not able to get list today
I haven't received any emails from the Debian list today. If you get this message, could someone confirm that it is indeed working? All my other lists are coming in fine. thanks, Brian Brian Morganhttp://brian.greenville.edu Computer Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mobile Systems Support 618.664.2800 ext. 4241 Greenville College IT Dept. 618.338.4963 - pager __ The end of the world is in late Beta ... no, hang on. Bill Gates just bought it . . . we're safe again.
KDM vs XDM
I'd like to be able to change my default login manager to KDM instead of XDM, now that I have KDE up and running. What do I need to do to make this happen? Brian Brian Morganhttp://brian.greenville.edu Computer Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mobile Systems Support 618.664.2800 ext. 4241 Greenville College IT Dept. 618.338.4963 - pager __ The end of the world is in late Beta ... no, hang on. Bill Gates just bought it . . . we're safe again.
RE: KDM vs XDM
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: I'd like to be able to change my default login manager to KDM instead of XDM, now that I have KDE up and running. What do I need to do to make this happen? H C Pumphrey wrote: You should find a command called switchdm (I think it is in /usr/sbin/switchdm but my Debian/KDE box is at home). Run this as root and it will ask you if you want [1] xdm, [2] kdm or [3] Neither. Press 2 and you should have kdm next time you restart X. Ran switchdm but I do not have an /etc/X11/config file, which switchdm relies on. I am running slink and recent versions of XFree86, KDE, etc. Isn't there a different file that slink uses to control its login manager settings? Any suggestions? Brian
FW: KDM vs XDM
You should find a command called switchdm (I think it is in /usr/sbin/switchdm but my Debian/KDE box is at home). Run this as root and it will ask you if you want [1] xdm, [2] kdm or [3] Neither. Press 2 and you should have kdm next time you restart X. Ran switchdm but I do not have an /etc/X11/config file, which switchdm relies on. I am running slink and recent versions of XFree86, KDE, etc. Isn't there a different file that slink uses to control its login manager settings? The options file only had an entry that instructed Linux whether or not to start xdm, not whether it should start xdm or kdm... However, if you put a start-kdm line in options, and change your startup scripts to recognize the new line, it'll work as the start-xdm line does. However, all of this is moot - you're running slink, and the options file isn't used in slink. So, I still say, just save your old xdm binary and put the new kdm in it's place. -Jay I am still kind of a newbie at this. Words like binary and compile the kernel and other threatening words like that, I've steered clear of. Could you help me know exactly how to save your old xdm binary and put the new kdm in it's place? That would be very helpful Brian
Linear option in lilo.conf
How do I add the linear option to lilo.conf? A seperate line? An option on one of the other lines? Here's how my lilo.conf file looks as is: boot=/dev/hda1 root-/dev/hda1 install=boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only Where does that linear option go? Thanks for your help. Brian Brian Morganhttp://brian.greenville.edu Computer Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mobile Systems Support 618.664.2800 ext. 4241 Greenville College IT Dept. 618.338.4963 - pager __ The end of the world is in late Beta ... no, hang on. Bill Gates just bought it . . . we're safe again.
kde
It's been a while since I've tried a kde install. I'm running Debian 2.1 stable and would like the most current working version of kde. What's the best way to get it (are there deb files?) and what configuration do I need to do once I get it? I can't remember, is it like gnome such that it requires working in conjuction with another WM, or is it a self contained WM? Thanks for all the help you can give. Brian Brian Morganhttp://brian.greenville.edu Computer Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mobile Systems Support 618.664.2800 ext. 4241 Greenville College IT Dept. 618.338.4963 - pager __ The end of the world is in late Beta ... no, hang on. Bill Gates just bought it . . . we're safe again.
Netscape libXpm.so.4 error
OK, I've been through this at least 2x before, but didn't write it down. I'm getting a can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' error when trying to run my newly installed netscape 4.51. If I remember right, I need to have libc6 installed, but I already checked that. It's installed just fine. Do I perhaps have the libc5 version of netscape installed by mistake? I downloaded it from ftp.netscape.com - pub/communicator/4.51/english/unix/unsupported/linux20_glibc2/complete_insta ll Is there anything I'm forgetting? Sorry to bother everyone again with this question. Brian Morganhttp://brian.greenville.edu Computer Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mobile Systems Support 618.664.2800 ext. 4241 Greenville College IT Dept. 618.338.4963 - pager __ The end of the world is in late Beta ... no, hang on. Bill Gates just bought it . . . we're safe again.
RE: kde
Brian Morgan writes: It's been a while since I've tried a kde install. I'm running Debian 2.1 stable and would like the most current working version of kde. What's the best way to get it (are there deb files?) and what configuration do I need to do once I get it? I can't remember, is it like gnome such that it requires working in conjuction with another WM, or is it a self contained WM? Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: Igot my version of KDE at ftp://ftp.de.kde.org/pub/kde/Incoming/debian/ I noticed there is no package file in that debian directory. Is there a mirror somewhere that will allow me to install kde using dselect or am I going to have to download the debs and use dpkg to install each one seperately? Thanks, Brian
FW: Netscape libXpm.so.4 error
On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: OK, I've been through this at least 2x before, but didn't write it down. I'm getting a can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' error when trying to run my newly installed netscape 4.51. If I remember right, I need to have libc6 installed, but I already checked that. It's installed just fine. Do I perhaps have the libc5 version of netscape installed by mistake? I downloaded it from ftp.netscape.com - pub/communicator/4.51/english/unix/unsupported/linux20_glibc2/comp lete_insta ll Is there anything I'm forgetting? Bob Nielsen wrote: That's a typical symptom of having a libc5 version of netscape on a libc6 system, however that should be the right directory. Do you have the libc6 package xpm4g (which contains /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4) installed? YES. Installed. I think I may have originally installed the libc5 version. when I realized what I had done, I removed all the netscape directories, and downloaded the libc6 version and installed it. Could there still be traces of the libc5 version in other places? I installed the libc6 version in the same place as the libc5 version (/usr/local/netscape/netscape). Anything I need to uninstall to get rid of libc5 stuff?
Mouse XF86Setup
I'm using the XF86Setup to configure X on my Debian 2.1 box. I simply can't get any ps/2 mice to work. I've tried all the devices with the Microsoft and PS/2 protocols selected. No response ever. If I choose the wrong device (psaux, for example), the system will just freeze up completely, and I have to do a hard reboot. I've tried 3 different mice this way (2 generics, and 1 Logitech - tried the mouse man protocol on the logitech) all with no results. Any suggestions? Brian Morganhttp://brian.greenville.edu Computer Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mobile Systems Support 618.664.2800 ext. 4241 Greenville College IT Dept. 618.338.4963 - pager __ The end of the world is in late Beta ... no, hang on. Bill Gates just bought it . . . we're safe again.
trouble with LILO
I just got done installing Debian 2.1 on a 486 33mhz machine. When rebooting after the install, it hangs on LILO, with the LI appearing on the screen. doesn't ever go anywhere after that. Booting from the boot floppy appears to work fine. Is there any way to correct this? I've installed the 2.0 version on identical machines (Digital DECpc LPv+ 433 sx) with no problems like this. Any suggestions? Brian Morganhttp://brian.greenville.edu Computer Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mobile Systems Support 618.664.2800 ext. 4241 Greenville College IT Dept. 618.338.4963 - pager __ The end of the world is in late Beta ... no, hang on. Bill Gates just bought it . . . we're safe again.
ftp-ing permissions not set correctly
Using slink, apache, proftpd. When I ftp files to my /var/www directory, they get the default file permissions of: -rw-r- I would like them to be: -rw-r--r-- How do I change this as default? Is it something in the proftpd package? Apache? Debian? The specific user? Thanks, Brian Brian Morganhttp://brian.greenville.edu Computer Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mobile Systems Support 618.664.2800 ext. 4241 Greenville College IT Dept. 618.338.4963 - pager __ Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes.
setting network for DHCP
Is it possible to setup a laptop to use DHCP on a network rather than a static IP address? If so, how is that done? We have DHCP server setup in 3 or 4 subnets on our campus, and I'd like to be able to plug-in on any of those subnets and obtain an ip address. Thanks, Brian Brian Morganhttp://brian.greenville.edu Computer Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mobile Systems Support 618.664.2800 ext. 4241 Greenville College IT Dept. 618.338.4963 - pager __ Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes.
RE: ftp-ing permissions not set correctly
Brian == Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian directory, they get the default file permissions of: -rw-r- Brian I would like them to be: -rw-r--r-- How do I change this as Brian default? Is it something in the proftpd package? Apache? Brian Debian? The specific user? johnie wrote: ProFTPD. The Umask directive: http://www.proftpd.org/reference.html#Umask Tried that Umask reference, but it didn't seem to apply to what I was trying to do. As far as I can tell, Umask limits whether or not a user can write to a directory or create directories. (maybe I read the documentation wrong.) I can write to the appropriate directory just fine. Once the file is written, however, I'd like it to have the default file permissions: -rw-r-r-- rather than -rw-r-r-- I'm ftp-ing to my default apache web directory: /var/www and would like my uploads to all be world readable by default (as described above). Any more thoughts on how to do this? Anyone else have this problem? Thanks, Brian
Debian on IBM thinkpad 380XD
Anyone have info on installing Debian on an IBM thinkpad 380XD? I'm installing the latest 2.1 version, and not having much luck with the rescue disk. It comes to the boot: screen. I press enter, and then it reboots the system. Repeats with different rescue disks on different thinkpads (all 380's). Thanks, Brian Brian Morganhttp://brian.greenville.edu Computer Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mobile Systems Support 618.664.2800 ext. 4241 Greenville College IT Dept. 618.338.4963 - pager __ Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes.
file permissions while FTP-ing not right
Using slink, apache, proftpd. When I ftp files to my /var/www directory, they get the default file permissions of: -rw-r- I would like them to be: -rw-r--r-- How do I change this as default? Is it something in the proftpd package? Apache? Debian? The specific user? Thanks, Brian Brian Morganhttp://brian.greenville.edu Computer Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mobile Systems Support 618.664.2800 ext. 4241 Greenville College IT Dept. 618.338.4963 - pager __ Never criticize anybody until you have walked a mile in their shoes, because by that time you will be a mile away and have their shoes.
