Re: Promise ATA/133

[Alvin Oga]

hi ya matthew

you need to download and apply the ata/133 patches to the kernel...

http://www.1U-Raid5.net/Patches/*ata133*

http://www.LinuxDiskCert.org/
( patches probably merged into the newer kernels

maxtor has 40/60 GB ata/133 drives too now..

c ya
alvin
http://www.Linux-1U.net/Disks ... ide stuff ...


On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote:

> I am considering using a Promise ATA/133 drive controller and some ATA/133 
> drives. Is anyone currently using such a setup?
> 

Re: xfce

[Craig]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:25:52PM -0600, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> Anyone running XFce and Unstable.
> Recent upgrade of XFce has removed the Debian menu (xfmenu).
> Anyone know how to get this back?
> 
> 
maybe "update-menus"
try man update-menus

I have a file /etc/menu-methods/xfce and here are a couple of
its lines:

genmenu=   "debian.menu"
rootprefix="/etc/X11/xfce/"
userprefix="/.xfce/"
treewalk="c(m)"
mainmenutitle="Debian Menu"   

you might want to check if that's intact.

CraigW

Re: Pump and Dhclient

[Raghavendra Bhat]

Adam Majer posts :

> like udhcpc since it is very small and seems to work quite reliably.

I start  udhcpc manually.  What  is the best  way to start  udhcpc while
booting up ?  Is it OK to create a symlink farm using update-rc.d ?  How
are you doing this ?

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Promise ATA/133

[Matthew Daubenspeck]

I am considering using a Promise ATA/133 drive controller and some ATA/133 
drives. Is anyone currently using such a setup?

cdrw and cdrom: do ide and master/slave matter?

[Cheryl Homiak]

I have a cdrom and plan to keep it but also add a cd burner. I had thought that
i remembered being told that the cd burner had to be the master on an ide, but
now can't find any documentation for that. Both the cdrom and cdrw are ide/atapi
so I am using scsi emulation and have also compiled with scsi, scsi cdrom and
generic scsi. the person installing wants to install the cdrom on one drive and
the cdrw on the other as he feels this may make transfers when copying a bit
faster. I also have two hard disks, though one of them used to be DOS and, now
that i have made a dos partition on my main drive, is only being used to store
some backups at present. This means that I would probably put the cdrom on hdb
and the cdrw on hdc. Is there any reason not to do this?
Also, the person installing this can get the best price for me on a lite-on
cdrw, though he could also get a creative. when I looked at the cdrw-howto,
lite-on wasn't listed, but I realize this doesn't mean it isn't usable.
Furthe searching brought up the lite-on as useable with the cdrom.c driver.
Is this a generic driver that is loaded by the kernel and will it be loaded
with the options i've chosen?
Has anybody had experience with the lite-on; don't have a model number as
yet so can't be more specific.
TIA.

Problem with DEC21143

[Kapil Khosla]

Hi,
I have a DEC21143 Network card which uses a tulip driver and am trying to 
install Woody. It seems that there is a bug in the driver which has also been 
reported but has anyone solved the problem ?

I installed Redhat on my system and it worked fine, Can I use the tulip.c file 
from RedHat as a driver for Debian.
If yes , can someone explain me the procedure involved ..
Thanks
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Re: Starting fetchmail on boot (runing as user)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, stan wrote:
> I'm migrating mail services to individula user machines.
> 
> I want to use fetchmail to retrieve the mail for each user (runing
> fetchmail as that user).
> 
> What;s "The Debian Way" of starting up these user instances of fetchmail?

There isn't one, but see the BTS entries for fetchmail (there is a bug there
with some ideas).

Personally, I just run "while true; do fetchmail ; sleep 10m ; done" in a
detached "screen" (see the screen package).

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xfce

[Kevin C. Smith]

Anyone running XFce and Unstable.
Recent upgrade of XFce has removed the Debian menu (xfmenu).
Anyone know how to get this back?


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Re: Starting fetchmail on boot (runing as user)

[Adam Majer]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:57:25PM -0500, stan wrote:
> I'm migrating mail services to individula user machines.
> 
> I want to use fetchmail to retrieve the mail for each user (runing
> fetchmail as that user).
> 
> What;s "The Debian Way" of starting up these user instances of fetchmail?

I don't know what's the Debian way but I would just slap fetchmail
into their crontab (see how logcheck does that at startup).

- Adam

Re: Configuring a modem

[Adam Majer]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 05:26:54PM -0600, Eric wrote:
> Hello all:
> I am attempting to configure my Debian Potato system to connect to the
> internet, but I'm not clear on how to set it to recognize my modem. Any
> suggestions?

Just my 2 cents again, but it's not a winmodem or a controlles modem
or something screwed up like that, right?

- Adam

Re: pppoe and kernel 2.4.x

[Adam Majer]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:06:09PM +0100, Frodo Baggins wrote:
> Hi debianers,
>   well, I have a debian system connected to a ISP using
> pppoe. Everithing works well with the 2.2.x kernels, but for different
> reasons, I need to install a 2.4.x kernel. 
> 
>   Reading the file /usr/doc/pppoe/KERNEL-MODE-PPPOE I understand that
> I must recompile ppp from the tar-ball at
> http://www.shoshin.uwaterloo.ca/~mostrows/ which is a patched ppp,
> install it and then compiling rp-pppoe enabling plugins.
> 
>   This look strightforward but will obviously clash with the package
> structure of my machine. Just for one, intrusion-detection tools
> (e.g. tiger) will complain about unmatching cecksums. For another,
> updating will become painful. 
> 
>   Is there another, more debian conformant, way to do it? 
> 
>   Thanks a lot


Unfortunatelly, pppd does not support kernel mode pppoe in Debian. You can still
use regular user space pppoe without any problems.. 

If you really want a kernel mode pppoe, I have submitted a bug
with the patch from http://www.shoshin.uwaterloo.ca/~mostrows/ (in BTS as
wishlish for ppp). The patch is about 100kB! :) My patch is a bit buggy though 
as
if you try to build pppd with it, the plugin will end up in the right
directory but pppd will search in a different one -- to overcome that
you'll have to specify the full path to the pppoe plugin. Then
changing the dsl-provider by commenting out the pty pppoe etc.. I was
able to start kernel mode dsl with

pppd eth0 call dsl-provider

as described on the website. Works very nice for me on a 486 box.. 
There is a noticible increase in performance especially when the box 
is loaded -- much better network transit times.

The load due to pppoe also decreased from about 80% for full
bandwidth usage down to about 40%.. I will be testing it for stability
for the next few months but it looks very promissing.

PPP really should support kernel mode PPPoE for woody as there is no
harm for bootfloppies [simply not included there] or for regular pppd
as pppoe is a plugin that doesn't have to be enabled.

Anyway, this is just my 2 cents. BTW, I have 2.4.18 with kernel mode
pppoe as module [but I'll link it in kernel soon since it's on all the
time anyway]

- Adam


PS. Maybe if people demand it, I could fix my patch and increase the
severity of the bug so hopefully the maintainer will notice it and
include it before it's too late :)

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

[Carl Fink]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:26:57PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote:

> Have you moved you mozilla directory out of the way and tried with a
> freshly created one?

Only when upgrading, but I've upgraded three times and still see this. 
Currently at 0.9.7.
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Re: Pump and Dhclient

[Adam Majer]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:26:42PM -0600, hanasaki wrote:
> What about these lines in the example config?  Woudl you be kind and 
> send your interfaces and dhclient.conf ?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> #alias {
> #  interface "eth0";
> #  fixed-address 192.5.5.213;
> #  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.255;
> #}
> 
> #lease {
> #  interface "eth0";
> #  fixed-address 192.33.137.200;

For interfaces I just have:

# Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
# /usr/share/doc/netbase/examples for more information.
#
auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

and here I just use udhcpc - the tiny dhcp client... no config there.

I thought I was using dhcp-client (which I was) - but I just changed to 
the tiny version. It works perfectly..

I found pump to be the most buggy dhcp client available - it would not
start on the right interface on my "server" that has 2 nics.. And there
were tons of other bugs, ugghh..

I like udhcpc since it is very small and seems to work quite reliably.

- Adam

Re: Pump and Dhclient

[hanasaki]

What about these lines in the example config?  Woudl you be kind and 
send your interfaces and dhclient.conf ?


Thank you

#alias {
#  interface "eth0";
#  fixed-address 192.5.5.213;
#  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.255;
#}

#lease {
#  interface "eth0";
#  fixed-address 192.33.137.200;



Adam Majer wrote:

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:27:24AM -0600, hanasaki wrote:


I have both installed.
- is there a way to tell ifup/down which to use?
dhclient seems to need entries for each interface, that will get a 
lease, in /etc/dhclient.conf.  Pump is nice in that it only requireds on 
place to specifiy that the interface will be dhcp

(/etc/network/interfaces)
Is what are the pro's cons of using these differnt tools?
Thank you.



I have dhcp-client installed only. So specifying dhcp in intarfaces
brings up the interface with dhcp-client..

- Adam





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Re: Configuring a modem

[Raghavendra Bhat]

Eric posts :

> not clear on how to set it to recognize my modem. Any suggestions ?

Apt tools  for the job that jump  to mind are minicom  and the versatile
Debian dial-up utility called pppconfig.   You can discover your modem S
registers using  minicom.  pppconfig makes things easier  to dial-up and
connect, it is simple with many features. The maintainer of pppconfig is
a great help when you really hit the bump and stall.

So do an 'apt-get install pppconfig',  do not forget to do a search with
Google to help yourselves.

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Re: Pump and Dhclient

[Adam Majer]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 10:27:24AM -0600, hanasaki wrote:
> I have both installed.
>   - is there a way to tell ifup/down which to use?
> dhclient seems to need entries for each interface, that will get a 
> lease, in /etc/dhclient.conf.  Pump is nice in that it only requireds on 
> place to specifiy that the interface will be dhcp
>   (/etc/network/interfaces)
> Is what are the pro's cons of using these differnt tools?
> Thank you.

