Re: ack! x has been hosed
For the fonts, you need at least xfntbase, and xfnt75 is probably necessary, too. For the video modes, I think there is no problem. Xfree 3.3 seems to give much more choice than before. look at your /etc/X11/XF86Config file. Some modes are for low-end hardware, others for 21 (or 25) or bigger monitors with fast graphic cards... Great. You should have at least this mode working : # 800x600 @ 60 Hz, 37.8 kHz hsync Modeline 800x600 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vs ync This worked with my old 14 (max 37.9kHz !). So I guess you misspelled the Monitor specs. Install more fonts. Obviously some are missing. For example I have xfnt75, xfnt100, xfntbase, xfntscaled installed. You have a valid mode at 640x480 so this is not the problem. Be sure to check HorizSync and VertRefresh in section Monitor, though. 'man XF86Config' is your friend, too. Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: read news on/off line
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Timothy Phan wrote:
...
Secondly, would some one please point me to the doc./pointers to
setup the Debian system to download the news onto my local drive
for later use? Thanks!
Try leafnode, there is a debian package in section news.
Alexandre
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Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts
install the 'recode' package and use it like this : recode ibmpc:latin1 YourTextFile Bye, Alexandre On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Curt Howland wrote: Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there such a standard utility or do I have to dig even deeper to remember sed/awk/grep commands? :^ Curt- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Newbie
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Rick Morrison wrote: Just installed Debian 1.3. Am a UNIX newbie as well as a Debian newbie. It's up and running but Great, a new user ! 1. Can't TELNET in to the system running it. Sez 'connection refused'. Can't even telnet into itself! TCP/IP is up and running as I can TELNET out. Can ping it, etc... try tcpdchk to check if your telnetd is available. You can also browse /etc/inetd.conf by hand and search for telnet /etc/host.deny should be empty on your default install. Or it contains something like ALL:PARANOID In that case try to comment it out. 2. Any suggestions as to steps for getting X up and running? install the packages xbase, xfnt*, a window manager (fvwm?, afterstep, ..), an X server for your video card (one of xserver-*, chose xserver-vga16 if you don't know which to chose). Hint : read the help page for dselect. You have to know that / performs a search through the 1000 packages. Then dselect will try to guide you. Try to be clever and tell us the results. You should be able to have it running without much difficulties. ( If the distribution is well done, and I hope it). At this point you probably have a minimal, ugly X (few colors, low res...). Get your video card and monitor handbook, run xf86config and (try to) answer the questions it asks. It will recommend you a server. If you don't have it already, install it. (xserver-svga in my case ). read /usr/doc/HOWTO/X.. Thanks ... sorry for the bandwith waste. The list is here exactly for that. Always try to get the answer in a FAQ, an HOWTO (in /usr/doc ) a manpage ( 'man name_of_prog' or 'man -k topic' ), on the web... But if you don't find by yourself probably someone else can help. Just ask. Rick Morrison Wayne State University -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Laser printer
Well, for a complete discution you could switch to comp.os.linux.hardware I bought a hp 5L recently and it's cool. Any HP (or other) which understand PCL and has, say, at least 1Mb memory should do it. I suppose the Postscript ones are too expensive for you. The GDI (=windows) printers won't work. Some can pcl, but they often don't have enough memory (pcl files are bigger than ps, I believe). for ghostscript, see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html Alexandre On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: Hi folks. Could anyone tell me which one of the currently available laser printers would be linux-compatible (the correct formulation would probably be gs - compatible?). I am interesting in B/W and on the lower price side. I am very confused with those Windows compatible slogans in advertisments. Thank you. Alex Y. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: fdos
Alexandre On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time. Now it's not ... I see that it's in unstable though ... this isn't a big deal as I'm just setting up a machine to play around with. Can I install the unstable fdos into a frozen system? Well, I tried fdos once, because it permitted dosemu to be istalled almost automatically (I thought). It was far too unstable to be put in stable or frozen. I'm not sure I was able to boot with the supplied diskette image, but sure it didn't run much dos applications (I fear I mean only games by dos application). fdos is another OS. I believe it doesn't have to be compatible with the rest of linux/debian. You should be able to use is a a regular MS-DOS, even if your dosemu is stable. But I'm perhaps wrong. Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
fetch (leafnode) doesn't get anything
I just tried leafnode, and by me fetch does'nt suck anything :( I put my NNTP server in /etc/leafnode.conf, ran fetch ran tin : error rtin with NNTPSERVER=myself ok : lists my newsgroups as empty fetch : does nothing. ? here is a transcript : bash# fetch -v -v -v verbosity level is 3 LIST ACTIVE done only 4482 seconds ago, skipping The directories for the newsgroup exist and are empty. in intesting.groups are empty files corresponding to the newsgroups. What did I miss ? Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?
