Re: Perl 5.6 and potato
Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:39:49PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > > > The alternatives system probably takes care of it. /usr/bin/perl is > > probably a symlink to /etc/alternatives/perl, which is in turn a symlink > > to either /usr/bin/perl-5.005 or /usr/bin/perl5.6.0 > > wrong, perl 5.6 no longer supports alternatives. Fine. It was just a guess... I was leaving it up to the user to check.
Re: Lilo problem
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:13:22PM -0800, Omar Shuja Siddiqui wrote: > hi > i have installed linux many times but there is just > one problem that i am facing, that is writing lilo to > the mbr. every time the installation is successful the > lio prompt does not show up when the pc reboots , but > it only comes up with the boot floppy. how can i > write lilo to the mbr as i donot want to start with > the boot floppy. > Edit /etc/lilo.conf to reflect your setup and run "/sbin/lilo.conf" from the command line. You can use "liloconfig" to generate a "/etc/lilo.conf" file. Check out the man pages for more info. There is also good documentation including examples in the /usr/share/doc/lilo directory. hth, kent -- I'd really love ta wana help ya Flanders but... Homer Simpson
Re: Perl 5.6 and potato
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:39:49PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > mike polniak wrote: > > > > Arcady Genkin wrote: > > > I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default > > > 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and > > > renamed the executable to perl-5.6 for instance there would be any > > > issues with using it or it interfering with Debian's vital utilities? > > > > Well i have both perl-5.6 and 5.005 installed. Dont recall how i > > did that but i always use apt-get: > > > > /usr/bin/perl-5.005 > > /usr/bin/perl5.6.0 > > The alternatives system probably takes care of it. /usr/bin/perl is > probably a symlink to /etc/alternatives/perl, which is in turn a symlink > to either /usr/bin/perl-5.005 or /usr/bin/perl5.6.0 wrong, perl 5.6 no longer supports alternatives. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpvgfW9n3C2g.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xinitrc isn't being read??
--- Casey Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > xdm runs .xsessionrc, startx runs .xinitrc > I created ~/.xsession and added the line xsetroot -solid "#2f4f4f" and it didn't work. I then added # !/bin/sh to the first line and that didn't work I then created ~/.xsession and added the line xsetroot -solid "#2f4f4f" and X went t into a loop. It would let me log on, then X would restart. I deleted the file. for some reason, the line xsetroot -solid "#2f4f4f" only works when I put it in xdm. any ideas? xucaen > -casey > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote: > > > Hi all. > > I added xsetroot -solid "#2f4f4f" to > > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc but nothing happened. > > > > I deleted it from xinitrc and added it to > > /etc/X11/xdm/xsetup_0 and it worked. > > > > is there any reason why xinitrc isn't read > when X > > starts using xdm? > > > > thanks!! > > > > xucaen > > > > > > > > > __ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at > great prices. > > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? > Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: How to determins total system up-time.
uptime it's format is: locutus:/etc# uptime 10:35pm up 5 days, 17:50, 4 users, load average: 0.46, 0.12, 0.04 which says locutus has been up for 5 days, 17 hours, and 50 min as of 10:35 pm MST 1/24/01 (I added the timezone and date information from other sources...) On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Scott E. Graves wrote: >I would like to know where to find how long the server has been running >(Days, Hours, Minutes) > >Thanks, >Scott > > > -- There is an old saying that if a million monkeys typed on a million keyboards for a million years, eventually all the works of Shakespeare would be produced. Now, thanks to Usenet, we know this is not true. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
Re: xinitrc isn't being read??
xdm runs .xsessionrc, startx runs .xinitrc -casey On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all. > I added xsetroot -solid "#2f4f4f" to > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc but nothing happened. > > I deleted it from xinitrc and added it to > /etc/X11/xdm/xsetup_0 and it worked. > > is there any reason why xinitrc isn't read when X > starts using xdm? > > thanks!! > > xucaen > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
xinitrc isn't being read??
Hi all. I added xsetroot -solid "#2f4f4f" to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc but nothing happened. I deleted it from xinitrc and added it to /etc/X11/xdm/xsetup_0 and it worked. is there any reason why xinitrc isn't read when X starts using xdm? thanks!! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: my maxed out memory - still ok?
Ken Weingold wrote: > > Here you go. Does this still look okay? This is with Webtrends > running a lot of profiles. > > 6:56pm up 1 day, 1:02, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.30, 0.21 > 56 processes: 52 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.1% user, 8.7% system, 74.6% nice, 16.4% idle > Mem: 517500K av, 51K used, 3056K free, 36364K shrd, 312056K buff > Swap: 498004K av,720K used, 497284K free 36096K cached panic when it says 0kb free swap ...like now im worring bad about one of my sun boxes: Memory: 128M real, 4224K free, 308M swap in use, 155M swap free swappin almost 3x what it has for memory ! nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Still no Konqueror kookies w/o KDE running in Sid
To quote Steve Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I'm up to the KDE 2.1-beta2-2 binaries and Konqueror still ignores cookies # unless the KDE environment is running. # # Should I clear out my KDE settings or is it just not fixed yet? Is it # definitely reported as a bug to kde.org? I've already reported it to http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ , and I imagine the KDE2 maintainer has already forwarded it to the KDE2 developers. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
Re: Perl 5.6 and potato
mike polniak wrote: > > Arcady Genkin wrote: > > I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default > > 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and > > renamed the executable to perl-5.6 for instance there would be any > > issues with using it or it interfering with Debian's vital utilities? > > Well i have both perl-5.6 and 5.005 installed. Dont recall how i > did that but i always use apt-get: > > /usr/bin/perl-5.005 > /usr/bin/perl5.6.0 The alternatives system probably takes care of it. /usr/bin/perl is probably a symlink to /etc/alternatives/perl, which is in turn a symlink to either /usr/bin/perl-5.005 or /usr/bin/perl5.6.0 Matthew
Re: Kernel Error ?
> Jorge wrote: > > Last day linux gives me this error: > > Unable to handle kernel null pointer dereference at virtual adress > 0024 current tss.cr3 = 2d6c5000, %cr3 = 2d6c5000 *pde = > > and after that hungs up. > > This Linux has kernel 2.2.15 with 2 GB RAM and 1GB Swap. Try updating to the latest 2.2 kernel (2.2.18 atm) and see if the problem goes away.
Still no Konqueror kookies w/o KDE running in Sid
I'm up to the KDE 2.1-beta2-2 binaries and Konqueror still ignores cookies unless the KDE environment is running. Should I clear out my KDE settings or is it just not fixed yet? Is it definitely reported as a bug to kde.org? Thanks, Steve -- Steve Cooper Redmond, WA (Somewhere in the shadow of the evil empire)
Re: Perl 5.6 and potato
Arcady Genkin wrote: > I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default > 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and > renamed the executable to perl-5.6 for instance there would be any > issues with using it or it interfering with Debian's vital utilities? Well i have both perl-5.6 and 5.005 installed. Dont recall how i did that but i always use apt-get: /usr/bin/perl-5.005 /usr/bin/perl5.6.0 -- ~~~
Re: smp-debian, tulip
"Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 For (sic) Intel x86...etc" Ch8 sec 8.5. I did it. Use menuconfig. I must have screwed up somewhere though, because my tulip driver for FA3/TX doesn't load. -- daveA (debian.user)
Perl 5.6 and potato
I'd like to install Perl 5.6, without upgrading potato's default 5.005. Do you think that if I installed Perl 5.6 under /usr/local and renamed the executable to perl-5.6 for instance there would be any issues with using it or it interfering with Debian's vital utilities? I'm just starting out with Perl and need 5.6 because that's the version installed at school. Many thanks, -- Arcady Genkin Don't read everything you believe.
fstab entry for cd-rw device?
I'm trying to get my cd-burner working under Debian 2.2. I've configured my system so that the ide-scsi module is loaded at boot time and I've also added the "hdd=ide-scsi" parameters to my LILO configuration. I know that the module is loaded and functional because I can see the following when reading the boot prompt. -> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host. However, I'm not sure which paramaters to add in the /etc/fstab file. My thoughts are to add something like the following: # /dev/scd0 /cdburneriso9660 defaults,user,noauto00 Will this work? Or is there a better way to mount my cd-rw?
what is '=20' at end of line in Mutt?
In some messages i am getting '=20' at the end of lines. Anyone know what generates this? Here's what it looks like in my Mutt pager: > >=20 > > I was looking at /etc/init.d/devpts.sh. In the 2.2.x kernel docs, recomm= > ends > > adding an appropriate line to /etc/fstab. However, Debian choose not to = > and > > does it in a boot script instead; not sure why. I am tempted to hack tog= > ether > > a similar script for shm. =20 > > i already went with this approach and it works quite well, my script > is below. it also mounts usbdevfs. =20 -- ~~~
Re: Console question (2x)
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:06:50PM -0600, ktb wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:42:56PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > > > 1. I have heard that its possible to run console in multiple resolutions. > > How do I do this in debian, specifically? > > > > 2. How can I have more console windows than the default 6? I want to bump > > up tty7 and above used for X. Also, what happens if I want more terminals > > than 12? There are only 12 function keys! > > > > I am running debian testing (maybe it matters). I am untrained in the > > mystic ways of the console. Any help would be appreciated. :) > > > > Put "vga=ask" in your /etc/lilo.conf run "/sbin/lilo" and you will be > given a choice of resolution on boot. > > To add consoles, in /etc/inittab add additional entries to section - > # /sbin/getty invocations for the runlevels. > > To start X sessions above tty7, from the command line you could start > them with - > $ startx -- :8 > as an example. > kent > I'll correct myself and point out that you don't need to use the #8 in the example above. If you use "startx -- :1" it will start another X session on the next available tty which would be tty8 on a default install. kent -- I'd really love ta wana help ya Flanders but... Homer Simpson
Re: Console question (2x)
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, ktb wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:42:56PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > > > 1. I have heard that its possible to run console in multiple resolutions. > > How do I do this in debian, specifically? > > > > 2. How can I have more console windows than the default 6? I want to bump > > up tty7 and above used for X. Also, what happens if I want more terminals > > than 12? There are only 12 function keys! > > > > I am running debian testing (maybe it matters). I am untrained in the > > mystic ways of the console. Any help would be appreciated. :) > > > > Put "vga=ask" in your /etc/lilo.conf run "/sbin/lilo" and you will be > given a choice of resolution on boot. I added vga=ask and I got no such choice option at boot time. yes. I did run lilo after i edited the conf file. Also, I tried vga=extended and that doesnt work either. There are no errors and the 'normal' mode is always used. Here is the response from dmesg: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Any ideas? > > To add consoles, in /etc/inittab add additional entries to section - > # /sbin/getty invocations for the runlevels. > > To start X sessions above tty7, from the command line you could start > them with - > $ startx -- :8 > as an example. > kent > > -- > I'd really love ta wana help ya Flanders but... Homer Simpson > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > RAccess #geeks/irc.openprojects.net -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS GIT GP d- s+: a-- C+++ ULSB+++ 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+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: How to determins total system up-time.