I have dhcp-client installed only. So specifying dhcp in intarfaces
brings up the interface with dhcp-client..

- Adam

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Need help building emacs21 on testing

[csj]

The following is the tail of piped stderr from attempting to build
("debuild -b -uc -us") emacs21 on an essentially testing system. Can
anybody guess what package I'm missing or need to upgrade? "apt-get
build-dep" doesn't complain about anything.

> tail -n 15 ../stderr
Checking /xa/build/debian/newbuild/emacs21-21.1/leim/quail/CCDOSPY.el ...
Checking /xa/build/debian/newbuild/emacs21-21.1/leim/quail/ARRAY30.el ...
Checking /xa/build/debian/newbuild/emacs21-21.1/leim/quail/4Corner.el ...
Checking /xa/build/debian/newbuild/emacs21-21.1/leim/quail/hangul3.el ...
Checking /xa/build/debian/newbuild/emacs21-21.1/leim/quail/Punct-b5.el ...
Checking /xa/build/debian/newbuild/emacs21-21.1/leim/quail/symbol-ksc.el ...
Wrote /xa/build/debian/newbuild/emacs21-21.1/leim/leim-list.el
Updating /xa/build/debian/newbuild/emacs21-21.1/leim/leim-list.el ... done
emacs.texi:103: First argument to cross-reference may not be empty.
../maintaining.texi:847: First argument to cross-reference may not be empty.
makeinfo: Removing output file `../info/emacs' due to errors; use --force to 
preserve.
make[1]: *** [../info/emacs] Error 2
make: *** [debian/stamp-build] Error 2
debuild: fatal error at line 322:
dpkg-buildpackage failed!

Re: Moving /var to another drive

[Dimitri Maziuk]

* Neal Lippman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
> One thing I wondered about, though. You are using the technique of taring up 
> the entire directory tree and then untaring it into the target partition. Why 
> not just use cp -a   instead?

Tradition, portability. "cp -a" is a GNUism, there was no "cp -a" back when, 
and there is no "cp -a" on many systems now. It doesn't matter if you are
not going to use a Real Unix(tm), ever; those who do prefer to learn portable
ways of doing things.

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Re: Can't leave X Windows

[Simon Hepburn]

Eric wrote:

> Hello all:
> I am using Debian Potato, and recently installed the X Windows system.

It's the X Window system, or just X. Windows is a dirty word round here ;-)

> However, I can no longer go back to the command line. I tried Exit, and the
> other various exit/kill commands. I also tried Alt-Ctrl-F1. When I do this
> the monitor goes out of frequency. I am absolutly positive that I set the
> correct frequency in XConfig. Any ideas?

Do you login at the console and then startx or do you have a display manager 
installed (graphical login) ? If you use startx then Ctrl-Alt-Backspace 
should kill X. If you have a display manager (xdm,gdm,kdm or wdm) installed 
but don't wish to always use X then edit /etc/inittab to change the default 
run level:

# The default runlevel.
id:3:initdefault:

Remove the symlink to xdm,gdm,kdm or wdm from /etc/rc2.d/. Now you can boot 
to console only by passing the argument  init 2 at boot time. 

Alternatively just uninstall your display manager.

-- 
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Re: Massive issues with WMaker and X

[D.]

Karsten,
  I know that you made wise suggestions on how to exit
Debian as a user without going to root, I just can't
find them in the archive.  I use a Laptop at work with
Woody on it and when I shut it down I have to change
to su to do the shut down.  Do you have one of those
handy MINI-Howto made to resolve this?
Thanks in advance.
Don

--- "Karsten M. Self"  wrote:
> on Fri, Mar 08, 2002, Jonathan Ard
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, so I am having some major issues with Window
> Maker.  When I start it
> > up, it tells me it can't load the Applications
> Menu, and that I should
> > check the output in the terminal to see what the
> problem is. 
> 
> You've resolved this issue, not addressed.
> 
> > Unfortunately, I am running wdm, so I don't have a
> terminal to look at. 
> 
> Wrong:  unless you've changed your /etc/inittab,
> you're running six text
> consoles in virtual terminals 1-6.  You can reach
> these via the 'chvt'
> (change virtual terminal) command (run with root
> priviliges), or with
> the keystroke  (that's control
> plus alt plus any of
> the function keys one through six.
> 
> There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux X display manager
> disabling you may
> find useful, at:
> 
>
>
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html
> 
> Please address your quoting style as well.
> 
> Peace.
> 
> -- 
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> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
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> There is no K5 cabal
>   http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/
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Re: Configuring a modem

[John Hasler]

Eric writes:
> I am attempting to configure my Debian Potato system to connect to the
> internet, but I'm not clear on how to set it to recognize my modem. Any
> suggestions?

Run pppconfig as root.
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Re: Reconfigure IP address

[Vineet Kumar]

* Michael Montagne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020312 16:09]:
> I get more info.  I just get the feeling that I'm not supposed to edit
> /etc/network/interfaces.  The warnings seem to imply that I should let
> debconf do what it does best.

Not so, $EDITOR /etc/network/interfaces and hack away!

All you need to do is change the "dhcp" to "static" and add whatever
else you need, like your address, netmask, gateway, etc. man interfaces
should tell you all about it.

good times,
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Starting fetchmail on boot (runing as user)

[stan]

I'm migrating mail services to individula user machines.

I want to use fetchmail to retrieve the mail for each user (runing
fetchmail as that user).

What;s "The Debian Way" of starting up these user instances of fetchmail?

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2 CUPS machines _way_ too chatty

[stan]

I'v got CUPS installed on a Woody box, and a FreeBSD box. The woddy box is
the host of one of only 2 printers (The others a HP Laserjet using a
Jetadmin card).

My nightly Amanda backup had not finished when I got home today.

Ivestigation (with etherape, and ethereal) revelaed that these 2 machine
were saturating the local net with CUPS/IPP trafic! No print jobs are qued
up.

Any sugestiosn as to how to troubleshoot this?

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Re: Configuring a modem

[D.]

First of all you need to know what type of modem it
is, and which port does it use's.  When you istalled
Debian did't you try and configure your modem?  That
option is available.  Not being a smart @## but have
you looked at the documentation page on the Debian
site?
Don
--- Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all:
> I am attempting to configure my Debian Potato system
> to connect to the
> internet, but I'm not clear on how to set it to
> recognize my modem. Any
> suggestions?
> 
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Re: Moving /var to another drive

[Neal Lippman]

> George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > 
> >
> > And transfer the data using tar:
> >
> > tar cplf - -C / var | tar xvf - -C /mnt
> >


I recently did something similar, moving my personal files to a new HD so 
that I can mount the entire drive (partitioned as one big drive) to /home/nl 
for my personal files. Interestingly, because I now have an entire ext2fs 
file system mounted as my home directory, I now have a lost+found directory 
in my home directory. Not, obviously, a big problem, just something to keep 
in mind.

One thing I wondered about, though. You are using the technique of taring up 
the entire directory tree and then untaring it into the target partition. Why 
not just use cp -a   instead?

N

Re: Problems with Email Format

[Ron Johnson]

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 15:46, Costa, Todd (DMH) wrote:
> Hi Deb-Users,
> 
>   I hope I corrected my email format to text. I can't seem to get my
> email client to send text only. Please reply if its readable. Thanks.

Umm, Todd, what email client are you using?

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Re: Reconfigure IP address

[Ron Johnson]

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 17:04, Michael Montagne wrote:
> To reconfigure my IP address from DHCP to a static address, I need to
> run dpkg-reconfigure netbase, right?  If this is not correct, where can
> I get more info.  I just get the feeling that I'm not supposed to edit
> /etc/network/interfaces.  The warnings seem to imply that I should let
> debconf do what it does best.

I edited /etc/network/interfaces by hand before I even heard of
dpkg-reconfigure.  Here's my interfaces, from when I converted
from static to dhcp.  You'd just have to change the "dhcp" to
"static", uncomment out the specifics, and change them to what
ever your ISP says.

  $ cat /etc/network/interfaces
  auto lo
  iface lo inet loopback
  auto eth0
  iface eth0 inet dhcp
  # address 24.181.111.92
  # netmask 255.255.255.0
  # network 24.181.111.0
  # broadcast 24.181.111.255
  # gateway 24.181.111.1

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Missing libraries dor dvr

[stan]

I'm trying to get the Debian dvr package working, but I seem to be missing
some shared libraries that it needs.

Dselect does not seem to hav entries for these, or perhapps they are in
some package whose name I don't know.

How can I make this work?

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Adding fonts to TeX?

[Rogério Brito]

Dear all,

I am currently producing some texts with pdftex and to avoid
generating PDF documents with Type 3 fonts (as xpdf calls
them), I would like to install additional Type 1 fonts, from
the cm-super package.

But then, the question: where is the "Right Way" of adding
local fonts for TeX?

I mean, is there any hierarchy under /usr/local where I should
add them? I would not like to mix the fonts I install with
those coming from Debian packages...


Thanks for any help, Roger...

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xpdf (was: Re: Acroread not displaying menu text 2nd try)

[Rogério Brito]

On Mar 12 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> First:  I'd strongly recommend xdpf or gv as alternatives to the
> non-free Acroread(...)

And now, with xpdf 1.0 in testing, the output it generates is
a thousand times better and quite comparable to that produced
by acroread.

In fact, I'm now in doubts if I should use the (pdflatex,
xpdf) combo or (latex, xdvi) for previewing my own texts.

One thing is certain, though: I will use pdflatex for
producing the final version of my texts.


[]s, Roger...

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Re: re all caps always on

[Dave Sherohman]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:27:08PM -0800, justin cunningham wrote:
> Hello, how do I reconfigure my console keyboard to get rid of the all
> caps?

