Re: preocupacion: por falta de configurabilidad
El Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 12:35:02PM +0200, 2070718 dijo: Hace algun tiempo instale las Xf 4 y me kede un poco preocupado pq no se podian ajustar los modelines como en las series 3xx siendo esta posibilidad una gran ventaja que con un poco de esfuerzo da grandes resultado como: -modos de video nuevos (pej 224x256 genial para el snes9x) Ondia... :-O Sería mucho pedir que conpartieses esa maravilla de modeline... -menos parpadeo de la pantalla (subiendo el clock...) Humm, esto es imprescindible, debe de poder ajustarse de alguna forma, un 1026x768 a 60 hz es horrible. ( Pregunta seguramente chorra ) ¿ No estarás usando el fb server con el fb vesa ? Un saludo... -- Fdo: Ismael Canales Luis pgpxVk6EmsFwA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Duda sobre lilo
El Sun, May 21, 2000 at 07:48:45AM -0500, ADnoctum dijo: o Usa la última versión de LILO, que ignora el número de cilindros y es capaz de arrancar cualquier cosa desde cualquier cilindro. Y alguien sabe de dónde la puedo bajar ¿ freshmeat ? ( www.freshmeat.net ) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Fdo: Ismael Canales Luis pgpUBxB5t8LMY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Viajar a Europa por solo $ 450.- ?
http://www.usittango.com.ar/frames/fram_promoflash.htm En esta página, http://www.usittango.com.ar/frames/fram_promoflash.htm Confeccionada especialmente para vos, podrás encontrar excelentes propuestas turísticas, a los mejores precios del mercado. Puedes hacernos tu solicitud o consulta a nuestros teléfonos en Capital Federal: 4794-8060, 4816-7909 y 4372-4224, escribiendo a nuestros e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] y [EMAIL PROTECTED] También puedes presentarte en nuestros puntos de venta: Casa Central: Olivos: Ave. Libertador 2785., Casa del Estudiante: Uruguay 969 ¡¡Te esperamos!!! * En caso de no interesarle este mensaje, puede solicitar ser borrado de nuestra lista respondiendo este e-mail con la palabra NOMAIL en el asunto (subject) Si conoce a alguien a quien pueda interesarle nuestros servicios o esta Oportunidad de Negocio, por favor mándele una copia de este e-mail. Si le ha molestado este e-mail le pedimos las más humildes disculpas. Este es un mero e-mail informativo. Bajo el Decreto S.1618 TITULO III aprobado por el 105 Congreso base de las las normativas internacionales sobre SPAM, esta carta no puede ser considerada SPAM mientras incluya una forma de ser removido. n esta página, confeccionada especialmente para vos, podrás encontrar excelentes propuestas turísticas, a los mejores precios del mercado. Puedes hacernos tu solicitud o consulta a nuestros teléfonos en Capital Federal: 4794-8060, 4816-7909 y 4372-4224, escribiendo a nuestros e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] y [EMAIL PROTECTED] También puedes presentarte en nuestros puntos de venta: Casa Central: Olivos: Ave. Libertador 2785., Casa del Estudiante: Uruguay 969 ¡¡Te esperamos!!! * En caso de no interesarle este mensaje, puede solicitar ser borrado de nuestra lista respondiendo este e-mail con la palabra NOMAIL en el asunto (subject) Si conoce a alguien a quien pueda interesarle nuestros servicios o esta Oportunidad de Negocio, por favor mándele una copia de este e-mail. Si le ha molestado este e-mail le pedimos las más humildes disculpas. Este es un mero e-mail informativo. Bajo el Decreto S.1618 TITULO III aprobado por el 105 Congreso base de las las normativas internacionales sobre SPAM, esta carta no puede ser considerada SPAM mientras incluya una forma de ser removido.
Re: Viajar a Europa por solo $ 450.- ?
Ojala le aplique las cosas que van por ley (US$1999) On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Addmyweb wrote: http://www.usittango.com.ar/frames/fram_promoflash.htm En esta página, http://www.usittango.com.ar/frames/fram_promoflash.htm Confeccionada especialmente para vos, podrás encontrar excelentes propuestas turísticas, a los mejores precios del mercado. Puedes hacernos tu solicitud o consulta a nuestros teléfonos en Capital Federal: 4794-8060, 4816-7909 y 4372-4224, escribiendo a nuestros e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] y [EMAIL PROTECTED] También puedes presentarte en nuestros puntos de venta: Casa Central: Olivos: Ave. Libertador 2785., Casa del Estudiante: Uruguay 969 ¡¡Te esperamos!!! * En caso de no interesarle este mensaje, puede solicitar ser borrado de nuestra lista respondiendo este e-mail con la palabra NOMAIL en el asunto (subject) Si conoce a alguien a quien pueda interesarle nuestros servicios o esta Oportunidad de Negocio, por favor mándele una copia de este e-mail. Si le ha molestado este e-mail le pedimos las más humildes disculpas. Este es un mero e-mail informativo. Bajo el Decreto S.1618 TITULO III aprobado por el 105 Congreso base de las las normativas internacionales sobre SPAM, esta carta no puede ser considerada SPAM mientras incluya una forma de ser removido. n esta página, confeccionada especialmente para vos, podrás encontrar excelentes propuestas turísticas, a los mejores precios del mercado. Puedes hacernos tu solicitud o consulta a nuestros teléfonos en Capital Federal: 4794-8060, 4816-7909 y 4372-4224, escribiendo a nuestros e-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED] y [EMAIL PROTECTED] También puedes presentarte en nuestros puntos de venta: Casa Central: Olivos: Ave. Libertador 2785., Casa del Estudiante: Uruguay 969 ¡¡Te esperamos!!! * En caso de no interesarle este mensaje, puede solicitar ser borrado de nuestra lista respondiendo este e-mail con la palabra NOMAIL en el asunto (subject) Si conoce a alguien a quien pueda interesarle nuestros servicios o esta Oportunidad de Negocio, por favor mándele una copia de este e-mail. Si le ha molestado este e-mail le pedimos las más humildes disculpas. Este es un mero e-mail informativo. Bajo el Decreto S.1618 TITULO III aprobado por el 105 Congreso base de las las normativas internacionales sobre SPAM, esta carta no puede ser considerada SPAM mientras incluya una forma de ser removido.
Re: Filosofia de Debian.
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Javier_Fafi=E1n_Alvarez?= wrote: [...] Las distribuciones en Cd que es lo que reclama la gente son un añadido, no entra a formar parque de el porqué de existir de Debian, son como algo que se hace porque la gente se reclama, pero no es algo a lo que se le de importancia, punto este que diferencia esta distribución de las demas obstensiblemente ... Creo que el esfuerzo de sacar una distribución es enorme pero los objetivos que se consiguen con ello son muchos. Yo me encuentro entre los que opinan que una distribución en CDs es importante y una estabilización cada 6 a 8 meses sería deseable. Quizas opine esto porque efectivamente no comprenda bien la filosofía de Debian pero podría ser al revés. Podría ocurrir que la perdida de una versíon en CDs y la desaparición de puntos de estabilización conduciera a una situación que nadie en Debian desea. Muchas veces no se hecha de menos algo hasta que se pierde totalmente. Enumerar ventajas e inconvenientes no serviría de nada porque se pone demasiado sentimiento en estas cosas. Proliferan cada vez más y más distribuciones de Debian. La inmensa mayoría comerciales creo. Esto situa a Debian en una posición privilegiada. Debian continuará siendo la mejor distribución de software libre por mucho tiempo y eso garantiza su éxito haga lo que haga. Por una parte estará Debian y por otra estarán las demás que no tienen nada que ver. Debian lo sabe y por eso hay muchas cosas que no preocupan a Debian. [...] En fin Ya está bien de rollo, pero creo que hablar de la filosofia de Debian es algo importante, si la gente la comprendiese todo iria mejor ... creo :) Estoy de acuerdo pero quizas la compresión no deba venir solo de una parte. Creo que cada vez es más necessario que aparezca una nueva distribución 100% libre de Linux que se apoye en el trabajo realizado por Debian y que cubra los espacios que a Debian no le interesan. Está muy claro que Corel ni ninguna distribución comercial van a dar una respuesta adecuada a una amplia parte de la comunidad Linux que necesitada de ciertas facilidades y comodidades que no son objetivos prioritarios en Debian. Bueno en el caso de Corel ocurre que la comunidad Linux no parece interesarles gran cosa o no han entendido nada sobre software libre. El crecimiento de Linux en número de usuarios es enorme. Al parecer duplica cada años y los novatos ahora mismo lo tienen cada vez más crudo con Debian. Por eso digo que ojalá surja una nueva distribución que sea totalmente libre pero que no deje de lado a más del 50% del los usuarios potenciales de Linux. El 50% de los usuarios de Linux no conocían Linux hace un año y eso continuará así e incluso puede aumentar. Hay que añadir a los usuarios que sin ser novatos no tienen buena conexion a red también estan discriminados. Una distribución basada en Debian 100% libre y enfocada a su facilidad de uso e instalación arrasaría completamente. Incluso sería un negocio increible si alguien decidiera hacerlo en plan negocio. Saludos Antonio +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ /\ /\ Ciberdroide Informatica (tienda linux) \\W// http://www.ciberdroide.com _|0 0|_ +-oOOO--(___o___)--OOOo--+ | . . . . U U . . . . Antonio Castro Snurmacher !! Nueva direccion email !! | | http://slug.ctv.es/~acastro. - - - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +()()()--()()()--+ +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ (((Donde Linux)))http://www.ciberdroide.com/misc/donde/dondelinux.html +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
Re: Diccionario inglés-castellano ?
