Re: DLINK NIC modules via-rhine.c

[John Bagdanoff]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:42:26AM +1100, Stephen Lavelle wrote:
> Hello,
> I have just installed a DLINK 530TX Nic in a debian 2.2 box.
> This card uses the via-rhine module
> However when I do #insmod via-rhine
> I get:
> using /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/via-rhine.o
> /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/via-rhine.o: init_module: Device or resource
> busy
> Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
> 
> invalid IRQ...
> 
> The output of #lspci for this device is:
> 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3065
> 
> (rev 4)
> 
> I have looked at the drivers page at http://www.scyld.com and for this
> device I need the via-rhine module >1.07. Debian 2.2 only has version
> 1.01.
> scyld.com has a via-rhine.c file which is a correct version, but I
> cannot get this to compile.
> Is there a debianised version of vi-rhine.o?
> Am i barking up the wrong tree completely
> Regards
> Stephen

I think the driver for this card is RealTek RTL8139.  

John
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Re: games-pipemania ...?

[Willy Lee]

"A" == A E Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> In order to make the second user on my machine happy, I need to have
> a game called "pipemania" installed, the other user knows this from
> Windows, does anybody know if this game exists for Debian, or one
> similar??  This might just be a little bit off topic, I hope you´ll
> have me excused if this disturbes you.  Thanks in advance.

Are you thinking of "pipe dream", a game by LucasArts?  If so, my wife
also loves this game, I am thinking of writing a Linux version of it.

=wl

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"They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of 
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Debian apache woes

[Eireann Lewy]

Okay. I am completely and utterly at a loss here.  I feel as if someone
has stolen my brain because I should not be this stupid.  I am, however,
a relative linux fledgling (I have been windows-free for about a year
and a half on the outside, and that's if I take out various pitfalls but
anyway...).

So I'm going to this tiny liberal arts college where I am one of four
people I know who run linux on campus. I shit you not.  Most people
"don't want to have to learn computers." So I am a small fish in a tiny
pond, making me one of the most knowledgable people here and this is how
I was selected to admin this student-run webserver which runs Linux. My
co-admin is very slowly learning small commands while she does most of
the HTML and I just, well, geek.

Except I suck at it.  I'm running debian potato (I run woody at home but
I wouldn't trust it on a server till it's distributed officially) and
apache 1.3.9. (I know, it is old, but it's the latest version in potato
as far as I can see.)  

I'm having the following problems:
1) The worst:  Despite having umask 022 in /etc/.profile and everyone's
personal .profiles, newly created directories are randomly getting bad
perms.  This is bad because most of my users don't know what the hell
permissions are, having none (except in very limited cases) in windows.
I just taught my two main cronies about chmod 755 and 644 (for regular
web files), but this shit can't keep happening.  (For FTPed files, I set
up a umask in the wu-ftpd ftpaccess file to set things at 644 which
seemed to work.)

2) Periodically and randomly people alert me "I can't FTP."  This seems
to occassionally clear up or people just tell me "I'm not having a
problem anymore."  Since I can FTP fine, and can test the files I put
there via FTP, I really can't see what the problem is for these people.
Are they being stupid? I don't know, because it's now happened to two
different people.

3) After having CGI scripts "forbidden" for a while I finally found the
umpteenth place where I had  to put an ExecCGI in the apache config
files and now every CGI script on the page (one for using finger to
return e-mail addresses of people put into the search thing via a second
page frame, and one for a message board) is run and returns "internal
errors." The error in /etc/logs/apache/error.log is that there is a
premature ending of headers.

I am not usually this stupid. Honestly.  I run my own machine virtually
error-free. Apache is simply the bane of my fucking existance. Please
give me ANY input  you can. I'm going away for a semester and my
co-admin thought this would be fine until everything simultaneously
decided to break this week. :P

Erin

Re: xinetd vs. inetd

[Nate Amsden]

"S.Salman Ahmed" wrote:

> Finally, the sole reply to my posting. Thanks for the info. One of these
> days when I reinstall Debian on my FW system, I will use xinetd instead
> of inetd.

curious what do you need (x)inetd for on a firewall? perhaps the only
daemon running on such a system is ssh..which by default runs outside of
inetd/xinetd.

although xinetd is better, if it were my firewall i wouldnt have either.

nate

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X4 and my Voodoo Banshee

[Nigel Gregoire]

I'm having a hell of a time getting this to work.

I'm running a mostly-clean install of Debian.  It'd be wholly clean,
except that when I set my sources to woody to get the .debs I'd like,
dselect threw in a bunch more and I wasn't inclined to argue :)

Anyways, as the subjects says, I'm trying to get X4 running _properly_
with my video card, meaning that I'd like to have proper acceleration of X
with my Banshee.  I followed the instructions at debianplanet for X4 under
3dfx cards, but it balked at the libglide3 step, and when I searched the
packages under dselect I couldn't find it either.

But I have installed the proper libglide2 packages, or so it appears.  As
I understand it, I now have to install the device3dfx packages for
libglide2 to run properly.  I've downloaded and installed the source .deb,
and now I'm lost.  Am I supposed to compile a new kernel, since it seems
to want compiled kernel sources in /usr/src/linux?  I tried out the
header-package, ran debian/buildpkg, got a .deb out of that, but it
doesn't install properly.

So what's the secret?  What am I supposed to do?  I'm not sure exactly
_how_ I'm supposed to compile the .deb myself, so it's possible and likely
that I've done something wrong in that regards.  I'm willing to compile a
kernel, if I have to.  I'm willing to reinstall if that's needed.

So what am I supposed to do?


Nigel

http://www.flipside.org/vol3/apr00/00ap20a.htm

Re: Mail deleted locally -> deleted on the server?

[D-Man]

If I understand what you are saying, I don't think it will work like that.  I
use fetchmail, but not mutt.  Fetchmail simply gets the mail from the server and
stores it locally.  AFAIK mutt (or any other mailer) can't communicate with
fetchmail since fetchmail doesn't take direction from other apps.  If you aren't
running fetchmail in daemon mode then fetchmail won't even be running while you
read your mail.

I think you need some other sort of setup, like maybe using a mailer that can
access the IMAP folder directly instead of using fetchmail.

(maybe fetchmail can accept requests to delete particular messages form the
server,  another more experienced person will have to comment on that)

-D

On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 22:54:14 Ignasi Tura wrote:
 | But, as an example for my situation:
 | 
 | I download the mail. The mail is kept with the 'keep' option. I read it with
 | mutt and I decide to delete one of that emails and keep the others. If I was
 | using Netscape Messenger or Eudora Light, for example, the next time I
 | downloaded mail that letter would be also deleted in the server, and the
 | others would be kept.
 | 
 | I would like this behaviour, as I also access Yahoo with the browser.
 | 
 | If it's RTFM again, please forgive me. I can't figure how the mutt and
 | fetchmail can communicatein this way.
 | 
 | 
 | Best,
 | 
 | 
 | Ignasi
 | 

second try: exim/smartlist

[Justin Maurer]

hey guys,

can anyone tell me how to have exim not add a resent-to header on
each of smartlist's messages? i don't want people on the list to be
able to see who is on the list.

thanks,
justin

Re: Mail deleted locally -> deleted on the server?

[Ignasi Tura]

> That's be fetchmail's default.  If it's not doing it, then check your
> configuration (options like 'flush', 'keep' and 'nokeep' affect these
> things). See man fetchmail for the nitty gritty.

Thanks for your answer, but perhaps I've not done the question with much 
accuracy.
I know that fetchmail options. Actually in my .fetchmailrc I put the 'keep' 
option.

But, as an example for my situation:

I download the mail. The mail is kept with the 'keep' option. I read it with 
mutt and I decide to delete one of that emails and keep the others. If I was 
using Netscape Messenger or Eudora Light, for example, the next time I 
downloaded mail that letter would be also deleted in the server, and the others 
would be kept.

I would like this behaviour, as I also access Yahoo with the browser.

If it's RTFM again, please forgive me. I can't figure how the mutt and 
fetchmail can communicatein this way.


Best,


Ignasi



P.S. Anyway, nice to tell that I wiped out Eudora from the NT partition :)










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Re: Extracting .tar.gz from .deb

[USM Bish]

Thanks Justin and Eric,

ar vx FileName.deb works like a charm,
a data.tar.gz  is extracted to current
dir, and can be renamed.

Just learnt that dpkg --extract calls
dpkg-deb. This needs a target dir ... 
works fine, otherwise.

USM Bish

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 07:33:45AM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:08:41PM +0530, USM Bish wrote:
> > I am looking for an  alternate  method of  extracting
> > basic .tar.gz component from a debian package (.deb).
> > Alien often fails in this process, though the reverse
> > usually works fine.
> 
> ar -x
> 
> or 
> 
> dpkg --extract
> 
> or
> 
> dpkg-deb --extract
> 
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Re: reinstall-->can't find modules w/new kernel

[Kenward Vaughan]

FAWCTK...

Having heard nothing from the list about this I continued on with my upgrade
from Potato_r0 into Woody using the archived deb's on hand.  After that
upgrade, the modules suddenly were properly detected.

The only difference between the modules of 2.4 and 2.2 that I can detect is
the use of a non-flat directory tree under 2.4 (several levels).  Perhaps
the later version of modutils handles this properly...

Kenward
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learning of many facts but the training of the mind to thinking--something
that cannot be learned from books. Albert Einstein

Re: Does unsubscribing from this list really work?

[D-Man]

A solution (though not ideal) :
configure procmail to dump all messages for debian-user to /dev/null

:-)
-D

On Mon, 04 Dec 2000 16:45:20 Ringo De Smet wrote:
 | On Monday 04 December 2000 22:20, you wrote:
 | > I can't understand all this dump stuff about failing to unsubscribe.
 | > under every mail it is described clearly and exactly. just follow the
 | > instruction.
 | > it does work, _defenetly_
 | 
 | Well yes, the instructions are clear, but for some reason, I never get 
 | a confirmation message. I don't even get a confirmation message if I 
 | try to unsubscribe through the web frontend. I tried to 
 | subscribe/unsubscribe with different email addresses. IT JUST DOESN'T 
 | WORK! *sigh*
 | 
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php3

[Brian Schramm]

I am running debian potato and am trying to get Twig 2.5.1 to run.  For
some reason even after going through and installing all the php3 modualls
that are listed.  The test still says it cannot access the imap and the
pgsql database.  