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Scott E. Graves wrote: > I would like to know where to find how long the server has been running > (Days, Hours, Minutes) > > Thanks, > Scott > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Type 'uptime' RAccess #geeks/irc.openprojects.net -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS GIT GP d- s+: a-- C+++ ULSB+++ 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+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
need a lilo.conf which does not mess up existing linux / partition
Dear Debian users, WhenI ran lilo yesterday, it somehow change an existing (Mandrake) linux root partition and made it unworkable. For some reason modprobe went looking for /lib/modules/2.2.18pre2.1 instead of /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/ so my Mandrake root partition became unworkable,. Would somebody be able to kindly have a look at my existing lilo.conf, and suggest how it incorprated into a Debian lilo.conf file, so that I can boot up to either my Debian or Mandrake Linux systems.? ( I had no problem booting up to Windows) On my current system, the root partitions are: /dev/hda1 :Win95 /dev/hdb1: Mandrake Linux ver 7.2 At the moment, I have a Debian partiton on /dev/hda8, but for now, have use a floppy to boot to Debian Linux. (I have already read the lilo.conf manpages and all th edocumentation I could find, but I can't find any clues as to the the cause of the problem I described, or how to avoid it.) I would be grateful for any suggestions. TIA, James = Here's my current (Mandrake 7.2) /etc/lilo.conf on /dev/hdb1 : boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=linux-up keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux-up read-only root=/dev/hdb1 image=/boot/vmlinuz-secure label=linux root=/dev/hdb1 vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdb1 append=" failsafe" read-only #image=/boot/vmlinuz # label=/debian # root=/dev/hda8 # read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda = and here's the current skeleton of the Debian /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda8 # Why isn't it boot=/dev/hda ???!!! root=/dev/hda8 compact install=/boot/boot-menu.b delay=20 map=/boot/map append="" vga=vga read-only image=/vmlinuz label=Linux image=/vmlinuz.old label=old === -- James Sinnamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +61 7 46311490, +61 412 319669 PO Box 517 Darling Heights QLD 4350
Re: problem playing audio CD's
Hi Philipp, Did u log out, and back in? This typically takes care of that. And btw, I just read through more of this string and I really like changing the group to cdrom and then just adding yourself and whoever else will use the cdrom - it's much more sanitary then adding yourself to disk. hth, tatah On Wednesday 24 January 2001 14:21, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for your responses! > I can now access audio-cd's BUT ONLY AS ROOT! > I changed my setting in /dev to this: > > brw-rw 1 rootdisk 3 Oct 29 00:03 /dev/cdrom > ->hdc > brw-rw 1 rootdisk22, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/hdc > > I added the user (user1) to this group: > # adduser user1 disk > > now ROOT can play CD's but not user1 - is there any other group I don't > belong to? > When I try to specify the device in cdcd I get 'Permission denied' (trying > to add /dev/cdrom) > What else can I do? > BTW cdcd is working great :) (but just for root for now) > > TIA, > Philipp > > Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Philipp, > > > > No worries. Many have been here before :) > > > > You don't mount an audio cd! You just play it etc. So, under > > your gnome, just fire up the cdplayer that comes with it. If you > > use kde, use the cdplayer that comes with it. Just need to confinger > > your device (/dev/hdb, /dev/hdc etc). > > > > Also, add yourself to your cdgroup. > > > > ~ pts/0> ls -al /dev/hdd > > brw-rw1 root disk 22, 64 Feb 22 1999 /dev/hdd > > YOU ARE ROOT!! on bogus > > ~ pts/0> ls -al /dev/hdc > > brw-rw1 root disk 22, 0 Feb 22 1999 /dev/hdc > > YOU ARE ROOT!! on bogus > > > > Here you see it's owned by root and belongs to 'disk', so I added myself > > to that group: 'adduser me disk' as root. There are also safer > > ways to do this, check back with the list. > > > > also, I like the cdcd package for playing my cdroms in pure console mode > > (no x running). 'apt-get install cdcd' will do the trick. For adjusting > > the volume, I like aumix, again, 'apt-get install aumix' :) > > > > I really hope this helps. > > > > tatah > > > > On Wednesday 24 January 2001 10:49, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm new to the multimedia things under Linux :) > > > I have the problem that I can't play audio CD's on my computer. > > > I've installed everyhting that's related to sound properly - so I'm > > > able to play mp3s, *.wav,etc. with freeamp for example, but when I put > > > in a CD (even CD's I bought, no CD-R or CD-RW) and I want to mount it I > > > get: > > > > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom or too > > > many mounted file systems > > > > > > Even as root I can't do it! This is how /etc/fstab looks like: > > > > > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 > > > defaults,user,noauto,ro 00 > > > > > > When I start 'gcd 2.91' under Gnome I get this: > > > > > > "Unable to open cd device. Please make sure that you are using teh > > > correct device and that you have permission to access the device.." > > > The cd-drive works perfectely fine with every CD (cd-rom). So it's not > > > the cd-drive that's not working! > > > > > > What am I missing, or what am I doing wrong? Any ideas for a good > > > cd-player? > > > > > > TIA!! > > > Philipp > > > > -- > > > > Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 707-442-6579 h/m 707-268-4074 > > http://www.qsl.net/ke6slsICQ# 12741145 > > This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian > > If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. -- Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707-442-6579 h/m 707-268-4074 http://www.qsl.net/ke6slsICQ# 12741145 This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.
Re: Console question (2x)
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:42:56PM -0500, RAccess wrote: > > 1. I have heard that its possible to run console in multiple resolutions. > How do I do this in debian, specifically? > > 2. How can I have more console windows than the default 6? I want to bump > up tty7 and above used for X. Also, what happens if I want more terminals > than 12? There are only 12 function keys! > > I am running debian testing (maybe it matters). I am untrained in the > mystic ways of the console. Any help would be appreciated. :) > Put "vga=ask" in your /etc/lilo.conf run "/sbin/lilo" and you will be given a choice of resolution on boot. To add consoles, in /etc/inittab add additional entries to section - # /sbin/getty invocations for the runlevels. To start X sessions above tty7, from the command line you could start them with - $ startx -- :8 as an example. kent -- I'd really love ta wana help ya Flanders but... Homer Simpson
Re: Lilo problem
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Omar Shuja Siddiqui wrote: > hi > i have installed linux many times but there is just > one problem that i am facing, that is writing lilo to > the mbr. every time the installation is successful the > lio prompt does not show up when the pc reboots , but > it only comes up with the boot floppy. how can i > write lilo to the mbr as i donot want to start with > the boot floppy. > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Make sure that your /boot is in the first 8.4gig of HD. This problem can be solved by moving the /boot partition (hard) or by simply upgrading to latest lilo, i.e. 21.* or newer. RAccess #geeks/irc.openprojects.net -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS GIT GP d- s+: a-- C+++ ULSB+++ 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+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
Re: Netscape Woes
on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:51:45PM -0600, ktb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:12:22AM -0500, Howell Caton wrote: > > > > As a complete newbie, I had to install linux 2.2 several times before I got > > all the kinks worked out. Each time I downloaded netscape 2.76 from > > ftp.netscape.com. I'd get the error message "libstdc++=libc6.1-1.so.2 > > not available". I solved that by linking it to libstdc++=libc6.1-2.so.3, > > which is probably not relevant, but I don't know for sure. Anyway, it > > worked. > > > > The last time I re-installed, I used netscape 3.? from the Debian > > distribution. It worked, but was hopelessly outdated. So I downloaded > > 4.76 again and installed it over my 3.? installation. When I ran it, I got > > a "bus error" message. Thinking that some files from my 3.? version > > wer still around causing incompatibitites with 4.76 stuff, I ripped > > everything out > > and re-installed 4.76. I still got the "bus error" message. > > > > I don't have a clue about how to troubleshoot this problem. Can anyone > > help? > > Thanks! > > > > First I don't know why you did the multiple installs of debian. > Sometimes it is warranted but for the most part you can fix problems > without reboots and reinstalling. I'm sure you gained some valuable > install experience though. My experience has been that three installs of a new distro are often warrented: once to see how it works, twice to try to get it right, thrice to get it right. And yes, it's a good way to learn. Best thing to do is to keep the install to a minimum, allowing you to cycle through the sequence quickly. I tend to like to play extensively with partitioning and such. I almost always find I did something that I'd prefer to have differently. > As to your current dilemma I would suggest you make life easy for > yourself and use "apt-get." I would clean out the netscape stuff you > already have and "apt-get install netscape-smotif-476" Ditto. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpDA4qrNbZJy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FVWM menus and colors
