/proc
Jellou 4 ebrybody : Estoy echando un vistazo al subsistema /proc de status obtengo lo siguiente : $cat /proc/751/status Name: ethereal State: R (running) Pid:751 PPid: 746 Uid:0 0 0 0 Gid:0 0 0 0 VmSize: 7360 kB VmLck: 0 kB VmRSS: 5652 kB VmData: 2944 kB VmStk:20 kB VmExe: 992 kB VmLib: 3164 kB SigPnd: 2000 SigBlk: 2000 SigIgn: 0001 SigCgt: 2000 Alguien puede decirme en que sistema de numeracion estan enmascaradas las señales y como saber cuales de las 32 disponibles estan bloqueadas,ignoradas etc. Gracias . Cesar.
Re: Clientes napster en potato
Xose Manoel Ramos escribió: Tambien hay uno de consola (Teksper) y parece que está de miedo. Yo en consola utilizo Bwap by Panasync; es rapido, facil de usar e igualito que BitchX. Hasta otra. -- _ _ |/ \/ |\ | |_ |_ Eduardo Borja Ramírez Ronco |\ / | \| |_ _| Debian 2.3 y Kernel 2.2.16 Usuario de Linux #156307 Maquina #68965 El que este capacitado para conquistar el software estara capacitado para conquistar el mundo - Tadahiro Sekimoto pgpE6NAaVTUoQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
LaTEX
Hola:
Hasta que ha salido la nueva versión de potato, yo siempre he estado
utilizando Mandrake, y todos los documentos que he estado realizando con
LaTEX me han funcionedo bien. Cuando me instale Potato volvi a hacer mis
documentos pero tengo un error, porque no me acepta los acentos.
Este es mi archivo de cabezera de mis documentos:
\documentclass[a4paper,twoside]{book}
\pagestyle{headings}
\usepackage[spanish,activeacute]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{linuxdoc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}
Otra pregunta que me gustaria hacer es como puedo instalar un archivo, en
este caso linuxdoc.sty, para que no tenga que tenerlo en el directorio
donde tengo mis documentos, sino en el directorio base de LaTEX o en otro
cualquiera.
Re: 6bone
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 08:54:48PM +0200, Andres Seco Hernandez wrote: Para los ceporros como yo, ¿qué es el 6bone? Es una red de testeo para IPv6, es decir, máquinas conectadas entre sí que están usando ya IPv6. Vale, que es IPv6? :) Es Internet Protocol versión 6, el reemplazo de lo que se usa ahora, IPv4, que ya tiene 20 años. IPv4 tiene varios problemas, entre los que destaca la reciente escasez de IPs con la explosión de Internet. IPv6 es una implementación moderna que resuelve estos problemas, pero está en fase de pruebas todavía. Ya se puede usar, pero hasta que no esté extendido del todo, no podrá reemplazar a ipv4 del todo (los programas lo tienen que soportar, etc). Yo he estado usando IPv6 desde hace poco tiempo, pero va lento porque no se de ningún gateway en Europa. La gente que esté enterada de verdad que corrija las mentiras que haya podido decir :) -- Jordi Mallach Pérez || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Rediscovering Freedom, aka Oskuro in|| [EMAIL PROTECTED] || Using Debian GNU/Linux Reinos de Leyenda || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://debian.org http://sindominio.net GnuPG public information: pub 1024D/917A225E telnet pusa.uv.es 23 73ED 4244 FD43 5886 20AC 2644 2584 94BA 917A 225E pgpmtSK6g740O.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: dselect
-Mensaje original- De: Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Para: debian debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Fecha: sábado 7 de octubre de 2000 13:00 Asunto: dselect ...una pregunta, que no se habia abandonado dselect como programa de instalacion de paqutes? es que me sale en la instalacion de la potato Instálate el aptitud. A mí me parece mucho más cómodo de usar aunque advierto que sólo lo he usado hasta ahora para ver la lista de paquetes, no he instalado nada con él (aunque claro, el dselect lo usaba exactamente para lo mismo). -- Ricardo Villalba [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/rvmsoft
Re: Problemas para cargar el modulo PLIP
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 06:20:10PM +0200, Fermín Manzanedo wrote: Hola, asterix:~# insmod plip Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/net/plip.o /lib/modules/2.2.14/net/plip.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters Como dice que el error puede venir dado por la mala asignación de IO o IRQ, he probado a asignarlas manualmente: asterix:~# insmod plip io=0x378 irq=7 Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/net/plip.o /lib/modules/2.2.14/net/plip.o: invalid parameter parm_io Hola de nuevo, hice un dmesg y, en lo relativo al módulo plip me devolvió esto: [...] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2] parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. [...] plip: parport0 has no IRQ. plip: no devices registered [...] ¿Cómo es posible que detecte el irq=7 pero que luego plip no tenga irq? ¿Alguna idea? -- --- Fermín Manzanedo fmanguATtelelineDOTes http://www.astrored.net/elsol | Badajoz, Spain Desde Toshiba2140CDS con Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 Usuario Linux #184967
RE: dselect
Hola ...una pregunta, que no se habia abandonado dselect como programa de instalacion de paqutes? es que me sale en la instalacion de la potato Instálate el aptitud. A mí me parece mucho más cómodo de usar aunque aptitude, supongo :-) que no lo encontraba conel apt-get install aptitud , he mirado con dselect y es aptitude ... ya lo estoy cogiendo del http de debian, _me cago mis cd's de debian que dejé XD_ (y suerte del apt-get que con la tarifa plana casi no noto que los dejé) hasta pronto Carles Pina i Estany E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || #ICQ: 14446118 || Nick: Teufeus / Pine URL: http://www.salleurl.edu/~is08139 No he perdido la cabeza. Tengo un 'backup' en alguna parte.
Re: LaTEX
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 02:01:47PM +0200, Carlos Sanz Peñas wrote: utilizando Mandrake, y todos los documentos que he estado realizando con LaTEX me han funcionedo bien. Cuando me instale Potato volvi a hacer mis documentos pero tengo un error, porque no me acepta los acentos. Hola, a lo mejor no tiene nada que ver, pero ¿has utilizado el texconfig para configurar latex? Creo que hay que descomentar la línea de español en hyphenation--latex. Si no va por ahí... ni idea. Un saludo, -- --- Fermín Manzanedo fmanguATtelelineDOTes http://www.astrored.net/elsol | Badajoz, Spain Desde Toshiba2140CDS con Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 Usuario Linux #184967
Re: LaTEX
Coordenadas temporales: Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 02:01:47PM +0200
Sujeto: Carlos Sanz Peñas
Comunicaba sobre: LaTEX
LaTEX me han funcionedo bien. Cuando me instale Potato volvi a hacer mis
documentos pero tengo un error, porque no me acepta los acentos.
Para los acentos (da igual la distro) yo siempre he usado:
\usepackage{t1enc}
y no me ha dado problemas.
Otra pregunta que me gustaria hacer es como puedo instalar un archivo, en
este caso linuxdoc.sty, para que no tenga que tenerlo en el directorio
donde tengo mis documentos, sino en el directorio base de LaTEX o en otro
cualquiera.
Supongo que colocando la ruta donde está el fichero en el PATH, o
colocandolo en alguna ruta que ya tengas en la variable.
Si es el LaTeX el que lo busca en el directorio local, probablemente
en la documentación venga como modificarlo.
Salu2
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Re: dselect
On sáb, oct 07, 2000 at 01:56:04 +0200, Gerard wrote: ...una pregunta, que no se habia abandonado dselect como programa de instalacion de paqutes? es que me sale en la instalacion de la potato Veamos. El sistema de paquetes de Debian sigue y seguirá siendo dpkg, con alguna modificación propuesta. Está luego, encima de dpkg, el interfaz de usuario y este puede ser apt o dselect. A su vez, para liar un poco más la cosa, dselect se adaptó en Slink para que admitiese como uno de los métodos a apt. Apt, tiene como interfaz de usuario para la línea de órdenes por defecto apt-get. Todo esto viene de serie en Potato. De hecho en Potato si quieres puedes prescindir plenamente de 'dselect' y usar siempre 'apt-get' (y apt-get clean para limpiar lo que descarges). En Woody, la interfaz de usuario está por ver pero no será deselect aunque se conservará para los románticos. Estarán 'apt-get', 'console-apt', 'aptitude' y 'gnome-apt'. De todos ellos, yo ya uso sobre mi Potato indistintamente apt-get o console-apt, el primera totalmente estable al igual que el segundo, el cual carece aún de alguna funcionalidad. aptitude y gnome-apt están en una fase de menos desarrollo que console-apt (el cual ha avanzado mucho y rápido desde que se comenzó a gestar). Hay otros abores y colores rondando por la cabeza de Witchert Akermann y otros desarrolladores como los del APT Team pero eso sería para escribir un especial. Saludos, espero haber alcarado algo este asunto farragoso para el que empieza en Debian sistema de paquetes + interfaz de usuario. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webs: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/viguPersonal PGP public key: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/vigu.pubkey
Re: apt
On sáb, oct 07, 2000 at 09:42:35 +0200, Gerard wrote: como se lanza el apt? apt no se lanza, ufff, habría que escribir algo por aquí. apt = advanced package tool, y es una capa por encima del sistema de paquetes debian (dpkg) que se encarga de facilitarle la vida al usuario para interaccionar con el. La utilidad de apt para que el usuario aproveche sus características en lo que a instalación desinstalación y otros de paquetes se refiere es 'apt-get'. Si quieres saber qué otras utilidades puedes usar de apt, escribe apt en la línea de ordenes y pulsa tabulador, te sorprenderás. lo tengo instalado y no lo consigo lanzar ;-) Por cierto, mi opinion sobre dselect... no es que sea muy buena, el sistema instalador de suse (yast1, que es es modo texto) lo encuentro bastante mejor ~ U, prueba apt-get y si quieres console-apt, del cual no tienes aún ccreo en Potato versión pero creo que estaba dentro de los paquetes propuestos para la Debian 2.2r1. Si no lo encuentras, de todas formas en La Espiral (www.laespiral.org) tenemos este paquete para Potato listo para instalar. (el mejor sistema de instalacion que he probado...) al igual que el dselect tiene unas divisiones sobre paquetes (xwindow, sistema base, documentacion...) pero con la diferencia que esta en distintas subsecciones, me explico, hay una primera seccion donde esta la division (sistema base, kde...) y entras dentro de ella y seleccionas los paquetes propios de esa seccion, de esta forma no hay una pantalla interminable y poco funcional como ocurre con el deselect; ademas no pone el tamaño de los paquetes, el espacio libre del disco... Espero que el apt este mejor. No te quepa la menor duda. Con 'apt-get' no tienes eso que quieres ver pero si con 'console-apt' (no te recomiendo aptitude o gnome-apt porque están más verdes que console-apt). Como nota positiva (que tendria que haber alguna ;) me gusta el mantenimiento de los paquetes que hace debian... (basicamente la principal razon para instalarmela...) Casi la principal razón de casi todos los que estamos aquí :) -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webs: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/viguPersonal PGP public key: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/vigu/vigu.pubkey
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Erro ao imprimir
