote: i am planning on buying a new computer soon, which is supposed to run mainly on linux (Debian). The problem is, no sales person seems to know what hardware is windows dependent and what not. Surprised? As far as i know the main problem is with modems and video cards. How can i recognise one that will work under linux. Any recomendations for video and modems? The only modem they could offer me which is shure to work is US robotics which is a bit expensive. Check the Linux/Modem Compatibility Knowledge Base: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html The video card i was offered (since I static image handling mainly, and not video), is ATI xpert 8 meg AGP, How is it for linux? Check the X docs, the X website (don't have the addy offhand), and the mailing list archives. Also, should there be any problem with sound cards, if so, how do I recognise one that will work. If you plan on using the OSS drivers in the kernel, check the kernel docs. If you'd rather pay for sound support, check out the OSS website: http://www.opensound.com If you want to go with ALSA, check their website: http://www.alsa-project.org/ In addition to avoiding the SBLive, if for some reason they offer you a SB16 make sure it supports 16-bit DMA. My ViBRA16C does, many people's ViBRA16X's don't and they have all sorts of trouble... - -- finger for PGP public key. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOAZeFb7M/9WKZLW5AQGwWwP+JCRnM5X+NOT8DEA1V+/8IC5UBF2tdUzO hLWX4V2SghVV+jsxzIc6MlEFw2PNd4V0Jt4J0ibOutS88RV1HJvwHZMk4qgCAhuR fOTchGl1p1hSQ0FHbeaujm0ArH/85fQG4CHCZImqR1ND4TFDszqCzZ2gDuv4VIxD c7WY06KXh1o= =w35b -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: New dpkg upload - please test!
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 06:14:15PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: To what end? No offence is intended to any maintainers, but some of the splits lately seem a bit pointless to me. After recent runs of 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I've been left without telnet, ftp and rlogin; these are so small it hardly seems worth the effort of separating them. In addition to the tip by Wichert, I'd like to warn that apt-get dist-upgrade is designed to uninstall less important packages if that would let a more important package upgrade to a new version. In my opinion, these semantics are only worthwhile on a relatively new installation where you're trying to work out the wrinkles. apt-get upgrade semantics are considerably safer. -- Raul
xanim error :(
hi, when trying to run xanim (from netscape via plugger or from the command line) I get the following error: error in loading shared libraries :undefined symbol:__register_frame_info I installed xanim via `apt-get install xanim`. Anyone know how to fix this? TIA, Jon -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Web: [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://users.ids.net/~tuan/
Re: http://www.debian.org/contact
Miles Bader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: peter karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some secret mode in console-apt that makes it tell you what *other* packages it's going to upgrade or remove as a result of upgrading a particular package (because they're dependencies, or conflicts), like dselect does? I don't think so. I was afraid that was the answer...unfortunately console-apt simply isn't a sufficient replacement for dselect without this feature (in some form or another; maybe it could be less whizzy than dselect's, but it's gotta be there). This works: jekyll# apt-get -s install ae Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: slang1 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 190 not upgraded. Inst ae [] Inst slang1 Conf slang1 Conf ae Unfortunately, that doesn't show you what version it wants to use; for that, I use this: jekyll# apt-get --print-uris install ae Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: slang1 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 190 not upgraded. Need to get 200kB of archives. After unpacking 108kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 'http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/slang1_1.3.8-2.1.deb' slang1_1.3.8-2.1_i386.deb 164854 2e1bc6e0c30ed211024cd197f9c8b242 'http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base/ae_962-25.1.deb' ae_962-25.1_i386.deb 35360 59df7b78823f8304e7da3e3915ef6f7b (Ugly, but functional.) -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgp4GS5tH1Tjp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mutt and From: line in mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I can't find anything in my muttrc that would account for this. I also somehow doubt that qmail is rewriting a MUA-generated line (but I could be wrong). It definitely should not. I use mutt and qmail, and my From: line (generated by my_hdr in ~/.muttrc) is left intact. If you set the MAILUSER and MAILHOST environment variables, qmail rewrites the from line as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only in the absence of an MUA-supplied header line. From qmail-header(5): SENDER ADDRESSES qmail-inject looks for sender address lists in the follow ing fields: Sender, From, Reply-To, Return-Path, Return- Receipt-To, Errors-To, Resent-Sender, Resent-From, Resent- Reply-To. If there is no From field, qmail-inject adds a new From field with the name of the user invoking qmail-inject. Also, I prefer the QMAIL* variables: The user name in the From header field is set by QMAILUSER, MAILUSER, USER, or LOGNAME, whichever comes first. The host name is normally set by the defaulthost control but can be overridden with QMAILHOST or MAILHOST. This is usually a good thing for machines on dial-up connections so that it looks like your mail came from your account at your ISP. That's exactly what I use it for. :-) Also note that you can set the *envelope* sender with environment variables, so that bounce messages will go to your ISP mailbox: The default envelope sender address is the same as the default From address, but it can be overridden with QMAIL SUSER and QMAILSHOST. It may also be modified by the r and m letters described below. Bounces will be sent to this address. I cannot emphasize this strongly enough. If you have to set your From: header for any reason, you should make the envelope sender match. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpcbyyFLr399.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dwnld .deb files with Netsc
j way ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, my Win95 Netsc 4.61 expands crets to cret-lf when dwnld'g .deb files. Anybody know how to discourage this? Tnx. First, make sure that you're really downloading them, not saving them after having converted them to text. Hold the Shift key when clicking on a link to force Netscape to download. You should see the dialog box that lets you specify a filename Second, and more likely, you must make sure that the files are not being modified during the transition from the Win95 system to the Linux system. If you're mounting the Win95 partition locally onto a running Linux system, this shouldn't be an issue. If you're transferring the files with FTP, make sure you're doing it in binary (image) mode. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ | pgpNBElr57VI5.pgp Description: PGP signature
linux unformat
HI Could you tell me if is it possible to recover a NT disk formated with linux? I had a 6Gb disk with 3 partitions (2GB for NT, 2 Gb for win95 and 2Gb free) and i tried to install the RedHat Linux on the free disk space. I choose the linux server custom instalation and it formated all the disk with linux file system. Is it possible to recover those NT and win95 files on the first 4GB ? Thanks! e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions
Hi all. I am the epitomy of newbie. I've finally had enough of MS (Multiple Sclorosis)..I'm tired of being paralyzed. But I need help. After plenty of review, and a couple disappointing attempts with RedHat, I've decided to try Debian. Primary reason being the quality / layout of information readily available on the web site. I'm guessing this will roll over to the mailing list as well.. I need to know what are the best (if any) alternatives available on Linux for applications I use on a daily basis.I also need to know a bit more about Debian now that I've decided to give it a go.. APPS and GAMES: - Quake / QuakeWorld -- I'm guessing that the Linux build for these works on the Debian distributionAny pointers? (Debian specific FAQ's) Q3A VisualStudio6.0 Word 6.0 -- I've been told that StarOffice is pretty good? (Pros / Cons please...) Access Excel Photoshop 5.0 LightWave5.5 3DSMax Director 6.0 Palm Desktop RioShell 3.0 Adaptec EZ CD4.0 HARDWARE: - Abit BP6 Dual Celery 450 (OC's to 504 ) 128 PC 100 Seagate (Model?) 4.5GB UDMA33 Drive 3Com 3C905B Diamond v770 Ultra Iomega Zip 100 Iomega Jaz 2GB I plan on running a dual boot at first, with all of my WinNT stuff staying where it is..Any tips would be much appreciated I'll be posting specific questions once I get started ( CDs are on the way still from CheapBytes ) Thanks, -- Erich
(very) remote install
I've been asked to install Debian on a server that resides several thousand miles from where I am (I am in Philadelphia, the server is in Korea). Is it possible for me to replace the current RH installation with Debian from my present location? Where are docs pertaining to this? The owner of the machine (call him john) wants to avoid the reboot, and does not know (or trust) anyone at the remote location. I BELIEVE I could do this by installing and configuring a (minimal) base system complete with his root password here, and then gzipping it, telnet to the remote host as root, chroot to a ramdisk, reformat /dev/hda, install the gzipped and ready base system (configured for remote root access and RARP), start a script that will reboot the machine after I have logged off, then john can telnet to his server, log in as root, change root's password and run dselect to install the rest of his system. John does not think this will work he should know, he's had 20+ years working with Unix and Ive only two years on Linux. But he has not suggested any other method. What am I missing? What docs can help me with this? has anyone else on this list done something similar? Is there a HOWTO for this? Should there be? --Paul Wright-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netmeeting and ipfw
Hi, In some news archive I found your message about ipfw and netmeeting (from may 1998!). Did you get it working? For me, I can receive audio and video, but can't send any. Probably netmeeting is setting up peerconnections, sending audio and video. How about ICQ? I sometimes am not able to setup a chat-connection. Probably the same thing: the other party trying to set up a connection top me. Are proxies for ICQ and netmeetring available? If you have any suggestions please reply. Thanx, Perjan.