I'd like to set up my PPro to enable my 486 to boot nfs. looking at mknfsroot, this should be possible and perhaps easy with eth cards. But I only have a null-modem cable. Is it still possible ? with what packages? Other possibilities would be: -getting 2 more netcards -installing linux on a small partition (I would not need X). But it's probably more fun the complicated way. other: I could get an 2nd IP address or use masquerading. I think a 2nd IP is easier, and we still have some on the subnet. Any comments ? Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Network device module doesn't load at bootup
Hi ! I don't what I've broken, or if it comes from an upgrade, but my ne.o doesn't get loaded at boot time. Rather annoying. I have to modprobe it and to run /etc/init.d/network by hand each time. I believe the is some error message at boot time, but even with verbose=no in boot it goes away too fast and I can't read it. All I managed to see was : 'a module named /lib/modules-2.0.30/net/8390.o already exists' /etc/conf.modules and /etc/modules both look fine. I use kernel 2.0.30 debian 1.3 modutils 2.1.34-5 and a cheap isa ne2000 clone (driver is ne.o and depends on 8390.o) any hint appreciated Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Network device module doesn't load at bootup [SOLVED]
Fixed it myself. Perhaps I asked too early. I stupidly added a '8390' line in /etc/modules, that cause ne to fail. strange but my fault. Thank you markus. I didn't know dmesg. Better than to decompress mp2 files during bootup to slow things down (what I did). Alexandre On Thu, 22 May 1997, Alexandre Lebrun wrote: Hi ! I don't what I've broken, or if it comes from an upgrade, but my ne.o doesn't get loaded at boot time. Rather annoying. I have to modprobe it and to run /etc/init.d/network by hand each time. I believe the is some error message at boot time, but even with verbose=no in boot it goes away too fast and I can't read it. All I managed to see was : 'a module named /lib/modules-2.0.30/net/8390.o already exists' /etc/conf.modules and /etc/modules both look fine. I use kernel 2.0.30 debian 1.3 modutils 2.1.34-5 and a cheap isa ne2000 clone (driver is ne.o and depends on 8390.o) any hint appreciated Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Xwindows packages which one??
