Re: Window manager ....
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:29:03PM +1000, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone pls tell me how heavier the system resourses > will suffer if I run sawmill wm versus icewm? My box > only 35Mb RAM 100 Mhz CPU, ; icewm is good for all > purpose (gnome compliant, light, nice looking and > configure but not nice with netscape (see my last > email :-) ). I have tested wmmaker but it is not fully > gnome compliant. I would give PWM a try if I were you - http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/pwm/ It is light and keyboard friendly. I run gnome-terminal on it. I don't run a lot of gnome applications but I haven't had any trouble so far. The deb at the site didn't work for me. It has a nice feature, you can load xterms and Netscape automatically in the same window. I dumped window maker for it. kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
Window manager ....
Hi, Anyone pls tell me how heavier the system resourses will suffer if I run sawmill wm versus icewm? My box only 35Mb RAM 100 Mhz CPU, ; icewm is good for all purpose (gnome compliant, light, nice looking and configure but not nice with netscape (see my last email :-) ). I have tested wmmaker but it is not fully gnome compliant. Regards, Steve = S.KIEU _ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!
Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
I would suggest that that review is a little old. It only has a very small section on kword, which after all, is currently one of the best Linux word processors out there. If you want my advice (I'm a journalist and sysadmin), Kword is fast, free and approaching stability. It's now useable for daily work, and in about a year I would say it will probably be giving the proprietory word processors out there a run for their money. Renai On Thursday 31 May 2001 13:12, Kevin Ross wrote: > LinuxPlanet has a side-by-side review of all the word processors for Linux, > including: > > StarOffice 5.2 > WordPerfect 9 > AbiWord > Applix Words > Maxwell > KWord (part of KOffice, for KDE) > > The review is at: > http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1762/1/ > > -- Kevin > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mouseman wheel on X
Hi all, i'like some help to make the mouseman wheel work on netscape (if it does!?). running potato 2.2.19pre17-ide; XF 3.3.6, enlightenment 16.2, netscape 4.77 i managed ok (Zaxis on XFconfig) to make the wheel work (eg. w/ xterm) but nothing w/ netscape. later included definitions in .Xdefaults (as indicated in http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ ) and nothing... so any help? where can i get more info/help about this definitions in .Xdefaults? or maybe you could suggest me another forum to look for it? Cheers, Guilherme _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: Adding stuff to menus
Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > I have a bunch of programs that I've compiled over time, and I kind of want > to add them to the debian menus. How would I do this? Is this window-manager > specific, or is their a global way to do this? It seems if I do use a window > manager's configuration utility, everytime I install a new package, it > overrides > the menu. it's fairly easy, check the docs for menu package, check also the /usr/lib/menu directory where the menu files for various debian packages are. you can add yours to /etc/menu run update-menus after you add/change menu, then restart you window manager (it is usually possible without restarting X, so all your applications etc. are intact... erik
Re: The use of source cds.
> Dear Debian Group, > > I would like to know exactly what purpose the source cds serve and who would > need to use them. I will only be using Debian for things like word > processing, email, the internet, etcetera and wouldn't be doing any > development or performing any major alterations to the debian distribution. > My question then is do you think that I have any need for purchasing the > source cds along with the main cds? > > Thank you for your time, > Ry I was working on a kde project a little while back and I never used the source cd's once. everything was available via cvs. Leonard Leblanc Webmaster / Intranet Administrator www.emergeknowledge.com
Re: Bind stop working right.
i had the same problem a little while back if you post your config files, i can check them out... > I have some problems on one server. > > Some times bind doesn't respond any more until it is restarted. > > Then I only see domain traffic outgoing, not incoming and no reponses from > others servers. > > It is the bind 1:8.2.3-0.potato.1 > > Is there any fixes/know problems to this version? > > -- > Carlos Barros. Leonard Leblanc Webmaster / Intranet Administrator www.emergeknowledge.com
Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
LinuxPlanet has a side-by-side review of all the word processors for Linux, including: StarOffice 5.2 WordPerfect 9 AbiWord Applix Words Maxwell KWord (part of KOffice, for KDE) The review is at: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1762/1/ -- Kevin
The use of source cds.
Dear Debian Group, I would like to know exactly what purpose the source cds serve and who would need to use them. I will only be using Debian for things like word processing, email, the internet, etcetera and wouldn't be doing any development or performing any major alterations to the debian distribution. My question then is do you think that I have any need for purchasing the source cds along with the main cds? Thank you for your time, Ry
crontab running scripts
Hi there, I would like to know how I can get e.g. this crontab entry * * * * * /usr/local/bin/foo -options arg1 arg2 to run right. Foo is a script that calls external programs itself that need the mentioned options and arguments. It seems that when foo is executed, the external programs are not executed because they're not in the path. When I include the absolute paths in the script everything works fine, but that's not really satisfying. I thought * * * * * /bin/bash foo -options arg1 arg2 might do it because the path is defined somewhere in the bash config, right? But it doesn't work. Can somebody help me out? Best regards, André Borman. == - -- .. Random Thought .. -- - -- "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." - Antonio Smith ==
Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)
%% Mike Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mp> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:01:13PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: >> I'll repeat my previous advice: use xkeycaps. >> >> Life is too short to futz with modmap. mp> Yes, well; using xkeycaps doesn't teach me anything, does it? First, as someone else pointed out, it certainly _can_ teach you something, if you want... Second, my point is, with so many truly _useful_ and _interesting_ things to learn, why waste brain cells on something as basically useless and uninteresting (and baroque) as modmap syntax? Anyway that's my opinion but, of course, YMMV :). -- --- 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.
Problems with symbolic links under /dev
I'm running Patato with kernel 2.4.4 (self compiled) and XFree 4.0.2 and the XFce desktop from unstable. I'm having problems with my CD-Burning device. I have compiled ide-scsi support directly into the kernel as well as SCSI CD support, this eliminates the need for any ide-cd drivers to be compiled into the kernel. When I test my kernel dmesg reports the following about my CD-Burning device located on hdc. SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: IDE-CDModel: R/RW 4x4x24 Rev: 1.2C Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 This looks right to me, one thing that I have noticed thats different is the vendor, my CD-R is an IOmega zip CD 4x4x24. Anyway, after I compiled and tested the kernel I attempted to create a symbolic link from scd0 to cdrom so that I could mount cd's and play music through my cd-burner. Basically, everything looks like: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev# ls -l cdrom hdc scd0 sr0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 May 30 19:48 cdrom -> scd0 brw-rw1 root disk 22, 0 Apr 15 00:54 hdc brw-rw1 root cdrom 11, 0 May 26 15:22 scd0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 May 26 15:22 sr0 -> scd0 Now when I use cdrecord to test my cd-burner configuration I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev# cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. Can anybody point me towards insight? Thanks stef
Re: Netscape problem in debian. Found the cause :-)
no, the newer version of sawmill is called sawfish the new version of icewm is called icewm On Thursday 31 May 2001 11:20, Oki DZ wrote: > Steve Kieu wrote: > > I hope this infomation is usefull for some one using > > icewm like me, and hope that if some one knows the > > better version of icewm and make it to debian package > > for potato, it will be great. Thanx. > > I heard that the newer version of icewm is called sawfish (which is > neatly packaged in a .deb). > CMIIW. > > Oki
Re: First Debian Install Question
» Bill Witherspoon disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > Hi all, > > Can anyone tell me how to re-run the X setup proggy that > you get through dselect? > > I had to pop out of the configurator to install xfonts, and > can't seem to get back into it. (I had to lie and tell it X was > properly configed). I don't know exaclty what you want to do, but you should try xf86config for a start. There is also a tool named xf86cfg, but I've never used it. -- []'s, francisco m neto
Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
"Steve R. Hastings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Corel is selling the whole WordPerfect Office suite, which includes > WordPerfect and Quattro Pro. Note that last I checked, there's no commitment to ongoing support of this product, there was almost no support of WP8, and getting fixes for any number of known bugs involves downloading the source to their version of WINE from their CVS (which hasn't seen much update in the last 6 months or so... and at the moment, isn't responding) and hacking some changes to the startup script. There have been no patches since release (beyond an install script to cure the fact that it won't install on some systems), and last I heard, the Linux product manager couldn't get resources from management to do one. In other words, if you want WPO2k/Linux, you'll be on your own. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Siskel and Ebert gave this tagline two thumbs up.
