Re: Getting off-line version of debian manual
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:04:24PM +1000, Michael Glickman wrote: > > Is there a way to read the manual off-line (e.g. a tarball that has all > html's or a postscript version) ? > > Awaiting reply impatiently. > > Michael Package: debian-guide Version: 1.0.0 Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-i386/doc/debian-guide_1.0.0.deb Description: Text from: Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage This package will install the full text in HTML and PostScript formats from the book "Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage" by Debian developers John Goerzen and Ossama Othman (ISBN 0-7357-0914-9). You can find the installed items under /usr/doc/debian-guide. Of course, you can also download it with the same path on the ftp, or go to the usual link from Debian and try there the very good program (although complicated, as always) wget. If you don't have a Debian machine running near, another program for Windoze that will follow the links and download all the pages, like wget, is one called webcopier, free as beer. Best, Ignasi _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: DPMS not working
Try putting Option "DPMS" in the Monitor section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config. Though be warned that, as others have mentioned, DPMS may do weird bad things with X4, like crash your X server. -chris Michael Abraham Shulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Does anyone have any ideas why my DPMS features stopped working > sometime around the time I upgraded to XFree86 4? `xset q' says: > > DPMS (Energy Star): > Standby: 1200Suspend: 1800Off: 2400 > DPMS is Enabled > Monitor is On > > But no matter how long the computer sits idle, DPMS never seems to be > enabled. Also `xset dpms force ' doesn't do anything. > > \\// | R | T R | L B | //\\ ~ Michael Abraham Shulman > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://kurukshetra.cjb.net/ ~ GnuPG Public Key #21A279E5 > > DEFAME, v.t. To lie about another. To tell the truth about another. > -- Ambrose Bierce
Re: RESOLVED: all mail getting deferred
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 19:53:01 -0800, Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >load at the time was 0.00-0.01 ..the machine is well equipped with a >k6-3 400(256k full speed cache) 2MB l3 cache, 256MB ram .. > >wish sendmail(and other MTAs in general) would give more information ... >exim and postfix didn't give any useful errors either:( don't some give the full smtp talk or is that just mine?
Strange error message with apt
Hello, I am running a woody box, and I recently started getting a weird error message whenever I install packages. It doesn't matter what package it is, I get the error every time. It says: (in cleanup) Can't call method "DESTROY" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Question.pm line 151 during global destruction. (in cleanup) Can't call method "close" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/ConfModule.pm line 301 during global destruction. Does anyone know if this is a bug or is my system messed up? Everything seems to be running fine. The packages still install okay, I just get this weird error. Thanks. Casey -- Casey Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.umaine.edu/~hender97/
Re: Xemacs 21.1 and Gnus 5.8.3
On Wednesday 06 December 2000 09:14, Nate Bargmann wrote: > Yesterday I updated to 2.2r2 and decided to give Xemacs and Gnus a > try (I had been playing with Emacs 20.7 and Gnus 5.7 and it worked > fine). The problem seems to be that Gnus is ignoring the > .newsrc-dribble file and is reading the entire active file from my > ISP's news server. Check your setting for gnus-read-active-file. *Non-nil means that Gnus will read the entire active file at startup. If this variable is nil, Gnus will only know about the groups in your `.newsrc' file. You probably want 'nil' or 'some'. -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.
Re: Can't run X after upgrade
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:49:20PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:41:22PM -0600, Cheng H. Lee wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:22:46PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > > > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > > > > > > For the recent XFree86 4.0.x package, check in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config > > Set "allowed_users=console". If you run xdm (or gdm), it has to be set > > to "anybody" > > Are you sure about that? That would certainly be a change from previous > versions of X. Mine says rootonly and gdm works fine... Yes...don't know about the reasoning behind the change. On my machine, it's set to "anybody" to allow me to run gdm and use startx. If it's set to "console", gdm doesn't seem to work; setting it to "rootonly" prevents me from using startx. Also, I had a problem about gdm not respawning the X server properly after logging out when it was set to "rootonly". "anybody" seems to be the only option that allows me to do both. YMMV. Cheng
Re: anacron wrote me
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 10:57:44PM +0100, Andre Berger wrote: > 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: > ... > > What should I answer? :) It looks like your system corrected the permission on /etc/aliases itself. You don't have to do anything. It looks to me like your /etc/aliases used to have permission 664, and your anacron script noticed and warned you, and also fixed the permission by itself. So you should not have to do anything. But don't change the permission of /etc/aliases back to 664... if you are having problems with reading /etc/aliases in one of your applications, then the solution is not changing the permission on /etc/aliases but some other approach. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your signature. This email was infected under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Re: Can't run X after upgrade
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:41:22PM -0600, Cheng H. Lee wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:22:46PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > > > For the recent XFree86 4.0.x package, check in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config > Set "allowed_users=console". If you run xdm (or gdm), it has to be set > to "anybody" > Thanks! That fixed it. jdk
Re: Xdefaults being ignored?
> Brian Potkin writes: bp> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:09:36PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler bp> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have the weirdest problem: Whatever I enter into my >>> ~/.Xdefaults seems to be ignored entirely. I tried to make my >>> mouse wheel work with netscape; pasted the relevant lines from >>> http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ to >>> ~/.Xdefaults - nothing. I edited (for test purposes) >>> ~/.Xdefaults to look like this: --- xterm*background: white >>> xterm*foreground: black >>> >>> --- Xterm is still white text on a black background (I tried >>> different capitalizations of 'xterm', also). I really don't >>> understand what's going on. I am running the latest Woody >>> with XF4.0.1 and gnome/sawfish. Any ideas, anyone? bp> Try creating the file ~/.Xresources instead. I think this is bp> used by X on Debian rather than ~/.Xdefaults. If that doesn't work, you might need to put the line xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults in your ~/.xsession. Cheers, Chris
Re: FTP Downloading
Hi: If you have a cdrom writer, you can download ISO image from many anonymous FTP servers. Otherwise, I recommend you to buy a Debian cdrom set. It is possible to download the whole distribution directory structure to your hard drive and install it, but I don't think it's worth all the troubles you will go through. I usually download ISO images from Linuxberg (www.linuxberg.com). It's not the fastest but I find it pretty reliable. If you want to buy a cdrom set, check your local computer store and if they don't have one, you can order from online Linux vendors. I've never ordered from those websites so I can't really tell you which one is good but you could try Cheapbytes(www.cheapbytes.com) or Linux Mall(www.linuxmall.com). They both have cheap cdroms that come without manuals. Seung-woo Nam - Original Message - From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 10:18 PM Subject: FTP Downloading > I am new to Linux and would like to download it via FTP. > How to I use FTP to log in and where do I find the correct files > for download. > Do the downloaded files have to be saved in a particular location? > > Thanks > > Chris Hax > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: Getting off-line version of debian manual
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 02:04:24PM +1000, Michael Glickman wrote: > Is there a way to read the manual off-line (e.g. a tarball that has all > html's or a postscript version) ? If you mean the install and usage guide: apt-get install debian-guide There are a huge number of prepackaged docs in the package list, so whatever you are looking for is probably in there. -- Harry Henry Gebel, ICQ# 76308382 West Dover Hundred, Delaware
Re: RESOLVED: all mail getting deferred
load at the time was 0.00-0.01 ..the machine is well equipped with a k6-3 400(256k full speed cache) 2MB l3 cache, 256MB ram .. wish sendmail(and other MTAs in general) would give more information ... exim and postfix didn't give any useful errors either:( nate Damian Menscher wrote: > > Random idea: sendmail will defer mail if the load on the machine is too > high. Maybe you had several hung processes that finally timed out? > > Damian > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I don't know how..or why .. but when i got in to work today i checked my > > system at home and all mail was delivered(haven't gone bakc in the logs > > yet), i sent another test mail from 2 different internet accounts and both > > arrived without being deferred. > > > > thats a big relief. maybe the DNS on that machine was out of whack and > > needed time to re synch. > > > > maybe santa cracked into my machine and fixed it or something..it is that > > time of the year . > > > > nate > > > > ::: > > http://www.aphroland.org/ > > http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 9:38am up 81 days, 18:56, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00 > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > > Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:34:28 -0800 > > From: Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: all mail getting deferred > > Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 23:57:05 -0800 > > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > > very curious problem here, before i goto sleep i think i need to post to > > see if anyone knows what is goin on. > > > > i have one of my servers here on a fast DSL line, static ip, both > > forward and reverse DNS working, i even have a MX record pointed at it > > for one of my domains(linuxpowered.net), however all mail to it gets > > deferred by sendmail. I have also tried Postfix and exim and got similar > > results(mail would arrive but not get delivered. since it seems to be a > > generic mail issue i prefer to stick to sendmail on this as that is what > > i've been using for years(what i know ...at least i think i know). > > forcing the sendmail queue results in: > > > > Running VAA08195 (sequence 7 of 11) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Connecting to local... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Deferred > > > > for each of the messages, everything, localhost email, real domain email > > ..alternate vhost email everything is deferred. the real domain for this > > machine is portal.aphroland.org/216.39.174.24, i pointed the MX of > > linuxpowered.net to see if it was isolated for 1 domain and it is not. > > sendmail is configured to accept mail for both domains(and more), > > everything seems fine .. portal.aphroland.org has a A record for it ..i > > can send mail to it, sendmail accepts it, just refuses to deliver. .. > > > > i don't think it is related but earlier tonight i installed cyrus imapd > > to test it out, is there anything special to get sendmail to deliver to > > cyrus ?? when i saw incoming mail wasn't going to cyrus i re-ran > > sendmailconfig, at that point i noticed the domain i was using was no > > longer valid, so i updated to reflect the new domainname and have been > > having this deferred problem ever since. > > > > one thing about my domain aphroland.org, one of the nameservers is no > > longer valid(ns3.aphroland.org) however that does not pose any kind of a > > problem when sending mail to @aphroland.org so i can't see why it could > > possibly interfere with @portal.aphroland.org. I have even tried to set > > a MX for portal.aphroland.org with the same results ..something on my > > system is misconfigured ...i compared it to my main server > > (/etc/mailname and sendmail options) and they are almost identical . > > > > any ideas ?? > > > > tia! > > > > nate > > > > -- > > ::: > > ICQ: 75132336 > > http://www.aphroland.org/ > > http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Damian Menscher > -- > --==## Grad. student & Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- > --==## <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- > --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333-9819 ##==-- -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Deb linux compatability
Hello, THank you for your time. I was wondering if there is a Debian version available (stable or devel) that is compatible with an IBM RS/6000 PowerPC currently running AIX. We have cureently 'inherited' these machines and hope to be able to happily run Deb on these computers. Regards Mark R. Martinez # I shall pass through this world only once. Any good I can do or any kindness I can show another human being let me do it now and not defer it, for I shall not pass this way again. DEFECTIO NON OPTIO EST "Failure is not an option" I do not SUFFER from insanity I enjoy every minute of it!
