libc6 dlopen problem
Greetings,
I've been having a number of issues this afternoon with the dlopen() facility on
my debian unstable system. I didn't want to submit a bug report until I was
sure, so here it is:
$ cat test-dlopen.c
#include
#include
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
void *handle = dlopen(argv[1], RTLD_LAZY);
if (!handle)
puts(dlerror());
exit(0);
}
$ gcc -ldl -o test-dlopen test-dlopen.c && ./test-dlopen ./libalsa.so
./libalsa.so: undefined symbol: gst_bytestream_peek_bytes
$
This is crazy irritating. With the .so I'm testing, I load another library that
defines those symbols before they get a chance to be called. Isn't that what
RTLD_LAZY is supposed to do? This used to work, I'm thinking it's a libc6 bug.
Running this little test program on other machines works with the exact same
code that produced libalsa.so, so I don't think it's that issue. Please let me
know if this is my problem or someone else's, as I'm a bit frustrated right now
:-\ BTW, the same thing occurs with gcc 2.95.4 and 3.0.2.
Thanks very much in advance,
Andy
ii libc62.2.4-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and
ii binutils 2.11.92.0.10-1 The GNU assembler, linker and binary
Re: Shift-Return
On Friday 26 October 2001 12:02, Walter Hofmann wrote: > This is > annoying because to search for a string in a file, I need to press > "/" + "RETURN" > repeatedly to cycle through the places where the string was found. or you could just hit "n"
Re: Shift-Return (non-solution)
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:02:32PM +0200, Walter Hofmann wrote: | Whenever I press Shift-Return in "less" it displays "ESCOM". This is | annoying because to search for a string in a file, I need to press | "/" + "RETURN" | repeatedly to cycle through the places where the string was found. I Actually, pressing "n" will repeat the search in the same direction. "N" repeats the search in the opposite direction. | have a german keyboard and to type "/" I need to press Shift. But if I | hold down Shift too long "less" will not accept the return key but just | display "/ESCOM" in the last line. | | How can I make less accept Shift-Return? No idea, sorry. -D
Re: controlling sleep/suspend time?
on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 02:55:34PM -0400, Shaya Potter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > One thing I haven't seemed to be able to figure out, is how I can > control when my laptop suspends/sleeps? > > I don't want my laptop to ever suspend/sleep if its plugged into power, > unless I explicitly tell it to, via apm --sleep/suspend Check your BIOS settings for timeouts. None of my systems sleep unless explicitly told to. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpaamaed1AMV.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Shift-Return
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Walter Hofmann wrote: > Whenever I press Shift-Return in "less" it displays "ESCOM". This is > annoying because to search for a string in a file, I need to press > "/" + "RETURN" > repeatedly to cycle through the places where the string was found. I > have a german keyboard and to type "/" I need to press Shift. But if I > hold down Shift too long "less" will not accept the return key but just > display "/ESCOM" in the last line. > > How can I make less accept Shift-Return? I think the solution to your problem may be to push "n" which will give you the next instance of the search. (Look in less --help for details.) The reason less is printing ESCOM is because Shift-Return is actually \eOM which written out, will spell ESC O M. ESCOM. Simon
Re: funny ps output
Thus spake Jonathan B. Leffert:
> I'm seeing the following errors when I invoke 'ps':
>
> {netlink_unicast} {netlink_unicast_R__ver_netlink_unicast}
> Warning: /boot/System.map-2.4.13 does not match kernel data.
> {netlink_unicast} {netlink_unicast_R__ver_netlink_unicast}
> Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map does not match kernel data.
> PID TTY TIME CMD
>1421 pts/200:00:00 zsh
> 1439 pts/200:00:00 ps
>
> I've done some research into this and the common answer is that my
> System.map is out of date. It's not. I've checked and rechecked it. This
> has never happenened until I went from 2.4.10 to 2.4.11. Now, with every
> kernel version it happens.
>
> I'm running unstable on i386.
>
> Help?
>
> Jonathan
The only thing I can think of is to look at the timestamps of System.map
and your kernel - are they the same? I've gotten this error after
copiling a new kernel but then forgetting to copy over the new
System.map to /boot.
Good luck,
Steve
--
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire
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Re: exim SMTP with authentication + SSL/TLS?
--On Friday, October 26, 2001 2:18 PM -0400 Mark Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have relatively simple instructions for configuring exim (I have the exim-tls package) for SMTP authentication and/or SSL or TLS. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_38.html is probably a good start. Maybe you can talk your local library into getting Phil Hazel's new exim book - http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0596000987 (-: Yeah. *sheepish look* I found that stuff moments after sending the mail. I've successfully got my imap client sending via TLS to my smtp server. Now I need to figure out how to get fetchmail to deliver to my smtp server with TLS. That one is proving much more difficult. -- Bruce Z. Lysik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.logrus.com/~eldrik GCS d++(-) a-- C++ ULS+++$ P+++$ L++ E+ W+++ N++ w--- M-- V PS PE Y+ PGP+ t+ 5++ X+ R+ tv+ b++ DI+ G e++ h+ r y+ s
Re: exim problems?
Thus spake Rohan Deshpande:
> Hi again,
>
> I'm _still_ getting problems with exim send me "uknown local part" even
> though I commented out: '#qualify_domain = home.com' in
> /etc/exim/exim.conf. Anyone please know the solution to this?
>
> Thanks,
> Rohan
OK - depending on how exim is run (as a demon or out of inetd) resart
the appropriate process - /etc/init.d/{exim or inetd} restart - but
first don't just comment out qualify domain - set it to something, like
your box name, or localhost, or whatever. I'm fairly sure there are
problems associated with not having a qualified domain.
Good luck,
Steve
--
Cold hands, no gloves.
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Re: MSN and apt-get update
on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 04:18:02PM +0200, M G Berberich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > I experienced some wired behavior. 'apt-get update' does not find the > Packages-files from security.debian.org if I dail in using MSN > (germany) (Einwahlnummer: 0192658, Benutzername: MSN, Kennwort: MSN). > It does work if I dail in using other providers? > > Is this a me-only problem? What is the reason for it? Try traceroute or host to see if the host resolves. Can you reach it via dotted quad? Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgp5vSBBwIdDU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: apt-get sources.list question
on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:40:00AM -0700, Hamma Scott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've recently had some problems upgrading to Woody after downloading > all the packages for a dist-upgrade. > > I'm wondering if I didn't shoot myself in the foot with the sources I > was pulling from. > > I install from a CD, and first was updating my potato installation, so > I had all those options in the sources.list. > > When I wanted to upgrade to Woody, I commented all those entries in > the CD and potato. My question is should I have kept them entries live > to supliment my Woody upgrade or would the packages they would have > downloaded have just cause more problems? Any advise on this matter > would be appreciated. Once you've updated your sources lists from online and switched to Woody, you're likely going to find none of the packages on CD are considered up to date. This is among the reason few seasoned Debian users install from CD -- base tarball plus boot floppies is generally sufficient, packages are snared over the 'Net. No, you haven't screwed yourself. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpPWGqjvL7lW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Acroread broken?