Re: Netscape problem in debian. Found the cause :-)
Steve Kieu wrote: > I hope this infomation is usefull for some one using > icewm like me, and hope that if some one knows the > better version of icewm and make it to debian package > for potato, it will be great. Thanx. I heard that the newer version of icewm is called sawfish (which is neatly packaged in a .deb). CMIIW. Oki
Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
Corel is selling the whole WordPerfect Office suite, which includes WordPerfect and Quattro Pro. http://linux.corel.com/products/wpo2000_linux/index.htm The suite is about $150 a copy. buy.com has a 5-pack which is a better deal, but it is back-ordered. There is also Applix: http://www.vistasource.com/products/axware Applix is an office suite available for Linux. It's inexpensive and I have heard good things about it but I have not tried it. I think list price is $100 a copy, but you might be able to get a deal since you are a school. Staroffice is very large and slow. If AbiWord was too slow for you, Staroffice is a non-starter. Probably Applix is the best bet: native, and small. (Corel's stuff is Windows software ported using WINE libraries.) Good luck.
First Debian Install Question
Hi all, Can anyone tell me how to re-run the X setup proggy that you get through dselect? I had to pop out of the configurator to install xfonts, and can't seem to get back into it. (I had to lie and tell it X was properly configed). TIA, Bill
where oh where has my little kernal gone?
Hello: I currently use Debian(I belieave its1.2)that came with corel and must compile sound support in what directory is the kernal it self?? Paul Valley
Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:29:57PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:01:13PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > > I'll repeat my previous advice: use xkeycaps. > > > > Life is too short to futz with modmap. > > Yes, well; using xkeycaps doesn't teach me anything, does it? Sure it does ... write out a _complete_ map before you make changes, copy it to a safe place, make changes, save them, and use diff to see what changed. Worked for me ... I now have no caps lock key, three ctrl keys, and a compose key :) -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgpNZjR8mrctQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: One For The Record Books
Vinod Kurup wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:10:53PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > i once got an answer that predated my question, but temporal > > displacement notwithstanding, it was attributable to borked > > clock settings. > > I need to get myself one of those temporal displacement machines. When's > that going to get into 'testing'? They should go into testing around 2035, and should then be in retail outlets sometime around October of 2002. -- 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. pgpXepoBpe7JL.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Setting up NIS
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:31:22PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> I'm trying to get a NIS domain started and having little luck... I've
> followed along through /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz (which is
> great to have there!), but it doesn't seem to have worked.
>
> I started to suspect that things weren't working at step 3.6, starting the
> server, when it didn't seem to be able to bind to the YP server. (I'm still
> not entirely clear on why it wants to bind to the server when /etc/init.d/nis
> is telling it that it's the master server, but I digress...)
1) So that you can verify that it is working, w/o having a bunch of other
possible problems preventing verification.
2) So that you can use NIS locally with the same client code.
[same client code == less code == less bugs]
> Then, in step 3.7, I knew things weren't working as I saw
> "/usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m" report "failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv:
> RPC: Timed out" for each and every map that it tried to update.
Until and unless you can get it to bind to the server, doing anything
else is useless.
> Just to be sure, though, I tried a ypwhich after ypinit finished and was
> told, "can't yp_bind: Reason: Domain not bound".
This says that ypbind is not talking to the server.
> Throughout all of this, nothing was logged to syslog.
Not necessarily suprising. I've found the most useful way to get data
from ypserv is to run it from a seperate [aEwx]term with the -d
switch. Word of warning: It can produce a *lot* of data.
> So how do I troubleshoot this? Is the problem obvious to anyone?
1) Don't try anything else until ypbind/ypwhich works.
2) There are a number of potential problems:
* NIS was broken in testing due to recent glibc upgrade.
[upgrade nis if you are using testing/unstable]
* make sure that /etc/ypserv.conf is set up appropriately. You might
wish to add the following temporarily [for testing only, since it
opens NIS up to anybody who can access your machine. Better make
sure that your passwords are good!]
* : * : none
* add a "ypserver" line to /etc/yp.conf if it doesn't exist.
* make sure that NISSERVER=master in /etc/init.d/nis
* make sure that nis was started *after* portmapper. In fact, you may want
to do the following:
1) make sure that portmap is running.
("/etc/init.d/portmap start" sans quotes otherwise*)
2) restart nis.
/etc/init.d/nis start
3) check that nis is registered with portmapper
(you'll see ypbind/ypserv, not nis, listed)
pmap_dump
or
rpcinfo -p
* -- BTW, *stopping* portmap can have bad effects. For example,
NFS requires portmap.
HTH,
-Ian
Re: Netscape problem in debian. Found the cause :-)
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 08:12:25AM +1000, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > Yeah finnally I found the cause that I have complained > about netscape before, that ever you quit netscape by > click File / Exit, Netscape will still remain in > memory (actually still running but no window display). > Always like that. The culprit is window manager, not > debian itself. For some reason icewm 1.0.1-1 doesn't > handle properly. I use for example blackbox and it is > normal. AFAIK netscape sometimes crashes in another > situation too but not so often like that case :-) > > I hope this infomation is usefull for some one using > icewm like me, and hope that if some one knows the > better version of icewm and make it to debian package > for potato, it will be great. Thanx. > > Steve > > = > S.KIEU > hi steve, i, too, use icewm (with liquid theme). i just close netscape by clicking the "close" botton for the window; and i never get a "run-on" process. (is this method wrong?) thx. bentley taylor. // >
looking for XMMS 1.2.5-pre1 deb-package
hi, does someone know a location for a XMMS 1.2.5-pre1 deb-package? tom -- Thomas Hess mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing using CUPS from the command line.
You should install the cupsys-bsd package, then cups will print with the lp or lpr commands. Mike On Wednesday 30 May 2001 07:21, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I have to use 'lp' instead of 'lpr' when I use cups. > > Cameron Matheson > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:10:30AM +0200, Alberto García wrote: > > When I try to print a file from the shell ( lpr file ) the job is queued > > and I fail to print, but using startoffice or mozilla, everything I > > intend to print is printed with absolutley no problems. I´ve checked my > > printer with lpstat and it "accepts requests", so I am a bit lost (should > > I say completely?:-)). I sniffed around and found (to my surprise) that > > the command line for printing in Mozilla was lpr, with no arguments. What > > am I doing wrong? I use HP Laserjet 5L and have the ppd file for it. > > Thanks in advance everybody. See you. > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Printing using CUPS from the command line.
Hey, I have to use 'lp' instead of 'lpr' when I use cups. Cameron Matheson On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:10:30AM +0200, Alberto García wrote: > When I try to print a file from the shell ( lpr file ) the job is queued and > I fail to print, but using startoffice or mozilla, everything I intend to > print is printed with absolutley no problems. I´ve checked my printer with > lpstat and it "accepts requests", so I am a bit lost (should I say > completely?:-)). > I sniffed around and found (to my surprise) that the command line for > printing in Mozilla was lpr, with no arguments. What am I doing wrong? > I use HP Laserjet 5L and have the ppd file for it. > Thanks in advance everybody. See you. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
pseudo-image
hi im having problems using the pseudo-image kit install. i get the kit downloaded and umziped and i get the .list files but when i goto make the image file its self and start downloading everything it gets to the readme-non-us and then it says its getting the file and then it just sits there and the ms-dos prompt box says sleep in the upper left. i followed the readme with the kit and did what it said to do cause i use to get all those error msg's but now i dont even get that. could you possibly help me?
Printing using CUPS from the command line.
When I try to print a file from the shell ( lpr file ) the job is queued and I fail to print, but using startoffice or mozilla, everything I intend to print is printed with absolutley no problems. I´ve checked my printer with lpstat and it "accepts requests", so I am a bit lost (should I say completely?:-)). I sniffed around and found (to my surprise) that the command line for printing in Mozilla was lpr, with no arguments. What am I doing wrong? I use HP Laserjet 5L and have the ppd file for it. Thanks in advance everybody. See you.
