Re: Rescue Disks

[Ragga Muffin]

"Richard Ingram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I have been upgrading Xfree but something obviously went wrong as when I
> boot up now it hangs at the starting Xfontserver startup and does not even
> get to the login prompt. Before I blat over and reinstall debian is there an
> easy way of creating a set of rescue disks ? I just need to edit a startup
> file on my root disk. My system is booted from floppy and mounts the SCSI
> disc. 

Is there  a way to pass command arguments at boot time ? In that case
you could boot with the arg 'single' into single user mode and
fix the error. 
(why do you use a boot floppy btw ?)

Another way to fix the thing would be to login remotely. AFAIK all
networking systems are started way before xfs, so just ssh or telnet
into the machine.

If these methods are not applicable then search the debian ftp site (under
dists/frozen/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44) 
for rescue.bin and root.bin. These are the install disks you'll need
to boot.

HTH
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Re: Rescue Disks

[Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Richard Ingram wrote:

RI> I have been upgrading Xfree but something obviously went wrong as when I
RI> boot up now it hangs at the starting Xfontserver startup and does not even
RI> get to the login prompt. Before I blat over and reinstall debian is there an
RI> easy way of creating a set of rescue disks ? I just need to edit a startup
RI> file on my root disk. My system is booted from floppy and mounts the SCSI
RI> disc. At work we have a Debian system so if anyone knows of a shell script
RI> somwhere that I could use to create my file system on floppy that would be
RI> greatly appreciated (I know I could hack one up but we are flat out at
RI> work), if not it will only take an hour or so to reinstall :-(

You could use the original boot floppy from the debian installation and instead
answering the 1st question [i think it's about the type of keyboard what you
have] you can go down the menu skipping all the configuration choices, and run
the ash shell, then mount the drive what you have problem with to some
subdirectory on a ramdisk and fix the problem. You will need rawrite from
ftp.debian.org/debian/tools to create the boot floppy in dos/windows and some
of the files from ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current,
i'm sorry but i don't remember which one you will need, but there should be
README file in the same directory. in the README file should be instructions
how to create the install floppy/floppies. all this shouldn't take more than
some 15-20 minutes :)

Dingo.


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Re: Planner/PIM/Calendar Packages

[John Hasler]

Mark writes:
> Anyone know if anything like this exists for Linux?

Have you looked at calendar?
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Re: Planner/PIM/Calendar Packages

[Russ Pitman]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 07:38:46PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been poking around Freshmeat and the Debian package list for
> Woody, but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. What is it, you
> ask?
> 
> I was wondering if there was a calendar/planner software that would
> allow one to enter appointments and tasks, then on any given day,
> print out a list of appointments and tasks for that day. At work we
> use Novell GroupWise, and it allows one to enter all sorts of info
> into a calendar, then print out a fancy page of tasks and appointments
> for that day.
> 
> Anyone know if anything like this exists for Linux?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Mark
> 
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Gaby may be worth a look. IIRC it is in woody.

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Re: waiter, potato to woody please, thank you

[Corey Popelier]

I did a straight replace of "potato" to "woody" in my sources.list for
apt, then did an apt-get upgrade, followed by an apt-get install of all
the packages remaining that weren't upgraded. And that worked perfectly
fine for me.
I believe the only possible issues in this is an Apache-SSL conflict
between 2 different SSL packages, but I can't think of anything else.
In terms of kernels I stayed with a 2.2 series kernel and will do so until
2.3/2.4 are more developed.

Cheers,
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Nick wrote:

> hello list,
> 
> how can i upgrade 2.2 (potato) to woody (2.3??)
> 
> source list and any suggestions that would make the transition happy.
> 
> thankx, have a good weekend!
> 
> -nick0
> 
> 
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waiter, potato to woody please, thank you

[Nick]

hello list,

how can i upgrade 2.2 (potato) to woody (2.3??)

source list and any suggestions that would make the transition happy.

thankx, have a good weekend!

-nick0

Planner/PIM/Calendar Packages

[Mark Wagnon]

Hi all,

I've been poking around Freshmeat and the Debian package list for
Woody, but I can't seem to find what I'm looking for. What is it, you
ask?

I was wondering if there was a calendar/planner software that would
allow one to enter appointments and tasks, then on any given day,
print out a list of appointments and tasks for that day. At work we
use Novell GroupWise, and it allows one to enter all sorts of info
into a calendar, then print out a fancy page of tasks and appointments
for that day.

Anyone know if anything like this exists for Linux?

TIA,

Mark

Re: Install-boot failure

[Tom Hoover]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 03:21:26PM +, Suresh Kumar.R wrote:
> 
> When I try to boot from the debian slink or potato cd, the boot process
> apparently hangs with the following line:
> 
>   FDC 0 is a post - 1991 82077
>   md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> 
> The interesting thing is , we are able to put Redhat linux into the same
> machine. We are trying to remove redhat to put debian.

I, too, would like to find an answer to the above problem.  A search on
dejanews locates hundreds of messages similar to this one, but no answers
(unless you're running an Athalon...the answer is then upgrade to frozen).  I
have an old 486 that I'd like to install Debian 2.1 or 2.2 on, but I get the
same hang every time.  I can install RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE and Slackware, but
not Debian.

Any ideas?

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Re: Man command

[Eric G . Miller]

On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:23:37PM +1200, Patrick Howden wrote:
> Hello I'm a newbie to Debian and I am having some problems with
> getting it to work properly (not many, but just a few). I can't find
> the "man" command on my system anywhere. This means that I can't read
> instructins for any packages which I download. Is there somewhere
> where I can download "man" (the manual command) from the Internet? It
> did not seem to come with the original configuration.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

Possibly you haven't installed it?

$ apt-get install man-db

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Re: Man command

[Antonio Rodriguez]

Do man man, or info man

Patrick Howden wrote:

> Hello I'm a newbie to Debian and I am having some problems with getting it to
> work properly (not many, but just a few). I can't find the "man" command on
> my system anywhere. This means that I can't read instructins for any packages
> which I download. Is there somewhere where I can download "man" (the manual
> command) from the Internet? It did not seem to come with the original 
> configuration.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick.
>
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Question about MASQ chain behavior in ipchains

[Stan Kaufman]

I'm confused by a couple points in the IPCHAINS-HOWTO
(http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.4). Hope
someone who understands this can clear this up.

In the "Serious Example," the Internal network is masqueraded to
External via a chain jumped to from the FORWARD chain:

<--snip-->
Good (internal) to Bad (external).

ipchains -A good-bad -p tcp --dport www -j MASQ
ipchains -A good-bad -p tcp --dport ssh -j MASQ
ipchains -A good-bad -p udp --dport 33434:33500 -j MASQ
ipchains -A good-bad -p tcp --dport ftp -j MASQ
ipchains -A good-bad -p icmp --icmp-type ping -j MASQ
ipchains -A good-bad -j REJECT -l
<--snip-->

Then in the rules for the External interface, only certain ports appear
to be let back in. I presume that the second and third rules with
destination ports 61000:65095 are for returning masqueraded packets, eh?

<--snip-->
Bad (external) interface.

ipchains -A bad-if -i ! ppp0 -j DENY -l
ipchains -A bad-if -p TCP --dport 61000:65095 -j ACCEPT
ipchains -A bad-if -p UDP --dport 61000:65095 -j ACCEPT
ipchains -A bad-if -p ICMP --icmp-type pong -j ACCEPT
ipchains -A bad-if -j icmp-acc
ipchains -A bad-if -j DENY
<--snip-->

This example doesn't make clear to me what happens to packets from the
Internal network when they're jumped to MASQ. Do they get a new port (in
the range 61000:65095) in addition to the masqueraded ip address so that
when they come back they get past the Bad interface to get
demasqueraded? Or do they just go around the Bad interface because in
some other fashion they're identified as masqueraded packets through
something MASQ does?

Just trying to grok what goes on here. TIA for any help!

Stan

Man command

[Patrick Howden]

Hello I'm a newbie to Debian and I am having some problems with getting it to
work properly (not many, but just a few). I can't find the "man" command on
my system anywhere. This means that I can't read instructins for any packages
which I download. Is there somewhere where I can download "man" (the manual
command) from the Internet? It did not seem to come with the original 
configuration.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Patrick.

Re: UMAX 1220S, SCSI card (436P?)

[John Pearson]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 10:40:47AM -0400, Juan Alejandro Diaz Muñoz wrote
> 
> drivers please
> 

Buckleys, sorry.


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Rescue Disks

[Richard Ingram]

Hi,

I have been upgrading Xfree but something obviously went wrong as when I
boot up now it hangs at the starting Xfontserver startup and does not even
get to the login prompt. Before I blat over and reinstall debian is there an
easy way of creating a set of rescue disks ? I just need to edit a startup
file on my root disk. My system is booted from floppy and mounts the SCSI
disc. At work we have a Debian system so if anyone knows of a shell script
somwhere that I could use to create my file system on floppy that would be
greatly appreciated (I know I could hack one up but we are flat out at
work), if not it will only take an hour or so to reinstall :-(

Thanks.

Richard.

Forwarding sent email-

[Tom Warfield]

I know that procmail can go through and forward someones email to them at
another address while it still delivers it to there email box.  But i am
wanting to do the same on outgoing as well.  Once someone sends out a email
i want it to forward a copy of that outgoing email to another email address,
preferable without them knowing about it.

Any ideas?.