on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:23:57AM +0800, Arne Goetje ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Change your X display depth and try again. > > > > * Do some searches on acroread and your display driver. Perhaps there is > > an incompatibility in the driver. > > > > I tried, but the same result. I even switched from vesa driver to sis... > > > And in the meantime use another PDF viewer such as gv or xpdf. > > ok... I will use gv, I think... > Then I don't need acroread... I'd drop acroread based on Adobe's prosecution of Dmitry Sklyarov under the DMCA. I use both gv and xpdf as free alternatives to acroread. I prefer gv's navigation, though xpdf handles some files gv doesn't. xpdf provides cut-and-paste capabilities. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpvVlnLrHiV0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: security for woody
Thus spake shock: > pardons for asking this, but i can't remember or locate the answer. what > entry should i use in sources.list for security updates to woody? > > thanks. I have http://security.debian.org/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib in my sources.list file - works fine, although it may just be a redirect to the non-US branch. Good luck, Steve -- Just because I turn down a contract on a guy doesn't mean he isn't going to get hit. -- Joey pgp3YzDjHO2zi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Shift-Return
Whenever I press Shift-Return in "less" it displays "ESCOM". This is annoying because to search for a string in a file, I need to press "/" + "RETURN" repeatedly to cycle through the places where the string was found. I have a german keyboard and to type "/" I need to press Shift. But if I hold down Shift too long "less" will not accept the return key but just display "/ESCOM" in the last line. How can I make less accept Shift-Return? TIA, Walter
parted option - please report success
Hello everyone, you maybe have noticed that the "udma100-ext3" flavor of the current boot floppies in Woody includes the parted program as an alternative/extension to the default cfdisk program. Now, I consider to enable that option on all i386 boot floppies in the next release. It has been enabled a while ago and there are not bug reports so far, but now we would like to see success reports. So if you used parted succefully on the udma100-ext3 boot floppies, please follow-up and say some nice words. If you wish to test boot floppies build from the current CVS snapshot with parted stuff, please look in http://people.debian.org/~blade/testing/upload/ (in some minutes). Additional space usage of parted+libparted on boot floppies: 278kB uncompressed 120kB compressed Fits currently on all flavors, even on the 1.2MB floppy but there are only few kilobytes free ;) Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Accepted Languages: [en, de, C] pgp8zr311B9Qp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Sendmail behind firewall
I have just upgraded from storm linux (slink) to debian stable (potato). Most things went shockingly well. There was an occasional oddity. After reading through all error messages, I was able to figure most things out. Kudos to the debian team! Shortly before upgrading, I put server behind a NAT (like masquerade) sonicwall firewall. Things appeared to work fine. About the time I upgraded to new sendmail, I started getting mail authentication errors from external inbound mail. I then received domain validation errors. The result was a lot of deferred mail. The error reported was the MX record didn't match the private IP of my server. What is the best resolution for this? It would be nice if sendmail could IP masquerade for authentication purposes by responding with the MX record IP. I added my domains to my caching DNS server so the LAN could see the local web sites. I have read the apache.org FAQ and didn't see a handy solution which will resolve authentication problems. My DNS doesn't server my domains externally. How do I fake the authentication? Here is my customizations to the .mc file: FEATURE(nocanonify) dnl FEATURE(accept_unqualified_senders)dnl FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains)dnl FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -o /etc/mail/access') dnl Any ideas for changes/additions ? I disabled NAT for the temporary solution but want to reduce the requirements to one static IP. If anyone has any ideas, I would appreciate it. Many Thanks, Paul -- Paul McHale Work: 937-320-5495 Double E Solutions Mobile: 937-371-2828 1435 Edenwood Dr Fax:413-215-3232 Beavercreek, Ohio 45434 --
Follow-up to ``How to upgrade to KDE 2.2.1 - a not quite newbies' guide''
I have already had some kind comments on the ``How to upgrade to KDE 2.2.1 - a not quite newbies' guide''. Thank you. Less than kind comments, criticisms, suggestions for improvements, etc, etc all welcome. . A kind offer to host the draft on a website reminded me that my ISP does offer Web space which I had in fact been using to back up the webmaster of our church web site (see plug below). There is enough space for two copies of a 14K document. The URL is http://members.home.com/brucemiller1. BTW, I believe that I have privately e-mailed copies to everyone who has asked to date. There have been over thirty requests, so if you got missed, I am sorry; could you download. When the text is more finished, I would like to post it to a Web site where it could be more readily found. Does anyone know if www.debian.org have an area for informal contributions? The guide is not formal enough to be a HOW-TO or even a mini-HOW-TO. Does anyone read www.debianplanet.org ? or www.linuxnewbie.org ? On the appearance of the guide: This was the first document that I have drafted in AbiWord. As a work in progress, AbiWord has no help files. The help documentation on the abisource Web site covers only the most basic functions (everyone knows how to open files or change fonts; why not put in something useful like how to insert a Web hyperlink ?? :-( The HTML version of the guide is a straight ``Save as HTML'' from AbiWord's editing screen. I am concentrating at the moment on content and will put the text into better HTML once the content is nailed down. Off-topic plug: Most of the web page space is given to two MP3s from the Choir of St Matthew's Anglican Church in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The musical tradition of the Anglican Church (the Episcopalian Church in the USA) is not everyone's favourite, especially as it is based on choirs of men and boys (boy sopranos, or ``trebles'' as they are known) but it is a tradition that is centuries old and very beautiful. Our small central Ottawa parish has a 45-year history of one of the finest church choirs in North America. In the four years since our youngest son joined the choir, two former Head Choristers have had soloist debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The CD from which these two MP3s were drawn was a project to support the CAD 500,000 (US$ 350,000) project to restore the church organ. The restoration is scheduled to be completed at the end of November 2001.
Re: how to set-up cable connection?
Thus spake Hanasaki JiJi: > I just use the 10BaseT - vs USB - on my Cable Modem and install regular > networking - The LinkSys TX100 has worked fine and is < $30 > > > > Michael C. Alonzo wrote: > > im goin to get a cable connection and im goin to connect this to a > standalone workstation. what files should i modify to turn my cable > connection on? how should i do this? > > btw, this is not goin to be an always-on connection.. > > TIA I have a cable connection - it was as simple as setting up the drivers for the NIC, then the protocol for connection in /etc/network/interfaces. Works great. Good luck, Steve -- Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. -- Mark Twain pgpNSQOPR7N6w.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: galeon deb?
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:33:38PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: | First, is there a deb for galeon? In sid. | Second, I downloaded the rpm but alien gives the error message: | | only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM | query of galeon-0.12.5-1.i386.rpm failed | | What does this mean? Which is the major number? Have you ever switched from RH6.x to RH7.x? RedHat changed the format of RPM files a bit and older 'rpm' programs can only handle the older format. New RPMs (for RH7.x) use the new format and need the new 'rpm' to read them. There is a 3. version of rpm that sorta handles version 4 rpms and that can be used to install the verison 4 of rpm to install other packages if you have a RH system. -D
Re: encrypted filesystem
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Adam Warner wrote: > Most of the kernel patch problems may have been overcome. I don't think > Jari's approach has ever caused data corruption. If you read through the > archives you'll be up to speed with developments. I understand that > sometimes if you upgrade your kernel to 2.4 with the International patch > you can't access a volume generated with a 2.2 kernel! At the time I > read that a solution had not been found. The old code used absolute disc sector numbers as an initialisation vector; the new code can be switched between using absolute end relative numbers. Using absolute numbers means that you cannot copy the encrypted filesystem to a different place. There seems to be another problem with the crypto patch and kernels >=2.4.10: It simply doesn't work! (Probably because of the block device in page cache changes) Walter
Re: Windows software
on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 11:36:06AM -0700, SJ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I need to be able to run software that hasn't been ported to linux on > my system. > > Presently I have a duel boot machine, but I would rather run the > software while in the debian linux boot. > > I realize that this requires me to download and install wine on the > system, but what else do I need to do to get this to work? apt-get wine wine winesetuptk ...the latter is a GUI configuration tool. The first time you run it, it'll ask you how you want to configure your system. At that point, to run an application, you'll want your legacy MS Windows partition(s) mounted, I'd recommend something like: /dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,noauto,gid=mounts,umask=007 0 0 Note the umask and gid options. The former sets permissions to allow group r/w/x permissions. The latter mounts the partition setting the group ID to a group I've created for this purpose. Users allowed to mount partitions are added to this group. Then you'd invoke a program (such as MS Word) like: $ wine /mnt/win/Microsoft\ Office/Office/WINWORD.EXE Startup takes a while. My experience is that Office 2K isn't supported, though Office97 worked pretty well. > What I need to do is access the software (and files) in the Windoze > partitions from wine in linux. Can anyone please give me an idea of > where I need to look to find out HOW? Or if you've managed to do > this, tell me how YOU did it? A more useful option may be to use Win4Lin, which seems to provide better legacy support than Wine at the moment. Frankly, I don't use any legacy MS Windows apps, other than testing configs periodically. Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpfJaMVKMbYg.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Enabling framebuffer, more than a kernel recompile?