Fw: Ximian Gnome Problem
One server to your sources.list can be: http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main - Original Message - From: "vester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-user" Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:32 PM Subject: Re: Ximian Gnome Problem i had some problems with ximian too (on woody though) ... for the alternative installation (the apt-get one) have you added the particular ximian server to your sources-list? i don't remember the address but you can find it at ximian.com i remember in the beginning they actually forgot to add the task package, but i think by now they've added it so basically, when you use potato and added ximian to your sources list # apt-get install task-ximian-gnome should do the job. accordingly it should be easy to get rid of all ximian packages and start over. i browsed through dselect and marked all packages with "ximian" in the version number for deletion and that worked fine. hope that helps! vester On Wed, 30 May 2001, Thomas H. George wrote: > Installation of Ximian Gnome Desktop failed, left problems I can't resolve. > > Last week I started download/installation of the full ximian gnome > desktop from the ximian web site. The lengthy download timed out at > about 50%. When restarted it completed the download of 319 files then > the installation failed in mid-process. A subseqent dpkg command found > many conflicting dependencies and aborted unable to resolve them all. > The next time I tried to use apt-get it removed 100 files. After this I > no longer had mozilla and when I tried apt-get --fix-broken > --fix-missing install mozilla it reported that this could not be > installed as an ximian file was to be installed. > > Not knowing how to find and remove the conflicting ximian files and > having no mozilla, I thought to try again to install the ximian gnome > desktop from the stable distribution (I'm running debian linux 2.2.19) > with apt-get install task-ximian-gnome (an alternative listed at the > ximian web site) There is, however, no such .deb package in the stable > distribution. I next looked in ftp.ximian.com where I found a signature > package for task-ximian-gnome but nothing else. > > I have sent a couple of emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and yesterday > tried filing a bug report but as yet have received no response. > > Does anyone know how clean up - i.e. remove all the conflicting pieces > of the ximian installation - other than wiping out my entire debian > installation and starting over? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.4.4 and ES1371 soundcard
> Could you send me the output of lsmod (offline if you prefer). Module Size Used by analog 6816 0 (unused) es1371 25632 2 ac97_codec 8480 0 [es1371] I have ns558 and gameport builtin. Cameron Matheson On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:37:13PM -0700, Mike Pfleger wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:27:13PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I'm having that same problem. I haven't been able to figure out joystick on > > my es1371 w/ any of the 2.4.x kernels (i've tried all the stable ones) > > That's interesting. What modules do you have that are involved with ES1371? > Could you send me the output of lsmod (offline if you prefer). > > TIA, > -- > Mike Pfleger > > There's seventy brilliant people on earth. > Where are they hiding? > "Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45") > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Setting up NIS
I'm trying to get a NIS domain started and having little luck... I've followed along through /usr/share/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto.gz (which is great to have there!), but it doesn't seem to have worked. I started to suspect that things weren't working at step 3.6, starting the server, when it didn't seem to be able to bind to the YP server. (I'm still not entirely clear on why it wants to bind to the server when /etc/init.d/nis is telling it that it's the master server, but I digress...) Then, in step 3.7, I knew things weren't working as I saw "/usr/lib/yp/ypinit -m" report "failed to send 'clear' to local ypserv: RPC: Timed out" for each and every map that it tried to update. Just to be sure, though, I tried a ypwhich after ypinit finished and was told, "can't yp_bind: Reason: Domain not bound". Throughout all of this, nothing was logged to syslog. So how do I troubleshoot this? Is the problem obvious to anyone? -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL$ P++>+++ L+++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w--- O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI D G e* h r y+
Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:20:42PM -0700, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > Edit (or create) /etc/apt.conf and add the following to it: Feh. That should be /etc/apt/apt.conf -Ian
Re: kde.tdyc.com gone?
Thanks. That thread showed up in my mailbox moments after sending my question to the list. On Wednesday 30 May 2001 13:53, DvB wrote: > Peter Hicks wrote: > > I cannot seem to reach this host. Is there another source for the kde > > .debs? > > From will trillich's follow up to the "KDE on stable" thread: > > has anybody got KDE to work in potato? if so could the apt lines please. > > # security stuff for potato > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates main > contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib > non-free > deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free > > # kde stuff for potato > deb http://kde.rap.ucar.edu stable main crypto optional qt1apps > deb > http://ftp.sourceForge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb > stable main > > > -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #22 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
USB CD burner recommendations?
Hi all! Do you have any recommendations on a fast external USB-based CD burner that works well with the latest kernels (we're running 2.4.5 here)? Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks, Max P.S. Please cc me on replies.
Re: duplicating a partition
> i have ext2 but now i want to switch to reiserfs > i have an empty partition, which is not being used > now, i would like to copy the contents of /dev/hda5 (existing ext2 > partition) to /dev/hda8 (new empty reiserfs partition). but i donot know > what is the best way to do it. > > any hints? > > thanx, > amardeep > I would consult the Hard-Disk-Upgrade mini-HOWTO. -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me? Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when? (Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14)
Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 03:28:16AM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote:
> Thanks, it was done.
You're welcome.
> How can I make apt-get to ask to erase the downloaded debs after install?
Edit (or create) /etc/apt.conf and add the following to it:
// Things that effect the APT dselect method
DSelect
{
Clean "auto"; // always|auto|prompt|never
};
As you can see, I've got apt set up to do automatic cleaning.
Most times, the default is "prompt".
I'm seriously thinking about setting mine to never -- since I'm
running testing and have gotten burned by a few upgrades.
[Like the recent libc 2.2 -> 2.3 upgrade. I *was* running a NIS
server on that box until that point. Now I've got another box running
stable with my department's NIS server on it. It also gave me an
excuse to set up a backup DNS server. So, even tho there were a few
hair-raising moments, it all worked out in the end.]
-Ian
Sound on X
Hi, I`m still trying to tune my machine up, but I`m still having some problems. Now I got one that I could not fix. I have an Ensonic board (es1370). The Gnu/Linux can see it on the boot (dmesg) and it don`t cause any error. I could play any kind of sound in the X, but just as root. Then i added every other user to the audio group. Now every user can play sounds, but it always hangs the machine. Actually, it hangs just the net board. I can leave X and kill the processes that does not stops by themselves, but I cannot use the net any more. Not just the internet, but any service from my home net. I`m running a Potato 2.2r3, a mozilla0.8... with Flash and Realplay plugins and the Gnome I got from Ximian site. Rafael Sasaki
Netscape problem in debian. Found the cause :-)
Hi, Yeah finnally I found the cause that I have complained about netscape before, that ever you quit netscape by click File / Exit, Netscape will still remain in memory (actually still running but no window display). Always like that. The culprit is window manager, not debian itself. For some reason icewm 1.0.1-1 doesn't handle properly. I use for example blackbox and it is normal. AFAIK netscape sometimes crashes in another situation too but not so often like that case :-) I hope this infomation is usefull for some one using icewm like me, and hope that if some one knows the better version of icewm and make it to debian package for potato, it will be great. Thanx. Steve = S.KIEU _ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!
Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/
> Hi all, > > Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the > /var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get > :) > > How can I bring this back? > > raj > Just create the following and you are set: [01:00:32 tmp]$ ls /var/cache/apt/archives -ld drwxr-xr-x3 root root 8192 May 31 00:38 /var/cache/apt/archives [01:00:35 tmp]$ ls /var/cache/apt/archives -lR /var/cache/apt/archives: total 4 -rw-r-1 root root0 May 31 00:38 lock drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 May 30 21:38 partial /var/cache/apt/archives/partial: total 0 [01:00:38 tmp]$ Of course you will need to download again every package that you want to upgrade. -- Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me? Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when? (Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14)
Re: kde.tdyc.com gone?
Peter Hicks wrote: I cannot seem to reach this host. Is there another source for the kde .debs? From will trillich's follow up to the "KDE on stable" thread: > has anybody got KDE to work in potato? if so could the apt lines please. # security stuff for potato deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free # kde stuff for potato deb http://kde.rap.ucar.edu stable main crypto optional qt1apps deb http://ftp.sourceForge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb stable main -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #22 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/
"Rajkumar S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the >/var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get >:) > >How can I bring this back? Removing /var/cache/apt/archives should be harmless; can't you just update and continue using apt as usual? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Ian Greenhoe wrote: > mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives/partial > chmod 755 /var/cache/apt/archives/partial > > touch /var/cache/apt/archives/lock > chmod 640 /var/cache/apt/archives/lock Thanks, it was done. How can I make apt-get to ask to erase the downloaded debs after install? raj
Re: One For The Record Books
Not a problem, it's already gone into testing in about 6 months from now. Testing should only take a few weeks and be done about 4 months from now, but with possible governmental beurcacy and corporations interferring it could take a few weeks longer so expect mass production in about 13 years. Thus spake Vinod Kurup ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:10:53PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > i once got an answer that predated my question, but temporal > > displacement notwithstanding, it was attributable to borked > > clock settings. > > > > LOL > > I need to get myself one of those temporal displacement machines. When's > that going to get into 'testing'? > > Vinod > > -- > _ > Vinod Kurup, MD > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > phone: 617.277.2012 > cell: 617.359.5990 > http://www.kurup.com > aim: vvkurup > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
Re: Console: weird scrolling
> > It would be nice if there was an option to disable that graphic > entirely, or replace it with a user-defined pixmap... read the Framebuffer-HOWTO, Chapter 19 it seems that it's not that easy and at the end you have to recompile the kernel... imre
Re: kernel 2.4.4 and ES1371 soundcard
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:27:13PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I'm having that same problem. I haven't been able to figure out joystick on > my es1371 w/ any of the 2.4.x kernels (i've tried all the stable ones) That's interesting. What modules do you have that are involved with ES1371? Could you send me the output of lsmod (offline if you prefer). TIA, -- Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hiding? "Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45")
Re: file search in package archives?