Tom

using inetd to run arbitrary programs

[Krzys Majewski]

I'm running a couple of tcp-pipes (ssh -L ...) to get around the 
fact that my ISP is not on the same network as my news/imap/ provider
and so on. I've been starting these pipes at boot time (by calling
the appropriate script in /etc/network/interfaces) and that works fine.
But I thought I'd get clever and start them through inetd instead,
so I don't have a bunch of ssh processes sitting around when I don't need
them. I put the appropriate entries in /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf
and that seems to work: when I telnet to the given local port the 
tcp-pipe script is run. Only problem is, when the script finishes
the telnet session says "Connection closed" and that's it.
Presumably this is because inetd is designed for calling programs 
that handle the request, whereas I'm trying to use it to call
an arbitrary script. How can I set things up so that inetd starts 
the tcp-pipe, puts the connection on hold until the tcp-pipe is set up
(or for X number of seconds) and then lets the connection resume as
if inetd had never existed?  Also nice would be a feature whereby the
tcp-pipe is shut down once there are no connections using it, 
or X number of seconds after the last such connection exited.
-chris

Re: staroffice

[Morten Liebach]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 05:03:20PM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
>   Where can I find staroffice 5.1 in .deb package?  I searched
>   the www.debian.org and found the installer for 3.1 but not
>   the 5.1.
> 
>   Thanks!

I don't think you can.

It's easy to install the file you download (~100Meg BTW), just make the
downloaded file executable and run it, with the option ``/net'' (NOT
``-net'') if you want to run it as user, without installing to your
homedir.
Do that as root of course.

HTH
Morten

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dlopen oddness

[Michael O'Brien]

Hola~

Sorry about the wide bandwidth, if there's a better forum, please feel 
free to refer me to it.


I've got an application that calls dlopen(SO_NAME, RTLD_LAZY). dlopen is 
returning null and dlerror returns "undefined symbol". The manpage 
basically says dlopen with RTLD_LAZY shouldn't have this problem.


The same application on RedHat 6.x system doesn't have this problem.

I'm running the current unstable dist of Debian (by current, I ran an 
apt-get dist-upgrade this morning). According to ldd, the application is 
using libdl-2.1.3.so, from version 2.1.3-10 of libc6.


Is anyone else running into a similar problem?

MO

gkrellm

[David S. Jackson]

Hi,

Are there any gkrellm version 0.7.5 compatible themes around
anywhere?  

Or are there instructions for upgrading potato to woody libs so
version 0.10.4 can run on it?

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Intrusion

[marco presi]

While using XChat I received this message:

eris.bt.net/Wallops- Remote CONNECT irc.u-net.com 2310 from ChrisN

after this, no connection was logged by my system.
Some ideas??

Tnks 
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Re: staroffice

[Timothy C. Phan]

Hi, 

  Where can I find staroffice 5.1 in .deb package?  I searched
  the www.debian.org and found the installer for 3.1 but not
  the 5.1.

  Thanks!

David Teague wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Nick Croft wrote:
> 
> ? On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, David Teague wrote:
> ?
> ? ? On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> ? ?
> ? ? ?
> ? ? ? StarOffice is a bloated stuck pig.  It handles MS file formats fairly
> ? ? ? well though.
> ?
> ? It may be the only use for SO, take a Word .doc and turn it into something
> ? Unix or universal like html.
> ?
> ? How fast does a computer need to be? I thought 133mh was slow. Put it on a
> ? 333mh box today and it's no faster. Even at 600+ it would be slow if
> ? processor is the clue to speed.
> 
> Nick
> 
> I think speed here just might be a function of amount of memory. SO
> is a memory hog.
> 
> I have an AMD 350 on a 100 MHZ mother board with 128 MB RAM and 128
> MB swap, with fairly fast (about 6ms) ide hd (but DMA not enabled),
> running Potato and SO 5.1, My window manager is FVWM2.
> 
> SO is slow starting, but no slower doing any task than Word 97 and
> Win 98 on the same machine.
> 
> --David
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Re: Copy & paste with a mouse

[Nick Croft]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, [iso-8859-2] ?ukasz Walewski wrote:

> Hi.
> I switched from RedHat to Debian some time ago.
> I've configured mostly everything I wanted, but copying 'n
> pasting with my mouse doesn't work.

Run mseconfig.

It's graphical. You get to choose which button is which. If you have
2-button mouse, click thenm both on the `graphical' middle button. Copy
and paste will then work. 

Redhat does this all for you by default. Debian requires that you make the
coice.

Nick

Re: HP DesignJet 750C plotter support?

[Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Matthew Thompson wrote:

MT> Hello,
MT> 
MT> I work for a small, marine surveying firm that uses the above mentioned
MT> plotter.  I am setting up a potato server to handle various tasks, among
MT> which should be serving print jobs to the plotter via Samba.
MT> 
MT> I've been scouring the 'net and deja.com for help in configuring this
MT> without much success.  Can anyone offer any help/suggestions/pointers to
MT> helpful websites/docs?

i don't think that you need any special config for the plotter as long you not
gonna try to use it from some linux program, i used to have HPLJ6p and i had 3
windows machines set up so they use network printer and they was actually using
windows drivers to format the printer input, samba just passed the binary file
created by the windows driver to the printer. same as if you would print to the
file on windows machine and then typed 'cp print_this.file /dev/lp1' on linux
machine what the plotter is connected to. I'm sorry but i don't remember any
specifics it's been few years :)

Dingo.


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Re: smail says "550 You are not permitted to send mail"

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 01:39:40PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:

> Aha, smailconfig. OK, I tried reinstalling smail before and now running
> smailconfig, same error. Guess I'll try exim next. 

exim is the standard MTA for Debian these days - in fact, smail was
removed from potato due to a number of severe bugs.

> > [BTW, could you please quote and trim your messages properly?  It makes
> > them much easier to read.]

> Not sure what you mean by this, can you clarify?

You should quote mails like you did this one, interspersing new text
with old and cutting any quoted text not needed for context.

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Re: smail says "550 You are not permitted to send mail"

[Krzys Majewski]

Bwahahaha 
upon removing smail apt-get installed sendmail which comes with its
own e-z konfiguration skrypt and runs great. Can't see why anyone would
want to use anything else. Can't see either why anyone would want to have 
a mail daemon on their box other than for mailing cron output,
given that any isp will gladly do that boring shit for you. 
Unless of course you are an isp in which case Hello! why aren't you using 
Solaris. 
*bait* *bait* *bait*
chris
 

HP DesignJet 750C plotter support?

[Matthew Thompson]

Hello,

I work for a small, marine surveying firm that uses the above mentioned
plotter.  I am setting up a potato server to handle various tasks, among
which should be serving print jobs to the plotter via Samba.

I've been scouring the 'net and deja.com for help in configuring this
without much success.  Can anyone offer any help/suggestions/pointers to
helpful websites/docs?

TIA for any help :)

-Matt
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Re: smail says "550 You are not permitted to send mail"

[Krzys Majewski]

> You should try reconfiguring smail - there's probably a program called
> smailconfig in /usr/sbin that will do that for you, or failing that
> removoing and reinstalling should do the trick.  If smail doesn't
> configure itself I'd try another MTA (exim is the default choice for 
> recent Debian versions).

Aha, smailconfig. OK, I tried reinstalling smail before and now running
smailconfig, same error. Guess I'll try exim next. 

> [BTW, could you please quote and trim your messages properly?  It makes
> them much easier to read.]

Not sure what you mean by this, can you clarify?
-chris

[no subject]

[estoy]

Hi I just read you installed Xfree4.0.1 with no problems at all.

I just update my 3.3.6 earlier version & now when the boot process 
reach the xfs level the system just freezes up at the point it shows 
something like this:

xfs: XFontServerCacheInitialize: hi=1048576 lo=786432, bal=70

What could be wrong? Is there any doc I can get an answer for
this?

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PS2 mouse and gpm

[Ethan Pierce]

There was some talk on the list earlier today about removing gpm to get
better results with the paste feature.

I plan to try this later when I get home from workbut does anyone know
if taking out gpm will mess up the x server?

My main goal is just to get my middle mouse button working on my mouseman
+ ps/2 mouse.  The paste does work, unfortunately only with l+r buttons
combined instead of the middle wheel button.  It used to work in Mandrake
:( and Ive been so pleased with debian that I wont switch back.

Thanks for any tips - I have tried XF86Config and xf86setup with just
about every combination.  So I think Ive exhausted that road of
possibilities.

-Ethan

RE: cannot compile ppp-2.4.x

[Pollywog]

On 20-Jul-2000 Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 20-Jul-2000 Pollywog wrote:
>> > I have no problem compiling ppp version 2.3.11 but cannot compile 2.4.x
>> > and
>> > I
>> > need to do this to try the new PPPoE kernel module.  Enternet PPPoe and
>> > Roaring Penguin don't work for me, so my last hope at getting my DSL
>> > working
>> > is to get this ppp version to compile.  Anyone know what I am missing?
>> 
>> 
>> I think I see the problem.  I need to upgrade my compiler in order to build
>> this thing, right?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   are you going to produce .deb's? 
>   Do I need ppp 2.4 for a dialup conection?
>   Do you know if 2.3.11 works with kernel 2.4?
>   Sorry for so many questions, but I would like to try the new
> kernel and I didn't only because ppp!

The 2.3.11 Debian package is all you need (2.2.x kernel or newer) if you just
want regular ppp.

I need the newer package only because I am trying to install the PPPoE module
on a test kernel.  I have the module installed, but I am unable to compile the
2.4.x ppp even though I am using the compilers from Woody.

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Re: tail -f termination, after ppp established.

[John Hasler]

Bob McGowan writes:
> There are surely other, perhaps simpler ways,...

Yes.  Just put

  #!/bin/sh 
  kill `cat /var/run/plogpid`
  rm -f /var/run/plogpid

in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/zzkillplog and change your script to put the pid of the
plog process in /var/run/plogpid.