Can anyone give me a hint on what to do from here?

Thanks

Brian Schramm
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auto load root window image

[ktb]

I've got a command I run as a regular user that works just fine
from the command line but when I put it in my ~.xinitrc it
doesn't work the command is -
/usr/X11R6/bin/xsetbg  -onroot -at 0,0 /home/kent/img.jpg
The file also contains "fvwm" to load the window manager.

Permissions for .xinitrc -
-rwxr-xr-x1 kent kent  118 Dec  4 21:13 .xinitrc

Why isn't this working for me?
Thanks,
kent

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Re: Mail deleted locally -> deleted on the server?

[Eric G . Miller]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 03:22:28AM +0100, Ignasi Tura wrote:
>   Hi list,
> 
>   I'd like to know if I can enable any option in the typical
>   Debian mail combination fetchmail-mutt-exim to do like the
>   Netscape Messenger option "When deleting a message locally,
>   remove it from the server".
> 
>   Thank you.

That's be fetchmail's default.  If it's not doing it, then check your
configuration (options like 'flush', 'keep' and 'nokeep' affect these
things). See man fetchmail for the nitty gritty.

-- 
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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #704

[kmself]

on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:42:31AM +1100, Chris Kenrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
wrote:
> Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #704>>Make A Buck Or Two @ TheMail.com -
> Free Internet Email
> >>Sign-up today at http://www.themail.com/ref.htm?ref=1763925
> 
> Did anyone else notice this bit?
> 
> I had a quick look at the web page, and basically its a pyramid
> scheme where you get money for signing people up.
> 
> From the web page:
>
>   "TheMail.com will pay you $0.0025 for each new email read by a
>   referral. TheMail.com will pay you $0.0005 for each new email read
>   by an indirect referral. At first glance this may seem very low and
>   not worth it, but believe me it adds up very quickly!  If you have
>   just a few hundred persons in your downline you stand to make about
>   $20 - $30 a month. With a little time and effort $200
>   - $300 a month is very attainable"
> 
> Looks to me like they were/are trying to get people to join up and
> thus make money out of them.  Explains the blank messages,
> anyway...

And, despite the "no spam" message, I've had no response from repeated
forwards to abuse@ and postmaster@ this address. 

I've added the following rule to my procmail filters utilizing standard
response and whois addresses:

# Annoyance on debian-user Mon Dec  4 18:19:17 PST 2000
# It's actually a pyramid email spam thing.
:0
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
! [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

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Re: Routing question

[Jonathan D. Proulx]

Hi,

If there is a limited number a machine behind the firewall try this:

set the interface to the router normally
set the interface to the hub with a 255.255.255.255 mask, then add
static routes the the hosts behind this interface

I *think* that will work.

-Jon

Mail deleted locally -> deleted on the server?

[Ignasi Tura]

Hi list,

I'd like to know if I can enable any option in the typical Debian
mail combination fetchmail-mutt-exim to do like the Netscape Messenger option 
"When deleting a message locally, remove it from the server".

Thank you.


Ignasi

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Re: MSaccess to mysql in Linux

[Eric G . Miller]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 05:04:55PM -0500, Fraser McAninch wrote:
> Do you know of any convertor or way to convert MsAccess .mdb files from 
> Win98 to Mysql on Linux? I have tried all manner of conversions

If you can use a copy of Access97 (is this Access97?), then there are
some vba modules that will dump all the data into a file with
appropriate 'create table' and 'insert' statements.

See http://www.cynergi.net/prod/exportsql/

Works okay (I guess).

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Re: Boot Module Error Message

[Phil Brutsche]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> I just did a fresh install of Debian 2.2 When I boot the system I get
> the following error:

It's a non-fatal warning that can safely be ignored

> insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: cannot create
> /var/log/ksymoops/20001201182539.ksyms Read-only file system
>
> Any one know what this is about?

It's long and complex...

>
> How to fix or remove.

Compile a custom modutils package that has the printf statement commented
out.

I have one such package at
http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/modutils_2.3.21-1.1_i386.deb

> What is "unix.o" module?  Is it needed?

unix.o implements unix domain sockets on a Linux system.  There isn't much
that will work without it.

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Re: konquerer won't run ...

[Rogerio Brito]

On Dec 04 2000, Adam Shand wrote:
> what about getting konqueror to support ssl?  it's supposed to do it
> but where do i enable it?  when i go to an ssl site i get told that
> konqueror doesn't support ssl?!?

Yes, konqueror is able to do ssl just fine, but you'll need to
install kdelibs3-crypto for that, but unfortunately, this
package is not yet uploaded to Ivan's site (I have *just*
checked it, as I'm maintaining an rsync mirror of it for my
personal use and I intend to put an ISO image with it and
Helix Gnome, some non-free packages and similar things for me
an for some friend).

Though Ivan must be busy with so many packages under his belt
(it is really impressive), he said he would be uploading the
new KDE 2.0.1 today, AFAICR.


[]s, Roger...

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NFS also dying (was: Re: smbfs: inaccessible, un-unmountable directory)

[Rogerio Brito]

On Dec 03 2000, Francois Gouget wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Nate Amsden wrote:
> > umount and remount ..
> 
>It works!

It's a more or less well known work-around. But I've
unfortunetly had this very same problems with NFS between two
Debian boxes.

I haven't done enough data-gathering to see exactly under
which conditions it happens, but it's annoying, especially if
you have some scripts which depend on these "mounted"
filesystems. :-(

So, I guess that this is more of a problem with the kernel
than with a particular module/feature.



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Re: apt-get update ERROR!

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Jim Frey wrote:

> On running apt-get update, I get the following error listing:

Upgrade to a nemer version..

Jason

Re: Boot error (PCMCIA Modules)

[Eileen Orbell]

Thank you that removed most of the errors.  When I ran that command I did 
receive the following errors though:

directory not empty so it could not remove all reference..
can I delete these directories???
I still get some reference to pcmcia on boot...

Thanks


At 01:41 AM 12/5/2000 +0100, you wrote:

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 07:21:38PM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote:
> I reconfig my kernel and now on boot I get about 5 -6 lines of error re
> PCMICIA modules.  Because it boots fast I cannot read them all but I am
> assuming I am missing the modules.  I do not have any PCMCIA hardware
> anyway so can I remove this?  I did not see any reference to it in make
> xconfig??
apt-get --purge remove pcmcia-cs

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Re: appropriate compiler for kernel

[scr]

(Jumping in, knowing next to nothing about Debian.)

Stuart Marshall schrieb:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I use some kernel patches that cause trouble for the standard
> debian compiler.  The particular errors are like:

How old are those patches?

> I am told this is due to the standard gcc being more stringent in
> its handling of clobbers within inline asm statements than the old
> gcc (2.72).
> [...]
> there is a redhat package called kgcc [...] based on egcs 1.1.2.

Might be the right time to try some compiler (re-)builds
(from source) on your machine. Shouldn´t be a problem
with egcs and new gcc releases (or even snapshots).
RTFM, of course. For something as old as gcc 2.7.2,
even more RTFM.

Sorry, nobody else answered to the list,
scr

Boot error (PCMCIA Modules)

[Eileen Orbell]

I reconfig my kernel and now on boot I get about 5 -6 lines of error re 
PCMICIA modules.  Because it boots fast I cannot read them all but I am 
assuming I am missing the modules.  I do not have any PCMCIA hardware 
anyway so can I remove this?  I did not see any reference to it in make 
xconfig??


Hope I made some sence here..

Thanks

Eileen Orbell
Software & Internet Applications
Capitol College
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apt-get update ERROR!

[Jim Frey]

Hello,

On running apt-get update, I get the following error listing:

Reading Package Lists . . . Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing squid (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList
/var/state/apt/lists/http.us.org_debian_dists_u
nstable_main_binary_i386_Packages
E: msync
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Any help will be appreciated.

Jim

Boot Module Error Message

[Christopher W. Aiken]

I just did a fresh install of Debian 2.2  When I boot the
system I get the following error:

insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/unix.o: cannot create 
/var/log/ksymoops/20001201182539.ksyms  Read-only file system

Any one know what this is about?   How to fix or remove.
What is "unix.o" module?  Is it needed?

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Re: Boot error (PCMCIA Modules)

[Alson van der Meulen]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 07:21:38PM -0500, Eileen Orbell wrote:
> I reconfig my kernel and now on boot I get about 5 -6 lines of error re 
> PCMICIA modules.  Because it boots fast I cannot read them all but I am 
> assuming I am missing the modules.  I do not have any PCMCIA hardware 
> anyway so can I remove this?  I did not see any reference to it in make 
> xconfig??
apt-get --purge remove pcmcia-cs

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DLINK NIC modules via-rhine.c

[Stephen Lavelle]

Hello,
I have just installed a DLINK 530TX Nic in a debian 2.2 box.
This card uses the via-rhine module
However when I do #insmod via-rhine
I get:
using /lib/modules/2.2.17/net/via-rhine.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/net/via-rhine.o: init_module: Device or resource
busy
Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including

invalid IRQ...

The output of #lspci for this device is:
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3065

(rev 4)

I have looked at the drivers page at http://www.scyld.com and for this
device I need the via-rhine module >1.07. Debian 2.2 only has version
1.01.
scyld.com has a via-rhine.c file which is a correct version, but I
cannot get this to compile.
Is there a debianised version of vi-rhine.o?
Am i barking up the wrong tree completely
Regards
Stephen

Boot error (PCMCIA Modules)

[Eileen Orbell]

I reconfig my kernel and now on boot I get about 5 -6 lines of error re 
PCMICIA modules.  Because it boots fast I cannot read them all but I am 
assuming I am missing the modules.  I do not have any PCMCIA hardware 
anyway so can I remove this?  I did not see any reference to it in make 
xconfig??


Hope I made some sence here..