El vie, 28 de abr de 2000, a las 09:52:33 +0200, Javier Fafián Alvarez dijo: Buenas Me preguntaba si alguno de ustedes conoceria algún diccionario de inglés-castellano, yo tengo uno, el qi2c, pero es en modo gráfico, sobre qt encima !, y me gustaría saber si conoceis algo que rule en modo texto ( yo soy tope modo texto ) :) sipe el qi2e (espero que te refieras a ese) es la version QT de uno llamado i2e que incluye i2e e i2e.sh. mira este ultimo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sromero]$ i2e.sh i2e.sh [-re] [palabra] Por defecto i2e.sh traduce del ingles al castellano con una busqueda bruta. Con -r traduce del castellano al ingles. Con -e hace una busqueda exacta ejemplo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sromero]$ i2e.sh -r bicicleta bicycle : bicicleta bike : bicicleta ¿Donde conseguirlo? En la pagina del autor: (hay paquetes debian :). http://www.lcc.uma.es/personal/trivino/trivino.htm nos vemos! -- Si algo puede fallar, fallará (Murphy). _-_ | NoP / Compiler -- nop @ todolinux.org | |---| | POWERED BY - Linux RedHat 6.0 - Reg. User #74.821 | | http://www.ctv.es/USERS/sromero | ~-~
Nueva pagina de Linux de S. Romero.
Enas. Ademas de mantener mi página personal en la dirección habitual, http://www.ctv.es/USERS/sromero , he creado una nueva página que espero sea algo más organizada y de fácil acceso y a la que voy a ir incorporando todo aquello que vaya escribiendo a partir de ahora: http://bash.unizar.es/~nop En concreto he metido entre otras cosas todos los tutoriales que escribí en las news (slrn, mutt, vim, screen, etc.), la Guía Básica de Linux, muchisimos enlaces, etc. Espero que os sea util e interesante... -- Si algo puede fallar, fallará (Murphy). _-_ | NoP / Compiler -- nop @ todolinux.org | |---| | POWERED BY - Linux RedHat 6.0 - Reg. User #74.821 | | http://www.ctv.es/USERS/sromero | ~-~
Unidentified subject!
Saludos ! mi numero de firma para Drivers para linux es:00056845 pasaros por:http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Javier Fafián Alvarez en un AMD-K6II a 350 con 64 Mb de RAM Con Linux Debian Potato (frozen) kernel 2.2.14
Re: Filosofia de Debian.
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Antonio Castro wrote: Estoy de acuerdo pero quizas la compresión no deba venir solo de una parte. Si yo estoy contigo, no me gusta en estos aspectos la filosofian de Debian, pero lo que digo es que no la van a cambiar porque no tienen ninguna motivación, si de lo que se trata es de hacer otra distribució basada en Debian, de acuerdo, y si es rentable me apunto y vamos a medias ;) Saludos ! Javier Fafián Alvarez en un AMD-K6II a 350 con 64 Mb de RAM Con Linux Debian Potato (frozen) kernel 2.2.14
Re: mkfs.msdos
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 08:05:32PM +, Nivaldo A. P. de Vasconcelos wrote: O programa de diagnostico/correcao foi taxativo: erro 0258, procurar o suporte. O meu também deu isso! Já procuras-te suporte? O que é que eles disseram? -- Pedro Guerreiro UIN: 48533103 Universidade do Algarve (EST) - Campus da Penha - 8000 Faro - PORTUGAL GPG: 0xCF32D4E7F506 DDF4 0B92 247D B8E6 13BA A6DB 9E3A CF32 D4E7
Re: .debs da Xlib com patches do Quinot dispon?veis para download
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 01:46:42PM -0300, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote: ainda estão engatinhando, e em terceiro o pacote do XFree tem que ser modificado para compilar duas versões da Xlib, a com patch e a sem patch, Uh? Mas porque é que é necessário duas versões? A versão compilada com o patch não funciona bem com o LC_ALL=C? -- Pedro Guerreiro UIN: 48533103 Universidade do Algarve (EST) - Campus da Penha - 8000 Faro - PORTUGAL GPG: 0xCF32D4E7F506 DDF4 0B92 247D B8E6 13BA A6DB 9E3A CF32 D4E7
Boot-floppies em Português da Potato - Andamento
- Acentuação... Pronto, fiz as modificações necessárias no código fonte do dbootstrap e inclui as fontes de tela para suportar os conjuntos de caracteres LATIN1. Todos os acentos aparecem corretamente (ãÃÀàá ao invés de aAaae). Inicialmente inclui os idiomas pt e es como idiomas com suporte ao charset Latin-1 com suporte a acentuação. - Enviei um bug com prioridade important ao bug Tracking explicando sobre a necessidade dos usuários Brasileiros pela inclusão do mapa de teclados EUA juntamente com a correção do mapa ABNT2 (se o mapa de teclados não estiver incluso no pacote, não posso também inclui-lo no sistema de instalação). Se o maintainer tiver que mexer no pacote para incluir o mapa ABNT2 corrigido, porque não incluir um novo mapa também ;-) Se isso não for incluido pelo maintainer do console-data na versão oficial, gero os boot-floppies em Português com uma versão própria do pacote. Estou fazendo agora uma nova instalação de teste com os boot-floppies 2.2.12, e ainda existem algumas mensagens não traduzidas. Mas é muito agradável ler sua partição swap não foi configurada do que sua partiçao swap nao foi configurada :-) Vou ter mais tempo nesta semana para corrigir estes detalhes e outros nas traduções. --- Gleyson Mazioli da Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 06:49:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:21:43AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: BTW, does anyone use MD5 for /etc/shadow? I'd like to use it, but how do migrate from crypt() to MD5? I don't think that just changing the entry in the config file (/etc/login.conf?) would be sufficient. if your using slink changing /etc/login.conf is all it takes, but you Ok, and for those of us using Potato? I don't have an /etc/login.conf. ...or does that make me: if your using PAM then sprinkle `md5' after any password line in the /etc/pam.d/* files (login, ssh, passwd..) -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
Re: Simple mouse question....
Which X config section? There are a number of different utilities, among them xconfigurator (command line), XF86Setup (graphical), and others. Don't sweat it, you can always change the setting later. If you've got a mouse with a small, round, 9-pin connector, you've got a PS/2 mouse. If it's got a wheel in between the two buttons, it's probably a Microsoft IntelliMouse (the labling should make this clear). Both plug in to the PS/2 port. The PS/2 setting should work with both types. An IntelliMouse will be somewhat more functional if used with teh IntelliMouse setting. On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 04:37:19PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: I am installing potato and am in the X configuration section where I am asked to specify a mouse protocol type. Of the choices these 2 make sense: 4 PS/2 Mouse 9 Microsoft IntelliMouse Actually it is both, but that's not a valid choice. By choosing 9 will I be selecting a serial port rather than a PS/2 port? I am stalled... ron -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
POP3 using SSH
Hello I tried fetching mail using fetchmail in conjunction with SSH. My setup is as follows: (replaced original FQDN) poll mailhost.net via localhost port 1234 with proto pop3: preconnect ssh -f -L 1234:mailhost.net:110 mailhost.net sleep 20 /dev/null /dev/null; This corresponds to the what the man page tells me to do. Using this exact setup, I get a parse error at user, which is the line following the above one. I don't know how to correct this. May someone show me their [working] config-file? Cheers Sven
Mouse not working in X
Hi, I'm using the out of the box VALinix/SGI/Gnu Debian at work, I installed X and it will not work with the logitech mouse, you have to play with gpm and X and get the right combination, I installed it at home about 3mnths ago and got my Logitech trackball working OK. Trouble is I have forgoten what it was I did and I need to know, I would boot up my machine at home but I have since changed my graphics card and need to reinstall Debian as it auto boots into X. I'm sure I found the solution on the web somwhere but it seems to have gone. Anyone know the correct solution, is it gpm -R and /dev/gpmdev in X or somesuch ? Thanks for any help. Richard.
Re: hacked? - ftp
On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote: so if telnet is relatively secure, how about ftp? which server do y'all'uns recommend for best security? replace telnet with secure telnet ( many flavors .. say ssh ) use sftp(client) and sftpd(daemon) for secure ftp xfers c ya alvin
Re: new perl dependencies
Hello Ian, I ran into same problem last night during up update. Running potato now and so I figured I would update a few times a week. Last night, it was KDE for me. one screen then back to dependency back and fourth. Finally, I used the Q to force it and it worked. Don't know much about dselect, so I hope I didn't break anything in the process. Good luck! On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote: When I run dselect last night, there was a bunch of important packages that had been upgraded. One of them was perl-5.005-doc. I accepted all the suggestions, but when I was ready to exit selection mode and start downloading, I was thrown into a conflict/dependency screen with just perl-5.005 and perl-5.005-doc. And no matter what I did, dselect threw me into that screen again and again. I had to force my way out with an `x'. Everything seems to run for the moment, but I am shaken. Is this some kind of circular dependency among the packages involved? Can it be fixed? -- Ian Zimmerman Lightbinders, Inc. 2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jaye:-} M.J. Inabnit, KE6SLS e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m 707-441-7096 p http://www.qsl.net/ke6slsICQ# 12741145 This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.