Hello. xf86config is in xbase. bash dpkg --search /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config xbase: /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config for me you should install xbase, probably xfnt* (at least xfntbase), and everything dselect requires or suggests you should install. I would be surprised if old configs are a problem. debian is very robust. but its way of installing X is confusing. then you run xf86config. If you manage to respond to its questions, it will even tell you which server you must use (apparently xserver_svga). Good luck, Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Problems with mail and news
Hello. I can't answer all the question, but I'll do my best. On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Willi Schiegel wrote: Hello, o.k., I have to give up (sigh!) and ask some more experienced debianers. I changed my distribution from SuSE to Debian and there are some problems I can't cope with. When I try to run Knews or pine I get the messages Incomplete mail domain (pine) and Couldn't determine domain name. POsting will not be possible. Pine wants to see your entire name in /etc/hosts : #file /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 123.45.678.123 daddel.zedat.fu-berlin.de daddel other_alias # and not : # 123.45.678.123 daddel ... The first name must be the complete internet name. This is perhaps important for other programs, too. My latest installation did this correctly, though ... I skip some questions for which I have no clues Another question is: Where can I change the character set from US-Ascii to iso-8859-1? The character set for the console was configured at install time. But try kbdconfig (No manpage !), it proposes a de.map To make the programms use it, set your environment variable LANG to de_DE You will even get some error messages an man pages 'auf Deutsch' or just LC_CTYPES to de_DE , to keep english messages. (The doc for that is rather obsolete, (man locale) ) Now you have a decent character set for progs (but not the shell ?) Execpt emacs, that don't follow the rules, as ever. I simply put a ;; Use european character set (standard-display-european 1 ) in my .emacs Thanks a lot. De nada --- Willi Schiegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: dpkg Question
about : listing installed unneeded packages Usually I do that with dselect. You go through the list (skipping the base package), and see every package that is installed. I find it convenient for 2 reasons : -You have a short description for the packages (in case you don't remember) -You can safely try to deselect them. deselect tells you if it breaks other packages. Then you hit 'x' and keep the package. But that's slow and will take more than an hour. Just a suggestion. Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /sbin/clock not ticking
On 27 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote: Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know what /dev/rtc is, but it seems that on my brother's computer it can't be opened. It seems that this in turn allows clock to work. Most likely it can't be opened because that device was not compiled into his kernel, but it was into yours. The strange thing is that /dev/rtc does in fact exist on my brother's computer (and on mine). Whether or not the device exists in the kernel has nothing to do with whether or not the device file exists on disk. For example, if I compiled a kernel without sound support, the file /dev/audio might still exist, but if I tried to open it, the open would fail. As to why having rtc in the kernel would cause clock to fail, I have no clue. -- Rob I think rtc is for Real Time Clock It was an option for kernel configuration. I don't know what it is exactly, but the help said that you don't need it if you don't know what it is. It could interfere or be buggy. Try without. That was my 2 Pfennig Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: problem with pcmmdl20.deb!! incorrect dependencies?
On Fri, 25 Apr 1997, Dennis Groves wrote:
now my problem was that everthing worked but ifconfig and route add were
not run automagicaly :(
can anybody help me?
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I suppose 'automagically' means 'at boot time' in this article ?
If so, you have to edit /etc/init.d/network
(it gets called by /etc/init.d/boot )
Mine was created by the installation process :
#! /bin/sh
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -net 127.0.0.0
IPADDR=134.130.50.22
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=134.130.50.0
BROADCAST=134.130.50.255
GATEWAY=134.130.50.254
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
route add -net ${NETWORK}
[ ${GATEWAY} ] route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
I don't know if there is a facility to configure it after installation.
But vi (or even ae ) is already a good tool.
Bye,
Alexandre
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Re: What gives? --- [vonhagen@les01.supelec.fr: Re: exp(x**2)*erfc(x) not correctly plotted]
Hi. I use gnuplot 3.5beta6.328-1 , with a bo install. By me the following problem does not appear. ( the curve is smooth for x 27 ) So it's probably not a 'linux' problem, but an installation issue. Alexandre On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did try the procedure mentioned below in gnuplot. An apparent error does happen to me, something similar to what is mentioned in the below. Is this indeed an error in linux? If so, traceable to what? Alan Davis -Forwarded message from info-gnuplot mailing list. I'm using gnuplot pre3.6 patch 328 under linux I tried: set xrange [0:40] plot exp(x**2)*erfc(x) I expect an asymthotic curve towards 0. For x = 10 and x = 25 I get a jump. Is there a possibility to force gnuplot to plot correctly? I tried the same on Solaris 2.5/Sparc with gnuplot beta 330 I get the asymthotic curve you would like to have so I suggest this is a problem for/of Linux. Otherwise the curve stops at about 27, that's where the exp function overflows.. Alan Davis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Filter