Boas ! Tenho mais uma dúvida :)) de iniciante de Debian que não consigo satisfazer nos docs'/faq's. Penso que me falta apenas colocar a minha HP670C a imprimir. É assim, instalei o magicfilter, configurei e até redireciono texto para o /dev/lp0 ! Ao fazer lpr de qualquer ficheiro, dá-me sempre este erro na minha consola: parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. Tentei pocurar no /proc alguma coisa sobre esta indicação e não encontro. Vou ver aos log's e diz tb isto: Oct 9 00:53:19 varpa login[181]: ROOT LOGIN on `tty2' Oct 9 00:53:31 varpa kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2] Oct 9 00:53:31 varpa kernel: parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. Oct 9 00:53:32 varpa kernel: parport_probe: succeeded Oct 9 00:53:32 varpa kernel: parport0: Unspecified, Unknown vendor Unknown device Oct 9 00:53:32 varpa kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling). Oct 9 00:53:33 varpa lpd[192]: lp: filter 'f' terminated (termsig=13) Oct 9 00:53:33 varpa lpd[192]: lp: job could not be printed (cfA011varpa) Falha de permissões, penso não ser já que tava como root. Impressora não é pois funciona em windows e não é um winprinter Ideias ? Ajudem-me, pois tenho quase o meu Debian 2.2 num brinquinho ;) Obrigado. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.nortenet.pt/~guilherme on the net no one knows your a dog# # Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted # provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given # to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University # may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this # software without specific prior written permission. This software # is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty. # # @(#)etc.printcap5.2 (Berkeley) 5/5/88 # # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|hp670c|HP Deskjet 670C:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp670c:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj690c-low-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
Re: apt-cdrom add trouble
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 09:39:50PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: My apt-cdrom add is not working. I was able to read from cdrom normally until I installed a custom kernel image 2.2.17 with scsi support to enable cd recording. After that I run dselect to install wmanager, but First question: Why a custom kernel ? I suppose that you own a IDE CD writer. For that you don't have to make a new compilation of the kernel. You just have to add the modules you need with modconf (modules ide-scsi and scsi-generic-support), and change Lilo. then it couldn't read the cd in hdc, which had been able to so far, since I made the installation from the 3 binaries (intel). I assume something got screwed up when the cd drives were changed to scsi (?), but have no idea how to fix it. What I get is ide-scsi:hdc:unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=36 E: failed to mount CD-ROM Have no clue. Please help. Thanks, Antonio. I think that apt-cdrom is looking for the device /dev/cdrom. Try: mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom If it works, I don't know, but if it doesn't it means that your CDROM has changed from a device to one other. Are you sure you haven't emulate it as a SCSI device ? Francois -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
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Newbee Qs on Gnome
Hello Debian-users. Somehow I got through the installation of debian, and I now got it running on my pc. Now I would like to configure it to use Gnome and gdm after booting. Is there anyone out there who can help me? -- @=@ You can't have everything. Where would you put it? -- Steven Wright Tor Kjemo [EMAIL PROTECTED] @=@
Re: apt-cdrom add trouble
You need to change /dev/cdrom to point to /dev/scd0 not /dev/hdc That's what i have here /dev/hdc (ide DVDROM) is now /dev/scd0 /dev/hdd (ide Burner) is now /dev/scd1 This is if you've enabled scsi emulation like i have in the kernel Peter. -Original Message- From: Francois Fayard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, October 08, 2000 2:16 PM Subject: Re: apt-cdrom add trouble On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 09:39:50PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: My apt-cdrom add is not working. I was able to read from cdrom normally until I installed a custom kernel image 2.2.17 with scsi support to enable cd recording. After that I run dselect to install wmanager, but First question: Why a custom kernel ? I suppose that you own a IDE CD writer. For that you don't have to make a new compilation of the kernel. You just have to add the modules you need with modconf (modules ide-scsi and scsi-generic-support), and change Lilo. then it couldn't read the cd in hdc, which had been able to so far, since I made the installation from the 3 binaries (intel). I assume something got screwed up when the cd drives were changed to scsi (?), but have no idea how to fix it. What I get is ide-scsi:hdc:unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=36 E: failed to mount CD-ROM Have no clue. Please help. Thanks, Antonio. I think that apt-cdrom is looking for the device /dev/cdrom. Try: mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom If it works, I don't know, but if it doesn't it means that your CDROM has changed from a device to one other. Are you sure you haven't emulate it as a SCSI device ? Francois -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: security update using ftp
Why can't you? Have you made the appropriate change to your sources.list? IIRC, APT should work just fine with FTP. (Also IIRC, APT slightly predates the widespread appearance of HTTP Debian mirrors...) um, because security updates works only with HTTP. i know all what one can do with the sources.list including using cd-roms but what i'm after is if anyone has actually done security updates using ftp. you can do updates using ftp for all other .deb packages so why would security updates be any different?
Re: security update using ftp
yes it works on stable. this i did: deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main contrib non-free thanks for the pointers. - Original Message - From: Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 6:29 PM Subject: Re: security update using ftp Rino Mardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get security updates using ftp instead of http via apt-get? deb ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main (Untested - I'm not running stable here - but should work judging from the directory structure of security.debian.org.) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: apt-cdrom add trouble
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 02:37:45PM +1000, Peter Good wrote: You need to change /dev/cdrom to point to /dev/scd0 not /dev/hdc That's what i have here /dev/hdc (ide DVDROM) is now /dev/scd0 /dev/hdd (ide Burner) is now /dev/scd1 This is if you've enabled scsi emulation like i have in the kernel Peter. Just a question For me I have /dev/hdc --- /dev/scd0 /dev/hdd --- /dev/scd8 I don't understand why. It's not really a problem, but I have one problem with my CD-writer. When I want to mount a CD with my DVD as I burn a CD, cdrecord crashes immediatly. Does anybody have an idea ? Francois
Re: Newbee Qs on Gnome
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:23:55AM +0200, Tor Kjemo wrote: Hello Debian-users. Somehow I got through the installation of debian, and I now got it running on my pc. Now I would like to configure it to use Gnome and gdm after booting. Is there anyone out there who can help me? Well, that's easy: $ apt-get install task-gnome-desktop gdm Just select GNOME from the GDM login window (will be default anyway). Make sure you have a GNOME compliant window manager: sawfish (aka sawmill) or icewm-gnome or wmaker, others... (those work the best with GNOME in my experience). -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found
Re: wvdial / kppp
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 12:57:36PM -0400, thus spake Christopher W. Aiken: Has anybody been able to get connected to WorldShare using wvdial? It can be done with kppp but I would prefer to use wvdial. Have you tried? What happened? What error messages did you get? Jave you configured wvdial ? The basic method is below (from the wvd faq) 3. Quick start. Assuming everything works perfectly, the following will get you on-line if you're running as root. - wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf - vi /etc/wvdial.conf [edit username/password/phone] - vi /etc/resolv.conf [edit nameservers] - wvdial HTH Glyn M -- ** * The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: Some minor mail problems w/ Debian 2.2
Monte Milanuk wrote: Hello all, I've recently started using Debian 2.2, and I'm having a few weird mail issues popping up. If anyone could provide some assistance, or nudge me in the direction of some specific spot in the documentation, I'd appreciate it greatly. 1) Added the sources for the online repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list, did the apt-get upgrade thing, and am happily using Netscape 4.75 -- w/ one exception. When I enter the information for the pop/smtp server that I receive/send mail from, I cannot get any new mail. When I click on the 'Get Messages' icon, it(Netscape) tells me that I have no new messages. Like heck I don't! At the time I had something like 200+ messages on my Yahoo! account. I've set this up in the past on other systems (Mandrake, SuSE, RedHat), and I'd be interested on why it doesn't seem to be functional on Debian. 200+ messages and 200+ NEW messages are very different. netscape by default wont download read mail. from fetchmail. I read thru the docs, but something wasn't working right, because fetchmail couldn't get a response on port 25. can you telnet to your ip/localhost on port 25 ? maybe exim is not runinning..i prefer sendmail for my systems just cuz i know it better then i know the others. 3) After setting up fetchmail, and running it, I seem to be getting a bunch of mails (so far over a dozen) which show up in Netscape as having no title, being from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (me), and the header is displayed as part of the message. As such, the Netscape filters don't move them to the appropriate folders correctly. What could be causing this? possible it has something to do with the mail server and how it gives out mail. i have never used any of the free web based emailers(or free emailers in general) but my experience with netscape on almost countless accounts on real servers i have never experienced this. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ppp-configuration
I try to configure my debian-installation for ppp without any sucsess. In the installation-documentation it says: Be sure you have the following packages installed: ppp ppp-pam wvdial I can find ppp-pam anywhere. Is the docs wrong? Can`t find any info on the Debian-homepage either. Anyone got a clue? -- @=@ You can't have everything. Where would you put it? -- Steven Wright Tor Kjemo [EMAIL PROTECTED] @=@
Re: Some minor mail problems w/ Debian 2.2
2) I have exim installed currently. I tried sendmail, as my previous setup had been sendmail + install-sendmail (a perl setup script), which had been pretty painless, and had gotten everything delivered w/ the right addresses and whatnot, plus setup fetchmail easily. I tried doing the same setup on Debian, and it doesn't seem to get along real well w/ the install-sendmail script. Since I'm not masochistic enought to want to edit sendmail for my simple home setup, I was looking towards masqmail, but I need to know what I need to do to get it to accept mails from fetchmail. I read thru the docs, but something wasn't working right, because fetchmail couldn't get a response on port 25. hmm, fetchmail uses ETRN and not SMTP (port 25). debian 2.2 with exim works fine out of the box so why compound the problem? what is it your trying to accomplish?