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:48:17PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: | On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:00:53PM -0400, dman wrote: | > | What other step(s) am I misssing? | > | > Add "vga=0x31A" to your kernel command line. This will give you | > 1280x1024x16. See the docs for the values of the other modes. | > | | I don't think that parameter affects the framebuffer, though. That is a It does, see below. | a VGA mode setting, and you can have a VGA text console without enabling | a framebuffer. Framebuffer parameters look something like | "video=tdfx:1024x768". Supposedly that's what you do for the accelerated framebuffers (matrox, etc) but that doesn't seem to work for vesafb. | See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt in your kernel | source tree. Docs for what you're describing are in | Documentation/svga.txt, and that exists independently the | framebuffer support in the kernel. | | I suppose I could be wrong, as I've only recently started playing | with the framebuffer, but I know that you could pass 'vga=xyz' | options to the kernel long before framebuffer support existed. Yeah -- some numbers are for VGA text modes and some are for the VESA framebuffer. Here's a section of /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.8/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt.gz : --- How to use it? == Switching modes is done using the vga=... boot parameter. Read Documentation/svga.txt for details. You should compile in both vgacon (for text mode) and vesafb (for graphics mode). Which of them takes over the console depends on whenever the specified mode is text or graphics. The graphic modes are NOT in the list which you get if you boot with vga=ask and hit return. The mode you wish to use is derived from the VESA mode number. Here are those VESA mode numbers: | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 +- 256 | 0x1010x1030x1050x107 32k | 0x1100x1130x1160x119 64k | 0x1110x1140x1170x11A 16M | 0x1120x1150x1180x11B The video mode number of the Linux kernel is the VESA mode number plus 0x200. Linux_kernel_mode_number = VESA_mode_number + 0x200 So the table for the Kernel mode numbers are: | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 +- 256 | 0x3010x3030x3050x307 32k | 0x3100x3130x3160x319 64k | 0x3110x3140x3170x31A 16M | 0x3120x3150x3180x31B To enable one of those modes you have to specify "vga=ask" in the lilo.conf file and rerun LILO. Then you can type in the desired mode at the "vga=ask" prompt. For example if you like to use 1024x768x256 colors you have to say "305" at this prompt. If this does not work, this might be because your BIOS does not support linear framebuffers or because it does not support this mode at all. Even if your board does, it might be the BIOS which does not. VESA BIOS Extensions v2.0 are required, 1.2 is NOT sufficient. You will get a "bad mode number" message if something goes wrong. 1. Note: LILO cannot handle hex, for booting directly with "vga=mode-number" you have to transform the numbers to decimal. 2. Note: Some newer versions of LILO appear to work with those hex values, if you set the 0x in front of the numbers. --- Now you don't need to hunt it down in the docs yourself :-). -D
ldso part 2
As suggested by orphaner, I gave removing ldso a shot on a non-critical testing machine. No adverse affects as far as I could tell. Today's upgrade put ldso right back on. Now orphaner says, again, that nothing depends on ldso and that it may be safely removed. Is this a bug? If so, against what package should it be filed? Best, -=greg
Re: tape backup...
on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:01:01AM -0500, Alexander Wallace ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello there! I have a 2 gb dat drive and I would like to backup my server > periodicaly. It works, it's /dev/st0... I know I can use mt to do stuff > with the drive and tar to backup stuff... But is there a better way??? Both are portable and work fine. For more info: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Selfhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgphDZnzeGhy2.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Aliasing a NIC
Thanks! I hadn't seen that HOWTO before. Lots of good stuff on aliasing and routing. John Purser -Original Message- From: Mark Carroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 12:14 To: Debian-User (E-mail) Subject: Re: Aliasing a NIC On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, John Purser wrote: > Once upon a time I knew how to make linux use multiple IP addresses for one > ethernet NIC card. I believe the format looked like "eth0:0" but I can't > remember the rest of it. Can someone point me to a HOW-TO or man reference? > I did it before on a Red Hat box using linuxconfig but now I'm trying to do > it on a Debian woody box running a 2.4.10 kernel. I need to know what files > to edit and what the format of the configuration. You probably need IP aliasing support in your kernel, and ifconfig should do the rest, probably via /etc/network/interfaces or something. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias/ may yield some helpful clues. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Text copy/paste feature not working for me
Hi Kent,
It turned out I wasn't running gpm, and using
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "microsoft"
Device "/dev/ttyS0"
EndSection
in XF86Config fixed the problem, as my Logitech serial mouse is MS mouse
compatible. During installation I'd selected the only driver for a Logitech
mouse and it wasn't fully compatible with my model, apparently. Copy/paste
works now!
Thanks,
Kris
-Original Message-
From: westk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 7:26 PM
To: debian-user; Kris Huber
Subject: RE: Text copy/paste feature not working for me
>= Original Message From Kris Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =
>I did an install of the potato kernel and selected packages. I chose
>enlightenment and gnome under X11, which I've used before under kernel 2.4.
>A feature I use quite a bit, hi-lighting text with left mouse button, then
>middle-clicking to produce a copy of that text, is not working. I'm not
>sure just where to look for that feature. My suspicion is that my middle
>mouse button is not working. I have a serial mouse from Logitech and I
>selected a Logitech mouse driver during the install. For 3-button
emulation
>I selected 'no' because it has 3 buttons and shouldn't need emulation.
>Under 2.4 a more generic mouse driver was used, I think. I'm quite new to
>installation issues. How do I try a different mouse driver?
>
>Thanks for any clue,
>Kris
>
>
DISCLAIMER: I may be completely wrong.
There are generally two "types" of mouse driver; one, gpm, is for the text
(non-X) console; the other is the X mouse driver. These two interact, so the
answer to your question will depend on if you're running gpm or not.
To find out, run the command "ps ax|grep gpm". If you're running gpm, you'll
see something like:
infotech-02[westk]:/home/westk> ps ax|grep gpm
181 ?S 0:01 /usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2 -Rraw
344 pts/1S 0:00 grep gpm
The 181 line above tells where gpm expects to find the mouse (/dev/psaux),
what type of driver it's using (-t ps2 = ps/2 type), and what type, if any,
repeating it's doing (raw).
If you're not running gpm, you should only see the "grep gpm" line of the
above output.
Another and more direct method of seeing if you're running gpm is to simply
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a non-X virtual console (you can get back to X in most cases
with Alt-F7), and simply move the mouse. If you're running gpm, you should
see
a block-shaped mouse cursor moving around. If it moves erratically, that
means
that gpm has the wrong settings.
gpm (by default on Debian systems) keeps its config info in /etc/gpm.conf.
You
can edit this file manually by hand, and then restart the gpm daemon (run
"/etc/init.d/gpm restart"), or you can run the gpm configuration utility
which
is probably a tad easier for newbies ("gpmconfig").
X keeps its mouse settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
The settings are similar, but not quite the same, as those for gpm.
Let us know the contents of /etc/gpm.conf and the mouse settings of
/etc/X11/XF86Config[-4], and then we'll know better how to answer your
question.
Kent
Re: exim SMTP with authentication + SSL/TLS?
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Bruce Z. Lysik wrote: > Does anyone have relatively simple instructions for configuring exim (I > have the exim-tls package) for SMTP authentication and/or SSL or TLS. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_38.html is probably a good start. Maybe you can talk your local library into getting Phil Hazel's new exim book - http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0596000987 (-: -- Mark
Re: Getting Grub to Recognize Kernel Update to 2.4.12
At 23:09 25/10/2001 -0400, eDoc wrote: > To boot the kernel from /dev/hda2 with ide bus speed set to 66MHz, enter on > the GRUB command line: > root (hd0,1) OK. > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 idebus=66 When I enter this I get an "Error 15: File not found" What is it that it cannot find and how do I go about repairing that, please? Thanks! Doc Have you tried the command 'find'? I don't know if it works with any file (so I don't know if 'find /boot/vmlinuz' would work), but if your stage1 file is in /boot/grub/stage1, try using 'find /boot/grub/stage1' and it will tell you which partition that is. Then, use that partition with the command 'root'. If your grub version is old, maybe you'll need a newer version of grub on a boot disk. Check out www.gnu.org/software/grub/index.html for more info on that. __ Vítor Estêvão Silva Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel parameters on bootdisk
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Jeremiah Mahler wrote: (snip) > I dont know if my solution is what you are looking for but here it is > anyway. I made a boot disk for using on a diskless machine by > essentially doing the same thing as I do with a hard disk. > I created an ext2 filesystem on the floppy and copied the kernel > I made to it. Then I used lilo on the floppy just as I would > for a hard disk. And since I used lilo I can put the append parameters > in the lilo.conf I made for this situation. That's an interesting idea that hadn't occurred to me. Thanks - I'll try that if nobody has any better ideas. (-: -- Mark
Re: Aliasing a NIC
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, John Purser wrote: > Once upon a time I knew how to make linux use multiple IP addresses for one > ethernet NIC card. I believe the format looked like "eth0:0" but I can't > remember the rest of it. Can someone point me to a HOW-TO or man reference? > I did it before on a Red Hat box using linuxconfig but now I'm trying to do > it on a Debian woody box running a 2.4.10 kernel. I need to know what files > to edit and what the format of the configuration. You probably need IP aliasing support in your kernel, and ifconfig should do the rest, probably via /etc/network/interfaces or something. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias/ may yield some helpful clues. -- Mark
Re: kdm & gdm + woody
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 03:37:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Upgraded to woody, now GDM will not accept my root password. I can change > terminals and I can log in as root fine, but GDM will not accept it, but will > allow user login. So, I installed KDM since I log into KDE anyway, but KDM > does not show KDE as a choice for my GUI. I had no problem logging into KDE > using GDM under potato. > What's the deal? > > 1. Why does GDM not accept the root password, when the console does? > > 2. Why does KDM not show KDE as a choice? > > 3. Why does it seem that since Ian Moore has become part of debian/woody, > that KDE has had alot of bugs? He seemed to be better off when we hooked > upto tdyc. rkrusty (Ian Moore) was also the mantainer whene the archive was in tdyc > > Jack -- --- Oscar Andres Riveros M. Gerente General Nimonic LTDA Bogota, Colombia ---
Re: gif support grayed out..
