KDE2 installation

2000-11-24 Thread Seung-woo Nam



I downloaded all deb files for kde2 from kde2 
mirror ftp server. However, when I tried to install packages, I got whole bunch 
of dependency errors. Can I just put the ftp path in /etc/apt/sources.list file 
and apt-get would take care of the rest?
 
Seung-woo Nam


install trouble: stuck at "select tasks"

2000-11-24 Thread Lawrence H. Robins
Hello,
I am (trying to be) a new Debian user.  I have the 2.2r0 CD set
and got through most of the installation without a problem, but
near the end of the install, after installing the base system,
booting it, creating a root account and a user account, I
accidentally exited the "select tasks" program before making most
of the selections that I wanted, and now I can't figure out how
to restart this program.  The program that I want can't be dselect
by itself (right?), because dselect knows about the 3950 or so
different packages on my Debian CDs, but not about "tasks".

>From the install manual, section 7.24 "Select and Install Profiles":
>The system will now ask you if you want to use the pre-rolled
>software configurations offered by Debian.  This is the purpose of
>the dselect program, described below.  But this can be a long task
>with around 3950 packages available in Debian!
>So you have the ability to choose tasks or profiles instead.  A task
>is a work you will do with the machine such as "Perl programming" or
>"HTML authoring" or "Chinese word processing".  You can choose several
>tasks.
>..[paragraph skipped]
>Soon, you will enter into dselect.  If you selected tasks or profiles,
>remember to skip the "Select" step of dselect, since the selections
>have already been made.

Frustratingly, the manual doesn't explain how to get back to the task
selection step, before running dselect, after a mistake like mine.

Lawrence H. Robins
13138 Diamond Hill Dr.
Germantown, MD 20874-5901

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Re: printer

2000-11-24 Thread David Z Maze
nw x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
nw> I have a question about my printer: When I print some "pdf" from
nw> acroread, the printer works fine, however, when I want to print
nw> some plain text file from xterm with the command "lpr filename", I
nw> can just get the first two lines of the file. Does anybody know
nw> how to fix this problem?

Read the Printing Usage HOWTO, hopefully installed on your system as
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Printing-Usage-HOWTO.txt.gz.  In
particular, see the very first question under section 5, "Answers to
Frequently Asked Questions".

Installing the Debian magicfilter package might be helpful to you,
too.  It includes filters for printing most common types of documents
to most common types of printers; it should cause plain-text printing
to Just Work.

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Re: Netcape Form Bug?

2000-11-24 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 24 2000, Terry Carney wrote:
> (...) I can no longer enter keyboard input anywhere in the Netscape
> window. This only occurs after selecting "more..." and after
> entering multiple submenus.

I have indeed seen this bug and it occurs very frequently. I
also discovered that happened with me when I use Window Maker,
but not when I was using GNOME's Sawfish as the window
manager.

The workaround I use to this is to use the clip of Window
Maker to go to a different Virtual Desktop and then go back to
the one I come from. Then, my keyboard works again.

Are you using Window Maker?

I just tested it and it is still present with the woody
version of Window Maker (and Netscape 4.75).

> Although this is probably not Debian specific I wonder if any one
> has discovered a fix or workaround.

I hope my workaround works for you.


[]s, Roger...

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Re: 386 install

2000-11-24 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Nov 21 2000, Jean-Marc Cadudal wrote:
> Any advise, suggestion to go around this problem ?

Move the HD to another machine and install it there. Then move
it back to your 386. Experiment with slight variations of
this.  Do make a boot disk when the install is done to boot on
your 386.


Hope this helps, Roger...

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Re: VPN client software for Linux

2000-11-24 Thread Aaron Wrasman
If you have a static IP it is possible. Checkpoint has directions on what you 
have to do on the Checkpoint firewall and on the linux server. You should be 
able to find it on their public part of their knowledge base.

It treats the Linux box as a remote firewall. So it is very different from 
secure remote.  It is more like setting a VPN tunnel between a Cisco PIX box 
and a checkpoint box.

Also by Secure Remote is often deployed using the FWZ algorithm which is only 
used by checkpoint, so freeswan won't work with that.


On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:07:55PM -, Diarmuid Drew wrote:
> My employer uses Checkpoint Firewall 1 and I use VPN-1 SecureClient as a VPN
> client on windows. The checkpoint site says linux FreeSWAN is compatible.
> I'd like to be able to use Linux, has anybody got any experience of FreeSWAN
> ?
> 
> Derm.


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Re: 2.2.17 kernel and pppoe?

2000-11-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi,

I had a similar, but reversed problem with kernel 2.2.16

The connection would randomly die (some times taking the whole machine
with it) but it would *always* drop connection on uploads >10k

I vaugly recall seeing a bug posting about the kernel module for my
ethernet card (one tulip one eepro forget which the bug was
against)... 

In any event, I recently built a 2.4.0-test10 kernel and my troubles
(with DSL) are pretty much over, although there's alot of kernel
issues I've yet to work out, not sure howmuch is me on a new kernel
version and howmuch is just buggy. I've lost sound and masquerading
*the later because I need to learn the new netfilter stuff)

well that's my brain dump on the subject

HTH,
Jon
 



Re: FTP and IPCHAINS

2000-11-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
use passive ftp

from `man ftp`

passive
  Toggle  passive  data  transfer  mode.   In passive
  mode, the client initiates the data  connection  by
  listening  on  the  data port.  Passive mode may be
  necessary for operation from behind firewalls which
  do not permit incoming connections.

-Jon



Re: FTP and IPCHAINS

2000-11-24 Thread Chris Feist
Try using the ftp module or pointing port 20 to whatever machine you're
doing the active ftp from.
Chris

On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:40:29PM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote:
> HOw can I masquerede active FTP with IPCHAINS
> I downloaded SPF but it gives me some errors parsing the default
> configuration file.
> 
> 
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Re: Restarting a debian install

2000-11-24 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:05:18PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> I'm installing debian on my laptop, and the install exited while I was
> selecting tasks.  Is there anyway I can restart at the "select a root
> password" phase?

Someone on irc.debian.org was able to help me out.  The command is

dpkg-reconfigure base-config

Walt


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Re: eth0 problem

2000-11-24 Thread Daniel Knights
>Do the servers all have the same type of network-cards? I have a 3Com
>3c900 Combo and it seems this card doesn't react anymore after some
>time. An ifdown+ifup brings it back again.
>Phil
>
Hi Phil

The card is a Netgear with a Tulip Digital 21040 chip which is what we have
in the Redhat and SuSe servers and they do not behave this way.

cheers
Garry
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2000-11-24 Thread Meyers
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Restarting a debian install

2000-11-24 Thread Walt Mankowski
I'm installing debian on my laptop, and the install exited while I was
selecting tasks.  Is there anyway I can restart at the "select a root
password" phase?

Walt


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Re: apm

2000-11-24 Thread Jamil
Hi,
   You need to add the line append="apm=on", like this:
image=/vmlinuz
  label=linux
  read-only
  append="apm=on"


> hallo,
> 
> how can I turn on the apmd is running, I know that I've to do some
> changes in the /etc/lilo.conf, but don't know what.
> 
> thanks,
> Manuel
> 
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Re: 2.2.17 kernel and pppoe?

2000-11-24 Thread Stan Kaufman
David Bellows wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am using kernel 2.2.17 with PPPoE and everything works fine.  I am
> also using version 2.3 of the roaring penguin software.  However, I
> never had kernel 2.2.15 installed, I had the default potato 2.2.17pre6
> (everything worked with it as well) and then upgraded to 2.2.17.  So
> unless there's a difference between 2.2.15 and 2.2.17 that you haven't
> accounted for (PPP module or some such) I have no clue as to what it's
> not working for you.  BTW, I'm using Mindspring (aka Earthlink).
> 
> Good luck
> David Bellows

David, thanks for the prompt response! Now at least I know that I'm not
crazy -- just too dim to have figured this out yet. I guess that's good
news ;-)

Stan 

"Dammit, Jim, I'm an applications developer, not a network sysadmin!"



Re: 2.2.17 kernel and pppoe?

2000-11-24 Thread David Bellows
Hello,

I am using kernel 2.2.17 with PPPoE and everything works fine.  I am
also using version 2.3 of the roaring penguin software.  However, I
never had kernel 2.2.15 installed, I had the default potato 2.2.17pre6
(everything worked with it as well) and then upgraded to 2.2.17.  So
unless there's a difference between 2.2.15 and 2.2.17 that you haven't
accounted for (PPP module or some such) I have no clue as to what it's
not working for you.  BTW, I'm using Mindspring (aka Earthlink).

Good luck
David Bellows

Stan Kaufman wrote:
> 
> Could anyone now using the latest 2.2.17 kernel and PPPoE confirm that
> it works for them on an ADSL connection? I've been unsuccessful in
> getting this combination to work, and I wonder if it's some config I'm
> botching (seems most likely) or if something fundamentally doesn't
> work/is broken.
> 
> Here's the situation: On a potato firewall box, I've been successfully
> running a *2.2.15* kernel with the stock pppoe from the potato archive
> (which is a v 1.0-1 Roaring Penguin pppoe driver). However, when I
> compile a new custom *2.2.17* kernel, what happens is pretty bizarre. I
> can get a PPPoE connection with my ISP (PacBell), but after a certain
> number of packets (usually about one web page worth), the connection
> dies.
> 
> Thinking that the problem was the old version of PPPoE, I just installed
> the latest version (2.3) from Roaring Penguin (built from the upstream
> source into a .deb). This continues to give me a functional, durable
> Internet connection with the 2.2.15 kernel, but also continues to roll
> over and die when I boot to the 2.2.17 kernel. I've rechecked several
> times -- from the IPMasquerade-HOWTO -- the proper kernel compilation
> configs, so I'm pretty confident of my kernel.
> 
> So, has anyone seen problems like this?
> 
> TIA!
> 
> Stan
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Re: Netcape Form Bug?