Re: Can't run X after upgrade
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:41:22PM -0600, Cheng H. Lee wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:22:46PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > > > For the recent XFree86 4.0.x package, check in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config > Set "allowed_users=console". If you run xdm (or gdm), it has to be set > to "anybody" Are you sure about that? That would certainly be a change from previous versions of X. Mine says rootonly and gdm works fine... -- Eric G. Miller
RE: FTP Downloading
Title: RE: FTP Downloading Chris Hax wrote: >I am new to Linux and would like to download it via FTP. >How to I use FTP to log in and where do I find the correct files >for download. >Do the downloaded files have to be saved in a particular location? If you want to install Debian GNU/Linux via FTP, then you will need to download some floppy drive images, and then work from there (presuming whatever hardware you connect to the internet with is supported by the boot disks). Check out http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.html for more detailed installation instructions. - Chris
Re: Can't run X after upgrade
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:22:46PM -0700, JD Kitch wrote: > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. For the recent XFree86 4.0.x package, check in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config Set "allowed_users=console". If you run xdm (or gdm), it has to be set to "anybody" Cheng
Re: Xemacs 21.1 and Gnus 5.8.3
Well, I finally arrived at a work-around of sorts. I removed the Gnus 5.8.3 package and then ran the gnus included with Xemacs 21 package which happened to be Gnus 5.6.45. I found it worked just fine, so after getting the groups I wanted I used it to kill the nndoc+gnus-help:gnus-help group it installs with a new start, i.e. no ~/.newsrc* file of any sort. After doing this I re-installed Gnus 5.8.3 and find it now works flawlessly. It only retrieves the article count for the subscribed groups and the in-line MIME is fantastic! Now I just need to learn the basics of elisp and figure how to customize Xemacs and Gnus for a kick @$$ newsreader. Thanks to everyone that offered help. - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | "None can love freedom Internet | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | heartily, but good Location | Wichita, Kansas USA EM17hs | men; the rest love not Wichita area exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | freedom, but license." http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | -- John Milton
Re: problem running StarOffice as non-root
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Can't run X after upgrade
I'm currently running a Potato install that I've "upgraded" to the Progeny beta. I ran an update earlier today and frankly I didn't pay much attention to what all packages updated, but something must have changed related to X, because now I am unable to run X as any user but root as seen below: X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. I've tried the old delete of .Xauthority, and it was promptly recreated but still didn't work. I've verified /etc/X11/Xserver is usable by Console. What else could I check? Thanks! jdk
FTP Downloading
I am new to Linux and would like to download it via FTP. How to I use FTP to log in and where do I find the correct files for download. Do the downloaded files have to be saved in a particular location? Thanks Chris Hax
Sawfish default font color
How do I change my default font color in sawfish 0.34? I'm running dark-colored GTK & Sawfish themes; in a lot of apps, like GnomeCal and Gnome Control Center, the text defaults to black and thus is impossible to see... I suspect that it has something to do with the 'default-foreground' variable. However, trying to change it to white through my .sawfishrc doesn't seem to work; when checking the value in sawfish-client, it is set to white, but the font is still black. Any solutions? Thanks in advance, Cheng
Unidentified subject!
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:22:29AM -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > Is there any way to apt-get Opera, or must one just download the deb from > opera.com and use dpkg to install it? > > -Rob > AFAIK as of now, it is available for download only from the opera site or one of its mirrors. It is a *single* binary file distribution (half mb) which by default installs to /usr/bin/ You may manually place this binary file anywhere on your path, and you are rolling ! In case you are on potato download the *static* versions only. This program NEEDS the latest of KDE and QT libs, not installed in potato. HTH USM Bish
Re: boot-floppies -> unattended install
Hi, debian-devel readers: please follow-up to debian-boot debian-boot readers: sorry for the in media res cross-post but I think this is the more appropriate forum (I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong :) these are all very useful tools (FAI et al.), but not quite what I'm looking for... I don't want to duplicate an install, and we don't use DHCP for workstations around here they need fixed IP's so the users can ssh from wherever. The current "official" GNU/Linux install (what we provide and support, though don't require) involves: * the user finding a free IP address using an old and buggy hack we provide * registering the IP with a host name through a WebDNS interface * writing out a boot disk (dd or rawrite) * filling out an html form that asks basic info (is your HD <2G, IP address, do you want VMware) * copying the ks.cfg file this form generates onto the boot floppy * boot from floppy Notice the admins do *nothing* the boot disk does hardware detection (which the boot-floppy folks are dilegently working on), partitions the HD using some logic (I forget the details but it atleast provieds a "and everything else" option), sets up the base system and common packages (via NFS), then calls a post install script that sets some configs and makes the required symlinks for our NFS setup. So in short, what I want is something I can setup and not touch for a very long time, yet can handle very different hardware and provides for assigning fixed IP info, with no questions after the config file is created dynamicly via a web interface. The most hair is probably with the partitioning voodoo, the rest is not so bad (If I can convince the appropriate developers :) I think this is best implemented in the official install, though I'm probably going to need to hack something together with what's available be for the nextgen installer is ready. Hopefully the work that I have to do (lest I stay stuck with RH, which I really don't want to do after their latest round of faux pas) will beable to integrate with the ongoing work by the boot-floppy team. -jon
Getting off-line version of debian manual
Is there a way to read the manual off-line (e.g. a tarball that has all html's or a postscript version) ? Awaiting reply impatiently. Michael
big gtk fonts
I am new to debian and I have found that potato configures some HUGE gtk fonts by default. They are nice for some things, but really, they are too big. So my question is where can I set it up differently. I don't use gnome. Do I have to install gnomecc or something like that? Thanks Sebastian
Re: Exim questions..
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Greetings, > > I have a pototo(2.2) debian system on which I'm trying out exim_3-12-10 > as the Mail Transport Agent. > > Questions/Problems: > > 1. How do I delete a frozen email messages from the queue. ( I have >several test messages which are sitting there when I was trying out >/etc/aliases.) exim -Mrm ... You need to do that as root, though > 2. eximstats, exiqsumm seem to hang indefinitely. Why would this be? They're waiting for input. Try using them like this: cat /var/log/exim/mainlog | eximstats or mailq | exiqsumm > Other than these things, I'm quite happy with exim, particularly from > somone who has read the Bat book, but still needed to have it open > when configuring sendmail. I find that the exim equivalent of "the Bat book" (installed on Debian systems as /usr/share/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz) is one hell of a lot more helpful :) - -- - -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6LvjB/ZTSZFDeHPwRApt3AJ9VZxXdrwDOAM/bSu0L5vhaLISJlgCgvdyf 1iW48Gx/rtWFHDrByeUbFSU= =CYyU -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: [OT] Need to sync a directory tree _to_ a WinNT ftp server
Title: RE: [OT] Need to sync a directory tree _to_ a WinNT ftp server Peter wrote: > Is there an rsync-like tool that uses ftp only? (I couldn't find > an rsync server for NT). You could always try running Cygwin on the NT box and compile rsync from source under it. Cygwin seems to run reasonably simple Unix programs OK (I managed to get wget working under it without too many problems). Of course, YMMV :) www.cygnus.com is the URL... - Chris
Re: exim doesn't deliver
On Wed, 06 Dec 2000 21:49:16 -0200 (BRST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >Hello, > >I am trying to use exim+fetchmail. Fetchmail is fetching emails from my >ISP without problems. The problem is with exim, because after fetchmail >sends the messages to exim for local delivery, all messages are frozen in >/var/spool/exim/input and in /var/spool/msglog appear a lot of messages, >all of them saying the following: > >"local_delivery transport deferred: mailbox /var/spool/mail/myaccount has >wrong uid (0 != 1000) >*** Frozen" > >What should be the correct uid? how can I change it? looks like you made the account as root. make the user own it: chown user.group /var/spool/mail/myaccount
Re: DPMS not working
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 05:07:14PM -0800, Michael Abraham Shulman wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have any ideas why my DPMS features stopped working > sometime around the time I upgraded to XFree86 4? `xset q' says: > > DPMS (Energy Star): > Standby: 1200Suspend: 1800Off: 2400 > DPMS is Enabled > Monitor is On > > But no matter how long the computer sits idle, DPMS never seems to be > enabled. Also `xset dpms force ' doesn't do anything. No idea. I had the opposite problem. As soon as X's idea of DPMS kicked in it would kill my X session (added an Option "NoPM" "true" to turn it off). My kernel/bios configuration still does blanking and offtime; must be some weird interaction between the two. -- Eric G. Miller
Re: xfce
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Jesse Goerz wrote: > Has anyone used xfce? I'd like to try it but first wanted to get some input > on how it is. Yeah. It's a not bad to use, and it blows GNOME and KDE away as regards speed, but it's ugly as hell compared to both GNOME and KDE. It looks like CDE. > > Jesse > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- "The Information Superhighway made it possible for the average person to find out what some nerd thinks about Star Trek" http://lit.compsoc.com/ http://www.litsu.ie/ GPG Fingerprint: B6C4 9E2B C62F 1B05 FC0D F543 6800 67C7 FF5D 8291
DPMS not working
Hi, Does anyone have any ideas why my DPMS features stopped working sometime around the time I upgraded to XFree86 4? `xset q' says: DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 1200Suspend: 1800Off: 2400 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On But no matter how long the computer sits idle, DPMS never seems to be enabled. Also `xset dpms force ' doesn't do anything. \\// | R | T R | L B | //\\ ~ Michael Abraham Shulman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kurukshetra.cjb.net/ ~ GnuPG Public Key #21A279E5 DEFAME, v.t. To lie about another. To tell the truth about another. -- Ambrose Bierce pgpCRz7ESRRzw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Digital music editor?