Re: SECOND TRY: Re: Group adm?
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:25:35PM -0400, Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed Cogburn wrote: I've noticed several files in my normal user (ed) home dir, which, instead of ed as group owner, are given the group of adm. These files are all types, a file created by Netscape while downloading, a sub-dir I created, and a config file (.xscreensaver) created by another process, as examples. The user ed, isn't allowed to change this, I have to use chown as root to fix things. Is this normal? Why do they get the group of adm? This is just a guess, and I don't know how it could have happened, but your home directory might belong to group adm. My homedir is SGID, so that all files are owned by the same group as it. If yours is set up the same way, and I imagine it is, this might be it. -- 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 pgpkFynI3NmAv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: (very) remote install
Once you've reformatted /dev/hda, how do you transfer and unzip the base system? paul wrote: I've been asked to install Debian on a server that resides several thousand miles from where I am (I am in Philadelphia, the server is in Korea). Is it possible for me to replace the current RH installation with Debian from my present location? Where are docs pertaining to this? The owner of the machine (call him john) wants to avoid the reboot, and does not know (or trust) anyone at the remote location. I BELIEVE I could do this by installing and configuring a (minimal) base system complete with his root password here, and then gzipping it, telnet to the remote host as root, chroot to a ramdisk, reformat /dev/hda, install the gzipped and ready base system (configured for remote root access and RARP), start a script that will reboot the machine after I have logged off, then john can telnet to his server, log in as root, change root's password and run dselect to install the rest of his system. John does not think this will work he should know, he's had 20+ years working with Unix and Ive only two years on Linux. But he has not suggested any other method. What am I missing? What docs can help me with this? has anyone else on this list done something similar? Is there a HOWTO for this? Should there be? --Paul Wright-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
unformat linux
HI Could you tell me if is it possible to recover a NT disk formated with linux? I had a 6Gb disk with 3 partitions (2GB for NT, 2 Gb for win95 and 2Gb free) and i tried to install the RedHat Linux on the free disk space. I choose the linux server custom instalation and it formated all the disk with linux file system. Is it possible to recover those NT and win95 files on the first 4GB ? Thanks! e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
linux unformat
HI Could you tell me if is it possible to recover a NT disk formated with linux? I had a 6Gb disk with 3 partitions (2GB for NT, 2 Gb for win95 and 2Gb free) and i tried to install the RedHat Linux on the free disk space. I choose the linux server custom instalation and it formated all the disk with linux file system. Is it possible to recover those NT and win95 files on the first 4GB ? Thanks! e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alternative to fetchmail?
Hi all: Fetchmail has been acting up on me. I've been using it for over a year to fetch email from my ISP via pop3, running it as a daemon. On two occasions it would just die off for now apparent reason, and need to be restarted. But what's worth, on three occasions it would refuse to retrieve a certain message (would crash while trying to do so; no output with --debug option). In such cases, I had to get the messages with mutt or smth similar, and then fetchail would agree to function again. Enough venting, though. What are alternatives to fetchmail to retrieve email into local spool? Thanks! -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war -- a war for your opinions. And if your opinion is defeated, your honesty should still cry triumph over that! (F. Nietzsche)
dpkg-repack 1.0 bug?
dpkg-repack won't work and complains about bad permissions, but I don't see bad permissions. Example: drwxr-xr-x 85 root root 7168 Oct 15 01:02 /etc drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Aug 25 14:00 /usr drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 14 1998 /usr/lib/wine But the errors are: lilypad:/home/pollywog#dpkg-repack wine -- Creating control files -- Copying files dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /. dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /etc dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr/X11R6 dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr/X11R6/bin dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr/X11R6/man dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr/X11R6/man/man1 dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr/X11R6/lib dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr/lib dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr/lib/wine dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr/sbin dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr/bin dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr/info dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr/man dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr/man/man1 dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr/doc dpkg-repack: Bad perms on directory: /usr/doc/wine -- Building package dpkg-deb: building package `wine' in `./wine_0.0.981018-1.1_i386.deb'. dpkg-deb: control directory has bad permissions 2755 (must be =0755 and =0775) dpkg-repack: Error running: dpkg --build ./dpkg-repack-31632 . -- Cleaning up dpkg-repack: Errors were encountered in processing. dpkg-repack: The package may not unpack correctly. Is this a bug? It certainly is not a feature. -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream*
Re: unformat linux
Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you tell me if is it possible to recover a NT disk formated with linux? I had a 6Gb disk with 3 partitions (2GB for NT, 2 Gb for win95 and 2Gb free) and i tried to install the RedHat Linux on the free disk space. I choose the linux server custom instalation and it formated all the disk with linux file system. Is it possible to recover those NT and win95 files on the first 4GB ? I think that you lost your data. The partitions were not only written to disk, but initialized too. -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org You should seek your enemy, you should wage your war -- a war for your opinions. And if your opinion is defeated, your honesty should still cry triumph over that! (F. Nietzsche)
Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 05:01:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: APPS and GAMES: - Quake / QuakeWorld -- I'm guessing that the Linux build for these works on the Debian distributionAny pointers? (Debian specific FAQ's) Quake works perfectly on Debian. There are Debian packages that will make installing it easier. XQF makes it easy to browse QuakeWorld. Word 6.0 -- I've been told that StarOffice is pretty good? (Pros / Cons please...) I use AbiWord for a lot of things, but it's far from complete, so I also have StarOffice installed. Access StarOffice has database software. Excel Gnumeric. I've never had to turn to its StarOffice equivalent. It also understands more Excel files than StarOffice. Photoshop 5.0 Gimp. RioShell 3.0 I'm guessing that this communicates with a Diamond Rio. freshmeat.net lists quite a few apps for this. Adaptec EZ CD4.0 Gnome-Toaster. HARDWARE: - Abit BP6 Dual Celery 450 (OC's to 504 ) 128 PC 100 Seagate (Model?) 4.5GB UDMA33 Drive 3Com 3C905B Diamond v770 Ultra Iomega Zip 100 Iomega Jaz 2GB I have a friend with an Abit motherboard with a celeron, and it works great. I can personally vouch for the network card. -- 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 pgpx2GQH5b9rV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: linux unformat
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Luis wrote: HI [snip] You've mailed this message four times now. Please stop it. If anyone has ideas, they'll say something. --Ian Ehrenwald
Re: (very) remote install