When you logged in, did you enter your username in all caps?  If so,
the kernel assumed that you're using a terminal which isn't capable
of displaying lowercase characters and is trying to accomodate the
terminal's limitations.  To fix this, log out and log back in without
typing the username in all caps.  (Yes, this means you're pretty well
hosed if your username is JUSTIN.  Change it to justin instead.)

-- 
When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists
have already won. - reverius

Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss

RE: X Screen Capture?

[Panuganty, Ramesh]

| How best to make such a screenshot?

I can guess what exactly you want - you want a best possible screen
capture of yours without any other application windows like XV or
something else. Do this on an xterm,

"sleep 10; xwd -root screen.xwd"

Minimise the xterm immediately

Install image-magick and use the "convert" utility to convert into the
format you want.

-Ramesh

Re: Strange messages on all terminals

[brian]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:31:48PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:

> I am having a problem with all my virtual terminals(ctr-alt-F<1-6>)  For
> some reason a constant stream of information is sent to all of them.  It
> seems to be something to do with my internet connection, because its
> specifying MAC addresses and a couple of other things which makes me
> think its displaying all incomming packets to the terminals.  Now this
> is not affecting X or any of the X-terms, but its sure a bother while
> working in a virtual terminal.  I am running woody and a 2.4.19 ac
> pre-patch.  Anyone have an idea why this is happening.  Its been going
> on for a while now and I tried re-compiling the kernel taking out all
> verbose debug messages having to do with the net connection.  I am also
> running the new isc dhcp client 3.0, but this was happening before with
> the old 2.2 version.  Im not sure what else might be causing this.  This
> is especially embaracing because Im trying to get a bunch of my friends
> to switch from windows, and having all that trash there and not knowing
> what is causeing it is not a major selling point.  Anyone have an idea? 
> Thanks.

You could try looking at man klogd and the -c switch.  If this looks
like giving you a possible solution to your problem you will need to
alter /etc/init.d/klogd.  The line you want probably says

KLOGD=""

at present.  Altering it to

KLOGD="-c 6"

may be what you want.

The archived bug reports for klogd should provide you with an
explanation to give to your friends and relieve your embarrassment.

Brian.

Re: ssh-client & gui

[Rogério Brito]

On Mar 12 2002, Ines Rieger wrote:
> the buttons and drag an drop felling and so on. My users want to select a
> file in a file browser an copy by ssh to another machine. They do not want
> to use an xterm an a keyboard. They only want to use their mice. (:

Perhaps the package kio-fish would help then?

It works quite well for me, simulating a remote filesystem via
a ssh connection.


[]s, Roger...

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Configuring a modem

[Eric]

Hello all:
I am attempting to configure my Debian Potato system to connect to the
internet, but I'm not clear on how to set it to recognize my modem. Any
suggestions?

Can't leave X Windows

[Eric]

Hello all:
I am using Debian Potato, and recently installed the X Windows system.
However, I can no longer go back to the command line. I tried Exit, and the
other various exit/kill commands. I also tried Alt-Ctrl-F1. When I do this
the monitor goes out of frequency. I am absolutly positive that I set the
correct frequency in XConfig. Any ideas?

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

[Shyamal Prasad]

"James" == James D Strandboge  writes:

James> Me too, and if you are into this sort of thing, galeon
James> handles flash, realplayer and java well in my experience.

Where/how did you install realplayer? All my attempts to install
realplayer (from the debian package and using the tar file from Real's
web site) simply result in a realplayer that hangs after drawing
itself, and freezing both mozilla (0.9.8) and galeon (1.0.3).

Any hints?

Cheers!
Shyamal

Reconfigure IP address

[Michael Montagne]

To reconfigure my IP address from DHCP to a static address, I need to
run dpkg-reconfigure netbase, right?  If this is not correct, where can
I get more info.  I just get the feeling that I'm not supposed to edit
/etc/network/interfaces.  The warnings seem to imply that I should let
debconf do what it does best.

-- 
Michael Montagne
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.boora.com

Re: Strange messages on all terminals

[Ron Johnson]

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 11:31, Scott Henson wrote:
> I am having a problem with all my virtual terminals(ctr-alt-F<1-6>)  For
> some reason a constant stream of information is sent to all of them.  It
> seems to be something to do with my internet connection, because its
> specifying MAC addresses and a couple of other things which makes me
> think its displaying all incomming packets to the terminals.  Now this
> is not affecting X or any of the X-terms, but its sure a bother while
> working in a virtual terminal.  I am running woody and a 2.4.19 ac
> pre-patch.  Anyone have an idea why this is happening.  Its been going
> on for a while now and I tried re-compiling the kernel taking out all
> verbose debug messages having to do with the net connection.  I am also
> running the new isc dhcp client 3.0, but this was happening before with
> the old 2.2 version.  Im not sure what else might be causing this.  This
> is especially embaracing because Im trying to get a bunch of my friends
> to switch from windows, and having all that trash there and not knowing
> what is causeing it is not a major selling point.  Anyone have an idea? 
> Thanks.

Sounds like syslog.conf (or whatever syslog daemon you use) was
modified.

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Problems with Email Format

[Costa, Todd \(DMH\)]

Title: Problems with Email Format





Hi Deb-Users,


    I hope I corrected my email format to text. I can't seem to get my email client to send text only. Please reply if its readable. Thanks.

Todd M. Costa
EDP II, LAN Manager


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Re: kernel-2.4.17

[Gerard Robin]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:17:46PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote:
> High,
> 
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Gerard Robin wrote:
> 
> > hello,
> > I have a problem with the kernel 2.4.17:
> > My machine: HDD1 in hda
> > HDD2 in hdb
> >
> > The machine boots with lilo on hda.
> > I boot with a disket 1.44 Mb for hdb.
> >
> > After the compile, my machine booted correctly with the
> > kernel 2.4.17 on the disket 1.44 Mb, but I forgot to
> > include a module in the kernel and I recompiled the
> > kernel 2.4.17 and now when I boot the machine with the
> > boot disket I get :
> >
> > NET4:unix domain socket 1.0/SMP for LINUX NET4.0.
> > request_module[ide-disk]:Rot fs not mounted
> > hdb:driver not present
> > VFS:Cannot open root device "343" or 03:43
> > Please apend a correct "root=" boot option
> > Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:43
> >
> Ok, I do not really see how your system is configured. On which harddisk
> is Linux installed? Why do you use a floppy to boot when you have LILO
> installed too?
> 
> The problem is that the ide driver is not loaded (that's what the kernel
> says). You have to recompile the kernel and test it first.

Thanks for your reply.
I solved my problem:
when I ran xconfig I set by mistake "include IDE/ATAPI-2 DISK support"
to "m" instead to "y" ;-)
I rerecompiled the kernel and now it's ok.
 
About lilo :
I use lilo to boot on HDD1 on which win98 and potato 2.2r2 are installed.
And on HDD2 "potato -> woody" is installed.(I experiment )
I don't know if lilo can accommodate the three systems ?

off topic:
I put the module udf in the kernel 2.4.17 and now I can read my CDRW 
(burned with udf fs) with linux. 
Thanks again.
-- 
Gerard

Re: Wine

[Tom Cook]

Thanks lots everyone who replied - perhaps an RTFM might have been more
appropriate :-(

winesetuptk looks good but is not on potato :-(

Tom

Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote:
> 
> Hi Tom,
> 
> make the following settings in your .wine/config :
> 
> [x11drv]
> (...)
> ; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
> "Managed" = "Y"
> ; Use a desktop window of 640x480 for Wine
> "Desktop" = "N"
> 
> Then wine windows will be managed by your wm like all other windows.
> 
> HTH, Joachim
> 
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:01:55PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know how to make windoze programs I run under Wine stick to
> > one desktop?  I can figure it out, and it doesn't seem to be
> > WM-specific.  I am using IceWM.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> 
> --
> Joachim Fahnenmüller
> Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik
> 
> Herder-Gymnasium
> Kattowitzer Straße 52
> 51065 Köln
> 
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Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide

"That you're not paranoid does not mean they're not out to get you."
- Robert Waldner

Re: suggestion[data in .sig file]

[will trillich]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:46:13PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> The actual tip is:
> 
> OpenSSH will not forward X connections if the local DISPLAY variable
> is not set. I.e.
> export DISPLAY= ; ssh -X server ; netscape <-- "Cannot open display"
> export DISPLAY=:0.0 ; ssh -X server ; netscape <-- works
> 
> No idea if it's true of other SSHs. 
> The hostname part in DISPLAY is not needed. In fact, on my box (snapper; 
> woody, OpenSSH 2.9.9p2),
> 
> export DISPLAY=snapper:0.0 ; ssh -X server ; nedit
> connect snapper port 6000: Connection refused
> 
> so it's actually *wrong*. IIRC it worked on some old version of OpenSSH
> (or maybe it was just a brane fart), but it certainly doesn't work now.

good to tweak the tips, if you know what i mean. :)

how's this?

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Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
 
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #110 from Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
Here's how to TUNNEL SECURE X11 CONNECTIONS THROUGH SSH: on the
client, do this:
local-client# export DISPLAY=:0.0
local-client# ssh -X server
then once you're logged in at the server, do:
remote-server# netscape &
The environment created at the server will include the DISPLAY
variable, so netscape (or whatever) will dialogue with the
client machine. (See "man ssh" for more.)

Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...

Re: Help! Stuck in apt-get

[David Roundy]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:01:23PM -0500, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
> When I try apt-get -f install
> 
> I get
> 
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/ gs-common
>  trying  to overwrite '/usr/bin/bdftops' which is also in
>  package ghostscript'
> 
>  I don't seem to be able to get past this. Fortunately , the system
>  is still working. There is no package called ghostscript, so I do not 
>  know what package is being referred to. Though gs-aladdin is
>  reported as being uninstalled, I presume, since the system is working
>  and gs has not been installed, that the ghostscript part of aladdin
>  has not been completely removed. The problem is: How do I get it to
>  instll gs-common so that it can then install gs ?