Thanks

Eileen Orbell
Software & Internet Applications
Capitol College
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Don't Fear the Penguin.

Boot error (PCMCIA Modules)

[Eileen Orbell]

I reconfig my kernel and now on boot I get about 5 -6 lines of error re 
PCMICIA modules.  Because it boots fast I cannot read them all but I am 
assuming I am missing the modules.  I do not have any PCMCIA hardware 
anyway so can I remove this?  I did not see any reference to it in make 
xconfig??


Hope I made some sence here..

Thanks

Eileen Orbell
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Re: 3Com network card

[Alson van der Meulen]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:12:32AM -, Robert Feri wrote:
> Thank you guys for all help around gnome environment.
> Now I want to know, how to install my network card (3Com Etherlink III 
> 10Mbit ISA). Under win98 I have 3c509b drivers.
> I've heard somwhere that you must firstly disable p&p mode under DOS and 
> then try to install it under linux.
> Can anybody tell me how can I step-by-step install this network card under 
> Debian 2.2 ?
3c5x9setup (apt-get install 3c5x9utils) is a tool that can configure
your nic, also look at isapnp if you want pnp support.

support is provided by the 3c509 module
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Re: mutt question

[Alson van der Meulen]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 10:41:19AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> while in the index of a mail folder other than /var/spool/mail/me, say
> $HOME/Mail/mysavedmsgs, i'd like to bind the left arrow key to bring me
> back to the index of /var/spool/mail/me.
look also for folder-hook, can change key-bindings depending on
current folder, man 5 muttrc (and docs in /usr/share/doc/mutt)
for more info.

like: 
folder-hook !/var/spool/mail/me macro pager/index 
c/var/spool/mail/me\n

folder-hook /var/spool/mail/me macro pager/index 
otherleftarrowbinding

you need to change pager/index to whatever you want, in pager or in
index mode, and change leftarrow to leftarrow key (dunno how to do
that now).



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Re: how to watch VCD?

[csj]

I finally found out the answer to my question (I'm the original poster in 
this very thin thread).

To get things going, install the latest smpeg (smpeg-0.4.1 +) on top of the 
latest SDL (SDL-1.1.6 +). I don't know about the .deb's or whether a kernel 
patch is necessary. I compiled the *src.rpm's on my Linux-Mandrake 7.2. The 
pertinent URLs however are  
and . Xtheater  is 
supposed to provide a nice buttons interface, but I haven't tried it out yet.

To actually play the VCD, type (in a console under X):
plaympeg --double /dev/cdrom

The --double option is to make the VCD window appear more viewable than a 
Palm Pilot. Other options are:

--noaudioDon't play audio stream
--novideoDon't play video stream
--fullscreen Play MPEG in fullscreen mode
--double or -2   Play MPEG at double size
--loop or -l Play MPEG over and over
--bilinear   Use software bilinear filtering
--volume N or -v N   Set audio volume to N (0-100)
--scale wxh or -s wxh  Play MPEG at given resolution
--seek N or -S N Skip N bytes
--help or -h
--version or -V

The --seek option doesn't seem to work. You have to start at the absolute 
beginning. You can pause the video, however, using the pertinent Linux 
process management command (Ctrl-Z at the console) or its fancier X 
equivalent. The gtk companion interface "gtv" appears unable to play VCD's.

My initial assessment: the audio is OK. The video appears a bit jerky. Now if 
only somebody could suggest a possible way to link my computer to my TV --

On Thursday 23 November 2000 01:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I read somewhere that you need to re-compile your kernel with VCD support
> for the CD (or filesystem). I'm not sure if this option is available in
> the standard kernel or if you need to download a patch from somewhere.
>
> Gerry

3Com network card

[Robert Feri]

Thank you guys for all help around gnome environment.
Now I want to know, how to install my network card (3Com Etherlink III 
10Mbit ISA). Under win98 I have 3c509b drivers.
I've heard somwhere that you must firstly disable p&p mode under DOS and 
then try to install it under linux.
Can anybody tell me how can I step-by-step install this network card under 
Debian 2.2 ?


Thank you !
Robert
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Re: Monolithic kernels and init scripts

[scr]

Ethan Benson schrieb:
> 
> its true that the tests used in the kerneld initscript is flawed,
> it checks for /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe which will not exist in
> two cases:
> 
> 1) your running 2.0 kernels, and thus need kerneld
> 2) your running 2.2 without loadable module support.
> 
> the flawed assumption here is that nobody will ever build a kernel not
> supporting modules. [...]

Thank you very much for your suggestions and the patch against
/etc/init.d/kerneld you supplied. Well, for your patch: this
doesn´t apply cleanly to my (plain potato) kerneld script, but
I got the idea. ;-)

The source of my troubles with the modutils script might be the
fact that I tried to boot my hand-rolled kernel from another
directory than /boot (the other script I complained about,
/etc/init.d/modutils, seems to get fooled because /boot is
present, but I´m not booting from there).

> feel free to file a bug against modutils with this patch.

Not in the current state of my research/newbieness/whatever.

Thanks again,
scr

Re: PPP connection.

[John Hasler]

Daniel Ferrante writes:
> I tried to use wvdial to connect via ppp to my ISP. What happens is that
> wvdial does the connecting job and gets to the point of starting the ppp
> daemon. However, the daemon dies (exit code 8)!

>From the pppd man page:

   8  The connect script failed (returned a non-zero exit
  status).

> Any sugestions?

Run pppconfig and try connecting with pon.
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Re: Does unsubscribing from this list really work?

[Christopher W. Aiken]

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Most "majordomo" type of lists that I subscribe to require
you to place "subscribe/unsubscribe" in the "BODY" of the
email.  The Debian lists require you to place "subscribe/unsubscribe"
in the "SUBJECT" not the body.

Also I believe that a "unsubscribe  [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
format in the "SUBJECT" will allow you to unsubscribe from a list
from a different email (subscribe also).

If you haven't tried yet, use the "SUBJECT" line.

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appropriate compiler for kernel

[Stuart Marshall]

Hi,

I use some kernel patches that cause trouble for the standard
debian compiler.  The particular errors are like:

  utime.c: In function `update_jiffies_u':
  /usr/src/linux/include/asm/mutime-M586.h:73: Invalid `asm'
  statement:
  /usr/src/linux/include/asm/mutime-M586.h:73: fixed or forbidden
  register 0 (ax) was spilled for class AREG.

I am told this is due to the standard gcc being more stringent in
its handling of clobbers within inline asm statements than the old
gcc (2.72).

I don't want to go back to 2.72 and I understand that there is a
redhat package called kgcc which is billed as their standard 
kernel compiler and it is based on egcs 1.1.2.  Does Debian have
a similar package or some other recommended kernel compiler?

Is anyone familiar with the differences between kgcc and the
standard (woody or potato) debian gcc?

thanks,
Stuart

PPP connection.

[Daniel Ferrante]

Hi folks,

I tried to use wvdial to connect via ppp to my ISP. What happens
is that wvdial does the connecting job and gets to the point of starting
the ppp daemon. However, the daemon dies (exit code 8)! I tried everything
listed in the howtos/faqs/manuals and nothing yet.

Any sugestions?

 Daniel.

P.S.: Reply to me as I am not currently subscribing to the list.
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Gnome/KDE + Emacs.

[Daniel Ferrante]

Hi Folks,

I have noticed this before but I have never really addressed this
problem. Here it is: When I run either KDE or Gnome, my Emacs (which I
run in ReverseVideo mode ) colors get "messed up". Primarily,
what bothers me is that, my background - which is black - get white
"spots" as soon as I move my cursor around! I.e., the background gets
"painted" in white "cursors". On top of that, my AucTeX colors are not
"top 10" also.

Any hints?!

 Daniel.

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Re: Realplayer.deb for Netscape?

[Bud Rogers]

On Monday 04 December 2000 15:54, Hubert Chan wrote:

> Umm, it's asking for a file location, and not a URL, right?  (At
> least that's how it was on my system.)  You need to download the rpm
> distribution of RealPlaer from Real's web site (www.real.com), and
> then give the location of that file to the installer.

6542930 rp7_linux20_libc6_i386_cs1_rpm

The installer asks for a slightly different filename than the rpm at 
real.com -- the cs1 is slightly different, or vice versa.  I just 
renamed the downloaded rpm to match what the installer expected.  Seems 
to be working fine on my potato system, YMMV.



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xf86cfg does signal 11 crash

[Raphael Deimel]

I'm currently working on a problem with Xfree 4.0.1 
and it's xf86cfg. Everytime the Server aborts with Signal 11, 
I tried different server and even while running 
it crashes
 
 
Does anyone has similar problems with it  
?
 
 
Raphael

Re: Does unsubscribing from this list really work?

[John Hasler]

Ringo writes:
> Are other people also having problems to unsubscribe from debian-user?

>From the trailer on your message:

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Re: Disabling input devices in XF 4.0.1

[Raphael Deimel]

I don't think that X supports runtime loading/unloading of it's modules, but
i could be wrong.
I just never heard of someone doing it and the modules are all loaded while
the server isn't running yet (according to logs). This seems quite obvious


In spite it works, please post how it is done as i'm interested in it too

Raphael

Re: samba 2.0.7 vs. 2.0.5

[Phil Brutsche]

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> I thought I saw some sort of posting here or elsewhere that mentioned
> that 2.0.7 works with kernels 2.2.x but not 2.0.x (mine) ?

If you're trying to use the distributed samba 2.0.7 on a 2.0.x kernel it
won't work - you'll need to recompile samba or upgrade the kernel to
2.2.x.

> Does this sound about right, or is there something wrong with my
> smb.conf?  Also, is there any particular compelling reason to upgrade
> to 2.0.7 as 2.0.5 seems to work pretty well for us?

If 2.0.5 works I would say stick with it.  You only really need 2.0.7 if
you have any Win2k machines that need to connect to the samba server.

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Re: Gnome

[Marcin Landowski]

> > I've installed Debian 2.2 with gnome packages, but my default environment
> is
> > TWM. Do you guys have any idea hot to change that.
> 
> update-alternatives -config x-window-manager
> for more do man update-alternatives

More clearly (for the newbie and thous who has no time to read
;-):

1) there are in /usr/bin a link named "x-window-manager";
2) it points to /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager;
3) /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager points to real
   default x-window-manager.