Richard Cobbe wrote: ... about fvwm default setting etc... > I didn't like the debian defaults much either, but I wanted to keep the > automatically-generated menus. So, in my post.hook, I created a *new* > top-level menu, which contains the Debian automatic menu system as one of > its choices, and rebound the mouse and keybindings to bring up this new > menu instead. This way, I get all of the old choices I had when I was > still using RedHat, and I have access to the Debian stuff when I need it. > > Now if I could just figure out how to reset the pager's properties in a > consistent fashion, I'd be in business. I haven't had a time to devote to checking out fvwm config in debian but I'd say that the menus is about the only thing you really want to keep, so you can probably just create completely new config for fvwm (there are a lot of examples + fairly good man page) and use the default debian menu from /etc/X11/fvwm. That's what I'll do one of these days, I guess. but there are various hooks in debian default config so you might want to investigate a bit first... btw new fvwm is coming soon (subject to change, but it's in feature freeze for some time) with completely new support for themes etc... we might even get fvwm.themes.org again! well, actually fvwm.themes.org is already working but is not advertised at www.themes.org and is not for current version of fvwm. erik
Xmodmap broken after 2.4 upgrade
I just upgraded my kernel to 2.4 and a number of funny things have happened, the presently most annoying of which being that my .Xmodmap doesn't work anymore. This is my .Xmodmap file: - !!! Mods that reduce Emacs-pinky clear Control clear Mod4 keysym Control_R = F1 keysym Menu = Meta_R keysym Meta_R = Control_R keysym Control_L = Meta_L keysym Meta_L = Control_L add Control = Control_R add Control = Control_L add Mod4 = Meta_R add Mod4 = Meta_L !!! parenthesis bindings for lisp keysym 9 = 9 bracketleft keysym 0 = 0 bracketright keysym bracketleft = parenleft braceleft keysym bracketright = parenright braceright !!! swap : with ; (good for common lisp and generally useful) keysym semicolon = colon semicolon -- Also, it seems that the xmodmap command has no version argument. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: strange permissions once more
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:45:17AM +1100, Marc-Adrian Napoli wrote: > hi, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/www/mysql/data/eyecandy# ls -la > total 4139667614 > drwx--2 mysqlroot 4096 Jan 19 02:13 . > drwxrwx--- 55 mysqlroot 4096 Jan 22 11:39 .. > -rw-rw1 mysqlroot 398 Jan 11 03:35 admin.ISD > c---r-xr-t1 8736 13358 99, 79 May 28 2000 admin.ISM > br-xrw1 2699629559116, 112 Apr 27 2016 admin.frm > -rw-rw1 mysqlroot 63 Jan 11 03:35 admin_session.ISD > -rw-rw1 mysqlroot 2048 Jan 11 03:35 admin_session.ISM > -rw-rw1 mysqlroot 8618 Oct 9 01:50 admin_session.frm > > i emailed about this a while back and was told to fsck, which i did. however > after fixing all the errors these funny things still remain and i cant > remove them. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/www/mysql/data/eyecandy# rm -rf admin.ISM > rm: cannot unlink `admin.ISM': Operation not permitted the inode was probably corrupted, the kernel seems to think the immutable or append only bit is set. try chattr -ia admin.ISM then rm -f admin.ISM and if that fails use debugfs. > its almost as if they are devices? does anyone know if i can use the MAKEDEV > script to remove these? i cant mv them to /dev/null and i cant remove them > by any means i know how! the inode says they are device special files, which is most likely rubbish, they inode was probably corrupted is all. you cannot use MAKEDEV to remove them since its just a shell script using the same commands you would use to remove such files: rm -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgps7xS0hAFSO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FVWM menus and colors
Lo, on Wednesday, January 24, Erik Steffl did write: > Xucaen wrote: > > what is auto-generation? where is the program > > called update-menus(is it a program??), how do I > > yes, that's it, to find a program: > > which program > locate program > find / -name program -print This assumes that the program is on your system. If it's not, check out www.debian.org/Packages, and especially the file search form at the bottom. In this case, though, update-menus is a program in the `menu' package. > I don't find debian fvwm default settings very good (i.e. not exactly > waht I want, which is true for basically any defualt settings:-), the > most important feature is the automatically generated menu so you have > easy access to all your installed software (or lot of, not everything is > in menu). I didn't like the debian defaults much either, but I wanted to keep the automatically-generated menus. So, in my post.hook, I created a *new* top-level menu, which contains the Debian automatic menu system as one of its choices, and rebound the mouse and keybindings to bring up this new menu instead. This way, I get all of the old choices I had when I was still using RedHat, and I have access to the Debian stuff when I need it. Now if I could just figure out how to reset the pager's properties in a consistent fashion, I'd be in business. Richard
Re: How to determins total system up-time.
Scott E. Graves wrote: > I would like to know where to find how long the server has been running > (Days, Hours, Minutes) run $ uptime -- ~~~
How to determins total system up-time.
I would like to know where to find how long the server has been running (Days, Hours, Minutes) Thanks, Scott
Can exim redirect all mail?
Greetings, I have registered an account with NameSecure, and they offered a service where any email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] was redirected to another email address rather than bouncing. I'm arranging a permanent IP address, and would like to have the same functionality with email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any help appriciated, Paul
Re: Galeon
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, I read yesterday about the following line: deb ftp://galeon.sourceforge.net/pub/galeon/nightly/debian galeon/ and installed galeon by source (apt-get -b source galeon) in a potato system with mozilla M18 from potato too. When running galeon (I already rm -Rf ~/.mozilla) the following error occurs. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ galeon ** WARNING **: Could not get name service! ** ERROR **: file goad.c: line 660 (real_goad_server_activate): assertion failed: (name_service != CORBA_OBJECT_NIL) aborting... Aborted Do you have Orbit installed on your machine? It might be the source of the problem; Galeon needs Corba, and it's the purpose of Orbit to serve the service. BTW, I like Galeon. It's small, simple, fast, and basically sufficient for some of my web-browsing needs. Problem is, the version I installed some months ago, didn't know about Gnome session. I think it's a bit weird for a Gnome application not knowing about session. Oki
Re: Console question (2x)
To quote RAccess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # 1. I have heard that its possible to run console in multiple resolutions. # How do I do this in debian, specifically? One way is to compile framebuffer support into your kernel. Read /path/to/linux/source/Documentation/fb/* . Probably vesafb.txt . # 2. How can I have more console windows than the default 6? I want to bump # up tty7 and above used for X. Also, what happens if I want more terminals # than 12? There are only 12 function keys! Take a look at /etc/inittab . You'll see a bunch of lines that look like: 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6 Add new lines, simply changing the very first and the very last numbers, like: 7:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty7 That'll give you a seventh console. Continue to taste :) As far as having more than 12, I don't know about that. Maybe using left alt will allow you to use another set. But why would you want so many? Incidentally, X uses the next free tty. So if you have 'getty's up to tty11, X will be on tty12. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
Re: change background color of X?
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 04:12:18PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. > what changes the background color of X? > I don't even know what to look up in man for > this. > I just wanted to change the background from the > default gray to something else.. > What window manager are you using? That would be helpful to know. If your run - $ man -k background you will be shown some different options, "bggen" being one of them. hth, kent -- I'd really love ta wana help ya Flanders but... Homer Simpson
Re: Small Fonts in Netscape
There's a couple of HOWTOs on fonts that helped me. Both of them have a section on Netscape: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO.html Tom Joshua Kruck wrote: > > Hello, > Does anyone have this same problem? I run my monitor at 1600x1200, so i > know my text is going to be small. But some stuff is really tiny, i have > always had this problem. Is there anything i can do/ fonts i forgot to > install that would fix this? > Thanks > Joshua > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Console question (2x)
> 1. I have heard that its possible to run console in multiple resolutions. > How do I do this in debian, specifically? Add/Change the "vga" line in lilo.conf to say "extended" (will give you 80x50 columns) man lilo for more information where it should go
Re: change background color of X?
Xucaen wrote: > Hi all.. > what changes the background color of X? > I don't even know what to look up in man for > this. man xsetroot -- ~~~
strange permissions once more
hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/www/mysql/data/eyecandy# ls -la total 4139667614 drwx--2 mysqlroot 4096 Jan 19 02:13 . drwxrwx--- 55 mysqlroot 4096 Jan 22 11:39 .. -rw-rw1 mysqlroot 398 Jan 11 03:35 admin.ISD c---r-xr-t1 8736 13358 99, 79 May 28 2000 admin.ISM br-xrw1 2699629559116, 112 Apr 27 2016 admin.frm -rw-rw1 mysqlroot 63 Jan 11 03:35 admin_session.ISD -rw-rw1 mysqlroot 2048 Jan 11 03:35 admin_session.ISM -rw-rw1 mysqlroot 8618 Oct 9 01:50 admin_session.frm i emailed about this a while back and was told to fsck, which i did. however after fixing all the errors these funny things still remain and i cant remove them. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/www/mysql/data/eyecandy# rm -rf admin.ISM rm: cannot unlink `admin.ISM': Operation not permitted its almost as if they are devices? does anyone know if i can use the MAKEDEV script to remove these? i cant mv them to /dev/null and i cant remove them by any means i know how! Regards, Marc-Adrian Napoli Network Admin Connect Infobahn Australia +61 2 9212 0387
Re: change background color of X?
* Xucaen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010124 19:14]: > Hi all.. > what changes the background color of X? > I don't even know what to look up in man for > this. > I just wanted to change the background from the > default gray to something else.. "the default gray" ?? Are you talking about the screen where you log in to X ?? If so, look in /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources_0 and/or Xsetup_0. If you talking about once you're in X, use your window manager's built-in function to set the background. Hall
Re: Ip Aliasing the Debian Way...
Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:24:16PM -0800, Willy Lee wrote: > > Hm. This doesn't work for me (latest potato i386). Here's the stanza I *snip* > Well. Several things: > > 1) There's no point in tracking RX or TX packets for a virtual > interface (think about the word virtual for a while ...) Ok, but the output of ifconfig in the IP-aliasing mini-HOWTO *does* have those lines, which confused me. > 2) You're missing the "network" line from your iface stanza. Since it > looks to me like you're adding a different subnet this is kinda > important. Ok, I thought (from man interfaces) that the "network" line was only needed for 2.0.x series kernels, I can add this. > 3) It doesn't look like you added any routes. This might not be > necessary depending which kernel you're using. I tried several combinations of route commands. This is the latest one I tried: route add -host 205.178.55.110 dev eth0:0 I also tried 'route add -net 205.178.55.0 netmask 255.255.255.192 dev eth0:0'. > > I recompiled the kernel to turn on IP_ALIAS support. Is there another > > feature I need to turn on, that I perhaps missed? Is the feature > > limited to certain hardware? Is it limited to certain subnet masks? > > Fixd #2. Post the output of "netstat -rn". Consider whether you're > helping us solve your problem by blocking out the IPs. Ok. I thought blocking out the IPs was kinda traditional :) Perhaps more people pinging the machine would help. New stanza in /etc/network/interfaces: iface eth0:0 inet static address 205.178.55.110 netmask 255.255.255.192 gateway 205.178.55.65 broadcast 205.178.55.255 network 205.178.55.0 This is right after doing a /etc/init.d/networking restart, before any route commands. trs80:/etc/network# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 205.178.55.64 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.192 U 0 00 eth0 10.0.0.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 0.0.0.0 205.178.55.65 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.41 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 trs80:/etc/network# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:9C:8B:BF inet addr:10.0.0.102 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:5656 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2998 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd000 eth0:0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:9C:8B:BF inet addr:205.178.55.110 Bcast:205.178.55.255 Mask:255.255.255.192 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd000 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 Thanks for all the help. I am kinda struggling here, since I've been forced into a sysadmin role without any experience or training (company can't afford a real sysadmin, I'm the only person with *any* kind of linux experience, since I run debian at home.) =wl
Re: my maxed out memory - still ok?
any time you are lookin at memory usage, you need to subtract out the totals for buff and cache. Right now your system is only using roughly 169 megs, thats far from maxing out half a gig of ram. Linux will take al your 'free' memory and fill it up with stuff that will improve the performance of your system (caching filesystem access for one), and although it counts in the 'used' column, you shouldnt count it when seeing how much memory your system uses. -Casey On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Ken Weingold wrote: > Here you go. Does this still look okay? This is with Webtrends > running a lot of profiles. > > > > 6:56pm up 1 day, 1:02, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.30, 0.21 > 56 processes: 52 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 0.1% user, 8.7% system, 74.6% nice, 16.4% idle > Mem: 517500K av, 51K used, 3056K free, 36364K shrd, 312056K buff > Swap: 498004K av,720K used, 497284K free 36096K cached > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: X Mouse - 911 call
How about killing the HTML next time? hammack wrote: > My PS/2 mouse is connected to COM2 (in W95), I have tried /dev/ttyS0,1,and > 2 with no success. > Section "Pointer" >Protocol"PS/2" >Device "/dev/psaux" These two lines are where you're going wrong. If the mouse is connected to COM2 under Windoze, it's /dev/ttyS1 under Linux. /dev/psaux is for the PS/2 port. Also I think the protocol has to be something else - perhaps ms? - but I'm really not too sure on that one as all I've ever used under Linux are PS/2 devices connectd to the PS/2 port. >Buttons 3 >Emulate3Buttons Also, I seem to remember that these two options are contradictory. Either it really is a 3 button, *or* it isn't and you emulate three buttons. I'd suggest you head to; http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/mouse.html and see what they say there. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. pgps1p5BnO9B2.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Small Fonts in Netscape
on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:51:20AM -0600, Joshua Kruck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > Does anyone have this same problem? I run my monitor at 1600x1200, so i > know my text is going to be small. But some stuff is really tiny, i have > always had this problem. Is there anything i can do/ fonts i forgot to > install that would fix this? http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/netscape.resources ...to adjust font scaling step size. -- Karsten M. Self http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org pgptY0Gnt9fQb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FVWM menus and colors
Xucaen wrote: > > Hi all.. > does anyone else use fvwm? I was just playing you bet! > with some configs and while reading the docs > about adding to the menu, it says: > > "The menu auto-generation stuff puts the > generated menus in this system-wide file. As any > edits the system administrator makes to this file > will be lost the next time "update-menus" is run, > it should not be edited. Also, as users can run > update-menus themselves, creating their own > ~/.fvwm/menudefs.hook, this should also not be > edited by hand." > > what is auto-generation? where is the program > called update-menus(is it a program??), how do I yes, that's it, to find a program: which program locate program find / -name program -print > add items to the menu so they won't get deleted? > and what is the menu package? (I don't like to > install packages if I know nothing about them. > I'm still learning the system and I don't want it > suddenly changed half way thru my learning > curve.) to be totally independent of debian fvwm config just create a file .fvwmrc (or .fvwm2rc) and put all your config stuff in there (or create a ~/.fvwmrc.d directory with multiple files and just include them from ~/.fvwmrc), to use the debian config just follow the comments, you can change either the system files in /etc/X11/fvwm or create file in ~/.fvwm (you might need to create thsi direcotry). note the main-menu-pre.hook file, that's where you can add your menu entries (these come before any other menu entries) and main-menu.hook (these are part of main menu, before last Exit item) I don't find debian fvwm default settings very good (i.e. not exactly waht I want, which is true for basically any defualt settings:-), the most important feature is the automatically generated menu so you have easy access to all your installed software (or lot of, not everything is in menu). if you want to change menu for all the window managers, you'd better take a look at the menu system, you basically need to create new menu entries (there's some docs on it and plenty of examples in /usr/lib/menu/*), you need to add your new entries to /etc/menu (which is not for fvwm only, that's general menu used by all (almost) WMs in debian, perhpas other programs as well). erik
change background color of X?
Hi all.. what changes the background color of X? I don't even know what to look up in man for this. I just wanted to change the background from the default gray to something else.. thanks!! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: internet connection sharing
Hi. I use ipchains to share pppwith the network. here's the syntax for ipchains that I use: # first, deny all IP's ipchains -P forward DENY # now, allow individual addresses access. # I do each machine individually # the '/24' means this is a class C network ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.2/24 -j MASQ ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.4/24 -j MASQ # see man ipchains for parameter definitions. hope this helps! xucaen --- Omar Shuja Siddiqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > i have recently installed a network of to Linux > boxes. > one of them is a working dial up machine. i > want to > share the internet connection with the other > Linux box > also. please tell me what is the whole > procedure for > doing this. > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at > great prices. > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? > Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: internet connection sharing
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, David B.Harris wrote: > To quote Omar Shuja Siddiqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > # i have recently installed a network of to Linux boxes. > # one of them is a working dial up machine. i want to > # share the internet connection with the other Linux box > # also. please tell me what is the whole procedure for > # doing this. > There is very good documentation available for this. Check out > http://www.linuxdoc.org . You want the "IP Masquerading HOWTO" or > something like that. It's a fairly involved procedure. I think that apt-get install ipmasq on the dial up machine should do it all for you, assuming your internal network is already set up in some reasonable way. Say "yes" when it asks whether you want to recalculate the firewall rules whenever pppd brings up or takes down a link.---Bruce F.
RE: ftp and passwords
> quite true. what i was really suggesting is make them use passwords > 20 times more obfuscated then you would normally enforce on a ssh/scp I remember my newbie days in college, when our local UNIX admin has such a draconian password filter installed it took me 30 minutes to successfully change my password. Ah, memories. > user. and make them change it once a week. eventually the > inconvenience might entice them to switch to ssh. (otoh they would > probably be more likely to find one of those `save my password in > cleartext, as insecurely as possible' checkboxes littered about > windows. but thats where the weekly change comes in ;-) maybe may it > a daily change.. Ah, I see what you were getting at nowsecurity through cruelty. You can't take any scheisse from these users. If they won't use ssh, make life so difficult that they'll be begging to make the switch. #include evil-laugh.c Jason Mogavero Sr. Network Engineer Inflow, Inc (303)942-2828 > -Original Message- > From: Ethan Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 3:38 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: ftp and passwords > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:55:54AM -0700, Jason Mogavero wrote: > > > > Not to pick a nit, but secure passwords aren't even a > speedbump if you're > > being sniffed. (though they ARE good practice) > > > -- > Ethan Benson > http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ >
my maxed out memory - still ok?
Here you go. Does this still look okay? This is with Webtrends running a lot of profiles. 6:56pm up 1 day, 1:02, 2 users, load average: 0.22, 0.30, 0.21 56 processes: 52 sleeping, 4 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 8.7% system, 74.6% nice, 16.4% idle Mem: 517500K av, 51K used, 3056K free, 36364K shrd, 312056K buff Swap: 498004K av,720K used, 497284K free 36096K cached
Re: Ip Aliasing the Debian Way...
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:24:16PM -0800, Willy Lee wrote: > > just add something like this to /etc/network/interfaces: > > > > iface eth0:0 inet static > > address 192.168.0.1 > > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > network 192.168.0.0 > > broadcast 192.168.0.255 > > gateway 192.168.0.10 > > > > then run either /etc/init.d/networking restart or ifup eth0:0 > > > > Hm. This doesn't work for me (latest potato i386). Here's the stanza I > add to /etc/network/interfaces (all values given to me by an admin): > > iface eth0:0 inet static > address the.new.ip.adr > netmask 255.255.255.192 > gateway the.new.ip.gw > broadcast the.new.ip.255 > > After running /etc/init.d/networking restart, I get this from ifconfig: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:9C:8B:BF > inet addr:10.0.0.102 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:279 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd000 > > eth0:0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:9C:8B:BF > inet addr:the.new.ip.adr Bcast:the.new.ip.255 > Mask:255.255.255.192 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd000 > > Note that the :0 alias doesn't have lines beginning with "RX packets" or > "TX packets". I can't ping the.new.ip.adr either, from anywhere. Well. Several things: 1) There's no point in tracking RX or TX packets for a virtual interface (think about the word virtual for a while ...) 2) You're missing the "network" line from your iface stanza. Since it looks to me like you're adding a different subnet this is kinda important. 3) It doesn't look like you added any routes. This might not be necessary depending which kernel you're using. > I recompiled the kernel to turn on IP_ALIAS support. Is there another > feature I need to turn on, that I perhaps missed? Is the feature > limited to certain hardware? Is it limited to certain subnet masks? Fixd #2. Post the output of "netstat -rn". Consider whether you're helping us solve your problem by blocking out the IPs. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Inc. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpXd0zq4MApm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Console question (2x)
1. I have heard that its possible to run console in multiple resolutions. How do I do this in debian, specifically? 2. How can I have more console windows than the default 6? I want to bump up tty7 and above used for X. Also, what happens if I want more terminals than 12? There are only 12 function keys! I am running debian testing (maybe it matters). I am untrained in the mystic ways of the console. Any help would be appreciated. :) Thanks. RAccess #geeks/irc.openprojects.net -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS GIT GP d- s+: a-- C+++ ULSB+++ 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+ --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--
playing .mov files in a browser (quicktime) possible?