Re: ppp-configuration
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 08:39:22AM +0200, thus spake Tor Kjemo: I try to configure my debian-installation for ppp without any sucsess. In the installation-documentation it says: Be sure you have the following packages installed: ppp ppp-pam wvdial I can find ppp-pam anywhere. Is the docs wrong? Can`t find any info on the Debian-homepage either. Tor, Relax! From the package description of the ppp that comes with potato This package contains pppd with PAM support built-in, so `ppp-pam' package is obsolete. So you probably have the kit you need. Are you trying to set up with wvdial or with pppconfig? What sort of errors are you getting? I've attached the wvdial faq to this, just in case it answers the need. HTH Glyn M -- ** * The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. * * Douglas Hoftstatder* ** WvDial: FAQ Text File WvDial Frequently Asked Questions - December 1998 - 1. The author and other friendly animals. This FAQ was written by Dave Baker in conjuction with the wvdial mailing list. Normal disclaimers apply. This FAQ should be considered pre-alpha and subject to much revision. For the sake of a number, lets call it version 0.02b. Feedback on the FAQ should be sent either directly to the author or to the mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the mailing list send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe as the only word in the subject line. The list is really low volume (a handful of messages a week) and none^H^H^H^Hfew of us bite. This file is currently being maintained as a plain text file - if anyone has suggestions as to a nice alternative let me know. I may default to a HOWTO style document for the next revision. In addition to the meagre work done by myself, the following have given me much information that in one way or another I've mangled into something not quite as precise as they originally intended: - Avery Pennarun - Patrick Patterson 2. Where to get it. Wvdial is available in source form and packaged for several distributions. Start at http://www.worldvisions.ca/wvdial and follow the links. As of this writing, the latest version is 1.40. 3. Quick start. Assuming everything works perfectly, the following will get you on-line if you're running as root. - wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf - vi /etc/wvdial.conf [edit username/password/phone] - vi /etc/resolv.conf [edit nameservers] - wvdial 3b. Command not found? Note that the executables wvdial and wvdialconf are installed in /usr/local/bin by default. Under some distributions (Redhat is one) this is not in roots path, but is in a non-root users path. If you try running wvdial and it reports 'command not found' then either: - add /usr/local/bin to you path. How to do this depends on what shell you run, but typically you will edit /root/.bashrc, /root/.cshrc, etc, and then log back in (or use the 'source' command to reread the file). - specify the full path, such as /usr/local/bin/wvdialconf when running - change directory to /usr/local/bin and use ./wvdialconf - not the leading period must be used because your current directory should not be in the path either for security reasons. 4. What nameserver should I use? If you're migrating from a Windows environment you may find yourself without a nameserver that you're aware of. Certain extensions to the ppp negotiation protocol provided in some Windows dialers allow it to be told what the IP address of the nameserver is - these do not work under linux. - Ask someone at your ISP's technical support line. - If you can dial up under Windows it may be possible to determine the nameserver being used from the TCP/IP configuration panels. If you can run the 'winipcfg' program and click on 'more info' you should see the details you need. - Use a well known nameserver to look up the IP of your local nameserver. For example, using the IP of a known nameserver (in this case we'll use ns1.sprintlink.net) we type: host -t ns earthlink.net 204.117.214.10 This will return a series of lines, each one listing the domain, the letters NS (nameserver) and the hostname of the nameserver. We now run a host lookup no those addresses to get the actual IP addresses to use in our resolv.conf. - Set your linux machine up as it's own nameserver. Redhat has a caching-nameserver package to do exactly this. Be warned that this in my experience will introduce lookup delays while you are OFFline unless you dynamically change your /etc/resolv.conf file. 5. It dials and then pppd dies for no reason. - Check the log file! It will typically be /var/log/messages or /var/log/ppp.log depending on your system. Scan to the end and look for anything marked pppd. Do not send the
Re: ppp-configuration
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 08:39:22AM +0200, Tor Kjemo wrote: I try to configure my debian-installation for ppp without any sucsess. In the installation-documentation it says: Be sure you have the following packages installed: ppp ppp-pam wvdial I can find ppp-pam anywhere. Is the docs wrong? Can`t find any info on the Debian-homepage either. Anyone got a clue? Don't think you really need ppp-pam unless you are allowing dial-in access. It should be in Section net, Package ppp-pam. Don't know why wvdial is recommended. Sure, it works okay, but pppconfig with pon/poff is more flexible and doesn't hang around in the foreground like wvdial. Who want to have to do: $ wvdial /dev/null 21 just to run it in the background. -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found
Highendian X-Terminal and lowendian xfstt
Hi debian! I had problems to see truetype fonts on my sparcLX, which I use as a X-Terminal. The fontserver is xfstt and runs on my Intel-PC. Someone gave me the hint that sun is bigendian and intel lowendian so that xfstt will never work. Will xfs-xtt do the job? Ciao! juh -- www.juergen-rüttgers.de - und tschö! http://www.sudelbuch.de/2000/2504.html
Re: Some minor mail problems w/ Debian 2.2
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:59:46AM +0400, Rino Mardo wrote: 2) I have exim installed currently. I tried sendmail, as my previous setup had been sendmail + install-sendmail (a perl setup script), which had been pretty painless, and had gotten everything delivered w/ the right addresses and whatnot, plus setup fetchmail easily. I tried doing the same setup on Debian, and it doesn't seem to get along real well w/ the install-sendmail script. Since I'm not masochistic enought to want to edit sendmail for my simple home setup, I was looking towards masqmail, but I need to know what I need to do to get it to accept mails from fetchmail. I read thru the docs, but something wasn't working right, because fetchmail couldn't get a response on port 25. hmm, fetchmail uses ETRN and not SMTP (port 25). debian 2.2 with exim works fine out of the box so why compound the problem? what is it your trying to accomplish? Huh? snippet of fetchmail -vv fetchmail: forwarding to localhost fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=2891 fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is syntactically correct fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is syntactically correct fetchmail: SMTP DATA fetchmail: SMTP 354 Enter message, ending with . on a line by itself /snippet Fetchmail doesn't *have* to use SMTP for delivery, but I believe that is the default. -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found
Re: frustration with debian installation
On 07 Oct 2000, Bob Edwards wrote: Greetings from a very frustrated newbie. After numerous attempts, I finally got the base system and packages installed, but I now have what seems like the overwhelming task of configuring everything so I can actually use the new system I saved for months to purchase. (1) What all do I have to configure if I want to use gnome as my gui ? (2) Am I correct in my understanding that the x-windows system is the standard debian gui, and I can choose to use gnome instead? (3) how do I configure gnome? (4) I have readLinux system commands by Volkerding and Reichard, and got some help there, but at the moment I'm extraordinarily frustrated. (5) I hate windows so bad, that I will never go back. (6) please guide me through the jungle of configring my new debian OS so I can use this wonderful computer and debian to accomplish my long-held dream of establishing a publishing company. Regards Bob Edwards Fayetteville, Arkansas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I may be accused of being behind the times, but I don't think I'd start off by trying to use things like gnome or KDE. They isolate you too much from the basics of Linux so you won't really understand what is going on. I'd say start by using the plain text consoles for a bit; you can do practically everything from there and you'll understand better how things work. When you do install X, try it out with different window managers, especially the not too fancy ones such as fvwm or icewm (my favourite). When you've got the hang of those you'll be in a better position to launch into the complex stuff like Gnome or KDE. I don't use either of the above myself; I did install KDE when it was fairly new and I was quite impressed, but in the end I decided I didn't need it. I ditched Windows because I didn't like pointing and clicking and I've no wish to do it in Linux more than I must. But YMMV. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.2 (Windows-free zone) Book Reviews: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/bookreviews/ Skeptical articles: http://www.cix.co.uk/~acampbell/freethinker/ Palo y tente tieso. (Spanish proverb) Free translation: Holdfast is your only dog.
Re: ppp-configuration
Den Sun, 08 Oct 2000 skrev du: On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 08:39:22AM +0200, thus spake Tor Kjemo: I try to configure my debian-installation for ppp without any sucsess. In the installation-documentation it says: Be sure you have the following packages installed: ppp ppp-pam wvdial I can find ppp-pam anywhere. Is the docs wrong? Can`t find any info on the Debian-homepage either. Tor, Relax! From the package description of the ppp that comes with potato This package contains pppd with PAM support built-in, so `ppp-pam' package is obsolete. So you probably have the kit you need. Are you trying to set up with wvdial or with pppconfig? What sort of errors are you getting? I've attached the wvdial faq to this, just in case it answers the need. HTH Glyn M Thanks for your engagement Glyn. I think I did something wrong under the config your network part of the installation. Saw another letter on the list ( I think you are the writer) about wvdialkppp. It says something about a /etc/resolv.conf file. I can not find this in my system. Any clue how to Make one? Tor Kjemo -- ** * The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. * * Douglas Hoftstatder* ** Content-Type: text/plain; name=unnamed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: -- @=@ You can't have everything. Where would you put it? -- Steven Wright Tor Kjemo [EMAIL PROTECTED] @=@
Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet
Does anybody know the reason why Debian mirror @ mirror.aarnet.edu.au has been stop mirroring woody main since late last month? BTW, where is the nearest mirror, in Australia? 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/BSD GPG key on request | `-'
Re: Some minor mail problems w/ Debian 2.2
hmm, fetchmail uses ETRN and not SMTP (port 25). debian 2.2 with exim works fine out of the box so why compound the problem? what is it your trying to accomplish? Huh? snippet of fetchmail -vv fetchmail: forwarding to localhost fetchmail: SMTP MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SIZE=2891 fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is syntactically correct fetchmail: SMTP RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] fetchmail: SMTP 250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] is syntactically correct fetchmail: SMTP DATA fetchmail: SMTP 354 Enter message, ending with . on a line by itself /snippet Fetchmail doesn't *have* to use SMTP for delivery, but I believe that is the default. yes by default SMTP uses port 25. um, what's the problem anyway?