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:04:58PM -0500, DvB wrote: > dpkg -S does this on installed packages but is there a way to search for > a file in packages that aren't installed yet? Does apt store this > information? While not as exact as zgrep'ing the Contents-i386.gz file, as someone else suggested, apt-cache search works well for most searches of that nature. For example, an 'apt-cache search as86' returns: bin86 - 16-bit assembler and loader -Rob
Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/
Rajkumar S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RS> Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the RS> /var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get RS> :) Why? AFAIK that's pretty much what 'apt-get clean' does too. How do you think APT is broken now? RS> How can I bring this back? Is it just complaining because the directory is missing? Try 'mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives' as root. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
Re: rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:13:45AM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote: > Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the > /var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get > :) > > How can I bring this back? Just do (as root, of course): mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives/partial chmod 755 /var/cache/apt/archives/partial touch /var/cache/apt/archives/lock chmod 640 /var/cache/apt/archives/lock (You may not need to re-create the lock file, as apt-get will probably do it.) In any case, you can use the following commands to clean out your cache (in the future): apt-get clean apt-get autoclean (my preferred way, only deletes old debs) rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/*.deb HTH, Ian
kde.tdyc.com gone?
I cannot seem to reach this host. Is there another source for the kde .debs?
Re: One For The Record Books
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:10:53PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > i once got an answer that predated my question, but temporal > displacement notwithstanding, it was attributable to borked > clock settings. > LOL I need to get myself one of those temporal displacement machines. When's that going to get into 'testing'? Vinod -- _ Vinod Kurup, MD email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 617.277.2012 cell: 617.359.5990 http://www.kurup.com aim: vvkurup
Re: apt-get --print-uris in NoLocking mode
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:56:23AM +0200, Santi B?jar wrote: >I try to get a list of all the .deb to be installed (with >--print-uris), but I have to do it like root. I thought that if I add > a "-o Debug::NoLocking=yes" would make it possible to run it like > user. But I get this: > > bash$ apt-get --print-uris -o Debug::NoLocking=yes upgrade > E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/ > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. installing a package is something that'll affect anything from a tiny pocket of a remote corner of a dusty drawer in the far reaches of your system -- to upgrading your kernel. you wouldn't want gomer or floyd or opie to be able to do that, now, would you? gotta be root to do root-level things. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #2 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Confused about using "apt-get" to keep your Debian UP-TO-DATE? See http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
kernel 2.4.4 and ES1371 soundcard
Hello. Well; I gave in and compiled a 2.4.4 kernel on testing the other day. I set up a bunch of things as loadable modules, including soundcore, es1371, gameport, input, joydev and analog. To my surprise, a module called: ac97_codec was also built, and is depended upon by es1371. This wasn't a module that showed up in 2.2.1x kernels I've built and used in the past. Interestingly, the analog joystick port is not (apparently) visible to the system, and my attempts to configure the module have failed. Has anyone had any luck with this configuration? TIA, -- Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hiding? "Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45")
Re: file search in package archives?
DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >dpkg -S does this on installed packages but is there a way to search for >a file in packages that aren't installed yet? Does apt store this >information? No, but you could download dists/whatever/Contents-i386.gz (or similar for other architectures) every so often from a nearby Debian archive and run zgrep on that. That's usually the fastest way. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rm -rf /var/cache/apt/archives/
Hi all, Just before I found out the apt-get clean I wiped out the /var/cache/apt/archives/. As it can be expected I badly screwed my apt-get :) How can I bring this back? raj
Re: galeon 0.10.6 Packages anywhere ?
> > download the 0.10.6 source code .tar.gz and do the > > following: > > > > tar -zxvf galeon-0.10.6.tar.gz > > cd galeon-0.10.6 > > ./configure > > Done that, installed tons of .dev (and other) packages, > but whatever I do, it will not get past the ./configure > stage. > > The stage where things go wrong is: > > checking for gnome-config... /usr/bin/gnome-config > checking for GNOME - version >= 1.2.0... yes > checking for additional GNOME modules... vfs > checking for oaf-config... /usr/bin/oaf-config > checking for OAF - version >= 0.6.2... no > > When I run oaf, I get: > > $ /usr/bin/oaf-config --version > > So the configure script is obviousli wrong. Have you deleted the config.cache file and tried it again ?? Actually, I think ./configure would output a line like checking for gnome-config... /usr/bin/gnome-config checking for GNOME - version >= 1.2.0... yes (cached) if you didn't. Just in case though... Hall
Re: network performance
"Alexander Gun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >how can i test my network performance >without copying one file from maschine a to maschine b ? > >i dont want to test my harddrive speed!! Set up a web server on one machine and download several large files simultaneously from it on the other. After each file is sent for the first time, it should be cached in memory, by which point any half-decent web server should be able to saturate 100Mbit Ethernet and more with ease. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why everything in German?
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 02:49:17PM -0600, Roberto Magana wrote: > Good Day, has the language of the list being changed to German? If so, > please announce it so I can switch to a list in english. oui, monsieur. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #16 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Why are *.rpm (RED HAT PACKAGES) considered spawn of Satan? Because the Debian package system is a lot more sophisticated than the one Red Hat uses; lots more inter-dependency information is built in to a *.deb package. If you bypass that with an *.rpm file, you're taking chances with your system. Try to "apt-get install " packages if possible. (Also check out the "alien" package if you must.) Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Re: fetchmail logs
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:20:20PM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: > I accidently deleted a mail. I would help me a lot if I could recover the > email address of the mail. Does fetchmail keep any logs by default? I > would think so? But can't find them, where can I find them? Oke, I already figured this out myself with a little bit of help. Fetchmail just hands the mail over too the MTA, exim in my case. Found it in the exim logs. -- Jeroen Valcke jeroen@valcke.com ICQ# 30116911 Home page: http://www.valcke.com/jeroen Phone +32(0)56 32 91 37 Mobile +32(0)486 88 21 26 The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. -Andrew S. Tanenbaum-
Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:01:13PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote: > I'll repeat my previous advice: use xkeycaps. > > Life is too short to futz with modmap. Yes, well; using xkeycaps doesn't teach me anything, does it? -- Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hiding? "Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45")
Re: One For The Record Books
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:56:03PM -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > This is just a little rave about the "customer service" that you get > when you "buy" a Debian GNU/Linux distribution. > > At 16:29:21 (EST) on Wed, 23 May I posted a question "file types" to the > list because I had a problem getting the LCD on the front of my box > working. I thought it was a tough question (how many times have you > seen an lcd on a computer?), but FOUR MINUTES !!! later (15:33:35 CDT) I > received a response that fixed the problem. > > It's gotta be some sort of record. pooh. four minutes? hell, i've posted questions that haven't got answered for nearly an hour. four minutes ain't no record. heck, microso~1 can take DAYS before telling you that you're not allowed to access that information, or to provide you with technically correct but completely irrelevant information, or to tell you that broekn behavior is by design. oh, you're gawking at the other end of the spectrum... :) i once got an answer that predated my question, but temporal displacement notwithstanding, it was attributable to borked clock settings. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #25 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Did you know you have MORE THAN ONE CONSOLE to use? There's six, by default: try Control-Alt-F6 to see console six, Ctl-Alt-F3 for console 3, and so forth. (If you don't use the X window display system, you don't need to include the control key.) Each console can have its own login, running its own jobs. Very handy! Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Re: oops
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:15:39PM -0600, HAL 9000 wrote: >The next day I was playing with a operational Linux system which would boot > from the hard drive. Since I'm a complete novice at Linux I didn't know even > how to view a directory. I had seen the install done so I thought I'd > re-install and this time write down the error messages and try and decide if > they were serious. > > O O P S ! ! ! > > When I got into the "Install operating system kernel and modules" step I > didn't know how to tell it to use the CD reader to input the drivers. I > couldn't figure out how to back out of that procedure. So, I re booted. you've been accustomed to using windo~1, haven't you? bad dog. > O O P S ! ! why not re-boot from the CD and reformat, repartition and reinstall, since you don't have diddly customized yet? and yes, it's good to take notes. -- uppercase and lowercase matter in the real world: ls dir ls -a ls -l ls -F and combining those last three, ls -laF ls -aFl those are likely to show you which files you've got. use cd somedir cd ../../xyz/otherplace to move around. i'd recommend apt-get install mc to install the midnight commander utilities, then mcedit somefile.xyz to munge some text in file 'somefile.xyz' or just mc to snoop around your filesystem. a nice quickie start environment for a newbie-type. also check out the help-system newbieDoc at http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/general/help-system.en.html -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #10 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Looking to run a command or two at REGULAR INTERVALS? Try "crontab -e" for starters (see "man cron" or "man crontab"). You might also investigate the "anacron" package. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
file search in package archives?