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, paul wrote: Korea). Is it possible for me to replace the current RH installation with Debian from my present location? Where are docs pertaining to this? The owner of the machine (call him john) wants to avoid the reboot, and does not know (or trust) anyone at the remote location. I BELIEVE I could You can't do it without rebooting. You need to reboot to load the new Debian kernel, the Debian C libraries, etc. That said, you can certainly do it remotely. What you need to do is this. First, hope he's laid out his partitions in a reasonable manner, with a small root partition, or that he has gobs and gobs of unallocated disk space. Get everything you need assembled on that root partition - basically that means tar (which should already be there) and ftp. I don't think ftp has any other dependencies other than the standard libraries. If he has only got one partition, and no other filesystems: You may be hosed. If you're lucky you can fit a (very) minimal Debian installation into whatever he's using for swap. You might end up having to use one of the microlinux distributions intended for embedded systems if his swap is really tight. If he doesn't have any extra disk space, but does have reasonable partitions: You'll also need to set it up so it will accept telnet connections. That means you'll have to set up the startup scripts to start in.telnetd in single user mode and regular multiuser mode - probably on a nonstandard port so it doesn't conflict with inetd and the regular telnet service while you're testing it. in.telnetd, of course, will also have to be on the / partition. Now reboot, and make sure your new in.telnetd works, and that it is set so that, in case your connection dies, your local power fails, you accidentally log out or something, that the machine isn't left alone. You'll probably need some sort of script to loop and keep it alive because I think it always dies when its connection ends. Now set lilo on the remote system to start up in single user mode. Double check that your telnetd script is run from single user mode. Now cross your fingers, and reboot. You should now be able to telnet into single user mode, which will have an unused /usr partition, and so on. You can now use the /usr partition to host your Debian root partition. If he has extra disk space, or lots of swap that you can steal: Skip all that garbage about hacking redhat to allow you to get at /usr to recycle it. Just use some of this extra space to host your Debian root. do this by installing and configuring a (minimal) base system complete with his root password here, and then gzipping it, telnet to the remote host as root, chroot to a ramdisk, reformat /dev/hda, install the gzipped Unfortunately, chroot does not excuse you from the obligations of the real root filesystem. You really can't reformat an active partition and expect it to work. Most likely your kernel will panic. Other than that, the plan is fairly sound. Make a minimal Debian system, put it in some free space *on its own partition*, set lilo to boot that new kernel, and reboot. You don't really need to chroot anywhere during the process. Whether to gzip is an interesting case. Fun with named pipes will possibly allow you to untar/zip on the fly. You might, however, be better off using something like ncftp which can make proper copies of complex directory structures, sucking up the extra download time in exchange for simplicity. Of course, if you have lots of space, you can have your cake and eat it too - load the gzipped tarfile containing Debian somewhere on the system, then unzip it into the rest of the space. and ready base system (configured for remote root access and RARP), start Why do you need RARP? a script that will reboot the machine after I have logged off, then ... or just reboot it yourself? John does not think this will work he should know, he's had 20+ years working with Unix and Ive only two years on Linux. But he has not suggested any other method. Well, you'd be hard pressed to make this work with any other Unix flavor, save perhaps FreeBSD. That said, you'll be well pressed to make it work with Linux. There is certainly a possibility that something will go wrong while the system is in an undefined state, or you will screw something up and when you try to reboot it, it dies somewhere along the line, and the whole thing will die. It could certainly happen, though it doesn't have to. else on this list done something similar? Is there a HOWTO for this? Should there be? Gads! Should this ever have to happen? If you record what happens to you and what you do, I'm sure that it will find its way into the collective consciousness somehow. Now. Are you sure you don't just want to keep using Red Hat? :}
Re: unformat linux
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Luis wrote: HI Could you tell me if is it possible to recover a NT disk formated with linux? I had a 6Gb disk with 3 partitions (2GB for NT, 2 Gb for win95 and 2Gb free) and i tried to install the RedHat Linux on the free disk space. I choose the linux server custom instalation and it formated all the disk with linux file system. Is it possible to recover those NT and win95 files on the first 4GB ? No. :} If you just change the partition table back to the way it was, then maybe Scandisk will figure things out and recover some of your data. Be sure to use Linux fdisk for this, and not MS fdisk; the MS version will scramble things irrevocably. Even so, once the Linux filesystem has been written on the disk, much of what was there before will have been overwritten - especially if software was installed there. It is not likely that much data can be salvaged.
Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I am the epitomy of newbie. I've finally had enough of MS (Multiple Sclorosis)..I'm tired of being paralyzed. But I need help. After plenty of review, and a couple disappointing attempts with RedHat, I've decided to try Debian. Primary reason being the quality / layout of information readily available on the web site. I'm guessing this will roll over to the mailing list as well.. I need to know what are the best (if any) alternatives available on Linux for applications I use on a daily basis.I also need to know a bit more about Debian now that I've decided to give it a go.. APPS and GAMES: - Quake / QuakeWorld -- I'm guessing that the Linux build for these works on the Debian distributionAny pointers? (Debian specific FAQ's) Q3A Quake 1/2 works fine but you need hardware acceleration for Q3A. The viper is a tnt2 chipset correct? I assume that hardware accel for that will come fairly soon. VisualStudio6.0 Many different development tools for linux exist. Gcc, G++, perl, java - I think there is basic and I know there is fortran, and pascal. Word 6.0 -- I've been told that StarOffice is pretty good? (Pros / Cons please...) StarOffice works great with the slight problem that is big and slow but on you machine I doubt you would notice. Pros - free. Cons - a little slow. Access There is a whole slouh of sql's for databases. Excel Gnumeric is rumored to be a very good spreadsheet program. Photoshop 5.0 The GIMP is arguable the most famous linux app with good reason. Almost anything photoshop can do, the gimp can do. LightWave5.5 3DSMax I don't have experience with these programs. Director 6.0 Well, I only wish. No macromedia software for linux.-Except for the brand new flash plugin. With the right scripting in cgi, php, or perl I have seen some pretty spectaular sites though. Palm Desktop More then likely software for this has been written as there is an attempt to port linux to it. RioShell 3.0 I know there is software that allows linking to the rio but I don't have experience with it. Adaptec EZ CD4.0 Xcdroast comes to mind; there are others. HARDWARE: - Abit BP6 Dual Celery 450 (OC's to 504 ) 128 PC 100 Seagate (Model?) 4.5GB UDMA33 Drive 3Com 3C905B No problem on anything above. Diamond v770 Ultra Someone with a tnt2 set would have to answer but I think this has an X server but I could be wrong. Iomega Zip 100 Iomega Jaz 2GB You don't say what kind of zip - all but usb are supported and usb is coming. I believe the Jaz is supported but again - I don't have one. I plan on running a dual boot at first, with all of my WinNT stuff staying where it is..Any tips would be much appreciated The Nt boot loader is a pain - you can't use lilo. There is a howto for this though. I take you have partitioning all done as fips can split and NTFS partition as of yet. I'll be posting specific questions once I get started ( CDs are on the way still from CheapBytes ) Well, I take it you got slink correct? This could be a problem if you need to support all of your fairly new hardware. A 2.2 kernel has the SMP advantage as well. In any event, get your system up and you can apt-get up to potato if need be. Good Luck, Justin -- Debian potato w/2.2.12 #linux op (jus10) on dal.net Thanks, -- Erich
Need SCSI Tape Help
Hi all! I'm using slink with an SMP kernel (2.0.36) on a dual Pentium Pro 200 with 256M RAM. The HD setup is a pair of 4 GB Seagate Barracudas on an Adaptec 2940UW along with an SCSI CDROM and a Tandberg 4222 tape drive. I've got a really sweet server here except that I just noticed there are no /dev/st* for the tape drive. Anyone know at what point during the installation these get created? I've got another machine here with an SCSI tape with lots of /dev/st*. I'd sure hate to mknod 'em all by hand on the new beast. Thanks
Re: dpkg-repack 1.0 bug?