Hi, Can anyone recommend a good digital music editor for Debian/Linux? I'd especially like one capable of slowing down a sound file without changing the pitch. Free is preferable, but commercial would be okay too if there isn't a good enough free one. \\// | R | T R | L B | //\\ ~ Michael Abraham Shulman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ jabber://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kurukshetra.cjb.net/ ~ GnuPG Public Key #21A279E5 Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein pgpLOH86SdHMb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Exim questions..
Greetings, I have a pototo(2.2) debian system on which I'm trying out exim_3-12-10 as the Mail Transport Agent. Questions/Problems: 1. How do I delete a frozen email messages from the queue. ( I have several test messages which are sitting there when I was trying out /etc/aliases.) 2. eximstats, exiqsumm seem to hang indefinitely. Why would this be? Other than these things, I'm quite happy with exim, particularly from somone who has read the Bat book, but still needed to have it open when configuring sendmail. Paul -- Paul Schulz, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Foursticks Systems Pty Ltd, http://www.foursticks.com.au Innovation House, Technology Park, MAWSON LAKES SA 5095 Mob +61 401 981 301, Ph +61 8 8343 8420, Fax +61 8 8343 8421
Re: nvidia + GL = X crash
Problems with an NVidia card and you didn't tell me? First of all, have you looked through the previous posts on this forum for any answers? Have you tryed them all? Second, it really, really, really sounds to me like you didn't specify which module to use. As root run 'lsmod' and make sure that the "NVdriver" module is loaded. Next, open up your config file. It's probably /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Make sure that its not loading the "nv" driver and is instead loading the "nvidia" driver. I believe that normal mesa doesn't work with the "nvidia" driver and causes it to crash when ever you try to startx(or whatever you do.) Using the "nv" driver it(mesa) works just fine and dandy. Mesa working (from what I understand) is not a good thing with the "nvidia" driver. Heck, mesa shouldn't even be on your machine (unless you can define all the time which GL driver to use.) If the above fails, check out my giant list of install/debug instructions to a guy with the alias of "dude." It should be in the news letter archive (its pretty recent so you shouldn't have to look too hard.) Brandt Dusthimer - Original Message - From: Bostjan Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User Mailing List Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 2:29 PM Subject: Re: nvidia + GL = X crash > * On 06-12-00 at 20:39 Terry Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > +Here quoted text begins+ > > Want to send me a log of the X crash? I want to see what might be causing it. > > > > Thanks > > > > Terry > > > +and here the quote ends+ > Log is appended.. as it seems it gets sig11 (the program was built and linked > to the previous (libMesaGL) since the progs that I have compiled with nvidia's > GL libs give this error at startup (tuxracer example): > tuxracer: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1: > undefined symbol: __glTLSCXIndex > > Bostjan > -- > Boštjan Müller [NEONATUS], [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://neonatus.net/~neonatus > For my PGP key finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED], RSA id: 0x90178DBD, ICQ #:7506644 > Celular: +386(0)41243189, Powered by Debian GNU/LiNUX , Student of VFUL > Tagline generated by 'gensig' mail-client-independent .signature generator. > Get your copy at http://www.geeks.com/~robf/gensig/ >
Re: gmc package status
No idea what that means! I have two solutions: Progeny (progeny.com) has .debs of gmc and mc-common that are compiled with the right version of glibc so you can install those and they fix the worst problems. secondly, I just installed nautilus since it was avaiable in the update today and it's really cool, don't even need gmc anymore! Good luck. -Jeff Kai Weber wrote: + Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I wrote a bug fix against gmc for many weeks ago (and I was not theonly one), but the maintainers never fixed this one, even after manyupgrades both of mc and glibc, so I think they are not interested inthis specifical user problem. I just found, that removing my FontPath line with TrueType fonts fromXF86Config-4 brings the icons back on screen. Huh. What does this mean?Kai.
Re: exim doesn't deliver
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:49:16PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to use exim+fetchmail. Fetchmail is fetching emails from my > ISP without problems. The problem is with exim, because after fetchmail > sends the messages to exim for local delivery, all messages are frozen in > /var/spool/exim/input and in /var/spool/msglog appear a lot of messages, > all of them saying the following: > > "local_delivery transport deferred: mailbox /var/spool/mail/myaccount has > wrong uid (0 != 1000) > *** Frozen" > > What should be the correct uid? how can I change it? Wild-ass guess here, but it looks like the mbox is owned by root. That's wrong, unless you regularly log in as root (and if you do you've got more problems then you thought :) Your UID is most likely 1000. This is the first UID assigned to joe user, and it's also the uid exim thinks the file should have :) Head on over to /var/spool/mail and fix the permissions. I like to use the "sudo" package when root privs are required for such activity. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpj1sNd1h0GV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: rpm -qf /path/somefile equivalent in debian
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:16:59PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > Is there an rpm -qf /some/path/file equivalent in debian? I need to find out > which package contains libGLU.so.* couse I need to recompile it to use it with > nvidia... > If anyone knows I'd really appreciate the answer.. > apt-get install dlocate dlocate libGLU.so sam th [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.abisource.com/~sam/ GnuPG Key: http://www.abisource.com/~sam/key pgpt6Y0L2s8my.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: ugh... erectile dysfunction
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:39:40PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: :Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: :> the problem is debconf, which has an undeclared dependency on perl5.6, : :Package: debconf :Depends: perl-5.6, perl-5.6-base, fileutils (>= 4.0-5), libapt-pkg2.7, libc6 (>= 2.1.97), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 : ^^^ My bad, should have checked, rather than making assumptions based on "what worked for me"
Re: One more question
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:43:55PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > Jim Lynch wrote: > > > > What ever happened to /usr/tmp? It wasn't created on this system. > > is that abnormal? i dont have /usr/tmp either ..doesn't seem to cause a > problem. It'd be abnormal if you had it as it violates FSSTND/FHS afaik. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpRP3ocdz13S.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: WM for GNOME
Hi Marcin, F12 on wmaker -> window managers -> info panel... wmaker says it's Gnome compliant. There are a pair of options in WPrefs, at the far right of the menu, regarding compatiblity with Gnome. Hope that you like Gnome (I'm also running only wmaker) Best, Ignasi On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:54:06AM +0100, Marcin Landowski wrote: > Hi > > I have never used GNOME before but I have taken an interest in > possibilities of this environment and plane to learn and use > GNOME. > I very like WindowMaker, but GNOME in Potato uses icewm or > sawmil. How can I integrity GNOME and WindowMaker to use it > together? > > best rigards > > PS. I know it is inside documentation but I'd like for an > nice start - there will be a time to study documentation _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: rpm -qf /path/somefile equivalent in debian
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:16:59PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > Is there an rpm -qf /some/path/file equivalent in debian? I need to find out > which package contains libGLU.so.* couse I need to recompile it to use it with > nvidia... > If anyone knows I'd really appreciate the answer.. Try dpkg -S /some/path/file. BTW http://www.debianplanet.org had a posting a little while ago about useful dpkg commands. Hope that helps, Simon Jefford pgpFUaoSE2nfg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gmc package status
+ Joachim Trinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I wrote a bug fix against gmc for many weeks ago (and I was not the > only one), but the maintainers never fixed this one, even after many > upgrades both of mc and glibc, so I think they are not interested in > this specifical user problem. I just found, that removing my FontPath line with TrueType fonts from XF86Config-4 brings the icons back on screen. Huh. What does this mean? Kai. -- ::: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/ ::: for my pgp-key mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (automated reply)
Re: Wanna run potato & X 4.0.1?