Reboot using Jazz++ 4.1.5 Beta
Hi all, Yesterday I downloaded Jazz++ 4.1.5 Beta from http://www.jazzware.com/cgi-bin/Zope.cgi/jazzware/ After installing it to /usr/local/jazz (default) and running it, it took about 3 seconds and the system rebooted. This is reproducible. Every time I run jazz a rebot follows in 3 seconds. I have no idea why this happens and why this is possible. neither I run jazz as root nor is it installed suid root. I am using the external midi port of my SB Awe 32 with the ALSA driver. The only possibility i can think of is an uncaught interrupt or something like this. I am really dis- appointed about linux at the moment since it runs fine under Windows with Cakewalk. I would be very happy if someone else could try jazz and post to the list if it works or if it reboots. Bernhard PS: I always had some troubles with BTTV + changing video modes but there seems no solution to this :( pgpCOI3fpkNn4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Login refused
Fortunately I did not do a dist-upgrade with my 2.2 disks right away. I first did a new install on another partition. apt dist-upgrade resulted in my old system being unusable. I can use the data of the old installation from the new installation by mounting the old partition, but my old system would not allow me to log in. In the startup-messages there was something about a PAM error but as gpm is not working I could not cut and paste it into this mail. It is not that it refuses my password. It does not even ask for a password. The login-prompt just reappears. Is there a way to solve this? Johann. -- J.H. Spies - Tel/Faks +27-21-876-2337 Sel/Cell +27-82 898 1528 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man; But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. James 1:13,14
Re: Xcdroast, Xdm, Afterstep
Xcdroast: There seems to be a problem in my setup that I can't figure out. My Cdwriter is the second in the second controller, the reader is Atapi 36-x (first in second controller). I start it, but it seems unable to read the Cd to be copied sitting in. Scsi support is present in the kernel image, both cdrs are atapi, (ACER 36-x max and HP7200). I have an IDE CDROM and a SCSI CDwriter. In order for Xcdroast to use IDECD, I disabled IDECD support in the kernel and instead used: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is not set Xdm: What happened to the color console?, when I start the system the log in window comes gray. Install Xbanner. -Igor Mozetic
Re: apt-cdrom add trouble
Well, I have found before that ide-scsi and scsi generic support are not enough. I tried that again in this installation and had to compile a kernel image with scsi alone, without ide-scsi mentioned (procedure which by the way is already mentioned in the recommendations found in the cdrecord page). So, this is the only way for cdrecord to work, at least that I have found. You are probably right -I can't check it now because i booted win98, I haven't installed yet my isp connection in debian, this is a fresh installation-, the cdrom moved to some scsi device. Francois Fayard wrote: On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 09:39:50PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: My apt-cdrom add is not working. I was able to read from cdrom normally until I installed a custom kernel image 2.2.17 with scsi support to enable cd recording. After that I run dselect to install wmanager, but First question: Why a custom kernel ? I suppose that you own a IDE CD writer. For that you don't have to make a new compilation of the kernel. You just have to add the modules you need with modconf (modules ide-scsi and scsi-generic-support), and change Lilo. then it couldn't read the cd in hdc, which had been able to so far, since I made the installation from the 3 binaries (intel). I assume something got screwed up when the cd drives were changed to scsi (?), but have no idea how to fix it. What I get is ide-scsi:hdc:unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64 isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=36 E: failed to mount CD-ROM Have no clue. Please help. Thanks, Antonio. I think that apt-cdrom is looking for the device /dev/cdrom. Try: mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom If it works, I don't know, but if it doesn't it means that your CDROM has changed from a device to one other. Are you sure you haven't emulate it as a SCSI device ? Francois -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Some minor mail problems w/ Debian 2.2
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 01:29:38PM +0400, thus spake Rino Mardo: hmm, fetchmail uses ETRN and not SMTP (port 25). debian 2.2 with exim works fine out of the box so why compound the problem? what is it your trying to accomplish? yes by default SMTP uses port 25. um, what's the problem anyway? Well there appear to be two problems! One is answered here #man fetchmail . fetches mail from remote mailservers and forwards it to your local (client) machine's delivery system. The fetchmail program can gather mail from servers sup porting any of the common mail-retrieval protocols: POP2, POP3, IMAP2bis, IMAP4, and IMAPrev1. It can also use the ESMTP ETRN extension. (The RFCs describing all these pro tocols are listed at the end of this manual page.) While fetchmail is primarily intended to be used over on- demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP connections), it may also be useful as a message transfer agent for sites which refuse for security reasons to permit (sender-initi ated) SMTP transactions with sendmail. As each message is retrieved fetchmail normally delivers it via SMTP to port 25 on the machine it is running on (localhost), just as though it were being passed in over a normal TCP/IP link. The mail will then be delivered locally via your system's MDA (Mail Delivery Agent, usu ally sendmail(8) but your system may use a different one such as smail, mmdf, exim, or qmail). All the delivery- control mechanisms (such as .forward files) normally available through your system MDA and local delivery agents will therefore work. The other problem is with the question - what is he trying to acheive?? A bit like life really.. Peace! Glyn M -- ** * The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
Re: ppp-configuration
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 09:58:19AM +0200, thus spake Tor Kjemo: Thanks for your engagement Glyn. I think I did something wrong under the config your network part of the installation. Saw another letter on the list ( I think you are the writer) about wvdialkppp. It says something about a /etc/resolv.conf file. I can not find this in my system. Any clue how to Make one? Tor Kjemo Well, you probably need this file, but it's hard to say because you don't answer the questions I asked! As root #cd /etc/ #touch resolv.conf #vim/emacs/joe/whatevertexteditoryoulike /etc/resolv.conf and into that file put the DNS of your ISP (if they cannot tell you what they are then you need a better ISP) like this search localdomain nameserver 195.92.195.94 nameserver 195.92.195.95 You will probably only need to change the numbers. But to really answer the question we need to know what you are trying to set up (wvdial or pppconfig) and what errors you are getting. HTH Glyn M -- ** * The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. * * Douglas Hoftstatder* **
three issues w/ my upgrade (fsck, modules, link)
Hello, Love this distro, just rearranged my hard drive and rebuilt a buncha stuff. Ideas or comments on these appreciated. 1) fsck during the boot sequence. I changed from a small root partition to several partitions. Now when the machine boots, it runs fsck on the former (and still) root partition, which passes, but the second time it runs fsck (shortly thereafter) it tries to run fsck on both the unmounted partitions *and* the root partition, then says fsck failed cuz the partition is mounted. I think my mtab and fstab are ok, but I'm not sure what's happening here. I thought there was an option in the secondary partition check that is supposed to make it skip over the root partition, but it doesn't appear to be. 2) When I install and build a kernel, should /usr/include/linux/include be a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include? cuz right now, it ain't. 3) I built all my soundblaster modules (soundlow, sound, uart401, sb) but how to make them load automagically? modules.conf says not to edit i'm not sure what to do. Seems like such a simple thing, but... Thanks, John ps: here are the mtab and fstab: (mtab) /dev/hda13 / ext2 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /usr ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda7 /usr/local ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda8 /cdimage ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda9 /opt ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda11 /tmp ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda12 /var ext2 rw 0 0 (fstab) /dev/hda13 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda10 noneswap sw 0 0 proc/proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda5 /usrext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda7 /usr/local ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda8 /cdimageext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda9 /optext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda11 /tmpext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda12 /varext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda13 / ext2 defaults 0 2
Re: Login refused
Original Message - From: Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 1:32 PM Subject: Login refused Fortunately I did not do a dist-upgrade with my 2.2 disks right away. I first did a new install on another partition. apt dist-upgrade resulted in my old system being unusable. I can use the data of the old installation from the new installation by mounting the old partition, but my old system would not allow me to log in. In the startup-messages there was something about a PAM error but as gpm is not working I could not cut and paste it into this mail. It is not that it refuses my password. It does not even ask for a password. The login-prompt just reappears. Is there a way to solve this? can you type linux 1 at the LILO prompt? that should take you to the maintenance mode
Re: frustration with debian installation
On 07 Oct 2000, Bob Edwards wrote: Greetings from a very frustrated newbie. After numerous attempts, I finally got the base system and packages installed, but I now have what seems like the overwhelming task of configuring everything so I can actually use the new system I saved for months to purchase. I started out with Debian a couple of years ago, and it has been my experience that uninstalling/reinstalling/installing-on-different-hardware multiple times is a great learning experience. You might want to keep this in mind. (Linux is not an OS that needs to be reinstalled, unlike Windows, but it is a great learning experience to do so.) (1) What all do I have to configure if I want to use gnome as my gui ? Not being a gnome user myself, I'll leave this for others to answer. However, it is my understanding that gnome is less of a window manager than a tool base, and will work with several window managers. (2) Am I correct in my understanding that the x-windows system is the standard debian gui, and I can choose to use gnome instead? It is my understanding that the proper term is X Window System, not X Windows (plural). I think it matters to some people. It's not an X vs Gnome issue; Gnome is just a tool set on top of X. Also, the X Window System is not Debian only; it's pretty much the standard GUI environment for *nix in general, although it's not the only one. The X Window System is basically two components: a server (or graphic engine), and clients (or applications). There are several servers available, depending on which video card you have; a plain VGA server, an SVGA server, some accelerated servers for specific video chips/cards, etc. There's even a VNC server, which allows you to do remote control, similar to the Windows' products of Timbuktu or PCAnywhere. If you were to configure an X server and run it without any X clients, you'd probably only see a grayish hatch-pattern on your screen with a big black X mouse pointer. This is because the server is only the engine. Then there are the clients. One of the most important clients is the window manager, which determines the look feel. Window managers are such things as FVWM, ICEWM, Sawfish, TWM, etc. KDE and Gnome are not window managers: they are environments. KDE includes a window manager (KWM), as well as a file manager/browser (KFM or Konqueror), and other assorted tools/applications. Gnome can be used with various window managers (I believe Sawfish may be the preferred one recently, although last year I believe it was Enlightenment, but don't quote me, 'cause I know not of what I speak). Gnome also contains various tools/apps. The big difference between KDE and Gnome is the widget (tool) set they're built on. KDE, until recently, used a set with some proprietary (non-free) technology; accordingly it was not Debian approved. I believe that proprietary technology was recently GPL'd, and KDE is now available in Debian's Woody tree. Gnome was started in response to KDE's proprietary technology; the goal was to make a similar environment, but one that was based on totally free software. It's a less mature project, but has a better understructure, as I understand it. (3) how do I configure gnome? A repeat of Question (1), I'll let others more knowledgeable answer this. (4) I have readLinux system commands by Volkerding and Reichard, and got some help there, but at the moment I'm extraordinarily frustrated. About things in general, about Gnome, about something else specific? (5) I hate windows so bad, that I will never go back. Windows, when it works, is pretty usable. But it has a terrible architecture. Linux almost always works, but isn't quite there in the usability department, for the average office worker. But it's getting there. In addition, Linux is architecturally sound, which means that it can only get better, as opposed to Windows, which through the years has only added more and more pretty fluff on top of a rotting foundation. (6) please guide me through the jungle of configring my new debian OS so I can use this wonderful computer and debian to accomplish my long-held dream of establishing a publishing company. Sometimes you have to ask your questions multiple times in multiple ways in order to get the response you're looking for. As a beginner, you're probably not familiar with the terminology/structure that will most likely result in getting you your answers, so don't be hesitant to try again if you haven't gotten the answers you seek (which I certainly haven't provided; I haven't answered your main question of getting Gnome configured; but perhaps others have, or my response might inspire a new question/response that will lead you closer to your goal). Regards Bob Edwards Fayetteville, Arkansas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Smaller government. Less taxation. More freedom. Monde for Congress | http://www.monde2000.org