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 01:11:52AM -, Pollywog wrote: dpkg-repack: Errors were encountered in processing. dpkg-repack: The package may not unpack correctly. Is this a bug? It certainly is not a feature. I assume you are doing this in your home directory. It's caused by the directories it's creating retaining the s+g bit from your homedir. I suggest you use dpkg-repack in /tmp. Ben
Re: Mutt and From: line in mail
There must be something I misunderstand, then. I put the following into .muttrc: my_hdr From: Mark Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] So that my real name would show up as well as my address. If you look at the headers in this message, my real name is gone. This has annoyed me for a while now. -- Mark Zimmerman On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 07:38:06PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I can't find anything in my muttrc that would account for this. I also somehow doubt that qmail is rewriting a MUA-generated line (but I could be wrong). It definitely should not. I use mutt and qmail, and my From: line (generated by my_hdr in ~/.muttrc) is left intact. If you set the MAILUSER and MAILHOST environment variables, qmail rewrites the from line as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only in the absence of an MUA-supplied header line. From qmail-header(5): SENDER ADDRESSES qmail-inject looks for sender address lists in the follow ing fields: Sender, From, Reply-To, Return-Path, Return- Receipt-To, Errors-To, Resent-Sender, Resent-From, Resent- Reply-To. If there is no From field, qmail-inject adds a new From field with the name of the user invoking qmail-inject. Also, I prefer the QMAIL* variables: The user name in the From header field is set by QMAILUSER, MAILUSER, USER, or LOGNAME, whichever comes first. The host name is normally set by the defaulthost control but can be overridden with QMAILHOST or MAILHOST. This is usually a good thing for machines on dial-up connections so that it looks like your mail came from your account at your ISP. That's exactly what I use it for. :-) Also note that you can set the *envelope* sender with environment variables, so that bounce messages will go to your ISP mailbox: The default envelope sender address is the same as the default From address, but it can be overridden with QMAIL SUSER and QMAILSHOST. It may also be modified by the r and m letters described below. Bounces will be sent to this address. I cannot emphasize this strongly enough. If you have to set your From: header for any reason, you should make the envelope sender match. -- Greg Wooledge| Distributed.NET http://www.distributed.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because a CPU is a terrible thing to waste. http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/ |
Re: http://www.debian.org/contact
Greg Wooledge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some secret mode in console-apt that makes it tell you what *other* packages it's going to upgrade or remove ...unfortunately console-apt simply isn't a sufficient replacement for dselect without this feature (in some form or another; maybe it could be less whizzy than dselect's, but it's gotta be there). This works: jekyll# apt-get -s install ae Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: slang1=20 2 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 190 not upgraded. Inst ae [] Inst slang1 Conf slang1 Conf ae It doesn't have to be *exactly* like dselect, but it certainly has to be more like dselect than that! Cheers, -Miles -- Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night the ice weasels come. --Nietzsche
Re: installing on a compaq deskpro
Do you install on scsi? If not, can't you turn the scsi off in bios? I use AHA-2940 on several servers and never had any problems, neither with 2.0 2.2 nor 2.3 kernels. If it helps any: (scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter found at PCI 17/0 (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 10:46:13PM -0400, Richard Earley wrote: I am having a problem installing on a compaq deskpro 6000. It uses a AHA-2940 SCSI controller and resets durring initial install of the kernel. The option to turn off the probe aic7xxx=noprobe is not helping. Is there any new updates (boot floppy images) which can get arroung this problem? (Yes this means I am stupid/crazy/happy enough to be a tester of kernels) Rich Earley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu
[PHILADELPHIA] PADS: Upgrading to Debian's ``unstable'' release
The Philadelphia Area Debian Society (PADS) (http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/) presents Upgrading to Debian's ``unstable'' release When: Wednesday 20 October 1999, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Speaker: Chris Fearnley, Senior Vice President Technology, LinuxForce Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where: IQ Group, 6th floor (through the door with a big Q on it) 325 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA Abstract We will examine the rewards and dangers of using ``Potato'', the current ``unstable'' Debian release. Debian developers must use the unstable release to prepare the next stable release for distribution. The discussion will aim to help users and developers who want to test and use this pre-release version of Debian. Social Dinner Attendees are invited to gather for dinner prior to the meeting at 6:30 PM at The Mexican Post, 104 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. Please RSVP so we can get an appropriate sized table. Keysigning: PADS meetings include a GPG keysiging (see the web page for details). Web Page: http://www.CJFearnley.com/pads/ -- Christopher J. Fearnley | Linux/Internet/Web Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Design Science Revolutionary http://www.CJFearnley.com| Explorer in Universe Dare to be Naïve -- Bucky Fuller
install, I'm in over my head
Hi. I am doing a floppy install of debian. I am at the point of installing the driver modules but am very confused. I have a 486sx computer with a 408mb hard drive and 16megs. of ram. I have made the first partition swap with 32 megs and the rest a boot primary linux partition. Anyway at the driver installation page I went to Block disks and disk like devices. I installed, though I don't know what they do: Linear, paride, raid0, raid1, raid5. I could not install one module though it really sounds important: xdxt hard disk controller I get a message like: Installation failed /lib/modules/2.0.36/blocked/xd.0: init_module: device or resource busy Also in the Device drivers for cd-rom drives I see two that would seem to fit my setup. I have a Mitsumi cd-rom manufactured in September 1993. I see mitsumi cd-rom and mitsumi cd-rom with extended features. When I try to install these I get an error message like: /lib/modules/2.0.36//cdrom/mcd.0 : init_module: device or resource busy eval: 1: syntax error : eof in backquote substitution script: cd /dev rm -f cdrom ln -s cdrom eval: 1: syntax error: eof in backquote substitution Could anyone give me some advice? Should I try some of the other modules like aztcd, cdrom, optcd, cm206 ? Do I need to enter something in the argument section on any of the above? Could that be why the installation failled? I am sorry to be such a bother. It's probably hard to understand why someone with my lack of understanding would try to install. This is just for my home use. If I cannot complete the install tonight do my partitions stay intact? I am a man but I am nearly having tears of frustration, for as I was typing this out a few minutes ago with a Win98 sitting nearby I suffered a fatal exception and lost all the detailed questions that I am asking here just before sending it. Agh Jeff
Re: install, I'm in over my head