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:55:15PM -0200, Rogerio Brito wrote: > It seems that Branden, Debian's X maintainer, may be > considering uploading XFree 4.0.1 packages compiled for potato > to his homepage (http://people.debian.org/~branden/), in a > handy apt-get'able format. No, that's not what's going to happen. What has happened is that another developer has recompiled for potato and made the debs available via apt. Search the debian-devel archive for details. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpeL7GqNKMHD.pgp Description: PGP signature
apache / mod_auth_sys on woody
Hi, has anyone lately tried mod_auth_sys (gets installed but deactivated by default) to get run ? Can't get it to work; just gives me always 'user not found' in the error log file, I tried require valid-user require user ... I downloaded the mod_auth_sys.c source myself from modules.apache.org; compilation went O.K. (besides removing -ldb from final link) but only seems to half-work when saying no to shadow password support (altough my system definitly uses shadow passwords) and get passwd mismatch then. any ideas ? Markus -- Markus Fischer, http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/ EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key: http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/C2272BD0.asc PGP Fingerprint: D3B0 DD4F E12B F911 3CE1 C2B5 D674 B445 C227 2BD0
exim doesn't deliver
Hello, I am trying to use exim+fetchmail. Fetchmail is fetching emails from my ISP without problems. The problem is with exim, because after fetchmail sends the messages to exim for local delivery, all messages are frozen in /var/spool/exim/input and in /var/spool/msglog appear a lot of messages, all of them saying the following: "local_delivery transport deferred: mailbox /var/spool/mail/myaccount has wrong uid (0 != 1000) *** Frozen" What should be the correct uid? how can I change it? Any help will be very appreciated! Thanks Marcelo -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 06-Dec-2000 Time: 21:39:54 --
Re: rpm -qf /path/somefile equivalent in debian
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:16:59PM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > Is there an rpm -qf /some/path/file equivalent in debian? I need to find out > which package contains libGLU.so.* couse I need to recompile it to use it with > nvidia... > If anyone knows I'd really appreciate the answer.. To search installed packages: dpkg -S libGLU.so To search all packages: wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/Contents-i386.gz zgrep libGLU.so Contents-i386.gz HTH, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpyPgNGxtWG1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Xdefaults being ignored?
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:09:36PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > Hi, > > I have the weirdest problem: Whatever I enter into my ~/.Xdefaults > seems to be ignored entirely. I tried to make my mouse wheel work > with netscape; pasted the relevant lines from > http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ > to ~/.Xdefaults - nothing. > I edited (for test purposes) ~/.Xdefaults to look like this: > --- > xterm*background: white > xterm*foreground: black > > --- > Xterm is still white text on a black background (I tried different > capitalizations of 'xterm', also). > I really don't understand what's going on. > I am running the latest Woody with XF4.0.1 and gnome/sawfish. > Any ideas, anyone? Try creating the file ~/.Xresources instead. I think this is used by X on Debian rather than ~/.Xdefaults. Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:02:34PM +, David Wright wrote: > Work? It takes two minutes to come up with > grep -B 1 "Status: install ok installed" /var/lib/dpkg/status | > grep Package | cut -d \ -f 2 > > Is that the sort of thing you want? Well, not as easy as that, but that's also what I came up with. It's not suitable for --set-selections, but it'll do. Thanks. A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 1J4
Re: Modconf not working after 2.4.x kernel install
Scott Patterson wrote: > > I recently compiled and installed a 2.4.x kernel using the debian > kernel-installer package. Everything seems fine except that when I run > modconf, > no modules appear. I was hoping to browse my modules this way, but no luck. I > should mention that my modules do work fine, just modconf seems broken. Is > there > something I need to do to make modconf see my available modules? im assuing you are running the version of modutils required by 2.4? see Documentation/Changes nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: One more question
Jim Lynch wrote: > > What ever happened to /usr/tmp? It wasn't created on this system. is that abnormal? i dont have /usr/tmp either ..doesn't seem to cause a problem. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPP connection.
Marcin Landowski writes: > Have You a "set uid root" for /usr/sbin/pppd? That's how Debian installs it. > Have You a "group right to write" for device /dev/ttyS0? Not needed. > Why /dev/ttyS0? Presumably because he knows for sure that his modem is there (as it must be, since he says that pon starts the connection). > Usual wvdial can scan ports and "find" properly modem. So can pppconfig. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: Xemacs 21.1 and Gnus 5.8.3
> Nate Bargmann writes: nb> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:50:53PM +0100, Veit Waltemath nb> wrote: >>> check if tht TM-Mime stuff is installed.If so, remove it, it >>> conflicts with builtin-mime-support of gnus 5.8.x. nb> I don't see a Debian package by that name, so I am reasonably nb> sure it's not installed. The package name is tm Cheers, Chris
Re: rpm -qf /path/somefile equivalent in debian
Hello * Bostjan Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > Is there an rpm -qf /some/path/file equivalent in debian? I need to find out > which package contains libGLU.so.* couse I need to recompile it to use it with > nvidia... dpkg -S /some/path/file > If anyone knows I'd really appreciate the answer.. > > THX in advance! Bye -- DEFRESNE Sylvain
Re: rpm -qf /path/somefile equivalent in debian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is there an rpm -qf /some/path/file equivalent in debian? I need to > find out which package contains libGLU.so.* couse I need to > recompile it to use it with nvidia... If anyone knows I'd really > appreciate the answer.. > > THX in advance! "dpkg -S" is the answer. More generally "man dpkg" or at least "dpkg --help" Gary
Re: Mozilla and SourceForge?
I did this but something is still screwy. Go to "http://www.incyte.com"; and load it with both netscape and mozilla. Under mozilla I'm missing most of the page. Robert Thus spake Hubert Chan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > "Sam" == Sam TH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sam> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:55:40AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > >> > >> > >> I'm trying to loging to SourceForge via ssl using Mozila in woody. > It's > >> refusing my connection. I've verified my pass and used netscape 475 to > >> verify the site is up. Anyone have any ideas? Does Mozilla not accept > >> SSL yet? > >> > > Sam> You need the PAM module to use SSL. Check the Mozilla website. > > You mean PSM (Personal Security Manager). PAM is Pluggable Authentication > Modules, and is used for logging into your own box. > > To answer the original question, go to the Debug menu, and select "Install > PSM". (Unfortunately, PSM doesn't work with the gecko front ends like galeon > or skipstone.) > > Hubert > > -- > | --- > | / --+-- > | / ___|___Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | \ | _|_ | > |__| |__|__|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/ > > PGP/GnuPG fingerprint: 6CC5 822D 2E55 494C 81DD 6F2C 6518 54DF 71FD A37F > Key can be found at http://www.crosswinds.net/~hackerhue/hackerhue.asc > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
mysql backup
okies well i've figured out the answer to functional (possibly even correct) mysql backup and restore on debian potato. i know i'm not the only person on this list who needs to know this so i'm posting up what works for me. to create the backup: #mysqldump -c -p DBNAME > DBNAME.sql to retreive the database #mysqladmin -p create DBNAME #mysql -p DBNAME < DBNAME.sql Hope this helps. John
Re: log rotation, syslogd and debian
CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok. I've pondered but couldn't figure it out. Why does debian not > use logrotate for the rotation of syslog files and stuff? It seems > easy enough. > > The only possible reason I can think of is that you folks don't > want syslogd restarted after each file. But then that's easy enough > to get around by putting the syslogd restart on the last syslogd file > in the config. > > So... How come it ain't done? :) Umm, I'm running Potato and it is using logrotate. Maybe it's only used if you install it? % dpkg -l|grep logrotate ii logrotate 3.2-11 Log rotation utility Gary
RE: log rotation, syslogd and debian
On 06-Dec-2000 CaT wrote: > Ok. I've pondered but couldn't figure it out. Why does debian not > use logrotate for the rotation of syslog files and stuff? It seems > easy enough. > > The only possible reason I can think of is that you folks don't > want syslogd restarted after each file. But then that's easy enough > to get around by putting the syslogd restart on the last syslogd file > in the config. > > So... How come it ain't done? :) > I think if you look around the support is there, it just has to be enabled.
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card
Sorry I post this for the second time because something strange was happening with my email and I am afraid I lost replies. Could people reply to this question again? Thank you very much and appologies for the "noise", Lazar Hello everybody Could someone tell me which option in kernel configuration should I choose to compile supprot for Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card? Thank you, Lazar
building postgres 7.0.3 on potato?
Hi, I'm trying to build PostgreSQL 7.0.3 on an all-potato system. I keep running into an error. I believe I have everything I need installed, because I can compile the program without error if I simply untar the .orig.tar.gz tarball. If I use debuild on the package, however, I keep running into a fatal error. Below is the end of the output, where the error appears to occur. RTFM plus a hint (or even just the full solution) much appreciated. Thanks. make[3]: Leaving directory /usr/local/dload/postgresql-7.0.3/src/backend/access' make -C bootstrap all make[3]: Entering directory /usr/local/dload/postgresql-7.0.3/src/backend/bootstrap' gcc -I../../include -I../../backend -O2 -g -g3 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I.. -Wno-error -c -o bootparse.o bootparse.c gcc -I../../include -I../../backend -O2 -g -g3 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -I.. -Wno-error -c -o bootscanner.o bootscanner.c d bootparse.y make[3]: d: Command not found make[3]: [bootstrap_tokens.h] Error 127 (ignored) grep -v "^#" boot.sed > sedfile sed -f sedfile < y.tab.c > bootparse.c /bin/sh: y.tab.c: No such file or directory make[3]: *** [bootstrap_tokens.h] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory /usr/local/dload/postgresql-7.0.3/src/backend/bootstrap' make[2]: *** [bootstrap.dir] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory /usr/local/dload/postgresql-7.0.3/src/backend' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/local/dload/postgresql-7.0.3/src' make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1 debuild: fatal error at line 293: dpkg-buildpackage failed: Illegal seek A -- Andrew Sullivan Computer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Burlington Public Library +1 905 639 3611 x158 2331 New Street Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 1J4
Re: How to make diald coexist with eth0?
kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > You want to re-set your routing tables with your network configuration > scripts. There are mechanisms in place for doing this with the ifup and > ifdown commands -- directories in which scripts are placed to be run at > when an interface is en/dis abled. Firewall and proxy rules, for > example. Sorry, I didn't understand a word of that. -chris
One more question
What ever happened to /usr/tmp? It wasn't created on this system. THanks, Jim.