Greetings! I would like to know if I can somehow play quicktime files (.mov) embedded in a browser and just plain .mov files in linux. Thanks for any info.
Re: how to forward a mail including attachments AND add comments
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:22:50PM +0100, Martin W?rtele wrote: > hi, > > how can i forward a mail including attachments to an address and add some > comments with mutt > > hitting f for forward only forwards the text, but allows comments > hitting b for bounce doesn't give me a chance to add comments. > > any ideas, couldn't find anything in mutt help > Are you 100% sure you aren't sending an attachment using "f"? If I get you right the file you attached can be viewed at the end of the email but you are looking for a "packaged file?" Hit your "v" key and see if you can view the attachment that way. You could send to a web email account and see what the attachment looks like there to. Just a thought. kent -- I'd really love ta wana help ya Flanders but... Homer Simpson
Re: dist-upgrade for unstable
Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jens, > > I think this is a pretty normal trend. I updated from stable kde to > unstable and looked 'wide eyed' at my apt as it removed everything > that was kde and starting pulling down the unstable... Well, actually it was only about to upgrade a dozen packages, remove 50-something and install 5 or so new ones, none of them had any relation to gnome or other to-be-deleted, therefore, it is hard to imagine, that there was a 'hidden' upgrade or so for gnome... Anyway, I decided to wait a couple more days, and today I did another upgrade to see what happens: 55 to be updated, 7 or so to delete. But here comes the post of the other writer - it was sawfish. I use it and don't want to loose it, therefore, I'll wait another couple days :-) Thanks. -- Tschoe,Get my gpg-public-key here Jens http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt
Re: Ip Aliasing the Debian Way...
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > just add something like this to /etc/network/interfaces: > > iface eth0:0 inet static > address 192.168.0.1 > netmask 255.255.255.0 > network 192.168.0.0 > broadcast 192.168.0.255 > gateway 192.168.0.10 > > then run either /etc/init.d/networking restart or ifup eth0:0 > Hm. This doesn't work for me (latest potato i386). Here's the stanza I add to /etc/network/interfaces (all values given to me by an admin): iface eth0:0 inet static address the.new.ip.adr netmask 255.255.255.192 gateway the.new.ip.gw broadcast the.new.ip.255 After running /etc/init.d/networking restart, I get this from ifconfig: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /sbin/ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:9C:8B:BF inet addr:10.0.0.102 Bcast:10.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:279 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd000 eth0:0Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:5A:9C:8B:BF inet addr:the.new.ip.adr Bcast:the.new.ip.255 Mask:255.255.255.192 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd000 Note that the :0 alias doesn't have lines beginning with "RX packets" or "TX packets". I can't ping the.new.ip.adr either, from anywhere. I recompiled the kernel to turn on IP_ALIAS support. Is there another feature I need to turn on, that I perhaps missed? Is the feature limited to certain hardware? Is it limited to certain subnet masks? It's like magic, this *just* came up out of the blue at work! :) Please cc me, so I can get the email at work, where I need it :) =wl
FVWM menus and colors
Hi all.. does anyone else use fvwm? I was just playing with some configs and while reading the docs about adding to the menu, it says: "The menu auto-generation stuff puts the generated menus in this system-wide file. As any edits the system administrator makes to this file will be lost the next time "update-menus" is run, it should not be edited. Also, as users can run update-menus themselves, creating their own ~/.fvwm/menudefs.hook, this should also not be edited by hand." what is auto-generation? where is the program called update-menus(is it a program??), how do I add items to the menu so they won't get deleted? and what is the menu package? (I don't like to install packages if I know nothing about them. I'm still learning the system and I don't want it suddenly changed half way thru my learning curve.) thanks all!!! xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Running fetchmail at login time
Daniel de los Reyes wrote: > I want to run fetchmail as a daemon each time I log in but I don't want to > do it manually.Is bash_profile the apropiate place to launch it from? How > can I prevent it form being launched several times if I login at several > consoles? Here's how I do it. First, I wrote a script called fetchmail.sh, which is located in my home directory. Here's the script: - Begin fetchmail.sh - #! /bin/bash LOGCOUNT=w -hsf|grep mike|wc -l MAXCOUNT=1 case "$1" in start-daemon) if [ -e ~mike/.fetchmail.pid ] then exit fi fetchmail -d 120 ;; start) if [ -e ~mike/.fetchmail.pid ] then exit fi fetchmail ;; stop-daemon) if [ ! -e ~mike/.fetchmail.pid ] then exit fi if [ $LOGCOUNT -eq $MAXCOUNT ] then fetchmail --quit fi ;; esac exit 0 - End fetchmail.sh - Yes, I know that this script is kinda ugly. But it works, and that's all I was after. In my ~/.bash_profile I have a call to "~/fetchmail.sh start-daemon" and in my ~/.bash_logout I have a call to "~/fetchmail.sh stop-daemon" This script could probably be cleaned up some, but like I said *it* *works* for me. -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. pgp9X5XO6ikXy.pgp Description: PGP signature
lpr(ng) not filtering through enscript for remote printer
Hi, Normally, with magicfilter installed, printing out a .c file will give a two collumned small font sized landscape printout, because it uses enscript. If you make a small tst.c and: $ cat tst.c|/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter >~/me.ps $ gv me.ps you will see what I mean (and this works properly for me) However, when I $ lpr tst.c I do not get the formatting (I get plain text portrait). /etc/printcap has: lp|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\ :lp=lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:rm=remoteprinter.lincrud:rp=hp:lpr_bounce:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4m-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Is the 'if=' line not parsed for remote printing? I guess I could make a small script to force my printing through magicfilter. Using lprng 3.7.4-1 regards, mark.
What!?! Strange kernel-compilation situation
Hey, I got the source for the 2.4.0 kernel, but I'm having some weird problems. Here the are: 1. The kernel won't compile unless I enable smp (I only have one processor). If I don't, it gives me errors like "smp_num_cpus not defined". Very frustrating 2. This isn't that big of a deal, but "make modules_install" doesn't seem to work. I have to manually copy the object files into the /lib/modules/2.4.0/xxx directory. Thanks, Cameron Matheson
Re: Cant create module dependencies
To quote Hammurabi Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # I was using the default kernel of potato, but after I installed 2.4.0, # I can't build my modules.dep file for this kernel version, even # using "depmod -a". (The system automatically does that in the boot # process too). # In fact, the file is created, *empty*. I'm worried because I would need # that dependencies to use modprobe and run sound modules on demand. Read Documentation/Changes in the kernel source tree. It'll tell you what versions of which packages(like modutils) that you need. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
Cant create module dependencies
I was using the default kernel of potato, but after I installed 2.4.0, I can't build my modules.dep file for this kernel version, even using "depmod -a". (The system automatically does that in the boot process too). In fact, the file is created, *empty*. I'm worried because I would need that dependencies to use modprobe and run sound modules on demand. thanks
Re: problem playing audio CD's
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:21:58PM +, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for your responses! > I can now access audio-cd's BUT ONLY AS ROOT! > I changed my setting in /dev to this: > > brw-rw 1 rootdisk 3 Oct 29 00:03 /dev/cdrom > ->hdc > brw-rw 1 rootdisk22, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/hdc > > I added the user (user1) to this group: > # adduser user1 disk as others already pointed out: DON'T DO THAT! Undo this as quick as possible. As root edit /etc/group, look for the line starting with "user1:" and remove ",disk" from that line. Then make cdrom accessible to group cdrom with "chgrp cdrom /dev/hdc". Still as root do "adduser user1 audio" and "adduser user1 cdrom" and then have user1 login afresh. -- groetjes, carel
Re: Mutt and POP3
Thank you all. I'll remember this for next time. --Hans At 03:45 PM 1/24/01 -0500, you wrote: >> How do I enable POP3 support in Mutt 1.2.5? >> >> I have the source, tried to modify the ./configure >> file, but I still get a -USE_POP when I run mutt -v. >> >> What I modified in the ./configure file was the >> following: >> >> #Defaults >> ac_help="ac_help --enable-pop" >> >> but this was a guess, because I didn't really know >> where to put the --enable-pop switch. > > >./configure --enable-pop should do it just fine... You normally can >"pass" configure flags at the command-line instead of having to edit any >files. > >Regards >Hall Stevenson > >
Re: internet connection sharing
Omar Shuja Siddiqui wrote: > one of them is a working dial up machine. i want to > share the internet connection with the other Linux box You should look at the ipchains / masquerading HOWTO and the ipmasq package. /usr/doc/ www.linuxdoc.org Janto -- Janto Trappe - PGP key available upon request - Germany
Re: ftp and passwords
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:55:54AM -0700, Jason Mogavero wrote: > > Not to pick a nit, but secure passwords aren't even a speedbump if you're > being sniffed. (though they ARE good practice) quite true. what i was really suggesting is make them use passwords 20 times more obfuscated then you would normally enforce on a ssh/scp user. and make them change it once a week. eventually the inconvenience might entice them to switch to ssh. (otoh they would probably be more likely to find one of those `save my password in cleartext, as insecurely as possible' checkboxes littered about windows. but thats where the weekly change comes in ;-) maybe may it a daily change.. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ pgpM6Vi80BLoK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: internet connection sharing
%% Omar Shuja Siddiqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: oss> i have recently installed a network of to Linux boxes. oss> one of them is a working dial up machine. i want to oss> share the internet connection with the other Linux box oss> also. please tell me what is the whole procedure for oss> doing this. The most common way to do this in Linux is called IP Masquerade, or IPMasq. See the HOWTO for how to do it: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html I had this working with a dialup 56k modem over ppp, where my wife's laptop was sharing the link (we have wireless enet cards for the home lan). Worked fine (well, as fine as two people sharing a 56k modem could be expected to work :). Now we have a cable modem connection, and that also works great--with much better bandwidth :). If you're going to be connected more continuously than dialup you should seriously consider hardening that system to avoid someone hacking through it into your home network. Check the IP Chains HOWTO, at the above site. There are other Security-related docs floating about as well. -- --- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>HASMAT--HA Software Methods & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist --- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them.