Linear, paride, raid0, raid1, raid5. You probably don't need any of them. paride is for parallel port IDE devices. All the RAID ones are for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. I'm not sure what linear is for. I could not install one module though it really sounds important: xd xt hard disk controller I don't think you need that either unless you have a REALLY anchient machine. The normal IDE drivers should suffice. fit my setup. I have a Mitsumi cd-rom manufactured in September 1993. I see [snip] Dunno what to suggest here. I have an all SCSI system and the systems I work on are all SCSI also so I don't usually deal with that stuff. for my home use. If I cannot complete the install tonight do my partitions stay intact? I am a man but I am nearly having tears of frustration, for as The partitions aren't going anywhere if you turn the computer off. But I'd suggest just leaving it on until you get some answers. Just turn the monitor off. I was typing this out a few minutes ago with a Win98 sitting nearby I suffered a fatal exception and lost all the detailed questions that I am asking here just before sending it. Agh Ugh. Sorry man. The quicker we get you running Linux, the quicker the road to recovery :) --Ian Ehrenwald
RE: 24-bit graphics woes
I think the 24 bit colour problem is from one of the libraries Netscape 4.6 (and WP 8) was compiled with. Do a search in the mail archive and and in Deja for more info. It seems to be a problem only at 24 bit. The other problem I've never seen before, maybe another netscape bug, I'm currently running at 16 bit myself. Bill Stuart Ballard wrote: Bryan Allen wrote: You might want to check out xfree86.org, they've got spiffy infos on the supported cards. and yeah.. the 24 bit ugly netscape thing is netscape being ghetto and ugly in 24 bit. try jumping it up to 32bit as soon as you can. x is generally a lot prettier when it's got the color depth behind it. :) Woohoo! It never occurred to me that 24bit might be simply worse-behaved than 8, 16 and 32 bits. My card is accelerated in all modes except 24... typical huh? Switching to 32bit solved the speed issue, but the graphics seemed to get corrupted, giving an interesting color bleeding-like effect. Usually the left-hand side of any object didn't seem to get drawn correctly, or sometimes at all, leaving holes in the sides of my windows, and strange graphical artifacts on my menus. If anyone has any ideas about *that*, I'd be *really* grateful (background: Trident ProVidia9685 graphics card, SVGA xserver, current potato) For now I'm in 16 bit and working fine (and fast) - thanks bryan :) Stuart. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Postscript Merging Dial-in PPP Access
I'm trying to get a couple of things running for a client here. I need the system to be able to do two things :- 1) Merge two postcript files. I'm trying to run a small script that converts the text output from another program into Postscript, and then merge that file with a previously createed postscript file. Here's the script segment that does these things :- --- Begin Script Segment -- for $source.* do cat $file | enscript -p/tmp/outfile.ps -R -B cat /u/psback.ps /tmp/outfile.ps | lpr -PHPLaser done End Script Segment --- The HP Laser is a fully postscript capable printer, I can print both files seperately, and the files are able to merge print on a SCO box, but under linux the files seem to not want to merge. psback.ps is a background image that is needed behind every page printed. source.* is a collection of single pages (organised through another section of the script, quite simple really). Comments about this will be greatly appreciated. All help useful. 2) Dial-in PPP Access. Before people start screaming at me to read the manuals, I suggest they also look in the documentation. The current documentation is not detailed enough for me to get the system to work. I can setup shell access using mgetty, but as soon as I try and setup a pppd to run, it kills the connection complaining about the lock files. Any help here needed! How-to files, please paste into your reply all relevant sections, as the online HOWTO's, and the local howto's onsite are not up to the task. BTW - I'm not on the mailing list (I don't have time to sort through heaps of mail everyday). Please post all replies direct to me. Regards, Peter Ludwig __ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: Word to the wise Re: is your WINE broken too?
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 14-Oct-99 David Coe wrote: Any time you're going to upgrade a wine package (or any other package that's either alpha status (like wine) or extremely critical to the continued operation of your system), I recommend you use dpkg-repack first,, to save a copy of the currently-installed version. I was wondering if I could do something like that, but I was not familiar with that dpkg option. Thanks for the info. I will record it for future use. I should have said, ``dpkg-repack'' is a separate package, not a dpkg option.
Re: Proxy Server Problems (Possible Solution)
Hello, a while ago, I wrote about a problem I was having with a proxy server setup. I had two networks 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.2.0 joined by a router. The proxy server was 192.168.1.1 and though I could ping, telnet on both networks to the other, the proxy server would only work on the 1.0 network. It turns out that for a SOCKS 4 client to work it must be able to resolve DNS names, the machines on the 1.0 network could get to the DNS servers through a gateway to the net. But the machines on the 2.0 network could not get to the DNS server. My solution was to install a caching DNS server on the network and point all machines to it. Now both networks can use the proxy server with no problem. I hope this helps someone with a similar problem. Bill Original Letter Hello again, I have a problem. I have two networks 192.168.1.0 and 192.168.2.0, they have a router joining them. What I want to do is put a proxy server on one network (192.168.1.0) and have machines on both networks have access to the Internet. Can anyone tell me which proxy server to use. I've tried using SOCKS and it lets the machines on the 192.168.1.0 network communicate with the internet, but machines on the other network do not get out. I get messages like: Sep 30 14:09:26 debian sockd[5075]: Error in socks_GetDst: No such file or directory; from host 192.168.2.2 Sep 30 14:10:07 debian sockd[5076]: connected -- Connect from SSL(unknown)@192.168.2.2 to debian.bermudez (1080) Sep 30 14:10:07 debian sockd[5077]: error -- wrong version (0x47) from host debian.bermudez. Sep 30 14:10:07 debian sockd[5076]: terminated -- Connect from SSL(unknown)@192.168.2.2 to debian.bermudez (1080). Sep 30 14:10:07 debian sockd[5076]: 414 bytes from 192.168.2.2, 0 bytes from debian.bermudez However I can ping and telnet from network to the other. The 192.168.1.0 network can get mail and all other net services I need but nada from the 192.168.2.0 network. Socks route file - router are at x.x.x.13 # routes for sockd # # IP of interface destination netmask for destination # eg: 10.0.0.254 10.0.0.28 255.255.255.255 #new lines 192.168.1.1 192.168.2.13 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.13 192.168.2.13 255.255.255.0 #original line added first 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Socks conf file # Replace 'my.domain' below with your own domain name before using. # Make sure you retain the leading period. #deny ALL 0.0.0.0 .my.domain 0.0.0.0 #permit my.domain 0.0.0.0 ALL 0.0.0.0 permit ?=n 192.168.0.0 255.255.0.0 ALL 0.0.0.0 Thanks all Bill ps I think that route file looks fishy
Re: dpkg-repack 1.0 bug?
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 01:11:52AM -, Pollywog wrote: dpkg-repack: Errors were encountered in processing. dpkg-repack: The package may not unpack correctly. Is this a bug? It certainly is not a feature. I assume you are doing this in your home directory. It's caused by the directories it's creating retaining the s+g bit from your homedir. I suggest you use dpkg-repack in /tmp. (But don't leave them there after they've been built, because /tmp normally gets cleaned when you reboot.)
running apt from an at command
I ran 'apt-get -d upgrade' from an 'at' command and just figured out why this did not work. When it is run, apt-get asks if I really want to download, and since there is nobody at the keyboard to enter Y, the command does not execute. Is there a way to enter the Y or to have the command execute without being asked to confirm? thanks -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream*
ftp login banner
Is there something like issue.net for the ftp service I want to disable these message: (Version 6.2/OpenBSD/Linux-0.10) ready. Another posibility is to change to another ftp packagewhich one is the best?