On Thursday 25 October 2001 23:15, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > On 26-Oct-2001 Rohan Deshpande wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Using gimp1.2, i notice the GIF save as file type is grayed. I have > > gimp1.2-nonfree installed; is it because of the type of image im making? > > i made a new, 300x300 pixel white background workspace, and in save-as > > it is still grayed. What to do? > > the file may not be in the correct format. I am not a graphics person but > I recall gimp needed to perform some kind of manipulation to save the image > on occasion. The other possibility is that you lack the libungif package > which is how gimp (and other programs) support gifs. the page for libungif4g (and libungif3g) states to write compressed gif's, one also needs the non-free giflib packages. bob
Re: galeon deb?
Look in unstable. http://packages.debian.org/galeon On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:33:38PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > First, is there a deb for galeon? > > Second, I downloaded the rpm but alien gives the error message: > > only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM > query of galeon-0.12.5-1.i386.rpm failed > > What does this mean? Which is the major number? > > -- > Shall I speak of the corrupting immorality that seeps into the > veins of the whole body politic when, in principle, the law puts > itself at the service of every spoiliative impulse? Attend a > meeting of the National Assembly when bonuses, subsidies, > bounties, restrictions are on the agenda. See with what shameless > rapacity everyone tries to make sure of his share of the plunder > -- plunder to which he would blush to stoop as a private > individual. > -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) > Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- --- Oscar Andres Riveros M. Gerente General Nimonic LTDA Bogota, Colombia ---
Re: Enabling framebuffer, more than a kernel recompile?
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:00:53PM -0400, dman wrote: > | What other step(s) am I misssing? > > Add "vga=0x31A" to your kernel command line. This will give you > 1280x1024x16. See the docs for the values of the other modes. > I don't think that parameter affects the framebuffer, though. That is a a VGA mode setting, and you can have a VGA text console without enabling a framebuffer. Framebuffer parameters look something like "video=tdfx:1024x768". See Documentation/fb/modedb.txt in your kernel source tree. Docs for what you're describing are in Documentation/svga.txt, and that exists independently the framebuffer support in the kernel. I suppose I could be wrong, as I've only recently started playing with the framebuffer, but I know that you could pass 'vga=xyz' options to the kernel long before framebuffer support existed. noah -- ___ | A subversive is anyone who can out-argue their government | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html pgpmkEwVwbMRi.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: (OT) I am offended by the wording
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 03:15:43PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Osamu, > I was offended by several of your usages like : > "Judging from your question... Not for you." , etc. Relax. Osamu Aoki is not a native speaker of english, so reading to much into his words is fraught with peril. Having said that, if you're so think skinned that you are "insulted" when someone says they have the impression you don't know what you're doing, you don't belong on this mailing list or the internet in general. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Patton pgp2h9YIU3gok.pgp Description: PGP signature
galeon deb?
First, is there a deb for galeon? Second, I downloaded the rpm but alien gives the error message: only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM query of galeon-0.12.5-1.i386.rpm failed What does this mean? Which is the major number? -- Shall I speak of the corrupting immorality that seeps into the veins of the whole body politic when, in principle, the law puts itself at the service of every spoiliative impulse? Attend a meeting of the National Assembly when bonuses, subsidies, bounties, restrictions are on the agenda. See with what shameless rapacity everyone tries to make sure of his share of the plunder -- plunder to which he would blush to stoop as a private individual. -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net
xmps error
Hi, I just installed XMPS. When I try to play video's with it my screen is green flikkering and I get the following error: Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0.0" Does anyone has an idea what this means and maybe what I have to do with it? Thanks, Hans
Re: Aliasing a NIC
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 17:14, John Purser wrote: > Hello, > > Once upon a time I knew how to make linux use multiple IP addresses for one > ethernet NIC card. I believe the format looked like "eth0:0" but I can't > remember the rest of it. Can someone point me to a HOW-TO or man reference? > I did it before on a Red Hat box using linuxconfig but now I'm trying to do > it on a Debian woody box running a 2.4.10 kernel. I need to know what files > to edit and what the format of the configuration. > This is my /etc/network/interface # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface # automatically added when upgrading auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) # automatically added when upgrading auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.209 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 auto eth0:1 iface eth0:1 inet static address 192.168.0.209 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 # gateway 192.168.0.1 Hope this helps. Andrea
Re: CD Writer read as FLOPPY!
* Reza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi.. > I'm currently having a problem with my Debian. I have > RICOH 6x cd writer on Debian 2.2. During the startup, > it's questioning whether my hdb is ATAPI or FLOPPY, > and it's assuming it's FLOPPY. Since now, I've no idea > how to get my burner working in Linux, also what other > programs I need. Can anybody please help me? > > In a nutshell, RTFM: CD-Writing-HOWTO in /usr/share/doc/HOWTO Cam -- Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych. From Roberts Creek on B.C.'s incomparable Sunshine Coast [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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exim SMTP with authentication + SSL/TLS?
Hi folks, Does anyone have relatively simple instructions for configuring exim (I have the exim-tls package) for SMTP authentication and/or SSL or TLS. Basically I'd like to encrypt the messages I send via SMTP via my own server. As I understand it, it would be very easy to sniff email as it's handed to exim, and I'd like to make this more difficult. Am I on the right track? Any enlightenment is appreciated. Thanks. :) -- Bruce Z. Lysik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.logrus.com/~eldrik GCS d++(-) a-- C++ ULS+++$ P+++$ L++ E+ W+++ N++ w--- M-- V PS PE Y+ PGP+ t+ 5++ X+ R+ tv+ b++ DI+ G e++ h+ r y+ s
Re: Kernel parameters on bootdisk
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:40:28AM -0400, Mark Carroll wrote: > What must I do to pass parameters to things compiled into a kernel on a > bootdisk, when I do "make zdisk" or whatever with the kernel sources, > in the same way that one can pass parameters with lilo's "append"? > > -- Mark > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark, I dont know if my solution is what you are looking for but here it is anyway. I made a boot disk for using on a diskless machine by essentially doing the same thing as I do with a hard disk. I created an ext2 filesystem on the floppy and copied the kernel I made to it. Then I used lilo on the floppy just as I would for a hard disk. And since I used lilo I can put the append parameters in the lilo.conf I made for this situation. -- Jeremiah Mahler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: lpr doesn't work under woody
hi I have looked in the database at http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi and have found EPSON Stylus Photo 700 at http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=71424 it says that you must use the 'stp' ghostscript driver (should be inside GNU-GhostScript 5.50 or later; but unfortunately it is not inside Debian gs :-( in your /etc/printcap I could see that you are using the 'stcolor' printer driver according to http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=stcolor the 'stcolor' driver for GNU-GhostScript 5.50 works for a Epson Stylus Photo 750 (but possibly only for black and white) but I dont see it listed for a Epson Stylus Photo 700 anyway we may just test please save the attachment to a file /tmp/test.stcolor and then perform (as root) $ cat /tmp/test.stcolor > /dev/lp and tell me if this prints a. -- A Mennucc "? un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa!" (Renato Carotone) test.stcolor Description: Binary data
Re: Would like to make a bootable CD based on my root partition
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 02:08:51 -0400 avik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't have a spare partition or use grub :-) I really would like to > know how to create a bootable CD using my root partition as its > source. I would have other uses for it :-) > Mondo is a program i use to burn a bootable cd which can then be used to restore your system to any hard disk. Check it out at http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/
Re: Enabling framebuffer, more than a kernel recompile?
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:18:14AM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: | I'm trying to get framebuffer to work on a Compaq Proliant box. I have | recompiled the kernel, including what I believe to be the correct | framebuffer module for thai machine, and _also_ the VESA framebuffer | module. | | Reboot, still no frambufffer. | | What other step(s) am I misssing? Add "vga=0x31A" to your kernel command line. This will give you 1280x1024x16. See the docs for the values of the other modes. -D
CD Writer read as FLOPPY!