2000-11-24 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
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On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 07:03:14PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote:
> This is an extremely annoying bug.  The workaround that I've found is
> to put the Netscape window into windowshade mode and then take it out
> again.  This will usually restore keyboard function.
> 

Or just iconify it.  I believe that's as close as you'll find to an
official workaround.

noah
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2.2.17 kernel and pppoe?

2000-11-24 Thread Stan Kaufman
Could anyone now using the latest 2.2.17 kernel and PPPoE confirm that
it works for them on an ADSL connection? I've been unsuccessful in
getting this combination to work, and I wonder if it's some config I'm
botching (seems most likely) or if something fundamentally doesn't
work/is broken.

Here's the situation: On a potato firewall box, I've been successfully
running a *2.2.15* kernel with the stock pppoe from the potato archive
(which is a v 1.0-1 Roaring Penguin pppoe driver). However, when I
compile a new custom *2.2.17* kernel, what happens is pretty bizarre. I
can get a PPPoE connection with my ISP (PacBell), but after a certain
number of packets (usually about one web page worth), the connection
dies.

Thinking that the problem was the old version of PPPoE, I just installed
the latest version (2.3) from Roaring Penguin (built from the upstream
source into a .deb). This continues to give me a functional, durable
Internet connection with the 2.2.15 kernel, but also continues to roll
over and die when I boot to the 2.2.17 kernel. I've rechecked several
times -- from the IPMasquerade-HOWTO -- the proper kernel compilation
configs, so I'm pretty confident of my kernel.

So, has anyone seen problems like this?

TIA!

Stan



Re: Setting up eth1 interface

2000-11-24 Thread Sean Norris,,,

Hello all,

This is just to thank all those who offered advice.

I finally managed to bring up the eth1 interface.  I tried all the 
suggestions, aliases with a single tulip driver, aliases with 2 tulip 
drivers, compiled the tulip driver into the kernel and passed ether 
arguments with lilo.


Obviously, the last thing I tried, adding a tulip module when tulip was 
already compiled in the kernel, worked.


As a theoretical question, why can't the tulip driver that is compiled 
into the kernal recognize both cards?  From 
http://www.securityportal.com, I understand there are some security 
concerns with having a kernel load modules, so shouldn't you be able to 
support 2+ cards with a monolithic kernel?


Anyway, all is working.  Thanks again.

On to setting up samba.

Sean



Re: 2.4.0-test11 and XFree4 problem

2000-11-24 Thread scott worley
On Thursday 23 November 2000 18:44, Maitland Bottoms wrote:
> > "scott" == scott worley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> scott> Does anyone have any ideas on further debug I can do?
>
> Hope this helps:
>
> I had trouble when moving to xserver-xfree86 4.0.1 and installing a
> new G400 card - I think because I had utah-glx installed. Now that I
> have removed utah-glx, the GL stuff gets handled by mesa and X works.
>
> -Maitland

No, I don't have utah-glx installed.  I installed my previous card, a Voodoo3 
2000 and recompiled the kernel with tfdx module.  The startx still hung but 
this time I did get a corrupted display.  My system is an Athlon-800 with 
AMD's Irongate chipset. 

I noticed that XFree86 4 is loading modules from 
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers

Maybe I need to download the X 4.0 deb src's and recompile under 2.4.0-test11.

scott



Re: Netcape Form Bug?

2000-11-24 Thread Chris Gray
> "Terry" == Terry Carney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Terry> Hi.  I am currently using Netscape 4.75 on Debian Potato.

Terry> Since I have been using Netscape, including previous
Terry> versions of NS and Debian distributions, I have found that
Terry> when entering information in an input form, and use the
Terry> popup list menu to select an option, I can no longer enter
Terry> keyboard input anywhere in the Netscape window. This only
Terry> occurs after selecting "more..." and after entering
Terry> multiple submenus.

Terry> Mouse selections, radio buttons, etc work fine but it
Terry> becomes unusable for keyboard input. It will only
Terry> consistently return to normal after restarting Netscape.

Terry> Although this is probably not Debian specific I wonder if
Terry> any one has discovered a fix or workaround.

This is an extremely annoying bug.  The workaround that I've found is
to put the Netscape window into windowshade mode and then take it out
again.  This will usually restore keyboard function.

Cheers,
Chris




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Printer problemss

2000-11-24 Thread Bek Oberin
My printer - a DJ500 - used to work perfectly.

I don't print very often, so I'm not sure -exactly- when it
stopped working, but it was probably when I upgraded the kernel
from 2.2.14 to 2.2.17.   I can't see anything in the changes file
that is relavant though.

I have the right modules loaded:
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc# lsmod
   Module  Size  Used by
   lp  4580   1
   parport_pc  7300   1  (autoclean)
   parport 7312   1  [lp parport_pc]

I'm not entirely sure if it's supposed to be on lp1 or lp0, I
think it's lp0 (I have 2 parallel ports).  BUt when I try catting
stuff out the ports, I get:
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~gossamer# cat xmas_list >> /dev/lp0
   (just hangs until I press ^C)

or
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~gossamer# cat xmas_list >> /dev/lp1
   zsh: no such device or address: /dev/lp1

I assume from this that it's lp0.  In neither case do the data
lights on the printer flash or anything like that, and nothing is
printed.

What'd I do?

bekj


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Re: FTP and IPCHAINS

2000-11-24 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:40:29PM -0600, Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar wrote: 

> HOw can I masquerede active FTP with IPCHAINS
> I downloaded SPF but it gives me some errors parsing the default
> configuration file.

Do you have the module "ip_masq_ftp" loaded?
Phil



Re: Debianizing tarballs: THANKS for the info!

2000-11-24 Thread Stan Kaufman
Many thanks for the responses! I've managed to create a .deb from source
and install it. The process is somewhat more complicated than compiling
a kernel, but not that much.

"Jaldhar H. Vyas" wrote:
>
> The New Maintainers Guide (package: maint-guide) already has a lot of this
> information and is comprehensive enough for simple packages.  IMO you
> should work on enhancing that rather than starting a parallel effort.

This document is very helpful; it sets a high standard for clarity.
Kudos to Josep Rodin, the author!

Jim Crumley wrote:
> 
> Well, there already is any easy way to do this - apt-get source.
> This command downloads the Debianized source of a package. To use
> this command you probably want to do the following:
> 
> 0. Make sure that you have apt-get and debhelper installed.
> 
> 1. Add a deb-src line to your /etc/apt/sources.list - something like:
> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free

Great tip! I didn't know about adding a deb-src line.

John Hasler wrote:
> 
> Use alien.

Another adroit suggestion; works great.

Thanks again to everyone!

Stan



Netcape Form Bug?

2000-11-24 Thread Terry Carney
Hi.

I am currently using Netscape 4.75 on Debian Potato.

Since I have been using Netscape, including previous
versions of NS and Debian distributions, I have found that
when entering information in an input form, and use the
popup list menu to select an option, I can no longer enter
keyboard input anywhere in the Netscape window. This only
occurs after selecting "more..." and after entering multiple
submenus.

Mouse selections, radio buttons, etc work fine but it
becomes unusable for keyboard input. It will only
consistently return to normal after restarting Netscape.

Although this is probably not Debian specific I wonder
if any one has discovered a fix or workaround.


Terry.




Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:10:09PM +, Pollywog wrote:

> The reason I could not get it to work in the past was that I did
> not know I had to download the drivers from the ALSA website, and I
> thought the Debian ALSA packages were sufficient.

The Debian packages _are_ sufficient, or at least they were for me.  The
alsa-source package has the drivers, which you compile for your current
kernel (pretty simple with make-kpkg).

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Re: Bug#69197: inadequate backup instructions

2000-11-24 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:06:12PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There's a bug filed against the doc-debian package, including the Debian
> FAQ, about not having good backup instructions for users (admins). See
> http://bugs.debian.org/69197 for details.
> 
> Can someone please suggest an answer to such a question so I can include it
> in the FAQ? `apt-cache search backup' doesn't quite cut it

I might have a future answer to this. I wrote debbackup, a backup
script, but have not uploaded it yet. If anyone wants to test it, they
are welcome to.


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Re: can't listen to my audio cds

2000-11-24 Thread Dave Bresson
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, brian moore wrote:

> In order to make groups work, you have to log out and log back in (only
> root can change which groups you're in, else they're inherited from the
> program's parent ... logging out takes you back to login or xdm, which
> is running as root and can start its children with you in the proper
> groups).
> 
> Make sure that /dev/cdrom points to the right place.  It's normally a
> symlink pointing at the real cdrom drive if it's not there or points
> to the wrong place, it won't work.
> 


allright, it seems the problem *did* end up being a groups issue.  I
forgot to mention in my original email that i added my non-privaleged
account to the cdrom group and it also did not work.  so what i did was
change the group of /dev/hdc to cdrom (it was root.disks before) and also
the /dev/cdrom link as well for good measure, and all seems to work.
anyway, thanks for your help!  



dave



Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Chris Black
No, that's a different one. www.linux-thinkpad.org is apparently down as I 
said in my previous email though. :-) Google may have a cached copy, though.

On Friday 24 November 2000 17:43, Pollywog wrote:
> The link seems not to work, so I left out the "-" in the domain and that
> is a valid URL, linuxthinkpad.org.  Is it the one you were thinking of?
>
> --
> Andrew
>
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:32:24 -0500, Chris Black said:
> > ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. You may want to check out
> >  www.linux-thinkpad.org (although it seems to be down at the moment)
> > which has a long list of links describing how to install and configure
> > the various eccentric drivers in the different Thinkpad models.



Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Pollywog
The link seems not to work, so I left out the "-" in the domain and that
is a valid URL, linuxthinkpad.org.  Is it the one you were thinking of?

--
Andrew

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:32:24 -0500, Chris Black said:

> ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. You may want to check out 
>  www.linux-thinkpad.org (although it seems to be down at the moment) which 
> has 
>  a long list of links describing how to install and configure the various 
>  eccentric drivers in the different Thinkpad models.
>  



Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Pollywog

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:32:24 -0500, Chris Black said:

> ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. You may want to check out 
>  www.linux-thinkpad.org (although it seems to be down at the moment) which 
> has 
>  a long list of links describing how to install and configure the various 
>  eccentric drivers in the different Thinkpad models.

Thanks, I got it to work a little while ago but I get painful feedback if
the volume is too loud.  It works if I run "sndconfig" and use the SB16
setting.  Running alsaconf does not get it to work.  I will check the URL
you have and see if I can find anything that might help.

--
Andrew



FTP and IPCHAINS

2000-11-24 Thread Luis Gustavo Madrigal Salazar
HOw can I masquerede active FTP with IPCHAINS
I downloaded SPF but it gives me some errors parsing the default
configuration file.




Re: ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Chris Black
ALSA works perfectly on my Thinkpad A20p. You may want to check out 
www.linux-thinkpad.org (although it seems to be down at the moment) which has 
a long list of links describing how to install and configure the various 
eccentric drivers in the different Thinkpad models.

--Chris

On Friday 24 November 2000 16:10, Pollywog wrote:
> I replaced the commercial OSS drivers in my desktop machine with the ALSA
> drivers, and it works great.  The reason I could not get it to work in the
> past was that I did not know I had to download the drivers from the ALSA
> website, and I thought the Debian ALSA packages were sufficient.
>
> Now I want to try installing the ALSA drivers to my ThinkPad 560 also, and
> I know that my ThinkPad uses the ESS Autodrive drivers in Windows.  Does
> anyone know how to get ALSA to work on a ThinkPad?  I have tried to
> configure ALSA for ESS Autodrive and alsaconf just aborts.
>
> Maybe I need to use a different driver, not ESS Autodrive.  My desktop has
> a VibraX card but I had to configure ALSA for SB16 PnP to get it to work,
> so perhaps a different driver is needed on the ThinkPad also.
>
> thanks
>
> --
> Andrew



ALSA and ThinkPad 560

2000-11-24 Thread Pollywog
I replaced the commercial OSS drivers in my desktop machine with the ALSA
drivers, and it works great.  The reason I could not get it to work in the
past was that I did not know I had to download the drivers from the ALSA
website, and I thought the Debian ALSA packages were sufficient.

Now I want to try installing the ALSA drivers to my ThinkPad 560 also, and
I know that my ThinkPad uses the ESS Autodrive drivers in Windows.  Does
anyone know how to get ALSA to work on a ThinkPad?  I have tried to
configure ALSA for ESS Autodrive and alsaconf just aborts.

Maybe I need to use a different driver, not ESS Autodrive.  My desktop has
a VibraX card but I had to configure ALSA for SB16 PnP to get it to work,
so perhaps a different driver is needed on the ThinkPad also.

thanks

--
Andrew



Re: apm

2000-11-24 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 05:21:14PM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote: 

> how can I turn on the apmd is running, I know that I've to do some
> changes in the /etc/lilo.conf, but don't know what.

Usually you should not have to make changes to lilo.conf in order to
turn on APM. Does your board support APM and is it switched on in the
BIOS? Then the kernel should detect it and say so while booting
(something like "APM BIOS detected" - check your logs).
There are some APM options you can turn on during
kernel-configuration like screen-blanking.
Phil



Re: eth0 problem

2000-11-24 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 02:20:59AM +1100, Daniel Knights wrote: 

> I have added 3 Debian boxes to my network and they all seem OK, till I
> noticed that  when changing some of the cat5 cables around,  that the 3
> debian boxes eth0 does not start passing data again when cat 5 is replaced,
> the cables were only removed for a minute or less.I did not notice
> straight off as when I replace the cable all looks fine as the hub lights
> up, but a few minutes later bigbrother is telling me that all three debian
> boxes are down.  I did an "ifconfig eth0 up" and still no good, but an
> "ifcongif down" and then "up"  brings them back online again.  There were
> no errors recorded in log files.
> 
> This only happens to the debian boxes as the redhat and the SuSe linux
> servers are not bothered by having the network cables missing for a minute
> or two.  Any advice on what might be causing this would be appreciated.

Do the servers all have the same type of network-cards? I have a 3Com
3c900 Combo and it seems this card doesn't react anymore after some
time. An ifdown+ifup brings it back again.
Phil



Re: Bug#69197: inadequate backup instructions

2000-11-24 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi,

There's a bug filed against the doc-debian package, including the Debian
FAQ, about not having good backup instructions for users (admins). See
http://bugs.debian.org/69197 for details.

Can someone please suggest an answer to such a question so I can include it
in the FAQ? `apt-cache search backup' doesn't quite cut it :)

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Re: can't listen to my audio cds

2000-11-24 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Dave" == Dave Bresson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Dave> hi, i'm having a small problem with my potato workstation.  The
Dave> problem is that i'm unable to listen (or do anything with) my audio
Dave> cds.  Before anyone asks, yes, the cd audio cable is connected, and
Dave> the drive does work properly otherwise.  By this, i mean that i can
Dave> mount any kinda of data cd to /cdrom and be able to read it just
Dave> fine.  However, i can't mount an audio cd, when i try this it
Dave> complains:

Dave> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or
Dave> too many mounted file systems

That's normal.  Audio cd's, in general, don't have a filesystem, so you can't
mount them.  (I say "in general" because there are some cd's that are both
audio and data.)

You don't need to mount.  You just need to point your cd player to /dev/cdrom.

Dave> when i try to just brute force it by just starting gcd (kind of the
Dave> dumb approach i guess) gcd just complains about it not "being able to

Not a dumb approach.  This is the normal way.

Dave> open the cd device" this is despite gcd pointing at /dev/cdrom and
Dave> all.  My audio in general works fine on this machine, although that's
Dave> a little beside the point and not very helpful.  I thought that
Dave> perhaps that this was a groups issue for my non-privaleged account,
Dave> so i added that account to the "audio" group, to no avail.  Although

/dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hd?, which is in the disk group.  I'm not sure
what the "proper" way to set that up is, but I changed mine so that it's in the
"floppy" group instead, and added myself to the "floppy" group.

Dave> i can't get it to work as root either, so i guess i should've taken
Dave> that as a hint that the group thing wouldn't work.  Anyway, i've

Strange that you can't get it to work as root either.  I've didn't have a
problem with audio cd's other than adding myself to the right group.

Dave> never had this problem before with any of my other linux boxen, so
Dave> i'm a little dumbfounded.  I think i've troubleshooted it quite a
Dave> bit, but haven't found the answer, so i'm hoping that someone here
Dave> will be able to help me.  My only idea is that perhaps when i rolled
Dave> my own kernel for this machine (using kernel-package of course :)
Dave> that perhaps i may have messed up support for audio cds somehow.

I don't remember there being any sort of option related to audio cd's in the
kernel config.  I'm using my own kernel too.

Dave> Well, that's my only guess anyway.  I hope all this information will
Dave> be of some use to y'all in solving my problem.  Thanks,

Well, I didn't answer your question, but I hope I've at least given you
something to go on.

Hubert

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Re: can't listen to my audio cds

2000-11-24 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 04:25:16PM -0500, Dave Bresson wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> hi, i'm having a small problem with my potato workstation.  The problem is
> that i'm unable to listen (or do anything with) my audio cds.  Before
> anyone asks, yes, the cd audio cable is connected, and the drive does work
> properly otherwise.  By this, i mean that i can mount any kinda of data cd
> to /cdrom and be able to read it just fine.  However, i can't mount an
> audio cd, when i try this it complains:
> 
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
>or too many mounted file systems

That's correct.  You don't mount audio cd's (they don't have a
filesystem).

> when i try to just brute force it by just starting gcd (kind of the dumb
> approach i guess) gcd just complains about it not "being able to open the
> cd device" this is despite gcd pointing at /dev/cdrom and all.  My audio
> in general works fine on this machine, although that's a little beside the
> point and not very helpful.  I thought that perhaps that this was a groups
> issue for my non-privaleged account, so i added that account to the
> "audio" group, to no avail.  Although i can't get it to work as root
> either, so i guess i should've taken that as a hint that the group thing
> wouldn't work.  Anyway, i've never had this problem before with any of my
> other linux boxen, so i'm a little dumbfounded.  I think i've
> troubleshooted it quite a bit, but haven't found the answer, so i'm hoping
> that someone here will be able to help me.  My only idea is that perhaps
> when i rolled my own kernel for this machine (using kernel-package of
> course :) that perhaps i may have messed up support for audio cds somehow.
> Well, that's my only guess anyway.  I hope all this information will be of
> some use to y'all in solving my problem.  Thanks,

In order to make groups work, you have to log out and log back in (only
root can change which groups you're in, else they're inherited from the
program's parent ... logging out takes you back to login or xdm, which
is running as root and can start its children with you in the proper
groups).

Make sure that /dev/cdrom points to the right place.  It's normally a
symlink pointing at the real cdrom drive if it's not there or points
to the wrong place, it won't work.

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Re: add new Tex packages!?