Re: internet connection sharing
To quote Omar Shuja Siddiqui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # hi # i have recently installed a network of to Linux boxes. # one of them is a working dial up machine. i want to # share the internet connection with the other Linux box # also. please tell me what is the whole procedure for # doing this. There is very good documentation available for this. Check out http://www.linuxdoc.org . You want the "IP Masquerading HOWTO" or something like that. It's a fairly involved procedure. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
Lilo problem
hi i have installed linux many times but there is just one problem that i am facing, that is writing lilo to the mbr. every time the installation is successful the lio prompt does not show up when the pc reboots , but it only comes up with the boot floppy. how can i write lilo to the mbr as i donot want to start with the boot floppy. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
internet connection sharing
hi i have recently installed a network of to Linux boxes. one of them is a working dial up machine. i want to share the internet connection with the other Linux box also. please tell me what is the whole procedure for doing this. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: Package management, involuntary upgrade
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i crafted one concerning mostly apt-get, tho it touches on some >of the dpkg features -- it's at > >http://www.eGroups.com/files/newbieDoc/apt-get-intro.html A few comments on that, some on the content, some typographical. From reading through it, it's an extremely useful document. Thanks for your efforts! * In bash, you need to press tab twice after typing 'apt' to get a completion listing, possibly even three times if you have the same set of things as you installed except for aptitude. The reason for this is that the first tab tries to complete as much unambiguous text as possible, then stops; if you hadn't had aptitude installed, this would complete an additional '-', otherwise it would stop immediately. Any further tabs provide a full listing if and only if the previous tab stopped immediately without being able to complete any more. This is probably a bit much for a packaging howto, though; if it can't be made more concise than what I've written (I'm wordy, I admit it), then it's probably too confusing and should be deleted. "Press tab a couple of times until you get a listing" would be good enough. * 'uname -r' gives the version of your *kernel*, not your distribution. 'cat /etc/debian_version' is the best way to find out what version of Debian you've got. * Perhaps add a note about 'testing' to the SETUP section, which currently only mentions 'stable' and 'unstable'? * 'apt-get update' is a source of confusion to many people, primarily because it doesn't update dpkg's available file; hence, commands like 'dpkg -p' won't work as expected. (apt-cache works fine, though, of course.) If there's somewhere where it won't impair readability, it might be worth noting that, if dselect is configured to use apt, then 'dselect update' does everything that 'apt-get update' does plus updating dpkg's available file. This might be more detail than you want to go into, though. * I'd comment on the differences between 'apt-get upgrade' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade' (the latter will intelligently handle changing dependencies with new versions of packages), especially as this is extremely useful for people who don't follow unstable but who just want to upgrade smoothly from one stable release to the next. * Actually, it's dpkg that informs you about changes in configuration files, not apt - but that's a minor point. * I don't think that /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin is used only for source packages, as you might expect from its name. Rather, I believe (from my reading of the documentation and the code, though I don't understand apt fully) that it's used to store the information fetched from the sources in /etc/apt/sources.list before it's merged into the main package cache in /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin. * There's a stray > in the note about packages.debian.org. * s/istallation/installation/ in the section about dpkg and grep. * It would be nice to note that libapt-pkg2.7 isn't actually a real package, but a virtual one provided by apt itself. * The section on 'dpkg -L' should say that it only works on installed packages. 'dpkg -c' - or, more fully, 'dpkg-deb -c' - works on .deb files you've downloaded. Likewise with 'dpkg -S'; the only real alternative to that for uninstalled packages is the search form at http://packages.debian.org/, or to download the Contents-$(ARCH).gz file for the relevant distribution from a Debian mirror. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Small Fonts in Netscape
Hello, Does anyone have this same problem? I run my monitor at 1600x1200, so i know my text is going to be small. But some stuff is really tiny, i have always had this problem. Is there anything i can do/ fonts i forgot to install that would fix this? Thanks Joshua
Re: Installing Debian
Scott writes: > Once you get PPP running as root, add yourself to the group "dip" so you > need not be root to start PPP. This is done by typing "adduser lute dip". It can also be done in pppconfig. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin
Re: problem playing audio CD's
Hi, thanks for your responses! I can now access audio-cd's BUT ONLY AS ROOT! I changed my setting in /dev to this: brw-rw 1 rootdisk 3 Oct 29 00:03 /dev/cdrom ->hdc brw-rw 1 rootdisk22, 0 Jul 5 2000 /dev/hdc I added the user (user1) to this group: # adduser user1 disk now ROOT can play CD's but not user1 - is there any other group I don't belong to? When I try to specify the device in cdcd I get 'Permission denied' (trying to add /dev/cdrom) What else can I do? BTW cdcd is working great :) (but just for root for now) TIA, Philipp Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > Philipp, > > No worries. Many have been here before :) > > You don't mount an audio cd! You just play it etc. So, under > your gnome, just fire up the cdplayer that comes with it. If you > use kde, use the cdplayer that comes with it. Just need to confinger > your device (/dev/hdb, /dev/hdc etc). > > Also, add yourself to your cdgroup. > > ~ pts/0> ls -al /dev/hdd > brw-rw1 root disk 22, 64 Feb 22 1999 /dev/hdd > YOU ARE ROOT!! on bogus > ~ pts/0> ls -al /dev/hdc > brw-rw1 root disk 22, 0 Feb 22 1999 /dev/hdc > YOU ARE ROOT!! on bogus > > Here you see it's owned by root and belongs to 'disk', so I added myself > to that group: 'adduser me disk' as root. There are also safer ways > to do this, check back with the list. > > also, I like the cdcd package for playing my cdroms in pure console mode > (no x running). 'apt-get install cdcd' will do the trick. For adjusting the > volume, I like aumix, again, 'apt-get install aumix' :) > > I really hope this helps. > > tatah > > On Wednesday 24 January 2001 10:49, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm new to the multimedia things under Linux :) > > I have the problem that I can't play audio CD's on my computer. > > I've installed everyhting that's related to sound properly - so I'm able > > to play mp3s, *.wav,etc. with freeamp for example, but when I put in a > > CD (even CD's I bought, no CD-R or CD-RW) and I want to mount it I get: > > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom or too > > many mounted file systems > > > > Even as root I can't do it! This is how /etc/fstab looks like: > > > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 > > defaults,user,noauto,ro 00 > > > > When I start 'gcd 2.91' under Gnome I get this: > > > > "Unable to open cd device. Please make sure that you are using teh > > correct device and that you have permission to access the device.." > > The cd-drive works perfectely fine with every CD (cd-rom). So it's not > > the cd-drive that's not working! > > > > What am I missing, or what am I doing wrong? Any ideas for a good > > cd-player? > > > > TIA!! > > Philipp > > -- > > Jaye Inabnit, ARS ke6sls e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 707-442-6579 h/m 707-268-4074 > http://www.qsl.net/ke6slsICQ# 12741145 > This mail composed with kmail on kde on X on linux warped by debian > If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid.
Re: Package management, involuntary upgrade
Ameurlain Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The documentation people may know more about a howto, but ... >Preparing to replace libc6 2.1.3-10 (using .../libc6_2.2.1-1_i386.deb) ... >Unpacking replacement libc6 ... >Replacing files in old package ldso ... That's fine. ldso isn't needed these days except for old libc5-based programs, and was replaced by recent libc6 packages. If you try 'dpkg -p ldso', you'll see an explanation of this, assuming your version of that is reasonably recent; if you try 'dpkg -p libc6', you'll see the line 'Replaces: ldso (<= 1.9.11-9)', which allows this. >I didn't want that, but ... it happened. Now i'm quite nervous >about my running http (compiled one), postmaster (deb package) etc. >Are there reasons for me to be nervous ? I wouldn't say so. If your dynamic linker had broken, you wouldn't have to ask; you'd notice right away. >Should I re-install my old packages ? How to "downgrade" packages ? apt-get can't downgrade, but 'dpkg -i foo.deb' can; as 'dpkg --force-help' says, --force-downgrade is enabled by default. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CUPS with a bjc610 anyone ?
Hi, I'm trying to install CUPS (I did it already) and get it to work with a canon bubblejet 610. But all it print's is the ps code not the page I want to print. Does anyone have this working ? Do I need a filter like gs or does cups works alone ? Does anyone have a ppd file for me that works ? Greetings Olaf
Re: Mutt and POP3
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:17:46PM +0100, Hans wrote: > How do I enable POP3 support in Mutt 1.2.5? Run ./configure [other options] --enable-pop There is absolutely no reason to touch the configure-script itself. Don't expect too much from the POP support, though. It is widely recommended to use fetchmail instead, as it is far more comprehensive. -- Tommi Komulainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG 1024D/68388EE66FD6 DD79 EB38 BF6F 3533 09C0 04A8 9871 6838 8EE6 pgpFyNaRNsRGu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to forward a mail including attachments AND add comments
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:24:22PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:22:50PM +0100, Martin Würtele wrote: > > hi, > > > > how can i forward a mail including attachments to an address and add some > > comments with mutt > > > > hitting f for forward only forwards the text, but allows comments > > hitting b for bounce doesn't give me a chance to add comments. > > > > any ideas, couldn't find anything in mutt help > > in mutt > >:mime_forward=ask-yes, mime_forward_decode=no, forward_decode=yes > > seems to work here, gets me forwarded messages with nested attachements thx a lot, that did the job! martin -- 30DC 1D28 1D79 32F5 5E67 3ABB 28EE B35A 3E8D CCC0
Re: Mutt and POP3
> How do I enable POP3 support in Mutt 1.2.5? > > I have the source, tried to modify the ./configure > file, but I still get a -USE_POP when I run mutt -v. > > What I modified in the ./configure file was the > following: > > #Defaults > ac_help="ac_help --enable-pop" > > but this was a guess, because I didn't really know > where to put the --enable-pop switch. ./configure --enable-pop should do it just fine... You normally can "pass" configure flags at the command-line instead of having to edit any files. Regards Hall Stevenson
RE: Mutt and POP3
Title: RE: Mutt and POP3 What you probably want to do is execute the ./configure script with the --enable-pop flag, i.e.: bash$ ./configure --enable-pop > -Original Message- > From: Hans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 3:18 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Mutt and POP3 > > > How do I enable POP3 support in Mutt 1.2.5? > > I have the source, tried to modify the ./configure file, but > I still get a > -USE_POP when I run mutt -v. > > What I modified in the ./configure file was the following: > > #Defaults > ac_help="ac_help --enable-pop" > > but this was a guess, because I didn't really know where to put the > --enable-pop switch. Anybody? Thanks, > > Hans > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: Postgress installation...