Re: running apt from an at command
Run it whi -y apt-get will assume yes to all prompts and will and non-interactively On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: I ran 'apt-get -d upgrade' from an 'at' command and just figured out why this did not work. When it is run, apt-get asks if I really want to download, and since there is nobody at the keyboard to enter Y, the command does not execute. Is there a way to enter the Y or to have the command execute without being asked to confirm? thanks -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream* -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: (no subject)
On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 11:43:11PM +0200, Leo Mignemi wrote: unsubscribe -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Somebody does this about once a day. Is it possible to change the instruction footer to something less cryptic? Rob -- It's later than you think.
Re: running apt from an at command
Run it with -y apt-get will assume yesto all prompts and will run non-interactively. sorry for the other message!!! On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Pollywog wrote: I ran 'apt-get -d upgrade' from an 'at' command and just figured out why this did not work. When it is run, apt-get asks if I really want to download, and since there is nobody at the keyboard to enter Y, the command does not execute. Is there a way to enter the Y or to have the command execute without being asked to confirm? thanks -- Andrew - GnuPG Public KeyID: 0x48109681 *we all live downstream* -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Newbie Non-FAQ(I think) questions
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. I need to know what are the best (if any) alternatives available on Linux for applications I use on a daily basis.I also need to know a bit more about Debian now that I've decided to give it a go.. Netscape. Aren't you interested in browsing something on the web? Oki
Re: (very) remote install
William T Wilson wrote: ... Other than that, the plan is fairly sound. Make a minimal Debian system, put it in some free space *on its own partition*, set lilo to boot that new kernel, and reboot. You don't really need to chroot anywhere during the process. ... This sounds good to me. I think adding a new harddisk would be nice; he could just install the Debian on the new drive and set lilo up. Oki
Sun floppy boot
Hi, I tried to boot my Sun Classic off of a floppy yesterday, but it didn't work. I don't know how to change the boot media in the prom monitor. I have tried boot floppy, setenv boot-disk=floppy and go. I have surfed the web too, trying to find a document on prom monitor. But I haven't found anything related to the boot media. How does the prom monitor see the floppy device? Is it as floppy, /dev/fd0? Or anything else? Any pointers please... Thanks in advance, Oki
printing special characters
Hello, where may I look for the reason that my Canon BJC 210 suddenly is unable to print special characters like ñ, ö, ç, etc? I´ve been looking in the Printing-HowTos, the LPRng - Documentation and the aps / magicfilter documentation. But I didn't find anything that could help me to find out why I can't print this stuff from one moment to another. Don't know if it's releated, but the last thing I did before the printer stopped printing these characters was install StarOffice 5.1. Any hint about where to look would be apreciated. Lorenz
2.0.38 make install - unable to find lilo footprint
When I make install for the kernel 2.0.38 - which I didn't get from a .deb, I just downloaded from Finland - when it comes to the part where every other kernel says shall I run lilo? this one says it can't find a lilo footprint. What is it looking for? Andrew -- http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=45690
Re: ftp login banner
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 12:48:11AM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: Is there something like issue.net for the ftp service I want to disable these message: (Version 6.2/OpenBSD/Linux-0.10) ready. From the manual page: If the file /etc/ftpwelcome exists, ftpd prints it before issuing the ``ready'' message. Is this what you are looking for? Another posibility is to change to another ftp packagewhich one is the best? Joop -- Joop Stakenborg PA4TU, ex-PA3ABA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Amateur Radio Software Database http://radio.linux.org.au
Re: ftp login banner
/etc/ftpwelcome works but I still get the FTP server (Version 6.2/OpenBSD/Linux-0.10) message...I want to disable that message!! On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Joop Stakenborg wrote: On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 12:48:11AM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: Is there something like issue.net for the ftp service I want to disable these message: (Version 6.2/OpenBSD/Linux-0.10) ready. From the manual page: If the file /etc/ftpwelcome exists, ftpd prints it before issuing the ``ready'' message. Is this what you are looking for? Another posibility is to change to another ftp packagewhich one is the best? Joop -- Joop Stakenborg PA4TU, ex-PA3ABA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Amateur Radio Software Database http://radio.linux.org.au -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
I screwed up w/ shadow passwords
Hello, I have on old 486 on which I installed debian (slink) (any excuse), but forgot my root password. So I went in and edited /etc/passwords, where there were 'x's fro the password fields. Then I changed the root password after deleting the 'x' in root's /etc/passwords entry. But now, the password only works under xdm login. Under console login, _no_ password is required. How do I fix this? Martin __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Very basic question
Hi all, I just put Slink on a new machine and am having problems adding users. I want to add a user so that they /home/username as their home directory and so that they can receive mail. What is the command to set up a normal user? Is it useradd -m username? This doesn't seem to set ip a mail file in /var/spool/mail and the man page has np reference to mail. Thanks in advance. Patrick
Re: I screwed up w/ shadow passwords
Martin Waller wrote: Hello, I have on old 486 on which I installed debian (slink) (any excuse), but forgot my root password. So I went in and edited /etc/passwords, where there were 'x's fro the password fields. [...] How do I fix this? these 'x's are ther because you have shadow installed, so you need to delete rootpassword in /etc/shadow as you have done in passwd. set back password in passwd to the 'x'. that should work. you may take a look to manpages for shadow (man -k shadow), especially to pconv/pwunconv and shadowconfig to swithc between shadow/passwd support. gerhard
Re: Very basic question
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Patrick Kirk wrote: I want to add a user so that they /home/username as their home directory and so that they can receive mail. What is the command to set up a normal user? Is it useradd -m username? This doesn't seem to set ip a mail file in /var/spool/mail and the man page has np reference to mail. adduser username the /var/spool/mail/username file is created on demand. Martin -- If the box says 'Windows 95 or better', it should run on Linux, right? - anonymous For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More mail grief
When I try to delete messages in mutt, I get a message Unable to create temporary file or perhaps its unable to create temporaty buffer. Help please...my mailbox is getting very full! Patrick
please help if you can ...