On Sat, 26 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I get A FILTER to stop SPAM Jorge Hoye .. If the spam can be detected by looking at the mail header (ie the From: field, the Subject: , etc.), it is possible with procmail. procmail will analyse your mail following rules you give it and then, at your choice, delete the mail, forward it to someone else, store it in an alternate directory (useful for mailing lists), or leave it in INBOX, or do what you want ... I believe procmail is a standart option in a debian installation. Anyway, it is a package in section mail. try 'man procmail' There are instruction for a Quick Start. They were sufficient for me, so you should manage it too. Good luck ! PS : if you only want to calm your nerves, you can also do that : bash:~$ for name in `ls` ; do echo 'I don t like spam' | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]; done I did that last time. It's probably stupid but it helps. ( beware, I have 160 files in ~ and a slow link so it took an hour to send all this junk, and it surely wasted precious bandwitch. ) BTW, what are le legal issues of this ? I believe mail spam will be forbidden in Europe like fax and phone are already. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Anacron
anacron came with bo. (the next distribution, currently beta) search in frozen/binary-i386/admin I don't verify because I got kernel problems. But you should find it there. Alexandre On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 1997 you wrote: This -should- help you. if not, consider install anacron, that will ensure your cron entries get run regularly if you shut down at night. It sounds like I need anacron, but I don't find it in my /var/lib/dpkg/available. In what directory is anacron located on the ftp sites? Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netscape won't use disk cache?! (Solution)
On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Serge Stinckwich wrote: I've got similar problems. I have Netscape 4.0b3 and disk cache doesn't seems to work : the cache directory is empty, the index.db file is also created... Cheers, I supposed you missed the solution, or it was not clearly posted : I had to select 'clear disk cache now' in the option/network menu. Now it works fine. I suppose I still had a cache directory from a previous version, and that netscape was unable to cope with it. Or I erased it with rm -r and that trashed the database. Anyway, it should have complained !! I hope this will help you. Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netstd_2.13-1 ( READ THIS!!! or you /etc/inetd.conf will suffer )
Hi !
Do you know you have a directory /var/backups with a copy of
/etc/group, /etc/passwd and /etc/inetd.conf in it ?
(created by /etc/cron.daily/netbase )
Or was it only installed with the base of bo ?
This -should- help you.
if not, consider install anacron, that will ensure your cron entries get
run regularly if you shut down at night.
Alexandre
On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
It is one of the removal scripts of CVS, *DO NOT* remove cvs as it will
wipe
inetd.conf :(
Only to clarify this ...
It's only valid for the versions CVS 1.9-{1,2,3} (all versions only in
unstable). If you have one of
these versions installed edit the cvs.postrm in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/cvs.postrm and comment the line
update-inetd --remove ^
out.
This line removes every entry in your inetd.conf otherwise. After
an upgrade of cvs check then your inetd.conf for any superfluous
entries of cvs.
OUCH! I didn't read this carefully enough the first time.
I just lost my /etc/inetd.conf !
So for everyone else -- if you have CVS installed, make this fix...
This applies to upgrading, as well as removing CVS, since the postrm
gets run either way.
Cheers,
- Jim
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Re: ftpd rejects all users !
Thank ! It was that. But the file is neither in the base file (base1_3.tgz) nor in base-passwd. (on ftp.debian.org) Are you sure this gets corrected soon ? Else it should be reported. bye, Alexandre On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Christian Meder wrote: On Apr 20, Alexandre Lebrun wrote I reinstalled debian last week from scratch, and I see today that I can't connect to my box per ftp, even from itself. Probably your /etc/shells is missing for some reason (I think it is missing in a current base-passwd package release but fixed now). -- Christian Meder, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: ftpd rejects all users ! (SOLVED)
The base distribution for bo does not include the file /etc/shells , that defines the authorized login shells That causes ftpd to reject the users (they don't have a qualified login shell). Thank you all for your help !! Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Memory Gobbler
here it is : http://sysdoc.pair.com/ Alexandre On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: Dima think) can cache 64M. Tom's hardware guide is a good place Dima to read all about it. Could you send up the URL? I've lost it, it seems. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
ftpd rejects all users !