Hi.. I'm currently having a problem with my Debian. I have RICOH 6x cd writer on Debian 2.2. During the startup, it's questioning whether my hdb is ATAPI or FLOPPY, and it's assuming it's FLOPPY. Since now, I've no idea how to get my burner working in Linux, also what other programs I need. Can anybody please help me? __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey
Adam Heath wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Timothy H. Keitt wrote: Better yet, lets convince package maintainers not to unnecessarily update all their dependencies to the latest libs in unstable so that packages can be easily backported with 'apt-get -b source ...' My guess is that 60-90% of the packages in unstable do not require the latest lib versions to build, but that maintainers are defaulting their dependencies to be >= the latest version in unstable for no reason (of course, package name changes and package reorganization can throw a wrench into things). If maintainers default to only depend on what is in stable whenever possible, many many deb packages would compile just fine on both stable and unstable. This shows a deep misunderstanding of the way shared libraries work. I think you mean lack of understanding of how dpkg handles shared library dependencies, which is indeed the case. Someone also pointed out that run-time (binary) and build-time (source) dependencies are quite different, which is also true. If a library is changed, and uploaded, it may require an update to its /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.shlibs file. When pkgs are then rebuilt against that library, the pkg-version dependency info is taken from this file. That is what causes newer libraries to be depended on. It is not a conscious effect on the maintainer. As was pointed out previously, this only effects binary packages; I was referring to source dependencies. Additionally, if a new version of a package comes out, that depends on a new library, do you think that the new package should not be allowed into debian, on the fact that backporting to an older version of debian would be problematic? That line of thinking means nothing would ever be upgraded. I think if you read my post a bit more carefully, you would see that my point was that if the upstream source builds on stable without major loss of functionality, then the debian source package should not unnesessarily depend on unstable so that it can produce binary debs for both stable and unstable. It would be interesting to see how many source packages in unstable will currently build with 'dpkg -b' on stable. Perhaps more than I think. My experience was actually with trying to build source packages from unstable on progeny (newton) and there came a point in time when it was generally no longer possible because of unmet dependencies (and fufilling those source dependencies basically meant switching to testing/unstable). Also, note my use of "unnesessary" and "whenever possible"; of course dependencies on unstable will sometimes be necessary and 'dpkg -b' backporting will not be possible. T. -- Timothy H. Keitt Department of Ecology and Evolution State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York 11794 USA Phone: 631-632-1101, FAX: 631-632-7626 http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/keitt/
Re: Enabling framebuffer, more than a kernel recompile?
> I'm trying to get framebuffer to work on a Compaq Proliant > box. I have recompiled the kernel, including what I believe > to be the correct framebuffer module for thai machine, and > _also_ the VESA framebuffer module. > > Reboot, still no frambufffer. > > What other step(s) am I misssing? You have to pass a video/vesa parameter to the kernel, usually via LILO. Check the framebuffer docs in the kernel source for the general format. You'll need to get out your hex calculator to convert the values though... Or, post what resolution and color you want to try and someone can tell you the numbers. Hall
Re: gnucash dependencies in unstable
Erik Steffl wrote: > Jose Juan Iglesias wrote: > > > I've been trying to install gnucash package from ustable, version 1.6.1-4. > > dselect says that gnucash depends on libgal9 (>= 0.10) and on libgtkhtml14 > > (>= 0.11.1). And none seems to be available. > > looks like that's fixed (you might need to do update): > > ii libgal9 0.10-1 > ii libgtkhtml14 0.11.1-5 No, it doesn't seem to be available. I just ran update from dselect, and it still shows libgal9 and libgtkhtml14 as "obsolete or local". > but still no cigar: > > > jojda:~>gnucash > ERROR: no such module (g-wrapped gw-runtime) > > bug is already filed... That would probably be libgwrapguile9, also obsolete. Gnucash needs a rebuild; that's all there is to it. Craig
Masq problem-Never Mind
Sorryits discussed in the HOWTO and I assume the solution there will work. Ed Lawson
Re: Woody and kernel 2.4.13 ide cmd erros on shutdown
I wish it was harmless fsck runs for all the filesystems, becuase they were not unmounted cleanly, on reboot. The bad news is that there are quite a few errors that show up. Never happend in Potato with the stock kernel. Thoughts? Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, S.Salman Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "HJ" == Hanasaki JiJi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HJ> Has anyone noticed the same problem I am having? When I do a HJ> shutdown.. the ide driver says that there is a cmd error... I HJ> end up needing an e2fsck on reboot HJ> I have been seeing similar messages on two Sid/unstable machines (one is running 2.4.10 and the other is running 2.4.12-ac3) but they are about the CD-ROM drives on either machine. I guess that's why I don't end up with fscks at reboot. That's a harmless, cosmetical bug in the umountfs script of the latest sysvinit. Mike.
Re: X can't init font path elements?
On Friday 26 October 2001 15:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > yes.just edit the file in XF86Config-4 and add the fixed font in your Hmm...where can i get fixed fonts ? O:) --
Problem accessing Websites Update
A week or two ago I asked about a problem accessing websites. Certain websites would not load. I am using a potato box as a masquerading server for machines in an office. It appears that the websites which cannot be loaded on the desktops load OK on the server. This suggests to me that the likely cause is the masqing options or the network settings for the internal network. I am using the Debian package to provide the masq scripts. Anyone encountered a similar problem? TIA Ed Lawson
Re: Package upgrade
On 26-Oct-2001 Mark Morshedi wrote: > using my Official CDROM as the source I tried to add packages using > APT-get. I issued the command but after initial set of instruction > and the rest of usuall text, the process comes back and tells me that > ""Dbconf" is in web mode GOTO HTTP://localhost:8001". Anyone know > what this mean and where do I go from here to solve this one. > > dpkg-reconfigure debconf.
Re: run-parts and valid filenames
> > So, having done that, I'm curious: why does run-parts have such a narrow > view of a "valid filename". It's there for a reason, else why write the > validation code? > > I'm just curious, but it would be nice to know. > my guess is that Debian calls the directories to be run by run-parts foo.d so having the files contained not have dots is just for sanity. Would foo.d/bar.s be a file or a directory? The other reason is that the sanity checker is called once for every file, so having it as simple as possible makes it as fast as possible.
Enabling framebuffer, more than a kernel recompile?
I'm trying to get framebuffer to work on a Compaq Proliant box. I have recompiled the kernel, including what I believe to be the correct framebuffer module for thai machine, and _also_ the VESA framebuffer module. Reboot, still no frambufffer. What other step(s) am I misssing? -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]843-745-3154 Charleston SC. -- Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. - (c) 2000 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
Aliasing a NIC
Hello, Once upon a time I knew how to make linux use multiple IP addresses for one ethernet NIC card. I believe the format looked like "eth0:0" but I can't remember the rest of it. Can someone point me to a HOW-TO or man reference? I did it before on a Red Hat box using linuxconfig but now I'm trying to do it on a Debian woody box running a 2.4.10 kernel. I need to know what files to edit and what the format of the configuration. Thanks, John Purser
Re: slink segmentation fault
On Fri, 26 October 2001, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Many of these old 386 boxes have bad cheap memory chips. The time > passes, and after few years you memory errors like hell. It ran windows 3.1 ok when i got it - would this a microsoft quality hardware thing? Thanks for the help - Pete __ Get your free domain name and domain-based e-mail from Namezero.com New! Namezero Plus domains now available. Find out more at: http://www.namezero.com
Re: help with debian admin project
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, xylene-news wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to set up a free web, mail and dns server on debian, I wish to > offer those services and a few others. > > I have 2 debian servers one on 600MB back bone and the other on 15 MB back > bone. > > Both based in the UK in the Berkshire area. > > I want to create a web front end so that user can create their own > accounts, edit passwords and get web mail, also change thioer domain > name records and create web accounts (FTP user and passwords) > > This is a big project and has no real time scale > > I am looking for volenteers to help me create such a service in > exchange for shell access to the box or whatever services you would > need. > > Please contact me direct via e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > some ideas can be seen at www.xylene.com > > Many thanks in advance > > > James Preece This seems like a worthy project. However, if (as it seems) you are posting to the newsgroup linux.debian.user, not many will see your message. Rather post directly to the Debian user mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] See also lists.debian.org. Note that linux.debian.user merely archives messages from the debian user mailing list, and messages posted to linux.debian.user AFAIK are not posted to the debian user mailing list. By the way, I'd consider helping if you tell me in more detail what you have in mind and what you have got done so far. I'm no expert, though. Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.
Re: Help needed to get printing
> I have just install cups, and the gui Kups to get > my printing going, but when I go to configure a > printer, it is not seeing /dev/lp0. > > I have my printer port on a separate kernel module > and that has loaded OK, as per the below lsmod > output: > > Module Size Used by > emu10k150496 1 > ac97_codec 9440 0 [emu10k1] > parport_pc 11432 0 (unused) > parport13824 0 [parport_pc] > NVdriver 722336 14 (autoclean) > > but I don't know what to do next, if I have to > somehow link parport_pc to /dev/lp0 or something > to that effect. > > I'm stumped! > > -- > Stuart > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think you need one more module : lp, you maybe forgot it while konfiguring th ekernel before compilation, you checked these: parallel port support & pc-style hardware in section General Setup, but in section Character devices is also parallel printer support!!! I have compiled these into kernel directly and into lilo.conf have placed append "lp=0x378,7" and it works fine (0x378 is i/o port of my parallel port and 7 is its irq) so try it, bye -- I am Martin Kacerovsky, student of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the Charles University in Prague, in the Czech Republic, in Europe, on Earth, in the Universe where Linux operating system rules...