(And you probably want to replace 'tail -f /var/log/syslog' with 
'plog -f'.)
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Re: How to make a boot disk?

[cls--colo spgs]

# cd /boot
  mkboot /boot/vmlinuz[or the name of your kernel]

hth.

bentley taylor.

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Marshal Wong wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> You would think that after 2 years of experience with Linux, I would
> know how to make a linux boot disk, but I don't.  So how do I do it?
> :)
> 
> I heard of dd the kernel onto disk, but aren't there certain
> variables that are on the kernel, like the root partition, that must
> be changed?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Marshal
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Re: Help with configuring X Server

[cls--colo spgs]

i usally get a basic x with non-graphical
"xf86config."  i can usaually get x up and running;
although, the font size may be too big, so i tighten it
up with "XF86Setup."  (once you have a working x, you
shouldn't get the dreaded "errno 111." then you should
be able to use "XF86Setup.")

with "xf86config," unless you know your monitor specs
precisely, try conservative values, e.g. "svga," low
video ram, etc.  i even skip the "video card" part (for
some of my funky lapboxes that have windoze-type (read:
no real info) manuals).  (i just use whatever the
default value is.)

...no flaming for this less than "scientific" approach.

hth.

bentley taylor.

//


> Patrick J Draper wrote:
> 
> Help, I am a Linux newbie,
> 
> I have gone through a Debian 2.1 installation,
> installed X Windows (X1186R6) and am now having
> extreme difficulty configuring and starting an X
> Server.
> 
> I go through the graphical XF86Setup program but when
> I select done and the server trys to start I get an
> error something like
> 
> "X11ConnectionUNIX cannot connect errno 111"
> 
> Could someone please shed some light on this for me.
> 
> 
> regards, Paddy. (Linux convert)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>

Re: scanning physical disk to retrieve file

[Ethan Pierce]

if its a fat filesystem I got the tools you need...email me back quick!
gotta head to work
- Original Message -
From: "Richard E. Hawkins" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 3:16 PM
Subject: scanning physical disk to retrieve file


>
> Agh.  this was low priority, and just went really high . . .
>
> I almost managed an "rm -r *~" to get rid of the backup files from
> emacs and the like, but [*insert tear here*] the 8 key on my laptop is
> dodgy, meaning I got ~ itself.
>
> As usual, there was a single important file on the disk--a half-written
> journal article on the economics of free software.
>
> I've already followed the pages on file recovery, and haven't managed
> to find that file (though I found a couple of interesting ones I'd
> forgotten about :)
>
> It's a 340mb disk, with 340 devoted to drdos (hey, I can't go to
> conventions without master of orion, can I? :), and a 40 meg swap.
> There's 20 megs of ram, so I can use that for workspace instead.
>
> How do I read the raw device (ideally in 40m chunks of the unused
> space?) so that I can search my way through it for words & phrases?
>
> And of course, I need to hit the road tomorrow at 2:30 (that which
> suddenly made this urgent), and need to use the laptop while I'm gone.
> I"ll have to sacrifice this paper and start from scratch if I can't
> work this out by then . . .
>
> hawk
>
>
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scanning physical disk to retrieve file

[Richard E. Hawkins]

Agh.  this was low priority, and just went really high . . .

I almost managed an "rm -r *~" to get rid of the backup files from 
emacs and the like, but [*insert tear here*] the 8 key on my laptop is 
dodgy, meaning I got ~ itself.

As usual, there was a single important file on the disk--a half-written 
journal article on the economics of free software.

I've already followed the pages on file recovery, and haven't managed 
to find that file (though I found a couple of interesting ones I'd 
forgotten about :)

It's a 340mb disk, with 340 devoted to drdos (hey, I can't go to 
conventions without master of orion, can I? :), and a 40 meg swap.  
There's 20 megs of ram, so I can use that for workspace instead.

How do I read the raw device (ideally in 40m chunks of the unused 
space?) so that I can search my way through it for words & phrases?

And of course, I need to hit the road tomorrow at 2:30 (that which 
suddenly made this urgent), and need to use the laptop while I'm gone.  
I"ll have to sacrifice this paper and start from scratch if I can't 
work this out by then . . .

hawk

Re: emails wont send out-

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:58:12AM -0500, Tom Warfield wrote:

> We have clients using Outlook (yes i know what losers) and were running
> sendmail on debian.  Okay so this is the problem, when they send a email in
> Outlook to a email address (for example [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Outlook
> wont let them send it out.  Its not the message or anything like that
> because if i change the address to something else the message goes, so its
> specificaly the address.  Outlook connects to the server then it just sits
> there.  Im thinking Sendmail doesnt like it for some reason and i cant
> figure out why...anyone have any ideas.

What do the MTA logs (probably in /var/spool/mail.log unless you use
exim in which case /var/log/exim/mainlog) say?  What particular e-mail
addresses give problems (you say changing the address helps)?  Are you
on-line or off-line when you send mail?

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Re: emails wont send out-

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

it's outlook

try it with another client and i bet it works.

http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/telnet.html

or telnet to your SMTP and try it manually it should work i have my server
page my att&t phone daily.

nate


On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Tom Warfield wrote:

twarfi >We have clients using Outlook (yes i know what losers) and were running
twarfi >sendmail on debian.  Okay so this is the problem, when they send a 
email in
twarfi >Outlook to a email address (for example [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Outlook
twarfi >wont let them send it out.  Its not the message or anything like that
twarfi >because if i change the address to something else the message goes, so 
its
twarfi >specificaly the address.  Outlook connects to the server then it just 
sits
twarfi >there.  Im thinking Sendmail doesnt like it for some reason and i cant
twarfi >figure out why...anyone have any ideas.
twarfi >
twarfi >Thanks,
twarfi >Tom
twarfi >
twarfi >
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Re: simple grep command twister

[Brad]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 03:39:47AM +, john smith wrote:
> Hi!
>   mind twister break?
> how to use grep to show all the paladrome words in the linux dictionary?
> 
> grep '\(.\)\(.\)\(.\)\3\2\1' \usr\dict\words partly works?

grep can't do it, since wc -L reports that the longest word contains 24
letters and grep can only handle 9 backreferences (so it could only
catch words up to 19 letters long).

Enter perl (:

In the interest of speed, we build up an array of fixed-length patterns
instead of using the very slow
^(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?)(.?).?\12\11\10\9\8\7\6\5\4\3\2\1$

  perl -we '$k=24;@p=(-1,0,".");$f=$b="";for($i=1;$i<=$k/2;$i++){$f.="(.)";
  $b="\\$i$b";push @p,"$f$b","$f.$b"}while(<>){$p=$p[length];/^$p$/ and print}
  ' /usr/share/dict/words

If you don't want the single-letter palindromes, get rid of the very
first period.

Since it turns out that the largest palindromic word in
/usr/share/dict/words is only 7 letters long, we can use grep:
  grep '^\(.\?\)\(.\?\)\(.\?\).\?\3\2\1$' /usr/share/dict/words

Get rid of the first \? if you don't want single-letter palindromes.


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Re: mysql-server root password

[Kirt Runolfson]

I ended up being able to set the password via some select commands.  Here
are those commands if anybody is interested.

  mysql -u root mysql
  UPDATE user SET Password = PASSWORD ('new_password')
  WHERE user = 'root';
  FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

The password was blank but for some reason  /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root
password 'new-password'  would not work.

Thank you Ron and Mike for your assistance.

-Kirt

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Mark Walter wrote:

> > > frodo:~# /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password blah
> > > /usr/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> > > error: 'Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' (Using password: YES)'
> 
> had the same problem. My sysadmin possibly raised a password during
> installation. So the database constrained it from root using the
> password which I didn't know. One possible solution was to reinvoke
> the whole procedure with:
> 
> > dpkg-reconfigure -plow mysql-server
> 
> I have sudo so hopefully you also got it.
>   
snip

Re: X with shadow-passwords

[Bolan Meek]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ...I can't start an X session as unprivileged user.

How are you attempting to start an X session?
(Answers may be below, but I am confusing myself with
the differences in syntax, so just to be clear...)
What error messages are you getting?  Try `startx > startx.log` .

> Using xdm neither unprivileged-user or root can login

Does xdm report something?

> Using startx just root can login

What do you mean by "can login"?  Start X?

> I read in the LinuxFAQ that it might be due to use of non-shadow
> password programs (as startx, X, xinit, etc). Since I'm using
> shadow-password "protection" in my system, I think this could be the
> problem.

Not likely.  And this reasoning doesn't get one to this conclusion:
1) non-shadaw pwd messes up X
2) I use shadow pwd
3) My X gets messed up.

The syllogism is faulty.  Look for the problem elsewhere.

> Does anybody know what version of xfree86 has this shadow-password
> compatibility?
> Is there any chance I get my actual version (3.3.6) to work with
> shadow-password compatibility?

I use shadow passwords, and have no problems using X.  I doubt that
this is at fault here, really.

> I really appreciate any sugestion since I'm a newbie-Debian-user

Oh, hey, we're glad to help, and when you can, you'll be glad to
help others, right?

> (Is this the reason why nobody answer my questions?, this is not the
> newbie mailing list I thought )

This is the mailing list for Debian Users, to request & give help,
and to discuss the use of Debian, and related issues (just not _too_
off topic, please), whether one is a clueless newbie, or a (get
ready for a phrase-coining) newless cluebie.  I don't know why nobody
answered your questions, but there may be various reasons:  no X-perts
available at the time of your previous posts, or, possibly, not
understanding the nature of your problem, so skipping instead of
delving into it.  Response in not guaranteed, but has a fairly
high probability.

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(Only out of curiousity, in which city or part of Mexico do you live?)