Re: frustration with debian installation
Kent West wrote: On 07 Oct 2000, Bob Edwards wrote: snip (3) how do I configure gnome? Eric Miller gave this answer just a few messages down, to Tor Kjemo: Well, that's easy: $ apt-get install task-gnome-desktop gdm Just select GNOME from the GDM login window (will be default anyway). Make sure you have a GNOME compliant window manager: sawfish (aka sawmill) or icewm-gnome or wmaker, others... (those work the best with GNOME in my experience). Kent West -- Smaller government. Less taxation. More freedom. Monde for Congress | http://www.monde2000.org
Re: three issues w/ my upgrade (fsck, modules, link)
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 05:02:57AM -0700, John McBride wrote: 1) fsck during the boot sequence. I changed from a small root partition to several partitions. Now when the machine boots, it runs fsck on the former (and still) root partition, which passes, but the second time it runs fsck (shortly thereafter) it tries to run fsck on both the unmounted partitions *and* the root partition, then says fsck failed cuz the partition is mounted. I think my mtab and fstab are ok, but I'm not sure what's happening here. I thought there was an option in the secondary partition check that is supposed to make it skip over the root partition, but it doesn't appear to be. you have your / partition listed twice in /etc/fstab, remove that last entry. mtab is regenerated by mount, don't worry about it. 2) When I install and build a kernel, should /usr/include/linux/include be a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include? cuz right now, it ain't. NO, its NOT supposed to be a symlink, debian does this CORRECT unlike all the broken distributions who continue to symlink this incorrectly. 3) I built all my soundblaster modules (soundlow, sound, uart401, sb) but how to make them load automagically? modules.conf says not to edit i'm not sure what to do. Seems like such a simple thing, but... run modconf (fstab) /dev/hda13/ ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda10noneswap sw 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda5 /usrext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda7 /usr/local ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda8 /cdimageext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda9 /optext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda11/tmpext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda12/varext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda13/ ext2 defaults 0 2 delete this last line!! -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgp6WmpuvTuAO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet
Quoth Chanop Silpa-Anan, Does anybody know the reason why Debian mirror @ mirror.aarnet.edu.au has been stop mirroring woody main since late last month? I haven't been tracking woody, but I have been using that site for it's helix gnome mirror, which as of yesterday seemed up to date. BTW, where is the nearest mirror, in Australia? When it's working mirror.aarnet.edu.au is hard to go past, but if it aint doing it for you, ftp.monash.edu.au (accessable by http) also mirrors debian. I presume it has woody, it certainly has potato. If your're on any edu.au, monash should be nice and fast over AARNet I would guess (I'm on unimelb.edu.au, and it flies), but I don't know anything closer to Canberra. HTH, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, Dead pgpISJy6aPJdn.pgp Description: PGP signature
netscape crashes
Hello, I am using debian woody for a long time now, and lately (last month or so), I observed that netscape crashes more frequently than usual. The most fascinating thing is that now, most of the times it gets frozen, when I kill the window (I'm uning WindowMaker, and choose the Kill option on the window's menu), XF86_SVGA gets also killed. In fact, I have observed that XF86_SVGA only gets killed IF its CPU use is near to 100% at the moment I kill netscape. I mean, some of the netscape crashes make X to be CPU hungry, and if I kill netscape then, X crashes with it. Any ideas? Any version (up/down)grade that could solve the problem? Thank you very much. Antonio
Re: Need advice on Postscript/PCL printer
Hello, thanks to you too for writing. I didn't reply earlier because I've taken the time to look in my bzipped archive and in the debian archives... I am sure that on debian-laptop a message had been posted with the good way to print to a LaserJet... (At the time I used/had to connect with Windoze for I hadn't the weakmodem in this laptop running yet, then I had a win-crash and all that mail went lost). I can't remember _when_ that message appeared... gosh, the search engine doesn't find it (maybe debian-laptop wasn't being archived yet). Well, I guess I'll have to rename the thread how to print to a PCL (LaserJet4 emulation) printer, body: Could anybody (re)tell how to print to a PCL (LaserJet4 emulation) printer? (actually, the Epson EPL-5800 has Laserjet4 emulation, which is PCL5e, + PCL6 + other matrix printers and HPGL stuff). Even if it's not strictly Debian related infos, I'll add details below for anybody interested among the Debian users just in the will to share infos (and to say thanks for the infos I had), anybody who's not interested in laser printers characteristics just stop here. I've tried to compress and I hope the sometime-nested parentheses won't make it too cryptic... track them with E-Macs ;-) - Well, well, on Thursday evening when I came home and read your message I had the Epson with me, I had just bought it. Actually, up to the latest moment I was still in doubt, the Lexmark has cheap all-in-one toner+photoconductor and I believe it has by default the low paper-output which is nice for not-very-thick supports... then I told definitely to myself enough, I can't spend more time in choosing it, I'll get the one that seems superior as hardware (onboard memory, processor speed, possibility of true 1200dpi... and clear warranty, while the contract coming with the Lexmark [closed in the box which I can't open and I don't have a copy, this is the vendor] was possibly better for an office but possibly much worst to me) and in case I really need it I'll buy the Postscript3 ROM, so I'll have a fully equipped printer and not half-of-this-and-half-of-that. Well this printer is really _fast_, I'm glad I didn't buy an inkjet (which I would destroy soon just printing scores for medium-to-big band). But the software coming with it... this is my first contact with Epson and frankly speaking I'm not enthusiast :-/ The drivers coming with it are for windoze and Mac, there is also a remote configuration utility running on DOS (which unexpectedly turns out to be precious, so you can imagine what follows [question: what for a Unix-only environment? I mean... no config buttons on the printer, and no LCD... the instructions manual doesn't seem to speak about anything else but configuring the printer from a connected computer... I believe the Lexmark Optra E312 is the same, and maybe lots of printers nowadays, but I'm a complete newbie here]). (Apart from the automatic OS recognition of the CD-ROM coming from Epson France, which fails detecting windoze just for it is the Italian version, and which leads to investigating among the cryptic printers numbering and drivers names and manually telling source paths during install for it assumes you are installing from floppies) the driver for windoze has some inconsistency problems (kind of the impossibility to switch off RiTech [good for text but easily bad for graphics with grey levels] at class 1200 or true 1200dpi, which resolution is just interesting for grey scaled graphics [for text it doesn't seem to make a change and long links among musical notes show the same degree of imperfection, which is not much better than a brandnew cheaper inkjet such as the HP840C at its higher resolution], but it can be done via the DOS utility) and it says reading printer status but it doesn't, it just relies on a TSR monitor to check the printer, which happens once in a while (and seems to heavily get the system for a short while, e.g. causing MIDI stuff to do kind of a little stop/jump), and if it hasn't happened after the latest changes done e.g. via the DOS remote config program then it happily shows a setup which is not the current one, as the status sheet of the printer definitely points out. More, the configuration dialogs showed by the windoze driver are gently ignored by the printer if any application is still living which has just printed even one only page to the printer but which is not holding it any more, and this seems to happen also when the printer spooler of windoze has been closed (more, the printer spooler of windows fails with graphics, it just keeps the jobs without sending them to the printer which is ready to print, better close it and print directly, ok no wonder). Frankly speaking, 1200 is really nearly the same as 600dpi or class 1200dpi. I was telling to myself I could print the cover of some demo CDs (I like BW) when it happens that I just need even a few copies... :-/ well now I know that the Lexmark would do too. That's all so
Re: apt-get problem-solved
I think I may have solved the problem.. at least everything is upgrading properly now. Apparently I had commented out some src files in my /etc/apt/sources.conf file and this wouldn't allow certain package dependencies to me be met. Dale Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've screwed around with apt-get and dselect so much that whenever I try to install a package I get the following message: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done yossarian:/home/dlm# apt-get install eterm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package [eterm] has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package eterm has no installation candidate
Re: netscape crashes
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, FIOL BONNIN Antonio wrote: The most fascinating thing is that now, most of the times it gets frozen, when I kill the window (I'm uning WindowMaker, and choose the Kill option on the window's menu), XF86_SVGA gets also killed. In fact, I have observed that XF86_SVGA only gets killed IF its CPU use is near to 100% at the moment I kill netscape. I mean, some of the netscape crashes make X to be CPU hungry, and if I kill netscape then, X crashes with it. For the record, I've seen this with RedHat 6.x also. It seems that if I clue in that netscape has gone berserk soon enough and kill it, I'm fine. But if I wait a minute, it hogs so many resources the only option is a reboot. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333-9819 ##==--
Re: balsa mozilla ...
-- De : Francois Fayard [EMAIL PROTECTED] A : G.ROBIN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: balsa mozilla ... Date : vendredi 6 octobre 2000 23:41 Pour le /dev/dsp, c'est ta carte son qui n'est pas configurée. Je croyais que cela se faisait automatiquement lors de l'installation. Quel fichier de doc fournit les renseignements ? Y a-t-il un module à charger comme sur la slack pour que le mixer soit actif ? Faut-il recompiler le noyau ? Le plus simple est d'utiliser pppconfig. Lance pppconfig en tant que root dans un terminal et crée une nouvelle connexion sous le nom provider, compléte tout ce qu'on te demande : - Numéro de téléphone - Adresse IP du serveur - login - mot de passe - Laisse l'utilitaire trouver sur quel port est branché ton modem OK Ensuite lance en ligne de commande: pon (en tant que root, pour te connecter) regarde si la connexion marche (netscape, ou ping clipper.ens.fr) poff (toujours root, pour te déconnecter) OK ensuite si ça marche, ajoute les groupes dip et dialout pour le compte que tu utilises. Puis logue toi sous ton nom. Regarde si pon et poff marchent. OK pour pon poff et ping sur ens.fr Finalement je peux envoyer et recevoir mon courier sous root mais l'école debian l'interdit. (lenvoi) Donc j'ai ouvert un compte utilisateur mais je faisais tout sous root avant et j'ai quelques difficultés : sur mon compte (robih) pon et poff marchent aussi (avec dip et dialout) wvdial marche aussi mais j'ai dû changer les permissions de ttyS0 par contre j'ai eu des problèmes avec balsa. J'ai fait un tas de trucs et finalement j'ai tout bloqué. j'ai reçu les messages : avec balsa. **ERROR** Owner of /tmp/orbit-robih is not the current user avec startx. on me disait que j'étais un propriétaire suspect de /tmp.../.unix.. :-) en fin de compte j'ai viré ce repertoire tmp en pensant qu'il y avait un virus dedans. Catastrophe, j'ai reçu un tas de messages de plaintes losrque je faisait startx ou XF86Setup. J'ai réussi à tout reconfigurer et cela remarche au poil sous root mais sous robih le server X démarre bien mais il s'arrête aussitôt. Que dois-je faire pour résoudre ce problème. Pourquoi balsa me pose des problèmes sous robih ? J'avais dû créer /var/spool/mail/robih pour pouvoir aller jusqu'au bout de la configuration. Une autre question : peut-on mettre le volume du modem à 0. pppconfig ne le propose pas. gérard. P.S. Mozilla est bien, mais il n'aime pas les vieilles machines. Cela serait sympa de mettre netscape sur un des 4 CD il a du mal à tourner avec mes 32 MB mais lui il tourne.(le 4.7)