Please explain in layman terms ... - ( I have read all faq's/howto etc) Example A system with a 2 GB hardrive and following partitions. 1) 25 mb dos/fat16 2) 500 mb win95c/fat32 3) 1393 mb ext2 (proposed)/(debian/gnu/ --- hurd and/or linux mix/match) 4) 128mb swapfile Given the example above:- -- Q1) I understand debian/gnu/hurd uses a ext2 partition Does this have to be a primary partition or can it be a partition contained within a dos/extended partition as a logical partition an ext2 etc and be booted via grub instead,or for some reason must it be primary,therefore why,and for what specific reasons,and also can the swapfile be placed within a dos extended logical partition area instead of in the primary area and/or can gnu/linux have a swapfile in such area/partition. Q2) I understand debian/gnu/hurd can't simply be installed like linux,and that the hurd requires linux to be present to install the hurd in the nominated partition designated/planned for the hurd?.After the hurd is installed can one remove the linux partition which was used to install the hurd in the hurd/ext2/partition?I ask this because I have doslinux using 10 meg in my dos partition and could use this just to install the hurd in it's area or is there/will there be a dependancy between the hurd and debian/linux. Q3) Once this Hurd has been installed I need to know if/and/how it interacts with linux,mainly because I wonder if one can then install linux into the same partition that the hurd resides or must linux reside in another seperate ext2/partition instead of sharing same partition with the hurd. How does the hurd handle linux programs/software now/future and can you please define the 2 types/linux binaries and how they differ from what executables are/and how the hurd interacts with debian/linux and applications or is there a factor for recompiling linux stuff to work with the debian/gnu/hurd. Q4) I understand that if say I have a Debian/linux/ext2 partition running linux I can possibly install/run the hurd in a subdir of the linux partition? T/F ? Perhaps this is only a plan for the future or can they exist in the same partition but in different directories and I also assume if this is the case installation packages must share libraries for compiling etc too ??? Q5) Currently I run a doslinux version of linux in my dos partition which uses loop principle to boot my doslinux out of it's compressed file, but there exists the option to setup this loop version of linux to boot from a native ext2 partition also,which I thought might, be an interesting option if also possible with the hurd for people using several os's for development reasons. Thanks ( in advanace/I'm trying to understand the faqs/howto explanations) .. Jonathan Larsen-Rask Lanz (web-nicname) [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eterm: mutt slrn
I'm trying to have both mutt and slrn iconized and using eterm. I added the following lines in /GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu.hook: mutt-e EXEC Eterm -T mutt-e -e /usr/local/bin/mutt slrn-e EXEC Eterm -T slrn-e -e /usr/bin/slrn but if I change the icon for, say, mutt, it also changes the icon for slrn (and viceversa)... how can I have a differente icon for each one? Also, I know there are special menus for mutt and slrn with eterm; I've got /usr/share/Eterm/themes/mutt/, which contains the files MAIN, mutt.menu, and the symlink pixmaps.list - /usr/share/Eterm/pix/pixmaps.list how do I do in order to use it? and, how about slrn (there's no /usr/share/Eterm/themes/slrn/)? TIA -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPAÑA
man not working?
I can't make the `man' command working: $ man man No existe entrada de manual para man (There is no man entry for man) I recently compiled and installed mutt and gnupg in /usr/local, and tried to compile/install QT as well; it's ever since then that `man' is not working. TIA, -- Horacio Anno MMDCCLII ad Urbe condita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Valencia - ESPAÑA
ppp not working
i am new to debian but have managed to get a working set-up using 2.1. however, i am unable to connect to the net. when i try to invoke ppp, i get a message saying that there is no pppd module. what do i do? at what stage in the install is the ppp module loaded? i thought that this was an integral part of the system and did not need to be loaded separately. any help would be appreciated. i am using the fv2wm X interface. sam
Re: HP 9070cxi ???
Rob Reesor wrote: Hi, Sorry for the intrusion. I noticed your exchange muc.lists.debian.user. I'm having trouble posting, so thought I'd send email directly. I've just ordered a Red Hat Linux system and am having a hard time finding a printer. Seems that most of the printers listed on the various compatibility lists are no longer sold. The lists are very out of date. One list (gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi) lists the 970cxi as being perfectly compatible with Linux. However, it also claims that driver information is incomplete and there is no autoprobe available. Have either of you gotten the 970cxi working with Linux? If you don't mind, will you please let me know what printer you *have* gotten working with Linux? Many thanks, Rob I still have not decided what pirnter I am going to buy. I am still gathering more information. I have only gotten working an Epson Stylus Color 850 in my Debian linux box. I have not tried to configure another printer yet. This model has been easy to configure by using magicfilter. Manuel Arenaz
Re: I screwed up w/ shadow passwords
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 02:06:05AM -0700, Martin Waller wrote: Hello, I have on old 486 on which I installed debian (slink) (any excuse), but forgot my root password. So I went in and edited /etc/passwords, where there were 'x's fro the password fields. Then I changed the root password after deleting the 'x' in root's /etc/passwords entry. But now, the password only works under xdm login. Under console login, _no_ password is required. How do I fix this? Put the x back. What you really need to do is simply run passwd as root. This wont require knowing the previous password. Ben
Re: Very basic question
adduser is the command I needed. Many thanks! Patrick
Re: xanim error :(
Jonathan == Jonathan D Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jonathan hi, when trying to run xanim (from netscape via plugger Jonathan or from the command line) I get the following error: Jonathan error in loading shared libraries :undefined Jonathan symbol:__register_frame_info That error can occur when you try to run a binary linked with glibc 2.1 on a system with glibc 2.0. Your choices are to use the xanim from slink, upgrade to glibc 2.1, or build xanim from source. -- I get my monkeys for nothing and my chimps for free. http://www.clark.net/pub/hermit/
Re: Postscript Merging Dial-in PPP Access
1) Merge two postcript files. I'm trying to run a small script that converts the text output from another program into Postscript, and then merge that file with a previously createed postscript file. Here's the script segment that does these things :- --- Begin Script Segment -- for $source.* do cat $file | enscript -p/tmp/outfile.ps -R -B cat /u/psback.ps /tmp/outfile.ps | lpr -PHPLaser done End Script Segment --- The HP Laser is a fully postscript capable printer, I can print both files seperately, and the files are able to merge print on a SCO box, but under linux the files seem to not want to merge. psback.ps is a background image that is needed behind every page printed. source.* is a collection of single pages (organised through another section of the script, quite simple really). Comments about this will be greatly appreciated. All help useful. Actually, this is probably more of a PostScript problem than a Linux problem. In this case, though, I think the difference in behavior (between the two UNIX systems) may be attributable to enscript. (I.e., no flames please.) Generally PostScript files are not appendable in this way. Now, maybe psback.ps is specially designed to be used in that way, but the typical way a PostScript programmer would have to make that work (modifying the showpage function) is dependent on how the file that follows is prepared, and whether *it* modifies the showpage function. (Typical reason a PostScript generator might modify this function: implementing page numbering.) I think what's probably happening here is that the version of enscript on the system where this *does* work must generate a different (simpler) PostScript prologue than the version on your Debian system. Namely, that version of enscript probably doesn't modify the showpage function itself. Under this theory, what would be happening is psback.ps executes its code and modifies the showpage function (probably) to lay down the background first, then the rest of the page your enscript output comes along and undoes those modifications and voila, you get the symptoms you didn't describe 8), which are probably either a) no output or b) same output as enscripting alone. Right? Unfortunately, the fix for this problem (assuming that's what it is) is not that easy. It would probably involve reworking psback.ps to a more reliable implementation, or reworking enscript's prologue to make it more tolerant of psback.ps. For experimentation, I would also recommend trying to view the file with ghostscript, and also moving it off the system and printing it from various places (PCs, Macs, whatever you have around. If the symptoms are all the same, then I think you can be assured the problem is in fact something like I suggest rather than the Debian lpd, and you might want to consider reposting in a PostScript forum. Sorry if any of this sounds vague. Unless you know PostScript the details aren't that helpful. c
Re: More mail grief
If su then everything works. So it sounds like a permissions problem on /var/spool/mail Anyone got any thoughts? Patrick - Original Message - From: Patrick Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-User@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 10:56 AM Subject: More mail grief When I try to delete messages in mutt, I get a message Unable to create temporary file or perhaps its unable to create temporaty buffer. Help please...my mailbox is getting very full! Patrick -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: keymap error when closing X
Hi Lance, [cc to kernel mailinglist] I get the following when closing Xwindows. What does this mean? How do I fix it? System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us -em1 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: -emp -eml Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server keymap/xfree86 /var/tmp/xfree86.xkm' xinit: connection to X server lost. I wonder if part of the problem is that 'us' is an empty file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols I have the same message when I _start_ X. As soon as the XDM loginscreen is there, or when X is running, the mouse and keyboard don't work. They do during boot. Don't know if the message is related with the malfunctioning of the keyboard and mouse. This is with kernel 2.3.21 pre-patch-2.3.22-2 Kernel 2.3.19 is fine (didn't test another) Mouse and keyboard are PS/2 No gpm (disabled) Debian Potato: XFree86 Version 3.3.5 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: August 23 1999 If I kill X via a remote login, keyboard works again (at console thus) I would be happy to supply more info if nescessary. Ookhoi
Re: Netscape 4.71 Is Rock Solid Fast!