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Re: tail -f termination, after ppp established.

[Bob McGowan]

Marvin Stodolsky wrote:
> 
> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as the List.
> The script below is user to establish dial-in.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> # connect to IP through Lucent WinModem
> echo "  "
> echo Inserting Winmodem Lucent Tech  ltmodem.o  driver
> /sbin/insmod -f ltmodem
> pon $1
> tail -f /var/log/syslog
> --
> 
> The syslog report confirming the login is, for example:
> 
> Jul 20 11:56:44 koala pppd[526]: local  IP address 207.172.166.1
> Jul 20 11:56:44 koala pppd[526]: remote IP address 10.65.101.11
> Jul 20 11:56:44 koala pppd[526]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid 531)
> Jul 20 11:56:44 koala pppd[526]: rcvd [CCP ConfRej id=0x2]
> Jul 20 11:56:45 koala pppd[526]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid
> 531),
>  status = 0x0
> 
> The question is, how could
>   Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 531),  status = 0x0
> be used to automatically terminate
>tail -f /var/log/syslog
> reporting to console.

You could put the 'tail -f' in the background, storing its PID in a
variable, then do a timed loop on the syslog file, looking for the line
'pppd[.*ip-up finished', then issue a kill to the saved pid:

### Add to your existing script

tail -f /var/log/syslog &
tailPID=$!

until grep -q 'pppd[.*ip-up finished' /var/log/syslog
do
sleep 10 # select a delay that works for you
done

kill $tailPID

###

There are surely other, perhaps simpler ways, but this should work
(though not tested, YMMV).

-- 
Bob McGowan
Staff Software Quality Engineer
VERITAS Software
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Re: X with shadow-passwords

[Ben Collins]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 05:13:12PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Could anybody help me? I can't start an X session as unprivileged 
> user.
> 
> Using xdm neither unprivileged-user or root can login
> Using startx just root can login
> 
> I read in the LinuxFAQ that it might be due to use of non-shadow 
> password programs (as startx, X, xinit, etc). Since I'm using 
> shadow-password "protection" in my system, I think this could be the 
> problem.
> 
> Does anybody know what version of xfree86 has this shadow-password 
> compatibility?
> Is there any chance I get my actual version (3.3.6) to work with 
> shadow-password compatibility?
> 
> I really appreciate any sugestion since I'm a newbie-Debian-user (Is 
> this the reason why nobody answer my questions?, this is not the 
> newbie mailing list I thought )

X does not need to know anything about shadow passwords since libc handles
all of that. Check this:

# ls -l /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /usr/X11R6/bin/X
-rw-r--r--1 root root 1686 Jun 14 01:59 /etc/passwd
-rw-r-1 root shadow   1038 Jun 14 01:58 /etc/shadow
-rwsr-sr-x1 root root11584 Jul  7 12:07 /usr/X11R6/bin/X

Do you perms match these? Also, what is contained in /etc/X11/Xserver?

Ben

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firewall got silly after apt-get upgrade

[Jaye Inabnit ke6sls]

Hello,

I did an update/upgrade a while back, it was a large one too, took
a while on my 56k modem. I'm running the 2.2.14 kernel and have
potato loaded here.

Before the upgrade, my sshd was available, no telnet cuz I shut it
off. Now however, I can ssh myself but users outside the firewall get
a reject. The only thing I can think it could be is my firewall.

How can I easily repair this?

thanks

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This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian
If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.

X with shadow-passwords

[estoy]

Could anybody help me? I can't start an X session as unprivileged 
user.

Using xdm neither unprivileged-user or root can login
Using startx just root can login

I read in the LinuxFAQ that it might be due to use of non-shadow 
password programs (as startx, X, xinit, etc). Since I'm using 
shadow-password "protection" in my system, I think this could be the 
problem.

Does anybody know what version of xfree86 has this shadow-password 
compatibility?
Is there any chance I get my actual version (3.3.6) to work with 
shadow-password compatibility?

I really appreciate any sugestion since I'm a newbie-Debian-user (Is 
this the reason why nobody answer my questions?, this is not the 
newbie mailing list I thought )

Thanks in
advance.

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Re: Debian won't find my mouse

[Dan Poulsen]

Are you running gpm?  I had problems with my mouse being jumpy until I
removed the rc2.d/K20gpm link and rebooted.


On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Trevor Ramoutar wrote:

> I installed Potato last night, everything went great, but when I tried a 
> startx it crapped out on me saying that it could find my mouse (which is a 
> PS/2).  Can somebody help?  
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> Get your FREE Email and Voicemail at Lycos Communications - 
> http://comm.lycos.com
> 
> 
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RE: cannot compile ppp-2.4.x

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Pollywog wrote:

> 
> On 20-Jul-2000 Pollywog wrote:
> > I have no problem compiling ppp version 2.3.11 but cannot compile 2.4.x and
> > I
> > need to do this to try the new PPPoE kernel module.  Enternet PPPoe and
> > Roaring Penguin don't work for me, so my last hope at getting my DSL working
> > is to get this ppp version to compile.  Anyone know what I am missing?
> 
> 
> I think I see the problem.  I need to upgrade my compiler in order to build
> this thing, right?


Hi,

are you going to produce .deb's? 
Do I need ppp 2.4 for a dialup conection?
Do you know if 2.3.11 works with kernel 2.4?
Sorry for so many questions, but I would like to try the new
kernel and I didn't only because ppp!
Thanks,

[]s,
Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but
IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails"
http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
   http://www.revistalinux.com.br

tail -f termination, after ppp established.

[Marvin Stodolsky]

Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well as the List.
The script below is user to establish dial-in.

#!/bin/sh
# connect to IP through Lucent WinModem
echo "  "
echo Inserting Winmodem Lucent Tech  ltmodem.o  driver
/sbin/insmod -f ltmodem
pon $1
tail -f /var/log/syslog 
--

The syslog report confirming the login is, for example:

Jul 20 11:56:44 koala pppd[526]: local  IP address 207.172.166.1
Jul 20 11:56:44 koala pppd[526]: remote IP address 10.65.101.11
Jul 20 11:56:44 koala pppd[526]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid 531)
Jul 20 11:56:44 koala pppd[526]: rcvd [CCP ConfRej id=0x2]
Jul 20 11:56:45 koala pppd[526]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid
531),
 status = 0x0

The question is, how could 
  Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 531),  status = 0x0
be used to automatically terminate
   tail -f /var/log/syslog  
reporting to console.

MarvS

Re: smail says "550 You are not permitted to send mail"

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 09:39:08AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:

> Sendmail (which is smail, anyway) doesn't work either. 

Invoking the sendmail binary gets you the same MTA but it bypasses many
of the checks MTAs perform

> It neither sends the mail nor returns it to the sender like it claims to.

> 09:33:06$ sendmail root
> aoeusnaohe

I'm not surprised that failed - what you typed doesn't really
approximate a valid message.  Looking at the bounce that got generated
and moved into the error directory it seems that smail can't figure out
how to deliver to local users (the bounce said that it didn't know
anything about a user root, and the non-delivery of the bounce would
suggest that it couldn't find your user account either.  You'll
probably see some complaints in your mail logs (/var/log/mail.log unless
smail doesn't use syslog).

You should try reconfiguring smail - there's probably a program called
smailconfig in /usr/sbin that will do that for you, or failing that
removoing and reinstalling should do the trick.  If smail doesn't
configure itself I'd try another MTA (exim is the default choice for 
recent Debian versions).

[BTW, could you please quote and trim your messages properly?  It makes
them much easier to read.]

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emails wont send out-

[Tom Warfield]

We have clients using Outlook (yes i know what losers) and were running
sendmail on debian.  Okay so this is the problem, when they send a email in
Outlook to a email address (for example [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Outlook
wont let them send it out.  Its not the message or anything like that
because if i change the address to something else the message goes, so its
specificaly the address.  Outlook connects to the server then it just sits
there.  Im thinking Sendmail doesnt like it for some reason and i cant
figure out why...anyone have any ideas.

Thanks,
Tom

Re: smail says "550 You are not permitted to send mail"

[Krzys Majewski]

Sendmail (which is smail, anyway) doesn't work either. 
It neither sends the mail nor returns it to the sender like it claims to.
-chris

09:33:06$ sendmail root
aoeusnaohe
09:33:20$ smail: mail moved to /var/spool/smail/error/13FJGC-0006PKC

09:33:43# cat /var/spool/smail/error/13FJGC-0006PKC 
!root
!0 1000
!-oem
!-f
!<+>
!-oMs
!cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com
!-oMr
!bsmtp
!-oMP
!smail
!

From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: krzys
Subject: mail failed, returning to sender
Reference: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

|- Message log follows: -|
 no valid recipients were found for this message
|- Failed addresses follow: -|
 root ... unknown user
|- Message text follows: |
Received: from localhost (69 bytes) by cr275960-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com
via sendmail with P:stdio/T:error
(sender: ) (ident  using unix)
id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:33:12 -0700 (PDT)
(Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 2000-Feb-23)
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:33:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: krzys (Krzys Majewski)
To: root

aoeusnaohe

09:33:47# cd /var/spool/mail/
09:34:22# la
total 2
drwxrwsr-x2 root mail 1024 Mar  1 09:59 ./
drwxr-xr-x9 root root 1024 Jul  9 16:24 ../
-rw-rw-r--1 krzysmail0 Feb  6 11:58 krzys

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Mark Brown wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:58:47AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> 
> > 550 You are not permitted to send mail
> 
> localhost isn't in the list of systems that smail will allow to forward
> mail through it.   How you tell smail about that I don't know.
> 
> > What gives? The only reason I'm trying to set this up is so that
> > things like cron jobs will send email to root, as advertised. 
> 
> Most things of that sort will use /usr/sbin/sendmail rather than SMTP 
> to inject mail, bypassing this check.
> 
> -- 
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> http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
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> 

RE: cannot compile ppp-2.4.x

[Pollywog]

On 20-Jul-2000 Pollywog wrote:
> I have no problem compiling ppp version 2.3.11 but cannot compile 2.4.x and
> I
> need to do this to try the new PPPoE kernel module.  Enternet PPPoe and
> Roaring Penguin don't work for me, so my last hope at getting my DSL working
> is to get this ppp version to compile.  Anyone know what I am missing?