I reinstalled debian last week from scratch, and I see today that I can't connect to my box per ftp, even from itself. here is a transcript of a typical session : bash ftp lebrun Connected to lebrun.kawo1.rwth-aachen.de. 220 lebrun FTP server (Version 5.60) ready. Name (lebrun:lebrun): 530 User lebrun access denied. Login failed. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. (/etc/ftpusers don't mention lebrun. I didn't change it ). I use bo with netstd 2.13-1 and netbase 2.10-1 telnet, rlogin, nfsd are working well. I already experienced this problem with slackware, but at this time I was about to change to ELF so I reinstalled from scratch. Now I have a brand new debian and I want to understand what's happening. Any help appreciated. Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Unidentified subject!
Humm, this sounds familiar.. When I boot with the rescue floppy, or the standart kernel, it hangs the first time (perhaps warm boot). Then I reset and it boots. It's one of the unneeded drivers that hangs on autodetect, I guess. Then I recompiled the kernel with only the needed drivers, and everything is alright. Did you recompile your kernel ? Alexandre On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, LinuxBOX wrote: Thanks for the help. I tryed that and it didn't seem to work. Perhaps if I included more information it would be easier to diagnose. If I don't physicla turn the machine off (reset doesn't work ether) it will hand on bootup. It hangs on the folowing line. 0:35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAXEREAL=8 I would apreciat any help that anyone could provide me. On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, LinuxBOX wrote: My Debian box hangs on boot if you don't physicaly shut it of and on. The reboot comand or even ctl+alt+del are a sure to crash when it reboots. Any sujestions? You don't say what kind of crash. Does it just hang? A year or two ago some change to the kernel or sound drivers caused my system to hang during a warm boot at the point where it loaded the sound drivers. It would boot OK if I powered off, pushed the reset button, or booted DOS first. My solution was to configure the system to always do a _cold_ boot. This is done by the following line in lilo.conf: append = reboot=c ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /etc/inetd.conf broken (was Re: ftpd refusing connections)
I tried with your conf file, I installed wu-ftpd. Nope, there is another problem thank you for trying. And perhaps it works for other .. Alexandre On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: Sorry I deleted the orig message but I just noticed that I was having the same ftp problem someone else was having. It looks like my /etc/inetd.conf got messed up after an unstable upgrade today. I replaced it with an old version and all is better now. I'll put up the old version on my computer in case anyone needs it: ftp://128.239.205.139/pub/bhmit1/inetd.conf HTH, Brandon -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Memory Gobbler
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: Don't know if this relates to the question, but... I was looking at how to recompile the kernel to get it to recognize memory above 64M and it said you should have at least 512K of cache to do this... -- Harmon Hum, I would be surprised if linux had such limitations. I've read that Intel's 430HX (the chip for Pentium motherboards) can't cache memory above 64M (in april's c't ). But linux would still see the memory. It would only be slow. I think it's normal that the OS uses all the memory after a few hours. As long as there is free memory, it'll cache all disks accesses. An with an http server... We have a server here with 64M, and it uses a lot of cache : hermes, a P 100 under linux : bash free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 63460 62680780 15672 27964 9796 -/+ buffers:24920 38540 Swap:20124 56 20068 Now, and never understood the ouputs of free, so I can be completely wrong. Note that I only have 16M on a 486, so I don't know much about these problems... I find it interesting, that's all. BTW, why all this memory ? Is it always for network services, or could it be useful for desktop computers too ? Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: netscape won't use disk cache?!
Wrong : the cache is under ~/.netscape/cache Right : 'Clear cache now' resolves the problem. (for me at least) I had the same problems, certainly bec. I once 'rm -r .netscape/cahe' , or something like that . Now it caches pages. What is pretty stupid as my link to the proxy server is ethernet. But what are 5MB of disk space ? ( $1) . Now if the proxy crashes I still have my cache ( he, he). Thank you Brian. While you're at it, is it normal that nescape continaly complains : 'cannot convert string 'FALSE' to type boolean' ? Does anyone else experience this ? Alexandre On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Brian White wrote: Hmmm... I use netscape (installed with the debian package) all the time. My cache is under ~/.netscape-cache and file do get written there. What are the disk and memory cache sizes? Does flush disk cache now change any files under the cache directory? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Does this list still work? - The saga continues...