Web address for list archive
Where can I find an archive to debian-user? Thanks Matt
Re: Xproblem - modelines [try a different IRQ]
Earlier this week there was a discussion of trying to get an S3 graphics card to work with XFree86 and getting only black screens after startx. I had reported that some people said that S3 cards and LX motherboards didn't mix. I had given up on this combination, though I didn't understand why this particular S3 card worked in one of my LX motherboards but not the other. I even bought a new-used Matrox Millennium to substitute for the S3 card, and mysteriously that -too- gave only black screens, even though it worked on the other LX. Then I figured out the issue: On the working LX box, the BIOS assigned the video card to IRQ 11, as IRQ 9 was taken by a modem. On the black-screen LX box, IRQ 9 was free, and the BIOS assigned IRQ 9 to the video card. In the BIOS setup, I forced IRQ 9 to be unavailable for PnP, and the video card got IRQ 11. Presto! The Matrox Millennium now works! (Presumably the S3 card probably would too.) Perhaps this is due to the special treatment IRQ 9 sometimes gets for VGA purposes (something I don't really understand.) So if you are getting black screens and your card is using IRQ 9, try forcing to to something else. Dan Halbert
Re: Web address for list archive
Matthew Quigley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find an archive to debian-user? Linked straight off the Debian home page, http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ has archives of all the Debian mailing lists. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: .deb for the latest version of lilo? any ideas?
John Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be great if the latest version of lilo could be droped into the potato boot flopies, There's a thread on debian-devel about this. There doesn't seem to be much opposition to the idea, so if the release manager agrees I guess it'll make it in. How about a 'potato service pack' if everything is fixed in potato?? There's also been talk about this, and with the history of multiple releases of slink it's a strong possibility. I hope the release cycle for woody will be a lot shorter than that for potato, though. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing lp in potato..
When selecting the device driver module for lp (line printer) in potato I get this error: /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/lp.o: insmod lp failed. Installation failed. The lp support in potato (2.2.x kernels) has been split into two parts. You need to load parport_pc.o and lp.o (in that order) or it won't work. Any io or irq parms must be specified to parport_pc.o and the parport# specified to lp.o Drove me batty for a while trying to get the lp driver(s) to grab only one of my three parallel ports. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
RE: General Protection Fault
Are you sure the K6 hasn't been over clocked by some bastard salesman ? -- From: Ron Rademaker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 24 April 2000 5:57 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:General Protection Fault How do I solve a General Protection Fault (Oops = 0002), I get it when I boot with the rescue disk, when trying to install (right after mounting the root filesystem (RAM)) it gives the errors, and ends with: Aiee, killing the interrupt handler If you need more information, I wrote all the output down so I can post it if that would help you... The system started giving general protection faults after I upgraded it (general protection faults both in linux as in windows) from a P166 with 32 M to a amd k6-2 533 with 128 M. HELP!!! Ron Rademaker -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: General Protection Fault
Also, What, exactly, did you upgrade? What type of motherboard did you have before? now? This is definately a HW issue, so we'll need details on the system. Bryan On 29-Apr-2000 C. Falconer wrote: Are you sure the K6 hasn't been over clocked by some bastard salesman ? How do I solve a General Protection Fault (Oops = 0002), I get it when I boot with the rescue disk, when trying to install (right after mounting the root filesystem (RAM)) it gives the errors, and ends with: Aiee, killing the interrupt handler If you need more information, I wrote all the output down so I can post it if that would help you... The system started giving general protection faults after I upgraded it (general protection faults both in linux as in windows) from a P166 with 32 M to a amd k6-2 533 with 128 M.
Mouse configuration question
I have been unsuccessful in getting my Microsoft IntelliMous 1.1A PS/2 working. Where I believe I am stuck is is not providing the correct device name. I am using XF86Setup and I have selected the IntelliMouse, then I am asked for the device in the form /dev/??, but I have no idea what to enter. It can't be /dev/tty00 as I believe that is a serial port. This mouse is plugged into the PS/2 port. I can't see anything like /dev/ps2. Help! Ron
are there any good free 3d modeling tools?
Hello, I'm looking for good free (as in speech) 3d modeling tools. Any and all suggestions are welcome. TIA, cbb
Re: Mouse configuration question
My Intellimouse (PS/2) is on /dev/psaux. Haven't got the scroll bit working in X yet though, I recall this is some setting regarding the Z axis, but I haven't played with it. Cheers, Corey Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Ron Stordahl wrote: I have been unsuccessful in getting my Microsoft IntelliMous 1.1A PS/2 working. Where I believe I am stuck is is not providing the correct device name. I am using XF86Setup and I have selected the IntelliMouse, then I am asked for the device in the form /dev/??, but I have no idea what to enter. It can't be /dev/tty00 as I believe that is a serial port. This mouse is plugged into the PS/2 port. I can't see anything like /dev/ps2. Help! Ron -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: are there any good free 3d modeling tools?
Chris Baker wrote: Hello, I'm looking for good free (as in speech) 3d modeling tools. Any and all suggestions are welcome. TIA, Don't know how good it is, but Moonlight Creator is on the Debian disk. John -- Powered by the Penguin
Re: samba's /etc/samba/cmb.conf -- empty?
There's a pretty good walk-thru (newbieized help file) on configuring Samba at: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/network/samba/samba1.html Give it a try. * w trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] [27-04-2000 06:12 AM -0500] i did the religious apt-get install samba and then apt-get install smbclient # just for testing (even tho i'd done a full apt-get dist-upgrade, i still apt-get install things left and right that weren't selected..) and it complains about not being able to read /etc/samba/smb.conf and i can see why: there is none. i create a blank one via touch /etc/samba/smb.conf so at least 'testparm' doesn't choke, and 'smbclient' gets past the initial retch, on to whining about missing codepage 180 or so. with a bit-o-editing, smb.conf is now [homes] path = /home/%S # redundant but harmless writeable = true but i gotta set the bios name and this and that and yada yada. so, wise folk, please direct me to a utility that creates such a monster (the smb.conf manpage is only 9000+ lines long, and i'd like to get SOME sleep this week)... its name is probably something sensible, like gribnif or thipnoodler. (sambaconfig, while predictably-named, is surprisingly predictable at creating a three-line /etc/samba/debian_config instead of the thousands of lines that'll wind up in smb.conf.) and so i ask you knowledgable folk who've been down this path to shed a bit of light for me. if there's no create-a-'smb.conf'-utility, perhaps there are samples out there to start from?
Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 04:30:21PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 06:49:02PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 09:21:43AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote: BTW, does anyone use MD5 for /etc/shadow? I'd like to use it, but how do migrate from crypt() to MD5? I don't think that just changing the entry in the config file (/etc/login.conf?) would be sufficient. if your using slink changing /etc/login.conf is all it takes, but you ^^^ s/login.conf/login.defs Ok, and for those of us using Potato? I don't have an /etc/login.conf. ...or does that make me: sorry, yes, if your using potato your using PAM. though potato still has a /etc/login.defs, but the MD5_ENABLE (or whatever) is not used with PAM. if your using PAM then sprinkle `md5' after any password line in the /etc/pam.d/* files (login, ssh, passwd..) -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpo5cvtuVpKK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Simple mouse question....
I used to have a PS/2 Microsoft Intellimouse and it never work with the Intellimouse protocol, only PS/2. Of course, YMMV. * kmself@ix.netcom.com kmself@ix.netcom.com [28-04-2000 04:37 PM -0700] The PS/2 setting should work with both types. An IntelliMouse will be somewhat more functional if used with teh IntelliMouse setting.
Re: Web address for list archive
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 02:59:11AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Matthew Quigley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I find an archive to debian-user? Linked straight off the Debian home page, http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ has archives of all the Debian mailing lists. just be sure to select a date range if you use the search engine, if you don't select a date range it will always return no matches due to a y2k problem. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp9p9455aHmr.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mouse configuration question
Add ZAxisMapping 4 5 (without the quotes) to the Pointer section. * Corey Popelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] [29-04-2000 12:29 PM +0800] My Intellimouse (PS/2) is on /dev/psaux. Haven't got the scroll bit working in X yet though, I recall this is some setting regarding the Z axis, but I haven't played with it.
[Fwd: Mouse not working in X]
Vitux wrote: Richard Ingram wrote: Hi, I'm using the out of the box VALinix/SGI/Gnu Debian at work, I installed X and it will not work with the logitech mouse, you have to play with gpm and X and get the right combination, I installed it at home about 3mnths ago and got my Logitech trackball working OK. Trouble is I have forgoten what it was I did and I need to know, I would boot up my machine at home but I have since changed my graphics card and need to reinstall Debian as it auto boots HEY! no need to reinstall! When you say you auto-boot into X, you probably mean you are using xdm, in which case it's no big deal: when you've booted, just change to a different vt (e.g. ctrl-alt-F1), log in as root, run XF86Config and change your settings. For these to take effect, change to (ctrl-alt-F7) and do a ctrl-alt-bckspc to restart the X server... HTH Vitux into X. I'm sure I found the solution on the web somwhere but it seems to have gone. Anyone know the correct solution, is it gpm -R and /dev/gpmdev in X or somesuch ? Thanks for any help. Richard. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone
Re: Simple mouse question....