Re: using /home with potato & woody
On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 15:12, Adam Warner wrote: > On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 02:37, Vittorio wrote: > > In my laptop I've three partitions > > hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home > > hda2= /home currently referring to Potato > > hda3= Woody all in this partition > > > > Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home > > partition (hda2) and of course to the same user victor (that's me!). > > > > Is that possible? I have Mandrake Cooker on hda1 and Debian Unstable on hda2, my /home is another partition hda3 and I just mount it on /home in both operating systems. As long as the programs you use are compatible (i.e. no major changes in file formats etc) everything works fine. Ross -- Ross Burton Software Engineer OneEighty Software Ltd Tel: +44 20 8680 8712 Cygnet HouseFax: +44 20 8680 8453 12-14 Sydenham Road [EMAIL PROTECTED] Croydon, Surrey CR9 2ET, UK http://www.180sw.com./ Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act 2000 together with any and all Regulations in force pursuant to the Act OneEighty Software Ltd reserves the right to monitor any or all incoming or outgoing communications as provided for under the Act pgphVt0TyZLAw.pgp Description: PGP signature
lprng doesnt work ...
i was able to print yesterday with mutt but today i wasnt able to... i run lprngtool and can print directly to the lpt port but with mutt i cant.. mutt says 'messageis printed' but printer doesnt print? what could be the problem? tnx -- "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --Sherlock Holmes _The Sign of Four_
Kernel parameters on bootdisk
What must I do to pass parameters to things compiled into a kernel on a bootdisk, when I do "make zdisk" or whatever with the kernel sources, in the same way that one can pass parameters with lilo's "append"? -- Mark
Re: Radius
Quoth Davi Leal, > What command could I use to check if my GNU/Linux radius server answer > accurately? > > telnet IP PORT? > What port? [rei:docs]% grep radius /etc/services datametrics 1645/tcpold-radius # datametrics / old radius entry datametrics 1645/udpold-radius # datametrics / old radius entry radius 1812/tcp# Radius radius 1812/udp# Radius > USER user? > PASS password? No idea, but RADIUS is defined by various RFCs. Try: http://www.google.com/search?q=radius+rfc HTH, damon -- Damon Muller :: Department of Criminology :: University of Melbourne It's not a sense of humor. It's a sense of irony disguised as one. -- Bruce Sterling
Re: [ot] Chmods for phpNuke...
PostNuke (www.postnuke.com) might be a better option. It's built on PHPNuke, but seems to be a bit more security conscious. HTH, damon Quoth Alexander Wallace, > Well, that's scary... Anyone knows of more secure alternatives? > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Damon Muller wrote: > > > Quoth Alexander Wallace, > > > This is more of a linux question... Is there a way to change recursivly > > > the mode to directories only? > > > > > > PHP Nuke requires me to change all files to 666 (chmod -R 666 *) and to > > > 777 all direcotories in order to use the file manager... Can this be done > > > in a sinle operation? > > > > You could always just re-enable telnet and remove the password for the > > root account... > > > > Seriously, you really shouldn't do this on a publically accessible > > machine. > > > > PPHNuke has had many security problems reported on BugTraq and lwn.net, > > many of which do not seem to be addressed with any great haste. > > > > Specifically, from last weeks lwn.net > > (http://lwn.net/2001/1018/security.php3), > > > > Login vulnerability in PostNuke. The PostNuke web portal system > > (up to version 0.64) has a vulnerability which can allow an > > attacker to log into other users' accounts. A fix is included in > > the report. It appears that PhpNuke is also vulnerable to this > > attack. (We also still have not seen a new PhpNuke release > > fixing the severe, widely-exploited vulnerability in version > > 5.2.) > > > > You really should consider checking out something else. > > > > However, it's your machine. :) > > > > cheers, > > > > damon > > > > -- > > Damon Muller :: Department of Criminology :: University of Melbourne > > > > I am Revenge: sent from the infernal kingdom, > > To ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind, > > By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes. > > -- Titus Andronicus > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Damon Muller :: Department of Criminology :: University of Melbourne It's not a sense of humor. It's a sense of irony disguised as one. -- Bruce Sterling
Re: slink segmentation fault
#include Peter mcevoy wrote on Fri Oct 26, 2001 um 06:32:36AM: > Hi, > I have just put slink onto a 386 with 4meg of ram, installation went > well but i'm Many of these old 386 boxes have bad cheap memory chips. The time passes, and after few years you memory errors like hell. > navigate the filesystem but writing anything to disk gives me a > "segmentation fault". Sounds like bad RAM. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Die 3 goldenen R's bei Microsoft Systemen: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall . (Joerg Schilling)
Re: Radius
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Davi Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What command could I use to check if my GNU/Linux radius server answer >accurately? > >telnet IP PORT? >What port? >USER user? >PASS password? No, radius uses UDP, and you need a specialized client to query it. You didn't say what radius server you are running. The cistron and freeradius servers come with a 'radtest' program that you can use to query a radius server. Mike. -- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" -- Albert Einstein.
Re: Navigating IMAP in Mutt
"Justin R. Miller" wrote: > > Thus spake David J. Roundy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I'm guessing you want to hit return. > > Actually, you'll want to hit 'space' to change into a folder, since > Cyrus supports folders with both subfolders and messages. > You get the prize for right answer. You have to hit when you have highlighted the mailbox you want to see messages for (do *not* hit to go to the mailbox). Mutt's online help says: display-message Display a message Not real intuitive, at least to me. Thanks.
Re: using /home with potato & woody
On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 02:37, Vittorio wrote: > In my laptop I've three partitions > hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home > hda2= /home currently referring to Potato > hda3= Woody all in this partition > > Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home > partition (hda2) and of course to the same user victor (that's me!). > > Is that possible? All you'd need to do is symlink to the home partition's files. However I strongly suspect this could be a recipe for data corruption. Imagine all the programs you access that would store data in the same place. However you will have one version new and one version old. Any data formats that have been upgraded between the two versions may not work with the old version of the program--or worse, the old version may silently corrupt the new data format. Perhaps you have a good reason for keeping Potato (I'd just use the partition for something else like backing up the Woody partition). Regards, Adam
Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??
* Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.10.24 01:24:57-0700]: > technically, apt-get upgrade will work. dist-upgrade has a few more rules in > it to make large upgrades go smoothly. not in the case when a package, say bind9 will be split into bind9 and bind9-utils (yes, i had to work with suse systems - so glad i am with debian) since upgrade only upgrades already installed packages, but doesn't pull new ones, even if they are necessary. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ever stop to think, and forget to start again? pgp2wqatEM1RM.pgp Description: PGP signature
console in X
Hi! I'd like to find out what would be the best console emulation under Xwin... since I have a 640x480 display, I can't find any latin2 (ISO-8859-2) fonts that would look the same as console fonts and be of similar size. Does anyone have any idea what I could do to have a full screen *term like a console window (to mimic the size of fonts and lines*rows like a console). THX in advance! B. -- [*] Boštjan Müller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://neonatus.net/~neonatus [*] [*]GPG/PGP key -> finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED], DSA id: 0x9B2FF108[*] [*] Celular: +386(0)41243189, Powered by Debian GNU/LiNUX - ICQ #:7506644 [*] "One world, one web, one program" -- Microsoft promotional ad "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer" -- Adolf Hitler
Re: What's happening to the Progeny installer?