2000-11-24 Thread Andre Berger
Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

I have a /usr/local/share/texmf tree that is sourced before the
"official" one. This way you have control about newer packages, they are
not overwritten on upgrades, and are easy to maintain. Check
/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf

Andre


> Hello Manuel,
> 
> to enable kpathsea to search very quickly for files, tetex remains a
> database of all the files in your tex-installation in
> /usr/share/texmf/ls-R (actually it resides somewhere in /var,
> /usr/share/texmf/ls-R is just a link to it). Whenever you install new
> files, you have to update this database, otherwise, tex won't find your
> files. This is done via the command:
> 'mktexlsr' 
> as root. I think, texhash does about the same among a few other nice
> things.
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > can anyone tell me how to add new texpackages, for example the package
> > letter. I coppied it in the Texpath, where all the other .sty and .cls
> > files are, but this didn't work. Latex said it can't find the package and
> > asks for the path, when I insert the path it works.
> > What do I have to do to get this running?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Manuel
> 
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can't listen to my audio cds

2000-11-24 Thread Dave Bresson



hi, i'm having a small problem with my potato workstation.  The problem is
that i'm unable to listen (or do anything with) my audio cds.  Before
anyone asks, yes, the cd audio cable is connected, and the drive does work
properly otherwise.  By this, i mean that i can mount any kinda of data cd
to /cdrom and be able to read it just fine.  However, i can't mount an
audio cd, when i try this it complains:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
   or too many mounted file systems

when i try to just brute force it by just starting gcd (kind of the dumb
approach i guess) gcd just complains about it not "being able to open the
cd device" this is despite gcd pointing at /dev/cdrom and all.  My audio
in general works fine on this machine, although that's a little beside the
point and not very helpful.  I thought that perhaps that this was a groups
issue for my non-privaleged account, so i added that account to the
"audio" group, to no avail.  Although i can't get it to work as root
either, so i guess i should've taken that as a hint that the group thing
wouldn't work.  Anyway, i've never had this problem before with any of my
other linux boxen, so i'm a little dumbfounded.  I think i've
troubleshooted it quite a bit, but haven't found the answer, so i'm hoping
that someone here will be able to help me.  My only idea is that perhaps
when i rolled my own kernel for this machine (using kernel-package of
course :) that perhaps i may have messed up support for audio cds somehow.
Well, that's my only guess anyway.  I hope all this information will be of
some use to y'all in solving my problem.  Thanks,



dave



Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?

2000-11-24 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 03:53:15PM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote:
> Now I've tried the "fancyhdr". I use the documentclass "g-brief", the
> "rechnung" and the "fancyhdr" package. I did a "latex file.tex", I
> didn't get any errors, but if I do a "xdvi file.dvi" I don't see
> anything of the thigs I've done with \cfoot{}. I can't see any
> problems. Can anyone give me a hint?
> 
> Thanks, Manuel

Well, I can't do any better to explain it than the fancyhdr docs.  You
have to watch out for the first page style (by default it will be
different -- maybe only a page number).  This is explained in the docs.

One document I did look something like this:

\documentclass[]{report}
...
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
...
\fancyhead{}
\lhead{\leftmark}
\chead{}
\rhead{\rightmark}
\lfoot{My Documentation}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{\thepage}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{2pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{1pt}
...
\pagestyle{fancy}
...
\begin{document}
...
\end{document}


Note, the "first page" of a chapter will only have a centered page
number in the footer under this set-up.

Hope that helps.

-- 
Eric G. Miller 



Re: djscript ?

2000-11-24 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 13:11, Seung-woo Nam wrote:

> I used magicfilter to configure my printer and it does print pdf
> file.However when I try to print a txt file it didn't print anything
> and in /var/log/lp-errs, it says it couldn't find /usr/bin/djscript.
> Where can I get this program? 'apt-get install djscript' doesn't seem
> to find it.

$ dpkg -S djscript
djtools: /usr/bin/djscript
djtools: /usr/share/doc/djtools/djscript.README.gz
djtools: /usr/share/doc/djtools/djscript.ChangeLog
djtools: /usr/share/man/man1/djscript.1.gz

Looks like you need the djtools package.

Luck,
Pann
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Re: DRI and X 4.0.1

2000-11-24 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello Hans,

Thanks for making the effort to get the reply through:-)  Interesting
info too.

I couldn't get DRI to compile, so that was a no-go, but your info about
the reversed situation with 2.4.0-test9 was interesting - I hadn't tried
the test11 kernel as I use lm-sensors-source to patch the kernel source
to use lm-sensors and it wouldn't work with test11.  After reading your
mail though I thought I'd give it a try, just to check out dri.  In the
end, I seem to have got dri working with the 2.4.0-test11 kernel - no
version conflicts or errors, but dri still appears to be version 1 -
hmm...

With the depth set to 16bpp, XFree86.0.log showed that dri had
initialised ok - no errors - and the superquadrics, lament and gears
screensavers ran ok, as did space orbit (not as well as X 3.3.6 +
utah_glx IMO - with that combo I found the difference quite obvious but
the difference with and without dri in X 4 seems much less so, and
ultimately not as good - still, early days). 

Unfortunately, X wouldn't start at all if I used 24/32 bpp, which is
what I use most of the time for my graphics work, so I can't just switch
the  XF86XConfig-4 files between 16bpp and 24/32bpp, and just log out
and back in to switch depths.

I also found that the version of Procmeter3 that I currently use won't
run with test11 :-( so for now, I've reverted back to test5 (and no dri)
until Procmeter3 can work in >=test11 and I can switch between 24/32bpp
and 16bpp with dri installed.

Thanks again,

LeeE

P.S. Don't know what the problem with mailing was - I receive mail on
that box every day:-/


Hans Wilmer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> sorry for forwarding this; it seems I can't send you mails directly.
> 
> GH
[snip...]

> 
> Well, I was hoping to discover an easy way to get it going this time,
> like just downloading some Debian package(s), install it/them, edit my
> XF86Config, maybe get and compile a new kernel --- and enjoy. But it
> doesn't seem to be that easy, still :/
> 
> It would be nice if you could let me know whether 2.4.0-test11 and the
> current XF86 sources fit together or not. I'm not exactly looking
> forward to having to download several megs of X11 sources, not to
> speak of a new kernel version again; but keeping up to date with the
> XFree development might be a good idea, anyway. The improvement in
> performance is really great in both 2D and 3D :), though the only
> reason I need 4.0.1 is that game, `Terminus'.
> 
> Good luck with getting it working!
> 
> GH
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> 
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install 2.2.17 fail

2000-11-24 Thread Frank Frijns
Can anybody help!?

When installing 2.0.34 with a rawrite created bootfloppy: no problem,
system up and running.
Whan installing 2.2.17 with a rawrite created bootfloppy the system
tells me that the boot failed and that I have to replace the floppy.
I newly downloaded the image several times, used a new floppy as well as
a drive. Same result, no difference.

What can be the problem?

System:
architecture: i386
model: IBM 730 (= MCA/PCI machine)
Memory: 48Mb
SCSI / CD-ROM: PCI-slot-1 containes adaptec 2940 (SCSI):
id0 1Gb IBM HD (type 662)
id1 Pioneer CD-ROM player
id6 1GB IBM HD (type 663)
IDE floppy-drive
Installed 1 DOS 6.2 partition, 300Mb.
no network, no PCMCIA
PCI-slot 1 is free (adaptec in PCI slot-2)
MCA-slots NOT used!

Is the someone who can help me?!

Thanx, Frank.




Re: startx problem - one step closer

2000-11-24 Thread Dave Bacon
Thanks to Jaume for the very helpful reply.

After following the suggestion listed below I am now able to bring up a 
graphical display,
but it is only an "x"(mouse cursor) on top of a coarse gray back ground.  I am 
not sure,
but I think I still may need to specify which Window Manager to use.  Am I on 
the right
track?  If so, how do I tell X which window manager to bring up by default.

Thanks again for your help

Dave Bacon

Jaume Teixi wrote:

> Dave Bacon wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have just upgraded quite a few packages with dselect.  And now when I
> > run "startx" I receive the following error messages.  Can you help?
> >
> > 
> >
> > var: allowed_users, value: rootonly
> > var: nice_value, value: .
> > /etc/X11/X is not executable
>
> ls -l /etc/X11/X
> and look at the file that X is linked to, then:
> find / -name _file_
> ln -s path_to_file /etc/X11/X
>
> have luck !
> jaume.
>
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Re: startx problem

2000-11-24 Thread Jaume Teixi
Dave Bacon wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have just upgraded quite a few packages with dselect.  And now when I
> run "startx" I receive the following error messages.  Can you help?
>
> 
>
> var: allowed_users, value: rootonly
> var: nice_value, value: .
> /etc/X11/X is not executable

ls -l /etc/X11/X
and look at the file that X is linked to, then:
find / -name _file_
ln -s path_to_file /etc/X11/X

have luck !
jaume.



Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-24 Thread Scott V. McGuire
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:20:44AM -, John-Mark wrote:
> Hello all
> I have been battling with exim, fetchmail and mutt now for what seems like
> eons! I have made progress over the time and am at a situation now where I
> can receive mal I send to a normal user from root. However when trying to
> connect receive mail from my remote server fetchmail does not seem to be
> passing the mail to exim and  therefore I am receiving no mail in the jmj
> mail box. Does nay one have any idea a how I can rectify this problem? Also
> if fetchmail is not transferring mail to exim where is it putting it?
> Thanks for all help which is much appreciated.
> jm
> 
> 
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I avoid having to worry about the MTA when receiving mail by putting 

  mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"

into .fetchmailrc and letting procmail deliver my mail.  I'm not sure,
but I think the default behavior of procmail will deliver your mail to
the usual place.  Otherwise, you'll need to write a .procmailrc file.