Modconf not working after 2.4.x kernel install
I recently compiled and installed a 2.4.x kernel using the debian kernel-installer package. Everything seems fine except that when I run modconf, no modules appear. I was hoping to browse my modules this way, but no luck. I should mention that my modules do work fine, just modconf seems broken. Is there something I need to do to make modconf see my available modules? Scott
apache again
Well, I gave up, trashed the disk and installed 2.2 from scratch. Now I've been installing/configuring Linux since 0.12. This release really takes me back to the good old days. I installed about everything under the sun including networking but when I look at the /etc/init.d/networking file, there isn't a sign of a ifconfig statement. Where is the network adaptor supposed to be enabled? I searched all of init.d for it. It isn't coming up. Nothing during the installation asked me for any network values. I ran linuxconfig and it asked me for that info, but I can't seem to find where it put it. I don't want to have to do a manual config for networking 'cause previous debian releases didn't have to be, so what did I miss? Dselect still sucks. 8( Navigation is useless. I recompiled the 2.2.17 kernel and I'm getting a rash of unresolved symbols when I run depmod. Any idea what that is all about? Thanks, Jim.
Re: gmc package status
Hey, those packages from Progeny worked very well. They fixed the problem about gmc being completely unusable for newly created users. They didn't fix the problem with the URLs and not being able to change the icons on the desktop. These are minor issues by comparison, but is there a configuration something or other that I'm missing here to get those things working? Installing the packages from another distribution is obviously a less than optimal solution to this important problem, is there any better way to get the attention of the maintainer besides all the bugs that have already been reported on this? I would at least be satisfied to be told that it was a huge problem that is being looked at and may take months to fix, but it seems like the problems are being ignored. What is everyone else doing to work around this, or is everyone just holding their breath until nautilus comes out? Thanks again. -Jeff Joachim Trinkwitz wrote: Jeff Hornsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi. It has slowly dawned on me that, since I installed Debian almost 2 months ago, gnome midnightcommander has never worked properly. Yes, same here. This is due to mc not being compiled with the newglibc version. the reading I have done it seems this is from bug #77172 "gmc fails to create its metadata.db". Allof these problems outlined above are already registered as Important Outstanding Bugs against the gmcpackage and most of them are almost 50 days old! Also from what I have read it sounds like theseproblems are fixed when you build the package yourself (something I'm not interested in wasting mytime on). I wrote a bug fix against gmc for many weeks ago (and I was not theonly one), but the maintainers never fixed this one, even after manyupgrades both of mc and glibc, so I think they are not interested inthis specifical user problem.I fixed this during many mc upgrades by compiling gmc from sources(put a src line in your sources.list and do a 'apt-get --compilesource gmc', which will produce a gmc deb in your currentdirectory). This has a massive disadvantage when you are sysadmin formany workstations (like me).Finally, I found that Progeny's Debian (see http://www.progeny.com)distro has a working gmc (put the line `deb http://archive.progeny.comprogeny main contrib non-free' in your sources.list and do `apt-getupdate ; apt-get install gmc'). Debian founde! r Ian Murdock and severalleading Debian developers, among them xfree86 maintainer BrandenRobinson, stand for this Debian variant, so we can trust on thepackages quality, I suppose.Greetings,joachim
Re: Mozilla and SourceForge?
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 13:09:29 -0600, Sam TH wrote: > You need the PAM module to use SSL. PAM == Pluggable Authentication Modules != PSM == Personal Security Manager You need PSM to use SSL with mozilla. > Check the Mozilla website. Or /usr/share/doc/mozilla/psm-helper HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
php segfaults
Hello, I'm using the latest/greatest woody, and the following php-code segfaults in it. (according to apache log: [Wed Dec 6 21:06:13 2000] [notice] child pid 24875 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)). I think it shouldn't, and I'm sure it didn't. Am I doing something special? Is this problem specific to my computer? Or is PHP simply broken now? Any ideas? All my pages are non-functional now, because they all require a php-file which is using such a ereg_replace Michiel -- % Michiel Meeuwissen % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.purl.org/NET/mihxil/ % Vidu ankaux: http://www.uea.org/katalogo
Re: apt: http vs. ftp?
On Wednesday 06 December 2000 07:05, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > Er, no it isn't. http is faster and better in all cases where there is > > > not a proxy involved. > > > > why would http be faster? how much faster you mean? and what makes it > > better? AFAIK they are about equally good/fast for purpose of file > > transfer... > > http almost no per file overhead, ftp has a substantial amount. You only > need to compare apt-get update using both to realize why http is better > overall. > > Jason Okay, http is faster. But is it just as reliable as ftp? Sometimes I suspect that my ISP is just deliberately throttling my ftp connections to prevent any activity besides lazy web browsing. But with Debian you get as many http download opportunities as ftp. That's perhaps the main difference between Debian and the other distros: ample http access. I could count on the figures of my hand the number of listed http sites for Redhat or Mandrake. The big question is the integrity of the downloaded file. I have had no problems with a pure ftp download. I can't say the same thing for http. Speaking from experience
RE: MYSQL backup question
Since this is strictly a mysql question, I would try the mysql mailing list. http://www.mysql.com/documentation/index.html Jason Stechschulte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wanna run potato & X 4.0.1?
I was thinking of downloading the latest sources for XFree 86 4.0.1 from woody and doing the necessary modifications and compiling it under potato, but it seems that this won't be necessary anymore (or, at least, I hope so). It seems that Branden, Debian's X maintainer, may be considering uploading XFree 4.0.1 packages compiled for potato to his homepage (http://people.debian.org/~branden/), in a handy apt-get'able format. This will be very convenient for people that must use X 4 to use their cards (or to get acceleration) and don't want (or can't) upgrade to woody, which gets broken once in a while. I sincerely just can't wait for him to upload those sweet packages! :-) []s crossing my fingers, Roger... :-) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
X and iso-8859-2 fonts...
Hi When I've used Slink there was no problem with using iso-8859-2 fonts everywere. A 2 months ago I've installed Potato and until today I cannot force system to use iso-8859-2 fonts in X-window. Most applications give possibility to choose iso-8859-2 fonts, but I can't see them - I can see instead "bushes" or "?" (in KDE). The only applications which uses iso-8859-2 fonts without any problem are Netscape and gnome-terminal. Reasume, the fonts has bin installed in system, but hasnot bin displayed and printed. I've standard Potato instalation, iso-8859-2 fonts from Biznet packages (deb from Potato). There are corretly fonts.dir and fonts.alias files in /etc/X11/fonts/ and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/. There is corretly path to these fonts for font-server. I've locales set to pl_PL (but I've tried en_GB also). Any ideas? best regards -- ~~~ /* | QLIVER / | / | ~ ~~/| / | ~Marcin Landowski _| /_| ~ *_|o|___|___|__@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ \___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~
Re: samba 2.0.7 vs. 2.0.5
On Dec 06 2000, Robert Waldner wrote: > I still use a 2.0.38-kernel (that box is only apt-get upgrade´d, not - > dist-upgraded, to potato) because of some legacy-software, so for me > it´s essential that kernel-version-dependencies are correct ;-) Oh, I see. But I think that I read somewhere that you can make Samba work fine with 2.0 kernels if you recompile it. So, that may be a thing that you might try (and I sincerely don't know what the package maintainer could do in this case, unless he creates two packages or he includes duplicate binaries and wrapper scripts). > I´ve filed a bug-report against samba 2.0.7, so let´s just sit back, > wait&see. Well, I've sent Eloy Paris (Debian's Samba maintainer) a bugreport a log time ago (MONTHS ago) and didn't hear back from him yet. :-( So, all that I can say is good luck. :-) []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
why not dselect (i now know the answer)
i just removed netscape from my system. an error flashed by during the remove, and quickly was replaced by the main dselect menu. i saw enough to know that SOME directory couldn't be deleted, but i don't know which one or why. at the very least dselect should prompt you to "enter a key" when an error occurs... that's why not dselect. peter pgpdTcHHUBVcM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: nvidia + GL = X crash
Bostjan, What nVIDIA card are you using? Is it the Riva TNT2 M64? Make sure you are not loading the XF4 DRI module. If X is crashing, it sounds like an issue with the nNVIDIA driver. Make sure you are loading the kernel driver (which is actually a module) before starting X, i.e, check /etc/modules for NVdriver (or modprobe NVdriver). If you have this, then I suggest reading the readme files, and re-compiling the nVIDIA kernel driver. Mine involved changing a line that said "#if 0" to "#if 1." In my X setup, I commented out "GLcore" and "dri" in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I have also attached a shell script (thanks #nvidia on openprojects.net) which will check your OpenGL libs setup to verify that you do not have any unwanted files laying around. And to note, here's how your libs should look: /usr/lib/libGL.so -> /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.5 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.0.5 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.5 /usr/lib/libGLU.so -> libGLU.so.1.3 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1.3 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 -> libGLcore.so.1.0.5 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.5 To verify this setup, once you have the NVdriver loaded and working, run glxinfo. If it crashes, then you need to re-evaluate your libs setup. Just for your information, I use woody, so I'm not sure what the effect of this will be on potato. Regards, Taddese Zicke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Do you do Linux? :) Get your FREE @linuxstart.com email address at: http://www.linuxstart.com#!/bin/sh # NDIC Version 1.2 # By Will Weisser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) # # Revision history: # # 1.2: July 23, 2000 check /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 first, don't recommend #removing /usr/X11R6/lib/lib*GLU.so.