The debain-user list appears to have been dropped from your reply, I've added it again. On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 10:22:30PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: I guess its XF86Setup, it runs automatically during the install process. In any case I am not getting any success with the mouse. Right after answering 9, which is Microsoft Intellimous, it immediately asks me another question I don't know about, specificaly it wants the full device name to which the mouse is connected, and suggests /dev/tty00, which would be fine if it were a serial port mouse. But I don't know what to answer it for a mouse connected to the PS/2 connector. Any ideas? /dev/psaux Speaking as a Linux user of some time, and to whom the answer is well known, this is one of those really annoying bits of the Linux install. The answer is *trivial*, but it's virtually impossible to find if you don't already know it. I looked up a couple of references (Debian instalation manual, O'Reilly's _Learning Debian GNU/Linux_, the HOWTOs), for something which might point this out. None do (the Debian install guide doesn't cover X AFAICT, the ORA book glosses the point, and the HOWTOs suggest you've come to the wrong place -- there's a Busmouse HOWTO, but no PS/2 mouse HOWTO. Nonetheless, you'll find in section 3.3 of the Busmouse HOWTO, you're told that the mouse device for PS/2 is, indeed, /dev/psaux. You can find the Linux HOWTOs at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO. The Busmouse HOWTO is: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Busmouse-HOWTO.html Devices: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Busmouse-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.3 Similarly, a Google search for linux ps/2 mouse device returns a link title which device for PS/2 mouse as its fourth result. Google and the Linux HOWTOs are your friends (and who said geeks don't have friends g). ron - Original Message - From: kmself@ix.netcom.com To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 6:36 PM Subject: Re: Simple mouse question Which X config section? There are a number of different utilities, among them xconfigurator (command line), XF86Setup (graphical), and others. Don't sweat it, you can always change the setting later. If you've got a mouse with a small, round, 9-pin connector, you've got a PS/2 mouse. If it's got a wheel in between the two buttons, it's probably a Microsoft IntelliMouse (the labling should make this clear). Both plug in to the PS/2 port. The PS/2 setting should work with both types. An IntelliMouse will be somewhat more functional if used with teh IntelliMouse setting. On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 04:37:19PM -0500, Ron Stordahl wrote: I am installing potato and am in the X configuration section where I am asked to specify a mouse protocol type. Of the choices these 2 make sense: 4 PS/2 Mouse 9 Microsoft IntelliMouse Actually it is both, but that's not a valid choice. By choosing 9 will I be selecting a serial port rather than a PS/2 port? I am stalled... ron -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
Creating booklets with Latex
Hi! I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is and that I write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone under. I'm supposed to produce a booklet i A6 (folded A5) with students songs. I have read some docs on the web, it seems I can create a booklet by using either lpr -Cduplex or using a program called psbook. But I havent figured out how to print it on A5 paper (A6 booklets). Does anyone have experiance makeing booklets? /nisse
Re: Any interest in an Aureal Vortex soundcard driver .debs?
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: i'm not an expert in these things, but i would send the changes to the upstream maintainers from aureal. Are there any upstream maintainers? I've heard stuff about them abandoning Linux development and possibly going out of business altogether. (Incidently that's one of the key benefits of Open Source. You're not left up the creek if a company is unwilling/unable to support their software anymore.) if your changes are good and unproblematic, they could be incorporated. that way more people could profit from them. I'll see what the reaction is here and then approach them (if there is a them :-) My work is available from http://www.debian.org/~jaldhar/vortex/ -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: webmin
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Vitux wrote: I have a non-critical machine for testing, but you don't tell where to get your new debs from? Regards Vitux I did say, it just didn't make any sense to you :-) incoming = when packages are uploaded to the Debian archive they first go to the incoming directory on master.debian.org . This is off-limits to non-developers but there are public mirrors. A list of these can be found at http://www.debian.org/devel/incoming_mirrors experimental - This is a special distribution for packages the maintainer feels shouldn't even go into unstable. For this reason it is not apt-gettable. It can be found at ftp.debian.org (or a mirror) in /pub/debian/projects/experimental . Thanks for offering to test this. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: webmin
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 01:21:15AM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: incoming = when packages are uploaded to the Debian archive they first go to the incoming directory on master.debian.org . This is off-limits to non-developers but there are public mirrors. A list of these can be found at http://www.debian.org/devel/incoming_mirrors Aren't these being phased out in favor of http://incoming.debian.org? -- finger for GPG public key. pgpT3rr2w1x2b.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Creating booklets with Latex
Once upon a time, I heard Nils-Erik Svangๅrd say Hi! I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is and that I write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone under. I'm supposed to produce a booklet i A6 (folded A5) with students songs. I have read some docs on the web, it seems I can create a booklet by using either lpr -Cduplex or using a program called psbook. But I havent figured out how to print it on A5 paper (A6 booklets). Does anyone have experiance makeing booklets? /nisse I did sth like this a while ago. What I did was, fist use psresize to resize A4-A5, then psnup to fit two A5s into one A4, then psbook to split them in booklets, and viola print them. I guess that you might need psnup to fit two A6s into one A5, then psbook and print it Chanop -- ,-. | Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Australian National University | | Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) | | +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) | | Debian GNU/Hurd GPG key on request | `-' pgpsQqZwqOli8.pgp Description: PGP signature
mount win partition
i have an old windows partition that i have set to be mounted upon boot in /etc/fstab... /dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat defaults 0 2 as the partition is mounted, it hangs there for a bit, and just before that, i get an odd error message. can't find nls-iso- can't find someother module i can't remember the specific ones, but they are only there when the windows partition is mounted at boot. can someone tell me what's up? thanks. jerry Get your FREE Email at http://mailcity.lycos.com Get your PERSONALIZED START PAGE at http://my.lycos.com
RE: General Protection Fault
The K6 says it's 533, it runs on 520, so I don't think that can be a problem, or am I mistaken? On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, C. Falconer wrote: Are you sure the K6 hasn't been over clocked by some bastard salesman ? -- From: Ron Rademaker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 24 April 2000 5:57 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: General Protection Fault How do I solve a General Protection Fault (Oops = 0002), I get it when I boot with the rescue disk, when trying to install (right after mounting the root filesystem (RAM)) it gives the errors, and ends with: Aiee, killing the interrupt handler If you need more information, I wrote all the output down so I can post it if that would help you... The system started giving general protection faults after I upgraded it (general protection faults both in linux as in windows) from a P166 with 32 M to a amd k6-2 533 with 128 M. HELP!!! Ron Rademaker -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Thanks everybody
Hi everybody, this mail doesn't contain questions, is only to thank all of you which, with their questions and answers, made possible for me to install and maintain with very few (I repeat, very few) pain my debian machine. It's been almost one year now, and I couldn't be more satisfied. I am neither a guru, nor a geek, only a normal user who believes in a world without M$ Windows. Thanks again, and keep up with the good work. Davide Di Lazzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netscape and mp3-files
I am trying to download mp3-files from the internet, but netscape (4.7.1) quits when I try to do that. Although Netscape reports that it has the plug-ins to play streaming mp3-files, it also refuses to do that. Is there any cure to do this? I have also tried a beta version of opera, but without any success. It feels stupid. I do not know how to get a mp3 file from the internet to my computer. I have also tried lynx and links without success. I have installed mpg123 and freeamp and have also tried to use them as plug-ins, but there was still no success. I did the same with rvplayer. Any help would be welcome. Is it worth while to download 12 meg of files to upgrade to Netscape 4.7.2 on a dialup-connection? Johann -- J.H. Spies, Hugenotestraat 29, Posbus 80, Franschhoek, 7690, South Africa Tel/Faks 021-876-2337 Sel/Cell 082-255-2388 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. Luke 9:23
Re: mount win partition
can't find nls-iso- can't find someother module i can't remember the specific ones, but they are only there when the windows partition is mounted at boot. can someone tell me what's up? thanks. jerry the question is, whether you compiled an own kernel and removed the old modules. if so, then you have to include NLS support for the right codepages into the kernel or make them as modules. if you are using the original kernel package, then you possibly messed up your /etc/modutils/* files. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
Re: Creating booklets with Latex
Hi Nils-Erik. i am attaching instructions written by me for myself to work in windows environment using MikTeX (based on Tetex) , ghostscript and psutilities (which we also have in Linux). It uses usletter paper size, but should be easily adaptable if you follow the main ideas, which are well explained. Everything should be portable to Linux through pipes, i haven't done it because i still have to tune up better my debian box before getting into this. Any way, hope it helps. If you run into trouble please let me know, i will do my best to help you. Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: Hi! I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is and that I write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone under. I'm supposed to produce a booklet i A6 (folded A5) with students songs. I have read some docs on the web, it seems I can create a booklet by using either lpr -Cduplex or using a program called psbook. But I havent figured out how to print it on A5 paper (A6 booklets). Does anyone have experiance makeing booklets? /nisse -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null @echo off REMImportant instructions follow: REMTo run this, replace all instances of `veg' with REMthe actual file name. Then run it. As a result, you REMwill have a nice brochure, ready to be printed in REMtwo passes through ghostscript, using USletter paper. REMInstructions end here. REM The instructions are designed for US letter paper. A4 ones in Europe REM or otherwise is not difficult to implement slightly modifying the REM numbers and/or possibly the 'ps' commands (psutilities, included REM in MiKTeX). REM To make a booklet or a book (set of booklets binded together), REM follow the instructions: REM 1. Make a file.tex (plain TeX) with the following parameters: REM\vsize176mm \hsize115mm REMDo not mess with \voffset, \hoffset commands. This way it will REMfit nicely in a letter paper (US), two pages, landscape. REM 2. TeX-it (MiKTeX 1.10b). REM 3. Get the file.ps from file.dvi through dvips. REM 4. From the command prompt, execute as follows: REMa) psbook file.ps filebk.ps REM %re-arranges pages REMb) pstops -pletter (-1.15cm,-7.5cm) filebk.ps filebk1.ps REM %this pulls the text down (-7.5 cm) and left (-1.15 cm) REM *** REM%The value -7.5cm above is needed when config.ps in the REM%location C:\texmf\dvips\config\local has ``USletter'' as REM%its default paper. If ``A4'' is the default, it may be REM%needed -9cm instead. REM *** REMc) psnup -2 -pletter -s1 filebk1.ps filenu1.ps REM % -s1 ensures right size (scale 1). REM 5. Open filenu1.ps using ghostscript, print it in two passes. You REMwill have a nice booklet with a nice letter size to read. REM ** REM ** REM A bat file is made following these instructions, makebook.bat, REM In the directory TexTools, which contains this file. REM * REM * psbook veg.ps vegbk.ps pstops -pletter (-1.15cm,-7.5cm) vegbk.ps vegbk1.ps psnup -2 -pletter -s1 vegbk1.ps vegnu.ps pause
Re: Netscape and mp3-files
Johann Spies wrote: I am trying to download mp3-files from the internet, but netscape (4.7.1) quits when I try to do that. Although Netscape reports that it has the plug-ins to play streaming mp3-files, it also refuses to do that. Is there any cure to do this? I have also tried a beta version of opera, but without any success. It feels stupid. I do not know how to get a mp3 file from the internet to my computer. I have also tried lynx and links without success. I have installed mpg123 and freeamp and have also tried to use them as plug-ins, but there was still no success. I did the same with rvplayer. Any help would be welcome. try 'mpg123 http://...' or fetch the file using 'wget url' Is it worth while to download 12 meg of files to upgrade to Netscape 4.7.2 on a dialup-connection? If you won't run Linux, I'd say, give it a try... Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about its friends. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists.