So?

The most easy way is remove link /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager 
and make it once again pointing to our favourite window manager
:-))).

Example:

After instalation Potato my defaults window manager seems
icewm-gnome. So, it looks like:

/usr/bin/x-window-manager
|
| point to
|
/etc/alternatives/x-window-manager
|
| point to
|
/usr/bin/X11/icewm-gnome

Simply:
#cd /etc/alternatives/
/etc/alternatives/# rm x-window-manager
/etc/alternatives/#ln -s /usr/bin/X11/fvwm2 x-window-manager

After this x-window-manager point to my favourite fvwm2 :-), and
for now it's the default window manager.
Run startx once again or reset X-server by CTR+ALT+BS

best rigards

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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #704

[Chris Kenrick]

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #704>>Make A Buck Or Two @ TheMail.com -
Free Internet Email
>>Sign-up today at http://www.themail.com/ref.htm?ref=1763925

Did anyone else notice this bit?

I had a quick look at the web page, and basically its a pyramid
scheme where you get money for signing people up.

>From the web page:
"TheMail.com will pay you $0.0025 for each new email read
by a referral. TheMail.com will pay you $0.0005 for each new
email read by an indirect referral. At first glance this may seem
very low and not worth it, but believe me it adds up very quickly!
If you have just a few hundred persons in your downline you stand
 to make about $20 - $30 a month. With a little time and effort $200
 - $300 a month is very attainable"

Looks to me like they were/are trying to get people to join up and
thus make money out of them.  Explains the blank messages,
anyway...

- Chris

Re: How to purge and reinstall XFree86 [woody] ?

[mikpolniak]

On Mon,  4 Dec 2000 13:53:05 -0600, Brian Boonstra said:

> Ouch
>  
>   I've gotten myself into a real dill of a pickle.  I run woody, but  
>  around Thanksgiving I hadn't upgraded for weeks.  I did "apt-get upgrade"  
>  which screwed up KDE and X.  After "apt-get dist-upgrade", uninstalling and  
>  reinstalling KDE (from 1.x to 2.x), and making a symlink from the X binary 
> to  
>  xserver-3dlabs, I got things working.
>  
>   Or so I thought.
>  
>   Last night, I did another "apt-get upgrade" and X would no longer  
>  start.  I tried using "apt-get remove" on xserver-common, and whatever other 
>  
>  xfree86 related packages I could find.  I made sure all the xfree86 version  
>  3.x stuff was gone.  Then I did "apt-get install" for the various version 4  
>  packages.
>  
>   Finally, I did xf86cfg, which is supposed to try to autodetect my  
>  hardware, then give me configuration options.  It did give me an X screen  
>  with a cursor, but it hung after that.  I rebooted, and now it just seems  
>  like it keeps trying to start the X server.  It shows the VGA text startup  
>  screen, blinks a minute, then goes back to that screen.
>  
>   I can't even log in on the console!!  I'm going to bring another  
>  machine home tonight so I can ssh in to try to fix this, but can anybody 
> give  
>  me pointers as to what I need to do?
>  
>   I'm tempted to try the nuclear option -- back up the homedirs, dpkg  
>  --get-selections, wipe the disk, and start fresh.  But that's inelegant, and 
>  
>  lots of work.  i would really appreciate other ideas.
>  
I had a similar situation upon update to xserver-XFree86.
 To get the xerver 'XFree86' to start i created xserverrc in
/etc/X11/xinit with the line 'exec XFree86'. Then 'startx' starts XFree86 and
reads your ~/.xsession for the window manager.

RE: Pkg XFree86-common 4.0.1-9

[Marc Wilson]

You don't have all of Xf4 installed.  Make sure you've done
task-x-window-system... some packages have changed names and the
dependencies aren't yet all they could be.

Then use dexter to configure it.

-
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 -Original Message-
From:   Rick Loga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:   Monday, December 04, 2000 8:36 AM
To: Debian  Users
Subject:Pkg XFree86-common 4.0.1-9

I did an apt-get upgrade on my woody box.  The last time was about 3 months
ago.  Now it no longer gives me a gdm login screen.  It just stays in a
command line console.  When I do startx I get:

"cannot stat /etc/X11/X (No such file or directory), aborting...Can't
connect:  errno=111, giving up".

It looks like woody now uses release 4 of Xfree86.  Is there a new
configuration tool?  XF86Config no longer works to configure X.  The Debian
site for the package says to read /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common but that
file does not exist either.

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Re: pump doesn't get ip

[Philipp Schulte]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 11:01:39PM +0200, Esko Lehtonen wrote: 

> I have a problem configuring my debian potato to use dhcp. I'm
> connected to the Internet via cable modem. The network card is
> configured to irq=10 and io=0x300. The module is smc-ultra. The card
> should be ok.
> 
> When I start 'pump', it tries to get dynamic ip from server using
> dhcp, but fails everytime. When 'pump' is trying to get the ip,
> 'ifconfig' shows this:
> 
> 
> eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:C0:57:6D:DE  
>   UP BROADCAST RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>   RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

Well, your card doesn't receive packets. Can you test the card in a
LAN to see if it works? Is the cable ok?

>   TX packets:0 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
 
And this doesn't look normal, too.
Phil

Re: MSaccess to mysql in Linux

[Jimmy O'Regan]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Fraser McAninch wrote:

> Do you know of any convertor or way to convert MsAccess .mdb files from 
> Win98 to Mysql on Linux? I have tried all manner of conversions
Look for mdbtools on freshmeat, and look for GNOME-DB/libgda.
> 
> thanks
> Fraser
> 
> 
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Re: Mount ftp fs

[Moritz Schulte]

Mats Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hi,

> Does anyone know a way to mount a remote file systems
> over ftp ?

Well, I just have to write this... ;)

Hurd is designed to make such things possible very easy. You just set
a so called 'Translator' to an directory inode and when you try to
access this directory, the translator gets executed and returns data
for you. This is, btw, the mechanism used for "mounting" filesystems
in GNU/Hurd. You just set a translator (e.g. /hurd/ext2fs) to a
directory. Then, you would have access to the ext2 filesystem on a
given partition. Easy, he? :) Furthermore, there's a translator
'ftpfs', which just translates data from a given ftp server so that it
looks like a normal directory (I don't know, how good ftpfs works
right now).

If you want to find out more about Hurd, here are some links:

http://www.debian.org/ - there's a link to a new Hurd article
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ - the official Hurd homepage
http://www.fprintf.net/hurd/ - _many_ very useful links


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Re: SCSI

[john gennard]

Your detailed response will be most helpful when I proceed, for this 
I'm very grateful.  Thanks,John.

On Sunday 03 December 2000 10:48 pm, Allan M. Wind wrote:

> > Please see http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/table.htm 
and
> see which matches your drive best.  When you find the right one
> there will be a links to manuals etc.  For instance:
>
> http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/dcas/dcasjum.htm
>
> On 2000-12-03 18:07:39, john gennard wrote:

[remainder snipped to reduce volume]

Re: SCSI

[john gennard]

I'm grateful for your detailed reply - I'll have a go at installing 
the card in the next day or so.Many thanks, John. 

On Sunday 03 December 2000 10:43 pm, Karl E. Jørgensen wrote:

>
> > There's plenty of literature with the Scsi Host Adaptor - little
> > of which I understand at the moment, but I live in hope. Will a
> > Potato installation recognize this board - I haven't yet
> > recompiled the 2.2.17 kernel for Scsi so don't know what will be
> > involved.
>
> Well, you probably need to enable SCSI in the kernel, and tell it
> what SCSI card you have in there. I don't know whether yours will
> be supported.
>
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Package pool information?

[Paul D. Smith]

I'm really interested in the package pools implementation that's going
on now.

Which list(s) are the best to subscribe to/and/or read archives of if I
want to keep up-to-date with this new feature (issues, decisions,
announcements, etc.)?

I found a debian-pool list, but it seems dead (just a few posts back in
August).

Thx!

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Re: Laptops for Debian GNU/Linux?

[Chris Black]

I've had great experiences with my Thinkpad 770E and a20p. Although, you will 
have to run XFree86 4.0.1 on the a20p for best performance. 



On Monday 04 December 2000 05:13, Christoph Gaitzsch wrote:
> "Dexter Graphic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The site is a rich source of information on GNU/Linux laptops.
> >
> > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
> >
> > But it's almost too much information and to general in nature
> > to be of immediate use. I still have no idea how to go about
> > comparing the hundreds of models listed and what each one's
> > strengths and weaknesses are in terms of running my preferred
> > OS: Debian GNU/Linux.
> >
> > Perhaps some of you folks would be willing to share your own
> > laptop preferences? Are there any hardware companies you
> > know of that provide GPL drivers and support open standards?
>
> Hi,
>
> I use a compaq armada 1750 under debian since the slink times, and I´m
> very happy with it. Graphics, Sound, PCMCIA, everything works.
>
> Greetings, Christoph
>
>
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Re: slaying the inodosaur

[William T Wilson]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Justin B Rye wrote:

> Is a niced "rm -rf" as safe as I'm going to get, or is it worth
> messing about with "while sleep 1 do stopafter..."?

If your hardware is in good working order you can easily just do rm -rf.  
Probably no need even to nice it, nice only affects CPU allocation and not
I/O allocation.  So if the disk is heavily loaded production system you
are going to want to do it during off-peak hours.

Re: How to purge and reinstall XFree86 [woody] ?

[David Z. Maze]

Scott Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SP> I believe you can tell your computer which run-level to start with
SP> at the LILO prompt (assuming you're using LILO). IIFC, simply
SP> typing 2 and enter, will start you at run-level 2 (no X-Server
SP> running...plain ole console mode).

You can, in fact, tell LILO which runlevel to boot into by typing
e.g. 'linux 2' for runlevel 2.  But Debian's default is to have every
service (including your display manager) start in every runlevel; if
you wanted to change to a more Red Hat-ish setup where *dm only starts 
in runlevel 5, you'd have to manually adjust the links in /etc/rc?.d.