* # # 1.1: April 29, 2000 Added checking for /dev files # # 1.0: April 28, 2000 Initial revision # # echo "Welcome to the NVidia Driver Installation Checker." echo "This shell script is meant to help you debug your installation" echo "of the beta NVidia Linux drivers. It is not 100% foolproof." echo "In particular, you will definitely want to make sure you have" echo "the correct options in your XF86Config to make X work properly." echo "This script cannot debug your X setup. That being said, it" echo "should prove useful if are having problems with the drivers and" echo "want to check the validity of your driver install." echo "" echo "At no time will this script EVER make changes to your system." echo "It is simply a diagnostic tool - fixes of any kind will have to" echo "come from you." echo "" echo "Press enter to continue..." read echo "OK, the first thing we need to do is make sure your XF86Config file" echo "is set up correctly. In order to do this, I'm first going to try" echo "and find where this file might be..." FOUND="" echo "checking /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config..." if [ -r /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config ]; then echo "found" XF86FILE="/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config" FOUND="1" else echo "not found" fi echo "checking /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config..." if [ -r /usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config ]; then echo "found" XF86FILE="/usr/X11R6/etc/X11/XF86Config" FOUND="1" else echo "not found" fi echo "checking /etc/XF86Config..." if [ -r /etc/XF86Config ]; then echo "found" XF86FILE="/etc/XF86Config" FOUND="1" else echo "not found" fi echo "checking /etc/X11/XF86Config..." if [ -r /etc/X11/XF86Config ]; then echo "found" XF86FILE="/etc/X11/XF86Config" FOUND="1" else echo "not found" fi echo "checking /etc/X11/XF86Config-4..." if [ -r /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ]; then echo "found" XF86FILE="/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" FOUND="1" else echo "not found" fi if [ -z $FOUND ] ; then echo "I couldn't find an XF86Config file anywhere! Either you haven't set" echo "up X at all, the file is not readable by you, or your file is in a" echo "non-standard place. If the latter is the case, then make a symlink" echo "to a standard place and run this script again." exit fi echo "I'm going to be doing my checking using $XF86FILE. If this is not" echo "actually your X config, then quit this script with Ctrl-C, remove" echo "or rename the file, then run this script again." echo "Press enter to continue" read echo "I'm going to check your XF86Config file for the following things:" echo "1) Loading the GLcore and glx modules" echo "2) Specifying the nvidia driver instead of nv" REGEXP1='Load[[:space:]]*\"glx\"' REGEXP3='Driver[[:space:]]*\"nvidia\"' echo "" echo "Checking for the Load glx statement..." if ! cat $XF86FILE | sed -e 's/#.*//' | grep $REGEXP1 ; then echo "You don't seem to have the statement: Load \"glx\"" echo "in the Module section of your XF86Config! By default it" echo "is there, so if you removed it, replace it, then run this" echo "script again." exit fi echo "It seems to be intact. Now lets see if you're loading the correct" echo "video driver..." if ! cat $XF86FILE | sed -e 's/#.*//' | grep $REGEXP3 ; then echo "You don't seem to have the statement: Drive
Spam admin autoresponder (was Re: mutt question)
on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:24:54AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > dear all, > > this is a pretty complicated question... > > when i get spam, i like to send complaint letters to the people responsible > for the ip and/or zone that the spam came from. i also like to use > traceroute to send a complaint to the system upstream from them, since that > usually belongs to the same zone anyway. > > i usually send complaints to postmaster and security at each ip address > listed above. > > is there a way to "drop" an ip address into mutt, and have > > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > automagically appear in the To: header? > > i know this is complicated and would prolly require an external > script, but it would really make my life more convenient. > > of course, i would find the ip addresses in another virtual console; > all i want is to be able to send mutt these addresses and have mutt > automatically fill the To: header. This is an external-script problem. Best handled by procmail or something similar. I'm actively researching this myself. I've got a good spam filtering mechanism in place (Lars Wirzenius's 'spamfilter' Debian package), but I'd like to automate the process of responding to site and ISP administrators. I'm assuming you have resolved the issue of detecting spam, it's the response part that you're interested in. Rationale: I can filter spam. It's going to be far more interested in doing what I can to help make spammers jobs more difficult by shutting down accounts and/or blacklisting ISPs which sponsor significant spam activity. I've found some useful references, among them: Tools and Techniques for Limiting Spam http://www.spam.abuse.net/tools/index.html For a *very* extensive procmail FAQ (100+ pages, printed 2-up!), Jari Alto's Procmail Tips page: http://mirror.ncsa.uiuc.edu/procmail/ssjaaa/pm-tips-body.html Rahul Dhesi's tips on tracing real accounts: http://www.spam.abuse.net/tools/flameblock.txt Nancy McGough's Filtering Mail FAQ http://www.ii.com/internet/faqs/launchers/mail/filtering-faq/ Catherine Hampton's Spam Bouncer http://www.spambouncer.org/ Brett Glass, in a rare clear moment, on spam: http://www.brettglass.com/spam/paper.html There are also several resources listed at Freshmeat, in particular: parp: http://freshmeat.net/projects/parp/ ricochet: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ricochet/ spam.pl: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spam.pl/ Spamkill: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spamkill/ The Veganizer: http://freshmeat.net/projects/theveganizer/ Vipul's Razor: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vipulsrazor/ I haven't tried these tools out, but the above seem from descriptions to be close to what I'm looking for. Reviews/reports welcomed. The solution I'm looking for ultimately will: - Automate checking for listing on RBL (MAPS, ORBS) lists (this should actually be part of the filtering process), and submitting relay IPs to the ORBS list for testing. I've created a short script for the latter. - Automate/batch response to abuse@ and postmaster@ addresses of spammer's host and upstream provider. Likewise, automate forwarding of spam to spam-collection lists and centers. E.g.: my ISP has a "spaminator" service which apparently matches spam based on content. While I don't use or particularly trust the service, I might be able to help others. - Archive the abuse letter for processing including... - Automate/batch processing of responses to abuse letters. MAPS requires measures to contact ISPs associated with spam. Giving a 24-48 hour response interval, then forwarding data, might be a way to get more spam houses onto the MAPS RBL. Format data appropriately, with activity log, to MAPS. - Automate testing for repeat spam from particular ISPs, hosts, or nodes, using heuristics to determine whether or not this host/network is principally good (much non-spam content, little spam), bad (largely/all spam, little non-spam content), or mixed. This can be used to adjust mail rules for default allow or default deny policies for this particular domain. 'Nother words: try to get the spammers offline, share the data, and use patterns of behavior to modify and update my own filters. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpguRAE0KIuF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card
Hello everybody Could someone tell me which option in kernel configuration should I choose to compile supprot for Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card? Thank you, Lazar
Re: PPP connection.
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 03:12:06PM -0800, Junaedi Kartawijaya wrote: > I use pppconfig. Do You try connect as a root or as a user? (I can as a root and as a selected user...) Try wvdial - is better and most simply (there is also kwvdial for KDE) > I add the user to 'dip' group and 'dialout' group Have You a "set uid root" for /usr/sbin/pppd? Have You a "group right to write" for device /dev/ttyS0? In my system: debian:~# ls -l `which pppd` -rwsr-x---1 root dip183504 lis 11 00:33 /usr/sbin/pppd debian:~# ls -l /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 65 gru 6 21:53 /dev/ttyS1 > (for /dev/ttyS0). Why /dev/ttyS0? This device is often "reserved" for a mice. I've ps2 mouse on /dev/psaux but modem is on /dev/ttyS1. As a ttyS0 doesn't want to work!!! Usual wvdial can scan ports and "find" properly modem. > pon starts the connection. However, when I try to > telnet (outside), a message appears: 'Hostname lookup failure'. > My /etc/ppp/resolv/ contains files. Each contains: > nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx It looks as a DNS problem. In /etc/resolv.conf must be right DNS server (depends on your ISP). best regards -- ~~~ /* | QLIVER / | / | ~ ~~/| / | ~Marcin Landowski _| /_| ~ *_|o|___|___|__@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ \___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~
Re: nvidia + GL = X crash
* On 06-12-00 at 20:39 Terry Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > Want to send me a log of the X crash? I want to see what might be causing it. > > Thanks > > Terry > +and here the quote ends+ Log is appended.. as it seems it gets sig11 (the program was built and linked to the previous (libMesaGL) since the progs that I have compiled with nvidia's GL libs give this error at startup (tuxracer example): tuxracer: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1: undefined symbol: __glTLSCXIndex Bostjan -- Boštjan Müller [NEONATUS], [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://neonatus.net/~neonatus For my PGP key finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED], RSA id: 0x90178DBD, ICQ #:7506644 Celular: +386(0)41243189, Powered by Debian GNU/LiNUX , Student of VFUL Tagline generated by 'gensig' mail-client-independent .signature generator. Get your copy at http://www.geeks.com/~robf/gensig/ This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in any way. Bugs may be reported to XFree86@XFree86.Org and patches submitted to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions, please check the latest version in the XFree86 CVS repository (http://www.XFree86.Org/cvs) XFree86 Version 4.0.1g / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 29 November 2000 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.2.18pre15 i686 [ELF] Module Loader present (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Wed Dec 6 21:24:36 2000 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (??) unknown. (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout" (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "Generic Monitor" (**) | |-->Device "Generic Graphics Device" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard" (**) XKB: rules: "xfree86" (**) XKB: model: "pc104" (**) XKB: layout: "us" (**) |-->Input Device "Generic Mouse" (**) FontPath set to "unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TT" (**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (--) using VT number 7 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1g, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1g, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (II) Module scanpci: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1g, module version = 0.1.0 (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libscanpci.a (--) PCI: (0:15:0) BrookTree unknown chipset (0x036e) rev 2, Mem @ 0xdf001000/12 (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) NVidia GeForce2 MX rev 161, Mem @ 0xdc00/24, 0xd000/27 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1g, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1g, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a (II) Module dri: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1g, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a (II) Module drm: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1g, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a (II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1g, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.1, module version = 1.0.5 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libpex5.a (II) Module pex5: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1g, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a (II) Module record: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1g, module version = 1.13.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libxie.a (II) Module xie: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1g, module version = 1.0.0 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a (II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1g, module version = 1.1.8 (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a (II) Module speedo: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.0.1g, module versio
Re: Mozilla and SourceForge?