Re: Creating booklets with Latex
On 04/29/00, Nils-Erik Svangård addressed Creating booklets with Latex:
I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is and that I
write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone under. I'm supposed
to produce a booklet i A6 (folded A5) with students songs.
I have read some docs on the web, it seems I can create a booklet by using
either lpr -Cduplex or using a program called psbook. But I havent figured
out how to print it on A5 paper (A6 booklets).
Does anyone have experiance makeing booklets?
I make lots of booklets, most of them on folded us-legal size paper.
I'm sure the procedures I use can be adapted for other sizes. The
first step is to use the geometry LaTeX package to set the page size
to the final page size you want.
For example: \usepackage[papersize={7in,8.5in}]{geometry}
The next step can be one of two things, depending on whether you want
to manipulate the pages into a booklet at the dvi level or the
postscript level. I find the former a little simpler, but it doesn't
handle things like the color package or pstricks.
To use dvi-level page manipulation, use the program dvidvi. It has a
man page, but here's an example of how I would use it to make a
booklet on landscape-legal (14X8.5) paper out of pages written to
fit on half that size (7X8.5):
% dvidvi -m 4:-1,2(7in,0in) dvifile.dvi firstoutput.dvi
% dvidvi -m 4:-3,0(7in,0in) dvifile.dvi secondoutput.dvi
This should make two output files which you can print sequentially on
the same stack of paper (depending somewhat on how your printer ejects
the paper) and end up with a booklet. In other words, after printing
the first file, you can take that stack, place it in the printer
backwards, and print the second file.
To make this work right, you should *not* use a \papersize special in
the original LaTeX file. That also means don't use the 'dvips' option
to the geometry package. You then give certain options to dvips
(which has info documentation) to make sure it generates postscript
with the correct orientation. An example from my legal-size bulletins:
% dvips -t landscape -t legal -f firstoutput.dvi | lpr
% dvips -t landscape -t legal -f secondoutput.dvi | lpr
OK - that was how I'd do it with dvi-level manipulation. For
postscript level manipulation, I'd start by using the geometry package
as above, only I'd also include either the dvips package option or a
\papersize special. For example:
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage[papersize={14in,8.5in},dvips]{geometry}
.. or ..
\usepackage[verbose,landscape,letterpaper,noheadfoot]{geometry}
\geometry{left=\Marginwidth, textwidth=\Textwidth}
\special{papersize=14in,8.5in}
Though it looks more complex, I use the latter. It allows you to make
each page a real LaTeX page rather than one column in a larger page.
For me, the first two commands are hidden in a style file. You can
see how the \geometry{} command makes it convenient to change geometry
options later on. (\Marginwidth and \Textwidth are local to my style
file.)
To simplify the rest of the process, I wrote the following shell
script to manipulate the pages from the initial dvi file to the
printer. All the tools I used have man pages. The output should be
usable just like the output from the dvidvi method. An example of how
I use this script:
# To print the whole thing, one sheet at a time:
% mklegalbook dvioutput.dvi
# To print the whole thing without pausing between:
% mklegalbook dvioutput.dvi nopause
# To print only the first set of pages:
% mklegalbook dvioutput.dvi print 1
# To print only the second set of pages:
% mklegalbook dvioutput.dvi print 2
#!/bin/sh
#$Id: mklegalbook,v 1.4 1999/09/05 00:02:04 jesse Exp jesse $
dvifile=$1
nowait=$2
onepage=$3
dvips -f $dvifile -o /tmp/${$}raw.ps
# With \special{papersize=} for dvips}
if ( [ $onepage == 1 ] || [ -z $onepage ] ) ; then
pstops -plegal 4:-1+2(0in,-7in) /tmp/${$}raw.ps /tmp/${$}first.ps
ps2lj4 legal /tmp/${$}first.ps | lpr
fi
if [ -z $nowait ]; then
echo Insert paper for second side printing and hit enter to continue.
read blah
fi
if ( [ $onepage == 2 ] || [ -z $onepage ] ) ; then
pstops -plegal 4:-3+0(0in,-7in) /tmp/${$}raw.ps /tmp/${$}second.ps
ps2lj4 legal /tmp/${$}second.ps | lpr
fi
rm -f /tmp/${$}{raw,first,second}.ps
Hope this helps!
--
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Re: Netscape and mp3-files
I had success with the linux version of RealPlayer. Still, I had to setup netscape to use it for streaming. There was a url that I bumped into on my searches through deja.com that had step by step instructions to setup the netscape plugin. Maybe someone here has the url? On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 01:55:43PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: Johann Spies wrote: I am trying to download mp3-files from the internet, but netscape (4.7.1) quits when I try to do that. Although Netscape reports that it has the plug-ins to play streaming mp3-files, it also refuses to do that. Is there any cure to do this? I have also tried a beta version of opera, but without any success. It feels stupid. I do not know how to get a mp3 file from the internet to my computer. I have also tried lynx and links without success. I have installed mpg123 and freeamp and have also tried to use them as plug-ins, but there was still no success. I did the same with rvplayer. Any help would be welcome. try 'mpg123 http://...' or fetch the file using 'wget url' Is it worth while to download 12 meg of files to upgrade to Netscape 4.7.2 on a dialup-connection? If you won't run Linux, I'd say, give it a try... Regards, Joey -- Unix is user friendly ... It's just picky about its friends. Please always Cc to me when replying to me on the lists. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Netscape and mp3-files
Johann Spies wrote: SNIP Any help would be welcome. Is it worth while to download 12 meg of files to upgrade to Netscape 4.7.2 on a dialup-connection? Johann -- I have pretty good experiences w/ 4.72. It's almost stable. Some (few) websites will cause it to crash, saying bus error, (something like that...) Never had any trouble w/ downloading stuff, though I don't do very much mp3 :) hth Vitux -- I'm not a crook Richard Nixon Debian GNU/Linux Micro$loth-free Zone
Upgrading to Potato from Slink
I would like to upgrade to the frozen release 2.2 from the official 2.1 Where can I find the information for doing this? I've looked on Debian's documentation as well as in the Faq-O-Matic and found nothing. __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Re: Upgrading to Potato from Slink
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 06:28:55AM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote: I would like to upgrade to the frozen release 2.2 from the official 2.1 Where can I find the information for doing this? I've looked on Debian's documentation as well as in the Faq-O-Matic and found nothing. Use apt-get, here is my /etc/apt/sources.list # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed throught the apt-cdrom tool. # Proxy configuration is covered through environment variables or # deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian potato kde contrib #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US #deb http://security.debian.org stable updates # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm potato main Most likley it wont go real smoothly, I just got done upgrading storm to potato (if that any makes sense) with apt-get.
deallocvt: could not deallocate console N
Hello, I run debian GNU/Linux (slink, kernel 2.0.36) under console mode (it's an older system) and am having problems with virtual consoles. I have logins on the first two consoles and then spawn additional consoles (with the `open' command) when I need them. A few days ago I opened up console 3 and then exited. I now cannot deallocate the console. When I try: prompt% deallocvt 3 VT_DISALLOCATE: Device or resource busy deallocvt: could not deallocate console 3 I know there is nothing running on it, `ps aux' shows nothing on tty3. In the past I've had similar problems, but usually within a few hours the console was `freed' and I was able to deallocate it. The really weird thing is that I can type into the console (nothing happens), but then when I open up the console with a shell, all of the command I had typed are run on the shell. e.g. Begin Example - This is tty3, I can type here aiejfiej aeifjije aifjeijr blah blah blah prompt% This is tty3, I can type here This: Command not found. prompt% prompt% aiejfiej aiejfiej: Command not found. prompt% aeifjije aeifjije: Command not found. prompt% aifjeijr aifjeijr: Command not found. prompt% blah blah blah blah: Command not found. prompt% _ End Example - I typed in the first 6 lines on the blank console and then switched over to another console and typed `open -c 3'. Any help is appreciated. Matt
Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user
[How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package? I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see what files were installed? If so, how? Tia, Maury
Re: daemons -- who needs'em?