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Re: Long finle names on a CD-ROM not visible

2000-11-24 Thread Martin Maciaszek
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:07:03AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> All of a sudden when I mount a CD-ROM the long filenames show
> messed-up, like:
> 
> -r-xr-xr-x1 root root  664 Jan 19  1999 aqf83a~1.m3u
> dr-xr-xr-x1 root root 2048 Jan 19  1999 aquari~1.aro/
> 
> I am sure that I used to see normal file names on the same CD-ROM
> previously.  Any idea what went wrong all of a sudden?
> 
> ,[ /etc/fstab ]
> | /dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noauto  0  0
> `
[...]
Did you compile a new kernel with iso9660 support but without
Joliet support?

Cheers
Martin
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startx problem

2000-11-24 Thread Dave Bacon
Hello,

I have just upgraded quite a few packages with dselect.  And now when I
run "startx" I receive the following error messages.  Can you help?



var: allowed_users, value: rootonly
var: nice_value, value: .
/etc/X11/X is not executable
giving up
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
-

startx worked just fine until the upgrade.

Thank you for your help.
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djscript ?

2000-11-24 Thread Seung-woo Nam



I used magicfilter to configure my printer and it 
does print pdf file.However when I try to print a txt file it didn't print 
anything and in /var/log/lp-errs, it says it couldn't find /usr/bin/djscript. 
Where can I get this program? 'apt-get install djscript' doesn't seem to find 
it.
 
Seung-woo Nam


Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-24 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Thank you!!, I will try it tonight (after apt-get update with the new
address...)

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:45:18 -0200 (EDT), Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:

>On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
>
>> 
>> How can I install lprng?. I looked for it in the potato's CD but I didn't
>> find it
>
>apt-get install lprng
>
>put a correct source in /etc/apt/sources.list, such as:
>
>deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
>
>and it'll be installed
>
>[]s
>Mario O.de Menezes"Many are the plans in a man's heart, but
>IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails"
>http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21
>

Marcelo
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Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.

2000-11-24 Thread Matt Miller
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 08:38:06AM -0800, Brian wrote:
> A recent update to one or more apache module installation
> scripts resulted in quite a few services being turned off.
> 
>[...]
>
> Whichever
> apache update made the changes (I installed several at once)
> disabled mod_status, mod_dir, mod_autoindex and mod_info, if
> memory serves.
> 

These modules where commented.  Uncommenting them got me further, but
only to a different 'invalid command.'

Someone replied off-list to me, and I got some addtional info.
Apparently apacheconfig doesn't play well with Perl-5.6.  (A bug is
already filed.) By changing the first line of /usr/sbin/apacheconfig
to:

#!/usr/bin/perl-5.005 -w

I was able to use apacheconfig to generate httpd/conf without errors.
The initial attempt at restarting apache failed, but the only problem
was a missing 'ServerName' directive.  Since I'm using apache only for
local web development I just added the following line to
/etc/apace/httpd.conf:

ServerName localhost

and 'apachectl start' worked.

I like this solution since I'm not yet heavily into apache details, 
and I like the idea of automatically generating httpd.conf using
apacheconfig.  To me hacking httpd.conf by adding a 'ServerName'
directive is easier than uncommenting several 'LoadModule'
directives.



Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:

> 
> How can I install lprng?. I looked for it in the potato's CD but I didn't
> find it

apt-get install lprng

put a correct source in /etc/apt/sources.list, such as:

deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free

and it'll be installed

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



Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-24 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi!

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:24:07 +0100 (MET), Daniel Reuter wrote:


>lprng runs the inputfilters by default on the host on which the job is
>issued, 


How can I install lprng?. I looked for it in the potato's CD but I didn't
find it
Thanks!

Marcelo
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]





Dia Won't Save files anymore

2000-11-24 Thread Jeff Hornsberger
Hi. I'm not sure if anyone else has had this problem, but for some 
reason my Dia won't save valid Dia files anymore. It can open my old Dia 
files, but when I try to create a new one and save it it gives the 
message: "xmlNewGlobalNs() deprecated function reached". Then when I try 
to reopen that file later it says that it isn't a valid Dia file. Has 
anyone else experienced this or have a solution for this? Thanks. -Jeff




Re: Managing Log files

2000-11-24 Thread Colin Watson
Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After viewing some of my logs in /var/log I see that some are really large 
>in size.  Because I am still learning as I guess we are, is there a easy 
>way to manage log files and there size.  I assume there is some way to have 
>the contents removed that is older than a certain date.  I would not see a 
>need for any information more than 1 month old in my case.

See 'man logrotate', /etc/logrotate.conf, and /etc/logrotate.d/*. Oh,
and there's also a program called 'savelog' which manages a lot of the
files in /var/log. They're called from various scripts in /etc/cron.*.

-- 
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]



default font in Python-TKinter or Tcl/Tk

2000-11-24 Thread Matthias Müller
Before I switched to Debian/Potato I used RH6.1. On my old Linux I had
a Python program that used the Tkinter-package as a GUI. On RH the
defauld font looked good and was readable. On my Potato system I had
to comment out the use of the scaled 100dpi font in the XF86Config
file to make the fonts readable:
# ...
#FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
# ...
Now it looks better.
 
My question is: How do I change (or set) the default font that is used
by Python/Tkinter ?

TIA
Matthias

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Managing Log files

2000-11-24 Thread Eileen Orbell

Hi,

After viewing some of my logs in /var/log I see that some are really large 
in size.  Because I am still learning as I guess we are, is there a easy 
way to manage log files and there size.  I assume there is some way to have 
the contents removed that is older than a certain date.  I would not see a 
need for any information more than 1 month old in my case.


TIA


Eileen Orbell
Software & Internet Applications
Capitol College
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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printer

2000-11-24 Thread nw x

Hi, Debains:

I have a question about my printer: When I print some "pdf" from acroread, 
the printer works fine, however, when I want to print some plain text file 
from xterm with the command "lpr filename", I can just get the first two 
lines of the file. Does anybody know how to fix this problem?

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Nianwei
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Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.

2000-11-24 Thread Brian
A recent update to one or more apache module installation
scripts resulted in quite a few services being turned off.

Edit the section of your /etc/apache/httpd.conf with the
LoadModule lines and check to see which modules might not be
enabled.

Compare against a working server or see if you've got an
apache.conf.0 backup file made before the changes. Whichever
apache update made the changes (I installed several at once)
disabled mod_status, mod_dir, mod_autoindex and mod_info, if
memory serves.


--- Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having the same problem and I know that none of the
> solutions provided
> so far will work.  I do have apache-common installed.  I went
> to the
> lengths of commenting out the ExtendedStatus line in
> httpd.conf and then
> got a similar syntax error on the first "Order" directive.  I
> commented
> that out and got further syntax errors on quite standard
> apache
> directives.
> 
> Completely purging apache and apache-common and reinstalling
> them makes no
> difference.  Auto install and config have always worked for me
> in the
> past.
> 
> What's going on here?
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> 
> 
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Silver wrote:
> 
> > You need to activate mod_status to use ExtendedStatus
> > 
> > Silver
> > 
> > - Original Message - 
> > From: "Matt Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: 
> > Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 8:23 AM
> > Subject: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews
> warnings/errors.
> > 
> > > Syntax error on line 248 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
> > > Invalid command 'ExtendedStatus', perhaps mis-spelled or
> > > defined by a module not included in the server
> configuration
> > > /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
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> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact
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> > 
> 
> 
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Re: Resolve.conf

2000-11-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 03:26:51PM -, James Preece wrote:
:OK I have got that back in now Thanks.
:
:I can not seem to get remote access to my box, seems like no telnet, no ping
:answers.
:
:access from the box is fine.

sounds like a firewall problem (and you should be using ssh not
telnet, but that's an other thread)

Assuming this machine isn't behind another firewall try (as root):

ipchains -L

this will show local firewalling rules, not that you'll be able to
make much sense of them :)

The quick & ugly solution (if this is a problem) is:
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
/sbin/ipchains -X
/sbin/ipchains -F
/sbin/ipchains -P input ACCEPT
/sbin/ipchains -P output ACCEPT
/sbin/ipchains -P forward ACCEPT

these commands will remove all firewalling rules, and remove packet
forwarding.

-Jon



apm

2000-11-24 Thread Manuel Hendel
hallo,

how can I turn on the apmd is running, I know that I've to do some
changes in the /etc/lilo.conf, but don't know what.

thanks,
Manuel



Long finle names on a CD-ROM not visible

2000-11-24 Thread Arcady Genkin
All of a sudden when I mount a CD-ROM the long filenames show
messed-up, like:

-r-xr-xr-x1 root root  664 Jan 19  1999 aqf83a~1.m3u
dr-xr-xr-x1 root root 2048 Jan 19  1999 aquari~1.aro/

I am sure that I used to see normal file names on the same CD-ROM
previously.  Any idea what went wrong all of a sudden?

,[ /etc/fstab ]
| /dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noauto  0  0
`

Many thanks,
-- 
Arcady Genkin
Don't read everything you believe.



Re: Newbie Question

2000-11-24 Thread Ingo Ruhnke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> Is there a setup programm (just like this for the installation).

Debian contains a bunch of configure programms for different task,
such as the configuration of ppp. Have a look at:

$ ls /usr/sbin/*config

-- 
Ingo Ruhnke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.

2000-11-24 Thread Chris Gray
I'm having the same problem and I know that none of the solutions provided
so far will work.  I do have apache-common installed.  I went to the
lengths of commenting out the ExtendedStatus line in httpd.conf and then
got a similar syntax error on the first "Order" directive.  I commented
that out and got further syntax errors on quite standard apache
directives.

Completely purging apache and apache-common and reinstalling them makes no
difference.  Auto install and config have always worked for me in the
past.

What's going on here?