> "Sam" == Sam TH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sam> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:55:40AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: >> >> >> I'm trying to loging to SourceForge via ssl using Mozila in woody. It's >> refusing my connection. I've verified my pass and used netscape 475 to >> verify the site is up. Anyone have any ideas? Does Mozilla not accept >> SSL yet? >> Sam> You need the PAM module to use SSL. Check the Mozilla website. You mean PSM (Personal Security Manager). PAM is Pluggable Authentication Modules, and is used for logging into your own box. To answer the original question, go to the Debug menu, and select "Install PSM". (Unfortunately, PSM doesn't work with the gecko front ends like galeon or skipstone.) Hubert -- | --- | / --+-- | / ___|___Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | \ | _|_ | |__| |__|__|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/ PGP/GnuPG fingerprint: 6CC5 822D 2E55 494C 81DD 6F2C 6518 54DF 71FD A37F Key can be found at http://www.crosswinds.net/~hackerhue/hackerhue.asc
rpm -qf /path/somefile equivalent in debian
Hi! Is there an rpm -qf /some/path/file equivalent in debian? I need to find out which package contains libGLU.so.* couse I need to recompile it to use it with nvidia... If anyone knows I'd really appreciate the answer.. THX in advance! Bostjan -- Boštjan Müller [NEONATUS], [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://neonatus.net/~neonatus For my PGP key finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED], RSA id: 0x90178DBD, ICQ #:7506644 Celular: +386(0)41243189, Powered by Debian GNU/LiNUX , Student of VFUL I'll pretend like there's something witty here and you pretend like you laughed at it.
Re: Non-root kernel compiling--Continue...
On Dec 05 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > just to toss my personal preference in... i created a dedicated > user account for building things like kernels and locally installed > software I did something similar to this, but not only to build things. I use a dummy user for evaluating programs that I don't know very much about (and which obviously are not setuid anybody else) -- so that if the program sends something back to whoever wrote it (e.g., like it is rumoured about Real Player), it doesn't grab *my* sensitive data. I do this until I feel comfortable with the software to use under my own account. []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: dselect: recommends are evil
> "Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> IMHO there should be some way to override a recommends once and not Bob> have to do it every time that dselect is invoked. If this is not Bob> feasible, most recommends should probably be downgraded to suggests. [cut] Yup. That's one of the (many) reasons I use aptitude instead. Some others recommend capt (AKA console-apt). Hubert -- | --- | / --+-- | / ___|___Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | \ | _|_ | |__| |__|__|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/ PGP/GnuPG fingerprint: 6CC5 822D 2E55 494C 81DD 6F2C 6518 54DF 71FD A37F Key can be found at http://www.crosswinds.net/~hackerhue/hackerhue.asc
Re: newbie XDM question
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 10:53:40PM -0600, sc wrote: [...] > - > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by serverM > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to ServerM > xrdb: Can't open display ':0' > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by serverM > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to ServerM > xrdb: Can't open display ':0' > > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to ServerM > /usr/bin/X11/WindowMaker fatal error: could not open display ":0" > - [...] You can take a look inside a config files in /etc/X11/xdm[kdm/gdm/wdm] -mayby you will find something interested? But really I suppose there is something wrong in Potato about. When I've used Slink there was no problem - I've used startx or xdm/kdem/gdm (no problems). For today: 1) After first installation Potato I've used startx - worked properly. But when I tried xdm - only errors. 2) So I've reinstalled X (first purge old version). During new installation I've choose xdm. And what? For today xdm/kdm/gdm/wdm works properly but I can't start X from console using startx!!! (when kdm is shut down to console mode or with option --:1). In Slink I could start a few X session simoultanously. In Potato - impossible! When I try to use startx I can see: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. Bugs in Potato or I haven't read properly documentation? best regards -- ~~~ /* | QLIVER / | / | ~ ~~/| / | ~Marcin Landowski _| /_| ~ *_|o|___|___|__@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~ \___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~
log rotation, syslogd and debian
Ok. I've pondered but couldn't figure it out. Why does debian not use logrotate for the rotation of syslog files and stuff? It seems easy enough. The only possible reason I can think of is that you folks don't want syslogd restarted after each file. But then that's easy enough to get around by putting the syslogd restart on the last syslogd file in the config. So... How come it ain't done? :) -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'We do more then just sing and dance. We've got a brain too.' -- The Backstreet Boys
Re: updated mount packages for Potato
"S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "FG" == Fred Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FG> Hi, The recent Debian 2.2r2 release shipped with the > FG> 2.2.18pre21 kernel, which includes significant changes to the > FG> Network File System (NFS) code. Unfortunately, it did not come > FG> with a version of "mount" that is needed to support these > FG> changes. > FG> > > I was going to ask when 2.2r2 was about to be released. That question is > answered. > > Next question: where is the list of changes/bug-fixes/security fixes for > 2.2r2 ? see the links on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ > Has anything major changed in the boot-floppies ? Not really, just bugfixes. See Changelog below. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.onShore.com/> boot-floppies (2.2.20) stable; urgency=low * Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: - alpha: Use kernel 2.2.18pre21. -- Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 25 Nov 2000 15:14:45 +1100 boot-floppies (2.2.19) stable; urgency=low * PowerPC fixes: - Update kernel version to 2.2.18pre21 - Fix the miBoot command line options not to try to force atyfb (should fix color issues on some mach64 cards) - Create /dev/nvram on the root disk - Add nvsetenv and ofpath, as well as fixing the paths for yaboot - No longer include System.map on the HFS (powermac) boot floppy (there isn't enough room with the new kernels) - en/dbootstrap.sgml updates from Ethan Benson to match the new ybin - Bail out earlier in the boot floppy creation process if we can't do it on this architecture - Make CHRP rescue.bin be DOS formatted. Perhaps the same thing needs done to PReP - can PReP even boot FAT images? - Populate /dev/input in the base tarball - adbmouse and friends no longer work with the new kernels. * Build with packages from proposed-updates: - ncurses 5.0-6.0potato1 - modutils 2.3.11-13.1 - dpkg 1.6.15.2 (sparc only) - kernel 2.2.18pre21 / pcmcia 3.1.22-0.1* (all relevant flavors) -- Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:57:38 -0500 boot-floppies (2.2.18) stable; urgency=low * build with Debian 2.2r1 plus updates (closes: Bug#77459) * Adam Di Carlo: - i386 and sparc use kernel 2.2.18pre21 (closes: Bug#77425) - Makefiles: clean is a bit cleaner - release.sh (i386): also put kernel configs in TOP/ (hey, it's a small file); don't leave stranded release/kernel-config file, put it in the bf-common tarball - rootdisk.sh: add pcd0 device mknod (closes: Bug#74322), which MAKEDEV doesn't know about; add gscd and cm206cd devices; remove some hacks on device creation due to bugs fixed in MAKEDEV - dbootstrap: quiet bootarg makes more things shut up; disable the check for root filesystem being on extended partition while LILO is going on the MBR, because LILO supports this now (closes: Bug#64823); add new fullscreen_execlog utility function - debian/control: add Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep (closes: Bug#70387); remove required package from depends - documentation: fix links to dselect-beginner (closes: Bug#72870); add a section in the first chapter talking about where to get Debian (closes: Bug#71532); other corrections (closes: Bug#70871); fix linux history link (closes: Bug#76408); enable Polish and Russian documentation now that newer debiandoc-sgml is in Potato; give example TFTP file name on SPARC (closes: Bug#40775); mention problems with booting from IPX (closes: Bug#49172); when reporting bugs on i386, you must report the flavor * Josip Rodin: - documentation: update non-US package numbers * Eric VanBuggenhaut: French updates * Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: - Polish updates - documentation/doc-check script added to help translators stay up-to-date - LANGUAGE_CHOOSER integration (closes: Bug#31865) detailed descriptions follow NOTE: i18n integration is not quite complete, but it is very very close; it has specifically been kept out of the mainline version due to some bugs which are expected to be fixed shortly - moved bf-utf from its module to utilities, modified relevant files accordingly - Makefile: added conditional build time depends on libpng2-dev and libpopt-dev - rootdisk.sh: uses LANGUAGE_CHOOSER for compact and idepci i386 flavors, in which case it: uses more blocks, adds fb0 ptyp ptyq ptyr ptys devices, includes a font for bterm, includes a wrapper 'udbootstrap' and modifies inittab accordingly, includes libutf8_plug.so, bterm, all messages files, lc-enabled dbootstrap removed redundand '$' from awk invocations - utilities/bogl/Makefile: added bterm's font reduction to build process - utilitise/dbootstrap/Makefile: added rules necessary for creation
Re: nvidia + GL = X crash
Want to send me a log of the X crash? I want to see what might be causing it. Thanks Terry On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 08:27:40PM +0100, Bostjan Muller babbled: > * On 06-12-00 at 19:27 Terry Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > +Here quoted text begins+ > > I just want to make sure for my own benefit that you are using the nvidia > > glx stuff? as well as the nvidia kernel module correct? > > > > What may also be the case is you may want to check to see if some files are > > installed that need to be removed, basically: > > > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a > > > > Make sure those two files arn't installed, and make sure you are using > > Nvidia's glx stuff > > > > Hope this helps > > > > Terry > > > +and here the quote ends+ > Yep I made sure I was using the correct libs... when I use the debian libs > openGL works, it's just really slow, but when I use nvdia GL libs the whole X > crashes. > > Bostjan > -- > Bo¹tjan Müller [NEONATUS], [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://surf.to/NEONATUS > ICQ #:7506644, For my PGP key finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >RSA id: 0x90178DBD, Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2+. >Cellular: +38641243189, Predjamska 4, 1000 Ljubljana > Student of Slovenian veterinary faculty, University of Ljubljana. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > //Terry Warner// :[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Senior Technical Associate : http://netlabs.net Public PGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Light Web browser??