** On Apr 28, Brad scribbled: i merely think i have a screwy setting here or there that's needlessly duplicating log messages. settings are the bane of my linux existence, still... Now, stop right here for a while. syslog isn't Linux - it's a common software, created quite elsewhere. Don't blame anybody for something which isn't their fault. Don't like the duplicates? Voila - man syslogd.conf and configure the beast. Or get syslogd-ng - it's much more versatile. Linux is a _kernel_, not an _operating system_. And syslog is a piece of software used on almost _all_ Unices out there. A little harsh, wasn't that? By settings are the bane of my linux Yup, it was... sorry existence i believe the original poster mean all settings, not specifically those of syslog-- e.g kernel config, module configs, sendmail/exim/etc config, samba config, ftpd config, and so on. Looking at it now, you're probably right - but show me a system which doesn't require setting anything and I'll tell you that it's a piece of junk... That said, the only way to get good at configuring is to read the docs and configure. Exactly. Make mistakes, correct them and _learn by example_ - it's the only way to get _anything_ working really good. Manuals, courses and whatnot are all groovy things, but without practice they are next to useless. Docs are just a startpoint, that's it your philosophy is also mine--install diddly and add what you need-- the gap between us is a hefty base of knowledge, which is why i get to bug you folks about this kind of thing: you got it, i'm gettin' it. I see it a bit in a different light. Install some pre-selected set, read all the docs you can, find your ways around and then reinstall the system from scratch, with the freshly acquired knowledge in mind - this other time you'll know what to install and what not to install. And, remember that every single of us here went through much the same process sometime in the past :))) (and thank God that you've got dselect and apt and dpkg : Nah, reinstall isn't necessary. Just dpkg --purge the useless stuff. I've even managed to repartition my box without reinstalling ;) (... backups) I think the reinstall is actually a good thing for a newbie - it is a good thing to use install in its verbose mode and look at the packages _knowing_ this time what they're for. i do wonder what the newer installs are like though... They're much better, IMO :)) marek pgpXzK5Id979R.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian Security
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 05:43:10AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: if you go with *nix you should also check out the book Practical Guide to Unix and internet security (or very close to that, sorry don't have it handy at the moment) it does a good job pointing out historical mistakes and what things need to be secured and why, very helpful for understanding what to look for. Simpson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford, _Practical UNIX Internet Security_, O'Reilly Associates, (c) 1996, ISBN 1-565920148-8. Good for basic philosophy and a lot of common sense. For more current technical guidance, there are other books, including a New Riders imprint on Linux firewalls. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http:/www.netcom.com/~kmself What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
Re: Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:58:38AM -0400, Maury R. Merkin wrote: [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package? I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see what files were installed? If so, how? dpkg -L packagename -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpjsdY29T79u.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: General Protection Fault
Try with a better and larger cpufan. My K6-2 400 was so hot that Linux crached all the time. Nearly all those who sells computer with K6-2 and K6 use a to small cpufan. Sad but true.. Once upon a time someone wrote: Are you sure the K6 hasn't been over clocked by some bastard salesman ? -- From: Ron Rademaker[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 24 April 2000 5:57 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: General Protection Fault How do I solve a General Protection Fault (Oops = 0002), I get it when I boot with the rescue disk, when trying to install (right after mounting the root filesystem (RAM)) it gives the errors, and ends with: Aiee, killing the interrupt handler If you need more information, I wrote all the output down so I can post it if that would help you... The system started giving general protection faults after I upgraded it (general protection faults both in linux as in windows) from a P166 with 32 M to a amd k6-2 533 with 128 M. HELP!!! Ron Rademaker -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 09:58, Maury R. Merkin wrote: [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package? I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see what files were installed? If so, how? cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/dork.list Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
Re: Boot disk quit working after second install
A common cause of this problem is that the floppy drive may be of the newer ATAPI type common to newer laptops especially, as constrasted to the older /dev/fd0 floppy type. The install kernels come with ide-floppy support needed for ATAPI compiled in, but the kernel installed has ide-floppy service through a ide-floppy module. There are three workarounds. 1) During your 2nd install boot, use the original install disk with rescue root=/dev/hd(your linux partition). Read the documentation on your rescue disk. 2) After you've completed an install, compile a kernel from source with ide-floppy compiled into the kernel, as opposed to a module. Copy this kernel to /boot/vmlinuz, and run mkboot, which expects a /boot/vmlinuz to make a new bootdisk specific for that partition. 3) install the mkrboot-.deb package, which will provide you with numerous other options for boot disk making. MarvS
Re: Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user
Maury R. Merkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package? I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see what files were installed? If so, how? You might be interested to know that: If you install an app with apt-get then the .deb will be saved to /var/cache/apt/archives If you then click on that .deb using GMC (the default Gnome file manager) the contents will be opened up as if the .deb were a directory. Very neat. If you don't use Gnome, then mc (Midnight Commander) will do a similar thing. I find thsi useful because it is easy to read docs etc. before the package is installed. -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000
menus question
I finally (okay I'm slow but ...) figured out that the only apps which
update-menus will find are those which have been installed using *.deb
packages system. ('apt-get install' or 'dpkg -i' or however.)
But I have several important (to me) apps which I've accumulated over
time in /usr/local/bin or /opt/bin or wherever. Is there any way to get
them on my menus?
Tia,
Maury
Re: menus question
Hi Maury!
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Maury R. Merkin wrote:
I finally (okay I'm slow but ...) figured out that the only apps which
update-menus will find are those which have been installed using *.deb
packages system. ('apt-get install' or 'dpkg -i' or however.)
But I have several important (to me) apps which I've accumulated over
time in /usr/local/bin or /opt/bin or wherever. Is there any way to get
them on my menus?
Yes!
Read the doc in /usr/share/menu
In short:
o create a ~/.menu directory
o put your menu files there:
e.g:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.menu$ cat local.netscape
# menu for netscape.
# taken from:
# menu for xmms, localy installed.
# this file derived from debians
# made by PP on Wed Feb 9 22:05:21 CET 2000
?package(local.netscape):\
needs=X11\
section=Apps/Net\
title=Netscape\
longtitle=Netscape Navigator\
command=/usr/local/bin/netscape\
shortcut=Control+Mod1+c
important: packagename, the part in parenthensis, has to start with
local., otherwise menu will take this as an packagename and only use
the menu entry if the package is installed.
I for example override xterm:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.menu$ cat xterm
# modified PP on ?
# o added shortcut for XTerm
# o changed xterm command to have color
?package(xterm):\
needs=x11\
section=XShells\
longtitle=Xterm: terminal emulator for X\
title=Xterm\
command=xterm -bg black -fg lightblue3 +bdc +ulc\
shortcut=Control+Mod1+x
o run update-menus.
Since you now have your own menus db, you must run it as your user
everytime you want it updated (afaik).
the system menu files are in /usr/lib/menu. But don't touch them.
If you want to change menus systemwide, your place is /etc/menu/
HTH
yours,
peter
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Obtaining KDE
Greetings, I have been trying most of the morning to obtain the KDE distribution from ftp.linuxberg.com and have thus far been unsuccessful. I am using apt in dselect and cannot seem to find the right combination of strings to enter so that it can find the package file. When prompted, I am providing a path to the package file ending in a /. (i.e. /pub/KDE/stable/distribution/deb/slink/.), which contains a packages.gz file and all the appropriate .deb files. However, dselect continues to prompt for the components to get, providing main contrib non-free as examples, but there is no such directory structure. How then do I force apt to look at the Packages.gz file and download the appropriate .deb files knowing where on an ftp site these files reside? (It seems to me that apt is assuming a very specific underlying directory structure and I cannot figure out how to circumvent this assumption). Best Regards, Steve
tape drive device
I've installed the base and standard slink distributions, configured them and then went to do a tar archive to my Seagate 4mm SCSI tape drive. Bless me, there is no /dev/st0 to do this to. Are they not supported? Do I have to add another package or rebuild the kernel to get this driver? Rob
Re: Obtaining KDE
How then do I force apt to look at the Packages.gz file and download the appropriate .deb files knowing where on an ftp site these files reside? (It seems to me that apt is assuming a very specific underlying directory structure and I cannot figure out how to circumvent this assumption). my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this: deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian potato main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de/pub/unix/kde/stable/1.1.2/distribution/deb/potato i386/ -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
Re: tape drive device
man MAKEDEV ... DESCRIPTION MAKEDEV is a script that will create the devices in /dev used to interface with drivers in the kernel. ... hth, rw On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 11:57:30 EDT, Rob Lilley writes: I've installed the base and standard slink distributions, configured them and then went to do a tar archive to my Seagate 4mm SCSI tape drive. Bless me, there is no /dev/st0 to do this to. Are they not supported? Do I have to add another package or rebuild the kernel to get this driver? -- / Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Phone: +43 1 89933 0 Fax x533 \ \KPNQwest/AT tech staff| Diefenbachg. 35 A-1150 Wien /
Re: Upgrading to Potato from Slink
Thanks. --- John Bagdanoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 06:28:55AM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote: I would like to upgrade to the frozen release 2.2 from the official 2.1 Where can I find the information for doing this? I've looked on Debian's documentation as well as in the Faq-O-Matic and found nothing. Use apt-get, here is my /etc/apt/sources.list # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs # CDROMs are managed throught the apt-cdrom tool. # Proxy configuration is covered through environment variables or # deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free deb ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian potato kde contrib #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US #deb http://security.debian.org stable updates # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work #deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb ftp://ftp.stormix.com/storm potato main Most likley it wont go real smoothly, I just got done upgrading storm to potato (if that any makes sense) with apt-get. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online and get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/
Frontpage recommendations
Hi all, If you are interested in implementing Frontpage server extensions with apache, it isn't that bad. Here are a few pointers: 1. Don't use apt-get. Download the source and compile yourself. This puts apache in /usr/local where most documentation I have found expects it to be. I am not sure why debian doesn't put apache there, but I'm sure the package manager had reasons. 2. Get the Improved mod_frontpage from Freshmeat. It has complete instructions. 3. The only additions is virtual hosts. If you use them, make sure to replace all occurrences of: AllowOverride X with AllowOverride All There are several of them. The rest works like a charm. If you need to support frontpage, it is really pretty easy! Good luck Regards, Paul -- Paul McHale Work: 937-253-7610 Double E Solutions Mobile: 937-371-2828 4912 Effingham Fax:413-215-3232 Dayton, Ohio 45431 --
Re: webmin
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Brad wrote: Aren't these being phased out in favor of http://incoming.debian.org? Yes, you're right they are. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simple mouse question....