dpkg -S does this on installed packages but is there a way to search for a file in packages that aren't installed yet? Does apt store this information? I found http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages which works fine but was wondering if there was a way to do it without a net connection. Being able to do this probably would've saved me a lot of trouble when my kernel compile failed last night with "as86: Command not found"... TIA P.S. the installer in potato is a vast improvement over slink, IMO. The "simple" package selection makes a world of difference. I'm one step closer to switching over to Debian :-)
Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)
I'll repeat my previous advice: use xkeycaps. Life is too short to futz with modmap. -- --- 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: Jumpstart install of debian?
Another solution would be to use cpio to make an archive of the file system and then expand this out onto a clean machine. I recently did this and found it to be relatively painless. I did only use one large partition (well two but I'm not counting the swap ;). On the machine you want to mirror run: #find / -xdev |cpio --create >arcive.cpio Then on the clean machine (partition, mkswap, mke2fs): #cpio --extract --no-absolute-filenames\ < archive.cpio later, Andy "Robert L. Harris" wrote: > > This looks like a great start. > > Thanks > Robert > > Thus spake Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Has anyone got a "scripted jumpstart" to work? I.E., for a very > > >standard config things such as keyboard type, packages, etc are > > >pre-configured and install/configure automatically? > > > > You could try this (although I admit I haven't), available in testing > > and unstable: > > > > Package: fai > > Priority: extra > > Section: admin > > Installed-Size: 1064 > > Maintainer: Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Architecture: all > > Version: 2.0 > > Depends: bootp | dhcp, perl5, nfs-server, netboot > > Recommends: tftpd, rsh-server, fai-kernels > > Suggests: ssh, wget > > Filename: pool/main/f/fai/fai_2.0_all.deb > > Size: 283820 > > MD5sum: bdeeca32054f0447aab5c6de28dcab59 > > Description: fully automatic installation > > FAI is a non interactive system to install a Debian Linux operating > > system on a PC cluster. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on > > the power and after a few minutes Linux is installed, configured and > > running on the whole cluster, without any interaction necessary. > > Homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai > > > > -- > > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > :wq! > --- > Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : > Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability > at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't > \_ that important! > DISCLAIMER: > These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. > FYI: > perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);' > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andrew D. Dixon Software Engineer Seranao Networks 978-8973434 x231
Re: galeon 0.10.6 Packages anywhere ?
> download the 0.10.6 source code .tar.gz and do the following: > > tar -zxvf galeon-0.10.6.tar.gz > cd galeon-0.10.6 > ./configure Done that, installed tons of .dev (and other) packages, but whatever I do, it will not get past the ./configure stage. The stage where things go wrong is: checking for gnome-config... /usr/bin/gnome-config checking for GNOME - version >= 1.2.0... yes checking for additional GNOME modules... vfs checking for oaf-config... /usr/bin/oaf-config checking for OAF - version >= 0.6.2... no When I run oaf, I get: $ /usr/bin/oaf-config --version So the configure script is obviousli wrong. Looking at the conftest.c program the ./configure script generated, it is obviously wrong: it declares: int major, minor, micro; but later uses: if ((liboaf_major_version != 0) || (liboaf_minor_version != 6) || (liboaf_micro_version != 5)) So it looks to mi like an error in the ./configure script (that script has nearly the same .c file in it) $ md5sum ./configure ../galeon-0.10.6.tar.gz 8fa8cc7ca45b3d090029834a449ffbe1 ./configure eda0f7dc904298dcdff09e871825eaf7 ../galeon-0.10.6.tar.gz Am I going mad? Below is the more complete ./configure log (from after it tests for the oaf version): checking for GNOME - version >= 1.2.0... yes checking for additional GNOME modules... vfs checking for oaf-config... /usr/bin/oaf-config checking for OAF - version >= 0.6.2... no *** Could not run OAF test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the *** exact error that occured. This usually means OAF was incorrectly installed *** or that you have moved OAF since it was installed. In the latter case, you *** may want to edit the oaf-config script: /usr/bin/oaf-config checking for gconf-config... /usr/bin/gconf-config checking for GCONF - version >= 0.12... yes checking for libglade-config... no checking for libglade... no checking for orbit-config... /usr/bin/orbit-config checking for ORBit - version >= 0.5.1... yes checking for orbit-idl... /usr/bin/orbit-idl checking for gdk-pixbuf-config... no checking for GDK_PIXBUF - version >= 0.9.0... no *** The gdk-pixbuf-config script installed by GDK_PIXBUF could not be found *** If GDK_PIXBUF was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the GDK_PIXBUF_CONFIG environment variable to the *** full path to gdk-pixbuf-config. checking for PR_Init in -lnspr4... yes checking for PL_strcmp in -lplc4... yes checking for PL_NewHashTable in -lplds4... yes checking for xpcom... yes checking for gdk_superwin_get_type in -lgtksuperwin... no checking for gtk_moz_embed_get_type in -lgtkembedmoz... no checking for Mozilla... no configure: error: *** Mozilla 0.9 is required *** A package for 0.9 is available here: *** http://people.redhat.com/blizzard/software/. $ dpkg -l mozil* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii mozilla0.9-0.0.3 An Open Source WWW browser for X and GTK+ ii mozilla-dev0.9-0.0.3 Header files for Mozilla development un mozilla-dmotif (no description available) rc mozilla-smotif 5.0b1-2Mozilla Navigator
Re: network performance
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Alexander Gun wrote: >how can i test my network performance >without copying one file from maschine a to maschine b ? bing, ping, sing, depending on what your needs are... >i dont want to test my harddrive speed!! > >is there a tool out? >give me ideas... > > >thanks a lot >ag > >-- >in a world without fences > --- who needs gates ??? > >__ >Ferienklick.de - Jede Menge Urlaub auf einen Blick! >Hier geht's zu Ihrem Traumstrand: http://ferienklick.de/?PP=2-0-100-105-1 > > > -- 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: newbie: Help, I'm stuck!
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:45:04AM -0400, Roderick Cummings wrote: > >From: Scott Frankel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Problem 2: dselect config file mulched > > > >I've inadvertantly hoarked whatever shoot-myself-in-the-foot.config > >file it is that controls what the dselect program can access. I can't > >seem to get a package list update from the CD's I installed from. > >With this remedied, maybe I could install the man pages! In any event, > >this leads to the frustrating: > > Check out /etc/apt/sources.list Unless you totally deleted it, it probably > have a few default sources you can uncomment. Man/info will can provide more > info if not. also you could try re-running the first option on deselect and > resetup apt. if you have apt-setup it'll get you started. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #2 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Confused about using "apt-get" to keep your Debian UP-TO-DATE? See http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Re: /etc/rc* and locate
> > > I have no > > > program which runs update nightly. > > > > I think you do. see /etc/cron.daily/find > > > Sorry, I didn't know that. Makes the anomaly even more difficult to > understand though Yes. It looks like your updatedb doesn't do what it should do. You could try and remove the file /var/lib/locate/locatedb, and then run updatedb. Does it re-create the file? If so, does locate still show the /etc/rc* files? Does /etc/updatedb.conf have any funky contents? -- joostje
Re: `who' is broken?
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:56:45PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'm running i386 debian unstable. > > the who program is cutting off the locations strangely, as you'll see > below. also when logged in from a dialup with a long reverse > hostname, who will only print part of the first entry and segfault. > > is this a known problem? it's been pretty consistent for at least a > month for me. `w' and `last' work fine. maybe the /var/run/utmp file gets borked? the 'last' command has similar fuxnorication now and then as the /var/log/wtmp gets corrupt. just a guess. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #7 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Wondering what COMMANDS you have at your disposal? Try pressing the TAB key at the command line. For example, "apt" will show you all the commands that start with "apt". (This is called "completion" if you want to look it up in your shell's manpage.) (Different implementions have the completion set up differently -- you may need to press twice.) Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Re: Newbie questions !