> Any other choices aside Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, for something low > footprint? I'm really impressed with the new nightly CVS builds of Galeon lately. http://galeon.sourceforge.net For fast text-based browsers, I use links. apt-get install links // joey tsai
Re: Matrox G450 and XF4.0.1: solved
> Thanks for the clue. I will try this asap. I would like to know > if in your XF86Config "Device" section you have an entry like: > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" and Screen 0. > Section "Device" Identifier "Generic Graphics Device" Driver "mga" EndSection I only have one monitor, and one graphics card, so those lines aren't really necessary, but they won't do any harm either, I guess. If you encounter problems: the matrox forum is really a great place to ask questions. (If only I had known its existence a few days earlier...) -- If I start writing essays about Free Software for slashdot, please shoot me.
Re: nvidia + GL = X crash
* On 06-12-00 at 19:27 Terry Warner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +Here quoted text begins+ > I just want to make sure for my own benefit that you are using the nvidia glx > stuff? as well as the nvidia kernel module correct? > > What may also be the case is you may want to check to see if some files are > installed that need to be removed, basically: > > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a > > Make sure those two files arn't installed, and make sure you are using > Nvidia's glx stuff > > Hope this helps > > Terry > +and here the quote ends+ Yep I made sure I was using the correct libs... when I use the debian libs openGL works, it's just really slow, but when I use nvdia GL libs the whole X crashes. Bostjan -- Boštjan Müller [NEONATUS], [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://surf.to/NEONATUS ICQ #:7506644, For my PGP key finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] RSA id: 0x90178DBD, Powered by Debian GNU/Linux 2.2+. Cellular: +38641243189, Predjamska 4, 1000 Ljubljana Student of Slovenian veterinary faculty, University of Ljubljana.
Re: Xemacs 21.1 and Gnus 5.8.3
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 07:50:53PM +0100, Veit Waltemath wrote: > check if tht TM-Mime stuff is installed.If so, remove it, it conflicts with > builtin-mime-support of gnus 5.8.x. I don't see a Debian package by that name, so I am reasonably sure it's not installed. FYI, I installed the xemacs21 package in dselect which in turn automatically selected xemacs21-basesupport, xemacs21-bin, xemacs21-mule, xemacs21-mulesupport, xemacs21-support. At the same time I installed the gnus package and now I'm left with this mess. None of the pacakages mentioned anything about TM-Mime. - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | "None can love freedom Internet | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | heartily, but good Location | Wichita, Kansas USA EM17hs | men; the rest love not Wichita area exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | freedom, but license." http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | -- John Milton
Re: Xemacs 21.1 and Gnus 5.8.3
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:31:34AM -0800, Willy Lee wrote: > > This is what I would try: > > If you have the ~/.newsrc and ~/.newsrc.eld files, you should delete > the ~/#.newsrc.dribble# file (when Gnus is not running), then start > Gnus again. See if that works. Essentially, that is what I tried. I had no .newsrc of any kind, a minimal .gnus with the following: (setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news.networksplus.net")) and a minimal .emacs with a few key rebindings: (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char) (global-set-key [home] 'beginning-of-line) (global-set-key [end] 'end-of-line) and Gnus read the entire active file from the ISP, I then selected one group and exited Xemacs and saved .newsrc-dribble. I then restarted Xemacs and Gnus and get the same result as in my original message. > If that doesn't work, you might try posting to comp.emacs.xemacs for > more info/help. Which would be nice with a working newsreader ;) Guess Dejanews to the rescue again... - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | "None can love freedom Internet | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | heartily, but good Location | Wichita, Kansas USA EM17hs | men; the rest love not Wichita area exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | freedom, but license." http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | -- John Milton
Re: Mozilla and SourceForge?
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:55:40AM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I'm trying to loging to SourceForge via ssl using Mozila in woody. > It's refusing my connection. I've verified my pass and used netscape 475 > to verify the site is up. Anyone have any ideas? Does Mozilla not > accept SSL yet? > You need the PAM module to use SSL. Check the Mozilla website. sam th [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.abisource.com/~sam/ GnuPG Key: http://www.abisource.com/~sam/key pgpvkw9jWQy6a.pgp Description: PGP signature
Xdefaults being ignored?
Hi, I have the weirdest problem: Whatever I enter into my ~/.Xdefaults seems to be ignored entirely. I tried to make my mouse wheel work with netscape; pasted the relevant lines from http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ to ~/.Xdefaults - nothing. I edited (for test purposes) ~/.Xdefaults to look like this: --- xterm*background: white xterm*foreground: black --- Xterm is still white text on a black background (I tried different capitalizations of 'xterm', also). I really don't understand what's going on. I am running the latest Woody with XF4.0.1 and gnome/sawfish. Any ideas, anyone? TIA, j
Re: modinfo [was: Re: 3Com network card]
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 09:30:06AM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:41:04PM -0500, urbanyon wrote: > > > this relates to a problem i've been having as well - > > > > > > do you know what the command-line arguments are for the 3c59x module (if > > > any)? i have a 3CSOHO100-TX card. > > > > modinfo -p 3c59x > > what am i looking for when i run this? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ modinfo -p 3c59x debug int options int array (min = 1, max = 8) full_duplex int array (min = 1, max = 8) rx_copybreak int max_interrupt_work int compaq_ioaddr int compaq_irq int compaq_device_id int What you see is a list of parameters on the left-hand side followed by the option type. Admittedly this information isn't very explicit and you almost always have to look at the driver source to figure out what values to fill in (particularly in the case of full_duplex :) Sometimes you can use the file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt to find these values and their descriptions; in the 3c59x case this doesn't seem to work. I don't want to say much more without knowing what sort of problems you're actually having. If you're trying the 3c905C for example your problem is almost certainly the driver version. HTH, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpt8CJZtHuUn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?
Quoting Andrew Sullivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Yes, but it's in a big file with a lot of extra data (whereas the > output from --get-selections is just lines indicating package and > state). I know that I can just pull the relevant bits with some > regex work, but I wondered if there was a way to make dpkg read its > data from some file other than the system's /var/lib/dpkg/status > (assuming that's the file dpkg is using to get its data; I always > assumed so). Work? It takes two minutes to come up with grep -B 1 "Status: install ok installed" /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep Package | cut -d \ -f 2 Is that the sort of thing you want? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
dselect: recommends are evil
IMHO there should be some way to override a recommends once and not have to do it every time that dselect is invoked. If this is not feasible, most recommends should probably be downgraded to suggests. For example, every time I run dselect it tries to remove timidity and libasound1 (which timidity depends upon) because libasound recommends alsadriver and I don't use also and therefore don't need it. To make matters worse, dselect at the same time tries to install alsa-modules-2.2.17-ide, which provides alsadriver (and depends on kernel-image-2.2.17-ide, which dselect also wants to install). alsa-modules depends on alsa-base, but libasound1 conflicts with alsa-base <<0.5.9d-6, but this version doesn't yet exist, which causes dselect to want to remove the other packages. Bob
Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?
Andrew Sullivan wrote: > Yes, but it's in a big file with a lot of extra data (whereas the > output from --get-selections is just lines indicating package and > state). I know that I can just pull the relevant bits with some > regex work, but I wondered if there was a way to make dpkg read its > data from some file other than the system's /var/lib/dpkg/status > (assuming that's the file dpkg is using to get its data; I always > assumed so). dpkg --get-selections --root=/whever-you-have-mounted-your-dead-system may work. -- see shy jo
Mozilla and SourceForge?
I'm trying to loging to SourceForge via ssl using Mozila in woody. It's refusing my connection. I've verified my pass and used netscape 475 to verify the site is up. Anyone have any ideas? Does Mozilla not accept SSL yet? Robert :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
Re: CD Image debian 2.1
> But I could not figure out from which site I can download > a CD image for Debian 2.1 You might be best off to contact some of the people who sell official CDs (http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors) and see if they have one they'd send you for the postage. You might also check the full list of mirrors (http://www.debian.org/mirror/mirrors_full) for those that have the CD Images. Some might have the old ones lying around. Greg --- "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea." --RFC-1925
Re: way to get selections _not_ in /var/lib/dpkg/*?
On 06-Dec-2000 Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:32:02AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> let's see . >> >> /var/lib/dpkg/status. Every package marked 'Status: install ok installed' >> is >> installed. > > Yes, but it's in a big file with a lot of extra data (whereas the > output from --get-selections is just lines indicating package and > state). I know that I can just pull the relevant bits with some > regex work, but I wondered if there was a way to make dpkg read its > data from some file other than the system's /var/lib/dpkg/status > (assuming that's the file dpkg is using to get its data; I always > assumed so). > nope, you get to do some manual work.