Ron Stordahl wrote: Of the choices these 2 make sense: 4 PS/2 Mouse 9 Microsoft IntelliMouse Actually it is both, but that's not a valid choice. By choosing 9 will I be selecting a serial port rather than a PS/2 port? Try installing the PS/2 mouse. Then manually edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the Protocol setting in section Pointer from PS/2 to IMPS/2 (which stands short for Intelli Mouse PS/2) Bernhard
Re: multi line regex's in vi ...
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: is there a way to match a pattern over more then one line in vi (i normally use vim)? i'm html formatting text documents and what i'd like to do is replace something like the below paragraphs: __ the first line of text, this is really boring, blah lah blh why do i care. html formatting text is really boring and vi saves me. the is a second line of text. __ with something like this __ p the first line of text, this is really boring, blah lah blh why do i care. html formatting text is really boring and vi saves me. p the is a second line of text. __ So add p to any non-blank line? I'd like to know a one-liner for this too. You've got blank line with ^$ but how do you negate that? A two-liner is %s/^/p/ - add p to the start of each line %s/^p$// - remove any lines that contain only p
Re: Frontpage recommendations
Paul McHale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are interested in implementing Frontpage server extensions with apache, it isn't that bad. Here are a few pointers: 1. Don't use apt-get. Download the source and compile yourself. This puts apache in /usr/local where most documentation I have found expects it to be. I am not sure why debian doesn't put apache there, but I'm sure the package manager had reasons. Debian packages, and packages distributed by any other Filesystem Hierarchy Standard-compliant distribution, should never install files into /usr/local. See: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch3.html#s3.1.2 http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-4.6.html It's rarely that difficult to substitute /usr/local with /usr in your head, though I concede it can often be useful to build Apache yourself anyway; perhaps you should have a look at the Debian package and see if there's anything that could be improved so that this isn't necessary? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Another dpkg or apt-get question from a new user
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maury R. Merkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [How] can I get a listing of the files installed with a package? I.e., if package dork.deb was installed on my box last week, can I see what files were installed? If so, how? You might be interested to know that: If you install an app with apt-get then the .deb will be saved to /var/cache/apt/archives If you then click on that .deb using GMC (the default Gnome file manager) the contents will be opened up as if the .deb were a directory. Very neat. If you don't use Gnome, then mc (Midnight Commander) will do a similar thing. I find thsi useful because it is easy to read docs etc. before the package is installed. If you're more of a command-line fan, you can also do tricks like this: # List files in a .deb dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb | tar t # Extract a file from a .deb to standard output and run it through a # decompressing pager. The initial . is necessary, though if the .deb # was generated with some other version of tar you might need to omit # the initial ./ instead. dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb | \ tar xO ./usr/share/doc/foo/changelog.Debian.gz | zless -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new perl dependencies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Zimmerman) wrote:
When I run dselect last night, there was a bunch of important packages
that had been upgraded. One of them was perl-5.005-doc.
I accepted all the suggestions, but when I was ready to exit selection
mode and start downloading, I was thrown into a conflict/dependency
screen with just perl-5.005 and perl-5.005-doc. And no matter what I
did, dselect threw me into that screen again and again. I had to
force my way out with an `x'.
Everything seems to run for the moment, but I am shaken. Is this some
kind of circular dependency among the packages involved? Can it be
fixed?
This is caused by versioned dependencies. The situation is as follows:
perl-5.005-doc (5.005.03-7.1) recommends perl-5.005 (= 5.005.03-7.1)
perl-5.005 (5.005.03-7) suggests perl-5.005-doc (= 5.005.03-7)
In this situation, neither relationship can be satisfied, and dselect
gets rather confused. This sort of thing happens when FTP mirrors get
out of sync with each other, or when not all of a set of related
packages get moved from incoming into the archive at the same time. It's
particularly common when two packages are required to be at the same
version as each other. The best solution is usually to put the offending
packages on hold ('=' in dselect) and wait for a future update to sort
out the problem.
--
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: new perl dependencies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran into same problem last night during up update. Running potato now and so I figured I would update a few times a week. Last night, it was KDE for me. one screen then back to dependency back and fourth. Finally, I used the Q to force it and it worked. Don't know much about dselect, so I hope I didn't break anything in the process. Good luck! Q is there for when the dependencies are genuinely wrong and you want to install the package anyway, but are willing to accept any breakage that may occur. When two packages are just a bit out of sync (as is the case here), putting them on hold is usually neater. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
install problem
Going through the install process with Debian 2.1r4 on two new cdroms, I get as far as Install the Base System. Some error develops while extracting base2_1.tgz from the cd and I have so far found no way around it. I've been looking forward to trying Debian so I hope there's an easy fix for this problem. Any suggestions? Tony -- Homer (Tony) Stavely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Psychology Keene State College Keene, New Hampshire, USA
Re: Installing without rebooting (running the installation proggie from within Linux)
Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How about downloading base2_1.tgz (or base2_2.tgz if you want to go straight to frozen) and untarring that into the new partition before chrooting into it? In case anyone was following this thread, here are a couple of gotchas that I ran into: 1. I couldn't boot into the new system, getting You are trying to boot into unconfigured base system or somesuch message, which offered me to boot usint the Rescue disk. chmod -x /sbin/unconfigured.sh fixed that problem. 2. I had to remove pcmcia and nfs related packages, which are installed by default. Apart from those, all went very smooth. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Mail/news software
Hello! What mail and news software do you recommend? The ideal software would be able to handle both mail and news in an integrated manner, place incoming and outgoing messages into folders automatically using header info, integrate with PGP/GPG, handle UU/MIME attachments, thread messages, fetch using POP3 and send via SMTP, would have a GUI that allows multiple windows to be open for composing and reading mail/articles, and would be easy to use and free of charge. YARN, when used in combination with a SOUP package handler, is much like that (except for the GUI/multi-window part), but I haven't seen a Linux version. TIA, Kofa Homepage at http://www.math.bme.hu/~kofa - For PGP public key: send mail with the subject PGP Public Key Request or finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install problem
Tony, et al, I just went through problems with the CD-ROM during install myself. I was trying to install the Debian O'Reilly\SGI\VA Linux distribution. The boot kernel didn't recognize my SCSI CD-ROM. I was afraid I was going to have to make lots of floppies to install the base system. Installing from floppies is an activity I'd like to forget. The work around was installation from a DOS partition using loadin.exe. I copied the following files from the Debian CD-ROM on to a Iomega Zip drive (SCSI): resc1440.bin drv1440.bin base2_1.tgz root.bin linux loadlin.exe install.bat Please note: all of this is discussed in Section 5.3 - Installing Debian GNU/Linux For Intel x86 which I believe is called install.txt on the CD-ROM. The authors also state these files are available from the nearest Debian FTP mirror. I booted with a pure MS-DOS 5 (no Windows versions, please) floppy! As all my other drives were partitioned for fat32 or Linux, this old operating system saw the zip drive as C:. I then ran install.bat from C: The content of install.bat is loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin. All went very smoothly and my SCSI CD-ROM was recognized after the base system was loaded and the system went through it's install reboot. The secret on an install from a DOS partition is just that - make sure it's DOS and not a Windows version of DOS (it took me all Saturday morning to learn that lesson!). Rob -Original Message- From: Homer (Tony) Stavely [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, April 29, 2000 2:22 PM Subject: install problem Going through the install process with Debian 2.1r4 on two new cdroms, I get as far as Install the Base System. Some error develops while extracting base2_1.tgz from the cd and I have so far found no way around it. I've been looking forward to trying Debian so I hope there's an easy fix for this problem. Any suggestions? Tony -- Homer (Tony) Stavely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Psychology Keene State College Keene, New Hampshire, USA -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Netscape 6 -- related lib question(s)
montefin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I planned to watch this thread because a.) I want to install Netscape 6 this weekend too. Though I have libstdc++2 libs, if it really wants ++1.6* libs I'd like to know where to d/l them, and... I'm not sure if you can run Netscape 6 with slink because it (slink) uses glibc 2.0.x, which is not thread-safe. (On the other hand, maybe they managed to link statically ?) b.) ...since I installed Slink a month ago, every time ldconfig runs, I get the following warning: 'can't find libtcpwrapGK.so.1.0 ... skipping' There is a symlink from libtcpwrapGK.so.1 -- libtcpwrapGK.so.1.0, but there is no file of that name. I hoped the file would appear with Potato, but it didn't. Maybe it's no longer needed, but maybe it is? I guess my question really is, when you're looking for say a lib or other missing file that you know is probably in a larger package, how do you find it? I realize 'dpkg -S filepattern' if this library is not installed, then I don't see any reason why you shouldn't remove it. The symlink is useless. Still one question remains unanswered: how does this happen ? -- Felix Natter
Re: Creating booklets with Latex
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:14:02AM +0200, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote
Hi!