I think I see the problem.  I need to upgrade my compiler in order to build
this thing, right?

--
Andrew

cannot compile ppp-2.4.x

[Pollywog]

I have no problem compiling ppp version 2.3.11 but cannot compile 2.4.x and I
need to do this to try the new PPPoE kernel module.  Enternet PPPoe and
Roaring Penguin don't work for me, so my last hope at getting my DSL working
is to get this ppp version to compile.  Anyone know what I am missing?

I am using kernel 2.4.0 test4

/usr/include/net/route.h:111: parse error before `*'
/usr/include/net/route.h:112: warning: `struct netlink_callback' declared
inside parameter list
/usr/include/net/route.h: In function `ip_rt_put':
/usr/include/net/route.h:118: warning: implicit declaration of function
`dst_release'
/usr/include/net/route.h: At top level:
/usr/include/net/route.h:130: parse error before `tos'
/usr/include/net/route.h: In function `rt_tos2priority':
/usr/include/net/route.h:132: warning: implicit declaration of function
`IPTOS_TOS'
/usr/include/net/route.h:132: `tos' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/include/net/route.h: At top level:
/usr/include/net/route.h:135: parse error before `u32'
/usr/include/net/route.h: In function `ip_route_connect':
/usr/include/net/route.h:138: `rp' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/include/net/route.h:138: `dst' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/include/net/route.h:138: `src' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/include/net/route.h:138: `tos' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/include/net/route.h:138: `oif' undeclared (first use in this function)
In file included from sys-linux.c:59:
/usr/include/netinet/if_ether.h: At top level:
/usr/include/netinet/if_ether.h:77: field `ea_hdr' has incomplete type
In file included from sys-linux.c:73:
pppd.h:347: `info' redeclared as different kind of symbol
/usr/include/net/dst.h:65: previous declaration of `info'
pppd.h:350: `error' redeclared as different kind of symbol
/usr/include/net/dst.h:51: previous declaration of `error'
pppd.h:415: `output' redeclared as different kind of symbol
/usr/include/net/dst.h:57: previous declaration of `output'
sys-linux.c: In function `sifproxyarp':
sys-linux.c:1499: storage size of `arpreq' isn't known
sys-linux.c:1507: `ATF_PERM' undeclared (first use in this function)
sys-linux.c:1507: `ATF_PUBL' undeclared (first use in this function)
sys-linux.c:1499: warning: unused variable `arpreq'
sys-linux.c: In function `cifproxyarp':
sys-linux.c:1550: storage size of `arpreq' isn't known
sys-linux.c:1557: `ATF_PERM' undeclared (first use in this function)
sys-linux.c:1557: `ATF_PUBL' undeclared (first use in this function)
sys-linux.c:1550: warning: unused variable `arpreq'
sys-linux.c: In function `ppp_available':
sys-linux.c:1919: `ARPHRD_PPP' undeclared (first use in this function)
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:9370: Error: Ignoring attempt to re-define symbol
{standard input}:9370: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is
`,'.
make[1]: *** [sys-linux.o] Error 1

Re: Debian won't find my mouse

[Bolan Meek]

Trevor Ramoutar wrote:
> 
> I installed Potato last night, everything went great,

Congratulations!  Welcome Aboard!

> but when I tried a startx it crapped out on me saying that it could [not]
> find my mouse (which is a PS/2).  Can somebody help?

check `dmesg | more`.  Did your /dev/psaux get loaded?
Did you configure X to use /dev/psaux?  Maybe you ought
to `ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse`.


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Re: stop X autobooting & gnome file manager trick?

[Roberto Magana]

Easier still, as root cd /etc/init.d; mv gdm '#gdm'
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 09:42:18AM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Issue 1:  I can't figure out how to stop default windows manager
> > > ((fvwm)) from automatically starting upon boot into linux.  I simply
> > > want to start from a shell and then enter "startx" when I 
> > want to get
> > > into a GUI.  I've tried to open up "inittab" to see about changing a
> > > "5" to a "3" somewhere amidst all the command 
> > lines---((thought I read that
> > > from another post)) but I can't figure it out.  There  are many
> > > command lines in there and I don't know what they do, or refer to.
> > > 
> > > If it would be helpful to see my inittab file, I'll post it.  Just
> > > didn't want to irritate folks with an inordinately long post.
> > 
> > apt-get --purge remove gdm
> > 
> Lighter solution: there should be a line resembling this in your
> /etc/inittab:
> "id:5:initdefault:"
> Change the 5 to 3 in it.
> I assume you just want to log in runlevel 3 and not 5, not uninstall gdm!
> 
> HTH
> Thierry

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Re: voodoo3 + 3dfx.o module source

[John Gould]

Hi Bobby,
  Looks like there is no 3dfx.o module in your
/lib/modules/kernel_version/misc directory. You can either compile the
module and do a make install and check that it's in the right place. Or,
alternatively get the driver from 3dfx's site and debianise the rpm with
alien and install and compile as before. I didn't use the deb's, compiling
everything from debianised (alien is of use here) 3dfx's rpms. However the
message is common when Q3 can't find/load the 3dfx driver module. You
should have a /dev/3dfx device as well. Check the permissions on this.
Before you try and run Q3, run the three 3dfx test programs 3DFXTest and
the two glide ones. You should get a blue screen exited via the esc
key. You also need a similar resolution to the glide resolution in your
XF86Config file. i.e. you need an entry for 800x600 if your trying to run
the 3dfx card at 800x600.

HTH regards JohnG

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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, bobby dowling wrote:

> -Trying to get Quake3Demo to run full-screen and faster than .1 frames/s
> 
> When I run the demo it starts, but gives this:
> 
> **
> - Initializing Renderer 
> ---
> - R_Init -
> ...loading opengl32: QGL_Init: Can't load opengl32 from /etc/ld.so.conf or 
> current dir: /usr/local/games/q3demo/opengl32: cannot open shared object 
> file: No such file or directory
> failed
> ...loading libMesaVoodooGL.so: Initializing OpenGL display
> ...setting mode 6: 1024 768
> Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 0.8
> XF86DGA Mouse (Version 1.1) initialized
> XFree86-VidModeExtension:  Ignored on non-fullscreen/Voodoo
> Using 4/4/4 Color bits, 16 depth, 0 stencil display.
> GenuineIntel cpu detected.
> gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board
> fx Driver: ERROR no Voodoo1/2 Graphics or Voodoo Rush !
> *** IGNORING OPENGL EXTENSIONS ***
> **
> 
> Obviously, glide is not set up properly.  So, I installed everything having 
> to with glide and their dependencies and realized I still needed to get 
> 3dfx.o.  So, I got the deb source file.  I untarred it.
> 
> Question:  What do I do with /usr/srv/modules/device3dfx?  There is a 
> MAKEFILE, but what do I do with it?
> 
> THANKS!!!
> 
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Debian won't find my mouse

[Trevor Ramoutar]

I installed Potato last night, everything went great, but when I tried a startx 
it crapped out on me saying that it could find my mouse (which is a PS/2).  Can 
somebody help?  

Thanks in advance.


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voodoo3 + 3dfx.o module source

[bobby dowling]

-Trying to get Quake3Demo to run full-screen and faster than .1 frames/s

When I run the demo it starts, but gives this:

**
- Initializing Renderer 
---
- R_Init -
...loading opengl32: QGL_Init: Can't load opengl32 from /etc/ld.so.conf or 
current dir: /usr/local/games/q3demo/opengl32: cannot open shared object 
file: No such file or directory

failed
...loading libMesaVoodooGL.so: Initializing OpenGL display
...setting mode 6: 1024 768
Using XFree86-VidModeExtension Version 0.8
XF86DGA Mouse (Version 1.1) initialized
XFree86-VidModeExtension:  Ignored on non-fullscreen/Voodoo
Using 4/4/4 Color bits, 16 depth, 0 stencil display.
GenuineIntel cpu detected.
gd error (glide): Can't find or access Banshee/V3 board
fx Driver: ERROR no Voodoo1/2 Graphics or Voodoo Rush !
*** IGNORING OPENGL EXTENSIONS ***
**

Obviously, glide is not set up properly.  So, I installed everything having 
to with glide and their dependencies and realized I still needed to get 
3dfx.o.  So, I got the deb source file.  I untarred it.


Question:  What do I do with /usr/srv/modules/device3dfx?  There is a 
MAKEFILE, but what do I do with it?


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UMAX 1220S, SCSI card (436P?)

[Juan Alejandro Diaz Muñoz]

drivers please

Re: Amanda backup: Labeling Tapes

[Ian Zimmerman]

Erik> Dear Group, I feel that I have come quite far in setting up
Erik> amanda on my Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 system. I seem to be able to
Erik> connect from client to server, access the tape drive (SCSI
Erik> /dev/nst0) and such.

Erik> However, since I am still testing I have not yet set up the
Erik> crontab entry but would like to supply some commands manually.