Cheers,
Chris


On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Silver wrote:

> You need to activate mod_status to use ExtendedStatus
> 
> Silver
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Matt Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 8:23 AM
> Subject: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.
> 
> > Syntax error on line 248 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
> > Invalid command 'ExtendedStatus', perhaps mis-spelled or
> > defined by a module not included in the server configuration
> > /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
> 
> 
> -- 
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 



Re: VCD/SVCD - Kernelpatch

2000-11-24 Thread Scott Patterson



>Hi,
>I know you can watch vcds with tools like mtv or the smpeg-plugin for xmms
>or with xtheater (http://xtheater.sourceforge.net) but what really
>interests me now is: Is there a VCD-Kernel-Patch Out there? if yes, where?
else, plz
>tell me where I could search for it.
>My Actual problem is, I want to run SVCDs which are in mpeg2-format but i
>just have a mpeg2-codec that cannot read from SVCDs raw (like the above
>mentioned vcd-players do--but they are mpeg1-only) so I needed kernel-support
>for vcd/svcd for reading the appropriate files on the cds.
>It would be great if someone knew help here cause it looks like this is
>still a domane of Windows that Linux couldn't manage yet for some reasons...
>(maybe cause VCD is somewhat a asia-only-thing?)
>I'm looking forward to your replies,
>Michael

Kernel 2.4 supports the UDF file system which is used by DVDs. Perhaps that is
what you need to view SVCD's since they seem similar.

Scott









RE: Resolve.conf

2000-11-24 Thread James Preece
OK I have got that back in now Thanks.

I can not seem to get remote access to my box, seems like no telnet, no ping
answers.

access from the box is fine.

any ideas please anyone ??

Cheers

James ""Newbie"" Preece

-Original Message-
From: Jonathan D. Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 November 2000 07:01
To: James Preece
Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: Resolve.conf


On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:19:56PM -, James Preece wrote:
:
:Its just gone missing, yes I am root, last thing I did was an update using
:capt and dselect.
:
:Now I have no incoming access to my box, although outgoing is fine.

Your symptoms don't seem to match a missing /etc/resolv.conf, this
file is used to specify DNS servers, if it's gone getting to the box
from the out side should be fine but outgoing you should need to
specify IP rather than host name.

for example

$ lynx http://www.ai.mit.edu
should fail while:

$ lynx http://128.52.32.5
should work

for what it's worth here's my file:

---start---
nameserver 199.45.32.40
nameserver 151.202.0.85

nameserver 128.52.32.80
nameserver 128.52.39.7

search ai.mit.edu
---end---

nameserver is the IP of your DNS server(s)
search is the default domain to use (ie if I type "ssh www" it will
resolve to "ssh www.ai.mit.edu")

-Jon



eth0 problem

2000-11-24 Thread Daniel Knights
Hi,

I have added 3 Debian boxes to my network and they all seem OK, till I
noticed that  when changing some of the cat5 cables around,  that the 3
debian boxes eth0 does not start passing data again when cat 5 is replaced,
the cables were only removed for a minute or less.I did not notice
straight off as when I replace the cable all looks fine as the hub lights
up, but a few minutes later bigbrother is telling me that all three debian
boxes are down.  I did an "ifconfig eth0 up" and still no good, but an
"ifcongif down" and then "up"  brings them back online again.  There were
no errors recorded in log files.

This only happens to the debian boxes as the redhat and the SuSe linux
servers are not bothered by having the network cables missing for a minute
or two.  Any advice on what might be causing this would be appreciated.

Thanks 
Daniel



Re: fetchmail not communicating with exim.

2000-11-24 Thread Robert A. Jacobs
* Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [241100 09:16]:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> 
> > I'm working on it.  Just recompiled my kernel the other day to support
> > firewalling but haven't had time to work on the iptables and other
> > configuration issues.
> 
> I find it easier to configure exim to listen only on 127.0.0.1 (with the
> "local_interfaces" setting) - it's all fetchmail needs - than fudge with
> firewalling.
> 
> Much cleaner that way, I think.  But that's just me :)

Good suggestion.  I'll look into that.  Thanks.


> > @home is way too broad in their description of "server".  I understand
> > that their intent is to limit bandwidth since it is a shared resource
> > but their one-size-fits-all policy is ridiculous.
> 
> Tell me about it.  Why doesn't anyone consider special cases like
> hobbyists any more?  I would willingly pay a small premium to be able to
> run "servers" as a private person.
> 
> > They would not go for it.  They were especially not helpful after I, point
> > blank, told them that their policy only served to conserve bandwidth for
> > use by teenagers pirating software, stolen music and porn.  Hmmm...maybe
> > I shouldn't have told them that, huh?  :)
> 
> :)
> 
> Back to your problem with fetchmail: would it help to see a working
> config?

I realize you are trying to be helpful but...I don't have a problem with my
mail configuration.  We've kind of taken a side trip off the main thread.
The person with the mail problems is John-Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the 
guy who started the main thread that lead us here.  :)

But thanks anyways!

rob.jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



Re: Log files

2000-11-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 09:59:08AM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Where would I find the log files that contain users activities on my debian 
> box?  I am really just wanting the log file that shows what programs they 
> accessed etc.

logs of things you would be concerned with are found in
/var/log/auth.log, this will show things such as passwd changes and
shell changes (chsh chfn etc) 

for general programs, such as ls, cat, mc, and whatnot there is no
logging.  other then the user's shell history file but looking at that
is called being nosy ;-)

the user can also easily delete this file or set the HISTFILE
environment variable to /dev/null to avoid your nosyness.  even if you
prevent those, they can still just logout by running kill -9 
where pid is the pid of the login shell. 

-- 
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http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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Re: Resolve.conf

2000-11-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:19:56PM -, James Preece wrote:
:
:Its just gone missing, yes I am root, last thing I did was an update using
:capt and dselect.
:
:Now I have no incoming access to my box, although outgoing is fine.

Your symptoms don't seem to match a missing /etc/resolv.conf, this
file is used to specify DNS servers, if it's gone getting to the box
from the out side should be fine but outgoing you should need to
specify IP rather than host name.

for example

$ lynx http://www.ai.mit.edu
should fail while:

$ lynx http://128.52.32.5
should work

for what it's worth here's my file:

---start---
nameserver 199.45.32.40
nameserver 151.202.0.85

nameserver 128.52.32.80
nameserver 128.52.39.7

search ai.mit.edu
---end---

nameserver is the IP of your DNS server(s)
search is the default domain to use (ie if I type "ssh www" it will
resolve to "ssh www.ai.mit.edu")

-Jon



joystick

2000-11-24 Thread mctrader
hi,
I have a 15-pol joystick and I want to plug it on my
soundcard.
So first i tried to installed joy-analog.o but it didnt work
so I tried joystick.o .
I think the probleme is on my soundcard.
It is a ISA card.

Hope you can help me
MM



Re: Newbie Question

2000-11-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 03:42:01PM +0100, Thomas Guettler wrote:

> > The whole system runs just fine
> > but I can´t mount my floppy or cd. 
> 
> If you want to mount as normal user, check the permissions of the
> devices (/dev/fd0) you need to be in the appropriate group (floppy).

no you don't, permissions of the device have nothing whatsoever to do
with mounting, you would only need direct permission to the device if
you want to format it or run mkfs on it (or play audio cds).  instead
check /etc/fstab to see if the proper line exists:

for cdrom:

/dev/cdrom   /cdrom iso9660 defaults,nodev,nosuid,user,noauto,ro 0 0

usually /dev/cdrom is a symlink to the real cdrom device, say
/dev/scd0

for floppy:

/dev/fd0 /floppyext2defaults,nodev,nosuid,user,noauto 0 0

nodev,nosuid are supposed to be implyed for `user' but im just
paranoid ;-) 

with these fstab entries a `mount /cdrom' or `mount /floppy' should
mount the appropriate devices.   note that `auto' might be a more
desirable filesystem type for floppy, cdroms are rarely anything but
iso9660 so auto does not do much good there.  

-- 
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Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?

2000-11-24 Thread Manuel Hendel
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 08:42:05AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:42:05 -0800
> From: "Eric G . Miller" 
> To: Debian-User-Mailinglist 
> Cc: Manuel Hendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?
> 
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:40:46AM +0100, Manuel Hendel wrote:
> > Actually I want to use the class g-breif, but I need the functions for
> > the footer from the letter class or is there any package which I can
> > add to my .tex file together with g-brief to get the footers?
> 
> Have you tried \usepackage{fancyhdr}? It gives you pretty good control
> over headers and footers.
> 
Now I've tried the "fancyhdr". I use the documentclass "g-brief", the
"rechnung" and the "fancyhdr" package. I did a "latex file.tex", I
didn't get any errors, but if I do a "xdvi file.dvi" I don't see
anything of the thigs I've done with \cfoot{}. I can't see any
problems. Can anyone give me a hint?

Thanks,
Manuel



Log files

2000-11-24 Thread Eileen Orbell

Hi,

Where would I find the log files that contain users activities on my debian 
box?  I am really just wanting the log file that shows what programs they 
accessed etc.


THA


Eileen Orbell
Software & Internet Applications
Capitol College
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: how to access image file without floppy

2000-11-24 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:23:06AM -0500, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:23:07PM +0800, a wrote:
> > My floppy drive does not work. Can I read files in image file such as
> > resc1440.bin?
> 
> To read the files on the rescue disk (which is a FAT filesystem):
> 
> mount -o loop -t msdos rescue.bin /mnt
> 
> To read the files on the root disk (which is a compressed ext2 filesystem)
> 
> Backup file:   cp root.bin temp_root.bin.gz
> decompress:gunzip temp_root.bin.gz

or:

zcat root.bin > tmp_root.bin

> mount: mount -o loop -t ext2 temp_root.bin /mnt

beware if you have any user accounts other then yourself you should
mount that:

mount -o loop,nodev -t ext2 tmp_root.bin /mnt

the /dev nodes on the root floppy image do not have secure
permissions.  (they are all 644)

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RE: I want out!