That having been said, you can also boot into single-user mode by
typing 'linux single' at the LILO prompt.  That will get you no
services at all, including no display manager; it might be a little
easier to fix things from that state.

-- 
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
"Theoretical politics is interesting.  Politicking should be illegal."
-- Abra Mitchell

MSaccess to mysql in Linux

[Fraser McAninch]

Do you know of any convertor or way to convert MsAccess .mdb files from 
Win98 to Mysql on Linux? I have tried all manner of conversions


thanks
Fraser

Re: Mount ftp fs

[Chris Gray]

> Robert Waldner writes:

rw> On 04 Dec 2000 11:17:20 EST, mikpolniak writes:
>> On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:50:07 +0100 (CET), Mats Eriksson said:
> Does anyone know a way to mount a remote file systems over
> ftp ?
> 
>> What about ftp>! escape to shell and then telnet in to mount,
>> and then exit back to ftp> ?

rw> I think Mats meant something like mount -t ftp ftp://x.y
rw> /mnt/ftp ;-)

rw> And _that_ would be something I´d like to know about also...

Apparently, the GNU/hurd can do it.  I haven't seen it for myself, but
as soon as I get that new computer...

Chris

anacron wrote me

[Andre Berger]

I (username: andre) had this in my mail:

The date of the message is:Mon, 28 Jan 1980 05:14:21 +0100

The address to which the message has not yet been delivered is:

  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
/etc/aliases (lsearch lookup):
file mode 0664 should not contain 0020

This /etc/aliases, root.root, 644:

# This is the aliases file - it says who gets mail for whom.
# It was originally generated by `eximconfig', part of the exim package
# distributed with Debian, but it may edited by the mail system administrator.
# This file originally generated by eximconfig at Fri Jun  9 17:00:25 CEST 2000
# See exim info section for details of the things that can be configured here.

postmaster: root
root: andre

daemon: root
bin: root
sys: root
sync: root
games: root
man: root
lp: root
mail: root
news: root
uucp: root
proxy: root
majordom: root
postgres: root
www-data: root
backup: root
msql: root
operator: root
list: root
irc: root
gnats: root
alias: root
qmaild: root
qmails: root
qmailr: root
qmailq: root
qmaill: root
qmailp: root
nobody: root
webmaster: root
mailer-daemon: postmaster

faxmaster: root

What should I answer? :)

Andre

Re: Gnome

[Hubert Chan]

> "Raphael" == Raphael Deimel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Raphael> - Original Message - From: "Robert Feri"
Raphael> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:  Sent:
Raphael> Monday, December 04, 2000 7:09 PM Subject: Gnome


>> I've installed Debian 2.2 with gnome packages, but my default
>> environment
Raphael> is
>> TWM. Do you guys have any idea hot to change that.

Raphael> update-alternatives -config x-window-manager

Raphael> for more do man update-alternatives

Or, if you don't want to change the system default, make a .xsession file in
your home directory.  Mine says:

#!/bin/sh
gnome-session

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| \   | _|_ |
|__|  |__|__|GCS/M d- s:- a-- C++ UL+() P++ L++ E++ W++ N++ o?
||   K? w--- O++ M- V- PS-- PE+++ Y+ PGP+ t+ 5 X R- tv+ b+
|  / | \ DI D G e++ h! !r !y
| /  |  \
|| <><-- http://www.crosswinds.net/~hackerhue/

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Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

[Chad '^chewie' Walstrom]

I have a correction to the recipe I sent earlier...

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 03:31:09PM -0600, Chad '^chewie' Walstrom wrote:
> The recipe I use to launch this is:
> 
> # RECIPE BEGINS --
> MONTH=`date +%Y%m`
> 
> :0:
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> {
> :0 Wic
> * test -d list-foo.${MONTH}

Change the above line to:

  * ? test ! -d list-foo.${MONTH}

> | listln list-foo
> 
> :0:
> list-foo/.
> }
> # RECIPE ENDS 

Sorry about that.

-- 
Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 http://www.wookimus.net/


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Re: Realplayer.deb for Netscape?

[Hubert Chan]

> "robert" == robert wilhelm land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

robert> Realplayer is not included on Debian2.2 and every time a new and
robert> different package is installed, dpkg asks for a url to download the
robert> Real media files to fulfill broken dependancies.

robert> Which URL should I choose for a Realplayer.deb package - a package
robert> which I may install on other computers on my homenet too and how
robert> large is the requested file in size?

Umm, it's asking for a file location, and not a URL, right?  (At least that's
how it was on my system.)  You need to download the rpm distribution of
RealPlaer from Real's web site (www.real.com), and then give the location of
that file to the installer.

The reason for this roundabout way of doing things is that Real doesn't allow
redistribution of their files, so Debian can't repackage it.

I'd tell you how big the file is, but I seem to have deleted it.

Hubert

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|  / | \ DI D G e++ h! !r !y
| /  |  \
|| <><-- http://www.crosswinds.net/~hackerhue/

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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #714

[nilly]

** Original Message **
FROM: debian-user@lists.debian.org
SENT: Sat 12/02/2000 11:12 AM
TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SUBJECT:  debian-user-digest Digest V100 #714

>
>
>
>Content-Type: text/plain
>
>
>
>debian-user-digest Digest  Volume 100 : Issue 714
>
>
>
>Today's Topics:
>
>  apt-get libgnomeprint [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Some Linux  ]
>
>  Re: apt-get libgnomeprint [ Corey Popelier <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
>
>  Re: apt-get libgnomeprint [ Defresne Sylvain 
>  why doesn't modprobe log errors?!?[ Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> ]
>
>  xlibs vs. app-defaults[ Burton Windle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
>
>  iportfw vs autofw [ "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED] ]
>
>  Re: DESTROY (perl experts please) (f  [ Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
>
>  Richiesta informazioni[ "Chrisdaloa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
>
>  Re: Sound Card[ S.Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
>
>  Re: Sound Card[ S.Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
>
>  Re: gnome without window manager  [ Timmy Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
>
>  [OT] Apple IIe help please[ D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
>
>  Re: recommend a secure shell client   [ Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
>
>  swap size [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
>
>  Re: swap size [ Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
>
>  Which gives an error message. [ Tim Uckun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
>
>  Re: swap size [ Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
>
>  what is > ?   [ cls-c/s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
>
>  why doesn't modprobe log errors?!?[ Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> ]
>
>  Re: swap size [ Greg Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
>
>
>
>-
 
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Re: Hi all

[Robert Guthrie]

On Saturday 02 December 2000 14:50, Tim Uckun wrote:
> Actually SSH was not working ither. It was never installed (wh not?)  then
> I did a apt-get ssh and it said there was a dependency for libssl09 so I
> did a apt-get libssl09 but it could not find it. Well I decided to do a
> reinstall figuring that maybe something else went wrong with this install
> too.
I bet that libssl09 is not re-exportable from the US, so you have to import 
it from outside the US (dumb encryption laws!).  Try adding this line to your 
/etc/apt/sources.list (or check out the list of non-US mirrors on debians web 
site):
deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

Then run...
apt-get update; apt-get install ssh 

That should do it for you on that score.

>
> Why runlevel 2? That makes no sense to me.
Maybe you have some insite on the way Redhat does things then, because run 
level 3 never made sense to me. 

-- 
Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you 
will hear the voice of Satan?

That's nothing!  If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.

Re: Xmas shopping (will this bit of HW work)

[David Z. Maze]

Ray Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RP> I'm going to be getting a new mouse/trackball for xmas. Before I start
RP> telling people what I want though I thought I'd check with you all.
RP> So have any of you used the logitech Trackman Marble Wheel

Yes, works fine, no problems with it at all.  I also have an older
Trackman Marble; both of them are great little pieces of hardware.

RP> and in particular does it work with USB under a straight up 2.2
RP> install?

No; USB support in Linux isn't really there.  But my Trackman Marble
Wheel came with a USB-PS/2 adaptor, so I can plug it into the PS/2
port on my computer fine.

-- 
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED]  http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
"Theoretical politics is interesting.  Politicking should be illegal."
-- Abra Mitchell

yada and perl-5.6

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

Hello.

I've been compiling a package from cvs on a woody box (the package is
gimp-print) which uses yada.

I've noticed that itwon't work with perl-5.6 (but works perfectly with
perl-5.005)

And I'd like to know what exactly to do. I'm not a yada expert
(neither do I know perl)... Do I file a bug against yada? (Or is it
some stupid thing I did?)

This is the error:

pkg-shlibdeps -pgimp-1:d1-print -dDepends 
debian/tmp-gimp-1.1-print/usr/lib/gimp/1.1/plug-ins/*
/usr/bin/yada compress gimp-1.1-print
find debian/tmp-gimp-1.1-print -type f -print \
  | sed -n 's/^debian\/tmp-gimp-1.1-print\(\/etc\/.*\)$/\1/p' \
> debian/tmp-gimp-1.1-print/DEBIAN/conffiles
if test ! -s debian/tmp-gimp-1.1-print/DEBIAN/conffiles; then rm -f 
debian/tmp-gimp-1.1-print/DEBIAN/conffiles; fi
/usr/bin/yada generate maintscripts gimp-1.1-print
Modification of a read-only value attempted at /usr/bin/yada line 1299, 
 line 81.
make: *** [debian/tmp-gimp-1.1-print/DEBIAN/control] Error 255


line 1299 from /usr/bin/yada is:

if (not defined $script or $script =~ s/^sh\n//s) {
  # shell script
  chomp;
  ^
  Here!

  print MAINT "#! /bin/sh\n# This maintainer script was generated by 
yada\n\nset -e\n" or die;
  if ($_ eq 'postinst') {
print MAINT 

Re: exim+fetchmail

[Timmy Douglas]

From: "Marcelo Chiapparini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: exim+fetchmail
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 11:31:11 -0500 (EST)

> Hello!
> 
> I am configuring the email in a potato box. I am connected to my ISP via
> modem. I want to use exim+fetchmail+mutt. So far I have some questions,
> and I wonder if someone in this fantastic 
> list can help me:


> 4) why the MUAs programs (for example balsa or xfmail) don't need a MTA
> for retrieve the 
> messages from the ISP (at last with pop3) but they need a MTA for sending
> the emails (via smtp)?

some MUAs can do SMTP and/or POP3. mutt can do pop3 but most people
use fetchmail instead to do it.