seriously hosed slink system
I'm running slink and having some major problems. I just booted from the rescue floppy to change my ip address, and when I rebooted from the hard drive, the sytem hung on: Starting system log daemon: syslogd It hangs there about 4 minutes, then I get several errors: Starting deferred execution scheduler: atdstart-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbin/atd: No such file or directory While opening UTMP file: No such file or directory (I get about 15 of these messages) Then I get the login prompt. After logging in, I get some more whil opening UTMP file errors. AND bash: /usr/bin/check-sendfile: No such file or directory bash: mesg: command not found I can't execute any programs after that (emacs, startx, anything!) Any suggestions here? Could I possible have run into a bad hard drive or something? Brian morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: seriously hosed slink system
It went by quickly, but yes: Mounting local file systems . . not mounted anything appeared in there somewhere. Would booting from the rescue disk to change the IP address cause this? I've done this before and not had a problem with it. What should I do now? Brian Morgan -Original Message- From: Ben Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 1:27 PM To: Brian Morgan Cc: Debian User Group Subject: Re: seriously hosed slink system On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 01:19:27PM -0600, Brian Morgan wrote: I'm running slink and having some major problems. I just booted from the rescue floppy to change my ip address, and when I rebooted from the hard drive, the sytem hung on: Starting system log daemon: syslogd It hangs there about 4 minutes, then I get several errors: Starting deferred execution scheduler: atdstart-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbin/atd: No such file or directory While opening UTMP file: No such file or directory (I get about 15 of these messages) Looks like your filesystems are not getting mounted, were there any errors to this affect? -- --- - - --- - - - --- Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Core - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems The Choice of the GNU Generation -- -- - - - --- --- -- - - --- - --
RE: seriously hosed slink system
fstab looks like this: file system mount point type options dump pass /dev/hda2 / ext2 defaults, errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda1 none swap sw 0 0 proc/proc proc defaults0 0 But I don't think this is right. If I remember, I partitioned my drive like this: hda1 = swap hda2 = root hda3 = usr hda4 = var Any more suggestions? -Original Message- From: Alan Su [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 1:38 PM To: Brian Morgan Subject: Re: seriously hosed slink system Brian Morgan wrote (Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:27:56 -0600 ): |It went by quickly, but yes: |Mounting local file systems . . |not mounted anything |appeared in there somewhere. this is normal if you have only your root partition. what's your partitioning scheme (a copy of /etc/fstab would work). |Would booting from the rescue disk to change the IP address cause this? |I've done this before and not had a problem with it. What should I do now? | i don't think this is the source of your problems. something else is hosed, but it's hard to tell right now... -alan
Pine: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA
This is a non-Linux question, but I was hoping someone could help me with a problem I'm having in pine. We recently put the new version of pine on our Digital Unix machine which supplies email accounts for about 1000 users. Many users use POP clients to access their mail, while our students use pine. Since the upgrade to the newest pine, users who normally use POP clients get the message (below) when they check their mail through pine. The message only shows up when they go back to their POP client again (after using pine) to check mail. Is there a setting in pine to not send out these FOLDER INTERNAL DATA messages? Our POP users get really confused about such cryptic messages, and often swarm the help-line with fears of viruses and other nonsense! Can anyone help? Thanks, Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-POP3-Rcpt: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 17:48:40 -0600 (CST) From: Mail System Internal Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL DATA X-IMAP: 0920418395 02 This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset to initial values.
1 more Digital Unix question
Thanks to all who helped me with the pine FOLDER INTERNAL DATA issue. Got that taken care of. 1 more question that doesn't necessarily directly relate to Debian: POP users on our Digital Unix system (on an Alpha box) often have trouble receiving attachments. If an attachment appears in certain users' email boxes, they simply aren't able to retrieve any mail whatsoever. Their systems will just hang and not get past the message with the attachment. However, using a telnet mail program (like pine) is able to access the messages just fine, delete the attachment, and then allow the user to once again retrieve mail with their POP client. Any suggestions that might help allow users to retrieve these attachments? thanks in advance, Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: 1 more Digital Unix question
Our users are using newest version of Outlook 98 and netscape mail on win95 / 98 stations. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Aras Paskus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 2:14 PM To: Brian Morgan Cc: Debian User Group; recipient list not shown: Subject: Re: 1 more Digital Unix question Hey, I work at an ISP and I've noticed that older Microsoft mail programs (Internet Mail, Exchange, etc.) crap out on certian messages (usually ones with incorrectly formatted headers). hope that helps, --- Aras Paskus [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are no absolutes to human misery, things CAN get worse. -Art Bergmann --- On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: Thanks to all who helped me with the pine FOLDER INTERNAL DATA issue. Got that taken care of. 1 more question that doesn't necessarily directly relate to Debian: POP users on our Digital Unix system (on an Alpha box) often have trouble receiving attachments. If an attachment appears in certain users' email boxes, they simply aren't able to retrieve any mail whatsoever. Their systems will just hang and not get past the message with the attachment. However, using a telnet mail program (like pine) is able to access the messages just fine, delete the attachment, and then allow the user to once again retrieve mail with their POP client. Any suggestions that might help allow users to retrieve these attachments? thanks in advance, Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Setting up FTP
I'd like to setup my slink box as an FTP server. What do I need to know to get this started? I've never set up an ftp services before, just http. Which package(s) do I need? Is it fairly easy to setup user restrictions for anonymous and regular user logins? Thanks for any help you can give. Brian Morgan
RE: Setting up FTP
I've got the latest proftpd now. I looked at the manpages and the --help, but am still unsure what I need to do next. Is there a file I need to edit to set default ftp directory or anything like that? Can I just start posting to a specific directory? What else do I need to do? I'm still fairly new at Linux and haven't touched my box in about a month. Brian Morgan -Original Message- From: Lawrence Walton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawrence Walton Sent: Friday, February 19, 1999 12:34 PM To: Brian Morgan Cc: Debian User Group Subject: Re: Setting up FTP I rather like proftpd; be sure to get the newist off of ftp.debian.org though. fairly easy to configure,and security (cough cough... now.) is good. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: I'd like to setup my slink box as an FTP server. What do I need to know to get this started? I've never set up an ftp services before, just http. Which package(s) do I need? Is it fairly easy to setup user restrictions for anonymous and regular user logins? Thanks for any help you can give. Brian Morgan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
more dumb WordPerfect ???s
Since I was having so much trouble finding the xwp executable (not in /usr/local/wp8/wpbin directory -- see previous posts), I removed the wp8 directory, and all its subordinants. I'm now trying to re-run the Runme script, but I get an error: nothing new to install. How do I get around this so I can run the Runme script again? BTW, I'm running slink, and have downloaded the full package for wp, not the smaller divided-up packages. Thanks, Brian Morgan
more WordPerfect woes
Re-dowloaded WP8. Successfully installed. When I run . . /wpbin/xwp, I get the error: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' I assume this means it wants libc5 run time libraries installed, but I'm pretty sure that's installed (at least dselect marks the libc5 package as being installed). Any other thoughts? BTW: Running slink. Brian Morgan
unzipping wp
I've just downloaded wordperfect onto /usr/local/wp and am having trouble unzipping it. Maybe it's just because I'm a newbie and haven't got the hang of it yet. I type: gunzip -fd GUILG00.GZ and get the following error: gunzip: GUILG00.GZ: not in gzip format. Am I doing something wrong? Is there another switch I need to add to the gunzip command? Thanks, Brian Morgan
dumb WordPerfect question
I've successfully unzipped and installed WordPerfect 8 onto /usr/local/wp8. Now what? What's the name of the executable and where is it? Readme's aren't helping. Brian Morgan
RE: dumb WordPerfect question
hmm .. . . I've run ./Runme, full install (successful), and still can't find the xwp executable. The only things in my wpbin directory are Readmes. Should I run the installer again? I've even tried using the find command, but to no avail. When I downloaded it, I put it in /usr/local/wp When I ran the installer, I chose /usr/local/wp8. Is that a problem? I can install into a different directory than I downloaded to, can't I? Running slink. Thanks, Brian Morgan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nate Mook Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 3:39 PM To: Brian Morgan Cc: Debian User Group Subject: Re: dumb WordPerfect question If you already ran ./Runme and installed it, then the executable is in /usr/local/wp8/wpbin/ and it's name is xwp. At least it was for me. Nate Mook [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've successfully unzipped and installed WordPerfect 8 onto /usr/local/wp8. Now what? What's the name of the executable and where is it? Readme's aren't helping. Brian Morgan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
KDE 1.1p2 qt1g package
When trying to install the qt1g package (using dpkg), I get the following errors: gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error processing /tmp/L231-13TMP.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /tmp/L231-13TMP.deb I'm tying to install this as it seems that it's required for this new KDE, but keep getting this error. Am I doing something wrong here? Brian Morgan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 29, 1999 3:29 PM To: Brian Morgan Cc: Debian User Group Subject: Re: trouble setting up kde 1.1p2 Brian Morgan wrote: I've downloaded all the *.deb files for the new kde from ftp.kde.org, and placed them in a new directory: /usr/local/kde. I am running slink, but downloaded potato version (only choices were potato and hamm). When I run dpkg -i kdebase_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb, I get a dependency error, saying it needs kdelibs0g and qt1g. Fine: I download kdelibs0g from stabe dist (couldn't find it anywhere else) Wasn't there a kdelibs0g_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb file on ftp.dke.org? I installed also kde1.1pre2 and i had also a few problems with qt1g. But now, everything works fine. First install support, then libs and then base. The oter packages aren't required. I used the following files: kdeadmin_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb kdebase_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb kdegames_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb kdegraphics_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb kdelibs0g-dev_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb kdelibs0g_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb kdemultimedia_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb kdesupport0g-dev_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb kdesupport0g_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb kdeutils_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb korganizer_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb Staf -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Wordperfect 8.0 install
Could someone walk me through how to install the new wp8 suite? I've downloaded the guilg00.gz file, and now I'm not sure what to do. I tried installing this on another machine before, with no luck. I seem to remember a flood of questions about the wp install script and problems it was having early on. I don't want to proceed without some direction here. Any suggestions? Any package dependencies I need to be aware of? I'm running slink, X is running (using icewm). Thanks, Brian Morgan
RE: netscape
The only thing I can find on netscape's ftp site is the linux20_glibc2 version under: ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.5/english/unix/unsupported/ I couldn't find any libc6 version anywhere on the site. Am I looking in the wrong place? Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ed Cogburn Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 4:07 PM To: Debian-Users Subject: Re: netscape Brian Morgan wrote: I've run into this before, but can't remember how to solve it. When I try to run netscape (downloaded from netscape's site - v4.5), I get the following error: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' How can I fix this? I'm running slink, icewm, gnome. Tried finding libXpm.so.4 using dselect in the frozen dist. No luck. Thanks, Brian Morgan What you've downloaded is the libc5 version of Netscape, but you're system is using libc6. Netscape requires some of the X libs to, themselves, be compiled under libc5 for NS to work. So, there are libc5-built libs in the oldlibs section in dselect. Specifically: libc5, xlib6 and Xpm. A better solution is to get the libc6 version of NS from ftp.netscape.com. This won't require any older libs to be installed. On ftp.netscape.com, look for the 'development' tree (instead of 'shipping') for the libc6 versions. -- Ed C. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
how to install packages w/o package file?