It's there (in unstable). See autoinstall. (I haven't tried it and honestly wouldn't know how to begin). On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:22:11PM +1000, Mike Williams wrote: > > My understanding is that Progeny (the company) is still alive, and that > they wish to migrate back towards a standard Debian distro. Anyone know if > there are plans to integrate the Progeny installer into Debian-proper? -- Michael Epting ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: X can't init font path elements?
yes.just edit the file in XF86Config-4 and add the fixed font in your fontpath lists. actually, xf86 always falls back to the default font 'fixed' if it's having problems rendering your fonts -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
slink segmentation fault
Hi, I have just put slink onto a 386 with 4meg of ram, installation went well but i'm stuck on a particular problem now - when it asked me to set a root password for the first time, it seemed as though nothing was good enough - no matter what i put in it said "try again", occasionally it would say "password weak, type again to use anyway" but it would follow that with "try again". I'm able to login via tty2 and navigate the filesystem but writing anything to disk gives me a "segmentation fault". If anyone has any advice i'd be most appreciative, Thanks Pete __ Get your free domain name and domain-based e-mail from Namezero.com New! Namezero Plus domains now available. Find out more at: http://www.namezero.com
Re: [MDLUG] dual boot
Tom, I ecently read an article in Linux Journal (March 2001) about a distro called Maragda that lets you run Linux from a bootable CD-ROM that you create yourself. Sounds like just the ticket for you. Rodney Hampton www.hamptonandassociates.net Tom Allison wrote: > > I want to set up a new installation on a second hard drive. > The idea here is to create on a hard disk, the complete linux > installation that would be required to get a internet hardened server > running only sshd with a static IP address set up so I can burn it into > a CD-ROM and mail it to a friend. > > But I have to make sure that the CD-ROM is able to boot on it's own and > then be used to perform a complete installation, remotely. > I was going to take the simple installation approach (using debian) of > hitting the box and copying everything from /dev/hdc (cdrom) to /dev/hda > (hard drive) and rebooting - remotely - to come back in to the Linux OS > running on /dev/hda. > This would also provide me with a remote failsafe boot with the CD-ROM > in case I needed to do some real serious rework. > I have a spare 1GB disk that I can use to build the distro on. But I'm > not sure about all the things necessary for a non-readable disk > installation and other goodies like that. > > Anyone worked on something like this before? > I'm really focused on Debian because of it's ease of Administration via > SSH. I've been running my server downstairs for months now without ever > touching it. SSH is good! > > - > To subscribe or unsubscribe by sending mail to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For the digest list: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you need additional help or find something that needs fixing, > please send clear, concise email describing what you need to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Official Website: http://www.mdlug.org > Automated Help/Info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List Admin (human): [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mail Lists FAQ: > http://mdlug.org/faq.php?myfaq=yes&id_cat=5&categories=Mailing+Lists > Please do not send administrative commands to the list address! Thanks.
Re: A safe approach whereby , I can have Debian on a Windows partition , sans data loss
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could somebody please advice me on a safe approach whereby , I can > have Debian on a Windows partition , sans data loss . ie : I want > both the OSes , for different reasons . There are a couple ways to do it (UMSDOS and a loopback filesystem in a file on the Windows side) but I don't believe the Debian installer supports either one. You'd have to set things up by hand, though someone may have set up something to help. However, when the Corel Linux distribution offered something like this, nearly everyone who tried it complained about the speed of using it. It's much better to have a real partition. I'd personally suggest buying a copy of Partition Magic and using it to split your E: drive, since it doesn't have the problems fips has with system files that defrag won't move. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! If you see an onion ring -- answer it!
Re: Help on returning to Debian
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:12:00PM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:58:39AM +0100, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: > > Is there any application for windows (or linux) in order to install > > debian using a LAN connection ? > > Grab the floppy disks and use them. There's 6 disks in total and once > you get the network drivers setup you can install the rest off the net. > > That's the simplest way. A slightly harder way will bring the total > needed down to 2 disks if you're lucky. On a working Linux system with a network connection and some unused disk space, you can do it with 0 floppies: - Download the Debian base files and untar them somewhere - chroot into that subtree - use apt-get or dselect until you have a functional system - copy the subtree up to your real root (you'll have to fix up /etc/fstab, lilo.conf and maybe some others I'm forgetting) - cross your fingers and reboot This assumes you're willing to leave your disk partitioning unchanged. Also, I recommend that you not upgrade the kernel-image until you've successfully set up an all-Debian userland. Good luck! -- Eric C. Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
Package upgrade
using my Official CDROM as the source I tried to add packages using APT-get. I issued the command but after initial set of instruction and the rest of usuall text, the process comes back and tells me that ""Dbconf" is in web mode GOTO HTTP://localhost:8001". Anyone know what this mean and where do I go from here to solve this one. Markux _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Sound on motherboard soyo 7vca
Hi, Any one got sound on woody with this board? there are some binaries only for RH6.2, but I couldn't get it to work on woody, any help/advice will be highly appreciated.
Radius
What command could I use to check if my GNU/Linux radius server answer accurately? telnet IP PORT? What port? USER user? PASS password? Regards, Davi
keymap location
where is the default keymap location and what is the file name of the default keymap? I lost my keymap.gz file. Lance
Re: Terminals not closing?
--- Ian Su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this > problem, when I exit > an rxvt or Eterm (using exit, or Ctrl-D), the > terminal just hangs, bash > becomes defunct but the terminal process doesn't > die. > > gnome-terminal and xterm still exits properly. > > I'm wondering why, and whether other ppl have this > problem? I noticed > this on a seperate box a while ago but that seemed > to fix itself over > time. > > Thanks, > Aq. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I see this sometimes when I have used ssh in an Eterm and then use `^D` or `exit` to end the ssh session. = - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hacking is a "Good Thing!" See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
Re: [ot] Gimp filetypes...
It's not grayed out, the only file type available in the combo in the file open dialog is gimp's... I did restart gimp after apt-getting the nonfree module... Thanks! On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what did you mean can't open? is it "grayed" out or something? try rerunning > the app after you "apt-get" the gif and tiff support files.. > > -- > Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Re: using /home with potato & woody
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:37:07PM +, Vittorio wrote: > In my laptop I've three partitions > hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home > hda2= /home currently referring to Potato > hda3= Woody all in this partition > > Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home > partition (hda2) and of course to the same user victor (that's me!). > > Is that possible? > If yes, what steps should I take to be on the safe side? > > Vittorio One potential problem with doing this is the "dot" files in your home directory. Particularly if you use GNOME or KDE you could have problems. When you save configuration changes from the new (woody) environment it could write options to the files that are not understood by your old (potato) environment. John
slink - segmentation fault
Hi, I have just put slink onto a 386 with 4meg of ram, installation went well but i'm stuck on a particular problem now - when it asked me to set a root password for the first time, it seemed as though nothing was good enough - no matter what i put in it said "try again", occasionally it would say "password weak, type again to use anyway" but it would follow that with "try again". I'm able to login via tty2 and navigate the filesystem but writing anything to disk gives me a "segmentation fault". If anyone has any advice i'd be most appreciative, Thanks Pete __ Get your free domain name and domain-based e-mail from Namezero.com New! Namezero Plus domains now available. Find out more at: http://www.namezero.com
Re: using /home with potato & woody
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:37:07PM +, Vittorio wrote: > In my laptop I've three partitions > hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home > hda2= /home currently referring to Potato > hda3= Woody all in this partition > > Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home > partition (hda2) and of course to the same user victor (that's me!). > > Is that possible? > If yes, what steps should I take to be on the safe side? Yes. Just make sure the user exists on both systems in the same way (ie the same uid, belongs to the same groups and has the same home dir location) and then simply place /home in fstab as appropriate. -- CaT"As you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help it. Each time my wife initiates sex, these ejaculating hippos keep floating through my mind." - Mohd. Binatang bin Goncang, Singapore Zoological Gardens
Switching to/from Greek in Xfree 4.0.x ?