Erik> However, as soon as I perform a dump, I get an email asking for:
Erik> a new tape.  I have tried amlabel to write all kinds of
Erik> labels. This seems to work but I have not found a way to get
Erik> amanda to accept it.  I have not been able to find in the
Erik> documentation how to go about this, other than (from the Howto):

Erik> Run amlabel to label all the tapes needed according to your
Erik> needs.

Have you set the "labelstr" parameter in amanda.conf?  Mine says

labelstr "^DailySet1-[0-9][0-9]*$"  # label constraint regex: all tapes 
match

and my tapes are labelled DailySet1-01, DailySet1-02, etc. ..

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Re: Copy & paste with a mouse

[Lukasz Walewski]

Thanks for reply.

I just didn't use the "Emulate 3 Buttons" option during
XF86Setup.

Cheers

Lukas




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trouble with make-kpkg

[Jens Arvidsson]

Hello readers of the list,

I have run into trouble trying to compile a new kernel (2.2.16).

After running make xconfig, I did a "make-kpkg clean" per the
instructions in the kernel-package README. This however doesn't seem
to work, dpkg is complaining that it can't find the compiler. Is this
a known problem?

Gcc is 2.95.2-10.

Thanks,

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Re: installation question...?

[David Wright]

Quoting Ken Ebling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi, I just downloaded all the .bin files from ftp.debian.org's
> debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44
> directory...
> 
> I haven't ever seen the kernel-config file before, but I don't even get
> far enough to need it yet...! =)
> 
> I used rawrite2 to put all the .bin's to disks... when I boot the system
> 
> with the rescue disk in the a drive it loads syslinux, and gives me the
> screen that I have to push enter on to start installation... on that
> screen it says:
> 
> This disk uses Linux 2.2.17
> (from kernel-image-2.2.17_2.2.17pre6-1)
> 
> when I press enter it says:
> 
> Loading Linux...
> Boot failed: please change disks and press a key to continue.
> 
> does anyone know why it says it wants 2.2.17 when I downloaded it from
> the 2.2.16 directory!?

Well I'll answer this direct question, not knowing why your boot failed.

> debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/2.2.16-2000-07-14/images-1.44
   -- --- -- --
 \_potato = 2.2__/   /   |
/boot disks date
 DEBIAN boot disks version number__/

> This disk uses Linux 2.2.17
   --
  /
LINUX kernel version_/

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Re: About display

[Stephan Engelke]

Hi,
Nianwei Xing writes:
> Hi, 
> I am a new debian user and after finish the
> installation,I got a question about display. I want to
> work on another unix machine, after "xhost" and 
> "telnet", I use the command: export DISPLAY=my machine
> name:0.0 and then when I want to use some program, it
> is message like this: Cannot open display: my machine
> name:0.0.
> Anyone know how to fix this problem? Any information
> is appreciated.

(1) To fix this, you need to allow other clients to access your
display.  The setting of the DISPLAY environment variable only
tells the remote machine which display to use.  To allow you
display to be accessed, you need to type

$ xhost + 

Use "xhost - " to deny access from a remote host.

Note that this is immensly insecure!

(2) Therefore, if you have the option, use "ssh" (secure shell).  This
program enscrpyts the connection and automatically forwards the X
connections (if configured to do so on the remote machine).  This
way you are the only one who may access you display and you don't
have to muck with other settings.

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About display

[Nianwei Xing]

Hi, 
I am a new debian user and after finish the
installation,I got a question about display. I want to
work on another unix machine, after "xhost" and 
"telnet", I use the command: export DISPLAY=my machine
name:0.0 and then when I want to use some program, it
is message like this: Cannot open display: my machine
name:0.0.
Anyone know how to fix this problem? Any information
is appreciated.

Nianwei


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Re: staroffice

[David Teague]

On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Nick Croft wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, David Teague wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > StarOffice is a bloated stuck pig.  It handles MS file formats fairly
> > > well though.
> 
> It may be the only use for SO, take a Word .doc and turn it into something
> Unix or universal like html.
> 
> How fast does a computer need to be? I thought 133mh was slow. Put it on a
> 333mh box today and it's no faster. Even at 600+ it would be slow if
> processor is the clue to speed.

Nick 

I think speed here just might be a function of amount of memory. SO
is a memory hog.

I have an AMD 350 on a 100 MHZ mother board with 128 MB RAM and 128
MB swap, with fairly fast (about 6ms) ide hd (but DMA not enabled),
running Potato and SO 5.1, My window manager is FVWM2.

SO is slow starting, but no slower doing any task than Word 97 and
Win 98 on the same machine.

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Re: Copy & paste with a mouse

[Thomas Guettler]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 11:39:54AM +0200, ?ukasz Walewski wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I switched from RedHat to Debian some time ago.
> I've configured mostly everything I wanted, but copying 'n
> pasting with my mouse doesn't work.
> I use:
>   * Slink 2.0.38
>   * XFree86 + KDE

the switch is a good choice.

> 
> What should I do ?
> 

I know only potato. But don't think that it's different.
Check what kind of mouse gpm pretends to be.
Then check you use this mouse type in your XF86Config-file.
Then it should work: mark with left paste with middle button.



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Network/Server CRC Errors on large compressed files.

[Pete Foley]

Hey!,

I have a little server set up in a home office running Potato.  It is an
AMD 233, 20GIG IDE Western Digital HD, 64 Ram system that acts as a
gateway/firewall, print and file server.  However, I am having a very
odd problem with it.  I often deal with large compressed files (10 megs
or so each, usually in zip or rar format).  I usually make them on my
local machine, and then transfer them to my server to be archived onto
tape.  However, once they get to the server they become corrunpted.
Now, It is not always the case that they get corrupted during the
transmission.  For example, if I have a 3 part spanning file (aka an 3
volume compressed file) I will test the extraction on my local box.  It
usually works.  Ok, then I copy it to my server.  When I try to
decompress it on the server, file 2 may fail (Give me a bad CRC error).
But then if I try it again, 2 may pass and 3 will fail.  Then after
several tries they may all decompress successfully and the will just get
a general CRC error at the end.  And sometimes it actually works.

It is this odd behavior that makes me wonder if it is the server and not
the network.  Does anyone have any idea what is happening and how I can
resolve this?  The server is running 2.2.14, and I have the kernel
configured as a host, not router (which I think I read gives some CRC
checking, but no luck).

Thanks!
-Pete

Re: Boot floppy [URGENT] [SOLVED]

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

Thanks to Dave for suggestions that bring me to this working solution
(also if it's for sure not the best).

Simply during the install procedure before reboot the box substitute the
link /vmlinuz with the custo kernel and rexecute lilo choosing in the
menu
(Boot linux directly from HD).

Now the box is able to boot also if there might be some errors during
modules dependencies calculation (floppy has 2.2.17-pre6-1 inside while
i used a normal 2.2.16) that must be fixed in the next kernel
recompilation to make everything clean.

Thanks again Dave and to the list.

Fabio


Fabio Massimo Di Nitto wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I really need a fast help.
[SNIP]
> using mkrboot i'm not able to specify the root disk.
> using mkboot it report me (during the boot) lilo error 0x04


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Re: Help with configuring X Server

[Frank Mehnert]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Patrick J Draper wrote:

> I have gone through a Debian 2.1 installation, installed X Windows (X1186R6)
> and am now having extreme difficulty configuring and starting an X Server.
> 
> I go through the graphical XF86Setup program but when I select done and the
> server trys to start I get an error something like
> 
> "X11ConnectionUNIX cannot connect errno 111"

I had the same problem long time ago.
In my case it was the font server: XF86Config was configured by default to
use a font server which wasn't properly installed. So check if you installed
xfs and then check if in the file /etc/X11/xfs/config the "no-listen"-line is
commented out! If you change anything of the xfs config you have to restart
(/etc/init.d/xfs reload).

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lilo + ata/66 + kernel 2.4 problem

[bobby dowling]

Installed slink and installed 2.4 kernel for ata/66 support.

I installed to /dev/hda, but when I changed the drive over to ata/66 
controller, it became /dev/hde.  So, I changed /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf 
to reflect this, but when I do a /sbin/lilo, I get error messages that 
reference hda.  Is this a problem with fsck?  How can I fix this; where can 
I change these references?




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Re: Copy and paste with a mouse

[Bobby Dowling]

Try either reconfiguring gpm (gpmconfig) or removing it:

   apt-get remove gpm (or dpkg -r gpm)

   If you remove it though, you may have to change mouse type to
/dev/psaux
   in
   XF86Setup from the gpm node.

Re: How to make a boot disk?

[Tom Pfeifer]

The simplest way is to dd the kernel to the floppy disk, and then set
the root device (partition).

dd if=/path_to_your_kernel of=/dev/fd0 bs=512

rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/your_root_partition


You can verify that the root device for the floppy disk kernel is set
correctly by using this command:

rdev /dev/fd0

You can also set video mode if you want. See 'man rdev' or 'man vidmode'

Tom


Marshal Wong wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> You would think that after 2 years of experience with Linux, I would
> know how to make a linux boot disk, but I don't.  So how do I do it?
> :)
> 
> I heard of dd the kernel onto disk, but aren't there certain
> variables that are on the kernel, like the root partition, that must
> be changed?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Marshal

RE: help on installing (starting) staroffice

[Tan Soo Eng]

I did the installation. GNOME + StarOffice. Works fine.
A trick handled. Create a User, not root, install the SO under /Home/, 
get the SO executable file into Startup directory, change the rights on 
 to allow others to access.



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Amanda backup: Labeling Tapes

[Erik van der Meulen]

Hi Group, I tried to contact the amanda-user mailinglist first, but that
does not seem to be on-line. Hope this is no too off-topic...
I was hoping for some Debian-amanda user who might be able to give me a
suggestion.