I'm fairly new at using debian and I don't yet know how to install packages any other way than using dselect. I'm trying to install the newest kde, and have browsed to the appropriate deb distribution on ftp.kde.org, but the directory doesn't contain a package file. Is there a simple way to install these files without a package file? i.e. using dpkg w/ apt? I'm not even totally sure I know what that means, but I've heard others talk about doing this. Could someone illustrate for me how to install these .deb files easily without using dselect? I'm running slink and know how to modify my sources.list file for use with apt. I'm just not sure what to do after that. Brian Morgan
trouble setting up kde 1.1p2
I've downloaded all the *.deb files for the new kde from ftp.kde.org, and placed them in a new directory: /usr/local/kde. I am running slink, but downloaded potato version (only choices were potato and hamm). When I run dpkg -i kdebase_19990125-1.1beta2-0.1_i386.deb, I get a dependency error, saying it needs kdelibs0g and qt1g. Fine: I download kdelibs0g from stabe dist (couldn't find it anywhere else) and qt1g from unstable. Dpkg works fine for kdelibs0g, but gives me errors on qt1g: ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libk*.so (No such file or direcotry), skipping I get this error for about 10 different libs. Do I need to install each of those libs? If so, which distribution do I get them from? There must be a simpler way to install this new kde! If only there were only an ftp site that carried the debs AND a package file . . . so I could use dselect instead of straight dpkg!!! (much easier for us beginngers) Any suggestions on how to make this work? Brian Morgan
gnome menu items
Using gnome (latest version) with slink and icewm, having trouble using menu items. Most (90%) will not activate anything. Only a few buttons actually activate the appropriate application. Other buttons don't do anything. I can get to many of the applications through the standard icewm menus, but not through gnome menu. Any suggestions? Thanks, Brian Morgan
netscape
I've run into this before, but can't remember how to solve it. When I try to run netscape (downloaded from netscape's site - v4.5), I get the following error: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' How can I fix this? I'm running slink, icewm, gnome. Tried finding libXpm.so.4 using dselect in the frozen dist. No luck. Thanks, Brian Morgan
gnome menus
I've successfully installed the latest gnome packages, and it looks pretty good. I'm running it in conjunction with icewm and slink. I'm having difficulty using the menu items, however. Most of the menu items in the gnome menu are not working. If I click on them, nothing happens. Only a few select items will actually open programs (like calendar and the menu editor). Even recently installed gnome packages do appear in the menu, but they won't open. I can get to them using the standard icewm menu, though. Any suggestions? Brian Morgan
xdm
Thanks to all who have helped me get X up and running. I'm using xdm to start my X sessions (not sure if I'll keep it). A few more questions: 1. If I decide I'd rather get rid of xdm, and use startx instead, what file to I need to modify to get to a console login on startup rather than the graphical xdm login? 2. If I do decide to keep xdm, what file do I modify to change my default windows manager (similar to the .xinitrc file when using startx). .3 Does xdm put any limitations on using gnome if I decide to use that in the future? Thanks, Brian Morgan
RE: xdm
I can't seem to find any file in /etc/X11 that has a line with start-xdm in it. X (and hence, xdm) is starting on boot. Is there a way to change that? All I've done to make this happen was install the xdm package. Also, is there any way to quit the xserver while using xdm without it automatically bringing back the xdm login screen (and hence starting X again)? Thanks for everyone's help. Brian -Original Message- From: Colin Telmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 11:45 AM To: Andrew Ivanov Cc: Brian Morgan; Debian User Group; recipient list not shown:; ; Subject: Re: xdm On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Andrew Ivanov wrote: 1. If I decide I'd rather get rid of xdm, and use startx instead, what file to I need to modify to get to a console login on startup rather than the graphical xdm login? /etc/X11/config file has one/more lines, depending on the version you use, that mention xdm. For example, start-xdm If you want to get rid of xdm, comment that line out. I assume the outcome is the same, but to be consistent with the syntax of that file, you don't comment it out - you change start-xdm to no-start-xdm. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.telmer.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Trackball in X
Now trying to use a built in trackball from my laptop as the mouse, and can't seem to make it work. A serial mouse attached to the back works just fine. Is there another device name (other than /dev/ttyS0) that I need to use from the XF86Setup? I haven't tried all of them, but is there a particular mouse type (microsoft, logitech, auto) that works best on these trackballs? I've enabled it in CMOS, so it should work ok. Any suggestions? Thanks again everyone. Brian
RE: xdm
There is no /etc/X11/config file on my machine. Is something wrong? I'm running slink. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: xdm In a message dated 1/22/99 1:43:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't seem to find any file in /etc/X11 that has a line with start-xdm in it. X (and hence, xdm) is starting on boot. Is there a way to change that? All I've done to make this happen was install the xdm package. Also, is there any way to quit the xserver while using xdm without it automatically bringing back the xdm login screen (and hence starting X again)? * /etc/X11/config should contain the line 'start-xdm', you can add the line 'no-start-xdm' to turn it off. * The nature (and purpose) of xdm is that when you log off, you are presented with another login screen. If that's not what you're after, you should probably just start X up manually with 'startx' instead of using xdm. Jay -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
gnome dependencies problem
I'm trying to install gnome from one of it's mirrors, and having some dependecy problems I can't figure out. Dselect allows me to select all the required base files, except when I select the orbit package, dselect gives me a dependency error saying that liborbit0 is required by orbit. The only problem is, is I already have liborbit0 installed, and dselect even indicates that. It's looking for ver. 0.3.0-1, which is exactly what I have installed (from the same mirror site - ftp.cuc.ml.org/mirrors/ftp.gnome.org) Any suggestions here? I've even gone through, removed liborbit0, and all gnome files, then reselected them to no avail. Thanks, Brian
configuring X
I'm trying to get X up and running on a laptop, but I don't know the specs for the video. I do know that it's capable of running 800x600 in 16bit color (not sure about refresh rate). Isn't there a simpler way than running the xf86config script to setup the Xserver? I seem to remember something that detected all that for you. Maybe I'm wrong. Could someone help me out here? Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: configuring X
Can someone help me find the xf86setup graphical setup for X? I'm having trouble getting the mouse just right, and would like to use the graphical setup to make this work. Thanks, Brian -Original Message- From: Anthony Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 1999 2:42 PM To: Brian Morgan Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: configuring X On 21 Jan 1999q, Brian Morgan wrote: I'm trying to get X up and running on a laptop, but I don't know the specs for the video. I do know that it's capable of running 800x600 in 16bit color (not sure about refresh rate). Isn't there a simpler way than running the xf86config script to setup the Xserver? I seem to remember something that detected all that for you. Maybe I'm wrong. Could someone help me out here? Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] You don't say which laptop you're using. If it's the Toshiba 4000CDT or similar, have a look at my website, where I've listed my experience of installing Linux on this machine. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on... - Edward Fitzgerald (Rubaiat of Omar Khayyam)
trouble installing debian (any version)
I'm having trouble installing debian on my p75 generic brand laptop (trying slink and potato). I have gone through setup, installed drivers and base system, but it gives an error: There was a problem extracting the Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz at the end of installation. When I reboot, it seems to freeze on LILO. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Could it be a bad disk in the mix of things? It doesn't seem to report any bad disks, but who knows? Thanks, Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: trouble installing debian (any version)
I've now tried it again with a completely different set of slink disks with the same results problem extracting Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz Is it possible that it doesn't have enough swap space to extract? I created a 50 meg swap file during setup. Maybe this doesn't apply. I'm not sure. Brian Morgan -Original Message- From: Brian Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 12:17 PM To: Debian User Group Subject: trouble installing debian (any version) I'm having trouble installing debian on my p75 generic brand laptop (trying slink and potato). I have gone through setup, installed drivers and base system, but it gives an error: There was a problem extracting the Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz at the end of installation. When I reboot, it seems to freeze on LILO. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Could it be a bad disk in the mix of things? It doesn't seem to report any bad disks, but who knows? Thanks, Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing
An addendum to my 2 previous posts. I can go all the way through setup: partitioning OK, loading devices OK, installs and configures base system OK. I chose not to configure PCMCIA support this time, and I've stopped getting the problem extracting Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz error message. It's still, however, freezing up when starting LILO. It just displays LI and nothing else. I thought I might try the TECRA disk, but from what I've read, that doesn't seem to be necessary with slink and above. I can boot from the boot disk (takes a long time, though). Any suggestions as to how to boot from hard disk? Thanks again Brian -Original Message- From: Brian Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 1:08 PM To: Debian User Group Subject: RE: trouble installing debian (any version) I've now tried it again with a completely different set of slink disks with the same results problem extracting Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz Is it possible that it doesn't have enough swap space to extract? I created a 50 meg swap file during setup. Maybe this doesn't apply. I'm not sure. Brian Morgan -Original Message- From: Brian Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 12:17 PM To: Debian User Group Subject: trouble installing debian (any version) I'm having trouble installing debian on my p75 generic brand laptop (trying slink and potato). I have gone through setup, installed drivers and base system, but it gives an error: There was a problem extracting the Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz at the end of installation. When I reboot, it seems to freeze on LILO. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Could it be a bad disk in the mix of things? It doesn't seem to report any bad disks, but who knows? Thanks, Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing
Thanks, Andrew. That took care of it. After that, I booted from the rescue disk, configured pcmcia support, and I was on my way. Brian -Original Message- From: Andrew Martin Adrian Cater [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 3:52 PM To: Brian Morgan Subject: Re: trouble installing debian -LILO freezing On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 03:25:11PM -0600, Brian Morgan wrote: An addendum to my 2 previous posts. I can go all the way through setup: partitioning OK, loading devices OK, installs and configures base system OK. I chose not to configure PCMCIA support this time, and I've stopped getting the problem extracting Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz error message. It's still, however, freezing up when starting LILO. It just displays LI and nothing else. I thought I might try the TECRA disk, but from what I've read, that doesn't seem to be necessary with slink and above. I can boot from the boot disk (takes a long time, though). Any suggestions as to how to boot from hard disk? Thanks again Brian -Original Message- From: Brian Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 1:08 PM To: Debian User Group Subject: RE: trouble installing debian (any version) I've now tried it again with a completely different set of slink disks with the same results problem extracting Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz Is it possible that it doesn't have enough swap space to extract? I created a 50 meg swap file during setup. Maybe this doesn't apply. I'm not sure. Brian Morgan -Original Message- From: Brian Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 12:17 PM To: Debian User Group Subject: trouble installing debian (any version) I'm having trouble installing debian on my p75 generic brand laptop (trying slink and potato). I have gone through setup, installed drivers and base system, but it gives an error: There was a problem extracting the Base System from /target/base2_1.tgz at the end of installation. When I reboot, it seems to freeze on LILO. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Could it be a bad disk in the mix of things? It doesn't seem to report any bad disks, but who knows? Thanks, Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Try opening a shell and running the command lilo -l which will force lilo to look at the disk in a linear address format. This is usually an issue with larger disks than 504MB IIRC. Andy
install script
I know this is going to sound cheesy to all you hardcore guys out there, but is there a way to bring back the install script that comes with slink at the beginning of the install process? It's the script that let's you choose certain categories of packages rather than searching 1 by 1 for packages in deselect you want to install. I know it's more fun to do it 1 by 1, but I'd like to get a system up and going with X, gnome, netscape, etc. as quickly as possible without a lot of fuss about configuring files, etc. I'm kind of trying to prove to my IT director that Linux isn't as difficult as he thinks it is, and I want to walk through a demo real quick with him. Thanks again. Brian Morgan
upgrade to slink
I'm currently running debian 2.0.34 (hamm) and would like to upgrade to slink. How do I do this? I have seen the apt files in the /dists/slink/main/upgrade-i386 section, but am not sure what to do with them. Can someone help? Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slink CD image
Where do I get ahold of the slink CD image? I'd like to be able to burn one or 2 of them, but can't find the image file that others have referred to. Thanks == Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Support Specialist http://brian.greenville.edu IBM Mobile Systems Specialist 618-664-2800 ext. 4241 Information Technology 618-338-4963 pager Greenville College, IL ICQ: 13798434 1 ... 2 ... 5! --King Arthur
printing from netscape
How do you print to a remote printer from netscape? When I click on the print button, I get a screen with the print command defaulting to lpd. Is there some other place I need to specify which printer in my printcap I want to print to? I've got my printcap setup with a couple of different printers, named by their host name. If I just click PRINT when taking the defaults, it gives me an error: lpd: Fatal error - another print spooler is using TCP printer port, possibly lpd process '139' Any suggestions? == Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Support Specialist http://brian.greenville.edu IBM Mobile Systems Specialist 618-664-2800 ext. 4241 Information Technology 618-338-4963 pager Greenville College, IL ICQ: 13798434 1 ... 2 ... 5! --King Arthur
mailing list problems, printing
1. I'm not receiving any of the emails from the list, for the last couple of hours. I can post (obviously), but I am not receiving mail from the list, unless it addressed specifically to me. Any thoughts? 2. Having trouble printing using lpr. I assume I'm doing this right. I type lpr -Pprintername FILENAME and I get a cover page, a page DESCRIBING the desired file, and then a blank sheet. When I print from Netscape, it either prints hundreds of blank pages, or hundreds of pages with jumbled text. Here's my printcap entry: kingsnake|laserjet 4 in computer room :lp=:\ :rm=kingsnake :rp=raw :sd=/var/spool/lpd/kingsnake :mx#0 :sh I've also tried :rp=text, with same results. Any suggestions? 3. Is there anything special you need to do to get netscape to print specific frames? Thanks == Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Support Specialist http://brian.greenville.edu IBM Mobile Systems Specialist 618-664-2800 ext. 4241 Information Technology 618-338-4963 pager Greenville College, IL ICQ: 13798434 1 ... 2 ... 5! --King Arthur
lpr printing difficulties
Having trouble printing using lpr. I assume I'm doing this right. I type lpr -Pprintername FILENAME and I get a cover page, a page DESCRIBING the desired file, and then a blank sheet. When I print from Netscape, it either prints hundreds of blank pages, or hundreds of pages with jumbled text. Here's my printcap entry: kingsnake|laserjet 4 in computer room :lp=:\ :rm=kingsnake :rp=raw :sd=/var/spool/lpd/kingsnake :mx#0 :sh I've also tried :rp=text, with same results. Any suggestions? 3. Is there anything special you need to do to get netscape to print specific frames? Thanks == Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Support Specialist http://brian.greenville.edu IBM Mobile Systems Specialist 618-664-2800 ext. 4241 Information Technology 618-338-4963 pager Greenville College, IL ICQ: 13798434 1 ... 2 ... 5! --King Arthur
samba: writing to network drives
I'm running samba on linux 2.0.34 and having trouble writing to the drives I've networked in windows. I can connect to my linux partitions just fine, but I am having trouble setting the permissions correctly in smb.conf to allow me to write to or create directories from my windows machine. Here's how a portion of my smb.conf file looks: [root] path= / browseable = yes writable = yes read only = no create mask = 0775 directory mask = 0775 [usr] path = /usr browseable = yes read only = no writable = yes create mask = 0775 directory mask = 0775 From what I've read in the smb.conf man pages, this seems like I should be allowed write access to these directories, but it's not working. Any suggestions? == Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Support Specialist http://brian.greenville.edu IBM Mobile Systems Specialist 618-664-2800 ext. 4241 Information Technology 618-338-4963 pager Greenville College, IL ICQ: 13798434 1 ... 2 ... 5! --King Arthur
Netscape, samba, power, awe64 ?s
Having some trouble using debian 2.0.34 1. I posted a samba question earlier. Has anyone had a chance to look at that yet? 2. Downloaded netscape from netscape.com, ran ns-install, and now I get an error: can't load library 'libXpm.so.4' I've had this problem in the past, on another debian machine, but I don't remember how I solved it. Any suggestions? 3. Any way to turn off power saving mode? I'd like my screen to stay on at all times, but it turns black after 10-20 minutes or so. (I'm not actually sure how long it takes, but it's always off when I leave and come back into my office.) I'd love to be able to show-off all those fancy XWindow screensavers! 4. I think someone offered advice on this before, but I'd like some help getting an awe64 soundcard to work. Isn't there something I have to do to recompile a the kernel? Sounds kind of scarey, for a newbie. Can anyone help? Thanks for anyone who responds to any one of these. == Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Support Specialist http://brian.greenville.edu IBM Mobile Systems Specialist 618-664-2800 ext. 4241 Information Technology 618-338-4963 pager Greenville College, IL ICQ: 13798434 1 ... 2 ... 5! --King Arthur
Samba trouble
Having trouble getting samba to accept my password from a windows station. In smb.conf: workgroup = hogue (same as on my windows machine). Set samba password (general and per user) correctly using smbpasswd. When I go to map a network drive to the samba machine in windows, I use \\brian\usr. It then asks for my password. No matter what password I type (root password or the samba password I setup) it tells me it can't connect. I'm running debian linux, 2.0.34. Am I forgetting something? I've been able to do this in the past, but am having trouble with it now. I want to assign a network drive to one of my debian partitions. Any help would be great. Brian Morgan == Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Support Specialist http://brian.greenville.edu IBM Mobile Systems Specialist 618-664-2800 ext. 4241 Information Technology 618-338-4963 pager Greenville College, IL ICQ: 13798434 1 ... 2 ... 5! --King Arthur
Re: More Samba headaches
Brian Morgan wrote: Here's a tricky one for ya. I'm using debian 2.0 / samba to connect several jet direct box printers via ip addresses so that hundreds of laptops on our campus can print via ip using MS networking. Works great. Ok. Can you explain your setup a bit more? I will assume that the HP printers have the builtin JetDiret, and the Debian box is just accepting the SMB printer connections and printing them to the HPs with lpr. Yes, except we have some external jetdirect boxes, each configured with an ip address. 1 problem now: All of a sudden, nobody can print with the existing windows printer setup. If I recreate the same printer, same samba network que, etc., I can print again. In looking at the properties of the new printer and the old printer, they are identical, but the old one comes up with a windows error cannot connect to this network printer. Check to make sure . . . blah blah blah. This error occurs on all the laptops: even ones that have just been burned with a fresh hard drive image containing the appropriate printer setups. Interesting. What do you see if you browse the Network Neighborhood on one of the laptops and look at your Debian box(es)? Is it the same as what you see with a ``smbclient -L boxname''? Can you connect to the printer shares on your Debian box(es) with smbclient? Can you look at the printers on the Debian box(es) thru the Network Neighborhood on the laptops? If I browse through network neighborhood, I can see the debian boxes. I have it setup so that the users that connect to the debian boxes just have limited access to the printer queues, though, so I don't see much else in network neighborhood. When I do a printer setup, I can see the debian server, and connect to the appropriate printer with no problem. The only other thing I can think of that would relate is that last week the debian servers each had an ip conflict. That has been resolved now, and the boxes have all been restarted. IP conflict with what? Each other or a laptop? How did you resolve it? IP conflict was with another win95 desktop machine on campus. Changed ip address for the win95 boxes. Any thoughts? Is this something anyone else has experienced, or is this just another part of the ever growing list of problems associated with the Bill Gates Virus? Sounds weird, but we need more information on your setup. Again, this all worked fine a couple of weeks ago. Very strange. -- __ | ian eure, network admin, freelance security consultant, and | | manically depressed paranoid schizophrenic, at your service. | ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://minion.org ; : raw speed = 105.6 wpm with 4.5% errors : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
More Samba headaches