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 04:10:57PM +1000, Steve Kieu wrote: > If I dont want to run for example crond at boot time > how can I disable it? it is not the way to delete the > symlink in /etc/rc.2/ or chmod -x /etc/init.d/crond I > think. update-rc.d crond remove or to have it enabled only in runlevel 4, update-rc.d crond start 50 4 . stop 50 2 3 5 . (presuming a priority/sequence of 50 is kopacetic with you.) man update-rc.d for more info. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #2 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Confused about using "apt-get" to keep your Debian UP-TO-DATE? See http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Re: line numbers in code
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 03:41:38AM -0600, John Galt wrote: > In vi, :1267 works... Also, for vim, start your editing session right at the exact line you're interested in via vi +1267 filename.here Or, if already editing the file, hop to that line with 1267G You can also :set ruler or ^G (control G) to see where you are in the file. You can also try :set number to see line numbers. Try :opt and search for /jumping to errors/ for ideas. and :help for more vim tips. or, use emacs instead. choices, choices. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #18 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : How do you DISABLE A NETWORK SERVICE? There are several ways network services are made available: for inetd items, modify /etc/inetd.conf and then "/etc/init.d/inetd restart". For independently-running daemons, try "/etc/init.d/ stop" (or to permanently zap them, "apt-get --purge remove "). Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
fetchmail logs
I accidently deleted a mail. I would help me a lot if I could recover the email address of the mail. Does fetchmail keep any logs by default? I would think so? But can't find them, where can I find them? Thanks -- Jeroen Valcke jeroen@valcke.com ICQ# 30116911 Home page: http://www.valcke.com/jeroen Phone +32(0)56 32 91 37 Mobile +32(0)486 88 21 26 Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
X win sys 4.x and potato
Hi folks. I'm running an install of potato that I want to upgrade to the 4.0 version of X. Someone pointed me to the debs put together by Branden and I've been struggling with this ever since. After scouring the archives I've found a few answers which have moved me ahead somewhat, but I'm now totally stuck. I now get no actual errors and everything appears to be where it is expected to be but X fails to start correctly. More accurately, from the CLI when I "startx" the server seems to start but gives me a message "Waiting for X server to begin accepting connections". It will sit like that for as long as my patience holds out and I don't ctrl-break.. A quick recap of what I've done: 1. Added "deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ xf403_potato/i386/" and "...xf403_potato/all/" to my sources list. 2. Did an apt-get update 3. Did an apt-get dist-upgrade 4. Downloaded and installed (using dpkg) the libfreetype6 debs (also from Branden). 5. Did an apt-get xbase-clients (resolves dependency issue?) 6. Created the symlink "/etc/X11/X" pointing to /usr/bin/X11/Xfree86". (I don't understand why I would create a symlink to a symlink instead of linking directly but there it is, and that's what I've done.) 7. ran "xf86config", and even tried "xfree86cfg" - successfully created the XF86Config-4 file. I even tried to install those libfreetype6 packages before doing the dist-upgrade so as to head off the dependency issues. Strangely, the libfreetype6 debs aren't seen as valid debs until AFTER I've done the dist-upgrade, at which point I understand that I must go back and do step#5 (see above). Thanks, Marc.
cyrus imap sendmail debian
am trying to configure a cyrus imapd with sendmail. I have the Managing IMAP from O'Reilly that I am using to help configure. Does debian sendmail compile with IMAP support? Do I edit the sendmail.cf file to have sendmail route mail to the Cyrus spool? O'Reilly talks about a different CF file for IMAP but it is not found in the directory with the sendmail.cf file. This is why I was prompted to ask if sendmail has IMAP support built in. Lance
network performance
how can i test my network performance without copying one file from maschine a to maschine b ? i dont want to test my harddrive speed!! is there a tool out? give me ideas... thanks a lot ag -- in a world without fences --- who needs gates ??? __ Ferienklick.de - Jede Menge Urlaub auf einen Blick! Hier geht's zu Ihrem Traumstrand: http://ferienklick.de/?PP=2-0-100-105-1
Re: web management question
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 01:01:53PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > The directory ~/public_html is made accessible as: > > http://server/~user/ > > ...with the appropriate configuration changes in /etc/apache/access.conf > and /etc/apache/srm.conf. LoadModule userdir_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_userdir.so UserDir /var/something/student/*/personal-web-pages so when apache got a request for your.domain.here/~bubba/something it'd use /var/something/student/bubba/personal-web-pages/something as its file-path. i'd either stick with "public_html" or "www". > Files in these directories need to be world readable. at least www-data readable, if you're using the default User www-data Group www-data :) -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #8 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Search for Debian PACKAGES online with this shortcut: http://packages.debian.org/ If you can't find it right off, just hop to the "search packages" link that's offered there. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Framebuffer aty128fb - halfway
i compiled kernel-2.2.19 to set up framebuffer dev. during boot up kernel recognizes the card properly and sets the default mode with 80x30 console screen. so far good, however, i would love to use some xxx x yyy console after all this is why i started this job on the first place. so i started to play with fbset and lilo append with some funny outcome: 1) lilo append: i tried several different cmdline versions eg.: video=aty128fb:mode:1024x768,... video=aty128fb:xres:1024,yres:768, or video=aty128fb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] as suggested in the kernel-2.4.4 documentation of aty128 with "vga=792" the kernel boots and sets fb again and again to the default 640x480... 2) fbset: i can set any mode defined in /etc/fb.modes and the console first looks OK and works OK in a pure "forward" mode but if i start editing or searching back in the history the cursor disappears and editing do not show up on the other hand, midnight commander works absolutely fine and looks gorgeous ;-) can anyone, please, tell me what could be the problem? thanks, imre
Re: Using tar saving Disk-space [was: apt-get offline]
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Joerg Johannes wrote: >Hi list > >Now that I can transfer my downloaded .debs in a .tar file, I wonder if >I could create this .tar file saving disk space, e.g. in the following >way > > >create a tar file (touch packages.tar?) unnecessary, and in fact will break the script... >for *.deb in this directory foreach foo (./*.deb) > 1.) add it to the tar file tar -u $foo -f packages.tar > 2.) rm this .deb rm $foo >end end > > >Is this possible for (non-GNU)-tar? I think that I made it basic enough to be portable... >How would this look for the csh? That's what I was writing it for (actually, tcsh, but it should be backwards compatible...) >Even better: Could this be included in the wget-script? ?! you have a script already that you want to add this stuff to? That'd be easier by far, because you'd only have to select once and not select, then select on *.deb. >thanks > >joerg > -- 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: VM problem
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:11:26PM +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote: | | BF> Hi, | BF> I have installed the Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r1 on my machine. A few days | BF> after the installation I noticed some strange messages from the kernel | BF> (samples below) concerning the virtual memory (do_try_to_free_pages failed | BF> for...). | BF> I have a second distribution on my machine (a RedHat GNU/Linux), | BF> I haven't seen these error messages (althought I'm not working a lot with | BF> this distribution). First I thought that there was a problem in the kernel | BF> version (the first one was 2.2.17). My reflex was to recompile a new | BF> kernel (new version : 2.2.18pre21) but the problem seems to endure. | BF> I have already re-formatted my swap partition. | | BF> If you have an idea of where the problem comes from please tell me. | | AFAIK it is a bug in kernel. 2.2.19 should fix it. Ok, I'll double check which kernel that box is running (probably Potato's default). Are there any docs that explain what apt does and doesn't do and what must be done by hand (other than reconfiguring the boot loader)? I've upgrade kernels manually before, but that was on a RH machine when I didn't know how to configure modules. Thanks, -D
Re: Jumpstart install of debian?
This looks like a great start. Thanks Robert Thus spake Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Has anyone got a "scripted jumpstart" to work? I.E., for a very > >standard config things such as keyboard type, packages, etc are > >pre-configured and install/configure automatically? > > You could try this (although I admit I haven't), available in testing > and unstable: > > Package: fai > Priority: extra > Section: admin > Installed-Size: 1064 > Maintainer: Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: all > Version: 2.0 > Depends: bootp | dhcp, perl5, nfs-server, netboot > Recommends: tftpd, rsh-server, fai-kernels > Suggests: ssh, wget > Filename: pool/main/f/fai/fai_2.0_all.deb > Size: 283820 > MD5sum: bdeeca32054f0447aab5c6de28dcab59 > Description: fully automatic installation > FAI is a non interactive system to install a Debian Linux operating > system on a PC cluster. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on > the power and after a few minutes Linux is installed, configured and > running on the whole cluster, without any interaction necessary. > Homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
Re: Jumpstart install of debian?