Harddisk controller _almost_ solved!

[Mathias Gehrung]

Hi! 
Sorry, i'm late, but i haven't had time to try.
Here' is how i worked out. I also use the Asus A7V. I plugged the Harddisk into 
hda,
booted from CD, installed Linux and checked the I/O of the Promise controller. 
Then i 
replugged the hd back into the ATA-100 controller and booted like you described 
with
the actual numbers from my board.
The next thing i'll try is to use the patch from www.linux-ide.org.
Is the speed the system accesses the hd now the same as when I use the driver 
from
the patch?

Thanks to everybody for all the help.

Mathias

>Take a look at www.linuxnewbie.org and look for an NHF (newbieized 
>help file) on ATA-66 this will tell you how to work out the memory 
>range for your promise controller. Then to install debian all you 
>will need to do is type the following at the initial boot screen 
>prompt:
>
>linux ide2=0x9400,0x9002,10
>
>your numbers may vary, the third number is the irq. If your board is 
>an ASUS A7V then these numbers are probably correct as this is the 
>board I use. 
>Once you have installed, you will need to boot the same way otherwise 
>the drive won't be found. Once you have booted you can put this line 
>in the lilo.conf file and run lilo as root to have it work 
>automatically:
>
>append="ide2=0x9400,0x9002,10"
>
>To use the secondary controller you will need an ide3= with 
>(obviously) different mem/irq values.
>
>HTH
>Barney

Re: Does unsubscribing from this list really work?

[Ringo De Smet]

On Monday 04 December 2000 22:20, you wrote:
> I can't understand all this dump stuff about failing to unsubscribe.
> under every mail it is described clearly and exactly. just follow the
> instruction.
> it does work, _defenetly_

Well yes, the instructions are clear, but for some reason, I never get 
a confirmation message. I don't even get a confirmation message if I 
try to unsubscribe through the web frontend. I tried to 
subscribe/unsubscribe with different email addresses. IT JUST DOESN'T 
WORK! *sigh*

Ringo
-- 
**  Ringo De Smet Ringo.DeSmet AT bigfoot.com  **

Re: konquerer won't run ...

[Bruce Sass]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Adam Shand wrote:
> what about getting konqueror to support ssl?  it's supposed to do it but
> where  do i enable it?  when i go to an ssl site i get told that konqueror
> doesn't support ssl?!?

Hmmm, I'm not networked...
Ivan has a bunch of ssl and crypto stuff at kde.tdyc.com (http or ftp),
I can only assume it works.  The debian-kde ml archives also have
something about crypto, iirc.


later,

Bruce

Re: coping with a high-volume mailing list (like this one)?

[Chad '^chewie' Walstrom]

Here's my setup:

Software

nmh - A set of electronic mail handling programs.
mutt - Text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading.
fetchmail-ssl - POP2/3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder (with ssl support)
sendmail - A powerful mail transport agent.
procmail - Versatile e-mail processor.

I like nmh for it's strength on the command line, it's WONDERFUL
regexp matching,  and for it's organization of email messages as
separate files organized under directories.  Mutt is a very nice
ncurses CUI to interface with the mailboxes when I'm too lazy to do it
from the shell and when I want to see articles in a threaded
presentation.  Fetchmail-ssl is essential for grabbing my email from
the number of different SSL enabled IMAP/POP servers.  Procmail, of
course, is great for writing filtering recipes for my email so that
everything gets put into place.

To make this all work together, I've written a small shell script to
create new list directories at the beginning of the month (inspired by
the procmailex(5) man page).

# SCRIPT BEGINS --
#!/bin/bash
# Folder manager for the ~/Mail folder
# by Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

# Move to the Mail directory
builtin cd ~/Mail

# make sure we have a list
[ 0 -eq ${#1} ] && exit 0

# Assign the lists
LIST=${1}
YEARMONTH=`date +%Y%m`

if [ ! -d ${LIST}.${YEARMONTH} ] ; then
mkdir ${LIST}.${YEARMONTH}
fi

if [ -a ${LIST} ] && [ -L ${LIST} ] ; then
rm ${LIST}
elif [ -a ${LIST} ] ; then
mv ${LIST} ${LIST}.bak
fi

ln -s ${LIST}.${YEARMONTH} ${LIST}
touch ${LIST}/.mh_sequences
# SCRIPT ENDS 

The recipe I use to launch this is:

# RECIPE BEGINS --
MONTH=`date +%Y%m`

:0:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{
:0 Wic
* test -d list-foo.${MONTH}
| listln list-foo

:0:
list-foo/.
}
# RECIPE ENDS 

Additional Tools

abook - A text-based ncurses address book application.
lbdb - The little brother's database for the mutt mail reader
muttzilla - Launch email or news clients from Netscape.
procmail-lib - A library of useful procmail recipes.
junkfilter - A junk-email filtering program for procmail
spamfilter - Filter spam from incoming mail
dotfile-procmail - Dotfile Generator, module for procmail

Documentation
-
mh-book - MH & nmh: Email for Users & Programmers online book
sendmail-doc - A powerful mail transport agent.

-- 
Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 http://www.wookimus.net/


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Re: Modules not showing up after compile - why?

[Harry Henry Gebel]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 03:04:53PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 04 Dec 2000, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 12:16:35PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > However, lsmod and modprobe show nothing: there is no /proc/ksyms or
> > > /proc/modules.
> > > Questions: why don't these things show up, and how does the kernel work
> > > if the modules aren't there?
> > Did you run LILO after you installed the kernel? If you didn't you are
> > probably still booting into your old kernel. If you run `dmesg` you will
> > get a list off all the boot-up messages; the first one will include the
> > data the kernel was compiles. If you enabled modules you should have
> > /proc/modules even if it's empty (assuming you have /proc mounted).
> You're right; I had the wrong kernel loaded!
> Now that I've got the right one, I again can't use sound or access my
> parallel port.  I get:
>   The kernel does not recognize /dev/sda1 as a block device
>   (maybe insmod driver?)
>   Opening /dev/audio: no such device.
> I don't know which drivers to install with insmod. Anyway, I thought the
> kernel was supposed to call these things automatically?

I don't know much about setting up module autoloading, but I'm sure
somebody on the list can tell you more, make the subject "setting up module
autoloading" or something similar to get their attention. Still, I get on
pretty good without it using modprobe. Modprobe is a program loads a driver
and any other drivers that driver depends on.

The command for an older zip drive is `modprobe ppa`, or for a newer one
`modprobe imm`. On some systems I can't get ppa to load while lp is loaded,
if you have this problem run `rmmod lp` to unload the lp driver first.

The configuration of the sound card must be setup before you can load the
sound driver, if you use the ALSA modules they can be configured with a
program called `alsaconf`, I don't know what the configuration program is
for the OSS drivers, but I'm sure there is one.

My usual policy is to compile anything I use 100% of the time into the
kernel, so when I was using OSS I always compiled it into the kernel. I
usually have the following compiled as modules.

IDE CDROM drive
Floppy drive
Serial ports
ppp
Zip drive
ALSA (only because I don't know how to compile them into the kernel)

I don't compile lp support at all, but if you have a printer attached to
the computer you will need that too, if you do you definitely want to
compile it as a module so you can unload it if it decides not to get along
with ppa (although if they were getting along when they were both compiled
in they will probably get along with both as modules, but I have found this
to vary from system to system.)

I haven't done anything to set up module autoloading but everything loads
automatically except ppa. (and ALSA, but alsaconf sets that up to get
loaded during boot-up so it is functionally the same as being loaded
automatically.) If you look in /proc/modules you will probaly see that some
at least have already been loaded for you. The modules are in
subdirectories of /lib/modules/kernel-version-number , if you need to know
the name of a driver you can usually figure it out by digging around in
there (the name of the module is the file name with the .o removed, so the
ppa driver is ppa.o , etc.)
 
-- 
Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382
West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Does unsubscribing from this list really work?

[Willi Dyck]

I can't understand all this dump stuff about failing to unsubscribe.
under every mail it is described clearly and exactly. just follow the
instruction.
it does work, _defenetly_


Ringo De Smet wrote:

> On Tuesday 28 November 2000 07:31, Nate Amsden wrote:
> > be sure your mail client(s) send plain text email, i once had a user
> > emailing me(as admin of some small mailing lists) he could not get
> > on, i saw the output from the mail server and his mail had al kinds
> > of crap(html or something) that was confusing the mailer. if possible
> > use the method at the end of all the debian-user emails to
> > subscribe/unsubscribe(or use the web interface?? havent tried that
> > myself) or be sure to turn off any extras int he mail client ..
>
> Well, if you read my original message carefully, you would have noticed
> that I also tried unsubscribing through the webinterface. The web
> interface doesn't work either. As mail client, I use KMail which is in
> my opinion a decent MUA. I myself dislike HTML mail and alike, so I
> only write mail in plain text.
>
> Are other people also having problems to unsubscribe from debian-user?
>
> Ringo
> --
> **  Ringo De Smet Ringo.DeSmet AT bigfoot.com  **
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt question

[Harry Henry Gebel]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 10:41:19AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> while in the index of a mail folder other than /var/spool/mail/me, say
> $HOME/Mail/mysavedmsgs, i'd like to bind the left arrow key to bring me
> back to the index of /var/spool/mail/me.
> can't figure out how to do that.  anyone know the answer off hand?

I use the following line in .muttrc

macro index C "c!\n" "Change to mail spool"

Change 'C' to '' (I think) for the left arrow key. This will also
change you to the mail spool if you are already in it.