Here's a tricky one for ya. I'm using debian 2.0 / samba to connect several jet direct box printers via ip addresses so that hundreds of laptops on our campus can print via ip using MS networking. Works great. 1 problem now: All of a sudden, nobody can print with the existing windows printer setup. If I recreate the same printer, same samba network que, etc., I can print again. In looking at the properties of the new printer and the old printer, they are identical, but the old one comes up with a windows error cannot connect to this network printer. Check to make sure . . . blah blah blah. This error occurs on all the laptops: even ones that have just been burned with a fresh hard drive image containing the appropriate printer setups. The only other thing I can think of that would relate is that last week the debian servers each had an ip conflict. That has been resolved now, and the boxes have all been restarted. Any thoughts? Is this something anyone else has experienced, or is this just another part of the ever growing list of problems associated with the Bill Gates Virus? Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sound card
Running debian 2.0 / 2.0.34 (stable) and having trouble getting my sound card to work. I can get the cd rom player in X to run, but not through the sound card. I didn't see anything in the device drivers setup when I installed debian, and wasn't sure how else to get it to work. It's a creative labs soundblaster awe64e. I installed all the sound files in the debian setup (using the easy to use custom menu for setting up: WORKS GREAT!!!), but it still isn't working. Any thoughts? Thanks, Brian Morgan BTW, nice job to all you developers out there who made vast improvements to the debian 2.0 setup. So much easier now than in the frozen version! I installed everything I needed right from the start (including x, samba, and mucho other packages . . .no problem!) Look out NT! -- Brian Morgan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Service Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenville College http://www.gvc.net/~jedi El Nino shot JFK
Samba passwords
Does anyone know how to set a Samba user password to NONE, if a password already exists? I've tried smbpasswd [user] and hit return twice, only to find that Samba password not changed. I've also tried modifying the /etc/samba/debian_config file to password set = no, and it still requires my previous password. Anything else I can do to eliminate the Samba password? Thanks, Brian Morgan -- Brian Morgan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Service Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenville College http://www.gvc.net/~jedi El Nino shot JFK
Re: IP address printing w/ LPRng
Jim: Could you repost that message you sent yesterday? My windows machine went crazy last night and said I had 4,000+ messages this morning (mostly duplicates). I then went a little crazier, and just started deleting left and right, and somehow accidentally deleted your last message. Thanks, Brian Brian Morgan wrote: I've redone my printcap file to read: lp1|12.10.35.3|Remote printer entry:\ :lp=:\ :rm=12.10.35.3:\ :rp=text:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/12.10.35.3:\ :mx#0:\ :sf:\ :sh: Shouldn't that lp line read lp=/dev/lp1:\ ??? I also modified my hosts.lpd file to include 12.10.35.3 I also created the 12.10.35.3 spool directory in /var/spool/lpd (anything I need to do with that?) I still have 2 lpd print spooling services starting up when I boot my machine. Shouldn't that be changed? After all the changes, I've tried printing using cat [filename] /dev/lp1 and nothing happens. Lewis, James M. wrote: Brian, Those things have 2 printer names configured. They are text and raw. The text one adds cr when it sees an lf and the raw one does not. I don't know if there is a way to make new printer names for those things. You might telnet into it to see if you can. Umm, I just checked one and you don't seem to be able to change the printer names... Second to last line needs a :\. You might also try using a null entry for the device. My printcap looks like this: lp1|rm164_hp|Remote printer entry:\ :lp=:\ :rm=rm164_hp:\ :rp=raw:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/rm164_hp:\ :mx#0:\ :sf:\ :sh: You have to make sure the spool directory exists. You also have to have an entry in the hosts file or dns for the name in the rm= entry. You can also use an ip-addr. Depending on your situation, one usually works better than the other. For places that have a bunch of printers, the dns entry makes life easier. You can swap out hardware and change the dns entry without having to change a bunch of servers hosts files (or printcap files). Doing it with dns is a pain if you only have one or two servers/workstations (like a home network)... I'm using lpr, not lprng, but they should work the same. jim -- From: Brian Morgan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 9:59 AM To: Debian User group Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject:IP address printing w/ LPRng I posted some questions about printing to an ip address earlier. Thanks for those who have helped so far. More questions: I'm running hamm, 2.0.33 and LPRng print spooling package. I'm trying to print to an HP laserjet through a jetdirect card with an ip address. I've edited my /etc/printcap file to look like this: rlp|Remote printer entry:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :rm=12.10.35.3:\ :rp=debian test printer:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp1:\ :mx#0 :sh: Does that look right so far? Are the :\ marks correct? They weren't in the file origianally, but I added them from a Unix machine's example. Also, on startup, it appears that there are 2 lpd print spoolers started since I installed the LPRng package. This doesn't seem right. What can I do about it? In /var/spool/lpd directory, I have the following directories and files: lp lp1 lpd.lock.debian.printer Shouldn't there be an rlp directory? I created the lp1 directory. Is that right? In the lp directory, the status.lp file contains many /dev/lp1 cannot connect errors I've modified the /etc/hosts.lpd file to include 2 computers that I want to be able to connect to the printcap file. Is there a way to set this so all computer can connect, and not just a limited few? From what I've indicated here, is there anything else I need to do to be able to print? Any permissions I need to check out, esp. in the spool directory? Make your answers as simple as possible, because I'm still fairly new at this. Thanks for your help, Brian -- Brian Morgan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Service Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenville College http://www.gvc.net/~jedi Surely you can't be serious! I am serious, and don't call me Shirley! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Brian Morgan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Service Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenville College http://www.gvc.net/~jedi Surely you can't
Installing gnome
Could someone walk a newbie through the process of installing gnome v.20, step-by-step, according to your experience? I'm running hamm, kernel 2.0.33. X is running with afterstep (but I have several other WM's I could use if need be). Download the tarballs, and now what? Brian -- Brian Morgan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Service Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenville College http://www.gvc.net/~jedi Surely you can't be serious! I am serious, and don't call me Shirley! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
IP address printing w/ LPRng
I posted some questions about printing to an ip address earlier. Thanks for those who have helped so far. More questions: I'm running hamm, 2.0.33 and LPRng print spooling package. I'm trying to print to an HP laserjet through a jetdirect card with an ip address. I've edited my /etc/printcap file to look like this: rlp|Remote printer entry:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :rm=12.10.35.3:\ :rp=debian test printer:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp1:\ :mx#0 :sh: Does that look right so far? Are the :\ marks correct? They weren't in the file origianally, but I added them from a Unix machine's example. Also, on startup, it appears that there are 2 lpd print spoolers started since I installed the LPRng package. This doesn't seem right. What can I do about it? In /var/spool/lpd directory, I have the following directories and files: lp lp1 lpd.lock.debian.printer Shouldn't there be an rlp directory? I created the lp1 directory. Is that right? In the lp directory, the status.lp file contains many /dev/lp1 cannot connect errors I've modified the /etc/hosts.lpd file to include 2 computers that I want to be able to connect to the printcap file. Is there a way to set this so all computer can connect, and not just a limited few? From what I've indicated here, is there anything else I need to do to be able to print? Any permissions I need to check out, esp. in the spool directory? Make your answers as simple as possible, because I'm still fairly new at this. Thanks for your help, Brian -- Brian Morgan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Service Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenville College http://www.gvc.net/~jedi Surely you can't be serious! I am serious, and don't call me Shirley! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Installing gnome
Do I need to download EVERYTHING that has gnome associated with it? Or just the libs / core / whatever else? Do I have to download and unzip, or is there a way to use dselect (I didn't find any packages file). What do I do with that imlib. Remember, I said I was a newbie. Thanks, Brian Shaleh wrote: GNOME v.20 is sitting in Incoming (still). You can get debs of it from www.jimpick.com and the imlib it needs from www.livenet.net/~shaleh/software. You will find installing the debs MUCH nicer than trying to compile it. Brian Morgan wrote: Could someone walk a newbie through the process of installing gnome v.20, step-by-step, according to your experience? I'm running hamm, kernel 2.0.33. X is running with afterstep (but I have several other WM's I could use if need be). Download the tarballs, and now what? Brian -- Brian Morgan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Service Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenville College http://www.gvc.net/~jedi Surely you can't be serious! I am serious, and don't call me Shirley! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Brian Morgan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Service Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenville College http://www.gvc.net/~jedi Surely you can't be serious! I am serious, and don't call me Shirley! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: IP address printing w/ LPRng