Re: Article: Debian's Daunting Installation
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:47:46PM -0400, mike wrote: There is another way to get Debian potato up and running quickly with a nice GUI install. Just d/l the free 'hail' distro from stormix.com or get their cd and you'll be apt-get'ting in about a half-hour. You can then I was never able to get stormix to install. I e-mailed them, and they finally replied a month later. The guy said something like, Oh, yeah, we've been having problems figuring out SCSI, but we'll fix it one of these days. I left them to their fixing and tell people to steer clear of stormix. :-) I've done a lot of installs with a lot of distros and flavors of unix. Some are harder than others, but it seems that the place where people get stuck is _after_ the install. Ok, what do I do now? Solaris is pretty hard to figure out if you're not used to it. It's also a lot easier if you have an already working Solaris machine you can look at if you get stuck. Unixware had some non-obvious things that needed to be done after install, then I had to fight to compile what I needed. (Not many people worry about make targets for unixware...) OpenBSD was kind of a bear. It pretty much just installed to the hard drive and left all other setup to the user. OpenSTEP was mixed. Some things were really easy, others I had to fight with. Then I had to unlearn some of the things I knew from other unix systems. RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE are all quite easy to install and start using. I find they only get difficult later on when you need to fix something that broke, or want to upgrade. They can also become a real mess if you install un-official packages. Debian and FreeBSD are both easy to install, easy to start using, and easy to maintain. You can stick to a stable branch, or you can track the bleeding edge. I actually prefer FreeBSD for its ports system and cvsup. But FreeBSD is a source-based distro, where Linux is binary distribution. I have to wonder if the GPL is at the root of this. It seems that GPLed stuff is made available in binary form and then the source is an afterthought - like they were grudgingly forced to offer it to you. :-) I know that's an exaggeration, but still... I did write to Linuxworld and said that I thought the article by Barr was unfair. I pointed out what I felt were the flaws, and suggested how it could have been done better. The editor thanked me and said that my comments were being forwarded to the author. (I got the impression that other people submitted comments that went into a blackhole because they were abusive.) -- Stuart Krivis
getting printing working
Ok, printing worked under RedHat, and I'm trying to configure it under Debian. I used magicfilter, but I don't think it's a filter problem yet since the daemon isn't responding. I can print a lob with lpr, and lpq shows the job in the queue, but that the printer isn't responding. lpd is running, and my /etc/printcap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc]$ cat printcap # # Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted # provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given # to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University # may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this # software without specific prior written permission. This software # is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty. # # @(#)etc.printcap5.2 (Berkeley) 5/5/88 # # This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. # lp|hpdj812c|HP Deskjet 812C:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj812c:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj690c-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: So, why wouldn't the printer be responding? Works under windows so it's not the hardware. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount of nerd-like effort. -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html
wvdial or ppp
hi, I must ask again. OK step by step: 1.I installed Debian. 2.I configurate wvdial with my old redhat etc/wvdial.conf 3. I start wvdial 4. It connected, (on redhat erverything works well) On Debian nothing happend. It immediately told me Unknown Host. 5. So I asked you, what I have to do. 6. You told me to change etc/ppp/resolv.conf and to act. debug in etc/ppp/options 7. OK so I tested, now it searched tried to connect... but nothing happend. So I hope somebody can tell me what I have to do. Must I create a gateway or must act. something? It cant be so difficult, or? I must say it again on redhat I config. wvdial.conf and it worked, why not on Debian? Sorry, about my english. -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
easy apt-get
hi, A simple question: I have a deb file on my system how can I install it? Isnt it possible to install this pack. whitout to change etc/apt/aptlist ? And how must I do it? -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
Re: ppp-configuration
Den Sun, 08 Oct 2000 skrev Glyn Millington: On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 09:58:19AM +0200, thus spake Tor Kjemo: Thanks for your engagement Glyn. I think I did something wrong under the config your network part of the installation. Saw another letter on the list ( I think you are the writer) about wvdialkppp. It says something about a /etc/resolv.conf file. I can not find this in my system. Any clue how to Make one? Tor Kjemo Well, you probably need this file, but it's hard to say because you don't answer the questions I asked! As root #cd /etc/ #touch resolv.conf #vim/emacs/joe/whatevertexteditoryoulike /etc/resolv.conf and into that file put the DNS of your ISP (if they cannot tell you what they are then you need a better ISP) like this search localdomain nameserver 195.92.195.94 nameserver 195.92.195.95 You will probably only need to change the numbers. But to really answer the question we need to know what you are trying to set up (wvdial or pppconfig) and what errors you are getting. HTH Glyn M i'v been working on the problem, and I don`t get any errors. I`v been working on both Wvdial and pppconfig, and ii think they are configured right both of them. My real problem now seems to be that I don`t know how to use them. I got out on the net with the help of a program named gpppon, and it took away a lot of the claustrofobic feeling . Now the rest is a question of group-admin I think. Thanks a lot. -- ** * The soul is greater than the hum of its parts. * * Douglas Hoftstatder* ** -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- @=@ You can't have everything. Where would you put it? -- Steven Wright Tor Kjemo [EMAIL PROTECTED] @=@
Re: easy apt-get
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Marc Maute wrote: hi, A simple question: I have a deb file on my system how can I install it? Isnt it possible to install this pack. whitout to change etc/apt/aptlist ? And how must I do it? Just use dpkg: dpkg -i your-file.deb ...RickM...
Re: Newbee Qs on Gnome
Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net writes: Somehow I got through the installation of debian, and I now got it running on my pc. Now I would like to configure it to use Gnome and gdm after booting. Is there anyone out there who can help me? Well, that's easy: $ apt-get install task-gnome-desktop gdm To get a more uptodate GNOME Desktop, use Helix GNOME. See http://www.helixcode.com for more information... Just add this line to your /etc/apt/source.list: deb ftp://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main and do: 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get install task-helix-core' (for the core elements of a Helix GNOME Desktop). There's also the meta package 'task-helix-gnome', which installs much more GNOME packages (You can check it with 'apt-get --simulate task-helix-gnome'... moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
Re: easy apt-get
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:41:47PM +0200, Marc Maute wrote: I have a deb file on my system how can I install it? Isnt it possible to install this pack. whitout to change etc/apt/aptlist ? And how must I do it? dpkg -i filename No need to do anything with apt. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFShttp://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ pgpCzdCYvpZ21.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: three issues w/ my upgrade (fsck, modules, link)
At 05:02 AM 10/8/00 -0700, you wrote: 1) fsck during the boot sequence. I changed from a small root partition to several partitions. Now when the machine boots, it runs fsck on the former (and still) root partition, which passes, but the second time it runs fsck (shortly thereafter) it tries to run fsck on both the unmounted partitions *and* the root partition, then says fsck failed cuz the partition is mounted. I think my mtab and fstab are ok, but I'm not sure what's happening here. I thought there was an option in the secondary partition check that is supposed to make it skip over the root partition, but it doesn't appear to be. # file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/hda1 / ext2defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 Check the last number on the line in /etc/fstab and make sure its a 1 for the root partition, and all the other automatically mounted partitions (home/usr/whatever) are 2 in the pass column. BTW, /etc/mtab is for mounted filesystems, and thus shouldn't be edited by hand. 2) When I install and build a kernel, should /usr/include/linux/include be a symlink to /usr/src/linux/include? cuz right now, it ain't. Not on my potato boxen it isn't. 3) I built all my soundblaster modules (soundlow, sound, uart401, sb) but how to make them load automagically? modules.conf says not to edit i'm not sure what to do. Seems like such a simple thing, but... man update-modules ps: here are the mtab and fstab: (fstab) /dev/hda13 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda10 noneswap sw 0 0 proc/proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda5 /usrext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda7 /usr/local ext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda8 /cdimageext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda9 /optext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda11 /tmpext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda12 /varext2 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda13 / ext2 defaults 0 2 You've got / listed twice doofus :) remove the last line and it'll work fine. -- Criggie
OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...
i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps pine can do this which is what I use now. -walter
New isapnptools doesn't like my old conf
Hi, Just did an apt-get upgrade and got version 1.23 of isapnptools. Now, if I do `isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf`, I get the following error: dip:~# isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf Don't know what to do with A20)) on or around line 349 /etc/isapnp.conf:349 -- Fatal - Error occurred parsing config file --- no action taken This works fine in version 1.21 From the WaveTable section of my isapnp.conf (IO 0 (BASE 0x0620)) (IO 1 (BASE 0x0A20)) (IO 2 (BASE 0x0E20)) The card is an old isa SoundBlaster64. It hasn't worked since an upgrade of modutils a while back, but now it errors out on this as well - think I may just have to go back to a base potato install..nothing I've tried has worked to get my soundcard singing again. :-\ oh well - :) dpc
Re: netscape crashes
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:11:46AM -0500, Damian Menscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, FIOL BONNIN Antonio wrote: The most fascinating thing is that now, most of the times it gets frozen, when I kill the window (I'm uning WindowMaker, and choose the Kill option on the window's menu), XF86_SVGA gets also killed. In fact, I have observed that XF86_SVGA only gets killed IF its CPU use is near to 100% at the moment I kill netscape. I mean, some of the netscape crashes make X to be CPU hungry, and if I kill netscape then, X crashes with it. For the record, I've seen this with RedHat 6.x also. It seems that if I clue in that netscape has gone berserk soon enough and kill it, I'm fine. But if I wait a minute, it hogs so many resources the only option is a reboot. Do you actually have to reboot, or can you just kill your X session? I had to shut down a 35 day old WindowMaker session yesterday (I'd tried kill -HUPping it, that didn't work). But no, I didn't reboot: 12:07pm up 35 days, 17:40, 13 users, load average: 1.00, 1.06, 1.04 -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpQOu9CN0r9L.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 03:01:10PM -0400, Walter Tautz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps pine can do this which is what I use now. mutt -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpF6LwMpeUAq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Walter Tautz wrote: i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps pine can do this which is what I use now. Yes, just have Pine sort the messages by Ordered Subject. Dwight -- Dwight Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Speaking of isapnp...
I'm trying to use isapnp in a last ditch effort to get Potato to recognize my SCSI card (PnP ISA). isapnpdump sees it, and writes the config file. However, the rather sketchy docs recommend putting the isapnp command early in the boot-up process. Call me chicken, but I don't wanna just mess around with that. So, anybody recommend a good place to stick isapnp in the boot process; e.g., which directory? As always, thanks. - - Nick - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't let your mind wander -- it's too little to be let out alone.