Andrew Perrin wrote: >First log in as the postgres super-user (generally, username is >postgres) and do: > >psql >create user nacho with password x createdb; > >which will allow user nacho to create databases. But note that the password will be completely ignored unless /etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf is set up to require passwords. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP: 1024R/32B8FAA1: 97 EA 1D 47 72 3F 28 47 6B 7E 39 CC 56 E4 C1 47 GPG: 1024D/3E1D0C1C: CA12 09E0 E8D5 8870 5839 932A 614D 4C34 3E1D 0C1C "If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?" I John 3:17
Re: minicom
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:56:06AM -0800, Xucaen wrote: ... > hi. thanks everyone!! minicom is working > beautifully - as root. > umm.. how again do I give a user account access > to ttyS0? (I knew I forgot something.. ;-) # adduser someone dialout -- groetjes, carel
Re: problem playing audio CD's
>On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:49:43PM +, Philipp Bliedung wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm new to the multimedia things under Linux :) >> I have the problem that I can't play audio CD's on my computer. >> I've installed everyhting that's related to sound properly - so I'm able >> to play mp3s, *.wav,etc. with freeamp for example, but when I put in a >> CD (even CD's I bought, no CD-R or CD-RW) and I want to mount it I get: >> >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom or too >> many mounted file systems >> >> Even as root I can't do it! This is how /etc/fstab looks like: >> >> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 >> defaults,user,noauto,ro 00 >> >> When I start 'gcd 2.91' under Gnome I get this: >> >> "Unable to open cd device. Please make sure that you are using teh >> correct device and that you have permission to access the device.." >> The cd-drive works perfectely fine with every CD (cd-rom). So it's not >> the cd-drive that's not working! >> >> What am I missing, or what am I doing wrong? Any ideas for a good >> cd-player? > >Make sure that you are in the cdrom group. I also had a problem where >I was in the cdrom group but not in the disk group. Since /dev/cdrom >was a link to /dev/hdc which was in the disk group, I couldn't access >the cdrom. So if you are still having problems, add yourself to the >disk group. This is a VERY bad idea, IIRC. By doing this, any user in the "disk" group can then do whatever to a file of that group. Something like "cat /dev/null > /dev/hda1" comes to mind. Ouch! You're much better off changng the group to "cdrom" for the actual CDROM device in your system. Scott
Re: how to forward a mail including attachments AND add comments
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:22:50PM +0100, Martin Würtele wrote: > hi, > > how can i forward a mail including attachments to an address and add some > comments with mutt > > hitting f for forward only forwards the text, but allows comments > hitting b for bounce doesn't give me a chance to add comments. > > any ideas, couldn't find anything in mutt help in mutt :mime_forward=ask-yes, mime_forward_decode=no, forward_decode=yes seems to work here, gets me forwarded messages with nested attachements -- groetjes, carel
Re: Installing Debian
>My brother got me a set of 2.2 release disks, and I would like to install them >on an IBM PC 750. I have tried a couple of times, but am quite new at Linux >and have not been able to get my printer to work, or get online once the >system is installed. I'm sure that it is something that I am doing wrong when >I install the system as I can install SuSE 6.4 and get everything to work, so >it works under Linux. I'm using SuSE now. > >I really like what I have been reading about Debian, and it is the distro that >I want to run on my system, just need a bit of help getting everything working >at this point. One of the big problems I have is I don't have a clue as to >what drivers I need to install when loading Debian. And I use a dial up PPP >access for the Internet. > >I really want to use Debian so any help anyone would be willing to give me to >get it up and running on here would be most appreciated. Log in as root and type "pppconfig". This will setup all your PPP dial-up options. Once you complete this process, type "pon" and see if you connect. You disconnect via the "poff" command. If you have problems connecting, run "plog" to see what type of error messages you got. HTH. Once you get PPP running as root, add yourself to the group "dip" so you need not be root to start PPP. This is done by typing "adduser lute dip". Scott
Mutt and POP3
How do I enable POP3 support in Mutt 1.2.5? I have the source, tried to modify the ./configure file, but I still get a -USE_POP when I run mutt -v. What I modified in the ./configure file was the following: #Defaults ac_help="ac_help --enable-pop" but this was a guess, because I didn't really know where to put the --enable-pop switch. Anybody? Thanks, Hans
Re: vga8x16 font...
More info on xterm fonts from a HOWTO: To use some of the most attractive prompts in the Bash Prompt package, you need to get and install fonts that support the character sets expected by the prompts. These are "VGA Fonts," which support different character sets than regular Xterm fonts. Standard Xterm fonts support an extended alphabet, including a lot of letters with accents. In VGA fonts, this material is replaced by graphical characters - blocks, dots, lines. Changing the Xterm Font Getting and installing these fonts is a somewhat involved process. First, retrieve the font(s). Next, ensure they're .pcf or .pcf.gz files. If they're .bdf files, investigate the "bdftopcf" command (ie. read the man page). Drop the .pcf or .pcf.gz files into the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc dir (this is the correct directory for RedHat 5.1 and Slackware 3.4, it may be different on other distributions). "cd" to that directory, and run the "mkfontdir" command. Then run "xset fp rehash". Sometimes it's a good idea to go into the fonts.alias file in the same directory, and create shorter alias names for the fonts. To use the new fonts, you start your Xterm program of choice with the appropriate command to your Xterm, which can be found either in the man page or by using the "--help" parameter on the command line. Popular terms would be used as follows: xterm -font OR xterm -fn -fb Eterm -F rxvt -fn VGA fonts are available from Stumpy's ANSI Fonts page at http://home.earthlink.net/~us5zahns/enl/ansifont.html --- Rick Loga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >Hold the control key and right click your mouse while in an xterm. That >should bring up the font menu for you to choose from. > >--- Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>What I was looking for was a font for use within X - >>specifically, for use in an xterm. >> >>I found a suitable font as part of the BitchX package, but I >>still can't find the original anymore. Most unfortunate. >> >> >>--- Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I know that in kernel 2.4.0 there is an entire document >>> covering VGA >>> fonts, which can alos be compiled in the kernel. I do not know >>> if that is >>> what you were looking for, but it is at least something. >>> >>> Greetz, >>> Sebastiaan >>> >>> >>> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Brian McGroarty wrote: >>> >>> > Okay, this is driving me NUTS. >>> > >>> > I *know* there used to be a vga8x16 font. But I can't find >>> what >>> > package contains it. I've installed every last font pack I >>> could >>> > find, but I can't find vga8x16 anywhere. >>> > >>> > This was my standard xterm font previously. >>> > >>> > Any clue where it is? >> >> >>__ >>Do You Yahoo!? >>Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. >>http://auctions.yahoo.com/ >> >> >>-- >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >_ >Want a new web-based email account ? ---> http://www.firstlinux.net > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Want a new web-based email account ? ---> http://www.firstlinux.net
Re: Installing Debian
Hi, I assume you use a parallel printer. You have to insmod the modules -parport.o -parport_pc.o -lp.o If all goes well, you should be able to do something like 'cat textfile > /dev/lp0' as root (which works fine for matrix printers, but may give no output on others). You also need to install a printer spooler then. Try: apt-get install lprng magicfilter svgalib-dummyg1 gs gsfonts About your PPP connection, I use wvdial (apt-get install wvdial). I have an external modem at /dev/ttySx, don't know anything about internal modems. All described above should work with the standard kernel, so if it does not, I do not know. Greetz, Sebastiaan On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Lute Mullenix wrote: > Hi, > > My brother got me a set of 2.2 release disks, and I would like to install them > on an IBM PC 750. I have tried a couple of times, but am quite new at Linux > and have not been able to get my printer to work, or get online once the > system is installed. I'm sure that it is something that I am doing wrong when > I install the system as I can install SuSE 6.4 and get everything to work, so > it works under Linux. I'm using SuSE now. > > I really like what I have been reading about Debian, and it is the distro that > I want to run on my system, just need a bit of help getting everything working > at this point. One of the big problems I have is I don't have a clue as to > what drivers I need to install when loading Debian. And I use a dial up PPP > access for the Internet. > > I really want to use Debian so any help anyone would be willing to give me to > get it up and running on here would be most appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Lute > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: problem playing audio CD's
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 06:49:43PM +, Philipp Bliedung wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to the multimedia things under Linux :) > I have the problem that I can't play audio CD's on my computer. > I've installed everyhting that's related to sound properly - so I'm able > to play mp3s, *.wav,etc. with freeamp for example, but when I put in a > CD (even CD's I bought, no CD-R or CD-RW) and I want to mount it I get: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom or too > many mounted file systems > > Even as root I can't do it! This is how /etc/fstab looks like: > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 > defaults,user,noauto,ro 00 > > When I start 'gcd 2.91' under Gnome I get this: > > "Unable to open cd device. Please make sure that you are using teh > correct device and that you have permission to access the device.." > The cd-drive works perfectely fine with every CD (cd-rom). So it's not > the cd-drive that's not working! > > What am I missing, or what am I doing wrong? Any ideas for a good > cd-player? Make sure that you are in the cdrom group. I also had a problem where I was in the cdrom group but not in the disk group. Since /dev/cdrom was a link to /dev/hdc which was in the disk group, I couldn't access the cdrom. So if you are still having problems, add yourself to the disk group. Anthony
Re: 2-part NIC question
It is older, but I have used the NE2000 driver succesfully with PCI NE2000 clones (before the ne2k-pci driver existed). It's been a while since I have used 1.3, but I did have problems during an installation of Debian 2.1 in getting the ne2000 driver to work. After installing the base system from floppies, I was able to insmod the driver and the card performed adequately. You might have to pass the IO and IRQ values when loading the module. Bob On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:51:09AM -0500, DSC Lithuania wrote: > I have Debian 1.3, and managed to bring my system up with my 4 Megs of Ram > and 80386. Thanks, all for the help in that. However, I have two new > questions > relating to a new problem. > > I still can't bring my CompexRL2000A card up. On the Drivers Installation > page, I can choose NE2000 , but it does not recognize the card. Now, I > also have not been able to get it working under Win95: the system at > one point uninstalled the PCI Bios driver, saying that PCI Bios was not > present. Which might be the source of the problem. Or, alternatively, > it may be that the Debian 1.3.1 installation's NE2000 driver is not the same > as the ne2k-pci driver. > > So does anyone know (1) Is my 386 motherboard BIOS too old for the > Linux drivers to interface with NE2000 card? (2) Is the NE2000 driver > presented on the installation pages old, and not the same as the ne2k-pci > driver? (3) Is there some other problem that I am missing, instead? > > > -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
Re: minicom
--- Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Run as root and run minicom -s. From there you > can change the settings > and save the configuration as default and/or as > hi. thanks everyone!! minicom is working beautifully - as root. umm.. how again do I give a user account access to ttyS0? (I knew I forgot something.. ;-) I know, I know.. man * xucaen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: PS to HTML?