I've redone my printcap file to read: lp1|12.10.35.3|Remote printer entry:\ :lp=:\ :rm=12.10.35.3:\ :rp=text:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/12.10.35.3:\ :mx#0:\ :sf:\ :sh: Shouldn't that lp line read lp=/dev/lp1:\ ??? I also modified my hosts.lpd file to include 12.10.35.3 I also created the 12.10.35.3 spool directory in /var/spool/lpd (anything I need to do with that?) I still have 2 lpd print spooling services starting up when I boot my machine. Shouldn't that be changed? After all the changes, I've tried printing using cat [filename] /dev/lp1 and nothing happens. Lewis, James M. wrote: Brian, Those things have 2 printer names configured. They are text and raw. The text one adds cr when it sees an lf and the raw one does not. I don't know if there is a way to make new printer names for those things. You might telnet into it to see if you can. Umm, I just checked one and you don't seem to be able to change the printer names... Second to last line needs a :\. You might also try using a null entry for the device. My printcap looks like this: lp1|rm164_hp|Remote printer entry:\ :lp=:\ :rm=rm164_hp:\ :rp=raw:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/rm164_hp:\ :mx#0:\ :sf:\ :sh: You have to make sure the spool directory exists. You also have to have an entry in the hosts file or dns for the name in the rm= entry. You can also use an ip-addr. Depending on your situation, one usually works better than the other. For places that have a bunch of printers, the dns entry makes life easier. You can swap out hardware and change the dns entry without having to change a bunch of servers hosts files (or printcap files). Doing it with dns is a pain if you only have one or two servers/workstations (like a home network)... I'm using lpr, not lprng, but they should work the same. jim -- From: Brian Morgan[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 9:59 AM To: Debian User group Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject:IP address printing w/ LPRng I posted some questions about printing to an ip address earlier. Thanks for those who have helped so far. More questions: I'm running hamm, 2.0.33 and LPRng print spooling package. I'm trying to print to an HP laserjet through a jetdirect card with an ip address. I've edited my /etc/printcap file to look like this: rlp|Remote printer entry:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :rm=12.10.35.3:\ :rp=debian test printer:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp1:\ :mx#0 :sh: Does that look right so far? Are the :\ marks correct? They weren't in the file origianally, but I added them from a Unix machine's example. Also, on startup, it appears that there are 2 lpd print spoolers started since I installed the LPRng package. This doesn't seem right. What can I do about it? In /var/spool/lpd directory, I have the following directories and files: lp lp1 lpd.lock.debian.printer Shouldn't there be an rlp directory? I created the lp1 directory. Is that right? In the lp directory, the status.lp file contains many /dev/lp1 cannot connect errors I've modified the /etc/hosts.lpd file to include 2 computers that I want to be able to connect to the printcap file. Is there a way to set this so all computer can connect, and not just a limited few? From what I've indicated here, is there anything else I need to do to be able to print? Any permissions I need to check out, esp. in the spool directory? Make your answers as simple as possible, because I'm still fairly new at this. Thanks for your help, Brian -- Brian Morgan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Service Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenville College http://www.gvc.net/~jedi Surely you can't be serious! I am serious, and don't call me Shirley! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Brian Morgan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Service Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenville College http://www.gvc.net/~jedi Surely you can't be serious! I am serious, and don't call me Shirley! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Linux print server, windows machines
I've got kind of a rather lengthy question about windows machines printing to a linux print server. I'm rather new at this, but was asked to investigate these possibilities. Any help I could get would be great. I'm running hamm, 2.0.33 kernel, and need to connect several printers on our campus to the linux print server (whatever that may be: I don't know. Is there a print server type package I need to have installed?) All the printers will have ip addresses, via HP jetdirect boxes and cards. I will have several laptops that will need to be able to print to these printers. All the laptops will be running windows 98. I'm also running samba on my linux box, but haven't quite got the hang of it yet (getting closer). Is this the service I need to allow the windows machines to print to the linux print server? Do I need to specify anything in the smb.conf file (ip addresses, etc.) or is that done somewhere else in a different package? Any help I could get to get started would be great. If I need to give more info. before any of you can formulate an answer, let me know that as well. EXTREMELY thankful already, Brian Morgan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samba: password for mapping network drives
I'm running the nmbd and smbd Samba daemons, and having trouble mapping a network drive on my windows machine to any of my mounted drives. I've tried the following ways of connecting using windows' map utility (i.e. in explorer): \\debian\hda# (where # = appropriate drive partition) \\debian\usr (or \root, \var, or \usr) In either case, the map utility prompts me for a password to connect to these resources. I've tried the root password, and all the passwords for individual users, but it always comes back and says, the password is incorrect, please try again. Is there another password that I'm not aware of that I need to be entering here, or another daemon I'm not yet running to be able to map a network drive in this way? The man pages didn't provide as much help as I wished. running hamm, 2.0.33 kernel\ Brian PS: apologies on posting that ZDnet article earlier. In the future, I'll only post the address to such articles (if they're worth it). Thanks again, everyone for being patient with a newbie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is Netscape Navigator really only for 16-bit color?
I've noticed the same thing about netscape's color problem. I believe it will work in 16 and 32 bit, but 24 and 8 bit produce the black and white anomalies. Brian Chip Grandits wrote: I've installed Netscape Communicator v4.05 on my bo system running Xwindows with the FVWM manager. I don't have any Motif or Motif clones. When I attempt to browse to a page which uses Java, Netscape just crashes immediately and goes away. (No harm to anything else - as far as I can tell). The one thing I turned up from my own research is to ensure that Moz_2.zip is in a particular directory ( I think /usr/local/netscape - whatever it said that's where it is on my system). Does anyone know why it's going down? Do I need some additional Java Support Packages besides that which comes with Netscape? Do I need another archive utility for moz_2.zip. Is there a particular log file I can look at to get more info? -Thank You, Chip Grandits P.S. Does anyone know why I have to use 16-bit color depth to have the colors in the Communicator Applications come out right? If I use 24-bit color the Icons and other images that are part of Communicator come out in Black and Gray. (Except for Netscape NetHelp which works fine in 24-bit color) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba: password for mapping network drives
Can you help me with that share name thing? Does that go in the global section? I've checked the man page for smb.conf, and still couldn't find anything about this parameter. I've set the workgroup for the appropriate windows workgroup name. Is this what you were talking about? I've got the password correct, but now the message comes up The share name was not found. Make sure you typed it correctly. Thanks again, Brian dpk wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: [snip] In either case, the map utility prompts me for a password to connect to these resources. I've tried the root password, and all the passwords for individual users, but it always comes back and says, the password is incorrect, please try again. Is there another password that I'm not aware of that I need to be entering here, or another daemon I'm not yet running to be able to map a network drive in this way? The man pages didn't provide as much help as I wished. Two things to check: 1. Make sure you have a share name in the smb.conf such that the filesystem you are attempting to mount is accessible through samba. There are various examples in the default smb.conf already. 2. Make sure your smb password is up-to-date by running 'smbpasswd username'. This won't be needed when PAM support is readded to samba. See /usr/doc/samba/README.debian for further details. There is extensive information in /usr/doc/samba that is not provided in the manpages. Hope this helps! Dennis -- Dennis Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] | phone: 353.4844 Network Admin, College of Engineering, MSU | pager: 222.5875 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remove user
simple question: What's the command for removing a user? I've looked in all my manuals, but can't find it. hamm, 2.033 kernel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Story: How Linux Could Kill Windows NT
Below is a story by ZDnet about Linux that just came out today. Thought you might be interested in reading it. Coincidentally, another story came out from ZDnet today about Microsoft winning one in the DOJ battle. Sounds like a good time for MS-ers to switch! Brian http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/story/story_2241.html Title: Story: How Linux Could Kill Windows NT Berst Alert TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1998 How Linux Could Kill Windows NT Jesse Berst, Editorial DirectorZDNet AnchorDesk Linux. It's not a serious challenger to Microsoft Windows NT. But it could be. If three things take place. Linux is a freeware operating system developed in the early 90s by a volunteer group under the leadership of Linus Torvald, then a Finnish computer science student. This 32-bit, UNIX-like, multi-user, multi-tasking operating system is legendary for its stability. And for its flexibility, since users have full access to the source code. Linux has roughly 5 million users worldwide, compared to about 200 million for all versions of Windows. Click for full story. Lately I've been seeing signs of momentum. Corel is shipping Linux as the operating system on its NetWinder network computer. Click for full story. Sun Microsystems is backing Linux as an alternative operating system for its UltraSPARC platform. Click for full story. VARs and system integrators have begun to use Linux for customer projects. They like the fact they control the source code, so they can mix and match the components they need and build custom extensions. But these are baby steps. Three things are needed if Linux is to duel Windows NT for real. 1. Enterprise-quality technical support. Linux still feels risky to large corporations, who feel they need support from a single point of contact, not from a loose alliance of libertarian programmers. It makes some IT professionals wonder if they could get fired for choosing Linux. Of the three obstacles, this is the easiest one to solve, because it is largely perception versus reality. Companies such as Caldera and Red Hat now offer user-friendly commercial versions with nationwide support. Click for full story. 2. Tier One applications. The leading applications must be available in Linux versions. The situation is improving but very slowly. Corel ships WordPerfect for Linux and plans to develop a suite of business applications. Most other vendors won't do Linux versions until there's enough demand. And there won't be demand until there are enough applications. That leaves Linux trapped between a chicken and an egg. 3. A standard interface. This issue will prove hardest of all because it flies in the face of the Linux gestalt. It's not a technical issue. At least one firm has already built a Win95 clone. Rather it's the problem of getting the fiercely independent Linuxites to agree to a single standard. Remember, the core community is made up of Unix geeks who think graphical interfaces are for sissies. Would you like to see the rug pulled out from under Microsoft? Here's how it could happen. IBM ships and supports Linux. Oracle does Linux versions of all its products. A consortium of top vendors picks a standard Linux interface and creates a compatibility logo. Possible? Absolutely. Microsoft's long-range strategy would come crumbling down if it was forced to give away Windows NT. It plans to upgrade all of us to NT, and charge us twice what it gets for NT. Is a Linux takeover likely? Give me a break. Of course not. Still, as we reported yesterday, IBM is now shipping the freeware Apache Web server. Is it too much to hope that it might ship and support Linux? Click the TalkBack button to tell me what you think. Or jump over to the discussion now underway in my Berst Alerts forum. Don't Miss These Previous Berst Alerts... Home Networking Breakthrough Learning on the Web Top 5 Web Authoring Lies READ MORE: Extreme Linux Is Potent but Complex - PC WeekLinux Online! - Internet EVALUATE: OSUser: The Ultimate Operating Systems Resource - ZDNet Products Channel SUBSCRIBE: Get AnchorDesk's email summary in your inbox! - ZDNet AnchorDesk DISCUSS: Jesse's Berst Alerts COMPANIES: Caldera Inc. IBM Microsoft Corp. Red Hat Software PRODUCTS: Linux Red Hat Linux TOPICS: Systems Software and Platforms PEOPLE: Linus Torvald TODAY ONANCHORDESK: How Linux Could Kill Windows NT Small, Local ISPs are the Household Choice Welcome to Font-O-Rama CyberNews This Week Preliminary Injunction Against Microsoft Overturned Acer Debuts Non-PCs Intel Makes Deep Price Cuts CompUSA Buys Computer City Supreme Courts Sides With AOL INDEXES:
HELP! can't get my email!