I saw a warning that some problem had happened with the lists and that the users should RE-subscribe. did you try that ? At least I was unsubscribed from here and subscribed to debian-changes. Hope this help. Alexandre On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, John Foster wrote: Hmmm Something very strange is going on here. After my previous post, I have received replies from Matthew Tebbens Klaus Hergerschiem Ralph Winslow to say that they saw my post, but I'm still not getting anything from this list. Now it seemed to stop after I set up IP_aliasing on this machine. I read the file in /usr/doc/smail about multihomed mail servers, and it didn't make much sense to me, but I still get mail from the outside world, but not from this mailing list. Is the problem here or at the list server? Does anyone have any clues at all? Needless to say, if there is any discussion on this thread, please CC: me, otherwise I won't get any of it, unless the truly excellent Debian people find that it's a problem at there end and manage to resolve it. I suspect that it's probably at this end though. BTW, all smail config files are as created by smailconfig. John Foster. Feeling a bit like a leper. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Linux Help Needed.
Hi. Hey, you shouldn't begin with 'I have a PPro ...'. It make me jaleous and I don't want to help you ! ( the 486 is great, but still...) I suppose your CD-rom is IDE, so your block device name should be /dev/hdc1 I'm not sure because mine is different. hda is the master on the first interface, ( C: ) hdb - slave --, ( D: ) so I suppose the next is hdc the number is for the partition. As there is only one in a cd-rom, it sould be 1. Oops, I checked the Linux File System Standart, and it says /dev/hdc (master cdrom on the second interface) Bye, Alexandre On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, val.tamarov wrote: Hi there !!! I installed Linux in my system but i can't run dselect to install all the packages. Please help me what to write when dselect asks me for the locations and some blocks, what I have to type there. I have Pentium Pro (686) with to HD controllers on board. So my 2 HD's are conected to first controller and my primary master (c: drive) is for windows and dos, and second HD- primary slave (d: drive) is for Linux. My CD-ROM is conected to second conntroller as secondary master. If anything else needed please e-mail me. Thanks for your time and help [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: What is the proper way
Hi, If you already have compiled the Kernel yourself, just do make *config; make modules; make modules_install and perhaps depmod -a; After that the modules can be inserted automatically by kerneld. No need to recompile or reboot. If you still run the kernel from the distribution floppy, I **Highly** recommand that you recompile it anyway. For me that spares 400 KB of memory, avoids hangs and warnings at boot time. (there is still a lot of non-modules drivers in). Alexandre On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Geoff R Deasey wrote: I was about to recompile the kernel to add support for the soundblaster 16 and wondered should I remove any modules and rebuild them even though I am only adding one module ? Can I run make modules only ? Or do I have to do make dep;make clean;make zImage;make modules;make modules_install ? Advice requested. thanks --Jeff -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Bo Package List
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Rick wrote: I assume that the unstable dir was removed since bo is no longer conciderred unstable. What's up with the packages file pointing to unstable? There's some problem, apparently. How is it that others are installing bo and not run accross this yet? Yes, others have run accross this. This bug is reported (in section ftp.debian.org). I saw that because I wanted to report it too. The solution I found is using sed -e '/unstable/s//frozen/' Packages.frozen Packages.f; mv Packages.f Packages.frozen just after downloading the package list. (Before dselect reads it !). I used this only at installation time, but it worked perfectly. Hope this helps, Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Errors upgrading 1.2.x - frozen