My guess is `apt-get remove ghostscript` will fix things up.
-- 
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

RE: Help! Stuck in apt-get

[Sam Stern]

Hi Sebastion,

Why not open up "dselect", go to "Select" and then press "/" to search
for "gs-common" and go up one line, then press "_" to purge the file.
Repeat the search and re-install "gs-aladdin" (do not forget that
gs-common must remain selected, it's just easier to search for gs-common
than for gs alone). Note that the action of uninstalling gs will
probably reveal what package depends on it. Next, Hit "enter" then
select "install" to install/remove the needed packages -- that should
get you back up and running. If problem persists, purge gs and use
"remove" then go back and re-install gs-aladin. I'm sorry that I do not
know the cli commands for apt as yet :<



HTH,

Sam Stern
Bethesda, MD, USA

> -Original Message-
> From: Sebastian Canagaratna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> On Behalf Of Sebastian Canagaratna
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 03:01 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Help! Stuck in apt-get
> 
> 
> I have woody installed and just a few days ago I thought I would
> replace gs-aladdin with gs. This has got me into trouble 
> where I can't 
> proceed any further.
> 
> I get
> 
> gs: Depends: gs-common(>=0.2) but it is not installed
> E: unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
> 
> 
> When I try apt-get -f install
> 
> I get
> 
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/ gs-common
>  trying  to overwrite '/usr/bin/bdftops' which is also in
>  package ghostscript'
> 
>  I don't seem to be able to get past this. Fortunately , the system
>  is still working. There is no package called ghostscript, so 
> I do not 
>  know what package is being referred to. Though gs-aladdin is
>  reported as being uninstalled, I presume, since the system is working
>  and gs has not been installed, that the ghostscript part of aladdin
>  has not been completely removed. The problem is: How do I get it to
>  instll gs-common so that it can then install gs ?
> 
>  Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
>  Sebastian.
> -- 
> Sebastian Canagaratna
> Department of Chemistry
> Ohio Northern University
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

Re: pppoe and kernel 2.4.x

[Joachim Fahnenmueller]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 07:06:09PM +0100, Frodo Baggins wrote:
> Hi debianers,
>   well, I have a debian system connected to a ISP using
> pppoe. Everithing works well with the 2.2.x kernels, but for different
> reasons, I need to install a 2.4.x kernel. 
> 
>   Reading the file /usr/doc/pppoe/KERNEL-MODE-PPPOE I understand that
> I must recompile ppp from the tar-ball at
> http://www.shoshin.uwaterloo.ca/~mostrows/ which is a patched ppp,
> install it and then compiling rp-pppoe enabling plugins.

Actually, I never read that. I had been running woody with kernel 2.4.10 for a 
while when I got a DSL connection. I simply apt-get'ed the debian pppoe 
package, did some easy config (see /usr/doc/pppoe/README.debian) and, IT WORKED.

HTH, Joachim

-- 
Joachim Fahnenmüller
Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik

Herder-Gymnasium
Kattowitzer Straße 52
51065 Köln

Interfaces configuration and tap0

[Philippe Raxhon]

 Hi,

I'm running a Debian 2.2 with testing packages. I have 2 network cards:
- eth0: not configured, it's used by pppd (ADSL line) when started.
- eth1: configured as 192.168.1.254, for my local network (configured 
using linuxconf, present in /etc/network/interfaces)


But when I boot, ifconfig showns only lo and tap0 (being the default 
gateway). That means I have to do:

- ifconfig tap0 down
- ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.254
before starting the ADSL connection (that is then the default gateway).

What is tap0?
Why doesn't it "load" eth1? When I start linux in single mode it 
doesnt't load nor tap0 nor eth1.


BTW, I have another problem. I have added some environment variables to 
/etc/profile, but they are not taken into account when I run a xterm 
while they are set in a tty.


Thanks a lot. I hope these questions have not been asked 1000 times.

Greetings

Philippe Raxhon

Re: the quest for a *stable* browser

[Noah Meyerhans]

On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:27:31AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> The only stability problem with recent Mozilla I've detected is that opening
> a second instance (not a second window) makes both instances unable to load
> new web pages.  (Cached stuff continues to work.)

That happens predicably?  On a regular basis?  Weird.  I have been using
mozilla since...  a long long time ago, anyway, and have never seen that
problem.  I often run multiple browser instances so I can have two
different profiles loaded (one with a very minimal feature set that has
stuff like Javascript turned off and doesn't let documents specify their
colors, etc; the other which is my normal browser).  Have you moved you
.mozilla directory out of the way and tried with a freshly created one?

noah

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Re: new twist on shutting down and restricting ssh users

[Simon Hepburn]

I take it you don't understand what ;-) means.

Karsten M. Self wrote:

> on Wed, Mar 06, 2002, Simon Hepburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 9:11 pm, dman wrote:
> > > I want to allow my dad to shut down the router/gateway.
> >
> > Install ext3fs. Show him the power switch  ;-)
>
> Journaled filesystems exist to help recover from _filesystem_ errors in
> the event of an unexpected shutdown.  You're still liable to encounter
> _other_ forms of inconsistent data, and journaling ***DOES NOT***
> address this issue.
>
> Hard shutdowns are _not_ recommended as a matter of course.  You're
> likely to run into trouble sooner or later.
>
> By way of analogy, you can stop your car by running it up against
> something.  Hitting the wheelstop in a parking lot at 1.5 MPH is rather
> different from striking a tree at 65 MPH.  Your car is stopped in both
> cases.  The condition of the contents may vary.
>
> Peace.

-- 
Simon Hepburn.

re all caps always on [disregard]

[justin cunningham]

Replying to my own post here.  I rebooted for a different reason and it
seems to be back to normal.  Perhaps this
was caused by a power outage yesterday?  dontknow, but it’s okay again.  regards, Justin   

Re: Wine

[Joachim Fahnenmueller]

Hi Tom,

make the following settings in your .wine/config :

[x11drv]
(...)
; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
"Managed" = "Y"
; Use a desktop window of 640x480 for Wine
"Desktop" = "N"

Then wine windows will be managed by your wm like all other windows.

HTH, Joachim

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:01:55PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know how to make windoze programs I run under Wine stick to
> one desktop?  I can figure it out, and it doesn't seem to be
> WM-specific.  I am using IceWM.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom

-- 
Joachim Fahnenmüller
Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik

Herder-Gymnasium
Kattowitzer Straße 52
51065 Köln

Re: pppoe and kernel 2.4.x

[Jean-Marc V. Liotier]

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 19:06, Frodo Baggins wrote:
>   Is there another, more debian conformant, way to do it? 

Yes : use the Debian ppp and pppoe packages. This way, you shall run
pppoe purely in user mode instead of using the kernel module which is
still rather developmental as far as I have read. You look suspisciously
french to me, so it will certainly be of interest to you that the stock
Debian pppoe and ppp package work fine with Netissimo. I currently use
it to connect to Nerim through an Alcatel 1000.




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re all caps always on

[justin cunningham]

Hello, how do I reconfigure my console keyboard to get rid of the all
caps?  I tried to reinstall console-data and dpkg gave errors saying 'no
default for console-data/keymap/querty/acountry/standard/keymap' where
acountry=is a list of countries.  

Ssh is works fine, it's only the console that's all caps.  

Thanks, justin  

Re: root w/o .journal

[Craig Dickson]

begin  Richard Weil  quotation:

> How do make an ext3 root partition without a .journal
> file? For a normal partition you umount the filesystem
> before using tunefs -j and then there is no .journal.
> But how do you umount root? Do you need to do a mke2fs
> -j during installation? Thanks.

Boot from a rescue diskette.

I don't know why you care about .journal being visible in directory
listings. It doesn't hurt anything.

Craig


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RE: MUTT Issue

[Bannerman, Israel]

Hey,
I tried that but no luck. Thanks for the response.

-Israel

-Original Message-
From: Darryl L. Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:16 AM
To: Bannerman, Israel
Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org'
Subject: Re: MUTT Issue


On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:45:23PM -0500, Bannerman, Israel wrote:
> To all:
> 
> I recently installed Mutt.  I am using imap to connect to the exchange
> system in the network.  Everything is working fine except in order to see
> new mail that just arrived, I have to exit out of Mutt and start the
> application over again.  I keep getting this message that says.
> Mailbox was externally modified.  Flags may be wrong.
> 
> Other than that, the app is working great.  Is there anyone who is
familiar
> with this type of situation?

Try typing $ while in Mutt. That tells it to refresh its display.

-- 
Darryl L. Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Visit the Infobahn Offramp @ 
"What do you care what other people think, Mr. Feynman?"

RE:root w/o .journal

[Andrew Agno]

Since all you need is an unmounted partition, you can just use a
rescue disk with access to tune2fs and its libraries--just copy all
these to some handy partition or your rescue disk, set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and I think you're okay.

Or, if you have access to a fairly complete and up to date rescue CD,
you can just use that.

Andrew.

Re: truncate utility (not split)

[Alan Shutko]

csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> You're absolutely right. Reminds me of someone's Linux motto: You want
> it, you have it.

I want a multithreaded Emacs.  Hey, it didn't work!

-- 
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors!
It is illegal to say "Oh, Boy" in Jonesboro, Georgia.

Re: MUTT Issue

[Darryl L. Pierce]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:45:23PM -0500, Bannerman, Israel wrote:
> To all:
> 
> I recently installed Mutt.  I am using imap to connect to the exchange
> system in the network.  Everything is working fine except in order to see
> new mail that just arrived, I have to exit out of Mutt and start the
> application over again.  I keep getting this message that says.
> Mailbox was externally modified.  Flags may be wrong.
> 
> Other than that, the app is working great.  Is there anyone who is familiar
> with this type of situation?