"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone got a "scripted jumpstart" to work? I.E., for a very >standard config things such as keyboard type, packages, etc are >pre-configured and install/configure automatically? You could try this (although I admit I haven't), available in testing and unstable: Package: fai Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 1064 Maintainer: Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 2.0 Depends: bootp | dhcp, perl5, nfs-server, netboot Recommends: tftpd, rsh-server, fai-kernels Suggests: ssh, wget Filename: pool/main/f/fai/fai_2.0_all.deb Size: 283820 MD5sum: bdeeca32054f0447aab5c6de28dcab59 Description: fully automatic installation FAI is a non interactive system to install a Debian Linux operating system on a PC cluster. You can take one or more virgin PCs, turn on the power and after a few minutes Linux is installed, configured and running on the whole cluster, without any interaction necessary. Homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jumpstart install of debian?
Has anyone got a "scripted jumpstart" to work? I.E., for a very standard config things such as keyboard type, packages, etc are pre-configured and install/configure automatically? :wq! --- Robert L. Harris| Micros~1 : Senior System Engineer |For when quality, reliability at RnD Consulting | and security just aren't \_ that important! DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. FYI: perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
Re: ~/.Xmodmap (was: Customizing the console key map?)
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:50:44AM -0400, John S. J. Anderson wrote: > Have you tried using a real keysym for the menu key? I don't think > 'Menu' is a real keysym -- try 'Multi-key' or 'Super_R' or 'Hyper_R', > and then bind ModN (where N=(1..5)) to that keysym. > > My Dvorak xmodmap file is at > http://genehack.org/linux/dvorak.html>; it may be of help. Hi John. To answer your question, I used xev to grab the information on the dreaded "menu" key. It reported (among other things): keycode 117 (keysym 0xff67, Menu) when the "menu" key was pressed with the pointer in the "Event Tester" window. Is there something I'm missing here? I've actually checked a file (where, I can't remember) that lists the various keycodes and keysyms, and that key wasn't in there (listed by keycode). I suppose I am wondering just where does xev get the info for its interpretation of the keypresses? I'll see if I can use your dvorak xmodmap file for enlightening my confused self. Thanks for the help so far. -- Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hiding? "Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45")
Re: Some sugestions of cheanges
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:04:39AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:14:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 3. In new deb package of apache 1.3.19 every > > configuration is made in one file > > (/etc/apache/httpd.conf). I segest to make it like > > in version 1.3.9 > > i would agree with that, huge monsterous bloated monolithic > configuration files suck IMO. file a severity wishlist bug report > against apache. The Apache Group decided to move to a single config file a while ago, so that's the standard now. Note that, if you still want multiple config files, there is an Include directive which can be used to break your configuration up into as many smaller config files as you want, following any scheme you like. -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL$ P++>+++ L+++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w--- O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI D G e* h r y+
Re: VM problem
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:28:18PM +0200, BURLET Frederic wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed the Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r1 on my machine. A few days > after the installation I noticed some strange messages from the kernel > (samples below) concerning the virtual memory (do_try_to_free_pages failed > for...). Upgrade to kernel >= 2.2.19 -- Casper Gielen [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- People just generally like to disagree. Bill Joy
Re: the clip in windowmaker
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:36:47PM +1000, Joel Mayes wrote: > Run the wmpref program, the 7th icon will be "workspace navigation Features > click on this, and there will be two icons down the right hand side of the box > on of these enables/disable the application dock, the other enables/disables > the Clip. ( probably the one with the big disabled cross though it ;-) If you prefer wmakerconf, it's on the "Workspace" tab, fourth option. "Open application clip on startup (startup option)" -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL$ P++>+++ L+++> E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w--- O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI D G e* h r y+
Re: KDE on stable
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:04:01PM +0100, Ian Lee wrote: > Why does KDE for potato, depend on libssl096? > libssl096 is in woody and sid not potato (according to debian package search). helli-phyno... > has anybody got KDE to work in potato? if so could the apt lines please. # security stuff for potato deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free # kde stuff for potato deb http://kde.rap.ucar.edu stable main crypto optional qt1apps deb http://ftp.sourceForge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/latest/distribution/deb stable main -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #22 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : SECURITY-CONSCIOUS? Good! Here's how you can use apt-get to keep your system up-to-date with the latest security patches: in /etc/apt/sources.list include these lines-- deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security potato/updates main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free Thereafter, a quick "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" is all you need to keep the gremlins at bay. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Re: *** Newbie Question About PostgreSQL ***
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:49:46PM -0400, Arcadio A. Sincero Jr. wrote: > Hello list, wrong list. try pgsql-general@postgresql.org instead. > I'd like to set up Postgresql so that users can have "read-only" access to a > database. Right now, I only know how to set it so a user can have all or > nothing access by adding something like the following in the pg_hba.conf > file: > > localmydbcryptusers.mydb > > And put the names of all the users I want to allow access to the "mydb" > database into the users.mydb file. But like I said, this only allows all or > nothing access to the database. A user can still do a CREATE TABLE and add > additional tables to the database. Is there anyway to have it so a user can > only do SELECTs? Thanks. according to /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/user/sql-grant.htm (apt-get install postgresql-doc) the objects you can grant and revoke priviliges from tables, but not databases. you can specity 'public' meaning "everyone at large that's not specifically mentioned in a contrary access rule" but it looks like you'll need to iterate for each table you've got. unless i'm wrong, of course. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #31 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Ever wonder why Debian stable seems out-of-date? It's because it's STABLE! When enough testing shows a release to be worthy of the "stable" name, it's frozen -- nothing new can be added to it. Gizmo 57.3 might come out the next day, but it won't show up in the stable release. If you want to be on the bleeding edge, try "testing" or "unstable". If you want solid dependability, stick with "stable" and use tried-and-true packages instead of the newfangled ones that might break. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
Re: duplicating a partition
Amardeep Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have ext2 but now i want to switch to reiserfs > i have an empty partition, which is not being used > now, i would like to copy the contents of /dev/hda5 (existing ext2 > partition) to /dev/hda8 (new empty reiserfs partition). but i donot know > what is the best way to do it. Assuming that the /dev/hda partition you want to copy is mounted on /data: mount /dev/hda8 /mnt cd /data find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -pvdm0 /mnt If you want to move the / partition, do the same thing as above, then cd to /mnt/etc, and change fstab and lilo.conf to represent the new root disk. Then, do chroot /mnt lilo to install a new version of lilo. Alter instructions accordingly if you use a different boot loader. -- Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])| Yow! .. I feel.. JUGULAR.. UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-DNS | Seattle, WA, USA| http://www.rudedog.org/ |
Re: firewall log message question
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 01:30:54AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Am 29. May, 2001 schwäzte will trillich so: > > Security Violations > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > May 23 12:51:01 server kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 > > 192.168.1.62:3 208.33.90.85:13 L=56 S=0x00 I=30114 F=0x T=248 (#5) > > May 23 12:51:05 server kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 > > 192.168.1.62:3 208.33.90.85:13 L=56 S=0x00 I=30125 F=0x T=248 (#5) > > May 23 12:51:11 server kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 > > 192.168.1.62:3 208.33.90.85:13 L=56 S=0x00 I=30140 F=0x T=248 (#5) > > May 23 12:51:23 server kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=1 > > 192.168.1.62:3 208.33.90.85:13 L=56 S=0x00 I=30167 F=0x T=248 (#5) > > Don't know ICMP well enough to tell you the significance of 3 and 13. > > Is eth1 your internal or your external interface, e.g. 192.168.1.0/24 or > 208.33.90.85? If it's your external the packet was coming from upstream, > e.g. your ISP connection. ifconfig reminds me that it's 208.33.90.85, so it came from Out There Somewhere. > Did you ping and traceroute to 192.168.1.62 to make sure it's not out there? all packets died. no such route, etc. -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #29 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Console GIBBERISH? Suddenly you're seeing Russian or Korean or box-like text on your console or xterm (or rxvt) -- probably after viewing a binary file, right? :) Enter "reset" at the command line, or try embedding a control-O (letter oh) into your command-line prompt string: export PS1='[EMAIL PROTECTED]: \w$ ' Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
ssh2 (open ssh) compiled for stable?