The 'file names' are wrong in Package.frozen. A work around : - You tell deselect to Update the package list. - Just after it has downloaded the list, you switch to another console (or xterm) and, in the appropriate directory, (/var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp/) type : sed -e '/unstable/s//frozen/' Packages.frozen Packages.f; mv Packages.f Packages.frozen it replaces every occurence of 'unstable' by 'frozen' So your package list is updated. You can go back to dselect and tell it to continue. You should be fine. That's how I installed bo. (frozen). Alexandre On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Pete Harlan wrote: Hi, In trying to upgrade a 1.2.x system to 'frozen' (to see if this would fix my I can't receive smtp email from a M$ Exchange-based site problem). I recieve a bunch of these errors when telling dselect to install: --- getting: unstable/binary-i386/x11/xcolors_1.5-4.deb (10724) unstable/binary-i386/x11/xcolors_1.5-4.deb: No such file OR directory. getting: unstable/binary-i386/x11/xfnt75_3.2-3.deb (1355524) unstable/binary-i386/x11/xfnt75_3.2-3.deb: No such file OR directory. getting: unstable/binary-i386/x11/xscreensaver_1.27-2.deb (223118) unstable/binary-i386/x11/xscreensaver_1.27-2.deb: No such file OR directory. getting: unstable/binary-i386/utils/cpio_2.4.2-10.deb (59950) unstable/binary-i386/utils/cpio_2.4.2-10.deb: No such file OR directory. --- I didn't tell it to look in unstable, I told it to look in stable frozen non-free contrib. This is from ftp.debian.org, in /debian. So what's up? TIA, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Bug Report (installing bo)
I've installed bo today from scratch. I found several bugs : ( a=annoying, B=bad, F=fatal) I boot with the rescue disk, install the base from msdos drive, install the packages whith ftp (dselect/ftp). from 'frozen non-free contrib' Here is the list of the bugs + what I did to solve them B : install.txt doesn't tell I need base1_3.tgz. solution: boot win95 and re-ftp a : Wrong date on the first screen (Feb. 12 instead of Ap. 4) F : Packages.frozen tells that the packages are in unstable. but unstable doesn't exist. bo or frozen is correct. solution : sed -e '/unstable/s//frozen/' Packages.frozen Packages.f; mv Packages.f Packages.frozen a : I still have to export PAGER=less to view man-pages decently seems the system-wide config-files could be better. a : xbase-configure leaves me with a non-working startx. I use xf86config and everyone is happy. a : This tetex problem is terrible because I must wait 2 minutes each time it occurs (checking for old ) 'dpkg --purge texinfo' works fine anyway, but dselect hadn't deselected texinfo apparently. Perhaps it should. a : xmixer: Can't open /dev/mixer: No such device I'll look at this later Sorry, the problem is that I have to recompile in order to get sound support. I'd have done it anyway, but it'd have been cool to have sound. I suppose there are too many options in the sound driver... a : there is no dependency, but xbase-configure fails if I don't have xfnt75 Go on, guys, only one day to install. Cool. Seriously, with some fixes, it will be a great product. Not like Solaris 2 that came with -r-xr-xr-x /home. There is probably a better place to post this, but I hope it will go to the right persons. Don't hesitate to reply. I spent several hours to install (and download), I can take a few minutes to read mail. In hope this is usefull, Alexandre
bo : upgrade or reinstall
I've just decided to upgrade from stable to bo, or unstable, whatever the name is. Would it be useful for the projet if I do a full install and report the bugs (if any) ? I can easily backup my home directory and forget the rest. But I could also upgrade whith dselect/dpkg-ftp I read tests of installation from scratch were needed, but it's perhaps too late. I wait an hour or three for responses and I begin. Alexandre
Keyboard with X
Hi. I tried LyX and sometimes run Netscape, and they show the same problem : when trying to erase a character with backspace, the current character is erased instead of the preceding. ( just as DEL does in a Microsoft environment). It's very disturbing, and other apps don't have this problem (they treat both DEL and Backspace as 'backspace' ). Is there a cure ? I also would like to be able to type deadcircum within xemacs, but that is another problem. BTW, is there a debian package for xemacs ? Thanks. Alexandre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