Try typing $ while in Mutt. That tells it to refresh its display.

-- 
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Visit the Infobahn Offramp @ 
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Re: MUTT Issue

[David Roundy]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:45:23PM -0500, Bannerman, Israel wrote:
> To all:
> 
> I recently installed Mutt.  I am using imap to connect to the exchange
> system in the network.  Everything is working fine except in order to see
> new mail that just arrived, I have to exit out of Mutt and start the
> application over again.  I keep getting this message that says.
> Mailbox was externally modified.  Flags may be wrong.
> 
> Other than that, the app is working great.  Is there anyone who is familiar
> with this type of situation?

I think you may want:

set imap_passive=no

to make mutt keep checking the imap server for changes.
-- 
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/

Re: X Screen Capture?

[Henrik Enberg]

John Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I recently got X running and I'm having a strange
> situation with the screen being "split"  in any
> resolution higher than 800*600.  I can't think of
> a way to more definitively describe it in words,
> so I would like to capture the whole screen to a
> graphics file (.jpg, .gif, whatever) and post it
> on a webpage for anyone who might be interested
> in taking a look at it and perhaps helping me
> figure it out.
>
> How best to make such a screenshot?

If you have ImageMagick...

import -window root file.png

-- 

Re: OT: interface card to register button presses

[John Hasler]

Sebastiaan writes:
> does anyone know a good, simple interface card which gives you the
> ability to connect a panel with about 100 buttons to your computer and
> registrates which butten is pressed?

Use a keyboard.  Re-arrange the buttons as required.  There may be some
industrial pushbutton arrays out there that plug in in place of a
keyboard.  Look at industrial controls suppliers.
-- 
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

'connection refused' messages

[Timothy H. Keitt]

I'm suddenly getting lots of:

ntpd[12605]: recvfrom(192.168.1.6) fd=7: Connection refused

messages in my syslog. I'm not aware of having changed something that
would effect ntpd (and ntp seems to be working).  Anyone else seen this?
(Running woody; cropped up after recent apt-get upgrade.)

Tim

-- 
Timothy H. Keitt
Department of Ecology and Evolution
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Re: in what config file should I place 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5", and pon ?

[Martin Wuertele]

Hi John!

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, John Kennedy wrote:

> I have a 56k dialup/firewall box using Debian 2.2.17
> 
> I configured the dialup connection using 'ppp-config'
> and selected 'demand' dial
> however after reboot doing 'netstat -nr' returns only
> 
> "192.168.1.10   0.0.0.0   255.255.255.0   eth0"
> 
> When I ping an address out on the net it won't dial out.
> 
> If I type 'pon' and then 'netstat -nr' i get
> a proper routing table as below
> 
> "10.112.112.112  0.0.0.0   UH   ppp0"
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0   Ueth0
> 0.0.0.010.112.112.112 UG   ppp0
> 
> and I can now ping out of my lan to an ip on the net.
> 
> Because I an using IRQ-5 on my modem I must also do a
> 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5" before dialing.

take a look at /etc/serial.conf

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Help! Stuck in apt-get

[Sebastian Canagaratna]

I have woody installed and just a few days ago I thought I would
replace gs-aladdin with gs. This has got me into trouble where I can't 
proceed any further.

I get

gs: Depends: gs-common(>=0.2) but it is not installed
E: unmet dependencies. Try using -f.


When I try apt-get -f install

I get

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/ gs-common
 trying  to overwrite '/usr/bin/bdftops' which is also in
 package ghostscript'

 I don't seem to be able to get past this. Fortunately , the system
 is still working. There is no package called ghostscript, so I do not 
 know what package is being referred to. Though gs-aladdin is
 reported as being uninstalled, I presume, since the system is working
 and gs has not been installed, that the ghostscript part of aladdin
 has not been completely removed. The problem is: How do I get it to
 instll gs-common so that it can then install gs ?

 Thanks for any suggestions.

 Sebastian.
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Re: in what config file should I place 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5", and pon ?

[Vineet Kumar]

* John Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020312 11:04]:
> Good morning,
> 
> I have a 56k dialup/firewall box using Debian 2.2.17
> 
> I configured the dialup connection using 'ppp-config'
> and selected 'demand' dial
> however after reboot doing 'netstat -nr' returns only
> 
> "192.168.1.10   0.0.0.0   255.255.255.0   eth0"
> 
> When I ping an address out on the net it won't dial out.
> 
> If I type 'pon' and then 'netstat -nr' i get
> a proper routing table as below
> 
> "10.112.112.112  0.0.0.0   UH   ppp0"
> 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0   Ueth0
> 0.0.0.010.112.112.112 UG   ppp0
> 
> and I can now ping out of my lan to an ip on the net.
> 
> Because I an using IRQ-5 on my modem I must also do a
> 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5" before dialing.
> 
> I am curious as to why the modem does not dial out
> after setting 'demand' in 'ppp-config' ?
> I set 'defaultroute' in ppp-config.
> 
> My most urgent question here is
> in what config file should I enter the commands to
> 1. do 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5"  after boot.
> 2. do 'pon' after boot.

I'm actually not using ppp, so I'm not the best person to answer this
question, but my instinct is that these things should already happen in
one of the package-provided initscripts. For setserial, you should be
able to 'dpkg-reconfigure setserial' (as root) and have it "autosave
once". This means that any changes you make to /etc/serial.conf this
time will be saved when the system is brought down and restored each
time it's brought up after that.

I guess the short answer is "/etc/serial.conf", and also read the
setserial manpage and (if you know your way around a shell script)
/etc/init.d/setserial.

As for pon; I don't really know (but see below).

> 
> I'm a former Redhat user...
> With Redhat I would put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> but I noticed that my Potato install has no
> file /etc/rc.d/rc.local...
> so what file in Debian 2.2.17 performs rc.locals functions?

Anything you want. Create a file /etc/init.d/local, or, better still,
/etc/init.d/ and create smylinks to it
in /etc/rc?.d . You can see the manpage for update-rc.d or ask around
here for more clues on how to set up the symlinks, if you don't
understand what I mean.

> 
> Also one other question,
> when doing tail -f /var/log/messages  I notice that
> when I'm dialed up but the connection is just sitting there
> dooing nothing for a while I get a bunch of
> '---MARK---'  messages and I'm wondering what they mean.

They come exactly every 20 minutes (by default). I think the idea is to
make it easier to see the time flow when examining a log file; If you
see MARK MARK  MARK MARK, you can easily, instantly see that
there is very little activity. If another time you see many, many
messages between each MARK, you know they're coming in rapidly. Sure,
each log item is timestamped, but the MARKs are a handy visual clue. You
can change or disable this behavior in /etc/init.d/sysklogd. Add an
argument to the syslog daemon that specifies -m  to tell it
how often to MARK. The deafult is 20, and 0 disables the MARKs entirely.
This info is in the manpage for sysklogd.

> _
> Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

Better still, try gaim: http://gaim.sf.net/

good times,
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Re: X Screen Capture?

[Sebastiaan]

High,

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, John Shepherd wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I recently got X running and I'm having a strange
> situation with the screen being "split"  in any
> resolution higher than 800*600.  I can't think of
> a way to more definitively describe it in words,
> so I would like to capture the whole screen to a
> graphics file (.jpg, .gif, whatever) and post it
> on a webpage for anyone who might be interested
> in taking a look at it and perhaps helping me
> figure it out.
>
Hmm, strange.

> How best to make such a screenshot?
>
You can use xv for this. Just start xv, press the grab button in the menu
and grab a piece of your screen.

However, I am not sure if this grab display's what you 'see'. The screen's
bitmap is probably send to the video card correctly, and that is what is
grabbed.

What video card are you using? Are you sure your monitor can cope with
resolutions higher than 800x600?

Greetz,
Sebastiaan

Re: Nvidia Debian Kernel

[Phillip Deackes]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:54:26 +0200 (EET)
Kai Hendry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> On the user list you mentioned building a kernel the debian way with
> nvidia stuff.
> 
> I apt-get source kernel-source-2.4.18

No. I get a pristine kernel from ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/ then I
uzip and untar in into /usr/src so that it creates /usr/src/linux. I
change the directory name to match the kernel, eg. /usr/src/linux-2.4.18
and make a symlink to /usr/src/linux. I cd to the /usr/src/linux directory
and run 'make xconfig' and run through all the options. At this point, I
do the Debian bit, 'make-kpkg -rev Custom.N kernel_image'. I install the
resultant .deb then do the NVIDIA bits exactly as in the accompanying
documentation.

I never use apt-get to obtain kernel sources - never have done.

Hope this helps - it certainly works without errors here.

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Re: DVD players under Linux (was: Re: 2.4 kernels with potato and Movie players)

[Craig]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:40:15PM -0500, christophe barb? wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:32:58AM -0800, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > It is a bit strong to kill esd.
> > > I would suggest 'man esdctl'
> > > 
> > > Christophe
> > > 
> > >
> > 
> > Which gets me:
> > 
> > "No manual entry for esdctl"
> 
> Which is in the esound-clients package.
> 
Hell might freeze over if Linux ever becomes coherent or consistent, but
on my box esdctl is a part of esound, and the manpage for esdctl is a
part of esound-common.

CraigW
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Hope Guideline from you friends

[Vit]

Hi Friends,
Well, will you please explain me how different between RedHat and Debian
Linux? Some people says that Debian Linux is most powerfull OS except all
other Linux palforms, is that true? I am going to learn Linux now I know SCO
Unix but I don't understand which Linux is good for me. I want to go in
Linux Administration and Script Programming. I want learn establish and run
we server. I am good C++ programer and also can write script in SCO Unix.
Hopping recent reply,
vitarag

RE: Can't reboot or halt from gdm (FIXED)

[Todd Myhre]

Oki wrote:
>
>> I've set up gdm on a new laptop but the System menu does not
>> seem to work correctly.  When I try to halt the system, it
>> simply reloads gdm and the following error messages appear
>> in my syslog:
>> 
>>   gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
>>   gdm_child_action: Reboot or Halt request when there is no
>>  system menu from display :0
>
> Which gdm version are you using?