Encrypt a file
Hi, Does anyone knows a software that encrypts files with a password ? Thanks Francois
Re: wvdial or ppp
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:36:32PM +0200, Marc Maute wrote: hi, I must ask again. OK step by step: 1.I installed Debian. 2.I configurate wvdial with my old redhat etc/wvdial.conf 3. I start wvdial 4. It connected, (on redhat erverything works well) On Debian nothing happend. It immediately told me Unknown Host. 5. So I asked you, what I have to do. 6. You told me to change etc/ppp/resolv.conf and to act. debug in etc/ppp/options 7. OK so I tested, now it searched tried to connect... but nothing happend. So I hope somebody can tell me what I have to do. Must I create a gateway or must act. something? It cant be so difficult, or? I must say it again on redhat I config. wvdial.conf and it worked, why not on Debian? Sorry, about my english. Hi, Copying files like that is definitively not a good idea. I don't know wvdial very much but I think that it put informations in other files. So: 1st idea: Why don't you configure wvdial with tools provided by Debian (on installation) 2nd idea: Better use pppconfig to get rid of wvdial that I don't like. So 1) pppconfig for configuration 2) pon to dial-up 3) poff to cut the line Don't forget to subscribe the user for dialout and dip groups. Francois
Re: apt-get problem
What is the content of /var/lib/dpkg? What is the output of dpkg -L eterm? Perhaps you should purge it and then install it again? /var/lib/dpkg has the following: (this doesn't format well when it's pasted) alternatives diversions-old status status.yesterday.3.gz available infostatus-old status.yesterday.4.gz available-old lockstatus.yesterday.0 status.yesterday.5.gz cmethopt methlockstatus.yesterday.1.gz status.yesterday.6.gz diversions methods status.yesterday.2.gz updates With eterm I did purge it and when I try to re-install I get the following: # apt-get install eterm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Couldn't find package eterm I did a dpkg --forget-old-unavail but that doesn't seem to help. Is there a way to wipe this stuff and start from scratch? again.. thanks.. Perhaps your /var/lib/dpkg/available is broken? I am not sure apt-get uses it but might be worth the trial. Does it list the eterm package? If it is broken then you might want to fix it with apt-get update; apt-cache dumpavail /var/lib/dpkg/available -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Encrypt a file
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:29:40PM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: Hi, Does anyone knows a software that encrypts files with a password ? gpg or pgp. -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found
Re: wvdial or ppp
Francois Fayard writes: Don't forget to subscribe the user for dialout and dip groups. The user need not be in the dialout group and pppconfig can put him in the dip group. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet
Damon == Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Damon When it's working mirror.aarnet.edu.au is hard to go past, Damon but if it aint doing it for you, ftp.monash.edu.au Damon (accessable by http) also mirrors debian. I presume it has Damon woody, it certainly has potato. Damon If your're on any edu.au, monash should be nice and fast Damon over AARNet I would guess (I'm on unimelb.edu.au, and it Damon flies), but I don't know anything closer to Canberra. I think Monash mirrors it from AARNet... (ie. so if AARNet is broken, Monash probably will be broken, too) Anyone confirm or deny? As for AARNet - problems seem to come and go all the time. It should get fixed soon. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Simulating a mouse
Hi, My mouse has recently developed an extreme reluctance to move the mouse pointer along the up/down axis; I'm assuming some sensor inside is dirty or something, but the cleaning I can do doesn't seem to make any difference. At some point I'll probably just get a new mouse, but in the meantime: Does anybody know if I can install a mouse driver that really takes its input from hotkeys on the keyboard? That is, a keyboard-driven mouse. I've checked my window manager documentation, just in case, but I didn't really expect it to be able to move the mouse around, as it's the wrong level. If anybody knows of such a thing, I'd be grateful to hear about it. No need to Cc: me - I'm subscribed to this list. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Encrypt a file
Francois == Francois Fayard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Francois Hi, Does anyone knows a software that encrypts files Francois with a password ? You seem to be asking specifically for symmetric encryption here (you use the same key to encrypt and decrypt), as opposed to asymmetric encryption (where you use a public to encrypt and a private key to decrypt). PGP could encrypt with both methods (not sure if this is still the case), however as far as I can tell, GnuPG can only encrypt with asymmetric keys (I might be mistaken). While there are pros and cons in both methods, I have to wonder what you need to encrypt files for. For most applications, asymmetric encryption is better. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet
Brian May wrote : Damon == Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Damon When it's working mirror.aarnet.edu.au is hard to go Damon past, but if it aint doing it for you, ftp.monash.edu.au Damon (accessable by http) also mirrors debian. I presume it Damon has woody, it certainly has potato. Damon If your're on any edu.au, monash should be nice and fast Damon over AARNet I would guess (I'm on unimelb.edu.au, and it Damon flies), but I don't know anything closer to Canberra. I think Monash mirrors it from AARNet... (ie. so if AARNet is broken, Monash probably will be broken, too) Anyone confirm or deny? Yes, Monash mirrors from AARNet. I used to look after the Linux mirroring when I worked at Monash (I left last June) - I set it up originally to mirror from the US, but when mirror.aarnet.edu.au got started I was persuaded to mirror from them. As for AARNet - problems seem to come and go all the time. It should get fixed soon. I had another look at the mirror list on the weekend and noticed there's an ftp.wa.au.debian.org that *is* up to date. On my Telstra ADSL link, I see this : % netselect -vv mirror.aarnet.edu.au ftp.wa.au.debian.org mirror.aarnet.edu.au48 ms 10 hops 50% ok ( 5/10) [ 194] ftp.wa.au.debian.org67 ms 17 hops 60% ok ( 3/ 5) [ 299] 194 mirror.aarnet.edu.au Of course, the advantage of mirror.aarnet being broken all last week means we missed the whole woody/glibc saga :) -- Andrew J Cosgriff [EMAIL PROTECTED] the yesterdays of our lives
Re: Debian Australian mirror @ mirror.aarnet
Once upon a time, I heard Andrew J Cosgriff say Of course, the advantage of mirror.aarnet being broken all last week means we missed the whole woody/glibc saga :) It's only debian (debian-US) that has been stop-working. debian-nonUS has been fine the last two weeks. I got openssl and heimdal upgraded by apt. I wonder whether ftp-master at mirror.aarnet stop mirroring woody due to glibc upgrade or not? Chanop -- ,. | May Debian be with you ~~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| `' pgpQvTGhKdOdK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Graphical FTP client
I'm looking for a graphical FTP program to use under KDE. My windows program is ws-ftp so anything similar would be best. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai Talk to me in real time with Instant Messenging: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Off Topic: Mesa, opengl, glide, argh what is this jibberish!
I'll confess right from the start I'm ignorant about this topic. Some of the words I read about are: OpenGL Direct3d Mesa Glide Direct3d I pretty much get...it's MS's 3d implementation. Can someone compare and contrast what OpenGL, Mesa and Glide mean? This is in specific regards to Linux and xfree86 gaming. I want to run Unreal Tournament on Linux but so far the reading that I've done tells me the only cards supported for linux gaming are the 3dfx voodoo cards. Of course I have a tnt2 ultra (nvidia). Also, how does the above discussion intermix itself with the release of xfree86 4.0? If someone has a FAQ or a online article that explains these things, please pass it on instead of a reply to this post. Bill
Re: Graphical FTP client
Chris, Try gftp. The homepage is: http://gftp.seul.org/ The deb package is: gftp Regards, Bill On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:19:21PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: I'm looking for a graphical FTP program to use under KDE. My windows program is ws-ftp so anything similar would be best. Chris Mason Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 USA Fax (561) 382-7771 Take a virtual tour of the island http://net.ai/ The Anguilla Guide Find out more about NetConcepts www.netconcepts.ai Talk to me in real time with Instant Messenging: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Simulating a mouse
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:43:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Hi, My mouse has recently developed an extreme reluctance to move the mouse pointer along the up/down axis; I'm assuming some sensor inside is dirty or something, but the cleaning I can do doesn't seem to make any difference. At some point I'll probably just get a new mouse, but in the meantime: Does anybody know if I can install a mouse driver that really takes its input from hotkeys on the keyboard? That is, a keyboard-driven mouse. I've checked my window manager documentation, just in case, but I didn't really expect it to be able to move the mouse around, as it's the wrong level. If anybody knows of such a thing, I'd be grateful to hear about it. No need to Cc: me - I'm subscribed to this list. I don't know about any program simulating a mouse. However, I know Icewm can move and resize windows using Alt-F7 and Alt-F8, respectively, by using the arrow keys. I'm sure some of the other window managers have similar behaviors. There have been discussions in the past about making a fake mouse so X would run without any mouse attached. You might search the archives if you're interested. -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found
Re: Graphical FTP client
At 06:19 PM 10/8/2000 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: I'm looking for a graphical FTP program to use under KDE. My windows program is ws-ftp so anything similar would be best. Assuming you have GTK installed i don't think you can go past gftp its simple, full featured and works. Regs John
Re: Graphical FTP client
gFTP works well. I also like to have wget and ncftp around (which are not windowish). -- /bin/sh ~/.signature: Command not found
OT: Apache www no www
I have a forwarder setup with my domain to go from www.mydomain to mydomain so anyone using http://www.mydomain.com will just get routed to mydomain.com. I tried it out at work today to find it isn't working, but going straight to mydomain.com does. When I tail -f /var/log/apache/access.log I see a very strange thing: 24-216-4-15.hsacorp.net - - [08/Oct/2000:17:53:18 -0500] GET / HTTP/1.0 304 - This is NOT my ip. When I did a lookup on it it is indeed my provider but it's not me. Why would my provider's pc be involved with this? Bill
[jensenb@charter.net: OT: Apache www no www]
As a followup, it's not that going to www.mydomain.com doesn't work, it just shows up completly blank. If it matters I'm running potato and version 1.3.9. Bill - Forwarded message from William Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 17:54:29 -0500 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: OT: Apache www no www User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i From: William Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a forwarder setup with my domain to go from www.mydomain to mydomain so anyone using http://www.mydomain.com will just get routed to mydomain.com. I tried it out at work today to find it isn't working, but going straight to mydomain.com does. When I tail -f /var/log/apache/access.log I see a very strange thing: 24-216-4-15.hsacorp.net - - [08/Oct/2000:17:53:18 -0500] GET / HTTP/1.0 304 - This is NOT my ip. When I did a lookup on it it is indeed my provider but it's not me. Why would my provider's pc be involved with this? Bill -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null - End forwarded message -
Re: Encrypt a file
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PGP could encrypt with both methods (not sure if this is still the case), however as far as I can tell, GnuPG can only encrypt with asymmetric keys (I might be mistaken). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --help | grep symm -c, --symmetric encryption only with symmetric cipher Suonpää...