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 06:03:24PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: I am using A stable Debian Slink production system. Netscape version 4.71 glibc2.0 from ftp.netscape.com. okay that makes sense then. i suggest that if you like that version of netscape you don't upgrade to potato. netscapes glibc 2.1 code sucks hard. It does :-) But nothing prevents you from using the libc5 version of netscape under potato (which is what I do) I wouldn't call it rock solid, but it's useable and only crashes two or three times a week (I usually leave it open with 6 or seven windows) Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the Plug almost always works.--unknown source pgpUY8Lte4t1M.pgp Description: PGP signature
Creating/Moving a partition
I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because I've got plenty of available drive space, but what set-up files will I have to modify to make sure things go smoothly? I assume I'll have to change fstab. But then do I have to move all contents of the current /var to the new /var? Could I create the new partition using a temporary name, move all the /var stuff to it, then rename it to /var? Thanks. -- David J. Kanter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian 2.1
Re: Sun floppy boot
Hello again :) A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Hi, I tried to boot my Sun Classic off of a floppy yesterday, but it didn't work. I don't know how to change the boot media in the prom monitor. I have tried boot floppy, setenv boot-disk=floppy and go. You were at the prompt, which is the old-style boot rom for compatibility with the Sun 3 and older. When you're hit with that prompt, you need to hit n and enter to get to the ok prompt, which is what you're looking for. At the ok prompt, boot floppy will work the way you expect. I have surfed the web too, trying to find a document on prom monitor. But I haven't found anything related to the boot media. If you type help at the ok prompt you get some online help. How does the prom monitor see the floppy device? Is it as floppy, /dev/fd0? Or anything else? The boot ROM knows floppy as well as /fd. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
apache ASP perl : config ?
hello, please can someone help me with installing libapache-asp-perl ? I don't know what to add in : /etc/ apache/ access.conf srm.conf httpd.conf i set it to download the perl_mod. thanks
2.3x and IP masquerading
Marcin If you are ready to live dangerously, I would suggest you join the the Linux Kernel mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] They should steer you in the right direction. -- David Natkins Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax to: (718) 488-1780 Phone: (718) 403-2474
Re: SECOND TRY: Re: Group adm?
Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 12:25:35PM -0400, Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed Cogburn wrote: I've noticed several files in my normal user (ed) home dir, which, instead of ed as group owner, are given the group of adm. These files are all types, a file created by Netscape while downloading, a sub-dir I created, and a config file (.xscreensaver) created by another process, as examples. The user ed, isn't allowed to change this, I have to use chown as root to fix things. Is this normal? Why do they get the group of adm? This is just a guess, and I don't know how it could have happened, but your home directory might belong to group adm. My homedir is SGID, so that all files are owned by the same group as it. If yours is set up the same way, and I imagine it is, this might be it. Thanks for the reply. /home: drwxrwsr-x 3 ed ed 1024 Aug 11 1998 home I don't know how the above happened for /home. What should the owner/permissions of /home be? /home/ed: drwxrwxr-x 30 ed ed 3072 Oct 15 05:41 ed Its not SGID. Should it be? P.S. The group 'ed' does exist, and it doesn't matter whether user 'ed' is a member of 'adm' or not. 'mkdir temp' in /home/ed (executed by the user 'ed') always results in the group owner of the temp subdir being 'adm'. -- Ed C.
Re: 24-bit graphics woes
Bill wrote: I think the 24 bit colour problem is from one of the libraries Netscape 4.6 (and WP 8) was compiled with. Do a search in the mail archive and and in Deja for more info. It seems to be a problem only at 24 bit. The other problem I've never seen before, maybe another netscape bug, I'm currently running at 16 bit myself. Bill I remember this coming up a while back. The definitive answer given by someone then was that NS's problem with 24 bit color was a Netscape bug. (which begs the question: Why hasn't it been fixed since then?) -- Ed C.
Re: (no subject)
Rob Mahurin wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 11:43:11PM +0200, Leo Mignemi wrote: unsubscribe -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Somebody does this about once a day. Is it possible to change the instruction footer to something less cryptic? Rob I doubt it would help, people just don't read. I'm in other mailing lists that use 2-3 lines to explain how to unsubscribe, yet I see this kind of thing occur there too. -- Ed C.
Any way to install modconf on current potato?
Is there any way to get modconf to install on the current release of potato? Failing that, what are the necessary commands at the console to: 1) See what modules my kernel is compiled to support (I know what they are, just not the module names - they were never mentioned in make xconfig) 2) See the help on a module's parameter format 3) Attempt to add a module into the running kernel with a given set of parameters 4) Set things up so that the module I just added will be added next time I boot as well On a related note, I can't seem to get gnome-apt to install either - it wants an unavailable version of libapt-pkg2.5. Any ideas on this one? Thanks, Stuart.
swap quotas?
Is it possible to limit certain apps to limited amount of swap? This morning I sit down at my machine to find that something ate all my swap which then proceeded to crash lots of daemons and my X session. I don't know what was the culprit but I wouldn't be supprised if it was netscape. I could care less if netscape crashes from lack of swap but I don't really like having my xsession shutdown and all of my remote jobs terminated and leaving my system in basically unusable state. Btw, my setup is slink with lots of slink compiled potato packages, 256M memory and two swap partitions of 149M and 128M swap. Hmmm, I have some free disk space (already formated) that I could add some swap files to. Is there some daemon that could turn these on as swap gets full? I don't want these active at all times since they will be slow. I'll see what google finds on this. Thanks, Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: ppp not working
Make sure ppp is in your /etc/modules file. Also make sure the module exists -- /lib/modules/2.?.??/net/ppp.o [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Samuel Varghese) writes: i am new to debian but have managed to get a working set-up using 2.1. however, i am unable to connect to the net. when i try to invoke ppp, i get a message saying that there is no pppd module. what do i do? at what stage in the install is the ppp module loaded? i thought that this was an integral part of the system and did not need to be loaded separately. any help would be appreciated. i am using the fv2wm X interface. sam -- *** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * * pgp public key on keyservers everywhere? */ --
Re: Creating/Moving a partition
David J. Kanter wrote: I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because I've got plenty of available drive space, but what set-up files will I have to modify to make sure things go smoothly? I assume I'll have to change fstab. But then do I have to move all contents of the current /var to the new /var? Could I create the new partition using a temporary name, move all the /var stuff to it, then rename it to /var? Thats what I would suggest. Stop everything you can, copy the contents and do the final swapover in one line, just in case # mv /var /old_var ; mv /new_var /var Another alternative is to create a whole new, bigger, root partition, copy everyting to that, boot it from a rescue floppy and once there 1) make it bootable, fix up /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo 2) remove the original root partition and replace it with an enlarged verion. It depends what else you've got on the disk, how much time you have, etc. Andrew