I've posted this message a few times, but with no replies. Here it is again: When trying to get my mail (in netscape or anything else), I get the following error: Report from server Err Maillock: 'var/spool/pop/bmorgan.pop' I've gone in and renamed bmorgan.pop to something else, and it creates another bmorgan.pop name and gives me the same error message. What can I do to unlock this mailbox? Or is there something else I need to do? Brian PS I'm using the same computer for my POP3 email server and and my client. This setup has worked great so far, until I started getting this error today. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maillock POP3 Error
When trying to get my mail (in netscape or anything else), I get the following error: Report from server Err Maillock: 'var/spool/pop/bmorgan.pop' I've gone in and renamed bmorgan.pop to something else, and it creates another bmorgan.pop name and gives me the same error message. What can I do to unlock this mailbox? Brian PS I'm using the same computer for my POP3 email server and and my client. This setup has worked great so far, until I started getting this error today. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail notification
Are there any good mail notification programs available for Debian? I'm especially interested in big flashy packages with lots of bells, whistles, etc. One that could run as a screensaver would be cool. Thanks, Brian Morgan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnome v.20
Anyone know of any updated info on the release of gnome v.20 for debian? I'm anxiously awaiting it's arrival. Is it possible to simply install it using the tarballs on the gnome site? Or will there be mucho configuration I need to do? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
POP 3 error with my inbox
When trying to get my mail (in netscape or anything else), I get the following error: Report from server Err Maillock: 'var/spool/pop/bmorgan.pop' I've gone in and renamed bmorgan.pop to something else, and it creates another bmorgan.pop name and gives me the same error message. What can I do to unlock this mailbox? Brian PS I'm using the same computer for my POP3 email server and and my client. This setup has worked great so far, until I started getting this error today. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Downloading Debian
Try reading the install instructions on the page listed below. This is for Debian version 2.0 (or hamm), which is currently in its slightly unstable distribution. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.6_1998-05-12/install.html There are also instructions for version 1.3 (bo) on the sight www.debian.org / user documentation. Version 1.3 is considered stable. I would recommend installing the hamm version, as it seems to be stable enough for everyone I've encountered, and contains many enhancements over the bo version. (In fact, it's about to be released in its stable version any day now. Good luck! Once you get things running, you'll never want to turn back to Microsoft! Brian Dan Ball wrote: Hi, I'm looking for the Debian package. I thought I might try it out. However I'm having problems locating/downloading the proper files? On the FTP server.what are the files needed for a install of Debian. I am very confused with the choices availble. I keep looking for a Zip or something with a name that implies it is the whole package. Sorry for the ignorant question, any help would be greatly appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maillock POP 3 error
When trying to get my mail (in netscape or anything else), I get the following error: Report from server Err Maillock: 'var/spool/pop/bmorgan.pop' I've gone in and renamed bmorgan.pop to something else, and it creates another bmorgan.pop name and gives me the same error message. What can I do to unlock this mailbox? Brian PS I'm using the same box as my POP3 email server and client. It has worked great so far, until I started getting this error today. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mail notifiers
Are there any good mail notification programs available for Debian? I'm especially interested in big flashy packages with lots of bells, whistles, etc. One that could run as a screensaver would be cool. Thanks, Brian Morgan PS: I'm having trouble sending / receiving messages to this listserv from my debian machine. I can send and receive from all other outside email sources, but for some reason, I'm not getting through to this listserv.I got the confirmation email back, and responded to it with the correct info. in the subject line, etc. Does anyone know if the listserv is having any problems right now? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
staroffice
Where is that Staroffice4 that you're talking about? I can only find 3.1-8 in hamm/contrib/binary-i386/editors. Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 12:52:14PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:12:02AM -0700, George Bonser wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Shaleh wrote: Oh gee just what we need. I will admit, I could use a good word processor LIKE Word...but please NOT word! [snip - I said it ill snip it :) ] (I believe I told the story on this list before of when I was called to look at a MS Word file that was corrupt when a grant was pending at the hospital) Currently I use Star Office for my office/word processing needs in Linux. The program is pretty good and I like it. You should try d/ling it :) I tried StarOffice4...downloaded it..burned it to CD and brought it home. I can't get it to work. It installsit loads comes up with a nice window and seg faults. I believe a work-around was found on this list a while back...I never tried it again after that. Anyone remember how to make it work (I am running a hamm system BTW) -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: staroffice
All very helpful info. on Staroffice so far, but WHERE can I get it. What's the address for their site. I've found version 3 on debian's ftp site, but I would like to get version 4 to evaluate for myself. Brian Jeff Noxon wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 11:59:53AM -0700, Brian Weiss wrote: StarOffice 4 is commercial -- i.e. not free. IMHO it's well worth the $100 since it's virtually a clone of MS Office. It's a bit sluggish though. Jeff That's not correct. I downloaded the full software package from their site for absolutely nothing. It's not an evaluation copy and doesn't require you to register or spend money in any way. Try downloading it from their site and if you still have trouble getting it drop me an E-mail and I'll see what I can do. If it's an evaluation copy, that means it's not free. It's for sale all over the place, and I remember reading a statement from the company that the Linux version is no longer free -- although it may be possible to download (and apparently is). StarOffice 3 was just an experiment to test the viability of a Linux port. It was distributed under different terms. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. I don't remember if this info came from C.O.L.A. or Linux Journal. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: staroffice
One more question on Staroffice (I finally found it and am currently downloading it.) It only comes in a tar.gz version for Staroffice 4. It says it's for OpenLinux. Anyone know anything about putting it on a Debian machine? I'm running hamm. Speak easy. I've only been using Debian Linux a week, so any step-by-steps on this would be great. Thanks, Brian Patrick Ouellette wrote: The web site is www.stardivision.com Also from the site: StarOffice 4.0 for OpenLinux (Linux) ServicePack 3 The new version of StarOffice 4.0 for OpenLinux (Linux) based on ServicePack 3 is now available for download. As in the past StarOffice 4.0 for OpenLinux (Linux) is free for private use. If you visit their German site, it appears that version 5.0 is out. Pat -Original Message- From: Brian Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 19, 1998 2:10 PM To: Jeff Noxon; Debian User group Subject: Re: staroffice All very helpful info. on Staroffice so far, but WHERE can I get it. What's the address for their site. I've found version 3 on debian's ftp site, but I would like to get version 4 to evaluate for myself. Brian Jeff Noxon wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 11:59:53AM -0700, Brian Weiss wrote: StarOffice 4 is commercial -- i.e. not free. IMHO it's well worth the $100 since it's virtually a clone of MS Office. It's a bit sluggish though. Jeff That's not correct. I downloaded the full software package from their site for absolutely nothing. It's not an evaluation copy and doesn't require you to register or spend money in any way. Try downloading it from their site and if you still have trouble getting it drop me an E-mail and I'll see what I can do. If it's an evaluation copy, that means it's not free. It's for sale all over the place, and I remember reading a statement from the company that the Linux version is no longer free -- although it may be possible to download (and apparently is). StarOffice 3 was just an experiment to test the viability of a Linux port. It was distributed under different terms. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. I don't remember if this info came from C.O.L.A. or Linux Journal. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SMTP mail
I can now send and receive mail on my Debian box, but only to addresses within our local domain (greenville.edu). It doesn't seem to be sending stuff off-site. Is there a sendmail or SMTP type package that I need to install to get this going right? Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SMTP mail
Yes, I can resolve outside names (pinging and "netscaping"). I'm not familiar with a smarthost. Does that have to do with SMTP or sendmail? Isn't there some other sort of SMTP services I need to be running? Brian Morgan can you resolve names outside greenville.edu (try pinging one or netscaping to one like www.debian.org or sunsite.unc.edu)? are you using a smarthost? > I can now send and receive mail on my Debian box, but only to addresses > within our local domain (greenville.edu). It doesn't seem to be sending > stuff off-site. Is there a sendmail or SMTP type package that I need to > install to get this going right?
Re: Can't get X to Run, Please help!