It's the latest one, 2.2.5.4-2, from sid.

> It happened to me once, when I upgraded gdm; I don't
> remember correctly, whether it was potato -> potato/woody or
> woody -> woody/sid. I found out that the newer gdm set the
> "gdm" username to not having the privilege to shutdown the
> system. So, I ended up utilizing sudo so that 
> gdm can do the shutdown. In /etc/gdm/gdm.conf:
> RebootCommand=/usr/bin/sudo /sbin/reboot
> HaltCommand=/usr/bin/sudo /sbin/poweroff
>
> And, of course, you have to add the gdm username to the sudo
> entries file using visudo.
>
> Oki

I found the problem; I still had xdm installed from when I
originally set up x-window-system.  Removing xdm fixed gdm's
behaviour; no configuration changes required.

Thanks for your help!

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Re: changing mouse buttons

[Vineet Kumar]

* Thomas Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020228 23:37]:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 11:50:10PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> > * Thomas Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020227 22:15]:
> > > I'm running woody and xfree4.1. I'm using a graphic table from wacom
> > > (Wacom Graphire seriell) and all is fine. But my middle and right
> > > mouse buttons are changed. This is a known bug and the mouse buttons
> > > must be changed in gnome (or xfree). Can anybody tell how to do this?
> > 
> > IIRC, xmodmap can do this with something like
> > 
> > xmodmap -e "pointer 1 3 2"
> Unfortunately no success. Are there separate cofiguration files in
> gnome?

Sorry for the delayed reply -- have you solved this problem yet?
Also, I'm sending this back to the list, since I think I've got a pretty
good answer that others may like to see (at least in the archives).

In the mouse capplet of the gnome control panel, I just see the
"standard" left-handed or right-handed mouse option. So gnome does have
some way of modifying the buttons, but doesn't let you do what you want.
(Reminds me of windows...) Either that or it doesn't actually modify the
buttons, just how they're interpreted with gnome apps (but not all X
apps). I haven't tested it, so I don't know which it is.

What happened with xmodmap? Just didn't change it at all? Any error
messages?

I'm just now looking at the xmodmap manpage. I see that xmodmap -pp
should give you a list of the current "button mapping" (i.e. which
physical buttons map to which button codes). It also looks like the
correct syntax for the command I pointed you at earlier should really be
this:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 3 2"

For me, that command complains because I have a wheel mouse (which
counts as 5 buttons instead of 3). When I try this:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 3 2 4 5"

it works. Buttons 2 and 3 are switched, and everything else is as
before. So you'll have to give it a mapping with exactly the number of
physical buttons you have (or at least, that it thinks you have, which
you can find out with xmodmap -pp).

good times,
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root w/o .journal

[Richard Weil]

How do make an ext3 root partition without a .journal
file? For a normal partition you umount the filesystem
before using tunefs -j and then there is no .journal.
But how do you umount root? Do you need to do a mke2fs
-j during installation? Thanks.

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[Bannerman, Israel]

To all:

I recently installed Mutt.  I am using imap to connect to the exchange
system in the network.  Everything is working fine except in order to see
new mail that just arrived, I have to exit out of Mutt and start the
application over again.  I keep getting this message that says.
Mailbox was externally modified.  Flags may be wrong.

Other than that, the app is working great.  Is there anyone who is familiar
with this type of situation?


Thanks alot,
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MUTT Issue

[Bannerman, Israel]

To all:

I recently installed Mutt.  I am using imap to connect to the exchange
system in the network.  Everything is working fine except in order to see
new mail that just arrived, I have to exit out of Mutt and start the
application over again.  I keep getting this message that says.
Mailbox was externally modified.  Flags may be wrong.

Other than that, the app is working great.  Is there anyone who is familiar
with this type of situation?


Thanks alot,
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Re: Moving /var to another drive

[Dimitri Maziuk]

* François Chenais ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
> And what happens if the /var/log and /var/run dirs that can change during
> the tar ?

You may end up with a slightly b0rked system (but you knew that
already).

If your /var was on the root drive, you'll have to delete its
contents before mounting new /var -- otherwise nfs-mounted /var
will mask the old one, and contents of old /var will still be
there, using up disk space. 

Of course you'd better stop the daemons whose log and run files
you're deleting. So you'll do that in a single-user mode, with
all daemons stopped anyway, and then /var/run and /var/log won't
change during tar.

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Re: problem with dialup connection

[Sebastiaan]

High,
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Siward de Groot wrote:

>
>
>   Hello,
>
>   I have a problem getting my dial-up internet connection to work.
>   Your help would be appreciated.
>

>  Si:/my# route -n
>  Kernel IP routing table
>  Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface
>  193.172.249.23  0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0  00 ppp0
>  0.0.0.0 193.172.249.23  0.0.0.0 UG0  00 ppp0
>
I think the problem is here. My route table has as destination a .0 at the
end:
62.163.123.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0   U 0  00 eth0

Perhaps that is the problem?

Greetz,
Sebastiaan



>
>
>  so, as you can see, i dont know too much about it,
>and probably fucked up the system settings myself.
>  I did get it working yesterday though,
>browsed the net with netscape, got mail in, and played with sirc,
>after which correct configuration was nonexistant again.
>  If only i knew how i did that...
>
>  hoping you will be so kind to help,
>
>greetings,
>
>Siward.
>
>
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Re: Pump and Dhclient

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 12-Mar-2002 hanasaki wrote:
> I have both installed.
>   - is there a way to tell ifup/down which to use?
> dhclient seems to need entries for each interface, that will get a 
> lease, in /etc/dhclient.conf.  Pump is nice in that it only requireds on 
> place to specifiy that the interface will be dhcp
>   (/etc/network/interfaces)
> Is what are the pro's cons of using these differnt tools?

pump does not obey the RFC and has been known to not work on all networks. 
Debian is moving away from it.

X Screen Capture?

[John Shepherd]

Hi,

I recently got X running and I'm having a strange
situation with the screen being "split"  in any
resolution higher than 800*600.  I can't think of
a way to more definitively describe it in words,
so I would like to capture the whole screen to a
graphics file (.jpg, .gif, whatever) and post it
on a webpage for anyone who might be interested
in taking a look at it and perhaps helping me
figure it out.

How best to make such a screenshot?

Thanks!
John

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pppoe and kernel 2.4.x

[Frodo Baggins]

Hi debianers,
  well, I have a debian system connected to a ISP using
pppoe. Everithing works well with the 2.2.x kernels, but for different
reasons, I need to install a 2.4.x kernel. 

  Reading the file /usr/doc/pppoe/KERNEL-MODE-PPPOE I understand that
I must recompile ppp from the tar-ball at
http://www.shoshin.uwaterloo.ca/~mostrows/ which is a patched ppp,
install it and then compiling rp-pppoe enabling plugins.

  This look strightforward but will obviously clash with the package
structure of my machine. Just for one, intrusion-detection tools
(e.g. tiger) will complain about unmatching cecksums. For another,
updating will become painful. 

  Is there another, more debian conformant, way to do it? 

  Thanks a lot
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Re: Moving /var to another drive

[Dave Sherohman]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:33:55PM +0200, George Karaolides wrote:
> That's it.  Note that if /usr and /var were originally part of your root
> filesystem, the data will still be there but the new filesystem will be
> mounted on the top level directory so you won't see it.  After you've
> successfully transferred /usr and /var out of the root filesystem, you can
> reclaim the space by going to single user mode, unmounting /usr and /var,
> and doing the following:
> 
> rm -rvf /var
> rm -rvf /usr
> mkdir /var
> mkdir /usr
> 
> Be VERY careful that /usr and /var are NOT mounted when you do this!
> Also note, a space or a slash in the wrong place in either of the above
> commands can wreck your system completely!

Good warnings.  I would also recommend doing a `ls -ld /usr /var >
/tmp/perms` before deleting the old directories, then double-checking
that the ownership and permissions on them are correct after creating
and mounting the new ones.

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Re: Moving /var to another drive

[Dave Sherohman]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:42:37PM +0100, François Chenais wrote:
> And what happens if the /var/log and /var/run dirs that can change during
> the tar ?

That's my main disagreement with George's instructions.  Go to
single-user mode _before_ you copy /var and /usr to the new drive
instead of after copying them.  This will shut down all the various
daemons that might be modifying data while you work.

(The lesser disagreement is that I would use cpio instead of tar, but
that's really just a matter of taste.)

So, how I do it:

1.  Shut down machine[1]
2.  Install new drive
3.  Boot to single-user mode
4.  cfdisk /dev/hdnew
5.  mount /dev/hdnewvar /mnt
6.  cd /var
7.  find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -pvdm0 /mnt
8.  umount /mnt
9.  Repeat steps 5-8 for /usr
10. Update /etc/fstab
11. Reboot

or

11. umount /var && umount /usr && mount -a && init 2

[1]  I'm assuming that the box is not hot-swap capable, so you have
to power down to install the new drive.  If it is hot-swappable, just
plug the drive in and use `init 1` to get to single-user mode.

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Re: truncate utility (not split)

[csj]

On 11 Mar 2002 13:25:06 -0800
Caleb Shay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Seems to me that you should be able to do this with dd.

You're absolutely right. Reminds me of someone's Linux motto: You want
it, you have it.