Hi I'm trying to set up X so that I can switch to and from Greek keycodes in Xfree 4.0.x. Xgrk worked earlier (3.3.x), but it doesn't work propperly now and I would like to use something more integrated into Gnome. Gnome has the GKB applet, but it doesn't work as when I switch to Greek. I keep getting latin letters. So I'm interested in some information on how to setup modmap or something similar in X so that Greek works also with dead keys. Thanks for any tips in advance! Preben Randhol -- «Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language not an app programming language.» - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer) Use Ada 95, a free language. More info at http://www.adapower.com/
Keyboard Media Keys not working after 2.4.5->2.4.12 upgrade
Hey there, I have a Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro, which has those funny little media keys at the top (Back, Forward, Mail, Mute, My Computer, etc). These keys work fine for me under 2.4.5 (stock debian kernel). They work in X (I can bind commands to them), and while they don't work on the console, 'showkeys' at least prints "unrecognized scancode 000e" when I hit them. Now, I hosed a perfectly good 120 uptime to upgrade to 2.4.12 (again, stock kernel), and now the keys don't work. No events are generated in X (according to xev), and nothing shows up on the console (according to showkeys). Does anybody know what changed between 2.4.5 and 2.4.12 that would cause the keycodes to no longer be generated/recognized by the kernel? Thanks, Jason -- Jason Healy|[EMAIL PROTECTED]| http://www.logn.net/
Re: gnucash dependencies in unstable
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:17:41PM +, Jose Juan Iglesias wrote: > El Vie 26 Oct 2001 10:00, Erik Steffl escribió: > > Jose Juan Iglesias wrote: > > > Hi all! > > > > > > I've been trying to install gnucash package from ustable, version > > > 1.6.1-4. dselect says that gnucash depends on libgal9 (>= 0.10) and on > > > libgtkhtml14 (>= 0.11.1). And none seems to be available. > > > > looks like that's fixed (you might need to do update): > > > > ii libgal9 0.10-1 > > ii libgtkhtml14 0.11.1-5 > > > > but still no cigar: > > > > > > jojda:~>gnucash > > ERROR: no such module (g-wrapped gw-runtime) > > > > bug is already filed... > > > > erik > > I got this same error after compilling gnucash 1.6.1 from sources. Which > library is the responsible of this error? > > I haven't updated yet but I will, I prefer to install the package. > > Thanks. Note that a gnucash 1.6.4 (not 1.6.1) source and powerpc binary have been uploaded to the pool directory. You can download the source and compile for your architecture. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnucash John
Dselect
Hi All, In running dselect, I get the following when I go to install Elshaddai:/home/stephen# dselect Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: debiandoc-sgml dpsclient emacs20 esound gcc-doc gconf gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnotes gnucash gtkhtml imagemagick imlib-progs imlib1 libcapplet0 libgconf11 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libgnome-vfs0 libgtkhtml-data libgtkhtml13 libgtkhtml14 libgtkxmhtml1 libmagick4g libungif3g libwraster1 mgetty-viewfax mtools packaging-manual pnmtopng tetex-bin tetex-extra tk8.2 tk8.3 wmaker xaw3dg xdm xf86setup xfonts-base xlib6 xlibs-dev xmcd xmh xnest xprt xterm xtrlock The following NEW packages will be installed: aalib1 archie autoconf2.13 autotools-dev cftp chbg console-common darxite defoma deity deity-curses dftp dia dia-common doc-base dxftp expect gftp gftp-common gftp-gtk gftp-text ghostview gimp gimp-data-extras groff-base host ifupdown ipchains klogd lam3 libcap1 libdarxite1 libdns4 libexpat1 libghttp-dev libgimp1 libgimpprint1 libhtml-tagset-perl libisc3 liblcms libldap2 liblwres1 libmailtools-perl libmng1 libmpeg1 libnetpbm9 libparted1.4 libpcre3 libqt2 libsasl7 libsigc++0 libssl0.9.6 libttf2 libxerces-java libxml-regexp-perl lukemftp ncftp ncftp2 net-tools netkit-inetd netkit-ping noctftp openldap-guide perl-doc portmap python1.5-base qcad task-newbie-help wxftp-doc wxftp-gtk xaw-wrappers xftp xserver-common-v3 391 packages upgraded, 73 newly installed, 50 to remove and 8 not upgraded. Need to get 162MB/179MB of archives. After unpacking 10.1MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] --- How did all of those packages to be remved get selected? How do I unselect them? Thanks for your help. Cheers, Stephen Grant Brown.
Help needed to get printing
I have just install cups, and the gui Kups to get my printing going, but when I go to configure a printer, it is not seeing /dev/lp0. I have my printer port on a separate kernel module and that has loaded OK, as per the below lsmod output: Module Size Used by emu10k150496 1 ac97_codec 9440 0 [emu10k1] parport_pc 11432 0 (unused) parport13824 0 [parport_pc] NVdriver 722336 14 (autoclean) but I don't know what to do next, if I have to somehow link parport_pc to /dev/lp0 or something to that effect. I'm stumped! -- Stuart
Re: using /home with potato & woody
> In my laptop I've three partitions > hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home > hda2= /home currently referring to Potato > hda3= Woody all in this partition > > Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home > partition (hda2) and of course to the same user victor (that's me!). > > Is that possible? > If yes, what steps should I take to be on the safe side? i think you just need to check that the numeric user ids are the same, and fiddle with your fstab. for a quick check, mount hda2 as /home on woody, and use some ls -l to see if everything looks ok. i don't think you can do any damage if you don't start typing rm commands randomly... :-) pietro.
dual boot
I want to set up a new installation on a second hard drive. The idea here is to create on a hard disk, the complete linux installation that would be required to get a internet hardened server running only sshd with a static IP address set up so I can burn it into a CD-ROM and mail it to a friend. But I have to make sure that the CD-ROM is able to boot on it's own and then be used to perform a complete installation, remotely. I was going to take the simple installation approach (using debian) of hitting the box and copying everything from /dev/hdc (cdrom) to /dev/hda (hard drive) and rebooting - remotely - to come back in to the Linux OS running on /dev/hda. This would also provide me with a remote failsafe boot with the CD-ROM in case I needed to do some real serious rework. I have a spare 1GB disk that I can use to build the distro on. But I'm not sure about all the things necessary for a non-readable disk installation and other goodies like that. Anyone worked on something like this before? I'm really focused on Debian because of it's ease of Administration via SSH. I've been running my server downstairs for months now without ever touching it. SSH is good!
Remote Installation
Has anyone every tried to figure out how to set up a remote installation that can be automated? I remember that Suse and RedHat have developed the capability to remember detailed installations (package selection mostly) and was wondering if anyone in Debian-land has looked into the same kind of thing.
using /home with potato & woody
In my laptop I've three partitions hda1= Debian Potato all directories but /home hda2= /home currently referring to Potato hda3= Woody all in this partition Now I'd like to refer both potato and woody to the same /home partition (hda2) and of course to the same user victor (that's me!). Is that possible? If yes, what steps should I take to be on the safe side? Vittorio
Removing dpkg-dev!
Greetings! Whilst upgrading to the unstable version of dpkg (he box is otherwise stable) I thought i my innocence that I might as well do dpkg-dev. It wants things which I haven't got, and so I'm unpacked but not installed. Lots of nice thing seem to depend on dpkg-dev! How do I do a downgrade? I've tried the line below but with no success. dpkg --force-downgrade -i dpkg-dev Glyn -- ** * Here we are then... * * http://members.tripod.co.uk/Christchurch2000uk * **
run-parts and valid filenames
Why does run-parts not like dots in filenames? I'm embarrassed to admit I just spent over half an hour wrangling with the program. Every time I had it run through a directory, it kept skipping a particular file. The filename contained a dot. Now, the manpage for run-parts clearly states that it will only run filenames consisting of letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens, and that invalid names will be silently skipped. I read that passage a couple of times and didn't notice either of those things. (It is the middle of the night, but still...) So, having done that, I'm curious: why does run-parts have such a narrow view of a "valid filename". It's there for a reason, else why write the validation code? I'm just curious, but it would be nice to know. Sincerely, Aaron -- Aaron Hall : C'mon, Netscape! I can whistle the page in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Morse faster than you're fetching it! Macintosh/UNIX Weenie, Network Flack, and...eh, whatever.
Re: Help on returning to Debian
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:58:39AM +0100, Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho wrote: > Is there any application for windows (or linux) in order to install > debian using a LAN connection ? Grab the floppy disks and use them. There's 6 disks in total and once you get the network drivers setup you can install the rest off the net. That's the simplest way. A slightly harder way will bring the total needed down to 2 disks if you're lucky. -- CaT"As you can expect it's really affecting my sex life. I can't help it. Each time my wife initiates sex, these ejaculating hippos keep floating through my mind." - Mohd. Binatang bin Goncang, Singapore Zoological Gardens
Re: kdm & gdm + woody
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 'cause you're not supposed to login as root. You're not supposed to > > run a window manager or a desktop or any of that stuff. See 'man su' > > and 'man sudo' for better alternatives. > > So who was the idiot genius that thought that one up. Normally I do > login as my user and su when I need to do root stuff. BUT, I still find > it usefull to log into root under a GUI every now and then. I don't > think it should be upto Gnome to not allow me this. Guy's get a > clue...get a consensus before you add something that affects everyone! According to Gnome Doctrine for quite some time: (I'm -not- quoting, I'm paraphrasing and guessing - it's been ~6 months since I last read it :) Due to some known and unfixable security holes in gnome, it is inadviseable to login as root with a gnome application at any time. This problem is also present with other software incidentally. (actually if I remember correctly the security holes are in libX11 not in gnome) This isn't a debian issue - it's a gnome one. And as far as I can tell, they made the right one. Apparently these holes are low/no risk for regular users but I'm not sure... Hope that clarifies :) G'day, eh? :) - Teunis Peters
Help on returning to Debian
Hi there, I was a debian user a long time ago and would like to come back again to the mother ship. :) At the moment I'd a laptop Compaq 1200 (not sure it it's XL) running RedHat 6.1 and windows 2000. Is there any application for windows (or linux) in order to install debian using a LAN connection ? I want a fresh instalation and not any kind of upgrade to the redhat distribution. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Nuno Carvalho PS: Please reply to me since i'm not subscribed in this mailing list.
Re: How do I know whether I've got the "potato" or "woody" versions of debian?
If when you log into Debian you go to eeh console mode instead of xdm, the last line that you see before the prompt is which version of Debian your running. Don --- Rupert Heesom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've installed Debian using a couple of CDs which I > downloaded. I'm > still very new to Debian. Thus the question > > -- > regs > rupert > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