Sounds like your symbolic link for X isn't pointing to a valid server. Try this: Go to the /ur/X11R6/bin directory type: ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16 X That will set your symbolic link for X to point to the VGA16 server. Hope this helps. --thanks to Steve Mayer for helping me solve this problem a few days ago. Give credit where it's due. Brian Morgan David Miner wrote: I recently installed DEBIAN Linux and downloaded some packages. My problem is when I try to start X it wont start and I get this message back. Fatal server error: No valid modes found. _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to xserver xinit: No such process (errno 3): server error. I'm running the VGA16 server and ran XF86Setup as root. The contents of /etc/X11/Xserver are /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16 Console EOF The computer is an older COMPAQ 486 DX 50 here at work that I thought I would test LINUX on. I believe the video card is a Cirrus Logic with .5 meg video ram (it is built into the motherboard), however I selected unsupported VGA just to be safe. I used 640x480 for monitor resolution standard VGA in the XF86Setup. XF86Setup seems to run fine but after saving to XF86Config and exiting startx returns the above error. Any help would be appreciated. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
smarthosts and sendmail or whatever
Yes, I can resolve outside names (pinging and netscaping). I'm not familiar with a smarthost. Does that have to do with SMTP or sendmail? Isn't there some other sort of SMTP services I need to be running? (read transcript below) Brian Morgan --- can you resolve names outside greenville.edu (try pinging one or netscaping to one like www.debian.org or sunsite.unc.edu)? are you using a smarthost? --Will Lowe I can now send and receive mail on my Debian box, but only to addresses within our local domain (greenville.edu). It doesn't seem to be sending stuff off-site. Is there a sendmail or SMTP type package that I need to install to get this going right? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netscape tarball: how to use it
I've downloaded netscape's tarball, and unzipped it with gunzip. Now how do I access it to run the ns-install script? I guess I need a basic lesson in What's a tarball? Is it anything like a tarbaby? Is it like a zipped file in dos? Forgive me for these remedial questions. I've only been using Linux for a week, and have learned a ton from replies to my questions and from reading others' comments. Thanks everyone, for your help! Brian Morgan Brian Morgan wrote: I've downloaded netscape into the /tmp directory with the proper naming convention. When I run dselect to configure it, everything seems to be ok, but it doesn't do anything in Xwindows when I try to run it. Here's my question. Where is the install script that is supposed to come with netscape? I downloaded professional version 4.05. Thanks for your help. Brian Morgan By default, NS will install into /usr/local/netscape/. In your XWin menu, make sure the path is correct when calling NS. I didn't use the wrapper when installing NS, I installed NS's tarball, modified the menu entry so that it called the NS binary directly (/usr/local/netscape/netscape) so I wouldn't have to change my PATH setting. In Netscape's tarball, the install script's name is 'ns-install'. -- Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netscape mail settings
Thanks to all who have helped me thusfar: A few questions about netscape's settings: 1.I can send mail, using debian.greenville.edu as my outgoing mail (SMTP) server (debian is the host name for my debian system), and others receive it fine. However, when I try to receive mail using the same server name, I get the message Netscape's network connection was refused by the server: debian.greenville.edu There are 3 server types to choose from in the mail settings, 1.Pop 3 (default) 2.Movemail application 3.IMAP 4 I am using Pop 3, the default. Is this correct? Is there anything I need to do to my debian box to get pop3 services running? Anything else I need to configure? 2.All of my icons in netscape are black and white. Is this normal? I've seen versions for FreeBSD that are in full color. Am I doing something wrong? 3.The only way for me to run netscape is by typing in the full path in xterm: /usr/local/netscape/netscape. I'm running afterstep, and cannot get any of the graphical shortcuts to work for it, either via the debian-apps-net menu, or through the built in button that came with afterstep. Can someone help me configure theses paths to point to the correct netscape location? Thanks in advance for all of your expertise! Brian Morgan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
POP 3 daemon in /etc/inetd.conf
I'm now trying to get the POP3 daemon running in /etc/inetd.conf (as suggested below), but don't know how to do that. I don't see any line about POP3 anywhere in there. Is there a package I need to install to get POP3 services up and running? I couldn't find anything in any of the hamm directories. AND: I still can't get netscape to show its icons in color. Everything else is in 24bpp color (websites, etc.). I had trouble installing netscape originally using dselect's install, so I overwrote that using the ns-install script. Should I have removed what dselect did first before using ns-install? Should I now go back and delete all instances of netscape on my system, start over, and use the ns-install script from scratch? Also, where is the apt package? I hope all my questions aren't taking unfair advantage of you gurus out there. You have been EXTREMELY helpful thusfar. What kinds of cookies do you all like? I'll have my wife bake some for you!! :) Brian Weiss wrote: On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: Thanks to all who have helped me thusfar: A few questions about netscape's settings: 1.I can send mail, using debian.greenville.edu as my outgoing mail (SMTP) server (debian is the host name for my debian system), and others receive it fine. However, when I try to receive mail using the same server name, I get the message Netscape's network connection was refused by the server: debian.greenville.edu There are 3 server types to choose from in the mail settings, 1.Pop 3 (default) 2.Movemail application 3.IMAP 4 I am using Pop 3, the default. Is this correct? Is there anything I need to do to my debian box to get pop3 services running? Anything else I need to configure? That should be correct.. are you sure you are using the right server? they might have a special mail server as many ISPs do.. (ex: mail.greenville.edu). Also, if it is the incorrect protocol you'll want to talk to the admin of the box and find out which one is. Most systems use POP3 but you occasionally will find an IMAP system. Talk to your sysadmin. One thing I noticed before sending this mail... Is this YOUR debian system you are talking about? If so... make sure you are running the POP3 daemon. You can do this by checking /etc/inetd.conf and looking for the line starting with pop3. I would suggest pop3 over any other protocol such as IMAP because it is less exploitable and more widely used IMHO. 2.All of my icons in netscape are black and white. Is this normal? I've seen versions for FreeBSD that are in full color. Am I doing something wrong? My guess would be that you are running X in 8 bpp mode, so netscape isnt getting enough colors to display them properly. I would suggest moving up to at least 16 bpp. To change this edit /usr/X11R6/bin/startx and in the serverargs variable put -bpp 16. Also, could you send me those icons? :) 3.The only way for me to run netscape is by typing in the full path in xterm: /usr/local/netscape/netscape. I'm running afterstep, and cannot get any of the graphical shortcuts to work for it, either via the debian-apps-net menu, or through the built in button that came with afterstep. Can someone help me configure theses paths to point to the correct netscape location? I would love to help you out here, but all I can tell you is that you need to edit AfterStep's configuration files to point to the right location of netscape. Either that or you could put /usr/local/netscape in your path :) I hope some of this helps. .- Brian Weiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.bitchx.net/fudd/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
netscape 4 configuration
I've installed netscape 4 from dselect, but when I try to configure it (also in dselect), I get the following error messages: The netscape archive must be in /tmp, owned by root, and under a name matching one of the following: communicator-v4*.x86-*-linux*.tar* navigator-vr*.x86-*-linux*.tar* Am I doing this right, or is there another place where I need to setup netscape? Also, is there an easy way to configure XWindows so that programs you setup in the .xinitrc file are run minimized or placed in a certain location of the screen? Is this in the X man page? Brian Morgan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netscape script: where is it?
I've downloaded netscape into the /tmp directory with the proper naming convention. When I run dselect to configure it, everything seems to be ok, but it doesn't do anything in Xwindows when I try to run it. Here's my question. Where is the install script that is supposed to come with netscape? I downloaded professional version 4.05. Thanks for your help. Brian Morgan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Running new programs
I'm still a novice debian user, so forgive me if this seems like a rudimentary question. How do you run a program (or package?) once you've installed and configured it. For instance, I've just installed a few games, netscape, and various other utilities that I would like to use, but I don't know what to do with them. Let's start with the games: I've gone to my /usr/games directory, and can see the installed games, but nothing happens when I type in the name of the game listed in the games directory. Is there another command or something I need to type to run these programs? Thanks for all the help I've gotten so far in getting debian up and going. I'm really enjoying the process so far. Brian Morgan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gnome for debian
Can anyone tell me how to get gnome 2.0 installed on a Debian 2.0 machine? Is it even available for Debian yet? I keep hearing rumors that it is, but haven't been able to find anything on Gnome's website about how to get it installed. Suggestions? Brian Morgan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian for the mac?
Hi, Is there a debian distribution for the macintosh. A friend is trying to install redhat on his mac - I'd recommend debian except I'm not sure there is a debian version for the mac? If there is one, is it any good? Try going to ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-powerpc/ and seeing what is listed there. It's the hamm version, and I'm not sure how it works, but at least there is a section there available. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
startx giving error message
After installing xwindows CORRECTLY this time, I'm now unable to start it using startx. It gives me the following error message: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed I've already gone through the XF86Setup interface, and everything seemed to configure correctly there. It appears now that it's just not catching that configuration file or something? Is there anything you would suggest? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: startx giving error message
Check where the symbolic link /usr/X11R6/bin/X points to. According to your error, it looks as though it is pointing to XF86_NONE which isn't a valid X server. It should be linked to an X server such as XF86_SVGA, XF86_S3, etc... What type of video card is installed in the machine? This might sound like a dumb question, but how do you check where a symbolic link points to? I understand what you're talking about, and I can see X in the /usr/X11R6/bin directory, but I don't know what to do from there to get it to point to my current SVGA server (I'm using a Hercules Terminator 64/3D S3 virge card, FYI). Thanks for any help you can give. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Windows Managers
Could anyone suggest some good windows manager packages and where to get them? I'm using debian 2.0, kernel 2.0.33-9, x11R6. I'd like to be able to use something that would be compatible with the upcoming release of GNOME for debian. (Midnight Commander?) Is gmc available for debian? (ref. to gnome.org) Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FTP gone from dselect
I've just installed Debian 2.0 and successfully downloaded several packages using the custom install and FTP method of access. Now, when I reboot the system, it gives me several network errors, and FTP is gone from dselect's Access menu. Any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X11 not installing on debian 2.0
I'm having trouble getting x11 to work properly in Debian 2.0. I did a custom install of Debian, and selected all available options, including xwindows. When I type xdm, or startx, I get the following message: can't load library 'libxmu.so.6' When I go to the x11 directory, and try the man page, I get the following error: can't load library 'libc.so.5' I can't find packages for either of these libraries in dselect, while connecting to ftp.debian.org. Is there something that I'm doing wrong, or a way to configure xwindows that I should be doing? Is there another resource that I should be reading to figure this kind of thing all out? Thanks, Brian Morgan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