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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:07:51 +0200
From: Erik van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Labeling Tapes
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Dear Group, I feel that I have come quite far in setting up amanda on my
Debian/GNU Linux 2.2 system. I seem to be able to connect from client to
server, access the tape drive (SCSI /dev/nst0) and such.

However, since I am still testing I have not yet set up the crontab
entry but would like to supply some commands manually.

However, as soon as I perform a dump, I get an email asking for:
a new tape.
I have tried amlabel to write all kinds of labels. This seems to work but
I have not found a way to get amanda to accept it.
I have not been able to find in the documentation how to go about this,
other than (from the Howto):

 Run amlabel to label all the tapes needed according to your needs.

Can anyone point me in the proper direction? Much appreciated.

--
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Re: help with file timestamp

[John Pearson]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 04:04:37PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote
> Hi,
>   I am having some problems here with timestamp. The system is
>   hamm.
> 
> # date
> Thu Jul 20 15:59:32 EST 2000
> 
> # date -u
> Thu Jul 20 05:59:34 UTC 2000
> 
> # touch /tmp/hello
> # ls -al /tmp/hello
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root root 0 Jul 20 05:59 /tmp/hello
> 
> 
>   As you can see /tmp/hello's timestamp is using UTC rather than
>   EST. How do I make it using EST?
> 

This sounds more like a bug in ls or touch than anything else,
as times in the filesystem will always be recorded as UTC, but
displayed in localtime.

Do you get similar results when you do
$ date -u
$ cat /dev/null > /tmp/hello
$ ls -al /tmp/hello

If not, it looks like touch has problems.

Alternatively, check the "actual" time and filestamp with perl:
$ perl -e 'print time, "\n"'
$ touch /tmp/hello
$ perl -e 'print ((stat("/tmp/hello"))[9],  "\n")'

If they produce numbers that correlate well, then it looks like
your ls is displaying dates in UTC, ignoring the timezone that 
date uses; could be time to upgrade, if you want to fix it...


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Re: stop X autobooting & gnome file manager trick?

[Morten Liebach]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 08:38:20PM -0400, mhf wrote:
> Hello debian-user,
> 
> Issue 1:  I can't figure out how to stop default windows manager
> ((fvwm)) from automatically starting upon boot into linux.  I simply
> want to start from a shell and then enter "startx" when I want to get
> into a GUI.  I've tried to open up "inittab" to see about changing a
> "5" to a "3" somewhere amidst all the command lines---((thought I read that
> from another post)) but I can't figure it out.  There  are many
> command lines in there and I don't know what they do, or refer to.

Read ``man update-rc.d''.

Then do a ``cd /etc/init.d'', ``update-rc.d -f xdm remove'' (or use gdm
instead of xdm if it is gdm you use for graphical login).

You could also use ``dpkg -r xdm'' (or gdm), if you want to uninstall
the program entirely, not just stop it starting up.

HTH
HAND
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RE: Debian + Windows98 on the same large disk problem

[Dimitris Dracopoulos]

Hi Ignasi,

Thanks for your email. 

Did you actually use FAT or FAT32 for the other OS and was the other OS
WIndows98? 

I tried to wipe out the disk and create tha FAT32 partition using the fdisk
of the Windows98 startup disk but when I rebooted to Debian, the Debian
cfdisk was exiting with a fatal error! (apparently it could not understand
the FAT32 partition created with the Windows fdisk).

I wonder if this has to do with me having a too large disk (40GB).

Could you please tell me the exact steps you did? 
This is what I did:

1. I boot my new disk (master - 40GB) using a WIndows 98 startup disk. 
2. I create a 12GB FAT32 partition using the fdisk found in the startup disk
and another partition for the rest of the disk.
3. I reboot to Debian (which is located in my primary slave disk).
4. In order to create ext2 partitions, I try to start cfdisk or fdisk and
both of them exit   with a "FATAL ERROR" message.

Does this make any sense? (or I should definitely devote/waste a whole hard
disk for Windows 98?)

Cheers

Dimitris 

-Original Message-
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Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 6:14 PM
To: Dimitris Dracopoulos; 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: Debian + Windows98 on the same large disk problem


Hello Dimitris,

I had the exact same problem as you.

The action you and me did wrong is to create FAT partitions with a
Linux
program. In the fdisk docs it tells that if you want to do a partition for
the OS "A", use the partition program from the OS "A". I could not solve
that situation so I had to wipe out again the whole disk and then do the
FAT partition with M$ fdisk and the ext2 partitions with GNU fdisk.

Also please check if your BIOS includes "Access disk for this, or
that OS"
when you partition. Phoenix 4.0 BIOS, in this or that "Access disk" option
makes GNU fdisk to report different values!


Good luck,

Ignasi



At 17.30 18/7/00 +0100, Dimitris Dracopoulos ha escrit:
>Hi,
>
>I have recently got a new hard disk 40GB, in which I decided to install
both
>Windows98 and Debian, FreeBSD. 
>(I never wanted to install this Win98 stuff on my machine but job matters
>force...)
>
>I repartitioned the hard disk using slink Debian's cfdisk into a first
FAT32
>partition of 12GB and 3 more partitions (second is 12GB BSD, and the other
>two, 10 and 5GB Linux). For the cfdisk to work properly with my large disk,
>I had to specify the disk geometry that FreeBSD's fdisk returned to me.
>
>Following that I installed Windows98 on the first partition of 12GB. I
>checked with the Windows98 fdisk program, and indeed it finds the 4
>partitions mentioning that the 3 last ones are non-DOS. 
>
>The problem is that when I use the Windows explorer to see what is the
>available space for my C drive (FAT32 partition), I get that available for
C
>are 39GB, i.e. the whole of my hard disk and not just the FAT32 partition.
>Despite that, it reports the C volume label to be the same name as that
>reported by the Windows98 fdisk!
>
>So, I wonder what is happening? Is it just a bug in the Windows Explorer or
>the actual Windows will expand further than their allocated 12GB partition
>when they have no space and delete my Debian and FreeBSD stuff when I
>install them there?
>
>Has anyone installed both Debian and Windows98 on the same large disk and
>came across anything similar?
>
>
>Cheers
>
>Dimitris
> 
>
>
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Copy & paste with a mouse

[Łukasz Walewski]

Hi.

I switched from RedHat to Debian some time ago.
I've configured mostly everything I wanted, but copying 'n
pasting with my mouse doesn't work.
I use:
* Slink 2.0.38
* XFree86 + KDE

What should I do ?

Thanks a lot.



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Re: Problems compiling kernel...

[Jason Quigley]

Ouch!

Thanks for the info Gary!

Cheers,
Jason.

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What could be happening?


Nothing good. Read the signal 11 FAQ at

http://www.BitWizard.nl/sig11

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Re: Help with configuring X Server

[virtanen]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Patrick J Draper wrote:


> I go through the graphical XF86Setup program but when I select done and the
> server trys to start I get an error something like
> 
> "X11ConnectionUNIX cannot connect errno 111"

Probably the point to start is to find out your videocard type. 

There is available even a program, which might find it out. Try a command 

'SuperProbe'
as 'root'

Then you have to know about your screen properties. 

If you still have got an operating system called 'windblows' (made by m$,
a small company, which invented the hard currency of U$) installed in your 
computer, you can find out all the those details from there. 

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Boot floppy [URGENT]

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

Hi all,

I really need a fast help.

I've to setup a debian box with a Compaq Array SCSI Controller.

I downloaded the latest boot floppy for potato to install debian trough
network.

problem:

the Compaq Array where root has to be mounted is loaded only like
module.
I was able to partion disks etc loading the module during the
installation procedure
using the shell on ttyX but now i'd rebooted to continue the setup
procedure and how i suspected the kernel installed on the disk array is
not able to mount root since it doesn't have the module loaded and it
cannot load module not having root mounted.

Now I've compiled a custom kernel with scsi support and cqarray inside
and i made some
try to make a boot floppy but without success.
I used both mkrboot and mkboot.

using mkrboot i'm not able to specify the root disk.
using mkboot it report me (during the boot) lilo error 0x04

How can i do it?
Please help me is really urgent. Any suggestion is welcome

Thanks a lot

Fabio

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Re: help with file timestamp

[Shao Zhang]

Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > "Corey" == Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Corey> Check the file /etc/default/rcS There is a line in there
> Corey> that says "Set UTC to yes or no".  Make sure this is set to
> Corey> no.
> 
> You are thinking of potato. IIRC It is different in slink. This is
> hamm...

Correct. In Hamm, there is not UTC=yes, but there is GMT="-u", which is
really the same thing. I have hard coded GMT="--localtime" in
/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh anyway, so it should not matter.

> 
> >> Hi, I am having some problems here with timestamp. The system
> >> is hamm.
> 
> Might be a kernel issue (seeing date is reporting the correct
> thing). What kernel version are you using?

# uname -r
2.0.36

> Do you have an /etc/localtime? 

Yes.

> Is this file required on hamm? (sorry I can't remember now).
> 
> On mine it is:
> 
> [632] [snoopy:bam] ~ >ls -l /etc/localtime 
> lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   39 May  5 12:16 /etc/localtime -> 
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Melbourne
> 
> However, I thought date didn't work properly without this.

Mine looks like this:
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root36 Jul 20 05:01 /etc/localtime -> 
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney

> >> Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of
> 
> What?!!? Are you running hamm or slink?

Sorry. That was referring to my personal computer, I am running woody
now. The one I am talking about is our webserver.