> On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 11:59, csj wrote:
> > Is there a utility to truncate files such that a single smaller piece or
> > no more than two pieces are produced? Something like:
> > 
> > (1) original_file -> small_chunk (bigger_2nd_chunk discarded)
> > (2) original_file -> (smaller_1st_chunk discarded) big_chunk
> > (3) original_file -> small_chunk + big_chunk
> > 
> > split would be suboptimal, especially in scenarios (2) and (3)::
> > 
> > original_file -> small_chunk_1 + small_chunk_2 + small_chunk_n
> > delete small_chunk_2 small_chunk_2
> > concatenate small_chunk_*
> > 
> > Hope you understand what I means. TIA

OT: interface card to register button presses

[Sebastiaan]

Hi,

does anyone know a good, simple  interface card which gives you the
ability to connect a panel with about 100 buttons to your computer and
registrates which butten is pressed?

Of course it should work with Linux and hopefully an easy to program one.

I was asked to make a simple voting simulation for the upcoming elections
here. Since this is the first time all votings are electronical, some
people have trouble voting (mainly elderly people). Another issue is to
train illiterates (illiterate in Latin script) in voting for the upcoming
elections.


Thanks in advance for any hints or ideas,
Sebastiaan



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Re: lite applications

[Craig]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:42:44PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sun, Mar 10, 2002, Joe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 11:52:43PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > on Fri, Mar 08, 2002, Nicholas Imfeld ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > > I have set up an old 486 laptop with debian.  I am looking for an x
> > > > email client (preferably graphical as opposed to test based) and a web
> > > > browser that don't require a lot of space, memory, etc.  
> > > 
> > > I'd ***STRONGLY*** encourage you to stick with the text alternatives,
> > > unless you're using the 486 _just_ as an X11 terminal, you might be able
> > > to run more advanced apps on it.  Otherwise, I'd stick with mutt, w3m,
> > > lynx, and similar text-mode apps.
> > > 
> > > If X is an absolute requirement, look to BrowseX as a browser.  It's
> > > Tk/Tcl based and pretty light.  Nothing else I'm aware of comes close.
> > > Dillo's small of itself, but the gtk requirements are large.
> > 
> > If you install KDE 1.x 
> 
> This is simply not an option on a 486.
> 
hmm. maybe not. I had it once on a 486 box with 24 Mb RAM, but the CPU
was upgraded to a 120 Mhz Pentium.

CraigW

Re: new twist on shutting down and restricting ssh users

[Karsten M. Self]

on Wed, Mar 06, 2002, Simon Hepburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 Mar 2002 9:11 pm, dman wrote:
> 
> > I want to allow my dad to shut down the router/gateway. 
> 
> Install ext3fs. Show him the power switch  ;-)  

Journaled filesystems exist to help recover from _filesystem_ errors in
the event of an unexpected shutdown.  You're still liable to encounter
_other_ forms of inconsistent data, and journaling ***DOES NOT***
address this issue.

Hard shutdowns are _not_ recommended as a matter of course.  You're
likely to run into trouble sooner or later.

By way of analogy, you can stop your car by running it up against
something.  Hitting the wheelstop in a parking lot at 1.5 MPH is rather
different from striking a tree at 65 MPH.  Your car is stopped in both
cases.  The condition of the contents may vary.

Peace.

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Re: Acroread not displaying menu text 2nd try

[Karsten M. Self]

on Tue, Mar 12, 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Pat
> 
> Thanks for the e-mail. Unfortunately yours was the only responses I
> received. In fact I am using this reply as a rather lame excuse to
> post this question a second time.
> 
> Needless to say I would be grateful for any pointer to a solution for
> the acroread/Acrobat problem described below.

Please use postfix quoting format:  your reply goes below the material
cited.  Trim your quotes appropriately and ensure your attributions are
accurate.


First:  I'd strongly recommend xdpf or gv as alternatives to the
non-free Acroread produced by a company which pursues strongly
objectionable practices of persecuting software developers for being
smart and innovative.

Second:  I suspect a font/locales issue.  You're likely seeing Adobe's
broken handling of double-byte charactersets.  This is conjecture (I
don't use Adobe products if at all possible), but somewhat matches my
own experience with other software this past fall, particularly the
locales given.  The issue was discussed at length on list.  There is no
single workaround, though there are numerous tacks to try.  My own later
posts tried to summarize some of the options, see archives.

> On 11 March 2002 12:57:04 Patrick Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> >Hi
> >
> >Did you get a reply to this question ? I am having exactly the same
> >issue and guess what I am in th UK as well. If you got a solution I
> >would love to know what it is.

<...>

> >On Sunday 10 March 2002 11:42 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> >> I am experiencing a problem with acroread (Acobat reader)v.4.05-5 on
> >> what I believe is a typical Debian GNU/Linux 3 (Woody/Testing) system
> >> running on a Compaq Professional Workstation 5000 (P-Pro SMP).
> >>
> >> Acroread does not display any menu text at all (just gray line boxes
> >> where the text should be) and when it is started from an xterm the
> >> following error message is displayed:
> >>
> >> Warning: charset of fontList (ISO10646-1) does not match locale
> >> (ISO8859-1).
> >>
> >> I suspect this has come about because recently I had to change the
> >> user and root locales to ISO8859-1 (using dpkg-reconfigure locales)to
> >> enable recent releases of multi-gnome-terminal (currently v1.3.13) to
> >> run on my system.
> >>
> >> Reluctantly (because ISO8859-1 seems to be ideal for a UK based Debian
> >> box) I tried to set both the user and root locales to ISO10646-1. But
> >> this option is not available using dpkg-reconfigure locales. My system
> >> does have the following relevant looking file:
> >>
> >> /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/ISO_10646.gz
> >>
> >> But so far I have been unable to discover if it can be used to change
> >> the locales.

Peace.

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Re: apt-get source vs. binary

[csj]

On 11 Mar 2002 23:46:11 -0500
James Leigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> When I install via apt-get source and compile the package, then
> install.  apt-get -u upgrade wants to replace my compiled version with
> the binary package from debian servers, of the same version.  Ever time
> I install a package from apt-get source, apt-get wants to replace it
> with the binary version.  I compiled nautilus (1.0.6-3), then
> $ apt-get -s install nautilus
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
> Inst nautilus (1.0.6-3 Debian:unstable)
> Conf nautilus (1.0.6-3 Debian:unstable)
> 
> It should says that nautilus is the latest version, but it thinks that
> my optimize nautilus should be replaced with the i386 package.  I have
> been optimizing the compiled packages for my athlon using
> pentium-builder.

Create your own debian archive. Put that in front of your http:// or
ftp:// sources, something like:

deb file:/MyArchive/ ./
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main

in what config file should I place 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5", and pon ?

[John Kennedy]

Good morning,

I have a 56k dialup/firewall box using Debian 2.2.17

I configured the dialup connection using 'ppp-config'
and selected 'demand' dial
however after reboot doing 'netstat -nr' returns only

"192.168.1.10   0.0.0.0   255.255.255.0   eth0"

When I ping an address out on the net it won't dial out.

If I type 'pon' and then 'netstat -nr' i get
a proper routing table as below

"10.112.112.112  0.0.0.0   UH   ppp0"
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0   Ueth0
0.0.0.010.112.112.112 UG   ppp0

and I can now ping out of my lan to an ip on the net.

Because I an using IRQ-5 on my modem I must also do a
'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5" before dialing.

I am curious as to why the modem does not dial out
after setting 'demand' in 'ppp-config' ?
I set 'defaultroute' in ppp-config.

My most urgent question here is
in what config file should I enter the commands to
1. do 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5"  after boot.
2. do 'pon' after boot.

I'm a former Redhat user...
With Redhat I would put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
but I noticed that my Potato install has no
file /etc/rc.d/rc.local...
so what file in Debian 2.2.17 performs rc.locals functions?

Also one other question,
when doing tail -f /var/log/messages  I notice that
when I'm dialed up but the connection is just sitting there
dooing nothing for a while I get a bunch of
'---MARK---'  messages and I'm wondering what they mean.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

John








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Re: DVD players under Linux (was: Re: 2.4 kernels with potato and Movie players)

[christophe barbé]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:32:58AM -0800, Jim Gettys wrote:
> 
> > From: christophe =?iso-8859-15?Q?barb=E9?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:10:29 -0500
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: DVD players under Linux (was: Re: 2.4 kernels with potato and
> > Movie players)
> > -
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 08:33:08AM -0800, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > > I'm a happy camper with current Xine, on a display running the Xvideo
> > > extension, on a 600mhz pentium III.  Pretty much doesn't drop frames.
> > >
> > > The other tip is to kill esd if it is running.  That lame audio server
> > > is hopeless on being able to keep audio and video synced up.
> > 
> > It is a bit strong to kill esd.
> > I would suggest 'man esdctl'
> > 
> > Christophe
> > 
> >
> 
> Which gets me:
> 
> "No manual entry for esdctl"

Which is in the esound-clients package.

Christophe

> 
> --
> Jim Gettys
> Cambridge Research Laboratory
> Compaq Computer Corporation
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

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Re: DVD players under Linux (was: Re: 2.4 kernels with potato and Movie players)

[Jim Gettys]

> From: christophe =?iso-8859-15?Q?barb=E9?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:10:29 -0500
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: DVD players under Linux (was: Re: 2.4 kernels with potato and
> Movie players)
> -
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 08:33:08AM -0800, Jim Gettys wrote:
> > I'm a happy camper with current Xine, on a display running the Xvideo
> > extension, on a 600mhz pentium III.  Pretty much doesn't drop frames.
> >
> > The other tip is to kill esd if it is running.  That lame audio server
> > is hopeless on being able to keep audio and video synced up.
> 
> It is a bit strong to kill esd.
> I would suggest 'man esdctl'
> 
> Christophe
> 
>

Which gets me:

"No manual entry for esdctl"

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Strange messages on all terminals

[Scott Henson]

I am having a problem with all my virtual terminals(ctr-alt-F<1-6>)  For
some reason a constant stream of information is sent to all of them.  It
seems to be something to do with my internet connection, because its
specifying MAC addresses and a couple of other things which makes me
think its displaying all incomming packets to the terminals.  Now this
is not affecting X or any of the X-terms, but its sure a bother while
working in a virtual terminal.  I am running woody and a 2.4.19 ac
pre-patch.  Anyone have an idea why this is happening.  Its been going
on for a while now and I tried re-compiling the kernel taking out all
verbose debug messages having to do with the net connection.  I am also
running the new isc dhcp client 3.0, but this was happening before with
the old 2.2 version.  Im not sure what else might be causing this.  This
is especially embaracing because Im trying to get a bunch of my friends
to switch from windows, and having all that trash there and not knowing
what is causeing it is not a major selling point.  Anyone have an idea? 
Thanks.
-- 
-Peace kid
  Scott Henson  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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rapper Ice Cube said. "But these haters need to realize that  if you
mess with the man upstairs, you will get your ass smote. True dat."