2000-11-24 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
Well, I think I can work out how to 'unsuscribe' :)
I've never actually seen this message everyone's talking about though.  I'm
on digest - possibly the reason - but surely you need some instructions
there too.
Or is it just me?I am forced into reading this with M$, perhaps my junky
mail client misses part of the digests.

tim

> -Original Message-
> From: Jonathan D. Proulx [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 7:53 AM
> To:   Andrew Dwight Dixon
> Cc:   debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject:  Re: I want out!
> 
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:56:46AM -0500, Andrew Dwight Dixon wrote:
> :ktb wrote:
> 
> :I agree.  Not that I have any clue how to unsubscribe using the
> instructions at the
> :bottom of the page, but I've decided that I should stay on the list
> untill I can
> :figure that out.
> 
> The old instructions were a commandline that would send the proper
> mail.
> 
> mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
>   ^ subject ^ recipient   ^^ read
>message
>from /dev/null
> Stick around anyway, there many more fun things to learn :)
> 
> -Jon



Re: Newbie Question

2000-11-24 Thread Thomas Guettler
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:34:13PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hallo Folks,
> 
> I've just swaped from Suse to debian 2.2. 

good idea.

> The whole system runs just fine
> but I can´t mount my floppy or cd. 

If you want to mount as normal user, check the permissions of the
devices (/dev/fd0) you need to be in the appropriate group (floppy).

> The system knows my device when I am installing packages, but not
> from the console or from gnome. I must add, that I am running an
> scsi-cdrom.  

What tool produces what kind of error-message?

> Is there a setup programm (just like this for the
> installation).  Thanks for your help.  

I prefere apt-cdrom/cache/get to dselect. There is no tool like Yast,
but there are commandline-tools. They are more powerfull.

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docbook-utils

2000-11-24 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes

Hi,

I trying to learn DocBook using the Crash Course by David Rugge,
Mark Galassi and Eric Bischoff.
At the installation section, they mention a docbook-utils rpm
package which contains some shell scripts and perl utilities, such as:
docbook2html, docbook2ps, docbook2pdf, etc.
In the Debian package task-sgml I could only find docbook2man
and docbook2texi.
Does somebody know where to find this utilities as .deb
packages?
Thanks,

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



Re: lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-24 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Paul,

lprng runs the inputfilters by default on the host on which the job is
issued, and NOT on the server with the printer attached. That means the
host has to do the work of rendering anything, the server lprng just
forwards the job directly to the printer. 
Up to now I havn't found out how to change this (I'm sure there is a way),
but I'd also like to keep resource hungry gs away from my laptop and let
the printer server do the hard work so I'd be interested in a solution to
the problem.
Regards,
Daniel

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Paul Schulz wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> It seems that these two packages work really well together! but I have a
> networking problem though.. and I would like to understand what is
> going on.
> 
> I have set lprng and magicfilter up on a server to print to a "HP
> Laserjet 6p", a non-postscript printer.  Works well when I print from
> this host. (I've set the magicfilter to 'ljet2p'.)
> 
> I set up my laptop to talk to print to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and it does, but
> magicfilter doesn't process this postscript that it sends, and passes
> it directly to the printer (which spits it out as stepped text, not
> recognising the !%.)
> 
> Why is this happening?  Why isn't the postscript being processed by
> magicfilter on the server?  Standard stable (potato) Debian
> installation on both..
> 
> lprng_3.6.12-8
> magicfilter_1.2.39
> 
> and the server queues set up with 'magicfilterconfig'.
> 
> I don't want to have to install (not that it's overly difficult)
> magicfilter on all the workstations.
> 
> Any help appriciated.
> Paul Schulz
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Re: Debianizing tarballs: a Big Deal or a routine skill?

2000-11-24 Thread Shaul Karl
> Stan Kaufman wrote:
> 
> >
> > Since this seems to be a widespread situation, I want to figure out how
> > to do this process. I'd be happy to write up a mini-HOWTO. But before I
> > start, I'd like to know what I'm running into.
> 
> HI Stan,
> looks like were in the same situation.  I'm looking into building .debs now 
> but I
> don't know how.  If you need some help on that HOW-TO please let me know.  
> Again I
> have no experience here but it's about time to start.
> 
> later,
> Andy
> 


Have you seen the existing docs? In particular, the maint-guide package?
The packaging-manual and other stuff that is on www.debian.org/devel as well 
also come to mind.
The debian-mentor mailing list is a very helpful src if you have any question 
about your pacakges.


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Resolve.conf

2000-11-24 Thread James Preece

Its just gone missing, yes I am root, last thing I did was an update using
capt and dselect.

Now I have no incoming access to my box, although outgoing is fine.

Help me please.

Best Regards

James Preece



Re: add new Tex packages!?

2000-11-24 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Manuel,

to enable kpathsea to search very quickly for files, tetex remains a
database of all the files in your tex-installation in
/usr/share/texmf/ls-R (actually it resides somewhere in /var,
/usr/share/texmf/ls-R is just a link to it). Whenever you install new
files, you have to update this database, otherwise, tex won't find your
files. This is done via the command:
'mktexlsr' 
as root. I think, texhash does about the same among a few other nice
things.
Regards,
Daniel

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Manuel Hendel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> can anyone tell me how to add new texpackages, for example the package
> letter. I coppied it in the Texpath, where all the other .sty and .cls
> files are, but this didn't work. Latex said it can't find the package and
> asks for the path, when I insert the path it works.
> What do I have to do to get this running?
> 
> Thanks,
> Manuel



Newbie Question

2000-11-24 Thread bulls_b
Hallo Folks,

I've just swaped from Suse to debian 2.2. The whole system runs just fine
but I can´t mount my floppy or cd. The system knows my device when I am
installing packages, but not from the console or from gnome. I must add, that I
am running an scsi-cdrom.

Is there a setup programm (just like this for the installation).

Thanks for your help.

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Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.

2000-11-24 Thread Silver
You need to activate mod_status to use ExtendedStatus

Silver

- Original Message - 
From: "Matt Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 8:23 AM
Subject: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.

> Syntax error on line 248 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
> Invalid command 'ExtendedStatus', perhaps mis-spelled or
> defined by a module not included in the server configuration
> /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started



Re: I want out!

2000-11-24 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 07:56:46AM -0500, Andrew Dwight Dixon wrote:
:ktb wrote:

:I agree.  Not that I have any clue how to unsubscribe using the instructions 
at the
:bottom of the page, but I've decided that I should stay on the list untill I 
can
:figure that out.

The old instructions were a commandline that would send the proper
mail.

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  ^ subject ^ recipient   ^^ read
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Stick around anyway, there many more fun things to learn :)

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Apache package problem

2000-11-24 Thread Silver
I recently upgraded my debian woody.
Now whenever I start apache it just dies and I get this error in
/etc/apache/error.log :
apache: dl-close.c:122: _dl_close: Assertion `new_opencount[0] == 0' failed.
This is package apache-1.3.12-2.1

Any ideas what could cause this error ?

Silver



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PHP, Apache, MySql Intermittent errors

2000-11-24 Thread Dave Whiteley
Any Clues anyone?

I am using a potato installation. I have apt/dselect installed apache, PHP4 and
am running mysqld on another networked machine.

I have updated the etc/php4/apache/php.ini file to include the mysql.so
extension. 

I have also included a default mysqlserver, username and password in php.ini,
to allow others to write pages that access some read only database tables
without needing to know this data.

I find that my code will SOMETIMES fail if I use mysql_connect() or
mysql_pconnect() without arguments relying on the values in php.ini. I see an
error message of the form 
   Access denied for user: '@localhost' to database 'databasename'
where 'databasename is passed to mysql_db_query().

It fails perhaps once out of four tries.

If I supply the hostname, username and password to mysql_pconnect() then it
seems to work correctly. (I have tried tens of times without a failure.)

Any Ideas anyone?

Dave Whiteley

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Re: Setting up eth1 interface

2000-11-24 Thread Silver
What you need is load the module twice !
One for each NIC.

I have that setup on my LAN as I use 2 ne2000 clones :
(You will have to adapt this to your tulip module)

First edit the /etc/modutils/aliases file and add :
<-- cut here -->
# Aliases for using twice the ne2000 module (ne)
alias ne0   ne
alias ne1   ne
<-- cut here -->

Then create a file /etc/modutils/ne to specifiy options :
<-- cut here -->
options ne0 io=0x300 irq=10 -o ne0
options ne1 io=0x280 irq=15 -o ne1
<-- cut here -->
(the trick is to actually rename each module with a name neX ( -o neX )

Then here is /etc/network/interfaces :
<-- cut here -->
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# ADSL interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.0.0.10
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 10.0.0.0
broadcast 10.0.0.255
   up /etc/network/ipchains.rules

# Local network
auto eth1
iface eht1 inet static
address 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
<-- cut here -->

Maybe that should be documented in some FAQ because I haven't found any
easy-to-find doc about that besides looking in the kernel doc how to load
modules and rename them.

Silver

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To: 
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 7:23 PM
Subject: Setting up eth1 interface


> Hello All,
>
> I have been trying to set up a small local network with a linux box as a
> gateway and my wife's win98 laptop.
>
> I am running potato with a fresh 2.2.17 kernel from kernel.org.
> Currently, a D-link DE-530TX is working well with a tulip driver loaded
> as a module to connect to my cable modem.  The second NIC is a linksys
> LNE-100TX ver. 4.0, which also uses the tulip driver.
>
> However, I cannot get the eth1 interface to initialize.
>
>#ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 up
> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
> eth1: unknown interface: No such device
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
> eth1: unknown interface: No such device
>
> In my /etc/network/interfaces file there is no entry for eth1.
>eth0 is  :  iface eth0 inet dhcp
> so I tried adding :  "iface eth1 inet"
>
> Now with #ifup eth1, I get the error
>/etc/network/interfaces: too few parameters for iface line
>
> So, I think that I am almost there I just cannot find any information on
> what options should be on that line.  Or am I not really supposed to be
> editing that file directly?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sean
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Re: Where to find unzip?