I have a firewall running Debian stable that I don't want to upgrade to testing. I see that Open SSH version 2.5.2 is in testing and unstable and that 1.2.3 is the version in stable. Am I correct in thinking that the version for stable available at security.debian.org has the bug fixes backportted to it? Or are there bug fixes only available in the testing and unstable versions? If that is the case, is there a version of ssh 2.5.2 built for stable somewhere? Thanks, Bryan -- Bryan K. WaltonNetwork Operations Center Analyst Berbee...putting the E in businesshttp://www.berbee.com/ GPG fingerprint: BF68 340D A650 E2D7 86B9 FED5 DDFF 3EEE 3229 7B5D
duplicating a partition
i have ext2 but now i want to switch to reiserfs i have an empty partition, which is not being used now, i would like to copy the contents of /dev/hda5 (existing ext2 partition) to /dev/hda8 (new empty reiserfs partition). but i donot know what is the best way to do it. any hints? thanx, amardeep
Noisy phone line drops connection
Hello, I've got a noisy phone line at home causing dialup problems. I can now connect successfully by extending the dialup time (chat -t 120...thanks John H.). The problem now is that my connection drops sometimes after I've connected to my ISP. Is there some parameter or option I can set that won't cause the connection to drop when there is some line noise/static? I plan on calling the phone company today to have this nosiy phone line looked at, but in the meantime this would help. Thanks, Scott
Re: Can't find ssh [Thanks]
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Andy Davidson wrote: >Thanks to all who responded. I now have ssh up and running. And I clearly >need to learn more about apt-get and friends. :-) > >Two additional items: one question and one apology. > >The question is: Are the non-USA and non-free packages on the CDs or do I Sort of. You CAN get/make non-US CDs and non-free CDs, but nobody in Debian is holding a gun to anyone's head to make them. I'm thinking most CD vendors don't want to sell you a pig in a poke, so ask when you look at buying: if they don't want to tell you what precisely is on the CDs, you probably don't want them anyhow. >have to use the internet sites? [Not a huge problem; I only have a 56K >connection, but I was quite impressed with the speed of the download and >processing.] Just set up apt is my advice: 56K is better than I have at home, and I do pretty good keeping up. >Also, several of you sent me email along the lines of: > >(Also, please don't post in HTML ...) >I wasn't aware that I was and I'm not too sure how I turn it off. [I am >currently running Eudora 4.0 on a Windows box. And this is just another >good reason to get off Windows. :-) ] Sometimes it asks me if I want to >send formatted text and sometimes it doesn't. My apologies. [Please let me >know if this shows up in HTML.] I didn't see any HTML in this one... >andy > > > > > > Andy Davidson --- Pheon Research > If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. > > > -- 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: VM problem
BF> Hi, BF> I have installed the Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r1 on my machine. A few days BF> after the installation I noticed some strange messages from the kernel BF> (samples below) concerning the virtual memory (do_try_to_free_pages failed BF> for...). BF> I have a second distribution on my machine (a RedHat GNU/Linux), BF> I haven't seen these error messages (althought I'm not working a lot with BF> this distribution). First I thought that there was a problem in the kernel BF> version (the first one was 2.2.17). My reflex was to recompile a new BF> kernel (new version : 2.2.18pre21) but the problem seems to endure. BF> I have already re-formatted my swap partition. BF> If you have an idea of where the problem comes from please tell me. AFAIK it is a bug in kernel. 2.2.19 should fix it. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)| | GnuPG 1024D/323BDEE6 D7F7 561E 4C1D 8A15 8E80 E4AE BE1A 53EB 323B DEE6 | | AGAVA Software Company (http://www.agava.com/) | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: VM problem
On Wed, 30 May 2001, D-Man wrote: > I don't know what causes this, but I have seen it on one of my boxes > -- the i486 with 8 MB RAM (and 32MB swap). I haven't seen it on the > AMD Duron (128MB RAM) > > How much memory do you have on this K6? I have 32MB RAM and 72MB swap. > > (BTW, good job of including lots of possibly relevant information. > Including the /proc/cpuinfo from my box won't help because it doesn't > say anything -- I don't think the 486 family supports querying) > > -D --- Frédéric BURLET Etudiant IIième Maitrise Info. --- Secrétaire Namur-LUG/Linux Kot url : http://www.namurlug.org/ ---
Re: VM problem
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:28:18PM +0200, BURLET Frederic wrote: | Hi, | | I have installed the Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r1 on my machine. A few days | after the installation I noticed some strange messages from the kernel | (samples below) concerning the virtual memory (do_try_to_free_pages failed | for...). ... | If you have an idea of where the problem comes from please tell me. ... | Informations about my system (/proc files) | -- | /proc/cpuinfo | | processor : 0 | vendor_id : AuthenticAMD | cpu family: 5 | model : 6 | model name: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions | cpu MHz : 233.867 I don't know what causes this, but I have seen it on one of my boxes -- the i486 with 8 MB RAM (and 32MB swap). I haven't seen it on the AMD Duron (128MB RAM) How much memory do you have on this K6? (BTW, good job of including lots of possibly relevant information. Including the /proc/cpuinfo from my box won't help because it doesn't say anything -- I don't think the 486 family supports querying) -D
Re: xdm and gdm
Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) Recently I read in this mailing list that to use gdm I have to remove
> xdm. Cannot both of them coexist? i.e. both of them are installed. If
> yes then what precautions do I have to take?
The software itself can coexist, but on Debian gdm conflicts with
{w,x,k}dm, so dpkg will not let you have both. There's no technical
reason why both gdm and xdm cannot run at the same time. You just have
to ensure that only one of them is managing a particular X server, by
tweaking xdm's Xservers file, and gdm's gdm.conf file. If you support
XDMCP clients, then you might also tweak Xaccess (and gdm.conf) to
control which DM handles XDMCP requests.
If you just want to run a display manager on your console, gdm offers
everything that xdm offers, and more, so you don't really need xdm.
> 2) From where can I obtain .deb packages of gdm?
Add a deb-src for unstable or testing to your sources.list, apt-get
source gdm, debuild...
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Re: Ximian Gnome Problem
i had some problems with ximian too (on woody though) ... for the alternative installation (the apt-get one) have you added the particular ximian server to your sources-list? i don't remember the address but you can find it at ximian.com i remember in the beginning they actually forgot to add the task package, but i think by now they've added it so basically, when you use potato and added ximian to your sources list # apt-get install task-ximian-gnome should do the job. accordingly it should be easy to get rid of all ximian packages and start over. i browsed through dselect and marked all packages with "ximian" in the version number for deletion and that worked fine. hope that helps! vester On Wed, 30 May 2001, Thomas H. George wrote: > Installation of Ximian Gnome Desktop failed, left problems I can't resolve. > > Last week I started download/installation of the full ximian gnome > desktop from the ximian web site. The lengthy download timed out at > about 50%. When restarted it completed the download of 319 files then > the installation failed in mid-process. A subseqent dpkg command found > many conflicting dependencies and aborted unable to resolve them all. > The next time I tried to use apt-get it removed 100 files. After this I > no longer had mozilla and when I tried apt-get --fix-broken > --fix-missing install mozilla it reported that this could not be > installed as an ximian file was to be installed. > > Not knowing how to find and remove the conflicting ximian files and > having no mozilla, I thought to try again to install the ximian gnome > desktop from the stable distribution (I'm running debian linux 2.2.19) > with apt-get install task-ximian-gnome (an alternative listed at the > ximian web site) There is, however, no such .deb package in the stable > distribution. I next looked in ftp.ximian.com where I found a signature > package for task-ximian-gnome but nothing else. > > I have sent a couple of emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and yesterday > tried filing a bug report but as yet have received no response. > > Does anyone know how clean up - i.e. remove all the conflicting pieces > of the ximian installation - other than wiping out my entire debian > installation and starting over? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Qs about Java 2 and potato, also q about Herald installation
Hi... tried to find this information in the archives first but it looks like the search engine's being a tad misanthropic the last couple of days anyways... my questions... I'm currently running the potato distribution... is Java 2 available for that? How do I tell if I have Java 2 installed? Herald is the java msn messenger client... when I go to sourceforge and get the file it comes as a .jar file. I can't find _any_ documentation on how to install it. (And I've spent about a day scouring the 'net) What do I do with this file? :) Suggestions to RTFM are happily accepted if they come with a pointer to the relevant FM ;) Alice M. Pinard Casco Indemnity Company [EMAIL PROTECTED]