I've gotten in trouble again, bragging about how good Debian is and that I
write all my reports in Latex. Well now I might gone under. I'm supposed
to produce a booklet i A6 (folded A5) with students songs.
I have read some docs on the web, it seems I can create a booklet by using
either lpr -Cduplex or using a program called psbook. But I havent figured
out how to print it on A5 paper (A6 booklets).
Does anyone have experiance makeing booklets?
I've attached a Makefile fragment that I use for preparing
A5 booklets (A4 folded), using psutils. That may give you
a start...
John P.
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%.dvi : %.tex
jadetex $
jadetex $
jadetex $
rm $*.{log,aux}
%.tex : %.sgml %.dsl
-rm $*.{tex,dvi,log,aux}
jade -t tex -o $@ -iprint -d $*.dsl#print $
%.ps : %.dvi
dvips -o $.ps.tmp $
psselect -p1-_2 $.ps.tmp $@
rm $.ps.tmp
%-book: %-book-odd.ps %-book-even.ps %-book.ps
@echo
@echo About the target $*-book
@echo
@echo This produces A5 pages on A4 sheets, 4 pages to the sheet.
@echo For duplexing printers, $*-book.ps is ready to feed
@echo to your printer once you set it to duplex mode. For printers
@echo that place output face down first page on the bottom, print
@echo $*-book-odd.ps and then place the output back in the
@echo tray and print $*-book-even.ps. Be careful which way
@echo it goes back in - if you get it wrong pages 3,4,7,8,11,12,...
@echo will be upside down.
@echo
%-book-odd.ps: %-book.ps
psselect -o -p- $ $@
%-book-even.ps: %-book.ps
psselect -e -r -p- $ $@
%-book-cover.ps: %.ps huiac.logo
psselect -q -p 1 $ $*-page1.ps
gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sDEVICE=pswrite
-sOutputFile=$*-cover-temp.ps $*-page1.ps huiac.logo
pstops -pa4 '2:0L(593,424)@[EMAIL PROTECTED](500,506)' $*-cover-temp.ps
$@
rm $*-cover-temp.ps $*-page1.ps
%-book.ps: %.ps
psbook $ | psnup -2 -pa4 $@
binary-install: $(binary-docs)
install -d $(DESTDIR)
cp -a $(binary-docs) $(DESTDIR)
source-install: $(source-docs)
install -d $(DESTDIR)
cp -a $(source-docs) $(DESTDIR)
OFFTOPIC: what is vaporware?
What exactly is vaporware? -- Andrew
Re: OFFTOPIC: what is vaporware?
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:13:26PM -, Pollywog wrote:
What exactly is vaporware?
From the Jargon File:
:vaporware: /vay'pr-weir/ /n./ Products announced far in
advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
See also {brochureware}.
:brochureware: /n./ Planned but non-existent product like
{vaporware}, but with the added implication that marketing is
actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures).
Brochureware is often deployed as a strategic weapon; the idea is
to con customers into not committing to an existing product of the
competition's. It is a safe bet that when a brochureware product
finally becomes real, it will be more expensive than and inferior
to the alternatives that had been available for years.
--
Mike Werner KA8YSD | Where do you want to go today?
ICQ# 12934898 | As far from Redmond as possible!
'91 GS500E|
Morgantown WV | Only dead fish go with the flow.
Re: Mail/news software
Kofa writes: What mail and news software do you recommend? Gnus has all the features you list. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: OFFTOPIC: what is vaporware?
Mike Werner wrote:
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 08:13:26PM -, Pollywog wrote:
What exactly is vaporware?
From the Jargon File:
:vaporware: /vay'pr-weir/ /n./ Products announced far in
advance of any release (which may or may not actually take place).
See also {brochureware}.
This all pales before a fairly new species of software:
ipoware: (eye-pee-oh-wear) n. a kitchensink software compiled solely
from user wish-lists, leaked to Jesse Berst immediately prior to a
company's initial public offering and never intended to see the light of
day thereafter.
montefin
site to site ftp?
Is there a tool available that can do a site to site ftp? I need to transfer a few files from one ftp site (via anonymous ftp) to another site (via user ftp). Unfortunately the destination site does not allow users to ftp out, but you can ftp in. So basically I am looking for a tool like flashfxp for Linux. Any suggestions? TIA, Ron -- Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Home: http://www.farrer.net Bellingham Linux Users Group: http://www.blug.org Alpha Linux Orginization: http://www.alphalinux.org
Re: Netscape and mp3-files
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 03:29:57PM +0200, Vitux wrote: Johann Spies wrote: SNIP Is it worth while to download 12 meg of files to upgrade to Netscape 4.7.2 on a dialup-connection? -- I have pretty good experiences w/ 4.72. It's almost stable. Some (few) websites will cause it to crash, saying bus error, (something like that...) Never had any trouble w/ downloading stuff, though I don't do very much mp3 :) hth Vitux Thanks. I have installed 4.72 and it works so far without a problem. A clear improvement on 4.71. Johann -- J.H. Spies, Hugenotestraat 29, Posbus 80, Franschhoek, 7690, South Africa Tel/Faks 021-876-2337 Sel/Cell 082-255-2388 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. Luke 9:23
update-alternatives again: a homemade hack
After convincing myself by a browse of the perl code that none of the
existing options to update-alternatives will make it do what I want, I
wrote the following. Whoever is responsible for update-alternatives
in Debian, please consider merging this into the official version.
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Re: Obtaining KDE
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 11:47:13AM +, Steve White wrote: I have been trying most of the morning to obtain the KDE distribution from ftp.linuxberg.com and have thus far been unsuccessful. I am using apt in dselect and cannot seem to find the right combination of strings to enter so that it can find the package file. ... How then do I force apt to look at the Packages.gz file and download the appropriate .deb files knowing where on an ftp site these files reside? (It seems to me that apt is assuming a very specific underlying directory structure and I cannot figure out how to circumvent this assumption). i don't know how to adjust things using the dselect interface, but i can show you how to modify the /etc/apt/sources.list file yourself. There are two formats for lines in sources.list: those that assume the main contrib non-free layout, and those that don't. You'll of course want one that doesn't, which means the third field needs to end with a /. This leaves how to divide the path ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/KDE/stable/latest/distribution/deb/slink/i386/; between the second and third fields. To determine this, look at the Packages.gz file, in particular at the 'Filename:' entries for the packages. You'll see that for the file ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/KDE/stable/latest/distribution/deb/slink/i386/kdeadmin_1.1.2-19990906-1_i386.deb, the file line is this: Filename: /i386/kdeadmin_1.1.2-19990906-1_i386.deb (Actually, if i understand things correctly, this line is slightly broken because it begins with a '/'. Should still work though) You want to divide the path so that the second field plus the Filename line in Packages.gz give the complete url for the files. So, this is the line: deb ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/KDE/stable/latest/distribution/deb/slink i386/ As you can see, 'ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/KDE/stable/latest/distribution/deb/slink' + '/' + '/i386/kdeadmin_1.1.2-19990906-1_i386.deb' = 'ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/KDE/stable/latest/distribution/deb/slink//i386/kdeadmin_1.1.2-19990906-1_i386.deb' is more or less correct. -- finger for GPG public key. pgpChsZFZ71Fy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Frontpage recommendations
On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 12:35:55PM -0400, Paul McHale wrote: 3. The only additions is virtual hosts. If you use them, make sure to replace all occurrences of: AllowOverride X with AllowOverride All Of course, this means you can't control the Options directive anymore... Things like ExecCGI or IncludesNOEXEC for example might be useful to restrict. -- finger for GPG public key. pgp1CIojzELiU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mutt and courier-imapd
On Sunday, 16 April 2000 at 03:05, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: I'm trying to use courier-imapd with SSL and mutt, but they don't seem to get along very well. Sometimes, mutt displays no subject, no author, and a 0 message size. Other times, it displays the information from the wrong message. Other times, it gets everything correct. There is a small bug in courier currently which chokes mutt. I've attached a workaround patch against mutt 1.1.12 (should apply to earlier versions) which I'd love people to test - we're trying to get mutt 1.2 out the door soon. So if it works and in particular if it doesn't work, please let me know. Thanks, Brendan Index: imap/message.c === RCS file: /home/roessler/cvsroot/mutt/imap/message.c,v retrieving revision 1.23 diff -u -r1.23 message.c --- imap/message.c 2000/04/24 13:09:33 1.23 +++ imap/message.c 2000/04/29 18:19:26 @@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ IMAP_HEADER *h, *h0; const char *want_headers = DATE FROM SUBJECT TO CC MESSAGE-ID REFERENCES CONTENT-TYPE IN-REPLY-TO REPLY-TO LINES; int using_body_peek = 0; + int c; + fetchlast = 0; /* define search string */ @@ -255,6 +257,15 @@ h = h-next; /* hdata is freed later */ safe_free ((void **) h0); + +/* + * skip over additional \n characters - Courier IMAP seems to + * put them here. + */ + +while ((c = fgetc (fp)) == '\n') + ; +ungetc (c, fp); } fclose(fp); pgpOax7TkHAnB.pgp Description: PGP signature