-- 
Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382
West Dover Hundred, Delaware

Re: Mount ftp fs

[csj]

On Tuesday 05 December 2000 01:18, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:49:06PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote:
> > I think the midnight commander can simulate something like that.
>
> MC works quite well for that.  There do seem to be some limitations,
> though that are probably related to the limits of the FTP protocol.  For
> instance, I wanted to copy a directory and its contents (other subs
> owned by root) from one machine to another, but recreate the structure
> in my home dir.  It couldn't do it, but mc will do it on a local system
> normally.  Otherwise, mc works very well for manipulating another
> filesystem through FTP.  You'll be limited unless you allow FTP
> connections to root (dangerous), though.
>
> - Nate >>

If this is what the original post meant, then Konqueror (of KDE fame) does it 
better. Or is it prettier?

Re: konquerer won't run ...

[Adam Shand]

> You may also want to subscribe to debian-kde@lists.debian.org (low
> volume, so far :).

cool, thanks i'll check that out.

what about getting konqueror to support ssl?  it's supposed to do it but
where  do i enable it?  when i go to an ssl site i get told that konqueror
doesn't support ssl?!?

adam.

Re: problem running StarOffice as non-root

[Willi Dyck]

Hi,

I've had exactly the same problem as you have.
I can only say what other users told you.
Deinstall soffice and install it as root with ./setup /net if you
have not done it yet. Then do a ./setup with every user you want.
bye

Agner-Nichols wrote:

> I installed StarOffice (5.2) as root to an i586 running Debian with a 2.2.12
> kernel and KDE as the desktop (using Corel 1.1.2).  It runs fine as root,
> but I cannot figure out how to get it to run as non-root.  Have tried
> symlinking /usr/local/office52/soffice to the user's home (and that just
> starts the install script that errors because it can't find
> /usr/local/office52/user/sofficerc) as well symlinking
> /root/.kde/share/applnk/staroffice to the user's home and neither worked.
> (Looks like there is read/execute for user throughout the path for the first
> strategy, and yeah, I really didn't think the symlink to /root would work,
> but what the heck)
>
> Any ideas?  Is this a general problem with any non-deb binary I install?  I
> glanced through the O'Reilley Running Linux to see if it had anything about
> installing/managing binaries and didn't notice anything.
>
> thanks in advance
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How to load a mismatching module

[Jozef Skvarcek]

Hello,

I am having diffuculty loading a `aacraid' module into the kernel.
The module is for Dell's PERC RAID controller. The module is compiled 
with 2.2.16-22 (RH7) kernel. Resulting 'o' file is copied to linux
boot diskette with kernel 2.2.14. Then when I boot a system (with the
RAID card) with the diskette, `depmod -a' gives "unresoved symbol(s)".
Similar error is generated by `modprobe'. 
How could I make the module load, if possible at all?

Thanks,
Jozef

samba 2.0.7 vs. 2.0.5

[sc]

I was upgrading various packages and upped samba from 2.0.5 to 2.0.7 
while maintaining the original smb.conf.  Although the upgrade went off 
without a hitch, I was never able to reconnect my Win9x machines back to 
the server.  When I got rid of 2.0.7 and replaced it back with 2.0.5, 
everything returned back to normal.

I thought I saw some sort of posting here or elsewhere that mentioned 
that 2.0.7 works with kernels 2.2.x but not 2.0.x (mine) ?  Does this 
sound about right, or is there something wrong with my smb.conf?  Also, 
is there any particular compelling reason to upgrade to 2.0.7 as 2.0.5 
seems to work pretty well for us?

TIA,

Steve

pump doesn't get ip

[Esko Lehtonen]

Hi List!

I have a problem configuring my debian potato to use dhcp. I'm
connected to the Internet via cable modem. The network card is
configured to irq=10 and io=0x300. The module is smc-ultra. The card
should be ok.

When I start 'pump', it tries to get dynamic ip from server using
dhcp, but fails everytime. When 'pump' is trying to get the ip,
'ifconfig' shows this:


eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:C0:57:6D:DE  
  UP BROADCAST RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
  Interrupt:10 Base address:0x310 Memory:cc000-d 

loLink encap:Local Loopback  
  inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
  UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
  RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
  TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
  collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

In the output ip address is not defined and the Base address is 0x310,
though
the card is using base address 0x300.

/var/log/syslog shows following messages:

Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: PUMP: sending discover 
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: opcode: 1
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: hw: 1
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: hwlength: 6
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: hopcount: 0
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: id: 0x6d13df9e
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: secs: 0
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: flags: 0x   0
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: ciaddr: 0.0.0.0
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: yiaddr: 0.0.0.0
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: server_ip: 0.0.0.0
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: bootp_gw_ip: 0.0.0.0
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: hwaddr: 
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: servername: 
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: bootfile: 
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: vendor: 0x63 0x53 0x82 0x63
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: vendor:  53   1 0x 1
Dec  4 22:43:31 debian pumpd[431]: breq: vendor: 0xff
Dec  4 22:43:41 debian kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt?
TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=999.

Does anyone have any ideas what's wrong. I used 'dhcpcd' in my former
debian, and I have tried it in this new installation but without
success.

Thanks!

Esko

Re: How to purge and reinstall XFree86 [woody] ?

[Scott Patterson]

>Ouch
>
>I've gotten myself into a real dill of a pickle.  I run woody, but
>around Thanksgiving I hadn't upgraded for weeks.  I did "apt-get upgrade"
>which screwed up KDE and X.  After "apt-get dist-upgrade", uninstalling and
>reinstalling KDE (from 1.x to 2.x), and making a symlink from the X binary to
>xserver-3dlabs, I got things working.
>
>Or so I thought.
>
>Last night, I did another "apt-get upgrade" and X would no longer
>start.  I tried using "apt-get remove" on xserver-common, and whatever other
>xfree86 related packages I could find.  I made sure all the xfree86 version
>3.x stuff was gone.  Then I did "apt-get install" for the various version 4
>packages.

"dpkg --purge xserver-svga" should clean out all the cobwebs.

>Finally, I did xf86cfg, which is supposed to try to autodetect my
>hardware, then give me configuration options.  It did give me an X screen
>with a cursor, but it hung after that.  I rebooted, and now it just seems
>like it keeps trying to start the X server.  It shows the VGA text startup
>screen, blinks a minute, then goes back to that screen.

Try running "dexter". Rumor has it works much better than xf86cfg.

>I can't even log in on the console!!  I'm going to bring another
>machine home tonight so I can ssh in to try to fix this, but can anybody give
>me pointers as to what I need to do?

I believe you can tell your computer which run-level to start with at the LILO
prompt (assuming you're using LILO). IIFC, simply typing 2 and enter, will start
you at run-level 2 (no X-Server running...plain ole console mode). Check some
documentation on this feature of LILO on the net as I could be incorrect. I know
you can do this (specify the run-level at boot time), but I forget how.

If this fails, ssh into your box and edit your /etc/inittab and set the
run-level from 5 to 2. This way, X won't start up upon booting the machine,
thus, making debugging much easier. Once you've got X running fine, you can
switch back to run-level 5 to use you display manager (xdm/gdm/kdm).

Scott

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #704

[nilly]

** Original Message **
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TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Today's Topics:
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>  Re: CD to MP3 Util[ Jens Gecius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
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>  How to make useful boot disk (was: R  [ Jiri Klouda <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
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>  Re: Command to determine resolution   [ David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
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>  RE: executable compatible with Debia  [ "Kenrick, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
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>  Re: UNIX help [ "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL 
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>  Re: Configure networking? [ "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL 
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>  Re: gpg: "Warning: using shared memo  [ kmself@ix.netcom.com ]
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>  Re: umlauts-in-terminal/console-prob  [ Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
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>  Re: Xwrapper.config -- values for al  [ "Eric G . Miller"  ]
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>  Re: UNIX help [ Bek Oberin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
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Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #703

[nilly]

** Original Message **
FROM: debian-user@lists.debian.org
SENT: Fri 12/01/2000 8:57 AM
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SUBJECT:  debian-user-digest Digest V100 #703

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>  Re: CD to MP3 Util[ John Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
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>  Re: StartX error  [ kmself@ix.netcom.com ]
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>  Re: startkde  [ Robert Epprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
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>  Re: Command to determine resolution   [ "Ray Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
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>  Re: startkde  [ David Bellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
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>  Re: Why non-free (was Re: unzip - ag  [ Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
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>  Re: Who is 'nobody'?  [ Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL 
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>  Re: Help: Trouble updating Slink ->   [ Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
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Re: xinetd vs. inetd

[Matus \"fantomas\" Uhlar]

-> Is it better to user xinetd vs. regular inetd on a firewall box ?

it's better to use xinetd then inetd at all.

-> Also, why isn't xinetd used in debian by default ?

1. its harder to configure (but more powerful)
2. update-inetd doesn't recognize its format (afaik)

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truetype fonts and netscape css

[Peter Jay Salzman]

dear all,

i still have three problems with my newly installed woody:

1- netscape is ignoring all CSS.  any suggestions?  i have javascript and
   style sheets enabled.  i'm using woody's 4.76.  any suggestions?

2- some of my truetype fonts are being ignored.  for instance, i can use
   1979.ttf in netscape and gimp, but not 200proof.ttf.   does anyone
   happen to know why this would be?

3- there seem to be packages missing:

xmms recommends libogg0
libogg0 does not appear to be available
xmms recommends libvorbis0
libvorbis0 does not appear to be available

libesd0 recommends esound-clients
esound-clients does not appear to be available

   are other people finding the same problems with these package?

thanks to all!  :)
pete


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Re: konquerer won't run ...

[Rick]

I just did this last night for the purpose of promoting debian to my gf.

To do so, they say to add
deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main crypto optional qt1apps
or the miror
deb http://kde.rap.ucar.edu potato main crypto optional qt1apps

to your /etc/apt/source.list---but I needed to append /debian to the URL,
and didn't use the words crypto, optional, or qa1apps (but never tried
either).