2000-11-24 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Håkan wrote:

> I'm new to Debian. Before I have used the RHdist- however finally got
> right dist.
> However, where do I find the unzip command or package. I have installed
> the zip packed but as written above whatabout unzip?

In potato it's in non-free.
In woody it's in non-US/main.



Re: Apache won't start. Apacheconfig spews warnings/errors.

2000-11-24 Thread Pluto
Hi,

Have you installed apache-common?


> Running unstable, I do this:
> 
>   apachectl start
> 
> And get this:
> 
>   Syntax error on line 248 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
>   Invalid command 'ExtendedStatus', perhaps mis-spelled or
>   defined by a module not included in the server configuration
>   /usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
> 
> I haven't altered /etc/apache/httpd.conf.  Where did the invalid command
> 'ExtendedStatus' come from?  If I comment this command and try to start
> apache, I'm taken to another invalid command, and then another, and so
> on.  Finally, after I comment 8 or 12 invalid commands apache will start.
> apachectl has worked fine until a few days ago.
> 
> I do this:
> 
>   apacheconfig
> 
> And get this:
> 
>   Finding DSO mods
>   Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
>   /usr/sbin/apacheconfig line 484.
>   ..Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
>   /usr/sbin/apacheconfig line 484.
>   Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
>/usr/sbin/apacheconfig line 484.
> 
> and so on for a few screens.  Finally the config files are generated,
> and, upon attempted restart, the above-described 'Invalid Command' errors
> appear.
> 
> Here is line 484 of /usr/sbin/apacheconfig:
> 
>   if ($main::allconf =~ m/^\s*$l\W/m)
> 
> Are the apacheconfig messages related to the invalid commands in
> /etc/apache/httpd.conf?  Is Perl issuing errors or warnings?  Should I
> just manually fix /etc/apache/httpd.conf and go on my merry way?
> 
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tob not restoring

2000-11-24 Thread Liam Ward
Hi,  

Anyone out there using tob? My backups seem to work fine (very simple 
policy: full backup each Monday, differential every other day).

I wanted to test restoring by deleting a file and trying to restore 
it. The file was /home/liam/addr1.txt and below are the commands I 
use plus the results.

In summary, I can find the file in the backup list and tob seems 
happy enough about restoring but the file never gets written to the 
disk.

Any hints appreciated.

Liam

===
ns1:~> sudo tob -find '.*addr1.txt'
No tape position known in advance. Position to what entry?
0
 Ok, got resource /etc/tob/tob.rc.
 This is the tob script.
VOLUME: root   TYPE: Full   DATE: Nov 19 06:57
/home/liam/addr1.txt
VOLUME: root   TYPE: differential   DATE: Nov 24 04:34
 Cleaning up.
 Bye.
ns1:~> sudo tob -restore '.*addr1.txt'
No tape position known in advance. Position to what entry?
0
 Ok, got resource /etc/tob/tob.rc.
 This is the tob script.
 Restoring .*addr1.txt from /dev/nst0 relative to /home/liam.
 Cleaning up.
 Bye.
ns1:~> sudo !!
sudo find / -name addr1.txt -print
ns1:~>
==

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Re: Where to find unzip?

2000-11-24 Thread Neil Darlow
On 11/23/00, 9:53:36 PM, Alson van der Meulen wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:32:31PM +0100, H?kan wrote:
> > I'm new to Debian. Before I have used the RHdist- however finally got
> > right dist.
> > However, where do I find the unzip command or package. I have installed
> > the zip packed but as written above whatabout unzip?

> there's a package named unzip too

It's in non-free so won't be on the Official CDROM set.
I use the zip-crypt and unzip-crypt packages which are in non-US.

Regards,
Neil Darlow.

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Re: Sound card seems to be recognized but nothing else.

2000-11-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Nov 2000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 
> I tried compiling in Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI 97 (ES1371), which
> someone said should work. On bootup I get the following:
> 
> 
> es1371: version v0.22 time 15:47:48 Nov 23 2000
> es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02
> es1371: found es1371 rev 2 at io 0xe800 irq 10
> es1371: features: joystick 0x0
> es1371: codec vendor   v (0x838476) revision 9 (0x09)
> es1371: codec features 18bit DAC 18bit ADC
> es1371: stereo enhancement: SigmaTel SS3D
> 
> 
> I thought this meant the card was recognized, but cat /proc/sound
> doesn't give anything.
> 
> I have no idea how to go on from here.
> 
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
> 
> Anthony
> 

My sincere thanks to all who've replied on this, either on the list or
privately. Meanwhile I've downloaded the OSS file and everything seems
to be working (at least, something comes out of the speakers though I
haven't actually got anything to test it with yet!). I'll work on the
helpful suggestions made and see if I can get the kernel version to
function later.

Anthony

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Re: exim & mutt

2000-11-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Nov 2000, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> On 11/24/00 00:36:47 -0200, Carlos Laviola wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a dial-up machine and want to properly configure it to send mail
> > using exim (mutt uses it). I receive my POP messages normally with it
> > (and other mail clients), but I don't know how can I properly configure
> > exim, specially to handle the fact that my machine's hostname is dynamic
> > (it tries to use its local hostname, which doesn't exist, since it is
> > just "debian"). What should I do? Thank you.
> 
> I take it you mean that your email address with your isp is different
> that your local email address, is this right?
> 
> At the end of the exim.conf file there is a section for rewriting
> stuff. I'm not sure of your requirements, but I'm the only use on thsi
> system, and so I'm the only one that sends mail from it. I have this
> entry in the REWRITE CONFIGURATION section:
> 
>   [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcfrF
> 
> Here, my local [EMAIL PROTECTED] My @home email address is
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, I want to rewrite my local email address with
> one that the world will recognize in all the appropriate places.
> That's what the bcfrF is for. Each rewrites a heading in the email
> header like so:
> 
>   b - blind copy
>   c - courtesy copy
>   f - from
>   r - reply-to
>   F - From
> 
> So whenever your local email address appears in any of these headers,
> it will be rewritten with your "real" address.
> 

Interesting. I had the same problem as Carlos but was able to solve it
because I do have a dotted quad name for one of the ISPs I use.

However, I've just looked at my /etc/exim.conf, and I see that exim
itself has set up the following:

*acampbell.cix.co.uk $lookup{$1}lsearch{etc/email-addresses}\
  {$value}fail} bcfF


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Re: Re: expand software raid

2000-11-24 Thread Michael Bürkle
I set up a small Linux system on /dev/hda and than added 3 other disks to
one raiddevice.
The Linux System is Debian 2.2r0 Standart Installation with a new 2.2.17
Kernel with raid patches from http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/
than the raid utils from the same site.
After this you can create /dev/md0 from your three disks you want to use
raid with.

good luck

Michael

>I have 3 HD and I would like set RAID 5 on them using software raid under
>debian.  I currently have nothing on any HD, they all have no partions.  I
>would like to know what would be the best steps for me to take?  I
>creating a small partition at the end of one of the drives to set up the
>kernel etc for software raid the best thing to do then create all my other
>partitions? What were the steps you took to set up raid 5?
>Thanks
>Matt

>On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, [iso-8859-1] Michael Bürkle wrote:

>> anyoone knows if it's possible to expand a software raid 5 under debian
from
>> 3 HD to 4 HD without deleting the 3 existing disks?
>>
>> thx Michael
>>
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lprng and magicfilter problem

2000-11-24 Thread Paul Schulz
Greetings,

It seems that these two packages work really well together! but I have a
networking problem though.. and I would like to understand what is
going on.

I have set lprng and magicfilter up on a server to print to a "HP
Laserjet 6p", a non-postscript printer.  Works well when I print from
this host. (I've set the magicfilter to 'ljet2p'.)

I set up my laptop to talk to print to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and it does, but
magicfilter doesn't process this postscript that it sends, and passes
it directly to the printer (which spits it out as stepped text, not
recognising the !%.)

Why is this happening?  Why isn't the postscript being processed by
magicfilter on the server?  Standard stable (potato) Debian
installation on both..

lprng_3.6.12-8
magicfilter_1.2.39

and the server queues set up with 'magicfilterconfig'.

I don't want to have to install (not that it's overly difficult)
magicfilter on all the workstations.

Any help appriciated.
Paul Schulz



Re: DRI in XFree 4 with i810

2000-11-24 Thread Dmitry Borodaenko
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:33:55AM +0530, Viral wrote:
> I've got XFree 4 starting up with DRI (I'm running 2.4-test11, with
> the
> agpgart and dri modules).
>
> I can run the gears demo, but quake 3a fails to run.
> I get some Gart errors in my log.
> I'm attaching my log file. Does anyone know whats the problem.

> DRIUnlock called when not locked
> (WW) AGPIOC_ACQUIRE failed (Device or resource busy)
> (EE) GARTInit: AGPIOC_INFO failed (Invalid argument)

I have exactly same errors, and it makes my X crash. But it is not
related to Quake3 and I can't reproduce it.

Dmitry Borodaenko



Re: Debianizing tarballs: a Big Deal or a routine skill?

2000-11-24 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
Stan Kaufman wrote:

>
> Since this seems to be a widespread situation, I want to figure out how
> to do this process. I'd be happy to write up a mini-HOWTO. But before I
> start, I'd like to know what I'm running into.

HI Stan,
looks like were in the same situation.  I'm looking into building .debs now but 
I
don't know how.  If you need some help on that HOW-TO please let me know.  
Again I
have no experience here but it's about time to start.

later,
Andy



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