On 24-Jan-01 Dave Sherohman wrote: > BTW, anyone know what's up with pstotext? I ran a PS doc through it > last night and there were a lot of extra spa ces in the outpu t, > including many in mid-word. Is this preventable? [Gurus: please read the speculative bit at the end] No. And there's nothing going wrong with pstotext in this respect either. A typical reason would be that the software which created the PostScript file did some "kerning", i.e. moving letters of a word (usually) closer together (e.g. in "Wombat" the "ombat" would be moved slightly left so that the "o" was slightly over-hung by the "W"). When this happens, the sequence of characters in a word is broken at that point, and a PostScript "motion" command is interpolated, so that in the PS code it is no longer a contiguous sequence of characters. Unless your PStoWhatever is clever enough to reconstruct the intended word from the fragments, it will do the dumb default thing of treating separate sequences as separate words. And it would have to be pretty clever, since the spacing between words (in "filled" text) may be done by exactly the same mechanism as kerning. The following, for instance, is from a PS file containing the sentence "The Wombat is a small animal.": .318(The W)12.318 F .318 (ombat is a)-1.92 F 3.802 (small animal.)72 244.8 R Since the break-up is present in the PS file to start with, it is not due to pstotext in the first place. Only if pstotext was supposed to be capable of realising that "Wombat" was the intended result of "W" followed by "ombat", while "a" sollowed by "small" should be left alone, should you suspect a flaw in pstotext. As you apparently realise, you cannot expect to do better than a very crude extraction of textual content from a PS file; a PS file is a computer program for placing marks on a page, and the fact that some of these marks are represented by characters is pretty incidental. [For gurus] Nevertheless, I suspect that a relatively straightforward algorithm could be created for this job, assuming (for present purposes) that only the standard printable ASCII characters are needed. When a construct like "(The W)" is encountered, this is interpreted as an instruction to render the string "The W" on the display device. Each character (including the space) in the string is in fact a pointer to a position in the font definition which causes the PS interpreter to look up the primitive PS drawing commands which will creat the shape of the printed character. It strikes me as eminently possible to construct a program which would act like a PS interpreter in all respects _except_ that the drawing commands evoked by (e.g) the character "W" would be replaced by simple emission of the ASCII code for "W" to the standard output. Questions of motion between characters could be handled by the following kind of thing (where "Motion" means the displacement between where the PS file asks for a character to be printed, and where it would have been printed if it had immediately followed the previously printed character): 1. If the Motion is a small Motion (kerning) ignore it. 2. If the Motion is (approximately) a positive space, emit a space. Similarly for (approximately) 2 or more spaces. 3. If the Motion is (approximately) a negative space (overprinting) emit a "backspace". 4. If a Motion is (approximately) a positive or negative line-space, (superscript, subscript) emit the corresponding positive or negative line feed. 5. If a Motion is a combination of backspace & upwards (accent above) emit the appropriate thing. Etc. Now: does anyone know a program which works like that? (The advantage would be that the sort of thing that Dave Sherohman wants to do would be strsightforward and should come out right, while many of the computer-program-like things which PostScript can do -- like loops and conditional branching -- would also be done as they should be; also definitions within the file (which can be "macros" that print out as blocks of text) would work too.) Best wishes to all, Ted. Topical Thought: It is better to arrive, than to travel hopefuilly. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 284 7749 Date: 24-Jan-01 Time: 17:44:01 -- XFMail --
Re: vga8x16 font...
I know how to select fonts - I was looking for the source of a particular font which existed previously which seems to have vanished. --- Rick Loga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hold the control key and right click your mouse while in an > xterm. That should bring up the font menu for you to choose > from. > > --- Brian McGroarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >What I was looking for was a font for use within X - > >specifically, for use in an xterm. > > > >I found a suitable font as part of the BitchX package, but I > >still can't find the original anymore. Most unfortunate. > > > > > >--- Sebastiaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I know that in kernel 2.4.0 there is an entire document > >> covering VGA > >> fonts, which can alos be compiled in the kernel. I do not > know > >> if that is > >> what you were looking for, but it is at least something. > >> > >> Greetz, > >> Sebastiaan > >> > >> > >> On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Brian McGroarty wrote: > >> > >> > Okay, this is driving me NUTS. > >> > > >> > I *know* there used to be a vga8x16 font. But I can't > find > >> what > >> > package contains it. I've installed every last font pack > I > >> could > >> > find, but I can't find vga8x16 anywhere. > >> > > >> > This was my standard xterm font previously. > >> > > >> > Any clue where it is? > > > > > >__ > >Do You Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. > >http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _ > Want a new web-based email account ? ---> > http://www.firstlinux.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Re: kernel problems?!?!
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:03:49 -0200 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I have two webservers running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 with apache > and resin java servlets (www.caucho.com) handling 500.000 page views. > By two months or so, they worked ok. From a week ago or so, > one machine begin to fail with the following message at syslog. > > Jan 23 13:42:01 host /usr/sbin/cron[187]: (CRON) error (can't fork) > > I can ping it, but nothing more. > Anyone has any help? > TIA,PH I would check memory first; maybe some server is leaking and you ran out of. But this could also be that your process table is full... Just some guesses. -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .
Installing Debian
Hi, My brother got me a set of 2.2 release disks, and I would like to install them on an IBM PC 750. I have tried a couple of times, but am quite new at Linux and have not been able to get my printer to work, or get online once the system is installed. I'm sure that it is something that I am doing wrong when I install the system as I can install SuSE 6.4 and get everything to work, so it works under Linux. I'm using SuSE now. I really like what I have been reading about Debian, and it is the distro that I want to run on my system, just need a bit of help getting everything working at this point. One of the big problems I have is I don't have a clue as to what drivers I need to install when loading Debian. And I use a dial up PPP access for the Internet. I really want to use Debian so any help anyone would be willing to give me to get it up and running on here would be most appreciated. Thanks, Lute
can't convert bind 9.1 documentation to tex
I'm trying to convert the arm-documentation from bind 9.1.0 to tex. In the README-SGML is a short description on how to convert it. I adjusted the paths to docbook.dsl and xml.dcl. But Jade just spits out tons of messages like this out: openjade:/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/nwalsh/html/../common/dbcommon.dsl:1237:4:E: flow objects at the root must be all of class scroll or all of class page-sequence or simple-page-sequence I tried openjade with the same effect. Did I miss something or is this a bug? Cheers Martin -- This message contains 78% recycled characters. pgpjOzcKwNZSc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Running fetchmail at login time
Yes, use .bash_profile. When you invoke fetchmail, if it is already running as a daemon it will simply wake the daemon process and cause it to check at that time. Then in your .bash_logout file put "fetchmail --kill" to terminate the daemon when you logout. (Unless you want to to run all the time) -D On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:22:41AM +0100, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: | I want to run fetchmail as a daemon each time I log in but I don't want to do it manually.Is bash_profile the apropiate place to launch it from? How can I prevent it form being launched several times if I login at several consoles? | | Thank's |
kernel problems?!?!
Hi all, I have two webservers running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 with apache and resin java servlets (www.caucho.com) handling 500.000 page views. By two months or so, they worked ok. From a week ago or so, one machine begin to fail with the following message at syslog. Jan 23 13:42:01 host /usr/sbin/cron[187]: (CRON) error (can't fork) I can ping it, but nothing more. Anyone has any help? TIA,PH
Re: check for bad RAM program?
Thanks. I now see that this program is contained in the hwtools package (in woody). Thanks again, Gerry On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:21:47 -0700 (MST) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Several years ago in Debian there was a program that created a bootable > > floppy that would check for bad RAM. I can't find it now. I think it was > > called memcheck, but I'm not certain on that. Does anybody know what I'm > > talking about and where I can find it now? > > Maybe its this one: > > http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady/memtest86/ > > -- > Christoph Simon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- > ^X^C > q > quit > :q > ^C > end > x > exit > ZZ > ^D > ? > help > shit > . > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Re: vga8x16 font...
> What I was looking for was a font for use within X - > specifically, for use in an xterm. > > I found a suitable font as part of the BitchX package, but I > still can't find the original anymore. Most unfortunate. There's some nice fonts here: http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/mudhoney/fonts.html and here: http://tigert.gimp.org/files/fonts/. There may be duplicates between the two... Regards Hall