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Re: Help with configuring X Server

[Eric G . Miller]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 08:56:37AM +0100, Patrick J Draper wrote:
> Help, I am a Linux newbie,
> 
> I have gone through a Debian 2.1 installation, installed X Windows
> (X1186R6) and am now having extreme difficulty configuring and
> starting an X Server.
> 
> I go through the graphical XF86Setup program but when I select done
> and the server trys to start I get an error something like
> 
> "X11ConnectionUNIX cannot connect errno 111"
> 
> Could someone please shed some light on this for me.

Unfortunately, error number 111 can be given for almost any cause. So it
isn't really helpful.  When you do XF86Setup, did you test the server?
Do you have the correct X server installed (XF86Setup uses VGA16, but
the majority of users will use the SVGA server).

Anyway, you might tell us your video card for a start and possibly post
your ~/.xsession-errors or make a log of the output from the "startx"
command.

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How to make a boot disk?

[Marshal Wong]

Hey all,

You would think that after 2 years of experience with Linux, I would
know how to make a linux boot disk, but I don't.  So how do I do it?
:)

I heard of dd the kernel onto disk, but aren't there certain
variables that are on the kernel, like the root partition, that must
be changed?

Any help would be appreciated.

Marshal

Re: stop X autobooting & gnome file manager trick?

[Eric G . Miller]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 09:42:18AM +0200, Michalowski Thierry wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Issue 1:  I can't figure out how to stop default windows manager
> > > ((fvwm)) from automatically starting upon boot into linux.  I simply
> > > want to start from a shell and then enter "startx" when I 
> > want to get
> > > into a GUI.  I've tried to open up "inittab" to see about changing a
> > > "5" to a "3" somewhere amidst all the command 
> > lines---((thought I read that
> > > from another post)) but I can't figure it out.  There  are many
> > > command lines in there and I don't know what they do, or refer to.
> > > 
> > > If it would be helpful to see my inittab file, I'll post it.  Just
> > > didn't want to irritate folks with an inordinately long post.
> > 
> > apt-get --purge remove gdm
> > 
> Lighter solution: there should be a line resembling this in your
> /etc/inittab:
> "id:5:initdefault:"
> Change the 5 to 3 in it.
> I assume you just want to log in runlevel 3 and not 5, not uninstall gdm!

You all must be confusing Debian with RedHat (or something).  The
default Debian configuration treats all multiuser runlevels exactly the
same.  And the default runlevel would be 2.  Anyway, removing xdm or gdm
or wdm or whatever display manager will do the trick.  Also, removing
the link(s) in /etc/rc?.d that look like S99xdm will stop the display
manager from starting (you'll want to leave at least one link so
upgrades don't "reset" the defaults. See man update-rc.d for more info).

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Re: Servlets and Apache

[Brian May]

> "Alberto" == Alberto Rodríguez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Hi guys
>> 
>> I am looking for starting pointers on setting up Servlets on
>> Apache.  Anyone got some useful links handy for that?
>> 
>> >From what versions on is Apache servlet-capable?

There is a Debian package (at least in potato) of jserv.
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Re: help with file timestamp

[Brian May]

> "Corey" == Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Corey> Check the file /etc/default/rcS There is a line in there
Corey> that says "Set UTC to yes or no".  Make sure this is set to
Corey> no.

You are thinking of potato. IIRC It is different in slink. This is
hamm...

>> Hi, I am having some problems here with timestamp. The system
>> is hamm.

Might be a kernel issue (seeing date is reporting the correct
thing). What kernel version are you using?

Do you have an /etc/localtime? 

Is this file required on hamm? (sorry I can't remember now).

On mine it is:

[632] [snoopy:bam] ~ >ls -l /etc/localtime 
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   39 May  5 12:16 /etc/localtime -> 
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Melbourne

However, I thought date didn't work properly without this.

>> Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of

What?!!? Are you running hamm or slink?
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Help with configuring X Server

[Patrick J Draper]

Help, I am a Linux 
newbie,
 
I have gone through 
a Debian 2.1 installation, installed X Windows (X1186R6) and am now having 
extreme difficulty configuring and starting an X Server.
 
I go through the 
graphical XF86Setup program but when I select done and the server trys to start 
I get an error something like
 
"X11ConnectionUNIX 
cannot connect errno 111"
 
Could someone please 
shed some light on this for me.
 
 
regards, Paddy. 
(Linux convert)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Email: 
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RE: images iso de debian linux ppc ?

[Michalowski Thierry]

Title: RE: images iso de debian linux ppc ?





Just try there:
ftp.debian.org/debian-cd


As a sidenote: I did not find them on any mirror so I assume it is not really a nice practice to download them at once since it could harm the server.

HTH
Thierry


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> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: images iso de debian linux ppc ?
> 
> 
> 
>  quelqu'un peut-il m'envoyer une ou plusieurs URL où il est possible
> d'obtenir les images ISO des CD de la debian linux PPC.
> 
>  merci beaucoup pour cette info qui me manque cruellement.
> 
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Re: installation question...?

[Thomas Guettler]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 09:49:47AM -0400, Ken Ebling wrote:
> does anyone know why it says it wants 2.2.17 when I downloaded it from
> the 2.2.16 directory!?

Debian develops very fast. Maybe try an other disk-image or an other
floppy disk. Floppy-disk are not very reliable.


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RE: stop X autobooting & gnome file manager trick?

[Michalowski Thierry]

Title: RE: stop X autobooting & gnome file manager trick?





> 
> > 
> > Issue 1:  I can't figure out how to stop default windows manager
> > ((fvwm)) from automatically starting upon boot into linux.  I simply
> > want to start from a shell and then enter "startx" when I 
> want to get
> > into a GUI.  I've tried to open up "inittab" to see about changing a
> > "5" to a "3" somewhere amidst all the command 
> lines---((thought I read that
> > from another post)) but I can't figure it out.  There  are many
> > command lines in there and I don't know what they do, or refer to.
> > 
> > If it would be helpful to see my inittab file, I'll post it.  Just
> > didn't want to irritate folks with an inordinately long post.
> 
> apt-get --purge remove gdm
> 
Lighter solution: there should be a line resembling this in your /etc/inittab:
"id:5:initdefault:"
Change the 5 to 3 in it.
I assume you just want to log in runlevel 3 and not 5, not uninstall gdm!


HTH
Thierry

Re: Servlets and Apache

[Alberto Rodríguez Ortega]

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Just http://jakarta.apache.org is the best way to go.

Think about "servlet" will not have dependence with apache or any platform.
Only think at the level-spacification of this one (i mean the lvl supported 
by the server u use).

Seeya

At 19.01 18/7/00 +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
>Hi guys
>
>I am looking for starting pointers on setting up Servlets on Apache.
>Anyone got some useful links handy for that?
>
> >From what versions on is Apache servlet-capable?
>
>Thanks
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Re: help with file timestamp

[Shao Zhang]

It is set to no. Besides, I have even tried this in
/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh
GMT="--localtime"

and it still does not work..

Thanks.

Shao.

Corey Popelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Check the file /etc/default/rcS
> There is a line in there that says "Set UTC to yes or no".
> Make sure this is set to no.
> 
> Cheers,
>  Corey J. Popelier
>  http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Shao Zhang wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I am having some problems here with timestamp. The system is
> > hamm.
> > 
> > # date
> > Thu Jul 20 15:59:32 EST 2000
> > 
> > # date -u
> > Thu Jul 20 05:59:34 UTC 2000
> > 
> > # touch /tmp/hello
> > # ls -al /tmp/hello
> > -rw-rw-r--   1 root root 0 Jul 20 05:59 /tmp/hello
> > 
> > 
> > As you can see /tmp/hello's timestamp is using UTC rather than
> > EST. How do I make it using EST?
> > 
> > Addtitional Info:
> > 
> > # cat /etc/timezone
> > Australia/Sydney
> > 
> > /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh is using GMT=--localhost. Well, I don't think it
> > really matters, coz I got a potato where GMT=--UTC and the time stamps
> > are still using EST.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for any help in advance.
> > 
> > Shao.
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Re: help with file timestamp

[Corey Popelier]

Check the file /etc/default/rcS
There is a line in there that says "Set UTC to yes or no".
Make sure this is set to no.

Cheers,
 Corey J. Popelier
 http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas


On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Shao Zhang wrote:

> Hi,
>   I am having some problems here with timestamp. The system is
>   hamm.
> 
> # date
> Thu Jul 20 15:59:32 EST 2000
> 
> # date -u
> Thu Jul 20 05:59:34 UTC 2000
> 
> # touch /tmp/hello
> # ls -al /tmp/hello
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root root 0 Jul 20 05:59 /tmp/hello
> 
> 
>   As you can see /tmp/hello's timestamp is using UTC rather than
>   EST. How do I make it using EST?
> 
> Addtitional Info:
> 
> # cat /etc/timezone
> Australia/Sydney
> 
> /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh is using GMT=--localhost. Well, I don't think it
> really matters, coz I got a potato where GMT=--UTC and the time stamps
> are still using EST.
> 
> 
>   Thanks for any help in advance.
> 
> Shao.
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help with file timestamp

[Shao Zhang]

Hi,
I am having some problems here with timestamp. The system is
hamm.

# date
Thu Jul 20 15:59:32 EST 2000

# date -u
Thu Jul 20 05:59:34 UTC 2000

# touch /tmp/hello
# ls -al /tmp/hello
-rw-rw-r--   1 root root 0 Jul 20 05:59 /tmp/hello


As you can see /tmp/hello's timestamp is using UTC rather than
EST. How do I make it using EST?

Addtitional Info:

# cat /etc/timezone
Australia/Sydney

/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh is using GMT=--localhost. Well, I don't think it
really matters, coz I got a potato where GMT=--UTC and the time stamps
are still using EST.


Thanks for any help in advance.

Shao.
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