After that, apt-get update, then I believe I did
apt-get install kdebase konqueror konsole

and startx startkde 
after terminating xdm.  The new KDE is pretty and crisp, but I really like
wmaker.

note, this is as I recall so there may be a few tweaks or such
required...check the ftp site for filenames and directory structure.

have fun
rick

Adam Shand writes:

> 
> i just tried to switch from windowmaker (which i've been using for
> years) to kde2.  i did:
> 
> # apt-get install task-kde
> # echo "startkde" > ~/.xsession
> # startx
> 
> when i run kde most things won't run and i get a lot of segfaults.  when i
> open the control panel there's nothing in there.  no modules, no icons.  
> when i try and run konquerer (really the reason i'm trying kde cause i'm
> sick of netscape) it won't even start.
> 
> is this something that has a known fix?  i'm running a mostly woody system
> (it was pototo but large chucks of it have been upgraded as needed).
> 
> adam.
> 
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updated mount packages for Potato

[Fred Gray]

Hi,

The recent Debian 2.2r2 release shipped with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel, which 
includes significant changes to the Network File System (NFS) code. 
Unfortunately, it did not come with a version of "mount" that is needed to
support these changes.

Consequently, I rebuilt the mount, bsdutils, and util-linux packages from
woody from source on a potato machine (with "apt-get source --compile mount").  
If anyone is interested, I put the i386 binary packages up on the Web:

http://www.npl.uiuc.edu/~fegray/util-linux-2.10q/

This is not an apt-able repository, just a directory. 

Thanks,

-- Fred

Re: Does unsubscribing from this list really work?

[Ringo De Smet]

On Tuesday 28 November 2000 07:31, Nate Amsden wrote:
> be sure your mail client(s) send plain text email, i once had a user
> emailing me(as admin of some small mailing lists) he could not get
> on, i saw the output from the mail server and his mail had al kinds
> of crap(html or something) that was confusing the mailer. if possible
> use the method at the end of all the debian-user emails to
> subscribe/unsubscribe(or use the web interface?? havent tried that
> myself) or be sure to turn off any extras int he mail client ..

Well, if you read my original message carefully, you would have noticed 
that I also tried unsubscribing through the webinterface. The web 
interface doesn't work either. As mail client, I use KMail which is in 
my opinion a decent MUA. I myself dislike HTML mail and alike, so I 
only write mail in plain text.

Are other people also having problems to unsubscribe from debian-user?

Ringo
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undefining m4 macro in sendmail.mc (fwd)

[Adam Shand]

answering my own question ... doh.  i couldn't find documentation for this
anywhere but the obvious works.  in order to undefine a previously defined
m4 variable just put this in the local /etc/mail/sendmail.mc:

undefine(`confHOST_STATUS_DIRECTORY')dnl

easy.  duh.

adam.

-- Forwarded message --
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 11:52:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian User List 
Subject: undefining m4 macro in sendmail.mc


hey.

i just ran into a sendmail problem i haven't had to deal with before.  
the hoststatus stuff is messing with my laptop (it check when my laptop
isn't connected and remembers that it can't get to hosts even after i plug
the ethernet in  i just forced about 20 messages from over the last
two days off my laptop that i hadn't noticed were stuck in the queue).

so here's my question.  this is included in .../ostype/debian.m4:

define(`confHOST_STATUS_DIRECTORY', `/var/lib/sendmail/host_status')dnl

without modifing the debian.m4 file (which i don't want to do because my
chagnes will get overwritten next time i upgrade) how do i underfine the
confHOST_STATUS_DIRECTORY setting in my /etc/mail/sendmail.mc?

just setting it to `' doesn't do it.

adam.

Re: /usr/tmp instead of /tmp

[Lee Maguire]

[2000-12-04] Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote:
> Well, i have /tmp as symlink to /vr/tmp (and /var is on another partition,

making /tmp a symlink to /var/tmp is usually fine.  The only caveat I'm
aware of is that it changes some standard "housekeeping" issues.

Much of /tmp is intended to be wiped on boot, whereas /var/tmp should
not be wiped on boot.  If /tmp is a symlink then /var/tmp will be
pruned by /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh

> while /usr is on the same as root) because of space,quotas and also because
> of my personal opinion is - partitions where directories like /usr and /
> exists should NOT be writable for users.

Well, normally when someone ends up with a /var deficit and plenty of
room in /usr (especially on a workstation, rather than a server) there's
simple and rational advice I give out: that is to shake uncontrollably
shouting "not FHS! not FHS! Gotta fdisk! Gotta fdisk!" in a nasal Dustin
Hoffman voice.

-- 
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How to purge and reinstall XFree86 [woody] ?

[Brian Boonstra]

Ouch

I've gotten myself into a real dill of a pickle.  I run woody, but  
around Thanksgiving I hadn't upgraded for weeks.  I did "apt-get upgrade"  
which screwed up KDE and X.  After "apt-get dist-upgrade", uninstalling and  
reinstalling KDE (from 1.x to 2.x), and making a symlink from the X binary to  
xserver-3dlabs, I got things working.

Or so I thought.

Last night, I did another "apt-get upgrade" and X would no longer  
start.  I tried using "apt-get remove" on xserver-common, and whatever other  
xfree86 related packages I could find.  I made sure all the xfree86 version  
3.x stuff was gone.  Then I did "apt-get install" for the various version 4  
packages.

Finally, I did xf86cfg, which is supposed to try to autodetect my  
hardware, then give me configuration options.  It did give me an X screen  
with a cursor, but it hung after that.  I rebooted, and now it just seems  
like it keeps trying to start the X server.  It shows the VGA text startup  
screen, blinks a minute, then goes back to that screen.

I can't even log in on the console!!  I'm going to bring another  
machine home tonight so I can ssh in to try to fix this, but can anybody give  
me pointers as to what I need to do?

I'm tempted to try the nuclear option -- back up the homedirs, dpkg  
--get-selections, wipe the disk, and start fresh.  But that's inelegant, and  
lots of work.  i would really appreciate other ideas.


Thanks,

Brian

undefining m4 macro in sendmail.mc

[Adam Shand]

hey.

i just ran into a sendmail problem i haven't had to deal with before.  
the hoststatus stuff is messing with my laptop (it check when my laptop
isn't connected and remembers that it can't get to hosts even after i plug
the ethernet in  i just forced about 20 messages from over the last
two days off my laptop that i hadn't noticed were stuck in the queue).

so here's my question.  this is included in .../ostype/debian.m4:

define(`confHOST_STATUS_DIRECTORY', `/var/lib/sendmail/host_status')dnl

without modifing the debian.m4 file (which i don't want to do because my
chagnes will get overwritten next time i upgrade) how do i underfine the
confHOST_STATUS_DIRECTORY setting in my /etc/mail/sendmail.mc?

just setting it to `' doesn't do it.

adam.

Re: Gnome

[Rick]

try /etc/init.d/xdm stop
because xdm is still running.  I have had issues with this in the past
(though I believe it should work) and needed to find running xdm processes
(ps -ef|grep xdm) and kill them and then do /etc/init.d/xdm stop again.

Basically, if you hit ctl-alt-f7 and get something X-ish then xdm (or at
least X!) is still running.  

rick

Robert Feri writes:

> I've installed Debian 2.2 with gnome packages, but my default environment is 
> TWM. Do you guys have any idea hot to change that.
> I've tried to go in konsole and type "startx gnome-session", but an error 
> message applys:
> "Fatal server error
> Cannot establish any listening socket - Make sure an X server isn't already 
> running."
> 
> Thank you very much !
> Robert
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Re: mutt: don't jump over deleted messages

[kmself]

on Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 10:35:39AM +0100, Timo Benk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> How can I tell mutt that the cursor should not jump over deleted messages.

+ will include deleted messages.  E.g.:  -n
hits next message, deleted or otherwise, -p, prior.

I find I like the default behavior.

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Ruby 1.6: problems with libgtk and libgnome on Potato

[Johann Spies]

I have downloaded the source of ruby 1.6 and its associated packages
from Woody, compiled it on my Potato system and installed it.  

libgtk-ruby and libgnome-ruby work only partially.

When I try to run ruby on some libgtk examples, the following happens
(also with about any other libgtk-test program):

--
$ruby test1.rb
test1.rb:44: uninitialized constant CAN_DEFAULT (NameError)

$ruby drawing.rb 
drawing.rb:32: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.6.2 (2000-11-27) [i486-linux]
Aborted
-

ruby helloworld.rb works. 

On libgnome-ruby I had a little more success.  However there are also
problems:

-
$ruby app-helper.rb 
app-helper.rb:85: parse error
app-helper.rb:114: parse error
  Gnome::App::PIXMAP_STOCK, Gnome::Stock::PIXMAP_BOOK_RED, 0, 0, ni; ],
^
app-helper.rb:117: parse error
etc.
--

When I try to run some other test programs from libgnome-ruby, nothing
happens and there are no error messages.

I must mention that I installed some helix gnome packages from Storm
Linux.  Actually I just installed Storm's package system and the helix
packages came with it as part of the dependencies.

Other information:

$gtk-config --version
1.2.8

I an a ruby newbie and would like to explore libgtk-ruby and
libgnome-ruby on my potato system.

I hope somebody can help me to get it going.

Johann

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  Therefore despise thou not the chastening of the  
  Almighty." Job 5:17 

Re: swap size

[David Wright]

Quoting John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> David Wright writes:
> > I get the impression that the rule Swap = N * Physical RAM dates from the
> > time when men were men, swapfiles were swapfiles, and systems actually
> > swapped.
> 
> I used to run System III on an Onyx (no paging: just swap).  No 2x rule.  I
> believe that some versions of BSD required that swap = 2 * physical RAM for
> reasons that have escaped me.

... and yet HP-UX, which is meant to be closer to SystemV than BSD,
says "The minimum recommendation is twice as much swap space as
physical memory." and "Swap space should not be less than the amount
of physical memory in your system." yet it is paging, not swapping.

Mind you, it would appear obvious that you can't swap between two
maximum-sized processes unless you have swap >= 2*RAM.

Cheers,

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Re: where is mkfontdir? bleah...

[Defresne Sylvain]

Hello

* Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> dear all,
> 
> i just upgraded to woody.  it was very cool, but i lost access to my true
> type fonts.  here is output of startx:
> 
>(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/truetype".
>Entry deleted from font path.
>(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/truetype").
> 
> the trouble is, there's no mkfontdir on my system.

`mkfontdir' is in the `xutils' package, but for truetype fonts,
you need `mkttfdir' from the `fttools' package.

> where can i find this utility?
> 
> thanks!
> pete

Bye
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DEFRESNE Sylvain


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