Re: Encrypt a file
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Brian May wrote: Francois == Francois Fayard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Francois Hi, Does anyone knows a software that encrypts files Francois with a password ? You seem to be asking specifically for symmetric encryption here (you use the same key to encrypt and decrypt), as opposed to asymmetric encryption (where you use a public to encrypt and a private key to decrypt). While there are pros and cons in both methods, I have to wonder what you need to encrypt files for. For most applications, asymmetric encryption is better. No, for most applications, symmetric encryption is better. It is stronger, faster, more standardized, better tested, etc. The asymmetric methods often use asymmetric encryption only to encrypt a key for a symmetric algorithm. That said, you might still consider using pgp, as I believe it has the ability to do symmetric encryption. Or, if you want *extremely* weak security (but enough to confuse your kid sister) then check out the unix command crypt. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333-9819 ##==--
Re: Simulating a mouse
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Colin Watson wrote: My mouse has recently developed an extreme reluctance to move the mouse pointer along the up/down axis; I'm assuming some sensor inside is dirty or something, but the cleaning I can do doesn't seem to make any difference. At some point I'll probably just get a new mouse, but in the meantime: There will be three rollers inside. Use a fingernail to scrape off any junk. It might look like a brown stripe of felt is supposed to be there. It isn't -- it's just dirt. In extremely bad cases it sometimes helps to clean the mouse ball as well, but that usually affects all directions of movement. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333-9819 ##==--
Re: Encrypt a file
Samuli == Samuli Suonpaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Samuli Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PGP could encrypt with both methods (not sure if this is still the case), however as far as I can tell, GnuPG can only encrypt with asymmetric keys (I might be mistaken). Samuli [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --help | grep symm -c, --symmetric Samuli encryption only with symmetric cipher Thanks for that. Some people are blind as bats around here. Oh hang on, that was me... ;-) -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samuli Suonpaa samuli.suonpaa@kapria.com
FYI: Your E-Mail setup is broken: [609] [snoopy:bam] ~/xml-cocoon mx kapria.com kapria.com MX 10 mail.megabaud.fi kapria.com MX 40 smtp3.kolumbus.fi kapria.com MX 0 hotel.megabaud.fi but mail.megabaud.fi wont relay messages. Here is the error: ---BeginMessage--- This is the Postfix program at host snoopy.apana.org.au. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mail.megabaud.fi[212.54.0.21] said: 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Relaying Denied ---BeginMessage--- Samuli == Samuli Suonpaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Samuli Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PGP could encrypt with both methods (not sure if this is still the case), however as far as I can tell, GnuPG can only encrypt with asymmetric keys (I might be mistaken). Samuli [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gpg --help | grep symm -c, --symmetric Samuli encryption only with symmetric cipher Thanks for that. Some people are blind as bats around here. Oh hang on, that was me... ;-) -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message--- ---End Message--- -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
strange looking fonts.
Hi, I'm a long time unix user -- I've just recently installed debian on my home system, basically my problem boils down to fonts not looking right in X, where right is defined as to what I usually expect with my combination of software. I use twm and X everywhere, on solaris, bsd, linux -- debian is the first instance where the fonts have looked different, they seem to be oversized -- it happens on all applications, the fonts in netscape look bigger, in title bars. (I installed netsccape-4.75 from the usual sources, so it's not a netscape specific font problem). Has anyone else experienced this? Is it something to do with the Xserver itself? (I'm using the SVGA server for a riva tnt). Any suggestions, explanations would be appreciated. regards, Russell.
Serial console install trouble
I want to do a serial console installation on a i386 computer that doesn't have a monitor or a keyboard. But because of some reason it doesn't work instead of functioning like noted in the installation instructions: If you are booting with a serial console, generally the kernel will autodetect this. If you have a videocard (framebuffer) and a keyboard also attached to the computer which you wish to boot via serial console, you may have to pass the `console=device' argument to the kernel, where device is your serial device, which is usually something like ``ttyS0''. knowing that there is no keyboard or videocard attached it should just work fine but it doesn't. note 1: Its not a true console I'm installing from its a computer connected to the computer where I'm installing Debian on thru a null modem cable using a terminal emulation program set to 9600, no parity, 1 stop bit. The hardware is just fine as my test install of another serial install enabled os demonstrated (FreeBSD to be exact) note 2: I found something in the user-boot archives that might explain this but doesn't give a solution: However, the Hamm and Slink i386 installation disks did not support serial console. The main problem was that the standard kernel did not have serial support compiled in. the serial device was in a module, and you had to get pretty far into the installation before it was installed. The last time I checked, the same was true of the potato install disks. I have not checked lately. I think a new kernel for the install disks would fix it but. I'm not sure I would like to hear if that would fix it or that I have to do it more difficult. (sorry for my not so good english)
Re: Simulating a mouse
Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:43:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Does anybody know if I can install a mouse driver that really takes its input from hotkeys on the keyboard? That is, a keyboard-driven mouse. I've checked my window manager documentation, just in case, but I didn't really expect it to be able to move the mouse around, as it's the wrong level. If anybody knows of such a thing, I'd be grateful to hear about it. I don't know about any program simulating a mouse. However, I know Icewm can move and resize windows using Alt-F7 and Alt-F8, respectively, by using the arrow keys. I'm sure some of the other window managers have similar behaviors. I mostly use X for loads of vertically maximized xterms (using Alt-F12 in my window manager configuration) and some variety of graphical web browser anyway. :) I do tend to use the keyboard a lot. The most immediate problem was that I couldn't move the mouse up to get to Netscape's menus ... (I'm sure there's a Netscape.ad workaround for that, but it's not my preferred solution.) There have been discussions in the past about making a fake mouse so X would run without any mouse attached. You might search the archives if you're interested. Had a look, but nothing yet. I might be too tired right now, so I'll try again tomorrow. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Simulating a mouse
Damian Menscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Colin Watson wrote: My mouse has recently developed an extreme reluctance to move the mouse pointer along the up/down axis; I'm assuming some sensor inside is dirty or something, but the cleaning I can do doesn't seem to make any difference. At some point I'll probably just get a new mouse, but in the meantime: There will be three rollers inside. Use a fingernail to scrape off any junk. It might look like a brown stripe of felt is supposed to be there. It isn't -- it's just dirt. I'd tried that, and it certainly made X-axis movement smoother, but I think the dirt is actually further inside where the roller meets its supports. Probing with tweezers hasn't helped. The mouse occasionally judders vertically in response to not very much vibration in the desk, too, so I suspect it's near the end of its life. I could do with a three-button mouse at home as well as at work anyway. In the longer term I'd like to keep my need to move from the keyboard to the mouse as low as possible, to slow the onset of things like RSI. I was wondering if any disabled Linux users had come up with anything (remembering that Windows has something like MouseKeys, not that I ever needed it while I was still using Windows). Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: strange looking fonts.
Russell, the debian-x mail list (in recent times anyway) is more intended for developers and ginuea pigs of XF86 4.0. debian-users is more appropriate. What I would imagine to fix your problem is to edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. I bet the 100dpi fonts are listed before the 75 dpi fonts. If so, swap their order and restart X. If this doesn't fix it, then perhaps mucking with the X server's idea of the DPI of the display is the only way to go. * Russell Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] [001008 17:08]: Hi, I'm a long time unix user -- I've just recently installed debian on my home system, basically my problem boils down to fonts not looking right in X, where right is defined as to what I usually expect with my combination of software. I use twm and X everywhere, on solaris, bsd, linux -- debian is the first instance where the fonts have looked different, they seem to be oversized -- it happens on all applications, the fonts in netscape look bigger, in title bars. (I installed netsccape-4.75 from the usual sources, so it's not a netscape specific font problem). Has anyone else experienced this? Is it something to do with the Xserver itself? (I'm using the SVGA server for a riva tnt). Any suggestions, explanations would be appreciated. regards, Russell. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pon questions
1) How do I set up pon to issue a ATM0 to shutoff my modem speakers. 2) Can pon be set up to display a connect message for my wife and kids to see? The enter a pon command and expect to surf or read email before the connection is made. -- --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...
Walter Tautz wrote: i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps pine can do this which is what I use now. I don't know if pine can do this - I used to use pine, and often wished for just that feature. I'm currently using mutt, which does do threading. I'd say mutt is at least worth taking a look at. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. pgpxVBSMM1MyX.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mounting cd-rw
If you are using ide-scsi emulation, do not access cd-rom drive with ordinaery ide-cdrom driver. cdrecord is accessing ide-cdrom drive. add lilo.conf (if cd-rw is hdc) append=hdc=ide-scsi softlink /dev/scd0 - /dev/cdrom edit fstab (No more /dev/cdrw) /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 That what I do with my cdrw. Regards, Osamu On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 08:01:55PM -0400, Jacob Stowell wrote: Hi group, I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me figure out how to mount my cd-rw drive. I was able to install it and get it to record cd's, but I have been unable mount it and use it like a regular cd-rom. In other words, when i place a music cd or a data cd into that drive, no disk is detected. I have compiled support for scsi-emulation into the kernel--at least all of the ones that were recommended in the CD-writing How-To. I have tried to mount this drive both manually and through fstab, to no avail. below I have included some information that may be useful in determining what the problem may be. Thanks much for any help on this matter. The CD-RW that I have installed is an Acer 4232A 4X2X32 when I try to mount the cd-rw manually this is the response i get: satchel[/home/jake]% mount /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrw mount: block device /dev/scd1 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No medium found here are the entries in my fstab file: /dev/cdrom/mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 this is the output from the cdrecord -scanbus: Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 2.1.38 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 0,0,0 0) 'E-IDE ' 'CD-ROM 32X/AKU ' 'U10I' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-R/RW 4X2X32 ' '4.AR' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * The output from cat /proc/modules: cs4232 2960 0 (unused) uart401 6416 0 [cs4232] ad1848 16848 0 [cs4232] sound 58608 0 [cs4232 uart401 ad1848] soundcore 2768 5 [sound] loop7904 0 (unused) ide-cd 23792 0 ide-scsi7504 0 lp 5520 0 (unused) parport_pc 7600 1 parport 7824 1 [lp parport_pc] tulip 30848 1 -- + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + Fingerprint: 814E BD64 3288 40E7 E88E 3D92 C3F8 EA94 D5DE 453D + + === http://www.aokiconsulting.com === Cupertino, CA USA === +
Re: Graphical FTP client
Chris Mason wrote: I'm looking for a graphical FTP program to use under KDE. My windows program is ws-ftp so anything similar would be best. I think the most similar is WXftp. There are several types to choose from. I prefer the Motif statically linked version. -- AdVance-Computing Systems We sell fine quality servers and workstations. We specialize in multiprocessor units. We install Debian Linux at no extra charge! John Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173
Re: pon questions
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 09:06:02PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: 1) How do I set up pon to issue a ATM0 to shutoff my modem speakers. Edit /etc/chatscript/provider and replace ATZ by ATM0 Francois
Re: OT: is there a decent threaded mail reader...
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Mike wrote: Walter Tautz wrote: i'd really like to be able to read this marvelous list without having to scroll through the listings looking for followups...perhaps pine can do this which is what I use now. I don't know if pine can do this - I used to use pine, and often wished for just that feature. I'm currently using mutt, which does do threading. I'd say mutt is at least worth taking a look at. Mike, and Walter (whom I hope is reading this thread) I don't know about *threading* but if you want to read in seqeunce you have your messages sorted exactly messages with some substring in the subject line, then this pine command sequence in the index screen should do it. ; t s substring z ; for select messages t for text criterion s for subject substring desired z to zoom on selected messages This may not be threading, but it serves my purposes. It is in some sense more flexible since besides the subject, you can select on status (new, read, etc) strings in the to, from, or search the messages Hope this helps --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I hope this is all of the above.)
Re: pon questions
2) Can pon be set up to display a connect message for my wife and kids to see? The enter a pon command and expect to surf or read email before the connection is made. I just want to ask for something close to what is asked here. I would be pleased to have a script like pon but that finishes when the connexion is established. Francois