Re: making my own dist. ? ?

[Daniel Farnsworth Teichert]

And I heard Adam craig exclaim:
> My idea was to update the first server direct from the internet,
> test, then (apt-move get/move) update the 2 other servers from
> the first server. So how can I disable any updates relating to php4 ?

There is a way to put a hold on a package (which someone else will
probably tell you, I'm not really sure what it is). But we do a similar
thing to what you're describing here, and what we do is use dpkg with
the -R option (see the man page for dpkg for more on this) to install
all of the .deb files in a directory.  This won't go out to the network
or wherever and get other stuff--like more recent versions of files
(although if some of the .deb's you're trying to install are missing
dependencies, it might choke on them).

Anyway, HTH.

  --Daniel F. T.

Re: Wine

[csj]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:30:03 +1030
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Tom Cook wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to make windoze programs I run under Wine stick to
> > one desktop?  I can figure it out, and it doesn't seem to be
> > WM-specific.  I am using IceWM.

Maybe this can help:

apt-get install winesetuptk

> Ooops!  I _can't_ figure it out!  Which is why I'm asking the
> question...

(no subject)

[Peggysfamily]

Re: Moving /var to another drive

[Shri Shrikumar]

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 15:42, François Chenais wrote:
> And what happens if the /var/log and /var/run dirs that can change during
> the tar ?
> 
>   François

Go into single user mode telinit 1 and then tar. I actually use cp -a
which seems to preserve all the required attributes.

I have done this process before.

%telinit 1
%mkdir mnt/var
%mkdir mnt/usr
%mount /dev/ /mnt/var
%mount /dev/ /mnt/usr
%cp -a /usr/* /mnt/var
%cp -a /var/* /mnt/usr
%umount /mnt/var
%umount /mnt/usr
%rm -r /mnt/var
%rm -r /mnt/usr
%umount /var
%umount /usr
%mv  /var /var.old
%mv /usr /usr.old
%mkdir /var
%mkdir /usr
%mkdir /dev/ /var
%mkdir /dev/ /usr

update /etc/fstab to reflect new changes

%telinit 2

to come back to multiuser

Please note that above steps are from memory - no guarantees - it worked
for me atleast three times. make backups blah blah.

Good luck


Shri

> 
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:33:55 +0200 (EET)
> George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi Andrew,
> > 
> > You need to be root on your machine to do this.
> > 
> > Make two partitions on the new drive using
> > 
> > cfdisk /dev/
> > 
> > Then make a filesystem on each partition.  Stick to the tried-and-tested
> > ext2, or go for one of the new journalling ones like ext3 or reiserfs, if
> > you're running a kernel recent enough to support them or can compile one
> > that does.
> > 
> > E.g. mke2fs /dev/
> > 
> > Then mount the first partition e.g. under /mnt
> > 
> > mount /dev/ /mnt
> > 
> > And transfer the data using tar:
> > 
> > tar cplf - -C / var | tar xvf - -C /mnt
> > 
> > Unmount the partition
> > 
> > umount /mnt
> > 
> > Mount the other one and do the same thing for /usr:
> > 
> > mount /dev/
> > tar cplf - -C / usr | tar xvf - -C /mnt
> > umount /mnt
> > 
> > Make sure you type the tar commands exactly as above, you don't want to go
> > dropping the entire copnmtents of /var or /usr (or even / if you v=get it
> > wrong) in the wrong place!
> > 
> > Edit /etc/fstab and either add lines for /usr and /var, or change existing
> > ones, to mount your new filesystems instead of the old ones.  Here's an
> > example:
> > 
> > --- fstab excerpt ---
> > 
> > /dev/sdb6 /usr ext2 rw  0   2
> > /dev/sdb7 /var ext2 rw  0   2
> > 
> > --- end fstab excerpt ---
> > 
> > Then go to single user mode:
> > 
> > telinit S
> > 
> > Unmount /usr and /var:
> > 
> > umount /usr
> > umount /var
> > 
> > Mount all partitions using your new fstab:
> > 
> > mount -a
> > 
> > Check that everything is mounted where it should be:
> > 
> > mount
> > 
> > And go back to your usual runlevel (usually 2 on Debian):
> > 
> > telinit 2
> > 
> > That's it.  Note that if /usr and /var were originally part of your root
> > filesystem, the data will still be there but the new filesystem will be
> > mounted on the top level directory so you won't see it.  After you've
> > successfully transferred /usr and /var out of the root filesystem, you can
> > reclaim the space by going to single user mode, unmounting /usr and /var,
> > and doing the following:
> > 
> > rm -rvf /var
> > rm -rvf /usr
> > mkdir /var
> > mkdir /usr
> > 
> > Be VERY careful that /usr and /var are NOT mounted when you do this!
> > Also note, a space or a slash in the wrong place in either of the above
> > commands can wreck your system completely!
> > 
> > Good luck,
> > 
> > |   George Karaolides  Linustech Advanced Solutions,  |
> > |   tel:   +357 22 55 61 29  86 Ifigenias Street, 3rd Floor,  |
> > |   web:   www.linustech.com.cy  Strovolos, Nicosia CY 2003,  |
> > |   email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   Republic  of Cyprus.  |
> > 
> > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Andrew Stephen wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > My /var and /usr partitions have just run out of space and I was wondering
> > > what is the best way to copy them to a new drive that has just been
> > > installed.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Andrew
> > >
> > >
> > >
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Re: Copying Partition, Using Reiser.

[Karsten M. Self]

on Sat, Mar 09, 2002, Timothy R. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> > 1. Does your current kernel support Reiser?  If so, then you
> >can put the destination disk in the current disk and copy.
> 
>   Well in the computer that my system is currently installed, yes, I have 
> Reiser support. In the latter system however, I do not currently have an OS 
> installed, and the net_inst CD does not support Reiser.
> 
> > 2. Is your whole install (including /boot, /var, etc. in _one_
> > partition?  If so, then tar will work and not screw up links.
> 
>   Yup, it's all one big partition.

Not generally recommended.  My own partitioning guidelines:

http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html

As for the reiserfs conversion:

  - Buy, bug, steal, or build a kernel with Reiserfs support.

  - Archive any existing data you wish to retain on the partition(s) you
wish to convert to reiserfs.  I recommend tarring to an alternate
partition, computer, or tape.

  - Repartition, if necessary.

  - Create the reiserfs filesystem.

  - Restore or copy data from archives or other source(s).

  - If you've modified your boot or root partition, update your
bootloader (typically LILO or GRUB).

  - Update your /etc/fstab to reflect current reality (partitions, mount
points, filesystems).

  - Restart.

I recommend using ext2fs or ext3fs for partitions smaller than ~150 MiB 
due to the overhead of the rieser journal data (about 32 MiB, fixed
size).  This would include your /, /boot, and often /tmp partitions,
typically.

Peace.

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Re: making my own dist. ? ?

[Adam Majer]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 04:46:42PM +0100, Adam craig wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've 3 servers to install - not the same hardware but the software needs to 
> be the same.
> I have installed the first server and got everything working the way I want 
> it to.
> My problem is that I need to use interbase with php4 and I can't get it to 
> work with php4.1.x - the most recent version it will work with is php4.0.6.
> Now using apt-move get;apt-move move, I have a copy on hard drive of all the 
> packages I need to install the other 2 servers.
> My idea was to update the first server direct from the internet, test, then 
> (apt-move get/move) update the 2 other servers from the first server. So how 
> can I disable any updates relating to php4 ?
> Or should I (can I ?) create my own php4.deb and change some config. file 
> (that I haven't yet found) so that my version will always be the most recent 
> for me ?
> I'm sure this must be a fairly common situation - any suggestions would be 
> greatly appreciated.

Go to dselect, and put a hold on all the packages you do not want updated (use 
'=' for that).
Then they will never get updated unless the hold is released :)

- Adam

Re: kernel-2.4.17

[Sebastiaan]

High,

On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Gerard Robin wrote:

> hello,
> I have a problem with the kernel 2.4.17:
> My machine: HDD1 in hda
> HDD2 in hdb
>
> The machine boots with lilo on hda.
> I boot with a disket 1.44 Mb for hdb.
>
> After the compile, my machine booted correctly with the
> kernel 2.4.17 on the disket 1.44 Mb, but I forgot to
> include a module in the kernel and I recompiled the
> kernel 2.4.17 and now when I boot the machine with the
> boot disket I get :
>
> NET4:unix domain socket 1.0/SMP for LINUX NET4.0.
> request_module[ide-disk]:Rot fs not mounted
> hdb:driver not present
> VFS:Cannot open root device "343" or 03:43
> Please apend a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:43
>
Ok, I do not really see how your system is configured. On which harddisk
is Linux installed? Why do you use a floppy to boot when you have LILO
installed too?

The problem is that the ide driver is not loaded (that's what the kernel
says). You have to recompile the kernel and test it first.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan